

Volume 2 



Issued Every Other Saturday, Aug^mt 30, 1924 



No. 17 



12,000 ILLINOISANS 

 FLOCK TO UNCOLN 

 FOR ANNUAL PICNIC 



Carry Out "Entertainment For 



Everyone" Slogan ; Get 



Special Picnic Edition 



of I.A.A. Record 



Twelve thousand Farm Bureau 

 picknickers from all over Illinois 

 flocked to the annual I. A. A. 

 picnic, held at Lincoln, Aug. 26. 

 to find that the slogan "enter- 

 tainment for everyone" had been 

 carried out by J. H. Checkley, 

 Logan county farm adviser, who 

 made arrangements for the pic- 

 knickers' fun. 



Speculation as to the size of 

 the crowd varied from eight to 

 twenty thousand, with a con- 

 servative average of around 12,- 

 000 people. 



Had Good Weather 



As the weather cleared Mon- 

 day for what looked like a nice, 

 long stretch of good threshing 

 weather, it became apparent that 

 many farmers would not be able 

 to leave their shocks and thresh- 

 ing machines. 



However, others pointed out 

 that it was still too wet in many 

 places for threshing, so there was 

 possibility for a great crowd. 



Automobiles irom various coun- 

 ties began to drift into the 

 grounds early on the day of the 

 picnic. As many as 18 counties 

 were represented by the time 

 many Lincoln folks were eating 

 their breakfasts. 



Lincoln Played Host 



The city of Lincoln was host 

 of the day. The Chamber of 

 Commerce extended a royal wel- 

 come to the Farm Bureau folks. 

 It had been active in advertising 

 the picnic and in helping make 

 arrangements for carrying out 

 the slogan "entertainment tor 

 everyone." Flags were hung out 

 by local merchants. 



During the early forenoon 

 most of the picknickers milled 

 around over the spacious Chau- 

 tauqua grounds, shaking hands, 

 discussing crop conditions or pol- 

 itics. A little later, with ten 

 horseshoe games under way at 

 the same time, there was enter- 

 tainment for a large crowd who 

 watched these events. 



The exhibition baseball game 

 in the morning between Menard 

 County Farm Bureau and the 

 Logan county team was almost as 

 big an attraction as the headliner 

 between Marshall - Putnam and 

 Morgan Farm Bureaus. 



Women folks found ample 

 shade underneath the giant trees 

 Of the park. The little folks 

 played on the slippery slide until 

 they were worn out and ready to 

 go home. 



Picnic Edition of RECORD 



By four o'clock farmers from 

 a distance rounded up their fami- 

 lies to call it a day and start on 

 the long road home. As they 

 left the picnic grounds they were 

 given copies of a Special Picnic 

 edition of the I. A. A. RECORD, 

 just off the presses of the Lin- 

 coln Daily Star. 



The paper was an eight page 

 edition published the afternoon 

 of the picnic by the 1. A. A. with 

 the help of several farm advisers 

 so that those who failed to see 

 everything that happened on the 

 grounds might read about it at 

 leisure. 



The Boys' Alfalfa Club, organ- 

 iied by the Vermilion County 

 Farm Bureau and the Agricul- 

 tural committee of the Danville 

 Chamber of Commerce, now has 

 S3 boys enrolled with 53 busi- 

 ness men flnancing the project. 



Henry C. Wallace, secre- 

 tary of agriculture, was in- 

 vited to come to the state 

 picnic, but he couldn't get 

 away from Washington long 

 enough to come. However, 

 he didn't forget the Farm 

 Bureau folks in Illinois for 

 he sent the following greet- 

 ing to them at the state pic- 

 nic: 



Greetings to members of 

 Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion. Congratulations on 

 good work already done and 

 more power to you in task 

 of promoting needs of agri- 

 culture and voicing the mind 

 of the farmer and stimulat- 

 ing good farming, clear 

 thinking and right living. 

 Henry C. Wallace. 



FIRST FARM BUREAU BASEBALL CHAMPIONS 



Smith and Bright 

 Win Horseshoe Title 

 For McLean County 



Samuel G. Smith and Reuben 

 G. Bright, renresentlng the Mc- 

 Lean County Farm Bureau, won 

 the state Farm Bureau horseshoe 

 championship title at the I. A. A. 

 picnic. Aug. 26 in competition 

 with 19 other county teams and 

 with it they won the I. A. A. 

 silver loving cup. 



The McLean county pair won 

 two straight games of 50 points 

 each from Leinweber brothers, 

 the Mason county team, in the 

 final match for the state title. 

 In the first game between the 

 two teams McLean won 51-28. 

 throwing 22 ringers to the Mason 

 team's 17. Double ringers were 

 five for Mason and three for 

 McLean. 



In the second tilt of the finals 

 McLean also won with a score 

 of 51-40, the champions threw 

 three more ringers than their 

 opponents, getting 27, while both 

 teams scored six double ringers. 



