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tHE I. A. A. RECORD 



September y 1931 



1,063 cars of grain were sold. 



"The Mid-West Grain Corp. was 

 formed to provide a grain marketing 

 _. service for Illinois growers before the 

 Farmers National had fully developed 

 its sales Service," commented Earl C. 

 Smith, president of the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association, which has sponsored 

 the co-operative grain marketing move- 

 ment in Illinois. 



"Developments during the past year 

 have been such that the best interests 

 of Illinois grain producers will be served 

 by centralizing their sales efforts in the 

 Farmers National in the interest of effi- 

 ciency and economy. 



"The need of the hour in this move- 

 ment is co-operation between the co- 

 operatives. The only justification for 

 farm organization of any kind is the 

 service it can render the man on the 

 farm. And we in Illinois as in other 

 states are doing our utmost to consoli- 

 date and co-ordinate the forces working 

 for the ultimate benefit of the agricul- 

 tural industry." 



"The sale of the Mid-West Grain 

 Corporation will not in any way affect 

 the relation of farmers' elevators hold- 

 ing membership in the Illinois Grain 

 Corporation," explained G. C. John- 

 stone of Bloomington, president of the 

 latter organization and a member of the 

 board of directors of the Farmers Na- 

 tional Grain Corp. "We will continue 

 as the regional member of the Farmers 

 National for the state building up the 

 volume of Illinois grain handled through 

 co-operative channels. 



"The larger sales organization with 

 its personnel and contacts reaching out 

 into all the principal markets of the 

 country and beyond is equipped to give 

 Illinois grain producers and their local 

 elevators the most efficient service and 

 the highest possible price for their 

 grain." 



Charles P. Cummings, general mana- 

 ger of the Mid-West, becomes vice- 

 president and sales manager of the Illi- 

 nois Grain Corporation under the 

 change. Mr. Cummings will continue 

 to represent the interests of farmer ele- 

 vator members of the Illinois Grain 

 Corporation in the sale of their grain 

 by and through the Farmers National 

 Grain Corporation. 



Harrison Fahrnkopf Weds 



Harrison Fahrnkopf, director of 

 grain marketing for the I. A. A. dur- 

 ing the past four years, and formerly 

 farm adviser in McLean county, was 

 married on July 4 to Miss Gwendolyn 

 Large of Flora, Illinois, who had been 

 employed as office secretary by the 

 Egyptian Seed Growers Exchange. 



Mr. and Mrs. Fahrnkopf have estab- 

 lished their home in Bloomington. 



I. A. A. MARKETING EXHIBIT AT ILLINOIS STATE AND AURORA FAIRS 



THE volume of Illinois farm prod- 

 ucts including livestock, milk and 

 produce, grain, fruit, soybeans and red 

 top sold through co-operative channels 

 is illustrated in the above exhibit shown 

 by the I. A. A, at the Illinois State and 

 Aurora Fairs last month. This exhibit as 

 well as the general I. A. A. exhibit was 

 used also at a number of county fairs 

 including Mercer, Henry, Jersey and 

 Richland. 



The exhibit reveals that nearly 22,000 

 carloads or approximately 20 per cent 

 of Illinois livestock were marketed co- 

 operatively through the Producer agen- 

 cies at Chicago, St. Louis, Peoria, In- 

 dianapolis and Springfield . in 1930. 

 Patronage refunds on commissions have 

 averaged $100,000 yearly to Illinois 

 livestock shippers who patronize their 

 own agencies. 



Nearly 3,000,000,000 pounds of milk 

 were sold co-operatively in 13 organ- 

 ized milk sheds in Illinois last year. If 

 the collective bargaining and co-opera- 

 tive marketing operations carried on by 

 these milk selling organizations in- 

 creased the price to dairymen only 10 

 cents per cwt. their income would be 

 raised approximately $3,000,000. 



Last year approximately 5,000,000 

 pounds of butterfat were sold co-opera- 

 tively to 24 contracting creameries. 

 This volume of cream came from 58 

 co-operative produce associations in 32 

 counties. 



The Illinois Grain Corporation with 

 71 member farmers' elevators repre- 

 sents an annual volume of 12,000,000 

 bushels of grain. The sales subsidiary, 

 the Mid-West Grain Corporation, han- 

 dled 3,000,000 bushels of grain during 

 its first six months of operation. Daily 

 bids and services are given from the 

 main office at Chicago and the five 

 branch offices at St. Louis, Peoria, Jack- 

 sonville, Decatur and Pontiac. 



The Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange 

 with 48 member associations handled 



approximately 1,500 cars of fruits and 

 vegetables last year. 



The Soybean Marketing Association 

 which has approximately 2,900 mem- 

 bers, marketed co-operatively in 1930 

 1,150,000 bushels of soybeans. The es- 

 timated increase in returns to growers 

 approximated $172,500. 



Seventeen hundred members of the 

 Egyptian Seed Growers Exchange in 

 southeastern Illinois pooled approxi- 

 mately 1,000,000 pounds of red top 

 seed through their co-operative, bene- 

 fiting not only the members of the Ex- 

 change, but also non-members. 



Corn for Coal 



A Denison, Iowa, dispatch to the 

 press says: "Burn-a-bushel-of-corn-a- 

 day clubs will be formed in this part 

 of Iowa in the fall if present plans ma- 

 terialize. Corn has excellent heating 

 qualities and is selling for $3 a ton less 

 than coal, farmer proponents of the 

 plan Say. It is proposed to eliminate 

 the surplus with the hope of increasing 

 the price of corn 25 cents a bushel." 



**The August issue of the I. A. A. 

 RECORD for 1931 appealed to me 

 as one of the best publications up 

 to date. It contains from cover to 

 cover material that every Farm 

 Bureau member, as w^ell as non- 

 members, should know. 



"Every department was w^ell rep- 

 resented with timely facts show^ing 

 the reasons w^hy everyone should 

 be Farm Bureau members during 

 the depression. 



*'Wishing you success for bigger 

 and better publications.'' 

 R. G. Stewart, Manager, 

 Champaign County Service Co. 



Edgar Markham, assistant to the 

 chairman of the Federal Farm Board 

 and director of press relations, visited 

 the I. A. A. offices on Aug. 17. 



