a 11, 192S 



RAIN 



ECURED 



ECUnVES 



Montana De- 

 culture Wm 

 J. S. D. A. 



tlvitles of the 

 1 to the place 

 jctor is need- 



ruler C. Davia 



Davis and he 

 larness." 

 :ontana State 

 [ture, Mr. Ba- 

 nding figure, 

 attention far 

 l^hen the Mc- 

 ; before Con- 

 ear ago, Mr. 

 igton to urge 

 for farmers, 

 gnized as an 

 red a position 

 ^ Wallace as 

 f grain stand- 

 i. 



g:o; Mrs. Ralph 

 am) c/o Mar- 

 ureau, Henry; 

 ineaton) Pon- 

 W. Robeaon, 



.TIOX: Mm. 

 is) Chairman, 

 [ome Bureau, 

 man Johnson, 

 Mrs. Edward 

 I Hoopeaton; 

 [ne) Eldorado: 

 (Stephenaon) 

 Home Bureau, 



VTION: Mra. 

 iLean) CoveK 

 nan Douglas, 

 E. E. Shep- 

 ve; Mrs. A. M. 

 n; Mrs. Henry 

 i) Princeton, 



LFARE: Mrs. 



Mattoon, R. R. 



.mill Graham. 



1. Chas. L<amb, 



rs. Lewis Klr- 

 Mra. EaK«ne 



,n. 



!:dlth Robbins, 



nan; Mrs. Oak- 

 Ottawa; Hra. 



igrn) Rantoul; 



enson) Ridott; 



26) Chebanse. 



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 )TECTION 



page l.> 

 than a year's 

 I now has 150 

 •endered 132 



he new com- 

 l I. A. A. J. 

 iger, will give 

 ;he new com- 

 i^animan, field 

 C. A. 



working cap- 

 company's ac- 

 year will re- 

 will be fur- 

 l. in order to 

 farm mutual 



1 membership 

 ations begun, 

 0,000 will be 

 I. A. A. will 



bill is passed 

 ral Assembly, 

 wer property 

 — President 



1 a service or- 

 8 like a pump, 

 eanlnff on the 

 raw water by 



tgomery Coun- 

 ve deoideil to 

 1 in the county 

 free seed corn 



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Volume 3 



IsMied Every Other Saturday for 63,000 thinking Farmen — April 25, 1925 



No. 8 



R£UEF FUND NEARS 

 GOAL AS WORKERS IN 

 AREA FIND NEEDY ONES 



Illinois Farm Relief Committee 

 Reports Machinery in Action 

 to Administer Fund; Many 

 Counties Not Yet Finished 



Farm rehabilitation in the tor- 

 nado area ol Southern Illinois is 

 well under way, reports R. A. 

 Cowles, I. A. A. treasurer and chair- 

 man of the Illinois Farm Relief 

 Committee, who, with vice-chair- 

 man Curt Anderson called on the 

 Red Cross workers and the Farm 

 Relief people in White, Hamilton, 

 Franklin and Jackson counties 

 April 17 and 18. 



"The Red Cross has two rural 

 case workers at Carmi in White 

 county, one at McLeansboro in 

 Hamilton county, two at West 

 Frankfort in Franklin county, two 

 at Gorham, one at Murphysboro, 

 and one at De Soto in Jackson coun- 

 ty and one at Bush in Williamson 

 county," says Mr. Cowles. 



"The Illinois Farm Relief Com- 

 mittee has representatives of farm- 

 ers working with the case workers, 

 assisting and co-operating with 

 them as needed. The case workers 

 are engaged now with representa- 

 tives of the farmers in going over 

 the area making awards of needed 

 farm equipment and implements so 

 that the farmers can begin to help 

 themselves. Work in the field is 

 beginning and neighbors are assist- 

 ins in setting the field work started. 

 Immediate minimum needs are be- 

 ing supplied. In Hamilton county 

 the work has progressed to Ihe ex- 

 tent that the chairman of the local 

 committee this week will be in a 

 position to receive contributions of 

 commodities and supplies for dis- 

 tribution to storm sufferers." 



Contributions to the Illinois 

 Farm Relief Fund now total J152,- 

 980.64 according to Mr. Cowles. In 

 view of the fact that many of the 

 counties have not sent in their ttf- 

 tal collection as yet, and many more 

 are waiting to complete their drives 

 before they send in money, the final 

 total should be well over the )180,- 

 000 quota set by the committee, he 

 thinks. 



