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The Oliiioi* Agricultoral Aasociation Record 



Sept. 20, l«a ¥ S^iiOjJ! 



Illinois Agricultural AssociatJog^ 



BOX SCORE ON TAX RESULTS 

 ^Champaign: 



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PubUah»a twice a month by tiie lUln*fa Asrioultarat 

 Aasociation. 688 Soutb Dearborn Street, Aioaso, Illlnolo. 

 Editea by News Publicity Departnrent, a L. BiU, Directors 



ESiltry as second 61ass matter Oct. 10, 1921. at the poat 

 office at Chicago. Illinois, under Ute aot of Maroh i, 187|, 

 Acceptance for mailing at special rat^ of postAge pro- 

 vided for in Section 1103. Act of October 8, 1917. author- 

 Ized Oct. 81, 1921. 



The individual membership fee of the nilnola Agrloal* 

 tural Association is Ave dotlana a year. This fe« indludes 

 paysBent of ten cents for subsoription to the Illinois PkJt- 

 rjgu ltural A ssociation Recttrd. 



I ofpicbr; 



I Prai4emt. 8. H. ThompMB. Qataey. 



TIee-PrealdeBt, A. O. Belacrt, B«ll«TiII& 

 Tr««sar«r, R.- A. CowlMi, BloomlHstoB. 

 ■egretary. Ceo. A. F<ni, »yaf Of. 



' 1 EXECUTIVE CX»BnTTBB 



Hj Congressional Districts 



lUhL Henry McQough, Maple Park 



12thL e. F. Tullock, Rockford 



13thL C. E. Bambopough. Polo 



14thf W. H. Woody, Port Byron 



15th). . . , H. E. Qoembel, Hoopole 



16th[....,' D. G. Reder, Mendota 



17thL . . , T F. D. Barton, Cornell 



IStflL.....^ C. R. FInley, Hoopeston 



19th. O. J. Holterman, Sadorua 



20th. ,Earl C. Smith, Detroit 



21iti .> E. L. Corbin, Carlinvill* 



22nd ; Stanley Castle, Alton 



23rdt ^ Carlton Trimble, Trimble 



24th. .......; .Curt Anderson, Xenia 



26th, Vernon Lessley, Sparta 



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V ^ Directors of Departments 

 ] I. A. A. Oace 



Genaraf Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. 0. Harper; 

 ^ield Organization, J. C. Sailor; Organization Pub- 

 licity, G. E. Metzger; News Publicity, E. I_ BIH; 

 Transportation, L. J. Quasey; Statistics, J. C. Watson; 

 Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing, 

 A. B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, C. A. Stewart; 

 Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone, 

 J. R. Bent. Legal, Newton Jenkins. 



, HERE'S CO-OPERATIVE JtARKETHTQ 



sixty carloads of peaches were sold by the 

 ''. Southern Illinois Fruit and Vegeteble Growers' 



Exchange this year for prices ranging from $3.00 

 to'^$3.40 a bushel. The charge to members was 

 15 oents a bushel 

 ■^ y^ Track buyers or speculators o£fe«d $1.75 to 

 ^3.75 a bushel. 



The Exchange knows today how many peaches 

 » and what kind will be ready to start to market to- 

 morrow. This kind of a wire goes out to 20 or 

 30 saiet-nen of the Federated Fruit Growers, with 

 wltic|i the Exchange has a contract: "Oflfer tea 

 cars number one Albertas, Government Inspected, 

 three dollars and half f . o. b. " Answers will come 

 t)ack in the evening or in the morning. If suffi- 

 cient orders do not come in, the Exchange gets 

 \ busy on the phone with these salesmen on,' the dif- 

 ferent markets, and closes a sale. 



Tie Exchange member has the selling ability 

 of these salesmen on all of tke different markets. 



The individual growers can sell to the track 

 buyer at the price ottered, or start his cars rolling 

 to market and take the price that is offered on 

 the.^isrket when they arrive. 



