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 October 20, 1925, under the Act of March 3.1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate ol postage provided In Section 412, Act of February 28, 192S, authoriied October 27, U2S. 



Volume 6 



APRIL, 1928 



Number 4 



I^HE I. A. A. District Conferences 

 ^ are lield to ffive every member an 

 opportunity to express himself regard- 

 ing the policies and activities of his 

 organization. Are you taking advan- 

 tage of the privilege? Reports of sev- 

 eral meetings are presented in this is- 

 sue. Go to the next conference in your 

 district with constructive suggestions 

 for the Association's welfare. You will 

 be welcome. 



PEORIA'S GRADE 



MILK COMMISSION 



I. A. A. Executives 



Discuss Mj^rketing 



At April Meeting 



Place of Next Annual Meeting To Be 



Decided In May. Plan For 



District Picnics 



GRAIN marketing, insurance and 

 taxation figured prominently in 

 the deliberations at the April meeting 

 of the Illinois 

 Agricultural As- 

 sociation Execu- 

 t i V e Committee 

 held Friday, 

 April 6. 



A thorough dis- 

 cussion took place 

 regarding the part 

 the Association 

 should take in co- 

 operative grain 

 marketing. While 

 no definite plan 

 was evolved it was 

 generally agreed 

 that grain mar- 

 keting must be de- V : ' ' I 

 veloped by strengthening and working Quality Improvement 

 with the farmers' elevators. j^ fj^^^ ^^ Dairymen 



TWENTY-EIGHT producers, deal- 

 ers, and marketing officials repre- 

 senting Peoria's Grade A Milk Com- 

 mission went by bus recently to Bloom- 

 ington and Champaign to study quality 

 improvement and grading. 



At Bloomington where grading has 

 been in progress for several months, 

 the Commission obtained first hand in- 

 formation about the plan and its oper- 

 ation. The basis for grading there is 

 the bacteria count as revealed by the 

 methylene blue test. Milk is placed 

 into one of three classes depending 



upon its quality. 



I 



Dr. M. J. Prucha, dairy bacteriol- 

 ogist at the University of Illinois, as- 

 sembled the tourists in one of the class- 

 rooms in the Old Ag Building and tt 

 them about his latest investigation 

 and what he had learned about quali 

 control. 



Enroute from Peoria to Bloomington and Champaign to study 

 improvement. Twenty-eight dealers, producers, and officials made the 



At the suggestion of Rufus C. 

 Dawes, chairman of the World's Cen- 

 tennial Committee, Chicago, it was 

 moved by Oexner and seconded by 

 Skinner that the president appoint a 

 suitable committee to cooperate with 

 the world's centennial committee in 

 representing the interests of Illinois 

 farmers. 



In view of the fact that all I. A. A. 

 district conferences have endorsed the 

 district picnic plan, President Smith 

 was authorized to appoint a committee 

 to make suggestions for picnics in all 

 the congressional districts. 



The Organization Advisory Commit- 

 tee composed of C. E. Bamborough, 

 chairman, Frank Oexner, C. S. Black, 

 W. B. Bunn, G. E. Metzger, and E. G, 

 Thiem, was named to serve in this ca- 

 pacity. 



Geo. F. Tullock, chairman of the 

 Financial Business Service Committee 

 reported that the proposed life insur- 

 ( Continued on page 3) 



I. A. A. Sees Farmers 



Elevators As Foundation 

 Of Grain Marketing Plan 



Mutual Relations Committee Offers Defi- 

 nite Co-operation With Illinois Farmers 

 Grain Dealers Association 



ANY constructive cooperative grain 

 ^ marketing program in Illinois 

 must include the farmers' elevator as 

 the foundation for 

 the structure. 



This elemental 

 policy is laid down 

 in the proposal 

 submitted by the 

 I. A. A.'s special 

 Mutual Relations 

 Committee to a 

 committee from the 

 Illinois Farmers 

 Grain Dealers As- 

 sociation in a re- 

 cent meeting at 

 Bloomington. 



Briefly the pro- 

 posal sets forth the 

 following points: 



1. The Farm Bureaus of Illinois 

 recognize the farmers' elevators of 

 Illinois as the medium through which 

 any constructive grain marketing 

 program should go forward. 



2. The announced purpose of said 

 farmers' elevators is to operate so 

 as to return the largest possible ul- 

 timate price to the producers of 

 grain. 



3. Both the Farm Bureaus and 

 the farmers' elevators recognize that 

 to carry out most effectively para- 

 graph 2, it is essential to control the 

 marketing of the maximum volume 

 of grain produced within a given 

 area. 



4. Therefore, the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association is willing and 

 desirous of rendering such construc- 

 tive service as may be deemed ad- 

 visable and feasible to increase the 

 volume of business now being han- 



iJed by farmers' elevators, and stim- 

 ulating the moral support of the 

 farmers behind said elevators. We, 

 the representatives of said Associa- 

 ( Continued on page 3) 



grading and quality 

 trip recently by bus. 



