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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-15

prices-on the basis of Superior
quality. They knew how to grade
and pack, where and when to mar
ket. The unorganized farmer
didn't.
~ Saving Is s1es.
By August, 1922. after seven
months Of experience, the Illinois
cooperative egg and poultry mar
keting association figured out that
each member by the end of the
year would be just $l68 ahead be-
cause of cooperative marketing.
The l. A. A. and the farm bu-
reau don't drop a cooperative mar
keting enterprise after helping to
get it started. Just as in live
stock, dairy products and fruit.
there is a poultry and egg market
ing department always on the
lookout to help the cooperative
producer.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-15
One Hundred Sixty
Farmers Will Cover
County in Campaign
FORWARD FARM BUREAU

FORWARD FARM BUREAU
Slogan.
With 160 farmer solicitors from
Is townships Rock Island county
opens its Farm Bureau reorganiza-
ton campaign on Tuesday, Sept
10. Homer A. Daley, farmer OF
Yuma township, is in charge of the
campaign which has set its goal for
a bigger membership than ever be-
fore.
P. R. Edgerton, advisor; Miss
Hazel Painter, Office secretary, and
the board of directors, are sparing
no efforts in pushing this drive.
Eight to ten men will cover each
township in visiting farmers
throughout the county to renew the
three year memberships in the
county Farm Bureau, which expire
December /, 1922.
Local Farmers Volunteer.
The solicitors, who have as their
slogan Forward Farm Bureau
and their goal an increase in mem
bership, are volunteering their serv-
ices to make this campaign a sue
cess. They are all reliable men
and enthusiastic boosters for the
county Farm Bureau. 1t is hoped
to complete the campaign in one
day of intensive solicitation by this
energetic crew.
The Farm Bureau has been doing
wonderful things in our county
Farmers are getting together in
their various problems as they new.
er did before. The remarkable pro.
gress we have made in our market
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-15
FARM BUREAU CALLS ON
EVERY FARMER; PLANS RAID
FOR BIG MEMBERSHIP DRIVE

Every farmer in this county will
be invited by one Of his neighbors
to join the farm bureau, according
to announcement issued from
farm bureau headquarters. All
plans are being carefully laid for
the big membership Lrive. You
will hear little else talked about
this month, after that you will be
working shoulder to shoulder with
your farmer neighbors for the
county, state and national organi-
zation to accomplish for agricul-
ture in an organized way what NO
farmer can do for himself alone.
The county farm bureau is a bee
hive of industry. Representatives
of the Illinois Agricultural associa-
ton have been here and helped to
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-15
ORGANIZATION
| BRINGS PROFIT
FROM FL0CKS
la. A. Helps Farmers in Forming
Egg and Poultry Marketing
Associations.

Poultry and eggs for years were
considered as merely side line on
the farm. During the hard times
Of ls20-21, however, many a farm
r found that he was getting good
money from this source.
The county farm bureaus taught
better production. But this. with
out better marketing, wasn't
enough. So the bureaus along with
the |. A. A. put a department to
work studying the situation from
one end of the country to the
other.
Associations Formed.
One of the first things this de-
nrtment learned was that organ
ned. cooperative California pro-
dueers were shipping their eggs
200 miles and marketing them in
New York city, Is days old, for
more money than New York pro-
eucefS got.
What was the reason? Cooper
ause marketing.
After six months Of study-thc
nfm bureau never starts things
sAnout trying to study them out
ant-the l. A. A. and illinois coun-
Y larm bureaus established COOP
aauve egg and poultry marketing
"a BIZ associations in 1922, one in
elay county and five in Shelby
county.
turing the first year these asso-
Ations met lots Of opposition from
seaiers. but within a few months
ue! we're receiving one to two
Unts . dozen above top Chicago
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-15

