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I. A. A. Record — March, 1934 



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International Corn King 

 - ^ Aided By Farm Bureau 



C. W. Holmes, of Aledo, the new 

 International Corn King crowned at 

 the 1933 International Hay and Grain 

 Show, Chicago, is a loyal Farm Bu- 

 reau member in Mercer county, Illi- 

 nois. 



Mr. Holmes became interested in 

 seed corn selection and improvement 

 early in the history of the Mercer 

 County Farm Bureau. He attended the 

 many Farm Bureau seed corn culling 

 schools at Aledo where Prof. J. C, 

 Hackleman of the Univ. of Illinois and 

 more recently J. L. McKeighan of 

 Knox county conducted seed corn cull- 

 ing and selection work. . 



Mr. Holmes secured some of his first 

 seed from which he developed the 

 championship lO-ear sample as a re- 

 sult of the corn improvement work 

 featuring Krug com sponsored by the 

 Woodford County Farm Bureau when 

 M. L. Mosher was farm adviser. 



Mercer county also claims title to 

 the Illinois Corn Prince. Frank Brown 

 of Aledo, son of Mr. and Mrs. Boyd 

 Brown, was awarded this title on his 

 10-ear sample in the junior division 

 of the Illinois Utility Corn Show dur- 

 ing Farm and Ho e Week at Urbana. 

 Frank has been a 4-H Club member 

 for the past seven years and is now 

 a senior in high school. -^^^.: ; -^ 



New Truck Code ;:, •■•;-.';'■ 



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iflfs with the State Code Authority, 

 where rates cover intrastate traffic, or 

 with the Regional Code Authority, 

 where rates cover interstate traffic. 

 He must not operate below these rates 

 until he files the necessary changes or 

 amendments. ^^ ^ - 



After February 25, 1934 — may not 

 charge a rate that does not meet the 

 cost of the service to be performed, 

 except where he has secured approval 

 by the Regional Code Authority. , 



Must keep his records in such shape 

 as to be ready to prove that his sched- 

 ule of minima for rates and tariffs 

 meets the cost of the services to be 

 performed, **cost" to be determined in 

 accordance with the National Code 

 Authority's formula. : • 



Must arrange to issue a freight bill, 

 a bill of lading, or other written docu- 

 ment within 48 hours after beg:inning 

 of any transportation service and also 

 arrange to keep true copies of these 

 documents in the permanent records 

 of his business. • 



Any information desired in connec- 

 tion with further details of the Code 

 can be obtained by writing the Trans- 

 portation Department of the I. A. A. 



Sec y. Wallace Cites 



Packers For Collusion 



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C. W. HOLMES, NEW INTERNA- 

 TIONAL CORN KING 



A Farm Bureau member In Mercer 

 County for many years, Mr. Holmes 

 got his start in Krugr type corn from 

 liVoodford county 'where the Farm Bu- 

 reau, under the leadership of Farm Ad- 

 viser M. Ij. Mosher, a number of years 

 aso carried on a most extensiTc seed 

 corn improTcment progrram. Holmes' 

 10 ear sample 'won over rouirh type 

 corn for the first time in the history of 

 the International Hay and Grain Sho'VF 

 In Chicago last December. 



Alky-Gas Motor Fuel :> 

 v Farnn Institute Subject 



"The use of alcohol-gasoline blends 

 as a motor fuel seems to be mainly 

 a matter of economics," L. R. March- 

 ant, manager of Illinois Farm Sup- 

 ply Company, told Farmer's Institute 

 delegates who met in Jacksonville, 

 February 23. "Its use does not bring 

 any special mechanical or technical 

 difficulties," he stated, "but a tax dif- 

 ferential in favor of blended fuel to 

 offset the increased cost of alcohol 

 must be provided to bring such a fuel 

 into general use." " ^ v; :^ -- - 



Marchant pointed out further that 

 the prime motives for fostering the 

 use of alcohol blends has been to aid 

 in the disposal of surplus farm crops 

 and establish better trade balance. In 

 general the 10 per cent alcohol-gas- 

 oline mixtures showed no outstanding 

 difference from straight run gasoline. 

 Reports from customers who used 

 more than a million gallons of this 

 fuel during the spring and summer of 

 1933 showed that the blend gave 

 quicker starting, better pick-up, more 

 mileage and smoother engine perform- 

 ance. Eight hundred customers re- 

 ported an average mileage increase of 

 2.51 miles per gallon. : 



Referring to the latest reports 

 which predict the withdrawal from the 

 ground of our present known oil rese- 

 voirs in ten to twelve years, Mr. 

 Marchant said, "In the event of the 



Livestock Business A Good One 



If You're Not Producing 



the Stock 



In what appears to be the opening 

 gun in a new inquiry into the major 

 packing companies of the country, 

 and of special interest to Illinois 

 farmers was the citing by Secretary 

 of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace re- 

 cently of 10 large packing companies 

 for price collusion, and attempted 

 monopoly of the retail field in a large 

 southern sales area. 



Invoking the federal packers and 

 stock yards act rather than the fed- 

 eral anti-trust laws, because under 

 the former the department of agricul- 

 ture is the prosecuting agency, the 10 

 companies were to file answers to the 

 citation by March 24. On April 9, 

 they will be accorded a public hearing 

 in Jackson, Miss. 



In general the charges made by 

 Secretary Wallace based on the report 

 of a government investigator are that 

 these 10 companies furnished each 

 other "information on prices at which 

 they would sell meats and meat food 

 ^products." This practice gave prefer- 

 ence to certain localities and certain 

 purchasers and acted to force com- 

 petitors out of business and to manip- 

 ulate prices and apportion sales in 

 commerce. " : 



Although farmers marketed the 

 bulk of their hogs and cattle at a loss 

 in 1933, packers reported substantial 

 profits; in fact the livestock business 

 during the past year has been very 

 good except for the livestock producer. 

 Farmers take little stock in state- 

 ments by packer representatives that 

 profits last year amounted to only a 

 fraction of a cent per lb. because they 

 know that profits are easily covered 

 up by wate. d stock, high salaries, 

 unreasonably high appraisals of plant 

 and other equipment, and abnormal 

 depreciation charges. ■' U 



The packers have an accounting 

 system all their own, as have many 

 processors and distributors of farm 

 products, and they have been and are 

 extremely reluctant to open such 

 books to inspection by government ac- 

 countants. So far the packers have 

 su essfully thwarted efforts by gov- 

 ernment to examine their books. 



oft-predicted shortage of gasoline, the 

 investigations of various agencies into 

 the merit of alcohol-gasoline blends 

 will be of considerable value to the 

 nation." . . ■ 



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