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July 1, 1926 



The Illinois Agricultural Association IRecORD 



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8 Ford County Co-ops 

 Adopt Federated Audit 

 Service for Protection 



Eight Ford county shipping as- 

 sociations blazed the trail toward 

 securing an up to 

 date audit service 

 and improving 

 their methods of 

 doing business 

 when they co- 

 operated recently 

 in having their 

 books audited by 

 the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Cooper- 

 ative Association. 

 The associa- 

 tions operate in- 

 dependently a s 

 Wm. E. Hedfcock before but they 

 agreed to adopt 

 uniform rules of accounting and to 

 submit their records annually for 

 audit. At a meeting of the associa- 

 tion officers and managers following 

 the audit, considerable interest de- 

 veloped regarding accounting and 

 shipping problems. 



W. E. Hedgcock and George R. 

 Wicker of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association attended the meeting 

 and led the discussion toward help- 

 ing each organization with its work. 

 "I believe that the expense in- 

 volved in extending service to a 

 single association makes it both un- 

 satisfactory and unprofitable to ac- 

 cept associations as members of the 

 Cooperatives Association," said 

 Wicker. "But if the livestock ship- 

 ping associations will cooperate in 

 a county or district so the records 

 of all companies could be assembled 

 at one point, the cost of service will 

 be largely reduced. The net result 

 of such cooperation will be to en- 

 able us to make comparative studies 

 toward bringing about better prac- 

 tice and more uniformity in opera- 

 tions and accounting." 



WE'VE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT 



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 consideration by the House Agricul- 

 tural Committee was a deadlock, re- 

 sulting in their voting out three 

 measures, the Haugen, Tincher, and 

 Aswell bills to the House as a Com- 

 mittee of the Whole, for consider- 

 ation. One-third of the time was to 

 be given to consideration of each 

 measure; but the Congressional 

 Record shows quite clearly that the 

 proponents of both the Aswell and 

 Tincher Bills confined themselves 

 largely to criticism of the farmers' 

 programs, which naturally forces us 

 to view with suspicion the sincerity 

 of purpose directing their efforts. 



The farm leaders could have, at 

 any time, compromised on a meas- 

 ure carrying twelve good jobs and 

 an endless amount of money for 

 farmers to get further into debt 

 but so far as I know, although ev- 

 ery farm organization of note was 

 represented except the National 

 Grange, not a single one for a mo- 

 ment ever entertained a notion of 

 doing so. We had been promised 

 legislation that would give to agri- 

 culture equality with other group 

 interests, and on that platform we 

 stood, preferring temporary defeat 

 to any compromise of principles 

 necessary to achieve that result. 



In the Senate our bill known as 

 the McNary Bill, had a somewhat 

 different status, in that it had been 

 favorably reported out of the Com- 

 mittee as an amendment to the ad- 

 ministration's co-operative measure. 

 In consideration on the floor of the 

 Senate, party lines and party prece- 

 dents were broken, and it is only 

 due them to state that many able 

 senators with considerable political 

 embarrassment to themselves, were 

 staunch supporters of the farmers' 

 program and defended the bill to 

 the end. 



It was the desire of those re- 

 sponsible for the preparation of our 

 bill to do nothing or ask nothing 

 that would seriously disturb the 

 prosperous condition prevailing 

 throughout the industrial world or 

 would in any way, affect adversely 

 American labor standards. It was, 

 however, not only our intention but 

 determination to receive our just 

 portion of the benefits of the pro- 

 tection afforded these groups. It is 

 quite surprising to note in a careful 

 analysis of the vote on these bills 

 before both Houses, that those who 

 have most enjoyed the fruits of 

 protection are unwilling for farm- 

 ers to share with them its benefits. 

 Ib the Senate only one vote was 

 «ast for this bill from east of Indi- 



Helping Poor Kiddies Get Vacations Is 

 Practical Application of Christianity 



YOUR State Farm Bureau — ^the! 

