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The MmoU Agricuftural AModation Record 



November 8, 1924 



14TH DISTRICT FARM 

 BUREAUS EXCHANGE 

 IDEAS AT MEETING 



Shipping Associations, Com- 



numity Work and Grain 



Merger Discussed 



When I. A. A. executive com- 

 mitteeman W. H. Moody opened 

 ^M^ the 14th dls- 



^MPI^ trict Farm Bn- 

 m '^^m ''®*" conference 

 A't^f^L at Macomb, 

 Wl^^^^B Oct. 22, by an- 

 jlf^^^f nouncing that 

 ,^^^W^r tbe meeting 



^^^k^^^^^^ would be de- 

 ^^^H^^^^^ voted largely to 

 ^^^^^^^^^H a discussion 

 ^^^^^^^^^1 local 

 ^^^^^^^^^^B wide ' 

 ^^^^^^^^^^ he started 

 w. H. Moody something, a c- 

 eording to the report sent in by 

 acting secretary, L. A. Null, Mc- 

 Donough county. 



The 35 or 40 representatives 

 present took Mr. Moody at his 

 word and turned the meeting 

 into a profitable free-for-all talk 

 fest. Exchainge of ideas on com- 

 munity work following a talk by 

 R. C. Doneghue, McDonough 

 county advUer, and discussion of 

 organizatioa work, led by G. K. 

 Metzger, I. A. A. organization 

 director, ciime in for a good 

 share of attiention. 



See Shipping Mistakes 



Discussion of shipping associa- 

 tions revealed the following com- 

 mon weaknesses in management: 

 L,ax metbo4s of keeping books, 

 no regular and dependable audits 

 of official records, little or no con- 

 trol over (nanagers, failure of 

 directors to direct and a prevail- 

 ing rule that the shipper having 

 the largest consignment desig- 

 nates the commission firm to 

 which the load of stock shall go. 



To remove these common flaws 

 in management, to tie the ship- 

 ping associations and the Farm 

 Bureau closer together, to ship to 

 the Producers — these suggestions 

 formed the substance of recom- 

 mendations made to improve gen- 

 eral operation of shipping asso- 

 ciations in the rich live stock pro- 

 ducing sections of the 14th dis- 

 trict. 



Vision Feeds F. B. Spirit 



In an address that centered 

 chiefly around the vision that 

 is necessary to keep the farm bu- 

 reau spirit alive. President Sam 

 H. Thompson placed the responsi- 

 bility for organization and re- 

 construction of the agricultural 

 industry squarely on the shonl- 

 ders of the individual farm bu- 

 reau members. 



The present deflation of land 

 and agricultural products Is driv- 

 ing farmers Into organization, he 

 said. To solve the inequalities 

 imposed upon them, they must 

 put farming on a business basis. 



Mr. Thompson reviewed step 

 by step the Investigation made 

 by the I. A. A. into the Oraln 

 Marketing Company and explained 

 his stand all along. The con- 

 ference voted a unanimous ap- 

 proval of his action regarding the 

 merger. 



The following^ representatives 

 were present: 



MrDonouSh county— M. L. Hunt. 

 C. E. Wallaqe. W. a. Clawson. Ralph 

 t. T» llson^ H. P. Hunter. Frank 

 Stump. O. a Twaddle. Ja». H. Mul- 

 len. L. A. Null. R. c. Doneghue, J. B. 

 Stickle. A, 4. Measmore. C. P. Kline 

 J. O. Oardner. H. R. Miner, Ellis 

 t onner. 



Henderson county — C. C. Painter, 

 r. W. Cooper. Ernest Walker. 



Hancock county — J, H. Lloyd W 

 O. Kunkel. W. B. Curtis. Geo. H. 

 Dobaon. 



Rock Island county — W. H. Moo- 

 dy. P. X. ZelBler. 



Warren county— H. R. Jewell. A. 

 A. Olson. M. S. Smith, J. W. Sprout 

 Carl Stewart. 



Mercer county — C. H. Beltins. 



Attention, Comhusker*! 

 Here's Your Chance 



Tord county needs corn 

 husker* according to a letter 

 from George T. Swalm, the 

 farm adviser. Anyone look- 

 ing for a place to pick corn 

 should get in touch with Mr. 

