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The IHinoU AgriculhinJ A»«oci«tion Record 



November 8. 1924 



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I IjIjINOIS 



CCLTVKAL ASSOCIA 



RECORO^ 



Published every other Saturday by the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association. 608 South Dearborn Street. Chicago, 

 IlUnoils. Edited by Department of Information, H, C. 

 Butcher, Director. 



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

 office Bt Chicago, Illinois, under the act of March S, 1>79. 

 Acceptance for mailing at special rates of postage pro- 

 vided for in Section 1103, Act of October ». 1917, author- 

 ized Oct. 31. 1921. 



The Individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association Is Ave dollars a year. This fee Includes 

 payjnent of fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois Ag- 

 ricultural Association Rzcosd. 



I'ostniaster: In returning an uncalled-for or missent 

 ' c^py, iplease indicate key number on address as Is re- 

 qulret by law. 



OFFICEI^ 

 President, S. H. Thompson, Qnincy. 

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

 Treasurer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomington. 

 Secretary, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore. 



EXECUTIVE COMJIITTEE 

 By Congressional Districts 



11th Jacob Olbrich, Harvard 



12th G. F. Tullock, Rockford 



13th., C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



14th. f W. H. Moody, Port Byron 



15th. [ H. E. Goembel, Hooppoie 



Uth.L A. R. Wright, Varna 



17th. [ IF. D. Barton, Cornell 



18th. I- R- F, Karr, Iroquois 



19th. i J. L. Whisnand, Charleston 



20th. L Earl C. Smith, Detroit 



21st. ; '. Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



22nd Stanley Castle, Alton 



23rd J. E. LIngenfelter, Lawrencevllle 



24th. Curt Anderson, Xenia 



25th.' Vernon Lessley, Sparta 



Directors of Departments 

 I. A. A. Office 



General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker: 

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

 Transportation, L. J. Quasey; Taxation and Statistics, 

 J. C. Watson; Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vege- 

 table Marketing, A. B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, 

 Wm. E. Hedgcock; Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch; 

 Phosphate-Limestone, J. R. Beht; in charge Poultry and 

 Egg Marketing, F. A. Gougler; special representative 

 on Tuberculosis Eradication, M. H. Petersen; Legal 

 Counsel, Donald Kirkpatrick; Co-operative Accounting, 

 G eo. R. Wicker. _==== 



The Great Leader of Agriculture I* Dead 



The death of Henry C. Wallace, late secretary 

 of agriculture, removes from agricultural leader- 

 ship! a man who has long been a true and useful 

 frieid of agriculture. He was a real friend of 

 farmers and showed it in his work at Washington. 



HHs department was charged with great re- 

 spoijsibilities, the execution and administration of 

 whieh automatically established precedents upon 

 whi<{h the Department will undoubtedly be infln- 

 ^encdd in years to come. His handling of the new 

 legislation concerning live stock and grain market- 

 ing has established an outstanding precedent which 

 must be maintained. 



The late Secretary was especially close to farm 

 buriau work. When he was in Chicago only a 

 littlfe more than two months ago, he talked to and 

 with the e.xecutive committee and the directors 

 whoi happened to be in the city. He made friends 

 of eperj- man of them. Such was his personality. 



Tbe Hlitiois Agricultural Association extends 

 its lleept-st .sympathy to the family of Mr. Wal- 

 lace 



Free Speech at the Annual Meeting 



This is u <;i>i>(l time to be thinking about who 

 should be your delegate at the annual I. A. A. 

 meeting. He should be a man who has the basic 

 needs of agriculture well in mind, and one who 

 can put forth his ideas. 



Mjore time is being allotted for open discussion 

 in tne program of this year's annual meeting than 

 ever| before. Any man with constructive ideas who 

 carek to put them forward will have an opportunity 

 to ^xpress himself. | ' 



Meet Gas Warfare With Fact* 



Someone has said that marketing is war. It 

 certainly is. It is a war of wits and fists, money 

 1 and intrigue. When farmers begin to engage in 

 co-cperative marketing such as has been begun in 

 of vicinities in Illinois, they automatically 

 becAme soldiers for their co-operative organiza- 

 tioES. 



yie should qualify the word "soldiers." Some 

 farmers become true soldieft in every sense of the 

 word; some become soldiers because their neigh- 



bors do; some are "conscientious objectors," who, 

 after being drafted, upon seeing the first flare of 

 war, are ready to give up the battle, tell aU they 

 know to the enemy, or turn traitor helping the 

 enemy carry on its gas attack. 



It is unfortunate that many farmer-co-operators 

 do not realize when they join a co-op that they 

 are integral parts of th^ir co-operative organiza- 

 tion — that they are soldiers fighting in the first 

 line trenches — and in failing to realize this fact 

 they often listen to and many times succumb to 

 vitriolic attacks made by the gas regiments of the 

 enemy. 



