Hm niinaia Agricnltaral AModation Record 



A«B. 1„'1923' 



400 Children of Slums Get L A, A. Outings 



PRODUCERS' HEAD 

 ANSWERS CHARGES 

 OF OlMINE MAN 



leavy Receipts, Not "Co-ops" 



Responsible For Hog 



Market Decline 



The charge of Everett C. 



: Srown, president of the Na- 



ikmal Live Stock Exchange, 



hat th^ decline in hog prices 



8 due jto. the success of pro- 



( luce^-o^i^ned co-operative com 



1 nissioa i companies in securing 



iiuch laijge volumes of business, 



las hein well answered py 



:*resideit John F. Brown 



• he National Live Stock P 



ilucers Association. 



"Everttt C. Brown's opinion 

 i«garding the low hog market |i» 

 ■^Bolly at variance with {he 

 ^acts which he has at handL' 

 itates J*hn F. Brown. "Market 

 •tatistic^ show that local cattle 

 Receipts I for the month of Juae 

 irere tUe smallest since 191*7. 

 Light receipts make for higher 

 (rices. Likewise the receipts «>f 

 sheep tor June were the ligiUeSt 

 In oiore^ than SO years. ThMe 

 good prices^ were due to sensav. 

 tipnally light ruijs and not (o 

 the fapt that tfee. .'co-Om' have- 

 BOt yet invaded tfittsij^aepart- 

 ments of the'Tsarket as n>Uy as 

 y have the hog "department. 



Hog Ron Excessive . 



The sJillu^UilAll«t "Statistics 



t 



show that more . hogs were o(n 

 ttie Chicago market this June 

 than eveff before_ln the hlstoiiy 

 of June markets. AT!aitl»»-.fipit 



Chicago To Home 

 Federated Ftuit 

 Meeting, Aug. 13 



The Board of Directors of the 

 FrJcrated Fruit and Vegetable 

 GroWers, Inc., will meet in the 

 La Salle Hotel, Chicago, on Au- 

 gust 13th. Invitation has been 

 extended to all member associa- 

 tions to have one or more repre- 

 sentatives present for an infor- 

 mal gathering of members in 

 conjunction with the board meet- 

 ing. 



By-laws of the Federated 

 Growers provide that the annual 

 meetiag of members shall be in 

 February each year. The mem- 

 bership has increased steadily 

 and is still increasing. Rapid 

 development makes desirable the 

 opportunity for members to get 

 together before the date of the 

 next annual meeting. 



Freeport '* Co-op" 

 Loses Services 

 of A. V. Ahrentzen 



• A. V. Ahrentzen, who has been 

 manager of the Stephenson 

 County Co-operative Marketing 

 Company since early in 1922, re- 

 signed in July and has, entered 

 another field of wotk. The busi- 

 .ness of .the'-, company doubled 

 o'^ing the time he was man- 

 age*. '' 



Pending the selection of a suc- 

 tcs8or> J. A. Phillips, secretary- 

 treasurer of the company, is 

 taking charge of the business af- 

 fairs of the company. 



The Stephenson "co-op" re- 



pdrts the destruction by flre of 



the creamery at Damascus, one 



of the local stations. Loss was 



dition occurred In 1911, wltfrj-jiMyaUy covered by insurance. 



A new and mo^ernly equipped' 

 structure will replace the old 

 building. 



CANADIAN CAHLE 

 GOING TO ENGLAND; 

 U. S. ISJHE LOSER 



I. A. A. Is For Reduction of 



High Tariff On Stockers 



and Feeders 



similar effect, and that was long 

 before co-operative marketing Of 

 hogs' waa under way. Too manl^ 

 hogs for! the entire market an^ 

 not Just too many bogs for thje 

 competitor of the National Live 

 Stock Exchange -fr^s the true 

 \cause of the break In prices. 

 "Between November and July, 

 seven wqstern markets received 

 5.000,0901 more hogs than in 

 tee same period in_ji;llliMi nt Mil' 

 two years just preceding. Hog courts; and why, after its valid- 

 sbipmentt from eleveiL-eombelt 1ty"was sustained, they boycotted 



John F. Brown. 



"Instead of n 'king loose and 

 unfounded accusations, the Ex- 

 ichange potentates would better 

 tell why they so vigorously op- 

 posed the Packer and Stock 

 Yard ' Control Law and fought 

 It umuLcestt fully through all the 



states to all markets increase^ 

 32.2 per ; cent this year as conj- 



p«red wiih the year prece diaff-tfc jtoisg by the United States De- 

 tlie period from November 1 -t«- pai Iment of Agriculture. 



