I Augwt 16 , 1924 



The Illinois Agricultural Association Record 



Pace 3 



GOUaER REVIEWS 

 WORK OF POULTRY 

 AND EGG MARKETING 



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V 



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Outlines Aims of Department; 



Illinois Poultrymen Face 



Long Time Program of 



Standardization 



p. A. Oonsl^r 



Editor'i Ifote: Thit U tht fourth 

 of a teriei of thnilar articUi to be 

 Turitten by I. A. A. departmental dir 

 rectort telling of the work done in 

 e<ich department. 



By F. A. Gougler 



Director, Poultry u»l E(k Marketing 



The Poultry and Egg Market 

 Ing department of our I. A. A. has 

 been asked tor a report of prog- 

 ress, plans and policies of this de 

 partment. Being so new on the 

 job, I hesitate to respond to the 

 requests made. Nevertheless, it 

 is due the member to know where 

 the poultry department stands on 

 this vital subject and what sug- 

 gestions we have to offer. 



The progress made to date 

 means what we have to point to 

 in the way of accomplishments 

 since this department was created. 

 With the pres- 

 e n t director, 

 the third one 

 on the job in 

 less than 3 

 years, it is an 

 easy matter to 

 explain why 

 nothing of a 

 permanent n a- 

 ture in the way 

 t cooperative 

 poultry and egg 

 marketing has 

 been done. 



This is not meant to insinuate 

 that my predecessors did not do 

 their duty and do it well, but 

 rather to state that it takes one 

 considerable time to get his bear- 

 ings on so comprehensive a proj- 

 ect as our poultry and egg mar- 

 keting problem is. 



Two Major Projects 

 After taking up the work in 

 this department in June, 1924, 

 the first thing we did was to find 

 out what Mr. Harper had outlined 

 in the way of a program and it 

 was learned that two major proj- 

 ects were under way, namely; 

 first, establishing accredited 

 hatcheries in Illinois, and second, 

 getting the egg trade to buy eggs 

 on a graded basis. 



Both of these projects have 

 been followed up to the present 

 time. About 15 of our largest 

 hatcheries came under the accred- 

 ited plan this year and we antici- 

 pate double the number will come 

 over to the accredited plan next 

 year. From the market point of 

 view accredited hatcheries mean 

 more standard flocks and this In 

 turn means standard market poul- 

 try and eggs, which in turn with a 

 market buying on grade should 

 mean more money to the good 

 producer. 



Getting the egg trade to buy 

 eggs on graded basis has met with 

 little success, except here and 

 there in the state. It has resulted 

 in a great deal of publicity and a 

 better understanding of the im- 

 portance of establishing uniform 

 egg grades and establishing price 

 quotations on well established 

 grades. 

 1 To Develop Plan 



X For the next year it is our plan 

 "if to continue on these two impor 

 Ik tant projects. Farm bureau mem 

 f bers will hear more about them in 



I. the future. 

 We are also mindful of the fact 

 • that many members as well as 

 farm advisers are wondering what 

 'X this department has to offer in 

 I the way of a plan for marketing 

 '» poultry and eggs cooperatively. 



With this in mind we are study- 

 .ng and collecting information as 

 rapidly as possible with the hope 

 it developing during the next year 

 1 plan suitable to Illinois condi- 

 .ions. Organizations that are 

 now operating in other states are 

 being studied and data collected. 

 Study Minnesota Plan 



Recently I made a trip to Min- 

 nesota to collect information on 

 their plan of organization and 

 business methods. Their plan 

 provides for dividing the state in- 

 to districts and each district must 

 secure not less than 1,000 mem- 

 bers who shall market their pro- 

 duce through their cooperatively 

 owned market house. At the pres- 

 ent time Minnesota has seven dis- 

 tricts completely organized and 

 selling eggs, or are nearly ready 

 to sell for their members. 



Within two years they hope to 

 have the entire state completely 

 organized into districts, probably 

 30 altogether and a single state 

 agency selling for all of them. 



