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"The Illinois Agricultural Asgociation RECORD 



November 21, 1925 



Carterville Lions 



Work With Farmers 

 ^ In Co- op Marketing 



Fruit and Vegetable Associa- 

 tion Formed by Co-operation 

 of Farmers and Business 

 Club Proves Success 



MyfUckl of the credit of the 

 IVl xutxess of the Carterville 

 Growers' Association is due to 

 the leadership 

 and work of 

 Logan N. 

 Colp, presi- 

 dent of the as- 

 soeiaiion. As 

 a farmer, Mr. 

 Colp hnew the 

 coTuiition o f 

 local agricul- 

 ture and as 

 vice-p r e s i - 

 dent of t h e 

 Lions club he 

 was able to 

 join the busi- 

 the fanners in 

 making the organization a suc- 

 cess. Colp managea a SiO-acre 

 farm of which 187 acres are 

 planted in fruit trees. He is a 

 director I of the Illinois Fruit 

 Growers^ Exchange, Centralia. 

 ReeentM he has given manu talks 

 before mrtners and businessmen 

 of soutlt}pm Illinois telling of the 

 success of the CarterviUt a.isoci- 

 ation airi^ assisting in organizing 

 similar organizations in that part 

 of the state. 



nes9tnen< 



Williams, Stark County Member, Husks 



Barehanded; Wins State Shuckin' Title 



When the business men and the farm- 

 era get toj^ether on a cooperative^ and 

 mutual project things begin to happen. 

 That is a known fact and Carterville 

 has an example which furnishes a good 

 proof for the axiom. 



It was Isst year that the citizens of 

 Cartervillei be^n to realize that all was 

 not well ah)und their community. Agri- 

 culture ha)d not been doing: well and 

 - Cartervillei depends largely upon its 

 rural people. Farmers were badly in 

 <•«*'♦ Tcr: -...? ' it farming had not 

 l-^,u n ; >-.»i^ sinesa. Mortgages 



"'OFeii incTC i.-intf *n- he average farmer 

 I' ' not h» ■•- *u!^ !.:_. money to make a 

 Change if he desired. 



That was the condition when the 

 Lions Club of Carterville, through the 

 efforts of ^ogan N. Colp, a local farmer, 

 began to take a hand. Farmers were 

 called in f<tr consulation, a careful study 

 of conditidns was made and in October 

 a joint too'r of farmers and merchants 

 was made throu^ the fruit and vege- 

 table districts of southern Illinois. This 

 was followed by local farm meetings 

 with the nesult that last December, the 

 Carterviilej Growers Association, Inc., 

 was formed with seventy-one members. 

 Logan N. ICoIp was elected president. 

 Toniato«s Yield $300 an Acre 



Twenty-five acres of tomatoes were 

 grown by the members this year which 

 netted the«i from $150 to $300 per acre 

 after all expenses were paid. Beans, 

 sweet corn and spinach also were plant- 

 ed by the -tnembers but due to the dry 

 season, thece^rops did not yield as well. 

 These werf not a complete loss by any 

 means because of the unusual climatic 

 conditions !for more than 1000 hampers 

 of green beans, 350 sacks of corn and 

 300 busheU of spinach were shipped to 

 market on a cooperative basis by the 

 association members. 

 . Although it is planned that the pro- 

 duction of fruit shall be the major crop, 

 the members decided to confine their 

 initial efforts to vegetables the first 

 year in order to receive immediate re- 

 turns on their investment. 



The tomato crop proved the big suc- 

 cess. In ^1, fourteen cars or approx- 

 imately 4,000 bushels were shipped by 

 the association. The distribution was 

 handled bv the Illinois Fruit Growers 

 Exchange, rCentralia, and the product 

 was sold o> the market in Chicago, Mil- 

 waukee, sit. Paul, Indianapolis, Cin- 

 cinnati, Rochester, New Yofk and oth«;r 

 prominent points of consumption. 



