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The Illiaob Agricultural A«»ociation Record 



June 6, 1925 



MARCH TORNADO 

 WORST IN HISTORY, 

 WEATHER MEN STATE 



Illinois Farm Relief Fund Has 

 Grovm Until It Now Reacha 

 $177,263.40. 



"Contributions are still coming 

 into tha Illinois Farm Relief Fund." 

 says R. A. Cowles, chairman of the 

 Illinois Farm Relief Committee and 

 I. A. A. treasurer. "Since the May 

 23rd issue of the Record. J4.- 

 252.90 has been received, bringing 

 the total now in the fund to $177,- 

 263.40." 



According to Clarence J. Root 

 and William E. Barron, weather 

 bureau meteorologists, the tornado 

 which swept Missouri, Illinois and 

 Indiana last March, killed 742 per- 

 sons, injured 2.756 and caused a 

 total property damage of J16,500,- 

 000. This includes net farm prop- 

 erty loss to Illinois farmer alone of 

 $1,338,648 according to the surrey 

 made by the I. A. A. This is the 

 worst tornado history has ever re- 

 corded, the meteorologists stated in 

 an exhauBtive report filed at Wash- 

 ington, D. C, recently. 



The St. Louis tornado of May, 

 1896, wlilch caused a property 

 damage of $13,000,000, was the 

 worst previous tornado. 



Describe Peculiarities 



In several particulars, the mete- 

 orologists say, the tornado of last 

 March was peculiar. One remark- 

 able feature was that its path ex- 

 tended for 219 miles across three 

 states. The great area covered by 

 the storm gave rise to many the- 

 ories that more than one tornado 

 passed across Illinois, but the re- 

 port dispelled this idea, although 

 testimony obtained by the two 

 investigators from persons in the 

 storm area was practically unani- 

 mous in stating that two "clouds" 

 hurtled out of the west together, 

 one smiting the left and the other 

 the right side of the storm zone. 



As a rule, a tornado may be de- 

 scribed as "lifting" and "skipping," 

 but this storm struck the earth 

 with undiminished intensity along 

 its path. Its velocity was estimated 

 at 57 miles an hour across Mis- 

 souri, 59 in Illinois and 68 in In- 

 diana. 



"The fortitude of the people in 

 the stricken area was wonderful," 

 the report said. "From those who 

 had lost their homes, property and 

 even members of their family not 

 one word of complaint was heard." 



Among the "freaks" of the tor- 

 nado was a rural school carried 

 away in which the seats remained 

 fastened to the floor. The pupils 

 clung to the seats, and none were 

 seriously hurt. 



Following is a detailed list of 

 contributions to the Illinois Farm 

 Relief Fund, as of June 1, 1925: 



Adams t 2.859.98 



Bond , 729.08 



Boone 1.481.95 



Brown ..: 928.07 



Bureau 1.657^45 



Carroll . .i 1.771.65 



Cass 818.16 



ChampaiK* 700.70 



Christian L 1.677.50 



Clark 487.13 



Clay 1.311.92 



Clinton ..i 1,021.75 



Coles 2.123.22 



Cook . . . .1 4S2.00 



Crawford ( 1.182.30 



De Kalb 1.365.00 



De Witt 1.799.64 



Douglas 280.50 



Du Page 2.487.34 



Edgar 293.5" 



Edwards .! 1.555.00 



Ford County Co-ops 



"Whoop 'Er Up" for 

 Piper City Picnic 



The conference of farmers' 

 elevators in Iroquois. Ford, and 

 adjoining counties, held at 

 Watseka on .May 27, had a \erj 

 "happy ending" when Just be- 

 fore a motion was made to ad- 

 journ, J. B. Blissard, manager 

 of the Farmers' Grain Companj* 

 of Gibson City, Ford county, 

 made the announcement that all 

 the farmers' co-operative asso- 

 ciations of Ford county and the 

 Ford County Farm Bureau were 

 making plans for a big "co-op- 

 erative" picnic to be held at 

 Piper City on June 24. In be- 

 half of these associations Mr. 

 Blissard extended an invitation 

 to all present. 



Effingham 



Ford 



Fulton 



Gallatin 



Greene 



Grundy 



Hancock 



Henderson ...... 



