December, 1926 



The Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD 



Pages 



V 



What The Counties 

 Are Doing 



When the 

 STARK MANAGES opening shot 

 STATE CORN was fired in 



HUSKING CONTEST the race for 

 the state 

 com husking title on Nov. 12, E. 

 E. "Buster" Brown, county ad- 

 visor was behind the gun while 

 O. L. Hatch, president of the Stark 

 County Farm Bureau as general 

 manager was on the job keeping the 

 150 helpers busy and caring for a 

 crowd of 7,000 spectators. The 

 contest held recently south of Ke- 

 wanee in Stark county was the third 

 sponsored by Prairie Farmer. The 

 Stark County Farm Bureau and the 

 allied community clubs about El- 

 mira deserve a lot of credit for their 

 good work. Elmer Williams, who 

 won the state title again this year 

 is a member of the Stark County 

 Farm Bureau and a real farm bu- 

 reau booster. 



Henry 

 HENRY WALLACE county re- 

 SPEAKS AT CORN ports an in- 

 MEETING IN HENRY t cresting 

 Beed com 

 meeting on Morgan Brothers' farm 

 Nov. 10. Henry A. Wallace, editor 

 of Wallace's Farmer and an expert 

 on seed com breeding was there to 

 discuss his pet hobby and see the re- 

 sults of the Morgans' variety test 

 work. Four of the five comparisons 

 on disease testing in the 1926 corn 

 plots favor the tested com, which 

 outyielded the untested by nearly 

 three bushels. Harold -Holmes, 

 Henry county's entry in the state 

 corn husking contest placed fourth. 



The worst 

 LET-UP IN HOG hog cholera 



CHOLERA IN outbreak in 



COLES ANNOUNCED history is 

 the verdict 

 of Coles county in announcing that 

 conditions are improved there. Farm 

 adviser Melvin Thomas has spent 

 all his available time and then 

 some teaching farmers to vaccinate 

 in an effort to save the hog crop. 



Hereafter 

 MAKE 'EM pen drawings 



SNAPPY IS of f a n c y 



HUGHES' f^lOTTO dancers and 

 bathing 

 beauties will "perk up" the monthly 

 publication of the Monroe County 

 Farm Bureau. Editor Hughes is 

 also a well known writer of humor 

 for farm bureau folks. 



"Have you ever been to a side 

 show with some good actors (as il- 

 lustrated) doing their stuff, or to a 

 ball game, dog fight, or a trial for 

 bigamy and see a lot of fellows who 

 wouldn't cross the road to attend 

 a farmers' meeting," writes Hughes 

 in the November issue. The an 

 swer is "yes," all of which shows 

 that people want to be entertained, 

 not educated. 



Whiteside 

 WHITESIDE ACTIVE county's ac- 

 IN HOG tivity in 



CHOLERA CONTROL t e aching 

 farmer-vac- 

 cination against hog cholera has 

 drawn the fire of a local veterinar- 

 ian who reported farm advisor L. 

 0. Wise and several members to 

 the state authorities for "vacci- 

 nating unlawfully and spreading 

 . disease." Subsequent investigation 

 showed that the loss from farmer- 

 vaccination has been notably less 

 than that sustained by the com- 

 plaining "doctor." The state re- 

 turned a verdict of not guilty. 



Lawndale 

 McLEAN COUNTY and Chenoa 

 ORGANIZES PROTEC- township 

 TIVE ASSOCIATIONS farmers in 

 M c L e a n 

 county have formed local protective 

 associations as branches of the Illi- 

 nois State Detective Association. 

 Forty-one charter members were 

 signed up at the initial meetings of 

 the two associations. County ad- 

 viser Harrison Fahrnkopf is assist- 



How Ohio Poultry 

 Association Helps 

 Pay More For Eggs 



Frank Cou«l«r 



Naperville Townthip in Dupage county claims the state record for fiaTing more farn^ bureau members thaa 

 any other. At the call of county adviser Elmer Carncross, the members celebrated the completion of their 

 successful campaign by a dinner and meeting at the Granger Consolidated School. Mike Lyons at the right 

 who is one of the I. A. A.'s crack solicitors was instrumental in bringing the membership above the 100 

 mark, but he gives part of the credit -to Helen Binder, 21, at the left who drove him most of the time. Sena- 

 tor Harold Kessinger of Aurora and George Thiem of the Illinois Agricultural Ass<»cialion appeared on the 

 program. 



FIN LEY TO LEAVE FOR 

 CALIFORNIA 



Vice-President 

 Chas. R. Finley 

 will spend the 

 winter in Califor- 

 nia, he announced 

 at the Novem- 

 ber meeting of 

 the Executive 

 Committee. Sam 

 Sorrells who rep- 

 resents the 21st 

 district will suc- 

 ceed Finley as 

 Chas. R. Finley chairman of the I 

 Marketing Committee. I 



ing in forming these local associa- 

 tions whenever the demand arises. 



