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The Illinois Agricultural Association Record 



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April 15, 1923 



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



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PRESIDENTS HEAR 

 EXPLANATION OF 

 MARKETING BILLS 



Hold Important Conference 



of County Leaders; 



Pass Resolutions 



Presidents or other represent- 

 atives .frofii 87 Illinois county 

 farm ffiireaus met with officials of 

 — the Illinois Agricultural Associ- 

 ation at the Great Northern hotel. 

 Chica!;o, on' March 26, to discuss 

 policies in marketing, legislation, 

 and other projects of importance 

 to organized agriculture in the 

 ; state. 



The meeting w^fe one which 

 bai been planned for more than 

 a year and which was called at 

 the request of the I. A. A. Ex- 

 ecutive Committee at its March 

 session. 



Peteet Speaks 

 Walton Peteet, director of co- 

 operative marketing of the Amer- 

 ican Farm Bureau Federation, 

 was present and gave the first 

 talk of the day, explaining the 

 provisions of the co-operative 

 marketing bill which is before 

 the Illinois .legislation. 



"A modem co-operative mar- 

 keting association," stated Mr. 

 Peteet, "represents an intelligent 

 application to farm marketing of 

 the proven experience of busi- 

 ness, so tliat .is purely and sim- 

 ply, a business agency devised 

 I and designed to serve farmers In 

 ».l*c^ "fcttv^i marketing of their 

 products." 



Explains Co-op Bill 

 Be told bow the proposed law 

 was based on* the experience of 

 successful American co-operatives 

 and that the act had already be- 

 come a law in about twenty 

 states. The inadequacy of pres- 

 ent Illinois laws for permitting 

 co-operative organizations was 

 outlined, especially in regard to 

 eo-operatlves to take advantage 

 of the new Intermediate Rural 

 CredJte Law, which will only 

 allow loans to farmers' organiza- 

 tions that are formed under laws 

 similar to the proposed act. 

 , Mr. Peteet explained in detail 

 •^Jhe different provisions of the 

 jto-operative marketing bill, show- 

 ing how each provision was based 

 upon the experience of successful 

 co-operative organizations i n 

 other states. Be emphasized that 

 the act was strictly -permissiv^ in 

 character and did not interfere 

 with any present farmers' asso- 

 ciations or kinder the formation 

 of co-operative organizations un- 

 der old laws. 



Board of Tnule Bill 

 Following Mr. Peteet's expla- 

 nation, Donald Kirkpatrick of the 

 legal department of the I. A. A. 

 inform^ the conference coneern- 

 ' ing the provisions of Senate Bill 

 160 which would allow farm or- 

 ganizations In Illinois the right 

 to a seat on boards of trade. Be 

 told ot the need of such a law 

 and explained that it would be 

 ■ supplementary to the Capper-Tin- 

 Cher Act fassed by Congress. 



After these explanations of the 

 proposed laws before the Illinois 

 legislature. President S. B. 

 Thompson of the I. A. A. out- 

 lined the policy ot the legislative 

 committee of the association in 

 stroBgly backing these two btHs 



EVERY CORNER OF STATE REPRESENTED AT THIS MEETING 



Farm Bureau Heads From 

 87 Counties In Meeting 



The tbllowlng is the list of 

 county farm bureau presidents or 

 alternatels from 87 counties in 

 Illinois who met in Chicago ob 

 March 26, for the first time In 

 the history of the I. A. A., to be- 

 come more familiar with the 

 policies of the association and to 

 express ttemselves as to the 

 wishes of their constituents in the 

 county bureaus: 



Adams. D. H. Myers. President: 

 Bond, F; Baumbereer. Preiident: 

 Boone, Phil H. Sanford, ProBident; 

 ■Brown. R. O. Shields. President: 

 Bureau. Pavid G. Reder, Preeidenl; 

 Calhoun. Auff. Franke. Jr., Alter- 

 nate; Carroll. C. M. Kinfrery; Cass. 

 J. E. E4ward8, President; Chara- 

 psten. Lorin Clark. President; 

 Christian. W. N. Grimes: Clark. 

 J. Q. Snedeker. President; Coles, C. 

 8. Hall. President: Cook. Herman 

 Schwake. President: Crawford. N. F. 

 Goodwin. President; Cumberland, 

 JC. C. Gofdon, President; DeKalb, J. 

 J- Klngsley. Alternate: DeKalb. A. 

 tJ. Dodge: DeWltt. Claude W. Thorp, 

 President; Douglas. Chas. McDon- 

 ald. Alternate; DuPage, A. W. 

 Fischer. President; Edgar, W. A. 

 Dennis. President; Edwards, "Walter 

 Tribe, President; Effingham. L. P. 

 Mautz. President; Ford. E. W. Tie- 

 ken. President; Franklin, J. F. 

