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The Illinois Agricultural A»»ociation RECORD 



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March 1, 1926 



Illinois Accredited 

 Hatcheries Announced 

 by State Department 



Thirty-eight I-Iatcheries of 

 More Than 180,000 Birds 

 Have Passed Required Rules 

 and Regulations 



Wh in Farmers' Week was held 

 at the University of Wisconsin not 

 !unK P go, the Farm Bureau wets pic- 

 tured like you see above. 



The men are; I. M. Wright, sec, 

 retary of the Wisconsin Farm Bu, 

 reau, Orrin Fletcher, former presi 

 dent, arid Sam H. Thompson, also a 

 "formir president." 



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ic action' by the Farm 



Thirty-eight hatcheries, includ- 

 ing 180,000 b'rds, are now listed 

 as accredited institutions by the 

 Illinois Department of Agriculture. 



This plan of government inspec- 

 tion to insure a higher quality of 

 baby chicks hatched and distributed 

 in Illinois, a movement of less than 

 three years, was originally pro- 

 moted by the joint action of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association, 

 the poultry department of the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, the Illinois Baby 

 Chick Association and the Illinois 

 Poultry Association. 



In 1924 there were 36 hatcheries 

 inspected and placed on the ac- 

 credited list. These inspections 

 totaled 800 flocks of approximately 

 120,000 birds. The inspection is 

 made by a representative of the 

 division of standards and markets 

 of the Illinois Department of Agri- 

 culture. Hatcheries are not com- 

 pelled to subject themselves to the 

 examinations but are volunteering 

 to gain the guarantee advertising 

 prestige. 



.A'"crL^itfd hatc-herips a^i announced by H. W. 

 Day, superintendent of the division of 

 standards and markets of the state De- 

 partment of A4rriculture, are: 



Walnut Ridire Hatchery. Butler; Stouffer 

 Erb Farms, Mount Morris ; Chestnut Hatch- 

 ery, Chestnut : Rock River Hatchery. Rock- 

 ford ; Egyptian Hatchery. Sunnnerfield, El- 

 dorado Hatchery, Eldoradn : Kix-helle Etn: 

 Farms, Rochelle: Great Kii?ht Poultry Farm. 

 Carlyle: Brenner Hatchery and Poultn 

 Farm. Freebiirjr; Panville Baby Chick Co.. 

 Danvil^; Edward L. Parker. New Athens : 

 Joseph Mueth. New Athene ; Elzo Saunders, 

 Belleville : Dean and Son Hatchery, Jackson- 

 ville; Eureka Hatchery. Belleville. 



New Era Hatchery. Pittsfleld ; Chaa. W. 

 Norris. Monticello; Farmers' Cooperative 

 Hateher>-. Elirjtheth ; Fairmont Farms. Fair- 

 field ; Mrs. Ross Bartholomew. Vermont; 

 Kemp Creme. Albion : Clinton Hatchery, 

 "linton : Clyde Smith. Colden Gate; Chandler 

 -hatchery. Macomb : Marion J. Porter. Pitts- 

 field ; J. E. F.lsesser. Amboy ; Moultrie Coun- 

 ty Farm niireau Hatchery. Sullivan ; South- 



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}%i ■■;"<•'•. ; ' jr«t favor- 

 ui. i.roiii Cuu ^eiiaie lur u:! 

 appropriation from Con- 

 fer eradication of bovine 

 osis. The amount wa? set 

 000 and Illinois' share is 

 to be J1,000,000. 



Fox wrote each Con- 

 and Senator representing 

 as follows: 



officers and executive com- 



of the Illinois Agricultural 



ion regard an increase in 



eral appropriation for the 



ic^tion of tuberculosis as very 



and necessary. We be- 



hat Congress should approp- 



not less than ?6,000,000 for 



p irpose. 



, therefore, urge that you use 

 influence and give your full 

 to an increase in the ap- 

 tion." 



association stood for a state 

 of $3,000,000 during 

 legislature which was cut 

 ,000,000, 



following Illinois Congress- 

 responded promptly to Seere- 

 's letter and pledged them- 

 whole-heartidly behind an in- 

 appropriation as endorsed 

 Illinois Agricultural Associa- 



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Henry R. Rathbone 



Sen itor Deneen acknowledged re- 

 ceipt (if the letter but failed to in- 

 dttate his position. 



