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The IllinoU Agricultural A»»oci«tion Record 



January 3, 192S 



NEW EXPORT PLAN 

 OFFERED TO REPLACE 

 McNARY-HAUGEN BILL 



Coclidge's Coininission Given 

 Outline of Plan to Divert 

 Surplus; Body Meet* Jan. 5 



rThere is no chance for agri- 

 culture to rise to parity wim in- 

 ,dustry and labor in the Ameri- 

 can protective system ualess 

 steps are talien to maintain an 

 American price for major larm 

 commodities that are now held 

 to I world price levels because a 

 normal surplus above domestic 

 nefds is annually produced, ac- 

 cording to the memorandum on 

 th^ agricultural situation that 

 has been presented by the Amer- 

 icajn Council of Agriculture to 

 thi President's Agricultural Con- 

 ference which re-convenes Jan. 

 5 at Washington. 



An outline of a remedial p'^Q 

 accompanies the memorandum. 

 Unner it, producers would be en- 

 abled to divert a surplus to the 

 world market at world prices at 

 thair own expense, in prder to 

 enjoy the domestic market for 

 the remainder at a price reflect- 

 ing existing and future tariff 

 schedules. .\ farmers' export 

 corporation created by govern- 

 mwt charter, but financed by all 

 the producers directly benefited 

 by it, is proposed as the agency 

 thijough which this would t>e 

 do»e. 



I Surplus -\lwa.\s With Is 

 • Robert A. Cowles. treasurer of 



thej I. A. A. and secretary of the 



Council, points out that the 

 Council's memo clearly sbows 

 that a surplus for export of corn, 

 cotton, wheat and pork is no 

 new thing in America, — that the 

 United States has been on an ex- 

 port basis with these crops since 

 thej Civil War. Statistical tables 

 are given showing that produc- 

 tion of them has declined per 

 capfta of total population in the 

 United States below the average 

 of I several decades before. Dis- 

 parity between industrial and 

 agrpcnltural prices since 1920 is 

 due, it is contended by the Coun- 

 cil,] to the height of the former 

 rather than the low levels of the 

 latter in dollars and cents com- 

 pared with pre-war. 



•Figures are quoted to show- 

 that the world has absorbed 

 farm exports from the United 

 Stajtes in greater volume and at 

 a higher "dollar" price than in 

 pre*war years, while prices of 

 g)onds and services for which 

 farm crops exchange are main- 

 taiiied on a level relatively much 

 higher than before the war. This 

 thej Council says is in large 

 measure due to protective legis- 

 iation in the United States made 

 effective by the fact that indus- 

 try and labor are organized to 

 an extent impossible for agri- 

 culture without aid. 



i 'an't Control .Acreage 



he memorandum sets aside a» 

 "faiitastic and impossible" the 

 sugkestion that farmers can ren- 

 der! "'* exportable surplus non- 

 existent by controlling acreage, 

 ana supports its position by gov- 

 ernmental statistics showing U>- 

 tal lack of fixed relation betweeti 

 acreage and yield of principal 

 crops in recent years. It clial- 

 lenres the wisdom of such a pol- 

 icy! which would "either involve 

 wholesale farm abandonment, or 

 shifts to other lines of produc- 

 tion that would be seriously em- 

 bar: 'a^ed as a consequence." 



Two important agencies are 

 nee led to meet the situation, in 

 the view of the Council; — a 

 worjkable device to divert the 

 .surplus, the costs to be borne 

 by all the producers benefited: 

 andj co-operative association of 

 producers which would be effec- 

 tivej, with the problem of the 

 surplus removed, in sustaining 

 nnd| stabilizing the domestic price 

 to the extent of the tariff. Vol- 

 untliry co-operatives cannot han- 

 dle I the surplus unaided, it is 

 polated out, since they would be 

 compiled to assess the export 

 losses upon their membership for 

 the Iwneflt of non-members, — an 

 ineduality that would tend to de- 

 stroy the association that at- 

 tempted it. 



[Eliminates "Ratio Price" 



TJhe proposed plan differs from 

 the McNary-Haugen bill that 

 waa before the last session of 

 Con)gress chiefly in the reduction 

 of the extent to which the gov- 

 ernment engicges in business, And 



McLean flounty Milk 



Body Closes Door To 



C All Non-Members 



Only MqLean County Farm BO- 

 reau meQibers are eligible to 

 membership in the McLean Coun- 

 ty Milk Producers' Association, 

 organized i and incorporated re- 

 cently at Bloomington, according 

 to A. D. Lynch, I. A. A. dairy 

 marketing (director, who assisted 

 in setting; up the organization. 