 Swalm at Gibson City. 



Dedicate Muscle 

 Shoals To Farmer 

 Piuposes, Says Reid 



When the Senate convenes In 

 Washington, Dec. 2, disposition 

 of the Muscle Soals proposition 

 Is the first subject to be consid- 

 ered. The subject was made the 

 first order of business to be taken 

 up and nothing can take its place. 



The Farm Bureau, during the 

 last several years, has openly and 

 actively advocated certain funds,- 

 mental principles which it be- 

 lieves should be adopted in the 

 utilization and development of 

 Muscle Shoals. "We have no 

 Idea of abandoning the struggle 

 to secure the dedication of this 

 project to farmer purposes along 

 the economic lines laid down In 

 the Ford tender," said E. B. 

 Reid, acting Washington repre- 

 sentative of the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation. 



"American farmers pay about 

 112 per ton tax on nitrate shipped 

 in from Chile and the proper 

 operation of the Muscle Shoals 

 project w«uld not only reduce 

 the cost of manufacturing ni- 

 trates, but would force the Chil- 

 leans to remove all or a part of 

 the tax our farmers pay to sup- 

 port the Chilean government." 



The Kewanee Farm Bureau 

 roinnmnity Onb, a subsidiary or- 

 ganization of the Henry County 

 Farm Bureau, is opening a farm- 

 ers' produce market in Kewanee. 

 Selling space is to be limited to 

 members of the Henry, Knox, 

 Bureau and Stark County Farm 

 Bureaus. 



Co-operative horse marketing 



will be continued by the North 

 Dakota Farm Bureau Federation 

 this year. This service has been 

 provided fer the last three years. 

 During this time it has built up 

 strong eastern demand for the 

 marketable type of horses pro- 

 duced in North Dakota. 



Boys Do Testing 



In DeKalb County 



At the conference of farm ad- 

 visers from the northern district 

 in Chicago last week, Tom Rob- 

 erts, adviser in DeKalb county, 

 described a plan recently started 

 in his county to promote dairy 

 herd Improvement association 

 work. This project is commonly 

 referred to as cow testing asso- 

 ciation work but has been re- 

 named to avoid confusion with T. 

 B. testing. 



Under the plan explained by 

 Adviser Roberts, high school 

 boys do the testing as part of 

 their work in high school agri- 

 cultural courses. A boy, who Is 

 assigned to test a herd of cows, 

 arranges to be at the dairy tor 

 any two successive mllkings. He 

 weighs and tests the milk and 

 also weighs and analyzes the 

 cows' feed. 



He is paid for his services 

 which are performed under the 

 supervision of Smith-Hughes in- 

 structors co-operating with the 

 Farm Bureau. The plan seems 

 to be proving very satisfactory 

 after a two-month trial, according 

 to Mr. Roberts. 



A. F. B. F. Annual Meeting 



Final details for the sixth an- 

 nual meeting of the American 

 Farm Bureau Federation are be- 

 ing whipped into shape. The 

 annual meeting this year will be 

 in the Congress Hotel, Chicago, 

 on Dec. 8, 9 and 10. 



Discussion of organization and 

 finance, research and transporta- 

 tion, publicity, legislation and 

 taxation, co-operative marketing, 

 rural life and home and com- 

 munity development along with 

 boys' and girls' club work, will 

 be in the limelight. These sub- 

 jects will be handled by sub-com- 

 mittees. 



The annual farm bureau ban- 

 quet will also be a leading fea- 

 ture of the program. 



Government veterinarians in SI 



Illinois counties tested 43,438 

 cattle for tuberculosis during Sep-^ 

 tember, according to U. S. D. A. 

 report. Out of this number, 

 1,982 were reactors. In Septem- 

 ber, 1923, only 27,436 cattle 

 were tested. 



The University of Hlinois will 

 hold a boys' and girls' club lead- 

 ers' school of instruction at the 

 University next January. It is to 

 be held especially for local club 

 leaders. 



Eighty nilnois conntiee had 

 boys' and girls' clubs last year. 



Listen In! 



