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lUiaoU Agricultaral Association 



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FubliShtid twice a month by the 

 Illinuila Agricultural Association. 

 "iOS SAuth Dearborn Street, Chicago. 

 Illinois. Edited by News Publicity 

 Depalltment, L.. J. Montrosa, Director. 





' The niinoit AgricuhunJ Atsooation Record 



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Jwe IS, 1923 f J*"* *S, IS 



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 10. ito. at the post office at Chi- 

 caRo.: I Illinois, under the act of 

 March 3. 1879. Acceptance fjor mail- 

 ing: at special rates of postage pro- 

 vide(|| ft>r in Section IlliS. Act o( 

 October 3, 1917, authorized Oct. 81, 

 1921. I * 



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 rlcultyral Association Record 



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OFFICERS 



PresHlent. S. H. Thompson. Quinoy. 

 Vice-President, A. O; Eckert. Belle- 

 ville. _ 

 Secretary. Geo. A. Fox. Sycamore. 

 Treasurer, R. A. Cowles. Biooming- 



[ECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

 Congressional Di-stricts 



lenry McGougH. Maple Park* 

 \i. F. Tullock. Rockfco-d. 

 E. Bamborough. Polo. 

 . H. Moody. Port Byron. 

 E. Goembel. Hoopole. 

 fE. Reder. Mendota. 

 D. Barton. Cornell. 

 R. Finley. Hoopeston. 

 J. Holterman. .Sadorus. 

 fcarl J. Smi<n, Detroit. 

 L. Corbin. Carllnville. 



Stanley Castle. Alton. 



23r(»-»Carlton Trimble. Trimble. 

 24th-.3/-uxt Anderson. X^nia. 

 26th — Vernon Lessley. Sparta. 



/. A. A. Maintains Legal Service 



To Protect Interests of Farmers 



ny«ctors of Deimrtiiients, 

 [ I. A. A. OfflcCj 



Q^nerail Ofllce and Assistant to S'^o- 

 retaryj J. D. Harper; Field Organiz- 

 ation, J. G. Sailor; Organization Puli- 

 llcltv. G. E. Metzger; .News Publi.:- 

 ity 'L.iJ. Montross; Transportation. 

 L. J. Quasey; Statistics. J- *'. Wat- 

 son; Ffinance, R. A. Cojiles: Fruit 

 and Vegetable Marketing. C.,,a, 

 Durst;! Live Stock Marketing. C. -A. 

 Stewart; Dairy Marketing. .V D. 

 LynchiPhosphate Lim^ptone. J. K. 

 Bent. Legal. Newton ■ .rtnikins. 



Algonquin Milk 

 Shippers Saved 

 $45 Everyday 



■ In tl recent letter lu (be I. \. .\ 



ranstgrtatlon Depa rtMieiit. B. 



Stewart, \lgonquin. MvHeiiry coun- 

 ty, mi^de this statement: 



"About 18 months ago: I wrote 

 ton fiDOut our niilli rate to Chi- 

 cago.) Our mileage to Chicago was 

 figured via West Chicago, 52 miles. 

 where«» we have a line via Crys- 

 tal laht *^ miles. There was talk 

 of pajfing for the milk by zones 

 and w^ were to be outside of th« 

 50-mll» zone. You got us inside' 

 that zclne and we get- eight cents 

 more jier 100 pounds than if we 

 were t|utsiae. We are shipping 

 56,000 iiounds of milk a day from 

 this station. This iliakes a daily 

 saving 



One .01 the nwyst recent and 

 one of tht most effective depart 

 ments of the I. A. A. working 

 today for the benefit of the Illi- 

 nois farm bureau member in the 

 business of agriculture is the I. 

 A. A. Legal Service, with New- 

 ton Jenkins as director. This 

 division of the service of the I. 

 A. A, was established to give 

 organized farmers of Illinois the 

 advantages of legal counsel on 

 a par with that employed by 

 the great firms representing 

 other industries. 



The work of the Legal Service 

 may be divided into the follow- 

 ing four groups: 



! — Assistance to the varipus 

 other departments of the 

 Assotiation. 

 2 — Business of the Association 



itselt 

 3 — Service to Connty Farm 



Bureaus. 

