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March 5, 1924 



Number 5 



21st DISTRICT 

 TAKES A HAND 

 IN I. A. A. WORK 



First Meeting of Series Asks Action 



On McNary-Haugen Bill; 



Want Office Removed 



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A meeting of county farm bu- 

 reau officers and - farm advisers 

 of the 21st district at Carlinville, 

 February 15, asked the I. A. A. 

 to send a committee of three 

 men to Washington to support 

 the McNary-Haugen bill, went on 

 record favoring the removal of 

 the I. A. A. offices to Springfield 

 and set forth their reasons in a 

 resolution to the I. A. A., and 

 asked that a survey of the radio 

 field be made with the idea of 

 finding out how the farm bureau 

 ran make use of this medium. 

 ' You will remember that the 

 annual meeting at Galesburg ex- 

 pressed the desire that executire 

 committer members of the I. A. 

 A. meet with leaders of their 

 districts several times a year so 

 that committeemen could become 

 better acquainted with the needs 

 of the district and the district 

 could know more about the work 

 of the I. A. A. 



First Meeting of Its Kind 



The Carlinville meeting was 

 the first of four similar ^leetings 

 to be held during the year by the 

 2l8t district. In fact it is the 

 first time that the district has 

 met with their I. A. A. commit- 

 teeman. It was decided that the 

 next meeting will be held at 

 HiUsboro on April 24. 



The presidents, farm advisers 

 and a group of county commit- 

 teemen were present from each 

 of the four counties in the dis- 

 trict. The whole group took the 

 attitude that the I. A. A. is their 

 I. A. A., that they were responsi- 

 ble for its success or failure as 

 far as the district was con- 

 cerned. "We must take a part 

 la the work of the I. A. A." said 

 H. J. Schultz, president of the 

 Macoupin County Farm Bureau, 

 who was chosen chairman of the 

 meeting. "We are not doing our 

 duty if we don't take a hand. 

 We must tell Mr. Sorrells, our 

 committeeman, what the district 

 wants and needs." 



Ask Office Removal 



A long resolution directed to 

 the I. A. A. executive committee 

 set forth the reasons for moving 

 the offices to Springfield. In the 

 discussion of the McNary-Haugen 

 bill it was stated that if the bill 

 Is worth the endorsement of the 

 I. A. A. it is worth working for. 



It was decided that the grain 

 marketing question will be the 

 Chief subject of discussion at the 

 next mieting. 



Broom Corn Men 

 Start Campaign 

 For Membership 



A meeting of the organization 

 committee of the Illinois Broom 

 Corn Growers Cooperative Asso- 

 ciation held at Mattoon on Feb- 

 ruary 20, determined to go for- 

 ward on a membership campaign 

 in March. 



The I. A. A. Organization de- 

 partment will assist in the or- 

 ganization work and the Depart- 

 ment of Information will help in 

 carrying on publicity. In order 

 to make the membership agree- 

 ment effective, 75 per cent of the 

 growers of the district must be 

 members of the association by 

 April first. The total number of 

 growers In the district is esti- 

 mated at about 1,000. 



/. A. A. To Fight 

 For McNary Bill 

 At Washington 



"I'm ready to go to the mat on 

 the McNary-Haugen bill," safd 

 President S. H. Thompson as be 

 left for Washington. "They are 

 having a good time down there 

 passing the buck on relief for 

 agriculture. I am going down 

 to find out the situation oa this 

 bill." , 



Mr. Thompson has suggested 

 to Gray Silver, Washington repre- 

 sentative of the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation, that a meet- 

 ing of presidents and secretaries 

 of mid-west farm bureaus and 

 others interested in relief legisla- 

 tion be called to promote the 

 McNary bill. He believes that 

 an organization should be formed 

 to promote the bill, each state 

 having a representative in Wash- 

 ington to assist in a campaign. 

 The first job, says Mr. 'Thompson, 

 Is get the bill on Ihe calendar. 



Sentiment Grows 

 For McNary Bill, 

 Committee Says 



The I. Ah A. Legislative com- 

 mittee meeting at the office Feb- 

 ruary 25 endorsed President 

 Thompson's action in going to 

 Washington to support the Mc- 

 Nary-Haugen bill. 



In a report of their meeting to 

 President Thompson, *he commit- 

 tee states, "We find a growing and 

 rather insistent demand on the 

 part of the members for the asso- 

 ciation to take some definite steps 

 toward securing favorable action 

 on the McNary-Haugen bill. We 

 have unanimously decided that a 

 representative of this association 

 should go to Washington to fol- 

 low this and other relief leglsla- 

 UoB." 



