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 Four 



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> authorize 

 lliuoi^ De- 

 ;ure to es- 

 l standard- 

 1 kinds of 

 irticultural 

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 to employ 

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 ois Senate 

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June 1, 1923 



Niiitib«r-6 



"GO-OP" BILL UP FOR FINAL VOTE IN HOUSE 





be bill 

 lllnois frutt 1. 



in that it 

 te to per- 



the past, 

 lyers have 

 or unwar- 

 they could 

 ping point 

 the grower 

 tion of the 

 isportatioD. 

 ;rower will 

 iwarranted 



inspection 



ectors will 



property 



lotation U 



m 



SIDNEY ANDERSON 

 SLATED TO SPEAK 

 AT L AJ. PICNIC 



Committees Meet To Make 



Arrangements For Big 



Outing of June 29 



Hi 



'■t 



slons 



provisions 

 bill. First, 

 ;tion divis- 

 ent of Ag- 

 rovides for 



standards 

 }ducts fol- 

 fter proper 

 It also 

 lainers. 

 the em- 

 the rais- 

 inspection, 

 the United 

 kgriculttt"^ ^ 

 pvisions of i 



authorizes 



funds to 



dtw 



also intro- 

 an amend- 

 ading law 

 years ago. 

 :onform to 

 In use by 

 irtment of 



apple law 

 grade his 



with the 

 ad of the 

 sires. The 

 lolete and 

 [culture Is 

 iding rule, 

 [uced into 

 will allow 



to grade 

 Etndards it 



:able Mar- 

 ie I. A 



these two |^' 

 growera. ' 



PASTORS INVITED 

 TO PICNIC 



A special -invitation has been 

 issued to rural pastors of Illi- 

 nois to attend the I. A. A. State 

 Picnic at Urbana, June 29, to be 

 held In co-operation with county 

 farm bureaus and the College 

 of AgricuItuKe. A special pro- 

 gram is to be arranged for the 

 ministers, according to plans of 

 the General Picnic Committee. 

 Many ministers have already an- 

 nounced that they would attend. 



The General Picnic Commit- 

 tee urges that each county farm 

 bureau do all within its power 

 to bring out its rural pastors. 

 "There's always room for one 

 more" in the flivver — see to it 

 that your minister gets a ride to 

 Urbana on June 29. He'il be 

 just as interested in us and our 

 work as we are in him and his. 



Sidnoj- Anderson, Congress- 

 man from Minnesota and kno\vn 

 country-wide as Cliairraan of the 

 Comijiission of Agricukural In- 

 quiry, will be the speaker at the 

 I. A. A. State Picnic at Urbana, 

 June 29, if arrangements which 

 have been made can be later con- 

 flrnied. While Congressman 

 Anderson's acceptance of the 

 date is not yet official, it can be 

 . announced that he will be at Ur- 

 bana on "the big day" if there 

 is any possibility. 



For his work in the Commission 

 of Agricultural Inquiry, especially 

 (Continued on pa^e 2) 



A.'¥. B. F. Calls 

 Egg Marketing 

 Meeting May 28 



A national egg marketing con- 

 ference was called for May 28 at 

 the Hotel Sherman, Chicago, by 

 the American Farm Bureau Fed- 

 eration. It was planned, accord- 

 ing to a resolution passed by the 

 A. F. B. F. at its last annual meet- 

 ing, tu develop plans for the cen- 

 tralized marketing of eggs and 

 poultry. 



Representatives of state farm 

 bureau federations, of agricultural 

 colleges and of the agricultural 

 press were invited. 



AttLipil^lCri^^Ie Act^l . 

 With Amendments Faih 



w/tli 



all unfavorable I almendments killed, the Illinois Co-op- 

 erati%e Marketing bill wis on the order of final p8.s.sage in the 

 Hoiise ^t Sprinjjlield at the tinie this issue of The BecorJ went 

 tojpres^ and will undoubiouly be finally \<oted upon a few days 

 H-r- '■ '^ I ■ ; ' ■, 



"T/- Siip^rters of the measure in the House rolled up a vote which 

 r^iiltecf in tabling a succession of am<'ndmeiits whicli iad for 

 their real purpoKe the crippling of the bilL Only cnce wtis a roll 

 call necessary to defeat aii amendment. 



It had been widely predicted about Springbeld that the chief Attack 

 on the bill would be in the way of amendments, but the 'two-boor on- 

 slaught on the measure in ttie House found Ht defense invulnerable. 



Six proposed amendments, in all, were dt>~tvned 



As the sneasure stood after the barrage of amendmeuts ft carried 

 no feature objectionable to Its backers. 



The bill has already 'been passed bj 

 jority. 



9th "Co-op" Yards Firm 

 . Is Opened At Cleveland 



The ninth Producers' Co-op- 

 erative Live Stock Commission 

 Association has been "opened by 

 the National Live Stock Produc- 

 ers' Association at Cleveland, 

 Ohio. Farmer-owned and oper- 

 ated selling agencies are now 

 functioning at Chicago, East St. 

 Louis, Peoria, Indianapolis, Buf- 

 falo, Fort Worth, Kansas City, 

 Cleveland and Sioux Falls. 



Carbondale Milk 

 Producers Form 

 New Co-operative 



Milk distributors of the city of 

 Carbondale, Jackson county, met 

 with the Dairy Marketing Depart- 

 ment of the I. A. A. in May to 

 effect the organization of the Car- 

 bondale Co-operative Milk Pro- 

 ducers Association. 



