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Volume 2 



Issued Every Other Saturday — September 27, 1924 



Number 19 



COVERDALE, SILVER 

 TAKE GRAIN JOBS; 

 A.F.B.F. OX'S DEAL 



President Thompson Against 



Indorsement; Awaits Final 



D icision of I. A. A. 



Investigation 



The resignation of John W. 

 Coverdale as secretary of the 

 American Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion and of Gray Silver, Wash- 

 ington representative, who have 

 both been with the American 

 Farm Bureau Federation since 

 its inception in 1920, was pre- 

 sented to and accepted by the 

 executive committee of the Amer- 

 ican Farm Bureau Federation in 

 its regular session in Chicago 

 Sept. 15-17. 



Both men stated in their resig- 

 nations that they wished to de- 

 vote full time to their duties 

 with the Grain Marketing Com- 

 pany of which Silver is president 

 and Coverdale secretary-treasurer. 

 A resolution of indorsement of 

 the Grain Marketing Company 

 was also passed by the executive 

 committee. 

 Thomtoson Against Indorsement 



Sam' H. Thompson, Quincy, 

 president of tue Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association and a member 

 of the executive committee of the 

 American Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion, stood solidly throughout the 

 three-day session as being against 

 indorsement of the Grain Market- 

 ing Company at this time. He 

 voted against indorsement. 



President Thompson, who was 

 originally appointed on the spe- 

 cial committee created in the 

 spring to consider the proposal 

 of the five old-line grain com- 

 panies, did not help prepare or 

 concur in the report of the spe- 

 cial committee which recom- 

 mended the Grain Marketing 

 Company to the Executive Com- 

 mittee. 



When the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association investigation was an- 

 nounced, Mr. Thompson asked to 

 be relieved as a member of the 

 special grain marketing commit- 

 tee of the American Farm Bu- 

 reau Federation pending the in- 

 vestigation which has not yet 

 been completed. 



Reid Succeeds Silver 



Following the resignation of 

 Mr. Coverdale, Gray Silver, who 

 has guided the legislative activi- 

 ties of tha A. F. B. F. for four 

 years, presented his resignation 

 in order to devote entire time to 

 his new job as president of the 

 Grain Marketing Company. Mr. 

 Silver's resignation was accepted 

 upon his agreeing to act as coun- 

 selor to the Legislative Depart- 

 ment. 



E. B. Reid was named as act- 

 ing director of the Washington 

 office. Mr. Reid has been assist- 

 ant Washington representative 

 for three years. 



The executive committee went 

 into session at ten o'clock at the 

 general offices of the American 

 Farm Bureau Federation in Chi- 

 cago, on Monday morning, Sep- 

 tember 15, 1924. Roll call 

 showed the following present; 



President O. E. Bradfute, Vice 

 President J. F. Reed, Secretary 

 John W. Coverdale; Members 

 George M. Putnam, New Hamp- 

 shire; S. McLean Buckingham, 

 Connecticut; Ralph Snyder, Kan- 

 sas; S. H. Thompson, Illinois; 

 C. E. Hearst, Iowa; A. C. Hardl- 

 son, California; Frank Evans, 

 Utah; Chas. E. Gibson, Jr., Colo- 

 rado; E. P. Cohill, Maryland. 

 Others present were L. G. Michael, 

 (CoDtlDued oD pate 4) 



THOMPSONIGB A»IS : 



Agriculture today must be 

 placed on a business basis. 



increased land value is un- 

 dependabie; profit must now 

 come from the product of 

 the land. 



The farmers' dollar is now 

 worth exactly 83 cents. 



Farmers do not want spe- 

 cial legislation, but some- 

 thing must be done to place 

 farming on a more sound 

 basis. 



Farmers should be sure of 

 some returns the same as 

 people in other lines of busi- 

 ness. 



In these five terse sen- 

 tences, President Sam H. 

 Thompson, in an address 

 before the Quincy Rotary, 

 summed up the present ag- 

 ricultural situation and 

 urged every possible means 

 to put farming on a firmer 

 basis. 



Lynch Furnishes 

 Butter "Hoopla" 

 For Radio Fans 



Many of our I. A. A. membem 

 may have heard A. D. Lynch, 

 director of the dairy marketing 

 department, when station WLS 

 broadcast five minutes worth of 

 his merry, rollicking "hoopla" 

 from their Springfield station dur- 

 ing the fair. 



