« i) uly S, 1924 — -^ - 



if ONE FOURTH OF AU 

 4 FEDERAL T.B. CASH 

 ^ COMES TO ILLINOIS 



The niiiMi* Agncalhvml A wo cM i H on Reoard 



M. H. PMcv««n 



nlty payments. 



67 Counties Now Testing; 

 I.A.A. Directly Helpful in 

 47; Seveml Other* Con- 

 sidering Area Testing 



Editor') Xott: Thit it thf firtt of 

 II ttriet of rimitar artieht to he 

 vrittun hy /. A. A. departmental di- 

 ^ rertort telling of the iroric done in 

 ' each department. 



B. M. H. PETERSEN, 

 > Director, T. B. BrtuUcatlon 



Department 

 " One-fourth of the entire fed- 

 ,eral indemnity appropriation 

 iwhich in apportioned among all 

 >the states of the Union has been 

 allotted to Illi- 

 nois because Il- 

 linois farmers 

 have demon- 

 strated that 

 they want their 

 cattle tested 

 and have gone 

 out to get all 

 the help they 

 can obtain. The 

 state has made 

 available ample 

 funds to take 

 care of indem- 



. , The large pacl<- 



ers are paying a premium of 10 

 .cents per 100 pounds on all 

 hogs bred and fed in a county 

 'Which has been declared an ac- 

 J credited area, and Edgar County, 

 'Illinois, farmers, and those in 

 .27 other counties in the United 

 States are now getting that pre- 

 ■mlum. Tuberculosis-free cattle 

 command a higher price than un- 

 tested cows. Dr. J. W. Pettit, 

 .President of the Illinois Tubercu- 

 losis Association, says, "It we 

 '•will pay more attention to the 

 i,prevention of tuberculosis by test- 

 ' ing our cows and by using other 

 (■preventative measures, we will 

 'have little need for sanatoriums 

 fin the future." 

 ; Work Advanced Rapidly 



i I That the requests of the Illi- 

 >nois Agricultural Association, 

 county farm bureaus, the Na- 

 ^"•tional Livestock Exchange and 

 L other Illinois farmers' organiza- 



Jtions for a state appropriation of 

 »1,000,000 dollars for tubercu- 

 losis eradication indemnities for 

 a two year period were wisely 

 made, is best evidenced by the 

 remarkable advance of area test- 

 I ing within the last two years. 

 When the present funds for 

 indemnities became available 

 there were few counties which 

 , had seriously considered the erad- 

 ication of the white plague from 

 "the cattle within their borders, 

 but with the large funds avail- 

 able since last July, Illinois has 

 indeed made rapid strides in 

 cleaning up the disease which is 

 , costing farmers of the country 

 140.000,000 a year. 



At the time this article goes to 

 press there are 57 of the 102 

 counties in Illinois which have 

 made appropriations to be placed 

 on the list. These counties com- 

 prise over one-half of the area of 

 the state and boast of two-thirds 

 of its cattle population. With this 

 rapid growth in our testing pro- 

 gram, Illinois has more counties 

 J doing area testing than any other 

 state in the Union. 



Backed State Laws 

 With the rapid expansion of 

 tuberculosis eradication work 

 came a demand for assistance 

 along many lines closely associ- 

 ated with the actual job of test- 

 ing cows. This demand your 

 state association has tried to All 

 with the establishment of the 

 T. B. Eradication Department. 

 Numerous reports of violations 

 of the state and federal sanitary 

 laws have been made; and large- 

 ly thru our efforts the state has 

 stood back of its 60 day retest 

 order, the Governor within the 

 last 10 days having given spe- 

 cial instructions that this order 

 which requires a 60 day retest 

 on all dairy and feeding cattle 

 brought into Illinois be rigidly 



f enforced. Our constant demand 

 that an adequate and enforceable 

 regulation governing the testing 

 d|of cattle for feeding ^>urposes has 

 "^resulted in the issuing of order 

 number- 16, which requires that 



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•no ACTivrry 



Abore l8 Khown thr proir^ss of talteiYDloais c*«dic«tkon woifc im nUaote 

 to July 1, 1924, Hit »ho«m by M. H. Pei*nten In the afrirmimnrlnf procTcm 

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feeders be both injected and ob- 

 served at quarantine until the 

 test has been completed. 