Don Smith 

 MARSHALL-PUTNAM of Varna 

 OIL CO. HIRES was em- 



NEW MANAGER ployed re- 



c e n 1 1 y as 

 manager of the Marshall-Putnam 

 Farm Bureau Oil Company. Smith 

 had been employed by one of the 

 large oil companies for six years. 

 The Marshall-Putnam Company is 

 doing a business of approximately 

 $15,000 per month. A higher test 

 gas and a special oil for zero 

 weather will be offered the trade 

 this winter. 



VERMILION COUNTY The third 

 HOLDS BOYS' CORN annual 

 CLUB SHOW boys' com 



club show 

 was held in Danville on Nov. 8 in 

 cooperation with a local business 

 house. A free dinner was furnished 

 all the boys who attended. Close 

 to 600 people attended the recent 

 dairy extension meetings at ten dif- 

 ferent places over the county. The 

 train was operated over the C&EI. 

 The Sec- 

 LOGAN COUNTY end Annual 



HOLDS UTILITY Utility 



CORN SHOW Corn Show 



was one of 

 Logan County's features for No- 

 vember. Two hundred and fifty 

 dollars in prizes were offered for 

 the various com classes. The an- 

 nual club round-up and achieve- 

 ment day rally was held on Friday, 

 Nov. 26 in cooperation with the Lin- 

 coln Chamber of Commerce. Af- 

 ternoon and evening entertainments 

 were provided along with a special 

 luncheon at the corn show room. 



"We a r e 

 DuPAGE COUNTY challengingthe 

 CLAIMS HIGHEST state' to show 

 TVfP. a tpwnship 



MEMBERSHIP with j a higher 



farm ' bureau 

 membership than Naperville town- 

 ship in this county," vmtes Elmer 

 Carncross, farm adviser. This town- 

 ship has a membership of more than 

 100 which represents nearly a 100 

 per cent sign-up. A meeting was 

 held in the Giouger consolidated 

 school recently to celebrate the oc- 

 casion. 



Com Market Weak 

 Due Surplus From 

 1926, Wheat Low 



By U. S. Bureau of Agricultural 

 Economics. 



THE grain market during Novem- 

 ber has been rather unsettled with 

 prices fluctuating with the chang- 

 ing crop and market developments. 

 Com prices reached a new low for 

 the season and had a weakening in- 

 fluence upon the market for other 

 feed grains. The wheat market 

 turned weaker late in October and 

 prices declined to about the same 

 level as prevailed during the latter 

 part of September. 



Old Com On Hand 



The large stocks of old corn on 

 farms which was estimated by the 

 Department of Agriculture at about 

 181,000,000 bushels on the first of 

 November has been one of the prin- 

 cipal weakening influences in the 

 corn market. In addition to large 

 faiin stocks there were around 23,- 

 000,000 bushels in store in the prin- 

 cipal markets which made the total 

 stocks of com on farms and in the 

 principal trading channels approxi- 

 mately 145,000,000 bushels larger 

 th&n last year. The crop, however, 

 a(*cording to the Nov. 1 estimate, 

 is about 211,000,000 bushels smaller 

 than last year, making the total 

 supply of corn at this time about 

 65,000,000 bushels smaller than at 

 this time last year, with the quality 

 of the new crop considerably be- 

 low average. It is estimated that 

 less than three-fourths of the crop 

 is of merchantable quality. 



A. R. Wright New Prexy 

 Marshall-Putnam Bureau 



A. R. Wright of Varna, who rep- 

 resents his district on the Execu- 



live Committee 



of the I. A. A. 

 was elected to 

 the presidency of 

 the strong Mar- 

 shall -Putnam 

 County Farm 

 Bureau recently. 

 Mr. Wright 

 who served as 

 secretary for 

 many years, suc- 

 ceeded L. F. 

 Boyle who served 

 A. R. Wrijht f a i t h f u 1 1 y as 

 president for four years. Guy 

 French of Putnam succeeded Wright 

 as secretary. 



R. F. Karr of Iroquois county is 

 president of his county farm bureau 

 and represents the 18th district on 

 the Executive Committee of the I. 

 A. A. The photographer caught him 

 in a characteristic pose enjoying his 

 pipe. The tractor in the back- 

 ground is nine years old and is still 

 doing heavy duty in the field and on 

 power jobs about the farm. 



Com Price Low > 



The receipts of new corn have 

 not been large but a large percent- 

 age contains excessive moisture and 

 can be sold only at wide discounts 

 under the better grades of old dry 

 corn. On November 17 Nos. 5 and 



6 grades of new corn at Chicago 

 ranging in moisture from 21-29 per 

 cent and in test weight from 47-53 

 pounds, sold at 46-60c per bushel. 

