.September 12, 1925 



The nilnoU Agricultural Association Record 



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"WHOO-EY! WHOO-EY!" 

 IS WAY TO CALL HOGS 

 SAYS STATE CHAMPION 



WINNERS AND CONTENDERS IN I. A. A. STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS 



- Hog and Chicken Calling Con- 

 tests Found to Be Popular 

 Feature at I.A.A. State Picnic 



It's "whoo-oey, whoo-oey, whoo- 

 oey" and it's delivered from tlie 

 side ot the mouth with the arms 

 hanging naturally at the side, with 

 or without gestures. 



That is the answer, as tar as Il- 

 linois Farm Bureaus are concerned, 

 to the controversy over how hogs 

 are best called that has been raging 

 in the Middle West since announce- 

 ments were made that- a state-wide 

 hog calling contest would be held 

 by the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion. 4:; 



That is the style used by V. E. 

 Roblson ot Morton, Ttlewell toun- 

 ty, who was crowned state cham- 

 pion hog caller of Illinois at the 

 annual I. A. A. state picnic, Taylor- 

 vllle, August 27. The prize to the 

 winner was a gold watch fob in 

 the form ot a hog. 



Second place In the hog calling 

 contest was won by E. G. Brick of 

 Cumberland county, who used prac- 

 tically the same style as the win- 

 ner, but lacked somewhat in vol- 

 ume. Emery Irwin of Menard coun- 

 ty, who won third place, used 

 "whoo-oey, whoo-oey, whoo-oey" 

 with a mixture of "kip, kip, kip." 

 The fourth was Henry Brown of 

 Sangamon couaty. His style was 

 plain but convincing. 



ThlrtA ContestaiKs 



There were champions from 20 

 counties and entries in the contest 

 included: 



Morgan county — Earl Brown; 

 Jefferson county — I. E. Beall, J. H. 

 Payne, and W. K. Danner; Cumber- 

 land county — A. C. Gordon and E. 

 G. Brick; Logatf county — J. W. 

 Rupp, J. W. Gardner and T. A. 

 Gardner; Pike county — Harry John- 

 son; Vermilion county — J. A. Haw- 

 thorn; Marion county — W. H. Clif- 

 ton; Cass county — W. P. Newell; 

 Christian county — C. M. Brooks. 

 William Kramer and John Chester. 



Tazewell county — V. E. Roblson 

 and Jay Grosenback; Macon county 

 — H. C. Bean; Marshall-Putnam 

 counties — Eugene Stadel and Lew^ls 

 Boyle; Greene county — Faulkner 

 Barnes; Sangamon county — Hei)ry 

 Brown, Earl Coulter and Ed Baker; 

 Shelby county — Lester Boyles; Wil- 

 liamson county — Jacob Krummrey 

 and A. M. Spitznassars; Woodford 

 county — Ed Barth; Menard county 

 — Emery Irwin; and Jersey county 

 — Ed Highflll. 



The state chicken calling contest 

 for the women proved to be an- 

 other popular feature of the picnic. 

 Mrs. I. N, Wooley of Marion county 

 was declared the state champion 

 and received the prize of a silver 

 pitcher. Her style was more vigor- 

 ous than sweet, but nevertheless 

 calculated tretjjendously eJTective 

 by the five judges. 



The other three contestants who 

 placed were, in order: Mrs. W. L. 

 Fearn of Christian county, Evelyn 

 Bell of Christian county, and Mrs. 

 Frank Potthast of Boil county. 



There were seven counties rep- 

 resented in this contest which in- 

 cluded: Mrs. C. A. Hitchcock, Mrs. 

 W. L. Fearn, Dorothy Dial, Mrs. 

 Lewis Nash and B\'elyn Bell of 

 Christian county; Mrs. Ethel 

 Bourne and Mrs. John Morris of 

 Peoria county; Mrs'. Earl Campbell 

 of Montgomery cou^nty; Mrs. John 

 W. Rupp of Logan county; Mrs. 

 Frank Potthast of Bond county; 

 Mrs. I. N. Wooley of Marion county; 

 and Roberta Keller ot Greene 

 county. 



Peoria County Farm Bureau de- 

 fejiders. They are Alien and Gerald 

 Coon, aged 12 and 13. who won the 

 championship of Peoria county against 

 much older men and represented 

 their county in the state champion- 

 ship game at the annual I. A. A. pic- 

 nic. Taylorville, August 27. Allen and 

 (Jerald were strong contenders in the 

 state match in spite of their young 

 age. 



