December 5, 1925 



The niinoig Agricultural Association RECORD 



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LA. A. Cream Reports 

 Force Local Stations 

 to Pay Better Prices 



Spread Between Butter Fat 

 and Butter Prices Reduced 

 Through Price Reporting 

 Service of Department 



Weekly reports issued by the 

 dairy marketing department of the 

 I. A. A. giving the butter fat prices^ 

 paid by Illinois cream stations, 

 have had a marked influence in re- 

 <!ucing the spread between the 

 price of 90-score butter and butter 

 fat, according to A. D. Lynch, di- 

 rector. 



This "bullish" influence on the 

 prices paid for butter fat by Illi- 

 nois cream stations was brought out 

 in a report by Director Lynch 

 which showed a decrease of four 

 cents a pound in the spread be- 

 tween 90-score butter prices and 

 the prices paid fanners for their 

 butter fat over a period of 18 

 months. 



In May, 1924, when the weekly- 

 price reports were first issued, the 

 average difference in price between 

 butter fat and 90-score butter was 

 five cents a pound. Six months lat- 

 ei*~ the Illinois cream stations had 

 raised their price standards and the 

 spread was reduced to four cents. 

 The weekly reports were then con- 

 tinued for another year and during 

 October of this year, the .average 

 spread was less than one cent a 

 pound. 



Report* From 42 Counties 

 Figures for these reports are 

 compiled by the I. A. A. dairy de- 

 partment through the co-operation 

 of 125 members in 42 Illinois coun- 

 ties who send in an account of the 

 prices paid for butter fat at their 

 respective cream stations each Sat- 

 urday in the month. These reports 

 are summarized and a statement is- 

 sued by the dairy department giv- 

 ing the average prices paid for but- 

 ter fat in the various counties ajid 

 the differences between these prices 

 and the market "quotations on 90- 

 Ecore butter. 



These differences are brought to 

 the attention of farm bureau 

 members who in turn investigate 

 the reason for the spread. This in- 

 directly influences the cream buyer 

 to pay a higher price for the dairy 

 product. 



"In one lUinois county," states 

 Director Lynch, "the spread has 

 been reduced nine cents a pound 

 in the last 18 months and has in- 

 directly given an additional profit 

 of nine cents on each pound of but- 

 . ter fat marketed by the farmer of 

 that county." 



« Co-Op> Force Price Up 



Reports from the 42 counties 

 also show that cream stations lo- 

 cated in counties where co-opera- 

 tive creameries are in opferation 

 pay higher prices for butter fat 

 than in counties where there are 

 no co-operative cream marketing 

 efforts. This was brought out par- 

 ticularly in Carroll and Stephenson 

 counties during October of this 

 year. Both of these counties have 

 co-operative creameries and the 

 average prices paid for butter fat 

 were 47.2 cents and 49.0 cents re- 

 spectively, as compared with the av- 

 erage price of all counties of 46.1 

 cents. 



This result is also found in a 

 comparison of states. In Ohio, 

 where co-operative cream market- 

 ing is more extensive than in Illi- 

 nois, the farmers receive an aver- 

 age; of five cents more for their but- 

 ter fat than those of Illinois. 



"In general, it is found that 

 through co-operative marketing op- 

 erations the net return to farmers 

 amounts to an increase of from 

 seven to ten per cent," states Direc- 

 tor Lynch. "This increased price, 

 due to co-operative efforts benefits 

 the outsiders as well as the mem- 

 ber." 



Perched 300 feet above Randolph street, Chicago, on the tiptop of 

 the new Hotel Sherman, is a new Georgian residence which is a mid- 

 western "White House" where President. Coolidge will make his head- 

 quarters when he comes to address the American Farm Bureau Feder- 

 ation Seventh Annual Meeting, December 7. 



It is an honest-to-goodness two-story house with stairs connecting 

 the first floor with the upstairs, where there are four master bedrooms. 

 Downstairs there is a wood paneled living room with a wood-burning 

 fireplace, a dining room and a kitchen. The tall west windows look out 

 on a yard which is to be planted in grass. This yard is surrounded by 

 an old fashioned tall brick wall. 



