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The DliDoif AgricnlturaJ Aaaooalkm Record 



S«pte«ri>er 13, 1824 



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LA. A. Boosts ^^ Why Join Farm Bureau^^ Contest 



FARMERS IN 20TH 

 DISTRICT ASK FOR 

 HARD ROAD FACTS 



Conference Requests Informa- 

 tion On $100,000,000 Bond 

 Issue and Approves Grain 

 Merger Probe 



Farm Bureau representatives 

 (ro4h Mason, Menard. Cass, Mor- 

 Kan, Scott, Greene, Jersey. Pike 

 and Brown counties met at Jack- 

 sonville, Aug. 29, for a district 

 conference on farm problems. 



Discussion of the Gratn Mar- 

 keting Company, the American 

 Council of Agriculture, legisla- 

 tive problems and the tlOO.OOO,- 

 000 bond issue for bard roads 

 occupied the major portion of 

 attention of the 50 farmers pres- 

 ent. An inspirational address by 

 Frank J. Kernel, farmer-banker 

 of Jacksonville, on the "Future 

 of Agriculture" and local prob- 

 lems made up the balance of the 

 program. 



Discnss Grain Meriicr 



Earl C. Smith of Detroit, dis- 

 trict committeeman, after calling 

 the meeting to order and enumer- 

 ating the questions to be consid- 

 ered, explained his position in 

 asking for the I. A. A. investiga- 

 tion of the Grain Marketing Com- 

 pany, which is being made. 



R. A. Cowles, I. A. A. treasurer 

 and secretary of the American 

 Council of Agriculture, explained 

 the Grain Marketing Company 

 question from its beginning, with 

 the initial proposal of several 

 larga grain companies to sell 

 their marketing facilities to farm- 

 ers' organizations, up to the pres- 

 ent time. 



Referring to the giant merger 

 as an "innovation of the grain 

 trade to dispose of their busi- 

 nesses." Mr. Cowles stated that 

 one of the principal objects of 

 the I. A. A. investigation, now 

 being made, is to locate the exact 

 seat of control of the Grain Mar- 

 keting Company, and emphasized 

 that the open-minded attitude is 

 being maintained by I. A. .V. of- 

 ficials. 



A motion was passed commend- 

 ing the action of the I. A. A. for 

 investigating The Grain Market- 

 ing Company. 



Investigate Rosd Bonds 



A request for expression of 

 opinion on the question of secur- 

 ing Information on the $100,000,- 

 000 bond issue for hard roads was 

 made by Mr. Smith. The meeting 

 vote^ to instruct Mr. Smith to 

 ask the I. A. A. department of 

 statiistics to furnish the desired 

 information on the subject. 



Mr. Cowles outlined the aims 

 and purposes of the American 

 Council of Agriculture in a dis- 

 cussloa of the effort which the 

 Council, is making toward equality 

 legislation for agriculture. He 

 stated that equality for agricul- 

 ture is fundamentally economic 

 and not political. 



Each of the nine County Farm 

 Bureaus were represented among 

 the 50 officers and farmer mem- 

 bers! who attended the meeting. 

 Oct. 24 is the date set for the 

 ne.\t meeting. 



FARM BUREAU SPIRIT 

 RUNS AT HIGH LEVEL 



<CoBilnur4l from p«Kr 1) 

 Ptesid^nt Thompson is also sched- 

 uletl to RpeBk at the Piatt County 

 Fartn Bureau picnic and at the Ad- 

 ams County Farm Bureau picnic at 

 Camp Point. 



Frank D. Barton of Cornell. I. A. A. 

 executive, has six picnics on his 

 scalp belt, as follows: 



Emnfcham county at Effingham; 

 Scott county at Winchester, esti- 

 mated attendance 2.000; Cass county, 

 at Vlrg:inia, 2,000: Edwards county, 

 Albion. 1.000; Marion county. Salem. 

 200;j DouKlas county. Areola. 2i>n. 