 4 — Special matters. 

 AM Vm> It 

 Every ^partment of the As- 

 sociation i^ in constant need of 

 the Legali Department. When 

 Mr. Durst of the Fruit and Veg 

 etable Marketing Department, 

 wishes to help organize a local 

 fruit exchange in Union County, 

 for instance, it becomes necessary 

 to incorporate the organization, 

 draw up appropriate by-laws tor 

 the organitation, pass upon crop 

 contracts fo be signed by the 

 members, ate. This is the proper 

 function c|t the Legal De1)art- 

 ment. 



What is true of fruit and veg- 

 etables, is also true of dairy 

 -{•pdHet^- Mr,. loEch is "called 

 upon constantly from the dairy 

 districts of; the state, to assist in 

 forming da^ry organizations. Mr. 

 H. A. DeWerff, Farm .Vdviser 

 in Franklijn County, wants to 

 organize tli(? milk producers in a 

 locality in . his county. The in- 



times prepares a bill for the 

 committee. It analyzes bills in- 

 troduced by interests other than 

 agriculture to determine how it 

 may affect Illinois farmers. It 

 performs the same service with 

 reference to national and state 

 legislation. 



Mr. Quasey frequently is con- 

 fronted with questions of law 

 involved in transportation claims. 

 These are taken up with the 

 Legal Department. Matters of 

 transportation ahd claims, are 

 very closely related to legal ser- 

 vice. 



Tax Question 



The taxation of farm lands 

 has been a live question in the 

 state during the past few years. 

 The ta.v work of Mr. Watson 

 brings in numerous questions of 

 legality in certain practices pur- 

 sued in- the various counties. 

 When tlip County Clerk of Ma- 

 cjiupin County, for instance, ex- 

 tended the taxes improperly, an 

 opinio,n as to the law was ren- 

 dered by the Legal Department 

 to that County. The matter was 



of about »45.' 



Anotiber concrete example of I. 

 A. A. service! Mr. Stewart is 

 well Btttisfled with the saving 

 brougbl to Algonquin milk ship- 

 pers byj the Transportation Depart- 

 ment And in his letter he was 

 •sking lor more service — this time 

 in secuHng action by a railroad in 

 cleaning out Canadian ttustles 

 ^rom me right-of-way. 



'Moral — If you want service write 

 to the 1. A. A. Don't expect I. A. 

 A. departments to know your' 

 grievances unless you "put thent 

 wise" 1 o your wants. 



Producers Will 

 Open Agency At 

 Cincinnati, Ohio 



Representative live stock pro- 

 ducers of OhiOi Kentucky, and 

 Indiana in a meeting in Cincin- 

 nati, tpok preliminary steps to 

 establiah' a producers live stock 

 commi^ion agency at that mar- 

 ket, "hey will organize under 

 Ohio's new co-operative market- 

 ing iaiji and be a member of the 

 famil.v )f co-operatives malfing up 

 th? Nilitnal Live Stock Produc- 

 er'* A^fo elation. Operations will- 

 until July. 



not staot 



corporation papers aro obtained |^,^^^„ ^^ ^ourt and the farmers 

 tor the B«nton -Milk I'roducei 



.Vssociation and it is now a poin^' 

 concern. The work of incorporat- 

 in.ar and organizing creameries and 

 milk marketing companies is 

 done by the Legal Department. 

 Live stock Work 



When J. K. Shinn, Adviser in 

 Fulton County, calls upon Mr, 

 Stewart for assistance in the or- 

 ganizatioii of a Shipping Asso- 

 ciation, he takes it up with the 

 Legal Department, *hich pre- 

 pares incorporation papers and 

 attends to the legal aspects of 

 the matter and the Fulton Coun- 

 ty Farm Bureau Live Stock ship- 

 ping Association is the i:esult. 

 These shipping associations have 

 been organized all over Illinois 

 during the past year. They are 

 uniform in character and have 

 all been set up in accordance 

 with, and have become affiliated 

 in the marketing plan of the 

 National Live Stock Producers 

 Association. 



