P«ge 4 



The IllinoU AgricultunJ AMOciatioii Record 



September 26, 1925 



AUGUST BUTTER FAT 

 PRICE WAS HIGHEST 

 LAST FIVE YEARS 



T 



Dairy Marketing Specialist Pre- 

 dicU Profitable Winter for 

 Dairymen of This State 



Illinois dairymen received the 



highest price for butter fat last 



month than for 



^^^^^^ ' any August dur- 



^^Pl^^^ the past five 



^^^ ^^H years, according 



K^^^^t to A. D. L^nch. 



Hf^Pa^H A. A. dairy 



Vi^jHP marketing direc- 



lEWv «»■■■ 



^F^^F^^k "Ninety score 



^1^^^^^^ butter in Chicago 



^^ikL^^^^B during the month 

 ^^^^^^^^^H of August aver- 

 ^^^W^^^^^H aged 

 ^^^H^^^^^H cents." 

 ^^^^^^^^^^^ rector Lynch. 

 A. D. l.ya<4 "That price was 

 slightly above 

 the August price of 1923 and from 

 si.Y to nine cents better than the 

 butter market in August for the 

 years 1921, 22. and 24. July of 

 this year was also a good month 

 when prices were 15 per cent bet- 

 ter than the same period a year 

 ago. 



"The chief factor in the higher 

 price for dairy products is that 

 seven months ago dairymen were 

 forced to sell on a market that was 

 22 per cent less than the same pe- 

 riod of the previous year. At that 

 time many farmers, who produce 

 dairy products as a side-line, dis- 

 posed of their cows and devoted 

 their time to grain farming, which 

 appeared to be more profitable. 

 This made the game better for the 

 dairymen who are in the business 

 through thick and thin. 



Import ttcss Batter 

 "Another factor that has tended 

 to make this year's fat price a nick- 

 el better than last year is the im- 

 port situation. Up to August 1, 

 1925, there was imported into this 

 country a little over 5,000,000 

 pounds of butter. Last year up to 

 August I there was unloaded in 

 this country over 18,000,000 

 pounds. So up to this time we have 

 received from other countries less 

 than ome-third as much butter as 

 we did over the same period a year 

 ago. This puts a little more con- 

 fidence into the market. 



"A third factor that has made 

 this year a better butter fat selling 

 year is the cold storage holdings. 

 On August 1 of this year we had 

 109,000,000 pounds of butter in 

 the warehouses of this country. Au- 

 gust 1 a year ago found 134,000,- 

 000 or 2S. 000. 000 more than this 

 year. The flve-year average of 

 holdings for August 1 is 104,000,- 

 000. So this August shows about 

 a normal condition as far as stor- 

 age holdings are concerned. 



"During the year 1924 the per 

 capita consumption of fluid milk, 

 butter, cheese, and condensed milk 

 all increased. Because of the cool 

 and bacl^ard season of 1924, the 

 consumpnon of ice cream dropped 

 a least little bit. Industrial con- 

 ditions in the main are relatively 

 good over the country. This situa- 

 tion looks like it will continue well 

 into the year of 1926. These fac- 

 tors mean a steady and persistent 

 demand for dairy products. 



Predicted Good Prices 



"The dairymen who this fall and 

 winter milk their best cows, feed 

 them for economical vProduction, 

 and market their cream Di the best 

 condition will be able to put some 

 profits In the bank. It probably 

 would be unwise to think about en- 

 larging the dairy herd right now. 

 TKsre- is nothing in the cards that 

 Indicates an undue shortage of 

 dairy products. But the market 

 conditions do warrant, more than 

 ever, strict attention to dairying by 

 those who have been making dairy- 

 ing thefr regular business. The 

 dairymen who have been develop- 

 ing their herds efficiently will most 

 certainly have the edge on the men 

 who milk scrub cows and feed them 

 hay and grain this fall at the high 

 prices these foods are worth." 



Last spring Director Lynch pre- 

 dicted that the market for dairy 

 products would reach a new high 

 summer level and stated that Illi- 

 nois farmers should not forsake 

 their herds due to the then existing 

 low prices. 



Try This Line on 



Your Neighbor If 



He is Non-member 



IF you have a neighbor of the 

 Epidermis Flint type, just let him 

 know about this list of achieve- 

 ments of the Farm Bureau: 



More agricultural legislation was 

 passed after the Washington office 

 of the Farm Bureau had been es- 

 tablished for two years than had 

 been passed by the preceding 66 

 Congresses. 



The original farm bloc was actu- 

 ally organized and held all of its 

 original meetings in the Washing- 

 ton office of the .\nierican Farm 

 Bureau Federation. 



The agricultural legislation which 

 the Farm Bureau actively sponsored 

 is continued in the followfng acts 

 which are now In force: ' ■ 



The Haugpn billT— Packer-)Bto<*- 

 yards control. 



