Ausrust 1, 1926 



The Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD 



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Oil and Gas Supply 

 Companies Attract 

 State- wide Interest 



■ Knox County Company In' 

 corporates For $50,000. If 

 Farmers Must Help Them' 

 selves. This Is Our Way, 

 Say Members 



State-wide interest in the forma- 

 tion of cooperative oil and gasoline 

 supply companies was evidenced in 

 the recent series of meetings held 

 by J. R. Bent of the Illinois Agri' 

 cultural Association for the purpose 

 of acquaintinii; farm advisers, mem' 

 bers, and others with the possibil- 

 ities and limitations of this new 

 ■ project. 



■ Since Hanco ck, . coji nty started. 

 o perating an oil and gas suppIy~com- 

 pa ny m SrgTft au tw o y e ars ago ami 

 sinceTBtSTsTiall-Putnam county made 

 a very^ Successful beginning less 

 than a year ago, other counties ha-ve 

 inveiilignUul mill Tippareiitly liSyF 

 seen a ne w opp ortunity for another 

 effeetfrp^way fo shorten the road 

 from producer to consumer to help 

 the farmer. 



Meetings Throughout State. 



Meetings under the auspices of 

 the I. A. A. were held at Henry, 

 Centralia, Springfield, Champaign 

 and Rockford, within the past few 

 weeks, at which half the counties of 

 Illinois were ^presented. Knox 

 county thought so well of the proj- 

 ect that the farm bureau there or- 

 ganized a corporation with capital 

 stock at $50,000. Fifteen thousand 

 or more in cash already has been 

 paid in and the new company is on 

 the high road to a happy beginning. 



"Smee Congress has failed to give 

 us any relief, we have decided to 

 help ourselves," says the Knox 

 county farm bureau members. "Al- 

 most every politician in Washing- 

 ton who opposed real farm relief 

 measures has been preaching that 

 the farmers should be more efficient 

 and lower their cost of production. 

 Thus we Knox county farmers have 

 started out to do this by buying our 

 own gasoline, kerosene, and lubri- 

 cating oils on the cooperative basis." 



Trucks Deliver Products. 



Bulk stations will be located at 

 convenient places in the county as 

 rapidly as possible and trucks will 

 deliver petroleum products to every 

 member's farm, says the Knox 

 County Farm Bureau Bulletin. Pre- 

 ferred stock at $25 per share bear- 

 ing 7 per cent are being offered to 

 farm bureau members to help 

 finance the project. 



For the man who buys his gaso- 

 line at filling stations, there will be 

 . pumps established in every town so 

 he may use his own products. 



The Marshall-Putnam Oil Com- 

 pany is in full operation, according 

 to F. E. Fuller, county adviser, 

 since each one of ■ its stations has 

 two truck drivers to deliver. A 

 second driver was recently installed 

 at McNabb, and a new service sta- 

 tion is to be located soon at the 

 Ford garage in Granville. 



The Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion has drawn up a model set of 

 "Articles of Incorporation" under 

 the provision of the Cooperative 

 Marketing Act. These are ready for 

 distribution to everyone interested 

 in the project. 



Need Should Be Considered. 



"Some counties are going to suc- 

 ceed while others may fail," said 

 J. R. Bent in commenting on the 

 probable outcome of the new ven- 

 ture. The degree to which success 

 may be achieved, or failure en- 

 countered will depend primarily 

 upon the need for such a cobpera- 

 tive company, the general interest 

 in it on the part of farmers, local 

 competitive conditions, the form of 

 organization and the financial and 

 "business set-up," and the exper- 

 ience, business-like character, afid 

 ability of the management. 



The responsibility for the new 

 companies organized will rest with 

 the incorporators themselves, but 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association 

 is making a determined effort to 

 give helpful information and advice 

 to every county interested. 



78 Respond Already To Appeal For Farm 

 Outings For Kiddies of Chicago 's Slums 



This Little Fellow Needs An Outinf in the Country. Write and Tell 

 Him to Come. 



Pack 'em in and Head for Mt. 

 Vernon. 



SEVENTY-EIGHT slum kiddies al- 

 ready farmed out through the 

 I. A. A. for summer vacations — 

 that's the record of the past two 

 weeks. The United Charities of 

 Chicago, with whom we are work- 

 ing in getting vacations for the 

 poor children of the tenement dis- 

 tricts report that they have many 

 more children who have not been 

 provided for. Here's an opportun- 

 ity to be happy through making 

 these unfortunate children happy 



for a couple of weeks this summer. 

