June 20, 192S J June 20, 1925 



cultural Associa- 

 le job no matter , 

 Is with him. If I 

 rks a warning to I 

 thing that looks 

 h the Record to | 



3. 



B. Bent, director 

 . It speaks for 



ated phosphate' i 

 lerns attempting J 

 rm of phosphate I 

 hosphate-bearing J 

 fround, was sold | 

 le name of 'dis- 

 ; it did not need 

 lickly available, 

 process. Farm- 

 me were turned 

 ;y to see results. * 

 at has recently J 

 nved with other | 

 nd farm bureau • 

 such efforts and ' 

 ois Agricultural I 

 orts being made j 



te-limestone de- 

 iose touch with 

 n light of this 

 rhich should be 

 of 13 pec cent 



at least 95 per 

 to exceed 3 per 

 y vary by being / 



scale has been i 

 hese differences '4 

 Ted at the Illi- ] 

 ich office in the ^ 

 samples, makes k 

 ids a report to I 

 omer desires it. i 

 Simply specify I 

 er. The I.A.A. | 

 ;he basic price i 

 e basic quality ^ 



The niinoU Agricultural Attociation Record 



SOUTHERN ILUNOIS 

 DISTRICT MEETINGS 

 CONSIDER PROBLEMS 



Conferences at Carmi and Villa 

 Ridge Hold Interest of Fiumi 

 Bureau Folks Gathered There 



C«rt ABdersOB 



ution memorial- 



jctive about the j 



le Illinois Gen- j 

 General Assem- 



lich have form- , 



dong this line. : 



1 the fight for '' 



officially stands ( 

 ition has been 



Ic had been "slo- 

 iloBana. But the 

 n offlcial biilletln 

 lere is no substl- 

 uclne the butter 

 condition. 

 : fall and winter 

 >n has increased 

 was a year ago. 

 icers Is that the 

 fat is four cents 

 ' in the last four 



butter thicker" 

 t number for so 

 he results speak 

 mers of an extra 

 Is month. — Rock- 



Standardization of farm machin- 

 ery and repairs, chicken stealing, 

 the revenue 

 a m e n d m ent, 

 school taxes, 

 the work of the 

 I. A. A., the 

 marketing o f 

 Illinois grain, 

 the Indiana 

 '.vheat pool, and 

 the work of the 

 Illinois Fruit 

 Growers' E x - 

 change — all 

 these problems 

 were matters of 

 discussion a t 

 the second con- 

 ference of the year held in the 2 4th 

 and 25th Congressional districts. 



Farm bureau officers and farm 

 advisers in the 24th district met in 

 Carmi, White county, on June 9. 

 Curt Anderson, Xenia, executive 

 committeeman for this district in 

 the I.A.A., presided over the meet- 

 ing. R. A. Cowles, I. A. A. treasurer, 

 addressed the meeting on the grain 

 marketing situation, discussing 

 briefly on the history of the move- 

 ment in Illinois, and pointing out 

 the I. A. A. plans for getting 

 southern Illinois farmers to market 

 their soft winter wheat through the 

 Indiana wheat pool. 



The 25th district conference took 

 place at Villa Ridge, Pulaski county, 

 on June 10. R. K. 

 Loomis, Makan- 

 da, is member of 

 the I. A. A. ex- 

 ecutive commit- 

 tee representing 

 this district. The 

 problem of catch- 

 ing the chicken 

 thief was dis- 

 cussed from the 

 floor, the senti- 

 m e n t being ex- 

 pressed that or- 

 ganized thievery 

 has grown from 

 a neighborhood 

 to a state-wide affair. 



Explains Servic^ 

 The work of the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association in its various de- 

 partments was outlined by Mr. 

 Cowles. He was followed by J. C. 

 Watson, I. A. A. taxation director, 

 who spoke on the school tax prob- 

 lem and of the efforts being made 

 to equalize the tax burden on a 

 state-wide scale. Discussion from 

 the floor centered around the com- 

 munity high school and the cost 

 of maintaining several within a 

 county. 



R. K. LooKis 



nold! 



OFUMT.". 

