20. 1923 



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Illinoi s Agricultural Association 



Volume 1 



Dec 5, 1923 



Number 18 



MARKETING, TAXES, 

 TRANSPORTATION-- 

 AT I.A.A. MEETING 



Expert Authorities Will Lead 



Discussions At Galesburg, 



January 16-17 



Co-operative marketing, farm 

 taxes, and transportation will 

 be the chief subjects of discus- 

 sioo when delegates from every 

 Illinois county farm bureau get 

 together at the ninth annual 

 meeting of the I. A. A. at Gales- 

 burg, January 16-17. 



Marketing problems will oc- 

 cupy the major part of the first 

 day's program. There will be no 

 special marketing day on January 

 15 as previously announced. 

 Stone to Speak 



James C. Stone, President and 

 General Manager of the Ken- 

 tucky Burley Tobacco Growers 

 Association, will be the principal 

 speaker on cooperative market- 

 ing. Mr. Stone is well known to 

 farmers who heard his talks at 

 the Springfield and Centralia dis- 

 trict conferences in October. 



George E. Frazer, Chicago, a 

 national authority on accounting 

 and business methods, wiU speak 

 upon the necessity of sound busi- 

 ness methods for successful mar- 

 keting associations. 



Tax Speaker 



Richard T. Ely, Professor of 

 Economics at the University of 

 Wisconsin, has been secured to 

 discuss taxation. He is consid- 

 ered a national authority on the 

 subject. 



Other speakers who will appear 

 on the program willl>e announced 

 later. 



niiii 



Talk Limestone 

 Situation At 



Six Meetings 



A series of six meetings are 

 being held by the Phosphate- 

 Limestone Department of the I. 

 A. A. to discuss the agricultural 

 limstone situation and problems 

 The first of the meetings was 

 held at St. Louis for a group of 

 nine counties in that territory 

 supplied with limestone from 

 East St. Louis quarries. 



I Other meetings are planned 

 for the extreme southern Illinois, 

 for western Illinois which gets 

 its supply of limestone from Buf- 

 falo, Linwood and Bettendorf, 

 Iowa; for the southeastern sec- 

 tion depending on Greencastle 

 and Mitchell, Indiana, for their 

 supply; for the Chicago territory 

 supplied by quarries at Chicago, 

 Kankakee and Joliet; and for the 

 extreme north group of counties 

 supplied by Roekford quarries. 



If You re Going! 



If ybu're planning to attend 

 the I. A. A. Annual Meeting 

 at Galesburg, Jan. 16 and 17, 

 better send in your reserva- 

 tion* immediately to Reser- 

 vation Committee, Knox 

 County Farm Bureau, Gales- 

 burg, saying for what night 

 or nights you desire rooms. 



/. A. A. Employs 

 Accountant and 

 Finance Expert 



In recognizing the need for 

 more knowledge on the technical 

 and practical side of finance and 

 accounting problems of coopera- 

 tive marketing association, the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association 

 has employed George E. Fraser 

 of. Chicago as consulting account- 

 ant and financial adviser. Mr. 

 Frasfer will be at the call of the 

 association on these problems. 



Mr. Fraser is one of the out- 

 standing men in his line of work. 

 He was Professor of Public Ac- 

 counting and Comptroller at the 

 University of Illinois from 1913 

 to 1915. He devised the Illinois 

 state financial system in 1917, 

 and he acts in an advisory capac- 

 ity to several large organizations 

 in Chicago. 



OPEN SEASON IS HERE! 



Hearing Secured 

 Before Tax Body 

 On December 6 



The Illinois Tax Commission 

 has granted the I.. A. A. an all-day 

 hearing in Springfield on Decem- 

 ber 6, to take up the question of 

 equalization of valuations for state 

 tax purposes. 



This will be the third year that 

 the I. A. A. has appeared before 

 the State Commission with the 

 question of state taxes. John C. 

 Watson, in charge of tax work 

 for the association figures that 

 the reductions in valuations of 

 farm land the past two years, 

 caused by the interest of the 

 farm bureau, has saved Illinois 

 farmers $1,070,000 in state taxes. 

 It is the hope of Mr. Watson that 

 every county in the state will be 

 represented at the hearing. 



Although valuations of farm 

 lands have been equalized for 

 state tax purposes by the Com- 

 mission, city property has not 

 been touched since 1917, Mr. 

 Watson states. 



MARKET CONFERENCE 



A general marketing confer- 

 ence has been called by the A. F. 

 B. F. in Chicago, Dec. 8. It will 

 convene at the Sherman Hotel. 



