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LLJNOIS "COOP" BILL BEFORE LEGISLATURE 



FARM CeiT ACT 

 PASSED; PROVIDES 

 BEnERFINANCING 



Maximum Land Bank Loan 

 Now $25,000; Market- 

 ing to he Aided ' 



American or^anizeji agricul- 

 ture secured one of its greatest 

 accomplishments for the farm 

 industry of the country when, 

 on the last day of its session, 

 Congress passed the Agricultur- 

 al Credits Act, meeting a need 

 which has been felt for fifty 

 years and providing for the 

 near future more adequate 

 credit faciliti»s than the farmer 

 has ever had before in history. 



Not onlx has the maximum Fed- 

 eral Land Bank loan been in- 

 creased from »10.000 to »25,«00 

 but other provisions o£ the act, 

 which Is a composite of several 

 bills, insure better financing. 



The American Farm Bureau 

 Federation and the I. A. A. have 

 alway* seen the need for such leg- 

 islatioin and have been urging tt 

 for mbre than a year. , 



Wallace Statement 



. U. s. Secretary of Agriculture 

 Henry C. Wallace recently issued 

 the following statement in expla- 

 nation of the workings of the new 

 act: 



"The act is divided Into two 

 parts. In the first, it provides 

 government agencies for handling 

 agricultural loans. In the second 

 it authorizes the organization of 

 l»rivate agencies under government 

 supervision for making loans on 

 live-stoqk security and on farm 

 commoditips on the way to market. 

 "The government loan activities 

 will be carried on in connection 

 with the Federal land banks. At 

 the present time thg^^untry is 

 divided into twelve districts, 'and 

 in /ach of these districts there is 

 a Federal land bank which makes 

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A. A. Executive 

 Committee Meets 

 In Springfield 



The Executive Committee of the 

 I. A. A. held its last meeting in 

 Springfield on March 20. The 

 meeting was planned for Spring- 

 field in order that the members of 

 the committee might study the leg- 

 islation backed by the I. A. A. and 

 county farm bureaus during the 

 present session of the legislature. 



Transportation 

 Next Farm Issue 

 Before Congress 



Senator Arthuf Capper, chairman 

 of the Farm Bloc, in an interview 

 given out after the passage of the 

 Farm Credits Act, stated that agri- 

 ,;ullui,-' trii.^t'.ta*' '11 ■*.'.. u^ I ''v a 

 big issue before the next Congress. 



"The farmer will not have all the 

 relief to which he is entitled until 

 freight rates, now too high, come 

 down," lie says. 



Conferences of 

 Advisers Set 

 For Apr. 2-12 



1,000 In Meeting 

 At St. Paul To 

 Discuss Prices 



Orderly marketing of farm prod- 

 ucts through well-directed organiza- 

 tions and immediate congressional 

 action to stabilize prices of crops 

 on a basis of cost of production 

 were indorsed by delegates attend- 



Iing the recent Northwest Agricul- 

 tural Price Stabilization conference 

 in St. Paul, Minn. More than 1,000 

 [ farmers and business men of 12 

 I states were present. The I. A. A. 

 Iwas represented at the meeting. 



The spring series of Illinois farm 

 advisers' conferences have been 

 announced by the Extension Sei^ 

 vice of the College of Agriculture 

 of the State University as follows: 



Southern Illinois Group: Cen- 

 tralia, April 2 and 3. 



Northern Illinois Group: Chicago, 

 April 4 and 5. 



Central Illinois Group: Decatur, 

 April 9 and 10. 



Northwestern Illinois Group: 

 Galesburg, April 11 and 12. 



LET'S JOIN THE PARADE! 



April IS Date 

 of Next Issue 

 of The Record 



This is the second issue of Uie 

 I. A. A. Record. It was anne^inCM 

 in the first issue that a second 

 would follow on March 15. The de- 

 lay to April 1 came about as the 

 result of the failure of a three 

 months' supply of paper stock, or- 

 dered Feb. 10 and promised for 

 March 1, to appear before March 

 16_. 



It is planned hereafter to issue 

 The Record regularly on the first 

 and fifteenth of each month. Many 

 changes are being made in the 

 mailing list, however, as the result 

 of recent membership campaigns, 

 and it is possible that mistakes 

 may be made. If you are a mem- 

 ber of the I. A. A. and don't re- 

 ceive The Record, get In touch with 

 the News Publicity Department: it 

 is your paper. 



YOUR HIRED MAN! 



Of course you know wtiat 

 your hired man on the farm 

 can do^you put him to wori< 

 where he can help most. 

 But— > 



How about your hired men 

 in Chicago, the various de- 

 partments of the i. A. A.? 

 What can they do for you? 

 How can you best put them 

 to work for you? 



The I. A. A. Record will 

 start in the next issue with 

 a series of articles which v.ill 

 cover every department in 

 the association, telling how 

 it can serve you. This issue 

 is beginning a run of articles 

 to tell the story of the various 

 co-operative associations in 

 Illinois. 



