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The Illinois Agricultural A»»ociation RECORD 



June 1, 1926 



Praivie Farmer Man 

 Becomes I. A. A. Head 

 , o/ Publicity June 15 



Assist^int Editor Thiem Takes 



of Harry Butcher, 



Becomes Editor of 



Fertilizer Review, 



-Waihington, D. C. 



Plade 

 The 



E. G (George) Thiem, for the 

 past tw 3 years assistant editor of 

 Prairie Farmer 

 and for three 

 years assistant 

 farm adviser in 

 Whiteside coun- 

 ty, becomes di- 

 rector of infor- 

 mation of the 

 Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association 

 June 15. 



Thiem is a 

 product of. the 

 farm and has a 

 sympathetic un- 

 E. Cj Tbicm derstanding o f 

 farm problems 

 which i I a necessary requirement 

 in a position where one is relied 

 upon to inform intelligently and ef- 

 fectivel; the membership and the 

 public ibout the activities of a 

 state-wi le organization. 



Thien was employed by a com- 

 mittee t onsisting of C. E. Bambor- 

 nugh, P< lo, Ogle county: R. F. Karr, 

 Iroquois Iroquois County, both of 

 whom are executive committeemen 

 of the I A. A. and George A. Fox, 

 , executiv e secretary. 



He tJ^kes the place of Harry C. 



who has been director of 



for the association for 



Butcher 

 publicity ' 



over two years and who resigned 

 recently affective July 1, to become 

 editor of The Fertilizer Review, a 

 new jot mal published by the Na- 

 tional Fertilizer Association at 

 Waahint toh, D. C. Butcher will be 

 associati d with Charles J. Brand, 

 formerly consulting specialist 

 marketii g pf the U. S. Department 



of 4? 



Butch 

 cultural 

 Iowa St4te 

 handled 

 licity f o • 

 with un( ergraduate 



late Henry 



T came to the Illinois Agri- 

 association direct from I 

 College, Ames, where hej 

 agricultural and sport pub- 

 the college in connection 

 work. 



accounts 



"A 

 tion of 

 panies ai 

 of $462 

 of $96, 

 counts 

 :n.04 

 lished 

 from 



pe ■ 

 ■ t> 



stated 

 manager 

 executivi i 



"This 

 seriously 

 farmers' 

 view of 

 gested 

 established 

 for the 

 present 

 classifying 

 recommefii 

 lection 

 by estab 

 service, 

 ber 



The 

 A. 



ment of 

 the I. A. 



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MANY FARMERS AFTER 



CROP HAIL INSURANCE 



The Farmers Mutual Reinsurance 

 Company is now receiving hail ap- 

 plications. This will mean a sav- 

 ing of $6 to $8 per $1,000 of in- 

 surance for the farmers of Illinois 

 to take out farm crop hail insur- 

 ance on a mutual basis through the 

 reinsurance company, according to 

 Vernon Vaniman, field represent*- 

 tive. 



The insurance is written on jn 

 acre basis. Based on the crop be- 

 ing valued at the amount of insur- 

 ance carried the insured will be r^ 

 imbursed for the actual loss or dam 

 age done by hail. For example. If 

 the crop is insured for $2,000 anp 

 there is a total loss the insured will 

 receive $2,000. If a 50 per ceilt 

 loss the insured will receive $1,009. 



One of the largest mutual hatl 

 insurance companies in the world is 

 following the practice of insuring 

 on the acre basis. It has been iti 

 operation 32 years. Illinois farm- 

 ers are fortunate in now' being able 

 to secure their hail insurance on a 

 basis which has proved satisfactory 

 to the farmers of other states. 



The following counties have sent 

 in application for hail insurance: 

 Heiderson, Henry, Knox, Lee, Mer- 

 cer, McDonough, Vermilion. 



Henry and Knox Counties head 

 the list in the amount of insurance 

 sent in. 



The Farmers Mutual Reinsurance 

 Company is gradually extending its 

 services *o it can further supply the 

 insuranee needs of the farmers of 

 Illinois on a mutual basis. 



