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The HlinoU Agriculhlr*! A«»oci«tion Record 



Novwnber 22, 1924 



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ccltvual associa 

 RECORD 



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Published every other Saturday by the Illlnol* Agricul- 

 tural Association, 608 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, 

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

 Butcher, Director. 



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

 oftce at Chicago, Illinois, under the act of March a, 18T<. 

 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 la Ave dollars a year. This fee Includes 

 payment of fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois Ag- 

 rieultural Association Rscoap. 



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 copy, please Indicate key number on address as Is re- 

 quired by law. 



OFFICERS 



President. S. H. Thompson, Quincy. 

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

 Treasurer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomln^on. 

 Secretary, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

 By Congressional Districts 



11th Jacob Olbrich, Harvard 



12ih ,. G. F. Tullock, Rockford 



13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



14th ■^ W. H. Moody, Port Byron 



15th H. E. Goembel, Hooppole 



16th J... .A. R, WrlBht, Varna 



17th .-'.... F. D. Barton, Cornell 



18th R. F. Karr, Iroquois 



19th , J. L. Whisnand, Charleston 



20th Earl C, Smith. Detroit 



21tt Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



22nd Stanley Castle, Alton 



23rd J. E. Llngenfelter, Lawrenceville 



24th : „. . .Curt Anderson, Xenia 



25lh . . ■ Vernon Lessley, Sparta 



Directors of Departments 

 I. A. A. OfBce 



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. O. Lynch; 

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

 Egg Marketing, F. A. Gougler; special representative 

 on Tuberculosis Eradication, M. H. Petersen; Legal 

 Counsel, Donald Kirkpatrick; Co-operative Accounting, 

 Geo. R. Wicker. 



President Coolidge' * Attitude Toward 

 Farming 



I aery citizen among us ha* a pemonal eonrern in the 

 wrl^are of the fanner. 



The foTtanei of all of ue mill <■ the end go up or dawn 

 mtk hi*. 



If we ever permit our farming population to fall to the 

 level of a mere agricultural peaeantry they will carry down 

 with them the general social and economic level, 



T ie farmer is not only a producer; he is likrwise a mer- 

 ehatt. It does him no good to get quantity production — 

 m /far/, it may do him harm — unless he also can have sci- 

 rntific marketing.— C.\l.\lS COOLIDGE in speech at 

 Washington to representatives -rtf Land Grant Colleges, 



Noi. 13, 1924. 



I 



The Statu* of Farm Legislation as Seen by 

 a City Newspaper Writer 



Wi'si wU bf Ike status of farm legislation lekfH Congress re-convenes 

 in December* This is a question being asked by many jarmers. Here it 

 a diacourv presented by a viU-kno:i'n feature writer of the metropolitan 

 prrsf—Wiliiam Hard. The artifle appeared in The Daily Neivs, Ckica^u, 

 and is reprinted through Ike kind permissioH of C. B, Dennis, managtng 



•' BT WILLIAM HABD 



Toe farmer Is coming back to the corridors of con- 

 gress next month in the role ot a ruthless collector of 

 proipissory notes. 



His pockets are bulging with Aese notes. They were 

 giveki to him by the republican convention last summer 

 in Cleveland and by the democratic convention last sum- 

 mer In New York. 



Tie farmer. It seems, took these notes seriously. 

 They are numerous and they are large. The efforts of 

 the ifarmer to collect on them from the approaching 

 "shojrt session" of congress will give to that session 

 somt of Its most serious and some of its most ludicrous 

 mon^ents. 



Each party has pledged itself to the hilt to the farmer 

 on propositions which it will find Itself much embar- 

 rassed to deliver — or even to try to deliver. 



Toe American Farm Bureau Federation nevertheless 

 is going to demand delivery. 



Drama and Comedy Due 



Tqe scenes which will ensue when this delivery Is 

 atteihpted, or evaded, will provide many columns of in- 

 tens4 drama and also of high and low comedy. 



Thje president, it is profoundly believed, is unalter- 

 ably lopposed to taking the government into buying and 

 selliikg on behalf of the farmer. 



This McNary-Haugen bill for taking the government 

 into that sort of thing was defeated in the last session 

 of this congress by a combination, or concurrence, of 

 eastern republicans and of eastern and southern demo- 

 crats I 



The legislative record of the democrats is heavily 

 against such proposals as the McNary-Haugsn bill. 