One-third of the counties in the 

 state have been assisted in put- 

 ting on educational campaigns to 

 explain the advantages of clean 

 ing up tuberculosis on the county 

 area plan and secure an appro- 

 priation from their Boards of 

 Supervisors to make this work 

 possible: and each month brings 

 additional recruits to the ranks 

 of the counties which have se- 

 cured appropriations to enable 

 their farmers to have cattle test- 

 ed free and obtain Indemnities 

 for those which are found to 

 have tuberculosis. 



Work In 47 Counties 



That tuberculosis eradication is 

 a subject of vital interest the 

 length and breadth of our state 

 is best shown by the fact that 

 the director of this department 

 has- assisted with various phases 

 of this work in 47 counties since 

 the first of the year. It is 

 perhaps a growing realization 

 that most of the tuberculosis 

 among people comes as a di- 

 rect result of tuberculosis in cat- 

 tle that causes the phrase "Get 

 Tuberculosis Before It Gets Us" 

 to be the slogan of an Increasing 

 number of farmers who also real- 

 ize that it is the healthy ani- 

 mal which produces the greatest 

 returns at the least cost^ 



As an increasing number of 

 counties enter into this coopera- 

 tive plan in which the federal 

 government, our state and the 

 counties cooperate with the farm- 

 er in cleaning up his herd the 

 demand for tuberculosis-free cat- 

 tle will naturally increase, tested 

 cattle will bring more money 

 than those of questionable health 

 and untested cattle will find their 

 market constantly shrinking. Al- 

 ready there is great demand for 

 tested dairy cattle and since II- 

 Inois cannot take care of all of 

 her own buyers this department 

 is making arrangements with a 

 growing number of Wisconsin 

 breed associations which make it 

 possible for farm bureau mem- 

 bers whose herds are under state 

 and federal supervision to buy 

 tuberculin tested cattle subject 

 to a sixty day retest with a guar- 

 antee that their money will tie 

 refunded in case a reactor is 

 found on the retest. Farm Bu- 

 reau members who have bought 

 cattle directly from breeders un- 

 der these arrangements report ac- 



tual savings of from thirty to 

 60 dollars per head on their 

 local prevailing prices. 



Can your county satisfy some 

 of our own Illinois farmers who 

 wish to buy T. B. free cattle? A 

 virgin field lies open to counties 

 which will step forth and develop 

 breeding centers from which the 

 rest of Illinois can draw good 

 cows to replenish its herds. The 

 sale of surplus healthy cows each 

 year from our own herda would 

 prove a profitable sideline to the 

 whole milk or cream protiucer. 

 Which county will be the first to 

 start on a 10 year program to 

 develop its cattle breeding indus- 

 try, and become one of the cen- 

 ters for good, healthy, profitable 

 cows in Illinois? We most earn- 

 estly wish to see our Illinois 

 farmers spend their money with 

 their Illinois neighbors. Can we 

 help you get your neighbor's 

 business? 



I. A. .\. Ready to Help 



With these facts before us and 

 successful operation of the area 

 test already in progress in over 

 one-half of our counties let us 

 take our opportunity to rid ottr 

 herds of this costly disease white 

 our city cousins and governmejit 

 are willing to cooperate in shar- 

 ing a part of the farmers' bur- 

 den. 



How can the 1. A. A. best 

 serve you in this problem? The 

 T. B. Eradication Department Is 

 at your service any time to take 

 care of your interests and assist 

 in the solution of your problems 

 in the best way possible. 



Dean H. W. Mumfonl of the 



College of Agriculture, Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, picked out an 

 average day and tabulated tlie 

 activities of all the farm advisers 

 in Illinois for that day. He 

 found that 94 advisers had 1,115 

 office calls, wrote 1.174 letters, 

 distributed 11.440 circulars en 

 various agricultural subjects, 

 wrote 59 articles for publication, 

 made 99 farm visits, held 40 con- 

 ferences with a total of 4t9 

 farmers present, held 53 meet- 

 ings with 5.153 attending and 

 conducted 36 demonstrations. 



