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lllinoisAgricuitun 



Volume 1 



June IS, 1923 



Number 7 



CO-OPERATIVE BILL PASSES HOUSE 99 TO 4/ 



PROGRAM OF STATE 

 PICNIC AT URBANA 

 NEARSWLETION 



Speaking, "Barnyard Golf," 

 Music, Sports, Boating- 

 Plan To Come June 29! 



ter 



urease 



tion fell 



in 1921 



in 1922, 



creamery 



million 

 '., accord- 



1 by the 

 t of Ag- 

 ion had 

 h of 370 



increased 



follows: 



1.055,000,- 



;3.51S,000 



iO.OOO.OOO 



pounds; 



18,000,000 



pounds. 



umer as 



of dairy 



bettering 



e mainly 



led dairy 



ern and 

 recently I 

 1 Fruit 1 

 sratlvely 

 cts. 



Last call for the I. A. A. 

 Farm Bureau State Picnic at 

 Urbana, June 29th! 



The committees in charge of 

 the event have been hard at 

 work for. the last two weeks and 

 have shaped a program which 

 will insure everybody a good 

 time and a valuable outing. It 

 is hoped to have the largest 

 crowd ever tnmed out at an I. 

 A. A. picnic. 



Knral Pastors 



The program for the meeting 

 of the rural ministers on the eve- 

 ning of June 28 has also been 

 developed. The Rev. Mr. W. W. 

 Diehl, of Albion, Mich., an author- 

 ity on rural church problems, will 

 speak. 



• Rural pastors from all over Illi- 

 nois have signified their intention 

 of attesding. Many farm bureau 

 folks, too, will be at the confer- 

 ence of the 2gth. 



The "Open House" 



Plans for the "Open House" of 

 the College of Agriculture of the 

 University of Illinois, to be held 

 on June 2S, 29 and 30 indicate 

 that this event will furnish valu- 

 able Instruction and will attract 

 farm folks from all over Illinois. 



Urbana will be the Mecca of 

 organized Illinois Agriculture of 

 the State on June 29 — and no 

 mistake! 



BRING THE FAMILY AND COME! 



I. A. A. FARM BUREAU STATE PICNIC, CRYSTAL 

 LAKE PARK, URBANA, ILL., JUNE 29 



SPEAKING^ 



Address by Sydney Anderson, U. S. Congressman from Mjnne- 

 sota. Chairman of Congressional Committee of Agricultural In- 

 quiry, 



Address by Mrs. A. E. Brrgden, Rochester. N. Y., President 

 New York State Federation of Home Bureaus. 



GAMES AND SPORTS— ' 



Horseshoe Pitching Tournament for the Farm Bureau Cham- 

 pionship of Illinois. 



Basehall Game Between Two Country Farm Bureau Teams 

 To Be Arranged. 



Apple Grading 

 Law Amendment 

 Passed In Senate 



The State Senate has passed 

 the amendment to the apple grad- 

 ing law, introduced by Senator 

 W. S. Jewell, Fulton couilty, and 

 strongly supported by the Fruit 

 and Vegetable Marketing Depart- 

 ment of the I. A. A. It will now 

 go to the House. 



The bill will allow Illinois 

 apple growers to grade under 

 present U. S. Department of Ag- 

 ricultural standards instead ..of 

 grading under provisions of the 

 Illinois apple grading law passed 

 two years ago. 



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The Indiana Farm Bureau Onion 

 Growers Association was organized 

 In May at Kendallrille, Ind., the 

 first step toward cooperative mar- 

 keting of the nation's onion crop. 



ooaiing ^ S£unts 



SUPERVISED PLAY FOR CHILDREN— 



Contests 



Children's Play Will be Supervised by Instructors of Depart- 



ment of Physical Education of University of lllinoit. 



MOTION PICTURES— 



Free Showing of the six-reel farm drama, "The Brown Mouse." 



BAND MUSIC— 



A splendid band furnished by the Chambers of Commerce of 

 Urbana and Champaign will play during the day. i 



ALL CONVENIENCES— 



Plenty of water and shade— in ease of sickness or Injury a 

 Red Cross tent with a nurse In charge — If the car balks, a trouble 

 shooter on the grounds — a fried fish dinner served at reasonable 

 pricet. 



Peoria Producers Pay 



Ten Per Cent Dividend 



Reports from the various com- 

 panies operating on the mar- 

 kets under the auspices of the 

 National Live Stock Producers' 

 Association show that the farm- 

 er-owned companies are continu- 

 ing the progressive stride which 

 they have maintained in the 

 past. 



Success of the Peoria company 

 is evidenced by the fact that it 

 declared sT 10 per cent patronage 

 dividend to be paid after May 31 

 and It was also voted to return 

 50 per cent of the cash member- 

 ship fees. Peoria Producers stood 

 first in receipts on the market 

 each week In May except the last, 

 when they stood second. An av- 

 erage of about 30 cars of stock 

 weekly was handled. 