 Illinois Agricultural Association { 

 — is cooperating 

 again this year 

 with the United 

 Charities of Chi- 

 cago to try and 

 make it possible 

 for some of the 

 unfortunate chil- 

 dren of Chicago's 

 poor districts to 

 have an oppor* 

 tunity to spend 

 two weeks in 

 some of our good 

 Farm Bureau 

 homes. 



The United 

 Charities will see 

 to it that the 

 children are 

 fresh, clean and 

 properly dressed 

 before they are 

 sent from Chica- 

 go. They have 

 all arrangements 

 with the rail- 

 roads which have 

 agreed again this 

 year to carry the children free. 

 Attendants from the United Chari- 

 ties organization will accompany 

 the children to their destinations 

 and will call for them when their 

 two weeks have passed. 



A Farm Vacation 

 and Pleasure 



The Farm Bureau members' part 

 consists of giving them a good time 

 while they are in 

 the country, and 

 farm families 

 who have opened 

 their homes and 

 hearts to these 

 youngsters in the 

 past report that 

 entertainment for 

 city children in 

 the country is 

 easy and simple. 

 They make their 

 own good times 

 and furnish their 

 hosts with a 

 great deal of en- 

 tertainment be- 

 sides. The won- 

 der and delight 

 with which they 

 will greet the 

 most common- 

 place things in 

 the country is a 

 source of con- 

 ii Fun For Him stant amusement 

 for the Halt to many farmer- 



hosts. 

 A card addressed to the Outing 

 Secretary, Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation, 608 S. Dearborn St., Chi- 

 cago, will make known your willing- 

 ness to take part in this practical, 

 Christian endeavor. 



Quasey Represents 

 Farm. Bureau In Rate 

 Case At Springfield 



Farmers of Fulton county joined 

 hands with citizens of Canton in 

 opposing an increase in rates re- 

 quested by the Canton Home Tele- 

 phone Company at a hearing before 

 the Illinois Commerce Commission 

 in Springfield on Tuesday, June 22. 



The telephone company is asking 

 for a raise from $18 to ?24 per year 

 on party lines, and from $5 to $9 

 per year for switching service to 

 415 farmers on mutual telephone 

 lines around Canton. 



L. J. Quasey, director of trans- 

 portation, represented the I. A. A. 

 and the Fulton County Farm Bureau 

 at the hearing. He succeeded in 

 revealing information by cross- 

 questioning officials of the com- 

 pany which indicates the utility has 

 been doing very well financially 

 since it merged with another com- 

 pany in 1922. 



At that time the company was 

 given a substantial increase by the 

 commission, and was allowed to 

 merge on the plea that economies 

 could be effected. On Dec. 31, 1925 

 the company had accumulated a re- 

 serve for depreciation purposes of 

 $67,951.50. It has met regularly 

 the interest on $150,000 of bonded 

 indebtedness, but has not paid divi- 

 dends on $145,000 stocks. The com- 

 mission is expected to render a de- 

 cision by July 1. 



Wheat Pool Meet* At Carmi 



Fifty Illinois members of the Cen- 

 tral States Soft Wheat Growers' As- 

 sociation met at Carmi, in White 

 county, on June 23 for a frank and 

 full discussion of last year's results 

 in the wheat pool. Earl C. Smith, 

 president of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association, addressed the meeting. 

 The membership reaffirmed their 

 faith and expressed their determina- 

 tion to make the pool a success. 



ana and north of the Ohio River. 

 That was Copeland's from New 

 York. Practically the same propor- 

 tioning of support was true in the 

 House. This alone is sufficient evi- 

 dence of the need of and necessity 

 for every red-blooded American 

 farmer to rally and stand shoulder 

 to shoulder in defense of his rights. 

 Although temporarily defeated, the 

 only result of such defeat will be 

 a redoubling of our efforts to se- 

 cure what so rightfully belongs to 

 us, believing more than ever in the 

 justice of our cause and that jus- 

 tice must and will prevail. 



