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 Published March, 1922 bi ] the 
 
 Knox County Farm Bureau 
 
 Qalesburg, Illinois 
 
 1DHI] SUPPORT IT? 
 
 Because it is an organization of, by and for the farmer. 
 
 Because — It asks for a fair, square deal for the producers of 
 food. 
 
 Because — It stands for fair prices and orderly marketing of 
 grain and livestock. 
 
 Because — It offers the farmer protection against blue sky pro- 
 moters and fake schemes of various kinds. 
 
 Because — It gets a hearing in legislative halls where the farmer 
 as an individual could no nothing. 
 
 Because — All other industries are organized and it is only with 
 organization that these other organizations can be met. 
 
 Because* — Agriculture represents the greatest capital, the most 
 people, and the greatest area of any enterprise in the world, but the 
 lack of organization heretofore has made the farmer dependent rather 
 than assertive. 
 
 Because — It offers the greatest opportunity the farmers of the 
 nation have ever had for attaining their real place in the social and 
 economic machinery of the world. 
 
 Because — It is a safe and sane organization, not intending to 
 undertake anything objectionable to those who wish to be fair. Any 
 enemies it may have will be those who have profited at the farmers’ 
 expense. If the farmer doesn’t support it, who in the world will? 
 
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 <The Knox County Farm Bureau 1921 
 
 1. Tested 175 soil samples for acidity. 
 
 2. Ordered 1100 tons limestone and 100 tons rock phosphate. 
 
 3. Furnished an exchange without charge for 402 bu. clover 
 seed and 123 bu. timothy seed.,- ; 
 
 4. Conducted campaign for higher yielding corn and wheat, 
 resulting in 8 bu. more wheat per acre on 725 acres and increased 
 yield and quality of corn. 
 
 5. Organized 14 out of 16 livestock shipping associations, which 
 handled over 1000 cars stock in 1921, valued at $1,500,000. 
 
 6. Organized two purebred livestock associations and assisted 
 the two formed the year before. 
 
 7. Reorganized cow testing associat : on, securing many new 
 members. 
 
 8. Managed two pure bred livestock sales. 
 
 9. Assisted in purchase and sale -of- pure bred stock. 
 
 10. Aided in getting Federal Inspector located at Galesburg, 
 thereby enabling members to get their herds tested free of charge 
 and collect over $7,000 in indemnities on reactors. 
 
 11. Pooled 57,254 lbs. wool and ordered 151 wool blankets, 
 25 auto robes and 90 wool batts for members. 
 
 12. Ordered 8,000 bu, potatoes, thereby keeping the price at a 
 fair level. 
 
 14. Assisted 192 boys and girls with club projects. 
 
 : 15. Developed club livestock judging team and demonstration 
 
 team for State Fair. 
 
 < ' 16, Gave detailed instruction td 104 men throughout the season 
 
 in caring for their orchards. 
 
 17. : Helped establish fair farm labor prices and supplied help 
 to many farmers. 
 
 18. Published free exchange list .advertising , farmers produce in 
 monthly bulletin. 
 
 19. Secured land value estimates from representative farmers in 
 each township for I, A. A. tax committee to lay before State Tax 
 Commission. 
 
 20. Helped plan a great mahy farm buildings. 
 
 21. Secured the analyses of farm seeds a number of members 
 had for sale. 
 
 22. Held rope splicing demonstrations and spliced hay ropes 
 for members. 
 
 23. Conducted 15 poultry culling demonstrations. 
 
 24. A livestock survey was made for the I. A. A. 
 
 25* Held 4358 office consultations. 
 
 26. Mailed 6,115 personal and 22,053 circular letters. 
 
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 27. Wrote 263 newspaper articles. 
 
 28. Held 299 meetings with total attendance of 10,000.. 
 
 29. Conducted four farm tours. 
 
 30/ Made 1,614 farm visits. 
 
 31. Arranged agricultural exhibits for three fairs. 
 
 32. Helped make possible the accomplishments of the I. A. A. 
 and the A. F. B. F. For without strong working county units neither 
 of these great farmer organ’zations can exist. 
 
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 Your State Association has summarized its achievements during 
 the past year as follows: 
 
 1. Sold co-operatively wool, livestock, harness, seed, feed, etc. 
 
 . .. 2. Established grain, livestock, dairy, vegetable and fruit mar- 
 
 keting departments. 
 
 3. Organized livestock .shipping associations. 
 
 4. Appropriated funds to finance farmers’ marketing committee. 
 
 5. Equalized water gnd rail rates. 
 
 * • 6. Relieved car shortage. 
 
