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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Here Are Charges 



Charges filed by the Secretary of 

 Agriculture for violation of the Packers 

 and Stockyards Act of 1921 state that: 

 "The said respondents have combined, 

 conspired and agreed to have no busi- 

 ness relations at the said stock yards 

 with the National Order Buying Com- 

 pany, and Kennett, Sparks & Company, 

 Inc., market agencies duly registered as 

 such and engaged in business at the St. 

 Louis National Stock Yards, and with 

 other divers market agencies registered 

 and doing business as such at said stock 

 yards whose names are unknown to the 

 Secretary of Agriculture, and have 

 combined, conpired and agreed to refuse 

 and refrain, and to cause other registered 

 market agencies and dealers to refuse 

 and refrain from having any business 

 relations with the said National Order 

 Buying Company and Kennett, Sparks 

 & Company, Incorporated." 



Unfair and Unjust 



The charges further state that the 

 respondents acting by themselves and 

 through their lawful agents "have 

 engaged in and used certain unfair and 

 unjustly discriminatory practices and 

 devices in connection with the receiv- 

 ing, marketing, buying, selling, feeding, 

 watering, holding, delivery, shipment, 

 weighing and handling of live stock in 

 commerce, and that the said respondents 

 while acting as the agent for their prin- 

 cipals, to wit, the shippers of live stock, 

 and while having custody, possession 

 and control of live stock so shipped to 

 the said respondents for sale on com- 

 mission at said stock yards, without just 

 cause have refused and refrained from 

 showing or offering to show to buyers, 

 to wit, the National Order Buying 

 Company, Kennett, Spark & Company, 

 Incorporated, and other buyers, live 

 stock so held by them for sale on con- 

 signment on behalf of their shippers 

 and have failed, refused and declined to 

 permit said buyers to look at the live 

 stock consigned to respondents as afore- 

 said, and have thereby rendered buyers 

 to bid on or buy such live stock which 

 said buyers were at all times ready, able 

 and willing to purchase, and to pay the 

 prices agreed upon therefoc" 



The boycott represents a concerted 

 effort on the part of private dealers 

 and commission men to fight co-opera- 

 tive marketing in general, and the new 

 national live stock co-operative plan 

 sponsored by the Farm Board in par- 

 ticular. 



Spider and Longmire 

 ! Promoted " ' ; 



changing styles in the beef trade will see 

 the heavier types of grain-fed steers losing even 

 more of their waning popularity during the 

 next few years, according to Sleeter Bull, meat 

 ipecialist at the University of Illinois. 



The present trend toward marketing grain- 

 fed cattle at younger ages will continue dur- 

 ing the next few years, he believes. 



J. C. Spitler is the new state leader 

 of farm advisers recently appointed to 

 succeed the late Prof. W. H. Smith. 



Mr. Spitler has been with the State 

 Extension Service for many years as as- 

 sistant state leader. 

 He is well liked by 

 farmers and exten- 

 sion workers 

 throughout Illinois. 

 Mr. Spitler is a grad- 

 uate of the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois. 



F. E. Longmire, 

 able farm adviser in 

 Grundy county for 

 the past 1} years, 

 J. c. Spitler will fill the position 

 occupied by Mr. Spitler before the lat- 

 ter's promotion. Mr. Longmire made 

 an enviable record in seed corn im- 

 provement work and in helping to de- 

 velop and popularize Grundy county 

 sweet clover. 



Scott Produce Assn. 



Has Successful Year 



NEARLY 500 attended the annual 

 meeting of the Scott County Pro- 

 duce Assn. on Oct. 30. The program 

 for the day consisted of reports on the 

 activities of the Farm Bureau and sub- 

 sidiary companies, addresses, a splendid 

 dinner at noon and local entertain- 

 ment, states Frank Gougler, who ad- 

 dressed the meeting. 



The audit report of the association 

 showed that it handled during the past 

 fourteen months 109,348.6 pounds of 

 butterfat, 109,369% dozens of eggs, 

 and 139,352 pounds of poultry. Gross 

 income on this business amounted to 

 $12,112.52. Expenses amounted to 

 $6,182, leaving a net income of $5,- 

 930.50. 



Patronage refunds were made in the 

 amount of $4,465.73 on the basis of 

 3 cents per pound on butterfat han- 

 dled and 1 cent per dozen eggs and 

 per pound poultry handled. In addi- 

 tion to this, $1,464.29 was set aside in 

 the surplus fund. 



During the meeting the members 

 voted to change their charter so it will 

 conform to the State Produce Market- 

 ing plan, which provides for capital 

 stock. From its organization to No- 

 vember 1, 1930, the Scott County Pro- 

 duce Association has sold its butterfat 

 to the Aro Creamery of St. Lcuis. 

 Pleasant relations have prevailed 

 throughout that tim3. Now the cream 

 is going to Swift's branch plant at 

 Jacksonville under the terms of the new 

 contract with the creamery companies. 



THE National Association Against 

 Government Competition in Busi- 

 ness is the imposing title given the 

 latest anti-co-operative organization 

 formed at St. Louis following a ha- 

 rangue by F. Dumont Smith, Kansas 

 attorney, against the Agricultural Mar- 

 keting Act, on the night of Oct. 31. 



"F. Dumont Smith will be remem- 

 bered, if at all," writes Bill Stahl of 

 the Farmers' National Grain Co-Op, 

 "as the gentleman who declared the 

 Marketing Act unconstitutional with- 

 out resort to any court of justice." F. 

 Dumont's efforts at getting the Ameri- 

 can Bar Association to go on record 

 against the Act failed, although his 

 advance publicity heralded the asso- 

 ciation's opposition as a foregone con- 

 clusion. :| ... ■••'.- 't ;- 



Word received by Charles Cummings, 

 general manager of the Midwest Grain 

 Corp., from a friend in St. Louis, in- 

 dicates that around 200 people signed 

 membership cards in the National Asso- 

 ciation Against Government organiza- 

 tion which already has been dubbed the 

 "Naag's." Mr. Legge, the Farm Board, 

 and farm co-operatives apparently are 

 in for more "nagging" on a grander 

 scale. 



F. Dumont must have electrified his 

 audience by picturing the Farm Board 

 as threatening to enter the meat pack- 

 ing, canning, flour milling and chain 

 store field. Hallowe'en was an appro- 

 priate time, it must be said, to let loose 

 the hobgoblins, witches and bogey men 

 to terrify gullible listeners. However, 

 the careless distortion of facts and 

 truth is not a new game to those who 

 on the surface decry the Farm Board 

 and Marketing Act, but who at heart 

 bitterly resent any advancement by ag- 

 ricultural producers in marketing their 

 own products co-operatively. 



Charlie Cummings, who has acquired 

 a reputation around the state as a hu- 

 morist as well as an astute grain man, 

 says that all these propagandists remind 

 him of the bedtime story about the 

 polecats and the bear. Mamma Skunk 

 and hir three little ones were going 

 down the path through the dark woods 

 when they met a great big bear. "Mam- 

 ma," cried the little ones in terror as 

 they ran to their mother, "What are 

 we going to do?" Thoughtfully, the 

 mother replied, "Children, let-us-pray." 



