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March 20, 1924 



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MILK PRODUCERS AT 

 GALESBURG FORMED 

 CO-OP ASSOCIATION 



WHI Consider Problems In Mutual 



Way; Lynch of IL A. A. Helps 

 I |- In Movement I 



Stxty dairymen if the territory 

 adja«ent to Galealkurg met with 

 A. D. Lyncli, direct<|r of dairy mar- 

 keting for tlie I. A. A.. Marcli 

 11. and voted to organize tlie 

 Calesburg Cooperalive Milk Pro- 

 dueea-s Association. It will be in- 

 corporated under tlje Illinois coop- 

 erative marketing aict with no cap- 

 ital Block but with! a small mem- 

 bership fee. Thel meeting was 

 called under the a|uspiees of the 

 Knox County Farral Bureau. 



The association ; will be com- 

 posed of three classes of dairymen, 

 those (Who retail 4>ilk in Gales- 

 burg, those who se^l to milk.dis- 

 tribulors, and thbse who sell 

 cream. "The menj who attended 

 the meeting expressed the thought 

 that a iilairymen's business organi- 

 sation is something' that has been 

 needed there for a long time," 

 states Mr. Lynch. I 



Will Stud)' I»poblem» 



"It is not the irjtention of the 

 association to go in^o the milk dis- 

 tribution business I at this time. 

 Rather they intenid to get ac- 

 quainted, study their mutual prob- 

 lems and get their; interests har- 

 moniied.", | 



"The spirit of ' the meeting 

 seemed to be thatj the basis of 

 competition betweeii the milk pro- 

 ducers should be qu|ality and serv- 

 ice rather than price-cutting." de- 

 clares Mr. Lynch. |"The associa- 

 tion is planning an advertising 

 budget to stimulate the consump- 

 tion of milk." 



Choose OfBcers 



The ^ew association elected di- 

 rectors and officers as iollows, for 

 term* of one to thj'ee years: for 

 1 year, M. C. Craft. Galesburg, 

 vice-president; E. !b. Wagoner, 

 Galesburg, secretarjr; Dr. W. E. 

 Miller, Abingdon. [For 2 years: 

 Clyde Olinger. Galesburg; E. V. 

 Babbitt, Avon; H. e). Rose." Gales- 

 burg. For 3 year^: Ed Gumm. 

 Galesburg, preslden^; C. I.. Fair- 

 childs, Galesburg, treasurer; R. L. 

 Ooldaberry, Galesbi^rg. , i 



Macoupin Bureau 



C defines Politics; 

 Endorses Rinake 

 olution passed by the Ma- 

 coupin County Farnk Bureau calls 

 attention to the netjd for farmers 

 to pay more attention to the rec- 

 ords of men running for important 

 political offices. 



"It is not politicsi" the resolu- 

 tion states, "but sti-ictly a farm 

 bureau activity for ns and all of 

 onr members to see \o it that each 

 political party sele<^ candidates 

 who appreciate, unjderstand and 

 win work for the good of agricul- 

 ture." The resolutiin states it Is 

 not the business of the farm bu- 

 reau to help such candidates get 

 office. 



With this explanaition. the Ma- 

 coupin bureau calls attention of 

 republican farmers of the county 

 to the candidacy of Judge Lewis 

 Rinake, a large farnler and stock- 

 man of Modesto, who is running 

 lor Lieutenant-Governor, subject 

 to primaries April 8, and endorses 

 his candidacy to republican voters. 



It Is understood that the Ma- 

 coupin executive committee is 

 about equally composed of demo- 

 crats and republicans. 



E. E. Bill Chosen 

 Program Director 

 For Radio Station 



Edgar L. Bill, Director of In- 

 formation for the I. A. A., has 

 been chosen as director of pro- 

 grams for 'the Sears It6ebuck Agri- 

 cultural Foundation broadcasting 

 station in Chicago. He will take 

 up the new work on .\pril first. 



