I. A. A. PICNIC, MOOSEHEART, AUG. 11, LOOMS AHEAD 



''I'^HE National Cooperative Milk 

 X Producers' Association, with head- 

 quarters at Washingfton, will assist the 

 Pure Milk Association in working out 

 its plan of organization in the Chicago 

 milk zone. This was decided by the 

 board of directors of the National As- 

 sociation at their recent meeting in 

 Chicago. 



An effort will be made to secure the 

 cooperation of all organized dairsrmen 

 in the Chicago milk shed toward stop- 

 ping indiscriminate inter-market ship- 

 ments of milk and cream. Orderly 

 marketing and merchandising with 

 controlled production will be sought. 

 The dairy marketing department of 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association 

 was instrumental in bringing the prob- 

 lem and the need for united action to 

 the attention of the national authori- 

 ties. 



A PRELIMINARY hearing on the 

 question of discontinuing free 

 telephone toll service between certain 

 exchanges in Morgan, Scott and 

 Greene counties was held recently at 

 Jacksonville. The telephone companies 

 interested petitioned the Illinois Com- 

 merce Commission claiming they need- 

 ed more money to pay dividends. 

 Farm advisers Fisher and Laible, Con- 

 gressman Henry T. Rainey, and L. J. 

 Quasey of the I. A. A. represented the 

 farmer subscribers. Mr. Quasey will 

 prepare briefs on the case for presen- 

 tation at the next meeting. 



New stock pens were installed re- 

 cently at Ridgrway in Gallatin county 

 following an appeal to the railroad by 

 the I. A. A. Transportation Depart- 

 ment. 



A reduction in freight rates on 

 peaches from points on the I. C. R. R. 

 south of the B. & 0. in Southern Illi- 

 nois to Mississippi Valley points was 

 secured recently. The reduction 

 amounts to seven cents a hundred, or 

 $16.80 per car. 



L. B. Palmer, president of the Ohio 

 Farm Bureau, is the new secretary of 

 the American Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion. He succeeds Frank Evans who 

 will return to his home in Utah. 



The American Farm Bureau reports 

 assets of $50,000 with practically no 



liabilities. This is a decided improve- 

 ment over the financial condition of 

 1923 when the Federation was in debt 

 $50,000. During the first six months 

 of 1927, the Federation received fees 

 from 31 states. 



A. B. Leeper, director of fruit mar- 

 keting, is aiding in the formation of a 

 fruit and vegetable marketing unit in 

 Saline county. "We will be busy mar- 

 keting the peach crop throughout July 

 and August," says Leeper. 



The cheese producers of Illinois 

 have appealed to the I. A. A. Dairy 

 Marketing Department for help in fed- 

 erating' and organizing a central sales 

 agency. There are more than 160 

 cheese producers' associations in Illi- 

 nois, each of which sells its products 

 independently. 



The B'oomington Milk Producers* 

 campaign of organization is nearing 

 completion. The Association is ex- 

 pected to start operating shortly. The 

 Dairy Department is assisting in get- 

 ting the new cooperative started and 

 is expected to provide managerial 

 service. 



New dairy and poultry shipping and 

 bargaining associations are in the 

 process of organization at Blooming- 

 ton, Bement, Milford, Cissna Park, 

 Toulon, and Galva. Frank Gougler of 

 the Poultry and Egg Marketing de- 

 partment is giving his time to this 

 work. ■■■■■■■: '/' 



Ray E. Miller, Director of Livestock 

 Marketing, will assume his new duties 

 August 1. He will visit the Producer 

 Commission Associations at Chicago, 

 St. Louis, Peoria, and Indianapolis, 

 after which a series of district meet- 

 ings will be held over the state to se- 

 cure the cooperation of the county 

 farm bureaus in carrying out the new 

 program of coperative livestock mar- 

 keting, • ., , 



Details of legislative measures 

 drawn by Donald Kirkpatrick and R. 

 A. Cowles of the I. A. A. Special 

 Grain Marketing Committee will be 

 presented in the August issue of the 

 Record. .,:. v-., ■■.■■;.;■;■. :■:■■.'■■■'.■ 



Harvey Sconce of Vermilion county, 

 reporting on the facilities offered for 

 shipping and handling grain down the 

 Mississippi River to New Orleans, has 

 recommended that the I. A. A. appeal 

 to officials of the federal barge line 

 toward establishing a modern transfer 

 elevator at Cairo. ' li ; 



COMMITTEES ACT 

 IN PREPARATION 



Baseball Diamond and Horse- 

 shoe Courts Made Ready | 

 11 For Contests 



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WITH« only three weeks to go in 

 preparation for the Eighth An- 

 nual I. A. A. picnic, committees and 

 officials in charge of the event are 

 bending to their tasks in making it a 

 memorable one in agricultural history. 



Out on the Moose reservation on the 

 banks of Fox River, there is much 

 speculation and more expectation of 

 the coming State farm gathering on 

 August 11. How many ;w^ill be there 

 seems to be the popular question. Fifty 

 thousand is the optimistits^stimate of 

 the committee in charge. They are 

 preparing for that many sa' don't dis- 

 appoint them. The fear, that- August 

 1 1 may catch the corn belrinthe midst 

 of oats and wheat harvest is disquiet- 

 ing. Sizable crowds have come out to 

 previous picnics, however, in spite of 

 harvest, hail, or high water, and so the 

 prophets are foretelling that all records 

 will be smashed when Mooseheart op- 

 ens its doors to the organized farmers 

 of Illinois. 



Preliminary plans call for the State 

 championship baseball contest in the 

 morning at 10. Horseshoes will start 

 flying an hour before to continue until 

 late afternoon. 



Homer McCoy, Mooseheart's farm 

 manager, says that all the pigs on the 

 section will be shut up to prevent a 

 stampede when the hog callers send 

 forth their W-H-O-O-E-Y-S, P-E-E-G- 

 I-E-S, and P-I-G-O-O-E-Y-S. | j .. 



As the time and place of the other 

 events are decided upon they will be 

 released through the press and radio. 

 For those who cannot come, the radio 

 will be used to impart a picture of the 

 crowds and contestants in action. City 

 farmers from Chicago will mix with 

 their neighbors from downstate. Invi- 

 tations will be sent to all agricultural 

 groups and organizations in Chicago. 



In the afternoon. Senator Kenneth 

 D. McKellar, Democrat, and farm lead- 

 er from Memphis, Tenn., will lead 

 the speakers. He will speak from the 

 rostrum of the campanile or main 

 building ;at the entrance to the 

 grounds. ^ ^-^ v J; : , I I 



The ladies* program in th^ audito- 

 rium will be held in the morning as in 

 previous years. ; . ! ^j; \ U 



Professional umpires for the State 

 championship baseball game have been 

 engaged from the Midwest Umpires 

 League, Chicago. f .; 



Army airplanes will be used this 

 summer in the Pacific Northwest to 

 protect national forests against fire. 



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