Nevertheless, in an interval between fights about the 

 Ku-Klux Klan and the league of nations In Madison 

 Square Garden in New York last June, the democrats 

 managed in their convention platform to indorse the 

 idea of "an export corporation in order that the ex- 

 portable surplus (of farm products) may not establish 

 the price of the whole crop." 



Will the democrats in congress now honor and pay 

 the promissory note thus given to the farmer by the 

 democratic delegates in New York? 



That is the question which the American Farm Bu- 

 reau Federation is going to explore as soon as congress 

 re-convenes. 



"The resolution of the American Farm Bureau Fed- 

 eration In favor of the principle of the McNary- 

 Haugen bill still stands and still guides the legislative 

 policy of the federation," says E. B. Held of the feder- 

 ation's Washington office. 



Federation to Meet Hera 



The federation will hold a meeting in Chicago early 

 in December. At that time it may possibly declare itself 

 in favor not only of the McNary-Haugen bill once more 

 but also of the Williams bill for governmental aid in 

 encouraging the development of co-operative marketing. 



It may decide to combine those two bills into one bill 

 with federation support behind it. 



Both platforms of last summer — republican as well as 

 democratic — promised governmental aid to the farmer 

 in the matter of co-operative marketing. 



It is believed in Washington that the president's 

 new proposed agricultural commission, when it makes 

 its report, will stress the need of more and better co- 

 operative marketing in this country. 



The problem is, however: i ' ■ 



Are we really going to need to pay out governmental 

 money in this country to hire governmental tutors to 

 teach persons how to organize co-operative societies 

 when the colossal co-operative system of Great Britain 

 came to its present proportions without one trace of 

 governmental advice and without one pennyworth of 

 governmental expense? 



That is the criticism which numerous democrats and 

 republicans in congress will launch against the proposal. 



In the meantime there will be other proposals equally 

 controversial and equally difficult to accomplish but all 

 pledged and promised by the platforms of both parties. 



Lower Freight Rates Promised 



Both platforms, for instance, promise the farmer that 

 he will have lower freight rates. 



This can be done only by a statute of congress, passed 

 through both houses and signed by the president, over- 

 ruling and overriding the present views of the inter- 

 state commerce commission. 



Such a blow to the commission would manifestly to- 

 tally destroy its prestige and authoiity as a scientific 

 technical neutral governing body. 



Yet that is what both parties are in practice now 

 bound to do, or else eat the words which they uttered 

 in the farm planks of their platforms last summer. 



The republicans, moreover, are pledged to take ac- 

 tion to give "adequate" protection to all our agricul- 

 tural products that may be threatened by foreign com- 

 petition, and many of them, such as butter and vege- 

 table oils, are in fact at this moment so threatened. 



The republicans are pledged also to give governmental 

 aid to "diversification" of crops, wherever such "diversi- 

 fication" is needed, and it is needed in many large spots 

 throughont the country. 



Pledged to Waterway Systems 



The democrats are pledged further to bring about new 

 internal waterway systems in order to carry the farm- 

 er's products to market more cheaply. 



The democrats are also pledged to lower the tariff 

 for the farmer, while the republicans are pledged to 

 raise it for him. 



Both parties, however, are agreed on one final, com- 

 prehensive, remarkable idea. 



They both are pledged by their platforms to establish 

 an "economic equality" between agriculture and indus- 

 try. This means, if it means anything, that there shall 

 be a consistency and a correspondence between agricul- 

 tural prices and industrial prices. 



But that is just what the McNary-Haugen bill en- 

 deavors to do by means of its export corporation, and 

 nobody has come forward with any other thinkable 

 method for doing it. 



Veto by President Seen 



Yet even if the democrats should now vote for the 

 McNary-Haugen bill and put it through congress, the 

 president presumably would veto it in accordance with 

 his frequently expressed principles and in defiance of 

 the worship offered to the word "equality" at Cleveland. 



The whole situation then becomes this: 



The farmer has the promissory notes in his pocket 

 and he morally is in a strong position and has the best 

 of the argument, but in his efforts to cash the notes he 

 is likely to discover, along with some solvency, a cer- 

 tain considerable amount of moral and legislative bank- 

 ruptcy among makers of platform planks and passers 

 of laws. 



