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AprO IS, 1923 



The niinoi* Agricultunl Asaodaikm Record 



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68,035 Head of Live Stock Received * 

 In 8 Months By Peoria Co-operative 



The first result of the ratifiea' 

 tion of the plan of the Farmers' 

 National Live Stock Marketing 

 Committee of Fifteen, appointed 

 in 1920 by the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation to work out 

 a national marketing plan, was 

 the formation late in 1921 of the 

 National Live Stock Producers' 

 Association. This agency, with 

 headquarters at Chicago, pro- 

 ceeded early in 1922 to estab- 

 lish farmer-owned and operated 

 commission firms on the East St. 

 Louis, Chicago and Indianapolis 

 markets. The Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association was asked to 

 set up a like firm on the Peoria 

 market. 



In Marcb, 1922, an inTestiga- 

 tion of the market was conducted 

 by the Live Stock Marketing De- 

 partment of the I. A. A. FoUowt 

 Ing this, a meeting of representa- 

 tives of the seven counties prin- 

 cipally interested in the Peoria 

 market wascalled for the purpose 

 of organizing a selling agency. 

 The Organization 



As finally organized, a board of 

 seven directors, one each from the 

 seven counties — Peoria, Woodford 

 Knox, stark, Fulton, Marshall, and 

 Tazewell — was selected by the ex- 

 ecutive committees of the various 

 farm bureaus. Funds sufficient to 

 establish the selling agency at 

 Peoria were furnished the board 

 of directors by the sale of member 

 ships to individuals and shipping 

 associations, and by loans from 

 the I. A. A. and farm bureaus In- 

 terested. 



After selecting an experienced 

 and capable management, the 

 Peoria Producers' Commission As- 

 sociation opened for business, June 

 26, 1922, the fourth selling ag- 

 ency operating under the National 

 Live Stock Producers' Association, 

 previous agencies being estab- 

 lished at East St. Louis, Indianap- 

 olis, and Chicago. 



^■_-: Bight Months' Growth 



The following table will show 

 the growth that has been made 

 during the first eight months of 

 operation of the Peoria iProduc-^ 

 ers: 



■ MvBth Oar* Value '-. 



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



August 74 U j.^J.-tilf 



Septeiiber 75 I. '3, 788. 43 



October 90 ll;i.092.42 



November . .• 141 175.977.31 



December 165 220.531.89 



January 219 301.628.90 



February ISO L>36.634.96 



Total 1.004 Jl.348.162.67 



It will be noted that the only 

 marked decrease in receipts oc- 

 curred in February. This was 

 caused by the almost impassable 

 condition of the roads, hindering 

 truck shipments. During the ei^ht 

 months, 593 cars, or 59.06 per 

 cent of the total of 1,004 coming 

 to the Peoria Prodncers, were 

 shipped by truck. t 



, 'Total Receipts 



The total receipts during the 

 period were 68,035 head of live 

 stock, apportioned as follows: 

 2,020 cattle, 2,147 calves, 63.460 

 hogs, and 408 sheep. Commis- 

 sions collected amounted to a 

 total of $20,090.17. 



For the last four months the 

 Producers have stood cither first 

 or second among the seven com- 

 mission firms operating on that 

 market. Shipments to the agency 

 are not entirely from the seven 

 counties mentioned, some live 

 stock being received from Mason, 

 Logan, and McLean counties, Illi- 

 nois, and from eastern Iowa terri- 

 tory tributary to the'M. C. and St. 

 h. R. R. 



In accordance with the policy 



THEY'RE PA TRONIZING THEIR OWN RRM 



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This picture shows a line of trucks bearing llllnol* live stock 

 to the Peoria Live Stock Producers' Association, organized by 

 the I. A. A. and county farm bureaus. A large share of the 

 firm's business, which has amounted to nearly a million and a 

 half dollars In eight months. Is truck receipts. The farmer firm 

 does the most business on the market. 



of the National Live Stock Produc- 

 ers' Association, the Peoria agen- 

 cy, while not a member of the ex- 

 change, abides by all the rules and 

 regulations of that body, with the 

 exception that it reserves the priv- 

 ilege of pro-bating to Its member 

 ship all the profits that may accrue 

 from the business. 



How to Join 



Membership in the Producers 

 may be obtained in several ways 

 An individual may make applica- 

 tion directly to the selling agency, 

 may join the local shipping as- 

 sociation which holds membership 

 on the market, or by becoming a 

 member of the county farm bu 

 reau, some of the counties having 

 organized coi]nty-wide^ shipping 

 associations and taken out a mem- 

 bership on that basis. 



