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The nfiaou AgricuHyl Awodation Record 



July S, 1924 



BLOOMINGTON MEET 

 GIVES I.A.A. CLEAR, 

 , CONSTRUCTIVE TIPS 



Seventeenth Diitrict Men Want 



Harmony Among Farm 



Organizations ; Research 



In Grain Marketing 



Ohi the chairman o' this here meet- 

 in' 

 IB Mel'4-an's Prexy Moon. 

 If he ain't aslfed you to do some 

 speakin'. 

 He'll do so prety soon! 



J. H. Checkley, farm adviser 

 of Logan connty and a "Jim 

 Dandy" community singing leader, 

 sounded the "keynote" of the 17th 

 district meeting at Blooqiington, 

 June 24, when he composed the 

 above verse to "It Ain't Gonna 

 Rain No Mo" and sang it. among 

 many others, to the 65 farm bu- 

 reau representatives present who 

 also joined in on the choruses. 

 McLean, Ford, Livingston, Logan 

 and Woodford counties were rep- 

 ^ -resented. 



Foremost among the construc- 

 tive projects considered was a 

 thought concentrated in a resolu- 

 tion passed asking that steps be 

 takea by the Illinois -Agricultural 

 Association to bring forth greater 

 harmony between it and the Far- 

 mers' Grain Dealers' Association, 

 both of which are working tor 

 the farmers' interests, the latter 

 . representing many Farm Bureau 

 members but some of its leaders 

 indicating jealousy toward the Il- 

 linois Agricultural Association. 



A general discussion of local 

 live stock shipping association 

 problems featured the morning 

 session. J. 0. Harper of the 

 National Livestock Producers As- 

 Eiociation and formerly head of 

 the poultry and egg marketing de- 

 partment of the I. A. A., answered 

 questions regarding the work of 

 the Producers. It was pointed 

 out by Mr. Harper that the ex- 

 ecutive committee of the National 

 Producers consider the present 

 progress of the terminal agencies 

 about right for a healthy growth. 



Considerable comment was mside 

 praising the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association for its energetic, thor- 

 ough flght for the McNary-Haugen 

 bill. A motion was passed asking 

 that the principles embodied in 

 that bill should be upheld when 

 the nation-wide meeting of all 

 farm organizations is called at St. 

 Pawl, July :i and 12. 



Study Grain Marketing 



Discussions of grain marketing 

 by several representatives brought 

 out the fact that the 17th dis- 

 trict would like to see the I. A. 

 A. put in considerable energy and 

 research investigating grain mar- 

 keting. The fact that President 

 Thompson had been appointed on 

 the A. P. B. F. committee which 

 • is to consider the giant proposal 

 of Ave old line commission Com- 

 panies in Chicago to sell their 

 organizations to farmers, indicated 

 .that the I. A. A. is connected 

 with the biggest proposition yet 

 conceived for a farmer-owned 

 national grain marketing system. 

 F. D. Barton, Cornell, executive 

 committeeman of the 17th district, 

 said that the I. A. A. executive 

 committee talks grain marketing 

 every time it meets but there are 

 many hurdles to clear before a 

 grain marketing plan that will 

 suit the majority of farmers is 

 definitely decided upon. Grain 

 marketing research is to be pushed 

 by Mr. Barton at the next meeting 

 of the state executive committee. 



Mr. Checkley told of the plans 

 being made by Lincoln and Lo- 

 enn county to entertain the Farm 

 Bnreau members when the state 

 picnic is held at Lincoln, .August 

 2S. He said that Lincoln is pre- 

 paring to handle the largest I. A 

 A. state picnic ever staged. 



SimoA C. Moon, president of 

 the McLean County Farm Bu 

 reau, was elected chairman of the 

 day. Mr. Barton led discussions 

 and will present the ideas of the 

 17th district Farm Bureau people 

 to the executive committee of the 

 I. A. A. at its next meeting in 

 Chicago. 



