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The lUinou Agricultural Anodation Record 



May 23. 1938 



UUNCH INSTITUTE 

 TO TRAIN STUDENTS 

 FOR CO-OP LEADERS 



I. A. A. Only State Body of 16 

 National Farm Organizations 

 Backing World-Wide Study 



Two 1 1. A. A. directors have been 

 honored with the request to Join the 

 faculty of the American Institute of 

 Co-operation. They are Geo. R. 

 Wicker, general manager of the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Co-operatives As- 

 sociation, and A. D. Lynch, dairy 

 marketing director. 



Working together with other lead- 

 ing fartu organizations in the for- 

 ward movement of co-operative mar- 

 keting, the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation is supporting the Ameri- 

 can Institute of Co-operation. This 

 body was incorporated under the 

 laws of the District of Columbia as 

 an educational institution in Janu- 

 ary. 1925, and will launch its first 

 summer session at the University 

 of Penqsylvania, July 20 to August 

 15. . j 



The Ij A. A. is the only state as- 

 sociation among 17 participating or- 

 ganizations that are promoting the 

 undertaking. Geo. R. Wicker. I. A. 

 A. co-operative accounting director 

 Is on the board of directors and ex- 

 ecutive committee for the Institute. 



The Institute is educational, ac- 

 cording to Mr. Wicker. The found 

 ers purpose to train students for 

 leadership in managing co-operative 

 associations. This, they hope, will 

 be accomplished by providing 

 courses on review of the past his- 

 tory of the co-operative movement 

 and als0 practical problems from 

 actual ctl-operative life. 



Tackle PrscUcal Problems 



The present plan includes special 

 study o( commodity problems in 

 seminars as follows: first week — 

 grain, livle stock dairy products, and 

 supply-buying. Second week— fruits, 

 vegetables, poultry and eggs, and 

 dairying. Third week -fluid milk, 

 butter and cheese, and manufactured 

 milk products. Fourth week — cot- 

 loo, tobacco, and dairy products. 



The legal phases of co-operation 

 constituta only a number of import- 

 ant aspects of the movement which 

 will be discussed at the summer 

 session ol! the Institute. 



Both Mr. Wicker and Mr. Lynch 

 have been granted a leave of ab- 

 sence from their I. .\. .\. duties by 

 the I. A, A. executive committee. 

 They will spend a week to 10 days 

 at the summer session as leader!) in 

 round table discussions. 



Fayette, Washington 



Counties Thinking of 



Joining Farm Bureau 



Fayette county bankers in a meet- 

 ing at Vandalia. May 17. adopted 

 resolutions favoring the establish- 

 ment of a Farm Bureau and secur- 

 itig a farm adviser. Financial as- 

 sistance wBs offered the farmers of 

 the county if it is needed to estab- 

 lish a Farm Bureau. 



Fayette county is one of nine Illi- 

 nois non-farm bureau counties, the 

 others being: Calhoun. Jasper. 

 Washington. Perry. Hamilton. Har- 

 din, .Massac and Alexander. 



Agitation for organizing a Farm 

 Bureau _ has also started in Wash- 

 ington county. Because agricultural 

 conditions have not been of the best 

 is the reason why no Farm Bureaus 

 have been organized in these coun- 

 ties previously. 



F.4R.M 0UREAV PKK.XY DIKS 



Clinlon County Farm Bureau suf- 

 fered the loss of Its president. Geo. 

 W. Koch, who died May 2. The ex- 

 ecutive committee passed a resolu- 

 tion of condolence and extended 

 sjrmpathy to Mrs. Koch and children. 

 The vice-president, C. C. Hofsom- 

 mer, succeeds to the presidency. 



District Meetings of 



Farm Elevators Resolve 

 More Against Big Merger 



Each of the district meetings of 

 farmers' elevator executive held 

 recently in Champaign. Pontlac and 

 Morris have passed resolutions stat- 

 ing that the Grain Marketing com- 

 pany Is in to sense a true farmers' 

 co-operative enterprise controlled 

 by farmers; that neither the farm- 

 ers nor their patrons should sut>- 

 scribe for stock and that true co- 

 operators should actively fight 

 against th^ merger. Tlie merger, 

 however, was discussed but little, 

 there t>eing< as one man said, "no 

 confidence in it." 



