uary 3, 192S 

 $100,000 



STERIOUS 

 EPIDEMIC 



Juickly After 

 and Others 

 e Action. 



n act quickly, 

 trom the time 

 Farm Bureau 

 ting with na- 

 ests, appealed 

 dy the newly- 

 il in the Mid- 

 rislative body 

 )ropriation of 

 "pdultry flu." 

 ke wildfire in 



the 10 mid- 

 against which 



states have 



the shipment 



rs of the Illi- 



Egg Shippers' 



, believe that 



on the eni- 



because of 

 ents out of 

 om the West 

 [. B. Fatten. 

 is enlisting 

 local shippers, 

 tural Associa- 

 al college of 

 inois, and the 

 f Agriculture, 

 •e a reconsid- 

 go. 



i Rapidly 

 . virulent, in- 

 lich has ap- 

 Bd States for 



has already 

 thousands of 

 the epidemic 

 I by following 

 ich have been 

 il Department 

 egard to the 

 if poultry and 

 ' coops and 

 las been defl- 



federal au- 



not be con- 



lian flu," a 



which poul- 



very easily 

 :k to another, 

 vl, including 

 being subject 



robins, and 

 Is take and 

 I transporting 



farm to the 



Department 

 fowl pest is 

 ts extremely 

 I rapidly pro- 

 d high mor- 

 and loss of 

 f prostration, 

 (iptoms. The 

 sually become 

 mes swollen. ^ 

 paste the eye- 

 be nasal pas- i 

 obstruct the 

 bored breath- * 

 How diarrhea , 



ead .Stock | 



of affected , 

 im should be I 

 I possible the 

 on," federal 

 "The first 

 }toms should 

 nethod which 

 iSt the con- 

 remises. The 

 ) burned or 

 lealthy fowls 



new quarters 

 fully watched 

 Houses and 

 ughly cleaned 

 s and disin- 



acid in five 

 The drinking 



antiseptic by 

 teaspoon*- of 

 tash to each 



chief of the 

 Lnlmal Indus- 

 sfuUy ridded 

 il times of 

 3e, and Sen- 

 land, another 

 tation, state 

 Kiultry is not 

 lumans, and 

 i not endan- 

 ifected chick- 

 ther asserts 



fowl would 

 •ms present." 

 is dangerous 



poultry and 

 come rather 



the general 

 Itry industry. 



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■-'• MIS3 KARY G. BUR^AGH. LIPRAEliAN, 



• COLLt'GF. C^ AGRICULTUR*;. 



' UNIVrRSITY OF ILL1;N0I3.. 



' URBATiA. ILL. ' ■- j 



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Volume 3 



IsMied Every Other Saturday — January 24, 1925 



Number 2 



EXECUTIVE COMMIHEE 

 GAINS FOUR NEW MEN; 

 FOUR ARE RE-ELECTED 



Inquisitive Reporter Interview* 

 Committeemen and Learm 

 Their Achievement Record 



Our "63,000 thinking tarmen" will mant 

 to know something about their newly- 

 elected executive committeemen. We have 

 therefore assembled the following facts 

 concerning them for your information. 



William Webb, of Lockport, 



Will county, was elected executlre 



committeeman for Congressional 



^^^^ districts 10-11. 



^^^^^k Webb Is known 



B^ \ especially for 



M^^^Jl the experiment- 



f^ffiRl^W al plot which he 



^^L^r runs for the 

 ^^^■v govern m e nt. 

 J^^^K. Pedigreed seed 



^^^^^^VW^ corn is his hob- 

 ^^k^^^^^ by. He tills 

 ^^^■^^^^^1 acres. The 

 ^^^^^k ^^H troin 

 H^I^^^^B has a modern 

 farm home and 



irnilam'Webb he advocates a 

 wider use of all farm conveniences. 

 He was director of the 11th State 

 Farmers' Institute and is now on 

 the Advisory Board for the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois. 



Canton, in Fulton county, claims 

 B. H. Taylor, the new executive 

 committeeman for the 15th district. 