Illinois Farms Have 

 More Radios Than Any 

 Other State in Union 



More nuiio sets are on the 

 farms of Illinois than in any 

 other state in the Vnion, ac- 

 cording to a nation-wide sur- 

 vey recently completed by the 

 United States Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Illinois farmers have approx- 

 imately 40,0O0 radios, which 

 niean.s that about 20 |ier cent 

 of the farms in this state are 

 so e<|uip|ied. In other words 

 two out of t«n farmers in Illi- 

 nois have radios. 



In the United States, aecord- 

 ing to the survey, there are 

 550,000 farms equip|)e<I with 

 radios, comiuired to 365,000 a 

 year ago and 145,000 in 198."). 

 Xew York and Iowa each has 

 30,000, and other states trail 

 along, scaling down to 200 for 

 Delaware. 



Tlie department's agent.s re- 

 l>ort that the farmers tune in 

 iH>t so much for grand opera 

 or baseball or ]>olitical s|>eeches 

 as for weather and market re- 

 ports. 



NEW GRAIN COMPANY 

 ON BOARD OF TRADE 



(Continue,^ from page 1. col. 2.) 

 In referring' to the proposed op- 

 ' eration of the new marketing com- 

 pany, S. J. Cottington. president 

 of the National Farmers' Elevator 

 Grain Company, Co-operative, and 

 under whose name the board of 

 trade membership is held, stated: 

 "The Rural Grain Company is 

 formed to handle the Chicago ter- 

 .minal commission business for the 

 JNational Farmers' Elevators Com- 

 ,pany. a co-operative company es- 

 ['tabllshed by the farmers' elevators 

 \ot Illinois and Iowa. We do not 

 expect the company to start opera- 

 kions until it is amply financed by 

 'the farmers' own paid In capital, 

 r Outgrowth of Farmers' Elevators 

 I "This is the logical outgrowth of 

 Hhe farn*ers' elevator movement of 



the last 25 years, which brought 

 into being about Ave thousand lo- 

 cal farmers' grain companies. For 

 a number of years we have been 

 planning for the next step which 

 would place the farmers' elevators 

 in the terminal markets, handling 

 the farmers' grain through their 

 own sales agency. 



"The National Farmers' Eleva- 

 tor Grain company will operate a 

 general sales and service agency. 

 Its aim wil be to assist the local 

 elevators in moving their grain as 

 directly as possible from the regions 

 of surplus to the consuming cen- 

 ters. The terminal branch in Chi- 

 cago, the Rural Grain Company, is 

 a subsidiary of this wider cq-opera- 

 tlve company. Eventually we ex- 

 pect to join the farmers' elevators 

 of other states." 



1. \. A. Supiioriting It 



The farmers' elevator people 

 asked the United States department 

 of agriculture for assistance in 

 forming this co-operative and were 

 assisted materially with it. accord- 

 ing to J. W. Shorthill. secretary ot 

 the National Farmers' Elevator As- 

 sociation. The Illinois Agricultural 

 Associaton has served the farmers' 

 elevators in an advisory and sup- 

 plementary capacity, and is sup- 

 porting the movement. 



Officers ot the National Farmers' 

 Elevator Grain Company, Co-opera- 

 tive, are as follows: 



S. J. Cottington, Stanhope, la., 

 president; D. H. Allen, Delavan, 

 111., vice-president; Lawrence Far- 

 low, Bloomington, 111., secretary; 

 and F. W. Hill, Leland, 111., treas- 

 urer. The board of directors of the 

 national organization Includes the 

 officers named above and Fred A. 

 Mudge, Peru, 111.; W. J. Lynch, 

 Green Mountain, la.; Geo. L. Pot- 

 ter, Graymont, 111.; W. P. Doderer, 

 Rockwell, la.; J. G. Merritt, Glid- 

 den, la.; and G. A. Arnold, Sheldon, 

 la. These, with the exception of 

 W. F. Doderer and G. A. Arnold, 

 also constitute the board of direc- 

 tors and officers of the Rural Grain 

 Company. . ' , , 



(Aliove) Male qoartrttr of the I. A. \. icrand opera, Tayiorviile. .Vugust 

 2~. Tiiey are, left to right, V. B. Robison of Jlorton. "Tazewell county. 

 K. (». Bi-ick of Cumberland county. Emery Irwin of Menard county and 

 Henry Brown of Sangamon county, winners in the state championship hog 

 calling contest. Mr. Kobi.'*on won the minianirc igold hog' for being the 

 best swine yodeler. 



