Volume 2 



January 5, 1924 



Number I 



AU ABOARD FOR 

 ANNUAL MEETING 

 i JAN. 16 AND 17 



ElecAn of ORicers and Banquet First 

 Night— Complete Program 



Junes C. Stone 



AU aboard for the ninth an- 

 nual meeting of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association ! This 

 year it .will be at Galesburg, 

 January 16 and 17. Another 

 year has rolled around and it is 

 time to get together to discuss 

 problems and elect officers. 



The large part of the first morn- 

 ing will be spent in reports of the 

 Secretary, Treasurer and the Presi- 

 dent's Address. 

 The program 

 calls for the ap- 

 pointment of 

 committees a t 

 that time. 



Co-op 

 Marketing 

 Co-operative 

 marketing will 

 take up practic- 

 ally all of the 

 first afternoon. 

 O. B. Goble of 

 Charleston, Di- 

 rector of the Indianapolis Producers 

 will talk on livestock marketing. 

 Two angles of the financial control 

 of co-operative associations will be 

 discussed, one by George Wicker 

 of the Minnesota State Department 

 of Agriculture and one by George 

 E. Frazer, Consulting Accountant 

 to the I. A. A. On the same pro- 

 gram, James C. Stone, President 

 and Manager of the Burley Tobacco 

 Growers Co-operative Association 

 of Kentucky will talk about the 

 managerial control of co-operatives. 



Nominations 

 At the close of the afternoon ses- 

 sions, voting delegates from the dis- 

 tricts will caucus to nominate mem- 

 bers of the exec- 

 utive committee. 

 The election will 

 be held at the 

 end of the eve- 

 ning program. 



Banquet 



At 6:30 P. M. 

 the whole meet- 

 ing will banquet 

 together fol- 

 lowed by ad- 

 dresses from Dr. 

 Tilden, Presi- 

 dent of Lombard 

 Camlin, President 



This.Edition 



With this issue the Record is 

 summarizing the work of the 

 I. A. A. for the past year, relat- 

 ing some of the more important 

 accomplishments of each depart- 

 ment of work as secured from 

 the annual reports of each direc- 

 tor. The only report omitted is 

 the 1923 financial statement, 

 which will appear in full in the 

 January 20 issue. 



ANOTHER ILLINOIS TON LITTER 



He Got Results 



fThen the I. A. A. 

 ,j Got After 'em 



R. E. Fildes, Farm Bureau mem- 

 ber of Wayne County, sent a check 

 to a poultry farm for four cockerels 

 in September, asking for prompt de- 

 livery. By November 26 he had no 

 cockerels and no reply to three let- 

 ters which he had written to the 

 poultryman. So he wrote to the 

 I. A. A. to take up the matter to 

 see if action could be secured. 



Here's what Mr. Fildes wrote to 

 the I. A. A. in December: "Will 

 say that I received my cockerels 

 within about four days after I got 

 your first letter informing me that 

 you had taken the matter up with 

 the poultry farm. This proves to 

 me that the I. A. A. can get results 

 after individuals fail. I thank you 

 for your services." 



WHAT'S COMING IN . 

 NEXT FIVE YEARS 

 FOR FARM BUREAU? 



SmlVT Fox: "Orfarizerf Agriolbn 

 WiU Be EstaUisiKd" 



George E. Praxcr 



College, John 

 of the Illinois 

 Chamber of Commerce and James 

 C. Stone. Election of officers will 

 conclude the evening program. 



Second Day 



Richard T. Ely, Professor of Eco- 

 nomics, University of Wisconsin, 

 outstanding authority on farm land 

 taxes will speak at nine o'clock. 



New Directors of 

 Chicago Producers 

 Will Be Elected 



The election of three directors 

 will be among several important 

 considerations at the first annual 

 meeting of the Chicago Producers 

 Commission Association at Chicago, 

 January 8. 



Directors will be chosen to suc- 

 ceed W. B. Elliott, Williamsfield, 

 111., and Frank Coyne, Montrose, 

 la., whose one-year term of office 

 expires at this time, and the third 

 member will fill the vacancy made 

 by J. W. Crabb, Delavan, 111. 



EaA member is entitled to one 

 vote at the meeting. 



Congressman C. A. Newton of Mis- 

 souri will follow on the subject of 

 transportation. A round table dis- 

 cussion will be conducted after each 

 address. 



