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of the situa- 

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Volume 2 



Issued Every Other Saturday, July 19, 1924 



Number 14 



I. A. A. Awaits Detailed Proposal on Grain Merger 



STAND URGED THAT 

 FARM ORGANIZATIONS 

 RETAIN OPEN MINDS 



A PROGRESSIVE STEP 



Grain Marketing Company 



Incorporated To Take (>ver 



Five Elevator Companies; 



$26,000,000 Involved 



For some weeks a special com- 

 mittee from the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation with O. E. 

 Bradfute as chairman, has been 

 giving consideration to tentative 

 proposals made by the Armour 

 Grain Company, the Rosenbaum 

 Grain Corporation, Davis-Nolan- 

 Merrill ,'^-and Company, J. C. 

 Schaffer and Company and Ro- 

 senbaum Brothers' Company for 

 the taking over of the physical 

 facilities of these old line grain 

 companies. 



This committee on Monday, 

 July 14, believing the proposals 

 merited further consideration, au- 

 thorized that steps be taken to 

 form a corporation under the 

 Illinois Cooperative Marketing 

 Act with capital to acquire mar- 

 keting and^erminal facilities and 

 a common 'stock issue of l.Ouu,- 

 000 shares with a par value of 

 II a share; 1,000,000 shares of 

 "A" preferred stock at $25 a 

 share and 500,000 shares of "B" 

 preferred stock with a par value 

 of $50 a share. 



It's Already Incorporated 



Articles of incorporation have 

 been issued by Louis J. Emmer- 

 son, secretary of state. The fol- 

 lowing men are the incorporat- 

 ors: Millard H. Meyers, spokes- 

 man for the cooperative elevator 

 people: O. E. Bradfute, president 

 and J. W. Coverdale, secretary, of 

 the American Farm Bureau fed- 

 eration; Gray Silver, Washing- 

 ton representative of the farm 

 bureau; Fred A. Mudge, Peru, 

 111.; Louis J. Tabor, Columbus, 

 O., Oscar B. Ashworth, Mattoon, 

 111., and J. M. Dyer, Spencer, la. 



The incorporation of a com- 

 pany under the Marketing Act 

 seems to be only a necessary step 

 at this time for the purpose of 

 selecting a representative group 

 of men who can legally solicit 

 and receive proposals tor the 

 purchase or leasing of market- 

 ing facilities, analyze and digest 

 such proposals and determine 

 whether at this time a large 

 cooperative grain marketing com- 

 pany should be set up, and if so, 

 what facilities are required and 

 whether same can be acquired by 

 purchase or lease on terms fa- 

 vorable to the grain farmers of 

 our country. , 



Position of I. A. A. 



President S. H. Thompson is 

 a member of the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation Committee, 

 but was unable to be present 

 when the committee made final 

 its recommendations to incor- 

 porate the Grain Marketing Com- 

 pany. The lni|>ression gathered 

 by a ^eat many of our farmers 

 from the press reimrts Is that 

 the entire deal has been con- 

 summated and the new company 

 will start to market ^ain at 

 once. Mr. Thompson has made 



Arrange Wool Pool 

 In Attempt To Cut 

 Marketing Expenses 



William E. Hedgcock, who as- 

 sumed the direction of the I. A. 

 A. livestock marketing depart- 

 ment, July 1, has made arrange- 

 ments with the National Wool 

 Warehouse and Storage Com- 

 pany whereby the week of July 

 21 to 26 has been designated_as 

 "Illinois Wool Pool Week?* 



Instructions have been sent to 

 farm bureaus recommending the 

 concentration of as much wool 

 as possible at one or two central 

 points in each county where it 

 will be shipped to the warehouse 

 by local freight if in less than 

 carload lots. Where it is not 

 shipped from a central point it 

 should be shipped from the near- 

 est local freight station sometime 

 during the wool pool week. 



At the present time the ware- 

 house company is busy grading 

 a large amount of Iowa wool. 

 They have received a tew ship- 

 ments from Illinois but in many 

 instances it is coming either by 

 local freight or express in small 

 shipments which makes the 

 transportation expenses higher 

 than necessary. 



By designating the week of 

 July 21 to 26 as wool pool week 

 in Illinois the warehouse can 

 make arrangements with the dif- 

 ferent railroads to reload into a 

 trap car at division points, wool 



received over several roads. The 

 norecommendationto the other '.fap car is provided to facilitate 

 officers or the executive commit- '*•>« handling of small shipments 

 tee of the niinois Agricultural '™™ scattered points. By this 

 Association. Until definite pro- arrangement the I. A. A. market- 

 l>osals have b^n made to the '°S head hopes to cut down 

 Uoard of Directors of the new I f '■e'Sht charges on all wool ship- 

 (Continued on pa(C 3) ImentB. 



A second advantage in naming 

 a specific period for pooling Illi- 

 nois wool is that it will enable 

 the warehouse to grade all the 

 wool before buyers arrive thus 

 increasing the chances tor better 

 prices. 



Co-ops Celebrate 



With Annual Meet 



July 8, 1924, was written into 

 the annals of agricultural his- 

 tory as a big day down in Little 

 Egypt. The history making oc- 

 casion was the third annual 

 meeting of the Egyptian Seed 

 Growers' Exchange and the sec- 

 ond annual meeting of the Red 

 Top Growers' Warehouse Asso- 

 ciation, held jointly in the asso- 

 ciation warehouse at Flora. Two 

 hundred members of the aasocia- 

 tions and their families attended 

 the meeting, some of then! com- 

 ing fifty miles. 



