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The DlinoU Agricultural AMociation Record 



Angurt 16, 1924 



Published every other Saturday by the XlliQOiB Agricul- 

 tural Association. 608 South Dearborn Street. Chicago. 

 Illihols. Edited by Department of Information, H. C. 

 Butcher. Director. 



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

 office at Chicago, Olinols, under the act of March >, 1179. 

 Acceptance for mailing at special rates of postage pro- 

 vidwd for in Section llOS, Act of October >, 1*11, author- 

 lied Oct. »1, 1»81. 



The Individual membership fee of the Illinois Argicul- 

 tural Association is Ave dollars a year. This fee includes 

 parment of fifty cents for subscription to th« nilnols Ag- 

 rlcpltural Association Record. 



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OFFICERS 

 Preeident, S. H. Thompson, <iaincj. 

 Vice-President, C. B. Watson, DeKalb. 

 Treasnrer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomington. 

 fieeretary, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore. 



EXUCUTIVE COSDIITTEB 

 By Congressional Districts 



lllh Jacob Olbrlch, Harvard 



12th j G, F. Tultock, Roclcford 



13th { C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



14th J. W. H. Moody, Port Byron 



1Sth.,..t. H. E. Goembel, Hooppole 



16th....;.; A. R. Wright. Varna 



ITlh I F. D. Barton, Cornell 



iath.....j..> ..., R. F. Karr, Iroquois 



IMh J J. L. Whisnand, Charleston 



2(Kh Earl C. Smith, Detroit 



21st Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



22nd : Stanley Castle, Alton 



23rd ] J. E. LIngenfelter, Lawrenceville 



24th J Curt Anderson, Xenia 



2Sth Vernoa Lesstey, Sparta 



Directors of Departments 

 I. A. A. Office 



Gsneral Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H, Kellter; 

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

 Transportation, L. J. Quasey, Statistics, J. C. Wstson; 

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

 A, B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, Wm. E, Hedgeock; 

 Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Ph6sphate-Llmestone, 

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

 Qeugler; speciat representative on Tuberculosis Eradi- 

 cation, M. H. Petersen; Legal Counsel, Donald Kirk- 

 patrick; Cooperative Accounting, Gee. R. Wicker. 



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Don't Forget the Picnic 



Don't forget that our I. A. A. state picnic is 

 Tuesday. August 26, at Lincoln. Arrangements 

 h»ve been made so that everyone, from young to 

 olid and from frivolous to pious, will hove some 

 kjnd of entertainment. 



' We Await the Fact* 



The public, through farm paper editors, news- 

 paper men, and farm bureau officials from many 

 states, has been invited in to see just what happened 

 in the publicity turmoil during the formation of 

 tke Grain Marketing Company. Questions were 

 asked by farm paper editors, newspaper men, farm 

 bureau people and whatnot during a week in which 

 a series of three meetings of two days each was 

 hpld and were answered by officials of the Grain 

 >farketing Company and of the vending companies. 



J Gray Silver, Washington representative of the 

 American Farm Bureau Federation and president 

 of the Grain Marketing Company, took the lead in 

 . all the meetings explaining the farmer's side. He 

 piointed out many savings through cutting over- 

 head expenses and through the farmer partially 

 controlling his grain market. His points had been 

 conceded by nearly everybody who had followed 

 the undertaking. 



I The grain marketing man's- side was explained 

 h|>- E. F. Rosenbaum of The Rosenbaum Grain Com- 

 pany, one of the firms taken over by the Grain Mar- 

 k|eting Company. 



I Questions that were asked officials of the Grain 

 ^llarketing Company were answered by them in the 

 light of their existing information and upon which 

 tpe gigantic deal was consummated. 



1 But did officials of the Grain Marketing Com- 

 pany have sufficient authoritativfe information be- 

 fbre going into the deal T Did the officials have the 

 information on the points enumerated in the Au- 

 gu-st 2 RECORD? Will the developments in the 

 formation of the Grain Marketing Company com- 

 rtiand sufficient confidence on the part of recog- 

 nized farm leaders to insure ultimate success? 



I Our Illinois Agricultural Association has indi- 

 dated no specific approval of the new Grain Mar- 

 l^eting Company. It has made preparation for a 

 thorough investigation and will proceed with dis- 

 patch a.s soon as the information to be furnished by 

 the Grain Marketing Company is made available. 

 In the meantime, our association is maintaining 

 an independent attitude and re^rving judgment. 

