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Number 11 



NOVEMBER, 1929 



Volume 7 



Prominent Men On 



A. F. B. F. Program 



Convention at Hotel Sherman, 

 Chicago, Dec. 9-10-11 



ACTIVITIES of the Federal Farm Loan Board, 

 -^*- the Federal Farm Board, governmental 

 road building policies,' farm taxation, child wel- 

 fare and waterways will feature the discussions 

 before the coming annual convention of the 

 American Farm Bureau Federation at the Hotel 

 Sherman, Chicago, Dec. 9-10-11. 



Sam H. Thompson and Alexander Legge will 

 be the chief speakers on the opening day. \(^ith 

 the great farm relief battle now history, the 

 organization is expecting Mr. Thompson to look 

 to the future and outline his ideas on how 

 further advances can be made in bringing about 

 equality for agriculture. 



Legge On Monday 



Alexander Legge, the man entrusted by Presi- 

 dent Hoover with responsibility for administer- 

 ing the agricultural marketing act will be the 

 headline speaker Monday afternoon. Mr. Legge 

 will tell the Farm Bureau how farmers can ob- 

 tain the maximum benefits from the new legis- 

 lation. 



H. Paul Bestor of St. Louis, appointed by 

 President Hoover to make the farm loan act 

 work for farmers' interests, will speak on the 

 subject "Farm Finances." He is scheduled for 

 the Wednesday morning session. 



"Waterway Development" is the subject Sec- 

 retary of War James 

 W. Good will discuss. 

 It is taken for granted 

 that he will voice the 

 policies of Mr. Hoover 

 since the secretary of 

 war is charged with the 

 responsibility of feder- 

 al waterway develop- 

 ment. 



Farm Taxation 



Frank O. Lowden of 

 Oregon has been chosen 

 to outline his views on S. H. Thompson 



the important subject 



of farm taxation. He is to speak on Tuesday 

 morning, December 10. 



Dr. H. E. Barnard, director of the Presi- 

 dent's White House Conference on Child Health 

 and Protection is to be the speaker on Monday 

 evening, Dec. 9. A "community meeting" with 

 a forum discussion will follow this address. 



A speaker to be announced later will present 

 the subject of highway development. The 

 Illinois Agricultural Association has taken the 

 lead in calling to the attention of governmental 

 officials the need for a better farm to market 



Alexander Legge 



road system. Now this movement is being 

 carried forward on a national scale by the 

 A. F. B. F. It is estimated that 5,000,000 

 farmers find it impossible to get from their 

 farms to markets in automobiles several months 

 each year. It is the Farm Bureau's belief that 

 public funds should be used generously in build- 

 ing rural roads because of their vast importance 

 to agricultural welfare. .-, , ■-■ 



Illinois Delegates 



Representing Illinois at the convention as 

 official voting delegates will be President Earl 

 C. Smith, Frank D. Barton, Geo. F. Tullock, 

 and Samuel Sorrells. 



Alternates are H. C. Vial, A. R. Wright, 

 C. £. Bamborough, and Charles Black. 



The entire executive committee of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association is expected to attend 

 the convention. 



Custom Grinding 



A farmer or individual who does custom 

 grinding of feed for his neighbors is not re- 

 quired to secure a license according to the feeds 

 division of the State Department of Agricul- 

 ture. 



If, however, a customer should purchase grain 

 from the mill operator and ask the latter to 

 mix it according to his, the purchaser's direc- 

 tion, and then grind it, the mill operator would 

 be required to obtain a license. ■.■.*"■.• -; 



State Produce Co-op 



Is Set Up at Decatur 



Bloomington Chosen As Headquar- 

 ters, Organized Under Illinois 

 Act of 1923 



T)APERS of incorporation for the Illinois Pro- 

 *- ' duce Marketing Association, organized under 

 the Illinois co-operative act of 1923, Were ap- 

 plied for on Nov. 9 following a meeting three 

 days earlier at Decatur where 100 representa- 

 tives from M counties gave unanimous ;|pproval 

 to the plan. | 



UiKler the by-laws adoptM at Decatur, the 

 Association is authorized to buy, sell, handle, 

 ship, process, or in any way make farm produce 

 more sala&le so farmers may receive the max- 

 imum net return for theif products. Non- 

 members' produce may be handled as well as that 

 for members "provided that the products 

 handled for non-members in any fiscal year 

 shall not exceed the total of similar products 

 handled for members during the same ^riod." . 



Farm Board O. K. 



Frank Gougler, director of produce marketing 

 for the I. A. A. explained the state marketing 

 plan, discussing the advantagies of big scale co- 

 operation, and the policy of the Federal Farm 

 Board in encouraging co-operation between the 

 smaller co-operatives. Donald Kirkpatrick, 

 legal counsel, explained the capital stock set-up. 

 A. D. Lynch, director of dairy marketing, who 

 assisted in organizing the first co-operatite pro- 

 duce associations in the state, told how fluid 

 milk co-operatives and 

 produce co-ops could 

 work together to their 

 mutual advantage. 



The Association is to 

 be organized under 

 Farm Bureau control as 

 a co-operative with 

 capital stock, although 

 no immediate sale of 

 stock to raise funds is 

 contemplated. Capital 

 stock shall be divided 

 into preferred and com- 

 mon. The preferred stock shall consist of 

 30,000 shares to be designated as Class A pre- 

 ferred stock of $2$ per share par value, and 

 15 0,000 shares to be designated as Class B pre- 

 ferred stock of no par value, and 75,000 shares 

 of common stock of no par value. I 



Stock Setup 



Class A preferred stock when and if issued, 

 shall be entitled to draw cumulative dividends 



(Continued on />«{? i) 



Frank Gougler 