During July it was our good 



Trophln Ihnt will b» Klvra to tl>» 

 n-lnnliiK bniirball and horaenhoe 

 teantM In the I. A. A. oontesta at 

 Lincoln. 



BigasvMIe, til. 

 Aug. 6, 1924. 

 Illinois Agricultural Ass'n: 



Dear Sirs: — Yours of July 

 31, In regard to Biggsville 

 stockyards; will say that 

 they have them clean. The 

 agent at Biggsville and I 

 have tried for 8 months to 

 get them cleaned. Just three 

 days after you took this mat- 

 ter up they had men in clean- 

 ing them. We. appreciate 

 your service very much and 

 many thanks. 

 (Signed) 



Paul Stevenson, Mgr., 

 Biggsville Shipping Ass'n. 



fortune to study three of these 

 districts, one which had begun 

 handling eggs a month before, an- 

 other had three months' experi- 

 ence and still another about a 

 yeai of business to its credit. 



From these we collected a lot 

 of valuable information. Minne- 

 sota has worked out a wonderful 

 system, but with it they are hav- 

 ing their troubles. We had the 

 pleasure one evening of sitting in 

 a meeting of the Board of Direc- 

 tors of a district and it soon de 

 veloped that they had problems 

 which were giving them consider- 

 able concern, all of which led the 

 writer to conclude that a great 

 deal of preliminary work must be 

 done in a district along educa- 

 tional lines and surveys before the 

 district is ready for its member- 

 ship campaign. 



Consider Missouri Co^op 

 Readers of the RECORD and 

 farm papers have noted that at 

 Hannibal, Mo., a cooperative poul- 

 try and egg marketing association 

 is being formed which is called 

 the Mark Twain Poultry Market- 

 ing Association. Missouri organ- 

 izers for the past six months have 

 been trying to interest three or 

 four Illinois counties in joining 

 them in this movement, but re- 

 centlv a joint meeting was called 

 at Pittsfleld, III. 



Farm advisers Ray Miller. Ad- 

 ams county, Guy Hustead, Scott 

 county and Frank Barrett. Pike 

 county, as well as farm bureau 

 presidents and others including 

 Earl Smith, chairman I. A. A 

 Committee of Organization, at- 

 tended for the purpose of decid- 

 ing whether or not they should 

 join the Missouri poultrymen in 

 this campaign. 



Develop Definite Procram 

 After an all day conference it 

 was voted that we are not ready 

 to undertake such organization. 



This action was not taken with 

 the idea of jeopardizing the cam- 

 paign in the least on the Missouri 

 side but merely for the purpose 

 of waiting until Illinois formu- 

 lates a poultry and egg marketing 

 plan and develops a definite pol- 

 icy covering these points. 



Our I. A. A. members can be 

 assured that at this time the fol- 

 lowing department heads includ- 

 ing myself are developing a pro- 

 posed poultry and egg marketing 

 plan for Illinois: L. J. Quasey. 

 Transportation; G. E. Metzger, 

 Organization; Donald Kirkpat- 

 rick. Legal Aspects; Geo. R. Wick- 

 er, Accounting. 



When this plan is finally com- 

 pleted it will be submitted for 

 criticism to a committee of mar 

 ket experts of the College of Ag 

 riculture, government poultry 

 and egg marketing experts and a 

 large committee of farm advisers. 

 It will probably be six months or 

 a year before this plan is in final 

 form. 



Quality Ls Obstacle 

 In the meantime those counties 

 or communities that are eager to 

 do cooperative poultry and egg 

 marketing can very profitably de- 

 vote their time to studying the 

 production of quality eggs. There 

 is no greater obstacle to coopera- 

 tive marketing than the question 

 of producing quality eggs. It is 

 the one thing even in our highly 

 developed commercial poultry dis- 

 tricts, that requires coLstant agi- 

 tation on the part of managers, to 

 get their members to produce a 

 standard product. 