 The United Charities deliver 

 the children in clean clothes and 

 come after them at the end of 

 the vacation period. A card ad- 

 dressed to the Outing Secretary, 

 Illinois Agricultural Association. 

 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, will 

 make known your willingness to 

 help in this splendid work. If pos- 

 sible, secure the aid of your neigh- 

 bors so a dozen or more children 

 can be delivered to the same town. 



G. E. Metzfer. 



20 Counties Show 

 Increase in Total 

 Mem bersh ip — Me tz^er 



Twenty counties reorganized this 

 year signed more members in the 

 farm bureau than 

 they did three 

 years ago, ac- 

 cording to G. E. 

 Metzger, director 

 of organization, 

 who recently 

 completed a sur- 

 vey of organiza- 

 t i o n work 



throughout the 

 state. 



And a number 

 of other counties 

 whicli have com- 

 pleted or are 

 about to complete 

 their new drives for members re- 

 port memberships approximately the 

 same as three years ago. With the 

 greater portion of the work com- 

 pleted for the new period, prospects 

 for a similar or slight increase in 

 membership over the total of three 

 years ago are becoming more ap- 

 parent each day. 



Pulaski, Bond and Jackson coun- 

 ties started resigning members 

 within the past two weeks, while 

 Edwards and St. Clair counties will 

 resign their memberships within the 

 coming two weeks. By the end of 

 August, Henderson, Schuyler, Rich- 

 land, and Scott counties will start 

 their campaigns for members for the 

 new three-year period. 



Washington county in Southern 

 Illinois, one of the few counties in 

 Illinois which never has had a farm 

 bureau, has its quota of 300 mem- 

 bers nearly enrolled and plans to 

 establish an office and employ a 

 county adviser by September first. 



When Washington comes into the 

 fold, the total will be swelled to 93 

 county farm bureaus in the state. 

 Washington County Farm Bureau 

 officials will hold a meeting at Nash- 

 ville on Aug. 4 to complete final 

 arrangements for the official launch- 

 ing of their new organization. 



Take Route 2 and Turn East at 

 Ashley. 



Mid-West Conference 

 atSa aga tuck, Mich . , to 

 Present Many Subjects 



The first Mid-West Stote Farm 

 Bureau training school, to be held at 

 Saugatuck, Mich., Aug. 16-20, will 

 be a bell-ringer, according to an- 

 nouncement made recently from the 

 office of the American Farm Bureau 

 Federation. 



Mrs. Chas. E. Sewell, chairman 

 of the committee in charge of the 

 school, announces that Dr. Carl Tay- 

 lor, of the University of North Caro- 

 lina, will be the principal speaker 

 at the banquet, to be held the first 

 night, Monday, Aug. 16. The gen- 

 eral address on publicity will be 

 made by S. J. Duncan Clark, Editor- 

 in-chief of the Chicago Evening 

 Post 



G. E. Metzger, director of organ- 

 ization, will speak on the "Art of 

 Salesmanship Applied To Farm 

 Bureau Needs," during the first day 

 of the convention. 



"Simple Rules For Effective Pub- 

 lic Speaking" will be the special sub- 

 ject of R. E. Pattison Kline, of tiie 

 Kline School of Effective Speech 

 Training, Chicago. Lucius E. Wil- 

 son, another "imported" speaker, 

 will discuss "Outlines of Modern 

 Psychology As Related to the Art 

 of Selling." Many other prominent 

 speakers are billed. 



The program will continue 

 throughout the week, winding up 

 with an open forum and summary 

 on Friday afternoon. The meetitig 

 and conference is called especially 

 for county advisers, organization 

 directors, solicitors, and farm bu- 

 reau workers. Reservations may be 

 made through the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation, 58 E. Washing- 

 ton St., Chicago. 



Send 'Em In 



Entries for the State Horse- 

 shoe ntching Tournament must 

 be sent to L. R. Caldwell, County 

 adviser, Mt. Vernon, 111., at once. 

 Contestants should be at Mt. 

 Vernon ready to plav by 9:00 a. 

 m., Thursday, Aug. 12. 



For The Winner 



This is a replica of the solid 

 gold watch charm to be awarded 

 to the new hog-calling champion 

 at Mt. Vernon on August 12. 

