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May 1, 1923 



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SUPREME COURT 0. K'S CAPPER-TINCHER ACT 



SIX-HOUR HEARING 

 OF CO-OPERATIVE 

 ACT HnHE HOUSE 



President Thompson and A. 



C. Everingham of I. A. A. 



Speak Flor Bill 



Proponents and opponents of 

 the Illinois Co-operative Market- 

 ing Bill clashed in the House of 

 Representatives at Springfield 

 recently in a hearing similar to 

 that held in the Senate. The 

 meeting lasted for six hours. 



The chief argnments, like those 

 advanced in the Senate a few 

 weeks before, were that the bill 

 wtu fa^nrable o<-. Inimical to the 

 farmer* Interests. 



S. H. Thompson, president of 

 the niinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion, and A. C. Everingham, of 

 the I. A. A. Legislative Commit 

 tee, were speakers tor the bill 

 They portrayed the need of Illi- 

 nois farmers for co-operative 

 marketing and the necessity for a 

 leglBlatlve measure Uke the pro- 

 posed bill to facilitate the or- 

 ganization ot co-operatlva asso- 

 ciations. 



Opponents of the measure pre- 

 sented the contention that they 

 were endeavoring to protect the 

 farmer against himself, that the 

 co-operative bill would hnrt his 

 Interests. Representatives of the 

 Chicago city council expressed the 

 fear that the passage of the 

 measure would Increase the coat 

 ot agricultural products to the 

 consumer. 



CoHtracts Signed 

 By 26 Counties 

 For Serum Supply 



^caty-six eouatlee have 

 signed up to seenr* their serum 

 from the American Serum C!o., 

 aioaz Qity, la., in aecordanee 

 with the recommendations of the 

 8«ram FSirehasing Committee ap- 

 pointed at the annual meeting 

 of the I. I&. A. 



An estimated aggregate of 



16,000,000 cubic centimeters of 



semm and virus will be handled 



by the counties at ^e new price 



of 76 centf per lOOi ee>, which is 



I live cents less per be tliian last 



\year. All farm f^nreaua who 



ave signed up are! maintaining 



iim depcjta tor tUnge ot their 



RepGet Indicate 

 Widespread Demand 

 For Help on Farms 



While there have not been a 

 great number of replies received 

 as yet from Illinois farmers by 

 the I. A. A. in regard to the help 

 shortage on the farms of the 

 state, those that have come to 

 the office indicate a widespread 

 shortage throughout most of the 

 counties of Illinois. 



According to the answers to 

 the questionnaire, wages paid 

 vary from $40 to $75 per month 

 with room and board. There is 

 a demand for both married and 

 single men, the latter being de- 

 sired in the majority of cases. 



While the I. A. A. can promise 

 nothing definite, it is making an 

 investigation with a view to help- 

 ing out In the solution of the 

 problem. A more definite an- 

 nouncenfent will t>e made later 

 after a general survey of the sit- 

 uation is made and more ques- 

 tionnaires are answered. 



NEARLY $2000 IN 

 CUmS COUIGTED 



Claims numbering 54 and 

 aqiounting to the total of $1,- 

 875.39 were collected by the 

 Transportation department of 

 the I. A. A. during the first three 

 months of 1923 and paid to farm 

 bureau members or live stock 

 shipping associations of Illinois. 



Most of the tosses incurred 

 come under the following heads: 

 general loss and damage, freight 

 loss and damage, and overcharge. 



The majority of the claims are 

 of small amounts, less than $50. 

 The largest claim was collected 

 for August Wild, Ronroe county, 

 being 1200 collected from a rail- 

 road -from fire loss. Another of 

 the larger claims was 1160 se- 

 cured tor C. A. Smith) Knox 

 county, for cattle killed on a 

 railroad right-of-way. 



Committee Meets 

 To Consider 1923 

 Phosphate Supply 



Members of (fhe phosphate- 

 limestone advisory committee of 

 the I. A. A., F. D. Barton, Cor- 

 nell, chairman, met with the 

 phosphate-limestone department 

 and executive offloers ot the asso- 

 ciation at the Chicago office, 

 April 16. 



Consideration of the proposed 

 contract for the remainder ot the 

 1923 supply of phosphate was 

 taken up, as well as other mat- 

 ters of business coneemlng the 

 detuirtment. 



WHY NOT TRY THE SLEDGE? 