"I see a wonderful opportunity 

 to do a great good for agriculture 

 in this new work," says Mr. Bill. 

 "Radio is the new means of 

 spreading information, education 

 and amusement. Through this 

 new medium, the best talent in all 

 phases of th« agricultural field 

 can be made available to the most 

 remote farm house." 



.Mr. Bill states that be hopes to 

 make use of much of the talent in 

 county farm bureaus, home bu- 

 reaus, community clubs and boys 

 and girls club work. He invites 

 the cooperation and suggestions of 

 the whole farm bureau crowd. 



The Sears station, which will 

 start broadcasting about .\pril 1. 

 will be the only farm station in 

 the United States. It will be a 

 500-watt station with a wave 

 length of 448 meters, powerful 

 enough to reach all corners of the 

 United States. 



Mr. Bill was Director of Infor- 

 mation for the first three years 

 after the association was reorgan- 

 ized on a $5 membership basis, 

 and again last August was asked 

 to take charge of this work. Mr. 

 Bill's successor in the I. A. A. has 

 not been named. 



McHenry County 

 Farmers Secure 

 Big Tax Decrease 



For each of the 2.8 74 farms in 

 McHenry county there is an aver- 

 age decrease of J13.S7 per farm 

 in 1923 taxes due to the work of 

 the McHenry County Farm Bu- 

 reau. The total decrease, due to 

 the decrease in valuations of farm 

 land, is $39,876.58. McHenry 

 county made the first complete re- 

 port to the I. A. A. after John 

 Watson of the Taxation depart- 

 ment had asked all counties tor 

 reports on taxes to be paid this 

 year. 



The valuations on which taxes 

 were extended on lands decreased 

 $1.551. 536 from 1922 to 1923. 

 or 11.48 per cent. The taxes ex- 

 tended on the valuations for 1923 

 decreased $38,530.22 or 7.31 per 

 cent. However, part of this de- 

 crease, or' $6,411.32 is due to a 

 decrease in tax rates. This leaves 

 $32,118.90 decrease due solely to 

 decrease in valuations. 



But there was an increase In 

 the state tax rate of 42.3 cents to 

 50 cents per $100 of assessed val- 

 uations, in no way caused by de- 

 creased valuations. Had there 

 been no decrease in valuations, the 

 state taxes would have been $7,- 

 757.68 higher than they are. Add- 

 ing $7,757.68 to $32,118.90 

 makes a total of $39,876.58 

 which is the total decrease. 



Thomas Watkins 

 Oldest Bureau 



Member^ Dies 



Thomas Watkins, oldest citizen 

 of Cass county and the oldest farm 

 bureau member in Illinois, passed 

 away on February 26, at the age 

 of 96 years, 6 months and 3 days. 

 Mr. Watkins may have been the 

 oldest farm bureau member in the 

 United States. 



He was born in Kentucky, Aug. 

 23, 1827, moved to Cass county 



ILLINOIS COnON 



GROWERS START 

 ORGANIZATION PLANS 



Cowles Represents I. A. A.; Farm 



Bureaus Take Lead In 



Helping Growers 



Cotton growers of southern Illi- 

 nois met at .Mound City, March 8, 

 and took the first steps toward the 

 formation of a growers' associa- 

 tion by naming Lee Lingenfelter, 

 I'ulaski county, as chairman of an 

 organization committee of 11. Two 

 representatives from eacli of the 

 following counties will be chosen 

 for the committee. Pulaski, Alex- 

 ander, Massac, l^nion and Johnson. 



R. A. Cowles. treasurer of the 

 I. A. A., attended the meeting and 

 made a talk in which he stressed 

 the value of organization and ex- 

 plained how the I. A. A. would be 

 able to help. Marketing problems 

 of cotton growers were discussed 

 by C. O. Moaer, secretary of the 

 American Cotton Growers Associa- 

 tion. At a bankers' meeting at 

 Mounds the same day, Chas. G. 

