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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Co-Op. Grain Marketing 



Grows Rapidly in '30 



Farm Bureau Gains 



Half of 4,000 Local Farmers' Ele- 

 vators Affiliated with Farmers' 

 National Grain Corp. 



DEVELOPMENT of farmer co-op- 

 erative agencies for terminal and 

 national grain marketing has gone for- 

 ward more rapidly during the last year 

 than in any previous similar period, offi- 

 cials of Farmers' National Grain Cor- 

 poration pointed out recently in re- 

 viewing the progress of the corporation 

 since its incorporation on October 29, 

 1929. 



"The result," it was said, "has been 

 that all types of grain co-operatives af- 

 filiated with the national organization 

 have had tremendous growth in both 

 membership and volume of grain de- 

 livered. Organizations with years of 

 experience find that development of co- 

 operative grain marketing on a national 

 scale has given powerful impetus to the 

 movement. Newer organizations made 

 progress in many cases entirely beyond 

 their expectations. Elevator groups, 

 grain associations and sales agencies 

 alike, report the last twelve months as 

 being the most successful, from the 

 standpoint of growth, in co-operative 

 grain marketing history. 



Gain 60 Per Cent 



"In the southwest, growers' organi- 

 zations report membership gains rang- 

 ing from 60 to 66 per cent, and farmer 

 elevator affiliations more than double 

 the number a year ago. Elevator groups 

 in the same territory report heavy in- 

 creases in numbers of stockholders and 

 volume of business. In the spring 

 wheat territory all stockholders, both 

 new organizations and old, state that 

 the development during the last year 

 has set new records. Similar gains are 

 reported throughout the soft wheat 

 areas. In some communities as high as 

 85 per cent of all grain growers have 

 taken steps to market grain the co- 

 operative way. 



"Fully 50 per cent of the 4,000 or 

 more local farmers' elevaoors now are 

 affiliated with state or regional co-oper- 

 ative grain marketing organizations 

 that hold stock in the national corpora- 

 tion and market an increasingly large 

 share of their grain through them. New 

 sales agencies, supported by farmer ele- 

 vator associations and composed of 

 farmers' elevators have been organized 

 in several states, and in turn have be- 

 come parts of the national co-operative 

 grain movement by purchase of stock 

 of Farmers' National Grain Corpora- 

 tion. 



County Farm Bureaus in New York 

 State gained 4,124 members in 1930 

 and now have a combined membership 

 of 39,05 5 in the 5 5 New York State 

 agricultural counties. 



Seventeen New York counties now 

 have more than 900 members. Monroe 

 county has the largest with 1,568 

 members. Wayne has 1,496, Delaware 

 1,242, Otsego 1,143, Albany 1,123, 

 ONeida 1,113, Erie 1,072, and Onon- 

 daga 1,028. 



Each of 24 other counties gained 

 more than 100 members over the pre- 

 vious year. 



Railroads Claim They're 

 Hard Up 



The present income of the western 

 district railroads has become insufficient 

 to insure the maintenance of adequate 

 transportation for the future and car- 

 riers in the western district as a whole 

 cannot expect to continue constructive 

 programs of capital expenditures, ac- 

 cording to a statement made recently 

 by the Association of Western Railway 

 Executives before the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission. 



"Not since 1920 have carriers in the 

 western district as a whole been in re- 

 ceipt of earnings equivalent to a fair 

 return upon the value of their prop- 

 erty," said the statement. 



Land Values Now Half 



From 1920 to 1930 land alone in 

 Ogle county, Illinois declined in valua- 

 tion from $76,545,285 to $35,619,954, 

 according to the Bureau of Census. In 

 other words. Ogle county land depre- 

 ciated more than half in the past decade. 



There are now 2,686 farms in this 

 county, 1,292 of which are operated 

 by owners, 44 by managers, and 1,350 

 by tenants. 



There are 1,045 farms of from 100 

 to 174 acres, 669 from 175 to 259 

 acres, 329 farms from 260 to 499 acres 

 in size, 29 farms from 500 to 999 acres, 

 and one farm of more than 1 ,000 acres, 

 This county had more than twice as 

 much land idle (9,570 acres) in 1930 

 as it had in J925. 



The sale of advertising space on pos- 

 tal stamps to private enterprise has been 

 suggested by Representative Celler of 

 Brooklyn, New York, in a letter to 

 Postmaster Brown as a means by which 

 the postal deficit may be reduced. He 

 said he merely offered the plan for dis- 

 cussion, but does not advocate it. 



New Milk Sales Plan 



Adopted at Bloomington 



Mrs. Virgil Loeb of St. Louis Re- 

 ports as Arbitrator in Market 



Controversy •■■'.:. •■* 



TME new base and surplus plan for 

 organized milk producers and dis- 

 tributors on the Bloomington market 

 went into effect November 1 following 

 a favorable report by Mrs. Virgil Loeb 

 of St. Louis, arbitrator selected jointly 

 by the McLean County Milk Produc- 

 ers' Association and the Snow & Pal- 

 mer Company, H. H. Bevan Dairy and 

 Ice Cream Company, and Normal 

 Sanitary Dair>' to decide on the new 

 proposal. 



Mrs. Loeb's report ordered that the 

 following changes in the present buy- 

 ing plan in effect between, the Pro- 

 ducers and co-operating dealers be ac- 

 cepted as an amendment to the rules 

 and regulations of the present contract: 



SUPPLEMENTAL RULES AND 

 REGULATIONS TO BUY- 

 ER'S CONTRACT 



"1. Changes embodied in this amend- 

 ment do not affect any parts of the 

 present contract with which they do 

 not conflict. 



"2. A complete dealers' pool of the 

 proceeds of the sale of milk by classes 

 shall be arranged so that each producer 

 selling to any contracting dealer re- 

 ceives a proportionate amount of the 

 total sales in the various classes of all 

 the contracting dealers. 



"3. The sales classes of milk shall be 

 as follows: j ■'■' 



Class I — All milk or cream, the 

 butterfat from which is contained in 

 sales of fluid milk and cream at 

 wholesale and retail, bottled and bulk 

 to direct consumers, grocery stores, 

 restaurants, hotels, confectioners, 

 lodges, churches, etc. 



Class II Special — All milk, the 

 butterfat from which is contained 

 in bulk milk sold to other dealers for 

 shortage requirements. 



Class III — All milk or cream, the 

 butterfat from which is used or sold 

 for making butter or storing for later 

 use. All milk that is reported in 

 Class III is call milk. 

 "4. A basic allotment and excess pro- 

 duction plan of payment to individual 

 producer members shall be instituted. 

 Each member producer will receive a 

 basic allotment approximating his pro- 

 portion of the sales of butterfat in Class 

 I in the month of least sales, propor- 

 tioned to him on a basis of the average 

 amount per month of butterfat sold by 

 him during the months of August. 

 September, October and November of 



