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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Nine 



400,000 Tons of Limestone, 

 29,000 Phosphate to Oct. 1 



MORE than 400,000 tons of limestone 

 were sold and used in Illinois dur* 

 ing the first nine months of 1928, says 

 J. R. Bent, director of the limestone- 

 phosphate department. This limestone 

 was produced largely by the 22 com- 

 t)anies operating under signed agree- 

 ments with the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association. To October 1 the two lead- 

 ing rock phosphate companies operat- 

 ing under the I. A. A. agreement sold 

 approximately 29,000 tons in Illinois. 



Copies of orders for limestone or- 

 dered through Illinois County Farm 

 Bureaus received at headquarters of 

 the Association amounted to more than 

 4,000 carloads up to October 1. A 

 total of $14,866.30 was remitted to the 

 various counties as a refund collected 

 from the shipping companies. This 

 sum resulted from the 10 cent per ton 

 refund paid by the co-operating com- 

 panies to the I. A. A. 



All rock phosphate shipped from the 

 phosphate plants in Tennessee is sam- 

 pled and tested by an impartial chemist 

 selected, instructed, and supervised by 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association. 

 This man is entirely disconnected from 

 the phosphate company's payroll or 

 interests. 



Seven hundred and thirty-one car- 

 loads of ground rock phosphate has 

 been sampled in Tennessee since Jan- 

 uary 1. 



A. F. B. F. Prepares for 

 Convention 



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sent to the nation an adequate picture 

 of the Farm Bureau's varied activities 

 and to consider what organized agri- 

 culture can do to improve its economic 

 condition. 



In view of the work the Illinois Ag- 

 ricultural Association has done in re- 

 ducing the tax bill of farmers in this 

 state, the address on "Rational Taxa- 

 tion," by George H. Duncan, New 

 Hampshire tax expert, will have an 

 especial appeal. 



Co-operative Marketing 



Co-operative marketing will be dis- 

 cussed by several speakers, including 

 C. B. Denman, president. National 

 Live Stock Producers Association, C. 

 O. Moser, president, American Cotton 

 Growers Exchange, and others. 



Dr. Charles M. A. Stine, interna- 

 tionally famous scientist, will have an 

 absorbingly interesting story of the 

 wonders wrought by chemistry in de- 

 veloping uses for agricultural wastes, 

 such as cornstalks and oat hulls, and 

 about the opportunities these discov- 

 eries promise for increasing farm 

 profits. 



Other noted speakers include William 

 Butterworth, Moline manufacturer, 

 and president of the Chamber of Com- 

 merce of the United States, Mrs. Cora 



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Ford Co-ops Do Well 



MS. WINDER, secretary of the 

 • American Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion, and H. L. Hough of the Illinois 

 Agrricultural Ascociation spoke at the 

 recent annual meeting of the Ford 

 County Farm Bureau. 



The co-operative subsidiaries of the 

 Farm Bureau were all reported to be 

 in good financial condition. Ford coun- 

 ty has emphasized commercial projects, 

 which now include the service company 

 handling oil and petroleum products, 

 several co-operative produce market- 

 ing associations, and seed corn storage 

 and testing associations. 



A New Record 



, The Illinois experiment station has 

 discovered that soundness of informa- 

 tion can be combined with speed in 

 publishing the results of experiments 

 for the benefits of farmers. Staff mem- 

 bers claim that this station recently 

 established a new national record for 

 promptness in getting out experimental 

 reports. 



Wilson Stewart, director of the Na- 

 tipnal Illiteracy Crusade, Virgil Jor- 

 dan, of the National Industrial Con- 

 ference Board, Dean A. R. Mann, 

 Cornell University, Dr. Eben Mum- 

 ford, Michigan State College, and 

 others. 



Training School 



A National Training School for 

 Farm Bureau executives will be held 

 Friday and Saturday, December 7 and 

 8. The I. A. A. will send its district 

 organization workers to this school and 

 assist in the program. 



Another feature of the week's 

 events will be the Third National Farm 

 Bureau Agricultural Exposition dur- 

 ing the main sessions of the conven- 

 tion, on December 10, 11 and 12. 



An old-fashioned party will be given 

 all delegates Tuesday evening, Decem- 

 ber 11, to commemorate the A. F. B. 

 F.'s tenth anniversary. President 

 Thompson will cut the largest birthday 

 cake ever concocted by a Chicago chef. 

 Numerous other social events are 

 scheduled and an unexcelled progrram 

 of music and other entertainment 

 features has been provided. 



I The Kosher Strike ! 



WHEN 9,000 Kosher retail butchers 

 (Jewish) in Greater New York re- 

 cently went on a strike against condi- 

 tions in the meat trade of that city. Dr. 

 John Mohler, chief of the Bureau of 

 Animal Industry, was dispatched to New 

 York to intercede and arbitrate. The 

 strike which began October 19 ended 

 October 30. In the meantime 2,000,000 

 consumers went without meat. 



"The industrial conflict was unusual 

 in many respects," states Dr. Mohler. 

 "It represented essentially a protest of 

 Kosher butchers against certain trade 

 practices and especially the operation 

 of meat speculators. During the 12 

 days of the strike no Kosher meat was 

 sold and approximately 2.000,000 Jew- 

 ish inhabitants of Greater New York 

 were practically without meat." 



Solution Found 



A series of conferences called liy Dr. 

 Mohler showed that the early morning 

 purchase of meats by speculators, while 

 the butchers were necessarily busy serv- 

 ing their customers, was partly re- 

 sponsible !or high prices not warranted 

 byinovnial market conditions. The only 

 manner by which the butchers were able 

 to 'obtain wholesale cuts of satisfactory 

 quality was by paying prices which 

 th4 specu'ators demanded. The desig- 

 nation of a convenient afternoon trad- 

 ing period, which enabled the butchers 

 to jbe on the market at the same time 

 as i other buyers, was the solution to 

 thip cause of the strike. 



Didn't Know Conditions 



'j'he settlement of various other 

 caiises was made difficult because many 

 of ! the participants were unfamiliar 

 wi<h current conditions in livestock 

 prciduction. Dr. Mohler explained the 

 inafbility of the department to adjust 

 meat |)( ces in response to the strikers' 

 demand, but arranged for the butchers 

 to receive current, market quotations 

 as a guide to their purchases. The 

 Unfted States Department of Agricul- 

 tuiie's inspection illustrates the effec- 

 tiveness of the Packers and Stockyards 

 Aci \v hich provides for department in- 

 quiry and suitable action when there 

 is report of unfair practices or manipu- 

 lation of prices. 



One of the handicaps toward settling 

 the: strike was due to the fact that 

 previous discussions of the conditions 

 leading up to the strike appeared al- 

 most exclusively in Jewish publica- 

 tions. It was necessary to translate 

 much of the evidence bearing on the 

 problems. 



Note: Kosher meat is that slauehtered and 

 inspected by authorized Jewish dienitaries. 

 The animal is never stunned before bleeding. 

 Onljt the choicest beef animals are used. 



The Illinois Agricultural Association 

 transportation department is co-operat- 

 ing with McLean county farmers about 

 Danvers and Stanford in working out a 

 solution to their power line problems. 



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Fruits and vegetables in storage 

 need ventilation, especially during the 

 first few weeks. 



