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The lUinoii Agricultural Asxxaation Record 



October 25, 1924 



I L.L1INOIS 



CCLTVBAL ASSOCIA 



RECORD^ 



Published every other Saturday by the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association, 608 South Dearborn Street. Chicago, 

 minols. Edited by Department of Information. H. C. 

 Butcber. Director. 



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

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 Tided for In Section 1102, Act of October i, 1I17, author- 

 iMd Oct. II, mi. 



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 taral Association Is llTe dollar* a year. This fee Includes 

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OFFICERS 



Praaident, S. B. Thompson, Qnlncy. 

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

 Treesnrer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomington. 

 Secretary, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore. 



EXEOmVB OOMMITTEB 

 By Congressional Districts 



lltll Jacob Olbrlch, Harvard 



12Ui G. F. Tullock, Rockford 



13th r C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



14th W. H. Moody, Port Byron 



IMh H. E. Qoembel, Hooppole 



18th A. R. Wright, Varna 



17th F. D. Barton, Cornell 



lath. ...,;... R. F. Karr, Iroquois 



IMh J. L. Whianand, Charleston 



20th Earl C. Smith, Detroit 



21st Samuel Sorrelis, Raymond 



22nd Stanley Castle, Alton 



83rd J. E. LIngenfelter, Lawrencevllle 



24th...... Curt Anderson, Xenia 



Vernon Leesley, Sparta 



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Directors of Deimrtments 

 I. A. A. Office 



Ceneral Offlcs and Assistant to Secretary, J, H, Kelksr; 

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

 Transportstlon, L. J. Quasey, Statistics, J. C. Watson; 

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

 A. B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, Wm. E. Hedgcock: 

 Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone, 

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

 Cougler; special representative on Tuberculosis Eradi- 

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

 patrick; Cooperative Accountlna. Gen. R. Wicker. 



I A Powerful Organization 



The Farm Bureau people of Illinois are welded 

 ^o^ether into what is probably the most powerful 

 state farm organization in the I'nited States. The 

 unusual power of the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion is largely due to the fact that each of the 

 63,000 Farm Bureau members pays $15 dues each 

 year, of which $4..t0 is retained by the state or- 

 ganization. That is the reason the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural As.sociation can take hold vigorously of 

 iqany things which other state farm organizations 

 liust sidestep on account of lack of funds. 



Outstanding among the services rendered by the 

 Dlinois Agricultural Association is the fair read- 

 iustment of farm taxes. In 1923, over two million 

 dollars were saved to the farmers of Illinois by 

 taxation alone. This department has started on the 

 tremendous problem of making a thorough research, 

 county by county. It has cost money, but the re- 



rhave been a hundredfold. 

 „ live transportation department has been of 

 great service, especially to live stock farmers, the 

 savings during the current year being estimated 

 at around a quarter of a million dollars. 



Uany Illinois farmers think that the greatest 

 Service rendered is the pooling arrangement for 

 buying limestone and rock phosphate at the lowest 

 poaaible price. | 



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In addition to the services mentioned in the fore- 

 going, the Illinois people assist in the usual exten- 

 sion work which characterizes Farm Bureau activ- 

 ities in the ordinarj- state. These services interest 

 the average farmer greatly, although in the long 

 run they tend to benefit financially the people in 

 the cities as much as the farmers. In our opinion, 

 the work done by the Illinois people on taxation 

 and freight rates has been the outstanding contri- 

 bution. This is the kind of work which so many 

 state Farm Bureaus overlook because of the fact 

 jthat they are under-financed or dominated by a 

 'state extension department which does not always 

 have the strictly farmer point of view. 

 ^Reprinted from Wallace's Farmer of Oct. 17, 1924. 



Two Good Booklets 



Two booklets, each of them telling of the accom- 

 plishments of the Farm Bureau, have been got out 

 by the Knox and Iroquois County Farm Bureaus. 

 One, that of the Knox County Farm Bureau, is en- 

 titled "Record and Some Accomplishments." It is 

 filled with charts and figures showing activities and 

 progress. Both books are good ones. 



The Iroquois County Farm Bureau booklet is 

 called "Ten Years of Service," and it opens with 

 an appropriate moral which we wish to pass on to 

 you : i 



"The Farm Bureau is here to staj-. 



"It is as necessary and fills as important a place 

 in farming as the self binder. 



"Our pioneer forefathers had few contacts with 

 the outside world. Their problem was to subdue 

 the prairies, drain the swamps, and produce the 

 bare necessities of life for their families. 



"Fortunately, their wants were few and easily 

 satisfied ; their pleasures were rare and their re- 

 wards small. It was a case of each man and each! 

 family fighting to wrest fuel, food and a home 

 from the forces of nature. They lived in the age 

 of the cradle, the reaper, the tallow dip, and the o.x 

 team. 



"In the past century, we have passed from a 

 nation producing food merel.v for ourselves to the 

 surplus producing nation of the world. 



"Everj- farmer in the United States produces an 

 average of 12 tons of food per year. Farmers of 

 the rest of the world produce only 1.4 tons of food 

 per year. 



