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Utued Every Other Saturday for 63,000 thinking Farmer*. August 1, 1925. 



No. 15 



I« J. (liui«*7 



1 OVER 100 PER CENT 

 [ MORE CLAIM MONEY 

 I GARNERED THIS YEAR 



Getting Money For Bad Claims 

 b Conspicuoui, But Biggest 

 Service b Watching Rates 



GOT any bad claims you'd like 

 to get settled? If you 

 haven't, you're lucky, tor lots 

 of people haye them. Many of 

 them who have 

 had claims set- 

 tled through the 

 Illinois Agricul- 

 t u r a I Associa- 

 tion's transporta- 

 tion department 

 say they're not 

 so bad after all 

 when there's 

 somebody on the 

 job who knows 

 how to get the 

 money. 

 Proof that the I. A. A. has been 

 "bringing home the bacon" In its 

 claim collection service as rendered 

 by the transportation department 

 is shown In figures presented here- 

 with Indicating claims collected 

 during the six months from Dec. 1, 

 1924, to July 1. 1925. During this 

 period, a total of $10,765.14 was col- 

 lected. This is over 100 per cent 

 more than was collected during the 

 same period a year ago, and last 

 year's claim collections were the 

 greatest up to that time. 



More People Getting Service 



"This increase does not indicate 

 more errors or more losses on the 

 part of the railroads or shippers," 

 says L. J. Quasey, director of the 

 department. "The reason for the 

 increase is that our members are 

 taking more advantage of this par- 

 ticular service of the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association. Farm bureau 

 members are becoming more ac- 

 customed to the transportation 

 service we can render and we feel 

 that this service is materially in- 

 creased from year to year." 



"Lee" didn't mention that this is 

 one of the lesser services of his de- 

 partment. Being on the Job to pro- 

 test against increases in freight 

 rates and to be inquisitive about 

 new schedules of rates when they 

 are issued is one of the most impor- 

 tant services rendered by the whole 

 association, but it's rather intangi- 

 ble and not as easy to see as the 

 collection of claims. 



Look over this list and see bow 

 your county Is faring: 



PACKllMIN 



Thursday, Au^C^y 



Wm.MJARDINE. Secretary 

 of Agriculture, SPEAKING 



USUAL A\D UNUSUAL FEATURES' 



I.A.A.PICNIC 



NATION'S FARM BUREAUS MOBIUZING FOR 

 HGHT AGAINST 11 PER CENT FREIGHT RATI 

 INCREASE REQUESTED BY WESTERN RAILROADS 



If Increase is Effected, It Will Cost Farmers of Illinois From 

 Three to Three-and-a-Quarter Million Dollars More in Freight 

 Each Year, I. A. A. Transportation Department Fftimfittf 



THE fighting force of the natiou's farm bureaus will Xnt ;hrown 

 into the battle of the organized fanners against the i restem 

 railroiads' petition for an 11 per cent increase in freight rates. 



This became known when the American Farm Bureau Fed iration 

 announced national opposition following the conference of > idwest 

 state farm bureau presidents and secretaries in Chicago the middle 

 of July. At this meeting a resolution was passed urging n itional 

 action and basing the opposition to the increase upon the \ remise 

 that farmers are not financially able to stand an advance. .♦ 



The proposed increase, if effected, would cost Illinois farme «, tid- 

 ing the state as a whole, from three to three-and-one-quarter nillion 

 dollars a year, according to an estimate made by L. J. Quasey direc- 

 tor of the I. A. A. transportation department. 

 22 Sutes Affected 

 Twenty-one other states affected are : Wisconsin, Minnesota Iowa, 

 Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota. Missouri, Kansas. Okl khoma, 



Colorado, Wyoming. Idaho,| Utah. 



ILLINOIS 



L .\SSOClATIOP^ 

 FAUMKB-S 



I. A. A. REPORT SHOWS 

 STATE'S DAIRY INCOME 

 $165 A MINUTE IN 1924 



POSTAL ECONOMY IS 

 DEMANDED BY A.F.B.F. 

