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The Dlinoi* AgricoltaraJ AssodatioD Record 



Jiin« IS, 1923 



Come to the State Picnic at Urbana, June 29 1 



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OUTINGS REQUESTS 

 FOR CITY CHILDREN 

 BEGIN TO COME IN 



I.A.A. Receiving Applications; 



Third Year of Project Prom- 



\se^ Good Record 



!i|TIe it 



The fii^t reii 

 slums cHitdn' 

 outiiiL's in tlif 1; 

 farm bi|ri'iiu' i 

 I ^omiiif.' ill to tin 

 ^ry of t lie Illim 

 A.ss(ii-iiiti;n tliirii 

 daVs ill iluiip. 

 tlijit liixt yvAr's 

 Ifnaidred ddiiics 

 ill homes of IlliiK 

 members ^ will 

 even exceeded.' 



Tlie ^iplicatioii 

 was primed in 

 The RecOTd will 

 pjige. . in you 

 or morp 1 children 

 some tinte this 

 out and ^nd it 

 Secretary] [of the 



its for Chicago 



for two-weulj; 



lines of county 



embers began 



Outing Secii- 



is Agricultural 



5. the first few 



ndieations are 



recoi^d of five 



riven vacations 



is farm bureau 



e<iualled or 



te 



tl 

 le 



wish 



blank which 



e Inst issue of 



found on this 



to take one 



for an outing 



summer, fill it 



to the Outing 



A. A. ; 



j Thlrrf 



Although the 



and always a business organiza- 

 tion. It bas al^a .s interested it- 

 self in sbiiie project for helping 



others egch yea: '. 



thirrf year of the Outing For 



C'lildren 



[iroject, 



Charities.! Of Chicago. '*rhe Daily 

 News, of Chicagjo and Illinois 

 railroadsvj 



The c4ked Chatities^the city's 

 largest ■ ' ion-secta -ian charitable 

 oreanizatloii, selei ts the children 

 from the most wcrjhy and needy 

 of honles^ So destitute are these 

 homes tJiat an ciiting means al 

 mo«t lif" itself to the children 

 The chanitable oi ganization out 

 fits the ch^^Idren with clothing 

 appropriaite to tteir outing, has 



them esamined 



Year 



A. A. is first 



This is tlie 



carried on in 



.r'v I'll i red 



Madison County 

 Melon Growers 

 May Organize 



Cantaloupe growers in the vi- 

 cinity of Poag, Madison county, 

 recently held a meeting with C. E. 

 Durst of the Fruit and Vegetable 

 Marketing Department of the 1. A. 

 A. to consider the formation of a 

 co-operattTe melon marketing or- 

 ganization. 



The growers present seemed fa- 

 vorably impressed with the ad- 

 vantages of such an association. 

 Last' year 15 cars of melons were 

 marketed from the locality and 

 tliis year's crop will be the big- 

 gest yet with more than 250 acres 

 under cultivation. 



Formation of two more locals of 

 the Illinois Fruit Exchange at 

 Grafton and Jersey ville, Jersey 

 county, seems imminent, as much 

 eiuhusiasm toward co-operative 

 marketing was manifest at meet- 

 ings jddressed by Mr. Durst. 



Peoria Producers Pay 



Ten Per Cent Dividend 



(Continued 



erection of a new addition to tihe 



Exchange office 



building for more 



^carefully to 



guard aMainst any possibility of 

 contacioU» dlseaee and sends 

 \them on their vacations spotless- 

 ly clean, in charge of competent 

 women directors. 



I From 4 to 14 



The children are of both se.ves 

 and- range from 4 to 14 in age 



The Railroads : urnish free fare 

 within a llinit of 200 miles from 

 Chicago. The Daily News eon 

 tributes ifaoney and publicity. 



Liability 



The iiirm bureau folks, s 

 asked o»ly to take one or more 

 of the children nto their homes 

 for two Iweeks and treat them as 



they would their 



own youngsters. 



The Inited Chaitties .tssumes all 

 liability for injuries. 