G< E. Metzgrer. I. A. A. org^aniza- 

 tlon director, is always on the jump 

 flllihg speaklnar or meeting engage- 

 ments. Here is his list of picniiH: 

 Eitinatt^ 

 Oati C«uaty Town Atttnrfaaei 



JuM »— DuPage — Roselle (Farmers' 



Elevator) 600 



10 — Ogl« — OreKon (Annual 



meeting) 3(M> 



AOffist 1 — Rock— BransTllle, Wis. 



(County fair> 8M 



2 — D«K« lb— Sycamore (Fann- 

 ers' Elevator) 3(N) 



14 — Ptt*^\ew Canton S.OM 



21 — Randolph — Sparta 2.5(H) 



22— 8allne— Eldorado 6(H) 



24— Monroe— Columbia 800 



2T— MoultHe — Sullivan 4.4A0 



8<«>t^ 13 — Ckristlan — Taylorrllle . . . 

 30 — Jefferson — MC. Vernon . . . 



Listen In! 



FAKM RADIO PIUXaiAM 



Oter KYW — Wave Length 536 

 (>ntral Standard Time 7:20 



I. A. A. radio followers will 

 find September a much better 

 month than August for receiving 

 our farm programs since there is 

 likely to be less static in the air. 

 Better throw a little more wood 

 on the fire these frosty evenings, 

 lay in a supply of pop corn and 

 tune in on KYW! There will be 

 five more farm radio programs 

 sent from KYW before the end 

 of September. I. A. A. people 

 will appear on WLS programs 

 from time to time. too. 



The information department 

 woQld like to know how many 

 I. A. A. members are getting the 

 farm programs. Do you tune in 

 on KYW programs Do you like 

 *em when you do get 'em? Write 

 and tell us what you think of the 

 programs. 



September 18 — "With the Farm 

 Bureau East of the Alleghenles," by 

 E. P. Cohlll. of the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation Executive Com- 

 mittee and president of the Mary- 

 land Farm Bureau Federation. 



"School Pays." by C. V. Uregory, 

 Editor of Prairie Farmer. 



Sleptember 19 — "BoyM* and Oirls* 

 Club Work in the 8ou<h." by H. J. 

 Schwietert. I'tcneral Development 

 Ag«nt. Illinois Central Railroad. 



What we Saw at the Stat* Fair 

 Tills Week." by Arthur C Page. 

 Editor. Orange Judd Illinois Farm- 

 er. 



Slept ember 23 — "Monthly Analysis 

 of Farm Markets." by H. W. Moor- 

 house, of the Howard-Moorhouse 

 Agricultural Business Service. 



"Vocational Agricultural Train- 

 ing." by Dr. C. H. Uane. Chief. Agri- 

 cultural Education Service. Federal 

 Board for V€>cational Education. 

 Washington. D. C. 



September 26 — "Transportation of 

 Farm Products." by O. 'W'. Sand- 

 berg, Director of Transportation. 

 American Farm Bureau Federation. 



Talk on Vocational Education by 

 Dr. C. H. I-ane. Chief Agricultural 

 Education Service, Federal Board 

 for Vocational Education. Washing- 

 ton. D. C. 



September 30 — "Please Help Your- 

 self." by John A. Kotal. Secretary. 

 United Master Butchers of Ameri- 

 ca, under auspices of the National 

 Live Stock and Meat Board. 



"Observations of the Growth of 

 Boys' and iJIrls' Club Work." by 

 Joton W. Covcrdale. Secretary of the 

 tJrain Marketing Company. 



File Complaint Of 

 Overcharge Against 

 C. P. & St. L. Road 



Charging the Chicago, Peoria 

 & St. Louis Railroad Company 

 with misinterpretation and wrong 

 application of rules on mixed 

 shipments of live stocK, our I. A. 

 A. transportation department has 

 filed an overcharge complaint 

 with the Illinois Commerce Com- 

 mission. 



The complaint covers three 

 mtxed shipments of live stock 

 from Hettick. III., to East St. 

 Louis, two consisting of a mix- 

 ture of cattle and calves and the 

 other consisting of a mixture of 

 cattle, calves and hogs. 



