June 1, 1926 



The Illinoig Agricultural Agsociation RECORD 



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Farm Bureau Baseball 

 Underway; At Least 14 

 Counties After Trophy 



Peoria and Marshall-Putnam 

 Play First Game of Season 

 May 29; Some Schedules 

 Still in the Making. 



Organized baseball will be played 

 by the Farm Bureaus in at least 14 

 Illinois counties this year, all of 

 which aspire to the state champion- 

 ship which is held by the Tazewell 

 County Farm Bureau team, accord- 

 ing to George R. Cline of Virginia, 

 Cass county, president of the Illi- 

 nois Farm Bureau Baseball league. 



As many as five or six other 

 Farm Bureaus may join the league 

 in time for play this season, but 14 

 have sent in their dues to the treas- 

 urer. These 14 are: Marshall-Put- 

 nam, Peoria, Woodford, Tazewell, 

 Livingston, McLean, Mason, Cass, 

 Morgan, Schuyler, Adams, Hender- 

 son and Warren. Mercer county is 

 expected to play this year, as is 

 Brown. No action has been taken 

 yet in McDonough, Menard or Lo- 

 gan. Jefferson county, In southern 

 Illinois, wants to play, but appar- 

 ently has no competitors in that sec- 

 tion of the state. All the other 

 counties are in west central Illinois. 



Divided into Five Districts 



The counties already in the league 

 are divided into districts as follows: 

 1, Henderson and Warren (and Mer- 

 cer if it comes in) ; 2, Marshall- 

 Putnam, Peoria, Woodford and 

 Tazewell; 3, Livingston and Mc- 

 Lean; 4, Adams and Schuyler (and 

 Brown if it comes in) ; 5, Mason, 

 Cass and Morgan (and Logan and 

 Menard if either or both come in). 



In District 2, a schedule has been 

 arranged as follows: May 29, Peoria 

 at Marshall-Putnam and Woodford 

 at Tazewell; June 6, Peoria at 

 Woodford and Marshall-Putnam at 

 Tazewell; June 12, Peoria at 

 Tazewell, and Woodford at Mar- 

 shall-Putnam; June 10, Tazewell at 

 Woodford, and Marshall-Putnam at 

 Peoria; June 26, Tazewell at Mar- 

 shall-Putnam and Woodford at 

 Peoria; July 3, Marshall -Putnam at 

 Woodford and Tazewell at Peoria. 



Schedules in other districts are 

 being arranged by mutual agree- 

 ment in each district. 



Representatives of most of the 

 Farm Bureaus in the league met at 

 Peoria May 18 and made plans for 

 the season and apportioned the dis- 

 tricts. 



Other States Becoming Interested 



At the meeting it was decided to 

 play the championship game at Mt. 

 Vernon in connection with the I. A. 

 A. annual picnic, providing funds 

 are provided there for expenses, 

 otherwise the game will be played 

 at a point mutually agreeable to 

 the two teams in the finals. In or- 

 der to be eligible in the finals, each 

 team must have eliminated at least 

 one other team. Some counties will 

 have more than one team for inter- 

 county games. Livingston expects 

 to have two teams and will pick its 

 county team from players of both 

 nines. Farm Bureau' members or 

 members of their families are eligi- 

 ble to play. Playing and practice 

 are usually on Saturday afternoons. 

 The late spring has interfered with 

 baseball playing. The I. A. A. gives 

 a cup each year to the champion- 

 ship team. 



This is the only organized farm 

 bureau baseball league existent, but 

 other states are becoming interest- 

 ed, notably Ohio. Officials of the 

 league look forward to the day when, 

 there will be interstate contests. 



Promoters of Farm Bureau Baseball 





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Here are some of the "magnates" of Farm Bureau baseball. They met at Peoria 

 recently and made arrangements of the affairs of the Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball 

 league. Left to right (top row) — Harry C. Butcher, director of information of the 

 I. A. A. and secreUry of the league; LeRoy Pike, Browning, Schuyler county; J. E. 

 Harris, assistant adviser, Tazewell county (becomes assistant adviser in Mercer county 

 June 1 and represented that county also); Wilfred Shaw, Peoria county adviser; T. R. 

 Isaacs, Mason county adviser; L. E. McKenzie. Schuyler county adviser; C. L. Bates, 

 Browning, Schuyler county. (Bottom row) — E. S. Sharp, Eureka, W(K>dford county; 

 L. R. Welk, Martin, Tazewell county; C. £. Hopkins, associate adviser, Liviagston 

 county; George R. Cline, Virginia, Cass county, president of the league; Theodore 

 Stempert, Panola, Woodford county, vice-president; W. A. Stevenson, Biggsville. Hen- 

 derson county and £. D. Walker, Henderson county adviser. 



