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The DKiiOM Afficultural Ai»ocMition Record 



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 "WE WANT TO GO TO THE COUNTRY," CRY POOR CITY KIDDIES V 



June 20, 192S 



100 Farmers Join Soft 



Wheat Pool In Southern 



Illinois In First Week 



One hundred farmers who grow 

 soft wheat in Wabash, Gallatin and 

 White counties joined the soft 

 wheat growers' marketing associa- 

 tion during the first week of organ- 



Hzatioa effort, according to Chester 

 C. Davis, director of grain market- 

 ing, who looks upon this number 

 as exceedingly encouraging and in- 

 dicative of no evidences of "over 

 selling." 



"The way was paved during this 



■ week for future organization work 

 in these three counties," Mr. Davis 

 sayS) "and also in Edwards and 

 Lawrence counties. Organization 

 will continue up to threshing 

 time." 



The organization work is directed 

 by the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion with the county Farm Bureaus 

 co-operating.' 



Five-year contracts are written 

 with the Indiana Wheat Growers' 

 Association as the sales agency for 

 the soft wheat pool, with the un- 

 derstanding that before next season 

 necessary changes will be made to 

 place this association on a district 

 basis, including the southern Illi- 

 nois soft wheat territory. 



Hanext Is Ettrly 



"Jlot, dry weather advanced 

 harvest fully a week earlier than 

 expected In south-eastern Illinois, 

 consequently the organization cam- 

 paign and wheat cutting came on 

 the farmers at the same time," says 

 Mr. Davis. "Interest is keen, and 

 uniform success is reported by the 

 two organization crews at work in 

 the territory under direction of M. 

 L. Hunt of Macomb and H. E. iic- 

 Carrel of Nebo, with Mr. Hunt rep- 

 resenting the grain marketing ad- 

 visory committee, of which he is a 

 member." 



After preliminary negotiations 

 between the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association and the Indiana Wheat 

 Growers' Association had cleared 

 the way, and after Mr. Hunt and 

 Mr. McCarrel had thoroughly famil- 

 iarized themselves with the first 

 season's operations of the Indiana 

 Wheat Growers' association at In- 

 dianapolis, a meeting at Carmi, 

 White county, on Monday, June S, 

 brought together the Illinois organ- 

 ization workers. The field start 

 was made the day following. Be- 

 cause of harvest, some difficulty was 

 encountered in securing drivers. 



Farm Bureau Members Invited To 



Offer Outings Again This Season 



" fTEY, Spud, I'm goin' to th' country f'r sure. Th' lady said so! 

 f~| Gee! Say, you goln'?" 



"I — I dunno. Say, I don't care — much. She — she said there 

 wasn't any more people wanted us, so maybe I couldn't go — but — but I 

 don't care — much. I guess I kin have just as much — fun — here — ". 



Have you seen them — the little children of the city slums? Hemmed 

 in by dingy walls, their little rights ignored in the rush of a vast indus- 

 trial community, they carry on the age-old games of childhood in lit- 

 tered alleys or streets made perilous by motor cars and trucks. In their 

 eyes, behind the eagerness that even the city cannot crush ttom youth, 

 there is something wistful; something the more pitiful because many 

 of the children themselves do not know the heritage of 'Which they 

 have been robbed — the freedom of 



Outing Secretary, 



Illinois Agricultural Association, 



Chicago, Illinois. 



We have organized a group of » hosts in this 



neigbborhood who will be glad to entertain 



Cbica|go poor children for two weeks beginning 



J Following are the names of hosts, nura- 



Very Few Farmers' Jdlevaturs 



The Wabash valley counties at 

 which organization work is directed 

 this season, are, with a few local 

 exceptions, without farmers' ele- 

 vators or other co-operative grain 

 marketing agencies. The object of 

 this summer's campaign is to give 

 the grain producers an opportunity 

 to market their 1925 crop of soft 

 wheat collectively and with a suc- 

 cessfully operating farmer's agency. 