Community Centers 

 Benjamin H. Darrow, Secretary 

 of the County Y. M. C. A. at Re- 

 venna, Ohio, will talk on the organ- 

 ization of community centers at 

 1:30 P. M. Reports of the com- 

 mittees on resolution and constitu- 

 tion and by-laws will follow. The 

 remainder of the afternoon will be 

 devoted to round table discussion. 



Stewart Reports Growth 

 in Shipping Associations 



C. A. Stewart 



at $25,000,000, 



The livestock shipping associa- 

 tion movement has continued to 

 spread, says C. A. Stewart, Director 

 of Live Stock 

 Marketing for 

 the I. A. A., in 

 his annual re- 

 port. 



Judging from 

 reports from 

 one-fourth of 

 the shipping as- 

 sociations, Mr. 

 Stewart esti- 

 mates that 20.- 

 000 carloads of 

 livestock, valued 

 have been shipped to terminal mar- 

 kets. All but ten counties of the 

 State are served by shipping asso- 

 ciations. 



Some Failures 

 Yes, there have been some fail- 

 ures, but not many. Not more than 

 50 associations can be classed as 

 inactive or defunct, Mr. Stewart re- 

 ports. The outstanding reason, he 

 says, is that some organizations 

 were organized before there was 

 real need or demand for them by 

 the livestock producers of the com- 

 munity. Poor management and 

 lack of business methods contrib- 

 uted to the downfall of some and 

 the fact that others accorded their 

 managers the privilege of buying 



livestock caused the reorganization 

 of several. 



I. A. A. Help 

 'The department has attended 

 meetings in 38 counties, assisting 

 shipping associations. It has helped 

 with the incorporation of 38 asso- 

 ciations. Four shipping association 

 schools were held in different Sec- 

 tions of the State in co-operation 

 with the Extension Department of 

 the University. 



A number of associations adopted 

 the accounting system recommend- 

 ed by the department and others 

 have patterned after it. The mem- 

 bership agreement drafted by the 

 department has been placed into ef- 

 fect by three associations and two 

 county organizations have adopted 

 it as part of theif constitution. 



Farm Bureau Relation 

 Sixteen local and three coUnty 

 shipping associations have amended 

 their constitutions to accord retog- 

 nition to farm bureau members and 

 there is increased interest in this 

 form of organization in other Sec- 

 tions of the state, Mr. Stewart spys. 

 Three counties are now being 

 organized on the county basis and 

 there is a growing tendency on the 

 part of local associations in a num- 

 ber of counties to fomt county fed- 

 erations. 



The next five years of farm 

 bureau work should build much 

 more rapidly and more substan- 

 tially than the past five years 

 during which time leaders were 

 pioneering their way to practical 

 lines of work, states Secretary 

 George A. Fox in reviewing the 

 past and looking into the future. 



"The I. A. A. begins 1924 with 

 confidence and assurance. The past 

 yeai- practically closes a two-year 

 period of membership reorganiza- 

 tion. The renewals and new mem- 

 bers represent a stronger member- 

 ship personnel than ever before in 

 the history of the institution," Ur. 

 Fox says. 



"■' Notes P r o gr ew 



"The farm bureaus and the 

 I A. A. started with ideals and 

 without a well defined program or 

 a background of actual experience. 

 Today both have a wealth of ex- 

 perience, both good and bad, suc- 

 cessfnl and otherwise, from which 

 to draw valuable lessons for future 

 guidance. 



Substantial Uembenhip 

 "The I. A. A. has a substantial 

 solid membership. Its financial con- 

 dition is sound, and it has well 

 defined lines of service with many 

 substantial accomplishments to its 

 credit. The future was never 

 brighter. Another five years should 

 thoroughly establish organized ag- 

 riculture in Illinois." 



Secretary Fox will give a report 

 of work for the year at the open- 

 ing session of the annual meeting 

 at Galesburg. 



hike Backing 



Winning Horse, 

 Sweetnam Says 



*It makes a fellow feel good to 

 hew that the orgairfcation he be- 

 longs to is goin^ strong," writes 

 R. L. S»?«etnam of Sweet Clover 

 Stock Farm, Lee County. "It is 

 like backing the winning horse. 



"It is sure amusing to hear peo- 

 ple stand around and tell how Uttle 

 they know about what the _Fann 

 Bureau is really doing. Most of 

 those birds are too cheap to belong 

 to anything. When yon do con- 

 vince them to join, they want their 

 money back the next day. 



"The I. A. A. is doing good work. 

 More power to its efforts." 



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