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By Frank Gougler 



ICHLAXL) fULXTY producers 

 were! the pioneert in co-oiierativt 

 produce niarketinf; in Southern Illinois 

 June 1, this county i 

 tract wilth Tip-Top 

 cennes, Indiana, for 

 svcutive year. Three 

 eluded ini this contract and their com- 

 bined output of ovcrj 1.50,000 iiounds 

 of buttei-fat will l>e sjild. 

 * * t 

 Adjoining counties seeing; the value 

 of this iKJid of marketinfr are now or- 

 ganizing similar associations. During 

 ,\l)ril two units wore started in Craw- 

 ford County, one at R jbinson. and the 

 other at Oblong. This cream goes to 

 the Schlos.ser Brotheis Creamery at 

 Indianapolis. In a recent letter Farm 

 Adviser Frazier writes: ".May 20 and 

 21 have been definite!;- set for cream 

 impiovemient meetings at Oblong and 

 Robinson land Schlosscr Bros, will fur- 

 nish refreshments. Stations are now 

 handling la nice volume of cream." 



The oi-ganization m|i.-t recently es- 

 tablished in Southern I linois is located 

 at Albion in Edwards County. Farm 

 Adviser H. X. Myers jeports that the 

 following producers were elected direc- 

 tors for the first year: 

 president: Allen Cronu" 

 Geo. WorKS, sec'y-treaf 



Harry Perkins, 

 vice-president ; 

 Smith Bunt- 



ing and Ira Smith. The manager 



Albert Michels. Duri 



Albion hap had the lov 



liroduce itt that part of 



the nearliy towns would pay from one 



ng years past 

 est market for 

 the state. Even 



to two cents n)orc for I 



utterfat. 



This condition has now changed as 

 illustrated by a recent letter received 

 from P'arm Adviser C. W. .'^inijison of 

 White Coiinty, located just south of 

 Edwards. I The White County Farm 

 Bureau isj organizing a unit at Xorris 

 City and on May 1, Simpson hapiiened 

 to be at bl)th points — Albion and Xor- 

 ris City, ."ind he writes "Today they 

 were paying He i>er jtojnd foi- butter 



fat at XoiTis City while 

 are paying 44 cents." 

 of what hajiiiens when 

 unit is estlablished. 



;it .-Vlbion they 

 This is typical 

 a co-operative 



Scott County Women 



Sponsor F. B. Dinner 



''PWO hundred seventy-five men and 

 *- womeii attended a dinner spon- 



red by tlfe women's c^ 



Scott Coutity Faini Bureau, on Friday 



■^p 

 mniittee <if the 



May -.'A. \ The Scott 

 Bureau orcfhestra and t 

 Bureau song leader ha^ 



County Farm 

 otlicial Farm 

 a ))romiiieiit 



Bureau song leader tiail a ))romiiieiit 

 part in thci entertainment. 



Mrs. Wj C. Simmon>, rhairman of 



he women's committee 



iiaster. .Secietary tJet . 



epresenteil the Illinois 



the women's committe 



mas 



lepri: 



.\ssociatioii and Mrs. VY 



was toast- 

 E. Metzger 

 .Agricultural 

 , W. Sewell. 



the .American Farm Bureau Federation. 



Pvvery Farm Bureau member and his 

 wife was invited to attend. 



"The principal idea back of the 

 meeting," said Sec'y. Metzger, "was 

 to convey to the non-members first- 

 hand information concerning the Farm 

 Bureau, the Illinois Agrici^iral Asso- 

 ciation, and the AmericiiflFarm Bu- 

 reau Federation. This t>^' of meet- 

 ing is new to many sections of Illinois 

 and I believe has a great deal of merit. 

 Everyone who attended declared the 

 meeting a great success." 



High Court Upholds 



Farmers' Co-operative 



Old Line Die-Hards Found Guilty 

 of Unfair Practice 



'"PHE Supreme Court of the United 

 *- States in the decision handed 

 down on May 20 sustained the order 

 of the Secretary of Agriculture in the 

 so-called Oklahoma boycott case 

 against old-line market agencies and 

 live stock dealers operating on the 

 Oklahoma Xational .Stock Yar<ls. The 

 case, which dates back more than three 

 years, has attracted large public in- 

 terest by reason of the boycott by 

 vi.rious market agencies of the Pro- 

 ducers' Commission Association. 



