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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



I IjLiINOIS 



CVLTVBAL ASSOCIA 



RECORJD 



To tiiance the purpose Jor u hich the Farm Bureau was organized, 

 namel ^, to promote, protect aitJ represent the business, economic, political, 

 and iJucalional interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation, 

 and to Jetelop agriculture. 



Editor, George Thiem 



Put lished once a month by the Illinois Agricultural Association, 

 608 ; o. Dearborn St., Chicago, III. Entered as •second-class matter 

 June 16, 1930, at the post office at Marshall, 111., under the Act of 

 Marcl 3, 1879. Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided 

 for ii Section 412, Act of Feb. 28, 1925, authorized Oct. 27, 1925. 

 TKe i idividual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is 

 five d >IIars a year. The tec includes payment of fifty cents for subscrip- 

 tion tJ the Illinois Agricultural Association Record. Postmaster; In re- 

 turnir g an uncalled for missent copy please indicate key number on 

 addre: s as is required by law. 



. T OFFICERS 



President. Earl C. Smith Detroit 



Vice-President, A. R Wright Varna 



Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger _ Chicago 



Treailirer, R. A. Cowles Bloomington 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 



(By Congifessional District) 



H. C. Vial, Downers Grove 



_. G. F. TuIIock, Rockford 



C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



_..M. G. Lambert, Ferris 



..A. N. Skinner, Yates City 



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Geo. B. MuUer. Washington 



Geo. J. StoU, 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 Dietz, De Soto 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



Com]|troller..._ J. H. Kelker 



Dairy Marketing _ — A. D. Lynch 



Final ce - R. A. Cowles 



and Vegetable Marketing. — 

 Marketmg.. 



Fruit 

 Grair 



I nf or nation.. 

 Insurance Service- 

 Counsel.. 



Legal 



Limestone- Phosphate.. 



Live Stock Marketing.. 



Offic*. _ 



Organization 



Produce Marketing.. 



-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 



Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson 



Transportation L. J. Quasey 



I ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 



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



Faririers Mutual Reinsurance Co J. H. Kelker. Mgr. 



Illinqis Agricultural Co-operatives Ass'n F. E. Ringham. Mgr. 



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



Illin^s Farm Supply Co L. R. Marchant, Mgr. 



On Grain Marketing 



*HE Illinois Agricultural Association is at- 

 tempting to render service to Illinois grain 

 lucers by helping them build an effective co- 

 rative selling agency for grain. It has no inten- 

 tioil nor is any effort being made to force on the 

 producers or their elevators a grain marketing 

 program that is not wanted. The Association has 

 beeh vey deliberate, as everyone knows, in making 

 recommendations because of the peculiar prob- 

 lemjs and relationships existing within the state. 

 Th({)se charged with responsibility have received 

 much criticism for alleged inactivity in grain 

 maiketing. 



iifter years of patient study and effort to co- 

 ordinate all producer interests in support of an 

 effective plan, the Illinois Grain Corporation was 

 orginized. Its chief virtue and bid for producer 

 support is that it provides a definite plan for 

 coricentrating a large volume of grain in a real 

 farmer-owned and controlled agency. 



President Smith on pages 3 and 4 of this issue 

 presents a background of information revealing 

 to what ends the organization has gone to com- 

 promise differences of opinion and work with the 

 state farmers' elevator association. 



The I. A. A. has always recognized that the 

 farmers' elevator is a necessary institution render- 

 ing important services to its patrons. It realizes 

 that the farmers' elevator is the bulwark and 

 foundation for an effective grain marketing pro- 

 gram. The I. A. A. has used its kindly offices to 

 help and strengthen the farmers' elevator move- 

 ment in Illinois for by so doing it renders a service 

 to the man on the farm who supports all farm 

 institutions. 



Producers who have studied the marketing 

 question know that co-operative selling is inffec- 

 tive unless the farmer-owned agency controls a 

 large enough volume of the commodity to have 

 some influence in the market. Certainly there is 

 nothing new in this plan. Consolidation and mer- 

 gers to reduce waste and needless expense are the 

 order of the day in the business world. In seek- 

 ing volume control grain producers seek to apply 

 to their business what has proved successful in 

 other industries. 



The Illinois Grain Corporation was established by pro- 

 gressive grain growers using their organization, the I. A. A., 

 to help bring it about. The advice and counsel of both the 

 chairman and grain member of the Federal Farm Board was 

 had during its formation. The Illinois Grain Corporation 

 was not forced on the producers but was accepted and 

 endorsed after due deliberation by a great convention of 

 growers nearly all of whom produce grain. We refer to the 

 annual meeting of the I. A. A. at Springfield last January. 



The Illinois Grain Corporation is merely a medium 

 through which producer-owned elevators can co-operate 

 with each other in the sale of their grain. Througl^ it is 

 made possible co-operation among the co-operatives. Con- 

 trol of the organization rests absolutely with the grain pro- 

 ducers of the state. No organization could be more demo- 

 cratically controlled. Therefore, it is inconceivable that any 

 group or individual having the interests of the producer at 

 heart should oppose this unselfish co-operative enterprise. 



We believe the campaign of malicious propaganda now 

 being circulated about the state will have little influence, 

 if any, with thinking farmers. The I. A. A. will not stoop 

 nor take time to answer the deliberate misstatement of facts 

 concocted in the minds of those who by their acts have 

 shown their unfriendliness to effective co-operative market- 

 ing. 



Whenever farmers have sought to help themselves through 

 co-operation they have met with the same kind of opposi- 

 tion from those who thought their business would suffer 

 from the competition. Farmers represented by the I. A. A. 

 have not hesitated, however, to advance in the face of such 

 opposition. They do not and will not hesitate in this case. 



We believe the Illinois Grain Corporation offers the sound- 

 est plan for real grain marketing progress in the state. The 

 opposition of selfish interests may retard and delay self-help 

 by farmers but it will never stop it. The only thing that 

 will ever prevent the achievement of real co-operative grain 

 marketing is the loss of faith of farmers in themselves, in 

 their organization, and in their ability to solve this problem. 



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