"One-third of our population produces ample 

 food for our own country with an ample surplus to 

 export. In India 75 per cent and in Russia 85 per 

 cent of the people are food producers. 



"Improved machinery, improved seed, stock and 

 methods in farming have been chief factors in this 

 change. 



"When we became a surplus-producing nation, 

 we not only released half our farm population for 

 other work, but we came into competition in the 

 markets of the world with cheap labor living on low 

 standards in other surplus producing countries, 



"It is not mere chance that there are 15,000,000 

 automobiles in the United States; Nearly a third 

 of which are on the farms. It is because of those 

 economies and efficiencies in the production of the 

 bare necessities of life, which release two-thirds of 

 our population, that we are able to produce those 

 things which add to the comfort and happiness of 

 living, 



"With these changes have come new problems^ 

 problems that the pioneer working alone could not 

 solve. Individual effort must be replaced by co- 

 operative effort. 



"The Farm Bureau stands for progress, for ade- 

 quate returns for our labor and products in order 

 that we may maintain an American standard of 

 living on our farms and in our farm homes." 



About the Promite* — 



In this issue of the Record, the last one before 

 the big election, there is extensive information re- 

 garding the agricultural leanings of the three 

 presidential candidates as well as of the congres- 

 sional candidates. Much of this information has 

 been assembled by the American Council of Agri- 

 ' culture in the furtherance of its purpose of organ- 

 ization. 



The more detailed data in the chart shows whether 

 the Illinois Congressmen have consistently sup- 

 ported agriculture. 



No eflFort is being made to interpret the informa- 

 tion herein conveyed. There are many promises. 

 Read over and study over the information and you 

 will at least be better informed before you vote. 



Better save this issue for future reference. The 

 chart is specially valuable. 



And don't forget to VOTE! . 



The Voice of the Members 



itembert are invited to speak their minds in tkis column. As 

 mtmy letters from members will be printed eeek issue as space 

 wilt permit. Letters tkonld be short and snappy; all must be 

 stgnei to be printed. AU constructive criticism of the Farm Bu- 

 rears — tmtnty, state or national units — is welcomed. II yon have 

 any grievances, praise or tnttestions, here is the place to tell 

 them. It's your column, mmke it what you will. Address tetters 

 to B. C. Butcher, I. A. A. Record, 6ol S. Dearborn, Chicato. 



Here are two Utters. Feed both of them. Do you get the morale 

 Dear SIrt 



I have beea a laember of the Farm Borcan for ahovt 

 Ave years and understand there Is a Farm Adviser In oar 

 roanty, but am not acQualated with htm. 



Do not expert t* siara asala. 



M. D. Frederick. Mlliedsevlllr. III. 



There art two sides to every question. Before printiu^ the above 

 letter, we frankly ashed the Farm Adviser in Mr. FrederKh's county 

 (Carroll) to reply. II follows: 

 Dear Mr. Bvtehert 



I have your letter about the copy you received from 

 Mr. Frederick. Yon can readily naderstaBd, of course, 

 how It U possible for a man to have this experience. 



\%'e have approximately a thousand members and a 

 county asent always has lots of thlaKs to do aside fro^ 

 visltlns bis naenibernhlp, so I practically never visit nnem- 

 bera except on request. Since this man has never re- 

 uuested a visit, and since he doesn't attend our mretlnKS 

 which we hnve held at MIllcdKCvllle, coaseqnently, he 

 hasn't «-omc In contact with this ofllce. The Farm Bu- 

 reau proposition requires co-operation on both sides. The 

 man who acta acquainted with us, naturally la solas to 

 set service, while the man who keeps hiBMelt aloof will 

 Krt little from tlie county orBanisation, 



It miaht be well for you to cmpluiBixe these facts In 

 your reply to Mr, Frederick. I nm slad yon told me of 

 this Instancei perhaps 1 will have an opportunity to drop 

 In and see him. 



With best wishes, I am 



sincerely yours, 

 G. R- Bliss, county Asrlcaitural Aseat. 



Carroll Conaty Farm Bureau. 



The Farm Bureau it like a cafeteria; the food is tkere for you, but 

 you have to help yourself. 



We asked a few farmers what they considered the largest problem of 

 agriculture today. Here are some of the replies: 



Dear Sin The larfcest problem of asricalture today is 

 Insidious competitors. 



The farmer has many Insidious competitors. They used 

 to be Krasahoppers, worms, Ensllsh sparrows, chinch 

 baaa and other Inaecta which nearly subdued asrlcnltnre, 

 but today nKrlcuiturc is perpetually menaced on every 

 aide. When one enemy la overcome, new ones appear. 

 Since the war the farmer's problem Is Injustice by his 

 Insidious competitors, which are all claaaes of people 

 llvinit otf him and irivina him no return for hia labor. 



All claasea of people in other occupations are receiv. 

 init itood waaes and don't slve n tinker's damn for the 

 nariculturni man. 



