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Egyptian Seed Growers 



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Organization of.the.Egj'ptian 

 eed Grovpers Exchange for the 

 lo-operative marketing of red 

 op .seed was eflf acted in the 

 summer and fall of 1922 by the 

 farm bureaus of Clay, Wayne, 

 Marion, and Jefferson counties, 

 jssisted by the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association. Robert N. 

 Clartfe represented the I. A. A. 

 n directing the organization 

 work. 



Practically 92 per cent of the 

 ed top seed grown in the United 

 States is produced by farmers in 

 the soutliern Illinois counties 

 named. Individual sale of the 

 crop by Individual farmers is woe- 

 fully, inofflcient, the product being 

 one upon which there are no regu 

 lar market quotations. A volun- 

 tary pool of 45 crops, conducted 

 largely by the Clay County Farm 

 Bureau in 1921, showed a healthy 

 effect upon the market, hence the 

 incentive for a larger pool. 

 680 Members 



Before the close of the 1922 

 harvest season, one-fourth of the 

 red top of the section was under 

 contract. A membership of 680 

 growers had signed up to sell 

 through the exchange tor a period 

 of five years. 



Due to the tact that the work 

 of organization started too late 

 to build' warehouses and to handle 

 the crop, contracts were entered 

 into with two seed firms, one at 

 Flora, Clay county, and the other 

 at Cisne, Wayne county, to clean, 

 warehouse, and prepare the seed 

 for market. The exchange re- 

 ceived 1,200,000 pounds o.f seed 

 into the pool after harvest. 

 tioans Secared 



The seed was handled by these 

 warehouses to comply with the Il- 

 linois warehouse act so that nego- 

 tiable warehouse receipts could*t>e 

 issued 'to serve as security to ob 

 tain funds to pay advance to mem- 

 bers. Loans were obtained from 

 24 different banks in the red top 

 district, ranging in amount from 

 $1,650 to $7,500. 



An advance of eight cents per 

 pound, or about 60 per cent, was 

 paid to all members who desired it 

 For those who did not draw their 

 advance, interest was allowed on 

 their account at the same rate 

 which the exchange paid at banks. 



Owing to the uj»satisfactory 

 seeding season, the exchange has 

 not yet disposed of its entire hold- 

 ings, although the carry-over is 

 not considered any larger, if as 

 large, as the normal carry-overs 

 heretofore. With few exceptions 

 the membership hajB remained sat- 

 isfied. 



Pool Boosts Prices 



Local buyjers opened the red top 

 market at '12 cents per pound 

 last year. Some of tbein dropped 

 to 10 cents after the harvest sea- 

 son began. Due to the activity of 

 solicitors for the exchange, the 

 dealers were compelled to advance 

 their prices materially toward the 

 close of the season in order to fill 

 their requirements. Some seed 

 was purchased as hifih as 16 to 

 16^ cents late In the season. 



It is recognized by members and 

 non-members, alike, and admitted 

 by several dealers that, without 

 the pool, practically all the seed 

 would have sold at from 10 to 12 

 cents per pound. 



New. Warehouse 



Plans have been made during 

 the past month to handle this sea- 

 son's crop. The contract for a 

 new warehouse at Flora has 



PRESIDENT 



J. S. McDonald ^ 



J. S. McDonald, Jefferson county, 

 heads the Egyptian Seed Growers 

 Exchange, the organization which 

 is getting better prices for red 

 top seed through co-operative 

 marketing. 



let and the work started June 11. 

 It will be completed by August 1. 

 Necessary machinery and .equip- 

 ment has been ordered so that it 

 will be on the ground in ample 

 time for the harvest season. The 

 warehouse, 50x100, is being built 

 of concrete and tile with asphalt 

 roof and made as nearly fire-proof 

 as possible. ^ 



To avoid long hauls by team or 

 extra freight charges, the plant 

 belongiug to T. C. Hambleton, at 

 Jeff, Wayne county, has been pur- 

 cliased. With this plant and the 

 new warehouse at Flora, the ex- 

 change will have sufficient clean- 

 ing dnd storing capacity to handle 

 the seed of the present member- 

 ship and to take csire of "a moder- 

 ate increase. 



