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Tbe niinolt Agricnifairal AitocMition Record 



Mfdi 14. 1921 



GROW NEARLY ALL 

 OF WORLD CROP IN 

 EIGHT COUNTIES 



GAS TAX COUNTED 

 FAIR IF IT REUEVES 

 PROPERTY TAX BURDEN 



Egyptian Seed Growers Exchange 

 Handled $150,000 Busineu 

 for 826 Fanners in Year 1924 



"Co-operttive marketing is a busi- 

 ness updertkliing and not a political 

 venture." (Jeclared Curt Anderson. 

 Xenia. in a fecent address over KYW, 

 Chicago. I 



Andersonl is general manager of 

 the Bgyptjan Seed Growers Ex- 

 change, a riommodity marketing or- 

 ganization handling Red Top clover 

 seed co-opecatively for 826 producers 

 in Clay county and the seven adjoin- 

 ing counties. He also is e.xecutive 

 committeeman for the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association. 



The area concerned produces 95 

 per cent of all the Red Top seed 

 Krown in tlje world. The Exchange 

 was inporpqrated in June, 1922. In 

 1924 It S0I4 over $138,000 worth of 

 unhull«d 8e*d. This represents about 

 one-third of the total Red Top crop 

 produced in this area. 



"Co-oper»tive marketing." said 

 Anderson, *is founded upon human 

 relatioDshlpts and has for its purpose 

 human! benefits and therefore it can- 

 not be temporizing in its character. 

 To be succpssful. co-operative mar- 

 keting! must be ninderstood to be a 

 business undertaking arising from 

 th^ cobnnion desire of producers of 

 like agjriculiural products to work to- 

 gether; in the creation of a business 

 institution Buited to the commodity 

 in question., it must be operated un- 

 der a responsible management whose 

 sole purpose is to create stanAard- 

 izationi of tlhe product, economics in 

 dlstribptioni, and an orderly flow into 

 the prkctic41 channels of trade." 



EXECUTIVE MEETING 

 COVERS MUCH GROUND 



(Continued from page 1) 

 wolves) to piore protected areas In 

 Illinois. th« letter 'stated. 



Support in securing an appropria 

 tton for offlcial assistance in riddingr 

 the cointryj of wolves was requested 

 The matter was referred to the legis- 

 lative comqiittee. 



Anofher legislative consideration 

 had tO' do with the fear that the ap 

 propriation necessary to continue in- 

 specting work under the farm prod- 

 ucts iqsp^ction law would be cut oft 

 This n^atter was also referred to the 

 legislative committee for action. 



To H«lp Appeal Tax Case 



4. becided to support the Madl 

 son County Farm Bureau in Its ap- 

 peal to the Supreme Court of Illinois 

 concerjiing the decision of the lower 

 court In Madison county which or- 

 dered that the 199 Madison County 

 Farm bureau members who had held 

 back a portion of their taxes must 

 pay with penalty. The final out- 

 come <it this case Is of so much im- 

 portante to every farm bureau mem- 

 ber in I Illinois that the I. A. A. will 

 furniso both meq and money in the 

 fight Which is to come. 



5. Heard President Palmer of the 

 Ohio Farm Bureau Federation tell 

 of good w«rk that is going on in 

 Ohio. 1 President Palmer stated that 

 Ohio looks to Illinois for leadership 

 in majny things in farm bureau 

 work. I President Palmer was visltin? 

 in Chiaago. 



Faji-or State Police 



6. Heard of legislative program 

 of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce' 

 from ipdward E. Gore, chairman of 

 that body's legislative committee, 

 and Geo. E. Stephens, who is in 

 charge of He Chamber of Commerce 

 legislative office at Springfield, iix- 

 ecutive committee later in the day 

 voted to support a measure givins 

 police protection to rural 'communi- 

 ties. This means Indorsement of 

 state Dolice, Frank F. Barth of the 

 Pennsylvania State Police, told of the 

 success of the plan in his state. 