Members of the Board of Dir- 

 ectors of the Peoria Producers are 

 as follows; George Wilson, Tou- 

 lon, president; W. T. Youle, Dela- 

 van, vice president; Seaton Moon, 

 Harmon, secretary-treasurer r Sam 

 McClugage, Peoria, chairman of 

 board; J. F. Felter, Eureka, and 

 B. H. Taylor, Canton. 



W. R. Hembrough, formerly in 

 ti'r livfc stock commission business 

 at East S. Louis, is manager of 

 tlio Producers at Peoria, and is 

 ^-alesmah of carlpt shipments of 

 stock. Eddie McDonough, a bnyer 

 and trader for several years on 

 the Peoria market, takes care of 

 the truck hog sales, while George 

 Stemm is office manager. 



Average Fri4!«a 



It is a significant fact that the 

 average prices received {or hogs 

 on the Peoria market daring the 

 period the Producers have been 

 operating have been much bearer 

 the average prices on the Chicago 

 market than previously. This 

 bears out the contention made re- 

 peatedly by live stock producers 

 that a selling agency controlling 

 at least 25 per cent of the receipts 

 on the terminal market could in- 

 fluence favorably the prices re- 

 ceived for their live stock. 



Answers Question 



The table above will answer the 

 question so often asked — Are the 

 sales made and the services rend- 

 ered by co-operative selling agen- 

 cies on a basis with those furnished 

 by old line firms? Note the grad- 

 ual increase in the Producers' 

 business from month to month. 

 With the live stock producer as 

 the judge and jury, it can easily 

 be seen that he is satisfied with 

 the. Peoria co-operative selling 

 age'ncy as an efficient and alto- 

 gether satisfactory medium for 

 marketing live stock. Otherwise 

 the Peoria Producers would not. 



have experienced the growth so 

 evident during the first eight 

 months of existence. 



THE GOLDEN EGG 



The next cooperative move- 

 ment of the 1. A. A. and 

 county farm bureaus to be 

 taken up in the series of arti- 

 cles in The Record, will be 

 the local poultry and egg co- 

 operative chipping associa- 

 tions in Central Illinois which 

 were organized last year. 



/. A. A. Endeca)oring 

 To Help In Labor 

 Shortage Problem 



On another page of The Record 

 is an item in regard ts the present 

 shortage of farm help in Illinois. 

 The I. A. A., with a view of help- 

 ing farm bureau members who must 

 have additional labOr, is endeavor- 

 ing to get in touch with help that 

 may be available for farms in the 

 state. 



If you are in need of help, fill in 

 the blanks below and mail to Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association, 608 

 S. Dearborn Street, Chicago, as 

 soon as possible. 



Do you prefer a married or a single 

 man ? ^ 1 



Can you use him the year round? 



Is yours a dairy, livestock, or grain 

 farm T 



Would yon prefer men of Scotch, 

 German, Scandinavian, or Poliab 



descent? 



What wages will you pay?_ 



When do yon need help? . 



Write plainly your name, address, 

 and connty. 



( Name ) , 



(Address) „ 



(County) 



Milk Marketing 

 Situation in St. 

 Louis Improved 



The Milk Producers' Advisory 

 Committee, 'which has been car- 

 rying on a campaign over south- 

 ern Illinois and Missouri for over 

 a mohth, has been meeting a 

 splendid response from producer- 

 creditors and stockholders of the 

 Illinois - Missouri Co-operative 

 Marketing Company, over 1,400 

 agreement^ having been signed 

 up and are in the hands of cred- 

 itors. ,t,. :, .. _, 1 

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Sapiro Is Named 

 ** Co-op" Attorney 

 FortheA.F.B.F. 



Aaiion Sapiro, noted co-operative 

 marketing attorney, was appointed 

 at a meeting of the Executive Com- 

 mittee of the American Farm Bu- 

 reau Federation as co-operative 

 marketing attorney fOr that or- 

 ganization. 



Mr. Sapiro and Walton Peteet, 

 Director of Co-operative Marketing 

 for the A. F. B. F., in co-operation 

 with the co-operative marketing 

 committee of the national associa- 

 tion, will shape imlicies and plans 

 for the big national program of 

 farmer marketing now under way. 



"BROWN MOUSE" IS 



LATEST RElfilSE OF 



■OinBTEAD HLMS 



Homestead Films, Inc., will 

 soon have its recently completed 

 five-reel feature film, "The Brown 

 Mouse," ready for distribution. 

 The picture is from the novel of 

 the same name l^ Herbert Quick, 

 the well known writer of farm 

 stories. 



Mr. Quick's home county farm 

 bureau at Berkeley Springs, West 

 Virginia, has been granted the 

 privilege of the first public show- 

 ing at the film, April 18 and .19. 



