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" Published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Association at 124 So. Fifth St., 
class matter at post-office at Marshall, Ill., June 16, 1930, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 


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Act of Feb. 28, 1925, authorized Oct. 27, 1925. Address ali communications for publication to Editorial Offices, Illinois Agricultural Association Record, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago. 


Number 1 


Important Message Is 
Expected from Mr. Legge 


Farm Board Chairman and Mrs 
Sewell Will Speak at Banauet. 


LEXANDER LEGGE, the cour- 
ageous, outspoken chairman of the 
Federal Farm Board vho is honestly 
and sincerely trying to make the Mar- 
keting Act work for the best interests 
of the farmer, is expected to make 
some new and important pronounce- 
ments in his banquet address on Thurs- 
day night, Jan. 29, at the coming I. 
A. A. convention, Springfield. 
Mr. Legge is not an orator. He is 
not flowery. He wastes no time slap- 
ing his audience on the back. He 
talks facts, hits hard, and wraps up 
much thought in few words. He says 
what he thinks whether you like it or 
not. He is no politician, in the popu- 
lar meaning of the word. Many-of us 
like that kind of a man. 


Mrs. Chas. W. Sewell, home and 
community chairman of the American 
Farm Bureau Federation, will have a 
place on the banquet program with 
Mr. Legge. Her address will be de+ 
voted to the influence of co-operative 
efforts among farmers on community 
and home improvement. 


Marketing Prominent 


Co-operative marketing will be given 
prominence at the various meetings and 
sessions on January 28 and 29. John 
Brandt of St. Paul, president of Land 
O’Lakes Creameries, Inc., and Tom A. 
Borman, Chicago, manager of the Bea- 
trice Creamery Co., will address the 
annual meeting of the Illinois Produce 
Marketing Association on Wednesday 
afternoon, Jan. 28. 


George S, Milnor, Chicago, general 
manager of the Farmers National Grain 
Corporation and president of the Grain 
Stabilization Corp., will talk to the 
Marketing Conference Thursday after- 
noon. Other group conferences to be 
held simultaneously with those men- 
tioned are Organization-Information, 
Business Service, and Home and Com- 


January, 1931 


Banquet Speaker 


HON. ALEXANDER LEGGE 


munity. Mrs. Henry J. Mies of Pon- 


tiac, president of the Illinois Home - 


Bureau Federation, is arranging a pro- 
gram for the latter eonference of spe- 
cial interest to women attending the 
convention. 
Grimes to Speak 

One of the outstanding speakers of 
the three-day session will be J. Frank 
Grimes of Chicago, the aggressive pres- 
ident of the nation-wide Independent 


Grocers’ Alliance of America, a chain - 


of more than 11,000 independently- 
owned grocery stores. How these stores 
are succeeding through co-operative ef- 
fort and good business administration 
is a colorful story of particular interest 
to organized farmers who are working 
toward similar ends. Mr. Grimes, who 
has addressed some of the largest con- 
ventions in the country during recent 
years, is known widely as a forceful, 
vigorous speaket.He is scheduled to 
(Continued on page 6) 


Volume 9 


Governor Emmerson Is 


Friday P. M. Speaker 


Questions of Public Policy Affecting 
Farmers to Have Consideration. 


UESTIONS of public policy in 
Q cluding taxation, good roads, re- 
apportionment of the legislature, the 
gas .tax, drivers’ license law, rural 
school improvement and other will be 
considered both at the Public Relations 
Conference on Thursday afternoon and 
at the afternoon. session on Friday, 
January 30. 

Governor Louis L. Emerson wil speak 
at the luncheon on Friday, where rep- 
resentatives of state-wide organizations 
and others will be guests. Resolutions 
defining the policies of the organization 
to be followed in the coming year will © 
be threshed out and adopted at the close 
of this: session. 


First Appearance 


The governor’s appearance at the an- 
nual luncheon will be his first since 
taking office, before a meeting of the 
association. In his recent biennial *mes- 
sage to the legislature, Governor Em- 
merson touched on.many important is- 
sues.. He made a definite recommenda- 
tion on the reapportionment issue, sug- 
gesting representation by population in 
the state senate, and territorial repre- 
sentation in the house. This is a plan 
similar to that in use in most states 
having large metropolitan areas, namely 
New York, Pennsylvania and Califor- 
nia, and one favored by farmers. He 
asked that the present plan of distribut- 
ing gas tax money be left undisturbed 
so that the state-wide road building 
program now underway can be com- 


pleted. 


The present depression in the field of 
agriculture, according to Dr. W. J. 
Spillman of the U. S. Department of 
Agriculture, will continue as long -as, 
acreage of wheat and cotton continues 
to expand at a rate faster than the in- 
crease in the demand. » 


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Page Four 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


January, 1931 


TENTATIVE PROGRAM 


SIXTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASS'N. 
HOTEL ABRAHAM LINCOLN, SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS 
JANUARY 29-30, 1931 


Thursday Forenoon—January 29, 1931 
Majestic Theatre 


9:00 a.m. Community Singing. 
9:15 a.m. Invocation - Rev. H. H.. Pittman 
Springfield. 
9:30 a.m. Address of Welcome - A. W. Hillier 
President Springfield Chamber of Commerce 

Pawnee Quartet. 
9:45 a.m. President’s Address - Earl C. Smith 
_ 10:45 a.m. Report of Secretary - G. E. Metzger 
- Appointment of Committees. 

11:30 a.m. Report of Treasurer - R. A. Cowles 


Report of Credentials Committee. 


Thursday Afternoon—January 29, 1931 


1:15 p.m. Organization Conference — Ban- 

quet Room, Leland Hotel. 
Public Relations Conference — Y. 

W.C. A. Building. 

Marketing Conference—Ball Room, 

Abraham Lincoln Hotel. 
Speaker, Geo. S. Milnor, Chicago, - 

General Manager, Farmers | 
National Grain Corp. 


, Financial Business Service Confer- 


ence—Sangamo Club.: 
Home and Community Conference 


—Palm Room, Abraham Lincoln 


Hotel. 
District Caucuses and Conferences. 
11th District — Nomirate member 


of I. A. A. Board to succeed 
H.C. Vial. 


12th District—Conference. 

13th District — Nominate 
of I. A. A. Board to 
C. E. Bamborough. 

14th District—Conference. 

15th District — Nominate 
of I. A. A. Board to 
A. N. Skinner. 


16th District—Conference. 

17th District — Nominate 
of I. A. A. Board to 
Geo. J. Stoll. 


18th District—Conference. 


4:00 p.m. 
member 
succeed 


member 
succeed 


member 
succeed 


19th District — Nominate member 
of I. A. A. Board to succeed 

—~C, J. Gross. 

20th District—Conference. 

21st District — Nominate member 
of J. A. A..-Board to succeed 
Samuel Sorrells. 

22nd District—Conference 

23rd District — Nominate member 
of I. A. A. Board to succeed 
‘W. L. Cope. 

24th District—Conference. 

25th Distriet — Nominate member 


of I. A. A. Board to succeed 
Fred Dietz. 


Thursday Evening—January 29, 1931 
Annual Banquet—Arsenal, 6:30 P. M. 
Music by Orchestra and Pawnee Four. 
Presiding - - - - - President Earl C. Smith 
Introduction of Guests. 
Address - - - - -.- Alexander Legge 


Chaifman of Federal Farm Board - 
Address - - - - 


- Business Session. 


Election of Officers. 


Friday Morning—January 30, 1931 
Majestic Theatre 
9:30 a.m. Music. 3 
~ Report of Convention Conferences. 
Reading of Resolutions. 
(Action deferred.) 
11:15 a.m. Address—“Business Administra- 
tion” - - - J. Frank Grimes 
Chicago, President Independent Grocers Alliance 
Friday Afternoon—January 30, 1931 
Annual Luncheon—Arsenal 
Presiding - President Earl C. Smith 
Music—Orchestra. 
Introduction of Guests. 
Address - Gov. Louis L. Emmerson 
‘ Business Session of Delegates. 
New Business. 
Adjournment. 


Mrs. Chas. Sewell, A.F.B.Fs. 


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Who Paid the Hotel 
Bill? Farmers Ask 


Commenting on the “rump meeting”’ 
held in the Great Northern Hotel early’ 
in. December (see December REC- 
ORD), Bill Stahl of the Farmers Na- 
tional Grain Corp. observes’ that: 

“While the Farmers National Grain 
Dealers’ Association was meeting in one 
Chicago hotel, another meeting was 
being -held at another Chicago hotel. 
It was significant that those who called 
this meeting had abandoned the use of 
the letterheads of the Farmers Grain 
Dealers’ Association of Illinois and de- 


scribed themselves as the Farmers Ele-, 


vator General Committee. 


“Presumably ‘to attract a crowd 
which failed to materialize, the Farm- 
ers Elevator General Committee an- 
nounced- that Senator Norbeck of 
South Dakota and Senator-elect Lewis 
of Illinois had been invited to speak. 
Neither appeared. A third. expected 


speaker, Will Zurbucken of Dodge. 


City, .Kansas; also failed to appear. 
And thereby hangs a tale. 


“Mr. Zurbucken attended a meeting 


: of the same group at Mason City, Ia., 


a few weeks ago. He now makes afh- 


davit that he was invited to attend the: 


Mason, City meeting by an employe of 
an independent grain commission firm 
in Kansas, with the assurance that all 
his expenses for the trip would be borne 
by the old-line firm. He states further 
in his affidavit that the promise was 


‘kept and that he has been reimbursed 


in cash for all his expenses on the trip 
from his home to Mason City. 


“Prior to the Chicago meeting Mr. 


Zurbuckén received a letter from one 
of the spokesmen for the Farmers Ele- 
vator General Committee inviting him 
to speak at the Chicago meeting.. In 
this letter it was suggested to Mr. Zur- 
bucken that ‘I hope you will be able 
to stir -up some interest and make a 
survey by telephone or otherwise, to 
get in touch with some of the right 
kind of fellows who will be coming 
up to the Live Stock Show, and who no 
doubt: would be interested in attending 
our afternoon and evening session on 
Monday.’ 

“Included with the letter was a sug- 
gested outline for the speech that Mr. 
Zurbucken did not make. 
ported that such a speech was delivered 
at the meeting, but Mr. Zurbucken 
neither delivered it nor authorized it. 

“It is reported also that ten rooms 
were reserved at the Chicago hotel for 
expected guests that did not arrive. 

“Who paid the hotel bill? 

‘“Who maintains the offices of the 
Farmers Elevator General Committee 
at Bloomington, IIl.? 


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HON. LOUIS L. EMMERSON — 


_NOTICE OF ANNUAL »MEETING OF 
ILLINOIS. AGRICULTURAL HOLD- 
ING COMPANY 
Take notice that .the annual meeting of 
the stockholders of Illinois Agricultural 
Holding Company will be held on Wednes- 
day, the 28th day of January, 1931, at the 
hour of 11 o’clock a. m., at the Abraham 
Lincoln Hotel, Springfield, Illinois, to elect 
directors, receive, and, if approved, confirm 
“the report of the board of directors of the 
company for the fiscal year ending Decem-- 
ber 31, 1930; and to consider and, if ap- 
proved, ratify and confirm all the acts and 
proceedings of the board of directors done 
and taken since the last annual meeting of 
the members of the company; and for the 
transaction of such further and other busi- 
ness as may properly come before the meet- 
ing. 
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, Jan. 1, 1931. 
GrorceE F. Tuttock, Secretary. 


“Who pays for the mailing and print- 
ing of propaganda? 

“Who pays the salaries, if any, of the 
active office and field staff? 

“None of these expenses are paid by 
the Farmers Grain Dealers’ Association 
of Illinois, according to its officials. 
Nor is the program sponsored by the 
Farmers ‘Elevator General Committee 
in line with the resolutions adopted as 
set out above by the Farmers Grain 


Dealers’ Association.” 


Dr. Craig Speaker 


For Serum Ass’n. Meet 

The Illnois Farm Bureau Serum Asso- 
ciation announces that Dr. R. A. Craig, 
veterinary from Purdue University, will 
be the principal speaker at its coming 
annual meeting at Springfield, Wednes- 


day, January 28. Dr. Craig. will dis- 


cuss—“‘Swine Diseases.”’ 
The meeting is called for 10:00 a. m., 
The husiness session will Le held in the 


afternoon. i 


90C495 


“Tug” Wilson Speaker 
State Baseball League 


ENNETH L. “TUG” WILSON, 

director of athletics at North- 
western University and one of the lead- 
ing college coaches in the middle west, 
will address the annual meeting of the 
Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball. League at 
Springfield Wednesday morning, Janu- 
ary 28. Mr. Wilson telegraphed his 
acceptance of the engagement from 


' Florida. 


“Tug” Wilson has many friends in 
downstate Illinois. His former home 
was at Atwood in Piatt county. Wil- 
son attended the University of Illinois, 
where he won high honors in track. 
He was named the best all-around man 
in sports during his senior year in 1920. 

After graduating from the College 
of Agriculture he took coaching work 
and assisted in the U. of I. athletic de- 
partment for several years before going 
to Drake University, Des Moines, where 
he held a position similar to the one 


he now holds at Evanston. 


Delegates, players, managers and fans 


from the 31. counties having. organ- 
ized Farm Bureau ‘baseball teams will 
gather for the annual convention. 


‘A Good Year 


The I. A. A. finance department re- 
ports. that more members of the Illinois 
Agricultural Association paid their dues 
during 1930 than in any year since 
1923. The net increase in membership 
for 1930 over 1929 was 4,519. 


The Rock Island County Farm Bu- 
reau recently passed a resolution favor- 
ing a permanent 4-H boys’ and girls’ 
club building on the State fair grounds. 


FARM BUREAU BASKETBALL 


A State Farm Bureau Basketball 
League with inter-county games lead- 
ing to a state championship tourna- 
ment has been suggested as a means 
of providing sport and recreation for 
farm boys and men, entertainment 
for young and old, during the winter. 

High school and community gym- 
nasiums can be obtained for regular 
practice and play. The cost of run- 
ning County Farm Bureau teams 
will be light. Expenses can be met 
by charging small admission fees to | 
games. 

Iroquois county is ready to go, 
providing other counties will bring 
out teams to furnish competition. 

Eligibility rules similar to those 
used in the Farm Bureau Baseball 
League are contemplated. — 

Get in touch with your County 
Farm Bureau office if you want a 
team, or write Department of In- 
formation, Illinois Agricultural Asso- 
| ciation, 608 S. Dearborn St., Chicago. 


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Competition Between 
Meetings Wed., Jan. 28 


Suggest County Delegations Ar- 
range for Representation at Each. 


oy eee will be plenty of competi- 
tion between the many allied or- 
ganizations and companies holding an- 
nual meetings and conferences on 
Wednesday, January 28. Most of the 
sessions on that day will be going on 
simultaneously and the delegate or 
visitor will be busy if he hopes to keep 
up with them all. 
. Produce Meeting 

In addition to the annual meetings 
and conferences held last year, the IIli- 
nois Produce Marketing Association, or- 
ganized in 1930, will hold its annual 
convention at 1:00 P. M. on this day. 
It is making a bid for a large attend- 
ance, and to that end has definitely 
scheduled Tom A. Borman, Chicago, 
the aggressive manager of the Beatrice 
Creamery Co. as one speaker, and tenta- 
tively scheduled John Brandt of St. 
Paul, president of the famed Land O’ 
Lakes Creameries, Inc. to address the 
meeting. 

The annual meeting of the State 
Farm Bureau Baseball League will hear 
K. L. “Tug” Wilson, popular athletic 
director at Northwestern University, 
and former University of Illinois athlete. 
Tug was reared in Piatt county, Ill. 
graduated from the agricultural -col- 
lege at Urbana, and is well known to 
many. downstate people. The baseball 
meeting will begin at 9:30 A. M. in 
the Abraham Lincoln Hotel. 

Serum: Meeting 

The State Farm Bureau Serum Asso- 
ciation meeting which opens at 10:00 
A. M. will hear Dr. Craig, chief ,veter- 
inarian at Purdue University. The IIli- 
nois Agricultural Co-operatives Ass’n. 
has invited E. E. Crabtree, Jacksonville 


banker to address its meeting scheduled — 


for 10:00 A. M. 
The annual meeting of the Illinois 


, Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co., an- 


nounced elsewhere, is scheduled for this 
day. A general conference for Country 
Life Insurance Co. agents will be held 
in the morning, the annual meeting of 
the auto -insurance~company in the 
afternoon. 

The Illinois Farm Supply Co. will 
hold a conference for county supply 
company managers at 10:00 A.M. to 


which directors and county advisers are’ 
invited. Sam. Miller, Chicago, an ex- . 


perienced oil man will discuss ‘“‘Control- 
ling Shrinkage of Volatile Fuels.” - Fred 
Ringham is. expected to talk on ac- 
counting and explain the federal income 
tax law. 


MRS. CHAS. W. SEWELL 
Mrs. Sewell will speak at the annual 


banquet -Thursday night, January 29. 
Brea Mi A RL Ry hae Ph Blea RI SME AEN 


There is somewhere between one mil- 
lion and two million dollars in the 
banks in New York State awaiting 
rightful claiments, according to a re- 
cent statement by the State Department 
of New York. 


NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF 
ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 
ASSOCIATION 

Notice is hereby given that the. annual 
meeting of the members of the Illinois Ag- 
ricultural Association will be held at the 
Majestic Theatre, in Springfield, Illinois, on 
the 29th day of January, 1931, at 9 o'clock 
a. m., for the following purposes: 

For the consideration and vote upon ap- 

proval and ratification of the reports of the 
president, secretary and treasurer of the as- 
sociation, and the acts of the board of di- 
rectors and officers in furtherance of the 
matters therein set forth, since the last an- 
nual meeting of the members of the asso- 
ciation. : 
’ To approve, ratify and confirm the sev- 
eral purchases heretofore made by this as- 
sociation of stocks and evidences of indebt- 
edness of corporations whose activities will 
directly or indirectly promote agriculture 
or the interests of those engaged therein. 

To secure consent and authorization to 
acquire on behalf of this association, by 
purchase, certain stocks and evidences of 
indebtedness of corporations whose activi- 
ties will directly or indirectly promote agri- 
culture or the interests of those engaged 
therein. 

To elect eight members to the board of 
directors for. two-year terms. 

To elect a president and vice-president. 

To, consider any proposed amendment of... 
the articles of association or of the by-laws 
of the Illinois Agricultural Association as 
may be properly submitted. 

For the transaction of such other business 
as may properly come before the meeting. 

Geo, E. Mertzcer, Secretary. 

Chicago, Illinois, Jan. 1, 1931. 


MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS 
NOW 


Send in your reservations for 
rooms, banquet and luncheon 
tickets at once if you have not 
already done so. Members may 
get in touch with their local 
Farm Bureau offices, or else write 
direct: to the Sangamon County 
Farm Bureau, Springfield. 


Ask for Reduced Rates 
of Fare and One Half 


The I. A. A. Transportation De- 
partment has secured special rates of 
fare and one half for the round trip on 
nearly all the Illinois railroads, includ- 
ing the Illinois Traction System. 
~The special rates are good from any 
point in Illinois, also from St. Louis, 
Mo., to Springfield. The New York 
Central Lines and the T. P. & W. alone 
stated that they didn’t secure enough 
trafic in former years to warrant mak- 
ing any concession. 

If the station agent refuses to sell a 
cut rate ticket, get a receipt when you 
pay your fare and then see a represen- 
tative of the I. A. A. transportation de- 
partment when you arrive at Spring- 


field. 


Legge Banquet Speaker 
(Continued from page 3) 
appear on the program at the general 
session Friday morning. 

The opening business session of the I. 
A. A. meeting, as in past years, will come 
on Thursday morning, Jan. 29, where 
the president, secretary and treasurer will 
report on the state of the association. 
Election of a president and vice-presi- 
dent,and of directors to succeed those 
whose terms expire, viz., H. C. Vial, 
C. E. Bamborough, A. N. Skinner, 
Geo. J. Stoll, C. J. Gross, Samuel Sor- 
rells, W. L. Cope, and Fred Dietz, will 
take place after the banquet on Thurs- 
day night. 


— 


Await State Commerce 
Commission Decision 


As we go to press the Illinois Com- 
merce Commission has not yet handed 
down its decision as to whether or not 
the Panhandle Illinois Pipe Line Com- 
pany is a public utility and therefore 
subject to the Illinois Public Utility 
Act. 


some time ago filed a brief with the 


. Commission holding that the business 


proposed to be transacted by the Com- 
pany does not constitute a public utili- 
ty service. 


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January, 1931 7 THE I. A. A. RECORD Page Seven 


Knox County. Reports 
Large Membership 


“At this, the thirteenth annual meet- 
ing of the Knox County Farm Bureau, 
I am glad to report that the year 1930 
has been one of our most successful 
years and shows the largest membership 
at 1,360 of any since the war period,” 
said Harry Gehring of Altona, president 
of the Knox County Farm Bureau, 
when he called the meeting in Gales- 
burg to order recently. 

“In reports that are to follow you 
will find that great progress has been 
made in. co-operative marketing; that 
several new projects have been added 
to our program and which have been 
carried through to a successful comple- 
tion.” You will find that the finances 
of the organization are very satisfac- 
tory,” said Mr. Gehring. 

“Your association is stronger today, 
as to membership, finances, loyalty and 
ability to do the jobs for which it was 
created than it has ever been before,” 
said Secretary Ira Moats of Maquon. 


-‘“More things are being accomplished 


each year and an increasing number of 


‘ members are doing constructive work. 


Your organization has been especially 
favored through the years in its leader- 
ship. Your president, who occupies the 
chair today,-has served faithfully dur- 
ing a long period of years, in fact, rec- 
ords show that he has not missed a 
meeting of the board of directors since 
1923,” | 

“In submitting my second annual 
report as your treasurer, I am pleased 
to announce that the organization is in 
the strongest financial condition that it 
has ever been during its thirteen years’ 
history,” said T. J. Sullivan of Gales- 
burg. “This is a result of the economy 
plan and the budget system followed 


_ by your board of directors.” 


His report showed that the net worth 
of the Knox County Farm Bureau is 
$15,667.01. 


Open Offices for 


Drouth Loans 
Field offices for handling loans to 


_ farmers in drought and storm areas will 


be established by the U. S. Department 
of Agriculture at St. Louis, Memphis, 
Grand Forks, North Dakota, and 
Washington, D. C. 

he interest rates on all loans will 
be 5 per cent. Notes given by borrow- 
ers will be payable next fall when the 
1931 crops mature and are’ marketed, 
the date of payment varying according 
to the marketing season in the’ ‘different 
sections. Each borrower will be re- 
quired to give a first lien on his 1931 
crops. 


'J. FRANK GRIMES CHICAGO 


Freeport-Dixon High 
Line Cases Settled 


N amicable settlement of claims 

for easements to land traversed 
by a high line between Freeport and 
Dixon was effected between officials of 
the Illinois Northern Utility Company 
and landowners represented by the Ste-+ 
phenson, Ogle and Lee County Farm 
Bureaus and the I. A. A. in Chicago 
on January 2. 


E. D. Alexander, president and gen- 
eral manager of the utility company, 
and Earl C. Smith, president of . the 
I. A. A., were the principals in nego» 
tiating terms of settlement. 

Compensation for easements and ac- 
tual land covered by towers or struc- 
tures. varied according to th. location 
of the land in question. A greater-al- 
lowance, for example, was made where 
a-line cut diagonally across a field than 
where the power line straddles or runs 
parallel to fences. 

John C. Watson, statistician-for the 
I. A. A., was named by both parties to 
appraise the land involved. Farm im- 
provements will be taken into consid- 


eration in. valuing the land. Eighty-. 


two. landowners in the counties of Lee, 
Ogle and Stephenson were involved in 
the settlemet. 


Logan Farm Supply Company recent- 
ly announced a 6% patronage refund 
to Farm Bureau members. 


NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING 
ILLINOIS PRODUCE MAR- 
KETING ASS’N. 

Notice is hereby given of the first 
annual meeting of the Illinois Pro- 
duce Marketing Association to be 
held in the Sun Room of the Leland 
Hotel, Springfield, Illinois, 1 P. M,, 

January 28, 1931. 

This meeting is called for the pur- 
pose of electing a board of directors 
of fifteen members and transacting 
such other business as may come be- 
fore the meeting. 

(Signed) Claude J. Martin, 
Jan. 2, 1931. Secretary. 


‘Wos es 


The daily farm program of the 
Illinois ‘Agricultural Association is 
broadcast from the I. A. A. offices 
over Station WJJD (274 meters), 
Chicago, between 12:15 and 12:30 
P. M., Monday to Friday inclusive. 
Tune in and get the live stock mar- 


--kets, farm news, and economic in- 


formation. 


“A Marketing Program for 1931” 
will be the subject of an address from 
station WLS, Chicago, at 12:05 noon, 
January 26, by Secretary George Metz- 
ger. This talk will be one of a series 
on the subject of co-operative market- 


‘ing. 


“Co-operative Marketing in Illinois” 
was the subject of a radio address by 
George Thiem, editor of the Illinois 
Agricultural Association RECORD, 
over the Columbia Broadcasting System 


~ through Station WBBM, Chicago, at 


12:45 p. m. Friday, January 16. 
“New Ideas in Marketing Farm Pro- 
duce” and “What Farmers Are Think- 
ing About” were subjects of 10-minute 
talks by Frank Gougler and George 
Thiem, respectfully, on the noon farm 
program from Station WGN, Chicago, 
recently. 


Tentative Program 
ILLINOIS PRODUCE 


MARKETING ASSN. 
ANNUAL, MEETING 
SUN ROOM, LELAND HOTEL 


SPRINGFIELD, ILL., JANUARY 28, 1931 
1:30 P. M. 

Singing—Led by J. H. Checkley. 

Roll Call—Delegates. 

Nomination of Nominating Committee. 

Reading of Minutes of First Annual Meeting. 

Secretary-Treasurer’s---Report — Claude J. 
Martin. 

Progress Report—F. A. Gougler. 

Address—John Brandt, Pres., Land O’Lakes 
Creameries, St. Paul, Minn. 

Ll tacos Carroll, Menard coun- 
ty, Ill. 

’ Address—Tom Borman, Manager, Beatrice 

Creamery Co., Chicago. 

Eulogy on the Dairy Cow—Clem Garton. 

A Dutchman’s Patriotic Speech—Uriah Len- 
drick, 

Report of Nominating Committee. 

Election of Officers, 


Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas ° 
announced recently: that he would in- 
troduce a bill providing for the regu- 
lation of the natural gas industry, in- 
cluding pipe lines, their rates, services, 
valuations, earnings and financing, and 
the quality of the commodity sold to 
the public by the Interstate Commerce 
Commission, 


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204 Attend State-Wide 
Grain Meeting, Peoria 


Report Progress Made by Farmers | 


Elevators in Co-Operating to 
Build Grower-Owned Mar- 
keting Agency 


ROUSING meeting of 204 farm- 

ers’ elevator officers, directors, 
managers, and grain producers gathered 
at Peoria, December 29 for the first 
state-wide meeting of the member ele- 
vators of the Illinois Grain Corpora- 
tion. 

It was the first opportunity any ele- 
vator officials had had to meet the per- 
sonnel of the Mid-West Grain Corp. 
and the Farmers 
National Grain 
B| Corp., who are ac- 
Pitively engaged in 
| selling grain on the 
terminal markets at 
Chicago, St. Louis, 
and Peoria. D. P. 
Moore of the Farm- 
s|ers National grain 
sales department, 
Chicago, and W. J. 

Chas. Cummings Niergarth, manager 

of the Farmers Na- 
tional St. Louis office, represented that 
organization. General Manager Charles 
P. Cummings of Chicago, George Mar- 
tin of St. Louis, and John Benson of 


_ Peoria represented the Mid-West Grain 


Corporation. 
Lyle Johnstone Opens Meeting 
G. C. Johnstone, president of the IIli- 


nois Grain Corp., opened the morning. . 


session. Harrison Fahrnkopf, secretary of 
the Illinois Grain Corp., cited the prog- 
ress that had been made in building the 
Illinois regional during the summer and 
fall. He said that 31 elevators had been 
fully certified and qualified for mem- 
bership, and that 8 to 10 more had 
applied for membership, but had not 
yet qualified under the Capper-Volstead 
Act. 

After a brief discussion of grain han- 
dling problems, Mr. Cummings pre- 
sented D. P. Moore of the Farmers Na- 
tional, a man long experienced in the 


_ grain business. 


Farmers National Man Speaks 

“The Farmers National controls 
20,000,000 bushels of storage space and 
now has headquarters and facilities es- 
tablished on the principal grain markets 
of the country,” said Mr. Moore. “We 
plan to get into every grain market 


eventually, prepared to offer bids to 


consumers. 
' “There are many conscientious and 
sincere old-line commission men in the 
grain business,” said Mr. Moore, “who 
have sought to givé the producer a fair 


NOTICE 
ELECTION OF DELEGATES 
ILLINOIS. AGRICULTURAL 
ASSOCIATION 

OTICE is hereby. given that in connec- 

tion with the annual meetings of all 
County Farm Bureaus to be held during the 
month of January, 1931, at the hour and 
place to be determined by the Board of Di- 
rectors of each respective County Farm, Bu- 
reau, the members in good standing of such 
County Farm Bureaus and who are also 
qualified voting members of Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association shall elect a delegate or 
delegates to represent such members of IIli- 
nois Agricultural Association and vote on 
all matters before the next annual meeting 
or any special meeting of Association, ' in- 
cluding the election of officers and directors 
as provided for in the by-laws of the Asso- 
ciation. 

The following counties hold annual meet- 
ings during the month of January: Carroll, 
Cook, Douglas, Franklin, Whiteside, Greene, 
Fulton, Knox, Lake, McHenry, Woodford, 
Macon, Mercer, Peoria, Sangamon, Tazewell. 

Signed: G. E. METZGER, Secretary. 

Jan. 1, 1931. 


price for his grain. But there are some 
things the old-line commission men can- 
not do and the Farmers National is 
organized and prepared to improve con- 
ditions from the standpoint of the pro- 
ducer, that the individual commission 
man cannot improve. Honest commis- 
sion men recognize that there are con- 
ditions existing in the present system of 
handling grain that need correcting if 
the farmer is to get the most out of his 
grain, yet he recognizes that it is up 
to the farmer himself, through organi- 
zation and co-operation, if these con- 
ditions are to be corrected for the bene- 
fit of the producer of grain.” 


Sell 12 Months a Year 

...-Mr. Moore called attention to the fact 
that frequently the first movement of 
the crop following harvest sells at a dis- 
count, that much of the first grain 
coming to market fails to bring what 
it’s worth. Grain is sold and used 12 
months of the year, he said, and often 
there is too great a spread between the 
cash and future price. The larger ter- 
minal elevators make money because 
they are equipped to handle the grain 
and merchandise it orderly. This is 
exactly what the farmer must do for 
himself through co-operation to get all 
that the market affords for his produce. 

The opportunity of the grain pro- 
ducer lies in concentrating enough grain 
in the hands of his own agency, said 
the speaker, to place him in a position 
to ask for a price instead of accepting 
a price bid by the buyer. The. millers 
and processors of the country are in 
sympathy for the most part with co- 


-operative grain marketing because they 


want to see a stabilized price through- 
out the year. The flour mill doesn’t 
make money on low-priced wheat. It is 
chiefly interested in securing a satis- 
factory return for processing the grain. 


In fact amore stable price would elimi- 
nate the speculation in the business for 
the processor. and in turn benefit both 


the producer and the consumer. 


Earl Smith in Afternoon 

In the afternoon Earl C, Smith, presi- 
dent of the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 
ciation, gave an in- 
teresting discussion 
reviewing the long 
continued pressure 
brought on the 
I. A. A. to become 
active in fostering 
a definite and effec- 
tive grain marketing 
program in Illinois. 
He told of the study 
and _ consideration 
given the problem 
over a _ period of 
years, and of the opportunity finally 
afforded through the Agricultural Mar- 
keting Act to present a definite recom- 
mendation which finally resulted in the 
Illinois Grain Corp. ° 

Mr. Smith..charged that enemies of 
co-operative marketing in Illinois ap- 
parently were deliberately misrepresent- 
ing the plan and set-up of the Illinois 
Grain Corp. to head off progress toward 
the concentration of volume in farmer- 
owned and farmer-controlled agencies. | 

“There is nothing in the plan or pro- 
gram of the Illinois regional which 
takes control of a local elevator away 
from its directors and stockholders,” he 
said. ‘“The plan merely provides for the 
concentration of volume in the hands 
of the farmer’s own sales agency. And 
if that feature is removed from co- 
operative marketing you have nothing 
left to justify its existence.” 

Round Table Discussion 

Technical problems involved in the 
buying and selling of grain were dis- 
cussed by Mr. Moore, Mr. Cummings, 
and others later in the afternoon. Mr. 
Moore stated that the visible supply of 
wheat was only 138,000,000 bushels, 
which is the lowest in the past 10 
years. 

The meeting was thrown open to dis- 
cussion and many elevator managers 
took an active part in the program. 
Thirty-two elevators were represented 
by 28 elevator managers. 

J. C. Sailor, a director in the Cissna 
Park elevator, stated that the Mid-West 
Grain Corporation had obtained for him 
4 price of 34 cents per bushel over the 
best bid the local elevator had at that 
time on a carload of wheat. “I realize,” 
said Mr. Sailor, “that our main objec- 
tive is not to get for the farmer only 
a few cents more a bushel, but never- 
theless I want to testify to this experi- 
ence which indicates that our own 
organization. can bid as much, or more 
than other handlers of grain.” 


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Sees Possibilities for Improvement: 


to Agriculture in Price 
Leveling Trend. 


| NOT only hope, but believe that 
1931 will offer those engaged in 
the farming industry an opportunity 
for constructive advancement,” Presi- 
dent. Earl C. Smith declared in a re- 
cent New Year’s address from Station 
WLS; Chicago. 

“While 1930 has witnessed conditions 
that test the stamina and try the souls 
of men.and women,” he continued, 
“yet the developments of the past year 
largely constitute the basis for such 
optimism as I-hold for the early future. 

‘Just now farm prices.are low, un- 
profitable to all except to the lowest 
cost producers. The industrial depres- 
sion, the weakened buying power of 
people in our consuming centers, the 
drastic decline in farm exports, excess 
production at home, increased produc- 
the continuing excessive 
costs of processing and distributing 
many farm products,: high taxes, high- 
priced.. credit and: lack of organized 
farmer bargaining power have all con- 
tributed to our present situation. Some 
of these’ we cannot help—others we 
can correct by working together. 

Disparity Is Cause 

“It is a well known and accepted 
fact that the difficulties of agriculture 
were largely caused by the disparity in 
exchange values between the products 
of the farm and those of other industry. 

“Throughout the years of effort put 
forth by. agricultural organizations, the 
farm press, and others speaking for agri- 
culture, it was repeatedly asserted that 
unless immediate and effective measures 
were enacted that were necessary to 
raise American agriculture to the arti- 
ficial levels being enjoyed by other eco- 
nomic groups, the nation would soon 
witness the equalizing of its respective 
conditions by developments similar to 
those realized during 1930. Economic 
laws cannot long be ignored or 
thwarted, and seem even now to be 
operating in that direction. 

“Although most agricultural com- 
modities have declined during 1930, I 
could quote a list of non-agricultural 
commodities that have declined a much 
greater percentage in price. While no 
constructive thinking citizen wants to 
see other interests in the throes of eco- 
nomic distress, yet after the many years 
of effort put forth by farm people to 
secure equality of opportunity, there is 
a certain amount of satisfaction in the 
realization that to a very large extent 
agriculture, other industry, and labor 


T. A. BORMAN 
Tom Borman, the genial but aggres- 
sive manager of the Beatrice Creamery 
Company, Chicago will address the an- 
nual meeting of the Lllinois Produce 
Marketing Ass’n. the afternoon of Jan- 
uary 28 at Springfield. 


are fast reaching a common level. 
“When such a basis is reached, much 
of the strife and misunderstanding that 
have existed between groups throughout 
recent, years will be automatically re-. 


then direct their forces toward a re- 
vival of interest and constructive effort 


‘that should and will result in the early 


restoration of prosperity throughout the 
United States.” 


Relief Through Taxation 

“Possibly the greatest opportunity 
for immediate relief to agriculture lies 
in the field of taxation. The 57th Gen- 
eral Assembly of Illinois is convening 
today.. Farm and home owners of the 
state have for years been carrying a 
very unjust portion of the cost of 
government. . . 

“It is my belief that a very large 
portion of this unjust burden can be re- 
moved if those same farm and home 
owners will unite in and behind a con- 
structive tax measure designed to re- 
lieve this situation. While not at liberty 
to go into any details, I am glad to be 
able to say that important conferences 
have been and are taking place to this 
end and now seem certain to result in 
combined effort of constructive inter- 
ests to bring this about. 

Commodity Organization 

“Farm people are fast learning of the 
benefits that result from real commodi- 
ty organization. While many of. these 
organizations are in their infancy, yet 
much could be said relative to the in- 
creased income being realized from the 
sale of farm commodities and reduced 
costs of _ commodities purchased by 
farmers—all brought about by centrali- 
zation of effort resulting in increased 


Henderson Bureau 


Honors C. W. Cooper 


W. COOPER, president of the 
. Henderson County Farm Bureau 
for the past 10 years, and active on 
the board for the past 13 years, was 
guest of honor at a luncheon in Mon- 
mouth, December 20. Forty-seven of 
his associates, including directors, Farm 
Bureau members and their wives, as- 
sembled to honor Mr. and Mrs. Cooper 
and express the gratitude of the organi- 
zation for their faithful service. Mr. 
Cooper was presented with a Hamilton 
watch and chain, and Mrs. Cooper a 
leather purse and basket of roses. 
Carl A. Johnson, Henderson County 


Farm Bureau president, served as toast- 


master. R. J. Hamilton, district or- 
ganization manager, gave a short talk 
complimentary to Mr. Cooper and his 
work. Farm Adviser Ernest D. Walker 
led in group singing, Mrs. Walker gave 
a reading. 

“Mr. Cooper was a member of the 
original organization committee of our 
Farm Bureau,” writes Mr. Walker, ‘‘and 
has served continuously as a director 
since its organization 13 years ago. For 
the past ten years Mr. Cooper has acted 


a ANE sega id chcald ; as, president and despite the fact that 
moved. interests can and sho 


there are 25 miles of dirt road between 
his farm and the office, during that 
time he missed but two directors’ meet- 
ings—once on account of jury Service 
and once when snowbound. 

“In that time Mr. Cooper estimates 
that he drove 7,000 miles to attend 
regular meetings to say nothing of spe- 
cial sessions and extra work. His faith- 
fulness has been an inspiration to the 
other board members and of great value 
to the Farm Bureau.” 


bargaining power. 

“In closing, may I again repeat that 
such optimism as I hold for the imme- 
diate future lies mostly in the field of 
opportunity for farmers. Results will 
be obtained just to the extent farmers 
have and increasingly become organiza- 
tion conscious and through organization 
take advantage of their opportunities.” 


Two-Day Conference 
Of Agents, Feb. 9-10 


A state-wide two-day conference for 
Country Life Insurance Company 
agents has been scheduled for February 
9 and 10 at Bloomington. 

A full two-day program of business, 
instruction, and entertainment in the 
general Farm Bureau insurance program 
is being arranged. 


Uncle Ab says books have some 
advantages over persons; one can 
always shut up a book. 


Page Ten 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


anuar 1931 


INOIS 
courtniy ASSOCIARION 
CORD™ 


To edvence-4b6 no pa which the Farm Bureau was organized, 
namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, political, 
and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the ‘nation, 
and to-develop agriculture, 


Editor, George Thiem 


Published once. a month by the Illinois Agricultural Association, 
at 124 So. Fifth St., Marshall, Ill>Adress all communications for publi- 
cation to Editorial Office, 608 "So. Dearborn St. ., Chicago, Ill. Entered - 
second-class matter oe 16, 1930, at the og office at Marshall, 
under the Act of March 3 1879. Accepted r mailing at special rate > 
postage provided for in Section 412, Act of Feb. 28, 1925, authorized 
Oct. 27, 1925. The individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural 
Association is five dollars a year. The fee includes payment’ of fifty cents 
for subscription to the Illinois Agricultural Association Record, Post- 
master: In returning an uncalled for missent copy, please indicate key 
number on address as is reduines ae . 


President, Earl C, ESE is ae ae Detroit 
Vice-President, - R. Wright. AMOR ESS | 
Secretary, 7. ag — 09 RAS ikapobatnacmeneieisie ......Chicago 
Treasurer, R. A. "CoWleS.e.ennneccennn dee EE Bloomington 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

(By pinches District) 
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OR iss ps comassiainescvene aeeeseenenenseeseecencereesecerereeeeeceeeeG, F, Tullock, Rockford 
13th... inns ..-----C, E, Bamborough, Polo 
ech asain ci diet sis oek dbcqeictncsnemnbena secaaieiauaeerin semanas M. G. Lambert, Ferris 
15th.. .A. N. Skinner, Yates City 
16th... Geo. B. Muller, Washington 
17th... rinse  saiiansanes Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut 
18th...... suleintacitscciaaceimesdempinestemeenouivegecaglasehsnsnbiiaeaan tk A. Dennis, Paris 
Pa cepa cisc ads hataceessdhcueseonsiipnonensdapechecmmmoiecl saoniacibenve ied veda giana . J. Gross, Atwood 


jinnjemnsipsacksnielsekernbamsoes WERE 3 "Black, Jacksonville 
Pea ecackcinatehcecoenthicontintesalenrybenghtcaiietstebakatacnainteaienle Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 

‘t : ..Frank Oexner, Waterloo 
...-W. L. Cope, Salem 
UI acon o rain bh crechatp sabes encsbeiieanpsovtennaalbicsnbdzencscaeendanthesimuaberedateeea Charles: Marshall 


25th.............. -Fred Dietz, De Soto 
DEPARTMENT RAREST ORS 

COR CE TNE naan n scenic eeenctblntbecioany —stennconbentakinninekinaiatvoren . H. Kelker 

Finance....... ; = Cowles: 

Fruit and Vegetable “Marketing Leeper 


Harrison Fabrakoot 


Grain Marketing..........------- George Thiem 


Information ....---..-----.---2ce----e-nn-nansnnncnnconsenenee 


ee era ike P28 RA STN APE EE ae PRS RRS LL Pe V. Vaniman 
Legal Counsel ..-..1..----------.-s----s-cee-e-eneneseneenreneeereneneeeseeeesDONAld Kirkpatrick 
Limestone-Phosphate..........----------------0---20--e--0-=2 ieahtinacin deehoetnieicemssieatenemste J. _R. Bent 
Live Stock Marketing............-......-.-...------..- aeeeseeeeeeeeeeee-Ray E, Miller 
Office........ ccieeiaiopcips cis By ESE EY FIORE A SOLE SES C. E. Johnston 
Organization........... .....-.G. E, Metzger 
Produce Marketing... we ......F, A. Gougler 
Taxation and Statistic i C. Watson 
We eu ce ie |, Wiel Cid. PUNE RaaE saan ener eens te nneoe NLC Tena ON J. Quasey 


ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 


Country Life Insurance Co..........-..... rs don A. Williams, Mgr. 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co... ..J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 


Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives ASS Meco _F. E Ringham, Mer. 
~~fllinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co............ Ry E. Richardson, Mgr. 
Illinois Farm yy gh CO. .nnnceecernerencnennecnceednere-eerqeeeneeeeee--L, R, Marchant, Mgr. 
Illinois Grain Corp. ....--...------.----nencesennentesenseneennee Harrison Fahrnkopf, Mgr. 
Midwest Grain Corp......-......----.---------------- Chas. P. Cummings, Gen’l. Mgr. 
Soybean Marketing Assn.......-.-2-.----------:--e0-c-snnsneesenenemneee--Je H. Lloyd, Mgr. 


Ten Years From Now 
coop place to get an estimate of the ac- 


complishments and value of your organiza- 
tion is at its annual meeting. The coming I. A. A. 
convention at Springfield, Jan. 28-29-30 will pre- 
sent a cross section of the work of organized far- 
mers in Illinois. It will reflect the interests and 
thinking of that portion of the state’s agricultural 
population which believes that organized effort is 
the way to economic and social progress. 

Your elected officers and directors who are 
charged with responsibility for carrying on the 
varied activities authorized by you, want to make 
the organization responsive to the will of the 
membership. Ample opportunity will be offered 
at the coming meeting for every member to 
voice his opinions and convictions, to help direct 
the future policies of the association. 

Vision balanced by sound thought must always 
precede achievement whether ,the enterprise is 


private or co-operative. If the Illinois Agricultural 
Association has more accomplishments to its credit 
than most organizations of like nature, a large 
part of the credit rightfully goes to the foresight- 
edness and courage of those who more than a dec- 
ade ago gave it a sound set-up, character, and mo- 
mentum. . 

The degree of courage, the kind of thinking, 
and the type of co-operative action shown by the 
membership today will largely determine the kind 
of an organization you will have five or ten years 
from now. 


Irrigation Farming Declines 


1 ao from the Department of Commerce on irri- 
gation in the western states réveal interesting trends 
during the past 10 years. 

As a result of the widespread agricultural depression 
which began in 1921, many of the irrigation enterprises, 
which were initiated before, during, and directly after the 
war, show a decided decrease in the area irrigated. The 
figures indicate that because of low farm prices it became 
unprofitable to farm much of this semi-arid and arid land 
in the western states. 

' When farm prices become high literally millions of acres 
of western land can be brought into production and farmed 
to swell the surplus. This is exactly what happened as a 
result of the unusual price stimulation brought on by the 
world war. Moreover once new areas are brought under 


the plow they are allowed to go back to pasture or waste” 


land very slowly. This-is one of the reasons production has 
been maintained on a comparatively-high level during the 
last decade. 


Editorial of the Month 


Made a Mistake 


We believe that the city council made a mistake Mon- 
day evening in joining the cities that are demanding one- 
third of the gasoline tax. The governor of the state has 
requested that the present distribution of the tax be. not 
disturbed. To give the cities what they demand will upset 
the entire program of road improvement and may seriously 
affect contracts already entered into with the idea that 
the tax will stand. 


Furthermore, we believe that the business interests of 
Galesburg demand better roads from the country into the 
city, and it was the design to give the unpaved country 
roads the benefit of the tax until such time at least as there 
is a reasonable amount of improvement. There are in this 
county hundreds of farmers who are still remote from paved 
roads and who find entrance to the cities and towns of the 
county hard when the roads are muddy and bad. It is to 
the business and commercial interest of the city that it be 
as accessible as possible. 

We were hoping that the city council would ‘show a 
more friendly and generous spirit toward the country com- 
munity than is manifested by many of the cities of the 
state. The demand for a part of the tax is based largely 
on selfish motives, and we do not believe that the council 
really deliberated much over the spirit of the formal reso- 
lution that was evidently sent here from outside for it to 
pass on.—Register-Mail, Galesburg. 


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4) 


Chicago Milk Shippers 
Take Reduction in Price 


Quart Charge Drops to 13c, Pro- 
ducers Realize Necessity for 
Checking Production. 


HICAGO milk shippers will re- 
ceive a cut in price from $2.67 
to $2.32 per 100 pounds f. o. b. coun- 
try points for all fluid milk sold in Chi- 
cago, according to a decision announced 
by Dr. Clyde L. King of Philadelphia 
who was called in by officials of the 
Pure Milk Association and the organ- 
ized dealers. 

Dr. King, who is official arbitrator 
recognized by the Pure Milk Associa- 
tion and Chicago dealers announced 
his decision following a reduction from 
14 to 13 cents per quart for retail milk. 
Pint bottles remain at 8 cents. It is 
calculated that the reduction, effective 
on New Year’s day, will result in a loss 
of more than $15,000 a day to the 
milk industry at Chicago. 

“Surplus milk” will be computed on 
the basis: of current. Chicago butter 
quotations with an allowance for skim 
milk as heretofore announced. ° 


Labor Takes No Cut 


No portion of the expense of reduc- 
ing the Chicago milk price is assumed 
by the wagon drivers, according to 
Union officials, since their contract pro- 
viding for a minimum wage scale of 
$51 a week does not expire until May, 
1932. It is reported that other cities 
close to Chicago are following the re- 
tail price cut of one cent a quart. 

The spread between what the farmer 
gets and what the consumer pays on 
the Chicago market is greater than at 
most markets of the country. Part of 
this is due to the fact that union labor 
in Chicago is highly organized, also to 
the fact that Chicago is a high-priced 
city with proportionate high costs for 
service. 

Misleading newspaper reports stated 
that at the Milwaukee market farmers 


receive $2.50 per 100 pounds for their » 


milk, although the retail price dropped 
on January 1 to 10 cents a quart. The 
$2.50 price, according to officials of the 
Pure Milk Association, is a delivered at 
Milwaukee price for only about 50 per 
cent of the milk going to market. The 
country price for this portion is $2.25 
per cwt., and the surplus is computed 
on its butterfat content. Thus the pool 
price to the Milwaukee shipper. is con- 
siderably less than $2.25, lying some- 
where between $1.60 per cwt. and 
$2.25. 

Members of the Pure Milk Associa- 
tion are accepting the cut realizing that 
it was necessary to take drastic measures 
to reduce the ever-growing surplus. 


January, 1931 more THE I. A. A. RECORD Page Eleven 


NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF 
ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL MUTUAL 
INSURANCE COMPANY 
Take notice that the annual meeting of 
the members. of Illinois Agricultural Mu- 
tual Insurance Company will be held on 
Wednesday, the 28th day of January, 1931, 
at the hour of 1 o'clock p. m., at the 
Abraham Lincoln Hotel, Springfield, Illinois, 
to elect directors, receive, and, if approved, 
confirm the report of the board of=directors 
of the-company for the fiscal year ending 
December 31, 1930; and to consider and, if 
approved, ratify and confirm all the- acts 
and proceedings of the: board of directors 
done and taken since the last annual meet- 
ing of the members of the company; and 
for the transaction of such further and 
other business as may properly come before 

the meeting. 
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, Jan. 1, 1931. 
Georce F, Tuitock, Secretary. 


A Reply to Dr. Poole 


“TJ note in the December number of 
I. A. A. RECORD a letter from Dr. 
Poole of Missouri which has some very 


good suggestions in it. Farmers have 
purchased too many tractors, it is true, 
but Doctor, do you think you got the 
best diagnosis of your case? Don’t you 
think you should have given the high- 
powered salesman the combing he de- 
serves, and manufacturing brains credit 
for the construction of machinery that 
has relieved millions of doing hard la- 
bor. If farmers follow your advice we 
will soon be back to tallow candles and 
mud roads, and we all say never again. 

“If you are an up-to-date physician, 
as I am sure you are, you have changed 
with progress, as we have, 

“You speak about our Farm Supply 
Co. ‘advertisement, ‘Know Your Oil as 
Well as Your Soil.’ All our petroleum 
products are purchased direct from the 
refinery in such quantities as to get 
very lowest prices consistent with high 
quality. Now here is the point I want 
you to get and I am sure you will 
think we are doing just what should 
be done for Farm Bureau members. 

“Every dollar of net profit made 
from co-operative purchasing of petro- 
leum products belongs to the Farm Bu- 
reau member, and this is retained in 
the county and placed in circulation at 
home. Most other companies take their 
profits out of the state. We procure 
home men as managers, and truck driv- 
ers, and while many counties now op- 
erating are making 100 per cent net 
profit on capital stock each year, we 
keep this profit at home. 

“You mentioned you were asked to 
buy our preferred stock. Those who 
have purchased know they always get 
their interest promptly and now prefer 
it to bank stock or even stock in Wall 
Street, and so our preferred stock is al- 
ways at par.” 

C. E. Carrier, 
Piatt County, Ill. 


Soybean Ass’n. to Hold 
Annual Meeting in Feb. 


Se annual meeting of the Soybean 
Marketing Association will be held 
Wednesday, February 25, at Decatur, 
announces President John W. Arm- 
strong. 

In a recent letter to leaders in the 
soybean co-operative, Mr. Armstrong 
requested the various county units to 
hold their local annual meetings where 
the advisory councilmen (five council- 
men to be elected by the members, and 
two appointed by the County Farm 
Bureau) and the delegate or delegates 
to the annual meeting should be elected. 


The Committee on Arrangements for 
the annual meeting of the Soybean As- 
sociation is composed of J. F. Probst, 
chairman; Harry E. Pickrell and‘ V. C. 
Swigart. The Credentials Committee 
consists of Dwight Hart, chairman; 
John Albright and M. D. Tomlin. 


Ask for Boys’ and | 
Girls’ Club Building 


“Because of the constant growth and 
interest in 4-H boys’ and girls’ club 
work in the State of Illinois, whose 
members are the future farmers of to- 
morrow,” the Macon County Farm Bu- 
reau. Executive Committee recently 
voted their endorsement of the follow- 
ing resolution: ' 

““We, the officers and members of the 
Macon County Farm Bureau, would 
like to see a permanent structure erected 
at the State Fair Grounds to take care 
of the housing of these members. and 
their live stock exhibits. 

“As it now is, they have no perma- 
nent quarters for their animals or per- 
manent living quarters for themselves. 
They are, therefore, greatly inconven- 
ienced from the standpoint of housing 
animals, from showing, from the social 
and educational activities which accom- 
pany 4-H club work at the State Fair. 

“In the past ten years the 4-H clubs 
have shown a most remarkable growth 
in the State of Illinois and we feel 
that due to the fact that they have 
not had permanent quarters, that in 
the coming year consideration should 
be given to the erection of permanent 
housing quarters for this fast growing 
division of the Illinois State Fair. 

“Respectfully submitted by the 

“Macon County Farm Bureau, 

“Signed, A. P. McIntosh, Sec’y.” 


Wisconsin dairy “herd improvement 
association members mark the cows 
that prove unprofitable in their herds 
by a triangular ear mark. They want 
to avoid buying the animals back when 
the cow should be slaughtered. 


‘ 


Page Twelve THE I. A. A. RECORD January, 1931 


Hope for Reassessment 
Personal Property in Cook 


Local Real Estate Taxpayers Fight 
to Make Personal Property ¢ 
Carry Part of Tax Load. 


Alaa declaring that the 
Illinois Tax Commission will exer- 
cise every power it has under the 
statutes to bring about an adequate as- 
sessment of personal property for 1930 
in Cook county, was issued by Chair- 
man William H. Malone recently: 
The commission denied the request of 
the Association of Real Estate Taxpay- 
ers in Cook County 
for a reassessment of 
personal property as 
of April 1, 1929, on 
the ground that such 
an order would cause 
a breakdown in lo- 
cal government, 
‘since 1929 taxes are 
collectible on April 
1. Sufficient time 
does not remain to 
complete a reassess- 
ment by that date, the commission said. 


Legislation Needed 

“It is apparent to the commission and 
to its advisory committee,” the state- 
ment continued, “that additional legis- 
lation will be necessary in order to 
make this result possible; and the com- 
mission and its advisory committee will 
give its assistance in the preparation of 
the necessary bills to be submitted at 
the present session of the legislature.” 

It is understood that Hayden Bell, 
attorney for the Cook County Board of 
Commissioners, and I. T. Greenacre will 
assist in drafting the necessary bills for 
this legislation. In the meantime, the 
tax commission and its advisory com- 
mittee will immediately begin the work 
of mapping out steps that can be taken 
toward bringing about an equitable re- 
assessment of personal property in Cook 
county. 


— 
Wm. H. Malone — 


Ohio Makes ’Em Pay 

Part of the legislation desired is a 
modern assessment blank for personal 
property, such as is used in Ohio. In 
Cincinnati and Cleveland about 25 per 
cent of the total tax revenue is ob- 
tained from personal property.. Only 
half that percentage is obtained in Chi- 
cago. 

At a recent hearing before the state 
tax commission Harry C. Cutmore, di- 
rector of the Cook county real estate 
reassessment, charged that personal 
property in Cook county is now assessed 
by -payrollers and job holders who make 
their appraisals while sitting on their 
stools in the county building. “If any- 


one set out deliberately to do the worst 
kind of a job of assessing personal prop- 
erty, he would arrive at something like 
the present situation we have in Cook 
county,” said Cutmore. 


It is urged by tax students that the . 


board of assessors and board of review 
in Cook county be abolished, that an 


expert appraiser be employed to make: 


original assessments, and that a review- 
ing group having well defined and lim- 
ited powers be selected. 


Wm. H. Malone Quits 
As State Tax Chief 


—_———_ 


A° we go to press newspaper dis- 
patches announce the resignation 
of Chairman William H. Malone of the 


state tax commission. 


Illinois farmers will regret the loss 
of Mr. Malone’s services to this impor- 
tant office. He made a record for fair- 
ness and honesty in administering the 
tax laws of the state. Orders of re- 
assessment issued by the tax commis- 
sion during recent years have been ef- 
fective in equalizing property values in 
many downstate counties. The cour- 
ageous order of reassessment issued in 
Cook county was credited with smash- 
ing the tax fixing racket which had 
held’ full sway for many years. Chair- 
man Malone and his associates invari- 
ably gave the Farm Bureau tax com- 
mittees and I. A. A. representatives a 
courteous hearing. 


Omer Custer, former state treasurer 
from Galesburg, is being prominently 
mentioned as Mr. Malone’s successor. 


More Dividends Paid 
To Bureau Members 


The Tri-County Oil Company, Mon- 
mouth, recently paid a 10% patronage 
dividend and declared a special 5% 
patronage refund to be paid at a later 
date. Five hundred and thirty-nine 
Farm Bureau members received an aver- 
age of $22.66, or a total of $12,215.27. 


The Peoria County Service Company 
paid an 8% patronage refund to Farm 
Bureau members and has declared an- 
other special patronage refund of 8% 
to. be paid in the future. More than 
$12,000 will be returned to Farm Bu- 
reau member patrons of this company. 


The DeWitt County Service Com- 
pany recently declared an annual pat- 
ronage refund of 5% to be paid during 
the present fiscal year. 


A bill was recently introduced in the Massa- 
chusetts legislature providing for an automobile 
insurance company managed and controlled by 
the state im competition with private companies. 


Too Much Local Gov’t. | 
Held Cause High Taxes 


‘Tax Commissioner Tells How. New 


York State Equalized Tax Load‘ 


cc] N my opinion we have too much 
local government — too many 
units of local government—and too 
many local officials spending our 
money.” This is the way Mark Graves, 
New York state tax commissioner 
summarized his reasons for high taxes 
in a recent address before the American 
Farm Bureau Federation at Boston. 


*‘Just because our forefathers a few 


generations ago established a certain 


system of local government constitutes 
no reason why it should therefore re- 
main unchanged,” he said. ‘“‘We per- 
form no part of the work on our farms 


today as our grandfathers did. Times © 


have changed. Methods of transacting 
business have changed and methods of 
farming have changed. 


Pure Extravagance 


“Just as certainly then methods of 
transacting governmenal business 
should change, and the machinery of 
government should be altered accord- 
ingly. Specifically I wish to be under- 
stood as saying we have many small, 
poor, insignificant units of local gov- 
ernment—towns, villages, and especial- 
ly school districts and some counties— 
which we can ill afford to maintain and 
which it is pure extravagance to con- 
tinue. It is not too early to give heed 
to this condition. 
the state to equalize taxes to meet. the 
necessary cost of government. No ob- 
ligation rests upon the state to pay any 
part of the cost of an unnecessary 
agency or unit of government.” 


Mr. Graves discussed in detail the 


‘ measures taken by the New York state 


legislature to make possible the equali- 
zation of rural and urban taxes. A 
review of a period of 12 years in se- 
lected typical counties revealed, he said, 
that the increase in the tax load’ has 
been two and one-half times as great 
in the purely rural communities as in 
wealthy populous counties. 


Highways and Schools 


“We found that most of the increase 
was due to highway and school ex- 
penses,” he continued. “Having local- 
ized the cause we then proceeded to 
devise methods of securing a better 
equalization of the cost of highways 
and schools.- This program embraced 
several pieces of legislation.” 


Uncle Ab says that persons who 
differ with us may be just as good 
as we are, at that! 


It is the duty of - 


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TWO YEARS OF/ACCOMDLISAMENT 


OUR PLACE IN TE SUN 


Dividend schedule d@lared—resulting 
in lowest net cost. 


Largest first yeag® business on record | 
—nearly 12,00Q@folicies issued in 1929. 


Largest secog@f year’s business on rec- 
ord—moregnan 13,000 polities issued 
in 1930. 

Lowest@apse record for the second year 
of angcompany—more than 95% pajglf 
prep#fums promptly. 


Dgath rate only 26% of expegf€d rate 
Ath $38,000,000 paid busipg#s in force. 


High interest earning#” on invested 
funds. 


1930 total assetg@fiore than $625,000* 
1929 assets 245,000 


Increasegf - - + $380,000, or 
Over 
O total reserves in ex- 
cessof - - - - -' <affili®0.000* 
1929 reserves - « - ' 84.847 
Increase ing@Serves - - $314,153, or 
negty 500%. 


*Exact figures not available until audit now in progress is 
Completed. 


Page Twelve 


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Hope for Reassessment 
Personal Property in Cook 


Local Real Estate Taxpayers Fight 
to Make Personal Property 
Carry Part of Tax Load. 

A STATEMENT declaring that the 
L lilinois TaxCommission will exer- 
under the 


cise every power it- has 


tatutcs to bring about an adequate as- 
1930 


in Cook county, was issued by ~Chair- 


sessment of personal property for 


man William H. Malone recently. 
The commission denied the request of 

the Association of Real Estate Taxpay- 

ers in. Cook County 


for a reassessment of 
personal property as 
ot April 1, 1929, on 
the ground that such 
an order would’ cause 
a breakdown in lo- 
cal .,overnment, 
since 1929 taxes are 
collectible on April 


1. Suftheient time 


does not remain to 


Wim. I. (Malone Ti 


complete a reassess- 


-ment by that date, the commission said. 


Legislation Needed 

“It is apparent to the commission and 
to its advisory committec,” the: state- 
ment continued, “that additional legis- 
lation will be necessary in order to 
make this result possible; andthe com- 
mission and its advisory committee will 
give its assistance in the preparation @f 
the necessary bills to be submitted at 
the present session of the legislature.” 

It is understood that Hayden Bell, 
attorney for the Cook County Board of 
Commissioners, and I. T. Greenacre will 
assist in drafting the necessary bills for 
this legislation. In the meantime, the 
tax commission and its advisory com- 
mittee will immediately begin the work 
of mapping out steps that can be taken 
toward bringing about. an equitable re- 
assessment of personal property in Cook 


county 
Ohio Makes ’Em Pay 
Part of the legislation desired is: a 


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modern ‘assessment blank for personal 
property such as is used in Ohio. In 
Cincinnati and Cleveland about 25 per 
total tax revenue 1s ob- 


Only 


percentage is obtained in Chi- 
I 


cent of the 
tained from personal property. 
half that 
Cago. 

At a recent hearing betore the state 
tax commission Harry C. Cutmore, di- 
rector of the Cook county real estate 
reassessment, charged that personal 
property in Cook county 1s now assessed 
by pay rollers and job holders who make 
thei appraisals while sitting on their 

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stools in the county building. “If any- 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


January, 1931 


one set out deliberately to do the worst 
kind of a job of assessing personal prop- 
erty, he would arrive at something like 
the present situation we have in Cook 
county,” said Cutmore. 

It is urged by tax students that the 
board of assessors and board of. review 
in Cook county be abolished, that an 
expert appraiser be employed to make 
original assessments, and that a-review- 
ing group having well defined and lim- 
ited powers be selected. 


Wm. H. Malone Quits 
‘ As State Tax Chief 


A? we go to press newspaper dis- 
patches announce the resignation 
of Chairman William H. Malone of the 
state tax Commission. 

Illinois farmers will regret the-loss 
of Mr. Malone’s services to this impor- 
tant othce. He made a record for fair- 
ness and honesty in administering the 
tax laws of the state. Orders of re- 
assessment issued by the tax commis- 
sion during recent years have been ef- 
fective in equalizing property values in 
many downstate counties. The cour- 
ageous order of reassessment issued in 
Cook county was credited with smash- 
ing the tax fixing racket which had 
held full sway for many years. Chair- 
man Malone and his associates invari- 
ably gave the Farm Bureau tax com- 
mittees and I. A. A. representatives a 
courteous hearing. . 

Omer Custer, former state treasurer 
from Galesburg, is being prominently 
mentioned as Mr. Malone’s successor. 


More Dividends Paid 


To Bureau Members 


The Tri-County Oil Company, Mon- 
mouth, recently paid a 10% patronage 
dividend and’ declared a special 5% 
patronage refund to be paid at a later 
date. Five hundred and_ thirty-nine 
Farm Bureau members received an aver- 


age of $22.66, or a total of $12,215.27.: 


The Peorra County Service Company 
paid an 8% patronage refund to Farm 
3ureau members and has declared an- 
other spécial patronage refund of 8% 
to be paid in the future. More than 
$12,000 wil be returned to Farm Bu- 
reau member patrons of this company. 

The DeWitt County Service Com- 
pany recently declared an annual pat- 


-ronage refund of 5% to be paid during 


the present fiscal year. 


A bill was recently introduced in the Massa- 
chusetts legislature providing for an automobile 
insurance company managed and controlled by 
the state im competition with private companies. 


Too Much Local Gov’t. 
Held Cause High Taxes 


Tax Commissioner Tells How New: 
York State Equalized Tax Load 


cco] N my opinion we have too much 
local government -— too many 
units of local government—and _ too 
many local spending our 
money.” This is the way Mark Graves, 
New York state tax commissioner 
summarized his reasons for high taxes 
in a recent address before the American 
Farm Bureau Federation at Boston: 


officials 


“Just because our forefathers a few 
generations ago established a certain 
system of local government constitutes 
no reason why it should therefore re 
main unchanged,” he said. “We per- 
form no part of the work on our farms 
today as our grandfathers did. 
have changed. Methods of transacting 
business have changed and methods of 
farming have changed. 


Times 


Pure Extravagance 


“Just as certainly then methods oi 


transacting governmenal business 
should change, and the machinery: of 
government should be altered 


ingly. 


1ccord- 
Specifically I wish vo be under- 
stood a’ saying we have many small, 
poor, insigniffcant units of local gov- 
ernment—towns, Villages, and especial- 
ly school districts and some counties— 
which we can ill afford to maintain and 
which it is pure extravagance to con- 
tinue. 
to this condition. It is the duty of 
the state to equalize taxes to meet the 
necessary cost of government. No ob- 
ligation rests upon the state fo pay any 
part of the cost of an unnecessary 
agency or unit of government.” 

Mr. Graves. discussed in detail the 
measures taken by the New York state 
legislature to make possible the equali- 
zation of rural and urban taxes. A 
review of a period of 12 years in se- 
lected typical counties revealed, he said, 
that the increase in the tax: load has 
been two and one-half’ times as great. 
in the purely rural communities as in 
wealthy populous counties. 


Highways and Schools 


“We found that most of the increase 
was due to highway, and. school ex- 
penses,” he continued., “Having local 
ized the cause we thén proceeded to 
devise methods of securing a_ better 
equalization of the cost of highways 


This 


several pieces of legislation.” 


and_ schools. program) embraced 


Uncle Ab says that persons who 
differ with us may be just as good 
as we are, at that! 


It is not -too early to give heed *’ 


COUNTRY LIFE 


- INSURANCE COMPANY 


TWO YEARS OF ACCOMDLISHMENT 


OUR PLACE IN THE SUN 


Dividend schedule declared-—resulting 
in lowest net cost. 

Largest first year’s business on record 
——nearly 12,000 policies issued in 192% 
Largest second year’s business on rec 
ord—more than 13,000 policies tssued 
in 1930. | 

Lowest lapse record for the second year 
of any company—more than 95% paid 
premiums promptly. 

Death rate only 26% of expected rate 
with, $38,000,000 paid business in force 
High interest earnings on invested 


funds. 


1930 total assets more than $625. (0* 


1929 assets - + - + 245 OOO 
Increase 1n assets / $380,000, or 
over 250%. 
1930 total reserves in ex 
Cess-OF: +: + ~~ + $400,000" 
1929 reserves, o 84.847 
Increase 1n reserves $314,153. o1 


nearly 500%. 


*Exact figures not availabl; 
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EARLY DIVIDENDS TO P¢ 


T HE outstanding success of Country 

Life Insurance Co., now only two years 
old, warranted the directors to vote a divi- 
dend to policyholders one year earlier than 
the policy provision for dividends. This 
year, beginning in February, 1931, every 
policyholder that pays his third’ premium 
will receive a special dividend. The regular 
policy dividend. will be paid at the end of 
the third year. 


Courage and Intelligence Succeed 


. This achievement is a tribute to.the effec- 
tiveness of organized agriculture in Illinois. 
No small amount of courage and intelligence 
is required to step into a field of finance and 
underwriting such as life insurance and suc- 
ceed. Particularly does it require courage 


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when you expect to pioneer in this field and 
reform certain practices in vogue for many 
years. Directors of the Illinois Agricultural 
Association over a period of two years in- 
vestigated the need for life insurance service 


before starting Country Life Insurance. 


Company. 
Dependable Insurance at Low Cost 


Discoveries resulting from those investi- 
gations showed the opportunities for ser- 
vice in lowering rates, cutting overhead ex- 
pense and acquisition costs, and giving a 
needed dependable life insurance protection 
at a saving. After final approval of the 
membership the company was launched 
December 28, 1928. Its accomplishments 
since then are well known to all. 


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puAt our policyholders are proud of 


Country Life’s record of achievement, 


confident of its future, is seen in our very . 


low lapse rate. More than 95% of the 1929 


policyholders paid their second year pre- 


miums promptly. Faith of this kind in a 
company is bound to mean dollars saved 
and paid to policyholders. 


Helping to Create An Estate of Gold 


Building Country Life Insurance Com- 
pany aroused justified enthusiasm . . . drew 
competent leadership’ and talent from 
county and community to spread enlighten- 
ment and help create estates of gold for 
Farm Bureau families. 

These men who comprise Country Life’s 
agency. force are aware of the company’s 


great opportunity. They know of its co- 
operative set-up, its ideals of placing the 
interests of the policyholders first. They 
have helped build confidence not only in 
your and their company, but also have 
given wholehearted support to all Farm 
Bureau projects. 


Millions for Policyholder Benefits 


We have trained these leaders. They 
have attended schools and meetings and 
carried back to their counties information 
and enthusiasm with the result that thou- 
sands of dollars have been saved to their 


counties—many millions of dollars in es- 


tates created for paying off mortgages, edu- 
cating children, for retirement incomes, 
and for old age comforts. 


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A Monument 
WJ HOUT this leadership and sup- 


port no such enterprise could have 
succeeded. Country Life is a monument to 
effective co-operation. 


Co-operation 


of gold. In all the history of life insurance 
no other such record of constructive 
achievement and unselfish building can bg 
found. 


A Tribute To Member Loyalty 


ife Insurance a Guaranteed Estate 


wenty-five thousand policyholders in 
Illitis have demonstrated their faith and 0 the 
appr@iation of Country Life for providing 


offering protection at rates that 


a cert™in way of realizing their ambitions, 
protectige their dependents. be raised and at cost unequaled I dot 
| Today@linois farmers are informed about rid me gear ae Ee, 
the benefif® of life insurance as they never OEY. kee 2 BORER ae 
‘—@ financial achievement in its fst two years, 


have been @efore. No one can say now 
that lack of Qnowledge and information is 
preventing ouf@people from creating estates 
with old line Mgal reserve life insurance. 


/ a company’s 


development. 


The Goal of C 

Our Company occ 
position in the bright 
life insurance world. 4 


A life insuran@ policy in Country Life 
IS AN ESTM@TE OF GOLD. lys of the sun of the 


All eyes are watching 


‘Success Meastwed By Service 


A ORE than 25,00@ farmers in Illinois . It means millions of 
now boast of part in making 
Country Life Insurance Yompany and its 


lions paid to beffeficiaries on the farms of 


ecord accomplishments. ¥The Company § Illinois. It meghs greater stability of farm 
aid out nearly $80,000%n death claims ership, farm mortgages lifteg 
ears, but because o impressive instead of sagfifice sales, education fundgfor 

business already cured, this e@ of fatmers. Let us g#on to 
rate is onl © of the expecte&\ Country re accomplishment, #Fet us en- 
isks with care to paotect the 1 who are not pfticipating in 
costs low. Whe im- Life’s benefits g@ get a policy in 
portant thing is tha®the benefici#ties of ) 
are protected, 
sb premium paid add8 to their estates 


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Sec’y. Hyde Comments 
‘On Corn Sugar Ruling 


Modification Removes Stigma from 
Corn Product. 


i Be recent ruling by Secretary Ar- 
‘thur M. Hyde regarding corn sugar 
removed a discrimination against the use 
of this product, which has too long 
been permitted. In 
a recent statement 
Secretary Hyde said: 
“The requirement 
heretofore that the 
presence of corn su- 
gar as an ingredient 
in prepared foods be 
declared on the label 
was not a matter of 
law, but was a mat- 
ter of administrative 
interpretation of the 
law. This ruling 
therefore involves no change in the 
Federal food and drugs act; nor does 
it change the rules with reference to 
labeling of harmful or injurious in- 
gredients. Labeling of such ingredients 
still is required. 


“When the Federal food and drugs 
act was passed 23 years ago corn sugar 
was a muddy, brown product less than 
50 per cent sweet. Under conditions 
existing then, a prejudice existed 
against it. As a matter of administra- 
tive procedure, this department ruled 
that its presence.in a prepared food 
must be declared on the label. 


Now Clean White Product 


' “In the last 10 years great progress 
has been made in refining corn sugar. 
It is-now a clear, clean, white, granu- 
lated sugar. It is a wholesome and 
healthful food. It is now about 75 per 
cent as sweet as cane sugar. It has some 
properties more valuable than cane 
sugar. It has no qualities which are in 
any wise harmful to health. The rea- 
son for the old departmental ruling has 
disappeared. It is high time that the 
discrimination against: it, based on an 
ancient prejudice should disappear also 


Sec’y. Hyde 


“I cannot agree to the proposition 
that the purchaser of prepared fruits 
or other foods in which sugar is an 
element expects or believes that such 
sugar will always and everywhere mean 
sucrose. The-—purchaser of canned 
peaches, for instance, expects to buy 
primarily canned peaches. There is no 
declaration on the label that they are 
sweetened at all, the label declares only 
peaches. He looks to the manufacturer 
to guarantee that they will be tasty 
and appetizing. He expects the Federal 


* 


‘rulings. 
produced.. The fact that production’ 


January, 1931 THE I. A. A. RECORD Page Seventeen 


food and drugs act to insure their 
wholesomeness. If those requisites are 
fulfilled he is far from being deceived. 


He is entirely satisfied. 


No Danger to Manufacturer 


“Nor is there any danger whatever 
to the manufacturer of special brands 
whose formulas call for sucrose and 
whose brands are a guarantee of quality. 
This ruling cannot affect them. If, on 
the other hand, its use is beneficial and 
wholesale without adversely affecting 
the appearance or taste of the product, 
the fact that corn sugar is cheaper 
ought to commend it to the consuming 
public who are entitled, as a matter of 
right, to demand food products on the 
most economical basis. 

“There is also an affirmative economic 
reason for this change in departmental 
American agriculture is over- 


runs ahead of consumption is responsi- 
ble for most of the ills of agriculture. 
The Federal Farm Board, farm organi- 
zations, many of the state colleges, and 
this department are striving to re-estab- 
lish the economic balance of agricul- 
ture. The control and limitation of 
acreage planted is one method of re- 
establishing that balance. Finding new 
uses and new outlets for crops is an- 


other method. 
Potential Market Opened 


“We produce annually about 2,700,- 
000,000 bushels of corn. Only about 
275,000,000 bushels of this ever reaches 
primary markets. The sale price of this 
small amount fixes the farm price for 
the whole crop. 


“There exists a potential market for 
corn through corn sugar variously esti- 
mated at from 5,000,000 to 100,000,- 
000 bushels per annum. ‘The smaller 
figure represents about 2 per cent of 
the cash corn reaching primary mar- 
kets. The larger figure represents about 
35 per cent. It is not likely that the 
larger figure will be realized for many 
years. Be the per cent large or small, 
the opening of this potential market 
for additional corn is a step in the right 
direction. If we fail to use all avail- 
able methods of restoring agricultural 
balance, whether those methods repre- 
sent great and spectacular gains, or 
merely short and unnoticed steps, we 
shall be derelict in duty. 

“I believe that this modification re- 
moves an undéserved stigma from corn 
sugar; that it harms or deceives no 
one; that it weakens neither the Federal 
food and drugs act nor its administra- 
tion; that it is a just recognition of 
modern progress in refining; and that 
it will aid in some degree in re-estab- 
lishing the economic balance of agri- 
cultural products.” 


Board of Trade Pres. 


Issues a Statement 


ad | REGARD the Agricultural Mar- 

keting Act with its resultant 
Farm Board and Stabilization Corpora- 
tion as an expression of Congress in its 
effort to provide re- 
lief to agriculture,” 
James C. Murray, 
the new president of 
the Chicago Board 
of Trade, said in a 
recent statement. 

“The success of 
the venture depends 
fl} on the results ac- 
f| complished. Present 
= facilities should not 
be discarded or re- 
stricted before bet- 
ter facilities are provided. There can 
be no objection to farmers soundly en- 
gaging in the business of handling grain 
or other commodities. Many of those 
now engaged in the commercial han- 
dling and processing of grain started’ 
life on the farm and their sympathy 
naturally lies with the farmer. Care 
must be taken in the using of Govern- 
ment funds to treat all interests with 
justice and consideration.” 

Mr. Murray, who is vice-president of 
the Quaker Oats Company, passed upon 
the advantages of a free and open mar- 
ket such as the Chicago Board of Trade. 


J. C. Murray 


A. F. B. F. Proposes 
Federal Legislation 


Further regulation of grain ex- 
changes, opposition to a special session 
of congress in the spring, and a recom- 
mendation for permanent funds for 
agricultural extension work are part of 
several legislative proposals urged by 
the American Farm Bureau Federation 
for enactment before congress adjourns 
on March 4. 

The proposal for further regulation 
of grain exchanges is embodied in the 
Capver-Dickinson bill which follows re- 
cent recommendations made by Secre- 
tary Hyde and Chairman Legge of the 
Farm Board. 


Federal Reserve Board 


President Hoover faces the task. of 
selecting a successor to the late Edward 
H. Cunningham of Iowa, former mem- 
ber of the Federal Reserve Board, and 
one time secretary of the Iowa Farm 
Bureau Federation. Among those men- 
tioned for the post are Frank H, Funk, 
former congressman from McLean 
county, Illinois; Governor Arthur J. 
Weaver of Nebraska, and. Ernest Moore, 
banker-farmer of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 


A Monument to Co-operation 


AA/ POUL this leadership and sup- 

port no such enterprise could have 
succeeded. Country Life is a monument to 
effective co-operation. 


Life Insurance a Guaranteed Estate 


Twenty-five thousand policyholders in 
Illinois have demonstrated their faith and 
appreciation of Country Life for providing 
a certain way of realizing their ambitions, 
protecting their dependents. 

_ Today Illinois farmers are informed about 
the benefits of life insurance as they never 
have been before. No one can say now 
that lack of knowledge’and information is 
preventing our people from creating estates 
with old line legal reserve life insurance. 


A life insurance policy in Country Life 


IS AN ESTATE :OF GOLD. 


Success Measured By Service 
ORE than 25,000 farmers in Illinois 
now boast of a part in making 
Country Life Insurance Company and its 


record accomplishments. The Company | 


has paid out nearly $80,000 in death claims 
in two years, but because of its impressive 
volume of business already secured, this 
rate is only 26% of the expected. Country 
Life selects its risks with care to protect the 
policyholder and keep costs low. The-im- 
portant thing is that the beneficiaries of 
these 25,000 policyholders are protected, 
. that each premium paid adds to their estates 


ooy 


of gold. In all the history of life insurance 
no other such record of constructive 
achievement and unselfish building can be 
found. 


A Tribute To Member Loyalty 


Country Life is a tribute to the loyalty of 
Farm Bureau members in responding to the 
call to co-operate in building a Company 
offering protection at rates that can never 
be raised and at cost unequaled heretofore. 
Loyalty and co-operation made _ possible 
Country Life’s remarkable growth and 
financial achievement in its first two years, 
the most expensive years of a company’s 
development. | 


The Goal of Country Life 


Our Company occupies an important 
position in the bright rays of the sun of the 
life insurance world. All eyes are watching 
this unprecedented example of successful 
farmer co-operation. It means millions of 
dollars kept in Illinois for investment, mil- 
lions paid to beneficiaries on the farms of 
Illinois. It means greater stability of farm 
and home ownership, farm mortgages lifted 
instead of sacrifice sales, education funds for 
the children of farmers. Let us go on to 
greater future accomplishment. Let us en- 
courage all who are not participating in 
Country Life’s benefits to get a policy in 
this Company. 

L. A. WILLIAMS, Manager, 


Country Life Insurance Company. 


* existing 


January, 1931 : 


Sec’y. Hyde Comments 
On Corn Sugar Ruling 


Modification Removes Stigma from 
Corn Product. 


HE recent ruling by Secretary Ar- 

thur M. Hyde regarding corn sugar 
removed a discrimination against the use 
of this product, which has tao long 
been permitted. In 
a recent statement 
Secretary Hyde said: 
“The requirement 
heretofore that the 
presence of corn su- 
gar as an ingredient 
in prepared foods be 
declared on the label 
was not a matter of 
law, but was a mat- 
ter of administrative 
interpretation of the 
law.: This ruling 
therefore involves no change in the 
Federal food and drugs act; nor does 
it change the rules with reference to 
labeling of harmful or injurious in- 
gredients. Labeling of such ingredients 
still is required. 


Sec’y. Hyde 


“When the Federal food and drugs 


“act was passed 23 years ago corn sugar 


was a muddy, brown product less than 
50 per cent sweet. Under conditions 
then, a _ prejudice existed 
against it. As a matter of administra- 
tive procedure, this department ruled 
that its presence in a prepared food 
must be declared on the label. 


Now Clean White Product 


“In the last 10 years great progress 
has been made in refining corn sugar. 
It is now a clear, clean, white, granu- 
lated sugar. It is a. wholesome and 
healthful food. It is now about 75 per 
cent as sweet as cane sugar. It has some 
properties more valuable than cane 
sugar. It has no qualities which are in 
any wise harmful to health. The rea- 
son for the old departmental ruling has 
disappeared. It is high time that the 
discrimination against it, based on an 
ancient prejudice should disappear also 


“[ cannot agree to the proposition 
that the purchaser of prepared fruits 


or other foods in which sugar is an 


element expects or believes that such 
sugar will always and everywhere mean 
sucrose. The purchaser of canned 
peaches, for instance, expects to buy 
primarily canned peaches. There is no 
declaration on the label that they are 
sweetened at all, the label declares only 
peaches. He looks to the manufacturer 
to guarantee that they will: be tasty 
and appetizing. He expects the Federal 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


food and drugs act to insure their 
wholesomeness. If those requisites are 
fulfilled he is far from being deceived. 
He is entirely satisfied. 


No Danger to Manufacturer 


“Nor is there any danger whatever 
to the manufacturer of special brands 
whose formulas call for sucrose and 
whose brands are a guarantee of quality. 
This ruling cannot affect them. If, on 
the other hand, its use is beneficial and 
wholesale without adversely affecting 
the appearance or taste of the product, 
the fact that corn sugar is cheaper 
ought to commend it to the consuming 
public who are entitled, as a matter of 
right, to demand food products on the 
most economical basis. 


“There is also an affirmative economic 
reason for this change in departmental 
rulings. American agriculture is over- 
produced. The fact ‘that production 
runs ahead of consumption is responsi- 
ble for most of the ills of agriculture. 
The Federal Farm Board, farm organi- 
zations, many of the state colleges, and 
this department are striving to re-estab- 
lish the economic balance of agricul- 
ture. The control and limitation of 
acreage planted is one method of re- 
establishing that balance. Finding new 
uses and new outlets for crops is an- 
other method. 


Potential Market Opened 


“We produce annually about 2,700,- 
000,000 bushels of corn. Only about 
275,000,000 bushels of this ever reaches 
primary markets. The sale price of this 
small amount fixes the farm price for 
the whole crop. 


“There exists a potential market for 
corn through corn sugar variously esti- 
mated at from 5,000,000 to 100,000,- 
000 bushels per annum. The smaller 
figure represents about 2 per cent of 
the cash corn reaching primary mar- 
kets. The larger figure represents about 
35 per cent. It is not likely that the 
larger figure will be realized for many 
vears. ‘Be the per cent large or small, 
the opening of this potential market 
for additional corn is a step in the right 
direction. If we fail to use all avail- 
able methods of restoring agricultural 
balance, whether those methods repre- 
sent great and spectacular gains, or 
merely short and unnoticed steps, we 
shall be derelict in duty. 


“T believe that this modification re- 
moves an undeserved stigma from corn 
sugar; that it harms or deceives no 
one; that it weakens neither the Federal 
food and drugs act nor its administra 
tion; that it is a just recognition of 
modern ‘progress in refining; and that 
it will aid in some degree in re-estab- 
lishing the economic balance of agri- 
cultural products.” 


Page Seventeen 


aeeeEeEeEeEeEEeeeeeees a 


Board of Trade Pres. 


Issues a Statement 


6¢J REGARD the Agricultural Mar- 
keting Act with its resultant 
Farm Board and Stabilization Corpora- 
tion as an expression of Congress in its 
effort to provide re- 
| lief to agriculture,” 
James C. Murray, 
the new president of 
the Chicago Board 
of Trade, said in a 
recent statement. 

“The success of 
the venture depends 
on the results ac- 
| complished. Present 
facilities should not 
be discarded or re- 
stricted before bet- 
ter facilities are provided. There can 
be no objection to farmers soundly en- 
gaging in the business of handling grain 
or other commodities. Many of those 
now engaged in the commercial han- 
dling and processing of grain started 
life on the farm and their sympathy 
naturally lies with the farmer. Care 
must be taken in the using of Govern- 
ment funds to treat all interests with 
justice and consideration.” 

Mr. Murray, who is vice-president of 
the Quaker Oats Company, passed upon 
the advantages of a free and open mar- 
ket such as the Chicago Board of Trade. 


J. C. Murray 


A. F, B. F. Proposes 


Federal Legislation 


Further regulation of 
changes, opposition to a special session 


grain ex- 


of congress in the spring, and a recom- 
mendation for permanent funds for}! 
agricultural extension work are part of 
several legislative proposals urged by 
the American Farm Bureau [Federation 
for enactment before congress adjourns 
on March 4. 

The proposal for further regulation 
of grain exchanges is embodied in the 
Canver-Dickinson bill which follows re 
cent recommendations made by Secre- 
tary Hyde and Chairman Legge of the 
Farm Board. 


selecting a successor to the late Edward 
H. Cunningham of Jowa, former mem- 
ber of the Federal Reserve Board, and 
one time secretary of the lowa Farm 
Bureau Federation. Among those men- 
tioned for the post are Frank H. Funk, 
McLean 


Arthur - J. 


Weaver of Nebraska, and Ernest Moor, 


former congressman from 


county, Illinois; Governor 


banker-farmer of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 


~ 


Page Eighteen » THE I. A. A. RECORD ___ January, 1931 


Boycott Case Reviewed 
At E. St. Louis Meeting 


Kirkpatrick Says Defense Testi- 
mony Mostly Chaff to Becloud 
Real Issue. 


*«D ROGRESS put liverymen out of. 


Co-operative marketing . 


business. 
is not designed to put anybody out of 
business, but it gives the live stock 
farmer the oppor- 
tunity to direct the 
marketing of his 
own products,” J. R. 
Fulkerson, president 
of the St. Louis Pro- 
ducers 
Association,: declared 
at a meeting in East 
St. Louis on Decem- 
ber 23, called to 
give live stock farm- 
ers in that territory 
first-hand informa- 
tion about the boycott case. 

The meeting was called by the Illi- 
nois Agricultural Association and was 
presided over by Sam Sorrells, chairman 
of the I. A. A. Marketing Committee. 
Two hundred and ten live, stock pro- 
ducers from 30 Illinois counties at- 
tended the meeting. It was suggested 
by E. A. Downey of Jersey county to 
hold similar meetings in--southwestern 
Illinois tribytary to the St. Louis live 
stock market. 


Business Picks Up 


“During the boycott hearing receipts 
of the Producers at St. Louis increased 
from 22.4 per cent to 24.9 per cent,” 
H. D. Wright, manager of the Pro- 
ducers Association, said. ‘‘There are 25 
firms buying regularly from us,” he 
continued. ‘“‘Thus our outlet has been 
affected very little by the boycott. Last 
year the Producers at the National 
Stock Yards saved its patrons more than 
$129,000, and their total savings since 
1922 have exceeded $908,000.” 


Donald Kirkpatrick, legal counsel for 
the I. A. A., declared that of the 2,900 
pages in the boycott case more than 
2,800 are chaff. The defense testimony 
was devoted to an attack on co-opera- 
tive marketing policies in general and 
upon the constitutionality of the Pack- 
er and Stock Yards Act and the Agri- 
cultural Marketing Act in particular. 
Apparently the attacks were made in 
an attempt to becloud the real issue in 
the case, namely, that there was a con- 
spiracy on the market to deny the 
farmer the right to market his own 
product. All of this, in spite of the 
fact that seven years ago the late Chief 
Justice Taft of the Supreme Court, in 
rendering a decision upholding the con- 
stitutionality of the Packer and Stock 


Sam Sorrells 


Commission ‘ 


Yards Act, said: “The entry of pro- 
ducers of foodstuffs into the market 
places of the. country lends purity to 
those markets, and is thé indisputable 
right of the producers of any class of 
commodity.” 


Too Many Office Holders 


Editor, I. A. A. RECORD: 

HERE are hundreds of columns be- 

ing printed: about the unemployed, 
and how the other fellow should help 
them, but very little pertaining to the 
cause. The big idea seems to be to have 
the employed laborers give of their re- 
duced wages. 


Would it not sound much better, be 


better, and make everyone think’ and 

feel better, if our big office holders 

would follow the example set lately? 
If 12 to 35 per cent cut on the sal- 


‘aries of the office holders of Italy would 


save the taxpayers there $42,000,000 
per year, a like cut in the United States 
should run into: billions of dollars. 

Hard times benefit most office hold- 
ers by énabling them to buy more with 
their money, while their salaries remain 
the same. Are not the mistakes of our 
high-up office holders more to blame 
than any other one cause for depressing 
times? Do they not make our laws, 
and are they not supposed to see that 
law is enforced, or have they passed 
three-fifths of our laws to only make 
more office holders to help the political- 
ly inclined? 

Including our ‘police, is not there about one 
office holder for every eight or ten taxpayers, 
to say nothing about the assistants, secretaries, 
auditors, solicitors, inspectors, overseers, com- 
missioners, committeemen, detectives, testers, 
stenographers, janitors, office rooms, heat and 
light, automobiles, etc.? 

“I saw where a senator said our national, state, 
county, city and town taxes in 1913 were about 
two billion dollars, while now they are about 
fifteen billion. Is it any wonder that there is 
not much money left to do improving or em- 
ploy labor? Would like to ask here if, outside 
of the office holder, there is a man in the 
United States who thinks he is one cent better 
off for helping pay fifteen billion dollars in 
taxes than he was to only help pay two billion. 

Is not real estate taxed to death until only 
a few want it? And to improve it only means 
more tax burdens. If I cannot dispose of a 
piece of property for a small part of what I 
should get for it, I will not lose still more by 
putting more taxes on it, so will let it sell for 
the taxes this year. I am only one of thou- 
sands, so are not the thousands of banks failing 
and thousands of men taking the bankrupt law 
from the same cause? 


The greater part of all farmers and common 
laborers and their commodities have taken big 
cuts and drops—not the case with our office 
jobs. Do they not keep getting higher and 
more? ‘This being the case, where is there any 
incentive for a thinking man to want to own 
or improve property? 

I have heard it said it was hard to get men 
to fill our offices at the salaries they were pay- 
ing, yet every election there are many wanting 
every office. It might be best for the country 
if half our offices were closed for this reason. 

We read and hear many views as to how to 

v 


stop this racketeering by taking the big profits — 


out of their business. Would not the same 
rule apply to-a great many of our high offices? 

Therefore, I think to get quick relief to our 
business depression is up to our high office hold- 
ets, changing their old established methods to 
new, helpful methods for all proper business. 

I think if it’s possible to get our press to 
give the public something to think on along 
these lines, it will help business many times 
more than many things they are carrying in 
the papers. 

Here’s hoping to see you start the ball roll- 
ing. 


S. S. BAUGHMAN, 
Christian county, Il. 


f Bos Indianapolis Producers an- 
nounces that a 25 per cent patron- 
age refund of commission charges dur- 
ing the ‘nihe months from April 1 to 
December 31, 1930, will be paid back 
to patrons this year. Payments next 
year will be based on the full 12 
months’ calendar year. ~~ 

The board of directors csenntle 
changed the fiscal year, which previ- 
ously ended March 31, to end Decem- 
ber 31. so as to correspond with the 
calendar year and the membership year 
of the Farm Bureau. 

Manager Scott Meiks states that dur- 
ing 1930, 63.39 per cent of the Pro- 
ducers’ 
36.41 per cent by rail. At this maf- 
ket more than 76.23 per cent of the 
market receipts last year came by truck. 


The association ‘held its annual meet- 
ing on December 30 where three di- 
rectors were re-elected for a term of 
three years, namely, Murray S. Barker 
of Thorntown, Indiana; Albert M. En- 


gle of Shelbyville, Indiana; and Orion: 


B. Goble of Charleston, Illinois. 
The meeting was one of the’ best in 
the history of the organization. 


During the week ending December 
19, Producers’ commission associations 
handled the following percentages of 
total market receipts at the respective 
markets as noted: Buffalo 35.6%, Chi- 
cago 9.88, Cincinnati 33.2, Cleveland 
30.5, Detroit 58.3, Evansville 21.3, 
Fort Worth 9.0, Indianapolis 31.5, Kan- 
sas City 3.1, National Stock Yards 
23.0, Pittsburgh 27.2, St. Joseph 3.0 
and Springfield 31.7. 

In every case the Producers were first 
on the market except at Evansville, 
Ind., where they were second. 


During 1930, 49 cars of live stock 
were consigned to the Producers at In- 
dianapolis by the Farmer City Associa- 
tion. This represents 100% of the as- 
sociation’s business to the Indianapolis 
market. Harve Ijams is manager. 


receipts came in by truck,’ 


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q) 


4 


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Showing Manager Alfred Sutton and Will County Farm Supply Co.’s salesmen and fleet of trucks that deliver SERVICE 
quality Petroleum Products to an ever growing number of satisfied patrons. 


KEEPING WELL 


By Dr. John E. Boland 


D°? many people ever have a yearly 
physical examination at their own 


expense, just to see if everything is all 
right? No. They have their cars 
overhauled, but the numerous physical 
faults in their own bodies that might 
- be taken in time and corrected, are 
scarcely ever attended to. 


“Your little girl is very thin, isn’t - 


she?” says a neighbor. “Yes,” says 
mother, “she doesn’t 
seem. to do well, but 
I guess she'll come 
out all right.” Un- 
derweight has a rea- 
son behind it. Mal- 
nutrition, improper 
assimilation, diseased 
colon, tuberculosis, 
diabetes, a hundred 
#| things can cause un- 

‘derweight. Why not 

take the child to a 
good doctor and have a thorough ex- 
amination made. It may be an infected 
lung, which, taken in time, could be 
corrected or arrested. Hundreds never 
have urine tested until diabetes has be- 
come chronic. Annual or shorter pe- 
riod urine tests would avoid serious 
trouble. 


Dr. J. E. Boland 


Sanitation on farms should have 
more attention. It is still too common 
a sight to see farm yards improperly 
drained, and drinking water used un- 
tested for years, with seepage from barn 
yards contaminating it. Surely there 
‘ are thousands of careful farmers, and 
sanitary farm houses, but appreciation 
of health is often lacking. I am con- 
cerned about the easily corrected 
wrongs of health that every farm home 
could take part in overcoming. To be 
ever watchful of clean bodies, of fresh 
air and good food is commendable, but 
this is not sufficient. Check up on 


physical condition, and let’s study the 
great science of keeping healthy, of 
raising families, and of living together. 

Thousands of people have never had 


The Will County Farm Supply Com- 
pany operates oil bulk storage stations 
at Joliet, Monee, and Plainfield. Since 
the fiscal year of the company closes 
January 31 figures are not available 
concerning the business except that a 
recent comparison of the gallonage of 
petroleum products sold the past year 
far exceeds previous sales. ‘The gain 
will be close to 20% in gasoline, 40% 
iri kerosene and distillate, and some- 
what similar gains in lubricating oil and 
grease. The 10 trucks operated by 
this company serve farm trade in Will 
County and parts of DuPage and Cook 
counties. — 


their blood pressure taken. -A blood 
pressure reading is as simple as taking 
a thermometer reading. It is a barome- 
ter of your physical condition. -'The 
first inkling of numerous dangerous ills 
are discovered by blood pressure read- 
ings. 


Prompt treatment of goitre prevents 
serious trouble. The thyroid gland is 
the governor of your body engine. 
When it is off, trouble is at hand. Min- 
eral starvation is a common éause of 
goitre. Proper diet often regains nor- 
mal action of ‘this thyroid gland and 
prevents the need of. operation. In any 
event, this marvelous machine, the hu- 
man body, must have its governor in 
good order, and only good advice can 
help you to keep it so. 

Bad breath is not a matter to gargle 
about or spray about—it is an indica- 
tion of a diseased condition. Bad teeth, 
infected tonsils, congested bowels, con- 
gested lungs, sinuses that need atten- 
tion, or a hundred diseased conditions 
may be indicated by foul breath. Na- 
ture gives warnings. Headaches are not 
ills of themselves, but warnings that 
trouble is at hand in the human ma- 
chine. So with bad breath, it is a 
warning of trouble that can lead to 
great danger. 


In all I have said, my aim is and has 
been to prevent trouble. Seek advice 
early. Seek information regularly, and 


Oil Companies Return 
Substantial Dividends 


HE fiscal year of the Knox County 

Oil Company closed on November 
30. A 10 per cent patronage dividend 
has been paid and-a special 5 per cent 
dividend has been declared, payable at 
a later date. The largest refund check 
was $108.23 and forty-four farmers re- 
ceived more than $40 each. The total 
amount to be returned in the form of 
patronage refunds for the year will be 
approximately “$18,750. 

The Kane County Service Company 
of Elburn closed its first fiscal year 
November 30 after eight months of 
operation. A 7 per cent patronage re- 
fund has been paid to Farm Bureau 
members, 

The--La Salle County Farm Supply 
Company closed its third year on Octo- 
ber 31. A total of $29,350.87 was re- 
turned to the stockholders of the com- 
pany in the form of preferred stock 
dividends and patronage refunds. An 
8 per cent patronage dividend was paid 
on the past year’s patronage, 9 per cent’ 
from the surplus on_the 1929. business, 
and 2.4 per cent from the surplus of 
the 1928 business. Seventy-three of 
the 1,243 Farm Bureau members in La 
Salle county received patronage refund 
checks. 

The Macon County Supply Company 
recently declared a 7 per cent patronage 


' refund which will be paid back to Farm | 


Bureau members in good standing. 

After four months of operation the 
Livingston Service Company paid 7 per 
cent dividends on preferred stock and 
a 7 per cent patronage refund after 
setting aside $6,576.16 to reserve and 
surplus. 


let it be competent information. Worry 
doesn’t help. Being wary does. Check 
and) double check your body for trou- 
ble. To be wary is to be wise about 
your body. Don’t laugh at overweight. 
It is serious. Do something about it. 


Drinking booze may seem smart to 


some people. But it’s dangerous. 


Page Eighteen __ | THE I. A, A. RECORD January, 1931 


Boycott Case Reviewed 
At E. St. Louis Meeting 


Kirkpatrick Says Defense Testi- 
mony Mostly Chaff to Becloud 
Real Issue. 


<< DD ROGRESS put liverymen out of 
business. Co-operative marketing 
is not designed to put anybody out of 
business, but it gives the live stock 
farmer the oppor- 
tunity to direct the 
marketing of his 
own products,” J. R. 
Fulkerson, president 
of the St. Louis Pro- 
ducers Commission 
Association, declared 
at a meeting in East 
St. Louis on Decem- 
ber 23, called to 
give live stock farm- 
ers in that territory 
first-hand informa- 
tion about the boycott case. 
‘The meeting was called by the Illi- 
nois Agricultural Association and was 


Sam Sorrells 


presided over by Sam Sorreils, chairman’ 


of the I. A. A. Marketing Committee. 
Two hundred and ten live stock pro- 
ducers from 30 Illinois counties at- 
tended the meeting. It was suggested 
by E. A. Downey of Jersey county to 
hold similar meetings in southwestern 


Illinois tributary to the St. Louis live 


stock market. 
Business Picks Up 

“During the boycott hearing receipts 
of the Producers at St. Louis increased 
from 22.4 per cent to 24.9 per cent,” 
H. D. Wright, manager of the Pro- 
ducers Association, said. ‘“‘There are 25 
firms buying regularly from us,” he 
continued. “Thus our outlet has been 
affected very little. by the boycott. Last 
year the Producers at the National 
Stock Yards saved its patrons more than 
$129,000, and their total savings since 
1922 have exceeded $908,000.” 


Donald Kirkpatrick, legal counsel for 
the I. A. A., declared that of the 2,900 
pages in the boycott case more than 
2,800 are chaff. The defense testimony 
was devoted to an attack on co-opera- 
tive marketing policies in general and 
upon the constitutionality of the Pack- 
er and Stock Yards Act and the Agri- 
cultural Marketing Act in particular. 
Apparently the attacks were made in 


an attempt to becloud the real issue in’ 


the case, namely, that there was a con- 
spiracy on the market to deny the 
farmer the right to market his own 
product. All of: this, in spite of the 
fact that seven years ago the late Chief 
Justice Taft of the Supreme Court, in 
rendering a decision upholding the con- 
stitutionality of the Paeker and Stock 


t 


Yards Act, said: “The entry of pro- 
ducers of foodstuffs into the market 
places of the country lends purity to 
those markets, and is the indisputable 
right of the producers of any class of 
commodity,” 


Too Many Office Holders 


Editor, I. A. A. RECORD: 

HERE are hundreds of columns be- 

ing printed about the unemployed, 
and how the other fellow should help 
them, but very little pertaining to the 
cause. The big idea seems to be to have 
the employed laborers give of their re- 
duced wages. 

Would it not sound much better, be 
better, and make everyone think and 
feel better, if our big office holders 
would follow the example set lately? 

If 12: to 35 per cent cut on the sal- 
aries of the office holders of Italy would 
save the taxpayers there $42,000,000 
per year, a like cut in the United States 
should run into billions of dollars. 

Hard times benefit most office hold- 
ers by enabling them to buy more with 
their money, while their salaries remain 
the same. Are not the mistakes of our 
high-up office holders more to blame 
than any other one cause for depressing 
times? Do they not make our laws, 
and are they not supposed to see that 
law is enforced, or have they passed 
three-fifths of our laws to only make 
more office holders to help the political- 
ly inclined? 

Including our police, is not there about one 
office holder for every eight or ten taxpayers, 
to say nothing about the assistants, secretaries, 
auditors, solicitors, inspectors, overseers, com- 
missioners, committeemen, detectives, testers, 
stenographers, janitors, office rooms, heat and 
light, automobiles, etc.? 

I saw where a senator said our national, state, 
county, city and town taxes in 1913 were about 
two billion dollars, while now they are about 
fifteen billion. Is it any wonder that there is 
not much money left to do improving or em- 
ploy labor? Would like to ask here if, outside 
of the office holder, there is a man in the 
United States who thinks he is one cent better 
off for helping pay fifteen billion dollars in 
taxes than he was to only help pay two billion. 

Is not real estate taxed to death until only 
a few want it? And to improve it only means 
more tax burdens. If I cannot dispose of a 
piece of property for a small part of what I 
should get for it, I will not lose still more by 
putting more taxes on it, so will let it sell for 
the taxes this year. I am only one of thou- 
sands, so are not the thousands of banks failing 


and thousands of men taking the bankrupt law 
from the same cause? 


The greater part of all farmers and common 
laborers and their commodities have taken big 
cuts and drops—not the ‘case with our office 
jobs. Do they not keep getting higher and 
more? This being the case, where-is there any 
incentive for a thinking nian to want to own 
or improve property? 

I have heard it said it was hard to get men 
to fill our offices at the salaries they were pay- 
ing, yet every election there are many wanting 
every office. It might be best for the country 
if half our offices were closed for this reason. 

We read and hear many views as to how to 


stop this racketeering by taking the big profits 
out of their business. Would not the same 
rule apply to a great many of our’ high offices? 

Therefore, I think to get quick relief to our 
business depression is up to our high office hold- 
ers, Changing their old established methods to 
new, helpful methods for all proper business. 

I think if it’s. possible to get our press to 
give the public something to think on along 
these lines, it will help business many times 
more than many things they are carrying in 
the papers, 

Here’s hoping to see you start the ball roll- 
ing. —. 


S. S. BAUGHMAN, 
Christian county, Ill. 


ae Indianapolis Producers an- 
nounces that a 25 per cent patron- 
age refund of commission charges dur- 
ing the nine months from April 1 to 
December 31, 1930, will be paid back 
to patrons this year. Payments next 
year will be based on the full 12 
months’ calendar year. 

The board of directors recently 
changed the fiscal year, which previ- 
ously ended March 31, to end Decem- 
ber 31 so as to correspond with the 
calendar year and the membership year 
of the Farm’ Bureau. 

Manager Scott Meiks states that dur- 
ing 1930, 63.39 per cent of the Pro- 
ducers’ receipts came in by truck, 
36.41 per cent by rail. At this mar- 
ket more than 76.23 per cent of the 
market receipts last year came by truck. 


The association held its annual meet- 
ing on December 30 where three di- 
rectors were re-elected for a term of 
three years, namely, Murray S.. Barker 
of Thorntown, Indiana; Albert M. En- 
gle of Shelbyville, Indiana; and Orion 
B. Goble of Charleston; Illinois. 

The meeting was one of the best in 
the history of the organization. 


During the week ending December 
19, Producers’ commission associations 
handled the following percentages of 
total market receipts at the respective 
markets as noted: Buffalo 35.6%, Chi- 
cago 9.88, Cincinnati 33.2, Cleveland 
30.5, Detroit 58.3, Evansville 21.3, 
Fort Worth 9.0, Indianapolis 31.5, Kan- 
sas City 3.1, National Stock Yards 
23.0, Pittsburgh 27.2, St. Joseph 3.0 
and Springfield 31.7. 

‘In every case the Producers were first 
on the market except at Evansville, 
Ind., where they were second. 


During 1930, 49 cars of live stock 
were consigned to the Producers at In- 
dianapolis by the Farmer City Associa- 
tion. This represents 100% of the as- 
sociation’s business to the Indianapolis 
market. Harve Ijams is manager. 


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KEEPING WELL 


By Dr. John E. Boland 


D° many people ever have a: yearly 
physical examination at their own 


expense, just to see if everything is all 
right? No. They have their cars 


overhauled, but the numerous physical_ 


faults in their own bodies that might 


be taken in time and corrected, are . 


scarcely ever attended to. 


“Your little girl is very thin, isn’t - 


she?” says a neighbor. ‘‘Yes,” says 
mother, “‘she doesn’t 
| seem. to do well, but 
I guess she'll come 
out all right.” Un- 
derweight has a rea- 
son behind it. Mal- 
nutrition, improper 
assimilation, diseased 
i} colon, tuberculosis, 
diabetes, a hundred 
things can cause un- 
derweight. Why not 
take the child to a 
good ‘doctor and have a thorough ex- 
amination made. It may be an infected 
lung, which, taken in time, could be 
corrected or arrested. Hundreds never 
have urine tested until diabetes has be- 
come chronic. Annual or shorter pe- 
riod urine tests would avoid serious 
trouble. 


Dr. J. E. Boland 


Sanitation on farms should have 
more attention. It is still too Common 
a sight to see farm yards improperly 
drained, and drinking water used un- 
tested for years, with seepage from barn 
yards contaminating it. Surely there 
are thousands of careful farmers, and 
sanitary farm houses, but appreciation 


. of health is often lacking. I am con- 


cerned about the easily corrected 
wrongs of health that every farm home 
could take part in overcoming. To be 
ever watchful of clean bodies, of fresh 
air and good food is commendable, but 
this is not sufficient. Check up on 
physical condition, and let’s study the 
great science of keeping healthy, of 
raising families, and of living together. 

Thousands of people have never had 


Showing Manager Alfred Sutton and Will County Farm Supply Co.’s salesmen and fleet of trucks that deliver SERVICE 
quality Petroleum Products te an ever growing number of satisfied patrons. 


. The Will County Farm Supply Com- 
pany operates oil bulk storage stations 
at Joliet, Monee, and Plainfield. Since 
the fiscal year of the company closes 
January 31 figures are not available 
concerning the business except that a 
recent comparison of the gallonage of 
petroleum products sold the past year 
far exceeds previous sales. The gain 
will be close to 20% in gasoline, 40% 
iri kerosene and distillate, and some- 
what similar gains in lubricating oil and 
grease. The 10 trucks operated by 
this company serve farm trade in Will 
County and parts of DuPage and Cook 
counties. 


their blood pressure taken. 
pressure reading .is as simple as taking 
a thermometer reading. It is a barome- 
ter of your physical condition. The 
first inkling of numerous dangerous ills 
are discovered by blood pressure read- 
ings. 


Prompt treatment of goitre prevents 
serious trouble. The thyroid ‘gland is 
the governor of your body engine. 
When it is off, trouble is at hand. Min- 


eral starvation is a common cause of . 


goitre. Proper diet often regains nor- 
mal action of this~thyroid gland and 
prevents the need of operation. In any 
event, this marvelous machine, the hu- 
man body, must have its governor in 
good order, and only good advice can 
help you to keep it so. 

Bad breath is not a matter to gargle 
about or spray about—it is an indica- 
tion of a diseased condition. Bad teeth, 
infected tonsils, congested bowels, con- 
gested lungs, sinuses that need atten- 
tion, or a hundred diseased conditions 
may be indicated by foul breath. Na- 
ture gives warnings. Headaches are not 
ills of themselves, but warnings that 
trouble, is at hand in the human ma- 
chine. 
warning of trouble that can lead to 
great danger. 


In all I have said, my aim is and has 
been to prevent trouble. Seek advice 


early. Seek information regularly, and 


A: blood’ 


So with bad breath, it is a. 


Oil Companies Return 
Substantial Dividends 


HE fiscal year of the Knox County 

Oil Company closed on November 
30. A 10 per cent patronage dividend 
has been paid and a special 5 per cent 
dividend has been declared, payable at 
a later date. The largest refund check 
was $108.23 and forty-four farmers re- 
ceived more than $40 each. The total 
amount to be returned in the form of: 
patronage refunds for the year will be 
approximately “$18,750. 

The Kane County Service Company 
of Elburn closed its first fiscal year 
November 30 after eight months of 
operation. A 7 per cent patronage re- 
fund has been paid to Farm Bureau 
members. 

The La Salle County Farm Supply 
Company closed its third year on Octo- 
ber 31. A total of $29,350.87 was re- 
turned to the stockholders of. the com- 
pany in the form of preferred stock 
dividends and patronage refunds. An 
8 per cent patronage dividend was paid 
on the past year’s patronage, 9 per cent 
from the surplus on the 1929 business, 
and 2.4 per cent from the surplus of 
the 1928 business. Seventy-three of 
the 1,243 Farm Bureau members in La 
Salle county received patronage refund 
checks. 

The Macon County Supply Company 
recently declared a 7 per cent patronage 
refund which will be paid back to Farm 
Bureau ‘members in good standing. 

After four months of operation the 
Livingston Service Company paid 7 per 
cent dividends on preferred stock and 
a 7 per cent patronage refund after 
setting aside $6,576.16 to reserve and 
surplus. 


let it be competent. information. Worry 
doesn’t help. Being wary does. Check 
and double check your body for trou- 
ble. To be wary is to be wise about 
your body. Don’t laugh at overweight. 
It is serious. Do something about it. 
Drinking booze may seem smart to 
some people. But it’s dangerous. 


om MAGINE a train of more than 2,700 cars, or ninety 30-car trains loaded with 

a6 Aladdin gasoline and Radiant kerosene and fuel oils. Add to these figures 666,500 
. gallons of Penn Bond and Blue Seal motor oils, and 461,000 pounds of grease and 
you have the volume of organized purchasing by Illinois farmers in 1930. 


These impressive totals reveal the growing popularity of SERVICE 
quality petroleum products. This business grew from nothing to 
the present volume in less than four years. There’s a reason! 


TWENTY-THREE MILLION GALLONS handled in one 

year places your company, the Illinois Farm Supply Com- 

pany, in the front rank as one of the largest independ- 

ent distributors, the only co-operative ‘of its kind 
in the state. 


More than 50,000 Illinois farmers, most of 
them Farm Bureau members, co-oper- 


ing fecord. ‘Through organ- ated to make possible this outstand- 


ized intelligent buying they se- 
cured for themselves: 


1. Top quality, tested lubricating alle 


greases, and motor fuels. 


2. Substantial cash savings in the form of 
patronage refunds. 


3. Longer life to motors and power machinery. 


4. Escape from the dangers of inferior fuels and 
_ lubricants. 


SERVICE quality petroleum products serve you well, save you 
money. Boost your local company and order your spring re- 
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-Number 2 


FEBRUARY, 1931 


Volume 9 


President’s Address 
Covers Many Problems 


Smith Outlines Accomplishments, 
Discusses Policies in Annual 
Report to Membership 


Fo the fifth time it is my duty 
and privilege to report to an an- 
nual meeting of the 
Illinois Agricultural 
Association on the de- 
velopment, _ progress 
and problems of the 
organization. It is a 
pleasure to be able to 
say that the past year 
has witnessed real and 
tangible accomplish- 
ments for a steadily 
increasing §member- 
ship; yet the year has 
also brought — greater 
and more complex 


the institution than 
any previous. year. 
That these problems 
have been met and 
either solved or are 
well on their way to 
solution is shown, and can best be un- 
derstood by reading and digesting the 
annual report of the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association and its associated 
companies. 


I. A. A. Program 


“This report discloses in a limited 
way the development and progress of 
the organization’s program for improv- 
ing the economic welfare of Illinois 
mg ota That program embraces: 

- Representation -of the rightful 

interests of the farmer in legis- 

lation, taxation and other public 
matters, 
2. The building of more effective 

. marketing machinery designed 


to return to the producer the | 


maximum amount for his prod- 
ucts, 
3. Lower cost production of farm 
(Continued on \page 5) 


EARL C. SMITH 
President 


CONVENTION NEWS 


This issue of the RECORD contains 
a major portion of the news, ad- 
dresses, and proceedings of the 16th 
annual meeting of the F .A. A. held 
recently at Springfield. The overflow 
will be published in following issues 
of the RECORD and Bureau Farmer. 
The President’s address is reproduced 
in a series of articles which members 
‘should read to gain significant infor- 
mation .about their organization. 


Smith And Wright Are 
- Re-elected To Office 


HE election of a president and 

vice-president and directors of the 
I. A. A. for 1931, as in previous years, 
followed the speaking program at the 
banquet on Thursday night, Jan. 29, 
Springfield. 

President Smith and Vice-President 
Wright retired from the platform after 
the speeches when speakers and guests 
left the banquet hall. 


Geo. F. Tullock of Rockford called. 


the delegates to order and recognized 
John P. Stout of Sangamon county. 
Mr. Stout in a brief nominating speech 
appropriately did honor to Mr. Smith 
for his ability, untiring efforts, and de- 
votion to the best interests of the or- 
ganization before nominating him for 
(Continued om page 7). 
\ 


A. R. WRIGHT 
Vice-President 


Record Attendance 


At State Convention 


Business Sessions and Banquet Draw 
Capacity Crowds During Three 
Days’ Meetings 


oe sixteenth annual meeting of the 
Illinois Agnayyert Association 
held together with 
meetings and confer- 
ences of associated 
companies at Spring- 
field, Jan. 28-29-30, 
established new rec- 
ords in attendance, 
interest and _enthusi- 
asm for I. A. A. an- 
nual conventions. The 
great meeting held 
last year makes this 
statement seem almost 
unbelievable. 

Not only were 
there more delegates 
and members at the 
recent convention 
than ever before as 
revealed in heavy reg- 
istrations, packed 
rooms and assembly 
halls, but there were undoubtedly more 
visitors and guests than at any previous 
annual meeting. The crowd was con- 
servatively estimated at 4,000 to 5,000 
people for the three days. 


Many Turned Away 


Attendance at the banquet on 
Thursday night, Jan. 29, was esti- 
mated at 1,700 people by Mr. Chesebro, 


custodian of the armory, who knows 


the capacity of the building. The 
luncheon drew a crowd estimated at 
from 1,100 to 1,200 in addition to 
hundreds who gathered in the balcony. 
The Majestic Theatre, where. sessions 
were held “Thursday and Friday morn- 
ings, was not only crowded but hun- 
dreds seeking entrance were turned 


‘away through lack of standing room. 


Several of the five sectional conferences 


on Thursday afternoon drew upwards 
(Continued on page 7) 


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Page Four | 3 THE I. A. A. RECORD | 3 February, 1931 


New Board of Directors to Guide I. A. A. in 1931 


o * 


Harold C. Vial 


11th 12th 


Geo. B. Muller 
16th 17th 


‘Sam. Sorrells 
‘21st 


NLY two changes were made in 
the board of directors of the IIli- 
nois Agricultural Association in the 
election Thursday night, January 29, 
at. the recent annual meeting in Spring- 
field. The directors re-elected were 
Harold C. Vial, Downers Grove, 11th 
district; C. E. Bamborough, Polo, 13th 
district; C. J. Gross, Atwood, 19th 
district; Samuel Sorrells, Raymond, 
21st district; W. L. Cope, Salem, 23rd 
dist,; Fred Dietz, De Soto, 25th dist. 
A. N. Skinner, Yates City, 15th dis- 
trict, and George J. Stoll, Chestnut, 
17th district, retired voluntarily. 


Bates and Schofield 


The 15th district chose Charles L. 
Bates of Browning, Schuyler county, 


A. B. Schofield 


Frank Oexner 
‘22nd 


& ny 


13t 


as its representative on the I. A. A. 
Board. Mr. Bates was born 54 years 


ago in Browning township, Schuyler’ 


county, on the farm where he now re- 
sides. He attended country school in 
his community, high school in Brown- 
ing, and later, two years in business 
college, ‘after which he returned to the 
farm where he is engaged in dairying 
and general farming. 

Mr. Bates is a charter member of the 
Schuyler County Farm Bureau, served 
six years’ on its executive committee 
and four years as president. He is now 
serving on the board of the Schuyler 
Service Company. Mr. Bates has: five 
married daughters, and ‘two sons 20 and 
10 years of age. Both of the’ boys are 
at home. a 


G. F. Tullock Cc. E. Bamborough F M. 
h 


Chas. Marshall 
24th 


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G. Lambert Chas. L. Bates 
14th ; 15th 


Fred Dietz 
25th 


The 17th district chose as its direc- 
tor A. B. Schofield of Paxton, Ford 
county. Mr. Schofield was born at El 
Paso, Woodford county, where he be- 
gan farming in 1919. A year later he 
moved to Jackson county, where he 
operated a 1,280 acre farm for seven 
years. In 1926 he bought the 160 acre 
farm southwest of Paxton, where he 
now resides. His crops are marketed in 
the form of whole milk and hogs. 

Mr. Schofield served several years on 
the executive. committee of the Ford 
County Farm Bureau, the past ‘two 
years served as president. 
served as president of the Ford County 
Service Company. -The new member 
takes an active interest in directing Jo- 


cal school and community affairs.’ 


He’ “also . 


February, } 


Pre 
(Cor 
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from th 
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services. 
4. The ma 
and acti 
tect and 
of the st 
“T ‘do not 
ceeded in ac 
that we set 
annual meeti 
couragement:s 
may have lox 
perspective 
viewed, but 
complishmen: 
by a large pa 
gram justifie 
forward wit 
that portion 
gram, where 
overcome. 


Exy 
“A year ag 
the delegates 
for 1930 pr 
intensive atte 
of ‘co-operatir 
branches. TT] 
the Board of 
of the Associ 
best and com 
these instruct 
“The resu 
that approxi 
been expendec 
endeavor to 
various majot 
portunity to 
commodity w 
thereby and 1 
feed the parti 
channels of — 
would best i: 
price of suc 
degrees of su 
Aided by th 
Act and the 
Operative mat 
has easily do: 
the Associati 
closed. 
Mar! 
“It is a. cr 
in this field t 
tive associatic 
by the Farm 
Agricultural . 
years have fo 
the Farm Bo: 


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by their very 
large funds, f 
governmental 

“A survey 
ave accompli 


Page Five 


February, 1931 , THE I. A. A. RECORD 


President’s Address 
(Continued from page 3) 


crops aided by savings resulting 


from the organized purchasing . 


of necessary commodities and 

services. 

4. The maintenance of a strong 
and active organization to pro- 
tect and speak for the farmers 
of the state. 

“TJ ‘do not claim that we have suc- 
ceeded in accomplishing all the things 
that we set out to do since our last 
annual meeting. There have been dis- 
couragements, which at the moment 
may have loomed large, beeause of the 
perspective from which. they were 
viewed, but a survey of the year’s ac- 
complishments in those fields covered 
by a large part of the Association’s pro- 
gram justifies and encourages moving 
forward with more determination in 
that portion of the Association’s pro- 
gram, where there are yet obstacles to 
overcome. 


Expansion in 1930 


“A year ago it was recommended and 
the delegates directed that the program 
for 1930 provide for expansion and 
intensive attention to the development 
of ‘co-operative marketing in its various 
branches. The Marketing Committee, 
the Board of Directors and the Officers 
of the Association have put forth their 
best and combined efforts to carry out 
these instructions. 

“The results of the year disclose 
that approximately $77,064.00 have 
been expended or advanced in a sincere 
endeavor to provide farmers producing 
various major cash crops with the op- 
portunity to centralize control of each 
commodity within their own hands, and 
thereby and therein have the power to 
feed the particular commodity into the 
channels of trade in such manner as 
would best influence and stabilize the 
price of such commodities. Varying 
degrees of success have been attained. 
Aided by the Agricultural Marketing 
Act and the Federal Farm Board, co- 
operative marketing of farm products 
has easily dominated the attention of 
the Association during the year just 
closed. 


Marketing Progress 

“It is a. credit to past achievements 
in this field that few of the co-opera- 
tive associations successfully launched 
by the Farm Bureau and the Illinois 
Agricultural Association during recent 
years have found it necessary to go to 
the Farm Board for loans and _assist- 


ance. Only our newer projects, which, 


by their very nature required unusually 
large funds, found it necessary to seck 
governmental assistance. 

“A survey of what Illinois farmers 


have accomplished in building a farm-. 


Geo. J. Stoll 


A. N. Skinner 


N. SKINNER of Yates City and 
* George J. Stoll of Chestnut, the 
retiring members of the 1930 board of 
directors, served their respective dis- 
tricts with ability, integrity and faith- 
fulness during their years on the board. 
Mr. Skinner was a member of the 
important Finance Committee. Mr. 
Stoll served as the grain member on 
the Marketing Committee and took an 
active part in the formation of the 
Illinois and Midwest Grain. Corpora- 
tions. 

Mr. Skinner will direct the Farm 
Bureau insurance program in Knox 
county in addition to managing his 
farm. Mr. Stoll is actively engaged in 
farming near Chestnut in Logan coun- 
ty and is well known throughout the 
middle west as a breeder of purebred 
Shire horses which have carried off 
many honors at the International and 
other live stock shows, 
er-owned and farmer-controlled system 
of marketing reveals that nearly one- 
third of Illinois live stock, more than 


70 per cent of the state’s milk produc-. 


tion, approximately 5,000,000 pounds 
of butterfat, together with an ever- 
increasing percentage of poultry and 
eggs, are now marketed co-operatively. 
Fruit and vegetable growers are well 
organized, but because of the past sea- 
son’s limited production, found ‘it un- 
necessary to expand their activities. 
‘‘An important beginning has been 
made in selling grain co-operatively 
through the Illinois Grain Corporation 
and its subsidiary sales-.agency, the 
Mid-West Grain Corporation. This 
promises much for the future. The 
Soybean Marketing Association not 
only handled more than 1,100,000 
bushels of beans within a few weeks, 
but I believe played an important, if 
not a controlling part, in preventing a 
drastic price recession considerably be- 
low the initial advance of $1.00 per 
bushel made ‘by the Association to its 


members. 
“Each marketing activity deserves 


mention and may be considered by the 
producers it affects as the most impor- 
tant development meeting the needs of 
the farmers; yet, I am sure that in the 
field of live stock, dairy, produce and 


fruit and vegetable marketing, the poli- 
cies of each are well understood by the 
membership throughout the state and 
by those engaged in the production of 
such commodities. 

“For real achievement and construc- 
tive advancement, the 12 service de- 
partments of the I. A. A. have been 
more outstanding than in any previous 
year. It being the secretary’s duty to 
report on these departments, and for 
fear of repetition, I will not deal fur- 
ther with their activities. 

“Because of the scope of territory 
served, their respective importance to 
producers and their recent develop- 
ment, I feel it my duty to discuss at 
some length the principles and policies 
of the Illinois Grain Corporation and 
the Soybean Marketing Association. 
This is particularly timely, as we find 
many well meaning farmers confused 
by opponents of these activities and 
whose support and identity are rarely 


disclosed. 
Illinois Grain Corp. 


“The Illinois Grain Corporation was 
launched in February of last year. It 
was incorporated for the purposes and 
within the principles adopted at the 
last annual meeting. Its Board of Di- 
rectors was and is constituted of or- 
ganization-minded members of farmers’ 
elevators from the main grain-produc- 
ing counties of the'state. Its affairs are 
not managed by the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association, although the Asso- 
ciation has rendered, is rendering and 
will continue to render every possible 
assistance to its program and develop- 


‘ment. The I. A. A. is its most substan- 


tial stockholder and in addition has as- 
sisted in financing its organization pro- 
gram. 

“The Illinois Grain Corporation is the 
result of years of desire and effort on 
the part of the I. A. A. to respond to 
the repeated requests and urging of its 
grain producing members. It recog- 
nizes the farmers’ elevator as its local 
unit and is founded upon, owned, con- 
trolled and directed by such member 
elevators and grain producers. It does 
not seek control of the local elevator 
or any of its policies, which are and 
should be controlled by its member 
grain producers. The Illinois Grain 
Corporation does insist, however, ‘that 
the grain handled by its member ele- 
vators be sold in and through the Mid- 
West Grain Corporation, which is the 
sales agency provided by the Illinois 
Grain Corporation for its members_on 
the Chicago, St. Louis, Peoria and In- 
dianapolis markets. The Illinois Grain 
Corporation offers to the truly farmer 
co-operative elevators of Illinois an op- 
portunity to extend the economy and 
efficiency they have provided farmers 


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Page Six. , THE I. A. A. RECORD February, 1931 


locally to that broader and greater field 
where alone they can influence and 
stabilize the price of grain. 


Member of National 


“The Illinois Grain Corporation is a 
regional member of the Farmers Na- 
tional Grain Corporation, which was 
established by the Federal Farm Board 
in an effort to merge the largest pos- 
sible volume of grain in a national way. 
It must be apparent to all that only by 
and through such volume control can 
farmers expect to influence or stabilize 
price. 

“J submit that if the theories upon 
which the Farmers National Grain Cor- 
poration is builded are realized in a 
practical way by farmers, results can 
and will be obtained. Especially is this 
true of corn. A survey shows that ap- 
proximately three-fifths of all, corn 
which finds its way into the channels 
of trade originates in Illinois, Iowa and 
Nebraska. The merging of farmer ele- 
vator interests of each state into a:re- 
gional agency and of the three regional 
agencies, thus establishing sales control 
of their total volume in a central unit 
such as the Farmers National Grain 
Corporation, would immediately make 
it possible for those guiding the policies 
of the central unit to influence, if not 
control, price. 