Watch for these articles — 

 they'll be in every Issue. 



Farmer of Jjee 

 County Also Is 



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Cart€>onist 



The cartoo' in this Issue of The 

 RecoriJ v.. drawn by Herbert Con- 

 ner, ii n ;'iar "dirt tarmef," secri>- 

 tary of lie Lee County Farm Bu- 

 reau. Mr. Conner does bis cartoons 

 at homt .lights on the dining room 

 table, after finishing bis days work. 

 He is one of the stronge-st farm 

 bureau boosters in the State and 

 puts into his cartoons the gospel 

 of farmer organization which he 

 practices. The Record will publish 

 more of his work. 



"CO-OPS" AT YARDS 

 TOPPING THE UST 



Five of the seveB^commission 

 companies operating under the aus- 

 pices of the National Live Stock 

 Producers' Association stood in 

 first place in volume of business 

 handled in their respective markets 

 during a recent week. 



Companies holding first place 

 an^ the cars handled were: Chi- 

 cago, 310; St. Louis, 188; Indian- 

 apolis, 173; Buffalo. 170; Peoria, 40. 



The Producers opened at the 



Kansas City yards on March 5 and 

 netted a total of 20 cars &a their 

 first week's business. 



Handling an average of over 26 

 per cent of the weekly market re- 

 ceipts, the Indianapolis Producers 

 have stood at first place in that 

 market each week since January 1. 

 Their |rst ten weeks' biisiness of 

 1923 was 2,055 cars. 



Both ' the Chicago and Peoria- 

 Producers have stood at first place 

 eight out of the ten weeks in their 

 respective yards. The volume of 

 business of the Chicago Producers 

 was 3,0B2 cars, while Peoria netted 

 464 cars. 



The SL Louis Producers have 

 handled 1.766 cars since the begin- 

 ning of 1923, having stood either 

 first or second each week amonc 

 the companies at that market. 



The Buffalo Producers handled 

 1.271 cars daring the ten weeks. 

 No figures are on hand tor the Ft. 

 Worth market. 



FARMER MARKETING 

 UPIO LEGISIATORE 

 IN PROPOSED BILL 



Measure To AlloW Agriculture 

 Voice 01 Grain Exchanges 

 Also Introduced | i.<j! 



Two biljs of prteat impnrtanoo 

 to organized farjners are up for 

 cousideratjon at this sos*ioq of 

 the Illinois LcgisUiture. Their 

 p.xs.sage Will do much to safe- 

 ■rtiard th(;Jinf.orests of producers 

 all over tie state. ';.'?' 



These ar^ the Cooperative niu^- 

 keting Act land the bill designed to 

 allow admission to nemlwrsbip in 

 Boards of 'JYade of farmers' orfan- 

 im.; J., c I '" ~"*" """^ 



Warfcetinc ^ct 

 ■ The Co-o|)erative .Xflirketlng Act. 

 if passed, (rill permit farmers to 

 pool and Inarket their prodacts 

 without feai- that Ue action will be 

 considered a combination in re- 

 straint of irade. Almost identical 

 acts, fosterid by the Farni Bureau, 

 have alreadk- pai!8>>d In Texas. Mis- 

 sissippi, Sojuth Carolina, Virginia 

 South Dakota, Aricoaa,' Arkanau. 

 -Mabama. ^ orth Carolina. Kancae. 

 Idaho. Teni cssee, Louisiana, G«br- 

 gia, Kentiickj', North Dak«ta, 

 Washington, Montana, and Colo- 

 rado. 



The bill 1 as pass«d th* House In 

 Missouri, hiis been reported favor- 

 ably in Mir nesota. and is making 

 satisfactory progrets in Ohio. It 

 failed in In liana dUe to Governor 

 McCray'e vjto, after passing the 

 Senate 43 t> 0, and the House 74 

 ti. u.... , 



l*ro risionn of Act T ' . . 



The act ai ithorizee the formation 

 of Qon-profi . co-optratlve associa- 

 tions, with or witho)it capita) sto'-' 

 for the purpose of encouraging ^e " 

 orderly mai keting of agricultural 

 products through cb-operation If 

 aims /tO; make the distribution Of 

 agriciiltik-al |product|B between pro- 

 ducer and consumeir as direct as 

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Four Advisory I 



Committees Meet 

 Tp Shape Wotk 



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Meetings of the Ptiosphate-Liaie- 

 stone. Organlzation-Cublicity. Dakr 

 Marketing a^d Live Stock .Market- 

 ing advisory jcommittees have been 

 beldrduring ^he past month. 



These meetings w«r« for the pur- 

 pose of shaping a prograa) of work , 

 to be pursuM by the various xie- 

 partments wfth the counsel of the 

 members of the committee 



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