forts in the executive committee Of
the county farm bureau, group
of farmers elected by the member
ship and representing the various
sections Of the county. These men
meet once each month to deliber-
ate on the county problems before
them and to propose some solu-
ton. They are responsible to the
county membership for results.
Many of the county farm bureaus
of Illinois have an assistant farm
advisor to help the advisor out
with his work.
And don't forget the secretary in
the farm bureau office! Any advis-
or will tell you that he would have
a hard time running the office il it
was not for the smiling young
woman at the typewriter who
greets the visiting farmers almost
as often as he, himself, does and
who takes upon her shoulders
much of the routine.
This whole paper would not Of
fer enough space to list the various
activities in which the IS county
farm bureaus of the state are en-
gagged. These activities differ, of
course, according to the section of
the state in which the bureau is To-
Gated, and they compromise almost
everything under the sun calcu-
lated to be of benefit to the farmer
members.
The county farm bureau IL in
close touch at all times with the
Illinois Agricultural association
and with the American Farm BIZ
reau Federation, the national farm
bureau, and with the State Univer-
sity,
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-15

set DIP the machinery for one Of the
most intensive and successful
county membership drives in this
state. Posters and post cards have
been distributed all over the coun-
ty. Have you seen the farm bu-
reau posters. Those big red,, yell
low, blue and green posters with
that square jawed 100 per cent
farmer looking you right in the eye
sure makes you want to walk right
up and Join. They tell the whole
story. Some of the best known ar
lists in Chicago and New York havs
declared that the farm bureau dis
play stands among the most sue
cessful examples of the poster art
They are outranked only by two Of
the posters used so effectively in
the Liberty loan drives.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-15
A CHALLENGE
TO THE FARMERS OF ROCK ISLAND COUNTY:
VIII the Farm Bureau Remain Force in the County,

Farmers Rock Island today being challenged
they challenged The challenge will
stick their organizaon Or will they do other interests
always said of They won't stick together.
Benefits All Classes.
is only interests would the
farmers unorganized condition Without organization
farmers accomplish little in the cooperative market
legislation the bankers
labor all organized
fighting those things that they should
the farmer?
Faith in Farmers.
We faith in the folks Rock Island
believe that realize the organization
believe
have already derived believe that
become OF the Rock Island County Farm Bureau the ILL
Agricultural Association and the
Federation, they will do without hesitation.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-15

Every farmer is vitality interested
/. fAxes as never before in the his
-. Of Rock Island county. Fig
~ obtained by the statistician of
h Illinois Agricultural associa-
IA Indicate that the burden OF
iaration is gradually being shifted
fsom the classes OF property to
Ind In studying the tax situation
N Rock Island county we find
hat during the last 20 years land
Us Increased in valuation for tax
,tion purpose 52.54 per cent. Dur
I'M the same period town and city
lots, with improvements, have in
creased SIS per cent. The differ
ence between these two classes of
nxable property in our county is
mrely out Of balance. The county
valuation of 52.54 per cent on farm
lands was raised by the state board
Of equalization to 56.95 per cent,
while the improved town and city
lots remained the same, SIS per
cent. 1t is surely about time that
We have some members Of the Illi-
nois tax commission that are inter-
ested in the tax burden the farm
ers are bearing.
Big Difference.
We find, taking the state as a
whole. that during the last 20years
the value on farm lands for state
taxation purpose has increased
5526 per cent, while the value on
town and city lots for the same
period have only increased 24.5t
per cent.
In the matter OF railways We
find in Rock Island county for the
last 20 years the valuation on rail
way main track and right of wa!
per mile, without buildings, ha;
only increased .044 per cent, Will,
second track per mile has decreas
ed 20 per cent, while side and var,
track also shows a decrease Of 2
per cent. BY taking the big de
crease in valuation on the last tw
items away from the small increas
in the first item, it plainly prove
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-15