At a mating of incorporating 

 members Dec. 23 at Blooming- 

 ton the following nine men were 

 elected directors: E. O. Ropp, 

 Guy Hilton, Jay Wright, Wm. 

 Welch, Conrad Schafer, F. J. 

 Basting, V: U. Crain, W. H. Fos- 

 ter and H. B. Mason. From 

 these E. O. Ropp was elected 

 president. Guy Hilton vice-presi- 

 dent and Jay Wright secretary- 

 treasurer. ] 



.-\ Barj;^ning Organization 



The organization plans to in- 

 crease its I membership but does 

 not propose to sign up its mem- 

 bership on a marketing agree- 

 ment at ttfis time. It is planned 

 to use the ; organization as a me- 

 dium for studying and analyz- 

 ing the dairy problems of the 

 membership. Cattle improve- 

 ment, better quality, and con- 

 sumer relquirements of the 

 Bloomingtan market are perti- 

 nent questions at this time. It 

 will act as a bargaining or serv- 

 ice body for its members in sell- 

 ing to Bloomington dealers. 



Some individual members may 

 pool their feed purchases to ob- 

 tain car lot price advantages. 



HANDLE 28 PERCENT 

 OF LOCAL BUSINESS 



"During the last two weeks thp 

 Producers lat Indianapolis have 

 handled 281 per cent of the busi- 

 ness of thej Yards, " reports D. L. 

 Swanson, manager of the Indi- 

 anapolis Producers. "Many visi- 

 tors arrive every day and almost 

 without ex;eption they are loud 

 in praise of the Producers. Be- 

 low is a list of Illinois counties 

 and the number of cars of live 

 stock consigned by Shipping As- 

 sociations from each to COM- 

 PETITORS of their own organi- 

 zation on ({his market. 



Piatt 11 Coles 6 



Champaign 5 Douglas 5 



Shelby j 3 Christian 3 

 Cumberland 1 Edgar 1 



Efflnghaiii 1 



".Mr. Farm Bureau Member, 

 are you ai resident of one of 

 these coui^ties and does your 

 shipping association patronize 

 yojur compfltitor in your effort to 

 create a better system of live 

 stock marlfleting? If so, do you 

 know why?j Does the reason ap- 

 pear to be legitimate, and if so, 

 will you wirite the Producers at 

 Indianapolis the facts as you 

 have theniT " 



Producer Facts 



There are 526 shipping asso- 

 ciations in Illinois. Producer 

 terminals Ikave handled approx- 

 imately 90,i000 carloads of live- 

 stock in 19124. .The total refund 

 by producer terminals in 192 3 

 was $350,400; the membership 

 in producer organizations is 

 325,000. The approximate sav- 

 ing in market expense is 35 per 

 cent. 



^ 



in the elimination of the "ratio 

 price" features of the former ex- 

 port corporation plan. Tiie point 

 is made that existing tariff sched- 

 ules are in theory intended to 

 equalize differences in costs of 

 production between this and 

 competing foreign countries. The 

 Council asks the .\gricultural 

 Conference to devise and recom- 

 mend a system that shall make 

 such schedi:les actually answer 

 this purpose for agriculture. 



The viewi and plan submitted 

 were adopted in principle at the 

 open meeting of the American 

 Council of Agriculture held ill 

 Cliicago on December 1 and 2. 

 in which representatives of forty 

 national and state or district 

 farm organizations participated. 

 The Council defines itself as a 

 temporary agency of leading na- 

 tional and \ state farm organiza- 

 tions, formed for the single pur- 

 pose of securing an American 

 price for i the American con- 

 sumption or farm products, in- 

 dependent of the world price for 

 the surplus. 



Listen In! 



I. A. A. Farm Program 



From Station WCK, St. Louis 



Wave length — 273 



Time: Wednesday evenings, 



7:40-8:00 



.Tan. 7 — ""What a Newspaper Man 

 Knows AI)Out Farmers." by Ira r>. 

 Mullinax. agricultural editor. Twice- 

 A-Week Globe Democrat. St. I^ouls. 



Jan. 14 — "The Quest of the t"lolden 

 Fleece." by Oacar White, sheep 

 salesman for the Producers I^ive 

 Stock Commission association. 



