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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



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Page Five 



Working Together 



in Richland County 



County Wide Shipping Association Works 

 Hand in Hand With Farm Bureau 

 and Producers 1 ... 



A. E. MILLER ' 



RICHLAND County, Illinois, has a 

 county-wide live stock shipping 

 association which is an excellent type 

 of cooperative that is gradually devel- 

 oping throughout the corn belt. The 

 Richland Association was originally 

 formed by the Richland County Farm 

 Bureau in 1922. W. R Bunn, the 

 present Adviser, came to the county 

 in the spring of 1923 and lent a helping 



I hand to the Association which at that 



; time needed just this spirit and en- 



j couragement. 



J Since 1923 the Association has con- 

 tinued to grow and thrive until at 

 present it handles the major portion 

 of the live stock going from this 

 county. Richland County is not one 

 of the large live stock producing coun- 

 ties, but last year this Association sold 

 117 cars. Kindly get the next state- 

 ment. One hundred per cent of the 

 Richland County Live Stock Shipping 

 Association business went to Producer 

 Agencies. Of this amount one-half 

 went to the Indianapolis Producers and 

 the other half was divided between St. 

 Louis and Cincinnati. 



^ The Richland County Farm Bureau 

 and the Richland County Shipping As- 

 sociation are very closely allied. In 

 fact, membership in the Farm Bureau 



) entitles one to membership in the Ship- 

 ping Association. A charge of 10 

 cents per hundred weight is made on 



i shipments from non-members of the 

 Association. Mr. Bunn states that this 

 differential between members and non- 



i members of the Shipping Association 

 has been of great value to him in 

 building the Farm Bureau organiza- 

 tion in that county. 



Four Local Managers 



The Association is managed by a 

 board of nine directors, one from each 

 township. Officers of the Association 



j are elected from among the directors. 

 Regular meetings of the directors are 

 held and the annual meeting of the 

 Association is always made an occasion 

 for a systematic study of the past 

 year's business. 



The business of the Association is 

 handled by four local managers — 

 Chris Seller at Olney; C. W. Hawkins 

 at Noble; Ed. Lathrop at Claremont; 

 J. E. Franklin at Dundas. These man- 

 agers assemble the loads and ship 

 them out. The managers' commission 

 is 10 cents per hundred weight on 

 cattle and 12 cents on other stock. 

 An insurance charge of one-half of 

 one per cent of the gross receipts is 

 made on all shipments. This has been 



1 found ample to cover losses. 



Centrally Located '! 

 J The returns are brought to the 

 Farm Bureau office where the Asso- 

 ciation's books are kept. All returns 

 : (Continued on page 7) 



Loading Livestock — Richland County Shipping Association. 



-Well Pleased 



C. H. Vinson of Vermilion 

 County, 111., shipped a carload of 

 cattle from Kansas City more 

 than a year ago. He accom 

 panied the shipment home. The 

 train was delayed so that the 

 cattle arrived in a weakened 

 condition, with one dead. Two 

 more died as a result of the long 

 trip, whereupon Vinson tried to 

 collect from the railroad. Un- 

 able to secure a settlement, he 

 referred the case to the Ver- 

 milion County Farm Bureau who 

 relayed it to the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association. After some 

 delay occasioned by dilatory tac- 

 tics on the part of the railroad, 

 a settlement was made, where- 

 upon Mr. Vinson wrote the fol- 

 lowing letter: ■ :," 

 Transportation Dept., 

 Illinois Agricultural 

 Association. 



Received your letter of 

 September 10 stating that you 

 had obtained an offer from the 

 Railroad Company in the 

 amount of $135. A note that 

 you think this the best settle- 

 ment that you can secure. 



I will say that I surely ap- 

 preciate your efforts in this 

 case. Had it not been for you 

 I would not have realized any- 

 thing from them. Therefore, 

 I am well pleased to settle for 

 this amount — $135. 



C. H. Vinson. 



Twenty-five hundred attended the 



plowing match and tractor demonstra- 

 tion held recently in Morgan county. 

 Limestone spreaders and threshing 

 machines as well as plows and tractors 

 were demonstrated. After dinner 13 

 tractors entered the plowing contest. 

 Congressman Rainey spoke on the 

 agricultural situation. The joint town 

 and country picnic held at Jackson- 

 ville on Labor Day brought out more 

 than 5,000 people.- 



Seven Counties Start 



Membership Campaigns 



Tazewell Nearly Complete With Heavy 

 Signup, Iroquois Ready to Start Drive 



CEVEN Illinois County Farm Bu- 

 '^ reaus have launched or will soon 

 begin their triennial campaigns to re- 

 new members. 



Tazewell county is the farthest 

 along with its membership campaign 

 where the signup has been heavy. 

 With five townships still incompletely 

 solicited, the total membership signed 

 on September 29 was 913. G. E. 

 Metzger, director of organization es- 

 timates that this county will have well 

 over 1000 members in the organiza- 

 tion within the next week or two. 



Gallatin, Pope, Wayne, Cumberland, 

 and Clay counties, all in Southern Il- 

 linois, have already begun their re- 

 newal campaigns with their district 

 organizer F. M. Higgins lending ac- 

 tive support to advance the strength 

 of the organization in this quarter. 



The new organization plan with dis- 

 trict men located in various sections 

 is starting off well, says Mr. Metzger. 

 In his judgment it will be the means 

 of bringing the state organization up 

 to a strength of 75,000 probably as 

 early as next year. To show how the 

 plan is , working out, Metzger points to 

 a current illustration. 



Down in Champaign county dis- 

 trict leader, A. B. Culp recently held 

 an organization school with live men 

 picked from each of three communi- 

 ties;. The new Farm Bureau motion 

 picture film was shown and the various 

 activities and projects of the county 

 and state organizations explained. 



Then each of the three groups se- 

 lected 30 prospective members from 

 each community making 90 prospects 

 in all. Each of the 15 local members 

 then went out and in one day signed 

 57 of the 90 men seen. Before the 

 cleanup drive, none of these communi- 

 ties had a heavy membership, and one 

 had only eight. By reaching each 

 farmer in the state in this way it is 

 hoped to increase the membership to 

 new high levels. 



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