It was notable that the two 

 DeWitt county boys, Walter and 

 Harry Torbert. last year's champ- 

 ions, were defeated. These boys' 

 father, Harry Torbert. and Joe 

 Heskett, were title holders in 

 '20, '21 and '22. 



Ten of the twenty teams en- 

 tered were eliminated by the 

 first set of preliminaries, in three 

 games of 50 points each. The 

 next tangle eliminated all con- 

 testants except Mason, Tazewell, 

 McLean and Knox counties. 

 Tazewell and Knox were crowded 

 out in three 30 point games, 

 leaving Mason and McLean for 

 the final best two out of three. 



After the state honors were 

 settled Mrs. Laura Lanham. 

 Bloomington, national womens' 

 champion Horseshoe pitcher, 

 played an exhibition match with 

 Smith, the McLean champion, 

 who placed 4th in the state tour- 

 nament at Aurora. 



The following counties and con- 

 testants were represented on the 

 horseshoe courts: Sohuyler — Har- 

 old Hightower. Linn Baton; Sanga- 

 mon — L. T. Kopp. J. R. Christo- 

 pher; Randolph — Alfred Smiley. 

 Lester Holmes: Stark — Providence 

 Wall. Brack Berry: Whiteside — 

 Lewis Abbott. David Stuart: Men- 

 ard — L. E. Heflln. G. O. Welsh; 

 Peoria — M. C. Kown. Wm. Carter; 

 Oass.— Herman Sehnepper. Carlos. 

 Opper; Coles — rjeo. and Chas. Tem- 

 ples: Green — N. I.,. McQuerry. El- 

 mer Garrison: La Salle — A. G. 

 Wheatland. Martin Yocum : Knox — 

 Olaf Oleson. Wm. Eldert: McLean — 

 Samuel G. Smith. R. G. Bright: 

 Henry — Obrerht brothers: Logan — 

 Rentschler. Stoll; Mason — Leinweb- 

 er brothers. 



Lake. Marshall-Putnam and Ford 

 counties entered but no names 

 were available. 



PICKNICKERS HEAR 

 MURPHY OUTLINE 

 FARMERS' STATUS 



Main Speaker Raps Economic 



Structure That Shields 



Everybody But The , 



Fsumers 



( oHiiilrlr trxta of Mr. Mar- 

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AdWser Davis, Piatt county, 

 says farmers there have ordered 

 a trainload of limestone. Be- 

 tween 25 and 30 carloads will 

 make up the big shipment. 



Here Is the Marahall-Pataaai Karm Barean baNeball teaai. the 

 flrat team ever to vrin a »lata Farm Barrau haaehall chaaiploa- 

 ahlp la llllaolH. ThU pletare wnu taken Jnat after ther defeated 

 Morfcan eountr at thr I. A. A. pirnlo. Marahall-Pvtaaai'a vrlde- 

 awake farm advlaer, F. E. Faller, la ahovin In the laaert. 



Colleges of Middle 

 West Ask For First 

 Co-op Institute 



The agricultural colleges of 

 Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, 

 Indiana and Wisconsin have ail 

 invited the Institute of Co-opera- 

 tion for its first meeting, which 

 will be for four weeks in July, 

 1925. Some otters with each 

 subsidies have been made by col- 

 leges in the East. 



Plans for organizing the Insti- 

 tute were made recently at a 

 Cleveland meeting at which 50 

 leading co - operative thinkers 

 were present. 



Leaders in the co-operative 

 movement in England, Scotland. 

 Italy, Germany, Russia and other 

 countries where cooperation has 

 become advanced to permanency 

 will be secured to speak at the 

 Institute during its four weeks' 

 session. Cooperative managers 

 and all persons interested in co- 

 operation can enroll for the 

 course. A small tuition will be 

 charged. 



The location of the 1925 ses- 

 sion of the Institute has not been 

 determined yet, according to 

 George Wicker, director of the 

 co-operative accounting depart- 

 ment of the I. A. A. and secretary 

 of the organization committee of 

 the Institute. He says that an 

 estate near Cleveland has offered 

 a $3,000,000 farm as a perma- 

 nent home for the Institute, but 

 it is likely the offer will be re- 

 jected since it Is not desired to 

 locate the Institute permanently 

 because some sessions will be 

 held abroad. 



county boy, was the highest scor- 

 ing individual in the contest. 

 Allen and his two team mates. 

 Joseph Dachman and Reuben 

 Carlson, won second in the con- 

 test. 



The contest was larger this 

 year than last year, according to 

 E. I. Pilchard, state boys' and 

 girls club work specialist of the 

 rniversity, who managed the con- 

 test. Each team placed and gave 

 reasons for 'their placings on one 

 ring each of hogs, horses and 

 sheep. 



