>y 1, 1923 



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Co-Op Bill Fills Need 



In Illinois Agriculture 



The Illinois Agricultural A^ 

 sociation and the presidents of 



. practically all of the county 

 farm bureaus of the state have 

 declared in favor of the co-op- 

 erative marketing bill which 

 now is before the House at 

 Springfield after having been 



I passed by a decisive majority in 



, the Senate. 



The positive need of commod- 

 ity co-operative marketing if the 

 farmer is to attain his rightful 



; position among American indus- 

 tries and the inadequacy of any 

 present Illinois law to facilitate 

 the organization of co-operative 

 marketing associations along con- 

 structive, sane, conservative lines 

 — this, In brief, is the reason why 

 the I. A. A. and the county farm 

 bif'reaus have been from the start 

 back of the co-operative market- 

 ing bill. 



In spite of the fact that most 

 of the agricultyral leaders of the 

 state have shown themselves to 

 be in favor of the bill, however, 

 some measure of opposition has 

 developed since the first bearing 

 of the bill in the Senate. A 

 number of objections have been 

 advanced, chiefly by interests 

 which are at present profiting by 

 the present system of marketing 

 farm products. Following is a 

 list of a few of the objections 

 which have been brought up: 



Objections 



1. Farmers signing a contract 

 under the provisions of the new 

 cs-operatlve bill would he re- 

 quired to live up to their con- 



I /tract. 



2. The co-operative bill was 

 introduced to create some advan- 

 tage to the U. S. Grain Growers, 

 Inc. 



3. The co-operative act of 1915 

 is good enough. 



4. Contracts must be signed for 

 a period of ten years. 



5. Signing of the contract will 

 tie the farmer up to deliver his 

 products to others, taking what 

 they see fit to give him. 



6. Persons who infiuence mem- 

 bers of co-operative organizations 

 to break their contracts or per- 

 sons' -who spread false and mali- 

 cious reports about the co-opera- 

 tive associations will be guilty of 

 a misdemeanor and subject to 

 fine. 



7. The blU was brought up 

 ■ecretly and was railroaded 

 through the Senate. 



Real Motive 



In the first place it is obvious 

 that the real motive t>ebind the 

 objections is for the most part, 

 selfish, and comes from parties 

 who have no real interest in 

 working out a constructive mar- 

 keting plan to stabilize agricul- 

 tural prices, eliminate unneces- 

 sary profit, and bring about 

 greater elBciency in the distribu- 

 tion of farm-produced commod- 

 ities. 



The real motive is never men- 

 tioned. On the contrary, it - is 

 always carefully stated that the 

 only motive is to protect the 

 farmer from himself. The ob- 

 jectors have no constructive pro- 

 gram and offer no plan for^ sta- 

 bilizing prices, eliminating .un- 

 necessary profit, and bringing 

 about greater efficiency in the 

 distribution of farm products. 



, Living TTp to Contracts 



The first objection, that farm- 

 ers would have to live up to their 

 -^contracts, is quite well-founded. 

 Vlt ii true that contracts under 

 ; tlie' new co-operative act cannot 



entered into yolun 



be easily broken. In other words, 

 a man who joins a co-operative 

 under the new act has the assur- 

 ance that the other fellow isn't 

 going to be able very easily to 

 desert him. 



Our whole business and flnan 

 cial structure depends on the sa- 

 cred and binding character of 

 contracts 

 tarily. 



That the bill has any sort of 

 connection with the U. S. Grain 

 Growers, Inc., is pnre imagina- 

 tion. The bill is for the forming 

 of new associations — entirely. 

 Cooperative Act of 1915 



The Co-operative Act of 1915 

 good enough? For those who 

 find it so, the present bill, if it 

 becomes law, will not interfere 

 at all. To those who have found 

 the Act of 1915 inadequate for 

 organization, the present bill of- 

 fers other and broader provi- 

 sions for co-operative commodity 

 marketing organizations. 



Contracts must be signed for 

 ten years? Again a false objec- 

 tion. Contracts can be signed for 

 whatever period of time you and 

 your fellow producers decide. 



Signing Contract 



Signing of the contract binds 

 the farmer to deliver his product 

 to others? It binds him only to 

 deliver it to himself, to his own. 

 organization in whi-h he has a 

 voice in management, instead of 

 blindly dumping It on the market 

 as at present. 



No one is compelled to sign a 

 contract. Contracts can be made 

 to suit conditions and never can 

 be secured unless the provisions 

 meet the genetal approval of 

 farmers. 



HaUcious Statements 



That persons who spread ma- 

 licious falsities about co-operative 

 associations and who encourage 

 contract breaking will be pun 

 ished is true enough. In other 

 words, the enemies of co-opera- 

 tive marketing will find it harder 

 to undermine it. 



That the bill was brought up 

 secretly in the Senate is mislead- 

 ing. A complete account of the 

 progress of the measure has l>een 

 published each issue in The I. A. 

 A. Record. 



CROWDED OUT 



Dne to lack of space the 

 story of Poultry and Rgg 

 Marketing As80ciation.s 

 formed by the I. A. A., could 

 not be printed in this is.sne 

 of The Itecord, as promised. 