On one of the first mentioned 

 shipments the C. P. & St. L. as- 

 sessed and collected charges on 

 the basis of cattle minimum 

 weight of 22,000 pounds and the 

 cattle rate of 14 cents, making 

 the charge $30.80, which covered 

 the cattle only. The calves, al- 

 though loaded in thei same car, 

 were charged on the basis of 

 5,630 pounds, less carload rate, 

 making a charge for the calves 

 of $33.22 or a total charge on 

 the shipment of 164.02. 



The transportation department 

 contends that the proper and rea- 

 sonable charge to cover both cat- 

 tle and calves in this shipment, 

 under the tariffs then in effect, is 

 on the basis of cattle minimum 

 weight of 22,000 pounds and cat- 

 tle rate of 14 cents, making a 

 total charge of $30.80, with simi- 

 lar charges on other shipments. 



The case is very similar to one 

 recently decided against the L. 

 ft N. railroad after a litigation 

 with the I. A. A. for a two-year 

 period. No date has been set for 

 a hearing before the Commerce 

 Commission. 



Popster •plalas predicts a seed 

 corn shortaKe next sprlnff. 



RADIO FANS HEAR WHISNAND 

 TALK ON SCHOOL PROBLEMS 



"Public schools are predomi- 

 nantly community institutions, lo- 

 cally supported, locally conducted 

 and controlled," said J. L. Whis- 

 nand, I. A. A. executive committee- 

 man from Charleston, in a radio 

 talk on the Farm Bureau program 

 over station KYW recently. "It 

 has been left to the states to exer- 

 cise their pow- 

 ers over educa- 

 tional matters. 

 Each state has 

 developed and 

 built up its own 

 School system, 

 with its own 

 good points and 

 Its own short- 

 comings." 



Mr. W h I s- 

 nand, who Is 

 J. u -i«-hi>nan4. Chairman of the 

 I. A. A. educational committee, 

 was speaking on the subject, 

 "The Farmers' School Problems." 

 Although he has now retired to 

 the management of his farming 

 interests in Coles county, his ex- 

 perience in educational problems 

 has been as a teacher and county 

 school superintendent. 



"The states have copied each 

 other's good poiqts and profited 

 by each other's mistakes." con- 

 tinued Mr. Whisnand, "and while 

 standing out individually we are 

 surprised and even amazed to 

 know how closely related they 

 are to each other fundamentally 

 after a century and a half of de- 

 velopment. 



""The educational committee of 

 the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion is making a careful and com- 

 prehensive snr\'ey of the rural 



school situation in Illinois upon 

 behalf of the farmers' school in- 

 terests. The principal angle of 

 this survey is nearly completed 

 It has met with a hearty response 

 from rural folks. A rather super- 

 ficial examination of the survey so 

 far shows that the farmer heart- 

 ily endorses education, is willing 

 to contribute his share to the 

 cause, is on the square in matters 

 of taxation, willing to pay (or 

 what he gets, and wants the other 

 fellow to do the same. It further 

 shows that the farmer is not par- 

 ticularly educating his children to 

 stay on the farm, but to take 

 their places in life along with 

 other folks wherever they may 

 be' thrown. 



"One point brought out in the 

 answers to the questionaire Is 

 that the farmers want better 

 teachers in the rural schools. Be- 

 fore this can be brought about a 

 great many changes must be made 

 in school matters, chief among 

 which Is the enlargement of facil- 

 ities in our teachers' colleges and 

 universities. 



"Since a large per cent of our 

 farmer boys and girls go on 

 through high schools, teachers' 

 colleges or universities and since 

 as large a per cent of country 

 boys and girls as any other group 

 are honor students, and since such 

 a large per cent of farm boys and 

 girls succeed on the farm, in 

 business. In professions, in art 

 and in trades, I feel that the 

 technique of the rural schools 

 is the technique of our high schools 

 and universities," Mr. Whisnand 

 said in closing. -\ll the country 

 boys and girls need is a fair 

 chance with other boys and girls 

 and you will see them give an ex- 

 cellent account of themselves." 