Jan. 14 — "What the East St. I^ouis 

 Producers Are Doing." by W. T. 

 AriKle. director of information for 

 the Fast St. Jjouis Producers. 



"What the Illinois Farm Bureaus 

 Are DoiiiB." by department of infor- 

 mation. Illinois .Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation. 



Jan. 21 — "The Stocker and Feeder 

 Cattle Situation." by Lee Devine. 

 stocker and feeder buyer for the 

 rrorlucers Live Stock Commission 

 association. 



Jan, 28 — "Some Phases in Farm 

 Bureau Work in Jersey county." by 

 U. L. P'yman. county agent. 



A.F.B.F. Program On KYW 



Jan. 6 — "Electricity on the Farm." 

 t.y Dr. E. A. White, director, com- 

 mittee on the relation of electricity 

 to aR-ricuIture. 



Jan. 3— "Who's Doing the Chores?" 

 I'v W. H. Moody. Port Byron. III.. 

 •Illinois Agricultural Association ex:- 

 fcutive committeeman. 



"Talk on Vocational Education." 

 I>y Dr. C. H. Lane. Chief Agricul- 

 tural Division. Federal Board for 

 Vocational Education. Washing-ton. 

 TX ('. 



Jan. 13— "Live Stock Conditions." 

 l-y J. D. Harper, director of pub- 

 licity. National Live Stock Associa- 

 tion. 



"The Shipper's ReaponBibility," by 

 O. W. Sandberg. director of trans- 

 portation, American Farm Bureau 

 Federation, 



Jan. 16 — "Agriculture a Decade 

 Hence," by Frank B. White, Agri- 

 cultural Advertisers' Service. 



"High Lights at Farmers' Week." 

 l>y Arthur C. Page. Editor, Orange 

 Judd Illinois Farmer. 



Jan. 20 — "What the Illinois Farm 

 rsureaus Are Doing." by H. C. But- 

 • ht-r, director of information. Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association. 



"tn the Grain Markets." by J. W. 

 Coverdale. secretary - treasurer, 

 tirain Marketing Company. 



Jan. 23 — "The Beef Cattle Situa- 

 tion in the Corn Belt." by D. C. Wa- 

 terman, director of the Orange Judd 

 Illinois Farmer Service Bureau. 



"Boys' and Girls' Club Work." by 

 Walter B. Remley. publicity depart- 

 ment, extension service. Interna- 

 tional Harvester Company. 



Jan. 27 — "Monthly Analysis of 

 Farm Markets." by H. W. Moore- 

 house, director of the Agricultural 

 Division of the Brookmire Economije 

 Service. 



Talk on "Vocational Education." 

 by Dr. A. W. Nolan, professor of 

 agricultural education. University of 

 Illinois. 



Jan. 30 — "What Illinois Produced 

 and Sold in 1924." by Arthur C 

 Page. Editor, Orange Judd Illinois 

 Farmer. 



■Painting 'and Son' Signs on Illi- 

 nois Farms." by H. C. Butcher, di- 

 rector of information. Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association. 



WLS Short Course 



Jan. 5. 12:30 P. M. — A. D. Lynch, 

 director dairy marketing. "The 

 Farm Bureau's Milky Way." 



Jan. 5. 8:10 P. M. — L. J. Quasey. 

 director transportation. "What the 

 Farm Bureau Has Done and Is Do- 

 ing: to Solve the Farmers' Transpor- 

 tation Prolilems." 



Jan. 6. 12:30 P. M. — F. A. Gougler. 

 director, poultry and egg marketing. 

 "Pioneering in Poultry and Egg 

 Marketing." 



Jan. 7. 12:30 P. M. — A. B. Leeper 

 director, fruit and vegetable mar- 

 keting. "The More-Dollars-on-the- 

 Tree with Less-Cost-at-the-Greeks" 

 aitivity of the Farm Bureau." 



Jan. 8. 12:30 P. M. — M. H. Peter- 

 st-n. in charge of T. B. eradication. 

 ■'Clean Hearts and Herds." 



Jam 9. 12:30 P. M. — Donald Kirk- 

 patrick. I. A. A. legal counsel. 

 "Handling the Farmers' Legal Prob- 

 lems." 



Jan. 9. 8:30 P. M. — Geo. R. Wicker, 

 director of co-operative accounting. 

 "The Twentieth Century Co-opera- 

 tive." 



