THE 1. A. A. RECORD 



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FACTS EVERY MEMBER 

 SHOULD KNOW 



PRODUCTION of food stuffs in foreign 

 countries has a direct and important bear- 

 ing on farm prices in the United States. Par- 

 ticularly ia this true when American farmers 

 produce a surplus and must sell on a world 

 market. Therefore, it is well to know some- 

 thing of production in foreign countries. 



The dairying season in New Zealand 

 opened with a 30 per cent increase in produc- 

 tion over a similar period last year or an in- 

 crease of more than 50 per cent over the 

 1926 season. Prices nevertheless are satis- 

 factory, says the U. S. Dept. of Commerce. 



Butter has been offered and sales made at 

 from 34.5 cents to 34.75 cents per pound 

 f. o. b. New Zealand ports for shipments to 

 the end of December and in some cases to the 

 end of January and February. 



Queensland, Australia, nearly doubled its 

 exports of butter in the year ended June 80, 

 1928, compared with a similar period the year 

 previous. 



On September 19, 1928, a committee repre- 

 senting the dairy farmers and dairy distribu- 

 tors in Great Britain reached an agreement 

 in respect to the contract terms for milk for 

 the year beginning October 1, 1928. The farm- 

 ers were given an increase over present 

 prices. Under the new agreement they are 

 to receive 34 cents per gallon for four 

 months, 82 cents per gallon for four months, 

 and 24 cents per gallon for four months, or 

 an average of 30 cents per gallon for the next 

 year. The dairy distributors intend to pass 

 the price increase along to the consumers. 

 The present retail price for ordinary milk in 

 London is 12 cents per quart during the six 

 summer months and 14 cents per quart during 

 the six winter months. Under the new ar- 

 rangement, the distributors intend to charge 

 14 cents per quart for eight months and 12 

 cents per quart for four months. Consider- 

 able resentment to price increase to the con- 

 sumer has been expressed in the public press 

 and the Food Council has been asked to in- 

 vestigate to determine whether the increased 

 cost to the public is justified. 



The principal significance of this victory by 

 farmers, says Trade Commissioner Brice M. 

 Mace of the U. S. Dept. of Commerce, is in 

 the organized power of the National Farmers' 

 Union which has over 100,000 members on 

 its rolls. The National Farmers' Union is go- 

 ing to be greatly strengthened by the outcome 

 of this milk dispute and because they held out 

 as long as possible against any increase in the 

 price to the consumer, they have come out of 

 this dispute in better favor than the distribu- 

 tors. There still remains in Great Britain the 

 problem of the disposal of surplus milk. Until 

 surplus milk can be profitably marketed in 

 manufactured products, the dairy industry 

 will be unbalanced in its growth and will con- 

 tinue to suffer because it is almost entirely 

 a fluid milk proposition. 



Argentine exported 753.360 pounds of but- 

 ter and 71,876 pounds of cheese during 

 August, 1928. None of the butter, but 7,869 

 pounds of the cheese came to the United 

 States. 



The organization of the Swiss dairy in- 

 dustry is unique when compared with similar 

 organizations in any other country, in that all 

 branches work in harmony and co-operation, 

 reports Commissioner Kenneth M. Hill. The 

 central organization, known as the Swiss 

 Cheese Union, is composed of three branches 

 called (1) the Central Union of Dairy Farm- 

 ers, (2) the Swiss Cheese Manufacturers 

 Union, and (3) the Trade Branch. The Swiss 

 government does not constitute a fourth 

 party nor exercise any control whatsoever. 



The Central Union of Dairy Farmers is the 

 organization of the producing end of the in- 

 dustry and includes about 95 per cent of all 

 dairy farmers in its membership. It is made 

 of hundreds of small local co-operative soci- 

 eties located in practically every dairying 



community. These local co-operatives act as 

 central collection stations and are often cheese 

 manufacturers as well. The price which the 

 milk producer receives in Switzerland is iixed 

 relatively by the Central Union of Dairy 

 Farmers through a guarantee of the price of 

 cheese. This system of guaranteeing the price 

 of milk through the price of cheese eliminates 

 to a very large extent any tendency of other 

 milk consuming industries to attempt to pur- 

 chase at a price lower than the standard. 



The Swiss Cheese Union then sells to its 

 Trade Branch, composed of the exporters and 

 wholesalers. This branch attends to the dis- 

 tribution to the consumer. 