Possibilities in Corn 

“As a nation, we import very little 
corn. Tariff protection has been only 
partially effective and can easily be 
made more effective. Those controlling 
such a tremendous volume of corn 
could easily stabilize its price at the 
highest level that demand would allow, 
which in turn, would be controlled 
only by supply and by general eco- 
nomic conditions of the nation., Wild- 
ly fluctuating markets in this basic 
commodity have been made possible, 
first, by millions of farmers competing 
with one another in limited periods of 
time to sell it; next, by elevators com- 
peting with one another in the markets 
to sell it; thus making it possible for 
a very few men or interests to gain 
control of the commodity at low 
prices and later to secure varying mar- 
gins of profit through such control. 

“I know of no way whereby farmers 
can build, own and control their mar- 
keting system except, first, by building, 
owning and controlling the local ele- 
vator to” which they deliver their grain; 
second, by combining the interests of 
all such elevators through ownership 
and control of ‘a regional agency; and 
third, by the merging of regional in- 
terests and of their volume of grain in 
a central or national unit through 
which all farmer-owned and controlled 
grain of the system would enter the 
channels of trade. 


Opposition Active 


“So far as I have learned, no one has 
yet offered a constructive criticism of 
sucha farmer-owned and farmer-con- 
trolled marketing system, although 
much opposition has appeared. It was 
only natural .to.expect opposition from 
what is commonly known as the grain 
trade. No one had a right to expect, 
however, that men supposedly working 
for farmers’ interests and even under 
the guise of so-called farmers’ organi- 
zations, would jattempt to defeat the 
purposes of saith a farmer-owned and 
farmer-controlled agency as is intended 
in the Illinois Grain Corporation. 

“I would not be understood as deny- 
ing anyone, whether within or with- 
out farmers’ ranks, the right to point 
out weaknesses in a new co-operative 
effort. The I. A. A. has always courted 
constructive criticism. A sounder and 
more efficient program is often the re- 
sult of such expression. I do deny, 
however, to anyone, and especially one 
sailing under false banners, the right to 
resort to innuendo and false propaganda 
in an effort to destroy the confidence 
of farmers in a program being devel- 
oped in their behalf. Especially is this 
true when not a weakness has been 


_pointed out or a constructive sugges- 


tion made as to how the program might 
be strengthened. 

“The Illinois Grain Corporation has 
been confronted with some opposition 
of this kind which has somewhat 
slowed its development. Many farmers’ 
elevators, as well as farmers, are be- 
coming awake to the motives and pur- 
poses of this opposition. I see no per- 
manent injury in such propaganda, for 
if our projects are sound and right, 
they will eventually succeed in spite of 
all opposition. If they are not built on 
a firm foundation and are not answer- 
ing a real need, nothing we say or do 
will make them succeed. 


Farmers Hold Key . 


**As I view the situation, farmers hold 
the key to the extent results will be 
obtained. They certainly have the op- 
portunity to collectively control the 
policies of their local elevators and 
through their local elevators, to con- 
trol their regional units, such as the 
Illinois Grain Corporation. Through 
the regional units they; can control their 
central or national machinery. 

“The Illinois Agricultural Association 
has discharged its duty and obligation 
to its member grain producers of the 
state by the development of Illinois 
Grain Corporation. The machinery is 
set up and is functioning smoothly. It 
is set up in such manner that only grain 
producers can control or- dictate its 
policies. The extent of its success or 
failure to serve farmers’ needs will be 


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determined by the manner in which 
farmers take advantage of their oppor- 


tunity to direct their grain in and 
through truly co-operative channels. 


‘We have all’ witnessed the contin- 
ued and ever- increasing opposition be- 
ing developed in a national way. We 
recognize it in our own state. We hear 
of it in other states. May I again re- 
peat—farmers alone have within their 
control the answer to this challenge. 
The Illinois Agricultural Association 
will continue as in the past to assist 
the grain producers of Illinois to the 
full extent such assistance may be de- 
sired by those whom the grain produc- 
ers elect to guide the affairs of the Illi- 
nois Grain Corporation. 


Soybean Marketing 


“In the fall of 1929, the Farm Bu- 
reaus of the main soybean growing’ 
counties of central Illinois organized the 
Soybean Marketing Association. With 
the advice of the Legal and Grain 
Marketing Departments of the I. A. A., 
it was incorporated on'a capital stock 
basis. Membership contracts were ac- 
quired covering an aggregate of one 
and a quarter million bushels. 

“In the summer of 1930, the Illinois 
Agricultural Association was asked by 
its Board of Directors to assume man- 
agement of its affairs. It was found 
that very little ‘capital stock had been 
sold, in fact, only limited efforts had 
been made to do so.. The harvest sea- 
son was fast approaching. Although 
fully recognizing the difficulties of the 
situation, the Board of Directors of the 
I. A. A. responded to the above men- 
tioned request and consequent responsi- 
bility. Personnel was retained and em- 
ployed and in a few weeks handled 
1,130,000 bushels of beans. 

“It was early recognized that unless 
substantial credit and storage facilities 
were acquired, the price of soybeans 
would decline to unheard of levels. To 
secure proper storage facilities as well 
as to be enabled to make advances to 
growers, credit running into the hun- 
dreds of thousands of dollars had to be 
secured. Although successful in this 
instance, largely because of the friendly 
attitude of governmental credit agen- 
cies and the ce-epeenses of Mr. George 
Jewett, one he heads of a Chicago 
commercial Bie no one is justified 1 in 
either seeking or expecting a repetition 
of this experience. Through the splen- 
did co-operation of these credit agen- 
cies, the Association has marketed over 
700,000 bushels of its beans on a basis 
that allowed an advance of $1.00 per 
bushel to its members. It has in bonded 
storage approximately 425,000 bushels. 


Capital Stock Basis 


“The Board of Directors of the Soy- 
bean Marketing Association is now giv- 


ing its at 
ganization 
capital stc 
can_ they 
membershi 
assuming 
vidual or 
pending u 
creditors. 
modity co- 
sidered, th 
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know of . 
opportunit 
placed on 
basis and « 
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this effort 
Soybean M 
get itself ; 
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prompted | 
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tial paid-in 
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credit if t 
recognize 
commercial 
position to | 
itself in a f 
required to 
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nomination 
declared un 


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which he r 
preciation 
emphasizing 
succeed in 
the extent 
their oppor 
tion. 

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could be p 
an Illinois 
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to act as py 
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power with 
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of develop 


ing its attention to placing their or- 
ganization on a substantial paid-in 
capital stock basis. Only by so doing 
can they feel secure and assure their 
membership against the possibility of 
assuming substantial losses. No indi- 
vidual or institution is justified.in de- 
pending upon the charity of his or its 
creditors. I know of no Illinois com- 
modity co-operative, volume being con- 
sidered, that has rendered a greater ser- 
vice to its members during 1930. I 
know of no other that offers greater 
opportunity for continuing service, if 
placed on a substantial capital stock 
basis and efficiently managed. 

“Tt has been suggested that possibly 
this effort to sell capital stock in the 
Soybean Marketing Association was to 
get itself in position to meet deficits. 
I am sure the policy of the Board is 
prompted only by an attempt to do 
what should have been done at the 
time of the organization of this newest 
commodity association. With substan- 
tial paid-in capital, the Board will be in 
a postion to ask for an extension of 
credit if they care to do so. We all 
recognize the unstable condition of 
commercial America. It is merely a 
position to justify credit or should leave 


itself in a position wherein it might be ~ 


required to dispose of any given part 
of a commodity on short notice.” 


SMITH AND WRIGHT 
(Continued from page 3) 
re-election for. the sixth successive 
year. Seconds to the nomination were 
offered by J. L. Whisnand of Coles 
county, and W. H. Moody of Rock 
Island county. In the absence of other 
nominations, Mr. Smith’s election was 

declared unanimous. 


A Great Ovation 


On his return to the platform the 
president received a great ovation to 
which he responded expressing his ap- 
preciation for the tribute, and briefly 
emphasizing the fact that farmers will 
succeed in solving their problems to 
the extent that they take advantage of 
their opportunities through organiza- 
tion. : ‘ 

“I know of no greater honor that 
could be placed upon the shoulders of 
an Illinois farmer, an American farm- 
er, than to be asked for the sixth time 
to act as president of the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association,” he said. 

“There is no influence; there is no 
power within the State of Illinois that 
could have caused: me to remain avail- 
able for service another year except the 
splendid morale, and I might say, almost 
100 per cent co-operation we have had 
from the farm people and Farm Bureau 
members of Illinois through the period 
of development thus far attained. 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


100 Per Cent . Support 


“We have had splendid support from 
the Board: of Directors. It has been 


absolutely 100 per cent. If there has 


been any factionalism within the in- 
stitution itself, the Board of Directors 
or the staff, if there has been any lack 
of sincere intent to co-operate to do 
everything within their power to serve 
the farmers who constitute the mem- 
bers, I have never been apprised of, nor 
suspected its existence. 

“I want to thank you for this great 
honor. I know of no group of men who 
are entitled to the same extent of con- 
structive advancement as the farm 
people of this state and nation. Our 
problems are many; they are tremen- 
dous in character. The opportunity for 
service is only limited, as I stated this 
morning, by the extent to which farm- 
ers stand together and take advantage 
of their opportunities.” ae 


Wright Nominated 


The name of Mr. Wright was placed 
in nomination for vice-president by A. 
J. Plapp of DeKalb county who called 
attention to the candidate’s long rec- 
ord of faithful service on the Board 
of Directors, as chairman of the im- 
portant Finance Committee. The nom- 
ination was seconded by J. W. Robins 
of Ogle county. In the absence of 
other nominations Mr. Wright was de- 
clared unanimously re-elected. He was 
greeted with applause as he came to the 
platform and thanked the delegates for 
the honor and vote of confidence. 

The election of directors from the 
odd-numbered congressional districts 
then followed in rapid order with the 
results noted on page 4. 


RECORD ATTENDANCE 
(Continued from page 3) 
of 500 people. The accommodations 
provided by Springfield, as good as 
those to be found in any downstate 
city, were taxed to capacity. 


Reporters Cover News 


Nine reporters, including representa- 
tives of the Associated Press, United 
Press, International News Service, Chi- 
cago Tribune, Chicago Herald and 
Examiner, Chicago Journal of Com- 
merce, Prairie Farmer, Springfield Jour- 


nal and Springfield Register broadcast | 


news of the convention which was pub- 
lished not only in: Illinois dailies and 
weeklies but also in newspapers through- 
out the United States. 

The local committees sponsored by 
the Sangamon County Farm Bureau 
and the Springfield Chamber of Com- 
merce deserve great credit and thanks 
of the 60,000 members of the Asso- 
ciation for the able manner in which 
they provided for the assembly. The 

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Page. Seven 


Business Session of 
Delegates on Jan. 30 


diccieeeadeas 
OLLOWING the entertainment and 
addresses at the noon luncheon, the 
Board of Delegates went into a business 
session Friday afternoon for the con- 
sideration of resolutions and other busi- 


ness matters that might properly come 
before that body. 


Immediately after convening the business ses- 
sion, John P. Stout, delegate from Sangamon 
County, arose to a point of ‘personal privilege 
and among other remarks asked for an expla- 
nation and re-statement of the stand of the 
I. A. A. on the Proposed Revenue Amendment 
defeated in the general election last Novem- 
ber. 


Mr. Stout raised the specific question as to 
whether or: not the amendment submitted by 
the special session of the General Assembly to 
the people was the same amendment that was 
recommended by the Governor’s Revenue In- 
vestigation Commission to the General Assem- 
bly.. President Smith who was presiding, in 
responding to Mr.‘ Stout, stated that he had 
covered the subject matter of the question in 
much detail in his address which was delivered 
to the Convention Thursday morning, but in 
specifically answering the question, did not 
hesitate to ‘say that the amendment submitted 
to the people was not the amendment recom- 
mended by the Revenue Investigation Commis- 
sion which had received the support of the 
I. A. A. 


The delegates adopted the report of the Reso- 
lutions Committee ‘without change, although a 
number of amendments were proposed from 
the floor. 


Resolution seven (see pages 8 and 9), which 
favors legislation providing for the pasteuriza- 
tion of all fluid milk distributed in cities with 
a population of 5,000 or over, did not meet 
with the approval of all the delegates. An 
attempt was made to amend it, but the amend- 
ment lost 143 to 34. After being favorably 
voted upon a motion was made to reconsider 
the vote, but this also failed to carry. 


An effort was made to amend resolution 15 

which placed the Association on record in 
opposition to a drivers’ license law, but this 
also was voted down. A proposed amendment 
to Article 17 met the same fate. 
'! The board of delegates later went on record 
as opposed to any sale of common stock of 
the Illinois Agricultural Holding Company un- 
less authorized at an annual meeting of the 
board of delegates. 


A further resolution was adopted authorizing 
the Board of Directors of the I. A. A. to 
purchase $10,000 worth of stock in a proposed 
publishing company set up to circulate an ofh- 
cial organ of the A. F. B. F. among members 
of the various state federations, when and if 
the I. A. A. Board of Directors takes favor- 
able action to do so. 


An amendment to the by-laws passed by the 
delegates gives the Board of Directors of the 
I. A. A. power to appoint directors to fill 
vacancies in the board. Such directors ap- 
pointed are to hold office until the following 
annual meeting of the Association. , 


wide advance publicity given the an- 
nual meeting not only at Springfield, 
but in newspapers throughout Illinois, 
was instrumental in making -it the 
greatest convention in point of attend- 
ance ever held in the history of the 
organization. 


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ILL Ni O1Ss 
A CULTURAL ASSOCIA N 


RECORD 


To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organized, 
namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, political, 
and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation, 
and to develop agriculture. 


GeorcE Tuiem, Editor 


PERMA Ae NPR EUROS et ex Beit Se ME AY ae ete TUR Tey STP ey A EN Se Ee 

Published once a month by the Illinois Agricultural Association, at 
124 So. Fifth St., Marshall, Ill. Address all communications for publi- 
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second-class matter June 16, 1930, at the post office at Marshall, IIl., 
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postage provided for in Section 412, Act of Feb. 28, 1925, authorized... 


Oct. 27, 1925. The individual membership fee of the lilinois Agricultural 
Association is five dollars a year. The fee includes payment of fifty cents 
for subscription to the Illinois. Agricultural Association Record. Post- 
master: In réturning an uncalled for missent copy please indicate key 
number on address as is required by law. 


OFFICERS 


President, Earl C. Smith... aveee-we=---- Detroit 
Vice-President, A. R. Wrigh an-enee-—---e--- Varna 
Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger. peceecieseniystscicscaanbeaieaaeaatel Chicago 
Treasurer, R. A. Cowles... -----------0-1-nenee-e nen eneeennnneten eee Bloomington 


BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

(By Congressional District) 
SCC" U1 Ci nnc ncn erp pecienenecntnecedbaipesonensnsdivencuastiiod .H. C. Vial, Downers Grove 
12th. ansaieseinmseadeag Bs! an Tullock, Rockford 


13th... icnatlyceatag Spiaigestmarrscapacsitessnesiveeunbcatpe memes? Bamborough, Polo 
5 «| en OE Sa Oe a ac saben sptnbipenadepmiintioes’ M. G. Lambert, Ferris 
YS OB iin conan ganna tmnt ieennnetinnrernsenneetnnnbcatchanntannestes Charles Bates, Browning 
Ct YS GSR aie, WSO RON LET JRO ces basieintinnt Ne Geo. B. Muller, Washington 
DIR wk pisg rene msnrenmnnctonnecannt bocdoinnniammminincrencepeceniconatonyen _._-A, B. Schofield, Paxton 
DREN cn svest scopic pgs poesapeoctthsedia captaecancwcnmeewete = ..W. A. Dennis, Paris 
YEN nny aee tienda cornet ccentaiqcsettermremeasenennotpratinee C. J. Gross, Atwood | 
ON adic a gg esi pew Shee gs apn wae eaaabosiomel Charles S. . Black, Jacksonville 
y } |, Sa ee NR eer NE! Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 
Or nanan ee nee nnn eeeeenteeeeeeeeneees Frank Oexner, Waterloo 
TU nc sch arene laa tasrhrspney sateen aecanaacla ee L. Cope, Salem 
24th: ieicahapcbopdaictbewsensuchapouassonhensqundcbverstenessincnees ..--Charles Marshall, Belknap 
ZS thn. a. annnnnneneneencenenennnrsnneeeeeanennseenreeeenemenennsrennereneseneeeee- red Dietz, De Soto 
: DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 
Comptroller__.__.------------—-- ene nanan anna eee eee J. H. Kelker 
ha OR a a grtnnoenenooienatonmctancneenlanariometedies) As: Cowles 
Fruit and Vegetable Marketing.._.....__-.______~--........-A._ B. Leeper 
Grain Marketing. --a---a--..n>— Hatrison Fahrnkopf 
Inform ation .-a son. 2a ance cen nnni enn ee nnn ent ene George Thiem 
Insurance Service ...——---------e-----n-neeeeeeeeeee eee neem Ws ~Vaniman 
Legal Counsel............-—-----.--_-----.-----—-—-------. Donald. Kirkpatrick 
Limestone-Phosphate~....—..-_-----——----—-» —-—--——--------——- +--+ J. R. Bent 
Live Stock Marketing...-_.-.__--_-___._.- -____________--_—... Ray’ E. Miller 
OPEN D oicipitnenrni cde ess eect incnenntininpacheripninibcsmpewanopemmnnsyanisinieenaconeneiaa ian Johnston 
Organization --—-nnn- mene nea E. Metzger 
Produce Marketing....—-......-.--2t--:---------~.---------—-_-+-~------.-F, “A. Gougler 
Taxation and NES ARIES CRIES POT j. C. Watson 
Trams portation canoe esas ences a canna nesaenerrperwceees L. J. Quasey 


ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 
Country Life Insurance Co...—.--......-_-— _L. A. Williams, Mgr. 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co,_....... .-J. a 
neck <F. E, Ringham, Mgr. 


Illinois Agricultural Co-operative Ass’n...... 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co... hes Richardson, Mgr. 


Illinois Farm Supply Co...-..-______-_-_-_...-.- R Marchant, Mgr. 
Illinois Grain Corp...——..~-—...-________--_-__.. eraoon Fahrnkopf, Mgr. 
Midwest Grain Corp..—.._...__:________Chas, P. Cummings, Gen’l. Mgr. 


Soybean Marketing Ass'n. —-J. H. Lloyd, Mgr. 


Resolutions Adopted Jan. 30, 1931 


Rees adopted by the Board of Delegates at 
the 16th annual meeting of the Illinois Agricultural 
Association, Springfield, Jan. 30, 1931, are as follows: 


I 
REAFFIRMATION OF PREVIOUSLY ADOPTED, POLICIES 
Experience has justified nearly all the policies previously 
adopted by the Illinois Agricultural Association. Except in 
those cases where new conditions have arisen or where it 
has seemed advisable to make some changes, we hereby re- 
afirm all previous pronouncements of the Association. 


II 
NATIONAL LEGISLATION 


Government statistics show increasing importations. of 
tapioca and sago products, now representing an equivalent 
of five or six million bushels of corn per year, seriously and 
adversely’ affecting our farmers, and particularly by the 
substitution of these products for corn starch. | 

We respectfully urge upon our United States Senators 
and Representatives immediate need for the enactment of 
truly protective tariff rates: applicable . thereto, or resort 
to temporary embargo against importations. 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


February, 1931 


Il 


We urge upon Congress the further strengthening of the 
Butter Substitute Laws, so that the manufacturers using 
unbleached palm oil cannot avoid the tax on colored oleo- 
margarine and the color of yellow be reserved for pure 
butter only. 

We urge the withdrawal of the recent ruling of the 


-U. S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue as submitted on 


November 12, 1930, with reference to the use of refined 
palm oil in margarine. 


IV 


The office of Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of 
the United States is a position of far-reaching importance 
to American Agriculture. The record of Hon. Eugene 
Meyer in directing the work of the War Finance Corpora- 
tion and the Federal Farm Loan system fails to inapice the 
confidence of the farmers of Illinois. 

The delegates of the Illinois Agricultural Amoitiaiog in 
this the 16th annual convention do hereby request the two 
United States Senators from Illinois to consider his record 
toward agriculture when his appointment is considered by 
the Senate for confirmation. 


V 

We extend our appreciation to Chairman Alexander Legge 
of the Federal Farm Board, Secretary of Agriculture Arthur 
M. Hyde, and other mémbers of the Farm Board for the 
courageous and fully justified position they have taken and 
maintained on many occasions throughout 1930 in behalf 
of the best interests of farmers. 

We pledge oug continued assistance to the Federal Farm 
Board in efforts they are putting forth to build a farmer- 
owned and farmer-controlled marketing system. 

VI 

We insist that state institutions should use Illinois grown 

products in so far as is possible and practicable. Therefore, 


we urge legislation requiring that the purchase of fat re- ° 
quirements used for the feeding of inmates in state institu-: 


tions be at least 75 per cent in butter and 75 per cent in 
lard instead of substitutes therefor. 


VII 
We favor legislation providing for the pasteurization of 
all fluid milk distributed for human consumption in cities 
with*a population of 5,000 or over, except such milk as 
may satisfy the requirements of health authorities and be 


approved by the Department of Agriculture as eligible to 
be classified as certified milk. 
VIII 
We protest against any regulation requiring vaccination 
by a licensed veterinarian before swine can be exhibited 
at the State Fair or at any County Fair. 


IX 
We declare our oppostion to any legislation which pro- 


poses to substitute a single school district in each county 
in place of all elementary and high school districts therein 


_ until such time_as local highways are sufficiently. improved 


to make it possible at all times for children to be conveyed 
to central or consolidated schools and until the revenues for 
supporting the public schools are levied on ability to pay 
rather than upon the ownership of property. 


X 


We declare our opposition to any legislation which pro-. 


poses to increase the State School Fund unless any increase 
in funds for such purpose is collected from sources other 
than property. 
i XI 
We favor the enactment of a personal income tax law 
with moderate exemptions and with progressive rates, suff- 
cient with funds from other sources, to enable the state to 


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dispense: with all taxes upon property for all state purposes. 
We urge the Fifty-Seventh General Assembly to enact such 


‘a law and pledge our united support thereto. 


We are opposed to the diversion of any portion of gaso- 
line tax funds to cities, towns and villages, but favor amend- 
ment of the Acts relating to hard roads through or within 
cities, towns and villages in such a way as will authorize 
and direct the Department of Public Works and Buildings 
to maintain and when necessary to reconstruct hard sur- 
faced roads on streets or roads within such cities, towns and 
villages which have previously been designated as state high- 
ways. 

XII 

We favor and pledge our support to amendment of the 

Motor Vehicle Act: 


1. To exempt farm tractors and any farm implements 
and machinery drawn by tractors from the require- 


ment of motor licenses when such tractors, imple-. 


ments and machinery use the highways only in mov- 
ing between fields or farms for the purpose of carry- 

. ing on farm operations, 

2. To establish a more equitable. schedule of license fees 
with different rates for trucks having a combined 
weight and rated capacity of less than 4,000 pounds, 
between 4,000 and 8,000 pounds, and between 8,000 
and 12,000 pounds. 

: XIV 

The question of reapportionment has for years been a 
disturbing political and sectional element in Illinois. Until 
it is settled, it appears that much needed and constructive 
legislation will be held in abeyance and section strife now 
in existence will become more serious. 

While it is recognized that the present Constitution pro- 
vides for representation in our legislative body according to 
population, yet certainly no one could successfully maintain 
that the framers of the Constitution did or could foresee 
the great centralization of people that has come in Cook 
county, ‘where the population is larger than it is. in the 
rest of the state. 

A solution of this question which would be fair both to 
Cook county and to the rest of the state would give repre- 
sentation in.one House on the basis of population and limit 
representation in the other as to territory. 

The principles embodied in this solution are in keeping 
with the fundamentals of representative government as ex- 
emplified in the Constitution of the United States. : 

We favor settlement of this question on the basis here 
outlined and pledge our support thereto. 


XV 
We authorize and direct the officers and Board of Direc- 
tors of the Association to give further study to the opera- 
tion and effect of drivers’ license laws-in other states and 
to advise the County Farm Bureaus of their findings and 
area cor as to the advisability of such a law in 
inois. 


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3 


XVI 

In the absence of a showing of negligence on the part of 
the owner of live stock where such: live stock has strayed 
upon the highway and accidents have occurred because of 
such live stock being on the highway, there should be no 
liability against the owner and the Legislature of the state 
should guarantee such protection by statutory enactment. 

XVI—a 

We authorize and instruct the officers and Board of Di- 
rectors of the Association to prepare such legislation as they 
may deem proper and necessary to relieve farmers from 
liability to prosecution and to suits for damages for killing 
stray dogs upon their premises. : 


~it so. 


February, 1931 THE I. A. A. RECORD Page Nine 
OEE eee ee R 


XVII C 

The constant growth of and interest in boys’ and girls’ 
4-H club work in the State of Illinois has made inadequate 
their present living quarters and the: facilities for~ housing 
their animals and other exhibits at the Illinois State Fair. 

The members of these clubs will constitute the leading 
farmers of Illinois in a few years. - 

Recognizing the importance and value of this work, the 
Farm Bureau movement of the state has always encouraged 
and supported its development in every possible way. 

We favor providing boys and girls so engaged with ade- 
quate commodious and permanent quarters to the end that 
added impetus and encouragement be offered those responsi- 
ble for this fast growing division of the Fair. 

- We urge the officers and Board of Directors of Illinois 
Agricultural Association to use their, influence in such 
manner as will best accomplish this result at the earliest 
possible time. 
XVIII 
APPRECIATION OF COURTESIES 


The delegates and visitors of this sixteenth annual meet- 
ing of the Illinois ‘Agricultural Association held in Spring- 
field, January 29 and 30, 1931, hereby express their grate- 
ful and hearty appreciation for the cordial welcome and for 
the unfailing courtesy and co-operation shown them by the 
state officials, the Sangamon County Farm Bureau, the 
Mayor, the Chamber of Commerce, and the organizations 
of the City of Springfield, and the citizens of the City of 
Springfield and Sangamon county who have contributed so 
effectively to the comfort, convenience and success of this 
annual meeting. 

The Resolutions Committee which submitted the report 
is as follows: ; 
A. R. Wricut, Chairman. 
Harotp C. VIAL 
Geo. J. STOLL 
W. A. DENNIs, 

M. G. LAMBERT 
CuHas. MARSHALL 
C. J. Gross 


‘Echoes From The Annual Meeting : 


I. A. A. Meeting 


foe annual meeting of the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion held at Springfield last week was impressive evi- 
dence of the achievement that has been made in organized 
agriculture since the war. This was a business meeting, 
where business farmers listened to reports and laid down 
policies for future action. Agriculture is not prosperous, 
but efficient organization is the only thing that can make 
The Illinois Agricultural Association is making a 
record that entitles it to the support of every farmer in 
the state. Its influence will grow with the size of its 
membership.—Prairie Farmer. 


The I. A. A.’s Mission 


‘Tet thousands of enthusiastic delegates are attending 
the sixteenth annual meeting of the Illinois Agricultural 
Association in Springfield this week is a gratifying augury. 

At this convention representatives of many groups are 


_ brought into close co-operative contact. The bruad scope 


of the: Association is indicated in the fact that among the 


‘ various groups actively represented are the Agricultural 


Co-operatives Association, the Agricultural Holding Com- 


Page Ten 


| Echoes from Annual Meeting 


pany, the Agricultural Mutual Insur- 
ance Company, the Farm Bureau Base- 
ball League, the Farm Bureau Serum 
Association, the Produce Marketing 
Association, the Country Life Insurance 
Company, and the Farm Supply Com- 
pany. 

The presence of Chairman Legge of 
the Federal Farm Board, as we stated 
in an editorial Wednésday, focuses na- 
tional interest upon this gathering, but 
the collective objective transcends the 
Views, activities or ambitions of any in- 
dividual or sectional group. 

Agriculture has entered upon a new 
era of economics and now faces new 
problems. The day when agricultural 
bodies like this great association could 
be. manipulated politically is past. It 
is accepted as an insult for any party 
leaders or partisan organization’ to as- 
sume that they can now “deliver” the 
agricultural vote,to promote : partisan 
ends, 


The welfare of the farmer is an eco- 
nomic and not a partisan political prob- 
lem. True, if political parties are to 
survive they must determine the needs 
of agriculture and frame their plat- 
forms and policies accordingly. 


More important than partisan ambi- 
tions are the policies of such organi- 
zations as the Illinois Agricultural As- 
sociation. 


The keynote of this great meeting 
now and throughout the coming year 


should be united demand for legislative; 


action in state and nation which will 
supply practical farm relief. 


An uncompromising campaign must 
be carried on to see that more such 
frauds as were perpettated in 1928 shall 
not be repeated to the disadvantage of 
agriculture. 

If such a\ powerful organization as 
the I. A. A. exercises its prestige unit- 
edly and aggressively along this line it 
will rescue agriculture from its pres- 
ent depression and give the farmer that 
which he has consistently been dénied 
—a fair share in national prosperity.— 
Illinois State Register. 


Annual Convention of I. A. A. 


Substantial and practical suggestions 
for agriculture’s recovery from the 
situation in which it finds itself should 
come from the three-day convention of 
the Illinois Agricultural Association 
opening in Springfield today. 

Five thousand farmers are expected 
from all corners of the) state for the 
series of meetings and conferences. The 
local committee plans to| accommodate 
1,600 at the annual banquet Thursday 


‘THE I. A. A. RECORD 


evening at which the principal speaker 

will be Alexander H. Legge, chairman 

of the Federal Farm Board. 
Springfield’s guests today are prac- 


tical farmers. They know conditions 
on the farms, not from reading tables 
of statistics, but from wrestling with 
the soil and trying to outwit the 
weatherman. Theory will be tempered 
with fact in the exposition of the situ- 
ation and in recommending remedial 
action. 

From the doleful tales one hears of 
agriculture’s plight, there might be an 
excuse for believing that the farmer 
has thrown up his hands in surrender. 
Such a notion will be blasted by a thou- 
sand motor horns as the farmers ar- 
rive today. ; 

They are gathered, not for a post- 
mortem, but for a clinical consultation, 
determined to put their ailing patient 
back on his feet and back to work.— 
Illinois State Journal. 


GOV. EMMERSON’S TAX- 
REFORM VIEWS 


In a speech before the Illindis Agri- 
cultural Association, Gov. Emmerson, 
after reviewing the revenue and tax 
situation in the state and in Cook coun- 
ty, urged, in addition to necessary re- 
forms in the assessment and equaliza- 
tion of taxes, an’ earnest restudy of the 
ways and means of complete and per- 


manent improvement of the_yevenue . 


system of Illinois. He bespoke the co- 
operation of all civic and other organi- 
zations. 


It serves no useful purpose now to 
complain of the opposition to the reve- 
nue amendment submitted last fall and 
rejected by the voters. That amend- 
ment lacked merit, and certainly did 
not embody the complete and perma- 
nent reform of taxation which Gov. 
Emmerson recognizes as indispensable. 
A mew revenue and tax amendment 
should be drafted, and every legitimate 
interest should be given adequate op- 
portunity to contribute to the right 
solution of the problem. 


The next amendment submitted 
should be frank, comprehensive and 
free from all ambiguities and jokers. 
It should permit classification of prop- 


.erty for purposes of taxation, the levy- 


ing of different rates on different types 
of property, the exemption of. person- 
alty from taxation, and the imposition 
of a fair tax on incomes. 


Gov. Emmerson should urge that 
sort of amendment. It could be de- 
fended successfully in a campaign of 
education, and would deserve popular 
approval. Its chance of adoption would 
be excellent.—Chicago- Daily News. 


February 4934 


‘Hitting the Nail ~~. 


The governor struck the nail on the 
head in addressing the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association in state convention 
assembled at Springfield, today, where 
he said there “had been no apportion- 
ment for thirty years and it would be 
thirty years more before the 101 down- 
state counties would turn the state 
government over to one county— 
Cook.” In his biennial--mesage he 
suggested an agreement with Chicago 
whereby Cook County should be given 
full representation in the senate but 
that its membership in the house be 
forever limited to one-third. 

With the session only a month old 
the Chicago members are more _insis- 
tent in the demands for control of both 
branches than ever before, and are tell- 
ing their constituents that the execu- 
tive is substituting his own ideas for 
the state constitution—the sacredness 
of which they repeatedly point out in 
their‘demands for their pound of flesh. 
The statement of the governor today 
will strike a responsive chord in every 
fair-minded man. Many of the Chi- 
cago delegation privately admit that 
their demands for’ control of both 
branches are unreasonable and would be 
for the best interests of neither down- 
state nor Chicago, but that they are 
powerless to express publicly their real 
sentiments because of the attitude of 
the metropolitan press. 

A commission is in the making to 
study this situation, and it is not “un- 
likely it will in the end recommend a 
limitation for Cook County in one 
house at least. It means nothing to 
Chicago that the voting strength of 
every other large city in the nation is 
limited in its general assembly. 


Young as is the present session it is 
not too early to predict that there will 
be no apportionment by the Fifty- 
seventh general assembly nor its suc- 
cessor either, unless in the meantime 
Cook County consents to and helps put. 


over a constitutional amendment limit _ 


ing its voting strength. Chicago makes 
the noise but down-state has the votes. 


‘It is ready and willing to deal fairly 


with, Cook, but Cook is not yet ready 
to enter into a give and take proposi- 
tion. Its attitude is to take all or noth- 
ing, and nothing is just what it is .go-. 
ing to get. Down-state would be ~in“~ 
a fine pickle with Chicago in contol 


of both branches of the general-assém- 2 
bly.—Peoria Star. . eS 


~~ =” 


Only two cancellations out of 300 
members of the Sanitary Milk Pro- 
ducers, St. Louis, at the close of the 
year, is reported by Manager A:s D. 
\Lynch. - 


‘February, 1931. 


raat 


Governor Discusses 
Two State Problems 


Reapportionment and Tax Reform 
Covered in Address Before 
I. A. A. Convention 


AXATION and reapportionment of 

the legislature were the two sub- 
jects discussed by Governor Louis L. 
Emmerson before 1,100 to 1,200 dele- 
gates, members and visitors in the State 

_ Armory following the Friday luncheon 
at the I. A. A. annual meeting Jan. 30. 


Applaud Statement 
The audience liked the governor’s 
analysis of the reapportionment ques- 
tion. Spontaneous applause followed 
his words, “To reapportion the state 


under the terms of the present. consti-’ 


tution would give to Cook county a 
majority in both branches of the Gen- 
eral Assembly. Right or wréng, down- 
state members of the legislature have 
not been-convinced in thirty years, and 
they are not likely to be convinced in 
thirty more years, that complete con- 
trol of the legislature should be given 
without check or hindrance to one 
County out of the 102 counties of the 
state. It is not done in any other state 
of the Union and it is not likely to be 
done here, no matter whether we want 
it or not.” i 


Tax Situation 


The governor asked that all interests 
unite, to, bring about equitable’ tax re- 
- form, criticized opponents of the de- 

feated revenue amendment, called 
attention to the fact that tax delin- 
quencies, are mounting, that property 
owners are rebelling at bearing nearly 
‘all the burden of government. 

“Let us look for a moment at Cook 
county,” he said. “I do not want to 
hold it up as a horrible example, but it 
just happens that because of its very 

~ bigness, conditions there are more ap- 
parent. 


“It was stated in the Chicago Trib- 
une the other day that more than $51,- 
000,000 of 1928 taxes have not yet 
been collected. Of this amount, 70 per 
cent is in real estate taxes. It is esti- 
mated that these taxes are due on real 
estate worth more than $2,000,000,- 
000, which is more than one-fifth of 
the total real estate of the county. 

-“TIs it not quite evident’ that real 
estate taxes are becoming  confiscatory? 


Delinquent Taxes 


“A large part of the $37,500,000 due in 
real estate taxes, it is asserted, will never be 
paid. For much of it taxpayers have declined 
to pay and there is no apparent indication that 
the county can collect in these instances.. 

“Just consider these figures for a monient, 
you who think this talk of tax reform is un- 
interesting and unimportant. More than $37,- 


his THE I. A. A. RECORD 


‘The Annual Report, 1200 Copies of 


°which were Distributed Thursday 


Morning, ~ Is a 112-page Illustrated 
Booklet ° opps with Financial 
Statements. > , 


{ 


500,000 of taxes dué on real estate in Cook 
county for the year 1928 still is umcollected 
and much of it is uncollectible. ; 

“Then look at this other. situation for a 
moment for it is nearer home to you.~~Cook 
county owes the state approximately $17,000,- 
000, which, under ordinary conditions, should 
have been paid over long ago. The unpaid 
balance of. 1928 taxes’ due by the middle of 
1929, but still not received by the-~ state, 
amounts to.a\total of approximately $4,000,000. 
Of the 1929 taxes, which should have been 
collected and paid in by the middle of last 
year, a total of $13,000,000 is due. 


Funds Are Short 


“What does this mean to the state of Illi- 
nois? 

“It means that the General Revenue Fund 
as short $6,182,015. 

“Tt means that the University of Mlinois 
fund is skort $1,546,895. 

“It means that the moncy paying: interest 
and retirement of the Soldiers’ Bonus Bonds 
is short $2,533,788. 

“It means that the money for the payment 
of interest and retirement of Waterway Bonds 
is short $730,669. ~~’ 

“It means that the 
short $464,668. : 

“Without special -appropriation from the 
General Assembly, and special legislation, the 
state would have to default on its obligations 
on Waterway and Soldiers’ Bonus bonds, The 
work of the university and the activity of state 
departments are threatened by tke shortage .of 
funds resulting from the failure of Cook coun- 
ty to turn in the amount of maney due from it.” 


‘Blind Relief Fund is 


During the course of his remarks the Gov=7~T 


ernor took occasion to criticize the Association 
for ‘its refusal to support the proposed \ tax 


amendment after it kad been seriously amended / 


in the House. . 
Reapportionment Plan | 


After discussing the plan of representation in 
the legislature followed in such states as New 
York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware,, New 
Jersey, Montana.and South Caroli d where the 
populous’ counties have limited re 07 io ob in 
one house or the other, the governor said: 

“The suggestion is’ made, (therefore, that 


full representation be allowed Cook county: 


on the basis of population in one House of 


a 


7 


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the General Assembly and that the number in 
the other House be limited to approximately its 
present membership. in that House. This could in 
no way~injure Chicago, for Cook county mem- 
bers. would always be in control of one branch 
of the legislature and could thus check any 
legislation ‘which was not considered best for 
the city or county. At the same timé, Cook 
county members could not force on the state 
any measure which downstate members felt was 
unjust or unwise for the communities outside of 
Cook county. It is a balance of power ‘which 
seems ‘reasonable and just. 
“Chicago members cannot be expected jto be 
conversant with conditions on the farms and 
with the smaller communities throughout Illi+ 
nois. It is not reasonable to suppose that the 
welfare of the entire state would be advanced 
by permitting Cook county members of the 
legislature to decide every question which came 
before thé~General Assembly, regardless of its 
interest or lack of interest to Cook county. 


Amend Constitution ' 


“It seems t6 me, therefore, that the way to 
settle the’ reapportionment question is ‘by 4 
constitutional amendment which will make pos- 
sible this balance of. power. I am in favor of 
Chicago having the greatest possible measure 
of home rule. I recognize that its problems in 
many instances are ite different from the 
problems of the downstate and* that wherever 
possible the people /of Chicago should be per- 
mitted ’ these questions themselves’ 


to de 
without downstate interference. 
‘Consider Fairly 


Ke other hand, I. do not believe that 
the by ann of Chicago can reasonably expect 
tke downstate. to turn over: to them all of the 


_functions of state government. 


**As, in the case of revenue reform, this serir 
ous ‘question of proper representation must be 
considered fairly and justly. As long as Chi- 
cago and downstate leaders continue to_ be 
arbitrary, no solution is possible and Chicago 
will continue to have only one- -third~of the 
representation in the two Houses of the Gen- 
eral Assembly. This is a mere statement of 
fact and not an expression of opinion. {| 

“With sound tax reform, we can do justice 
to the property owner and with the. solution 
of the, question of reapportionment, the -prin- 
cipal bone of contention between Chicago and 
the’ downstate will have. beer removed.” 


NOTIC 
ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 
ELECTION OF DELEGATES ° 
ASSOCIATION 
OTICE is hereby given’that in connec- 
tion with the annual meetings of all 
County Farm Bureaus to be keld during the 
months of February and March, 1931, at 
the hour‘and place to be determined by the 
Board of Directors of each respective County 
Farm Bureau, the members in good standing 
of such County Farm Bureatis and who are 
also qualified voting members of Illinois 
Agricultural Association shall elect a delegate 
or delegates to represent such members of 
Illinois Agricultural Association and vote on 
all matters before-the next annual meeting 
or any special meeting of Association, in- 
cluding the election of’ officers and directors 
as provided for in the by-laws of the Asso- 
ciation. 
uring February annual meetings will ,be 
held im~Mason, Tazewell,; Will, and DeKalb 
counties. 
During March annual meetings will be 
held in Kankakee, McDonough, Boone, and 
Winnebago counties. 


Signed: 
G. E. METZGER, Secretary. 


“February 9, 1931, 


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AMONG the guests seated at the speaker’s table at the banquet where Mr. Legge and 

Mrs. Sewell spoke were: Gov. Louis L. Emmerson; David, Shanahan, speaker, state 
house of representatives; Dean H. W. Mumford, College of Agriculture, University of 
Iilinois; A. W. Miller, president, Springfield Chamber of Commerce; Simon E. Lantz, 
ehairman, Agricultural Committee, State Senate; V. Y. Dallman, editor, Illinois State 
Register; Stuart E. Pierson, state director of agriculture; James L. Donnelly, execu- 
tive vice-president, Illinois Manufacturers Ass’n.; Geo. C. Jewett, vice-chairman, Congress 
Trust and Savings Bank; J. Paul ‘Clayton, president, Hlinois Chamber of Commerce; 
Osear E. Carlstrom, attorney general of Illinois; Logan Hay, of Springfield; J. C. Spitler, 
state leader of farm advisers; Homer J. Tice, chairman, Appropriations Committee, State 
Legislature; R. G. Soderstrom, president, Illinois Federation of Labor; Mrs. Henry J. 
Mies, president, Illinois Home Bureau Federation; Milton E. Jones,.manager, State Fair; 
J. M. Chilton, assistant general manager, Farmers National Grain Corporation; E. E. 


Crabtree, banker, Jacksonville; T. A. Borman, vice-preside 
Charles Ewing, president, National Live Stock Marketing 
Springfield; Floyd Keepers, Prairie Farmer; Roy Corzine, ch 
Agriculture State Legislature; former Lieutenant-Governor 
Louis Fitz Henry, Federal District Judge, Peoria; Samuel Bu 
Among the officials of Illinois co-operatives who sat dire 
table were: J. R.-Fulkerson, president, J. R. Montgomery, 
manager, St. Louis Producers Commission Ass’n.; H. H. Park 
manager, Chicago Producers Commission Ass’n.; G. C. Johnst 
Corporation; Carl A. Neureuther, secretary-treasurer, LaS 
E. W.'Tiedeman, president, Sanitary Milk Poduces Ass’n.; 
I. A. Madden, manager, Producers Dairy Company, Springfiel 
Jack Connery, manager, Quincy Co-Op. Milk. Producers; Ry 


SIXTEENTH ANNUAL I. A. A. MEETING, SPRINGFIELD, JANUARY 29, 1931 


an, vice-president, Beatrice Creamery Co.; 
ock Marketing Ass’n.; Hal Smith, mayor of 
Roy Corzine, chairman, House Committee on 
atenant-Governor John G. Oglesby, Elkhart; 
eoria; Samuel Burnett, Federal Circuit Clerk. 
ves who sat directly in front of the speakers’ 
R. Montgomery, vice-president, H. D. Wright, 
ss’n.; H. H. Parke, president, D.: L. Swanson, 
an; G. C. Johnstone, president, Illinois Grain 
-treasurer, LaSalle-Peru Producers Ass’n.; 
Poduces Ass’n.; J. F. Greenwood, president, 
mpany, Springfield; John B. Peters,. president, 
k- Producers; Ryland Capron, president, Wil- 


fred Shaw, manager, Illinois Milk Producers Ass’n., Peoria; D. J. Blickinstaff, president, 
Archie McIntosh, manager, Decatur Milk Ass’n.; Ewald S. Diemer, secretary-manager, 
Pontiac Milk Producers Ass’n.; W. C. McQueen, Chicago, president, Pure Milk Ass’n.; Fred 
Shipley, manager, Champaign County Milk Producers; Harold Enns, president; Forrest 
Fairchild manager, McLean County Milk Producers; 0. B. Goble, president, Dlinois Farm 
Bureau Serum <Ass’n.; A. J. Gilfillan, president, F. E. Ringham, manager, Illinois Agri- 
cultural Co-Op. Ass’n.; E. D. Lawrence, president, L. R. Marchant, manager, Illinois Farm 
Supply Co.; Ed Oelze, manager, Egyptian Seed Growers Exchange; R. B. Endicott, presi- 
dent, A. B. Leeper, manager Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange; John Armstrong, president, 
J. H. Lloyd, manager, Soybean Marketing Ass’n.; Sam Elkins, president, Illinois Produce 
Marketing. Ass’n.; C. P. Cummings, manager, Mid-West Grain Corporation; W. J. Nier=- 
xwarth, manager, Farmers National Grain Corporation, St. Louis; George Wilson, president, 
Peoria Producers Commission Ass’n. . 


he _«ciag® 


& 


— 5 
iad i, 


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MONG the guests. seated at the speaker’s table at the banquet where Mr. Legge and Crabtree, banker, Jacksonville; T. A. Borman, vice-presidd 
Mrs. Sewell spoke were: Gov. Louis L. Emmerson; David Shanah speaker, state Charles Ewing, president, National Live Stock Marketing 
house of representatives; Dean H. VW Mumford, College of Agricultu University of Springfield; Floyd Keepers, Prairie Farmer; Roy Corzine, ch 
Hilinois; A. W. Miller, president, Sp gfield Chamber of Commerce; Simon E. Lantz, Agriculture State Legislature; former Lieutenant-Governor 
ehairman, Agricultural Committee, State Senate; V. Y. Dallman, editor, Illinois State Louis Fitz Henry, Federal District Judge, Peoria; Samuel Bt 
Register; Stuart FE. Pierson, state director of agriculture; James L. Donnelly, execu- Among the officials of Iilinois co-operatives who sat dire 
tive vice-president, Illinois Manufacturers Ass’n.; Geo, C. Jewett, vice-chairman, Congress table were: J. R. Fulkerson, president, J. R. Montgomery, 
Trast and Savings Bank; J. Paul Clayton, president, Hlinois Chamber of Commerce; manager, St. Louis Producers Commission Ass’n.; H. H. Park 
Osear E. Carlistrom, attorney general of Illinois; Logan Hay, of Springfield; J. C. Spitler, manager, Chicago Producers Commission Ass’n.; G. C. Johns 
state leader of farm advisers; Homer J. Tice, chairman, Appropriations Committee, State Corporation; Carl A. Neureuther, secretary-treasurer, La! 
Legislature; R. G. Soderstrom, president, Illinois Federation of Labor; Mrs. Henry J. E. W. Tiedeman, president, Sanitary Milk Poduces Ass’n.; 
Mies, president, Illinois Home Bureau Federation; Milton E. Jones, manager, State Fair; I. A. Madden, manager, Producers Dairy Company, Springtiel 
J. M. Chilton, assistant general manager, Farmers National Gratin Corporation; E. E. JSaek Connery, manager, Quiney Co-Op. Milk Producers; Ry 


SIXTEENTH ANNUAL I. A. A. MEETING, SPRINGFIELD, JANUARY 29, 1931 


man, vice-president, Beatrice Cre: 
tock Marketing Ass’n.; Hal Smith of 
Roy Corzine, chairman, House Con ttee on 
ntenant-Governor John G. Oglesby, Elkhart; 
-eorias; Samuel Burnett, Federal Circuit Clerk. 
ives who sat directly in front of the speakers’ 
R. Montgomery, vice-president, H. D. Wright, 
ss’n.; H. H. Parke, president, D. L. Swanson, 
nm.3 G. C. Johnstone, president, Illinois Grain 
ry-treasurer, LaSalle-Peru Producers § A‘ss’n.; 
Poduces Ass’n.; J. F. Greenwood, president, 
mpany, Springfield; John B. Peters, president, 
k Producers; Ryland Capron, president, Wil- 


fred Shaw, manager, Illinois Milk Producers Ass'‘n., Peoria; D. J. Blickinstaff, president, 
Archie MeIntosh, manager, Decatur Milk Ass'n.: Ewald 8S. Diemer, secretary-manager, 
Pontiac Milk Producers Ass’n.; W. C. MeQueen, Chicago, president, Pure Milk As 3 Fred 
Shipley, manager, Champaign County Milk Producers; Harold Enns, president; Forrest 
ild manager, MeLean County Milk Producers; 0. B. Goble, president, Illinois Farm 
Serum Ass’n.; A. J. Gilfillan, president, F. E. Ringham, manager, Illinois Agri- 

Co-Op. Ass‘n.; E. D. Lawrence, president, L. R. Marchant, manager, Illinois Farm 

Supply Co.; Ed Oeclze, manager, Egyptian Seed Growers Exchange; R. B. Endicott, presi- 
dent, A. B. Leeper, manager Ulinois Fruit Growers Exchange; John Armstrong, president, 
J. H. Lloyd, n ager, Soybean Marketing Ass’n.; Sam Elkins, president, Illinois Produce 
Marketing Ass’n P. Cummings, r ager, © -West Grain Corporation; W. J. Nier- 
xarth, manager, F rational Gr: Corporation, St. Louis; George Wilson, president, 
Peoria Producers Commission Ass’‘n,. ; 


MONG the guests seated at the speaker’s table at the banquet where Mr. Legge and 

Mrs. Sewell spoke were: Gov. Louis L. Emmerson; David Shanahan, speaker, state 
house of representatives; Dean H. W. Mumford, College of Agriculture, University of 
Iilinois; A. W. Miller, president, Springfield Chamber of Commerce; Simon E. Lantz, 
ehairman, Agricultural Committee, State Senate; V. Y. Dallman, editor, Dllinois State 
Register; Stuart E. Pierson, state director of agriculture; James L. Donnelly, execu- 
tive vice-president, Illinois Manufacturers Ass’n.; Geo. C. Jewett, vice-chairman, Congress 
Trust and Savings Bank; J. Paul ‘Clayton, president, Illinois Chamber of Commerce; 
Osear E. Carlstrom, attorney general of Illinois; Logan Hay, of Springfield; J. C. Spitler, 
state leader of farm advisers; Homer J. Tice, chairman, Appropriations Committee, State 
Legislature; R. G. Soderstrom, president, Illinois Federation of Labor; Mrs. Henry J. 
Mies, president, Illinois Home Bureau Federation; Milton E. Jones, manager, State Fair; 
J. M. Chilton, assistant general manager, Farmers National Grain Corporation; E. E. 


2700 HEAR PROGRAM FOLLOWING BANQUET 


IN STATE ARSENAL AT SIXTEENTH ANNUAL I. A. A. MEETING, SPRINGFIELD, JANUARY 29, 1931 


Crabtree, banker, Jacksonville; T. A. Borman, vice-president, Beatrice Creamery Co.; 
Charles Ewing, president, National Live Stock Marketing Ass’n.; Hal Smith, mayor of 
Springfield; Floyd Keepers, Prairie Farmer; Roy Corzine, chairman, House Committee on 
Agriculture State Legislature; former Lieutenant-Governor John G. Oglesby, Elkhart; 
Louis Fitz Henry, Federal District Judge, Peoria; Samuel Burnett, Federal Circuit Clerk. 

Among the officials of Illinois co-operatives who sat directly in front of the speakers’ 
table were: J. R.: Fulkerson, president, J. R. Montgomery, vice-president, H. D. Wright, 
manager, St. Louis Producers Commission Ass’n.; H. H. Parke, president, D. L. Swanson, 
manager, Chicago Producers Commission Ass’n.; G. C. Johnstone, president, Illinois Grain 
Corporation; Carl A. Neureuther, secretary-treasurer, LaSalle-Peru Producers Ass’n.; 
E. W.'Tiedeman, president, Sanitary Milk Poduces Ass’n.; J. F. Greenwood, president, 
I. A. Madden, manager, Producers Dairy Company, Springfield; John B. Peters,. president, 
Jack Connery, manager, Quincy Co-Op. Milk- Producers; Ryland Capron, president, Wil- 


fred Shaw, manager, Illinois Milk Producers Ass’n., Peoria; D. J. Blickinstaff, president, 
Archie McIntosh, manager, Decatur Milk Ass’n.; Ewald S. Diemer, secretary-manager, 
Pontiac Milk Producers Ass’n.; W. C. McQueen, Chicago, president, Pure Milk Ass’n.; Fred 
Shipley, manager, Champaign County Milk Producers; Harold Enns, president; Forrest 
Fairchild manager, McLean County Milk Producers; 0. B. Goble, president, Dlinois Farm 
Bureau Serum Ass’n.; A. J. Gilfillan, president, F. E. Ringham, manager, Illinois Agri- 
cultural Co-Op. Ass’n.; E. D, Lawrence, president, L. R. Marchant, manager, Illinois Farm 
Supply Co.; Ed Oelze, manager, Egyptian Seed Growers Exchange; R. B. Endicott, presi- 
dent, A. B. Leeper, manager Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange; John Armstrong, president, 
J. H. Lleyd, manager, Soybean Marketing Ass’n.; Sam Elkins, president, Illinois Produce 
Marketing. Ass’n.; C. P. Cummings, manager, Mid-West Grain Corporation; W. J. Nier=- 
xwarth, manager, Farmers National Grain Corporation, St. Louis; George Wilson, president, 
Peoria Producers Commission Ass’n. Z 


2700 HEAR PROGRAM FOLLOWING BANQUET IN STATE ARSENAL AT. SIXTEENTH ANNUAL I. 


MONG the guests. seated at the speaker’s table at the banquet where Mr. Legge and 

Mrs. Sewell spoke were: Gov. Louis L. Emmerson; David Shanahan, speaker, state 
house of representatives; Dean H. W. Mumford, College of Agriculture, University of 
Tilinois; A. W. Miller, president, Sp gfield Chamber of ommerce;: Simon E. Lantz, 
ehairman, Agricultural Committee, State Senate; V. Y. Dallman, editor, Hllinois State 
Register; Stuart EF. Pierson, state director of agriculture; James L. Donnelly, execu- 
tive vice-president, Illinois Manufacturers Ass’n.; Geo. C. Jewett, vice-chairman, Congress 
Trast and S:z ngs Bank; J. Paul Clayton, president, Hlinois Chamber of Commerce; 
Osear E. Carlistrom, attorney general of Illinois; Logan Hay, of Sp field; J. C. Spitler, 
state leader of farm advisers; Homer J. Tice, chairman, Appropriations Committee, State 
Legislature; R. G. Soderstrom, president, Illinois Federation of Labor; Mrs. Henry J. 
Mies, president, IHlinois Home Bureau Federation; Milton E. Jones, manager, State Fair; 
J. M. Chilton, assistant general manager, Farmers National Grain Corporation; E. E. 


Crabtree, banker, Jacksonville; T. A. Borman, Beatrice Creamery Co.; 
Charles Ewing, president, National Live Stock Marketing : Hal Smith, mayor of 
Springfield; Floyd Keepers, Prairie Farmer; Roy Corzine, chairman, House Committee on 
Agriculture State Legislature; former Lieutenant-Governor John G. Oglesby, Elkhart; 
Louis Fitz Henry, Federal District Judge, Peoria; Samuel Burnett, Federal Circuit Clerk. 

Among the officials of Illinois co-operatives who sat directly in front of the speakers’ 
able were: J. R. Fulkerson, president, J. R. Montgomery, vice-president, H. D. Wright, 
manager, St. Louis Producers Commission Ass’n.; H. H. Parke, president, D. L. Swanson, 
manager, Chicago Producers Commission Ass’n.; G. C. Johnstone, president, Illinois Grain 
Corporation; Carl A. Neureuther, secretary-treasurer, LaSalle-Peru Producers Ass’n.; 
E. W. Tiedeman, president, Sanitary Milk Poduces Ass’n.; J. F. Greenwood, president, 
I. A. Madden, manager, Producers Dairy Company, Springtield; John B. Peters, president, 
Jack Connery, manager, Quin¢y Co-Op. Milk Producers; Ryland Capron, president, Wil- 


A. A. MEETING, SPRINGFIELD, JANUARY 29, 1931 


. 


fred Shaw, manager, Illinois Milk Pro » Peori D. J. Blickinstaff, president, 
Archie McIntosh, manager, Decatur Milk Ass’ Ewald 8S. Diemer, secretary-manager, 
Pontiac Milk Producers Assa’n.; W. C. MéeQueen, Chicago, president, Pure Milk Ass’n.; Fred 

manager, Champaign County Milk Producers; Harold Enns, president; Forrest 

d manager, MeLean County Milk Producers; 0. B. Goble, president, Illinois Farm 
Bureau Serum Ass’ A. J. Gilfillan, president, F. E. Ringham, manager, Illinois Agri- 
cultural Co-Op. As «. D. Lawrence, president, L. R. Marchant, manager, Illinois Farm 
Supply Co.; Ed Oech manager, Egyptian Seed Growers Exchange; R. B. Endicott, presi- 
dent, A. B. Leeper ager Illinois Fruit Growérs Exchange; John Armstrong, president, 
J. H. Lloyd, manager, Soybean Marketing Ass’n.; Sam Elkins, president, Illinois Produce 
Marketing Ass’n.; C. P. Cummings, manager, -West Grain Corporation; W. J. Nier- 
xarth, manager, Farmérs National Grain Corporation, St. Louis; George Wilson, president, 
Peoria Producers Commission Ass’‘n, : 


Page Fourteen 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


February, 1931 


Legislative Work of 


Association Reviewed 


I. A. A. Stand on Revenue Amend- 
ment and Other Measures 
Explained 


(Excerpts from address of President at 
I. A. A. annual meeting.) 


«’T. HE Association’s legislative activi- 
ties during 1930 were largely con- 
fined in a national sense to matters re- 
lating to and affecting agricultural 
tariffs and in state legislation to mat- 
ters of taxation. 
“During consideration of the provi- 
sions of the Hawley- Smoot Tariff Bill 
in 1929, the Association filed a brief 
setting forth its position in favor of 
increased agricultural tariffs affecting 
Illinois and surrounding territory. Not 
only were the suggestions contained in 
this brief followed through and sup- 
ported by the Association in the further 
consideration of this tariff legislation 
during 1930, but were the cause of 
amendments to the bill when under 
consideration by the Senate Finance 
Committee, wherein a tariff of $6.00 
per ton’‘on soybean oil meal and 3% 
cents per pound’ on soybean oil were 
adopted. This was done at the re- 
quest of the soybean growers of the 
state, speaking through their organiza- 
tion, the Soybean | ariceting Associa-, 
tion. 


Senator Denecn Helps 


“It is only due United States Senator 
Charles’ $. Deneen, a member of the 
te Finance Committee, to say that 

e is entitled to a large part of the 


‘credit for the adoption of this amend- 


ment. 


“In May, 1930, Governor Emmer- 
son called a special session of the 56th 
General Assembly. By the very nature 
of ,the call, consideration of legislation 
was restricted, to matters affecting the 


_ financial condition of Cook county and 


. recommendations 


the City of Chicago, and a report of 
the Revenue Investigation Commission 
which had been authorized during the 
regular session of the 56th General As- 
sembly. The Revenue Investigation 
Commission’s report dealt only with 
relating to the 
amendment of the Revenue Article of 
the State Constitution. The Associa- 
tion’s’interest in behalf of a con- 
structive amendment to the Reve- 
nue Article has covered a period of 
ten years, and is well known. Rep- 
resentatives of the association had 
appeared before the Revenue Com- 
mission during its consideration of 
the tax conditions of the state and 
of needed remedial legislation. 

‘As was announced to its mem- 


* the General Assembly. 


bers, the Association was in agree- 
ment with the spirit, intent and 
purposes of the Commission’s recom- 
mendations and gave its support to 
the suggested revenue amendment 
when under consideration in the 
State Senate. The recommendations 
of the Commission were adopted by 
the State Senate by a very substan- 
tial majority. In the House, it was 
amended even to the point of emas- 
culation, and put into such shape 
that the Association could not be- 
come a party to it or support the 
proposal during its consideration by 
the people previous to the election. 

“The Board of ‘Directors made avail- 
able to: all members of the Association 
the reasons for the position it was 
forced to take. The consideration by 
the General Assembly of the construc- 
tive report and recommendations of the 
Revenue Investigation Commission and 
its amendment by the House certainly 
furnishes convincing evidence of the 
impossibility of submitting a proper 
amendment to the ‘people at a very 
early date, to say nothing of consti- 
tutional restrictions which make it im- 
possible to’ re-submit any kind of an 
amendment for four years. The elec- 
tion disclosed the fact that nearly two- 
thirds of those voting last fall failed 
to show any tax consciousness as they 
failed to take any position on .the 
amendment. under consideration. This 


discloses: the futility of looking to the 


voters for tax’ relief in.the form of an 
amendment to the Reyenue Article of 
the State Constitution. 


Taxation’ Work 


‘For ten years the. Association has 
maintained a Department of Taxation 
and Statistics. I could speak at length 
upon the work of this department and 
its achievements. The director has be- 
come generally recognized as one of the 
best authorities of the state in the field 
of taxation. Especially is this true as 
regards the effect of present laws on 
different classes of property. As a re- 
sult of the study of this department, 
the Association has twice sponsored an 
income tax bill in previous sessions of 
It has both 
times passed the State Senate by a sub- 
stantial vote, but has met defeat in 
the Lower. House, the last time by only 
a few votes. 

“We are confronted. with a situation 
wherein values of tangible property are 
declining and taxes steadily advancing, 
even approaching the point of confis- 
cation on both urban and rural real 
estate. It is well known that the own- 
ership of intangibles within the. state 
now approaches, if not exceeds, the 
total value of all real estate in Illinois. 
Federal income tax returns disclose that 


Illinois residents are receiving annually 
from interest and dividends at least 
$600,000,000. Estimates by the Na- 


‘tional Bureau-of Economic Research in- 


dicate that the net income of Illinois 
residents from wages and salaries alone 
approximates $3,000,000,000 per year. 


This is about 60 per cent of the esti- ' 


mated total net income of the popula- 
tion derived from all sources. 


Property Pays 90% 
“Nothwithstanding «these \outstand- 
ing facts, tangible property . from 
which is derived not more than 15 per 
cent of total income still pays more 
than 90 per cent of the total general 
tax bill of the entire state. 


“It is my belief that the field of tax-' 
ation offers the most\ immediate oppor-_ 
tunity for real and tangible neers to 


farmers. ' i 


“The Board of Directors has Ses 


ized the Public Relations Committee. to 


present for discussion and recommenda- 


tion to the Public Relations Conference 
this afternoon rather important changes 
in. the provisions of income tax legisla- 
tion from those previously adopted* by 
the association. In effect, the changes 
are such as would provide the State of 
Illinois with all necessary revenue to 
carry on its present functions and in 
addition thereto to discharge more fully 


other obligations that clearly rest upon ~ 
.the state under the provisions of the 


State Constitution. All such revenue 
would be used in lieu of and to replace 
the present state tax on property. This 
would relieve property of about $33,: 
000,000 of present taxes annually, and 
it is carefully estimated would bring 
direct relief of approximately $8,000,- 
000 to-agricultural property. In addi- 
tion, it would-make it possible for the 


. state to assume certain obligations and 


functions of government clearly placed 
upon it by the State Constitution, such 
as providing every child in Illinois with 
equal opportunity for education. It 
would also provide sufficient revenue so 
that the state might assume certain 
obligations now placed upon the coun- 
ties, such as blind pensions and mothers’ 
pensions. 


“I urge the careful Seaidieaniin of 
this recommendation on the part of the 
delegates in attendance at the Public 
Relations Conference, and hope the dis- 


cussion this afternoon will fully justify 
that conference in recommending . to 


the Board of Delegates in business ses- 
sion tomorrow the favorable considera- 
tion of the recommendations of the 
committee. 


' “Other matters recommended Sor 


consideration in the Public Relations 
Conférence include the question of a 
re-distribution of the gas tax. Strong 
-forces are insisting that one-half of the 


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state’s presen 


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for construc 


city streets. 


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eral Assembl 
has' recomm 
question, wh 
tion in one |] 
tion and li 
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representativ 
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States. 

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on the part 


February, 1931 


_Wstate’s present quota of the gasoline tax 
Dbe allocated to.the cities of the state 
for construction and maintenance of 
Tcity streets. Such action, if’ taken, 
would seriously hamper and delay the 
completion of the state’s magnificent 
highway system. We recognize, how- 
“Bever, the injustice of present laws 
Swhich in-effect force the property own- 
Jers and cities along designated state 
Jhighways through such cities to build 
Sand maintain such highways. In recog- 
Wnition of this injustice, it is believed 
the Association should express its will- 
Singness to support a change in the 
present law, which would place upon 
Hthe state responsibility for the main- 
tenance.and rebuilding, when necessary, 
of all gity streets which have previously 
been designated as state highways. Such 
Faction by the General Assembly would 
remedy the injustice of, present laws 
and at the same time would not: seri- 
J ously interfere with the completion of 
the highway seed of the state. ° 


Motor License Fees 


“It\is believed there should be some 
revision in the license fees on trucks, 
especially in the lower brackets. We 
should also seek exemption for farm 
tractors from the requirement of li- 
censes when being moved from farm 
}to farm, and for farm purposes. 


“We should seek a statute protecting 
farmers from responsibility for injuries 
caused by live stock on highways where 
reasonable care has been exercised in 
the control of such stock ‘by its owners. 


“The question of reapportionment 
has for years been a disturbing element 
| in the political and sectional life of this 
state. It is believed that the Association 
should take a constructive position on 
this question. While it is recognized 
that the present constitution provides 


for representation in our legislative 


bodies according to population, yet cer- 
tainly no one could successfully main- 
tain that the framers of the constitu- 
tion did or could foresee the great cen- 
tralization of population that now ex- 
ists in Cook county, which is larger 
than jthe balance of the state. 


Reapportionment Plan 


“In his recent message to the’! Gen- 
eral Assembly, the Governor of Illinois 
has' recommended a solution to this 
question, which would give representa- 
tion in one House on a basis of popula- 
tion and limit representation in the 


other as to territory. The principles, 


‘embodied in this recommendation are 
in keeping with the fundamentals of 
representative government as exempli- 
fied in the Constitution of the United 
States. 

| “I recommend careful consideration 
on the part of the delegates assembled 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


to this important question, believing 
that its proper solution would greatly 
influence and encourage a better under- 
‘standing between the metropolitan and 
rural interests of Illinois. 


“Solutions to all of these importani 
questions call for the most careful and 
constructive thought on the part of the 
citizens of the state, regardless of their 
business associations or connections. 
Agriculture is one of the foremost in- 
dustries of the state. Those engaged in 
the industry, constituting a substantial 
portion of its population, must not fail 
to state their position. There was a 
time when farmers being in the ma- 
jority could) feel secure in their rights. 
As time moves on, farmers are becom- 
ing more and more in the minority. If 
their interests are to be protected, they 
must give careful study to the more 
important questions of public policy 
and after such consideration, stand 
together in protection of their rights. 
I know no way for farmers to speak 
or act effectively, except through or- 
ganization. 


Organization Needed 


“Effective organization. of agricul- 
ture was never more needed than it is 
today. If humanity were actuated by 
the golden rule, organization, except 
for social purposes and perhaps for the 
promotion of more efficient production, 
would be unnecessary, but humanity 
does not act in that way. Selfishness is 
a human frailty, groups and classes are 
self-seeking and seem to be bent on se- 
curing preferment and advantage. The 


continuous economic struggle demands 


strengthening the organization. Appar- 
ently many farmers fail to realize this 
fact. It is every member’s business to 
take information to and promote in- 
telligent thought among those outside 
the ranks of organized agriculture, 
that further strength may be added to 
efforts being put forth in behalf of 
their industry. 
Membership Increases 

“It is pleasing to report a steadily in- 
creasing membership and a very large 
percentage of membership dues paid 
during the year; yet the imperative 
need of strengthening the ranks of ag- 
riculture causes one to feel that there 
are still entirely too many Illinois farm- 
ers who have not been enlightened 
about the needs and opportunities of 
membership in the Farm Bureau move- 
ment of the state. 

“The auditors’ report, which will be 
presented by the treasurér, discloses 
that the income of the association was 
larger during 1930 than in any of re- 
cent years, and-although the program 
of the Association has been greatly ex- 
panded, it has been carried on well, 
within the Association’s income. 


Page Fifteen 


No Immediate Expansion 


“Looking to the future, I do not 
hesitate to recommend that there be no 
further expansion in the Association’s 
program during 1931. I believe that 
the full time and attention of the Asso- 
ciation should be given to strengthen- 
ing activities now embodied in the pro- 
gram. In making this recommendation, 
I do not underestimate the value and 
merit of many suggestions that are com- 
ing forward, which call for further ex- 
pansion and development, but I cannot 
be unmindful of the fact that the pres- 
ent manpower of the_Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association and associated com- 
panies does not justify increasing pres- 
ent responsibilities. 


Develop Personnel 


“Attention should be given to pro- 
viding and developing understudies to 
those who are carrying some of the 
chief responsibilities of the institution. 
This is a safeguard’ that should never 
be overlooked by successful business 
enterprises. Further expansion should 
be held in abeyance, pending substan- 
tial increase of membership and result- 
ant increased income, and until such 
time as the many projects now under 
way are all well established. 


LaSalle’s Record 


The story about LaSalle County 
Farm Supply Co.’s distribution of: pat- 
ronage refunds published in the Janu- 
ary RECORD should have stated that 
908 of the 1,243 Farm Bureau mem- 
bers in the county (73%) received 
patronage refund checks, writes Mana- 
ger M. H. Comisky. 


A total of $29,350.87 was returned 
to stockholders in the form of pre- 
ferred stock dividends and patronage 
refunds. 


Delegate Representation 


The number of I. A. A. members 
within a county in good standing on 
the last day of the calendar month next 
preceding the day of any annual or 
special meeting of members of the As- 
sociation has been fixed as the day for 
determining the representation each 
county is entitled’ to at the annual or 
special meeting next succeeding such 
day. a Cae 

A resolution to this effect was passed 
by the I. A. Ai Board of Directors at 
its January meeting. Each organized 
county is entitled to at least one dele- 
gate, and additional delegates for each 
500: members or major fraction thereof. 


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Page Sixteen THE I. A. A. RECORD February, 1931 


Capital Stock Policy, 


Commercial Services -- 


Review of Business Service Projects 
Discloses Growth and Progress 


(Note: Following are excerpts from 
the President's address at the recent 
annual convention, Springfield.) 


« CCASIONALLY we hear that 

there is either lack of under- 
standing or some uneasiness among the 
membership regarding the extent of 
capital ‘stock organizations in the farm 
field. There is, no doubt, justification 
for some concern on the part of those 
who do not thoroughly understand the 
underlying reasons prompting a policy 
of this kind. 

“The policy of the I. A. A. through- 
out recent years has been to develop 
commodity organizations as _ separate 
and distinct institutions. This is prompt- 


‘ed first by the belief that each com- 


modity organization should be under 
the control of its members. It should 
provide its own capital and participate 
in all of its own profits and losses. 


Policy Is Sound 


“Experience of the Association justi- 
fies ever-increasing confidence in the 
soundness of that policy. It is true 
that the capital requirements of differ- 
ent commodity interests vary widely. 
While a nominal amount of capital 
stock is needed in some cases, very sub- 
stantial amounts are needed by others. 
Regardless of credit facilities that may 
now be or may hereafter be made avail- 
able, any co-operative corporation that 
may be or is usually called upon to 
carry substantial portions of its com- 
modity for varying periods of time 
should in all cases have paid-in capital 
stock equal to ten per cent (10%) of 
the normal total commodity handled. 
Such safeguards not only make avail- 
able credit easily accessible, but re- 
moves the danger of being called upon 
by creditors and forced to sell a com- 
modity at a time that might defeat the 
very purpose of the organization. 


Some. Grave Problems 


“As farmers move forward in the 
field of commodity marketing and the 
development of other services, they 
must expect to. meet opposition. We. 
have less to fear from those outside our 
ranks than from. friction, misunder- 
standing, wasteful competition and 
false doctrine within. The elimination 
of competition between farmers’ or- 
ganizations and co-operatives, and con- 
sequent duplication df effort constitutes 
one of our gravest problems. The es- 
tablishing of too many organizations 
may become a rr gd influence 
impeding worthwhile accomplishment. - 


The reluctance of a minority to abide 
by the ruling of a majority for the 
common welfare is, often a stumbling 
block to achievement. The betrayal of 
the farmer and his best interests by 
those who pose as his friends, while 
secretly working for his economic ene- 
mies is a danger constantly lurking in 
the path to success. 


Commercial Service Corporations 


“Although marketing activities have 
held a dominant position in the year’s 
program, yet the so-called commercial 
service organizations have in no wise 
been neglected, ‘as is shown by their 
continued development and _ achieve- 
ment. 


“While to the membership belongs a 
large portion of the credit for the very 
substantial and continuous growth of 
these business activities, yet we are not 
unappreciative of the devoted loyalty 
and outstanding ability of the active 
management of these various service 
organizations; 

“On former occasions I have dealt 
at some length as to the reasons 
prompting the development of the va- 
rious service corporations. I shall, 
therefore, not take your time for a 
repetition of previous statements. 


Illinois Agricultaral Co-op. Assn. 


“The value of the service rendered 
by the Illinois Agricultural Co-opera- 
tives Association is becoming increas- 
ingly apparent. The association had its 
best year in 1930. It completed 303 
audits for 285 co-operative and farm 
organizations, and closed the year with 


/2 net increase of 54 members. 


Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co. 


“Considering the abnormal fire losses 
experienced in IIlinos ‘during 1930, the 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Company 
had a good year. The company shows 
steady, but substantial growth, having 
in force about $41,000,000 of insur- 
ance, which shows an increase of about 
sixty per cent (60%) during the year. 


Illinois Farm Supply Company 


“The Illinois Farm Supply Company 
enjoyed by far the best year in its short 
history. From an organization four 
years ago consisting of six (6) char- 


ter members with less than a dozech. 


bulk storage stations, it has grown to 
38 companies with 95 stations operat- 
ing 250 trucks and serving approxi- 
mately 50,000 farmers in 60 different 
counties. 


“Membership applications have been 
received and accepted from 17 com- 
panies within the year. The petroleum 
products purchased during the year ex- 
ceed 24,000,000 gallons, which is a 
gain of 73 per cent over that of 1929. 


Fifty-two per cent (52%) of the gross 
income of the Illinois Farm Supply 
Company was returned to its members 
in the form of capital stock dividends 
and patronage refunds, and 16 per cent 
of its gross income was added to its 
surplus. 


Illinois Agricultural Mut. Ins. Co. 


“The Illinois Agricultural Mutual 
Insurance Company has also had a 
splendid year. On December 31, ap- 
proximately 25,000 policies were in the 
hands of Farm Bureau members of 
Illinois, an increase of over 30 per cent 
for the year. 

The admitted assets of the company 
increased $188,882.00 and at the close 
of the year aggregated $615,760.00. 
All funds of the company are invested 
in the highest grade securities, and the 
company operates so smoothly as to 
very seldom call for any particular at- 
tention of its executive officers. 


Country Life Insurance Company 


“Approaching the close of its second 
year, the Country Life Insurance Com- 
pany is far in advance of the fondest 
expectations of those responsible for its 
development. At the close of business 
for the year, 22,047 policies were in 
force aggregating $35,251,250 of in- 
surance, showing an increase of 83 per 
cent of paid-for business put in force 
during the year. 

“The fast development of the com- 
pany justified its board of directors in 
authorizing the payment of a policy 
dividend upon the payment of the third 
premium by its policyholders, which is 
one year in advance of any obligation 
embodied in the policy contract. The 
company paid to its owner, the Illinois 
Agricultural Holding Company, suff- 
cient dividends to justify the Holding 
Company in declaring and paying a 
dividend of seven (7) per cent on all 


_ of its outstanding stock. 


“In addition thereto, the company 
has placed in policy reserve during the 
year $321,213.00 and added to its sur- 
plus $81,224.22. The total admitted 
assets of the company at the close of 
1930 were $644,758.46, an increase of 
163 per cent over the total a year ago. 

“I cannot speak too highly of the 
conservative manner in which the Fi- 
nance Committee has handled invest- 
ments for the company. Everyone rec- 
ognizes the manner in which securities 
have declined throughout the year; yet 
investments of Country Life Insurance 
Company show the total market value 
of its bonds on December 31st as 
$5,757.34 over the amount paid by the 
company for such securities. 


Illinois Agricultural Service Co. 


“The general management of the va- 
rious business service corporations which 
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Growth of I..A. A. and Associated 
Companies Revealed in Figures 


(Note: Following are excerpts from 
the recent annual address of President 
Smith before delegates and members at 
Springfield.) 


ae HE Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion with its associated companies 
has for several years been the largest 
trade organization in the state. Its 
growth and development along practi- 
cal lines now entitles it to rank among 
the leading business institutions of Illi- 
nois. During 1930, the activities of 
the Association and corporations direct- 
ly controlled or managed by it called 
for a financial turnover of approxi- 
mately $6,429,078, or $21,430.00 per 
working day. These figures do not in- 
clude the business operations of the 
many co-operative organizations which 
have received supervisory management 
service from the Illinois Agricultural 
Association. 

“The figures also disclose in a meas- 
ure the tremendous responsibility car- 
ried by the Board of Directors. That 
they have measured up to this responsi- 
bility is best attested by the splendid 
in which the association 
closed its fiscal year. 

“To you who are charged with the 
real responsibility of leadership in the 


(Continued from previous page) 

I have referred to is vested in the Illi- 
nois Agricultural Service Company, 
commonly termed the Corporate Man- 
agement. Its board of directors have 
not only given close attention to the 
policies and finances of each business 
activity, but have provided each with 
full time, able and active management 
and other personnel necessary to keep 
pace with the ever-increasing business 
and responsibilities of the several cor- 
porations. 


“I have repeatedly explained the cor- 
porate set-up of the Service Company 
and urged its continuance as the neces- 
sary integral unit to guarantee not only 
balance to the institution, but assur- 
ance of successful business manage- 
ment. Although passing through a year 
unparalleled in history for bank and 
business failures and depression on every 
hand, it will be noted that each and 
cvery one of these corporations have 
moved steadily forward and close the 
year in splendid financial condition. 
This fine showing certainly confirms 
the confidence I have previously ex- 
pressed in the soundness of the cor- 
porate management provided by the 
Board of Directors of the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association.” 


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February, 1931 JHE I. A. A. RECORD Page Seventeen 


Farm Bureau movement, may I sug- 
gest that agricultural leadership must 
consecrate itself anew to the tasks 
which lie ahead. Petty selfishness, jeal- 
ousy and jockeying for personal posi- 
tion and power have no place in any 
efficient farm organization or co-oper- 
ative. History records more failures of 
farm organizations due to the short- 
comings of leadership perhaps than to 
the thoughtlessness of unenlightened 
members. 

“While we naturally take pride in 
the achievements of the past, yet we 
must not be unmindful of the many 
dangers or pitfalls that lie ahead, un- 


less we keep our heads clear, our feet. 


on the ground and steer a straight and 
unerring course. I have said before and 
I say again, that agriculture is entitled 
to and must maintain one dominant 
farm organization, always responsive to 
the will of its members and through 
which farmers can speak with one pow- 
erful voice in their own behalf. 


- Growing Personnel 


“The present standing and position 
of the Illinois Agricultural Association 
in the affairs of state and nation are 
the result of a loyal and enduring 
membership. The active personnel of 
the association and associated companies 
now consists of 53 men and 80 young 
women. Its authority for further ser- 
vice is limited only by the extent of 
its membership and the personnel it 
now has and may develop in coming 
years. 

“Results will be attained just to the 
extent farmers have and increasingly 
become organization “conscious and 
through organization take advantage of 
their opportunities.” 


Right-of-Way Proposed _ 
In Rock Island County 


More than 40 interested landowners 
attended a meeting at Edgington in 
Rock Island county recently where L. 
J. Quasey, director of transportation 
for the I. A. °A., discussed the rights of 
landowners in public utility right-oi- 
way cases. It is reported that. the Con- 
tinental Construction Company intends 
to build a pipe line across five town- 
ships in this county. 

The Farm Bureau and the I. A. A. 
have been asked by a group of land- 
owners along the proposed right-of-way 
to offer advice toward securing a fairer 
contract than the one now proposed. 
Mr. Quasey and S. R. Kenworthy, Mo- 
line attorney, are working together on 
a new contract that will protect the 
rights of the landowners involved. 


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This book, written by two men con- 
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Page Eighteen THE I. A. A. RECORD February,-1 9313 


2700 Hear Legge at 
I. A. A. Annual Meet 


Farm Board Chairman Gets Great 
Ovation from Large Audience 


N an informal talk in which he dis- 
cussed economic factors affecting 
the agricultural situation, Alexander 
Legge, chairman of the Federal Farm 
Board, addressed perhaps the largest au- 
dience ever gathered at an annual I. A. 
A. convention. Seventeen hundred peo- 
ple sat down to dinner in the big 
arsenal at Springfield, Thursday night, 
Jan. 29, where Mr. Legge spoke. One 
thousand more assembled in the gallery: 
of the huge building. The Farm Board 
chairman received a great ovation when 
he arose to speak. Plainly the speaker 
had a sympathetic audience, a group 
that was for and with him. 

His ‘talk contained little that was 
new, little that he had not said before. 
He complimented 
the association on the 
progress it had made, 
first, in building and 
maintaining a strong 
organization, and 
secondly, in devel- 
oping co-operative 
marketing in IIlinois. 

Thé, chairman be- 
gan with a sketch 
of conditions that 
Alexander Legge obtained a hundred 

years ago when bar- 
ter and trade were the order of the 
day, when little money changed hands, 
and when the farmer received 90 per 
cent of the value of his wheat from 
the miller in the form of flour and by- 
products, while the miller received 10 
per cent of the wheat delivered for his 
work. 


Now Gets Only Half 


“Now the farmer gets only 50 per 
cent of the value of the flour and the 
by-products in a bushel of wheat,” he 
said. ‘The high cost of labor and va- 


rious services take the rest.” 


Mr. Legge paid his respects to the 
opponents of the Agricultural Market- 
ing Act and the Farm Board who de- 
clare that nothing is wrong with agri- 
culture. “If that’s true,” he said, 

“why is it that the farmer does not 
have credit in the big banks of Chicago 
and other cities? You won’t find a sin- 
gle farmer’s note in the richest and 


‘strongest banks.” 


Complimenting the delegates and 
members the speaker said, ‘‘You have 
one of. the. greatest and most repre- 
sentative organizations of agriculture 
anywhere. We need more organiza- 
tions like yours. You ¢an do almost 


bor,” he said. 


government gets for export costs it 


anything when you are properly organ- 
ized. If farmers don’t organize, others 
will, and they'll take care of their own 
interests first. 

“The agriculture of other nations has 
gone down largely because it lacked or- 
ganization. If you are unorganized you 
must take what you're offered.” 


Wheat Situation 


Then the chairman launched into a 
discussion of the wheat situation. He 
stated that wheat from an export 
standpoint is hopeless. ““Wheat produc- 
tion in this country,” he said,\ “‘has in- 
creased regularly, month by month, for 
the past five consecutive years. The 
wonder is that the wheat crash did. not 
come sooner. You can’t compete with 
the wheat growers of Russia and Ar- 
gentine in the world markets and live 
the way you want to and have a right 
to live,” he continued. “You are living 
in a high tariff country. Your labor 
and other costs are high. 

“Some people think we can get rid 
of the surplus in a mysterious way, but 
there is no hope along that line. Other 
countries have farmers, too. Germany 
has a tariff of $1.62 a bushel on wheat. 
The United States has had similar laws 
against dumping. We’re in the same 
position on corn. The price of corn in 
Buenos Aires is 27 cents a bushel. Our 
South American neighbors can lay this 
crop down on our sea coast cheaper 
than we can deliver from Illinois. 


“The world war is the remote cause 
of the present depression. Every time 
a shell exploded somebody’s labor and 
efforts were blown to atoms. At the 
present time the price of wheat in Liv- 
erpool is the lowest in 337 years. | 

“Tam glad to see the change in the 
policy of this association in its efforts 
toward solving the farm problem. The 
biggest part of your problem is market- 
ing. Emphasize that.” 


Getting back to the wheat situation, _ 


Mr. Legge explained the stabilization 
operations of the Farm Board. “We 
can do some good in taking care of sea- 
sonal surpluses,” he said. “Stabilization 
won’t work on surpluses that accumu- 
late year after year. Unless the wheat 
acreage is reduced our efforts in this 
direction will be in vain.” 


Cheap Russian Wheat 


The speaker asserted that over in 
Russia the farmers have to give 25 per 
cent of all the wheat they grow for 
taxes. “They are using conscript la- 


“The wheat that the 


nothing. Their cost starts when wheat 
is loaded on the cars. You can’t com- 


pete with them. You might as well 
make up your minds to produce only 
for your own market and let the for- 


eign market go.” 

The chairman denied that the Farm 
Board advocated corporation farming. 
He discounted the advantages in co- 


operative buying. “The savings are in- 


consequential,” he said., “Concentrate 
on co-operative selling. 

“The manufacturer quits production 
when the selling price goes below cost,” 


he continued. ‘Farmers will have to 


learn to do the same thing. You have: 


an advantage over most manufacturers 
because your market is steadier. We've 
got to eat every day. A man can wear 
old clothes and drive an old car if he 
has to, but he has to eat three times a 
day. Under proper control your prob- 
lem of producing to meet market de- 
mands should not be so hard. To get 
fair returns you’ve got to work to- 
gether, not alone, as six and one-half 
million factories. 


EAA 


Centralize Marketing 


“It has been our policy to centralize 
marketing operations. in one agency. 
Most commodities now have such a co- 
everative. Our critics have accused us 
of being responsible for private enter- 
prisers losing $30,000,000 in the poul- 
try and egg business. Up to this time 
we have loaned only $35,000 to poultry 
and ‘egg co-operatives.” 

The chairman stated that the oppor- 
tunity for organizing the poultry and 
egg business seems hopeless because 

“everybody grows poultry.” ‘Even if 
all the farmers who produce poultry 
and eggs could be gathered in one or- 
ganization a large part of the country’s 
production would still be outside,” he 
said. Referring to small town people 
and residents,of suburbs who produce 
poultry and eggs, he said that a recent 
check-up by a manufacturer in Okla- 
homa City revealed that 42 of his em- 
ployees grew chickens and sold eggs. 


Oil Dividends 


Farm Bureau members of Ford 
County have received $10,962.93, or 
an average of $25.73 each, in the form 
of patronage refunds from the Ford 
County Service Company. A 7 per 
cent patronage refund was paid Octo- 
ber 1 and an additional 5 per cent spe- 
cial refund declared by the board of 
directors to be paid later. -This county 
has 426 members and 1,070 customers. 

A total of $8,380.38 was paid back 
to the Farm Bureau members of Jersey 
County by the local supply company 
on January 8. This amount represents 


the regular patronage refund of 7 per 
cent and an additional 8 per cent. 


Three hundred ninety-five Farm Bu- 
reau members received patronage re- 
fund checks; the total’ number of cus- 
tomers is 593. 


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Women Discuss Living 
Standards at I. A. A. Meet 


143 from.33 Counties Attend Con- 
ference in Charge of Home 
Bureau 


DISCUSSION of how the woman 
A in the home can help. in maintain- 
ing an adequate standard of living un- 
der present economic conditions was 
featured at the women’s conference 
held during the I. A. A. convention 
at Springfield, January 29. ‘‘This is a 
harder job today: than ever before be- 
cause of low farm prices,” declared 
Mrs. Henry J. Meis, president of the 
Illinois Home Bureau Federation, who 
presided. 

Miss Fannie M. Brooks, health spe- 
cialist for the University of~ Hlinois, 
stressed the importance of individual 
and community health in maintaining 
a high standard of living. ‘Give me a 
good digestion, Lord, and something to 
digest . .«give me a mind that is 
not bored . . .” she quoted in bring- 
ing out the importance of mental as 
well as physical well-being. “Millions 
for prevention and not one cent for 
pills and cod liver oil,” she recom- 
mended as a fitting slogan for Amer- 
ican housewives and mothers. | “Visit 
your doctor once a year and be ever 
alert to the needs of your eyes, ears, 
and teeth if you would keep fit,” she 
said. 

; Produce Market 

Mrs. T. E. Newby, Arcola, Illinois, 
told how the Coles County Produce 
Market has brought income and com- 
forts to farm homes in that community. 

“The Coles County Market was or- 


ganized a year ago last October,” she * 


said. “When we began, gross sales for 
the month were $625, for November 
$1,225, for August, 1930, $1,027; for 
November, 1930, $1,300; for Decem- 
ber $1,135, and for January to date 


- $847. 


“The market provides an outlet for 
some things we couldn’t sell otherwise 
such as skim milk, corn meal, mush, 
cooked pumpkin, and garden surplus. 
We also sell chickens, eggs, hominy, 
veal, pork, beef, etc. .We pay booth 
rent, for our own supplies, and con- 
tribute 1 per cent for running expenses 
which include heat, light, and adver- 
tising. 

“Going to market is a family enter- 
prise. It enriches our lives, teaches us 


_CO-operation, gives us business experi- 


ence, brings us in contact with new 
methods and shows us the value of a 
schedule. 

“A market should benefit the con- 
sumer as well as the producer. Make 


fair charges giving consideration to cost 
of production (including time and la- 
bor). 


Women Control Cash 


Women spend 85 per cent of the 
money that goes into retail trade, ac- 
cording to Anna Searl, Livingston 
County home adviser. ‘“Woman’s job 
always has been to provide food, shel- 
ter, and clothing for the family,” she 
said, “but today she goes about it dif- 
ferently than her mother did; she made 
her clothes, you buy them; she made 
her bread, you buy it. Eight hundred 
women in Livingston county were 
asked if they made their own bread. 
Two replied in the affirmative. 

““Woman’s job is harder today than 
ever before. It takes more training to 
spend a dollar wisely than to earn it. 
We continually train people to make 
more money, but we have neglected to 
teach them how to spend the added 
income properly. ‘ 

“What your mother and my mother 
knew will not serve today. What we 
know will not do tomorrow. Since 
spending is our job, let’s find out as 
much as we can about it. We need to 
keep open and informed minds to get 
as much as possible from our dollars.” 


Home Accounts 


Mrs. Clyde J. North of Winchester’ 


explained ‘the system of keeping home 
accounts recommended by the Univer- 
sity of Illinois. 
many to see’ just how much of our 
living we produce on the farm,” she 
said. ‘‘Foods raised at home are valued 
according to their cash value if sold in 
town. One family found they pro- 
duced 65 per cent of all the food they 
ate. Another found they were spend- 
ing more than $50 per month on gas 
and oil. 

‘““Home account keeping will tend to 
maintain our present standard of. living 
and to raise it,” continued Mrs. North. 
“As we see one expenditure against an- 
other we can plan for the future and 
double our efforts at right economy.” 

C. E. Hopkins of Pontiac explained 
briefly why married women should 
carry a reasonable amount of life in- 
surance. He gave a resume of the aims 
and reasons for the organization of 
Country Life Insurance Company and 
the cost of policies therein. 


At the close of Mr. Hopkin’s talk 
the following resolution was adopted: 
“That we as an organization recom- 
mend to the Illinois Agricultural As- 
sociation that it give more considera- 
tion to the homemaker as a prospec- 
tive buyer of life insurance.” 

One hundred and forty-three women 
from 33 counties attended the meeting. 
Only 98 were present the previous year. 


“It is a revelation to. 


Whiteside Sets New 
| Record Raising Cash 


Whiteside county is to have a new 
co-operative oil company. One hun- 
dred and eighty Farm Bureau members 
who attended a meeting in Morrison, 
Feb. 7, to launch the project, broke all 
records when they raised $11,550 to 
erect bulk stations and get the com- 
pany under way. 

L. R. Marchant, manager of the IIli- 
nois Farm Supply Co., who attended 
the meeting, states that so far as he 
knows this is a record accomplishment 
for capital funds raised in a single 
meeting for such a project. “I think 
this was made possible through the 
eagerness on the part of: those present 
to do better than any other county in 
the state,” he said. 

Membership in the Whiteside County 
Farm Bureau is gaining steadily. With- 


‘in the next year or two it promises to 


be up among the leading counties of 
the state again with well over 1,000 
members. 

Fifteen members subscribed for 10 
shares each in the new company at $25 
per share, three members for eight 
shares each, 15 members for five shares 
each, 43 members for four shares each, 


19 members for two shares each, three 


members for one share each. Ninety- 
eight members subscribed for a total 
of $11,550. . 

The subscriptions followed opening 
talks by President A. L. Goodenough 
of Morrison, and Farm Adviser Frank 
Shuman. 


Oil Companies Report 
, Dividends to Members 


The Christian County Farmers Sup- 
ply Company, which became associated 
with the Illinois Farm Supply Com- 
pany during the past summer, declared 
its first patronage dividend at the close 
of its fiscal year, November 30. Six 
per cent on sales was paid Farm Bureau 
members in good standing. 

The Fulton Service Company, after 
a few months operation, declared an 
8 per cent patronage refund to the 
Farm Bureau members holding: pre- 
ferred stock and gave other Farm Bu- 
reau members credit to be applied on 
one share of preferred stock in the 
company. 

The Henry County Supply Company 
closed its second year September 30, 
declaring a 10 per cent patronage re- 
fund and setting aside a reserve from 
which an additional refund can be paid 
at any time the directors desire to do 
so. The total business of the company 
for the period was slightly less than 
$100,000. = 


* 


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Soybean Growers to 
Meet Decatur, Feb. 25 


Annual Convention of Growers Ex- 
pected to Bring Out Large 
Gathering 


FFICIAL notice of the second an- 
nual meeting of the Soybean Mar- 
keting Association was sent last week 


by Secretary W. G. McCormick to 


2,909 members of the association in the 


26 organized counties of Illinois. 


Arrangements for the annual gather- 
ing of the leading growers of Illinois’ 
soybean belt, which centers around 
Champaign, Decatur, Taylorville, 
Springfield, Jacksonville, and Carthage 
are in the hands of the Committee on 
Arrangements, composed of J. F. 
Probst, Harry E. Pickrell, and V.. C. 
Swigart; the Credentials Committee in- 
cluding Dwight Hart, John G. Al- 
bright, and M. D. Tomlin; and the 
Program Committee, President John W. 
Armstrong and Manager J. H. Lloyd. 


Speakers scheduled include Samuel R. 
McKelvie, grain member of the Federal 
Farm Board; Earl C. Smith, president 
of the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion, and Lacy F. Rickey, grain mar- 
keting specialist, University of Illinois, 
who will discuss “Commercial Soy- 
bean Grades.” 


McKelvie Accepts 


Mr. McKelvie’s acceptance came just 
as the RECORD went to press. The 
Farm Board in conjunction with the 
Federal Intermediate Credit Bank, 


™ loaned the funds for the operation of 


the association’s 1930 marketing deal. 


Soybean Association officials point 
out that notwithstanding the severe 
drouth last year, there was an increase 
of more than 100 per cent in bushels 
of commercial soybeans grown in IIli- 
nois in 1930. The large increase in 
production coupled with a limited de- 
mand for high protein supplement 
feeds, and heavy importations of cheap 
soybean products created an unfavor- 
able market situation. 


Reports of growers obtained through 
a questionnaire sent out by the Uni- 
versity of IHinois, and from growers 
in attendance at 21 county meetings 
addressed by Manager J. H. Lloyd, in- 
dicate the intention of farmers to in- 
crease Illinois’ commercial soybean 
acreage in 1931. 

Under existing conditions many. Illi- 
nois farmers will probably find it more 
profitable to utilize a considerable per- 
centage of the 1931 soybean acreage 
for feed production, both hay and 
grain, than for marketing through 
commercial channels. 


Higher Tariff Needed 


. In a statement before the Marketing 


Conference at Springfield, Jan. 29, 
Manager Lloyd explained the need. for 
an increase in the present rate of duty 
of $6 per ton on soybean oilmeal and 
the immediate need for a wider mar- 
ket for this high-grade protein supple- 


ment. 
Fifty-three thousand tons of cybeay/ 
oilmeal, amounting to approximately 
one-half the entire domestic production 
from the 1930 crop, was imported 
into the United States during the first 
eleven months of 1930. Importations 
also include palm kernel meal and pea- 
nut meal, which compete directly with 
the soybean product. 


Heavy Importations 


Importations of soybean oil during 
the year ending September, 1930, 
amounted to 5,615 tons, or about one- 
third the domestic production for the 
past calendar year. Practically all the 
imported soybean oil is processed and 
re-exported, thereby returning to the 
importer the drawback of 99 per cent 
of the rate of duty on the imported 
oil. Creation of demand for the do- 
mestic soybean oil in the paint trade 
and for use as an edible oil are other 
projects receiving the attention of the 
association. 

Manager Lloyd states that apprecia- 
tion by growers of the valuable services 
performed by the association during the 
1930 season in receiving and handling 
more than 1,130,000 bushels of the 
commercial soybean crop and in main- 
taining the relative high price of $1.00 
per bushel, is responsible for the ag- 
gressive action of grower members in 
subscribing capital funds for financing 
the Association’s future marketing op- 
erations. 


The DeWitt County Service Co. re- 
cently declared its regular 10% patron- 
age dividend to Farm Bureau members, 
and also a special 5% dividend. This 
corrects the statement in the last issue 
of the RECORD which mentioned 
only the 5% refund. 


Wants Farm Manager 


*I am in need of a competent : 
man to operate 250 acres of rich 
level land. 

“I want a good farmer and stock 


man and I have a good proposition 
for the right kind of a person.: 

“If you know of anyone that you 
can recommend I shall be pleased 
to hear from you.” 


Jesse E. Miller, 


Cairo, Illinois. 


Black and Stout 
Head Baseball League 


Big Turnout at Annual Meeting, 
Springfield, Jan. 28 


HARLES §S. BLACK of Jackson- 

4 ville was elected president and 
John P. Stout of Chatham vice-presi- 
dent at the annual meeting of the IlIli- 
nois Farm Bureau Baseball League, 
Springfield, Jan. 28. Mr. Black suc- 
ceeded Geo. L. Clarke of Downs, Mc- 
Lean county. Mr. Stout succeded 
Black, who was promoted to the presi- 
dency. More than 125 directors, man- 
agers, players and fans from 28 organ- 
ized counties attended the meeting in 
the Palm Room of the Abraham Lin- 
coln Hotel. 


Kenneth L. “Tug” Wilson, athletic , 


director of Northwestern University, 
who spoke before the morning session, 
declared that the future hope of base- 
ball lies in its further development in 
rural communities. Commenting upon 
the Olympic games in which athletes of 
all nations compete annually, he said: 
“The annual campetition between ath- 
letes of all nations is doing more to 
build international good will than the 
numerous peace conferences and diplo- 
matic discussions.” 


Should Be Encouraged 


Wilson, who was born and reared on 
a farm near Atwood in Piatt county, 
believes that recreation among farm 
boys such as that afforded by the Farm 
Bureau Baseball League should be en- 
couraged. College coaches, he contin- 
ued, like to see the big, husky farm 
boys come out for sports because noth- 
ing is too big for them to tackle. 


A new constitution and by-laws was 
adopted ,which provides among other 
things for limiting eligible players to 
young men actually engaged in farm- 
ing who are members of the Farm Bu- 
reau or who are dependent sons of Farm 
Bureau members. 


Play 117 Games 


The report of the secretary revealed 
that 31 County Farm Bureau teams 
competed last year in approximately 
117 games; that McDonough county 
won the state championship by defeat- 
ing Logan; that the league had gained 
nine new teams during 1930. - 

He advocated. home rule in the ad- 
ministration of the League whenever 
practicable, modifying this policy only 
in such instances where local adminis- 
tration becomes. unworkable. He cau- 
tioned against allowing professionalism 
and all its evils to creep into the or- 
ganization, against the use and employ- 
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ers which contributed to the downfall 
of town lot baseball. “When such a 
situation is fostered,” he said, “baseball 
Becomes a contest of money, not one 
between the youth of one community 
or county and that of another section. 


Your Responsibility 


“To keep the sport clean that it may 
teach honesty and sportsmanship while 
providing wholesome recreation is of 
far greater importance than the results 
of any one game or series of games,” 
he conitinued. “The future of the 
league lies largely in the hands of you 
men who make up this group. Unless 
you who are charged with the lezder- 
ship and management of the teams tol- 
low a high code of ethics; unless you 
decide controversies fairly and on their 
merits alone; unless you practice the 
golden rule in dealing with rival teams, 
certainly nothing more than that can 
be expected of the younger players.”’ 

The treasurer’s report showed receipts 
during 1930 of $220, disbursements of 
balance on hand of 
$318.17. 

Representatives from Douglas, Ken- 
dall and Will counties who attended the 
meeting expressed interest in bringing 
Farm Bureau teams from their respec- 
tive counties into the League in the 
coming season. 

Delegates present who represented 
the various counties entered in the 
League are as follows: 

William Taylor, Carroll county 

Guy H. Husted, Cass county 

Victor Hershbarger, Champaign Co. 

R. P. Cothern, Ford county 

R. H. Clanahan, Greene county 

E. W. Matteson, Grundy county 

Otto Steffey, Henderson county 

J. R. Johnson, Henry county 

H. K. Johnston, Iroquois county 

H. R. Brunnemeyer, JoDaviess Co. 

T. J. Sullivan, Knox county 

Charles Wilson, LaSalle county 

Kelsye Baylor, Lee county 

Roy McKettrick, Livingston county 

Ross Quisenberry, Logan county 

Melvin Barclay, McDonough county 

W. B. Fitzgerald, McLean county 

Floyd Holmen, Macon county 

E. C. Mieher, Jr., Macoupin county 

L. J. Hager, Marshall-Putnam Co. 

Elmer Bradley, Menard county 

Gus Sammons, Montgomery county 

Harry Kumle, Morgan county 

Wm. Greenfield, Peoria county 

Harry D. Sweet, Sangamon county 

Tom Sager, Stark county 

John White, Tazewell county 

Theodore Stimpert, Woodford Co 


Uncle Ab says that whether old 
times or new ones are best, the only 
time we can do anything about is the 
present. 


Tells Producers to Eat 
More Dairy Products 


Tom Borman Speaks Before Annual 
Produce Association Meeting 


Te agreement between the Illinois 
Produce Marketing Association and 
some 20 creameries of the state pro- 
vides for profit sharing on an equal 
basis which marks a relationship be- 
tween co-operatives and private busi- 
ness of great significance, T. A. Bor- 
man, vice-president of the Beatrice 
Creamery Company, Chicago, said in 
addressing the annual meeting of the 
Illinois Produce Marketing Association, 
Springfield, on January 28. About 200 
attended the meeting in the Leland 
Hotel. 

successful cannot be determined after 
only eight months of operation,” con- 
tinued Mr. Borman. “The year 1930 
was the most difficult year in the his- 
tory of the creamery business, and this 
fact alone will prevent the realization 
of the fullest benefits contemplated. 


Have Under-Consumption 


“We have not heretofore in the his- 
tory of: this country produced so much 
of all products of the dairy as during 
the last few years. We have more than 
can’ be used under conditions prevail- 
ing. It is alleged that our over-supply 
is the result of under-consumption. 

“Under-consumption arises from 
two causes, first, diminished buying 
power; and secondly, we who produce 
do not consume as much of the prod- 
ucts of the dairy as is necessary for our 
best bodily and intellectual welfare, 


-nor do we consume as much as we 


should in the interest of our industry. 
In other words, producers are not do- 
ing their share in providing a market. 


To Teach Public 


“The National Dairy Council has 
undertaken a tremendous task in show- 
ing the consuming public the health 
benefits from increased usage of dairy 
products. Its endeavor is through all 
educational sources. Its foundation is 
the work of the most eminent physi- 
ologists. The producers of cream for 
butter in Illinois are contributing one 
penny per delivery to the support of 
this work. In this respect, Illinois is a 
proving .ground for the plan. It has 
already been undertaken in_ several 
other states. This penny per delivery 
check-off will cost the average cream 
producer not to exceed 75 cents a year 
and will produce a vast sum for the 
education of our people. 

“The producer of cream for butter 
is suffering from surpluses for which 
he is in no wise responsible. The pro- 


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February, 1931 THE I.A.A. RECORD Page Twenty-one 


duction of whole milk has been over- 
stimulated in every milk shed. For ex- 
ample, the Dairyman’s League of New 
York a-few weeks ago. was churning 
daily, cream from 5,000 cans of sur- 
plus milk. Chicago is swamped with 
whole milk and one city of 50,000 
souls in Illinois has 80,000 pounds a 
week surplus of whole milk. So it is 
in every milk-condensing territory and 
the surplus from this milk finds its 
way into butter, as does the surplus 
from cheese factories, and utility milk 
products plants. 


Oleo Ruling a Blow 


‘A serious factor confronting the 
dairy industry is the threat of oleomar- 
garine. The Internal Revenue Depart- 
ment ruling that oleomargarine may be 
made yellow by the use of palm oil 
and soybean oil and thus escape the tax 
of 10 cents per pound on colored mar- 
garine, is the most terrific blow the 
dairy industry has had from that quar- 
ter. There is pending in the lower 
house of Congress the Brigham Bill, 
which is designed to tax yellow oleo- 
margarine irrespective of how it is made 
yellow. 

“The problem ahead of us is that of 
producing at a profit even though 
prices are low. It is our obligation to 
keep our market in the best shape pos- 
sible and it is our further obligation to 
produce butterfat at prices which will 
return a profit at the prevailing prices. 
In other words, we must study the 
economies of milk production. Much 
cow milking has been done on an aver- 
age Chicago standards market of 29 
cents, which was the average 1910 to 
1916 inclusive. The 1930 market 
which we look upon as a low year was 
34.75, or 534 cents in excess of the six 
year average mentioned above. 

“There are no better creameries than 
those to which you have access. They 
make the best butter it is possible to 


“make from the raw materials received 


and it is good butter. They do as 
good a job of selling the finished prod- 
uct as can be done. So—finally, our 
hopes for improvement lie in a normal 
buying power, the consumption of 
more dairy products at home and the 
production of cream through better 
and fewer cows, at a price which will 
leave a profit between cost of produc- 
tion and the price at which we sell the 
butterfat.” 


Among the new companies which 
have been-in operation for lessthan 
one year are the Woodford, Adams and 
Fulton Service Companies. All three of 
these companies paid an 8% patronage 
dividend to Farm Bureau member pa- 
trons and declared another special 8% 
patronage dividend to be paid later. 


Page Twenty-two THE I. A. A. RECORD Fi ebruary, 1931 


Mrs. Sewell Pleads 
For High Standards 


Eulogizes Farm Home in Entertain- 
ing and Impressive Speech at 
Annual Meeting 


EITHER America nor the world 

can go far on low standards of 
homes, whether rural or urban, Mrs. 
Charles W. Sewell, director of the 
Home and Community work of the 
American Farm Bureau Federation, de- 
clared in her address before a capacity 
audience at the banquet Jan. 29 in the 
State Armory during the I. A. A. an- 
nual meeting. Mrs. Sewell preceded the 
Farm Board chairman on the speaking 
program. Her address eulogized the 
farm home, analyzed its functions in 
relation to the life of the nation, made 
a plea for building its foundations 
firmly and outlined the Farm Bureau’s 
program for advancing the welfare of 
rural living. 

“The welfaré and the perpetuation of 
the American farm home is not only 
the business of the Farm Bureau but of 
all farmers and of the nation as well,” 
she said. “‘As goes America so goes 
the world, has long been a recognized 
fact, but neither America nor the world 
can go far on low standards of homes, 
whether rural or urban.” 


Farm Home First 


Apropos of corporation farming, 
Mrs. Sewell remarked, “At the present 
time we hear a great deal about co- 
operative farming, but all the réasons 
and suggestions have fallen short and 
the generally accepted idea of farm 
dwellers is to continue to make the 
farm home and the community a pleas- 
ant, attractive place in which to live.” 


Continuing her eulogy of the Amer- 
ican farm home she touched on the em- 
ployment problem, saying, “Our nation 
has been shaken to its very foundations 
lately because of the overwhelming 
problem of unemployment. The dwell- 
ers on our.farms are never out of a 
job, but perhaps this fact possesses sav- 
ing grace, for one of the things which 
has been wrong with this country as 
a nation for the past several years has 
been that all too many people did not 
want to work. Everyone, old and 
young, has been tryng to get in on the 
ground floor of a snap, trying to get 
something for nothing. 

“In our cities with the divergent activities 
and interests of average families, there is very 
little of family life. Social workers in the 
cities go to a great deal of trouble to arrange 
annual banquets between fathers and sons and 
mothers and daughters. In the farm home 
mothers and daughters meet «regularly at the 
dish pan, while fathers and sons have tacit un- 


derstanding that there will be a daily meeting 
along about § A. M. in the cow barn. 


Local Committees Did 
Splendid Job At Meeting 


Convention Draws Largest Crowd 
In Recent Years, Accommo- 
dations For All 


HE 16th annual convention of the 
I. A. A. held recently in Spring- 
field was greater in point of attendance 
than any held in recent years. 


The fact that everything went off. 
smoothly and that ample accommoda- 
tions were provided 
for all is due in no 
small measure to the 
untiring efforts of 
Edwin Bay, farm 


penter, president; 
other officials of the 
Sangamon County 
Farm Bureau, and 
C. G. Kohler, con- 
vention manager, 
Springfield Chamber 
of Commerce. 


Edwin Bay 


The following committees did a’ 


splendid job of taking care of the dele- 
gates and visitors, decorating the 
armory, and performing the many de- 
tails connected with entertaining the 
crowd of 4,000 to 5,000 people: 


‘Don’t Thrive Here 


“Recently we have been stirred by the ac- 
tivities of the Soviet government in the United 
States, but let me remind you that bolshevism 
and communism do not thrive in a nation of 
home-owning, home-loving men and women. 

“In order to, promote such a home-owning, 
home-loving nation, the American Farm Bu- 
reau Federation has undertaken a constructive 
educational program which depends upon the 
farmers themselves. Probably farming will 
never pay big money returns, but we believe 
it is true that farmers as a whole can get just 
as much as they are willing to demand. We 
call these demands standards of living and we 
consider it a good omen that we have within 
our ranks men and women who have decided 
to hold fast to a high standard of living. In 
the years of development this may include a 
shorter working day, the full education of all 
children, an auto, an airplane if necessary, mu- 
sic, heat, light and water in well-built farm 
homes, good roads, good churches, good schools, 
the proper facilities for play and recreation, at- 
tention to health and adult education, 


Only Square Deal 


“These take time and education and depend 
upon the farmer himself for their acquisition. 
If all the farmers in the U. S. A. were united 
in a determined, well-defined attempt to secure 
for themselves and their posterity standards 
such as these, there is no power in America 
that could withstand them. 

“I hold no brief for the lazy, inefficient 
farmer, but I do ask for a square deal for the 
land-owning, land-loving men and women who 
wish to secure for themselves and their pos- 


terity an adequate standard of living, The farm - 


home is the foundation on which our civiliza- 
tion and our future progress rest. The foun- 
dation must be substantial if the super-structure 
is to endure.” 


adviser; C. R. Car-— 


General _ Arrangements committee: A. F. 
Shepherd, chairman; R. C. Graham, Frank Mc- 
Kelvey, E: C. Coulter, John P. Stout, R. W. 
French, George B. Mayol. 


Reception Committee 


Reception committee: C. R. Carpenter, W. 
S. Nottingham, George B. Mayol, R. A. Jones, 
J. R. Christopher, O. S. Rogers, J. C. Quisen- 
berry, G. S. Hatfield, L. C. Smith, R. C. Gra- 
ham, Fred Davey, Jr., L. A. Carswell, William 
Kessler, Elmer Johnson, J. F. Bomke, O. J. 
Waddell, J. Brown Hitt, George Hemp, J. .F. 
Greenwood, J. L. Smetters, Evan ‘Taylor, 
Charles McTaggart, Milton Green, Robert 
Rhodes, C. R. Malsbury, A. B. Constant, Al- 
fred Odiorne, John’ Renken, John E. Dodds, 
M.:D. Colean, Roy C. Downing, C. M. Hinkle, 
G. A. Wolford, L. I. Lehmann, S. G. Jones, S. J. 
Snell, David Evans, J. F. Thornton, W. S. 
Miles, G..T. Hickman, Charles Dozier, Carl 
Ostermeier, J. W. Stroub, L. E. Bird, E. P. 
Hall, Harry Happer, Mark Cooper, Garrett 
Tolan, Everett Theobald, R. F. Constant, Harry 
E. Pickrell, George Bell, A. D. Van Meter and 
Edgar Boynton. 

Women’s reception committee: Mrs. J. P. 
Stout, Mrs. A. B. Constant, Mrs. Earl Coulter, 
Mrs. A. D. Van Meter, Mrs. S. J. Snell, Mrs. 
Sidney Roberts, Mrs. McConnell, Mrs. L. E. 
Bird, Mrs. Floyd Bricker, Mrs. Susan Bridges, 
Mrs. D. Y. Langley, Mrs. Carter Curtis, Miss 
Grace Foutch, Mrs. Frank McKelvey, Mrs. R. 
W. French, Mrs. Edwin Bay, Mrs. George B. 
‘Mayol, Mrs. L. L: Lehmann, Mrs. John Klor, 
Mrs. O. B. Wheeland, Mrs. Garrett Tolan, Mrs. 
Roland Stone, Mrs.. J. C. Quisenberry, Mrs. 
John Anderson, Mrs. Alfred Odiorne, Mrs. M. 
A. Cooper, Mrs. I. A. Madden, Mrs. Fred 
Davey, Mrs. R. C. Graham, Mrs. A, F. Shep- 
herd, Mrs. Roy Downing, Mrs. David Evans, 
Mrs. Evan Taylor, Mrs. C. R. Carpenter, Mrs. 
H._E. Pickrell, Mrs. Helen Hall, Mrs. O. L. 
Frazee, Mrs. R. D. Berry, Mrs. R.A. Jones, 
Mrs. Meade Colean, Mrs. L. A. Carswell, Mrs. 


‘Ernest Davis, Mrs. Bert Weber, Mrs. Chester 


Baker, Mrs. George Witty, Mrs. W. S. Notting- 
ham, Mrs. Scott Irwin. 


A Great Armory 


J. S. Chesebro, custodian of the ar- 
senal where both the banquet and 
luncheon were held, is also deserving 
of great credit for his assistance in get- 
ting the armory ready. .Mr. Chesebro 
estimates that 1,700. sat down to the 
dinner, and that 1,000 more were 
seated in the balcony during the speak- 
ing program. 

“Jt was one of the largest crowds 
ever gathered in the armory since I 
have been connected with it,” he said. 


The inside dimensions of the armory 
are 220 feet long, 132 feet wide. The 
speakers’ table was 106 feet long. The 
dining room itself where the tables were 
placed measured 180 feet by 98 feet. 


The I. A. A. Board of Delegates on 
Jan. 30 authorized the directors, when 
and if it appears desirable to purchase 
stock in an agriculturally-owned-and- 
controlled radio station, to invest not 
to exceed $2,500 in such a project. 
Authorization: also was given to ad- 
vance a total of $8,000. to the Soybean 
Marketing Association, the money to 
be paid back: out of earnings. 


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MARCH, 1931 


Volume 9 


“Stick---the Farm Board Will Back You” 


Ex-Gov. McKelvie of Nebraska Gets a Hand at Annual Soybean Marketing 


ss you soybean growers will stick 
to your organization the Federal 
Farm Board will stand back of‘ you,” 
Samuel R. McKelvie, grain member of 
the Federal Farm Board, told 500 mem- 


bers of the Soybean Marketing Associa- 


tion at their annual meeting in Deca- 
tur, February 25. Gov. McKelvie’s 
words were enthusiastically applauded. 
The demonstration is indicative of the 
determination shown by nearly 3,000 
Illinois soybean men to carry on in 
their co-operative effort. 

“We're not so concerned about the 
immediate outlook for the soybean in- 
dustry nor the repayment of our loan,” 
said Gov. McKelvie, ‘‘we are concerned 
about whether you men will back up 
your association through fair weather 
and foul. “This is not a one-year prop- 
osition. It’s a long-time program. 
Patronize your organization and patron- 
ize it well. Prices will not always be 
as low as they are at the present time. 
You couldn’t have started your or- 
ganization at a worse time from the 
standpoint of getting a favorable price 
for your products. The industrial de- 
pression, the crop surpluses in this 
country and throughout the world 
have resulted in low prices for farm 
products almost unprecedented in 
American history. Prices can’t go 
much lower and they are very apt to 
go up, so keep up your faith and cour- 
age and we'll win out in the end.” 

Strong Financial Set-Up 

The same principles of success gov- 
erning private business also govern co- 
operatives, the speaker told- his audi- 
ence. “Your organization must have a 


_ strong financial set-up and ample re- 


serves if it is to operate for your best 
interests. Get in position to run your 
own business, be independent, and build 
your marketing institution until it has 
sufficient money reserves to take care of 


Association Meeting 


SAMUEL R. McKELVIE 


any emergency. Just remember this: 
that when your co-operative puts 
money in reserve it still belongs to you 
and you will get it eventually. Whereas, 
the earnings you contribute to a private 
concern marketing your products, you 
will never get back.” 

Referring to the buyer who occasion- 
ally offers a bigger price for a carload 
of soybeans, or any farm commodity, 
than the co-operative is able to pay 
members, McKelvie said: ‘Frequently 
such offers are made to weaken your 
faith in your own organization. A 


greater price for a carload or two of | 


What . 


beans is of small consequence. 
you want to know is who is going to 
buy 1,140,000 bu. That’s what you 
must consider if you are going to suc- 


ceed. 


Emergency Existed 
“The Farm Board has received more 
publicity in the newspapers for its help 
given the cotton and wheat farmers 
than for aid given other commodities,” : 
said McKelvie, “‘but remember that 
much more money has been loaried and 


a 

more attention given to other com- 
modities than to these two. When the 
Board saw that an emergency existed in 
both wheat and cotton it acted prompt- 
ly. We did not want to wait a whole 
year before we took a chance. We sup- 
ported the market and got plenty of 
wheat—about 100,000,000 bu. in fact. 
You know the results. The American 
price is considerably higher than the 
world price for the first time in history. 
The wheat grower was benefited. 


“Stabilization operations, however, 
are only temporary. The Farm Board | 
furnished the umbrella for the 1930 
crop and now we're asking the wheat 
growers to furnish their own umbrella 
after July 1. And the only way to do 
it is to cut acreage and allow the accu- 
mulated surpluses to be used up.” 


McKelvie expressed the belief that all 
other things, including labor, must be- 
come readjusted to the new low scale 
of prices. The farmer has taken his cut, 
he said, and now it’s up to the others 
to follow suit if we are to work back 
successfully toward general prosperity. 


Compliments I. A. A. 


Governor McKelvie complimented the 
Illinois Agricultural Association and the 
management of the Soybean Marketing 
Association for the way they handled 
the 1930 soybean’ pool. “We were glad 
to loan money on the soybean crop to 
an organization (the I. A. A.) that 
never had a failure,” he said. ‘Your 
management is to be complimented’ for 
selling the’ greater portion of bushelage 
pooled when there was a good market 
for the beans. Too many times farmers 
fall in love with their crops and refuse 
to sell,” he said. ‘Your beans in stor- 
age are dry and in good seed condition. 

e Farm Board is not worried about 
its loan if you men will carry on.” 


Earl C. Smith, president of the Illi- 


Page Four 


March, 1931 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


nois Agricultural Association, who fol- 
lowed Gov. McKelvie, explained why 
the soybean growers were being asked 
to subscribe for capital stock to finance 
their organization. “It is not contem- 
plated that the money so obtained will 
be used to reduce loans on beans in 
storage,” he said. ‘Last year your or- 
ganization carried on all its operations 
with borrowed capital. It’s asking too 
much of your creditors to have them 
finance you for clerical help, postage 
stamps, train fares, stationery and other 
incidental expenses. 

“Your organization ought to have 
enough capital for at least a year’s op- 
erations. And for this purpose it is 
recommending that every member buy 
at least one share of 6 per cent pre- 
ferred cumulative stock of $25 par 
value. In recommending the capital 
stock plan we are not asking you to 
invest money that you hope to get 
back in a year or two as in thé. case of 
investors in some of our co-operative oil 
companies. You have already had the 
benefit, and got your money back in an 
increased price for your beans. 

Members Profit 

“TI can say without fear of contradic- 
tion that most of you would have got- 
ten only about 85 cents a bushel instead 
of $1 for your beans had not the As- 
sociation pegged the price ,by offering 
$1 per bushel on delivery. 

“We were fortunate to get credit to 
carry on our operations last year,” he 
continued. “It’s too much to ask that 
this be continued. Your organization 
will be far stronger if at least 2,500 of 
you will svbscribe to at least one share 
each in your organization. 

“The biggest problem ahead is for 
farmers to get control of their market- 
ing machinery, and you can succeed in 
doing so if you will give the same sup- 
port, enthusiasm and co-operation you 
gave in building your various insurance 

Manager Reports 
and commercial projects.” 

In his annual report to the members, 
Manager J. H. Lloyd reviewed market- 
ing operations having to do with the 
sale and‘ storage of 1,140,000 bushels 
pooled from the 1930 crop. Loans from 
government agencies permitted. an ad- 
vance to the grower of $1.00 a bushel 
for No. 2 soybeans consigned to the 
Association’s pool. The /irst sales of 
140,000 bushels were consummatcd at 


the premium prices of $1.25 and $1.26. 


per bushel delivered. These two sules 
represented more than one-third of the 
bushelage expected. The members al- 
ready signed and nearly 700 who joined 
later more than trcbled the 350,000 to 
400,000 bushels cxpectzd. 

“The summary of our operations up 
to date records the sale of a large per- 
centage of the pooled beans, with a 


balance on the right side of the ledger,” 
stated Manager Lloyd. ‘The remainder 
of the soybeans consigned are being held 
in storage for later sale.” 

The leading counties which pooled 
beans are Christian with 276,826 
bushels, Champaign 110,244 bushels, 
Moultrie 101,199 bushels, Macon 89,860 
bushels, and Douglas 79,469 bushels. 
More than 57 per cent of the beans 
pooled graded No. 2, over 38 per cent 
No. 3, the rest graded No. 4 and 
sample. 


Market Declined 


Reviewing the market conditions ob- 
taining during 1930, the manager’s re- 
port stated: “During the brief harvest 
season the soybean market declined along 
with other commodity prices until the 
price was reduced to or near the Asso- 
ciation’s advance of $1.00 per bushel 
to growers. It is generally acknowledged 
that the Association pegged the soybean 
price at 20 to 25 cents per bushel 
higher to all growers not only in Illi- 
nois but also in neighboring states. 

“The 1930 commercial soybean crop 
was very much underestimated. It pro- 
duced far above expectations. More 


than 650 names were added to the 


membership roll during the harvest sex - 
son. Because farmers need cash zad the 
relative high price of soybeans, a larver 
than usual percentage of the threshed 
crop moved into commercial channels. 

“Since the close of the harvest season 
soybean oil meal and soybean oil de- 
clined further because of competition 
from cheap imports, also because com- 
peting feed prices were lower and farm- 
ers lacked buying power. Finding an 
outlet for the portion of the crop in 
storage and the financing of our Asso- 
ciation’s future operations are the imme- 
diate problems.” 

Treasurer Reports 

The report of Robert A. Cowles, 
treasurer, showed the Association to be 
in satisfactory financial condition. 

Prof. L. F. Rickey, University of IIli- 
nois, spoke on the afternoon program, 
He discussed the grading of soybeans, 
told and demonstrated how samples were 
taken from the cars and bins. 

The convention unanimously voted to 
increase the authorized number of 6 per 
cent preferred shares of stock from 
4,000 to 8,000, and to reduce their par 
value from $50 to $25. 

The following resolutions were unani- 
mously adopted: 

1. That the Board of Directors of Soybean 
Marketing Association be commended for their 
unselfish efforts in directing the po!'cies and, 
business affairs of the Association d .ing thé 
past year. 

2. That a}-p.eciation be extended to the IIli- 


nois Agricuit\.ral Assocation and Coun:y Farm 
Bureaus of Illin.is for tk fine co-operatic.n and 


service rendered the Soyb. :n Marketing Associa- 
tion and its mem! ers duriog the past yeir, and 
support aid co- 


the promise of conzinuin: 


operation during the coming year. 

3. That appreciation be extended to the 
Federal Farm Board, the Intermediate Credit 
Bank of St. Louis, and the Commercial Deposi- 
tory of the Association in Chicago for the 
active support, advice and liberal extension of 
lines of credit necessary to facilitate the market- 
ing of the 1930 crop of soybeans. 

4. That we solicit the American Farm Bu- 
reau Federation and the Illinois Agricultural 
Association to use their legislative contacts to 
effect just and equitable increases in the Agri- 
cultural Tariff schedules so that soybeans and 
soybean products will be adequately protected 
and that the Board of Directors of Soybean 
Marketing Association be instructed to use every 
reasonable effort to secure the tariff protection 
needed by the soybean industry. 

5. That the Executive Officers of Soybean 
Marketing Association. be instructed to imme- 
diately communicate with the Senators and Rep- 
resentatives from Illinois, urging the President 
to increase tariff duties on soybean products 
and competitive commodities under the flexible 
provisions of the Tariff Act. 

6. That the Board of Directors and Execu- 
tive Officers of Soybean Marketing Association 
use every reasu.:able effort and such portion of 
the corporate funds of the Association as finan- 
cial condition of the Association would warrant, 
to develop and increase the uses of soybean 
products, and that the co-operation of soybean 
processes be solicited in such endeavors. 

Respectfully submitted, 
RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE, 
Frank S. Garwoop, 
Cc. C. Raysurn, 
G. W. LENHART, 
Burton E, Kine, 
Epwin Bay. 

irectors elected were: Adolph Gehl- 
back, Logan county; D. D. Hil!, Shelby 
county; Lester A. Reed, Morgan county; 
Burton E. King, Iancock county; John 
W. Armstroug, Champaign county; 
M. D. Tomlin, Mason county; W. J. 
Sandusky, Vermilion county; Sam Scr- 
rells, Montgomery county; J. F. Probst, 
Macon county; T. H. Lloyd, Macoupin 
county; V. C. Swigart, DeWitt count); 
John G. Allbright, Moultrie county; 
Dwight Hart, Cristian county; Edgar 
Boyton, Sangamon county, and W. G. 
McCormick, Douglas county. 

President John W. Armstrong pre- 
sided. 


I. A. A. Board Meetings 


The following resolution designating 
future meeting dates was pzssed by the 
I. A. A. directors at a recent meeting: 

RESOLVED, That, until otherwise 
ordered, regular raeetings of the Board 
of Dircctors be held at the office of the 
Asociation at 608 South Dearborn 
Sircet, in the City of Chicago, State of 
Ill:.aois, on Friday following the second 
Menday of each month, at 10 A. M. 
on the following dates: 


Friday, March 13, 1931 
Friday, April 17, 1931 
Friday, May. 15,4931 
Friday, June 12, 1931 
Friday, July maar y 2 6 
Friday, August 1+, 1931 
Friday, September 18, 1931 
Friday, October 16, 1931 
Friday, November 13, 1931 
Friday, Decemb-r 18, 1931 


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CTION on the first of a number 

of legislative measures sponsored 
or endorsed by the Illinois Agricultural 
Association was secured at Springfield 
on March 4 when a bill making it 
mandatory that at least 75 per cent of 
the fat requirements at Illinois charit- 
able and penal institutions supported 
by state or county taxes be purchased 
in the form of butter and lard rather 
than oleo and other substitutes was re- 
ported out favorably by the House 
Committee on Efficiency and Economy. 
Rep. Sol Handy of Clark county will 
sponsor the measure. 


Organizations. for Bill 


The action followed a hearing in 
which members of the committee, 
representatives of the I. A. A., Pure 
Milk Ass’n., Prairie Farmer, Illinois 
State Dairymen’s Ass’n., Ill. Butter 
Mnfrs. Ass’n., Illinois State: 
Grange, and the oleomargar- 
ine association took part. 

Earl C. Smith, I. A. A. 
president, who spoke first for 
the farm interests, cleared up 
misunderstanding about the 
contents of the bill, told 
what the measure proposed, 
cited the condition of the 
butter market and farm 
prices in general, emphasized 
the need for broadening the 
outlet for Illinois farm prod- 
ucts, of putting into force 
in state institutions the “Buy 
Illinois Products” campaign 
adopted by the last general assembly. 


