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The DKnoU Agricultural A»»oci«tion Record 



June 20, 1925 J June 



I^LLilNOIS 



VMAL, ASSOCIAIHPN 



ECORD' 



Publistied every other Saturday by the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation, 608 South Dearborn Street. Chicago, Illinois. Edited 

 by Department of Information. Harry C. Butcher. Director. 



Entered as second class' matter Oct. 10, 1921, at the post office 

 at Chicago. Illinois, under the act of March 3. 1879. Acceptance 

 for mailing at special rates of postage provided for In Section 

 11U3. Act of October 3. 1917. authorized Oct. 31, 1921. 



The individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation is five dollars a year. The fee includes payment of 

 fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation Kecokd. 



Postmaster: In returning an uncalled-for or missent copy, 

 please Indicate key number on address as Is required by law. 



OFFICERS 



« President, M. H. Thompson, Qulncy. 



I . Vice-President, H. E. Uoembel, Hooppole. 



j Trea.^urer, K. A. Cowles, Bloomington 



Secretary, (jeo. A. Fox, Sycamore. 



EXl!|CUTI\^ OOMMrrTEE ~ 



Uy Congressional Districts 



1st to 11th.' \ Wllllain Webb, Route One, Joliet 



12th G. F. Tullock, Rockford 



13th '. C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



14th W. H. Moody, Port Byron 



nth.... B. H. Taylor, Rapatee 



16th A. R. Wright, Varna 



17th.... F. D. Barton, Cornell 



18th R. F. Karr, Iroquois 



19th J. L. Whisnand, Charleston 



20th Earl C. Smith, Detroit 



21st J Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



22nd • Stanly Castle, Alton 



23rd W. L. Cope, Salem 



24th 4 ....Curt Anderson, Xenia 



2Sth... i R. K. Loomis, Makanda 



l)irecti>rs of I>e|>artnients, 1. A, A, Office 



Co-operative Accounting Qeo. R. Wicker 



Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch 



Finance R. A. Cowles 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper 



General Office J. H. Kelker 



Grain Marketing....! ...Chester C. Davis 



I nformation Harry C. Butcher 



Legal Counsel Donald KIrkpatrick 



Live Stack Marketing: Wm. E. Hedgcock 



Organization G. E. Metzger 



Phosphate-Limestone J. R. Bent 



Poultry and Egg Marketing F. A. Gougler 



Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson 



Transportation L. J. Quasey 



THE Recoub's platform 

 Adi-ance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organized, 

 namely, to '.promote, protect and represent the business, economic, 

 social and educational interests of the farmers of Hluu>is and the 

 nation, and to develop agriculture. 



Watch For It. 



IT has been decided by the executive committee of the 

 Illiiinis A^rriciiltural Atisociation that before the next 

 election the Rec(iri) will publish, with appropriate com- 

 ments, the complete agricultural voting record of each 

 state senator and representative. 



The attitude of our legislators toward agriculture is 

 of considerable importance to Illinois farmers. The 

 Record will print an impartial list of their "yeas" and 

 ■"noes" as well as the number of absentees. Appro- 

 priate comments will be available from the legislative 

 committee. 



The Hkcord will furnish the facts and then it will be 

 up to you farm voters to say who of the senators and 

 representatives shall remain legislators and who shall 

 stay at home. < 



-I j Facts, not FancieM j 



Ol'lTE a furore was created by the announcement 

 some time ago from the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation that Illinois farmers actually received $1.11 

 a bushel for wheat last year rather than what was pop- 

 ularly supposed to be close to $2. 



G»?orge R. Wicker, director of the co-operative ac- 



CQunting department, was called upon to substantiate 

 his figures i<i some instances, but nothing could jar them 

 since they ^ere taken direct from audits of elevators' 

 books. ] 



One man called on Mr. Wicker thinking the figures 

 incorrect. Me is an economist for a large Chicago bank. 

 He had it %ured that farmers received $1.78 a bushel 

 last year, tlis estimate was made by means of some 

 theoretical deduction. After seeing the facts, he went 

 away wondering how to correct his theory. 



All of which goes to show that we need more facts 

 and less fancies. 



Agricalture't Battle Cry 



EQUALltY for Agriculture ! 

 Someday the children and grand children of the 

 present gent^ation will read that slogan in their histor- 

 ies. It is the battle-cry of a peaceful revolution. 



The Illinois Agricultural Association is backing that 

 cry to the litoit. The most recent expression of this as- 

 sociation's attitude toward national legislation designed 

 to bring about agricultural equality is this resolution 

 printed beloV: 



"We believe the outstanding need of American agri- 

 culture from] the standpoint of federal legislation to be 

 the placing oif agriculture upon the same economic basis 

 with labor, business, and industry, and we feel that the 

 whole force Of the American Farm Bureau Federation 

 should be extrted to secure that end. 



"We believe that unless some sound method is devised 

 for the dispojsal of the exportable surplus of basic farm 

 products that the price of those commodities will be 

 fixed by world markets rather than by domestic condi- 

 tions, that American agriculture will never be able to 

 avail itself of the advantages of the American Protec- 

 tive System, and the American farmer will be forced to 

 compete withj cheap production and peasant conditions 

 elsewhere. 



