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The IlKnou Agricultural A«»ocu>tk>B Record 



JanuM-y 3, 192S 



I IjLilNOIS 



CITLTIIBAL ASSOClAI 



RECORP- 



Pabll«h*4 (TaiT «th«r Satardar br tb* Illlnola Agrrlcal- 

 tunil AsaoolatlOD, tOi Sooth Duirborn Stra«t, Chicago, 

 Illinois. Kdlted bjr Dtpartment of Information, H. C. 

 ButehT. Director. 



Entered aa aecond claaa matter Oot. 10, IMl, at the post 

 office at Chicago, Illtnoie, under the act of Search 8, 1S79. 

 Acceptance for mailing at apeolal rate* of ipoatage pro- 

 Tided for In Section 1101, Act of Octobfer t, 1S11, anthor- 

 laed Oct II, lltl. 



The Individual memberahlp fee of the Illlnola Agricul- 

 tural Aaaoctatlon la flTe dollars a year. Tbia fee Includea 

 parment of flftr centa for aubaorlptlon to the Illlnola Ag- 

 rlcnltnral Aaaodatlon «!«■», 



Poatmaater; In returning an uncalled-for or mlaaent 

 COP7, please indicate key number en addr^s as is re- 

 quired by law. 



OFFICERS 

 President, 8. H. Thompson, Qniner. 

 Tlce-Presldent, 0. B. Watson, DeKalb, 

 Tratsiirer, R. A. Cowles, Bio 

 Secretary, O«o. A. Fox, Sycamote,^ 



BXECCnVli! OOMMITTEB 



B7 Oongreaalonal Districts 



11th Jacob Olbrlch, Harvard 



12th G. F, Tullock, Rockford 



13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



14th W. H. Moody, Port Byron 



16th H. E. Goembet, Hooppota 



16th A. R. Wright, Varna 



17th F. D. Barton, Cornell 



18th R. F. Karr, Iroquoti 



19th J. L. Whisnand, Charleston 



20th Earl 0. Smith, Detroit 



21st .'Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



22nd Stanley Castle, Alton 



23rd J. E. LIngenfelter, Lawrencevllle 



24th Curt Anderson, Xenia 



28th Vernon Le—ley, Sparta > 



Directors of Departments 

 L A. A. Office 



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

 Organization, G. E. Mstzger; Information, H. C. Butcher; 

 Transportatloiv I- 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; 

 Piiosphate-Llmestone, J. R. Bent; In charge Poultry and 

 Egg Marketing, F. A. Qougler; special representative 

 on Tuberculosis Eradication, M. H, Petersen; Legal 

 Counsel, Donald KIrkpatrIck; Co-operative Accounting, 

 Geo. R. Wicker. 



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i Happy New Year! 

 To every farm bureau member 

 Record, the officials and directors of 

 of the I. A. A. extend a hearty and sincere wish 

 for a happy and prosperous New Year. 



gets the 

 departments 



Our Yearly Conclave 



Interest is running high in the coning annual 

 meeting of the I. A. A. This convenjon will be 

 one of the most important in this organization's 

 years of active history. 



Everj' farm bureau member who can possibly get 

 away from his farm should attend. E ven though 

 you are represented by capable delei fates, there 

 are many, many things in which everj individual 

 will be interested and in which you will liave a voice. 



The eyes of the farm organizations o : the nation 

 are on the Illinois Agricultural Association. 



It» Firtt Annual Meetinif 



Probably the reddest ear in the I. 1.. A. wagon 

 load of accomplishments in 1924 is the (irganization 

 of the auditing and business advisorj'. service for 

 farmers' co-operative organizations. 

 ' The first annual meeting of this liody, which 

 functions as the department of co-o])erative ac- 

 counting of the I. A. A., will be held at Urbana 

 on the 14th, the day before the I. A. A. meeting. 

 An extensive program has been arranged which 

 should, be iflteresting to co-operative managers and 

 officers. The meeting will be held in I the Illinois 

 Students' Union Wilding. A fuU oujtline of the 

 program appears in this Record. 



