December 6, 1924 



The nBnoU AgJCTiltural A«»oci«tion Record 



P««e 3 



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6TH ANNUAL A.FJ}.F. 

 CONVENTION SLATED 

 FOR DEC. 8, 9 AND 10 



Subconunittee* Will Settle 



Question*; To Broadcact 



Programs By Radio 



When the hand of time rings 

 up Dec. 8, 1924 there will be 

 convening In Chicago, at the 

 Congress Hotel, one of the most 

 important meetings of farmers 

 America has ever held. 



The occasion will be the 6th 

 annual meeting of the American 

 Farm Bureau Federation. The 

 convention lasts three days, Dec. 

 8, 9 and 10, during which some 

 of the weightiest problems ever 

 to face the directors of the Fed- 

 eration will be threshed out by 

 agricultural leaders. 



Handle Majiy Problems 



The complete program for the 

 several sessions has been an- 

 nounced by the program commit- 

 tee. Aside from the regular pro- 

 gram that has characterized an- 

 nual A. F. B. F. meetings in 

 years before, there has been ar- 

 ranged plans for a detailed study 

 of the many problems which 

 should be discussed. 



To accomplish the detailed 

 plan of handling questions tiie 

 Board of Directors will be di- 

 vided into six subcommittees. To 

 these special committees will be 

 assigned special matters which 

 they will settle in three periods 

 set aside for that purpose. Prob- 

 lems of organization and finance, 

 research and transportation, pub- 

 licity, legislation and taxation, 

 rural life and co-operative mar- 

 keting are the principal ones to 

 come up. Community develop- 

 ment and boys' and girls* club 

 work will also be included. 

 Banqnet on Tuesday 



On Tuesday evening, Dec. 9, 

 the delegates and farm bureau 

 leaders from all over the United 

 States will lay aside their heavy 

 and vexing problems while they 

 attend the 6th annual A. F. B. F. 

 banquet. 



Radio will play its part in this 

 Stb annual convention. By spe- 

 cial arrangements with station 

 KYW. the opening address of 

 President Bradfute, which will 

 commence at 10:15 sharp, Mon- 

 day morning, Dec. 8, will be 

 broadcast. Arrangements have 

 also been completed with this 

 same station to broadcast the 

 entire program on banquet night. 



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MACON COUNTY GIRL 



WINS ESSAY TILT 



LA.A. ACCOUNTING 

 DEPARTMENT HELPS 

 101 MEMBER CO^PS 



Make Applications for Income 



Tax Exemption; Schedule 



S3 Audits 



Fourteen of the best essay tcriters in Illinois. Some of them didn't send their pictures in time to get them in 

 icith this bunch. (I) lona Henry, (2) Curtis Weathers, (3) Oscar Hamlik, (4) Roberta Zeller, (5) Mttrforet 

 Catharine Schnapp. (6) LaVeta McQuigg, (7) Opal Rixie, (8) Hasel Wilde, (9) Adeline Stevenson, (10) Kirby 

 Todd, (11) Elbert McCarthy, (12) Everett A. Sancken, (13 J Faith Dishong, (14) Herman DUtmar. 



(Continued from page 1) 

 Prophetstown, Whiteside county 

 and Margaret Catherine Schnapp, 

 Talulla, Menard county. 



Three Judges, Arthur C. Page, 

 editor of Orange Judd Illinois 

 Farmer. C. E. Hay, president of the 

 Farm Advisers' Association of Illi- 

 nois, and J. E. Hill, head of vo- 

 cational agriculture department 

 at Springfield, spent an entire 

 day in choosing the best essays. 

 Immediately after announcing the 

 results of the contest the judges 

 issued the following statement; 

 Statement of the Judges 



"We find a great deal of merit 

 in these essays, and highly com- 

 mend those boys and girls who 

 have put in thorough effort to 

 seek out the facts about the Farm 

 Bureau. 



"We are pleased to see the 

 breadth of vision concerning the 

 nature and purpose of the Farm 

 Bureau as a national, state and 

 county work, by which It Is 

 dhown to be not only a means of 

 Increasing profits In dollars and 

 cents, but building a basis for 

 more abundant country life. 



