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Volume 1 



Not. S, 1923 



Number 16 



WATERWAY CILL 

 SHOULD PROTECT 

 FARMSJIN RIVER 



I. A. A. Takes Stand On Bill 



To Open Waterway From 



Chicago To Gulf 



"The development of water 

 transportation must come and 

 the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation is for it," President S. 

 H. Thompson told U. S. Sena- 

 tors at a hearing on the Mc- 

 Ckirmick waterway bill in Chi- 

 cago, "but while you are pro- 

 Adding for this public improve- 

 ment you must also protect 

 farm lands along the Illinois 

 river from an increased flow of 

 water. ' ' 



The McCormick bill provides 

 for an uppropriation of $5,700,- 

 Wti to be expended under the 

 direction of the war department 

 for making a nine foot navigable 

 . channel from Utica, Illinois, down 

 the Illinois and Mississippi rivers 

 to a point below the mouth of 

 the Ohio river. There is already 

 a $ foot channel from that point 

 to the £ulf, and an Illinois ap- 

 propriation provides for the com- 

 pletion of a navigable channel 

 from Utica north to Lockport. 

 From Lockport to Lake Michigan 

 at Chicago there is a navigable 

 channel which is controlled by 

 the Chicago Sanitary district. 



In th'e bill the Chicago Sani- 

 tary District is authorized to 

 withdraw water from Lake Mich- 

 igan. This is for the purpose of 

 taking care of Chicago sewerage. 

 The I. A. A. Stand 



The I. A. A. takes the position 

 that the Sow of water out of the 

 lake should be controlled by the 

 Government rather than by Drain- 

 age District, and that the bill 

 should carry provision to protect 

 farm lands against the increased 

 flow of water. These provisions 

 would protect land owners and 

 would make the Government re- 

 sponsible. 



The association also contends 

 that Chicago sewerage should be 

 purified before dumping in the 

 river, as a health precaution. 



Railroads Grant 

 Reduced Fares To 

 A.F.B.F. Meeting 



Arrangements have been made 

 with the railroads for reduced 

 round trip passenger fares apply- 

 ing from all points in the United 

 States to Chicago for the annual 

 convention of the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation which will be 

 held December 10-14, Inclusive. 



Pass Resolution To 

 Support I. A. A. In 

 Co-op Marketing 



The following resolution was 

 passed by representatives of the 

 15th district in conference at 

 Galesburg on October 25: 



"Resolved that we, as" mem- 

 bers of the Conference on Mar- 

 keting Problems for the Fifteenth 

 Congressional District, do heartily 

 endorse and pledge our support 

 to any program backed by the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association 

 for the marketing of farm pro- 

 ducts. We do this with the full 

 knowledge that the farmer will 

 only come to his own when he 

 properly organizes for market- 

 ing." 



/. A. A. Taking 

 Part In Better 

 Sire Campaign 



The I. A. A. is co-operating 

 with agricultural departments of 

 railroads. University of Illinois, 

 Illinois State Dairy Extension Di- 

 vision, dairy breed associations 

 and dairy manufacturing associa- 

 tions in a campaign of dairy 

 improvement work under the 

 name of the Illinois Allied Dairy 

 Interests. 



Placing of better dairy sires on 

 Illinois farms is the main purpose 

 of the campaign. Dairy trains 

 will be chartered to stop in towns 

 throughout the state. The work 

 will extend over a period of sev- 

 eral months and will start at 

 once. 



/. C. C Announces 

 General Inquiry 

 Into Grain Rates 



A nation-wide inquiry into 

 rates and charges on grain and 

 grain products has been an- 

 nounced by the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission to begin short- 

 ly. This will apply to rates on 

 common carrier shipments on rail 

 and by water and by rail and 

 water. 



This action follows requests by 

 the American Farm Bureau Fed- 

 eration and Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture Wallace that reductions in 

 export rates be made. The A. F. 

 B. F. asked a cut of 20 per cent 

 on export wheat, while Secretary 

 Wallace has suggested 25 per 

 cent reduction on all agricultural 

 commodities. 



The Transportation Department 

 of the I. A. A. expects to take 

 part in this investigation as af- 

 fecting Illinois farmers. 



AT THE CONFERENCES 



Conference Sidelights^ 



"It is no reflection if a co-op 

 goes bad now and then, if we 

 profit by their experience." — Pe- 

 teet. 