Brandon and Pierson Speak 


Rodney Brandon, director of public 
welfare for the state, expressed his in- 
terest in doing everything possible to 
help agriculture. He stated that about 
2,000,000 Ibs. of fats are used in the 
state institutions anaually, that half of 
this has been supplied by purchasing 
oleo and substitutes, that if the bill be- 
comes law approximately 500,000 Ibs. 
more of butter and lard will be bought 
for the 43,000 inmates o% the state in- 
stitutions than heretofore. 


Stuart Pierson, state director of agri- 
culture, spoke effectively for the meas- 
ure, pointing to the fact that oleomar- 
garine is made largely from imported 
vegetable oils, that it is no more than 
right that the greater portion of the 
fat requirements used in the state 
institutions supported largely by farm 
taxes, be the product of Illinois farms. 
“The state has been sponsoring a ‘Buy 


Illinois Products’ movement,” he said. 
“To be consistent we ought to put it 
into practice in our state institutions 
and patronize our own butterfat pro- 
ducers.” 


Stanard and McQueen 

S. J. Stanard, secretary of the State 
Dairymen’s Ass’n., produced evidence 
showing that 11 other states have pro- 
Ribited the use of oleo in state institu- 
tions. “Twenty thousand northern IIli- 
nois dairymen want this legislation,” 
said W. C. McQueen, president of the 
Pure Milk Ass’n. 

F. R. Baer of River Forest repre- 
sented the oleo interests. Illinois pro- 
duces more butter substitutes than any 
state, he said; why take a crack at an 
Illinois industry? He failed to state 
that most of the oils used in making 
margarine are imported from the Philip- 


SUMMARY 


Handy bill restricting oleo in state institutions 
reported out. I. A. A. and other groups take part 
in hearing. 

Lantz state income tax measure awaits hearing 
in Senate. 

Many bills amending motor vehicle act before 
Assembly. 

Bill covering liability of farmers for live stock 
on highways introduced by Rep. Luckey. 


Bill for free limestone from Chester penitentiary 
tabled. 


Other measures await action. 


pine Islands. 

“The farm organizations ought to 
raise hell with farmers who eat oleo 
and fail to patronize their own indus- 
try,” said Chairman Claude L. Rew of 
the committee. 


Rep. Handy, who had previously in- 
troduced a measure similar to the one 
sponsored by the I. A. A., showed his 
good faith by withdrawing his own 
measure in favor of the new one. 


Live Stock on Highways 


A bill sponsored by the I. A. A. to 
amend Section 1 of “An Act in rela- 
tion to domestic animals running at 
large within the State of Illinois,” was 
introduced in the House by Representa- 
tive Hugh Luckey of Vermilion county 
on March 4. 

The bill provides that “Hexe:: ter, it 
shall be unlawful for any animal of the 
species of horse, ass, . mule, cattle, 


‘sheep, goat, or swine to run at large 


in the State of Illinois: Provided, that 


March, 1931 THE I. A. A. RECORD ae Page Five 
Legislation Considered at Springfield 


I. A. A. Representatives Watch Measures Before General Assembly 


no owner or keeper of such animals 
shall be liable for damages in any civil 
suit for injury to the person or proper- 
ty of another caused by the running 
at large thereof, without the knowledge 
of such owner or keeper, when such 
owner or keeper can establish that he 
used reasonable care in restraining such 
animals from ‘so running at large.” 


State Income Tax 


The state income tax measure which 
has the support of the I. A. A. is 
Senate bill No. 138 introduced by Sena- 
tor Synon Lantz of Congerville. The 


bill now rests in the Committee on 


Revenue awaiting a hearing. 

The bill provides for an exemption 
of $1,000 for a single person, $2,000 
for the head of a family or a married 
couple, and $500 additional for each 
dependent. The tax on the first $2,000 
of net income is 1%, 2% 
on the next $3,000, 3% on 
the next $5,000, 4% on the 
next $5,000, 5% on the 
next $10,000, and 6% on all 
amounts of income in excess 
of $25,000. 

The term “net income” 
means gross income of the 
taxpayer less deductions al- 
lowed by the Act. The usual 
credits allowed in the federal 
income tax are allowed in 
this measure. 


Companion Measures 


Seven companion bills to 
make effective important provisions of 
the proposed state income tax -were 
introduced on March 4. An eighth bill 
will be introduced next week. 

“These bills,’ said Senator Lantz, 
“provide for the repeal of Acts for the 
State School Fund, University of IIli- 
nois Fund, and reimbursement of the 
counties for one-half of their payment 
of blind benefits. In addition, they 
amend certain other acts referred to 
these funds. Lastly, they provide for 
the substitution of net receipts from 
the income tax by direct appropriation 
from the state general fund for the 
purposes named. 

“In case net receipts from the income 
tax are not sufficient to provide for 
all the appropriations for such purposes, 
the Act provides that the sttae levying 
board shall compute the tax rate on 
property necessary to make up the de- 
ficiency between appropriations for 
such purposes from the state general 

(Continued on page 7° 


Page Six___ THE I. A. A. RECORD March, 1931 


Sportsmen Want to Lease 
Uncultivated Lands 


Uniform Agreement with Land- 
owner Proposed for Hunting 
and Fishing Privileges 


HE Public Relations Committee of 

the I. A. A. at its meeting on Feb- 
ruary 12 gave careful consideration to 
the proposal of the Sportsmen’s Mutual, 
Incorporated, an [Illinois sportsmen’s 
club, providing for a uniform lease of 
farm lands by members of the sports- 
men’s organization for fish and game 
propagation and conservation, and for 
fishing and hunting. 

After studying the proposed contract 
and lease, the committee deemed it 
worthy of consideration by members of 
the I. A. A. where large tracts of un- 
cultivated lands are available and where 
agents employed by the sportsmen’s 
organization are detailed to supervise 
hunting and fishing by its members so 
as to protect the farm owner and his 
property against damage. 


What It Proposes 


The proposed uniform agreement be- 
tween the Sportsmen’s Mutual and 
landowners or groups of landowners 
provides that members of the organiza- 
tion shall have the exclusive shooting, 
trapping, and fishing rights on the 
lands described in the contract in 
accordance with federal and state laws 
except that the owner of the land, 
tenant, and immediate family of the 
occupant of the premises shall have the 
right to hunt, trap, and fish on the 
land controlled by him or them. 

It is contemplated that the Sports- 
men’s Mutual shall plant, propagate, 
and grow game and fish of its selec- 
tion and have the privilege of declaring 
any part of the tract a sanctuary for 
the raising and protection of game 
against hunting. 

Will Post Preserves 


The Sportsmen’s Mutual proposes to 
post the preserves with appropriate 
signs; agrees to-assume responsibility for 
any injury or damage done by its mem- 
bers to any property of the landowner; 
agrees that members of the organiza- 
tion shall register in and out with the 
owner or game protector on the de- 
scribed premises, and that it shall pay 
the farmer or landowner for the privi- 
lege of hunting on said lands on the 
following basis: 

§ cents per rabbit 

10 cents per quail 

25 cents per pheasant 

30 cents per duck, where not fed 

60 cents per duck, where feed pens 

and decoys are maintained 
it being understood and agreed that the 


owner or tenant shall limit the kill of 
any, and all native game to the amount 
of his determination, except where game 
is by the second party or its members 
planted, propagated and grown, where- 
upon the second party and its members 
shall have the privilege of killing not 
less than 50 per cent per annum of 
the game planted and grown. 


May Terminate Lease 


It is agreed that no member of the 
second part will hunt or shoot in any 
field where stock is found, or where 
men or teams are working without the 
special permission from the then present 
owner, or tenant or their servants. 

The landowner may terminate the 
lease or agreement at any time if the 
Sportsmen’s Mutual or its members vio- 
late any terms of the lease. The length 
of the lease is for two years and the 
lease renews automatically for one year 
until notice of termination is given by 
the owner or the Sportsmen’s Mutual. 

If the land so leased changes owner- 
ship, the lease is automatically cancelled 
so that it is not a cloud on the title. 


Committees Appointed 


Sub-committees and advisory com- 
mittees for 1931 appointed by the 
President at the February meeting of 
the I. A. A. Board of Directors are 
as follows: 


Finance Committee 


A i WONG cee oe Ben Narna 
M. G. Lambert............... Ferris 
Oi: Grebo i aes Atwood 
Organization and Information 
Committee 
C. E. Bamborough............. Polo 
Frank Oexner ............. Waterloo 
Wee As Seis: ee he eds Paris 


Otis Kercher (Farm Adviser) . Danville 
Marketing Committee 


Samuel Sorrells............ Raymond 
Harold C. Vial....... Downers Grove 
A. B. Schofield.............. Paxton 
We Ts he ee Salem 
R. A. Doneghue (Farm Adviser) 

gh SRG Pees Cohen Macomb 

Public Relations Committee 

Chas, S. Black... 2... 26. Jacksonville 
Geo. B. Muller........... Washington 
Chas, L. Bates... 06... 4; Browning 


Edwin Bay (Farm Adviser) . Springfield 
Financial Business Service 


Geo. F. Tullock........... Rockford 
Pied ieee ns pec seers De Soto 
Charles Marshall ............ Belknap 


E. C. Secor (Farm Adviser) .. .Sparta 


Geo. E. Metzger was elected sec- 
retary, Robt. A. Cowles treasurer 
of the I. A. A. for the year 1931 at 


the February meeting of the Board 
of Directors 


I. A. A. Active in Support 
of Brigham-Townsend Bill 


Dairy Industry Threatened by 
Cheap Imported Vegetable Oils 
Used in Making Butter ; 
Substitutes 


O FFICIALS of the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association were recently 
assured by members of congress from 
Illinois that the Brigham-Townsend bill, 
H.R. 15934 Senate 5745, will have 
their support when it comes up for 
vote. This proposed measure seeks to 
restore the 10 cent per pound tax on 
colored oleomargarine. 

A recent ruling by Commissioner 
Burnet of the Internal Revenue Bureau 
was to the effect that oleomargarine 
colored by natural oils, such as imported 
palm oil, need not pay the federal tax 
of 10 cents a pound. 


As we go to press, word comes 
from Washington that the Brigham- 
Townsend bill passed both the 
House and Senate in the closing days 
of the 71st Congress. 

The vote in the’ House yas 302 


‘aye, 101 no; in the oe 68 aye, 


9 no. 


The proposed bill will restore the 
10 cent tax by changing the wording 
of the present law which now. assesses 
only oleo “not free from artificial colo- 
ration which causes it to look like but- 
ter of any shade of yellow.” Commis- 
sioner Burnet construed this provision 
in such a way as to exempt manufac- 
turers of butter substitutes from the 
10 cent per pound tax. He held that 
palm oil which gives the oleo a yellow 
color was not “artificial coloration.” 

The Brigham-Townsend bill changes 


the wording so that any oleo “yellow in - 


color” must pay the tax. The measure 
also contains provisions relative to pack- 
ing and marketing oleo which specify 


weight contents of from one-fourth to - 


five pounds, and opaque material for 
wrapping purposes. 

Under the bill, wrappings must re- 
main unsealed and unbroken until in 
the possession of the consumer. The 
present law allows oleo to be sold in 
tubs, buckets, etc., with no restriction 
relative to breaking packages before re- 
tailing them. 

The Illinois Agricultural Association 
is not only co-operating with the Amer- 
ican Farm Bureau Federation and the 
dairy interests in supporting this meas- 
ure but I. A. A. officials also have writ- 
ten the Illinois members of congress and 
conferred with the Secretary of Agri- 
culture on ‘several occasions ‘apprising 

(Continued on page 12, cel. 1) 


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LEGISLATION CONSIDERED 
(Continued from page 5) 


fund and reasonably expected net receipts 
therein from the income tax. 

Senator. Lantz expressed the opinion that the 
income tax bill and the companion bills will 
make it possible for the state to dispense 
wholly with any levy of taxes on property for 
the various purposes referred to above and 
other general purposes, at a saving of approxi- 
mately thirty million dollars per year to prop- 
erty owners of the state. 


Motor Vehicle Bills 


Other measures in which the I. A. A. is in- 
terested and is watching closely are those 
amending the motor vehicle Act so as to ex- 
empt farm tractors from paying a state motor 
license fee; and to change the classification of 
trucks in the levying of fees. 

Senator Henry M. Dunlap of Champaign 
and Rep. Henry C. Allen of Lyndon have in- 
troduced practically the same bill in their re- 
spective Houses which fixes a fee of $8 for 
trucks weighing less than 4,000 pounds, $12 
for trucks of from 4,000 to 8,000 pounds, and 
$22.50 for trucks of 8,000 to 12,000 pounds. 
Trailers and semi-trailers weighing 2,000 to 
4,000 pounds are assessed $12, and those of 
from 4,000 to 10,000 pounds $25. 

Senator Mason introduced a bill to exempt 
tractors, traction engines, etc., from the pay- 
ment of motor license fees whether used by 
owners or in behalf of others; provides that 
vehicles of less than 7,500 pounds (now 5,000) 
shall pay the minimum fee of $12. 

Senator Mills has a bill in the hopper pro- 
viding for a license fee of $17.50 for vehicles 
of 5,000 to 8,500 pounds (present fee $22.50 
for 5,000 to 12,000 pounds). Another bill in- 
troduced by Mills seeks a $200,000 appropria- 
tion to build a 4-H Club building at the 
State Fair Grounds. 

Representative Hunter has introduced House 
Bill No. 228 which provides that threshing 
machines, clover hullers, corn shredders, and 
similar vehicles used primarily for agricultural 
purposes shall not be subject to the payment 
of vehicle license fees. 


Another Oleo Bill 


Representative J. R. Thompson of Bridge- 
port has introduced a bill to license all handlers 
of oleomargatine charging a fee of $250 per 
quarter for a license to sell it wholesale, and 
$75 per quarter for a license to sell it retail. 
The State Director of Agriculture is authorized 
and empowered to supervise the Act. 


Free Limestone Bill 


A bill to distribute agricultural limestone 
produced at Chester Penitentiary free of charge 
to southern Illinois farmers in the vicinity of 
the prison failed to secure favorable action 
of the House Committee on Efficiency and 
Economy on March 4. 

The bill introduced by Rep. Davis of Mur- 
physboro was criticized first on the ground 
that it is illegal for the state to give away its 
property; secondly, because only a few citizens 
would be benefited; thirdly, because it would 
furnish unfair competition to limestone com- 
panies operating in that territory. 

President Earl Smith, who happened to be 


_ in the committee room when the measure came 


up, was called on to express his views. He 
stated that the bill as a temporary relief meas- 
ure to benefit drouth stricken southern Illinois 
farmers had merit, but as a permanent program 
thought it unwise. 


Sixteen inquiries in one mail were 
received by Country Life Insurance 
Co. in response to the “Family In- 
come Rider” advertisement in the 
February I. A. A. RECORD. 


Observations 


Can a man earn $1,000,000 a year? 


This is the controversial issue stock- 
holders of the Bethlehem Steel Com- 
pany will decide at their coming annual 
meeting on April 14 when the com- 
pany’s bonus system initiated years ago 
by Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the 
board, will come up for consideration. 


The target of attack by a group of 
minority stockholders is the cash paid 
President Eugene G. Grace, No. 1 em- 
ployee, who for the past 13 years has 
received a bonus averaging $814,993 
per year. During 1929 his bonus 
amounted to $1,623,753, during 1930 
$1,015,591. He draws the nominal 
salary of $12,000 per year. The bonuses 
of a number of other employees have 
averaged between $100,000 and $230,- 
000 annually during the 13 year period. 


Stoutly defending the company’s 
bonus plan in a recent letter to the 
stockholders, Chairman Schwab pre- 
sents all the facts and asks for favor- 
able action at the coming meeting to 
continue the profit-sharing system. 

“I personally have fixed the percent- 
ages of the payments made under this 
system to the principal executives of 
the corporation since it was inaugu- 
rated,” he writes. “I assume full re- 
sponsibility for these payments and I 
am quite prepared to support them in 
principle in detail. The directors of 
the corporation share with me the be- 
lief that our bonus system has been one 
of the principal factors in the success 
of the corporation . 


“T believe now as I have always be- 
lieved that a liberal reward for unusual 
effort and ability on the part of an off- 
cer or employee is returned many fold 
to the stockholders of a corporation. 
It is as true of men of great ability as 
of those of lesser capacity. 

“But the value of a liberal bonus sys- 
tem is not confined to the direct in- 
centive offered to the particular recipi- 
ents. Thére are collateral advantages. 
Chief among them is the fact that such 
a system attracts to the corporation 
men of exceptional ability. 


“The hope of attaining an important 
position in the corporation is the best 
possible incentive to the younger men 
to work hard and thus win recognition 
and promotion. The results accom- 
plished under the Bethlehem plan are 
the best evidence of the stimulating 
effect upon the entire organization of 
compensating effort on an incentive 
basis. The average administrative, sell- 


ing, and general expense of Bethlehem, 
including all bonuses, in the six years 
ending December 31,. 1929, was_ less 
than that of United State Steel Corp., 
or the Youngstown Sheet and Tube 
Company both in terms of cost per 


ton of steel sold and in relation to the 


percentage of gross sales.” 


R. W. Hebard, New York engineer 
and a stockholder in Bethlehem Steel, 
expresses his disagreement with Chair- 
Schwab thus: “I consider that the 
stockholders who propose to put a stop 
to the present bonus system, or at 
least modify it to one within reason, 
are on very solid ground and deserve 
the support of the other stockholders. 

“It is preposterous to claim that any 
such reward as the company paid Mr. 
Grace and others is indispensable to 
obtaining ‘unusual effort and ability on 
the part of our officers and employees.’ 

“If this were true, it would be a 
forcible indictment against the policy 
in this respect of hundreds of Amer- 
ican corporations wherein only salaries 
are paid or salaries plus a small bonus. 
There is no convincing evidence at 
hand that Bethlehem is any more effi- 
cently managed than innumerable other 
companies.” Hebard contends that the 
fairest method of rewarding effort is to 
permit employees to acquire stock in 
the company (such as in American 
Telephone & Telegraph) and then em- 
ploy all their ability to make the stock 
valuable, or that the bonus be paid 
after depreciation and dividends on 
common stock, rather than before, as 
is now the case. 


Farmers who are members of co- 
operative associatons managed and op- 
erated largely by employees will be in- 
terested in the question raised in the 
Bethlehem Company which has_ been 
and is being widely discussed. The 
same principles which govern the suc- 
cess or failure of large corporations 
apply to the operation of farm co- 
operatives and agricultural associations 
with perhaps one exception. In the 
latter there are men whose zeal and 
untiring effort is not prompted so much 
by the compensation they receive, 
which invariably is small, as by their 
belief in and devotion to the principle 
that agriculture as an industry has not 
had a square deal and is entitled to a 


better income for the service it renders. 

—G. T. 
February, 1931, was the largest 
February in three years for the Indian- 
apolis Producers. A total of 853 car- 
loads of live stock was handled, repre- 
senting 35 per cent of the market re- 
ceipts. This was an increase of 77 cars 
over February last year. 


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March, 1931 


| ILLINOIS 
AG@icour tints ASSOCIA 
, RECORD 


To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organized, 
namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, political, 
and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation, 
and to develop agriculture. 


GEorGE THEM, Editor 


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OFFICERS 
President, Earl C. Smith............ Bpidicdonetontec dcapnpntaneciaSaomposoneee suntaatietieicerystite Detroit 
Vice-President, A. R. Wright. ........-...2-------..---00--seeeercececeeesnnenecsomereeeeeeesenens Varna 
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
(By Congressional District) 


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14th... -----n--nanennnnene b .ccissqeitousepoedesteanyeripsenicapoclivaheleopyebbabessh M. G. Lambert, Ferris 
DIR iain snrngns ren naanasptmeramnnindoosnaninhintnagonapestpareeed Charles Bates, Browning 
BG nica. ccyccsctinntncnvididetwomapfronncianyegesquingeapiosiscerresinnacemees Geo. B. Muller, Washington 
17th... ....A. B. Schofield, Paxton 
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pioceteaebsshingss C. J. Gross, Atwood 


20th Charles S. Black, Jacksonville 
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BET aa vonn asa ncn cennjinntwenveeeseorceonjoopnagongecseenteg-se sieacenennowate Frank Oexner, Waterloo 
SOT an asa ceocanccotenceoncnnn tncoséencecpnecmerphecenectimchqonambessiws W. L. Cope, Salem 
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DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 
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Fima ne... ---n---nnanoe-eeronennennnnennnnneecen een nnnnnnnnn gg co Diecneaiaicesal R. A. Cowles 
Fruit and Vegetable Marketing.......--.--.-----------.--.--------ct-----s----000-== A. B, Leeper 


Harrison Fahrnkopf 
...George Thiem 
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Information............-. 
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Legal Counsel......... 
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Organization... .--------00-nensn2-ncnescdesnenseeeeseneeenoteneesnanennensntoneeenamen G. E, Metzger 
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Taxation and Statistics... ----..----------------n-----ecenccnseceneceeeneneneneeenes J. C. Watson 
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ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 
Country Life Insurance Co....-...-.---.---.-.---------e---s-eeeeereee L. A. Williams, Mgr. 
Ferman Mutual Reinsurance Cov........-.-------------ssscses----==* J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Co-operative Ass’n...........-..----.-- F. E, Ringham, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co............-A, E. Richardson, Mgr. 
Illinois Farm Supply Co......____--_-.-.-------..-----L,_ R._ Marchant, Mgr. 
Illinois Grain Corp....-.-.----___-__--.---..----------- Harrison Fahrnkopf, Mgr. 
Midwest Grain Corp. Chas. P. Cummings, Gen’l. Mgr 
Soybean Marketing Ass’n..._.______--..-..-...------------J.. H. Lloyd, Mgr. 


Before the General Assembly 


SNC our recent annual meeting, representa- 
tives of the Illinois Agricultural Association 
have been in Springfield each week conferring 
with state officials and members of the General 
Assembly regarding legislation affecting farmers’ 
inierests. 

The reason the Association was not represented 
at the state capitol in January is obvious. The 
legislative program of the I. A. A. for 1931 was 
outlined in the resolutions adopted by the official 
delegates who represented the 60,000 members. 
Now the Association’s legislative committee can 
confidently go to the legislators with that pro- 
gram knowing that the prestige of 60,000 organ- 
ized farmers is behind it. 

Agriculture is well represented at Springfield. 
Farm groups and organizations in Illinois are 
co-operating most harmoniously. This fact was 
well illustrated at the recent hearing before the 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


House Committee on Efficiency and Economy 


when the Handy bill to restrict the use of oleo- 


margarine and lard substitutes in state institu- 
tions was considered. . 

Joined in support of the bill were the I. A. A., 
Pure Milk Association, Prairie Farmer, the state 
Grange, the Illinois State Dairymen’s Association 
and the Illinois Butter Manufacturers Association. 

The rights of agriculture can be protected and 
its interests best served by such unity of action. 
Much good can be accomplished when _ those 
charged with responsibility forget personal credit 
and think only of results. 


Mr. Legge Retires 


[LLINOIS farmers have reason to be grateful 
to Alexander Legge, who recently retired as 
chairman of the Federal Farm Board. The quali- 
ties of frankness, courage, and sincerity he 
brought to the.Farm Board inspired confidence 
and gave heart to farmers’ efforts in helping 
themselves through co-operative action. 

Mr. Legge did more for the co-operative cause 
than most people realize. Some of his blunt state- 
ments would have been dubbed socialistic and 
radical had they not come from a responsible man 
identified with big business and capitalistic enter- 
prise. * 

During his two years of service he proved a 
worthy champion of agriculture before those 
who would deny the farmer the right to organize 
for the effective marketing of his own products. 

Mr. Legge’s successor, James C. Stone of Ken- 
tucky, has the courage and sincerity of his pre- 
decessor with the advantage of long years’ experi- 
ence in the co-operative marketing movement. 
Mr: Stone is favorably known to many Illinois 
farmers. He has announced that the policies fol- 
lowed during Mr. Legge’s incumbency will be 
continued. Under the ‘leadership of ‘‘Jim” Stone 
we have every confidence that the Agricultural 
Marketing Act will be applied for the best inter- 
ests of the American farmer. 


42 § uspended 


G USPENSION of 42 live stock commission 

companies at E. St. Louis by order of the 
Secretary of Agriculture should have a whole- 
some influence in maintaining similar public ex- 
changes as free and open markets where farmers 
as well as others may do business unhampered by 
boycotts and restrictions. 

The notorious case at the National Stock Yards is only 
another illustration of the belief held by certain middle 
men that they have a God-given right to handle the farm- 
er’s products for him; that the profits from trading in 


agricultural produce under no consideration should go to 
the farmer, | 


Dr. C 


March, 1931 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Dr. Cyril G. Hopkins preaching the gospel of Limestone, Legumes, and Permanent Soil Fertility on Poorland Farm, 
Tonti in Marion County. Who knows the approximate date of this picture? 


Page Nine 


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Intelligent permanent soil improvement on 
land that must be or will be farmed is both 
the safest and the most profitable invest- 
ment open to the farmer and the landowner.” 


Dr. Cyril G. Hopkins. 


LIMESTONE 


—the safe investment 


D* HOPKINS’ gospel of limestone, 

legumes, and permanent soil fertility 
is just as applicable today as it was before 
the war. High yields, fertile soil, and low 
cost production is the formula for success 
on the farm in periods of low prices. 


Limestone and legumes will pay~your 


taxes—lift the mortgage. Now is a good 
time to order your requirements at your 
County Farm Bureau office. 


Buy limestone from producers co-operat- 
ing with your Farm Bureau and the Illinois 
Agricultural Association. This is your guar- 
antee of quality at a discount to members. 


@@ The l. A.A. Is a Service Organization 


Page Ten 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


March, 1931. 


Grain Producers Meet at Peoria 


‘Alexander Legge, Farm Board Chairman, Is Unexpected Guest at Illinois 


Grain Corp. Annual Stockholders’ Meeting * 


LEXANDER LEGGE, chairman of 

the Farm Board, who happened to 

be in Peoria to address the Creve Coeur 

Club, was an unexpected guest at the 

annual meeting of the Illinois Grain 

Corporation held Monday, February 23, 
at the Jefferson Hotel. 


Mr. Legge made a brief address to 
the 154 delegates, officers and visitors 
who represented 
all except three 
of the stockhold- 
er members. 

The Farm Board 
chairman compli- 
mented the or- 
ganization on its 
progress. “You're 
a live organiza- 
tion,” he © said. 
“Keep up your 
courage and car- 
ry on. You can’t 
go down stream all the time. You have 
to go up some time and that’s the dif- 
ference between a dead fish and a live 


G. C. Johnstone 


one. There are certain individuals and ° 


organizations who apparently believe 
they have a God-given right to handle 
your grain for you. I don’t see it that 
way. Some of these people are actively 
working against you, so you have ob- 
stacles to overcome.” 


Commodity Control 


Earl C. Smith, president of the I. A. 
A., in an interesting address devoted 
to the broader problems of building an 
effective co-operative marketing organi- 
zation stressed the importance of vol- 
ume control of farm commodities if 
the producer is to realize the full bene- 
fit of the co-operative system. He 
pointed out the weaknesses in the op- 
eration of co-operatives where a mi- 
nority of the directors control the poli- 
cies. 

G. C. Johnstone of Bloomington, 
president of the corporation, in his an- 
nual address told of the progress of the 
organization since it was incorporated 
early in 1930. 


“It was expected that much oppo- 
sition would come from private inter- 
ests which had -been receiving the 
profits from marketing the farmers’ 
grain,” he said. “But no one antici- 
pated that the most insidious and un- 
fair propaganda would come from those 
who were supposed to be leaders in the 
farmers’ elevator movement. However, 
today many more farmers are doing 


their own thinking, and are not being 
influenced by the propaganda of selfish 
subsidized interests. 

“You already have a membership of 
33 fully qualified co-operative farmers’ 
elevators. The fact that our sales 
agency, the Mid-West Grain Corpora- 
tion, already has handled a million and 
a quarter bushels of grain is a complete 
answer to the enemies of co-operation 
who are seeking to prevent farmers 
from developing their own marketing 
agencies in the terminals. 


“The strength of our organization is 
based on the fact that farmers them- 
selves are the real owners of this co- 
operative machinery set up to market 
and merchandise their grain. Farmers 
themselves own stock in the local ele- 
vators, and the local elevators in turn 


own stock of the regionals which in ° 


turn own and control the Farmers Na- 
tional Grain Corporation. Through 
these same local units grain producers 
will participate in the savings and 
profits from the state and national 
grain marketing agencies. 


Producer at the Terminals 


“Through the local, state and na- 
tional co-operatives the producer has a 
voice at the terminal markets: where 
prices are made and with increased vol- 
ume will come bargaining power to 
stabilize prices, and obtain all that the 
market affords for his grain. 


“While it is true that the develop- 
ment of the Illinois Grain Corporation 
was only made possible by the support 
given it by the Boards of Directors and 
stockholders of member elevators, who 
had a vision of the possibilities in col- 
lective action, I am satisfied that this 
unity of effort could never have been 
brought about without the services and 
finances made available by a strong gen- 
eral farm organization such as the Illi- 
nois Agricultural Association. 


I. A. A. Aid Helpful 


“It has contributed liberally of its 
finances, counsel, man power, and last 
but by no means least, its prestige. The 
high esteem in which the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association is held in business, 
agricultural, and financial circles, and 
the success which other projects it has 
promoted have attained, have all been 
valuable assets to the Illinois Grain Cor- 
poration. I am also convinced that in 
order that. co-operative efforts. among 
farmers in the future maintain the sta- 
bility they should, a strong general farm 


organization should be maintained, to 
work in harmony with them. 

*“A very small amount of the sub- 
scribed capital investment has been used 
in organization work, the Grain Market- 
ing Department of the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association having spent practi- 
cally its entire allotment of funds for 
1930 upon this project, and expects to 
do so throughout 1931. 


Opportunity for Elevators 


“Each day I am more convinced of 
the enlarged opportunity each member 
elevator has in securing reliable infor- 
mation which should be helpful in the 
conduct of its business affairs. In the 
past the only source of information 
was through privately-owned commis- 
sion firms which were interested in your 
affairs only to the extent of the profit 
which they were able to secure from 
each bushel of grain they purchased. 
It made no difference whether the price 
was high or low. ~ 


“During the coming year by work- 
ing together we should be able to profit 
by our past experiences. While con- 
structive criticism is always welcomed 
by the board of directors it is each 
member’s duty to be loyal to his own 
selling agency and not allow untruthful 
propaganda to circulate unchallenged. 
The coming year should show an in- 
creased membership and it is to the 
interest of every stockholder that this 
should be. It is only by the control of 
a large volume of grain that we can 
gain the end sought. 

“The machinery is set up and func- 
tioning, we as grain producers will 
approach the objective of our plan just 
to the extent that interest and support 
is given to our own marketing agency, 
the Illinois Grain Corporation.” 


Other Speakers 


Fred E. Ringham told of the success 
of many farmers’ elevators and how 
careful audits were helping them to 
operate on a. sound financial basis. 
Harrison Fahrnkopf, I. A. A. grain 
marketing director who has directed 
organization work among elevators, 
spoke briefly, modestly gave way to 
other speakers. 

Charles P. Cummings, general man- 
ager of the Mid-West Grain Corpora- 
tion, introduced the branch managers 
at St. Louis, Peoria, Jacksonville, Deca- 
tur, and Pontiac, discussed technical 
problems in selling grain. 

The Farmers National Grain Corpo- 
ration was represented by N. T. Nelson 


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Directors elected for 1931 are as 
follows: 

Name County 
*G. C. Johnstone (president) .McLean 
*J. C, Sailor (vice-president) . Iroquois 


*R, E. Stevenson...........-. LaSalle 
*F Pi StOnt ose ee ie Sangamon 
*A,R. Wright........... ’. Marshall 
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Oscar Combrink ........... Greene 
C. P. Griffiths............ Hancock 
Byron Miller .....:........ DeWitt 
Ralph P. Mills........... Vermilion 
J. Fred Romine..........-. Douglas 
Charles Schmitt ............ Logan 
E. H. Williams........... Whiteside 
Albert C. Kolmer.......... Monroe 


*Member of Executive Committee. 


Senate Committee 


Airs Milk Prices 


At a recent hearing held by a special 
committee of the United States Senate 
charged with investigation of food costs, 
news dispatches state that Chairman 
Arthur Capper of Kansas introduced 


- statistics to show that the Borden Milk 


Company, which distributes approxi- 
mately 40 per .cent of the retail milk 
and cream in Chicago, averaged profits 
of about 20 per cent on its common 
stock during the last five years. 

“So certainly the Borden Company 
has been doing very well,” said Senator 
Capper. 

“That is a larger profit than the 
farmers who produce the milk get,” 
commented Senator Frazier of North 
Dakota. 

“It’s about 10 times the profit the 
farmers in Kansas get,” Capper re- 
plied. 

The committee learned from the Bu- 
reau of Labor Statistics that the average 
price for milk of 51 cities is 13.3 cents 
a quart and the farmer is receiving an 
average price of a little less than 4.5 
cents. 

Dr. F. B. Walmsley, president of the 
Borden Farm Products Company, pro- 
duced figures which he said showed the 
consumer had received the full benefit 
of reduced prices to the farmer. His 
company, he testified, reduced its price 
at Chicago from 14 to 13 cents a quart 
at the beginning of the year, and the 
farmer’s price was cut .8 of a cent per 
quart. 


A temporary embargo of not more 
than one year’s duration on wheat and 
other farm products from foreign 
countries was recently urged before the 
House Ways and Means Committee by 
Chairman Alexander Legge. 


March, 1931 THE I. A. A. RECORD Page Eleven 


A POLICY 


E must sow in order to reap. 
We must surround ourselves 
d guide them 


Confidence in ourselves and 
our policies is imperative. 
must not merely have a stiff 
per lip, but also a stiff backbone. 
We must believe in our plan and 
have the courage to. stick to it, 
even when discouraged by tem- 
porary set-backs. 

- —William Feather. 
Leena 


Investments for Farmers 


Farmers should never buy securities 
with high yields because such yields are 
a danger sign that something is wrong 
with the stock, Prof. F. A. Pearson of 
Cornell University recently told New 
York farmers in a talk on investments. 

“Always investigate the company 
thoroughly before investing in its com- 


mon stock,” he said. ‘Generally, the. 


farmer who has been sufficiently suc- 
cessful to save money for investment 
has been too busy to study the business 
conditions and the affairs of the com- 
pany; therefore he should not invest in 
this type of security. 

“Mortgages on farms, investments in 
local enterprises with which they are 
acquainted in their community should 
be bought in preference to investments 
in other communities,” he continued. 

“In general, the risk which goes with 
securities bearing a high yield should be 
carried by the man of much greater 
means than the farmer.” 


236 Attend Bureau 
President’s Banquet 


Two hundred and thirty-six County 
Farm Bureau presidents, county ad- 
visers, I. A. A. officers, directors and 
staff members attended the annual 
Farm Bureau presidents and farm ad- 
visers banquet the night of Wednesday, 
Jan. 28, Springfield. 

The banquet, which as in past years 
was a closed session, brought out the 
largest representation of. any held in 
recent years. 

The dinner and entertainment held 
in the St. Nicholas Hotel was donated 
by the Springfield Chamber of Com- 
merce. C. G. Kohler, chairman of the 
Convention Bureau, deserves much 
credit for its success. 


The fellow who waits until con- 
ditions are just right before he 
starts, never starts. 


50 Illinois Counties 
To Organize This Year 


OUNTY Farm Bureaus in 50 Illi- 
nois counties will re-sign their 

members during 1931, states George E. 
Metzger, secretary and director of or- 
ganization. Organization work is well 
in hand and adequate preparations have 
been made in the majority of counties 
for the coming membership drives. 
Commenting on the volunteer solici- 
tor plan followed in Illinois, Metzger 
said, ‘‘The Illinois 
Farm Bureau mem- 
ber is maintaining 
his organization 
largely through his 
own efforts. The 
reason Illinois 
farmers have the 
greatest state farm 
Organization in 
America is that 
they put more ef- 
fort into its main- 
tenance and its 
many activities and enterprises. They 
have great pride in the accomplish- 


Geo. Metzger 


‘ments of their organization which re- 


flect the work they, have done in years 
past through co-operative action.” 

Membership in the I. A. A. passed 
the 60,000 mark the first of the year 
when 60,076 members were on the roll. 
By. Feb. 1 this number had crept up to 
60,500. Membership in the state or- 
ganization has been on the upgrade 
ever since 1926. 

The annual meetings of County Farm 
Bureaus and various companies and or- 
ganizations affliated with the I. A. A. 
have had greater attendance during the 
past winter than any time in history. 
Illinois farmers appréciate the fact that 
during business depression they need 
their organization more than ever be- 
fore. As a result the morale of the 
membership was never better than it 
is today. A substantial increase in 
membership is confidently expected. 

Four new district organization mana- 
gers will be employed by the I. A. A. 
within the next few weeks; one in 
southeastern Illinois, one in southwest- 
ern Illinois, and two in the northern 
part of the state. 

At a recent meeting directors of the 
McLean County Farm Bureau passed a 
resolution urging that volunteer organi- 
zation forces make every effort to break 
the state record for the most Farm Bu- 
reau members signed in a single day. 
Their drive will be held in May. They 
hope to sign 2,000 Farm Bureau mem- 
bers within a 24-hour period. Tazewell 
county now holds the record with 1,288 
‘Farm Bureau members signed in a sin- 
gle day. LaSalle county is second with 
973. 


Page Twelve 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


March, 1931 


Auditing Association 


Adds Five New Members 


Annual Report Shows Steady Prog- 
ress with 54 New Members 
During 1930 


EW co-operatives added to the 
membership roll of the Illinois 
Agricultural Co-operatives Association 
since the first of the year are as follows: 
Farmers Co-operative Company of Col- 
fax, Iroquois Servce Company, Wat- 
seka; Farmers Co-operative Exchange, 
Stockton; Illinois Farm Bureau Serum 
Association, and the Monroe Service 
Company, Waterloo. 
These new members bring the total 
membership of the auditing association 
up to 290. Con- 
tracts from addi- 
tional co-operatives 
now being organ- 
ized are expected 
within the next 
few weeks. 
Delegates at the 
recent annual 
meeting of the As- 
sociation on Jan. 
28 in Springfield 
_ voted unanimously 
to reorganize un- 
der the 1923 Co-operative Act of 
Illinois and to change the name from 
the Illinois Agricultural Co-opera- 
tives Association to the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Auditing Association. Incor- 
poration papers will be filed shortly. 
Officers Elected 
Directors elected were A. J. Gill- 
fillan, Watseka, president; Jesse L. 
Beery, Cerro Gordo, vice-president; 
Henry H. Parke, Genoa; Albert 
Heckle, Quincy; and Byron DeBord, 
Princeville. George E. Metzger and 
Robert A. Cowles were chosen. secre- 
tary and treasurer -respectively. 
Action was taken to place all mem- 
bership contracts on a one-year con- 
tinuous contract under which any 


Fred Ringham 


(Continued from page 6) 
them of the Association’s wishes that 
this measure be passed. 

The fact that the butter market has 
been demoralized in the last few months 
is due in part to the recent ruling of 
the Internal Revenue Bureau. If this 
ruling is allowed to stand it will mean 
that producers of butterfat throughout 
the United States will be subjected to 
the unrestricted competition of cheap, 
imported vegetable oils from foreign 
lands. It is estimated that the market 
for millions of pounds of butter will 
be taken away by butter substitutes 
made largely from and colored by im- 
ported oils. 


member will have the privilege of can- 
celling the contract on due notice, as 
provided in the by-laws, at the end of 
the year. 

It was voted to refund that portion 
of the capital reserve amounting to 
approximately $1,800 (collected in 
1924 and 1925) to member companies 
which have continued in good stand- 
ing since that time. Hereafter the As- 
sociation will refund each year the 
reserve collected in the fifth preceding 
year. 

E. E. Crabtree, banker of Jackson- 
ville) who was the principal speaker, 
emphasized the need for adequate 
audits in operating a business efficient- 
ly and in establishing credit with 
banks. Co-operatives must adopt the 
same business practices as successful 
private enterprises if they are to suc- 
ceed, he said. He pointed to the fact 
that adequate capital funds are neces- 
sary to operate a co-operative success- 
fully. He told the delegates that 
financial audits are the best means for 
keeping directors informed about the 
business of the enterprise they are di- 
recting. 

54 New Members 

In his annual report to the delegates, 
Manager Fred Ringham stated that the 
business investments of agriculture in 
Illinois continued to grow during 1930 


in spite of the depression. Fifty-four * 


new members came into the organiza- 
tion during the year, the largest ac- 
quisition of any year since the first 
membership campaign was conducted, 

No promotional or field organization 
service was maintained, although a 
double-spread advertisement was pub- 
lished in the April, 1930, issue of the 
Illinois Agricultural Association REC- 
ORD. This advertisement was helpful 
in explaining to the Farm Bureau mem- 
bers and; managers and directors of 
Illinois co-operatives the auditing ser- 
vice available through the Association. 


Among the Membership 


The membership of the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Co-operatives Association as 
of December 31, 1930, was made up of 
76 farmers’ elevators, 69 County Farm 
Bureaus, five County Home Bureaus, 
25 live stock associations, 30 dairy and 
produce associations, 47 co-operative oil 
companies, 14 mutual insurance com- 


panies, five seed companies, six mercan- ... 


tile companies, and eight miscellaneous 
organizations—all hold membership on 
a co-operative basis. Charges for the 
auditing service are at cost, although 
a small percentage is added to each bill 
for reserve, which eventually will be 
returned to the members. 

The cost analysis of 292 audits billed 
in 1930 reveal'a total service charge of 
$32,615.64. Approximately $20,000 


of this charge was for accountants’ sal- 
aries, nearly $4,500 for traveling and 
field expense, and a little over $8,000 
for office expense.” To this amount was 
added $3,217.07 for capital reserve, 
making the total charge $35,832.71. 
‘Total assets of the Association at the 
end of the year were listed at $21,- 
609.20, total net worth $21,337.83. 
Net income for the year was $2,435.20. 


Oil Companies Plan | 
To Open About Apr. 1 


The Monroe Service Company, one 
of the newer members of the Illinois 
Farm Supply Company, is erecting 
bulk station equipment and will be 
ready to handle petroleum products 
within the next few weeks. At the 
initial organization meeting Albert C. 
Kolmer was elected president, F. G. 
Oexner, secretary, and W. L. Meyer, 
treasurer. These men will serve along 
with Geo. Niebruegge, Wm. F. 
Schwarze, Hy Rosenberg, Jr., and El- 
mer Stumpf as directors until a’ per- 
manent board is elected. 

More than $15,000 was raised 
through the sale of preférred stock to 
furnish capital for necessary equipment 
and supplies. All of the stock was sold 
by volunteer solicitors and much of it 
came in as a result of an effective pub- 
licity campaign directed from the 
Farm Bureau office. 

‘Whiteside county raised more than 
$25,000 at two meetings held within a 
period of 10 days. No farm to farm 
solicitation was necessary. More than 
150 who came out to the initial or- 
ganization meeting pledged over $11,- 
500. At a meeting the following week 
additional subscriptions increased the 
capital stock outstanding to more than 
$25,000. 

The Whiteside Service Company is 
expected to be in operation shortly after 
April 1. 


Urge Uniform Banking Laws 


Uniform banking laws for all the 

states were recommended by many 
prominent bankers who appeared re- 
cently before the sub-committee of the 
Senate Banking and Currency Commit- 
tee. 
Melvin C. Traylor of Chicago stated 
that he would like to see a uniform law 
developed with minimum capitalization 
as one of its features. He opposed the 
idea of all banks belonging to a nationa! 
system and considered it unnecessary 
for all banks to belong to the federal 
reserve system. Mr. Traylor would per- 
mit branch banking within the state, 
but for the first five years would limit 
it to the county. 


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March, 1931 THE I. A. A. RECORD Page Thirteen 


The Farmers Union Live Stock Com- 
mission Company of South St. Paul, 
Minn., was recently admitted to mem- 
bership in the National Live Stock 
Marketing Association. St. Paul is the 
last of the large markets to be served 
by a member of the national co-opera- 
tive. 

In 1930 the St. Paul co-operative 
handled more than 8,300 carloads of 
live stock. 


Illinois shipping association managers 
who increased their business to the In- 
dianapolis Producers during the year 
1930 over 1929 are: Carl Smith, 
Champaign; Frank Kettering, Danville; 
L. R. Rardin, Rardin; C. M. Weller, 
Tuscola; W. Lester Ramp, Newman; 
Orville Wood, Isabel; Ivan Clouse, 
Chrisman; Albert Libkie, West Salem; 
Henry Volle, Mt. Pulaski; Fred M. 
Stoll, Beason; W. E. Leischner, Deland; 
William Fulk, Decatur and Cerro 
Gordo; D. H. King, Olney; H. H. 
Richards, Parkersburg; F. H. Galster, 
Tower Hill. 


Fred Gumm,-manager of the Paris, 


Illinois, Shipping Association led all - 


others again for the year 1930 with a 
total of 140 cars consigned to the In- 
dianapolis Producers. W. J. Richey, 
Palestine, was second with 84 cars and 
Carl Smith ofthe Champaign County 
Live Stock Marketing Association third 
with 80 cars; C. M. Weller, Tuscola, 
fourth with 76 cars; W. H. Honnold, 
Kansas, fifth with 71 cars; Charles 
Ekiss, Bethany, sixth with 68 cars, and 
E. C. Cavins, Charleston, seventh with 
67 cars. 


Bill Kurtz, rounding out cight years 
as manager of the Tabor Shipping As- 
sociation in Dewitt county, reports that 
he has handled over a million dollars 
worth of live stock during that time. 
In 193@ he shipped 62 cars to the In- 
dianapolis Producers and 3 cars of lambs 
to Chicago. The membership, now 220, 
nearly doubled during the period. Be- 
fore Kurtz became manager, the asso- 
ciation never shipped over 23 cars, but 
shipments since have ranged from 56 
to 74 cars per year. He keeps a close 
check on the stock fed by his members 
and makes it a point to get in touch 
with them several weeks before they 
are ready to ship. 


Farm price levels in mid-January 
were the lowest since January, 
1912, 


Oil Company Returns 


The Marshall-Putnam Oil Company, 
state, closed its most successful year 
on August 31 with 1,528 customers. 
In addition to the payment of 8 per 
cent on preferred stock, the board of 
directors declared the regular 8 per cent 
annual patronage dividend and two spe- 
cial refunds of 6 per cent each to be 
paid at some future date. The 851 
Farm Bureau members who have pa- 
tronized the company during the past 
fiscal year will receive $26,978.70. This 
amount, together with the regular pa- 
tronage refunds declared annually since 
the organization was established four 
years ago makes a total of $58,812.68 
returned in cash to Farm Bureau pa- 
trons. 


The McDonough Service Company, 
after a few months’ operation, has de- 
clared an 8 per cent refund. Some 425 
Farm Bureau members will share in this 
distribution of earnings. 

Ninety-five per cent of the paid up 
Farm Bureau members in Tazewell 
County patronized their own local ser- 
vice company during the first eight 
months of operation. Approximately 
one thousand Farm Bureau members 
will share in the 8 per cent patronage 
refund declared, payable at once, and 
the 8 per cent special refund which 
will be payable at a later date. 


McLean County Service Company, 
one of the charter members of Illinois 
Farm Supply Company, closed a most 
successful year November 30. This 
organization has 2,700 patrons, 1,588 
of which are Farm Bureau members 
who participated in the distribution of 
$62,000.00. In addition to the regular 
10 per cent annual patronage refund 
another 10 per cent was declared on a 
patronage basis. Four hundred twenty- 
four Farm Bureau members received 
more than $50 each, 95 more than 
$100 each, 12 more than $200 each, 
and two over $300 each. 


The Menard County Farmers Supply 
Company and the Morgan Farmers Oil 
Company each declared a 5 per cent 
patronage refund to all Farm Bureau 
members recently. The Montgomery 
County Farmers Oil Company paid 
§ per cent patronage refund on six 
months’ business, ending August 31. 


Ill. Agr. Mutual Ins. Co. 

I hereby acknowledge receipt .of your 
check for $17.60 covering accidental col- 
lision occurring December 19, 1930. 

May I say that your prompt and cour- 
teous attention to the matter in hand 
has completely sold me on Farm Bureau 


insurance. 
Clara L. Daily, 
Wayne County, III. 
Accident notice received Dec. 23, 1930. 
Check sent out Dec. 29, 1930. 


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Hunting and Fishing 


Measure Fails to Carzy 


Closed seasons on all game in Illinois 
will have to be established unless the 
1931 session of the general assembly 
submits to the people a constructive 
program for sanctuaries and breeding 
grounds and the people approve such a 
program at the 1932 election, C. F. 
Mansfield, secretary of the Uniform 
Conservation Laws Commission, pre- 
dicted in a recent statement. 

“The greatly reduced supply of all 
kinds of game in Illinois,” Mansficld 
said, “cannot much longer withstand 
the inroads of hawks, owls and other 
predatory birds and animals, as_ well 
as the kill by the ever-increasing a:my 
of hunters unless a definite program is 
adopted for the establishment of clozed 
sanctuaries in every county, such as 
was planned under the bond issuz sub- 
mitted to the voters at the last elec- 
tion,” he said. 

“The fact that the total vote on 
this proposition was 150,000 greater 
than on any other of the eight propo- 
sitions submitted to the people at the 
November election shows the trem-n- 
dous interest in conservation that is be- 
ing awakened in Illinois today. While 
this question received a majority of the 
votes cast upon it, it failed to receive 
a majority of the votes cast for mem- 
bers of the legislature.” 


Knox County Annual 
Passes Resolutions 


Resolutions passed at the recent an- 
nual meeting of the Knox County Farm 
Bureau (1,360 members). 

1. Pledged co-operation and sup ot 
to the I. A. A. and A. F. B. F. 
in their efforts to improve the 
economic position of farmers; 

2. Approved of the Marketing Act, 
and the Farm Board ‘‘for their 
efforts to build securely on a firm 
foundation and accomplish som:- 
thing of lasting value to agricu!- 
ture’; 

3. Approved of the present district 
organization plan; suggested bet- 
ter co-ordination “which can 
only be done by the employment 
of a state organization director 
on full time’’; 

4. Favored: a fair and equitable tax- 
ing system through a state in- 
come tax; 

5. Opposed attitude of cities in Illi- 
nois asking for portion of gas 
tax for city improvements, com- 
mended editorial in Register-Mail. 


A little nonsense now .and then 
will undo the best of men, 


Red Top Exchange. 
Seeks More Members 


Manager Oelze Makes Known Plans 
for Great Service to Southern 
Illinois Farmers. 


Fiera pest campaign through- 
out the red top growing area of 
southern Illinois will be inaugurated 
within the near future, according to 
Manager E. J. Oelze, who made known 
his and the directors’ plans while con- 
ferring at the I. A. A. offices recently. 

‘It is our purpose,” said Mr. Oclze, 
“to bring the service of the red top 
seed co-operative to other growers in 
the territory. We have an unusual op- 
portunity before us. Within a com- 
paratively small territory embracing 
such counties as Cumberland, Jasper, 
Effingham, Fayette, Bond, Marion, Clay, 
Richland, Lawrence, Edwards, Wayne, 
Jefferson, Clinton, Washington, Frank- 
lin, Hamilton, White, Williamson and 
Crawford, approximately 90 per cent 
of the red top seed of the world is pro- 
duced. Through the Exchange we in- 
tend to organize the bargaining power 


of the growers in this area and mer-.. 


chandise their product in an orderly 
manner so that they will get all that 
the market affords. 


No False Promises 


“We are not going to promise any- 
thing impossible of accomplishment. 
We do not promise to fix prices, nor 
to sell for more than the market affords. 
We do propose to avoid market gluts 
and prevent wide fluctuations and un- 
necessary spreads in the price received 
by the producer and that paid by the 
consumer. I believe this can be done 
successfully by concentration of vol- 
ume through one large efficient co- 
operative organization such as ours. 


Over 2,000 Members 


“The fact that we now have more 
than 2,000 members and that we 
successfully merchandised some 30,000 
pounds of fancy red top seed last 
season at favorable prices, indicates 
that farmers of southern Illinois are 
backing this project. We have the 
support of the Federal Farm Board, the 
Intermediate Credit Bank of St. Louis, 
the Illinois Agricultural Association, 
and the County Farm Bureaus through- 
out the territory. I believe we have 
enough intelligence in our ranks to per- 
form a satisfactory money-saving ser- 
vice, and we appeal to the red top 
growers not yet affiliated with us to 
come in and help realize on the oppor- 
tunities made possible through organi- 
zation.” 

The Egyptian Seed Growers’ Ex- 
change is now -having its accounts 


audited regularly by the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Co-Operatives’ Association of 


Chicago. A policy has been adopted of. 


keeping the members informed at all 
times about the condition of the or- 
ganization, financially and otherwise. 
The Seed Growers’ Exchange has an 
authorized capital stock of $250,000, 
$25 par value. 
New Plant 


The co-operative recently erected a 
modern 60x90 ft. steel and concrete 
warehouse containing strictly up-to- 
date offices and directors’ room. The 
old warehouse, which contains the seed 
cleaning equipment, will be used by the 
feed grinding and mixing department 
of the Egyptian Service Company, for 
which the latter will pay rent to the 
Exchange. 

The new services all of which will 

e under the management of Mr. Oelze, 
are expected to have a favorable influ- 
ence on the future of the Seed Ex- 
change. 


N. Y. College Advises 
Audits for Co-Ops. 


FyIHE charge made for auditing a 


firm’s books may seem high, but so 
is insurance, says F. A. Harper of the 


New York state college of agriculture 


in warning officers of farm co-opera- 
tives of the dangers that may come 
from lack of an audit. Too often the 
audit is done by an auditing committee 
of members who are likely to be in- 
capable of auditing, and it is little more 
than signing the, manager’s report, he 
says. 

“Auditing is necessary to local asso- 
ciations as a protection against dishon- 
esty or carelessness. Carelessness is the 


-most subtle and dangerous of the two 


and probably causes far more loss to co- 
operatives than downright dishonesty— 
but that makes the loss no less costly. 
The audit serves to protect the mem- 
bers against dishonest management or 
officials and serves also to protect hon- 
est management and_ officials against 
suspicions of dishonesty. Both members 
and officials are served. 

“A competent auditor does more 
than make an annual statement. He 
can advise as to improving accounting 
methods, the financial position, the 
credit policy, and point out weakness 
in the operation of the co-operative.” 

The Illinois Agricultural Co-Opera- 
tives Ass’n. specializes in auditing ac- 
counts for co-operative associations on 
an “at cost” basis. If your local co- 
operative doesn’t have a competent 
audit regularly find out why. The I. 
A. C. A. service safeguards the invest- 
ménts of farmer stockholders in its 
member co-ops. 


Page Fourteen THE I. A. A. RECORD March, 1931 


Secy. Hyde’s Annual 


Report Is Delivered, 


Urges Land Utilization Policy Be 
Adopted and Production 
Adjustment. 


PRORECTION adjustments and ‘a 
more rapid development of a na- 
tional land utilization policy are two 
remedies for the agricultural depression, 
Secretary Hyde declared in his annual 
report to President Hoover. Secretary 
Hyde also urged the necessity of or- 
ganizing agriculture into effective co- 


operative groups for collective action, © 


of changing the present tax system to 
lighten the farmers’ tax burden, and 
of improving rural credit conditions. 


Income Down 


Gross farm income for 1930 will 
probably be about $9,950,000,000, or 
16 per cent less than for 1929, Secre- 
tary Hyde reported. After noting the 
reduced world demand for farm prod- 
ucts, he emphasized the importance of 
production adjustments as one factor 
in improving the relationship of the 
agricultural industry as a whole with 
its market opportunities. 

He advocates acreage. reduction, 
states that dumping of surpluses abroad 
is not feasible, that the _ indefinite 
storing of surpluses tends to prevent, 
rather than to cause, a rise of prices, 
that tariff duties are not effective on 
commodities produced largely for ex- 
port, and that subsidies would increase 
rather than restrain production. 


Cut High Cost Acres 


He declares it does not follow be- 
cause some farmers can produce at a 
lower cost than others, that the low 
cost farmers should do nothing to pre- 
vent overproduction. Wise acreage ad- 
justments, he added, can help to de- 
crease the unit cost as well as the vol- 
ume of production. He suggests the 
elimination of higher cost acres, and 
the concentration of remaining produc- 
tion on the more productive land. 


“Commercial racketeering” was the 
term applied by Governor Christianson 
of Minnesota to the practice which he 
said was disclosed “in an unguarded 
moment” by a representative of the 
chain stores, of offering standard, trade- 
marked merchandise at cost or less, and 
recouping losses by marking up other 
lines. 

The concentration of ownership and 
control of business, “unprecedented in 
the history of the world,” bodes no 
good to the country, he said. 


A lot of good times are ruined by 
excessive anticipation. 


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PMT re ORE eee 


March 


A. A. RECORD Page Fifteen 


For Their Sake— 


eep Your Life Insurance in Force 


COUNTRY LIFE INSURANCE CO. 
608 So. Dearborn St. Chicago 


Page Sixteen 


42 Commission Companies 


Suspended at E. St. Louis 


Forty-two commission companies, 
located at St. Louis National Stock 
Yards, Ill., were “suspended from reg- 
istration” February 25 by order of C. 
F. Marvin, acting Secretary of Agri- 
culture, as a result of evidence show- 
ing violation of the packers and stock- 
yards act which the U. S. Department 
of Agriculture administers. 


A hearing resulted in testimony that 
the commission companies, in question, 
refused to sell or buy live stock or have 
any business relations with two other 
market organizations. The suspension 
becomes effective March 16 and con- 
tinues for a period of 90 days, except 
that the Secretary of Agriculture may 
modify or set aside the provisions of 
the order if the suspended firms cease 
the discriminatory practices. 


The decision of the acting secretary, 
based on voluminous testimony, stated 
in part, “The evidence in this case 
clearly discloses a general widespread 
attempt to deny the advantages of an 
Gpen competitive market to an agent 
for the farmer or shipper and to an 
order buying company as agent for 
various members of the packing indus- 
try. This is a grave injustice to their 
principals. The record discloses 
nothing to excuse the conduct and ac- 
tions of the respondents toward the 
National Order Buying Company and 
the Producers Live Stock Commission 
Association, legally registered and with 
the legal right to operate at the stock 
yards. The establishment of an open 
competitive market is one of the prime 
essentials which the packers and stock 
yards act of 1921 was designed to ac- 
complish and perpetuate.” 


In the course of the hearing, during 
which more than 2,800 pages of testi- 
mony were taken, the evidence dealt 
with the various ramifications of live 
stock marketing including the provi- 
sions of the agricultural marketing act 
which is administered by the Federal 
Farm Board. Referring to objections on 
the part of the old-line commission 
firms to Farm Board policies, the deci- 
sion stated, “However much objection 
the respondents or any of them may 
have to the agricultural marketing act 
or the policies of the Federal Farm 
Board, the same cannot constitute any 
excuse or justification to a boycott or 
unjust discrimination or unfair practice 
under the packers and stock yards act.” 


The Mid-West Grain Corporation 
handled 135 carloads of grain, or 
more than 200,000 bu. in the week 
ending Feb. 28. 


THE I. A. A. RECORD. 


Soybean Ass’n. Officers 


The following officers were recently 
elected by the new board of directors 
of the Soybean Marketing Association: 
John W. Armstrong, president; Dwight 
Hart, vice-president; W. G. McCor- 
mick, secretary; R. A. Cowles, treas- 
urer; J. H. Lloyd, assistant secretary. 

The Board named the following 
members as its Executive Committee: 
John W. Armstrong, Dwight Hart, 
W. G. McCormick, Samuel Sorrells, 
W. J. Sandusky. 


Chicago Producers 
Do Big Business 


During 1930 the Chicago Producers 
handled about $30,000,000 worth of 
live stock, 60 per cent of which came 
from Illinois farmers. 

The National Live Stock Marketing 
Association last year handled approxi- 
mately $175,000,000 worth of live 
stock. 


Dixon-Kewanee High 
Line Case Is Settled 


Rates. of compensation to farmers for 


land traversed by the Dixon-Kewanee 


high line of the Super Power Com- 
pany were agreed upon at a~confer- 
ence between officials of the [Illinois 
Agricultural Association, the utility 
company, and the Farm Bureau land 
owners committee, held in the I. A. A. 
offices on March 6. 

Twenty-five farms in Lee ind White- 
side counties were affected by the 
settlement. This case has been in con- 
troversy more than a year. Both the 
interests of the utilities and the land 
owners were served by settling out of 
court. 


Vermilion Service Co. 


Six thousand dollars have been sub- 
scribed by Vermilion County Farm 
Bureau members for a co-operative oil 
company. The new organization will 
be known as the Vermilion County 
Service Company. When $20,000 is 
raised, the company will buy equip- 
ment and start operating. 


Crawford-Jasper Shipping Associa- 
tion (Joe Brown, manager) held its 
annual meeting at Oblong February 26. 
Manager Scott Meiks of Indianapolis 
and Ray Miller of the I. A. A. were 
the speakers. 


Uncle Ab says there is one hard- 
working committee from which 
every member should resign—and 
that’s the Rumor Committee. 


March, 1931 


B. F. Beach of Michigan 


Speaker Peoria Meeting 


Fue milk producers can, if they 
work together within any market- 
ing area, exercise more control over 


their marketing than almost any other - 


group of farmers, B. F. Beach. mana- 
ger of the Michigan Milk Producers 
Association, told members of the Illi- 
nois Milk Producers at their recent an- 
nual meeting in Peoria. 

Mr. Beach stated that the Jepressed 
automobile industry in southeastern 
Michigan resulted in a decline of 25 
per cent in local milk consumption in 
and about Detroit. At Flint the mar- 
ket suffered a 50-per cent decrease in 
milk consumption. 

He believes that the base and sur- 
plus plan of milk prices is the best yet 
devised for controlled production and 
seasonal surpluses. The educational 
value of the plan is important because 
every member knows that his average 
price per 100 pounds declines when he 
increases production where there al- 
ready is a surplus, he said. 

Beach expressed the view that lack 
of consumer buying power is the prin- 
cipal reason for low farm prices. The 
Michigan Milk Producers has been op- 
erating about 15 years. The speaker 
stated that the Association has over- 
come a condition in which farmers 
formerly underbid each other in the 
market and_ reaped lower prices. 
“Through organized effort they are 
now working together using their bar- 
gaining power to obtain a fair price,” 


he said. 


$110,000,000 Loaned 
On Farm Crops 


The 12 federal intermediate credit 
banks during 1930 loaned approximate- 
ly $110,000,000 to farm commodity 
marketing associations. The law speci- 
fies that not more than 75 per cent of 
the value of the products in storage 
can be loaned. 

The intermediate credit banks are 
further protected by the privilege of 
calling for a reduction of their loans 
should the market price reach the level 
where the loan exceeds 75 per cent of 
the value of the crop in storage. 


Edgar county, Illinois, led all others 
in consignments to the Producers dur- 
ing February. A total of 24 cars re- 
ceived represented an increase of eight 
cars over February a year ago. 

Vermilion county was the next larg- 
est consignor with a total of 20 cars, 
representing an increase of 15 cars over 
February, 1930. Other counties show- 
ing increases were Effingham and Iro- 
quois. 


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March, 1931 _. THE I. A. A. RECORD Page Seventeen 
March, 1931 EE EE 


“Organize to Get What 
You Want,” Says Grimes 


Tells Story of Co-Operation Among 
Independent Grocers 


HAIN organizations which mobil- 

ized the buying power of millions 
of people have changed the farmers’ 
market from a seller’s to a buyer’s mar- 
ket, J. Frank Grimes, Chicago, presi- 
dent of the Independent Grocers’ Alli- 
ance of America, said in addressing the 
annual meeting of the I. A. A. at 
Springfield, Friday morning, January 
30. Mr. Grimes spoke before a ca- 
pacity audience of close to 1,000 people 
in the Majestic Theatre. 

“The unorganized group is an easy 
victim to organized business,” he said. 
“The only way the farmer or the small 
business man can meet modern condi- 
tions is through powerful organization. 
Through organization alone you can 
demand and get a fair price for your 
products.” 

Mr. Grimes pointed out that the 
large chain organizations are constantly 
hammering down prices and wages. “I 
wonder if it is a coincidence,” he said, 
“that the agricultural depression with 
low farm prices came simultaneously 
with the growth of chain stores. Profit 
in the rural community is necessary if 
it is to grow, and profit is being taken 
from rural communities to the big 
cities through chain organizations, Our 
organization,” he continued, “has 
adopted a policy of co-operating with 
producers’ organizations. 

Less Food Consumed 

Mr. Grimes spoke of the changing 
trends in food consumption, called at- 
tention to the fact that many luxuries 
such as automobiles, radios, as well as 
college educations for children com- 
pete with food in the family budget. 
He stated that the housewife of today 
is the cleverest shopper the world has 
ever seen, that women save on the food 
bill that they may have more money to 
spend for other things. He presented 
figures showing that average consump- 
tion of fond is declining because of the 
slim furs fad followed by many 
wom:r, the desire aroused for luxuries 
through advertising, less food required 
by workers because machinery is doing 
much of the heavy work formerly done 
by men. 

“One chain organization boasted 
that it saved $350,000,000 to consum- 
ers in one year,” he said. “But at the 
same time it took $350,000,000 from 
the income of the producer and $300,- 
000,000 more from employees and 
workers by constantly pounding down 
prices to the grower and wages to the 
employee. 


I.A.A. SHIELD AT URBANA 


Karl Adams of Moweaqua, Shelby 
county, was the high man on the IIli- 
nois livestock judging team in the last 
college judging contest at the Interna- 
tional Livestock Exposition, Chicago. 

Adams will have his name inscribed 
on the shield donated by the Illinois 
Agricultural Association which hangs 
in the New Agricultural building in 
Urbana. 

Twenty-three teams competed in the 
contest. Illinois placed 10th. The name 
of the high man on each Illinois team 
will be placed on the shield annually. 


“Farmers need a powerful organiza- 
tion to advertise their efficiency, to 
demand for the grower a fair share of 
the national income. You can get any- 
thing you want,” he continued, “if you 
organize right to get it. 

“Probably the greatest difficulty that 
confronts independent business, and co- 
operation among farmers’ local business 
associations, is the peculiar individual- 
istic ideas and ideals that have devel- 
oped around the individual business,” 
he said. ‘Men who own their own 
small business somehow seem to inher- 
ently resent taking suggestions and fol- 
lowing the example of anyone else. 
How often we hear the statement made 
by an individual: ‘I own my own busi- 
ness and I am going to run it to: suit 
myself. If I go broke it’s nobody’s 
business but my own.’ And it is be- 
cause of these impractical and peculiar 
ideas that the independent businesses of 
this country have failed to use the 
enormous power that lies within their 
very grasp. 

Not Good Business 

“Jt is only within ‘the last four or 
five years that definite steps have been 
taken toward harnessing this power and 
combining together great numbers of 
individuals to do things that could not 


possibly be done by the individual 
working alone. The agitation looking 
to. the organization of independents. in 
business is at last beginning to have its 
affect. Men are beginning to see that 
it is not good business to be so inde- 
pendent in their own thought that they 
refuse to co-operate with their fellow 
men and go down into bankruptcy and 
oblivion as far as their business is con- 
cerned. They are now beginning to 
learn that it is far better to co-operate 
with others within their industry. there- 
by harnessing its power, bringing to 
themselves greater advantages, perpetu- 
ating their own business, and produc- 
ing greater net profit. 


“It is this unused power of the in- 
dependent in business that is at last be- 
ginning to awaken consciousness of the 
enormous possibility that lies within 
their hands if they will utilize it. 

“J am very happy to state that in 
the grocery business this awakening 
has taken on definite shape and at last 
the grocers of this country who have 
been considered the weakest type of in- 
dependent are now enjoying benefits 
and advantages equal or surpassing that 
of their great powerful competitors. 
They have awakened to what they can 
do when they play ball together. 


Had a Weakness 


“For years efforts were made to bring 
them together and harness this power. 
Associations were formed. Various buy- 
ing exchanges and advertising clubs 
came into being, all of which had one 
fundamental unsolvable weakness. They 
lacked directing organization powerful 
enough to draw to itself keen minds, 
the finest talent, best brains, and to 
evolve a program complete in every de- 
tail that would match or excel that 
of the strongest competition. 

“In the grocery business disaster 
seemed to be overtaking the independ- 
ent. This new competition which 
puzzled the independent began to get 
stronger and stronger. Its growth was 
very rapid. Its success was staggering. 
The profits it made drew unlimited 
financial support. It expanded with 
great rapidity and completely over- 
whelmed the individual. It looked as 
though, as far as the grocery business 
was concerned, any fight the independ- 
ent put up would be hopeless and use- 
less. 

“About four and one-half years ago, 
after-much experimenting and after re- 
peated failure, there came into being 
what is now known as the Independent 
Grocers’ Alliance of America (I. G. 
A.). In the early experimental days 
the grave mistake was made of leaving 
to the individual retailer and whole- 
saler the complete execution of what- 
ever plans were formulated. 


Page Sixtee 


THE I, A. A. RECORD 


42 Commission Companies 


Suspended at E. St. Louis 


Forty-two commission companies, 
located at St. Louis National Stock 
Yards, Ill., were “suspended from reg- 
istration” February 25 by order of C. 
I’. Marvin, acting Secretary of Agri- 
culture, as a result of evidence show- 
ing violation of the packers and stock- 
vards act which the U. S. Department 
cf Agriculture administers. 

A hearing resulted in testimony that 
the commission companies, in question, 
refused to sell or buy live stock or have 
envy business relations with two other 
market organizations. The suspension 
becomes effective March 16 aud con- 
tinues for a period of 90 days, except 
that the Secretary of Agriculture may 
modify or set aside the provisions of 
the order if the suspended firms cease 
the discriminatory practices. 

The decision of the acting seerctary, 
based on voluminous testimony, stated 
in part, “The evidence in’ this case 
clearly discloses a general widespread 
attempt to deny the advantages of an 
Gpen competitive market to an agent 
for the farmer or:shipper and to an 
order buying company as agent for 
various memibers of the packing indus- 
try. This is a grave injustice to their 
principals. The record discloses 
nothing to excuse the conduct and ac- 
tions of the respondents toward the 
National Order Buying Company and 
the Producers Live Stock Commission 
Association, legally registered and with 
the legal right to operate at the stock 
vards. The establishment of an open 
competitive market is one of the prime 
essentials which the packers and stock 
vards act of 1921 was designed to ac- 
complish and perpetuate.” 

In the course of the hearing, during 
which more than 2,800 pages of. testi- 
mony were taken, the evidence dealt 
with the various ramifications of live 
stock marketing including the provi- 
sions of the agricultural marketing act 
which is administered by the Federal 
Farm Board. Referring to objections on 
the part of the old-line commission 
firms to Farm Board policies, the deci- 
sion stated, “However much objection 
the respondents or any of them may 
have to the agricultural marketing act 
or the policies of the Federal. Farm 
Board, the same cannot constitute any 
excuse or justification to a boycott or 
unjust discrimination or unfair practice 
under the packers and stock yards act.” 


The Mid-West Grain Corporation 
handled 135 carloads of grain, or 
more than 200,000 bu. in the week 
ending Feb. 28. 


March, 193 


Soybean Ass’n. Officers 


The following ofhcers were recently 
clected by the new board of directors 
of the Soybean Marketing Association: 
John W. Armstrong, president; Dwight 
Hart, vice-president; W. G. McCor- 
mick, secretary; R. A. Cowles, treas- 
urer; J. H. Lloyd, assistant secretary. 

The Board named the following 
members as its Executive Committee: 
John W. Armstrong, Dwight Hart, 
W. G. McCormick, Samuzl Sorrells, 
W. J. Sandusky. 


Chicago Producers 
Do Big Business 


During 1930 the Chicago Producers 
handled about $30,000,000 worth of 
live stock, 60 per cent of which came 
from Illinois farmers. 

The National Live Stock Marketing 
Association last year handled approxi- 
mately $175,000,000 worth of live 


stock. 


Dixon-Kewanee High 
Line Case Is Settled 


Rates of compensation to farmers for 
land traversed by the Dixon-Kewance 
high line of the Super Power Com- 
pany were agreed upon at a confer- 
ence between ofhcials of the I[linois 
Agricultural Association, the utility 


company, and the Farm Bureau land — 


owners committee, held in the I. A. A. 
offices on March 6. 

Twenty-five farms in Lee ind White- 
side counties were affected by the 
settlement. This case has been in con- 
troversy more than a vear. Both the 
interests of the utilities and the land 
owners were served by settling out of 
court. 


Vermilion Service Co. 


Six thousand dollars have been sub- 
Six tl 1 doll f k 


scribed by Vermilion County Farm 
Bureau members for a co-operative oil 
company. The new organization wi!l 
e known as the Vermilion County 
Service Company. When $20,000 is 
raised, the company will buy cquip- 
ment and start operating. 


Crawford-Jasper Shipping Associa- 
tion (Joe Brown, manager) held _ its 
annual meeting at Oblong February 26. 
Manager Scott Meiks of Indianapolis 
arid Ray Miller of the I. A. A. were 


the speakers. 


Uncle Ab says there is one hard- 
working committee from which 
every member should resign—and 
that’s the Rumor Committee. 


B. F. Beach of Michigan 
Speaker Peoria Meeting 


LUID milk producers can, if they 

work together within any market- 
ing area, exercise more control over 
their marketing than almost any other 
group of farmers, B. F. Beach. mana- 
ger of the Michigan Milk Producers 
Association, told members of the IIli- 
nois Milk Producers at their recent an- 
nual meeting in Peoria. 

Mr. Beach stated that the Jepressed 
automobile industry in southeastern 
Michigan resulted in a decline of 25 
per cent in local milk consumption in 
and about Detroit. At Flint the mar- 
ket suffered a 50 per cent decrease in 
milk consumption. 

He believes that the base and sur- 
plus plan of milk prices is the best yet 
devised for controlled producticn and 
seasonal surpluses. The educational 
value of the plan is important because 
every member knows that his average 
price per 100 pounds declines when he 
increases production where there al- 
ready is a surplus, he said. 

Beach expressed the view that lack 
of consumer buying power is the prin- 
cipal reason for low farm’ prices. The 
Michigan Milk Producers has been op- 
crating about 15 years. The% speaker 
stated that the Association has over- 
come a condition in which farmers 
formerly underbid each other in the 
market and reaped lower prices. 
“Through organized effort they are 
now working together using their bar- 
gaining power to obtain a fair price,” 
he said. 


$110,000,000 Loaned 
On Farm Crops 


The 12 federal intermediate credit 
banks during 1930 loaned approximate- 
ly $110,000,000 to farm commodity 
marketing associations. The law speci- 
hes that not more than 75 per cent of 
the value of the products in storage 
can be loaned. 

The intermediate credit banks are 
further protected by the privilege of 
calling for a reduction of their loans 
should the market price reach the level 
where the loan exceeds 75 per cent of 
the value of the crop in storage. 


‘Edgar county, Illinois, led all others 
in consignments to the Producers dur- 
ing February. A total of 24 cars re- 
ceived represented an increase of eight 
cars over February a year ago. 

Vermilion county was the next larg- 
est consignor with a total of 20 cars, 
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“Organize to Get What 
You Want,” Says Grimes 


Tells Story of Co-Operation Among 
Independent Grocers 


*HAIN organizations which mobil- 
C ized the buying power of millions 
of people have changed the farmers’ 
market from.a seller’s to a buyer’s mar- 
ket, J. Frank Grimes, Chicago, presi- 
dent of the Independent Grocers’ Alli- 
ance of America, said in addressing the 
annual meeting of the I. A. A. at 
Springfield, Friday morning, January 
30. Mr. Grimes spoke before a ca- 
pacity audience of close to 1,000 people 
in the Majestic Theatre. 

“The unorganized group is an easy 
victim to organized business,” he said. 
“The only way the farmer or the small 
business man can meet modern condi- 
tions is through powerful organization. 
Through organization alone you can 
demand and get a fair ‘price for your 
products.” 

Mr. that the 
large chain organizations are constantly 


Grimes pointed out 
hammering down prices and wages. “I 
wonder if it is a coincidence,” he said, 
“that the agricultural depression with 
low farm prices came simultaneously 
with the growth of chain stores. Profit 
in the rural community is necessary if 
it is to grow, and profit is being taken 
rural communities to the big 
cities through chain organizations. Our 
“has 


adopted a policy of co-operating with 


from 


organization,” he continued, 
producers’ organizations. 
Less Food Consumed 

Mr. Grimes spoke of the changing 
trends in food consumption, called at- 
tention to the fact that many luxuries 
such as automobiles, radios, as well as 
college educations for children com- 
pete with food in the family budget. 
He stated that the housewife of today 
is the cleverest shopper the world has 
ever seen, that women save on the food 
bill that they may have more money to 
spend for other things. He presented 
figures showing that average consump- 
tion of ford is declining because of the 
slim furs fad followed by many 
wom:r, the desire aroused for luxuries 
thrasigh advertising, less food required 
by workers because machinery is doing 
much of the heavy work formerly done 
by men. 

“One chain organization — boasted 
that it saved $350,000,000 to consum- 
ers in one year,” he said. “But at the 
same time it took $350,000,000 from 
the income of the producer and $300,- 
000,000 employees and 
workers by constantly pounding down 
prices to the grower and wages to the 
employee. 


more from 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


1A. A. SHIELD A'F 


URBANA 


Karl Adams of Moweaqua, Shelby 
county, was the high man on the Jlli- 
nois livestock judging team in the last 
college judging contest at the Interna- 
tional Livestock Exposition, Chicago. 

Adams will have his name inscribed 
on the shield’ donated by the Illinois 
Agricultural Association which hangs 
in the New Agricultural building in 
Urbana. 

Twenty-three teams competed in the 
contest. Illinois placed 10th. The name 
of the high man on each Illinois team 
will be placed on the shield annually. 


“Farmers need a powerful organiza- 
tion to advertise their efficiency, to 
demand for the grower a fair share of 
the national income. You can get any- 
thing you want,” he continued, “if you 
organize right to get it. 

“Probably the greatest difficulty that 
confronts independent business, and co- 
operation among farmers’ local business 
associations, is the peculiar individual- 
istic ideas and ideals that have devel- 
oped around the individual business,” 
he said. ‘Men who own their own 
small business somehow seem to inher- 
ently resent taking suggestions and fol- 
lowing the example of anyone else. 
How often we hear the statement made 
by an individual: ‘I own my own busi- 
ness and I am going to run it to suit 
myself. If I go broke it’s nobody’s 
business but my own.’ And it is be- 
cause of these impractical and peculiar 
ideas that the independent businesses of 
this country have failed to use the 
enormous power that lies within their 
very grasp. 

Not Good Business 


“It. is only within the last four or 
five years that definite steps have been 
taken toward harnessing this power and 
combining together great numbers of 
individuals to do things that could not 


.working alone. 


Page Seventeen 


done by the individual 
The agitation looking 
to the organization of independents in 
business is at last beginning to have its 
affect. Men are beginning to see that 
it is not good business to be so inde- 
pendent in their own thought that they 
refuse to co-operate with their fellow 
men and go down into bankruptcy and 
oblivion as far as their business is con- 
cerned. They are now beginning to 
learn that it is far better to co-operate 
with others within their industry there- 
by harnessing its power, bringing to 
themselves greater advantages, perpetu- 
ating their own business, and produc- 


possibly be 


ing greater net profit. 

“Tt is this unused power of the in- 
dependent in business that is at last be- 
ginning to awaken consciousness of the 
enormous possibility that lies within 
their hands if they will utilize it. 

“IT am very happy to state that in 
the grocery business this awakening 
has taken on definite shape and at last 
the grocers of this country who. have 
been considered the weakest type of in- 
dependent are now enjoying benefits 
and advantages equal or surpassing that 
of their great powerful competitors. 
They have awakened to what they can 
do when they play ball together. 

Had a Weakness 

“For years efforts were made to bring 
them together and harness this power. 
Associations were formed. Various buy- 
ing exchanges and clubs 
came into being, all of which had one 
fundamental unsolvable weakness. They 
lacked directing organization powerful 
enough to draw to itself keen minds, 
the finest talent, best brains, and_ to 
evolve a program complete in every de- 


advertising 


tail that would match or excel that 
of the strongest competition. 
“In the grocery business disaster 


seemed to be overtaking the independ- 
ent. This 
puzzled the independent began to get 
stronger and stronger. 
very rapid. Its success was staggering. 
The profits it made drew 
financial support. It expanded with 
great rapidity and completely over- 
whelmed the individual. It looked as 
though, as far as the grocery business 
was concerned, any fight the independ- 
ent put up would be hopeless and use- 
less. 

“About four and one-half years ago, 
after-much experimenting and after re- 
peated failure, there came into being 
what is now known as the Independent 
Grocers’ ylliance of America (I. G. 
A.). In the early experimental days 
the grave mistake was made of leaving 
to the individual retailer and 
saler the complete execution of what 
ever plans were formulated. 


new competition which 
Its growth was 


unlimited 


whole- 


Page Eighteen THE I. A. A. RECORD March, 1931 


“In early days plans were presented 
but each individual member could co- 
operate to any degree he saw fit. Plans 
were placed before them and thorough- 
ly explained and co-operation urged. 
Some would—some 100 per cent—some 
50 per cent—some 25 per cent—some 
§ per cent—and some no per cent. It 
was soon found if any plan was to suc 
ceed it could only be done by having 
all members agree to followin every 
detail all the plans formulated by head- 
quarters organization—and failing to 
follow such plans they automatically 
excluded themselves from the benefits 
and could not remain a member. Once 
the idea was established of having a 
powerful headquarters organization 
which all would respect and whose 
plans would be put into effect 100 per 
cent, success became apparent immedi- 
ately. 

“By actually pooling their buying, in 
the truest sense of the word, they sud- 
denly found that from the point of 
buying they had equal advantage with 
their most powerful competitor. When 
it came to the identification of their 
stores and the type of store that would 
meet with public favor, they discovered 
that by having complete identification 
on a uniform basis throughout the 
country—both inside and outside the 
store—they immediately began to se- 
cure advantages and benefits equal to 
that of their strongest competitor in 
this respect. People began to say: 

““Why, Frank Smith must have 
great buying power—I see stores like 
his everywhere.’ 

Advertising Helps 

“Soon powerful advertising was en- 
gaged in. No single individual retailer 
could possibly hope to present his case 
to the public in a strong enough man- 
ner with constant continuance that 
would eventually work its ‘way into 
the consciousness of the people, but 
banded together it was possible with 
small income from each one to begin 
that powerful advertising which today 
stands as a miracle in our modern mer- 
chandising. Further, because of this co- 
operation of thousands of independent 
merchants funds are available in such 
amounts that full page advertising in 
national magazines is now being en- 
gaged in to top off the complete ad- 
vertising program. 

“This organization has grown until 
last year sales of independent retailers 
in the I. G. A. exceeded five hundred 
million dollars. It is operating in 37 
states with thousands of retailers fol- 
lowing most carefully all the plans 
worked out for their benefit. Increase 
in membership is growing at a rate 
that is hard to believe. 

“Advertising is conducted in over 
350 newspapers weekly. Every mem- 


ber mails out a miniature newspaper 
containing specials, new ideas on foods 
for the family’s muse and household 
hints, recipes, and other matters of 
interest to the consumers—and the cir- 
culation of this medium, which is is- 
sued twice a month, is approximately 
two and one-half million copies per 
issue. 


Uniform Sales Methods 

“Window display experts are engaged 
at headquarters to work out displays. 
These are photographed, reproduced 
and sent to every member, and, win- 
dows are changed every week: “Many 
have marveled that in a small store they 
could engage such expert window trim- 
ming service, but it is easy when great 
numbers are co-operating together. 
Posters, price tags, and every conceiv- 
able device that is necessary for the 
store in present-day .merchandising, are 
furnished.” . 

In closing, Mr.. Grimes told his au- 
dience that farmers’ local co-operative 
marketing enterprises were comparable 
to the local independent grocers’; that 
their hope for gaining control of their 
products lay in merging their resources 
and strength through larger centralized 
organizations which could do for them 
what they never could do working 
alone. 


Life— a < 


By L. A. “Larry” Williams 
Women in Life Insurance 
M®*®: MIES of Livingston county, 

president of the Illinois Home 
Bureau Federation, read a very interest- 
ing resolution at the annual meeting 
which has caused me to give some 
thought to the subject of life insurance 
for women. Although our agents have 
never solicited farmers’ wives particu- 
larly, their selling nevertheless has been 
consistent so far as that sex is con- 
cerned. 


On the farm a wife is really a part- 
ner with her husband in the farming 
business. It, therefore, should be con- 
sidered as a partnership affair. Partner- 
ships usually protect each other. In the 
event of the death of one partner, the 
other is left the insurance to help main- 
tain the business or to clear up the 
estate without too great a loss. 


I have always maintained that the 
man should carry the greater proportion 
of insurance on his own life. I feel 
that it would be more difficult for the 
woman to get along after the death of 
the husband than it would be for the 
man to get along after the death of the 
wife even though there be children. 


This, however, :s not exactly true in 
farming. There is a greater need of the 


farm wife to protect the interests-of — 


her family with insurance than there is 
for the city wife. The standard of 
living in many farm homes is notice- 
ably lowered upon the death of the 
wife and mother. Proper care and 
schooling require funds. Many of the 
finer things in life are overlooked be- 


-cause of the need for money and it is 


reasonable to assume that the plans of 
a mother for her children will at her 
death have to give way to the more 
important plans of making the farm 
go even to the sacrifice of proper edu- 
cation. 


A woman may take a policy and spe- 
cify in that contract that in the event 
of her death so much a month shall be 
paid to her children for the purpose of 
education. By this method she can‘ see 
to it, even after her death, that some 
of her dreams and hopes are realized. 
A portion of her insurance may be 
made payable to her husband. The 
proper insurance program will give her 
a greater feeling of satisfaction as well 
as a greater confidence in the partner- 
ship which is too frequently a real part- 
nership so far as work is concerned but 
not when the cash returns come in. 
On many farms, however, the woman 
spends the greater share of the money; 
she is the shopper, the planner, and the 
budget maker. 


I am grateful indeed to the women 
of the past convention for their reso- 
lution and I am hoping that Home 
Bureaus will work -with the General 


Agents in trying to bring about a more. 


successful distribution of information 
on the matter of life insurance. I am 
suggesting to General Agents that they 
set aside two weeks or a month out of 
the year for the purpose of. specifically 
bringing the advantages of life in- 
surance before women. It is my further 
suggestion that they appoint sub-agents 
for that two weeks’ period during which 
every policy written will bring a com- 
mission to the Home Bureau. Also that 
these women agents solicit only women 
and children, and that the General 
Agent and all regular agents co-operate 
during that two weeks’ period to make 
possible the greatest success. 


Illinois Agricultural Mutual Ins. Co. 

“Your check for $66.48 in re my claim re- 
ceived January 11 and I am acknowledging 
same in the spirit of a satisfied policyholder 
and happy in the knowledge that the truth pre- 
vailed regardless of the strange attitude of the 
bus driver. Strange to relate that we never 
carried any insurance on cars owned by us pre- 
viously and never had an accident of account. 
However, I will be doubly cautious in future 
and hereby tender my thanks for your business- 
like and courteous treatment.” 

M. A. Neumeyer, Edinburg, Texas. 


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The farmer employer. is subject to the common law rule of liability for 
injuries to his employees. 


Are You Protected Against 


Farm 


| HE National Safety Council reports that farm acci- 
dents are more numerous than factory and industrial acci- 
dents for the number of men employed.. 


A team may run away ... fly wheels, belts, and mov- 
ing parts catch clothing, injure and maim fingers and 
limbs . . . a fall may break an arm or leg .. . nails, pitch- 
fork, and other sharp instruments may lead to blood poi- 
soning and lockjaw. Would you be protected against 


liability if one of your men were so injured? 


Following are a few of the accidents reported by Farm 
Bureau members who have taken advantage of [Illinois 
Agricultural Mutual low cost employers’ liability insurance: 


MAR.-PUT. CO.—Hired man slipped on wagon wheel 
and fell on edge of wagon box injur- 
ing side. 

—Fork slipped out of bale of straw, em- 
loyee fell through hole in mow, dis- 
locating collar bone. 


RICHLAND CO.—Employee’s hand cavght between two 
heavy timbers on a, truck. 


HENRY CO. 


DE WITT CO. —Hired man caught finger between belt 
and pulley on gas engine, seriously 
injuring hand. 

McLEAN CO. :—Team of mules ran away, seriously in- 


juring hired man. 


FULTON CO. —Employee cranking truck—result, bro- 
ken right arm. 


Other injuries reported resulted from: Kick by horse, 
ladder falling, sudden starting of team, wagon running 
over feet, starting pump engine, key press flew out while 


Labor Accidents? 


starting combine, ensilage cutter injured hand, 14 foot fall 
from hay mow, fingers caught in gears, etc. 


Ewetoyers’ liability insurance also covers accidents 
to employees in threshing rings, corn shelling, hay baling, 
and other group: operations on the farm. The policy pro- 
vides insurance up to $5,000 for one person, and $10,000 
for any one accident, pays court costs, lawyers’ fees, hos- 
pital bills, medical attention, etc. 


Since the Company started, cost has averaged only $8.54 
a year for one employee. ‘The service is limited to Farm 
Bureau members. 

Mail the coupon and get our latest circular giving full 


information. 


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INSURANCE COMPANY 


608 SO. DEARBORN ST. 
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inois Agri- 


Volume 9 


Legislation—57th General Assembly 


A Review of Bills Your Organization Is Supporting at Springfield 


AX revision based on 

ability to pay, clarifica- 
tion ‘and improvement of 
our state co-operative laws, 
needed amendments to the 
motor vehicle act, and a 
series of minor bills to cor- 
rect injustices or aid the 
farmer in one way or an- 
other comprise the legisla- 
tion sponsored or supported 
by the Illinois Agricultural 
Association in the 57th 
General Assembly of Illinois. 

The bill of outstanding 
importance to Illinois farm- 
ers and property owners is 
Senate bill 138 (Lantz) 
which provides for a state 
income tax. The companion 
bills, 164-170 inclusive, and 
S. B. 200 provide for the 
administration of the in- 
come tax and for using the 
revenue so derived to replace state 
taxes now levied on property. 

The state income tax bill imposes a 
tax upon the net income of all residents 
of the state including fiduciaries for 
persons or estates, also income of non- 
residents derived from sources within 
Illinois. 


College. 


Only Personal Incomes 

The bill does not apply to corpora- 
tions or partnerships as such, the in- 
come from which is taxed only after it 
reaches the individual. 

All ordinary business expenses includ- 
ing general taxes on property may be 
deducted from gross income in comput- 
ing the amount of net income. No per- 
sonal or living expenses are deductible. 

Personal exemptions are as follows: 
$1,000 for each single person, $2,000 
for each married couple or head of a 
family, and $500 for each child under 


18 years of age or other dependent per- 
son. 


come of the taxpayer. 
‘income, the balance must be paid out of capital. 
way we kill the goose that lays the golden egg of future 
In a word, ‘we dry up the source of 
future income,’ to use the well "known statement of Adam 
Smith written in 1776.” 


tax paying ability. 


Killing the Goose 


BOUT three-fourths of all net income produced or re- 
ceived in Illinois is now derived from personal indus- 
try, which is wholly exempt from taxation under the pres- 
ent taxing system. 
Only about one-fourth of all net income is derived from 
the ownership of property, which is still compelled to 
assume the entire burden of genera! property taxes. 

The burden on real estate and easily visible personal 
property is made much heavier by the almost complete 
evasion of taxes by all intangible property except bank stock. of 

The situation is gradually growing worse because of the 
increasing percentage of net income derived from personal 
industry and tax-evading property. 

The only way to reach with direct taxes the majority of 
our population which is now virtually exempt therefrom is 
through an income tax. 

“Every legitimate tax is either directly or indirectly a 
tax on income,? says Prof. John E, Brindley of Iowa State of 
“By this we mean that it is paid out of the in- 
When the tax is greater than the 


The moderate tax rates after deduc- 
tions and personal exemptions are ap- 
plied on net income as follows: 

1% of the first $2,000 of tax. 
2% of the next $3,000 of tax. 
ap of the next $5,000 of tax. 

% of the next $5,000 of tax. 
50% of the next $10,000 of tax. 

and 
6 per cent of all taxable income in ex- 
cess of $25,000. 

Examples are given on page 4 show- 
ing how personal exemptions are de- 
ducted from different amounts of net 
income and how the several tax rates 
are applied to different amounts of 
taxable net income in computing the 
amount of income tax in each case. 


Not an Additional Tax 


income, 
income, 
income, 
income, 
income, 


Taxes collected under this act will’ 


be paid into the General Revenue Fund 
of the state to replace the tax on prop- 
erty levied for all state purposes ex- 
cept for payment of interest and retire- 


ment of the principal of the 
Waterway Bonds and Sol- 
diers’ Compensation Bonds. 

The bill provides for ad- 
ministration by a Depart- 
ment of Income Taxation, 
co-ordinated with other de- 
partments under the Civil 
Administrative Code of the 
state; for the requirement 
information from em- 
ployers and others as to 
any taxable sums amount- 
ing to $700 or more paid 
to any individual in any 
taxable year; for exchange 
information with the 
Commissioner of Internal 
Revenue of the United 
States or administrative offi- 
cers of income taxes in oth- 
er states; for suit by the 
Attorney General for the 
collection of taxes; and for 
prosecution by the Attorney General 
for fraud. 

The bill provides that the act shall 
be in effect January 1, 1932, and that 
the first returns shall be made and taxes 
paid April 15, 1933, on net income re- 
ceived in the calendar year 1932 or in 
any fiscal year ending in 1932. Any 
taxpayer using a fiscal year is required 
to make returns and to pay taxes on 
the 15th of the fourth month follow- 
ing the close of his fiscal year. 


In this 


Companion Bills 


The companion bills accompanying 
Senate bill 138 are necessary to insure 
that the net proceeds of the income tax 
shall not be ‘just another tax” in addi- 
tion to present taxes on property, but 
shall be substituted for and reduce gen- _ 


eral property taxes for state purposes. 


This is accomplished by bills repeal- 
ing acts or portions of acts providing 
for the levy and collection of taxes on 


Page Four THE I. A. A. RECORD April, 1931 


Examples Showing the Operation of the State Income Tax 


I. Single person with no dependents. Exemptions and tax rates on three different amounts 
of net income are shown in the following table: 


Il. 


A B 
Wet: isicome (6 oe ss $1,000 $2,000 
POXOM PEON: speed 1,000 1,000 
Net taxable income.................... None $1,000 
taxable at— : 

1 per cent on first $2,000.............. None 
2 per cent on next $3,000.............. None None 
3 per cent on next $5,000.......... .... None None 
Total income tax.........0.20.2.2---- None $ 610 


Married couple with three children under 18 years or other dependents. Exemptions 
and tax rates on three different amounts of income are shown in the following table: 


C 
$10,000 
1,000 


$ 9,000 


$ 10(on$1,000)$ 20 
60 


120(on $4,000) 
$ 200 


F 
$50,000 
3,500 


$46,500 


$ 15(on$1,500)$ 20 
60 


D E 
Net income: iiss 0 se nk $3,000 $5,000 
Exemptions ($2,000 plus $1,500) $3,500 3,500 
Net taxable income.................... None $1,500 
taxable at— 

1 per cent of first $ 2,000............ None 
2 per cent of next $ 3,000............ None None 
3 per cent of next $ 5,000............ None None 
4 per cent of next $ 5,000............ None None 
} per cent of next $10,000............ None None 
6 per cent of all over $25,000...... None None 
Total income tax... None Nn bes 


150 
200 
500 
1,290 (on 21,500) 


$ 2,220 


NOTE: The above examples show the virtues of a system of taxation based upon ability to pay taxes. They also show 
that the proposed income tax bill with its moderate exemptions and tax rates imposes a very light burden upon taxpayers 
as. compared with the oppressive burden now imposed upon owners either of real estate or of any other property taxed 


on its value. 


property for the University of Illinois 
Fund (Senate Bill 164), for the State 
School Fund (165), and for the State 
Blind Fund (166); by amendments to 
other acts removing any references to 
the three funds named above and pro- 
viding that money appropriated for any 
of the special purposes named shall be 
payable out of the General Revenue 
Fund of the State (Nos. 166, 167, 168, 
200). 
Amends Code 


Senate Bill No. 170 amends the Civil 
Administrative Code, creating a De- 
partment of Income Taxation and the 
offices of Director and Assistant Di- 
rector for the administration of the 
Income Tax Act. 

The necessary delay in the first col- 
lection of income taxes until 1933 re- 
quires that the tax on property for the 
State General Revenue Fund be con- 
tinued for the year 1931 payable in the 


year 1932. This is done in Senate Bill 
No. 169. 


This bill also provides for the possi- 
bility that receipts from income taxes 
in 1933, together with revenue from 
sources other than property, may not be 
sufficient to pay all appropriations from 
the General Revenue Fund. For this 
reason the State Levying Board is given 
power and is directed to lexy a tax on 
property also for the year 1932, payable 
in 1933, sufficient to pay any difference 
between reasonably expected receipts 
therein and all appropriations therefrom. 


Produce $30,000,000 — 


It is believed that receipts from the 
income tax will make any levy on prop- 
erty needless, but it is necessary to give 
the State Levying Board authority to 
make it in order to’save the state from 
possible embarrassment. 

It is conservatively estimated that an 


income tax act with the provisions of 
Senate Bill No. 138 will produce at 
least $30,000,000 in any year, at least 
$40,000,000 in prosperous years, and 
possibly $50,000,000 in a highly pros- 
perous year. 

The Income Tax Bill and its com- 
panion bills cannot interfere in any way 


. with the amount of money appropri- 


ated by the state for the University of 
Illinois, the common schools, or blind 
relief, all of which are now provided for 
by special levies on property. Even 
now no special levies are available for 
the purposes for which they are col- 
lected unless they are appropriated 
therefor by the General Assembly. 
The income tax and its use as pro- 
posed in the companion bills, with reve- 
nues from other non-property sources, 
will probably supply all of the funds 
now collected from property taxes not 
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q Illinois property produces less than one-fourth of the total income of the entire 
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entire population but pays about 95 percent of all direct general taxes. 


q Intangible property owned by residents of Illinois produces at least nine percent of 
total net income of the entire population but pays less than five per cent of all direct 
general taxes. 


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least $12,000,000,000 in value, of which only a small amount is assessed. 


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population but pays no direct taxes. 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


April, 1931 


ILLINOIS 
A CULTURAL ASSOCIA 


RECORD 


To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organized, 
namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, political, 
and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation, 
and to develop agriculture. 


GEorGE THEM, Editor 


Main St., Spencer, Ind. St., Chicago, 
Tl. Appitoation for transfer of second class entry from Marshall, Tll., to 
Bpencer, Ind., pending. 


rovided in Section 412, Act of Feb, 28, 1925, authorized Oct, 1925. 
advess all coramunications for publication to Editorial Offices, Tlinois 
Agricultural Association Record, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, The in- 


OFFICERS 
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Vice-President, A. R. Wright....--......-.---------:------+--cseeeeeeeeeeceecenecennenenee a) Jarna 
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Treasurer, R. A, Cowles Bloomington 
BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
(By Congressional District) 

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DN Sag cacksasaaetansigsbnansvcencndctapstscttqeersenspeboutnag Charles Bates, Browning 
VOR eo ee ac Geo. B. Muller, Washington 
DFG a aes taedemmencntcnaten B. Schofield, Paxton 
DOB ice adc es cp cccscic ts ecateuattlip neue cecbsevesdabunthestesoyueeavestanmedy W. A. Dennis, Paris 
ei 5h ns cao sas sacsenck dahuavesteptiedgeteincenelanmuectaas C. J. Gross, Atwood 
SI oa ns a a ae cet tentcanas Charles S. Black, Jacksonville 
+ 0, SAR eta eee RS IF Ate OP NPAT SEEMIE RR RP R err Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 
DBI cc scala ogbaminecd haaueasten tbectstiondsneciadees ..Frank Oexner, Waterloo 
pV, (RRR ne CE AS Cocca ks Ace ge Sete Salat SE reset ee W. L. Cope, Salem 
DOB a iacvsccseccsciennka laws cacectonandcessecnen Charles Marshall, Belknap 
YL) | SC Ge sate a Re RRS PO OPER EER SL eee Ee Lae Fred Dietz, De Soto 

DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 
Compt Ol etna nn nscsnsacsipennentn lp everwsoseosnessyuanecennetignenicearecetocnpecsentensivease J. H. Kelker 
WPS 6 ai is pn a satel nose Seacindpcydab comeesesaccasepyetonepsocbaips R. A. Cowles 
Fruit and Vegetable Marketing........-.--.-----------0--------one eB. Leeper 
Grain . Marlee ting -.. coi.) -2n1nni_-sc. nw nw.n eee ererecernctnnsopadqeecetncennae Harrison Fahrnkopf 
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Insurance Service..........--..-.-----.-:-cesseeeeeceeeeeeeeeeeceeeeneneeceeeseceneeneeeey . V. Vaniman 
Legal: : Counsel o...-c.cic._-ene-ecnnececsnto-nasnscnesecnoreneeqeeneeseeseseenneseors Donald Kirkpatrick 
Limestone-Phosphate............-.-----.------------+--0e-eenes-eeeseneeeceeeeeesseceeeeeeemenenee J._R._ Bent 
Live Stock Marketing.......-..--.-2...---..----:----ceececeeeceeeeeeeereesneeeeceeeetens Ray E. Miller 
cilia os ee em taba nsdn airs yntemeaian leonb ecb gacpeundote C. E. Johnston 
Organization Face paasigemiacicesal G. E. Metzger 
Produce Marketing.............-.-..--.---2-.-sccss-ececscececeeeseeeeeeeceeeseenceseneeee F. A, Gougler 
Taxation and Statistics... .2...2-2-2.--------eceeeece-eceeeeeeeeeeeeneneeeeeeeeees J. C. Watson 
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ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 

Country Life Insurance Co._....---.--2.--------e-ene-eceeeeneee- L. A. Williams, Mgr. 


.....J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 
F. E, Ringham, Mgr. 
. E. Richardson, Mgr. 
..L. R: Marchant, Mgr. 
arrison Fahrnkopf, Mer. 
P. Cummings, Gen’l, Mgr. 
J. H. Lloyd, Mgr. 


Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co............. 
Illinois Agricultural Co-operative Ass’n.. 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance 

Illinois Farm Supply Co 
Illinois Grain Corp....... 
Midwest Grain Corp... 
Soybean Marketing Ass’n.. 


Pass the Income Tax 
\ N TITH the legislatures of Vermont, Massachusetts, 


Oklahoma, Georgia, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, 
Utah, Pennsylvania, and other states making more 
effective, passing, or now seriously considering income 
tax legislation, this just and equitable method of rais- 
ing revenue for government purposes is fast gaining 
the recognition it deserves. 

The antiquated property tax, largely a real estate 
tax, is on the run. It is breaking down under the 
crushing load of ever-increasing government expense. 
Property tax delinquencies are mounting everywhere 
because property in itself does not represent tax-paying 
power. Fair-minded citizens, and statesmen charged 


with the responsibility of administering government 
affairs see the necessity of developing sources of reve- 
nue based on ability to pay. 

The Lantz state income bill (S. B. 138) now before. 
the Illinois General Assembly offers the legislature an 
opportunity to take a constructive step toward correct- 


ing an unfair taxing system under which more than 
half the population of the state pays nothing directly 
to support government. The proposed measure is not 
an additional tax. It is a lieu or replacement tax de- 
signed to defray nearly all the costs of state govern- 
ment and relieve property to that extent. No person 
can object to the measure on the ground that it adds 
to the tax burden. It merely distributes the present 
load more evenly over the people having ability to pay. 
Spreading the taxes over a larger number of voters 
is bound to exert a wholesome influence on future 
government. With more tax consciousness on the part 
of those who now pay nothing, there will be more 
interest and attention by voters to state, county, and 
municipal bond issues, appropriations, and expendi- 
tures. Good government demands that each voter 
make some direct contribution no matter how small 
the amount in return for the rights, benefits, and 
privileges of citizenship. The enactment of Senate 
Bill 138 will help bring about this desired result. 


Under False Colors 
A MONG the statutes of Illinois is a law popularly known 
as the “Co-operative Act of 1915” under which a 
number of farmers’ elevators are organized. As amended 
in 1923, this Act is co-operative in name only. Corporations 


organized under it may or may not be co-operative. There. 


is nothing in the Act limiting the return of companies so 
organized on capital, nothing to compel a distribution of 
excess profits to patrons after reserves and a maximum of 
8 per cent is paid on capital stock. 

Under it 4 co-operative association may be owned by 
comparatively few stockholders, the business of the associa- 
tion may be thriving, the profits large, but the farmers who 
patronize it and make possible its success may share no 
more in its profits than they do in the earnings of any 
private corporation. 

House Bill 466 before the Illinois legislature, which has 
the support of the Illinois Agricultural Association, seeks to 
amend the 1915 Act so as to make it truly co-operative, 
limit return on capital stock, make mandatory the distribu- 
tion to patrons of excess earnings, when and if distributed, 
on the basis of business done with the company. 

There is nothing illegitimate about a company owned by 
one, two, or a half dozen stockholders retaining all the earn- 
ings for the benefit of the owners. Private corporations do 
this and.no one objects. The objection lies in associations 
that parade under false colors, basking in the sunlight of 
favor and partiality which most farmers rightfully show 
toward real co-operative enterprises. 

House Bill 466 seeks to strip away the sham and camou- 
flage, and require associations organized under this Act to 
be truly co-operative. 


A PCEON of the Farm Board is advocated by Senator 
Reed of Pennsylvania, high-tariff-protection-for-indus- 
try champion. The senator objects to the Grain Stabilization 
Corporation maintaining a higher than world price for the 
American farmers’ grain, deplores the $500,000,000 revolv- 
ing fund appropriation. 

On the other hand, Senator Couzens of Michigan has discovered that 
the steel companies are charging the railroads the same price for rails, 
that rail prices have not come down. Price stabilization of steel, 
aluminum, and other products of organized industry will not be de- 
nounced by Senator Reed and other eastern industrialists. Only price 
stabilization and protection for agriculture, in their estimation, is eco- 
nomically unsound. 


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only for the purposes named, but also 
for all other purposes for which appro- 
priations are usually made from the 
General Revenue Fund. If they should 
fail to do so, the State Levying Board 
is directed to levy taxes on property 
sufficient to make up the deficiency. 


NUMBER of measures of more or 
A less importance the I. A. A. is 
supporting before the General Assembly 
cover varied subjects, all of practical 
interest to farmers. Bills which have 
already passed the House include H. B. 
410 (Rep. Luckey, Vermilion county) 
which would absolve an owner from 
damages resulting from his live stock 
running unattended on public highways 
without his knowledge, where such 
owner used due care in keeping such 
live stock off the highways. Under the 
act, responsibility for accidents result- 
ing from live stock running at large 
would be placed on the party whose 
negligence brought about the damages. 


Cow Has Right-of-Way 


In a recent decision a Wisconsin 
judge held that a cow being driven 
across a road from one pasture to an- 
other had the right-of-way, and that 
drivers of vehicles were bound to exer- 
cise due care to avoid hitting such ani- 
mal. The present Illinois law presumes 
the owner of live stock to be liable for 
damages resulting from unattended 
live stock on public highways. 

H. B. 501 (Rep. Johnson, Ford coun- 
ty) would make’ the owner of any dog 
liable for damages it inflicts by killing 
or molesting live stock (sheep, goats, 
cattle, horses, mules, poultry, swine). 
This bill, which authorizes the killing 
of such dog, passed the House by a 
substantial majority vote on April 1. 


Butter Substitutes 


H. B. 451, which provides that no 
state institution supported by public 
funds shall purchase more than 25 per 
cent of its fat requirements for in- 
mates in the form of butter or ‘lard 
substitutes, passed the House on March 
31, although it was amended before 


- passage so as not to apply to county and 


municipal institutions. This bill was 
substituted for H. B. 84 (Handy), 
which ‘prohibited the use of butter sub- 
stitutes in all state institutions. 


H. B. 4 (Rep. Davis, Jackson coun- 
ty) provides that lime dust manufac- 
tured at the Southern Illinois (Chester) 
Penitentiary shall be furnished free to 
farmers in the drouth stricken area of 
that section. This bill will be supported 
by the Illinois Agricultural Association 
as an emergency measure to expire at 
the end of the year 1931. Sen. Harry 


Wilson of Perry county has introduced 
the same measure in the Senate as S. B. 
387. 


License Milk Dealers 


The milk dealers’ licensing bill, H. B. 
440 (Rep. Corzine, Christian county) 
provides for state licensing of milk 
dealers and carries a provision that ap- 
plications for licenses shall contain a 
certificate signed by a physician show- 
ing freedom from communicable dis- 
eases of each person handling or coming 
in contact with milk sold. The state’s 
attorney and sheriff of each county 
shall be furnished with a list of licenses 
twice a year. The measure is designed 
to improve the milk supply in small 


_towns and rural communities. This bill 


received favorable consideration by the 
Committee on Agriculture, and as we 
go to press, is on third reading in the 
House. 

Motor Vehicle Bills 


A number of bills amending the mo- 
tor vehicle act, changing the classifica- 
tion of trucks by weight and the license 
fees therefor, also clarifying the law 
with reference to exempting farm trac- 
tors and other farm machines from the 
payment of motor license fees have been 
introduced. 


Reps. Hunter, Winnebago county, 
and Allen, Whiteside county, have in- 
troduced similar measures covering the 
reclassification of trucks according to 
capacity. 

The Illinois Agricultural Association 
will support the bills which coincide 
closest to the resolution on these ques- 
tions passed at the last annual meeting, 
namely: 


“We favor and pledge our support 
to amendment of the Motor Vehicle 
Act: 


1. “To exempt farm tractors and any 
farm implements and machinery 
drawn by tractors from the re- 
quirement of motor licenses when 
such tractors, implements and ma- 
chinery use the highways only in 
moving between fields or farms for 
the purpose of carrying on farm 
operations. 


2. “To establish a more equitable 
schedule of license fees with differ- 
ent rates for trucks having a com- 
bined weight and rated capacity of 
less than 4,000 pounds, between 
4,000 and 8,000 pounds, and be- 
tween 8,000 and 12,000 pounds.” 


Hunter Bill Passes 


Rep. Hunter’s bill, H. B. 228, which 
provides that farm machinery including 
tractors, threshing machines, clover 
hullers, ensilage cutters, corn shredders, 
corn shellers, etc., shall not be subject 


April, 1931 THE I. A. A. RECORD Page Seven 


to the motor vehicle act, passed the 
House on March 26. 

The Illinois Agricultural Association 
appeared in* opposition to H. B. 407 
which would give cities one cent of the 
three cent gas tax to use for the con- 
struction of roads and streets. The I. 
A. A. supports the State Department 
of Highways in contending that the 
distribution of the gas tax be left un- 
disturbed, the hard road program com- 
pleted, but that the Highway Depart- 
ment take over the building and main- 
tenance of streets through towns and 
cities that have been designated as state 
highways. 

Amendments to the Co-operative 
Acts of 1915 and 1923 are covered in 
House bills 466 and 467 (Homer J. 
Tice, Menard county), respectively. H. 
B. 466 would make the 1915 Act co- 
operative in principle as well as in 
name, would increase the number of 
shares a stockholder can hold from five 
to ten shares, authorizes a maximum of 
$1,000 per share instead of $500, per- 
mits one co-operative to invest in the 
stock of another up to 10 per cent of 
its capital stock, and provides that 
dividends on capital stock be limited 
to 8 per cent. 


H. B. 467, which amends the Co- 
operative Act of 1923, is designed to 
broaden and make more flexible the 
1923 Act so as to meet all conditions 
developed through past experiences. 
Under the amended act it will be pos- 
sible to organize co-operative credit 
corporations, to organize national co- 
operative marketing associations under 
the Illinois law. It will do away with 
the necessity of organizing co-operatives 
under the Delaware laws. 

The amendments proposed in H. B. 
467 have the approval of the Legal 
Department of the Federal Farm Board. 


State Income Tax Up 
In Senate on April 15 


As this issue of the RECORD goes 
to press the Lantz state income tax 
bill, S. B. 138, is scheduled to come up 
for third reading in the State Senate 
Wednesday, April 15, at 10 A. M. 
The legislative committee of the I. A. 
A. secured a special order for considera- 
tion of the measure following the ‘ac- 
tion of the Senate two weeks before 
in passing the bill from second to third 
reading. 

A state-wide conference of County 
Farm Bureau presidents has been called 
at Springfield for Wednesday afternoon, 
April 15, to consider the income tax 
bill and other legislation supported by 
the Illinois Agricultural Association be- 
fore the 57th General Assembly. 


Page Eight THE I. A. A. RECORD April, 1931 


State Legislatures Pass Income Tax Bills 


HE Iowa Senate on March 25 passed 

a state income tax bill. The measure 
provides a tax of 1 per cent on cor- 
porations and the rates on individuals 
are graduated from 1 to § per cent. An 
income tax had already been approved 
by the House which carried a 3 per 
cent corporation tax and lower salary 
brackets than that provided in the Sen- 
ate amendments. 

The Senate vote followed a special 
message from Governor Turner renew- 
ing his plea for an income tax to re- 
lieve part of the burden on property 
owners. 


Georgia 
HE George state legislature recent- 
ly enacted— 

1. A state income tax with rates 
from 1 to § per cent on individual in- 
comes and 4 per cent on corporate in- 
comes; 

2. An act allowing an offset of 1931 


sales taxes against income taxes paid 
in 1932. 


Utah 

Boe: passed a personal income tax 

with rates ranging from 1 to 4 
per cent. Exemptions are $1,000 for 
single persons; $2,000 for a married 
couple, and $400 additional for each 
dependent. An offset is allowed for 
property taxes paid up to one-third of 
the amount of the income tax. 


Missouri 
JEEEERSON CITY, MO., April 2.— 

The House has concurred in Sen- 
ate amendments to the income tax in- 
crease bill and passed the measure which 
now goes to the governor for his ap- 
proval. 

It provides for income taxes on a 
graduated basis ranging from 1 to 4 
per cent, which, according to its 
proponents, will bring in about $5,500,- 
000 of additional revenue annually. 


Maryland 


AZ proposing a personal income 
tax with rates ranging from .§ per 
cent to § per cent has been introduced 
in the Maryland legislature. 


Oklahoma 

Amt providing for a net income 

tax on corporations and individ- 
uals passed both Houses of the Okla- 
homa legislature and was sent to Gov- 
ernor Murray on April 4. The gov- 
ernor announced that he would approve 
it immediately. 


~The bill pedivides for a tax of 2 per 
cent on incomes up to $10,000 a year, 
3 per cent on $10,000 to $20,000, 4 
per cent on $20,000 to $100,000, and 
§ per cent on all above $100,000. In- 
dividuals are allowed an exemption of 
$750 and $750 additional for each de- 
pendent, reports the U. S. Daily. 

Three-fourths of the proceeds of the 
tax goes to the common school fund, 
and one-fourth to the general revenue 
fund of the state. 


Pennsylvania 
ARRISBURG, Pa., April 2.—A 
bill proposing a state income tax 
will be considered by the House when 
it meets April 7. 

The proposed income tax is gradu- 
ated from rates ranging from 2 to 10 
per cent. The maximum rate for cor- 
porations would be 7 per cent. 


Vermont Governor 
Signs Income Tax 


Governor Wilson of Vermont signed 
the state income tax bill recently passed 
by the legislature. The rate for cor- 
porations is 2 per cent. In the case of 
individuals the rate is 2 per cent for 
earned income and 4 per cent for un- 
earned income. On earned income the 
exemptions are $1,000 for single per- 
sons and $2,000 for married persons. 
Where all the income is unearned, the 
exemptions are $400 and $800. 


Thompson Grain Member 


Unofficial reports state that Sam. H. 
Thompson, newest member of the Fed- 
eral Farm Board, will succeed Samuel 
R. McKelvie when the latter retires in 
June as grain representative on the 
board. A business man with an agri- 
cultural connection is expected to be 
chosen to bring the board up to its 
full membership when McKelvie leaves. 


Independent oil operators are leasing 
farm lands around Spring Lake in Ogle 
county, Illinois, where a small oil seep 
was recently discovered. Several rigs 
are already drilling, one being down 
115 feet. 


South Dakota recently passed a bill 
providing for a tax on substitutes for 
butter and lard. The bill was aimed 
‘at the cheap imported oils. which con- 
stitute 65 per cent of the oils used in 
the manufacture of oleomargarine, not 
against cotton seed products,” states 
Loyson G. Troth, state secretary of 
agriculture. 


Driver’s License Debaiz 


at Galesburg Meeting 


“Resolved, that Illinois should adopt 
a drivers’ license law” was the subject 
of a debate held before 45 members of 
the Farm Bureau Boosters Club, Gales- 
burg, April 2. Harry Peterson and 
Frank Sutor of Sparta township, the 
afhrmative team, won the decision. Wil- 
liam Moore and Art McGovern of Cop- 
ley township comprised the negative 
team. 

E. I. Wilson of Tazewell county, spe- 
cialist in parliamentary practice, will 
demonstrate parliamentary rules at the 
next meeting on Thursday, May 7. 

The subject for debate at the June 
meeting will be “Resolved, that the 
Philippine Islands should be given their 
independence.” 

Sid Cherrill of the I. A. A. live stock 
marketing department, spoke on live 
stock marketing following the debate. 


15th District Conference 


(COREE grain marketing 
was one of the principal topics dis- 
cussed at the 15th district I. A. A. 
conference, Canton, March 26. 

Harry Gehring of Knox county and 
director of the Illinois Grain Corpora- 
tion stated that the business of the 
Mid-West Grain Corporation, co-opera- 
tive sales agency, had been increasing 
rapidly during recent months, and that 
34 fully qualified co-operative elevators 
now hold membership in the Illinois 
Grain Corporation, 

Organization and membership solici- 
tation were discussed by R. J. Hamil- 
ton and John C. Moore. Hamilton 
stated that during the first two months 
of the year more members joined the 
Farm Bureau and I. A. A. voluntarily 
than in any other similar period in the 
history of the organization. 

Produce marketing was covered by 
Farm Adviser L. E. McKinzie of Schuy- 
ler and J. E. Meatheringham of Adams 
ares 

. N. Skinner, former I. A. A. di- 
rector from Yates City, opened the 
meeting and introduced his successor, 
C. G. Bates of Schuyler county, who 
presided. 

Mr. Bates outlined the legislative pro- 
gram of the I. A. A.-and talked briefly 
about the newer developments of co- 
operative marketing. 


F. M. Higgins, formerly I. A. A. district or- 
ganization manager, is back at his old job as 
editor of the Lake Geneva (Wis.) News- 
Tribune. 


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Whiteside Cuts Values; 


Endorses Income Tax 


Board of Supervisors Takes Action 
in Meeting April 1 


HE Whiteside county board of su- 

pervisors voted on April 1 to cut 
valuations of land and city lots in the 
county an average of 20 per cent, and 
went on record in favor of the Lantz 
state income tax bill as a step toward 
placing taxes on the basis of ability to 
pay. J. D. Conrad, Sterling assessor 
and prominent Farm Bureau member, 
presented evidence to show why the re- 
duction in land values should be made. 


The cut will not be a horizontal one. 
An effort will be made to equalize 
downward an average of 20 per cent, 
each assessor being authorized to use 
his own judgment in making the re- 
ductions. 


Supervisor R. A. Norrish of Morri- 
son, former president of the Whiteside 
County Farm Bureau and a director in 
the Illinois Farm Bureau Serum Assn.; 
Supervisor §. C. Given, Fenton, and Mr. 
Conrad drew up the following resolu- 
tion which was adopted unanimously: 


“Whereas, the supervisors and as- 
sessors of Whiteside county now in ses- 
sion, find that the valuations of land 
in Whiteside county havé decreased 40 
per cent since the last quadrennial as- 
sessment, and, 


“Whereas, it is the opinion of this 
group that on account of the deprecia- 
tion in land values, a reduction of as- 
sessed values will be necessary, and, 


“Whereas, a reduction in values will 
cause a loss in revenues for the county 
that will make it impossible to meet 
the ordinary and necessary expenses, 


“Therefore, be it resolved that we 
request our senator and representatives 
from this district to support the Lantz 
income tax bill now before the state 
legislature or any other tax relief bill 
that will aid in the assessment of in- 
tangible personal property. 


“And further, that the county clerk 
be instructed to forward a copy of this 
resolution to the members of the legis- 
lature from this district.” 


Mr. Norrish, in supporting the reso- 
lution, stated that many farmers are 
paying from 20 to 40 per cent of their 
net incomes in taxes on their farms, 
that holders of real estate are compelled 
to pay taxes on such property whether 
they own it or not, while the mortgage 
holder escapes. County expenses can’t 
be reduced much, he said, because state 
laws require counties to pay such items 
as mothers’ pensions, blind pensions, 
TB sanitariums, war veteran relief, etc. 


NOTICE 
ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSN. 
ELECTION OF-DELEGATES.. 
OTICE is hereby given that in connec- 
tion with the annual meetings of all 

County Farm Bureaus to be held during the 
months of May and June, 1931, at the 
hour and place to be determined by the 
Board of Directors of each respective County 
Farm Bureau, the members in good standing 
of such County Farm Bureaus and who are 
also. qualified voting members of Illinois 
Agricultural Association shall elect a dele- 
gate or delegates to represent such members 
of Illinois Agricultural Association and vote 
on all matters before the next annual meet- 
ing or any special meeting of Association, 
including the election of officers and direc- 
tors as provided for in the by-laws of the 
Association. 

During May an arinual meeting will be 
held in Massac county. 

During June an annual meeting will be 
held in Ogle county. 

Signed: 
G. E. Merzcer, Secretary. 

April 15, 1931. 


Large Audience Hears 
Pres. Smith at Rochelle 


ORE than 500 farmers and towns- 

people gathered in the Rochelle 
township high school the night of 
March 26 to hear President Earl C. 
Smith discuss legislation pending be- 
fore the 57th General Assembly. 

The proposed state income tax fig- 
ured largely in Mr. Smith’s address. 
The Lantz income tax bill, the speaker 
said, is aimed at the injustice of the 
present system which forces real estate, 
creating only 10 per cent of the state’s 
income to pay 90 per cent of the taxes. 

Mr. Smith expressed the belief that 
the measure has an excellent chance of 
passage in the present session because 
the fairness and justice of this tax is 
becoming widely recognized. With the 
antiquated property tax breaking down 
in almost every section of the state, 
with tax delinquencies mounting higher 
and higher, students of political econo- 
my and statesmen realize that taxation 
based on ability to pay is the only fair 
method of deriving revenue to support 
government. 

Property owners of Ogle county 
would have saved $133,710 if the bill 
had been a law this spring, the speaker 
said. 

He deplored the fact that so many 
Illinois farmers are still outside the 
ranks of the Farm Bureau and I. A. A., 
emphasized the need for all farmers 
working together to solve their prob- 
lems. 

G. A. Lazier of Lindenwood, former 
president of the Ogle County Farm 
Bureau, presided. On the speaker’s ros- 
trum were C. E. Bamborough, Polo; 
George F. Tullock, Rockford; L. D. 
Carmichael, and -Anson_ Rosenkrans, 
presidents respectively of the Ogle and 
Lee County Farm Bureaus. 


April, 1931 THE I. A. A. RECORD Page Thirteen 


Marshall-Putnam Tax 
_ Valuations Too High 


Assessors Act to Reduce Taxes as 
Result of Farm Bureau In- 
formation Service 


As we go to press word is received 
that the Marshall county supervisor of 
assessors, Ray Litchfield, instructed the 


assessors to make a 25 per cent cut in 


the value of best farm lands in that 
county. Timber land and cheaper pas- 
ture lands will command a 30 per cent 
reduction. Vacant city lots will also 
be cut. Improvements on both city 
property and farm property will be al- 
lowed a reduction. 


Putnam County Also Reduced 


Putnam county was not so seriously 
out of line in its valuations as was 
Marshall. The supervisor of assessors 
therefore instructed the assessors to 
make the necessary equalizations on the 
cheaper lands in Putnam Co., effecting 
a considerable reduction on that class 
of property. City lots and_ personal 
property will also be reduced. 


“The reduction in valuations which 
will be effected in Marshall and Put- 
nam counties this year, largely as the 
result of tax studies made by the local 
Farm Bureau tax committees, and which 
was supported by general sentiment in 
favor of such changes both by the as- 
sessors and by the people at large, will 
be a substantial savings to taxpayers. 
In some instances local taxing bodies 
will find it necessary to reduce their 
budgets because they have levied to the 
limit of the legal rate. In addition, 
Marshall county residents will have the 
assurance that they will be paying very 
little, if any more, than their just share 
of state taxes. This saving alone will 
result in at least $15,000 reduction in 
the amount of state tax that will be 
paid.” 


Sec’y. Hyde Visits I. A. A. 


Secretary of Agriculture Arthur 
M. Hyde and C. B. Denman, live- 
stock member of the Farm Board, 
called at the I. A. A. office, Chicago, 
on April 6. ‘ 


E. W. “Farmer” Rusk, formerly 
county adviser in Macoupin county, 
has severed his connection with the 
Chicago and Illinois Midland Ry. 
and Station WENR, to take charge 
of agricultural programs for Sta- 
tion WMAQ, owned by the Chicago 
Daily News. 


Error cannot exist where truth 
is continuously promoted. 


Page Fourteen 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


April, 1931 


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ATURDAY, May 9, was set as the 

opening day for the 1931 Farm Bu- 
reau baseball season by directors of the 
Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball League 
who met at Peoria March 20. Around 
100 officials, players and visitors at- 
tended. Nearly all the 34-35 counties 
expecting to have teams were repre- 
sented. 

Principal action taken included (1) 
rearrangement of the districts to make 
way for new members, (2) adoption 
of State Arbitration Committee’s re- 
port on eligibility, (3) adoption of 
playing rules for the season. 

The accompanying map shows the 
new arrangement of counties into dis- 
tricts. Each district will organize be- 
_ fore the opening of the season, elect a 
district chairman and dictator, adopt a 
schedule of games to decide the district 
championship, agree on selection of um- 
pires, division of gate receipts, etc. 

The State Arbitration Committee, 
composed of League President Chas. 
Black, Jacksonville; Vice-President John 
Stout, Chatham; Secretary George 
Thiem, Chicago, reported on the trouble- 
some question of eligibility of players. 
Eligible are: 

1. Farm Bureau members actively en- 
gaged in operating a farm or actively 
superintending the operation of a farm. 

2. Dependent son or dependent rela- 
tive of a Farm Bureau member actively 
farming and living with such member. 

3. Where joint membership is held 
all parties to membership actively en- 
gaged in farming. 

4. Part time employment away from 
the farm shall not be construed as mak- 
ing a prospective player ineligible un- 
der the eligibility rule as defined in the 
constitution. 

§. Farm managers actively superin- 
tending the operation of farm lands 
who are members of the Farm Bureau. 

6. Dependent sons of Farm Bureau 
members, or members of the Farm Bu- 
reau who go to school and work on the 
farm during vacation. 

Most significant rules adopted re- 
quire: 

1. Each team to deposit $25 cashier’s 
check as forfeit for failure to report at 
regularly scheduled game. 

2. Each team to fill out eligibility 
questionnaire on each prospective play- 
er and file with state league secretary 10 
days before first scheduled game. 

The Spaulding No. 0 new cushion 
cork center ball was adopted as official. 


Divisions in Illinois Farm Bureau 
Baseball League 


“Skeets” Bloomquist, former Gales- 


burg star will again act as manager and 
attempt to lead the Knox county team 
into the state semi-finals. 

It was decided by the players at a 
recent meeting to start practice within 
the next two weeks and attempt to get 
in all the practice possible before the 
opening of the league schedule, which 


will be the latter part of May. 


Division IV will open the season May 
16 when Marshall-Putnam and Peoria 
cross bats in Peoria county, while 
Woodford and Tazewell meet on the 
latter’s home grounds. Wilfred Shaw 
was selected district dictator at the di- 
visional meeting. 


From McLean 

Division VI held its meeting in Clin- 
ton April 3, where L. R. Welk was 
chosen district dictator. First games 
will be played May 16. Each county 
will keep its gates receipts at home 
games, pay its own umpires at home 
and away. 

Douglas county games will be played 
at Tuscola, Macon county at Decatur, 
Champaign games at Urbana, Logan at 
Lincoln, McLean at Normal University 
diamond. 


