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niary 28, 192S February 28, 1925 



The Dlinoit Agricultural Awociation Record 



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COMMUNITY CLUBS 



SHOW UVE SPIRIT 



J. D. Eblnicr 

 pathy and relief. 



(Continued from page 1) 

 of age pays $1.00 per year to defray 

 club expenses. The offlcertf of the 

 East Oswego Progressive Farmers' 

 Club are: J. D. 



SEbinger, Presi- 

 dent; Zella Sho- 

 g e r, Vice-preai- 

 d e n t; Courtney 

 Smith, secretary; 

 Mrs. Ed. R i n k, 

 treasurer; Mrs. Ir- 

 win Wolf, corre- 

 sponding s e c r e- 

 tary. 

 Cares for the Sick, 

 Too 

 The club has a 

 unique extension 

 project called the 

 committee on sym- 

 Its object is to 

 ake sick calls among members of 

 the community. 



Ask any member of this club as 

 to the best thing the organization 

 (■does for the people and he will tell 

 you that the sociability fostered by 

 (the meetings is the big thing they 

 •all have learned to appreciate. We 

 (asked Mr. Burkhart what he liked 

 'best and he said that "the club 

 meetings knit the farm families to- 

 Igether and make for better under- 

 istanding." Coming to Oscar Shoger 

 'a little later and getting. him started 

 on the benefits x)t the club to the 

 community, we heard this: "We all 

 jfeel like one farm family and we like 

 'the meetings at the members' homes 

 jbest. One member who was not a 

 .Farm Bureau member has dropped 

 lout. All the rest are loyal I. A. A. 

 .supporters." 



I Plenty of Eats 



I When asked what part the women 

 I play in the activities of the club, 

 Shoger said, "They do the feeding. 

 We always make it a point to invite 

 any new neighbors in the community. 

 Our programs have included sena- 

 tors, ministers, farm advisers, and 

 members of the medical profession. 

 We really like everything best. And 

 no matter how rainy it may be, or 

 what the weather Is, there always is 

 plenty of interest in the club and its 

 doings." 



I The President Interviewed 



We felt our day would not be com 

 plete without a word from the presi 

 dent of the Oswego society. Mr. 

 I Ebinger has resided in the comma 

 I nity for 36 years. He said that the 

 ' pioneer spirit, the spirit of settler 

 days, when neighbors worked to- 

 gether for the common good, is com 

 Ing back and that the community 

 club is one of the ways to get this 

 spirit back. He stressed the socia 

 bllity feature of community club 

 work and stated that the young peo- 

 ple give the club strong support 

 "The club is a fine thing tor the com- 

 munity, as it helps to knit together 

 all the classes. There is no distinc- 

 tion among us. Rich and poor alike 

 belong to the club. The ministers 

 in our community are with us in our 

 club affairs. The boys and girls, too, 

 are helped to stay with the farm and 

 they begin to see the advantages of 

 farm life." 



Another Club Visited 



We did not limit ourselves to just 



one club in Kendall county but also 



got a brief slant at the Fox and 



Long Grove Community Club of 



I Yorkville. This club was organized 

 in 1921 and now has a membership 

 of 35 to 40 families residing around 

 Yorkville. It includes several re- 

 ) tired farmers in Yorkville. The 

 : club, we were told, is for young and 

 I old. Everybody likes it. While it 

 'had a harder time getting started 

 I than many other farmer clubs do. the 

 I group nevertheless soon got well es- 

 It^blished and is there to stay. 

 ' Each member pays one dollar a 



I year to support the organization. 

 The meetings used to be held In the 

 members' homes but these later grew 

 too small to accommodate the gath- 

 erings — around 100 on the average. 

 A community hall in Bristol is now 

 being used-i-an abandoned church — 

 and meetings are held once a month. 

 These meetings Include musical pro- 

 grams, speeches, discussions, and 

 readings. Home talent is drawn 

 upon and the development of this 

 Phase is one of the aims of the group 

 What They Get Out of It 

 We asked several staunch support 

 ers of the Fox and Long Grove Com- 

 munity Club what they thought was 

 the big advantage of having a society 

 like this in their community and in 



variably the answer came back, "So- 

 ciability and understanding among 

 farm families and townspeople is the 

 achievement of our club. An organi- 

 zation like this can do much and is 

 doing a great deal to create a better 

 feeling among all people concerned." 