 Taylor succeeds H. E, Goembel, 

 the man who was chosen vice-pres- 

 ident of the I. A. A. He also is 

 president of the Fulton County 

 Farm Bureau and a Producers 

 booster. He must be camera shy; 

 the photographer couldn't corral 

 him at Champaign. 



An Absentee Winner 



W. L. Cope, of Tonti, Marion 

 county, has the distinction of get- 

 ting elected to the executive com- 

 mittee while on his home farm. 

 He didn't have a picture of himself 

 when we wired for one. He will 

 represent the 23d district, succeed- 

 ing J. E. Lingentelter, Lawrence- 

 ville. Cope was born on the same 

 farm which he now operates with 

 his sons and he says that this farm 

 has always been his home. Grow- 

 ing fruit has taken most of his 

 time, but he is interested in farm 

 problems and is looking toward 

 their solution. 



The man to succeed Vernon Less- 

 ley as executive 

 committe e m a n 

 trom the 25th 

 district is R. K. 

 Loomis, of Ma- 

 kanda. Union 

 county. LfOom- 

 ia's heart lies in 

 the fruit and 

 vegetable busi- 

 ness and Is 

 strong for ship- 

 ping a s s o c i a- 

 tions. He has 

 been a director R. K. roomi* 

 in the Illinois Fruit Growers Ex- 

 change since its organization. 



Lay Plans for Second 

 Farm Bureau Baseball 

 Season at Annual Meet 



Plans were laid by a group of 

 farm bureau baseball enthusiasts 

 at a meeting during the I. A. A. 

 annual convention at Champaign to 

 continue the scheduling of base- 

 ball games between farm bureau 

 teams as was started last year. 



It was decided that the constitu- 

 tion of the Farm Bureau Base- 

 ball Association should be rewrit- 

 ten so that all points such as that 

 of eligibility would be more clearly 

 defined. G.R. Kline of Cass Coun- 

 ty was elected president. Infor- 

 mation can be obtained from either 

 Kline or G. E. Metzger, I. A. A. 

 organization director. 



THE GRIST MILL 



DELEGATES UNANIMOUSLY PICK "OUR SAM" 

 AS PRESIDENT FOR THIRD TERM; GOEMBEL 

 CHOSEN AS VICE-PRESIDENT IN CLOSE RACE 



Tendi Annual Conclave Hailed as LA.A.'s Most Constructive 

 Meeting; Treaswer's Report Shows Net Worth $253,910.07, 

 Gain of $39,189.96 During Year in Spite of More ActivitiM 



Sam H. Thompson of Qulncy, farmer and banker, was elected to 

 his third successive term as president of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association by a unanimous vote and without an 

 opponent at tbei, tenth annual meeting held Jan. 15 

 and 16 in connection with the University of Illinois 

 Farmers' Week. 



H. E. Goembel of Hooppole was elected to the 

 vice-presidency by a vote of 76-74 over Earl C. 

 Smith of Detroit, executive committeeman repre- 

 senting the 20th district. Mr. Goembel was execu- 

 tive committeeman representing the ISth district 

 during the past year. Immediately following the an- 

 nouncement of the 76-74 vote, Mr. Smith arose and 



moved that a unanimous vote be accorded Mr. 



Goembel. Mr. Smith's two-year term as an execu- 

 tive does not terminate until the next annual meet- 

 ing. 



Actions Few, Bat Decisive 

 The chief official actions taken by the 157 dele- 

 gates who represented the entire membership were 

 (1) thanked the Champaign County Farm Bureau, 

 the College of Agriculture, the Chambers of Com- 

 merce of Champaign and Urbana and the citizens -o»r «•■§" 

 of the Illinois Twin Cities for the kind hospitality 

 extended; (2) directed the officers and executive committee of the 

 I. A. A. to do everything in their power to secure legislation that will 



both in spirit and practice give 

 equality to agriculture; (3) fa- 

 vored a gasoline tax providing that 

 the funds thus secured be used 

 for the maintenance .of the State 

 Aid system of roads as provided 

 by law and that 



'Watch the Books" Is 

 Keynote at Champaign 

 Annual Meet of I.A.C.A. 