Jefferson County Farm 
Bureau Get-Together 


¢. LOR the first time in the history 

of the Jefferson County Farm 
Bureau, and so far as we have been 
able to find out, probably for the first 
time in Illinois, all present and past 
members of the Board of Directors and 
their families were invited to a get- 
together,” writes Charles E. Twigg, the 


new county agent at Mt. Vernon. 

W. T. Wooden, first president of the 
Jefferson Bureau, told of the difficulties 
encountered in organizing a Farm Bu- 


National Co-Op. For 
Fruit and Vegetables 


Plan to Co-ordinate Regional Co- 
Ops. in Nation-Wide Sales Plan 


A° we go to press a national meet- 
ing of fruit and vegetable co- 
operative representatives is scheduled to 
be held in Washington, probably on 
April 13 at the call of Charles $. Wil- 
son, member of the Federal Farm Board. 

On April 6, fruit and vegetable 
marketing representatives from Illinois, 
Michigan, Wiscon- 
sin, Indiana, Missis- 
sippi, Arkansas, Mis- 
souri and Kansas met 
with Mr. Wilson of 
the Farm Board in 
St. Louis to discuss 
possibilities for or- 
ganizing a fruit and 
vegetable regional 
co-operative in the 
Mississippi Valley. 
A. B. Leeper, direc- 
tor of fruit and 
vegetable marketing, Secretary Geo. E. 
Metzger, and W. L. Cope of the I. A. 
A., together with several Illinois grow- 
ers, sat in the conferenee. 

A committee of four was appointed 
to go to Washington at the call of the 
Farm Board to meet with 11 other 
representatives chosen from all sections 
of the United States to discuss the ad- 
visability of organizing a national fruit 
and vegetable marketing agency. Mr. 
Leeper was chosen a member of this 
committee. 

At present there is little co-ordina- 
tion between regional and district co- 
operative_marketing associations. It is 
hoped that the new movement will 
bring the district associations together 
so that a national plan can be developed 
and sales representatives of the nation- 
wide co-operative placed on all the 
principal markets. 


' A. B. Leeper 


reau in that county. A. E. Drennan, a 
former president, brought the history 
of the Bureau down to recent years. 

I. E. Beall, present Farm Bureau 
president, gave an account of his for- 
mer connections with the Farm Bureau 
Federations in Texas and Missouri, em- 
phasized the superior Farm Bureau ser- 
vice program in Illinois. 

Other speakers were F. L. Brissenden, 
I. A. A. district organization manager; 
H. H. Connaway, delegate to the I. A. 
A. convention; County Adviser Twigg; 
Assistant State Leader F. L. Longmire; 
L. R. Caldwell, former county: ad- 
viser; the secretary of the local Cham- 
ber of Commerce, and the manager of 
the Emmerson Hotel. 


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April, 1931 : THE I.-A. A. RECORD Page Fifteen 
Farmers National Grain Profit $666,266.84 


Annual Report to Stockholders Reveals Corporation Had Good Year 


PROFIT of $666,266.84 in the 
fiscal year ending February 28, 
1931, was reported by Walter I. Beam, 
treasurer of the Farmers National Grain 
Corporation, to the Board of Directors’ 
meeting in Chicago on April 6. 

At the annual meeting of stock- 
holders held the following day at the 
Sherman Hotel, President C. E. Huff 
stated that the net profits of the cor- 
poration represented more than 100 per 
cent earnings on the outstanding capi- 
tal stock. Pres. G. C. Johnstone of 
Bloomington represented Illinois Grain 
Corp. at the stockholders’ meeting. 

Directors of the corporation voted 
to set aside 50 per cent of the net 
profits for reserve and declared a 6 per 
cent stock dividend. The remainder of 
the profits will be distributed in patron- 
age dividends in the form of paid up 
capital stock. The corporation handled 
approximately 111,000,000 bushels of 
cash grain of the 1930 crop. 


McKelvie Speaker 

Ex-Governor Sarauel R. McKelvie of 
Nebraska was the principal speaker at 
the stockholders’ meeting. The Farm- 
ers National is the largest handler of 
grain in the United States, said Mc- 
Kelvie, by reason of the large bushelage 
handled in its first year of operation. 
“I want to urge that every stockholder 
support your National Grain Corpora- 
tion with all your receipts. By with- 
holding a part of your grain you only 
weaken your organization. While it is 
true that some other concern may from 
time to time offer you a higher price 
for a few carloads of grain, don’t for- 
get that your national agency contracts 
to take all your grain. 3 

“There are too many agencies taking 
a toll of the farmer’s production,” con- 
tinued McKelvie. ‘‘There is too much 
duplication in machinery, too much 
waste. Guard against duplication of ef- 
fort in your own organization and 
eliminate it promptly when discovered. 


Profits to Producers 

“Co-operative marketing can’t make 
the dollar do gymnastics. It can make 
as much profit as any private organiza- 
tion handling an equal volume, and the 
profit so made will be returned to the 
producers who made it possible.” 

Mr. McKelvie read a telegram from 
headquarters of the Farm Board at 
Washington which expressed faith in 
the future of the Farmers National 
Grain Corporation, the Board’s desire 


in Spite of Depression 


to keep in close contact with all the 
operations of the organization. McKel- 
vie predicted that at the coming meet- 
ing of the U. §. Chamber of Commerce 
at Atlantic City much time would be 
spent by the organized middlemen dis- 
cussing how the purpose of the Agri- 
cultural Marketing Act can be defeated. 
Reports Brief 

The reports of President Huff and 
Manager Geo. S. Milnor were very brief. 
They stated that a report would be dis- 
tributed in pamphlet form shortly. Im- 
portant details connected with the han- 
dling of grain and the financial opera- 
tions of the company were not: given 
out. Hostile interests are anxious to get 
this information for use in their cam- 
paign of misrepresentation against co- 
operation marketing, and the officers 
and directors deemed it advisable not 
to release it. Private commission agen- 
cies are careful not to reveal their 
financial operations, and the Grain Cor- 
poration to protect itself has been com- 
pelled to withhold its sales position and 
details of financial operation from the 
public. 

Mr. Huff thanked the directors and 
other officers for their fine support, and 
spoke approvingly of the good work of 
employees and staff members. 

A number of amendments to the by- 
laws were made. Hereafter a single 
stockholder may hold as much as 25 per 
cent of the stock of the corporation. 
Heretofore the stockholder has been 
limited to one-twentieth of the capital 
stock. 

Directors Elected 

Directors elected were as follows: C. E. 
Huff, Farmers Edu. & Co-op. Union, Salina, 
Kansas; John Manley, Oklahoma Wheat Grow- 
ers Ass’n., Enid, Okla.; J. J. Knight, Equity 
Union Grain Co., Kansas City, Mo.; Wm. H. 
Settle, Central States Grain Ass’n., Inc., In- 
dianapolis, Ind.; L. E. Webb, Farmers Co-op. 
Commission Co., Dodge City, Kansas; Geo. E. 
Duis, North Dakota-Montana Wheat Growers, 
Grank Forks, N. D.; M. W. Thatcher, Farmers 
Union Terminal Ass’n., St. Paul, Minn.; W. J. 
Kuhrt, Northwest Grain Ass’n., Minneapolis, 
Minn.; Ernest R. Downie, Kansas Co-op. Wheat 
Marketing Ass’n., Wichita, Kansas; F. J. Wilmer, 
North Pacific Coast Growers, Inc., Rosalia, 
Wash.; Oscar Slosser, Ohio Farmers Grain & 
Supply Co., Fostoria, Ohio; C. B. Steward, 
Farmers Westcentral Grain Co-op., Inc., Lincoln, 
Nebraska; C. W. Croes, American Wheat Grow- 
ers Ass’n., Aberdeen, S. D.; R. A. Cowles, IIli- 
nois Grain Corporation, Chicago; and Jess 
Wade, International Grain Growers, Ogden, 
Utah. : 

To comply with the change in the 
by-laws only 15 directors were elected. 


Jess Wade of Ogden, Utah, is the only 
new man on the Board. ‘S. J. Cotting- 
ton, Iowa; Sam H. Thompson, Chicago; 
L. J. Taber, Columbus, Ohio, and E. G. 
McCollum, Indianapolis, were not re- 
elected. The report of the nominating 
committee was adopted unanimously. 


Resolutions Adopted 

Resolutions adopted commended Pres- 
ident Hoover for the appointment of 
Sam H. Thompson as a member of the 
Federal Farm Board, expressed regret 
at the resignations of Messrs. Legge and 
McKelvie, commended the selection of 
James C. Stone as chairman; upheld the 
desirability and effectiveness of the 
Agricultural Marketing Act in its pres- 
ent form. 

Between 75 and 100 stockholders and 
visitors from all sections of the grain 
belt attended the meeting. The farm 
press was invited, but daily newspaper 
reporters were barred. Secretary of 
Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde and Sam- 
uel R. McKelvie, Sam H. Thompson 
and C. B. Denman of the Federal Farm 
Board were in Chicago for this and 
other meetings. 


Superpower Company 
Hearing on May 5th 


Tuesday, May 5, at Springfield, be- 
fore the Illinois Commerce Commission, 
landowners from LaSalle, Livingston, 
Woodford, Tazewell, Will and Grundy 
will gather to ask consideration of a 
new proposed route for the Super Power 
Company’s high line from Powerton to 
Joliet. 

The hearing was arranged by the I. 
A. A. to give a few landowners who 
are dissatisfied with the cross country 
route an opportunity to present evi- 
dence showing why the route should 
follow section lines and fences. The 
commission previously had given the 
utility a certificate of convenience and 
necessity to build the upper half of the 
line. Such a certificate carries with it 
the right to condemn property. 

At a conference in Springfield on 
March 24 more than 50 landowners, 
farm advisers and Farm Bureau officials 
from the counties mentioned met with 
President Earl C. Smith, Donald Kirk- 
patrick, and L. J. Quasey to discuss 
legal phases of the case and to clarify 
in the minds of all the rights of both 
landowners and utilities in this question, 


Page Sixteen ; THE I. A. A. RECORD April, 1931 


ee first annual meeting of the IIli- 
nois Live Stock Marketing Associa- 
tion will be held at Bloomington on 
Thursday, May 28. The board of direc- 
tors of the new co-operative met in the 
I. A. A. offices, Chicago, on Friday, 
April 3, to plan the future work of the 
association. The association was incor- 
porated on March 4. 


Three hundred and fifteen county 
live stock marketing committeemen, 
live stock producers and farm advisers 
attended six district live stock market- 
ing conferences held throughout the 
state during the week of March 23. 
These men represented 62 counties. 
County marketing committees out- 
lined educational programs for the re- 
spective counties in accordance with 
suggestions presented by Ray E. Miller, 
director of livestock marketing for the 
I. A. A. The program of the state 
organization was discussed with par- 
ticular reference to the new state live 
stock marketing association, its pur- 
pose and plan of operation. 


During the first three months of 
1931 the Indianapolis Producers han- 
dled 2,638 carloads of live stock, repre- 
senting approximately 34% of the mar- 
ket receipts. 


Illinois counties showing an increase 
in the business consigned to the Indian- 
apolis Producers over the first three 
months last year were Vermilion with 
an increase of 33 cars, Ford with 16, 
Edgar 10, Dewitt 9, Iroquois and 
Woodford 6 cars each. 


Illinois shipping association managers 
who increased their business to the In- 
dianapolis Producers over the first three 
months of last year are Fred Gumm, 
Paris, with a gain of 9 cars; W. E. 
Leischner, Deland; W. F. Kurtz, Ta- 
bor; George M. Hudson, Hindsboro; 
Abner Wood, Redmon; Clarence Pous- 
ler, Shumway; R. C. Boatman, Sheldon; 
William Fulk, Cerro Gordo and De- 
catur; D. H. King, Dundas; H. H. 
Richards, Parkersburg, and G. W. El- 
bert, Clarksburg. Managers who shipped 
the same number of cars as [ast year 
were: C. M. Weller, Tuscola; O. C. 
Fisher, Windsor, and W. H. Bingaman, 
Neoga. 


For the first three months of 1930 
approximately 78.5% of the receipts at 
Indianapolis arrived by truck. 


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Mrs. C. M. Stephens, Davenport, 

Chairman, Quad-City Milk Council 

Mrs. Stephens and other members of 
the Consumers Committee have taken 
an active part in working out an or- 
derly marketing quality improvement 
program between the organized dairy- 
men represented by the Quality Milk 
Association about Rock Island, Daven- 
port, Moline, and East Moline, and the 
organized dealers. 

The Consumers Committee consists 
of Mrs. C. M. Stephens, Mrs. J. W. 
Casto, Rock Island; Mrs. W. R. Wood, 
Moline; and Mrs. J. F. Ryan, East 
Moline. 


Decatur Milk Producers — 
Announce Price Schedule 


HE Decatur Milk Producers Asso- 

ciation, following a recent meeting 
with dealers at that market, reports 
that the price of base milk for April, 
May and June will be $2.06 per cwt. 
delivered at Decatur. 

Class II milk will bring a price com- 
puted on the basis of Chicago 92 score 
butter plus 12%2 cents per pound fat 
in 100 pounds of milk. Thus if the 
Chicago 92 score price is 30 cents per 
pound and the milk tests 3.5 per cent, 
the price would be computed at $1.49 
per cwt. 

Class III milk, of which there was 
only 13,000 pounds on the market in 
March, will bring a flat price based on 
Chicago 90 score butter price for the 
butterfat content in 100 pounds of 
milk. 

At present approximately 70 per cent 
of the milk delivered at Decatur is 
base milk. During February and March 
the price received by the Producers was 
$2.27 per cwt. for base milk. Previous 
to February the price was $2.65. 

Since the first of the year the retail 
price on this market dropped from 
12% cents to 10 cents per quart. 

Secretary. Geo. E. Metzger attended 
the price conference and assisted the 


Milk Producers-Dealers 
Progress’ at Rock Island 


A THREE cent per cwt. check-off 

on all milk delivered by members 
of the Quality Milk Association to dis- 
tributors at Rock Island, Davenport, 
Moline, and East Moline was agreed 
upon at a meeting on March 31, where 
the largest dealers and milk producers 
were represented. 

The producers consented to pay two 
cents and the dealers one cent to pro- 
vide personnel and equipment for 
checking weights and tests, improving 
quality, and advertising dairy products 
in the Quad-Cities. 

Following the meeting a new scale of 
prices was announced. Milk will sell 
for 11 cents a quart and 6 cents a 
pint on these markets. A proposed cut 
in the price to the producer will be 
given further consideration. The old 
retail price was 12 cents a quart. 

R. W. Bartlett of the University of 
Illinois and Wilfred Shaw of the Illinois 
Milk Producers’ Association commended 
the Quad-City milk council for its ef- 
forts in establishing an orderly market- 
ing system and a higher quality prod- 
uct for the consumer. Farm Adviser 
John Spencer of Rock Island county 
has taken an active part in getting the 
Quality Milk Association under way. 


Sanitary Milk Producers 
Endorse Health Ordinance 


At a meeting of the directors of the 
Sanitary Milk Producers, in St. Louis, 
April 6-7, the Board endorsed the re- 
cent ordinance passed by the City 
Health Department requiring all pro- 
ducers supplying that market to build 
a dairy and .milk house according to 
sanitary specifications laid down by the 
city health office. 

The Sanitary Milk Producers has ad- 
vised its 8,800 members to comply with 
the ordinance and to that end is fur- 
nishing them with blue prints of a 
dairy house that will meet all require- 
ments, 

Among other requirements the milk 
house must have three windows in it, 
and a cooling tank with a capacity of 
four gallons of water for each gallon 
of milk. 

Secretary Geo. E. Metzger of the I. 
A. A., who met with the Board, reports 
that the organization is making fine 
progress, that all the larger dealers are 
co-operating except the Pevely Dairy 
Company. 


Producers in their negotiations. The 
price obtained by the Producers is in 
line with the price of milk on similar 
Illinois markets. 


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For Rock Phosphate 


Farmers Buy Limestone and Rock 
Phosphate in Spite of Farm 
Price Deflation 


pes farmers used more ground 
rock phosphate (lime phosphate) in 
February, 1931, than in any February 
during the past 12 years, reports J. R. 
Bent, director of Limestone-Phosphate 
department. 


“In the face of the current deflation 


of farm prices, this is a great tribute to. 


this wonderful fertilizer,” says Bent. 
“Many have found that it makes the 
difference between profit and loss in the 
grain farming system. 


New Test 


“The recent test which has been per- 
fected for determining whether or not 
soil is deficient in quickly available 
phosphate, has done much to stimulate 
a greater use of this economical fer- 
tilizer. Farmers need not now wonder 
whether or not they will get results. 
They can know in advance by consult- 
ing their farm adviser. If the soil needs 
phosphorus, it pays to use it even at 
present farm prices. 

“Julius Alvord of Richland county 
stated recently that he applied 1,000 
pounds of ground rock phosphate per 
acre on 18 acres in 1920. The same 
field was in corn in 1929. Part of this 
field had no treatment; part of it was 
limed; and part of it was limed and 
phosphated. 


Doubles Yield 


“The portion of the field without 
treatment yielded 32 bushels per acre 
of poor quality corn; the limed portion, 
50 bushels per acre; and the limed and 
phosphated portion of the field, 65 bu- 
shels per acre. 

“In 1930 he had the same field in 
oats. The untreated part of the field 
made 8 bushels per acre; the limed part 
of the field, 18 bushels per acre; and 
the limed and phosphated part of the 
field, 32 bushels of oats per acre. The 
long time benefit is well illustrated in 
this experience.” 


The Wonderful Soybean 


The San Antonio (Texas) Evening 
News calls the soybean the world’s most 
wonderful plant because: “Milk, flour, 
salad-dressing, lubricating and illumi- 
nating oil, glycerine, paint, varnish, 
celluloid, printing ink, soap, waterproof, 
explosives, linoleum, rubber, coffee and 
margarine can be made from the bean 
of this plant.” 


April, 1931 | THE I. A. A. RECORD Page Seventeen 


H. H,. Walker 


New District Managers 
Announced by Metzger 


Organization Men Employed to Fill 
Vacancies, Start April 1 


oe appointment of three district 
organization managers for two 
northern Illinois districts and the south- 
western Illinois section is announced by 
George E. Metzger, director of organi- 
zation. Appointment of the men was 
confirmed at a meeting of the I. A. A. 
Board of Directors in Chicago on 
March 13. 

H. H. Walker of Greenville, Bond 
county, is the new appointee for the 
southeastern section. Born in Clinton 
county near Carlyle in 1874, Walker 
and his sons now farm 683 acres of 
land near Greenville. 

He is a charter member of the Bond 
County Farm Bureau, which he joined 
in 1920. Since December, 1926, he 
has been assisting the Organization De- 
partment in membership solicitation. 


Clare Bradford from Mercer county, 
selected for the northern Illinois dis- 
trict, succeeds H. D. Fink. Bradford 
was born in Mercer county 38 years 
ago. He attended a small college in 
Aledo after which. he started farming. 


Clare Bradford 


O. D. Brissenden 


Bradford has been a member of the 
Mercer County Farm Bureau for the 
past 12 years, has served on the local 
organization committee, and at present 
is a director of the Tri-County Oil 
Company. 

O. D. Brissenden, son of F. L. Bris- 
:enden, will succeed H. L. Hough as 
district organization manager in the 
northeastern Illinois section. Mr. Hough 
resigned to become director of organi- 
zation for the Wisconsin State Farm 
Bureau. 

Brissenden is the youngest of the dis- 
trict organization men. He was born 
in Clay county, Ill., 32 years ago. After 
graduating from the public schools of 
Flora, he attended the University of 
Illinois where he was a member of the 
student army training corps during the 
war. For the past three and one-half 
years he has been employed as farm 
superintendent of the Lincoln State 
School and Colony in Logan county. 

Tall and well built, Brissenden has 
been active in the Logan county Farm 
Bureau Forum, which he served as presi- 
dent. He was a leading member of the 
Logan county debating team in the in- 
ter-county Farm Bureau debates last 
winter. During the past three years he 
has been attending the Lincoln College 
of Law night school at Springfield. 


Taxation Is Subject at 
Ottawa Armory Meeting 


OHN C. WATSON, director of 

taxation, addressed more than 500 
LaSalle County Farm Bureau members 
and visitors in the Ottawa Armory on 
March 30. 


Calling attention to the fact that 
1931 is the year when all real estate and 
farm lands in Illinois will be revalued 
for taxing purposes, Watson urged his 
audience to take a special interest in 
the tax situation and seek to obtain 
equalization between various classes of 


property. Realestate should be valued — 


on the 1931 basis, not as of 1927, he 
asserted. Property values have come 
down considerably in the past four 
years. 


Mr. Watson discussed the need for 
tax revision, for taxation based on abili- 


ty to pay. He told of the advantages 
of having one county assessor instead 
of a full-time township assessor. “Uni- 
formity in valuations,” he said, “‘is al- 
most impossible so long as we have as 
many assessors as there are townships 
in the county. Every assessor: has his 
own idea about values, and with 37 
assessors in one county you are likely 
to get as many different bases of valua- 
tion.” 

Henry T. Marshall of the LaSalle 
County Farm Bureau Tax Committee 
presided. 


11 Qts. for $1.00 


Eleven quarts of milk for $1 is the 
new retail price, the lowest in 10 years, 
announced April 1 by milk distributors 
in Springfield, Ill. The cut was made 
in an effort to boost consumption and 
get rid of the surplus. 


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Page Eighteen THE I. A. A. RECORD . : April, 1931 


Soybean Growers in 


Stock Sales Drive 


Several Counties Oversubscribe 
Quotas. All Make Progress 
in Placing Association 
on New Basis 


PRROGRES of Illinois soybean grow- 
ers in placing their co-operative sales 
agency, the Soybean Marketing Associa- 
tion, on a capital stock basis is indi- 
cated by accomplishments in recent 
weeks in the central Illinois soybean 
area. 

The association proposes to sell $50,- 
000 worth of capital stock to provide 
working capital and to. give every 
member grower a direct financial inter- 
est in his own marketing machinery. 


The 26 counties in which nearly 
3,000 members of the organization re- 
side, have been placed on a quota basis 
in the stock subscription campaign. In 
the first week of the drive McLean and 
DeWitt counties both over-subscribed 
their allotments. 


Scott Leads 


A checkup of results just before go- 
ing to press reveals that little Scott 
county leads the state with stock sub- 
scriptions in the Soybean Ass’n. office 
totaling 105 per cent of its quota. De- 
Witt is second with 104 per cent, Mc- 
Lean third with 102 per cent, and 
Peoria fourth with 90 per cent. 


Manager J. H. Lloyd of the Soybean 
Marketing Association and V. Vaniman 
of the Illinois Agricultural Association 
were scheduled to complete a series of 
meetings through the soybean territory 
on April 11. At these meetings the 
speakers explained the capital set-up, 
and the problems facing the Soybean 
Association in the coming year. 


While farm income in 1930 declined 
appreciably from that of the preceding 
years, soybean growers are making a 
valiant attempt to operate their mar- 
keting machinery with as little outside 
financial help as possible. They have 
been reluctant to borrow money from 
the government and the modest loans 
which have been made the growers pro- 
pose to pay back as soon as conditions 
warrant. 


DeBord Is V.-P. 


Through error the name of Jesse L. 
Beery—was—published—as—viee-president 
of the Illinois Agricultural Co-oper- 
atives’ Assn. in the March RECORD. 
Byron W. DeBord of Princeville, Ill., 
was elected vice-president at the an- 
nual meeting of the Board of Directors 
held at Springfield on January 28. 


Pass Oleo Bill in Wisconsin McDonough County 


The Wisconsin state legislature re- 
cently passed a bill providing for li- 
cense fees ranging from $1,000 to $50 
annually from persons making, selling 
or publicly serving oleomargarine in 
Wisconsin. A $1,000 fee is required of 
the manufacturer or wholesaler dealer, 
$300 from a retail dealer, $100 hotel 
or restaurant, $50 boarding house. 


Illinois Vote on 
| Oleomargine Bill 


The vote of Illinois members of 
Congress on the Brigham-Townsend bill 
restoring the 10 cents per pound tax 
on yellow oleomargarine was as follows: 
U. S. Senate— 

For the bill: Chas. $. Deneen. 

Not voting: Otis F. Glenn. 

House of Representatives— 

For the bill: Chas. Adkins, John C. 
Allen, Wm. W. Arnold, John T. Buck- 
bee, Carl R. Chindblom, Burnett M. 
Chipperfield, Ed. E. Dennison, Homer 
W. Hall, Wm. P. Holaday, Wm. E. 
Hull, James F. Igoe, Ed. M. Irwin, Wm. 
R. Johnson, Ruth H. McCormick, M. 
Alfred Michaelson, Claud V. Parsons, 
Henry T. Rainey, Frank M. Ramey, 
Frank R. Reid, Richard Yates. 

Against the bill: Fred A. Britten, 
Oscar DePriest, Morton D. Hull, Adolph 
J. Sabath, Elliott W. Sproul. 

Not voting: Thomas A. Doyle, Stan- 
ley H. Kunz. 


Limestone Day, Tonti, 
August 16, 1918 


W. L. Cope of Marion county writes: 
“On page nine of the March issue of 
the I. As A. RECORD is a picture of 
Dr. C. G. Hopkins preaching the gos- 
pel of permanent soil fertility. This 
picture was taken at Tonti, IIl., on 
August 16, 1918. The occasion— 
Limestone Day. 

“Dinner was served by the ladies of 
the community. There was also talk 
on conservation of food by some lady— 
have forgotten her name. Am enclos- 
ing a statement of the number of cars 
unloaded.” 

The statement enclosed is that of L. 
H. Brasel, I. C. R. R. agent, who says: 
“Our records show that on August 16 
and 17, 1918, there were 18 cars of 
limestone_unloaded_at_this_station, the 
majority of which cars were released on 
August 17.” 


Saline, Johnson, Massac, Hardin and Pope 
counties are considering the organization of a 
five-county service company to handle petro- 
leum products. 


Makes Good Record 


A 7 per cent dividend on preferred 
stock and an 8 per cent patronage divi- 
dend on common stock was recently de- 
clared by the McDonough Service Com- 
pany. More than $2,400 was added to 
the surplus. The total volume of busi- 
ness handled by the company amounted 
to $25,103.18. 

At the annual meeting of the Mc- 
Donough Farm Bureau in March ‘it 
was reported that during the year 98 
new members came into the organiza- 
tion, that 90 per cent of the members 
used some form of Farm Bureau service, 
and that the Farm Bureau closed the 
year with a net worth of $23,426.65. 


Lard Substitute Tax 
Before Iowa Assembly 


A 3 cent lard substitute tax is pro- 
posed in a measure before the Iowa 
legislature. Southern states have pro- 
tested in the interest of cottonseed oil. 
“It is solely a revenue measure, al- 
though of doubtful value,” said Secre- 
tary Mark Thornburg in reply to pro- 
tests. The Iowa Senate also passed a 
§ cent tax on butter substitutes. 


Cook County Forms 
New Buying Service 


Gardners Supply, Inc., is the name of 
a new co-operative organized by the 
Cook County Farm Bureau to handle 
truck gardeners’ supplies, seeds, insecti- 
cides, feeds, etc. 


Organized with an authorized capi- 
tal of $25,000 the company began 
operating the last day of February with 
$7,500 paid in for working capital. 
During the month of March the com- 
pany did a business of over $8,000. It 
expects to handle upwards of $30,000 
in sales during the year. 


The co-operative will meet local 
prices and all savings will go back to 
Farm Bureau member patrons on a 
patronage basis. Control stock in the 
co-operative is owned by the Cook 
County Farm Bureau. 

Insecticides handled will be in line 
with recommendations of the Univer- 
sity of Illinois. Fertilizers and chicken 
feeds from the Indiana Farm Bureau 


have been put in stock. Joe Zickniund™ 


is manager. 


The Illinois Senate, March 31, defeated a 
measure to provide that owners and operators 
of motor vehicles shall not be liable for in- 
juries to guest—passengers except for willful 
and wanton misconduct. 


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Volume 9 


State Income Tax Before House 


Opponents of Measure Raise Smoke Screens and Seek 


ATTLING of skeletons in the closet 

by champions of the tax dodgers 
has been heard as a result of the hearing 
before the House revenue committee at 
Springfield last week when the Lantz 
state income tax bill and companion 
measures moved on toward considera- 
tion in the House. 

A blast was unloosed against the 
measure by the Civic Federation of 
Chicago which represents a 
small group of wealthy men 
including large holders of 
stocks and bonds. The bur- bill. 
den of the plaint was that 
security holders would be 
exposed by the income tax 
and their stocks and bonds 
placed on the property tax 
books to suffer double taxa- 
tion. 


As a matter of fact pro- 
vision has been made for 
administration of the pro- 
posed income tax by a sepa- 
rate Department of Income 
Taxation which under the 
act cannot impart informa- 
tion to other taxing bodies. The expo- 
sure argument is being used as a smoke 
screen to hide the real reason of many 
for opposing a state income tax: namely, 
to avoid paying a fair share of the tax 
burden. 

Another reason advanced by oppo- 
nents is that local property taxes would 
not be reduced by the proposed income 
tax measure. Yet, if the rates were 
raised to provide more revenue to re- 
duce local as well as state taxes the 
very people who advance this argument 
would be the first to howl; in fact the 
Civic Federation contradicts itself when 


it criticizes Senate Bill 138 because, in 


harmony with some of the most pro- 
gressive income tax states, its highest 
rates are slightly higher than is the case 
in a few other states. 


The old bogy of unconstitutionality 
raised in the Senate is again being 
trotted out in the discussions over in 
the House. Yet, there is ample justi- 
fication in past State Supreme Court 
decisions and in the constitution itself 
for believing that the proposed income 
tax, which is an excise tax, is just as 
constitutional as the inheritance tax 
with its graduated rates, the gas tax, 


Tax dodgers get active against income tax 


Smoke screens raised to hide real reasons for 
opposition. 
Chicago paper changes front, admits income tax 
a fair tax but wants reapportionment so Chicago 
can rule the state. 


Big real estate men want property tax offset 
feature; objections to this proposal cited. 

How companion bills to S. B. 
replacement” tax. 

Cost of administration much less than cost of 
property tax. 


and any other excise taxes. 

The Chicago Tribune, which has been 
a very unfair opponent, apparently has 
had a twinge of conscience for in a recent 
editorial (May 8) it modified its previous 
stand by admitting that the income tax 
is a sound and fair tax; that ability to 
pay is an accepted basis of taxation. It 
admits that “One man may be ruined 
by the levy on his possessions; another 
may have an income unrelated to his 
taxable wealth. Taxation of the means of 
livelihood without consideration of the 
revenue produced has injustice bound up 
in it. A man taxed upon the volume of 
his investments may have his living 
taken from him. He can stand a tax 
upon the | income derived from these 
securities.’ 

So has the Tribune endorsed. an in- 


138 make it a 


to Delay Consideration 


come tax and candidly implies in the 
same editorial that its opposition is not 
based on any lack of merit of the pro- 
posed legislation, but purely because the 
legislature has not seen fit to reappor- 
tion representation according to popula- 
tion and allow Chicago to rule the rest 
of the state. 

The opening hearing on the bill and 
its companion measures before the House 
Revenue Committee on May 
6 was marked by general 
agreement that owners of 
real estate are being taxed 
to death; that some relief 
must be provided. Nor was 
there opposition expressed to 
the income tax as a fair 
method of deriving reve- 
nue. 


Representatives of big real 
estate holders in the larger 
cities, many of whom also 
own large blocks of stocks 
and bonds, held out for the 
property tax offset feature 
under which property taxes 
would be deductible directly 
from computed income taxes. Thus, the 
real estate owner who pays as much as 
$1,000 in property taxes would have to 
get a net income of at least $27,167 if 
Senate Bill 138 is enacted, before he 
would pay any income tax. 

It is very likely that this feature 
would influence many who now own 
no real estate but who come in the 
ihcome tax-paying class, to buy a lot, 
a home, or a flat building, or perhaps 
even a farm. “Buy a Lot and Save 
Your Income Tax” might be the slogan 
of many a subdivider and real estate 
operator. _ 

The weakness of the property tax off- 
set feature lies in the fact that it would 
greatly reduce revenue derived from the 
income tax, thus throwing a greater 
portion of state taxes back on property 


and at the same time would officially 
sanction the tremendous inequality in 
taxation under our present system. While 
farmers and real estate owners under 
present conditions pay all the way from 
20 to’ 50 per cent of their net income 
in taxes, the income tax proposes a 
maximum of only 6 per cent on net 
income. 


The Companion Measures 

The companion bills, $. B. 164-165- 
166-167-168-169-170-200, repeal levies 
against property for state tax purposes 
and give effect to the replacement fea- 
ture of the proposed income tax. Thus, 
if the measure raises $30,000,000 of 
revenue for the State General Fund, a 
like amount will be removed from the 
levies against property. However, the 
University of Illinois fund, the state 
school fund, and the blind relief fund 
are protected if by any chance the in- 
come tax is held unconstitutional, by 
authorization given state officials to levy 
taxes for the General Fund, out of 
which may be appropriated money for 
the above purposes. 

At the same time Senate Bill 169 pro- 
vides that the Governor, the Auditor of 
Public Accounts, and the State Treas- 
urer are directed to estimate the revenue 
to be derived from the income tax in 
1932 and reduce the tax levy on prop- 
erty to such an amount. 

It is estimated that the cost of ad- 
ministering the state income tax will 
require not more than 2 per cent of the 
tax so collected and will probably re- 
quire less. The cost of administering 
the property tax, on the other hand, 
is considerably greater than this per- 
centage. 


Action in Three States 
On Income Tax Bills 


St. Paul, Minn., April 25. 
Bills proposed a constitutional amend- 
ment authorizing an income tax have 
been passed by both the House and 
Senate. Under the Minnesota law such 
an amendment must be submitted to 
the electorate. 
Tallahassee, Fla., April 25. 
The bill proposing a constitutional 
amendment permitting an income tax 
has been passed by the Florida Senate 
by a vote of 27 to 11. 
Lansing, Mich., April 25. 
The Michigan House has passed a bill 
proposing a graduated personal income 
tax. The sales tax was defeated. 


The sub-committee appointed to 
frame~a national fruit and vegetable 
growers’ marketing plan with Federal 
Farm Board backing will meet in 
Washington May 18. 


Page Four THE I. A. A. RECORD May, 1931 


Comparison of Tax Now Paid by Property, and Net Income 
That a Person Would Have to Receive to Pay as Much Taxes 
Under the Income Tax Bill as Property Owners Now Pay 


Column 1 below shows the average 
tax now levied directly on property and 
indirectly on the income from property; 
column 2 the net income from proper- 
ty which on the average is only four 
times the actual taxes. Columns 4, 6 
and 8 show the income a single person, 
a married couple or the head of a 
family of four would have to’ receive 
to pay as much taxes as the property 


owner pays (column 1) on his income 
from property (column 2). 

(Note: It is here conservatively esti- 
mated that in recent years general taxes 
levied on tax-paying property have 
taken one-fourth of the net income 
therefrom, computed before taxes are 
paid. This is an indirect tax without 
any exemptions of 25 per cent on the 
net income from tax-paying property. 


TAXES NOW LEVIED ON|LEVY ON NET INCOME PROPOSED BY SENATE BILL 138 


TAX-PAYING PROPERTY 


pan ~—-Single Person—-—-_ -— Married Couple— Family of Four 

Income of Pers’al Total Pers’al Total Pers’al Total Pers’al 

Tax Levy Such Prop. Exemp.| Net Income Exemp. Net Income Exemp, Net Income Exemp. 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 

$ 25 $ 100 None }} 3,250 $1,000 $ 4,250 $2,000 $ 5,250 $3,000 
50 200° ** 4,500 “ 5,500“ 6,500“ 
100 400 “ 6,667 - 7,667 2 8,667 an 
200 800.“ 10,000 : 11,000 = 12,000 = 
300 1,200: ™ 12,750 re 13,750 - 14,750 sg 
400 1,600 “ 15,250 2 16,250 ih 17,250 . 
500 2,000 “ 17,400 " 18,400 " 19,400 = 
600 2,400 “ 19,400 it 20,400 7 21,400 “ 
700 2,806: “ 21,400 = 22,400 bh 23,400 es 
800 3,200 “ 23,400 - 24,400 aa 25,400 
900 3,600 “ 25,400 - 26,400 vi 27,400 iy 
1,000 4,000 “ 27,167 iy 28,167 29,167 ve 
1,500 6,000 “ 35,500 fs 36,500 oe 37,500 “ 
2,000 8,000 “ 43,833 * 44,833 = 45,833 . 
2,500 10,000 ‘“ 52,167 oe 53,167 ae 54,167 cn 
3,000 12,000 “ 60,500 61,500 : 62,500 = 
4,000 16,000 “ 77,167 . 78,167 bi 79,167 s 
5,000 20,000 “ 93,833 si 94,833 e 95,833 “ 
6,000 24,000 “ 110,500 i 111,500 - 112,500 i 
7,000 28,000 ‘ 127,167 7 128,167 = 129,167 be 
8,000 32,000 “ 143,833 i 144,833 ™ 145,833 - 
9,000 36,000 ‘ 160,500 * 161,500 “ 162,500 ™ 
10,000 40,000 “ 177,167 " 178,167 “ 179,167 x 
15,000 60,000 — ‘ 260,500 n 261,500 . 262,500 ae 
20,000 80,000 “ 343,833 ' 344,833 iy 345,833 e 
25,000 100,000 “ 427,167 cs 428,167 re 429,167 . 
30,000 120,000 “ 510,500 = 511,500 * 512,500 " 
40,000 160,000 “ 677,167 ey 678,167 . 679,167 es 
50,000 200,000 ‘“ 843,833 is 844,833 7 845,833 rs 


60,000 240,000 “ 
70,000 280,000 “ 
80,000-320,000—“ 
90,000 360,000 . “ 
100,000 400,000 ‘“ 


1,010,500 es 
LZ Aé7 2 
1,343,833 7 
1,510,500 = 
1,677,167 = 


1,011,500 ". 
1,178,167 er 
1,344,833. * 
1,511,500 x 
1,678,167 ne 


1,012,500 * 
1,079,167, ** 
1,345,833 “ 
1,512,500 * 
1,679,167.“ 


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May, 1931 THE I. A. A. RECORD Page Five 


The Displacing of Present State Taxes on Real and Personal 
Property by Senate Bill No. 138--The Income Tax Bill 
| And Its Eight Companion Bills 


If the State Income Tax Bill and its eight companign bills were now in effect, taxes on net income would displace 
state taxes on lands, town and city lots, and personal property due this spring in the following amounts for each county 
and each legislative (senatorial) district in the state outside of Cook county: : 

(Note: Cook county would have its property taxes reduced approximately $12,682,210 if the above measures were 


now in force.) 


County Taxes Displaced 
Eighth District 
Fee ee ee $ 63,780 
SMR ie oi ELM Late ac 335,020 
MCRIOBEY. eae es 138,550 
Total in District......... $537,350 
Tenth District 
Oeie ese $133,710 
Winnebago... eee. 343,760 
Total in District......... $477,470 
Twelfth District 
CARI 8 Sp oe ea ee $ 65,040 
TOE DAVION8 i ee ee 70,480 
Stephenson -... 2.2... 00.005: 126,120 
Total in District......... $261,640 
Fourteenth District 
Baie 65560 8 Ol. oe $340,450 
Kendall: 2.5 cccicccig eo penis 51,860 
Total in District......... $392,310 
Sixteenth District 
Livingston ...:........... $205,690 
MS se ei oe eas 72,070 
Portepimt =. oe oe. 19,100 
Woodford). 2. ee este. 97,390 
Total in District......... $394,250 
Eighteenth District 
POGHE 2 EE eee Es $386,340 
Total in District......... $386,340 
i Twentieth District 
ORES ea Seo ce eee $ 75,600 
eRe eee 185,400 
MAWBAKGC - 5 ew ee dn 123,220 
Total in District......... $384,220 
Twenty-second District 
BOMEE or ee heb $100,750 
Vermilion ................ "254,810 
Total in District......... $355,560 
Twenty-fourth District 
Champaign 30505 $219,640 
WON oc aia eles 47,450 
<<... Tle 82,550 
Total in District......... $349,640 
Twenty-sixth District 
PON: ior Tee We ce $ 95,030 


County Taxes Displaced 
MCHA foe ee ie 324,580 
Total in District......... $419,610 
Twenty-eighth District 
DeWitt. eee, ees $ 69,210 
SRBER oe Se eae 138,730 
MSGON kes: 218,340 
Total in District......... $426,280 
Thirtieth District 
Brown) 3 es a eos $ 26,880 
Cg i ce Oy hal Ue Gg 62,200 
WO ks Es Bs 57,920 
Ménard fo: ek es 52,110 
| ade a 34,160 
WRBOWO 2 oe Ce 165,740 
Total in District......... $399,010 | 
Thirty-second District 
Flarroche oe. oo bk: $116,910 
McDonough .............. 106,660 
Warten oo oat oc 93,930 
Total in District......... $317,500 
Thirty-third District 
Phendartots oe $ 47,490 
REM Fi os oe be SL 79,850 
Rook. ‘Island 0: 20.0. 211,890 
Total in District......... $339,230 
Thirty-fourth District 
APES ieee SO ser 2 $ 39,810 
MN SS ics fare nite ee ey Sea 85,360 
Douglas ......... 71,180 
Total in District......... $196,350 
Thirty-fith District rm 
| 2: a eR $139,360 
BM She or Fon eee, Soe ans 145,110 
Whiteside ................ 138,600 
Total im District......... $423,070 
Thirty-sixth District 
Ai 8 oo ee Seek: $228,060 
COMM. oi Si eet 25,460 
es rie eee Reenter 73,040 
NEF Foe en lock Gk es 30,270 
Total in District......... $356,830 
Thirty-seventh District 
eS Se ana ee eR RES $142,400 


157,580 


County Taxes Displaced 
SER Eee eg Beeld hei oe 58,080 
Total in District......... $358,060 
Thirty-eighth District 
MaRS ne, petty ae, $ 60,650 
fs 2 eee ae OE 32,180 
Matoebin: 6 es es. 96,470 
Montgomery ............. 98,770 
Total in District....... . $288,070 


Thirty-ninth District 
LaSalle. rb $305,550 
Total in District......... $305,550 
Fortieth District 
Christian... ooo 5 Dea ee dle $123,820 
Cursberiand: .. . s. s e 20,720 
RM so aa Bes eek aes 51,450 
SiG oi soe cc ew 92,410 
Total in District......... $288,400 
Forty-first District 
SEARO oi oO cease $249,570 
|: PS a ee ne 278,440 
Total in District......... $528,010 
Forty-second District 
a 8 igs Sr ee ee a, $ 31,780 
8 RS ee 50,250 
eT es ee rr 43,430 
a i a 58,310 
Total in District......... $183,770 
Forty-third District 
POCO asp eateries bio oa" $127,070 
WM etn OR ae tag 160,920 
Total in District......... $287,990 
Forty-fourth District 
MACRION oo ocelot ask ae ee $ 50,310 
el a ey 42,430 
SRE OS 4 Bea ety s 6 hed ak 53,420 
MUNN 5 Salas 2.8. bah aaah 54,660 
Washington .............. 45,400 
Total in District........ _. $246,220 
Forty-fifth District 
Miptewh 6 oi. oie a $133,320 
SOMMNING tee 3 337,470 
Total in District......... $470,790 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


County Taxes Displaced 
Forty-sixth District 
SOONG les oan Bob PT Sc $ 25,410 
Jefeteba. ok pees as 42,220 
Richland... . cee 27,440 
Wynd. eM ee be 30,110 
Total in District......... $125,180 
Forty-seventh District 
WOES hee lee sy Rien nan 4 $ 37,520 
WinHOS 8 ge a Bes 279,700 
Total in District......... $317,220 
Forty-eighth District 
Crawtord: 3 ee, $ 53,890 
Beware. so lk bev. ceeds 18,860 
Gallatin ........... 19,320 
tg TA ei tena ee 11,800 
Lawrence’)... cw lnk 44,290 
Wabash ........... apn. cad 37,850 
Wie ore eV ae ad 22,700 
Total in District......... $208,710 
Forty-ninth District 
St, Clie =) ee rr $355,150 
Total in District......... $355,150 
Fiftieth District 
Alexsader 05008003 .45.. $ 46,270 
FUORI Foe ie Scene 85,210 
PUREE foes cee eons 19,240 
MIMO 5 cst eee aah hat bods 36,880 
Williamson ............00. 58,740 
Total in District......... $246,340 
Fifty-first District 
FIRNOON 8s Un ee $ 21,230 
PORDIOG iS iors cine Riese k 16,590 
OS a rer 24,850 
POMO So. oooh le ha ge 10,290 
Sere ce Oe oc 40,490 
Total in District......... $113,450 


Fruit Growers Meet 


Good Crop Expected 


The annual meeting of the Illinois 
Fruit Growers Exchange was held at 
Centralia, Tuesday, May 12. One of 
the principal topics discussed was the 
new national co-operative fruit and 
vegetable marketing plan. 

Manager A. B. Leeper is a member 
of the committee framing the plan to 
be submitted to the Farm Board at a 
meeting in Washington in the near 
future. 

The growers are expecting a good 
crop of peaches, pears and apples. The 
bloom throughout the fruit producing 
sections was unusually heavy, and a 
good set is reported. 


C, E. Lindell of McPherson county, Kansas, — 


banker and farmer, recently sold 16 wheat-fed 
hogs on the Hutchinson market which netted 
him 96.5 cents a bushel for his 50-cent wheat. 
In addition to the wheat Mr. Lindell fed oats 
and tankage. 


Review Bills Before 
57th General Assembly 


Te Ae A Representatives Watch 
Legislation of Doubtful Value, 
Oppose Property Tax Increases 


GRICULTURAL measures active- 

ly supported by the I. A. A. are 
making progress before the General As- 
sembly. House Bill 410 (Lucky) which 
provides that no owner shall be liable 
for damages in civil suit for the run- 
ning at large of livestock causing in- 
jury to persons and personal property 
unless such owner having exercised rea- 
sonable care to restrain such animals 
has knowledge thereof, passed the House 
and has been reported out of the Senate 
Agricultural Committee with favorable 
recommendation. Senator Barr of Joliet 
is handling the bill in the Senate. ° 


House Bill 466 (Tice) which amends 
the 1915 Co-operative Act to make it 
co-operative in principle as well as in 
name, is now on second reading in the 
House, while House Bill 467 (Tice) 
which amends the 1923 Co-operative 
Act has passed the house and received 
favorable recommendation from the 
Senate Agricultural Committee. 


House Bill 501 (Johnson) which 
makes the owner of any dog liable for 
damages sustained by reason of such 
dog killing, wounding, or chasing live- 
stock, passed both the House and Sen- 
ate, but has been called back to correct 
a discrepancy in its title and an illegal 
provision. 

House Bill 451 which limits the use 
of butter and lard substitutes to 25 
per cent in state institutions passed both 
the House and Senate some time ago. 


Other bills of more or less interest to 
Illinois farmers include H. B. 4 (Davis) 
which provides for free distribution of 
limestone from Chester penitentiary as 
a temporary measure to aid drouth- 
stricken southern Illinois farmers. This 
bill passed the House on April 30. 

H. B. 228 (Rep. Hunter) which ex- 
empts farm machinery and _ tractors 
from paying the state motor license 
fee passed the House several weeks ago. 
This measure has the active support of 
the I. A. A. 

Several bills would amend the motor 
vehicle act so as to change the state 
license fees and classifications of trucks. 
Senator Dunlap’s bill No. 71 would 
make the license on trucks weighing 
less than 4,000 Ibs. $8.00; 4,000 to 
8,000 Ibs. $12.00; and 8,000 to 12,000 
Ibs. $22.50; trailers and semi-trailers 
weighing 2,000 to 4,000 lbs. $12.00, 
and 4,000 to 10,000 Ibs. $25.00. The 
Dunlap bill passed the Senate and now 
lies before the House. 


_ May, 1931 


Rep. Henry Allen introduced a new 
bill H. B. 870, which assesses trucks 
weighing less than 3,000 Ibs. $10.00; 
3,000-to 8,000 Ibs: $14.00; and 8,000 
to 12,000 Ibs. $22.50; trailers and 
semi-trailers weighing 2,000 to 4,000 
Ibs. $12.00; and 4,000 to 10,000 Ibs. 
$25.00. Mr. Allen’s new bill, it is ex- 
pected, will derive more revenue than 
Sen. Dunlap’s. ; Allen’s previous bill 
H. B. 139 was identical to the Dunlap 
measure. 

A remedy for the financial plight of 
school districts unable to pay interest 
and principal on school bonds under 
present tax limitations is sought in S. B. 
81 (Huebsch). This bill provides for 
a tax in excess of the 244% limit for 
such purpose if and when a majority 
of the voters of the district give their 
approval. Rep. Bolger of McHenry 
county was active in including the 
referendum provision in the bill. The 
distressed districts, it is understood, are 
located mostly in the suburban area 
outside Chicago and in southern Illinois. 

A number of other school measures 
of doubtful value to farmers are being 
studied. Following its well known poli- 
cy reiterated in resolutions passed at 
the last annual meeting, the Association 
will oppose legislation which seeks to 
increase property taxes. The I. A. A. 
believes that such a position will help 
bring about a fair and equitable taxing 
system based on ability to pay. 


Publicity Conference at 
Institute of Co-Operation 


A conference for publicity directors 
and editors of farm organization and 
co-operative papers will be a special fea- 
ture this year at the seventh session of 
the American Institute of Co-Opera- 
tion, Manhattan, Kansas, June 8-13. 

Among the general topics to be con- 


sidered at the coming Institute, which. 


opens Monday, June 8, are: ‘‘Possibili- 
ties of Adjusting Production to De- 
mand,” ‘‘Lessons from the Merchandis- 
ing Problems of Older Co-Operatives,” 
“Financing and Risk-Bearing for Co- 
Operatives,” ‘Evaluation of the Work 
of the Federal Farm Board,” and ‘‘Na- 
tional Problems of Co-Operatives.” 
General sessions will be held in the 
morning and special sessions devoted to 


individual commodity marketing in the- 


afternoon. 


Thomas Represents Advisers 


Melvin Thomas, farm adviser of 
Coles—county;—represented the State 
Association of Farm Advisers at the 
April meeting of the I. A. A. directors 
in Chicago. B: W. Tillman, president, 
was unable to be present. 


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Coultas Hired by 


Soybean Association 


‘‘Hank” Lloyd Goes to Aurora Bank 
As Farm Manager 


; ILBUR H. COULTAS, farm ad- 
viser in McLean county for the 

past three years, was employed as active 
manager of the Soybean Marketing As- 
sociation at a meet- 
ing of the directors 
in Springfield April 


After graduating 
from the University 
of Illinois, Coultas 
became. assistant 
farm adviser in Pe- 
oria county where 
he served for three 
years before taking 
W. H. Coultas 2 similar job with 
Harrison Fahrnkopf, 
former farm adviser of McLean county. 
When Mr. Fahrnkopf was employed as 
director of grain marketing for the I. 
A. A. in September, 1928, Coultas suc- 
ceeded him as farm adviser. Coultas 
was active, along with other central 
Illinois county advisers, in organizing 
the Soybean Marketing Association. 
Mr. Coultas succeeds J. H. Lloyd, 
one of Illinois’ first farm advisers, who 
leaves the Soybean Association to be- 
come farm manager for the First Na- 


tional Bank of Aurora. 


In tendering his resignation, Mr. 
Lloyd said: ‘‘It is with deep regret that 
I sever a connection of more than 15 
years with the Farm Bureau movement 
in Illinois. In my new work, however, 
I expect to continue to do everything 
I can for the best interests of Illinois 
farmers, and to co-operate with the 
Farm Bureau which has done so much 
for Illinois agriculture. 

“My desire to spend more time with 
my family and to enter the field of 
farm management in which I have long 
been interested, prompts me to make 
this new move. I have appreciated the 
past opportunities in working with the 
soybean growers of Illinois. I have every 
confidence that under the competent 
supervision of the Board of Directors, 
and the corporate and active managers 
the organized soybean growers of the 
state will go on to further achievement 
in co-operative marketing.” 

Lloyd expects to take up his new du- 
ties around the middle of May. Coultas 
will leave McLean county June 15. He 
and his family expect to move tao Oak 


Park. 


Nothing tones down a trouble- 
maker so quickly as to run into 
someone he isn’t sure he can lick. 


Seek Lower Rates on Peaches 


Lower rates-on peaches shipped out 
of southern Illinois to eastern markets 
are being sought by peach growers of 
that section. 

A meeting to bring about fairer rates 
was held in the I. A. A. offices on May 
1. A. B. Leeper and L. J. Quasey of the 
I. A. A. met with the group which in- 
cluded growers and railroad men. 
| The committee appointed by the 
fruit growers consists of A. B. Leeper, 
manager of the Illinois Fruit Growers 
Exchange; H. W. Day, Illinois Horti- 
cultural Society; Guy Beauman, John- 
son county; H. H. Lamar and J. J. 
Keith, Union county; and W. S. Per- 
rine and Senator Henry M. Dunlap who 
have large orchards in Marion county. 

It is estimated that 25 per cent of 
Illinois peaches are hauled out of south- 
ern Illinois territory by truck because 
of the high freight rates. Illinois 
peaches are carried by railroads at a 
rate of 85° per cent of first-class freight 
rates, while Georgia peaches are hauled 
to market at 47 per cent of first-class 
rates, it was stated. 


Hornbeek Employed 
As District Manager 


L. B. Hornbeek of Winchester, Scott 
county, is the new organization mana- 
ger for the sixth district in southeastern 
Illinois. He succeeds F. M.. Higgins, 
who resigned the first of the year. 

Mr. Hornbeek made a good record 
as a part-time membership solicitor. He 
has been active in Farm Bureau work 
in Scott county for many years. Horn- 
beek is reported to have made 9 per 
cent interest on the investment in his 
farm in 1929, which he operated along 
with his work for the Farm Bureau. 


Oil Men Meet 


District meetings for directors, mana- 
gers, and truck salesmen of county 
oil co-operatives affiliated with the IIli- 
noise Farm Supply Company are sched- 
uled for Tuesday, June 9, Decatur; 
Wednesday, June 10, Peoria; and Thurs- 
day, June 11, DeKalb. 

John Krawetz, chief chemist of the 
Phoenix Chemical Laboratory, and 
Ralph Matthews, vice-president of the 
Battenfeld Grease and Oil Corporation, 
will speak to each group. 

Greater uniformity in handling and 
selling SERVICE petroleum products is 
being brought about-as-a-result-of these 
meetings. 


Advice to advertisers: When ev- 
erything else fails, try improving 
the product. 


I. A. A. Directors Attend 
Mrs. Sorrells’ Funeral 


Mrs. Sorrells, wife of Sam Sorrells, 
I, A. A. director from. the 21st dis- 
trict, was buried at Raymond on Sun- 
day, April 19. 

The following resolution expressing 
the sympathy of the Board of Directors 
to Mr. Sorrells was passed at the April 
meeting: 

WHEREAS, the Board of Direc- 
tors of this Association has learned 
with profound regret of the death 
of Mrs. Samuel Sorrells, the be- 
loved wife of our esteemed associ- 
ate and fellow member of this 
Board of Directors: 

RESOLVED, that the Board of 
Directors, deeply sensible of the 
loss sustained, extend their associ- 
ate and fellow member, Samuel 
Sorrells, its sincere sympathy, and 
shall and hereby does note in its 
records its tribute and appreciation 
of her noble character and service 
rendered in her community and to 
humanity; and 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, 
that a copy of this resolution be 
tendered to the bereaved family. 
The president appointed the follow- 

ing committee of three to attend the 
funeral: W. L. Cope, Geo. F. Tullock 
and Charles S. Black. 


LaSalle-Peru Producers 


Keep Milk at Home 


The Tri-City Dairymen’s Associa- 
tion of LaSalle, Peru and Oglesby is 
maintaining a price level of $2.65 per 
cwt. for 3.5 per cent milk because 
members of the organization are keep- 
ing all milk at home that dealers can- 
not handle for the wholesale and retail 
fluid trade. og 

It is reported that the surplus 
amounts to about 15 per cent of the 
total supply. The extra milk is being 
used to feed pigs and calves on the 
farm. 


Picnic—Fish Fry 


A picnic and fish fry is being ar- 
ranged by District Organization Mana- 
ger L. F. Brissenden for Farm Bureau 
presidents, executive committeemen, 
farm advisers, and their families, in the 
14 counties comprising Brissenden’s or- 
ganization district in Southern Illinois. 

The event has been scheduled for 
Saturday—and—Sunday, August—22=23, 
and will be held at Dixon Springs, a 
well-known summer resort in Pope 
county between Vienna and Golconda. 
George Metzger, J. C. Spitler and other 
speakers will be present. 


To advance the—purposefor- which the Farm Bureau was organized, 
namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, political, 
and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation, 
and to develop agriculture. 


GEorGE THEM, Editor 


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OFFICERS é 
President, Earl C. Smith 2.2222 ...eeeeeeeeeeececeeeennneeceene ce ee reece sere eenneeneeenmene Detroit 
Vice-President, A. R. Wright-.......---.-......-.---.---s:c-eceeeneeoneonenneeencenneeetenenmens Varna 
Secretary, Geo. E. Metzget-...........---..------2--sc---sc--ecceeneenseenseescneceneccnnensees Chicago 
Treasurer, R. A, Cowles. ...........-.-----.---s100--eeseeeceneneeesbeneeceesenennenerenee Bloomington 


BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
(By Congressional District) 
H. C. Vial, Downers Grove 
Fi cacpesened G. F. Tullock, Rockford 
SO Rk RT SEM SOE C. E. Bamborough, Polo 
eine Saskdaiatestphaseoush te M. G, Lambert, Ferris 
sipcasvcniiegi iow cies acespdesuscusion coabassccuuretaeasioacatcoudasansioatpobes Charles Bates, Browning 
Geo. B. Muller, Washington 
B. Schofield, Paxton 
mins Ww. Dennis, Paris 
ebsciienn ttre C. J. Gross, Atwood 
harles S. Black, Jacksonville 
ceikad Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 
wicuninicee Frank Oexner, Waterloo 
bs onsevcapdlsonGubovesdeani acted Muon rinvoaksvasinviwebinicokesdpenbocstdaciveastehabiial W. L. Cope, Salem 
Charles Marshall, Belknap 
Fred Dietz, De Soto 


DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 


CORED Oe os a nance fear cnecdnceomen eves eynmsiacovechaanshnatinsapepetceniitilede J. H. Kelker 
NETO cmesentvesnisiivesnnrencpripelinpacnmalleresegiereriedcagyiicwsivuangensteiviiecsnsoacpimseridip R. A, Cowles 
a PNR — ST "OEERREC A. B. Leeper 


Limestone-Phosphate............-.---------.---+-------00e-ececeeceeeeeeeeneeenseeeceeeeeneeene es J._R._ Bent 
Live Stock Marketing. ......2.2...22.2-22.-------c-cc--cecoe-eeeceeeeceeeeeeeceseenee Ray E. Miller 
Masso esienideiornssoawn Sakic clnassucivihens pay onarscsins Catstainets Cieecnpwnncidbonthctetcacigg C. E. Johnston 
paras th ace ance eeciecnqaecsovsnesseetnceneseceoweecd tnelewate G. E. Metzger 
Produce Marketing............-.----------.--------2---eec-eseeeeeeeeeeeeecenecbeceeeeeeees F. A. Gougler 
Taxation and Statistics.........22.2.22--22----eec-cceneneneeeeceeceneceteeeeeeeeeees J. C. Watson 
Drage pOre a thesia a apc cat nnenineesnpiodcn te vocpensaandecngeningerjatdocbelcon L. J. Quasey 
ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 
Country Life Insurance Co..-.i.22.. 2... ce eeeeneee nee L. A. Williams, Mgr. 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co..........-....--c-02-c--e0ceeen---+ J. H, Kelker, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Co-operative Ass’n F. E. Ringham, Mgr. 


.A. E, Richardson, Mgr. 
SN L. R. Marchant, Mgr. 
Illinois Grain Corp....... ..-.-Harrison Fahrnkopf, Mgr. 
Midwest Grain Corp... P. Cummings, Gen’l. Mgr. 
Soybean Marketing Ass'n... -2.22.2-2-2ceeeteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeennceees J. H. Lloyd, Mgr. 


Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co. 
Illinois Farm Supply Co 


Handling Bad Bills 


I. A. A. representatives are watching a number of 
bills before the legislature which for various reasons 
are undesirable from the farmer’s standpoint. Several 
of these propose or pave the way for property tax 
increases to which the Association is unalterably op- 
posed. One or two have other features threatening 
the rights and interests of farmers. 


Our position on these measures has been and is 
being quietly made known. Obviously it would be 
poor policy to widely announce such opposition and 
thereby provoke reprisals which might endanger con- 
structive legislation the Association is actively sponsor- 
ing. Particularly is this true where bills lie dormant in 
committee with no apparent chance of passage. Much 
quiet but valuable work is done in and out of legis- 
lative halls by those who seek their reward in accom- 
plishment rather than in public acclaim. Sometimes 
it’s smart to be silent. 


Page Eight THE I. A. A. RECORD May, 1931 
I OISs 


The Producers’ Responsibility 


‘@ by May 4 the Soybean Marketing Association had 

received stock subscriptions in the amount of 
$21,600 from members in the central Illinois soybean 
territory. 


Soybean growers believe in financing their own 
marketing operations. They will place their co-oper- 
ative on an independent financial basis just as soon 
as possible. 


It is generally recognized that permanent success 
in Co-operative marketing can be attained only when 
producers believe in the principal strong enough to 
support their organization with their finances and 
products. Cheap money loaned by the government 
may help but will not make the difference between 
success and failure. The responsibility for success lies 
with the producers. They alone can determine what 
the future of this form of marketing will be. 


Power Lines on Farm Lands 


"T°? what extent does a high power line erected 
across a farm depreciate its value? 


This is a question constantly coming up in argu- 
ments over power-line routes and damages asked of 
utility companies’ by landowners. That a’ power line 
built across a farm does lower its value is beyond 
question. But how much? To be effective testimony 
in establishing such damages must be based on fact. 
Do any of our readers know of farms so encumbered 
which have changed hands recently? If so, how much 
less was paid because of the high line? The direction 
and placement of the towers and wire across the land 
naturally influence the damage sustained. 


If you have had experience farming around towers 
or poles, we would like to hear from you. Write the 
I. A. A. RECORD, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago. 


Organization Pays 


According to the LaSalle County Farm Bureau, 
farmers in that county through whose land a natural 
gas pipe line is to be constructed, will receive nearly 
$32,000 more for damages and property rights than 
they would have received under the original contract 
offered them. 


The revised contract was secured for landowners 
by the Farm Bureau with the assistance of the Illinois 
Agricultural Association. 


~ The old contract provided for payment of $1 per 
rod “and reasonable damages,” whereas the revised 
agreement stipulates payment on the basis of $1 per 
rod for right-of-way and “$4 per rod for damages.” 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Nine 


Farm Board and Wheat Prices 


HAT has the Farm Board and the Grain Sta- 
bilization Corp. meant to the wheat grower and 
wheat prices? 

The accompanying chart received from Secretary 
of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde will help answer the 
question. In September, 1930, before the Grain Sta- 
bilization Corp. became effective, note that the Liver- 
pool price at 97c was higher than the Chicago price 
at 92. In February, 1931, the Chicago price was 
82 4c, while the Liverpool market had dropped to 63c. 

The stabilization operations backed by the Farm 
Board are credited with averting hundreds of bank 
failures and farm bankruptcies in the wheat growing 
sections. Now that last year’s crop is largely out of 
farmers’ hands and either processed or owned by the 
Stabilization Corp., support has been removed from 
the market. As a result prices have drifted lower. 
The support given the grain market by the Farm 
Board when a crash was imminent, is likened to the 
support given the stock market by the big banks in 
the fall of 1929. 

More favorable wheat prices are now dependent on 
increased demand from European countries which 
have been using home grown grains almost to the 
exclusion of imports, improved buying power by con- 
sumers in this country, and lower domestic production. 


Enforcing the Oleo Law 
FANFORCEMENT of the state law against selling 


yellow colored oleomargarine is reported from sev- 
eral counties where violations have been discovered. 
This law was placed on the statutes for a good pur- 
pose, namely, to protect butter, a home-grown prod- 
uct, against the unfair competition of a product made 
largely from imported vegetable oils. There is little 
objection to the sale of uncolored oleo, particularly 
that made largely from American animal and vegetable 
fats. Dairymen have no desire to curtail the market 
for beef fats, cottonseed oil and similar products orig- 
inating on the farms of this country. They do right- 
fully insist that such products be sold for what 
they are, that imports of cocoanut oil from the Philip- 
pines be further restricted. No one can assail such a 
policy, for it is in line with protection industrial in- 
terests are now enjoying. 


The Wool Pool 


PEN wool growers have an opportunity to co- 

operate with the National Wool Marketing Corp., 
which last year handled 38 per cent of the entire clip 
in the United States. 

An initial. payment of 11 cents per pound will be 
made to the growers on delivery, the balance to be 
paid when the crop is sold. In some localities last year 
the price paid by local buyers was no higher than the 


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initial advance of the co-operative. In 1930 it is re- 
ported Ohio wool growers received a total of 28 cents 
per pound for their high grade wool. In Illinois, where 
wool growing is largely a sideline, the average quality 
is not so high as in Ohio. But growers who pool 
are assured of getting all the market affords less the 
moderate handling charge. It looks like good business 
to patronize this co-operative setup where every pro- 
ducer is paid on honest weights in line with the quality 
of his product. 


To Meet at Bloomington 


rE first annual meeting of the Illinois Livestock Mar- 

keting Association, newly organized state co-operative, 
will be held at Bloomington on Thursday, May 28. Election 
of directors and consideration of plans and policies will be 
the principal order of business at the meeting which will 
begin at 10 A. M. in the McLean County Farm Bureau 
assembly hall. 

Speakers will include P. O. Wilson, Chicago, manager of 
the National Livestock Marketing Association; D. L. Swan- 
son, Chicago, manager of the Chicago Producers Commission 
Association; and Ray E. Miller, director of livestock mar- 
keting. Henry Parke of Genoa is temporary president of 
the association. Live stock growers from all sections of the 
state are expected to gather for the meeting. 


Grain Corp. Growing 


The business of the Mid-West Grain Corp. continues to 
improve and during April 410 carloads of grain were 


_ handled. 


Since Nov. 1 when the regional began operating on its 
present basis, grain has been received from 134 different 
points in 40 Illinois counties. This satisfactory growth 
indicates the confidence grain producers and co-operative 
elevators over the state have in their own sales agency. 


Page Ten 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


May, 1931 


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As we go to press the Illinois Farm 
Bureau Baseball League is about to open 
the 1931 baseball season—the eighth 
since its organization in 1924. Baseball 
schedules have been made up in the 
eight’ divisions and the first games will 
be played on May 16. 

A rearrangement of the districts was 
made necessary because of the several 
new teams joining the league. The new 
divisions are as follows: 


DIVISION I DIVISION V 
JoDaviess Henry 
Stephenson Knox 
Carroll Henderson 
Lee McDonough 

DIVISION II DIVISION VI 
DeKalb McLean 
LaSalle Champaign 
Kendall Douglas 
Will Logan 
Grundy Macon 

DIVISION III DeWitt 
Kankakee DIVISION VII 
Iroquois Menard 
Livingston Cass 
Ford Morgan 

Sangamon 

DIVISION IV DIVISION VIII 

Stark Christian 
Peoria Montgomery 
Woodford Macoupin 


Tazewell Greene 
Marshall-Putnam 
Games in most cases will be played 

Saturday afternoons, 2:00 P. M., al- 

though a number are scheduled for 

July 4. Games announced for the 

conitig weeks where definite locations 

have been chosen are as follows: 

May 15—Logan vs. Macon at Colony 
Grounds, Lincoln. 

May 16—Douglas vs. Champaign at 
Twilight Park, Urbana. 

May 16—Menard vs. Sangamon at 
watch factory diamond, 
Springfield. 

May 23—Douglas vs. Macon at Tus- 
cola. 

May 23—Logan vs. McLean at Normal 
University diamond. 

May 30—Douglas vs. McLean at Tus- 
cola. 

May 30—Champaign vs. Macon at De- 
catur. 

June 6—Champaign vs. Logan at 
Twilight Park, Urbana. 

June 6—Macon vs. McLean at Nor- 
mal University diamond. 

June 13—Douglas vs. Logan at Lincoln. 

June 13—-Champaign vs. McLean at 
Normal University diamond. 


June 13—-Morgan vs. Sangamon at 
watch factory diamond, 
Springfield. 


At a meeting of the State Arbitia. 
tion Committee at Springfield, May 5, 
a ruling was adopted that to be eligible 
hired men must be regularly employed 
for the season. In addition they must 
be Farm Bureau members. The League 
seeks to discourage the employment of 
men for their ability as players. 


Indiana Farmers Are 
Co-Operators in Buying 


Indiana farmers are buying petroleum 
products co-operatively through bulk 
plants in 48 counties. More than 35 of 
the 48 plants have been established dur- 
ing the past 18 months, 

There are purchasing organizations 
located in 87 of the 92 Indiana coun- 
ties all of which are affiliated with the 
Indiana Farm Bureau Co-Operative As- 
sociation. All kinds of farm supplies 
are bought locally, and the profits are 
distributed at the end of the year on a 
patronage basis. 


TO LIMESTONE USERS 


The I. A. A. Limestone-Phos- 
phate Department calls attention 
to the change in the method of 
buying limestone from contract 
companies. Farm Bureau mem- 
bers who purchase from contract 
companies should now pay their 
bills in full, without discounting, 
and take the certificates they 
receive with their bills direct to 
the Farm Bureau office for credit. 
Much trouble, delay and annoy- 
ance is involved if purchasers fail 
to observe these requirements. 


Not lc for Pills 


“My slogan for American housewives 
and mothers has been for many years: 
‘Millions for Prevention and Not One 
Cent for Pills,’’’ writes Fannie M. 
Brooks, health education specialist of 
the University of Illinois, correcting a 
quotation in the February issue of the 
I. A. A. RECORD. “No one advo- 
cates the use of cod liver oil more than 
I do.” 


“I was glad to see the picture of Dr. 
Hopkins’ limestone day demonstration 
in the I. A. A. RECORD,” writes W. 
S. Storment of Salem in a_letterto—}.-E. 
Whitchurch, Saline county adviser. 

“That picture was taken Aug. 16, 
1918. It brought back to mind how 
I happened te be there. I was Marion 


10 Per Cent of Nat’l. 
Income Goes for Taxes 


The federal office of education re- 
ports that more than 23 per cent of all 
tax revenue is now expended annually 
for public school instruction. In addi- 
tion to spending more than $2,180,- 
000,000 for elementary and secondary 
education annually, more than $5,486,- 
000,000 are invested in buildings, 
grounds and equipment. 

Federal, state and local taxation is in 
excess of $9,250,000,000 annually in 
the United States. This is 10 per cent 
of the national income. 


Meat Packing Costs 


The American meat packing indus- 
try with an annual volume of business 
in excess of $3,390,000,000 pays a 
little more than 86 cents of every dol- 
lar of the plant value of its finished 
products for materials, principally live 
stock, according to the American’ Meat 
Packers Institute. 

The remaining 14 “cents covers all 
charges such as wages, salaries, interest, 
rent, depreciation, taxes, insurance, ad- 
vertising, cost of research, and manu- 
facturing profit. 


Meet at Monmouth 


Railroad, pipe line, and other public 
utility questions received principal con- 
sideration at the 14th district meeting, 
Monmouth, on March 18. L. J. Qua- 
sey, director of transportation, led the 
discussion on these problems. 

Other matters considered were live- 
stock and organization. 

The next district meeting is sched- 
uled for June 2 at Monmouth. 


The Story of the Spider 


While Mark Twain was editor of a 
Missouri paper, a subscriber wrote to 
him saying he had found a spider in 
his paper and asking Mark whether this 
was a sign of good or bad luck. The 
following was the reply of the well- 
known humorist: 

“Old Subscriber: Finding a spider in 
your paper was neither good luck nor 
bad luck for you. The spider was 
merely looking over our paper to see 
which merchant is not advertising, so 
that he can go to that store, spin his 
web across the door and lead a life of 
undisturbed_peace—ever—afterward.” 


County Food Administrator and was 
asked to come out and furnish the sugar 
for the coffee for the dinner.” 


th 


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May, 1931 THE I. A. A. RECORD ; Page Eleven 


¢¢ J] AM only sorry we 

did not have the 
Farm Bureau 25 years 
ago to show us the 
value of 


Limestone.’’ 


—G. C, BAUER, 
Bond Co., IIl., member. 


TEN CAR TRAIN OF LIMESTONE TO ONE MAN 


Left to right: Former County Adviser W. E. Foard of gr a county, G. C. 
Bauer, owner, and Geo. Bauer, a son, standing along the C. B. & Q. right- 
of-way through Mr. Bauer’s farm just after walaadinw: 


Make the Farm Pay with Limestone 


| Daceranscaed MUST be a good investment or G. C. 

Bauer, gray-haired Bond county farmer, wouldn’t have 
bought 600 tons in one order. Out of the experience and 
wisdom of his 60 years Bauer says: “I would have been 
much farther ahead financially had I begun 15 to 20 years 
ago to lime my land.” 


After watching the crop yields increase on his first 50 
acres of “lime sweetened” soil he decided to wait no longer 


I. A. A. CHEMIST IN TENNESSEE 
\ to treat the rest of the farm. The 600 ton order was the Laboratory tests insure honest quality 


and price according to test. 


[STONE and ROCK PHOSPHATE together are the champion soil builders. 

Clover, alfalfa, corn and small grains thrive where they are present. Phosphorus in 
the soil makes possible early-maturing higher quality grain for sale at top prices. Bigger 
crops lower per bushel costs.) NOW more than ever your soil needs limestone 
and phosphate to make the farm pay. 


result 
| Phosphate for Clover 


@ ae. from your County Farm Bureau to get guaranteed ananty at a discount 
to members only. 


@@ The |. A.A. Is a Service Organization #@ 


Page Twelve 


April Good Month in 


Auto Insurance Sales 


High Agents and Counties An- 
nounced, Prizes Awarded 


The Illinois Agricultural Mutual on 
May 1 had received 27,468 applica- 
tions for automobile insurance. The 
total for April was 606. A total of 
1,033 applications came in during 
March and April. 

The 10 high counties last month in 
applications are as follows: 


Conk. ee 43 St. Clatec8. 21 
Champaign ...34 Vermilion .... 17 
McLean ...... 31 Iroquois ...... 16 
Mercer 00... 21. Logan: is... 16 
Wat Se es F545 21 "Morgan'.....: .: 16 
Madison ...... 20 


In the prize contest (umbrellas) for 


the month, the following agents won: 
H. O. Hinkley, Bond Co.; K. W. Cleland, 
Boone Co.; Roy Mitchell, Champaign; Cook 
County Farm Bureau; E. McClaughey, Frank 
Diekman, Cook Co.; F. W. Case, DeKalb Co.; 
C. T. Jessen, DeWitt Co.; D. J. Auble, Du- 
Page Co.; H. O. Henry, Effingham Co.; Wm. 
FE. Hedgcock, Arthur Welmeier, McLean Co.; 
Mark Foster, Mercer Co.; L. T. Oxley, Morgan 
Co.; J. D. Smith, Sangamon Co.; H. A. Bon- 
ser, Shelby Co.; D. P. Robinson, Henry Co.; 
T. Wesley Reed, Iroquois Co.; F. H. Wilson, 
Gerald Dickson, Kane Co.; Bertram Abney, 
F. L. Thies, Lake Co.; F. W. Peckham, Lee 
Co.; C. E. Hopkins, Livingston Co.; L. R. 
Welk, Logan Co.; Chris Bunte, Madison Co.; 
R. F. Shaffer, St. Clair Co.; Edw. L. Dillon, 
Vermilion Co.; A. A. Miller, Wayne Co.; Wm. 
C. Linker, Whiteside Co.; E. L. Wilson, Will 
Co.; T. E. Benton, Williamson Co.; H. R. 
Hitchcock, Winnebago Co. ; 
The following agents won electric 


clocks: 

Roy Mitchell, Cook County Farm Bureau, 
Clifford T. Jessen, T. Wesley Reed, Fred H. 
Wilson, Bertram Abney, C. E. Hopkinis, L. R. 
Welk, Wm. E. Hedgcock, Mark Foster, L. T. 
Oxley, J. D. Smith, R. F. Shaffer, Edw. L. 
Dillon, E. L. Wilson. 

The 10 high agents for the month 


are: 


Roy Mitchell, Champaign .............. 26 
Cook County Farm Bureau .............. 18 
C. E. Hopkins, Livingston va fynte kG 
R. F. Shaffer, St. Clair.................. 14 
Edw. Dillon, Vermilion..... rhea tard Akg 14 
Wm. Hedgecock, McLean................. 13 
L. T.-Oxley, Morgans. ices wc sisted 13 
L. R. Welk, Logan..................... 12 
Mark Foster, Mercer.................005. 12 
Ex L. Wilson; Wills oc oy ee ie oo 12 
Clifford Jessen, DeWitt.................. 12 
E. McClaughey, Cook.................... 11 
H. O. Henry, Effingham.................. 11 
T. Wesley Reed, Iroquois................ 11 
Fred Wilson, Kane..... inca MEM sietie tate encase 11 
Bertram Abney, Lake..'................. 11 
J. D. Smith, Sangamon................... 11 


The counties in which more than 75 
per cent of the Farm Bureau members 
carry automobile insurance in the Tlli- 
nois Agricultural Mutual are as follows: 


DuPage! ok oe i ge Ns a 118% 

COOK Je 3 ncahs iio. hale sce 110% 

Winnebago -..0 ee eee. 95% 

Clinton: 3.3506 Se Sa 79% 

| 7 er 77% 

WE nos orden ticiyekce cues 77% 
St. Chait: ss ae seedy 76% 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Webashe' se oe OT os 76% 
Montgomery .......4......... 75% 

Members who have two or more cars 
and trucks insured account for the high 
percentage in DuPage and Cook coun- 
ties. on 
Employers’ Liability 
A PTCATION: for employers’ lia- 

bility insurance received during 
April by the Illinois Agricultural Mu- 
tual brought the total to 1,654 since 
the service was initiated. 

The 10 highest counties for April 
are: McLean, Morgan, Grundy, Henry, 
Logan, Tazewell, Will, Winnebago and 
Woodford. 

The high agents for April were: Wm. 
E. Hedgcock, McLean; L. T. Oxley, 
Morgan; Wm. E. Freitag, Tazewell; 
Paul Brown, Grundy; Homer Hitch- 
cock, Winnebago; L. R. Welk, H. W. 
Bradshaw, Woodford, and D. P. Robin- 
son, Henry. 

Recent farm accidents reported are 
as follows: DuPage county—shelling 
corn with power sheller—employee had 
bar in hand. Bar caught in drive chain 
striking employee across face cutting 
both cheeks. St. Clair county—em- 
ployee broke thumb while driving steel 
posts. McLean County — cmployee 
kicked by cow—possible rupture. 

V. Vaniman, director of insurance 
service, announces that any member of 
any unincorporated association such as 
threshing rings, stallion rings, bull asso- 
ciations, etc., is liable for his total 
worth. Insurance against accidents to 
employees of such associations can be 
had at very moderate cost. 


Heroine School Teacher 


Held Country Life Policy 


Helen Scott of Atkinson, Henry 
county, the brave school teacher who 
dashed onto a Rock Island railroad 
trestle recently to save her pupils from 
an approaching passenger train, was a 
policy holder in Country Life Insur- 
ance Co. 

Miss Scott succeeded in saving one 
child, but she and two others perished. 
Her $1,000 policy was the first double 
indemnity claim to be paid by the com- 
pany. She was just 26 years old and 
lost her life on her birthday while on 
a picnic with her pupils. 


Editor, I. A. A. RECORD: 

**When the I. A. A. RECORD was 
a little four-page paper we seldom 
noticed it It usually went in the 
waste basket without being read. 
But since the paper has been en- 
larged and made more attractive, 
we look forward to it each month, 
and now the whole family reads it 
from cover to cover.” 

Everett G. Reynolds, 
Morgan county, Illinois. 


May, 1931 


Lee County Member 
Mangled by Tractor 


' Ed Hanson, a loyal Farm Bureau 
member of Lee county, Illinois, was 
accidently killed while plowing with his 
tractor recently. Gordon, his son, 
working at the opposite end of the field, 
saw the tractor going down the road 
without anyone on it and ran over to 
investigate. He found his father’s body 
mangled between the plows. Mr. Han- 
son apparently had fallen off the tractor 
while trying to adjust it when still in 
op€ration. 

When they learned of his untimely 
end, 36 neighbors of Mr. Hanson came 
over to assist the widow in completing 
the seeding and planting that was under 
way. Ten tractors and many teams 
were put into operation. The neighbors 
completed the planting and seeding, and 
hauled out 80 loads of manure. 

The sad accident was a shock to the 
community, and the Farm Bureau loses 
an enthusiastic booster in Mr. Hanson. 
His daughter, Marion, is graduating 
this year as a nurse from the Augustana 
Hospital in Chicago. 


Country Life Business 
Increases 60 Per Cent 


Country Life Insurance Company 
made a new record in the life insur- 
ance field when it wrote 60 per cent 
more insurance during April than the 
preceding month, and 60 per cent more 
business than was written in the same 
month last year. Since the first of the 
year the company has written $5,725,- 
000 of life insurance. 

Debates Announced 

A series of seven debates between 
Manager L. A. Williams and Donald 
Kirkpatrick, legal counsel for the I. A. 
A., will be staged during May and 
June in the counties which placed high- 
est in life insurance written during 
April. Topics of widespread interest to 
farmers will be chosen for the series 
of debates to be announced shortly. 

The seven high counties where the 
debates will be held are: Cook, McDon- 
ough, Bond, Madison, Randolph, Du- 
Page and Clay. The first two debates 
on subjects to be announced later will 
be held at Macomb on May 20 and 
Greenville on May 21. 

More than $2,000,000 of “contest” 
business written in April came in from 
agents, 


Lloyd G. Rodman, a graduate of 
the University of Illinois who 
served four years as teacher and 
principal in the DeLand high school, 
has been employed as assistant farm 
adviser in McLean county. 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Thirteen 


May, 1931 


An Open Road for Elevator Managers 


Grain 


D” you ever stop to think why it 
is that few man voluntarily and 
consciously take up country elevator 
management as a life 
work? 

A large majority 
of country elevators 
are in small towns. 
Often the elevator 
| manager handles 
more business than 
anyone. else in the 
town. He is a man 
of weight and influ- 
ence in his com- 
munity. When the 
necessary living ex- 
penses incident to living in a small 
town are taken into consideration, he 
receives what totals a very respectable 
salary. On the whole, his work is 
pleasant. He has the advantage of liv- 
ing close to his work. He is given a 
large degree of responsibility in guid- 
ing the affairs of a good-sized business. 
He works hard, to be sure; and at cer- 
tain times must put in long hours. 
However, all things balance up to an 
agreeable total, and when once in the 
work, if the man is at all adapted to the 
position, he ordinarily stays with it for 
a long time. 

Blind Alley Job 

Where then is the fly in the oint- 
ment? As co-operative grain market- 
ing has been organized, country ele- 
vator management has been a blind- 
alley job. A good average man could, 
if he were diligent, keep the elevator 
business going in fair shape and be 
practically assured of his job for a long 
time. Under the management of a man 
with more than average business ability, 
the elevator would prosper, and in- 
creases in prestige and salary would be 
forthcoming. 

Ladder Now Provided 

But the physical limitations to vol- 
ume of grain which might in any way 
be induced to come to any one country 
elevator precluded the possibility of any 
very large salaries being paid. His con- 
tacts were not such as to bring his 
abilities to the attention of larger em- 
ployers who could make full use of his 
talents and hence pay larger salaries. 
He had a good job as small-town jobs 
go, but there was no ladder by which 
he could climb into a better position 
in the business world. In order to get 
into a field of larger opportunities it 
was necessary to back out of the blind- 


L. F. Rickey 


By Lacey F. Rickey 


Marketing Specialist, University of Illinois 


alley which led nowhere and start all 
over; and that is a painful process. 


This has all been written in the past 
tense. Why? Because a ladder is now 
being provided by which the efficient 
manager of a local co-operative ele- 
vator can climb to enlarged fields in 
his own line of work. The ranks of the 
real grain men needed to operate the 
regional and national grain co-opera- 
tives should and will be recruited from 
the managers of local co-operative ele- 
vators who have demonstrated their 
sympathy with and understanding of 
the fundamental principles of co-opera- 
tion, together with a knowledge of 
grain and business ability of a high 
order. 


The young man with ambition may 
now take the management of a local co- 
operative elevator with the assurance 
that when he has proven his ability he 
will have the same chance as the young 
fellow who enters other lines of indus- 
try, to advance into positions where his 
abilities may be fully used, where he 
may take just pride in his enlarged ac- 
complishments, and where the honor 


and reward going to men who do things 
will be his. 


The Bogey Men 


Bogey-men have been set before the 
managers by those having their own in- 
terests to serve. The development of 
regional co-operatives would do away 
with the necessity of business and grain 
handling ability at the local stations and 
reduce the managers to grain weighers, 
with salaries to correspond. A little re- 
flection will show the falsity of this 
claim. The same local management 
ability will be required. The services 
rendered to him will enable him to do 
a better job of handling his local sta- 
tion. The only difference will be that 
when he does send his grain. to the ter- 
minal market, as he has always done, 
he will turn it over to someone who is 
vitally interested in the success of his 
local elevator rather than merely in the 
commission to be obtained from han- 
dling the shipment. 


Ready for Next Step 

And in addition to this, he is part and 
parcel of the terminal organization him- 
self. As expansion and promotions oc- 
cur, his success in handling his-part of 
the business will suggest to those in 
charge of operations in the larger field 
that here is the man who has demon- 
strated that he is ready to take the next 


step up the ladder of successful achieve- 
ment. 

Only .a few years ago many people 
watching the development of Japan and 
China saw therein a ‘‘yellow peril.” 
Far-sighted business men, seeing instead 
a “golden opportunity,” shaped their 
policies to meet it and prospered accord- 
ingly. The large volume of golden grain 
concentrated under the operations of a 
nation-wide co-operative marketing or- 
ganization may mean to the local man- 
ager either a yellow peril or a golden 
opportunity, accordingly as he avails 
himself of the possibilities thus pre- 
sented. A blind-alley job is being 
changed to one which gives the local 
manager “some place to go.” 

This Story Is: True 

And, as Chairman Legge says, “This 
story has the further advantage of be- 
ing true.”’ I speak from experience. I 
was a country elevator manager for 
some time before I realized that I had a 
good job which led me nowhere in par- 
ticular. It was a momentous decision 
when I gave up that job to back out of 
the blind-alley and start over. I have 
never been sorry that I made the deci- 
sion. I have been able to be of more 
service to myself, to my family, and to 
society in general. But I lost some val- 
uable years. I wish that there had been 
present then the opportunity to climb 
out rather than the necessity to back 
out. 


Start Membership Work 


Farm Bureau membership sign-ups 
will be conducted in Logan, McLean, 
Hancock, McDonough, McHenry, De- 
Kalb and Warren counties within the 
next few months. The organization 
staff of the I. A. A. is assisting the 
local committees in all these counties 
in getting ready. All indications point 
to successful membership drives, reports 
Geo. E. Metzger, director of organiza- 
tion, for farmers realize the need for 
organization now more strongly than 
ever. 

McLean county is ‘out to make a new 
record for the largest membership sign- 
up in one day. Tazewell county now 
holds the record with 1,288 members 
added to the Farm Bureau roll in a 
24=-hour~period. ; 


‘On March 15 the index of farm prices stood 
at 91 per cent of ,the pre-war level. On the 
same day a year’ ago the index was 126 per 
cent, , 


Page Fourteen 


How you can 


UIT FARMING AT 65 


and retire on a guaranteed monthly income for life 


VERY normal man looks forward 


to the time when he can do as 
he pleases: knock off work, go south 
for the winter, take fishing and hunt- 
ing trips, enjoy life. 


At a surprisingly small annual in- 
vestment you can guarantee a future 
income ample to provide for many com- 
forts that make life after 60 or 65 
so enjoyable. 


What the Plan Does for You 


OUNTRY LIFE’s retirement in- 

come plan requires only 20 an- 
nual payments when the policy is paid 
up and your income begins. 


For example, you take out a policy 
at 35, make 20 annual payments, at 
the end of which your policy is paid 
up, and you get an income of approxi- 
mately $40 per month until age 65. 

At age 65 your income jumps to $80 
per month, which is guaranteed for life. 
The $80 monthly instalments are fur- 
ther increased by interest dividends to 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


be apportioned annually.. The dividends 
it is estimated will bring the instal- 
ments up to approximately $100 per 
month. 


Your Family Protected 


N THE event of your sudden death, 

the policy guarantees $12,500 to 
your beneficiary. The annual premium 
payments constantly increase the cash 
value of your policy, on which you 
can borrow if necessary. 


The plan has other benefits. It pro- 
vides money to pay off the mortgage 
en your farm or home . . 
educate your children, money for a 


. money to- 


trip abroad, money for dozens of other 
things you have always wanted. 


LL these benefits are’ made avail- 

able to you at once with your first 
premium payment. Annual instalments 
are small enough to be a burden to no 
one. 


Write for the Facts 


Mail the coupon and get full infor- 
mation about Country Life’s retire- 
ment income plan. Country Life is 
Your Company, organized to provide 
highest security, legal reserve protection 
at low net cost. Write today and get 
the facts. 


Mail the Coupon for full information 


COUNTRY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, 


608 So. Dearborn Street, Chicago, IIl. 


Send me the facts about your retirement income plan. I understand I will be under 


no obligation to buy. 


Name 


Age— 


Address 


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608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Fifteen 


The Canadian Wheat Pool 


Condensed from The New Freeman (February 4, 1931) by Reader’s Digest 


Broke 1923 (the period of war- 
time regulation excepted) the 
business of wheat marketing in Canada 
was something of a racket. The wheat 


_producers—some 275,000 of them scat- 


tered over more than 200,000 square 
miles—were privileged to extract the 


‘grain from the soil. Sometimes they 


received a living wage; sometimes they 
didn’t. But the people who relieved 
them of their grain and handled it from 
warehouses grew fat. Wheat million- 
aires and sub-millionaires appeared, lots 
of them. But not on the farms. The 
grain barons of Winnipeg and other 
cities developed the most pernicious 
commercial oligarchy in Canada’s his- 
tory. For nearly 40 years their wealth 
and power increased while the poor 
devils who grew the wheat struggled 
to keep the sheriff beyond the fence. 


Shake Off Despair 


Small wonder, then, that a great 
squawking ensued when the worm 
turned. In 1923 the wheat farmers 
shook off the despair that had been 
welded to them. They organized pools 
—co-operative associations—in Alberta, 
Saskatchewan and Manitoba, to gather 
their wheat together and sell it. The 
movement started at the bottom; right 
on the farmsteads and in the small vil- 
lages. It looked back upon four decades 
of unhappy exploitation by the private 
marketing trade, and was impelled by a 
grand spirit of sink-or-swim together. 
It had not a red cent of capital, but 
of new-born spirit there was ample. 
The aims of the movement were stated 
in simple terms: to attempt to sell 
wheat in an orderly manner, i.e., as 
actual demand for real wheat arose; to 
try to eliminate the widespread gam- 
bling in fictitious wheat which was 
enervating the industry; and above all, 
to return to the farmer every possible 
sou which accrued from the sale of his 
wheat. 

140,000 Sign 


A contract was prepared wherein the 
farmer agreed with his neighbors to de- 
liver his wheat to a common agency of 
their own creation during a term of 
years. More than 140,000 wheat grow- 
ers signed the contract. The organiza- 
tion was completed, while the grain 
trade was still blinking and, before the 
public realized what it was all about, 
the organized farmer was in the game. 
During the past seven years these Ca- 
nadian farmers have pounded their way 


W. B. Herbert 


to the front, battling every inch of the 
way against the unscrupulous opposi- 
tion of the grain trade gang. While 
the provincial pools were busy attract- 


ing new members, building up their 


own elevator system of 1,600 country 
houses and 12 terminals, collecting 
more than a billion bushels of wheat, 
distributing more than a billion and a 
quarter dollars among their members, 
creating circulating libraries and work- 
ing to improve the quality of Canadian 
grains, the Central Selling Agency con- 
cerned itself with establishing branch 
offices in New York, London, Paris and 
Buenos Aires, and agencies in every im- 
portant wheat-importing country. 


Costs Were Low 


Operating and overhead costs of the 
entire system were amazingly small, and 
the excess earnings from elevator opera- 
tions which were returned to pool 
members fairly staggered even the most 
rabid pool enthusiasts. In its balmiest 
year the turnover of the Central Sell- 
ing Agency exceeded $323 million, and 
its sales of wheat in 20 different coun- 
tries totaled more than 222 million 
bushels. 

The wonder of it all is that this 
mighty business is owned and con- 
trolled, and was built up, by farmers; 
by honest dirt-farmers “with no knowl- 
edge of big business.” There are no 
silent partners, no idle shareholders. The 
directors of the pools are all pool farm- 
ers, elected by their fellow members. 
They receive no salaries; only allow- 
ances while occupied with pool matters. 
The whole thing belongs to the farm- 
ers. It is an outstanding illustration of 
triumph by the under-dog through 
peaceful methods. 


What About Present 


At this point someone may ask omi- 
nously: “What about the present situa- 
tion?” Certainly the present situation 
does splash the picture. Up to last year 
the wheat pools stroked their boat with- 
out financial assistance from any gov- 
ernment. Last year, however, they 
were caught, along with all other grain- 
marketing agencies on this continent, 
in the disastrous decline of prices. Each 
of the prairie pools applied to its prov- 
incial government for a guarantee of 
its financial obligations to the banks, 
based on adequate security in the form 
of $30,000,000 worth of elevator fa- 
cilities. 

Since the granting of the guarantees, 


even darker days have fallen upon the 
grain markets. The price of wheat has 
been more than halved; and it is now 
obvious that the position of the pools 
with the lending banks is such as to 
necessitate calling in the government 
guarantees to the amount of some mil- 
lions. Already the pools have instituted 
plans for the repayment, over a period 
of several years, of any amount which 
the governments may be required to 
pay to the banks. The attitude of the 
pools has inspired widespread admira- 
tion. The pool has suffered a body 
blow; but it is not whining for the 
governments to pay its debts. It is sim- 
ply asking them to give it a helping 
hand until the worst of the storm is 
over. The federal government of Cana- 
da recently granted to the manufactur- 
ing interests, tariff protection that 
smells to high heaven. And yet some 
people are complaining because the or- 
ganized farmers, who are the backbone 
of the nation, ask that some of the 
blessings of government be turned their 
way for a short period. 
“Kick ’im, ’arry!” 

While the wheat pool has experienced 
serious difficulties in the past year, the 
attitude of the old established grain 
trade has been similar to that of the 
cockney who said: “Kick ’im, ’Arry! 
’E’s still breathin’!” Skullduggery has 
been practiced in the markets to de- 
preciate the value of the pool’s wheat 
supplies and weaken its financial posi- 
tion. All the misfortunes of the land— 
unemployment, traffic stagnation, re- 
tarded collections, decline of export 
trade, general depression — have been 
placed on the pool’s doorstep, while the 
real fathers of these unwanted children 
have been kept in the background. 

The wheat pools of Canada, being 
comprised of human beings, have made 
mistakes and have been flayed merci- 
lessly for them. But today, when the 
prices of agricultural products are such 
as to involve a crisis for the rural com- 
munity, the pool is in the heat of the 
battle for economic and social rights 
which are essential to a satisfactory 
standard of living on the farm; rights 
which the farmer could not hope to 
gain through his individual efforts. 

Spirit Lives 

The Canadian wheat pool is still 
pledged to the principle of co-operative 
self-help and still convinced that the 

(Continued on Page 17, Col. 1) 


Tom Campbell Gives 
Farm Board Credit 


“Few people realize the real good 
that.the-Federal- Farm Board has ac- 
complished to date,” says Thomas D. 
Campbell, one of the largest wheat 
growers in the United States, in a re- 
cent interview in the New York Times. 
“It undoubtedly has saved many farm- 
ers from bankruptcy, and they, in turn, 
have prevented the liquidation of banks 
in their community; and industry as a 
whole has profited from the Farm 
Board. I firmly believe that had Mr. 
' Legge not supported the commodity 
market last December there probably 
would have been a_ $10,000,000,000 
crash in one day in the stock market. 

“We are now experiencing the most 
serious industrial depression in our 
country since 1873. Still, we have had 
but very little disturbance. The entire 
world is disturbed. Most of Europe is 
in revolt. Two-thirds of South Amer- 
ica~has ehamged- hands within the last 
six months. Still the United States has 
maintained an even keel. 

“There must be some fundamental 
reason for this fact. It is obvious that 
it can be credited to one factor only, 
namely, the activity and foresight of 
the administration in anticipating these 
conditions and eliminating their seri- 
ousness by proper. governmental assist- 
ance at these times, and it is equally 
obvious that the activity of the Federal 
Farm Board has been no small factor 
in the destiny of our economic condi- 
tion.” 


Missouri Grain Men 
Organize Co-Operative 


The Missouri Grain Growers, Inc., 
organized by the Farm Bureau, Farmers 
Union and farmers’ elevators of that 
state will soon become a stockholder of 
the Farmers National Grain Corp. 

R. W. Brown, state Farm Bureau 
president, was elected president of the 
new grain co-operative, T. H. DeWitt 
of the State Farmers Union was chosen 
vice-president, and M. R. Miller, State 
Farmers Union secretary, was named 
secretary-treasurer. 


Credit Corporations 
Aid to Country Bank 


The operation of an agricultural 
credit corporation as a supplement to 
local credit facilities will enable the 
country bank to maintain a more prof- 
itable loan and investment policy so as 
to increase the prosperity of the com- 
munity, according to B. C. Powell, a 
member of the National Advisory Loan 
Committee. 


The Greatest Necessity 


‘/THE farmer is suffering chief- 
‘ly today from a diseased sys- 
tem of distribution all along the 
line. It costs him too much to 
market his products. It costs him 
too much to purchase his necessi- 
ties. He sells in a wholesale mar- 
ket and buys in a retail market. 
He suffers because of the distri- 
bution of the national income 
and of the tax burden. That 
word ‘distribution’ covers a mul- 
titude of injustices and the only 
way to solve these injustices is 
through the complete and thor- 
ough organization of agriculture 
so that the farmer can compete 
with the other organized classes. 
If farmers would realize that the 
organization of agriculture along 
sane lines is the greatest necessity 
of our times, they would for- 
get the bunk of the politicians 
and they would not let the ene- 
mies of organization stop them 
until the job was done. Until 
agriculture is organized, it will 
continue to be at the mercy of 
the other organized classes.” 
(Editorial, The Farmer, St. Paul, Minn.) 


One Per Cent Made 


On Investment in ’30 


An analysis just completed on 2,300 
records kept by farmers in the Uni- 
versity of Illinois farm accounting ser- 
vice reveals that the account keepers 
last year averaged about 1 per cent on 
their capital 

This is not as bad as in 1921, when 
account keepers in central Illinois suf- 
fered an actual net loss, reports R. R. 


Hudelson. The rank and file of farm- 


ers, he believes, probably did have a ~ 


net loss last year, since those co-oper- 
ating in the management service make 
higher earnings than the average of all 
farmers. Their advantage usually 
amounts to about 2 per cent of the 
total investment, or nearly a thousand 
dollars a farm for central Illinois. 
The average farmer’s actual net loss 
on last year’s operation means that he 
has been allowed only $600 to $720 for 
wages. He did not earn enough to pay 
interest on borrowed capital to say 
nothing of paying interest on his own 
capital invested in the business. The 
heavy hog-producing sections of the 
state showed relatively higher farm in- 
comes than the grain-selling areas. 


Our first thoughts are not al- 
ways our best thoughts. 


Page Sixteen THE I. A. A. RECORD May, 1931 


How to Organize a Credit 
Corporation 


The advisability of organizing county 
credit corporations is being considered 
in Iroquois, Adams, and Marshall-Put- 
nam counties. 

The Federal Intermediate Credit 
Bank of St. Louis informs the REC- 
ORD that credit corporations may be 
organized in Illinois under the general 
law by three or more persons. 

The successive steps in organizing a 
local credit corporation are as follows: 

a. Obtain a list of subscribers to the 
capital stock of the proposed corpora- 
tion. 

b. The subscribers meet as soon as 
sufficient capital has been subscribed, 
elect directors to manage the affairs of 
the corporation, and adopt by-laws. 

c. The directors meet immediately 
after adjournment and elect officers. 

d. After the officers are elected, the 
subscribers should then pay into the or- 
ganization the amount of stock they 
have subscribed. At least fifty. per 
cent of the amount subscribed must be 
paid in, in cash. 

e. The directors then sign the Articles 
or Certificate of Incorporation in dupli- 
cate and acknowledge the same before 
an officer authorized to take such ac- 
knowledgments. : 

f. The certificate, in duplicate, is 
then sent to the Secretary of State at 
Springfield, Illinois. Upon receipt of 
this certificate, the Secretary of State 
will attach his certificate to one of the 
copies and return it to the corporation. 

g- When the copy of Articles and 
the Secretary’s Certificate are received, 
they are to be taken to the Recorder of 
Deeds in the county of domicile of such 
corporation for record, 

h. After these papers are a matter of 
record, the directors meet again and 
upon passing of proper resolution, make 
application to the Federal Intermediate 
Credit Bank of St. Louis for the redis- 
count privilege. The resolution and all 
papers incident to making the applica- 
tion will be furnished by the bank. The 
application is to be accompanied by at 
least Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000) 
of United States Government or Fed- 
eral Land Bank Bonds to be held as 
collateral by the Federal Intermediate 
Credit Bank. A complete list of the 
papers necessary for the purpose of 
making this application acceptable is to 
be found under Paragraph Three. It is 
essential to have the advice of a com- 
petent local attorney. 


Uncle Ab says farmers fight too 
much among themselves; milk ver- 
sus coffee; sugar versus tobacco; 
meat versus vegetables; yet farmers 
raise them all. 


——— 


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May, 1931 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Seventeen 


Volume of Cream Handled Affects 


Per Pound Costs in Produce Associations 


Farm Bureau Members Continue Patronage to Co-Operatives, 
Figures Show 


gf Bia influence of volume on costs of following records taken from the books 


handling cream by local co-operative 
associations is clearly illustrated in the 


of the Schuyler County Produce Asso- 
ciation: 


THREE YEARS’ RECORDS ON COUNTY PRODUCE ASSOCIATION 


Lbs. 


Lbs. puinieeest from Farm Bureau Members. 
utterfat from Non-Farm Bureau Members 26,059.5 


Lbs. Butterfat from Floaters (signed no agree- 


ment) 


Total 


The figures above coupled with ob- 
servations of the market situation in 
that and other counties justify the con-. 
clusions that: 


I. Produce co-operatives invariably 
raise local butterfat prices to the 
farmer and reduce the spread 
between the country butterfat 
price and the Chicago butter 
market. 


II. Farm Bureau members who join 
local co-operatives patronize 
their associations in the face of 
adverse conditions more loyally 
than do non-Farm Bureau mem- 
bers who have signed contracts. 


III. Reduced volume of produce re- 
ceived rapidly increases the per 
lb. or unit cost of handling. 


CANADIAN WHEAT POOL 
(Continued from Page 15) 


producer will receive the maximum 
share of the selling price of his product 
only through his own efforts to market 
in an orderly manner as actual demand 
arises. 

The spirit behind the pool will never 
be stamped out. It has succeeded in cre- 
ating a new conception of self-respect 
among western Canadian farmers; and 
they will never go back to the knuckle- 
down-and-grin days. Composed of 
144,000 members striving to drag their 
daily labors from the despair of mere 
sweating for a livelihood, the Canadian 
wheat pool can be said to share the sen- 
timents of Ramsay MacDonald: ‘‘We 
want to bring back light into the vil- 
lages and farms; and to make men feel 
that agriculture is not a drudgery and 
derelict process. We want to put into 
it new energy, skill and science, a 


‘higher motive, better wages and houses, 


and closer friendships.” 
\ 


Total Trading Income............... 
Total Expenses 35.080 oe 


1928 1929 1930 
44,091.5 50,173.9 43,743.5 
32,403.5 12,947.7 
Seetaen 8,277.6 11,337.1 6,119.5 
Saeki 78,428.6 93,914.5 62,810.7 


Se ea $5,383.14 $5,219.28 $3,611.15 


3,314.35 3,169.53 3,254.01 


wees» $2,068.79 $2,049.75 $ 357.14 
aaa es 3.5¢ 2.5¢ 


4.3¢ 


IV. Directors of co-operatives should 


act promptly in cutting over- 
head expenses as volume de- 
clines. 


V. Low butterfat prices have caused 
receipts of cream pools and pri- 
vate cream stations to decline 
approximately 20 per cent dur- 
ing the past two years. 


In LaSalle county the operating costs 
of the co-operative jumped from 1.6 
cents per lb. butterfat to 4.8 cents per 
Ib. when the volume declined from 
1,200 Ibs. daily in June, 1930, to 8,000 
Ibs. for the month in November. By 
February, 1931, the cost had been low- 
ered to 2.4 cents per lb. by reducing 
overhead expenses and increasing vol- 
ume. 


Kane County to Have 
Big Meeting June 16 


The Kane County Farm Bureau an- 
nounces that it will hold its fifth an- 


nual mid-summer meeting on June 16. 


The meeting will begin at 6:30 P. M. 
and will be devoted to an evening of 
business and entertainment. 

Farm Adviser Harry Kelley is plan- 
ning a program that will bring out 
members from all sections of the county. 


Iroquois Considers 


Credit Corporation 
Directors of the Iroquois County 
Farm Bureau met with representatives 
of the Iroquois County Bankers’ Asso- 
ciation at Watseka on May 8 to con- 
sider the organization of a credit cor- 
poration for Iroquois and adjoining 
counties. 
Mr. Gulledge of the Federal Inter- 
mediate Credit Bank, St. Louis, met 
with the group. 


The Iroquois County Livestock Mar- 
keting Association, which began oper- 
ating last December, up to May 1 had 
shipped more than $115,000 worth of 
livestock, over 100 carloads. 


Every load of livestock from Knox 
county except one went to the Chicago 
Producers Commission Association in 
the week ending May 2, announces the 
Knox County Farm Bureau. 


Sangamon county led all others with 
an increase to the Indianapolis Pro- 
ducers of 15 cars in April over last 
year. Macon county was second with 
an increase of 11 cars, Vermilion third 
with an eight-car increase, Piatt coun- 
ty fourth with an increase of four cars, 
and Effingham fifth with three more 
cars. 


The percentage of live stock at the 
Cincinnati market handled by the Pro- 
ducers Commission Association  in- 
creased from 11.5 per cent in 1925 to 
28.4 per cent in 1930. 

Radio publicity and advertising 
played an important part in this sub- 
stantial increase in business. The Cin- 
cinnati Producers broadcasts every day 
from WLW. 


The range hog of the south is recog- 
nized as dangerous in spreading hog 
cholera. 


Pipe Line Co. Gets 


Permission to Build 

The Illinois Commerce Commission 
on April 30 granted the Panhandle Illi- 
nois Pipe Line Company a certificate of 
convenience and necessity to build and 
operate a natural gas pipe line from 
Pleasant Hill in Pike county, across cen- 
tral Illinois to Chrisman in Edgar 
county. 

According to reports more than 100 
cities will be served by the new line, 
which is a subsidiary of the Panhandle 
Eastern Corporation. The natural gas 
will come from the Texas fields. It is 
estimated that the cost of gas, both for 
illumination and fuel, will be reduced 
nearly 50 per cent. 


A total of 1,275 loans aggregating 
$169,284 were made to Southern IIli- 
nois farmers from the drouth relief ap- 
propriation recently voted by Congress, 
according to a report by T. Weed Har- 
vey, federal representative at 315 No. 
10th Street, St. Louis. The loans were 
nearly all small and were made chiefly 


* for seed, fertil?zer, etc. 


Page Eighteen THE I. A. A. RECORD May, 1931 


Indiana Farm Bureau to 
Carry on Tax Fight 


Conflict to Enter State Conventions of Major Parties 


HE Indiana Farm Bureau Federa- 

tion is planning to carry its fight 
for tax revision based on ability to pay 
to the state conventions of the major 
political parties in 1932. 


In a recent statement Lewis Taylor, 


director of the Federation’s tax and 
legislative department, said: 
“Northern Indiana industrial cap- 


tains, stirred from their lukewarm at- 
titude towards state politics by the tax 
fights in the last legislature, are making 
plans to have some voice in the state 
conventions next year. * * * * Activi- 
ty of this sort is lending color to the 
belief that in the preconvention cam- 
paign the same conflict between rural 
and urban centers over the income tax 
plan which marked the closing days of 
the legislature, will be re-enacted. 


Not with Money 


“Tt remains to be seen whether the 
rural sections will rise to the occasion 
and see that their voices will be heard 
in the state conventions in 1932. If 
the farmers are to be heard, they must 
begin without delay to prepare to share 
in the control of the conventions. This 
they cannot do with money. The in- 
dustrial captains have seen to that by 
imposing their own taxes on us and re- 
taining money thus obtained, to con- 
trol state conventions. 


For Tax Equality 


“Our plan is easier and more simple, 
as to win in this fight we must pro- 
ceed at once to share in the control of 
the political set-up from precinct com- 
mitteemen to state chairmen of both 
parties. If, in the fight for tax equali- 
ty it is necessary to soil political hands 
and clothes in the process of applying 
dope to industrial bloodsuckers, savings 
to farmers not only in money, but also 
in political self-respect and economical 
government, should provide adequately 
for the laundry bill. To this end our 
organization should now apply itself.” 


A state income tax was passed by 
both Houses in the recent session of 
the Indiana General Assembly, but it 
failed to become law. “The bill was 
sent to the Governor, but over the pro- 
tests of the House and its speaker,” 
states the Hoosier Farmer. ‘“The pro- 
test was based on the Senate’s acceptance 
of a report from its conferees recom- 
mending passage of the bill in the form 
it went through the House. Previous 
Senate amendments changing rates and 
exceptions radically were dropped. The 
House protested that its conferees had 


not signed the report accepted by the 
Senate as ‘a conference report’ and that 
the Senate action was illegal.” The 
attorney general then declared the bill 
unconstitutional. 


Farm Bureau Members 


Are Preferred Risks 


cc] F everyone of our policyholders 
had the interest of his own com- 
pany at heart as much as J. B. Sim- 
mons of Johnson county, the cost of 
accidents and overhead expense could 
be reduced even further,” says A. E. 
Richardson, manager of the Illinois 
Agricultural Mutual Insurance Com- 
pany. ‘‘We believe Farm Bureau mem- 
bers are preferred risks because they 
work for the best interests of their own 
company.” 2 
Richardson refers to the following 
letter recently received from Mr. Sim- 
mons: 


“In regard to the accident I had with 
the car, went to a garage and the man 
wanted $25 to fix same. Now this 
damage does not interfere with the op- 
eration of the car in any way. It will 


‘be against the sale of the car when I 


get ready to trade it in on another car, 
however. 


“One of your officials made us a talk 
at our Farm Bureau meeting at Vienna. 
He made us see insurance as we had 
never thought of it before. He made 
us realize it was our Company and not 
just an insurance company. This is 
the reason been letting this matter go. 
Thought I would be somewhere that I 
could get the job done cheaper. If I 
can’t get it done for less than $25 will 
let it go.” 

Signed J. B. Simmons, 
Johnson County, Ill. 


As indicated in his letter, Mr. Sim- 


_mons was so sincere about wanting to 


do the right thing for his own com- 
pany that he offered to cancel his claim 
against the company rather than pay an 
exorbitant garage bill. 


Note: The company instructed Mr. Simmons 
to have his car repaired and send in the bill. 


Thank You! 


Illinois Agricultural Mutual Ins. Co., 
Chicago, Illinois. 

I have your letter of the 13th, saying your 
Company had collected the full amount of my 
loss of $32 from L., H. Minton and enclosing 
your check for $6.40 covering balance due me. 
That’s what I call service and I want to thank 
you very much. 

R. M. Atkinson, Pike County, III. 


Ohio Farm Bureau 


Asks for Tax Reform 


Submits Recommendations to Gen- 
eral Assembly of State 


The tax program recently presented 
to a sub-committee of the Ohio Gen- 
eral Assembly by the Ohio Farm Bu- 
reau recommends: 


1. A personal income tax with low 
rates and low exemptions. Fa- 
vors exemptions lower than 
thus far been suggested in or- 
der to reach all those with abil- 
ity to pay. 

2. An equitable tax on intangibles 
either by a low rate or through 
the income method, or both. 


3. Selective sales taxes to reach 
luxuries and amusements. 


4. Certain business taxes of which 
stamp taxes, mortgages record- 
ing taxes and stock transfer 
taxes are types. 

5. Removal of the automobile from 
the property tax and an equit- 
able increase in the license fee. 

6. Truck and motor bus taxes lev- 
ied in proportion to their use 
of and damage to the highways. 


L. B. Palmer, president of the Ohio 
Farm Bureau, who presented the pro- 
gram, pointed out that a state survey 
showed that approximately one-half of 
the automobiles of the state are re- 
turned for taxation, while the other 
half escape. He stated that any new 
taxes adopted should be replacement 
taxes, not additional taxes. 


Insurance, 


By L. A. Williams 


AVE you named the children sec- 

ond beneficiary in your life insur- 
ance policies? Do you know that you 
should, or why you should? Do you 
know how to protect creditors with 
life insurance, or how to protect the 
beneficiary’s interest against loss through 
the bankruptcy of the insured while 
living? Do you know how to prevent 
life insurance funds from going through 
probate costs? Do you know how to 
protect the life insurance you leave to 
your loved ones, against loss from un- 
scrupulous men who trail down estates 
left to widows? 


Write to Country Life for advice. It 
is one of the big services of the Com- 


pany. 


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Illinois Agri- 


Number 6 


JUNE, 1931 


Volume 9 


Downstate Votes Beat Income Tax 


20 Representatives Line Up with Cook County Delegation in Voting Against Relief to 


fi Photo Be downstate representatives 
united with ‘the solid opposition 
from Cook county to defeat the Lantz 
state income tax bill by a vote of 75 
to 74 in the House at Springfield, June 
3. The bill needed two more votes or 
a total of 77 to carry. 

Voting with the opposition from 
Cook county against tax relief to home 
and property owners were Otto A. 
Buck, Villa Park, DuPage county; E. 
P. Conerton, LaSalle, LaSalle county; 
Leo D. Crowley, Peoria, Peoria county; 
Howard L. Doyle, Decatur, Macon 
county; Charles D. Franz, Freeport, 
Stephenson county; Leroy M. Green, 
Rockford, Winnebago county; Michael 
F. Hennebry, Wilmington, Will coun- 
ty; Frank Holten, East St.. Louis, St. 
Clair county; R. H. Huschle, East St. 
Louis, St. Clair county; Carl J. Jobst, 
Peoria, Peoria county; Charles P. Kane, 
Bloomington, McLean county; William 
J. Lawler, Springfield, Sangamon coun- 
ty; Martin B. Lohmann, Pekin, Taze- 
well county; Richard J. Lyons, Munde- 
lein, Lake county; Charles F. Malloy, 
Sorento, Bond county; David H. Mc- 
Clugage, Peoria, Peoria county; Schae- 
fer O’Neill, Alton, Madison county; 
John F. Petit, Batavia, Kane county; 
Schuyler B. Vaughn, Greenville, Bond 
county; and John L. Walker, Joliet, 
Will county. 

Only Tax Relief Bill 

“Regardless of all the discussion 
about the need for tax relief the Lantz 
state income tax measure and its com- 
panion bills, which were largely prepared 
and sponsored by the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association, were the only legis- 
lation before this session of the General 
Assembly which even promised any re- 
lief to the overburdened property own- 
ers of IIfinois,” Earl C. Smith, president 
‘of the Association, said following the 
vote. 


Further comment by the I. A. A., 
together with a complete record dis- 
closing the step by step progress of the 
measure in both houses, will be pub- 
lished in an early legislative issue of the 
Illinois Agricultural Association REC- 
ORD. 

The history of the income tax meas- 
ure in the 57th General Assembly is 
very similar to that of the income tax 
bill supported by the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association in the 56th General 
Assembly two years ago. 


More Support This Year 


This year the measure had more sup- 
port both in the Senate and House. 
The vote in the Senate in the 56th Gen- 
eral Assembly was 28 to 19. This year 
it was 31 to 17. The Revenue Com- 
mittee in the House this year as two 
years ago was packed with Cook coun- 
ty representatives who in each case re- 
ported the bill out unfavorably with 
the recommendation that it do not pass. 
This year as two years ago a motion to 
non-concur in the report of the Com- 
mittee carried, 86 to 60, thus auto- 
matically restoring the measure for fur- 
ther consideration. The final vote in 
the House two years ago was 72 to 69, 
this year 75 to 74. 

Governor Emmerson signed House 
Bill 410 introduced by Rep. Luckey of 
Vermilion county, which had the sup- 
port of the Association. This statute 


defines and clarifies the liability of own- 


ers of livestock. 


Must Prove Negligence 

Heretofore it has been presumed that 
the owner was guilty of negligence and 
hence liable for injuries to persons or 
property resulting from his livestock 
running loose on the. highways. Cases 
are on record where judgment was ren- 
dered against owners of livestock even 
though they were unaware of the fact 


Overburdened Property Owners 


that their cattle, horses, hogs or sheep 
were at large, and where negligence on 
their part could not be shown. 

Hereafter the plaintiff must prove 
negligence by the owner and if without 
his knowledge livestock is allowed to 
run loose by vagrants, hunters, or other 
trespassers opening gates or breaking 
down fences, the owner of such stock 
shall not be held responsible for any 
injuries or damages resulting from col- 
lisions, etc. 

House Bill 467 carrying amendments 
to improve and liberalize the Co-opera- 
tive Marketing Act of 1923 recently 
passed the House and now awaits the 
Governor’s signature. 


A 42 Per Cent Tax 


“In response to your request broad- 
cast over WLS for report on taxes, in- 
come and outgo on farm land, I sub- 
mit the following: 

“This is a report of 160 acres of 
average (or better) Sangamon county 
land farmed by tenant paying one-half 
of grain and $8 per acre for grass land. 
Landlord furnishes clover seed and 
limestone for soil. 

Cash received for grains of all 

kinds and cash rent....... $1,234.75 
Cash paid out as regular an- 

nual ex pense, including 


CRRCR ies nachs e250 y Bates 418.01 
$ 816.74 

Cash paid out for repairing of 
more permanent nature...$ 206.89 
Net income on 160 acres....$ 609.85 


“The taxes on this farm last year 
were $255.35. Figured on the basis of 
net income from the farm I paid ap- 
proximately a 42 per cent income tax.” 

C. F. Spicer, 
DeWitt County, Ill. 


Plan Parade in Chicago to 
Boost Meat Consumption 


Invite President Hoover to Review 
Demonstration, Cattle and Hogs 
Lowest in 19 Years 


nm we go to press parades and dem- 
onstrations to call to the attention 
of the consuming public the extreme 
low prices of meats are being planned 
by livestock, packer, and allied inter- 
ests throughout the country. 

A series of meetings was held in Chi- 
cago early in the month to plan and 
prepare for the dem- 
onstrations. _ Vice- 
President A. R. 
Wright, who _ has 
been coming in for 
several days each 
week, officially rep- 
resented the Illinois 
Agricultural Asso- 
ciation at the confer- 
ences. The I. A. A. 
is planning to par- 
ticipate in the parade 
down Michigan 
Boulevard, Chicago, at noon on June 
18. County Farm Bureaus of north- 
eastern Illinois were requested to or- 
ganize 4-H Club delegations to march 
in the procession. Similar demonstra- 
tions may be held in other cities. 


The National Livestock and Meat 
Board and the American Institute of 
Meat Packers were active in arranging 
the conferences which adopted the plan. 
Livestock associations, retailers, rail- 
roads, and other large industrial groups 
are taking an active part. 


Telegraph White House 


A telegram was forwarded to Presi- 
dent Hoover at the White House in 
which he was advised that: 


“Cattle and ‘hogs recently | reached 
the lowest levels in about 19 years, and 
meats and by-products have for some 
time been available at greatly reduced 
prices. Livestock recently has been sell- 
ing below the cost of production. 


A. R. Wright 


“At a meeting here today of agri- 
cultural leaders, exchange officials, 
packers, railroad executive, and others 
co-operation was arranged for a parade 
here in the capital of agriculture on 
June 18 to bring spectacularly to the 
attention of the public the information 
that livestock and livestock products 
are available at prices greatly reduced 
from those once quoted. We cordially 
invite you to review this parade or ad- 
dress a mass meeting afterwards as you 
prefer.” 

The telegram was signed by leaders 
and representatives from the various in- 
terests participating in the conference. 


Page Four _ THE I. A. A. RECORD June, 1931 


Wayland Magee 


Member Federal Reserve Board 

Wayland Magee, new farmer member 
of the Federal Reserve Board appointed 
by President Hoover, is president of the 
Douglas County, Nebraska, Farm Bu- 
reau. He was appointed to fill the va- 
cancy left by the death of Ed Cun- 
ningham, who before being appointed 
to the Board, was secretary of the Iowa 
State Farm Bureau. 

Mr. Magee operates a 1,280 acre farm 
in Douglas county near Omaha. He is 
president also of the Nebraska Crop 
Growers Association, and a member of 
the Coarse Grains Advisory Committee 
of the Federal Farm Board. 

Mr. Magee was born in Chicago. 
After graduating from the University 
of Chicago he studied law at the Uni- 
versity of Bonn, Germany, and at 
Northwestern and Harvard Law Schools. 
He was admitted to the bar in 1908. 
Later he studied agriculture at the Uni- 
versities of Iowa and Nebraska. He is 
49 years old. 


On WJJD Daily 


The I. A. A. broadcasts from Sta- 
tion WJJD, Chicago, daily (Monday 
to Friday) from 11:15 to 11:30 A. M. 
Central Standard time, I. A. A. farm 
and market news and comments by 
George Thiem. Weekly review of live- 
stock markets each Friday by Phil 
Evans and Russell Everett of Chicago 
Producers. 


Edgar L. Bill, former director of sta- 
tion WLS and one time Director of 
Publicity for the I. A. A., recently pur- 
chased the radio station at Peoria. It is 
reported he will operate it as a private 
enterprise. 

The station covers the city of Peoria 
and the surrounding rural territory. 


Champaign and Urbana are consider- 
ing adopting daylight savings time. The 
Farm Bureau and many business men 
are against it. 


Average taxes per acre on farm real 
estate declined slightly in 1930 com- 
pared with 1929, the first general de- 
cline the country over in the 17 years 
of record. 


Newly elected officers of the Massac 
County Farm Bureau are President J. A. 
Maedaker, Vice-President C. S$. Atkins, 
Secretary C. L. Campbell, and Treasurer 
A. H. Fulmer. 


Official Standing of Teams in the Illinois Farm Bureau 
Baseball League for Week Ending June 6, 1931.* 


DIVISION I Won Lost Pct. 
Carron ois ea eh es 2 0 1.000 
JoDaviess ........ 2 1 666 
BRO: oe es 0 1 .000 
Stephenson ....... 0 2 000 

DIVISION II 
Grundy .......... 1 0 1.000 
Will |. ra | 0 1.000 
Kendall .......... 0 1 .000 
Lasalle 22.0 kiaass 0 1 .000 
DeKalb ............. 

DIVISION III 
Livingston ....... 2 0 1.000 
a Fh, ee 1 0 1.000 
Troqguois. 2. ou. 0 1 000 
POP. oc ede 0 2 -000 

DIVISION IV 
Woodtord <.....<. 2 0 1.000 
Marshall-Putnam .. 1 1 .500 
POMIOs 45 ey et ex 1 1 -500 
Stath 35k oes 0 1 .000 
Tazéevell se cn. 0 1 .000 


DIVISION V Won Lost Pet. 
McDonough ...... 2 0 1.000 
Lg 9 So ea 1 1 .500 
) ts a ee See ere a 1 1 500 
Henderson ....... 0 2 000 

DIVISION VI 
MAT ex Sicee Ma Glas 1 0 1.000 
NSCOR ss 2 ip ee 2 1 666 
Dougirs- 2.6 S965 0:2 0 2 000 
Champaign ........: 

DIVISION VII 
CONG Tso Boia. KOs 3 0 1.000 
Sangamon ........ 3 0 1.000 
i rr 0 3 .000 
DOCG AR. ES 0 3 -000 

DIVISION VIII 
Greene 6... oes 3 0 1.000 
Christian ......:. 2 1 666 
Macoupin ........ 1 3 250 
Montgomery ...... 1 3 250 


*Based on reports received by the League Secretary on or before Tuesday A. M., June 9. 


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June, 1931 THE I. A. A. RECORD Page Five 


2,500 McDonough Folks 
And Guests Hold Jubilee 


Capacity Crowd Hear Co-op. Mar- 
keting Debated in Teachers’ 
College Auditorium 


WENTY-FIVE hundred Farm Bu- 

reau members and their guests gath- 
ered in the Western Illinois State Teach- 
ers’ College, Macomb, on May 20, for 
a Cooperation Jubilee dedicating the 
McDonough County Livestock Market- 
ing Association organized there. Repre- 
sentatives from western Illinois counties 
as far north as Whiteside and as far 
south as Madison came for the celebra- 


Donald Kirkpatrick 


tion. The McDonough County Farm 
Bureau and Country Life Insurance Co. 
sponsored the gathering. 

A feature of the evening was the de- 
bate staged by Donald Kirkpatrick of 
the Illinois Agricultural Association and 
Lawrence Williams of the Country Life 
Insurance Company on the question 
“Resolved, That Illinois Farmers Are 
Not Ready for Cooperative Marketing.” 

Speaking for the affirmative, Mr. 
Williams stated that many farmers are 
not yet supporting the cooperatives al- 
ready organized; that too many have 
shown no disposition to make use of 
their opportunities to control their own 
marketing machinery. Mr. Kirkpatrick 
for the negative reviewed the many 
successes Illinois farmers have already 
achieved in the field of cooperative 
marketing; asserted that farmers had 
responded loyally to every sound plan 
advanced, although their leaders in some 
instances had failed them. 


Leadership at Fault 
“It’s not the producers who are at 
fault,” said Kirkpatrick. “They have 
been ready and willing to co-operate 
whenever a sound set-up was offered 


that promised to improve the old sys- 
tem. Failure of leadership and manage- 
ment should be charged with responsi- 
bility for projects which have not suc- 
ceeded.” 

Ray E. Miller, livestock marketing 
director, Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion, and Dave Swanson, manager, Chi- 
cago Producers Commission Association, 
preceded the debaters, while the Paw- 
nee quartette from Sanagamon county 
appeared between speeches and provided 
lively entertainment. 

A feature of the program was the 
historical style show presented under 
the direction of the Eldorado unit of 
the McDonough county Home Bureau 
and under the personal direction of Mrs. 
Ralph Nelson. 

This historical style show traced the 
development of women’s ‘styles during 
the past 100 years. 


Musical Features 

The singing of the Pawnee Four with 
their extemporaneous paraphrasing of 
the speeches ‘of the program, brought 
down the house with laughter. Bernie 
Young and his broadcasting orchestra 
from Chicago also provided entertain- 
ment. 

R. C. Doneghue, farm adviser, in- 
troduced the past presidents of the 
Farm Bureau, the present executive 
committee of that organization, and the 
livestock marketing committee under 
whose direction the organization of the 
Marketing Association has been carried 
out. 

Miss Irene Crouch, county Home Bu- 
reau adviser, introduced the executive 
board of the Home Bureau. 


McDonough Leads 


The staging of the Jubilee came as a 
reward to McDonough county when 
the Country Life Insurance company’s 
general agent, G. O. Chenoweth, and 
his seventeen special agents led the state 
in sales during the month of April. 

Special agents who were introduced 
by Mr. Chenoweth, were: Edwin C. 
Ogle, Maurice Moon, Austin Reed, Ma- 
rion Herzog, Daniel J. Vahle, M. C. 
Pollock, Carl Mowrey, J. F. Stickle, R. 
Burdette Graham, F. M. Allison, H. D. 
Lantz, Owen Stickle, W. E. Siepel, 
Frank Stump, C. O. Reedy, Philip Mar- 
shall, and LeRoy Sinnett. 

