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lUmou Agricaharal Association 



RECORD 



- PuMished twice a month by ,'the 

 Illinois. Agricultural Association. 

 608 South Dearborn Street. Chicago. 

 lUinfiis. 



Entry as second class matter Oct. 



10. iy21. at the post ofTlce at Chi- 

 cago. Illinois, under " the act of 

 March 3. 187^. 



The indivfdual membership fee of 

 Vm Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion is. five dollars a year. This 

 fee includes payment of ten cents 

 for 8ut)Scription to the Illinois Ag- 

 ricultural Association Record. 



OFFICERS 



President, S. H. Thompson. Quincy. 



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

 ville. 



Secretary. G«0.' A. Fox. Sycamore. 



Treasurer,' K. A. Cowlea, Blooming- 

 ton. ; ■ , 



EXKCUXnE CO.MMITTEE 



By Congressional Districts 



11th — Henry McGougU Maple Park- 

 12th — 'J. 'F. TuUock. Kockford. 

 13th — C. E. Bamborough. Polo. 

 14lh— W. H. Moody. Fort ByrOn. 

 15th — H. E.- Goembel. Hoopple. 

 16th — O. E, Reder, Mendot* 

 17tii — F. EM Barton. Cornell. 

 18th — C. R. Pinley. Hoopeaton. 

 19th — D. J. Holterman. Sadorup. 

 2aih — Earl J. Smith, Detroit. 

 21flt — E. L. Cor.bin. CarlinviUe. 

 22nd — Fred Baumberger, R,eno. 

 23wl— ^'arltonTrimble, Trimble. 

 2iu\'- — <'urt Anderson. Xenia. 

 2ytii^— ^Vernon Lessley. Sparta. 



FARMERS' OPINIONS 

 OF FARM BOREAU 



VOICE FOR Fa.. 

 ON GRAIN BOAtw 

 URGEDM^MEETINh 



Seven Resolutions are Passed 



By Detegates to I. A. A. 



Convention 



February 15, 1923 



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 should be the cry of every mem- 

 ber until we are one-hundred per 

 cent members." 



D. M. Brubaker, Stephenson — 

 •The FafB» Bureau is a vital force 

 tiroikiiis toward the betterment of 

 this country." 



Wm. Grimes, Christian — "Every 

 farmer ought to become a mem- 

 ber and take an active Interest- 

 In the work." / 

 "Piece of Machinery" 



M. E. Lyons, Livingston — "Tte 

 ("arm Bureau is one of- the most 

 efficient pieces of farm • machinery _ _ 



ciently." ." 



Chas. M. Colburn, Logan — "THe 

 Farm Bureau wlU help, ta m^e 

 a beuer communtty in ^ich.' to 

 lire." ,' / 



W. M. Coff, Sangamonr^'At' this 

 critical time when e^ry «ther 

 big business is carejilly _.*rgan- 

 ized, we farmers, unless ,^e are 

 ■ content to be virtuaHy Wbndsmen 

 to organized Interests, must co- 

 opera^ and organise." 



"The Best ^nUon" 



C./E. Wheeloek.^i-ake— "The best 

 'solution we have now is through 

 the/ Farm Bureau — make it strong 

 so /that farming may reach and 

 ' bofd . its rightful place among the 

 big industries." 



'Harry R. Jewell, Warren — "Tie 

 Farm Bureau at il5 a year is. 

 about tlra^ best buy I' know any- 

 thing about."!^^ ' 



Charles J.' Webb, McOonough — 

 "It is my lima isonviction that ft 

 is the duty of every, thrmer to 

 join the farm bureau." 



F. A. Brewer, Wliiteside — "No 

 farmer can afford not J to be a 

 member of and a bo^^r for^ the 

 Farm Bureau." 



' Clair V. Golden, Rock Island— 

 "If' tfie Farm Bureau should cease 

 to function, the future of the 

 American farmer wodld be lost." 

 , Helpinf; Themselves 



E.. W. Nevwnan, Union — "The 

 Farm Bureau is made up, of farm- 

 ers who have begunj*<r1ook oat 

 for themselves.^--''^ 



J. F. Cullisen, Lawrence — "Join 

 the Farm Bureau and be a booster, 

 in order t^at the good work may 

 go on." y-t 



F. M. Adamsr Peoria— "The only 

 way for farmers to get a 'square 

 deal' is to stand togethee." 