♦•STEAL" DOLLARS 



Every time you buy a keg of nails or a Spool 

 of barbed wire, you pay 46 cents of "Pittsburg 

 Plus," even though the sted is manufactured in 

 Illinois. 



A corn cultivator costs you $l'.23 "Plus," a 

 rfower $1.28, disc harrow $1.89, $6.88 fsr a com 

 binder and $19.80 for a tractor. These are the 

 ■figures of the Deere Company at Molime. 



The American Farm Bureau Federalid« says 

 "Pittsburgh Plus" costs farmers of the Vnited 

 States $75,000,000 each year. The Westwn Asso- 

 ciation of Rolled Steel Consumers sajB the 237,181 

 farms of Illinois pay an average of $10.00 "PlusJ^ 

 a year, or a total of $2,371,819. 



"pittsbUrg Plus" is the practice of charging 

 for freight on steel from Pitteburg to the point of 

 consumption, regardless of wfcether it is produced 

 in Pittsburgh, Gary, Indiana, or anywhere else. 

 The Illinois Agricultural A«ooiation is represented 

 on committees which are working to abolish this 

 prwrtiw. 



Christian: 



ClintMi: 



Franklin: 



Jeffi 



Kankakee: 



Lawrence V 

 Macoupin 



Peoria: . 



Richland: 



ScottS, 



t 

 Stark: 



Farm land valuations reduced 10 

 per cent. City of Champaign in- 

 creased 10 per Cent. 

 Farms reduced 10 per cent. This 

 is in addition to a 15 per cent cut 

 made last spring by assessors. 

 Board announced plan to reduce 

 farms 25 per cent and increase 

 Flora real estate 9 per cent. 

 Decrease of 10 per cent made by 

 assessors last spring will stand. 

 Board announces increase in lots 

 in all but two towns. 

 Farms reduced 10 to 20 per cent 

 - in all but one township. Increased 

 15 per cent in one township.. City 

 property increase 10 to 2)0 per 

 cent. 



Mt. Vernon increased 50 per cent. 

 Town and village property in- 

 creased 10 to 25 per cent in five 

 townships, remain stationary in 10 

 townships, reduced 10 per oent in 

 one township. Farms remain sta- 

 tionary. 



Reduction of 15 per cent on full 

 valuation of farm lands. 

 Reduced farms 10.7 per cent. \ 

 Reduction in farm lands of 33 per 

 cent 

 ' Reduction of 25 per cent in lands 

 made last spring still stands. 

 Reduced farms 12.5 per cent. 

 Ten per cent reduction in valua- 

 tion of all real estate in county. 

 Farm lands reduced 10 per cent. 



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[I THE BATTING AVERAGE ' 



County farm bureaus and the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association held hearings before 24 county 

 Boards of Review. Evidence was presented to 

 show the facts a1>out valuations and real values 

 of different classes of real estate. In most counties 

 the evidence showed that the full valuations on 

 farm lands this year is a much higher per cent 

 •f the real sales values, than are the full valua- 

 tions of city property of the actual sales values. 

 The farm bureau asked for equalization. 



In twelve counties definite results were secured: 

 In six counties where wide inequalities existed, 

 and the Boards of Review refused to equalize, 

 the farm bureau asked the State Tax Commission 

 to order reassessments. The State Tax. Commis- 

 sion has promised that if these counties do not 

 equalize, it will order a reassessment. 



Bqnalization is expected in three additional 

 counties. In one county there was not much need 

 for equalization. One county, where wide in- 

 equalities were found, will be called before the 

 State Tax Commission for a hearing. 

 WHAT IT MEANS 

 In counties where reductions have been made 

 and there is no increase in the tax rate on farm 

 lands, the decrease in dollars and cents will be 

 ,the same per cent as the reductions. Where tax 

 rates are raised there may not" be any difference 

 in the amount of taxes, but farm lands will pay 

 less of the total amount of county taxes. It is be- 

 lieved that the per cent of reduction on farm 

 land taxes will be 50 or 60 per cent of the per 

 cent of reduction in valuations of land. The 

 I. A. A. will report the actual savings in money 

 later..; I - -■ 



FOR FEEDERS ON ROCK ISLAND 



Special feeding transit rates have been se- 

 cured by the Transportation Department on all 

 stations b'itween Chicago and the western Illinois 

 line, on the Rock Island railroad. 