Two new agencies opened up 

 during May, one at Sioux Falls, 

 S. D., on May 6, and the second 



at Cleveland on the 15th. Sionx 

 Falls held third place on ''that 

 market during the first week of 

 operation and advanced to first 

 place during its third week, being 

 second the other two. It bandied 

 about 17 per cent of the receipts 

 each week. 



The Chicago Producers Com- 

 mission Association has installed 

 a sheep-selling department with 

 Ernie Belfus in charge. The agr 

 ency held first or second rank each^ 

 week of the month and handled 

 an average of about 280 cars 

 weekly. 



As has been its custom, the 

 Indianapolis agency maintained 

 first place on that terminali.each 

 week of the month ai^d bandied 

 an average of 27 per cent of the 

 receipts weekly. The growth of 

 the agency has necessitated the 

 (Continued on psffe 4} 



Sydney Anderson 



i.A.A. HELPING TO 

 FORM PRODUCERS' 

 'CO-OP' IN INDIANA 



The Live IStock Marketing De- 

 partment of the I. A. A., C. A. 

 Stewart, director, has been._giving 

 some help in the organization of 

 a new selling agency of the Na- 

 tional Live Stock Producer's As- 

 sociation at Evansville, Ind. 



Evansville is a market in south- 

 western Indiana which secures 

 about 20 per cent of its receipts 

 from southern Illinois counties. 

 The remainder of its receipts 

 come about equally from Indiana 

 and Kentucky counties. 



White and Gallatin counties are 

 the principal Illinois counties 

 shipping stock to this market, al- 

 though Edwards and Wabash are 

 also patrons. L. L. Pinnell, Ex 

 ecutive Committeeman of the 

 Gallatin County Farm Bureau, is 

 representing the I. A. A. as one 

 of a committee of five in makio): 

 arrangemeats for the opening of 

 the "co-op.*' ) 



Prese'ntsl plans indicate that 

 the Farmer's Commission Com- 

 pany, a stock organization which 

 has been operating on that mar- 

 ket, and which is dissolving will 

 be taken over by the new Pro- 

 ducers company. No definite date 

 of opening has been announced. 



Homestead Films, Inc., recently 

 moved its headquarters from 7510 

 V. Ashland Ave. to 732 S. Wabash 

 Ave., Chicago. The new location 

 of the farm bureau motion picture 

 company is a prominent one on 

 Chicago's fiotion picture row 



MEASURE IS SENT { 

 TO SENATE; IS IIP 

 TO GOVERNOR NEXT 



Act Carries No Ainendmienls 



Not Admitted To It By 



Its Proponents 



By a vote of 99 to 47 the Illi- 

 nois Co-ope rati ve Itarketing 

 Bill has passed the House of 

 Represenutives at Springfield, 

 and has been returned to the 

 Senate for concurrence in 

 amendments. It is probable that 

 the measure will go up to Gov- 

 ernor Len Small for his signa- 

 ture before this issue «f The 

 Record is 'mailed. "" -^•— <? — 



The inassjBe of the Oil ki the 

 House was no surprise either to 

 its adberetls or its opi onents. as 

 it had been freely* pi! tdictEd at 

 .-Springfield that the rh ef conten 

 would come on the an endtients. 



The bil( lias shown surprising 

 strenjrth bbth in the Sel ate tnd in 

 the House. Only three ^pte$ were 

 recorded algainst it wheli it passed 

 the Senate. When it cime up for 

 amendments in the l^ous*. the 

 most critical time of |5ts earoer, 

 its supporters were ab(ie to down 

 niosftlf the ^hostile adkendments, 

 which had as their rafcl purpose 

 the cripplUg of the bil, without 

 a roll call. li • 



Not an amendment wis Ad- 

 mitted to tht' bill whith wKs not 

 acceptable to its proponents. 



Sock Island Milk 

 * Co-op ' Opens Soon; 

 Manager Employed 



Jln'rirf of the Kocly IsiSiiU t" 

 operative Milk Markjcting Com- 

 pany's plant will takej, placie early 

 in July, according to piesenjt pljans. 

 Some delajr has been fexpariesi^ 

 in opening due to in|taliatioa uf 

 equipment and the seiect:»n of a 

 manager.' 



Lrf>uis A. FinBen, a man with 

 wide experience in matiaeetnent of 

 dairy plants and in merchandising 

 of dairy products, hs^ been em- 

 ployed as manager and recently as- 

 sumed bis duties. He comes to 

 the "eo-op" from tlje Nordiem- 

 Milk and Ice Creai^ Compaay, 

 Minneapolis. _, i, 



Thfe Rock Island Co-opersllve, 

 formed by milk producet-s who 

 supply milk to that city, is cap- 

 italized at 150.000. Advisori- aid in 

 organisation is tieing given by the 

 Dairy Marketing De^artmeat of tbe 

 I. A. A. I I , 



