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The miiioM Agriculti»«l Aj»ociatioH Record 



Jqly 



5. 1924 



#IIjL<HNOIS ^m 

 €3JLTIJIKAL ASSO CIAIPn 



Published twice a month by the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association. €08 South Dearborn Street. Chicago, Illinois. 

 Kdited by Department of Information, H. C. Butcher. 

 Director. 



Kntry as second class matter Oct. 10, 1921. at the post 

 office at Chicago, niinois. under the act of March 3, 1879. 

 Acceptance for mailing at special rates of postagre pro- 

 vided for in Section 1103. Act of October 3. 191T. author- 

 iied Oct. 31. 1921. 



The individual membership fee of tt^ Illinois Arfficul- 

 tural Association is Ave dollars a year.' This fee includes 

 payment of fifty cents for subscription to th« Illinois Ag- 

 ricultural Association Record. 



OFFirERS 

 I*resi<lent, S. H. Thompson, Qnincy. 

 Vice-President, V. |). Wataon, DeKalb. 



j TreaKurer, It. .\. C<(wles, BIooininKton. 



! Secretary, Ueo. A. Fox, Sycamore. 



E.YECUrn'E CO.MJIITTEK 



By Congressional District-s 



11th Jacob Olbrich, Harvard 



12th G. F. Tutlock, Rockford 



1 3th C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



14th W. H. Moody, Port Byron 



15th H. E. Goembel, Hooppole 



16th A. R. Wright, Varna 



17th F. D. Barton, Cornell 



18th R. F. Karr, Iroquois 



19th J. L. Whisnand, Charleston 



20th Earl C. Smith, Detroit 



21»t ...Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



22nd Stanley Castle, Alton 



23rd i, E. LIngenfelter, Lawrencevliie 



24th Curt Anderson, Xenia 



26th Vernon Lessley, Sparta 



Directors of Departments 

 I. .\. .\. Office 

 General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker; 

 Oragnization, G. E. Metzger; Information, H. C. Butcher, 

 Transportation, L. J. Quasey, Statistics, J. C. Watson: 

 Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing, 

 A. B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, C. A. Stewart; 

 Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone, 

 J. R. Bent; in charge Poultry iind Egg Marketing, F. A. 

 Gougler; special representative on Tuberculosis Eradi- 

 cation, M. H. Petersen. 



Th» Democratic Pledg* to Agriculture 



During the four years of Republican government, 

 the economic condition of the American farmer haS 

 changed from comfort to bankruptcy, with all its 

 aittendant miseries. The chief causes of this are : 



(a) The Republican policy of isolation in 

 international affairs has prevented Eurdpe 

 from getting hack to its normal balance, 

 and, by leaving unsolved the economic prob- 

 lems abroad, has' driven the European cit.v 

 population from industrial activities to the 

 soil in large numbers in order to earn the mere 

 necessaries of life. This has deprived the 

 American farmer of his normal export trade. 



(b) The Republican policy of a prohibitive 

 tariff, exemplified in the Fordney-McCumber 

 law, which has forced the American farmer, 

 with his e-xport market debilitated, to buy 

 manufactured goods at sustained high domes- 

 tic levels, thereby making him the victim of 

 the profiteer. 



•(c) The Republican policy of high transpor- 

 tation rates, both rail and water, which has 

 made it impossible for the farmer to ship his 

 produce to market at even a living profit. 

 To offset these policies and their disastrous re- 

 sults and to restore the farmer again to economic 

 equality with other industrialists, we pledge our- 

 selves: 



(a) To adopt an international policy of such 

 cooperation by direct official instead of indi- 

 rect and evasive unofficial means, as will re- 

 establish the farmer's export market by re- 

 .storing the industrial balance in Europe and 

 the normal flow of international trade with 

 the .settlement of Europe's economic problems. 



(b) To adjust the tariff so that the fanner 

 and &\\ other classes can buy again in a com- 

 petitive manufacturers' market. 



(c) To readjust and lower rail and water 

 rates, whjich will make our markets, both for 

 the buyer and the seller, national and inter- 

 ■national instead of regional and local. 



(d) To bring about the early completion of 

 internal waterway systems for transportation 

 and to develop our water-power for cheaper 

 fertilizer and for use on our farms. 



. I (e) To stimulate b}- every proper govern- 

 mental activity the progress of the coopera- 

 tive marketing movement and the establish- 

 ment of an export marketing corporation or 

 commission, in order that the exportable sur- 

 plus may not establish the price of the whole 

 crop. 



(f ) To secure for the farmer credit suit- 

 able for his needs. 



(g) By the establishment of these policies 

 and others naturally supplementary thereto. 



to reduce the margin between what the pro- 

 ducer receives for his products and the con- 

 sumer has to pay for his supplies, to the end 

 that we secure an equality for agriculture. 



Agriculture and the Dentoeratie Platform 



The original draft of the Democratic agricul- 

 tural plank, which underwent some changes in the 

 Resolutions Committee, was prepared in counsel 

 with representatives of organized agriculture and 

 others who are prominent in the party and who 

 are acknowledged students of the agricultural sit- 

 uation. O. E. Bradfute. president, and Gray Sil- 

 ver, Washington representative, respectively, of, 

 the American Farm Bureau Federation, were pres- 

 ent and actively participated in the conference 

 and presented the proposed plank to the Commit- 

 tee. Also, Robert A. Cowles, treasurer of your 

 Association, was present, at the request of Mr. 