Green Wraps Profitable ' 



Ten of tke fourteen cars weare shipped 

 as green wrapped tomatoes and thus 

 allowed a wider distribution with less 

 spoilage or loss and greater financial 

 returns, this was the first time that 

 green wrapped tomatoes had been 

 shipped oiit of this district and they 

 took exceptionally well on the markets. 

 It is befieved that the Carterville 

 farmers have established a demand for 

 their greert wrapped tomatoes that will 

 prove of unusual financial benefit in fu- 

 ture seasons. 



Local greenhousemen co-operated with 

 the association members this year and 

 fhe tomatd plants were grown in the 

 Carterville green house on a purely cost 

 of production basis. A local warehouse 

 was rented at a reasonable rate for 

 grading and packing the crops. 



Lions Club to Furnish Wrappers j 



For the next year, the Lions Club of 



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^'fJROWN, I've got to get this news 

 ^-^ to my wife!'* 



So said Elmer Williams when it was 

 announced that his 27.21 bushels which 

 he shucked in eighty minutes in the sec- 

 ond annual state 

 com husking con- 

 test, -conducted by 

 Prairie Farmer, 

 entitled him' to the 

 title of Illinois 

 champion. 



Nineteen other 

 fast corn pickers 

 competed in the 

 contest which was 

 held on the farm of 

 William Bergman, 

 ten miles north of 

 Hillsboro in Mont- 

 gomery county No- 

 vember 12 under 

 auspices of the 

 Montgomery Coun- 

 ty Farm Bureau. 

 While the corn was 

 of %good yield, the 

 ears were high and 

 a long d r i z z I i ng 

 rain the night be- 

 fore caused con- 

 siderable difficulty 

 in getting about. 



"Brown" is the 

 farm adviser of 

 the Stark County 

 Farm Bureau — E. 

 E. Brown. He 

 played a new role 

 for farm advisers 

 — that of coach. 

 Williams. the 



state's newly crowned champion, has been 

 a member of the Stark County Farm 

 Bureau' since it was organized. 



"I wish they'd had these contests ten 

 years ago," declared Williams. "I'm 

 getting so my arms begin to numb, but 

 when I was younger I could toss 'em 

 faster. Why about fourteen years ago 

 I shucked 202 bushels in eight hours 

 and twenty minutes, and one week I got 

 over 800 bushels." 



Williams is 35 years old, 5 feet 6 

 inches tall, 160 pounds in weight and a 

 farmer. 



Adviser Brown was on the job to 

 render rubbing service if necessary, but 

 none was. 



Williams used a shucking peg and 

 worked barehanded. The peg jabbed his 

 left wrist badly. When the contest 

 ended his wrist and hands were bleeding. 

 He tossed from 37 to 42 ears into the 

 wagon per minute. 



Husking 27.21 bushels in eighty min- 

 utes is at the rate of 202 bushels if that 

 pace is maintained for ten hours, 183.6 

 bushels far nine hours, 163 for eijjht 

 hours, or on'e-third of a bushel a min- 

 ute. 



A Cloae Secon<l 



Close on his iieels was Walter W. 

 Olsen, member of the Knox Farm Bu- 

 reau, with 26.56 bushels. Third was 

 Earl Niehaus, 20-year-old son of Ilenry 

 Niehaus, winner of last year's state 

 contest, who could not compele this 

 year because of boils on his wrists. The 

 younger Niehaus, however, turned in a 

 remarkably clean load, havinc only 

 four ounces of ribbons on the 100- 

 pound sample taken from his load. It 

 weighed 1778 pounds, and dividing by 

 a 70-pound bushel gave him a total of 

 25.40 bushels. Henry Franzen of Flana- 

 gan, Livingston county, landed fourth 

 with 25.12 bushels. Oscar Hafremeier of 

 Nokomis, Montgomery county, took 

 fifth with 25 bushels. 



Other placings were as follows: 6 — 

 Orville Welch, Monticello, Piatt county. 