The 1928 season for egg products in the 

 Tientsin district in China has been full of 

 difficulties for both the manufacturers and ex- 

 porters, it is reported. The manufacturers 

 have been confronted with high first costs 

 and a rather indifferent market for dried 

 products, which has resulted in increased 

 production of liquid egg yolk for the European 

 trade. 



Exports of dried egg albumen from 

 Tientsin amounted to only 1.370.300 pounds 

 during the first six months of 1928, whereas 

 2,041,900 pounds were exported during the 

 corresponding period of 1927. 



Oranges are being grown in considerable 

 quantities in Paraguay and Argentina in 

 South America. The industry is just being 

 developed on an extensive scale in Argentina 

 where the Southern Railway is planting 

 oranges and grapefruit trees along their lines. 



Oranges were formerly brought from Par- 

 aguay into Argentina by merely shoveling 

 them on the boat. Recently, however, the 

 Argentina government forbade their marketing 

 in Buenos Aires unless the fruit is wrapped 

 in a separate paper. Cuttings for the new 

 orange and grapefruit plantations are being 

 imported in large quantities from the United 

 States. 



Cutting In 



IT HAS BEEN HELD that, where the 

 defendant drove his automobile at 

 an unlawful or unreasonable rate of 

 speed up to and past the automobile in 

 which plaintiff was riding without 

 signal or warning, and forced his car 

 across and in front of the plaintiff's 

 car, in such a manner as to disconcert 

 the driver of plaintiff's machine, and 

 cause the latter car to go over an em- 

 bankment, to the injury of the plaintiff, 

 the defendant might be liable even 

 though the impact of the defendant's 

 machine was not sufficient in itself to 

 forcibly throw the plaintiff's car out 

 of its course. 



Public liability and property damage 

 insurance in your own company, would 

 protect you against loss in such an 

 accident. 



I Save $100,000 



Illinois Farm Bureau members are 

 buying limestone at a saving of 25 to 

 30 cents less per ton than are farmers 

 in adjoining states. This saving is 

 made possible through the use of the 

 I. jA.. A.'s collective buying power. On 

 tha basis of 400,000 tons sold ftnd 

 us^d in Illinois since Jan. 1, 1928, the 

 saving to Illinois farmers amounts to 

 mojre than $100,000.. j; 



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; Champaign Accredited 



(phampaign county was recently 

 added to the tuberculosis free list as 

 a modified accredited area. All the 

 cattle in the county have been tested 

 and the infection now is less than one- 

 half of one per cent. All hogs shipped 

 to Chicago are eligible to a 10 per cent ' 

 peif hundred premium provided they are 

 tattooed and are found to be free from 

 tuberculosis upon slaughter. 



Shipping association managers are 

 buying tattoo markers and will market 

 all hogs shipped to market. 



Corn Price Outlook 



The outlook for better corn prices is 

 good according to Secretary of Agricul- 

 tupe Jardine. The Rumanian crop was 

 about 23 per cent less than last year 

 and the carry-over of old corn in the 

 United States this year was small. 

 "This, coupled with a comparatively 

 high price for Argentine corn, will in- 

 crease export demand for our com," 

 says Mr. Jardine, "unless the new 

 Argentine crop is available. 



"If farmers will refrain from rushing 

 the new market," he says, "and will 

 adjust their feeding to produce slightly 

 heavier cattle and hogs, the market 

 shbuld be well maintained and improve- 

 ment is likely before the end of the 

 se£<son." 



Chicago Producers Entertaui 



Visiting journalists, farm paper and 

 newspaper editors will be entertained 

 by the Chicago Live Stock Producers' 

 Commission Association on November 

 30, the day before the opening of the 

 International. 



The Producers' will conduct a tour 

 thrpugh the Yards and their guests 

 will be shown the method used in han- 

 dling and selling livestock. In the 

 afternoon a tour will be conducted 

 through one of the large packing 

 plafits. The journalists also will be en- 

 tertained at dinner that evening. 



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lore than 30,000 Illinois farmers 

 will be purchasing gasoline, oil, and 

 petroleum products co-operatively by 

 the end of 1929 is the opinion of Geo. 

 R. Wicker, manager of the Illinois 

 Farm Supply Co. Twenty-one county 

 co-operative oil companies in the state 

 are now supplying approximately 23,- 

 000 farmers with motor fuel and lubri- 

 cants. 



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