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Tttne in on the I. A. A. half hour program 

 broadcast daily at lt:00 o'eloek noon from sta- 

 tion WJJD, Chicago (365 meters). The facil- 

 ities of station WJJD are loaned the Associa- 

 tion through the courtesy of the Loyal Order 

 of Moose, Mooseheart, III. No program on Sat- 

 urdays and Sundays, 



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I. A. A. Broadcast Hour 



Now 12:00 to 12:30 P. M. 



THE period for the daily farm radio 

 program of the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association from Station WJJD 

 was changed recently to 12:00 to 

 12:30 p. m., Central Standard Ti«ie. 

 The new arrangement became effective 

 Monday, Apr. 30. The former broad- 

 cast period was 12:30 to 1:00' i).™. 

 The change was made necessary be- 

 cause of the recent initiation of Day- 

 light Saving Time in Chicago. 



A. D. Lynch 



at Rock Island, 



Tri-City Dealers 'i 



And Dairymen Study 



Peoria Co-operative 



May Establish Similar Stabilization Plan 

 At Rock Island, Davenport, And Molinc 



' A DELEGATION of producers, cbun- 

 .!»- ty agricultural advisers and deal- 

 ers from Rock Island county. 111., and 

 Scott county, 

 Iowa, visited Pe- 

 oria recently to in- 

 vestigate the 

 farmer-dealer co- 

 operative plan 

 which is operating 

 to the mutual ben- 

 efit of both pro- 

 ducers and distrib- 

 utors there. 



A similar organ- 

 ization to stabilize 

 the milk market 

 Moline, and Daven- 

 port is in prospect. Wasteful methods 

 of distribution and competition at the 

 tri-city market have worked against 

 the interests of both dealers and dairy- 

 men. 



The consumer is paying no less for 

 milk and fails to profit by the lack of 

 co-ordination. The dealers it is re- 

 ported are in the mood to recognize a 

 dairymen's organization and bargain 

 with the producers for a fair, stabi- 

 lized price. They are getting no- 

 where fighting each other. The dairy- 

 man is the loser because wasteful com- 

 petition has resulted in discouraging 

 prices. 



A. D. Lynch, dairy marketing di- 

 rector, and several Peoria dealers of- 

 fered their assistance in establishing a 

 similar plan at the tri-city market. 

 Dealers and dairymen about Rock 

 Island are in a receptive mood for any 

 proposal that will enable them to get 

 on a paying basis for neither, it is re- 

 ported, is satisfied with the present 

 situation. 



PRODUCE MARKET TREND 

 May 1, 1928 



EGGS (Cases) 



1927 1928 



Receipts this year 

 on 4 leading mar- 

 kets _ 2,670.647 2.677.201 



In cold storage. 

 Hay l.._ 1,612,176 1.321,096 



POULTRY 



Pounds Pounds 

 N. Y. receipts 



dressed poultry 



Jan. to May 1. .36,361,340 44,667,411 

 In cold storage, 4 



1 a r e e markets. 



May l..._ 60,041,902 33,448.094 



BUTTER 



N. Y. receipts of 



-tub butter 966,092 967,480 



In cold storage 



4 large mar- 



iieU, May 1 899,817 1,896,649 



FLORIDA BOYS WANT JOBS 



John H. Wahl, Jr., and Henry A. Carter, 

 University of Florida students at Gainesville, 

 Florida, are looking for jobs on Illinois farms 

 during the summer vacation. , 



"We are both 19 years of agi," wrote Wahl 

 recently to the Knox County Farm Bureau, 

 "and 'Pete' (Henry) is the son of an orange 

 grower here in Florida. My father is J. H. 

 Wahl, attorney. Cocoa, Florida. If we can get 

 jobs and have the pleasure of a trip to Illinois 

 we will be more than satisfied. 



"Pete is acquainted with agricultural work, 

 and while I have never lived on a farm, I 

 think I could learn. At the present time my 

 accomplishment along that line are: (1) I can 

 milk a cow, (2) I can harness a horse. I 

 think we will work as hard as the average boy. 

