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Volume 1 



t EXECUTIVE BOARD DISCUSSES WHEAT S ITUATION 



nbers of the , 

 iral , Associa- 



coant.V fann g; 

 vn that timeai"" 

 lard down on 

 it the farmer 

 ping hand to 

 . More t;Jian 

 hildren of the 

 for two-week 



of I. A. A. 

 au members 

 ed this sumr 

 to a reqtnt ^ 1 



carried on In 

 the United 

 ago, and the 

 J. The chafit- 

 supervises the 

 s them readgr, i Every six months a certified 

 iah free fare, • ■ public accountant makes an audit 

 rovides money I of the Association finances. At 

 » the farm bu- " .. . .^- t, 



cted as hosts, 



August 20, 1923 



Number 1 1 



EXCESS OF $14,953, 

 FOR I. A. A. DURING 

 RRSTSMMONTHS 



Finances of Association From 



January to July Are. 



Audited 



of Illinois 

 'project has 

 comment all ' 

 not only this , 

 the last two . 

 I In operation if 

 8t remarkable / 

 lect is the fact i 

 I people who! 

 t year have > 

 me ones this ' 



L 



lowing are a 

 ities to which 

 have gone inV 

 two: Viola. ^ 

 oy, GenAeo, 

 lale, Sheltv- 

 Kirkwood, ^ 

 JoUet, Union f 

 .X, Galesburg 



ood 

 U.S., 

 Yoahiim 



!S has 'a 19,- 

 population to 

 population, or 

 each one and 

 he 6,500,000 

 B. F Yoak- 

 sioner of New 



son why the 

 iharing to a 

 general prOB- 

 . Yoakum, as 

 iirden for any 



the August meeting of the Exec- 

 utive Committee, Treasuier Rob- 

 ert Cowles presented the audit 

 for the first six montl^s of this 

 year. 



The audit shows an Income ot- 

 $176,608.20 for the six months 

 ending June 30, 1923. 



The total expenses for the 

 same time totaled $161,664.27, 

 an excess of $14,953.93 of in-' 

 come over expenses. 



The figure on the balance 

 sheet of the audit which corres- 

 ponds to net worth of a corpora 

 tiwj^wlth capital stock is $198,- 

 ■533.30. Of this amount there 

 arc liquid assets, or assets which 

 can be turned Into cash any time, 

 to the amount of $109,061.89. 

 Of this amount ^22,033.32 is 

 cash in bank or on hand, and 

 $86,928.32 is in U. S. Govern- 

 ment Bonds and securities. 



In t»e audit report it is stated: 

 "During the course of our ex- 

 •mlnat Ion no errors were found 

 and we are pleased to report 

 that the records are being kept 

 in unusually good order. The 

 cash on deposit on regular ac- 

 count as reported by the Syca- 

 more National Bank was recon-i 

 died with the general books. The 

 petty cash was counted and found 

 to be Jntact" 



Business Men, 

 Farmets Plan 



Joint Picnic 



•iculture 

 cultural 

 pe with 



2'i 



The Knox County Farm Bu- 

 reau plans an innovation in the 

 way of a picnic on Aug. 23 — a 

 picnic held in co-operation with 

 the Galesburg Chamber of Com- 

 merce. 



"It is our belief," said L. R. 

 Harchant, farm adviser, "that 

 *oth farmers and business men 

 will, profit from a closer under- 

 standing, as well as having a 

 good time together." 



J. R. Howard, former presi- 

 dent of the A. F. B. F., and Mrt. 

 Sgewell, of Indiana, are to speak. 

 Horseshoe pitching contests c-and 

 baseball games are to be a part 

 of the program. 



ANNUAL MEETING 

 AT GAI.ESBURG 



The next annual meeting 

 of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association — the ninth — will 

 be held in Galesburg. 



This decision was made at 

 the meeting of the I. A. A. 

 Executive Committee at its 

 session, Aug. 3. The exact 

 date was not set but It was 

 determined that January 

 would be the month. 



The county seat and met- 

 ropolis of Knox County,, In 

 northwestern Illinois, Gales- 

 burg is well situated to take ' 

 care of the big convention.- 

 The city was the only con- 

 tender for the meeting be- 

 fore the executive committee. 



SEEING THING3 



450 OUTINGS GIVEN 

 AS SEASON CUKES; 

 REQUESTS COME YH 



A few reqUests for children for 

 outings in the homes of farm bu- 

 reau members are still coming 

 in, but the project is nearly fin- 

 ished now for this summed on ac- 

 count of the nearness of the time 

 when the youngster w^ have to 

 return to schoyl; .Praeticany 

 every county within two hundred 

 miles of Chicago, however, is en- 

 tertaining young vacationists at 

 this time. - 



The total number of outings 

 provided, according to present In- 

 dications, will fall not far short 

 of 450. 



"For the third summer," says 

 Secretary Jones, of the United 

 Charities of Chicago, "members 

 of the I. A. A. and county farm 

 bureaus have contributed nobly 

 to this cause. They have the un- 

 dying gratitude of hundreds of 

 Chicago families to whom these 

 outings have in many cases meant 

 almost life itself." .. ;. 



