May 1, 1926 



The Illinois Agricultural Asgociation RECORD 



Pag* 3 



DOESN'T FARMING MERIT PROTEQION GIVEN OTHER CLASSES? 



Here's High Spots of Executive Body's I 



Meeting April 7; Picnic at Mt. Vernon 



THE high spots of the executive 

 committee meeting on April 7 

 are summarized as follows: 



1. Treasurer's report, on motion 

 by Moody, seconded by Tullock, or- 

 dered received and placed on file. 



2. Report by Barton, chairman 

 of public relations sub-committee, 



that I. A. A. lend its 

 I. A. A. to moral support to Illinois 

 Help Solve Association for Criminal 

 Crime Justice, the purpose of 



Problem which is to obtain in- 

 formation concerning 

 criminal justice and make recom- 

 mendations. A similar organization 

 in Missouri has done good work. 

 Donald Kirkpatrick, I. A. A. legal 

 counsel, has assisted the cause. Mo- 

 tion by Barton, seconded by Whisn- 

 and, that recommendation be 

 adopted. 



Report by Barton concerning pos- 

 sibilities of helping form state-wide 

 farm bureau protective association. 

 Information obtained insufficient 

 for action and more time required. 



3. Report by Tullock, chairman 

 committee on financial business 



service, on Farmers 

 Reiniurance Mutual Reinsurance 

 Company Company. The com- 

 Makint pany, he reported, is 



Steady making a steady 



Growth growth, having $1,- 



496,867 of insurance 

 • in force at the time, with 51 local 

 mutuals using the company's speci- 

 fic reinsurance service, 42 the blank- 

 et reinsurance and 23 the recession 

 reiilsurance. The state company 

 can now handle a $40,000 risk. The 

 companies having blanket reinsur- 

 ance with the Farmers Mutual Rein- 

 surance Company have over $90,- 

 000,000 of insurance in force. This 

 means that each company carrying 

 blanket reinsurance is protected by 

 other companies that have a total 

 of about $90,000,000 of insurance 

 in force. 



Tullock also reported that crop 

 hail insurance is now available to 

 the farmers of Illinois 

 Crop through the Farmers 



Hail Mutual Reinsurance 



Insurance Company. Farm Bu- 

 Now reaus and agents of mu- 



Available tual fire insurance com- 

 At SaTiBg panies will act as agents 

 of the reinsurance com- 

 pany in writing hail insurance. The 

 saving to the farmer should be 

 about 20 per cent. Both reports ac- 

 cepted and placed on file by motion 

 of Tullock and seconded by Barn- 

 borough. 



4. Bamborough, chairman of the 

 committee on organization, reported 

 that all details were arranged for 

 beginning the I. A. A. farm radio 

 program from WON as soon as the 

 executive committee approved it, 

 which was done upon ■ motion by 

 Bamborough, seconded 'by Tullock. 



5. Report by Finley on grain 

 marketing stated that on March 15 



at a meeting of the 

 Basis board of directors of 



of I. A. A.- the National Farmers 

 Farmers Elevator Grain Com- 



Elevator Co. pany, Cooperative, the 

 Discussed basis of a contract 



was discussed which 

 would set forth the relationship be- 

 tween the I. A. A. and the company 

 in the selling of stock of the com- 

 pany. The I. A. A. proposed to 

 furnish a man and pay his salary 

 and expenses in the selling of the 

 stock and suggested that the length 

 of time, amount to be sold, return 

 of amount subscribed, (to be re- 

 turned in full to subscriber if in- 

 si»fficient stock was sold) together 

 with other minor items, should be in 

 the contract. 



This kind of agreement was not 

 acceptable to the company. A com- 

 mittee was appointed to give further 



consideration to it and a meeting 

 was held April 7 when it was de- 

 cided that a committee meet with 

 the I. A. A. on April 16 and submit 

 a proposition for consideration. 



Motion by Barton that contract 

 terms be left with I. A. A. officers, 

 but with instructions to properly 

 safeguard funds derived from sale 

 of stock in such manner that in 

 case of insufficient stock being sold 

 to properly finance company, those 

 funds already collected from stock 

 sales to be returned, except such 

 amount as shall be agreed upon as 

 necessary for organization work. 

 Seconded by Marshall and carried. 



Report of Finley on soft wheat 

 pool in Southern Illinois which is 

 an extension of the In 

 Soft Wheat diana Wheat pool into 

 Poo! Illinois, showed that 



Growing in Edwards, Wabash 

 Illinois White, Wayne and 



Crawford counties 

 have definitely decided to put on 

 membership drives. Ninety mem- 

 bers in pool secured in short time. 

 27 of which thereby became new- 

 members of Farm Bureaus. 