K. G. Gum. Tnmaico, III, 



Dear Sin The hardest problem I have Is the money 

 part of It, What ever we farmers have to sell we have 

 to ask some man what he will iclve us and take hIa price. 

 That price Is whatever he la of a mind to Klve ua — which 

 aenerally la a Nmnll price. When we so to buy what 

 we have to buy. auch na fcncina and sraaa aeed, we have 

 to aak aome man what price he will take. I feel we will 

 act alona much better If all we farmers would set our 

 shoulder to the wheel to set to where we can have some 

 aay-ao about the price of what prodncta we have to aell 

 — our cattle, sheep. hos;a and mules. 1 have aome mules 

 now 1 hnve fed two years and can't itet n bid on them. 

 Sam C. Kelley, Gorrvllle, III. 



Dear Sin In anawer to your question "What Is the 

 Inraeat problem ut aarlculturef" — there are many hnrd 

 problems. The two lantest In my estimation are how to 

 secure a profltable production and how to put more busl- 

 neaa Into mnrketina. * 



Dee Walters. Roblnaon. 111. 



Denr SIrt Received your letter of the 2eth and will 

 any In anawer to your queation that co-operative mnr- 

 ketins: beneflts a farmer in ntany wraya. It aavea pay- 

 ina aome middle men commiaaions and niao sets the 

 farmers closer in touch with each other. 



R. H. Hawkins, Bowaa, III. 



Dear HIri I read the '-Voice of the Members" letters In 

 the last issue of the HRC'ORD, and will say that amons 

 them are some Kood thinas to be noted. One thins, to 

 be remembered Is the necessity of continuous effort. No 

 oricaaixation ever won the flrat and last victory all at 

 once. 



t'o-operntive marketlna Is aoins to have a lonft, hard 

 pull, but in time it may win. A national marketlns 

 machine will solve the problem. One obstacle in the 

 way of «-o-operative marketina Is that too much knowl- 

 edae la obtained In advance aa to how much arain la 

 prfMluced, and hoiv many hoaa and cattle ralaed, fed and 

 fattened. These reporta niuat be Klven but not brond- 

 casted to all comers of the earth, Uattl the reports 

 are resulated, the speculators have the advautase, for 

 they can buy as they set the reports. 



We have been talklna co-operative marketlns. but 

 whnt has been donef Just as soon as anyone tries to 

 do somethlna sameone else tries to blow the whole 

 thlna up. The V. H. Government could set up the ma- 

 chinery If It would do so and bond olBcers to do blddins 

 as it should be done. The bureaus are In their infnney 

 aa yet— Juat bealnnlns to ernwi. Soon they will wnik 

 nnd talk. 



Albert W. Koebrr, Hamilton, III. 



A'ow then, Mr. Farm Bureau member, you have read what these men 

 have written — what da YOU thinkf Write your thoughts on paper and 

 send them in for this column. We can print a few each time. — Editor. 



THE LIARS' CONTEST 



SOME MORE OF ELMRR*S IWBNTIONS 

 Dear Editor t 



About a ymr aso, whilp I was at «lir laterma- 

 tlonal Live Stork Hhovr. 1 vUlted Swl(t*a paeklair 

 plant. Thr Baperlntendrnt told me they aaved 

 rverrthlnir of the pis bat hU aqueai and the curl 

 In hU tall. 



I thouKht, **\Vhat an rronomlr loss!** Belay of 

 a ■fientlllc and Inventljcatlnic tarn of mind. 1 de- 

 elded to nee If I eouldn't eanh la oa theme br-prod- 

 art». 1 foand there was a aabstanee la the pis*" 

 tall which c^naed It to eurl. 1 aaed this extract 

 of pl|ir*H tall and produced the ^Wonderful PIfftall 

 Mareeller.** 



Now the ladlea. Instead of paylnic S25 for a per- 

 manent wave, ran baj a 92.00 bottle of "PUrtall 

 Mareeller." and their hair will have aa many waven 

 aa the ocean. 



A friend of mine aent hla Ktrl a bottle. Aa 

 they nae their oioek for a medlelne eheat. ahe act 

 It la the clock nnd It wound ap the clock ao tlffht 

 It wouldn't ran *tll they took the bottle out. Now 

 when he waata the clock wound he uneorka the 

 Plir-taller and It'a wound for elfrht days. He tried 

 It on hla watch, too, but It put a marcel la the 

 halr-aprluK And coat him 9& to s^t It flxed. 



I next Invest Ifcated the plr'a aqueai. I found 

 that when a pis fceta hnUKry there la a certain 

 HTland which aecretea In the atomach and canaea the 

 pis to aqueai. 



A noted crImlnolOKUt aaya thia la the uioat out- 

 atandlaic dlacovery alnce the flnserprlnt. 



Whenever a criminal la captured we put him on 

 a starvation diet, ahoot aome ^'Squeal Seeretlou** 

 Into him, and he will Invarlablr aqueai on Jila cont- 

 radea, and the whole caboodle are aoon put In the 

 pen. 



Elmer ^'addell. Tarl*rTll]«. lit 



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