Carroll County- 

 Plans Pageant 

 At Fair, Aug. 29 



A pageant to portray the last 

 hundred years of the history of 

 Carroll County is planned for the 

 county fair of August J8, "8^ and 

 31. with officers and people of the 

 Carroll County Farm Bureau tak- 

 ing an active part. Miss Nina B. 

 Lamkin, who directed the I. A. 

 A. Farm Bureau Pageant at the 

 Farm Bureau Decennial Celebra- 

 tion, DeKalb, June 30, 1922, Is 

 pageant director. 



A great parade will conclnde 

 the three-day program. 



16,500 lb. Hog Minimum 

 Case WoTvby A.F.B.F. 



The Farm Bureau has won its 

 hog mininium case. 



The Interstate Commerce Com-, 

 mission has ruled that, beginning 

 October- 13, 1923, 16,500 pouads 

 shall be the prescribed minimum 

 for the loading of hogs. 



Seventeen thousand pounds in 

 the present minimum. The Amer- 

 ican Farm Bureau Federation was 

 able 4o, establish the fact that 

 the *1 7,000 minimum Increa-ied 

 the risk from overloading to a 

 costly degree. 



Federation officials state that 

 wilh the new minimum savings 

 in freight plus reduction in risk, 

 the saving will average more 

 than $1.50 a car. 



In 1922 on twenty markets 

 there was received 402.000 car- 

 loads of hogs. From these fig- 

 ures it is estimated that a yearly 



Producers ' Main 

 Office Moves; 

 More Business 



The National Live Stock Pro- 

 ducers Association has moved 

 their office from the twelfth floor 

 to room 1976 of the Transporta- 

 tion Building at 608 South Dear- 

 born Street, tJhicago. This move 

 was made necessary by the growth 

 of the business. 



saving of $603,000 has been 

 made for farmers who ship hogs. 

 This saving amounts to more 

 than three times the annual cost 

 ■at running the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation. 



'CO-OP' MARKETING 

 OFFERS ULTIMATE 

 SOLUTION, BEUEF 



Illinois Seen As One of Of- 

 fenders in Keepinjg up an 

 X' Extended Acreage 



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To relieve the wheat sittiaition 

 comes the siipfiestious that farm- 

 ers withhold wheat from the 

 market by warehoosiog on the 

 farm, that a reduction ^Iw made 

 in acreage, and that thi Govern* 

 raent take a hand in the situ- 

 ation. 



The Illinois Agrieultoral As- 

 sociation Executive Committee 

 discussed these qiiesjiops at^its 

 August meeting, to determine if 

 the basid princip'r, cj"e correct. 

 I'>uin Warehoastmc 



It is tibe opinion of the oom- 

 mlttee that warehousing wheat 

 on the tilrm In Illinois could not 

 carry an} degree of guarantee of 

 safe storage for the reason of the 

 hazards of wheat weevil and keat 

 in the bin. Farm granaries do 

 not have the necessary facilities 

 fpr moving and turning wheaV 

 in the bia. -Further on this sub- 

 ject is the (adt that lUiDaib w||eat 

 is now going to market, a late 

 date to carry on an effective cam- 

 paign for farm warehousing. 

 . Acreace RedactloD 



On the questions of a campaign 

 to reduce acreage and .of hold- 

 ing vbeai on the farm for a set 

 price on [certain date, the com- 

 mittee concluded that it would not 

 be wise. |to advise members to 

 carry on 4 campaign, for the rea- 

 son therei is no jirotection or as- 

 surance of gptting the desired 're- 

 sult. 8(iai1ar camtiaipnft^'C'vfo- 

 f ore have jnoj proven eucce^sfuL 



Howevqr, it was brought out 

 that on tHe basis of pre-war acre- 

 age, Illiniis is one of the chief 

 offenders jin pialntainlng an: ex- 

 tended acreage of wheat. It is 

 the belief; of the committee that 



frvtitlTjuc/l oTi pnpc S> 



Executive Board 

 To Spend One Day 

 With Departments 



The next meeting of the Execu- 

 tive Committee of the Illinois Ag- 

 ricultural Association will^ be held 

 at the dfUces of the organization 

 in Chicago on September 7 and 8 

 One full day of ,the two-day ses- 

 sion will be devoted to the visit- 

 ing of the various departments of 

 the I. A. A. by memhers of the 

 committee. 



Members of the committee plan 

 by this means to keep in^clofter 

 touch with the details ^f the 

 worK than would etherwise be 

 possible. Directors of the vari- 

 ous departments will give halt- 

 hour talks, explaining Just how 

 the duties of their various de" ■♦•Me Grp 

 partments are carried on. *o have be 



The same plan was carried out ^**- ^^■ 

 with great success late ip July 

 b^^k-mee±lng_Qf the I. A. A. so- ^^^ ^*** *** made in order that 

 llcitorg who^are working In con- directors. might attend the anneal 

 _ne£tlo^^^ivith^55ity farm bureau meeting k>t the InternaUoMl 

 campaigns. I APPle Shippers In Detroit 



■^ - 



Federated Holds 

 a Conference in 

 Detroit Aug. 9 -10 



The meeting of the directors 



of the Fedjeratlon Fruit and Vege- 



rerg, Inc., which wms 



en held in Chicago, on 



was held in Detroit. 



Aug. 9 aijd 10. The change in 