Two shipping associations in 

 Knox county are trying out the 

 idea of having signed contracts 

 with members. 



"Some times our own folks ac- 

 cept the criticism of outsiders 

 without first finding the facts." — 

 Secretary Fox. 



"There is too much tendency 

 to leave the whole work of the 

 shipping association to the man- 

 ager." — McLean Co. man. 



"Send the best man you have 

 in the district to the I. A. A. ex- 

 ecutive committee, regardless of 

 what county he is from." — Fox. 



"Our big trouble is that there 

 is too much sentiment and not 

 enough business in a lot of our 

 cooperatives." — President Thomp- 

 son. 



"Every shipper wants to see 

 the cooperative commission com- 

 panies tried out. but they want 

 the other fellow to do the try- 

 ing." — At Peoria meeting. 



"The way the truck haulers 

 pull business for the old-line com- 

 mission companies, it looks like 

 they might have a personal inter- 

 est in it." — Fulton Co.' man. 



"Half of our stuff is going to 

 the Producers and it is increas- 

 ing. We have got to talk to some 

 of our managers." — Putnam coun- 

 ty man. j 



"We have monthly meetings of 

 the Board and direct the business 

 of our shipping association, r^her 

 than leading it all to the' Man- 

 ager." — $oles county man. ' '■ 



"The Chicago Producers need 

 to tighten up on their cattle 

 sales. They have done so well 

 selling bogs that they almost 

 have a imonopoly on our busi- 

 ness." — farm Adviser Allison. 



"The diass of service performed 

 in your organizations will be no 

 better tHan the men you have. 

 This is a fundamental question." 

 — Secretary Fox. 



"Ther^ was. only one case of 

 propaganda against the Produc- 

 ers in Ford county and we got 

 the facts and nailed it in a hurry. 

 That wa^ all that was necessary." 

 — Farm lAdviser Swaim. 



"You red top men must control 

 the large part of the crop in your 

 marketing association. It is bet- 

 ter to wait a year than to start 

 without St. Then you must know 

 more about red top than any one 

 else In dhe world." — Peteet. 



CO-OP MARKETING 

 DECISiON MADE BY 



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Peteet Spealts At Mittooii 

 Meeting; Committee To ■ 

 Work Out Plan 



A meeting of 200 broom com 

 growers at Mattoon, OctoW 19, 

 instructed an organization com- 

 mittee to go forward wi .h the 

 organization of a coop< rative 

 marketing association oi the 

 commodity basis with fivo year 

 binding contracts and fooling 

 by grade and quality. 



Growers in the Mattoon i listrict 

 have a verbal agreement tj hold- 

 for the price of $300 u ton.' 

 Weekly meetings are bein ; held 

 to Sod crop conditions and price* 

 offered in the different ssctlona 

 of the district. At the October i> 

 meeting it was^agreed to c<ntinae 

 the holding policy. 



Walton Peteet, Director of Co- 

 operative marketing of the Amer- 

 ican Farm Bureau Fedclration, 

 explained the commodity tflan at 

 the meeting. He. advised gjrowers 

 to dp ttie work of soiicit^ig for 

 contracts rather than hiring ex- 

 peru, and to sign up a . least 

 sixty per cent of the crop before 

 permanent organization. 'If yon 

 can't do this you had bet er not 

 start at all," he said. 



Secretary George A. Fox 

 I. A. A. told the growers 

 meeting that the Commodity plan 

 is sound and the best ttat bu 

 been worked out. 



The new association Kill not 

 attempt to market the 1S13 crop. 



The counties of Coles, Cumber- 

 land, Douglas, Shelby, Jasper and 

 Moultrie produce 15,000 acres of 

 broom com which is prtctically 

 all of the Illinois crop, ae:urding 

 to Helvin Thomas, chain nan of 

 the organization eommittoe Other 

 members of committee ar^ How- 

 ard Barker. Areola; Erne it Hog- 

 land, Mattooii: W. A^ 

 Oakland ; Charles Lucas 

 van; C. J. Fearda, Neoga; 

 Brewster, Mattoon. 



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Red Top Exchange 

 Sends Out Final 

 Checks For\PtKd 



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The Egyptian Seed 

 Excbaage, Flora, closed 

 red top pool on October 

 has been busy of late 

 out final checks to memb 

 average of 13% cents 

 was received for the pool, 

 growers 10. S cents. An 

 of 8 cents 0er pound 

 when the crop was delivered. 



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 sending 

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