Jan. 12. 12:30 P. M.— Wm. E. 

 Hedgcock, director, live stock mar- 

 keting. "Shortening the Hoof-To- 

 Frying-Pan Train Via the Farm Bu- 

 reau." 



Jan. 13. 12:30 P. M,—H. C. Butcher, 

 director of information, "The Farm- 

 er and His Local New.Bpaper." 



Jan. 13. 8:10 P. M. — G. E. Metzger. 

 director, organization "■Farm Bu- 

 reauitis." 



All Railroads Grant '■ 



Fare and a Half To 



LA, A, Anniud Meeting 



In a letter sent to all parts of 

 the state, the transportation de- 

 partment of the I. A. A. recently 

 announced special rates of fare 

 and a half to the annual I. A. A. 

 meeting and Farmers' Week in 

 Urbana. The reduced rates ap- 

 ply over all railroads from all 

 points in Illinois and from St. 

 Louis. Mo. 



"This information serves to 

 clear up an unsatisfactory con- 

 dition that has existed previous- 

 ly on account of only a part of 

 the Illinois lines originally 

 granting the reduction." a part 

 of the letter reads. "No cer- 

 tificates are required to get re- 

 duced fares. The reduction is an 

 open rate. Be sure to consult 

 railroad agents in your territory 

 some time previous to the time 

 of the meeting to find out if 

 they have received word. The 

 tariffs may not be received by 

 them and the agent would be 

 without knowledge until the day 

 previous to the meeting, thus 

 causing a lot of confusion." 



Originally the excursion rates 

 were granted by the Western 

 Passenger Association, which in- 

 cludes only 12 railroads operat- 

 ing in Illinois. The new tariffs 

 will apply between Jan. 10 and 

 19 and to either Urbana or 

 Champaign from all points in 

 the state. 



APPROPRIATE $100,000 

 TO CURB MYSTERIOUS 

 POULTRY EPIDEMIC 



Congress Moves Quickly After 

 Farm Bureau and Others 

 Urge Inunediate Action. 



Oongress recently |iaHse<l a bill 



increasing the appropriation for 

 T. B. testing 1150,000 and al- 

 lowing an additional $40,000 for 

 operating expenses. 



.■\bont 50 boys and Kirls in 

 Henry county joined the calf 

 club and began feeding their 

 calves Jan. 1. 



Monroe county begins or|;an- 

 ized T. B. testing Jan. 1. Dr. 

 W. L. Boogy is the veterinarian 

 in cha,Tge. 



The 2nd annual Pike County 

 Poultry Show is scheduled for 

 Jan. g, 9 and 10. 



A. F. B. F. FIGHTS 



HIGHER P. P. RATES 



That American farmers as a 

 class are opposed to the proposed 

 increases in postal rates which 

 would allow for higher salaries 

 of postal clerks the country over, 

 is the statement of the American 

 Farm Bureau Federation from 

 its Washington, D. C, head- 

 quarters. 



President Coolidge last spring 

 vetoed the proposal of Congress 

 at its previous session to in- 

 crease postal salaries, and strong 

 attempts are being made during 

 the present Congressional session 

 to pass the bill over his veto. 



The American Farm Bureau 

 Federation objects to the pro- 

 posed measure on the basis that 

 the bill is not well considered 

 and that it is more political than 

 economic. It is felt that the pas- 

 sage of the bill would mean dis- 

 crimination against the fanners, 

 as the changes In parcel post 

 rates would be out of proportion 

 to changes in other classes of 

 mall, and agricultural business is 

 one of the heaviest patrons of 

 the fourth class mail service 

 The measure suggests no in- 

 creases in the rates on first or 

 second class mail. The bill pro- 

 poses to raise the salaries of post 

 ofBce employees about $68,000,- 

 000. 



In view of the fact that Post- 

 master-General New in his re- 

 port to Congress said that the 

 ■^ost of handling parcel post mail 

 is much less than is popularly 

 believed, American Farm Bu- 

 reau officials point out that in- 

 creases in these rates would work 

 additional hardships on the farm- 

 ers of the nation, who feel that 

 ihey already are over-taxed, 

 especially from the standpoint of 

 local and .state taxes. 



Parcel Post the (Joat 

 "Not only is it proposed to 

 make the parcel post bear more 

 than its proportionate increase." 