6. George J. Jewett, formerly 

 president of American Wheat Grow- 

 ers, and now president of the Fed- 

 eral Land Bank at Spokane, Wash., 

 was invited to give the committee 

 the benefit of his recent trip to 

 Washington from which he was re- 

 turning. I 



7. Sam H. Thomjjson, past pres- 

 ident of I. A. A. and now A. F. B. F. 



chief, addressed the 

 "Our Sam" committee briefly on 

 Urges the legislative situa- 



You to tion at Washington, 



Write saying, among other 



Congressmen things, that the pow. 

 ers-that-be at Wash- 

 ington need to know how the farm- 

 er out on the farm feels about leg- 

 islation. Every farmer can be of 

 immediate assistance to the cause 

 by writing his Senators and Con- 

 gressmen, he declared. 



"They'll take the farm leaders' 

 word for it if we're for the bill 

 they're for," said President Thomp- 

 son, "but if we want one they do 

 not, then they are inclined to doubt 

 our authority for speaking for 

 faripers." 



8.^ Report by Webb stated that 

 I. -fl^- A. should continue to work for 

 increased federal appropriation for 

 t. b. Report moved adopted by 

 Webb, seconded by Karr. 



9. President Smith opened con- 

 sideration of time and place of an 



nual I. A. A. state- 

 State Picnic wide picnic. A delega- 

 to Be At tion was present from 



Mt. Vernon Tazewell county, con- 

 This Year sisting of Joseph Mor- 



ris, president, and 

 Ralph Amett, farm adviser, repre- 

 senting the Tazewell County Farm 

 Bureau, and Secretary Lyman of 

 the Pekin Association of Commerce, 

 which spoke for holding the picnic 

 at Pekin. W. L. Wimberly, mem- 

 ber of executive committee of the 

 Jefferson County Farm Bureau, 

 spoke for Mt. Vernon. Secretary 

 Fox read a letter from McDonough 

 County Farm Bureau in behalf of 

 Macomb. Vote by ballot resulted 

 in Mt. Vernon getting the picnic 

 with 13 votes, Pekin getting 2 and 

 Macomb 1. Since the annual meet- 

 ing is always held in Northern Illi- 

 nois, it was the opinion of the ma- 

 jority that Southern Illinois should 

 have this year's picnic. Wimber- 

 ley's oration on Southern Illinois 

 peaches and promise of free ones 

 also had some weight. Date to be 

 announced later, but it is expected 

 to be sometime in August. 



10. Consideration of place of 

 next annual meeting, on motion of 

 Karr and seconded by Whisnand, to 

 be at next meeting. 



THE MAN WHO WILL ELECT THE NEXT PRESIDENT 



J'lr — ^^ 



Predicts 10 Per Cent 

 Volume for Producers 

 By End of This Ye^r 



to 

 :he 



"Theksupport given the St. Lcuis 

 Branch agency the month it ojer- 

 ated in Chicago and to the Chicigo 

 Producers during "Producer Wci k'' 

 answered the public's inquiry as 

 whether the farmer believes in 

 principles of cooperative marketing 

 espacially of livestock, accordin{ to 

 William E. Hedgcock, I. A. A. 

 rector of livestock marketing. 



"The receiving, yarding and sell- 

 ing of TA per cent (315 cars) : of 

 the entire Chicago receipts of live 

 stock during "Producer Week" is a 

 wonderful record for cooperative 

 marketing. In making this recbrd 

 the Chicago Producers handled 68 

 more cars than their nearest com- 

 petitor and, with only two excep- 

 tions where check-ups were neces- 

 sary, had every bill of sale in the 

 mail the same day the sale was con- 

 summated. 



70 Buyers in Producer Alleys. 



"The activity of the Chicago Pro- 

 ducers is commanding the attention 

 of the buyers as indicated by the 

 fact that they sold livestock to 70 

 different buyers in one week. 



"The Chicago Producers handled 

 130 carloads of cattle, which was 

 5.1 per cent of the 'Chicago run, 

 166 carloads of hogs, which was 

 11.5 per cent and which was more 

 hogs than the combined receipts of 

 the next three largest firms, and 17 

 carloads of sheep, which was 8.2 

 per cent of the run during 'Pro- 

 ducer Week.' 



"This spirit of confidence and co- 

 operation on the part of livestock 

 producers has made it possible, dur- 

 ing the past three years, for the as- 

 sociation to sell 57,000 cars of live- 

 stock, with a total value of over 

 $100,000,000. With this spirit of 

 cooperation and confidence it' is 

 not unreasonable to expect the Chi- 

 cago Producers to be marketing 10 

 per cent or morfe of the total re- 

 ceipts of the Chicago Stock Yards 

 by the end of the year." 



