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Grain Marketing 



Authority Coming 



J. F. Booth of U. S. D. A. WiU Address 

 Series of Important Meetings 



t"' RAIN marketing and co-operative 

 ^ organization will be discussed at 

 a series of meetings to be held 

 throughout Illinois beginning Friday, 

 May 31, in the soft wheat and red top 

 belt of southeastern Illinois at Carmi. 



Dr. J. F. Booth of the United States 

 Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 

 who recently completed an intensive 

 study of the Canadian wheat pool, will 

 be the speaker. Dr. Booth's studies 

 were written up in Technical Bulletin 

 No. 63 entitled "Co-operative Market- 

 ing of Grain in Western Canada." In 

 addition to his Canadian studies he has 

 investigated and studied co-operative 

 grain marketing organizations 

 throughout |he United States. 



Meetings ^ill be held as follows: 

 Place Date Time 



Carmi May 31 10:00 A. M. 



Belleville Jane 



Springfield Jane 



Peoria June 



Bloomington June 



Monticello June 



Champaign June 



Princeton June 



Ottawa June 



Watseka June 8 



Harrison Fahrnkopf, grain market- 

 ing director who will be in charge of 

 the meetings, reports that farm ad- 

 visers and grain marketing commit- 

 tees throughout the grain belt are co- 

 operating in this movement and have 

 promised to bring out strong delega- 

 tions. 



Strictly Educational 



Commenting upon the coming meet- 

 ings, Chris L. Christensen, chief of the 

 division of co-operative marketing at 

 Washington who spoke at the annual 

 I. A. A. meeting last winter in Dan- 

 ville, said, "These meetings are to be 

 strictly educational and are not to be 

 promotional in the sense that any 

 specific plans are to be recommended. 

 The objective will be to disseminate 

 facts concerning economic, conditions 

 surrounding the handling of grain and 

 also to afford a discussion of how farm- 

 ers can improve grain marketing con- 

 ditions through co-operative organ- 

 ization. 



"It is our understanding that in 

 these meetings Mr. Booth will discuss 

 grain marketing and co-operative or- 

 ganization. Such a discussion will in- 

 clude a review of'the farmers' elevator 

 movement, its accomplishments and 

 limitations, together with an analysis 

 of the changing mas^et conditions and 

 problems." 



Co-ordination Needed 



The co-operative efforts of grain 

 producers in the terminal markets, as 

 expressed in both the Rural Grain 

 Company now operating on the Chi- 



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J. F. BOOTH 



cago market, and in the wheat pools, 

 will be discussed. Mr. Booth will also 

 draw upon his knowledge of the co- 

 operative experience and develop- 

 ments in western Canada. Such an 

 analysis of co-operative efforts will 

 lead up to the problems before farm- 

 ers in the development of co-operative 

 gn"ain marketing machinery which will 

 co-ordinate the country and terminal 

 facilities, together with co-operative 

 selling of grain in the terminal mar- 

 kets. 



'aii^eting 



By Ray E. MiUer 



EIGHTY farmers from Macoupin 

 County gathered at National Stock 

 Yards, Illinois, on April 22 and spent 

 the day with the Producers Commis- 

 sion Association studying livestock 

 marketing and the operation of a co- 

 operative selling agency. The trip 

 was a part of the marketing program 

 of the Macoupin County Farm Bureau 

 and was arranged and conducted by 

 the County Livestock Marketing Com- 

 mittee. One man walked six miles to 

 join the party. He was a shipper of 

 many years experience who had been 

 in the market many times but was 

 anxious to learn more about the 

 fundamentals of co-operative market- 

 ing. His attitude reflects the spirit 

 of the group. 



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THE Livestock Marketing Depart- 

 ment of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association co-operating with Producer 

 Agencies at Peoria, St. Louis, and Chi- 

 cago has arranged a series of market- 

 ing conferences to be held at those 

 markets on May 23, 24 and 27 respec- 

 tively. The purpose is to present up- 

 to-date developments in the field of 



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THE I. A. A. RECO RD 



B. & O. Must Continue 



Local Train Service 



I^^^ARMERS and townspeople residing 

 along the B. & O. railroad between 

 Flora and Shawneetown in southern 

 Illinois will not be deprived of daily 

 local train service as a result of a re- 

 cent decision of the Illinois Commerce 

 Commission. 



The B. & O. application for author- 

 ity to discontinue operation of trains 

 Nos. 46 and 49 between Flora and 

 Shawneetown was denied on the 

 grounds of public policy. I IJi ■ • 



Said the commission: 



"1. Public convenience and neces- 

 sity required the continued operation 

 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 

 Company of trains Nos. 46 and 49 be- 

 tween Flora and Shawneetown, 111. 



"2. The financial loss to the said 

 railroad company caused by the oper- 

 ation of the trains here^ under con- 

 sideration is not so large as to seriously 

 affect the net earnings of its entire 

 property in Illinois." 



The B. & 0. complained that the 

 present operation of these two trains 

 is causing a direct out 'of pocket loss 

 of $281.11 per month,..- and that the 

 annual loss considering all items of 

 expense which might properly be 

 charged to the operation of those 

 trains is a very much larger amount of 

 money. 



The railroad complairved that a hard 

 surface road to be constructed par- 

 alelling the right-of-way when com- 

 pleted will tend to further decrease 

 the gross earnings of these trains. 

 The Transportation Department of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association in- 

 tervened in behalf of farmers and 

 shippers and showed that the commu- 

 nities between Flora and Shawneetown 

 are dependent upon the operation of 

 these trains for mail, express, pas- 

 senger, and freight service, and that 

 the communities along the right-of- 

 way were built up as a result of the 

 service offered by this road. 



livestock marketing to chairmen of 

 county marketing committees. Farm 

 Bureau presidents and farm advisers. 

 A similar meeting was held at Indian- 

 apolis on May 9. 



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DURING 1928 Illinois farmers sold 

 22,837 cars of livestock through 

 Producer agencies at Chicago, St. 

 Louis, Peoria and Indianapolis. Con- 

 servatively estimated the value of this 

 stock would amount to approximately 



$40,000,000. 



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MCDONOUGH COUNTY farmers 

 are conducting a study of local 

 livestock marketing methods. The 

 purpose of the survey is to find out 

 which methods are most popular with 

 livestock farmers and why. Arrange- 

 ments for the survey were completed 

 at a meeting on April 19. Seventeen 

 of eighteen townships in the county 

 were represented. 



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