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The Illinois Agricultural Association Record 



August 1, 192S 



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A6BICl'L,Tl'RAL ASSO«JATS©N 



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PATIENTLY PICKING PA'S PANTS 



rubllahed eVery other Saturday by the Illinois Aerlcultural As- 

 sociation. 608 South Dearborn Street. Chicago^-- Illinois. Edited 

 by Deparlraent of Information. Harry C. Hutcher. Director. 



Entered as second clasB matter Oct. 10. 1921. at the post office 

 at Chicago, ailinois, under the act of March 3. 1879. Acceptance 

 for mailing; at special rates of postage provided for In Section 

 1103. Act o« October 3. 1917, authorized Oct. 31. 1921. 



.The Individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural A«- 



' soclatlon Isffive dollars a year. The fee Includes payment of 



fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 



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OFFICERS 

 "resident, S. H. Tlionipson, Qnlncy. 

 ice-President, H. E, (loembel, Hoop|Hile. 

 'reasurer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomlngton 

 ecrelarv, CJeo. .\. Fox, Sycamore. 

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E.VECXTIVE COM.MrrTEE 

 By Congression.-U Districts - 



William Webb, Route One. Jollet 



G. F, Tullock, Rockford 



C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



W. H. Moody, Poi^ Byron 



i B. H. Taylor, Rapatee 



A. R. Wright, Varna 



* F. D. Barton, Cornell 



R. F. Karr, Iroquois 



J. L. Whisnand, Charlestoh 



Earl C. Smith, Detroit 



Samuel Sorreils, Raymond 



, Stanly Castle, Alton 



W. L. Cope, Salem 



Curt Anderson, Xenia 



R. K. Loomis, Makanda 



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Success to You! 



Directors of DejKirtnients, I. A. A. Office 



Co-operative Accounting Geo. R. Wicker 



Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynth 



Finance R. A. Cowles 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper 



General Office , J. H. Kelker 



Grain Marketing ' Chester C. Davis 



Information. .. .f Harry C. Butcher 



Legal Counsel '. Donald Kirkpatrlck 



Live Stock Marketing Wm. E. Hedgcock 



Organization G. E. Metzger 



Phosphate-Limestone J. R. Bent 



Poultry and Egg Marketing , F. A. Gougler 



Taxation ahd Statistics J, C. Watson 



Transportaitlon L. J. Quasey 



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THE Recohdi platform 

 Advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organized, 

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

 social and edtjcational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the 

 nalion, and' to develop agriculture. 



Support the Producers 



lln- i'.|iiiil> 111' llif llircc Illinois I'riiituiiiT 

 ii's ill this issue. IIiTi' isi ii suci'c.ssful vintllji' 

 itivr niiirkctin}; that ilcsorvi's your loyal siiji- 

 t'ai't. it is iio longer a vtii)turi', it s an cstiHi- 

 itntioii that is doin^' hnsincss of farinoi's. In 

 111 fur faniirrs. (iivf tlif I'linliiccrs your bii-si 

 if you havi'ii'l hiisini'ss for tliciu, jjivi: Viu a 

 The start inaili- tciward i-ontrol is csptvia ly 



TilK ilain iiii-n in I'c •iii;i. Tazcwi-11 and Woodforil 

 i-'iniilii's who prodiii'i- milk for thi' j'aiiiiliis in J'l 

 lO'ia liavi' irijani/.i'd a proiliiccTs iiiai'ki'tinjr sissociation. 



.\iiion;; 111.; laiidalili' thinjirs llicy have sit out to iic- 

 coiiiplisli iirc; I'liializi' the daiiyiiuiii who iiiakrs a siir 

 |»lns. |>rf uiiliiii/.i' Ihi- daiiv man who prodncrs iitii 

 fi>nnly. s. II their milk. in. two paekajres-— fluid ami sur- 

 plus- for the hist the niarkef affords, join hands with 

 the <leali'r< in jrivin;; I'eorijj families ".'ood fnilk at a fair 

 priee — an^l with a smile 



Exprestiont are Invited 



IS the ne.Nt issue we will print letters from farm bu- 

 reau meiiiliers pi'rtainiiijf to the ))roposed freijrlit 

 rate inei'ease, Memhers who wish to express theiii.selve< 

 on this suli.jeet are invited to do so. and as iiian.v letters 

 will lie permitted as spaee will permit. Some letters 

 havi- alri'ady heen reeeived on this snh.ieet. Some of 

 thiMii n I asbestos eiivelopo.s. 



