"Let's Go!" SayrC: 



Grain Men 



Endorse Program At Illinois Grain 



Corporation^fMeeting, Bloomington. 



Vy-j EARLY 300 farmers' grain eleva- 

 ^JL/ tor officials, directors, man- 

 ^J / agers, and patrons meeting with 

 Illinois Grain Corporation, lAA and 

 County Farm Bureau representatives in 

 Bloomington, May 23, voted almost 

 unanimously to go forward in marketing 

 grain under the program as finally 

 adopted. The meeting was marked by 

 enthusiasm and determination to start 

 handling grain at the earliest possible 

 date. 



All that is necessary to initiate the 

 marketing of grain under the name Illi- 

 nois Grain Corp)oration is for member 

 elevators to complete the subscription of 

 capital stock which the lAA and County 

 Farm Bureaus have agreed to match dol- 

 lar for dollar up to $50,000. 



Representatives of a large number of 

 elevators and County Farm Bureaus 

 stepped forward at the close of the meet- 

 ing, signed contracts and paid or pledged 

 cash subscriptions. As we go to press 

 the response of elevators has been 

 such that the corporation anticipates no 

 difficulty in reaching its goal of $100,- 

 000 paid in capital, all furnished by 

 farmers — through their organizations. 

 A Modest Start 



Arthur E. Burwash, president of Illi- 

 nois Grain Corporation, explained that 

 the new set-up did not provide for going 

 into business with a top-heavy personnel 

 and overhead. "We do not contemplate 

 grain merchandising operations at the 

 start, " he said. "That may come later 

 when volume and demand justifies it. 

 We do intend to end up with a balance 

 on the right side of the ledger. We 

 think it is wiser to start modestly and 

 expand as the business warrants." 



Service will be estabUshed at Chicago 

 and downstate points, also at St. Louis. 

 Mr. Burwash pointed out that the suc- 

 cess of the new program will depend on 

 the support of the elevators and good 

 management. He said that the Farm 

 Bureaus could be expected to give farm- 

 ers' elevators more active backing under 

 the new set-up than ever before. 



'If we all work together, I believe the 

 program will succeed," Earl C. Smith, 

 president of the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation said. The degree of enthusiasm 

 and determination of grain producers to 

 market grain cooperatively as reflected by 



elevator directors and managers, Mr. 

 Smith pointed out, will ultimately deter- 

 mine the degree of success of the com- 

 pany. There is no desire on the part of 

 anyone officially connected with the lAA, 

 so far as I am informed, to control or 

 super-impose views in grain marketing, 

 he continued. We must rise above per- 

 sonalities and think of the institution. 



All will agree, I believe, that past ex- 

 perience shows we cannot be too careful 

 in throwing safeguards around all busi- 

 ness enterprises to serve farmers. We 

 are determined that this one shall suc- 

 ceed. It is not easy to make an outstand- 

 ing success in cooperative grain market- 

 ing. There is keen competition in the 

 grain business. If member elevators al- 

 ways insist on getting a better deal from 

 their own cooperative than they can get 

 elsewhere, then they are asking the im- 

 possible, Mr. Smith emphasized. 



All that Illinois Grain Corporation 

 can rightfully ask is that the member 

 elevators give their cooperative company 

 the breaks when price and all other con- 

 siderations are equal, Donald Kirk- 

 patrick, lAA counsel, suggested. There 

 is no legal obligation on the part of any 

 elevator, nothing in the contrart to force 

 any member elevator to market its grain 

 through the Illinois Grain Corporation 

 regardless of price. 



Harrison Fahrnkopf explained the 

 stock set-up, method of financing, voting, 

 and other features of the plan. 



Headquarters of the Corporation will 

 be in Chicago where it will have a seat 



on the grain exchange and be in p>osi- 

 tion to furnish bids and service to eleva- 

 tors. It is contemplated that service will 

 be available at St. Louis in time to handle 

 the Southern Illinois wheat crop. It has 

 not yet been decided where branch of- 

 fices will be opened downstate. 



son. BUnj^R BUILDING SOIL 



W. C. lohnson. Logan county, plowa un- 

 der a rank growth of sweet clover (or com. 

 May 3. 'This is one of the best soil im- 

 provement practices we have." says lohn 

 B. Spencer, director of the lAA's soil im- 

 provement department 



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"Pul down rtcfclMi drivin', leow M^ 



Qf0nflChnor#n don • b4B4V9 



An increase in the import duty on 

 Polish hams and other pork imports 

 introduced in the House by Congress- 

 man Chester Thompson of Moline, 111., 

 was vigorously supported by the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association. The 

 policy of the Farm Bureau is to protect 

 American farmers against imports of 

 farm products so long as domestic 

 prices are below parity. 



This Is Recdl'y Funny 



Merle Crane of Broadlands, had cwo gal- 

 lons of cream which he divided equally. 



He sent one to Cream Station and 



got 42c for it. The other gallon he sent 

 to the Producers' Creamery of Champaign 

 and got 84c. This was merely to see what 

 happened. 



It's the Test That Counts 



G. A. Foster, Mahomet, took his cream 



to the Creamery Company station 



at Mahomet. He said, "I did not see them 

 test the cream but got a test of 23. The 

 next can I took I watched the tester, and 

 she gave me a test of 28." 



He then inquired of Bob Alvis, salesman 

 for the Producers' Creamery of Champaign, 

 whether he could send his cream to the 

 Producers' Creamery. His first test at the 

 Producers' Creamery was 55, while the next 

 was 51. 



Mr. Foster said, "I had to watch to get a 



test of 28 at Creamery Company 



station." 



To remove soins caiucd by butter, fan, and oils; 



sponge the spot with carbon tetrichloride if the 

 material is not washable. 



JUNE, 1938 



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