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THE I. A. A. RECOKl) 



I L.L«IISIOIS 



CJCLTURAL ASSOCIA 



— RECORJD 



To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was orsanixed, 

 narnely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, 

 political, unit educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the 

 nation, and to develop asriculture. 



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 !ht- Alt of Manh .3. l-i?!'. Aiiiptiil for niailint' at .special rate of 

 pi>sta:;e 'proviili'.l for in ."Miction 4rj. A.-t of February 2.S. 1!I25. author- 

 izeil Orlob.r 27. I'.i2."i. The in<livi<liuil membership fee of the Illinois 

 Arrieul'nral Assmiatioii is five ilollar- a year. The fee includes paj- 

 nunt of fifty cents for subscription to the ILMNOIR AOBICUI.TURAL Recorp. 



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OFFICERS 



President. Earl C. Smith 

 Vice-President, A. R. Wright 

 Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger 

 Treasurer, R. A. Cowles 



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BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

 iBy Congressional District) 



H. C. Vial, Downers Grove 



G. F. Tullock, Roclcford 



C. E. Bnmborough, Polo 



..... M. G. Lambert, Ferris 



A. N. Skinner, Yates Cfly 



Geo. B. Muller, Washington 



Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut 



W. A. Dennis, Paris 



C. J. Gross, Atwood 



Charles S. Black, Jacksonville 



Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



Frank Oexner. Waterloo 



W. L. Cope. Salem 



Charles L. Scott, Grayville 



. Fred Diet?. De Soto 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 

 Comptroller 

 Dairy Matketiag 



Finance 



Fruit and Vegetable MarU:'ting 



Grain Marketing 



Information 



Insurance Service 



Legal Counsel 



Limes tone- Phosphate 

 Live Stock Marketing. 



Office 



Organization . . 



Produce Marketing 



Taxation and Statistics 



Transportaion 



J. H. Kelker 



A. D. Lynch 



. R. A. Cowles 



. ..A. B. Leeper 



Harrison Fahrnkopf 



George Thiem 



V. Vaniman 



Donald Kirkpatrick 



J. R. Bent 



Ray E. Miller 



C. E. Johnston 



G. E. Metzger 



F. A. Gougler 



J. C. Watson 



L. J. Quasey 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 

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



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



Illinois Agricultural Co-operative Ass'n . F. E. Ringham, Mgr. 



Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co. A. E. Richardson, Mgr. 



Illinois Farm Supply Co. .. L. R. Marchant, Mgr. 



Organization and Bargaining Poiier 



A .MOST convincinj; testimonial of the value of organ- 

 ized farm bargaining power is contained in a sum- 

 mary of weighted average prices paid producers for 3.5 per 

 cent fluid milk per 100 lbs. (including surplus) during 

 1929. This list, prepared by our dairy marketing director, 

 A. D. Lynch, shows that producers who supply St. Louis 

 with milk are the lowest paid, by far, of any dairymen sup- 

 plying a large city market, in the United States. 



Contrast the $2.18 average price per 100 lbs. for the year 

 paid at country points around St. Louis with Chicago's 

 1.2.64, Boston's $2.64 and New York's S2.70. All these 

 prices are F. O. B. country points. Compare the St. Louis 

 price with the V. O. B. city prices paid producers on other 

 large markets as follows: Detroit $2.84; Hartford, Conn., 

 $3.94; Philadelphia $3.45; Pittsburgh $3.14; Washington 

 $3.45, etc. 



Perhaps the fact that St. Louis dairymen lacked a strong 

 collective bargaining association to sell their milk for some- 

 where near its value last year while at the other cities the 

 producers were well organized, had nothing to do with the 

 unequal milk prices. Perhaps. 



That Price Question 



THE Illinois Grain Corporation is a Capper- Volstead co- 

 operative and a member of the Farmers National Grain 

 C~orporation, the national grain sales agency set up under the 

 direction of the Federal Farm Board. 



The Illinois Grain Corporation will be prepared to help 

 the individual farmer and his local farmers' elevator receive 

 any benehts available under the provisions of the Agricul- 

 tural Marketing Act. These benefits include among others, 

 loans to co-operative elevators and money advances to farm- 

 ers on grain in storage. 



Lending the farmer and his co-operative money, however, 

 will not by itself improve the farmer's position in the mar- 

 ket. The concentration of a large volume of grain in a 

 single selling agency will give the producer bargaining 

 power and influence in getting a price in line with market 

 demands. This he does not always get under the present 

 system. 



No thinking farmer believes that any co-operative or 

 government agency can fix prices arbitrarily regardless of 

 supply and demand. No legislation ever proposed by the 

 larm Bureau, Mr. Coolidge notwithstanding, advocated price 

 fixing. We do believe a well organized co-operative can 

 exercise some influence on prices. By collective action in 

 marketing farmers can reduce violent price fluctuations, 

 learn more about quality and market demands, own their 

 own terminal elevators and marketing machinery, develop 

 better control over production, cut distribution and selling 

 costs, reduce wastes in handling, shake off the surplus of 

 sellers under the present system who greatly outnumber the 

 buyers, and thereby divert some of the money which now 

 st.ivs in the citv, back to the countr\'. i 



On Contracts 



THE specious arguments used by the grain trade in at- 

 tacking the Federal Farm Board policy in favor of 

 definite contracts between the producer and his co-operativt 

 have been answered with characteristic vigor and firmness by 

 C2hairman Lcgge. 



"Some of the private commission companies for years 

 have required co-operatives borrowing money from them 

 to sign a binding marketing agreement," said Mr. Legge. 

 "In one state where some opposition has been voiced to 

 signing a marketing agreement with the Farmers' National 

 Grain Corporation a private commission company^ is boast- 

 ing that it has 50 co-operative elevators tied up under a 

 five-year binding contract to deliver grain to it in return 

 for financing. 



"The marketing agreements between the Farmers' National and the 

 co-operatives and the co-operative's members can be complied witii 

 easily," Mr. Legge continued. "The agreements give the farmer the ad- 

 vantage of the competitive market at all times." 



Commission merchants would have farmers believe that many mys- 

 terious evils beset the man who enters into an agreement with his own 

 organization to sell his grain. \i'ho can live and carry on any kind 

 of work or occupation without many agreements, written or otherwise? 

 You can't rent a farm or house, buy or sell anything, ride on the train, 

 go to the movies, or in fact do anything of a business nature without 

 entering a contract sptjken or written, or performing your part of an 

 agreement. The world's business is done by contract. It is possible that 

 contracts are only bad when they divert grain into co-operative channels 

 and away from private commission companies. Presumably the contract 

 method of doing business is only virtuous when employed by the trade. 

 It is also possible that pure selfishness and no other reason prompts the 

 antagonism to farmers signing agreements to co-operate with each other. 



