)ril 5, 1924 



JETS 

 EFOR 

 GRADES 



of Pool For 



I Cents Corn- 

 its Locally 



I I cents per 

 )rice received 

 ter grades of 

 llnois pool as 



verage of 36 

 lealers, states 

 he I. A. A. 



department, 

 sand pounds 



in the pool. 



reasons why 

 ;d with pool- 

 was because 

 lower than 

 Mr. Stewart, 

 have netted 

 pound more 

 been on a ' 

 is year. No 

 tion can be 

 hce in grad- 

 but the fact 

 wool In'tfie 

 a whole of ' 

 that of the 



at must be 

 Mr. Stewart, 

 ! Returns of 



cut down ■ 

 •ansportation , 



caused by 

 I small lots. * 

 om 7 to 8 , 

 market wool 

 rhen it was ' 

 ounts, while ^ ^ 

 ed to about < 

 hen shipped ' < 



houn Co. ^ 



■etary of the 

 Cooperative ■ 

 !ured to ad- 

 ult growers' 

 ;ounty, April • 

 spices of the . 

 s Exchange, 

 argest apple 

 llinois. may ' 

 through the 



m Hit ' 



he Head ' 



ion in your • 

 lure locates ^ 



C. M. Els- 

 iversify and ' 

 n't do him »4. 



10 cents a 

 me as when 



bushel. It . ■ 

 lat if the 

 lat away it ' 

 its less than , 



a nice beef 

 • for $1.44 ' : 

 i pairs of • 

 ;aper would 

 s were do- * 



'. to be the 

 irth' it we ' 

 5 our citi- . 



CLUB 



junty boys 

 the Adams 

 IJormed by 

 •e'ttu. The 

 ition is co- 

 ■k by fur- 





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Volume 2 



April 21, 1924 



Nur^faer 8 



I.A.A. LAYS PU\NS 

 FOR BUSINESS AND 

 ACCOUNTING SERVICE 



Wicker Employed To Head Work; 

 Effective Accounting and Bus- 

 iness Control a Necessity 



The establishment of an ac- 

 connting and business service for 

 Illinois farmers' 

 cooperative as- 

 sociations is rap- 

 idly being per- 

 fected by the I. 

 A. A. George 

 Wicker, who 

 has had an ex- 

 tensive and suc- 

 cessful experi- 

 ence in develop- 

 i n g a similar 

 Georsc wicker service for Min- 

 nesota cooperative associations by 

 the Minnesota Department of 

 Agriculture, has been employed by 

 the I. A. A. to take Charge of this 

 new department. 



Mr. Wicker has been active in 

 the organization and management 

 of farmers' cooperative companies 

 in Minnesota for years. As a 

 member of the Minnesota Legis- 

 lature he wrote the General Co- 

 operative law for Minnesota and 

 also prepared and introduced 

 laws for the regulation of live 

 stock markets. As director of 

 cooperative accounting in the 

 Minnesota Department of Agri- 

 culture he has built up a, practi- 

 cal and efficient business service 

 for cooperative associations. 



George E. Frazer, Chicago, 

 who is nationally known as an 

 accounting au- 

 thority, has for 

 some time been 

 in the employ 

 of the I. A. A, 

 a 8 consulting 

 accountant. Mr. 

 Frazer will as- 

 sist the I. A. A. 

 in an advisory 

 capacity in es 

 tablishing this 

 new business <j^ e. Pr..er 

 service. 



Must Be Businesslike ■ 

 "The local cooperative asso- 

 ciation must become a ' modern 

 business institution, properly fi- 

 nanced, with effective accounting 

 service and effective business con- 

 trol," states Secretary Fox of the 

 I. A. A. "The I. A. A. has had 

 consideraljle experience with 

 farmer-ow*ed cooperative com- 

 panies and has hkd an opportun- 

 ity for wide observation as to 

 their methods of operation. 



"These obserrations have led 

 to some definite conclusions. 

 Flrtft; -eooiterallve markettig of 

 ■ ■ (Continued (» txife' O: 



McNary-Haugen Bill 

 To Be Discussed at 

 Rock Island Meeting 



Farmers, bankers and business 

 men of the Middle West will 

 meet on cofnmon ground to dis- 

 cuss the provisions, merits and 

 effects of the McNary-Haugen 

 bill in an Important meeting 

 sponsored by the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association at the gym- 

 nasium of Augustana College, 

 Rock Island, Thursday night, 

 April 24, at 7:30. 



The meeting will be addressed 

 by speakers who are thoroughly 

 informed at first hand on the 

 provisions of the bill. Its history 

 and progress to date in Congress. 



25th District Men 

 Support McNary Bill; 

 Meet at Carbondale 



The first meeting of farm bu- 

 reau men of the 25th district at 

 Carbondale, April 10, passed reso- 

 lutions urging the passage of the 

 McNary-Haugen bill and opposing 

 a raise in postal rates. A discus- 

 sion of poultry and egg marketing 

 was a feature of the meeting. 



About 35 representatives of 

 farm bureaus of the district at- 

 tended the meeting. Secretary 

 Fox of the I, A. A. was present. 

 The next meeting of the district 

 will be held at Sparta. 



Community Clubs 

 Advocated by 14th 

 District Meeting 



The:i organization of a com- 

 munity club in each township, 

 the meetings of which would be 

 conducted by home people with 

 the assistance of the county 

 farm adviser and an occasional 

 man from the state association 

 was advocated at the first dis- 

 trict meeting of the farm bu- 

 reaus in the 14th congressional 

 district, held at Rock Island, 

 March 27. 