 Saved His Dues 



H. 6. Moffett, Maooupin — "I 

 have saved through Farm Bureau 

 wori more than three times the 

 dues I have paid in." 



• A brief but important list of 

 seven resolutions was passed at 

 the I. A. A. annual -meeting. 

 The following men constituted 

 the Resolutions Committee of 

 the coiivention : H. E. Goembel, 

 Carlton Trimble and ,1. R. Pulk- 

 erson. 



The more equal distribution of 

 the financial burden of the estab- 

 lishment and support of schools 

 was urged; legislation which 

 would prevent discrimination by 

 the grain exchanges of th^ State 

 against farmer-owned companies 

 was recommended; the giving of 

 greater consideration to rural 

 communities in road construction 

 was the subject of another reso- 

 lution. The passage of laws that 

 would provide adequate police4)ro- 

 tection . free from political taint 

 for rural, people was endorsed and 

 laws which would protect slate 

 highways from too heavy loads 

 were favored. 



Here are the resolutions as they 

 were submitted and approved: 

 The Resolutions 



FIRST: Realizing the economic 

 loss and the great danger to hu- 

 man life resulting from the prev- 

 alence of ^Jii^^dread scourge of 

 bovine - tuberculosis among the 

 livestock of the State of Illinois, 

 we endorse the movement for the 

 eradication of said disease as car- 

 ried on by various individuals and 

 jso-<iiieratitj^ ."Wiith . th* 

 State and Federal Government and 

 respectfully ask the LegisliUture 

 of the State of Illinois' for a$ ap- 

 propriation of $500,000 per an. 

 num for the next two years. 1p 

 forward the movement of rendyr- 

 ipflT the herds of livestock of |!he 

 State of Illinois free from /said 

 (^seas« and remove the m^liiace 



to human life. / 



• SECOND: We recommend that, 

 ■the school laws of the State of 

 Illinois be revised to the aid that 

 the burden of the establishment, 

 maintenance and support of the 

 schools of the State be equitably 

 distributed as to the various 

 classes of property In the State 

 and to prevent the imposition of 

 undue burdeiis upon the farm 

 lands and rural population. 



Oscar T. Engstrom, Kane — "My 



advice to farmers is to co-operate 

 with their Farm Bureau." 



F. H. Clapp, Qrundy~"The Farm 

 Bureau is one of our best com- 

 munity assets." 



D. H. Lewis, Henry— "I think 

 the Farm Bureau is the best or- 

 ganizatiofi that farmers have ever 

 had." 



"Owe it to Yourself" 



Herbert Seattle, Randolph — "You 

 owe it to yourself and you owe 

 it to your children to support the 

 Farm Bureau." 



J. E. Righter, Moultrie — "It pays 

 to co-operate." 



Eliaha Lee, Mercer — "All that 

 we have gained so far has been 

 due to organization." 



C. P. Mills, Champaign — "The 

 only working organization which 

 is UfiSf to better the condition 

 of the farmer,. financially and oth- 

 erwise, is the Farm Bureau." 



F. D. Lahman, Lee — "With every 

 line of business organized, down 

 to the bootblacks, why shouldn't 

 'he farmer have a solid organiza- 

 'on behind him?" 



L. :•■- ,;,V '■■rv'-C---^ 



culture . >.,..• .' v.^. 



consin, at . 



live stock confereu^ . ..-.u at Ur- 

 bana. "Illinois needs to take hold 

 Of this problem much more vig- 

 orously than she has so far. It 

 will cost millions to do it, but It 

 will save more millions than it 

 coats." 



These statements are particu- 

 larly pertinent in view of the reso- 

 lution passed~at the I. A. A. an- 

 nual meeting, asking the Legisla- 

 ture for an appropriation of $500,- 

 OOO a year for the next two years 

 for cattle tuberculosis eradication. 



The I. A. A. and oounty farm 

 bureaus have been the foremost 

 Interests in the State to secure 

 taxation justice for the farmer, 

 but. the I. A. A. realized that the 

 expense in taxes of tuberculosis 

 eradication was not a mere ex- 

 pense for the farmer but an in- 

 vestment that would later result 

 in a profit. It means, also, the 

 saving of hiwlaji Ifves. 