I. A. A. radio patriots will have 

 a chance to hear many good radio 

 programs during the frosty eve- 

 nings of November. Stations 

 KYW and WLS, Chicago, are 

 broadcasting regular farm talks 

 by leading agriculturalists of the 

 country. Here are their Novem- 

 ber programs. 



From StaUon KYW: 



Nov, ll^"Farm L-eases." by D. C. 

 Waterman, Director of Orange Judd 

 Illlnoia Farmer Service Bureau. 



■'Grain Marketing Review." by J. 

 W. Coverdale, Secretary-Treasurer. 

 Grain Marketing Company. 



Nov. 14 — Special Program. The 

 broadcasting of a "Fathers and Sons 

 Banquet." held under the auspices 

 of the State Board of Vocational 

 Education. This program will start 

 at eight o'clock sharp and continue 

 for one hour. 



Nov. lS^"Review of Live Stock 

 Markets," by J. D. Harper, infor- 

 mation department of the National 

 Live Stock Producers Association. 



"Where Our Lumber Comes 

 From," by Theodore M. Knappen. 

 Director of Research of the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers Association, 

 Washington. D. C. 



Nov. 21 — "When the Prairie 

 Schooners Stopped." by Arthur C. 

 Page. Editor. Orange Judd Illinois 

 Farmer. 



"All Set for the Third National 

 Boys' and Girls* Club Congress," by 

 G. L. Noble, Secretary, National 

 Committee on Boys' and Girls' Club 

 Work. 



Nov. 26 — "Monthly Analyais of 

 Farm Markets," by H. W. Moore- 

 house. Howard-Moorehouse Agricul- 

 tural Business Service. 



"What the Illinois Farm Bureaus 

 Are Doing." by H. C. Butcher, Di- 

 rector of Information, lUinoia 

 Agricultural Aaaociation. 



Not. 28— "A. F. B. F. Radio Com- 

 munity Meeting" — thia will be a 

 special one hour program starting 

 at eight o'clock. 



From Station WIB: 



Nov. 4— "A Brief History of the 

 Dairy Cow in America" Earl Coo- 

 per, Holetein-Friesian Association 

 of America. 



"Do You Believe In Price Fixing 

 of Farm Products." by The inquisi- 

 tive Broadcaster. 



Nov. 5— "Development of Co-op- 

 erative Live Stock Marketing." C. 

 A. Stewart. Secretary, National Live 

 Stock Producers. 



"Farm Flickertngs." E. B. Heaton. 

 Sears Roebuck Agricultural Foun- 

 dation. 



Nov. 7 — "Selling JIBO.OOO.OOO 

 Worth of Cotton," C. B. Howard, 

 General Manager. American Cotton 

 Growers Exchange. 



"John Turnlpseed," Prairie Far- 

 mer Feature. 



Nov. 11 — "Growing Into the Dairy 

 Business." C. M. Long. Holsteln- 

 Frleslan Association of America. 



"Will the Tractor Ever Replace 

 All Horses on the Farm?" by The 

 Inquisitive Broadcaster. 



Nov. 12 — "Development of Co-op- 

 erative Live Stock Marketing." C. 

 A. Stewart. Secretary, National Live 

 Stock Producers. 



"Turkey Talk." Marilla Adams. 

 Agricultural News Service, Chicago. 



Nov. 14 — "The Pencil as a Farm 

 Implement." M. L. Mosher, Depart- 

 ment of Farm Organisation and 

 Management. University of Illinois. 



"How Our Co-operativea Help to 

 Finance Our Members," A. H. BIng. 

 Secretary, North Carolina Cotton 

 Growers' Association. 



"John Turnlpseed," Prairie Far- 

 mer Feature. 



Dairymen and I,A.A. 

 To Work Together 



In •ccor^ane* with tiic t. A. A. 

 policy of extondini its icrvicM to 

 any iroup or orgonlzation of afrl- 

 cultural pooelt, a joint inootini of 

 tlio I. A. A. dlroetort and tho ox* 

 Mutlvo ocnialttn of tho Chicago 

 Milk Produeoro' Aitociition wot 

 hold rooontly. How tho two orgon- 

 izationo can bo«t work togothor for 

 the bonofit of dairynon In tho Chi- 

 cago torrltory was tho chlof topic 

 of discussion. 