Following is a detailed list of 

 contributions received. 



Adams I 700.00 



Bond S58.77 



Boone 1,438.95 



Brown 602.50 



Bureau 1,619.45 



Carroll 1.438.00 



CaB» 292.00 



ChampaiKn 3.1.0(1 



Christian 1.577.50 



Clark 243.18 



Clay 1.311.42 



Clinton 800.00 



Cook 452.00 



De Kalb 1.020.00 



De Witt 1.447.14 



Doufflas i:'.*- 280.50 



DuPage 2.487.34 



Edsrar 167.50 



Edwards 1.555.00 



Effingham 600.00 



Ford 2.727.00 



Fulton L.'iOO.OO 



Gallatin 338.24 



Greene 800.00 



Grundy 2.887.29 



Hancock 3.072.85 



Henderson 225.00 



Iroquois 2.510.07 



Jefferson 388.65 



Jersey 224.73 



Jo Daviess 1,541.92 



Johnson 131.50 



Kane 3.606.14 



Kankak** 3.215 30 



Kendall 3.077.55 



Lake 2.413.00 



La Salle 4.233.85 



Lawrence 2.800.00 



Lee J.305.13 



Llvingraton 3,354.92 



Loaran 1.688.80 



Macon 440.79 



Macoupin 346 40 



Madison 2,?25.00 



Marlon 359.30 



Marshall-Putnam 579.60 



Mason 2.440.00 



McDonouKh 1.281.95 



MiHenry 769 00 



McLean 3.739.7 i 



Menard 94!.B0 



Mercer 623.20 



Monroe 43.50 



Montgomery 2.249.08 



Morgan 1.338.13 



Moultrie 2,030.63 



Ogle 8.236.02 



Peoria 3.407.40 



PlaH .• 77.50 



(Continued on page S, col. 3.) 



Grain Merger Fights 



To Ev€ule State Inquiry 

 As It Loses First Point 



Fighting to ward off an inquiry 

 by the state, the Grain Marketing 

 Company (the }26,0O0,OO0 grain 

 merger), met a reverse on April 

 15 in Chicago when Chairman 

 Frank I. Smith ruled that the Illi- 

 nois Commerce Commission consid- 

 ers that it has Jurisdiction over the 

 grain merger interests. 



Chairman Smith, however, grant- 

 ed a two weeks' continuance to 

 allow attorneys for the corporation 

 to prepare a more detailed state- 

 ment of their legal contentions. 



A public inquiry into the Grain 

 Marketing Company was asked by 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association 

 in January when it became known 

 that stock was being offered for 

 sale to Illinois farmers. 



The I. A. A. executive committee 

 adopted resolutions in January 

 warning farm bureau members from 

 buying stock "either for an invest- 

 ment or for the purpose of support- 

 ing the company's program of mar- 

 keting grain." 



I.A.A. UW PUTFORM 

 SCORES AS DISTRICT 

 FARM BUREAUS MEET 



First Round of Conference* b 

 Over and Second Round 



S wi ngs 



into 



Form 



District meetings of farm bureaus 

 have been thinning out as the first 

 round of conferences for 1925 has 

 approached an end. Three confer- 

 ences were held in the week of 

 April 6, viz.; 24th district. April 9, 

 Albion, Edwards county. Curt An- 

 derson, Xenia, executive committee- 

 man; 25th district, April 10, Anna. 

 Union county, R. K. Loomis. Ma- 

 kanda. executive committeeman; 

 and 20th district, April 10, Jack- 

 sonville, Morgan county, E. C. 

 Smith, Detroit, executive commit- 

 teeman. 



The Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion was represented at these meet- 

 ings by President Thompson, Geo. 

 A. Fox, executive secretary; F. A. 

 Gougler, poultry and egg marketing 

 director; G. E. Metzger, organiza- 

 tion director; A. D. Lynch, dairy 

 marketing director; and Donald 

 Kirkpatrick, legal counsel. E^ch 

 of these men spoke on the work of 

 his department, Mr. Thompson tell- 

 ing of the activities of the I. A. A. 

 and pointing out some of the prob- 

 lems confronting ' the organized 

 farmers of Illinois. 



Endorse I. A. A. Stand 



The three-fold I. A. A. legislative 

 program has been endorsed liber- 

 ally. The 24th district meeting 

 passed a resolution urging an early 

 adoption of the bills supported by 

 the I. A. A. and advising each Sen- 

 ator of the district of this action. 