"The first and second prize win- 

 ners particularly bring out an 

 Idea which is the foundation of 

 successful Farm Bureau operation 

 In a county, state and national 

 way. and that is that after all, 

 while live stock, crops, soil, laws, 

 marketing, etc., need careful at- 

 tention, folks themselves are of 

 highest value, and the ultimate 

 Job of the farm bureau Is de- 

 veloping rural life." 



First Prize Paper 



Here Is the essay picked by the 

 judges as the one best typifying 

 the Ideals and purposes of the 

 farm bureau movement. 



By Dorothy Heckman, 

 Macon County 



The farmers have begun to 

 tblnk. Thiey think (arming la 



equal to any other business. They 

 want other folks to know this. 

 So they have begun to organize. 

 The Farm Bureau Is the result. 



The Farm Bureau as it is or- 

 ganized to-day includes county, 

 state and nation. These working 

 together stand for profitable farm- 

 ing and social welfare. The mem- 

 bers consist of farmers who look 

 forward to the future for results, 

 not only In money, but In de- 

 veloping a higher type of rural 

 life. 



In Illinois alone there are 

 sixty-three thousand Farm Bu- 

 reau members. My Dad is one 

 of them. He is a booster for the 

 Farm Bureau, first; because its 

 program of work has put on a 

 campaign of education to have 

 farmers test cattle for tubercu- 

 losis. It has made possible for 

 farmers to get free tests under 

 the supervision of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture. 

 Also to get pay for two-thirds of 

 the loss of cattle that prove to 

 have the disease. 



Second; For encouraging the 

 raising of soybeans as a com- 

 mercial crop to fight the chinch 

 bug. 



Tblrd; For conducting corn di- 

 sease plots to make possible the 

 best choice of seed corn to plant. 



Fourth; Because a general 

 practice has been brought about 

 in sowing wheat after the fly- 

 free date, which has saved farm- 

 ers thousands of dollars. 



Fifth; Because co-operative 

 shipping associations have been 

 established to Improve the mar- 

 keting of live stock. 



And last; perhaps the best 

 thing of all the Farm Bureau 

 is doing is the building of better 

 community life through co-op- 

 erating with the Home Bureau 

 and organizing boys' and girls' 

 clubs. The Farm Bureau be- 

 lieves in developing the resources 

 of the farm. This can be done 

 by giving higher standards for 

 rural living. The live stock, the 

 crops, and the soil all need care- 

 ful attention but the folks them- 

 selves are of more value than all. 



Because the Farm Bureau Is 

 doing and believes all these 

 things. My Dad Is a member and 

 a booster for the Farm Bureau. 



$15 Fee 



(Continued from page 2) 

 I have kad coBsldrrablc experteaee 

 la ■oUrltfair work and la •omp aec- 

 lloBii have railed oa far aiore hcb 

 who fvoBid BOt Jeia thaa who would. 

 The apposite 

 was asaallr the ir;-«J« 



case, however, rinOS 



the aaaaber he- 

 iBK BOBiewhBt la 

 proportloB to a w »/„» Hish 

 desire to do their '* ''•" "«g" 

 partiathlB 



Brent work. In aoine on«e« the 

 ■aeBiberahip fee wan the thins ob- 

 leeted to, bnt, in mr Judirment. much 

 the same arisam*'"* woold have been 

 used iB mOBt oa>*e« reSfardleMU of the 

 aaaoaat of the fee. I like an orgrnn- 

 tsatloa Independent of local tax 

 aopport. aa or(::aBlxatluB flaaaced 

 by fanaera themnelvea and obll- 

 irated to BO taxpayer oppoaed tv our 

 work. A alidinK »t€*ale for member- 

 ship fees based on land owned or 

 operated, as sometimes advocated, 

 would necessitate a revisal of fees 

 each year, be a aoorce of eternal 

 dIssatlsfactloB. aad re4|Bire a tre- 

 nteadous amouat of work. A S19 

 annual membership fee Is none too 

 hi^h conslderias the capital and la- 

 bor invested on the averaire farai. 