Producers, Only Four 

 YearsOld, Handle 127 

 Million $ Business '25 



Livestock Marketing Mechan- 

 icism Set up by Farm Bu- 

 reaus Grows; Having Some 

 Effect in Stabilizing Mar- 

 kets. 



In four years the farmers of the 

 Middle West, working through the 

 state Farm Bureaus and the Amer- 

 ican Farm Bureau Federation, have 

 built up a cooperative marketing 

 mechanism which did a business dur- 

 ing 1925 of over $127,000,000. 



It was in 1922 that the "Commit- 

 tee of 15," a group of leading Mid- 

 dle Western farmers and college spe- 

 cialists selected by the American 

 Farm Bureau Federation to study 

 livestock marketing conditions, made 

 recommendations for establishing a 

 cooperative marketing organization 

 along national lines, to be owned and 

 operated by the farmers themselves. 

 This cooperative marketing program 

 is being supported by the Farm 

 Bureaus, and today there are agen- 

 cies of the producers actively and 

 successfully operating on 13 mar- 

 kets, with representation on 14, all 

 under the banner of the National 

 Livestock Producers Association. 



Producers Lead on 8 Markets 



On 8 of the 14 markets, these 

 farmer organizations handled, dur- 

 ing 1925, more cars of livestock than 

 any other agency, and on several 

 others ranked either second or third, 

 although two or three which were 

 started within the last year or two 

 did not handle so much. 



The cars handled, and the per- 

 centage of total receipts for each 

 agency are as follows: Chicago, 

 17, 071 cars, or 6 per cent; Peoria, 

 2,695, or 28.73 per cent; National 

 Stock Yards (East St. Louis), 12,- 

 991 cars, or 14.68 per cent; Indian- 

 apolis, 10,464, or 25.72 per cent; 

 Buffalo, 3,939 cars, or 20.84 per 

 cent; Fort Worth, 3,555 cars, or 7.49 

 per cent; Kansas City, 3,660 cars, 

 or 2 per cent; Cleveland, 4,227 

 decks, or 23.01 per cent; Sioux City, 

 3,517 cars or 5 per cent; Evansville, 



fThy Not Think? 



IT'S a little thing to do. 

 Just to think. 

 Anyone, no matter who, 



Ought to think. 

 Take a little time each day 

 From the minutes thrown away; 

 Spare it from your work or 

 play — 

 Stop and think! 



You will find that men who fail 



Do not think. 

 Men who find themselves in jail 



Do not think. 



Half the trouble that we see. 

 Trouble brewed for you and me. 

 Probably would never be 

 If we'd think. 



Shall we, then, consider this? 



Shall we think? 

 Shall we journey, hit or miss. 



Or shall we think? 

 Let's not go along by guess. 

 But rather to ourselves confess 

 It would help us more or less 



If we'd think! 



Anon. 



Ind., 1,474 cars, or 45.84 per cent; 

 Pittsburgh, 2,738 decks, or 18.64 per 

 cent; Cincinnati, (10 and one-half 

 month), 2,377 decks, or 11.5 per 

 cent and Oklahoma City, 238 cars 

 for an intermittent period during 

 1925 under pressure of a boycott 

 against the cooperative. 



These Ranked First 



The Producer terminal agencies 

 which ranked first were: Chicago, 

 Peoria, E. St. Louis, Indianapolis, 

 Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and 

 Cincinnati. 



According to William E. Hedg- 

 cock, director of livestock market- 

 ing of the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation, there have been marked 

 gains toward the cooperative's goal 

 of stabilization of prices and re- 

 ceipts on all markets where the 

 Producer agencies have handled as 

 much or more than 15 per cent of 

 the total receipts, a fact which, he 

 declares, means economy and sav- 

 ings to both producers and consum- 

 ers of meat products by eliminating 

 some undesirable fluctuations. 



The total business done by all 

 farmers' cooperative livestock agen- 

 cies for 1925 is estimated by the 

 National Livestock Producers Asso- 

 ciation as 148,344 carloads of which 

 the Producer terminal agencies 

 handled 71,144 carloads. Total 

 value of all cooperatively handled 

 stock is estimated at $269,820,000. 



Illinois Cooperates Most 



In an analysis of origination of 

 shipments to Producer agencies 

 covering 1925 business, made by 

 the National Livestock Producers 

 Association, it is revealed that Illi- 

 nois farmers are using cooperative 

 marketing to a greater extent than 

 farmers in any other state, there 

 having been 19,481 carloads from 

 this state, with Indiana second, 

 Iowa third, Ohio fourth and Mis- 

 souri fifth. 