 . ; ,,7, ..Secured .release of coat for threshing purposes. 
 
 S. Established co-operatives. 
 
 9. Saved $30,000 on 700 cars of rock phosphate. 
 
 10. Saved $91,000 on the purchase of fertilizer. 
 
 11. Saved $19,800 on sale of wool. 
 
 12. Saved $8,500 On sale of 17,000 bushels of potatoes. 
 
 13. Established , livestock exchange with $25,000 business first 
 two months. 
 
 ; 14. : Saved $60 per ton on the purchase of white arsenic. 
 
 15. Reduced price of ,16 per cent ac'd phosphate from $31 to 
 $20 per ton. 
 
 16. Secured a 40 per cent reduction on freight rate on ground 
 limestone and ground material. 
 
 17. Marketed 750,000 pounds of clover seed. 
 
 18. Saved from $3 to $13 per ton on commercial fertilizer. 
 
 i 19. Secured $23, 6Q0 in three months through the presentation of 
 
 railroad claims for members of the Farm Bureau. 
 
 20. Secured appropriation for eradication of tuberculosis in 
 cattle. 
 
 0 21. Secured revision of milk standards. 
 
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 22. Prevented undue discrimination against loans for agricul- 
 tural production. 
 
 23. Standardized ice cream. 
 
 24. Secured laws regulating maintenance and improvements of 
 state and county roads. 
 
 25. Opened livestock exchanges to farmers’ co-operative com- 
 mission companies. 
 
 26. Obtained state aid to county fairs. 
 
 27. Opened grain exchanges for farmers’ co-operative commis- 
 sion companies. 
 
 28. Placed farm mortgages on the same basis as other mortgages. 
 
 29. Secured enabling legislation for organization of farmers’ 
 commodity marketing associations. 
 
 30. Supported adequate appropriations for agricultural col- 
 leges, state departments of agriculture* state universities. 
 
 31. Secured legislation prohibiting the manufacture and sale of 
 filled milk. 
 
 The .American Farm Bureau Federation 
 
 One Year’s Work Shows Much Accomplished 
 
 The American Farm Bureau Federation has summarized its ac- 
 complishments in the following statements : 
 
 1. Growing from nothing to a million and a half members. 
 
 2. Gaining the confidence of the public in the farmers’ ability 
 to handle their business in an organized way and in a manner that 
 serves the best interests of the nation as well as the farming industry. 
 
 3. Secured endorsement of 47 states for organizing farmers 
 into effective working Farm Bureaus — county, state and national. 
 
 4. Called national commodity marketing conferences on grain, 
 live stock, fruit, dairy products, cotton and wool. 
 
 5. Appointed a committee of seventeen to work . out a national 
 grain marketing plan, which was accepted by producers’ organizations 
 and is now known as the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc. 
 
 6. Appointed a committee of fifteen to formulate a national 
 livestock marketing plan. 
 
 7. Appointed a committee of twenty-one to work out a na- 
 tional fruit marketing plan. 
 
 8. Appointed a committee of eleven to work out a national 
 dairy, marketing plan. 
 
 9. Appointed a committee of ten to develop a uniform vegeta- 
 ble marketing system. 
 
 10. Appointed a committee of twenty-five to develop the co- 
 operative wolo pools, which handled 40,000,000 pounds of the 1920 
 clip in ten states. 
 
 11. Endorsed the American Cotton Growers’ Exchange plan for 
 the co-operatiye marketing of cotton. 
 
 12. During the freight tie-up, persuading the U. S. Shipping 
 Board to have 36 Great Lakes boats to handle grain, thus releasing 
 72 trains of freight cars for other purposes. 
 
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 13. Securing credit for farmers by persuading Federal Reserve 
 Board to direct banks to accept storage warehouse receipts on wool 
 and wheat for collateral on loans and by influencing the Board to 
 deposit $30,000,000 in mid west banks to finance moving of grain crops. 
 
 14. Securing appropriations to fight European Corn Borer. 
 
 15. Causing Ralston-Nolan land tax bill to be at least tem- 
 porarily pigeon-holed through a nation-wide referendum. This would 
 mean a tax of about $320 on 160 acres of Illinois land. 
 
 16. Reduced railway valuation for purposes of computing guar- 
 anteed earnings, $1,700,000,000, making an average saving of $30 each 
 for every farmer in the United States. 
 
 17. Secured millions of additional credit for farmers by father- 
 ing billion-dollar War Finance Corporation farm export measure, by 
 advocating extension of Federal Farm Loan System, and by inducing 
 Federal Reserve System to favor mommodity financing principles. 
 
