1924 



May 5, 1924 



The Dfinou Agricnltural Aworiarioo Recotd 



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ORGANIZING CREAM 

 COOPERATIVE WITH 

 T. B. COWS BARRED 



Li commod- j Prophetstown Farm Leaders To Get 

 « normally { jqq sjgngrs On I. A. A. Plan; 

 Lynch Shaping By-laws 



Talks 



known 



Cream producers living near 

 Prophetstown are planning to 

 form what will be known 

 the "Prophetstown Cooperative 

 Creamery Association" and de- 

 cided, at their meeting ftt Pro- 

 phetstown April 25 and 26, to 

 get a minimum of 100 signers for 

 their association agreement by 

 Aug. 1 before flna; action is 

 taken. 



An organization committee was 

 appointed which consists of the 

 following: M. F. Bane, chair- 

 man; J. B. Moser, secretary- 

 treasurer; F. M. La Due, W. H. 

 Lament, H. B. Lyon, and Henry 

 Stewart, all in Prophetstown 

 township. Farmers will be so- 

 licited from Whiteside, Henry 

 and Bureau counties. Plans were 

 laid for handling eggs and poul- 

 try in connection with the cream 

 cooperative. 



AUow T.B. — ^Free CatUe Only 

 Requirements tor membership 

 In the association state that only 

 men with tuberculosis-tree cows 

 can join. According to A. D, 

 Lynch, director of dairy market- 

 ing for the I. A. A., who is draw- 

 ing up their association agree- 

 ment and by-laws, this is the 

 first organization in the state to 

 set up this requirement for mem- 

 bership. 



According to Farm Adviser 

 "Dad" Wise of Whiteside county, 

 Prophetstown township has more 

 farm bureau members than any 

 other one township in the state. 

 There are 176 members repre- 

 senting 90 per cent of the farm- 

 ers and landowners. 



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Quasey Trying To 

 Equalize Rates On 

 Molasses and Corn 



In an effort to secure an 

 eqaalization of freight rates be- 

 tween Cuban black strap molas- 

 ses and corn, L. J. Quasey, head 

 of the transportation department 

 of the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation, met with a joint rail- 

 road committee in Chicago last 

 week, and, with their complain- 

 ants, endeavored to show the 

 disadvantage of corn. 



The need for an equalization 

 in this instance, says Mr. Quasey, 

 is that Cuban molasses comes to 

 New Orleans, and through the 

 exceptionally low freight rates 

 on that commodity from New 

 Orleans to distilleries through- 

 out the middle west, places corn 

 at a disadvantage. Molasses and 

 corn are both being used by dis- 

 tillers for manufacturing wood 

 alcohol, a product which has a 

 thousand uses. With the present 

 freight rates, distillers can afford 

 to pay only 33 cents per bushel 

 for corn, thus cutting corn out of 

 a large market. A lower freight 

 rate on corn or an equalization 

 of rates would place com on a 

 parity with Cuban molasses. By 

 enlarging the demand for the 

 cheaper grades of corn used by 

 distillers, corn demand in gen- 

 eral will be increased. 



21st District 



Grain Marketing^ 

 Schools and Serum 



At a meeting of the Farm Bu- 

 reau directors and voting dele- 

 gates of the 21st district, at 

 Hillsboro, April 24, grain mar- 

 keting was the center of attrac- 

 tion with Farm Adviser I. A. 

 Madden of Sangamon county 

 leading the discussion. It was 

 broOght out by Mr. Madden that 

 although there has been consid 

 erable ups and downs to various 

 cooperative grain marketing or- 

 ganizations, the sentiment of 

 farmers is crystallizing, but is not 

 unified on any one plan. 



If the McNary-Haugen bill 

 passes, it was brought out, co- 

 operative grain marketing will 

 need to be approached from a 

 different angle than now because 

 the surplus will be taken off the 

 market. In case it does not pass, 

 however, it was said by Mr. 

 Madden that it would still be 

 necessary for farmers to take 

 care of their own surplus and to 

 develop a system whereby the 

 surplus may be controlled. 

 Want School Funds Investigated 

 Another point of discussion 

 was that of the relation of rural 

 districts and the distributive 

 funds for schools, led by Wm. 

