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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Meet to Further t 



Grain Marketing 



Plan for Illinois 



To Recommend I. A. A. Employ a Grain 

 Marketing Director 



A FURTHER clarification of common 

 ground on which the I. A. A. and 

 the State Farmers Grain Dealers' As- 

 sociation can work in a co-operative 

 grain marketing program for Illinois 

 resulted from the joint meeting of 

 committees held in the I. A. A. offices 

 on May 29. 



The I. A. A. recognizes that the 

 farmers' elevators should be the nu- 

 cleus for building co-operative grain 

 marketing machinery and to this end 

 it promised whole-hearted support to- 

 ward strengthening and aiding these 

 units. 



The program recommended by the 

 committees will include closer co-oper- 

 ation between elevators and Farm Bu- 

 reaus, urging farmers to support their 

 elevators, making elevators more truly 

 co-operative, better co-operation be- 

 tween elevators, and improvement of 

 methods and practices. 



A Starting Point 



The marketing committee agreed to 

 recommend that the Executive Com- 

 mittee of the I. A. A. employ a grrain 

 marketing director to develop this pro- 

 gram as a foundation and starting 

 point for co-operative grain marketing 

 in Illinois. 



Representing the Farmers Grain 

 Dealers' Association at the meeting 

 were President D. H. Allen, Delavan; 

 Secretary Lawrence Farlow, Bloom- 

 ington; Joe Henebry, Plainfield; V. A. 

 Wertsch, Delavan; and representing 

 the I. A. A. were President Earl C. 

 Smith, Treasurer R. A. Cowles; A. R. 

 Wright, Varna; Frank Bai-ton, Cornell; 

 George J. Stoll, Chestnut; Sam Sor- 

 rells, Raymond; and Harrison Fahrn- 

 kopf, Bloomington. 



Ex-Farm Advisers 



Now Manage Lands 



WALTER w. McLaughlin, who 

 resigned recently as farm ad- 

 viser in LaSalle county, is the new 

 farm manager for the Citizens Na- 

 tional Bank at Decatur. McLaughlin 

 will manage approximately 10,000 

 acres of land most of which has been 

 turned over to the trust department of 

 the bank in recent years. 



Many persons have become owners 

 of valuable lands in Central Illinois, 

 who, for various reasons, cannot super- 

 vise or handle these farms properly. 

 Some are non-residents and others are 

 in business and have no time to give 

 attention to their farm interests. In 

 some cases owners of land have died 

 leaving it to persons untrained and un- 

 skilled in farm management, and for 

 the benefit of such persons the new 

 service is being offered by this bank. 



McLaughlin's success as farm advis- 

 er! ^" LaSalle county fits him admir- 



Like Producer Service 



GS. THOMAS, manager of 

 • the Brown County Ship- 

 ping Association, shipped 700 

 calves last year. Practically all 

 of these went to Producer 

 Agencies at St. Louis, Indian- 

 apolis, or Chicago. Mr. Thomas 

 handled several consignments of 

 calves sent in by a local buyer. 

 The buyer voluntarily offered 

 as explanation for his use of the 

 Association that he received 50c 

 to 75c per hundred weight more 

 by selling to the Producers. Last 

 year Thomas shipped 116 cars of 

 livestock from various points in 

 his county. One hundred three 

 cars, or 88%, went to Producer 

 Agencies. Mr. Thomas says that 

 his sales and the service which 

 he got from the Producer Agen- 

 cies are satisfactory to him. 

 What is more, the service and 

 sales are satisfactory to his 

 patrons. Some managers "pass 

 the buck" to their members by 

 saying that the latter will not 

 let them ship to Producers. In- 

 vestigation brings to light the 

 fact that where the managers 

 will give the Producer Agencies 

 a fair trial, their members will 

 not let them ship anywhere else. 

 Mr. Thomas reports that his 

 members would object strongly 

 if he attempted to direct his 

 shipments to other than Pro- 

 ducer Agencies. — Ray E. Miller. 



ably for his new work. He is the third 

 farm adviser within the past three 

 months to undertake the management 

 of land of this class. Chas. Robinson, 

 of Decatur, and F. E. Fuller of Bloom- 

 ington are the other two. Banks have 

 acquired many farms in recent years 

 through bankrupt proceedings and in- 

 ability of owners to make payments 

 and hold them. 



Madison Co. Tries 



New Member Plan 



Continuous efforts to build member- 

 ship instead of one big drive at the 

 end of a three-year period will be 

 tried out in Madison county. Thus 

 memberships will expire at different 

 times and the work of maintaining the 

 organization will be spread over the 

 three-year period. 



DETENTION of cattle and hogs for 

 tuberculosis at the packing cen- 

 ters is showing a decided reduction as 

 a result of the nation-wide campaign 

 to exterminate the disease in cattle. 

 The Department of Agriculture's re- 

 cent survey that bovine tuberculosis 

 now affects only about two per cent 

 of the animals is against four per cent 

 in 1922. Sixty-nine counties in the 

 United Spates report infection of more 

 than 15 per cent. 



Baseball League Gets 



Away to Flying Start 



New Teams Play 



West Central Illinois Division Meets in 

 Peoria June 8 



XpARM Bureau baseball in Illinois got 

 -*- under way on May 26, with games 

 in most of the districts over the state. 

 A general shower which fell over west 

 central Illinois the opening day 

 brought several games to an abrupt 

 close. 



All teams in Division three com- 

 prising Tazewell, Peoria, Marshall- 

 Putnam, and Woodford have played 

 each week. This division leads in base- 

 ball interest, and perhaps in profic- 

 iency of playing. It has won the state 

 championship each year since the 

 League was organized in 1924. 



The first series of games resulted in 

 a tie between Woodford and Tazewell, 

 and a called game between Peoria and 

 Marshall-Putnam, the result of which 

 is still in dispute. 



Stark and Henry counties, playing 

 their first games in the League, met 

 twice. Both g:ames went to the Henry 

 county team. Whiteside, the third 

 team in the division, was scheduled to 

 play Henry on June 9. 



Jefferson County Wins 



In Southern Illinois Jefferson coun- 

 ty trounced Washington, a new team, 

 on May 26 while the following week 

 Lawrence county won easily from 

 Wayne in a one-sided game. 



McDonough county is the dark horse 

 in the Western Illinois divisions. Play- 

 ing for the first time, this team de- 

 feated Henderson county 5 to 1. Hen- 

 derson county always has been a dan- 

 gerous team and a hard one to beat. 



Champaign county has shown con- 

 siderable activity in baseball this sea- 

 son. A county league of four teams 

 has been organized from which a 

 county team will be selected to com- 

 pete against other county teams in 

 that division. The first county league 

 games were played on Saturday, June 

 2, with Pesotum opposing the Cardi- 

 nals at Rantoul, and Urbana playing 

 Tolono-Sadorus at Tolono. Paul Me- 

 harry has been selected to org:anize a 

 county team to compete in the state 

 league. 



At a meeting of League officers and 

 leaders in Division 3 at Peoria on 

 June 8 it was recommended that all 

 disputed questions be referred to the 

 League commissioner and that the con- 

 stitution with respect to the eligibility 

 clause be interpreted to promote the 

 best interests of the League. It was 

 generally agreed that no players 

 should be declared eligible who have 

 no farming interest or who have no 

 interest in the Farm Bureau other 

 than to play baseball. The League 

 frowns on attempts to professionalize 

 it by signing semi-pros or paying Farm 

 Bureau dues of proficient players sim- 

 ply for their services on the Farm 

 Bureau team. 



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