Nine Schools Thresh Out 

 Shipping Ass'n Problems 



Bookkeeping, claim prevention 

 and protection, best form of or- 

 ganization, publicity, farm bureau 

 relation and terminal commis- 

 sion companies were some of the 

 subjects of discussion at the nine 

 cooperative livestock shipping as- 

 sociation schools conducted by 

 the University Extension division 

 and the I. A. A. 



Here is a little glimpse of 

 what happened at the Springfield 

 meeting. There were 50 present 

 at the school, 19 managers. The 

 boys said it was a fair sample 

 of the other schools. 



Bookkeeping 



"You can't be sure you are 

 efficient unless you have a good 

 bookkeeping system," said V. 

 Vaniman of the University, He 

 exhibited and explained large 

 charts showing a system of keep- 

 ing records. The I. A. A. has 

 the loose-leaf book forms for sale 

 at cost. 



"The aim of the shipping as- 

 sociation is to get the greatest 

 return possible to the producer, 

 but you can't tell when you are 

 doing that unless you have the 

 facts and figures. You should 

 keep records if for no other rea- 

 son than for self-protection. If 

 you don't you have no comeback 

 when some one questions your ac- 



tions. Accounting is the founda- 

 tion of business." 



Transportation Problems 



"You must, have facts to hitch 

 to when making a claim," L. J. 

 Quasey of the L A. A. said. "To 

 protect your rights count the 

 stock as it goes into the car. 

 Your count must be as good as 

 that of the railroad when it 

 comes to settling claims. A post 

 card or some other manner of 

 verifying your car order when 

 made over the phone, is good 

 protection. If you OTerload, yoar 

 case will be hurt if you have a 

 loss. 



"You have grounds for a claim 

 if stock is delayed on the road 

 to market. With certain excep- 

 tions the railroad is responsible 

 for delivery in as good a condi- 

 tion as received. If you think 

 rates arc out of line, send the in- 

 formation to some reliable' agen- 

 cy or to us. If you continually 

 get cars with several inches of 

 bedding in them, fet us know 

 and we will try to straighten the 

 matter out." ■ H 



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We can tell our story to a 

 large audience through the news- 

 papers by furnishing them with 

 the news that we have, said E. T. 

 Hobbins of the University, wiio 

 was chairman of the meeting. 

 (Continued on pace 4) 



AHEMPT IS MADE 

 TO CURB ACTIVITIES 

 OF LIVESTOCK CO-OPS 



Amendment To Packer- Stockyards 



Act Would Harm Producers 



Greatly-Stewart 



An attempt on the pairt of in- 

 terests Inimical to cooperatlTe 

 livestock marketing wfhlch, if 

 passed, would make it Very diffl- 

 cult for cooperative commission 

 companies to operate a« hereto- 

 fore is seen in H. R. 59^4, a pro- 

 posed amendment to th« Packers 

 and Stockyards act. I^ was in- 

 troduced by Coagressntab Thomas 

 S. Williams, Louisville. !24th dis- 

 trict of Illinois, and has been re- 

 ferred to the House Committee 

 on Agriculture. 



The House committee was 

 scheduled to take up the amend- 

 ment on February 28. President 

 John Brown and other represent- 

 atives of the National Live Stock 

 Producers Association a|nd Presi- 

 dent Thompson of the ; I. A. A. 

 went to Washington tlo appear 

 against the amendmentJ 



Would Work Great 1 1 

 "Several sections | of this 

 amendment wvuld wQrk great 

 harm to cooperative |narketing 

 of livestock," declar«to C. A. 

 Stewart, Director of Livestock 

 Marketing for the I. A. A. "For 

 instance, one section makes it 

 unlawful for cooperative commis- 

 sion companies to hlmdle the 

 livecloCk of anyone ^xoept its 

 own* members. 



"Another provision states that 

 each memt>er of a oooperatire 

 association of livestock produc- 

 ers must bind Jiimself by written 

 agreement to assume, .«s an obli- 

 gation of membership, the re- 

 sponsibilities of such a^ociations. 

 The same provision w«uld apply 

 to a shipping associatidn member 

 of a cooperative commission com- 

 pany, and, in addition, fvery ship- 

 ping association must flle a decla- 

 ration with the Secretkry of .Ag- 

 riculture that each of' its mem- 

 bers has consented tt member- 

 ship in the cooperatlije commis- 

 sion association.' 



DeOnitioii of Cc-op. 



The amendment would define a 

 cooperative 



of livf 

 association 



association 

 stock producers as an 

 'entirely composted of ind wholh 

 managed and controlled by pro 

 ducers of livestork 



This might be tak< n to mean 

 that even the manager of a Pro 

 ducers selling agency rould iiave 

 to be a livestock prodi cer," states 

 Mr. Stewart. 



