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The niinoU Agrictiltural Association Record 



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Apia S, 1924 



RED TOP POOLERS 

 , GET HIGHER PRICE 

 I THAN i OUTSIDERS 



Beat Dealers' Average By 1-2 Cent 



Per Pound; Expenses Greatly 



Lowered In 1923 



The net price receiTed by the 

 members of the Eprptian Seed 

 Grower.;' Exchange for the 192 3 

 red top pool was 11.6 cents per 

 pound. -\n advance of 8 cents per 

 pound was made at the time the 

 growers delivered their seed, and 

 a final return of 3.6 cents has just 

 boen made. 



The e.ichangd sold 1,168.739 

 pounds of red tpp for a total of 

 $1.54,699.10. The total e.'ipenses 

 fop cleanins; and warehousing, 

 freight, insurande, interest, sales 

 expense and operating overhead 

 w^s $18,596.12, leaving a net for 

 the growers of $136,102.96, or 

 11I.6 cents per pound. The oper- 

 ating costs for the 1923 pool 

 w^re $7,344.85 less than the- 

 sapie costs in 1923. 



Unbailed Seed Sales 



Sales of unhulled seed brought 

 the exchange $16,220.04, within 

 $2^400 of paying the total operat- 

 ing expenses of the pool. It is 

 interesting to note Ihat in the 

 past, local buyers have allowed 

 the growers nothing for unbailed 

 se«d. 



".\II red top gfowers will agree 

 th«t the 1923 poal was a success," 

 says Curt .Anderson, manager of 



A.F.B.F. Workins 

 For Regulations 

 Of Feed Yards 



As a result of a series of com- 

 plaints from livestock shippers in 

 various parts of tlie country show- 

 ing that the usual feeding charge 

 in federal controlled feed yards 

 varies from $4.50 to $6.50 a car 

 while the private yar,ds charge 

 from $20 to $30 a car, the Ameri- 

 can Farm Bureau Federation has 

 launched a campaign to obtain 

 necessary legislation for the prop- 

 er control of private feed yards. 



-According to O. W. Sandberg, 

 Director of Transportation for the 

 A. F. B. F.. neither the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture nor the car- 

 riers have control over the charges 

 at the privatq yards, and the ship- 

 pers have no recourse whatever 

 against prices charged at these 

 yards. If the shippers make a 

 protest against the charges they 

 are informed by the railroads that 

 the charges are what the private 

 feed yards assessed against the 

 shipment and as the carriers have 

 no control over the private yards 

 there is nothing further that can 

 be done and the claim is denied. 



the exchange. 



poolers have rec< Ived is probably 



at least one-half 



'The price that 



cent per pound 



higher than that|received by non- 

 members of thei pool. We find 

 that there was lot a great deal 

 of difference in ijhe two prices in 

 such localities as around Flora 

 whel'e the pool Is the strongest. 

 But take it whe^e there are few 

 or no poolers, asd we find that 

 the seed buyers Have paid consid- 

 erably less than the pool price of 

 11.6 cents. 



Paid Only! 7-8 Cents 

 "We have a reliable report from 

 Effingham count^f that the price 

 paid by a local .l^ler at Dieterich 

 averaged only 7 or 8 cents a pound 

 for last season. That indicates 

 what many of the growers in the 

 whole district might have expect- 

 ed had there been no cooperative 

 marketing organization of grow- 

 ers. 



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National Egg M^kig 

 Committee To Work 

 j Out Co-op Plans 



The I. A. A. was represented 

 by J. D. Haiper of the Poultry 

 and Egg Marketing department 

 and C. E. Bamborougb, Polo, 

 chairman of that committee, at 

 a national poultry and egg mar- 

 keting meeting called by the 

 National Council of Cooperative 

 Marketing .Associations in Chi- 

 cago, March 24. 



A resolution recommended that 

 a national advisory egg market- 

 ing committee be created to con- 

 aider and formulate plans tor or- 

 ganizing a national cooperative 

 egg marketing sales agency and 

 to consider and deal with all 

 questions relating to cooperative 

 egg marketing. The conference 

 recommended that this sales 

 ageacy shall be formed when aa 

 many as 15 state or regional co- 

 operative egg marketing associa- 

 tions are ready to become mem- 

 bers of it. I 



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Radio Makes Money 

 For Members of This 

 Shipping Association 



From $500 to $700 gain on ship- 

 ments of hogs from the Montgom- 

 ery County Live Stock Shipping 

 Association ' during the months of 

 December, January and February 

 is the result of radio market re- 

 ports received by the First Na- 

 tional Bank at Raymond, Illinois, 

 according to Lewis Lessman, 

 manager of the shipping associa- 

 tion. 