 24.6 bushels; 7 — M. V, Beck, Rochester, 

 Sangamon county. 24.5 bushels; 8 — 

 Theodore Tuftie, Ottawa, LaSalle coun- 

 ty, 23.93 bushels; 9 — Wayne Umphries, 

 Covell, McLean county, 23.74 bushels; 

 10— E. C. Henry, Piper City, Ford coun- 

 ty, 23.3 bushels; 11 — Pearl Mansfield, 

 Montgomery county. 22.05 bushels; 12 — 

 O. R. Pawley, Aledo, Mercer county, 

 21.94 bushels; 13 — William Wellenreiter, 

 Danvers, McLean county, 21.89 bushels; 

 14 — Gus Miller, Geneseo, -Henry county, 

 21.66 bushels; 15 — Curtis Robb, Taylor- 

 ville. Christian county, 20.9 bushels; 16 

 — Earl Marquis, Bethany, Moultrie 



Illlnoli' New ( h mp in Action 



(jounty, 20.42 bushels: 17 — Grover Leigh, 

 Sangamon county, 20.19 bushels; 18 — 

 Souvie Harland, Marietta, Fulton coun- 

 ty, 18.81 bushels; 10--Joe Morford. 

 Alexis, Mercer county, 18.14 bushels; 

 20 — Dave Spain, 

 Armstrong, Ver- 

 million county, 17.35 

 bushels. 



Penalty For Too 

 Many Ribbons 



Under the system 

 of scoring used, a 

 100-pound sample 

 v;as taken , from 

 ctich contestant's 

 corn. All husks left 

 on ears in this 

 samp'.e were re- 

 moved and weigh- 

 p.l. No penalty was 

 mrtde if not more 

 ihan four ounces 

 of husks were 

 found, but for each 

 ounce over four, 

 three per cent was 

 t .ken off the total 

 weight of the corn. 

 Some contestants 

 were penalized 

 heavily because of 

 "dirty" husking and 

 those wh;> turned 

 in clean loads were 

 Lt-nefitted. For 

 each pound of corn 

 left behind in the 

 field, each contest- 

 • ant was penalized 

 two pounds from the total husked. 



Several of the contestants earned the 

 right to enter the state contest by win 

 ning in county contests, several of which 

 were put on by county Farm Bureaus 

 Others entered by , offidavit as to 

 amounts they had shucked under obser^ 

 vation of some onlooker. It is expected 

 that more county contests will be held 

 by Farm Bureaus next year and individ- 

 ual entries eliminated. 



About 3,000 People 



About 680 cars were counted as the 

 onlookers left for ,home, and it was 

 estimated that at least 3,000 people saw 

 the event. 



Handling such a crowd in an efficient 

 manner, and also superintending the 

 many details of the contest itself, was 

 the, job of the Montgomery County 

 Farm Bureau. That this was well done 

 was the opinion of everyone. One hun 

 dred and forty-eight men were required 

 as gleaners, drivers, judges, timekeepers, 

 mounted police and officials. Col. R. B. 

 Warrjsiiig of Nokomis was in charge. 

 His close assistants were: Will Reb- 

 ham and Louis Weller of Raymond 

 Farm Adviser Alden Snyder and others 

 of the Farm Bureau deserve much credit 

 .for the efficient manner in which the 

 contest was handled. The Hillsboro 

 Chamber of Commerce gave good sup- 

 port. Appetites were appeased by the 

 hospitable ladies of the locality who 

 served food during the day. 



The farm is owned by Garrett Fere- 

 boom and Mr. Bergman is the renter, 

 Most of the 680 automobiles were park- 

 ed on a bluegrass pasture and it was 

 badly cut up. 



"Aw, don't worry about that pasture," 

 Bergman said alter the contest, "it 

 hasn't been in com for forty years, so 

 I'll plow it up next spring." 



MKlwest Contest Next 



Both Williams and Olsen will rep- 

 resent Illinois in the Midwest contest 

 Sn Mercer county, Illinois, November 19. 

 There is keen desire to bring the corn 

 belt championship to Illinois this year. 

 State champions of Illinois, Iowa, Ne- 

 braska, and Minnesota, and perhaps rep- 

 resentatives of Indiana and South 

 Dakota, will compete. 



