THE I. A. A. RECORD 



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A. N. Skinner 



Ask for "Administration" 



On I. A. A. Program 



A RESOLUTION requesting the 

 board of directors of the I. A. A. 

 to include a discussion of Farm Bureau 

 business administration in the program 

 at the next annual meeting of the state 

 organization was passed at the Hth 

 district I. A. A. meeting held on June 

 17 at Canton in Fulton county. 



A. N. Skinner of Yates City opened 

 the meeting outlining the topics for 



discussion which in- 

 cluded organization, 

 Farm Bureau ad- 

 ministration, and 

 grain marketing. 



Every county 

 Farm Bureau should 

 have a finance com- 

 mittee of three or 

 four members in- 

 cluding the treasur- 

 er, an organization 

 committee, a legisla- 

 tive committee, and 

 any others deemed advisable suggested 

 Secretary Geo. E. Metzger in his talk 

 on Farm Bureau administration. 



"When the board meets have each 

 committee meet individually and make 

 a report and recommendations to the 

 whole board," he said. "The board 

 votes the recommendation up or down." 

 He emphasized the fact that in some 

 co-operatives minority instead of ma- 

 jority control is practiced when definite 

 action is avoided on controversial ques- 

 tions because members of the board 

 disagree. Our government and all 

 democratically-controlled business en- 

 terprises are organized on the theory 

 of majority control and farmers must 

 abide by this rule if they are to make 

 any progress. Metzger recommended 

 that each county should have a budget. 



B. L. Baird, a director of the Illinois 

 Grain Corporation, discussed this or- 

 ganization and the history of the gfain 

 marketing program in Illinois. Harry 

 Gehring of Knox county followed Mr. 

 Baird and told of grain marketing prog- 

 ress in Knox county. Other speakers 

 were R. J. Hamilton and John C. 

 Moore, district organization manager's. 



Hermann Raster of Fulton county 

 served as secretary of the meeting. 



District Picnics 



Dates for the sectional picnics in the 

 Hth and 20th districts have been defi- 

 nitely fixed. The Hth district picnic 

 will be held on August 29 at Mon- 

 mouth, and the one in the 20th dis- 

 trict at Jacksonville on August 30. 



Sectional picnics are to be held in 

 the 19th and 25 th districts, but the 

 dates and places have not yet been ar- 

 ranged. , ' ■• 



Winnebago Service Co. 



"Farm Bureau membel-s in our coun- 

 ty raised $20,000 to finance the Winne- 

 bago Service Company without solicita- 

 tion," says Geo. F. TuUock of Rock- 

 ford. 



A site has been purchased, a switch 

 track put in, and storage tanks already 

 bought are to be installed at once. The 

 stock was purchased by several hundred 

 Farm Bureau members. 



The Winnebago Service Company is 

 affiliated with the Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company and will handle SERVICE 

 petroleum products. 



"Organize for Service," 



Dean Advises Farmers 



ORGANIZATION of farmers to 

 enable them to give better service 

 to customers was stressed by W. C. 

 Coflfey, dear?, of the College of Agri- 

 culture, Univfefsity of Minnesota, in an 

 address at the aruiual {picnic of the 

 Eastern Polk County Farm Bureau at 

 Maple Bay, Minn. Dean Coffey is well 

 known in Illinois, where he formerly 

 headed the sheep division and animal 

 husbandry department at the'College of 

 Agriculture, Urbana. 



"At one time," Dean Coffey asserted, 

 "we looked upon organization among 

 farmers as a need for protection 

 against the forces that are unfriendly 

 to the farmers' interests. But there is 

 another reason why farmers should be 

 organized, and that is for the purpose 

 of giving better service to their cus- 

 tomers, whether thes6 customers be 

 middlemen, chain stores, ultimate con- 

 sumers or forces engaged in foreign and 

 domestic trade. 



Serve the Customer 



"Like the successful merchant and 

 manufacturer, the modern successful 

 farmer must give his customers what 

 they want when they want it. It is 

 not possible for the farmer either to 

 protect himself against the forces that 

 are unfriendly to his interests or to 

 render better service to his customers 

 without effective organization. 



"The Farm Bureau exists for these 

 primary purposes and the need of or- 

 ganization will not grow less but rather 

 more urgent in the future. Proof of 

 this lies in the fact that all other lines 

 of endeavor are gravitating toward 

 combinations and mergers. They would 

 not so gravitate were it not to their 

 advantage. In the face of such situa- 

 tions the farmers cannot stand aloof 

 and alone. He must join hands with 

 his fellows in effective and constructive 

 organization." ,"'''":- 



Chas. L. Scott 



24th District Meets 



REPRESENTATIVES from WabashT" 

 Edwards, White, Wayne, Gallatin, 

 Saline, Johnson, Pope and Massac coun- 

 ties attended the I. A. A. meeting in 

 the 24th district at Harrisburg on June 

 18. Charles. L. Scott, I. A. A. direc^gi; 

 of Grayville, presided. Harold Kad- 

 shaw acted as secretary. 



Mr. Scott outlined the purpose of th£_ 

 meeting and emphasized the necessity 

 for organization. 

 "We must present a 

 united front on leg- 

 islative matters by 

 working through the 

 I. A. A.," said 

 Charles Marshall of 

 Belknap, former I. 

 A. A. director, who 

 followed Mr. Scott. 



District Organi- 

 zation Manager L. F. 

 Brissenden explained 

 the new county plan of organiza tion 

 by townships, after which the group 

 voted unanimously to hold a get- 

 together picnic of farm advisers. Farm 

 Bureau presidents and organization meii| 

 in the 24th and 2Sth districts at Big 

 Lake in Gallatin county. 



Farm Adviser Murphy of Edwards 

 county related the progress that was 

 being made in organizing the Wabash 

 Valley Service Company, which will 

 provide SERVICE petrol uem products 

 for farmers in Wabash, Edwards and 

 White counties. 



Secretary Geo. Metzger opened the 

 afternoon session with a discussion on 

 business administration of Farm Bureaus 

 and co-operatives. He suggested that 

 Farm Bureau projects be varied so as to 

 reach and serve the largest number of 

 people. I 



Following adjournment representa- 

 tives from Gallatin, Saline, Massac>| 

 Pope and Johnson counties held a con- 

 ference to discuss the possibilities of an 

 oil service company for this group of j 

 counties. 



ONE of the "pet" arguments of 

 those who oppose co-operative 

 marketing is that it represents an effort 

 to nullify the law of supply and de- 

 mand. Whatever parts of the law of 

 supply and demand remain after the 

 tariff gets through with it are not in 

 danger from co-operative marketing, 

 which contemplates no further ref)eal 

 of the ancient and much abused doc- | 

 trine. What co-operative marketing 

 does contemplate is the regulation of 

 supply to demand at the points of both 

 production and consumption, thus 

 avoiding the depression of market vaU ] 

 ues that inevitably follows supply in 

 excess of normal consumptive require- 

 ments. — Farmers' National Grain Corp, 



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