Farmers Don't Like 

 Consolidated School, 

 Questionnaires Show 



One thousand replies to the 

 school questionnaire sent out to 

 Illinois farm bureau members by 

 the I. A. A. educational commit- 

 tee, indicate that farmers are de- 

 cidedly against consolidation of 

 schools. 



An analyais of the answers 

 from farmers shows that 76.4 

 per cent of them object to con- 

 solidated schools while the other 

 24.6 per cent favor consolida- 

 tion. 



Classification of the reasons 

 given against consolidation puts 

 them ds follows, in order of im- 

 portance: bad roads, other 

 schools systems satisfactory, dis- 

 tance from home is too great, 

 consolidated schools are too ex- 

 pensive to maintain, difficulty in 

 getting children to and from 

 school, increased taxes, impracti- 

 cability, buildings not located 

 right and too hard on little 

 folks. 



Judging by the returns, there 

 is little difference of opinion in 

 northern, central or southern sec- 

 tions of Illinois, all three of 

 which were touched by the sur- 

 vey. 



FARMERS REQUEST 

 LOWDEN TO ACCEPT 

 CABINET POSITION 



Debate Farm Problems at Con- 

 ference; Stun Thompson 

 Praises Members 



COOUDGE REQUESTS 

 FARM BUREAUS HELP 



(Continued from page 1> 



who has been very prominently 

 mentioned for the position, has 

 declared through the public press 

 that he will turn down the Job 

 If it is offered to him because be 

 feels, he states, that he can do 

 more good for the farmer outside 

 the Department of Agriculture 

 than he can in it. Several farm 

 organizations h^d urged him to 

 accept If he were offered the 

 place. 



The county Farm Bureaus rep- 

 resented in the 12th district meet- 

 ing at Morris, Oct. 29, passed a 

 resolution urging Lowden to ac- 

 cept the post if offered him. The 

 Indiana Farm Bureau Federation 

 had also urged Lowden to accept. 



Another Claim Settled 



Extract from letter to Ar- 

 thur Butzow. Rossvllle, 111.: 



We are sending you here- 

 with the Railroad Company's 

 check tor $190 in settlement 

 of your claim against them 

 for fire damage to clover 

 meadow, March 27, 1924. 



Trusting this matter has 

 been handled to your entire 

 satisfaction and that we may 

 continue to serve you, we 

 are. 



Yours very truly, 

 Trattsportation Department. 



Com Husking Contest 



Prairie Farmer is promoting an 

 Illinois-Indiana corn husking con- 

 test to he held in Sangamon 

 county. 111., in November. Busk- 

 ers who want to enter should 

 write to Prairie Farmer for en- 

 try blanks. These must be filled 

 out, after a husking trial under 

 rules specifled in the entry 

 blanks. From the lists sent In 

 contestants will be selected for 

 the contest at Springfield. 



Several county Farm Bureaus 

 are holding local husking con- 

 tests to determine county cham- 

 pions. In other states Wallace's 

 Farmer, Nebraska Farmer and 

 The Farmer, at St. Paul, are pro- 

 moting contests. An inter-state 

 contest will be held later to pick 

 the grand champion buskers of 

 the Middle-West. 



Ne-w York Seeks Recruits 



In New York, county farm bu- 

 reau members are forming com- 

 mittees to visit neighbors and in- 

 vite them to Join the Farm Bu- 

 reau. Farmers are asked to sup- 

 port the Bureau not only because 

 of the facilities which it offers 

 them for self help on matters of 

 state and national Importance, 

 but because the local Bureau acts 

 as an agricultural service station 

 for all farmers of the county. 



Set Calf Club Record 



A new top was reached for the 

 series of auctions of club calves, 

 held in Chicago this fall under 

 the supervision of the Interna- 

 tional Live Stock Exposition, 

 Then a purebred Aberdeen-Angus 

 steer, grown by Ferrel Ogden, 

 Hindsboro, III., sold recently 

 for $15 per hundred. His steer 

 came from the same strains that 

 produced "Broadus White Socks," 

 a grand champion at the 1923 

 International. 