 Whittlngton. Alternate: Fulton, B. 



for passage, rather than a policy 

 of supporting several measures 

 and thus dividing the strength of 

 the organization. 



Pa8.s Resolutions 



Resolutions were unanimously 

 passed by the convention endors- 

 ing the stand taken by the I. A. 

 A. in its legislative program and 

 urging the passage of the pro- 

 posed acts. It was requested that 

 copies ot the resolutions be pre- 

 sented to Governor Len Small 

 and all members of the legisla- 

 ture. 



Other Discussions 



In the afternoon, explanations 

 of the reorgnization plan of the 

 U. S. Grain Growers were made 

 by E. H. Cunningham and John 

 W. Coverdale, followed by a gen- 

 eral discussion of questions re- 

 garding the Grain Growers. Other 

 problems taken up during the 

 afternoon meeting included a 

 waterway program discussion led 

 by R. A. Cowles. treasurer of the 

 I. A. A., and the report of sev- 

 eral of the presidents relative to 

 the work being done in their 

 counties in the adjustment of tax 

 valuations under the direction of 

 the I. A] A. 



H. Taylor. President: Gallatin. Geo. 



B. Scherrer. President ; t^reene. L. R. 

 Lee. President; Grundy. S. Fred 

 Cummtngs. Alternate; Hancock. I. 

 N. Hosford. President; Henderson. 



C. W. Cooper, President; Iroquois. 

 R. P. Karr, President; Jackson. 

 Fred Dietz, President; Jefferson. J. 

 H. Payne. Alternate; Jersey. James 

 C. Downey. President: Jo. Daviess. 

 John E. Bonnet. President; Johnson,. 

 W. L. Owen. President; Kane, I. R 

 Judd, President; Kankakee, J. C 

 Collier. Farm Adviser, 



Kendall, E. L, Matlock, President: 

 Knox. Henry Gehring. President; 

 tiake, D. H. Mlnto, President: La- 

 Salle. O. W. Esmond. Secrrtary; 

 Ijawrence, J. E. Lingenfelter, Preal 

 deht: Lee. S. L. Shaw, President: 

 Livingston, G. L. Porter. -Vice PresI 

 dent: Logan, Geo. Stoll, President: 

 Macon, Henry Shafer, President; 

 Madison, Stanley Castle, President; 

 Marion, D. L. Boynton. Secretary; 

 Marshall-Putnam. L. F. Boyle. Pres- 

 ident: Mason. Chas V,'. Borgelt. 

 President: McDonough. C. P. Kline. 

 Alternate: McLean. Simon C. Moon, 

 President: Mercer, Scoville Lee. Sec- 

 retary: Monroe. John C. Gummer- 

 sheimer. President; Montgomery. H. 

 A. Cress. President: Morgan, C. S. 

 Black, President: Moultrie, T. P. 

 Ellis. President; Ogle. Joseph 

 Holmes. President; Peoria. Chas. R. 

 Ford, Vice President; Piatt. M. E. 

 Wise, President: Pike. C. E. Dun- 

 ham. President: Pope, A. H, Floyd, 

 President. 



Randolph, Chas. McKinUy. Presi- 

 dent; Rock Island. W, H. Moody, 

 President: Saline, W. A. Grant. 

 President; Sangamon, J. P. Stout. 

 President; Schuyler. W. T. Boyd. 

 Alternate: Scott. Clyde J. North. 

 President: Shelby. Isaac P. Wort- 

 man, President; St. Clair. H. H. 

 Hartman, Secretary; Stark, David 

 Turnbull, President; Stephenson, 

 Arnold F. Karsk, Alternate; Taze- 

 well, R. B. Orndorir. President; 

 Union. B. W. Newman. President: 

 Vermilion. C. R. Finley, President; 

 Vermilion. W. B. McParland: Wa- 

 bash. John Deputy. President; War- 

 ren. W. D. Rodgers, President; 

 Wayne. J. K. Ethridge: White, O. 

 M. Casebier, President: Whiteside, 

 R. A. Norrlsh. President: Will. N. L. 

 Welter, President: Williamson. L. C. 

 Sanders, President: Winnebago. 

 Goo. F. Tullock. Alternate: Wood- 

 ford. J. Frank Felter. President; 

 Massac, George Arensman: Henry, 

 Lawrence C. Warner, 



Fruit Exchange 

 Sees Formation 

 of More Locals 



Two new local fruit units of 

 the Illinois Fruit Exchange are 

 in process of organization by the 

 growers at Oblong and Robinson, 

 Crawford county. Meetings were 

 held recently in these localities 

 by the Fruit Markeflng Depart- 

 ment of the I. A. A. with the 

 almost unanimous endorsen^ent 

 of the plan by growers present 

 and the signing of many con- 

 tracts. Organization committees 

 were appointed and are now at 

 work. 



