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The DlinoU Agricultuiml Attociatioii Record 



November 22, 19U 



RADIO FANS! TUNE' 

 ON WCK, ST. LOUIS, 

 WEDNESDAYS AT 7:40 



I.A.A. Will Provide Farm Pro- 

 gram For Benefit of South- 

 em Memben 



Raldio fans in southern Illinois 

 who have experienced dilHculty 

 in receiving the 

 Chicago radio 

 casting stations, 

 will now have 

 an opportunity 

 to hear I. A. A. 

 speakers and 

 men who are 

 interested i n 

 farming 

 through the in- 

 auguration n 

 Wednesday 

 night, Nov. 26 

 at 7:40 of the 



tion farm program over WCK, 

 the Stix, Baer & Fuller station at 

 St. Louis. 



Stanley Castle of Alton, execu- 

 tive committeeman for the 22nd 

 distr^t, will officially open the 

 I. A.iA. program over WCK and 

 he wkll also tell of how the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association is 

 helpiag to re-build the southern 

 Illinois sails. A. D. Lynch, di- 

 rector of the dairy marketing de- 

 partment, will talk immediately 

 after Mr. Castle giving a word- 

 picture on what he terms: "The 

 Dairyman's Paradise." 



The I. ^. A. radio program 

 over WCK will be given every 

 Wednesday evening from 7:40 to 

 ft: 00 during the winter. When 

 holidjiy events happen to come 

 on Wednesdays, such as Christ- 

 mas Eve and New Year's Eve, 

 the I. A. A. program will be 

 shifted to some other night. The 

 Rcroto will contain full informa- 

 tion on I. A. A. speakers. 



Thb East St. Louis Producers, 

 the Uissouri Farm Bureau Fed- 

 eration and the Ill-Mo Dairy Com- 

 pany of E. St. Louis have been 

 invited to provide speakers for 

 the I. A. A. program. 



Listen In! 



L A. A. Farm Program 



FroJn Station WCK, St. I^oois 

 Time: Wednesday evenings, 



I 7:40-8:00 



(This program is arranged par- 

 ticularly for the benefit of south- 

 ern Illinois farm bureau mem- 

 bers who have bad difficulty In 

 hearikig the Chicago stations. 

 Letters and suggestions would be 

 appreciated. Address the I. A. A. 

 department of information.) 



Nov. 26 — Official opening of I-A.A. 

 farm program over WCK by Stan- 

 ley Cattle of Alton. Madison county. 

 Mr. qastle is executive committee- 

 man for the 22nd district and cliair- 

 man pf the advisory committee for 

 the phOBphate-limestone depart- 

 ment. His principal tallt wlU be on 

 '•Re-bullding our Southern Illinois 

 Soils'^ with special reference to tile 

 work done by the phosphate-lime- 

 stone department. 



"Tile Dairyman's Paradise." by A. 

 I>. Lynch, director of dairy marlcet- 

 ing of the I. A. A. 



Dea. 3 — "What the St. Louis Pro- 

 ducers Are Doing." by A. D. Wright, 

 manager of the Producers Live 

 Stocit Commission Association. Na- 

 tional Stoclc Yards, III. 



"Why Cream Tests Vary." by A. 

 E. Richardson, general manager, Ill- 

 Mo Dairy Company, E. St. Louis. 



Dea. 10 — Dairy talk by G. Edwin 

 Popkcss, editor of the Dairyman's 

 Journal. E. St. Louis. III. 



Dec 17 — Samuel Sorrells of Ray- 

 mond, Montgomery county, execu- 

 tive aommitteeman for the 21at dis- 

 trict and chairman of the live stock 

 marketing committee of the I.A.A.. 

 on the activities of live stock mar- 

 keting department. 



"N'etws About the Nation's First 

 Live Stock Producers Market." by 

 W. T. Angle, director of information 

 Producers Live Stock Commission 

 Assocdation, National Stock Yards, 

 III. 



This is the last of the Novem- 

 ber Drofinun over KYW: 



Nov. 25 — "Monthly Analysis of 

 Farm^ Markets." by H. W. Moore- 

 house( Howard-Moorehouse Agricul- 

 tural Business Service. 



"^Vhat the Illinois Farm Bureaus 

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

 rector of Information, Illinois 

 .Agricultural Association. 



Nov. 28 — "A. P. B. F. Radio Com- 

 munity Meeting" — this will be a 

 special one hour program starting 

 at eight o'clock. 



Attention, Radio 

 O^mers! 



When you hear an Illinois 

 Agrrlcultural Association man 

 speak over the radio, please 

 write and tell us. It takes 

 considerable time and elTort 

 to prepare and ^fve radio 

 talks — much more than the 

 casual tuner- in appreciates — 

 and the only way to check up 

 on whether or not the I. A. A. 

 talks are reaching: the ffoal — 

 which is YOU — is by the let- 

 ters or cards received from 

 radio owners. 