Election of oDcers for the com- 

 ing year, and talks and discussions 

 on the auditing problems of farm- 

 ers' co-operatives featured the 

 first annual meeting of the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Co-operative As- 

 socitaion, held in connection with 

 the tenth annual I. A. A. meet- 

 ing during Farmers' Week at the 

 Illinois College of Agriculture at 

 Champaign. 



The I. A. C. A., as it is known 

 in co-operative circles, is a sepa- 

 rate organization set up and put 

 in functioning order last June by 

 the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion, the parent organization. 

 The I. A. C. A. is operated under 

 control of co-operative associations 

 as one of the 12 departments of 

 the I. A. A. From a no-member- 

 ship start in June, the I., A.'C. A. 

 had on Jan. 1, 1925, 112 member 

 co-operatives, classified intp 49 

 farmers' elevators, 39 county farm 

 associations, four dairy associa- 

 tions, three terminal live stock 

 bureaus, nine live stock shipping 

 marketing agencies, three mutual 

 insurance companies, three farm- 

 ers' supply companies, one fruit 

 exchange and one seed growers' 

 association. 



Why Co-ops Fall 



"One of the big reasons for fail- 

 ures in co-operative organiza- 

 tions," said Geo. R. Wicker, gen- 

 eral manager, in his report, "is 

 that the boards of directors have 

 not been accurately informed as 

 to the financial condition of their 

 associations. The I. A. C. A. is 

 there to provide simple but ef- 

 fective book systems and to help 

 the local manager conduct them." 

 Wicker expressed the sentiment of 

 the directors of the organization 

 when he said that the present 

 membership and status of the 

 I. A. C. A. exceeds by far the 

 brightest hopes of a year ago. In- 

 stead of 50 or 60 member co-op- 

 eratives as expected by this time, 

 (Continued on page 7, col. 4) 



"Sam" Just Gets His 



Hat Hung, Then It's 

 Time to Hop Again 



President Thompson had no 

 sooner than got bis hat hung on 

 the hall tree in the Broadway Bank 

 of Qulncy after the annual meet- 

 ing when he found that he was 

 wanted down at Washington, D. 

 C. to appear before President Coo- 

 lidge's Agricultural Commission. 



He left the I. A. A. office Monday, 

 Jan. 19 for the capital city where 

 he will be in the front line trenches 

 trying to get the Commission to 

 see the need of equality for agri- 

 culture. Several representatives of 

 the American Council of Agri- 

 culture, the organization formed 

 last spring to secure if possible the 

 "spirit" of the McNary-Haugen 

 bill, will also be there. 



The Council has drawn up an ex- 

 port corporation bill that is draw- 

 ing considerable comment. It is 

 along the lines of the McNary- 

 Haugen Bill, but is much simpler, 

 the Council states. 



Farm. Advisers Pick 



J. H. Lloyd for Prexy 



The Illinois Farm Advisers' as- 

 sociation assembled in annual 

 meeting during 

 Farmers' Week 

 a t Champaign. 

 Election of of- 

 ficers resulted 

 in the choice of 

 J. H. Lloyd, ad- 

 viser f Han- 

 cock county, as 

 president. Har- 

 r 1 s o n Fahrn-I 

 k o p f , McLean 

 county adviser, 

 was elected vice-i 

 president, and 

 B. W. Tillman, 

 St. Clair county, 

 secretary. C. C. Burns, farm ad- 

 viser for Champaign county, was 

 chosen treasurer. 



The farm advisers' president is 

 invited to attend all the I. A. A. 

 executive committee meetings. 



J. R. Llnyd 



Keep 



This RECORD; 

 It Is an Important One 

 Did yon miss the RECORD 

 Ust week? Tlie Jan. IT Is- 

 sue was held over and dated 

 Jan. iS4 in order that the 

 news of the annnal meetini; 

 conid be placed In the hands 

 of each member as qntckly 

 as possible. 



This Issue contains sum- 

 marized reports covering the 

 1924 work and IIOS pro- 

 gram for each of the de- 

 partments. Keep this REC- 

 ORD handy so you can have 

 it to refer to when joa want 

 to know what the 1. A. A. 

 is doing. The next issne will 

 be dated Feb. 14. We wUl 

 be back on regolar schedule 

 then. 