E. L. Matlock, president of the 

 Kendall County Farm Bureau, is a 

 loyal rooter for the club idea. When 

 asked what effect the community club 

 has with the young people, he said, 

 "Too many boys and girls are leav- 

 ing the farm for the city and they 

 don't know the good things they are 

 leaving behind them. But the com- 

 munity club is doing much to coun- 

 teract the influence of the big city, 

 and to keep the coming generation 

 on the farm." 



Mr. Matlock's Views 



Mr. Matlock showed us his newly- 

 built hennery which we found the 

 last word in sanitation and chicken 

 comfort. Then he added, "We need 

 a higher standard of living on the 

 farm and a better rural life if we 

 want agriculture to be what it 

 should. To get there, farmers must 

 organize and the community club is 

 one way to put this across, as it 

 helps much to keep farm people to- 

 gether." 



That the farm women of the terri- 

 tory around Yorkville are 100 per 

 cent with the club Is shown by the 

 fact that a woman, Mrs. Clara Har- 

 ris, is president; Ed. Price is vice- 

 president; and Mrs. Jennie .\ment is 

 secretary-treasurer. 



farm Adviser Price is well satis- 

 fied with the re.sults accomplished by 

 his farmer clubs. There are nine in 

 hi.s county and each of them is a 

 great help to him. Home ownership 

 runs high in Kendall county. This, 

 and the fact that most of the farm- 

 ers are Farm Bureau members, says 

 Price, are two good reasons, why the 

 community clubs havfe prospered. The 

 county is full of well-kept farmsteads 

 and comfortable farm homes. The 

 people mix well as a rule and there 

 is harmony between farmers and 

 townfolks. 



Lots More, Too 



In addition to the two clubs men- 

 tioned, Kendall County has the fol 

 lowing farmers' clubs: Bristol Pro- 

 gressive Farmers' Club, Countryside 

 Community Club, Grove Road Farm- 

 ers' Club, Little Rock Farmers' Club, 

 Na-Au-Say Farmers' Club, Southern 

 Kendall Community Club, and New- 

 ark Farmers' Club. Besides these 

 regular community clubs there are 

 several parent-teachers' associations, 

 some of which have spread beyond 

 the school district limit. These, too, 

 says Price, are very popular. 



Soil improvement is Price's big 

 project and with it goes the better 

 crop program. Phosphate fertilizer 

 has been applied to Kendall county 

 soils in large quantities. The type 

 of farming in the county ranges from 

 dairying in the northern part to grain 

 farming in the southern part — all 

 within an area three townships 

 square. 



We left Kendall county with the 

 thought, "No wonder Kendall county 

 is full of happy farm homes." 



GRADING DEMONSTRATION f^RINGS THE 

 STOCK YARDS TO THE PRODUCER," 



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DOWN-STATE SHIPPERS LEARN AT HOME 



ROLL CALL WILL 

 SHOW BIG GAINS 

 IN STATE NUMBERS 



Mar.haU Co-operative Shipping Association Hold. Successful Live Forty IlEnoi.Cowili« WiUR«ew 



Stock Grading Demonstration. Moventent Getting More and 

 More Popular. Seen as One Solution to Shipping Problems 



Membership in 1925; Nine 

 Countie* Are Now Under Way 



Here's Food For 



Thought; Get Out 



Your Pen and Ink! 



Food for thought for farm bureiu 

 members is contained in the foUow- 

 inii; booklets which can be obtained 

 free by writing for them: 



"Tke Affrleultural Situation — Paul 

 and PrMient." an addrms by- Cliaa. J. 

 Brand, conHnltinf^ speclallat In mar- 

 ketlnsr. I'. J*, nept. of .\KrI., brfore the 

 I. A. A. annual mee-tlnp at ('hampalan. 

 (Write care of Record.) 



*'Tlie DUcosalon of Grain Marketlna" 

 as given at the I. A. A. annual meet- 

 Inar. (Write care of Record.) 



*'AKrieul<ural Relief,'* conalatlnR of 

 hearlnfrn before the Committee on Aa- 

 rlcnltare, liouae of Reprenentalivea. 