(Below) State ehampioiMklp koneakoe pltrkera: of 1<I24 and -iS. They 

 are. left to right, Keulten Bright and Samuel Smith af Mcl*ean county, who 

 won the state championsliip horseshoe tournament at Lincoln last year, and 

 Walter and Harry Torhert of the t^eWitt county K;irm Bureau, winners at 

 Taylorville. August 27. Harry and Waller were state champions in 1923, and 

 their father. Ed Torhert. was a meftnber of the state championship team of 

 1U2". '21 and '22. ^ , • 



'Farm Bankruptcies Cause More 

 Grief Than War", Says Wallace 



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"The family tragedies caused by 

 farm bankruptcies are inflnitrfy 

 greater than the grief caused by 

 the actual deaths which took place 

 during the \lForld War, " declared 

 Henry A. Wallace of Des Moines, 

 Iowa, editor of Wallace's Farmer, 

 and son of the late Secretary of 

 Agriculture, Henry C. Wallace, In 

 his address to the picnickers attend- 

 ing the annual I. A. A. state picnic. 

 Taylorville. August 27. 



"With corn at a dollar, hogs at 

 J12 and wheat at J1.50. times are 

 not as bad as they were in 1921. 

 The prosperity artists hail these fig- 

 ures with joy but the thoughtfiil 

 farmer knows that all these prices 

 are due to scarcity and he antici- 

 pates that the new crop corn will be 

 around 65 cents on the (arm. that 

 hogs will be $8 or less in December 

 of 1927, and that wheat will go 

 down to a dollar the next time th* 

 crop in the U. S. and the world at 

 large is the least bit above normal. 

 Moreover, in every community are 

 found men right this minute who 

 are absolutely ruined through no 

 fault of their own. 



"The day I left Des Moines to 

 come to Taylorville I heard the 

 story of an old friend with whom 

 1 had spent three years at the Agri- 

 cultural College at Ames. He was 

 the sort who studied hard and 

 works with the Y. M. C. A. .\fter 

 leaving school he became a county 

 agent but before the war came on 

 he went to fariujng for himself but 

 was not in position to make a pay- 

 ment down on his farm till the time 

 of the boom. Last week he made 

 an assignment of everything be has 

 to his creditors and next March he 

 and his wife and his small children 

 will start out in the vrorld with 

 nothing. A few years ago he was 

 planning on sending his children to 

 college; now they will have to work 

 their own way through. There are 

 thousands of cases of this sort «s 

 we all know. 



Praises I. A.~A. 

 "For a time it seemed as though 

 the pain of the post war farm de- 

 pression would bring forth effective 

 (arm organizations but even in this 

 there has been much bitter disay- 



pointment. True it is that the 

 farmers of Illinois have built the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association 

 into a wonderful institution. .\nd 

 right here I want to say that the 

 splendid work done by your Mr. 

 Watson on taxation served as an 

 example for; our Iowa Farm Bureau 

 which finally resulted in July of this 

 year in a cut in farm taxes amount- 

 ing to over a million dollars. The 

 taxation work alone has justified 

 the existence of the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association. 



"For the next five or ten years 

 our corn belt agriculture seems to 

 be at the mercy of the weather. 

 In years of short crops we may gel 

 along fairly well but whenever we 

 put a surplus on the European 

 markets we are almost certain to 

 get hurt unless we have the benefit 

 of the McNary-Haugen principle. 

 With the'Intemational situation the 

 way it is. farmers must have the 

 McNary-Haugen principle to put 

 them on a position of equality until 

 such time, as our own population 

 has increased 15 to 20 millions. A 

 few farmers have felt apologetic 

 about the McNary-Haugen princi- 

 ple when confronted by the subtle 

 economic arguments of certain big 

 business mein. They need not be. 

 Labor has its .\damson act and Im- 

 migration act. the Railroads have 

 section 15-v\. and Industry has its 

 tartff and Webb Pomerene act. 



Commends McXary-Haugen Idea 



"The McNary-Haugen principle is 

 simple justice and farmers should 

 fight for it with an absolutely clear 

 conscience. When it comes to work- 

 ing out the details that is another 

 proposition which will take the best 

 brains we can get. not only among 

 farmers, but also among those legis- 

 lators and business men who have 

 proved themselves to be true to the 

 farm point of view. So far as I 

 know now. the Dickenson b#l will 

 take the place of the McNary-Hau- 

 gen bill this next winter. A deter- 

 mined effort will be made to put it 

 across. If it fails the next step will 

 be to open a determined fight on 

 those tariffs which are keeping out 

 manufacturad products from Eu- 

 rope.". 



