Dealers Seek To Break 

 Red Top Seed Co-operative 



The M. M. Schultz Seed Company 

 recently circularized members of the 

 Egyptian Seed Growers Exchange and 

 supplied them with the necessary 

 forms to make it convenient for the 

 red top seed g^rowers to withdraw 

 from the Association. 



The material sent out included a let- 

 ter apprizing the members of their 

 opportunity to withdraw between the 

 first and 20th day of October, an en- 

 velope addressed and ready for mail- 

 ing to the co-operative at Flora, and 

 a card addressed to the Exchange 

 carrying the following statement: 



"I am informed that a notice has 

 been mailed by you to different seed 

 dealers that I am a member of the 

 Egyptian Seed Growers Exchange as 

 above. 



"If I am a member this is to de- 

 mand of you that such membership 

 be cancelled and further notice that 

 membership is withdrawn and any 

 claimed marketing agreement with me 

 is null and void. This demand shall 

 be effective as provided by the agree- 

 ment." 



Only a small number, less than 100 

 of the nearly 3000 members of the 

 Exchange, withdrew and most of these 

 had not been co-operating in the sale 

 of their seed. 



This is one of the many efforts 

 made during recent years by the old- 

 line seed houses to destroy the g^row- 

 ers' organization. The Egyptian Seed 

 Growers Exchange has been success- 

 ful since it was organized by the 

 I. A. A. 12 years ago in forcing local 

 buyers to bid up for seed. This has 

 seriously interfered with their profits 

 and has resulted in both members and 

 non-members ^ getting a higher price 

 for Red Top. * 



I. A. A. RECORD— January, 1934 



Illinois Fruit Growers 



Object To Regulations 



The Illinois Fruit Growers Ex- 

 change recently adopted a resolution, 

 which has the support of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association, urging the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture to 

 allow further leeway to fruit and 

 vegetable producers in the form of a 

 three-year moratorium on the enforce- 

 ment of drastic regulations concern- 

 ing minimum tolerances of arsenous 

 oxide and lead, the residue from 

 sprays, on fruits and vegetables. 



The resolution asks that the mora- 

 torium be extended until such time as 

 producers of fresh fruits and vege- 

 tables are able to devise cheaper and 

 more simple means of removal of the 



spray residue, or until effective sub- 

 stitutes are discovered for lead ar- 

 senate. 



Illinois fruit growers contend that 

 there is no sufficient evidence of in- 

 jurious results from spray residue on 

 fruits to justify such drastic regula- 

 tions. 



Farm Advisers Resign 



F. A. Fisher, farm adviser in Macon 

 county, resigned recently to take 

 charge of erosion control work in Illi- 

 nois under the civil works administra- 

 tion. 



It is reported that J. H. Checkley, 

 farm adviser, has tendered his resig- 

 nation in Logan county to give full 

 time to his work as secretary of the 

 local national farm loan association. 

 H. E. DeWerflF also is reported to be 

 leaving his work as adviser in Wood- 

 ford county due to ill health. Lloyd 

 Welch, formerly farm adviser in Han- 

 cock county, has taken a position as 

 district farm supervisor for a large 

 life insurance company. 



Country Life Queen 



5 Contest At State Fair 



Uniform regulations governing 

 Country Life Queen contests con- 

 ducted by County Farm Bureaus were 

 recently recommended by V. Vani- 

 man, director of insurance service. 

 The regulations provide that only girls 

 between the ages of 16 and 24 inclu- 

 sive be eligible; that contestants be 

 limited to young women who come 

 from the families of Farm Bureau 

 members in good standing living on 

 the farm, and that all the girls who 

 enter be required to make their own 

 dresses. 



The state contest for county winners 

 selected at the Christmas parties the 

 night of December 16 will be held at 

 the Illinois State Fair next year 

 rather than at the I. A. A. annual 

 meeting as was previously suggested. 



New Honne For Knox 



County Farm Bureau 



A new Farm Bureau home is being 

 constructed opposite the Y. M. C. A. 

 in Galesburg by the Knox County 

 Farm Bureau. The Service Company 

 is erecting a modern oil service station 

 close by. The building will be ready 

 for occupation early in 1934. 



The Farm Bureau building will be 

 a two-story, fire-proof, brick struc- 

 ture, with offices on the first floor and 

 an auditorium above. 



The board of directors had such a 

 home in mind 12 years ago when they 

 started operating on a planned budget. 



By H. M. Conway, National Livestock 

 Marketing Ass'n. 



The winter hog market now (Dec.: 

 13) should be around its winter low, 

 and while supplies will continue large 

 for the next four to six weeks the late 

 winter reductions should soon be dis- 

 counted by government buying for re- 

 lief and by a stronger storage demand 

 on the part of packers. Much of the 

 normal improvement of prices will be 

 offset by the increasing processing tax. 



It seems advisable to market hogs 

 only as they are fully finished, hold- 

 ing the lighter end for later market- 

 ing. Feeding the lighter weight pigs 

 for late March and April looks best. 

 As to feed prices a year from now, 

 they are likely to be favorable for hog 

 feeding and production. 



Supplies of fed cattle are still too 

 large for any sharp price advance. 

 There is still a carryover of old crop 

 steers that must be sold before the full 

 effect of the reduction in the new crop 

 becomes apparent. Choice light steers 

 will continue scarce for some time, 

 and by late winter weight should be 

 an asset when combined with finish 

 and quality. 



Heifers are moving freely to feed 

 lots, and in general too many steers 

 and butcher cattle are in sight for the 

 late spring and early summer, espe- 

 cially at the time when prices were 

 best this year. The government loans 

 on corn are now discouraging cattle 

 feeding, particularly the finishing of 

 the better grades for the summer and 

 fall markets. Purchases of fleshy 

 choice feeders next spring should 

 prove profitable when fully finished 

 for the October market. 



Lambs continue in a favorable posi- 

 tion with a rather strong consumptive 

 demand in the East and with relative- 

 ly high wool prices. Some caution has 

 been suggested as to marketings in 

 early January, but no material weaken- 

 ing in prices at that time is expected. 

 There is nothing to greatly improve 

 the livestock situation outside of mone- 

 tary inflation and a lower spread be- 

 tween producer and consumer prices. 



comments the Knox County Farm Bu- 

 reau Bulletin. Each year a small re- 

 serve fund was set aside. This fund 

 has accumulated throughout the years 

 until now the building is being con- 

 structed out of savings and will be en- 

 tirely free of indebtedness when fin- 

 ished. 



The building will cost $13,673.96. 

 The heating and plumbing was let in 

 a separate contract for $2,150. 





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