October, 19M 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Five 



Dairymen's League Joins 

 — in Opposing 1 5% Increase 



AN appeal to farmers to support 

 their organizations in the fight 

 against higher freight rates has been 

 made by Fred H. Sexauer, president of 

 the Dairymen's League Co-operative As- 

 sociation of New York. He points out 

 that farm prices are now 77 per cent of 

 what they were before the war, while 

 railroad rates are 1J5 per cent of the 

 pre-war rate. 



"The railroads ask for additional rev- 

 enue so that they may suffer no losses, 

 pay interest of bonds and securities and 

 pay interest on investments such as 

 stocks," said Mr. Sexauer. 



"Farmers asked for relief ten years 

 ago. They were finally given the Agri- 

 cultural Marketing Act two years ago. 

 Already a movement has been started 

 in the cities to kill the act. That was 

 not what the farmers asked for, but 

 they had to accept that or nothing. 



"Farmers have had to reduce their 

 costs, cut wages, lower living standards 

 and work harder. Are railroads a mighty 

 institution that can solve their problems 

 by new development, cutting costs and 

 holding on until better times, or must 

 farmers have the burdens of the rail- 

 roads placed upon their already overbur- 

 dened shoulders to carry with their 



own? 



The Dairymen's League supported the 

 McNary-Haugen bill and the equaliza- 

 tion fee along with the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation and other farm or- 

 ganizations. 



Fruit and Vegetable 



Growers Meet Oct. 22 



The first stockholders' meeting of the 

 National Fruit and Vegetable Ex- 

 change will be held at the Hotel Sher- 

 man, Chicago, October 22. 



A resolution has been drawn up and 

 copies submitted to interested co-opera- 

 tive marketing associations, whose 

 boards of directors will determine 

 whether or not they desire stock in the 

 national set-up. 



Each organization desiring to be offi- 

 cially represented at the stockholders' 

 meeting and participate in the election 

 of the board of directors must pass the 

 resolution and name a delegate with full 

 power to represent it, says P. F. Hibst, 

 secretary of the organization. 



A. B. Leeper, director of fruit and 

 vegetable marketing for the L A. A. 

 and manager of the Illinois Fruit Grow- 

 ers Exchange, is president of the National 

 Fruit and Vegetable Exchange. The 

 new organization will probably begin 

 to handle produce January 1. 



EQUALI 



OF 



BARGAIN 

 POWER 



I. A, A. Directors Vote 



itq Help Milk Proc|uc€frs 



Assistance to the Sanitary Milk Pro- 

 ducers of St. Louis was voted unani- 

 mously by the board of directors of the 

 I. A. A. at its regular meeting in Chi- 

 cago, Thursday, September 17. 



The following motion by Mr. C. E. 

 Bamborough, seconded by Mr. Frank 

 G. Oexner was adopted: 



"That the executive officers of Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association be and 

 they hereby are authorized and directed 

 to confer with the officers of Sanitary 

 Milk Producers Association in calling a 

 meeting at the earliest moment of rep- 

 resentatives from the several County 

 Farm Bureaus in the affected area to- 

 gether with the Board of Directors of 

 Sanitary Milk Producers and representa- 

 tives of Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion; and further, to make available, 

 to the full extent their judgment justi- 

 fies, all possible man power from within 

 the marketing, publicity, and organiza- 

 tion staff of the Association, to assist 

 the dairy producers in the St. Louis ter- 

 ritory in protecting their rightful inter- 

 ests." 



Edwardsville Paper Fights 

 for Local Milk Producers 



In an editorial on the milk strike in 

 southern Illinois against the Pevely 

 Dairy Company of St. Louis, the Ed- 

 wardsville (111.) Intelligencer said in 

 part: "There isn't any doubt about 

 where the sympathies of Madison coun- 

 ty residents should be in this fight. 

 About 1700 Madison county farmers are 

 extensively engaged in milk production. 

 Their income from such business vitally 

 affects every person in the county. If 

 Madison county farmers can't make a 

 profit from their labors we certainly 

 cannot expect them to contribute much 

 to the business welfare of the commun- 

 ity. On a selfish basis alone every busi- 

 ness man in the county wants the pro- 

 ducers to win out in this fight. As a 

 matter of fact their sympathies are with 

 the producers anyway. 



"They realize that the producers are 

 fighting for recognition and a chance to 

 do business in a business-like manner. 

 They know that if the Pevely Company 

 should win out, a considerable rtumber 

 of our farmers would be reduced to a 

 status little better than that of slavery." 



Three Per Cent Money, 

 Corn Holding Considered" 



Following a discussion about agita- 

 tion for three per cent money in several 

 sections of Illinois, the board of direc- 

 tors of the I. A. A. at their September 

 meeting voted to refer this question to 

 the Finance Committee for study and 

 recommendation to the board at its 

 October meeting. > •" > v:^' i • 



The board also considered at some 

 length plans proposed in Iowa and Ne- 

 braska involving the holding of the new 

 corn crop for higher prices. It was gen- 

 erally agreed that any plan that seems 

 hopeful of obtaining the desired result 

 should be supported. 



It was regularly moved by Mr. 

 Wright, seconded by Mr. Marshall, and 

 carried: 



"That the matter finding a solution 

 or evolving a plan for holding the new 

 corn crop off the market until better 

 prices results, be referred to the Secre- 

 tary of the Association, with instruc- 

 tions that he in turn place the matter 

 into the hands of the marketing staff 

 of the Association for study and rec- 

 ommendations as to a constructive plan 

 which will attain results, and to make 

 report at the next meeting of the 

 Board." 



Haugen Predicts Passage 



of Equalization Fee 



Representative Haugen of Iowa has 

 expressed the opinion that Congress at 

 the next session will pass the proposed 

 legislation to incorporate the equaliza- 

 tion fee into the agricultural marketing 

 act. 



Mr. Haugen's statement was as fol- 

 lows: "The farm leaders generally are 

 getting back to the equalization fee plan 

 for handling surplus agricultural prod- 

 ucts, and against the subsidy plan for 

 marketing them under the revolving 

 fund loan provisions of the Agricultural 

 Marketing Act of 1928. There probably 

 will be legislation by Congress this win- 

 ter to incorporate the equalization fee as 

 a part of our marketing plan. 



"I expect the equalization fee plan to 

 be adopted as originally proposed in the 

 McNary-Haugen bill." 



Ford County Gains in 



Farm Bureau Members 



A recent membership drive in Ford 

 county put the membership of the 

 County Farm Bureau up to 660 on in- 

 complete returns, making a gain of ap- 

 proximately 100 members in the last 

 year. Two entire townships and por- 

 tions of several others are not included 

 in this total. 