George Wicker, general man- 

 ager of the new auditing and 

 business advisory service insti- 

 tuted by the I. A. A., talked to 



C A M A O A 



OlSTRIBUnON OF PKOOUCTS, 1923 

 BY 



ILLINOIS FRUIT EXCHANGE 



CENTRALIA.IU,£XCHANfiE HEADQUARTERS 

 • MABKITS TO WHICH CAOIOAO SHIPMEMTS 

 . WtRt MADE. TOTAUSa 



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The IlllnoU Fruit Kxrhnniee il\irlii|c the yeiir lOl^'t Hhi|i|>ed ItH produi-e to IKS dilTerent iiiarketii an U lU 

 JuMtrnted In the map above. Alth«ug;h thiM In a Mllffht deereuMe In number of ninrkelH rearhed In <*ompnrl- 



, Mon with the 19'2'2 mnrketa, .V. B. Leeper. director of the fruit and vegetable murketlnie deiMirtment and 

 AiunaKcr tor the Illlnoln Frutt Exchantce. thlnkM that the 102:1 shipments were placed much better ireo- 



. Kraphicallj. He points out that a iarfce number of tovi~nM were reaoheil eloser to home than in the 

 previous year, which Is Kood marketing techntgue. 



The lIllnoA FmIt Kxchanftre in a partlelpatlnK unit of the Federated Fruit and Vesetable throwers 

 which last ^ear handled a:t.SOO ears of fruit and vegetables representlne' a money value of about $S;^iOOO,- 

 OOO. The Illinois Fruit Exehange has riosed Its second marketing season.. The tonnnse epibraced a wide 

 variety of fruit and vexetables. The result on peaches was extraordinarily Kood since the Illinois peaches 

 received the highest averase price obtained by any other aHSoclatlon In the Vnited States. 



Gougler Studies 



Farmers' Markets 



F. A. Gougler. director of 

 poultry and egg marketing, is 

 spending considerable time inves- 

 tigating farmers' markets where 

 the farmers bring in poultry, 

 eggs, butter, cottage cheese, 

 cured hams, fresh meats and nu- 

 meruos commodities produced by 

 the farmers on their own farms 

 and sell them on a market con- 

 ducted by themselves on certain 

 days of each week. The purpose 

 ot the investigation, Mr. Gougler 

 says, is to furnish all necessary 

 information for persons who wish 

 to start similar markets. 



the group in the afternoon, tell- 

 ing that the purpose of the ser- 

 vice is to make cooperative mar- 

 keting organizations safer for 

 farmers. The new auditing asso- 

 ciation has recently audited the 

 books of the Peoria Producers, 

 they having subscribed to the 

 service along with the National 

 Livestock Producers Associa- 

 tion, and found them in good 

 shape. He pointed out that the 

 Illinois Agricultural Cooperatives 

 Association, which is the incor- 

 poration name of the auditing 

 service organization, will be def- 

 initely connected with the I. A. 

 ■V. because in the by-laws of the 

 new incorporation it is definitely 

 stated that the executive com 

 mittee of the I. A. A. should sub- 

 mit two names of men to act as 

 I. A. A. secretary and treasurer, 

 respectively, have been already 

 named and elected. 



Following are the names of ttjose 

 in attendance: E. F. Toolidge. 'n . D. 

 Brickiey. A. J. Johnstone. Alvin B. 

 otto. O. C. Johnstone, F. J. Basting. 

 F. W. Bill. R. O. Benjamin. Bloom- 

 ington: Harry C. Dixon. Covell: O. 

 T.. Votter. W. C. Asper. C. H. Patter- 

 son. Walter Springer. Pontiae: M. 

 K. Lyons. Odell: Asa B. Culp. Panl 

 E. Johnstone. Eureka; U I. Harris, 

 f'.raymount; "Wm. Krauae. Iv. Ft. 

 Parka. A. M. Armstrong, J. H. 

 rheckley. Wm. J. Houston. D. C. 

 Shepler. Lincoln: Chas. M. Colburn. 