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WATSON, VANIMAN 

 AND KIRKPATRICK 

 TALK AT MEETUIG 



Taxation Problems and Ri in- 

 sorance Discussed at ConI er- 

 ence Meeting, Liberty^ ille 



"Farm ott'iers in counties tear 

 l.ake .Michigan an- l>»*in.i: la\«*d 

 assessed valua- 

 tions based on 

 I h e speoulativf 

 values of subdi- 

 vision pi'operty 

 and resort slt"s. 

 which is unjust 

 to landowners of 

 liroducine farms." 

 declartd J. C. 

 Watson, taxation I 

 specialist of the | 

 I. A. A., who ad- 

 dressed 27 farm [ 

 bureau represen- 

 tatives of Kane. 

 l.ake. Will and 

 DuPlage counties at the confer« nn- 

 •jf the 1st te Uth districts, i .ib- 

 Mt.vville, September 1. 



William Webb. I. \. A. exi cu- 

 tive committeeman of the disti let. 

 opened the meeting and took cha rge 

 until D. H. Minto was elected er- 

 :nanent chairman and E. A. Ci rn 

 cross, farm adviser of Dul jge 

 .?ounty, nomiSated for secretar; . 



""We have fiound considerable lif- 

 ficulty in determining the pix per 

 .aluation for kaxation purposes i hat 

 should be placed on farm landi in 

 'he counties of Cook. I.4ike. 3u- 

 I'age. McHenry and Kane. " sti led 

 Mr. Watson. "In the past, assei sed 

 valuations have been made at the 

 average selliSg price of allU ids 

 in the counties. This is not fai to 

 the farmers because portions of the 

 land near th» lake and in the re- 

 sort sections have been sold for 

 speculative ptrposes as subdirii ion 

 property and resort locations ind 

 therefore sold at figures as higt as 

 Jl.OOO an acre. Such values if 

 used for taxation assessments w( uld 

 be unjust on land used strictly for 

 agricultural purposes." 



KeinMuranre Would Save |tS,000. MIO 



"Illinois farmers could save ;3.- 

 OOO.flOO in insurance every yea • if 

 there were a reinsurance comp iny 

 for all local mutual compani s, " 

 stated Vernon Vaniman. field re ire- 

 .<entative of |the Farmers' Mu ual 

 Reinsurance Company of Illii Jis. 

 who made tlie second talk on the 

 conference priogram. Mr. Vanii lan 

 Is representing the Illinois Asso na- 

 tion of Mutuallnsurance Compa lies 

 and the I. A. A. co-operating, in the 

 formation of {the new reinsun ice 

 company. | 



""This new reinsurance compiny 

 is a mutual brganixation of fa-m- 

 ers' insuranoe companies in the 

 state,"" said Mr. Vaniman. "It i up- 

 plements the activites of the h cal 

 companies and Puts them in a po- 

 sition wherebS' they can handle all 

 insurance ne^ds of the farmers on 

 a mutual basife. It has three phi ses 

 of work, specific reinsurance, di: ect 

 policies, and blanket insurai ce. 

 Many mutual companies can aot 

 write insurance for over $10, lOO 

 on any one risk. By providin ; a 

 company whijch will operate o rer 

 the entire staXe. direct policies ;an 

 be issued to take care of the in 

 surance that is in excess of w lat 

 the local comfciany can write."' 



Legal Coonsei Talks 



The present status and past ac- 

 tivities of th* dairymen and n ilk 

 distributors of the St. Louis aial ici 

 were discusstd by Donald K rk- 

 patrick. legal counsel of the I. A \. 

 In telling of the difficulties of co- 

 operative millc distribution at St. 

 Louis, Mr. KIrkpatrick emphasi sed 

 the importance of co-operati les 

 producing the best Quality pro<J net 

 and using strictly the best busii ess 

 methods and imanagtmnt. 



Those present were; DuPage cc un- 

 ty — E. A. Catncross. farm advl ler: 



C. C. Wimpreas. Winiam KosB. H <" 

 Vial and W. It. Lehman. I..ake coun- 

 ty — J. J. Doerschuk. farm advi ler; 



D. H. Minto. Willard l>arrell. J s 

 Denman, Arthur Leng. tV. J. Schr >ck. 

 Everett Marsli. R. C. Kent. Spei cer 

 Wells. Oorm Anderson, and Sil ion 

 Callagher. Will (■ounty — J K H< Ig- 

 cock. farm adyiner: H. W. t^lark. as 

 sistant farm adviser; William W 1>I». 

 I. A. A. executive committeeman f oni 

 the tilth and Wth districts: and 1. P 

 Conant. Kan*- counlv — John W stt. 

 farm adviser. : Dan ]>avi8 and LI lyd 

 Keepers. 



The next Aieeting was act for 

 Woodstock, Mf Henry county. Nov *m- 

 her 24. 



What Will Happen 

 November, 1926? 



