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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



VI; • Comtnission Gets Facts 



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 conditions, and is fair minded enough to 

 want the producer to obtain a fair price 

 for his product," Tiedeman continued. 

 "The inevitable result of the present situa- 

 tion will be to force the farmer who at- 

 tempts to maintain proper standards out of 

 business, which will, in the long run, mean 

 poorer milk for the consumer." .; 



Would Avoid Milk War 



"The producers feel that an impartial in- 

 vestigation will benefit all three sides of the 

 triangle; the producer, the distributor and 

 the consimier," he declared. "We are not 

 proposing any radical movement, we do not 

 want a milk war any more than anyone 

 else does, and we are taking this step in the 

 hope of avoiding a milk war." 



The plan was indoned by B. W. Till- 

 man, farm adviser for St. Clair county. 111.; 

 O. W. Meyer, county agent for St. Louis 

 county. Mo. S. H. Anderson, executive 

 secretary of the National Dairy Show, and 

 A. D. Lynch, director of dairy marketing 

 for the Illinois Agricultural Association, in 

 brief talks. 



The Farm Bureaus and Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association organized and are back of 

 , the Sanitary Milk Producers determined to 

 see that dairymen in the St. Louis district 

 get a square deal. 



The second meeting of the Fact Finding 

 Commission investigating the milk situation 

 at St. Louis was held at the Statler Hotel 

 in that city on April 8. 



Mrs. Wilbur Fribley of Chicago, who 

 was the active representative of the Illi- 

 nois Federation of Women's Clubs and a 

 ,member of the Fact Finding Commission 

 that made a report on the Chicago milk 

 situation, was the guest speaker. 



3. 



5. 



Illinois Grain 



Files Application 



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2. What will be the possible sources of in- 

 come of a regional association? 

 What will be the obligation to deliver 

 grain on the part of a regional associa- 

 tion of its members to the national as- 

 sociation? 



Will it be necessary or advisable for a 

 regional to maintain a sales organiza- 

 tion? 



Will the regional be obligated to guar- 

 antee all loans made by the Federal 

 Farm Board through the national cor- 

 poration to local country elevators 

 which are members of such regional 

 association? 

 ; (.If loans are handled and guaranteed by 

 a regional for its member what interest 

 rate spread will be allowed the re- 

 gional? 

 7. When will the Farmers National Grain 

 Corporation be prepared to handle cash 

 operative functions of a regional asso- 

 ciation? 



grain on the markets to which Illinois 

 territory is tributary? 



8. Should the member of a regional be 

 obligated to deliver all grain for mar- 

 ket to the regional? 



9. Does the 50 per cent limitation of non- 

 member grain obtain as to the aggre- 

 gate of grain handled by local members 

 or does the regional, if all its members 

 are Capper-Volstead associations, have 

 the right to handle a 50 per cent addi- 

 tional amount of grain from non-mem- 

 ber elevators? 



10. Can the capital stock of a local co- 

 operative elevator, otherwise a Capper- 

 Volstead association, be held by the 

 regional grain corporation, other than 

 such capital stock as runs to producer 

 members? 



11. Can the capital stock of a regional 

 grain corporation, otherwise a Capper- 

 Volstead association, be held by another 

 Capper-Volstead association, except 

 such stock as runs to the Capper-Vol- 

 stead country elevator member of the 

 regional? 



12. What percentage of the voting stock 

 shares of a member local elevator, if 

 any, can be held by non-produfers 

 other than Capper-Volstead associa- 

 tions? 



13. What percentage of the voting shares 

 of stock of a regional can be held by 

 non-producers other than Capper- 

 Volstead associations? 



14. What is a producer as specified in the 

 Capper-Volstead Act and in the Agri- 

 cultural Marketing Act? 



15. If a country elevator is organized un- 

 der a co-operative act that fixes the 

 proprietary interest of its reserve or 

 surplus in the stockholders as stock- 

 holders on a per capita basis, must such 



.',- reserve or surplus be converted into a 

 stock holding if a dividend return is 

 to be allowed on such reserve and sur- 

 plus? 



16. Is it proposed to have a written con- 

 tract between the national and regional, 

 and if so, what will be the substance 

 of such agreement? 



17. Should there be a written contract be- 

 tween the regional and its members, 

 and if so, wliat should be the substance 

 of such contract? 



18. Will the obligations for stock subscrip- 

 tion by a member in the National be 

 uniform with all other members and 

 will there be any adjustments of re- 

 quired holdings as volume of grain 

 handled changes, and if not, what plan 

 is in hand to give those patronizing the 

 national equitable representation? 



19. Will it be sufficient for the purposes of 

 the Farmers National Grain Corpora- 

 tion and with safety to the local ele- 

 vator company, for a local elevator 

 company to amend its by-laws limiting 

 dividends to eight per centum per an- 

 num without amending the charter? 



(Continued on page li) 



I. A. A. Qualifies as a 



Capper-Volstead Co-op. 



^al Co-operative Marketing Means 



Close Tieup Between Local and 



Terminal Organizations 



THE prodigious efforts being made to 

 propagandize the state with destruct- 

 ively critical literature on the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association and the lULnois Grain 

 Corporation only retard real co-operative 

 marketing development. Back of the pic- 

 ture, of course, we see the subtle hand of 

 the grain trade making a stand against an 

 effective co-operative marketing program. 

 Involved in the issue are two plans of co- 

 operative marketing, namely, the voluntary 

 and contract plans. It is to the interest of 

 the enemies of co-operative marketing to 

 fight a close tieup between local and ter- 

 minal co-operative marketing organizations. 

 The Illinois Agricultural Association sees 

 the best opportunity for enhancement of 

 grain prices through the formation of a 

 strong cooperative grain marketing develop- 

 ment made effective through definite con- 

 tractural relationships. As a result the 

 agents of the old line interests, whose in- 

 fluence has been dominant in too many 

 farmers' elevators, fight any plan that will 

 weaken their grip on the local elevators. 



What Is I. A. A.? i 



The Illinois Agricultural Association is 

 still considered a "foreigner" by some folks 

 whose interests are purely selfish. There 

 are those who l^k the ability to under- 

 stand that 55,000 to 60,000 Illinois farm- 

 ers can speak through a single organization. 



They forget that the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association itself can qwalify as a Capper- 

 Volstead association and in that respect is 

 the largest single co-operative organization 

 of its kind in the State of Illinois. So why 

 all this criticism about the I. A. A. — 60,000 

 farmers — taking an interest in grain mar- 

 keting? 



Here Are Reasons 



The I. A. A. qualifies as a Capper- 

 Volstead association because: 



1. A Capper-Volstead association is com- 

 posed of persons engaged in the produc- 

 tion of agricultural products as farmers. 

 A person to be qualified to become a 

 member of the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation must be engaged in the pro- 

 duction of agricultural products. 



2. A Capper-Volstead association may be 

 organized with or without capital stock. 

 The Illinois Agricultural Association is 

 organized without capital stock, being 

 organized under the membership act of 

 Illinois for the purpose of promoting 

 agriculture. 



3. A Capper-Volstead association must be 

 set up to market agricultural products, 

 either directly or through agencies. The 

 I. A. A. is authorized under its charter 

 to engage either directly or indirectly in 



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