TAe Go* Tax 



As announced in the last issue of the Record, ' 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association will propose 

 and support a tax on gasoline in the coming ses- 

 sion of the state legislature. In supporting a gas 

 tax, the Illinois Agricultural Assoeiatic n is specific 

 in its statement that revenue derived from a gas 

 tax must supplant some of the present tax already 

 levied. The I. A. A. is not\or a gas tax in addi- 

 tion to present taxes; it is fir a gas :ax in place 

 of some present property tM. Another plank in 

 the I. A. A. gas tax platfo -m is that tax should 



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be paid on gasoline used on the public highways 

 and not that used upon the farm. 



Many people do not realize the extent of the gas 

 tax in the United States. The accompanying map 

 shows this very plainly. 



MAP SHOWING STATES WHICH HAVE ADOPTED 

 GASOUNE TAX LAWS 

 States shown in white have enacted laws providing for a gaso- 

 line tax, the proceeds to go for road purposes. The figures in 

 the states indicate the rate of taxation, from Ic to 4c a gallon. 

 States shown in black have not adopted a gasoline tax. 



Every farmer realizes that it takes money to 

 build roads, especially when he pays his taxes. 

 Roads must be built, however, and they must be 

 maintained. That costs money. The money must 

 be raised by some form of public license or taxation. 



Years Sgo it was just and proper to raise all 

 road funds by a general property tax — a tax on 

 the farms and homes. In the days of horse drawn 

 vehicles the road was a neighborhood road, used 

 almost solely by the neighbors and paid for by the 

 neighbors by a general property tax. 



Today, with the automobile, the motor truck and 

 the bus, the road is not a neighborhood, or town 

 road, but a county, a state, a national highway, 

 used by everybody, from everywhere. 



Under these changed conditions, with the general 

 property tax at a prohibitive point, it is simply 

 common sense and common fairness to say that the 

 people who use the roads and get most of the ben- 

 efit from them, the motor vehicle owners, should 

 pay a fair share of the cost. 



Getting Together 



A large part of the work of the phosphate-lime- 

 stone department of the I. A. A. has been to bring 

 the producers of phosphate and agricultural lime- 

 stone to a better understanding of the needs of 

 farmers who use such fertilizers and the conditions 

 under which these fertilizers can be brought into 

 more general use. On the other hand, this de- 

 partment has had the responsibility of bringing to 

 the farmers, through the county Farm Bureaus, 

 a better understanding of the conditions under 

 which these fertilizers are produced and the facts 

 that govern a continuance of an efficient and suf- 

 ficient supply. 



Trying to get buyers and sellers of any commod- 

 ity to see the problems of the other, it makes no 

 difference whether the commodity be hogs, beads, 

 helium or labor, is about as difficult as it would be 

 for some hardy individual to get out in No Man's 

 Land and try to stop a war. Buyers and sellers 

 are, as a rule, two natural, dyed-in-the-wool oppo- 

 nents. 



But in the phosphate-limestone work there are 

 indications that both sides appreciate efforts de- 

 signed to bring buyer and seller together. As an 

 example, the following is a quotation from a letter 

 received from J. H. Werner, general manager of 

 the Charles Stone Company at Marion, Illinois. 

 It is addressed to J. R. Bent, director of that de- 

 partment. 



"Your very interesting talk at the meeting was 

 a source of much information and enlightenment 

 for me. I feel that I have gained much in the con- 

 ference and feel that you, in behalf of the Farm 

 Bureaus, have brought us (limestone producers) to 

 a closer and keener interest in the farmers through- 

 out the state. Your service has been a, valuable 

 one to us, even while serving them." 



For Your Information 



The Illinois-Missouri Co-operative Milk Produc- 

 ers' Association, which was organized by the farm- 

 ers of the St. Louis district during 1921, had filed 

 against it but recently, for a second time in the last 

 two years, an involuntarj' petition in bankruptcy. 