Here in Illinois with 95 per 

 cent of our poultry producers on 

 farms that look upon pouItr7 as 

 a side line in farming, it will ne- 

 cessitate a long time program of 



County farm bureau picnics 



ind their speakers as they are 

 cheduled in Illinois: 



Montfiromery county. Hillsboro. Aug. 



19. S. H. Thompson. 

 St. Clair county. Belleville, Aug, 20. 



W. A. Foster. 

 Knox county. Galesburg. Aug. 20. A. 



C. Everingham. 

 Woodford county. Aug. 21. George A. 



Fox. 

 Scott county. Winchester. Auff. 21. 



F. D. Barton. 

 Randolph county. Aug. 21. G. E. 



Metzger. 



Saline county. Aug. 22. G. E. Metz- 

 ger. 



Marshall-Putnam. Henry, Aug. 22. 

 W. E. D. Hummel. 



Peoria county. Aug. 23, H. C. Kes- 

 Binger. 



Monroe county. Waterloo. Aug. 24. 



G. E. Metzger. 

 Gallatin county. Aug. 27, A. C. Ever- 



ingham. 



Coles county. Charlestown. Aug. 28. 

 S. H. Thompson. 



Livingston countv. Falrbury. Aug. 

 28. W. G. Calderw-ood. 



■\\'arren county. Aug. 29, A. C. Ever- 

 ingham. 



Brown county. Mt. Sterling. Aug. 30, 

 A. C. Everingham. 



Wayne county. Fairfield. .Vug. 30. 

 George A. Fox, 



r.ce county. Sept. t. Sam-Crabtree. 



Hancock county, Sept. 6. A. C. Ever- 

 ingham. 



Christian county. Sept. 13. G. E. 

 Metzger. 



Cumberland, Aug. 21. A. C. Evcrlng- 

 ham- 



Jackson. Aug. 28. A. C. Everingham. 



Henderson, Aug. 23. A. C. Evering- 

 ham. 



Menard. .\ug. 22. A. C. Everingham. 



.Stephenson. Aug. 31. A. C. Everinp:- 

 ham. 



Moultrie, Aug. 27. O. E. Metzger. 



Effittgham, Aug. 20. F. D. Barton. 



Lawrence, Aug. 27. C. B. Watson. 



Whiteside. Aug. 21. S. H. Thompson. 



L.ike County. Libertyville. Aug. 20. 

 C. G. Holden. 



itol, at Springfield; Transporta- 

 tion building, which houses our I. 

 A. A. in Chicago; a livestock ex- 

 change building, ware house, 

 creameries and farm bureau 

 oBices. Miniature farm animals 

 grazing in the pastures portray 

 the livestock producing sections of 

 the state. 



Display of Co-ops 

 In addition to the map, exhibits 

 are on display showing the Im- 

 mensity of the agricultural in- 

 dustry of Illinois and its relation- 

 ship to other industries. The 

 importance and number of farm- 

 ers' cooperative elevators, the dis- 

 tribjition and service performed 

 by shipping associations, the pro- 

 ducers terminal agencies, the 

 farmers' interest in transportation 

 by rail and water and other in- 

 teresting phases of farm life are 

 shown. 



The huge representation of the 

 state and the other exhibits of our 

 I. A. A. are located in the center 

 of the agricultural exhibit hall, 

 serving as a nucleus around which 

 are displayed some 20 county 

 farm bureau exhibits. 



The counties having exhibits in 

 the panorama are Boone, De Kalb, 

 Du Page, Grundy, Henry. Kane. 

 Kankakee. Kendall. Lee. Mc- 

 Henry. Mercer, Ogle, Stark, 

 Stephenson, Whiteside, Will and 

 Winnebago. 



Raleiish's Torono's Mrme, a 



Jersey cow owned by Sherman 

 Xursery Company. Charles City. 

 Iowa, has just completed a 365 

 day record which makes her 

 world's champion two year old 

 Jersey for l>oth milk and butter 

 fat production. Her record is 

 16,000 pounds of milk with 902 

 pounds of butter fat 



J. R. armt 



Fair Vi»itor8 Will 

 See Work of Our 

 I. A. A. On Big Map 



ASK FOR A STUDY 

 OF FARMER'S NEEDS 



(Continued from page 1) 

 protective system in a manner 



On display at the Central States 

 Fair and Exposition at Aurora. 

