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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



poratjon and the relationship of co- 

 operative marketing organizations and 

 individual farmers to the corporation. 

 Copies of these booklets are available 

 to all. Another booklet deals with the 

 loan program of the corporation. These 

 are available for limited distribution to 

 co-operative organizations, officials, farm 

 organization leaders and field men. 

 Copies of either booklet may be ob- 

 tained by writing direct to Farmers' 

 National Grain Corporation, division of 

 organization and pyblicity, Fisher 

 Building, Chicago, III. When writing 

 for loan booklets please state farm 

 organization connections. 



Marketing Machinery 



More farmers will market their grain 

 co-operatively in the United States dur- 

 ing the 1930-1931 crop season than 

 ever before, and the co-operatives* 

 equipment for handling the grain is not 

 only in better shape than ever before 

 but is steadily improving. Farmers' 

 National now has under its control, 

 which means farmer control, approxi- 

 mately 20,000,000 bushels of storage 

 space on important grain terminals, 

 with additional marketing machinery at 

 sub-terminals. Co-operative stockhold- 

 ers are steadily increasing their own 

 holdings of country, sub-terminal and 

 terminal storage space and adding new 

 elevator units to their organizations. 

 All this means that the grain co-opera- 

 tives are advancing toward the point 

 where they will be able to hold their 

 grain near the point of production un- 

 til demand requires its movement to 

 the buyer. The grain thus will be kept 

 out of the world's "show windows," 

 where its presence, in quantities greater 

 than are called for by immediate con- 

 sumptive demand, becomes a depressing 

 influence on market values. 



Export Department 



Export business of Farmers* National 

 Grain Corporation has developed in a 

 highly satisfactory manner. Through 

 this department the corporation has es- 

 tablished contacts with millers and 

 other buyers in all the principal grain 

 importing countries of the world. In 

 one day during July wheat was shipped 

 to eight different ports, in bottoms 

 chartered by the corporation. Thus 

 the American grain producer was able 

 for the first time to ship grain all the 

 way from the farm to the last buyer 

 through farmer-owned and farmer- 

 controlled channels, without the inter- 

 vention of a single outside agency. 



Mrs. Belle Holmes of Mereer connty reeeiveM dr«m of Penn Bond motor oil 

 won in drnwinK "t the lllinoiM Stnte Fiiir. Fridny, Anicust 22, 



The drum wiim delivered to her home hy one of Trl-County Oil Co. snleMnien. 



Paul M. I.nuer of I.ee eoiinty won the drum <if oil nt the Central States Ex- 

 position ait Aurora. The iirixe was delivered liy I.ee Connty Service Co. of Amboy. 



KEEPING WELL 



By Dr. John A. Boland 

 Prevention of Diptheria 



BEFORE the discovery of antitoxin 

 the mortality rate in diphtheria 

 was about 40 per cent. Since its use 

 this figure has dropped to about 10 

 per cent. If antitoxin is used in the 

 first twenty-four hours, nearly every 

 case can be saved. Rarely is a diagnosis 

 made before the third or fourth day. 

 This delay causes irreparable damage 

 to vital organs that cannot be neutral- 

 ized by the subsequent administration 

 of antitoxin. With the positive fact 

 staring us in the face that one out of 

 every ten dies that contracts diphtheria, 

 not counting the large number that are 

 invalided as the result of complications, 

 we cannot laud too highly any treat- 

 ment that will actually prevent diph- 

 theria in 8 5 per cent to 95 per cent of 

 all persons properly treated. 



Diphtheria annually kills more chil- 

 dren than any other disease of child- 

 hood. The time is not far off when 

 every death from diphtheria will be 

 looked upon as one of criminal negli- 

 gence upon the part of someone. This 

 must fall either on the family physi- 

 cian or the parents. 



Over 80 per cent of all cases of diph- 

 theria occur in children under the age 

 of 10. 



Over 64 per cent of all cases and 

 over 80 per cent of all deaths from 

 diphtheria occur in children under the 

 age of 5. 



' Farm taxes, on the average, take 30 

 per cent of the farmers' net income, 

 according to Dr. Hibbard, economist 

 at the University of Wisconsin. 



From 85 per cent to 95 per cent of 

 all persons receiving proper preventative 

 treatment with toxin-antitoxin become 

 immune. There is no need for any 

 child to suffer from diphtheria. Medi- 

 cal science has made this one of the 

 most easily preventable of all diseases. 



The procedure is simple, produces no 

 ill effects and is in no way dangerous 

 to the child. Immunization or protec- 

 tion against diphtheria consists of three 

 small injections of toxin-antitoxin at 

 intervals of five to seven days. 



The duty lies with the parents to 

 have their children, between the ages 

 of 6 month and 6 years, immunized 

 against diphtheria by having them re- 

 ceive the toxin-antitoxin at once. This 

 is advisable insomuch as about 95 per 

 cent of children between these ages are 

 susceptible to diphtheria. 



A test known as the "Schick Test" 

 is advised in children past 6 years of 

 age. This is a simple skin test to de- 

 termine if a child is susceptible to the 

 disease. If the child has a negative 

 Schick Test it will not be necessary that 

 he receive the toxin-antitoxin. 



The susceptibility to diphtheria de- 

 creases with age. However, this is not 

 altogether true in rural districts as 

 Schick Tests have shown that between 

 20 per cent and 30 per cent of adults 

 in those districts are susceptible to 

 diphtheria. 



With a 10 per cent mortality rate in 

 diphtheria at the present time, it seems 

 to me the duty of parents is plain. 

 Consult your family physician today 

 and make arrangements to have your 

 children receive the toxin-antitoxin at 

 once and wipe out this dreaded disease. 



Supplies of fed cattle during the first 

 half of 1931 are expected to be smaller 

 than in 1930, reports the Bureau of 

 Agricultural Economics. Demand for 

 stocks and feeders this fall will not 

 equal that of last year, and for that 

 reason slaughter is likely to be some- 

 what greater. 



The Bureau believes that prospects 

 favor a material advance in cattle prices 

 in the next 12 months. 