"The farm bureau must be 

 built on the efforts i of the in- 

 dividual farmer," said Judge 

 Searle, Rock Island, in address- 

 ing the meeting. "Each com- 

 munity must study its own prob- 

 lems and develop its own lead- 

 ers. In other words, we must 

 build from the bottom up rather 

 than from the top down." 



The township unit plan of the 

 organization department of the 

 I. A. A. for reorganization of the 

 county farm bureaus was favor- 

 ably spoken of by the delegates 

 at the meeting. A resolution was 

 passed endorsing the McNary- 

 Haugen relief bill. 



Rock Island, Mercer, Warren 

 and McDonough counties were 

 repr;esented at this meeting. 



Sale Guarantees and : f': 

 Contracts Now Available 



In response to requests from 

 many northern Illinois counties, 

 the Tuberculosis Eradication de- 

 partment of the I. A. A. has per- 

 fected the uniform guarantee and 

 sale contract which is now avail- 

 able for use between members of 

 farm bureaus and county breed 

 associations in other states. The 

 guarantee and contract were ap- 

 proved at the last meeting of the 

 I. A. A. executive committee. 



The plan is made effective as 

 follows: If, for example, mem- 

 bers of any Illinois farm bureau 

 wish to buy cattle from four or 

 five breed associations in another 

 state, the farm bureau, together 

 with the I. A. A., will sign the 

 guarantee with the breed associa- 

 tions from whom its members 

 wish to buy cattle. After signing 

 the guarantee, which expresses the 

 terms and a basis of understand- 

 ing upon which individnals may 

 buy or sell cattle, the indi\'ldual 

 farm bureau member is then in a 

 position to buy any cattle he may 

 wish to from the associations with 

 which the guarantee has been 

 signed, under the terms and con- 

 ditions of the sale contracts 



"It is the hope of those who 

 have assisted in perfecting these 

 arrangements (hat through the 



use of these contracts a new spirit 

 of trust and mutual understand- 

 ing may he established in the cat- 

 tle industry," states M. H. Peter- 

 sen, in charge of tuberculosis erad- 

 ication for the I. A. A. "We hope 

 it will Eliminate many of the mis- 

 understandings and shady prac- 

 tices of the past." 



Jo Daviess Forms 

 First L,imestone 

 Crushing Ass^n 



The first limestone crushing 

 association in Jo Daviess county 

 has been formed by the county 

 farm bureau in Guilford town- 

 ship with over 20 members. The 

 association is being financed by 

 selling stock at 115.00 per share. 

 Guilford township has an abun- 

 dance of high testing limerock 

 which can easily be quarried and 

 ground, according to V. J. Ban- 

 ter, farm adviser. , 



THE 'l'KU'1'H-IN-FABRIC 



The I. A. A. has written to 

 Illinois senators and congress- 

 men ^eaffirming its poeition in 

 favor of the Truth-in-F»bfie bjjj 

 and asking their support of the 

 measure. i , ' i ; . 



COOLIDGE SUPPORT 

 OF McNARY BILL 

 ASKED BY BUREAUS 



Mid-west PresidentsandSecretariM 



Pass Resolution; Thompson 



Sends Letter 



Presidents and secretaries of 

 the mid-west state farm bureaus in 

 conference in Chicago, April 11- 

 12, passed a resolution asking 

 President Coolidge to give tis sup- 

 port to the McNary-Haugen bill. 

 The text of their resolution is as 

 follows : 



"Recogniztng the critical con- 

 dition that agriculture in the 

 United States faces, and believ- 

 ing that because agriculture is 

 not on an economic parity with 

 other industries our whole econ- 

 omic structure and national wel- 

 fare are hereby in da"?pr. the 

 presidents and secretaries of the 

 mid-west group of farm federa- 

 tions, including Michigan. Ohio, 

 Illinois, Indiana. Wisconsin. Min- 

 nesota, North Dakota, South Da- 

 kota, Nebraska, Kansas. Iowa 

 and Missouri, urgently request 

 that you support the McNary- 

 Haugen bill and do all possible 

 in assisting the same to become . 

 a law." 



On April 8, President Thomp- 

 son of the I. A. A. sent a letter to 

 the President calling attention to 

 the'latter's New York speech on 

 February 12 in which he present- 

 ed a clear picture of the existing 

 condition of agriculture. Mr. 

 Thompson, in his letter, shoved 

 how the principles of the McNary- 

 Haugen bill are the hope of agri- 

 culture and asked the President 

 to aid in the -lassage of the meas- 

 ure. 



A copy of President Thompson's 

 letter appears on Page 3 of this is- 

 sue of the Record. 



How Thej-'re Lined Up 



It is interesting to note the line- 

 up for and against the McNary- 

 Haugen bill. 



For the bill are practically all 

 the national and state farm organ- 

 izations and marketing associa- 

 tions of the country, the Amer- 

 ican Federation of Labor, many 

 bankers' associations in farming 

 states, nearly all fanh journals 

 and many dail.v newspapers in 

 farming states. 



Against it are the grain ex- 

 changes, livestock exchanges, Na- 

 tional City Bank of New York, 

 Chase National Bank of New York, 

 and the daily newspapers In grain 

 exchange, packing and financial 

 centers. The only farm bodies 

 that have come out against it are 

 the Ofclahoma Wheat Growers. 

 Kansas Wheat Growers and ivio- 

 sai^ Farmer Grain Dealeira. 