J^ne i. ; 



' ' P^odncers Capable 



John i*. Brown also pointed 

 «at -that the managers of the 

 Producers' agencies are well ac- 

 quainted . with live stock mac- 

 keting and are making a success 

 of it. tie maintained that by 

 oentroUing an enormous amount 

 of live 8t*ck offered for sale, that 

 the Producers stabilize the price 

 much more than would be the 

 case if IS firms were doing one<* 

 flfteentb of the business now be- 

 ing done.' The' Producers handle 

 from IB— to— SS"*^?^ cent of th« 

 total recQipts «B markets where 

 they operate, states Farmer 

 Brown. 1 — 



"InsteaA^t pointing out to us 

 the dangers fit onr success, tba 

 National Live Stock Exchanga 

 would be more to the point in 

 explaining to us why it is that 

 the old-ltne commission firms 

 hsfve always discriminated against 

 tbe stock raisers in favor of the 

 country speculator," concludes 



the stock raisers' own selling 

 agency until ordered to cease so 



Last winter the Live Stock 

 Marketing Department of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion took the lead in filing an 

 application with the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission for an 

 investigation of the .Canadian 

 cattle tariff. It was the con- 

 tention of the I. A. A. at this 

 time that the tariff was so high 

 as to materially affect Illinois 

 farmers and industry in general. 

 It was also contended that tbe 

 tariff would have a tendency 

 toward keeping Canadians and 

 Americans residing in Canada 

 out of our markets. 



That these contentions were 

 correct is shown by the fact that 

 already 10,000 bead of Canadian 

 cattle have 'been shipped to Eng- 

 land land 50,000 more will go 

 before September 1. 



Canadian Program 



The Canadian Government is 

 putting into effect a program of 

 fattening Canadian cattle in the 

 B]asfern provinces for export. 

 Every pound of Canadian beef 

 that goes across the ocean les- 

 sens the demand in our markets. 



Every stocker and feeder 

 shipped across curtails the al- 

 ready limited supply of high 

 quality stockers and feeders to 

 which our Corn Belt feeders 

 have access. Already the shift- 

 ing of Canadian buying from the 

 United States to Great Britain is 

 having a noticeable effect upon 

 some of our Industries. 



"Illinois farmers hope that the 

 Tariff Commission can see its 

 way clear to recommend to the 

 President a reduction in the tariff 

 on Canadian cattle, whichi at the 

 present time is from 1% to ' 2 

 cents a pound, based upon the 

 weights of the animals," says a 

 statement from the I. A. A. LJve 

 Stock Marketing Department. 

 "The President has authority to 

 reduce this rate 50 per cent. 

 Such a reduction would bring 

 Canadian cattle back into our 

 markets." 



TO THE VICTORS 



Here is the eup presented by 

 the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion to Harry and Walter Tor- 

 bert, of the DeWitt County Farm 

 Bureau, winners of the state 

 horseshoe pitching tournament 

 for the farm bureau champion- 

 ship, at the State Picnic, Urban 

 June 29. 



Farmers May Gain Much 

 ByOrganization-'Gompers 



Labor has long since aban 

 doned any hope of salvation 

 through politlcianer said Sam- 

 uel (Jompers, president of the 

 American Federation of Lajijor, 

 in his National Wheat Confer- 

 ence address. "If the wage 

 earners of our country had not 

 the sense and courage to organ- 

 ize, nobody would have much 

 sympathy for them and nobody 

 would take their complaints very 

 seriously. 



"Gentlemen, the temptation to 

 say 'Go thou and do likewise' is 

 almost beyond my power to re- 

 sist. Organization will enable 

 th« farmer to pop! tHe thought 

 and the po wer of _the (vming 

 Industry for a single purpose. . 



Wherever -t^ere is organltl- 



tion there is a center, a clearing 

 house, for tbe gathering and dis- 

 seminating of Information of 

 economic experience within your 

 occupation. The records so. ac- 

 cumulated will serve to disclose 

 the wisdom or unwisdom of con- 

 templated policies and undertak- 

 ings. Something like scientific 

 procedure then becomes possible. 

 The recorded experiences of 

 mankind is the olily thing that 

 enables us to avoid mistakes that 

 were made a century ago. It is 

 the basis of progress. 



"Organization is a means of 

 bringing to a central point tor 

 common use the experience of 

 all. Talk and live organization 

 and thus do your bit to.***-*"*"" 

 niailBn7 OS ■ plane Jrtth 

 other industries of our laiDV" 



E. L. Bill Hired 

 As Director of 

 I. A. A. Publicity 



L. J. Montross, present Direc- 

 tor of News-Publicity for the 

 I. A. A.,' has accepted a posi- 

 tion as special writer for a New 

 York City advertising agency. He 

 will leave for New York early 

 this fall. 