Capper-Tincher bill — Regulation 

 of grain exchanges and future trad- 

 ing. 



Norrls-McNary bill — Extension 

 of war finance corporation power to 

 lend money. 



Kenyon bill — Increase in rate of 

 interest on Federal Farm Loan 

 bonds from 5 to 5 ^ per cent. 



Curtis-Nelson bill — Increase in 

 the working capital of the Federal 

 Farm Loan System by twenty-five 

 million dollars. 



Intermediate Farm Credit act — 

 Ultimately making available for the 

 use of agriculture $660,000,000. 



Filled Milk act — Preventing the 

 interstate shipments of filled milk. 



Warehouse act — Increasing facil- 

 ities for securing credit on stored 

 farm commodities. 



Dunn bill — Authorizing the ap- 

 propriation for (Federal Highway 

 construction over « three-year 

 period. 



Madden bill — Appropriation for 

 bovine tuberculosis. 



Capper-Tincher bill — Re-enactj. 

 ment of former bill in con8tit% 

 tlonal form. 



Fordney-McCumber bill — Protec- 

 tive tarilf giving agriculture pro- 

 tection under the tariff. 



Fordney Tax bill — Preventing 

 the shift of tax burden to agricul- 

 ture. 



Kellogg bill — Giving agriculture 

 representation on the Federal Re- 

 serve board. 



McNary bill — Extending War 

 Finance for another year. 



Capper-Volstead bill — Legalizing 

 co-operative marketing. 



Kinkald bill — Extending time of 

 payment of rentals due on irri- 

 gated land. 



FEDERAL DEPARTMENT 

 COMPUMENTS I. A. A. 



Methods employed by the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association are de- 

 clared by the federal department 

 of agriculture to be popularizing 

 co-operative marketing among 

 farmers of that state. The compli- 

 ment was stated in a recent report 

 from a Washington news bureau 

 and published in the Rock Island 

 Argus as follows: 



"Instead of holding to arbitrary 

 regulations, the Illinois organiza- 

 tion is said to have adapted its re- 

 sources to the needs of members 

 and prospective co-operators, with 

 results that have been helpful all 

 around. 



"In a recent issue of Agricultural 

 Co-operation, organ of the bureau 

 of economics of the federal depart- 

 ment, the example that is being set 

 by the Illinois grain organization is 

 held forth as worthy of adoption by 

 similar associations in other states. 



"In its efforts to serve its grain- 

 growing members, the publication 

 says, the co-operative in the south- 

 ern part of the state where soft 

 wheat is grown largely, has made 

 arrangements whereby growers may 

 become members of the Indiana 

 Wheat Growers association, Indian- 

 apolis. Over two hundred Illinois 

 farmers in four counties are re- 

 ported as having joined the Indiana 

 organization and so far this year 

 have delivered to it more than 130,- 

 000 bushels of grain. 



"Where there is need of local 

 elevators for handling grain, the 

 Illinois association is declared to 

 be assisting producers to form com- 

 panies for the launching of such 

 enterprises. With the purpose of 

 supplying a farmer-controlled out- 

 let for grain on the Chicago mar- 

 ket, the association has assisted lii 

 the organization of the Rural Grain 

 Company, which has made applica- 

 tion for a seat on the Chicago 

 board of trade and plans to func- 

 tion as a selling agency. 



"These projects represent three 

 distinct efforts to serve farmers 

 which are regarded by federal offi- 

 cials as likely to be fruitful in bet- 

 ter returns to farmers and In- 

 creased interest in and loyalty to 

 the co-operative. 



"Activities of the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association are regarded 

 as an effort to make its members 

 independent of outside help in mar- 

 keting operations, and this is said 

 to be one of the reasons why the 

 organization Is forging rapidly 

 ahead in the field which it hopes 

 to dominate before long." 



^ 



Hilma Johnson Asks Illinois Farmers 

 To Assist in Ticket Selling Campaign 





Miss Hilma Johnson, secretary of 

 the accounting department of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association, 

 wants to be "Miss Agriculture" and 

 carry the Illinois banner around 

 the world. To do this she must 

 sell more tickets than any other 

 down-state girl for the Illinois 

 Products Exposition to be held at 

 the Exposition Palace, Chicago, Oc- 

 tober 8-17. In order to accomplish 

 this ambition Miss Johnson has 

 asked Illinois farmers to support 

 her. The Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation,' Prairie Farmer, and Or- 

 ange-Judd Illinois Farmer are as- 

 sisting Miss Johnson in the cam- 

 paign. 