W. J. Sharer, representing the Burv 

 iress Community Club, an important 

 part of the Mercer County Farm Bur- 

 eau, invited all to attend the Midwest 

 contest in the "best county in Illinois^ 

 but! if I lived in Montgomery county, 

 I'd say this is the best ohe." 



"Beat Iowa! Beat Iowa!" answered 

 the crowd. 



Carterville has offered to famish free, 

 of charge, special printed wrappers for 

 the green tomatoes shipped by the as- 

 sociation. The product will be market- 

 ed under the "lUini" brand but the 

 wrapper will bear the name of the as- 

 sociation and a statement to the effect 

 that the organization was sponsored by 

 the Carterville Lions Club. 



It is expected that next year the 

 membership of the Carterville Growers 

 Association will number more than 150 

 and at least 60 to 75 cars of vegetables 

 will be handled by the association. 'The 

 members were well satisfied with the 

 results this year. 



The. success of the Carterville grow- 

 ers has come to the attention of both 

 farmers and towns people throughout 

 the district and it is understood that 

 the Rotary and Lions' clubs of many 

 towns are making arrangements to co- 



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operate with the farmers in sponsoring 

 fruit and vegetable associations in their 

 respective communities. 



The total, sales of the Carterville 

 Growers Association this year has been 

 estimated at approximately J13,000 and 

 was made up of $11,000 in tomatoes, 

 (1,500 in beans and $500 in spinach and 

 corn. This was a good start and with 

 similar success next year it is expected 

 that the total sales will reach a mark of 

 at least four times this amount. 



Officers of --the association include: 

 Logan N. Colp,' president; Jay Bick, 

 Vice-president; Leo Watson, secre- 

 tary-treasurer and J. W. Hayton, Matt 

 Conner, J. B. Moulton, Claude Cox and 

 Richard North, directors. 



Rains, Bad Roads 



Slow Farm Bureau 

 Membership Drive 



Rains, snows and bad roads daring the 

 past two weeks have combined in re- 

 tarding the membership renewal cam- 

 paigns in many counties of the state, 

 according to Geo. E. Metjtger, I. A. A. 

 director of organization. 



"Membership drives have been in 

 progress in many counties and their re- 

 sults have been encouraging," states 

 Director Metzger. "However, when many 

 of the roads became in such a condition 

 that our cars mired down to the hubs, 

 we were forced to quit and wait until 

 the boggs freeze up or become dry 

 enough to be passable. In counti^ hav- 

 ing hard roads we have been able to 

 complete the solicitation of the members 

 living on tha concrete highways. We are 

 unable to complete the cancpaighs in 

 many counties until the side roads are 

 in better condition. 



"The recent continuous rains have 

 caused great losses to many Illfhois 

 farmers. In our work in the countVy we 

 find that thousands are unable to get in 

 the fields to harvest their corn. These 

 rains have been exceptionally prevalent 

 in our southern counties. In one county, 

 which ordinarily sows a large acreage 

 of wheat, it is said that this fall the 

 farmers have been able to sow less than 

 100 acres on the entire county. 



"Under these conditions we are hold- 

 ing up our membership campaigns. 

 Several of our solicitors have been with- 

 drawn to curtail expenses." 



New Game Law Makes 

 "No Hunting" Signs 

 Mean What They Say 



Several county Farm Bureaus in Illi* 

 nois are furnishing "No Hunting" signs 

 to members. In the last legislature an 

 amendment to the game laws was en- 

 auied which protects an owner or tenant 

 who posts a "No Hunting" sign on his 

 premises, or inserts a small advertise- 

 ment in the local newspaper telling that 

 no hunting is permitted. 



The text is as follows: 



"It shall be unlawful for any person 

 to trap or hunt with a gun or a dog, 

 or allow a dog to hunt within or upon 

 the land of another or upon the waters 

 Bowing over or standing on the land of 

 another, where notice that hunting or 

 trespassing is forbidden, is posted or 

 exhibited in a conspicuous place on such 

 land, or where the owner, agent of the 

 owner, or occupant has expressly for- 

 bid.ien hunting or trespassing on such 

 land by publication in a local news- 

 paper," 



in analyzing this amendment, Legal 

 Counsel Kirkpatrick states that it 

 serves as a protection for those who 

 put up signs or who advertise, yet does 

 not lessen the protection of the owner 

 ur tenant as it stood before the game 

 law was amended. 