Bureau Team Wins 

 Trip To Sioux City 



The Bureau county junior live- 

 stock judging team composed of 

 Gilbert Carver, Wilmer Drepian 

 and Lawrence Carper, won ' 1st 

 honors in the contest held at the 

 Central States P'air and Exposi- 

 tion tor boys' club members. 



The victory of the Bureau 

 county boys gives them the state 

 junior championship in livestock 

 judging and the right to repre- 

 sent Illinois in an interstate con- 

 test to be held at Sioux City. 

 Iowa, Sept. 15. The expenses of 

 the team on this trip will be 

 paid by the I. A. A. 



William Allen, a Sangaimon 



Quasey Tells Radio 

 Farmers Ho'w I.A.A. 

 Cuts Shipping Costs 



Radio fans who listened in on 

 the farm radio program broad- 

 cast over KYW, Aug. 29, heard 

 L. J. Quasey, the I. A. A. trans- 

 portation department director, re- 

 view the farmer's railroad trans- 

 portation problems. 



"The railroads are organized 

 into associations and rate com- 

 mittees to permit the more effi- 

 cient solving of problems be- 

 tween themselves am} the ship- 

 pers." explained the I. A. A. 

 director. "From this it can be 

 seen that it is Just as necessary 

 for the farmer to have efficient 

 and adequate representation in 

 problems pertaining to railroad 

 transportation as it concerns 

 him." 



Mr. Quasey described how his 

 department looks after the farm- 

 ers' loss and damage claims, right 

 of way privileges, overcharge 

 claims, matters of routing and 

 other technical problems. 



"It is the purpose of the de- 

 partment to make every effort 

 to see that the Illinois farmer 

 does not pay any more than his 

 fair share of the transportation 

 costs," he stated in closing, "that 

 he may meet the competition of 

 producers of the same commodi- 

 ties in other states shipping to 

 the same markets; that he is 

 given the benedt of his advantage 

 o( physical location with refer- 

 ence to markets and that he is 

 accorded the same consideration 

 as other interests in every phase 

 of transportation." 



The C. S. D. A. .tutnist com 

 prospect of 2.576,000,000 bushels 

 is 490,000,000 bushels short of 

 the 1923 production. 



Shooting straight from the 

 shoulder, Krank W. Murphy of 

 Wheaton, Minn., the speaking at- 

 traction of the I. A. A. State 

 Farm Bureau picnic at Lincoln, 

 resourcefully aimed his address 

 at the inequality existing between 

 the prices of the commodities 

 which the farmer sells and those 

 he buys, before Farm Bureau 

 members gathered for the annual 

 I. A. A. gala day. 



Even thousl. there v,-vri men* 

 rivalling attractions atid the audi- 

 torium in which he spoke was 

 uncomfortably warm. .Mr. Mur- 

 phy held his audience through a 

 full hour and a half of stirring 

 oratory. 



He was introduced to Farm 

 Bureau folka by President Thomp- 

 son. Frank D. Barton, executive 

 committeeman tor the L7th dis- 

 trict, presided. ' 



After Mr. Murphy's speech, 

 Geo. N. Peek, president of the 

 American Council of Agriculture, 

 told of the single purpose of the 

 Council — to secure equality for 

 agriculture by means of the prin- 

 ciple of the McNary-Baugen bill. 

 CurreiH IVicesi Only • Veil 

 Even though there Ims been 

 an increase in prices on wheat, 

 corn and fat livestock, Mr. Mur- 

 phy stated that the fundamental 

 trouble still exists and that united 

 action by all farm organizations 

 through the American Council of 

 Agriculture is absolutely neces- 

 sary if agriculture is to be placed 

 on an economic level with indus- 

 try and labor. Mr. Murphy is 

 chairman of the board of direc- 

 tors of the American council 

 and became widely known to 

 Illinois farmers when he spoke at 

 farmer-banker business men's get- 

 together meetings at Rock Island, 

 Springfield, Danville and Bloom- 

 ington in the spring. He was 

 active in the fight for the Mc- 

 Nary-Haugen bill, having spent 

 considerable time and energy at 

 Washington endeavoring to get 

 the bill passed. 



Plea<ls for Ktiuallty 

 "Industry and labor are now 

 glutting themselves at their well 

 laden table, " said Mr. Murphy. 

 "Agriculture is eating on the 

 floor. But I want you to see that 

 Agriculture is gradually awaken- 

 ing to its unfortunate position 

 in which it finds itself, t'nless 

 industry and labor give it a place 

 at their Uble, it is likely that 

 Agriculture will kick the legs 



i from under, the table bringing 

 all down to the saiae level. We 

 would tatber not do it that way; 



^ we wish to come up and eat Willi 



j them in a gentlemanly manner. 

 "We are hefe in peaceful as- 

 semblage. Farm Bareau folks " 



iSaid .Mr. Murphy, "Many of you 

 have come long distances today 



' to add your presence to the dig- 

 nity and strength of this Illinois 

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