 This compares with sales of No. 3 

 yellow corn at 71-72c and shows a 

 discount of from 12-25c per bushel. 

 With so much old corn available 

 both in store and in" the current 

 i«ceipts buyers are unwilling to in- 

 cur the risk of handling the new 

 grain except at what they consider 

 safe margin. 



Industries are absorbing fairly 

 large amounts of com but eastern 

 and southern demand is light. In 

 the Southwest the low price of milo 

 and kafir is restricting the demand 

 for com. The Pacific Coast is tak- 

 ing considerable com from Kansas 

 City and Omaha. Feeder demand is 

 of only fair volume. According to 

 reports to the Department of Agri- 

 culture decreased cattle feeding in 

 the corn belt this winter is still in- 

 dicated. Outside the com belt, how- 

 ever, indications are that feeding 

 will be considerably increased. 

 Wheat Market Weakens 



Increasing stocks of wheat in 

 both the United State^and Canada, 

 together with more favorable 

 weather in Argentina, is having a 

 weakening influence o^n the wheat 

 market. Stocks of wheat in the 

 principal markets of the United 

 States now total around 80,000,000 

 bushels. Canadian stocks on Nov. 



7 totaled around 93,000,000 bushels. 

 This is about 14,000,000 bushels 

 more Canadian wheat and around 

 30,000,000 bushels more United 

 States wheat than was in store at 

 this time last year. The Canadian 

 crop is now estimated fit approxi- 

 mately 406.000,000 bushels, which 

 is larger than earlier expectations. 

 Recent trade estimates indicate a 

 prospective increa.se in the Argen- 

 tine crop over earlier estimates. 



By Frank B. Gouglar 



Dtrsctor Poultrr MaHcvtinc 



JN northwest Ohio arc four coun- 

 ties covering an area about 50 

 miles square. 

 Early in 1924 the 

 farm bureaus of 

 these counties, 

 together with the 

 State Farm Bu- 

 rea, decided to 

 organize a poul- 

 try marketing as- 

 s o c i a t i o n . 

 Throughout the 

 organization peri- 

 od and for near- 

 ly a year following its inception, 

 the association struggled for exist- 

 ence. The membership campaign 

 was drawn out for more than a 

 year. While the first member was 

 signed up April 10, 1924, it was 

 July 10 of the following year be- 

 fore marketing actually began. 



It was not all smooth sailing even 

 then. Finances were ever an im- 

 portant question with the officers 

 and the manager. The initial cap- 

 ital has been raised through a $3 

 memAership fee. This was about 

 all used as organization expenses. 

 The association was able, however, 

 to finance itself through notes taken 

 from its members on the basis of 

 20 cents per hen. 



A Deficit 



After operating six months an 

 audit of the association's books 

 showed a deficit of $4,171. This 

 was largely dne to organization ex- 

 penses, nevertheless it gave the of- 

 ficials considerable anxiety. 



From that time on he was de- 

 termined to build up a reserve and 

 again on September 1 this year an- 

 other audit was made which showed 

 results as follows: 



Assets $68,941.46 



Liabilities 89,227.86 



Net Worth , 19,713.69 



Reserves 17,986.00 



Undivided Surplus $ 1,728.69 



Members Sacrifice 



The building up of this reserve 

 was not done at a sacrifice of prices 

 to the members less than outsiders 

 were receiving. 



An analysis of the pool statement 

 of October 1-15 will show some 

 comparative prices received. A pool 

 statement shows the amount of eggs 

 handled during two weeks, how 

 they graded and the price received 

 by the members. It follows: 



45,000 dozen fumished by 1,800 

 members. 



Oct. 1-15, 25 Oct. 1-16, 26 



Vr C "/i C 



The Weighted average price ^- 

 ceived by the members of the asso- 

 ciation for the first two weeks of 

 October this year was 47.5 cents. 

 The average country buying price 

 for Ohio during this period accord- 

 ing to quotations given in the Pro- 

 duce Packer was 42 cents. In Illii- 

 nois during this period the country 

 price was 39 cente. This shows 

 Ohio prices three cents over lUi- 

 nois, and the members of the Ohio 

 association received 5 4 cents more 

 than the general country price for 

 Ohio and 8H cents more than Illi- 

 nois current prices. The association 

 was able to secure these splendid 

 prices for its members even after 

 deducting one cent per dozen for 

 the reserve fund which also belongs 

 to the members. 



The two pool statements, with a 

 year intervening, are shown in or- 

 der to illustrate the improvement 

 made in egg quality. It will be 

 noted that last year only 32 >* made 

 the top grade while this year 46 Vi 

 were up in this grade. Money 

 talks — pay the producer on a qual- 

 ity basis and attention will soon be 

 given to the care of eggs. 



