May 20. 1924 



The Dlinou Agricultural Anodation Record 



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RAILROADS PROMISE 

 TARIFF REVISIONS 

 ON FARM LIMESTONE 



Farmers to Benefit From 7 to 40 



Cents Per Ton as Result of 



I. A. A. Complaint 



Farmers who buy limestone 

 from the quarries In the Kast St. 

 Louis district and who are located 

 in Southern Illinois will benefit 

 from a recent conference betwe^en 

 the crushed limestone producers 

 of the East St. Louis district, the 

 transportation department of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association 

 and the Illinois Commerce Com- 

 mission in Chicago. Promises 

 were made by the railroads rep- 

 resented to re-publish their 

 freight rates on crushed stone and 

 agricultural limestone during 

 May with a decrease ranging from 

 7 to 40 cents per ton. 



Quasey Represents I. \. A. 



According to L. J. Quasey, 

 head of the transportation de- 

 partment, and who represented 

 the I. A. A. at the conference, 

 the saving will mean considerable 

 to down-state farmers who pur- 

 chase limestone for their sour 

 lands. From 340,000 to 350,000 

 tons of limestone is the estimated 

 amount which will be used by Il- 

 linois farmers in 1924, according 

 to figures compiled by J. R. Bent 

 head of the I. A. A. phosphate 

 limestone department. 



The re-adJustment in rates af- 

 fects agricultural limestone 

 shipped from Columbia and Fall- 

 iDg Springs at the present time, 

 but, according to Mr. Quasey, a 

 reduction in rates on limestone 

 shipped from the quarry at Val- 

 meyer may also be expected. 

 17 Cents Per Ton Saving 



A saving of 17 cents per ton on 

 agricultural limestone has also 

 been effected by the I. A. A. de- 

 partment of transportation be- 

 tween the important limestone 

 center of Greencastle, Indiana, 

 and Oblong, Stoy, Gordons and 

 Palestine, Illinois, which will take 

 effect May 20. The new rates ap- 

 ply viaHhe Big Four railroad and 

 the Illinois Central. The former 

 rate was 11.38 per ton to Pales- 

 tine hut is now $1.21. 



"During April the Ill-Mo But- 

 ter Company, makers of the "II- 

 lini" dairy products, received 

 shipments of cream from farm- 

 ers at 163 Illinois and Missouri 

 towns," says A. D. Lynch. 



Vaniman Explains 

 Details of Auditing 

 Service for Co-ops 



The establishment of a cooper- 

 ative auditing and business ad- 

 visory service for farmers' ele- 

 vators, livestock shipping associa- 

 tions, milk producers' associations 

 and other similar farmers' organ- 

 izations is meeting with the ap- 

 proval of those who have had an 

 opportunity to consider it, accord- 

 ing to Vernon Vaniman, in charge 

 of field organization of the I. A. 

 A. accounting and auditing ser- 

 vice. 



"This is following the same 

 plan," states Mr. Vaniman, "that 

 has been used by the packers 

 through the Institute of Meat 

 Packing; by the petroleum peo- 

 ple through the Petroleum In- 

 stitute; by the bankers through 

 their Clearing House organization 

 and by several hundred trade 

 associations that might be men- 

 tioned. 



"By the farmers having their 

 own auditing, accounting and 

 business service they are apply- 

 ing the same practices that have 

 proved successful among other 

 organizations. This organization, 

 which will probably be called the 

 Illinois Agricultural Cooperatives 

 Association, will be owned, con- 

 trolled and directed by the co- 

 operatives themselves. It will 

 provide authoritative auditing, 

 comparative analysis of business, 

 protection to managers and di- 

 rectors, establish confidence and 

 loyalty of stockholders, besides 

 furnishing business advisory serv- 

 ice for Increasing the efficiency 

 of the business." 



Plan of Organization 



"Under the present plan," says 

 Mr. Vaniman, "each class of or- 

 ganizations will have one mem- 

 ber on the board of directors, and 

 each district will have one mem- 

 ber on the board. 



The cost of the service will be 

 on a pro-rated basis, based on the 

 volume of business for each class, 

 of organization. For instance, 

 farmers' elevators will have one 

 rate and livestock shipping asso- 

 ciations another rate. 



Meetings to consider the serv- 

 ice have been held in McDonough 

 and Iroquois counties and have 

 been arranged for in Sangamon. 

 Morgan, Knox, Bureau, Logan, 

 Champaign, Macon, Macoupin. 

 Christian and Montgomery coun- 

 ties. 



Collections so far this year are 

 coming in better than last year, 

 according to L. A. Evans of the 

 finance department. 



HERE'S WHAT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

 ACCOMPLISHED AT ITS 



-^ : V; : *^ MAY MEETING— 



May 6th is the date of the last meetlnR of Hie Executive 

 Committee. The folIowinK decisions were made by the Com- 

 mittee at that meeting: 



1. Accepted Invitation of Dean .Mmnford to hold next an- 

 nual meeting at Cham|>aifcn as Kuest of the University of H- 

 linoU. January 14 and 15, 1983. 