7. President Thompson an- 

 nounceid that the executive commit- 

 tee had decided to place the posi- 

 tions Of secretary and treasurer of 

 the association on the same basis as 

 the dinectorB are employed. That is, 

 there are no yearly contracts, each 

 man being employed with the mutual 

 understanding that if he wishes to 

 resign or the executive committee 

 wishes him to resign, a 60-day notice 

 shall be served by the party who ini- 

 tiates the change. Secretary Fox 

 and Treasurer Cowles both desired 

 the 60-day basis and will continue 

 their offices. * 



The date of the next meeting is 

 April 3. 



Proposal If Enacted Would Shift 

 the Road Tax to Consumption 

 Basis, Says the I. A. A. 



"The fairest tax for those who 

 u^e the highways of Illinois is the 

 gasoline tax." So declares the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association, 

 through its taxation department, J. 

 C. Watson, director. 



The Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion is squarely behind a tax on gaso- 

 line used to propel automobiles and 

 trucks on the highways of the state, 

 providing the funds derived there- 

 from displace and do not add to the 

 present property tax burden. "The 

 most insistent demand for Improved 

 roads comes from those who drive 

 cars and trucks," says the taxation 

 department. "They have the most 

 to gain from improvement of high- 

 ways. Their loss is greatest when 

 the highways they must use are 

 rough or soft, or are not usable part 

 o( tlie year." 



Property owners have every rea- 

 son to resist any further increases in 

 property taxes for improving the 

 public highways of the State, the I. 

 A. A. director points out. "The bur- 

 den of improving and < maintaining 

 the roads most used by motor vehi- 

 cles must fall upon the users. Only 

 in this way will they cease paying 

 for bad roads without getting any 

 better roads. 



"The gasoline tax takes account 

 of the speed of the machine, its 

 weight and power, and tbe distance 

 it is driven. It adapts itself equally 

 to persons who use the roads little 

 and to those who use the roads much. 

 It measures the benefit which the 

 user receives from the road. Further 

 more, the gasoline tax is easy and 

 simple to collect." 



The Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion is supporting a measure which 

 provides for a gasoline tax to re- 

 lieve in part the excessive burden of 

 taxation now carried by farm lands 

 and city real estate. The Association 

 states that it wants the gas tax to 

 displace and not add to the present 

 property burden. 



It estimates that a two cent tax 

 per gallon of gasoline would provide 

 about $10,000,000 annually. Of this 

 sum, $6,500,000 to $7,000,000 would 

 go direct to the counties (or con 

 struction and maintenance of State 

 Aid roads, and the balance would go 

 to the State Aid fund, distributed to 

 the counties where the need is 

 greatest. A two cent tax, it is be- 

 lieved, would take $4,000,000 off 

 the State property tax books and thus 

 relieve property of part of its tax 

 burden. 



Judging from all the letters that are 

 have come into the I. A. A. office 

 from farm folks, including executive 

 committeemen, in answer to the 

 cross-word puzzle In the February 28 

 issue of the Recosd, we discover that 

 the thing has created a mild tem- 

 pest — especially with one word. 



Look at the solution and compare 

 it with the one you doped out. How 

 did you answer 24 down? We were 

 showered with a wide variety of pos- 

 sibilities on that one — as might be 

 expected for the problem under dis- 

 cussion. "Time," "love," and "kale' 



TELLS WHY HOOSIERS 

 LEAD AS PRODUCERS 



"The shipping associations in 

 Illinois," says F. H. Kelley, man- 

 ager of the Producers Commission 

 Association at Indianapolis, "as 

 whole are still less loyal to 

 their own marketing organization 

 than those in Indiana. We attribute 

 this in part to the fact that the Indi- 

 ana associations being much closer 

 to the market, send many more men 

 to see the actual marketing process 

 and to investigate their own market- 

 ing organization first hand. In fact 

 many Indiana counties have been 

 sending delegations of from 30 to 80 

 men from different parts of the coun 

 ty to market, for a detailed study of 

 the Producers. Unbiased investiga- 

 tion has convinced these men that 

 the way to sell their live stock Is 

 through the Producers. In Illinois 

 the average consignor to a shipping 

 association does not come to market 

 often, and consequently a manager 

 who is prejudiced, not having the 

 Weight of the shippers' first hand 

 knowledge of the market, can more 

 easily ship to Old Line firms. 



