Illinois flcRicuLTURflL flssociflTioN Record 



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To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organized 



namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, political Aug'llSt, 1 yOO 



and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation, and WqI 1 A No 8 



to develop agriculture. • ' v ■ ^ "\ ' ' " . - . ' - - : ' ■; v 



IlllNOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 



(iirtitrft State Farm Orfianizatiou in America 



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OFFICERS 



Prendeiil. Earl C. Smith Dftroit . 



V'ice-PretiJeiii. Talmage DeFrees Smirhboro 



Corporate Secretary, Paul E. Mathias. . . .Chicago 



Field Secretary. Geo. E. Metzger Chicago 



Trea'iirer. R. A. CowLEs Bloomington 



A<<'t Treasurer. A. R. Wright Varna 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 



. . ' (By Congressional District) 



1st to 1 1th E. Harris, Grayslakf 



12th E. E. Houghtby, Shabbona 



I )th C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



14th Otto Steffey, Stronghurst 



15th . . . .■ M. Ray Ihrig, Golden 



16th Albert Hayes, Chillicothe 



1 7th E. D. Lawrence, Bloomington 



18th Herman W. Danforth, Danforth 



1 9th Eugene Curtis, Champaign 



20th K. T. Smith, Greenfield 



21$t Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



22nd A. O. Eclcert, Belleville 



2Jrd Chester McCord, Newton 



24th Charles Marshall, Belknap 



25th R. B. Endicott, Villa Ridge 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



Comptroller R. G. Ely 



Dairy Ma-keting Wilfred Shaw 



Finance R. A. Cowles 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing H. W. Day 



Legal and General Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick 



Live Stock Marketing Ray E. Miller 



Office C. E. Johnston 



Organization G. E. Metzger 



Produce Marketing F. A. Gougler 



Publicity George Thiem 



Safety C. M. Seagraves 



Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson 



Transportation-Claims Division G. W. Baxter 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 



Country Life Insurance Co L. A. Williams, 



Farmers" Mutual Reinsurance Co.. .J. H. Kelker, 

 Illinois Agr. Auditing Ass'n . . F. E. Ringham, 

 Illinois Agr. Mutual Ins. Co.. .A. E. Richardson, 



Illinois Agr. Service Co Donald Kirkpatrick, 



111. Farm Bureau Serum Ass'n . . Ray E. Miller, 



Illinois Farm Supply Co L. R. Marchant, 



Ilhnois Fruit Growers" Exchange. .H. W. Day, 

 Illinois Grain Corporation . . Harrison Fahrnkopf, 

 Illinois Livestock Marketing Ass'n. .Ray Miller, 

 Illinois Milk Producers" Assn . . Wilfred Shaw, 

 Illinois Producers' Creameries. .F. A. Gougler, 

 J. B. Countiss, Sales 



Oil till- iililoriHl anil advertising staff: George Thiem. 

 .Iiihii Tra<-.v, Howard Hill. 



PillilishMl Mioiithly by the lllinoiri .\>rricullllral Assu- 

 'iation at lti.5 So. M.iin St.. S|)i>n.yr. IikI. Rditiiri:!! 

 Offirffc. COS So. niMihoni St.. ChicaRo. III. Eiilprfd as 

 srciiiKl rlasf mattiT at i>ii>'t offii'P. SppiKt-r. Inil. Ac< -i)!- 

 ain*#' for niailiiitr at siiorial rate of postairp provided in 

 Siitiori 4I'J. .Alt. of Feb. 28. IHS.'S. authorized Oft. "IT. 

 IJt'.i.'i. Addr< s.s ail i-oinnmiiicatioils for publication 1" 

 Editorial Offi<fs, lllinoifi Airrietlltiiral Association 

 REIORD. 60S So. Dearborn St.. Chi(:«ro. The individual 

 membershii) fee «if tite Illinois .\frrieiiltnral Assoeiation 

 ie five ilollars a .veai-. The fee ineludes paynieiit of fifty 

 <fntp for siibs<'ription to the Illinois .\pri<'nltilral Asso- 

 eiation KEt'ORn. Poslni.isler : SerKi notices on Foini 

 .1578 and uiMl^'Iiverable ecipies retnrnetl undei- FoTin ;i.">T!l 

 to e<litiirlal ofti.->s. ti(l8 S. Iliarboni St.. Chiea^o. III. 