 Acree of Montgomery county and 

 E. W. Rush of Macoupin county. 

 It was pointed out that in practi- 

 cally every school district, there 

 is more money sent out to dis- 

 tributive school funds by rural 

 communities than was returned. 

 Likewise, it was said, cities pay 

 less money to the distributive 

 fund, but get more bacl^ than 

 they put In. Suggestions were 

 made that the I. A. A. investigate 

 this angle in its survey of Illinois 

 schools. 



Much Serum Used 

 Progress reports on the serum 

 projects of each of the counties 

 represented, Sangamon, Christian, 

 Macoupin and Montgomery, were 

 presented showing a large amount 

 of serum bought and used by 

 counties in the 21st district. A. 

 E. Satterlee, Roundtree township, 

 Montgomery county, led a discus- 

 sion on Farm Bureau community 

 organizations saying that they 

 could be bettered by a diversi- 

 fied program which would inter- 

 est all the folks, and one with 

 plenty of "spice," he pointed out. 

 George E. Metzger, director of 

 the organization department of 

 the I. A. A., talked on "How Best 

 to Sell the Farm Bureau." George 

 A. Fox, executive secretary of 

 the I. A. A., was also present. 



McLBAVERS FROLIC AND 



FKAST 

 Two hundred and fifty live 

 farm bureau people in McLean 

 county who rent space and sell 

 farm produce in the McLean 

 County Farm Bureau building 

 at Bloomington have time for 

 social affairs as well as for 

 work. They put on a spread 

 in the hall above their mar- 

 ket place recently that would 

 make one's mouth water, then 

 helped digest the food by being 

 entertained by local talent and 

 personality rubs of the pious and 

 near-pious members. 



Rgg Buyers Favor 

 Graded Basis Idea 



Meetings of egg buyers have 

 been held at Quincy. Peoria and 

 Champaign by F. A. Gougler, in 

 charge of egg marketing for the 

 I. A. A., for the purpose of ac- 

 quainting them with, and deter- 

 mining their reaction to, the buy- 

 ing of eggs or a graded basis. 

 At each of these meetings, ac- 

 cording to Mr. Gougler, the egg 

 buyers voted unanimously to buy 

 on a f;raded basis. In each case 

 they 'iecided to begin purchasing 

 on this ba;4ib immediately. 



"The basis is of two grades," 

 eays Mi. Gougler. "The 'firsts' 

 are fresh, clean, unwashed, free 

 of cracks or checks and of uni- 

 form size weighing not less than 

 24 ounces to the dozen. 'Seconds' 

 are dirty and uneven, weighing 

 less than 24 ounces." 



At these meetings, it was voted 

 to pay a differential of not less 

 than five cents between firsts 

 and seconds. Mr. Gougler visits 

 many buyers who assemble eggs 

 and says that, generally, those 

 who have been buying on the 

 graded basis are highly pleased 

 with it. 



Lynch Helps Ogle 

 County Dairymen 

 Start Sales Co-op 



In Ogle county, a committee of 

 12 farmers is working to get 

 enongh signers for a dairy mar- 

 keting cooperative so they may 

 enjoy the higher price of seven 

 and eight cents per pound but- 

 terfat which is received by their 

 Jo Daviess neighbors wh7» have 

 a cooperative organization. The 

 Commercial Club of Polo kecame 

 interested in the difference in 

 price between the two rather 

 closely connected counties and iu 

 specially appointed committee 

 recommended cooperative mar 

 keting for Ogle county. , 



At a joint meeting of th« Com 

 mercial Club and farmers, at was 

 heartily decided, to organize a 



PLAN EXHIBIT TO 

 PORTRAY PROGRESS, 

 IDEALS OF I. A. A. 



cream selling cooperative 

 the plan suggested by 



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HOLD SCHOOL FOR LE.U>ERS 



A school of Instruction for 

 Farm Bureau community leaders 

 was held at Busbnell, April 18. 

 An all day session of round-table 

 talks on community leadership 

 resulted in considerable inter- 

 change of experience, according 

 to G. E. Metzger, director of the 

 organization department of the 

 I. A. A., who spoke on '^What a 

 Community Organization Will 

 Do." ..-.,, .. 



