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The niiaob Agricultural AMociation Record 



Awgurt 1, 1925 



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CVLiTUBAL ASSOCIA 



RECORD' 



PATIENTLY PICKING PA'S PANTS 



PnbllalKd MrarT other Saturday br th« nilnola Acrtonltural Aa- 

 soclatlon, <DI South Dearborn Street, Chlcaco, ininola. Bdlted 

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



Entered aa aecond class matter Oct. 10. 1921, at the post office 

 at Chlcagro. Illinois, under the act of March i. 1879. Acceptance 

 for mallins at special rates of postage provided for In Section 

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



The IndlTldual membership fee of the Illlnola Acrlcultural As- 

 sociation la fire dollars a year. The fee includes payment of 

 flfty cents for subscription to the Illinois Agricultural Aaao- 

 clatlon RacesD. *_ 



Postmaster; In returning an uncalled-for or missent copy, 

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



I OmCEES 



president, S. H. Thompson, Qalncy. 

 I' Vice-President, H. E. Goembel, Hooppole. 

 << Treasnrer, R. A. Cowlea, Bloomington 

 Secretary, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore. 



EXECUTTVE OOMMITTEE 

 By Congressional Districts 



William Webb, Route One, Jollet 



Q. 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, Iroquois 



J. L. Whianand, Charleston 



Earl C. Smith, Detroit 



Samuel Serralts, Raymond 



Stanly Castle, Alton 



. < W. I~ Cope, Salem 



Curt Anderson, Xenia 



R, K. Loomis, Makanda 



1st to 11th 



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 15th....... 



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24th 



2Sth 



Directors of Departments, I. A. A. Oflica 



Co-operative Accounting Qeo. R. Wicker 



Dairy Marketing j A D. Lynch 



Finance ..v...R. A. Cowries 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper 



General Office J. H. Kelker 



Grain Marketing 1 Chester C. Davis 



Information Harry C Buteher 



Legal Counsel Donald Klrfcpatrlek 



Live Stock Marketing •., Wm. E. Hedgoock 



Organization a E. Metzger 



_Piiosphate-Ltmestone J. R. Bent 



Poultry and Egg Marketing F. A. Oougler 



Taxation and Statistics J. 0. Wataon 



Transportation L. J. Quasey 



THE RicoM)'i PLATFORM 

 Advnncm tha purpose for which the Farm Bureau Wat organized, 

 ttamely, te promote, protect and represent the business, economic, 

 social and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the 

 nation, and ta develop agriculture. 



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Support the Producer* 



EAD i the reports of the three Illinois Producer 

 agencies in this issue. Here is a suceessful venture 

 in co-operative marketing that deserves your loyal sup- 

 port. In fact, it is no longer a venture, it's an estab- 

 lished institution that is doing busines.s of farmers, by 

 ; farmers apd for farmers. Give the Producers your busi- 

 ness, andjif j'ou haven't business for them, give 'em a 

 ;' go6d™word. The start made toward control is especially 

 4 encouraging. . 



SuccetM to You! 



THE dairymen in Peoria, Tazewell and Woodford 

 couiities who produce milk for the families in Pe- 

 oria have organized a producers marketing association. 



Among I the laudable things they have set out to ac- 

 complish ire : Penalize the dairj-man who makes a sur 

 plus, prepiiumize the dairyman who produces uni- 

 formly, sqll their milk in two packages — fluid and sur- 

 plus — for! the best the market affords, join hands with 

 the deale^ in giving Peoria families good milk at a fair 

 price — and with a smile. 



Expretion* are Invited 



IN the next issue we will print letters from farm bu- 

 reau members pertaining to the proposed freight 

 rate increase. Members who wish to express themselves 

 on this subject are invited to do so, and as many letters 

 will be permitted as space will permit. Some letters 

 have already been received on this subject. Some of 

 them need asbestos envelopes. 



A Perplexing Problent 



HOW to measure correctly the quality of the voice 

 of a hog or chicken caller was a perplexing prob- 

 lem confronting the committee for the state picnic of 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association which is to be held 

 this year at Taylorville, Christian county, on August 26. 



County champion hog and chicken calling artists, both 

 men and women, have been invited from each of the 92 

 county Farm Bureaus, and now develops the question as 

 to the right kind of measuring stick for the contest. 