Tlie Seward Farm Bureau 

 baseball team in Kendall county 

 is leading the other seven teams 

 in the county league with four 

 games won and none lost. 



GRAIN MERGE PLAN 

 BROUGHT TO AJ.B.F. 



( Continued f mm pur 1 1 

 B. F.. although all other farmers' 

 organizations interested will be 

 consulted. The committee ap- 

 pointed by Mr. Bradfute Is to be 

 added to later with representa- 

 tives from the other farmers' or- 

 ganizations which are interested. 

 Thi^ committee is to investigate 

 every angle of the plan before 

 taking favorable or unfavorable 

 action. It is realized that many 

 things could l)e gained, but there 

 could also be many pitfalls. 



"The price, " said President 

 Thompson, "would be seitled by 

 disinterested parties after a 

 thorough appraisal of the prop- 

 erty. This would be one plan, if 

 we were truly ready for it. 

 whereby we could immediately 

 start to handle grain on a real, 

 nation-wide basis, ^arm^rs have 

 been ready for some tinje for a 

 grain marketing scheme of any 

 worthy, practical kind. In the 

 past, there have' been too many 

 obstacles — internal strife has 

 probably been our biggtst bar- 

 rier; the inability of the leaders 

 to get together. 1 would be fa- 

 vorable to some such plan as this 

 providing that the contnol were 

 in the membership rigllt from 

 the start. Who will cooltrol the 

 company will be one of the big- 

 gest bones of contention for the 

 committee to thrash out. The 

 producers must have the. control 

 througJti their elected representa- 

 tives." 



Involves S.OOO ('o-n|Hi 



The plan contemplates the ac- 

 quisition of the mechanical and 

 managerial facilities of four large 

 grain concerns and 5.000 coop 

 erative elevators and proposes 

 that the resulting .international 

 grain marketing sales agency be- 

 come grower owned, financed 

 and controlled, .\fter a four day 

 discussion by the executh'e com- 

 mittee of the American Parm Bu- 

 reau Federation, a resolution was 

 adopted authorizing the president 

 to appoint a committee to com- 

 plete the study and analysis of 

 the proposition for the purpose of 

 determining the practicability of 

 the producer undertaking to own 

 the marketing facilities for grain 

 and the practical method by 

 which it may be successfully ac- 

 complished to the best advantage 

 of the proiducer. 



The prd^osal contemplates us- 

 ing the facilities of existing ex- 

 changes and operating in accord- 

 ance with their established rules. 

 The company formulated by the 

 merger, the plan stipulatts, would 

 be at the service of state cooper- 

 ative pools, elevator exchanges, 

 farmer-owned elevators and indi- 

 viduals as a grain merctiandising 

 agency. J. 



P—e 3 



AUDIT SYSTEM AND 

 TAXES DISCUSSED 

 AT DISTRICT MEET 



Fanners Say Limestone Prices 



Are too High; Consider 



Gasoline Tax and 



Other Problems 



Five Adams County 

 Co-op Associations 

 Want Audit Service 



Farmers' cooperative associa- 

 tions continue to subscribe to the 

 Illinois Agricultural Cooperatives 

 Association, according to Vernon 

 Vaniman. who is manafing the 

 membership campaign under di- 

 rection of the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association. Farmers' ele- 

 vators, county farm bureaus, 

 livestock shipping associations 

 and milk producers* associations 

 are signing up to receive the au- 

 diting and accounting service of- 

 fered by the cooperatives associa- 

 tion. 



At present Adams couaty leads 

 in membership with the Ursa 

 Farmers' Elevator Company. La 

 Prairie Farmers' Elevator Com- 

 pany. Adams County Shipping 

 Association. Quincy Milk Produc- 

 ers' Association and the Western 

 Illinois Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 tion using the auditing and busi- 

 ness advisory service of the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Cooperatives 

 Association. 



