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The niinoU AgricultuwJ Assodation Record 



May 20, 1924 



1000 MORE ENDORSE 

 McNARY BILL; ASK 

 IMMEDIATE ACTION 



Everingham Speaks to Farmers, 

 Bankers, and Business Men 

 ... in Rainey District 



Information meetings on the 

 McNary-Haugen biil have been 

 held recently in Petersburg, Men- 

 ard county, and Virginia, Cass 

 County, for the 

 purpose of ac- 

 quainting farm- 

 ^^^^^ ers. bankers 

 i ^^ ^^^^B i a n d business 

 ) f^'^m^K ' men of the de 



tails of the bill. 

 At the Peters- 

 burg meeting, 

 400 men from 

 a radius of 50 

 miles unanim- 

 ously passed a 



A < . KvrrinKham resolution f a - 



roring the bill and urging the 

 repr«eentatiTes in feongress to 

 support it. Over 400 signatures 

 were affixed to the petition ask- 

 ing for the passage of the Mc- 

 Nary-Haugen bill, according to 

 G. A. Hughes, farm adviser of 

 Menard county. ' 



The meeting at Virginia was a 

 dinner given by the Virginia 

 Chamber of Commerce for the 

 Cass County Farm Bureau with 

 about 500 present. Albert H. 

 Rankin, president of the Spring- 

 field Chamber of Commerce, spoke 

 on "The Relation of the Farmer 

 to the Chamber of Commerce." 

 A. C. Everingham was the prin- 

 cipal speaker at both meetings. 

 He explained the principle of the 

 McNary-Haugen bill and answered 

 questions which were asked about 

 it Both counties are in Repre- 

 sentative Rainey's Congressional 

 district. 



I. \. \. HELPS .^ITLE 

 (iROWERS 



G. E. Metzger, head of the or- 

 ganization department of the Il- 

 linois Agricultural Association, 

 and E. B. Leeper, manager of 

 the Illinois Fruit Growers* Ex- 

 change, met with the organiza- 

 tion committee of the Calhoun 

 county apple growers at Hardin, 

 May 9, and went over possible 

 plans for organizing the Calhoun 

 county apple growers with the 

 Illinois Fruit Growers' Exchange. 

 Mr. Metzger reports a good at- 

 tendance and says that arrange- 

 ments were made to proceed with 

 informing the apple growers of 

 the county of the contemplated 

 aCRIiation, then a sign-up cam- 

 paign will probably be started 

 early in June. 



Baseball Fans 



To Read Latest 

 Dope in Recorfi 



Baseball news of the Illinois 

 Farm Bureau Baseball League 

 will be printed in the RECORD 

 in its newly formed Sport De- 

 partment, which will be instituted 

 as soon as baseball scores begin 

 to come in. Team managers and 

 others in connection with town- 

 ship or county teams should not 

 fail to mail the results of games 

 to the Information Department, 

 Illinois Agricultural Association, 

 608 South Dearborn St., Chicago. 



M»y .Select .*I1-Slale Te«in 



Many possibilities await the 

 Sports Department. For instance, 

 it may be possible to select an 

 All-State Farm Bureau baseball 

 team from the teams that com- 

 pete for the state championship 

 during the annual picnic, which 

 is to be at Lincoln, Logan coun- 

 ty, August 26. If you have a 

 team, want to have a team or 

 are planning to have a team, get 

 in touch with R.' W. Dickenson, 

 farm adviser of Cass county, who 

 is president of the Illinois Farm 

 Burean Baseball League, or G. E. 

 Metzger, secretary and treasurer 

 of the league, at the I. A. A. 

 office at Chicago. Many counties 

 have signified their attention of 

 joining up and several have al- 

 ready sent in their $10 dues. 



Kendall county already has a 

 county schedule arranged be- 

 tween eight teams. It is printed 

 in big league style in the Kendall 

 County Farm Bureau Bulletin. 



(■alena. Illinois. 

