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The minoU Asricaltimd AasodatioD Record 



Oct 5. 1923 



URGE GROWERS 

 SIGN UP WITH 

 FRUIT EXCHANGE 



Five iiarge Orchards To 



^rket Through 



Cooperative 





Snedelier Brothers, owners of 

 200 acres of orchard in Macoupin 

 county aod four other large or- 

 chards in Jersey and Bond coun- 

 * ties have signed contracts with 

 the Illinois Fruit Exchange for 

 the marketing of their produce. 



The Shackelford orchards, lo- 

 cated at Grafton, one of the larg- 

 est orchards in Jersey county, is 

 also a new member of the Ex- 

 change. The three largest com 

 merclal growers of Bond county 

 have recently become members of 

 the Exchange. Thay are Arthur 

 lierrill and Son located at Mul- 

 berry Grove, Dr. L. A. Floyd 

 whose orchards are located at 

 Keysport, and Talmage Defrees 

 of Smithsbbro. 



At a marketing conference in 

 Centralia a month ago. Manager 

 A. B. Leeper stated that one of 

 the handicaps of the Exchange 

 was the fact that few large grow- 

 ers were selling "their produce 

 through the Exchange. 



Co-op Gets Price."! 



Mr. Leeper states the Exchange 

 has sold^ ' early apples, peaches 

 and potatoes at higher prices 

 than individual buyers secured. 

 Peaches and potatoes sold at very 

 satisfactory prices. The price of 

 early apples wis not very satis- 

 factory, Mr. Leeper slates, chiefly 

 for the reason that there was a 

 targe amount of poor grade fruit 

 on tbe market which hurt prices. 

 However, Mr. Leeper says the Ex- 

 change price for early apples was 

 better than the price received by 

 Individual growers or other or- 

 ations. 



-FOR RED TOP STORAGE 



"T^HIS vyarehouse, located at Flora, Clay county, is the property of 

 * the Red Top Growers 'Warehouse Company, a subsidiary of the 

 Egyptian Seed Growers Exchange. The Exchange stores a large part 

 of its pooled red top seed in the structure. It Is 50x100 feet In size, 

 has 14-ft. eaves and Is constructed of red tile, covered with steel 

 sheeting. Three large clipper mills clean the red top before storage. 



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Ask Commission 

 To Cut Canada 

 j Cattle Tariff 



"write to the Tariff Commis- 

 sion 'in Washington if you are in- 

 terested in reducing the tariff on 

 Canadian cattle," says C. A. Stew- 

 art, Director of the Live Stock 

 Marketing Department. 



This department of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association was in- 

 strumental in the filing of an ap- 

 plication with the Tariff Commis- 

 sion asking for an investigation 

 of the sitiiatioD. The Association 

 contends that the tariff resulted 

 in Canadian cattle going to Eng- 

 land which worked a hardship on 

 American live stock producers by 

 curtailing our supply of feeders 

 and by hurting our export de- 

 mand. 



The preliminary investigation 

 has been made and the commis- 

 sion will probably report soon. 

 The President has the power to 

 reduce the tariff up to the amount 

 of SO per cent if the Commis- 

 sion's report appears to Justify It. 

 Mr. Stewart says that now is the 

 time to get our arguments to the 

 Commission. 



The Canadian cattle tariff 

 amounts to 1 H cents a |X)und on 

 all cattle weighing up to 1,050 

 pounds and 2 cents for cattle 

 oxer that weight. Up to this 

 date over 60,000 Canadian cattle 

 have been sliipped to England. 



Cleaning Red Top Seed 

 ' \ Keeps Exchange Busy 



Three large clipper mills are 

 running ten hours a day in the 

 big new warehouse of the Egyp- 

 tian Seed Growers' Exchanga at 

 Flora, and they will continue to 

 run for the next three months 

 cleaning red top seed for the 800 

 grower members of the associa- 

 tion. A second warehouse and 

 cleaning establishment owned by 

 the Exchainge is located at Geff. 



A little group of counties in 

 Southern Illinois including Clay, 

 Wayne, Marion, Jefferson, White 

 and small portions of several 

 others produce 9? per cent of all 

 the red top seed in the country. 