"We, therefore, believe that the major legislative ac- 

 tivities of the| American Farm Bureau Federation should 

 be centered tjoward the enactment of sound legislation 

 looking to the disposal of such exportable surpus of 

 farm commo4ities to the end that the domestic price of 

 such products will be fixed by domestic conditions rather 

 than by world markets. 



"We believje in a domestic price on a basis of domestic 

 equality. 



"We beliewe that the legislative program of the Amer- 

 ican Farm Bureau Federation as announced in their 

 resolutions aaopted at their last annual meeting ^ould 

 be carried oUt. 



"We believje that the legislative prestige of the Amer- 

 ican Farm Blireau Federation would be materially en- 

 hanced if sucjh activities should be centered largely on 

 one or two ijiajor projects, lending such co-operation 

 as may be dteemed proper from time to time to such 

 measures as are designed to bring about better condi- 

 tions for the 4^merican farmer and which give reasonable 

 promise of accomplishing the desired end." 



The occasion for this resolution was a request to an- 

 swer a long qijestionnaire covering every degree of farm- 

 ers ' ills and their possible remedies, which was submitted 

 by the Ameri(|an Farm Bureau Federation in its nation- 

 wide search for the answer to the question : ' ' What does 

 the farmer want of Congress!" The reply was drafted 

 by the legislative committee and passed unanimously by 

 the executive \ committee. 



I Warning! 



BEING watjchdog over the interests of Illinois farmers 

 is one of the biggest regular chores of the I. A. A. 

 And, when so|ne prowler gets nipped by the watchdog, 

 quite often the owner is told that his dog is a nuisance 

 and ought to be done away with. That's what some 



interests think abput the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion — but a good watchdog stays on the job no matter [ 

 who tries to pet him and make friends with him. If 

 things look wrong, a good watchdog barks a warning to | 

 its master. If the I. A. A. sees something that looks 

 wrong it can bark its warning through the Record to | 

 its master — the 63,000 thinking farmers. 



Here is an I. A. A. warning from J. R. Bent, director I 

 of the phosphate-limestone department. It speaks for I 

 itself : 



"Don't be fooled by the 'disintegrated phosphate' | 

 man or by any fanciful claims of concerns attempting ! 

 to sell some freak or extraordinary form of pjiosphate j 

 rock. Some years ago low grade phosphate-bearing 

 muck, which had not been purified or grovmd, was sold j 

 in Illinois to a limited extent under the name of 'dis- 

 integrated phosphate' with a claim that it did not need 

 grinding and was immediately or quickly available, j 

 having been made so by nature's own process. Farm- ' 

 ers who bought this material at that time were turned j 

 against phosphate through their inability to see results, j 



"The phosphate-limestone department has recently 

 discovered that this 'game' has been revived with other | 

 states as the victims. Farm Bureaus and farm bureau 

 members are warned against falling for such eflforts and 

 are asked to report promptly to the Illinois Agricultural j 

 Association if they learn of any such efforts being made 

 in Illinois. 



"The I. A. A., through the phosphate-limestone de- 

 partment, has. studied and keeps in close touch with 

 the current phosphate situation and in light of this 

 knowledge has established a standard which should be 

 adhered to. It is for a basic quality of 13 pec cent 

 phosphorus ground fine enough so that at least 95 per 

 cent will pass a 100 mesh sieve and not to exceed 3 per 

 cent moisture. Individual shipments may vary by being 

 higher or lower in grade but a sliding scale has been 

 established to approximately equalize these differences 

 on the basis of the average value delivered at the Illi- 

 nois end. The I. A. A. maintains- a branch oflSce in the 

 phosphate field in Tennessee and takes samples, makes 

 chemical and physical analysis and sends a report to 

 the customer in all cases where the customer desires it. 

 This service is yours for the asking. Simply specify 

 I. A. A. service when you place your order. The I.A.A. 

 will tell you what the correction to the basic price 

 should be due to any variation from the basic quality 

 of the material which you receive." 



Support in the Battle 



THE Senate has also passed the resolution memorial- 

 izing Congress to do something effective about the 

 exportable surplus. This means that the Illinois Gen- 

 eral Assembly joins the large group of General Assem- 

 blies in mid-west and western states which have form- 

 ally asked Congress to do something along this line. 

 This puts the General Assembly behind the fight for 

 equality for agriculture. 



It also shows that the state of Illinois ofiicially stands 

 where the Illinois Agricultural Association has been 

 standing all the time. 



This Slogan Paid 



You would imagine that the American public had been "slo- 

 ganed" to the point of rebellion against all slogans. But the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association declares in an official biiUetln 

 that its "Spread your butter thicker" and "There is no substi- 

 tute for butter." have had the effect of reducing the butter 

 surplus and putting the industry in a better condition. 



The bulletin says the heavy surplus of last fall and winter 

 has disappeared and that butter consumption has increased 

 steadily In the last four months over what it was a year ago. 



Another iters which pleases the milk producers Is that the 

 current price received for farmers for butter fat is four cents 

 more than it averaged for any months of May in the last four 

 years. 



The asso<'iation had 10.000 "Spread your butter thicker" 

 posters distributed over Illinois. Not a great number for so 

 large and populous a state. Nevertheless, the results speak 

 for .themselves — the cashing in By Illinois farmers of an ^xtra 

 quarter of a million dollars on their cream this month. — Rock- 

 ford (III.) Gazette. 



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