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Volume 2 



Usued Every Other Saturday — June 7, 1924 



Number 11 



SAM THOMPSON TO 

 REPRESENT A.F.B.F. 

 WHEN G.O.P. MEETS 



I.A.A. President Selected To Guard 



Farmers' Rights at Republican 



Convention at Cleveland 



President Sam H. Thompson's 

 services are in demand again. 

 Thl« time he is to go to Cleve- 

 land to the republican national 

 convention upon the request of 

 J. F. Reed, acting president of 

 the American Farm Bureau Fed- 

 eration in the absence of Presi- 

 dent Bradfute, who is in Rome, 

 Italy, representing the United 

 States at the International Insti- 

 tute of Agriculture. President 

 Thompson will be accompanied 

 by E. B. Reid, assistant Washing- 

 ton representative of the A. F. 

 B. F. 



It will be the duty of Mr. 

 Thompson and Mr. Reid to see 

 that agriculture is not overlooked 

 in the building of the national 

 republican platform and that the 

 agricultural planks in that plat- 

 form are in harmony with the 

 wishes of the American farmer. 



President Thompson is a mem- 

 ber of the executive committee 

 of the A. F. B. F. The ability 

 shown by President Thompson in 

 handling legislative problems in 

 Illinois and his knowledge of the 

 real needs of American farmers 

 today make him a valuable repre- 

 sentative of the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation. 



Representatives to attend the 

 democratic national convention at 

 New York will be announced 

 later, according to American 

 Farm Bureau Federation officials. 



Cass County Probe 

 Goes to Grand Jury 



Cass county continues to be a 

 hot-bed of official unstability. Re- 

 ports from that county indicate 

 that the facts discovered by the 

 auditors who were engaged after 

 John C. Watson, the I. A. A. 

 taxation specialist, had classified 

 the expenditures of Cass County 

 upon request of the Cass County 

 Farm Bureau and found consid- 

 erable irregularities, have sub- 

 stantiated the findings made pub- 

 lic by Mr. Watson. 



The auditors have completed 

 their work and an attorney has 

 been secured to present the facts 

 to the grand Jury. The audit 

 has not been made public. The 

 Arm of Frazer & Torbet, Chicago, 

 performed the audit, George E. 

 Fraier of that firm is consult- 

 ing accountant for the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association. 



HARPER IS INFORMATION 

 DIRECTOR FOR PRODUCERS 



J. D. Harper, formerly director 

 of poultry and egg marketing of 

 the I. A. A., has recently been 

 appointed director of information 

 for the National Producers. He 

 has been with tke Producers since 

 leaving the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association. 



McNARY-HAUGEN BILL 

 DEFEATED 



Eastern and southern op- 

 ponents voted the bill down 

 today in House. Our central 

 and western members ex- 

 cepting those from large cit- 

 ies rallied to the bid's sup- 

 port solidly. Compromises as 

 to commodities, duration of 

 life of board, capital and 

 other details than principle 

 were offered to steering 

 committee yesterday and re- 

 jected. Motion to recommit 

 with such amendments failed 

 to carry. Friends of bill 

 did everything possible to 

 secure support. Fought up 

 to roll call. Am staying 

 over until Monday watching 

 relief measure promised by 

 steering committee presum- 

 ably satisfactory to adminis- 

 tration. National meeting of 

 farm organizations tentative- 

 ly called Jul/ 17 and 18 at 

 St. Paul. R. A. Cowles, 

 Washington. D. C. 

 June 4, 1924. 



Hire Hedgcock of 

 Peoria County For 

 Stewards Place 



Wm. E. Hedgcock, farm ad- 

 viser of Peoria county, has been 

 chosen by officials of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association to take 

 charge of the association's live 

 ^^ stock marketing 



^^HB^ department, the 



^H^ ■ former director 



^KjMJK of which, C. A. 

 ^^^^ J| Stewart, has re- 



^^^^9 cently resigned 



Jjj^^^^^^ to become e\- 

 ^^^EA ^^^k ecutive secre- 

 ^^^B ^^^^^ tary the Na- 

 H^HIr^^HIJ^B tional Livestock 

 Wm. B. H«iK<-o<k Producers* As- 

 sociation. Mr. Hedgcock has been 

 farm adviser ' of Peoria county 

 since May 1, 1916, and is a Uni- 

 versity of Illinois graduate in the 

 college of agriculture, class of 

 1909. 



He has been interested in co- 

 operative marketing of livestock 

 and other products and has had 

 considerable experience in agri- 

 cultural extension work and 

 taught agriculture in the LaSalle- 

 Peru Township High School from 

 1910 to 1912 and in the Albert 

 Lea State High School, Albiert 

 Lea, Minnesota, one of 10 high 

 schools in Minnesota which re- 

 ceived state aid at that time for 

 teaching agriculture, until he went 

 to Peoria county in 1916. Mr. 

 Hedgcock was interested in dairy 

 testing associations and dairy 

 marketing in Minnesota and was 

 secretary-treasurer of the Pioneer 

 Cow Testing Association, Free- 

 born county, Minnesota. Mr. 

 Hedgcock managed his father's 

 425 acre Illinois farm during va- 

 cations of the Plymouth High 

 School and the University of Illi- 

 nois. He has been instrumental 

 in forming livestock shipping as- 

 sociations in Peoria county and 

 also assisted with the formation 

 of the Peoria Live Stock Pro- 

 ducers' Association. He will be 

 with the I. A. A. as soon as his 

 work in Peoria county can be 

 turned over to a new farm ad- 

 viser. 



THE INVADERS ARE COMING! 