Henry 



Iroquois 



Jefferson 



Jersey 



Jo Daviess 



Johnson 



Kane 



Kankakee 



Kendall 



Knox 



L,ake 



La Salle 



Lawrence 



Lee 



Livingston 



Logan 



Macon 



Macoupin 



Madison 



Marion 



Marshall-Putnam 



Mason 



McDonough 



McHenry 



McLean 



Menard 



Mercer 



Monroe 



Montgomery .... 



Morgan 



Moultrie 



Ogle 



Peoria 



Piatt 



Pike 



Pulaski 



Randolph 



Richland 



Rock Island .... 



Saline 



Sangamon 



Schuyler 



Scott 



Shelby 



Stark 



St. Clair 



Stephenson 



Tazewell 



Union 



Vermilion 



Wabash 



Warren 



Washington .... 



Wayne 



Whiteside 



Will 



Wllliatnson 



Winnebago 



Woodford 



Wia Listeners . 

 Prairie Farmer , 

 Miscellaneous . . 

 1. A. A. Employee^ 



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65'5.00 

 2.755.00 

 2,000.00 



338.24 

 1.000.00 

 2.887.29 

 3,303.35 



362.50 



531.10 

 2.699.69 



388.65 



243.23 

 1.721.92 



136.60 

 3,608.14 

 3.216.30 

 3,085.65 

 2,750.10 

 2.418.00 

 4.616.70 

 3.013.27 

 3.317.13 

 4,217.03 

 1,688.80 



500.45 



346.40 

 2.900.00 



359.30 



644.87 

 2,556.00 

 1.502.93 

 1,005.40 

 3.829.24 

 1,066.60 



769.69 

 '46.60 

 2.249.08 

 1,583.72 

 2,038.13 

 3.354.47 

 3,413.46 

 87.60 

 1.011.60 



489.60 



103.00 

 2.791.29 

 1.389.50 

 1,480.78 

 6.044.88 



484.55 

 1,125.76 

 2.114.16 



381.50 

 1,213.25 

 2,984.28 

 2,919.30 

 1.411.66 

 1,009.91 

 84.50 

 2.830.00 

 60.00 



445.88 

 3,613.81 

 3,406.25 



623.60 



2,110.00 



4,381.41 



26,000.00 



2,247.62 



438.25 



302.50 



Total ■ 8177,263.40 



ASSEMBLY LISTENS 



TO FARMER CLAIMS 



(Continued from page 3.) 



secure federal legislation for agri- 

 culture in the last session of Con- 

 gress, were revived when, on May 

 20, the Illinois House passed the 

 House joint resolution No. 37, mem- 

 orializing Congress to consider ex- 

 port bounties on wheat, corn, cattle, 

 and their by-products. 



TAZEWEU BUREAU 

 PLAN INSURES CARS 



(Continued from page I.) 

 has brought farmers Into the farm 

 bureau and has been found to act 

 as glue in helping make members 

 stick. Elghty-flve per cent of the 

 members In Tazewell county insure 

 their cars this way. 



The reason why so many are in 

 it, according to Ralph E. Arnett, 

 the present farm adviser, is because 

 it is much cheaper than regular old 

 line insurance. Besides it is farm 

 bureau-owned and controlled. It Is 

 the only automobile insurance, they 

 say, that is confined solely to farm 

 bureau members. Another selling 

 point Is that it is run on an actual 

 cost basis. 



Cheaper Than Old-Line 



Comparison of insurance premi- 

 ums paid on old-line policies and 

 the Farmers' Automobile Insurance 

 Association, as made by the Taze- 

 well County Farm Bureau, states 

 that when a $1,500 full coverage 

 policy, which includes insurance for 

 possible loss bj' fire, theft, personal 

 liability, property damage and col- 

 lision, is taken out in an old line 

 company, the average cost Is about 

 $140 a year. The farm bureau In- 

 surance is less than $20 a year, in- 

 cluding assessments of $5 every six 

 months, or $10 for the year, which 

 go to build up a reserve. 



Furthermore, it is declared that 

 the farm bureau policy is much 

 more liberal in Its collision features 

 than are those of most old line com- 

 panies, while some reciprocal mutu- 

 al companies, which are in reality 

 private enterprises, sell insurance 

 somewhat cheaper thaii the old line 

 companies. One does not need to 

 be i shark at arithmetic to figure 

 the dollars saved the farm bureau 

 members from this project. 



la explaining the mechanical de- 

 tails of handling the business, Mr. 