 Henry, president of the Arkansas 

 Cotton Growers Exchange, told 

 them how cooperative marketing 

 improves economic conditions. 

 Bureau Started It 



The meeting was called by the 

 Pulaski County Farm Bureau 

 which was largely responsible for 

 starting cotton culture in southern 

 Illinois last year. Between 1500 

 and 2000 acres were successfully 

 raised in 1923, and prospects point 

 to planting of over 20,000 acres 

 this year. There is much enthu- 

 siasm in the project. 



The farm bureaus of southern 

 Illinois are doing much to assist 

 growers in securing strains of seed 

 adaptable to the district and in 

 helping with proper cultural meth- 

 ods for cotton. 



No Boll Weevil 



Cotton has been raised with 

 profit in southeastern Missouri (or 

 several years with no appearance 

 of the boll weevil. It is said to 

 be too far north in that district 

 and in southern Illinois for the 

 weetil. There has been an over- 

 production of truck crops in that 

 part of Illinois and producers are 

 looking to cotton to help the re- 

 gion through diversification. 



Decatur Milk \ 



Co-op Starting 



Sale of Stock 



The Producers Cooperative 

 Dairy of Decatur through John A. 

 Record, secretary of the organiza- 

 tion committee, has secured the 

 services of H. L. Hough of the 

 I. A. A. organization department 

 to start the campaign for selling 

 stock and signing contracts for the 

 cooperative. 



The company is capitalized at 

 $75,000 and is incorporated under 

 the Illinois cooperative marketing 

 act. The management plans to 

 lease facilities in Decatur as soon 

 as possible so that the association 

 can enter the business of merchan- 

 dising pasteurized quality milk. 



when a young man and resided 

 on a farm there until his death. 

 When solicited for membership in 

 the farm bureau last year, he 

 signed immediately, saying that, 

 "while 1 may be too old to get all 

 of the direct benefits of the farm 

 bureau, I have lived just long 

 enough and seen enough phases 

 of American agriculture to realize 

 the value of real farmer organiza- 

 tion." 



Harper Resigns; 

 Going With Nat' I 

 Producers Ass'n 



3. D. Harper, for the past few 

 months in charge of poultry and 

 egg marketing for the I. A. A., 

 has resigned and on April 1 will 

 take up his new duties with the 

 National Live Stock Producers As- 

 sociation, with whom ho has ac- 

 cepted a position. He will take 

 over many of the duties which 

 have been in charge of F. M. Simp- 

 son, formerly general manager of 

 the National Producers, but who 

 is now manager of the Producers' 

 selling agency at Kansas City. 



Mr. Harper has been connected 

 with the I. A. A. for three and 

 one-half years. Prior to taking 

 over the poultry and egg work, 

 he served as assistant secretary 

 of the association, having charge 

 of the I. .\. .\. offices and carrying 

 on special investigational work. 



Last fall he was very active in 

 promoting the accredited hatchery 

 plan now in successful operation. 

 He has also done much to acquaint 

 poultry and egg buyers with the 

 necessity of adopting standard 

 government grades for eggs and 

 buying them at country points on 

 the basis of quality. Both the 

 National Poultry. Butter and Egg 

 Association and the Illinois Poul- 

 try and Egg Shippers Association 

 have passed resolutions favoring 

 these improved practices in egg 

 marketing. 



T. B. Appropriations 

 Made By De Witt 

 -Douglas Counties 



The DeWitt and Douglas county 

 farm bureaus are the latest addi- 

 tions to Illinois counties that have 

 secured appropriations for area 

 tuberculosis testing from their 

 boards of supervisors. Each of 

 the counties will start testing soon 

 after a veterinarian can be hired. 



Winnebago county is starting 

 an educational campaign to secure 

 appropriations for testing. 



EGG SHIPPERS 0. K. 