 Aug. 15 to 23. is a gigantic rep- 

 resentation of Illinois, showing 

 graphically the activities of the 

 several departme'ats of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association and the 

 influence this state farm bureau 

 organization has in state and na- 

 tional affairs. 



The huge map is 10 feet wide 

 by 2« feet long and lies flat like 

 a table. It is being shown at the 

 Aurora Fair for the first time but 

 will later be on exhibition at the 

 Illinois Products Exposition, in 

 Chicago and again at the Spring- 

 field State Fair. 



The entire state' appears green 

 with a crop of imitation grass cov- 

 ering the meadows and fields; the 

 rivers and lakes are represented 

 by real, flowing water and the hills^ 

 of southern Illinois and other 

 topographical features are graph- 

 ically illustrated. 



A model farmstead is shown 

 with the map, equipped with a 

 farmhouse, a barn and other build- 

 ings and farm equipment. Other 

 larger buildings in the exhibit ajre 

 the Illinois Fruit Exchange build- 

 ing, at Centralia; the State cap- 



standardization in egg marketing 

 to bring about material imprm-e- 

 raent In the production of first 

 quality eggs. 



In conclusion permit me to say 

 that no commodity produced on 

 Illinois farms will be so difficult 

 to market cooperatively as poultry 

 and eggs because of their wide 

 distribution, few commercial 

 flocks and lack of understanding 

 on the part of farmers' wives and 

 farm leaders on the importance of 

 quality production. 



Until all this is fully appreciat- 

 ed no effort should be made to 

 market these products coopera- 

 tively in this state. 



which will insure an American 

 price for the American require- 

 ments independent of the world 

 price for the surplus. 



To make certain the accom- 

 plishment o( itsi purpose, the 

 Council by unanimous resolution 

 at its meeting in St. Paul, pledged 

 itself to use its utmost proper in- 

 fluence to withhold and divert 

 farm support from any candidate 

 for Congress, whatsoever his 

 party affiliation may be, who 

 omits or declines to commit him 

 self to its purpose, as defined 

 herein, or who attempts to oh' 

 scure his conimitments by equivo- 

 cal language, or who openly op- 

 poses that purpose. 



The Council specifically affirms 

 that, in speaking for the organ- 

 ized and unorganized farmers of 

 America, it seeks no ill considered 

 action by Congress, nor any legis- 

 lative privilege for agriculture 

 not required to remove from and 

 equalize t o i a n impoverished 

 American agriculture, the insid- 

 ious and none the less effective 

 subsidies assessed against it by 

 the aggressions of other groups 

 and the legislative privileges hith- 

 erto granted to them at the ex- 

 pense of agriculture. 



To this end, and as a means of 

 clarifying all included questions 

 of economics, practicability, and 

 urgency in an atmosphere purged 

 of the elements of partisan and 

 other selfish controversy, and to 

 do so in ample season before the 

 next convention of Congress, the 

 Council, speaking in its proper 

 right for the farm population of 

 the United States, respectfully 

 and earnestly hereby petitions you 

 to direct the SECRETARY OF 

 AGRICULTURE to immediately 

 appoint and convene an extraor- 

 dinary commission to study the 

 situation and needs of agriculture 

 and to recommend definite reme- 

 dial legislation to Congress with a 

 view to its enactment during the 

 short session. To be consistent 

 with the spirit of these purposes, 

 such a commission should ob- 

 vioiisly be non-partisan, should 

 fairly represent agriculture, and 

 should not comprise spokesmen 

 for interests whose circumstances 

 or conduct shows them to be in- 

 herently obtuse or selfishly inimi- 

 cal to the project of securing 

 equality for agriculture under our 

 protective system. 



■Very respectfully, 

 (Signed) Geo. N. Peek. 