In an order of March 31, 192G, the 

 Secretaiy directed the market agencies 

 and dealers operating at the Oklahoma 

 Xational Stockyards to cease from en- 

 gaging in and using any unfair or dis- 

 criminator.v practices in connection 

 with the purchase and sale of livestock 

 by failing or refusing to bu.v livestock 

 from or sell to the Producers' Com- 

 mission Association, while at the same 

 time carrying on business among 

 themselves. The order also prohibited 

 the respondents from agreeing among 

 themselves to refrain from dealing 

 v.ith the Producers' Commission Asso- 

 ciation. 



Grant Injunction 



A District Court of three judges 

 granted an injunction against the en- 

 forcement of this order, whereupon 

 the Government apjiealed the case to 

 the Sui)reme Court of the United 

 States. The market agencies and deal- 

 ers urged that there was nothing to 

 prevent their dealing and refusing to 

 deal with whom they chose. With re- 

 spect to this claim the Supreme Court 

 said, "But we think it does not need 

 argument to show that a boycott of a 

 dealer in a stockyard may be an unfair 

 practice under the act as it is found 

 t'l have been in this case." 



The Producers' Commission Associa- 

 tion was a cooperative organization 

 fi^rmed under an Oklahoma statute 

 v%hich forbade the handling by such 

 associations of the agricultural and 

 horticultural i)roducts of nonmembers, 

 excei)t for storage. The market agen- 

 cies and dealers contended that it did 

 not appear at the hearing before the 

 Secretary of Agriculture, that the 

 Commission Association confined its 

 handling of livestock to the products 

 of its members and that, for this rea- 



son, the enforc )i the Secre- 



tarji-'s order sho enjoined. The 



District Court agreed with this view 

 and held that it was incumbent upon 

 the Government to show that the live- 

 stock handled by the Producers' Com- 

 mission Association belonged to mem- 

 bers only. 



Boycott Was General 

 The Government claimed that it 

 would be absurd to suppose that a 

 cooperative association organized for 

 the special purpose of aiding its mem- 

 bers should confine its business to the 

 illegal sale of the products of nonmem- 

 bers. With this contention of the 

 Government the Supreme Court 

 agreed. That court said, "If not all, 

 we must assume that some, at least, of 

 its business was legitimate and that to 

 .some extent it might sell livestock that 

 its members pi'oduced. But the boy- 

 cott was general, intended it would 

 seem to drive the Producers' Commis- 

 sion Association out of business. The 

 association was a competitor of the ap- 

 pellees and the suggestion that it was 

 acting ultra vires (beyond its power) 

 sounds like an after-thought and can 

 not be supposed to have been the mo- 

 tive for the act. . . . But whatever 

 the motive, nothing is shown or sug- 

 gested by the evidence to justify the 

 general boycott that the Secretary's 

 order forbade." 



Clarifies Act 



The order of the Secretary was is- 

 sued under the packers and stockyards 

 act and the favorable decision of the 

 Supreme Court is considered by ofTi- 

 cials of the Bureau of Animal Indus- 

 try, which administers the act, to have 

 an important bearing on the future 

 marketing of livestock at public stock- 

 yards. The policy of the bureau is to 

 test in the highest tribunal all cases 

 in which the orders of the department 

 are (juestioned, thereby clarifying the 

 various i)rovisions of the act and de- 

 fining the scope of Federal authority. 



Production Exceeds 



Population Growth 



I^^^ARM ijroduction in the United 

 States has increased a half more 

 than population since the world war. 

 This increase in production has been 

 more rapid than at any time since 

 I'.iOO and probably more rapid than at 

 any time since 1890. Moreover, it 

 has been accomplished despite a de- 

 crease in the number of farms and 

 farm population, a decrease in the 

 number of farm animals, and a slight 

 decrease in crop acreage. Incomplete 

 data for the years 1027 and 1928 indi- 

 cate that agricultural production is 

 still increasing at a more rapid rate 

 than the rate of increase in our popu- 

 lation. 



These facts are cited by Dr. O. E. 

 Baker, economist in the United Stales 

 Department of Agriculture, in support 

 of his belief that the welfare of agri- 

 culture necessitates careful considera- 

 tion of any proposals involving an in- 

 crease in crop acreage. 



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