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War Is Declared in Five 

 Counties on f. B. Outlaws 



Five county farm bureaus have 

 matched the $100 reward offer 

 of the I. A. A. for conviction of 

 the first offender of laws and 

 regulations forbidding trafficking 

 of tuberculous cattle within the 

 county. Several other counties 

 have stated their intention of ac- 

 cepting the offer, but have not 

 taken formal action. 



The five counties offering re- 

 wards in cooperation with the I. 

 A. A. are Whiteside, Boone, Du- 

 Page, Will and Rock Island. De- 

 Kalb and McHenry counties have 

 signified their intention of accept- 

 ing the offer, according to M. H. 

 Peterson, who is assisting in this 

 work for the association. 



Six counties have formed local 

 associations for the purpose of 

 carrying ont a pro-am of clean- 

 up. These six countties are White- 

 side, McHenry, lAiPage, Cook, 

 Lake and Boone. 



Following is the reward offer 

 being published by the five coun- 

 ties: 



The Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation will pay $100.00 and in 



adiHtion thereto, the County 



Farm Bureau will also pay $100 

 for Information and evidence 

 which will be the basis for the 



first arrest and conviction In „ 



County of any person violating 

 the law of the State of Illinois 



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or of the United States forbidding 

 the transportation or disposition 

 of tubercular cattle into or with- 

 in the State of Illinois for a vio- 

 lation on or after the day 



of 1923. 



Information and evidence of 

 violation must be furnished to 



._ of , Illinois, who 



shall have the conclusive right 

 to determine as between inform- 

 ants the first and best evidence 

 upon which to base a prosecu- 

 tion. 



SUBJECTS NAMED 

 FOR DISClJSSIOfI 

 ATA.F.B.F. MEET 



Tax Commission 

 Still Marking 

 Time-No Answer 



Nothing new on the county tax 

 situation except that the State 

 Tax Commission has let another 

 fifteen days slip around without 

 giving Illinois farmers an answer 

 to their letter. It is now 37 days 

 since the Commission was asked 

 what it was going to do. 



In the meantime both Orange 

 Jndd Farmer and Prairie Farmer 

 have continued their exposure of 

 the State Commission. A long 

 editorial in the Chicago American 

 quotes from both farm papers 

 and the I. A. A. Record, 'showing 

 the feeling of Illinois farmers on 

 this question. 



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Nationally Known Speaiters To- 



Talk On Leading Farming 



f robleras. of Today 



Wken the fifth annual meet-i 

 ing of the American Farm Bu-; 

 reau Federation convenes ini 

 C!hic&go, December 10, 11 and 

 12, legislation, marketing, trans- 

 portation, taxation, community 

 development and program build- 

 ing will be the outstanding sub- 

 jects of discaasion. ' 



Several nationally known speak- 

 ers will address the sessions 

 which' will be Beld In the Hotel 

 Sherman. 



Herbert Hoover Speaks 



Herbert Hoover, Secretary of 

 Commerce. Is on tlie program tor 

 the first day and will speaik on 

 the eubject of commerce miil its 

 relation to agriculture. 



Gray Silver, tarm bureau Wash- 

 ingdb% representative, will lead a 

 discussion on agricultural legis- 

 lation the first d^y. ^nd D. H. 

 Hibbard, Professor of Agricul- 

 tural Economics at the University 

 of Wisconsin, will talk" on basic 

 agricoltural economics. 



Sapiro and Howard 



Aaroo Sapiro, co-operative mar-, 

 keting Counsel of the A. F. B. F., 

 will discuss marketing on the 

 second day. while James R. How- 

 ard, former president of the A. 

 F. B. F., will present a national 

 picture of the farmers' transpor- 

 tatioa problem. . 



John C. Watson of the I. A. A. 

 will talk on a uniform taxation 

 program and Mrs. H. W. Law- 

 rence of the Home and Community 

 Committee of the A. F. B. F.. 

 will talk on her subject as othfer 

 features of the second day. 

 Farm CredlU 



Farm credit will be the chief 

 subject for the third day of the 

 annual meeting. E. H. Cunning- 

 ham of the Federal Reserve 

 Board, will tell of the functions 

 of that board, and W. L. Corey 

 of the Federal Farm Loan Board 

 will explain how organized farm- 

 ers can use intermediate credit. 



The 1924 executive committee 

 of the A. F. B. F. will go into 

 session immediately after the ad- 

 journment of the annual meet- 

 ing. 



TO TAKE REFERENDUM 



The American Farm Bureau 

 Federation is planning to take a 

 referendum to get the opinion of 

 farmers on the American Mer- 

 chant Marine tit an early date, 

 from which the Federation's leg- 

 islative policy on that ineatloB , 

 wilLbe based. "| 



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