A Perplexing Problem 



HIlW 1o ineasuri' eorreetly the ipialit.x of the voiee 

 of a liosr or ehieken ealler was a perple.xins; prob- 

 lem eonfrontinii' the committee for the state |>ienie of 

 the IlliiiiiTs Afrrieiiltural Assoeiatioii which is to be held 

 ibis yiar at Taylorville. Christian eouiity, on Au^rust "Jti. 



J County eham))ion lio^' and ehieken eallintr artists, both 

 jiiien and women, have been invited from eaeli of the 'J'- 

 eoiint.x Farm Knreaus, and now develops the ((ucstion as 

 to the ri^lit kind of measuring stick for the contest. 



Seh'ction of the state phampion may depend largely 

 upon the .iiidge. and the best judire of hog or ehieken 

 lalling ought to be the real animals, the eommittee 

 thinks, but herein lies many praetical difficulties. 



With real hogs assembled in an open SO-aere field to 

 determine thi' loudest, the most melodious, the mo.st per- 

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

 testants arra.ved at the other side, the difficulty antici- 

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

 pigs in 4()-rod sprints and with any fair degree of ra- 

 pidity, they will soon register a nonchalant altitude to- 

 wanl the teasing, musical and alluring rural vocalists, 

 ibc'ii the remaining callers will call in vain. For this 

 reason, the committee has decided that animal judges 

 will not sufHce, The same is true of chickens. 



Till mmittee has tentatively decided that it is best 



to .send five impartial human criterions of the art be- 

 .\ ond a neighboring hill where they can judge "sight 

 unseen. " 



More Increases in Membership 



A REPORT from the JleLean County Farm Bureau 

 ■* *■ sa.vs that 1.2-^S members have been signed in their 

 renewal campaign which is about over. This is 200 

 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. 



Other counties are doing well with renewal campaigns, 

 too, but because of thri'shing little activity is reported, 

 iloultrie, however. repArts 4'i2 members as against .398 

 old memberships. Warren county is also over the toj). 



Most of the soliciting work in McLean county, as in 

 |)raetically all of the 40-odd counties reni'wing thi.s year, 

 is doni' b.v the members themselves. This makes a re- 

 newal camiiaign 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 worils. their loyalty to the agricultural 

 industry, their coiistrnetive. 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 i>erple.xing 

 problems confront ing farmers as a gnnip. 



If this continues. we"ll have to change the figures in 

 our slogan. t. 



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Illinois Leads in Limestone Use 



MdUK' 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. 



During l!i24. Illinois fanners used api>ro.ximately 

 ."lOO.OOO tons, which was the most usi'd by an,v state in 

 the riiion. This year will likely eclip,se last year's rec 

 ord. judging from the amount of soil sweetener used 

 iluring the tirst six months. The .KMJ.OOO tons used by 

 Illinois I'armei's last year was one-fourth of all the lime- 

 stone used in the United States during the same period. 

 This indicates that Illinois f;»rin,'i-s are rajiidly making 

 use of scieiititic practices.. Illinois' (ili.OOO thinkini: 

 farmers have been largely 1 ivsponsible for this leader- 

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 Exclusion of Middlemen 



MR. IlAClllYA OBA.MA. secielaiy of llie Mini.stry 

 of Agriculture and Fori'stry. and councillor of 

 the Japanese Central Co-operative I'liiim, is a iiolite 

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

 centl.\' in tiiiest of information concerning the farmers' 

 co-operative movement in Illinois and the United States. 



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

 Central Co-operative rnion, of which he is eouneillor. 

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

 and Scottish Wholesales. Three million enterprising 

 Japanese get their food and clothing supplies tlirough 

 the Union's 14.000 local associations, he said. It does 

 an annual business of one billion yen. A yen is appro.xi- 

 mately oO cents. 



Mr. Obama's knowleijgi' of eo-operativis is much more 

 extensive than is his comiiiand of the English language. 



"We wish to ex-ex-ex-ex — what you say? — ex-cremate 

 the middlemen as far lis possible," he faltered. 



He left, and is on his wa.v to Europe for more informa- 

 tion on exetnsion of uiinei-essar\- middlemen. 



