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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Supervised Fanning 



Hailed as Next Step 



In Farm Production 



"Chain Farms" Being Studied by Econ- 

 omists, Watched by Others 



SUPERVISED farming, with 

 managers in charge of chains 

 of farms, was given a clean bill 

 of health by C. L. Holmes of Iowa 

 State College who told of his in- 

 vestigations regarding possible 

 displacement of the independent 

 family farm by large farms or 

 chain farm management before 

 the recent meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Farm Economic Association. 

 Mr. Holmes predicted that there 

 would be considerable further de- 

 velopment in this direction. 



He said that a good manager must 

 have scientific knowledge, must know 

 the art of farming, have a keen busi- 

 ness sense and have financial knowledge 

 of farm operations, know economic con- 

 ditions, use price forecasts, and must 

 know how to select good tenants and 

 work with them. ■ 



Social Effects ' 



He stated that the social effect of 

 large-scale units need not be detri- 

 mental to the farm community but may 

 bring about improvement and give 

 greater stability to farm communities. 

 He predicted that farming under large- 

 scale units might even result in agri- 

 culture taking a more important part 

 in the councils of the nation. "Lower 

 costs of production and a greater out- 

 put per farm and per man," he stated, 

 "are necessary to make these other 

 things possible." 



I Bank* Lead Way 



Banks and insurance companies hold- 

 ing large tracts of farm lands as a 

 result of depressio'n in the industry, are 

 the principal experimenters in chain 

 methods. The latest report on their ex- 

 perience involved 32 farms on a tract 

 of 7,500 acres in central Illinois. Each 

 farm was OQfrated by a tenant under 

 the direction of a general superintend- 

 ent. 



"We shall sooner or later have to 

 face and answer the question whether 

 the small independent farm is the size 

 of productive unit and the form of 

 productive organization best adapted to 

 the new conditions of agriculture," Vir- 

 gil Jordan, chief economist of the Na- 

 tional Industrial Conference Board, 

 rrtrently declared. 



Five former Illinois farm advisers 

 are or will soon be engaged in manag- 

 ing "chain farms" for non-resident 

 owners. These men are F. E. Fuller, 

 Chas. Robinson, W. W. McLaughlin, J. 

 E. Johnson, and L. W. Wise. 



The Jersey County Farm Bureau 

 went on record at its recent annual 

 meeting recommending that the incom- 

 ing Board of Directors appoint a 

 woman's committee to work with them 

 in the coming year. I 



R. F. Karr Addresses 



Iroquois County Meet 



Executive Committeeman R. F. Karr 

 of the 18th district addressed the an- 

 nual meeting of the 

 Iroquois County 

 Farm Bureau re- 

 cently. Mr. Karr 

 reviewed the activi- 

 ties of the Illinois 

 Agricultural As- 

 sociation and urged 

 farmers from that 

 county to attend 

 the annual I. A. A. 

 meeting at Dan- 

 ville the last two 

 days of January. 

 Professor W. H. 

 Smith, state leader 

 of agricultural extension, and W. T. 

 Martindale of the Indiana Farm Bu- 

 reau Federation, were other speakers. 

 Officers selected for the coming year 

 are: President, R. F. Karr, Iroquois; 

 Vice-President, Floyd Hare, Gilman; 

 Secretary-Treasurer, A. J. Gilliillan, 

 Watseka; Directors, H. G. Pendergast, 

 G. C. Honeywell, John Leverenz, George 

 Tascher, F. W. Schroeder, J. W. Law- 

 rence, Herbert Benbow. 



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■ CAN all be angry 

 with our neighbor; 

 what we want is to be 

 shown, not his defects of 

 which we are conscious, 

 but his merits, to which 

 we are too blind. — R. L. 

 Stevenson. 



■ I - M ' M ' M ' M 1 I I - M - I - H ' MM - M ' l ' 



"IF THERE is one lesson great- 

 er than another to be gained 

 from the experience of the past 

 eight years, it is the lesson that 

 agriculture can never hope to 

 hold its own until it is definitely 

 and thoroughly organized for 

 collective action in all the mat- 

 ters that pertain to the welfare 

 of agriculture. 



"In connection with the 

 strengthening of the co-opera- 

 tive movement, it should also be 

 the purpose of farmers to build 

 up their general farm organiza- 

 tions in order that agriculture 

 may properly express the desire 

 of farmers in conducting the 

 affairs of the nation." — Editor 

 Dan A. Wallace, in "The 

 Farmer." 



Fact Finders Would^ 

 Place Milk Industry 



Under Gov't. Control 



Recommendations of Committee Would 

 Have Far-Reaching Effect 



RECOMMENDATIONS made by the 

 Fact Finding Commission ap- 

 pointed to investigate the Chicagro milk 

 marketing situation propose that the 

 milk industry be placed under the regu- 

 lation of the Illinois Commerce Com- 

 mission as a public utility if the war- 

 ring interests decline to accept volun- 

 tary arbitration. 



This is a far reaching proposal and 

 one that would attract nation-wide at- 

 tention should it come to an issue be- 

 fore the State Legislature. 



Here Are 5 Points 



The five recommendations made by 

 the Commission are as follows: 



"That the milk producers' organiza- 

 tion, called the Pure Milk Association, 

 be fully recognized by the dealers, and 

 that a system of arbitration be set up 

 here within the industry that the rights 

 of all elements, including the public, be 

 protected. 



"That the proposed milk strike be 

 called off. 



"That if the present price of milk in 

 Chicago does not warrant an increase 

 to the farmer, that the price to the 

 consumer be increased one cent a quart, 

 and that all of that increase be paid to 

 the producers on a base and surplus 

 price plan. 



"That the Chicago milk-marketing 

 committee hold itself intact until the 

 present emergency is past. 



"That in case the various elements 

 in the milk industry decline to accept 

 voluntary arbitration within the in- 

 dustry that the public be urged to pro- 

 ceed at once to Springfield and seek 

 legislation to put the milk industry un- 

 der the regulations of the Illinois com- 

 merce commission as a public utility." 



Report Blames Both 



The committee signing the report 

 was composed of Newton Jenkins, for- 

 mer legal counsel for the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association, who served as 

 chairman; Mrs. W. E. Fribley, repre- 

 senting the Illinois Federation of Wom- 

 en's Clubs; and Dr. Arthur E. Holt of 

 the Chicago Theological Seminary. 



The report blamed the milk dealers 

 for their unwillingness to co-operate 

 and arbitrate differences with the pro- 

 ducers, but it placed part of the blame 

 for unsatisfactory conditions on the 

 dairymen themselves for not joining 

 their organization, the Pure Milk 

 Ass'n., and paying their dues. 



W. A. Herrington, farm adviser, in 

 Stephenson county, it is reported, has 

 resigned to accept a position in th« 

 Farm Management Department of the 

 University of Illinois. 



Eugene Davenport, dean-emeritus 

 of the Illinois College of Agriculture, 

 is back at the University assisting 

 President Kinley in Publ'c Relations 

 work. 



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