 The investigation will be made for the benefit of 

 producers who may be called upon to become mem- 

 bers and stockholders. It will not be influenced by 

 propaganda or publicity either for or against the 

 new company. Our association recognizes that 

 individuals who have associated tllemselves with the 



new movement may be over zealous and private in- 

 terests who stand to gain or lose may be tempted 

 to make claims that cannot be substantiated. Our 

 association has a duty to its members; namely, to 

 make a calm and deliberate appraisal by competent 

 and impartial authorities. This will' be done as 

 soon as information is made available and in the 

 shortest possible time. If an honest effort is in- 

 tended by the promoters, they will be given an op- 

 portunity to demonstrate their honesty of purpose 

 as well as prove that there is no selfish ulterior 

 purpose to which producers would not knowingly 

 and willing become a party. The open-minded at- 

 titude is retained. 



1 - Farm Women, Please Note 



Farm Bureau folks, on the back page is your 

 last chance to get a little parcel of humanity to 

 make happy. 



The United Charities has set August 19 as the 

 last day they can send poor little Chicago chil- 

 dren into the country for outings. There are hun- 

 dreds of little tots that have been left behind this 

 year because the country folks all over seem to 

 have been too busy this year to give outings to the 

 usual number of kiddies. Last year we placed 

 463 ; this year it 's only 206 to date. 



Hundreds of the little duffers have been disap- 

 pointed this year. Three brothers and two sisters 

 happily trudged to the station where they were 

 to meet the United Charities worker and be taken 

 to the eountrj-. But there were places for only 

 fouE. The fifth had to stay back in hot, grinding, 

 Chicago all alone. His disappointment was great. 

 You can change at least one or two of these disap- 

 pointments to happiness by filling in the blank on 

 the back page. 



The Agricultural Situation 



- By R, A. Cowtmm, S^erttary, 



Ammrican Comncit of Amricatturm ■ \ 



The condition of agriculture, the country's basic 

 industry, is generally admitted and understood by 

 all who are really informed. 



The condition is the result of the position or sit- 

 uation in which agriculture finds itself, in our pe- 

 culiar American economic structure — out of bal- 

 ance. The defect is now apparent, forcing the 

 farmer to produce at high costs, both of commod- 

 ities and services, reflecting American standards of 

 living, and to sell such coinmodities as wheat, corn, 

 hogs and cattle in competition with the world's 

 lowest standards. He is competing with Argentina, 

 Australia, Russia, India, and all other countries. 

 He is forced to meet the competition of rich new 

 soils, of cheap water transportation rates, or peon 

 and peasant labor— all because of the tyranny of 

 the surplus created in an unorganized indpstry — 

 agriculture. 



In practical operation, our American protective 

 tariff system operates to the benefit of the producer, 

 as to commodities of which exportable surpluses are 

 produced, only when the industry is organized to 

 the extent that the surplus may be segregated from 

 that portion of the commodity required for domes- 

 tic consumption — a process that results in the ad- 

 vantageous sale of the major portion, at an Ameri- 

 can protected price and the lesser surplus, selling 

 in the world's market at lower world's price levels. 



Industrial America has long since recognized 

 this principle, and through its organizations, under 

 legislative enactments passed by Congress in its 

 interests, operates accordingly. 



Industry has been enabled to organize for export 

 trade with comparative ease. It has involved the 

 formation of voluntary organizations in which a 

 comparatively few men were readily in accord or 

 who could mutually adjust their differences for 

 common good. 



Agriculture, on the other hand, is carried on in 

 rural America by many millions of our people who 

 are widely scattered into every state of the Union. 

 It is an industry of as man.v individual plants out 

 of communication with each other. It is utterly 

 impossible for its individual proprietors, either as 

 such or through its voluntary organizations, with 

 limitations, to organize for an,v such purpose al- 

 though there maj- be complete unanimity of desire 

 to do so. 



Let the farmer observe the many organized drain- 

 age and irrigation districts over the country which 

 were organized under provisions of legislative en- 

 actment. Our legislative bodies have recognized in 

 this case the necessity of forming, in the interests 

 of the public, a "public" (involuntary) corpora- 

 tion for the benefit of the majority. No voluntary 

 organization was possible, a fact proven over and 

 again. The human element present precluded it. 



The tyranny of the minority prevailed. The lands 

 before inclusion in the organized drainage districts 

 were either unproductive or produced in part only, 

 under favorable conditions of rain faU. The pro- 

 motion of such organized districts has been a sta- 

 bilizing process. It has stabilized production in the 

 areas organized. 



The precedent is already established — years ago. 

 Its beneficial results are proven. The country has 

 been the beneficiary. Not one of the manj- who 

 have had experience in such matters would venture 

 that the results could be obtained under any pro- 

 cess of voluntary organization. 



The broad principles, and the recognition of the 

 human element underlying these cases, are equally 

 applicable to the problem of segregating the sur- 

 plus of our major agricultural commodities, so that 

 the greater portion consumed in domestic trade 

 may exchange generally on a stabilized approxi- 

 mate price parity with the commodities and serv- 

 ices required by the farmer. 



