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The lllinttii Agricultural Astociation Record 



June 20, 1925 



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



100 Farkiers Join Soft 



If heat Pool in Southern 

 iilinois In First tleek^ 



One hu 

 soft wheal 

 White 

 wheat s 

 tion duri 

 izatioti I'tf 

 C. Davis. 



Jilt;, who 

 s fxc**fdi 

 dicativ 

 ^t-Ilinti." 



"The V 

 v^i-vk for 



idred farmers who grow 

 in Wabash. Gallatin and 

 nties joined the soft 

 ers* marketing associa- 

 the first week of organ- 

 [)rt. according to Chester 

 lirector of grain market- 

 looks upon this number 

 ugly encouraging and in- 

 no evidences of "over 



cou 

 rcw 



n? 



or 



in these t 

 says, "an 

 Lawrenct 

 will con 

 time. " 



The o 

 by the III 

 tion with 

 co-opf rati 



Kive-ye; 

 with th»- 

 Assuciati 

 the soft 

 derstandi 

 necessary 

 place this 

 basis, inc 

 nois soft 



ly was paved durint: tlws 



future organization work 



ree counties," Mr. Davis 



also in £dwards and 



counties. Organizatii'ii 



Qinue' up to threshiiii: 



'Hot. 



expected 



paign and 



between 



Farm Bureau Members Invited To 



Offer Outings Again This Season 



HEY. Spud. Ini Koin' m th' countrj f'r surf. Th' lady said so! 

 (Iff! Say. you ^oin'?" 



■I 1 dunno. Say. I don't care — iiiucli. She - sh« said there 

 Kasn I any more iieoiile wantfd us, so maybe 1 couldn't go — but — but 

 d'ln't care much. I «Ufss 1 kin have just as much tun here". 



Ha\f ,\(>u sfeii" theni - -tlif little children of the city slums'' Heninied 

 in by diiiwy walls, their little riKbts ij;nored in the lUsh of a vast Indus 

 trial conim,unit.\ . tln*y carr.\- on the a^e-old sanies of childhood in lit- 

 tered allf.\s i»r streets made perilous by motor cars and trucks. In their 

 e.\es. behind tlu* ea.uerness that ^'\*-n the city cannot crush from youth, 

 therf is someihins wistful; something the more pitiful becayse many 

 of tile children themselves da not know the heritage of which they 



nization work is directed 

 itiois .\f;ricultural Associa- 

 ;he county Farm Bureaus 

 s. 



r contracts are written 

 Indiana Wheat Growers' 

 0:1 as the sales agency for 

 .•heat pool, with the un- 

 rg tliat before next season 

 changes will be made to 

 association on a district 

 uding the southern Jill 

 wh»*at territory. 



Harvest Is I'^i-lv 



dry weatlier advancetl 



harvest fully a week earlier than 



n south-eastern Illinois. 



cousequenUy the organization cam- 



wheat cutting cante on 



the farnie s at the same time. " says 

 .Mr. Davis, "Interest is keen, and 

 uniform s access is reported by the 

 two organization crews at work in 

 the terntciry under direction of .\I 

 I.. Hunt c( .Macomb and H. E. .\lc 

 'Carrel of S'ebo, with Mr. Hunt rep 

 resentiitg the grain marketing ad 

 visory committee, of which he is a 

 ^ieiuber." 



After breliniinar.\ negotiations 



he Illinois .\gricultural 



.\3soeiatipi and the Indiana Wheat 

 Growers' Association bad clfared 

 the way. and after Mr. HiAit and 

 Mr. McCairel had thoroughly famil- 

 iarized tl emselves with the first 

 season's operations of tlie Indiana 

 Wheat (Jrtiwers association at In- 

 dianapolis a meeting at Carmi. 

 White coiJnty. on .Monday. June S. 

 brought together the Illinois organ- 

 ization w|)rkers ;Pfie Held start 

 was made the day f(>llowing Be- 

 cause of hbrvest, some ditTiculty was 

 encountered in- secuijing drivers. 



Uuti 

 llli 



II S 



Secretary, 



.Agricultural .-Vssociation. 

 Chicalgu. Illiuoi!!. 



We have organized a group of 



Uflghbortiood who will be glad to entertain.. 



Chicako poor children for two weeks beginning 



Following arf tlie names of hosts, nnm- 



.XlJiith aiKl I>ut>- ' 



ber aid description of children wanted by each liost: ■' 



\>r.v l''t*\v KHi'iiiers' t^^lcvafoi-K 



The Wabash \ alley Counties at 

 which organization work is directed 

 this sea.son. are. with a lew local 

 e,\ceptions. without farmers' ele- 

 vators or other co-operativ<- grain 

 marketing agencies. The object of 

 this summer's cami)aign is to give 

 the grain producers an opportunity 

 to market their i;i2r, crop of soft 

 wheat collectively and with a sue 

 cessfully operating farmer's agency. 