Women in Many Sta tes 



Proposing Marriage to 



Cornhusking Champion 



Young women in many cities 

 have been i)estering Elmer Wil- 

 liams of Toulon, Stark county, 

 with offers of marriage and ex- 

 pressions of admiration ever 

 since he won the world's corn- 

 husking championship last fall 

 at Burgess, Mercer county. 



Reaching the Toulon post of- 

 fice recently was a letter from a 

 Kentucky widow, who, E. E. 

 Brown, the farm advisor of Stark 

 county, wrote to the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association, was 

 anxious "to enlist for a second 

 term," 



Still another was from Elmira, 

 N. Y., and apparently was writ- 

 ten by two young women who 

 expressed themselves as glad to 

 find some one interested in some- 

 thing beside "Charlestoning." 

 Their letter read: 



"Dear Champion: 



"Please accept our congrat- 

 ulations on your wonderful re- 

 cord of corn husking, which was 

 published in a local paper. We 

 were delighted to learn that 

 there was some one interested in 

 attaining a record in a line of 

 this kind rather than Charleston- 

 ing. We envy the dames who 

 were around when the red ears 

 were found. East is east, and 

 west is west, but should the 

 twain ever meet, it would be a 

 pleasure for us to show you our 

 beautiful Chemung Valley." 



The only difficulty with Elmer's 

 growing mail is that he is mar- 

 ried. Mrs. Williams destroyed 

 the last letter he received — but 

 .she enjoys reading them. 



em IIlinoi.s Accredited Hatchery. Murphys- 

 boro ; Rosciio Hatchery. Roscw : J. S. Pen- 

 ninaton. Plainfield ; Corn Belt Hatcheries. 

 Gibiwn City . Oakcrest Fruit and Poultry 

 Farm. Dundas. 



Alt>ert Aiwood. Davis Junction ; Millway 

 Hatchery. McNabb ; Brooks Hatchery. Mt. 

 Sterling; Helena BrowninB. Perry; J. D. 

 (•arren. Centralia; A. Clyde Parfrey, SprinK 

 Grove. 



For Members Only 



Another Monument Meaning Stability 



THE stability of the Farm Bureau 

 is reflected in the increasing 

 number of office buildings built and 

 owned by the organization. '• 



In McDonough county the Bu- 

 reau has a new home, 30x64, cost 

 $12,000 (lot and buildingT, steam 

 heated, front office 15x30, assembly 

 room 15x30, and a rear room 30x 

 .32, which is filled with seed corn 

 brought in by members to be tested. 

 A freight elevator carries it to the 

 basement which is 8 feet in the 

 clear, and 30x64 feet. The seed 

 testing room is 13x22 and is built 

 of shiplap lined inside with roofing 

 paper. Hot water heat keeps a tem- 



perature of around 85 degrees. Its 

 SO trays hold 300 ears each. 



The Bureau is testing about 150 

 bushels a week and expects to turn 

 out 1,500 bushelg before planting 

 time. Of the sack-picked corn from 

 McDonough county fields, reports 

 are that about 85 per cent will be 

 unsuitable for planting and only 10 

 per cent disease free and only 60 

 per cent of crib-selected corn is suit- 

 able for planting. 



Offices such as this one make busi- 

 ness interests respect the Farm Bu- 

 reau more than ever, according to 

 M. L. Hunt, president, who sent in 

 the photograph. ' 



Ch icagoDairymen Who 



Have Tested Organize 



to Protect Themselves 



Pure Milk Association Formed; 

 Object is to Protect Own 

 Interests and Furnish Con- 

 sumer Commodity Wanted 



Will April Fool's Day have a 

 stinger in it for dairymen in the 

 Chicago district? 



April 1, 1926 is the date when 

 the Chicago milk ordinance goes 

 into effect which bars all non-tested 

 milk from being sold in the city. 

 Dairymen who have not tested their 

 herds by that date will be excluded 

 from the Chicago market, according 

 to the ordinance. Dairymen who 

 have tested will not be barred. 



Dairymen in the Chicago milk 

 belt who have tested are carefully 

 preparing for the deadline day — 

 now only a month away. Their 

 preparation is organization and 

 their organization is the Pure Milk 

 Association, which is being formed 

 to protect their interests and to give 

 Chicago the kind of milk its con- 



I sumeTs want. 



Membership in the Pure Milk 

 Association is limited strictly to 

 farmers whose herds have been 

 tested for bovine tuberculosis or 

 those who have filed applications 

 for testing with authorities in 

 charge. 