The chief attack of the enemy of co-operative 

 organizations comes through the hiring of paid 

 fighters with tongues of falsity, spite and destruc- 

 tion from which shoot pointed gas attacks into 

 the ranks of the largely unsuspecting army of the 

 co-operators. The co-operators, not being trained 

 to be good enough soldiers to meet such attacks 

 with the true facts, are often repulsed in argu- 

 ment by the persistent and apparently authorita- 

 tive assault of the enemy. The enemy gains a 

 foothold — possibly a traitor or two flops along the 

 way— and before expert re-inforcements of men 

 who actually know the facts, and who are pre- 

 pared to interpret facts in their true meanings, 

 can arrive to offset the enemy's penetration, con- 

 siderable harm has been done. 



Every; soldier should be armed with the facts 

 which are, alter all, the most effective weapons 

 against the enemy because facts label lies in their 

 true light and establish confidence in the soldier 

 who bears them. Even if the facts are not favor- 

 able to his organization, they are then of greater 

 value, because such facts can be applied to a con- 

 structive purpose in building the fighting machine 

 where it is of known weakness. 



Arm every co-operator with the facts about iiie 

 organization, and whether such information is 

 favorable or unfavorable, if the body of men with 

 whom he has thrown his energies has set out to 

 accomplish a worthy purpose, the facts will ulti- 

 mately become the guiding star toward a success- 

 ful co-operative marketing organization. 



The same logic applies to all farm organiza- 

 tions, whether co-operative or not. It applies par- 

 ticularly to the I. A. A. If any member has any- 

 thing on his chest or would like to have more in- 

 formation concerning any activity or project of 

 this association, a letter to the information depart- 

 ment will bring as complete an answer as it is 

 possible to give. Farm Bureau members should 

 keep abreast with the activities of the I. A. A. by 

 reading the Recom). It is the word-movie of 

 facts picturing the organization's progress in bi- 

 weekly intervals. Keep posted on I. A. A. actions 

 through the Record and be an armed soldier. 

 Don't be an unarmed gas absorber, ready to run 

 at the smell of powder. 



The Voice of the Members 



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 te B. C. Buuker, I. A. A. gtcerd, 6ot S. Darbtm, Ckktf. 



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Dear SIrt 



Co-opermtlOB !■ the word nnder wkleh tke Urvcat prob- 

 lem ot Ajnerican aarricaltnre can be headed. The Amerl- 

 cnm farmera can raise the crops and naleaa they are 

 united they can have their prices dictated to them by 

 the rralB specntators, the heads of the milk indKStrles. 

 or the main men who hold positions which enable them 

 to make the farmers easy prey and add to tkelr own 

 personal fortunes. 



The laborlnc men are united Into unions and so are 

 all the people of Industry and they dictate their own 

 terms and set them. Why not the (armerT He Is get- 

 ting united better every day and In union there Is 

 strength, but to have this strenyth there must be co- 

 operation. Did you ever watch an 111 trained team stuck 

 with a load In a mud holef One horac koes up aud the 

 other flies back. That's Just what the American farmers 

 have been dolngr* All are willing to pull but untU they 

 learn to pnll toKether they can accomplish little. They 

 must unite and then co-operate to sell their grralui to 

 market their produce and live stock and to elect a few 

 **honcst-to-(;od" dirt farmers to run a grent nation of 

 sturdy "clod -hoppers'* In their ovrn sood w^ay. Let's all 

 vet together and pull tosether. Then we will hnve suc- 

 cessful co-operation and a problem solved. 



Glenn C. Francis, Altamont, IlL 



What do YOU expect from co-operative marketing? Write and tell us. 



THE LIARS' CORNER 



"Hot for Kansas, land that restores us '* 



When homes choke us and big books bore nsl" 



—Vackel Lindsay of SpnngfitU, lit. 



For the Liars* Comert 



Our friend Ralph Snyder, President of the Kansas 

 Farm Bureau Federation, who made such a noble con- 

 tribution to the Comer some time aso. must have been 

 t<»o modest to tell us about the Kentncklan. who, with 

 his wife and son. ml^mted to Kansas In the early days 

 when the majesty of the law was upheld witk the rope 

 and icun. 



Soon after the Kentncklan arrived In Kansas, Ids son 

 Zeke was found in company with a horse that belonsed 

 to one of the custodlnus of the Imvr, Zeke was promptly 

 presented with a lariat cravat and elevated to a biffh 

 position. 



His father concluded that a man behind a tree in Ken- 

 tucky vrith n Winchester was safer than a man on the 

 open pmlrles of Kansas, with a stmnse horse; hence, 

 he and his wife returned to their native state. 