20th District Farm 

 Bureaus Hold Meet 



Sixty-five farm bureau mem- 

 bers from the 20th Congressional 

 district met in Jacksonville, Mor- 

 gan county. Oct. 31, for the last 

 conference of the year. The meet- 

 ing was called by executive com- 

 mitteeman Earl C. Smith, De- 

 troit, who presided. 



At the morjiing session, Geo. 

 A. Fox, I. A. A. executive sec- 

 retary, explained the stand taken 

 by the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation on the Grain Marketing 

 Company. 



A lu^ciieon and round table 

 discussion of projects that are of 

 special Interest to farmers fol- 

 lowed the morning program. 

 Plans for the coming year were 

 outlined. 



LAKE COUNTY FARM 

 BUREAU RE-TRENCHES 



(Continued irom page I.) 



practically a halt of what they 

 owed the I. A. A. 



In the meantime, however, the 

 I. A. A. was not left holding the 

 sack. A promissory note was 

 drawn up for the 13,200 with 

 two years in which to pay. The 

 note was signed by President 

 Flood and Secretary S. B. Jor- 

 dan. To make the note absolute- 

 ly good an "agreement in guar- 

 antee" was executed and signed 

 by these 54 loyal Lake County 

 Farm Bureau members: 



W E. Watkins, farm adviser 

 at that time; G. R. White. D. 

 H. Minto, now president of the 

 Lake County Farm Bureau; L. 

 A. Huebach, now treasurer; Ralph 

 Rouse, H. E. Flood, Elliott P. 

 Bacon. W. F. Burh, John G. 

 Wirtz, L. W. Wakefield, R. F. 

 Rouse, present vice-president; E. 

 Wilcox, Gordon Ray, Earl H. 

 Kane, Robert R. Rouse, H. A. 

 Eggers, Albert E. Dyer, LeRoy 

 Kane, Arthur Holland, Park 

 Allanson, R. J. Lill, Paul H. 

 Allanson, J. W. Cooper, Edward 

 Gosswiller, H. C. Ames, E. B. 

 Jordan, Andrew Eflnger, Douglas 

 V. Wait, A. O. Rockenbach, Les- 

 lie Bonner, Fred W. Brown, C. 

 F. Richards, E. F. Clark, Geo. 

 Koppenhoefer, John Strahan, Em- 

 met W. King, Henry Olson, F. 

 H. Faulkner, F. L. Newell, Wm. 

 C. Dillon, Fred Grabbe, John E. 

 Barrett, E. J. Giss, R. B. Dixon, 

 H. K. Vose, Ney Lamb, Wm. F. 

 Flood, E. Lossman, G. T, Mc- 

 Cullough, John Thomas. R. E. 

 Thomas, E. E. Marsh, L. J. Met- 

 calf, F. Grlpton. 



.\ssared Payment of Note 



The agreement of guarantee 

 signed by these men bound them 

 to the extent of $100 in paying 

 off the obligation to the state as- 

 sociation in the event it was not 

 paid with funds acquired from 

 other sources. Their confidence 

 in the principles of the Farm 

 Bureau was not to be in vain. 



Because they got back of their 

 organization in a business-like 

 way they were able to meet the 

 note when it came due. In ad- 

 dition to 11,000 in back dues 

 collected by local members, 

 }1,500 from the same source was 

 obtained by a lengthy solicita- 

 tion made by M. J. Wright of 

 Woodstock, McHenry county, and 

 E. R. Moore, a booster in the 

 Lake County Bureau. 



Another plan which proved 

 profitable was the staging of a 

 "Farm Bureau Day" at the Lake 

 County Fair. 'The fair was 

 turned over to the members of 

 the Farm Bureau for the day. 

 Their share was to be 25 per 

 cent of the gate receipts. There 

 was a big expense in promoting 

 the affair, as there was in mak- 

 ing all their collections, but re- 

 ceipts were nearly $1,000 and 

 the net profit was $700. 



90 Per Cent Paid Up 



And then came their first re- 

 organization in the fall of 1922. 



This picture was taken in the office of the Lake County Farm Bu- 

 reau at the time of its re-organixation in 1922. Top row, left to right: 

 Blanche Osborne^ office secretary; L. A. Heuhsch^ treasurer; J. J. 

 Doerschuk, farm adviser; E. B. Jordan, former secretary; M. J. 

 Wright. McHenry county, who helped in re-organizing.. Bottom row: 

 E. P. Bacon, vice-president at time of re-organization; D, H. Minto, 

 president, and H. E. Flood, former president, who was made honor- 

 ary member of the executive committee. 