 -Mr. L. J. Quasey, 

 Trans|iortation De|»artnient, 

 Illinois .Agricultural .A.sso- 



ciation, 

 ("hicaKO, IlllnolK. . ' ' 



Dear .Sir: 



Mr. Frank Delleballa 

 asked me to thank you for 

 eettine him a new fence 

 along the C. B. & Q. rifcht 

 of way on his farm. He 

 was 15 years trying to get 

 a fence and now, he says, 

 he haJ4 a koo<I fence at la-st. 

 It also pleases the section 

 foreman to build a new 

 fence an«l not be conifielleil 

 to try and repair the old 

 one. The section foreman 

 will also put tile under- 

 crossing in projier 8ha|>e. 



If farmers would ask 

 more from the railroad com- 

 imnies in a good manner, 

 they would get results. The 

 object desired is obtained 

 to the whole satisfaction of 

 all concerned. .'Again ac- 

 cei>t our thanks for your 

 work. 



Yours truly, 

 (.Signed) H. X. RipUnger. 



Scores Two More 

 Victories; Helps 

 Limestone Users 



Two more victories for the phos- 

 phate-limestone department of the 

 I. A. A. were recorded when two 

 more •producers of agricultural 

 limestone signed the dotted line to 

 agree to the I. A. A. plan for rec- 

 ognition of County Farm Bureaus 

 in the price of agricultural lime- 

 stone. 



"The Lincoln Crushed Stone 

 Company of Joliet, " says Mr. Bent 

 in announcing the new contracts, 

 "is quoting a price of 60 cents per 

 ton to all purchasers on both their 

 regular agricultural screenings 

 and their double-fine agricultural 

 stone. On the 15th of each month 

 they wil remit to each County 

 Farm Bureau at the rate of 10 

 cents per ton for all shipments 

 made during the previous mohth 

 and on which payment has t>een 

 received. 



"The Dolese Brothers Company. 

 337 W. Madison street, Chicago, 

 with a quarry at Buffalo, Iowa, 

 has agreed to a similar commis- 

 sion of 10 cents per ton from their 

 present quoted prices on orders re- 

 ceived througii Farm Bureaus. 

 Dolese Brothers' present price is 

 good only until June 30 at which 

 time some advance may be made, 

 but It will still retain the 10 cent 

 commission. Three prominent com- 

 panies, separately located. have 

 now subscribed to the I. A. A. plan. 

 It is Itoped that more will follow." 



Cass Benefits From 



LA. A, Finance Probe 



Something like a bomb broke 

 when the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation investigated the expen- 

 ditures of tax money in Cass 

 county. John C. Watson, in 

 charge of the taxation depart- 

 ment of the I. A. A., was invited 

 to find the relative valuations on 

 city and farm property by the 

 Cass County Farm Bureau. Wide 

 inequalities were discovered 

 which the Board of Review cor- 

 rected only in part, reports Mr. 

 Watson. 



bankrupt and for most purposes 

 has no funds in the treasury 

 with which to meet its obliga- 

 tions and pay bills: 



.Affairs in Bad Sha|>e 

 " 'And whereas it has been 

 brought to the attention of this 

 board of supervisors through a 

 partial investigation of the' affairs 

 of the county and the methods 

 of conducting the business of the 

 county by the former board of 

 county commissioners that money 

 has been recklessly and illegally 



f [)e llepubli^n-g^a^ette 



DEAN SAYS, "COME 

 AND SEE US"; [.A.A. 

 ANSWERS, "WE WILL" 



Next Annual Meeting to Be At 

 Champaign; Mumford to Out- 

 line U. of I. Program 



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This U » r«produrtk>n ot part of tb« front pcnr^ of the Re<|iablU>«ui-<i«aet4e pf 

 Ylrglnttt, <'aw» coun<>-. »ft*r the 1. A. A. flnanci^ invf»tir»tion. 



