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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



August, 1931 



Red Top Seed Buyers 



Try to Imitate Pool 



Seek to Fill Up "Warehouses with 



Seed on Consignment to Collect 



Storage Fees 



OLD line dealers in southern Illinois 

 are attempting to imitate the red 

 top pool which operates through the 

 Egyptian Seed Growers' Exchange at 

 Flora, according to information re- 

 ceived by the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation. 



A well known seed house at Ol- 

 ney recently sent out a new pooling 

 proposition to boxholders on rural 

 routes throughout the red top terri- 

 tory as follows: 



"We offer our facilities to ALL 

 growers of red top. We operate a PUB- 

 LIC STORAGE WAREHOUSE and 

 can give you a negotiable warehouse 

 receipt covering same. Your seed re- 

 mains intact and is NOT MIXED 

 WITH OTHER LOTS OF RED TOP 

 and you can sell 

 WHEN YOU PLEASE. 



"WE WILL AD- 

 VANCE YOU 9 

 CENTS PER POUND 

 against your red top and 

 you can sell it when 

 your judgment tells you 

 it is the best time to 

 ^ sell. THIS GIVES YOU 

 MANY OF THE AD- 

 VANTAGES OF BE- 

 LONGING TO A 

 RED TOP POOL and 

 many others besides as 

 the seed remains yours 

 and you sell it when you get ready. 



Interest and Storage 



"There is a very nominal interest 

 and storage charge. You can get your 

 bags for red top from the SEED COM- 

 PANY and at their buying stations." 



Manager James of the Egyptian Seed 

 Growers' Exchange comments on the 

 above letter as follows: "You will note 

 that the company states 'We will ad- 

 vance you 9 cents a pound against your 

 red top seed.' Also 'This gives you 

 many of the advantages of belonging 

 to a red top pool and many others.' The 

 company thereby acknowledges that the 

 red top pool offers advantages to the 

 farmer. 



"The company further states 'There 

 is a very nominal interest and storage 

 charge.' If the farmers are going to 

 pool their seed, why not pool it in their 

 own organization? 



"I believe the reason for the above 

 proposition being circulated is due to 

 the unsettled market condition of red 

 top and blue grass and the old line deal- 



ers are not willing to stand the load' of 

 a further decline in the price of seed. 

 They want the farmer to carry this risk 

 and, if the price drops below 9 cents 

 per pound, the farmer will refund this 

 difference to them together with the 

 very nominal interest charge." 



Do You Ship Farm 



Produce Parcel Post? 



Macon County Supply Co. ^^ 

 Builds New Bulk Plant 



One of the most recent develop- 

 ments in agricultural marketing has 

 been the increased use of parcel post 

 as a connecting link between ,prcdu::er 

 and consumer. At the present time the 

 Post Office Department at Washington 

 is attempting to further increase the 

 sale of farm products by this method. 



The Post Office has written the I. A. 

 A. asking for names of those who have 

 tried this method of marketing. If you 

 have had experience marketing by par- 

 cel post, write the Post Office Dept., 

 Washington, D. C, and give them the 

 benefit of your suggestions. 



CONSTRUCTION of a new bulk oil 

 plant at Lodge, Piatt county, is 

 now complete, making four plants 

 owned by the Macon County Supply 

 Company, which serves Piatt and Ma- 

 con county farmers. 



"Contrary to those skeptics who have 

 said that we could not compete with 

 other oil companies on the low margin 

 of profit existing today in the petroleum 

 industry, we want to emphatically 

 state that the Macon County Supply 

 Company can and is making a profit," 

 decl.ired Manager Hugh Jackson. 



"The audit for the first six months 

 of our fiscal year showed a substantial 

 profit for that period. Naturally the 

 profit is not as great as it has been in 

 the past, but unless the margin is great- 

 ly reduced during the balance of the 

 year, there will be a nice profit at the 

 end of the year. 



"Last year our patronage refund paid 

 to Farm Bureau mem- 

 bers in the two coun- 

 ties averaged $15.42 or 

 more than enough to 

 pay the Farm Bureau 

 membership dues. Prac- 

 tically half our busi- 

 ness comes from non- 

 members, who buy 

 from us only because 

 they found our SER- 

 VICE petroleum prod- 

 ucts the most satisfac- 

 tory to use. 



WarehoiiNe of Egryptinii Seed Gro-^vers' KxehanKe, Flom, III. 



Ask to Have Agent 



Continued at Hermon 



Vaccinates His Own Pigs, 

 Saves .?144 on 720 Head 



The Knox County Farm Bureau and 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association 

 entered a plea before the Illinois Com- 

 merce Commission on July 30 for con- 

 tinuation of the station agent at Her- 

 mon by the Minneapolis and St. Louis 

 railroad. 



H. E. Gehring, C. M. Hunter and 

 E. U. Shumaker of the Knox County 

 Farm Bureau, and Donald Kirkpatrick, 

 legal counsel for the I. A. A., gave 

 reasons why the agency service should 

 be maintained. 



The Knox County Farm Bureau oil 

 company has a bulk plant at this point. 

 The co-operative and numerous live- 

 stock shippers in the surrounding ter- 

 ritory would be considerably incon- 

 venienced if the station agent were 

 withdrawn. : ;- ..: . t : C- ; ' ' ' i' 



Evidence presented to the Commis- 

 sion revealed that the income of the 

 railroad at this station had averaged ap- 



A. T. Sumner of Stockland, Iroquois 

 county, reports a saving of $144 on pig 

 vaccinations this year through the use 

 of Farm Bureau serum and virus. He 

 vaccinated 720 head of hogs at a sav- 

 ing of 20 cents a head. He reports that 

 not a single hog was lost on account 

 of the vaccination and that he is well 

 pleased with this Farm Bureau service. 



proximately $5,000 annually during 

 the past four years, and that only dur- 

 ing the first half of this year because 

 of the depression have receipts showed 

 a decline. 



The fact that livestock growers 

 around Hermon and other points in 

 Knox county are not feeding as many 

 cattle this year as usual accounts for 

 part of the decline in the railroad's 

 business. At the close of the hearing 

 the Commission took the case under 

 advisement. 