 TO KEEP RATES DOWN 



Total Dairy Income Was $84,- I Farm Bureau's Washington Rep- 

 000,000; Co-operatives Han- 1 resentative Says Postal Service 

 died 21.4 Per Cent, Increasing Needs Application of Admin- 

 Return $6 to $15 Per Cow istration's Economy, Program 



"The dairymen of Illinois took in 

 $165 each minute during 1924," flnds 

 A. D. Lynch, dairy marketing direc- 

 tor, in a report of dairy statistics 

 recently completed in his depart- 

 ment. 



"Thi farm value of Illinois dairy 

 products last year was tS4,000,000," 

 he reports. "Farmer-owned dairy 

 associations marketed 21.4 per cent 

 of this amount in the form of fluid 

 milk, butter fat and cheese. So the 

 cooperative dairy business in Illi- 

 nois had an $18,000,000 turnover. 



"The dairy farmers marketed co- 

 operatively 26.5 per cent of the fluid 

 milk and cream; 13 per cent of the 

 butter fat; and 75 per cent of the 

 cheese made in Illinois. 



"There are over 150 farmer-con- 

 trolled dairy marketing associations 

 in Illinois. Some of those do not 

 market in a commercial fashion, but 

 serve as collective bargaining insti- 

 tutions and deal with existing pri- 

 vate owned companies. The dairy- 

 men are not anxious to Invest money 

 in plants and facilities if present 

 business concerns are able to render 

 the service. Among the bargaining 

 associations are 6 which sell butter 

 fat and 15 which merchandise fluid 

 milk. The state has 9 co-operative 

 creameries, 4 retail milk plants, 1 

 co-operative centrallzer and over 100 

 local cheese factories. 



"The Farm Bureaus with the help 

 of the I. A. A. assist dairjmien !• 



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Spokesmen for the farmers of 

 America demanded on July £2, in 

 statements to a Congressional in- 

 vestigating committee, that the pos- 

 tal service be put on a solid financial 

 basis by economy rather than by 

 the imposition of additional burdens 

 upon the farmer, such as the rate 

 Increases voted at the last session 

 and others under consideratioa. 



E. B. Reid, acting Washington 

 representative of the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation, declared it ridic- 

 ulous to "fight and snarl over a 

 penny or half penny increate in 

 rates" when application of the Pres- 

 ident's economy program would re- 

 lieve the situation. He advocated 

 pruning of personnel and operating 

 expenses in all post offices, charging 

 to the respective government de- 

 partment the 17,000,000 it costs every 

 year to handle franked mail, reor- 

 ganization of the rural delivery 

 service, and reduction of mall de- 

 liveries in the residential sections 

 of cities. 



studying their marketing problems 

 and to find the right solution. New 

 dairy associations are being formed 

 constantly and sales thru co-operative 

 organizations should increase in 1925 

 approximately 10% over 1924. Farm- 

 ers have found their co-operative 

 marketing efforts worih while be- 

 cause the return per cow Is increased 

 trom $6 to $15 per year." 



"First Come, First 

 Served," is Sales 



Order on Tractors 



FOR sale:— The Illinois Farm 

 Relief Committee offers for 

 cash, subject to prior sale, the 

 following power farm equip- 

 ment: 



2 I0.2* MrCOHMICK-DEfi:RI>'<i 



TRACTORH 

 a— ENGINE GANG PVOKK 

 2 — TRACTOR DISK 



HARROW!! SI.flM 



<Or omr of Bbeve Trnptam wKh 

 plow and 4Uk at SHOO. I 

 2 — F^HDSOX TRACTORX 

 2 — ENGINE GANG 



PLOWS »S«N» 



(Or onr of above Pordaoa trar- 

 tora witk plow at *«M.> 



The first lot of equipment may 

 be seen at Benton, and the sec- 

 ond lot of equipment may be 

 seen at Carmi, Illinois, by ap- 

 plying to the respective Farm 

 Bureaus. 



This equipment was used in 

 the tornado area, purchased 

 new, and for all practical pur- 

 poses is as good as new. 



Orders accompanied by bank 

 draft or certified check to cover 

 full purchase price will be en- 

 tered in their order as received 

 by us. The purchaser will be 

 given the privilege of immedi- 

 ate examination of this equip- 

 ment and its acceptance or re- 

 fusal will be entirely at the op- 

 tion of the purchaser. — Address: 

 — R. A. Cowles. Chairman of the 

 Committee, c/o Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association. 608 South 

 Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. 