"Frequently," says Mr. Less- 

 man, "I get out from one to three 

 loads of hogs after getting the 

 market report at 9 : 40 a. m. and 

 get on a good market. For in- 

 stance, in December I had three 

 loads of hogs ready to go on a 

 certain day. The market was 

 bad— $6.60 per hundred. After 

 getting the market report at 9:40 

 I phoned and held back two cars 

 and shipped one, which brought 

 $6.60. I held the other two cars 

 for three days until I received a 

 favorable market report and then 

 shipped them. They brought 

 $7.45, a gain over the earlier 

 price of $289.00 for the two cars. 

 "The radio is hard on the trad- 

 er but fine fo^ the producer." 



Play Ball! 



Is your county farm bu- 

 reau going to play ball this 

 summer? If so, Mr. Metz- 

 ger of the I. A. A. wants 

 your application, so that 

 plans can be laid for sched- 

 uling the farm bureau league 

 games. He says that he 

 wants all applications in 

 during April, so that the first 

 games may be started in 

 May, if passible. Three 

 counties have joined the 

 league, twelve more say 

 that they are interested. 

 Ten dollars Is the member- 

 ship fee. l-et's keep the 

 bail rolljngl 



Lynch Meets With 

 McDonough D^rymen 



A. D. Lynch, director of Dairy 

 Marketing, iflet with farm bureau 

 dairymen from near Macomb, 

 McDonough county, to consider 

 their marketing problems. He 

 made a survey of the situation 

 and suggested that the most log- 

 ical thing to do would be for the 

 cream producing dairymen to 

 form a collective bargaining as- 

 sociation. 



Going To Play 

 Ball? Write To 

 Metzger of I. A. A. 



G. E. Metzger of the I. A. A. 

 has been named secretary-treas- 

 urer of the Illinois Farm Bureau 

 Baseball League and is ready to 

 receive applications for member- 

 ship from all bureaus which plan 

 to put a team in the field. Ten 

 dollars should accompany the 

 membership application. 



According to last reports, three 

 counties have formally applied 

 for admission into the league, 

 Cass, Sangamon and Logan coun- 

 ties. Carroll, Jo Daviess, Steph- 

 enson, Ogle and Morgan counties 

 say that they will have teams and 

 favorable comment has been re- 

 ceived from McLean, Tazewell, 

 Clark and Pike counties. 



I.VCOJIE TAX REFUNDS 



George E. Frazier, consulting 

 accountant for the I. A. A., is 

 going to Washington in April to 

 file the briefs of the claims for 

 refund on inpome taxes paid by 

 Illinois farmers' elevators and 

 other cooperative associations. 

 Thirty-one of these claims have 

 been filed with the I. A. A. 



WOOL POOL NETS 

 GOOD PRICE FOR 

 BETTER GRADES 



Net Average Price of Pool For 

 Higher Grades Was 41 Cents Com- 

 pared With 36 Cents Locally 



''It Won't Work With Broom 

 Corn" Says Mattoon Dealer 



Renewal Campaigns 

 In Tazewell and Clay 



The first county farm bureau re- 

 organization campaign for 1924 

 will start in Tazewell county, 

 April 9, with H. L. Hough, Grundy 

 county, a member of the I. A. A. 

 organization field force, as local 

 manager. Clay county will start 

 its membership renewal campaign 

 on May 20, with F. M. Higgins, 

 La Salle county, in charge. Each 

 of these counties will be reorgan- 

 ized under the township unit plan 

 used very successfully by the I. 

 A. A. in 1923. 



Durst Is Editor 



Of Fruit Magazine 



C. E. Durst, for three years 

 director of the I. A. A. Fruit and 

 Vegetable Marketing department, 

 has accepted a position as editor 

 of the American Fruit Grower, 

 Chicago, a leading fruit journal. 

 During the past year he has been 

 taking graduata work in the growers joined the association 



Cooperative marketing may be 

 all right • for marketing cotton 

 and tobacco, but it won't work 

 with broom corn, according to a 

 prominent broom corn buyer of 

 Mattoon, who took the floor at 

 the booster meeting of the Illi- 

 nois Broom Corn Growers' Asso- 

 ciation in that city, March 20, at- 

 tended by 80 broom corn growers 

 from the producing district of 

 Coles and surrounding counties. 



"Experience has taught me 

 that buyers are mighty poor 

 sources of cooperative marketing 

 information for the commodity in 

 which they deal," was the an- 

 swef by Walton Peteet, Secretary 

 of the National Council of Co- 

 operative Associations, to this 

 statement. 



"It's a marvelous thing that 

 dealers approve cooperative mar- 

 keting in everything but what 

 they sell! I hav,e a lot more re- 

 spect for the dealer who comes 

 right out and says he is opposed 

 to cooperative marketing because 

 it will hurt his business than for 

 one who says he is doing it to 

 protect the grower." 



Previous to that Mr. Peteet 

 had spoken on the advantages of 

 cooperative marketing. The buy- 

 er, who said that he spoke as a 

 grower-dealer-banker, then arose 

 and outlined his stand on co- 

 operative marketing. 