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THIRD: We r^mmend such 

 Ijeglslatlon as will prfll|^nt discrim- 

 ination by the Grain Exchanges 

 of the .State of lUinoi^ against 

 tairmer-owned and controlled co- 

 operative enterprises. ; \ 

 State HtfEbwaj* \ 



FOURTH: In the constitictiou 

 and maintenancE of the highways 

 Of the State of Illinois, we urge 

 that greater consideration shojiJ 

 be given to the convenience and 

 the welfare of rural communities, 

 and to that en^ we endorse the 

 principle of state-aid and super- 

 vision in the ' construction and 



maintenance of pur highways. 



FIFTH: It is with deep and 

 sincere regret that we note the 

 fact that death called from our 

 midst very suddenly, Mr. Ira With- 

 row, delegate from Whiteside 

 County to the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association Convention while 

 attending the sessions of this 

 Convention. -We desire to express 

 our heartfelt sympathy to the be- 

 reaved family and ask that a copy 

 of this resolution be sent to said 

 family, 



SIXTH: We point with pride to 

 the record and the accomplish- 

 ntents of our i-etiring President, 

 Mr. Howard Leonard, who has 

 faithfully and efficiently dis- 

 charged bis duties as an officer 

 of this association during the past 

 seven years, and we desire to ex- 

 press onr sincere appreciation for 

 the tireless energy ahd fearless 

 integrity with which /he has con- 

 ducted the duties of bla^- office 

 We express oa]>)nSSrifie8t and most 

 sincere be^' wishes to him and 

 bespeak /for him our hearty co- 

 operation with him in any en- 

 deavor for the promotion of the 

 best interests of the agriciilture 

 of the State and the Nation. 

 Police Protection 



SEVENTH: We endorse the 

 passage of such laws relative to 

 police protection as will efficiently 

 and *eoonomically provide for the 

 rural people of the State of Illi- 

 nois, adequate protection from the 

 depradation of law violators and 

 require that the laws be so 

 framed as to furnish such protec- 

 tion and that they be free from 

 political system of political pat- 

 ronage. We further favor such 

 law as will protect the highways 

 of the State from the undue bur- 

 dening of the roads by permitting 

 the carriage over such roads of 

 loads beyond the capacity of the 

 -oads to sustain 



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. .xy year the list of accom- 

 plishments of the I. A. A. 

 amount in savings in money to 

 the membership far more than 

 the amount paid in. This is as 

 it should be. 



But, better, ^et, is the fact that 

 the I. A. A. doesn't live upon i's 

 past record — it is always looking 

 ahead to the future. What will be 

 the problems of 1925? Whatever 

 they may be, the I. A. A will be 

 right on the job, ready to help 

 solve them. 



The following list of accomplish- 

 ments is a brief one. It doesn't 

 represent by any means all that 

 the I. A. A. has done during 19£2. 

 It is only a part of the results, 

 but it. serves to show what a great 

 state-wide farmers' organization, 

 licied by its county farm hufeaus 

 and its national farm bureau, can 

 do with the help of a loyal mem- 

 bership. 



Following are twenty-flve of the 

 accomplishments of 1922: 



Ser\'ice to Members 



CLAIMS — $8,794.70 in railroad 

 claims was collected free of charge 

 for farm bureau members. 



SPEAKERS — Speakers were fur- 

 nished 165 meeting during the 

 year. 



PUBLICITY — The I. A. A, 

 brought out, in co-operation with 

 county farm bureaus and other in- 

 dividuals, 55 special editions of Il- 

 linois newspapers, containing over 

 twelve hundred columns of articles 

 about the I. A. A., farm bureaus 

 and the A. F. B. F., and reaching 

 over 300,000 readers. 



' On Results, 

 On Promises 



from one to two dollars a month 

 to them. 



FREIGHT CARS — The I. A. A. 

 has helped in many counties to 

 remedy the shortage of cars during 

 the latter part of 1922^ 



FINANCE — A reserve fun'd of 

 more than $50,000 to be placed in 

 U. S. bonds and laid by for future 

 emergencies .was saved without in 

 the least curtailing the work of the 

 association. 



Co.«peratlve Alarketlng 



SOY BEANS— The I. A. A., with 

 county farm bureaus and the A. F. 

 B. F. testified at Washington and 

 secured tariff protection which is 

 enabling the rapidly developing soy 

 bean industry . of Illinois to com- 

 pete on equal terms with the Or- 

 ient. 