 Senators and Representatives were 

 urged to do all in their power to 

 secure the passage of the bills. 



The 25th district meeting at Anna 

 passed a resolution requesting the 

 Legislature that adequate appropri- 

 ation necessary for the continuation 

 and expansion of the Division of 

 Standardization and Markets of the 

 State Department of Agriculture be 

 made. This conference also went 

 into the matter of standardization 

 of farm machinery. 



April 23 marked the date of the 

 first district meeting held in the 

 second round. It took place at 

 Hillsboro, Montgomery county, <21st 

 Congressional district, Sam Sor- 

 rells, Raymond, executive commit- 

 teeman. Those scheduled to repre- 

 sent the I. A. A. were J. C. Watson, 

 taxation director, and G. R. Metz- 

 ger, organization director. 



Farm Bureau officers and farm 

 advisers in the 11th district, Wm. 

 Webb, Joliet, executive committee- 

 man, will hold their second meeting 

 at Joliet on April 28. Mr. Thomp- 

 son and Mr. Metzger are slated to 

 represent the I. A. A. 



BALANCING THE SCALES 



CaHs I. A. A. for Help 

 as Railway Continues to 

 Ignore His Complaints 



One request for aid front the 

 I. A. A., snccessfully negotUted, 

 led to another. In the ca.se of 

 C. A. Jackson of Rossville, HU- 

 nols. Mr. Jackson wrote to the 

 tran8|>ortatlon department last 

 August asking help in persuad- 

 ing the C. M. & St. P. railroad 

 coin|>any to repair the fence on 

 their right of way adjoining his 

 fann. After considerable dis- 

 cussion, the railroad officials 

 had the fence reiiaired. Xow 

 Mr. Jackson writes from Ver- 

 milion county: 



''I am rer}' thankful to jon 

 for the help you gave me to get 

 this fence repaired. I am going 

 to ask another favor of jrou. 

 Last November the train of the 

 C. M. & SU P. railroad started 

 a fire and burnt about 10 acres 

 of my young clover and killed 

 It. the section foreman sent 

 in my claim for 9S0, but they 

 have not written me or said 

 anything to me as yet. Si If 

 you can help me out I would 

 thank you verj- much.'* 



FORTY COUNTIES SEND 

 CONTRACTS TO I.A.A. 



Forty counties out of the 48 

 county Farm Bureaus that have re- 

 quested serum service for this year 

 have so far sent in their contracts 

 to the -office of the I. A. A. live 

 stock marketing department. Wm. 

 E. Hedgcock, director, is turning 

 these over to the respective serum 

 supply 'Companies. 



Information has also been re- 

 ceived to the effect that the other 

 county Farm Bureaus expect to sign 

 the contract upon meeting of their 

 executive committees, and to for- 

 ward these contracts to the I. A. A. 

 office. 



" — I doat luiaw wkat the fanners 

 are down here, but the farmers up 

 in Canada I sometimes think are al- 

 most incurable individualists. In 

 other words, you need an abundant 

 supply of glue with you all the time 

 to keep them sticking together." 

 (Applause.) — Hon. R. A. Hoey at I. 

 A. A. annual meeting. 



'TWO DOLLAR WHEAT" 

 CALLED MISNOMER BY 

 I. A. C. A. DIREQOR 



Finds Farmers Received Only 

 $1.11 Per Bushel for Wheat 

 and $.88 for Com in 1924 



That the talk of two dollar wheat 

 and dollar torn last fall and winter 

 was mostly "talk" is shown in fig- 

 ures Just released by the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association which were 

 compiled from comparative business 

 data assembled by its department of 

 co-operative accounting in the au- 

 diting of 23 representative farmers' 

 co-operative elevators in Illinois 

 during 1924. 



The "two dollar wheat" actually 

 netted Illinois farmers, after it was 

 delivered to their local elevators, 

 11.11 per bushel: corn, 88 cents 

 and oats 44 cents. 



George R. Wicker, director of the 

 department, feels that these figures 

 apply with reasonable accuracy to 

 the prices received by all Illinois 

 farmers. They cover a half million 

 bushels of wheat delivered ix> ele- 

 vators situated at various points in 

 the state to both large, small, and 

 medium size elevators. They apply 

 directly to over two and one-half 

 million bushels of corn and over 

 two million bushels of oats. 



"There is no doubt that the gen- 

 eral public has a false impression 

 as to just what the farmer actually 

 received for his grain last fall," 

 states Mr. Wicker. "We do not wish 

 to appear to be painting doleful 

 shrouds on the farmers' situation, 

 but we are desirous of finding and 

 telling the exact truth." 