Managers of the various cooperative 
organizations of the Farm Bureau were 
also introduced. 

Fred Herndon, president of the Farm 
Bureau, was the presiding chairman of 
the Jubilee. 

The new McDonough County Live- 
stock Marketing Association at Ma- 
comb with more than 500 members 
will assemble, grade and ship livestock 
on orders direct to the packer or to 
the cornbelt and eastern markets. 


L. A. Williams 


Five More Debates 

ORE than 800 Farm Bureau mem- 

bers, their guests and families . 
from Bond and surrounding counties 
gathered at Greenville on Thursday, 
May 21, where Larry Williams and 
Donald Kirkpatrick held the second of 
their series of debates on co-operative 
marketing. The Bond County Farm 
Bureau and Country Life Insurance 
Company sponsored the meeting. 

Similar gatherings where debates be- 
tween Kirkpatrick and Williams will be 
the principal attraction were scheduled 
for June 12 at the Wheaton High 
School, DuPage county; June 15, La- 
Grange, Cook county; June 29, Ed- 
wardsville, Madison county; June 30, 
Sparta, Randolph county, and July 1, 
Louisville, Clay county. 

The seven counties in which debates 
have been held or scheduled placed high- 
est in the amount of life insurance busi- 
ness written by Country Life agents 
during April. 


Country Life Submits 
New Endowment Policy 


A new endowment insurance policy 
which matures at age 65 was recently 
brought out by the Country Life Insur- 
ance Company. 

A $10,000 policy will start paying an 
income at age 65 of $78.50 per month 
plus monthly interest dividends. The 
$78.50 is guaranteed for life and should 
the insured die before having received 
10 years of this income, the heirs or 
estate will receive the difference between 
what has been paid since age 65 and a 
total of 10 years of this income, in one 
lump sum. 

This policy was submitted to the 
State Insurance Department for ap- 
proval following its adoption by the 
Board of Directors. It will not be avail- 
able to policyholders until the -state’s 
permission is received. 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


June, 1931 


. ILLINOIS 
A@Prcour tnt AS SOCIATEBN 
wv RECORD 


To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organized, 
namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, political, 
and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation, 
and to develop agriculture. 


GeorcE Tuiem, Editor 


Published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Association at 165 So. 
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OFFICERS ; 
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
(By Congressional District) 


UG osc acts haces ceodenmastapnabadicensiioniamiqnoted M. G. Lambert, Ferris 
rf | 2s SS le ee SECIS DO SO PE octane alae Charles Bates, Browning 
16th...... ..Geo. B. Muller, Washington 
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DBO ena acd clcncneteccas Sade eaeidtopatademiebacgsenton W. A. Dennis, Paris 


Reet eter Sr eI TEN ENP C._J. Gross, Atwood 
20th...... -Charles S. Black, Jacksonville 
A | SER OL ae OREN LE OE CREO ALL Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 
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BE si eas esces caevn Lapgucdnneg esescleeic ng ciewcnarcscoccatibnaieest tebe W. L. Cope, Salem 
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Midwest Grain Corp........-222.22.222.2--------- Chas. P. Cummings, Gen’l. Mgr. 
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Mr. Thompson at Quincy 


iy His first address since becoming a member of 
the Federal Farm Board Sam Thompson spoke 
plainly and .pertinently to the home folks at 
Quincy about those who oppose farmers’ efforts 
at helping themselves in the field of marketing. 
“The opposition, while not large in numbers, is 
keeping itself very much in the public eye,” said 
Mr. Thompson. “I would like to suggest to you 
farmers that when you hear attacks on co-opera- 
tive marketing, the Agricultural Marketing Act, 
and the Farm Board, that you do a little investi- 
gating and find out the motive behind the attack. 
For the most part this opposition comes from 
handlers of farm products who fear that their 
business will be injured if these products are mar- 
keted by the producers in their own interest.” 
Precisely. And because Mr. Thompson spoke the 
truth, he and the Farm Board have been viciously 
attacked by an arrogant Chicago newspaper noted 


for its prejudice in championing the vested in- 
terests. 


Under similar circumstances, Alexander Legge, 
former chairman of the Board, would have spoken 
more bluntly, less discreetly than Mr. Thompson. 
He probably would have said, “The middlemen 
think they have a God-given right to market the 
farmer’s products for him. A small pack of 
wolves can make a lot of noise.” The opposition 
would have swallowed hard, but Mr. Legge would 
not have been belabored. He has important con- 
nections with influential people who buy much 
white space in the press of the country. 


But Mr. Thompson is a farmer. He belongs 
to the so-called “squirarchy”’ which believes that 
a property tax which takes 25 to 40 per cent of 
the farmers’ net income is unfair and unjust. We 
congratulate him and the Farm Board for their 
enemies. 


_ In Fairness . 
HERE is little disposition on the part of think- 


ing farmers to minimize the service performed 
at present and in the past by those who make 


or have made their livelihood in handling farm 


products. 


There are estimable gentlemen in the ranks of 
the so-called middleman. Many of these men have 
served the producer with honor and integrity. 
Many are open-minded, some are even sympa- 
thetic toward the efforts of producers in helping 
themselves. 


But the minority that is bitterly resentful does 
most of the talking. By fair means or foul they 
would destroy attempts of producers to set up 
and control their marketing agencies. So do the 
few cast an odium on the entire: trade. 


If co-operative marketing as a new system of. 


merchandising farm produce is to achieve perma- 
nent success it must make a contribution, and 
perform a service better or at less cost than the 
system it replaces. Farmers fully realize this fact. 
All that they ask is that the way be left open 
without discrimination for the test. 


“A drop of ink makes millions think.”—Lord 
Byron. 


Some people notice that the days are getting 
longer, others that the nights are getting shorter. 


Uncle Ab says we could get more done in the 
present if we did not have to spend so much 
time telling what we have done inthe past. 


Te SO FERvwse we 


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June, 1931 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Seven 


. G, bservations 


ANY a shot has been taken at the 

business and industrial leadership 
of the country since the depression and 
widespread unemployment set in more 
than a year ago. Prominent men in 
business as well as public life have 
joined in pointing the finger of shame 
at industrial captains who have turned 
thousands away from their factories 
and workshops to swell the ranks of the 
jobless. 


Without arguing the merits of either 
side in the controversy over who or 
what is responsible for the current hard 
times, it may be interesting to hear 
what one stout ‘defender of the manu- 
facturer, George Roberts, economist for 
the National City Bank, has to say 
about it. 


Referring to the federal income tax 
returns from corporations for the high- 
ly prosperous year of 1929, Mr. Roberts 
shows that 40 per cent of the com- 
panies that year reported deficits while 
the other 80 per cent reported average 
net earnings of 8.92 per cent. 

“If the returns were consolidated to 
show net earnings for all the active 
companies, the result would be $3,667,- 
354,123 of profits upon a gross income 
of $60,960,346,678, or 6 per cent on 


along against severe competition trying 
to make a living themselves while risk- 
ing their capital. 


“Unemployment undoubtedly _ pre- 
sents a problem, but it cannot be 
solved by any policy that would be 
disastrous to the industries,” he con- 
tinues. “If the latter are to assume the 
responsibility of keeping labor always 
employed they will have to find means 
of doing so by obtaining higher prices 
for their products or paying lower 
wages to their employees. The risk of 
such an obligation would be a serious 
one, and could not be borne by the 
employers alone. . .. 


“The old saying about the wisdom 
of saving for a ‘rainy day’ is evidence 
that life always has been subject to ups 
and downs and emergencies against 
which the prudent accumulate reserves. 
If everybody accumulated reserves and 
avoided indebtedness except for tem- 
porary needs, the whole problem of 
crises and depressions would practically 
disappear.” 


Our own observations among friends 
and acquaintances, both in the city and 
the country, lead us to believe that 
there is much truth in Economist Rob- 
erts’ assertions. Keeping up with the 
Joneses, or downright “foreflushing,” 
are ingrained American habits. Many 
people live up to or beyond their means 


the value volume. This is scarcely Amost of the time. When adversity tem- 


above a normal merchandising profit on 
turnover, whereas manufacturing is 
subject to greater risks than merchan- 
dising, by reason of fixed investment 
in addition to the trading risks,” de- 
clares Mr. Roberts. 


‘These figures for the net earnings of 
manufacturing corporations not only 
disprove the theory that as a class they 
make large profits, but show the fallacy 
of the declaration of the Washington 
Conference that American industry has 
‘failed in this crisis as in every other 
crisis to assume responsibility for keep- 
ing wage-earners employed and industry 
at work.’ Since 40 per cent of these 
corporations had net deficits in 1929, it 
may be assumed that another important 
percentage made only moderate net 
earnings and that no more than a small 
minority would be able for any length 
of time to continue production of goods 
which could not be sold at a profit... .” 


Mr. Roberts then turns to a report 
of manufacturing in New York state 
which reveals that 75 per cent of the 
70,000 factories in that commonwealth 
are small businesses which employ fewer 
than §0 persons each; that these small 
manufacturers are busy men struggling 


porarily hits the family there is noth- 
ing in the “kitty” to pay the grocer 
and the landlord. 


High wages, salaries and bonuses paid . 


by many a firm in 1928 and 1929 went 
into high-priced automobiles, extrava- 
gant living and stock market specula- 
tions instead of in gilt edge bonds for 
the inevitable rainy day. It is doubt- 
ful if any economic or social system 
can be devised that will spare us from 
the consequences of indiscreet and im- 
moderate living.—E. G. T. 


Cause of Farm Depression 


Adjusting production to market de- 
mand, reducing costs of production, 
and eliminating submarginal land are 
three lines of action recommended by 
the U. S. D. A. in a recent bulletin 
“Land Utilization and the Farm Prob- 
lem.” 

Among the elements cited as contrib- 
uting to the present agricultural situa- 
tion are: changes in agricultural pro- 
duction, crop land, and farm labor; in- 
crease in number of tractors and de- 
crease in numbers of horses and mules; 
and changes in consumption of food 
products. 


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Leeper Elected President 
National Fruit Exchange 


A. B. Leeper, director of fruit and 
vegetable marketing for the I. A. A., 
was recently chosen 
president of the Na- 
tional Fruit and 
Vegetable Exchange. 
This is the new na- 
tion-wide co-opera- 
tive sales agency re- 
cently set up with 
the aid of the Fed- 
eral Farm Board. 

The members of 
the Board of Direc- 
tors represent prom- 
inent co-operatives 
between the Rocky Mountains and the 
Atlantic coast. 


The Exchange will not handle citrus 
fruits since the citrus fruit growers are 
already well organized. 


A. B. Leeper 


Speak at Manhattan 


“(eer Problems Resulting from 
the Handling of Side Lines in 
Local Co-operatives” was the subject of 
an address prepared by Secretary George 
E. Metzger for delivery at the Ameri- 
can Institute of Co-operation at Man- 
hattan, Kansas, on June 10. Mr. Metz- 
ger was unable to attend. His paper w7; 
read by Frank Gougler, director of pro- 
duce marketing. 

Mr. Gougler addressed the conferenc2 
on the subject, “Colleétive Bargaining 
of Butterfat,” on June 9. 

Other Illinois speakers during the 
week were A. D. Lynch of Sanitary 
Milk Producers, St. Louis; Don Geyer 
of the Pure Milk Association, Chicago; 
P. O. Wilson and Chas. A. Stewart of the 
National Livestock Marketing Associa- 
tion; and C. E. Huff, Geo. S. Milnor 
and Bill Stahl of the Farmers National 
Grain Corporation. | 


DeKalb Signs 1,000 ‘ 
In Two Days 


More than 1,000 members were 
signed in the DeKalb County Farm 
Bureau in two days, reports Farm Ad- 
viser R. N. Rasmusen. Three town- 
ships, Clinton, Paw Paw and Kingston, 
increased their memberships over that 
of three years ago. 


Clinton township topped all others 
when out of 143 men interviewed 107 
became members. Volunteer solicitors, 


Edgar E. Hipple and T. F. Sawyer, op- 
erating in Clinton township, signed 42 
of the 48 men they interviewed. 


State Live Stock Ass’n. 
Holds First Annual Meet 


Two Hundred Attend Meeting at 
Bloomington May 28 


WO hundred livestock farmers from 

practically all sections of the state 
met at Bloomington, Illinois, on Thurs- 
day, May 28, for the first annual meet- 
ing of the Illinois 
Livestock Marketing 
Association. Officers 
chosen were: Samuel 
Sorrells, Raymond, 
president; Sam Mc- 
Clugage, Peoria, 
vice-president; G. F, 
Tullock, Rockford, 
treasurer, and Ray 
E. Miller, Chicago, 
secretary. 

The following di- 
rectors were elected: District No. .1, 
William Temple, Serena, LaSalle Coun- 
ty; District No. 2, W. E. Sawdey, 
Rockford, Winnebago County; District 
No. 3, Harvey Herndon, Adair, Mc- 
Donough County; District No. 4, Carl 
Lage, Saybrook, McLean County; Dis- 
trict No. 5, Mont Fox, Oakwood, Ver- 
milion County; District No. 6, Dudley 
H. Myers, Mendon, Adams County; 
District No. 7, J. R. Fulkerson, Jersey- 
ville, Jersey County; District No. 8, 
C. F. Oaks, Assumption, Shelby Coun- 
ty; Chicago Producers, H. H. Parke, 
Genoa; St. Louis Producers, A. E. 
Crum; Peoria Producers, Sam McClu- 
gage; Indianapolis Producers, O. B. 
Goble; I. A. A., Samuel Sorrells and 
George F. Tullock. 


The meeting was called to order by 
Henry H. Parke, who introduced the 
speakers on the morning program. Ray 
E. Miller, director of Livestock Market- 
ing discussed the plans and purposes of 
the State Association. D. L. Swanson, 
manager, Chicago Producers, spoke on 
“The Illinois Livestock Marketing As- 
sociation and the Cooperative Sales 
Agency on the Terminal Market.” P. 
O. Wilson, secretary-manager National 
Live Stock Marketing — Association, 
talked on “The National Livestock Mar- 
keting Association and Its Program.” 


Samuel Sorrells 


The afternoon session consisted of a 
general discussion and election of offi- 
cers and directors. The purpose of the 
Illinois Livestock Marketing Association 
is to correlate the activities of Illinois 
livestock farmers and livestock market- 
ing organizations in one program for 
the most economical and effective mar- 
keting of Illinois livestock. The opera- 
tion of the Association will be correlated 
with the National Live Stock Marketing 
Association and its member agencies. 


Left to right are Fred Gumm, ship- 
ping association manager, and his broth- 
er, Zeis Gumm; Zeiss Jr. of Paris, Ed- 
gar county, and C. M. Love of Charles- 
ton, Coles county. 

This picture was taken when they 
visited the Indianapolis Producers sev- 
eral weeks ago. 


Anniversary Cele- 
bration at Urbana 


The Champaign County Livestock 
Marketing Association will hold its first 
anniversary on Wednesday, June 17, in 
Urbana. 

This association was the first in the 
state to market hogs direct to the 
packer. “The association has raised the 
price of livestock to the farmers of the 
county, and has built up a good net 
profit,” says the Champaign County 
Farm Bureau. . 

Dave Swanson of the Chicago Pro- 
ducers and Sid Cherrill of the I. A. A. 


were scheduled as speakers. 


Wool Pools Organized 


In Several Counties 


County wool pools have been organ- 
ized in Shelby, Champaign, Adams, 
Piatt, Iroquois, LaSalle, Knox, Henry 
and Sangamon counties, according to 
information received by Ray E. Miller, 
director of livestock marketing. Other 


counties which will handle wool at lo- . 


cal points include’ Lee, Henderson, 
Brown, DeWitt, Pike, Wayne, Wabash, 
Jackson, Johnson, Stark, White, Rock 
Island, Bond and Warren. 

Miller announces that all shipments 
must be billed in accordance with the 
following instructions: 

Ship all cars on straight bill of lading 
to the National Wool Marketing Cor- 
poration, Boston, Massachusetts, stop at 
Chicago, Illinois, Crooks Terminal 
Warehouse, Belt Line Railway, for stor- 
age in transit. Mail the original bill 
of lading of weights to Boston office; 
memorandum bill of lading and copy 
of weights to Crooks Terminal Ware- 
house, 5967 W. 65th Street, Chicago, 
Illinois. , 

Each bag of wool should be plainly 
marked with the name of the shipper, 
county and lot number. A mixture of 
lamp black and kerosene applied with a 
small brush is useful in marking bags. 


A; ITS last meeting in Chicago on 
May 22, the Illinois Field Service 
Committee went on record recommend- 
ing that: 

1. The duties and functions of the 
Illinois Field Service Committee 
be assumed by the Illinois Live- 
stock Marketing Association. 

2. That the Illinois Livestock Mar- 
keting Association assume the ob- 
ligations and_ responsibilities in 
carrying out the field service, 
educational and organization pro- 
gram now being carried out by 
the Field Service Committee. 

3. That surplus funds now to the 
credit of the Field Service Com- 
mittee be turned over to the Illi- 
nois Livestock Marketing Associa- 
tion, in consideration ‘that Illinois 
Livestock Marketing Association 
assume the obligations and duties 
of the Field Service Committee. 

4. That the present members of the 
Illinois Field Service Committee 
enter into agreement with the 
Illinois Livestock Marketing <As- 
sociation under the terms of 
which the latter would assume 
substantially the same duties as 
are now being discharged by the 
Illinois Field Service Committee. 

§. That the following resolution be 
sent to members of the Illinois 
Field Service Committee for their 
information and action together 
with a suitable agreement to be 
executed between such member 
and the Illinois Livestock Mar- 
keting Association. 

6. That Field Service Committee be 
terminated and the funds to the 
credit thereof be disposed of as 
above upon the adoption of the 
following resolution by a majority 
of the members of the commit- 
tee. 

During May the Indianapolis Pro- 

ducers handled a total of 849 carloads 
of live stock, representing 31.19% of 
the receipts. This was 600 carloads 
more than the next largest firm on the 
market. Indiana patrons sent in 651 
carloads and Illinois 198. 


Edgar county. led all others for the 
month with a total of 23 cars. Douglas 
county was second with 22, Coles 
county third with 19 and Vermilion 
county fourth with 15 cars. 


The following Illinois counties in- 
creased their business to the Indianapolis 
Producers over May last year: Cumber- 
land, Edgar, Macon, Piatt, Sangamon 
and Vermilion. 


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Page Eight 


State Live Stock Ass’n. 
Holds First Annual Meet 


Two Hundred Attend Meeting at 
Bloomington May 28 


WO hundred livestock farmers from 

practically all sections of the state 
met at Bloomington, Illinois, on Thurs- 
day, May 28, for the first annual meet- 
ing of the Illinois 
Livestock Marketing 
Association. Officers 
chosen were: Samuel 
Sorrells, | Raymond, 
president; Sam Mc- 
Clugage, Peoria, 
vice-president; G. F. 
Tullock, Rockford, 
treasurer, and Ray 
E. Miller, Chicago, 


secretary. 


Samuel Sorrells 


The following di- 
rectors were elected: District No. 1, 
William Temple, Serena, LaSalle Coun- 
ty; District No. 2, W. E. Sawdey, 
Rockford, Winnebago County; District 
No. 3, Harvey Herndon, Adair, Mc- 
Donough County; District No. 4, Carl 
Lage, Saybrook, McLean County; Dis- 
trict No. 5, Mont Fox, Oakwood, Ver- 
milion County; District No. 6, Dudley 
H. Myers, Mendon, Adams County; 
District No. 7, J. R. Fulkerson, Jersey- 
ville, Jersey County; District No. 8, 
C. F. Oaks, Assumption, Shelby Coun- 
ty; Chicago Producers, H. H. Parke, 
Genoa; St. Louis Producers, A. E. 
Crum; Peoria Producers, Sam McClu- 
gage; Indianapolis Producers, O. B. 
Goble; I. A. A., Samuel Sorrells and 
George F. Tullock. 

The meeting was called to order by 
Henry H. Parke, who introduced the 
speakers on the morning program. Ray 
E. Miller, director of Livestock Market- 
ing discussed the plans and purposes of 
the State Association. D. L. Swanson, 
manager, Chicago Producers, spoke on 
“The Illinois Livestock Marketing As- 
sociation and the Cooperative Sales 
Agency on the Terminal Market.” P. 
O. Wilson, secretary-manager National 
Live Stock Marketing Association, 
talked on ‘The National Livestock Mar- 
keting Association and Its Program.” 

The afternoon session consisted of a 
general discussion and election of ofh- 
cers and directors. The purpose of the 
Illinois Livestock Marketing Association 
is to correlate the activities of Illinois 
livestock farmers and livestock market- 
ing organizdtions in one program for 
the most economical and effective mar- 
keting of Illinois livestock. The opera- 
tion of the Association will be correlated 
with the National Live Stock Marketing 
Association and its member agencies. 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


June, 1931 


Left to right are Fred Gumm, ship- 
ping association manager, and his broth- 
er, Zeis Gumm; Zeiss Jr. of Paris, Ed- 
gar county, and C. M. Love of Charles- 
ton, Coles county. 

This picture was taken when they 
visited the Indianapolis Producers sev- 
eral weeks ago. 


Anniversary Cele- 
bration at Urbana 


The Champaign County Livestock 
Marketing Association will hold its first 
anniversary on Wednesday, June 17, in 
Urbana. 

This association was the first in the 
state to market hogs direct to the 
packer. “The association has raised the 
price of livestock to the farmers of the 
county, and has built up a good net 
profit,” says the Champaign County 
Farm Bureau. 

Dave Swanson of the Chicago Pro- 
ducers and Sid Cherrill of the I. A. A. 


were scheduled as speakers. 


Wool Pools Organized 


In Several Counties 


County wool pools have been organ- 
ized in Shelby, Champaign, Adams, 
Piatt, Iroquois, LaSalle, Knox, Henry 
and Sangamon counties, according to 
information received by Ray E. Miller, 
director of livestock marketing. Other 
counties which will handle wool at lo- 
cal points include Lee, Henderson, 
Brown, DeWitt, Pike, Wayne, Wabash, 
Jackson, Johnson, Stark, White, Rock 
Island, Bond and Warren. 

Miller announces that all shipments 
must be billed in accordance with the 
following instructions: 

Ship all cars on straight bill of lading 
to the National Wool Marketing Cor- 
poration, Boston, Massachusetts, stop at 
Chicago, Illinois, Crooks Terminal 
Warehouse, Belt Line Railway, for stor- 
age in transit. Mail the original bill 
of lading of weights to Boston office; 
memorandum bill of lading and copy 
of weights to Crooks Terminal Ware- 
house, 5967 W. 65th Street, Chicago, 
Illinois. 

Each bag of wool should be plainly 
marked with the name of the shipper, 
county and lot number. A mixture of 
lamp black and kerosene applied with a 
small brush is useful in marking bags. 


T ITS last meeting in Chicago on 

May 22, the Illinois Field Service 
Committee went on record recommend- 
ing that: 

1. The duties and functions of the 
Illinois Field Seryice Committee 
be assumed by tHe illinois Live- 
stock Marketing Association. 

2. That the Illinois Livestock Mar- 
keting Association assume the ob- 
ligations and_ responsibilities in 
carrying out the field service, 
educational and organization pro- 
gram now being carried out by 
the Field Service Committee. 

. That surplus funds now to the 
credit of the Field Service Com- 
mittee be turned over to the Illi- 
nois Livestock Marketing Associa- 
tion, in consideration that Illinois 
Livestock Marketing Association 
assume the obligations and duties 
of the Field Service Committee. 
4. That the present members of the 

Illinois Field Service Committee 
enter into agreement with the 
Illinois Livestock Marketing As- 
sociation under the terms of 
which the latter would assume 
substantially the same duties as 
are now being discharged by the 
Illinois Field Service Committee. 

§. That the following resolution be 
sent to members of the Illinois 
Field Service Committee for their 
information and action together 
with a suitable agreement to be 
executed between such member 
and the Illinois Livestock Mar- 
keting Association. 

6. That Field Service Committee be 
terminated and the funds to the 
credit thereof be disposed of as 
above upon the adoption of the 
following resolution by a majority 
of the members of the commit- 
tee. —_— 

During May the Indianapolis Pro- 
ducers handled a total of 849 carloads 
of live stock, representing 31.19% of 
the receipts. This was 600 carloads 
more than the next largest firm on the 
market. Indiana patrons sent in 651 
carloads and Illinois 198. 


too 


Edgar county led all others for the 
month with a total of 23 cars. Douglas 
county was with 22, Coles 
county third with 19 and Vermilion 
county fourth with 15 cars. 


second 


The following Illinois counties in- 
creased their business to the Indianapolis 
Producers over May last year: Cumber- 
land, Edgar, Macon, Piatt, Sangamon 
and Vermilion. 


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Bond Co. 
H. O. Hinckley 


Clark Co. 


Don Sparks G. 5° Rasiin 


Fulton Co 


yi Gallatin Co. 
“Claude E. Hicks 


Hobart Holland 


Lawrence Co. 


Lawrence Co. 
P. Cooper 


W. H. Nuttall 


McHenry Co. 
H. J. Blackburn 


McLean Co. 
Wm. E. Hedgcock 


Stephenson Co. 
James Daws 


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K. W "Cleland 


Cook Co. 
E. A. Carncross 


Greene Co. 
L. R. Lee 


Lee Co. 
F. W. Peckham 


Ogle Co. 
Joe Holmes 


Tazewell Co. 
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Carroll Co. 
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Contra Co. 
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Grundy Co. 
Paul Brown 


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Peoria Co. 
E. A. Wilmot 


Union Co. 
E. Blaylock 


Cass Co. 
Also Mason Co. 
Howard Jokisch 


Cee Co. 


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L. W. Baxter 


Logan Co. 
L. R. Welk 


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Pike Co. 
C. E. Dunham 


Vermilion Co. 


Edward L. Dillon 


Crawford-Jas 


Raymond 


Henderson Co. 
W. A. Stevenson 


Macon Co. 
E. Glenn Ash 


Hardin Co. 
aul Blatter 


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protection story to you and 


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Farm 


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of your insurance problems. 
ureau Servants. 


Use Them - Invite Them - Listen 
L. A. WILLIAMS, General 


- Co. 


DeKalb Co. 
Geo. H. Stratton 


COUNTRY LIFE 
INSURANCE 
COMPANY 


Henry Co. 
D. P. Robinson 


hess Co. 
T. Wesley Reed 


Jefferson Co. 
D. A. Whitlock 


Madison Co. 
Stanley Castle 


Pope Hain “ae 


Wabash Co. 
H. H. Glick 


M. D. Brubaker 


John Uftelmann 


Marion Co. Mercer Co. 


Mark Foster 


Randolph Co. Randolph Co. 


A. Winkelmann 


vere Co. 
E. A. Hake 


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Christian Co. 


Clair E. Hay Clay Co. 


Chamgeien Co. 
Arthur Bryant 


S, General Manager Roy Mitchell 


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PANY 


efferson Co. 


oF A. Whitlock 


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Mercer Co. 
Mark Foster 


Randolph Co. 
A. Winkelmann 


DeWitt Co. 
Clifford T. Jessen 


ja Daviess Co. 
ohn E. Bonnett 


Menard Co. 
R. C, Hiett 


Richland Co. 
H. L. Seiler 


White Co. 
J. E. Stine 


Douglas Co. 
Also Piatt Co. 


George E. Ewing 


Jackson Co. 
Fred Dietz 


Macoupin Co. 
D.C. 


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Rock Island Co. 
G, L. Smith 


Whiteside Co. 
Wm. C. Linker 


DuPage Co. 
D. J. Auble 


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. J. Thomas 


Montgomery Co. 
E. B. 


Young 


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J.D. Smith. 


Will C 


Edward L. ‘Wilson 


Edgar Co. 
Clarence E. Smith 


Kendall Co. 
G. M. Dickson 


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Monroe Co. 
Otto P. Kolmer 


St. Clair Co. 
R. F. Schaffer 


Williamson Co. 


. E. Benton 


Edwards Co. 
Delbert Saxe 


Knox Co. 
A. N. Skinner 


Morgan Co. 
L. T. Oxley 


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Schuyler Co. 
Earl Payne 


Winnebago Co. 


Homer Hitchcock 


Effingham Co. 
H. é. Henry 


LaSalle Co. 
J. L. Eustis 


Moultrie Co. 
Clyde F. Cusick 


Scott Co. 
Albert Rolf 


Woodford Co. 
H. W. Bradshaw 


Ford Co. 


R. D. Cunningham 


Lake Co. 
Bertram Abney 


McDonough Co. 
G. O. Chenoweth 


Shelby Co. 
H. A.B 


onser 


Adams Co. 
J.C. McLean 


Clark Co. 
Don Sparks 


Fulton Co. 
Claude E. Hicks 


Lawrence Co. 
A. P. Cooper 


McHenry Co. 
H. J. Blackburn 


Bond Co. 
H. O. Hinckley 


Coles Co. 
G. B. Rankin 


Gallatin Co. 
Hobart Holland 


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Lawrence Co. 


W.H. Nuttall 


McLean Co. 
Wm. E. Hedgcock 


Stephenson Co. 
James Daws 


Boone Co. 
K. W. Cleland 


Carroll Co. 


Cass Co. 
D. R. Lower 


Also Mason Co. 
Howard Jokisch 


E. A. Carncross 


Cumberland Co. 
E. R. White 


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Greene Co. 


Hancock Co. 
L. R. Lee 


L. W. Baxter 


Grundy Co. 
Paul Brown 


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Lee Co. Livingston Co. 


a Logan Co. 
F. W. Peckham C. E. Hopkins 


L. R. Welk 


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Ogle Co. 


Peoria Co. 
Joe Holmes 


Pike Co. 
E. A. Wilmot 


C. E. Dunham 


Tazewell Co. 


Union Co. 
Wm. E. Freitag 


R. E. Blaylock 


Vermilion Co. 


Edward L. Dillon 


Crawford- Jasper Co. 
A. P. k 


These men are obligated to tell the Co 
protection story to you and to serve 


) ae of your insurance problems. 
Farm Bureau Servants. 


Use Them - Invite Them - Listen 
L.A. WILLIAMS, General 


COUNTRY LIF 
INSURANCE 
COMPANY 


Champaign Co. 
B. E. Mosi 


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Crawford-Jasper Co. 


DeKalb Co. 
Raymond Lee 


eo. H. Stratton 


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Henderson Co. 


Henry Co. 
W. A. Stevenson 


D. P. Robinson 


Iroquois Co. 


Jefferson Co. 
T. Wesley Reed 


D. A. Whitlock 


Macon Co. 


Madison Co. 
E. Glenn Ash 


Marion Co. 
Stanley Castle 


Mercer Co. 
M. D. Brubaker 


Mark Foster 


Randolph Co. 


John Uftelmann 


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Pope: Hargis Co. 
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Wabash Co. 
H. Hy Glick 


Jersey Co. 


Washington Co. 
Ira Cottingham E. 


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Clay Co. Clinton Co. Clinton Co. 


“Thern - Listen to Them Dewey Stanley R. J. Foehner W.G. Ackmann 


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Delbert Saxe H. 6. Henry R. D. Cunningham 


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Mitchell Clair E. Hay Miithue Bevahé 


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DeWitt Co. Douglas 


: Also Piatt Co. 
Clifford T. Jessen George E. Ewing 


Co. DuPage Co. 


Edgar Co. 
D. J. Auble 


Clarence E. Smith 


Jefferson Co. o Daviess Co. Jackson Co. ackson Co. Kendall Co. Knox Co. LaSalle Co. Lake Co. 


D. A. Whitlock at E. Bonnett Fred Dietz . J. Thomas G. M. Dickson A. N. Skinner J. L. Eustis Bertram Abney 


Mercer Co. Menard Co. Macoupin Co. Montgomery Co. Monroe Co. Morgan Co. Moultrie Co. McDonough Co. 
Mark Foster R. C. Hiett D.C. Mieher E. B. Young Otto P. Kolmer L. T. Oxley Clyde F. Cusick G. O. Chenoweth 


Randolph Co. Richland Co. Rock Island Co. Sangamon Co. St. Clair Co. Schuyler Co. Scott Co. Shelby Co. 
A. Winkelmann H. L. Seiler G. L. Smith J. D. Smith R. F. Schaffer Earl Payne Albert Rolf H. A. Bonser 


White Co. Whiteside Co. Will Co. F Williamson Co Winnebago Co. Woodford Ca. 
J. E. Stine Wm. C. Linker Edward L. Wilson T. E. Benton Homer Hitchcock H. W. Bradshaw 


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ON THE LIFE OF,” 


This is the Leonard Moehl Farmstead 
which estate was protected by three 
COUNTRY LIFE Policies totaling 
$6,000.00. 


A CERTAIN: ESTATE FOR THE BENEFICIARY 


Country Life Insurance Protects the Farm Home and Family 


HE story of Leonard Moehl of Putnam County, a young, progressive Farm Bureau member in his 
prime, iMustrates the uncertainty of life, the value of protection. 
In excellent health two weeks before his death, he succumbed to a sudden attack of pneumonia. 
His thoughtful provision for his family insures them a home and freedom from want until the readjustment 
which invariably attends the passing of a loved one, can be made. 


Will You Leave a Certain Estate to Provide for Your Family After You Are Gone? 


See your General Agent at your Farm Bureau office and get the facts about Country Life's low net 
cost old line legal reserve life insurance. 


608 SOUTH DEARBORN STREET 


COUNTRY LIFE INSURANCE CO. O°O°"CHICAGO » > 


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June, 1931 ' THE I. A. A. RECORD Page Thirteen 


Farm Bureau Members 
Save $200,000 Annually 
Auto tnsuvance Seevies Now Used 


by Nearly 28,000 Policy 
Holders 


HE Illinois Agricultural Mutual In- 

surance Company is now saving its 
policy holders more than $200,000 an- 
nually on the cost of their insurance, 
according to V. Vaniman. These fig- 
ures are based on the current rates of 
the I. A. A, Farm Bureau Company and 
those charged by the closest state-wide 
competition, which recently increased 
its rates. 

The Illinois Agricultural Mutual on 
June 1 had received 27,947 applica- 
tions for auto insurance since it began 
operating a few years ago. Total appli- 
cations for May were 479. 


10 High Counties 


use car in evening. Bright lights of ap- 
proaching car caused-son to hit man~on 
highway resulting in death to man. 

Remarks: A good rule to follow— 
“Don’t drive blind.” 

Logan county—Fire—Member de- 
livering gas. Employee poured gas into 
tractor and spilled some on hot mani- 
fold igniting gasoline. Employee threw 
gas can on ground spreading fire to can 
on ground and one hanging on faucet 
of oil truck. Tank on truck blew up. 
Nothing left but junk. 

Remarks: Gasoline is dangerous. Use 
every reasonable care in handling it. 


Knox and Monroe Lead 


Interest in hail insurance on farm 
crops is on the increase with the ad- 
vance of the crop season. Applications 


CHECK FOR 


The 10 high counties in boos nse gaa 
auto insurance policies in ya ( SAVINGS) 
force are as follows: Du- > 
Page 1,059, Cook, 989, a 
Champaign 914, McLean ah Ds 
858, LaSalle 843, Winne- Yn SOU RES: 
bago 796, Henry 784, Liv- fe My Ge 


ingston 688, 
and Will 606. 

The 10 high counties in 
applications received during 
May are: Champaign, Mer- 
cer, McLean, Kane, Will, 
Lake, St. Clair, Livingston, 
McHenry, Logan, Cass, 
Cook, Monroe, Morgan, 
Ogle and Whiteside. 

Roy Mitchell of Cham- 
paign county led all other 
agents in applications re- 
ceived with a total of 35. 
Next in line were Mark 
Foster, Mercer county; Ber- 
tram Abney, Lake County; 
C. E. Hopkins, Livingston 
county; Fred H. Wilson, Kane county; 
Otto P. Kolmer, Monroe county; Wm. 
E. Hedgcock, McLean county; R. F. 
Shaffer, St. Clair county; L. T. Oxley, 
Morgan county; K. W. Cleland, Boone 
county; and Earl Payne, Schuyler 
county. 


Logan 676, 


A few accidents reported by policy- 
holders recently follow: 


Clinton county—Our insured going 
east started to make left-hand turn. 
Stopped with front wheel just over 
black line. Truck going west at high 
rate of speed avoiding our member’s 
car ran over curbing into a front porch 
causing personal injury to occupants of 
truck and damage to house and porch. 


Effingham county — Our member 
loaned car to prospective purchaser. 
Prospective purchaser allowed son to 


ILLINOIS 
AGRICULTURAL 


MUTUAL INSURANCE 
co. 


for hail insurance received by the Farm- 
ers Mutual Reinsurance Company, June 
1, totaled $425,313. 

Most of the insurance applied for is 
to cover corn and small grains. The 
leading counties in hail insurance appli- 
cations up to June 1 were: Knox, Mon- 
roe, Henry, McDonough, and St. Clair. 

Monroe county farmers led the state 
in protecting their crops against hail 
up to the middle of May. Otto Kolmer 
of that county was high agent and had 
taken applications for $39,800 worth of 
hail insurance by May 18. The next 
nine agents in business written follow: 
T. E. Benton, Williamson county; C. 
Kingston, Warren county; L. R. Welk, 
Logan county; A. M. Nash, Henry 
county; C. J. Thomas, Jackson county; 
A. Speichmeyer, St. Clair county; I. 
Cottingham, Jersey county; R. H. Fick, 


Explain Farmer Employers’ __ 
Liability in Accidents 
Policy Holders Report Many Acci- 


dents to Employees in 
Recent Weeks 


14 NE of our members reports that 
his attorney gave him to under- 
stand that a farmer doesn’t have to 
carry employer’s liability insurance,” 
says V. Vaniman, director of insurance 
service. “He gave our member the im- 
pression that the farmer is exempt from 
liability. : 

“Apparently there is some misunder- 
standing. For while it is true that the 
farmer employer is exempt from the 
provisions of the Workmen’s Compen- 
sation Act for work done on a farm, 
he is not exempt from the.common law 
liability for injury or death 
to employees engaged in op- 
erations on the farm. 

“Under the common law, 
if the employer is guilty of 
negligence or careless in any 
way he is liable.” 

Recently accidents to 
farmer employees have been 
reported as follows: 

Saline county — Hired 
man fell, throwing hand 
under roller on which log 
was moving. 

Kane county—Employee 
fell over partition; vein in 
right leg bursting. 

Jackson county — Em- 
ployee while working with 
spray material got some 
lime in eye. 

Morgan county — Em- 
ployee standing up in box 
wagon when driving out of 
barn—cut head on nail in 
plate over door. 

Richland county—Em- 
ployee stretching barb wire 
for employer, when wire came loose 
from stretcher and tore palm of left 
hand. 

Will county—Man throwing down 
hay got chaff or small piece of weed 
in eye; eye becoming much inflamed. 


Henry county; and E. Altes, Monroe. 

During the past two years hail ,insur- 
ance has cost $20 per $1,000 on corn 
and small grains. This is approximately 
one-third cheaper than that provided by 
old line companies. 

The cost of insuring soybeans is 
slightly higher at $25 per $1,000. Ini- 
tial payment is $4 per $1,000 on all 
hail insurance and a check for the bal- 
ance must be given at time of applica- 
tion payable Oct. 1. The Farmers Mu- 
tual Reinsurance Company reinsures all 
its hail risks. 


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This is the Leonard Moehl Farmstead 
which estate was protected by three 
COUNTRY LIFE Policies totaling 
$6,000.00. 


A CERTAIN: ESTATE FOR THE BENEFICIARY 


Country Life Insurance Protects the Farm Home and Family 


HE story of Leonard Moehl of Putnam County, a young, progressive Farm Bureau member in his 
prime, i iMlustrates the uncertainty of life, the value of protection. 
In excellent health two weeks before his death, he succumbed to a sudden attack of pneumonia. 
His thoughtful provision for his family insures them a home and freedom from want until the readjustment 
which invariably attends the passing of a loved one, can be made. 


Will You Leave a Certain Estate to Provide for Your Family After You Are Gone? 


See your General Agent at your Farm Bureau office and get the facts about Country nae s low net 
cost old line legal reserve life insurance. 


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June, 1931 


Farm Bureau Members 
Save $200,000 Annually 


Auto Insurance Service Now Used 
by Nearly 28,000 Policy 
Holders 


HE Illinois Agricultural Mutual In- 

surance Company is now saving its 
policy holders more than $200,000 an- 
nually on the cost of their insurance, 
according to V. Vaniman. These fig- 
ures are based on the current rates of 
the I. A. A. Farm Bureau Company and 
those charged by the closest state-wide 
competition, which recently increased 
its rates. 

The Illinois Agricultural Mutual on 
June 1 had received 27,947 applica- 
tions for auto insurance since it began 
operating a few years ago. Total appli- 
cations for May were 479. 


10 High Counties 


The 10 high counties in 
auto insurance policies in 


force are as follows: Du- 
Page 1,059, Cook, 989, 
Champaign 914, McLean 


858, LaSalle 843, Winne- 
bago 796, Henry 784, Liv- 
ingston 688, Logan 676, 
and Will 606. 

The 10 high counties in 
applications received during 
May are: Champaign, Mer- 
cer, McLean, Kane, Will, 
Lake, St. Clair, Livingston, 
McHenry, Logan, Cass, 
Cook, Monroe, Morgan, 
Ogle and Whiteside. 

Roy Mitchell of Cham- 
paign county led all other 
agents in applications re- 
ceived with a total of 35, 
Next in line were Mark 
Foster, Mercer county; Ber- 
tram Abney, Lake County; 
C. E. Hopkins, Livingston 
county; Fred H. Wilson, Kane county; 
Otto P. Kolmer, Monroe county; Wm. 
E. Hedgcock, McLean county; R. F. 
Shaffer, St. Clair county; L. T. Oxley, 
Morgan county; K. W. Cleland, Boone 
county; and Earl Payne, Schuyler 
county. 


A few accidents reported by policy- 
holders recently follow: 


Clinton county—Our insured going 
east started to make left-hand turn. 
Stopped with front wheel just over 
black line. Truck going west at high 
rate of speed avoiding our member’s 
car ran over curbing into a front porch 
causing personal injury to occupants of 
truck and damage to house and porch. 


Effingham county — Our member 
loaned car to prospective purchaser. 
Prospective purchaser allowed son to 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


use car in evening. Bright lights of ap- 
proaching car caused son to hit man ‘on 
highway resulting in death to man. 

Remarks: A good rule to follow— 
“Don’t drive blind.” 

Logan county—Fire—Member de- 
livering gas. Employee poured gas into 
tractor and spilled some on hot mani- 
fold igniting gasoline. Employee threw 
gas can on ground spreading fire to can 
on ground and one hanging on faucet 
of oil truck. Tank on truck blew up. 
Nothing left but junk. 

Remarks: Gasoline is dangerous. Use 
every reasonable care in handling it. 


Knox and Monroe Lead 


Interest in hail insurance on farm 
crops is on the increase with the ad- 
vance of the crop season. Applications 


CHECK FOR 

$ 200, 000.00 

(ANNUAL . 
SAVINGS) 


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ILLINOIS 
AGRICULTURAL 
MUTUAL INSURANCE 
co. 


for hail insurance received by the Farm- 
ers Mutual Reinsurance Company, June 
1, totaled $425,313. 

Most of the insurance applied for is 
to cover corn and small grains. The 
leading counties in hail insurance appli- 
cations up to June 1 were: Knox, Mon- 
roe, Henry, McDonough, and St. Clair. 

Monroe county farmers led the state 
in protecting their crops against hail 
up to the middle of May. Otto Kolmer 
of that county was high agent and had 
taken applications for $39,800 worth of 
hail insurance by May 18. The next 
nine agents in business written follow: 
T. E. Benton, Williamson county; C. 
Kingston, Warren county; L. R. Welk, 
Logan county; A. M. Nash, Henry 
county; C. J. Thomas, Jackson county; 
A. Speichmeyer, St. Clair county; I. 
Cottingham, Jersey county; R. H. Fick, 


_ Page Thirteen 

Explain Farmer Employers’ 
Liability in Accidents 

Policy Holdets. Report Many Acci- 


dents to Employees in 
Recent Weeks 


cc NE of our members reports that 
his attorney gave him to under- 
stand that a farmer doesn’t have to 
carry employer’s liability insurance,” 
says V. Vaniman, director of insurance 
service. “He gave our member the im- 
pression that the farmer is exempt from 
liability. ; 

“Apparently there is some misunder- 
standing. For while it is true that the 
farmer employer is exempt from the 
provisions of the Workmen’s Compen- 
sation Act for work done on a farm, 
he is not exempt from the common law 
liability for injury or death 
to employees engaged in op- 
erations on the farm. 

“Under the common law, 
if. the employer is guilty of 
negligence or careless in any 
way he is liable.” 

Recently accidents to 
farmer employees have been 
reported as follows: 

Saline county — Hired 
man fell, throwing hand 
under roller on which log 
was moving. 

Kane county—Employee 
fell over partition; vein in 
right leg bursting. 

Jackson county — Em- 
ployee while working with 
spray material -got some 
lime in eye. 

Morgan county — Em- 
ployee standing up in box 
wagon when driving out of 
barn—cut head on nail in 
plate over door. 

Richland county—Em- 
ployee stretching barb wire 
for employer, when wire came loose 
from stretcher and tore palm of left 
hand. 

Will county—Man throwing down 
hay got chaff or small piece of weed 
in eye; eye becoming much inflamed. 


Henry county; and E. Altes, Monroe. 

During the past two years hail insur- 
ance has cost $20 per $1,000.o0n corn 
and small grains. This is approximately 
one-third cheaper than that provided by 
old line companies. 

The cost of insuring soybeans is 
slightly higher at’ $25 per $1,000. Ini- 
tial payment is $4- per $1,000 on all 
hail insurance and a check for the bal- 
ance must be given at time of applica- 
tion payable Oct. 1. The Farmers Mu- 
tual Reinsurance Company reinsures all 
its hail risks. 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Fourteen 


“Give Us a Chance, We'll 


Do-the Rest”—Cummings~ 


Mid-West Grain Corp. Handles 
Over 3,000,000 Bushels Grain 
in Six Months 


HE Mid-West Grain Corporation 

operating on the Chicago, St. Louis, 
and ‘Peoria grain markets passed the 
3, 000, 000 bushel mark recently only 
six months after it 
began operating on 
jits present basis, 
")Manager Chas. P. 
Cummings reported 
to 200 McLean 
county grain pro- 
ducers and elevator 
stockholders at a 
i]meeting in Bloom- 
ington the night of 
June 3. 

“Any old-line grain 
man would say it’s 
remarkable what we have accomplished 
in so short a time,” said Mr. Cummings. 
“We handled 1,761 carloads of grain in 
six months. I can’t conceive of this 
success as based on sentiment alone. We 
are not asking for the support of the 
farmers’ elevators on that basis. 

“All we’re asking of the growers is 
to give us a chance. We don’t want 
anybody to feel that they are being 
forced in. To be successful this busi- 
ness must be built on a basis of mutual 
satisfaction. ‘Twenty-seven years’ ex- 
perience in the grain business leads me 
to believe that the producer can be 
benefited through co-operation. Every 
penny made on this business belongs to 
the grower. We’re here to make money 
for you. A volume of grain is neces- 
sary to do this. 

“If we have 150 elevators working 
together I know we can make a show- 
ing in savings you and I can be proud 
of. There are two things that grain 
producers can do by working together: 

1. They can regulate the movement 
of grain to market. 

2. They can eliminate the wide day 
to day fluctuations. 

“The miller is interestd, so is the 
farmer in a more stable price. There is 
no excuse, for example, for the 13-cent 
drop in the price of wheat in one day. 
This is what happened at Minneapolis 
today. 

“It is heart-breaking to realize that 
corn started out early last fall during 
shucking time at 60 to 65 cents a bushel 
and now corn is bringing around 48 
cents a bushel to the grower. 

“If our co-operative set-up has merit 
it will grow in spite of all the mud 
slinging by those opposed to us. If not, 
we won’t succeed regardless of what 
we can do. I’m not worried about the 


Cc. P. Cummings 


unfriendly propaganda being spread over 
the state. That advertising does us more 
good than harm. If we’re right they 
can’t hurt us. And if we’re wrong all 
the kind things anyone can say won’t 
make us succeed. 

“I know this much, one week 70 per 
cent of our grain business came from 
non-members and the reason we got it 
was because we could pay the price, 
and for no other reason. If we can’t 
deliver as much or more for /your grain 
as the other fellow we can’t expect your 
business.” 


Put Grain Sales Profits 


in Pockets of Farmer 


Farmers National Grain Man Tells 
Aims of Co-operation in 
Terminal Markets 


cc" HE Farmers National Grain Cor- 
poration hopes some day to con- 
trol enough volume to stabilize the price 
of grain in line with its value,” D. P. 
Moore of the Farmers- National, Chi- 
cago, asserted in his address at Bloom- 
ington on June 3. 

“Our object is to assist in bringing 
about equality between grain prices and 
the prices of things farmers have to 
buy,” he said. “Farmers have the sup- 
port in their co-operative efforts of most 
of the big interests of the country ex- 
cept the middlemen. 

“The middleman’s only interest is a 
selfish one. They make a lot of noise 
but they are in the minority. Industry 
as a whole wants to see the Marketing 
Act succeed to bring a greater measure 
of prosperity to the farmer because busi- 
ness men know that a prosperous agri- 
culture is necessary for industrial pros- 
perity.” 

Mr. Moore paid his respects to the 
attacks on co-operative grain market- 
ing. Referring to statements made by 
F. S. Betz, editor of the Farmers’ Guide, 
at the recent old-line grain dealers’ con- 
vention in Peoria, Moore said: ‘Betz’ 
speech was the biggest boost for the 
Marketing Act I’ve ever seen. His 
education apparently stopped with the 
farmer’s elevator. Everyone knows that 
the farmer’s elevator has done a fine 
thing locally for the farmer. That’s 
beside the point. 

“Now farmers are carrying their co- 
operation a step farther into the termi- 
nal markets. Certainly if there is any 
justification for co-operation locally 
there is more justification for it in the 
terminal markets where the prices are 
made and where manipulation in behalf 
of the grain handlers’ interests is fre- 
quent. 

“Betz raked up the previous attempts 
of farmers to get together to help 

(Continued on Page 15, Col. 1) 


June, 1931 


Growers Getting Inside 
Information on Markets 


Fahrnkopf Emphasizes One Differ- 
ence Between C-operative and 
Middleman System 


cY OUR co-operative sales agency 
tries to pay the producer as much 
as possible for grain. Under the old-line 
system the commission house tries to 
buy from the farm- 
er’s elevator as cheap- 
ly as possible. This 
is one difference be- 
tween the two meth- 
ods of marketing,” 
Harrison Fahrnkopf, 
director of grain 
marketing for the 
Illinois Agricultural 
Association, told 200 
McLean county grain 
producers at Bloom- 4. Fahrnkopf 
ington on June 3. 

“This whole movement represented 
by the Farmers National and the Mid- 
West Grain Corporation would be worth 
while if only for the knowledge farm- 


ers are getting about how their grain is 


handled in the markets,” said Fahrn- 
kopf. “The co-operative’s chief interest 
will be to get the farmer a maximum 
price, to improve the system so it will 
work as well. for the producer as it has 
for the middleman.” 

The new agreement running between 
the Illinois Grain Corporation and the 
farmers’ elevators provides: 

1. For selling the producer grain 
through his own co-operative agency on 
the terminal markets when it can pay 
as much as any other buyer. 

2. That the local elevators operate 
as Capper-Volstead associations with re- 
turns on that part of the stock repre- 
senting capitalization of the grain end 
of the business, limited to 8 per cent, 
the balance to be held in reserve or 
turned back to the producer in the form 
of patronage refunds. 

Fifty-seven farmers’ co-operative ele- 
vators had affiliated with the Illinois 
Grain Corporation and its sales agency, 
Mid-West Grain, by June 6. This rec- 
ord has been achieved in a little more 
than a year. By June 1, the Mid-West 
had handled upwards of 3,000,000 
bushels of grain in the six months of 
operation on its present basis. 

“The best answer to the frequent 
attacks inspired by those selfishly op- 
posed to farmer co-operation is the rec- 
ord of our progress,” G. C. Johnstone, 
president of the Illinois Grain Corpora- 
tion, and a prominent grain and live- 
stock producer in McLean county, de- 
clared in a recent statement. 

“The ever-growing volume of grain 


being handled by the Mid-West is being 


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June, 1931 


obtained on a competitive basis. Merit 
and_ merit alone is responsible for—our 
growth. We have been getting the busi- 
ness because we are demonstrating that 
a co-operative can pay the farmer as 
much or more for his grain as any old 
line company. 

“When farmers decided to own their 
own local elevators 25 or more years 
ago they were met with the same Kind 
of opposition we are experiencing now 
in building a co-operative agency in the 
terminals. We are going to win this 
fight because our set-up is sound and 
our management capable of getting the 
farmer the most for his product. Fur- 
thermore, all profits made from han- 
dling grain will go to the member ele- 
vators and on to the producers in 
patronage refunds.” 


PUT GRAIN SALES PROFIT 
(Continued from Page 14) 


themselves. And in this same talk he 
made the point that the grain trade 
after much discouragement and failure 
had built the present efficient system 
for marketing grain. I’m not disputing 
the fact that the grain trade has accom- 
plished much in improving the market- 
ing system. Nevertheless there is plenty 
of room for further improvement. It’s 
time the producer took a. hand in 
making the system work for him as 
well as it has worked to enrich the 
middleman, Farmers may expect much 
opposition and discouragement in their 
co-operative efforts. 

“You producers have an organization 
operating in all the big grain markets 
of the world. Every buyer of grain of 
any size in any state of the Union has 
the Farmers National’s bid on grain 
every day between 1:00 p. m. and 9:30 
next morning. That’s what you have 
done for yourselves in less than two 
years’ time. 

“The Farmers National is handling 
more grain than any other firm in the 
country. It is the only organization 
that can offer grain at all times in the 
quantity and quality desired by the 
buyer. But you producers have to work 
with this system to get the benefit.” 


The 200 farmers in Peoria, Knox, 
Stark, and Henry counties in the Farm 
Bureau farm management service. paid 


an average of $356 each in taxes last 


year. The farm incomes after taking 
out 5 per cent for the investment aver- 
aged $196 less than nothing, reports the 
Peoria County Farmer. 


Champaign county has adopted a new 
cream marketing plan. Pick-up trucks 
are gathering the cream at the farm 
twice a week and are hauling it to the 
farmers’ co-operative creamery at Craw- 
fordsville. 


. THE I. A. A. RECORD 


To Continue .Policies— 


Chairman James C. Stone of the 
Federal Farm Board met recently 

with representatives of the big grain 
exchanges of the country for a con- 
ference on wheat. Chairman Stone 
announced that the Board would 
continue its present policies calling 
for no stabilization of the 1931 crop 
and the further development of co- 
operative marketing. 

Attending the conference were 
Julius Barnes, grain exporter; James 
C. Murray, president, Chicago Board 
of Trade; Fred B. Wells, B. H. 
Woodworth, Minneapolis Chamber 
of Commerce; George Davis, Kansas 
City Exchange; James Norris, Chi- 
cago; Walter McCarthy, Duluth; 
and E. J. Peck, Omaha. 


Wheat Storage Space 
Ample for New Crop 


In spite of the large carry-over and 
prospects for a large wheat crop, there 
is no indication of any great shortage 
of storage space or any unusual con- 
gestion in handling the forthcoming 
crop, according to the Farmers National 
Grain Corporation. 

The carry-over June 30 is estimated 
at 275 to 300 million bushels, or ap- 
proximately that of last year. It is esti- 
mated that there will be more storage 
space in proportion to wheat supplies 
than was the case a year ago. 


Says Red Top Business 
Returns $1,500,000 Yearly 
Eighty-five per cent of the world’s 


supply of red top grass seed is produced-~ 


in 13 counties of southern Illinois, ac- 
cording to J. J. Pieper, Crops Division, 
College of Agriculture, Urbana. The 
industry averages returns of about $1,- 
500,000 a year to some 7,000 growers, 
he says. 

The average annual production from 
1922 to 1930 was more than 10,000,- 
000 pounds. Prices range from 10.5 
cents a pound in 1927 and 1928 to 22 
cents a pound in 1925-1926. The av- 
erage annual production of red top seed 
per farm is 1,500 pounds having a value 
of $225. 


The index of the general level of 
farm prices on May 15 was 86 per cent 
of the pre-war level, 38 points below a 
year ago and the lowest since 1910. 


The board of directors of the IIli- 
nois Produce Marketing Association 
meeting at Decatur, May 13, voted 
to pay a dividend of 7 per cent on 
all outstanding preferred stock. 


Page Fifteen 


LaSalle Co. Grain Co-op. 
Now Operating at Ottawa 


HE new conditioning and loading 
station set up by the LaSalle County 
Co-operative Grain Company at Ottawa 
started operating late in May, announces 
the Organized Farm- 
gl er of LaSalle county. 
! Open house was held 
Fon May 25 and 26 
| when representatives 
| from _ neighboring 
| counties in northern 
and central Illinois 
gathered to see the 
new equipment. 

ELE. “Cracker” 
Johnson, a graduate 
of the University of 
Illinois, College of 
Agriculture, and former associate county 
adviser in Macoupin county, has been 
employed to manage the new co-oper- 
ative. 

Grain is cleaned and loaded ‘simul- 
taneously by an airforce blower.’ Cash 
is paid for the grain as it is hauled in 
for loading based on the prevailing 
market. 

The loading station is equipped with 
a 22-foot scale of 10-ton capacity. The 
loading equipment will handle 1,000 to 
1,600 bushels per hour. Grain is blown 
either directly into cars or into one of 
the four steel storage bins with a capac- 
ity of 2,000 bushels each. Air under 
high pressure forces the grain up the 
chute so as to remove excessive moisture 
and condition the grain for storage. 
Dirt and foreign material is separated 
spots the grain at the same time. 


“Cracker” Johnson 


Marshall County Grain 
Producers Meet Wenona 


Grain producers about Wenona in 
Marshall county met on June 1 to con- 
sider ways and means of getting a maxi- 
mum price for their grain. They dis- 
cussed the possibilities of the new air 
force blower type of grain loader which 
is being used in LaSalle county to fa- 
cilitate and cut overhead expenses in 
handling grain. 

With this new device it is reported 
that grain can be blown directly from 
the unloading chute into the car and 
much dirt can be removed in the proc- 
ess to improve the grade. 


The St. Clair County Farm Bureau 
recently ‘moved into new quarters in 
the new Hotel Belleville opposite the 
Court House. 


Steps toward organizing agricultural 
credit corporatiens have been taken in 
McLean and Champaign counties. 


Page Sixteen 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


une, 1931 


Co-operative Produce Marketing in Illinois 


HREE reasons Illinois producers of 

butterfat have undertaken to mar- 
ket this commodity co-operatively may 
be stated as follows: 

1. Because they felt they were not 
getting enough for their butterfat in 
relation to the Chicago butter market. 

2. Because many producers were dis- 
satisfied with weights and tests received 
from some of the creameries buying 
butterfat in the state. 7 

3. Because producers recognized in- 
efficiency in the method of assembling 
butterfat where more and more stations 
compete for the small volume of cream 
coming into a given town. 

Before co-operative produce market- 
ing was launched, butterfat was being 
purchased from three to six cents under 
the Chicago market, the margin being 
wider in southern Illinois than in north- 
ern Illinois due to keener competition 
in the latter section and a poorer quali- 
ty of the product in the southern coun- 
ties. The operating ‘costs of private 
cream stations before pools were organ- 
ized ranged from four to six cents per 
pound. Co-operative créam stations 
recognized that.this cost could be re- 
duced by handling a larger volume 
through their pools than was being han- 
dled by private cream stations. 
= Higher Average Price 

At the present time the price /for 
butterfat in. relation to the Chicago 
market for northern Illinois will aver- 
age quite closely throughout the year 
to the Chicago market, and in southern 
Illindix from three to five cents under 
the market depending upon thextime 
of year and~the range in the butter 
markét price. 

In regard to the dissatisfaction of 
weights and “tests, \it cannot be said 
that producers were dissatisfied with all 
creameries buying butterfat within the 
state. But evidence indicated that some 
companies were taking advantage of 
producers in this respect. These condi- 
tions promoted the organization of the 
first co-operative cream marketing as- 
sociation as early as 1924. 

The first station was started in June 
of that year at Paxton, in Ford county. 
Up to the end of 1928, little attention 
was given to this project. As a result 
only a few additional pools were or- 
ganized during that period. One of the 
early pools organized at Polo, Ogle 
county, was later converted into a co- 
operative creamery which has been op- 
erating very successfully. 

During 1928-29-30 cream pools were 
organized over the state until at the 
present time sixty-five such units are 


By Frank Gougler 


now operating with several more get- 
ting ready. As each pool was organized 
it did its own shopping around to find 
a buyer for the pooled cream. Early in 
1928 it was found necessary to improve 
this method of selling to give every 
creamery an opportunity to buy pooled 
butterfat. A plan was therefore devised 
of selling to the high bidder. 

Asked for Bids 

During the organization period of a 
pool, careful thought was given to the 
number of creameries that might be 
interested in purchasing the butterfat. 
All creameries that could possibly be 
interested were invited to submit bids. 
They were asked to bid for the butter- 
fat for a period of one year paying on 
the basis of the Chicago market on the 
association’s weights and tests. - This 
plan was followed until the spring of 
1930. At that time representatives of 
the processors pointed out objections to 
the plan. These were: 

1. The creamery buying a pool of 
cream had no assurance that they would 
have it more than one year. This being 
the case, an individual creamery might 
lose a number of pools very suddenly. 
This actually happened in one case so 
as to work a great hardship on the com- 
pany. 

2. Another objection raised was that 
in many cases instead of moving the 
cream to plants nearby, it was moved 
to distant creameries. This reduced the 
quality of the product instead of im- 
proving it. 

With these points in mind, it was 
suggested by processors that an effort 
be made to work out a plan to correct 
these evils. 

Decide to Federate 

Prior to November, 1929, Illinois 
cream pools were individual county as- 
sociations with producer members on 
contract to market all their produce 
through the county organization. It 
was decided to reorganize these associa- 
tions in accordance with the Marketing 
Act of 1923 and to provide for capital 
stock. It was also decided to federate 
these county associations into a state- 
wide organization. 

This was done November. 6, 1929, 
when the Illinois Produce Marketing 
Association was organized providing for 
three classes of stock. Capital stock 
consists of 30,000 shares of class “SA” 
preferred $25 par value with cumula- 
tive dividends of 7%; 150,000 shares 
of class “B” preferred for the Illinois 
Agricultural Association, which ini- 
tiated, developed and is responsible for 
the project, and 75,000 shares of com- 


= “a 


mon stock. The “B” stock has no finan- 
cial interest. County associations in 
like manner were incorporated with 
2,000 shares of class “A” stock at $25 
per share 7% cumulative . dividends, 
2,500 shares of class ““B” stock of no 
par held by the Illinois Produce Mar- 
keting Association, and 1,000 shares of 


‘common stock. The above provisions 


are for large counties. Small counties 
are organized with only one-half the 
number of shares in each class. 

The Illinois Produce Marketing Asso- 
ciation is governed by fifteen directors. 
This board, in co-operation with the I. 
A. A., devised the present plan of sell- 
ing butterfat, which provides: 

What Plan Provides 

1. That the initial price paid for but- 
terfat handled by pools be uniform 
throughout the state regardless of the 
location of the pool. 

2. For protecting the operating mar- 
gin of the pool. 

3. For division of profits made on 
butter manufactured from pooled but- 
terfat between the manufacturer and 
producers. 

4. For administering the plan by a 
committee of six men—three represent- 
ing processors and three producers. 

The initial price paid for pooled but- 
terfat is*based on the daily Chicago 90 
score market, which varies according to 
the. butter market as follows: 


Chicago Price Premium or Deduc- 

Range of Butter tion for Fat 
VS: S19 oe Minus 234 
90S BEM te ey, 
$2 99%... e ¥, 
$0: 2.548 as Pls 
$5°6 9994 ne. 0 1% 
40° = 449 oo ove «23, 
4652 48. eS «Ey 
$0.-<$494 con eo 4, 
ek «  4y, 


Insofar as the contract creameries are 
concerned, the local produce associations 
are protected by the creamery receiving 
their butterfat to the extent of three 
cents per pound above the price re- 
ceived from the creamery. After the 
creamery has paid all procurement, 
manufacturing and sales costs and is 
credited with the going return on in- 
vestment, the remaining net profits 
made on pool butterfat are divided so 
that one-half goes to the Illinois Pro- 
duce Marketing Association for refund- 
ing to the county associations on a 
patronage basis. The administration of 
this marketing plan is in the hands of 
six men as follows: 

Tom Borman, Beatrice Creamery, 

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PRODUCE MARKETING 
(Continued from Page 16) 
Chicago: Tom Canfield, Swift & Co., 
Chicago, and Dr. N. W. Hepburn, Pe- 
oria Creamery, for the processors; and 
Earl Smith, president, Geo. Metzger, 
secretary, Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion, and Sam Elkins, president Illinois 
Produce Marketing Association, for, the 


producers. | 
‘The duties of the Administration 
Committee ar . 

(a) Genel upervision of all mat- 
ters requiring joint supervision. 

(b) Arbitration of controversies that 
[may arise between the parties or be- 
tween processors signing similar agree- 
ments, 

(c) To afocate and reallocate cream 
delivered by ‘association to processor. 

(d) To adjust all matters of differ- 
ences with reference to grading, weights 
and tests. 

(e) To encourage the production of 
a better product.- 

- This method of co-operative market- 
ing has incorporated into the plan some 
entirely new features. It\is more or less 
‘m experiment in the field of co-oper- 
ative effort. 

Profit-Sharing Plan 
The “division-of-profit” plan with 


private interests is rarely ever seen in. 


the co-operative field. Here is an at- 
tempt not only for producers to co- 
operate but one to bring about co-oper- 
ation between producers and private in- 
terests. With such wide deviation from 
the usual method of co-operative effort, 
it is expected that serious problems 
might arise. 

The Administration Committee never- 
theless has been quite successful in ad- 
ministering this plan. There has been 
no disagreement in the matter of allo- 
cation of butterfat, neither has there 
been difficulty in settling other prob- 
lems coming before the Administration 
Committee with the exception of one 
instance. 

A Problem Unsolved 

The problem that has not yet been 
solved is that of protecting the pools’ 
operating margin at points where inde- 
pendent buyers not co-operating in this 
plan are responsible for unduly high 
prices. The best that has been accom- 
- plished at these points is for the proces- 
sor to protect the pool to the extent of 
one-half of its operating cost. Such an 
adjustment cannot be accepted as satis- 
factory over a long period. It will be 
necessary for the Administration Com- 
mittee to work out a satisfactory policy 
covering this situation. 

Numerous cases have been reported 
by creameries stating that they are not 
getting the full amount of butterfat 
paid for. Investigations have been made 
in every case and findings indicate that 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Le F. Brissenden 


L. F. Brissenden, I. A. A. district or- 
ganization manager in the southeastern 
Illinois territory, recently returned 
from a trip to British Columbia, where 
he and Mrs. Brissenden visited their son 
and daughter-in-law. 

“Here is one fish story that’s true,” 
he writes. ‘“‘The salmon I caught shown 
in the picture was 37 inches long and 
weighed 19 pounds. I got a real thrill 
out of landing this salmon. 

“I learned many things during the 
trip about the wheat pool in Canada, 
and co-operative poultry and egg mar- 
keting up and down the Pacific Coast.” 


in some cases the creamery is at fault 
and in other cases the trouble is at the 
station. 

The first division of profit period ex- 
tended from June 1, 1930, to March 
31, 1931. During that period the total 
amount of pooled butterfat amounted 
to approximately 1,684,000 pounds on 
which the total amount of money paid 
in by the creameries amounted to $1,- 
645.74, which is equivalent to prac- 
tically .lc per pound. The division of 
profits for this period is almost’ negligi- 
ble. It is as much as could reasonably 


be expected perhaps when market con~ 


ditions during the period are taken into 
consideration. A study of the market 
from June 1, 1930, to March 31, 1931, 
indicates that during the entire period 
there has been a consistent decline in the 
market. 


Decline Hurts All 


This decline naturally resulted in 
low profits or losses, not only from 
the standpoint of the processors but also 
from the standpoint of the margin 
made by the co-operative association. 
Of the 24 creameries purchasing pooled 


cream during this period only eight were. 


able to show a margin above operating 
cost. This small division of profit is 
disappointing to the producers. Yet this 
method of marketing deserves further 
trial in a period more favorable for its 
success. , 

The end of the present contract pe- 
riod expires with the calendar year 
1931. At its close improvement un- 


une, 1931 


60 Marshall-Putnam 


“Livestock Men at Peoria 


Producers’ Representatives. Demon- 
strate Market Grades and 
Grading 


Sry livestock farmers led by Guy 
French, director of the Peoria Pro- 
ducers and chairman of the Marshall- 
Putnam Farm Bureau Livestock Mar- 
keting Committee, and R. J. Laible, 
Farm Adviser, visited the Peoria Pro- 
ducers on May 20. They were met by 
Eddie Sitton, hog salesman and Ray E. 
Miller of the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 
ciation, and conducted through the 
yards. 

Methods of: unloading, receiving, 
weighing, yarding and feeding were ex- 
plained. Following the trip through the 
yards the delegation was assembled in a 
large pen where different grades of hogs 
had been selected. Mr. Sitton discussed 
each grade of hogs, why it was graded 
in that manner, its value and what the 
outlet for that class of stuff was. The 
calf grading demonstration was particu- 
larly interesting. Many of the visiting 
growers expressed surprise at informa- 
tion which came out in the demonstra- 
tion. A discussion of the different 
grades of butcher cattle concluded this 
part of the program. 


Luncheon at Hotel 


Following luncheon at the Hotel 
Jefferson, George Wilson, president of 
the Peoria Producers, was presented by 
Mr. French, W. R. Hembrough, mana- 
ger of the Peoria Producers discussed 
informally the operation of the co- 
operative, the Stocker and Feeder Com- 
pany, and later answered questions. 
Manager D. L..Swanson of the Chicago 
Producers was also a guest .and spoke 
briefly of the operation of the Chicago 
Producers and its relation to the Peoria 
Producers. Ray Miller and Sid Cherrill 
of the Livestock Marketing Department 
of the I. A. A. discussed the activities 
of the Livestock Marketing Department. 


doubtedly will be brought about to 
eliminate some of the present difficul- 
ties. An agreement should be reached 
to protect co-operatives in towns where 
independent operators are buying but- 
terfat. During the past year the direct 
shipper price for butterfat has been 
more favorable than station price. This 
condition should be corrected by giving 
pools some consideration. Finally, if 
the dairy industry of Illinois is to de- 
velop to the fullest extent, it will be 
necessary to develop and enforce a grad- 
ing plan. With other states forging 
ahead in the production of high quality 
butter, it is necessary for our state to 
fall in line or be satisfied to take a lower 
price for what we produce. i 


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Volume 9 


Some Facts for Illinois Grain Producers 


HE Illinois Grain Corporation 1s 

one of twenty-five grain marketing 
regionals which own the Farmers Na- 
tional Grain Corporation. The organi- 
zation is state-wide 
in scope, while the 
latter organization is 
the national grain 
marketing agency set 
up by grain market- 
ing co-operatives of 
the United States at 
the suggestion of and 
under the direction 
of the Federal Farm 
Board. 

The Illinois Grain 
Corporation does not 
duplicate the work of the Farmers Na- 
tional Grain Corporation. The function 
of the state regional is to originate the 


H. Fahrnkopf 


grain. This is done through the local’ 


co-operatives in the country. The work 
of the National is that of contacting 
the millers and processors who buy 
grain. The state regional assembles the 
grain. The Farmers National Grain 
Corporation sells and merchandises it. 

Co-operative marketing will make for 
an improved agriculture, and an im- 
proved agricultural situation will bene- 
fit the entire business structure of the 
country. The farmer can improve his 
business by efficient production and effi- 
cient marketing. 


Efficiency and Economy 


The handling of .grain through large, 
well-managed single selling agency 
channels should eliminate waste and 
make for efficiency and economy. For 
this reason, co-operative marketing de- 
veloped on ‘a sound and constructive 
basis will benefit both the producer and 
the consumer. 

Illinois ranks high as a producer of 
grain. A large quantity of this grain 
produced is marketed, is not fed on 
farms where grown. In fact, if we had 


By Harrison Fahrnkopf 


six other states which marketed as much 
grain as Illinois, these six, together with 
Illinois, would furnish for market all 
the grain in the United States. 

There are operating in Illinois today 
ageren nee 450 farmers’ elevators, 
which handle more than one-half of all 
the grain going into mfrket channels 
from Illinois. The grain marketed from 
these local co-operatives totals approxi- 


mately one hundred million bushels. ’ 


Thinking farmers who believe in han- 
dling this grain co-operatively through 
their local elevators also believe that 
it is to their advantage to sell this grain 
at the terminal market through their 
own co-operatives. If it is a good thing 
for one hundred or more farmers to co- 
operate locally in shipping their grain, 
it ought to be a good thing for one 
hundred or more farmer elevators to co- 
operate in merchandising their grain 
through a single sales agency. The Illi- 
nois Grain Corporation is such a co- 
operative sales agency. 


All Owned by Grower 


The Illinois Grain Corporation is sup- 
ported by memberships of local co-op- 
eratives. The farmer holds a member- 
ship in his local elevator, the elevator 
holds a membership in the Illinois Grain 
Corporation, and the Illinois Grain Cor- 
poration is a member of the Farmers 
National Grain Corporation. Thus the 
entire structure is producer-owned and 
producer-controlled. The first elevators 
to become members were pioneers in the 
movement. They made a cash stock 
subscription which enabled the Illinois 
Grain Corporation to become a going 
concern. Now elevators can become 
members without a cash stock subscrip- 
tion. 

Interest in the state-wide co-opera- 
tive is growing every day. Indifference 
is being replaced by enthusiasm for the 
plan of marketing through the Illinois 
Grain Corporation. Today many farm- 


ers, especially directors of elevators, are 
informing themselves as to how they 
can link their elevator and community 
with this worth-while movement. They 
are beginning to realize that just as 
surely as it is good for farmers to-co- 
operate it is equally good for co-opera- 
tives to co-operate. 
Midwest Grain Corp. 

The grain sales or operative end of 
the Illinois Grain Corporation is set up 
as a separate organization known as the 
Mid-West Grain Corporation. Under 
this name is handled all business per- 
taining to the merchandising of grain. 

In addition to offices at Chicago, Pe- 
oria and St. Louis and memberships on 
the boards of trade and grain exchanges 
in these cities, branch offices are located 
at Jacksonville, Decatur and Pontiac, 
Illinois. C. P. Cummings, a man with 
more than a quarter of a century of 
successful experience in merchandising 
grain, is manager of the Mid-West 
Grain Corporation. Mr. Cummings has 
associated with him in the various of- 
fices a group of very able and compe- 
tent men. All of the foregoing person- 
nel and service is now available to the 
farmer whose local co-operative is a 


member of Illinois Grain Corporation. 


If your local elevator is not a member 
of this state-wide co-operative, you 
should inquire why it is not a member. 


The Producers’ Opportunity 


Illinois farmers have the opportunity 
of marketing their grain through co- 
operative channels to the miller and 
processor. In many communities - there 
have been operating for years co-opera- 
tive farmers’ elevators. Until recently 
co-operative marketing of grain has not 
advanced successfully beyond this local 
elevator station. The producer now has 
an opportunity to support and use not 
only his local grain marketing agency 
but his state and national agency as 
well. 


Page Four 


The Illinois Grain Corporation and its 
subsidiary sales agency, the Mid-West 
Grain Corporation, are now past the ex- 
perimental point. They are going con- 
cerns. They have marketed more than 
three million bushels of grain. Oliver 
Wendell Holmes said, ‘‘The human race 
is divided into two classes—those who 
go ahead and do something and those 
who inquire why it wasn’t done in a 
different way.” Men associated with 
farmer elevators for many years have 
gone ahead and set up the Illinois Grain 
Corporation. They have done a good job. 
Thinking grain producers will support 
it. 


Corn Cost 60c a Bu., 
College Figures Show 


Cost studies made by the Farm Or- 
ganization and Management Depart- 
ment of the Illinois College of Agricul- 
ture show that the cost of growing corn 
in the best corn sections of the state 
in 1930 was 60 cents a bushel, which 
is more than the crop is now bringing. 

In 1930 costs were 10 cents a bushel 
higher than in the two preceding years 
largely because of reduced yields. Labor 
1ates were considerably lower than those 
preveiling the year before, but this dif- 
ference was not enough to offset the 
-educed yields. 


Gregory to Speak at 
Midwest Training School 


The Midwest Farm Bureau Training 
School will be held at Madison, Wis., 
August 10 to 13. Among the I. A. A. 
organization men on the program are 
Secretary George E. Metzger, whose 
subject is “From the Inside”; R. J. 
Hamilton, “Adapting Sales Methods to 
Farm Bureau”; V. Vaniman, “How to 
Collect Dues”; and A. B. Culp, “Lead- 
ership Training Schools.” 

The banquet will be held at the eve- 
ning session on August 12, with L. B. 
Palmer, president of the Ohio Farm Bu- 
reau Federation, in charge. C. V. Greg- 
ory, editor of Prairie Farmer, will be 
the speaker. R. W. Brown, president of 
the Missouri Farm Bureau Federation, 
is dean of the school. 


The early commercial potato crop 
this year in 19 important potato-grow- 
ing states totaled 48.6 million bushels, 
or 13 per cent more than last year. 


Indiana is one of the four states in 
which tuberculosis among cattle has 
been reduced to one-half of one per 
cent or less, the others being North 
Carolina, Maine and Michigan. Approxi- 
mately 3,000,000 cattle were tested 
from which about 30,000 reacted. 


What Is Pooling? U.S. D. A. 


Bulletin Answers Question 


Time, Patience and Courage Re- 
quired to Build Co-operative 
Marketing Machinery 


N U. S. D. A. Miscellaneous Publi- 
cation No. 14, under the heading, 
“Possibility of Market Expansion,” the 
following appears: ‘“‘Few farmers, as in- 
dividuals, can afford to undertake mar- 


ket development because of the expense - 


involved and the lack of sufficient sup- 
plies to make the exploitation policy 
permanent. Here, again, the POOLING 
by a large number of growers of the ex- 
pense, risks and other features involved 
in market expansioi makes possible a 
program for widening the market for 
their product which is of benefit to the 
grower, but which would be prohibitive 
were it undertaken by him individual- 
ly.” 
The word “pool” is a much abused 
word. It merely refers to group effort 
as opposed to the individual acting 
alone. So far as it concerns the farmer 
and marketing, he has been doing it for 
years through his local farmers’ elevator. 
Although the farmer has not pooled his 
selling efforts in merchandising his grain 
through his local co-operative elevator, 
he has, along with his neighbors, been 
pooling the cost of maintaining an ele- 
vator, employing a manager and other 
operating costs—he has been pooling his 
selling expenses. 


The Illinois Grain Corporation, how-' 


ever, is not a pool. Both the member 
elevators and farmers sell their own 
grain at a time determined by them- 
selves. By-laws and articles of incor- 
poration (a charter) do not make or 
constitute a co-operative. It takes some- 
thing more. And not the least of the 
“something more” is good leadership 
supported by a local and wide-awake 
membership. 

In a recent meeting one poor soul 
raised a brand new objection—he said 
that the set-up of the Illinois Grain 
Corporation and the Farmers National 
Grain Corporation was so good that the 
Farmers National Grain Corporation 
would become too powerful—would 
get dangerous and ask unfair prices for 
grain. Charley Cummings of Mid-West 
enlightened him by saying, “The thing 
for this generation to do is to give the 
best we have toward building the ma- 
chine and let our grandchildren take 
care of the matter of becoming danger- 
ous.” 

To build the Illinois Grain Corpora- 
tion requires time, patience and cour- 
age on the part of the leaders through- 
out the state who believe in the move- 
ment. The new has to be sold to us. 
We don’t want it at first. "Tis said 


THE I. A. A. RECORD July, 1931 


that it took McCormick fourteen years 
to sell his first hundred reapers. 

The business-trend- of today is for 
the finances of the community to flow 
toward the industrial centers; for ex- 
ample, witness. the chain stores, chain 
oil companies. Banks in large trade cen- 
ters are bulging with money. Our co- 
operative marketing machine is set up 
so that terminal earnings flow back to 
the community. 


Intermediate Credit Loans 
Reach $110,000,000 in ’30 


INANCING, farmers’ co-operative 

marketing activities reached new 
proportions-in 1930 when the volume 
of funds loaned. by the 12 Federal In- 
termediate Credit Banks reached $110,- 
000,000 for the year. 

This represents, of course, only a 
small proportion of the total amount 
advanced by lending institutions _ to 
farmers’ co-operative marketing associa- 
tions so they might carry out théir pro- 
grams of orderly marketing. 

In 1930 about 12,000 co-operative 
marketing organizations did a business 
of approximately $2,000,000,000. Not 
all of this business, by any ‘means, was 
done on borrowed funds. Much of it 
represents products sold for consump- 
tion shortly after they feft the farm. 

The bulk of the financing for orderly 
marketing represents loans on a score or 
more staple commodities under the su- 
pervision of the Federal Farm Loan 
Board in Washington. Since the Inter- 
mediate Credit Banks were organized in 
1923, they have loaned to farmers’ co- 
operative marketing associations more 
than half a billion dollars. 

Following the creation of the Federal 
Farm Board, under the Agricultural 
Marketing Act, the rapid growth of co- 
operatives and the development of na- 
tional sales agencies have been responsi- 
ble for a large imcrease in the activities 
of these loan agencies. 

Intermediate credit is becoming an in- 
creasingly important factor in the 
financial structure of the United States. 
It has proved that it can fill a distinct 
agricultural need. 


Rubber from Goldenrod 


Thomas A. Edison at 84 has at last 
succeeded in making synthetic rubber 
from goldenrod grown on his plantation 
in Florida. He will turn the process 
over to the government as a patriotic 
gift. The value of the process lies in 
the fact that it insures an emergency 
supply of rubber. At present rubber is 
cheap due to over-production, making 
the new process of little immediate 
worth. Henry Ford and Harvey Fire- 
stone have large goldenrod plantations 
in the South. 


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July, 1931 THE I. A. A. RECORD Page Five 


Grain Producers View 
New Blower at Ottawa 


Loading Equipment Said to Cut 
Local Costs of Handling Grain 


RAIN producers from a dozen cen- 
tral and northern Illinois counties 


gathered at Ottawa, July 2, to view the . 


Airforce blower used in loading grain 
by the LaSalle County Co-operative 
Grain Company. 

This unique device, a new invention 
recently placed on the market, is a one- 
man outfit operated by electricity. It 
simplifies the task of loading grain in 
cars or storing it temporarily in fire- 
proof, steel bins mounted on cement 
foundations. 

The Airforce equipment at Ottawa 
includes four steel bins of 2,000 bushels 
capacity each, a 30-horsepower motor, 
modern scales and compressed air dump 
for weighing and unloading the grain, 
and the blower which is credited with 
removing excess moisture, dirt, and 
chaff from the grain before being ele- 
vated into the cars or steel bins. 

A powerful steel fan ‘operating at 
1,675 R. P.M. blows the grain at a 


high rate of speed through the blower . 


into the car or bin. 

E. L. “Cracker” Johnson, manager of 
the LaSalle county co-operativé, states 
that he finds loading direct into the cars 
is a time saver and is practical where 
grain is moving freely. 

2400 Bu. Per Hour 

““We made a test on our opening day 
with a 101-bushel load of corn, blow- 
ing it into the car in 2% minutes which 
is at the rate of 2,400 bushels per hour,” 
he said. “Oats move somewhat slower, 
or at the rate of about 1,600 to 1,800 
bushels an hour. Wheat and~barley can 
be loaded somewhat faster.” 

Johnson states that an old experi- 
enced grain man from Chicago was out 
to inspect the equipment a short time 
ago. He made a very thorough investi- 
gation from one end to the other. He 
remarked that it looked to him as 
though this loading equipment would 
revolutionize grain handling in this 
country. 

The advantages claimed for the Air- 
force Conveyor Sales are: (1) No fire 
hazard. (2) One-man operation. (3) 
Cleans grain, eliminates dirt line in cars. 
(4) Dries and conditions damp grain. 
(5) Raises grade and test weight. (6) 
Handles grain rapidly. (7) Handles 
grain most economically. Ottawa plant 
handling grain at 1%4c per bushel. (8) 
The nearest thing to a conditioning 
plant that a grain producing communi- 
ty can afford. (9) This equipment is 
within the financial reach of practical- 
ly every grain producing community. 


New Airforce Blower and Steel Bins Used in Handling Grain by LaSalle County 
Co-Operative at Ottawa. 


The Airforce Conveyor Sales is not 
sold outright. It is merely leased by the 
company controlling the patents and 
manufacturing. The company requires 
an initial advance of $3,500 to show 
the good faith of the co-operative, in- 
dividual or company using it. This 
$3,500, however, is to be rebated: back 
to the local organization at the rate of 
1-8 cents per bu. of grain handled 
after the first year of operation. 

The LaSalle County Co-Operative has 
been handling and shipping grain at a 
cost of 1.5 cents a bushel, divided as 
follows: 4% cent to the Airforce Con- 
veyor Sales, 34 of a cent to the mana- 
ger, who pays for his own help, light 
and power, and 4 cent to the LaSalle 
County Co-Operative Company for 
working capital, etc. Out of its half 
cent the Airforce company rebates 14 
cent per bu. to the Co-Operative un- 
til it has paid back the $3,500 orig- 
inally invested by the local unit. All 
expenses of upkeep, wind insurance, 
etc., is paid by the Airforce company. 


Avoids Destructive Competition 


“We retain control of this machin- 
ery instead of selling it outright,” said 
B. A. Shearer of the Airforce Company, 
“so as to avoid destructive competition 
in any community. This plan insures 
that it will not be unprofitable for any 
local unit using the blower to operate 
it.” 

Shearer stated that he had in- 
vestigated average costs of handling 
grain by country elevators. “I found 
them to be considerably higher than the 
1.5 cent per bu. figure.” It has been 
recommended, he said, that the loading 
charge of local country elevators be 
established uniformly at 2 cents per bu. 


for oats, 3 cents for corn, and 5 cents 
for all other grains. 

“This new grain loading equipment 
apparently has interesting possibilities,” 
commented Harrison Fahrnkopf, direc- 
tor of grain marketing. “It may assist 
in cutting local costs of handling grain. 
It is important, however, that this 
equipment be not allowed to jeopardize 
investments of farmers in local co- 
operative elevators. Duplication of ma- 
chinery for handling grain at the local 
point should be avoided. 

“The blower may well be tried out 
at points where present facilities are in- 
adequate for handling grain. In view 
of present financial conditions among 
farmers over the country, the compara- 
tively small investment required for 
such grain handling equipment has con- 
siderable appeal.” 


Stone Meets with 
Grain Exchange Men 


Chairman James C. Stone of the 
Federal Farm Board met recently with 
representatives of the big grain ex- 
changes of the country for a confer- 
ence on wheat. Chairman Stone an- 
nounced that the Board would continue 
its present policies calling for no sta- 
bilization of the 1931 crop and the fur- 
ther development of co-operative mar- 
keting. 

Attending the conference were Julius 
Barnes, grain exporter; James C. Mur- 
ray, president, Chicago Board of Trade; 
Fred B. Wells, B. H. Woodworth, Min- 
neapolis Chamber of Commerce; George 
Davis, Kansas City Exchange; James 
Norris, Chicago; Walter McCarthy, 
Duluth; and E. J. Peck, Omaha. 


Page Four 


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The Hlinois Grain Corporation and its 
subsidiary sales agency, the Mid-West 
Grain Corporation, are now past the ex- 
perimental point. They are going con- 
cerns. They have marketed more than 
three million bushels of grain. Oliver 
Wendell Holmes said, “The human race 
is divided into two classes—those who 
go ahead and, do something and those 
who inquire why it wasn’t done in a 
different way.” Men with 
‘armer elevators for many years have 
vone ahead-and set up the Illinois Grain 
Corporation. They have done a good job. 
Thinking grain producers will support 
it. 


associated 


Corn Cost 60c a Bu., 
College Figures Show 


Cost studies made by the Farm Or- 
ganization and Management Depart- 
ment of the Illinois College of Agricul- 
ture show that the cost of growing corn 
in the best corn sections of the state 
in 1930 was 60 cents a bushel, which 
is more than the crop is now bringing. 

In 1930 costs were 10 cents a bushel 
higher than in the two preceding years 
iargely because of reduced yields. Labor 
1ites were considerably lower than those 
preveiling the year before, but this dif- 
icrsnce was not enough to offset the 
educed yields. 


Gregory to Speak at 
Midwest Training School 


The Midwest Farm Bureau Training 
School will be held at Madison, Wis., 
August 10 to 13. Among the [. A. A. 
organization men on the program are 
George E. Metzger, whose 
subject is “From the Inside’; R. J. 
Hamilton, “Adapting Sales Methods to 
Farm Bureau”; .V. Vaniman, “How to 
Collect Dues”; and A. B. Culp, “Lead- 
ership Training Schools.” 

The banquet will be held at the eve- 


Secretary 


ning session on August 12, with L. B. 
Palmer, president of the Ohio Farm Bu- 
reau Federation, in charge. C. V. Greg- 
ory, editor of Prairie Farmer, will be 
the speaker. R. W. Brown, president of 
Farm Bureau Federation, 


the Missouri 


is dean of the school. 
The early commercial potato crop 
this year in 19 impor.ant potato-grow- 
totaled 48.. million bushels, 
cent. more than last vear. 


ing states 


or 13 per 
is one of the four states in 
tuberculosis cattle has 
one-half of per 
cent or less, the others being North 
Carolina, Maine and Michigan. Approxi- 
mately 3,000,000 cattle tested 
from which about 30,000 reacted. 


Indiana 
which among 


been reduced to one 


were 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


What Is Pooling? U.S. D. A. 


Bulletin Answers Question 


Time, Patience and Courage Re- 
quired to Build Co-operative 
Marketing Machinery — 


N U. S. D. A. Miscellaneous Publi- 

cation No. 14, under the heading, 
“Possibility of Market Expansion,” the 
following appears: “Few farmers, as in- 
dividuals, can afford to undertake mar- 
ket development because of the expense 
involved and the lack of sufficient sup- 
plies to make the exploitation policy 
permanent. Here, again, the POOLING 
by a large number of growers of the ex- 
pense, risks and other features involved 
in market expansio, makes possible a 
program for widening the market for 
their product which is of benefit to the 
grower, but which would be prohibitive 
were it undertaken by him individual- 
ly.” 

The word “pool” is a much abused 
word. It merely refers to group effort 
as opposed to the individual acting 
alone. So far as it concerns the farmer 
and marketing, he has been doing it for 
vears through his local farmers’ elevator. 
Although the farmer has not pooled his 
selling efforts in merchandising his grain 
through his local co-operative elevator, 
he has, along with his neighbors, been 
pooling the cost of maintaining an ele- 
vator, employing a manager and other 
operating costs—he has been pooling his 
selling expenses. 

The Illinois Grain Corporation, how- 
ever, is not a pool. Both the member 
elevators and sell their 
grain at a time determined by them- 
selves. 


tarmers 


By-laws and articles of incor- 
poration (a charter) do not make or 
constitute a co-operative. It takes some- 
And not the least of the 
“something more’ is good leadership 
supported by a local and wide-awake 
membership. 


thing more. 


In a recent meeting one poor soul 
raised a brand new objection—he said 
that the set-up of the Grain 
Corporation and the Farmers National 
Grain Corporation was so good that the 
Farmers National Grain Corporation 
would become too powerful—would 
get dangerous and ask unfair prices for 
grain. Charley Cummings of Mid-West 


[]inois 


enlightened him by saying, “The thing 
for this generation to do is to give the 
best we have toward building the ma- 
chine and let our grandchildren take 
care of the matter of becoming danger- 
ous.” 

To build the Illinois Grain Corpora- 
tion requires time, patience and cour- 
age on the part of the leaders through- 
out the state who believe in-the move- 
ment. The new has to be sold to us. 
We first. "Tis said 


don’t want it at 


own. 


July, 1931 


that it took McCormick fourteen years 
to sell his first hundred reapers. 

The business trend of today is for’ 
the finances of the community to flow 
toward the industrial centers; for ex- 
ample, witness the chain stores, chain 
oil companies. Banks in large trade cen- 
ters are bulging with money. Our co- 
operative marketing machine ‘is set up 
so that terminal earnings flow back to 
the community. 


Intermediate Credit Loans 
Reach $110,000,000 in 30 


INANCING farmers’ co-operative 

marketing activities reached new 
proportions in 1930 when the volume 
of funds loaned by the 12 Federal In- 
termediate Credit Banks reached $110,- 
000,000 for the year. 

This represents, of course, only a 
small proportion of the total amount 
advanced by institutions to 
farmers’ co-operative marketing associa- 
tions so they might carry out their pro- 
grams of orderly marketing. 

In 1930 about 12,000 co-operative 
marketing organizations did a business 
of approximately $2,000,000,000. Not 
all of this business, by any means, was 
done on borrowed funds. Much of it 
represents products sold for consump- 
tion shortly after they left the farm. 

The bulk of the financing for orderly 
marketing represents loans on a score or 
more staple commodities under the su- 
pervision of the Federal Farm Loan 
Board in Washington. Since the Inter- 
mediate Credit Banks were organized in 
1923, they have loaned to farmers’ co- 
operative marketing associations more 
than half a billion dollars. 

Following the creation of the Federal 
Farm Board, under the Agricultural 
Marketing Act, the rapid growth of co- 
operatives and the development of ‘na- 
tional sales agencies have been responsi- 
ble for a large imcrease in the activities 
of these loan agencies. 

Intermediate credit is becoming an in- 
creasingly important factor in the 
financial structure of the United States. 
It has proved that it can fill a distinct 
agricultural need. 


Rubber from Goldenrod 


Thomas A. Edison at 84 has at last 
succeeded in making synthetic rubber 
from goldenrod grown on his plantation 
in Florida. He will. turn the process 
over to the government as a patriotic 


lending 


gift. The value of the process lies in 
the fact that it an emergency 
supply of rubber. At present rubber is 
cheap due to over-production, making 
the new process of little 
worth. 


insures 


immediate 


Henry Ford and Harvey Fire- 
stone have large goldenrod plantations 
in the South. 


July, 1931 


Grain Producers View 
New Blower at Ottawa 


Loading Equipment Said to Cut 
Local Costs of Handling Grain 


RAIN producers from a dozen cen- 

tral and northern Illinois counties 
gathered at Ottawa, July 2, to view the 
Airforce blower used in loading grain 
by the LaSalle County Co-operative 
Grain Company. 

This unique device, a new invention 
recently placed on the market, is a one- 
man outfit operated by electricity. It 
simplifies the task of loading grain in 
cars or storing it temporarily in fire- 
proof, steel bins mounted on cement 
foundations. 

The Airforce equipment at Ottawa 
includes four steel bins of 2,000 bushels 
capacity each, a 30-horsepower motor, 
modern scales and compressed air dump 
for weighing and unloading the grain, 
and the blower which is credited with 
removing excess moisture, dirt, and 
chaff from the grain before being ele- 
vated into the cars or steel bins. 

A powerful steel fan operating at 
1,675 R. P.M. blows the grain at a 
high rate of speed through the blower 
into the car or bin. 

E. L. “Cracker” Johnson, manager of 
the LaSalle county co-operative, states 
that he finds loading direct into the cars 
is a time saver and is practical where 
grain is moving freely. 

2400 Bu. Per Hour 

“We made a test on our opening day 
with a 101-bushel load of corn, blow- 
ing it into the car in 244 minutes which 
is at the rate of 2,400 bushels per hour,” 
he said. “Oats move somewhat slower, 
or at the rate of about 1,600 to 1,800 
bushels an hour. Wheat and barley can 
be loaded somewhat faster.” 

Johnson states that an old experi- 
enced grain man from Chicago was out 
to inspect the equipment a short time 
ago. He made a very thorough investi- 
gation from one end to the other. He 
remarked that it looked to him as 
though this loading equipment would 
revolutionize grain handling in _ this 
country. 

The advantages claimed for the Air- 
force Conveyor Sales are: (1) No fire 
hazard. (2) One-man operation. (3) 
Cleans grain, eliminates dirt line in cars. 
(4) Dries and conditions damp grain. 
(5) Raises grade and test weight. (6) 
(7) Handles 
grain most economically. Offawa plant 
handling grain at 1Yyc per bushel. (8) 
The nearest thing to a conditioning 


Handles grain rapidly. 


plant that a grain producing communi- 
ty can afford. (9) This equipment is 
within the financial reach of practical- 
ly every grain producing community. 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


EE ARMSTRONG 
BAe er 


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New Airforce Blower and 


Steel Bins Used in 
Co-Operative at Ottawa, 


Page Five 


Handling Grain by LaSalle County 


The Airforce Conveyor Sales is not 
sold outright. It is merely leased by the 
company controlling the patents and 
manufacturing. The company. requires 
an initial advance of $3,500 to show 
the good faith of the co-operative, in- 
using it. This 
$3,500, however, is to be rebated back 
to the local organization at the rate of 
1-8 cents per bu. of grain handled 
after the first year of operation. 

The LaSalle County Co-Operative has 
been handling and shipping grain at a 
cost of 1.5 cents a bushel, divided as 
follows: ‘2 cent to the Airforce Con- 
veyor Sales, 34 of a cent to the mana- 


dividual or company 


ger, who pays for his own help, light 
and power, and '4 cent to the LaSalle 
County Co-Operative Company for 
working capital, etc. Out of its half 
cent the Airforce company rebates 1% 
cent per bu. to the Co-Operative un- 
til ic has paid back the $3,500 orig- 


All 


insurance, 


inally invested by the local unit. 
wind 
etc., is paid by the Airforce company. 


expenses of upkeep, 
Avoids Destructive Competition 
“We of this 
ery instead of selling it outright,” 
B. A. Shearer of the Airforce Company, 


retain control machin- 


said 


“so as to avoid destructive competition 
in any community. This plan insures 
that it will not be unprofitable for any 
local unit using the blower to operate 
it.” 

had in- 
handling 


Mr. Shearer stated that he 


vestigated average costs of 


grain by country elevators. “IT found 
them to be considerably higher than the 
1.5 cent per bu. figure.” It has been 
recommended, he said, that the loading 
charge of local country elevators be 


established uniformly at 2 cents per bu. 


for all other grains. 

“This new grain loading equipment 
apparently has interesting possibilities,” 
commented Harrison Fahrnkopf, direc- 
tor of grain marketing. “It may assist 
in cutting local costs of handling grain. 
It is that this 
equipment be not allowed to jeopardize 
investments of local 


important, however, 


farmers in co- 
operative elevators. Duplication of ma- 
chinery for handling grain at the local 
point should be avoided. 

“The blower may well be tried out 
at points where present facilities are in- 
adequate for handling grain. In view 
of present financial conditions among 
farmers over the country, the compara 
tively small investment required for 
such grain handling equipment has con- 
siderable appeal.” 


Stone Meets with 
Grain Exchange Men 
the 


with 
representatives of the big grain ex- 


Chairman James C. Stone of 


Federal Farm Board met recently 
changes of the country for a confer 


ence on wheat. Chairman Stone an- 
nounced that the Board would continue 
its present policies calling for no sta- 
bilization of the 1931 crop and the fur- 
ther development of co-operative mar- 
keting. 

Attending the conference were Julius 
Mur- 
ray, president, Chicago Board of Trade; 
Fred B. Wells, B. H. Woodworth, Min- 
neapolis Chamber of Commerce; George 
Davis, Kansas City Exchange; James 
Norris, Chicago; Walter McCarthy, 
Duluth; and E. J. Peck, Omaha. 


Barnes, grain exporter; James C. 


Page Six 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Hornbeek on Job in 


Southeastern Illinois 


Burl Hornbeek of Scott county is on 
the job as organization manager of the 
sixth district in 
southeastern Illinois 
to succeed F. M. 
Higgins, who re- 
signed the first of 
the year to jedit the 
weekly sooner at 
Lake Geneva, Wis. 
"| Mr. Hornbeek has 
‘| been active in Farm 
Bureau work in Scott 
= county for several 

years. During this 

time he has worked 
with the Farm Bureau as a part-time 
membership solicitor, making an excel- 
lent record. Along with his Farm Bu- 
reau work he has operated his farm and 
is reported to have made 9 per cent in- 
terest on his investment in 1929. 


Burl Hornbeek 


Jersey County Organizes 
Co-operative Grain Co. 


The Jersey County Co-operative 

Grain Company began operating June 
29 as the sixty-sev- 
enth co-operative affil- 
iated with the Illinois 
Grain Corporation. 

It will market its grain through the 
Mid-West Grain Corporation, the sales 
agency of the regional co-operative and 
subsidiary of the Farmers National 
Grain Corporation. 

Arrangements have been made for the 
use of three local elevators. Leases have 
already been signed for the Neely ele- 
vator at Jerseyville and the McClusky 
elevator at McClusky. The Fidelity Co- 
operative Grain Company at Fidelity 
has signed an agreement whereby it will 
be classed as a direct shipper as a part 
of the county set-up. 

Carload shippers will be taken care 
of at Elsah, Grafton, Lock Haven, Red- 
dish, Reardon, Dow, Delhi, Fidelity and 
Bell Trees. Wheat, corn and oats will 
be bought and handled as usual at the 
three elevators on prevailing prices, an- 
nounces R. H. Voorhees, president of 
the company. Mr. Voorhees is also 
president of the Farm Bureau. 

Other officers are: Louis Lock, vice- 
president; C.- G. Reddish, secretary- 
treasurer; Herman Schafer, W. W. Le- 
gate, R. E. Ewin and Grant Thompson, 
directors.. 

H. G. Neeley has been employed as 
county manager. George Smith of the 
Pan Handle delivered the first load of 
wheat at 8:30 a. m. on June 29. 


The May issue of the RECORD 
is the best yet. It’s full of meat 
from cover to cover. 

A. B. Schofield 
Ford County, III. 


The classification of steers by ages 
instead of weight will be maintained at 
the International Livestock Exposition, 
to be held in Chicago, November 28 
to December 5, according to B. H. 
Heide, secretary-manager. The proposed 
change was withheld when it was 
learned that many exhibitors had made 
purchases before the change was an- 
nounced. 


Hoover Grants Tariff 
Raise on Dried Eggs 


Additional protection to American 
farmers against imports of dried eggs 
and egg products was granted by Presi- 
dent Hoover recently acting on reports 
of the Tariff Commission. The Presi- 
dent made no change, however, in du- 
ties on cattle hides and calfskins. 


The President approved an increase 
in the tariff rate on dried whole eggs, 
dried egg yolk, and dried egg albumen 
from 18 cents to 27 cents per pound. 
The duty on olive oil in packages 
weighing less than 40 pounds was re- 
duced from 914 cents to 8 cents per 
pound, but the duty on olive oil in 
packages weighing 40 pounds or more 
was unchanged. The duty of 10 per 
cent ad valorem on cattle hides and 
calfskins was not changed. The duty 
of 7 cents per pound, but not less than 
35 per cent ad valorem, on cheese, other 
than Swiss and Cheddar, was not 
changed. 

The Farm Bureau and other groups 
of producers had recommended 50 per 


cent increases in the duties on dried . 


eggs, bulk olive oil, cattle hides and 
calfskins, and no decreases in the duties 
on any of these products under investi- 
gation. Farm groups took no particular 
part in the investigation concerning 
packaged olive oil. 

The Illinois Agricultural Association 
joined the A. F. B. F. and other state 
Farm Bureau federations in requesting 
the President to support the suggested 
increases. The I. A. A. telegram to the 
Presidént read as follows: 

“We respectfully recommend for 
your consideration that tariff schedules 
on dried eggs, cattle hides, and calf- 
skins be increased by 50 per cent under 
provision of the Tariff Act for the pe- 
riod of the present emergency at least.” 


Milk receipts in New York City 
increased 43 per cent between 1920 
and the present time, while the pop- 
ulation increased only 28 per cent. 


Max Harrelson to Dept. 


Of Information Staff 


Max Harrelson, formerly assistant 
editor of the Illinois. Farmer, began 
work as assistant in 
the Department . of 
Information on June 
15. The growing 
demands for adver- 
tising and publicity 
service by the I. A. 


sociated: companies 
prompted’ the ‘em- 


tional - assistance in 
Se ee this department. .. 
Mr..Harrelson is a 
graduate of Ouachita Eollege at Arka- 
delphia, Arkansas. 
Northwestern University, where he took 
a year’s graduate work in journalism. 
After leaving Northwestern he became 
staff correspondent for the United Press 
in Chicago. From there he went to the 
Illinois Farmer, where he remained un- 
til the paper was bought by Prairie 
Farmer. Since that time he has worked 
with the Associated Press at Little Rock 


and the Daily Beacon-News at Paris, Ill. 


I. A. A. Will Oppose 


15% Up in Frt. Rates | 


The Illinois Agricultural Association 
will oppose the proposed 15 per cent 
increase in freight rates on agricultural 
commodities asked by the railroads. 

As far as rates within Illinois are 
concerned, the I. A. A. will seek to 
exempt agricultural products from the 
increase when the case comes before the 
Illinois Commerce Commission. In ad- 
dition Mr. Quasey said he would work 
with the American Farm Bureau Fed- 
eration when the hearing is held before 
the Interstate Commerce Commission at 
Washington. 

That organized agriculture would 
fight the proposed increase in freight 
rates was the decision made June 26 
when officers and directors of the Farm 
Bureau Federation met in Chicago. 

The action came as a result of the 
announced intent of the railroads to in- 
clude agricultural commodities in the 
general rise proposed. 

“The Interstate Commerce Commis- 
sion has just completed a four-year 
study of all rates on agricultural prod- 
ucts,” declared O. W. Sandberg, trans- 
portation director of the A. F. B. F. 
““Now the railroads are asking the com- 
mission to scrap this study.” 


Uncle Ab says that if there were 
not so much printing it would be 


harder to find stuff for kindling 


fires. 


A. and’ its many as-_ 


ployment of addi- 


He later attended 


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Sas e {He Sigs 


We. 


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July, 1931 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Seven 


LITTLE blue-covered booklet en- 

titled “‘The Passing Show” con- 
taining extracts from the daily propa- 
ganda sheet of Lowell-Hoit & Co., Chi- 
cago grain middleman, came to our 
desk several days ago. 


The contents are representative of 
the tons of printed matter the organ- 
ized middlemen are flooding the country 
with in the hope of destroying the 
efforts of farmers in bettering their eco- 
nomic condition. 


Abandon all your farm organizations 
and co-operative efforts, ship your grain 
to us, and we'll solve all your problems 
for you, about sums up the benign ad- 
vice handed out gratis in this pam- 
phlet. 


No suggestion is made that cash com- 
missions be cut until grain prices re- 
cover to a normal level. That would 
be constructive action farmers would 


‘appreciate. Instead the author resorts to 


calling names and belittling everything 
farmers are doing in their own behalf. 


Country elevators alone escape attack. 
As they carry forward their co-opera- 
tive marketing program to its logical 
conclusion, presumably they, too, will 
fall from the middleman’s good graces. 
For then they will cease to be custom- 
ers. The profits in handling grain will 
go back to the country where they 
belong. 


Hoit & Co. doesn’t like the Farm 
Bureau any more for which we are 
sorry. So long as it confined its teach- 
ings to growing bigger crops to make 
more commissions all along the line it 
was lauded as a great organization. 
Since it began to give some attention to 
farm prices, to teach co-operative sell- 
ing, to advise collective bargaining, to 
cut insurance and other costs, equalize 
the tax burden, make the tariff effec- 
tive on farm products it is criticized 
for “getting out of its field.” 


But critics like the writer of the 
Passing Show or The Comedy of Errors, 
or the Follies—call it what you like— 
offer nothing constructive. They call 
names, make faces, belittle, seek to 
undermine farm organization but sug- 
gest no way out. A do nothing policy. 
Their interests stop with advising greater 
production, buying the farmer’s pro- 
duce as cheaply as possible, and collect- 
ing tolls. 


And no one but the farmer pays for 
the anti-co-operative propaganda. That’s 
where part of the commission fees go. 
The Passing Show reminds us again of 
Eddie Cantor’s favorite bed time story. 
Once upon a time mamma skunk and 
her little ones were walking through 
the great dark woods when they came 
upon a big black bear. “Mamma,” cried 
the little ones in fright, “what shall 
we do?” 

“Children, let us spray,” was the 
mother’s ready reply. 


Middlemen Organize 


“The Federation of American Busi- 
ness Men” is the title of the latest grain 
middlemen’s organization which will 
seek to undermine co-operative market- 
ing under the guise of “getting the 
government out of business.” 

One thousand members at $25 per 
year for four years is the goal. R. I. 
Mansfield and Mark Pickell, anti-co- 
operative propagandists, will collect the 
cash and carry on the program. 


Girls from Peoria, Tazewell, Fulton, 
Marshall-Putnam and Woodford coun- 
ties will meet at the Tazewell County 
Recreational Camp near East Peoria, 
August 5, 6, 7 and 8 for a four-day 
Girls’ 4-H Club Camp. The camp will 
be under the supervision of the Home 
Bureau Advisers and County Club lead- 
ers. 


Reports of games over the week-end 
indicate that many of the 34 teams of 
the Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball League 
were idle July 4 as the second half of 
the season got under way. The only 
change in the standing was made in the 
second division when LaSalle nosed Ken- 
dall out of third place. 


Kendall defeated DeKalb county in a 
one-sided game at Yorkville on July 2 
by a score of 10 to 2, but slipped out of 
third place when Will county trounced 
them, 15 to 5, July’ 4. In the latter 
game Kendall used four pitchers in an 
effort to stop the Will county sluggers 
who drove out 16 hits. Schultz did all 
the hurling for Will county. 

Greene county increased its lead over 
Christian by administering a 6-to-5 de- 
feat to the runner-up nine in a close 
contest on July 4. Two runs in the 
ninth won the game. Greene county 
outhit Christian by getting nine hits 
while the latter nine totaled five. The 
game was very erratic, Greene making 
nine bobbles and Christian five. 

Douglas county gave Champaign its 
sixth defeat of the season in a 5-to-4 
contest at Urbana, July 4. Champaign 
made eight hits to six for Douglas. 


Official Standing of Teams in the Illinois Farm Bureau — 


Baseball League for Week Ending July 4, 1931 


DIVISION I Won Lost Pct. 
Carroll .............. 5 0 1.000 
JoDaviess ............ 4 2 -667 
MN Fe ok ata orp ototana 1 3 .250 
Stephenson ........... 0 4 .000 

DIVISION It 
| | a re 4 1 .800 
Grundy .............. 3 1 750 
LaSalle .........cce0e 2 2 500 
Kendall ............. 2 3 400 
DeKalb .............. 1 5 167 

DIVISION It 
Livingston ........... 5 0 1.000 
McLean ..........000. 2 3 -400 
Iroquois ..........24- 1 2 333 
PONG oki ioe Sieve kare 1 4 -200 

DIVISION IV 
Woodford ............ 4 1 800 
Tazewell ............. 3 1 750 
Marshall-Putnam ...... 2 4 333 
Strath el cee ces 1 2 333 
i See rere 1 3 .250 


DIVISION V Won Lost Pct. 
McDonough .......... 5 1 833 
MINORS Se .0 SSSA 4 ee es 4 1 -800 
Henry ...........000. 2 3 -400 
Henderson ........... 0 6 -000 

DIVISION VI 
LOGON cee tec ecne bY 0 1.000 
MOGOR veces sccsess 5 2 714 
Douglas .............. 2 4 333 
Champaign ........... 0 6 -000 

DIVISION VII 
oT” ee 4 1 800 
Sangamon ............ 4 1 -800 
Morgan .............. 2 3 -400 
Menard .............. 0 b) -000 

DIVISION VIII 
Greene ..............- 5 1 833 
Christian ............ 4 3 571 
Montgomery ......... 2 4 333 
Macoupin ............ 2 5 286 


Now It’s “Auditing” Ass’n. 


\ 


The Illinois Agricultural Auditing 
Association is the new name for the 
organization formerly known as the 
Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives Asso- 
ciation, a subsidiary of the I. A. A. 


This became effective June 26 when 


the company was reorganized as a stock 
association under the act of 1923. Up 
to that time it had been a membership 
association. New by-laws and new arti- 
cles of incorporation were adopted con- 
forming to the state co-operative act. 
This change will permit the association 
to serve any agricultural or closely allied 
concern. 


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Page Eight 


THE I. A. A. RECORD uly, 1931 


ad@}cour tanks PENT TETTN N 


To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organized, 
namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, political, 
and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation, 
and to develop agriculture. 


GeorGe TuHiem, Editor 
Max Harretson, Assistant Editor 


_— OO Oo ees ele OC 

Published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Association at 165 So. 
Main St., Spencer, Ind. Editorial Offices, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, 
tll. Application for transfer of second class entry from Marshall, Tll., to 


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Address all communications for publication to Editorial Offices, Dlinois 
8 So. Dearborn St., Chicago. The 


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Treasurer, R. A. Cowles. Bloomington 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
(By Congressional District) 

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12th... ...G. F, Tullock, Rockford 
13th..... ...C. E. Bamborough, Polo 
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25th............ panne Fred Dietz, De Soto 
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ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 
Country Life Insurance Co....2. 2... ---eeeceeeeceeeeneeee L. A. Williams, Mgr. 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co, ----cccseceeeenee-= J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Co-operative Ass’n. ..F, E. Ringham, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co..: ..A. E. Richardson, Mgr. 
Illinois Farm Supply Co. ........-..-..--0csscessseseeenenesnceee L. R,. Marchant, Mgr. 
Illinois Grain Corp............ Harrison Fahrnkopf, Mgr. 
Midwest Grain Corp . P. Cummings, Gen’l. Mgr. 
Soybean Marketing Ass'n... .......2.-.c.cceccececceeneeeeseeeceees W. H. Coultas, Mgr. 


Back Again 
HE breakdown of the general property tax 


in Illinois, predicted by the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association years ago, is now a reality which 
none can escape. Rebellion of Chicago real estate 
owners who have been bearing the bulk of the 
tax load was to be expected. The business depres- 
sion coupled with the tax fixing racket in Cook 
county only hastened and intensified the down- 
fall of a revenue system which should have been 
scrapped long ago. Rank extravagance, payroll 
padding, and looting of local government treas- 
uries by Chicago politicians have not helped mat- 
ters any. - 

Delinquent taxes brought on largely by in- 
ability of property owners to pay their tax bills 
-is the immediate situation the revenue reform 
committee appointed by Governor Emmerson 
faces. Chicago is in a bad hole largely because it 


levies heavy taxes without any regard for the 
ability of the property owners to pay. Commit- 
tees Can meet and confer from now until dooms- 
day, but if the business and political leaders and 
press of Chicago don’t recognize the soundness 
of income taxation and use their influence to 
bring it about when votes count, situations like 
the present will constantly recur. A problem is 
never settled until it is settled right. 


It Must Have Merit 


‘THE intensity of the propaganda directed 

against agricultural co-operation in some re- 
spects is most hopeful. Co-operative marketing 
must have merit or the middlemen would not 
fear it. We can go along with Chairman “Jim” 
Stone of the Farm Board when he says, ‘“‘Co- 
operative marketing is either right or it’s wrong. 
If it doesn’t produce better results for the farmer 
than the system he now has, it won’t succeed and 
shouldn’t. I think it will if only the farmers 
themselves know what to expect from it and 
what not to expect from it—and when they join 
a co-operative join with the firm determination 


of supporting their organization with all their | 


strength and power.” 

So the rot being spread through the mails and 
in the country by armies of “contact” men for 
the commission companies should not be taken 
too seriously. Farmers themselves will have the 
final cay as to whether or not co-operation pays. 
They'll not be governed Sy the advice of those 
whose only interest is a selfish one. All that the 
opposition can say will not change the ultimate 
outcome. Results speak for themselves. 


Cutting the Insurance Bill 
MORE than a half million dollars saved mem- 


bers annually on their insurance bills is a 
conservative estimate of the value of this out- 
standing service developed by the Farm Bureau 


in Illinois. 

Policyholders in Country Life Insurance Co., with $42,- 
$00,000 of insurance in force, saved approximately $250,000 
on the first year cost of this protection alone. 

The Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co., with $43,000,000 
of fire, hail and windstorm insurance in force, is providing 
a need reinsurance service to protect local township and 
county fire and windstorm mutuals against excessive losses. 
Its fire and windstorm rates are still appreciably lower than 
the old line companies in spite of a recent raise in rates. 
Farm crop hail insurance costs are a third lower in this 
farmer-owned and farmer-controlled company. 

Another $200,000 is saved yearly by member policy- 
holders on their automobiles and trucks insured in the I. A. 
A. Company. This figure is based on costs of similar pro- 
tection in the closest state-wide company. 

It is not surprising, therefore, that these co-operative 
insurance companies have shown very little lapse during 
the current depression. Policyholders know they are getting 
a superior service at a bargain in their own organizations. 


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July, 1931 


Indiana Farm Bureau 


-~ Defends Marketing Act 


Declares Jim Watson Being Groomed 
To Fight Legislation in 
Next Congress 


Referring to the telegram sent by 
John W. McCardle, Indianapolis, to 
Senator James E. Watson, Washington, 
D. C., and printed in the Indianapolis 
Sunday Star, Lewis Taylor, vice-presi- 
dent of the Indiana Farm Bureau, says, 
“John W. McCardle, chairman of the 
Public Service Commission of Indiana, 
guardian in fact of utilities, and now 
would-be guardian of national agricul- 
ture, out of the vast abundance of his 
wisdom and thirty years’ experience as 
a grain buyer, wires his conclusions and 
advice to our senior senator to be re- 
layed to the President of the United 
States, to the effect that the enactment 
of the Agricultural Marketing Act was 
a gross mistake and that a bill be drawn 
at once for its repeal. His modesty is 
revealed in the statement ‘that a sugges- 
tion from me would not be a crime.’ 
True indeed, not a crime, just a tele- 
gram uncalled for and unsought, so far 
as news dispatches indicate; either by 
the President or the Federal Farm Board, 
or by agriculture.” 

Coming as it does, on the heels of a 
dispatch that a four years’ campaign is 
to be immediately started by grain and 
other interests, to “educate” the public 
as to the utter failure of the Federal 
Farm Board solution and to create a 
public sentiment that will demand its 
repeal, naturally leads one to believe that 
this new enemy of national farm legis- 
lation has been chosen to fire the first 
gun in the pending battle and that the 
President’s chief-of-staff, Senator Wat- 
son, has been chosen as its “General 
Foch,” claims Mr. Taylor. 


“Gall, nerve and brass are apparent in 


selecting our champion of the equaliza- 
tion fee as the generalissimo,” says the 
Farm Bureau leader. “How easily the 
chosen representative of utility inter- 
ests disposes of the Federal Farm Board. 
He says to Senator Watson, ‘advise the 
President to make a statement to the 
American people and especially to the 
American farmers, that the fact 
brought out by practical application of 
the law, creating the farm board proved 
it to be a complete failure in regard 
to alleviating the American farmers’ 
and further says he will recommend its 
repeal at the next session of congress.” 

“It is rather strange that a board cre- 
ated for the express purpose and benefit 
of agriculture must be attacked and de- 
stroyed, not by those for whom it was 
created but by commission employees 
and representatives of utility interests, 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


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ADDING TO THE LOAD 


and that, too, because it has not, in less 


than two years of its existence, saved 
agriculture from the depression or panic 
that has enveloped the world,” says Mr. 
Taylor. ‘‘Every intelligent farmer real- 
izes that the Federal Farm Board has 
not yet solved the problems of the 
farmer, however, it is the only legisla- 
tion that we have and we propose to 
keep it. Probably we will amend ir 
(without the help of our enemies) and 
out of its work will come a solution of 
many vital farm issues.” 


See Increase in Fruit 


Handled Co-operatively 


Approximately 50 per cent more 
fruit will be marketed by Illinois fruit 
growers through -co-operative channels 
in 1931 than in any previous year, ac- 
cording to A. B. Leeper, director of 
fruit and vegetable marketing. 

Most of the increase is accounted 
for by the organization of new co-oper- 
atives among western Illinois winter 
apple growers, who will market their 
crop through the Illinois Fruit Growers 


Exchange. 


Apple growers in Calhoun county al- 
ready have under contract an estimated 
150,000 to 200,000 bushels of apples to 
be marketed co-operatively this year. 
Liberal increases from other sources are 
expected to put 1931 well above pre- 
vious records. 

The Calhoun Apple Growers Associa- 
tion is co-operating in the state-wide 
marketing program. A modern packing 
and sales shed will be erected at East 
Hardin, just across the Illinois river 
from Hardin, Calhoun county seat, on 
the Chicago and Alton. 

Apples will be delivered at the shed 
by truck across the new bridge, which 
will be dedicated shortly. The co-opera- 
tive expects to be ready to handle the 
1931 crop of apples. 


No one can learn to assume re- 
sponsibility unless he is made to as- 
sume the consequences of his acts. 


__ Page Nine 


Organize to Defend 
Agr. Marketing Act 


Hit at Farm Enemies Who Exploit 
Agriculture for Their Own 
Advantage 


RGANIZED agriculture is mobil- 

izing against the forces which are 
threatening to destroy the Agricultural 
Marketing Act. First steps were taken 
when forty representatives of national 
farm organizations and commodity 
groups met in Chicago June 29 to con- 
sider the anti-co-operative propaganda 
being projected on a nation-wide scale 
by enemies of farmers’ co-operative ef- 
forts. 

The group appointed a committee to 
develop a program to defend the Mar- 
keting Act and keep the member organi- 
zations informed on the movements of 
the opposition. The committee includes 
E. A. O’Neal, president of the Ameri- 
can Farm Bureau Federation; L. J. Ta- 
ber, master of the National Grange, and 
C. O. Moser, vice-president of the 
American Cotton Co-operative Asso- 
ciation. 


Resolution Adopted 


A resolution was adopted by the farm 
leaders that “. . . during the entire life 
of the Agricultural Marketing Act and 
the existence of the Federal Farm Board, 
not only America but practically the 
entire world, has been submerged in the 
worst economic depression ever experi- 
enced, notwithstanding which, the ef- 
forts of the Federal Farm Board, acting 
under the provisions of the Agricultural 
Marketing Act, have resulted in adding 
many millions of dollars to the income 
of producers of agricultural commodi- 
ties. 

“In view of the continued opposition 
of those groups and individuals, who in 
the past have exploited agriculture to 
their own profit and advantage, it is 
urged that each organization participat- 
ing in this conference mobilize all of its 
power to properly inform the people of 
this country of the merits of the Agri- 
cultural Marketing Act and to insist 
that the Act be retained and that when 
it is amended the amendments be writ- 
ten by organized agriculture.” 


Organizations represented at the con- 
ference were: The American Farm Bu- 
reau Federation, the National Grange, 
the Farmers Union, and commodity or- 
ganizations including cotton, grain, 
livestock, pecan, wool, dairy, poultry, 
and vegetable associations formed under 
the provisions of the Federal Act. 


Uncle Ab says that the best thing 
to keep is something you give— 
your promise, 


THE I. A. A. RECORD July, 1931 i 


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OUNTRY LIFE’S wholesale term policy avail- 

able to Farm Bureau members between July 10 
and August 10 fits present needs for life insurance 
at a minimum investment. 

The wholesale term policy like that offered a year 
ago carries a low level rate for 12 years when it may 
be renewed, based on the age of the applicant at that 
time. An outstanding advantage of this policy is that 
it may be converted at any time after taken out 
into any of the regular forms of insurance, full credit 
being allowed for all the premiums paid in up to the 
time of conversion. 


Only $9.58 at Age 35 with Dividend Rights 


The low cost of the new wholesale policy is illus- 
trated by the annual rate of $9.58 at age 35 (amounts 
to only 19c a week) which will be further reduced 
by dividends. The policy is non-medical for $1,000 
of insurance. Present policyholders in Country Life 
may secure $2,000 additional insurance without a 
medical examination. Others may take $2,000 of the 
new term insurance provided they pay for a short 
form medical examination. 


Policy Convertible Within 12 Years 
An important feature of the new term insurance 
is that it can be changed 
or converted into stand- 
ard life insurance at any 
time within 12 years of 
the date when taken out. 
Moreover, when you con- 
vert short term insurance 
you will get the benefit of 
all premiums paid, and 
also the benefit of the 
rate for your age when 
the short term policy was 


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on standard life insurance good for 12 years with 
full protection during this period. 


Within Reach of All 


The new term policy is offered to Farm Bureau 
members who may.need more protection but do noty 


have the available funds at present to pay the higher J 


premiums on the regular kinds of insurance. The rate 
on the term policy is so low as to make it easily within / 
the reach of every member. Then later when thes 
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‘ty The wholesale term policy is for Farm Bureau 
Shienbers only in groups of 50 in each county. 


\add any number of new applicants. Counties which 
filed to make their quotas a year ago must have 
least 50 applications to take advantage of this spe- 
ial offer. The low annual rates given above will 
e reduced from year to year after the third by 
ividends. 


Maximum Policy $2,000 
If you already carry a Country Life policy you 
may apply for $2,000 of term insurance at the rate 
peered for your age. If you do not carry Coun- 


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try Life insurance at time of application your limit 
of wholesale term insurance will be $1,000 unless you 
pay for a short form medical examination which if 
approved entitles you to a maximum of $2,000 of 
insurance. 


Points to Remember About New Term Policy 


1. For Farm Bureau members only whose dues are 
paid. 

2. Non-medical for $1,000; $2,000 if Gourtry Life 
policyholder. 

3. Convertible within 12 years into standard insur- 
ance at age rate when this policy is taken out— 
every cent paid in to be applied-on the standard 
policy. 

4. Must be at least 50 member subscribers from 
your county. 

5. Offered only between July 10 and August 10 
this year. 


If you are interested in the new wholesale term 
policy get in touch with your County Farm Bureau © 
office at once or fill out and mail the coupon below. 


This Offer Good for 30 Days Only— 
July 10 to August 10 


MAIL THIS COUPON TODAY 


COUNTRY LIFE INSURANCE CO., 
608 South Dearborn Street, 
Chicago, Illinois. 


You can count me as one of a group of 50 from my county for 
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Page Twelve 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


21 Auto Casualty Co’s. 
Increase Insurance Rates 


High Counties and High Agents 
Named for June 


In June this year the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Mutual Insurance Co. received 
678 applications as compared with 659 
applications for June, 1930. The total 
applications up to July 1 was 28,625. 

Auto casualty companies in 21 states 
increased their rates effective January 1, 
1931. Also a company located at 
Bloomington, covering several states, in- 
creased its rates effective May 1. 

“Although much below the closest 
state-wide company, our rates are am- 
ple,” states V. Vaniman, director insur- 
ance service. “Due to the caution used 
by Farm Bureau members in observing 
simple safety rules and the work being 
done by them along safety lines, acci- 
dents have been reduced so that their 
company can furnish auto insurance at 
a lower cost.” 

The ten high counties in I. A. A. 
Farm Bureau auto insurance in force 
are as follows: DuPage 1,068 applica- 
tions, Cook 1,024, Champaign 932, Mc- 
Lean 920, LaSalle 852, Winnebago 802, 
Henry 794, Livingston 702, Logan 690, 
and Will 621. 

The ten high counties for June are: 
McLean, St. Clair, Cook, Kane, Mc- 
Henry, DeKalb, Stephenson, Iroquois, 
Champaign, and Lake. 

R. F. Shaffer of St. Clair county led 
all agents in applications received with 
35. Other high agents in the order 
named are: W. E. Hedgcock, McLean; 
J. D. Smith, Sangamon; Fred Wilson, 
Kane; Roy Mitchell, Champaign; T. W. 
Reed, Iroquois; C. E. Hopkins, Livings- 
ton; Bertram Abney, Lake; L. R. Welk, 
Logan; K. W. Cleland, Boone; F. W. 
Case, DeKalb; and Edward L. Dillon, 
Vermilion. 

Here are a few accidents recently 
reported by policyholders: 

Iroquois county—Our insured, ac- 
companied by taree young ladies, lost 
control of car after striking hole in 
pavemeat. Car ran into culvert—ladies 
injured. One of ladies had to have 99 
stitches taken in scalp. 


