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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



I LLilNOIS 



CCLTUBTAL ASSOCIA 



RECORD 



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To adpmnce Ih* purpot* for which thr rorm Burtau was organited. 

 namely to promote, protect and repretent the butitiest, ecottomic, 

 political, and educational interetti oj the jarmert oj Illinois and the 

 ttation, atut to develop agrUulture. 



Editor. George Thiem 



Published once a month by the Illinois Affricultural Association, 

 (08 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, tlL Entered as second-class matter 

 October 20, I92&, at the post office at Mount Morris, Illinois, under 

 the Act of March S, 1879. Accepted for mailing at special rate of 

 poatas* provided for in Section 412, Act of February 28, 192S, an- 

 thoriied October 27, 1926. The individual membership fee of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association is five dollars a year. The fee 

 include* payment of flfty eenta tor lobscription to the ItXJNOlB Aau- 

 CULTURAL Association Rbcoro. Po«tmaater: In returning an uncalled 

 for or missent copy please indicate key number on address as is 

 required by law. 



President, Earl C. Smith.. 

 Vice-President, A. R. Wright.. 

 Sacretary, Ceo. E. Metzger... 

 Traaaurer, R. A. Cowlaa 



OFFICERS 



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BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

 (Br Congrvasienal District) 



1st to 11th „.H. C. Vial, Downers Crova 



lath. a F. Tullock. Rockford 



13th „ C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



14th M. G. Lambert. Farria 



ISth — .A. N. Skinner. Yatoo aty 



I«th Geo. B. Muller, Washington 



17th — Ceo. J. Stoll. ChostBut 



18th — „ W. A. Dennis, Paris 



l»th. C. J. Gross, AtwoodI 



Mth , Charloo S. Black, JacksonTlIl* 



21st__ ...■■Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



22nJ - Frank Oexner, Waterloo 



2»rd._^, — W. L. Cope. Salem 



Mth. ■. Charles L. Scott, Gra)rvina 



aSth „ „ Frod Dietx. Do Soto 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



Comptroller _ J. H. Kalker 



Dairy Marketing : „ ^ D. Lynch 



Finance R. A. Cowles 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketiac ™ A. B. Leeper 



Grain Marketing Harrison Fahrakopf 



Information , ,, . .Gaorga Thiam 



lasunuice Service ..._.,. , V, 



Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick 



Limestona-Phospluite ., _ J. R. Bant 



Live Stock Marketing _ _ Ray E. Miller 



Office C. E. Johnston 



Organization _.G. E. Metzger 



Produce Marketing ,, F, A. Couglar 



Taxation and Statistics . J. C. Watson 



Transportation L, J. Quaaay 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 



Country Life Insurance Co L. A. Williams, Mgr. 



Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co „ J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 



Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives Ass'n F. E. Rlngham, Mgr. 



Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insui^nce Co. A. E. Richardson, Mgr. 



UlinoU Farm Supply Co _ L. R. Marchant. Mgr. 



! Stand By Your Friends 



/^N the opposite page will be found a reprint of the voting 

 ^^ record of the members of the General Assembly outside 

 of Cook County which appeared in the official legislative 

 number of the I. A. A. Record last August. At that time, 

 detailed information was given relative to legislation sup- 

 ported and opposed by the I. A. A. during the last session 

 of the Illinois legislature. The voting record appearing on 

 the following page was compiled so that our members might 

 know the attitude of their representatives on controversial 

 measures supported and opposed by the Association. 



So many requests for a copy of the last August issue have 

 come to the office, that our supply is now exhausted. The 

 Board of Directors, therefore, authorized a reprint of the 

 voting record in this issue. All members and friends of the 

 Association should study this record carefully and make 

 every constructive effort to return their proven friends to 

 the Illinois General Assembly. In many of the districts 

 in Illinois, the results of the primary in April are equivalent 

 to election. This being true, it is very important that farm- 

 ers and their friends take greater interest in the Illinois 

 primaries. 



Prolonging The Day 



DURING the past six months Illinois shipping associa- 

 tions marketed 8,417 cars of livestock at Chicago of 

 which 33 per cent was consigned to the Producers Commis- 

 sion Association. From Iowa the Producers received 1,344 

 carloads from shipping associations representing 11.8 per 

 cent of all the shipping association business from that state. 



Illinois livestock growers are outstripping those from 

 neighboring states, it is apparent, both in their thinking and 

 action on the question of real co-operative marketing. 



While our record is encouraging yet there is still plenty 

 of room for improvement. We can never understand the 

 line of reasoning of growers who ship their livestock co- 

 operatively, yet when they reach the terminal markets forget 

 all they learned and pratice at home, and support the pri- 

 vately controlled commission system with its myriad of 

 sellers. Rather than patronize their own co-operative 

 agency which seeks to establish the producers bargaining 

 power by eliminating wasteful seller competition they pro- 

 long the day when the farmer will really have control of his 

 product. 



/* The Speculators Squeal 



THE squealing of the speculators in farmers' products 

 following the action of the Grain Stabilization Corpora- 

 tion in buying wheat to prevent a price collapse would be 

 pitiful were those gentlemen worthy of any sympathy. 



As Mr. McKelvie of the Federal Farm Board pointed out 

 a few weeks ago, the speculators dealing in imaginary grain, 

 buy and sell annually more than 20 times the actual bushel- 

 age grown. Every bushel bought and sold must pay toll to 

 some grain exchange member. The millions of dollars thus 

 collected every year are charged back against the farmer in 

 lower prices, for he ultimately pays the cost of distribution. 



The stabilization corporation has disturbed the activities 

 of the gamblers. It has tended to reduce their operations, 

 hence the commissions charged against farmers' grain. Prof- 

 its of brokers handling such transactions thus are jeopardized. 



Every time a racket or an injustice of any kind is broken 

 up or curbed there is wailing and complaining by those 

 affected. It is too much to expect that modernization of the 

 farmers' marketing system will be accomplished without 

 treading on someone's toes. Few improvements or reforms 

 are brought about without causing someone discomfort. Yet 

 no thinking person would discard our modern labor-saving, 

 time-saving, and money-saving machinery methods, and 

 practices because people are temporarily thrown out of 

 work, and obsolete equipment junked. 



The federal government is at last making an effort to assist 

 farmers who comprise one-fourth of the country's popula- 

 tion secure the advantages of the tariff and man-made laws 

 which other groups have been enjoying for decades. It is 

 doing this as a matter of public policy. It realizes that the 

 country's continued prosperity depends to a large extent on 

 the welfare of its people who till the soil. Is it not more 

 important to help lift the economic status of so large a por- 

 tion of our people than to allow those who have been prey- 

 ing upon them go unmolested? 



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