Although some increase in mem- 

 bership is expected by the ex- 



Curt Anderson 

 'Mr. Anderson, 'who lives in 

 Xenia, Clay county, is secretary- 

 treasurer and acting manager of 

 the Egyptian Seed Growers Ex- 

 change. He is also the member of 

 the Executive Committee of the 

 I. A. A. representing the 24th dis- 

 trict. 



change this year, no intensive 

 campaign is planned, as the di- 

 rectors are of the opinion that it 

 will be advisable to complete their 

 arrangements for the handling of 

 tbe present amount of seed rather 



I. A. A. "BATS" 

 100 PER CENT 

 IN LEGISLATION 



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(Continued from pa^e 2) 



An important bill approved by 

 both Senate and House was S. B. 

 346 which provides for the crea- 

 tion of a Tax Investigation Com- 

 mission to investigate the entire 

 subject of taxation and to report 

 tOf the Governor and the next 

 General Assembly with recom- 

 mendations of legislative changes 

 The commission would consist of 

 11 members; three from the Sen- 

 ate, appointed by the President; 

 three from the House, appointed 

 by the Speaker; one from the Illi- 

 nois Bankers' Association';* one 

 from the Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion; one from the Illinois A.gri- 

 cultural Association; one from the 

 Coal Operators' Association; and 

 one from the Federation of Labor, 

 the last five named being ap- 

 pointed jointly by the President 

 of the Senate and the Speaker of 

 the House. 



As passed, appropriation of 

 $10,000 was made for the com- 

 mission. 



School Laws 



Support of ^the I. -A. A. was 

 given to several school laws 

 which were passed. Some good 

 legislation was put through which 

 will tend to eliminate some of 

 the worst evils of the present 

 legislation and a foundation was 

 laid for more action. 



S. B. 28 provides a method of 

 organizing contiguous territory 

 bounded by school district lines 

 into community ctmsolidated 

 school districts oa petition and 

 submission to elections. 



S. B. -220 provides that the 

 common school fund shall be dis- 

 tributed affording to the number 

 of days school is in session, the 

 amount of assessed valuation of 

 property, the standard of training 

 of the teaching staff, the number 

 of teachers and the numbers of 

 pupils in each district. It de- 

 fines more clearly the dnties of 

 the State Superintendent of Pub- 

 lic Instruction. 



A clearer deflntion of thte pow- 

 ers and duties, of school boards is 

 made in S. B. 440. More power 

 is placed in the hands of th* peo- 

 ple. It also makes provislo«j_ f or 

 the sale of pchool sites or build- 

 ings when such are unnecessary, 

 unsuitable, or inconvenient for a 

 school. 



IUhuI Le0sIation 



While some beneficial road leg- 

 islation was passed, it is general- 

 ly agreed that there is still much 



than to undertake, too rapid ex- 

 pansion. 



Officers 



J. SL. McDonald, Jefferson 

 county, is president of the Egyp- 

 tian Seed Growers Exchange. The 

 vice-president is J. N. Embser, 

 Marion county, and Curt Ander- 

 son, Clay county, is secretary- 

 treasurer and also acting manager 

 of the exchange. 



Other members of the board of 

 directors are S. S. Hardin, Clay 

 county. George Orr and J. B. At- 

 teberry, Wayne county, and Carle- 

 ton Trimble, Crawford county. 

 Mr. Trimble was nominated by the 

 I. A. A. and elected to tbe ex- 

 change so that the board would 

 have a cloeer association with the 

 I. A. A. and have the unbiased 

 judgment of one board member 

 who was not a piodacer at 

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Nine Exchanges 

 Now Designated 

 Contract Markets 



Since the constitutionality of 

 the Capper-Tlncher Act was up- 

 held by the U. S. Supreme Couh 

 in April, all of the nine principal 

 grain markets on which there has 

 been future trading have revised 

 their by-laws to conform to the 

 provisions of the act and have 

 been designated as contract mar- 

 kets by Secretary of Agriculture 

 Henry Wallace. 



more to be doae in that phase of 

 law-making. ' I 



A section ofS. B. i43t provides 

 an additional tax of one dollar 

 per 100 pounds, gross weight, on 

 motor trucks and busses which 

 are used for hire on regularly 

 established routes. 