The Illinois Products Exposition 

 is conducted by the Illinois Cham- 

 ber of Commerce to advertise Illi- 

 nois. At the exposition there will 

 be exhibits representing every in- 

 dustry and practically every prod- 

 uct produced in Illinois. It is a 

 booster project for this state. It 

 will advertise the enormous amount 

 of agricultural products grown in 

 Illinois, its minerals, its manufac- 

 turing enterprises, its transporta- 

 tion facilities, its homes. Its mer- 



chandising business, its resources, 

 its future possibilities, in fact ev- 

 erything about Illinois. Every loy- 

 al citizen of Illinois wants this ex- 

 position to succeed and everyone 

 should help to make it a success. 



To advertise the exposition and 

 to increase the sale of tickets, the 

 Illinois Chamber of Commerce is 

 conducting a ticket selling contest 

 for Illinois girls. As an incentive 

 for the contest the Chicago girl 

 who sells the greatest number of 

 tickets to the exposition and the 

 best ticket seller downstate will be 

 given a free four-months tour 

 around 'the world. Miss Johnson 

 is a downstate girl and wants to 

 be one of the two girls to make the 

 trip. 



Tickets are 35 cents each if 

 bought in advance from Miss John- 

 son and 50 cents at the door. 

 Every ticket sold gives "Miss Agri- 

 culture" ten votes in the world 

 tour contest. Use the ballot below 

 and send In your votes to the girl 

 of your own industry and organiza- 

 tion. Address the ballot today to: 

 Illinois Agricultural Association, 

 608 So. Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



•UT OUT .A\D .MAIL- 



VOTIN'ii B.'%L.IXyr 



Illinois Agricultural Association . .' i 



1200 Transportation Building 

 Chicago, Illinois. 



I enclose herewith f for tlcket(s) to the Illinois 



Products Exposition to be held In Chicago at the Exposition Palace Octo- 

 ber 8-17. I want to help Miss .Agriculture make the tour around 

 the world. 



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Red Top Growers to 

 Get Highest Prices 



In Years, Is Report 



Red top growers in Southern Il- 

 linois who are members of the 

 Egyptian Seed Growers' Exchange, 

 located at Flora, will receive the 

 highest price in years fop- their seed 

 this year. T 



Curt Anderson, matiager and 

 member of the I. A. A. executive 

 committee, reports that consider- 

 able seed has l>een sold at from 20 

 to 25 cents a pound, and two car- 

 loads at 27 and a half cents. A 

 small crop is the reason for the 

 higher price. Total return to the 

 farmers will not be a great deal 

 higher than in normal years. 



RECORDS SHOW MANY 

 FORCED LAND SALES 

 IN CORNBELT AREAS 



Watson Advises Fanner* in 

 Financial Strait* to Arrange 

 For Long Time Loan 



LOWDEN SPEAKS AT 



FARMERS' PICNIC 



(Continued from Pafire 3, Col. 4) 

 keting of his products at a price 

 which will enable him to live and 

 to go on producing. He must find 

 some way to restore the proper re- 

 lationship betv^een the prices he re- 

 ceives for hi* products and the 

 prices he pays when buying. 



"There are powerful interests, of 

 course, which oppose this move- 

 ment. They are aggressive, for 

 they think they see large profits 

 disappearing if the farmers organ- 

 ize and put their business upon a 

 modem business basis. Their num- 

 ber is small compared with the 

 great army engaged in the produc- 

 tion, distribution and merchandis- 

 ing of commodities. With a zeal, 

 however, which self-interest always 

 inspires, they are likely to impose 

 their views upon chambers of com- 

 merce and other like organizations. 

 Even though the great majority of 

 these bodies have a feeling that 

 agriculture must organize in order 

 to fit into the modern business 

 world, they are too likely to yield i 

 to the insistent and vocal minority I 

 which feels that its own interest Is \ 

 jeopardized. These organizations 

 could give a mighty impetus to the 

 movement if they would. As I have 

 tried to point out, they are Jkist as 

 much interested in the progress of 

 the movement as the farmers them- 

 selves. 



Making Real Progress 



"Farmers' co-operative marketing 

 associations, however, are making 

 real progress. Some have failed. 

 Doubtless others still will fail. The 

 mortality among them, however, 

 has been no greater than among 

 new business organizations of any 

 other kind of which I know. We 

 have been gathering a large fund of 

 experience which will enable not 

 only those already organized, but 

 new ones yet to be, to avoid largely 

 the errors of the past. They are 

 destined one day to occupy the 

 field, for there is no other way out. 

 Just when that happy day shall 

 come no man can tell. It depends 

 largely upon the farmers them- 

 selves. I cah foresee the day 

 though, I think, when everything 

 produced upon the farm for the 

 market will be marketed by the 

 farmers themselves through an or- 

 ganization of their own creation. 