DAIRYMEN TAKE OVER 

 CITY MILK CONCERN 



Plans for a permanent building 

 for the newly organized Producers' 

 Dairy Company, a Springfield co-op- 

 erative, are under way. The co-op- 

 erative was organized Jointly by the 

 Sangamon County Milk Producers' 

 ^Association and the county Farm Bu- 

 reau as a project to supply consum- 

 ers in Springfield with the product 

 of the dairy cow. It is a farmers' 

 stock company organized under the 

 Illinois Co-operative Marketing Law. 



The dairy plant of a local dairy 

 concern has been bought. Installa- 

 tion of an ice machine and a cooling 

 room are now under consideration. 

 Operations will be begun at the 

 earliest convenience, according to 

 H. H. Maurer, president. Over |10,- 

 000 worth of stock has been sold 

 among dairy farmers throughout the 

 county. 



R. P. Karr 



Motor Cars, Better Roads, 

 Better Schools, Vanguards 

 of Higher Community Life 



That the farmer has a very defl- 

 nitte place in the scheme of things, 

 and that it is his 

 duty to find it, is 

 t h.e statement 

 made by R. F. 

 Karr. Iroquois, in 

 a recent radio ad- 

 dress over WLS, 

 Chicago. Mr. 

 Karr is executive 

 'Committeeman in 

 the I. A. A. from 

 the 18th Congres- 

 sional district. He 

 is chairman of the 

 I. A. A. depart- 

 ment of Information advisory com- 

 mittee. 



Co-operative effort, declares Mr. 

 Karr, has only begun to assert it- 

 self. He believes that no class of 

 people have made greater strides in 

 the business world in the last few 

 years than the farmers. He men- 

 tions the automobile, better roads, 

 and better schools as vanguards 

 in the farmers' march toward a bet- 

 ter community life. 



"Working together is the wise 

 way of working out individual, mutu- 

 al, anid industrial problems," he 

 states, : "That is a matter of growth, 

 a matter of education — a matter to 

 be acquired out of abundance of ex- 

 perience. 



"When through organization and 

 co-operation we have attained to the 

 fullness and richness of life to which 

 we are all equally entitled, then will 

 the farmer have attained to the high- 

 est possible niche In the agricul- 

 tural world," Mr. Karr concludes. 



MAY 27 IS DATE SET 

 FOR MERGER HEARING 



(Pontinued from page 1) 



Donald Kirkpatrick. 1. A. A. legal 

 counsel, showed that the Grain Mar- 

 keting Company holds leases for 

 seven Illinois public warehouses 

 with a total capacity of approxi- 

 mately 10.000.000 bushels which is 

 two-thirds of the public warehouse 

 space in the Chicago district, and 

 is paying a rental of eight per cent 

 of the valuations of these proper- 

 ties. Evidence was also shown by 

 Mr. Kirkpatrick wherein the Grain 

 Marketing Company was advertising 

 control of those elevators in its cam- 

 paign to sell approximately sixteen 

 million dollars worth of stock. 



First $100 Award For 

 Cattle "Bootleggers" 

 Won in Lake County 



The first claimant to the 

 standing 9100 reward offered 

 by the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 s<tclatIon for Information lead- 

 ing t« the conviction of cattle 

 "bootleggent" is D. H. MInto, 

 pr^stilent of the Lake County 

 Farm liureau. 



The executive committee in 

 II.S .May meeting looked with 

 favor u|Min .>lr. -Mlnfu's work 

 and onlered that the award of 

 9100 be paid him upon receipt 

 of written data covering the 

 ca.se. He helped apprehend 

 and prosecute violators of the 

 fetleral and state rules for 

 tran.H|M>rting cattle not t. b. 

 free. The reward is offered by 

 the I. A. A. to help protect 

 farmers who have tested their 

 cattle from re-lnjectlon by un- 

 scrupulous cattle traders. 