The basic principles embodied in the McNarj-- 

 Haugen BiU were these — nothiiig more. The bill 

 was merely an adaption of these same principles to 

 the problem confronting, not only agriculture, but 

 the whole country. The bill as such is dead; de- 

 feated in Congress. The principles live on, sound 

 in their economics and now thoroughly recognized 

 over the country by farmers and their organiza- 

 tions. 



Quite recently, current prices of certain grains 

 and fat live stock have advanced substantially on 

 the markets. This improvement in prices has been 

 the occasion for widespread, well organized propa- 

 ganda on the part of the inspired metropolitan 

 press. It would seem to have been rather over- 

 done, but nevertheless the real issue — the disad- 

 vantageous position occupied by agriculture due to 

 a fundamental defect in our peculiar American 

 economic structure — is being rather adroitly cov- 

 ered up. 



It must be perfectly obvious to the friends of the 

 farmer, as it is to the farmer, that the same forces, 

 both economic and man-made, to which the current 

 advance is attributable promises at best improve- 

 ment only in the immediate condition of agriculture 

 and do not address its fundamental defect — 

 wfth no assurance whatever of permanency or sta- 

 bility for the future. Further, that current prices 

 exist today not as an accomplishment of agriculture 

 or its organizations, directly, but on the other hand 

 are quite beyond its control. This is particularly 

 true with production. 



Agriculture, unorganized as it is, and through 

 its many millions of individual plants, scattered 

 throughout rural America, incapable of "combining 

 for export," as organized industry does, remains 

 subject to the tyranny of the unorganized sur- 

 pluses of those commodities produced in volumes 

 over and above domestic consumptive needs, as has 

 already been pointed out. Is "big business" advo- 

 cating, as a sound policy for the farmer, a contin- 

 uance of this policy? Or rather is it this; that a 

 continuance would leave entirely undisturbed the 

 system and those dealing in the commodities of 

 agriculture 1 



THE LIARS' CONTEST 



H«re are Home Kood lies from oar oivn lUlnolii, 

 the stale where everythlngr fcrown tall— «orn, men 

 and storieti. .^ead uh Rome more. We've had aoaie 

 bl|r ■torniH lately, by the way, but some of the old 

 realdentB have doubtlesM seen bisser ones. Tell ns 

 about *em— ^ind the more yon send the better we 

 like It. 



YOr SHOL'LD START AN' S. P. C P. 



(Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Fllv-vers) 



Theae folk* that are complalnla' about hard 

 timea and all thut— they mnat be cobTvebby. I bin 

 makin money band over flat. 



I've firot a lot or ronsrh frraaa Innd. Alons late 

 winter I go to ChlcaKO and buy three, four ear- 

 loada of poor, run down flirvera that alnt come 

 through the winter well, and turn 'e«n out on Krnaa 

 In the Hprlnx. 1 take theae crippled up and run 

 down fllva and with the Judieloua uae of a little 

 balin wire and chewln fcum I aoon have them 

 climbing theae hllla on hls^h and puttiu on flniah 

 off their chenp Nunimer pnaturc. 



I set *rm for about $10 a car. and set *em all 

 ahaped on pnature about vacation time when the 

 market ia tip-top. I fumiah free air, free water 

 and icraaBolene, and Kenerally set 975 to flOO apiece 

 for *em. 



Home of the fllva I f^^t are ao ma down there*a 

 nothin to 'em. I have a bunch of icoata I feed the 

 careaaaea to, aud %^cy pick 'em clean to the akele* 

 ton. I've known a Roat to eat four tlrea ofTen a 

 flivver and nrain 00 pounda. Henry aald he didn't 

 like to aee the akeletuna Inyin nroundt aald a Ford. 

 like a mule, waan't anppoaed to quit; ao I fot a 

 contract out of Henry for akeletona F. O. B. De- 

 troit, «10 per car.— Elmer Waddell, TaylorvUle. II- 

 llnoia. 



AND, SPEAKIXG OF HILLS— 

 Dear Mr. Ltart 



My dad doeaa't like to raiae potatoea becauae It 

 ia auch hard work to dl^ them, ao laat year I per- 

 auaded him to let me ralae the apuda. I planted 

 them on a ateep hill on our farm, with the furrowa 

 rnnninK up and down the alopc. When they were 

 ready to diic, I duK a hill at the bottom of the' row. 

 and had dad hold a aack at that hole w^hlle I 

 walked up the furrow with a aledge hammer and 

 hammered on each hill of apuda in turn. JarrtnK 

 them looae ao they rolled down the hill Into the 

 aaclc— Charles NelaOn, Virginia, Illinoia. 



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