 Other hnainess combines and labor 

 orKaataatioBS have siicccericd be- 

 cause of representative nieniherMhip 

 with fees lar^e enoush to adequate- 

 ly finance their undcrtnklnKS. 



More efflclent production la the 

 fundamental program of our Farm 

 nureao, but ne must co-nprrate in 

 merehaadlsins our products. Co- 

 operative marketing is not aettiag: 

 prices OB our commodities, but it 

 should afford a means of refculatlBir 

 the flow of our products from the 

 farai to the aiarkets la accordaace 

 vrith demaads of time aad place, 

 aad ahonid eheapea the coat of dis- 

 trlbullea. 



If ail membera of the Farm Bu- 

 reau tvould co-operate fully, recoip- 

 Bise and patron- 

 ise the successful 

 c o-o perativc 

 markellasr proj- 

 e c t s as their 

 owB, sullicieBt of 

 the flow of our 

 products to mar- 

 ket would be la 

 our hands where 

 vre have an ia- 

 alleaable riKh t 

 io have it. The 

 Klutted nsarket 

 periods would 

 s o o B disappear 

 aad we would 

 come iBto our 

 OWB irithout any 

 lajary to the 

 O. L. Hatch eoaaaailBK puh- 



lic. 

 The Farm BureaD aad Its afllll- 

 ated orf^anixations are children of 

 our own production. Let's protect 

 them, help them to f^row, aad the 

 farm will be a healthy aad profit- 

 able abldlBff place In our old mfie. 

 Yonrs for suecessfai co-operation. 

 O. U, Hatch. Presldrat, 

 Stark C'ouaty Farm Bureau. 



Ve t a aa Vaata 



In McDonongh county, shipf 

 ping associations have (;onsigned 

 63 carloads of stock to the Chi- 

 cago Producers Commission Com- 

 pany since July 1. 



Forty boys' and Rirls' in Knox 

 county begin feeding their baby 

 beef club calves on Jan. 1, 1925. 



At Quincy, 34 business men 



are members of the Adams Coun- 

 ty Farm Bureau. 



Seventy-three herds represent- 

 ing 1,600 head of cattle in the 

 neighborhood of Waukegan and 

 Zion were given the tuberculin 

 test In one week recently. 



Richardson Tells 

 Radio Bugs Why 

 Cream Tests V»ry 



Down In East St. Louis A. E. 

 Richardson manages the 111-Mo 

 Dairy Company. Sometimes . Jll- 

 Mo patrons, like others, kick' on 

 cream tests. Mr. Richardson, las 

 do all creamerymen, knows that 

 there are reasons for variations 

 in cream tests. When he Was 

 asked to tell radio fans "Why 

 Cream Tests Vary" he was glad 

 to accept. Read, in part, how Ihe 

 explained the puzzle over WCK 

 last Wednesday evening, Dec. 3. 



"There isn't any secret about 

 making good butter now-a-days. 

 with the modem equipment of 

 the up-to-date creamery." the til- 

 Mo manager told the listening 

 dairymen. "To make good buttJer. 

 start with the cow. Clean udder, 

 clean flank, dlean hands and clean 

 clothes. This Is not sentiment, it 

 is the only way to keep doirn 

 bacteria, which destroys butter 

 flavor. 



Flavor Counts lUti 

 "In judging butter, flavor counts 

 45 per cent, body and grain 25 

 per cfent, color 15 per cent, salt 

 10 per cent, and neatness of 

 package 5 per cent. So you see 

 why 1 talk of flavor first. There 

 are other elements which don- 

 trlbute very largely to the butter 

 flavorv such as barn odors, metal- 

 lic flavor and using vessels im- 

 properly tinned, weedy feed, >nd 

 many others. 



The acidity of cream is cauBed 

 by bacteria, which multiply rap- 

 idly in warm weather. Cream 

 should be kept at about 50 de- 

 grees. Always properly cool the 

 fresh cream before it Is put Into 

 the can with that of previous 

 days. 



"Lots of loss Is , caused by 

 foamy cream. Extra care for the 

 cream Is well paid for if a ican 

 or two foams over and is lost In 

 transit. 



