

Volnme 2 



Issued Every Other Saturday, July 5, 1924 



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DEMOCRATS PLEDGE 

 PLANK DEMANDED BY 

 ORGANIZED FARMERS 





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Bradfute and Silver Represent 

 A.F.B.F. at Big Convention; 



Cowles' ' Presence 

 ^ • . Requested 



Tlie Democrats pledged tliem- 

 selves to adopt an international 

 policy of cooperation to re-estab- 

 lish the farmers' export market: 

 to adjust the tariff so that the 

 farmer can buy again in a com- 

 petitive manufacturers market; 

 to readjust and lower rail and 

 water rates to make the farmers' 

 market national and international 

 instead of regional and local; to 

 bring about the early completion 

 of Internal waterway systems for 

 transportation and to develop our 

 water-power for cheaper fertil 

 izer for use on our farms; and to 

 estAbllsh an exfrart marketing 

 corporation or commission in or- 

 der that the exportable surplus 

 may not establish the price of 

 the whole crop last week at their 

 New York convention. 



Adopts A. F. B. F. Planlc 



O. E. Bradfute and Gray Sil- 

 ver,- the American Farm Bureau 

 Federation president and the 

 ■Washington , representative, were 

 delegated by the A. F. B. F. ex- 

 ecutive committee to present the 

 demands of organized agricul- 

 turalists to the Democrats. The 

 plank submitted by these repre- 

 sentatives was adopted almost 

 verbatim according to R. A. 

 Cowles, treasurer of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association and its 

 special representative at Wash- 

 ington during the recent McNary- 

 Haugen bill battle who was re- 

 quested to attend the convention 

 by Democrat friends of agricul- 

 ture and who helped while there 

 to draw up the organized agri- 

 cultural plank which was adopted- 



The full text of the Democratic 

 agricultural plank appears on 

 page 2. 



1200 Attend Elmira 

 Farm Bureau Picnic 



The farm bureau in Elmira 

 township. Stark county, held its 

 annual community picnic June 

 20 at Eoselawn Farm, the home 

 of O. L. Hatch, pioneer in farm 

 bureau work in Illinois. Twelve 

 hundred farmers and business 

 men and their families from Ke- 

 wanee and surrounding territory 

 turned out for the picnic. This 

 was a record crowd for the El- 

 mira farm bureau picnic. Last 

 year between five and six hundred 

 attended. 



During the late afternoon and 

 early evening volley ball, horse 

 shoe games and general farm gos- 

 sip were the most popular sports. 

 Interest in the horse shoe con- 

 tests in preparation for the state 

 tournament at the I. A. A. pic- 

 nic in Lincoln, August 26, was 

 running high among farmers 

 from Stark, Henry and Bureau 

 counties. 



A basket supper under the big 

 trees of tlie Hatch lawn followed 

 the athletic contests. Talks, mu- 

 sic and readings of particular in- 

 terest to the farm bureau mem- 

 bers and a five reel comedy mo- 

 vie put on by Stajk county Farm 

 Adviser, E. E. Brown, completed 

 the program. 



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LA.A. WiU Award 

 Trophy to Winner 

 Of Loading Contest 



The transportation department 

 of the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation in cooperation with the 

 National Livestock Producers As- 

 sociation has instituted a safety 

 loading contest between farmers' 

 shipping associations which ship 

 to the terminal agencies of the 

 Producers. The I. A. A. will 

 offer a trophy to the shipping 

 association which sustains the 

 least loss on the basis of volume 

 of business to any of the Produc- 

 ers commission companies. The 

 Producers association is conduct- 

 ing a similar contest between its 

 patrons. 



-The purpose of the contests, 

 according to L. J. Quasey, direc- 

 tor of the I. A. A. transportation 

 department, is to stimulate care- 

 ful loading and handling of live- 

 stock, especially during hot 

 weather. The railroads of Illi- 

 nois will be asked to cooperate 

 toward better handling of live- 

 stock enroute to market. 