 Serial Cf-Part 13. (Write yonr Con- 

 irrensninn for this one.) 



"The McNary-Hangen Bill,** conalat- 

 Inir of Joint henrlnKH before the Com- 

 mittee on Aicricultnre and Poreatry, 

 United Statea Senate, and the Commit- 

 tee on Agriculture, House of Represen- 

 tatives, on S. -ISOe and H. R. 12127. Jan. 

 21, 192.1. (This is the Farmers' Riporl 

 Corporation bill. Write your Senator 

 or Consressman.) 



The hearing testimony in the lat- 

 ter immphlet includes the testimony 

 of the .American Council of .Agricul- 

 ture. President Thompeon's state- 

 ment for Illinois farmers is in the 

 latter. "A^cultural Relier* con 

 tains the testimony of Geo. X. Peek, 

 Mollne, ni., presUient of the Ameri- 

 can Council of .-Agriculture, in which 

 he charged that Secretary of Com- 

 merce Hoover has been dominating 

 the Department of .Agriculture. He 

 asked for an Investigation. 



They (■ra<led the CarliHul at Marshall 



Live stock grading at the home 

 shipping yards is on the up-grade in 

 Illinois. The movement started in 

 Champaign county last December. 

 Since then, about six live stock grad- 

 ing demonstrations have been held 

 in various parts of the common 

 wealth and indications are that the 

 movement is just beginning to gain 

 in popularity as more and more coun- 

 ties are instituting them. Adams 

 county alone has arranged for four 

 demonstrations in one week. 



One of the most recent live stock 

 grading demonstrations was at 

 Marshall, Clark county, W. W., Mer- 

 ritt, farm adviser. A carload of cat- 

 tle and hogs was graded at the local 

 shipping yards, before ofiicers and 

 directors of the Marshall Co-oper- 

 ative Shipping Association and the 

 county Farm Bureau. About 40 to 

 50 shippers were present to witness 

 the demonstration, which was con- 

 ducted by F. H. Kelly and Robert 

 Oriesser, representing the Indianap 

 olis Producers Commission Associa 

 tion. These men pointed out the dif- 

 ferent grades of stock in the carload 

 endeavoring to show the men what 

 constitutes good and poor veal 

 calves. They also pointed out what 

 good and bad features to look {or in 

 hogs and cattle generally, as to mar- 

 ket grades. ' 



T. R. Lovett, manager of the local 

 shipping association, declares the 

 demonstration very successful, stat- 

 ing that the plan was an effective 

 way of "bringing the stock yards to 

 the producers." 



"One- of the problems in shipping 

 association work," says Wm. E. 

 Hedgcock, I. A. A? live stock mar- 

 keting director, "has been the lack 

 of understanding on the part of the 

 shippers, of -the grades of live stock 

 marketed. Now comes the grading 

 demonstration plan. It is a most 

 satisfactory Way to show the live 

 stock producers how stock is graded 

 at the terminal markets and it helps 

 them to apply the ' same process at 

 home — before the stock is in tran- 

 sit. 



"Jhe I. A. A. live stock marketing 

 department recommends holding live 

 stock grading demonstrations thru- 

 out the state, wherever possible. It 

 has asked the Producers to co-oper- 

 ate with the county farm bureaus and 

 the shipping associations in this proj- 

 ect. Farm Bureau and shipping as- 

 sociation officers and directors es- 

 pecially will find these demonstra- 

 tions of advantage as they then can 

 assist shippers in their marketing 

 problems generally." 



DAIRY SURVEY SHOWS CO-OPERATIVES 



HOLD ADVANTAGE OVER PROPRIETARIES 



Results of the butter fat price in-lcream stations operated by proprie- 



quiry, carried on by the I. A. A. for 

 .he first time in 1924, reveal an in 

 teresting comparison l>etween prices 

 received by co-operative and n(»n-co 

 operative dairy concerns. The sur- 



tary creameries. 



The .data for this comparison lias 

 been compiled from reports of all 

 co-operative creameries In the state 



C»t< 

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Forty Illinois counties are sched- 

 uled for renewal of membership in 

 the Farm Bureau and the I. A. A. in 

 1925, according to G. E. Metzger. 