Lawrence county —Our_ ..ember 
started to cross street as stop light 
changed. Car had pulled to right of him 
and driver’s left hand was held out to 
signal stop. Our member backed into 
car breaking man’s arm between elbow 
and shoulder. 

Macon county—Fatal accident; in- 
sured’s son driving south on hard road. 
Bright lights coming toward him made 
it impossible to see truck parked on road 
due to flat tire. He saw black object 
but could not avoid it on account of 


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oncoming car. Four boys injured—one 
died of fractured skull. 

Hancock county — Suit brought 
against our insured for $10,000 for per- 
sonal injury and property damage. 

Sangamon county — Administrator 
of estate brought suit against our in- 
sured for $10,000. Party riding with 
our insured was killed when passing car 
threw rock-in insured’s face causing 
him to lose control of car and strike cul- 


vert, 


Half Million Annually 
Saved on Co-Op. Insurance 


Protection “At Cost” Service to 
Members Is One of Most Help- 
ful Benefits 


Co-cperative insurance enterprises 
supported by the Farm Bureaus and I. 
A. A. are now saving Illinois farmers 
an estimated half million dollars a year 
when compared with the costs of simi- 
lar protection: in privately-owned com- 
panies. 

There is already a total of more than 
$42,500,000 insurance in force in the 
Country Life Insurance Company or- 
ganized by the Farm Bureaus and the 
I. A. A. This service alone saved policy- 
holders $250,000 on the initial cost. 
In addition the company was able to 
pay dividends for 1930, one year earlier 
than the contracts provide. 

The Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co. 
with $43,000,000 of insurance in force 
against fire, windstorm and hail pro- 
vides protection at cost, at rates appre- 
ciably lower than those charged by old 
line companies. Farm crop hail cover- 
age costs one-third less in their own 
company than in the old line companies. 

Approximately 26,000 cars and 
trucks valued at more than $16,750,000 
are insured in the Illinois Agricultural. 
Mutual. This insurance together with 
the employers’ liability insurance saves 
Illinois farmers an additional $200,000 
it is estimated in comparison with cur- 
rent rates of the closest state-wide 


company. 


Farm Employees Hurt 
In Accidents, Report 


Growing Interest in Liability Insur- 
ance to Protect Farmer Employers 


Constantly shifting farm labor is im- 
pressing many Illinois farmers with the 
necessity of protecting themselves with 
employer’s liability insurance, according 
to V. Vaniman, director of insurance 
service. 


Statutes and court decisions are more 
and more favorable to employees. Many 
farm employees have worked for manu- 
facturers and others who come under 
the Workmen’s Compensation Act. 
They naturally expect to be paid when 
they are injured doing farm work. 

Resourceful and versatile attorneys 
can make it very unpleasant for the 


employer in case an employee is injured — 


or killed. 

These factors and the increasing num- 
ber of farm accidents account for the 
consistent growth of the farmer em- 
ployer’s liability department of the IIli- 
nois Agricultural Mutual, which now 
has a total of 1,700 policyholders. 

The ten counties leading in the num- 
ber of policies in force are Mclean, 
DuPage, Livingston, Henry, Tazewell, 
Cook, Vermilion, Fulton, Kendall and 
Logan. 

Incorporated companies such as 
threshing rings, shipping associations, 
etc., may take out liability insurance 
by becoming a member of the Farm 
Bureau. Unincorporated associations will 
be granted policies under two condi- 
tions: First, if all members of the asso- 
ciation are members of the Farm Bu- 
reau; or, second, if the association holds 
a membership in the Farm Bureau and 
at least 50 per cent. of the members are 
affliated with the Farm Bureau. 

Recent farm accidents, reported to 
the I. A. A. are as follows: 

Champaign county—Employee bad- 
ly injured when thrown from a hay- 
rack by a run-away team. 

McLean county—Hay fork fell on 
employee. Went through the calf of 
his leg. 

Whiteside county — Employee fell 
off ferce while trimming tree. Injured 
his side. 

Richland county — Employee ‘fell 
off truck, sroke bone in one of his toes. 


This remarkable development may be 
attributed largely to two factors: the 
farmer, although in an extremely haz- 
ardous occupation, has always been un- 
der-insured; his own ‘rganizations, sup- 
plying sound proteciv «t cost, are 
meeting his need for ine. vensive insur- 
ance, 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Thirteen 


I. A. A. Directors Study 
Agr. Credit Corporations 


Adopts Statement Outlining Policy 
and Suggestions Governing 
Their Organization 


State-wide interest in the organiza- 
tion of agricultural credit corporations 
is indicated by scores of inquiries re- 
ceived from farmers’ local organizations 
and County Farm Bureaus. 

At a recent meeting of the I. A. A. 
Board of Directors the subject of credit 
corporations was discussed, and a state- 
ment prepared by the Finance Commit- 
tee was adopted after careful considera- 
tion. 

The I. A. A. is of the opinion that 
“the interest manifested and conditions 
within the community itself should de- 
termine whether or not an attempt be 
made to organize an agricultural credit 
corporation. 

“Its stock must be subscribed entire- 
ly, or in greater part, by local people, 
and its operations confined to the locali- 
ty. The institution must conduct its 
business on a basis providing profit suf- 
ficient to take care of its operating ex- 
penses, possible losses and make a fair 
return to its stockholders. Such a busi- 
ness must expect sooner or later to ex- 
perience losses in its loans. It must be 
organized and conducted ‘for profit.’ 

“As we understand it, the Federal 
Intermediate Credit Bank of St. Louis 
offers its services, or its services are 
available, in assisting communities to 
form Agricultural Credit Corporations. 
Its promotion in the community, with 
this assistance, should be undertaken by 
the community, through its citizens, as 
a community institution, needed at 
least in the present emergency. Local 
organizations, as a part of the com- 
munity may in our judgment take an 
appropriate part in the program, but 
each and every person subscribing for 
stock and becoming a_ stockholder 
should, on his own responsibility, make 
his own appraisal of his contemplated 
investment, and after becoming a stock- 
holder, look solely to his Board of 
Directors, officers and management of 
his Agricultural Credit Corporation to 
conduct its business according to estab- 
lished practices, minimizing its hazard 
of losses, and returning to its stock- 
holders a fair return on their invest- 
ment. 

“Such an institution, as established, 
will take its place in the community 
as one of its business institutions and 
can serve the community as indicated 
and within the limitations of its re- 
discount opportunity and limitations.” 

Agricultural credit corporations are 
advisable where additional credit facili- 
ties seem necessary in a given com- 


munity and where a competent banker 
or a conservative appraiser of farm col- 
latéral can be secured perhaps on-a part- 
time basis to manage the credit agency. 

If the corporation is to function 
without loss it must be operated as 
ably as any well-managed bank. It must 
restrict loans only to those offering ac- 
ceptable credit. It can be no more lib- 
eral than any well managed bank. It is 
not a co-operative but functions under 
a regular corporate set-up. It can pro- 
vide money no cheaper than most banks. 
The rate it charges is governed by the 
interest at which bonds of the inter- 
mediate credit banks can be sold. A 
spread of 3 per cent is allowed the credit 
corporation. Thus, if the Federal Inter- 
mediate Credit Bank bonds are sold to 
yield 4 per cent, the local credit cor- 
poration may charge as high as 7 per 
cent interest of its customers. 


The value of this new agency lies in- 


the opportunity to bring new money 
into the community to take over the 
financing of worthy risks and thus re- 
lieve merchants, storekeepers, and others 
who are carrying their patrons. 


Goodbye Canada Thistles, 
Chuckles Mr. Winings 


For several years a patch of Canada 
thistles has grown unmolested along the 
railroad right-of-way near the farm of 
V. I. Winings, Lake City, Moultrie 
county. Each year Mr. Winings tried 
to get the section foreman to destroy 
the thistles, but without success. 

This year he was again confronted 
by the patch of noxious weeds and 
again went to the section foreman. 

“T’ve instructions from the company 
not to mow any weeds this season,” was 
the reply he got from the foreman. 

Being a good Farm Bureau member, 
Mr. Winings went to Farm Adviser J. 
H. Hughes with his problem. Hughes 
wrote to L. J. Quasey, I. A. A. director 
of transportation, and Quasey wrote 
the general manager of the railroad, re- 
ferring him to the law requiring these 
weeds to be destroyed. 

A few days later Winings noticed 
the foreman and his crew grubbing the 
Canada thistles. The foreman appeared 
greatly perplexed as Mr. Winings ap- 
proached. 

“Just got orders from headquarters 
to grub these weeds,” he commented, 
wondering why his previous instruc- 
tions had been reversed. 

Mr. Winings only chuckled. 


Editor I. A. A. RECORD 
I wish to congratulate you on 
the I. A. A. RECORD this year. It 
seems to me that the first six months 
of this year, the RECORD is the 
best that. it has ever been. 
L, T. Oxley, Morgan county, IIl. 


Illinois radio listeners now have a new 
farm program hour from 6 to 7 o’clock 
each morning over 
station W M B D 
Peoria, recently pur- 
chased by Edgar L. 
Bill, former pub - 
licity director of the 
I. A.A. and former 
director of station 
W LS. Robert Boul- 
ton is in charge of 
this program. 

Mr. Bill has in- 
vited officers and members of the I. ‘A. 
A. staff to speak on WMBD’s morning 
farm program when they are in Peoria. 


H. E. Young Goes 
To Purdue University 


Edgar L. Bill 


H. E. Young, prominent in Illinois 
agriculture for a number of years, has 
accepted a position with the Horticul- 
ture Department of Purdue University 
and will take up his duties at once. 

Mr. Young, for 12 years secretary of 
the Farmers’ Institute at Springfield, 
was recently editor of the Illinois Farm- 
er. Several years ago he was editor of 
the Farmers Review in Chicago, and at 
one time he was connected with the 
Indiana Farmers Guide. 


McLean County First 
Tn Bureau Membership 


The total membership of the McLean 
County Farm Bureau on June 23 was 
1,647, of which 1,585 were reported 
signed on June 11 setting a record for 
the number signed in one day. 

Clean-up membership drives planned 
for July and September are expected to 
make this the largest county Farm Bu- 
reau organization in the world. This 
distinction is now held by San Pedro 
County, California, Farm Bureau, 
which last year had 1,950 paid mem- 
bers. 

The drive on June 11 was put on by 
377 volunteer solicitors. The supple- 
mentary campaigns also will be made 
by volunteers with a membership of 
2,000 as their goal. 


In 1930 about 12,000 co-operative 
marketing associations in the U. S. did 
a business of approximately $2,000,- 
000,000. 


During 1930 the farm population in- 
creased for the first time in 10 years. 


Page Fourteen 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


July, 1931 


“Unorganized Growers Hurt 
Wool Prices”—Hagenbarth 


This Is a Consignment Year Is Belief 
of National Wool Marketing 
Association President 


HAT the unorganized domestic 

wool grower, in conjunction with 
the short-sighted dealer, is solely re- 
sponsible for the present depressed con- 
dition of the wool market, is the charge 
made recently by Frank J. Hagenbarth, 
president of the National Wool Grow- 
ers’ Association. 

“It is not so surprising that growers 
may be forced by circumstances to sell 
their wool below the market,” said 
Hagenbarth, ‘“‘as it is to see dealers who 
are fully posted pursuing the same 
course and sacrificing their wools on a 
very small margin of profit. 

“Manufacturers depend upon stabil- 
ized wool markets for profitable and 
certain business) When wools are 
slaughtered in price they naturally want 
to be in on the killing. Mills in turn 
pass the lower prices on to the clothiers, 
who come back for cheaper fabrics at 
the vital cost of the grower.” 

Two Courses Open 

Hagenbarth believes that the Na- 
tional Wool Marketing Corporation has 
only one of two courses open to it un- 
der such conditions: it must either meet 
the competition of the unorganized 
grower and dealer who are sacrificing 
their wool on this market, or they must 
hold their stocks of wool until liquida- 
tion of these cheap lots has gone into 
consumption. 

“A fair analysis of the present para- 
doxical situation will lead one to be- 
lieve and say that the grower himself 
is primarily to blame,” he declared. “He 
is throwing away from one-third to 
one-half the best tariff he ever had. At 
a time when every dollar of income is 
vital toward preserving the industry, 
he is sacrificing millions of dollars due 
to ignorance of true marketing possi- 
bilities or through lack of faith in his 
product, which is not warranted by the 
facts, or through the short-sighted at- 
titude of his creditors who may force 
him to sell. 

A Consignment Year 


“The lesson drawn from this whole 
situation is perfectly plain. This is a 
consignment year. The grower does not 
have to wait for a rising market. His 
own selling policy determines the mar- 
ket. He has an advantage, if he will 
only take it, of a minimum of 13 to 17 
cents per clean pound on his wool right 
now. 

“If he has not sufficient faith in his 
own wool marketing organizations, 


either ‘locally or nationally, to sell his 


wools through them, then he should se- 
cure as good an advance as he can from 
any good reliable wool house and ship 
his wool on consignment. 

“In selling at the prices which are 
prevailing in the producing areas, he is 
not only slaughtering his own values 
but he is establishing a false market 
far below real values for his fellow 
wool growers.” 


Illinois Leads in Use of 
Of Limestone, Phosphate 


Illinois farmers are using 38 per cent 
of the agricultural limestone consumed 
in the United States and more ground 
rock phosphate than any other state, 


according to J. R. Bent, director lime- 


stone phosphate department. 

Although total tonnages are expected 
to decline this year, due to lower farm 
income and the inability of many rural 
banks to make loans, it seems fairly cer- 
tain that Illinois farmers will success- 
fully defend their title as leaders in the 
use of these two commodities. 


“During periods of depression such . 


as the country has been experiencing,” 
states Mr. Bent, “rigid economy and 
careful planning, so that each dollar 
spent may accomplish the most good, 
are absolutely essential to success. 

“It is significant that under such 
conditions the interest in agricultural 
limestone and ground rock phosphate 
continue to grow. Farmers realize that 
good soil practices and low production 
costs accomplished through maximum 
yield are at the very foundation of 
successful farming.” 


Maryland Farm Bureau 
To Seek Prettiest Girl 


The Maryland Farm Bureau will seek 
its most beautiful Farm Bureau girl by 


‘means of a beauty contest at the an- 


nual state convention next January, a 
recent announcement states. 

Farm Bureau members in Illinois will 
recall that the Illinois Agricultural As- 
sociation sponsored such contests in 
twelve counties last December. These 
were the first Farm Bureau contests of 
the kind ever held. 

Counties holding contests were Car- 
roll, Stark, McHenry, Champaign, Hen- 
ry, Macon, Morgan, Effingham, Rich- 
land, Lawrence, Monroe and Union. 

Directors of ;the Maryland Farm Bu- 
reau, after considering the idea, de- 
cided that such an affair could be con- 
ducted with dignity and with due re- 
spect to Farm Bureau women. Abbre- 
viated clothes will be taboo. Cosmetics, 
paint and lipstick also will be ruled 
out. Judges will base their decision on 
dress, posture, good grooming and well 
chosen accessories. 


Five Illinois counties increased their 
business to the Indianapolis Producers 
for the second quarter this year over 
the same period in 1930. They are 
Iroquois, Macon, Piatt, Vermilion, and 
Sangamon. One-fourth of the livestock 
handled by the Producers was shipped 
by Illinois farmers. 


Forty-four club members exhibited 
330 lambs at the second annual 4-H 
Club Lamb Show held at the Indian- 
apolis Stock Yards June 25 and 26. 
F. M. Shanklin of Purdue University 
was in charge. The Indianapolis Pro- 
ducers entertained the exhibitors at 
luncheon on June 25. 


Livestock shippers on. the Illinois 
Central Railroad may now obtain double 
deck cars, or two single decks in lieu 
of a double deck, with no extra charge, 
announces the Indianapolis Producers. 
This double deck loading will save $5 
to $9 per car in freight charges. 

**Have your contract and billing show 
‘double deck car ordered’ and if two 
singles are furnished give this informa- 
tion at the market terminal so that the 
proper freight rate may be applied,” ad- 
vises G. E. Ayer, in charge of trans- 
portation. 


Protect Shipping Assn.’s 


Local shipping associations in Illinois 
are protected against accident claims of 
employees through the insurance service 
of the Illinois Agricultural Association, 
states A. E. Richardson, manager of the 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual. 

A blanket workmen’s compensation 


‘and employer’s liability policy is held 


in the office of the insurance depart- 
ment covering any accidental injuries 
which might occur to employees while 
in the course of their duties. 

Mr. Richardson advises that all claims 
be reported as soon after accidents as 
possible so that adjustments may be 
made. 


Foot and Mouth Disease 


Following a report that England is 
experiencing a serious outbreak of foot- 
and-mouth disease, the U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture has placed its in- 
spectors in all the principal seaports on 
guard against the introduction of the 
disease. A new quarantine order has 
been issued adding Scotland, Ireland, 
Korea, Rhodesia and the islands of the 
Mediterranean Sea to the list of coun- 
tries already considered to be infected. 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE! 


Without Lime With Lime 


the field to the left above the field to the right pro- 


failed to produce enough hay 
to make worth while cut- 


ting it. -Alfalfa and clover 


duced a fine crop of alfalfa, 
yielding four tons to the acre. 
An application of two tons 


seed sown on acid soil is 
money wasted. Test before fold in a single year. Clover 
you sow is always a good and alfalfa sown on limed 
rule. soil pays big returns. 


You Can Get the Same Results 


[_™MESTONE makes the difference between success and failure on many a farm. 

Conservative banks loan money to buy limestone when a loan for any other pur- 
pose is refused. Your County Farm Bureau offers free soil testing service, stands 
ready to advise you regarding the limestone requirements of all your fields. 


of limestone an acre paid ten 


i Limestone purchased through your County Farm Bureau is guaranteed as to 
quality and price. A discount of 10 cents per ton is offered Farm Bureau mem- 
bers. _Now is a good time to order your next season’s requirements. 


See your county farm adviser for further details about how to make the farm 
pay with limestone and legumes. 


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Page Sixteen THE I. A. A. RECORD July, 1931 


Eighty Office Secretaries 
Attend Four Meetings 


Keeping of Records, Making Re- 
ports, Relationship Prob- 
lems Considered 


IGHTY Farm Bureau office secre- 
taries representing 67 counties at- 
tended the four conferences held at 
Centralia, Decatur, Galesburg and Chi- 
cago on June 30, July 1, 2, and 7 re- 
spectfully. 

The purpose of the meeting was to 
discuss uniform methods of accounting 
and making reports. A conference simi- 
lar to these was held in Chicago last 
year with the result that a number of 
secretaries requested the I. A. A. to hold 
sectional meetings in 1931. 

The following program was given in 
each of the four conferences: 

Purpose of Conference and Farm Bu- 
reau Outlay—Secretary G. E. Metz- 

er. 
: Farm Bureau Records, Collections, 
Membership Records and Reports—L. A. 
Evans. 

Life Insurance, Employers’ Liability 
Insurance, Automobile Insurance, Stan- 
dardized Uniform Commercial Depart- 
ment Records—F, E. Ringham. 

Fire, Wind and Hail Insurance—J. H. 
Kelker. 

Limestone Project—Mr. Evans. 

Relations with Serum Association, 
Livestock Project, and Getting Ready 
for an Audit.—Mr. Ringham. 

In the last three conferences C. C. 
Ramler of Country Life discussed life 
insurance records; at Chicago, R. A. 
Cowles, treasurer, and Mr. Metzger dis- 
cussed membership and collection re- 
ports. 

Centralia 


Office secretaries attending the Centralia con- 
ference were as follows: Garnet Sefton, Clay 
county; Evelyn Orr, Edwards; Ruby Lawn, 
Effingham; Marion F, Garner, Marion; Margaret 
Dunn, Monroe; Edna Black, Pulaski-Alexander; 
Gladys Allen, Wabash; Mildred Howell, White; 
Jewell Y. Grimes, Williamson; I. Marie Weig- 
and, Jefferson; Rose Apple, Clark; Bertha 
Hutchinson and Harriet Summer, Lawrence; 
Zelah MHalderby, Gallatin; Loretta Witter, 
Wayne; Mrs. Harry M. Campbell, Washington; 
Alma Meyer, Clinton; Luther H. Robertson, 
Montgomery; Louise Hoffman, Jackson; Fern 
Blair, Randolph; Gladys M. Reiling, Johnson, 
and Mabel R. Britt, Bond. 


Decatur 


Those attending the Decatur conference were: 
Agnes L. Cuskaden and Juanita Holaday, Doug- 
las; Mildred E. Williams, Edgar; Ferry A. 
Coultas and Louise Campbell, Scott; Gladys 
Graven and Dolores Baptist, Shelby; H. Polson, 
Macon; Elenora Mayfield, Madison; Mildred 
Weller, Macoupin; Lucile Sneeden and Hazel 


Mellon, Pike; Mildred Mennekin, Adams; Ber- 
nice M. Waring, Menard; Faye Lindsey, De- 
Witt; Marguerite Van Meter, Sangamon; Clara 
Murgatroyd and Ruth Six, Morgan; D. C. Hall, 
Christian; Edna Ransom, Champaign, and Mrs. 
Good, Montgomery. 


Galesburg 


The following were at the Galesburg meet- 


-ing:Grace-Carpenter, Brown; Lorene R. Kuntz ~ 


and Alice Edmunston, Peoria; Lillian Sargent, 
Schuyler; Marie Johnston, Warren; Audrey M. 
Martin, Henderson; Elizabeth Hayes, Hancock; 
Esther Zentmire and Thelma Calclasure. Mercer; 
Ethel Wedell and Ruth Keeler, Knox; Myrtle M. 
Miller, Fulton; Isola Cault, Henry; Cora Kerns, 
Stark, and Ruby Waymark, McDonough. 
Chicago 

Those attending the final meeting at Chicago 
were: Marie Storm, Boone; Florence Bart- 
lett, DeKalb; Grace Arundale, Grundy; Edythe 
Fewell, LaSalle; Veda L. Sharer, Whiteside; 
Mildred Weed, Will; Maude Stipp, Vermilion; 
Marguerite H. Moss, McHenry; Dorothy H. 
Barton, JoDaviess; Elma E. Towne, Clara Moede 
and Helen Heintz, Cook; Evelyn Bauer and 
Ruby Knox, Lake; Cleo E. Conter, DuPage; 
Selma Anderson, Kane; Mabel Andorfer and 
Thelma Prytherch, Lee; Hannah L. Wilson, 
Livingston; Hattie A. Carman, Ogle; Alfreda 
Thulean, Bureau; Hazel E. Kenyon, Carroll; 
Violet M. Stein, Winnebago, and La Vine Inge- 
munson, Kendall. 


“Hope for Reduction 
Peach Freight Rates 


With peach harvesting time almost at 
hand, Illinois peach growers aided by 
the Illinois Agricultural Association still 
have hopes of securing reduced freight 
rates over eastern railroads giving them 
an outlet in the eastern and New Eng- 
land states for their excellent peach 
crop. 

Every effort is being made to speed 
the decision of the Central Traffic Exec- 
utive Committee which now has the 
proposal under consideration after an 
appeal from the Central Freight Asso- 
ciation. 

Although the immediate success of 
the proposal is imperiled by the impend- 
ing proposal of the railroads to increase 
all rates 15 per cent, peach shippers are 
still working for a favorable decision in 
time for the 1931 crop. 


DeKalb County Picnic 
Sycamore, June 24 


The old-fashioned picnic spirit was 
revived on June 24 when 600 DeKalb 
County Farm Bureau members attended 
the annual picnic at Municipal Park, 
Sycamore. 

After the basket lunch LaSalle and 
DeKalb county baseball teams, members 
of the Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball 
League, met in a close game which La- 
Salle county won by.a 7 to 6 score. 
McKenzie of DeKalb allowed only 9 
hits to 17 given by Geheber, LaSalle 
hurler. DeKalb errors and bunched hits 
by LaSalle won the game. 

L. A. Williams, manager of the 
Country Life Insurance Company, was 
the speaker of the day. 


Hail Losses Reported 


In Several Counties — 


Farmers Mutual Insurance Coverage 
Passes Two Million Mark, 
Still Growing 


EVERE hail storms in various sec- 

tions of the state continue to add to 
the toll of early summer storms which 
has already run into thousands of dol- 
lars’ worth of damage to corn and 
small grain. 

Losses were reported in the west- 
central part of Fulton county on July 
2 as a result of the second severe hail 
storm in Fulton county this summer, 
the first having done considerable dam- 
age near Lewistown June 17. 

Farmers in Champaign county also 
reported losses from a hail storm on 
July 2. A disastrous storm on June 25 
left a trail four miles wide and eight 
miles long near New Berlin in Sanga- 
mon-county, causing a loss of thousands 
of dollars to. farmers in that section. 
Losses were sustained by farmers in the 
Chicago area where hail fell on June 23, 
two days. prior to the Sangamon storm. 


$2,284,888 In Force 


Many farmers in these sections were 
protected by insurance against hail. 
Protection through the Farmers Mutual 
Reinsurance Company up to July 6 had 
reached a total of $2,284,888. This 
company is saving farmers $10 on each 
$1,000 policy as compared with rates 
charged by the nearest state-wide com- 
petitor. 

Here is an example of the way hail 
losses are computed by the Farmers 
Mutual: 

An applicant subscribed for $3,000 
worth of hail insurance on his 100 acres 


. of growing crops. If he had a total loss 


he would receive $3,000. If he had only 
a partial loss the adjuster would reach 
an agreement with the policyholder as 
to what per cent of his crop had been 
damaged. 


Suppose 40 acres had been damaged 
50 per cent. The $3,000 would be di- 
vided by 100 to find the amount of in- 
surance per acre, which in this case 
would be $30. Fifty per cent of $30 
would be $15 per acre loss. Forty mul- 
tiplied by $15 would total $600, the 
amount the member would be paid. 


THE SCOT COMES BACK 


The Scot, goat of many an anecdote, occa- 
sionally turns the tables, 

Lord Alness, in his autobiography, tells about 
an English political meeting. One of the candi- 
dates patriotically orated, “I have been born 
an Englishman, I have lived an Englishman, 
and I hope I shall die an Englishman.” 

From the back of the hall, in an unmis- 
takable accent, came the question: ‘Mon, hae 
ye no ambeetion?” 


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July, 1931 THE I. A. A. RECORD Page Seventeen 


1,000 Whiteside Folks 
-Gather-to-Hear Debate 


Farm Bureau Gaining New Members 
Every Day, Cite Progress in 
Past Year 


HE rank and file of Illinois farm- 

ers are ready for co-operative mar- 
keting and, like the American soldiers 
in the crucial period of the World War, 
will fall into line when the hour 
strikes, declared Donald Kirkpatrick, 
legal counsel of the Illinois Agricultural 
Association, in a debate before 1,000 
Whiteside County Farm Bureau mem- 
bers June 25 in the Water Works Park, 
Morrison. 

L. A. Williams, manager of the 
Country Life Insurance Company, 
speaking on the affirmative side of the 
question, ‘“‘Resolved, That Illinois Farm- 
ers Are Not Ready for Co-Operative 
Marketing,” said that the fact that only 
63,000 Illinois farmers out of more 
than twice that number were affliated 
with organized agriculture as_repre- 
sented by the Farm Bureau was ample 
proof that they were not ready. 

Minority Leads Way 

“Largely through failure to think the 
thing through, too many non-members 
are standing in their own light, leaving 
organized co-operative effort the only 
sane solution of the farm relief problem 
to the progressive minority who are 
willing to stick together and work for 
their mutual interests,’ Mr. Williams 
stated. The debate was a feature of 
the Farm Bureau co-operative rally, one 
of several held in verious parts of Illi- 
nois. 

President A. L. Goodenough made 
the welcoming address and introduced 
the boys’ 4-H Club Quartette, second 
place winners at the Urbana contest. 
The quartette, composed of Gerald 
Hudson, Harlan Thomas, Harvey Flor- 
ence and Wayne Mathew, sang “Pale in 
the Amber West.” 

Good Local Talent 

Rex Lawrence of Prophetstown then 
put on his stunt, “Have a Pill,” which 
won fifth at the state contest with 22 
clubs competing. This was an imper- 
sonation of a quack doctor. 

Helen and Henrietta Castelein, also 
of Prophetstown, gave several vocal and 
harmonica duets, including ‘Morning 
on the Farm” and “Juanita.” Claire 
Gsell, Morrison, entertained the audi- 
ence with an impersonation of a colored 
lady at the telephone trying to insure 
her husband’s life. 

Farm Adviser F. H. Shuman men- 
tioned the addition of 110 new members 
during the past year, also reviewed some 
of the accomplishments of the Farm 
Bureau. 


At the close of the program indi- 
vidual containers of ice cream were 
served to the audience- by 4-H Club 
girls. 


1,500 at Edwardsville 


Edwardsville, Ill., June 29.—In spite 
of the fact that farmers in this section 
were in the midst of harvesting oats 
and wheat, a crowd of 1,500 from five 
counties braved the 100 degree heat to 
attend the Co-operation Jubilee held 
here tonight under the auspices of the 
Country Life Insurance Company and 
the Madison County Farm Bureau. 

Donald Kirkpatrick, legal counsel for 
the Illinois Agricultural Association, 
and L. A. Williams, manager of Coun- 
try Life Insurance Company, debated 
the question, “Resolved, That Illinois 
Farmers Are Not Ready for Co-opera- 
tive Marketing.” 

Among the speakers were: Frank D. 
Barton, Illinois Grain Corporation; Har- 
ry W. Day, Illinois Fruit Growers Ex- 
change; John E. Miller, president, Madi- 
son County Farm Bureau; A. D. Lynch, 
manager, Sanitary Milk Producers; and 
J. R. Fulkerson, president, St. Louis 
Producers Commission Association. 

Farm Adviser T. W. May introduced 
a number of guests including Sam Sor- 
rells, chairman of the I. A. A. livestock 
marketing committee; E. W. Tiede- 
mann, president of the Sanitary Milk 
Producers; J. F. Chambers and Henry 
Backman of the Godfrey Asparagus 
Growers’ Association; George C. Martin 
of the Midwest Grain Corporation; 
Harry D. Wright, manager, St. Louis 
Producers Commission Association; and 
F. H. Anderson, secretary, National 
Dairy Association. 

Music was furnished by the Edwards- 
ville elementary school band, the Farm 
Bureau ladies’ quartette and the Paw- 
nee Four of Sangamon county. Audrey 
and Betty Miller gave a German folk 
dance and Mary Jane Miller gave a 
Hungarian dance. 


800 at Louisville 


Louisville, Ill., July 1.— With 800 

attending the Clay County Farm Bu- 
reau Co-operation Jubilee here tonight, 
the total attendance of the seven meet- 
ings sponsored by Country Life In- 
surance Company and the Farm Bureaus 
arose to 11,000. 
_L. A. Williams, manager of Country 
Life, and Donald Kirkpatrick, legal 
counsel for the I. A. A., met in the last 
of their seven debates on the question, 
“Resolved, That Illinois Farmers Are 
Not Ready for Co-operative Market- 
ing.” 

This has been the feature attraction 
of each jubilee held in the counties 


which were high in April life insurance 
sales. 


In addition to the debate, a talk by  ~ 


F. A. Gougler, director of produce 
marketing, on the need for co-operative 
produce marketing in southern Illinois 
was an interesting feature of the pro- 
gram. 

Farm Adviser C. $. Love and General 
Agent Arthur Bryant were given recog- 
nition for the success of the jubilee. 
The Pawnee Four, popular Sangamon 
county quartet, furnished the music. 


1,000 at Steeleville 


Steeleville, June 30.— Farm Bureau 
members, numbering close to 1,000, 
sought the outdoor amphitheatre for re- 
lief from ‘the sweltering heat as they 
gathered here tonight to attend the Co- 
operation Jubilee sponsored by the Coun- 
try Life Insurance Company and the 
Randolph County Farm Bureau. 

William Sauer, president of the Farm 
Bureau, introduced the board of direc- 
tors and guests including A. D. Lynch, 
manager of the Sanitary Milk Producers; 
Donald Kirkpatrick, legal counsel of the 
I. A. A., and L. A. Williams, manager 
of Country Life Insurance Company. 

Kirkpatrick and Williams gave their 
sixth debate on the question, ‘‘Resolved, 
That Illinois Farmers Are Not Ready 
for Co-operative Marketing.” Mr. Lynch 
discussed the problem of milk market- 
ing. 

Recognition was given John Uffel- 
mann, general agent in Randolph 
county, for his good work in winning 
the award of the jubilee, which was 
one of the seven held in the state. 

Music was furnished by the Pawnee 
Four of Sangamon county. 


L. A. Williams, manager of the Coun- 
try Life Insurance Company, was the 
speaker at the Kendall County Farm 
Bureau booster meeting held Friday eve- 
ning, June 26. About 800 attended the 
meeting. Doc Hopkins, radio enter- 
tainer over station WMAQ, gave a 
number of mountain songs. Band music 
and several special numbers by Kendall 
county boys and girls completed the 
program. 


James T. Jardine, director of the 
Oregon Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
tion and brother of former Secretary of 
Agriculture William A. Jardine, has~ 
been selected by Secretary Arthur M. 
Hyde to head the Office of Experiment 
Stations. The post has been vacant since 
the death of Dr..W. E. Allen more than 
a year ago. 


Culling out the boarder cows would 
speed recovery of milk and butterfat 
prices. 


Page Eighteen THE I. A. A. RECORD July, 1931 


Tells 4-H Girls Health 


N ecessary to Success. . 


WOMAN has to be healthy to- 

day to be a success in any job, 
declared Dr. Caroline B. Hedger of the 
Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund 
before the recent 4-H club girls’ con- 
ference at Cornell University. 

“The three kinds of jobs—earning a 
living, making a home and learning how 
- to use leisure time—all need a healthy 
girl or woman to make a success of 
them,” she said. 

According to Dr. Hedger health in- 
cludes looking well and feeling well. 
A girl cannot do much about the nose 
nature has given her, she says, but she 
can work for a nice brown sun-marked 
complexion; she can keep her body 
clean; she can have a correct posture 
and she can be the right weight for 
her height. 

“Of course you must feel well to 
hold your job,” Dr. Hedger continued. 
*‘How you feel makes a big difference 
in how well you get along with people, 
how interesting your work is to you 
and how much of your best you put 
into it. That means getting enough 
sleep—most women need at least nine 
hours every night—and enough play 
that is re-creation, not wreck-creation.” 


One hundred and sixty-nine schools, 
represented by 1,605 boys, participated 
in the Illinois Judging Contest for Stu- 
dents of Vocational Agriculture held at 
the University of Illinois, June 19 
and 20. 

Teams winning first place were: fat 
stock, DeKalb; dairy, Ridge Farm; poul- 
try, Armstrong; grain, Olney; corn, 
Chenoa; all divisions, Olney. 

Individuals placing first in the con- 
tests were: fat stock, R. Warfield, Gib- 
son City; dairy, L. Methany, Ridge 
Farm; poultry, P. Meyers, Oakland; 
small grain, R. Stephens, Hutsonville; 
corn, E. Quick, Atwood. 


The annual Saline County 4-H Club 
picnic was held July 4 at Ferne Clyffe, 
one-half mile southwest of Goreville. 
This is one of the scenic spots of south- 
ern Illinois. The 4-H picnic was held 
at the same place in 1930. 


Consolidation of townships, small villages, 
and even counties as now proposed in some 
states, will be helpful in reducing farm taxes 
and providing farmers with modern hospitals, 
schools, and other local institutions, according 
to Dr. C. J. Galpin of the U. S. Department 
of Agriculture. 


A young man addressed a letter to another 
young man pointing out- that he understood 
the second fellow had been taking his engaged 
girl out. He requested that the offender call 
at his office and talk the matter over. Two 
days later he received this reply: “Received 


your circular letter. Will be at the meeting.” - 


On Advertising 


Advertising agents agree that adver= 


tising should not only reach out to new 
customers and prospects, but should 
work back through the advertiser’s own 
organization. Effective publicity 
prompts every employe to throw out 
his chest and feel that he is working 
for an enterprising company. The ne- 
cessity of keeping one’s own workmen 
“sold” on the merits and worthiness of 
a company and its product is one of the 
real problems of management. 


Corporation Farming 


Not So Good Here 


The Wheat Farming Company of 
Hays, Kansas, an organization which 
operated 72,000 acres, has asked the 
court for a receiver. This project has 
been held up as a model of large scale 
farming. It operated on the principles 
of big business employing all known 
efficiency ‘methods, yet dividends failed 
to materialize. 

An editorial in Farm and Ranch for 
June 20 says: “We have heard of other 
big farming ventures that are drifting 
close to the rocks of bankruptcy, which 
seems to be evidence of the truth of 
that old fogy theory that farms are a 
place for building homes, for producing 
a living and raising good American citi- 
zens.” 

Roger Babson, noted economist who 
has been investigating corporation and 
chain farming reports as follows: “We 
have been unable to find any industrial- 
ized farm which can be called profit- 
able, though we have examined the 
affairs of many. The only one we found 
that seemed to be profitable turned out, 
upon examination, to have an oil well 
upon it.” 


Brigham-Townsend Act 
Helps Butter Consumption 


Regarding the success of the Brigham- 
Townsend Act, the new oleomargarine 
law, which was vigorously supported by 
the Illinois Agricultural Association, the 
National Dairy Union says: The new 
oleomargarine law—the Brigham-Town- 
send Act—has had greater and more 
beneficial results to the dairy industry, 
measured by what has happened in the 
first two months since its enactment, 
than had been expected by its most en- 
thusiastic supporters. 

In the two months which can now 
be surveyed — March and April — the 
oleomargarine industry has reduced pro- 
duction about 31 per cent to get ready 
for the act which took effect June 3. 
May figures will probably show even 
greater curtailment. 


Blames Tariff for Part 
- Of Farmers’ Troubles 
Farmer Can Help Himself by Grow- 


ing His Own Food, Banker 
Traylor Says 


The farmer can help himself by pro- 
ducing as much of his food as possible 
on his own farm, Melvin Traylor, presi- 
dent of the First National Bank, Chi- 
cago, declared in an address delivered 
recently before the International Cham- 
ber of Commerce at Washington. 

““When we find that on approximate- 
ly 20 per cent of the farms in the 
United States there is not a milch cow 
nor a chicken,” he said, ‘tand that on 
more than 30 per cent there is not a 
hog, and on approximately 90 per: cent 
not a sheep; when we know, further, 
that on many farms in our large agri- 
cultural states, no gardens are kept and 
almost every article of food is purchased 
at the store, we are forced to the con- 
clusion that the farmer, by and large, 
is not farming as he should.” 

Mr. Traylor told of the enormous in- 
crease in taxes and the cost of govern- 
ment. He scored the financial leader- 
ship of the country, blamed selfishness 
and greed for part of our present eco- 
nomic troubles, criticised the abuses of 
speculation on the stock market, and 
urged that margin trading in amounts 
under $10,000 of stock be abolished. 

Mr. Traylor, who is a Democrat, took 
a rap at our high tariff policy when he 
said: “It sounded well, when industry 
was prosperous, to tell the farmer -that 
his best market was the American mar- 
ket, well protected by mounting tariff 
walls. But when he sees behind such 
protection five or six million of his 
fellow citizens unemployed and the ob- 
jects of charity; when he sees frontiers 
closed and barriers raised to his prod- 
ucts in other countries, then, I believe, 
he has a just right to complain. No 
one, not even the farmer himself, would 
advocate the abolition of reasonable 
protection for industry or American so- 
ciety. But a virtue ceases to be a virtue 
when its operations destroy economic 
opportunity and social equality.” 


While this decrease in oleomargarine 
production was taking place, butter 
consumption increased. The increase for 
this period in 1931 is about 16,000,000 
pounds above the 1930 consumption. 

At the average wholesale price of 25 
cents a pound, this brought four mil- 
lion additional dollars into the pockets 
of butterfat producers. 


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Chicago. 


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Volume 9 


Wonderful Peach Crop 
Leeper Tells Listeners 


Hot Weather and Moisture Aid in 
Developing Quality Fruit 


6 ae Illinois peach crop this year is 
wonderful in two ways: first, the 
yield will be large, and second, the 
quality will be the best ever produced 
in Illinois, A. B. Leeper, director of 
fruit and vegetable marketing for the 
I. A. A., told radio’ listeners in a talk 
over station WMAQ Tuesday, Aug. 4. 

‘There is no better peach than the 
Illinois Elberta,” said Mr. Leeper. “The 
quality is excellent this year because 
the growers have been doing a better 
job of cultivating and spraying their 
orchards than in former years. And 
what is more important, they have done 
a thorough and complete job of thin- 
ning the fruit. 

“Many of our growers pulled off 
three-fourths of all the peaches on the 
trees so that the remaining one-fourth 
might take on the proper size. Climatic 
conditions have been right to produce 
high quality, clean fruit. There was 
almost a total absence of insect injury 
this year. Spraying was an easy task. 


Hot Weather Helps 


“The hot weather of the last few 
weeks was conducive to the develop- 
ment of high quality peaches. It takes 
hot weather to produce a high quality 
peach, and during the last few weeks 
we have*had plenty of that kind of 
weather, together with sufficient mois- 
ture to give the necessary vitality to 
the trees and insist on producing a 
large fruit. 

“The Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange 
will handle more than double the num- 
ber of cars we have ever handled in 
any previous season. But we need the 
support of the consumer to assist our 
growers in realizing some returns from 
their time, labor, and investment. 

“We solicit your business and will 
give you as good or better service than 
any other distributor.” Mr. Leeper com- 


The famous “Illini Brand” Elbertas from 
Southern Illinois. 

mented on the splendid co-operation the 
Exchange and the growers have re- 
ceived in the past from the Illinois 
Chamber of Commerce. He spoke of 
the proclamation issued by the governor 
designating August 16 to 31 an Illinois 
peach harvest festival. 

The Exchange will co-operate with 
distributors and groups of consumers 
who wish to buy peaches in wholesale 
lots. There are only 400 bushels of 
peaches in a car and even small com- 
munities can use at least a carload. 

“Why ot begin now and form a 
peach club in your community or 
neighborhood. Advise the Exchange 
and arrange to purchase peaches in car- 
lots. A substantial saving can be made 
on the purchase price and the consumer 
will be assured of getting the best qual- 
ity.” 

Leeper thanked the Buy Illinois Prod- 
ucts Commission, of which Eugene D. 
Funk is chairman and George C. Whar- 
ton secretary, for their fine co-operation 
in advertising Illinois peaches. 


Lack of capital, lack of farming ex- 
perience, poor roads and the fact that 
in many cases children leave the coun- 
try to work in cities were found to be 
the principal causes of farm abandon- 
ment in New Jersey. 


President Smith Speaks at 
Soldiers, Sailors Reunion 


Large Audence Gathers for Picnic 
at Salem, July 28 


HE history of Marion county served 

as the background for the address 
of Earl C. Smith, president of the Illi- 
nois Agricultural Association, delivered 
before a large audience at Salem at the 
23rd District Farm Bureau picnic July 
28. The picnic was held jointly with 
the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Reunion. 

Appropriate to the occasion, Mr. 
Smith delved into the past of Marion 
county and compared the war for the 
preservation of the Union with the pres- 
ent economic struggle between groups 
and nations. The need for organization 
and leadership in solving today’s eco- 
nomic problems is just as great as was 
the need in 1861 to preserve the Union, 
he said. 

He reviewed the tax history of 
Marion county and showed that while 
assessed valuations of property in the 
last 10 years had greatly declined, prop- 
erty Owners are paying six times more 
taxes today than they paid 30 years ago, 
even with a lower tax rate. 


Values Decline 


“The total value of the farms in 
Marion county in 1920 was stated by 
the Census Bureau to be $18,833,981,” 
Mr. Smith said. “In 1925 this total 
value had been reduced to $13,974,334 
and in 1930 a further reduction brought 
the figure to $11,019,937. What has 
been the trend of local tax bills in 
Marion county? In 1899 your total tax 
bill on all the property in the county 
was $140,165. Ten years later it had 
increased to $335,963; in 1919 you 
witnessed another increase to $703,285 
and in 1929 the astounding figure of 
$917,980. 

“While I am sure you have recog- 
nized the increase in taxes, I wonder 
how many really know how it was 
accomplished. In 1899 you had a tax 

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Page Four 


August, 1931 


Auditing Ass’n. at 
Membership Peak 


More Audits in June and July — 


Than in Any Previous Year 
For Same Period 


ITH a total of 298 member - 


companies now being served by 
the Illinois Agricultural Auditing As- 
sociation, a new peak has been reached 
in its membership 
development. 

More than 50 new 
members became af- 
filiated with the As- 
sociation during the 
past 12 months, 22 
coming in since Jan- 
uary 1. 

The membership 
is classified as fol- 
lows: Farm Bureaus, 

Fred Ringham 69; Home Bureaus, 

5; Grain Elevators, 
78; Livestock Associations, 28; Milk, 
Dairy and Produce Associations, 32; 
Insurance, 14; Oil Co-operatives, 56; 
Miscellaneous, 16. 

Audits recently completed reveal that 
the net income of farmers’ elevators 
and co-operative oil companies is less 
than a year ago, county livestock asso- 
ciations are showing an improvement, 
and Farm Bureaus are on the up-grade 
in net income due largely to increased 
commercial activities, according to 
Manager Fred E. Ringham. 

Both June and July this year were 
higher in the number of audits than in 
any previous year. July is always a 
peak month, as June 30 closings are 


second only to December 31 closings in - 


number. This year there were 30 com- 
panies whose fiscal year closed on June 
30 and 14 companies with semi-annual 
or quarterly audits due. 

The total number of audits com- 
pleted during the first half of 1931 was 
183 as compared with 146 in the same 
period last year. The total number of 
audits made by the association since it 
' began operation seven years ago is 1,800. 


(Continued from previous page) 
rate of $4.84 on the $100; in 1909 a 
tax rate of $4.90 on the $100. In 1919 
it was $5.42 and in 1929, reduced to 
$4.06. 

“Values were reduced and the tax 
rate reduced, but taxes increased from 
$140,165 to $917,180. How is it done? 
In 1899 your taxes were extended on 
the basis of one-fifth of total values; 
ten years later on one-third; ten years 
later on one-half; and at the present 
time, are extended on the basis of full 
valuations of property. 

“The solution of our tremendous tax 
problem can be accomplished in two 


Farmers National Grain 
Corp. Buys New Space 


Farmers came into possession of an- 
other large terminal grain elevator 
through purchase of the 2,300,000- 
bushel house of the Soo Line at Minne- 
apolis. Acquisition was announced by 
Farmers National Grain Corporation re- 
cently. The plant is of modern con- 


crete construction, electrically operated 


and with sufficient ground for addi- 


tional storage construction if required. 


Thirty-nine country elevators in 
Utah and Idaho were also added to the 
co-operative’s facilities through lease 
from two milling companies. Added 
to a million dollar facilities program in 
the Pacific Northwest and to proper- 
ties acquired elsewhere in the grain 
belt, Farmers National Grain Corpora- 
tion is declared to be in excellent posi- 
tion to handle the 1931 crop. 


The I. A. A. is now on the air Tues- 
days, Thursdays and Saturdays at 8:15- 
8:30 P. M. Central Standard time from 
radio station WJJD, Chicago (1,130 
kilocycles) . 

The program will be identified by the 
Illinois state song, “By Thy Rivers 
Gently Flowing, Illinois, Illinois,” 
played at the beginning and close of the 
15 minute period. 

The daily program from 11:30-11:45 
A. M. has been discontinued. The noon 
hour broadcast will probably be re- 
sumed after Oct. 1 when Chicago goes 
back on standard time. 

Members are invited to write in and 
comment on the I. A. A. broadcast. 

A radio news release service two to 
three times a week to 14 midwest sta- 
tions was inaugurated by the Depart- 
ment of Information early in July. An- 
nouncers are making liberal use of the 


_J. A. A. news items. 


ways: First, by the people in an organ- 


ized’ and constructive way demanding 
a reduction in public expenditures; and, 
second, by finding some other sources 
of revenue to take the place of that un- 
just portion now being collected from 


property.” 


Soybean Association May 
Sell 2,000,000 Bu. in ’31 


Growers Conduct a Membership 
Campaign, Seek to Control Bulk 
of Commercial Crop 


HE Soybean Marketing Association 
is now conducting an_ intensive 

drive to increase its membership, ac- 
cording to Manager Wilbur H. Coultas. 
In 1930 the Associa- 
tion handled more 
than 1,150,000 bu- 
shels of soybeans, 
which represented 
approximately 40 per 
cent of the total 
commercial volume 
marketed in Illinois. 
To be more effec- 
tive, the Association 
should strive to 
double this amount 

W. H. Coultas jn 1931, Coultas be- 

lieves. 

“We have broadened our contacts 
with processors and are in a position 
to move this larger volume to good 
advantage,” he says. “The demand for 
soybean oil is increasing rapidly in the 
paint and soap industry as well as in 
the edible refining trade. 


“More of our livestock feeders and 
dairymen are learning about the superior 
qualities of soybean oil meal as a pro- 
tein supplement to their home-grown 
grains. 


Saves a Step 

“Our Association is fortunate in 
handling a commodity which does not 
have to move through the various grain 
exchanges. We are in a position to mer- 
chandise our soybeans direct to the 
processors, thereby saving one step in 
marketing. 

“Volume control is a big factor in 
determining price. When the Associa- 
tion increases its volume tothe point 
where it will be handling the majority 
of the Illinois commercial crop, then 
it will have more influence in stabiliz- 
ing the price to the grower on a satis- 
factory level. 

“Even last year when we handled 
only 40 per cent of the crop, our As- 
sociation was instrumental in holding 
the price up around $1 per bu. when 
every other commodity was rapidly de- 
clining. 

“Commercial soybean growers have 
an opportunity to help themselves and 
their market by organization and co- 


operation through the Soybean Market- 
ing Association. Our slogan for 1931 


is, ‘If there are commercial soybeans to 
market, our marketing association 
should sell them’.” 


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August, 1931 


I. A. A. and A. F. B. F. to 
Oppose 15% Rate Raise 


Hearings in Chicago Begin Aug. 31 
Before Commerce Commission 


Heo” to prevent a threatened in- 
créase of $130,000,000 annually 
in the American farmers’ freight bill is 
the problem confronting the Transpor- 
tation Departments of the I. A. A. and 
American Farm Bureau Federation. This 
is the sum farmers will be forced to 
add to their present costs of doing busi- 
ness, if the Interstate Commerce Com- 
mission allows the 15 per cent increase 
in freight rates sought by the railroads 
of the United States. 

As the representative of organized 
agriculture, the I. A. A. and American 
Farm Bureau plan to oppose the de- 
mands of the railroads. Preparation of 
evidence is now under way for presen- 
tation to the Commission at the hearing 
set for August 31 in Chicago. 

The farmer is in no position to 
shoulder this additional burden of 
$130,000,000, the Farm Bureau will 
maintain. Reviewing the condition of 
agriculture, it will show the Commis- 
sion that the farming industry has 
suffered from a depression for ten years, 
is still suffering from it and with no 
prospects for relief, whereas the depres- 
sion from which the carriers are seeking 
relief is of only twelve months dura- 
tion. 


Exempt Farm Products 


If the Commission decides with the 
carriers that a 15 per cent boost is 
necessary, exemptions, the organization 
holds, should be made on agricultural 
products. The farmer is the only per- 
son who pays a double freight bill. 
When he sells his produce, the freight 
charges on the shipment to market are 
deducted from the price he gets for his 
goods. When he buys his supplies, he 
pays another freight bill on what is 
delivered to him. The 15 per cent raise 
would thus become a 30 per cent raise 
in the case of the farmer, which makes 
adjustments imperative if a horizontal 
raise is granted. 


The records of the Interstate Com- 
merce Commission show that the pro- 
posed raise will defeat its own purpose 
by diverting traffic to competing forms 
of transportation. With the exception 
of fruit and vegetables, according to 
the Commission statistics, the greater 
portion of farm crops move less than 
300 miles. If the 15 per cent raise is 
granted, it is reasonable to expect that 
the trucking of farm crops to market 
will increase several hundred per cent 
and the railroads will still be short the 
revenue they are seeking. 


weer, 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Edward A. O'Neal 


Heese A. O’Neal, president of 
the American Farm Bureau Fed- 
eration, is scheduled to address the 
County Farm Bureau picnic in Sanga- 
mon county on August 18 and the 
annual Field Day at Cimco Farm in 
Mason county on August 20. 

The new national president who suc- 
ceeded Sam Thompson has been closely 
identified with the Farm Bureau for 
more than 25 years. He was a charter 
member of his County Farm Bureau in 
Alabama, then rose to the state vice- 
presidency, and in 1923 was elected 
president of the Alabama Farm Bureau, 
a position he held eight years until his 
recent promotion. 

As vice-president he was chairman of 
the legislative committee of the A. F. 
B. F., a position which has given him 
a wide acquaintance among men in 
public life at Washington. During the 
past two years he has been chairman 
of the national committee on co-oper- 
ative purchasing, and also has been ac- 
tive on the national committee on taxa- 
tion. 

Mr. O’Neal will devote considerable 
attention in his addresses to the organ- 
ized opposition developed against co- 
operative marketing. He recently took 
a leading part in bringing co-operatives 
together in a movement to defend the 
Agricultural Marketing Act. 


Baseball Dap 


As we go to press, five of the eight 
division titles in the Illinois Farm: Bu- 
reau Baseball League have been definite- 
ly settled. By the time the RECORD 
reaches you the eight winners will be 
ready to enter the semi-finals, which 
begin immediately after August 15 
when preliminary play ends. 


Page Five 


Henderson County Has 
A Soft Ball League 


Eleven Townships Compete, Coun-— 
ty Championship Contest 
Sept. 19 


‘The inter-township softball league 
sponsored by the Henderson County 
Farm Bureau as one of its recreational 
projects is now. in the midst of its sec- 
ond season and is creating an unusual 
amount of interest, according to Farm 
Adviser Ernest D. Walker. 

The league, which is composed of 
teams from ten out of the eleven town- 
ships in the county, will play more 
than forty games before September 12 
when preliminary play stops. The sea- 
son opened on August 1. Winners of 
the two divisions will meet at Strong- 
hurst on County Club Show Day, Sep- 
tember 19, to play for the county 
championship. 

“Our tournament last year was a 
great success arousing a great deal of 
interest in the county and affording 
recreation to a large group of our mem- 
bers,” said Mr. Walker. “Co-operation 
among the townships was 100 per cent 
last year and we have ten out of the 
eleven townships playing now.” 

Any Farm Bureau member or de- 
pendent member of his family is eligible 
to play. Players must belong to the 
team in the township in which Farm 
Bureau membership is held. The man- 
agement of each team is in the hands of 
a manager appointed by the Farm Bu- 
reau director in that township. 

The management of the league rests 
with a committee of three with full 
authority to settle all disputes, deter- 
mine standing of teams, permit post- 
ponement of games and take care of 
any other details. This committee con- 
sists of C. W. Cooper, A. N. Nolan 
and W. S. Graham, Sr. 

All games are reported to the Farm 
Bureau immediately after they are 
played. Protests must be filed in writ- 
ing with the management committee. 
Games are played by the National Play- 
ground Baseball rules as published in 
Spaulding’s Athletic Library. 


Teams already sure of a place in the 
semi-finals are: Carroll, division I; Liv- 
ingston, division III; Knox, division V; 
Logan, division Vly and Greene, divi- 
sion VIII. 

In the three doubtful divisions, San- 
gamon was leading division VII, Will 
was leading division II and Tazewell 
was ahead in division IV, but the mar- 
gin was close with a possibility of a tie. 
Cass, Grundy and Woodford were still 
in the running. 

Carroll, Livingston and Logan went 
through their preliminary schedules 
without a defeat. 


Frances Johnston 


Some of the girls 
entered in the. 
“Country Life 

Queen” 
Contest to be 
staged Farm 

Bureau Day at the 

State Fair, Spring- 
field, Aug. 28.: 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Ida I. Eppel 


Helen Kolmer 


Selecting the “Country Life Queen” 
will be the star attraction at the Illinois 
State Fair on Farm Bureau Day, Aug- 
ust 28. The state style show or beauty 
contest in charge of V. Vaniman, direc- 
tor of insurance service for the I. A. A., 
will be held to select first and second 
prize winners from among the county 
entries all of whom won their respective 
county contests last winter. 

Pictures of only five of the entries 
had been received up to the time of 
going to press. 

All of the young ladies are single and 
all are daughters of Farm Bureau mem- 


bers. Attractiveness, style, poise, per- . 


sonality, and natural beauty will be the 
determining factors in selecting the 
prize winners. 

Judges will favor simplicity in dress, 
posture, good grooming, and well 
chosen accessories. Where beauty and 
charm prove equal ,the judges will favor 
the one attired in the most becoming 
dress suggesting simplicity. 

Following are brief sketches of the 
county winners who had entered the 
contest on or before Friday, August 7: 


Frances Johnston, Lawrence County 


Seventeen years of age, 5 feet high 
and weighs 104 pounds and is a bru- 
nette, She is a student at Lawrenceville 
High School and an accomplished elo- 
cutionist. Her favorite sports are swim- 
-ming, tennis and dancing, and her hobby 
is public speaking. 


Helen Phillips 


Sara Biederbeck 


Elizabeth Meyer, Morgan County 


Twenty-four years of age, 5 feet 4 
inches high and weighs 120 pounds. 
She is a brunette. Miss Meyer is a mu- 
sic student at Mac Murry College Con- 
servatory of Music. Her favorite sports 
are tennis and basket ball. She plays the 
piano, xylophone and violin, and her 
hobbies are music and travel. 

Elane Plott, Union County 


Sixteen years of age, 5 feet 6 inches 
high and weighs 115 pounds. Elane -is 
a brunette. Miss Plott is a student at 
Anna-Jonesboro High School. Her fa- 
vorite sport is tennis; she plays the piano 
and her hobby is reading. 

Dorothy Roberts, Champaign County 


Twenty years of age, 5 feet 4 inches 
high and weighs 126 pounds. Miss 
Roberts is a brunette. She is a student 
at the University of Illinois and a leader 
in 4-H Club work. Her favorite sports 
are swimming and tennis and her hobby 
is flowers. 


Sarah Biederbeck, Stark County 

Eighteen years of age, § feet 3 inches 
high and weighs 103 pounds; is single 
and a blond. She is a student at Toulon 
Township High School. Her favorite 
sport is gymnasium; her hobby is music 
and she plays the piano. 


Helen Phillips, Macon County 


Nineteen years of age, 5 feet 5 inches 
high and weighs 115 pounds; is single 
and a blond. Attended Argenta High 


August, 1931 


School and is now a saleslady in a local 
store. Miss Phillips’ favorite sport is 
basket ball; she plays the piano and her 
hobby is reading. ~ 


Helen Kolmer, Monroe County 


Nineteen years of age, 5 feet 6 inches 
high. Miss Kolmer is a brunette. She is 
a student at Waterloo High School and 
plays the piano. Her hobby is music. 


Ida I. Eppel, McHenry County 


Twenty-three years of age, 5 feet 4 
inches high and weighs 110 pounds; is 
single and a brunette. She is a teacher 
and attended school at Woodstock High 
School, Milwaukee Normal Western and 
Illinois State Teachers College. Miss Ep- 
pel plays the piano and is a member of 
the Business and Professional Women’s 
Club. 

Eleanor Ferguson, Henry county; 
age 18, height 5 feet 4 inches, weighs 
105 pounds. Miss Ferguson won the 
Henry county contest. 

She is Scotch-Irish, a brunette, is 
musically inclined, and has been promi- 
nent in 4-H Club work. She plays 
the violin, piano and pipe organ. Her 
favorite sports are golf, tennis and 
horse-back riding. She is a student at 
the Orion Community High School. 
She was a member of the All-State 4-H 
Club orchestra in 1930 and 1931. 


Believe It or Not— 


Marriages in the United States dur- 
ing 1930. decreased 8.5 per cent from 
the previous year as compared with an 
increase of 4.2 per cent from 1928 to 
1929, according to the bureau of cen- 
sus. The decline was attributed to the 
economic depression. 


State-supervised roadside markets in 
Wisconsin will be designated by special 
signs issued by the state, according to 
the state department of agriculture and 
markets. 


Calf club auctions sponsored by the 
International Livestock Exposition will 
open at the Union Stock Yards on 
August 18. 


Steamship lines operating on the 
Great Lakes have joined with the rail- 
roads in their plea for a 15 per cent 
horizontal increase in freight rates. 


Although more than. 340 new post 
offices on the average have been added 
to the United States postal system an- 
nually since 1789, there are nearly 28,- 
000 less now than there were in 1900, 
says the post office department. The 
decline in the number of offices is at- 
tributed to the creation and develop- 
ment of rural mail service. 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Seven 


Soybean to Figure in 


World’s Fair Exhibit 


Illinois Men Prominent on Commit- 
tee to Arrange Display 


T makes no difference whether you 

are painting your house, taking a 
bath, or eating dinner, the soybean 
more than likely has a part in it. 

So widely has this new crop of the 
Middle West come to be used.and so 
little is known about it by the con- 
suming public, that plans are being 
made by soybean growers, processors, 
and industrial users for an extensive 


exhibit at the World’s Fair in Chicago 


in 1933. 

The story of the soybean in this 
country will be shown in every detail. 
Geographical distribution, soil require- 
ments, necessary climatic conditions, 
soil fertilization, varieties adapted to va- 
rious localities, varieties for hay and 
seed, inoculation of seed, soil prepara- 
tion, methods of seeding, cultivation, 
harvesting, use of binders and combines, 
marketing, yields, transportation, con- 
trol of insects and diseases, and indus- 
trial uses—these are a few of the things 
to be shown in the exhibit. 

Plans for the exhibit are already well 
under way, according to Harvey J. 
Sconce, agricultural director of the 
Fair and former president (1919) of 
the Illinois Agricultural Association. 

“Everything is now in the hands of 
the committee selected at our recent 
meeting of soybean leaders,” said Mr. 
Sconce to the RECORD reporter. 
“Each member of the committee is 
working out plans for his part of the 
exhibit and it looks as if this might be 
one of most interesting sections of the 
agricultural exposition.” 

Dr. W. L. Burlison of the University 
of Illinois, chairman of the committee, 
will have charge of the exhibit on soy- 
bean production. Other members are: 
J. W. Armstrong, Champaign, IIl., 
president of the Soybean Marketing As- 
sociation, in charge of marketing ex- 
hibit; A. A. Horvath, health section, 
bureau of mines, in charge of human 
utilization exhibit; Paul Funk, Funk 
Brothers Seed Company, in charge of 
livestock utilization; Guy S. Fox, Ar- 
mour and Company, utilization in the 
arts; Dr. H. A. Paulsen, Armstrong 
Paint and Varnish Works, utilization 
in paints and oils; H: G. Atwood, Al- 
lied Mills, in charge of milling exhibit. 

The soybean crop occupies more than 
a million acres of corn belt land this 
season. Illinois’ acreage this year is 
more than 25 per cent above that of a 
year ago. 

Some of the manufactured products 
now using soybean oils or meal are 


Would Sell to Germany 


N RESPONSE to inquiries about 

reports from Germany appearing 
in recent newspapers, James C. Stone, 
chairman, Federal Farm Board, made 
the following statement: 

“The Farm 
Board has no 
definite pro - 
posals before it 
from the Ger- 
man_ govern- 
ment, but if it 
would aid Ger- 
many and if it 
would increase 
consumption of 
American agri- 
cultural com- 
modities the Farm Board would au- 
thorize the stabilization corporations 
to sell to Germany on credit terms.” 


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J. C. Stone 


dairy, poultry and livestock feeds, 
cereals, glue, flour, meal, soaps, paints, 
salad oils, sauces and condiments, ori- 
ental dishes, malted and _ chocolated 
milk. 


St. Joseph Stock Yards 
Must Cut Its Rates 


An order just issued by the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture will save 
livestock shippers, who market at St. 
Joseph, Mo., $120,000 a year, accord- 
ing to R. W. Dunlap, acting secretary 
of agriculture. This order is the re- 
sult of a hearing on the reasonableness 
of charges made by the stock yard. 

An analysis was made of conditions 
at the live stock market during 1928 
which was taken for a fair test year. 
With 74 per cent profit on the invest- 
ment taken as a reasonable earning, the 
inquiry revealed that the income of the 
yards was $107,798 in excess of this. 

It was also found that the company 
had been yarding livestock belonging to 
dealers and traders without making any 
charge. The order expressed the opin- 
ion that the yards should either stand 
this expense or charge it to the traders, 
and not to the shippers. 

Other markets at which hearings on 
stock yard rates have been held are 
Denver, Colorado; Kansas City, Mis- 
souri, and National Stock Yards, IIli- 
nois. Decisions in these cases will be 
announced as soon as possible. 


Directors of the Illinois Agricultural 
Association voted at their recent July 
meeting to purchase $2,500 worth of 6 
per cent preferred cumulative stock in 
the Illinois Livestock Marketing Asso- 
ciation. 


The Lawrence County Livestock 
Shippers’ Association operates on the 
basis of a flat rate covering all mar- 
keting costs from the time livestock 
arrives at the yards until it is sold. The 
rate charged shippers last year was as 
follows: hogs and cattle 60 cents per 
cwt., calves and sheep 80 cents per cwt. 

Included in these costs are freight, 
feed, insurance for deads and cripples, 
yardage, handling commission of local 
manager and selling commission of the 
Producers. All livestock shipped by 
the association goes to farmer-owned 
and controlled agencies in whatever 
market is offering the best price. Every 
Monday is shipping day at Lawrence- 
ville. 


In July the Indianapolis Producers 
received 663 carloads of livestock rep- 
resenting 27.8% of the stock yard re- 
ceipts. This total lacked. one car of 
being 400 carloads more than that of 
the largest old line firm. The Produc- 
ers received 513 cars from the Indiana 
territory and 147 from Illinois. Ap- 
proximately 30% of the Illinois busi- 
ness was delivered by truck. 


The Greene County Farm Bureau re- 
ports that Greene county farmers mar- 
keted more livestock through their own 
co-operative agency each year since 
1928. They sold 358 cars co-operative- 
ly in 1929, 383 cars in 1930, and dur- 
ing the first three months of 1931, 108 
cars, as compared to 81 cars for the 
same period of 1930. 


Guy V. Storms, newly appointed 
manager of the Shelby County Live 
Stock Marketing Association succeed- 
ing D. E. Elliott, accompanied two 
loads of stock to Indianapolis Tues- 
day, August 4. 


A. D. Kenney of Paris, Edgar coun- 
ty, topped the Indianapolis cattle mar- 
ket on August 4 with 36 steers aver- 
aging 1,116 lbs. 

Clifford Morris of Paris also topped 
the heavy cattle market with 84 head 
averaging 1,231 lbs. at $8.80 and 21 
head averaging 1,227 lbs. at $8.75. 


Edgar county led all other Illinois 
counties in the number of cars con- 
signed to the Producers at Indianapolis 
in July with a total of 16. The next 
six largest were Coles, Vermilion, Craw- 
ford, Douglas, Clark and Shelby. Both 
Vermilion and Shelby counties in- 
creased their business over July last 
year. 


Page Eight 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


August, 1931 


To advance the purpose tor which the Farm Bureau was organized. 
namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, political, 
and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation, 
and to develop agriculture. 


Georce Tuiem, Editor 
Max Harre son, Assistant Editor 


Published. monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Association at 165 So. 
Main St., Spencer, Ind, Editorial Offices, 608 So, Dearborn St., Chicago, 
Ill, Application for transfer of second class entry from Marshall, Ill., to 
Spencer, Ind,, pending, Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage 
provided in Section 412. Act of Feb, 28, 1925, authorized Oct, 27, 1925. 
Address all communications for publication to Editorial Offices, Illinois 
Agricultural Association Record, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, The 
dividual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is five 
dollars a year. The fee includes payment of fifty cents for subscription 
to the Illinois Agricultural Association Record, Postmaster: In returning 
an uncalled for missent copy please indicate key number on address as is 
required by law. 


OFFICERS 


President, Earl C. 
Vice-President, A. 
Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger...... 
Treasurer, R. 


Bloomington 


BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
(By Congressional District) 


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NOC cs eae eceaatt matic da apintnocpescoasuinene C. E. Bamborough, Polo 
Ra gc tN Sd eetuedgce M. G. Lambert, Ferris 


Charles Bates, Browning 


15th. 
16th. -_Geo. B. Muller, Washington 
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18th ee W. A. Dennis, Paris 
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26th eh te Charles S. Black, Jacksonville 
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p ) 2CY, Se ane aaa Rag ae AOA SN SET ORC et Me PR RIOT Frank Oexner, Waterloo 
DE ap scscesbccs is co cata end gddaccbactlies tees dnosaadinienateueenr eae W. L. Cope, Salem 
24th.. ..Charles Marshall, Belknap 
Fred Dietz, De Sote 
DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 
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EBC 6 sic ns cee ccvgicbonperestcentccsigcownecese ...---.-R, A. Cowles 
Fruit and Vegetable Marketing ........-A. B. Leeper 


Harrison Fahrnkopf 


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Information........-......---.-2.-------.--- 


Insurance Service. ............-2-2-0.2---2ec--ee-eecesneceeceeececenseeceseseeceeeceeneess V. Vaniman 
Legak -Covtipel conn 2 6 o ont secncncpneneortotestoqeipdseshnnsseccedpintnhoe Donald Kirkpatrick 
Limestone-Phosphate.......-.....2---.22---..2e--ceeeeseeceecoceeteeeeeeeeeeeee aoe cansnesnaeee J. R. Bent 
Live Stock Marketing.....-...22..2...-22...222--ceceeececee-eeeeeeeeneeeeeceeeeenees Ray E. Miller 
OA Ca i en Ths ck reste dacses tances Sepqn tanec cegibeneeectetpabiens .....C, E, Johnston 
Organization..._.._... -_.. .....G. E, Metzger 
Produce Marketing..... -F. A. Gougler 
Taxation and Statisti .....-J. C. Watson 
Trane porta tity on. nie-cins coos soiedpeoececoeecccesentpertiesepivpeczaepbiperacnccaecsatinee sinsouees L. J. Quasey 
ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 
Country Life Insurance Co... 2222..2-2eenceeneeene eee L. A. Williams, Mgr. 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co................-.-..------0--2----—- J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Co-operative Ass’n............-.....--. F. E. Ringham, Mgr. 


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-Harrison Fahrnkopf, Mgr. 
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IHinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co... 
Illinois Farm Supply Co a 

Illinois Grain Corp........ 
Midwest Grain Corp..... 
Soybean Marketing Ass’n._.......... 


Taxation in Hard Times 


ICHARD T. ELY of Northwestern Univer- 
sity, writing on ““Taxation in Hard Times” 
in the Review of Reviews for August, says: 
“There is no question in the mind of any com- 
petent person who has given any attention to 
this subject that there is a connection between 
taxation and hard times. There is, however, a 
general failure to recognize what this question is, 
and to understand what can be done to remedy 
the evil situation. 

“When in the single State of Wisconsin a mil- 
lion acres are taken over by the counties for un- 
paid taxes; when even in rich states like Iowa, 
farmers are losing their property on account of 
the burden of taxation; when in cities the rents 
received often do not cover taxes, we have evi- 
dence of the closest connection between taxation 
and hard times. 


“When real estate falls in value as it has long 
since in the case of farm lands, and as it is now 
in the case of urban lands—the excess valuation 
is decreased with great difficulty. Schools and 
other public services must be maintained; and 
assessors who are faced with this situation main- 
tain old values, or those far in excess of present 
selling values. Our system of taxation is easily 
50 years behind the times. Economic evolution 
has gone forward, but our tax system has lagged 
behind.” 

Professor Ely closes with suggestions which in 
his opinion point the way to improvement: “We 
must have a system of taxation of land based 
upon its annual use value. We must have state 
income taxes based upon the best experience of 
our American states. We must supplement these 
revenues by selective sales taxes. We must have 
a sinking fund or some similar arrangement in 
order to supplement tax revenues when from 
time to time they become inadequate as now.” 


Power in Group Action 


No individual dares match his-strength with 
the strength of any group of individuals. The 
world has come to recognize groups instead of 
individuals. The world is moving in groups and 
acting in groups. 

There are no Caesars in this day and age. 
Groups, and not individuals become great. 

The reason may be that the average intelligence 
is higher and certainly that average intelligence 
senses the greater individual benefit resulting from 
group moving and group dealing. 

Indeed, the power to bargain is manifold 
greater in groups than in individuals. Certainly 
the political influence is greater. 

In groups the individual enjoys the light re- 
flected by the. group in information, experiment, 
social activities and business knowledge. 

The group has the power of tonnage control 
in markets that establish the price which the indi- 
vidual receives for produce. 

The group gives “chain” buying power, bene- 
fits to the individual which alone he could not 
have. 

The group fights for industry, rights of trans- 
portation, justice in taxation and legislation, and 
in production standards. 

The group gives spread of risks with the benefit 
to the individual of protection against loss by 
fire, accident, the elements and death. 

The accomplishments of the Farm Bureau illus- 
trated on the opposite page were made possible 
by group thinking and group action. Agriculture 
as an industry will prosper to the extent that the 
power of the group engaged in farming is used 
efficiently in solving its problems. 


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Page Ten 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


August, 1931 


Is Farm Organization Worth the Cost? 


A Radio Address By George Thiem, Station WMAQ, Chicago, July 28. 


Fok more than 10 years now Illinois . 


farmers have had an opportunity to 
judge the results of their organized 
efforts in the County Farm Bureau and 
Illinois Agricultural Association. Is or- 
ganization worth the cost? Do the re- 
turns justify the $15 a year the member 
invests in his Farm Bureau, county, 
state, and national? 

Organized middlemen who just now 
are engaged in collecting $25 per year 
contributions for four years to fight 
co-operative marketing, would like to 
answer this question for the farmer. 
They are specifically advising him to 
abandon his organized efforts, drop his 
farm organizations, confine his activi- 
ties to making two blades of grass grow 
where one grew before. That seems to 
be the end and aim of all their advice. 
Will the farmer follow it? I believe 
not, judging from the history of organi- 
zation and its accomplishments in IIli- 
nois during the last decade. 


How Maintained 


That Illinois farmers have clung to 
their state agricultural association more 
than 60,000 strong through the worst 
and longest depression in the history of 
American agriculture is well known to 
informed people. Mind you the organi- 
zation has been maintained not by high- 
powered salesmen, not by artisans skilled 
in extracting contributions for doubt- 
ful ventures, but by the members them- 
selves who every three years voluntarily 
go out and ask their neighbors to stand 
together in a worthy cause. What has 
influenced the decision of such a large 
number to stick to their organization 
year after year? There must be a rea- 
son. Let us see. 

The County Farm Bureau in Illinois 
was organized back in 1912 chiefly to 
help farmers with their production prob- 
lems. The opening of the World War 
gave the movement a powerful stimu- 
lus. “Food will win the war” became 
our national battle cry. Food prices 
rose rapidly. The Farm Bureau bent its 
efforts toward stimulating production, 
making two blades grow where one grew 
before. Europe was out of production. 
Farmers there laid down their imple- 
ments of production and went to the 
battle front. Besides her own people, 
American farmers were called upon to 
feed the warring nations. 


The I. A. A. Organized 


The great conflict destroyed the eco- 
nomic balance of the world. Post-war 
deflation set in. Agriculture felt the 
effects of the drastic readjustment more 
than any other major industry. Euro- 


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pean nations were deeply in debt, had 
little buying power left. Our food ex- 
ports rapidly declined. Farm production 
in Europe and other countries arose. The 
American farmer became troubled with 
surpluses. The protective tariff on farm 
products didn’t help any under such 
conditions. It was natural for Illinois 
farmers, therefore, to turn to organi- 
zation to solve the problems arising be- 
yond their line fences. The Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association was the result. 

One of the first problems that drew 
farmers’ attention was taxation. Farm 
land valuations had started their long 
decline following the war. With lower 
prices for grain and other crops in 
1921-22 taxes became exceedingly bur- 
densome. The lower values were not 
being fully reflected in assessed valua- 
tions. The I. A. A. requested a hearing 
before the Illinois Tax Commission. It 
was granted. For the first time in his- 
tory Illinois farmers were represented 
before such a body along with the rail- 
roads, manufacturers, public utilities, 
and other groups. 

Facts were presented to the State Tax 
Commission showing that assessed valu- 
ations were still far too high. The 
upshot of the hearing was that land 
valuations from 1921-22 were reduced 
a total of $181,000,000. As a result 
Illinois farmers paid $1,072,050 less 
taxes in 1923 than they would have 
paid had valuations not been adjusted. 
Since then repeated cuts have been ob- 
tained both for state and county tax 
purposes. 

$22.79 Per Farm 

For 1931 the effect of this early 
work both before the State Tax Com- 
mission and before many county boards 
of review was to reduce Illinois farm 
land taxes a total of $4,900,000 less 
than farmers would have paid had the 
high valuations of previous years not 
been reduced. This service alone meant 
an average saving of $22.79 on each of 
the 215,000 farms in Illinois for 1931. 

During and following the war the 
cost of processing and distributing 
farm products had increased enormous- 
ly. Farmers learned that they were 
getting less than one-third of the con- 
sumer’s dollar. They were selling on a 
world market because of their surplus 


production, and buying on a protected 
market. They were selling wholesale and 
buying retail. 

To make the tariff effective on farm 
products brought on the movement to 
pass the McNary-Haugen bill. Co- 
operative marketing likewise was turned 
to as a means of helping farmers obtain 
a satisfactory price for their products. 
The Illinois Agricultural Association 
became prominently identified in these 
organized efforts. 

Livestock Selling Agencies 

As a result co-operative producer- 
owned and controlled livestock selling 
agencies were organized on all of the 
larger terminal markets. Farmers had 
learned that a half dozen buyers work- 
ing together have all the advantage over 
75 to 100 unorganized sellers when it 
comes to making prices. 

Today where the co-operative live- 
stock selling associations are handling a 
comparatively large percentage of mar- 
ket receipts at the terminals they are 
having a wholesome influence in getting 
all, the market affords for the farmer’s 
livestock. The Producers co-operatives 
are giving the farmer a voice in the 
market. During the past nine years one 
Producer commission association alone 
has refunded more than a million dol- 
lars of commission charges to farmer 
patrons. Two others serving Illinois 
livestock shippers have refunded annu- 
ally 25 per cent of their commission 
charges. 


.Aid to Dairymen 


In 10 years the County Farm Bu- 
reaus and the I. A.A. together have 
organized close to 85 per cent of the 
whole milk producing territory of the 
state. If these dairy co-operatives added 
only 10 cents per cwt. net to the whole 
milk sold in Illinois annually, the in- 
creased return would be more than 
$3,000,000. But these co-operatives 
have done far better than this. 

A. D. Lynch, dairy marketing direc- 
tor for the I. A. A., said in his report 
for 1929: “The members of the Pure 
Milk Association in Illinois who sup- 
ply the Chicago and tributary fluid 
milk markets received approximately 
$1,600,000 more during 1929 for their 
milk than they received during the years 
preceding their organization.” It is dif- 
ficult even to estimate the value of 
organized effort represented by these co- 
operative dairy associations now oper- 
ating in Chicago, St. Louis, Peoria, 
Springfield, Decatur, Quincy, Rock 
Island, Rockford, Champaign, Bloom- 
ington, and other points. 


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_More than 65 co-operative produce 
associations or cream pools have im- 
proved and equalized local butterfat 
prices throughout Illinois. In many lo- 
calities local butterfat prices were raised 
3 to § cents per pound following this 
organized effort. The big job ahead for 
these co-operative units is to get Illi- 
nois cream producers to turn out a 
higher quality product so Illinois butter 
may compete with the high quality 
butter coming from the states to the 
north. 

The Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange 
during the past nine years has done 
more to advertise and standardize IIli- 
nois peaches, apples and other fruits 
and vegetables than had been done in 
the previous fifty years. 


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Now Grain Marketing 

Illinois farmers have worked hard 
against bitter opposition in getting their 
co-operative grain marketing agencies 
established in the terminal markets. 
Their early efforts in this field never 
got past the organization stage, but 
today it is a different story. Illinois 
farmers now have their own selling 
agency, the Illinois Grain Corporation, 
in which more than 70 local farmers’ 
elevators and co-operative grain com- 
panies are co-operating. Still less than 
a year old this terminal co-operative 
affliated with the National Grain Cor- 
poration handled more than 3,000,000 
bushels of grain in its first six months 
of operation. 


Farmers are determined to give co- 
operative marketing of grain a fair trial 
and judge for themselves whether or 


not organized selling can produce bene- 


fits in this as in other commodities. 


Farmers Are Represented 


Today the Illinois farmer is as well 
represented before legislative and rate- 
making bodies as other organized groups. 
When rate increases or other regulations 
are proposed the Commerce Commission 
hears the farmer’s side of the case from 
his own representatives. There has never 
been a major increase in freight rates in 
Illinois since the Illinois Agricultural 
Association began operating on its pres- 
ent basis in 1919. There have been a 
number of important reductions to save 
farmers thousands of dollars on their 
freight bills. Had the Commerce Com- 
mission granted the increase in live- 
stock rates asked by the railroads two 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


years ago which the I. A. A. vigorously 
opposed, freight charges to Illinois ship- 
pers would have been increased about 
$500,000 annually. 

Hundreds of right-of-way, power 
line, telephone, and rate questions were 
handled by the Association last year. 
Settlements made for the use of land 
in several power line and pipe line cases 
returned thousands of dollars to farm- 
ers above what they would have re- 
ceived without organized representation. 
Loss and damage and other claims col- 
lected by the I. A. A. Transportation 
Department since 1920 have aggregated 
$218,812.79. Approximately 1,000 such 
claims were handled in 1930 alone. 

Organized Purchasing Helps 

Reducing the costs of needed services 
and commodities, through organized buy- 
ing has been an outstanding achieve- 
ment of Illinois Farm Bureau members. 
A saving of $500,000 annually by farm- 
ers who use their own mutual insurance 
companies is a conservative estimate of 
how farmers have benefited from this 
service. 


In the companies organized by or 
with the aid of the I. A. A., there was 
in force July 1, 1931, $42,500,000 of 
life insurance, $43,000,000 of fire, hail, 
and windstorm insurance, and approxi- 
mately 26,000 cars and trucks valued 
at more than $16,750,000. The life in- 
surance service saved its policyholders 
more than $250,000 on the initial cost 
alone, in addition to the liberal divi- 
dends declared one year earlier than 
the contracts provide. An additional 
$200,000 is saved by I. A. A. auto in- 
surance policyholders based on current 
rates in effect in the next low cost 
state-wide company. This means an 
annual saving of $13.53 to Farm Bu- 
reau members on a full coverage policy 
on a low-priced car. Farmers are pro- 
tecting their crops against hail at a 
third less than the going rates charged 
by private agencies—saving $10 per 
$1,000. 

$38.68 Per Member 


With the advent of power-driven 
machinery, the farmer has become a 
large buyer of petroleum products. Here 
also co-operation has been turned to 
good account. Farm Bureau members 
are saving through organized buying of 
gasoline, kerosene, lubricating oils and 
greases hundreds of thousands of dollars 
annually, while getting superior prod- 
ucts bought on their own specifications 
to meet their special needs. 

The McLean County Farm Bureau 
reports that 1,580 county Farm Bureau 
members last year received patronage 
refund checks representing savings on 
their gasoline ‘and ‘oil bills averaging 
$38.68 per member—a total of $64,000 
—more than twice the cost of the Farm 


Page Eleven 


Bureau in that county. 

Savings to members on purchases of 
agricultural limestone, rock phosphate, 
hog cholera serum, home vaccination, 
and other commodities and _ services 
which influence the cost of production 
need only be mentioned. The individual 
counsel of the farm adviser in pro- 
duction problems, the many and varied 
projects including 4-H clubs, social and 
recreational activities are benefits some 
members would not do without. 


The Problems Ahead 


While organized effort has paid big 
returns on the investment, some of the 
most vexing problems lie ahead. Price 
inequalities, excessive distribution costs 
remain with us. The need for tax 
reform, for replacing the antiquated 
general property tax with a system of 
taxation based on ability to pay is every- 
where recognized. That the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association has brought this 
question to the fore in Illinois is a 
tribute to the constructive efforts of 
organized farmers. Some day taxation 
based on incomes will be the accepted 
plan for deriving revenue to operate 
governments here as it is in more pro- 
gressive states and countries. Ability to 
pay will be the yard stick for exacting 
taxes. When that day comes the IIli- 
nois farmer along with owners of real 
estate in town and city who bear 80 to 
90 per cent of the tax load will be re- 
lieved of a grievous and unfair burden. 


The answer to the question, “Is farm 
organization worth the cost?” is given 
by farmers themselves. In one day last 
June nearly 1,700 McLean county farm- 
ers indicated their satisfaction with their 
organization by renewing their Farm 
Bureau memberships for a new three- 
year period. Similar records were made 
in DeKalb, Tazewell, LaSalle, and scores 
of other counties. Illinois farmers are 
proud of their organization and what it 
has done-for them. They have stood by 
it when corn was 35 cents a bushel, 
wheat 40 cents, and hogs $6. They will 
continue to do so because they know 
they are living in a world of organi- 
zation where one man can do nothing 
alone. 


W. L. Cope, I. A. A. director 
from the 23rd district, represented 
the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion at the annual meeting of the 
Egyptian Seed Growers’ Exchange 
at Flora on July 14. 


Page Twelve 


Ground rock phosphate made the difference in this field of clover. With rock 
phosphate the yield was 8,100 pounds per acre; without phosphate 1,600 pounds, 
a difference of 6,500 pounds or 3% tons. The soil was sandy loam. 


Ground Rock Phosphate—Avn Investment 
That Pays Big Returns 


HESE are times when every farmer must 

lower his cost of production. The yield per 
acre is the most important factor in per bushel or 
per ton costs. The quality of the grain, whether 
or not it matures before frost, may make the 
difference between profit and loss. Perhaps phos- 
phorus is all your soil needs to greatly increase 
its yielding capacity. 


No investment pays such a large return as 
ground rock phosphate (also called lime phos- 
phate) correctly applied on soil which needs it. 
Even at current low prices rock phosphate has 
paid a return of more than 300 per cent in one 
crop rotation period. 


Increased Yield 20-30 Bu. 


H. BISSELL, Iroquois county, Illinois, 
. says: “Rock phosphate has increased our 
crops 20 to 30 bushels per acre.” 


Sam Stadler, Ford county, Illinois, says: ‘Have 


@@ The 1. A.A. Is a Service Organization @ 


used about 150 tons of your phosphate with good 
results. Matures corn 10 days earlier than where 
we did not use it. It makes two stalks of clover 
grow where one grew before.” 


Shuman Farms, Moultrie county, Illinois, re- 
ports: ‘“The corn on the phosphated land yielded 
46.1 bushels per acre, while that in the same field, 
but without phosphate, yielded only 34.9 bushels 
per acre. These. results were better than we antici- 
pated considering the dry season.” 


More For Your Money 


O PHOSPHATIC fertilizer gives so much 
usable phosphorus per dollar of cost as 
ground rock phosphate. Organized buying power 
enables Farm Bureau members in Illinois to buy 
ground rock phosphate at less cost than others. 
The I. A. A. analyses on each carload guarantees 
reliable quality and equitable price. | 


Ask your county farm adviser for details. 


August, 1931 


August, 1931 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Thirteen 


Accident Prevention Drive 


Scheduled for September 


43 Farm Bureaus Already Com- 
mitted to Organize Safety 
Clubs 


LLINOIS Farm Bureaus are again set- 

ting a precedent by being the. first 
Farm Bureaus in the United States to 
put on an automobile accident preven- 
tion campaign, states 
V. Vaniman of the 
insurance dept. 
' Forty-three Farm 


Bureaus have ap- 
pointed accident pre- 
vention committees 


to have charge of 
county campaigns to 
be held during the 
month of September. 
The Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association will 
present a silver lov- 
ing cup to the county putting on the 
best campaign. 

Although the Illinois Agricultural 
Mutual Insurance Company has been 
able to keep its assessments lower than 
competing companies on account of the 
low number of accidents among Farm 
Bureau members, this campaign is ex- 
pected to reduce the number still more. 

The company is now saving its mem- 
bers more than $200,000 per year on 
the cost of their auto insurance, accord- 
ing to Vaniman.. “It pays out nearly 
$200,000 a year for accidents. A little 
united work on auto accident preven- 
tion would reduce losses by at least 
$50,000, saving this much more for the 
members.” 


The Illinois Farm Bureau Safety 
Club has been organized to sponsor 
safer driving. Any Farm Bureau mem- 
ber may join and will receive an em- 
blem for his windshield and a little 
folder on auto accident prevention. 
No fees are required for membership. 


V. Vaniman 


Accidents to Farm 
Employees Reported 


The Illinois Agricultural Mutual In- 
surance Co. reports that a total of 1,749 
employers’ liability insurance _ policies 
have been issued to date. Fifty appli- 
cations were received in July. 

Recent accidents reported include: 


Cook County—Hired man plowing 
corn turned at end of field—reached for 
lever on plow; lever flew up striking 
his glasses and causing cut above eye 
on frontal bone. 

Warren County—Riding horseback 
rounding up hogs; horse’s feet slipped 
from under him on a slope—horse fell 
on hired man’s leg causing a length 


NOTICE 
ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSN. 
ELECTION OF DELEGATES ™ 


OTICE is hereby given that in connec- 

tion with the annual meetings of all 
County Farm Bureaus to be held during the 
month of September, 1931, at the hour and 
place to be determined by the Board of 
Directors of each respective County Farm 
Bureau, the members in good standing of 
such County Farm Bureau and who are also 
qualified voting members of Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association shall elect a delegate or 
delegates to represent such members of 
Illinois Agricultural Association and vote on 
all matters before the next annual meeting 
or any special meeting of Association, in~ 
cluding the election of officers and directors 
as provided for in the by-laws of the Asso- 
ciation. 

During September annual meetings will be 
held in Christian, Jefferson and Wayne 
counties, 

Signed: 
G. E. Metzcer, Secretary. 


Aug. 15, 1931. 


wise fracture of the large bone between 
the knee and ankle. 

DuPage County — Was sticking 
hay fork into a load of hay when the 
team on rope started; he lost his bal- 
ance, caught hold of rope and hand 
went into pulley; fingers bruised and 
cut. 

DeKalb County—Hired man was 
endeavoring to pick cherries; limb of 
tree gave way and he fell to the ground 
spraining his right wrist. 

McLean County—Hired man was 
lifting a pig. He lost his balance and 
fell striking his arm against the tin 
window of a pig brooder house, cut- 
ting a gash half way between wrist 
and elbow. 


Lightning Hits Barn, Gets 
$1,200 Insurance Check 


Lightning struck the cow barn of 
Grover Sprouls of Georgetown (Ver- 
milion county) on the afternoon of 
July 2 resulting in a fire and the com- 
plete destruction of the building. 
Luckily Mr. Sprouls was a policyholder 
in the Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co. 

A check for $1,200 representing the 
entire amount of the insurance was 
mailed from the Chicago office the 
same day proof of loss was received. 
In a letter to Edward L. Dillon, gen- 
eral insurance agent for the Farm Bu- 
reau in Vermilion county, Mr. Sprouls 
said: 

“I want to express my appreciation 
for the prompt payment in full of the 
$1,200 of insurance which I carried on 
my barn. This check was received 
within six days after the barn was 
burned. I am very pleased to recom- 
mend this insurance, which I secured 
through the agency of the Vermilion 
County Farm Bureau in the Farmers 
Mutual Reinsurance Company.” 


Marshall-Putnam County 
Hit by Severe Hailstorm 


CROP is never safe from destruc- 

tion by hailstorm until after it is 

harvested and under a roof, Marshall- 
Putnam farmers learned recently. 

On July 20, when many farmers felt 
that the worst hail threats were past, 
a violent hailstorm swept across White- 
field township destroying crops in a 
strip two miles wide. At the farm of 
Lawrence Turner near Whitefield hall, 
the hail stones covered the ground four 
inches deep when the storm ceased. 
Many of them were as large as golf 
balls. 

Soybeans in this area paid the heaviest 
toll, which in some cases was a com- 
plete loss. Cabbage, beans, beets and 
rhubarb were beaten into the ground, 
leaving nothing but the stems. Corn 
in tassel suffered worse damage than 
younger corn. 

Three days after the storm one 
farmer who was not even in the main 
path of the hail said that his corn was 
completely ruined. Others were specu- 
lating on the possibility of the injured 
corn’s recovery. 

More than 2,100 Illinois farmers are 
protecting themselves against hail losses 
by insurance with the Farmers Mutual 
Reinsurance Company, which is owned 
and operated by farmers. The total 
amount of protection in force exceeds 
$2,500,000. 


Country Life Gains in 
°31 Business Over ’30 


EGAL reserve life insurance in 

force in the United States now 
totals $115,000,000,000, according to 
L. A. Williams, manager, Country Life 
Insurance Co. 


This is twice the value of all farm 
lands in America, three times the value 
of all the homes, six times the total 
value of all the automobiles in use, and 
almost one-third the value of all the 
tangible property in the United States. 

“It represents nearly $1,000 per per- 
son, an average of more than $3,000 per 
family, including all races and classes. 
For families of the middle class, which 
would include most of the policy hold- 
ers in the Country Life Insurance Com- 
pany, the average is much higher tha 
this,” says Mr. Williams. 

Country Life already has $43,000,- 
000 in life insurance in force. While 
the total amount of life insurance writ- 
ten in the United States during the first 
half of 1931 shows a decline of 12.3 
per cent as compared with the same 
period last year, the business of Coun- 
try Life shows an increase. 


Page Fourteen THE I. A. A. RECORD August, 1931 


ARGS ue aes Sa o nes we 
JSS Rr ae = 


Madam, Your Husband Allowed His Policy to Lapse a Year Ago 


35,000 People Died Last Year 
After They Had Lapsed Their 


Life Insurance Policies 


EEP your life insurance in force. That’s the only way you 

can secure its benefits. When you lapse your policy you 

lose money, and your dependents lose the protection they ought 
to have. 


Sacrifice almost everything to pay your life insurance pre- 
miums. Every payment increases the cash value of your policy— 
insures that your family will be protected if: you suddenly pass 
away. 


Will Rogers says: “I am putting my money into insurance as 
that’s one thing I know is safe. Remember when you were a kid 
how hard it was to take the plunge in the creek on a cold day? 
Well, that’s like paying an insurance premium. It takes time for 
some folks to make up their mind to mail the check, but after it’s 
mailed the feeling’s fine.” 


For fall information see your County Farm Bureau or write 


COUNTRY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY 


608 SOUTH DEARBORN STREET _..’ - - - - CHICAGO 


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527 Auto Applications 
Received During July 


Accident Prevention Campaign Is 
Big Project in September 


A UTOMOBILE insurance applications 

in the Illinois Agricultural Mutual 
Ins. Co. up to the first of August total 
29,153, for the month of July 527. 
The 10 high counties last month in the 
number of applications received were 
McLean, Cook, DeKalb, St. Clair, Lake, 
Will, Kane, Livingston, Stephenson and 
LaSalle. 

The leading counties in auto insur- 
ance applications for the past year were 
Cook, Champaign, Livingston, White- 
side, Lake and McLean. 

V. Vaniman, director of insurance 
service for the I. A. A. in co-operation 
with the Illinois Agricultural Mutual, 
county advisers, and general agents, will 
direct an accident prevention campaign 
during the month of September. Vani- 
man announces that 49 counties had 
appointed special committees to work 
on the project by the first of August. 


Safety Club 


The Illinois Farm Bureau Safety club 
will be organized as part of the program 
of reducing the number of accidents. 
Since the payment of losses takes a large 
percentage of the semi-annual premiums 
collected from policyholders, a substan- 
tial reduction in accidents will assist the 
company in holding down assessments 
and perhaps even lowering them if re- 
sults justify such action. 

A silver loving cup will be awarded 
by the Illinois Agricultural Association 
to the county Farm Bureau putting 
over the best auto accident campaign 
during September. The second prize 
will be a banner. 


Damages Reported ? 
From Gas Pipe Line 


Damage claims against the Conti- 
nental Pipe Line Company reported by 
Farm Bureau members from Henry, 
Kendall, and Will counties are in 
process of settlement, reports the I. A. 
A. Transportation Department. 

This is a natural gas pipe line run- 
ning east and west through northern 
Illinois. In some cases the company 
found it necessary to go through hills 
and throw up large piles of earth. Sub- 
soil consisting largely of clay was 
leeched and washed down to adjoining 
fields where considerable damage was 
done to crops. 


In Will county a number of members 
reported damages to onion set beds. The 
company has announced that it will 
settle all claims soon after the line be- 
gins operating in the fall. 


August, 1931 THE I. A. A. RECORD Page Fifteen 
pind #§HHtGiHCO == ______—_———————_____ 


The Peoria Producers recently de- 
clared a 30% commission refund. Com- 
missions to McLean county shippers va- 
ried from small amounts to as much as 
$20, totaled more than $1,100, reports 
the Farm Bureau. 


I. A. A. Offers Aid in 


Bureau Telephone Case 


W. R. Soverhill, president, and W. F. 
Black, vice-president of the Bureau 
County Farm Bureau, Farm Adviser W. 
W. Wilson, and B. L. Hudson of Wya- 
net, conferred with L. J. Quasey and 
Donald Kirkpatrick of the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association in Chicago, Aug. 
6, regarding the increase in telephone 
rates of the Illinois Allied Telephone 
Co. 

The Farm Bureau and the I. A. A. 
will back the committee representing 
6,500 local subscribers in requesting a 
rehearing of the case before the Illinois 
Commerce Commission. 

The recent drastic increase in rates, 
the organized subscribers in both town 
and county contend, was not justified. 
They assert that the book value of the 
telephone property has been greatly in- 
flated, and that the old rates gave the 
company an adequate return on the in- 
vestment. 

In the meantime approximately 3,000 
Bureau. county subscribers have had 
their telephones removed because of the 
unwillingness to pay the higher rates. 
In the town of Wyanet nearly all the 
merchants as well as farmers in the 
neighboring community had _ their 
phones removed. 


Banker Pleased with 
I. A. A. Auto Insurance 


That prompt settlement of claims is 
one of the best friend-makers any in- 
surance company can have is the prin- 
ciple upon which the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Mutual Insurance Company oper- 
ates, according to A. E. Richardson, 
manager. 


A letter from Guy Wolf, president 
of the Exchange State Bank at Lanark, 
Carroll county, Illinois, confirms this 
position. Mr. Wolf writes to acknowl- 
edge the receipt of a check in payment 
for damages to his car in an accidental 
collision. 


“IT am very well pleased with the 
manner in which you handled this mat- 
ter,” he said. “I wish to thank you and 
assure you that the settlement is satis- 
factory. I count myself lucky that I 
had insurance covering damages to my 
car and personal injury.” 


New Record Established 
In Co-Op. Oil Purchases 


A new yearly record in the co-opera- 
tive purchase of petroleum products by 
Illinois farmers will have been estab- 
lished in the 12 month period closing 
the end of August, announces L. R. 
Marchant, manager of the Illinois Farm 
Supply Company. The total gallonage 
of petroleum products handled during 
the fiscal year ending August 31 will 
exceed 30,000,000. 

Substantial gains have been made in 
all lines of merchandise handled. The 
increase was due partly to new county 
companies established during the year 
and to general expansion by all of the 
45 associated companies. 

At a recent meeting of the managers 
and directors of the associated com- 
panies a goal of 1,000,000 gallons of 
motor oil for 1932 was established. 

There are 847 farmer owned and 
controlled oil companies operating in 
the United States, according to a re- 
cent government report. These com- 
panies represent an investment of 
around $5,922,000. They handled an 
estimated 350,000,000 gallons of pe- 
troleum products during their last fiscal 
years and the average patronage refund 
to the member was 14.9 per cent. 

This co-operative service established 
by farmers represents an effort to cut 
their production costs, to get away 
from buying everything retail while 
selling their products wholesale. 


Blue Grass | Co-Op. 
Formed in Kentucky 


Kentucky farmers, who have pro- 
vided several dramatic pages of co- 
operative history in connection with 
tobacco, are adding another page. 

This summer they are netting $1.00 
instead of 50 cents a pound for blue 
grass seed—without increase of cost to 
consumers—due to the fact that they 
have assumed full charge of cleaning 
and merchandising their crop. 

Growers of 1,500,000 bushels of seed, 
85 per cent of the state’s production, 
accomplished this achievement through 
organization of the Kentucky Blue 
Grass Seed Growers Co-operative Asso- 
ciation, at Winchester. Contracts were 
made with three of the most reliable 
seed concerns in the state to handle, 
clean and sell as agents for the associa- 
tion at a fixed charge of 13 to 15 cents 
a bushel. Sales have been made from 
$1.18 to $1.36 in contrast to prices of 
25 to 35 cents for green seed received 
by farmers earlier in the season before 
the co-operative was formed. 

Similar co-operatives are being formed 
in Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and Kan- 
sas where blue grass seed is also grown. 


Page Sixteen 


Red Top Seed Buyers 
Try to Imitate Pool 


Seek to Fill Up Warehouses with 
Seed on Consignment to Collect 
Storage Fees 


LD line dealers in southern Illinois 

are attempting to imitate the red 
top pool which operates through the 
Egyptian Seed Growers’ Exchange at 
Flora, according to information re- 
ceived by the Illinois Agricultural As- 
sociation. 

A well known seed house at Ol- 
ney recently sent out a new pooling 
proposition to boxholders on rural 
routes throughout the red top terri- 
tory as follows: 

“We offer our facilities to ALL 
growers of red top. We operate a PUB- 
LIC STORAGE WAREHOUSE and 
can give you a negotiable warehouse 
receipt covering same. Your seed re- 
mains intact and is NOT MIXED 


WITH OTHER LOTS OF RED TOP. 


and you. can _ sell 
WHEN YOU PLEASE. 

“WE WILL AD- 
VANCE YOU 9 
CENTS PER POUND 
against your red top and 
you can sell it when 
your judgment tells you 
it is the best time to 
sell. THIS GIVES YOU 
MANY OF THE AD- 
VANTAGES OF BE- 
LONGING TO A 
RED TOP POOL and 
many others besides as 
the seed remains yours 
and you sell it when you get ready. 


Interest and Storage 


“There is a very nominal interest 
and storage charge. You can get your 
bags for red top from the SEED COM- 
PANY and at their buying stations.” 

Manager James of the Egyptian Seed 
Growers’ Exchange comments on the 
above letter as follows: “You will note 
that the company states ‘We will ad- 
vance you 9 cents a pound against your 
red top seed.’ Also ‘This gives you 
many of the advantages of belonging 
to a red top pool and many others.’ The 
company thereby acknowledges that the 
red top pool offers advantages to the 
farmer. 

“The company further states “There 
is a very nominal interest and storage 
charge.’ If the farmers are going to 
pool their seed, why not pool it in their 
own organization? 

“I believe the reason for the above 
proposition being circulated is due to 
the unsettled market condition of red 
top and blue grass and the old line deal- 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


ers are not willing to stand the load’ of 
a further decline in the price of seed. 
They want the farmer to carry this risk 
and, if-the-price drops below’ 9 cents 
per pound, the farmer will refund this 
difference to them together with the 
very nominal interest charge.” 


Do You Ship Farm 
Produce Parcel Post? 


One of the most recent develop- 
ments in agricultural marketing has 
been the increased use of parcel post 
as a connecting link between producer 
and consumer. At the present time the 
Post Office Department at Washington 
is attempting to further increase the 
sale of farm products by this method. 

The Post Office has written the I. A. 
A. asking for names of those who have 
tried this method of marketing. If you 
have had experience marketing by par- 
cel post, write the Post Office Dept., 
Washington, D. C., and give them the 
benefit of your suggestions. 


Ask to Have Agent 


Continued at Hermon 


The Knox County Farm Bureau and 
the [Illinois Agricultural Association 
entered a plea before the Illinois Com- 
merce Commission on July 30 for con- 
tinuation of the station agent at Her- 
mon by the Minneapolis and St. Louis 
railroad. 

H. E. Gehring, C. M. Hunter and 
E. U. Shumaker of the Knox County 
Farm Bureau, and Donald Kirkpatrick, 
legal counsel for the I. A. A., gave 
reasons why the agency service should 
be maintained. 

The Knox County Farm Bureau oil 
company has a bulk plant at this point. 
The co-operative and numerous live- 
stock shippers in the surrounding ter- 
ritory would be considerably incon- 
venienced if the station agent were 
withdrawn. 

Evidence presented to the Commis- 
sion revealed that the income of the 
railroad at this station had averaged ap- 


August, 1931 


Macon County Supply Co. 


Builds New Bulk Plant 


ONSTRUCTION of a new bulk oil 

plant at Lodge, Piatt county, is 
now complete, making four plants 
owned by the Macon County Supply 
Company, which serves Piatt and Ma- 
con county farmers. 

“Contrary to those skeptics who have 
said that we could not compete with 
other oil companies on the low margin 
of profit existing today in the petroleum 
industry, we want to emphatically 
state that the Macon County Supply 
Company can and is making a profit,” 
declared Manager Hugh Jackson. 

“The audit for the first six months 
of our fiscal year showed a substantial 
profit for that period. Naturally the 
profit is not as great as it has been in 
the past, but unless the margin is great- 
ly reduced during the balance of the 
year, there will be a nice profit at the 
end of the year. 

“Last year our patronage refund paid 
to Farm Bureau mem- 
bers in the two coun- 
ties averaged $15.42 or 
more than enough to 
pay the Farm Bureau 
membership dues. Prac- 
tically half our busi- 
ness comes from non- 
members, who buy 
from us only because 
they found our SER- 
VICE petroleum prod- 
ucts the most satisfac- 
tory to use. 


Warehouse of Egyptian Seed Growers’ Exchange, Flora, Ill. 


Vaccinates His Own Pigs, 
Saves $144 on 720 Head 


A. T. Sumner of Stockland, Iroquois 
county, reports a saving of $144 on pig 
vaccinations this year through the use 
of Farm Bureau serum and virus. He 
vaccinated 720 head of hogs at a sav- 
ing of 20 cents a head. He reports that 
not a single hog was lost on account 
of the vaccination and that he is well 
pleased with this Farm Bureau service. 


proximately $5,000 annually during 
the past four years, and that only dur- 
ing the first half of this year because 
of the depression have receipts showed 
a decline. 

The fact that livestock growers 
around Hermon and other points in 
Knox county are not feeding as many 
cattle this year as usual accounts for 
part of the decline in the railroad’s 
business. At the close of the hearing 
the Commission took the case under 
advisement. — 


— 


August, 1931 


Sam Thompson Talks to 
Home Folks at Old Salem 


Reviews Economic Situation, Tells 
How Farmers Can Help Selves 
By Working Together 


HE influence of world economic 

and political conditions on Amer- 
ican farm prices, a review of the agri- 
cultural situation in this country, the 
government’s national program for agri- 
culture through the Marketing Act, 
the farmer’s opportunity for better bar- 
gaining power through co-operative 
marketing, and the achievements of 
Illinois farmers in this field were dis- 
cussed by Sam H. Thompson, member 
Federal Farm Board, at the 20th dis- 
trict Farm Bureau picnic, Old Salem, 
Menard county, August 12. 

Mr. Thompson’s address was a con- 
structive presentation and summary of 
the current situation and what farm- 
ers can do toward improving their eco- 
nomic position. : 

“To help farmers make the necessary 
adjustments in production, distribution, 
and marketing to meet these changed 
conditions,” said the speaker, “‘Congress 
passed the Agricultural Marketing Act 
and created the Federal Farm Board to 
administer it. By this Act Congress 
definitely committed the government to 
the support of co-operative marketing 
as a means to help farmers help them- 
selves in this adjustment, the most un- 
paralled which they, the farmers of 
America, have had to make in 150 
years. 

“Making these adjustments for Amer- 
ican agriculture means collective plan- 
ning, collective thinking, and collective 
working upon the supply and demand 
problems, production problems, and a 
multitude of problems connected with 
the economical distribution and market- 
ing of crops. Progress will be. made 
more surely and more steadily if back 
of the program there is a growing, co- 
herent and unified body of farmers’ 
co-operative organizations working to a 
common end. This should develop a 


program of lasting value. .. . 
Only Efficient Producer Can Be 
Helped 


“Through organized marketing the 
farmer should receive a larger part of 
the dollar paid by the consumer for his 
product. His co-operative can be of 


real service in helping him to plan bis 
next year’s operation. But the farmer 
must be an efficient producer to get 
these benefits. There is nothing that 
can be done to help the inefficient man 
who refuses. to change his methods. 
“Correlation of. all of our efforts, 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Sam H. Thompson 


Federal and State, with the loyalty and 
support of farmers, will bring about 
these accumulated results: adjustment 
of production to consumer’s demand, 
organized marketing in the interests of 
the farmer, and efficient production. 
It must be kept in mind that no pro- 
duction problem can be separated from 
the purely human. problem of making 
a decent living, which always presses 
severely upon the producer... . 


Progress of Co-Operative Marketing 
In Illinois 


“For more than 15 years the Illinois 
Agricultural Association has been do- 
ing local work in the promotion of 
co-operative marketing in the state of 
Illinois. This organization has to its 
credit, as you all know, a wonderful 
achievement. In July, 1930, there were 
970 co-operative marketing associations 
in Illinois. These associations had a 
total membership of 206,700 and dur- 
ing the year 1929-30 transacted busi- 
ness to the amount of $204,600,000, 
of which dairy products made up ap- 
proximately $38,000,0000, grain $97,- 
000,000 and livestock $60,000,000. 
Since the creation of the Farm Board 
the Illinois Agricultural Association 
has had the Board’s assistance and co- 
operation in all of its work... . 


Co-Op. Marketing Not Magic 


“The advocate of co-operative mar- 
keting should keep in mind, in his 
earnest desire to help himself and his 
neighbors, not to over-sell co-operative 
marketing. He should not become so 
enthusiastic as to believe that co-oper- 


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Page Seventeen 


ative marketing is a panacea for all 
farm ills or that it will make him rich 


_over night, or that sucha plan is the sort 


of magic by which inefficiency can be 
turned into efficiency, or weakness into 
strength, or failure into success. Co- 
operative marketing is only a method 
of doing business. Unless it can pro- 
duce better results than the system with 
which farmers are dissatisfied, it cannot 
hope to succeed. The results of any 
system or method, new or old, depend 
upon the efficiency of its management, 
the honesty and competency of its offi- 
cials, and the loyalty of its supporting 
members. 


Individual Farmer’s Part 


“In this connection, it is worth while 
to observe that it is the farmer’s job 
to set up the organization. The farm- 
ers who market their products through 
organizations must become responsible 
for their successful operation. Team- 
work between farmers and the manage- 
ment of their associations on one hand 
and the Board on the other should re- 
sult in the development of strong co- 
operatives which can and will render 
effective service to their members and 
which will become the chief factors in 
improving agricultural conditions. 

“If the individual farmer is to receive 
the benefits, he must become a member 
of his local co-operative association. 
Whether he joins is a matter for him 
to decide for himself. He should do 
this of his own free will after he has 
carefully investigated the situation as 
‘to the soundness of the organization’s 
management and the purposes, as well 
as the benefits, he may secure there- 
from. 

“The American farmer must come 
to realize that six and one-half million 
farmers operating individual farm units 
are helpless in marketing their products 
unless they co-operate with their neigh- 
bors in local associations and these asso- 
ciations centralize their sales efforts in 
one organization. In the development 
of national organizations to cope with 
other highly organized groups, the in- 
dividual farmer must do his part by 
joining and supporting a local associa- 
tion affliated with the national sales 
agency. 


Know Your Friends 


“To farmers and to others interested 
in the betterment of agriculture I 
would suggest that they consider the 
facts I have recited before they swal- 
low other views of the situation, even 
if these are voiced by their unques- 
tioned friends. A great deal of mis- 
leading and even malicious propaganda 
is being spread, both openly and under 
cover, by men who are out to get some 

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Page Eighteen 


personal advantage or generally to dis- 
credit the Farm Board and its efforts to 
help the farmers. Unfortunately, many 
people who have the farmers’ interests 
at heart have been misled by such prop- 
aganda. Farmers should understand 
that the real purpose back of this cam- 
paign is to block them in their efforts 
to organize their own marketing system. 


Trade Opposition 


“Tt is not surprising that the private 
marketing trade should resent the 
-growth of co-operative marketing and 
the aid which the Board has given to 
marketing organizations. More business 
to the co-operative means less to the 
private trade, The elimination of fluc- 
tuations in prices takes away the spec- 
ulator’s opportunity to profit from such 
price fluctuations. It is even natural 
that all those who are bitterly hostile 
to the Agricultural Marketing Act, the 
Federal Farm Board, and the national 
co-operative marketing program, in 
other commodities as well as wheat, 
should seek to have the Board adopt 
mistaken policies, particularly if these 
would endanger the Board’s financial 
position and weaken its standing. with 
farmers and the country. 


Best System Will Survive 


“Naturally, there will be competition 
between co-operative methods of sell+ 
ing farm products and the old methods 
which have been used for many years. 
The first reaction on the part of many 
of those engaged in handling farm 
products under the old system when 
the Agricultural Marketing Act became 
a law was that the change would be 
sudden, and would, therefore, jeopardize 
their business. You are reminded, how- 
ever, of the fact that any changes from 
one system to another necessarily will 
be gradual and the industry will have 
opportunity to adjust itself in meeting 
these changing conditions. Progress is 
always painful and the system render- 
ing the best service is the one that 
survives. 


Cost of Distribution 


“We hear a lot about the rising cost 
of distribution. This is not confined 
to agriculture alone, for it affects every 
line of modern economic activity. Let 
me quote you a statement by an out- 
standing authority, Roger W. Babson, 
issued June 14: 

“*The keynote to future prosperity 
is improvement in distribution methods. 
Distributors must cut costs and pass 
along to the consumers the saving al- 
ready achieved in production. Progress 
in production has far outstripped prog- 
ress in distribution. Our distribution 
system, because of its high cost, is still 
the bottle neck which prevents the free 
flow of mass production which gets to 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


This business must at- 
tract that great potential market among 
the lower income classes to provide an 
adequate outlet for its huge producing 
capacity and to do this it must reduce 


the consumer. 


costs. Authorities estimate that the 
avoidable waste in distribution is be- 
tween $8,000,000,000 and $10,000,- 
000,000 a year.’ 

“TI want you to think carefully of 
that statement coming from an authori- 
tative source, referring to the situation 
that confronts the industrial and busi- 
ness world. Industry is much better 
organized and, therefore, has a greater 
bargaining power in the sale of its 
products than is possible for the farm- 
ers, acting individually, to have. If it 
is necessary for business to organize to 
meet these situations squarely, then it 
certainly behooves the agricultural pro- 
ducers to unite their efforts to eliminate 
all wastes and unnecessary services be- 
tween the producer and the consumer.” 


P ices 


(For July based on 3.5% milk unless 
otherwise specified. ) 


Baltimore—Maryland State Dairy- 
men’s Assn. announces $2.84 per 100 


MNGi 


‘Ibs. del’d for class I basic fluid milk; 


f. o. b. country pt. $2.32. Class II 
$1.86 del’d, country pt. $1.34. Cash 
and carry 12c. 

Pittsburgh—Dairymen’s 
ative Sales Co. announces $2.68 del’d, 
$2.03 country pt. for 100 Ibs. Class I 
fluid. Class II $1.49 del’d, $1.10 coun- 
try pt. Class III surplus, butter prices 
(.04 cents per 1/10% butterfat). Re- 
tail 12c. 

Springfield — Producers Dairy Co. 
announces $1.90 for Class I basic fluid 
milk del’d to city. Retail 9-1/11 cents. 
Cash and carry 8c. 

Rock Island—Quality Milk Ass’n 
announces $1.85 per 100 Class I basic, 
f. o. b. country pt. Class II $1.25. 
Retail 10c. Cash and carry 8c. These 
are the prevailing prices, but not the 
price agreed upon by the dealers and 
the Quality Milk Ass’n. Class III but- 
terfat price. 


DeKalb—Milk Consumers Ass’n an- 
nounces $2.32 per 100 for Class I basic 
fluid milk del’d. Surplus butter 92 


Co-Oper-- 


August, 1931 


score market. Retail 12c. Cash and 
carry llc. 

Chicago—Pure Milk Ass’n announces 
Class I basic fluid $2.32 country pt. 
June Class II 93c country pt. June 
Class III 78c country pt. Retail 13c. 
Cash and carry 11%c. 

Bloomington—McLean County Milk 
Producers announces Class I 38'¥%2c per 
Ib. butterfat. Class Ila 31.85c per |b. 
butterfat. Class II 28.85c per lb. but- 
terfat. Class III 26.35¢ per lb. butter- 
fat. The prices for 4% milk f. 0. b. 
Bloomington are: Basic milk $1.814. 
Surplus milk $1.395. These prices in- 
clude the Sc per hundred checkcff. 

Quincy—Quincy Co-Operative Milk 
Producers announces $2.20 per 100 lbs. 
Class I basic fluid del’d. Retail 10c. 
Cash and carry 8c. 

St. Louis—Sanitary Milk Producers 
announces $2.15 per 100 lbs. Class I 
basic fluid milk country pt. Class II 
97c, Class III 81c. Retail 12c. Cash 
and carry 10-1lc. In above prices 3c 
checkoff has been previously deducted. 
Have about a 50% surplus in July. 

Decatur—Decatur Milk Ass’n an- 
nounces $2.06 for Class I basic del’d. 
Class II $1.45 del’d, Class III 90c del’d. 
Retail 10'%c. Cash and carry 8c. 

Pontiac — Pontiac Milk Producers 
Ass’n announces $1.92'%4 for Class I 
basic, Class II 32c per lb. butterfat. 
Retail 10c. Cash and carry 8c. 


McLean County Producers 
Report July Sales 


The total volume of milk produced 
by members of the association for July, 
1931, is 1,783,643 lbs. It was disposed 
of in the following manner: fluid milk 
and cream representing 616,784 lbs., 
milk to other dealers representing 91,- 
144 lbs., manufactured milk represent- 
ing 872,737 lbs. and surplus milk rep- 
resenting 202,978 lbs. 

Fluid sales are off 3.85% as com- 
pared with June, 1931. July sales are 
down largely due to the summer stu- 
dents leaving town and the people who 
are on their vacation. Sales are up over 
16,700 lbs. as compared with July, 
1930. 

July production is off 18.41% as 
compared with June, 1931. 

Four hundred and fifty-three mem- 
bers delivered milk during July, with 
an average production of 126.20 Ibs. 

July prices for 3.5% milk f. o. b. 
Bloomington are: 

Ratic ‘milk 0. 2. oes: $1,588 

Surplus milk ........... $1.220 


The Mid-West Grain Corporation 
handled 1,063 carloads of grain in 
the month of July, more than 3,200 
in nine months of operation. 


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Number 9 


SEPTEMBER, 1931 


Volume 9 


I. A. A. Testifies Before 


Commerce Commission 


15 Per Cent Rate Increase Would 
Add $2,500,000 to $3,000,000 
to Grain and Livestock 
Freight Bill 


N increase of 15 per cent in 
freight rates on Illinois farm prod- 
ucts would place an additional burden 
of $2,500,000 to $3,000,000 annually 
on Illinois grain and livestock alone, 
President Earl C. Smith testified Sep- 
tember 4 before the Interstate Com- 
merce Commission in Chicago. 
‘Anything tending to reduce the 
farmer’s present income would have to 
be taken from his capital investment, 
for with few exceptions almost every 
commodity is now being produced at a 
loss,’ he said. 


Many Witnesses 


The hearing on Friday, September 4, 
gave the farmer his day in court. Heads 
of the important nation-wide and mid- 
west farm organizations appeared as 
witnesses. Edward A. O’Neal, president 
of the American Farm Bureau Federa- 
tion; Chas. E. Hearst of Iowa; W. H. 
Settle of Indiana; Chas. E. Ewing, pres- 
ident of the National Livestock Market- 
ing Association; Sen. Smith Brookhart 
of Iowa; C. E. Huff, president of the 
Farmers National Grain Corp., Chicago, 
and others testified before the Com- 
Mission. 


Would Add $150,000,000 


In a statement released by the Amer- 
ican Farm Bureau Federation, O. W. 
Sandberg, director of transportation, 
declared that more than $150,000,000 
would be added to the farmer’s annual 
freight bill if the increase is granted. 
Most of this burden would fall on the 
great agricultural districts of the middle 
west, from Illinois to the Rockies, he 
said. 

“We will admit,” Sandberg said, 

“that the railroads have a problem, but 


agriculture’s problem is vastly more 
aggravated and our farmers have faced 
it for more than a decade, while the 
railroads did not begin to worry until 
slightly more than a year ago. 


He presented evidence showing that 
during the last decade agriculture suf- 
fered a decline in value of $2,670 per 
farm, whereas during the same period 
the railroads were able to add about 
$8,000,000,000 to their book value. 


$21.85 on Car Corn 


It was shown that a carload of IIli- 
nois corn would call for $21.85 more 
freight charges if the 15-cent increase 
became effective. In the same way the 
Kansas wheat farmer would face an in- 
crease of $27.99 on each carload of 
grain shipped to America. Donald Kirk- 
patrick, legal counsel, and L. J. Quasey 
of the I. A. A. assisted in getting the 
evidence before the Commission. 


Chas. E. Ewing, president of the Na- 
tional Livestock Marketing Association, 
gave a dramatic analysis of his farm 
experiences in operating 2,000 acres of 
land in Macon and McLean counties, 
Illinois, uring the past 10 years. ‘On 
wheat, oats and corn raised this year,” 
said Mr. Ewing, ‘“‘the owner’s income 
lacks from $2 to $5 an acre of paying 
expenses. 


“The livestock industry of America 
is the backbone of agriculture,” he said. 
“Two-thirds of the agricultural lands of 
America produce hay and forage which 


.must be marketed through livestock. 


The livestock industry is in no position 
to carry an added burden. It has been 
bled white. This 15 per cent increase 
in rates would impose an additional bur- 
den of $14,000,000 to $15,000,000 
annually for livestock to carry. 


Farmers National Grain 


Corp. Buys Mid-West 


Change Does Not Affect Relation of 
Member Farmers’ Elevators and 
Illinois Grain Corp. 


IRECTORS of the Illinois Grain 
Corporation meeting in a special 
session in Chicago, Sept. 3, voted unani- 
mously to approve an operating con- 
tract with the Farmers National Grain 
Corporation under which the latter will 
acquire through purchase the entire as- 
sets and personnel of the Mid-West 
Grain Corp., sales subsidiary of the Illi- 
nois regional. The transfer will become 
effective immediately. ‘ 
This action represents another step in 
the movement to consolidate the co- 
operative grain mar- 
keting agencies of 
| the country so as to 
F| give the grain pro- 
ducers of America 
an efficient and eco- 
nomical nation-wide 
sales organization 
controlling the bulk 
of the country’s an- 
nual production. 

Through its per- 
sonnel, the Mid- 
West Grain Corpora- 
tion holds memberships on the Chicago 
Board of Trade, the St. Louis Mer- 
chant’s Exchange, and the Peoria Board 
of Trade. In addition to its main office 
at 608 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, 
the Mid-West has branch offices in St. 
Louis, Peoria, Decatur, Jacksonville and 
Pontiac, Illinois. 

Organized less than a year agg to 
handle and sell the grain deliveret 
the 71 Illinois farmers’ elevators and 
co-operative grain companies holding 
membership in the Illinois Grain Corp., 
the Mid-West Grain Corporation de- 
veloped rapidly, handling more than 
3,000 cars of grain during its first six 
months of operation. Its largest month 
was in July this year when a total of 

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Cc. P. Cummings 


Page Four 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


September, 1931 


1,063 cars of grain were sold. 
“The Mid-West Grain Corp. was 
formed to provide a grain marketing 


__service for Illinois growers before the. 


Farmers, National had fully developed 
its sales ‘service,”? commented Earl C. 
Smith, president of the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association, which has sponsored 
the co-operative grain marketing move- 
ment in Illinois. 

“Developments during the past year 
have been such that the best interests 
of Illinois grain producers will be served 
by centralizing their sales efforts in the 
Farmers National in the interest of effi- 
ciency and economy. 

“The need of the hour in this move- 
ment is co-operation between the co- 
operatives. The only justification for 
farm organization of any kind is the 
service it can render the man on the 
farm. And we in Illinois as in other 
states are doing our utmost to consoli- 
date and co-ordinate the forces working 
for the ultimate benefit of the agricul- 
tural industry.” 

“The sale of the Mid-West Grain 
‘Corporation will not in any way affect 
the relation of farmers’ elevators hold- 
ing membership in the Illinois Grain 
Corporation,” explained G. C. John- 
stone of Bloomington, president of the 
latter organization and a member of the 
board of directors of the Farmers Na- 
tional Grain Corp. “We will continue 
as the regional member of the Farmers 
National for the state building up the 
volume of Illinois grain handled through 
co-operative channels. 

“The larger sales organization with 
its personnel and contacts reaching out 
into all the principal markets of the 
country and beyond is equipped to give 
Illinois grain producers and their local 
elevators the most efficient service and 
the highest possible price for their 
grain.” 

Charles P. Cummings, general mana- 
ger of the Mid-West, becomes vice- 
president and sales manager of the Illi- 
nois Grain Corporation under the 
change. Mr. Cummings will continue 
to represent the interests of farmer ele- 
vator members of the Illinois Grain 
Corporation in the sale of their grain 
by and through the Farmers National 
Grain Corporation. 


Harrison Fahrnkopf Weds 


Harrison Fahrnkopf, director of 
grain marketing for the I. A. A. dur- 
ing the past four years, and formerly 
farm adviser in McLean county, was 
_ married on July 4 to Miss Gwendolyn 
Large of Flora, Illinois, who had been 
employed as office secretary by the 
Egyptian Seed Growers Exchange. 

Mr. and Mrs. Fahrnkopf have estab- 
lished their home in Bloomington. 


I, A. A. MARKETING EXHIBIT AT ILLINOIS STATE AND AURORA FAIRS 


ee volume of Illinois farm prod- 
ucts including livestock, milk and 
produce, grain, fruit, soybeans and red 
top sold through co-operative channels 
is illustrated in the above exhibit shown 
by the I. A. A. at the Illinois State and 
Aurora Fairs last month. This exhibit as 
well as the general I. A. A. exhibit was 
used also at a number of county fairs 
including Mercer, Henry, Jersey and 
Richland. : 

The exhibit reveals that nearly 22,000 
carloads or approximately 20 per cent 
of Illinois livestock were marketed co- 
operatively through the Producer agen- 
cies at Chicago, St. Louis, Peoria, In- 
dianapolis and Springfield .in 1930. 
Patronage refunds on commissions have 
averaged $100,000 yearly to Illinois 
livestock shippers who patronize their 
own agencies. 


Nearly 3,000,000,000 pounds of milk 
were sold co-operatively in 13 organ- 
ized milk sheds in Illinois last year. If 
the collective bargaining and co-opera- 
tive marketing operations carried on by 
these milk selling organizations in- 
creased the price to dairymen only 10 
cents per cwt. their income would be 
raised approximately $3,000,000. 

Last year approximately 5,000,000 
pounds of butterfat were sold co-opera- 
tively to 24 contracting creameries. 
This v-lume of cream came from 58 
co-operative produce associations in 32 
counties. 

The Illinois Grain Corporation with 
71 member farmers’ elevators repre- 
sents an annual volume of 12,000,000 
bushels of grain. The sales subsidiary, 
the Mid-West Grain Corporation, han- 
dled 3,000,000 bushels of grain during 
its first six months of operation. Daily 
bids and services are given from the 
main office at Chicago and the five 
branch offices at St. Louis, Peoria, Jack- 
sonville, Decatur and Pontiac. 

The Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange 
with 48 member associations handled 


approximately 1,500 cars of fruits and 
vegetables last year. 

The Soybean Marketing Association 
which has approximately 2,900 mem- 
bers, marketed co-operatively in 1930 
1,150,000 bushels of soybeans. The es- 
timated increase in returns to growers 
approximated $172,500. 

Seventeen hundred members of the 
Egyptian Seed Growers Exchange in 
southeastern Illinois pooled approxi- 
mately 1,000,000 pounds of red top 
seed through their co-operative, bene- 
fiting not only the members of the Ex- 
change, but also non-members. 


Corn for Coal 


A Denison, Iowa, dispatch to the 
press says: ‘“Burn-a-bushel-of-corn-a- 
day clubs will be formed in this part 
of Iowa in the fall if present plans ma- 
terialize. Corn has excellent heating 
qualities and is selling for $3 a ton less 
than coal, farmer proponents of the 
plan“say. It is proposed to eliminate 
the surplus with the hope of increasing 
the price of corn 25 cents a bushel.” 


