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Come to Urhana for LA. A. Picnic, June 29th! m 



PICNIC AT URBANA 

 IS 4tl> BY I. A. A. 

 AND FARM^BUREAUS 



Springfield. Dixon and Oiney 



Entertain Farmers During 

 ' ; 1 Last Three Years 



The state .picnic just sched- 

 uled by? the county farm bu- 

 reaus alio the I. A. A. for Cham- 

 paign-l'rbana on June 29 will 

 be ftiBj. fourth great state-wide 

 picnic hfeld by the Illinois state 

 and county farm bureau orga- 

 nJMtion. K 



Tbe picnics have already be- 

 come a tradition, iooked forward 

 to each year. They are more 

 than a meVe merry-maltijig ; they 

 are ihe time of the year when 

 . the farm- bureau meets, shakes 

 hands, gete acquainted, plays, 

 learns and unites for a better 

 agriculture. 



KpijuKfleld In 1920 

 The firsf,; picnic, held in a grove 

 in Sangamoii County near Spring 

 field in th^: summer of 1920, drew 

 a crowd e£{timated at eight thou 

 sand. The; first state-wide horse- 

 sh{>e pitctfing tournament was 

 held at this picnic. 



The following year, on Septem- 

 ber 6. 1921, the state picnic was 

 held at Dixon, In Lee County. A 

 crowd of n^rly 10,000 by actual 

 count, attended. 



Olney Last Year 

 Last year's state picnic, at 

 piney, in Richland Cotinty. was 

 given a bad deal by the weather 

 "clouds loomed the 

 evt'ning before and descended 

 upon the crowd on the day of 

 the picnic. -The result was a 

 crowd of alwut 5,000 where eas- 

 ily twice this many would other- 

 wise have attended, in view of 

 the tplendid preparations made 

 by tke. picnic committee, of the 

 county farm bureaus. 



Iteniember the Date! 

 Bui never have the I. A. A. 

 and t3ie county farm bureaus had 

 a more splendid opportunity for 

 the' state picnic than this year. 

 The co-operation of the College 

 of Agriculture and the chance to 

 Bur\*e&' the fields at the university 

 Is an attraction to this year's pic- 

 nic tl^at cannot be over-estimated. 

 The "twin cities" are easily 

 reached by road from almost any- 

 where in central Illinois. 



Paste the date in your hat- 

 band' — June 29, at Urbana! 



JUNE 29 THE DATE-HERE'S THE PLACE! 



THIS alrplan 

 grounds an( 



ne view of Crystal Lake Park at Urbana gives an idea of the beautiful, winding lake on the 

 nd the trees and grass. The park offers one of the most charming locatlonjs for a picnic of 

 anx place in the state. 



INSPECTION FARM 

 PRODUCTS IS AIM 

 OF SENATE DILL 



Would Especially Benefit 



Fruit Growers; Four 



Main Provisions 



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\ Alabama Paper 

 Praises Work of 

 Peteet In South 



In speakiBg of tbe position of 

 leadership held by Walton Peteet 

 as Director of Co-operative Mar- 

 'ketini; with the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation, the Alabama 

 Farm Bureau News said in a recent 

 issue: 



"Alabama members have come 

 In contact with this big and brainy 

 Texan. He has been in this state 

 ;iSoT s^eral important meetines and 

 4as. impressed those who met him 

 as one of the ablest men in the 

 Farm Bureau movement. He has 

 beea an outstanding figure in the 

 Sou^h in cotton marketing, with a 

 tremendous zeal and energy which 

 make him the ideal leader in the 

 new Itold he has t>een called to." 



Barnyard GolF' Pitching 

 Feature of Each Picnic 



"It's a ringer!" 



This exclamation is one that 

 was beard time and time again 

 at Springfield, Dixon and Olney 

 at the last three L A. A. ^picnics. 

 For one of the main events of 

 these affairs was the state-wide 

 horseshoe pitching tournaments 

 for the state farm bureau chatn- 

 plonshlp. 



In 1920 a cup was put up to 

 be kept for a year by the winners 

 of each tournament. Any team 

 winning it for three consecutive 

 years was to keep it permanently. 