"I like to think of the time when 

 everything 1 produce upon my 

 farm I can deliver to my own asso- 

 ciation In full confidence that as 

 much intelligence and as large a 

 bargaining-power shall be exhibited 

 by those representing me In the 

 sale as are already exhibited now 

 on the part of the buyer. I like to 

 think of the time when the repre- 

 sentatives of all these great farm- 

 ers' organizations shall meet In a 

 congress once a year and shall 

 there work out a program for the 

 future, just as other industries now 

 meet annually for the purpose of 

 forming an intelligent and co-opera- 

 tive program for the year. At such 

 a meeting, if it shall appear that 

 one branch of agriculture is expand- 

 ing more rapidly than conditions 

 warrant, steps will be taken to re- 

 store the balance as between that 

 and the other activities of the 

 farm. In this way we shall achieve 

 a balanced agriculture. 



Even more desirable, we shall 

 restore the proper balance between 

 agriculture — the greatest of all in- 

 dustries — and other business activi- 

 ties In this organized world In 

 which we find ourselves. This is 

 not the problem of agriculture 

 alone. It is the problem of all 

 because there can be no enduring 

 prosperity unless all the principal 

 Industries which go to make up the 

 commercial world, keeping step 

 with one another, shall march 

 abreast." 



More than half of the sales of 

 Illinois farms, with warranty deeds, 

 are forced sales, 

 according to in- 

 formation c o m - 

 piled >y the I. A. 

 A. department of 

 taxation and sta- 

 tistics. 



"This is espe- M^ 

 c I a 1 1 y true In 

 good soil sections 

 of central Illinois 

 and such sales 

 are usually made 

 to avoid the costs 

 o f foreclosure," 

 states J. C. Wat- ■•• •'• w«t«o» 

 son, 1. A. A, 



taxation specialist. "In sales of 

 this nature, the mortgage often ex- 

 ceeds, and in many cases greatly 

 exceeds the equity. A survey of 

 re<;ent sales in the central cornbelt 

 shows that in numerous instances, 

 the equity is no more tlipn $500 or 

 11,000 and less than from 5 to 10 

 per cent of the Incumbrance. 



"Forced sales of this nature Indi- 

 cate that Illinois agriculture is still 

 carrying much of the burden it as- 

 sumed during the defiation period 

 following the World War and many 

 landowners are far from recovered 

 to a firm financial basis. 



.More Sales in Southern niinois 



"In the dairy sections of northern 

 Illinois and thei livestock feeding 

 counties of the western part of the 

 state, sales of this character are 

 found in smaller numbers. This is 

 likewise true in the southern third 

 of the state where most farm lands 

 are sold free from incumbrances. 

 Sales of farms in southern Illinois 

 are usually more numerous than in 

 the remainder of the state. This 

 fact is probably due to the much 

 lower selling value of farm lands 

 In that territory. 



"The large percentage of forced 

 sales of farm lands show that many 

 landowners who made purchases 

 during and immediately following 

 the war have not been able to meet 

 their payments. Most of the five- 

 year farm mortgages made during' 

 the boom years will fall due within 

 the next few months. It is doubt- 

 ful if all these obligations can be 

 met easily. Under such conditions, 

 landowners should arrange early for 

 the extejision or renewal of their 

 loans. In many cases, especially 

 where the loans are likely to run 

 for more than five years, this could 

 best be done by joining a federal 

 farm loiui association or by bor- 

 rowing Crom a joint stock land 

 bank." 



Information On Many Sales 



Mr. WJtson has on record infor- 

 mation ni literally thouaknds of 

 farm antf city properties all over 

 Illinois. From this Information, it 

 has b^en found that many recorded 

 deeds show that only 50 cents 

 worth of Revenue stamps were af- 

 fi.xed to the original deed of trans- 

 fer, indicating that the owner of 

 the land got $500 or less in cash 

 for the whole property. 



POULTRY INCOME IS 

 63 MILUON DOLLARS 



(Conlhuietl from I'ape 1, Col. 1) 

 largely to our present inefficient , 

 s>'Btem of marketing eggs. Farm- 

 ers as a rule do not receive pay on 

 a basis of quality, therefore, there 

 is no incentive to exercise care in 

 the handling of eggs on the farms. 

 It appears that the present agen- 

 cies who are charged wijth the mar- 

 keting of this highly' perishable 

 food produce are not able to put 

 into practice a system of buying 

 which will pay for quality. In 

 tbose states where eggs are mar- 

 keted co-operatively they are grad- 

 ed and the producers receive pay 

 on the basis of grade; thus in a 

 very short time the lower grades 

 are largely eliminated. 



"From now on Illinois farmers 

 should and are developing more 

 Interest in the marketing phase of 

 their business. It is the greatest 

 aim of the I. A. A., through Its 

 poultry department, to bring about _| 

 as great an improvement in the 

 marketing of poultry and eggs as 

 has been accomplished in the pro- 

 duction of these commodities." 



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