"The Brown Mouse" is a story 

 depicting the modernizing of rurkl 

 schoc^s through the introduction 

 of practical lessons in agricul- 

 ture. The scene is laid in a typi- 

 cal Iowa rural school district, all 

 of the characters being recogniz- 

 able In the average middle west- 

 ern community. The difficulties 

 and opposition encouatered by the 

 young man who dares to change 

 the old order of things, his final 

 success and the happy culmination 

 of his childhood love affair, all 

 tend to make the picture very in- 

 teresting as well as conveying a 

 valuable lesson. 



The Minnesota Legislatiire re- 

 cently passed a bill appropriating 

 $10,000 to protect the state 

 against the Pittsburg-Plus prac- 

 tice of setting the jirice for steel. 



ILUNOIS FRUIT 

 EXCHANGE JOINS 

 FEDBtATED BODY 



Growers Sign Contract To 

 Market Through "Co-op" 

 Sales Agency , 



The directors of the. Illinois 

 Fruit Exchange, with head- 

 quarters 6t Centralia, recently 

 signed th* contract of member- 

 ship with: the Flederat«d Fruit 

 and Ve^ttable Growers, Inc., 

 the nation{tl co-nperative sbIph 

 agency f()fined Januarj- 1,"-1923 

 as the Nsult of the work of 

 Fruit Marketing Committee of 

 Twenty-<>ne of the Amoricaii 

 Farm Bureau Federation. 



This step was taken only after 

 lopg conai4eration on the jiart of 

 the dire<9tprs of Ithe Illinois ex- 

 change leading up to a unani- 

 mous decision f*r membersbip. 

 In 1922 tfce exchange marketed 

 its products through a private 

 sales agebey, and it was only the 

 obvious- taperiority and .advani- 

 ages of the I'^derated Fruit 

 Growers tbat prompted the Im- 

 portant Otep. j 



Cite Adrintaees 



Among the advantages of an 

 affiliation with the national sales 

 agency cited were the facts that 

 it was a product of the work ef 

 the farm bureau and deserrs^ the 

 support of growers' organizations; 

 exchaitgei who are members ot 

 the Fedetated have a voice in its 

 governing body; and the Fed 

 erated is en a sound basis, being 

 formed an a plan similar to the 

 successful California fruit grow- 

 ers' co-i^peratives. In addition, 

 the Federated has taken over'tEe 

 North Aloerican Fruit ExchaLge 

 with its !trained sales force and 

 experience of twelve years. 

 AO Sales Offices 



The Federated Fruit and Veg- 

 etable Gr6wers. Inc., have already 

 establisbeld salaried representatives 

 in over 160 cities reaching 70 per 

 cent of the population of the 

 United States, aid have boaded 

 brokerage service In th» remainder 

 of the maitkets. 



What's the Biggest Farm 

 Bureau Lie You've Heard? 



In every community there is. 

 out of a thousand loyal farmers, 

 one "knocker" who is fond of 

 gossip and who spends valuable 

 time in spreading aborut the neigh- 

 borhood some highly imaginary 

 "fish stories" about state and 

 county farm bureau work. You've 

 heard 'em. Yet, ridiculous as 

 most of these yams are when 

 compared to the facts, there are 

 uninformed people who believe 

 them. 



The Record proposes to publish 

 these whoppers! Sunlight and 

 air are the best cures for noxious 

 germs! So send in to The Rec- 

 ord what you think is the biggest 

 lie about the farm bureau you've 

 ever heard. ^ 



How's This One? 



The K<ecord will start the ball 

 rolling by the following story, 

 which was told pn himself by 

 one of the former members of 

 the I. A. A. Executive Committee: 



"I came home from Chicago 

 after one of the meetings of the 

 I. A. A. Executive Committee," 

 he said, "and attended a meet- 

 ing of our county farm bureau 

 the njext evening. While at this 



meeting, I noted tbat several 

 .people glanced ait me curiously 

 and eved suspiciously. It was 

 not until a few days later, how- 

 ever, that I learned the cause. 

 The rum*f bad started about the 

 county tllat as a member of the 

 I. A. A. Executive Committee. I 

 was beint paid 1^.600 a year and 

 expenses? The fact is. as every- 

 body kncrws, that executive eom- 

 mltteemeb are paid only tbeir 

 expenses tor the usual one-day 

 montUy meetings and that all of 

 them, if tkeir farming operations 

 are at al extensive, must neces- 

 sarily losp money every time they 

 attend a bonferenCe. Yet I found 

 that a few uninformed ^Xannws 

 believed tkis yam! ,, -i ' 



He Denlea Tai4 ' ' 



"I was unable (or a month or 

 so to learn who bad started the 

 rumor. When I finally foand 

 out, I challenged the man, who. 

 by the way. was not a member 

 of the fanm bureau, and he de- 

 nied the tiory. "Che matter drop- 

 ped therti.f 



How's Ithis for a whopper? Or 

 do you know a larger one? It 

 so, send II -in to tThe Record. 





