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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page TKre* 



Fred Diets 



25th District Tables 



Movement Against 



Strip Coal Mining 



DiscuM Insurance, Candidates, and Other 

 Questions at Mound City Meeting 



l^IFTY I. A. A. members from Pu- 

 *- laski, Union, Jackson, Randolph, 

 Williamson, and Franklin Counties 

 attended the 25th 

 district conference 

 held at Mound 

 City on Friday, 

 March 30, at the 

 call of Fred Dietz, 

 I. A. A. Executive 

 Committeeman. 



After an expla- 

 nation of the pro- 

 posed p la n of 

 abandoning the 

 state picnic in fa- 

 vor of district pic- 

 nics, the meeting endorsed the pro- 

 posal and voted for a joint picnic for 

 the 24th and 25th cong^ressional dis- 

 tricts. A committee, composed of the 

 presidents of each county Farm Bu- 

 reau, was appointed to arrange the 

 time and place for the picnic. 



Mr. Dietz presented voting records 

 and led the discussion regarding can- 

 didates for the legislature from that 

 section. He also read the replies of 

 prospective delegates to the national 

 Republican and Democratic conven- 

 tions, in answer to a questionnaire 

 submitted several weeks ago by the 

 Association. 



Strip Mining Discu*se<i 



The question of abolishing strip 

 mining by legislation received consid- 

 itration. It was pointed out that coal 

 lands in some sections of Southern Il- 

 linois are more valuable for strip min- 

 ing than for agricultural purposes, 

 and that legislation prohibiting the 

 sale of land for this purpose would 

 work an injustice against owners of 

 iiuch property. On motion by Mr. 

 Lingenfelter, proposed action on the 

 question was tabled. 



Vernon Vaniman, director of Insur- 

 ance Service presented the proposed 

 life insurance program and consider- 

 able interest was shown by all coun- 

 ties. The plan was favorably re- 

 ceived. It was pointed out that fur- 

 ther progress of the life insurance 

 project rests with thie executive com- 

 mittees of the county Farm Bureaus. 

 Questions on storm, hail, and crop in- 

 surance received considerable atten- 

 tion. 



Resolutions placing the conference 

 on record against the endorsement of 

 any candidates for office, advising that 

 the counties refrain from any tend- 

 ency toward partisan politics, and 

 urging every farmer to vote in the 



coming primaries were carried without 

 a dissenting vote. 



The Pulaski County Farm Bureau 

 extended an invitation to return to 

 Mound City for the next conference. 



Limestone Orders Must i 



Be Placed Through Farm 

 Bureaus For 10c Refund 



FARM BUREAU members should 

 see their county advisers for de- 

 tails regarding the new limestone 

 plan," states J. R. Bent, director of 

 the Limestone-Phosphate Department 

 for the I. A. A. 



"If members are to get the benefit 

 of the 10 cent per ton discount their 

 orders must be placed through their 

 county Farm Bureaus in the method 

 provided," states Bent. "If orders 

 are forwarded direct to the limestone 

 companies they will not receive the 

 benefit of the concession." 



Under the new plan members will 

 not receive a discount at the time of 

 payment, but they will receive a re- 

 fund check in due time, covering the 

 10 cent per ton rebate. 



Discuss Marketing 



(Continued from page 1) 

 ance plan had been presented before 13 

 district conferences, where the interest 

 was keen and discussion indicated a 

 wide demand for the new service. He 

 reported that few county Farm Bu- 

 reau boards had met since the district 

 conferences, and thus had had no op- 

 portunity to vote on the project. 



It was reported that 10 limestone 

 companies had signed the contract of- 

 fered by the I. A. A. up to April 1. 

 These inlcuded all the large companies 

 with the exception of Dolese and Shep- 

 ard. Full information regarding 

 prices, sources of supply, and delivered 

 cost of limestone was forwarded to 

 each county last week. 



Farmers' Elevator 



(Continued from page 1) 



tion, submit to the representative of 

 the Farmers Grain Dealers Asso- 

 ciation of Illinois our willingness to 

 employ and maintain a grain mar- 

 keting director to carry out a pro- 

 gram which may be agreed upon by 

 both the Farmers Grain Dealers As- 

 sociation of Illinois and the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association. 



Business men, including salesmen, 

 merchants and bankers are the heav- 

 iest drinkers of harmful liquors ac- 

 cording to the Keeley Institute at 

 Dwight, 111. Farmers and mechanics 

 drink very little, states the report. 



At a meeting of the I. A. A. staff on April 

 7, the members unanimously recommended 

 that the next annual meeting be held the last 

 week in January, 1929. 



C. E. Bambarough 



100 Attend I. A. A. 



District Conference In 



Dixon On March 23 



ONE hundred I. A. A. member* 

 Jrom the counties of Jo Daviess, 

 Stephenson, Carroll, Lee, Ogle, and 

 Whiteside attend- 

 ed the 13th I. A. 

 A. district confer- 

 ence in the court 

 house at Dixon on 

 Friday, Mar. 23. 



C. E. Bambor- 

 ough of Polo, I. A. 

 A. Executive Com- 

 mitteeman, led 

 the discussion dur- 

 ing the afternoon 

 regarding the vot- 

 ing records of leg- 

 islators from that 

 district in the 55th General Assembly. 

 Mr. Bamborough expressed the policy 

 of the Association of not endorsing 

 any candidates for political office, and 

 then analyzed the voting records as 

 presented in a recent issue of The I. 

 A. A. Record. 



QuestioBBaiire* Read 



Replies of prospective delegates to 

 the national Republican and Demo- 

 cratic conventions regarding their 

 stand on farm issues and presidential 

 candidates also were read. The meet- 

 ing refused to endorse any candidates 

 for delegate from that section in line 

 with the I. A. A. policy. 



Donald Kirkpatrick, legal counsel, 

 opened the discussion in the morning, 

 and spoke on the I. A. A.'s auto in- 

 surance program. In the afternoon 

 he presented the proposed life insur- 

 ance plan which was favorably re- 

 ceived. 



The meeting endorsed the plan of 

 abandoning the state picnic in favor 

 of district I. A. A. picnics. Chairman 

 Bamborough appointed the presidents 

 of all the Farm Bureaus in the district 

 to act with him in deciding the time 

 and place for a picnic for the 13th 

 district. 



Official From South 



Africa Studies Co-ops 



JM. TINLEY, Division of Co-opera- 

 , tion of the Department of Agri- 

 culture, Union of South Africa, who 

 has been studying in the United States 

 for the past two and one-half years, 

 visited the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation offices recently to study co- 

 operative associations in Illinois. 



George R. Wicker, director of busi- 

 ness service and manager of the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Co-operatives Asso- 

 ciation, gave him first-hand informa- 

 tion on co-operatives in this state. 



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