FARMERS HAVE CHANCE 

 TO POOL WOOL CLIP 

 IN 1925 AS BEFORE 



I.A.A. !• Ready with Plan to 

 Ship Wool to Bo*ton and 

 Get the Highest Prices 



LIKTICK IX! : 



Farm Advisers' radio talks sched- 

 uled over WT.,S. Chicago, on the 



1. \. A. radio program are as fol- 

 lows; 



Monday. May 26 at 12:30 — H. O. Al- 

 lison. I.,ivinKflton county farm adviser, 

 on "Buildlni^ a Permanent Agriculture 

 in Livingston County." Tuesday. May 

 26 at 12:30 and 8:40 — J. J. Doerschuk. 

 Lake county farm adviser, on "Farm 

 Bureau Service to Lake County Dairy 

 FRrmers." and "Developing Commu- 

 nity Spirit in Lake County." Monday. 

 June 1 — F. W. Wascher. EfflnKham 

 county farm adviser, on the aoom- 

 plishments and services of Efllnsham 

 County Farm Bureau. Tuesday, June 



2. at 12:30 and 8:40 — F E. Longmlre. 

 Grundy county farm adviser, on the 

 accomplishments and services of 

 Grundy County Farm Bureau. 



Wednesday. May 27 at 12:30 — Wm. 

 K. HedKcock. I. A. A. livestock mar- 

 keting director, on 'WOOL MARKET 

 TRE.VDS" 



Farmers of the state again will 

 have the privilege of pooling their 

 wool co-operatively, according to the 

 I. A. A. live stock marketing depart- 

 ment, Wm. E. Hedgcock, director. 

 Arrangements have been made with 

 Ihe National Wool Exchange to mar- 

 ket the wool of Illinois flocks this 

 year. 



"In the last five years," says Mr 

 Hedgcock, "Illinois and Iowa wool 

 has been sold to eastern mills in the 

 Boeton territory, but was first grad- 

 ed in Chicago. Under the new ar- 

 rangement, the wool this year will 

 be shipped to Boston and graded 

 there, then sold to the mills. This 

 gives the producers a chance to get 

 their wool graded and sold at the 

 largest wool market in America." 



Advantage Without Extra Cost 



According to the I. A. A. depart- 

 ment, the National Wool Exchange 

 declares this arrangement to be to 

 the advantage of Illinois producers, 

 as Illinois wool has been sold to 

 eastern mills In the past. "Handling 

 charges," states Mr. Hedgcock, "are 

 not increased under this plan, as 

 wool growers have always had to 

 pay the freight of shipments fo Chi- 

 cago in the past, plus the freight 

 from Chicago to the eastern mills. 



"The Illinois pool in 1924 netted 

 the farmers from eight to twenty 

 ?ents per pound over what they were 

 offered at the time of shearing 

 Fifty-two counties were represented 

 in the pool and marketed 93,637 

 pounds of wool. The principle of 

 pooling wool is right and in line 

 with the co-operative marketing en- 

 deavor. The farmer thus gets as 

 much for his product as the local 

 dealer would receive, at the time 

 the wool is sold on the market." 



K<<tabll8he<l "Wool Pool Weeks" 



Tl>is summer, certain weeks will 

 be set aside as "Illinois wool pool 

 weeks " Mr. Hedgcock is looking 

 for a large consignment of wool 

 from Illinois farms this year and 

 urges ill growers to get in touch 

 , with their farm adviser to insure 

 prompt, safe, and satisfactory ship- 

 ment of their wool clip. 



COUNTIES CELEBRATE 

 INDEPENDENCE DAY 



A patriotic celebration of the 

 Fourth of July, sponsored by county 

 Farm Bureaus, will take place in at 

 least five Illinois counties this year. 



Commemorating the day when, 

 150 years ago, farmers first answered 

 to the call of "arms" at Concord 

 Bridge and "fired the shot heard 

 'round the world," Wayne, Stark, 

 Kankakee, Lee and Mercer Farm 

 Bureaus have decided to hold their 

 annual picnic on the traditional 

 Fourth. This is in line with the 

 suggestion of the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation, Chicago, to have 

 county Farm Bureaus throughout 

 the United States choose July 4, 

 1925 for their hey-day. 



May Shut Down I\ew 



T. B. Testing for Lack 

 Of Appropriations 



Illinois' army of veterinarians is 

 ridding cattle herds of T. B. faster 

 than ever. 