 Season : C. E. Hopkins. Pontiae: T. 

 Ralph Miner. Mt. Pleasant. Town; 

 Walter Nichols. Heyworth: J. W. 

 Kirkton. Normal; L. V. Husted. F. 

 W. Reeve. F. D. Barton. Corneil: 

 Homer Caton. J. T. Freitag. Carl 

 N. Freitag. Stanford: T>. H. Kent. 

 J. W. McCulIough. A. O. Convis. 

 leo. T. Swalm, Olbson City: Earl 

 Henry. Paxton: Aura Johnston. 

 Hudson; George Wicker and H. C. 

 Butcher. Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation; J. D. Harper. National Live- 

 stock Producers' Association. 



Fruit Producers 

 Reorganize on a 

 Five Year Plan 



The members of the Ozark 

 Fruit Growers' Association are so 

 well satisfied with their cooper- 

 ative selling through the Illinois 

 Fruit Growers' Exchange, that 

 they met June 17 and reorgan- 

 ized their association, signing 

 new contracts under which they 

 will operate for a period of five 

 years. The contract which the 

 fruit growers first signed was 

 binding for only three years and 

 has just recently expired. 



Those who patronize the fruit 

 growers' exchange are members 

 of the farm bureau, membership 

 in the exchange being declined 

 to those who do not belong to the 

 farm bureau. The exchange 

 markets in car lots all kinds of 

 fruits and vegetables for its pa- 

 trons and handles such supplies 

 as spraying equipment and ma- 

 terials, fertilizers and fruit pack- 

 ages, which it is able to furnish 

 at a considerable saving to its 

 members. The O^sark association 

 has one of the finest packing 

 sheds in that section of the state, 

 adequately equipped to handle 

 the business of its patrons. 



Brown County Has 

 New Shipper Co-op 



The livestock producers of 

 Brown county have recently re- 

 organized their shipping associa- 

 tion and effected what promises 

 to be an efficient marketing as- 

 sociation, according to G. E. Metz- 

 ger. organization director of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association. 

 The new organization will work 

 under the name of the Brown 

 County Shippers' Association and 

 aims for closer cooperation be- 

 tween the farmers, the local ship- 

 ping associations and the Pro- 

 ducers in the terminal markets. 



Under the new organization 

 the board of directors is required 

 by the by-laws of the association 

 to meet regularly ea<;h month to 

 consider shipping problems and 

 other business pertaining to the 

 association. 



METZGER TALKS ON 

 CO.OP MARKETING 

 TO RADIO AUDIENCE 



"Farmer Must Get Broader 



Viewpoint and Understand 



That Sound Bunne** 



Must Prevail" 



Eighty-six head of Holsteliis 



in the John Erickson herd dis- 

 persal sale at Waupaca. Wis., 

 sold for an average of $1,138. 



The Columbia Qiiarrj' Com- 

 pany will give away a carload 

 of limestone as prizes at the 

 Randolph County Farm Bureau 

 picnic Atlgust 21. 



F. A. Ciougler, I. A. A. poultry 

 and egg marketing specialist, is 

 making a ten-day trip through 

 Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan, 

 studying the egg-marketing situa- 

 tion in these states. 



William E. He<lgcock, form- 

 erly farm adviser of Peoria Coun- 

 ty Farm Bureau, will become 

 director of the I. A. A. livestock 

 marketing department July 1. 



During the month of June the 

 I. A. A. transportation depart- 

 ment collected slightly, over |1.- 

 300 on overcharge and loss and 

 damage claims for Illinois farm- 

 ers and shippers. 



The McHeni-y rount.v Farm 

 Bnreau offered prizes to rural 

 school children for the best es- 

 says upon the subject. "Why 

 McHenry County Should Do Tu- 

 berculin Testing?" 



Final liearings on the Pitts- 

 burgh Plus case have been held 

 before the federal trade commis- 

 sion, which is expected to hand 

 down its final decision some time 

 during the coming fall. 