 Bernard M. Banich. 



Mr. Baruch is a ■staunch advocate of the prin- 

 ciples that were embodied in the McNary-Haugen 

 bill, recently defeated in Congress, and affirma- 

 tivel.v supported the bill. His s.\Tnpathetic and 

 thorough understanding of the agricultural situa- 

 tion in this country was generally recognized in 

 the Democratic Convention, .so that the plank re- 

 sulting, now submitted to the voters of the country, 

 may be said to be constructive and fairly definite 

 as a basis for adniini.stration and future legislation. 



Chicago Producers Cut a Melon 



The Chicago Producers will split their annual 

 melon soon, returning 30 per cent of the commis- 

 sion charges of the last year to the shippers. Fine 

 stuff. They report a 60 per cent growth in business 

 over last year. The cattle department increased 

 in activit.v 62 per cent ; hogs 70 per cent and sheep, 

 a newh- created department, increased 200 per 

 cent. Fine stuff. 



On one of the recent Illinois days the Chicago 

 Producers handled 12 per cent of the yard run — 

 biU that's not unu,sual for them. Fine stuff. The 

 Producers handled 85 cars that day and the near- 

 est old line firm handled 28. Fine stuif. There 

 are over 100 others competing. 



Illinois farmers will get 52 per cent of the melon. 

 Finer stuff. 



Orgiadxation Wine Again 



The fact that the minimum weight requirement 

 has been reduced on hogs in standard .36 foot ears 

 from 17,000 pounds to 16,500 pounds in interstate 

 traffic represents a fine victorj- for the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association. 



This decision by the Illinois Commerce Commis- 

 sion is the result of a complaint filed some time 

 ago by the transportation department and took con- 

 siderable perseverence to push it through. Sixty- 

 three railroads were ordered to comply with the 

 new ruling. 



How far would an individual farmer get if he 

 asked the Illinois Commerce Commission to order 

 6:5 railroad companies to let him ship fewer hogs 

 per car during hot weather? You know. 



When 63,000 farmers work together with the as- 

 sistance of trained specialists, results are obtained. 



We Should Get Together 



It's an ill wind that blows no one good, the old 

 sa.ving goes. And it was a strong vote that killed 

 the McNary-Haugen bill, but though it lost, there 

 may be a gain resulting from its defeat much more 

 valuable to farm organizations than we realize. 

 Agricultural organizations are about to become 

 banded together to fight for the principle involved 

 in the McNary-Haugen bill or some similar kind 

 of agricultural relief. July 11 and 12 are the dates 

 set for .a conference at St. Paul of the several or- 

 ganizations which fought for the recently defeated 

 measure. 



If nothing else comes out of the effort put forth 

 to put the McNary-Haugen bill across than to unite 

 the various farmers' organizations, the time, en- 

 ergy and money spent will not have been in vain. 



For the Fellow Who Will Not Read 



Our Farm Bureau was never in a better working 

 condition. There are more dependable men who are 

 behind the organization now than at any previoas 

 time. We showed that in getting over 2,200 signa- 

 tures in about three days' time. Over a hundred 

 loyal men left their plows and planters to act when 

 called. We hope that the farmers' plight is im- 

 proved soon or there will be many who will become 

 radical. 



It is a disgrace that a farmer has to work 16 

 hours a day to make the living he is getting. There 

 has been too much work below the ears and not 



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enough above. It is your business to see that your 

 indifferent neighbor does some reading, comes to 

 meetings and asks for service. Only a few are 

 hopeless. A farmer in Hopewell recently came in 

 lamenting about his indifferent neighbor, saying: 

 "An organization cannot do that fellow any more 

 good than it can help a fence post." It is not the 

 fellow who is like that that we have to watch. It 

 is the one who would destroy the organization in 

 order to again graft off his neighbor's helplessness. 

 There is nothing as bad as "active ignorance." — 

 Marshall-Putnam Farm Bureau. 



Extra Dividends to Cat* County 



When John C. Watson, head of the 1. A. A. de- 

 partment of taxation, investigated the Cass county 

 finances and found evidences of gross irregularities, 

 he started a log rolling which has gained momen- 

 tum with ever}' turn. Now it seems to be rolling 

 straight toward several county officials who were 

 connected with the finances. The official auditor 

 hired by the Board of Supervisors of (^ass county 

 has reported his findings to the Board. It reads 

 like a Diamond Dick novel with a dozen or so vil- 

 lains and Miss(ed) Cash, the hotly pursued heroine. 



Probably the real hero is a collective one — the 

 Cass County Fanii Bureau. It instigated the in- 

 vestigation. Mr. Watson is accustomed to doing . 

 services like that, so we can't call him a hero. Any- 

 way, Farm Bureau members in Cass count.x, .you've 

 got a few extra dividends from the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural As.sociation — and dividends have been 

 tossed out to every person in Ca.ss county, member 

 or not, excepting the villains. 