President Cbolidge will deliver his speech, which will be in the 

 presence of approximately 750 Illinois farmers, in the "basement" to 

 his midwestern "White House." 



HbNBT CoCNTT HA8 INntKABED ITS KARM 



bureau membership atjout 13 per cent. 



Albxandrr I.booe. phehidemt of the Intbb- 



natioiuil Harvester f'ttaipany, recently stated 

 before the National Industrial Conference 

 Board, New Yoric, a research organitation for 

 industrial interests, that atcrieultural inequality 

 beean before the war and that it is newspaper 

 writers and so-called econoniists who are filhoB 

 the papers with bombast as to the oome-baclc 

 of the fanner. He said that the farm situation 

 is better than two years ago. but nothing has 

 happened loolcing toward a permanent im- 



pcvveoieot. 



Illinois Farmers Sell 

 Half of Eggs During 4 

 Lowest Priced Months 



One half of the eggs produced in 

 Illinois are marketed during the 

 months of March, April, May and 

 June, according to F. A. Gougler, 

 director of the LA. A. poultry and 

 egg marketing department. 



"It has been noted," states Direc- 

 tor Gougler, "that during the four 

 months which we call our flush sea- 

 son, 50 per cent of the eggs move 

 to market and the other half are 

 distributed throughout the other 

 eight months. This heavy move- 

 ment always comes during the sea- 

 son of low prices. In fact, the 

 heavy marketing is responsible for 

 the low prices at that time of the 

 year. Likewise, it has been noted 

 that November is the low month of 

 production, the average farmer sell- 

 ing only half a case during the 

 month, and this accounts for the 

 high prices for fresh eggs during 

 the winter months." 



Pacific Cout Producert Sell in Fall 



Director Gougler points out that 

 one of the important phases of a co- 

 operative marketing association will 

 be to educate its members to the 

 need of changing their production 

 methods in order to produce the 

 largest volume of eggs during the 

 high price months. A notable ex- 

 ample of heavy production in 

 months of high prices is found on 

 the Pacific Coast where co-opera- 

 tive marketing of eggs has been 

 carried out extensively. Figures 

 from those states show that 84 per 

 cent of the Pacific Coast eggs sold 

 on the New York market during the 

 winter of 1924-25 were marketed 

 in the high price months of Novem- 

 ber, December, January and Feb- 

 ruary. On the other hand during 

 the heavy months of production in 

 other states, the Pacific Coast pro- 

 ducers sell less than 25 per cent of 

 their annual production. 



Sella 20 Cases Annually 



The average size flock on an Illi- 

 nois farm is 106 and from this, it 

 is estimated that Illinois farmers 

 sell approximately six dozen eggs 

 per hen. Therefore, one farmer, 

 with an average number of 100 

 laying hens, will sell annually 600 

 dozen or 20 cases of eggs. Under 

 present marketing and production 

 methods these eggs are marketed by 

 months as follows: 



No. of 

 Month Cases 



January „ , -_ 1 



February H4 



March _ 2 



April „ S 



May .. _ 8 



June . 2 



July s 



August m 



September 1% 



October , 1 



November .^ ... __. M, 



December .„ „ j„ 1 



19 Counties Expect 

 To Feature ^uckin * 

 Contests Next Fall 



Nine Others Say 'Prohably" 

 or "Maybe" and Five ^- 

 swer "No"; Stark County 

 Member World Champ 



I. A. A. Prie ^Bnts O ub Medals 



Seven State CKampion Club Win- 

 ners Given IMedals at 1. A. A. 

 Bfeakfast 



Coolidge To Be Served 

 Only Co-op Foods When 

 He Dines With A. F. B. F 



It's a 100 per cent co-operative 

 meal that President Coolidge will 

 jat when he takes lunch with the 

 national officers and presidents of 

 the state Farm Bureaus at the an- 

 nual meeting of the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation, Chicago, Mon- 

 day, Dec. 7. 



The milk that the President will 

 drink will be "Creamy Products" 

 milk from tuberculin tested cows 

 and sold by the Quincy Co-opera- 

 tive Milk Producers' Association, a 

 co-op that has a record of paying 

 its members the highest price and 

 selling to the consumers at the low- 

 est pric^ of any milk distributing 

 agency in the United States. Only 

 "Vita-Gold" cream, produced by the 

 Stephenson . County Co-operative 

 Cream Producers' Association. 