Illinois farmers shipped 89 car- 

 loads to Producer agencies at Buf- 

 falo; 8,140 to Chicago; 65 to Cin- 

 cinnati; 38 to Cleveland; 221 to 

 Evansville; 2,810 to Indianapolis; 

 5,616 to E. St. Louis, and 2,502 to 

 Peoria. A large percentage of the 

 shipments originate from local ship- 

 ping associations operated by farm- 

 ers. There are 4,000 of these local 

 associations in the United States, 

 most of which are in the Middle 

 West. Illinois has 527; Iowa about 

 700; Minnesota about 600; Indiana, 

 270, and Wisconsin, 240. In Illi- 

 nois the shipping associations work 

 closely with county Farm Bureaus. 



One feature inaugurated by the 

 National Livestock Producers asso- 

 ciation which effectively shortens 

 the economic path from producer to 

 consumer is a lamb pool which has 

 been conducted for two years. 

 Lambs are bought and assembled by 

 the national organization in west- 

 ern states and delivered to corn 

 belt farmers for fattening. So far 

 this year, 25,000 Iambs have been 

 contracted by corn belt feeders for 

 fall delivery, according to Charles 

 A. Stewart, secretary of the na- 

 tional organization. Last year over 

 70,000 lambs were handled. 



Dairymen of Chicago 

 District Working to 

 Form Pure Milk Body 



"The dairjTnen in the Chicago 

 dairy district are almost on the last 

 lap in completing the membership 

 work of the Pure Milk Association." 

 declares A. D. Lynch, I. A. A., di- 

 rector of dairy marketing. 



"The association will ser\'e as a 

 selling agency for the dairym^ in 

 the district. It is the first organiza- 

 tion of its size to accept as members 

 only those jvhose herds are fnee 

 from bovine tuberculosis. The fact 

 that the Chicago milk ordinance, 

 which went into effect April 1, per- 

 mits only tuberculin-tested milk to 

 be sold in the city makes the Pure 

 Milk 'Association the only logical or- 

 ganization for dairymen to join who 

 intend to use this market. 



"The directors have recently em- 

 ployed A. E. Richardson, formerlly 

 manager of the 111. -Mo. Cooperative, 

 E. St. Louis, as field service mana- 

 ger to assist in completing the mem- 

 bership work. He is cooperating 

 with the county locals in their pro- 

 gram to complete the organization 

 work as rapidly as possible in order 

 that the tuberculin-tested herd own- 

 ers may finally have an organiza- 

 tion to represent them. 



"The Pure Milk Association 

 stands for true cooperation. It be- 

 lieves that this cooperation should 

 extend not only among its members 

 but to the distributors and the con- 

 sumers. The following clause at the 

 beginning of the member's agree- 

 ment shows what ' each mepiber 

 agrees to do: 



"/The member expressly agrees 

 to Cooperate with the milk distrib- 

 utors and consumers of milk, 

 through their health officers, by pro- 

 ducing milk of the highest quality 

 in accordance with ordinances, rules 

 and regulations now in effect or to 

 be enacted during the life of this 

 agreement.' " 



The officers and directors are as 

 follows: 



L. E. Johnson. Capron „ Boone 



Herman Schwake, Arlington Heisht8..Co«k 



A. A. Skelley. Maple Park DeKaD) 



H. C. Vial, Downer's Grove DaPase 



(Secretary) 

 W. C. McQueen. Elgin, R. S Kane 



(President) 

 J. Leo Mofarman, Waukecan- .-Lake 



(Treasurer) 



Ole Stalheim, Harvard „ McHenry 



(Vice-President) 



John H. 'Cryder. Plainfield Will 



D. N. Geyer. Harvard •. At large 



American Institute 

 of Co-ops Convenes 

 at St. Paul in June 



I. A. A. Director on Program 

 as is C. C. Mast of Adams 

 County; A Short Course on 

 Co-op Marketing. 



FarmersTornado Fund 

 Still Helping Sufferers 

 14 Months A fter Ordeal 



Four Carloads of Soy Beans 

 and Cow Peas Now Being 

 Distributed Free to South- 

 em Illinois Farmers. 



Fourteen months after the worst 

 tornado ever experienced in the 

 United States, and particularly in 

 Illinois and the Middle West, finds 

 the Illinois Farm Relief Committees 

 still on the job distributing neces- 

 sities to farmers who were caught in 

 the catastrophe. 