 Arnett, who served as attorney-in- 

 fact for 2 H years and until this 

 spring when an assistant had to be 

 Secured to relieve him of the load, 

 points out that at the end of each 

 six-month period, which terminate 

 April 1 and October 1, each mem- 

 ber holding a policy is assessed for 

 actual losses and expenses incurred 

 in paying the losses. The $5 charge 

 which is made each six months for 

 the purpose of building up a re- 

 serve continued for six-month pe- 

 riods, or three years on each car. 

 Costs Itemized 



Books are kept carefully to show 

 where the money comes from and 

 how it is spent and from which par- 

 ticular phases come the heaviest 

 losses. The six-month period ending 

 April 1, 1925, showed the following 

 division of assessments per member: 

 Fire, none; theft, 58 cents; colli- 

 sion, $2.12; personal liability, 11 

 cents; property damage, 24 cents; 

 lexpflnse, $2.66, which totals $5.71. 

 The average of all assessments 

 since the first one which was dated 

 October 1, 1921, Is: fire, 12 cents; 

 theft, 57 cents; collision, $1.64; 

 personal liability, 43 cents; property 

 damage, 11 cents; expenses, $1.28; 

 which totals $4.15. To this of 



BULLETIN 



Secretary Jardlne will speak 

 at the annual I.A.A. picnic to 

 be held at Taylorville under 

 auspices of the Christiaa Goon- 

 ty Farm Bureau, Thnrsday, 

 August 27. 



While the Secretary was vi- 

 siting the I. A. A. office last 

 week, he was invited to address 

 farm bureau members at the 

 picnic by President Thompsons 

 and President Grimes of the 

 Christian County Farm Bureau. 



He accepted on the spot. Au- 

 gust 27 was found to be the 

 earliest date he could speak, 

 which was later found to con- 

 flict with the Sharpsburg and 

 Edinbnrg Farmers' Chautauqua 

 in Christian county, but fortu- 

 nately this difficulty has been 

 overcome as Is indicated in the 

 following telegram received 

 Tuesday, June 2, from C. K. 

 Hay, farm adviser: 



"Advertise August 27 as pic- 

 nic dates. Wire Jardlne accep- 

 tance. Sharpsburg Edinburg 

 Farmers' Chautauqua Going to 

 boost. Boost them." 



Put a big circle around the 

 date August 27 on your calen- 

 dar and come if you possibly 

 can. Many other big picpic 

 features are to be announced 

 in the RECORD later. 



MRS. WILLIAM WEBB DIES 

 The many friends of William 

 Webb of Route 1, Joliet, were 

 grieved to learn of the death of 

 Mrs. Webb, Friday, May 29. Mr. 

 Webb is a member of the I. A. A. 

 executive committee for districts 

 10 and 11. 



course is added the $5 charge for 

 reserve fund, making an average 

 six-month assessment of $9.16 as 

 against approximately $70 in an old 

 line company. 



The need for the reserve fund 

 outside of the needs of a reserve 

 fund for any sound business is be- 

 cause of a state law reauiring that 

 insurance companies must have on 

 deposit a sum five times that of 

 their greatest single liability. The 

 greatest single liability of this 

 farmers' association is $5,000. 

 Consequently the reserve necessary 

 was $25,000. When first organ- 

 ized, the Tazewell county folks did 

 not know of this state requirement 

 and .were perplexed on first thought 

 as to how to rdise it. It did not 

 bother them long, however, for the 

 Farm Bureau itself loaned $5,000, 

 and the trustees borrowed $10,000 

 on personal notes, and advance 

 premiums provided the rest. 



The unique point of this com- 

 pany is that a man has to be a 

 member of the Farm Bureau In 

 order to get Insurance on his car 

 or truck, members of his immediate 

 family living at home also being 

 eligible. 

 910 Permanent Membership Fee 

 A fee of $10 is required on each 

 car upon taking out insurance. 

 This is a permanent membership 

 fee and is good as long as assess- 

 ments are paid. Some owners have 

 three and four cars insured. 



The present trustees are Joseph 

 Morris, president, Wm. I^reltag, E. 