Level of Prices on 

 Peoria Market Rises 

 Due to Cooperative 



Manager of Peoria Producei's 

 Finds Level of Livestock 

 Prices at Peoria on Par 

 With Chicago Now. 



I. A. C. lA. INSTITUTES 



COLLECTION SERVICE 



A new service has been instituted 



by the I linois Agricultural Cooper- 



m £\£^ atives Association to 



I rrV help member organiza- 



^ tions collect past due 



st idy 



r sceiva 



of the financial condi- 



65 farmers' elevator com- 



the close of Feb. 28, 1926, 



! 05.30 and notes receivable 



63.51. The ratio of ac- 



ivable to net worth was 



cent, while reserve estab- 



meet anticipated losses 



un< loUectable accounts was ap- 



proximately one per cent of sales," 



C eorge R. Wicker, generil 



in a report to the I. A. A. 



committee May 7. 



condition is general and 



affects the success of 



elevator companies. In 



this fact, ' it has been sug- 



tsat a collection service be 



within the I. A. C. A. 



Ijenefit of its members. The 



practice of analyzing and 



accounts receivable and 



dations for credit and col- 



] lolicies will be supported 



ishing an actual collection 



Such service is for mem- 



com] lanies." 



nbership of the I. A. C. 



functions as the depart- 

 cooperative accounting of 

 A., is now 199. 



INCHEASE ) FARM PHODCt^lOM THIS TRAB 

 undc Llhtedljr end thi^ favoratilc eco- 

 1 ion." meaninif the present "farm 

 states the U. ^S. Department of 

 AgricQlturc In orther words, increased pro- 

 ductioD in 11*26 means sti]] less income than 

 192S. 



nomic posi 

 prosperity. 



Tri 

 is success] 

 ■Ution. 



CAL PORNIA 



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FARM BtntBAt? PRDRKATTON 

 operating a 500-watt ratlio 



Society Note: Madame 

 Hen Creates 3 -Strand 

 Girdle for Ma Earth 



iperative marketing has raised 

 LuL general average of prices on the 

 Peoria market to a par with Chi- 

 cago, whereas before a cooperative 

 agency of farmers was organized at 

 Peoria, the price level averaged 

 about 25 cents a hundred lower than 

 at Chicago, according to W. R. 

 Hembrough, manager of the Peoria 

 Producers Commission Association. 



According to Manager Hem- 

 brough, the Peoria Producers will 

 declare either a 25 or 30 per cent 

 dividend to members at the close of 

 this fiscal year May 31. For 1922, 

 the first year, the dividend was 20 

 per cent; 1923 and 1924, 30 per cent. 

 Practically the same amount of busi- 

 ness was done this year as last, in 

 spite of marked decreased receipts 

 on the Peoria market — an amount 

 of business which is interpreted as 

 a continuance of the steady growth 

 of cooperative marketing of live- 

 stock on this market. 



There is also much less fluctuat- 

 ing on the Peoria market since the 

 advent of the cooperative, Hem- 

 brough finds. 



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Illinois Man Made 

 Director in Wheat 

 Pool; More Members 



Southern Illinois soft wheat pro- 

 ducers who are pooling their wheat 

 with the Indiana growers, were 

 granted a voting director at the 

 recent annual meeting of the In- 

 diana Wheat Growers Association. 



The director is C. L. Scott of 

 Grayville. White county. 



"Edwards and Wabash counties 

 have completed their membership 

 campaigns," states Vernon Vani- 

 man, who is representing the I. A. 

 A. in this work. "White county 

 has not completed the campaign. 

 Fifteen new members have been 

 secured for the Farm Bureau as a 

 result of the pool campaign in 

 White county. Wayne, Saline, Gal- 

 latin and Clark counties are plan- 

 ning to give members in those coun- 

 ties an opportunity to market their 

 wheat through the pool." 



This year 163 new members have 

 joined the pool in Illinois, making 

 the total in this state 392. 