GEORGE THIEM. Editor 



JOHN TRACY. Asst. Editor 



A SURVEY by one of the lead- 

 ing dairies in Chicago .showed 

 that 22 different wagons 

 were delivering milk to one apart- 

 ment building. All are supposed to 

 have high quality milk as required 

 by city health ordinance. One wa- 

 gon could easily supply all the 

 trade. Dealers as well as farmers 

 are disturbed about the apparent 

 waste and high distribution costs. 

 That cost is reflected in a lower 

 price to the farmer who produces 

 the milk, or a higher price to the 

 consumer, or both. What's the an- 



Consumer co-operation is being 

 advanced as a solution. More will 

 be heard of this movement. Our 

 guess is it will grow slowly in this 

 country. But it will grow. Han- 

 dling of food products will be one 

 of the first fields entered. It will 

 be easier to interest the house-wife, 

 the city consumer in a project in- 

 volving the cost of food. City peo- 

 ple are touchy about the price of 

 milk, butter, bread, meat and eggs. 

 They have an idea there's too much 

 profiteering in the necessities of 

 life. They are as suspicious of the 

 middle man as we farmers. 



What could a big consumers co- 

 operative do about the price of 

 milk? That's of interest to us. 

 With good management — and 

 there's the rub — it might do a lot. 

 It might reduce the wasteful com- 

 petition in distributing milk. Pa- 

 tronage dividends to mothers who 

 buy four quarts a day would be a 

 talking point. What would be the 

 attitude of a big milk consumers 

 co-operative toward the producer ? 



Would its huge buying power be 

 used to drive down the price to the 

 farmer? Would it eventually enter 

 the field of jroducticn, buy up 

 farms and own its own dairy 

 herds? We don't know the answers 

 to these questions. But thoy are 

 worth thinking about. 



It's a moot que.'^t on among farm 

 people as to what their attitude 

 should be toward co-operatives of 

 city consumers. In some of our sis- 

 ter states, farm leaders are exceed- 

 ingly active in the consumer co-op- 

 erative movement. Our observa- 

 tion is that there's plent.v of oppor- 

 tunity for farm co-op leaders to 

 promote co-operative market ng 

 and buying among farmers with- 

 out taking in city folks. 



Farmers' purchasing co-opera- 

 tives, says Bill Myers of FC.\, have 

 doubled their business volume dur- 

 ing the past 10 years. Of the $.'i65,- 

 000,000 of business done by pur- 

 chasing co-operatives during 19.'i4, 

 farmers' organizations did more 

 than $250,000,000 or about 70 per 

 cent. Purchases of feed, seed, pe- 

 troleum products, paint, fertilizers 

 and other farm supplies lead the 

 list. It has been easier, apparently, 

 to make a showing in co-operativi- 

 purchasing than in co-operative 

 marketing. There's something defi- 

 nite and tangible about patronage 

 dividend checks. Money talks. The 

 co-operative elevator or marketing 

 association seldom gets the credit 

 it deserves for raising local prices. 

 The dividend check is there but it's 

 included in the price at time of 

 delivery. 



It took the British Co-operative 

 Wholesale Society nearly 100 years 

 to reach its present eminent posi- 

 tion as the largest handler of food 

 and other necessit'es in the British 

 Isles. Such an organization may 

 now be in the making in this coun- 

 try. A few cooperative stores simi- 

 lar to the early Rochdale stores of 

 England have been opened in Chi- 

 cago. .As yet they have attracted 

 little attent'on. Most succes.sfu! en- 

 terpri.ses get their start that way. 

 They will bear wat?hing.— E. G. T. 