Growers »t each of theFe places 



CUNNINGHAM TELLS 

 OF PLANS Of U.S. 

 GRAINGROWERSJNC. 



"Cards face up on the table. 

 No more wild theories." 



This, in brief, was the message' 

 br6ught to the presidents of Illi- 

 nois county farm bureaus by E. 

 H. Cunningham, of the U. S. 

 Grain Growers' Sales Co., in his 

 address at the afternoon session. 

 Mr. Cunningham was given an 

 informal vote of thanks and con- 

 fidence at the 'end of his talk. 

 " "I don't hold out to you that 

 you are going to solve this prob- 

 lem in three, four or five years, 

 but you are going to make a long 

 step in advance during the next 

 three, four or five years," Mr. 

 Cunningham said. "I have no 

 sympathy with any plan that says 

 it can set this thing up and ren- 

 der you a service and make you 

 money tomorrow. They cannot 

 do it. It simply is not in the 

 cards. This is too big a thing 

 that we are talking about. 



"Now, can we get down to 

 business and try to sell grain? 

 We think we can, under this plan. 

 But we don't hold out that we 

 are going to try to give you any- 

 thing tomorrow or the next day. 

 The working out of a plan of 

 marketing grain for America is 

 different than the marketing of a 

 little citrus fruit surrounded and 

 limited by climatic and soil con- 

 ditions. 



"The committee has never had 

 any plan suggested that they "Were 

 ready to accept if it involved in 

 the slightest degree the jeopardiz- 

 ing ot the interests of the credit- 

 ors of this organization. We are 

 going to try to get them their 

 money if it is humanly possible 

 to do so." 



are planning the construction of 

 packing warehouses when the or- 

 ganizations are perfected. 



Assistance is being asked in 

 the formation of locals at other 

 points in southern Illinois, the 

 success of the exchange last year 

 and the splendid prospects for a 

 big fruit crop this year giving 

 impetus to the co-operative work. 



COUNTY PRESIDENTS 

 URGE PASSAGE OF 

 FARMERMEASURES 



Endorse Stand of I. A. A. in 



Supporting Senate Bills 



150 and 165 



Farm Bureau presidents or al- 

 ternates from 87 Illinois countie 

 assembled in Chicago March 26, 

 unanimously endorsed and ap- 

 proved the position taken by the 

 I. A. A. in supporting Senate Bill 

 165, providing for the organiza- 

 tion and incorporation of co-op- 

 erative marketing organizations, 

 and Senate Bill 150, providing 

 for the admission of co-operative 

 organizations to all public mar- 

 kets and grain exchanges. , 



A copy ot the resolutions was 

 placed in the hands of each mem- 

 ber of the House and Senate at 

 SpringSeldv as well as being given 

 to the Governor. 



The following are the resolu- 

 tions. 



WBEREAS, there is now pend- 

 ing in the Legislature of the 

 State of Illinois Senate Bill No. 

 165, providing for the organiza- 

 tion and .incorporation of co-op- 

 erative marketing organizations, 

 and 



WBEREAS, there is now pend- 

 ing in the Legislature of ttie 

 State of Illinois Senate Bill No. 

 150, providing for the admission 

 of co-operative organizations to 

 allr public markets and grain ex- 

 changes, and 



WHEREAS, the success of Ag- 

 riculture is dependent on a more 

 orderly marketing of its products, 

 and 



W B E tt E A S, experience has 

 taught, and reliable authorities 

 agree, that the marketing of ag- 

 ricultural products by commodity 

 through co-operative associations 

 is sound in principle, and 



WHEREAS, the co-operative as- 

 sociation is as different from the 

 ordinary commercial corporation 

 as the corporation is different 

 from a partnership, and 



WBEREAS, laws regulating 

 co-operative associations must dif- 

 fer from the laws regulating cor- 

 porations, and 



WHEREAS. Senate Bill 16S 

 and Senate Bill 150 offer the 

 agencies for the creation and op- 

 eration of co-operative associa- 

 tions, 



THEREFORE , BE IT R E- 

 SOLVED, that we, the under- 

 signed iJresldents or alternates of 

 Illinois Farm Bureaus, assembled 

 in joint conference this 26th day 

 of March, 1923, Chicago, Illinois, 

 endorse and approve the position 

 taken by the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association in supporting Senate 

 Bill 165 and Senate BUI 150, and 

 that we expressly urge the pres- 

 ent Legislature to pass and the 

 Governor of the State to sign 

 these bills, and further, that this 

 resolution be conveyed to the 

 Secretary of the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association, with a request 

 that the same be immediately 

 placed in the hands of the mem- 

 bers of the Senate, Bouse of Rep- 

 resentatives and the Governor of 

 the State of Illinois, 



Illinois farm advisers made 48,- 

 000 farm visits and held 3,491 

 demonstrations during 1922. 