Before Mr. Bent of the Lime- 

 stone-Phosphate Department, en- 

 ters into contractual relations 

 with the Rubra Phosphate ■!& 

 ClJemical Co. in Tennessee, he 

 goes over with great detail, the 

 subject matter involved in the 

 contract, with the Legal Depart- 

 ment of' the Association. In this 

 way he safeguards the Associa- 

 tion and rights of the members 

 in Illinois, who buy phosphate 

 through the Association. 

 liegislative Aid 

 The Legal Department works 

 in close cf>njunction with (be 

 legislative tommittee. It some- 



won the suit. 



Thus it may be seen that each 

 department, in a sense, has its 

 legal counsel to consult upon 

 Jegal matters affecting its work. 



An organization as large as 

 ^he I. A. A. dealing, as it does, 

 with many interests and maintain- 

 ing many contacts, has a good 

 deal of legal business pertaining 

 to the organization itself. Matters 

 of this kind are often very close- 

 ly related to questions of* busi- 

 ness policy. 



I. A. A. as Whole 



Any matters involving financial 

 responsibility on the part of the 

 Association come in this cate- 

 gory. In this sense, the Legal 

 Department represents the Inter- 

 fct of the Association against 

 the world. In all legal matters 

 touching upon the business of 

 the Association, the Legal De- 

 partment assists the officers of 

 the Association. 



The County Farm Bureaus 

 make use, to a considerable ex- 

 tent, of the Association's Legal 

 Department. When Fred J. 

 blackburn of Marlon County, 

 wants to advise one of his mem- 

 bers what the law Is with refer- 

 ence to division fences, he gets 

 In touch with the Legal Depart- 

 ment. 



County Service 



A perplexing school question 

 confronts certain of the farmers 

 in Madison County and Alfred 

 Raut communicates with the 

 Legal Department to determine 

 That right the Superintendent of 



Schools has, with reference to 

 boundaries of the School District. 



Some of the farmers around 

 Magnolia in Putman County, 

 want to form a co-operative ele- 

 vator. F., E. Fuller, the Farm 

 Adviser, sends for Mr. Jenkins to 

 come down to discuss with them, 

 the forms of organization and 

 the necessary steps to be taken 

 in the form,a_tion of an elevatot-. 



Mr. M. L. Hunt, Treasurer of 

 the McDonough County Farm 

 Bureau, wants to know what the 

 law is as to the liability of bis 

 Farm Bureau for the payment of 

 taxes on personal property. And 

 t)ius it goes. Hundreds of these 

 legal inquiries come in from all 

 over the state and are given at- 

 tention by the Association's Legal 

 Department. 



General Strlva 



Certain special matters come 

 up from time to time, which in- 

 volve -a great deal of attention 

 by the Legal Department. An 

 example of this is the Illinois- 

 Missouri Milk Association matter 

 at East St. Louis. This Com- 

 pany was thrown into bankrupt- 

 cy last January. Mr. Kirkpat- 

 rick has acted as legal adviser 

 for the reorganization committee. 

 The matter was carried by Mr. 

 Kirkpatrick to the higher court 

 and in the meantime the Commit- 

 tee lias worked out a settlement 

 which has been accepted^'by near- 

 ly all of the creditors. 



Another similar matter which 

 the Legal Department has been 

 working ujion for a long period, 

 is that of rural light and power. 

 The matter first was raised by 

 the member^ in a group of 

 Northern Illinois Counties. Whei% 

 rates for electrical energy had 

 been boosted by .th'e Illinois 

 Northern Utilities Company. The 

 matter was taken up by the Le 

 gal Department with the Illi- 

 nois Commerce Commission and 

 the rate boost was cut in half. 



Overhaul Rules 



Following this first complaint, 

 others were made from Bureau 

 County and later from Tazewell 

 and other -Counties. It became 

 necessary to overhaul the entire 

 rules in Illinois for electric light 

 and power used on the farm. 

 The old rules were abolished and 

 Frank L. Smith of Dwight, Illi- 

 nois, Chairman of the Illinois 

 Commerce Commission, has had 

 a Ccmmittee working for several 

 months on the question, with 

 committees representing the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association and 



FARMWOMEHTO {Mt C 

 ENTER FIELD OF S 



'CO-OP' MARKETING 



Conference Held To Consider 



Egg Merchandising; Pass 



Resolution 



As the result of the nationiil 

 egg marketing conference held 

 in Chicago by the American 

 Farm Bureau Federation, farm 

 women of America are to under- 

 take the organization and con- 

 trol of their first national co- 

 operative marketing association, 

 that of egg marketing. 