Sign Away Rights 

 "For 38 years," he said, "I've 

 been a buyer here, and I'm for 

 the broom corn grower. We buy- 

 ers have paid out over $75,000,- 

 000 to you farmers and have 

 served you right. There is a 

 decrea!<.tig demand for broom 

 corn, and what you growers 

 should do is to decrease your 

 production of broom corn. You'll 

 never decrease your crop under 

 the cooperative method. You're 

 only signing away your rights by 

 joining this cooperative associa- 

 tion. I'm for leaving the farmer 

 free and independent to sell his 

 broom corn as he wishes." 



The speaker Implied that if the 



cial backing from his bank. 

 "But," he -stated, "if it is Anally 

 proved to me that cooperative 

 marketing of broom corn is a 

 success, I'll be for it." 



Peteet's Reply 



"If everyone waited td see if a 

 project was a success l)efore 

 they were for it," replied Mr. 

 Peteet, "the world wouldn't move 

 ahead very far. Most of you 

 bankers were against the Federal 

 Reserve system until you saw 

 that it was a success. 



"You say that cooperative mar- 

 keting will cause increased pro- 

 duction. In saying that, you are 

 admitting that the cooperative 

 method brings higher price lev- 

 els. How in the world are the 

 growers going to bring about de- 

 creased production unless they 

 organize and get the facts about 

 broom corn marketing? 



Banlis and Farming 



"As for your implication that 

 it the growers Join the associa- 

 tion they needn't come to your 

 bank for money, don't think for 

 a minute that all the banks are 

 going to commit such a suicidal 

 act. Banks are interested In 

 farming, because they are depen- 

 dent on it. The practice in all 

 commodity marketing associa- 

 tions has been to borrow from 

 local banks as much as possible 

 before using governmental credit 

 agencies. 



"Now, Mr. Dealer, we know 

 how your system works. Certain 

 ly cooperative marketing can't 

 work any worse than your sys- 

 tem." 



Bayer Convinced Him 



At the close of the meeting 

 one of the growers said to Mr. 

 Metzger of the I. A. A.: "Well, 

 I've just signed the contract. 

 But it was that dealer and not 

 you or Mr. Peteet that persuaded 

 me to do it. When I found that 

 he was against it I was convinced 

 that the plan must be right. And 

 I've got another contract with 

 me that I'm going to have my 



An average of 41 cents per 

 pound was the net price received 

 by poolers of the better grades of 

 wool in the 1923 Illinois pool as 

 compared with an average of 36 

 cents paid iiy local dealers, states 

 C. A. Stewart of the I. A. A. 

 livestock marketing department. 

 Two hundred thousand pounds 

 of Illinois wool was in the pool. 



"One of the main reasons why 

 some were dissatisfied with pool- 

 ing results in 1923 was because 

 Illinois wool graded lower than 

 in 1922," declares Mr. Stewart. 

 "The pool would have netted 

 about two cents per pound more 

 if the grading had been on a 

 par with the previous year. No 

 satisfactory explanation can be 

 given for the difference in grad- 

 ing of the two clips but the fact 

 remains that Illinois wool in'tte 

 1923 pool was as a whole of 

 poorer quality than that of the 

 previous year." 



Another thing that must be 

 kept in mind, says Mr. Stewart, 

 is the fact that the returns of 

 many poolers were cut down 

 due to the high transportation 

 and handling costs caused by 

 shipment of wool in small lots. 

 It cost shippers from 7 to 8 

 cents per pound to market wool 

 through the pool when it was 

 shipped in small amounts, while 

 this cost was reduced to about 

 4 cents per pound when shipped 

 in carload lots. 



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Peteet Tells Co-op 

 Story In Calhoun Co. 



Walton Peteet, secretary of the 

 National Council of Cooperative 

 Associations, was secured to ad- 

 dress a series of fruit growers' 

 meetings in Calhoun county, April 

 1 and 2, under the auspices of the 

 Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange. 

 Calhoun county, the largest apple 

 growing section in Illinois, may '■* 

 organize to market through the 

 exchange. 



University of Illinois. 



I they need not expect any flnan- neighbor sign on the way home." 



Thought Cartoon Hit 

 Nail On the Head 



"I think the cartoon in your 

 February 20 issue sure locates 

 the farmer," writes C. M. Els- 

 berry, Paris. "To diversify and 

 loan him money won't do him 

 any good. We pay 10 cents a 

 loaf for bread, the same as when 

 wheat was $2.60 a bushel. It 

 has been proven that if the 

 farmer gave his wheat away it 

 would lower bread costs less than 

 1 cent a loaf. I sold a nice beef 

 hide this last winter for $1.44 

 that would make 5 pairs of 

 shoes. How much cheaper would 

 the shoes be it hides were do- 

 nated? 



"We can't continue to be the 

 'richest nation on earth' if we 

 persist in pauperizing our citi- 

 zens." 



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56 IN POtnOTRY CLUB 



Fifty-six Adams county boys 

 and girls have joined Che Adams 

 County Poultry club, formed by 

 the county farm burettu. The 

 Quincy Poultry association is co- 

 operating in the work by fur- 

 nishing hatching eggs. 



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