 Our address is Phi Kappa Tau House, Uni- 

 versity of Florida, Gainesville, Fla." 



Pi(mic Committee Meets 



in 14th District 



MG. LAMBERT, I, A. A. Execu- 

 • tive Committeeman from the 

 14th district, presided at a meeting of 

 the district picnic committee held at 

 Monmouth on Apr. 25. 



Tuesday, Aug. 21, was selected as 

 a tentative date. 



Col. Ousley, Adam McMuUen, Con- 

 gressman Hill, Dr. H. C. Taylor, and 

 Chester Davis w^re mentioned as pos- 

 sible speakers. 



It was decided to hold the next dis- 

 trict I. A. A. conference at Aledo on 

 May 22, and that the conference fol- 

 lowing be held at Carthage. 



W. A. Stevenson, Henderson county; 

 W. O. Kunkel, Hancock county; J. H. 

 Lloyd, Hancock county; M. G. Lam- 

 bert, Hancock county ; P. B . Scott, 

 Mercer county; R. C. Doneghue, Mc- 

 Donough county; Joseph Adcock, R. 

 E. Kirby, and A. A. Olsen, Warren 

 county, attended the meeting. i 



Direct Buying Increases 



DIRECT buying of feeder cattle by 

 com belt feeders is on the in- 

 crease, according to the U. S. D. A. 

 The change is due to the fact that 

 many ranchmen prefer to sell their 

 stock at home, while feeders like to 

 buy their stock direct from the range. 



Alfred Tat* 



Co-operative Movement at 



Winchester Gets Results 



Brings Offer of More Money for Butterfat 



FOLLOWING the recent movement 

 of the Scott County Farm Bureau 

 to organize a co-operative produce 

 selling association 

 at Winchester, f 

 representatives of 

 a centralized 

 creamery from 

 Jacksonville of- 

 fered to pick up 

 cream at Winches- 

 ter and pay farm- 

 ers in that vicin- 

 ity one-half cent 

 per lb. more for 

 butterfat than is 

 being paid in Jack- 

 sonville. 



"The fact that 

 we have started to organize a produce 

 marketing association has excited the 

 cream station buyers and they are 

 making every attempt to retain their 

 business if possible," says Farm Ad- 

 viser Tate, "We are not finding any 

 difficulty in sig^ning up members in 

 the association. I think we have 51 

 contracts already signed, many of 

 which came in voluntarily." 



Old like buyers in Missouri and Illi- 

 nois are getting their butterfat ap- 

 proximately 10 cents per lb. cheaper 

 than they pay in Minnesota where co- 

 operative creameries are scattered 

 throughout the state according to re- 

 ports. The Land 'O Lakes Creameries, 

 Inc. of that state deplore this situation 

 since it permits centralized creameries 

 to undersell the Land 'O Lakes organ- 

 izations on the large butter markets. 



Chicago Meeting in June 



to Defend Co-operatives 



JF. REID of the Minnesota Farm 

 • Bureau Federation released a 

 story recently calling attention to a 

 meeting of all co-operative organiza- 

 tions in Chicago early in June to de- 

 fend co-operative marketing against 

 the attacks of the organized distribu- 

 tors, who, it is reported, have raised 

 a large fund to put the farmers' organ- 

 izations out of business. 



The Federated Agricultural Trades 

 of America is the new anti-co-opera- 

 tive organization formed in Chicago 

 last year. 



Don't Like Grading System 



FEDERAL grading of grain has noth. 

 ing to do with the milling value 

 of wheat, and the United States Grain 

 Standards Act, while it has done well 

 I for the consumer, has worked against 

 the producer, the Senate Committee 

 on Agriculture and Forestry were told 

 recently by witnesses appearing in 

 support of the Shipstead bill to repeal 

 the grading law. 



Philo B. Miles of the Peoria, Illinois, 

 Board of Trade urged that the meas- 

 ure be enacted and the States be per- 

 mitted to return to the old grading 

 system. 



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