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Co-op Creamery Makes 

 $346,000 Profit In 9 Years 



Marketing and Legislation Feature 

 District Conference at Sullivan 



Co-operative marketing, and legisla- 

 tion pending before the General As- 

 sembly were the principal subjects 

 considered at the 19th district I. A. A. 

 conference called by Eugene Curtis, I. 

 A. A. director, and held at Sullivan, 

 Moultrie county, Oct. 16. 



Reporting on the progress in co- 

 operative produce and dairy market- 

 ing, Frank Gougler, director of prod- 

 uce marketing, stated that the co-op- 

 erative creamery at Columbus, Indiana 

 had made a profit of $346,000 in nine 

 years' time — that the co-operative was 

 paying 25c per lb. butterfat while the 

 going price in other sections of the 

 state not subject to co-op competition 

 was 16c per lb. Illinois cream pro- 

 ducers have an opportunity to own 

 and control their own creameries, and 

 thereby secure a maximum share of 

 the consumer's dollar for butter, 

 Gougler said. 



Speaking on the growing disparity 

 between prices received by livestock 

 farmers and the price paid by con- 

 sumers for meat, Ray E. Miller of the 

 I. A. A, staff stated that in the period 

 from 1909 to 1914 the consumer paid 

 $12.52 for 62 lbs. of pork when live 

 hogs were selling at $7.83 per cwt. 

 , whereas in 1932 for the same amount 

 of pork consumers paid $12,83 al- 

 though the farmer received only $3.70 

 per cwt. for hogs. 



This means that $425,000,000 was 

 taken away from the purchasing 

 power of the hog farmer in one year. 

 Miller said. With better control of 

 volume, he continued, farmers could 

 recapture the 56% of the consumer's 

 dollar they enjoyed in 1913 which 

 compares with only 35% today. 



J. Fred Romine, member of the Illi- 

 nois Grain Corporation board, report- 

 ed that the Farmers National Grain 

 Corp., contrary to propaganda, was in 

 a thriving condition, and that its in- 



fluence had been exerted successfully 

 to raise the price level of grain in 

 many parts of the country. Romine 

 expressed the opinion that a futures 

 market was no more necessary in 

 handling grain than in handling soy- 

 beans, livestock, or other farm com- 

 modities. 



Chas. S. Black, chairman of the I. 

 A. A. public relations committee, re- 

 viewed legislation being considered at 

 Springfield and emphasized the im- 

 portance of close co-operation of the 

 County Farm Bureaus if farmers are 

 to exert proper influence in securing 

 equitable treatment in legislative mat- 

 ters. Other speakers included Man- 

 ager Fullerton of the Douglas County 

 Grain Co., Mr. Curtis, and Chas, B. 

 Shuman, president of the Moultrie 

 County Farm Bureau. The next meet- 

 ing will be held in Piatt county. Farm 

 Adviser J. H. Hughes acted as secre- 

 tary and wrote up the minutes of the 

 meeting. 



Nearly 300,000 Sign 



Tax Relief Petitions 



John C. Watson, director of taxa- 

 tion for the I. A. A., reports that near- 

 ly 300,000 signatures to the Tax Re- 

 lief Petition have been received at the 

 I. A, A. office. The petition was cir- 

 culated in every school district in 

 most of the counties in Illinois. A 

 number of counties are still to be 

 heard from. • • ' ■' ,V ■ 



In a recent letter to Governor 

 Horner, President Earl C. Smith ad- 

 vised the Governor of the overwhelm- 

 ing demand by rural voters expressed 

 in the signed petitions for an early 

 special session of the General As- 

 sembly to consider a proposed revenue 

 amendment to the State Constitution. 



At the request of the administration 

 Association representatives are draw- 

 ing up the form of an amendment 

 which will be submitted to the newly 

 appointed revenue amendment com- 

 mission made up of five state sena- 

 tors, five representatives, and five 

 citizens. ;'"v^;;v;.;. ^ i vv:-.,.v'':-. ' ■■■'■■'"'':••' 



I. A. A. RECORD— December, 1933 



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Livestock Show In Chi- 

 cago, Decennber 2-9 



Illinois farmers and stock breeders 

 will be prominently represented with 

 exhibits at the International Live 

 Stock Exposition which will be held 

 for the 34th year at the Chicago 

 Stock Yards December 2 to 9. 



According to B. H. Heide, secre- 

 tary-manager, the Exposition has one 

 of the largest entries of livestock and 

 crops this year in its history. The 

 entry list which closed November 1, 

 shows that in Illinois alone 57 cattle- 

 men are listed among the exhibitors, 

 26 sheep breeders, 34 swine breeders, 

 and eleven will exhibit draft horses. 



There is a heavy entry in the Inter- 

 national Grain and Hay Show, in 

 which Illinois farmers will figure 

 prominently. Nominations were re- 

 ceived from 30 states and seven 

 provinces of Canada for the crops 

 show. 



Another division of the Exposition 

 in which Illinois will take an impor- 

 tant place among the states is the 

 Junior Live Stock Feeding Contest. 

 Fourteen states will be represented, 

 Illinois boys and girls numbering 126 

 being in the largest number. Last 

 year the state champion group ei ten 

 calves was awarded to Illinois in the 

 junior show, and three calves shown 

 by Sangamon county boys were the 

 reserve champion county group of 

 three animals among all those com- 

 peting. 



Unusually low rates, some only Ic 

 and 2c per mile, will be in effect on 

 all railroads during the Exposition. 



Federal Loans Speed Up 



Sam F. Russell, farm adviser in 

 Adams county, reports that federal 

 loans have been going through at a 

 faster rate in that county during the 

 past month. Twenty-two loans, he 

 said, were approved in three days and 

 loans on land are being made at a 

 more reasonable rate than was true 

 a few months ago. \'; .. '.. 



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