 £ AS 8l3A 



a. TO -rue 

 s.as AS 

 :t aBwoco 

 ms coomtBv' 

 j' -that 

 ea 

 •iTUTe;' ' 





LEGISLATIVE BODY 

 GIVES GOOD REPORT 



(Continued from page 1, col. 5.) 



"Yes, and it would have passed 

 this time, if we had condescended 

 to divide the revenue 60-50 with 

 the state highway department," 

 President Thompson said. 



The apportionment bad been 

 fixed in the amended I. A. A. bill 

 on the basis of 20 per cent to the 

 state highway department, and 80 

 per cent back to the counties. 

 I. A. A. Stands Pat for 93,000,000 



Although the legislative commit- 

 tee has been constantly pressed by 

 legislators to agree to a decrease in 

 the $3,000,000 appropriation for 

 t. b. passed by the Senate, there 

 has been no change in the I. A. A. 

 stand, which has been for the $3,- 

 000,000 amount. 



"We have told them that if they 

 reduce it, they must bear the re- 

 sponsibility. We have figured it 

 out, and we believe three million 

 will be required to carry out the 

 present tuberculosis eradication 

 work for the next two years," said 

 Mr. Barton. 



However, the House committee 

 on appropriations, upon receiving 

 the bill from the Senate, recom- 

 mended a cut to 11,500,000. This 

 is an unpopular cut on the floor of 

 the House, and it is expected that 

 a determined attempt will be made 

 to increase the appropriation, at 

 least to $2,000,000. 



Tice BUI Amended 



Fourteen amendments were 

 tacked on to the Tice bill after a 

 flag of truce was supposed to have 

 been hoisted by both I. A. A. and 



Pfg3 



r ^. 



Cold Figures Tell a Big Story \ 

 For Any Farmer Who Sells Cream 



V 



COLD figures are poor story 

 tellers most anytime, and 

 especially so on hot days, but 

 the comparative figures presented 

 here tell a vivid story worth hear- 

 ing most any day. 



The comparison shows how butter 

 fat prices in Illinois stack up with 

 those of co-operative creameries 

 and cream selling associations in 

 Wisconsin, Iowa and Ohio. 



Look at column three and you 

 will see that Illinois co-operative 

 creameries paid an average of about 

 six cents a pound more than the 



are nothing to brag about, especial- 

 ly when compared with similar fig- 

 ures of Iowa and Wisconsin as are 

 shown in columns five and six. But 

 Iowa and Wisconsin co-op creamer- 

 ies have been in the game much 

 longer than Illinois. The oldest co- 

 operative creamery in this state is 

 only 10 years, while some in Iowa 

 and Wisconsin are as old as 35 

 years. Volume of cream received 

 increases with years of good serv- 

 ice. The greater volumes going 

 through co-ops in these neighbor 

 states Is largely responsible for 



in touch with their county Farm 

 Bureau or write direct to A. D. 

 Lynch, director of the dairy de- 

 partment, and he will get in touch 

 with the county Farm Bureau. 



NET PRICES P.AID FOR BUTTBRPAT IN 1924 



M lUinol* lUinola Ohio Co- lows WlKonsin 



Score Private Co-op- operative Co-op- Co-op- 



Batter CreMn ermtlve Cr««m erative ermtive 



Month Ciiicaco Stationii Creameries Clubs Creameries Cre*merleit 



Averages 



40.40 



42.09 



41.28 



45.60 



45.08 



Illinois private cream stations paid 

 during the same period. Unfortun- 

 ately, many Illinois communities 

 produce too little cream to support 

 a co-operative creamery, but the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association 

 has a remedy for this situation and 

 in such places can render service 

 by organizing a cream selling club. 

 Under, this plan no creamery is 

 needed. The farmers contract to 

 sell their cream through their own 

 elected representatives and in this 

 way are able to sell their com- 

 bined output to the highest bidder. 

 In this way farmers can get all the 

 market affords — and that's only 

 fair, isn't it? 