Officers elected by members of 

 the new company were Arthur 

 Parrish, president, and Harry 

 Atherton, secretary-treasurer. 



The association was organized 

 to bring about a better under- 

 standing between the distribut- 

 ors, to advertise the value of 

 milk products as food, and to 

 stabilize milk market prices in 

 Carbondale. .t > . - >. , 



Other agencies are to be .started 

 soon at Oklahoma City, Cincinnati 

 and probably other terminal mar- 

 kets. 



On the last week before publica- 

 tion the Producers' agencies were 

 first on five markets. Chicago han- 

 dled 300 cars, or 5.87 per cent of 

 the total receipts, Indianapolis, 

 203 cars, or 26.16 per cent of the 

 total receipts, Buffalo 74 cars and 

 Fort Worth 100 cars. 



The Peoria Producers received 

 twenty-two cars and .ranked first. 

 At East St. Louis the Producers 

 ranked second with 217 cars. 



oc: 



THE WATCHD 



How can a farmer, busy with 

 his crops and untrained in the 

 technicalities of transportation 

 matters, know that he isn't 

 paying too much freight when 

 he ships? Unless he it one 

 out of a million, he can't. But — 



Even If he can't, his county 

 farm bureau and the 1. A. A. are 

 on the Job with men who make 

 it their business to know and 

 to safeguard the member's in- 

 terests. This story tells how 

 many a farmer iS' saving the 

 price of his membership on a 

 shipment of hogs or cattle be- 

 cause his bureau and the I. A. 

 A. were on the job! 



Conference Of 

 Product Heads 

 HeU May 25-26 



A conference of the managers 

 of the various Producers Co-oper- 

 ative Live Stock Commission As- 

 sociations now operated oo nine 

 markets was called at Chicago, 

 May 25 and 26 by President John 

 G. Brown of the National Live 

 Stock Producers Assooiatiop. 

 I -U= 



DID YOU KNOW-? 



THAT there are 580 local co-operative live stock shipping 

 associations in Illinois, many of which are the largest busi- 

 ness Institutions in the eommunites they serve? Turn to 

 Page Two and read how the Li.e Stock Marketing Department 

 of the I. A. A. aims to give the most complete service possible 

 to these associations and to all farm bureau live stock ||ro- 

 ducers. 



Did you know that at Waukegan Is the only proriucersxin- 

 sumer co-operative company In Illinois,' doisg a flourishing «nd 

 profitable business? Read on Page Three about this remark- 

 able leaf in the history of farmer co-operation and the part 

 played in It by the I. A. A. 



b^the Senate by a declitTe nsr 



LIVE STOCK 9K^i^ ,| 

 REDUCED FOLLOWING 

 PROIESIJ L A. A. 



An average reduction of 

 $11.25 oti a car of catlleJ$l0.62 

 on a oar of hogs, and $9.75 on 

 a e;^r of iflloep from points! on the 

 Wabash Railroad west bf the 

 Illinoi$ River to East Stl Louis 

 has been announced, follcmiag a 

 protest etitered on t^e lonner 

 rates !bj' the Transpartalioa 

 SerWce of the fiUnois 4f?ricul- 

 tural AsiiOeiation. 



Th« roduf-tion is now in efr^ct- 



In tht' Spring of 11*21 ih** ^atee on 

 i-attle ftnd hogs from poinla fi'efit 

 or the tlliiiols RtTer to ChiciffoJ Pe- 

 oria alid] East' S^ L.om1b v»8< fn- 

 crcaaodl ^l|out 2S t>«r ""f-ntj in ac- 

 t-orUatiCe ^ith an lntrr8i|me dom- 

 mfTct- ('otnmisaion ordrr. 



The W^ltaah iricr^-aafd inc nates 

 from pointii on thtir Hue ^'c-st of 

 ih»r ri\i«-r to E:ast St. Ucuia to tVie 

 samt* bbsl^ as on points *aflt of the 

 rivtj-. Th* I. -A.- A., on cf*n|>jaint 

 from tho Hanc<VK Coimty 

 Bureau. t»»*k up the matter 

 R. A. A. PkJtr^fB 



Not «(ilfr' Hancock Coujfty 



«»Kt; 



-, Imtall 

 ntj of 'thp 

 ;ti Ijours 



points «ti lh«r Wabash 



lUinuis Klver to Kasi 



wpre Tn^^lvt-d. It mas /oktnd »'y 



the I^ A. A. that the ratt-s o^ raittle. 



Bheep and liogs were out ofl line fn 



thiH trfritory. 



FollowHip the protest of t lie 1. A. 

 A., the ralkroad made an .ijlji Atment. 

 r*-ducliitf: . the rates apiu'oii imqtely 

 "flve ccpta per hundred we Bh^ on 

 cattle. I*ix -cents on hoprs aqd r '"" 

 cents oti ifceep. 



Mid- West States 

 Hold Economic 

 Meet At Chictigo 



An AvrScuitural Kcononihrs Re- 

 search Conference for Mldd(e Vest 

 Statf« was held at the Hot4l Sher- 

 man. Chic»KO. on Kriday, !I»y. 18. 

 O. E. Bradfute. president -of the 

 .'Vmerioan Farm Bureau p«*dier»- 

 tion, acted as chairman. 



Taxatioa was discussed (y J. C. 

 Watsot. of the Illinois 4«rlcal 

 tural 4M<icl«tioB. 





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