E. L. BUI, Wheaton, 111., at 

 present Director of Publicity for 

 the Holsteln-Frlesian Association 

 of America, has 1>een employed 

 as Director of News-Publicity to 

 succeed Mr. Montross. The date 

 upon which he wTll take up his 

 new duties has been announced 

 as August 1. 



Mr. BHl will work with the 

 present personnel of the depart- 

 ment until' Mr. Montross leaves, 

 making a special publicity sur- 

 vey? 



Mr. Bill was the first director 

 of publicity for the I. A. A., 

 from ISig to 1921. He re- 

 signed in March, 1922, to become 

 secretary of Homestead Films, 

 Inc., and later became a member 

 of the national Holsteln-Frlesian 

 organization. 



FJUIMROREAO FOLKS 

 PROVIDE VACATIONS ^ 



FOR 400 CITY 'KHIS'' 



r 



Outings Project Receives Fav* *: . 



orable Comment From 'l 



All Over Country * 



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Volun 



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Again the members of the 

 Illinois Agricultural , Associa- 

 tion and Illinois county farm t 

 bureaus have shown that time*.^ 

 can never be sr hard down on 

 the farm but what the farmer '• | 

 can extend a helping hand to.,^ 

 the "less fortunate. More tjian 

 400 requests for children of the 

 Chicago slums for two-week 

 outings in homes of I. A. A. 

 and farm bureau members 

 have been received this sum- 

 mer, according to a recent J 

 check-^. i' ' ' 



The project is carried on in 

 co-operation with the United 

 Charities of Chicago, and the 

 Chicago Daily News. The charit- 

 able organization supervises the 

 "^^ ^ildren and makes them readgr, j Every 

 ■ the railroads fimlteh free fare, - - public a 

 the Daily News provides money I of the 

 and publicity, while the farm bu- 

 lean folks have acted as hosts. 

 The generosity of Illinois 

 farmers in this 'project has 

 aroused newspaper comment all 

 over the country, not only this 

 year but during the last two 



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EXCE 



FOR 



HI 



FInanc 

 Ja 



The forecasts of wheat pro- 

 duction for 16 countries in the 

 Northern Hemisphere is about 

 1,878,000,000 bushels compared 

 to 1,754,000,000 for 1922, ac- 

 cording to the International Tn- 

 stitute of Agriculture at Rome. 

 This is a 7 per cent increase. 



the Aug 

 utive Co 

 ert Cow 

 for the 

 year. 

 The a 



,_. „ $176,601 



years, when it was in operation J[ ending 

 One of the most remarlcable / The 



features of the project is the fact i 

 that most of the people whol 

 took children last year havet 

 called for the same ones this 

 summer. The following are 

 few of the communities to which 

 parties of children have gone inV 



r 



the last week or two: Viola, 

 Aledo, Seaton, Joy, GehAeo, 

 Cambridge, Hopedale, Shellv- 

 vllle, Tower Hill, Kirkwood, _ 

 Monmouth, Ktokena, Joliet, Union I o( \^ls 

 Hill, Bonfleld, Lomax, Galesbnr^ , fj^^ in 

 and Oneidft. ^ >u^" 



same ti 

 an exce 

 come o\ 



The 

 sheet ol 

 ponds t( 

 tioil_ wit 

 533.30. 

 are liqu 

 can be t 

 to the 





Too Many Food 

 Dealers In U. S., 

 Says B. F. Yoahim' 



The United States has 'a. 19,- . 

 000,000 foo4-dealer population to 

 a 33,500,000 farm population, or 

 one food dealer to each one and 

 three-fourths of the €,500,000 

 farms, according to B. F Yoak- ' 

 um. Market Commissioner of New 

 York. 



This is one reason why the 

 farmers are not sharing to a - 

 larger extent in the general pros- 

 perity, points out Mr. Yoakum, m ' 

 it is "too great a burden for any < 

 business to carry." 



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Looking Into The Futwrm^ ' •? . 

 RELIABILITY OF SERVICE I 



Whatever the problems of Illinois agriculture 

 "Tor 1 925 and 1 926 may be, the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association is here to meet them and to cope with 

 them for the b^t interests of its membei . 



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The 1 

 reau pla 

 way of 

 picnic h( 

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 merce. 



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 Marcham 

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 will, prol 

 standing, 

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 Horsesho 

 baseball 

 of tbe pi 