An important step forward in the
agricultural interests Of our coun-
try was made when the Farm Bu-
reau was organized. II it has done
nothing more it appears that the
farmers generally have been more
closely cemented together and the
old fashioned sectional lines have
disappeared to a considerable de-
gree. The value of this alone can
not be over estimated.
l have been informed that a
great savings is effected In the
purchase of such necessities as
serrms, limestone, fertilizers, etc.
However, l am not well enough
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-15
Taxes Are Shifting;
County Situation Is
of Vital Interest

that railway valuation in the eyes
Of the state tax commission is &C.
tually not worth any more than it
was 20 years ago. This is not say
ing that the owners of town and
city lots and that railway corpora
tons are not paying more taxes
than they did 20 years. ago, because
during that time rates have in
creased substantially as we'll as the
proportion Of the full value on
which the rate is calculated. 1t
does indicate, however, that the
farm lands have not only borne the
burden of increased rates, but also
have had to bear the burden of in
creased valuation several times
greater than any other class Of
property.
Thorough Investigation.
The State Agricultural associa-
ton is making very thorough in
vestigation of the tax situation in
the state Of Illinois, and the above
are some of the facts that have
been worked out for Rock Island
county.
1t might be we'll to bear in mind
that corporations, as a rule, ap-
pear before the state tax commits
sion and present information con-
corning the value Of their taxable
property. Farmers have never made
a presentation before last year, and
we have been practically assured
that the appearance before the
state tax commission at that time
prevented an increase in valuation
of farm lands for state taxation
purpose of $55,000,000. We should
not forget, however, that prior tt
that time the state tax commission
, had increased the farm land valu
, alton 100000 900, so the farmei
was the goat after all. But if i
had not been for the appearance
D before the tax commission VI
: would have had to pay the full
. s110, 100000 instead of SIS, 1000 00
e This alone saved Illinois farmer
8 $225, 900 in taxes.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-15

members. Its benefits cannot be
thrust upon any member unwilling
to be benefited. Undoubtedly the
organization could be strengthened
by countrywide cooperation and
frequent demands by the members
upon the service offered by the
bureau. H. e. M'ROBERTS,
Peoples Trust & Savings Bank,
Port Byron.
If the farm bureau should cease
to function the future of the Ameri-
can farmer would be lost. There
is nothing supernatural nor mys-
tic about the farm bureau, it is
merely red blooded organization
founded upon the soundest of bust
ness principles and highest code of
morals striving to solve some of
the economic rural problems that
have for centuries checked the ad-
vance of the farmer and his bust
ness.
If we have information coupled
with little judgment we can make
a business pay. Over IS per cent
Of the failures in business are
caused by lack of information.
The farm bureau is the greatest
source of farm information We
have. Collected from all leading
universities and experiment sta
tons in the world this material is
boiled down and its practical ap-
plication made available for the
farmer. We can place no value on
this Information because its worth
cannot be estimated.
The farm bureau is, made to use,
not to abuse If we can't use it,
let's not abuse it. AS / said before,
there is nothing supernatural about
it. 1t simply couldn't make dead
fish swim up stream nor bring up
thunderstorm, but if you will
couple your 50% perspiration with
its 50% Information it will mean
better home conditions, better farm
conditions and a better community
to live in. Will you pardon the fol.
lowing personal statements.
, 1t has increased the efficiency Of
our hog raising program sos, il
other words if we made only $50t
We now make $1,000, relativel,
speaking. This means somethin.
to US while passing through thj,
period OF readjustment.
In the past three years it ha!
! saved over $500 in vaccination bill,
alone to say nothing of the 25% in
| crease in corn yield, our spray pro
gram, -four, feed and seeds. O
| course we used it, we couldn't af
ford to be without it.
! Forward Farm Bureau.
CLAIR V. GOLDEN.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-15
LESS FREIGHT
IS OBJECTIVE
Transportation Department Of 1. A
A. Concentrates on Rate
Reduction.

The farmer is the heaviest ship
per Of freight in the country. No
body more than he needs expert as
sistance. For that reason the
farm bureau offers both state and
national service to farm bureau
members in transportation matters.
One farmer, alone, wouldn't have
a chance to present his case prop
erly before a great railroad. But
one million farmers working to-
gether with their own trensporta-
ton experts-that's q different
matter.
During 1921 alone the transpor-
tation department Of the !. A A. in
cooperation with the phosphate
limestone and other departments.
secured from the railroads reduc-
lions in limestone freight rates
amounting to well over 100000 q
year saving to Illinois farmers.
During the same year the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau federation Sc
cured a 10 per cent Countrywide
rate reduction on farm products.
And securing reduction isn't all.
Preventing raises has saved the
farm bureau member just as much.
In 1921 the I. A. A. and the
county farm bureaus prevented q
raise in livestock freight rates
which meant $4,000 saving to
farmers. Early in 1922 the l. A. A.
helped to prevent a raise in butter
freight costs amounting to 10 pc.
cent
But valuable as these tremendous
money savings are. even more val
uble is the fact that the farm bu.
reau is always on the job in trans
portation, looking ont for its mem
bers all the time, always ready to
serve them.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-15