2. Invited Dean Mumford to outline worli of the CoUetje 

 of Agriculture, the Ex|>eriment Station and the Extension 

 Service at the June meeting of the I. A. A. Executive Com- 

 mittee In Chicago, June 6. 



3. Appropriated «300 to the $4,000 financial budget of 

 Whiteside County dairy Judging team which goes to Europe 

 this summer to Judge in Royal Live Stock Show in Inter- 

 national competition. 



4. Decided not to have exhibit |iortraylng progress of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association because of excessive cost. 



5. Heard R. W. Dickensen, farm atlvlser of Cass county, 

 and John H. Taylor, chairman of the finance committee of 

 the Board of Su|>erviBors, Cass county, and vice-president of 

 the Cass County Farm Bureau, tell of valuable work done in 

 starting clean-up of Cass county finances by John C. Watson, 

 head of the I. A. A. Department of Taxation. 



6. .Motion itassed that Farm Advisers should not receive 

 per diem compensation from the I. A. .\. for time s|)ent on 

 Advisory Committees. 



7. Dlscus8e<l grain marketing and gasoline tax. 



8. Passed resolution urging other state farm bureaus to 

 give active sup|>ort to .McNary-Haugen bill. 



9. .\lccepted resignation of C. A. Stewart, head of the 

 Live Stock Marketing department, and |>lanned to hire a 8ac- 

 cessor. 



Who*8 Oldest and Youngest 

 Farm Bureau .Members? 



The question came up the 

 other (Jay in the office as to 

 who is the oldest farm bu- 

 reau member. We didn't 

 get that settled before 

 someone chlmeil In with the 

 question, "Who's the young- 

 est member?" There were 

 some suggestions, but none 

 definite. So we are going 

 to find out. 



We would like to have 

 the names of the youngest 

 and oldest farm bureau 

 members. Write to H. C. 

 Butcher, Director of Infor- 

 mation, and enter your ohl- 

 est or youngest contestant. 

 We'll see "who's who," and 

 maybe "why" later. 



Wants McNary Bill; 

 Also Amendment to 

 Packer- Stockyard 



Galesburg was the »cene of the 

 regular <iuarterly meeting of the 

 15th district on April £9. of which 

 H. E. Goembel of Sooppole is 

 executive committeemtin. . Repre- 

 sentations from Adatns. Henry. 

 Fulton. Knox and Schcuyler coun 

 ties were present and passed a res- 

 olution unanimously fbvA'ing the 

 McNary-Haugen bill and it was 

 also resolved in the resolution that 

 House Resolution 71ll) and R424 

 would greatly improve tlie Pack- 

 ers and Stockyards Act and that 

 the Illinois senators and repre- 

 sentatives at Washington work to 

 secure the enactment of the Mc- 

 Nary-Haugen bill and the addi- 

 tion of the amendment to the 

 Packers and Stockyards Act. 

 I 



LA. A. Votes $300 For 

 Whiteside Judging 



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Three hundred dollars was vot- 

 ed by the executive committee to 

 go to the Whiteside County dairy 

 ludging team, which won the trip 

 to Europe when it placed flr^ at 

 the National Dairy Show at Syra- 

 cuse, New York, last fall. The 



expression was made by some of 

 the committeemen that the I. A 

 A. wtVuld be willing to vote »300 

 every year if an Illinois Farm Bu- 

 reau team could win tbe national 

 honor every year. 

 . The team, "Dad" Wise and a 



Pace 3 



Here Is the WliiteHide county dairy Judidnr team m-hk-li mUIa June 7 from 

 Montreal to represent the I'nited state* in tlie International Juditinc eonte«t at 

 ttie Royal I-ire Stoek Shoa-, E.^rland. Fro-n left t9 rieht t'le^- arp; l).7na]d 

 WUIIams, Prof. ('. s. Rhode, Elwyn Feiken, U O. Wine and HiUvM <,aulrapp. 



estimated expense of the trip wa& 

 set at 11,000 a person, with a 

 representative from Whiteside 

 county and one from the Univer- 

 sity acompanying the team. 

 «4.000 Subscribetl 

 Geo. A. Fox, executive secre- 

 tary, read a list of contributions 

 secured by "Dad" Wise, farm ad- 

 viser of Whiteside county, who 

 coached the team and who will 

 accompany it to Europe, in which 

 {3,700 was listed as subscriptions 

 from various commercial agricul- 

 tural organizations in Chicago. 

 This amount brings the total to 

 14,000, which is the goal. The 



representative *from- the Cniver- 

 sity, who will probably be C. S. 

 Rhode, dairy extension specialist, 

 as he had considerable to do with 

 the success of the team, will sail 

 from Montreal June 7 on the 

 "Doric." The team will enter the 

 international livestock judging 

 contest at the "Royal" in Eng- 

 land this summer. This contest 

 was won by a' similar team from 

 Maryland last year. 



Menil>ers of the team will give 

 a dairy judging talk over the 

 WLS, the Sears Roetmck radio 

 station, some time before they 

 depart for abroad. 