The keynote ot the farmers' co- 

 operative marketing situation was 

 struck by G. E. Metzger, director 

 of the I. A. A. organization de- 

 partment, when he spoke over sta- 

 tion K. Y. W. at Chicago, July 1. 



"The real essence of the situa- 

 tion is that the average farmer's 

 viewpoint of cooperative market- 

 ing of his own products is not yet 

 broad enough to enable him to 

 understand that his concern is a 

 regular business institution," said 

 Mr. Metzger in speaking of the 

 lack of real cooperative manager- 

 ial ability in this country at the 

 present time. "Neither does the . 

 farmer realize that cooperative in 

 stitutions are governed by human 

 beings and that they are not 

 empowered to do miraculous 

 things. On the other hand, he 

 must understand that sound busi- 

 ness practice must prevail, that 

 his concern can be expected to 

 render real service, that it must 

 do It efficiently and if it does 

 these fundamental things, loyalty 

 on the part of the membership 

 should enable the cooperative to 

 return the highest price for farm 

 products." 



Expressing the belief that many 

 midwest farmers have not yet 

 caught the cooperative spirit in a 

 big and effective way Metzger 

 said, "The average farmer when 

 asked what he expects of coop- 

 erative marketing will tell the 

 inquirer that he expects a higher 

 price for his products. 'How 

 much higher?' I ask. Many have 

 no idea but ordinarily farmers 

 will say that they would be sat- 

 isfied to get the middleman's 

 profits. Th^ average farmer- 

 owned elevator in Illinois, it is 

 estimated, makes the farmer 

 about four cents per bushel. This 

 might be a fair portion of the 

 local margin which the producer 

 might expect but that will not 

 put him out of the present seri- 

 .ous economic difficulty. The lo- 

 cal farmers' elevator company 

 does not go far enough. Local 

 plants must be combined and 

 consolidated into terminal sales 

 agencies large enough to be a 

 market factor and control In part 

 at least the so-called exportable 

 surplus of various farm - com- 

 modities." 



Adams county has organlzeil a 



baseball league with at least 

 four township teams. The county 

 championship will be decided 

 September 20 at the Adams coun- 

 ty farm bureau picnic. 



>Iarshall-Putnam county farm 

 bureau baseball team recently de- 

 feated Stark county 4 to and 

 Knox county 12 to 3. 



Severe outbreak.s of army 

 worni.s are reported from at least 

 25 Illinois counties. 



28 TO ST. ANNE IS BIGGEST 

 "KIDDIE" ORDER OF SEASON 



Mr. A. Mailloux of St. Anne. 

 Kankakee county, has a heart. 



Here's why. 



He rounded up enough peo- 

 ple in his community 

 to take 28 slum kid- 

 dies and sent in his 

 "order" to the Out- 

 ing Secretary at the 

 I. A. A. office, ask- 

 ing for a July 1 de- 

 livery. Twenty-eight 

 slum kiddies all in 

 one group going to 

 one chairman is the 

 largest "order" re- 

 ceived at the i. A. A. 

 office yet this year. 

 The cool weather A.M.m«M 



this spring is responsible for a 

 comparatively slow response to 

 this humanitarian business of 

 sending poor, needy slum kid- 

 dies into the country to good 

 farm bureau homes for a two- 



weeks outing. But vacations 

 for many children have already 

 been arranged for and the out- 

 ing secretary has high hopes 

 of beating the last 

 year's number o f 

 473. 



Mr. Mailloux said 

 that all he had to do 

 was to telephone and 

 see some of his neigh- 

 bors and it wasn't 

 long until he had or- 

 ders for 28 poor kid- 

 dies. 



The United Chari- 

 ties of Chicago fur- 

 nishes the kiddies, 

 cleans 'em up in 

 every way and delivers 'em 

 in groups of a dozen or 

 more any place within 200 

 miles of Chicago. Just drop a 

 line to the Outing Secretary 

 and you can get all the details. 



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