Ed Torbert and Joe Heskett, of 

 the DeWitt County Farm Bureau 



won the trophy all three years 

 and now retain It permanently. 



At the recent meeting of the 

 general picnic committee at 

 Champaign-Urbana, it was the 

 opinion that the horseshoe pitch- 

 ing tournament should be con- 

 tinued at the picnic this year. As 

 many counties as possible are 

 urged to enter teams. Only farm 

 bureau members are eligible to 

 play. 



Another trophy will be put up 

 for the championship and more 

 details about the contest will be 

 given in the next Record. 



Writer Says Farm 

 Bureau Man "Best 

 Mind" At Capital 



What sort of a fellow Is Gray 

 Sliver, who is tbe head of the 

 legislative o£9ce of the American 

 Farm Bureau Federation at 

 Washington? More than one Illi- 

 nois farmer has asked himself 

 this question, when he read of 

 the accomplishments of the Farm 

 Bloc, which was organized by the 

 A. F. B. "F. It is answered in 

 "Judge." the issue of March 24, 

 By Herbert Corey, celebrated cor- 

 respondent. 



"There' are other organizations 

 which have agents here (In Wash 

 ington), of course," writes Mr. 

 Corey, "but Gray Silver is the 

 best mind of them all. They 

 compare with him as a yellow 

 tulip does with the Aurora t>ore- 

 allB. 



"The only thing that even 

 sounds phony about Gray Silver 

 ia his name, and that's real. Be 

 is the man who made a majority 

 of the House and Senate deter- 

 mine to raise whiskers and wear 

 boots during the summer vaca- 

 tion. It is not often that Silver 

 uses hartb measures to carry 

 through a plan, but when he 

 does get roUgh a horseehoer's 

 rasp sounds like velvet. He is 

 essentially an organizer rather 

 than an Individualist. 



"He became the most powerfnl 



individual engaged In molding 

 legislation in Washington — no 

 one who knows the situation 

 would question that description — 

 because he could not help him- 

 self. When farmers had no real 

 organization. Gray Silver was 

 made a member of every com- 

 mittee sent to Washington to ask 

 Congr^s to behave, because he 

 lived near at hand ' and would 

 pay his own way . When the A. 

 F. B. F. determined to take an 

 active hand he came to Washing- 

 ton to stay tour years. He has 

 tried to get back to his thousand- 

 acre farm in West Virginia and 

 is not let." 



ALL FARM BUREAU 

 FOLKS ASKED TO 

 ANNUAL OUTING 



(Continued from Paee One) 



Over Million and 

 Half Fleeces Are 

 Pledged to Pool 



According to C. J. Fawcett, as- 

 sistant manager of the National 

 Wool Warehouse and Storage 

 Company, which handles pooled 

 wool for several states, a total of 

 1,700,000 fleeces are pledged for 

 the 1923 wool pool. The contracts 

 call for delivery of wool immed- 

 iately after shearing. 



Mr. Fawcett states that it is 

 quite universally recognized by 

 the wool growers of the west that 

 the pool has been the means of 

 stimulating the price paid In a 

 local way by speculators from 3 to 

 5 cents per pound. In the seasons 

 of 1921 and 1922 the wool pools 



Adviser; Melvln Thomas, Presi- 

 dent Illinois Farm Advisers. 



PROGRAM COMMITTEE — Geo. 

 A. Fox, Secretary, I. A. A.; Dean 

 Herbert Mumford, ^ollege of Ag- 

 riculture, University of Illinois; 

 Melvin Thomas; Mrs. H. L. Dun- 

 lap, Savoy, 111. 



PUBLICITY COMMITTEE — L. 

 J. Montross, I. A. A.; J. A. 

 Wright, University of Illinois. 



GAMES AND STUNTS COM- 

 MITTEE — J. W. Watson, Farm 

 Adviser. Piatt County Farm Bu- 

 reau. (Mr. Watson to select 

 assistants.) 