"Through the co-operation of coun 

 ty farm bureaus and tbe Indianapolis 

 Producers, local stock yard grading 

 demonstrations are being held Jn the 

 Indianapolis trade territory and are 

 proving popular. Recent demonstra- 

 tions have been held at Neoga in 

 Cumberland county, Illinois, and at 

 Bethany, Lovington and Sullivan In 

 Moultrie county. Arrangements have 

 tjeen completed to hold seven of these 

 demonstrations in Champaign coun- 

 ty soon." 



Omr ksKdred twcatr-ave VemlUoa 



county farmers recently met with their 

 farm adviser to discuss their seed corn 

 problems for 1925. 



IT WAS "KALE," NOT "TIME" OR "LOVE" 



the three words suggested by 

 most contestants and according to 

 our official builder, "kale" is tbe 

 only right one. These words were 

 defined as "something of which you 

 never get enough." 



One of the pleasant surprises in 

 connection with the attempt was the 

 receipt of a letter from H, Strot- 

 heide, a nine-year-old farm boy from 

 Highland, .Madison county. All of 

 his answers — except "kale" — ^were 

 correct. From his own testimony 

 we have it that he worked the thing 

 with practically no help. 



WANT BEHER MILK 

 MARKETING SYSTEM 

 IN IITH DISTRICT 



Farm Bureau Officers and Ad- 

 visers Hear Talk* on Co-oper- 

 ative Problenu a t Wheaton 



A more adequate milk marketing 

 system than now exists was the chief 

 desire expressed by the representa- 

 tives of the county farm bureaus of 

 Lake, Cook, Kane, DuPage, and Will 

 counties in their first district meet- 

 ing of the year at Wheaton on Feb 

 26. 



That the representatives are dis- 

 satisfied with present milk marketing 

 conditions was expressed in an after- 

 noon of discussion on their dairy 

 problems following a talk by A. D. 

 Lynch, director of dairy marketing. 

 W. J. Schreck of Waukegan, a dairy 

 farmer, explained how a group of 

 dairymen, of which he is a member, 

 co-operate in furnishing milk to one 

 buyer. 



Considerable Interest was shown in 

 the possibilities of co-operative poul 

 try and egg marketing. In the fore 

 noon, F. A. Gougler, director of the 

 poultry and egg marketing depart- 

 ment, discussed the Minnesota plan 

 of co-operative egg marketing. It 

 has been working successfully in the 

 Gopher State and has lessened the 

 cost of getting eggs from the nests 

 to consumers' breakfast tables at a 

 fair saving to both, Mr. Gougler 

 stated. 



Resolutions were adopted declar- 

 ing: (1) the need for a more ade- 

 quate milk marketing system than 

 now exists; (2) endorsing the full 

 legislative program of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association, which in- 

 clude a constitutional amendment for 

 revenue changes, a gas tax in place 

 of some present tax and assistance 

 in furthering the eradication of bo- 

 vine tuberculosis; (3) endorsing the 

 invitation of the Lake County Farm 

 Bureau's Invitation to the Illinois 

 Farmers Institute to bring its 1926 

 annual meeting to Waukegan and 

 (4) urging lower freights In lieu of 

 abolition of surcharges on Pullman 

 fares. 



William Webb of Plalnfield road, 

 Jollet, presided. He is an executive 

 committeeman of the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association representing 

 Congressional districts 1 to 11 in 

 elusive and is also president of the 

 Will County Farm Bureau. 



others present from Will county 

 were; O. J. Luther, Wilmington: Fred 

 Schwelzer. Elwood; John Cryder Fred 

 Herath. Guy Herath. Howard Phelps, 

 Howard Klett and Wm. Cryder. Plain- 

 field: Geo. Hinze. Belcher: Russel 

 Webb. Jollet: J. Franklin Hedgcock. 

 farm adviser, and Roland Clark, as- 

 sistant. 



Will C. McQueen of Elgin, repre- 

 sented the Kane County Farm Bureau 



Lake County Farm Bureau was rep- 

 resented by Wiliard Darrell. Wau- 

 konda: W. J. .Shreck, Llbertyvllle: Ira 

 G. Stephens. Wadsworth. and J. J, 

 Doerschuk. farm adviser. 



Herman Schnake of Arlington 

 HetshtB. represented the Cook County 

 Farm Bureau. 