Says Charter Members 

 of New Reinsurance Co. 

 Will Be Proud Some Day 



"Everj- friend of mutual insur- 

 ance should inform himself as to 

 the merits of the Farmers' Mutual 

 Reinsurance Company and should 

 assist in getting the charter for the 

 new company," states Vernon Vani- 

 man, field representative for the 

 newly organized company. 



"Every mutual Insurance com- 

 pany in the state, I believe, will be 

 proud to have had a part in secur- 

 ing the charter for the reinsurance 

 company. It is necessary to get 

 $500,000 of direct policies to get 

 the charter. With 240 companies 

 in the state, and each company as- 

 sisting to the extent of $5,000, we 

 would soon reach our goal and get 

 our charter." 



"The reinsurance company will 

 operate on a mutual basis. We do 

 not have a mutual assessment law 

 in this state under which we could 

 organize, so we had to organize un- 

 der the uniform mutual law. This 

 company will operate the same, 

 however, Us the local assessment 

 company only the premium will l>e 

 paid in advance." 



Oregon, Washington. Californ a. New 

 Mexico. Arizona. Texas. A. kansas 

 and Montana. Approximate y 600.- 

 000 farm families in the stafies are 

 members of the Farm Bure 



An estimate by O. W. Salidberg. 

 transponation director of th< Amer- 

 ican Farm Bureau Federatio i. esti- 

 mates that "this proposed i icrease 

 would add some $180,000,000 to the 

 annual freight bill paid in these 

 states. Of this amount, betv een S5 

 ind 90 million would l>e paid ( irectly 

 by farmers in shipping theii prod- 

 ucts to market. And another large 

 portion of it would be paid bt farm- 

 ers in the price they pay for tarions 

 shipped in' commodities." 

 Means $l« A Car 



Some magnitude of the freii :ht bill 

 paid by tbe farmers in thsse 22 

 states was made evident I y Mr. 

 Sandberg. when he said : " [hiring 

 the first three months of th s year 

 there were shipped in this terri- 

 tory 1,700,041 carloads of igricul- 

 tural prodace. 



"If the proposed increase ha il been 

 in effect western and midi estem 

 farmers would have paid an c verage 

 of about $16 more freight o i each 

 of the 1,007,041 cars " 



Some of the Items making ip this 

 total for tbe first three moi ths as 

 given by Mr. Sandberg were; wheat. 

 85,780 cars; corn. 76.786 cars; 

 hogs, 143,929 cars; potatoe i. 34,- 

 059 cars; cattle and calves. 1 i4.527 

 cars; oats, 38.372 cars, and so on. 

 First Hearing September 1 



Hearings will t>egin in Chicigo on 

 September 1 before the Int srstate 

 Commerce Commission, but 1 1 that 

 time only the carriers' side ' rill be 

 presented. It Is thought that a con- 

 tinuance will be set to give oppos- 

 ing shippers, as typified by tl e Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association, an ok>- 

 portunity to file a rebuttal. 



Mobilization of the entire st ength 

 and resources of the Farm 1 lureau 

 in 22 states is under way 1 y the 

 American Farm Bureau Fede -atlon. 

 Plans for action in states wh( re the 

 Farm Bureaus ,do not have >erma- 

 nent transportation departmen a, call 

 for state committees to een tralize 

 the fight, and these are to co-op- 

 erate with a regional commii tee. 



These committees which ai t now 

 being formed are starting a once 

 building an organized opposil Ion to 

 the rate increase proposal. A meet- 

 ing of farm bureau represen atives 

 from Arizona. California, Co orado, 

 Idaho, Montana. Nevada, Nei Mex- 

 ico. Oregon. Washington, Wj oming 

 and Utah has been called In Colo- 

 rado to begin July 27. 

 "Sun" Promtfiew K^ll ro-ap< ration 



"I want to say that we are h »rtlly 

 in accord with tbe position taj en by 

 the American Farm Bureau I edera- 

 tion in opposing the 11 pe ' cent 

 freight rate increase," states Presi- 

 dent Sam H. Thompson, "a k1 we 

 will co-operate In every way pisslble 

 so that the facts regarding the abil- 

 (Conttnued on pare 4, col. I.) 