Lynch started out by trying to 

 decide why a black cow could 

 eat green grass and give white 

 milk and finally decided that the 

 reason a red cow could eat green 

 grass and give white milk was 

 the same rule working backwards 

 — like when a white man is 

 kicked by a cow, and gets 'black 

 and blue spot# be gets so mad he 

 sees green. 



"All dairy sections have had 

 plenty of rain this last summer," 

 Mr. Lynch's voice carried out 

 seriously after his hilarious be- 

 ginning. "As a result the pas- 

 tures have been regular banquet 

 halls for the cows. The sum- 

 mer has been cool and the flies 

 weren't bad. In the northwest 

 many grain farmers .turned to 

 milking cows to make back some 

 of their losses in grain farming. 

 The result is that we now have 

 a surplus in storage holdings of 

 156,000,000 pounds of creamery 

 butter. 



"That looks like enough to 

 keep our waffles and pancakes and 

 bread buttered for a long time 

 but it is customary to have a 

 surplus of about 102,000,000 

 pounds of creamery butter on 

 Sept. 1. That has been the 

 average for the last five years. 

 But that still leaves a surplus 

 of 54,000,000. It it isn't eaten 

 before next May it will mean 

 lower prices and losses in the 

 whole dairy industry." 



Calculating on the increase in 

 population, which will consume 

 35,000,000 pounds and allowing 

 6,250,000 for a running surplus, 

 Mr. Lynch managed to cut the 

 surplus down to about an even 

 13,000,000 pounds. 



"When you think of it that is 

 only a drop in the bucket or 

 about two ounces per person. 

 Why not every farmer eat a 

 little more butter? At least 

 every farmer who has been de- 

 feating his own dairy industry by 

 eating butter substitutes should 

 cut them out and eat real dairy 

 products. Thank you," Lynch 

 said and his "hoopla" ended. 



FARMERS' CO-OPS 

 CONTINUE TO SIGN 

 FOR AUDIT SERVICE 



Essay Contestants: Write the information department of 

 the I. A, A. for "dope" for your essays, and see or phone your 

 Farm Adviser. 



Farm Taxes Cut In 

 Whiteside County 



The Board Of Review in White- 

 side county joined the parade of 

 "farm tax slashers" when they 

 granted the request of the White- 

 side County Farm Bureau for a 

 cut in the valuation of farm 

 lands. The reduction, effective 

 in next year's taxes, amounts to 

 an average of 12 per cent for the 

 entire county. Cuts varied from 

 five per cent in Portland town- 

 ship to 20 per cent in Clyde 

 township. 



Last May the Whiteside County 

 Farm Bureau appointed a com- 

 mittee to go before the Board of 

 Review and present a petition 

 asking for a reduction in taxes 

 on farm lands. The committee 

 appointed was R. A. Norrish. 

 chairman; Harry Rowland, New- 

 ton; H. C. Hull, Prophetstown; 

 A. S. Durward, Ustlck; J. W. 

 Johnson, Tampico. 



The committee decided to go 

 before the Board of Review with 

 the facts pertaining to taxation, 

 valuation of farm property and 

 earning power of farm lands. 



Each member of the committee 

 secured a number of affidavits re- 

 garding the income of farms and 

 the taxable valuation. With this 

 information in hand the commit- 

 tee from the Farm Bureau met 

 with the Board of Review. 



The Board considered the re- 

 quest, went over affidavits taken 

 from a number of farms in all 

 parts of the county, and after 

 considerable deliberation and 

 study on the assessed valuations 

 of land in the various townships, 

 made a report to President R. A. 

 Norrish of the Farm Bureau .offi- 

 cially announcing the requested 

 reduction. 



Only 14 per cent of the alfalfa 

 acreage of the United States is 

 found east of the states trarder- 

 ing on the Mississippi river. 



Watson Speaks At 

 National Tax Meet 



J. C. Watson, director of the 

 department of taxation and sta- 

 tistics,' attended the national tax 

 conference -held In the Chase 

 hotel in St. Louis last week at 

 which 400 tax administrators and 

 students in taxation from over 

 the United States were gathered. 

 Mr. Watson was appointed as 'the 

 representative of Illinois on the 

 resolutions committee and was 

 also made one of seven members 

 of a sub-committee appointed to 

 pass on resolutions for recom- 

 mendation to the full committee. 