President. 

 R. A. Cowlea, Secretary. 



F. W. Murphy, 

 Chairman o( Exec. Com. 

 GSfP— IMS 



FARM BUREAUS ARE 

 RECOGNIZED BY BIG 

 QUARRY COMPANIES 



Plan of I. A. A. Agreed To By 



Limestone Producers; Save* 



Illinois Users More Than 



$60,000 AnnuaUy 



Afier a long period of negotia- 

 tion, ibctween the Limestone quar- 

 ries pf the state and the phos- 

 phate-limestone department of our 

 I. A. A., representing the county 

 farm bureaus of Illinois, the 

 quarBy companies have recognized 

 the firm bureaus in an agreement 

 which will save Illinois farm bu- 

 reau imembers mdre than $60,000 

 annulilly. 



A i>lan drawn 

 up by J. R. 

 Bent.; director 

 of our I. A. A. 

 phosphate-lime- I 

 s t o * e depart- 

 ment, and a c- 

 cepteo recently 

 by mlpst of the 

 largei quarry 

 compimi e s o f i 

 the Mate, has I 

 put the county 

 f a r 4i bureaus 

 of Illinois in the best sitnation 

 they have ever been in on the 

 limestone problem. 



The plan advanced by the phos- 

 phate^limestone department gives 

 recognition to county farm bu- 

 reaus and provides aa inside price 

 by means of discount certificates 

 Issued by the bureau to each pur- 

 chasing farm bureau member at 

 the time he places an order 

 tfaroueh the county farm bureau. 

 Under this plan farm ^ureau 

 members will receive from the 

 farm adviser when placing an or- 

 der, discount certificates ' which 

 will >e accepted by the cojoperat- 

 ing quarry companies as paylnent 

 to the extent pf 10 cents ier ton 

 againBt the bill for the linjestone. 

 Set Xew Record 

 Our phosphate-limestonie de- 

 partment will centinue to tumish 

 order forms in quadruplicilte and 

 will furnish the blank fortns for 

 the cfrrtiflcates. The quarry- com- 

 pany will bill the material at the 

 regular price to the farm bureau 

 IHirchaser, allowing him to ideduct 

 10 celnts per ton when remitting 

 by including (he certificate M part 

 payment. 



It is consen'atively estimated 

 that the annual sa\'ings to farm 

 bureau members, through the re- 

 ductions that have been secured 

 tl»e general , price level and 

 through the special discount made 

 available to them, will amount to 

 more tlian $60,000 as a direct re- 

 sult at the plan. 



With the relationship, in gen- 

 eral, between the quarry com- 

 panies and the farm bureaus the 

 best it has ever been and with the 

 price of limestone in most parts 

 of th« state at a favorable figure 

 for the farmer, it is predicted that 

 1924 will break the record for 

 the amount of agricultural lime- 

 stone used In Illinois. 



.Marshall-Putnam farm bnreao 



will have a "bomliest man" con- 

 test. (Farm Adviser Fuller al- 

 ready entered), a bog-calling con- 

 test for men and a chicken-call- 

 ing contest for women. The 

 homliest man wins three dollars 

 worth of toilet articles, the cham- 

 pion hog-caller an automobile 

 spotlight and a linen table cloth 

 will be given to the winning 

 chicken-caller. 



FARM ADVISEES— 

 . ATTENTION 



The committee arranging 

 for sports at the annual I. A. A. 

 picnic has set 6:30 P. M. 

 Monday, August 25, as the 

 deadline hour for entries in 

 the State horseshoe pitching 

 contest. Counties expecting 

 to have teams in the contest 

 must have entered names of 

 their contestants and the 

 farm adviser must certify to 

 their eligibility by that time. 

 This is the latest possible 

 time at which entries can be 

 received and Is sufficiently 

 late to allow farm advisers 

 to wire the entry to Farm 

 Adviser, J. H. Checkley, at 

 Lincoln, in case the contest- 

 ant's county championship Is 

 decided the afternoon of the 

 2Sth. 