Being- a modest Kentncklan, he hesitated, upon re- 

 tnrninic to Keutncky, to spenk of the lofty position his 

 son had attained In so short a time, so he explained 

 why his son had not returned by the followlns talei 



Soon after the family's arrival In Kansas, they besu* 

 preparing for their sprlns: planting' Seed com had 

 been bronsht from Kentucky and Zeke and his father 

 started to make a comfleld of the prairies that had 

 known nothlns but buffalo grnmm and Jack rabbits. The 

 old man led olT with the hoe and chopped a hole In the 

 sod for the first hill of corn. Zeke followed with the 

 seed and proceeded to drop and cover the first kernel 

 while the old man proceeded to prepare for the next hilL 



The fM>m plantlnic hnd not sone far, when, upon hear- 

 luK « y«Il from Zeke, he looked back to see a huKc stalk 

 of com popplnir from the earth vrlth Zeke astride one of 

 the leaves. He yelled at Zeke to Jump, but by this time 

 Zeke was fully 50 feet In air and rising rapidly. Ap- 

 parently he was afraid to Jump and started to climb 

 down the stalk but It srew fnstcr than he could climb 

 and it soon becnme evident to the old man that Zeke 

 was losing ground. 



Realising that an emergency was at hand the old uiau 

 rushed to the house for his trusty axe to fell the stalk. 

 The first stroke was a mighty blow and the axe sunk 

 to the handle In the huge com stalk. The old man 

 loosened his grip on the handle to spit on his hands but 

 the nxe traveled out of reach. Frantically he rushed to 

 the house and called his wife, and together they under- 

 took to saw down the hnge stalk ivlth the crc»ss cut saw. 

 but all they accomplished was a slight scratching as the 

 stalk shoved toward the sky. 



Realising that their only hope was that their s«n 

 might live until the stalk matured when he might suc- 

 ceed in climbing to the ground, the parents settled dowa 

 to their long watt thm the hot Kansas summer. Occa- 

 sionally particles of corn would drop to the ground 

 which renewed their faith that their son still lived. 



As fall approached the stalk ceased to grow ana be- 

 gan to shovr signs Uf maturity. The huge telescope 

 which bad been used in the mountnlns of Kentucky to 

 detect the approach of revenue agents, vras brought out 

 and trained on the stalk as high as It would reach ai^ 

 an endless watch was set up for the approach of Zeke. 



But their Inst hopes were blasted when one day a ter- 

 rific Kansas tornado came along and twisted the stalk 

 from the ground. Majestically It spun In the air until 

 the tornado passed and then fell to the west vrlth a crash 

 that shook the sod houses to pieces and spread death 

 and deittructlon wherever it touched. 



Abandoning all hope of ever seeing thHr sou alive the 

 father started - to see If they could find his remains. 

 Two groups of curious Kansans were organized, one to 

 ■enrch along the north side and the other along the 

 south side of the mammoth stalk, and the search began. 



l*roceedlnK opposite ench other by communicating with 

 horns the little groups proceeded to the west. ProgresM 

 was slo^T be4*auNe detours had to be made around the 

 huge ears. Many of these ears were miles In length 

 with kernels large enough to supply the entire State of 

 Kentucky with moonshine. At one place aa entire In- 

 dian village had been wiped out nnd days were spent 

 evaminlng the rarcasHes of dead Indians to make sure 

 that Zeke's remains were not among them. With the 

 oaly means of Identification a bullet hole through the 

 Jaw, from n revenue officer's rlfie, progress was slow 

 and it was well toward spring when the parties reached 

 the western border of Kansas. 



At one place a huge ear of corn had been driven di- 

 rectly into the ground when the stalk fell; the pith In 

 the cob had shrunken nnd through the center of the cob 

 oil nnd gas were gushing out sufflclent to form a good 

 sised river. 



As tbe parties neared Colorado they saw smoke In the 

 direction of the mountains nnd at night fires were vis- 

 ible. Fearing prairie fires they camped until the dan? 

 ger passed, but the fires Increased and it soon became 

 evident that the huge stslk was afire, and they con- 

 cluded it hnd fallen across a volcano In the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. The fire soon reached the points where the 

 searching parties were encamped and the bent became 

 so Intense that alt the members of the parties were cre- 

 mated with the exception of the old Kentncklan who 

 took refuge in a vase constructed In a huge kernel of 

 corn. For a while the heat was so intense thst he 

 thought he must surely perish hut suddenly the huge 

 kernel popped and he was projected through the air at 

 a terrific rate of speed, finally falling into a river. As 

 he came to the surface he saw his wife ou the bank 

 fishing and he swam for home. 



He warned his wife of the approaching fire and they 

 took to the hills until the conflagration was over. Aa 

 they were returning to the sod house a Kansas vrlud- 

 storm arose nnd scattered the ashes of the famous stalk 

 to the four winds of heaven. 



Heartbroken hy their loss and terrorised by the 

 strange phenomenon they had observed, they aiade haste 

 to return to Kentucky where philosophers of the hills 

 assured them that it was a mistake to plant com bred 

 to produce a crop on the Impoverished hills of Kentucky 

 ou the fertile prairlca of Kansas. 



I. A. Madden, Farm Adviser* 

 Sangamon County Farm Bureau. Springfield, III. 

 P. 8. Dou*t ppt this fa the **Llars' Comer.** No real liar 

 ever ft into a comer. 



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