•g 21, 1924 



I AND 

 FARMS 

 5S TAXES 



K Book Figures 

 IS Due To 

 Effort 



Cumberland 

 total of $26,- 

 nd taxeB than 

 1 had the farm 

 reduction in 

 ording to flg- 

 itson, director 

 tistics for the 

 in average of 

 ke 1982 farms 



of Richland 

 .09 less 1W3 

 ge saving of 

 le 1930 farms 

 .use the farm 

 ts and figures 

 ssessed valua- 

 should be re- 

 B too high in 

 valuations of 



ich of these 

 en from the 

 d the calcula- 

 ^atson's office. 



land 



unty the total 

 ed valuations 

 I to 1923 was 

 per cent. The 

 due solely to 

 ons was |66,- 

 sd to the re- 

 due solely to 

 i, makes a to- 

 This was olf- 

 in tax rates 

 70.12, leaving 

 ise levied on 



I totalling 

 : in 1923 over 

 rposes which, 

 iUmed, would 

 lere had been 

 ations, makes 

 I, or the total 

 I diie to farm 



crease 



>n in the as- 

 lands in Rich- 

 922 to 1923 

 18 per cent, 

 axes due sole- 

 aluations was 

 ler reduction, 

 eases in tax 



making a to- 

 th reasons of 

 fas offset by 



to increases 

 ting to $18,- 

 et actual de- 

 d on land of 



case of Cum- 

 ncreases in 

 certain pur- 

 ) 1923 and 

 be assumed, 

 de Ifad there 

 a valuations, 

 king a total 

 vied as com- 

 ild bave been 

 lion in valua- 



MEETINGS 



of April 1, 

 p marketing 

 }. Leeper of 

 xchange, ad- 

 re fruit tnar- 

 alhoun coun- 

 rtion of the 



"III •vNtfi::ton 





Vohnne 2 



May 5, 1924 



Number 9 



AUDITING SERVICE 

 PLANS COMPLETED; 

 TO START JULY 1 



Formation Now Up To Locals; 



Service To Be Given By Separate 



Organization— the "I. A. C.A." 



Final arrangements for the new 

 auditing and accounting service 

 which has been in the formation 

 for the past month at the I. A. A. 

 offices have 

 been completed 

 to the extent 

 that the whole 

 proposition will 

 now be laid be- 

 fore some 

 group of farm- 

 er-owned coop- 

 erativeis that 

 they may know 

 all. the details 

 and scope of 

 Vernon Vanlmao { jj g organiza- 

 tion and have a part in the actual 

 formation. Contrary to the previ- 

 ous announcements, the service 

 will not be ronducted as a depart- 

 ment in the I. A. A., but will be a 

 separate organization under the 

 name of the "Illinois Agricultural 

 Cooperatives Association" with 

 the office of George Wicker, the 

 newly hired accounting expert of 

 the Minnesota state department 

 of agriculture, who will be gen- 

 eral manager, occupying a part of 

 the general I. A. A. office at Chi- 

 cago. 



Mr. Wicker announces that the 

 auditing service will be available 

 July 1. He will be on full time 

 at the I. A. A. office about June 

 IS. 



Mr. Vaninian to Assist 

 Vernon Vaniman of Virden, will 

 conduct the work in the field, 

 meeting with local cooperatives 

 and explaining the service to 

 them. Mr. Vaniman has obtained 

 a leave of absence from the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, where he has 

 been assistant state leader in agri- 

 cultural extension work. He has 

 been secretary of the Virden 

 Grain company since 1909, a 

 farmer-owned elevator with a 

 surplus of $36,000 and paying 10 

 percent dividends, and vice-presi- 

 dent of the Virden Mutual Aid 

 Association, a fire and lightning 

 insurance company. He is How 

 actively engaged in his work in 

 the I. A. A. office at Chicago. 



I. A. A. to "Mother" the 

 "I. A. C. A." 



The Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation will "mother" the new as- 

 sociation much the same as it has 

 other organizations which have 

 been established by it. The new 

 association will hold its members 

 on a contract basis and is designed 

 to include all cooperative business 

 organizations. The purpose is to 

 provide facilities for audits and 

 accounting, business advisory ser- 

 vice and statistical data. Districts 

 are to be organized with an au- 

 ditor in each district so traveling 

 expenses will be minimized. Sep- 

 arate groups of cooperatives, like 

 the dairy group, the live stock 

 group or the elevator group, will 



(CoDtinued on page 8} 



Four-Day Cream 



Buying in Egypt 



A. D. Lynch, director of dairy 

 marketing for the I. A. A., was 

 instrumental toward getting the 

 new four-day cream purchasing 

 plan into effect for farmers liv- 

 ing south of the Baltimore and 

 Ohio railroad which cuts across 

 the counties of St. Clair, Clinton, 

 Marion, Clay, Richland and Law- 

 rence. Cream sold every four 

 days in this section of Illinois 

 will receive a premium from the 

 buyers. 



Southern Illinois 

 Cotton Producers 

 Plan Pooling Crop 



Cotton producers of southern 

 Illinois are planning to sell their 

 cotton cooperatively. A commit- 

 tee, representing the cotton grow- 

 ers met at Mound City. April 22 

 and elected J. E. Lingenfelter, 

 Lawrenceville, executive commit- 

 teeman of the I. A. A., as chair- 

 man, with E. A. Bierbaum, farm 

 adviser of Pulaski county, as 

 secretary. George E. Metzger, 

 organizer for the I. A. A., me*' 

 with the committee and is help- 

 ing with the organization of the 

 cooperative. 



It is estimated that southern 

 Illinois will produce around 

 20,000 bales of cotton this year, 

 an amount too small to pool 

 effectively. However, invitations 

 had been received from both the 

 Missouri and Tennessee state cot- 

 ton cooperative associations to 

 pool the Illinois cotton with 

 theirs. No final action was taken, 

 but during the next month the 

 committe will investigate cotton 

 organizations, and will be ready 

 to make a final report some time 

 in May. 



Kane County Milk 

 Plan Meets Favor 

 In District 10-11 



Milk marketing was the center 

 of discussion at the 10th and 

 11th district meeting at Geneva, 

 April 15. It was expressed by 

 the meeting that the subject of 

 milk marketing is their most im- 

 portant problem, and that it was 

 that the Farm Bureaus of the 

 district take definite steps toward 

 perfecting a more acceptable and 

 unified plan of milk marketing 

 than at present exists in that 

 territory. 



The plan for marketing dairy 

 products which was drawn up by 

 E. B. Heaton, under the direction 

 of the I. A. A., and presented to 

 the Kane county men, was 

 brought before the district meet- 

 ing by Kane county representa- 

 tives and approved. A resolu- 

 tion was passed asking that the 

 I. A. A. help with the problem 

 of organizing the dairy farmers 

 of the district. The plan is ti be 

 known, tentatively, as the "Dairy- 

 man's Exchange of Northern Illi- 

 nois." 



Organization under it calls for 

 local, community organization, 

 then expansion into county and 

 district. 



BANKERS AND BUSINESS MEN 

 ^ : FAVOR McNARY-HAUGEN BILL " I 

 AFTER HEARING FARMER'S SIDE 



Rousing meetings^ have been 

 held for the purpose of getting 

 bankers and business men to see 

 the "light" on the McNary-Hau- 

 gen bill during 

 the last 1 

 days at Rock 

 Island, Spring- 

 field, Danville 

 and Blooming- 

 ton. That they 

 have seen the 

 "light" is evi- 

 denced by the 

 fact that at each 

 one of the 

 meetings, reso- 

 Ponk w. Mvphr lutions were 

 passed at the close unqualifiedly 

 favoring the bill and asking Con- 

 gressmen of Illinois, Indiana, and 

 Iowa, as well as the President of 

 the United States, to work hard 

 for the passage of the measure. 

 Discussions and frank objec- 

 tions were voiced in many in- 

 stances from the floor, but, after 

 the details and principle of the 

 bill had been explained and the 

 questions answered by Frank W. 

 Murphy, farmer and lawyer of 

 Wheaton, Minn., who was the 

 principal speaker at all the meet- 

 ings, the resolutions were passed 

 unanimously. George N. Peek, 

 president of the Moline Plow 

 fcompany, spoke at the Danville 

 meeting as did R. A. Cowles. 

 treasurer of the I. A. A. and who 

 has been actively in charge of 

 the arrangements for the series 

 of meetings upon behalf of the 

 I. A. A. 



Mr. Cowles broadcasted on the 

 McNary-Haugen bill from WOC, 



the Davenport radio station. 

