Farm Bureau Annuals 



Bring Out Big Crowds 



President Earl Smith, Vice Presideiil 

 ■ Talmage DeFrees, Manager Larry Wil- 

 liams and other I. A. A. speakers re- 

 , port heavy attendance and greater in- 

 j terest and enthusiasm than ever at Coun- 

 •- ty Farm Bureau annual meetings this 

 fall and winter. More than 1200 members 

 and their guests came out for the Morgan 

 County annual meetings where five 

 churches were used to feed the crowd, 

 Williams said. He recently addressed 

 four meetings in the St. Louis Milk Shed 

 . for Sanitary Milk Producers where ap- 

 proximately 50 educational meetings 

 were held during November and Decem- 

 ber — the annual cancellation period. Last 

 year approximately 1200 members can- 

 celled their agreements. A substantial 

 portion of these quit dairying and moved 

 off the farm. Many were reinstated 

 later. 



Notice 



Who Won the Trophies 



McLean County Farm Bureau recently 

 won the national trophy for the third 

 ■ consecutive year given the largest Coun- 

 ty Farm Bureau in paid-up membership 

 in the United States. During the fiscal 

 • year ending November 30th, it paid in 

 for 2656 members. McLean now has 

 permanent possession of the trophy. 



The I. A. A. won the plaque for the 

 best State organization setup for mem- 

 bership acquisition. 



An Alabama county — Hale — had the 

 biggest numerical gain — a total of 995 

 memberi. 



A man named Allen from Kentucky 

 who signed 211 memberships won the 

 prize given volunteer solicitor making 

 the best record. 



The Nebraska State Farm Bureau had 

 ' the largest percentage gain in member- 

 ship, 245%. 



A free turkey dinner brought nearly 

 1000 to the joint annual meeting of the 

 Logan County Farm Bureau and Logan- 

 Mason Service Company. Talmage De- 

 Frees and Fred Herndon were principal 

 speaker*. 



The State of Nebraska is free from 

 debt because sixty years ago, by Con- 

 stitutional provision, the State was 

 prohibited from incurring an indebted- 

 ness to exceed a total of | 100,000 except 

 "for repellifig invasion, suppressing in- 

 surrection or defending the state in time 

 of war." The State and its subdivisions 

 saved taxpayers $120,000,000 in general 

 property taxes from the peak tax load 

 of 1927. 



Illinois Agricultural Associatioit 

 I Election of Delegates 



Notice is hereby given tliat in con- 

 I nection with the annual meetings of 

 all County Farm Bureaus to be held 

 i during the month of January, 1936, at 

 1 the hour and place to be determined 

 I by the Board of Directors of each 

 1 respective County Farm Bureau, the 

 members in good standing of such 

 County Farm Bureau and who are 

 also qualified voting members of Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association shall 

 elect a delegate or delegates to repre- 

 sent such members of Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association and vote on all 

 matters before the next annual meet- 

 ing or any special meeting of the As- 

 sociation, including the election of 

 officers and directors as provided for 

 in the By-Laws of the Association. 



During January, annual meetings 

 will be held in Carroll, Cumberland, 

 Fulton. Greene, Knox, McHenry, 

 Mercer, Peoria, Sangamon, Whiteside, 

 Winnebago and Woodford Counties. 

 (Signed) Paul £. Mathias, 



Corporate Secretary 

 December 6, 1935. 



Chas. Schmitt Gets 



Farm Credit Bank Post 



Chas. Schmitt, of Logan County, presi- 

 dent of the Farmers Grain Company of 

 Beason, was recently elected a director 

 of the Federal Land Bank of St. Louis, 

 for a term of 3 years. He was chosen 

 by farmers cooperative associations 

 which borrow from the St. Louis Bank 

 for Cooperatives. Mr. Schmitt also will 

 serve as ex-officio director of the Fed- 

 eral Intermediate Credit Bank, Produc- 

 tion Credit Corporation and Bank for 

 Cooperatives at St. Louis. He is one of 

 seven directors, four of whom are ap- 

 pointed by Gov. Myers of FCA. 



A number of special trains brought 



County delegations to Chicago to hear 

 President Roosevelt. A total of 408 from 

 Mercer, Henderson, Warren, Knox, 

 Henry, Bureau, and Stark counties were 

 on the Burlington train from western 

 Illinois. More than 200 were on a spe- 

 cial train from Springfield over the 

 C. and A. 



Swift and Company, Chicago packers, 



reported a 29% increase in earnings dur- 

 ing 1935. Net profit for the fiscal year 

 was $14,767,302, equivalent to |2.46 per 

 share on the capital stock. This com- 

 pares with $1.90 the previous year. The 

 profit amounted to G.07% on share hold- 

 ers investment. 



Chas. Nesbit of Catlin, 74-year-old 

 Vermilion County Farm Bureau member, 

 was gored to death by a Shorthorn bull 

 on December 6th. 



Commission Men Win 



Point For Higher Rates 



A temporary injunction restraining 

 Secretary Wallace and other officials 

 from interfering with a new schedule 

 of livestock commission rates established 

 by 200 commission men at the Chicago 

 Stock yards has been granted by Fed- 

 eral judges Alschuler. Wilkerson and 

 Barnes. The commission men were in- 

 structed to file bonds for $50,000 to 

 guarantee refunds to shippers in case 

 the rates are later found too high. The 

 Chicago Producers Commission Associa- 

 tion is not a party to the injunction. The 

 Producers have been operating on the 

 lower commission fee basis established 

 by Secretary Wallace sometime ago 

 which averages about 22% saving to 

 farmers compared to the old line commis- 

 sion schedule. 



(". W. Hodges. County Organization 



Director, reports that all of the 677 paid- 

 up members in McDonough County are 

 using one or more Farm Bureau services. 



The Cincinnati Producers will refund 



one-third of commissions paid last year 

 to their livestock shippers. Refunds 

 amounting to more than $50,000 will be 

 distributed the latter part of February. 

 Volume of livestock handled by the Pro- 

 ducers was down 20 per cent from 1934. 

 The co-operative is handling 35 per cent 

 of market receipts. 



Several hundred Farm Bureau members 



visited the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation offices during the first two weeks 

 of December while in Chicago attending 

 the livestock exposition and the Amer- 

 ican Farm Bureau convention. Mr. and 

 Mrs. Hugo Schaaf, Scott County, Iowa, 

 F'arm Bureau members who belong to 

 Quality Milk Association, report that the 

 milk marketing agreement is operating 

 smoothly at the Quad cities market. 

 Hugo left a two years' subscription to 

 the 1. A. A. RECORD. 



"Land Bank borrowers and their local 

 national farm loan associations now 

 own more than $112,000,000 or nearly 

 one half of the capital stock of the 12 

 Federal Land Banks," Governor Myers of 

 the FCA reports. "Farmer - borrowers 

 also own nearly $8,000,000 of capital 

 stock in the Production Credit Associa- 

 tions. In addition farm cooperative as- 

 sociations own nearly $1,500,000 of 

 capital stock in the Bank for Coopera- 

 tives." The Farm Credit Administration 

 favors the withdrawal of the govern- 

 ment from the farm loan business so 

 that eventually farmer-borrowers will 

 completely own the credit facilities. 



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I. A. A. RECORD 