The DuPage County Farm Bureau 

 was represented by Harold C. Vial 

 George B. Gosa. Wilton B. Lehman. Lee 

 O. Llttleford. C. R. Wlmpress. Otto 

 Heuer, Robert Plane, Wm. Rosa and E. 

 A. CarncrOBS, farm adviser. 



EARLY COLLECTIONS 

 BEST, SAYS AUDITOR 



That early collections of Farm Bu 

 reau membership dues are the easiest 

 is borne out by the report of L. A 

 Evans, membership auditor for the 

 I. A. A. Woodford County Farm Bu- 

 reau, he points out, was the first to 

 file returns for 1925 with the I. A 

 A., reporting a total of 92 per cent 

 collections by February 5, on dues 

 payable January 1, 1925. Woodford 

 county is considered the pioneer 

 county in farm account work, and 

 Evans ascribes to its business-like 

 methods the results which farm bu 

 reau officials were able to show at 

 this early date. 



On the same day another county 

 reported 76 per cent collections. On 

 February 6, two counties reported 

 one for 77 per cent and the other tor 

 62 per cent. On February 9, one 

 county reported for 84 per cent and 

 another reported a collection of 83 

 per cent. 



"It is this kind of spirit which 

 spells success in farm bureau work, 

 says Evans. "It is not surprising to 

 see why farmers pay their dues 

 promptly when farm bureau officers 

 are on the job early. , 



MUST MAKE FARM 



HOME ATTRACTIVE _ 

 FOR LASTING GOOD 



Farm Wife Wanto Conveniences 

 in Home to Keep Pace With 

 Modem Farm Progress 



Unless the farm home is made 

 Just as convenient and attractive as 

 the town and city home, we cannot 

 hope to keep the farm wife contented 

 and happy on the farm. 



That is the opinion of W. H. Moo 

 dy. Port Byron, Illinois, executive 

 committeeman for the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association from the 14th 

 Congressional district, speaking re- 

 cently over KYW, Chicago. 



Moody pointed out that time and 

 labor-saving devices have been ap- 

 plied to farming operations long 

 ago, but that the farm home has 

 not kept pace with the rest of the 

 farm and has suffered in the general 

 march of progress. This, he de- 

 clares, is because farmers generally 

 have not considered home conveni 

 ences as indispensable as good equip 

 ment in farm operations. "The 

 farmer." he said, "promptly dis- 

 carded the grain cradle when the 

 hand rake reaper appeared, and in 

 turn purchased the self rake, the 

 Marsh harvester, and finally the mod 

 ern self-binder, realizing that to Ig 

 nore them meant to fall by the way 

 side in the march of progress." 



Moody raised the question, "Does 

 the farm house wife enjoy the mod- 

 ern conveniences that are found in 

 the city home? Unfortunately 

 many do not. He mentions the gaso- 

 line engine, the pressure tank, the 

 bath room and the radio as essen- 

 tial in modernizing the farm home. 



"Can you blame the farm wives 

 tor wanting to leave the farms?" 

 Moody asked. "The farm home is 

 repulsive and she longs to have what 

 can be made the most delightful 

 abode on earth — the old home with 

 modern devices at a very moderate 

 cost. The farm home can be made 

 as convenient and attractive as the 

 city palace and when that is done, 

 the rural dweller is delighted to in- 

 vite her city friends to her country 

 home." 



HEALTHY GROWTH 



IN STATE HATCHERIES 



(Continued from page 3) 



Earlvllle Hatchery — A. D. Van Ornum, 



Mgr. Earlvllle. 111. 

 Egyptian Hatchery — Ed. T. Herstein. 



Mgr.. Summerfield. 111. 

 Eldorado Hatchery — Charles West- 

 brook, Eldorado, m. 

 Fairmont Farm — Edmond Mietzner. 



Fairfield. 111. 

 Farmer City Hatchery — Bieber-Marvln 



Co.. Farmer City. 111. 

 Kretsinger Hatchery — B. R. Kretsing- 



er, Egan, III. 

 Maplecrest Poultry Farm — John Roth, 



Morton, Illinois. 

 Meharry Farm. A. P. — U. E. Barter. 



Mgr.. Tolono. III. 