Outlook For Pool 

 of 1923 Wool Crop 

 Very Encouraging 



The Live Stock Department of 

 the I. A. A. is receiving many 

 orders for sacks of twine from 

 farm bureaus In Illinois whose 

 members are planning to con- 

 sign their wool clip to the 1923 

 wool pool. 



The market outlook for wool 

 this year is very bright. Specu- 

 lators are active and are said to 

 be out attempting to contract for 

 the product before it is sheared. 



It will be remembered that the 

 143,000 pounds of Illinois wool 

 consigned to the pool last year 

 averaged 34.9 cents per pound 

 as compared with 27 cents paid 

 locally, resulting in a saving of 

 about $14,000 td the poolers. 

 Montana growers are pooling 

 practically 75 per cent of the to- 

 tal cUp, or 7,000,000 pounds, this 

 year. 



Wool may be billed at any 

 time to the pool, the address be- 

 ing National Wool Warehouse 

 and Storage Co.J 4300 S. Robey 

 St, Chicago, Caile I. A. A. ' 



Leaders of the Minnesota po- 

 tato co-operative marketing ag- 

 ency are striving to have 100,000 

 acres of that commodity under 

 contract by July 16. 



Refund Is Voted 

 By Directors of 

 Live Stock Co-opi 



At the quarterly meeting of 

 the Board of ' Directors of the 

 Chicago Producers Commission 

 Association in April, it was an- 

 nounced that the business of the 

 organization has been so success- 

 ful daring the past year that a 

 substantial refund can be made 

 to all members at the end of the 

 fiscal year, June 30. 



The direotors voted that such 

 a refund shall be made shortly 

 after the close of the year's busi- 

 ness. 



This gratifying news will be 

 more than welcome to members 

 of the Chicago Producers and 

 such concrete evidence of suc- 

 cess should cause many more 

 live stock shippers to loin the 

 co-operative. 



Continued success is being ex- 

 perienced during April by the 

 Producers at all the markets 

 where they are established, most 

 of them ranking at or near the 

 top among the firms doing busi- 

 ness qn the respective markets. 



Kendall county board of sup- 

 ervisors recently voted $4,000 to 

 devote to tb« eradication of tuber- 

 culosis in the county. 



SAYS MEASURE IS 

 CONSTITUTIONAL; 

 DENEHTSJARMERS 



Grain Exchanges Subject To 



Regulation; "Co-ops" Get 



Board Trade Seats 



Ameri^n agriculture scored 

 another KTeat victorj- when the 

 United Btates Supreme Court 

 in a decision handed down up- 

 held the-oonstitutionaU^' of the 

 new Capper-Tineher Act regu- 

 lating grain exchanges and ad- 

 mitting co-operative associations 

 to Peats oqkboards of trade. 



There were only two dissenting 

 votes on the decision, those of 



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DOldS. 



This opinion at the Supreme 

 Court as handed down by Chief 

 Justice William H. Taft, com- 

 pletely ovierrules lihe attack made 

 on. the «onstitatk>nality of the 

 Capper-Tineher Act by the Chica- 

 go Board of Trade and fully up- 

 holds the contentions of the De- 

 partment <tt Agriculture, the farm 

 bloc and the farm bureau. 

 <tlio<fls Dectska 



The decision as read by Chief 

 Justice Taft is quoted as followa: 



"It is Clear from the cltiitiont 

 in the statement of the case of 

 evidence before committees of in- 

 vestigation as to manipulations of 

 the futures market and their ef- 

 fects, ^fltywe weuld be unwar- 

 ranted in nejectlng the findings of 

 Congress as unreasonable, and 

 tCdbillnued om pft^e 2) 



Co-op Bill Made 

 Law in Minnesota, 

 Maine and Ohio 



Three more states have passed 

 the standard co-operative market- 

 ing act, dmilar to, that which Is 

 under consideration in the Hoose 

 at Springteld and was passed by 

 the Senate with only tl^iee Desa- 

 tlve votes. 



Maine and Oblto 'have botk 

 passed the bill and it h^ beeaj 

 signed by the governor in each 

 state, wfaile in Minnesota, the ^ct 

 was passed by the legislature and 

 is awaitii^ the siggnatnre of Oov- 

 emor .Preus. Governor Donake) 

 of Ohio siirned the bill in the pres- 

 ence of agricultural leaders on 

 Friday, April 13, but Ohio farm 

 bureau members claim that tbey 

 are not superstitiosa. 



Practically half the sUtes ot 

 the Union have eaacted the kUl 

 into a law up to this time. 



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