HERE'S DOPE ON EXECUTIVE 

 COMMITTEE'S MEET, SEPT. 5 



1. Hrnrd ananolnl report on I. A. A. .Accepted and approved. 



2. In order to lirtnir about better feellnir and eo-operation between 

 leader* of lIllnolM l^mln Dealern .\iHioctetlon and of the 1. .4. A., a 

 Joint conference for the esecotlve eomnltteCM of the two orKanlaations 

 In beins called for Thoradar, Oct. 1, at t'hieaico, which In the day prceed- 

 Ins the regular 1. A. A. esccntlve committee meeting. The nteetlnK will 

 be called Jointly by the two orKanlBatlonn. 



3. Decided that I. A. \. Hhoiild InveHtiitate the farm Inanmnce fleld 

 with a view toward anaemblinK valuable data on general farm Inaumnee 

 ratea In llllnola. 



4. Ordered an Inveatliratlon Into the fncta eoncernlnic the propoaed 

 9100.000,000 bond laane which comcM up for votlnfc thin fall. The facta arc 

 to be icotten by John ('. WatNOn, director of taxation and atntlMtlca, and 

 L. J, Quafiey, director of trannportatlon. and publlHhert In the REt'ORD. 

 The InveatlKatlon la to be atrlctly non-polltlcnl and the facta found are to 

 be compiled Moleir aa a baala for latelllarent cnalderatlon of the bond 

 laaae by Farm Bureau membcra. 



5. Heard report of educational committee on ita achool laveatlsation, 

 a detailed report of which la In thia RECORD. Report accepted. 



U. Decided that the I. A. A. ahoold pay for aa much aa 50 per cent of 

 the Urat nudltlnK coat of nny county farm bureau when done by the IIU- 

 nolN Airrlcultoral Coopcratlvea .Aaaoclatlon. Where there nre numerona 

 commercial acllvltlen of a county farm bureau, Much audltlnic coat thereby 

 Incurred Im to be borne wholly hy the county orKnnlsatlon. The finance 

 committee la to determine the extent of which I, \. A. will help bear flrat 

 andltluK coata In Individual cnara. 



7. Net date for next annuni meetlna: aa Thuraday and Fridny. Jan. 15 

 nnd 111. liKS.'S. at the I'nlveralty of llllnola, which la dnrlnK Famtera* Week. 

 Place of meetlnit had been determined prevlonalj'. 



8. J. P. .Stout, rhatham. prenldent of the Nnnaramon t^onnty Farm Bu- 

 reau and on the adviaory committee to the farm meehanica department 

 of the 1 niveraltr of llllnola. nnd Prof. B. W. Lehman, head of that de- 

 partment. Informed the executive committee of the proirreaa mnde by the 

 ■tate committee on the "Relation of Rlectriclty to .4srlculture** In llllnola. 



0. An a Kood citlaennhip movemeat. and to be entirely divorced from 

 polltica, the executive committee urged that nil farmera vote. **Get out 

 the vote** waa the theme. 



Farmers Purchase 



Electric Railway 



Five farmers' elevators and the 

 County Farm Bureaus in Kendall 

 and Grundy counties have formed 

 a stock company and purchased 

 the Fox & Illinois Union Electric 

 Railway which was to have been 

 junked by its former owners. 

 Operations under the new man- 

 agement started Sept. 8. 



Because the line hasi been op- 

 erating unprofltably for the last 

 several years the Illinois Com- 

 merce Commission granted per- 

 mission to junk it. This action 

 was regarded as a disaster for 

 farmers along the road since it 

 would have left over 1.000 farms 

 in the richest agricultural sections 

 of Kendall and Grundy counties 

 with no railway service within 12 

 miles. The management of the 

 five farmers' elevators took the 

 lead in organizing the farmers' 

 company to purchase the railway, 

 without which thfeir elevators 

 would have l>een isolated from all 

 railroads and totally useless. 



Protest aimlnst placing a 26 

 per cent ad valorem tax on ni 

 trate of soda, which is largely 

 used in the fertilizer industry 

 and purchased for fertilizer pur- 

 poses direct by the farmers, was 

 made to the customs division of 

 the U. S. treasury department re- 

 cently by the A. F. B. F. 



The Iowa Farm Bureau Fed- 

 eration has wired President Cool- 

 idge asking that Secretary Wal 

 lace be instructed to appoint the 

 agricultural commission which 

 the President promised in a re- 

 cent speech. 