Girdle is of One Year's Illinois 

 Eggs Placed End to End; 

 Enough Material Left for 

 Pendant from Equator to 

 North Pole and Back. 



The results of the 1925 activities 

 of Madame Hen, popular society 

 matron of Illinois barnyards, in the 

 creation and delivery of the well- 

 known breakfast partner to ham, 

 show that her efforts, excluding 

 similar activities of her sisterhood 

 in all other states excepting Illinois, 

 would, if placed end to end, thrice 

 girdle Mother Earth about the 

 equator with enough eggs remain- 

 ing to form a pendant to hook 

 around the North Pole and suspend 

 back to the equator. 



Such is the importance of Ma- 

 dame Hen in Illinois, according to 

 Frank A. Gougler, director of poul- 

 try and egg marketing of the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association. 



In fact, says Mr. Gougler, she is 

 so important that farmers are 

 speeding considerable thought and 

 effort in working out ways and 

 means for marketing her contribu- 

 tions to the nation's wealth, so the 

 farmer who owns her can get a 

 maxium return and the consumer 

 who buys her eggs can do so eco- 

 nomically without paying tribute to 

 some unnecessary middlemen. 



Poultry Co-ops Successful in Other 

 States 



Minnesota and Ohio farmers, 

 have been successful in applying 

 cooperative marketing to poultry 

 and eggs in important sections of 

 these states, and conditions there 

 are quite similar to those in Illinois. 

 Many Ohio farmers have added an 

 average of 2 cents a dozen to their 

 returns through their organization, 

 he says. Exceptionally successful 

 farmer-organizations for marketing 

 their own products are functioning 

 in California, Washington and Ore- 

 gon. 



In Illinois, an educational cam- 

 paign has been under way for a 

 couple of years under the direction 

 of the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion. In the near future, Mr. Goug- 

 ler declares, this campaign will be 

 flowering into actual organizations. 



The first is likely to be in "Little 

 Egypt" in Clay, Marion and Wayne 

 counties, with headquarters at 

 Flora. Under the local leadership 

 of the Farm Bureaus in those coun- 

 ties, membership contracts are now 

 being signed and when the product 

 of 250,000 hens are signed up, the 

 organization will begin functioning. 

 A manager will be employed and 

 eggs will be gathered from members 

 in the country, assembled and 

 graded at Flora, and shipped in car- 

 loads to the big markets. 



Central Illinois Interested 



Knox. Warren and Henderson 

 County Farm Bureaus are also in- 

 terested, several meetings having 

 been held to acquaint farmers with 

 details and workings of joining to- 

 gether in their marketing. If an or- 

 ganization is formed in these coun- 

 ties, the headquarters will be at 

 Galesburg. Ford County Farm Bu- 

 reau is planning a one-county or- 

 ganization along similar lines, with 

 headquarters at Gibson City. 



The ten Illinois counties which 

 produce the most poultry and eggs 

 per 100 acres of improved land, 

 and the value, are given as follows 

 by the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion: Edwards, $347; Clark, $270; 

 Cumberland, $264; Wayne, $244; 

 Clay, $242; Effingham, $234; Clin- 

 ton, $223; Jasper, $223; Jefferson, 

 $208 and Shelby, $202. Southern 

 Illinois counties are heaviest poul- 

 try and poultry-product producers 

 in the state. 



The U. 8. DKPARTMRNT OP COMHBRCR RB- 

 ports that Illinois has 16 cities over 30.000. 

 three of which border ChicaiTO. All increased 

 since 1922. while the farm population de- 

 crearied considerably. 



GOVCRNMKNT LtVBSTOCK MABKBT NBWB SBRV- 



ice B hein? extended by Confrressiona) author, 

 ity to marltets at Pittsburgh. Buffalo. Cleve- 

 land. Cincinnati, St. Joseph and Indianapolis 

 soon after July 1. 