T.B. Work Planned 

 In Edwards County 



Edwards county is seriously 

 considering taking up the cam- 

 paign of tuberculosis eradication 

 acording to M. H. Petersen, in 

 charge of tuberculosis eradication 

 work for the I. A. A., who has 

 attended two meetings in that 

 county. He reports that 175 peo- 

 ple were present at a meeting at 

 West Salem ajid about 550 at- 

 tended a similar discussion at Al- 

 bion. Mr. Petersen spoke at both 

 meetings,' telling of the necessity 

 of eradication work and the 

 methods used in other counties 

 to raise money. He also visited 

 Jasper, Cumberland and Effing- 

 ham counties, visiting with inter- 

 ested people there. 



A second invitation was ex- 

 tended to the I. A. A. to investi- 

 gate the expenditures of the 

 Board of Commissioners and up- 

 on this occasion considerable ir- 

 regularities were found in the 

 finances of the county. Some of 

 the Farm Bureau people in Cass 

 county had been trying to put 

 their county on the board of su- 

 pervisor system for several years. 

 The investigation led to the elec- 

 tion of a board of supervisors 

 representing the county by town- 

 ships. At its first meeting, the 

 board heard the report of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association 

 as determined by Mr. Watson. 



A report of the meeting as 

 given in the Republican-Gazette 

 of Virginia says that the board 

 of supervisors cancelled all orders 

 for supplies for the county, or- 

 dered an investigation of county 

 offices, heard a report of the sit- 

 uation by J. C. Watson, and pro- 

 ceeded to hire an auditor to go 

 over the county books. Follow- 

 ing is a part of the report as 

 given in the Virginia Republican- 

 Gazette: 



"The fact that Cass county is 

 at least $104,767 in debt and 

 that it has already borrowed 

 through anticipation warrants 

 more than the legal 75 percent 

 of the incoming taxes were two 

 of the important discoveries made 

 by the board of supervisors Tues- 

 day in a meeting that was re- 

 plete with surprises and accom- 

 plishments. The board began 

 work at 9 o'clock and except for 

 one hour and a half taken for 

 lunch, was in constant session 

 until 5 o'clock. 

 Watson Reports Irregnlarities 



"Following the report at the 

 morning session, John C. Wat- 

 son of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association, Chicago, who con- 

 ducted an analysis of county ex- 

 penditures at the request of the 

 farm bureau, and' the statement 

 by County Treasurer Farrar that 

 the county has but 74 cents in 

 the general fund, a committee 

 was appointed to consider these 

 facts during the noon hour and 

 report its recommendation imme- 

 diately after lunch. This com- 

 mittee was composed of Super- 

 visor Springle, chairman, and 

 Supervisors Schneider and Jones. 

 The report of the committee 

 reads: 'Whereas, it has come to 

 the attention of this board of 

 supervisors and to the public 

 that Cass county is practically 



expended in large sums and that 

 no statement of the financial con- 

 dition of the county can be had. 



" 'Therefore, be it resolved, 

 that this board of supervisors of 

 Cass county, Illinois, hereby au- 

 thorizes and empowers its com- 

 mittee on Judiciary and Finance 

 to take any and such actions as 

 are necessary to employ and pay 

 some reliable certified auditing 

 company to thoroughly audit the 

 books and accounts of the sev- 

 eral offices of the county running 

 back for a period of several years 

 as may seem wise in the Judg- 

 ment of the said Judiciary and 

 Finance committee and that said 

 committee be instructed to re- 

 port the findings of said audit to 

 this board at as early a date as 

 seems practicable to it:' " 



Secure I. A. A. .Auditor 



John Taylor, vice-president of 

 the Cass County Farm Bureau, 

 is chairman of the board of su- 

 pervisors and was instrumental 

 toward getting the investigation. 

 Both he and R. W. Dickensen, 

 farm adviser of Cass county, ap- 

 peared before the I. A. A. execu- 

 tive committee 'at its meeting of 

 May 6 at the Chicago office and 

 (thanked the I. A. A. for the 

 services of Mr. Watson and com- 

 mended his work highly. Mr. 