April was a record month for T. B. 

 testing. Due largely to the agita- 

 tion leading to the passage by the 

 House of the Tice bill to re-codIfy 

 existing laws governing the eradi- 

 cation of bovine tuberculosis from 

 Illinois herds, no less that 98,521 

 head of cattle were tested for T. B. 

 during April, according to the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association. 

 Sliip|>ed 4,800 Iteactors 



Never before have so many cattle 

 been tested in Illinois in a single 

 month, states the I. A. A. dairy mar- 

 keting department. Of this number, 

 4,800 reactors were detected and 

 slaughter.ed. "T h e veterinarians 

 have been notified by Dr. J. J. Lint- 

 ner. federal veterinarian in charge 

 of the work." states the I. A. A., 

 "not to take on any new testing and 

 to limit their efforts only to retest- 

 ing cases. The reason for this is 

 that present funds are insulBcient 

 to carry on the work In accordance 

 to the increasing demand on the 

 part of herd owners to have their 

 cattle tested. 



"The past blennlum provided for 

 only $1,000,000. and April of this 

 year alone took 1200.000 of this 

 fund," continues the I. A. A. Dr. 

 Lintner also states that it may be 

 necessary to shut down the entire 

 T. B. testing work until the end of 

 the fiscal year, July 1, 1925, 

 .\eed «5,0OO,0O0 Bad 



The Barr bill, now before the Sen- 

 ate, provides for an appropriation of 

 $3,000,000 to carry on the testing op- 

 erations during the next blennlum. 

 Those closely in touch with the work 

 believe that no less than $3,000,000 

 should be appropriated to stamp the 

 cattle pest out of Illinois herds. If 

 the present rate of testing continues, 

 it willtake close to $5,000,000 to pro- 

 vide sufficient funds to carry on the 

 *'ork another two years. 



I.A.C.A. HOLDS SERIES 

 OF CONFERENCES FOR 

 FARMERS' ELEVATORS 



Farmers' Auditing Body 

 Announces Plans to Talk 

 Over Common Problems 



Farmers' elevator problems will 

 be In the limelight when representa- 

 tives of a number 

 of elevators gath- 

 er in district con- 

 ference soon. 



Geo. R. Wicker, 

 general manager 

 of the Illinois Ag- 

 ricultural Co-op- 

 eratives Associa- 

 tion and coopera- 

 1 1 V e accounting 

 director of the 

 Illinois Arglcul- 

 turial Association, 

 Geo. H. Wlckrr announces that 

 the Illinois Agricultural Oo-opera- 

 tives Association is arranging a dis- 

 trict conference with the farmers' 

 elevators in Iroquois and Ford and 

 adjoining counties to be held at Wat- 

 seka or some other central point In 

 Iroquois county on May 27. Man- 

 agers and officers of farmer's ele- 

 vator companies make up the com- 

 mittee on arrangements. 



At this conference subjects of 

 common interest with reference to 

 management problems will be pre- 

 sented and discussed. The I. A. C. 

 A. has compiled tables of compara- 

 tive data which will form another 

 topic for the conference. The con- 

 ference is not confined to organiza- 

 tions which are members of the co- 

 operative auditing body. The invi- 

 tation has been made open to all 

 farmer's elevators desiring to be 

 represented. 



On May 28th a similar conference 

 will be held by the officers and man- 

 agers of the live stock shipping as- 

 sociations in the samA territory. 

 Subjects to be discussed will Include 

 particularly the accounting system 

 recently formulated by the Illinois 

 Agricultural Co-operatives Assocla- 

 Uon. 



These are the first of a series of 

 conferences which it is proposed to 

 hold in the state during the year 

 wherever sufficient Interest Is Indi- 

 cated to warrant the time and ex- 

 pense involved, according to Mr. 

 Wicker. 



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An exhibit to portray the big rea- 

 son for the existence of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association was auth- 

 orized by the executive committee 

 in its May meeting to be made and 

 shown at the Aurora fair, the state 

 picnic at Taylorville. the state fair 

 and the Illinois Products Exposition. 