High Prices In Ohio 

 In Ohio, with the assistance of 

 the Farm Bureau, 88 cream selling 

 organizations of this kind were 

 funetioning in 1924 and in column 

 four you will see that the Buckeye 

 state farmers received an average 

 of five cents a pound more than Il- 

 linois farmers who sold to private 

 cream stations, and only three- 

 fourths of a cent less than the av- 

 erage net price of our Illinois co- 

 operative creameries. On first ap- 

 pearance, it seems that prices paid 

 by Illinois co-operative creameries 



opposing cattle trading dairy in- 

 terests in northern Illinois. Many 

 of these amendments are trivial, 

 but two, the committee reported, 

 are absolutely dangerous. One at- 

 tempts to define segregation of 

 stock and the other changes the 75 

 per cent clause to mean "herds 

 tested" rather than "herds signed." 



Under "segregation" comes the 

 point of requiring double line 

 fences, which the I. A. A. considers 

 as wholly impractical and should 

 not be -included in the bill. Such 

 a point should be covered either by 

 regulation or by court decisions. A 

 blanket law covering all segrega- 

 tion could very plainly be unfair to 

 individuals, since double line fences 

 are not necessary in many instances 

 for effective segregation. 



"We feel that both amendments 

 should come out," said Chairman 

 Barton. "If the House non-con- 

 curs in the Senate's amendments, 

 the bill will go to conference where 

 some changes may be made." 

 Record to Print Dope 



The committee also strongly rec- 

 ommended the publishing in tl^e 

 Recobo of a full agricultural votipg 

 record of every state senator and 

 representative. The motion by 

 Chairman Barton is as follows: 



"I. move that the information de- 

 partment be authorized by this as- 

 sociation to publish at the end of 

 each legislative session, and at such 

 other times as deemed advisable, 

 the voting record of all members of 

 the legislature on all legislation of 

 interest to our association." 



Membership in the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Co-operatives Association 

 now numbers 170. 



With a total of $179,82^.08, the 

 Illinois Farm Relief Fund now lacks 

 less than $100 of its desired quota 

 of $180,000. 



A male glee club of more than 40 

 memoers representing most of the 

 communities in the county has been 

 organised in Champaign county. 



their advantages in price averages. 

 The greater the volume of a cream- 

 ery, the less the overhead amounts 

 to on each pound of butterfat deliv- 

 ered by its patrons, and conse- 

 quently the greater the price re- 

 ceived for the butterfat. 



Write If You're Interestetl 



Cream selling organizations are 

 being formed in several localities 

 in Illinois this year. Others can be 

 formed where there is local de- 

 mand and where cream from at 

 least 500 producing cows can be 

 signed into one cream club. Farm- 

 ers who are interested should get 



RE-INSURANCE PLAN 

 TO BOLSTER LOCALS 



(Continued from page 1. col. J.> 

 county, (I. A. A. executive com- 

 mitteeman for the 12th district), 

 and all who are named above, ex- 

 cepting the 2nd vice-president, com- 

 prise the executive committee. In 

 addition to the above named, the 

 temporary board of directors con- 

 stitutes the following: Everett H. 

 Tripp, Belvidere. Boone county; I. 

 N. Hosford, Hamilton, Hancock 

 county; Otis Kercher, Vermilion 

 county farm adviser; Frank Troeck- 

 ler, Mitchell, Madison county and 

 H. A. Cress, Hillsboro, Montgomery 

 county. 



Vernon Vaniman will serve as 

 field organizer. He has directed the 

 field work for the 1. A. C. A., the 

 co-operative accounting and busi- 

 ness advisory service established 

 last year by the I. A. A. and which, 

 in less than a year, has grown to a 

 membership of 170 co-operatives 

 and other farmers' business organ- 

 izations. 



"X'an" Loaned by University 



With the auditing service now 

 growing largely of its own accord, 

 he will be able to devote practicatiy 

 fulli time to the re-insurance serv- 

 ice. It will be remembered that 

 Mr. Vaniman was "loaned" last 

 year to the I. A. A. by the College 

 of Agriculture where he had been 

 in the extension service as assistant 

 leader of farm advisers for the 

 .■state. His stay with the I. A. A. 

 is being extended so he can direct 

 the field work of the new re-insur- 

 ance company. 