Thomas P. Cooper, formerly chief of the 

 Bureau of Agricultural EconomicB. haa re- 

 sumed his position as dean and director of 

 the Collefre of Agriculture and Experiment 

 Station at the University of Kentucky. 



Oil and Gas Supply 



Companies Will Be 

 Discussed in July 



Oil and gasoline and the prob- 

 lems to be met by farm bureau sup- 

 ply companies engaging in the dis- 

 tribution of these commodities will 

 be the subject of a series of confer- 

 ences to be held during July by J. 

 R. Bent, director of the I. A. A. 

 farm supply department. 



Meetings will be held as follows: 

 Springfield, Monday, July 19, 11. a. 

 m.; Centralia, Tuesday, July 20, 1 

 p. m.; Champaign, Wednesday, July 

 21, 11 a. m.; Rockford, Thursday, 

 July 22, 1 p. m. ; Galesburg, Mon- 

 day, July 26, 11 a. m. 



TTiey will be attended by Mr. 

 Bent, Donald Kirkpatrick, legal 

 counsel, and George R. Wicker, di- 

 rector of cooperative accounting. 

 The Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion in sponsoring these meetings 

 hopes to give such advisory service 

 as will help those contemplating 

 such service. 



The first meeting at which this 



bject was fll^rn^gprf was \]Klrl a> 



^~Marshall C ounty on Jun e 

 30, ^wT Tgfe an " oil an 3 gas^suj^Tj, 

 cbmpaa;i is, iiuw in operation; 



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Hail Insurance Tops 

 Million Dollar Mark 

 In Farmers' Mutual Co. 



Hail insurance signed by the 

 Farmers! Mutual Reinsurance Com- 

 pany topped the million dollar mark 

 on June 21 when a total of $1,147 

 850 was reported by J. H. Kelker, 

 assistant secretary of the company. 



Henry county led all others in the 

 amount of insurance w^ritten with 

 total of $686,939. Most of this was 

 written by members of the Farmers' 

 Mutual Company of that county. A 

 total of 631 policies were recorded 

 on that dat«. 



Practically all the insurance so 

 far has been written in western Il- 

 linois where damage from hail in 

 recent years has been particularly 

 severe in localities. Knox county is 

 second with $134,415; McDonough 

 county third with $112,085, and 

 Mercer and Rock Island counties 

 next with lesser amounts. Sixteen 

 counties so far are represented. 



The initial payment on delivery 

 of the policy is $4 per $1000 of in- 

 surance. At the end of the crop 

 season the losses from hail damage 

 will be totaled and assessments pro- 

 rated to the policy holders. The 

 maximum assessment, according to 

 estimates of the company, will not 

 run over $24 per 1000 including the 

 initial payment. Old-line companies 

 are charging around $30 per 1000 

 for this class of insurance. 



Germans Pass Bill to 



Stabilize Farm Prices 



That the Federal farm board 

 plan is not so revolutionary as its 

 opponents would have the world 

 believe is borne out in the recent 

 action of the German Reichstag 

 which has passed a bill granting 

 a loan of 30 million marks ($7,- 

 150,000) to a German Grain 

 Trading Company composed of 

 farmers, fertilizer syndicates and 

 others, the purpose of which is to 

 study ways and means to render 

 German agriculture profitable 

 and also to stabilize grain prices 

 by buying, storing and selling 

 German grain. 



Scatter The Orders 



For Limestone: Bent 



The limestone companies are 

 kicking about the large percentage 

 of orders they receive on the 1st 

 and 15th days of the month causing 

 a peak demand at these two periods, 

 according to J. R. Bent. 



Many buyers would be just as 

 well pleased to pla(;g their orders 

 for delivery the 5th, 10th, 20th, or 

 25th, and the- limestone shippers can 

 thus effect a more even distribution 

 of labor. It is suggested that farm 

 bureau members and farm advisers 

 who order limestone in the future 

 try to accede to this request. 



