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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



March, 1932 



the passage of the bond issue, all coun- 

 ties not calling for funds under the 

 legislation would not be affected in any 

 way. 



The Illinois Agricultural Association 

 believes that, regardless of whether 

 downstate members of the General As- 

 sembly voted for or against these bills, 

 their interest in agriculture should not 

 be challenged. 



The Association urges all down-state 

 citizens and particularly its members to 

 actively support the proposed bond issue 

 in the election next November. 



Amend Grain Storage and 

 Chattel Mortgage Acts 



The Association prepared, sponsored 

 and secured the enactmeht of House 

 Bill 7 in the special sessions of the 57th 

 General Assembly which repeals section 

 16 of the Grain Storage Act, so that 

 insurance policies on grain stored on the 

 farm can be made in favor of any per- 

 son or bank lending money on such 

 grain instead of in favor of the State 

 Department of Agriculture. 



The Association also prepared, spon- 

 sored and secured the enactment of 

 House Bill 198, amending the Chattel 

 Mortgage Act, so that notes secured by 

 chattel mortgages on livestock are ne- 

 gotiable instruments, thus permitting 

 legal loans to be made on such security. 



Marketing Farm Products, 

 Subject I. A. A. Conference 



Geo. Jewett of Chicago, Chief 

 Speaker, Tells Why Many Op- 

 pose Farmer Co-Operation 



CO-OPERATIVE marketing of grain, 

 soybeans, livestock, fruit, vegeta- 

 bles, produce, milk, and other farm 

 products was discussed at the market- 

 ing conference held 

 at Rockford in con- 

 nection with the an- 

 nual meeting of the 

 Illinois Agricultural 

 Association. 



George C. Jewett, 

 Chicago banker, 

 speaking before the 

 conference, de- 

 nounced enemies of 

 co-operative market- 

 ing, charging that 

 selfish reasons moti- 

 vated their attacks. He urged farmers 

 to give more serious consideration to the 

 marketing of their products. 



"The big problem before you," he 

 said, "is better distribution of that 

 which you raise. You have largely 

 solved the question of production, but 

 you have not aolved the question of 



AT THE ANNUAL, MEKTING, ILLINOIS FARM BUREAU BASEBALL, LEAGUE, 



ROCKFORD, JAN. 27, 10.32. 



Sam Sorrella 



distribution. Organization is the only 

 way; co-operative marketing is the way 

 it is going to be done." 



Harrison Fahrnkopf said the great 

 need in grain marketing at present is to 

 take the program to the individual pro- 

 ducer, cited the impossibility in many 

 sections of getting the co-operation of 

 grain handlers. He reported that the 

 Illinois Grain Corporation, which a year 

 ago had a deficit, has entirely liquidated 

 that indebtedness and expects to begin 

 returning profits to stockholders in the 

 near future. 



Promotion of greater consumption of 

 soybean products by Illinois farmers is 

 necessary to improve the soybean situa- 

 tion, according to Wilbur H. Coultas. 

 Considerable work has been done along 

 this line in connection with the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois and processors co- 

 operating with the Soybean Association, 

 he said. 



J. B. Countiss said that more than 

 33,000 farmers are members of the va- 

 rious dairy marketing organizations of 

 the state. Although this is already the 

 most thoroughly organized field in the 

 state, membership showed a gain during 

 the past year. 



All Products Represented 



Co-operative marketing of livestock 

 last year was a major project in more 

 than 80 Farm Bureaus in the state, ac- 

 cording to Ray E. Miller. Organiza- 

 tion work in developing the state mar- 

 keting association took a great part of 

 the department's time. 



A. B. Leeper, describing the purpose 

 and set-up of the National Fruit and 

 Vegetable Exchange, emphasized the 

 need for better correlation of the move- 

 ment of fruit and vegetables into the 

 consuming centers so as to avoid alter- 

 nate periods of over-supply and scarcity. 



F. A. Gougler outlined a program for 

 increasing butterfat volume, urging 

 that counties that do not now have 

 produce marketing associations immedi- 

 ately take steps to provide this type of 

 service. Samuel Sorrells, chairman of 



200 Attend Farnn Wonnen's 

 Conference at Rockford 



THAT Illinois farm women have seri- 

 ously attacked the problem of ad- 

 justing the home to present economic 

 conditions and that they are assisting 

 the men in the solution of their prob- 

 lems, was shown at the state-wide 

 women's conference held in connection 

 with the annual meeting of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association at Rockford. 

 Nearly 200 women took part in the 

 conference, which had as its central 

 theme "Meeting Present Economic Con- 

 ditions in the Rural Home and Com- 

 munity." Mrs. Henry J. Mies of Pon- 

 tiac, president -of the Illinois Home Bu- 

 reau Federation, presided. 



Mrs. A. R. Wright of Marshall coun- 

 ty covered the subject from the angle 

 of food production, stressing especially 

 the value of the long row garden; Mrs. 

 Maude Watson, home adviser of Ste- 

 phenson county, discussed wise food se- 

 lection for the best nutritive values. 



A subject especially appropriate at 

 the present time, "Feeding the Needy," 

 was discussed by Mrs. Edna Herbert of 

 Livingston county. She showed that in 

 many counties farm women were co- 

 operating with relief agencies to ad- 

 minister aid. Mrs. William Riegel of 

 Champaign county stressed the impor- 

 tance of play in times when people are 

 engaged in serious work and serious 

 thought. She outlined the possibilities 

 of recreation through community meet- 

 ings of the Farm and Home Bureaus. 



Within the past few years Illinois 

 farm women have become aware of the 

 new responsibility of voting and ac- 

 cepted it as a part of their duty. Feel- 

 ing that women should be interested in 

 the tax situation, Mrs. Burl Hornbeek 

 of Scott county discussed the income 

 tax bill, at that time before the general 

 assembly. '■'■ ■-':''- '''^i'-- ■\^.'::\r\:..,-'-'-s\ ^■'.^■■ :^- ,- .■ ^ 



the marketing committee, presided at 

 the conference which was attended by 

 350 to 500 people, r v ^ v . ;: 





