I. A. A. Record — March, 1934 



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turns to growers at least $50,000, he 

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The widespread interest throughout 

 Illinois and the corn belt in the move- 

 ment to raise livestock prices was evi- 

 dent in the makeup of the audience. 

 The editor of a daily newspaper at 

 Cedar Rapids, la., and Earl Elijah, a 

 leader in the co-operative livestock 

 movement in that state, were present. 

 All of the terminal co-operative com- 

 mission agencies in and adjoining Illi- 

 nois were represented by directors or 

 members of the sales staff. Most of 

 the growers present were members of 

 livestock marketing committees in the 

 various counties. Farm advisers from 

 many of the livestock growing coun- 

 ties attended/i^;;.v;;;i^;-v;'';;;;-^^^ 



Directors elected for the coming 

 year were as follows: — Wm. Temple, 

 LaSalle county; W. E. Sawdey, Win- 

 nebago; Harry Gehring, Knox; Carl 

 Lage, McLean; Mont Fox, Vermilion; 

 D. H. Myers, Adams; J. R. Fulkerson, 

 Jersey; Dan Smith, Shelby; Samuel 

 Sorrells, Montgomery; Geo. F. TuUock, 

 Winnegabo, the latter two being the 

 I. A. A. representatives on the board. 

 H. H. Parke of DeKalb county was 

 chosen to represent the Chicago Pro- 

 ducers Commission Association; O. B. 

 Goble, Coles county, the Indianapolis 

 Producers; Sam McCluggage, Peoria 

 county, the Peoria Producers; and 

 Arthur Krum, the E. St. Louis Pro- 

 ducers. Officers will be selected at the 

 next meeting of the directors. ,, 



1934 I. A. A. Advisory 

 CommH^eeis Are Named 



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; The new advisory committees as an- 

 ^ nounced at the February meeting of 

 the I. A. A. board of directors by 

 President Smith are as follows: 



Finance Committee — A. R. Wright, 



W. L. Cope, E. 

 Harris; 



Business Serv- 

 ice — C. E. Bam- 

 borough, Charles 

 Marshall, E. E. 

 Houghtby, W. S. 

 Batson, farm ad- 

 viser: .:.,.. 



Organizati n- 

 Inf ormation — E. 



D. Lawrence, M. 



0. E. BAMBOEOUOH ^^^Y I^^ig, Otto 



' Steff ey, E. C. 



Secor, farm adviser; • ; • : I 



Public Relations — Charles S. Black, 

 R. B. Endicott, Albert Hayes, W. A. 

 Herrington, farm adviser; ; - 



Marketing— Samuel Sorrells, A. O. 



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H. J» Scranton« the man irlth the pencil and paper, and Fred Loos to his left 

 have sigrned up 32 ne^r Farm Bureau members in the Adams County Farm Bureau, 

 mobilisation campaisrn. 



This snapshot was taken on the E M. KIngr & Son farm. Mr. King: is the man 

 at the extreme right and his son at the extreme left. 



Adams county is out to increase its membership 25 per cent by April 1* 



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400 Cream Producers ;; 

 I Hold Lively Session At 1 

 phampaign, Sell Stock 



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^ Smoke will soon be curling from the 

 chimneys of several new centralized 

 co-operative creameries in Illinois 

 judging from progress made during 

 recent weeks in organizing Illinois 

 cream producers. - - 



At a rousing meeting at Champaign 

 on February 19 attended by more than 

 400 producers from 10 counties, each 

 delegation pledged themselves to raise 

 their respective quotas of stock sub- 

 scriptions before the end of the month. 

 Their goal is to sell 1,250 shares of 

 stock of $25 par value. ^n • . , 



Champaign county already had sub- 

 scribed 567 shares and a total of 635 

 shares were reported in the day of 

 the meeting. As we go to press reports 

 are coming in which swell this total 



Eckert, Eugene Curtis, Mont Fox, F. 

 H. Shuman, farm adviser. - 



Mr. C. E. Bamborough, the new 

 chairman of the Business Service 

 Committee, was elected secretary of 

 the Illinois Agricultural Mutual In- 

 surance Company, Country Life In- 

 surance Company, and Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Holding Company, to succeed 

 Geo. F. Tullock who retired from the 

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considerably. Thirty-two meetings 

 were held in the eight adjoining coun- 

 ties on Friday, February 23, where 

 the co-operative creamery program 

 was explained. 



When the Farmers Creamery Com- 

 pany, Bloomington, recently started a 

 truck route around Carlinville and 

 Palmyra in Macoupin county, prices 

 for butterfat offered by local buyers 

 went up three cents and the price of 

 butter dropped two cents per pound, 

 according to Manager Forrest Fair- 

 child. , 



Substantial progress has been made 

 in organizing a creamery at Olney in 

 Richmond county. 



At the Champaign meeting speakers 

 included M. L. Flack of the dairy 

 division, A. A. A., and Frank Gougler, 

 and J. B. Countiss of the I. A. A. staff. 



Prairie Farms Butter 



Scores 93.66 Per Cent 



Frank J. Watson, manager of the 

 Farmers Co-operative Dairy Products 

 Company of the Quad Cities, reports 

 that a tub of Prairie Farms butter 

 sent to the Iowa State College re- 

 cently rated 93.66 score, one of the 

 highest tests out of the large number 

 entered in the contest. ^^^^-^^^ 



The judging was done by professors 

 in the Dairy Department at the State 



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