The Vermont Maple Prodncts 

 Co-operative Exchange, working 

 with the support of the Vermont 

 Farm Bureau and through Farm 

 Bureaus in other states, is to sell 

 50,000 gallons of the finest and 

 purest maple syrup obtainable. 

 The Exchange advises middle- 

 western farm bureau members to 

 order direct from the Exchange 

 at Essex Junction, Vermont, or 

 better still to pool orders through 

 their local Farm Bureau. 



Taxation problems, the Oraln 



Marketing Company and the 



$ 1 ,000,000 



bond issue for 



hard roads were 



three principal 



topics that vied 



for the atten- 

 tion of 70 farm 



bureau repre- 

 sentatives who 



met in Morris, 



Grundy county, 



Oct. 29, for 



district confer- I 



ence, called by Geo. f. T«iiock 

 their district representative, O. F. 

 Tullock. Discussions of these 

 subjects were led in order by J. 

 C. Watson, I. A. A. taxation and 

 statistics specialist; President 

 Sam H. Thompson, and Frank 

 Barton, chairman of the I. A. A. 

 legislative committee. 



A resolution was passed and 

 wired to former Governor Low- 

 den, requesting that he accept the 

 appointment as successor to the 

 late Secretary of Agriculture, H. 

 C. Wallace, in case he should be 

 asked to serve as the next Sec- 

 retary of Agriculture. 



At the morning session of the 

 conference, Mr. Watson explained 

 something of the tax situation 

 which farmers are facing. 

 Want Uniform Taxation 

 "The idea of uniform taxation 

 is the underlying principle upon 

 which the I. A. A. tax. work is 

 being done," he said. "We are 

 now looking toward the future 

 and recognize that because lands 

 are easily taxed they are very 

 likely to be over-taxed. To pre- 

 vent this, county Farm Bureaus 

 should guard their members in 

 all tax matters. 



"1 am convinced that we must 

 discontinue the Issue of tax-free 

 securities," he said in discussing 

 tax-free bonds, "because such a 

 practice shifts a large amount of 

 the tax burden on to those who 

 do not hold the tax exempt 

 bonds." 



Mr. Watson advocated a tax 

 on net Income based on produc- 

 ing power of property and on 

 income from personal services. 



Mr. Thompson made an ad- 

 dress in which he praised the 

 work of the Farm Bureaus in 

 Illinois. He paid a tribute to the 

 social life of rural communities 

 and credited the Farm Bureau 

 for the high type of social activ- 

 ity In our country communities. 



Members Make I. A. A. Strong 

 "Service and personal sacrifice 

 by the unpaid members of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association 

 are the forces that have made 

 our organization a powerful one," 

 he declared, "and I am proud to 

 say that in no state will you find 

 such strong county Farm Bureaus 

 as those in Illinois." 



The biggest Job the farmer 

 faces is putting agriculture on a 

 business basis, Mr. Thompson 

 thinks. In this period of chang- 

 ing conditions farmers must apply 

 business methods to transporta- 

 tion and distribution of their 

 products Just as other big indus- 

 tries do. 



"The time has come when 

 some one must s$>eak for the 

 farmers in an organized way," he 

 said. "That is what our I. A. A. 

 is for. Through it the farmers 

 of Illinois can employ the best 

 brains of the country to repre- 

 sent them with other groups." 



A vote unanimously approving 

 his stand on the grain merger, 

 was accorded Mr. Thompson by 

 the Farm Bureau representatives. 



liess than half the com In 



Whiteside county will be dry 



enough to crib, thinks Glen L. 



Buck, assistant farm adviser 

 there. 



Hillsdale county, Michigan, the 



first county in the United States 

 to undertake eradication of bo- 

 vine tuberculosis and the first to 

 receive the 10 cent premium for 

 hogs from a T. B. free county, 

 has appropriated money to begin 

 a systematic campaign for eradi- 

 cation of tuberculosis In all poul- 

 try flocks in the county. 



In Kendall county, 43 business 

 men, from towns and cities, are 

 members of the Farm Bureau. 

 The list includes men from every 

 line of trade— -druggists, surg- 

 eons, bankers, manufacturers, 

 publishers and others. 