 It will appear May 15. 



DAIRY DEPARTMENT 

 SERVES PRODUCERS 



■ (Continued from page 2) 



Dairy Marketing 

 Directors Meet 

 At South Bend 



A meeting of dairy marketing 

 representatives of Illinois, Michi- 

 g'an, Indiana and Ohio met at 

 South Bend. Ind., April 19, with 

 E. B. Heaton, Director of Dairy 

 Marketing, and Walton Peteet, 

 Director of Co-operative Market- 

 ing of the A. F. B. F. 



General discussion ol th^ dairy 

 marketing plans of the states 

 took place, as well as considera- 

 tion of the efficiency of the vari- 

 ous forms of co-operative dairy 

 associations. 



Marketing representatives pres- 

 ent were A. D. Lynch, of the I. 

 A. A.; B. F. Beach, assistant sec- 

 retary of the Michigan Milk Pro- 

 ducers' Association; C. R. George, 

 Indiana Dairyman's Association; 

 and E. D. Waid of the Ohio Farm 

 Bureau Federation. 



the district was new. The situ- 

 ation became further complicated 

 by the marketing company be- 

 coming involved . in bankruptcy 

 proceedings. For the moment, 

 co-operative marketing in the St. 

 Louis arez is at a standstill. 



But St. Louis dairymen are 

 not going to give up their co-op- 

 erative milk marketing any more 

 than a grain farmer will refuse 

 to plant after a crop failure 

 They know that the St. Louis 

 people need milk; they know that 

 they are the logical men who 

 should supply them; and they 

 also know that the dealers need 

 them as surely as they need the 

 dealers for a market. 



A plan is now being worked 

 out in that district to relieve the 

 situation and it is believed that 

 from all the chaos and seeming 

 trouble a plan will emerge that 

 will serve the best interests of 

 the dairymen and deilcrs alike. 

 Protects Dairy Industry 



Representatives of the depart- 

 ment werB instrumental in secur- 

 ing the passage of the Haugen 

 Butter Bill at Washington which 

 now makes it a Federal law that 

 butter shall contain 80 per cent 

 fat and no more than 16 per cent 

 moisture. This resulted in con- 

 siderable saving to the producers 

 in the state, inasmuch as Illinois 

 had enforced an 821* per cent 

 butter standard previous to the 

 Haugen law. 



The department also supported 

 the Voigt bill, prohibiting the 

 interstate shipment of filled milk, 

 which passed after a bitter fight 

 in which all dairy interests were 

 united. 



At the present ses:)ion of the 

 State Assembly at Spr. ngfield, the 

 Dairy Marketing Department dug 

 up facts and figures tu show that 

 the tuberculosis indemnity ap- 

 propriation should be passed and 

 represented them to the Approp- 

 riations Committee. The depart 

 ment Is also supporting another 

 bill which will prohibit the use 

 of dairy terms in advertising 

 dairy substitutes. 



WUl Carry On 



During 1923 the work will be 

 carried on along the same lines of 

 service as before — the organiza- 

 tion of new associations where is 

 advisable, the work of the de- 

 partment in an advisory capacity 

 with the co-operatives now 

 foTmed, and the protection of the 

 dairy industry. , 



European Crop 

 Conditions Are 

 '. Generally Good 



Generally good crop conditions 

 in Europe are indicated in a radio- 

 gram just received by the United 

 States Department of Agriculture 

 from the International Institute 

 of Agriculture at Rome. The 

 radio message reads as follo.W8: 



"In Belgium, sowing com- 

 menced in t;he middle of March 

 with weither' favorable" and no 

 frost damage to winter crops. Win- 

 ter crops in Germany slightly 

 above average; somfe damage by 

 floods; spring sowings progressing 

 well. Winter crops in France fa- 

 vored b^ climate; spring sowing 

 well under way but slightly re- 

 tarded by rain. Crop conditions 

 in Italy good; weather favorable 

 and sowilig under way. Good 

 crops are espected in Spain; 

 spring sowing completed. " 



The annual meeting of the 

 American Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion for 1923 will be held during 

 the flrst week of December (n Chi- 

 cago, according to plans made at 

 the last meeting of the Executive 

 Committee of the Federation. 



Many Newspapers 

 Publish Special 

 Bureau Editions 



Twenty-four farm bureau spe- 

 cial editions of newspapers have 

 been published in Illinois during 

 the first four months of 1923 in 

 twenty counties where reorgan 

 ization campaigns have taken 

 place. 



With several' more counties to 

 hold campaigns during May and 

 June, at least thirty such editions 

 will have appeared by July 1. 



Fox Resigns As 

 President State 

 H. F. Association 



George A. Fox, secretary of 

 the I. A. A., resigned his position 

 as president of the Illinois Hol- 

 stein-Friesian .Association at the 

 meeting held in connection with 

 the state Holstein sale 4t Aurora, 

 April Il9 and 20. Frank T, 

 Fowler, Lake Villa, was elected 

 to succeed Mr. Fox to the presi- 

 dency Of the association. 