Contracts with local mills and 

 elevators to handle the l>i25 wheat 

 for members, are being signed as 

 the sign-up of farmers proieeds in 

 the Illinois territory. 



1H2 



hosts iji this 



It is imderstood that I'nited Chanties of (.'hicago assumes the 

 liability in the ease of accident or illness to an.\ of ttie chil- 

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

 eauticns in the care and treatment of these children. 



We \Mill meet tli^ children at or 



Kuiivvay Stuliun 



Keiuarks 



Name 

 Most 



liuial 



(t'lease nam*- at 1*-Hsl oltr uptiuiiul llailway Station) 



J 



.J- 



of Hlust Cliairm>in 



Office 



KuUte No -: 



.Telephone No.. 



^>, 



.M 



live 

 blaz< 

 by 

 mar 



!•■ r 



rece 

 year 

 on t 

 W 

 they 

 seve 

 Lyn 

 for 

 of 



Stan 

 not 

 pat 



was 



co-o 



fullj 



per 



witl 



!(•> Itairymfti Real 

 lii'ir Time On I'lodfic I'd 

 Dclin-r r. K.-h'n-i' Mill, 



•mbers of the Ciuiiic,\ Co-opi-ra- 

 .Milk l*roducfrs' .Vssociation 

 d a trail heretofore untravelled 

 tlinois co-ops or commercial 

 et milk handlers when, on Feb. 

 25. they passed a resolution to 

 ve no milk after July 1 of this 

 from herds not accredited or 

 e way to accreditation. 

 Itb July 1 as a starting lime, 

 have jumped their guns by 

 :al months, according to .\. D. 

 h. dairy marketing director, 

 ftithin 3U days after passage 

 he self-imposed higli-quality 

 lard, the co-op was selling 

 ng but t. b. tested milk to its 

 ns. 



consuming public of Quincy 



pleased with the etTorts of the 



" states Mr. Lynch. "This was 



demonstrated by a gain of lU 



cent in the co-op's 



three months." 



"hi 



business 



of meadow grass after a summer 

 shower, and all of the thousand and 

 one delights that even tile pooffst 

 country child accepts as bis natural 

 right. 



It is worst in the summer lime 

 when an unfriendly sun (stralipe -- 

 how friendly the sun can be in the 

 country t beats mercilessly onto 

 treeless streets; when tile heat 

 creeps stitlingly into that land of 

 cement, brick, narrow stairways 

 and stuffy, over-crowded riioms. 

 .Milk sours (not everyone can af- 

 ford ice), the heat aggravatea the 

 tenement odors almost unbearably, 

 and tired mothers' nervfs are 

 strained to the breaking point. 



Then — well, imagine yourself a 

 child again and think how you 

 would feel if someone ga\e you a 

 free ticket to fairylaiid. That is 

 just wh'at two weeks in the country 

 is to these poor little heat-torment- 

 ed urchins. How they look for- 

 ward to that outing, and bow they 

 remember it all the year long — if 

 they get to go. .\nd the bitterness 

 of the disappointment if they are 

 told that there is no place for them! 



Every farmer family living with- 

 in 20U 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 2uu-iiiile radius. 

 Thf outing sc ason begins with the 

 close of the city schools, June 2t>. 



The farnifis who o1<en their 

 honifs to tlifse unfortunat*; chil- 

 difu .hjuy the "outings," too. The 

 Inited Charitifs ifport that many 

 families writf back year after year, 

 reciufsting the same children they 

 have had before - - which speaks 

 ; wfll for tile children. 



I Last summer. .Mr. .\. -Mailloux of 

 ^ St. .\nne in Kankakee county found 

 enough people in his community to 

 take 2S youngsters. He said that 

 ^11 lif bail to do was teleplione and 

 See some of his iifiglibors. and it 

 wasn't long until he had thf "or- 

 df rs." 



If you can take one or more of 

 these little slum childifii into your 

 home for two weeks this summer, 

 for just that brief taste of the joys 

 ' of country life, and if .vjou have 

 . neighbors whom you can interest 

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

 vided at the left and return it to 

 . our Outing Secretary'.* Tills summer 

 I the llEcoKii will print tL^' name of 

 j each family that cooper s in this 

 great humanitarian an, cliristian 

 1 work. 