 E. B. Reid, Washington A. F. 

 B. F. representative, declares, 

 •but the bill would deny the 

 local county seat or small town 

 newspaper the right of free de- 

 livery within the county. These 

 papers have more rural circula- 

 tion than anything else. Yet such 

 a move on the part of Congress 

 would enable the city dailies to 

 circulate into the small towns 

 and country even more than at 

 present, thus throttling many 

 more country newspapers which 

 generally have been a losing 

 proposition for some time." 



Ill Missouri, farm bureau rep- 

 resentatives recently appeared 

 before the state tax commission 

 In an organized way, asking for 

 relief from their present inequit- 

 able tax burden. 



Even Congress can act quickly. 

 Within 36 hours from the time 

 that the American Farm Bureau 

 Federation, co-operating with na- 

 tional poultry Interests, appealed 

 to Congress to remedy the newly- 

 developed poultry evil in the Mid- 

 dle West, that legislative body 

 authorized the appropriation of 

 $100,000 to fight "poultry flu." 

 which has spread like wildfire in 

 the last few weeks. 



Illinois is among the 10 mid- 

 dle western states against which 

 eastern cities and states have 

 raised embargoes on the shipment 

 of poultry. Directors of the Illi- 

 nois Poultry and Egg Shippers' 

 association, however, believe that 

 Illinois was placed on the em- 

 bargo list largely because of 

 promiscuous shipments out of 

 Chicago, coming from the West 

 and Northwest. H. B. Patton, 

 secretary-treasurer, is enlisting 

 the support of his local shippers, 

 the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion, the agricultural college of 

 the University of Illinois, and the 

 State Department of Agriculture, 

 in an effort to secure a reconsid- 

 eration of the embargo. 



Disease Spreads Rapidly 

 "Poultry flu" is a virulent, in- 

 fectious disease which has ap- 

 peared in the United States for 

 tlie first time and has already 

 killed hundreds of thousands of 

 fowl. Relief from the epidemic 

 can only be obtained by following 

 strictly the rules which have been 

 issued by the federal Department 

 of Agriculture in regard to the 

 interstate shipment of poultry and 

 the disinfection of coops and 

 cars. The plague has been defi- 

 nitely diagnosed by federal au- 

 thorities and must not be con- 

 fused with "Canadian flu," a 

 milder disease from which poul- 

 try may recover. 



The epidemic is very easily 

 carried from one flock to another, 

 all classes of fowl, including 

 pigeons and birds, being subject 

 to it. Sparrows, robins, and 

 other common birds take and 

 carry the pest, thus transporting 

 the germ from one farm to the 

 other. 



According to the Department 

 of Agriculture, the fowl pest is 

 characterized by "its extremely 

 infectious nature, its rapidly pro- 

 gressing course, and high mor- 

 tality. Depression and loss of 

 appetite, followed by prostration, 

 are outstanding symptoms. The 

 comb and wattles usually become 

 purple and sometimes swollen. 

 Sticky exudate may paste the eye- 

 lids together, clog the nasal pas- 

 sages, and even obstruct the 

 windpipe, causing labored breath- 

 ing. A greenish yellow diarrhea 

 may be present. 



Urge Buriilnt; Dead Stock 

 "Since treatment of affected 

 birds is futile, the aim should be 

 to prevent so far as possible the 

 spread of infection," federal 

 authorities warn. "The first 

 fowls showing symptoms should 

 be destroyed by a method which 

 would guard against the con- 

 tamination of the premises. The 

 carcasses should be burned or 

 buried deep. The healthy fowls 

 should be moved to new quarters 

 if possible and carefully watched 

 for signs of disease. Houses and 

 runs should be thoroughly cleaned 

 at frequent intervals and disin- 

 fected with carbolic acid in five 

 per cent solution. The drinking 

 water may be made antiseptic by 

 adding one-third teaspoon'- of 

 permanganate of potash to each 

 gallon." 



John R. Mohler, chief of the 

 federal Bureau of Animal Indus- 

 try, who has successfully ridded 

 this country several times of 

 foot-and-mouth disease, and Sen- 

 ator Royal S. Copeland, another 

 authority on sanitation, state 

 that this disease of poultry is not 

 communicable to humans, and 

 that one's health is not endan- 

 gered in handling infected chick- 

 ens. Copeland further asserts 

 that "cooking the fowl would 

 kill any of the germs present." 

 The belief that it is dangerous 

 to eat such infected poultry and 

 even eggs has become rather 

 widely accepted, to the general 

 detriment of the poultry industry. 