Cowles Reports on 



Status of Relief 



{Continued from page 1, col. 6.) 



tives of the united farm organiza- 

 tions, supported by the Executive 

 Committee of 22, had appeared be- 

 fore that Committee and presented 

 and offered its Federal Farm Board 

 Bill. Subsequently, the Senate Com- 

 mittee reported to the Senate, 

 through Senator McNary, the Co- 

 operative Marketing measure with 

 the farm organizations. Federal 

 Farm Board Bill, appended thereto 

 as an amendment. So that the Fed- 

 eral Farm Board bill, as a committee 

 amendment to the Administration's 

 Co-operative Marketing bill is pend- 

 ing now before Congress in the 

 Senate, and is likely to be taken up 

 for consideration as this report is 

 written or at least within the next 

 few days. I repeat that the Senate 

 measure makes no reference to 

 tariff and that it omits certain pro- 

 visions that were objected to in the 

 consideration and debate on the 

 "Haugen bill" in the House. And 

 without attempting to enter into a 

 discussion of the matter, let it be 

 recognized (as it has been all along 

 by those associated together in their 

 efforts to secure legislation dealing 

 with the surplus problem), that the 

 introduction of the subject of tariff 

 either by reference or by declara- 

 tion in any bin dealing with the 

 problem of surpluses might be ex- 

 pected to prejudice certain support, 

 particularly in the south, that was 

 needed to secure the enactment of 

 adequate legislation. Let it also be 

 remembered that a group of Sena- 

 tors, representing the majority of 

 the Senators, have recently agreed 

 that the Congress shall not adjourn 

 until farm legislation is enacted. 

 The present situation is quite the 

 opposite of the situation that Ex- 

 isted in Washington when the old 

 McNary-Haugen bill was defeated 

 in the House, in the 68th Congress, 

 two years ago. At that time the 

 vote on the bill in the House came 

 during the closing week of the ses- 

 sion and Congress had agreed to an 

 adjustment, with no opportunity to 

 secure action by the Senate. 

 SnbstitnteB Offered 



Returning to the immediate 

 events preceding the unfavorable 

 vote on the Haugen bill in the 

 House, late Thursday afternoon, 

 the reading of the bill was con- 

 cluded under "five minute rule," 

 permitting members of the House 

 to offer amendments to the bill or 

 speak for or against the section of 

 the bill previously read. During the 

 reading of the bill certain construc- 

 tive amendments had been made, as 

 agreed to by the friends of the bill, 

 and all objectionable amendments 

 were defeated. The bill was before 

 the House under a special rule, by 

 the terms of which, either the 

 Tincher or the Aswell bill were per- 

 mitted to be offered as substitutes 

 for the Haugen bill, or interchange- 

 ably. Therefore it was in order, at 

 the conclusion of the reading of the 

 Haugen bill on Friday evening, to 

 offer either bill As substitute; and 

 accordingly the Tincher Bill was of- 

 fered, on motion, as a substitute for 

 the Haugen bill, and then the As- 

 well bill was offered as a substitute 

 to the Tincher bill, after which the 

 House adjourned. 



Administration Attempts "Painless 

 Killing" But Fails 



The House reconvened Friday 

 morning and took up the Haugen 

 Bill. Both the Tincher Bill and the 

 Aswell Bill were at once with- 

 drawn ; and following this action by 

 the proponents of these measures. 

 Congressman Madden, from Chica- 

 go, Chairman of the Administra- 

 tion's Appropriation Committee, of- 

 fered a motion to recommit the 

 Haugen bill to the Committee on 

 Agriculture. The effect of this mo- 

 tion, had it prevailed, and its evi- 

 dent purpose, was to have the bill 

 "die in committee." This disposal 

 of the measure would have effec- 

 tively prevented a record vote on 

 the Haugen Bill in the House. An 

 aye and nay vote was taken on the 

 motion to recommit, and the Chair- 

 man (Mapes of Michigan) an- 

 nounced, "the ayes seem to have 

 it." A divison of the House was 

 called for by rising vote, and the 

 Chair announced again, "the ayes 

 seem to have it." A vote by tel- 

 lers was requested and the ayes 

 were 182 and the nays were '200, 

 and the motion te recommit was 

 lost. 