The contest being started by 

 the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion will be confined to shipping 

 associMtions -within the s.ate "of 

 Illinois. The producers' contest, 

 and a trophy which they will 

 award, will be entirely separate 

 from the I. A. A. fontest, but 

 will be governed by ^milar regu- 

 lations. 



Following are the terms and 

 conditions under which the as- 

 sociations will operate in the I. 

 A. A. contest: 



1. The contest will cover only 

 shipments to the Producers be- 

 tween July 1 and December 31, 

 1924. 



2. A minimum of 20 cars for 

 the six months period will be re- 

 quired to qualify a shipping as- 

 sociation for the contest. (This 

 means a total of 20 cars to any 

 one or more of the Producers 

 commission companies.) 



3. Shipping associations will 

 not be required to keep any rec- 

 ords in connection with the con- 

 test. Such records as are neces- 

 sary will be kept by the terminal 

 agencies of the Producers com- 

 mission companies and the de- 

 partment of transportation of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association. 



4. The rating will be on the 

 basis of percentage of loss or 

 damage, of the net value of the 

 shipment. 



5. The progress of the contest 

 will be announced from time to 

 time through the I. A. A. Rec- 

 ord and other publications. 



The Kansas Cooperative Wheat 

 (irowers pool has just completed 

 its second year of business with 

 highly satisfactory results. Farm- 

 ers who pooled their wheat with 

 the association report gains of 

 from 9 to 17 cents per bushel 

 over the price they would have 

 received by selling individually. 



Announcement coming from 

 Berlin indicates that a German 

 scientist has discovered the hoof 

 and mouth bacillus. Confirma- 

 tory tests have not been made 

 but various authorities are en- 

 thusiastic about the discovery. 



The chinch bug is making a 

 serious assault upon the winter 

 wheat crop in southeastern Iowa. 



THOMPSON SENSES 

 GOOD AND BAD IN 

 GRAIN MERGE PLAN 



I.A.A. President on Cointnittee 



To, Consider $25,000,000 



SdJe to Fanners; Wants 



Farmers to Control 



Farmers' Union 

 Organizer Claims 

 I.A.A. Indorsed It 



The report got out in Danville 

 and that vicinity that the Ver- 

 milion County Farm Bureau and 

 the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion had endorsed the Farmers' 

 National Union of .\merica. The 

 feourcd of the rumor w^as in a 

 statement by a Mr. R. P. Adler, 

 a representative of the Farmers' 

 Union, which was recorded in a 

 newspaper story published June 

 15 in Danville concerning a 

 Farmers' Union meeting to be 

 held in Danville. 



In the article Mr. Adler was 

 recorded as saying that "the 

 new organization (meaning the 

 Farmers* Union) in no way con- 

 flicts or competes with other 

 farmers' organizations such as 

 the Farm Bureau or the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association. It has 

 the indorsement of both these 

 organizations." 



The Illinois Agricifltural As- 

 sociation has never in'dorsed the 

 Farmers' Union. Following is a 

 statement sent to the newspapers 

 by the Vermilion Cointy Farm 

 Bureau and R. A. Cowles,, I. A. 

 A. treasurer, who happened to 

 be in Vermilion county at the 

 time: 



"On account of confusion in 

 the minds of many farmers in 

 regard to the new organization 

 which held a meeting in Danville, 

 June 21, under the name of the 

 Farmers* National Union of 

 America and due to the state- 

 ments which appeared in some 

 newspapers of the county which 

 have led some of our members to 

 believe that the Farm Bureau and 

 the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion had indorsed this new or- 

 ganization, we feel it necessary 



Milk Producers at 

 Sandwich Organize 

 Selling Association 



Seventy-flve milk producers at 

 Sandwich. DeKalb county, met 

 June 25 with A. D. Lynch, dairy- 

 marketing specialist of the I. A. 