Following the state com husking 

 contest held in Montgomery county 

 and the mid-west competition in 

 Mercer county, keen intere.st has 

 developed among a large number of 

 county Farm Bureaus in "com 

 shuckin' " as a farm sport. 



Both Elmer Williams of Stark 

 county and Walter W. Olson of 

 Knox county, winners of first and 

 second in the state and mid-west 

 contests, respectively, are members 

 of the Fawn Bureau. 



Williams hung up an official 

 world's record in the mid-west con- 

 test with 35.9 bushels, while Oli;on 

 was not far behind with 34.03 

 bushels in the 80-minute battle. 



A questionnaire sent to each farm 

 advfeer in the state asking the qucs- 

 tion» "Do you plan to have a coun- 

 ty Busking contest next fall?" re- 

 sulted in 33 replies (by Nov. 28), 

 19 •f which said "yes," 9 "prob- 

 ably^' or "maybe" and 5 "no." 



"tVe anticipate a big event in our 

 courtty contest next year," states 

 Adviser E. E. Brown for Stark coun- 

 "The Rio Community Men's Club 

 held a banquet in honor of Walter 

 Olsoh last night," Adviser L. R. 

 Marchant of Knox county writes. 

 "Some eighty men voted to co- 

 operate in conducting a local contest. 



The Farm Bureaus which have 

 rather definitely decided, although 

 In s«me cases not oflicially, to hold 

 county husking contests next fall 

 are: Shelby, Hancock, Knox, Doug- 

 las, ■ Carroll, Christian, McLean, 

 Taz«well, Iroqouis, Piatt, DeWitt, 

 Ford, Warren, Henry, Clark, La- 

 Salle, Rock Island, McDonough and 

 StaHc. 



Those reporting "no": Pike, 

 Lawrence, Crawford, Madison and 

 Vermilion. "Probably" or "may- 

 be": Sangamon, Peoria, Bond, 

 Schuyler, Ogle, Grundy, DeKalb, 

 Macbn and Henderson. Other coun- 

 1 ti es proba b ly wi ll be heard from. 



MIMEOGRAPHING IS HER PET PEEVE! 



This is the first of a series of stories <Aout farm bureau secretaries of 

 Illinois. The work of the office secretary, is important to the success of 

 every Farm Bureau. The efficiency displayed in handling the office rou- 

 tine, her knowledge of the work and farm problems arid her courteous 

 personality in greeting the office pisitors reacts directly upon the mem- 

 bership. During the coming months our readers will meet some twenty 

 of the farm bureau office secretaries who have been in the service the 

 longest period of time. — Editor. 



UVITHERE will I find the cow we are finding the least trouble in 

 W tester ( county veterin- gettihg new members and renewing 



arian)?" is one of the questions 

 asked most frequently by farmers of 

 Lake county, according to Miss 

 Blanche Osborne, who has held the 

 position of ofiice 



Tbb Michioan Potato Ghowkks' Exchanoe, 

 Cadillac, Mich., has sold nearly 19.000 cars of 

 potatoes for its afGliAted local associations in 

 seven years. The number of cars handled each 

 season has sversfed from 2,11S to 3,250. 



secretary of the 

 Lake County 

 Farm Bureau for 

 nearly six years, 

 in answering 

 a questionnaire 

 from the infor- 

 mation depart- 

 ment of the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural 

 Association. 



Another ques- 

 tion we hear sev- 

 eral times a day, 

 writes Miss Os- 

 borne, is, "Where 

 will I find the 

 farm adriser?" 

 From this it is 

 readily gathered 

 that personal 

 service plays an 

 important part in 

 the work of the 

 Lake County 



Farm Bureau, for when asked what 

 she considers the most important 

 phase of farm organization work, 

 Miss Osborne writes : 



"While it possibly should not be 

 true, nevertheless, in our county the 



old ihemberships. 