The -rallies vhich, entertained 

 the five' bundrei children given 

 outings last su nmer had only 

 praise for the i ►reject. Several 

 of theiiii declarefl that they got 

 as much out of t^eir contact with 

 their yoi^thful gilests as the chil- 

 dren could po! sibly 'have re 



ceived from the 



anting. A large 



number of families, who took 

 Children last year requested that 



they entertain 

 this suiaiiier. as 

 attachment and 



formed during tlie outings. 



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the same ones 

 ,maaiy a warm 

 friendship was 



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qfflce space. N(w weighing faoil 

 ities and sorttnE; pens have also 

 been provided by the stock yai|ds 

 company. 



The E. St. Lduis Producers Ag- 

 ency held first or second ifkik eajch 



WeeK' ot ;vlay.' 



16 per cent of ^he total receipts 

 each week with m average of ap- 

 pfo.ximately 240 



This afrency; also gives a good 

 example of how p'olume cuts coats 

 of operation. For the first quar- 



ter of 1922. It 



had receipts of 



1.020 cars and for the same period 

 this year, 2381 ctirs were hapdigd. 



an increase of 133.5 per cent. The 

 average expense of selling was 

 $lS.50 per car in 1922 and this 

 was reduced to $11.17 this year. 



The Kansas City Producers 

 took rapid strides in May. From 

 sixteenth place with 40 cars dur- 

 ing the first week, this agency 

 took rapid bounds each week un- 

 til it stood In fourth place with 

 aooU t'lTB*' csir^lis" rSCeilnS" irin-Tlrg' tlie' 

 last week of May. 



The Buffalo selling agency held 

 first place at that market each 

 week in -May, handling an average 

 of i^bout 17 per cent of the re- 

 ceipts weekly. 



The tenth Producers agency, it 

 is announced, will open soon at 

 Oklahoma City. 



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VARIETY OF SERVICE T 



Ten Departments Working For You 



The Illinois Agricultural Association Is Pre- 

 pared To Serve You In Any Important Busi- 

 ness Phase of Illinois Agriculture. 



"MEAT FOR HEALTH 

 WEEK,"]UNE 25-30, 

 AIMS ATCONSOMER 



Vigorous Campaign To Tell 



Of Live Stock Products 



In Diet 



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FARM OUTINGS 



WANT one or more city youngsters for a two-week outing 

 some time during July or August? If so this blank may 

 be found convenient. It should be filled out and sent in, 

 if Bossible. b)!fore July 1. On account of the fact that the rail- 

 roads offer f^ee transportation only within a two-hundred mile 

 radius of Chi|cago, applications can only be accepted within such 

 territory. 



To Outlnic H«|rre« 

 IllinoU' 



arj-. 

 .^Vrleuitural AaaQcla^lsa 



Dciirhttrn Ntr»flt, 

 lUfnoiN I 



We are i 



position to give a. two 



('hicago rhilixen some time in Jqly 6r August, preferably 



Our choiee 



Our nearest 

 <?ounty- 

 ' ilren at. 



o ' age antl sex is 



It is unde 

 the liability 

 dren sent to 

 tions in the 



'eeks* vacation to. 



railway station 8 a: 



riease name at least Itw^ optional stations) 



but we could meet the chll- 



tood that the tJnlt^d Charities of Chicago assumes 

 in the ease of accident or illness to any of the chil- 



us; however, we pledge to exert^e proper preeau- 

 care and treatAi^nt »C tticse children. 



As a means of calling the at 

 tent ion of consumers every 

 where throughout the United 

 States to the hiph value of meat 

 as a food, its wholesoineness and 

 healthfiilness, as well as its im- 

 portance to Agriculture, the 

 National Live Stock and Meat 

 Board requests the observance 

 of the period of June 25 to .lune 

 .3n..fl>! ".«Wft+.Fnr.H,iaUli Week." 



Until the National Live Stock 

 and Meat Board cam<r into being, 

 there w^s no effective medium 

 through which all factors in the 

 meat industry, from the man on 

 the farm who produces the live 

 stock to the man in the retail 

 shop who sells the meat, could 

 co-operate in the common cause 

 of promoting a better knowledge 

 of the food value and healthful- 

 ness of meat. The board is now 

 functioning vigorously, and with 

 the support of the producers and 

 others, will be able to do effec- 

 tive work in restoring meat to 

 the place which it deserves in 

 the American diet. The "Meat 

 For Health Week" will be the 

 Board's first Important step 

 toward this end. 