 Growers say that the buyers were 

 well organized. They had their 

 meetings and even divided terri- 

 tory in which each would buy. 

 Whether this is true or not indi- 

 vidual growers had little oppor- 

 tunity to know the size or worth 

 of the crop. The buyers named 

 the price. 



Must Stick Together 



It was to overcome this diffi- 

 culty that the Exchange was or- 

 ganized. "The idea of all grow- 

 ers uniting together, doing their 

 own cleaming and selling looks 

 right to most all of the growers," 

 says Manager Curt Anderson, "but 

 not all of them are ready to ride 

 the road that is necessary to get 

 there. The buyers are not giving 

 up their business without fighting. 

 The E.xchange has made some 

 mistakes which it is best for us 

 to admit to our members, ai^l it 

 will probably make more. The 

 success of the Exchange depends 

 upon horw well it is managed, 

 how efficient the organization can 

 be In all of its dealings' But if 

 we ever expect to market our 

 seed we have got to go through 

 the first stages of opposition and 

 getting experience." 



The Exchange started in late 

 last year. It did not have its own 

 warehouses or cleaning plants. 

 The warehouse with which the 

 Exchange contracted to do its 

 cleaning did not start work until 

 November. 



Rather than doing its own sell- 

 ing, a contract was made with 

 one of the largest seed dealers in 

 the United States to sell the seed. 

 The Board now believes that was 

 a bad mistake. Mr. Anderson has 

 reason to believe that the Ex- 

 change was boycotted in its sales 

 work. ^ 



Crop Short 



The orop of red top seed was 

 short and prices were high. The 

 Exchange sold eight carloads at 

 high prices. Thirty-two carloads 

 were liqld over. When the con- 



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tract with the large seed com- 

 pany expired July first, other 

 companies ' started to purchase 

 and considerable seed has moved 

 at very satisfactory prices. 



"If growers are willing to base 

 their Judgment of the exchange 

 over a fire year term, I am sure 

 it will be a winning game," said 

 Mr. Anderson. "The dealers 

 laughed at us at first, but they 

 are active fighters now. The Ex- 

 change is a factor in affairs of 

 red top seed now and we have a 

 voice in the market. I'll say 

 again that success depends upon 

 the faith of members and the 

 management of the Exchange." 



The Exchange has applied to 

 the St. Louis Intermediate credit 

 bank for a loan of )100,D0O to be 

 used as advance on seed in their 

 warehouses. It secured a loan of 

 {40,000 on last years seed, but 

 used only J4,800 of it. 



MEET TO CONSIDER 

 POULTRY PROBLEMS 

 ATJPRINGHELD 



(Continued from Pagre One> 

 the chicks matured has not been 

 uncommon. 



"This plan," states Mr. Harper, 

 "will insure farmers when buying 

 chicks that they are getting the 

 breed that is represented. It will 

 weed out the unscrupulous hatch- 

 eries and will protect the large 

 majority who desire to carry on 

 an honest business. It will make 

 t higher quality product which in 

 time will make a reputation for 

 the state that will bring greater 

 profits. A quality product is the 

 first step of importance in mar- 

 keting." 



White Diarrhea Control 



The control of bacillary white 

 diarrhea, one of the worst ener 

 mles of the poultry industry, will 

 be discussed at the Springfield 

 meeting. Dr. Robert Graham, 

 Veterinarian at the U. of I., has 

 made blood tests for white diar- 

 rhea in a large number of fiocks. 

 He states that infection ranges 

 from two to 80 per cent. Tne 

 estimated loss to Illinois pouii.ry- 

 men amounts to over a million 

 dollars per year. The disease is 

 preventable and can be eliminated 

 from a flock by the blood test. 



Thv RlphUmil CAitiitT Farm Bo- 



mm secured reduetiona from lime- 

 stone coinpanles which lowers the 

 price of limestone to $1.90 per ton 

 to any railroad point In the county. 

 Previous to .July It was 12.20 per 

 ton to B. & O. points and (2.0Q to 

 I. C. points in the county. 



Decision Gives 

 Co-ops Exemption 

 From Income Tax 



A statement has recently been 

 issued by the Internal Revenue 

 Department showing how co-op- 

 erative associations may be ex- 

 empt from income tax. This 

 clears up a question which has 

 been asked by many co-operative 

 buying and selling organizations. 