WANT McNARY BILL 

 IN 16th DISTRICT; 

 WIRE RESOLUTIONS 



Representatives Talk Limestone, 



Serum, Cooperation, Collections 



and Tuberculosis Eradication 



At a meeting of Farm Bureau 

 officers and Farm .\dvisers of the 

 16th congressional district, April 

 28, which includes the counties 

 of Tazewell. Peoria. Stark. Bu- 

 reau and Marshall-Putnam, a 

 resolution was drafted and or- 

 dered to be wired to Illinois sen- 

 ators and Congressmen at Wash- 

 ington asking that they support 

 the McNary-Haugen bill and help 

 get tt passed this session of Con- 

 gress. A. R. Wright, executive 

 director, opened the meeting and 

 presided. 



Joseph Morris, president of 

 the Tazewell County Farm Bu- 

 reau, spoke on ways and means 

 of collecting dues and was fol- 

 lowed by others in a dlscuMlon. 

 It fOs reported that collections 

 for 1924 so far are l)etter than 

 in 1923. It was indicated b> 

 those present that service on 

 limestone and serum should l>e 

 restricted to paid up members. 

 The opinion was general that 

 close cooperation and good feel- 

 ing betwen bankers and the 

 Farm Bureau is essential and 

 that the Farm Adviser* should 

 keep the banker aad newspapers 

 completely informed as to what 

 is going on in the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association. 



Farm Adviser W. E. Hedg- 

 cock df Peoria county told how 

 Peoria county assisted in getting 

 the Legislature to pass the bill 

 allowing counties to make ap- 

 propriationt to pay county in- 

 spectors in tul>erculoBis eradica- 

 tion work." Reports from Taie- 

 well county showed how the tu- 

 berculosis testing project was 

 turned down in that county.' but 

 that at the same meeting an ap- 

 propriation had been made for 

 a tuberculosis sanitarium. 



T. B, Work OisruNsed 



In the afternoon session. Dr. 

 Augsberger of the I'. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, explained 

 the tuberculosis eradication work 

 in 'detail, telling of the success 

 of Hillsdale county. Michigan, an 

 accredited tH>unty. 



Michigan Sees How 

 I. A. A. Probes Taxes 



J. C. Watson, in charge of the 

 taxation investigation work for 

 the I. A. A., complied with a re- 

 quest of the Michigan Farm Bu- 

 reau Federation recently and put 

 on a demonstration in Kalama- 

 zoo, Michigan, to show how he 

 obtains the levels of valuation of 

 different classes of properties in 

 Illinois. 



Mr. Watson says that he found 

 .Michigan in just about the same 

 condition as Illinois. The dem- 

 onstration was put on in Kala- 

 mazoo county, where he found 

 that land and small town and vil- 

 lage property was assessed at a 

 much higher level than real es- 

 state in Kalamazoo, the county 

 seat of Kalamazoo county and a 

 large city. The difference is ap- 

 proximately 30 percent he says. 



The work done iq^ Michigan by 

 Mr. Watson corresponds with re- 

 sults found in ^'jiandotte and 

 Wood counties in Ohio and with 

 the results of an investigation 

 made by G. E. Metzgeij. 



MONROE VAKi PRODl't'KRS 

 OR(iAMZI\(i 



Since the Mark Twain Egg 

 Producers Association of Hanni- 

 bal, Mo., draws considerable sup- 

 port from the poultry raisers of 

 Monroe county, Illinois, G. E. 

 Metzger, or^nizer for ^the I. A. 

 A., put on a'county-wide meeting 

 in Monroe county and assisted in 

 making arrangements for a series 

 of meetings to be addressed in 

 Monroe county by local people 

 This county will put oh its own 

 campaign to get a large volume 

 of eggs signed up with the Mark 

 Twain Association and will hire 

 its own manager about June 1, 

 according to Mr. Metzger. 



Phosphate Service 

 Extended by I. A. A. 



Phosphate users in IllinolB will 

 be interested to know of the new 

 agreement obtained by the phos- 

 phate-limestone department in 

 which the I. A. A. extends iu su- 

 pervision at its Tennessee phos- 

 phate office to all roducing com- 

 panies although withdrawing, at 

 least for the present, from the 

 iwork of actually buying and dis- 

 tributing phosphate. 



"We will continue to operate 

 the Tennessee branch olBce," says 

 J. R. Bent, director of the phos- 

 phate-limestone department, "and 

 will continue to follow up matters 

 at the production end in the In- 

 terest of the purchaser: will take 

 samples from each and every car 

 and make analysis of all shipments 

 where such service is desired -by 

 the purchaser whether he is at 

 I. A. A. member or not and 

 whether a farmer, dealer, elevator 

 company or other buyer of phoa- 

 phate. The producers reoOKnise the 

 savinK to themselves and the sales 

 advantage to them In thia plan 

 and ao have agreed to pay for thIa 

 servu-e. so there will t»e no extra 

 charKe involved so far as the pur- 

 I chaper la concerned. We will alao 

 continue to folloa' up <-omplalnts 

 on matters of service, weights 

 and quality. The producers have 

 agreed to make us arbitora In the 

 matters of complaints by purchaa- 

 era. or disputes betwsen producers 

 and themselves." 