Greatest Representation 

 in History Is Record, 

 of Delegate Attendance 



Delegates, who were entitled to 

 vote at the tenth annual meeting, 

 numbered 157 — more than ever 

 before. The credentials commit- 

 tee, which consisted of W. H. 

 Moody, Port Byron, Rock Island 

 county, chairman; C. E. Bambor- 

 ough. Polo, Ogle county; and C. 

 B. Watson. DeKalb, DeKalb coun- 

 ty, officially approved of the fol- 

 lowing delegates who were in at- 

 tendance: 



Adams; D. H. Myers. Mendon. and 

 Perry Journey, Plainvllle; Bond: 

 Frank Pothast. Greenville; Boone: 

 Phil. H. Sanford. Garden Prairie, 

 and Julian L-arson. Poplar Grove: 

 Brownj Fred SlJC. VersaiUes, R. F. D. 

 4 and Chas. H. Snyder. Versailles, 

 R. F. D. 3; Bureau: J. J. Shugart. 

 Princeton, and Otto Weisenberger. 

 Zearlng; Carroll: Geo. R. NorrlB, 

 Tjanark. and Ren WilllaniBon, Ht. 

 Carroll: Cass: Geo. R. Gline, Vir- 

 ginia, and W. A. McNeill. Chandler- 

 ville;' Champaign: G. J. Tabaka. 

 Ivesdale, and Ira Laverick. Broad- 

 lands. 



Christian: Dwight Hart. Edinburg. 

 and W. N. Grimes. Rosemond; Clark: 

 T. N. Wright. Casey, and Geo. Mc- 

 Elyea. Xenia: Clinton: C. C. Hofsom- 

 mer. Breese; Coles: O. B. Goble. 

 Charleston, and Ed. Nlemeyer. Hum- 

 beldt; Cook: Herman Schwake. Ar- 

 lington Heights, and D. A. Nietefeld. 

 Homewood: Crawford: N. P. Good- 

 win. Palestine; Cumberland: Franlc 

 Hackley. Trilla. 



DeKalb; H. J. White. Somonauk, 



and A. J. Plapp. Malta: DeWltt: L. 



G. Heller, Farmer City, and M. L. 



Pilchard, Farmer City; Douglas: 



(Continued on page 7, col. 6) 



H. K. G««>ib«I 



the gas law tax 

 be levied in lieu 

 of the present 

 tax authorized 

 by the counties 

 for the mainte- 

 nance of State 

 Aid roads; (4) 

 recommended 

 the passage of 

 such laws and 

 the making of 

 such appropria- 

 tions as will 

 carry forward 

 the program of 

 eradication of bovine tuberculosis 

 as rapidly as possible; (5) urged 

 the greatest possible speed upon 

 the state and federal departments 

 of agriculture In settling claims 

 for indemnities and deplored the 

 apparent delay in the settlement 

 of Such claims In the past; (6) 

 endorsed the action of the I.A.A. 

 executive committee and the Amer- 

 ican Farm Bureau Federation op- 

 posing the Child Labor apiend- 

 ment to the United SUtes consti- 

 tution; (7) voted to stay with the 

 American Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion, but sharply criticised it for 

 the "attempt of those of the pres- 

 ent and past administration to play 

 politics or use the influence of the 

 American Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion to further any commercial or 

 selfish interest"; (8) favored an 

 amendment to the Illinois consti- 

 tution enabling legislatures to 

 pass such laws as will equitably 

 distribute tax burden: (9) en- 

 dorsed the I. A. A. stand on the 

 Grain >Iarketing Company, the 

 126,000,000 merger; and (10) 

 pledged their loyalty and support 

 to the Illinois Agricultural Associ- 

 ation. The full text of these reso- 

 lutions appears on page 2. 

 Constitution Amended 

 The I. A. A. constitution was 

 amended by the delegates to per- 

 mit more delegates in the future. 

 Section 2 of Article III of the 

 I. A. A. constitution had stipulated 

 that there should be one delegate 

 for each county having a majority 

 of the membership dues paid in to 

 the I. A. A. "and one additionr 

 delegate for each 1,000 mid-- 

 membera or one-third trac* 

 (Continued on page S, coL ■, 