HORSESHOE COMMITTEE — 

 L. A. Palmer, Champaign; L. J 

 Montross, I. A. A.; 1. A. Madden 

 F^rm Adviser, Sangamon County 

 Farm Bureau; J A. Wright, Uni- 

 versity of Illinois. 



ACCOXIODATIONS AND IN 

 FORMATION COMMITTEE — M. 

 I. Coldwell, Champaign; Lloyd 

 Rovelstadt, Champaign; Lloyd 

 Lamkins, Champaign. 



GROUNDS COMMITTEE—;!. E. 

 Smith, Champaign; Ed Filson, C. 

 H. Oathout; Melvin Thomas. 



POLICE, TRAFFIC i5ND PARK- 

 ING COMMITTEE — John Gray 

 Champaign. 



FEEDS AND FEEDING COM- 

 MITTEE— C. H. Oathout. 



FINANCE COMMITTEE — Ed 

 Filson, J. E. JcFhnson, R. A. 

 Cowles, J. L. Ascher, E. J. Holt- 

 erman. 



May be Changes 



It is possible that changes may 

 be made In these committees. 



The next issue of The Record 

 will carry a full report of fur- 

 ther plans for the picnic. - 



were very successful, retiiming to 

 the growers substantial Increase 

 above the price obtainable locally 

 at shearing time. 



At least ten states are or- 

 ganizing for the co-operatlTe mar- 

 keting of potatoes under the Pe- 

 teet-Saplro plan. 



A bill for an act to authorize 

 the director of the Illinois De- 

 partment of Agriculture to es- 

 tablish inspection and standard- 

 ization service for all kinds of 

 agrricuhural and horticultural 

 products, to standardize con- 

 tainers therefor, and to employ 

 inspectors, was recently intro- ' ( 

 duced into the Illinois Senate 

 by Senator WiUiam S. Jewell, 

 Fulton county. 



This act will enable growers to 

 take advantage of the Federal 

 law which provides for shipping 

 point inspection. It cannot be 

 used in Illinois with existing ma- 

 chinery. 



The passage' of the bill is 

 especially desired by Illinois fruit '-y- 

 and vegetable growers In that It V (•' 

 is especially applicable to per- 

 ishable products. In the past, 

 some unscrupulous buyers have 

 rejected shipments for unwar- 

 ranted reasons when they could 

 profit thereby. Shipping point 

 Inspection will protect the grower 

 as it insures the condition of the 

 products before transportation. • 

 With this service, the grower will 

 be protected from unwarranted j 

 rejections, as previous Inspection 

 by licensed U. S. inspectors will 

 make the shipment the property 

 of the buyer when quotation is 

 accepted. 



Four Main Provisions 

 There are four main provisions 

 which characterize the bill. First, 

 it establishes an inspection divis- 

 ion under the Department of Ag- 

 riculture. Second, it provides for 

 the establishment of standards 

 for all agricultural products fol- 

 lowing a hearing and after proper 

 notice has been given. It also 

 sets standards for containers. 



Third, it authorizes the em- i 

 ployment of inspectors, the rais- 

 ing of fees to pay for inspection, 

 and co-operation with the United ' 

 States Department of Agricultu-e ^ 

 in carrying out the provisions of 

 the bill. Fourth, It authorizes 

 the appropriation of funds to 

 carry out the work. ' 



Anvend Apple Law 

 Senator Jewell has also intro- 

 duced into the Senate an amend- 

 ment to the apple grading law 

 'which was passed two years ago. 

 It will make the law conform to 

 the grading rules now In use by 

 the United States Department of 

 Agriculture. 



As it nsw stands, the apple law 

 allows the grower to grade hla 

 products in accordance with the 

 U. 3. Sulzer Act instead of the 

 Illinois act. If he so desires. Tbe 

 Sulzer act Is now obsolete and 

 the department of agriculture is 

 using another apple grading rule. 

 The amendment introduced into 

 the Senate of Illinois will allow 

 Illinois apple growers to grade 

 under present U. S. standards If 

 desired. 



The Fruit and VegeUble Mar- 

 keting Department of the I. A. A. 

 Is strongly supporting these twoji, 

 measures in behalf of growers. 



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