Page Six 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



July, 1931 



Hornbeek on Job in 



^^^. — ^—.-^Southeastern Illinois 



T^e lilay issue of the RECORD 

 is the best yet. It's full of meat 

 from cover to cOverr 



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Burl Hornbeek of Scott county is on 

 the job as organization manager of the 

 sixth district in 

 southeastern Illinois 

 to succeed F. M. 

 Higgins, who re- 

 signed the first of 

 the year to jedit the 

 weekly newspaper at 

 Lake Geneva, Wis. 



Mr. Hornbeek has 

 been active in Farm 

 Bureau work in Scott 

 county for several 

 years. During this 

 time he has worked 

 with the Farm Bureau as a part-time 

 membership solicitor, making an excel- 

 lent record. Along with his Farm Bu- 

 reau work he has operated his farm and 

 is reported to have made 9 per cent in- 

 terest on his investment in 1929. 



Burl Hornbeek 



Jersey County Organizes 



Co-operative Grain Co. 



The Jersey County Co-operative 



Grain Company began operating June 



^^^ ^^^ 29 as the sixty-sev- 



^L2 ^^7 ^"^^^ co-operative aflSl- 



^ M m isted with the Illinois 



Grain Corporation. 



It will market its grain through the 

 Mid-West Grain Corporation, the sales 

 agency of the regional co-operative and 

 subsidiary of the Farmers National 

 Grain Corporation. , 



Arrangements have been made for the 

 use of three local elevators. Leases have 

 already been signed for the Neely ele- 

 vator at Jerseyville and the McClusky 

 elevator at McClusky. The Fidelity Co- 

 operative Grain Company at Fidelity 

 has signed an agreement whereby it will 

 be classed as a direct shipper as a part 

 of the county set-up. 



Carload shippers will be taken care 

 of at Elsah, Grafton, Lock Haven, Red- 

 dish, Reardon, Dow, Delhi, Fidelity and 

 Bell Trees. Wheat, corn and oats will 

 be bought and handled as usual at the 

 three elevators on prevailing prices, an- 

 nounces R. H. Voorhees, president of 

 the company. Mr. Voorhees is also 

 president of the Farm Bureau. r — — 



Other officers are: Louis Lock, vice- 

 president; C. G. Reddish, secretary- 

 treasurer; Herman Schafer, W. W. Le- 

 gate, R. E. Ewin and Grant Thompson, 

 directors.. 



H. G. Neeley has been employed as 

 county manager. George Smith of the 

 Pan Handle delivered the first load of 

 wheat at 8:30 a. m. on June 29. 



A. B. Schofield 



Ford County, III. 



Max Harrelson to Dept. 



• ' :■ .-.. . • — Of Information Staff- 



The classification of steers by ages 

 instead of weight will be maintained at 

 the International Livestock Exposition, 

 to be held in Chicago, November 28 

 to December 5, according to B. H. 

 Heide, secretary-manager. The proposed 

 change was withheld when it was 

 learned that many exhibitors had made 

 purchases before the change was an- 

 nounced.-.^ '..•'■."■■■>•:■ -'r^:,-' ■'■■;■ ■■"'^•W';::-:':. ?:-:''- ;.:' 



Hoover Grants Tariff 



Raise on Dried Eggs 



Additional protection to American 

 farmers against imports of dried eggs 

 and egg products was granted by Presi- 

 dent Hoover recently acting on reports 

 of the Tariff Commission. The Presi- 

 dent made no change, however, in du- 

 ties on cattle hides and calfskins. 



The President approved an increase 

 in the tariff rate on dried whole eggs, 

 dried egg yolk, and dried egg albumen 

 from 18 cents to 27 cents per pound. 

 The duty on olive oil in packages 

 weighing less than 40 pounds was re- 

 duced from 95/2 cents to 8 cents per 

 pound, but the duty on olive oil in 

 packages weighing 40 pounds or more 

 was unchanged. The duty of 10 per 

 cent ad valorem on cattle hides and 

 calfskins was not changed. The duty 

 of 7 cents per pound, but not less than 

 35 per cent ad valorem, on cheese, other 

 than Swiss and Cheddar, was not 

 changed. 



The Farm Bureau and other groups 

 of producers had recommended 50 per 

 cent increases in the duties on dried 

 eggs, bulk olive oil, cattle hides and 

 calfskins, and no decreases in the duties 

 on any of these products under investi- 

 gation. Farm groups took no particular 

 part in the investigation concerning 

 packaged olive oil. 



The Illinois Agricultural Association 

 joined the A. F. B. F. and other state 

 Farm Bureau federations in requesting 

 the President to support the suggested 

 increases. The I. A. A. telegram to the 

 President read as follows: 



"We respectfully recommend for 

 your consideration that tariff schedules 

 on dried eggs, cattle hides, and calf- 

 skins be increased by 50 per cent under 

 provision of the Tariff Act for the pe- 

 riod of the present emergency at least." 



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Max Harrelson 



Max Harrelson, formerly assistant 

 editor of the Illinois Farmer, began 

 work as assistant in 

 the Department of 

 Information on June 

 15. The growing 

 demands for adver- 

 tising and publicity 

 service by the I. A. 

 A. and its many as-.:; f ' 

 sociated companies 1; :. 

 prompted the em- ^"" 

 ployment of addi^ "' 

 tional assistance in'v': ; 

 this department. !/^ 

 Mr. Harrelson is a.; 

 graduate of Ouachita College at Arka-' 

 delphia, Arkansas. He later attended 

 Northwestern University, where he took 

 a year's graduate work in journalism. 

 After leaving Northwestern he became 

 staff correspondent for the United Press 

 in Chicago. From there he went to the / 

 Illinois Farmer, where he remained un- 

 til the paper was bought by Prairie 

 Farmer. Since that time he has worked 

 with the Associated Press at Little Rock 

 and the Daily Beacon-News at Paris, 111. 



I. A. A. Will Oppose 



15% Up in Frt. Rates . 



The Illinois Agricultural Association ; 



will oppose the proposed 15 per cent 



increase in freight rates on agricultural 

 commodities asked by the railroads. 



As far as rates within Illinois are 

 concerned, the I. A. A. will seek to 

 exempt agricultural products from the 

 increase when the case comes before the 

 Illinois Commerce Commission. In ad- 

 dition Mr. Quasey said he would work 

 with the American Farm Bureau Fed- 

 eration when the hearing is held before 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission at 

 Washington. 



That organized agriculture would 

 fight the proposed increase In freight 

 rates was the decision made June 26 

 when officers and directors of the Farm 

 Bureau Federation met in Chicago. 



The action came as a result of the 

 announced intent of the railroads to in- 

 clude agricultural commodities in the 

 general rise proposed. 



"The Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion has just completed a four-year 

 study of all rates on agricultural prod- 

 ucts," declared O. W. Sandberg, trans- 

 portation director of the A. F. B. F. 

 "Now the railroads are asking the com- 

 mission to scrap this study." 



Milk receipts in New York City 

 increased 43 per cent between 1920 

 and the present time, w^hile the pop- 

 ulation increased only 28 per cent. 



Uncle Ab says that if there w^ere 

 not so much printing it w^ould be . 

 harder to find stuff for kindling 

 fires. 



