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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



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THHE desircj to influence, dominate, 

 -*• control, often purely for the sake 

 of satisfying one's ego leads to many 

 a man's downfall. Free-born Ameri- 

 cans are lovers of independence. No 

 less are the p^ple of other nations ex- 

 cept where they have been ground down 

 by centuries of tyranny into hopeless 

 despair and subjection. More battles 

 both bloody and bloodless have been 

 fought in the interest of freedom and 

 self-determination than for all other 

 reasons combined. 



Such a battle is being waged now 

 in the state legislature of New York. 

 Organized farmers are at Albany, the 

 state capitol, determined ': to regain 

 home rule, the right to say whether or 

 not their rural school districts shall be 

 consolidated into larger districts, the 

 privilege of accepting or rejecting con- 

 solidation by a majority vote of farmers 

 in the district. <' ■' 



Power to force consolidation now 

 rests in the State Education Depart- 

 ment. Farmers have had to take what 

 was handed them, pay increased tax 

 burdens, submit to "bossing" and dicta- 

 tion from an autocratic bureau, and 

 like it. It was taxation without repre- 

 sentation that led to the Revolutionary 

 War. Human nature has not changed 

 since 1776. 



Commenting upon the school fight at 

 Albany, Dewitt C. Wing says in the 

 Rural New Yorker, "Farmers now 

 realize more vividly than they have 

 realized for several generations that 

 unabating organized, militant vigilance 

 is the price that they must pay for such 

 measures of legal justice, in school, 

 business, and political affairs as it is 

 possible to extract from the common 

 stock controlled by our local, state, 

 and federal governments." 



New York farmers are going over 

 much the same ground traversed by 

 farmers in Illinois although in our case 

 bureaucratic control ever has rested in 

 a state department. Six years ago the 

 Community Consolidated School Act 

 was modified so that a majority vote 

 outside the corporate limits of towns 

 and cities is necessary to eflfect con- 

 solidation. As a result the extrava- 

 gant in school building has been large- 

 ly medicated. 



The cost of government would prob^ 

 ably be considerably less if the people 

 who voted the taxes paid them. One 

 of the outstanding arguments in favor 

 of a state income tax is that a far 

 greater proportion of our people 

 would contribute directly and be con- 



Marchant of Knox Co. 



To lU. Farm Supply 



L. R. Marchant 



WiU Take Up New Work in Chicago 

 AprU 1 



LR. MARCHANT, county farm ad- 

 • viser in Knox county since 1920, 

 will succeed Geo. R. Wicker, as man- 

 ager of the Illinois Farm Supply Com- 

 pany. Mr. Marchant will take up his 

 new duties April 1. His success in 

 conducting Farm Bureau activities, 

 particularly those of a business na- 

 ture, in Knox county led to his choice 

 for the new work. 



Born and raised on a farm in 

 Greene county, Iowa, Marchant grad- 

 uated in animal 

 husbandry from 

 Iowa State Col- 

 lege in 1914. He 

 spent four years 

 prior to the World 

 War in farm man- 

 agement work, 

 three years with 

 the firm of Car- 

 penter and Ross, 

 prominent breed- 

 ers of Shorthorn 

 cattle, in Richland 

 county, Ohio, 

 where he had charge of farm opera- 

 tions on more than 1000 acres; one 

 year managing the Mark Morton 500 

 acre farm in DuPage county. 



After being discharged from the 

 army he returned to a 1100 acre farm 

 in Portage county, Ohio, and in Octo- 

 ber, 1920, came to Knox county as 

 assistant farm adviser. In 1922 he 

 became farm adviser which position* 

 he has held since that time. 



Over 1300 Members 



During Marchant's term as farm 

 adviser Knox county has maintained 

 a membership of more than 1300, and 

 a reserve fund has been added to each 

 year. A large membership was signed 

 up for the new three-year period only 

 last year. 



Prior to the organization of the 

 Knox County Oil Company Marchant 

 made a study of the Minnesota co- 

 operatives and spent considerable time 

 with specialists in that field of work. 

 He served as secretary of the Knox 

 county unit for the past two years, 

 director of the Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company, and chairman of the Specifi- 

 cations Committee. Mr. Marchant 

 was president of the Illinois State As- 

 sociation of Farm Advisers in 1928. 

 He is recognized as one of the ablest 

 men in the state. 



A. R. Kemp, assistant, will succeed 

 Marchant as farm adviser in Knox 

 county. 



scious of burden of government. As 

 it is, nearly everyone pays some tax 

 indirectly. Better would it be if they 

 paid a direct tax and thereby were 

 brought to a complete realization of 

 the source of governmental expendi- 

 ture. 



iMail^eting 



Scott County Meets 



Trucking Problem 



"/^UR county livestock shipping as- 

 ^ sociation has done a bigger busi- 

 ness since we started trucking than 

 evey before during the same time of 

 the year," writes Alfred Tate, farm ad- 

 viser in Scott County, Illinois. "This 

 increase in business leads us to believe 

 that the investigational work which we 

 did and which was followed up by pub- 

 licity, has taught livestock producers 

 in our county many facts regarding the 

 marketing of their animals which they 

 did not know before. They are now 

 content to let the shipping association 

 handle their stock. When we began 

 trucking, our shipping association was 

 losing business. Since we have facili- 

 ties for trucking there has been very 

 little demand for trucking to the ter- 

 minal market. Practically all shippers 

 employ our truck men to haul their 

 livestock from the farm to the local 

 shipping point. 



Truck* Increasing 



"The number of farmers and regular 

 truck drivers who were trucking live- 

 stock to the market has been increas- 

 ing for some time and during the last 

 year, the increase in livestock trucked 

 to the market was very pronounced," 

 continued Tate. "This trucking of live- 

 stock to the market by farmers and 

 truck drivers increased to the point 

 where it was undermining the shipping 

 association. 



"Most live stock producers do not 

 take the time to figure out which is 

 the best way, everything considered, 

 to get their livestock to the market. 

 Truckmen led them to believe that there 

 will be less shrink if they send their 

 stock by truck, that it will be more 

 convenient for them and that the re- 

 turns will be greater. We found also 

 that in practically every case where 

 livestock was trucked to the market, 

 it did not go to the Producers. 



"We decided that the shipping as- 

 sociation would either have to discon- 

 tinue operation or else meet success- 

 fully the competition of truckmen. 

 After getting all the information avail- 

 able, the shipping association decided 

 to contract with a reliable truck driver 

 to do all its trucking business. 



Local Trucker Hired 



"We felt that one of the main needs 

 of the association was to have facili- 

 ties for getting stock from the farm to 

 the local shipping point. We contracted 

 with a truck driver to do this local 

 trucking for 20c per mile, that is, 20c 

 one way and no charge for return 

 trip and 35c handling charge up to 600 

 pounds. Over 600 pounds and up to 

 1200 pounds, 50c handling charge. 

 Over 1200 pounds and up to 3,000 



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