(Copyright, 1924, by Current News Features, Inc.) 



want to 94* a good fanner on a good farm raise a 

 crop and secure a good price." — President Coolidge. 



The Voice of the Members 



lltsnbert en invited to ipett Ikeir minds la lUl column. At 

 many letlerl frem nm^l will ba printed tack iume u Ipece 

 will permit. Utter I ikouU be ikon end snappy: sJI mult he 

 signed to be printed. All coustructivt cnticism al Ike Farm Bu- 

 reau — county, slate ae national umiti — is uelcomtd. II you keae 

 any grtevancet, praiM or tuggtstious, kera it tke placa to tsU 

 them. Its your coimmn, maka It what you mil. Addraa leUen 

 lo a. C. BuUkar, I. A. A. Record, 6ot S. Daerkeen, Ckk4ts. 



A'olce of the Members Colomni Onr Fax«i BnreaB most 

 exert Itself for membersUp and my opialou la to pay 

 local mea for their servleea Instead of hiring men from 

 a distance, for In my coonty the state aoUcitora Tlalted 

 only good prospects, and the result waa a smaller asem- 

 berahlp. 



Our ofllelaU of the 1, A. A. and the A. P. B. F. have ob- 

 taiaed mach through leglalatlon but there are not enough 

 members to co-operate. 



M. X. Relnhart. Prraldent, 

 .\dams County Farm Bureau. Fowler, IIU 



Dear Niri In regard to the Farm Bureau, this Is the 

 best work that has come to this part of Egypt. Our ad- 

 viser is a hard-working man. He would sooner wvk 

 than eat. Farmers are mostly all hauling limestone naw. 

 We all have tet keep onr noses to the grindstone 16 houn 

 a day to make enda meet. 



Jahn H, Huelsmann. President, 

 Clinton County Farm Bureau, Brreae. III. 



Dear SIrt Forward, Farm Bureau! .\nd 

 every respect is my hope and wish. How to make It more 

 snci-e«Mful Is now a K:reat question. My idea as vrell as 

 the idea of some others with whom I have talked Isi 

 Reduce dues to VIO instead of SIS, thereby increasing our 

 number of members! let the dues he divided. gO.RO for the 

 rounty and $3,50 for the 1. A, A. dues or something along 

 that line. Then place the dues on a sliding scale, each 

 man paying according to membership and farming Inter- 

 cnts. 1r et a more even deal would be to place it onto 

 the regular taxes and have the County .4gent paid like 

 other county offlcers. If jinch were possible. 



W. F. Bngelman. Prealdent, 

 Chrlatlan County Farm Bureau. >okomia. III. 



iDear Memberst The Farm Bureau is looked upon In 

 a variety of ways. Some look fur the social beneflta 

 and In ^ measure gnd satisfaction in the picnic, tours, 

 moving pictures, etc. The educational features, such 

 as soil and crop demonstration meetings, with good 

 speakers, appeal to some. Others look for the flnanclai 

 gain only. The Farm Bureau has several, many of these 

 through the purchasing of seeds, coal, feeds and apples, 

 at a great saving. Then there are those wrho look for 

 .\OTHI.\Ci, and claim they are getting It. We also And 

 n goodly nuntber of those who s*e all these things, and, 

 realising the value of united effort and the power of 

 eo-operntion, see. In the future, the possibilities of the 

 Farm Bureau. 



It shall bring about those conditions which the farm 

 folk need so much and so sincerely desire. These things, 

 however, come slowly; it takes time, yes, even years of 

 ualted effort, to perfect an organisation and unite so vast 

 an army of people ^vho have iieen laboring single-handed 

 for so muny years, it will cunie iibuul. Just as the oak 

 grows slowly, through years of stormy weather, from 

 the little aeom to the great monarch of the forest. 

 D, H. Minto. President, 

 Lake County Farm Bureau. Antloch. IIL 



Amboy. Illinois, Oct. 27. 1PZ4. 

 Dear Mr. Butchert 



The stamped envelope adherea to the atamp so closely 

 that I can't get them apart uo I feel obliged to use this 

 letter for reply. 