It gave them 670 members, ac- 

 cording to Farm Adviser J. J. 

 Doerschuk, 90 per cent of whom 

 have paid their membership fees. 



With money acquired from 

 three major sources, collection 

 of back dues, holding of a "Farm 

 Bureau Day" at the County Fair 

 and a re-organization on a qual- 

 ity basis, along with organized 

 and orderly support of its mem- 

 bers, the Lake County Farm Bu- 

 reau was able to put itself back 

 on a substantial basis. The $3,- 

 200 note was cancelled Oct. 3, 

 1924. 



Stronger Than Before 



.\nd with the cancellation of 

 that note, it might be said that 

 the Lake County Farm Bureau 

 came into a new era. Not that 

 it had been fiat on its back, 

 busted, broke, stuck in the mud 

 or crying for help — the situation 

 was never that. But these Lake 

 county farmers came out of that 

 period of hard times not only 

 free of debt but with a far bet- 

 ter organization than they had 

 before they were forced to re- 

 trench. 



With less than half their 

 former membership, built now on 

 a 'cream' instead of a 'skimmilk' 

 foundation, they have one of the 

 strongest Farm Bureaus in Illi- 

 nois. The reason is best told in 

 the words of a Lake County 

 Farm Bureau member, who said, 

 "It's because we are determined 

 that our Farm Bureau shall not 

 fall down," 



URGE SAM THOMPSON 

 FOR SECRETARY POST 



(Continued irom page 1.) 

 man of the I. A. A. legislative 

 committee from the time it was 

 organized and was chairman of 

 the finance committee. In Janu- 

 ary, 1923, he was elected presi- 

 dent of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association and still holds this 

 position. He is also a member of 

 the executive committee of the 

 American Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion. 



"Sam" Is a, Methodist 



Mr. Thompson is a strong 

 church man, having been united 

 with the Methodist Episcopal 

 church when 12 years old and 

 having worked actively In the 

 church and Sunday school ever 

 since. 



In 1918, he gave up his active 

 farm life to move into Quincy, 

 where he was elected president 

 of the Broadway Bank of Quin- 

 cy, which position he now holds. 

 He has always been identified 

 with the improvements and pro- 

 gressive ideas of modern agricul- 

 ture, and has been public spirited 

 in serving his community. 



President Thompson is held in 

 high regard by his associates. 

 The insistence of the I. A. A. ex- 

 ecutive committee that he be- 

 come a candidate for the agri- 

 cultural post came as a recogni- 

 tion of bis leadership. It was 

 the unanimous sentiment of the 

 executive committee that no man 

 could be a truer representative 

 of farming interests than could 

 "Sam." 



Farm Bureaus In 

 Little Esrypt Hold 

 District Meeting 



Farm Bureaus of the 25th Con- 

 gressional district met in Marion, 

 Nov. 14, for 

 the 4th and 

 last district 

 conference o f 

 the year, called 

 b y Executive 

 Committeeman 

 Vernon Lessley. 

 Unfortunately, 

 rain and bad 

 roads prevented 

 Mr, Lessley and 

 many others 

 from attending 

 the meeting, 

 \>r>.. Lesley "ut twenty-five 

 representatives 

 from Williamson, Jackson and 

 Franklin counties were there. 



At the morning session, Will- 

 iamson county adviser W. K. 

 Galecner, presiding, opened an 

 exchange of ideas on the use of 

 limestone and phosphate in build- 

 ing up the fertility of soils in 

 southern Illinois. Farmers in 

 this section generally recognize 

 the value to their farms in ex- 

 tensive use of sweet clover and 

 other legumes. 



Talk Grain Marketing 

 An explanation of the grain 

 merger, whereby four old line 

 grain companies merged and 

 offered to sell their properties to 

 farming interests, was made by 

 L. A. Evans, auditor for the I. 



A. A. Mr. Evans gave as the 

 reasons for the refusal of that 

 association to endorse the grain 

 merger, the fact that the merging 

 companies would not provide the 

 information asked for relative to 

 the status of their business dur- 

 ing each of the last five years 

 and the belief that the Grain 

 Marketing Company was not be- 

 ing operated on truly co-opera- 

 tive principles. 



To End Rabbit Menace 



The revision of state game 

 laws got considerable attention 

 at the afternoon meeting. Farm- 

 ers generally are disgusted with 

 the closed season on rabbits. 

 These pests have increased until 

 young fruit orchards cannot be 

 planted with safety because the 

 rabbits kill the trees by nibbling 

 the bark off the tender young 

 trunks. 



, The conference voted to re- 

 quest the legislative department 

 of the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation to secure repeal of the 

 closed season on rabbits and to 

 further protect quail. 