WHEAT POOL CHANCES 

 LOOM ALONG WABASH 



(i'oiitinufd from page 1) 

 oe authorized to take such action to 

 issist wheat growers in that section 

 'M organize for marlieting their crop 

 IS in their Judgment the situation 

 Justifies." 



The University of Illinois it co- 

 operating with the I. A. A. in a sur- 

 vey of the soft winter wheat area. 

 Meetings are scheduled at Mt. Car- 

 mel (Wabash) May 21 and at Robin- 

 son (Crawford) May 22. At these 

 conferences the advisability 4nd the 

 form of a soft wheat marketing pro- 

 ject will be discussed. Notices of 

 these meetings were sent to Edgar, 

 Clark. C r a w fo r d, L.awrence, Ed- 

 wards, White, Wabash and Gallatin 

 County Farm Bureaus. 



Hoys' and Kirls' clubwork in Coles 

 fouiily has reached 125 members tn 

 t-iirollmcnt. Forty hoys are In corn 

 cliihwork. 



Randolph County Farm Bureau has 

 a Jerof'y breeding assoriation which 

 Will give about 15 farmers joint 

 ownership of three well-bred Jersey 

 Hires. The members look on thift as 

 one atep forward in improving the 

 quality of dairy breeding animals 

 used in that section. The Jersey 

 county group is one of 12 co-opera- 

 tive bull associations in Illlnoia. 



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Membership in the I. A. C. A. now 

 numbers 182 farmers co-ops. The last 

 ^ >• A three to join are the Piatt 

 I n/ County Farm Bureau, the 

 * "" Ransom Farmers, Elevator, 

 LaSalle county, and the Pearl City 

 Farmers' Grain and Coal Company, 

 Stephenson county. 



Mr. Wicker has been asked, to give 

 two or three lectures at the Grain 

 Marketing Short Course to be held 

 at the Iowa State College at Ames, 

 Iowa, May 25tli to June 5th Inclu- 

 sive. 



The tentative program for the 

 course includes instruction on the 

 elevator business, finances merchan- 

 dising practice, markets, manage- 

 ment, co-operation, and accounting. 

 Mr. Wicker has been asked to speak 

 on the subject of — "The Federal Rev- 

 enue Act as it Relates to Farmers' 

 Elevators" and "Accounting for 

 Farmers' Elevators." 



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Have you feen this iUuUration before? The I. A. A. office is furnishing 

 quantities of this cut to farm advisers for use in the newspapers in their coun- 

 ties. Watch for neios concerning your county and state farm organisation under 

 this head. 



BALIi SEASON OPENS 



Strike one! 



The baseball season is on. Farm 

 Bureau teams are practicing. Ofll- 

 cers and direptors of farm bureau 

 baseball teams in district No. 4 com- 

 poseii of Peoria, Tazewell, and 

 Woodford counties have drawn up 

 the following schedule: 



May 21, Peoria vs. Tazewell at 

 Peoria. May 23. Tazewell vs. 

 Woodford at Eureka. May 30. Pe- 

 oria vs. Woodford at Peoria. June 

 6, Peoria vs. Tazewell at Pekin. 

 June 13. Tazewell vs. Woodford at 

 Washington. June 20. Peoria vs. 

 Woodford at Eureka. „ 



Other schedules line up as fol- 

 lows: 



June 4, Stark vs. Marshall-Putnam, 

 Tune 11. Marshall-Putnam vs. La- 

 salle. June 18, Stark vs. Marshall- 

 Putnam. June 25, LaSalle vs. 

 Marshall-Putnam. 



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 Marion County Farm Bureau has ^ llp^nrv 

 declared systematic war against com /^,|^^ ' 

 root rot. Each co-operator has h»d '^ Ithe f 

 200 ears of culled corn tested by tjhe Isurao 



farvi bureau. On each 48 demonstrti- , O «,t 

 tion farms there will be an average I ^^ 

 of 10 acres of disease-free seed corn ^ as Pr 

 and one acre of Infected seed. Rec- - 2 stead' 

 ords of yields will be accurately sc; j bgpgjj' 



cured by' weighing. In addition, seed 

 corn selection meetings will be held 

 on each of these farms early next 

 fall, when corn from desirable stalks 

 will be selected. 



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