The De Witt County Farm BO' 

 reau sold advertising slides to 20 

 business concerns and purchased 

 a new movie outfit with the pro- 

 ceeds, agreeing to show the 

 slides every time the machine is 

 used. The De Witt Bureau is 

 now showing, "Out of the Shad 

 ows," a T. B. eradication film. 



There are over 10.000 agricultural 

 ro-operatlves in the United States 

 <lolnK an annual business of over 

 $2.noo.ooo.ooo. 



I.A.A. WIU AWARD 

 13 CASH PRIZES IN 

 BIG ESSAY CONTEST 



Local Butinew and County 

 Farm Bureau* Will Co-op- 

 erate On National Eaaajr 

 Competition 



Every boy and girl in Illinois 

 who goes to school In any grade 

 up to the second year in high 

 school Is eligible to enter a na- 

 tion-wide essay contest which is 

 to be conducted between Oct. 1 

 and Nov. 10, by the American 

 Farm Bureau Federation. 



Already a lot of farmer boys 

 and girls have donned their think- 

 ing caps and are "on their marks" 

 awaiting the final shot which will 

 tell them to "go." They have 

 their choice of two subjects for 

 their essay. They can write on 

 "Why Dad Should Join the Farm 

 Bureau" or "Why Dad is a Farm 

 Bureau .Member." 



I'Yee Trips to Chicago 



The American Farm Bureau 

 Federation is offering as prizes a 

 tree trip to Chicago for the con- 

 test winner in each of "the na- 

 tional farm Bureau regional dis- 

 tricts. But before Illinois boys 

 and girls get to that they have 

 many chances to win prizes in the 

 county and state contests. 



The Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation is going to give 13 cash 

 prizes for the best essays written 

 by boys and girls In Illinois. The 

 writer of the best essay will get 

 $25 in cash. The second best 

 will win $15 and the third $S. 

 The next 10 best essays will win 

 $3 cash prizes for the boys and 

 girls who write them. 



OlTer Local Prizes 



Every County Farm Bureau In | 

 the state is considering offering 1 

 prizes for the best essays in the ! 

 county. The complete list of | 

 County Farm Bureaus offering | 

 prizes will be announced later. I 

 County Farm Bureaus, co-operat- | 

 ing with local banks and other I 

 local business firms, will give I 

 prizes of $10, $5 and $2.50 for J 

 first, second and third places. In I 

 addition five $2 and five $1 cash ? 

 prizes will l)e offered for those 

 essays coming after the first three 

 prizes. 



After the contest winners are 

 picked from the various counties 

 and states the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation will award. In 

 each of the four regional dis- 

 tricts, one national prize, the win- 

 ner to get a free trip to the 

 annual meeting of the Federa- 

 tion, which will be in Chicago 

 Dec. 8, 9 and 10. 



Essays will be Judged on the 

 following points: 1. Facts on the 

 subject. 2. How the story is told. 

 3. English, spelling and punctua- 

 tion. 4. General appearance and 

 neatness. 



For additional information, see 

 your Farm Adviser or county 

 superintendent of schools and 

 watch the RECORD for develop- 

 ments. 



FARMERS PAY HEAVY 

 TAX, SURVEY SHOWS 



(CoDllnued from pa^ 1) 



1. Universal interest is being 

 shown by Illinois farmers in their 

 educational problems. 



2. Practically all farmers who 

 answered the questlonalres intend 

 to send their children to high 

 school. 



3. A majority of farmers are 

 opposed to consolidated schools 

 under existing conditions. 



4. A majority favor the contin- 

 uation of the one room school. 



One phase of the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association Investigation 

 dealt with the quality and train- 

 ing of the rural school teacher. 

 Taking the 70 questionaire replies 

 received from rural school teach 

 ers in Whiteside county. 111., It 

 was found that 66 of the 70 re- 

 porting were high school gradu- 

 ates; about one-third had never 

 attended a country schooh two- 

 thirds preferred to teach in the 

 city or town schools; 17 were 

 teaching for their first year and 

 47 were teaching for their first' 

 year at their present school. 



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