Effect For Every' Cause 



"The variation in the test of 

 cream Is probably the cause of 

 more misunderstanding between 

 the producers and the creamdries 

 than any other one thing. The 

 causes of the creajn test varying 

 does not seem to be very well 

 understood, but remember, 'For 

 every effect there is a cause.' It 

 might be the condition of the 

 cow, condition of the milk, |con- 

 ditlon of the separator or the 

 condition <^f the cream." j 



The response of co-operative as- 

 sociations and Farm Bureaus In 

 Illinois to the 

 plan of organi- 

 zation of the 

 Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Co-opera- 

 tives Associa- 

 tion has been 

 very encourag- 

 i ng. according 

 to a statement 

 by Geo. R. 

 Wicker, geaeral 

 manager of the 

 auditing coop. 

 Under the di- 

 rection of Ver- 

 n o n Vanlman, 

 organization representative, the 

 membership has reached 101 

 farmers' organiiations, including 

 42 farmers' elevators, 36 coxrn- 

 ty Farm Bureaus, nine live stock 

 shipping associations, Hve dairy 

 co-operative companies, three live 

 stock marketing agencies, two in- 

 surance companies and four mis- 

 cellaneous organizations. 



Up to Dec. 1, 53 examinations 

 have been scheduled and the man- 

 agement Is making an effort to 

 meet the requirements of the vari- 

 ous organizations at the close of 

 their fiscal period. With one or 

 two exceptions this has been 

 done. Tlie number of examina- 

 tions which come in January will 

 not permit examinations and re- 

 ports to be completed before the 

 annual meetings of the different 

 organizations. 



Busy With Income Taxes 

 During the past month, the ac- 

 counting department has been en- 

 gaged in securing information 

 from Farm Bureaus required for 

 the purpose of making applica- 

 tions for exemption from income 

 taxes. A number of such appli- 

 cations have been prepared and 

 sent out for signatures of the olB- 

 cers of the Farm Bureaus and 

 others are being prepared as soon 

 as the required Information can 

 be secnred, says Mr. Wicker. 



A bulletin was recently pre- 

 pared and sent out to all farm 

 advisers covering quite fully the 

 provisions of the Revenue Act 

 and regulations issued thereunder 

 as applying to co-operative asso- 

 ciations and other agricultural or- 

 ganizatioas. 



Attention of farm advisers is 

 called to the fact that this bulle- 

 tin covers most of the Inquiries 

 which are being made with refer- 

 ence to tha requirements of co- 

 operative associations and farm 

 bureaus to make returns for in- 

 come and capital stock tax, un- 

 less they are expressly exempt. 

 The balletin also covers quite 

 specifically the requirements of 

 the Commissioner of Internal Rev- 

 enue for the exemption of the 

 associations and procedure neces- 

 sary- thereto. Any questions not 

 answered by this bulletin will be 

 given special attention if ad- 

 dressed to the Accoanting Divi- 

 sion of the Illinois Agricultural 

 .\ssociatlDn. 



Hear \'aninian on Radio 

 Mr. Vanlman outlined the need 

 of proper audHing of co-ops to 

 KYW radio folks Tuesday night, 

 Dec. 2. He explained that the 

 1. A. C. A. is to operate on a co- 

 operative basis for farmers just 

 as a bankers' clearing house op- 

 erates ia large cities. 



"The value of a good audit in 

 increasing the loyally of the 

 stockholders is not to be over- 

 looked," was one of his state- 

 ments. "Any number of directors 

 have staled that it would be worth 

 t5 to |10 per year, per stock- 

 ■faolder to their association if each 

 stockholder were loyal to his own 

 co-op." 



Farmers who are looking ahead 

 and keeping abreast with the 

 times appreciate the need of bet- 

 ter business methods for co-o{>- 

 eratives, he said. They are look- 

 ing forward to the time when 

 there will be more co-operation 

 between co-operatives and they ex- 

 pect their auditing servitse to 

 hasten its coming. 



The Damille National Farm 

 Iioan Association has nearly |1,- 

 000,000 farm loans in fortse in 

 Vermilion county. 