Several other acts were passed 

 mainly providing for the valida- 

 tion of various tax levies for road 

 construction. S. B. 311 was 

 passed, which provides for the 

 maintenance of a force of 100 

 motorcycle offlcers on highways. 



"Pittsburgh Plus" 



The appointment of a commis- 

 sion to help bring about the abo- 

 lition of "Pittsburgh Plus " and 

 appropriating $25.ft00 for the 

 commission is the aim of S. B. 

 139 which easily passed both 

 houses. 



Wateh for Harmful liswg 



The Legislative Committee of 

 the I. A. A. was always on the 

 alert for laws whici would be of 

 harm to fanaing imprests. One 

 e.xample of an incident of this 

 kind was the attempt to pass a 

 law changing the date of assess- 

 ment from April 1 to January 1. 

 Pas8ac<» of this hill would hav(y 

 increased farmers' . taxes greatly 

 because of tbe tact that he has 

 a much larger inventory at the 

 first of tbe year than on April 1. 

 The I. A. A. opposed tills bill 

 and it was tabled. 



Another eKampIe of law pre- 

 vention was an .Insurance bill 

 which appeared to |he Legislative 

 Committee to threaten the exist- 

 ence of fat-mers' mutual com- 

 panies. It was not passed. 



In summarizing, it may be said 

 that the I. A. A. was on the job 

 all the time on behalf of Illinois 

 farmers' interests at tbe Fifty- 

 Third General .\ssembly. Several 

 excellent lawB were passed largely 

 through its efforts, notably the 

 Co-operative Marketing Act. Oth- 

 er good lawis had I.' A. A. sup- 

 port. Legislatign which m<ght 

 have worked ham to farmers 

 was prevented. In short, the 

 Farm Bureau was on the job. 



PACKERS SEEKING 

 CHANGE IN RATES; 

 OPPOSQIJY I.A.A. 



Declare Proposed Action 



Would Lower Live Stock 



Pricey, Paid Producers 



The petitkai of interior Iowa 

 packers belpre the Interstate 

 t'ommerce (Sjmmission to secure 

 a readjiistmpnt <if rates on fresh 

 meats; and packing house" prod- 

 ucts from shipping points* west 

 of the Mississippi to eastern 

 markets, is being xipgosed by the 

 \. A. A. as well as the American 

 Farm Bureau Federation, live 

 stock shipping associations, and 

 live stock ekfhanges. 



The case vas filed in the name 

 of John Monrell & Co. ot Ot- 

 tumwa, la., versus tlie New York, 

 Central Hallway, asking for re- 

 adjustment Of ratas on fresh 

 meats and jAcking house prod- 

 ucts from Interior Iowa points to 

 points in the eastern part of the 

 country. It is asked that the 

 rates on mfmufaclured products 

 do not excee4 the rates in effect 

 on live stock- 

 Other Cpniplaints F1l«d ' 



Separate Cbmplalnts asking for 

 the same changes were msde by 

 Swift & Company and Wilson ft 

 Company, ^'iho desire readjust- 

 ment from (jth^'r points such^ as 

 Kansas CitJ-J Sioux City, St. Jo- 

 seph, South! Bt. Paul, and Albert 

 Lea, .Mtna. ' | 



The comi^llainants contend that 

 the present 'spread between the 

 rates on fr^di meats and packing 

 h'ouse proda^tB one one hand and 

 live stock ion the otner is roo 

 great and fQsults in a dlsadvant-' 

 age to their interests, v 



I t. j%l. \. P|-otests 



The I. A|.|A. in protesting tlie 

 granting of jthe packers' petiti<^ 

 in an inten'ening petition, al- 

 leges that ^he rate , charges. It 

 granted, wotild be detricfental to 

 the interests of Illinois live stock 

 producers. 



"This is considered the most 

 important case involving rates on 

 live-stock, ffesh meats, and pack- 

 ing hous« products iB the history 

 of the cefntry," declares the 

 Transportation Department \>f tbe 

 I. A. A. 



"If the petition of the comr 

 plainants is 'granted it will enable 

 the interior Iowa packers to ship 

 fresh neat* and packing house 

 products to eastern markets at 

 the same 'er lower rates per ban- ' 

 dred than live stock on the hoof. 



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