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Number 3 



MARCH, 1929 



Volume 7 



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I. A. A. Pledges Aid 



To New Secretary 



Ex-Ciovemor Hyde b Well Liked by 

 Farmers In "Show-Me" State 



COMMENTING upon the selection 

 of the Hon. Arthur M. Hyde of 

 Missouri as Secretary of Agriculture, 

 President Earl C. Smith said: 



"I have the highest respect and re- 

 gard for Mr. Hyde. I have had a per- 

 sonal acquaintance and association 

 with him for 12 to 14 years before he 

 entered political life, and served with 

 him on the Resolutions Committee at 

 the National Republican Convention 

 in Kansas City." 



The following telegn"am was dis- 

 patched to the new Secretary of Agri- 

 culture following his announcement by 

 President Smith: 



"I EXTEND CONGRATULATIONS 

 ON YOUR APPOINTMENT AS SEC- 

 RETARY OF AGRICULTURE AND 

 BEST WISHES FOR YOUR SUC- 

 CESS IN THE DISCHARGE OF THE 

 TREMENDOUS RESPONSIBILITIES 

 AND DUTIES OF THAT OFFICE 

 STOP TO THAT END THE ILLI- 

 NOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIA- 

 TION ASSURES YOU OF ITS FULL 

 SUPPORT AND CO-OPERATION. 

 EARL C. SMITH, PRESIDENT." 



Dairymen Meet 



Secretary Geo. E. Metzger and Dairy 

 Marketing Director A. D. Lynch met 

 recently with leaders in the St. Louis 

 milk district to review and discuss co- 

 operative marketing experience and 

 possibilities in that territory. More 

 than 60 representatives from counties 

 in the St. Louis milk shed attended the 

 meeting. 



It was decided that the dairymen in 

 each of the 17 interested counties of 

 Illinois and Missouri meet at the call 

 of their respective Farm Bureaus for 

 the purpose of selecting one official 

 representative to attend a central meet- 

 ing in St. Louis on March 8 when a 

 dairy marketing program will be con- 

 structed. 



Chicago MiSk Price 

 Announced by Pure 

 Milk Ass'n, April I 



T OOK out for Oregon red clover 

 -^-^ seed. Experimental results show 

 that it doesn't stand corn-belt winters, 

 is the advice Farm Adviser Tom Rob- 

 erts of DeKalb county is giving Farm 

 Bureau members. v . .-, 



Hon. Arthur M. Hyde. , 



T^HE new Secretary of Agriculture, 

 -■- Arthur M. Hyde, was born in 

 Princeton, Mo., July 12, 1877. He re- 

 ceived his A. B. degree at the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan in 1899, and gradu- 

 ated in law the year following at the 

 University of Iowa. Secretary Hyde 

 practiced law at Princeton, Mo., from 

 1900 to 1915 where he served as mayor 

 from 1908 to 1910. In 1915 he moved 

 to Trenton, the former home of Mrs. 

 Hyde. He was governor of Missouri 

 from 1921 to 1925, is a trustee of Mis- 

 souri Wesleyan College, a Republican, 

 Methodist, Mason, and Odd Fellow. 



Secretary Hyde is an extensive land- 

 owner and this fact is said to have in- 

 fluenced his choice as a member of 

 President Hoover's cabinet. 



Mr. Hyde, as a member of the 

 Missouri delegation, voted for Frank 

 O. Lowden for President at the Kansas 

 City Convention until Mr. Lowden's 

 withdrawal when he supported Mr. 

 Hoover. 



"Arthur H. Hyde U an intensively active 

 man inclined a bit to nervousness,*' writes 

 W. J. Kennedy in the Whiteside County 

 Farmer. "He has few bobbies. He smokes 

 /-iiiai« — eonsiderably but is s teetotaler on 

 hard liqa(»i. Homely expressions always won 

 his audiences. He has a rare vein of humor 

 blended with bitine sarcasm. Missouri Re- 

 publicans regard him as equal to Jim Reed 

 on the stump and his campaigns with various 

 Missouri Senior Senators long will be remem- 

 bered in the future. In Trenton, Missouri, 

 Mr. Hyde conducted the Men's Bible Class of 

 the Methodist Church which grew from a 

 few members to Include a large proportion 

 of the masculine population of the town. Re- 

 ports of his personality and the earnestness 

 of his pleadings stamped him, as an out- 

 standing moral leader." 



Base and Surplus New Plan for 

 Figuring Price 



The Pure Milk Association an- 

 nounces that begining April 1 a 

 base and surplus plan of payment 

 will be initiated on the Chicago 

 market. The net price to dairy- 

 men for base milk will be $2.64 

 per 100 pound; for 3.5 per cent 

 milk with an allowance of four 

 cents per point butterfat. (Base 

 amount for each producer will be 

 the average of his September, Oc- 

 tober, and November production. 

 During April the dairyman can 

 produce 120 per cent of base.) 

 All milk in excess of base amount, 

 or surplus, will be figured at the 

 rate of 3.5 times the price of 92 

 score butter at Chicago, plus 20 

 per cent, plus 25 per cent of the 

 difference between the above price 

 and the base price of $2.64. 



The new price plan and the 

 progrram for the future was to be 

 carefully explained at the annual 

 meeting of the. Association sched- 

 uled for March 12 in Chicago. 

 Dr. Clyde King of Philadelphia 

 was scheduled to address the 

 meeting. 



\ POWERFUL organization more 

 -^ than 10,000 strong, amply financed, 

 and recognized as the voice of the 

 dairymen in the great Chicago milk 

 shed, describes the Pure Milk Associa- 

 tion six weeks after the culmination of 

 one of the most effective embsu'goes 

 ever laid down by a producer's organ- 

 ization. 



The Association headed by W. E. 

 McQueen, president, and Don Geyer, 

 manager, is proceeding conservatively 

 in building an efficient organization to 

 deal and speak for its members. Head- 

 quarters have been established in a 

 suite of rooms on the fifth floor of the 

 Transportation Building, Chicago, and 

 work is progressing toward getting rec- 

 ords up to date and preparing for fu- 

 ture duties. 



Chanced Over Night 



Almost over night the Association 

 was changed from a struggling group 

 of producers bent wri establishing a 

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