Here is wh/it "Van" says about 

 it: 



"The Farmers' Mutual Re-insur- 



PHOSPHATE, UMElTONE 

 ARE GOOD INSUKANCE 

 AGAINST LONG DROUTH 



Observatioiu Over Wi^e Aremi 

 Show Weather Fav*r« Soil* 

 Which Are Well #ertilized 



bell er 



sAfegui rd 



The farmer has no 

 thail phosphate -and 

 their ability to 

 agaihst adverse condition i 

 ing to the 1. A. A. phosp 

 stone department, J. R 

 rector. 



"Weather conditions 

 are demonstrating the vii 

 tance of good soil fertiiil v 

 nance," says Mr. Bent 



"G. F. Tullock. execu 

 mitteeman for the I. A. A 

 12th congressional distric 

 into the phosphate-llmeit 

 partment office recent 

 spending much of the preip< 

 with the soil advisory 

 the University of Illinois, 

 he is a member, on an 

 trip through western 

 portions of Iowa. 



"Mr. Tullock stated 

 dence was very clear an( 

 ing as to the value of 

 limestone and phosphate 

 without excepUon, on 

 these two minerals have 

 wheat is coming tbrougl 

 condition. A very largi 

 age of fields of small 

 have not had such tr< 

 showing partial or oearl] 

 failure." 



friends 

 liiii|»tODe In 

 crops 

 accord - 

 late-lime- 

 Benl. di- 



thi t 



t^is season 

 1 impor- 

 mainte- 



ive com- 



from the 



. dropped 



one de- 



y, after 



ous week 



committee of 



of which 



nspection 



and 



III nois. 



the evi- 



convioc- 



use of 



Almost 



fields where 



>een used. 



in good 



precent- 



that 



nent are 



complete 



t le 



I rain 



Grain Marketing Activities 



Shaping Into 3 Main Channels 



^ 



GRAIN marketing activities of 

 the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation are shaping them- 

 selves into three principal chan- 

 nels, according to Chester C. Davis, 

 who has been directing the associa- 

 tion's grain marketing activities 

 since the first of April when he re- 

 tired as commissioner of stgricul- 

 ture for the stscie of Montana and 

 became affiliated with the I. A. A. 

 Wluit's Being 



Done 

 These divisions 

 are: (1), assist- 

 ing the Farmers' 

 Grain Dealers' 

 .Vssociation of Il- 

 linois in formu- 

 lating a market- 

 ing plan that will 

 be of all-around 

 service to grain 

 growers; (2). se- 

 curing a survey 

 of t h e farmers' 

 elevators of Illi- 

 nois by the Unit- 

 ed States Etepart- 

 ment of Agricul- 

 ture and the 

 Illinois Agricul- 

 tural experiment 

 station and ( 3 ) . 

 assisting south- 

 e r n Illinois 

 wheat growers in 

 counties along 

 the Wabash riv- 

 er s e-1 1 their 

 grain through 

 the Indiana 

 whtat pool. 



Mr. Davis out- 

 lin'*B the farm- 

 ers' elevator situation in a brief way: 

 "Over six hundred farmer-owned 

 grain elevators have been devel- 

 oped in Illinois in the evolution of 

 grain marketing from the era of 

 complete private merchandising 

 toward one in which farmer con- 

 trol of his product as it moves to 

 the consumer shall be the dominant 

 factor. Most of these farmers' 

 elevators grew up during the last 

 20 years in a successful attempt 

 to improve conditions in the local 

 grain market. Most of them are 

 in the surplus corn-producing area 

 of the state. There are fewer 

 Farmers' elevators in southern than 

 in northern Illinois, while the con- 



Eterj- blai-k dot Is a fanaerft* elevator — 

 Note liow few in E^pt. 



densation through the central and 

 north central districts is remark- 

 able. The number in the south- 

 eastern and extreme southern por- 

 tions of the state is relatively in- 

 significant. 



Next Step Developini; Now 

 "The next phase in the develop- 

 ment of co-operative grain market- 

 ing will be toward centralized farm- 

 er direction of the volume of grain 

 that moves from 

 surplus areas to 

 tlieicentf rs where 

 it is manufac- 

 t u r e d or pro- 

 cessed for sale to 

 the consumer. As 

 this develpps, less 

 grain will pass 



along the short- 

 est economic 

 path to the final 

 buyers of the raw 

 crop. 