Stewart Likes New 

 Calf Grading Plan 



"It is extremely gratifying to 

 note the success with which the 

 Chicago Producers' is meeting in 

 its new method of handling 

 calves," says C. A. Stewart, head 

 of the livestock marketing de- 

 partment of the I. A. A. It is 

 simply the application of the 

 method which has been found 

 most efficient and economical in 

 handling cooperative shipments 

 of hogs at terminal markets — 

 that of handling hogs In as large 

 units as possible. 



"It is unfortunate," says Mr. 

 Stewart, "for the general trade 

 that the Chicago market recog- 

 nizes only two grades of calves 

 which penalizes the owner whose 

 calves are just a trifle lacking in 

 finish and quality. Under the 

 new system of the Chicago Pro- 

 ducers' the Intermediate grades 

 are recognized to the same ex- 

 tent as the better grades." 



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FARMERS TAKE 1,000 TONS 

 LLME8TONE 



One thousand tons of limestone 

 have been ordered by farmers in 

 the vicinity of Liberty, Adams 

 county, according to Farm Ad 

 viser Ray E. Miller. The ques- 

 tion which now confronts them is 

 ^Dw to get a «n)sher. 



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SCOTT AND .MORGAN TEST 



Since Scott and Morgan coun 

 ties have signed up for the area 

 tuberculosis testing, the total 

 number of counties doing testing 

 has been raised to 48, according 

 to M. H. Petersen, special repre- 

 sentative of the I. A. A. on 

 tuberculosis eradication. 



Lynch, of the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association, who was at 

 their meeting. 



The Chamber of Commerce 

 committee reported that. If the 

 farmers of Ogle county cooper- 

 ated advantageously, prices would 

 be more favorable, there would 

 b^ more money in the c«mmu- 

 nity, land values would have more 

 of a tendency to start upward 

 more legumes would be 

 because of the better 

 conditions, and, last, but 

 important of all, a brotherhood 

 of,farmers would become etistent 

 in Ogle county that would later 

 cooperate on many kinds o( farm 

 projects. i. , 



raised 

 dairying 

 most 



FEDER.ATED H.\S GOOD VE-AR 



O. E. Bradfute, president of 

 the A. F. B. F., and Gray Silver 

 Washington repi>ese](itative of the 

 A. F. B. F., weje elected to the 

 board of directors of the Feder- 

 ated Fruit and VegeUble Growers 

 at the close of its first year's 

 business at a meeting bend in 

 Chicago, April 24 and 25. Re- 

 ports showed that 33.510 car- 

 loads of fruit and vegetakles — 

 over £69 trainloads of 50 cars 

 to the train — y/^re handled by 

 the Federated last year. A. 0.< 

 Eckert of the Illinois Fruit Ex- 

 change was re-elected to the 

 board of directors. 



Mr. Buyer-Meet Mr. Seller; 

 Plan of Dairymen 's *' Mixer 



M. H. Pctencn 



Every time the sun goes down 

 on Illinois. 58 more tuberculin- 

 reacting cows bite the dust. Ap- 

 proximately 1.000 dairy cattle are 

 being tested in 

 Illinois every 

 day, of which 

 an average of 

 58 head react 

 and consequent- 

 ly meet their 

 "Waterloo." 



With 58 cows 

 returning to the 

 Creator every 

 day in Illinois, 

 it immediately becomes a p p a r- 

 ent that Illinois dairy farmers 

 must refill their dairy barns with 

 other cattle, tuberculin free, if 

 they are to keep in the milk pro- 

 duction game — and it's milk and 

 cream that has been paying the 

 Illinois farmer most consistently 

 these last two or three years, 

 according to M. H. Peterson, head 

 of the tuberculosis eradication 

 department of the I. A. A. Illi- 

 nois now has the largest tubercu- 

 losis eradication program of any 

 state in the Union so far as the 

 number of counties doing area 

 testing are concerned, Mr. 

 Peterson points out, and the 

 work Is growing each month 

 with the demand for clean cattle 

 increasing rapidly. 



Replacement » Problem 

 Now, according to Mr. Peter- 

 son, comes the problem of refill- 

 ing the bovine ranks. Fifteen 



hundred cattle are brought by 

 Illinois farmers from outside the 

 state every month, and 1,400 of 

 these come from Wisconsin alone. 

