Puge Eight 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



PRODUCE MARKETING 



Cartoon of the Season 



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By Frank Gougler ' 



PRODUCE marketing units were 

 completed recently at Oblong and 

 Robinson in Crawford County. Direc- 

 tors have been elected for each of the 

 units and bids have been received from 

 leading creameries for their yearly out- 

 put. 



These two units added to the former 

 list of marketing units brings the total 

 up to twenty-eight, located in eighteen 

 different counties. Some counties have 

 as many as four of these units. 



A dozen or more units are now being 

 organized in various parts of the state. 

 Crawford County has an organization 

 committee at work at Hutsonville and 

 Annapolis; Clark County at Martins- 

 ville and West Union; and Lawrence 

 County will soon start membership 

 campaigns at two or three points. 



ASSOCIATIONS that were started 

 -i*- earlier are carrying on extensive 

 educational work. Champaign County 

 has two new units — one started mar- 

 keting early in October, the other in 

 November. The Champaign County 

 Farm Bureau is planning programs a 

 year in advance for these units. Some 

 of the problems to be studied will be 

 feeding, herd improvement, cream im- 

 provement, causes of variations in 

 cream tests, selling dairy products in 

 the most profitable forms, etc. 



The board of directors of the Farmer 

 City Unit held a meeting the evening 

 of November 30. Social features were 

 combined with educational. The Sugar 

 Creek Creamery, the purchaser of this 

 cream, furnished an abundance of re- 

 freshments while the unit furnished 

 coffee. A splendid address was made 

 by Mr. Spencer, dairy specialist for- 

 Sugar Creek Creamery, on the subject 

 of "Producing Good Cream." The lead- 

 ers of this organization appreciate the 

 importance of developing a community 

 co-operative spirit. Harry Reed, Presi- 

 dent, says that the most important 

 work confronting his association is to 

 create a clear understanding on the 

 part of his membership of the value of 

 co-operative marketing. 



Schuyler and McDonough Cut Melon 



FARMERS, too, can cut melons if 

 they will only co-operate. Their 

 melons do not run up into nine figures, 

 but perhaps eventually they will com- 

 pare more favorably with those of 

 big business. 



December 17 is the day set for the 

 Schuyler Association to hold its sec- 

 ond get-together meeting. Several 

 hundred dollars will be returned to 

 producers in the form of patronage re- 

 funds. The board believes that just 

 prior to the Christmas holidays is an 

 appropriate time for declaring divi- 

 dends. 



The McDonough County Association 

 held a meeting November 1 to declare 

 patronage dividends. At this time the 

 association had operated nine and one- 

 half months. During this time 54,940 



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t pounds of butterfat was sold and 11,- 

 !057 dozens of eggs. Total trading in- 

 come and expenses on these two com- 

 modities were as follows: 



Bufterfat Egg» 



Trading Income _....$2,'}52.63 $186.88 



Expenses @ 2.7 per lb. and 



Ic per doz 1,621.93 112.16 



Net Income on each $1,230.60 $74.72 



74.72 



$1,305.32 

 Patronage Refunds 800.00 



Surplus $ 605.32 



The Brown County Association is 

 planning a similar meeting for its 

 hiembers December 19. All three units 

 were organized less than a year ago. 



"Dairymen Not Organized" 



OE. REED, chief of the Bureau of 

 • Dairy Industry, U. S. D. A., 

 urged members of the American Asso- 

 ciation of Creamery Butter Manufac- 

 turers, recently, to take a greater in- 

 terest in the problems of dairymen. 



"No part of the industry can be 

 prosperous very long if the man who 

 milks the cows does not get his fair 

 share of profits," said Mr. Reed. "The 

 farmers and dairymen upon whom you 

 depend for your cream are not an or- 

 ganized body such as yours. They do 

 not meet as you are meeting today to 

 discuss their problems with one an- 

 other. Farming is more of an indi- 

 vidual matter. The producers need 

 such organizations as yours to study 

 their problems. I believe they have 

 made much progress along this line, 

 considering the many difficulties they 

 have encountered, but there is still 

 opportunity for greater advancement." 



Mr. Reed reminded his audience that 

 the average cow producing about 4,600 

 .pounds of milk and 180 pounds of but- 

 terfat a year barely returns to her 

 owner the total cost of production. He 

 said the yearly average of cows in 

 cow-testing associations is about 7,410 

 pounds of milk and nearly 300 pounds 

 of butterfat. He also urged the manu- 

 facturers to pay premiums for quality 

 cream. - 



First Public Statement 



(Continued from page 3) 

 commodity as a whole. Governor 

 Smith, upon the other hand, clearly 

 and forcefully asserted the principle 

 that the cost of handling the surplus 

 should be borne by the entire com- 

 modity. This, in substance, was the 

 substantial principle of the so-called 

 equalization fee. Thus the issue was 

 clearly drawn. 



When, therefore, the American peo- 

 ple preferred Mr. Hoover to Governor 

 Smith, they in effect issued a mandate 

 to Mr. Hoover to proceed with the 

 program which he had advocated. All 

 sincere friends of farm relief will 

 now, in my opinion, cooperate whole- 

 heartedly with him in giving effect to 

 that program. In view of the fact 

 that Mr. Hoover will have the respon- 

 sibility of administering whatever 

 legislation there may be enacted, the 

 wise course it seems to me at the 

 present time is to await the incoming 

 of the new administration. Congress 

 will no doubt wish freely to consult 

 with the President as legislation is 

 being shaped. I understand that a 

 special session will be called. That 

 would be the proper time I think for 

 legislation upon this vastly important 

 question. If such legislation shall not 

 prove effective, the President no 

 doubt will lend a ready ear to further 

 suggestions. For he forcefully said, 

 in his acceptance address, "the most 

 urgent economic problem in our na- 

 tion today is in agriculture." 



In addition to Mr. Hoover's frank 

 recognition of the gravity of the agri- 

 cultural situation, there is a wider 

 understanding of that situation than 

 at any time in the past. Business 

 men recognize as they have not 

 recognized Before that a larger meas- 

 ure of prosperity must be given to 

 the farmers of America if we would 

 avoid danger to the entire business 

 structure. 



I send my heartiest greetings to all 

 the members of the Association, and 

 with personal regards, am. 



Very sincerely yours, 

 (Signed) Frank O. Lowden. 



Mr. Earl C. Smith, 

 President, Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation, 

 608 South Dearborn Street, 

 Chicago, Illinois. i -^ 



The Farmers Mutual Reinsurance 

 Company reports that it now has on 

 the books 4,000 direct and specific fire 

 insurance policies representing 

 $8,250,000. 



The term "direct" refers to insur- 

 ance on individual property placed di- 

 reictly with the state company by the 

 owner. "Specific" insurance refers to 

 reinsured risks placed with the state 

 company through the local mutual 

 which usually carries a portion of the 

 risk. 



The Reinsurance Company also had 

 275 direct and specific windstorm 

 policies amounting to $783,000 on 

 November 15, 1928. 



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