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Volume 2 



March 5, 1924 



Number 5 



21st DISTRICT 

 TAKES A HAND 

 IN I. A. A. WORK 



First Meeting of Series Asl<s Action 



On IVIcNary-Haugen Bill; 



Want Office Removed 



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 1. 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 witli 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 e.^ecutlTe 

 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. 



Fir.-it Meeting of Its Kind 



The Carlinville meeting was 

 the first of four similar meetings 

 to be held during the year by the 

 21st district. In fact it is the 

 first time that the district has 

 met with their I. A. A. coiiuuit- 

 teeman. It was decided that the 

 ne.\t meeting will be held at 

 Hillsboro 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 

 in 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 Hemoval 



A long resolution directed to 

 the I. A. A. executive committee 

 set forth the rea.sons for movinj; 

 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 worlting for. 



It was decided that the grain 

 marketing question will be the 

 Chief subject of discussion at the 

 next meeting. 



Broom Corn Men 

 Start Campaign 

 For Membership 



A meeting of tlie 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," said 

 President S. H. Thompson as he 

 left for Washington. "They are 

 iiaving a good time down there 

 passing the buck on relief for 

 agriculture. I am going down 

 to find out the situation on 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 the calendar. 



Sentiment Grows 

 For McNary Bill, 

 Committee Says 



The I. A., 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, the commit- 

 tee states, "We find a growing and 

 rather insistent demand 'on the 

 liart 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 

 sliould go to Washington to fol- 

 low this and other relief legisla- 

 tion." 



SHALL WE LET 'EM DO IT? 



Nine Schools Thresh Out 

 Shipping Ass'n Problems 



Bookkeeping, claim prevention 

 and protection, best form of or- 

 ganization, publicity, farm bureau 

 relation and terminal commlk- 

 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. Y"ou 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." 



Trans|K>rt«tion Problems 



"You must have facts to hitch 

 to when making a claim." L. t. 

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

 protect your rights count the 

 stock as it goes into the car. 

 Y'our count must be as good &s 

 that of the railroad when It 

 comes to settling claims. A post 

 card or some other manner of 

 verifying your car order whan 

 made over the phone, is good 

 protection. If you overload, yo»r 

 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 thilk 

 rates are out of line, send the in- 

 formation to sonie reliable ag€Vi- 

 cy or to us. if you continually 

 get cars with several inches of 

 bedding in them, let us know 

 and we will try to straighten the 

 matter out." 



Publicltf 



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. 

 "Robbins of the University, wtho 

 was chairman of the meetikg. 

 (Continued on pase 4) 



AHEMPT IS MADE 

 TO CURB ACTIVfTIES 

 QF LIVESTOCK CO-OPS 



Amendment To Packer-Slbckyards 



Act Would Harm Producers 



Greatly -Stewart I 



An attempt on the pa^t of in- 

 terests inimical to cobperatiTe 

 livestock marketing mhich. if 

 passed, would make it Very diffi- 

 cult for cooperative commission 

 companies to operate as hereto- 

 fore is seen in H. It. 5944, a pro- 

 posed amendment to th^ Packers 

 and Stock.vards act. It was in- 

 troduced by Congressnia i Thomas 

 S. Williams. Louisville. 24th dis- 

 trict": of Illinois, and ha« been re- 

 ferred to the House Committee 

 on Agriculture. { 



The House commiitee was 

 scheduled to take up tfaie amend- 

 meot on February 28. President 

 John Brown and other epresent- 

 atives of the National I ive Stock 

 Producers Association and Presi- 

 dent Thompson of the 

 went to Washington 

 against the amendment 



I. A. A. 

 ip appear 



Would H'ork Great 



"Several sections 



amendment would w< rk great 



Harm 



of this 



harm to cooperative 

 of livestock." declare^ 

 Stewart. Director of 

 Marketing for the I. \. 

 instance, one section 

 unlawful for cooperativ ? commis- 

 sion companies to handle the 

 livestock of anyone 

 own members. 



iiarketing 

 C. A. 

 Livestock 

 A. "For 



wakes it 



xcept its 



"Another provision (tates that 

 each member of a cooperative 

 association of livestocic produc- 

 ers must bind him.self jy w^ritten 

 agreement to assume, i a an obli- 

 gation • of membershii: , the re- 

 sponsibilities of such atsociatiotis. 

 The same provision wciuld apply 

 to a shipping a.<<sociati< n member 

 of a cooperative commission com- 

 pany, and, in addition, every ship- 

 ping association must I le a decla- 

 ration with the Secreti try of Ag- 

 riculture that each of its mem- 

 bers has consented M meml)er- 

 ship in the cooi>eratlie commis- 

 sion association." 



Deflnilion of C< -nii. ; 



The ataendment w.-ti Id define a 

 c©operat;\e associaiioi i of liv>- 

 stock producers as an association 

 'entirely compo.c'd it ind wholly 

 managed and controll d by pro- 

 ducers of livestock. 



"This might be take n to mean 

 that i'ven the manage) of a Pro 

 durers selling aginry vould have 

 to be a livestock prodi cer," states 

 Mr. Stewart. 



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