In a round table discussion of 

 "Methods of Improving Property 

 Tax," Mr. Watson spoke on: "Sug- 

 gestions for Improving the As- 

 sessments of Agricultural Lands." 



Sell Reactors On 



Open Market No'w 



As a result of a change in the 

 method of selling reactors to the 

 tuberculin test, the average sal- 

 vage value has been increased 

 $7.85 per head, according to rec- 

 ords kept by the Chicago Pro- 

 ducers since the new method of 

 selling went Into effect Aifi. 1. 



Under the plan of sale now 

 used, reactors are sold on an 

 open market subject to a post 

 mortem examination. Formerly 

 all reactdrs were purchased by 

 the Chicago Packing Company. 



The open market plan was 

 first suggested last January by 

 M. H. Peterson, director of the 

 I. A. A. tuberculosis eradication 

 project. Since then the Live 

 Stock Exchange has promoted and 

 finally adopted the plan. 



The Ursa Farmers' Shipping 

 .Association, Adams county, has 

 shipped over 20 cars of stork 

 without a loss since July I, mak- 

 ing it a strong contender for the 

 I. A. A. safety loadins trophy. 



LAXIA. Membership Reaches 



70; Collection Counsel To 



Be Inaugurated; 20 



Audits Completed 



The latest additions to the 

 membership roll of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Co-operatives Asso- 

 ciation,, which already nural)er8 

 70, are Madison County Farm 

 Bureau, Brown County Shippers' 

 Association, Mt. Sterling Co-oper- 

 ative Company, Hartsburg Grain, 

 Coal and Lumber Company, 

 Atoona Co-operative Grain Com- 

 pany, Godfrey Farmers' Elevator 

 Company and Scott County Farm 

 Bureau, according to V. Vaniman, 

 organising director for the audit- 

 ing co-op. 



For the past four months Mr. 

 Vaniman has been meeting with 

 farmers' organizations throughout 

 Illinois, explaining the co-opera- 

 tive nature of the auditing and 

 accounting service which is pro- 

 vided at cost to the member as- 

 sociations. 



"I find that the decision of tte 

 I. A. A., at its last executWe 

 meeting, to pay SO per oent uC 

 the auditing expenses of Farm 

 Bureaus, except in counties where 

 subsidiary activities of the Farm 

 Bureau make an unusually ex- 

 tensive audit necessary, is caus- 

 ing Farm Bureaus to send in the 

 signed membership contracts, ' 

 said Mr. Vaniman. 



"Our organization proposes to 

 render an auditing ser^'ice to co- 

 operative associations and will 

 give expert advice on a system of 

 accounting. The plan will bring 

 about a tendency for a uniform 

 classification of accounts and a 

 comparative analysis can be made 

 with other similar businesses over 

 the state." 



The auditing association will 

 operate very much like the Bank- 

 ers' Clearing House Association 

 in the large cities where auditors 

 are maintained to check affairs of 

 members. Farmers are being 

 shown that the audit of accounts 

 will be as beneficial to them as 

 the plan is to bankers. 



Mr. Vaniman has been working 

 in Stark and Mason counties in 

 the interests of the I. A. C. A. 

 since Sept. 23. 



The comparative anals'sis fea- 

 ture of the audit service is still 

 expected to be one of the most 

 valuable benefits to its memt>ers 

 The real value of comparative 

 analysis will increase with the 

 number of audits. 



One of the new ser\'icee which 

 Geo. R. Wicker, general manager 

 of the audit association, expects 

 to establish soon is a collection 

 service for the co-operatives for 

 which audits are made. A system 

 of letters will be supplied, by the 

 I. A. C. A. as a part of the regu- 

 lar audit service, to help in the 

 collection of outstanding accounts. 



Twenty audits have been com- 

 pleted to date by Mr. Wicker and 

 his assistants, F. E. Ringham and 

 J. W. King. The Marshall-Put- 

 nam County Farm Bureau ac- 

 counts have been audited this 

 week by Mr. King and those of 

 the McHenry County Farmers' 

 Co-operative Grain Company have 

 been examined by Mr. RIngham. 



Goat raising interests of the 



southwest have adopted the 

 name "chevon" as a special name 

 for goat meat. It Is comparable 

 to pork, beef and mutton and is 

 a contraction of two French words 

 meaning (oat mutton. 