 A., to discuss milk marketing 

 questions. A contract was drawn 

 up whereby the producer may sell 

 his milk at a price previously 

 agreed to by the buyer. The 

 price of 92 score butler and the 

 cash corn market enters into the 

 price which is to be named for 

 milk in advance. 



Heretofore the producers have 

 never had a stabilized market and 

 have never been able to make 

 any definite calculations on what 

 to expect for tJieir milk. They 

 have organized with the hope of 

 avoiding this difliculty hereafter. 



The organization haa recently 

 applied for a charter and perma- 

 nent officers will be etlected soon. 

 A milk marketing sales commit- 

 tee was appointed at the meeting 

 in Sandwich to act for the organ- 

 ization. T. H. Roberts, farm ad- 

 viser of DeKalb County Farm Bu- 

 reau, is ex officio member of this 

 standing committee. 



at thi£ time to issue ' the follow- 

 ing statement: 



"The new organization does 

 not have the indorsement of the 

 Vermilion County Farm Bureau 

 or the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation nor has it asked for in- 

 dorsement to our knowledge. It 

 is a separate and distinct organ- 

 ization and its plans, purposes 

 and leadership have not been dis- 

 cussed, by them with us." 



Farmers who follow the news 

 of the realm know that in the 

 last few years, particularly the 

 last few months, wherever coop- 

 eratively minded men happened 

 to gather, grain marketing with 

 its thousand and one angles 

 whitli convert int( a half dozen 

 fundamentals, has taken the 

 front of thf stage and held its 

 audience in hope, tears, laughter 

 and chagrin at various intervals. 



At several 1. A. A. district 

 meetings held so far this year, 

 grata marketing, its sore thumb 

 failures in the past, its apparent 

 possibilities in the present, and 

 its necessity in the future, has 

 been brought to the attention 

 of officials of the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association. 



I>ur|«<i^ Sale 



Now comes a proposal from 

 font of the. largest old line ooni- 

 mission* companies in Chicago to 

 place their entire organizations, 

 representing about 70 per cent 

 of the terminal facilities for 

 handling grain in the United 

 States, under the control of farm' 

 ers for a consideration of approx- 

 imately $25,000,000. The pro: 

 posal was presented fo the Amer* 

 ican Farm Burea>i Federation at 

 its N-gular quarterly meeting the 

 middle of June and is to be pre- 

 sented to all other agricultural 

 organizations interested. 



The American Farm Bureau 

 Federation executive committee, of 

 which President Sam H. Thomp- 

 son is a member, authorized O. 

 E. Bradfute, president of the 

 American Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion, to appoint a committee with 

 himself as chairman, to investi- 

 gate and consider from every 

 angle the grain marketing pro- 

 posal laid before them by repre- 

 sentatives of the Armour Grain 

 Company, the Rosenbaum Grain 

 Company, Rosenbaum Bros, and 

 J. C. Shaffer and Company. 



The members of the committee 

 appointed are: O. E. Bradfute. 

 chairman: Sam H. Thompson, 

 president of the 1. A. A.; J. F. 

 Reed, president of the Minnesota 

 Farm Bureau Federation; Mur- 

 ray D. Lincoln, secretary of the 

 Ohio Farm Bureau Federation, 

 and Frank D. Evans, attorney for 

 the Utah Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion. 



rian Consiilered B«»(ore 



"The plan has been- under con- 

 sideration for some time, " said 

 Mr. Thompson previous to the 

 first meeting of the special coni-^ 

 mlttee at Chicago, "in fact, a" 

 similar proposition was up a year 

 and a half ago. The compaBles 

 which have presented this plan 

 represent about 70 per cent of 

 the terminal grain marketing fa- 

 cilities in the United States. 



■We have given the representa- 

 tives of these grain companies a 

 hearing. The .\merican Farm 

 Bureau Federation was given first 

 consideration by the grain men 

 because they realize<l that their 

 plan would not carry through 

 without the approval of the A. F. 



(Cuatiliued on pagr i) 



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