Contracts with local mills and 

 elevators to handle the 1925 wheat 

 tor Tnembers, are beings signed as 

 the sign-up of farmers proceeds in 

 the Illinois territory. 



It is Understood that United Charities of Chicago assumes the 

 liability in the case of accident or illness to any of th« chil- 

 dren sent to us; however, we pledge to exercise proper pre- 

 cautions in the care and treatment of these children. 



We Will meet the children at .\ or 



Railway Station 



(Please name at least one optional Railway Statlon|) 

 Rem4rks: 



Nam<f of Host Chairman 



i Post Office 



Rural Route No Telephone No.. 



Qu^wy Dairymen Beat 



Xheir Time On Pledge To 

 Deliver T. B.-Free Milk 



Members of the Quincy Co-opera- 

 tive ' Milk Producers' Association 

 blaz«d a trail heretofore untravelled 

 by Illinois co-ops or commercial 

 market milk handlers when, on Feb. 

 9, lt25, they passed a resolution to 

 receive no milk after July 1 of this 

 year] from herds not accredited or 

 on tpe way to accreditation. 



'With July 1 as a starting time, 

 theyl have jumped their guns by 

 sevet-al months, according to A. D. 

 'Lyn«h, dairy marketing director, 

 for within 30 days after passage 

 of the self-imposed high-quality 

 standard, the co-op was selling 

 nothing but t. b. tested milk to its 

 patrons. 



"The consuming public of Quincy 

 was pleased with the efforts of the 

 co-op." states Mr. Lynch. "This was 

 fully demonstrated by a gain of 10 

 per j cent in the co-op's business 

 wltnin three months." 



of meadow grass after a summer 

 shower, and all of the thousand and 

 one delights that even the poorest 

 country child accepts as bis natural 

 right. 



It is worst in the summer time 

 when an unfriendly sun (strange — 

 how friendly the sun can be in the 

 country) beats mercilessly onto 

 treeless streets; when the heat 

 creeps stiflingly into that land of 

 cement, brick, narrow stairways 

 and stuffy, over-crowded rooms. 

 Milk sours (not everyone can af- 

 ford ice), the heat aggravates the 

 tenement odors almost unbearably, 

 and tired mothers' nerves are 

 strained to the breaking point. 



Then — well, imagine yourself a 

 child again and think how you 

 would feel If someone gave you a 

 free ticket to fairyland. That is 

 just what two weeks in the country 

 is. to these poor little heat-torment- 

 ed urchins. How they look for- 

 ward to that outing, and how they 

 remember it all the year long — If 

 they get to go. And the bitterness 

 of the disappointment it they are 

 told that there is no place for them! 



Every farmer family living with- 

 in 200 miles of Chicago can be the 

 "fairy god-parents" of some little 

 slum child. It takes such a little 



deliver the whole group to any 

 place within the 200-mile radius. 

 The outing season begins with the 

 close of the city schools. June 26. 

 The farmers who open their 

 homes to these unfortunate chil- 

 dren enjoy the "outings." too. The 

 United Charities report that many 

 families write back year after year, 

 requesting the same children they 

 have had before — which speaks 

 well for the children. 



Last summer, Mr. A. Mailloux of 

 St. Anne in Kankakee county found 

 enough people in his community to 

 take 28 youngsters. He said that 

 all he had to do was telephone and 

 see some of his neighbors, and it 

 wasn't long until he had the "or- 

 ders." 



If you can take one or more of 

 these little slum children into your 

 home for two weeks this summer, 

 for just that brief taste of the joys 

 of country life, and if you have 

 neighbors whom you can interest 

 also, won't you fill in the blank pro- 

 vided at the l.eft and return It to 

 our Outing Secretary? This summer 

 the Record will print tb»? name of 

 each family that co-oper ;s in this 

 great humanitarian an^. christian 

 work. 



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