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The IllinoU A p^cultural AModation Record 



Jdy 18, 1925 



m ^ILLilNOIS 



Ae«JCttt.Tl]'«AL ASSOCIA1 



"=%^"^^R B C O R IT 



Published every other Saturday by the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation, COS S«uth Dearborn Street. Chicago, Illinois. Edited 

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



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Entered as secotad class matter Oct. 10, 1921, at ths post office 

 at Chicago. Illii^is. under the act of March S, 1S79. Acceptance 

 for mailing at special rates of postage provided for in Section 

 1103. Act of October 3. 1917. authorized Oct. 11, 1921. 



The individual membership f«« of the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 soclation is five dollars a year. The fee IncluOM payment of 

 fifty cents for Subscription to the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation Recokd. ^ 



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

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



~T~ OFFICERS 



■ '. President, S. H. Thompson, Qnlncy. 



Vlce>Fresldent, H. E. Uoembel, Hoonmle. 

 Treaearer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomlngton 

 Secretary, Geo. A. Pox, Sycamore. 



EXECUTIVE CO.MMITTEa} 

 By Congressional Districts 



William Webb, Route One, Jollet 



, G. F. Tullock, Rockford 



, C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



, W. H. Moody, Port Byron 



, B. H. Taylor, Rapatee 



A. R. Wright, Varna 



, F. D. Barton, Cornell 



R, F. Karr, Iroquola 



J. L. Whisnand, Charleston 



Earl C. Smith, Detroit 



Samuel Sorrel Is, Raymond 



Stanly Castle, Alton 



W. L. Cope, Salem 



Curt Anderson, Xenia 



> R. K. Loomis, Makanda 



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Directors of Departments, L A. A. Office 



Co-operative Aocounting Geo. R. Wicker 



Dairy Marketing ^ A. D. Lynch 



Finance , R. A. Cowles 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper 



General Office. i ;. J. H. Kelker 



Grain Marketing '. Chester C. Davis 



Information. ..4 Harry C. Butcher 



Legal Counsel, Donald Kirkpatrick 



Live Stock Maitketing Wm. E. Hedgcock 



Organization G. E. Metxger 



Phosphate-Limestone J. R. Bent 



Poultry and Egg Marketing F. A. Gougler 



Taxation and SUtistics J. C. Watson 



Transportation L. J. Quasey 



THE Record's PLATFORM 

 Advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau mu organized, 

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

 social and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the 

 nation, and to develop agriculture. 



Tha Grain Marketing Company 



MEMBERS of the Farm Bureau no doubt have been 

 jftt^ informed as to the announced dissolution of 

 the Grain Marketing Company by July 28. The public 

 press has thnfiwn the news to the four winds, and un- 

 fortunately fir true co-operative marketing, the whole 

 attempt and flailure has been hooked up as "a failure of 

 a farmers' cot-operative." 



Farmer* wHo have followed the developments will re- 

 member that jwhen the world was first informed of the 

 organization of the Grain Jlarketing Company, the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association adopted an attitude of 

 open-mindednpss and so informed the members and the 

 public throng li the Record and statements in press. 



In order to advise the members, an investigation was 

 started which resulted in a vigorous disapproval by the 

 I. A. A. Chief among the factors contributing to the 

 disapproval vas the fact that, althougk officials of the 

 Grain Marketing Company had promised the I. A. A. 

 access to independent auditors' reports on the amount 

 and kind of lousiness done by each of the four merged 

 companies foi^ each of the past five years, no such rec- 

 ords were forthcoming, and were never made available. 

 A careful survey of the vendor companies' books would 

 have given thi I. A. A. the facts which any banker would 



Thfte Headlines from I. A. A. Record Tell History (Read from 1 to IS) 



iMOcd Everr OUmt S«tivtl*7, July 19, 1924 



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I. A. A. Awaits Detailed Proposal on GrainMerger 



STAND URGED tHAT 

 ^ FARM ORGANIZATIONS 

 Qj RETAIN OPEN MINDS 



iBcerpofvled To TaIm C^«r 



FWc Elevator Compaaioat 



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COVERDALE, SltVER 

 TAKE GRAIN JOBS; 

 A.F.B.F. Olt'S DEAL 



pTMident Tkotnpaoa Agwast 



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POSITION TAKEN ON 

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INVESTIGATION ENDS 

 ,-rxIN REPORT AGAINST 

 (O) BIG GRAIN MERGER 



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Commerce Commistion 



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 I.A.A. on Grain Merger 



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demand before giving advice to his clients or lending his 

 financial support to any proposition. 



This led to a formal resolution of warning passed by 

 the I. A. A. executive committee on Jan. 9, 1925. It 

 stated in part "that we disapprove the grain market- 

 ing plan of the Grain Marketing Company and advise 

 the members of this association against purchasing stock 

 of the company either as an investment or for the pur- 

 pose of supporting the company's program of marketing 

 grain." The whole history, as far as the I. A. A. is con- 

 cerned, can be reviewed quickly by following in 1, 2, 3 

 ordier the above reproduction of headlines of stories 

 which have appeared about the merger in the Record. 



Depends on How You Read It 



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'HIS is the first time in the history of the state farm 

 bureau that the record has been made available to 

 farm bureau members," stated a news story released by the 

 I. A. A. information department not long ago. 

 • Maybe it was like the Dutchman — should be taken for 

 what it means and not so much for what it may be inter- 

 preted as saying. It was written to mean that this was the 

 first time in the history of the state farm bureau that the 

 organization itself had made the legislators' record avail- 

 able to farm bureau members. And this is true. 



Prairie Farmer published the records of the 1919, 1921 

 and 192 3 legislatures and in doing so performed a real, con- 

 structive service to Illinois farmers. But this is the first 

 time the record has been published by the farmers them- 

 selves, thus applying it to their own legislative program. 



JOHN THINKER AND EPIDERMIS FLINT. 



(John's a Loyal Farm Bureau Manber. Epidermis U "Agin** It!) 



Ep Changes His Mind 



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