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Volume 2 



Issued Every Other Saturday — August 16, 1924 



Number 16 



PRESIDENT COOUDGE 

 ASKED FOR A STUDY 

 OF FARMER'S NEEDS 



Letter From Council To Insure 

 For Its Product "An Amer- 

 ican Price for American 

 Requirements" 



Stating that the current in- 

 crease in the price of certain farm 

 products promises only Immediate 

 relief, with no assurance for the 

 future, and that the fundamental 

 causes of the agricultural depres- 

 sion have not been removed, the 

 American Council of Agriculture, 

 in a message sent recently to 

 President Coolidge, petitioned the 

 President to have appointed by 

 the Secretary of Agriculture "an 

 extraordinary commission" to 

 study the situation and needs of 

 agriculture and recommend defi- 

 nite remedial legislation to Con- 

 gress with a view to its enactment 

 during the coming short session. 

 Unified AKriculteire 



The American Council of Agri- 

 culture was formed at St. Paul, 

 last month, as a result of the uni- 

 fication of agricultural interests 

 during the period of activity in 

 behalf of the McNary-Haugen 

 bill. Pledging itself to safeguard 

 American agriculture, its first def- 

 inite move to that end was the 

 communication of the following 

 letter to President Coolidge: 

 AMERICAN COUNCIL OF 

 AGRICULTURE 

 Organized to Secure 



"Equality for Agriculture" 

 July Thirty-first, 1924. 

 Headquarters: 

 1200 Transportation Bldg., 

 608 South Dearborn St., 

 Chicago, Illinois. 

 The Honorable Calvin Coolidge, 

 President of the United States, 

 The White House. 

 Dear Mr. President: — 



The American Council of Agri- 

 culture was formed at St. Paul, 

 Minnesota, July 11th and 12th, 

 1924, by 150 accredited and au- 

 thorized representatives of ap- 

 proximately 50 farm organiza- 

 tions comprising practically all 

 national, state and principal local 

 organizations in the United States. 

 The Council is a central body de- 

 puted to speak for these organiza- 

 tions on the subject^ of this letter 

 by their unanimous mandate. 

 The authoritative expression of 

 'its purpose is: 



"To secure the enactment by 

 Congress of the necessary reme- 

 dial legislation to create equality 

 for agriculture with industry and 

 labor under the principles of the 

 McNary-Haugen Bill." 



The Council regards the subject 

 as essentially economic rather 

 than political and it therefore re- 

 frains from making any compari- 

 son between the respective plat- 

 forms of the Republican, Demo- 

 cratic and Progressive parties. 

 The Council's prime purposes are: 

 To define and make certain the 

 demands of agriculture, to pre- 

 vent those demands from becom- 

 ing the football of partisan poll- 

 tics, and, with no attempt to in- 

 fluence the election in favor of 

 any party, to hasten and insure 

 effective and definite action at the 

 short session of Congress. 



The Council does not regard 

 the current Increase in the price 

 of farm products as fundamental- 

 ly meeting the requirements of 

 the agricultural situation, hut on 

 the contrary believes that these 

 requirements can be met only by 

 definitely and permanently estab- 

 lishing agriculture on a parity 

 with industry and labor by ex- 

 tending to it the principles of the 

 (Continued on paee S) 



VIEWS AT LOGAN COUNTY CHAUTAUQUA GROUNDS 



KliTT-n P«IkerM, Harold Gnulrnpp and Donald ^%~llllamn ^ Junior chaaiplon dairy Judfcm of Ike 

 world— with thrlr coach. "Dad" \\ Inc. nlll he In Lincoln for our 1. A. A. picnic. The? will kavr with 

 them the beantifal London Duil>~ ^liill trophy which they won at Hn^nnrdisheath. Knfcland. <kne of the 

 boyn will tell about club work and their trip abroad. 



Courts Hold Co-op 

 Marketing Contract 

 To Be Elnforceable 



In a decision handed down re- 

 cently the Appellate Court of Il- 

 linois for the second district sus- 

 tained the Circuit Court of Mc- 

 Henry county in its holding that 

 a marketing contract in Illinois is 

 enforceable, both by way of spe- 

 cific performance and by an in- 

 junction against the producer 

 from selling outside the coopera- 

 tive to which he has contracted 

 to sell his produce. The order 

 for specific performance would re- 

 quire the producer to carry out 

 the terms of the contract and 

 compel him to sell his milk 

 through the milk marketing com- 

 pany. 



The case was one in which a 

 producer, Arthur L. Bell, had 

 signed a contract to sell all the 

 milk and cream from his cows 

 through the Milk Producers Mar- 

 keting Company, a cooperative, 

 non-profit corporation. The con- 

 tract was signed in December. 

 1923, according to which Bell was 

 to deliver his milk and cream to 

 the cooperative to March 1, 1924, 

 and thereafter, continuously, un- 

 less the contract was cancelled by 

 a written notice from the milk 

 marketing company. 



The company alleged that Bells 

 cows produced 47,700 pounds of 

 milk from January 1. 1923, to 

 April 17, 1923, which he sold to 

 parties other than the Producers 

 Company. The latter took the 

 case to the Circuit Court which 

 held that the contract was bind- 

 ing. The defendant carried it to 

 the Appellate Court which sus- 

 tained the opinion of the Circuit 

 Court. 



The marketing company in this 



instance was organized under the 

 old membership act and not under 

 the Cooperative Marketing .\ct of 

 1H23. Copies of the written opin- 

 ion of the Court are available by 

 application to our I. \. \. legal: 

 department. 



Wicker Will Study 



At Co-op Institute 



GeoFKe R. Wicker, general 

 manager of our cooperative ac- 

 counting service, will represent 

 our I. A. A. at the International 

 Institute on Cooperation, which 

 is to be held in 1925. at »everal 

 points in the United States. 