In avery case where exemption 

 is given, the organization will be 

 required to show that the owner- 

 ship of capital stock has been re- 

 stricted as far as possible to act- 

 ual producers and that the asso- 

 ciation has not voluntarily sold 

 or issued stock to non-producers. 



A. F. B. F. Research 



According to the monthly re- 

 view of the agricultural and busi- 

 ness situation published Septem- 

 ber 20 by the Department of Re- 

 search, American Farm Bureau 

 Federation, a very favorable 

 trend is shown in the general 

 economic situation of the nation. 



Out of 24 agricultural com- 

 modities, 14 are above a year 

 ago, nine are below, and one re- 

 mains the same. Compared with 

 last month, 14 are higher, seven 

 are lower and three are un- 

 changed. 



Total cash income gives pro- 

 mise of being greater this pres- 

 ent crop year than last for the 

 following commodities: corn and 

 other cereals except wheat, xot- 

 ton, potatoes, dairy products and 

 poultry products. Hogs will prob- 

 ably yield less income. Tobacco, 

 cattle, sheep and wool should 

 bring about the same gross re- 

 ceipts as last year. 



Wheat 



Wheat, JFrom its low point last 

 month rebounded nine cents per 

 bushel and then began to decline 

 when the larger crop estimates 

 from Canada were published. Fig-, 

 ures of exportable surplus for 

 the United States and Canada, 

 now current In the grain trade, 

 range as high as 650 million 

 bushels cdtnpared with around 

 500 million bushels last year. 

 There appears to be no founda- 

 tion for this present high esti- 

 mate of surplus in face of a tptal 

 supply for the two countries, in- 

 cluding both crop and carry-over, 

 of 1369 millions bushels this year 

 compared with 1360 last year. 



Industrial 



Industrial production showa no 

 let-up.' Manufacturing output 

 which was 28 per cent below 

 normal in the middle of 1921, 

 the period of low activity, is now 

 about 15 per cent above normal. 

 Building operations which gave 

 some sign of slumping two and 

 three months ago, are nojir show- 

 ing a greater gain over last year. 



NEW CO-OP LAW 

 BASIS FOR VITA- 

 GOUUOMPANY 



Stephenson County Producers 



Organizing Under New 



Contract 



After a financial survey had 

 been made by the I. A. A. for the 

 Stephenson County Co-operative 

 .Marketing Company, Freeport, 

 formation of a new non-profit, 

 non-stock organization to come 

 under the provisions of the new 

 Illinois Co-operative Marketing 

 Act was decided upon. This new 

 company was incorporated on 

 September 17 as the 'Vita-Gold 

 Dairy Products Company. 



The old marketing company 

 will be re-financed to be used as 

 a holding company to hold the 

 physical assets and property and 

 the issuiifg of stock to increase 

 its capital. The financial survey 

 showed that the old "co-op" was 

 under-capitalized, the amount in- 

 vested in plant and equipmeht 

 exceeding the amount of capital 

 stock by almost 130,000. 



A contract will be entered into 

 between the old company and the 

 new one to use the facilities of. 

 the old company and to handle 

 and prepare the milk and cream 

 for market. 



The active campaign for mem- 

 bership in the Vita-Gold Dairy 

 Products Company has started 

 with Robert N. Clark in charge 

 of organization. 



The producers' contract for the 

 new company is the standard one 

 worked out by the I. A. A., and 

 contains several new and desir- 

 able features. It is already being 

 used by the Rock Island Co-op- 

 erative Dairy Company. 



Freight car leadings continue at 

 record levels. 



Prices 

 Central market prices of farm 

 products as reported by the U. S. 

 Department of Labor, are three 

 per cent above last month and six 

 per cent higher than last year. 

 Decline from last year in prices 

 of non-agricultural commodities 

 came exclusively in the fi>el and 

 lighting group. The gain over a 

 year ago in farm purchasing 

 power in terms of the price ratio 

 is therefore largely theoretical as 

 the farmers' purchases of these 

 items are comparatively small. 



Trendy covering the last three 

 or four months are more favor- 

 able and are slowly narrowing 

 the gap between farm and other 

 prices at points that will jrield 

 practical benefits. 



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