 Muth, Jas. J. — New Athens, III. 

 Xew Era Hatchery»— Iva L. Autery, 



Pittslleld, 111. 

 NorrlB. Chas. W. — Montlcello. 111. 

 Parker Hatchery — Bdw. L. Parker. New 



Athens. 111. 

 Rochelle Egg Farm — Rochelle. III. 

 Rock River Hatchery — F. W. Rueben- 



saal, Rockford, ni. 

 Saunders Hatchery — Elzo Saunders. 



Belleville. III. 

 Stockey. Chas. D. — Freeburg. III. 

 Stouffer Egg Farm — W. B. Stoutfer. 



Mt. Morrra, 111. 

 Strlngtown Poultry Yards — A. W. Rez- 



nlcek. Belleville. III. 

 Lake Fork Farm Hatchery — L. O. Rau. 



Kenney, 111. 

 Smith Hatchery — Clyde Smith. Golden 



Gate, 111. 

 ^reat Eight Poultry Farm — H. J. 



Schlany, Carlyle, III. 

 Walnut Ridge Hatchery — Mrs. D. J. 



Ralney. Butler. III. 

 Marlon J. Porter — PIttsfleld, III. 

 Scott's Red Farm — C. P. Scott, Box 702. 



Peoria. III. 

 Butcher's White Orpington Farm — Geo. 



D. Butcher. Wenona. III. 

 Maplewood Hatchery — Lester G. Wlld- 



erman, Freeburg. 111. 

 Pleasant Hill Stock Farm — John L. 



Lalrd. Mt. Vernon, rillnols. 



Pennington. J. R. — PlalnBeld, III. 

 Millway Hatchery — J. T. Wills, M«- 



Nabb. III. 

 J. P. Doane. Jacksonville, III. 

 Henry Zehr. Washington, 111. 



FORWARD! FARM 

 BUREAU 



"Tlie most hopeful movement 

 of modem times In agricttlture 

 Is the coiuitjr Fami Bnrean. It 

 Is going to help as to bring ag- 

 riculture up more rapidly than 

 any other agency we have had 

 In the past and that Is because 

 it gets the farmers to co-oper- 

 ate with one another idong the 

 nio«t practical and successful 

 lines. I know that If is true 

 in Illinois, and I am quite sure 

 It is equally true elsewhere. I 

 have more faith In an improved 

 and permanent agriculture 

 through the agency of the 

 county Farm Bureau than in 

 any other single agency we 

 have." — ^Frank O. Lowden. 



I. A. C. A. STRONG. IN IROQUOIS 



Three farmers' co-operatives in 

 Iroquois county are the most recent 

 1 J 1 to join the Illinois Agricul- 

 ■ 4 I t*""^' Co-operatives Associa- 

 *~* tion, co-operative account- 

 ing and business advisory service or- 

 ganization. Geo. R. Wicker,, general 

 manager of this association and I. A. 

 A. accounting director, states that 

 Iroquois county now has seven farm 

 co-ops that have taken out member- 

 ship in the organization. 



The three co-ops are the Clssna 

 Park Co-operative Grain and Coal 

 Company; Farmers' Co-operative 

 Company, Leonard; and Wataga Live 

 Stock Shipping Association. This 

 brings the total I. A. C. A. member- 

 ship up to 141. 



WklteaMe CoaXr F'arm Bvrcao la 



urging Ita members to "raise a ton lit- 

 ter this year, and get your neighbor 

 to raise one." 



liEST WE I'X)RGI7r! 

 ••* • • Xonr therefore be It re- 

 ■olved by the execatlve eommlt- 

 lee of the llllBols Agrtealtnral 

 ABSoelatloB that we disapprove 

 the rralB marketlhg pUm of the 

 GmlB HarketiBB CompsBr ■■< 

 ■dvljie the members of this asao- 

 rUttloB agalnat pnrehaslBg Btoek 

 of the rompamy either aa bb Ib- 

 veatBieBt or for the purpose of 

 supportlBg the comp«B7'a pro- 

 gram for BuirketlBg rralB.**— . 

 Part of a resolBtlOB passed ob 

 Jbb. •, 1025 by the I. A. A. execB- 

 tlve eoBimlttecw 



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