A car load of cow peas and soy 

 beans is being, distributed in each 

 of four counties — White, Franklin, 

 Jackson and Hamilton. The Farm 

 Bureaus in the first three counties 

 named are making the distribution, 

 while a committee consisting of 

 Chas. N. Burnett and C. C. Wright, 

 McLeansboro, is handling the car- 

 load "for Hamilton county, where 

 there is no Farm Bureau. 



R. A. Cowles, treasurer of the I. 

 A. A. and director of the Illinois 

 Farm Relief Committee jointly with 

 Curt Anderson of Xenia, 111., an- 

 nounce that a final survey will be 

 conducted soon after the soy bean.s 

 and cow peas arc distributed. 



Every farmer who suffered from 

 the tornado's ravages has been or is 

 being notified that the peas and 

 beans are available free — an nftir 

 that is possible only because of the 

 generosity of farmers all over Illi- 

 nois in subscribing liberally to the 

 tornado relief fund, which amounted 

 to approximately $180,000, nearly 

 all of which has now been put to 

 the good use for which it was in- 

 tended. All leading farm interests 

 in the state cooperated in raising 

 the fund, including the farm press 

 and all farm organizations. 



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To clarify the future coarse of 

 Cooperative marketing, and to seek 

 a definite set of principles for the 

 entire movement, 500 national co- 

 operators will meet at University 

 Farm, St. Paul, between Jnne 21 

 and July 17, to attend the second 

 annual session of the American In- 

 stitute of Cooperation. 



The Institute was organized in 

 January, 1925, by twenty national 

 cooperative organizations as an edu- 

 cational institution for the purpose 

 of collecting information about co- 

 operative marketing, training lead- 

 ers and workers, assisting educa- 

 tional institutions in improving 

 their teaching co'jrses, and as a 

 means of focusing the cooperative 

 movement toward community and 

 national development. The Insti- 

 tute program this year is sponsored 

 jointly by the University of Minne- 

 sota College of Agriculture and the 

 Institute of Cooperation. George 

 R. Wicker, director of cooperative 

 accounting of the I. A. A., is also 

 a speaker, and is a trustee of the 

 Institute, representing the I. A. A. 



The program for this year has 

 been divided into four major units 

 of one week each. Each week's 

 program will deal with the coop- 

 erative marketing of a particular 

 commodity. The association of co- 

 operative principles to the market- 

 ing of a particular commodity will 

 make the discussions concrete. 



To Study Shippinc AssociatioBs 



Facts of interest to every member 

 of a livestock shipping association 

 will be disclosed during th* first 

 week, from June 21 to Juhe 26. 

 Livestock and wool will be the com- 

 modities emphasized during the ini- 

 tial week. Leo-ters of that field 

 from all parts of the covnt^'y will be 

 present to guide the discussional 

 groups. E. G. Nourse, of the In- 

 stitute of Economics, Washington, 

 D. C, and chairman of the Insti- 

 tute of Cooperation program com- 

 mittee, will open the program with 

 an address on the history and struc- 

 ture of cooperative livestock ship- 

 ping. 



In addition to the regular topics 

 on the livestock program, a four 

 day short course will be offered for 

 members of shipping associations on 

 June 22, 23, 24 and 25. One of the 

 highlights will be a grading demon- 

 stration under the direction of N. 

 K. Games, Central Cooperative 

 Commission Association, to be held 

 at the South St. Paul terminal, i. 

 S. Montgomery, manager of the 

 same organization will also address 

 the group. C. C. Mast, manager of 

 the Adams County (111.) Shipping 

 Association, will discuss county fed- 

 erations. 



The second week, June 28 to July 

 3, will be devoted to dairy products 

 marketing. At that time pertinent 

 question of the dairy industry will 

 be discussed by groups of creamery 

 men, milk distributors, cheese mak- 

 ers and by-products manufacturers 

 under the leadership of nationally 

 known cooperators. Problems of 

 price, distribution, sales promotion 

 and increased consumption will be 

 taken up by the various groups. 



KEEP SMIUNG 



There is something bueyant 

 and cheer>' and breezy about any 

 person who can live above his 

 surroundings — that is, can find 

 something to cheer in every state, 

 and who prefers to ponder on the 

 brightness of the sun rather than 

 discover the spots in it. 



If you would sing and whistle 

 and laugh more, heartaches 

 would be fewer. Laughter is a 

 contagious thing. It calls forth a 

 similar response. People feel the 

 tingle of life, and experience its 

 thrills as they laugh. And there 

 is such a lot in life to smile over. 