A pair Of mems shoes weighs
three pounds and is priced At
$10.50. A cnwhids weighs IS pounds
and the price today Is I cents per
pound. A farmer hauls hides to
town and offers to trade them to
the storekeeper for shoes. II the
storekeeper takes him up on the
basis of present prices the farmer
finds that he is not strong enough
to carry across the street from his
wagon to the store enough hides
to pay for the sh0e2
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-15
SAVING SHOWN BY 10 PERCENT
REDUCTION IN FREIGHT RATES
IN ROCK ISLAND COUNTY

year. This could not have been &C.
complished without our county,
state and national organisations be-
ing on the job fighting for the well
fare, not only for the farmer, but
the public also. The farmer pays
81 percent Of the United States
freight bill every year.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-15

We surely have an individual in
vestment much larger in value
than will be found in most big or
CARNATIONS. The Farm Bureau is
by far the best farmer organiza-
ton We have ever had. 1 believe
right now is no time for any farm
er to hesitate in joining the Coun-
ty Farm Bureau. It has been clear
~ proven to us that in the matter
OF markets. production, legislation
and the general welfare of eacl,
farmer, that we cannot hold our
own or even commence solving
these various problems that are 50
necessary to the prosperity of the
farmer without County Farm Blu
reau, state and national organiza-
tons. JOHN WOODBURY., SR.
l would just as soon try to get
along without the telephone and
the rural free delivery as the farm
bureau. get SIS worth of benc-
fit in social way from the farm
bureau meetings that we have held
at the school houses and churches
for the last two winters.
Then there are the experiments
which have been conducted by the
farm bureau, such as the corn ex-
pertinent plots and the spraying Of
fruit, this has been worth the price
to me.
Farming these days is a business
and with the present prices, one
must produce the maximum in
crops at the minimum expense
without depicting the soil,
through the farm bureau I can get
advice that will help.
l have received benefits from the
farm bureau in the buying of salt,
| potatoes, flour and mill feeds in
carload lots. Recently l took Or
ders for carload of flour and mill
feeds and it saved the farmers
$500 on the -four alone, not speak
ing of the mill feeds.
l have also received benefits
from the Illinois Agricultural as
sociation and the American Farm
Bureau federation. For instance
the 10 cent tax on butter, which
was tried to be put over at Wash
ington something like year ago
The A. F. B. F. had a man on the
job which blocked this and there
are not many farmers that will
not get their SIS worth Of benef,
from this alone.
| Speaking of the membership
drive. of course We are going &c
put it over big, and fight together
and the fellow that does not get il
will be out of luck, as l notice thai
the farm bureau is all that is fight
ing for the farmer at present.
! ]. C. NOSE.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-15