 Many thousands of radio fane 

 all over the United States he»rd 

 "Bob's" voice extol important facts 

 concerning the bill on that occa- 

 sion. Over 600 farmers, bankers 

 and business men wek°e present 

 at the Rock Island meeting. "00 

 at Danville, 300 at Springfield 

 and over 1,000 at Blbomington. 

 Enthusiasm was exiceptionally 

 strong at Bloomington. Every 

 banker in Logan county was 

 present and other people w^erf 

 there from over 50 miles aroucd. 

 A resolution asking Congressmen 

 to support the mea«ure| went over 

 with a bang at BIbomington. 

 S. H. Thompson, president of th« 

 I. A. A., spoke 

 effectively a t 

 all the meet- 

 ings. "We are 

 not establish- 

 ing a prece- 

 dent," said Mr. 

 Thompson o n 

 several o c c a- 

 sions, "we are 

 folio wing a 

 precedent. La- "• A. c»wIm 

 bor and Industry are especially 

 benefitted at the expease of the 

 farmer." 



In opening his addrets at Rock 

 Island, Mr. Murphy said that be 

 farmed, through tenatts, about 

 4,000 acres of land in western 

 Minnesota, but was forced to 

 practice law to help pay the an- 

 nual deficit which resulted from 

 the operation of his farms. Charg- 

 ing that America- is becoming in- 

 dustrialized at the expense of the 



'Cuncluded on i>ase 8) 



LA.A. WINS FIRST 

 SKIRMISH IN FIGHT 

 FOR TAX EQUALITY 



Legislative Committee Nails Planks 



in Both State Party 



Platforms 



Members of the legislative 

 committee of the Illinois Asri- 

 cultural Association measured, 

 cut. fit and nailed the revenue 

 ptank for which the I. A. A. 

 stands into both the Republican 

 and Democratic platforms when 

 the state conventions of those 

 parties were held at Springfield 

 April IS, for the purpose of adopt- 

 ing state platforms. .\. C. Evering- 

 ham. Hutsonville: Frank Barton, 

 Cornell, and H. E. Goembel. Hoop- 

 pole, are the menioers of the 

 legislative committed and were 

 assisted materially by President 

 S. H. Thompson. Both parties 

 gave the I. A. A. legislative com- 

 mittee hearty hearings, accord- 

 ing to Mr. Everingham. 



The I. A. A. principles on the 

 matter of equalization between 

 farm values and intangible prop- 

 erties were presented before 

 both parties. The Republican 

 platform recognized the unfair 

 condition which exists with refer- 

 ence to real estate and other 

 tangible property and favored 

 such action as would equitably 

 distribute Xhe tax burden. 



The Democratic platform spe- 

 cifically recommended an amend- 

 ment to the revenue section of the 

 constitution for the purpose of 

 providing facilities for taxing In- 

 tangible property that is now 

 escaping taxation. • 



Adoption of the I. A. A. principles 

 in both party platforms is counted 

 as a valuable victorj- for the as- 

 sociation since it paves the way 

 for the fight for equalization 

 which has been given a strong 

 impetus by the work of John C. 

 Watson, head of the taxation de- 

 partment of the I. A. A. 



EXAMINES PHOSPHATE BEDS 



J. R. Bent, in charge of the 

 phosphate-limestone department 

 of the I. A. A., has been investi- 

 gating possible sources of phos- 

 phate and endeavoring to ar- 

 range sati8factor>- contracts jTor 

 County Farm Bureaus with com- 

 panies iU' Tennessee and Florida. 

 He reports that all persons who 

 want tests made on fertilizer/ 

 bought in Tennessee, can have 

 tests made by the branch in 

 Tennessee. Testing will insure 

 quality, he says. 



/ 



KEPORTER8 GET STEWART 

 WRO.\(i 



C. A. Stewart, head of the live- 

 stock marketing department of 

 the I. A. A., met with the Cham- 

 ber of Commerce at Springfield 

 not long ago and told them of 

 the many difficulties which would 

 be encountered if a packing plant 

 were to be established there. 

 Press reports had it that he said 

 that Springfield could easily have 

 a packing plant operating on a 

 large scale. The reports were in- 

 correct. 