I am interested In your deflnltlon of **News** hut since 

 the eonstruetlon of Route 2 through Amboy commenced 

 there are so many autos running nround nearly ail the 

 dogs have been run over nnd killed— ^it least the kind 

 that bites men and that gets all chewed up by a man 

 la very scarce. If that was the wrorst that could he said 

 about the autos It would not be so bad but they not only 

 run around, they rua over our chickens t they run after 

 moonshine! they run off with our girlst they run their 

 owners in debt and they run down so fast the mort- 

 gagee can't realise much on his security when the notes 

 come due. 



If .\ntboy and Lee county farmers are better off than 

 some of their neighbors— and we believe this to be a 

 fact — it may be attributed to the late development of the 

 dairy industry. Amboy has a flve-year-old, farmer-owned 

 milk evaporating plant. The maximum capacity of 2.000 

 cases a day has not as yet been tested but during the paat 

 aeason there has been a US per cent increase over last 

 senHun. The men operating the factory know how to 

 make salable milk and it goes out as soon as it la ready 

 for shipment — no stock on hand and the farmer geta 

 his money every month. Having the cash he need not 

 aak his merchant for credit and the merchant may In 

 turn pay cash to the whoieaaler. At the aame time the 

 dairy farmer— or diversified farmer — is maiatalaing the 

 fertility of his farm asnch better than the **aii grain** 

 farmer can do. 



Youra truly, 

 W. A. Green, Amboy. Lee county. 



Mr. Van Heeren kas written tke letter below in responte to tke gues- 

 lion. "Wkat benefits skould a farmer expect from co-operative markttingt" 

 Dear gin 



Vou asked me to answer on back of enclosed letter 

 but tieorge Jr. has made use of It, so will plu this reply 

 to said letter. 



"What benefits should a farmer expect from eo-oper- 

 ntive marketingf* 



One benefit n farmer should expect from eo-operutlve 

 marketing would be a better market for farm producta. 



For exnmpiet I have about 16 acres of potatoea thia 

 year aad yield la good and potatoea excellent. I have 

 tried to aell to nearly every hotel, reatauraat and gro- 

 cery atore In town and no one wants potatoes. The 

 price is from .15 to 50 cents per bushel. 



I paid a hired man to iimcfltone the ground naed for 

 the potatoes, and puld for clover seed, sown and plowed 

 under, on ground used for potatoes. Paid 91,50 per 

 bushel for some of seed potatoes bought from Co-oper- 

 ative Market company. Paid IJeO per bushel for soase 

 seed at grocery store, better than seed bought at Co-op 

 for gl.50. Some of seed. I raised last year and stored 

 in the cellar and furnished stoves and fuel to keep It 

 from freesing during the winter, and some I got else- 

 where. Spent many weary hours cutting over 200 bush- 

 els of seed. Paid gl.OO per acre for use of planter. After 

 planting, went over polntoes eleven times, paying a hired 

 man g40 per month besides his board, room and laundry. 

 Paid 9120 for a potato digger, besides the work of dig- 

 ging, pit'king op, weighing and huuling and unloading. 



Why nnd how can grocers hove potatoes shipped iB 

 cheaper than home grown ones, and why should farat- 

 ers trade at home lastead of mail order houses, when 

 home folks will not trade with farmers, or, if so, skin 

 themf Can fnrmers afford such markets for farm prod- 

 nctsf 



1 think the subject of markets for farm products 

 should recelve'^iueh consideration In co-operative mar- 

 keting and la one of the beneflta a farmer should expect. 

 Oeorge Van Heeren. Freeport, III. 



Dear Slrt 



"What beneflta should a farmer expect from co-opera- 

 tive marketingf** 



He has a right io expect his farm products to be mar- 

 keted In the best way poasible and on a cost basis. 



Herman and Fred Vehslage. Havana. IIL 



Dear SIri 



1 received your letter in regard io eo-operatlve mar- 

 keting, and in reply will nay that I think the farmer 

 would be henefltted by It. Ail other laborers are ben- 

 efitted by a union and 1 think the farmer would be alao. 



He could act a price for his farm producta and get It. 

 the aame aa other organised laborers do. 



William Hays. Peklu. IIL 



November 2 



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