 BUYING ON BASIS 

 OF UNIFORM GRADES 



Harper Tells Meeting of Present 



Injustices To Producers; 



To Help Make Survey 



The Illinois Poultry and Egg 

 Shippers Association at its annual 

 meeting at Peoria, .March 7, in 

 resolutions endorsed the efforts 

 that have been made for the es- 

 tablishment of uniform egg qual- 

 ity standardization and the prin- 

 ciple of buying eggs on a qual- 

 ity basis at country points in order 

 to stimulate the production of 

 higher and more uniform quality 

 eggs and poultry. 



The meeting also asked that a 

 committee be appointed to formu- 

 late plans for cooperation with 

 the I. A. A., University of Illinois, 

 and State Department of Agricul- 

 ture to conduct a survey of the 

 poultry and egg business of Illi- 

 nois in order to get at the neces- 

 sary facts on which to base an in- 

 telligent program for the future. 



"The greatest injustice in pres- 

 ent methods of marketing eggs in 

 Illinois is the prevailing practice 

 of buying all classes and grades 

 on the basis of an average price," 

 J. D. Harper of the I. .\. A., told 

 the convention before the resolu- 

 tions were passed. "This price, 

 which does not make for exorbi- 

 tant profits to dealers, greatly 

 penalizes the producers of quality 

 eggs who are, for the most part, 

 farm bureau members." 



The survey to be made with the 

 help of the I. A. A. will determine 

 all the facts concerning the mar- 

 keting of eggs, according to Mr. 

 Harper. It will give a picture of 

 the desirable and undesirable 

 trade practices now In vogue in 

 the marketing of eggs and will 

 determine a basis for the intelli- 

 gent buying of eggs in the future. 



Survey Shows 

 Farmers A 



'Between seven and ten per cent 

 of the farmers in Illinois have ra- 

 dio receiving sets, according to 

 the results of a survey just com- 

 pleted by the I. A. A. Department 

 of Information. Reports from 74 

 county farm advisers show a total 

 of 21,045 receiving sets on farms 

 in these counties. 



The purpose of the survey was 

 to determine the extent of the use 

 of radio on farms, the type of pro- 

 grams the farmers like best, prac- 

 tical benefits of the radio, and 

 what features the I. A. A. might 

 develop that would be of special 

 Interest to Illinois farmers. 



News of pending legislation, 

 crop reports, cooperative market- 

 ing talks, farm organization news, 

 market reports, and short talks on 

 good farming practices were some 

 of the main points suggested for 

 the I. A. A. radio programs. Good 

 results were mentioned from the 

 market reports now being broad- 

 cast by the various stations near 

 Illinois, and replies from most of 

 the counties show that many farm- 

 ers tune in on the weekly farm 

 lectures broadcast each Tuesday 

 night from station KYW, Chicago, 

 under the auspices of the .Amer- 

 ican Farm Bureau Federation. 



A number of farm communities 

 have receiving sets installed in 



Over 21 MO 

 re Radio Fans 



schoolhouses, country churches or 

 community houses for their meet- 

 ing programs. Logan county re- 

 ports four rural schools having 

 sets. In Greene county there are 

 no regular community sets as yet. 

 but private sets are frequently 

 loaned and installed for commu- 

 nity meetings. 



The counties near broadcasting 

 stations show the most sets. Mad- 

 ison county, in the vicinity of St. 

 Louis, has 2,550 sets; Rock Island 

 county, near Davenport, has 900 

 and in Henry county, also near 

 Davenport, the report shows that 

 nearly one-third of the entire pop- 

 ulation has sets. Coles county 

 has had 100 sets insUlled in the 

 last six months. 



USING WATSON IN OHIO 



John C. Watson, in charge of 

 Taxation and Statistics for the I. 

 A. A., went to Wood County, Ohio, 

 .March II and 12 to work with 

 Secretary .Murray Lincoln of the 

 Ohio State Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion in a demonstration for county 

 tax valuation work. •. • 



Stanley Castle, Alton, reports 

 that a farm bureau market has 

 been opened in Edwardsville sim- 

 ilar to the markets at Kankakee, 

 Bloomington, Freeport and other 

 cities. 





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