Selection of the state champion may depend largely 

 upon the judge, and the best judge of hog or chicken 

 calling ought to be the real animals, the committee 

 thinks, but herein lies many practical difficulties. 



With real hogs assembled in an open 80-acre field to 

 determine the loudest, the most melodious, the most per- 

 suasive hog-caller in Illinois, and with the aspiring con- 

 testants arrayed at the other side, the difficulty antici- 

 pated is that after a few calls have been answered by the 

 pigs in 40-rod sprints and with any fair degree of ra- 

 pidity, they will soon register a nonchalant attitude to- 

 ward the teasing, musical and alluring rural vocalists, 

 then the remaining callers will call in vain. For this 

 reason, the committee has decided that animal judges 

 will not suffice. The same is true of chickens. 



The committee has tentatively decided that it is best 

 to send five impartial human criterions of the art be- 

 yond a neighboring hill where they can judge "sight 

 unseen." 



More increcue* in Membership 



A REPORT from the McLean County Farm Bureau > 

 ■**■ says that 1,238 members have been signed in their j 

 renewal campaign which is about over. This is 200 I 

 more members in the same territory than belonged to the ' 

 Farm Bureau before. There are still three townships ' 

 not touched, four others not one-half done and some | 

 "clean-up" work in three or four other places. j 



Other counties are doing well with renewal campaigns, j 

 too, but because of threshing little activity is reported, 'i 

 Moultrie, however, reports 432 members as against 398 ' 

 old memberships. Warten county is also over the top. 



Most of the soliciting work in McLean county, as in 

 practically all of the 40-odd counties renewing this year, 

 is done by the members themselves. This makes a re- 

 newal campaign cost less and leaves more funds for 

 carrying on the fight at the battle-front. Besides it 

 gives many members an opportunity to express, both 

 in actions and words, their loyalty to the agricultural 

 industry, their constructive thinking along organization 

 lines, and their steadfast belief in the Farm Bureau as 

 an organization for meeting, attempting to solve, and 

 solving, with favorable outcome, many of the perplexing 

 problems confronting farmers as a group. 



If this continues, we'll have to change the figures in 

 our slogan. ] . «• , . •: > .. .-., 



Illinois Leads in Limestone Use 



MORE limestone for sour soils will be used this year 

 by Illinois farmers than has ever been used be- 

 fore, according to a report of the phosphate-limestone .' 

 department. I 



During 1924, lUinois farmers used approximately ) 



500,000 tons, which was the most used by afly state in i 



the Union. This year will likely eclipse last "year's rec- 1 



ord, judging from the amount of soil sweetener used | 



during the first six months. The 500,000 tons used by j 



Illinois farmers last year was one-fourth of all the lime- I 



stone used in the United States during the same period. I 



This indicates that Illinois farmers are rapidly making r 



use of scientific practices. Illinois' 63,000 thinking | 



farmers have been largely responsible for this leader- j 



ship. I 



Exclusion of Middlemen 1 



MR. HACHIYA OBAMA, secretary of the Ministry [ 

 of Agriculture and Forestry, and councillor of i 

 the Japanese Central Co-operative Union, is a polite 

 Japanese gentleman who visited the I. A. A. office re- ' 

 cently in quest of information concerning the farmers' I 

 co-operative movement in Illinois and the United States. 



He told of the co-operative movement in Japan. The 

 Central Co-operative Union, of which he is councillor, 

 is a distributing co-operative on the order of the English . 

 and Scottish Wholesales. Three million enterprising 

 Japanese get their food and clothing supplies through ' 

 the Union's 14,000 local associations, he said. It does . 

 an annual business of one billion yen. A yen is approxi- 

 mately 50 cents. 



Mr. Obama 's knowledge of co-operatives is much more ' 

 extensive than is his command of the English language. ; 



"We wish to ex-ex-ex-ex — what you say t— ex-cremate ' 

 the middlemen as far as possible," he faltered. j 



He left, and is on his way to Europe for more informa- ' 

 tion on exclusion of unnecessary middlemen. 



JOHN THINKER AND EPIDERMIS FLINT. 



(Jobn's a Loyal Farm Buraao Member. Epidsnnis Is "Acia" ItO 



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