Pgj^g Twenty 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



February f 1931 



Soybean Growers to 



Meet Decatur, Feb. 25 



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Annual Convention of Gro'w^ers Ex- 

 pected to Bring Out Large 



.■V;. Gathering , ■;< 



OFFICIAL notice of the second an- 

 nual meeting of the Soybean Mar- 

 keting Association was sent last week 

 by Secretary W. G. McCormick to 

 2,909 members of the association in the 

 26 organized counties of Illinois. 



Arrangements for the annual gather- 

 ing of the leading growers of Illinois' 

 soybean belt, which centers around 

 Champaign, Decatur, Taylorville, 

 Springfield, Jacksonville, and Carthage 

 are in the hands of the Committee on 

 Arrangements, composed of J. F. 

 Probst, Harry E. Pickrell, and V. C. 

 Swigart; the Credentials Committee in- 

 cluding Dwight Hart, John G. Al- 

 bright, and M. D. Tomlin; and the 

 Program Committee, President John W. 

 Armstrong and Manager J. H. Lloyd. 



Speakers scheduled include Samuel R. 

 McKelvie, grain member of the Federal 

 Farm Board; Earl C. Smith, president 

 of the Ilhnois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion, and Lacy F. Rickey, grain mar- 

 keting specialist, University of Illinois, 

 who will discuss "Commercial Soy- 

 bean Grades." 



McKelvie Accepts 



Mr. McKelvie's acceptance came just 

 as the RECORD went to press. The 

 Farm Board in conjunction with the 

 Federal Intermediate Credit Bank, 

 loaned the funds for the operation of 

 the association's 1930 marketing deal. 



Soybean Association officials point 

 out that notwithstanding the severe 

 drouth last year, there was an increase 

 of more than 100 per cent in bushels 

 of commercial soybeans grown in Illi- 

 nois in 1930. The large increase in 

 production coupled with a limited de- 

 mand for high protein supplement 

 feeds, and heavy importations of cheap 

 soybean products created an unfavor- 

 able market situation. 



Reports of growers obtained through 

 a questionnaire sent out by the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, and from growers 

 in attendance at 21 county meetings 

 addressed by Manager J. H. Lloyd, in- 

 dicate the intention of farmers to in- 

 crease Illinois' commercial soybean 

 acreage in 1931. 



Under existing conditions many Illi- 

 nois farmers will probably find it more 

 profitable to utilize a considerable per- 

 centage of the 1931 soybean acreage 

 for feed production, both hay and 

 grain, than for marketing through 

 commercial channels. 



' /• .; Higher Tariff Needed 



In a statement before the Marketing 

 Conference at Springfield, Jan. 29, 

 Manager Lloyd explained the need for 

 an increase in the present rate of duty 

 of $6 per ton on soybean oilmeal and 

 the immediate need for a wider mar- 

 ket for this high-grade protein supple- 

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Fifty-three thousand tons of soybean/ 

 oilmeal, amounting to approximately 

 one-half the entire domestic production 

 from the 1930 crop, was imported 

 into the United States during the first 

 eleven months of 1930. Importations 

 also include palm kernel meal and pea- 

 nut meal, which compete directly with 

 the soybean product. ^ . 



Heavy Importations 



Importations of soybean oil during 

 the year ending September, 1930, 

 amounted to 5,615 tons, or about one- 

 third the domestic production for the 

 past calendar year. Practically all the 

 imported soybean oil is processed and 

 re-exported, thereby returning to the 

 importer the drawback of 99 per cent 

 of the rate of duty on the imported 

 oil. Creation of demand for the do- 

 mestic soybean oil in the paint trade 

 and for use as an edible oil are other 

 projects receiving the attention of the 

 association. '; ,' , : 



Manager Lloyd states that apprecia- 

 tion by growers of the valuable services 

 performed by the association during the 

 1930 season in receiving and handling 

 more than 1,130,000 bushels of the 

 commercial soybean crop and in main- 

 taining the relative high price of $1.00 

 per bushel, is responsible for the ag- 

 gressive action of grower members in 

 subscribing capital funds for financing 

 the Association's future marketing op- 

 erations. •";-■.--.---' ■-^-■•.; -•;".■• ■:"'■•■-;■ ■■ 



Black and Stout 



Head Baseball League 



Big Turnout at Annual Meeting, 

 Springfield, Jan. 28 



The DeWitt County Service Co. re- 

 cently declared its regular 10% patron- 

 age dividend to Farm Bureau members, 

 and also a special 5% dividend. This 

 corrects the statement Ln the last issue 

 of the RECORD which mentioned 

 only the 5% refund. 



. Wants Farm Manager 



"I am in need of a competent 

 man to operate 230 acres of rich 

 level land. 



"I want a good farmer and stock 



man and I have a good proposition 

 for the right kind of a person.- 



"If you know of anyone that you 

 can recommend I shall be pleased 

 to hear from you.'' 



•.''.' '\ " ' " ? ' -, ■"■ Jesse E. Miller, 

 Cairo, Illinois. . 



CHARLES S. BLACK of Jackson- 

 ville was elected president and 

 John P. Stout of Chatham vice-presi- 

 dent at the annual meeting of the Illi-; 

 nois Farm Bureau Baseball League, 

 Springfield, Jan. 28. Mr. Black suc- 

 ceeded Geo. L. Clarke of Downs, Mc- 

 Lean county. Mr. Stout succeded 

 Black, who was promoted to the presi- 

 dency. More than 12 5 directors, man- 

 agers, players and fans from 28 organ- 

 ized counties attended the meeting in 

 the Palm Room of the Abraham Lin- 

 coln Hotel. 



Kenneth L. "Tug" Wilson, athletic , 

 director of Northwestern University, 

 who spoke before the morning session, 

 declared that the future hope of base- 

 ball lies in its further development in 

 rural communities. Commenting upon 

 the Olympic games in which athletes of 

 all nations compete annually, he said: 

 "The annual competition between ath- 

 letes of all nations is doing more to 

 build international good will than the 

 numerous peace conferences and diplo- 

 matic discussions." 



Should Be Encouraged 



"Wilson, who was born and reared on 

 a farm near Atwood in Piatt county, 

 believes that recreation among farm 

 boys such as that afforded by the Farm 

 Bureau Baseball League should be en- 

 couraged. College coaches, he contin- 

 ued, like to see the big, husky farm 

 boys come out for sports because noth- 

 ing is too big for them to tackle. 



A new constitution and by-laws was 

 adopted .which provides among other 

 things for limiting eligible players to 

 young men actually engaged in farm- 

 ing who are members of the Farm Bu- 

 reau or who are dependent sons of Farm 

 Bureau members. 



Play 117 Games 



The report of the secretary revealed 

 that 3 1 County Farm Bureau teams 

 competed last year in approximately 

 117 games; that McDonough county 

 won the state championship by defeat- 

 ing Logan; that the league had gained 

 nine new teams during 1930. ' 



He advocated home rule in the ad- 

 ministration of the League whenever 

 practicable, modifying this policy only 

 in such instances where local adminis-"" 

 tration becomes imworkable. He cau- 

 tioned against allowing professionalism 

 and all its evils to creep into the or- 

 ganization, agiinst the use and employ-;;:: 

 ment of professional pitchers and play-i.^ 