The penalty for violation is a fine of 

 not less than $15 nor more than $100, 

 or county jail imprisonment of not less 

 than 10 days nor more than 20 days, 

 ;il, the discretion of the court. 



Jardine and Lowden 

 to Speak at Meeting 



(Continued from page 1, col. 6) 



A conunittee to consider any pro- 

 posals for amending the I. A. A. con- 

 stitution, should there be any, was also 

 appointed. The members are: B. H. 

 Taylor, Rapatee,; Fulton county; Samuel 

 Sorrells, Raymond, Montgomery coun- 

 ty and G. F. Tullock, Rockford, Winne- 

 bago county. Proposals to amend the 

 constitution must be submitted 20 days 

 in advance of the annual meeting in 

 order that all voting delegates may be 

 notified, according to the by-laws of the' 

 I. A. A. ' 



Other actions taken by the executive 

 committee in its November meeting 

 were: approval of the treasurer's finan- 

 cial report which showed the I. A. A. is 

 operating under its budget; received a 

 report on grain marketing, a story 

 of which is in another column, and re- 

 ceived a verbal report from the legis- 

 lative committee telling of work being 

 done to forjji a citizens' protective body 

 for the purpose of pushing a state po- 

 lice bill in the next legislature which 

 would have the support of the Illinois 

 Chamber of Commerce. Illinois Bank-^ 

 ers' Association and the I. A. A. 



All three organizations are co-oper- 

 ating in this effort to secure a state 

 police bill which will furnish adequate 

 rural protection and without undesir- 

 able political influences. 



"No TRE8PASR"8triVSARR BEADT^R nELTYBRT 



to all niembera uf tlig Winnebago CVunty Farm 

 Bureau. 



Iv A LETTER TO TBB IlLTNOIS AgHICCTLTCHAL 



SMiciation coneerniiiR the Kecobd, the Literary 

 nw-8t says "We are K>oliing forward to re- 



f^ivinff fiitiirii lauii.^ t-<t *\ila .•.*a_«.a4£.._ _.._li;^_ 



.VRECENTftCRVKYOf-THElJ.S. D. A. REVEALED 



■ha( 70 p€T»(fiit of th« price ptii.i by cunsuiiu-ro 

 ii Button for onions was ab6<»rb€^ in iiandliiiK 

 ii«t8 y>etwe<-n the prtxtm-era and the conaumerH, 



T«B Chicago Prodccerb handIb about 

 5 p**. cent of the tutu I livestock receipts on the 

 Chicaj^o market after deducting shipnieDta 

 Uii;^t to packers. 



NrARLT Two-mmtM! or thB nation's cran*- 

 berry crop is marketed Cooperatively. 



Gougler and Wicker 

 Address Members at 

 District Conference 



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. A. A. and Woodford County 

 Farm Bureau Compliment- 

 ed by Members at 1 6th 

 District Meeting, Oct. 27 



A. R. Wrtsht 



Poultry and egg marketing, principles 

 involved in developing successful co-op- 

 erative organiza- 

 tions and p general 

 review of tne^rob- 

 lema and projects 

 of the county Farm 

 Bureaus were the 

 chief subjects dis- 

 cussed at the 16th 

 district I. A. A. 

 conference held at 

 Henry, Oct. 27. 



Thirty-two farm 

 bureau officers, ad- 

 visers and members 

 from Marshall, 

 Putnam, Peoria, 



Bureau, Stark and Tazewell counties 

 attended the meeting. A. R. Wright, 

 I. A. A. executive committeeman, who 

 will reflect the wishes and expressions 

 of the leaders on to the state organiza- 

 tion, presided as chairman with F. E. 

 Fuller, adviser, Marshall-Putman Farm 

 Bureau, as secretary. 



During the morning session, F. A. 