Mrs. W. C. Martin; Texas, chair- 

 man of the Home and Community 

 Department of the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation, was elected 

 chairman of the meeting, assisted 

 by Mrs. H. W. Lawrence of Ohio. 



Aaron Sapiro, co-operative coun- 

 sel of the A. F. B. F., was the 

 principal speaker at the confer- 

 ence. He recommended that the 

 farm women of the middle west, 

 instead of "trading $2 worth of 

 eggs at the cross-roads grocery for 

 50 cents worth of canned goods" 

 adopt the co-operativ9 sales plan 

 of the Pacific Coast Egg Produc- 

 ers which has brought them a 

 premium of two to four cents per 

 dozen for their eggs on the New 

 York market. 



The conference instructed the 

 chairman, Mrs. Martin, to appoint 

 a general committee to woi'k out 

 a standard plan for co-operative 

 egg marketing. This committee 

 will select state organization com- 

 mittees to initiate campaigns to 

 organize farmers and the families 

 of farmer? to merchandise eggs 

 in an intelligent and orderly fash- 

 ion. 



Walton Peteet summarized the 

 conference results by stating that 

 the new committee would prepare 

 definite plans for co-operative 

 marketing of eggs; the egg pro- 

 ducers would organize local as- 

 sociations to assemble and grade 

 their eggs; the locals would fed- 

 erate into state selling agencies, 

 and' the state associations would 

 be co-ordinated into a great na- 

 tional egg producers marketing 

 association. 



the Utilities. The case has just 

 recently been closed and the 

 Commerce Commission will short- 

 ly promulgate its General Order. 

 These are some of the things 

 which keep the firm of Jenkins 

 & Kirkpatrick busy in behalf of 

 organized agriculture in Illinois. 



Watchful of your interests 

 in freight rates 



Traiuportatk» Department 

 lUinois AgricuItiiraJ Association 



"When fam 

 ganize a co-o 

 with a good : 

 from the Daii 

 in the fall of 

 opened for b 



When stock 

 pany met to c 

 they found tha 

 business durini 

 dend on all pa 



That's parti 

 were, satisfied 

 pleasing thing: 

 shown. 



In the orga 

 Carroll Co-oi 

 shares of stoc 

 per share, the 

 italized for $1 

 Is allowed to 1 

 shares. Most 

 one share as i 

 that there are 

 ers owning 14' 

 "cbnsiderabie 

 sary before esl 

 ing 1922, the ( 

 equipment. A 

 purchased at a 

 repairs and ad 

 ment during t 

 expense of ovi 



Pla 



During the f 

 the plant was 

 delivered crea 

 gradually Incr^ 

 as 210 produc 

 the co-operati 

 ' eht flush seaso 



A total of i; 

 ter v.'as made 

 ter-maker G. ' 

 assistant, Joe 

 the largest pa 

 in prints to 

 larger Illinois 

 shipped to loi 

 shipped went 

 sion houses. 



Premiu 



It is interest 

 high quality oi 

 it to command 

 market. Print 

 cent over 92 s 

 market, while 

 one cent undei 

 ter on the Chi 



A short sura 

 ery receipts to 

 various sourct 

 lows: 



Commission He 

 Retail Merchan 



Patrons 



Buttermilk ... 

 Sundry Items 

 Butter Inventoi 



Total 



Disburgemei 

 From the pn 

 aside for stoc 

 the purchase ( 

 leaving a ha 

 $997.63. 



Poultry 



Besides its I 

 op" handled p 

 its patrons o 

 margin of one 

 eggs and one 

 poultry. This 

 usual margin 



Only the sm 

 was shown tc 

 the poultry pr 

 of course, to t 

 which they w 

 ceipts -for egi 

 totalled $10,3( 

 were sold to tl 



The Mt. Car 

 that handling : 

 patrons workei 

 with its dalrj 