CHINCH BUGS BAD 

 THIS YEAR 

 Chinch bugs are to be ex- 

 ceptionally bad this year ac- 

 cording to reports from the 

 United States Department of 

 Agriculture and agricultural 

 colleges. Illinois loses one- 

 tenth of its crop to the 

 chinch bugs every year, the 

 bugologlsts claim. They also 

 say that the time to combat 

 the chinch bug is before he 

 gets started. **Calcium Cy- 

 anide for Chinch Bug Con- 

 trol" is the title of a bulletin 

 ready for distribution from 

 the College of Agriculture, 

 Urbana. This bulletin gives 

 different methods of using 

 the cyanide for chinch bug 

 control and gives complete 

 directions for the use of the 

 chemical. See your Farm 

 Adviser. 



Livingston County 

 Has Serum Schools 



A series of demonstrations to 

 show the methods and benefits 

 from vaccinating hogs for cholera 

 were held in Livingston county 

 under the direction of Farm Ad- 

 viser H. O. Allison May 27. 28 

 and 29. The Livingston County 

 Farm Bureau has established a 

 distributing point at Pontiac 

 where it has serum and virus at 

 70 cents per 100 cc. The schools 

 were held at 12 points over the 

 county, according to a program 

 announcement of the vaccinating 

 schools, and Dr. Schirmer, repre- 

 senting a serum company, gave 

 the demonstrations. 



The executive committee of the 

 Gallatin County Farm Bureau de- 

 cided to charge non-members 90c 

 per 100 C. C. for serum and vir- 

 us, at its regular May meeting. 



Lincoln Has Fine 

 Grounds For LA. A. 

 Picnic; Good Roads 



G. E. Metzger. organization 

 director of the I. .\. A., has l)een 

 spending some time In Lincoln. 

 IvOgan county, Qaving the way 

 for the I. A. A. state picnic which 

 is to be held on the Logan county 

 Chautauqua Association's grounds 

 one mile from Lincoln, August 

 26. According to Mr. Metzger, 

 everything in the way of con- 

 veniences^ and necessities for han- 

 dling a large crowd is available: 

 A baset>ail field and horseshoe 

 courts are available on the 

 grounds. 



There is an open-air auditorium 

 ihat will seat over 4,000 people. 



Sheds are available for auto- 

 mobiles in case a shower should 

 come up. Running water is avail- 

 able right on the grounds so 

 there should l)e no shortage of 

 lemonade. Besides that, Mr. 

 Metzger says, there is plenty of 

 trees so the prpverblal shade 

 which accompanies the lemonade 

 will be there. There is plenty 

 of space for picnic luiches with 

 elbow-room. 



Transportation facilities for 

 getting to Lincoln are exception- 

 ally good, since two paved roads 

 touch Lincoln. Speakers for the 

 picnic have not yet l)een an- 

 nounced. 



George A. Fox, executive sec- 

 retary of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association, has some 70 pure- 

 bred Holsteins on bis farm near 

 Syracuse and is an ardent "bet- 

 ter milk" fan. He is taking a 

 few days off from his I. A. A. 

 duties in June to attend the 

 national Holstein-Frieeian con- 

 vention at Richmond, Virginia. 



BROOMCORN MEN 

 FIGHT PROPAGANDA 

 TO ORGANIZE POOL 



Organization Committee Have 280 



Signed To Broomcom Pool, Need 



680; Oklahoma Broomcom 



President To Speak 



The organ izatioa of a pool (or 

 marketing broomcom In Coles 

 and Cumberland counties aiMj 

 those broomcom growing por- 

 tions of the adjacent eountiea of 

 Douglas, Edgar, Clark, Jaspar, 

 Shelby and Moultrie has l>een 

 deterred to some extent t>ecaaae 

 of propaganda and direct opposi- 

 tion by a 4ew local bankers and 

 broomcom brokers accordins to 

 a recent report by the orgaaiu- 

 tlon committee which was ap- 

 pointed at a meeting of broom- 

 corn ' growers mt Mattoon last 

 August. 



Minimum is 75 Per Oeot 



According to the committee's 

 report, the marketing acreeiueiil 

 which each grower was asked to 

 sign called for 75' per cent of the 

 growers to Join by April 1, 1924.' 

 Because of t>ad weather and poor 

 roads during the winter months. 

 this date was extended to June 

 1. The committee conducted a 

 series of meetinss attended by 

 more than 600 growers and 

 mailed a full explanation of the 

 contract and general pooling plan 

 to practically every broomcorn 

 grower in the area. 



Still Waal Pool 



"The committee." says the re- 

 port of that committee, "feels 

 that in the minds of the growers 

 there is a desire for a marketing 

 organization but at this time too 

 many broomcorn growers are de- 

 pending upon those who bare 

 signed to set up the organization 

 and carry the responsibility, srhlie 

 they, by staying on the outside 

 and using the organization as a 

 tool, obtain for themselves all the 

 advantages of the cooperative or- 

 ganization." 



imiiort Spealier 



The broomcorn |>ool has not 

 been abandoned, latest reports 

 from the committee Indicate. In- 

 stead, the president of the Okla- 

 homa broomcorn pool has l>een 

 engaged to speak soon before a 

 meeting of the growers telling 

 them of the experiences of the 

 Oklahoma growers. That there 

 is a keen desire to market co- 

 operatively in the broomcom 

 area Is certain, according to G. 

 E. Metzger, organisation director 

 of the I. A. A. who has been 

 assisting, but tbere is consider- 

 able need for more of the growers 

 to get the spirit. 



"Two hundred and eighty broom- 

 corn growers have signed the 

 association agreement, most of 

 which are farm bureau mem- 

 bers." says Mr. Metsger. "Ninety 

 per cent of those who have not 

 signed are not members of the 

 Farm Bureau. The minlmam re- 

 quirement of 75 i>er cent amounts 

 to approximately 680 growers." 