Egypt Launches Co-op 

 to Handle Poultry and 

 Eggs of 250,000 Hens 



"Egypt" will soon launch a new 

 enterprise in the way of a coopera- 

 tive poultry aad egg marketing as- 

 sociation — a companion to the well- 

 known "Red-Top" Seed Growers As- 

 sociation. Daring the past two 

 months the counties of Clay, Effing- 

 ham, WajTie and Edwards have been 

 covered with meetings for the pur- 

 pose of explaining the I. A. A. plan 

 for marketing poultry and poultry 

 products cooperatively. 



"Everywhere the poultry produc- 

 ers have show* unusual interest in 

 this plan and have urged the sev- 

 eral Farm Bureaus to get squarely 

 back of this plan," says Frank A. 

 Gougler, the L A. A. poultry and 

 egg marketing director, who has 

 been pushing this work. 



"During the past month a num- 

 ber of meetings have been held at 

 Flora, III., of representatives from 

 the counties of Clay, Effingham, 

 Marion, Wayne and Edwards for 

 the forming of a temporary organ- 

 ization. The officers elected to head 

 this new undertaking for the first 

 year are as follows : 



President — C. R. Richison, Cisne. Wajme 

 county. • 



Vioe President — H. O. Henry, Beecher 

 City. Effingham county. 



Secretary-Treasurer — .OrvUIe Bryant. 

 Xenia, Clmy county. 



— <7Aioatw Tribune 



Revenue Amendment 

 Supported by G. O. P. , 

 Democrat Pledges 



Amendment to Constitution 

 up to Voters in November ; 1 . 

 A. A. Supports it and Urges 



- Farmers to Vote for iti 



The platforms adopted by the 

 state conventions of Democrats and 

 Republicans support the amendment 

 to the revenue section of the' Ill- 

 inois constitution which is to be 

 voted on by the people in Novem- 

 ber, 1926. The Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association earnestly aad vig- 

 orously supports the amendment 

 and urges every farmer to vote for 

 it at the polls. 



The Democratic platform said on 

 this subject: "We favor the adop- 

 tion of the amendment to the Rev- 

 enue Clause of the Constitution to 

 be submitted to the voters at the 

 next general election, thereby 

 enabling the General Assetablj- to 

 enact an equitable system al tax- 

 ation throughout the State." 



The Republicans said: I 



"Economy in the use of thfe peo- 

 ple's money and the lowest tax-rate 

 compatible with good seniae are 

 fundamental doctrines of our party. 

 While we realize that adjustments 

 in the way of the men and women 

 in the public service t<> meet in- 

 crt-ases in the cost of living were 

 only fair and essential, and that to 

 meet these adjustments und the in- 

 creased cost of all supplies and ma- 

 lerials purchased for public use 

 Jmve required higher appropriations 

 by state, county and municipal au- 

 thorities, we believe present con- 

 ditions demand every possible re- 

 t^enchment by all governing bodies 

 which have authority to li-\-y taxes. 

 We believe there should 1m concert- 

 ed and cooperative efforts among 

 state, county and municipal bodies 

 to lighten the burden of taxation, 

 and pledge Republican officials to 

 this course. Also, to permit the 

 equal distribution of our tax bur- 

 den, we recommend the proposed 

 amendment to our Sute Cosstitu- 

 tion which will be submitted to the 

 voters in November." 



Directors in addition to the officers are • 

 Louis Jack. Albion. III.. Edwards rounly. 

 Sam Ructtmnn. Xenia. Clay rountty. 

 Roy CunninKham. Rinard. Wayne tounty 

 Will Fry. Louisville, Clay county. 



"The district centef will be lo- 

 cated at Flora, and the membership 

 will be secured in most of Clay and 

 Wayne counties and parts of Ed- 

 wards, Effingham and Marion. In 

 the territory covered from 20 to 80 

 towns will serve as receiving points 

 to «4iich the members will take their 

 produce. From these ' points the i 

 produce will be a.sscmbled at Flora 

 by trucks over the splendid system 

 of hard roads leading into that city 

 from four different directions. Here 

 the eggs will be graded and packed 

 for shipment and as rapidly as cat 

 loads are, assembled they "will be 

 shipped to terminal markets. "Eggs 

 are pooled by two-week periods ac-, 

 cording to grade and as returns are 

 received by the asisociation, nem- 

 bers will receive pay for their eggs 

 by check according to gntde and 

 quality. 



"By" the time this announcement 

 appears in The Record, active »iem- 

 bersfiip acquisition into this new rn- 

 terprise should be under way. The 

 goal set by the association is 250,- 

 000 heos. This will probably wean 

 a membership of 1,200 to 1.500 

 -nembers and in this beavj- produc- 



ng area such a membership should 

 furnish the association from 100 to 



25 car loads of eggs and aibout 

 40 cars of poultr>' per year."! 



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