THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Five 



Carthage Shipping 



Ass'n a Co-Operator 



We Co-Operate in Shipping; Why 



Not in Marketing? Say Live 



Stock Producers 



AT a recent meeting of the board 

 of directors the Carthage Live 

 Stock Shipping Association of Hancock 

 county unanimously adopted the fol- 

 lowing resolution and ordered a copy 

 sent to all members of the organization: 

 "We, the Board of Direc- 

 tors of the Carthage Live 

 Stock Shipping Association, 

 desire insofar as possible to 

 support the co-operative idea 

 in assembling, shipping, mar- 

 keting and consigning all live 

 stock belonging to our mem- 

 bers. We seek to encourage 

 the patronage of our own 

 Producer agencies located at 

 our terminal markets. Fur- 

 thermore, all our shipments 

 shall go to such agencies un- 

 less parties having majority 

 of weight in any single ship- 

 ment designate otherwise." 



10 Years Old 



The Carthage Association has been 

 in operation for the past 10 years. In 

 a letter addressed to all the members 

 the directors said: 



"The only way by which the live 

 stock farmer will ultimately gain a 

 voice in the actual selling of his live 

 stock and some influence in determin- 

 ing a price will be for shipping associa- 

 tions to co-operate together in the same 

 way that you as members have co- 

 operated in building a successful ship- 

 ping association here. Recognizing the 

 fact that the Producer Live Stock Com- 

 mission agencies on the terminal mar- 

 kets are striving toward the same ends 

 on these markets that we are striving 

 toward here, we feel that the co-opera- 

 tive shipping associations throughout 

 the country should co-operate with the 

 co-operative selling agencies on the ter- 

 minal markets. 



"We do not seek to force you as a 

 member to send your live stock to the 

 Producers nor to any other particular 

 selling agency. We do wish, however, 

 to urge you to give these co-operative 

 selling concerns your most careful con- 

 sideration and support. We do not 

 .ittempt to guarantee the service of the 

 Producers. We know that there will 

 be times when you will not be satisfied. 

 We recognize further that no matter 

 where you ship live stock there will 

 be times when the returns are not up to 

 your full expectations. We do feel, 

 however, that these Producer agencies 

 are giving service equal to any available 



on the term-.nal markets. By concen- 

 trating our live stock in the hands of 

 our own selling agency we are helping 

 ourselves in our efforts to exercise more 

 influence on both the prices which wc 

 receive for our live stock and the con- 

 ditions under which it is sold." 



Boulder Now "Hoover" 

 Dam, Being Built 



Eating Habits of People 

 Change 



A DISTINCT change in the type of 

 food people eat, during the last 

 20 years, was reported recently by O. E. 

 Baker of the Federal Division of Land 

 Economics. 



The sedentary habits of the popula- 

 tion, apartment house life, the use of 

 machinery instead of human labor, pos- 

 sibly even the feminine fad of slender- 

 ness, as well as the development of new 

 varieties of vegetables and of new 

 methods of transporting them, arc 

 among the factors which have affected 

 diet, Mr. Baker said. V-'- • ..• -5. ;■•• 



The modern diet contains more pro- 

 tein and less carbohydrates than was 

 formerly the case. The outstanding 

 change in diet is a decline of about 100 

 pounds per capita in consumption of 

 cereals, shown in a comparison of con- 

 sumption for the last five years with 

 the average for the five years, 1909 to 

 1913. 



Counterbalancing this in part arc in- 

 creases in consumption of sugar, pork, 

 milk and vegetable oils. Pork consump- 

 tion has increased about 10 pounds per 

 capita per year in the last 20 years, 

 sugar consumption has gaiaed about 27 

 pounds, and milk consumption possibly 

 150 pounds, it was pointed out. 



In the total amount of food, in cal- 

 ories, consumed per capita, there prob- 

 ably has been a small decline. 



FREE RENT OFFERED 



"Am writing to inquire, if in your 

 work you come across a good, depend- 

 able family who would go up on a 78- 

 acre place, right near Chicago, with 

 hollow tile house, chicken houses, etc., 

 rent free, and make their own living. 

 I do not want to pay out any money, 

 but would like to get hold of a good 

 reliable family, and it does seem as 

 though there must be someone who 

 could make a living on a place like this. 

 Might add that this is on a private lake, 

 and one part has seven cottages on it. 

 If you know of anyone, and will put 

 me in touch with them, would surely 

 appreciate it, as I know I could make 

 it interesting." 



H. C. Williamson, 



319 No. Crawford Ave., 



Chicago, Illinois. 



BOULDER DAM, which has been 

 rechristened the "Hoover Dam," 

 with its promise of water for irrigation, 

 cheap power, and flood control, was a 

 step nearer actuality Sept. 17 when 

 Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the 

 Interior, officially started construction 

 of the $165,000,000 project. 



Dr. Wilbur drove the first spike into 

 the first tie for a branch railway from 

 a point on the Union Pacific near Las 

 Vegas, Nevada, to the rim of Black 

 Canyon at the dam site. This is the 

 first unit of the developm:nt. The 

 spike, of Nevada silver, was presented 

 by Governor Fred B. Balzar of Nevada 

 to the president of the Union Pacific, 

 who in turn gave it to Secretary Wil- 

 bur. 



"We feel at this time we have noth- 

 ing to celebrate," declared John C. 

 Phillips, governor of Arizona, in de- 

 clining the invitation of Secretary Wil- 

 bur to participate in the ceremonies. 



; Arizona Kicks ' ;* 



Governor Phillips claims that the 

 Boulder Dam program does not recog- 

 nize the interests of Arizona. "It is a 

 sad and unfortunate thing, as time will 

 fully prove," he said, "that a problem 

 of such imp)ortance was not met and 

 disposed of by a higher statesmanship, 

 but it has seemed expedient to our sister 

 basin states and to the federal govern- 

 ment to ignore the rights, interests and 

 wishes of Arizona in this matter. They 

 have attempted to force the Colorado 

 river compact upon us without our con- 

 sent while enacting the Boulder Dam 

 legislation as the price of California's 

 ratification thereof; to undertake the 

 construction of this project within 

 Arizona's borders over her protest and 

 defiance of her laws, for the sole bene- 

 fit of southern California — in other 

 words, to take from Arizona her great- 

 est natural resource upon which her 

 future development and growth so 

 largely depends." 



"I want to compliment you on 

 the June issue of the I. A. A. REC- 

 ORD. I think it is one of the best 

 you have ever put out. Majoring 

 on a certain program of w^ork as 

 you have on grain marketing in 

 this issue w^ill no doubt bring 

 results. 



"Keep up the good work." .'•'•■ 

 A. B. LEEPER, Manager 



Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange 



Uncle Ab says that some folks place 

 new ideas and dynamite in the same 

 class, and are afraid of both. 