 L. Robinson, W. F. Donley, Ralph 

 Boyle, J. H. Warner of Mason coun- 

 ty, and Geo. B. Muller. These men, 

 acting as a board of trustees, are 

 elected at the annual meeting. 

 They hold control over the attor- 

 ney-in-fact, who is J. E. Harris, as- 

 sistant farm adviser of the Taze- 

 well County Farm Bureau. 



Upon the basis of comparative in- 

 surance costs furnished the Taze- 

 well County Farih Bureau, every 

 time a member pays an assessment, 

 a four-year membership in the 

 Farm Bureau is saved. Of the 



SEES ILLINOIS AS 

 SOURCE OF DAIRY 

 STOCK IN FUTURE 



PrcMnt Rate of T. B. Eradica- 

 tion Account* For It, Dedanet 

 Dairy Marlceting Director 



Will Illinois ever become a source 

 of good dairy cattle? 



That question is up to the farm- 

 ers themselves, asserts the dairy 

 marketing department of the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association, A. D. 

 Lynch, director. 



"At present," says the I. A. A. di- 

 rector, "Illinois dairymen who wish 

 to replace reactor cattle with clean, 

 quality stock, must go to other 

 states to replenish their herds. Yet 

 the time may not be far off when 

 farmers will come to our own state 

 for good dairy stock. 



"At the present rate of T. B. 

 eradication work in Illinois, indi- 

 cations are that within the next five 

 years, this state will be the cleanest 

 among dairy states. This will mean 

 that dairy cattle from Illinois coun- 

 ties will command a premium over 

 cattle in other states. For this rea- 

 son it is time for Illinois dairymen 

 to begin to think of their herds as 

 sources of stock in years to come." 



During the last week in May, the 

 I. A. A. director visited Clark, Mar- 

 athon, and Wood counties in Wis- 

 consin with a view toward finding 

 reliable sources of good dairy cat- 

 tie with which to stock Illinois 

 herds. He consulted county agents 

 and breed association secretaries, 

 inquiring about sources of grade 

 stock. 



"The I. A. A. Is not a buyer of 

 dairy cattle," states Mr. Lynch, 

 "but the association Is willing to 

 assist in locating dairy cows, T. B.- 

 free and of good dairy strains, as 

 we are in touch with sources in In- 

 diana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and 

 Minnesota." 



LISTEN IN!! 



Farm advisers' radio talks sched- 

 uled over WLS, Chicago, on the I. 

 A. A. program are as follows: 



Monday, June S at 12:30 (standard 

 time) — C. B. Hay, Christian County 

 Farm Bureau adviser, on "Saylnff It 

 with Soys and Clover In Christian 

 County." Tuesday, June 9 at 18:J0 

 and 8:<0 — W. P. Miller, farm adviser 

 of Brown County Farm Bureau, on 

 '*Agrlcultural Ills and Farm Bureau 

 Treatment," and "Community Spirit 

 Pays." Tuesday, June 23 at 8:40 — H. 

 C. Vial, DuPage County Farm Bureau 

 president, on the accomplishments 

 and services of DuPagre County Farm 

 Bureau. Friday, June 12, 8:40 — J. H. 

 Lloyd, farm adviser. Hancock Coun- 

 ty Farm Bureau, on achievements of 

 that county's farvi bureau supply 

 company. 



Monday, June 15, 12:30 — O. E. Metx- 

 Ber and A. D. Lynch, of the I. A. A., 

 In a dialogue on "John Smith Joins 

 the Farm Bureau." 



Thursday, June 11, over KTW, Chi- 

 cago, at 7:30 — B. H. Taylor, L A. A. 

 executive committeeman from 15th 

 district, on "Brains Plus Brawn 

 Equals Good Farming." 



960 farm bureau members in Taze- 

 well county, 85 per cent of them be- 

 long to the Farmers' Automobile 

 Insurance Association. Each year, 

 according to the figures, they save, 

 in the aggregate, 6,528 annual $15 

 farm bureau membership fees. 

 This saving is striking, and it is so 

 largely because it is possible to fig- 

 ure it out in a tangible way with 

 reasonable fairness. Many farm 

 bureau accomplishments are fts 

 striking as this, but they are of 

 such intangible nature that the di- 

 rect value to members is difficult 

 to figure. 



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