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OFFICERS 



Prerident S. H. Thompeon Qutacy 



Vice-Resident, H. E. Gocmbel Hooppole 



Treaeurer, R. A. Cowlee Btoomincton 



Secretary, Geo. A. Fox Sycamore 



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'. D. Barton, Cornell 

 R. F. Karr, Iroquoia 



J. L. Whlanand, Charleston 



Earl C. Smith, Detroit 



...Samuel Sorrells. Raymond 



Stanly Castle, Alton 



W. L. Cope, Salem 



. . . Curt Anderson, Xenia 

 . .R. K. Loomis, Makanda 



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To advanC€ the purptue for wMch the Farm Bureau was organs 

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

 economic, social and educational interests of the farmers of 

 Illinois arui the tuition, arid to develop agriculture. 



Co-operaUve Accounting , Geo. R. Wicker 



Dairy Marketing ^ A. D. Lynch 



Finance R. A. Cowles 



Fnilt and Vegetable Marketinc A. B. Leeper 



General Office J. H. Kelker 



Grain Marketin« Chester C. Davis 



Information Harry C. Butcher 



Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick 



Live Stock Markeflng Wm. E. Hedgoock 



Orgaidzatkin G. E. Metiger 



Phosphate-Limestone .' J. R- Bent 



Poultry and Egg Marketing F. A. Gougler 



Taxation and Statistica J. C. Watson 



Transportation .\ L. J. Quaaey 



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'T'HE grain marketing department of the 

 ^ Illinois Agricultural Association has no- 

 tified all the Farm Bureaus in the state that 

 the National Farmfejs' Elevator Grain Com- 

 pany, Co-operative, is now ready for the con- 

 sideration of the farmers!' grain companies 

 of the-^ Midwest. 



It has required a great deal of time and 

 effort io work out the fortn of the organiza- 

 tion, and to gain a seat on the Chicago Board 

 of Trade for the subsidiary, the Rural Grain 

 Company. The national company is strictly 

 co-operative. It will operate subsidiaries in 

 various grain markets, ajnd the profits or 

 losses from these will reflect on the books of 

 the national body. This plan permits en- 

 trance [on the boards of trade, at least on 

 the Chicago board, and at the same time will 

 permit savings in commissions and economies 

 in handling grain to be prorated back to the 

 local elevators in proportion to the grain 

 handled for each individual elevator- com- 

 pany. I : 

 s In niiH--^d cQ ^rast with other attempts of 

 larmens tu exiIJii . their control of their grain 

 marketing, this attempt is going on slowly 

 but surely and without the hubbub and news- 

 paper headlines which characterized pre- 

 vious efforts. Perhaps the principal reason 

 that there is a noticeable absence of head- 

 lines concerning this co-operative- is that it is 

 not particularly unusual. It is best that the 

 company be not unusual; the plan can be 

 better find more universally understood. It 

 cannot^ be denied that the farmers elevators 

 people know their business, for as a whole, 

 they have been successful. A terminal mar- 

 keting organization built upon this success- 

 ful foundation cannot be far from right. 



It should not be difficult, the leaders in 

 the movement think, to get together the 

 necessary amount of working capital, as it 

 will onily require a few hundred dollars from 

 each fanners' elevator company. '. No com- 

 pany Can hold more than $500 worth of 

 stock, but the officers want none to take less 

 than $200. " 



An important meeting of the directors of 

 the cotaipany, together Avith representatives 

 of stock-holding elevators who may be in 

 Chicago at the time, will be held December 

 1 at the I. A. A. office. At that time the 

 plans for the winter's organization in Illi- 

 nois and Iowa will be made and arrange- 

 ments perfected for the first annual stock- 

 holders' meeting to be held as soon after- 

 yward is possible. 



Every effort is being made to keep down 

 expenses of organization,' and there is no 

 method so direct and effective to bring about 

 acbicfi in an.'^ county, by the local farmer 

 grain (iompanies, as joint effort on the part 

 of the' ccamty farfti bureaus and farmers' 

 elevatdrs themselves. 



Just as the county Farm Bureaus are para- 



mount factors in the success of the Pro- 

 ducers, so will they figure prominently in any 

 successful grain marketing movement. 



L^'s Put This Across 



NOW that farmers in some 67 Illinois 

 counties have made it possible for the 

 Farmers Mutual Re-insurance Company to 

 get its charter, having over-subscribed the 

 necessary $500,000 in insurance by $215,000, 

 the first step is completed and everything 

 is set to gain the principal objective. The 

 machinery has been set up, now comes the 

 time when it shall be put in operation. 