THE UARS' CONTEST 



A LITTLE PERSONAL,, BILL 



Dear Mr. Bdltoft I kave ben watrhlnjc with In- 

 terent Tonr llara'. eonlMt and aeelnic that there are 

 ao entrleii from Xefsjcer or youmelf 1 have ron- 

 oladed that prof««Miloaala are barred. 



Slaee the oflire force there han bren no llhtral mm 

 to donate a medal to the t'hnmplon I.lnr. I here- 

 with enrlone a draft for 9100 to be uned nm a further 

 first priae and alao a tlvr dollar bill for HmokeN for 

 rouraelf and the rent of the force. Farmtar han 

 been ao profltable the paat three yearn, erap pron- 

 peeta ao irfM>d aad the fatare !■ ao bright aow alare 

 t'oolldice alK-aed the MeXary-Haniren bill that ao 

 amall a matter aa the above doean't mean aaythinK 

 to the averaire farmer. At nnj rate 1*11 never mlaa 

 the above amonata becanae It'a part of the federal 

 caak Buldler boaaa we received laat year. 



Yon fellewB la the I. A. A. oSlee mlirht Juat aa 

 well take it eaay for a while atnce the t'hicaico 

 Board of Trade, other "blic bualneaa" Intereata and 

 aneh publleatloaa aa the Packer are ao dlllfcently 

 Kuardlnic the farmera' riarhta. It waa mlichty fine 

 of the foree there to refnne the aiv montha* vn- 

 eatioa on foil pay offered by the dlreetom. e«pe- 

 elally alare the blfr battle* have all been won aad 

 there la aothlas: for you to do till aomethlair aew 

 cornea up. If yoa Inalat on aot taklafc a vacation 

 I auKiceat that yau at leaat take a trip down to 

 Muacle Hhoala ao that yoa caa arlve ua a icood 

 write-np on how the project haa become auch a 

 Kreat fertlilaer produeins plant. 1 would alao like 

 to leant Jnat how much the Lake Krte t« Hlaala- 

 alppl waterway haa aaved the people of the cea- 

 tral atatca. ' 



Then after yoa have laveatljrated theae varlona 

 polata of latereat I aufTfceat that throuKb your col- 

 nmaa yoa collect a contribution frnm the fnrnierM 

 for the parpoae of relmbnralna: auch of our publtc 

 offlclala who have beea ao abaorbed In looklnK 

 after pablic latereata that their owa affalra have 

 anVered. auch aa Pall. McCray. and othera, laclad- 

 laic thoae war contractors who loat ao heavily on 

 government contracta aad who have not yet re- 

 ceived their Jiiat dues from Mr. Doanrherty'M de- 

 partment of charity. 



HoplBf; you all enjoy the amokea aad that you 

 Had a champion liar worthy of the name. I remain, 

 rrateraally youra, 



— BUI Williaaia. Orchard Farnia. .\lnia. Illlnola. 



HKRR*1I 0\'E PI T TO RHYMI-: 



*'It*a In the moon you'll plaat your «*ora. 



If yon waal It all to grow." 

 That*a what my aelirlibor aald t'other morn. 



A leanln' on hla hoe. 



Well, methlnks. now I'll be bright i 



Mo I planted aa acre workia* early 'till late. 



The corn came ap all rljcht. 



But aay. It waa too darn cold to cultivate. 



The atuir It icrew and rrew and grew 



\\ Itbont ao 'tentloa at all. 

 It kept It up the whale anmmer through 



'Till alonic la early fall. 



But now it'N time to ahuck the Ntnff— 

 There'a a thauaaad buabel or more. 



Aad that'a what I call dowarlicht tonich, 



't'auae the moon's an l«>eberir clear to the core. 

 — Lowder. Illlnola R. It. 



HARD TO BKLIEVK THIN 



Nome yeara umo we farmed aonie bottom land 

 which waa undoubtedly the wettest piece of aoll 

 not lylnir ander> the threat Lakes. Even la hot 

 weather we never needed to carry a Jujc of water 

 to the field with ua. Bach fellow waa provided 

 with a four foot lenirth of one-half lacb rubber 

 tublnK. Whea we were cultlvatlnir aad waated a 

 drink, we*d kick, the castle off a crawflah hole, 

 drop the hoae la the hole and anck out water like 

 a railroad locomotive. 



About all we could raise was crawOah holes aad 

 froar hops. We had a tw^o year rotation i Craw- 

 flah holes one year and frog hops the next. Well 

 cultivated frofc hops weot from 2.% to 34> feet to 

 the hop but by adding n little fertlilaer we were 

 able to fret some ."lO-foot hops. 



We Kot to cultivatlnir the crawflsh holea and 

 when they irot bl|r enonsh we'd harvest 'em and 

 sell *em for peat Irolea. Post holea sell like hot 

 doira for about 25 cents a hole. The crawflah hole 

 harvester which we Invented was quite a curiosity 

 la the aeljchborhood. — Klmer Waddcll. Taylorvllle. 

 rhrlstlaa county. Illlaols. 



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