After a short business session^ 

 with John Rogier presiding, the 

 meeting adjourned to participate 

 in a picnic lunch provided by 

 the women and served upon a 

 sixty-foot table, cafeteria style. 

 The Exchange furnished plenty 

 of lemonade and iced tea. 



Walton Peteet, secretairy of 

 the National Cooperative Asso- 

 ciation, addressed the meeting at 

 the afternoon session, disoussing 

 the general conditions of the co- 

 operative movement, particularly 

 the financial problems of co- 

 operatives. 



The treasurer's reports of the 

 two organizations were made by 

 L. A. Evans, of the finance de- 

 partment of the I. A. A., who 

 audited their accounts. These 

 reports from the treasury of 

 each organization show that the 

 year just past has been a very suc- 

 cessful one for both organisations. 



Cotton Produjcers 

 Meet To Consider 

 A Marketing Pool 



Cotton farmers ttom southern 

 Illinois met in Moubd City, July 

 2, with G. E. Metzger, organisa- 

 tion director of the ]l. A. A., and 

 considered the fori^ation of an 

 Illinois cotton growers' pool. A 

 report from an orgakiization com- 

 mittee which had Investigated 

 the possibilities of si^ch a pool In- 

 dicated that a growers' market- 

 ing organization wpuld be ad- 

 visable. Further ^tudy of the 

 situation is to be piade by the 

 committee and their; report beard 

 at a meeting late in July when 

 final consideration yilll be given 

 to the proposed mat-keting plan. 



Growers in other cotton pro- 

 ducing states operate pools, all 

 of which affiliate wiith the Amer- 

 ican Cotton Growe^' Exchange. 

 The proposed Illinois growers' 

 pool would be estsiblished upon 

 a similar plan. 



This season, the first tor many 

 years, shows a material increase 

 in the acreage of ootton in Illi- 

 nois. The latest estimate on the 

 1924 cotton crop according to 

 the agricultural statistician at 

 Springfield, places the acreage at 

 16,000. Early in dbe season It 

 was expected there I would be at 

 least 25,000 acres but bad 

 weather and unfavprable condi- 

 tions have reduced the acreage 

 seriously. > 



The directors of several Ford 



county cooperatives have recently 

 considered favorably the Illinois 

 Agricultural Cooperatives Asso- 

 ciation auditing service. The 

 Ford County Farm Bureau has 

 subscril>ed for membership in the 

 auditing association,. 



"AMERICAN COUNCIL 

 OF AGRICULTURE" IS 

 FRAMED AT ST. PAUL 



minoi* Agricuhwal Aaaodation 



Has Several Representatives 



There; Cowlcs Is Elected 



Secretary 



A centralized body which will 

 co-ordinate the efforts of all 

 farm organiza- 

 1 1 o n 8 toward 

 securing the 

 enactment o t 

 some measure 

 h 1 c h would 

 embody the 

 principles o t 

 the M c N a r y- 

 H a u g e n bill 

 was formed 

 last week at St. 

 Paul when 150 

 represen- 

 tatives from 

 approxl- 

 mately 60 farm organizations met 

 in conference. It was definitely 

 and clearly expt^ssed that the 

 National Conncll of AEricuHure 

 is to supplement existing farm or- 

 ganizations, not to re-place them, 

 and is to concentrate its efforts 

 upon securing legislative enact- 

 ment along the lines of the Mc- 

 Nary-Haugen bill. The Council 

 will devote iu entire energies 

 to this end. The nation-wide 

 conference was called immedi- 

 ately after the defeat of the Mc- 

 Nary - Haugen 

 bill in the last 

 Congress. The 

 name is "The 

 American 

 Council of 

 A g r 1 c a 1 - 

 ture." An ex- 

 ecutive c o m- 

 mittee was ap- 

 pointed, c o n- 

 sisting of IS 

 members. The 

 purpose of the 

 National Coun- 

 EY«.tasl>.m j[, o, Agricul- 

 ture is primarily to obtain equal- 

 ity for agriculture through leg- 

 islative remedies. The fact that 

 agriculture has organized into a 

 central body, one that will speak 

 for all agricultural organizations 

 in one mighty, authoritative 

 voice, is tMiught by farm leaders 

 to be a progressive step. The 

 Council is to meet annually and 

 will probably open an office in 

 Washington. Temporary head- 

 quaners will be at our I. A. A. 

 office in Chicago. 



The Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation was well represented at 

 the conference, 

 having in at- 

 tendance the 

 three members 

 of our legisla- 

 tive committee, 

 F. D. Barton, 

 Cornell, chair- 

 man; H. E. 

 G e m b e 1, 

 Hooppole, and 

 A. C. Evering- 

 h a m, Hutson- 

 Tille, as well as 

 R. A. Cowles, „ ^ „ ,_, 

 director of 11- "" "^ f-"^' 

 nance, Bloomingto" ; L. E. War- 

 ner, president, Henry County 

 Farm Bureau; Ernest D. Walker. 

 Stronghurst, Henderson county 



(CoRtlnufd on pac** *t 



A. C. 