It means that feeders can ship cattle and sheep 

 to these towns, hold and feed them for as long as 

 a year, and ship them on to the Chic«wo market. 



at about the same rate as the through rate from 

 original point to Chicago. Before the special feed- 

 ing transit rates were secured, feeders paid one 

 rate from the original point to their farms, plus 

 the local rate from the farm to the Chicago market.* 

 The saving in freight cost varies with the dis- 

 tance of the town from Chicago. In the case of 

 TMarseilles, which is in a large sheep feeding terri- 

 tory, the saving will be 13 cents a hundred pounds. 

 The carload saving will be $15.00 for single deok 

 and $28.00 for double deck carloads of sheep. 



S. B. 460 IS WORKING 

 Senate Bill 460 is the new grading and inspect- 

 ing act passed by the last State Legislature. Gov- 

 ernment inspectors working under this act in- 

 spected a large share of the peaches sold by the 

 Fruit-Growers' Exchange at Centralia this year. 



The words "Government Inspected" carry 

 weight with buyers. They have faith in Govern 

 ment inspection. When. .several quotations come 

 to a buyer on the same day and at' the same price, 

 he picks the one that is inspected, -for it is insur- 

 ance to him. The Exchange is using S. B. 460 

 to good advantage. o. ' . 



SERVICE AND QUALITY 



The old idea of a quality product and service 

 has been adopted by the Rock Lsland Co-operative 

 Dairy Company as a principle to get and hold • 

 business. "Make one quart of milk sell another," 

 is the motto of the employes of the coinpany. 



The contract with producers states that milk 

 .-*iust be cooled to 60 degrees on the farm. Col- 

 lections start at six o'clock in the morning. At 

 nine o'clock all milk is in the .plant. It is all 

 pasteurized and on'the ice at 11 :30 o'clock. 



The delivery wagonp are white and are washed 

 every day. Employes in the plant wear white 

 suits, clean every day. Sixty per cent of the 

 labor in the plant is to clean and sterilize equip- 

 ment. 



The Rock Island Company preaches and recog- 

 nizes that quality Tind sei^ce is one way to in- 

 crease consumption.' 



A CHANGE OF HEART ' - 



The Cass County Board of Review, one of the 

 six Boards called before the State Tax Commis- 

 sion at the request of the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation to explain why it had not equalized val- 

 uations of different classes of property, has 

 changed its mind. 



The_Cass County Farm Bureau has been noti- 

 fied that a flat decrease of 10 per cent will be 

 made in valuations of farm lands and possibly an 

 additional 5 per cent. Real estate in Beardstown 

 township will be increased $226,000.00 in full 

 valuation. 



FIFTEEN DISTRICT CONFERENCES 



To find the weak links in farm bureau work, 

 to glean the ideas ahd suggestions of leaders, an^ 

 to determine policies, relationship and a program 

 of work, is the purpose of fifteen conferences 

 throughout the state, scheduled to start Sept 26. 



The selling agencies of the National Live Stock 

 Producers Association handled 7.3 per cent of 

 the business in the markets on which they were 

 operating, during the first six months 'of last year. 

 In the sa^e months this year, the selling agencies 

 handled '^ per cent of the business in the mar- 

 kets on which they are located. The i Producers 

 Association has commission companies on eleven 

 leading markets of the country. 



The Indianapolis Producers handled 835 cars 

 of live stock in August. This is 23.24 per cent ' 

 of the receipts on the market for the month. The . 

 neare^ old line firgi handled 377 cars. 



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The T. Al A. Transportation Department offers 

 to help you in your problem of securing oars. 



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 valuations o 

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 in each case 

 was Kjld tl 

 that valuatlc 

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 were called 

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 were on hai 



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 bureau re 

 called on 

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 view were 

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