 I. A. A. director of organization. The 

 task of renewal. Metzger says, is 

 already well under way in nine (^oun- 

 ties: Warren, Edgar, Shelby, Knox, 

 Grundy. DuPiv^e, McHenry, Chris- 

 tian and Henry. 



"Farm bureau membership in the 

 I. A. A. is sound," the organization 

 director declares. "By the end of the 

 year we expect to have 75,000 Illi- 

 nois farmers on our membership 

 list." 



The list of counties in which farm 

 bureau membership is to be renewed 

 this year follows: 



Cssntr Mrmbemhip Ka»lre« 



Warren June 1926 



Edpar July 



Loiran Inly " 



McHenry July 



DeKalb Aus. 



Christian .Sept. " 



Clarlt .8«pt. ■• 



Colea Sept. 



Macon Sept. 



•Stcphenaon 8e|>t. 



McLean Oct. 



Moultrie Oct. " 



Henry Nov. 



LtvinKSton Nov. •' 



KfflnEham . . . .' Dae. 



Grundy Dec. 



Brown Jan. ICt 



Champairn .-.Jan. 



Crawford Jan. " 



DuPage Jan. 



Jersey Jan. 



Kane Jan. 



Knox Jan. 



Lake Jan. 



Marahall-Pntnaan Jan. 



Mercer .* . .Jan. " 



Randolph Jan. 



Rocic Island Jan. 



Saline Jan. " 



Shelby Jan. 



Vennilioil' '. Jan. " 



Whiteside Jan. 



Will Jan. 



Woodford Jan. 



Peoria Jan. 



Kendall , ." Feb. " 



Union as^**'- 



SansamoD March " 



Macoupin March 



Fulton March 



In addition to the above the fol 

 lowing may possibly come up for re- 

 newal: DeWItt, I^ee, Macon. McDon- 

 ough, Menard. Morgan, Williamson, 

 and Montgomery counties. 



In Iroquois county, where the work 

 of reorganisation has been going on 

 since October, 1924, and where the 

 old membership does not expire until 

 April 1, \A1h members have been 

 signed up to date. 



40 

 35 

 30 

 25 

 20 

 05 



vey was conducted through the de- and from reports received each week 



partment of dairy marketing, A. D. 

 Lynch, director. 



The above chart compares the 

 price paid for butter fat by Illinois 

 co-operative creameries with the 

 price paid for butter fat by Illinois 



by the Dairy Department from men 

 who sell their cream to cream sta- 

 tions in 44 counties. 



The five co-operative creameries 

 studied are the Mt. Carroll Co-opera- 

 tive Creamery, the Ill-Mo Dairy Com- 



Says "ISobody Home" to 

 Grain Merger Idea; 

 Likes Farm Bureau 



Xlie following vote of confi- 

 dence was received by Secretary- 

 Fox from a Jo Daviess rounty 

 fanner: 



**.A8 a member of this great 

 association, the I. A. A., allow 

 i»e to give my opinion. 



"Ever)' department has done 

 its duty to Ihe association. 



**It is a pleasure to have Mr. 

 G. E. Melxger outline pr«»granis 

 for us. We of Jo Daviens coun- 

 ty should trj' and follow. 



"Mr. S. H. Thompson shows 

 much spirit in taking the stand 

 against the Grain .Marketing 

 Com|>any. The old boys of big 

 Interest are tr>ing to unload 

 •20,000,000 worth of Junk on 

 to the farmers. We say *no- 

 body IVHne' to that. 

 "Yours, 

 (Signed) "H. X. Kipllnger." 



pany, the Stephenson County Co-op- 

 erative Marketing Company, the 

 Elizabeth Co-operative Creamery, 

 and the Galena Co-operative Cream- 

 ery. 



Farmer-owned creameriea paid 

 their patrons between 5c and 6c more 

 per pound of butter fat than the 

 cream stations. Creamery butter fat 

 returns were from IS per cent to 20 

 per cent higher. 



"Where l(X^al conditions do cot 

 justify the formation of a co-opeia- 

 t i V e creamery," Lynch advises, 

 "farmers desiring to co-operate can 

 effect a substantial saving by oper- 

 ating their own cream station and 

 selling the cream to the highest 

 creamery bidder." 