"The previous question" was 

 moved, and the vote was on the 



Haugen bill. Those answering the 

 roll call in the affirmative were 167, 

 those in the negative, 212 — 51 not 

 voting. And the clerk announced 

 3 additional pairs. So the bill was 

 rejected. 



Democrat^ ^hj at Tariff Mention 



The vote o1\ the motion to recom- 

 mit the bill, and the vote on the 

 bill, revealed the following: first, 

 that democrats from the south had 

 voted with the friends of the bill 

 in defeat of the motion to recom- 

 mit, thereby forcing a record vote 

 on the bill and disclosing its repub- 

 lican opposition. The failure of 

 southern leaders and their follow- 

 lowing in the democratic party to 

 support the bill on roll call, and to 

 vote the bill down will be ac- 

 counted for by them, no doubt, be- 

 cause of the fact that the bill, by 

 its specific declaration, stated its 

 purpose to be "to protect domestic 

 markets against world prices and 

 assure the maximum benefits of the 

 tariff upon agricultural commodi- 

 ■ties," and because of other refer- 

 ence in the bill to the tariff. 



Cotton Alliance Strong 



However, through the active sup- 

 port and influence of the American 

 Cotton Growers Exchange, and its 

 aflfiliated state associations of cot- 

 ton growers, the so-called "cotton 

 states" contributed forty-t h r e e 

 votes for the bill. Space does not 

 permit recounting here the story of 

 the working alliance formed with 

 the Cotton Growers. 



Without attempting to furnish a 

 detailed vote on the bill in the 

 House, our members no doubt will 

 be interested in knowing something 

 of the vote. The Illinois delegation 

 in the House outside of certain 

 Chicago Congressmen, and includ- 

 ing the Congressmen at Large, vot- 

 ed solidly for the bill. Congress- 

 man Sabath of Chicago, from the 

 5th Congressional District, voted 

 for the bill. The Indiana, Iowa and 

 Nebraska delegations voted solidly 

 for the bill. The Minnesota delega- 

 tion, with the exception of the Con- 

 gressman from Minneapolis, voted 

 for the bill. Tha Missouri delega- 

 tion, with the exception of the Con- 

 gressman from Kansas City, and 

 two Congressmen from St. Louis, 

 and the Congressman from the 14th 

 District, voted for the bill. The 

 delegation from Wisconsin cast 

 seven votes for the bill, two against 

 the bill, and two Congressmen were 

 recorded as not voting. Seven fav- 

 orable votes were recorded from 

 Pennsylvania, five from Ohio, three 

 from Michigan. The vote in Ohio 

 and Michigan was disappointing. 

 Four favorable votes were recorded 

 from Washington, and one vote 

 against the bill. Two favorable 

 votes were received from Oregon, 

 and one vote against the bill. One 

 favorable vote was recorded from 

 California. Idaho, Nevada, Utah, 

 Wyoming, South Dakota, North Da- 

 kota, Montana, Arizona, voted for 

 the bill. The delegations in the 

 House voting against the bill 

 were: New Hampshire, Connecti- 

 cut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jer- 

 sey, New York, Vermont, Virginia, 

 West Virginia, Kentucky and Lou- 

 isiana. 



; Still Hopeful in Senate 



Friends of the bill in the Senate 

 believe the bill has opportunity, a^ 

 if passed then goes to Conference 

 Committee, composed of members 

 of both houses of Congress, with 

 subsequent action by the House and 

 Senate on the report of the Con- 

 ference Committee. There is rea- 

 son to believe that the House will • 

 adopt the Conference Committee re- 

 port if the bill is reported substan- 

 tially in its present form. 



J^HE law oj nature Lr, Do the 

 thing, arid you thall have 

 the power: hut they who do not 

 the thing have not the power. 

 Human labour, through all its 

 j or iris, from tlie sharpening oj a 

 stake to the construction oJ a 

 city or an epic, is one immense 

 illustration oJ the perject com- 

 pensation oJ the universe. Every- 

 where and always this law is 

 sa blime. — Emerson . 



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