 Taylor and Mr. Dickensen secured 

 the services of the public account- 

 ing firm of Frazer and Torbet, 

 Chicago, to do the auditing. 

 Geo. E. Frazer of Frazer and 

 Torbet, is consulting accountant 

 for the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation. 



MURPHY SUPPLIES 

 FACTSfORC. OFC. 



(Continued from page 1) ' 

 ity for agriculture, or the removal 

 of the tremendous handicaps un- 

 der which the farmer operates 

 daily. 



"There is a firm determination on 

 the part of those supporting the 

 McNary-Haugen ^ill'to Insist upon 

 this legislation being enacted and 

 they will accept no substitute un- 

 less it will bring about the same 

 results. We are told that the op- 

 position wilt attempt to sidetrack 

 this bill and substitute some other 

 measure dealing with cooperative 

 marketing problems or some other 

 principle that cannot cure the ex- 

 isting difficulty of the farmer, but 

 let it be said for the men who are 

 representing the forty million peo- 

 ple back of the McNary-Haugen 

 Bill that they will not be swerved 

 from th^ir purpose and will never 

 give their consent to any sop leg- 

 islation." 



H. W. Mumford, dean of agri- 

 culture at the University of Illi- 

 nois, was present at the last meet- 

 ing of the executive committee 

 and Invited the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association to hold its next 

 annual meeting at Champaign on 

 January 14 and 15, 1925, the 

 dates previously selected by the 

 I. A. A. He stated that Cham- 

 paign is centrally located between 

 the northern and southern parts 

 of the state and that it can be 

 reached without difficulty because 

 of the hard roads leading into it. 

 Champaign and Urbana have am- 

 ple hotel facilities with which to 

 handle the attendance and there 

 is an auditorium available tor the 

 meeting which will accommodate 

 2,500 people. 



Benefit to All 



"It would be an advantage to 

 the student body," said Dean 

 Mumford in presenting his invita- 

 tion to the committee, "and espe- 

 cially to the agricultural faculty 

 to have an opportunity of seeing 

 an annual meeting of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association in action. 

 It would be especially advantage- 

 ous to all concerned to have close 

 touch between the College of 

 Agriculture, the Experiment Sta- 

 tion and the Extension Service. 

 Everything will be done to give 

 the I. A, A. a real welcome and 

 a good time as well as a profit- 

 able time." 



Motion was made by J. L. 

 Whisna,nd, Charleston, of the 

 19th district, that Dean Mum- 

 ford's invitation be accepted. It 

 was seconded by G. P. Tullock, 

 Rockford, of the 12th district. 

 The executive committeemen who 

 were bidding for the annual meet- 

 ing graciously withdrew in favor 

 of Dean Mumford's invitation and 

 the motion was passed unanim- 

 ously. 



Dean to Outline U. ot I, Program 



Dean Mumford also asked that 

 the Executive Committee hold its 

 June meeting In Champaign in 

 connection with the annual Farm- 

 ers' Week in order that the pres- 

 ent program of work being car- 

 ried on by the College of 'Agri- 

 culture, the Experiment Station 

 and the Extension Service. The 

 committee decided that it would 

 not be convenient to have the 

 June meeting at Champaign, but 

 Invited Dean Mumford to appear 

 before the committee at its June 

 meeting and outline the program 

 of work. 



KEt^ORD Coming Every 

 Two Weeks 



Beginning with the next 

 issue, the RECORD will be 

 published every two weeks 

 rather than twice a month, 

 as has been the case here- 

 to-fore. 



From now on you can ex- 

 pect to receive the latest 

 news of your association 

 every other Monday. If 

 you don't get your copy at 

 this time, let us know. The 

 RECORDS will go in the 

 mall every other Saturday 

 at Chicago and for that 

 reason will receive practi- 

 cally first class service be- 

 cause the Chicago post of- 

 fice is not Jammed with 

 mail over the week-ends. 



Your next RECORD will 

 be dated June 9 and each 

 issue should reachs you 

 every second Monday there- 

 after. 



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