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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



por.itioii .iiid the rcl.uionship of co- 

 opcr.itivc m.irkctirii; orj^.ini/.itions uu) 

 iiuliviilu.il farmers to the corporation. 

 Copies ot these booklets .ire .iv.iil.ihle 

 to .ill. Another booklet de.iU with the 

 lo.in pro.ur.im of the eorpor.ition. These 

 ■ire .iv.iil.ible for limitej distribution to 

 eo-oper.itivc ori;.ini/.itions. othci.ils, f.n in 

 ori;.ini/.uion le.ii.lers .md held men. 

 ( opies of either booklet m.n be ob- 

 I. lined by writing; direct to l.irmeis' 

 X.uion.il Gr.iin Corpor.ition, division ot 

 or;.;.iiii/.itior. .ind publicity, i isher 

 r.iiildinj;, Chicis^o, III. When writinj; 

 tor lo.in booklets ple.ise st.ite l.irm 

 o'i;.iniz.uion connections. 



Marketing Machinery 



.More t.umers will ni.irket their ;.;riin 

 co-oper.itiveh' in the United St.ues dlir- 

 iiii; the 19.>()-1 i>.i 1 crop se.ison ih.in 

 ■\er before, .ind the co-oper,ui\ es' 

 equipment for h.indimi; the yr.iin is not 

 (iiiK in better sh.ipc tli.m ever before 

 but is ste.idiK improxiui;. I .irmers' 

 X.uion.il now h.is umler its control, 

 w Inch nie.ins f.irmer control, .ipproxi- 

 ni.uely 2(),()nO.(l(lO bushels of stor.n;e 

 spice on import.mt jjr.iMi terniin.ils, 

 w ith .uldition.ll m.irketing m.ichiner\ .it 

 sub-termin.ils. Co-oper.itive stockhold- 

 ers .ire ste.ulily incre.isins; their own 

 holdings of country, sub-termin.il iiul 

 terniin.ll stor.i;,;e sp.ice .ind .uldins; new 

 (.lev.itor units to their org.mi/.itions. 

 .Ml this me.ins th.it the j;r.iin co-oper.i- 

 tives are .idv.incint; tow.ird the point 

 where they will be .ible to hold their 

 strain near the point of production un- 

 til demand requires its movement to 

 the bu\er. The j;rain thus will be kept 

 out of the world's "show windows," 

 where its presence, in quantities greater 

 than are called for b\ immediate con- 

 sumptive demand, beconu's a depressing 

 intluence on market values. 



Export Department 



Export business of I armers' National 

 Grain Corporation has developed in a 

 h.ighly satisfactorv manner. Thnnitjh 

 this department the corporation has es- 

 tablished contacts with millers and 

 i>ther buxers in all the principal i;rain 

 importint; countries of the world. In 

 one day diirins; July wiieat was shipped 

 to ei_!;ht different ports, in bottoms 

 chartered by th'c corporation. Thus 

 the Americin grain producer was able 

 for the first time to ship grain all the 

 wax- from the farm to the last buxer" 

 through farmer-oxvned and farmer- 

 controlled channels, without the inter- 

 vention of a single outside agency. 



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KEEPING WELL 



By Dr. John A. Bolaud 



Prevention of Diptheria 



BM C^lK the discox ery of antitoxin 

 till, mortality rate in diphtheri.i 

 w .IS .ibout 40 pi.r cent. Since its use 

 this tigure has dropped to about 10 

 per cent. If aiuiloxni is used in the 

 first twenty-four hours, nearix every 

 ease can be s.ixed. Rarelx is a diagnosis 

 made before the third or fourth d.w . 

 This delay causes irreparable damage 

 to vital organs that cannot be neutral- 

 ized by the subsequent atlministration 

 of antitoxin. With the positive fact 

 staring us in the face that one out of 

 ex ery, ten dies that contracts diphtiieria, 

 not counting the Kirge number that are 

 invalided as the result of complications, 

 we cannot laud too highly anx treat- 

 ment that xvill actually prevent diph- 

 theria in S5 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 xvhen 

 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 phxsi- 

 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 8(1 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 Universitv of Wisconsin. 



From 8 5 per cent to 9 5 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 macle this one of the 

 most easily preventable of all diseases. 



The procedure is simple, produces no 

 ill ertects and is m no xxay dangerous 

 to the child. Immuni/ation or protec- 

 tion against diphtheria consists of three 

 small injections of toxin-antitoxin at 

 interx als of fixe to seven daxs. 



The duty lies with the parents to 

 liaxe their chikhen, between the ages 

 of 6 month and 6 xears, immuni/ed 

 against iliphiheria b\ hax ing them re- 

 ceive the toxin-antitoxin at once. This 

 is advisable insonuich as about 9 5 per 

 cent of children betxxeen these ages are 

 susceptible to diphtheria. 



A test known as the "Schick Test" 

 is advised in children past 6 vears 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 xvill not be necessary that 

 he receixe the toxin-antitoxin. 



The susceptibility to diphtheria de- 

 creases xvith age. Hoxvever, this is not 

 altogether true in rural districts as 

 Schick Tests have shoxvn that betxvecn 

 20 per cent, and .^0 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 xvipe 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. 



