File:Illinois Agricultural Association record (microform) (January 1931- December 1934) (16672365641).jpg

Title: Illinois Agricultural Association record (microform)
Identifier: 5060538.1931-1934
Year: 1931- December 1934 January 1931- December 1934 (Jan0s)
Authors: Illinois Agricultural Association; Illinois Agricultural Association. Record
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: Mendota, Ill. : The Association
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
• /, *. \ •M r v . f .'. • ' Our base months are now the four lowest productive months of the entire Association. At the end of the year when these months are adjusted to a 30-day month and determined, we take each individual's average production for those four months and average it with his last year's base. If he has had an increase in production during those four months over his last year's base, he only gains one-half of it in base. If, however, he has had breed- ing trouble or has lost part of his herd in some manner, he only loses one- half of his decline in production as compared to his last year's Dasc. ' ■'" " * * ,■ -♦•.. *■',• ' ■', • *.'•■' '■ t '* * ■•'.' 1- *'.'*'■ . r >^ What Records Show v ; • < • •••. ■■■': '■■: ■■)■:■■ ■' '■■ ••■ ■■■ ■ ^■■■'nt was sold at Class I price of $1.50 per hundred, 12 per cent at Class II price of $1.05 per hundred, while the balance was sold for 90 cents per hundred, giving an average price of $1.13 per hundred. In February, 1934, with our new classification, we sold 60 per cent of our base in Class I at $1.40, and the balance at $1.10, which gives us an average weighted price of $1.28 per hundred, which is not very txT below our average of over two years ago. In the final analysis the average price received for milk is the thing that tells the story instead of an enormous Class I price, which may b^ received for a small percentage of the base.'V-.:'-vV:t'^'V:-;^^"-^--^ >•• ^ •■• V Midwest Writes Checks :;r • ■.■.' ■. ■■•■■■' ■.■... '.I \\\ The distributors buying from the Association pay the organization for all milk delivered by its members. The Midwest in turn writes out and sends the checks each month for milk de- livered by each member. A five-cent per hundred pound checkoff is de- ducted and one cent of this is re- funded as a patronage dividend to members of the Association who be- long to the I. A. A. and Winnebago County Farm Bureau. , At the close of the last fiscal year, February 28, 1934, the audit showed a surplus of $17,731.19 which com- pares with a balance of $4,338.20 the year before. - Farm population reached an all- time new high record on January 1, 1934 estimated at 32,509,000 persons.
Text Appearing After Image:
SSiSSvxiSN-.:*;, — Cuui'ieiiy i.a£>aiie Couiiiy Jf^arm lIurMii Sam Burke of LaSallo County it one of the ffo-ffetten who trucks in eream for the Farmen Creamery Company, Bloomington. The Farmers Creamery has irrown rapidly sinoe its orgaaisatien more than a year ago and is manufacturing Prairie Farms hutter at the xate of mere than a mil- lion pounds annually* IK-. * if Fayette County May V ^ Have Farm Bureau Organization of a Farm Bureau in Fayette county was unanimously sup- ported at a meeting of 100 leading farmers in the county court house in Vandalia, Saturday, April 28. V. Vani- man of the I. A. A. told the group that the Association was ready to as- sist and co-operate if farmers in Fayette county really wanted an or- ganization. " The meeting grew out of frequent questions asked during the corn-hog sign-up as to why the county was without a Farm Bureau. F. E. Long- mire, representing the University of Illinois extension department, ex- plained that extension service was available only in those counties where there is a local organization to co- operate. '-'- - ' • ■ A canvass will be made of Fayette county farmers and if there is suffi- cient interest, another meeting will be held and a p3rmanent organization created. ,. -■ - ■ .-■..z- -..,>■.,_ ,.;: •• -■:■■:) :^,:-v As we iro to press some 800 members were reported sigmed at a meeting in Vandalia May 20. The Fayette County Farm Bureau will be the 95th in lUinois affiliated with the I. A. A. W. C. Buzzard is acting as chairman of county organization committee.—Editor. April Production Loans Exceed Two Millions Farmers of Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas received $2,099,699.83 during April in short-term production loans. Chattel mortgages given as security by borrowers were discounted by the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of St. Louis. ■:.■:>-•■•■;.....;......,:.;....,, ■ JC:^-:--'-^': 8ueb loans draw V^ per Mttt fiiterttt, ttmit riiiiii frfm three tt 12 moatht. Berrewert revdiretf !• pur* elMM ttodi cqufvalent tt 5 per cent ef loan In IftJil credit attoelationt. alto pay latpeetlett aai UllPf fets.—Edltar. Thoughts On The New Deal (Continued from Page 4) even grow intelligent enough to let unemployed people work for their daily bread instead of allowing them to de- generate physically, mentally, and morally in idleness. ; :: * We shall probably develop in this country greater control over capital- ism represented by organized mo- nopolies. Such groups with the aid of the tariff have made a farce of the free competitive system under which the farmer has been operating in the production and sale of his products. Labor unions have done the same. Capital invested in the cities has de- manded more and got more. Their very success had something to do with the breakdown of trade. The opportunity for honest initia- tive, inventiveness, genius and thrift can be preserved under controlled capitalism. In fact these virtues will be encouraged by a broader distribu- tion of wealth. The farmer will be better off under such a system for he will be gouged less. We should pre- serve the good things from the old order, make reforms where experience has shown them to be needed in spite of the opposition. Organized farmers are in a position to help shape the fu- ture destinies of the country, to re- store agricultural prices to their pre- war exchange value. By so doing we will benefit not only agriculture, but the general welfare of all. The Sanitary Milk Producers is supporting an amendment to the St. Louis milk license increasing the Class I price from $1.85 per cwt. to ;2.20 unless the retail price is cut from 11 cents per quart to 10 cents. r- I. A. A. RECORD

Note About Images