do not intend to try to think of
all the good the Farm Bureau can
do and has done to the farmer at
large, but it is wonderful if you
just stop and think for a little
while.
By reading your paper you can
see that someone has had his toes
tramped on. A few years ago the
farmer had to find someone to buy
his wool and then take whatever
he could get for it When the
Farm Bureau formed a wool pool
all Farm Bureau members could
ship their wool and receive ali
there was in it, no middle man to
feed for IL months until there was
another crop.
The Farm Bureau gives the farm
er the best ways of doing his farm
work, has taught him to do his
own vaccinating with good results
and big saving If a farmer has
any question to ask, he has his
farm adviser to ask for this infor-
nation.
The government is beginning to
! take notice to the farmer. With
all pulling together, there surely
will be better time for the farm
er. The farmer feeds the world.
/ II the farmer wants any good
)! seeds, the adviser will gladly find
them for him or if he has any,
thing to sell, the adviser will find
a buyer.
If you feel that the Farm Bureau
has done you no good it is prob
ably because you have never asked
for help. PHIL NUSSBAUM.
I believe the farm bureau organ
ization is meeting long felt need
OF the farmers in helping them to
get a better deal in the purchase
of needed products and also in the
marketing of the things they have
7 to sell. / find it profitable to be-
5 long to the local county organiza-
8 ton, for in purchasing grass seed
food products and serum for vac
5 cinating hogs, / have saved more
5 than enough in each instance to
pay my annual farm bureau dues
am especially grateful to the
( farm bureau this year for having
: serum on hand when l discovered
cholera in my bunch of 1875 pigs.
l like the monthly News Letter
with its timely information and
consider it valuable work of the
e farm bureau.
= l consider the Grain and Live
: stock Shipping associations the re-
e suit of farm bureau effort and with
e a little figuring l find I'm around
e 5000 to the good for the past eight
e months of business through the
e organization.
+ l believe l ought to be farm
n bureau member to help supper,
men who represent the farmers in
a terest at Washington, Springfield
e and other points where the farm
S ers' interest is at stake, as this ha.
:. proven equally profitable.
hl LOUIS D. HAUBERG.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-15

We are perfectly in accord with
the farmer organization and think
it distinct asset to the farmers
Of the country who are taking ad-
vantage Of the benefits of the Du-
reau. However, its advantages
can only be in direct proportion to
the demands made upon it by its
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-15

I can see no reason why we farm
ers should not have an organize
ton to protect our interests just
the same as other lines of business.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-15
WHAT ROCK ISLAND COUNTY FARMERS
THINK OF THE FARM BUREAU

Three years ago when I Joined
the Farm Bureau I did SO because
this organization was the only one
of the Organizations that promised
the farmer anything and OF course
being so few members then they
had not accomplished much, but
were promising to do great things
in the future, little by little and
the only way for US farmers to ex-
pect to be benefited as whole was
to get behind this movement with
our membership fees and loyal SUP
port Of every movement and CO.
operation among ourselves, which
we did in astonishing numbers. The
first year of my membership I
much benefit, because l couldn't
see any direct results at home, so
/ concluded to- use the farm bu-
reau and that was when I began
receiving home benefits and l was
satisfied, l would also hear of here
and there where the farmers were
getting organized more and more
for the producer and tiller of the
soil and finally we got more than
just a peak a boo at Washington.
D. c., we got a hearing and were
heard on all issues that we're of in
terest to the farmers of today. l
used to think that we did not need
! any crop advisor to tell US how to
raise crops and farm in a general
way, but I believe that this Office
has become necessity, not that
it should not have been a necessity
before now, but the farmers have
Just begun to realize what coopera-
| ton means.
l have learned by the aid of the
farm bureau to vaccinate my OWL
hogs and can buy serum good as
any that l have ever had admins
tered to my hogs and at much
lower price and have been having
good results. And the new worm
J expeller sent out by the farm bu-
reau Office has no equal yet, and il
tie cheapest remedy in price and
it sure gets EN-
Several times the advice that
have received from the farm bu.
reau office has save me a veteri.
narian's fee.
/ Our Dfury Shipping association
was organized with the aid of the
farm bureau office, nd 1t is sue
cess and one Of the best things thai
ever happened for livestock rroduc
ers here or anywhere else.
The way for the farmer to get GU
of the mire is to boost and pull to
/ gether through organization ane
, cooperation.
\ Forward Farm Bureau.
CURTIS D. FOSTER.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-15

Cooperative marketing methods
have netted California growers 25
million dollars. The same princi-
nles can be used In any statA
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-15

Through the Shipping associa-
ton and the Cooperative Elevat ,r
company, which were organized By
the Farm Bureau, Hillsdale always
has a good market for live stock
and grain. RAY C. PALMER,
EillSdale State Bank.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-15

My reasons for joining the Farm
Bureau again are as follows:
l. Because farmers should be
organized.
2. Because farmers are taught
the most improved methods Of agri-
cultude through the county ad-
wiser.
3. Because l thoroughly believe
in cooperation.
JOHN CHAMPION.