 Come and win it. 



Henry Casseil of Harrodsburg, 

 Ky., is the champion hog-caller 

 from the Bluegrass State, who is 

 looking for other worlds to con- 

 quer. "We will challenge the best 

 you have in Illinois for we think our 

 man can lick anyone in the United 

 States," writes Stuart Brabant, 

 county agent at Harrodsburg. Bra- 

 bant didn't slate whether Cassel's 

 favorite call is W-h-o-o-«-y, or 

 S-o-o-e-y, but we have enough con- 

 fidence in our coming state cham- 

 pion to pit him against Casse] and 

 others in a National Hog Calling 

 Contest, to be held at the Interna- 

 tional Livestock Exposition, Chi- 

 cago, 1926. 



Here is th« Illinois score card, 

 which will be used at the I. A. A. 

 State Picnic, Aug. 12, for judging 

 the hog callers: 



1. Volume, loudness, or csrryins ca- 

 pacity. This is important, because 

 the voice must rvach the ears of 

 the hoes if they ar« in the back 

 field 40 



2. Appeal to the hoc. The voice must 

 be earnest and sincere. denotinK 

 honesty. It must carry convic- 

 tion to the pisrs that their supper 

 awaits them 20 



t. Variety. A varied call I's more in- 

 terestina and penetrattnK than a 

 monotonous one given in the same 

 key 20 



4. OriKinality. The hoir should know 

 his oa-n master's voice so he may 

 not be fooled by impostors 10 



5. Clearness and musical qualKy. A 

 clear, musical call is much more 

 enticini; and appealina than a 

 throaty one lackina music. Hoas 

 enjoy music and happiness aids dt- 

 orcstion. A musical call will brine 

 them in quicker and with better 

 apietite to enjoy thefr meal with 

 profit to their owner 10 



ToUI 100 



Samuel G. Smith and Reuben Bright shown above carried the silver 

 cup back to McLean county in 1924 in the annual Horseshoe Tcmrna- 

 ment. Walter and Harry Torbcrt of DeWitt county won last vefir as 

 well as in 1923. These four masters of the art are expected "at Mt. 

 Vernon Aug. 12 in a new duel for state honors, gd. Torbert, father'of 

 Walter and Harry, and Joe Heskitt carried off the honors in 1920, 19&1, 

 and 1922. They may all be matched at the 1926 tournament. Will 

 these old champions come back, or will a dark horse team put them all 

 on the toboggan. It's worth a trip to Mt. Vernon to sec this annual 

 fight for supremacy. Don't miss it. 



United States Leads 

 In Fire Losses Per 

 Capita Report Shows 



Windstorm and hail insurance for 

 horticultural crops ■will be the next 

 type of insurance considered by the 

 Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co., 

 according to V. Vaniman, field 

 representative of the company. De- 

 mands are now coming on from 

 over the state for such insurance. 

 ^ A survey of the new company 

 recently completed by Vaniman 

 shows that practically 20 per cent 

 uf all mutual companies in the st^te 

 are now carr>-ing blanket reinsur- 

 ance. 



The Dix Mutual Fire Insurance 

 Co., according to \'animan is now 

 classifying property and allowing 

 deductions on cost of insurance to 

 property protected with lightning 

 rods, fire proof roofs, and fire proof 

 walls. This company had 124 pol- 

 icies with $147,670 of insurance in 

 force back in ]890« and today there 

 are more then 1200 policies repre- 

 senting $4,486,830 in force. 



"One of the effective ways to en- 

 courage f'reproofing is to lower the 

 rate on buildings wliere some atten- 

 tion is given to fire protection," said 

 C. B. Goodrich of Gibson City in 

 commenting on differential in ra'tes. 



A special committee on fire waste 

 and in.surance of the United State* 

 Chamber of Commerce reports that 

 the annual per capita losses fr"m 

 fire are more than three times 

 greater in the United States than in 

 France, the next highest country in 

 fire loss. Here are the figures, 

 taken from total losses in the yi';irs 

 from 1912 to 1915 inclusive; 



United States 



France 



England ..„. 



Norway 



Italy 



Sweden ... 



Germany 



— $2.26 per capita 



"I l>er cal'ita 



— 64 per capita 



. .S5 per capita 



58 per capita 



..*..... .4 2 per capita 



cl 28 per capita 



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