 Gougler, director of the I. A. A. poul- 

 try and egg marketing department, told 

 the members about the Ilfinois poultry 

 and egg marketing plan that is now 

 in the educational stage in many coun- 

 ties. It was the opinion of those 

 present that most farmers will be will- 

 ing to take better care of the eggs by 

 gathering them twice a day, "swatting 

 the rooster" and in general, produce a 

 higher quality of eggs, provided there 

 IS a profit for doing so. Under present 

 marketing conditions farmers get little 

 or nothing extra for the extra work. 

 Woodford Conntv Praised 



Following the noon hour, the meet- 

 ing was turned over to a round-table 

 discussion of the problems and projects 

 of the various Farm Bureaus repre- 

 sented. The progress of the membership 

 drives w^ reviewed and the unanimous 

 opinion was stated in the belief that, 

 when possible, non-members should be 

 excluded from participation in the bene- 

 fits of the Farm Bureau. 



Hog vaccination work which makes a 

 saving in lower costs of serum to farm- 

 ers was reported as saving more than 

 the cost of running the Farm Bureaus 

 of the district. Praise was given to tfce 

 Woodford County Farm Bureau for its 

 discovery of Krug corn and work in in- 

 creasing the yield. Tazewell county 

 representatives related the work with 

 their automobile insurance for members. 

 I. A. A. Complimented 



The work of the I. A. A. was compli- 

 mented by J. E. Shanklin of Toluca, who 

 stated that he saw the great value of 

 the organization at the time of the 

 hearing of the state commerce commis- 

 sion in defense of the farmers' elevator 

 which he represents at Varna. This 

 elevator company owns property along 

 a railroad that is attempting to cease 

 operations, thus leaving the elevator 

 stranded for want of transportation fa- 

 cilities. "When these emergencies arise 

 we see the great value of sticking to- 

 gether," he stated. 



Geo. R. Wicker, manager of the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Co-operatives' Asso- 

 ciation, the I. A. A. co-operative audit- 

 ing and business service, made the after- 

 noon address. He explained the neces- 

 sity of a solid foundation for grain 

 marketing founded upon farmers' eleva- 

 tors. He stated that now farmers* ele- 

 vator associations are getting together 

 on a plan acceptable to all. 



Thirty-two Present 



Those present at the meeting, accord- 

 ing to counties represented, included: 



Marshall-Putnam County Farm Bureau — 

 J. £. Shapklin. John McDonald. H. H. Heat- 

 ings. A. K Wright, I. A. A. executive com- 

 mittee, Charles Martin, Ben Modro, H. I. 

 Webber, J. A Shanklin, J. T Mills. John 

 Schmitt. H. H. Thierry. J. E. CarlBOn. Otis 

 McCUry, A. M. Stoner, F. E. Fuller, farm 

 adviser. Louis Boyle, assistant adviser. F. 

 E. Smith. George Wheeler. William Dow- 

 ney, L. F. Doyle. David Sipe and Guy 

 French. 



Peoria County Farm Bureau— Charles 

 Ford, president ; and C. R. Coultas. assist- 

 ant adviser. 



Bureau County Farm Bureau — Herman 

 Madsen. William Habercom. and W. W. 

 Wilson, farm adviser. * 



SUrk County Farm Bureau — Ed. Welcox 

 and E. E. Brown, farm adviser. 



Tasewell County Farm Bureau — L. E. 

 Wetk and President Morris. 



Facrr treks {and many spbino and eaklt 

 summer flowers within a radius of 60 tnijes of 

 EKiquoin. Perry county, were in bloom or bud thia 

 fall, uakiiig two "spring seaaons" for 1926. 



The board of the Vrruilion County Fabu 

 Bureau has expreaMed it^-If as favoring a corn 

 husking rate of five cents a bushel for this fall 

 and feels this is the average in central Illinois. 



J. Franklin Hedocock, pasm adviber of thS 

 Will County Farm Bureau, was one of the speak* 

 era at the National Conference of County Agenta 

 which was heU at the National Dairy Show. 

 Indianapolis. 



Most animals aboct the farm bate a 

 name. Why not give one to the farm too? 



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