MILK — The I. A. A. and county 

 farm bureaus have assisted In or- 

 ganization of co-operative milk 

 marketing associations at Quincy 

 and Rock Island, a bargaining as- 

 sociation at Benton, and a pro- 

 ducer-consumer organization at 

 Waukegan. All possible aid has 

 been given toward the reorganiza- 

 tion of the co-operative associations 

 in the Chicago and St. Louis dis- 

 tricts. 



CREAM — Co-operative cream 

 marketing associations of proda^ 

 ers have been organized with the 

 aid of the I. A. A. and county farm 

 bureaus at Mt. Carroll and Galena, 

 as well as cream producers' bar- 

 gaining association in Jefferson 

 County. 



LIVESTOCK^-Co-operating with, 

 seven county fa^m bureaus, the 1. 

 A. A. organized the Peoria Live 

 Stock Producers Association, a 

 firm which now enjoys thirty per 

 cent of the business at m -i ,-; 



the State an estimated annual to- 

 tal t)f $750,000. The raise was pre- 

 vented both years. 



LEGAL— The I. A. A, maintains 

 a legal service which aids in the 

 drawing up of contracts and the 

 proper organization of marketing 

 associations. This legal service 

 took up electric light Ba.rvice 

 charge cases for members of two 

 •county farm bureaus and won a 

 favorable decision which saved 



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



sion funds above expenses of op- 

 eration to its farmer owners. The 

 I. A. A. assisted the National Live 

 Stock Producers Aasociation in the 

 organization of like firms at the ' 

 Chicago, Indianapolis and East St. 

 Louis markets. 



WOOL— 140,000 pounds of pooled \ 

 wool were sold for prices which 

 have been estimated by county 

 farm bureaus as averaging from 

 four to eight cents a pound abbye 

 those paid by local dealers. 



POTATOES— Eightjf cars of pl- 



tatoes were purchased for farmers 



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OI^GANIZATION- The I. A. A. 

 co-operated with 38 county farm 

 bureaus in putting on reorganiza' 

 tlon campaigns to resign for the 

 next three years the memberships 

 of 1920 which had expired, and to 

 gain new members. ^ ^ 



TAXATION — In coK)peration 

 with county farm bureaus the I. A. 

 A. made exhaustive investigations 

 into the farm tax situation which 

 showed that the farmer bad been 

 bearing an unequitable and dis- 

 proportionate part of the Increased 

 cost of state government during the 

 last twenty years. These organ- 

 izations appeared before th^ Illi- 

 nois Tax Commission in 1921 and 

 1922 as the only ones i^hlch have 

 ever represented the farmer, with 

 a plea for equltsble valuations. The 

 Commission granted a decrease 

 which means a saving to farmers 

 In taxes of $557,500 for 1922. 



LEGISLATIVE — The I. A. A. 

 Legislative Committee kept closely 

 in touch with the proposed new 

 constitution during its formation 

 and carefully analyzed it before 

 recommending it to farmers. This 

 document, which would have speed- 

 ed the way to taxation justice for 

 the farmer, was defeated by the 

 town and city vote. 



FREIGHT RATES— The I. A. A. 

 strenuously opposed a raise in live 

 stock freight rates proposed by the 



railroads, both in 1921 and 1922, ,he great organization that it now 

 which would have cost farmers 0^43." gaid Mr. Leonard. "As I 



100 AT BANQUET 

 OF ANNUAL MEETING 



More than six hundred farm 

 bureau delegates and visitors at- 

 tended the banquet held on the 

 first evening of the I. A. A. an- 

 nual meeting. Every table in the 

 huge Cameo room was filled. 

 President 0. E. Bradfute, of the 

 American Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion, and Ex-Gov. Frank O. Low- , 

 den were the speakers. , 



As part of the ceremony of the I 

 banquet Howard Leonard ten- 

 dered his ofllce to the President- 

 Elect, S. H. Thonipson. 



"I hav& watched the I. A. A. grow 

 from a small group of farmers to 



Jbb 



look into the faces of the people 

 here tonight, I know that it will 

 continue to grow." 



"I feel keenly the weight of 

 responsibility that has been 

 placed upon me," said Mr. 

 Thompson, in accepting the o( 

 flee. "I bespeak the co-oi>era 

 tfon of Illinois farmers to makj 

 the I. A. A. the greatest orgah 

 izatibn of its kind in the nnite4 

 States." 



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