 The first petition was filed in December, 1922. The 

 association had a large number of creditors and the 

 great majority of these creditors agreed to a fund- 

 ing plan offered by the association. A small group 

 of creditors, however, refused the funding plan of- 

 fered, which is responsible for the second proceed- 

 ing. 



Since the first bankruptcy proceeding, a second 

 company was formed by the farmers of the St. 

 Louis territory, which is called the Ill-Mo Dairy 

 Company. This company has been carrying on a 

 successful creamery business in the territory and 

 will continue to do so unaffected by the bankruptcy 

 proceeding against the Illinois-Missouri Milk Pro- 

 ducers Association. 



This second proceeding in the bankruptcy court 

 will probably clear uj) the situation as to the old 

 marketing association and give the milk farmers 

 of the St. Louis territory an opportunity to market 

 co-operatively the fluid milk and dairy products 

 through the Ill-Mo Dairj- Company. 



In order that any misinformed persons may be 

 set aright, it shovild be stated that the Illinois-Mis- 

 souri Co-operative Milk Producers Association was 

 not an enterprise of the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation. However, the I. A. A. had a hand in 

 the formation of the Ill-Mo Dairy Company and is 

 looking confidently ahead to its success. 



The Voice of the Hemhen >:',V.-n 



Members are inviied to speak skew minds m this eohtmu. At 

 momy letters from members vili be printed each issue as space 

 wiU permit. Letters should be short and snappy; aU must be 

 signed t« be printed. AU constructive criticism of the Farm Bu- 

 reau — county, state or notional units — is welcomed. If you have 

 any pievances, praise or sugiestions, here is the place to teil 

 them. It's your column, make it what you will. Address Utters 

 to B. C. BuUker, I. A. A. Record, 60S S. Dearborn, Ckictgo. 



Voice of the Members: We hear so much about what 

 the Farm Bureau has done, by some, but we also hear 

 from others lees informed that they can't see where it 

 has benefited them. This is the common argument so 

 much discussed by tho^e for and against the farm bu- 

 reau movement. 



In reality there is only one logical side and that is 

 for the movement. The man arguing against has no 

 basis for an argument, other than Ignorance due to lack 

 of information, based on positive facts. Affirmative in- 

 formation is available in any good farm paper, farm 

 bureau publication or cooperative literature. 



The trouble with the man who argues against the 

 Farm Bureau Is that he does not read material that 

 will keep him informed, because he seems to have the 

 feeling that if he becomes so informed, and his neigh- 

 bors who are lor the movement And it out, he will be 

 asked to become a member. This would cost him $15.00 

 a year I As I see it, the seat of the trouble with the 

 objectors lies In the pocket book. 



A, A. Appel. Cobden, Illinois, Union County. 



SIT TIGHT! 



A farmer may grin '. , 



Or he may puff and blow , "■ . '■: 



If he sells his produce ■■■'-■.■: 



At cost, or below. :■ ■' 



He may fondly think :•."•• 



He can go it alone, '■•.'': '■. 



But as well swim the ocean \ *■ ■ 



Tied fast to a stone! , . ; .. 



The Farm Bureau transport ' ; 



And its swift fleet of boats ! 



Will pull him across . •'. 



As it does all the shotes. . ' ' 



There is cotton, tobacco ■ ' •■•; 



Fruit, 'taters and cream — ■ ' 



They have reached a safe port 



At last, it would seem. 



But one ship is floundering ■• -i: 

 And that is the grain; , V . 



It's a shame that the big fish 1 •. -" 

 Get most of the gain. 



Mr. Douljter is here 



Altho not very stout. 

 He likes throwing stones 



At co-ops round about. ■■.'-■[ 



These stones to Sir Doubter •,;■ .■. ; 



Appear very neat, •. ; ..■ 



But when we look close — . ■; . - 



They are made by a cheat. ■ '■ ; 



iLet's stick to our standard — 

 ^1 The co-ops are right! 

 HAnd let's all board the Farm Bureau 

 Ship and sit tight. 



O. L. Hatch, president. 

 Stark County Farm Bureau. 