The figures as compiled are a part 

 of the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion's comparative data service ren- 

 dered to the 150 member co-opera- 

 tives of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Co-operatives Association, which 

 functibns as a subsidiary of the 

 former, but under its own board 

 of directors. 



•^ke Catkkertaoa kill for a two- 

 cent gasoline tax is the most con- 

 structive piece of -legislation before 

 the Illinois General Assembly in 25 

 years." declares F. D. Barton. Cornell. 

 I. A. A. executive committeeman from 

 the 17th Congressional district and 

 chairman of the 1. A. A. legislative 

 committee. 



UW MAKERS LOOKING 

 UPON FARMERS' IDEAS 

 IN FAVORABLE UGHT 



Tice BUI Passed House with Only 

 Two Dissenting Votes; #3,- 

 000,000 T. B. Appropriation 

 Recommended. 



The three-fold legislative .pro 

 gram of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association progressed con8iderabl> 

 during the last two weeks. 



Under the guidance of FVank D 

 Barton of Cornell. H. E. Go. mbel 

 of Hooppole and A. C. Evertnghan. 

 of Hutsonville. who comprise thf 

 legislative committee, as well af 

 President Thompson and good sup- 

 port by the county Farm Bureaus 

 the farmers' wishes in law maklnt; 

 are being heard with attentive and 

 respectful ears by the senators and 

 representative?. 



Only Two Against Tice Bill 



The Tice, bill, which covers this 

 association's stand for continuanc- 

 and furtherance of the present cam 

 paign to eradicate bovine tubercu 

 losis, was passed by the House, with 

 only two dissenting votes. One of 

 these was by Representative Mc 

 1 Carthy of Kafie county, who led the 

 oppositionists from McHenry count> 

 when the first hearing was held. 



This is taken as proof thai the 

 oppositionists were really trying to 

 kill the whole bill, but were mas 

 querading as only seeking amend 

 ments. With only two negatlvt- 

 votes against the bill, the true senti- 

 ment in the Bttite for t. b. er^dics- 

 tion is expressed as being practi- 

 cally unanimous for the program 

 as supported by the I. A. A. 

 ApprofiriatioB Bill Beoimmended 



What is considered as even more 

 favorable action was the voting out. 

 bv the committee on appropriations, 

 of the Barr bill which provides for 

 a »3. 000. 000 appropriation to pay 

 •ndemnities for the next two-year 

 )eriod. It was recommended that 

 t "do pass." 



A great deal of sentiment pre- 

 vailed among the memliers of this 

 committee for an even larger ap- 

 propriation — some wanted 15.000.- 



000. Some senators, however, in 

 the interesu of economy, were de- 

 sirous of reducing the $3,000,000 

 appropriation, but when proponenU 

 of the $5,000,000 sum talked up. 

 it was agreed to recommend the 

 $3,000,000 as asked for by the 

 Farm Bureau. 



"Interviews with various sena- 

 tors." states A. C. Everingham. who 

 wa8«tatloned in Springfield keeping 

 tab on farmers' Interests, "leads me 

 to believe that the tuberculosis 

 eradication program backed by the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association, in- 

 cluding the Tice bill and the neces- 

 sary appropriation, will be passed 

 speedily and substantially in its 

 present form." 



Hearing on Cnthbertson BiM 



Wednesday. April 22. was the 

 date set for a big hearing ob the 

 Cuthbertson bill. »-hich provides 

 for a two-cent tax on gasoline, the 

 proceeds from which shall t)e used 

 in place of present county highway 

 taxes. 



According to the legislative com- 

 mittee, the Cuthbertson gas tax bill 

 is in good standing. This is princi- 

 pally because it is a tax reduction 

 meaJsure and most of the legislators 

 are pledged to reduction of taxes. 

 The other gas tax measures, which 

 were additional taxes and did not 

 displace any present tax such as 

 does the Cuthbertson bill, have been 

 killed In committee. 



Agitation on the part of motor 

 clubs in several Illinois cities has 

 livened the issue. The more sub- 

 stantial legislators are said by the 



1. A. A. legislative committee to 

 view the motor club opposition 

 lightly. On the other hand, a great 

 deal of propaganda against any 

 kind of gas tax has gone to the pub- 

 lic and this of course weighs to 

 some extent upon the bill. 



(Continued on page ». col 2.) 



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