 Many, many times, the unsus- 

 pecting Illinois farmer buys Bome 

 dairy cows from outside the 

 state through a cattle agent only 

 to find that his mill producers 

 have been "plugged," that is. 

 filled so full of tuberculosis 

 germs that when a few more are 

 added in making the regulation 

 tuberculin test for importation 

 into Illinois, there is no apparent 

 reaction. "Plugging." according 

 to Mr. Peterson, is as effective 

 in the dairy cattle game as 

 printed-to-order Scotch labels are 

 to professional bootleggers. 



"And," says Mr. Peterson. "'It's 

 the agents that usually cause 

 the trouble and generally do the 

 'plugging.' The farmers of Wis- 

 consin are 

 just as hon- 

 est as those 

 o f Illihois. 

 What we 

 need is clos- 

 e r contact 

 between the 

 sellers of 

 Wise o n s 1 n 

 and the buy- 

 ers of nil- .»- D- »*«* 

 nols. When a farmer buys 

 his own cattle himself, he very 

 seldom gets stung. Let the 

 farmers of ininois know more 

 (CoBtinaed oa pafe S) 



Twenty Six Counties to Cooperate 



and Put on Exhibit Worthy 



of Farm Bureaus 



Letters have been sent by Sec- 

 retary Fox to all farm advisei-s 

 in Illinois asking for their con- 

 sideration of the proposition that 

 the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion put on a worth-while, perma- 

 nent e.vhibit of some extent to 

 be shown at the Illinois Products 

 Exposition. Chicago; the Illinois 

 State fair; the Kankakee Dis- 

 trict fair and the International 

 Live Stock Exposition. 



It is planned to present a pano- 

 rama of the ideals personified by 

 the farm bureau. The exhibit is 

 to be 40 feet long. 10 deep and 

 8 high. A painting 40 feet long 

 and five feet wide would form 

 the background, according to the 

 plans to date, upon which would 

 be portrayed a road leadiOK 

 through a farm bureau commu- 

 nity and indicating the progress 

 made in that community over a 

 period ^ of years. On a hori- 

 zontal space, probably five or si\ 

 feet deep, in front of tb*^ paint- 

 ing, would be reproduced in min- 

 iature such thjngs as a cooper- 

 ative creamery, elevators, farm 

 life and a genial portrayal of 

 what the farm bureau brings to 

 a community. Then, according 

 to the plan under consideration, 

 there will be an endless belt 

 moving, in front of the hori- 

 zontal space, so arranged that 26 

 county farm bureaus can have a 

 graphic, moving exhibit of their 

 own to display to thousands 

 their most important accomplish- 

 ments. 



ThonsMHls Would See It 

 The exhibit would be a show 

 window for the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association.- according to its 

 present scope, and would be seen 

 by thousands of people. The 

 plan, if put across, would mean 

 an exhibit that when once seen, 

 would be rememt>ered. 



The ratification of the plan 

 and the furnishing of part of the 

 money for its execution will be 

 taken up at the next executUe 

 committee meeting, according to 

 George A. Fox. The 26 county 

 farm bureaus which would have 

 a part in the exhibit are being 

 asked to pay tlOO each toward 

 the cost of making, transport- 

 ing and caretaklng oi Uie ex- 

 hibit. I .- . 



Franklin County 

 Favors Bill; Plan 

 Mutual Insurance 



The Franklin Coutty Farm 

 Bureau, through its executive 

 committee, went on record as 

 being strongly in favor of the 

 McNary-Haugen bill and notified 

 their Congressman of the act|on 

 takeln. They also took action 

 aga^st the proposed increase' in 

 parcel post rates. The commit- 

 teeman present were: H. H. 

 Webb* Matt House. E. J. Davis. 



C. J. Ketteman. J. R. Kelly and 



D. M. Parkhill. The Farm Bu- 

 reau members present were: J. 

 S. Webb. J. A. Freeman. Ed 

 Karnes, G. W. Ketteman and W. 

 W. Gunter. Insurance to the 

 extent of tS5,000 has been 

 vouched for by 2S Farm Bureau 

 members who are starting a 

 Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance 

 Company in Franklin county. B. 

 A. De Werff Is Farm Adviser. 



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The "long distance" record for 

 requests was establiehed last 

 week wben a banker from 

 Tampa, Florida, wrote tor the 

 "Record." 



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