Mr. Fox gave his reason for 

 resignation that his duties with 

 the I. A. A. did not allow him to 

 do justice to the Holstein asso- 

 ciation work. However, he will 

 serve on the board of directors 

 for the coming year. 



At the same meeting, C. M. 

 Long, Who has been field secre- 

 tary of the state association, re- 

 signed to take up similar duties 

 with the extension department of 

 the Holstein-Fr<:8ian Association 

 of America. 



The Bale of state Bpisteins was 

 a succ^s, an average of 1293.60 

 being secured for the 24 males 

 and 61 females consigned, the 

 former averaging $390.60 and 

 the latter $236.20. 



The top of the sale went to 

 John L. Nicholson and Son, Ingle- 

 side, when they bought the year- 

 ling bull. Bell Farm Boech Pride, 

 from R. N. Thompson, Cowden, 

 for $$,000. 



T. B. EMDOTION 

 MEASURES HAVE 

 SENATE HEARINGS 



I. A. A. Represented by Lynch; 

 Dairy Substitute Adver- 

 tising Bill yp 



Both Seiulte bills which refer 

 to bovine tvberculosis eradica- 

 tion in Illinois have passed their 

 first rcadinia; in the Senate. 



"Senate BIB 209 would appro- 

 priate $1,200,000 for the 'next 

 two years to indemnify owners 

 of tubercular cattle that h«ve 

 been destrotyed, and Senate Bill 

 281 would allow counties to ap- 

 propriate funds from the county 

 treasury to use In the snpprec- 

 sion, eradication, and control of 

 tuberciulosis In domestic animals. 



No one appeared against the 

 tuberculosis bills at the Senate 

 appropriations committee hear- 

 ing. Those who spoke In their 

 favor were, A. D. Lynch. Director 

 of Dairy Marketing of the I. A. 

 A.; H. R. Smith, NaUonal Live 

 Stock Commissioner: C. M. Long, 

 Secretary of the Illinois Holstein- 

 Ffiesian Association; Dr.' Luckey. 

 St. Louis Live Stock Comin'ls- 

 sioner; E. M. Davison, Director 

 of Agriculture; and A. W. Fisch-- 

 er, farm btireaj ir.dmt«r of Du- 

 Page county. 



Dairy Sdbstitate AdvertlslnK 



House BUI 223, which would 

 prevent the illegal use of the 

 words, butter, cream, and dairy, 

 in connection with the sale or 

 advertising of any substance de- 

 signed as k substitute tor butter, 

 has l>eeD referred to a special 

 sub-committee of five of the 

 House for lurthsr" 



Among those who spoke In 

 favor of the. bill before the House 

 committee on agriculture were, 

 Mr. Lynch of the I. A. A.; W. F. 

 O'Harr, president of the Illinois 

 State Dairyman's Association; 

 Dr. G. L. McKay, secretary of the 

 American Association of Cream- 

 ery Buttermakers; and E. B. 

 Heaton. Dairy Marketing Director 

 of the A. r. B. F. 



Attorneys representbig the J. 

 F. Jelke Co.. Chicago, and the 

 J. B. Pearsall Butter Co., Elgin, 

 appeared against the bill. 



Let's Have Some Farm ,{^ 

 Bureau Lies; Send *em In! 



When The Record started the 

 ball rolling with a real honest-to- 

 goodness farm bureau lie in the 

 April 15 issue, it asked that its 

 readers from all parts of Illinois 

 write in a description of the big- 

 gest "whoppers" that they have 

 heard in circulation coneeming 

 the farm bureau. 



As this issue went to press be- 

 fore any choice "fish stories" had 

 time to arrive at the I. A. A. office, 

 the editor decided to find out if 

 Mr. Metzger of the organization 

 department had discovered any 

 noxious basteri'a in his travels 

 abe.ut the state which needed the 

 application |>f sunshine, via pub- 

 licity. 



"The biggest farm bureau He, 

 or rather lies, that I have ever 

 heard," said Mr. MeUger, "came 

 to light at a farm bureau meeting 

 which I attended in a certain Illi- 

 nois county," 



"A farmer arose in the meeting 

 and said. 'There is a report in 

 circulation out in my community 



that our county farm bnrean pres- 

 ident is drawing a salary of $30,- 

 000 a year and quite a few people 

 out my way actually believe it.' 



•' "That's nothing," replied fman 

 from another corner of the county. 

 •Some knocker out where I Uve 

 started the rumor that our county 

 farm bureau committeemen are 

 getting $2S per day when they 

 attend $he executive committee 

 meeting^.' 



"Of course everyone at the 

 meeting laagbed at the absurdity 

 of such re|>orts," concluded Mr. 

 Metzger, "But the pity of ft Is 

 that there are farmers who are 

 ready to believe anythiag that 

 will s^4eT their own organiza- 

 tion." 



I^w Tbe Record wants its read- 

 ers to se»d in the very "biggVst 

 ones" they've heard. Do it now — 

 in time fair the next issue. 



In short, you "Tell The Record" 

 and Tbe Record will "Tell tbe 

 World." 