The Regular Delivery 



By R. J. Bieger 



Illinois Delegates 

 to Tour to St. Paul 

 Institute in July 



Gougler Will Conduct Party 

 to Cooperative Feeding: 

 Plant at La CroMe, Wis- 

 consin. 



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A representative delegatioS of 25 

 to 30 men will leave Illin 

 auto mobile on 

 Sunday, July 4, 

 and Monday, July 

 5, to attend the 

 American Insti- 

 tute of Coopera- 

 tion at St. Paul. 

 according to 

 Frank Coupler. 

 director of poul- 

 try marketing. 



Wavne, Clav. 

 Effingham, Forri. 

 Knox, Hender- 

 son, Warren and 

 possibly other 

 counties will be 

 represented in the tfcur to th« Twin 

 Cities where GougUivA. B. I«ep«r, 

 and Geo. R. Wicker of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association will appear 

 on the program. The touri*« will 

 stop to go through the cooperative 

 poultry feeding plant recently es- 

 tablished at La Crosse, Wisconsin, 

 by the Lake Region Cooperative Egg 

 and Poultry Exchange. This plant 

 is being used in conjunction Tpifith a 

 larger one now operating lat St. 

 Paul to concentrate and feed and fit 

 live poultry for market before ship- 

 ment to New York. 



The delegation from Illinois will 

 spend their time seeking inltorma- 

 tion and the experience of others 

 in poultry and egg, fruit, an4 dairy 

 marketing. 



Mr. Gougler will present a his- 

 tory of poultry and egg marketing 

 experience in Illinois with a con- 

 densed summary of his observations 

 in this and other states. 



A. B. Leeper, director of fruit 

 and vegetable marketing, will dis- 

 cuss the successes and failures of 

 cooperative fruit markelring in Il- 

 linois and the experien' s of the Il- 

 linois Fruit Exchange while Wicker 

 will speak on cooperative audft sen/- 

 ice for farmers' elev-ators. 



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Senate Aslcs Jardine 



of Chicago "Cilteee" 



Secretary Jardine wa* asked Fri- 

 day, June 25, by the Senate to 

 explain his connectibn wi^ the 

 Roundup College of Scientific Price 

 Forecasting of Chicago. 



A resolution making the request 

 was offered by Senator Caraway 

 (Dem. Ark.), and adopted. Cara- 

 way said the secretary had Accept- 

 ed appointment as a member<of the 

 faculty of the college to teaeh stu- 

 dents "how to speculate aad get 

 around the rules pf the grain fu- 

 tures act which he administers." 



The resolution asked the secre- 

 tary to state whether his informa- 

 tion on grain futures markets wa* 

 obtained as a restllt of his pfficial 

 connection with the department of 

 agriculture, and what compensation 

 he has received from the coliege. 



The Roundup College school for 

 price broadcasting was held at the 

 Congress Hotel four woek» ago. 

 ."secretary Jardine was announced 

 in publicity as the principal r«peak- 

 er. The school is run by J. Ralph 

 Pickell, li.sted in the telephone book 

 with offices at 1848 West Washing- 

 ton Boulevard and 328 Atihland 

 Boulevard, It is said, however, that 

 the offices have been movpd to 

 Western Springs, HI., n.'ar Chicago. 



Pickell at the time the school was 

 held, said about 500 students would 

 be in attendance. Each student, he 

 said would pay $50 for the oourse. 



War On Chicken Tkievea Comkinuea 



Prairie Farmer's war gainst 

 chicken thieves has brought la full 

 awakening of the necessity fi)r co- 

 operation all along the line in stop- 

 ping this kind of crime. Vermilion, 

 Woodford, Lake, Edwards, and Dc- 

 witt are some of the latest oounty 

 farm bureaus to offer rewards and 

 help set up local protective a»»<Hia. 

 tions of farmers to detect the law- 

 breakers. Five organized to«-nship 

 units in Dewitt county have offered 

 $.50 each for information leading to 

 the arrest and conTiction of anyone 

 stealing from melnbers. Lot the 

 good work go on. 