Use of .Poster 



Tentative plans for "Meat For 

 Health Week" cafl for the dis- 

 tribution and posting in a wide- 

 spread fashion of the meat poster 

 recently issued by the .United 

 States Department of Asrieulture. 



This poster bears the message: 

 "Meat is Wholesome — For Health 

 and Xigor Eat Well Balanced 

 Meals — Use A Variety of Kinds 

 And Cuts Of Meat." 



Reci|>e Dooklet 



This poster will probably be 

 supplemented by colored posters 

 bearing various meat dishes 

 which will be in season at the 

 time, as well as by recip.; book- 

 lets, which will be issued wide- 

 ly, and by demonstrations, in the 

 larger cities of the country, at 

 which the proper methods of se- 

 lecting and preparing meat will 

 be tfught. 



Through these Tarions activi- 

 ties, and with the cordial co-op- 

 eration of live stock producers 

 and their associations, breed as- 



Hai'c Voii Consigned 

 Voiir Wool To The 



1023\PooU 



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lour Lot K'ill IncTfote 

 The Volume of Wool In 

 The Pool. J. 



Volume SpelU Efficiency 

 In Marketing. 



Efficiency Means Greater 

 Net Returns To The 

 Grower. \ i 



Fourteen Years Out of 

 Seventeen The Wool Mar- 

 ket Advances Jl'ith The; 

 Season. '. 



Live Stock 'Marketmg Dep't., 

 lUitwii Agricultural Asin. 



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Milk Producers 

 At Decatur May 

 Organize Company 



At the request of the Macon 

 County Farm Bureau, a meeting 

 was held at Decatur recently when 

 122 milk producers supplying milk 

 to that city met to consider the ad- 

 visability of forming a co-operat- 

 ive milk marketing company. A. D. 

 Lynch, of the I. A. A. Dairy Mar- 

 keting Department, addressed the 

 conference. 



Explanation was made of the 

 principles of co-operative dairy 

 marketing, its advantages and pit- 

 falls, and the experiences of simi- 

 lar projects that are proving suc- 

 cessful in Illinois were related. 



The presence of many small 

 milk dealers, the wide range in 

 the retail price of milk, and the 

 lack of facilities for conforming 

 to the new compulsory pasteurlza- ■ 

 tion ordinance passed In Decatur, | 

 seem to indicate that co-operative | 

 effort would greatly improve the I 

 milk supply of that city., - 



While no definite action was ■ 

 taken toward organizing, a com- 

 mittee was appointed to investi- 

 gate the practicability of the step. 



sociations, live stock sfaipping 

 associations and other factors in 

 the industry, the Board hopes to 

 make "Meat For Health Week"' 

 an unlimited success. 



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ILUN 



NATIONAL I 

 TO BE RE 

 WHEATS 



Delegates Cor 

 Industry; 

 . Co-ope 



Doeision to si 

 Council of the 

 in whidi all ii 

 represented, w; 

 main aecomplis 

 National Wire 

 [held in Chicago 

 by governors c 

 headed by Gov. 

 of Minnesota, 

 gates were pre; 



This council, 

 resolutions, "wil 

 ough, scientific si 

 problem and enli: 

 efforts of all ii 

 publicity in ever; 

 ings and to devel 

 proved methods 

 brium between t 

 and consumptioi 

 lished and p r i 

 American price I 



Such a council 

 l>e necessary to 

 forts possible to 

 sumption of whe 

 the part It plays 

 cation, and to s 

 wheat which will 

 lean wheat farm 

 standards of liv 

 has b">n accust 

 titled. 



Comi 



The personnel 

 tion committee i 

 the Wheat Coun 

 States 13 as folio 

 fute, Chicago; C 

 Georgia; S. J. L( 

 (Continued 



BEF( 



The organ): 

 ty farm burei 

 linois Agricu 

 tion, the farn 

 had little 

 tT>e law-make 

 know Just w 

 wanted and 

 they didn't w 

 organization, 

 pointed a L( 

 mittee to inf 

 tators just he 

 feel about tl 

 Springfield, 

 of the work 

 tiVe Committe 

 tfiis issue. 



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