Page Twelve 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



October, 1932 



"Farmers Always Paid 

 Costs of Marketing" — Huff 



"Much has been, said in the public 

 press about our salaries, as though 

 for the first time growers were pay- 

 ing the costs of marketing, includ- 

 ing the providing of incomes for 

 those who carry on marketing pro- 

 cesses," said President C. E. Huff of 

 the Farmers National Grain Corp. 

 in a recent address to stockholders. 



"As a matter of fact, growers have 

 always paid all of the costs and sal- 

 aries involved in the handling of 

 grain and in addition have provided 

 wealth for private dealers in their 

 commodities. Boards of Trade and 

 Exchanges have afforded the means 

 for amassing fortunes for many of 

 their members through the tolls 

 levied upon agricultural producers, 

 and they today defy the producer in 

 his attempt to discontinue the tolls 

 which he has always paid them, and 

 to market his own grain at actual 

 cost. 



"Palatial homes in the finest resi- 

 dential sections of Chicago, and the 

 massive Board of Trade building it- 

 self, eloquently testify to the liberal- 

 ity with which private grain dealers 

 have treated themselves at the 

 farmer's expense. 



"Even now grain producers are 

 providing higher salaries and earn- 

 ings for many outside of the co-op- 

 erative movement, through broker- 

 age and commissions, than to any 

 within it. 



"Yet only within the co-operative 

 movement has money paid in salaries 

 brought to the producer any service 

 directly in his own behalf. For the 

 salaries which the Grain Corporation 

 is paying, the grain growers of 

 America are receiving devoted and 

 intelligent service, and a foundation 

 has been laid upon which the grain 

 marketing structure of the future 

 will be built." ; .^ ^ . ,- 



Discuss Marketing At 



14th District Conference 



A conference of Farm Bureau 

 leaders in the 14th congressional dis- 

 trict was held at Stronghurst, Sept. 2. 

 The meeting was called by I. A. A. 

 director M. G. Lambert. 



Manager Charles P. Cummings ex- 

 plained the operations of the Illi- 

 nois Grain Corporation stating that 

 the regional cooperative handled 

 1,000,000 bushels a month during the 

 first seven months of 1932, with an 

 additional 1,300 cars or nearly 2,000,- 

 000 bushels during August. 



This is the best record made by 

 the co-operative since its organiza- 

 tion two years ago. The Corporation 

 will handle at least 14,000,000 to 15.- 

 000,000 bushels by the end of the 

 fiscal year. 



The grain marketing committee of 



The $20,000,000 CHICAGO BOARD OF 

 TRADE BUILDING 



'•eloquently testifies to the liberality 

 Yvlth which private K'rnln dealerM have 

 treated themselveit iit the farmers' ex- 

 pense." 



the Hancock County Farm Bureau 

 this year is giving particular atten- 

 tion to the marketing of grain 

 through the Illinois Grain Corpora- 

 tion, stated Arthur Kraushaar, chair- 

 man, of Warsaw. "It hopes to Ixring 

 to the attention of the farmers of 

 Hancock county the advantages of 

 owning and controlling their own 

 marketing machinery and sharing in 

 its earnings." 



Harrelson Goes With 



A, P. At Albany. N. Y. 



Max Harrelson, formerly assistant 

 in the I. A. A. Department of In- 

 formation, is now working as night 

 editor for the Associated Press at 

 Albany, N. Y. He began his new 

 duties Sept. 15. 



Uncle Ab says never to correct any- 

 body, even — or especially — a child, when 

 other persons are present. j 



Forty-four out of 55 counties send- 

 ing livestock to the St. Louis mar- 

 ket have shown increases in the 

 number of carloads sent to the Pro- 

 ducers Commission Association. Pike 

 county ranked first with an increase 

 of 53 carloads, Macoupin county sec- 

 ond with 45, and Morgan county 

 third with 41. Other leading bounties 

 showing gains in shipments \to the 

 Producers include Greene with an 

 increase of 38 carloads, Madison with 

 27, Sangamon with 26, Effingham 

 with 25, Montgomery with 24, St. 

 Clair with 22. 



The above figures represent gains 

 in the second quarter of 1932 com- 

 pared with the first quarter. 



Forty-two leading counties shipped 

 1,349 carloads to the Producers in 

 the first quarter, and 1,995 in the 

 second quarter. 



More than $165,000 has been paid 

 back to livestock growers in patron- 

 age refunds by the Peoria Producers 

 Commission Association. 



Ninety-two per cent of the live- 

 stock received at the Peoria market 

 comes in by truck. 



A total of 274 baby beef club calves 

 sold at the fifth weekly calf club 

 auction in Chicago averaged 914 lbs. 

 and brought an average price of 

 $9.46 per cwt. Wilson Bros, paid $11, 

 the top, for a 1070 lb. Hereford fed 

 by 13 year old Dale Andrews of Ver- 

 milion county. 



Look For Larger Runs ^ 

 Market Cattle In Winter 



After the present brief period of 

 scarcity, supplies of cattle may be 

 expected to increase whether viewed 

 frpm either the short or long-time 

 point of view, according to L. J. 

 Norton of the State College of Agri- 

 culture. 



His recent report states: 



(1) Cattle on farms have been in- 

 creasing since 1928. Slaughter of 

 cows has been decreasing 



(2) Supplies of grain fed cattle 

 will be larger during the late fall 

 and early winter ■ «han in the cor- 

 responding months of last year. 



(3) Prospects are for larger sup- 

 plies of well-finished cattle during 

 the spring and summer of 1933. 



(4) While there has been an im- 

 provement in business sentiment in 

 recent weeks business activity and 

 money level of consumers is at prac- 

 tically the lowest level of the de- 

 pression. As one financial observer 

 summarizes the situation: "The 

 panic is over; the depression is not." 



October, 19. 



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