Seventeen other counties have 

 one or more organizations repre- 

 sented in the accounting associa- 

 tion. At their next roetting the 

 directors of the Adams County 

 Farm Bureau will consider sub- 

 scribdng to the auditing service 

 and indications are tkat they 

 will apply for membership, there- 

 by bringing the total nomber of 

 member associations id Adams 

 county up to six. 



Threatening weather, bad roads 

 and the "busy farm season were 

 responsible for Mie small attend- 

 ance which marked the first 

 meeting of the 22nd district in: 

 Greenville. June 17. Frank Pott- 

 hast, president of the Bond Coun- 

 ty Farm Bureau, presided at the 

 meeting. The present lax situa- 

 tion and the prtce farmers from 

 this district are required to pay 

 for the limestone they buy were 

 the chief topics of discussion. 



Speaking of the activities of 

 Madison county. Farm Adviser. 

 Alfred Raut. brought out the 

 fact that there exists wide differ- 

 ences in the assessed valuation of 

 city and country proi>erty and 

 that the difference in valuation 

 of livestock in different sections 

 of the county is great. It ia 

 these inequalities which the farm 

 bureau will attempt to remedy. 

 As a result farmers have with- 

 held one third of their real es- 

 tate taxes. 



B. W. Tillman, farm adviser of 

 St. Clair county, and Paul Ewald. 

 adviser of Monroe county, ex- 

 plained that the tax situation in 

 these counties is very similar to 

 that of Madison county. 



The gasoline tax was discussed 

 by Stanley Castle, 1. A. A. execu- 

 tive committeeman from the 22nd 

 district. He stated that the I. A. A. 

 takes a favorable stand toward 

 this tax if Uie funds are to be 

 used solely for the upkeep of 

 sute aid roads. He also pointed 

 out that in other states having a 

 gasoline ta.\ provision is made 

 whereby farmers can obtain a re- 

 fund on gasoline used on the 

 farm for tractors and stationary 

 engines. The I. A. A. would also 

 have the gasoline tax take the 

 place of some other tax now in 

 effect rather than be inaugurate!) 

 as an additional tax. 



DlnrasK Prices- 

 Mr. TilUnan showed that the 

 price of limestone in this district 

 is higher than in any other part 

 of the sUte in spite of the fact 

 thft the farmers in this district 

 use more limestone than those 

 in other districU. The demand 

 for limestone In this section has 

 become so general that farmers 

 regard it as a necessity and it 

 is their opinion that the produc- 

 ers of limestone are purposely 

 holding the price up. 



J. R. Bent, director of the 

 phosphate - limestone department 

 of the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation, was expected to be pres- 

 ent but in his absence Executive 

 Committeeman Castle explained 

 how the I. A. A. is attempting 

 to solve the farmers' limestone 

 problems. 



Farm Adviser Raut brought up 

 consideration of the Illinois 

 \gricultural Cooperatives Asso- 

 ciation, stating that none of the 

 farmers' organizations in this 

 section have had an auditing 

 senioe. He spoke with favor 

 toward the system and suggested 

 that the farmers' organizations 

 should ^et together upon the 

 proposition. 



No place or date was set for 

 the next district meeting. 



Every state in the union, Can- 

 ada and even South Africa has 

 shown Interest in the Mcl>ean 

 countv svstcm of sanitaUon in 

 pig raising. Even the Naval 

 Academy at Annapolis has adopt- 

 ed the system in raising the pigs 

 used to clean up ,the garbage 

 ihere. „ „_ 



KstabliNhiiienI of a l-ami Bu- 

 reau gasoline and Oil supply com- 

 panv at Carthage is proving a 

 profitable investment for Han- 

 cock county farmers. 



In Missouri 60,000 slitnatureii 

 have been secured to iietitions 

 asking that the proposition of a 

 two per cent tax on gasoline and 

 a 50 per cent increase in auto- 

 mobile registration fees for road 

 maintainance be put on the bal- 

 lots in November. ' , 



\eari> 700 boys and ifiris at- 

 tended the second annual Junior 

 Club University Tour held June 

 12 and 13 at the College of Agri- 

 culture.. 



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