The following farm bureau 

 members attended the meeting: 



A. M. Spitznass, A. H. Braeking. 



B. E. Feurer. F. H. Ruhe. Jacob 

 Krumrey. R. O. Spitznass. E. A. Pry. 

 H. C. Klope. W. L Elliott. J. F. Col- 

 lins. Carl Oeth. H. J. Dahmer. Farm 

 Adviser, W. K. Galeener, Marlon 

 county. H. A. DeWerff. farm advis- 

 er. D. M. Parkhlll, Glen Hamilton. 

 Matt House, E. J. Avis. J. R. Kelly. 

 Sam Webb. Franklin county. Fred 

 Diets, Louis Dietz, Jr.. Philip Dletz. 



C. J. Thomas, farm adviser, Jackson 

 county. 



Eat Sukplus. Save Puce 



I.A.A- LIVE STOCK , 

 DEPARTMENT SELLS 

 93,637 POUNDS WOOL 



Price* Highest In Yean; Ex- 

 pect Increased Production 

 Next Year 



Four hundred and twenty Illi- 

 nois farmers have sold wool 

 through the pool promoted this 

 year by the Illinois Agricultviral 

 Association, according to Wm. E. 

 Hedgcock, director of the live 

 stock marketing department. 



The 93,637 pounds brought a 

 f^ross return to farmers of $40,- 

 202.83. Prices ranged from 

 34.5 to 51.2 cents per pound, de- 

 pending upon the grade, the bulk 

 selling between 40.5 to 51.2 

 cents. In all cases the National 

 Wool Warehouse and Storage 

 Company, which handled the 

 wool, received top prices for all 

 grades on the day its was sold. 

 Prices Have Been Good 



Most of the clip was sold Sept. 

 4 to 23, some as late as the first 

 week In October, at an excep- 

 tionally good price. Through 

 the pool, wool sold as high as 

 15 and 25 cents in some cases, 

 above the prevailing local prices 

 at the time it was clipped. 



A second pool is now being 

 made to care for the large 

 amount of wool yet on Illinois 

 farms. Consignments for this 

 second pool must be made im- 

 mediately, according to the Na- 

 tional Wool Warehouse and Stor- 

 age Company's management, who 

 say the present price is some- 

 what above the September mar- 

 ket. 



Why Pool Pays 



Mr. Hedgcock points out sev- 

 eral advantages to trie farmer 

 in pooling bis wool crop: (1) 

 The pool eliminates the small 

 local dealer who otherwise would 

 buy the wool and ship either to 

 a larger dealer or direct to a 

 commission firm. In either case 

 the dealers are eliminated and 

 their charges for handling saved 

 to the farmer. (2) "Tags" sold 

 for 11.4 cents per pound through 

 the pool. Dealers would have 

 paid nothing. (3) By selling 

 through the pool the shipper 

 gets the mill price less freight, 

 storage and insurance charges. 

 It is the most direct way of mar- 

 keting possible. 



First Pool in 1919 



The I. A. A. wool pool origi- 

 nated in 1919 when farmers 

 were getting as low as 10 and 12 

 cents per pound for their clip. 

 The I. A. A. took up the prob- 

 lem and established a pooling 

 plan which has been maintained 

 each year. 



In 1921 and 1922 the I. A. A. 

 had nearly a half million pounds 

 of wool converted into blankets 

 in order to improve the market 

 price of the product. The last 

 of these blankets were sold early 

 this fall. 



Due to the extremely low 

 prices of wool in recent years 

 the production of this staple 

 product in Illinois has been ma- 

 terially reduced. With a much 

 improved price this year indi- 

 cations point toward a marked 

 increase in the 1925 wool crop. 



Co-op Short Course 



Completion of plans whereby 

 managers of co-operatives can 

 get a four-weeks' course in co- 

 operative marketing at low cost 

 will be one of the major activi- 

 ties of the International Institute 

 of Co-operation when it meets in 

 Chicago Dec. 4. The Institute 

 was formed by leading agricul- 

 tural economists at Cleveland 

 during the summer for the pur- 

 pose of spreading the gospel of 

 co-operation to managers and 

 directors of co-ops and students, 

 both graduate and under-grad- 

 uate, who are interested in co- 

 operative marketing, 



Geo. R. Wicker, director of co- 

 operative accounting, represents 

 the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion. He is secretary of the In- 

 stitute's organization committee. 



Fred Dlehl, farm bureau mem- 

 ber in Carroll county, has Just 

 received $25 in settlement for 

 loss on two young hogs which 

 were killed on t^ C. M, & St. 

 Paul right-of-way along his farm. 

 His hogs got through the rail- 

 road's fence which was badly in 

 need of repair. The claim was 

 collected through the I. A. A. 

 transportation department. 



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