This is the entrance require- 

 ment set up by the board of direc- 

 tors of the association, which grew 

 out of the recent controversy be- 

 tween non-testing dairy farmers 

 and health authorities of Chicago. 



"We dairymen who had tested 

 our cattle and were in shape to 

 sell Chicago consumers tested milk 

 as the health department demanded, 

 felt the need of an organization to 

 speak for our interests, so we form- 

 ed one, and it is the Pure Milk As- 

 sociation," says W. C. McQueen of 

 Route 3, Elgin, president. 



"The principal object of the as- 

 sociation is to protect dairymen who 

 have had their herds tested or who 

 will have had them tested by April 

 1, 1926, and, in addition, our object 

 is to furnish Chicago milk consum- 

 ers the kind of milk they want, 

 which we feel is not only good busi- 

 ness practice, but absolutely neces- 

 sary from a health standpoint," Mr. 

 McQueen states. 



l.NNOUNCBD AT BrISKANB, AUSTRALIA. 

 Queensland fcovernment has decided 

 a cotton control board which will 

 for a period of five years beeinning 



JS127. Wonder if the U. S. A. will 

 export corporation by then 7 



lNCRF.l..tEn FARM PRODUCTION THIS YSAK 

 'uill ui doubtf^ly end this favorable eco- 

 nomic pwilh.n." meaning the present "farm 

 prosperi >." ktates the U. S. Department of 

 A;,'ricult ire. In other words, increased pro- 

 .luction a U2fi means still less income Uian 



THIS is a reproduction of the 

 phosphate credit certificate now 

 in use by county Farm Bureaus and 

 the I. A. A. which, when properly 

 filled in at your farm bureau office, 

 win save you 50 cents a ton on 

 phosphate bought under the I. A. A. 

 accredited plan. This lower price 

 is for members only. 



Complete instructions for order- 

 ing can be obtained from your Farm 

 Bureau. Three of the principal 

 phosphate producers are cooperat- 

 ing — they are known a.s "I. A. A. 

 accredited companies." These are: 

 Robin Jones Phosphate Co., 166 

 Fourth Ave., N., Nashville, Tenn, 



Ruhm Phosphate & Chemical Co., 

 Mt. Pleasant, Tenn. 



Thomson Phosphate Co., 137 S. 

 LaSalle St., Chicago. 



"Any one of these companies is 

 in position to take care of any mem- 

 ber's order," states J. R. Bent, di- 

 rector of the phosphate-limestone 

 department. "They are backed up 

 by I. A. A. guarantee as to accuracy 

 of quality, weight and service. All 

 purchasers should specify that they 

 desire I. A. A. service when order- 

 ing and thej will receive a report 

 direct from the I. A. A. Branch 

 Phosphate Supervisional office lo- 

 cated at Columbia, Tenn." 



Here is Secretary Jardine's Attitude 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



C. A. Stawart, F.»ct.tiTe iiaeretarjr, 



BationELl LiTtstock ProduMrs' Asfociation, 

 606 South Dearborn Street, 

 Chicago, Illiaola, 



February \, 1926. 



Uy 4eap I*. Stmrnrtt ; . I , it' 



Throuch the medlun of your letter of Janwry ICth my at- 

 tention has beer, directed to the Deeenber leeue of the County Agent 

 and Farm Bureau, Tills publication carries an item on the charges 

 recently Issued under the Packers ati|l Stockyards Act in a citation 

 to the Chicago Producers Conoission. Association. This article has 

 teen arranged so that the editoritl concient, interspersed with the 

 iext of the citation, all appearing over i^^' signature, may create 

 the lupression that the observations of the editor are expressions 

 *f this Department. In fact, comnunlcatlons which both you and w» 

 have recelTed bear out this conclusion. 



There can be, of course, fto olijection to the coniplete pub- 

 lication of such official documents as r.iEy be issued by the Depert- 

 ment in connection with action similar to that pcmdlng against 

 your or^niiation but it la both objectionable and unfair to 

 suppleoont the text of such documents by statements of the puhlisher 

 in a manner to create possibly the impression that they are. a portion 

 of the text, "aile It is not apparent to me that any action can be 

 taken by the Department against the publishers, 1 do not hesitate 

 to express in this form to you, for whatsTer disposition you ma;/ car« 

 to make of It, my conle«B»tlon of the arrangement of this article. 



V»ry truly yours, 



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