The plan for creating an Inter- 

 national Institute on Cooperation 

 was originated at a meeting of 

 agricultural o r g a n i z a tions at 

 Washington, D. C. last February. 

 The purpose of the institute is to 

 correlate and assimilate th» prin- 

 ciples of cooperative marketing. 



A temporary organization meet- 

 ing was held in Washington in 

 April at which arrangements were 

 made for a conference of the or- 

 ganizations represented at the 

 first meeting and other organiza- 

 tions of a bona fide cooperative 

 character. This conference meets 

 in Cleveland, August 11, the 

 deadline date for this RECORD, 

 and continues in session until 

 August 1 7. Mr. Wicker will at- 

 tend the conference and give us 

 further information for the next 

 RECORD. 



.\ new motion piclare storj- 



showing the work of the farm 

 bureau in Illinois is in the mak- 

 ing by our I. A. A. and the 

 Homestead Films Company. It 

 will be shown throughout the 

 state this fall. 



School Commission 

 Asks I.A.A. Officials 

 To Serve on Council 



J. C. Watson, director of our 

 I. \. A. taxation department, and 

 J. L. Whisnand. executive com- 

 mitteeman from the 19th District 

 have been appointed by H. E. Kel- 

 ly. Chairman of the illinbis Edu- 

 cational Commission, to serve on 

 the Advisory Council to the C(M|i- 

 mission. 



The Educational Commission, 

 created by law for the purpose of 

 reporting to the next legislature 

 on the problems affecting the pub-' 

 lie schools of Illinois, has asked 

 the assistance of civic organiza- 

 tions throughout the state. The 

 appointment of the Advisory 

 Council was authorized in Chica- 

 go recently. 



One of the poignant questions 

 relating to the public schools 

 problem is that of taxation, which 

 centers around'the equalization of 

 the tax burden by modernizing 

 the present lax system. In the 

 capacity of adviser on taxes Mr. 

 Watson is qualified to assume an 

 important responsibility as a mem 

 ber of the Council. 



Mr. Whisnand, as chairman of 

 our I. A. A. educational commit- 

 tee, has pushed the rural school 

 survey, being made by George W. 

 Willet and C. B. Althous for the 

 committee. He has t>een associat- 

 ed with the schools of Illinois In 

 various capacities, having been 

 Superintendent of Schools in 

 Coles county at one time. 



LINCOLN WIU BE 

 MECCA OF ILLINOIS 

 FARMERS ON 26TH 



Holiday WiU Hare No DuU 

 Moments ; Baseball, Horse- 

 shoes, Junior Sports, Swim- 

 ming and Speaking 



Last call for our I. A. A. pic- 

 nic at Lincoln, August 26! 



Illinois farmers who heard I>o- 

 gan county Karni Adviser. J. H. 

 Checkley. tell about the planx 

 for the picnic, over station WLS. 

 last Wednesday noon know that 

 he -has arranged a "hum-dinger" 

 of a program and they are get- 

 ting ready to "pack up their 

 troubles in their old tin Ford" 

 and drive to the Logan county 

 Chautauqua grounds the 26th. 



Beginning in 

 the morning 

 with ba/eball. 

 horseshoes and 

 other sports 

 and winding 

 up in the after- 

 noon with a n 

 address b J' F. 

 W. Murphy of 

 Minnesota, the 

 program isn't I 



going t o have | 



a dull moment Kraak w. Marnky 

 in it. 



Mr. Murphy, who is well post- 

 ed on agricultiiral legislative 

 needs, will discuss the agricul- 

 tural situation as it is today and 

 »^11 tell our farmers about the 

 American Council of Agriculture 



Without wanting to over-do a 

 good thing and yet desiring that 

 our I. A. A. members get ac- 

 quainted with Mr. Murphy, we 

 are reproducing ' his portrait in 

 this issue of the RECORD, the 

 third time within a very short 

 period. 



Special supervisors will take 

 care of tBj" little children while 

 their mothers listen to a special 

 program for the women folks in 

 the morning. Mrs. C. W. Sewell 

 of Indiana will talk at this meet- 

 ing on the subject. "The Nation'^ 

 Debt to the Farm Home." 



One of the biggest attractions 

 will be the baseball game for the 

 state farm bureau championship. 

 The title will be hotly contested 

 for by the winning teams in the 

 Galesburg and Springfield dis- 

 tricts. The pennant winners in 

 th>8e two leagues will l>e decided 

 shortly before the 26th. 



Hot Horxendioe Battles 



The battle for the state horse- 

 shoe championship will be equal- 

 ly as hot as that In baseball. Sev- 

 er»I weeks ago Farm Adviser 

 Cl»eckley reported that farm bu- 

 reau communities from all parti 

 of the state have entered in th< 

 horseshoe contest. 



A later report says there will 

 be a four passenger, Italian- 

 built, cabin type airplane near 

 the picnic grounds to ,take up 

 a -limited number of passengers 

 during the day. The plane is 

 equipped with card tables, buffet 

 and radio like a small boat 

 cabin. 



Just take a look at the base- 

 ball and horseshoe trophies In 

 the RECORD and picture the ex- 

 citement you will have at the 

 Liscoln picnic! .We make a 

 statement similar 40 one made 

 before our annual I. A. A. picnic 

 \uk year — "Lincoln will be the 

 Mecca of organized Illinois agri- 

 culture on August 26 — and no 

 mistake!" 



In Effiniiltam county petitions 

 are being circulated to put the 

 tuberculosis eradication question 

 on the ballots at the November 

 election. 



In IMM^thr flmt car of lime- 

 stone was purchased In Illinois 

 for agricultural purposes. Last 

 year 400,000 tons were pur- 

 chased. 