"The value of tuberculosis test- 

 ing to the dairymen of the Chicago 

 district, writes Miss Osborne, "is the 

 most important 

 problem facing 

 the farmers of 

 Lake county to- 

 day." To this she 

 ads that the util- 

 ization of the 

 various side-lines 

 of farming that 

 will bring the 

 farmers consider- 

 able income be- 

 side milking cows 

 is always a cause 

 for more or less 

 trouble in her 

 section. Lake 

 county is located 

 in the center of 

 the district that 

 supplies the Chi- 

 cago milk. 



This secretary 



says that the best 

 MISS BLANCHE OSBORNE ..J . .j^ 



SMretary, L.ake County >ami Bureal^ '"'"8 ^"e ""eS 



LibertyvUle about her work is 



- the personal con- 



tact with people and their problems, 

 and the necessity of using her wits 

 in giving the service when she is the 

 only one around the oflice. Mim- 

 eographing is her pet peeve. 



Miss Osborne denies that she is 



{Seven medals were 



given to state cham- 



pibn boys' and girls' 



cl*b winners by the 



Illinois Agricultural 



Alsociation when 113 



Illinois farm boys and 



girls, attending 



the club con- 



gress, were 



at a breakfast 



entertain- 



ment given by 



the I. A. A. in 



the Crystal room 



of the Great 



Northern 



hotel, Chicago, 



Dec. 2. 



The med a I 

 winners were 



f resented to the 

 , A. A. by Dean 

 H. W. Mumford, 

 of the college of 

 agriculture, Uni- 

 versity of Illi- 

 nois, and the I. 

 A. A. medals- 

 were presented 

 by P r e s i d eji t 

 &. H. Thompson. 

 Following the 

 presenta- 

 tion of the med- 

 als, one boy and 

 one girl winner 

 responded with a 

 short talk for the 

 guests. 



Tho.se who re- 

 ceived I. A. A. 

 medals were: 

 Donald Cam- 

 eron of Peori* county, was de- 

 clared state champion at the live- 

 stock judging tontest iicUi at Ur- 

 bana, August 17. Donald, who is 

 president of the H^na City pig 

 club, has been dhosen by the Peoria 

 county boys ani girl.- club commit- 

 tee as the PeoHa county pig club 

 champion for 1925. 



Elmrr Becker, Adrian Bullington 

 and Donald Deafi nf Bureau county, 

 members of the istate champion live- 

 stock judging t4am which made the 

 greatest numbef of points in the 

 judging contest held at Urbana, 

 Aug. 17. 



Clifford Ericsson, Donald Nelson 

 and Leonard Lwiegran, members of 

 the DcKalk cofnty dairy judging 

 team, which Was declared stale 

 champion dairy team. 



Other state dub champions who 

 were given medhls at the I. A. A. 

 breakfast by their respective county 

 Farm Bureaus Were: 



personal service of the farm advis- : marr«>d but. when asked her opin 

 er to the members is the most im- ion Aether it is better to be a farm 

 portant. We have that demon- bureau secretary than married she 

 strated now in our membership cam- writes: "That's hardly fair to ask be- 

 paign. In localities where more | fore we've tried it Both might be 

 personal service has been rendered i O. K." 



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24th District Farmers 

 Discuss Ji. R. Rates 



(Continued /roft page 1, eoL 3.) 



stone usage, as initiated by our 

 Farm Bureaus. ' 



"That the limestone and trans- 

 portation depart^ients of our 1. A. 

 A. co-operate with our Farm Bu- 

 reaus and the lead mines of Mis- 

 souri in securing the best possible 

 rate on limestoiie chat from the 

 Missouri supply ; for southern Illi- 

 nois; 



"■That we recofimend that the ac- 

 tivities of tJie P^ucers' Livestock 

 Commission Association on all Ter- 

 minal markets sir\ing Illinois be 

 given special mention through the 

 I. A. A. Record ^ to the compara- 

 tive amounts of business handled bv- 

 these firms at thfir respective mar- 



"That the T. f . testing of cattle 

 be urged at tht earliest possible 

 date throughout ^e counties of the 

 24th district; ' 



"And be it furpier resolved, that 

 this meeting go <*i record as favor- 

 ing a continuance of these district 

 meetings, and thit we urge a n)ore 

 enthusiastic fnter^ and a better at- 

 tendance." 



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