It is now up to the officers and directors of 

 local mutual companies to take advantage of 

 what the far-sighted individuals have made 

 possible. Will these officers and directors 

 place their companies in a position whereby 

 they can: (1) handle all the insurance 

 needs of the farmers against fire and light- 

 ning (later wind storms and hail) on a mu- 

 tual basis; (2) protect the local company 

 against those inevitable years when there are 

 excessive losses and provide against exces- 

 sive assessments through blanket re-insur- 

 ance? 



We believe that every director and officer 

 of every local mutual in Illinois should get 

 full information on the newly chartered com- 

 pany so they can pass intelligent judgment 

 on it and answer any questions that their 

 members may ask. 



Both Indiana and Iowa have had a re- 

 insurance company for many years. Let's 

 make the Illinois re-insurance company the 

 best in the United States! 



Incidentally, the farmers whose local com- 

 panies take advantage of the reJhsurance 

 company will be saved several million dol- 

 lars on their insurance bills. 



the actual value was substanfiially only about 

 two-thirds of the assessed valuation of lands 

 devoted to agricultural ,|iurposes to their ac- 

 tual value." " , 



While the Supreme colirt finds that the 

 facts were as claimed by. the farmer ob- 

 jectors, it holds that the objection to appli- 

 cation's for judgment for unpaid taxes must 

 be made by each individual person who is 

 aggrieved, and that the objection cannot be 

 made by a group. Although application has 

 been made for re-hearing of this case in the 

 Supreme court, it has not been determined 

 as yet whether or not the case will be carried 

 further. i 



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'carmers Lose Tax Case 



THE Supreme court of Illinois at the Oc- 

 tober term handed down a decision in 

 which the Illinois Agricultural Association 

 was interested. In 1924, 199 farmers in 

 Madison county filed objections to the ap- 

 plication of the collector of Madison county 

 for judgment and order for sale for taxes de- 

 linquent against lands of these farmers. The 

 work of the Madison County Farm Bureau, 

 co-operating with John C. Watson of the I. 

 A. A. taxation department, indicated that the 

 farm lands in Madison county were assessed 

 for taxation purposes at one-half more than 

 they should be. This was the basis for the 

 filing of objections to the application of the 

 collector. 



The County court of Madison county held 

 against the farmers and the Supreme court 

 affirmed the decision of the County court. 

 The Supreme court, in its opinion, finds that 

 "the evidence justifies the conclusion that in 

 the assessment actually made, the ratio of the 

 assessed valuation of city and village lots to 



Make It the Com Belt 's National Sport 



SO well was the state husking contest 

 handled by the Montgomery County 

 Farm Bureau folks that scarcely nothing was 

 overlooked that could contribute to the com- 

 fort of the onlookers and to the efficiency 

 of the competition. Even a com-sheller 

 style pencil sharpener attached to the busi- 

 ness-end of the scales was provided. 



Staging a husking contest, whether county 

 or state, is no small job. The state contest 

 required the services of 148 officials, and 

 they worked with a will. The ladies did 

 their bit and then some in furnishing good 

 food, tasty and hot. 



Next year we hope more Farm Bureaus 

 will have county husking contests. With 

 more county contests, there could be no mis- 

 take about getting the very best picker out 

 of each county. C. V. Gregory, editor of 

 Prairie Farmer, which is sponsoring the con- 

 tests in Illinois, said after the Hillsboro af- 

 fair that quite likely many individual entries 

 could be eliminated next year if there are 

 enough county contests to give a fair rep- 

 resentation of the state. Farm Bureaus 

 which held county contests this year seem 

 well pleased with the sport as a morale 

 builden 



There's nothing like a snappy huskin' con- 

 test to put a kick in the atmosphere! And 

 farmers say that a contest benefits a whole 

 community. One farmer in Montgomery 

 county said his boys averaged from five to 

 ten bushels more a day after they watched 

 the style of the good buskers competing in a 

 contest. 



How about com shuckin' as the National 

 game of the Corn Belt? And hog callin' as 

 the Com Belt's song? 



ANOTHER service of your organization is 

 the promotion of the consumption of 

 farm products. Recently the famous "Red" 

 Grange and "Five Yards" McCarty testified 

 to representatives of the Record as to the im- 

 portant part milk has had in making them 

 football heroes. This was broadcast to the 

 world. No need to tell you what the kids with 

 football aspirations who read these stories will 

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