 18. Assisted in securing regulation of packers and grain ex- 
 changes by supporting Federal control measures. 
 
 19. Directed national attention to agriculture’s legislative prob- 
 lems and secured favorable attitude toward appointment of farmer- 
 minded men to high places in councils of the nation. 
 
 20. Established a Department of Organization to assist farmers 
 to organize county farm bureaus for self-help. 
 
 21. Established a Department of Co-operative Marketing to 
 promote farmer-owned and controlled distributive systems. 
 
 32. Established a Washington office for studying national leg- 
 islative policies and voicing the farmers’ viewpoint. 
 
 23. Established a Department of Transportation to aid shippers 
 in solving traffic problems and in adjusting rate inequalities. 
 
 24. Established a Research Department for a study of the 
 farmers’ economic problems. 
 
 25. Established a Department of Information to acquaint farm- 
 ers with the Farm Bureau movement and to educate the public to a 
 sympathetic understanding of the farmers’ problems. 
 
 26. Gained confidence of the public in the farmers’ ability to 
 handle their business in an organized way and in a manner that serves 
 the best interests of the Nation as well as the farming industry. 
 
 27. Established a Taxation Service and outlined a definite policy 
 for justly collecting Federal revenue. 
 
 28. Gathered and shipped to Europe 700,000 bushels of farmers’ 
 gift corn, thereby saving from starvation thousands of children. 
 
 29. Issued a questionnaire involving sixteen definite problems 
 of national policy and presented “yes” and “no” vote of the entire 
 Farm Bureau membership to Congress. 
 
 30. Conducted County Farm Bureau hearings all over America 
 and presented the farmers’ own case to Congress and the public. 
 
 31. Organized Producers’ Commission Association at E. St. 
 Louis, that in seven weeks attained first place among all commission 
 companies on that market. It has held that place now for three con- 
 secutive weeks. 
 
 32. In addition to the above accomplishments, strong efforts are 
 being made to reduce freight rates. Some reductions have already 
 been made on limestone, live stock and other commodities and these 
 will hgve to be followed by many others. Moreover, manufacturers 
 
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 of farm machinery are showing a decided wish to follow the sugges- 
 tion of the National Federation and are trying to get their cost down 
 to a point where they can furnish farmers with machinery at reason- 
 able prices. 
 
 33. Along many other lines splendid progress has been made. 
 A strong fight is now on between the capitalistic interests wishing to 
 cut out the excess profits tax and place the taxation burden upon the 
 middle classes. The National Federation is fighting this with pros- 
 pects of partial success at least. 
 
 Ji Message From President Harding 
 
 Taken from “Our Common Country,” Chapter IV on 
 “A merican A griculture ” 
 
 “I believe that the American people through their Government 
 and otherwise, not only in behalf of the farmer, but in behalf of their 
 own welfare, and the pocketbooks of the consumers of America, will 
 encourage, make lawful, and stimulate co-operative buying, co-opera- 
 tive distribution, and co-operative selling of farm products. 
 
 “The need of farm representation in larger governmental affairs 
 is recognized. During the past seven years the right of agriculture 
 to a voice in government administration has been practically ignored, 
 and at times the farmer has suffered grievously as a result. The 
 farmer has a vital interest in our trade relations with other countries, 
 in the administration of our financial policies, and in many of the 
 larger activities of the o-overnment. His interests must be safe- 
 guarded by men who understand his needs, he must be actually and 
 practically represented. 
 
 “The right of farmers to form co-operative associations for the 
 marketing of their products must be granted. The concert of agri- 
 culture is as essential to farms as a similar concert of action is to 
 factories. A prosperous agriculture demands not only efficiency in 
 production, but efficiency in marketing. Through co-operative asso- 
 ciations the route between the producer and the consumer can and 
 must be shortened. Wasteful effort can and must be avoided. Un- 
 necessary expense can and must be eliminated. It is to the advan- 
 tage of all our people that every possible improvement be made in 
 our methods of getting the products of our farms into the hands of 
 the people who consume them. The legitimate functions of the mid- 
 dleman may continue to be performed, by private enterprise, under 
 conditions where the middleman is necessary and gives his skill to 
 our joint welfare. The parasite in distribution who preys on both 
 producer and consumer must no longer sap the vitality of this funda- 
 mental life.’* 
 
 The Farm Bureau 
 
 The Farm Bureau has made a wonderful growth. It is the v . 
 strongest organization, both numerically and financially, that the 
 farmers of the nation have ever built. That is the reason why it will 
 be attacked. That is why some interests would like to destroy it. 
 And that is the reason, also, why some men would like to control it. 
 
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