“The August issue of the I. A. A. 
RECORD for 1931 appealed to me 
as one of the best publications up 
to date. It contains from cover to 
cover material that every Farm 
Bureau member, as well as non- 
members, should know. 

“Every department was well rep- 
resented with timely facts showing 
the reasons why everyone should 
be Farm Bureau members during 
the depression. 

“Wishing you success for bigger 
and better publications.” 

R. G. Stewart, Manager, 

Champaign County Service Co. 


Edgar Markham, assistant to the 
chairman of the Federal Farm Board 
and director of press relations, visited 
the I. A. A. offices on Aug. 17. 


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September, 1931 THE I. A. A. RECORD Page Five 


Then: Visit Farm Bureau 


~ Tent 


at Illinois State Fair 


Country Life Queen Contest Feature of 
Farm Bureau Day 


EARLY a thousand Farm Bureau 

members and their guests assem- 
bled in the Farm Bureau headquarters’ 
tent at the Illinois State Fair, Friday, 
August 28. 

The principal attraction of the day 
was the style show and beauty contest 
held early in the afternoon. Miss Fran- 
ces Johnston, a pretty 17-year-old Law- 
renceville high school girl, was crowned 
Country Life Queen, winning over nine 
other contestants, all of whom had 
placed first in their respective county 
contests. 

Miss Johnston, height five feet, 
weight 104 pounds, is an attractive, 
blue-eyed brunette with dark chestnut 
hair. She is an accomplished elocution- 
ist. Miss Johnston has been appearing 
on public programs since she was eight 
years of age, and has given readings over 
a number of radio stations. The prize 
of $75 in gold was presented by Senator 
Simon E. Lantz of Congerville, chair- 
man of the Committee of Judges. 


Second Prize $25 


Miss Dorothy Roberts of Champaign 
county, a University of Illinois co-ed, 
was awarded the second prize of $25 in 
gold. Miss Roberts has been active in 
4-H Club work as a member and leader 
in her home county for a number of 
years. She is 20 years old, five feet 
four inches in height, and weighs 126 
pounds. Her favorite sports are swim- 
ming and tennis. 

The other contestants, all attractive 
girls and winners of their respective 
county contests, were Eleanor Fer- 
guson, Henry county; Helen Phillips, 
Macon county; Ida I. Eppel, McHenry 
county; Helen Kolmer, Monroe county; _ 
Elizabeth Meyer, Morgan county; Sarah 
Biederbeck, Stark county; Elaine Plott, 
Union county; and Helen Homann, Ef- 
fingham county. 

The girls were judged on the follow- 
ing qualities: grace, poise, simplicity 
and attractiveness of dress, charm, in- 
telligence, self-possession, vivaciousness 
as well as physical .characteristics. 

The contest was staged in a pretty 
setting on a platform erected for the 
occasion in front of the colorful I. A. 
A. exhibits. Each girl was required to 
mount the platform, walk from one end 
to the other slowly keeping time with 
the orchestral music. Each was required 
to bow, smile and address the judges and 


Miss Frances Johnston, who was crowned 

Country Life Queen, at State Fair on 

Farm Bureau Day winning over nine 
other contestants, 


audience as follows: “How do you do, 
Honorable Judges, Ladies and Gentle- 
men. I am delighted to be here and glad 
to see you.” 


The girls all were attractively but 
simply dressed. Each carried bright 
gold-colored canes with ribbons bearing 
the name of the county which they 
represented. 


Judges of the contest were Senator 
Simon E. Lantz of Congerville; G. C. 
Johnstone, Bloomington; L. W. Taylor, 
manager St. Nicholas Hotel, Springfield; 
Prof. Stewart of Berea College, Berea, 
Kentucky; and Dwight Hart, Taylor- 
ville. 

After the crowning of the queen each 
of the contestants came to the platform 
to congratulate her. President Earl C. 
Smith had previously introduced and 
presented the judges to the audience. 

The facilities at the Farm Bureau 
headcuarters’ tent were enjoyed by 


thousands of members and fair visitors 
throughout the week. The I. A. A. ex- 
hibits which were more elaborate than 
usual illustrated the entire I. A. A.- 
Farm Bureau program in Illinois. The 
co-operative marketing exhibit attracted 
wide attention. 

It included an_ electrically-driven 
train which as it moved over a relief 
map of Illinois, illustrated where the 
principal farm products are grown over 
the state. A series of vertical maps of 
Illinois formed the background. These 
were illuminated by lights flashing on 
and off telling the story of the volume 
of different farm commodities sold co- 
operatively. Grain, livestock, fluid milk, 
produce, soybeans, and red top were 
represented. 


Visualizes Services 

The general I. A. A. exhibit illus- 
trated the entire Farm Bureau-I. A. A. 
program. The display artist visualized 
attractively and effectively the different 
services made possible to Farm Bureau 
members through organized effort. Col- 
ored paper cut-outs mounted in a series 
of 16 cases electrically lighted from the 
rear told the story. White letters on 
theatrical gauze screens across the front 
of each individual exhibit told the story 
of each project. \ 

The Illinois Farm Supply Company 
had an interesting exhibit in the tent 
playing up SERVICE petroleum prod- 
ucts; C. W. Ward, sales representative, 
was in charge. The Sangamon county 
4-H Clubs were represented in one cor- 
ner of the tent with a pop and lunch 
stand which served hundreds of visitors 
throughout the week. 

The attendance at the Fair this year 
was below normal, although the exhibits 
of livestock and attractions were equal 
to, if not better, than in former years. 

During the morning and afternoon 
the I. A. A. public address system was 
on hand to entertain the visiting crowds 
passing through the tent with march 
and dance music. The new record car- 
trying a 12-minute address by President 
Earl C. Smith was broadcast through 
the public address system both morning 
and afternoon. It received much favor- 
able comment by those who listened. 

In answer to requests by many who 
asked for copies of the address it is re- 
produced in this issue of the RECORD. 


“I wish to congratulate you upon 
your splendid article: ‘Is Farm Or- 
ganization Worth the Effort?’ ap- 
pearing in the August issue of the 
Dairyman’s Journal. The cartoon 
on page eight of the same maga- 
zine is exactly the kind of adver- 
tising that gets over with the pros- 
pect.” 

O. D. Brissenden, 
Livingston county, Illinois. 


Page Six 


2,000 at Paxton 
AXTON, IIl., August 25.—Farm 


Bureau-members~who-are~not lined 
up with their co-operatives are stand- 
ing in the way of progress just as much 
as non-members, de- 
clared Larry Wil- 
| liams, manager of 
| Country Life Insur- 

ance Company, be- 
|} fore 2,000 Ford 
county farmers at 
the county Farm 
Bureau picnic here 
today. A. B. Scho- 
field, I. A. A. direc- 
tor, and Farm Ad- 
viser Purnell had an 
excellent program 
arranged. 

“Some Farm Bureau members ought 
to wear labels so people could tell they 
are members,” Mr. Williams said. “‘No 
one could ever tell it by the way they 
act.” 

Representative Gus J. Johnson, speak- 
ing in behalf of the Association of 
Commerce, welcomed the Farm Bureau 
members to Paxton. He paid tribute to 
the legislative committee of the I. A. A. 
for the way it has functioned at Spring- 
field. 

“The legislative committee of the IIli- 
nois Agricultural Association is re- 
spected by every member of the House 
of Representatives for the sincere way 
it has worked for constructive legisla- 
tion,” said Mr. Johnson. ‘‘What that 
committee recommends carries a lot of 
weight and always gets careful con- 
sideration.” 

Music was furnished by the Paxton 
School Band and. the Danville colored 
quartette. The public address system 
of the I. A. A. also furnished recorded 
music during the day. 

Prizes were given for the oldest cou- 
ple present, the youngest baby, and the 
family which came the greatest dis- 
tance. A carload of limestone and a 
pure bred gilt were given at a drawing 
held on the platform. 


G. J. Johnson 


Kirkpatrick at Murphysboro 


URPHYSBORO, IIl., August 26. 

— Around 1,500 Farm Bu- 
reau members of the 25th Congressional 
district heard Donald Kirkpatrick, legal 
counsel for the I. A. A., in an address 
at the district picnic here today urge 
more effective organization and co-oper- 
ation as the only panacea for the pres- 
ent conditions in agriculture. 

Mr. Kirkpatrick enumerated instance 
after instance in which organization 
had already benefited agriculture and 
pointed out future possibilities. 

Fred Dietz of De Soto, director of 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


the I. A. A. from the 25th district, 
introduced the speaker. Farm Adviser 
J. G. McCall of Jackson county pre- 
sided. —? 

Preceding the speaker on the after- 
noon program, the Jackson county 4-H 
Clubs presented a special program of 
music and club demonstrations. During 
the morning 4-H pigs were judged to 
pick the county winners. 

Music was furnished during the day 
by the amplifying system of the I. A. A. 


Good Crowd at Effingham 


FFINGHAM, IIl., August 27.—In 

direct contrast with the old system 
of trade, co-operative selling and buying 
by organized farmers is returning a 
large part of the profits to the home 
communities to be deposited in rural 
banks, George Metzger, secretary of the 
Illinois Agricultural Association, told 
Effingham County Farm Bureau mem- 
bers and their guests at the annual pic- 
nic here today. 

“One of the great faults of our pres- 
ent system is that a great part of the 
money has been drained out of the rural 
sections and is now concentrated in the 
large city banks leaving the rural banks 
stripped to the point that they are not 
able to finance local projects,” he con- 
tinued. 


September, 1931 


Farmers’ co-operative oil companies 
alone returned $400,000 in patronage 
dividends to Illinois farmers last year to 
be deposited in their local banks, Mr. 
Metzger pointed out. In the same way 
profits on agricultural products mar- 
keted co-operatively are distributed 
back to the rural communities. 

Other speakers on the program were 
Leroy Melton, Greenville, Ill., national 
president of the Farmers Equity Union; 
Wilbur H. Coultas, manager of the 
Soybean Marketing Association, and C. 
H. James, manager of the Egyptian Seed 
Growers Exchange, red top co-opera- 
tive. 

Hog calling, chicken calling, husband 
calling, and other contests were con- 
ducted from the platform. Prizes were 
awarded for the oldest couple attending 
the picnic, the most recently married 
couple, and the largest family attending. 
A horseshoe pitching contest and races 
were held as the final events on the pro- 
gram. The I. A. A. public address sys- 
tem entertained with music and ampli- 
fied the speakers’ voices. 


Southern Illinois. Poultry Day was 
celebrated on September 10 on_ the 
Crome Farm at Albion in Edwards 
county. The University and the Farm 
Bureaus sponsored the program. 


This colorful “flasher” exhibit illustrating 16 I. A. A.-Farm Bureau services 
attracted much attention at the Illinois State and Aurora Fairs. 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


CONTESTANTS AT STATE FAIR FARM BUREAU DAY 
Seated—1931 Country Life Queen, Miss Frances Johnston of Lawrence county. 


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Left to right, standing—Ida I. Eppel, Mc- 


Henry county; Helen Kolmer, Monroe; Elizabeth Meyers, Morgan; Eleanor Ferguson, Henry; Dorothy Roberts, Champaign, 


2,000 at Kendall Picnic 


ANDWICH, Illinois, August 29.— 

A parade of 4-H Club members with 
their livestock impressed the 2,000 peo- 
ple who sat in the grandstand at the 
fair grounds here this afternoon at the 
Kendall County Farm Bureau picnic. 


A compact column of boys and girls 
reaching more than 200 yards as they 
marched past the reviewing stand em- 
phasized the magnitude of this move- 
ment among the farm youth of the 
country. More than $500 in premiums 
was awarded to winners of the various 
divisions of the 4-H Club show. 

V. Vaniman, director of insurance 
service for the I. A. A., was the speaker 
of the day. He emphasized the fact 
that this is a day of organization when 
farmers must stick together. 

“Nobody is going to solve the farm- 
er’s problems for him,” said Mr. Vani- 
man, “and the individual farmer is not 
going to solve it. When a solution 
comes it will be reached by organized 
agriculture.” 

The morning program consisted of 
judging 4-H livestock and judging the 
girls’ 4-H exhibit. C. E. Gates, farm 
adviser of LaSalle county, was judge 
of all livestock and Mrs. Carl Lewis 
judged the girls’ exhibits. 

Horseshoe pitching and music by the 
amplifying system of the I. A. A. also 
Preceded the picnic dinner. In the 
afternoon the Plattville Community 
Band and the East Oswego Male ‘Quar- 


tette furnished special music. Farm Ad- 
viser W. P. Miller presided. 

A baseball game between the LaSalle 
County Farm Bureau nine and Kendall 
County was the final event on the pro- 
gram. 


Picnic and 4-H Show at 
Lincoln 


INCOLN, Illinois, August 31.— 

The Logan County Farm Bureau 
picnic held at Chautauqua Park here 
today closed the most popular month 
for holding annual Farm Bureau pic- 
nics. More than 40 Illinois county 
Farm Bureaus held their arinual outdoor 
gatherings during August. 

A crowd estimated at 3,000 attended 
the picnic in spite of threatened rain. 
One feature that drew a good crowd 
during the morning was the county 4-H 
Club fair where more than 60 pigs, a 
score of baby beeves and lambs were 
exhibited. The entire morning was de- 
voted to judging livestock. 

In the afternoon at the auditorium, 
Larry Williams, manager of Country 
Life Insurance Company, spoke on the 
ideals of the Farm Bureau. He empha- 
sized that the organization was not 
formed to make more money, but to 
maintain and defend a decent standard 
of living. 

“The farmer didn’t start this organi- 
zation business,” said Mr. Williams. 


“Every other industry in the world was 
organized first and the farmer was 


who placed second; Elaine Plott, Union; Helen Phillips, Macon; Sara Biederbeck, Stark, and Helen Homann, Effingham. 


forced to do it as a defense measure. 
No organization has ever succeeded by 
making money its only ideal. The 
quicker Farm Bureau members realize 
that their organization has a greater 
goal than this, the better it will be for 
the organization.” 

Other numbers on the program were 
as follows: a style show by Logan Coun- 
ty 4-H Club girls, a demonstration of 
how to make a bed properly by one of 
the room improvement clubs, and sev- 
eral selections by ‘the Pawnee Quar- 
tette. Farm Adviser J. H. Checkley 
presided. 

As the last event of the day, the Lo- 
gan County Farm Bureau baseball team 
played an exhibition game with Sanga- 
mon county. Logan won 12 to 2. 


Livingston Co. Board Meets 


The Livingston County Farm Bu- 
reau board of directors held its regular 
monthly meeting in the I. A. A. of- 
fices on Sept. 8. Meeting with the 
board also were members of the or- 
ganization committee from the 18 units 
in the county. More than 50 attended 
the meeting. 


Raster Takes Bride 


Hermann Raster, field resepresenta- 
tive for the Illinois Produce Marketing 
Association, was recently married to 
Miss Mary Ellen F. Randolph of Can- 
ton, IHinois. They are making their 
home at Canton. 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


September, 1931 


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BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

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ps RAE TRILL TE ee RO BRR CRE, Geo... B. Muller, Washington 
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NODE pesicennnctcnce arse sentence Sorssinecmtinginj oan namveslvmsintoes .._C, J. Gross, Atwood 
20th... Sar Scckeilsniten tem Consigiok _.Charles S. Black, Jacksonville 
21st..... n oesidalsnasscotaaninale SeamcepersSiestecpoeddatenbentaiudeesoaad Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 
22nd : a.--------F Tank Oexner, Waterloo 
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Fruit and Vegetable “Marketing. 5 aa ccacesenpealpetussminciasonlanaeaiube A. B. Leeper 
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Organization. Lancleepnese ne ....G. E, Metzger 
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ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 
Country Life Insurance Co................._...L. A. Williams, Mgr. 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co... iphaebaectintient H. Kelker, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Co-operative Ass’n..........._F. E. Ringham, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co............A. E. Richardson, Mgr. 
Illinois Farm Supply Co... woe eee eneee eee L. R. Marchant, Mgr. 


Illinois Grain Corp............ 
Midwest Grain Corp......... 
Soybean Marketing a 


The Railroads Want a Raise 

‘T HE present efforts of the railroads to increase 

their income 15 per cent at the expense of 
the farmer, manufacturer, and other shippers is 
an interesting illustration of the constant and 
continuous efforts made by industries, groups, and 
classes to get a larger share of the national in- 
come. The railroads think they are hard up be- 
cause the majority are not making the usual five 
and one-half to six per cent interest on their in- 
vestment. It is true their stocks and bonds have 


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sevececseereeseceeeseeeese-s-e-sW. H. Coultas, Mgr. 


suffered appreciably during the current depres- . 


sion. 

But the railroads are relatively prosperous when 
compared with the farming industry under exist- 
ing prices. Railroad securities have suffered far 
less on the average than farm land values and farm 
mortgages. Farmers would be pleased to have a 
benevolent government enforce a price on farm 
products high enough to bring an average net re- 


turn of even three per cent on the investment. 

There are no government commissions meeting 
to inquire into-the-financial status of the agri- 
cultural industry for the purpose of arbitrarily 
fixing farm prices at a profitable level. The most 
the government has done to date is to loan money 
and give advisory service in federating farm co- 
operatives designed to reduce the spread between 
producer and consumer prices. True, is has bought 
wheat and cotton through stabilization corpora- 
tions to help the market temporarily—but it has 
not fixed prices. 

The farmer needs the railroads particularly for 
long hauls; in fact, he needs many services and 
manufactured products for which he is compelled 
to pay prices out of line with current returns for 
his own services and products. 

The hearings before the Commerce Commis- 
sion teaches a striking lesson. They reveal the 
need for more effective organization of farmers 
if agriculture is to hold its own and approximate 
a fair return for the service it renders. 


At. St. Louis 


AS we go to press organized dairymen in the 

St. Louis territory, the Sanitary Milk Pro- 
ducers Association, are withholding their milk 
from the Pevely Dairy Company, refusing to sell 
at the starvation prices offered. 

The Pevely Company which, according to re- 
ports, supplies approximately half the St. Louis 
market with milk and dairy products, has been 
antagonistic to co-operative efforts of the pro- 
ducers from the beginning. The company has 
repeatedly declined to deal with the association 
in contrast to all other dealers who have recog- 
nized the right of farmers to bargain collectively 
in the sale of their products. 

In the meantime the Pevely Company is resort- 
ing to the doubtful practice of bringing i in “‘boot- 
leg” milk from uninspected territory. That milk 
is produced by farmers. Thus we have the ex- 
ample again of one group of farmers contributing 
to the burdens of another, one group fastening 
the yoke of low prices tighter around the necks 
of another. Further organization with co-onera- 
tion between co-operatives is the obvious lesson 
taught by this experience. It’s the only way 
farmers can win. 


Stark, Whiteside, McLean, Warren, and Henry 
counties have reported serious outbreaks of hog 
cholera. The Farm Bureaus are prepared with ex- 
tra supplies of high grade serum and virus to 
head off the spread of the disease. Preparedness 
for such emergencies by the Illinois Farm Bureau 
Serum Association is quite as important a service 
as its cash savings to Farm Bureau members. 


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Bixoball Dope 

NLY four out of 34 County Farm 

Bureau teams remain in the race 
for the Illinois Farm Bureau baseball 
championship. The semi-final series of 
games. opened Wednesday, September 
9, with Knox and Carroll counties play- 
ing at Galesburg. Greene and Livings- 
ton counties were scheduled to open at 
Carrollton on Sept. 12: 

Livingston county, the dark horse ir: 
the race for the championship, upset 
the powerful Logan 
County Farm Bureau 
team in the final game 
of their series at the 
Three-Eye League Park, 
Bloomington, Sept. 4, 
score 9 to 7. 

It was a hard-fought 
game from start to fin- 
ish with first one team ahead, then 
the other. Livingston county took the 


lead 5 to 0 in the second. Logan county © 


came back in the 3rd, 4th and 6th in- 
nings and took the lead 6 to 5. In the 
8th the two teams stood at 7 all, but 
in the 9th the Livingston boys forged 
ahead with two runs to win the game. 

Livingston had won the previous 
game played at Lincoln, 7 to 1. Logan 
county won the opener on August 21, 
1 to 0. 


The two remaining teams will play 
for the state championship which last 
year went to McDonough county in 
western Illinois. 

Knox county is look upon as a strong 
contender for championship honors by 
virtue of having eliminated the 1930 
champions from McDonough in the di- 
visional contest. The’ basis of elimina- 
tion is two out of three games. 


Peoria Communities Meet 


Hear Marketing Talks 


Several hundred Peoria county farm- 
ers and their families assembled at the 
Dave Wycoff farm near Laura, August 
25, at a community meeting where 
Frank Barton, field representative of 
the Illinois Grain Corporation, discussed 
the Farm Bureau program in relation 
to co-operative marketing. Short talks 
were made by D. P. Moore of the Farm- 
ers National Grain Corporation, John 
Benson, manager of the Peoria office of 
the Mid-West Grain Corporation, and 
Albert Hayes, president of the Peoria 
County Farm Bureau. 

L. A. Williams spoke at a second 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


This silver trophy will be presented to 
the State Farm Bureau League champions 
for 1931, The trophy, together with gold 
baseball watch charms awarded to win- 
ners in the eight divisions, were donated 
by the Spalding Company when _ the 
League adopted the Spalding ball for 
official games. 


14 Counties Represented 
At Dixon Springs Meet 


Eyer two-day outing and confer- 
ence at Dixon Springs, August 
22-23 in Pope county was a decided 
success,” writes district organization 
Manager L. F. Brissenden, who planned 
the meeting. 

Farm Bureau officials and representa- 
tives from 14 counties in southeastern 
Illinois attended. The program which 
opened on Saturday included communi- 
ty singing led by Farm Adviser L. L. 
Corrie of Wayne county, talks by L. F. 
Brissenden who told about his recent 
trip to British Columbia, F. E. Long- 
mire, assistant state leader of farm ad- 
visers, and by Secretary George E. 
Metzger. 

On Sunday morning Adviser J. G. 
McCall from Jackson county led in 
singing church hymns and addressed 
the adult class on the Sunday school 
lesson. Miss Temptner of Perry county 
taught the young people. About 100 
attended the morning services. At noon 
a fish fry and barbecue was the prin- 
cipal attraction. 

“Dixon Springs is located about half 
way between Golconda and Vienna on 
a hard road. With beautiful scenery, 
hotel accommodations, sleeping quar- 
ters, swimming pool and the courteous 
treatment given by the owner, Mr. 
Wheeler, a Farm Bureau member, and 
Mr. Dixon, the conference could not 
have been better,” writes Brissenden. 


community meeting at the Dunlap high 
school August 27. 

Sam Crabtree of Henry spoke at the 
third meeting of the series at the home 
of Dan Larkin, west of Hanna City. 


Page Nine 


3,000 at Pike Co. Picnic 


EW CANTON, Illinois, Sept. 5.— 
More than 3,000 Pike county 
farmers heard addresses by Earl C. 
Smith, president, and George Metzger, 
secretary of the Illinois Agricultural 
Association, at the annual Farm Bureau 
picnic held here today. Weather condi- 
tions were perfect for the outdoor 
gathering. 
Mr. Smith, who appeared unexpected- 
ly at his home county picnic, spoke 
principally of two 


agriculture: 
mamely, the need for 
mobilizing the farm- 
ers’ bargaining pow- 
er in the sale of his 
products, and the 
need for tax reform 
in Illinois. Organiza- 
tion offers the only 
solution to these 
problems, Mr. Smith 
said. 

Mr. Metzger in his address pointed 
out the fault in the monetary system 
of the country, which permits wide 
fluctuation in the value of the dollar. 
This condition, he said, is: one of the 
chief stumbling blocks in the way of 
agriculture and other industries, which 
depend upon long term credit. ° 


“This is a problem that agriculture 
has never attempted to work out in 
the past, but if it is ever solved the 
borrowing classes will have to do it,” 
he said. “It is certain that the specu- 
lators and those who benefit by the 
fluctuation of the dollar will not at- 
tempt to have it stabilized.” 

Charles S. Black, director of the I. 
A. A. from the 20th Congressional dis- 
trict, and John C. Moore, district or- 
ganization director, also made brief 


talks. 


Marian Strauss of Quincy, 1930 4-H 
health champion in Illinois, appeared on 
the program in several roles during the 
day. She played a violin solo, gave sev- 
eral vocal numbers and made a talk 
about the 4-H Club Congress held in 
Chicago last winter. Other 4-H num- 
bers on the program included folk 
dances and demonstrations. 


An old fiddlers’ contest was conducted 
on the platform with five entrants. The 
winner was William Raftery of Barry. 
The numbers played were “Arkansas 
Traveler,” “Soldier’s Joy” and ‘Red 
Wing.” A 


George Metzger 


The annual meeting of the Illi- 
nois Farm Supply Company will be 
held at Bloomington, Wednesday, 
October 14, 1931. 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


September, 1931 


Danger of Raising Too 


Many Hogs—Denman 
Tells Swine Growers Day of_ Big 
Lardy Type Is Past 


Bi Ane is danger from over-expan- 
sion in the swine industry especially 
where feed supplies are not always de- 
pendable and transportation costs are 
high, C. B. Denman, member of the 
Federal Farm Board, told members of 


the National Swine Growers Association . 


at their annual meeting in Springfield, 
August 27. An abundant supply and 
the low price of feed, he added, are the 
principal factors responsible for the 
marked increase in pork production now 
getting under way. 

Mr. Denman referred to the June pig 
survey which reveals an increase of 2.5 
per cent over figures for 1930. 


“The western states showed an in- 
crease of more than 15 per cent, where- 
as reports on the number of sows bred 
or to be bred for farrowing this fall 
pointed to an increase of 37 per cent 
for the country as a whole and over 60 
per cent for the western states com- 
pared with a year ago,” he said. “The 
pig crop this fall for the United States 
will be about 18 per cent larger than it 
was in the fall of 1930. 


The Mortgage Lifter 


“The hog has rightly been named the 
‘mortgage lifter,’ but his lifting power 
is no longer proportionate to his weight. 
Hogs weighing from 200 to 220 pounds 
offer the producer the best chances for 
success in swine growing, principally 
because they yield .a high percentage of 
cuts of the type, quality and average 
weight most definitely suited to con- 
sumer demand. 

“Change in size of family and in 
habits of eating, and more work by 
brain, and less by brawn, have lessened 
the demand for fat cuts of pork and 
have increased that for smaller and 
leaner ones; thereby restricting the 
heavy hog yielding a large proportion of 
lard and fat cuts. 

Prefer Light Cuts 


“The preference for light weight cuts 
is clearly demonstrated in the wholesale 
prices of pork products at Chicago dur- 
ing the week ending Aug. 15, 1931. 
Hams weighing 10 to 12 pounds, for 
instance, sold at 1314 cents a pound, 
and 18 to 22 pound hams at 12 cents. 
Pork loins weighing 8 to 10 pounds sold 
at 24 cents a pound and those weighing 
16 to 22 pounds at 1134 cents. Like- 
wise, bacon bellies weighing 8 to 10 
pounds sold at 13% cents a pound, 
while 20 to 25 pound bellies, which 
must be dry salt cured, sold at 634 
cents. 

“On the basis of Chicago prices, dur- 


ONE YOLK THAT WENT OVER BIG 


A popular feature of the recent Chehalis, Washington, Egg Festival was the 
Pre of this huge omelette, composed of 7,200 eggs, which were fried in ‘this 
huge eight-foot frying pan, weighing nearly half a ton. The huge pan was 
greased by the novel method of attaching slabs of bacon to the feet of pretty 
girls, who turned it into a skating rink. Here are the chefs stirring the bunch 
of eggs with paddles. 


ing the first week of August, the regu- 
lar products from a 200 pound hog 
could be sold by the packer at whole- 
sale for approximately $7.75 per hun- 
dred pounds live weight basis, while 
those from a 300 pound hog were worth 
$6.00. Despite the higher dressing per- 
centage of heavy hogs, their cut-out 
values are usually less than those of 
light hogs, because of lower prices per 
pound for heavy hams, loins and bellies 
and also because a large part of the 
heavy weight carcass must be dry salt 
cured and, hence, sold at a lower figure. 
The standard grading system for hogs 
recently formulated by the government 
in co-operation with hog producers and 
packers will be an important factor in 
passing back to the swine grower this 
margin between heavy and light weight 
hog cut-out values. 


More Rapid Turnover 


“The higher average price which light 
hogs command because their carcass 
products are more definitely suited to 
consumer demand is not the only rea- 
son why they usually are more profit- 
able to raise. Turnover of invested capi- 
tal is more rapid in producing and mar- 
keting younger animals. 


“Cost of gain in terms of feed con- 
sumed increases as hogs become heavier, 
since on the average it takes about 200 
pounds of corn to grow a hog from the 
weight of 50 pounds to 100 pounds, 
while it takes over 275 pounds to grow 
one from 250 pounds to 300 pounds, 
showing a wider margin between cost 
of production and market price, in case 
hogs are marketed at lighter weights 


than if they are pushed to heavier 
weights. 


“Analysis of average hog weights 
since 1880 indicates that swine growers 
in general have not adjusted their pro- 
duction policy to meet the demand for 
light weight hogs, especially during the 
last decade.” 


Soybean Ass’n. Closes 
Membership for 1931 


N a series of conferences sponsored 
by the Soybean Marketing Associa- 
tion early this month, soybean growers 
met to discuss the grading and handling 
of the commercial crop which will be 
harvested within the next few weeks. 


Meetings were held at Macomb, 
Springfield, Taylorville, Decatur and 
Champaign on September 1, 2, 3, 4 and 
§, attended by managers of co-operative 
elevators, farm advisers and growers. 
W. H. Coultas, manager of the Soy- 
bean Marketing Association, was in 
charge. 


J. E. Barr of the U. S. Department 
of Agriculture, who has charge of the 
licensing of Federal soybean inspectors, 
assisted in the meetings and supervised 
the grading demonstrations. 


By the time this is read the member- 
ship sign-up of the Soybean Marketing 
Association will be closed for the 1931 
crop as the deadline has been set at 
September 15. This was necessary so 
that plans could be made for receiving, 
selling and storing the crop. Question- 
naires have been sent out to determine 
the volume of soybeans to be marketed 
through the co-operative. More than 
2,000,000 bushels are expected as com- 
pared with 1,150,000 last year. 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


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These Problems Must Be Solved 


GREATLY appreciate the privilege 
I and opportunity provided by the 
Department of Information in this 
unique way to extend a word of greet- 
ing,attempt to brief- 
ly review the record 
of progress and 
achievement of the 
Farm Bureau move- 
ment of Illinois, and 
to outline some of 
the ever-increasing 
problems confront- 
ing farmers and 
what is being done 
by your organization 

Earl C. Smith ‘© secure their prop- 

er solution. 

Many of you have given liberally of 
your time, thought and effort to make 
possible this great organization. No 
doubt some of you know as well as do 
I what has been accomplished and what 
still remains to be done. For more than 
12 years we have labored together seek- 
ing to improve the farmer’s economic 
position. During this time American 
agriculture has passed through a most 
critical period, a period of serious and 
prolonged deflation, which is undoubt- 
edly the w 
can agriculture. 

Largely due to the lack of organiza- 
tion, forces beyond the control of farm- 
ers have operated to cut the value of 
American agricultural investment from 


eighty billions to a little over forty. 


billions of dollars. Although fighting 
an up-hill battle, we take much pride 
in the fact that we can point to many 
benefits Farm Bureau members have ob- 
tained through the power of organi- 
zation—even though yet in its infancy. 


Three Lines of Endeavor 


The Farm Bureau program in Illinois 
has been largely confined to three (3) 
general lines of endeavor. One, to as- 
sist farmers through increased efficiency 


to lower production costs and over- 


head expenses; second, to improve the 
farmer’s bargaining power in the sale 
of his products by and through collec- 
tive effort; and third, to fill the chair 
that has so long been vacant around 
conference tables and in legislative 
chambers, where public policies and 
laws were being developed affecting the 


interests of Illinois and the American 
armer, 


in the history of Ameri- 


By EARL C. SMITH 


Since 1920, the Illinois Agricultural 
Association and County Farm Bureaus 
have prepared and presented much con- 
structive legislation to each succeeding 
General Assembly. The Association has 
provided personnel, which has fought 
for the farming industry in hundreds 
of committee hearings, before legislative 
committees, commissions and rate-mak- 
ing bodies. Throughout all of ae 
forts, the Association has sought’ to 
maintain a constructive position, one 
worthy of the recognition of all think- 
ing citizens, regardless of what their 
personal or business interests might be. 
That success in this effort has been real- 
ized is best attested by the fact that 
in nearly every instance where agricul- 
tural interests are involved, the Illinois 
Agricultural Association is now being 
invited to sit in and not only present its 
views, but to speak and act as the rep- 
resentative of Illinois agriculture. 


This is the 12-minute address 
by President Smith recorded on. 
a phonograph record in the Marsh 
Laboratories, Chicago, and am- 
plified through the I. A. A. pub- 
lic address system at district and 
County Farm Bureau picnics 
during August and early Sep- 
tember. 


Mr. Smith is introduced to the 
Farm Bureau’ audiences by 
George Thiem, Director of In- 
formation. 


While I could speak at some length 
relative to the success of the Associa- 
tion in securing the enactment of much 
of its legislative program during recent 
years; yet, were I to point to the most 
important service rendered agriculture, 
it would be in the success attained by 
the Association in securing the defeat 
of much proposed legislation which if 
enacted into law would have seriously 
affected and jeopardized the rightful 
interests of the farming industry. 

The Illinois Agricultural Association 
and County Farm Bureaus, working to- 
gether, are largely responsible for the 
fact that assessed valuations of farm 
lands and property have been reduced 
at different times since 1920, totaling 
in the aggregate approximately four 


‘hundred and seventy million dollars. All 


of this effort was justified because of 


A 12 Minute Address to Farm Bureau Members About Their Organization 


the loss in values and inequality in as- 
sessments as between different classes 
of property. These reductions could 
never have been secured, except through 
the influence and power of organization. 

It is, of course, apparent that not 
only the members of the organization, 
but others engaged in the industry, 
have benefited equally from these ef- 
forts; and it is, therefore, felt that 
every thinking farmer within the state 
should add to the strength and influ- 
ence of the Farm Bureau movement by 
becoming an active and participating 
member. 


The Tax Problem 


Possibly the greatest question before 
the citizens of Illinois is that of secur- 
ing a readjustment of our taxing ma- 
chinery to meet modern conditions and 
to make possible the distribution of the 
total cost of government in an equit- 
able manner. The I. A. A. and County 
Farm Bureaus have inaugurated and 
continued to struggle in behalf of a 
system of taxation based on “ability 
to pay.” Support to this program is 
increasing every day, and certainly no 
farmer can offer a just reason for re- 
fusing to support this most worthy of 
all public effort at the present time. 

We meet on every hand constant and 
continuing effort to increase rates, to 
improve the ingome of one group of 
our citizens at the expense of another 
through governmental action. How 
can the farmer meet these ever-increas- 
ing problems, except through organiza- 
tion? Certainly the tremendous invest- 
ment and interest of agriculture not 
only justify, but demand the mainte- 
nance of a strong and militant organi- 
zation, if for no other reason than that 
farmers may be represented at all times 
and in all places where questions of 
public policy are being considered and 
in the making. 

In the limited time allowed, I find it 
impossible to survey the activities and 
achievements of the 12 service depart- 
ments of the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 
ciation and its 8 associated companies. 
I shall, therefore, only briefly enumerate 
some of the more recent accomplish- 
ments. 

Twenty-two per cent (22%) of the 
livestock produced in Illinois moves to 
market through co-operative channels. 
Three billion pounds of fluid milk, or 


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about 75 per cent of the state’s pro- 
duction, finds its way to market in a 
similar manner. Five million pounds of 
‘Illinois butterfat has been’ organized in 
the past two years. A tremendous in- 
crease in the volume of fruit and vege- 
tables, or approximately one-fifth (1/5) 
of the state’s production is marketed 
co-operatively through the Illinois Fruit 
Growers Exchange. A large volume of 
soybeans and redtop seed is also being 
marketed in a collective way by their 
respective producers. Although not a 
year old, the Illinois Grain Corporation 
and its sales agency, the Mid-West 
Grain Corporation, have handled more 
than 3,200 cars of grain. 

That there is a place and need for 
these co-operative institutions is best 
proven by their continuing and sub- 
stantial growth, and the many mani- 
festations of satisfaction coming from 
the participating members. 


Collect $250,000 Claims 


In recent years, claims totaling ap- 
proximately a quarter of a million dol- 
lars have been collected for farmers, 
and in a majority of cases were claims 
that had first been tried in the usual 
manner, before being sent to the Asso- 
ciation with a request for service. Near- 
ly 1,000 of such claims were handled 
in the past year. 

Turning from the field of marketing 
to that of purchasing, I would merely 
mention that more than forty million 
dollars of legal reserve life insurance, 
and forty-five million dollars of fire, 
hail and windstorm insurance have been 
purchased from companies made pos- 
sible by the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 
ciation and County Farm Bureaus. The 
owners of more than 26,000 automo- 
biles, valued at nearly seventeen million 
dollars are protected in a like manner. 
I can conservatively state that the ini- 
tial and annual savings on this volume 
of insurance would easily approximate 
one-half million dollars. 


More to Be Done 


Something over three and one-half 
million dollars worth of petroleum 
products were purchased collectively in 
the calendar year of 1930, showing a 
saving to the Farm Bureau member pa- 
trons of approximately $600,000. 

Should time permit, nothing would 
please me more than to go into much 
greater detail and to mention the many 
activities of a general service character 
that have been carried on and forward, 
by and through the organization. While 
we all are and should be proud of our 
organization and its accomplishments, 
yet much more remains to be done than 
has yet been accomplished. 

All of these achievements, both in the 
field of marketing and purchasing, have 
been made possible by the Farm Bureau 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


movement of Illinois. Very little, if 
anything, could have been accomplished 
without the aid of a strong and militant 
organization. While the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association and its associated 
companies are in a strong position, yet 
the need of the hour is for a better un- 
derstanding on the part of its present 
members and the enlargement of its 
membership, that its influence and pow- 
er may be such as to speed the day of 
a proper solution to our many and con- 
tinuing problems. 

The farmer is ‘bearing much more 
than a fair share of the tax burden. 
Nothing must be left undone to secure 
fair treatment for those engaged in the 
farming industry. Farmers still lack ef- 
fective bargaining power in the sale of 
many of their products. The farmer is 
still receiving too small a percentage of 
the consumer’s dollar. Much must be 
done to bring about closer adjustment 
of American production to market de- 
mands. Farmers are not yet receiving 
their rightful interest in and benefits of 
the American protective policy. These 
problems must be solved. I know of 
no effective way to bring about a speedy 
and proper solution, except by farm- 
ers speaking and acting together through 
their organization. If our common in- 
terests as farmers are to be protected, 
our marketing system and economic po- 
sition improved, we must stand and 
work together constructively and in- 
telligently for our mutual welfare. 


So the Buyers Don’t 
Know What to Pay 


'HE fact that the board of directors 

of the Egyptian Seed Growers Ex- 
change did not set the advance payment 
on seed resulted in a big commotion 
among the seed dealers, reports the Clay 
County Farm Bureau in its recent bulle- 
tin. “For the past two years the pool 
advance has set the price for the dealers 
to pay. With no advance the dealers 
did not know what to do. The story 
came to the Farm Bureau office recently 
from a territory where there are few 
pool members to the effect that the 
local growers hoped the pool would set 
the price so the buyers would start to 
take their seed. 

“Some of the buyers who have been 
in the market for years would make no 
offer whatsoever,” continues the state- 
ment. “Other buyers started in paying 
10 cents, dropped to nine, and later on 
to eight and seven. One member of 
the Exchange said he hoped the buyers 
would get their price down to two 
cents per pound and perhaps the fellows 
outside the pool this year would be glad 
to get in next year. 

“Last year was one year when pool 
members got more for their seed than 


September, 1931 


Iroquois Boys and Girls 


See Sights in Chicago 
HIRTY-FIVE boys, girls and lead- 
ers from the 4-H Clubs of Iroquois 

county visited the I. A. A. offices on 
August 25 in charge of George T. 
Swaim, former farm adviser in Ford 
county. Local leaders Raymond R. 
Meents and Eddie Lafond also accom- 
panied the club members. 

Representatives from Stockland, Shel- 
don, Loda, Buckley, Gilman-Danforth, 
Ashkum and Donovan Clubs were in the 
party. They came primarily to attend 
the auction of their baby beef calves at 
the Union Stock Yards. The boys and 
girls were guests of the Chicago Pro- 
ducers’ Commission Association, and of 
Swift & Company, where they were 
treated to luncheon. 

Commenting upon the visit to the 
I. A. A. offices, Mr. Swaim wrote: ‘‘Sev- 
eral members expressed surprise at the 
number of projects carried on and the 
evident efficiency with which the mem- 
ber’s money is being spent. From the 
I. A. A. offices the tour led through the 
offices of the subsidiary companies and 
then out to the lake. The view of Lake 
Michigan and the big fountain in Grant 
Park were of great interest to most of 
the group. 

“Riding in the fast elevators was a 
new experience to some of the young 
folks. Leaving the 12th floor of the 
Transportation building where the I. 
A. A. and subsidiaries, occupy the whole 
floor, a great whoop went up when the 


elevator operator put on speed for their 
benefit.” 


16 Townships Play 
Ball, McLean Picnic 


Teams from 16 townships in McLean 
county competed in the soft-ball tour- 
nament at the annual picnic of the 
Farm Bureau and Home Bureau at Mil- 
ler Park, Bloomington, on Saturday, 
September 5. 

Larry Williams and Vernon Vaniman 
who debated the question: ‘Resolved, 
That Farmers Are Not Ready for Co- 
Operative Marketing,” featured the af- 
ternoon program. 

L. E. Tanner of Anchor, an officer in 
the State Horseshoe Pitchers’ Associa- 
tion, managed the barnyard golf con- 
test. 


the fellows outside. It is true that some 
non-members got as much as pool mem- 
bers. The pool members received 18 
cents per pound. It is estimated that 
the average non-member received be- 
tween 15 and 16 cents per pound for 
his seed. Just ask one of the 18-cent 
boys what he thinks of co-operative 
marketing.” 


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September, 1931 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Thirtees 


Casualty Insurance— 
A Farm Bureau Achievement 


Illinois Agricultural Mutual Nears $1,000,000 in Assets, 
30,000 Policies to Members 


Fae™ nothing to nearly a million- 
dollar company with close to 30,000 
policies issued in a period of four years, 
represents the achievement of Illinois 
Farm Bureau members in building their 
own casualty insurance company, the 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual. 

Organized early in 1927, 
the company began operat- 
ing April 1 that year. Since 
then it has never failed to 
grow in providing automo- 
bile and later employers’ lia- 
bility insurance for an ever- 
increasing number of Farm 
Bureau members. 

How the wheels go 
around in the home office 
from the time the applica- 
tion for insurance is re- 
ceived until the policy is 
issued, is an interesting pro- 
cedure. 

Applications from _ the 
County Farm Bureau offices 
which arrive at the rate of 
20 to 50 per day are turned over to 
Miss Ernst, secretary to Manager A. E. 
Richardson, where the checks and the 
applications are separated. The appli- 
cation goes to the Underwriting De- 
partment under the supervision of 
Helen Mertz. The policy is written 
by one of .three assistants. The checks 
go to the cashier for listing and are 
then turned over to Mr. R. A. Cowles, 
treasurer. 


The company emblem is mailed as 
soon as the application for insurance 
arrives. A carbon copy of the policy is 
sent to the County Farm Bureau office 
and the original to the applicant 

A card record is made of~the kind 
and class of coverage, and assessments 
are levied by the statistical department 
under the supervision of Margaret 
Lauritzen. The Hollerith tabulating 
system is in use both for computing the 
amount of premiums and in recording 
losses. This punch card system pro- 
vides a very equitable way of making 
levies on all makes, ages, and different 
classifications of pleasure cars and farm 
trucks, 

The company issues four regular 
classes of policies. Class I, which has 
the greatest coverage, is the most popu- 
lar policy. This covers fire, theft, 


windstorm and hail, collision with a 
moving object, public liability and 
property damage. About 20 per cent 
of the members have taken advantage 
of the full coverage policy which in- 
clues collision with a stationary object. 


Manager A. E. Richardson and his secretary, Miss E. 


Another job for the company is send- 
ing out notices when assessments are 
due. The first notice is mailed 30 days 
before assessments are due, the second 
notice 10 days, and the final notice on 
the date due, if payment has not been 
made by that time. A copy of the final 
notice is sent to the County Farm Bu- 
reau office. s 

If assessments still remain unpaid 60 
days after due, a letter is sent by the 
company to the insured. If this does 
not bring a response, the policy is can- 
celled 30 days later and the balance of 
the premium deposit and surplus share 
is returned. 


When notice is received from the 


Farm Bureau that the policyholder is 
no|longer a member of the organiza- 
tion he is at once advised and instructed 
that his policy will be cancelled at the 
end of the next six-months’ period for 
which his premium deposit is made if 
he fail to renew his mem- 
bership. 

The settlement of claims 
is an important part of the 
company’s work. There are 
500 or 600 claims coming 
in each month. These are 
results of accidents from 39 
different causes. A_ side- 
swipe resulting from an un- 
signaled left turn is the 
most frequent cause of acci- 
dents. Accidents at inter- 
sections are next in fre- 
quency, damage done to car 
while parked third, and fail- 
ure to use ordinary care 
while driving, fourth. The 
average amount involved in 
claims is $40. 

Claims are always disposed of as rap- 
idly as possible. On January 1, 1931. 
there were only 11 claims pending, 
which were results of accidents occur- 
ring before January 1, 1930. During 
the year 1930 nearly 5,000 claims were 
disposed of. An average of one policy- 
holder out of every five has an accident 
each year. 

When an accident occurs it is usually 
reported to the local adjuster in the 
county. He makes an investigation of 
the cause and results, lists damaged parts 
of car, gives names of injured parties, 
tells where car can be inspected, and 
gives statements of witnesses and his 
own conclusions as to the liability of 


J. Ernst. 


CLAIMS DEPARTMENT 
Left to right—Frank Billings, Earl Kaska and Florence 


Wilson. 


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the insured for the accident. He also 
makes out a formal notice of the acci- 
dent and files it with the Company. 

The Company then instructs the lo- 
cal adjuster the procedure to be fol- 
lowed in settling with the insured and 
other claimants. Small claims are usu- 
ally settled at once by the local adjuster 
when the insured has made proof of his 
claim and proved that his assessments 
are fully paid. When claims are filed in 
the home office, they are listed in the 
claim register and a number assigned to 
each one. Records are then checked as 
to class of car and date of last premium 
payment. 


Practically all personal injury and 
property damage claims are handled by 
the home office. All settlements of $50 
and less are approved by Frank Billings, 
in charge of the claim department. 
Larger claims must be approved by the 
manager, Mr. Richardson. All personal 
injury claims over $250 are approved 
by the legal counsel, Donald Kirk- 
patrick, and claims in excess of $1,000 
must be passed on by the board of 
directors. 


The volume of claims has increased 
steadily with the growth of the com- 
pany. A typical claim is one filed by 
O. C. Basinger of Saline county. The 
local adjuster notified the company on 
July 9 that an automobile driven by an 
employee of Mr. Basinger had been side- 
swiped by a locomotive at a railroad 
crossing causing damage to the car. 
The adjuster got an estimate from a 
local garage and recommended that the 
company settle for $70, which he said 
was satisfactory with the insured. The 
check was mailed to Mr. Basinger on 
July 13, four days after the claim was 
received. 

The Employers’ Liability division of 
the company is also growing. Seven- 
teen hundred farmers have made appli- 
cation for this insurance which protects 
them against common law liability to 


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STATISTICAL AND ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT 


Virginia Heaton, Elizabeth Collins, Margaret Lauritzen, George Krogman and 
William Campbell 


employees. At the present time this 
protection is costing them about 2 cents 
per day for each man employed. Helen 
Ekberg is in charge of this department. 

Acquisition is directed by Vernon 
Vaniman, director of insurance service 
for the I. A. A., working through the 
County Farm Bureaus. G. R. Williams 
of Salem is the field representative in 
Southern Illinois assisting in acquisition 
and rendering field service on claims. 
M. E. Roberts of Edinburg is doing 
the same kind of work in Central Illi- 
nois. 

To date the company has received ap- 
plications from nearly 30,000 farmers 
since its organization. Cancellations 
have averaged only about 244 per cent 
a year. New applications received this 
year by months are as follows: January 
416, February 385, March 427, April 
574, May 479, June 679, July 527, 
August 472. 

The fact that the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Mutual has continued to grow and 
to gain the confidence and business of 
a larger number of Farm Bureau mem- 
bers each year is evidence that it is 
meeting a definite need. The purpose 
of organizing the company was to sup- 
ply Farm Bureau members with a state- 
wide company of their own operated at 


UNDERWRITING DEPARTMENT 
Left to right—Marjory Lynch, Grace Powell, Margaret Simpson, Agnes Stack, 
Helen Ekberg, Laura Victorine (standing), Anna Belle Drury, Margaret Carriens, 
Violet Evans and Helen Mertz. ‘ 


cost to protect them against loss on 
their trucks and automobiles. 

The company has expanded so that a 
staff of 25 people is now required to do 
the work. Its. office occupies 1,800 
square feet of floor space adjoining the 
I. A. A. offices in the Transportation 
Building. ; 

The Illinois Agricultural Mutual is a 
legal reserve company. Its prompt pay- 
ment of claims is assured by the main- 
tenance of a substantial cash reserve. 
The Board of Directors of the I. A. A. 
requires that a proof of the adequacy of 
reserves for payment of claims be made 
quarterly. 

All the business has been done on a 
cost basis and no increase in assessments 
has been made since the company began 
business four years ago. On the other 
hand, several competing companies have 
increased their assessments within the 
last year. At present there is no in- 
dication that any increase need be made. 


Auto Insurance Agents 


In Race for High Sales 


The Illinois Agricultural Mutual In- 
surance Co. hopes to pass the 30,000 
application mark this month. A con- 
test is on between agents over the sta 
for which prizes are offered in the fgtm 
of Penn Bond motor oil to the 10 High- 
est general agents and the 10 highest 
special agents. 

The highest general and special agents 
in the state will receive in addition a 
pair of six-ply heavy duty Brunswick 
automobile tires for any passenger car 
owned by the agent and insured in the 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual. 

The county sending in the highest 
number of applications will receive a 
banner. Champaign county has won 
the banner for the past three years. 

The 10 high counties in applications 
for August were: McLean, Morgan, 
Cook, De Kalb, McDonough, St. Clair, 
Whiteside, Henry, Stephenson, Will. 

General Agent Wm. E. Hedgcock of 
McLean county led all others. 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Fifteen 


Larry Williams Breaks 
Record as Picnic Speaker 


Addresses More Than 50,000 at 
Outdoor Assemblies Since 
Latter Part June 


A. “LARRY” WILLIAMS, mana- 

« ger of Country Life Insurance 
Company, broke all records as a picnic 
and farm meeting speaker during the 
past summer. He addressed more than 
50,000 people at 28 Farm Bureau pic- 
nics and gatherings since the latter part 
of June. 

“The largest assembly was in Lake 
county where 7,000 actually registered 
in the drawing,” 
Williams comment- 
ed.‘ I doubt if any 
of the picnics had 
less than 1,000 and 
the average would 
run about 2,500. 

“The easiest audi- 
ence to talk to was 
at the Ogle county 
picnic at “The Pines’ 
State Park. The seat- 

Larry Wililams ing arrangement and 

the natural auditori- 
um which the canyon formed made 
speaking a pleasure. 

“Ford county farmers joined with the 
business men, making a very pleasing 
audience to talk to at Paxton, where 
perhaps the finest picnic grounds pos- 
sible were made available to the crowd. 


Audiences Attentive 


“The Lee county group were inter- 
ested listeners. Although they had to 
stand or sit on the ground, they were 
attentive and appreciative. The Wil- 
liamson county picnic was particularly 
successful in holding its crowd and cre- 
ating interest in the contests and sports. 

“The 4-H Club shows and demon- 
strations drew good attendance and 
generated much enthusiasm at the pic- 
nics where this was a feature. 

“The public address system fur- 
nished by the I. A. A. was a great help 
wherever it was used. The music from 
the records provided very fine enter- 
tainment to round out the program. 
The speaker was greatly aided by the 
amplifier in that he could let his voice 
down and speak through the micro- 
phone in a natural tone. It also en- 
abled the audience to follow the speak- 
er without difficulty.” 


At their meeting in August the 
I. A. A. Board of Directors ap- 
proved an appropriation of $200 
for the annual student livestock 
judging contest at the University of 
Illinois. 


Frank Evans of Salt Lake City, Utah, 
former secretary and general counsel of 
the American Farm Bureau Federation, 
is President Hoover’s latest appointee to 
membership on the Federal Farm Board. 

The members of the Farm Board now 
are James C. Stone, Kentucky, chair- 
man; Carl Williams, Oklahoma, vice- 
chairman; Sam H. Thompson, Illinois; 
C. B. Denman, Missouri; W. F. Schil- 
ling, Minnesota; Chas. Wilson, New 
York; and Frank Evans, Utah. One 
vacancy on the Board still remains to 
be filled. Secretary Arthur M. Hyde is 
a member ex-officio. 


Approximately 62 per cent of those 
registering at Farm Bureau headquar- 
ters at the Illinois State Fair were mem- 
bers of the organization. 


October Is Fire Prevention 


Month 


OW is a good time to go over 
your farm buildings and 
eliminate the fire hazards. Learn 
how you can reduce your fire in- 
surance costs by reducing risks 


with the use of lightning rods, 
fire-proof construction, use of fire 
extinguishers, etc. 
Write for particulars. 
Fire Prevention Department 
ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 
ASSOCIATION 


608 So. Dearborn St. Chicago 


“Destroy Every Third Row 
Cotton,” Advises Farm Board 


Chairman Stone Dispatches Tele- 
grams to Governors of Big 
Cotton States 


ELEGRAMS to the governors of 

all the larger cotton producing states 
signed by James C. Stone, chairman of 
the Federal Farm Board, were dispatched 
on August 12 advising them to get back 
of a movement to have all growers plow 
under every third row of cotton now 
growing. 

This drastic action on the part of the 
Farm Board was taken deliberately fol- 
lowing the government cotton report of 
15,584,000 bales which, according to 
the Board’s telegram, “if realized pro- 
vides total crop and carry-over supply 
of American cotton of more than twen- 
ty-four and one-half million _ bales 
against probable world consumption of 
American cotton this fiscal year of 13,- 
000,000 or possibly 14,000,000 bales, 
leaving probable carry-over one year 
hence of around 11,000,000 bales. 


Tried to Protect 


“This condition occurs in spite of 10 
per cent reduction in acreage last 
spring,’ continues the telegram. “It 
has already resulted in drastic declines 
in cotton prices which if allowed to 
continue may bring direct disaster to 
cotton producing states and indirect 
distress to the nation. Through serious 
world depression of last two years Fed- 
eral Farm Board has steadfastly at- 
tempted to protect cotton farmers and 
all who deal with them from price de- 
clines such as have affected all indus- 
tries first by sixteen cent loans to cot- 
ton co-operatives, second by removal 
from market by cotton stabilization 
corporation of 1,300,000 bales, third by 
90 per cent loans to co-operatives last 
year. 


“These efforts had some measure of 
success but have been outweighed by 
continual excess production and con- 
tinually increasing surplus. Board be- 
lieves that time has now come when 
cotton producers themselves must be 
called upon for immediate and drastic 
action. Agricultural Marketing Act, 
section one, paragraph four directs 
Board to aid ‘in preventing and con- 
trolling surpluses and in orderly mar- 
keting and distribution so as to prevent 
such surpluses from causing undue or 
excess fluctuations or depressions in 
price for the commodity.’ Section five, 
paragraph four, ‘the Board is author- 
ized and directed to investigate condi- 
tions of over-production in agricultural 
commodities and advise as to the pre- 
vention of such over-production.’ In 


Page Sixteen 


line with above mandate from congress 
and in view existing Board suggests 
that you immediately mobilize every in- 
terested and available agency in your 
state, including farmers, bankers, mer- 
chants, landowners and all agricultural 
educational forces, to induce immediate 
plowing under of every third row of 
cotton now growing. 


Must Abandon Acreage 


“Without question, at present low 
prices there will be considerable aban- 
donment late in the season, but this will 
not improve prices during heavy mar- 
keting. Problem to be solved is to se- 
cure abandonment in an organized and 
orderly fashion which will give farmers 
a better return on the remainder. Board 
is convinced that such organized reduc- 
tion immediately done will be more 
than repaid by increased price received 
by growers on this and future crops 
entirely aside from savings by reason of 
no picking and ginning costs on that 
part: of crop plowed under. 

“Board recognizes that this sugges- 
tion calls for drastic remedy for serious 
emergency but commends to you the 
thought that major operation of this 
kind rather than attempts at lesser 
measures is now needed. Board earnest- 
ly hopes this proposal which is being 
sent governors of all cotton producing 
states will be approved by you and the 
people of the South and that necessary 
steps will be immediately taken to put 
it into effect on basis which will begin 
reduction throughout South not later 
than September 1 and complete pro- 
gram not later than September 15. 


Board Will Help 


“If the 10 largest cotton producing 
states accept and carry out this pro- 
gram this Board will do all in its power 
to support the program and will pledge 
itself to permit no sales by the cotton 
stabilization corporation of its present 
holdings before July 31, 1932, and will 
urge upon the cotton co-operatives 
financed by the Board the desirability 
of similar action by them on their stocks 
of 1930 cotton now held. 

“This program if fully carried out 
by southern farmers as well as by our- 
selves will mean reduction of total sup- 
ply by at least 4,000,000 bales and 
withholding from this year’s market of 
3,000,000 bales more. You will appre- 
ciate necessity for very prompt action 
if this plan is to effectively benefit 
farmers this fall and you are therefore 
urged to immediately advise us your at- 
titude toward co-operation on it. Board 
will promptly convey to you reactions 
from other states as received.” 


Real estate and property owners in 
Stark county received a 20 per cent cut 
in tax valuations this spring. 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


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September, 1931 


Three of the nine oil trucks operated by Morgan Farmers’ Oil Company just after 
they had finished filling 15 tractors with Aladdin gas at Rees Tractor Meet. 


Use Aladdin Gas at 
Rees Tractor Contest 


Louisiana Passes Bill 
To Ban Cotton Planting 


A BILL prohibiting the planting, 
gathering and ginning of cotton 
this year was passed unanimously by 
the Louisiana State House of Repre- 
sentatives on August 27. The bill was 
sent immediately to the Senate, where 
like action was predicted by Governor 
Huey P. Long, its sponsor. _ 

The measure is contingent on similar 
bans being proclaimed by states having 
75 per cent of the cotton acreage in 
1930. 


The vote in favor of the bill was 
made unanimous, 77 to 0, after Repre- 
sentative Stanley McDermott of New 
Orleans, who had strenuously opposed 
it, was permitted to change his vote to 
the affirmative, stating that he did so 
“to exhibit a united front to the world.” 

The bill, as passed by the House, 
makes it a misdemeanor for any person, 
farm or corporation to “plant cotton 
seed to raise cotton, to gather cotton, 
and to gin cotton in 1932.” A fine of 
not less than $100 nor more than $500, 
or imprisonment of not less than 10 
days nor more than 60 days for each 
offence, is the penalty for violation. 

The bill empowers the state commis- 
sioner of agriculture to cause to be de- 
stroyed any cotton found growing in 
1932. 


Governor Long stated that if other 
governors and legislatures of cotton 
growing states would take similar ac- 
tion within the next two weeks, cot- 
ton would soon be selling at from 15 
to 20 cents a pound throughout the 
world. 

“With this year’s crop, we have on 
hand in America more than 24,000,000 
bales of cotton, enough already to sup- 
ply next year’s demand,” he said. “It 
would be a crime for the legislatures of 
the cotton growing states to allow this 
opportunity to restore prosperity to 
their people to pass.” 


HE use of glass-lined tanks for 

transporting and handling milk has 
increased so rapidly that today some 
cities receive 70 to 95 per cent of their 
fluid milk in tanks. 


ORE than 5,000 farmers wit- 

nessed the plowing contest held 
at Rees Station in Morgan county on 
the farm of Milford Rees August 6. 
Fifteen contestants competed in the 
three divisions. 

The tractor meet is an annual event 
sponsored by the community, the Mor- 
gan County Farm Bureau, and the 
Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce. 
Entrants this year included five in the 
two bottom class, eight in the-three 
bottom class, and two in the four bot- 
tom class. 

During the forenoon and afternoon 
programs were given from the platform 
with Fred Scholfield, president of the 
Morgan County Farm Bureau, in charge. 

In the Farm Bureau tent on the 
grounds an attractive display was shown 
by the Morgan Farmers Oil Company. 
C. W. Ward, field sales manager of the 
Illinois Farm Supply Company, was in 


the tent during the day assisting the’ 


local manager, C. H. Jewsbury, with 
the display. 

All fifteen of the contestants in the 
plowing contests filled their tractors 
with Aladdin gasoline furnished by the 
Morgan Farmers Oil Company. A. L. 
Young and E. G. Johnson of the Uni- 
versity of Illinois judged the contest. 


The Vermilion county 4-H Club 
show and Farm Bureau picnic, Septem- 
ber 12, Danville, was held at the I. and 
I. Fair grounds. Donald Kirkpatrick, 
legal counsel for the I. A. A., was the 
chief speaker. 

The feature of the morning program 
was the judging of the calves, pigs, and 
other livestock. Horseshoe pitching and 
other contests were held for adults. 


Walter S. Batson, formerly teacher 
of vocational agriculture at Ridge Farm, 
Vermilion county, began work as farm 
adviser in Shelby county September 1. 
Mr. Batson succeeds H. M. Adams, who 
has been employed by the Cincinnati 
Producers Commission Association. 


home adviser in Iroquois county. She began 


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21 Demonstrations 


Teach Weed Killing 


SERIES of 21 weed killing demon- 

strations are being sponsored this 
month by the Illinois Farm Supply 
Company. C. W. Ward, sales repre- 
sentative of the com- 
pany and a man 
from the Chipman 
Chemical Engineer- 
ing Company, man- 
ufacturers of Atla- 
cide Calcium Chlo- 
rate, are in charge of 
the demonstrations 
scheduled in Lee, 
Carroll, Rock Island, 
Tri-Counties (War- 
ren, Henderson, 
Mercer), Fulton, 
Cass, Scott, Pike, Greene, St. Clair, 
Madison, Montgomery, Shelby, Craw- 
ford-Jasper, Edgar, Champaign, Taze- 
well and Woodford Sept. 18; Mcl.ean 
county, Sept. 19; and Ford and Iro- 
quois counties, Sept. 21. 

A truck equipped with a power 
sprayer is being used to demonstrate the 
effectiveness of calcium chlorate. Ap- 
proximately nine carloads of atlacide 
have been distributed by Farm Bureaus 
and local service companies in the state 
during the last summer, reports Mana- 
ger L. R. Marchant of the Illinois Farm 
Supply Company. More fall applica- 
tions will probably be made than ever 
before this month and next. 


Cc. W. Ward 


Fall treatments are particularly suc- 
cessful when properly applied. The 
chemical either kills the weed outright 
or else weakens it so that winter freez- 
ing together with plant poisoning will 
completely eradicate the pests. Plant 
poisoning is similar to blood poisoning. 
The chemical is absorbed principally 
through the leaves and stems and cir- 
culates through the plant system into 
the roots. Application should be made 
for best results before the weeds are 


killed by frost. 


10 High Counties Named 
In Employer’s Liability 


The 10 high counties in applications 
for Farmer Employer’s Liability Insur- 
ance for August were: McLean, Du 
Page, Livingston, Henry, Tazewell, 
Cook, Vermilion, Fulton, St. Clair, 
Kendall. 

This policy protects the employer up 
to $5,000 per person and with that 
limit per person $10,000 for any single 
accident. In addition it covers court 
costs, lawyers’ fees, hospital bills, etc. 
The cost of the insurance is only $4.50 
each six months of hired labor. 


For Auto Emblems 


The bracket shown in the picture 
above is for fastening the I. A. A. 
auto emblem on cars that have a 


shutter or winter front. The em- ° 


blem is fastened to the device by 
wire and may be attached to the 
bolt which holds the front or rear 
license plate. 

Policyholders in the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Mutual may secure one of 
these free by writing the Company 
at 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago. 


Some recent accident. reports follow: 

Cook County —Small bones in 
wrist broken: when crank on gasoline 
engine flew back. 

Du Puge County—Fourth finger 
broken, nail torn off and_ skin tore 
when hand caught in grain elevator. 

Livingston County—Standing on 
toehold on roof when it gave way caus- 
ing employee to fall 16 feet to the 
ground sustaining cuts on face. Lung 
punctured by broken rib. 

McLean County — Employee put- 
ting collar on horse who had a sore neck. 
Horse turned and kicked employee on 
legs causing bad bruises. 

Macon County—Returning to field 
for more wheat sacks, employee lost 
control of car. Car turned a complete 
somersault causing injuries to employee’s 
abdomen, right shoulder and hip, para- 
lizing right side. 

St. Clair County—Employee was 
picking ice when pick stuck and han- 
dle came off. Not noticing this, em- 
ployee jabbed again, running rusty pick 
in hand. 


Hire Sales Manager 


R. W. Grieser, head hog salesman for 
the Chicago Producers, has been em- 
ployed as sales manager for the Illinois 
Livestock Marketing Association. He 
began work on September 2. 

For the time being the Association 
will have its headquarters in the I. A. A. 
offices at 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago. 


Win Prizes in State 
Fair Drawing Contest 


ARM Bureau members from 81 dif- 

ferent counties registered at the Illi- 
nois Agricultural Association headquar- 
ters at the State Fair this year, accord- 
ing to records of the Illinois Farm Sup- 
ply Company. Sangamon, Christian, 
Montgomery, McLean, Macon, Macou- 
pin, and Champaign counties led in the 
number of registrations, in the order 
named. 

The mystery faucet from which a 
stream of Penn Bond Motor Oil was 
continuously flowing appeared to be the 
center of attraction in the oil company 
exhibit. The ingenuity of George Cur- 
tiss, manager of McLean County Ser- 
vice Company, and the generosity of 
that company, were responsible for this 
portion of the display. 

Martin Fuchs of Harvel, Montgom- 
ery county, won the thirty gallon drum 
of Penn Bond (100% Pure Pennsyl- 
vania) oil in the drawing, and Elsie 
Sauder of Roanoke, Woodford county, 
won the Brunswick automobile tire. 
The first seven names, in the order 
drawn by Ruby Aires of Knox county, 
were: : 

1. Ralph E. Arnett, Pekin, Ill., Taze- 
well county. , 

2. Robert Means, Hersman, _IIl., 
Brown county. 

3. E. F. Stimpert, Panola, Ill., Wood- 
ford county. 

4. F. C. Dinwiddie, Sinclair, IIl., 
Morgan county. 

5. Martin Fuchs, Harvel, Ill., Mont- 
gomery county. : 

6. Alden Snyder, Hillsboro, IIl., 
Montgomery county. 

7. Elsie Sauder, Roanoke, IIl., Wood- 
ford county. 

The prizes mentioned above were 
awarded to the Sth and 7th. 

J. C. Bornemann, route 1, Sugar 
Grove (Kane county) won the drum 
of oil at the Central States Exposition, 
Aurora, and Frank C. Barber of Sheri- 
dan (LaSalle county) the Brunswick 
automobile tire awarded by Illinois Farm 
Supply Company. 


I received your check for $17.35, 
which represents the full loss sustained 
by me by theft on or about Aug. 13, 
1931. 

This is the first insurance loss of any 
kind that I have ever had and I am 
more than pleased with the settlement. 

J. W. GaNNAWay, 
Coles County, Il. 


The Illinois Farm Supply Company 
received 52 coupons and inquiries from 
the fly spray advertisement in the July 
issue of the RECORD. The inquiries 


came from 38 counties. 


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Number 10 


OCTOBER, 1931 


Volume 9 


"'Too Many Public Offices," 


Ex-Gov. Lowden Declares 


Advocates Reconstruction of Local 
Government Into Larger Units 
To Reduce Taxes 


ORMER Governor Frank O. Low- 

den of Illinois, speaking at a two- 
day session of the Illinois Chamber of 
Commerce in Chicago, October 9, ad- 
vocated reconstruction of county and 
township governments as a means of re- 
ducing the tax burden. 


Mr. Lowden declared that township 
assessment of taxes should be abolished 
as an outgrown 
relic of ox-cart 
days, that there is 
no excuse for town- 
ship offices, that 
many counties are 
too small for the 
greatest efficiency, 
and that a general 
reorganization of 


ment system is 


needed. 


“In the average Illinois county,” Mr. 
Lowden said, “‘the salaries of county 
officials absorb a very large percentage 
of the total revenue of the county, 
running as high as 50 per cent. These 
officials could serve a much larger terri- 
tory. 


Frank 0. Lowden 


“It is a matter of common observa- 
tion that we have too many public offi- 
cials. Their number goes on increasing 
in good and evil times alike. 


Many of our county jails have been 
a disgrace for more than a hundred 
years. Our county almshouses are ex- 
pensive and many have been a re- 
proach to our civilization. They should 
be abolished and in their place should 
come either regional or state institu- 
tions, 


“We have too many governments,” 
he said. ‘An extreme illustration is in 
Cook county which alone contains 392 
independent local governments. Is it 


t local self-government,” he said. 
the local govern- 


any wonder that Chicago, with all its 
vast resources, should be in financial 
distress?” 


Mr. Lowden favors the abolition of 
the township. This is a unit of govern- 
ment which has largely survived its 
needs, he said. No one but the town 
assessor knows what its boundaries are. 
The county should be the smallest unit 
of assessment. 


In some states where the regional 
plan has been adopted the per capita 
cost of government has been cut in 
half. Virginia and North Carolina have 
made big cuts by consolidation of local 
government units. 


“It is sometimes urged that to con- 
solidate counties is a move away from 
“Quite 
the reverse is true. If we would check 
encroachment of the state upon func- 
tions of the county we must make 
county government so efficient that 
there will be no reason for such a 
change.” 


Prof. Thomas S. Adams, tax authori- 
ty of Yale university and a specialist 
of 35 years’ standing who has served as 
tax adviser to the treasury department, 
declared that “‘the best tax we have is 
the tobacco tax.’ He said: “We need 
not more taxes on tobacco, but more 
taxes like the tobacco tax; that is, sales 
taxes on articles of wide, but not abso- 
lutely necessary consumption.” 


He declared the income tax better 
than the property tax. Among his rec- 
ommendations were: the reduction of 
public expenditures; the reorganization 
of the assessment machinery; the in- 
troduction of an income tax; and the 
taxation of intangible property. 


THE I. A. A. IS A 
SERVICE ORGANIZATION 


Soybean Association 
Reports Advance Price 


Meet at Springfield October 5 to 
Discuss Details of Market- 
ing Situation 


FTER thoroughly studying the 
market situation directors of the 
Soybean Marketing Association have 
announced a temporary advance of 20 
cents per bushel basis number 2 U. S. 
grade. 
This temporary advance is based on 
a substantial sale of soybeans to a lead- 
ing processor at a figure well above the 
present low market level. Although the 
advance is extremely low, the Associa- 
tion expects the market to strengthen 
later and hopes to be able to make ad- 
ditional payments to members as this 
year’s crop is merchandised. 


As soybean oil and soybean oil meal 
come into direct competition with cot- 
ton seed products, the price is natural- 
ly held down by the large production 
of cotton in the South this year. 


Meeting October 5 


A meeting of leaders of the Soybean 
Marketing Association was held at 
Springfield October 5 to discuss the 
market situation and to report on prob- 
able deliveries from the organized coun- 
ties. President Earl C. Smith outlined 
to the leaders the principles involved 
in the sales contract which has already 
been entered into with a leading proc- 
essor. 

Representatives from most of the 
counties reported that only about two- 
thirds of last year’s volume would be 
delivered this year and that a larger 
volume than usual will be stored on the 
farm for future delivery to the Associa- 
tion, and for feeding. It was also re- 
ported in certain areas, particularly 
where the crop is less than average, that 
a larger number of farmers are plowing 
under their soybean crop rather than 
pay the high harvesting cost. 

With soybean oil meal being forced 
down on a competitive level with cot- 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


October, 1931 


ton seed meal, there never was a better 
time for Illinois livestock feeders to 
buy a superior- protein supplement for 
feeding with home grown grains than 
now, according to W. H. Coultas, man- 
ager of the Association. Livestock feed- 
ers should use more soybean oil meal, 
as it is superior in protein content and 
digestibility to either cotton seed or lin- 
seed meal and because it is the only 
protein supplement grown in the corn 


belt. 


Banquet State Baseball 
Champions at Pontiac 


I. A. A. Trophy Awarded Before 
' Gathering in Livingston County 
October 8 


ORE than 150 people, including 

members of the State Champion- 
ship Baseball Team from Livingston 
county, baseball officials, County Farm 
Bureau directors, and their wives and 
guests, gathered at a banquet in Pon- 
tiac October 8 to celebrate Livingston’s 
recent victory over Knox county in the 
state finals. S. G. “Steve” Turner, farm 
adviser, ably served as toastmaster. 

After paying tribute to the prowess 
of each member of the team and Mana- 
ger Clarence Jacobs, to Ray McKit- 
trick, county baseball director, and the 
four members of the baseball commit- 
tee, Francis Skinner, Donald Kirkton, 
John Wrightam and Wm. Conroy, the 
toastmaster presented each player with 
a gold baseball watch charm and a gift 
from the manager. The watch charm 
and a silver trophy were donated by the 
A. G. Spaulding Company. 

E. G. Thiem, secretary of the State 
League, reviewed the history of the or- 
ganization since its beginning in 1924, 
discussed some of the questions and 
problems that arose during the current 
season, told of the fine sportsmanship 
shown throughout the championship 
series by Livingston and Knox counties, 
and presented “Shy” Wrightam, captain 
of the team, with the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association trophy, a silver lov- 
ing cup. 

Musical entertainment was provided 
by a ladies’ trio composed of Mesdames 
Erickson, Shugart and Turner, who won 
first place in the recent national con- 
test at the American Legion convention, 
Detroit, and by the Farmer Four, local 
men’s quartette. 

Assistant Farm Adviser F. S$. Camp- 
bell of Knox county, Manager T. J. 
Sullivan, Pitcher Sornberger and Catch- 
er Shay drove over from Galesburg to 
help celebrate Livingston’s victory. 


Other guests introduced during the eve- 
ning in addition to team members and 
officials were George L. Potter, presi- 


dent of the County Service Company; 


Calistus A. Bruer, secretary, and 
Charles Meis, president of the Livings- 
ton Farm Bureau. 


Await Word from Farm 
Board on Corn Proposals 


RESIDENT EARL C. SMITH dis- 

cussed stabilization of corn prices 
with members of the Coarse Grains Ad- 
visory Committe and the Federal Farm 
Board in Washington on Tuesday, Oct. 
6. A plan was formulated by a sub- 
committee and presented to the Farm 
Board with the request that it be given 
attention at the earliest possible mo- 
ment. 

It is likely that a state-wide I. A. A. 
meeting will be called in the near fu- 
ture to discuss and adopt a definite 
program. 

The marketing staff of the Associa- 
tion and representatives of the Illinois 
Grain Corporation have been studying 
various proposals made by members and 
leaders designed to lift the price of corn 
to a higher level. A number of the 
suggestions so made were brought be- 
fore the proper officials in the national 
capital. 


Soybean Oil Paint at 
Greatly Reduced Prices 


Successful experiments made by the 
University of Illinois and. private tests 
conducted by paint ( 
have prompted the Illinois Farm Sup- 
ply Company to offer a high grade soy- 
bean oil paint through the 47 associated 
service Companies. 

This paint, containing not less than 
20 per cent soybean oil, promises to 
greatly increase the outlet for soybean 
oil, which largely determines the soy- 
bean market. Illinois grows 40 per cent 
of the commercial soybeans produced in 
this country. 

In order to get rapid distribution for 
this paint the Farm Supply Company 
is offering it through county service 
companies at 23 per cent below the 
regular retail price for paint of a simi- 
lar quality. With special discounts in 
addition to this, the net cost to Farm 
Bureau members will be approximately 
30 per cent below average local retail 
prices. 

The house paint can be furnished in 


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Members Sign Pledge 
To Prevent Accidents 


EPORTS coming in from several of 
the 61 counties organizing safety 
clubs as a part of the state Farm Bu- 
reau accident prevention campaign in- 
dicate that farmers are joining whole- 
heartedly in the movement, reports V. 
Vaniman, director of insurance service. 
The first count shows a membership 
of 369. Considering the fact that wind- 


shield stickers and other 
36 material were sent out 
only a few days ago 


this is an exceptionally 
good showing, Vaniman said. 

Every Farm Bureau member is eligi- 
ble for membership in Illinois Farm 
Bureau Safety Club and will receive a 
windshield sticker on which is printed 
a list of rules for safe driving. Stickers, 
material and membership are free. 

A number of counties are holding 
special safety meetings during October 
where demonstrations of safe driving 
and traffic rules will be given. 

Champaign county is planning to in- 
stall safety lanes for testing brakes and 
wheel alignment as a means of eliminat- 
ing mechanical defects which might 
lead to accidents. Mr. Vaniman says 
about 75 per cent of the cars tested in 
safety lanes have defects that need cor- 
recting. 

A silver loving cup will be given by 
the I. A. A. to the county conducting 
the best campaign. Each county enter- 
ing will present an exhibit of newspaper 
clippings, news letter items, and other 
publicity material such as pictures, pos- 
ters, etc. The winning county will have 
the honor of naming a local man ‘as 
president of the Illinois Farm Bureau 
Safety Club for the coming year. The 
next four will select representatives 
from their county to be members of 
the board of directors. 


Ford County Grain 
Association Formed 


The Ford County Grain Association, 
newly organized, has the following 
board of directors: Albert Odell, 
Charles E. Harper, Louis Runneberg, A. 
B. Schofield, Edward Karr, Paxton; Al- 
fred Arends, Melvin; R. F. Cothern, 


W. E. McKeever, Harry Scott, Gibson. 


City; Louis Rust, Sibley; George V. 
Dowse, William Walgenbach, Kempton; 
John Woodward, Thawville; John Gal- 
lahue and P. S. Jensen, Piper City. The 
temporary officers are: A. B. Schofield, 
president; P. S. Jensen, vice-president; 
W. E. McKeever, secretary-treasurer. 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Five 


Dairymen's League Joins 
in Opposing 15% Increase 


N appeal to farmers to support 
A their organizations in the fight 
against higher freight rates has been 
made by Fred H. Sexauer, president of 
the Dairymen’s League Co-operative As- 
sociation of New York. He points out 
that farm prices are now 77 per cent of 
what they were before the war, while 
railroad rates are 155 per cent of the 
pre-war rate. - 

“The railroads ask for additional rev- 
enue so that they may suffer no losses, 
pay interest of bonds and securities and 
pay interest on investments such as 
stocks,” said Mr. Sexauer. 

“Farmers asked for relief ten years 
ago. They were finally given the Agri- 
cultural Marketing Act two years ago. 
Already a movement has been started 
in the cities to kill the act. That was 
not what the farmers asked for, but 
they had to accept that or nothing. 

‘Farmers have had to reduce their 
costs, cut wages, lower living standards 
and work harder. Are railroads a mighty 
institution that can solve their problems 
by new development, cutting costs and 
holding on until better times, or must 
farmers have the burdens of the rail- 
roads placed upon their already overbur- 
dened shoulders to carry with their 
own?” 

The Dairymen’s League supported the 
McNary-Haugen bill and the equaliza- 
tion fee along with the American Farm 
Bureau Federation and other farm or- 
ganizations. 


Fruit and Vegetable 
Growers Meet Oct. 22 


The first stockholders’ meeting of the 
National Fruit and Vegetable Ex- 
change will be held at the Hotel Sher- 
man, Chicago, October 22. 

A resolution has been drawn up and 
copies submitted to interested co-opera- 
tive marketing associations, whose 
boards of directors will determine 
whether or not they desire stock in the 
national set-up. 

Each organization desiring to be off- 
cially represented at the stockholders’ 
meeting and participate in the election 
of the board of directors must pass the 
resolution and name a delegate with full 
power to represent it, says P. F. Hibst, 
secretary of the organization. 

A. B. Leeper, director of fruit and 
vegetable marketing for the I. A. A. 
and manager of the Illinois Fruit Grow- 
ers Exchange, is president of the National 
Fruit and Vegetable Exchange. The 
new organization will probably begin 
to handle produce January 1. 


|. A. A. Directors Vote 
to Help Milk Producers 


Assistance to the Sanitary Milk Pro- 
ducers of St. Louis was voted unani- 
mously by the board of directors of the 
I. A. A. at its regular meeting in Chi- 
cago, Thursday, September 17. 

The following motion by Mr. C. E. 
Bamborough, seconded by Mr. Frank 
G. Oexner was adopted: 

“That the executive officers of IIli- 
nois Agricultural Association be and 
they hereby are authorized and directed 
to confer with the officers of Sanitary 
Milk Producers Association in calling a 
meeting at the earliest moment of rep- 
resentatives from the several County 
Farm Bureaus in the affected area to- 


“gether with the Board of Directors of 


Sanitary Milk Producers and representa- 
tives of Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion; and further, to make available, 
to the full extent their judgment justi- 
fies, all possible man power from within 
the marketing, publicity, and organiza- 
tion staff of the Association, to assist 
the dairy producers in the St. Louis ter- 
ritory in protecting their rightful inter- 
ests.” 


Edwardsville Paper Fights 
for Local Milk Producers 


In an editorial on the milk strike in 
southern Illinois against the Pevely 
Dairy Company of St. Louis, the Ed- 
wardsville (Ill.) Intelligencer said in 
part: “There isn’t any doubt about 
where the sympathies of Madison coun- 
ty residents should be in this fight. 
About 1700 Madison county farmers are 
extensively engaged in milk production. 
Their income from such business vitally 
affects every person in the county. If 
Madison county farmers can’t make a 
profit from their labors we certainly 
cannot expect them to contribute much 
to the business welfare of the commun- 
ity. On a selfish basis alone every busi- 
ness man in the county wants the pro- 
ducers to win out in this fight. As a 
matter of fact their sympathies are with 
the producers anyway. 


“They realize that the producers are 
fighting for recognition and a chance to 
do business in a business-like manner. 
They know that if the Pevely Company 
should win out, a considerable umber 
of our farmers would be reduced to a 
status little better than that of slavery.” 


Three Per Cent Money, 
Corn Holding Considered 


Following a discussion about agita- 
tion for three per cent money in several 
sections of Illinois, the board of direc- 
tors of the I. A. A. at their September 
meeting voted to refer this question to 
the Finance Committee for study and 
recommendation to the board at_ its 
October meeting. 

The board also considered at somé 
length plans proposed in Iowa and Ne- 
braska involving the holding of the new 
corn crop for higher prices. It was gen- 
erally agreed that any plan that seems 
hopeful of obtaining the desired result 
should be supported. 

It was regularly moved by Mr. 
Wright, seconded by Mr. Marshall, and 
carried: 

“That the matter finding a solution 
or evolving a plan for holding the new 
corn crop off the market until better 
prices results, be referred to the Secre- 
tary of the Association, with instruc- 
tions that he in turn place the matter 
into the hands. of the marketing staff 
of the Association for study and rec- 
ommendations as to a constructive plan 
which will attain results, and to make 
report at the next meeting of the 
Board.” 


Haugen Predicts Passage 
of Equalization Fee 


Representative Haugen of Iowa has 
expressed the opinion that Congress at 
the next session will pass the proposed 
legislation to incorporate the equaliza- 
tion fee into the agricultural marketing 
act. 

Mr. Haugen’s statement was as fol- 
lows: ‘‘The farm leaders generally are 
getting back to the equalization fee plan 
for handling surplus agricultural prod- 
ucts, and against the subsidy plan for 
marketing them under the revolving 
fund loan provisions of the Agricultural 
Marketing Act of 1928. There probably 
will be legislation by Congress this win- 
ter to incorporate the equalization fee as 
a part of our marketing plan. 

“I expect the equalization fee plan to 
be adopted as originally proposed in the 
McNary-Haugen bill.” 


Ford County Gains in 
Farm Bureau Members 


A recent membership drive in Ford 
county put the membership of the 
County Farm Bureau up to 660 on in- 
complete returns, making a gain of ap- 
proximately 100 members in the last 
year. Two entire townships and por- 
tions of several others are not included 
in this total. 


Page Six 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


October, 1931 


Livingston Wins State Baseball Championship 


1931 STATE CHAMPIONS FROM LIVINGSTON COUNTY 


FRONT ROW (left to right): Weber, s.s.; Conroy, rf.; Wild :aber, sub. 


MIDDLE ROW: Wheatley, cf.; Schmidt, c.; Cole- 


man, p.; Meyer, 2b.; Wrightam, 1b., captain. BACK ROW: Bevger, umpire; C. Jacobs, manager; Clancy, If.; T. Jacobs, 3b.; 
Harris, sub.; Morrison, sub.; Skinner, baseball committeeman. Stsve Turner, farm adviser, left, and Ray McKittrick, county base- 
ball director, are standing in the rear. The picture was taken at Galesburg following Livingston’s victory in the final game. 


Y defeating Knox county 9 to 2 at 
Galesburg, September 26, Living- 
ston county made a clean sweep of the 
championship series and brought home 
the State Farm Bureau baseball title for 
1931. 

This is the second time in three years 
that Division III won the state title. 
McLean county won the championship 
in 1929. Livington’s two straight vic- 
tories over Knox made it unnecessary 
for a third game. The new champions 
won the first game by a score of § to 2. 
Both games were won by late rallies. 

A four run revival in the seventh 
inning gave Livingston enough tallies to 
win the first game. Previous to the 
scventh inning Knox county was in the 
lead 2-1. Opening the inning Sornberg- 
er fanned Clancy and then hit Meyers to 
put the first man on. Jacobs hit a long 
fly to right field, which was misjudged 
and fell for a safe hit. Meyers went to 
third on the play and scored on a passed 
ball that bounced to the backstop. 

Wrightam doubled just inside the 
right foul line and Jacobs scored. Con- 


roy singled through second bringing in 
Wrightam. Schmidt was safe on an in- 


field hit which Walt Jones grabbed back 


of third base too late to make a play.. 


Wheatley was safe on an error and Cole- 
man singled bringing in the final run. 
Shea picked Coleman off first base for 
the second out and Weber hit to Bloom- 
quist for the third. 

Thirteen solid hits and perfect field- 
ing support back of Pete Coleman gave 
Livingston the punch to win the final 
game easily. Knox led 2-1 up to the 
sixth inning. Then Livingston broke 
loose with two doubles and two singles 
which with a walk and an error netted 
five runs. 

Meyers started the fireworks in the 
sixth with a single to left field. Tony 
Jacobs was safe when Sornberger juggled 
his bunt. Shy Wrightam hit for two 
bases scoring Meyers. Conroy was safe 
on a fielder’s choice as Jacobs was picked 
off at the plate. Wrightam had advanced 
to third on this play and scored on 
Schmidt’s sacrifice fly. Wheatley was 
passed to get. to Coleman, who singled 


to center scoring Conroy. Paul Weber 
sent a double past first base driving in 
Wheatley and Coleman. Clancy lined 
out to the left fielder to end the inning. 

Both Sornberger and Coleman pitched 
spectacular ball in the tight spots. Cole- 
man pitched both games for Livingston 
and Sornberger did all the hurling for 
Knox until he was relieved in the eighth 
inning of the final game by Milam. 
Livingston played errorless baseball dur- 
ing both games, while mistakes proved 
costly to the Knox county nine. 

.The new champions have been award- 
ed the I. A. A. trophy, and the individ- 
dual players were given gold baseballs 
at a banquet in their honor. They went 
through the entire season with only one 
defeat. That was a 1-0 game in the 
quarter-finals won by Logan county. 
Knox had lost only one game up to the 
time the finals started. 

Winners of the eight division titles 
were Sangamon, Will, Logan, Greene, 
Tazewell, Carroll, Knox and Livingston 
counties. The 34 teams this year played 
more than 130 official games. 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Seven 


A $5,000,000 A\nnual Business 


That’s What 47 Affiliated Co-operative Service 
Companies Are Now Doing 


Hee day of the year more than 
$15,000 worth of Service Petro- 
leum Products are distributed to Illinois 
farmers by the forty-seven service com- 
panies associated 
with Illinois Farm 
Supply Company, 
Manager L. R. 
Marchant reported 
at the annual meet- 
ing of the com - 
pany, Bloomington, 
October 14. An 
annual business of 
$5,000,000 has set 
a new mark in this 
field of agricultural 
co-operation. 

The organization began the year with 
36 member companies, operating 92 oil 
bulk storage stations and 243 truck 
tanks. At the close of the period 47 
companies were in operation with 120 
bulk stations and 351 trucks. 

Farmers’ capital stock investment in 
the 47 companies and the Farm Supply 
Company totals $929,772 including the 
$167,000 worth of stock required to 
establish the ten new companies. 


L. R. Marchant 


The New Companies 


The new companies are located in 
Champaign, Greene, Iroquois, JoDaviess, 
Macoupin, Monroe, Randolph, St. Clair, 
Stephenson and Whiteside counties. 
Hancock county has the first co-op. 
oil company organized in Illinois. This 
company joined the state organization 
during the year. 

Not more than four distributors of 
petroleum products in the state rank 
higher in the sale of gasoline than the 
Farm Supply Company. Only one ranks 
higher in the sale of kerosene. 

More than 33,000,000 gallons of 
petroleum products were handled dur- 
ing the year. This is the equivalent of 
about 2,850 tank cars of gasoline, 1,186 
cars of kerosene and distillate, 316 cars 
of lubricating oil and 26 cars of grease. 


_ It represents a gain of 74.7 per cent in 


gasoline over the previous year, 57.4 per 
cent in kerosene and distillate, 69.49 per 
cent in lubricating oils and 58.5 per 
cent in grease. 

Mr. Marchant pointed out that this 
gain was not due entirely to the organi- 
zation of ten new companies. The 
average gains made by nineteen of the 
companies over two years old are 31 per 
cent in gasoline, 8.4 per cent in kero- 


sene and 29.9 per cent in lubricating 
oil, 

Other products handled during the 
year were fly spray, stock dip, sulphur- 
ized mange oil, wood preserver, cod liver 
oil, automobile tires, alcohol, glycerine, 
and chemical weed killers. Some of these 
products have been introduced within 
the past three or four months. 

Approximately ten carloads, or 
297,140 pounds, of chemicals were dis- 
tributed. About 92.72 per cent of this 
was Atlacide or calcium chlorate. 


The business of the state company 
for the year was $1,722,210.64 based 
upon the cost values of merchandise 
purchased. The net worth of the com- 
pany according to the official audit was 
represented by a capital stock invest- 
ment of $87,897 and a surplus of 
$42,715.56, which with reserves for 
dividends total $209,345.06. 

Gross operating income for the year 
was $130,323.68, an increase of 64.1 
per cent over last year. Operating ex- 
penses were $33,604.89, or 25.8 per 
cent of the gross income, compared 
with $25,862.35, or 32.6 per cent for 
1930. 

Lowers Production Cost 

On the basis of the paid-in capital 
stock held by all member companies, the 
earnings represent a profit of 115.15 per 
cent on the investment. Capital stock 
dividends amounting to $5,337.68 and 
patronage refunds amounting to 
$73,394.82 have been declared payable. 
These amount to 60 per cent of the 
gross income with 15 per cent of the 
income going into reserve. 

This will be the first year that any 
organizations other than the share- 
holders will \participate in the earnings 
of the company. Under the purchaser 
patron contract, Farm Bureaus and 


other co-operative associations in coun- 
ties where there are no service com- 
panies may receive a patronage dividend 
on purchases at the rate of 50 per cent 
of the amount received by member com- 
panies. Fourteen Farm Bureaus will re- 
ceive refunds this year under this pro- 
vision. 

Every company organized prior to 
1931 has paid off the balance due on 
its note covering stock subscriptions in 
the Farm Supply Company from pa- 
tronage dividends. 

The aggregate sum of $156,259 has 
been paid back to shareholders during 
the five years the company has operated. 
This is an annual yield of 76.54 per cent 
on the investment. The amounts paid 
annually in dividends on preferred stock 
and in patronage dividends are as fol- 
lows: preferred dividends—$233.87 in 
1927, $1,138.57 in 1928, $1,844.75 in 
1929, $3,025.77 in 1930, and $5,162.68 
in 1931; patronage—$1,138.21 in 1927, 
$11,239.71 in 1928, $20,772.74 in 1929, 
$38,307.89 in 1930, and $73,394.82 in 
1931. 

115 Per Cent Profit 


“The future of co-operative pur- 
chasing in Illinois,” said Mr. Marchant, 
“hinges on the interest taken in the 
movement and the effort made to de- 
velop it. The possibilities of large scale 
operations through the centralization of 
buying power is a real challenge and an 
opportunity. Co-operative purchasing 
offers a definite way to lower produc- 
tion costs which is more important to- 
day than at any time in the past decade. 

“For this reason co-operative pur- 
chasing promises to be of ever-increasing 
importance. The saying in centralized 
purchasing is immediately apparent. 
Many a farmer will be sold on the co- 
operative idea by this obvious saving 
and later be made to see the value of 
co-operative marketing. 

“Instead of 47 companies operating 
351 truck tanks and serving 60,000 
farmers, further expansion should result 
in some 60 companies with facilities for 
covering the state from end to end and 
serving not less than 100,000 custom- 
ers. It is the duty of every farm organi- 
zation to do anything that will lend 
greater dignity to the business of agri- 
culture and increase the returns of those 
engaged in it. Illinois Farm Supply 
Company is already deeply indebted to 
the Farm Bureau leadership of the state 
for its support.” 


Page Eight 


| x | COLPURAL PET N 


To advance the purpose for which the karm Bureau was organized, 
namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, political, 
and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation, 
and to develop agriculture 


GeorGE TuHrEeM, Editor 
Max HarreELson, Assistant Editor 


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Address all communications for Budlication to Editorial Offices, Tlinois 


born 8St., Chicago, The in 
dividual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is five 


OFFICERS 
President, Earl C. eee: 
Vice-President, A. 


Secretary, Geo. E 


BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
(By Congressional District) 


ist ‘to 21th H. C. Vial, Downers Grove 
VDE ain pscceestdneccicrena sepnccécdinseceevecobeivoshs Sepsgcemeaicnnaetatind G. F. Tullock, Rockford 
Nase evivecescsieeientctsec cicsdocacucsontcneckscecsiorns mecatidecesamiaapntonte C. E. Bamborough, Polo 
Fa sca caw csoatloada atads Socenaceepesesmecubennte M. G. Lambert, Ferris 
Y.-C ere Rats ee ne TE RAL NS eat Te WE Charles Bates, Browning 
16th... Geo. B. Muller, Washington 
17th... A. B. Schofield, Paxton 
pe: SERS ERE niece aaNet ape eel ea P a icra UP LEE aoe W. A. Dennis, Paris 
19th... J. Gross, Atwood 
20th... lack, Jacksonville 
ARC DIE DOR eee on OD OPES hal NONE AAD ee Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 
DBT Go icasesrinentcncescntcorivcysuewe tuceceqeceecaaclteniverninbvscsesseiddnlecbonnes Frank Oexner, Waterloo 
DOIN aca ccsist nics camscileccbaocaiveetinsthtnesniacsslGocncicamgtacsogacapeaint eaten W. L. Cope, Salem 
paar ae ae ee TE OE RS ee RN eS Charles Marshall, Belknap 
DS CBR anes annncn sn eoenneuvnvepecsrecaecusconsaneceiascocisoreseceesiecrececeeezces bed Dietz, De Bote 
DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 
Comptroller niacin cnc aeapen tonnes Sgotic von Upvescnumdysnnngvnnctnpy J. H. Kelker 
HMANCE......---nnoneann-ncnernenen-eneennennenenene evyedcenspencecpensennoaracssunye tts :, Abs: COMES 
Fruit and Vegetable Marketing. .------—_----n-e-ecee-neenes A. B. Leeper 
Grain Marketin Harrison Fahrnkopf 


Information............... George Thiem 


V. Vaniman 


Legal Counsel... 2.2..---.---20----0ceeeeeeece-eoeoeee _..Donald Kirkpatrick 


Limestone-Phosphate...............----------------c-ccenceseeceeseeesceceneote-cesvueesaeeeeenes J. _R. Bent 
Live Stock Marketing................2.----..-—------ elnspasshantccecRapesmsas need Ray E. Miller 
OFF CO naa nnennnnnnnnnnn enn leecapayab bcaapcinnactcconincannncnppesteecsconacsei ene C. E. Johnston 
Organisation: sen pececeneencenecenerenecinencoenseeniecctocste. G. E. Metzger 
Produce Marketing.......... ....F, A. Gougler 
Taxation and Statistics... 2. ----e--—ecen-eeeceeeeeceneeeeeeeeenen seen J. C. Watson 


Transportation..........._..... 


: ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 
Country Life Insurance Co......... pale hieen ..L, A. Williams, Mgr. 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co 


as E. Richardson, Mgr 
Illinois Farm Supply Co... .2o.-cc---sceeceeeeneecneeeeeneeeeee L. R. Marchant, Mgr 
Illinois Grain Corp............... Chas. P. es. and Sales Mgr 


Grieser, Sales Mgr. 
F. A. Gougler, Mgr. 
GefadPS acer nent eget OUTS . H. Coultas, Mgr. 


Seeking a Way Out 


T HE general unrest caused by the continuing 

low level of farm prices with consequent 
financial distress has naturally given rise to many 
ideas and suggestions for a way out. Meritorious 
as are many of the proposals for price improve- 
ment and cheaper credit, few definite and con- 
structive suggestions have been offered for mak- 
ing such proposals effective. 

Certainly courage and aggressiveness in support 
of sound moves which promise to relieve suffering 
and start stagnant economic machinery moving 
toward better days is sorely needed. But it is im- 
portant that only such plans be tried which offer 
a reasonable opportunity for success. 

The Illinois Agricultural Association has been 
giving careful consideration to credit and price 
stabilization plans for a number of weeks. Its 
representatives charged with responsibility have 

sought the advice and counsel of members and 
local leaders. 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


October, 1931 


Definite proposals which we believe are con- 
structive and have some chance for-success_have 
been and are being formulated. These have been 
presented to officials in high places who have the 
power to make them effective. At this writing we 
are not at liberty to disclose the details of such 
recommendations. Just as soon as possible the 
Association will call its members and leadership 
together that each may do his part toward mak- 
ing whatever plans are adopted effective. 


Lowden on Consolidation 
() NCE a public office has been created in this 


country, it “more nearly approaches immor- 
tality than anything I know,” Frank O. Lowden 
of Oregon told members and their guests at the 
annual banquet of the Illinois Chamber of Com- 
merce in Chicago Oct. 9. This situation he gave 
as one of the reasons for ever-increasing taxes. 

Ex-Governor Lowden with his usual courage 
and directness recommended abolition of the 
township as a unit of government, consolidation 
of smaller counties, and creation of regional jails, 
poorhouses, courts and other public necessities in 
the interest of tax reduction. 

In many counties, Mr. Lowden said, half or 
more of the total tax levy for county purposes 
goes to pay the salaries of elected officials. The 
need no longer exists, he continued, for so many 
small units of government which frequently fail 
to function properly. In some rural communi- 
ties, he said, there are hardly enough ‘residents to 
fill the elected offices. There is no excuse for hav- 
ing a county judge in every county. The smallest 
unit of assessment should be the county, he said. 
Yet we support all these units of government with 
their countless elected officials and complain about 
high taxes. 


Reorganization of local government machinery 
into larger units, election of a.chief executive 
with required budgetary control of expenditures 
in each county, and elimination of many useless 
offices which are no longer needed, Mr. Lowden 
believes are necessary to lift some of the burden 
from the taxpayer and give the people a better 
administration of local public affairs. 


As we go to press the struggle for recognition and a voice 
in the market by organized dairymen from the Pevely Dairy 
Company, St. Louis, continues. The Pevely Company in- 
sist on naming the price of milk without consumer or pro- 
ducer representation, while denying the dairymen all rights 
of checking weights and tests. 

Farmers throughout the state and nation are watching 
the outcome of this controversy. The obvious lesson it has 
taught is the need for more thorough organization coupled 
with united action of milk producers not only locally but 
over wide areas. Only with such unification can farmers 
place themselves on an equal footing with large distributing 
agencies in the sale of farm products. 


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Ww Ee mem NR ele NC 


October, 1931 


M-P Elevator Managers 


Laud: Marketing Service 


Directors and managers of the Gran- 
ville. McNabb and Varna elevators in 
Marshall and Putnam counties, all mem- 
bers of the Illinois Grain Corporation, 
met on October 2 at the Farmers State 
Bank, McNabb, reports the Marshall- 
Putnam Farm Bureau. Harrison Fahrn- 
kopf and Charles P. Cummings of the 
Illinois Grain Corporation, and John 
Benson of the Farmers National, Peoria, 
attended the meeting. 

Mr. Stromgren, manager of the Var- 
na elevator, stated that he has found 
the service of the Mid-West and Illinois 
Grain Corporation entirely satisfactory. 
In only one or two instances, he said, 
were outside bids higher than those re- 
ceived from this source. 

Mr. Whitaker, manager of the Gran- 
ville elevator, reported that practically 
all grain from that elevator had been 
shipped to the Mid-West Grain Cor- 
poration and that the service had been 
very satisfactory. . 

Marshall-Putnam county stands in 
eighth place in the state for- the quan- 
tity of grain shipped through the Illi- 
nois regional. A total of 176 cars were 
shipped to the Mid-West from this 
county since it began operating. 


Kirkpatrick Speaker at 
Knox County Meeting 


PENG farmers during the past 
four and one-half years have invest- 
ed $1,000,000 in co-operative organiza- 
tions which market commodities pro- 
duced by someone else, Donald Kirkpat- 
rick, legal counsel for the I. A. A., told 
Knox county farmers at a community 
picnic September 15. The county oil 
and supply companies are examples. 

On the other hand, Kirkpatrick 
pointed out, in the past ten years the 
same producers have invested little or 
nothing to perfect a machine for mar- 
keting their own products. 

He further stated that co-operative 
marketing does not end with the co- 
operative assembling of commodities as 
has become the common idea among 
many shipping association members. The 
producer should control the product un- 
til it reaches the terminal market or the 
consumer. Only one out of three cars 
of livestock shipped through Illinois 
shipping associations is handled by co- 
Operatives on the terminal markets. 

The speaker said that the control of 
50 or 60 per cent of grain and livestock 
would enable these co-operatives to bar- 
gain with the purchasers of the com- 
modities in such a way that producers 
would receive a larger share of the con- 
sumer’s dollar. 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


The daily farm program of the 
I. A. A. over radio station WJJD, 
Chicago (1130 kilocycles), is now 
broadcast at 1 p. m. each week day 
except Saturday. 

During the summer the daily 
broadcast was discontinued in favor 
of programs on Tuesday, Thursday 
and Saturday nights. 

Daily livestock market reports, 
farm news and crop and market in- 
formation of special interest to IIli- 
nois farmers will make up the pro- 
gram as in the past. Talks by I. A. 
A. staff members will be scheduled 
from time to time. The Chicago 
Producers will present a weekly 
livestock market review every Fri- 
day. 


The state champion 4-H Club quar- 
tette from Marshall-Putnam counties 
will broadcast over the NBC network 
from station KYW, Chicago, Novem- 
ber 7. Illinois 4-H members will pro- 
vide the entire program at that time. 
Members of the quartette are Frank Mc- 
Cusky, Lacon; Aman Wilson, Sparland; 
Bert McKee and Max Meredith, LaRose. 


Ray C. Doneghue, farm adviser from 
McDonough county broadcast from 
Stations WMAQ and WJJD, Chicago, 
on Oct. 6-7. He told how McDonough 
livestock growers were building their 
own marketing machinery. 


The National Broadcasting Company 
announces that Walter Damrosch and 
his orchestra inaugurated the 1931-32 
Music Appreciation Hour on Friday, 
October 9. This broadcast goes on the 
air from N. B. C. stations between 10 
and 11 A. M. central standard time. 

More than 56,000 copies of an im- 
proved manual will be distributed to 
schools throughout the country. The 
manual includes suggestions for class- 
room reception of the series, an orches- 
tral seating plan, descriptive notes on 
all compositions to be played, a schedule 
of concert dates, and music material 
available for school orchestras, in addi- 
tion to illustrations and comments by 
national figures. 

The NBC estimates that more than 
5,000,000 school children hear the 
Music Appreciation Hour. 


Henry W. Trautman, formerly with the Chi- 
cago and Kansas City Producers is the new 
manager of McDonough Livestock Marketing 
Association at Macomb. He began work Oct. 1. 


Page Nine 


Illinois Livestock Market 
Ass'n Now Selling Daily 

RODUCERS are not getting their 

rightful share of what the consumer 
pays for his meat, Ray Miller, director 
of livestock marketing, told Boone 
county farmers at a special livestock 
meeting held at the Farm Bureau office 
September 22. 

For each dollar spent in 1913 for 
meat the producer was getting 56 cents 
while in 1931 the farmer is getting only 
35 cents, Miller pointed out. This grad- 
ual narrowing of the producer’s share 
necessarily means less profit. The pro- 
ducer has very little voice in the pres- 
ent marketing situation. 

Private commission firms still hold the 
real control. They have no reason to 
cut their charges in the stock yards such 
as pen rent, corn prices, etc. At pres- 
ent commission firms are charging $1.30 
a bushel for all corn fed. 

The Illinois Livestock Marketing As- 
sociation is ‘now marketing livestock 
daily. It is selling according to grade 
on the market where the stock com- 
mands the best price. 

Boone county, according to Farm 
Adviser E. C. Foley, will hold a tour 
of livestock producers this fall when 
selling and grading demonstrations will 


be held. 


Mason and McLean Co.'s 
Lead in Grain Marketing 


The Allen Farmers Elevator Company 
in Mason county, which recently joined 
the Illinois Grain Corp., makes the 76th 
grain co-operative to affiliate with the 
state-wide regional and the Farmers Na- 
tional Grain Corporation. The Allen 
elevator handles approximately 250,000 
bu. of grain annually. 


Mason and McLean counties now lead 
in co-operative grain marketing with 
seven elevators each in the Illinois Grain 
Corporation. The 76 grain co-operatives 
represent a total volume of more than 
12,000,000 bu. annually. The Guthrie 
Farmers Elevator in Ford county, affili- 
ated with the Illinois Grain Corporation 
the previous week. 

J. P. Watkins is manager and Hubert 
Ingersoll, president of the Allen Eleva- 
tor. Other members of the board are: 
Henry Worner, J. W. Harmel, Edward 
Stansbury, Fred Radefield, Wm. Diers, 
Fritz Miller, Frank Bartles, and Henry 
Hiller. 


The Vermilion County Livestock 
Marketing Association has made arrange- 
ments to finance cattle and lamb feed- 
ing operations for feeders at an interest 
rate of 6 per cent, according to P. F. 
Kettering, manager. 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


A. F. B. F. Plans Great 
Convention Dec. 4 to 9 


Big Problems Facing Organized 
Farmers, Elect Officers and 
Seven Directors 


ECAUSE of the many problems 

facing organized agriculture this 
year, unusual national interest will be 
directed to the thirteenth annual con- 
vention of the American Farm Bureau 
Federation, to be held at the Hotel 
Sherman, Chicago, Dec. 4 to 9. 


Surplus crop control, adequate finan- 
cial credit for agriculture, taxation, 
transportation, stabilization of the dol- 
lar, disposition of Muscle Shoals, a na- 
tional land policy, and other matters 
will engage the attention of the organi- 
zation. Every action agreed upon in 


the mapping of the Federation’s pro-_ 


gram will directly affect not only the 
lives of- America’s 27,000,000 rural resi- 
dents, but the vast background of the 
nation’s entire business life as well. 


National Farm Bureau executives are 
urging that every unit of the great 
Farm Bureau organization be represented 
to insure the adoption of a sound plat- 
form. State executive committees 
which have not as yet appointed their 
voting delegates should qualify at once, 
Secretary M. S. Winder suggests: He 
urges, also, that county leaders co-oper- 
ate with state offices in marshalling dele- 
gates for participation in the Chicago 
meeting. 


Speakers Being Scheduled 


A full announcement of speakers will 
be made later. In the past the Federa- 
tion has been addressed by a president, 
senators, congressmen, cabinet members, 
governors and others prominent in pub- 
lic life. This year equally prominent 
men and women are expected to be 


scheduled. 


A national quartet contest will be a 
new feature of the convention program 
this year. Entries will represent states 
only. The A. F. B. F. annual award 
“For Distinguished Service to Organized 
Agriculture,” will again be made this 
year. Nominations close Oct. 15. 


Cup to Largest County 


The contest to determine the winner 
of the silver loving cup offered to the 
largest county Farm Bureau promises 
to be spirited. San Joaquin County 
Farm Bureau, Stockton, California, 
holds the cup at present, but will have 
some strong contenders to meet this 
year, including the McLean County 
Farm Bureau in Illinois. 

The important responsibility of choos- 
ing a president, a vice-president and 
seven directors will also face the con- 


GAG Notice — 
Illinois Agricultural Ass'n. 
Election of Delegates 


OTICE is hereby given that in 

connection with the annual 
meetings of all County Farm Bu- 
reaus to be held during the month of 
November, 1931, at the hour and 
place to be determined by the Board 
of Directors of each respective Coun- 
ty Farm Bureau, the members in 
good standing of such County Farm 
Bureau and who are also qualified 
voting members of Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association shall elect a dele- 
gate or delegates to represent such 
members of Illinois Agricultural As- 
sociation and vote on all matters be- 
fore the next annual meeting or any 
special meeting of the Association, 
including the election of officers and 
directors as provided for in the by- 
laws of the Association. 

During November annual meet- 
ings will be held in Bond, Clay, Clin- 
ton, Jackson, Madison, Marion, Mon- 
roe, Moultrie, Schuyler, St. Clair, 
Washington, Williamson, and Law- 
rence counties. 

Signed, 
G. E. Metzcrr, Secretary. 
October 15, 1931. 


vention this year. Each will be selected 
for a two-year term. 

The convention proper will open on 
Monday morning, Dec. 7, for a three- 
day session. Preceeding this main meet- 
ing there will be a two-day National 
Farm Women’s Conference on Dec. 4 
and 5. Mrs. Charles W. Sewell, national 
director of Home and Community 
work for the A. F. B. F., has selected 
as a theme for this meeting ‘““The Amer- 
ican Farm Home and Its Surrounding 
Community.” Speakers will discuss the 
rural church and school, rural medical 
service, recreation, and kindred topics, 
with emphasis on the Farm Bureau’s re- 
lations to them. Men will participate in 
this year’s conference along with the 
women. 


Many New Features 


A new feature of the convention this 
year will be the First National Congress 
of Farm Home Modernization Project 
Leaders on Dec. 4 to 7. Another feature 
is to be the A. F. B. F. Exposition of 
Agricultural Progress. Three national 
co-operative associations have already 
arranged for exhibit space. State Farm 
Bureaus and associated units are also en- 
gaging space. There will be a carefully 
selected group of commercial exhibits, 
arranged into ten departments covering 
every phase of farm interest. 


October, 1931 


Define Status of Farm | 
Bureau: Memberships 


At its September meeting the I. A. A. 
board of directors adopted unanimously 
a report of the Organization-Informa- 
tion Committee as follows: 

(1) That the I. A. A. recommend to 
the County Farm Bureaus that 
only holders of individual mem- 
berships in the Farm Bureau and 
Illinois Agricultural Association 
shall be entitled to the dividends 
and services, based upon mem- 
bership in good standing, and 
rendered either by the Farm Bu- 
reau or associated companies, ex- 
cepting only those members of 
the Farm Bureau member’s im- 
mediate family who are under 
age and wholly dependent. 

(2) No partnership membership to 
be recognized which involves 
more than one farm unit unless 
all business is transacted in the 
firm or partnership name. 

(3) Partnership membership accepted 
shall participate as an individual 
member. 

The question of who is a Farm Bureau 
member arose when several cases were 
discovered of non-member relatives us- 
ing their connections to get Farm Bu- 
reau auto insurance and other services. 


Schuyler County Oil Co. 
Declares 5% Dividend 


During its first year of business which 
has just closed, the Schuyler County 
Service Company sold more than a quar- 
ter million gallons of petroleum prod- 
ucts making a net profit of $3,435.68. 
The board of directors declared a five 
per cent patronage dividend and placed 
the remainder of the earnings in the 
reserve fund. 


The Tri-County Oil Company, owned 
and operated by Farm Bureau members 
in Warren, Henderson and Mercer coun- 
ties, sold nearly a million and a half gal- 
lons of petroleum products during the 
fiscal year closing September 30. 


Home Industries Booth 

Of most appeal to farm women will 
be the Home; Industries booth in 
which farm home handicraft workers 
may display the products of their skill. 
Orders will be taken and forwarded to 
the makers who will then ship their 
finished products to the purchaser. 
_ Arrangements are being made for spe- 
cial reduced rates on railroads and motor 
bus lines and for hotel accommodations. 
Announcement of these will be sent to 
state Farm Bureau offices for transmittal 
to county and community centers. 


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October, 1931 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Thirteen 


Country Life Insurance Company 


An Example of What Farmers Can Do 
Through Co-operative Effort 


| 83 1930 and 1931 many weak or- 
ganizations in the business world fell 
by the wayside. Some managed to pull 
through with heavy losses. Only a few 
showed a_ healthy 
growth. Country 
Life Insurance 
Company is among 
the few- that has 
made substantial 
progress. It stands 
out among the 
sound financial 
institutions of the 
country. 

Country Life 
throughout the 
depression has con- 
tinued to show an increase in new paid 
for business. It continued to hold its 
lapse of business 
down to an as- 
tonishingly low 
figure. It paid 
dividends not re- 
quired in the con- 
tract. Country 
Life now has in 
excess of $43,- 
000,000 of insur- 
ance in force 
counting the busi- 
ness in process. 

Business writ- 
ten this year is 
only three-quar- 
ters of a million 
below the 1930 
figures for the 
same period. The 
Company expects 
to approach the 
amount of paid 
business of last 
year by the end of this year. This was 
$15,715,750. In 1931 the company 
paid $46,000 in dividends to 1929 poli- 
cy holders, although the contracts called 
for no dividends until the end of the 
third year, which would have been one 
year later. 

All policies issued by Country Life 
pay dividends. This includes ordinary 
life, 20 pay life, 20 year endowment, 
endowment at age 65, and 12 year term 
insurance issued once a year. 

Country Life is a legal reserve life 
insurance company created in answer to 
the demands of Farm Bureau members 
for reliable low cost life insurance. Its 
rates on participating life insurance are 


L. A. Williams 


lower than any other company in the 
legal reserve field. 

The company is capitalized at 
$125,000 with the Illinois Agricultural 
Holding Company owning the stock. 
Stock in the Holding Company is held 
by the I. A. A., County Farm Bureaus, 
and Farm Bureau members. Control is 
in the hands of the I. A. A. 

On the strength of this set-up it is 
possible to produce life insurance at 
cost. Profits are returned to the policy 
holder instead of the stockholder, since 
the latter is limited to 7 per cent pre- 
ferred dividends. 

The Farm Bureau demanded a com- 
pany in which it could have confidence 
because many farmers had _ purchased 
unstable protection only to find that 
rates would raise, or to find that some 


Cross section of Country Life main office showing new 
in background. 


assessment company had gone out of 
business. An additional reason was that 
even when members did buy legal re- 
serve insurance they purchased high 
priced investment policies rather than 
straight life protection because they had 
no one to advise them. There was a 
great need for guidance as well as pro- 
tection. That need is supplied by Coun- 
try Life. 

Inasmuch as the board of directors of 
the I. A.A. could not endorse a life 
insurance company over which it had 
no control, it decided to operate its own 
company. The wisdom of this action 
has since been demonstrated. The suc- 
cess of Country Life can be explained 


business department 


in part by economical management, 
sound investments with good interest 
return, careful selection of risks, and 
low mortality, as well as a good volume 
of new business. 

L. A. Williams has been manager of 


~the company since its beginning. Dr. 


John W. Boland has been its medical 
director. They have had charge of ac- 
quisition and selection of risks, result- 
ing in an excellent showing. In 1929, 
$17,000 in death claims were paid out, 
with $19,000,000 business put on the 
books. In 1930, $48,000 was paid in 
death claims with a total of $35,000,000 
business on record. 

One of the important features of 
Country Life is its non-medical busi- 
ness. The term non-medical does not 
imply the taking of any risk without 
examination. It 
does, however, 
eliminate the cost 
of the $5 medical 
fee as fixed over- 
head in the under- 
writing expense. 
More than two- 
thirds of the 
company’s busi- 
ness is done on 
the non-medical 
blank. This non- 
medical state - 
ment, however, is 
supplemented by 
two investigation 
reports, which 
give the company 
the necessary in- 
formation and save 
approximately 
$3.50 in the under- 
writing expense. 

If it were not for the 96 active agen- 
cies established as a part of the County 
Farm Bureaus, a company just begin- 
ning in 1929 would have perhaps been 
20 years in getting the volume of busi- 
ness on its books that has been effected 
in Country Life in 234 years. The 
early acquisition of large volume has 
reflected a tremendous saving to policy 
holders. Commissions on this business 
are all paid to County Farm Bureaus, 
who in turn pay the agents. Nearly ~ 
a half million dollars has been paid 
Farm Bureaus in commissions to date. 

Another advantage the Farm Bureau 
has given Country Life is co-operation 
in the organization of a sales force 


Page Fourteen 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


under Mr. Williams, who has been able 
to school these men in groups with the 
aid_of-the-Farm-Bureau.—CGountry- Life 
has been an outstanding development in 
the field of co-operation because of the 
ready response of organization-minded 
men. Agents attend schools at their 
own expense five or six times a year, 
many driving 150 miles to attend one 
and two-day schools. 

Because the efforts of Country Life 
are confined to the state of Illinois, 
it has been possible to carry the facts 
to the farmer without wasted effort 
through the I. A. A. Record, the Bu- 
reau Farmer, farm papers and the radio. 
All of these mediums have been used 
to inform the prospective policy holder, 
making Country Life insurance more 
easily sold than that in other companies. 


Legal Reserve Required 


The same legal reserve requirements 
are exacted from this company as any 
other company. Reserve has to be put 
up on the basis of insurance in force so 
that millions or billions of life insurance 
do not increase the security per thou- 
sand to the policy holder. Starting in 
1929 at a time when any investor knew 
better than to take chances, it was a 
simple matter for the finance commit- 
tee of Country Life to confine its in- 
vestments to government and municipal 
bonds and securities of like stability. 
Country Life is now placed in the envi- 
able position of having the very best of 
investments and a very low lapse of 
business. 


Low Lapse Rate 


The low lapse is perhaps due to the 
intelligent manner in which life insur- 
ance has been sold, coupled with the 
fact that older companies with older 
policies hold a greater temptation for 
the policyholder to reach in and get his 
money, while the newer policies of 
Country Life are not yet far enough 
advanced in age to tempt policy holders 
with their cash value. 

Country Life policies have been sold 
for protection and not for investment. 
Many farmers were paying interest on 


October, 1931 


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heavy indebtedness already. In the event 
of the owner’s death many farms would 
have been forced on a poor market at 
a tremendous loss unless there was cash 
from life insurance tq enable his heirs 
to stall off foreclosure. 

The company has over 1,000 agents, 
all of whom are Farm Bureau members. 
All agents work under a general agent 
appointed by the Farm Bureau in each 
county. The assets of Country Life are 
more than $1,000,000. The premium 
income this year will be over a million. 


Insurance Digest Says 

Here is what the American Insurance 
Digest said about Country Life: 

“Having written so much business in 
so short a time, Country Life might be 
suspected of three things—paying high 
commissions to get the business; liberal 
underwriting to the extent that it ac- 
cepts any and all risks; and a disregard 
for the permanency of its business in 
order to achieve success quickly. 

“In each of these particulars the re- 
verse is true, which makes Country 
Life’s record all the more inspiring. It 
has paid its agents a smaller commission 
than is paid by the older companies in 
America. Its home office practices econ- 
omy also, as proved by the fact that the 
expense per thousand of new life insur- 
ance is only $2.65. This is believed to 
be a lower cost per thousand than any 


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other legal reserve agency company in 
America. 

“Nor does Country Life ‘lay down 
the bars’ when it comes to under- 
writing. It is as liberal in this respect 
as any agent should want, as it writes 
insurance on all ages from one month 
to seventy years, women accepted on 
the same basis as men, and double in- 
demnity for those who want it. But its 
business has been so carefully selected 
that its mortality has been less than 
30 per cent of the expected. 

“In. 1929 business was so carefully 
placed that in 1930 Country Life’s 
lapse ratio was only 5 per cent. In con- 
sequence of this persistency, Country 
Life made a greater gain in insurance 
in force last year than any other Illi- 
nois company, operating in its home 
state only. 

“All of Country Life’s progress has 
been achieved under the personal direc- 
tion of General Manager L. A. Williams, 
who is completing this year his twen- 
tieth anniversary in the life insurance 
business.” 


Protection Offered Those 
Hauling School Children 


Drivers transporting pupils and 
teachers to school for compensation can 
now secure protection against liability 
through the Illinois Agricultural Mutual 
Insurance Company at only a small ad- 
ditional cost. 

Up to Sept. 18, when this new feature 
became effective, there was no provision 
covering liability of car owners while 
transporting passengers for pay. 

The additional coverage provided by 
the supplement to the policy covers only 
the hauling of pupils and teachers to 
and from school. The insured must live 
on a farm and have agriculture for his 
principal business in order to get this 
protection. The endorsement will be is- 
sued only on pleasure cars. Coverage is 
effective between the hours of 7:00 a. m. 
and 6:00 p. m. 


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A. F.B. F. Directors Vote 
for Equalization Fee 


HE board of directors of the Amer- 

ican Farm Bureau Federation went 
on record in Chicago, September 23, 
favoring an amendment to the Agricul- 
tural. Marketing Act to include the 
“equalization fee.” This declaration will 
be acted upon at the annual meeting of 
the federation in December in Chicago. 

It is proposed to open a battle for the 
equalization fee amendment when Con- 
gress assembles this winter. At the time 
the marketing act was passed organized 
agriculture insisted that it should in- 
clude the equalization fee principle. Un- 
der this each unit of a given commodity 
would bear its proportionate share of 
crop surplus control costs. The equaliza- 
tion fee was left out, but the organiza- 
tion supported the act as it was passed. 

The statement of the board said: ‘““The 
federation at the time it announced its 
position in support of the act reserved 
the right to insist that should the efforts 
to administer it disclose weaknesses or 
limitations within the act, it would ask 
for amendments necessary to correct 
such weaknesses and limitations. It seems 
that time has now arrived. 

“We insist that the marketing act 
should and must be amended by Con- 
gress so as to give the Federal Farm 
Board authority to place charges against 
all units of any given commodity, moy- 
ing in the channels of trade, their pro- 
portionate shares of all necessary natural 
costs and losses resulting from the con- 
trol of crop surpluses, which must be 
accomplished if the domestic market is 
to be protected as a market for the 
American farmer.” 


_Mason County Co-ops. 


Are Working Together 


All local organizations cooperating 
with the Mason County Farm Bureau 
including the livestock shipping associa- 
tion, two produce associations, the oil 
company, and four farmers’ elevators 
have their books audited regularly by 
the Illinois Agricultural Auditing Asso- 
ciation. This co-operative association 
now serves 298 Illinois agricultural or- 
ganizations on a cost basis. 


Cook County Members 
Profit by Co-operation 


The Cook County Farm Bureau dur- 
ing the past twelve months has ordered 
between 90 and 100 carloads of feed for 
members. This means feed valued at 
around $50,000 wholesale was handled 
during the year. Farmers saved at least 
$10,000 by this one service of the Farm 
Bureau. 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


No. 1 of a 
series of ad- 
vertisements 
on I. A. A.-- 
Farm Bureau 
Services. 


More than 
60, 000 voluntary 
memberships are 
backing the chain 
of I. A. A. --Farm 
Bureau services, 
each one an impor- 
tant link toward 
{arm equality. 


Page Fifteen 


Effective Representation 


Requires Numbers 


DEQUATE representation for agricul- 
ture, first of the Farm Bureau projects, 
and vital to the success of all other Farm Bu- 
reau efforts, has been permanently established. 


Today farm interests get proper consideration. 
Your I. A. A. representatives receive the coop- 
eration of legislative and administrative govern- 
ment officials. An active and increasing mem- 
bership commands respect. Every new member 
gives additional support. 


Taxes Can Be Equalized 


A. A.-Farm Bureau representatives have 

* since 1923 effected substantial savings 

in taxes on farm lands. The data presented to 

the Tax Commission by the I. A. A. resulted in 

an initial $1,072,050.00 reduction in 1923, and in 
further reductions later. 


In 1931 an average of $22.79 less per farm— 
altogether $4,900,000.00 less taxes were paid by 
Illinois farmers than would have been paid had 
the higher unequal valuations on lands not been 
lowered. Every farmer profits by joining with 
his neighbors in the battle for equalizing the 
tax burden. 


Link Up with 60,000 Farmers 


VERY activity in the I. A. A.-Farm 

Bureau program is undertaken in the 
interest of farmers. More than sixty thousand 
Illinois farm homes are linked to this progres- 
sive movement through voluntary membership. 
The determination and loyalty of these members 
to their business will gain strength thru your 
support. The future of your own industry is 
more secure when you join with these men to 
make it so. 


Call Your County Farm Bureau Today 
Say: ‘*I’m Joining.’’ 


ILLINOIS 
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 


— and— 
Ninety- Five Affiliated County Farm Bureaus 
608 So. Dearborn Street Chicago, Illinois 


ORGANIZED WORLD 


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Page Sixteen 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


October, 1931 


High School Boy Goes 
to College on Earnings 


Chester White Hogs Pave Way for 
Honors and Education 


Wilson Bryant, ‘‘American Farmer” 
in 1931 from the Waverly, Illinois 
Chapter, Future Farmers of America, 
developed a champion herd of Chester 
White swine as his major project during 
his Vocational Agriculture course in the 
Waverly Township High School. Start- 
ing with two gilts in his first year of 
agricultural project work, he reached 
the peak of the pure bred swine business 
at the recent National Swine Show held 
at Springfield, Illinois, when his herd 
boar, Sunbeam, was declared Reserve 
Grand Champion Chester White Boar. 

His junior boar pig, Lucky Boy, was 
fifth and his junior sow pig was seventh 
in the same show. To date his show herd 
has won a total of $865 in Fair pre- 
miums this year, over and above all 
entry fees. Besides this he has marketed 
60 head of spring market hogs and sold 
20 breeding hogs. Next year he will 
have a herd of 20 sows headed by Sun- 
beam, his champion boar. At the pres- 
ent time he has a good supply of breed- 
ing stock for sale and 120 fall pigs. 


Sells Breeding Stock 


Since he is so situated in the midst of 
a surplus corn and grain region, he sells 
the majority of his breeding animals to 
farmers who feed hogs for their market 
value. This fact points out the ideal of 
swine production as exemplified at the 
recent National Swine Show: “Produc- 
tion of a swine type to meet market 
demands for high dressing percentage.” 
As to his management, he practices the 
McLean System of Swine Sanitation, 
feeds farm grains as the basis of all his 
rations, is a good sportsman in the show 
ring, is an excellent judge of breeding 
hogs, and sells all of his animals as rep- 
resented and at a moderate price. 

Wilson has entered the College of 
Agriculture at the University of Illinois 
this fall and expects to pay his way 
through this year of college on the pre- 
miums won since August 1. He is sell- 
ing out half interest in his present herd 
to his brother, a former Vocational 
Agriculture boy, who will handle the 
herd this winter. Together they expect 
to continue in the hog business and 
eventually get permanently established 
on a good corn belt farm. 


Handles Other Projects 
It might appear that his project work 
is one-sided, yet his other project activi- 
ties include poultry, dairy, corn, wheat, 
and clover. So he has backed up his 
major work in Vocational Agriculture 
with a sound general farming practice. 


Wilson Bryant 


Also he has won judging ribbons on 
corn, poultry, dairy, and swine. 