"T h e accom- 

 P a n y i n g map 

 showing the dis- 

 tribution of the 

 six hundred-odd 

 farmers' eleva- 

 tors in Illinois 11- 

 lustrates the 

 ground for the 

 belief of the Il- 

 linois Agricul- 

 tural Association 

 that: (1), the 

 major grain mar- 

 keting program 

 for Illinois will develop upon the 

 farmers' elevators as a foundation ; 

 (2). the next logical step is to 

 Bring together in a directable chan- 

 nel, through a central co-operative 

 selling agency of the local farm- 

 ers' elevators, as large a part as 

 possible of the grain that is deliv- 

 ered to them: and (3), that such 

 a program would have little bear- 

 ing on the grain growers of south- 

 eastern Illinois where farmers' ele- 

 vators are few, and where co-oper- 

 ative grain marketing will depend 

 on organizing the individual pro- 

 ducers either in district or local 

 marketing associations." 



tal e 



ance Company is the nafie 

 proposed new company 

 put the local mutual fire 

 ning insurance compani 

 nois in a. position to 

 all the insurance needs of 

 er. It will not t>e necessi^; 

 farmer in the future to 

 old line company to 

 amount of insurance be 

 Snpplements 

 "The re-insurance com 

 ly supplements the activj 

 local company and does 

 into competition with it 

 tivities of the re-lnsur^nce 

 pany will depend on the 

 of it by the local compaky 



of the 



that will 



tnd light- 



of Illi- 



care of 



the farm- 



for the 



go to the 



the 



I esires. 



Local- (Xi mpany 



t an 



local company w^ be 

 ly. 



th ' 



hi'h 

 C( n 



e a 



r« 



n< rmal 



Imprc tsing 



the state company. 



"It frequently happeni 

 I local company may have 

 I losses, thus causing the 

 to be extra heavy w 

 members of the local 

 become dissatisfied, ev 

 the average losses over 

 years would be much 

 other insurance. The 

 company can agree to 

 the local for losses in 

 125 per cent of their 

 thus providing against 

 assessments and 

 members with the stability 

 tual insurance 

 Kelnsurance of Indiv 

 "Many local compai 

 limited the amount they 

 on separate risks. Thi > 

 practice. It frequently 

 makes it necessary for 

 to get the insurance 

 elsewhere. A plan, 

 insurance company will 

 the local company for 

 vidual risks in excess 

 amounts, would prevent 

 sessments by the local 

 in case of loss on large 

 local company in this 

 write the policy and ac 

 surance that should be 

 re-insure with the re 

 pany the amount that 

 company does not desire 



"According to the 

 ship company cannot 

 $10,000 on a single 

 county company cannot 

 over $20,000. The 

 company in this case 

 separate policy for the 

 the local company cann(|t 

 desires not to carry. 



Keeiis It In Farmers' 

 "The re-insurance coi i 

 merely supplement the 

 pany and put the local 

 tion to take care of all 

 of its members and provide 

 best mutual insuranc< 

 cheapest possible cost. 

 Vaniman. "It puts 

 companies on a basis w 

 can take care of the 

 members the same as 

 company can take care 

 clients' needs for insu 



that the 



excessive 



a48e8sments 



causes 



pany to 



though 



period of 



ess than 



insurance 



e-ini burse 



excess of 



loss, 



he heavy 



the 



of mu- 



y mere- 



ies of the 



not enter 



The ac- 



com- 



use made 



as the 



agent of 



vld^al Kisks 



ies have 

 will carry 

 is good 

 however, 

 farmer 

 desires 

 the re- 

 reimburse 

 on indi- 

 jf certain 

 heavy as- 

 companies 

 isks. The 

 would 

 of in- 

 c^rrled and 

 com- 

 the local 

 carry, 

 a town- 

 rite over 

 and a 

 write one 

 r4-iDsurance 

 write a 

 that 

 carry or 



I He 



, wher by 



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insu 'ance < 



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la'r 



rsk 



CI D 



ai lount 



Hands 



pany will 



ocal com- 



posi- 



the needs 



the very 



at the 



says Mr. 



mutual 



they 



of their 



old line 



all of iU 



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 nee Is 



