THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Eleven 



* 



;» 



r k 



V 



-< >- 



■ > 



I 



'•J K- 



Grain, 

 Marketing' 



COWAN A. GRAY, secretary of the 

 Southwest Co-operative Wheat Grow- 

 ers Association, and Arthur T. Riley, man- 

 ager of the Salina, Kansas, branch of the 

 Farmers Union Jobbing Association of Kan- 

 sas City have accepted positions with the 

 Farmers National Grain Stabilization Cor- 

 poration. 



GEORGE S. MILNOR, formerly presi- 

 dent of the Sparks Milling Company 

 of Alton, 111., was recently elected presi- 

 dent of the Grain Stabilization Corporation, 

 and general manager of the Farmers Na- 

 tional Grain Corporation, according to n 

 announcement by President C. E. Huff. 



Joshua M. Chilton, formerly manager of 

 the grain merchandising department of the 

 Checkerboard Elevator Company of St. 

 Louis, was named as assistant to the gen- 

 eral manager. 



Mr. Chilton has had 20 years' experience 

 in the grain business at St. Louis, Kansas 

 City, and Denver. 



R. T. Paradis of Minneapolis will con- 

 tinue as a representative of the Farmers 

 National Grain Corporation on that market. 



WALTER L BEAM is the new treas- 

 urer of the Farmers National Grain 

 Corporation. He served as controller of 

 the $500,000,000 U. S. Grain Corporation 

 during the war. . - ; . > • ,• ■ ••- ' 



Deposits of potash salts of such thickness 

 and purity that they may be mined cheaply 

 have been discovered by the Bureau of 

 Mines in Texas and New Mexico. 



The principal potash mineral disclosed by 

 the government drilling is polyhalite, a sul- 

 phate of lime, magnesia, and potash, which 

 contains an average of 12 to 1 J per cent 

 of potash (KiO). 



, : - Milk Bond Latv 



JUSTICE Pound of the New York State 

 Court of Appeals recently upheld the 

 law requiring milk dealers to take out a li- 

 cense to deal in milk and to file a bond to 

 insure payment for milk to producers in 

 that state. 



The law was attacked as unconstitutional 

 and so held by the Appellate Division at 

 Rochester. The State Court of Appeals re- 

 versed the decbion of the lower court and 

 so now the law is sustained by the court of 

 last resort in New York state. The com- 

 missioner of agriculture had $2,000,000 of 

 bonds on file. 



Speak tor Limestone-Phosphate Service 



The following letter received by R. J. Laible, farm adviser in Marshall -Putnam 

 county came in response to an inquiry regarding results from the use of rock phosphate. 

 ""]\ TY LANDLORD, Mr. James Foster 

 J.VJL of Varna, has purchased in the 

 last two years, more than 75 tons of raw 

 rock phosphate for use on the farm which I 

 operate in Roberts Township, Marshall 

 County. 



"The use of this phosphate has enabled 

 us to greatly increase our yield of grain, 

 and it has also helped us in securing stands 

 of red clover. I am writing to let you 

 know that I appreciate the work the Farm 

 Bureau has done in helping me sell the rock 

 phosphate idea to my landlord, as it is now 

 working out to both his advantage and my 

 own. 



"Inasmuch as both Mr. Foster and my- Carl O. Johnson. Mar.h.11 County |-. 



self are Farm Bureau members, we of course appreciate the 50c per ton discount re- 

 ceived on these shipments. In addition, we know that we are getting what we pay for 

 because of the analysis of each carload by the Illinois Agricultural Association when the 

 phosphate is loaded at the mines in Tennessee. I want you to put me down as one 

 himdred per cent in favor of the work the Farm Bureau is doing in this direction." 



CARL O. JOHNSON. 



Stanard Heads New 



Dairy Products Co. 



S TILLMAN J. STANARD, of Edgar 

 county, former state director of agri- 

 culture and well known to farmers through- 

 out Illinois, is president of the newly incor- 

 porated Egyptian Dairy Products Company 

 which operates butter, ice cream, and milk 

 plants at McLeansboro, 

 ^^^HH^^^^I Fairfield, and Eldorado 

 ^^^^^^^^^^^H southern 



^■^ 4^^^| ^^^ "^^ organization 

 ^B^^^fl^^^H was incorporated early 

 ^V^^^ B^^^^H ^'^'^ year. The supply 

 ^^^j^-^Hj^^^H of milk and cream for 

 ^^^£«^|^^H the first plants is be- 

 ^^^Bii^^^^l ing bought in Hamil- 

 ^^^^t^ ^^^^M Saline, Wayne, 



^^H J^^^ White, Gallatin, 



adjoining counties. 



S. J. Stanard The McLeansboro 



Creamery Company, 

 one of the three plants operated by John 

 Stelle, secretary of the new organization, 

 bought the first co-operative pool cream in 

 the state according to Mr. Stanard. Farmers 

 about Dahlgren in Hamilton county organ- 

 ized a co-operative cream pool in the winter 

 of 1922-'23 with the help of Burt Abney 

 then farm adviser in Jefferson county. This 

 cream pool not only obtained a better price 

 for local producers but it influenced the or- 

 ganization of similar co-operative pools in 

 southern Illinois. 



Competition For Cream 



The Dahlgren pool later disintegrated, 

 but now assistance is being given by the 

 Jefferson County Farm Bureau in reorgan- 

 izing it. Swift & Company has been buying 

 cream about Dahlgren, paying three cents 

 above the station price. Local competition 

 for cream has influenced buyers to offer a 

 higher price during recent weeks. 



The Egyptian Dairy Products Company is 

 now getting the total output of the co- 

 operative produce marketing association at 

 Enfield in White county, which controls 

 about 75,000 lbs. of butterfat a year. 



The company which Stanard heads is co- 

 operating with the Illinois Produce Market- 

 ing Association under the new marketing 

 agreement announced a short time ago. 



Appel Disappears 



r 



THE advisability of bonding treasurers 

 of local mutual insurance companies 

 as a matter of good business judgment is 

 revealed in a recent press report. Edward 

 O. Appel, secretary of three mutual insur- 

 ance companies in Madison county. 111., ac- 

 cording to press reports, disappeared on 

 April 29 when officials told him they 

 planned an examination of his books. 



Charles Rozier told authorities that there 

 is an apparent shortage of $15,000 to 

 $^0,000 in Appel's accounts. Policyholders 

 in insurance companies endorsed by the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association have their 

 investments in these organizations protected 

 since the officers charged with responsibility 

 for moneys are bonded. 



Iroquois' Schedule i 



THE Iroquois County Farm Bureau 

 baseball team has adopted a schedule 

 of games as follows: 



May 3 1 Iroquois vs. Grundy at Morris 

 June 14 Iroquois vs. LaSalle at Watseka 

 June 28 Iroquois vs. Kankakee at Kankakee 

 July 12 Iroquois vs. Grundy at Watseka 

 July 26 Iroquois vs. LaSalle at Ottawa 

 Aug. 9 Iroquois vs. Kankakee at Watseka 

 H. G. Pendergrast has been appointed as 

 manager. Baseball suits and equipment have 

 been purchased in readiness for the first 

 game. ... .. . . ; . .., . 



".v;-J-^ 