His school activities include class sec- 
retary and treasurer, local F. F. A. sec- 
retary and treasurer, first Illinois F. F. A. 
state secretary and treasurer, State Farm- 
er in Illinois in 1930 and American 
Farmer in 1931. Added to this he was 
third in his class room scholarship with 
an average grade of 94 for four years 
of high school work. We wish him suc- 
cess in any other endeavor he takes up, 
but feel certain that here is an American 
Farmer who will return to hog farming 
as a life work, for he is interested in it, 
has been successful, and enjoys it. 


Getting Ready for Fat 
Stock Show in Chicago 


Manager B. H. Heide of the Interna- 
tional Live Stock Exposition, Chicago, 
November 28 to December 5, announces 
that the preliminary classification for 
the 1931 show is now off the press and 
ready for distribution. It will be mailed 
free on application to the International 
office at the Stock Yards. 

Entries will close for individual live- 
stock classes November 1, for the Hay 
and Grain Show, November 10, and for 
the carload lots of cattle, sheep, and 
swine, November 21. 


A two-day session of the I. A. A. 
board of directors was held in Chicago, 
September 17 and 18 during which the 
I. A. A. departmental directors and asso- 
ciated company managers each were 
given fifteen. minutes to discuss the 
work of their respective departments 
and companies, and plans for the com- 
ing year. 


During the first six months of 1931 
DeKalb county shipped 408 cars of live- 
stock to the Chicago Producers as com- 
pared with 373 during the correspond- 
ing period in 1930. 


Adams county shipped more livestock 
co-operatively than any other Illinois 
county during the second quarter this 
year. A total of 258 cars went to Pro- 
ducer agencies. Fulton county was sec- 
ond with 228 cars. 


One out of every three shipments of 
livestock made by Illinois shipping asso- 
ciations to the Chicago market during 
the month of August went through the 
hands of the Chicago Producers, reports 
the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
This was the highest percentage of any 
state in the Chicago trade territory. 
From Iowa the Producers received one 
out of every nine cars. Minnesota stood 
next with 14.2 per cent; Wisconsin 6.8 
per cent; other states 8.2 per cent. Of 
the total shipping association business 
17.5 per cent was sold through the Pro- 
ducers. 


A total of 888 carloads of livestock 
were handled by the Indianapolis Pro- 
ducers during September, an increase of 
eight carloads over the same month last 
year. This was 106 cars more than the 
combined total of the next three large 
firms. Forty-one and five-tenths per 
cent of the rail receipts and 28.6% of 
those trucked in to the yards were con- 
signed to the Producers. 


In September the following Illinois 
shipping association managers sent as 
many or more cars to the Producers at 
Indianapolis as a year ago: Fred L. 
Gumm, Paris; Frank Kettering, Dan- 
ville; Hans Heit, Garrett; R. C. Boat- 
man, Sheldon; Wm. Fulk, Decatur; Carl 
Shasteen, Sullivan. The following Illi- 
nois counties show an increase to In- 
dianapolis over September last year: 
Clark, Edgar, Iroquois, Macon, Moul- 
trie, Vermilion. 


Up to September 1, 8.37 per cent of 
the stock received at the Chicago mar- 
ket was delivered by trucks, according 
to records of the Union Stock Yard 
Company. Figures taken from the Chi- 
cago Producers’ records show that they 
were selling 11.7 per cent of all trucked 
in cattle, 17 per cent of the calves, 20.5 
per cent of the hogs, and 22 per cent 
of the sheep. 


Uncle Ab says that some folks who 
can think straight, can’t think fast 
enough to keep up with the procession. 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Seventeen 


Hardy Buys 68 Cars 
Limestone One Order 


Monroe Co. Man Believes Limestone 
an Excellent Investment 


wt is thought to be the largest 
individual order of limestone ever 
placed was made by D. M. Hardy, a 
member of the Monroe County Farm 
Bureau this past summer. A total of 
3,400 tons of limestone were purchased 
to be delivered in two consignments of 
thirty-six and thirty-two cars between 
July 24 and September 1, writes Farm 
Adviser C. A. Hughes. 

This limestone was used to cover 
1,000 acres in the American bottom 
which land is owned by Mr. Hardy. 
Preparatory to the spreading of the 
lime, the land was thoroughly tested 
using the Comer test as recommended 
by the State College of Agriculture. 
Each tenant was required to spread 
this limestone on the land as his share 
of the project... 

All Fields Tested 


The soil testing and mapping was 
performed by V. H. Kern, son-in-law 
of Mr. Hardy. Stakes were driven 
down at different places in the field 
and the number of tons of limestone 
marked on the stake that was to be 
dumped in these piles. The piles were 
so arranged as to make it convenient 
for spreading the required amounts of 
limestone on the surrounding land. 
Applications varied from two to five 
tons per acre. 

The land that showed neutral received 
two tons of limestone. A small amount 
of these farms had free limestone in 
them, especially those close to the Mis- 
sissippi River. Heretofore, Mr. Hardy 
has used considerable limestone on his 
various farms and this application com- 
pletely covers all the cultivated land 


that he has. 


D. M. Hardy 


Sells Bonds; Buys Limestone 


Mr. Hardy is 84 years old and ac- 
tively engaged in the operation of his 
farms. With reference to this unusual 
amount of limestone, Mr. Hardy says, 
“During the war time these farms all 
showed a good profit. The profits were 
invested in good bonds and held as 
such. Recently it appeared to me that 
due to the agricultural situation, it 


would be good economy to dispose of 


these bonds and invest the proceeds in 
limestone. As conditions become more 
favorable for the farmer, this land will 
be in a better position to show profit- 
able returns. If the depression continues 
indefinitely, this land should be in bet- 
ter shape to show profitable returns 
than if it had not been built up. Dur- 
ing the past two years these farms have 
all come out in red with the exception 


Run Down Farm Now 


Outyields Many Others 


RUN-DOWN central Illinois farm 

of ten years ago is now earning 
twice as much as other farms in its 
neighborhood as a result of good crop 
yields plus efficient management of 10 
dairy cows and 18 brood sows, P. E. 
Johnston, of the State College of Ag- 
riculture, reports. The farm of 170 
acres is one of the 2,000 or more whose 
owners and operators are co-operating 
with the college in keeping systematic 
farm accounts. 

Ten years ago the farm was run down 
to the point where crop yields were 
low. Although it is on yellow gray silt 
loam soil and is quite rolling, it has for 
several years produced at least 15 per 
cent more an acre than the average of 
farms located on better brown silt loam 
soil. A liberal application of lime- 
stone followed by the use of sweet 
clover and alfalfa brought the high- 
er crop yields. Records from a large 
number of fields in the area indicate 
that where sweet clover or alfalfa oc- 
cupy the land one year out of four, 
corn yields are 10 bushels an acre higher 
than where no clovers are grown. 

During the past two years hogs raised 
on the farm have returned $143 for 
every $100 of feed fed them. This was 


(Continued on next page, col. 2) 


of a small tract of land on which there 
are no improvements at all.” 

“Mr. Hardy will receive $352.28 re- 
bates from this amount of limestone 
used,” states Farm Adviser Hughes. 
“He also finds it profitable to use the 
various services of the Farm Bureau such 
as the Monroe Service Company’s prod- 
ucts and Farm Bureau serum. His suc- 
cess and experience in limestone indi- 
cates that it would pay other farmers to 
make a better and more extended use of 
liming their ground.” 


LIMESTONE IS ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL INGREDIENTS OF FARM CROPS 


In a ton of red clover hay there are about 75 pounds 
of lime. In an acre of good oats there are approximately 


20 pounds of lime. 


of lime. 
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In a ton of alfalfa hay there are about 100 pounds of lime. 
In an acre of good corn there are approximately 25 pounds 


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Page Eighteen 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


October, 1931 


Linsley Answers Alibis 
On Limestone Question 


Cites Morgan Co. Farmer Who In- 
creased Corn Yield 60 Bu. an 
Acre in Two Years 


| ie spite of the rapid increase in the 
use of limestone there still are thou- 
sands of Illinois farmers who are put- 
ting off liming every year, states Prof. 
C. M. Linsley of the College of Agri- 
culture, University of Illinois. Mis- 
taken ideas about soil acidity or the 
value of limestone often account for 
this delay. There are four reasons com- 
monly offered by farmers for not using 
limestone, continues Linsley. Sometimes 
these are honest reasons, but more often 
they are merely excuses given by those 
who have not carefully analyzed their 
business of farming. 


(1) ‘‘Limestone is not needed on 
my land.”? Most farmers who offer this 
reason are guessing, and guessing wrong. 
Only a small percentage of the farm 
land in the state is sweet. Enough 
money is frequently thrown away in 
clover seed over a number of years to 
pay for liming the entire farm. 

(2) “Can’t afford to buy lime- 
stone.” This is sometimes an honest 
reason. But bankers usually would 
rather lend money to farmers for lime- 
stone than for any other purpose. They 
know that an investment in soil-build- 
ing is a sound investment and one of 
the most profitable a farmer can make. 

Six dollars invested in limestone to 
grow sweet clover made it possible for 
a Morgan county farmer to increase his 
acreage of corn 35 bushels an acre in 
the first crop and 25 bushels in the 
second. 

(3) “Have to wait too long for 
results.”? Farmers who use limestone 
say that this is not a sound reason in 
the face of the fact that most of the 
men who offer this excuse have already 
waited at least 15 to 20 years. They 
should not object to waiting a year or 
two longer; as a matter of fact, they 
will probably delay liming for another 
10 years and forget they are still wait- 
ing. 
(4) “Too hard work to haul and 
spread.” Hauling and spreading lime- 
stone is hard work, everyone will ad- 
mit, but no harder than many other 
jobs that must be done each year. There 
is perhaps no farm work that will pay 
as high wages per hour. It is not 
so much the amount of work a man 
does on the farm that brings him money 
as it is doing those jobs that pay the 
highest wages. 


Uncle Ab says if you have sense 
enough to be happy, you have sense 
enough. 


CHAMPION DAIRY JUDGES 


Left to right: Sam Buford, Rex Par- 
ker, and John Buford comprise’ the 
Stockton Blackhawk 4-H dairy judging 
team which won first place at the Ur- 
bana contest this year. The boys were 
coached by H. R. “Hank” Brunnemeyer, 
JoDaviess county farm adviser. Brunne- 
meyer formerly operated a Holstein 
dairy farm in Kane county, and taught 
agriculture in the Yorkville High School. 


Thousands of Dollars 


In Hail Claims Paid 


NE out of every three counties in 

Illinois suffered crop damages from 
hail this year, records of the Farmers 
Mutual Reinsurance Company show. 

In the final check-up on claims Oc- 
tober 1, the end of the annual crop 
hail insurance period, it was learned 
that the heaviest losses during the past 
summer were in Knox, Henry and 
Champaign counties. From these three 
counties alone damage claims totaling 
thousands of dollars were sent in by 60 
farmers holding policies in the Farmers 
Mutual. 


Twenty-five counties out of the sev= 
enty-six which had policy holders in 
the company this year reported losses. 
At least a dozen severe hail storms 
striking in widely separated areas were 
responsible for the damage. 


Most of the loss was on corn and 
soybeans, which in many cases were 
completely destroyed. The largest claim 
reported was for $1,032. It came from 
Knox county. A total of 113 claims 
were paid by the company on October 1. 

The ten leading counties in hail in- 
surance in force -were Knox, Henry, 
Warren, McDonough, Champaign, Taze- 
well, Mercer, McLean, Logan and Mon- 
roe. 


(Continued from previous page) 
about 10 per cent better than the re- 
turns secured by other farmers who 
kept accounts. The raising is done 


also have beeh more efficient than aver- 
age. 

The combination of high crop yields 
and efficient livestock produced both 
gross and net receipts which were $5 
an acre higher than the average, despite 
the fact that the Iand on this farm was 
valued $50 an acre less than the average 
of other farms in the area. 


Farmers ''Under-Insured," 


U.S..D. A. Man Declares 


‘The insurance protection carried by 
farmers falls far short of meeting their 
insurance needs,” V. N. Valgren, U. S. 
Department of Agriculture economist, 
told the National Association of Mu- 
tual Insurance Companies in session at 
Chicago, October 7, 


‘Approximately four-fifths of the 
farmers in the United States,” he said, 
“have their buildings and other proper- 
ty insured against fire. More than two- 
thirds have windstorm insurance. Hail 
insurance covers about 8 to 10 per cent 
of the total crop acreage. Livestock in- 
surance is negligible. Accident and sick- 
ness insurance carried by farmers is 
small. Less than one-half of American 
farmers have any life insurance. The 
percentage of all farmers who have em- 
ployer’s liability insurance is ‘decidedly’ 
small. The majority of farmers still 
lack adequate automobile insurance pro- 
tection.” 


Mr. Valgren declared that “to some 
extent the farmers’ lack of insurance 
may be charged to an unwarranted dis- 
regard of the need for protection. To 
a much larger extent it is chargeable to 
a meager income and an inability to buy 
the forms of protection that farmers 
need. This second reason ties up closely 
with the cost of insurance which in 
turn is affected by the nature of the 
protection provided.” 


Schools Can Insure in 
Mutual Fire Companies 


The right of township and county 
mutual fire and mutual windstorm in- 
surance companies to insure _ school 
houses and other public buildings is rec- 
ognized both by statute and by common 
law, according to a study made by the 
I. A. A. 


In some parts of the. state such risks 
have been insured in the mutual com- 
panies for many years. Many mutuals, 
however, hesitated to take such large 
risks before the organization of the 
Farmers’ Mutual Reinsurance Company. 
This company now supplies the smaller 
mutuals ample protection by reinsur- 
ance. 

It is a principle of common law that 
school districts and other political cor- 
porations charged with the management 
of public property have the implied 
power to protect such property by in- 
surance or otherwise. 

It follows that the school boards, 
trustees and other officials have in their 
discretion the right to insure in mutual 
companies. 


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October, 1931 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Nineteen 


Country Life Makes Big Gain in 1931 


Nineteen Counties Have 


Made Their Year's Quota 


Te following counties and general 
agents have accomplished their 1931 
full year’s quota already this year: Bond 
Co.—H. O. Hinkley; Boone Co.—K. 
W. Cleland; Carroll Co.—D. R. Lower; 
Clinton Co.—W. G. Ackermann, R. J. 
Foehner; DuPage Co.—Donald Auble; 
Effingham Co.—H. O. Henry; Fulton 
Co.—Claude Hicks; Greene Co.—L. R. 
Lee; Henderson Co.—W. A. Stevenson; 
Henry Co.—D. P. Robinson; Lawrence 
Co.—W. H. Nuttall; Lee Co—F. W. 
Peckham; McDonough Co.—G. O. 
Chenoweth; Mercer Co.—Mark Foster; 
Pope Co.—M. J. Koch, Paul Blatter; 
Schuyler Co.—Earl Payne; Wabash Co. 
—H. H. Glick; Whiteside Co.—Wm. 
C. Linker; Woodford Co.—H. W. Brad- 
shaw. ; 

An estimated thirty more will come 
through before the end of the year, and 
possibly more than that. The general 
agents of Country Life are giving the 
policyholders the very best of service, 
and they are meeting with wonderful 
cooperation. No great cooperative move 
has surpassed Country Life in the favor- 
able response given by the public. Coun- 
try Life meets a glad hand on every side. 
This good will is one of the big reasons 
for its success. Good will and merited 
confidence are things that money cannot 
buy. Country Life is proud of its agents 
who have helped make this splendid 
showing possible. 


How to Name Beneficiary 
in Your Life Policy 


EOPLE invariably make the mistake 

of naming only one beneficiary in a 
life insurance policy. Should the bene- 
ficiary and insured both be accidentally 
killed, it usually involves the paying of 
a death claim that must be probated, 
with the accompanying probate costs. 
It is much wiser to name a first bene- 
ficiary, a second beneficiary, and even 
a third beneficiary, so that the contin- 
gents may enjoy the benefits of a life 
insurance policy without additional cost. 
the money being paid directly to them 
in the event the first named beneficiary 
does not obtain. 

There are options of settlement which 
should be talked over with the agent, of 
how the beneficiary should receive the 
money. The insured may provide that 
part of the money be paid in cash and 
part of it in monthly installments. In- 
variably a widow inexperienced in the 
handling of money, is a target for every 


Send in Names of 
Prospects 


OUNTRY LIFE will send an in- 
surance pin to policyholders who 
send in the name of a prospect. You 
may have a gold or silver pin with 
the Country Life tree in the center 
of it, and the initials I. A. A. in each 
corner, with Country Life circled 
about the tree. It is a very beautiful 
pin. Every policyholder will be proud 
to have one. Just send in the name 
of a prospect to whom you believe 
our agent could sell a Country Life 
policy. It will be helpful cooperation 
on your part, will contribute to the 
further success and achievement of 
your company, and will be an act of 
kindness to your neighbor. 


$90,000 Death Claims 
in 1931, $16,500 Sept. 


The following death claims were re- 
ported in September: 

Insured Amount 

Helmer Hanson, Kendall Co... . $2,000 


Helmer Hanson, Kendall Co.... 1,000 
Dr. George K. Farris, Johnson 
CBee he es Fhe phan 3,000 


Jay M. Doty, Winnebago Co.... 2,500 
Jay M. Doty, Winnebago Co.... 1,000 
Mahlon John Hohenboken, Knox 

Co. 5,000 
George Loren Sperry, Warren Co. 1,000 
William Reulecke, Christian Co.. 1,000 
The Company immediately sends out 
claim papers as soon as the announce- 
ment reaches the office of the death of 
an insured. The agent usually offers his 
services to see that the claim papers are 
properly executed, to enable the com- 
pany to pay the claim promptly. 

Our claims for the year are approxi- 
mately $90,000, which is way below 
the expected mortality. You as a Farm 
Bureau memeber are interested in the 
progress of your company, and we want 
you to know that the business of a life 
insurance company is to pay death 
claims. 


fly-by-night security salesman who can 
get her name. The losses of life insur- 
ance funds paid to a widow run beyond 
80%, unless the funds are held in trust 
and apportioned in installments to the 
beneficiary. However, the life insur- 
ance company has no objection to pay- 
ing the money in cash. Three and one- 
half per cent interest is paid on funds 
left in trust, and such other interest divi- 
dends as the Company may apportion. 


8 Million New Business 
44 Million Now in Force 


OUNTRY LIFE INSURANCE 

COMPANY stands out among all 
companies this year in its remarkable 
progress. While most companies are suf- 
fering tremendous lapse from cashing 
out of old policies due to old policy- 
holders needing money, Country Life is 
in the enviable position of having no 
policies three years old or over. There- 
fore, the lure to “cash out” is not pres- 
ent. It is apparent, too, that farmers 
appreciate life insurance more in times 
like this than they ever could possibly 
appreciate it when things are going 
smoothly. 

All but thirteen counties produced 
business in the State of [Illinois for 
Country Life in the month of Septem- 
ber. Premium payments are coming in 
promptly, and the company’s invest- 
ment policy has proved its soundness. 
The company has no mortgages, and its 
bond holdings have fluctuated compara- 
tively little. 

It may be a satisfaction to the thou- 
sands of Country Life policyholders to 
know that the company’s bonds are 
largely of non-taxable character, mostly 
Governments and Municipals. The com- 
pany finds itself in a most advantageous 
position to thrive, and it should stand 
at the top of the companies for millions 
gained, at the end of 1931, for its lapse 
is indeed very small. Our total in force 
is in excess of $44,000,000. With this 
fine momentum we should finish the 
year with a most satisfactory ‘gain. 


Keep Insurance in Force 
You May Need It Tomorrow 


You may think that you can afford 

to let your policy lapse this year. 
You may feel that this will not be the 
year you will die. But you may guess 
wrong. ‘Thirty-five thousand people 
thought that way and were wrong in 
1930. Thirty-five thousand people died 
who had just lapsed their policies, mak- 
ing it impossible for life insurance death 
claims to be paid. 

This would be a bad year for any- 
thing to happen, certainly a worse year 
than normal. There will be greater need 
for your insurance money than ever, if 
the unexpected should happen. If you 
have lapsed your policy, just sign a Per- 
sonal Health Certificate, which you can 
get at the Farm Bureau office, and send 
in your premium. We will make haste 
to get you reinstated. If you need time, 
ask for a premium extension. 


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and still working hard— 


‘©T would probably be out in the field, too, if I didn’t have a 
Country Life Insurance Policy. Now we're not a burden to 
anyone—we can travel—I can go fishing—just enjoy the lei- 


sure we’re entitled to.’’ 


Look Ahead to YOUR Old Age 


Give some thought to your future—now. 
Crop failures may come—prices ma be 
low—but a Country Life Insurance Pen- 


sion Policy will protect you. In case of 
financial stress, you can borrow money 
on your policy. 


When old age arrives, it will pay you an 
income. 


When you are gone it will take care of 
your family. 


The cost of Country Life Insurance is 
small—the lowest old line legal reserve 
rates. 


Take care of your future now. . . . Ask 
your County Farm Bureau to tell you all 
about the benefits of Country Life Insur- 
ance. 


Do it now! 


Country Life 


Insurance Co. 


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Number 11 


NOVEMBER, 1931 


tion 


Chicago, III. 
tage pro- 


Volume 9 


Set Up Corn Credit Machinery 


State Department of Agriculture Acts to Carry Out Grain Storage Act 


S we go to press, headquarters for 
the National Corn Credit Cor- 
portion are being established in the 
Fisher Building, Chicago, and the neces- 
sary machinery is being set up to make 
loans to Illinois farmers on corn sealed 
by the state in cribs on the farm. 

Harry Laird of Des Moines, Iowa, 
was employed as general manager of the 
Corporation at a meeting of the direc- 
tors on November 5. Mr. Laird arrived 
in Chicago November 9 to open head- 
quarters for the Association and set ma- 
chinery in motion to carry out the pro- 
visions of the plan heretofore an- 
nounced, 

Directors of the Corporation chosen 
at the meeing on November 4 when in- 
corporation papers were forwarded to 
Springfield, include George S. Milnor, 
president; Earl C. Smith, vice-president; 
George A. Ranney (International Har- 
vester Company), secretary; C. E. Huff, 
John H. Hogan (Continental Illinois 
Bank & Trust Company), C. E. Hearst 
of the Iowa Farm Bureau, and Mark 
Woods, Nebraska farmer and banker. 


$2,500,000 Authorized 


The National Corn Credit Corpora- 
tion has authorized capital stock of $2,- 
500,000. It is incorporated under the 
provisions of the Illinois Agricultural 
Co-operative Act of 1923. 

The Federal Farm Board through the 
Farmers National Grain Corporation has 
set aside $500,000 for stock in the 
Credit Corporation which will be im- 
mediately available. This is being 
matched by stock subscriptions from 
the following: 

Continental Illinois Bank & Trust 
Co., First National Bank, Central- 
Republic Bank & Trust Co., Harris 
Trust & Savings Bank, Northern Trust 
Co., International Harvester Co., John 
Deere and Co., Sears Roebuck & Co., 
Armour & 


Montgomery Ward & Co., 


Co., Swift & Co., Cudahy Packing Co., 
Wilson & Co., Quaker Oats Co., Stand- 
ard Oil Co. of Indiana, and other in- 
terests. 

Arrangements have been made with 
the Federal Intermediate Credit Banks 
of St. Louis and Omaha by which the 
credit corporation will have available 
through rediscount from eight to ten 
million dollars for loans to producers 
of corn. 

Latest word from Springfield indi- 
cates that Stuart Pierson, State Director 
of Agriculture, has been making prog- 
ress toward organizing the necessary 
machinery throughout the corn pro- 
ducing counties to carry out the Illinois 
Grain Storage Act. Committees to ad- 
minister the Act under the supervision 
of the State Department have been se- 
lected in. most of the principal corn- 
producing counties. 

County sealers at this writing are be- 
ing appointed to inspect the cribbed 
corn, measure it, and issue warehouse 
certificates to the owner for use as col- 
lateral in obtaining a loan through the 
Credit Corporation. 


Loans Payable July 15 


Present plans provide that all loans 
secured from the National Corn Credit 
Corporation will be due and payable 
July 15, 1932, although such loans may 
be paid off at any time prior to that 
date. Forms will be available at County 
Farm Bureau offices as soon as they can 
be prepared, printed, and delivered. All 
applicants for loans must be owners of 
the corn on which the loan is desired 
and such corn must be free of liens, or 
else waivers giving priority signed by 
the lienholders must be given before it 
will be accepted as collateral. 

The procedure for securing a loan, 
according to plans developed to date, 
will be as follows: The psospective bor- 
rower will first make application at the 


County Farm Bureau office to have his 
cribbed corn inspected, and if found in 
satisfactory condition, measured and 
sealed by the local sealer. He will re- 
ceive a warehouse certificate setting 
forth the amount of corn under seal. 
It is contemplated that he will then 
proceed to the local bank acting as 
agent for the Corn Credit Corporation, 
and fill out an application for a loan. 
The prospective borrower will then sign 
a note for the amount of the loan and 
attach the warehouse receipt as col- 
lateral. The local bank will transmit 
these papers to the office of the National 
Corn Credit Corporation in Chicago 
where the general manager will receive 
the application and if found satisfactory 
will advance the money. 


May Pay Off Loans 


The National Corn Credit Corpora- 
tion under the agreement between the 
borrower and said Corporation, will 
have authority to designate the market- 
ing agency through which the corn is 
to be sold so long as the loan is un- 
paid. 

The borrower may pay the loan off 
at any time on or before July 15, 1922, 
in which case he may sell the corn any- 
where he pleases. 


Those interested may communicate 
with the National Corn Credit Corp., 
Room 708, Fisher Bldg., Chicago. The 
rate of interest on loans will not exceed 
6'4% unless the money market mate- 
rially advances. It is contemplated that 
loans will be made at from 65 to 75% 
of the farm market value of the corn at 
time of filing application. Indications 
are that local banks will make many 
loans direct, but if they do not desire 
to make the loan direct, the application 
accompanied by warehouse receipts 
should be sent through local bank to 
National Corn Credit Corp. 


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Legislature Meets to Consider Tax 


Speakers Announced for 
A. F. B. F. Meeting Dec. 7-9 


MERICAN Farm Bureau Federa- 

tion officials are preparing for a 
big delegation of Illinois Agricultural 
Association members at the national 
convention in Chicago, December 7 to 
9, according to word from headquarters. 
Round trip railroad rates of a fare and 
a half on the identification certificate 
plan will prevail from every railroad 
station in the state with return limit of 
30 days. 

“In view of the accessibility of Chi- 
cago to every section of Illinois,” says 
Executive Secretary M. S. Winder, “it 
should be possible for a big delegation 
of I. A. A. folks to attend. It will be 
a splendid opportunity to make contact 
with men and women from all over the 
nation.” 

Sam H. Thompson, former president 
of the I. A. A. and later of the A. F. 
B. F., now a member of the Federal 
Farm Board, has sent word that he will 
attend. Frank O. Lowden, former gov- 
ernor of Illinois, will speak on taxation. 

Federal Judge William S. Kenyon of 
Fort Dodge, Iowa, has accepted an in- 
vitation to speak. Farm Bureau mem- 
bers will recall him as the United States 
senator, who in 1921 organized the 
farm bloc in Congress. Two other 
speakers will be Professor Benjamin 
Hibbard of the University of Wiscon- 
sin and Professor M. L. Wilson-of Mon- 
tana College of Agriculture, each of 
whom will speak on the national land 
utilization policy. Mrs. Frank Evans of 
Utah, wife of President Hoover’s latest 
appointee to the Federal Farm Board, 
will be the banquet speaker. 


Farm Bureau women are planning two 
conferences to precede the main sessions 
of the convention. These conferences 
both open on December 4. Members 
who arrive early will have the oppor- 
tunity to visit the International Live- 
stock Exposition which closes Decem- 
ber 5. 


Long Truck Hauls Expensive 


The Champaign County Farm Bureau 
is advising its members against hauling 
hogs long distances in trucks. ‘Hogs 
hauled long distances in trucks cannot 
be marketed with nearly as much profit 
as hogs sold through our own county 
livestock marketing association,” the 
Farm Bureau says. 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Delegates to A. F. B. F. 


Delegates from Illinois to the annual 
convention of the A. F. B. F., in Chi- 
cago December 7-8-9, were selected at 
the October meeting of the I. A. A. 
directors. They include Earl C. Smith, 
A. R. Wright, Charles S. Black, and 
Samuel Sorrells. 

Alternates are: C. E. Bamborough, 
M. G. Lambert, A. B. Schofield, and 
Charles Marshall. 


Predicts Low Dairy Cow 
Prices for Next 5 Years 


The average price of dairy cows in 
New York state dropped from $135 in 
September two years ago to $74 in Sep- 
tember this year, according to M. C. 
Bond, Cornell economist. However, he 
points out that cow prices in New York 
are still 29 per cent above pre-war, 
while cow prices for the country as 
a whole are 5 per cent below pre-war. 

He predicts that this condition will 
further depress the price in New York 
because cows are being moved into the 
state from other sections. It is his 
opinion that dairymen who hold cows 
for higher prices will be disappointed, 
as improvement is not due until about 
1936 or 1937, judging from the past. 


Winning County Huskers 
Set for State Meet 


Carl Seiler, 28, a lefthander, and for- 
mer world’s champion corn husker, won 
the recent Knox county contest when 
he husked 29.78 bushels in eighty min- 
utes on October 28. Hartwick Olson, 
last year’s title winner, was second with 
27.82 and William Engstrand was third 
with 27.32 bushels. Seiler’s world’s 
record was 36.82 bushels. 

Ray Snyder of Henry won the an- 
nual Marshall-Putnam husking contest 
by turning in 32 bushels and 19 pounds 
in the eighty minutes allotted. Harold 
Carter was second, C. O. Johnson was 
third, and Ernest Rehn was fourth. 
Johnson is lefthanded. 


Co-Op. Grain Shipments 
In Illinois Are Gaining 


Members of the Illinois Grain Cor- 
poration shipped three-quarters of a 
million bushels of grain to the Farmers’ 
National Grain Corp. during October 
in spite of the fact that grain receipts 


at the terminal markets were light dur- 


ing the month. This brings the total 
volume to nearly 7,500,000 bushels. 


November, 1931 


Problems 


Reduce Property Taxes, 
Is Plea of the People 


Program Recommended by Gov- 
ernor’s Tax Conference Up 
For Consideration 


EORGANIZATION of the taxing 

machinery toward restoring the 
credit of Chicago and Cook county, 
and new sources of revenue to replace 
part of the heavy burden of taxation 
on real estate, now being considered by 
the legislature, are among the more im- 
portant recommendations made by the 
Executive Committee of the Governor’s 
Tax Conference on Friday, October 30. 
The Conference adopted the report in 
Chicago the following day. President 
Earl C. Smith is a member of the Ex- 
ecutive Committee and served as chair- 
man of the sub-committee on perma- 
nent tax relief. John C. Watson met 
with the group regularly and assisted 
in preparing the report. ; 

In place of the present Cook county 
board of assessors and board of review 
it is proposed that a 
centralized body of 
three members be 
created, “one of 
whom to be desig- 
nated as_ secretary 
should be the county 
assessor with full 
and complete charge 
of the entire office 
and all employees 
thereof.” 

The other two 
members of this 
body which will be known as the Board 
of Assessment and Revision, are to act 
in a reviewing capacity to hear com- 
plaints filed- against valuations made by 
the assessor. It is proposed that the 
Board of Assessment and Revision shall 
be appointed by the president of the 
county board by and with the consent 
of the county commissioners. The coun- 
ty board may remove any member for 
malfeasance or gross neglect of duty in 
office. The terms of office shall be four 
years. 


Earl C. Smith 


Remove for Cause 


A bill proposed by the Tax Confer- 
ence would give the State Tax Com- 
mission authority to remove local as- 
sessing and reviewing officials for cause. 
Its purpose is to prevent repetition of 
assessment delays in Cook and other 
counties. Other proposed measures 
would give the affected municipalities 
authority to finance delayed or deferred 
tax payments, to validate outstanding 
tax anticipation warrants, and to pro- 


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vide methods of meeting obligations al- 
ready created. 

That part of the report providing for 
new sources of revenue to replace part 
of the heavy burden on real estate con- 
tinues in part as follows: 

A. “EVERY CONSIDERATION 
POINTS TO THE CONCLUSION 
THAT THE TIME HAS COME 
FOR THE ENACTMENT OF A 
STATE INCOME TAX. THE 
FAIREST DISTRIBUTION OF 
GOVERNMENTAL BURDEN YET 
DEVISED HAS BEEN ACCOM- 
PLISHED BY THE FEDERAL IN- 
COME TAX.” 

The report declares that income tax 
laws have been enacted in Arkansas, 
Delaware, Georgia, Massachusetts, Mis- 
sissippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New 
York, North Carolina, North Dakota, 
Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, 
Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin. 

The income tax proposed in the rec- 
ommendations is to be paid in quarterly 
installments, staggered with respect to 
the federal income tax payments in or- 
der to distribute the load throughout 
the year. 

It is estimated that the bill will pro- 
duce at least $30,000,000 of revenue 
per year. 

To School Fund 

It is proposed that the money so de- 
rived be used to replace taxes now 
levied on _ property 
for the state distrib- 
utive school fund; 
second, for an equit- 
able distribution of 
the remainder be- 
tween Cook county 
and the rest of the 
state; and third, for 
distribution among 
the elementary 
school districts with- 
in counties. 

The chief features of the bill are as 
follows: 

1. Exemptions: Single persons, $1,- 
000; married couples, $2,000; children 
under 18 years and other dependents, 
$200 each. A filing fee of $2 to be 
paid by every single person with a net 
income of $1,000 or more and by mar- 
ried couples with net income of $2,000 
or more. 

2. Rates on Taxable Net Income: 
1% on $1,000 or less; 2% on $1,000- 
$4,000; 3% on $4,000-$9,000; 4% 
on $9,000-$16,000; 5% on $16,000- 
$25,000; 6% on all above $25,000. 

3. Deductions and offsets: The usual 
deductions are allowed from gross in- 
come in determining net income. In 
addition, there may be credited against 
the tax computed upon net income the 
amount of taxes paid or accrued which 
have been imposed by state or local 


J.C. Watson 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


WHO’S WHO. 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
GOVERNOR’S 
TAX CONFERENCE 


Joseph K. Brittain, chairman, is 
vice-chairman of the Chicago Asso- 
ciation of Commerce; Phillip R. 
Clarke, president, Central-Republic 
Trust Company; Omer N. Custer, 
chairman, Illinois Tax Commission; 
Samuel Insull, owner of extensive 


utility properties; George F. Nixon, 
president, Chicago Real Estate Board; 
Victor A. Olander, secretary, Illinois 
State Federation of Labor; Fred W. 
Sargent, president, Chicago & North- 
western Railway; Wm. H. Sexton, 


corporation counsel for Chicago; 
‘Earl C. Smith, president, Illinois 
Agricultural Association; S. E. 
Thomason, publisher Chicago Times; 
Ray Wantz, Rockford manufactur- 
er; and Douglas Sutherland, secre- 
tary, Civic Federation of Chicago. 


governments in Illinois, but not taxes 
of a character to increase the value of 
the property assessed.. The amount of 
such credit shall not exceed that pro- 
portion of the computed tax, which the 
net income derived from the tax-paying 
property bears to the total net income. 
Owners of their homes are allowed a 
credit against computed tax on net in- 
come of taxes paid on such homes, not 
exceeding in amount $100. 

4. Payments to be in quarterly in- 
stallments, beginning April 15, 1933. 


Tobacco Tax 

Other proposals recommended are a 
tax upon the sale of manufactured to- 
bacco and tobacco products. It is es- 
timated that revenues approximating 
$18,000,000 annually would be avail- 
able from this tax. As in the case of 
the income tax, these revenues would 
be used to abate property taxes as de- 
scribed above. 

The bill provides for a 20 per cent 
tax upon the retail selling price of all 
forms of manufactured tobacco, effec- 
tive July 1, 1932; to be administered 
as a stamp tax; the revenues to be paid 
into the public school fund. 

It is suggested also that additional 
revenue may properly be provided by 
increasing the license fees for certain 
heavy trucks and busses to put such fees 
on a parity with those charged in other 
states. The revenues from this source, 
estimated at approximately $800,000 
per year, would be used in abatement 
of property taxes. The proposed ad- 
ditional tax covers heavy trucks and 
trailers with a gross weight including 
maximum load in excess of 15,000 
pounds. 


Page Five 


The state income and tobacco taxes, 
itis recommended be administered by 
a new Department of Revenue. Other 
proposed legislation provides for details 
in connection with making the income 
and tobacco taxes real replacement taxes 
rather than additional taxes. 

Legislation to provide better enforce- 
ment of the personal property tax par- 
ticularly in Cook county is recom- 
mended under which an applicant for a 
state automobile license would be com- 
pelled to present a receipt showing pay- 
ment of personal property taxes on the 
car. 

It is also recommended that the 57th 
General Assembly in its first special ses- 
sion adopt a joint resolution calling 
upon each taxing body in the state to 
reduce its expenditures and tax levies 
to conform to the general reduction in 
commodity prices and living costs. 

The report concludes with the rec- 
ommendation that a special committee 
be appointed to prepare a definite pro- 
gram looking toward the submission in 
the next regular session of the next 
General Assembly of amendments to 
modernize the revenue provisions of the 
state constitution. 

The report was signed by the follow- 
ing: Joseph K. Brittain, chairman; 
Philip R. Clarke, Omer N. Custer, 
Samuel Insull, George F. Nixon, Victor 
A. Olander, Fred W. Sargent, William 
H. Sexton, Earl C. Smith, S. E. Thoma- 
son, Ray Wantz and Douglas Suther- 
land, secretary. 


Singers Represent Illinois 
In National Contest 


The Lenox mixed quartet of Warren 
county, and the Illini male quartet of 
Warrensburg, Macon county, winners 
in their respective divisions at the state 
contest held during Farm and Home 
Week at the University of Illinois last 
winter will represent Illinois in the na- 
tional A. F. B. F. contest in Chicago, 
December 7-9. 

The Federation reports that there will 
be entries from a large number of 
middle-west states. 


Save Money on Forms 


The Illinois Agricultural Auditing 
Association has made arrangements with 
printers and supply houses to purchase 
all kinds of accounting forms, binders, 
order books and other standard record 
equipment for member oil companies at 
a 20 per cent discount, according to 
Manager F. E. Ringham. This discount 
is available only to member co-opera- 
tives and can be had only when orders 
are placed through the auditing asso- 
ciation. 


Page Six 


THE I. A..A. RECORD 


« i November, 1931 


Pope Sie TEL A A RECORD November, 1951 
Saves Policyholders $100,000 Annually 


That's How the Farmers’ Mutual Reinsurance Co. 


FE organization of the Farmers’ 
Mutual Reinsurance Company in 
the fall of 1925 is significant for sev- 
eral reasons. It is not that farm mu- 
tual insurance companies were new at 
that time; in fact, they were among 
the oldest ventures in co-operation. 
Township and county fire mutuals were 
organized in Illinois before the Civil 
War. The Farmers’ Mutual is, how- 
ever, the first state-wide mutual to be 
owned and operated by Illinois farmers. 

The outstanding feature of the re- 
insurance company is that it provides 
a needed reinsurance service to protect 
the township and county mutuals 
against unusual losses at low mutual 
rates. This was the I. A. A.’s first 
step toward developing a broad insur- 
ance-at-cost program which was later 
to produce the Illinois Agricultural 
Mutual and Country Life Insurance 
Co. 
The I. A. A. first took up the insur- 
ance problem seriously in 1924. It held 
to the belief that the organization 
should work with the local fire and 
windstorm mutuals and attempt to ex- 
pand and strengthen their services. 

Work Together 

Late in 1924 the I. A. A. insurance 
committee met with the president and 
secretary of the Illinois Association of 
Mutual Insurance Companies, together 
with officers of various farm mutuals, 
to consider the problem. It was the 
unanimous opinion that a plan to pro- 
vide reinsurance for the smaller com- 
panies should be worked out. 

The following general points were 
later agreed upon: first, the reinsur- 
ance company should be managed by a 
board of directors selected from officers 
of various farm mutuals; second, the 
reinsurance company should supplement 
the activities of the local mutuals and 
not compete with them; third, that it 
should provide a form of reinsurance 
for the risks carried by the local mu- 
tual companies so as to protect them 
from excessive assessments. 

By July, 1925, an active campaign, 
in charge of V. Vaniman, director of 
insurance service for the I. A. A,, 
was underway to secure the 200 appli- 
cations with $500,000 worth of risks 
necessary to secure a state license. The 
I. A. A. took charge of field organiza- 
tion work and raised the required 
amount in a little over a month. The 
Association also agreed to bear all the 
expenses of promotion and organization 


Serves Illinois Farmers 


Manager J. H. Kelker and his secretary, Edythe Lindquist 


and to grant the company a loan of 
$10,000 required as a deposit with the 
state insurance department. The com- 
pany started operations November 21, 
1925. 

Hail Added 


At first it issued only fire and light- 
ning insurance, but early in the second 
year hail insurance was added. Today 
the company writes direct insurance 
against fire, lightning, windstorm, cy- 
clone, tornado, farm crop hail, and hail 
damage to buildings, as well as specific 
reinsurance. ‘ 

All rural property is accepted for in- 
surance, including farm barns, dwell- 
ings, livestock of all kinds, hay and 
grain in stack, farm machinery, 
churches, schools, and also property in 
certain towns and villages in which 
the owner has agricultural connections. 
The company does not, however, accept 
store buildings, public garages, etc. 

Specific Reinsurance 

The specific reinsurance contract 
makes it possible for the local mutual 
companies to cede “specific” insurance 
to the state company, thus lessening the 
liability of the mutual company on 
risks reinsured. The state company will 
accept an amount on specific risks not 
to exceed four times as much as the 
local company keeps. Seventy-two 
companies have signed the specific re- 
insurance contract and have ceded to 
the state company more than $7,000,- 
000. 


Fire and lightning insurance rates are 
based on classifications of property. 
Farm property falls in one classification, 
schools and churches in another, and 
town property in a third. Deductions 
are given on the cost of insurance for 
lightning rods, fireproof roof, fireproof 
walls, fire extinguishers, fire hose at- 
tached, and ladder attached so as to af- 
ford easy access to the roof. By pro- 
viding all the precautions the policy- 
holder may reduce his insurance cost 
about one-third. There are also condi- 
tions which add to the regular charges; 
for instance, there is an extra cost for 
insuring a building in which stovepipes 
pass through walls or partitions, or in 
which a gasoline engine is kept, or 
where dwelling and barn are within 
80 feet of each other. 


Wrote $7,066,000 in 731 


The company now has a total of 
$22,600,000 worth of fire and lightning 
insurance on its books. This amounts 
to about one-half its entire business. 
Of this total, more than $7,066,000 
was written this year. Some of the in- 
surance is direct and some of it is spe- 
cific reinsurance ceded to the company 
from local mutuals. The direct insur- 
ance is written by the regular insur- 


ance agents of the County Farm Bu-- 


reaus. Losses are settled by local ad- 
justers. 

J. H. Kelker, manager of the com- 
pany, estimates that farmers save about 
$50,000 annually on fire insurance in 


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November, 1931 


the state mutual as compared with the 
cost of old line insurance. This takes 
into consideration the assessments which 
members have paid during the last two 
years. Including these assessments the 
cost to farmers is still one-third less 
than the old line companies charge. 
Fire Prevention Work 

Under the direction of V. Vaniman, 
director of insurance service for the I. 
A. A., fire prevention campaigns have 
been conducted each year to reduce the 
amount of fire losses to Illinois farmers. 
This campaign is based on the princi- 
ple that many fires are preventable and 
can be avoided with due care. 

‘A fire is nobody’s gain and every- 
body’s loss,” said Kelker. ‘When a fire 
occurs, it means that the neighbors will 
have to stand the loss, because it is 
they who eventually pay the damage. 
The insurance company merely acts as 
an agency for collecting and distribut- 
ing this money.” 

Windstorm, cyclone and tornado in- 
surance is written on all property ex- 
cept that in commercial use. The re- 
insurance company now carries on its 
books a total of $14,600,000 worth of 
insurance of this type. It protects it- 
self against excessive loss by reinsur- 
ing with other companies. This year 
the company has written $7,180,000 
worth of windstorm insurance, saving 
Illinois farmers an estimated $36,500 on 
the basis of old line rates. 

Reinsure Hail Risks 

The company issues two kinds of 
hail insurance, protection to growing 
crops and protection to buildings. In 
1931 the total crop insurance in force 
was $2,440,000 and the building insur- 
ance was $1,580,000. Hail insurance 
on crops expires Oct. 1 and must be 
renewed each spring. Exactly $426,- 
000 of hail insurance on buildings was 
written this year. All hail insurance is 
reinsured in other companies 100 per 
cent. The Farmers’ Mutual does not 
bear this risk without protection. 

Hail claims are settled by adjusters 
of the companies in which this company 
reinsures. They visit the scene of the 
hail storm, appraise the loss and recom- 
mend the amount of damages due. 
These men re experts at judging crop 
losses. This year the Farmers’ Mutual 
paid hail claims in 25 counties out of 
the 76 having insurance with the com- 
pany. Hail insurance in the state mu- 
tual costs farmers one-third less than 
the lowest old line rates, saving an esti- 
mated $22,000 for Illinois farmers this 
year. 

The Farmers’ Mutual Reinsurance 
Company is owned by its policyholders. 
It is not a stock company. Its control 
is in the hands of a board of directors, 
consisting of nine men, all of whom are 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Seven 


View of general office of Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Company. Left to right— 
Cornelia Ettima, Eleanor Jesse, Marie Hess, Mary Jokisch, Dorothy Zenor, and 
Bernice Aeschliman, 


officers and directors of local mutuals. 
It has ledger assets of $135,000 which 
is equivalent to that much capital stock. 
Its surplus to policyholders is $42,500. 
It is a legal reserve company. The total 
annual saving of farmers who insure 
with the state company is estimated at 
more than $100,000. 


Illinois Gets Millions 
For Federal Aid Roads 


Illinois received approximately 


$4,500,000 out of the $105,875,000 - 


Federal aid road funds which were 
apportioned to the various states by 
Secretary- of Agriculture Arthur M. 
Hyde on October 15. 

New York and Texas are the only 
states to receive larger sums than Illi- 
nois. The apportionment was made on 
the basis of area, population and mileage 
of rural post roads. The funds were dis- 
tributed two months earlier this year, 
so states could get an early start on 
plans for next season’s construction. 


Cull Out Poor Cows 


Heavy shipments of dairy cattle into 
New York State are reported by Cor- 
nell University “because dairy cow 
prices there have been approximately 
29 per cent above pre-war, while the 
average price for the United States on 
the whole is about pre-war level.” 

Professor Bond advises dairymen to 
cull out the poorest producers and save 
only the heifers from the outstanding 
cows because there is likely to be a sur- 
plus of dairy products during the next 
four to five years. 


Cut Tax Valuations 39 
Per Cent in Whiteside 


The Whiteside County (Ill.) Board 
of Review lowered tax valuations $5,- 
437,015 this year compared with 1930. 

Following is a comparison of the 
values of lands, lots and personal prop- 
erty for 1930 and 1931: 


1930 1931 
Lands .. . $22,638,839 $18,937,650 
Lots 13,684,362 12,449,317 
Personal 7,680,722 7,179,914 
Total .. . $44,003,923 $38,566,908 


These figures include all property ex- 
cept railroads and capital stock. It is 
estimated that this means a cut of ap- 
proximately 39 per cent in county 
taxes, and 12 per cent in state taxes 
this year. 

The county tax rate was lowered by 
the county supervisors from 25 cents 
on the $100 to 16 cents at their meet- 
ing in September. 


Illinois Mothers Beat 
Others in Raising Babies 


The infant mortality rate in Illinois 
is now more than 14 per cent lower 
than that of the nation as a whole, it 
has been announced by the State De- 
partment of Public Health. 

For the year 1930 the death rate 
among infants was lower in only seven 
other states, none of which has half 
the population of Illinois. For each 
1,000 births in the United States in 
1930 there was 64 deaths among in- 
fants. In Illinois the infant deaths per 


1,000 in 1930 was 56. oe? 


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RECORD 


To advance the purpose—for-which—the Farm Bureau was organized, 
namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, political, 
and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation, 
and to develop agriculture. 


Greorce TuHieM, Editor 
Max Harre son, Assistant Editor 


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ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 
Country Life Insurance L. 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co.......2-...-.220-.--20--:ece-eee--ooe J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Auditing Ass’n.. .F, i . 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co. A. E. Richardson, Mgr. 


Illinois Farm Supply Co.... .......... Snscoewercanaviattetecsoeigo L. R. Marchant, Mgr. 
Illinois Grain Corp............. Chas. P. Cummings, Vice-Pres. and Sales Mor. 
Illinois Livestock Marketing Ass’n....................... R. W._Grieser, Sales Mgr. 


Illinois Produce Marketing Ass’n 


_ Marketing Ass’n..... 2.2.2. F, A. Gougler, Mgr. 
Soybean Marketing Ass’n..................... 


W. H. Coultas, Mgr. 


The Farmer as Speculator 


SELL your crop when it is produced, take what 
you get and go ahead producing more. 

Such is the advice the leading editorial of the 
Chicago Tribune of Oct. 30 handed out to farm- 
ers while criticizing them as “speculators” for 
holding 16 to 18 cent corn on the farm for a 
better market. 

Refusing to sell corn for one-third to one- 
fourth its cost of production may be speculation, 
but if so the odds were in favor of the speculator, 
as events since have proved. At this writing corn 
prices have advanced approximately 15 cents a 
bushel or 83 per cent since the I. A. A. first pro- 
posed a plan to help finance growers who desire 
to hold corn for a better market. 

Holding corn, wheat, hogs, cattle, clover seed, 
alfalfa hay, or any other farm crop for a higher 
market all involves risk. But that risk is greatly 
diminished when going prices are far below cost 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


November, 1931 


of production. It is an economic fact that pro- 
duction of commodities is not maintained very 
long when prices fall below-the-cost-of producing 
them. 

The I. A. A. may be wrong, but if so, it is 
making no apologies for the effort it has made 
to assist producers in getting a higher price for 


their corn. 


An Opportunity for Statesmanship 
PERHAPS the outstanding feature of the Gov- 

ernor’s Tax Conference report now being con- 
sidered by the legislature in special session is its 
open admission that the general property tax has 
broken down; that it no longer is adequate to 
finance government. ‘This situation the Illinois 
Agricultural Association predicted years ago. The 
depression only hastened the process, revealed the 
glaring weaknesses of a taxing system which levies 
burdensome assessments regardless of ability to 
pay. 

The General Assembly, backed by a state-wide 
group of prominent citizens representing all in- 
terests, now has a great opportunity to exercise 
real statesmanship; to initiate some long-overdue 
revenue reform. Bills as drawn if enacted into 
law guarantee that revenue derived from new 
sources will be used to reduce taxes now levied on 
property to the extent of approximately $50,- 
000,000 annually. The new measures include an 
income tax and a sales tax on tobacco, both of 
which recognize the cardinal principle of taxa- 
tion based on ability to pay. 

Constructive recommendations have also been 
made toward reducing the cost of government as 
well as distributing the burden more equitably. 
The people of Illinois owe a debt of gratitude to 
the executive committee of the Tax Conference 
for its tireless four months of effort in trying to 
find solutions for pressing problems of govern- 
ment. Through their representatives at Spring- 
field they can show their appreciation by support- 
ing its commendable program. 


International Livestock Show 


M ORE than 12,000 choice farm animals will 

fill the 22 acres of exposition halls and show 
barns at the coming International Livestock Ex- 
position November 28 to December 5 in Chicago, 
Manager B. H. Heide announces. 

Pure bred herds have been entered from Canada 
to the Gulf, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and 
samples of wheat are en route to the International 
Grain and Hay Show from western Australia. 

The Exposition promises to be outstanding in 
every respect and will be worth the time and 
money of every producer who has not seen this 
brilliant spectacle. 


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AIR—379.05 miles per hour—held 
by Lieutenant J. H. Stainforth, 
Englishman—1931 Schneider Cup 
Races — flying seaplane — this ex- 
ceeded the former record by 47 
miles per hour. 
| AND—231.36 miles per hour— 
established March 11, 1929, by Sir. 
H. O. D. Segrave of England— 
driving 900horse power Golden Ar- 
row car over Daytona Beach (Fla.) 
course. This record exceeded by 
23.81 miles per hour the time made 
by Ray Keech on the same course 
April 22, 1928. 


379:05 MI. PER HOUR 


47-50 MI. PER HOUR 


4) ATER—77.39 miles per hour— 
time made by Gar Wood in Harms- 
worth trophy races, September, 
1930. This record was more re- 
cently supplanted by Kaye Don, 
English speedster, when he made 
103 miles per hour against time at 
Buenos Aires. Don made 93.17 miles 
per hour at 1931 Harmsworth tro- 


~ phy races in September in a pre- 


231.36 MI. PER HOUR 


Cou ntry Life 


liminary heat, but was disqualified. 


OUT TO SHATTER 


ANOTHER WORLD 


Page Ten THE I. A. A. RECORD November, 1931 
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NOW COUNTS ay LIFE | 
_IN MILLION Mary. 


Here’s What We Have ALREADY Accomplished 


O RGANIZED an old-line legal reserve life insurance 


company owned and controlled by the Farm Bureau 
members of Illinois. 
- Wrote $12,000,000 of paid for business the first 30 days 
« of the company's existence. 
Rounded out the first year with more than $19,000,000 
« of life insurance in force. 


Finished second year in business with $35,500,000 of ae 


= insurance in force. 


Paid $45,000 in dividends to policyholders one year ear- 
« lier than the policy provides. 


Made low lapse record for the second year of any company when more than 95 
* per cent of our policyholders paid their premiums. 


4 
Sr 


Increased reserves from 1929 to 1930 approximately 500 per cent. “ | 


Death rate last year only 26 per cent of expected mortality with $35,500,000 of 
* paid business in force. 


2 
3 
4 
5 
G. Made the lowest net cost-record_in the legat-reserve life insurance fild. 
7 
8 
9 


Loyalty and Co-operation Did It 


if HIS astonishing record by a company less than three years old was made possible 

only by the loyalty and co-operation of the 60,000 Farm Bureau members in Illinois. 
No other company ever launched in this field can point to such a record. This splendid 
achievement is a glowing tribute to the ability of Illinois farmers to do things for themselves. 


Country Life is a great co-operative enterprise. So many have contributed to its 
success. In less than two years the company was organizéd with 94 corporate county 
agencies and more than |,000 general and special agents. 


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November, 1931 , THE I. A. A. RECORD Page Eleven 


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if We Can Do It With Your Support 


E want to win. We want to make a new record. We 
We were 47th out can do it if you will help. We have a great oppor- 
tunity. Country Life is in an enviable position because it is 
young, sound, and growing rapidly. 


id of 338 companies in 
1930 for actual mil- 


: rea Other companies are suffering great loss through the 
lions of life insurance 


cashing out of policies. This is not true of Country Life be- 


T gained. cause our policies are only one and two years old and as 
; yet have little cash value. Thus, there is little incentive for 
With your help we Rbaldace: + ba | 
policyholders to cash out. 
ber be first by the Country Life is adding new business every week. We 
end of 1931. have been fortunate in suffering comparatively little lapse, | 
in securing a high percentage of premium payments. } 
How You Can Help 
Now we must continue our forward march, blazing new trails. Here's how you 
} can help: 
4. |. Keep your policy in force. 


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2. If you have lapsed get your insurance reinstated at once. 


3. Tell your neighbor about Country Life's low net cost in- 
surance. 


4. Place your spare money in more life insurance where it will 
be safe. 


5. Call your local agent and let him tell you how life insurance 
can solve your protection and savings problem. 


Country Life's future gains in volume of insurance in force will be reflected in lower 
net cost. The company's success will be each policyholder's success. Maximum divi- 
dend payments consistent with safety is Country Life's goal. A steady increase in 
volume will send your company on to greater heights in the life insurance field. 


Page Twelve THE I. A. A. RECORD November, 1931 


TELP COUNTRY LIF 
MAKE THIS RECORL 


W' can top the list of companies in millions 
gained in 1931 only with your support. You 
will buy life insurance some time. You might as 
well do it now. Volume means low net cost. Help 
us set the pace and by so doing help yourself. 

Country Life policies offer you everything that 
is desirable in life insurance. In Country Life you 
get: 


I. Security—it is a legal reserve company. 
Lower ‘net cost. 

3. A choice of a number of popular policies. 

4. -Money for old-age income. 

5. Money to pay off the mortgage. 

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Cash for the education of your children. 
Security for your family, home, and estate. 
A sate depository for your savings. 


DWARD A. O'NEAL, president, American Farm Bureau Federation, 
says: 

“Country Life Insurance Company is an outstanding example of a successful 
co-operative farm enterprise. Its achievements within a period of less than three 
years stands forth as a shining light of encouragement to the Farm Bureau move- 
ment throughout America.” 


RL C. SMITH, president, Illinois Agricultural Association, says: 


The record of Country Life Insurance Company in making legal reserve life 
insurance available to farmers at low net cost speaks for itself. We have every reason 
to believe that our company will continue its fine record of progress and accomplish- 
ment. Now is the time for farmers to present a solid front in all their co-operative 
endeavors. Support Country Life in its efforts to achieve greater accomplishments.” 


| AW SSAGE A. WILLIAMS, manager, Country Life Insurance Com- 
pany, says: 


“After 20 years’ experience in the old-line life insurance field I can say that 
Farm Bureau members of Illinois have sur prised the life insurance world with their 
remarkable achievement in organizing and developing this company to its present 
place in so short a time. What has been done in Illinois has never been equalled be- 
fore anywhere in the world. The high ideals, vision and energy which prompted the 
launching and development of this company had much to do with its success. Let’s 
~ all work together and make this new record.” 


ovember, 1931 THE I. A. A. RECORD Page Thirteen 


Buy Country Life Insurance Now Because: 


C OUNTRY LIFE is a safe place to put your money. It is an old-line legal reserve com- 


pany operating under the insurance laws of Illinois. While millions of dollars were 


squandered on bad investments by the American public, their money invested in life 
insurance is sate and secure ready to help them meet any emergency. 


Foolish people put their money behind the clock or per- 
haps in an old tin can and bury it. Wise people invest a sub- 
stantial part_of their savings in old-line life insurance like 
Country Life. 


Life insurance is one of the safest forms of investment 
known. 


During periods of panic and depression legal reserve life 
insurance companies have stood like a rock, secure and 
strong. Life insurance is the one protection and investment 
salvaged by many families out of financial wreckage. 


Help Country Life take the lead in millions of business 
gained in 1931. We have a great opportunity. We can do 
it with your help. 


You are going to increase your insurance some time. 


DO IT NOW! 
MARK YOUR CALENDAR 


Tune in on Country Life's half-hour Jubilee radio program 
Saturday night, 8:00 to 8:30 p. m., December !2, from Station 
WMAQ, Chicago. 


Fill out and mail this coupon today 
COUNTRY LIFE INSURANCE CO., 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois. 


I want to help Country Life make this new record. I am interested in an 


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Page Fourteen 


Co-Op. Buying Should 
Be Recognized by Gov't. 


E. D. Lawrence Discusses Distribu- 
tion, and Oil Company Policies 
At State Meeting 


OVERNMENT encouragement of 

co-operative buying associations 
as well as selling organizations, and 
amendment of the federal farm loan 
and the Agricultural Marketing Acts 
to recognize co-operative buying were 
recommended by E, 
!D. Lawrence, presi- 
dent of the Illinois 
|Farm Supply Com- 
pany at the com- 
pany’s annual meet- 
ing at Bloominngton, 
October. 14. Mr. 
Lawrence lauded the 
member companies 
on their fine achieve- 
ments and _ pointed 
out that 
farmers would no 
longer accept the 
doctrine that co-operative organizations 
should confine themselves to selling 
alone. 

“No small part of our difficulties,” 
he added, “‘are due to the high cost of 
distribution. Our problem is one of 
getting nearer the wholesaler as well as 
of getting nearer to the consumer.” 


K. D. Lawrence 


Dr. Warren Says 


Quoting Dr. George F. Warren of 
Cornell University, he said: ‘Most 
manufacturers buy at wholesale prices, 
which are low, and sell at wholesale 
prices, which are also low. But in gen- 
eral agriculture buys at retail prices, 
which are high, and sells at wholesale 
prices which are low.” 

Again quoting from the same au- 
thority:: “If the government wishes to 
encourage co-operatives, it should en- 
courage buying associations as well as 
selling associations. The intermediate 
credit bank and Farm Board acts should 
be amended so as to clearly recognize 
co-operative buying.” 

Lawrence pointed out that the year 
closed with 11 new companies com- 
pared with 17 the year before; that the 
period of rapid expansion is approach- 
ing anend. Of the 95 counties of the 
state having Farm Bureaus, 75 are now 
providing their members with Illinois 
Farm Supply Company products. 


Credit a Problem 


Referring to the fact that the ab- 
sorbing problem for all companies is 
the matter of credit, he said, ‘‘Credit 
extension costs money, and is by no 
means a legitimate cost item in our 
business, since we are selling goods at 


Illinois : 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


cost. This is not a new and heartless 
doctrine. It simply says that he who 
has no money cannot buy. This is a 
fundamental rule of business from 
which it will be unwise, if not disas- 
trous, for us to depart. There are es- 
tablished institutions whose business it 
is to loan money. Ours is buying and 
selling. Let us confine ourselves as 
closely as possible to this field. 

“Our next move should be to estab- 
lish more firmly and to bind together 
more securely our widespread group of 
member companies. We have made 
progress in establishing uniform selling 
prices. We all recognize that each 
company has its own problems and un- 
der stress of sharp competition the com- 
pany may feel impelled to cut loose 
from the prevailing price structure and 
meet the cut prices of competitors. 
Such a practice we have strongly urged 
against. er 

Cut Price Policy 


“Our selling prices are on a par with 
those of the most conservative com- 
panies doing business in our territory. 
These prices usually provide a safe mar- 
gin for operating expenses, and a patron- 
age refund, also allowing for reasonable 
fluctuations in costs. Therefore any 
narrowing of this operating margin is 
done at great risk to future welfare. 

“The practical-minded farmer-mem- 
ber can be shown that in any event he 
will get his products at cost and that 
any initial saving effected may be at 
the risk of jeopardizing the future 
standing of his company. A cut price 
policy invariably will be reflected in 
reduced dividends at the close of the 
year, 

“Competition between ourselves is 
unthinkable, yet it has actually existed 
in a few instances during the past sum- 
mer. The solution of this problem 
largely rests with the manager and 
board of directors, but ultimately a 
more positive solution must be found 
which will prevent recurrence of such 
instances. 


Strength in Unity 


“The achievements of the Illinois 
Farm Supply Company should offer re- 
assurance to those who are doubtful of 
this type of co-operative organization. 
So far as our own is concerned, most of 
that doubt has vanished as time has 
demonstrated the good faith of those 
vested with authority. However, that 
there still linger traces of this feeling 
is evidenced by the fact that some of 
the older member companies have never 
taken steps to bring about a corporate 
relationship with the State Company 
through: the issuance of a special class 
of stock, in spite of broad limitations 
placed upon the power to be exercised 
under that stock. We think that this 


November, 1931 


action indicates a reservation with re- 
spect to a complete co-operative rela- 
tionship which in the long run_is-detri- 
mental to the best interests of such 
member company. I advocate no blind 
surrender of all rights and prerogatives, 
but when close analysis reveals that cer- 
tain prerogatives possess little value in 
themselves while jealously guarded, yet 
when surrendered contribute in impor- 
tant measure to insuring the continua- 
tion of the ideal of service, then their 
withholding is most unfortunate. 


More Perfect Union 


“When this nation emerged from the 
Revolutionary War as thirteen states, 
these states had recently been joined to- 
gether by the Articles of Confederation; 
and it had required the entire duration 
of the war to induce all the thirteen 
colonies to yield to a central govern- 
ment for the sake of better manage- 
ment in large affairs which affected 
them all. But, no sooner were the 
Articles of Confederation placed in 
operation than the best statesmen real- 
ized that no enduring nation could be 
built on such a foundation. There was 
no president. Congress had no real 
authority of its own. It was only an 
adviser to the states. Each state became 
again supreme in its own authority, and 
commercial warfare between them was 
disastrous. 


“To end this state of affairs, a con- 
stitutional convention was called to see 
what could be done, with the stated 
purpose of forming ‘a more perfect 
union,’ and under that Union we live 
today. So, let us build our co-operatives 
for stability and lasting strength, bound 
together in ‘a more perfect union,’ con- 
fident that in making a contribution to 
the welfare of the whole, we can best 
insure the perpetuation of its integral 
parts.” 


From 21 to 47 


During Mr. Lawrence’s administra- 
tion as president, the member companies 
increased from 21 to 47 and the volume 
of business more than doubled. Law- 
rence was reared on a farm near Hud- 
son, in McLean county, and graduated 
from the University of Illinois in the 
class of 1914. He has been active in 
Farm Bureau work in McLean county 
where he displayed much ability as sec- 
retary of the Farm Bureau and chair- 
man of the committee that established 
the McLean County Service company 
which he served as first president. He 
has been a director in the State Farm 
Supply Company for five years, two of 
which he served as president. 


Uncle Ab says the wise man will wait 
until he can afford to gamble; and then 
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November, 1931 


How to Cut Costs—of 
Rural Electrification 


Commerce Commission Engineer Be- 
lieves Lines Can Be Built for 
$600 a Mile 


DJUSTING construction costs to 

make possible rural electrification 
without over-large investments of 
farmers is one of the major problems 
now being studied by the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association. 

It is the opinion of L. J. Quasey, di- 
rector of transportation, that worth- 
while __re- 
ductions 
might be ef- 
fected in at 
least three 
ways: first, 
the con- 
struction of 
lighter lines; 
second, 
elimination 
of the de- 
tailed  sur- 
veys made 
by highly 
paid engi- 
neers; third, 
use of farm labor as far as possible on 
rural lines. 

“Many lines are substantially heavier 
than is reasonably required for rural 
service,” he declared. ‘Rural electrifi- 
cation should be considered primarily 
as a pioneering enterprise and whatever 
reductions can be made in the cost of 
bringing service to the farm will great- 
ly expedite the extension of rural ser- 
vice. 


Howard Mathews 


Overhead Too High 

“We observe that the engineering 
and overhead expense comprise about 
17 per cent of the total estimated cost 
of rural lines. Some of this is undoubt- 
edly necessary, but the type of line re- 
quired for distribution in rural districts 
has been quite well standardized and we 
think it possible to appreciably reduce 
the engineering expense. 

“Construction costs might also be re- 
duced by making the proper allowance 
for work that could be done on the 
lines by the farmers themselves. In our 
judgment this would be practicable in 
many cases.” 

J. Howard Mathews, chief engineer, 
Illinois Commerce Commission, in a 
recent address to utility leaders stated 
that studies made by state engineers in- 
dicate rural lines adequate in every re- 
spect to handle rural service can be 
built for $600 a mile, and still offer a 
factor of safety well beyond minimum 
requirements. He pointed out that com- 
panies that once spent $1,500 to $2,000 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


a_mile for rural lines_are_now—building 
them for $900, which is still too high. 


Why So Much? 


“We have analyzed some of these 
costs,” he said, “‘and from a study of 
the figures it is apparent why there is 
still such a wide variation in rural line 
costs. Material costs alone vary from 
$365 to $1,000 apparently without any 
particular reason. Labor costs range 
from $100 to $450, again with no ap- 
parent reason. 

“The final costs, where low, seem to 
be explained by good judgment in the 
selection of material, low overhead and 
an efficient use of labor. It goes with- 
out saying that construction costs 
should be kept as low as possible be- 
cause these costs have an important 
bearing upon rates, as depreciation and 
interest on the investment are figured 
in the charges.” 


Low Cost Best Salesman 


“What is needed to increase rural use 
of electricity on Illinois farms,” said Mr. 
Mathews, “‘is further modifications in the 
construction standards and in the rates, 
which would encourage the extension of 
lines and permit the transmission of 
cnergy at a lower cost. 

“From a study of the experience of 
about 3,000,000 gas and electric cus- 
tomers in Illinois,” he said, “I am con- 
vinced that while a number of things 
influence the extent to which an in- 
dividual will use gas or electricity, there 
is One outstanding influence which pre- 
dominates and that is the amount paid 
per unit of service. There is so sales- 
man like low cost.” 


Note: This is the first of a series of articles 
on the subject of rural electrification. 


Buy Corn in lowa 
Pay 60 Cents a Bushel 


A Des Moines, Iowa, dispatch of 
October 31 stated that a state-wide 
corn purchasing campaign, resembling 
the war-time liberty loan campaigns, 
intended to put from $8,000,000 to 
$10,000,000 in the hands of Iowa 
farmers, was started on October 30. 

The plan calls for the sale of a mil- 
lion bushels of Iowa corn at 60 cents 
a bushel, the campaign to start early 
in November. Every Iowa business man 
and salaried person receiving $2,400 or 
more annually will be asked to buy at 
least one unit of 10 bushels. 


On Serum Board 


A. B. Schofield, director from the 
17th dstrict, was selected by the I. A. 
A. Board of Directors to serve on the 
board of the Illinois Farm Bureau Serum 
Association in the coming year. 


Page Fifteen 


Circuit Judge Advocates 
Acreage Regulation 


Advises Farmers to Organize to 


Secure Fair Prices 


OVERNMENT regulation of acre- 
age planting of the principal 
farm crops, cotton, wheat, and corn, is 
recommended by Circuit Judge Louis 
Bernreuter of Nashville, Illinois, as a 
solution to the agricultural problem. 
“If the Farm Board notices any of 
these crops running into surplus pro- 
duction, then let it issue an order that 
the acreage of such crops be decreased a 
certain percentage at the next plant- 
ing. If after such reduction a shortage 
occurs for one year, little harm will be 
done,” according to Judge Bernreuter. 


Buy the Surplus 


“If with these adjustments of the 
acreage a small surplus happens to oc- 
cur, the government 
should buy it at a 
fair price on the 
open market and 
carry it over to the 
next year, when it 
might be needed to 
cover a shortage. If 
this plan had been 
adopted a few years 
} ago,” he says, “‘we 

28) would not now have 

the ruinious surpluses 

Louis Bernreuter of these crops to 

contend with. We 

have enough cotton on hand to last us 

two years. At the same time an enor- 

mous new crop is now standing in 
southern fields ready to be picked. 

“My plan deals only with the maxi- 
mum acreage to be allowed each farm. 
If a farmer sees fit he may put in a 
lower acreage or none at all. The plan 
is not to apply to farms below a cer- 
tain size. Each county is to have its 
own records and a supervisor. The plan 
could be gradually extended to other 
farm products. 


Only Sound Solution 


“J believe government regulation in 
all lines is the only sound solution to 
our own problems. If one of the old 
political parties were to advocate this 
idea it would sweep the country in 
1932. 


“The government must step in and 
regulate the production of the machine 
so that the burden of the laborer is 
lightened. The laborer should not be- 
come jobless on account of inventions.” 

Judge Bernreuter delivered his farm 
relief ideas before a recent session of the 
Farmers’ Institute at Hamel in Madison 


county. 
(Continued on Page 17, Col. 2) 


Page Sixteen 


Co-Op. Oil Companies 


Distribute Dividends — 


Farm Bureau Members Only Share 
In Cash Returns on Patronage 
Basis 


ATRONAGE refunds returned to 

Farm Bureau members by the coun- 
ty service companies are especially wel- 
come this fall, reports L. R. Marchant, 
manager of the Illinois Farm Supply Co. 

Whiteside Service Company of Mor- 
rison began operations April 1, 1931, 
and after six months’ operation paid the 
7% preferred stock dividend, a 10% 
patronage refund to Farm Bureau mem- 
ber customers, and set aside an equal 
amount to surplus. Two hundred and 
sixty-seven customers of the company 
are not Farm Bureau members. Patron- 
age refund checks were distributed at 
the annual meeting, October 28. 

The earnings of Stephenson Service 
Company of Freeport during its first 
six months of operation were sufficient 
to justify the directors declaring a 12% 
patronage dividend after setting aside a 
reserve for the payment of preferred 
stock dividends and funds to surplus 
equal to more than 30% of its paid-in 
capital stock. A 7% patronage was 
paid at the annual meeting, October 
27, and 5% will be paid later. The 
company has 323 non-member cus- 
tomers. 

Adams Service Company of Quincy 
closed its second fiscal period August 
31, 1931, with 1,812 customers. The 
non-members patronizing the company 
numbered 1,057. A 20% patronage re- 
fund was declared, 10% payable Oc- 
tober 24, 1931, and 10% April 1, 1932. 
Another 10% of the earnings was set 
aside to surplus. 

Rich-Law Service Company of 
Lawrenceville, operating in Lawrence, 
Richland and Crawford counties, closed 
its fiscal year September 30 after eleven 
months’ business. A 15% patronage 
refund was declared, 10% payable im- 
mediately and 5% later, with a good 
balance to surplus. One Farm Bureau 
member will receive a patronage re- 
fund check of over $220. 


Logan Farm Supply Company closed 
its fourth fiscal year September 30 and 
at the annual meeting held November 
3, the directors announced a 10% 
patronage refund on gasoline, kerosene, 
and grease, a 15% patronage on lubri- 
cating oil, and 5% on distillate and 
competitive gasoline. This company 
placed almost an equal amount to sur- 
plus. 

Marshall-Putnam Oil Company, one 
of the pioneer companies of the state, 
and a charter member of Illinois Farm 
Supply Company, closed its sixth fiscal 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


NOTICE 
ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 
ASSOCIATION 
ELECTION OF DELEGATES 


Nowe is hereby given that in connection 
with the annual meetings of all County 
Farm Bureaus to be held during the month 
of December, 1931, at the hour and place 
to be determined by the Board of Directors 
of each respective County Farm Bureau, the 
members in good standing of such County 
Farm Bureau and who are also qualified 
voting members of Illinois Agricultural As- 
sociation shall elect a delegate or delegates to 
represent such members of Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association and vote on all matters 
before the next annual meeting or any spe- 
cial meeting of the Association, including 
the election of officers and directors as pro- 
vided for in the by-laws of the Association. 

During December annual meetings will be 
held in Brown, Bureau, Clark, Coles, Craw- 
ford, Saline, DeWitt, DuPage, Rock Island, 
Vermilion, Morgan, Edgar, Edwards, Effing- 
ham, Henry, Iroquois, Jersey, Johnson, Kane, 
Stephenson, Wabash, Jackson, Kendall, La- 
Salle, Lee, Livingston, McLean, Piatt, Ran- 
dolph, Richland, Union, Champaign and 
Grundy counties. 

Signed, 
G. E. Merzcer, Secretary. 

November 15, 1931. 


year August 31. This company, with 
a surplus equal to its paid-in capital 
stock, declared a 24% patronage from 
the profits of the business for the past 
year. Eight per cent was paid at the 
end of the first six months, 8% at the 
end of the period, and 8% will be paid 
later. 


More Cattle on Feed 
This Year Than Last 


Shipments of feeder cattle into IIli- 
nois between July and September this 
year show a considerable increase over 
the same period in 1930. Many feeders 
had cattle on hand early in October, 
but not yet on the feedlot, according 
to the State Dept. of Agriculture. A 
considerable number of feeding cattle 
have been shipped to local points in 
Illinois where they are held for sale. 

With plenty of cheap feed on hand, 
farmers will feed more cattle this year 
than last where finances are available. 
Lighter weight cattle and calves will 
predominate this year. 

Lambs on feed in Illinois October 1 
were somewhat less in number than a 
year ago. Shipments into the state late 
in the summer indicated an increased 
interest in sheep, and it is now appar- 
ent that feeders plan more feeding than 
they did earlier. 


The amount of feeding that will be - 


done this winter, however, is still un- 
certain because of the credit situation 
and the doubt about the number of 
sheep to be fed on contract. 


' 


November, 1931 


70 Farm Families’ 


Living Averages $2,489 


The value of the living of 70 selected 
Illinois farm families averaged $2,489 
a year during the period 1929-1930, a 
study made by the State College of 
Agriculture revealed. ‘“The average ex- 
penditure of 18 small families was 
$3,662 a year,” the University report 
stated. “These averages probably are 
much higher than those for the state 
in general in view of the fact that the 
studies were made with a selected group 
of thrifty families,” it was pointed out. 

“Of the $2,489 value for the living 
of the farm families, $932 was fur- 
nished by the farm. Twelve per cent 
of the total was spent for life insur- 
ance and investments. The town fami- 
lies spent 28 per cent of their living 
expenditures for life insurance and in- 
vestments. 

“Cash spent by the 70 farm families 
did not necessarily represent the income 
from the farms on which they lived. 
Of the $2,489, $1,657 represented the 
average cash income per family, $420 
the average value of raised products 
used in the home or given away, and 
$412 the average yearly rental value of 
the house.” 

All 88 of the families were American 
born, and the most usual size of the 
family was four. Nearly half of the 
70 farm families owned the land on 
which their homes were located, and 
more than half owned between 160 and 
320 acres. 


Unorganized Dairymen 
Disrupt New York Market 


Milk being forced into the fluid mar- 
kets of New York City by small deal- 
ers is blamed by the Dairymen’s League 
Co-Operative Association for its reduc- 
tion of 37 cents per hundred pounds 
of Class I milk effective November 1. 

“It has long been the practice,” says 
the statement issued by the League, “of 
independent, unorganized producers, 
and small dealers handling their milk, 
to dump surplus on fluid markets at 
any price. This is done rather than 


manufacture it into by-products. Many - 


of these small dealers have no facili- 
ties for handling surplus by manufac- 
tured by-products. As a result of their 
activities the average retail price of 
loose milk in New York City is nine 
cents a quart, whereas it should be 
eleven cents, and much of it sells for 
even less than nine cents.” 

“The Dairymen’s League Co-Opera- 
tive Association, and its buyers, have 
had their choice of either withdrawing 
from the wholesale market or meeting 
this kind of competition.” 


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November, 1931 


Newspaper Publishes 
Retraction of Statement 


Propagandists Continue Spreading 
Malicious Untruths About Coun- 
try Life Insurance Co. 


Coup time ago there appeared an ar- 
ticle in the Montgomery News, 
Hillsboro, containing a number of er- 
roneous statements about the Country 
Life Insurance Company. The infor- 
mation came to the editor apparently 
from a disgruntled competitive life in- 
surance agent who is finding Country 
Life’s low net cost insurance stiff com- 
petition. 

The article asserted that a distribu- 
tion of some $20,000 of dividends was 
made to the officers of the company; 
that the Country Life Insurance Co. 
is a private enterprise and is not owned 
and controlled by the Farm Bureau in 
Illinois. 

When given a detailed statement of 
the company’s set-up in distribution of 
dividends, the fair-minded editor of the 
Montgomery News under date of Oc- 
tober 8, 1931, published a retraction as 
follows: 

“Concerning the Country Life 
Insurance Company: 

“On August 27th there appeared in 
this paper an article concerning the 
Country Life Insurance Company. At 
that time the statements contained in 
the article were believed to have come 
from an authentic source. We have 
since learned that the information was 
erroneous and we are glad to make cor- 
rection, as it has always been our policy 
to co-operate with the farmers in their 
efforts to help themselves. 

“Since printing the above mentioned 
article we have procured information 
founded upon facts that we are glad 
to give to our readers: 

“The Illinois Agricultural Holding 
Company was organized as a legal ne- 
cessity to guarantee perpetual control 
of the Country Life Insurance Com- 
pany within the Farm Bureau move- 
ment of the state. It has $50,000 of 
authorized and issued First Preferred 
Capital Stock, all of which is held by 
Farm Bureau members and Farm Bu- 
reaus in Illinois; $60,000 of ‘Second 
Preferred, which is all owned by the 
Illinois Agricultural Association, whose 
total membership is constituted by all 
the County Farm Bureau members of 
the state. The Illinois Agricultural 
Association also holds all of the Com- 
mon Stock, namely, 3,000 shares of no 
par value and which carries the con- 
trol of the company. None of this 
common stock can be sold, except by 
authorization of the Board of Delegates 
of the Association assembled in an an- 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


nual or special meeting called for that 
purpose. — 

“The total dividends paid by the 
Country Life Insurance Company to 
the Illinois Agricultural Holding Com- 
pany, which owns all of the stock of 
the Insurance Company, amounts to 
$20,000, payable: $5,000, February 14, 
1930; $15,000, on November 14, 1930. 
From this amount, a 7 per cent cash 
dividend, or $3,500, was paid to the 
First Preferred stockholders as of rec- 
ord February 15, 1930, and $3,500, or 
another 7 per cent dividend, was de- 
clared to holders of record on December 
1, 1930, completing the 7 per cent per 
annum obligations to the stockholders; 
14 per cent on the Second Preferred, 
and 70 cents a share on the Common 
Stock was declared and paid to holders 
of record on December 1, 1930, also 
completing its obligations on this out- 
standing stock. Practically all of the 
income of the Holding Company has 
been paid to the stockholders of the 
Holding Company and its total operat- 
ing expense for the year was $270.13, 
the balance being in the treasury of the 
Holding Company. 

“Before the close of the second year 
of the Life Insurance Company the 
Board of Directors declared a dividend 
to be paid to policyholders upon the 
payment of their third premium, which 
was one year in advance of any obliga- 
tion contained in the policy. 


“The manner in which the funds of 
the Country Life Insurance Company 
have been conserved is best described 
in the 1931 Best Life Rating Chart, 
which shows that the cost of adminis- 
tration per $1,000 of -insurance is 
among the lowest, if not actually the 
lowest of all the legal reserve life in- 
surance companies covered by their re- 
port. This report is supposed to cover 
all legal reserve companies operating in 
the United States.” 


In the meantime energetic enemy 
propogandists have been giving wide 
circulation to the original erroneous 
statement while ignoring the retraction 
presented above. Members are invited 
to send in the names of such workers 
found spreading libelous statements. 


CIRCUIT JUDGE ADVOCATES 
(Continued from Page 15) 

In another recent address at Edwards- 
ville, the judge advised farmers to or- 
ganize as an ultimate solution to their 
problem. “If you farmers want to im- 
prove your condition you must keep on 
organizing,” he said. “You can get 
permanent relief in this machine age 
only by organization and limitation of 
production, and thus be put in a posi- 
tion where you will have some voice in 
setting the prices of your products.” 


Page Seventeen 


Accident Prevention” 
Work Gets Results 


A decrease in the number of auto- 
mobile accidents per hundred policies in 
force in the Illinois Agricultural Mutual 
Insurance Company during September, 
1930 and 1931, in comparison with 
September, 1928 and 1929, is shown by 
a recent survey. 

Manager A. E. Richardson gives the 
accident prevention campaigns of the 
I. A. A. and Farm Bureaus credit for 
the drop in accidents. 


Accidents in September this year were 
72 less than they would have been if 
the accident rate of September, 1928, 
had continued. They were 89 less than 
they would have been on the basis of 
the 1929 rate. 


“If we are to assume that each acci- 
dent costs the company approximately 
$40,” said Richardson, “we find an 
actual saving of approximately $2,880 
on the basis of accidents in 1928 or 
ear on the 1929 accident rate. 


“We find that in 1928 we had 10,082 
policies in force and that 2.142 per cent 
of the policy-holders had accidents dur- 
ing September. In 1929 we had 17,575 
policies in force and 2.179 per cent of 
them had accidents in the correspond- 
ing period. 


“The first accident prevention cam- 
paign was carried on in 1929, but it 
was not well organized and did not 
show very great results. In 1930 results 
were more satisfactory. This year an 
active Campaign was again initiated and 
at this writing is still in progress. In 
September only 1.905 per cent of the 
30,294 policy-holders had accidents.” 

The campaigns were held in Septem- 
ber because that is the peak month for 
accidents. December is second high in 
mishaps according to the company’s 
records. 


Waterfowl Show at Quincy 


The second water fowl exposition to 
be held in Illinois will take place at 
Quincy January 6-10 in connection 
with the Illinois State Poultry Show, 
according to the Illinois State Water- 
fowl Breeders’ Association. 

Competition in all classes of ducks 
and geese is open to everyone, states 
Ruth M. Adams of Alexander, secre- 
tary of the organization. 


“I saved $96 on limestone, enough 
to pay my dues for more than six 
years, because of the services of the 
Farm Bureau,” writes Harvey Stan- 
ley, member of the Clay County 
Farm Bureau. 


7 Page Eighteen 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


November, 1931 


Gnsten lethe Jubilee Saturday Night, Dec. 12 


Farm Bureau Safety 
Club Movement Grows 


EMBERSHIP of the Illinois Farm 
Bureau Safety Club, which to 
date has units in more than 70 coun- 
ties, is now 5,537, according to V. Van- 
iman. The total is expected to reach 
15,000 before the campaign closes Jan- 
uary 1. Farm Bureaus are now distrib- 
uting the 35,000 emblems sent out by 
the I. A. A. and signing up members. 
Cook county has worked out a unique 
plan for its campaign. Men have been 
selected in every township and each 
given 25 emblems and a card on which 
there is room for 25 names. When the 
card is filled and sent in, showing that 
the emblems have been placed on wind- 
shields, the appointee’s job is completed. 
Edwards county worked out a plan 
in which the insurance men and oil 
truck drivers engaged in a contest to 
see who could secure the most members 
for the club. Mercer county is using the 
same idea. 

Champaign county showed safety 
films, conducted poster contests among 
school children, and has arranged to 
have local units work out their own 
plans for signing up members. Pulaski- 
Alexander counties expect to take up 
the matter in a) series of community 
meetings the latter part of November. 
Jersey county has already discussed the 
campaign in community meetings. 

Hancock county is considering the 
installation of brake and mechanical 
testing equipment. Group meetings are 
also planned to take up the subject. 

Practically every county is putting 
the idea before Farm Bureau members 
through the medium of letters and the 
Farm Bureau publications. 

All that is required to become a mem- 
ber is that the car owner have the em- 
blem of the safety club on his car. Only 
those eligible for auto insurance in the 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance 
Company are eligible for membership. 
The I. A. A. will give a silver loving 
cup to the county conducting the best 
campaign. 


Vermilion's Record 


The Vermilion County Livestock 
Marketing Association recently closed 
its first year of business with a record 
of $400,000 in sales covering 24,000 
head of livestock weighing 6,000,000 
pounds. 

Livestock is shipped on Tuesdays and 
Thursdays. Stock went to six terminal 
markets and 14 packers. 


The Martinsville (Clark county) 
vocational agricultural class made its 
fifth annual trip to the Indianapolis 
Stock Yards on October 20 under the 
leadership of W. G. Baysinger, instruc- 
tor. 

The 14 boys left Martinsville for a 
cool ride at 3 A. M. on the top deck of 
a truck owned by Ralph Jeffers, mana- 
ger of the Martinsville Shipping Asso- 
ciation. 

The boys inspected the stock yards, 
went through the packing plant of 
Kingan & Company, and were enter- 
tained at dinner by the Producers Com- 
mission Association. 


New Directors Chosen 
By Farm Supply Co. 


A new plan of district representation 
on the board of directors of the Illinois 
Farm Supply Company was adopted at 
the annual meeting in Bloomington on 
October 14. Under the new plan the 
state is divided into nine districts as 
follows: northeast, northwest, east, 
central, west, west central, southeast, 
southwest, and south. 

After an amendment to the articles 
of incorporation approving this change 
was unanimously adopted by the stock- 
holders, the directors whose terms of 
office had not expired tendered their 
resignations to become effective imme- 
diately. These were as follows: A. R. 
Wright, Geo. F. Tullock, Harry C. 
Gehring, Grant Broster, W. A. Dennis, 
and E. E. Stevenson. 

The terms of office of the other two 
directors, E. D. Lawrence and Samuel 
Sorrells, had expired. 

This action enabled the delegates in 
each district to caucus and nominate a 
director. The directors elected for the 
ensuing year were: northeast, T. J. 
Penman; northwest, G. F. Tullock; east, 
J. M. Iman; central, E. E. Stevenson; 
west, F. E. Herndon; west central, F. J. 
Flynn; southeast, H. R. Neal; south- 
west, Samuel Sorrells; and south, Grant 
Broster. 


The state championship boys dairy judging 
team from JoDaviess county placed seventh 
among 24 at the National Dairy Show last 
month. 


To Select County Queens 
Seek New World Record 


POs Farm Bureaus are looking 
forward to the Dividend Celebra- 
tion Jubilee on Saturday night, Decem- 
ber 12, when county-wide receptions 
and programs will be held all over the 
state, announces Manager L. A. Wil- 
liams of Country Life Insurance Co. 


In addition to entertainment by lo- 
cal talent, arrangements have been 
made for a 30-minute inspirational 
radio program to be broadcast over sta- 
tion WMAQ, Chicago, beginning at 
8:00 p. m. 

One of the features of county pro- 
grams will be beauty contests to select 
Country Life Queens for the respective 
counties. Last year 12 counties selected 
Country Life Queens in similar meet- 
ings. 

V. Vaniman, director of insurance 
service for the I. A. A., expects at least 
65 counties to hold beauty contests 
December 12. Winners of county con- 
tests will be eligible for the state con- 
test which is expected to be held at the 
State Fair in 1932. Miss Frances John- 
ston of Lawrence county is the present 
Country Life Queen, having been chosen 
last August in the state contest. 

Judges in these contests will consider 
poise, grace, dignity, style, intelligence, 
and personality. Since the selection of 
the: Country Life Queen of Illinois at 
the State Fair, a new’ meaning of a 
“beauty contest” has taken hold of 
Farm Bureau people, Vaniman said. 

The Country Life Insurance Com- 
pany has just announced a campaign 
to be carried on between now and the 
end of the year to top the list of com- 
panies in millions of business gained 
in 1931. The company already has 
several world’s records to its credit. 


Farm Land Policy to 
Be Discussed in Chicago 


Agricultural land utilization will be 
discussed in a three-day conference 
called by Secretary of Agriculture Ar- 
thur M. Hyde for November 19 to 21 
at Chicago. Representatives of agri- 
cultural organizations and land grant 
colleges will consider the development 
of a national policy on land utilization. 

Sub-marginal land, tax delinquency, 
farm abandonment, mortgage indebted- 
ness, foreclosed farm\ lands and other 
immediate problems will be discussed, 
Secretary Hyde announced. 


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"This Will Pay My 


Dues for Ten Years" 


Bond County Member Appreciates 
I, A. A. Claim Service 


“[ ALMAGE DEFREES, president of 
the Bond County Farm Bureau, re- 
cently received a check for $150 in 
settlement of a claim filed last winter 
when a car of apples was damaged in 
transit from Griggsville to Smithboro. 

After months of persistent corres- 
pondence this settlement was obtained 
by the transportation department of 
the Illinois Agricultural Association, al- 
though the railroad at first denied re- 
sponsibility for the damage. 

The basis for the claim was as fol- 
lows: Mr. Defrees ordered a car of 
apples through the Illinois Fruit Grow- 
ers Exchange to be shipped standard 
ventilation. The car was more than 
four days traveling a distance of 140 
miles. It arrived with vents closed and 
the apples damaged by heating and jolt- 
ing, to the extent of $160. 

At first the railroad denied the claim 
altogether, asserting that “the loss 
claimed does not appear to represent 
a carrier’s liability and the claim there- 
fore will necessarily have to be dis- 
allowed.” An offer of $125 was finally 
made. This was refused. Later an offer 
of $150 was accepted by the shipper as 
a satisfactory settlement. 

“The railroad was clearly at fault,” 
said Mr. Defrees in a letter to the 
I. A. A., “and yet I doubt if individu- 
ally I could have recovered a cent. This 
will pay my Farm Bureau dues for 10 
years. Talk about service! And think 
of the men who can’t see it!” 

The I. A. A. has collected a total of 
more than $225,000 in loss and damage 
claims for members since 1920. Last 
year the association collected 1,000 
claims totaling $25,000. 


Ogle Gains in Members 


Eighty-one new members were added 
to the Ogle County Farm Bureau in a 
membership drive in October, placing 
the total between 990 and 1,000 mem- 
bers. This is a gain of approximately 
9 per! cent over 1930. Membership is 
expected to pass 1,000 by the time the 
sign-up is completed. 


Buys Milk in Christian Co. 


The Producers Dairy Company of 
Springfield is now buying whole milk 
and cream from Christian county dairy- 
men, giving Farm Bureau members an 
outlet for their dairy products through 
co-operative channels. The Producers 
Dairy Company is a subsidiary of the 
Sangamon County Farm Bureau. 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


No. 2 of a 
series of ad- 
vertisements 
on I. A. A.-- 
Farm Bureau 
Services 


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More than 
60, 000 voluntary 
memberships are 
backing the chain 
of I. A. A. --Farm 
Bureau services, 
each one animpor- 
tant link toward 
farm equality. 


Link YOUR Farm 


to Your FARM BUREAU 


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Organization Can Foster 


Helpful Legislation 
and PROTECT against ill-planned laws 


Introduced into our State Legislature each bien- 
nium are hundreds of bills, most of which directly 
or indirectly affect every farm home in Illinois. 
Some are necessary. Others are likely to harm 
more persons than they could benefit. 

To guard against the passage of legislation harm- 
ful to agricultural interests requires constant 


4. watchfulness. An aggressive organization with 


the power of numbers is necessary to maintain 
this vigilance. 


Farmers’ Influence Growing 


The Illinois farmer no longer stands alone. Rep- 
resentatives of his organization speak with the 
powerful voice of the 60,000 tax-paying members 
engaged in farming. 

The strength of these 60,000 is great. Yet the 
combined strength of all the Illinois farmers be- 
hind the I. A. A. program would double the effec- 
tiveness of every Farm Bureau representative. 


Some Needs of Illinois Agriculture 


We farmers of Illinois need many things from 
our lawmaking bodies. 


Weneed anew taxing system based on ability to pay; 
We need further tariff revision to protect our prod- 
ucts against foreign competition; 

We need a proper understanding of our cause by 
the State Legislature to prevent the passage of 
injurious bills and to obtain measures that will be- 
nefit the farming industry; 

We necd revised transportation costs; 


We need favorable credit legislation and better 
credi: facilities. 


Every new member adds to the value of the 
chain of I. A. A.-Farm Bureau Services, and 
lends support to the fair demands of agriculture. 
For a better business—a fuller home life—a more 
secure future—and a voice in the government 
that can be HEARD we must have organization 
—one man can do nothing alone. 

The 60,000 members of the Illinois Agricultural 
Association have accomplished much. With your help 
they can do more. Call Farm Bureau headquarters 
today. Say: ‘‘Il’m joining!’’ 


ILLINOIS 
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 


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Ninety- Five Affiliated County Farm Bureaus 
608 So. Dearborn Street Chicago, Illinois 


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By purchasing Service Petroleum Products and Supplies from 
your own Farm Bureau Service Company YOU have made it 
possible for the Illinois Farm Supply Company to return to 
the 47 associated companies a cash dividend of $78,557.50. 


Your patronage brings cash dividends to you and enables your 
company to provide you with exceptionally high quality prod- 
ucts and excellent service. 


NOW is the time to co-operate 100 per cent with your Farm 
Bureau, for loyal support will bring even Bigger Returns. 
SPECIAL PRICES are now offered on motor oil orders for Spring deliv- 
eries. Penn Bond (100% Pure Pennsylvania) and Blue Seal (100% Paraf- 
fine Base) oils stand up under extreme conditions. 
You must act AT ONCE to take advantage of this opportunity to buy 
your next season’s requirements at a saving. See the “SERVICE” man in 
your territory, or write us. 

Winter grades are dewaxed, flow readily at 

low temperatures, and give instant lubrica- 

tion at the first turn of the motor. Get 


Local County 
Farm Bureau Service Co, 


Farm Bureau Member your Winter Oil before the snow flies. 
ILLINOIS FARM SUPPLY COMPANY 
608 SOUTH.DEARBORN STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 


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Number 12 


Corn Credit Corp. 
Now Making Loans 


Manager Laird Cautions Applicants 
To File Properly and Avoid 
Delays 


PPLICATIONS for loans totaling 
more than $20,000 on _ cribbed 
corn in Illinois were received by the 
National Corn Credit Corporation at 
Chicago November 30, reports Harry 


. Laird, manager. 


This represents receipts over the 
week-end and is, therefore, heavier than 
the average daily run, he explained. 
Forty-eight applications had been re- 
ceived, and about one-fourth of these 
had been paid up to December 1,. Mr. 
Laird said. 

The first loan was made to a LaSalle 
county farmer on November 25. Among 
ether counties, which have sent in appli- 
cations, are Champaign, Shelby, Ken- 
dall, McLean, Henry, and DeKalb. 

Mr. Laird explained that faulty appli- 
cations were causing a great deal of de- 
lay on loans. 

Common Errors 

The most common errors, he said, 
were the omission of crib measurements 
by the sealers in filling out the ware- 
house certificates, and the failure of the 
applicant to assign the certificate to the 
National Corn Credit Corporation. One 
er two applicants have applied for 
amounts in excess of the maximum, 
which is 20 cents a bushel. In these 
cases it has been necessary to have new 
applications prepared. 

The loans continue to be confined to 
(Illinois. Iowa, the only other state pos- 
sessing a warehouse storage law as re- 
quired by the Corn Credit Corporation, 
now has its machinery in working or- 
der, Mr. Laird said. He expects to re- 
ceive Iowa applications within the next 
few days. 

Insurance Available 

The applicant will not be required to 

insure sealed grain as was required at 


the outset, it was decided by officials of 
(Continued on page § cel. 3) 


DECEMBER, 1931 


NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEET- 
ING OF ILLINOIS AGRI- 
CULTURAL ASSN. 


OTICE is hereby given that the 
annual meeting of the mem- 
bers of the ILLINOIS AGRICUL- 
TURAL ASSOCIATION will be 
held at the Faust Hotel, in Rock- 
ford, Ill., on the 28th day of Janu- 
ary, 1932, at 9:00 o’clock a. m., for 
the follcwing purposes: 

For the consideration and vote 
upon approval and ratification of the 
reports of the president, secretary 
and treasurer of the Association, and 
the acts of the board of directors 
and officers in furtherance of the 
matters therein set forth, since the 
last annual meeting of the members 
of the Association. 

To approve, ratify and confirm 
the several purchases heretofore made 
by this Association of stocks and evi- 
dences of indebtedness of corpora- 
tions whose activities will directly or 
indirectly promote agriculture or the 
interests of those engaged therein. 

To secure consent and authoriza- 
tion to acquire on behalf of this 
Association, by purchase, certain 
stocks and evidences of indebtedness 
of corporations whose activities will 
directly or indirectly promote agri- 
culture or the interests of those en- 
gaged therein. 

To elect seven members to the 
board of directors for two-year 
terms. 

To elect a president and vice- 
president. 

To consider any proposed amend- 
ment of the articles of association or 
of the by-laws of the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association as may be prop- 
erly submitted. 

For the transaction of such other 
business as may properly come be- 
fore the meeting. 

GEO. E. METZGER, 
Secretary. 
Chicago, Ill., Dec. 1, 1931. 


_ linois. Rockford is 


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Volume 9 


Outline Plans For 
17th |. A. A. Convention 


Meeting Goes To Rockford In 
Northern [Illinois For First 
Time In History 


Bian 17th annual meeting of the Illi- 
nois Agricultural Association will be 
held January 28-29 at Rockford—the 
first time in history the convention has 
been held in ex- 
treme northern II- 


the home of George 
F. Tullock, I. A. A. 
director, chairman 
of the Financial 
Service Committee, 
and for more than 
a quarter of a cen- 
tury prominent in 
farm organization 
work, Geo. F. Tullock 

Heretofore an- 
nual conventions have been held in 
Peoria, Springfield, Chicago, Rock Isl- 
and, Galesburg, Danville, and Urbana. 

The various associated companies, as 
in former years, will hold their annual 
meetings on Wednesday, January 27, 
the day before the opening of the I. A. 
A. meeting. 

The Chicago Producers Commission 
Association will hold its annual meet- 
ing on Tuesday, January 26 at Rock- 
ford, the first time the annual meeting 
has been held outside of Chicago, to 
give the directors and delegates an op- 
portunity to attend the I. A. A. con- 
vention. 


Faust Is Headquarters 

The Faust Hotel, Rockford’s newest 
285-room hostelry, will be convention 
headquarters. Hotel rates at the Faust 
will range from $1.75 to $3.50 per day 
per person where there are two or more 
in a room. The next largest hotel is 
the Nelson with 160 rooms four blocks 
away where rates are from $1.75 to 
$3.50 each daily. Other hotels are the 
LaFayette with 48 rooms, rates $1.75 
(Continued om next page) 


Page Four 


to $3 each and $1.25 for additional 
cots; Park hotel, 40 rooms (no bath) 
$1;—Hayes-hotel; tS rooms (no bath) 
$1 each; Illinois hotel, 34 rooms, -rates 
$1 to $1.50 per person daily, cots $1; 
Chandler hotel, 16 rooms (with bath) 
$1.75 each, cots $1.25—44 rooms 
(without bath) $1.25, cots $1. The 
majority are within four to five blocks 
of the Faust. 
Tentative Program 

The tentative program of the con- 
vention provides for officer’s reports 
Thursday morning, January 28, and for 
sectional conferences that afternoon. 
The sectional conferences are arranged 
primarily to give the delegates and 
members a chance to express themselves. 
Most of the time will be available for 
impromptu discussion. 

A list of able and prominent speak- 
ers to discuss such current questions as 
revenue legislation, co-operative market- 
ing, stabilization of money, and other 
economic problems is being considered. 

District caucuses to select directors 
from the 12th, 14th, 16th, 18th, 20th, 
22nd, and 24th districts will be nom- 
inated. 

The tentative program provides for 
the annual banquet on Thursday even- 
ing and a luncheon Friday noon where 
speakers of natjon-wide prominence are 
expected to appear. 

Number of Delegates 

The number of delegates from each 
county will be based on the paid mem- 
bership on the last day of December, 
1931. One delegate is allowed for the 
first 500 of paid memberships or frac- 
tion thereof, and one additional dele- 
gate for each additional 500 members 
er major fraction thereof. 

Speakers are being scheduled for the 
annual meetings of the Illinois Farm 
Bureau Baseball League, Illinois Farm 
Bureau Serum Association, Illinois Agri- 
cultural Mutual Insurance Company, 
and Illinois Agricultural Auditing As- 
sociation. Country Life Insurance 
Company and Illinois Farm Supply 
Company plan to sponsor conferences 
and meetings of agents, managers, and 
salesmen. — 


Master Farmers Are Chosen 


Six Illinois farmers, all Farm Bureau 
members, were honored by Prairie 
Farmer and awarded the gold Master 
Farmer medal on Sunday afternoon, No- 
vember 29, in the WLS broadcasting 
studios. 

Illinois men who received the honor 
were: E. E. Houghtby, DeKalb county; 
. ©. E. James, Piatt county; Henry 
Brinkman, Livingston county; W. 
Frank Reid, Winnebago county; A. L. 
Doubet, Knox county; and M. S. Mc- 
Collister, Greene county. 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


December, 1931 


WENDELL MORGAN OF MERCER COUNTY AND HIS PRIZE 
ANGUS STEER 


Illinois Wins In Junior 
Feeding at Stock Show 


Attendance Lower But Exhibits Are 
Up To Standard 


t Resies International Live Stock Expo- 
sition, America’s most colorful pa- 
geant, agriculture’s greatest sporting 
event, is again a matter of history. 

Into the huge oval of Chicago’s fa- 
mous stock yard arena during the week 
swept a constant procession of the con- 
tinent’s best livestock, while judges se- 
lected champions. The attendance was 
smaller than in former years. 

The central figure of the 12,000 ani- 
mals was a stocky, jet black, little Aber- 
deen Angus steer, Briar Cliff Thickset, 
from Duchess county, New York. He 
won the highest honor a beef animal 
can obtain when he was named grand 
champion steer of the world by Judge 
Walter Biggar of Scotland. 


Briar Cliff Thickset, owned by Briar 
Cliff Farm, Pine Plains, N. Y., is the 
first steer from an eastern farm to win 
this honor in 31 years. Illini Major, a 
Shorthorn steer, exhibited by the Uni- 
versity of Illinois, was chosen as reserve 
champion. 

The Corn Belt shared honors with 
Canada and the Rocky Mountain area 
in the grain and hay show. 

Edward N. Lux, Shelby county, In- 
diana, is corn king. He comes from a 
family of championship corn growers. 


A Canadian won the wheat crown with 
an exhibit of Durum wheat. To Colo- 
rado goes the laurels for sending the 
finest oats, produced by Dr. J. F. Mein- 
zer of La Jara. 

It was in the junior feeding contest 
that Illinois came to the front. The 
championship fight in the junior fat 
steer show turned out to be a contest 
between two Angus yearlings shown by 
Wendell Morgan and Lawrence Morgan, 
brothers, from Aledo, Mercer county, 
Illinois. 

“Coalie,” Wendell’s entry, was de- 
clared champion. “Coalie” already had 
the distinction of being champion in his 
class and grand champion at the Mercer 
County Fair, Illinois State Fair, and the 
Mississippi Valley Fair, Davenport. 
Wendell is 16 years old, Lawrence 10. 

Mercer county also won the honor of 
having the best group of three steers 
shown. Illinois won first on the best 
group of ten junior steers. Twenty-three 
Illinois counties entered club steers. 

Against a field of 14 pens of fat bar- 
rows, Raus Brown, 14, also of Aledo, 
took first place with his purebred Duroc 
Jerseys. Second place went to John Ash 
of Ashkum, Ill. Edwin and Harold 
Brown, Aledo club members, placed 
fourth and fifth. 

A load of Herefords, shown by John 
D. Moeller, Schleswig, Iowa, copped the 
prize for car lots of fat cattle after a 
close contest with the car of Angus 
yearlings, entered by E. P. Hall, veteran 

(Continued om page $ col. 2) 


December, 1931 


David Lawrence Talks 
About Government Aid 


Enumerates Ways Groups and In- 
dustries Are Subsidized 


OVERNMENT aid to agriculture 

under the Agricultural Marketing 
Act has been, in proportion to size, no 
greater than aid to a number of other 
industries, declared David Lawrence, 
Washington’s premier press correspond- 
ent and publisher of the United States 
Daily, Washington, D. C., in a radio 
address over the NBC chain Novem- 
ber 15. 

His statement has special significance 
since enemies of co-operative marketing 
are at present attacking the Marketing 
Act on the pretense of “getting the 
government out of private business.” 
Many of the men who are fighting this 
measure have been enjoying government 
subsidy for years, Mr. Lawrence shows. 

“The truth is, government for genera- 
tions has been the spokesman of national 
desire in the expenditure of public 
funds,” he said. “And by national de- 
sire is meant the deliberate judgment of 
the national legislature after weighing 
the merits of every special plea in terms 
of the general welfare. 

Federal Aid to Many 

“Thus, today federal aid is granted to 
shipping and the American merchant 
marine can borrow money more cheaply 
from the federal government for new 
ships or the purchase of ships previously 
owned by the government than it can 
in the money markets of private capital. 

“Federal aid is given the airplane in- 
dustry through the air mail contracts, 
which again encourage a transportation 
industry. 

“Federal aid was given the railroads 
originally in grants of land and rights- 
of-way worth many hundreds of mil- 
lions of dollars, which wealth belonged 
to the American people. 

“Federal aid is given every day to the 
publishing industry through the grant 
of second class mail privileges, while 
the average citizen pays higher postage 
for his mail. 

“Federal aid has been given, and is 
being given, to the automobile industry 
through the billions of dollars spent in 
public roads, without which the de- 
velopment of the automobile industry 
would have been seriously retarded. 

The Protective Tariff 

“Federal aid is given to every indus- 
try that obtains a protective tariff be- 
cause it cannot compete with cheaply 
made goods abroad. This aid is in- 
tended, not merely for the manufac- 
turers, but for the workingmen whose 
purchasing power is maintained through 
the wage levels thus preserved. 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


“So when we enumerate all these 
federal aids and subsidies, we cannot 
overlook the concerted attack that has 
recently been made on the tendency of 
government to aid the farmer. Agricul- 
ture is a twelve billion dollar industry, 
basic in America’s scheme of things, yet 
a net expenditure of $100,000,000 a 
year for co-operative marketing spread 
over two or three years is pointed at 
as wasteful. Overnight we granted for- 
eign peoples an indefinite postponement 
of $250,000,000 due our federal treas- 
ury, because our rightly paternalistic 


‘government wanted to protect our 


banks whose foreign credits were en- 
dangered.” _ 


International 
(Continued from page 4) 
showman of Sangamon county, III. 

A car of Angus steer calves, owned by 
Dean N. Funk of McLean county, IIl., 
took the championship in car lots of 
feeder cattle. They were sold at auc- 
tion Dec. 2 by the Chicago Producers 
for the top price of $13.50. 

Chester Whites, for the first time in 
29 years, won in the swine car lot di- 
vision. The prize load was exhibited by 
the Sauk Livestock Shipping Association 
of Sauk City, Wis. Alva Rexroat, 
Jacksonville, Ill., furnished the greatest 
competition with a load of fifty-five 
185-pound Hampshires, which were 
first in the light weight class. 

Tyron Rosbrook, of Dixon, Lee coun- 
ty, Ill., was named champion in 4-H 
club meat judging, winning over 18 
competitors from seven states. The con- 
test included the identification of 25 
cuts of beef, pork and lamb. Iowa won 
the college livestock judging contest, 
Oklahoma second. 

National 4-H health champions 
chosen during the 4-H Club Congress, 
held in conjunction with the Interna- 
tional, are Gertrude Heikes, 15, Dakota 
City, Nebraska, and William Sanders, 
16, Franklin, Ind. 


Who Is Entitled to. 
Farm Bureau Service? 


At its last meeting on November 13, 
the board of directors of the I. A.A. 
voted that “only holders of individual 
memberships in the Farm Bureau and 
Illinois Agricultural Association shall be 
entitled to the services, based upon 
membership in good standing, and ren- 
dered either by the Farm Bureau or 
associated companies, except only those 
members of the Farm Bureau member’s 
immediate family who are under age and 
wholly dependent. Where services carry 
a dividend or money return, such divi- 
dend or money return shall be limited 
to the member signing the membership 
agreement.” 


Page Five 


Make Reservations Early 
For Annual Convention 


Reservations for rooms and accom- 
modations at the annual conventions of 
the Illinois Agricultural Association and 
associated companies, Rockford, Janu- 
ary 27-28-29, should be made without 
delay with Charles H. Keltner, farm 
adviser, Rockford. The local commit- 
tee in charge of accommodations will 
use its best judgment in distributing the 
delegates and visitors among the various 
hotels. 

Rockford is located on the Chicago 
and Northwestern and Illinois Central 
Railroads about 80 miles northwest 
of Chicago. It is also on branch lines 
of the Burlington and C. M. and St. 
P. It is accessible by paved roads from 
all sections of the state, being situated 
on Illinois route No. 5 east and west, 
and on routes Nos. 2 and 70 north and 
south. oe 

Rail travellers from Southern and 
Central Illinois will go to Rockford by 
way of Chicago. Members and delegates 
should ask for reduced rates at time of 
purchasing tickets. Return the same 
way you go to get the reduced rate. 


Corn Credit Corp. 


(Continued from page 3 col. 1) 


the organization November 30. How- 
ever, farmers are urged for their own 
protection to insure corn used as se- 
curity regardless of this ruling, as they 
will be liable for the full amount of 
the loan if the grain is destroyed. 

The borrower can get insurance 
through the state department of agri- 
culture or through the credit corpora- 
tion. The latter will carry fire and wind 
insurance for him at 50 cents per $100 
of his loan. 

The exact cost of obtaining a loan 
through the Corn Credit Corporation is 
computed as follows: 

On 2,000 bushels of corn the maxi- 
mum loan is $400, figured on a maxi- 
mum of 20 cents a bushel. The rate of 
interest is 6% per cent per year to 
July 15, or until he pays the loan. He 
must pay the sealer 14 cent per bushel, 
or $5 on 2,000 bushels. The maximum 
charge per loan for sealer fees is $7.50. 
He must also pay the abstractor for 
reviewing the records on the corn for 
liens and indebtedness if any. This fee 
is about $1. 


The I. A. A. contributed $50 to help 
defray the expenses of the state cham- 
pionship vocational agricultural live- 
stock judging team to the national con- 
test held in connection with the Ameri- 
can Royal Livestock Show at Kansas 
City. 


Page Six 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


December, 1931 


Metropolitan Taxes 


Maywood, Ill., Nov. 10.—Why does 
The Tribune in its editorials, its car- 
toons, and in its news dispatches from 
Washington and Springfield have such 
an obsession for picturing Illinois as 


being ‘‘tax bled” for the benefit of the. 


rest of the country and Chicago as be- 
ing similarly bled for the benefit of 
downstate? Is that an attitude worthy 
of a great metropolitan daily that ad- 
vertises itself as the ““World’s Greatest 
Newspaper” and if such should be cor- 
respondingly broadminded? 

I do not notice any of the papers of 
the great city of New York indulging 
in whines about being bled for the bene- 
fit of the rest of the country or of up- 
state New York bleeding the city. They 
have been metropolitan so long they 
have outgrown that narrow viewpoint, 
[ presume. They are broadminded 
enough to see that the immense wealth 
concentrated by virtue of advantageous 
location in metropolitan centers does 
not really belong to that district alone 
for its exclusive use, either for com- 
merical or for tax use purposes. It rep- 
resents wealth derived from the ex- 
ploitation of the natural resources and 
industries of the adjacent region for 
hundreds of miles—in the case of New 
York and to a lesser extent Chicago, 
country-wide. So it is only right that 
some of the taxes on this immense con- 
centrated wealth should be spent on the 
regions of its real origin. 

If any one has the least doubt that 
New York’s or Chicago’s wealth is 
mainly country derived, just think what 
would happen if by some freak of fate 
either or both of these cities were com- 
pletely isolated from the rest of the na- 
tion. Inside of a few years these cities 
would be down to a mere shadow of 
their former selves in wealth and power, 
while the rest of the nation would have 
suffered comparatively little inconven- 
ience, save that of having to build up 
new centers of trade. Witness what 
happened to Vienna when deprived of 
most of her tributary territory. 

O. Quirk in the Chicago Tribune. 


Wild Game Film 


Quail, grouse, wild ducks, wild tur- 
keys, moose, elk, deer, bears and the 
elusive trout and bass in their native 
habitats, are featured in the new one- 
reel motion picture, “Forest Fires—or 
Game?” just released by the U. S. De- 
partment of Agriculture. 

This film may be borrowed free from 
the Office of Motion Pictures. U. S. 
Dept. of Agr., Washington, D. C. 


The Oregon State Supreme Court recently 
declared the emergency clause of a bill impos- 
ing a tax on butter substitutes valid. 


NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEET- 
ING-OF IELINOIS FARM 
BUREAU BASEBALL 
LEAGUE 


IN nee is hereby given that the 
annual meeting of the mem- 
bers of Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball 
League will be held on Wednesday, 
the 27th day of January, 1932, at 
the hour of 9:30 a. m., at the Faust 
Hotel, Rockford, Ill., to elect offi- 
cers’ and directors, receive, and, if 
approved, confirm the reports of the 
officers and executive committee of 
the League for the fiscal year ending 
Dec. 31, 1931, and to consider and, 
if approved, ratify and confirm all 
the acts and proceedings of the board 
of directors done and taken since the 
last annual meeting of the members 
of the League; and for the transac- 
tion of such further and other busi- 
ness as may properly come before the 
meeting. 

Dated at Chicago, Ill., Dec. 1, 
1931. 


E. G. THIEM, 
Secretary. 


Farm Values Decline, 
Improvements Increase 


ROM 1920 to 1930 the value of all 
farm property, land, buildings, im- 
plements and livestock, declined from 
$77,000,000,000 to $57,000,000,000, 
reports the U. S. Bureau of Census. The 
ratio of debt to total value imcreased 


from 29 per cent in 1920 to 39 per. 


cent in 1930. 

Commenting upon this fact the 
Bloomington (Illinois) Pantagraph 
states that “At the same time farmers 
were encountering this deflation of 
value and increase of the debt burden, 
they proved good spenders. Automo- 
biles on farms increased from 2,000,- 
000 to 4,000,000. Motor trucks in- 
creased from 139,000 to 900,000 in 
round figures. Tractors increased from 
248,000 to 920,000. Farm homes 
equipped with water pipes increased 
from 643,000 to 994,000. In 1920 
there were 454,000 homes equipped 
with either gas or electric lights, while 
in 1930 there were 841,000 with elec- 
tric lights. 

“With all this increase in use of fac- 
tory products in the face of declining 
farm incomes,” continues the Panta- 
graph, “one wonders what farmers 
would do were the situation reversed 
and their purchasing power increased. 
There are more than 6,000,000 farms 
in America, yet only 4,000,000 re- 
ported automobiles, only 841,000 re- 
ported electric lights, only 994,000 re- 


Consolidation of Taxing 
Districts Needed: Watson 


Tells How Taxes Can Be Cut and 
Inefficiency in Government 
Reduced 


Consolidation of taxing districts to 
eliminate inefficiency and lighten tax 
burdens was urged by John C. Watson, 
director of taxation for the I. A. A., be- 
fore farm leaders attending the national 
land utilization conference at Chicago, 
November 20. 

The main forces holding these adjust- 
ments back in the past, he pointed out, 
were centered around the opposition of 
petty office holders, the unwillingness of 
towns to lose the seat of. government, 
which is regarded as a business asset, 
and the almost universal idea that there 
is always some advantage in maintain- 
ing so-called autonomy. 

“‘Many counties are so small and have 
such small values in taxable. property 
that the cost of county government is 
excessive,” he continued. ‘“Consolida- 
tion would dispense with one set of offi- 
cers. It would also reduce the cost of 
maintaining unnecessary court houses 
and jails. With properly controlled and 
supervised county government, county 
assessors, and larger units for highway 
maintenance, townships could well be 
abolished. 

“Belief in the advantage of local 
autonomy is most strongly entrenched 
in the smaller taxing districts, and no- 
where more strongly than in the town- 
ships. The impossibility of securing wni- 
form assessments throughout a county 
through locally elected assessors has been 
so often pointed out as to require no 
comment. 

“Advocates of local autonomy will 
doubtless point out that the suggested 
change will in some cases mean no re- 
duction in expenditures. That is true, 
but increased efficiency for the same 
expenditure is one form of economy. 
The most costly element of government 
is inefficiency. 

“If the people of the local taxing 
districts clearly understood that local 
autonomy too often means inefficiency, 
there is little doubt but that their views 
would change. Good schools and good 
roads are too important to justify neg- 


\ lect on the part of the state. Good fiscal 


administrative methods, helpful super- 
vision and advice, and an equitable tax- 
ing system are the only ways by which 
economy in local expenditures can be 
secured and maintained.” 


ported running water in the homes. To 
give agriculture greater buying power 
would open up a wonderful market for 
all manner of industrial products.” 


a. 


” 


December, 1931 


aois Agricultural Association is broad- 
cast daily except Saturday and Sunday 
over station WJJD, Chicago (1,130 
kilocycles), between 12:30 and 12:45 
noon. 

The program consists of live agricul- 
tural news, including late market in- 
formation and developments in current 
farm problems. The Chicago livestock 
market is reviewed daily by members 
of the I. A. A. staff, and a weekly sum- 
mary is given on Fridays by the Chi- 
cago Producers. 


HE new rule in business is that 

co-operation and not competition is 
the life of trade, commented E. W. 
“Farmer” Rusk on his radio college of 
co-operative marketing, from station 
WMAQ recently. 

“We are taught, many of us, from 
eur youth on, that competition is essen- 
tial to the health and progress of the 
race—the obvious truth is that co-oper- 
ation is good and competition bad, and 
that society flourishes by the mutual aid 
of human beings,” he continued. 

“By virtue of their natural isolation 
farmers have seemed slow in realizing 
their efforts through co-operation. 
Coupled with the natural barriers to 
co-operation among farmers them- 
selves has been the retarding influence 
of certain individuals and groups who 
profit themselves because of lack of 
group action on the part of the farmers. 
Propaganda unfavorable to organization 
and co-operation of various sources has 
tended to make the progress slow. But 
it is gratifying to note the attitude of 
friendly, helpful interest being shown 
on every hand by the public generally. 
As evidence of friendly interest I refer 
to a recent editorial in the Daily News 
in which the following statement is 
made: 

“**There has been of late a gratifying 
growth in the strength and efficiency 
of farm co-operatives in the face of 
determined opposition by competing 
marketing agencies. It is not unreason- 
able to expect steady acceleration of 
that growth as the co-operatives de- 
velop greater efficiency.’ ” 


Importation of dairy products into 
the United States have declined sharp- 
ly during 1931, on account of in- 
creased tariffs and because of greater 
declines in domestic than in foreign 
prices of dairy products.. Cream and 
milk imports have practically ceased. 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


NOTICE 
ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 
ASSOCIATION 
ELECTION OF DELEGATES 


OTICE is hereby given that in connection 

with the annual meetings of all County 
Farm Bureaus to be held during the months 
of December, 1931, and January, 1932, at 
the hour and place to be determined by the 
Board of Directors of each respective County 
Farm Bureau, the members in good standing 
of such County Farm Bureau and who are 
also qualified voting members of Illinois 
Agricultural Association shall elect a dele- 
gate or delegates to represent such members 
of Illinois Agricultural Association and vote 
on all matters before the next annual meet- 
ing or any special meeting of the Associa- 
tion, including the election of officers and 
directors as provided for in the by-laws of 
thé Association. 

During December annual meetings will 
be held in Brown, Bureau, Clark, Coles, 
Crawford, Saline, DeWitt, DuPage, Rock 
Island, Vermilion, Morgan, Edgar, Edwards, 
Effingham, Henry, Iroquois, Jersey, Johnson, 
Kane, Stephenson, Wabash, Jackson, Kendall, 
LaSalle, Lee, Livingston, McLean, Platt, Ran- 
dolph, Richland, Union, Champaign and 
Grundy counties. 

During January annual meetings will be 
held in Carroll, Cook, Douglas, Fulton, 
Franklin, Greene, Knox, Lake, McHenry, 
Macon, Mercer, Peoria, Sangamon, Tazewell, 
Whiteside, and Woodford counties, 


Dec. 1, 1931. 
Signed, 
G. E. METZGER, Secretary. 


Farmers’ Elevator Men 
Meet at Bloomington 


More than 60 directors and managers 
of twelve farmers’ elevators met at 
Bloomington, November 24, with offi- 
cials of the Illinois Grain Corporation 
and the Farmers National Grain Corpo- 
ration. During the meeting the attacks 
being made against co-operative market- 
ing by organized middlemen were dis- 
cussed. 

Among those who took part in the 
discussion were Harrison Fahrnkopf, di- 
rector of grain marketing for the I. A.A. 
and secretary of the Illinois Grain Cor- 
poration; Charles Cummings, vice-presi- 
dent and sales manager of the Illinois 
Grain Corporation; G. C. Johnstone, 
president of the Illinois Grain Corpora- 
tion; John Benson and D. H. Moore, 
of the Peoria office of the Farmers 
National; John Schmidt of Beason, Lo- 
gan county, a director of the Illinois 
Grain Corporation; E. E. Stevenson, of 
the Ransom farmers’ elevator in LaSalle 
county, and Floyd Thomas, chairman of 
the grain marketing committee and 
vice-president of the McLean County 
Farm Bureau. 

It was generally agreed by those pres- 
ent that the private handlers of farm 
products engaged in spreading anti- 
Farm Board propaganda are not so much 


Page Seven 


5th District Meeting 
At Cambridge Nov. 24 


HE National Corn Credit Corpora- 

tion, the income tax bill now before 
the state legislature, freight rates, rural 
electrification and pipe line right-of-way 
problems were among the topics dis- 
cussed at the 15th District Farm Bu- 
reau. meeting at Cambridge, Henry 
county, November 24. : 

C. L. Bates, director of the I. A.A 
from the 15th District, acting as chair- 
man, explained the 
purpose of the corn 
credit corporation 
and told how it 
operates. 

L. J. Quasey, di- 
rector of transporta- 
tion, reviewed the 
report of the Gover- 
nor’s Tax Confer- 
ence of which Presi- 
dent Earl C. Smith 
was a member. He 
explained that the 
purpose of the proposed income tax bill 
and the tobacco tax bill is to give re- 
lief to real property owners. 

He also reported on the work the 
I. A.A. is doing to get fair electric 
rates, and freight rates for farmers. He 
stated that he was getting excellent co- 
operation both from pipe line companies 
and from farmers in settling right-of- 
way damage claims, drawing up con- 
tracts, etc. 


Cc. L. Bates 


Victoria Elevator 
Holds Annual Meeting 


Harrison Fahrnkopf spoke at the an- 
nual meeting of the Victoria Farmers’ 
Elevator at Victoria, Knox county, 
November 14. He outlined the progress 
made by the Illinois Grain Corporation 
during the past year and explained the 
set-up of the National Corn Credit Cor- 
poration recently organized to make 
loans on corn stored on the farm. 

The report of the secretary of the 
elevator showed a very successful year. 
The following officers and directors were 
elected: J. R. Diehl, president; U. J 
Craig, vice-president; E. J. Ericson, 
secretary; L. A. Sherman, treasurer; 
H. F. McClure, and H. R. Cain. 


concerned about the government get- 
ting in business as they are about farm- 
ers getting in business to sell their own 
products more direct to the consumer. 


Approximately one-third of the fam 
ilies in the United States now have 
radio receiving sets, announces the bu 
reau of census. 


Page Eight 


ILLINOIS 
ico LTURAL _ASSOCIATAON 
RECORD 


Te advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organized, 
namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, political, 
oud educational interests of the farmers of Illinois end the nation, 
end to develop agriculture. 


GeorceE THEM, Editor 
Max Harre son, Assistant Editor 


Published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Association at 165 So, 
Main St., Spencer, Ind. Editorial Offices, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, 
tl. Application for transfer of second class entry from Marshall, Ill., to 
Spencer, Ind., pending. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage 
provided in Section 412, Act of Feb. 28, 1925, authorized Oct. 27, 1925. 
Address all communications for publication to Editorial Offices Illinois 
Agricultural Association Record, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago. The indi- 
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dollars a year. e fee includes payment of fifty cents for subscription 
to the Iinois Agricultural Association Record. Postmaster: In returning 
an uncalled for missent copy please indicate key number on address as is 
required by law. 


OFFICERS 
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17th. sdiesoe sla opens eigtbcnsiecdonnteiea .A. B. Schofield, Paxton 
BRE oi sacar eekivecdesseescocoegcisccopecpsavaniaiuosboenesbdetocntnnassgensinngpmioay dip A. Dennis, Paris 
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Legal Counsel......... SEARS SO Kirkpatrick 


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Minois Grain Corp............. Chas. P. Cummings, Vice-Pres. and Sales Mer. 
Illinois Livestock Marketing Ass’n_.__ . Grieser, Sales Mgr. 
IMinois Produce Marketing Ass’n_—.-....................- F, A. Gougler, Mer. 
Soybean Marketing Ass'n. .........___.___.W. H. Coultas, Mgr. 


How the Proposed State Income Tax 
Will Lower Property Taxes 
M SSUNDERSTANDING about the replace- 


ment feature of the state income tax is indi- 
cated in editorial comment appearing in down- 
state newspapers. 

This arises because the income tax measure it- 
self, House bill 17, does not and cannot under 
the law provide for a new tax and at the same 
time repeal or lower other taxes: But the replace- 
ment tax feature is provided for in the com- 
panion measures which include House bills 23, 
24, 25 and 26. 

The editor of a Lawrence county newspaper 
recently wrote:, “There is no provision in the 
income tax bill to lower the state tax rate, and 
until such a bill is presented it will be folly for 
taxpayers to expect an income tax to relieve them 
ef property taxes. An income tax bill would 


THE 1. A. A. RECORD 


December, 1931 


mean just one thing: added burden for the tax- 
payers.” 

In a letter to the Lawrence County Farm Bu- 
reau, President Earl C. Smith in reply to this and 
other criticisms pointed out that the Constitution 
of Illinois provides no way for limiting the state 
tax rate. ‘“The state tax rate is determined in two 
ways,” continues Mr. Smith’s statement. “First, 
by the appropriations made by the General Assem- 
bly; and, secondly, after such appropriations are 
provided, the State Levying Board, composed of 
the governor, the state auditor, and the state 
treasurer, determine what rate must be levied 
against Illinois property to provide the necessary 
revenue to meet appropriations. 

‘At the present time, public school moneys are 
provided in two ways: First, by a levy made by 
the local school board upon the property of the 
school district; secondly, by an appropriation of 
$10,500,000 made by the General Assembly and 
levied upon the property of the state by the State 
Levying Board, the $10,500,000 to be distributed 
to the various school districts of Illinois. This 
appropriation is commonly known as the State 
Distributive School Fund. You will note that all 
revenue for the support of schools is levied upon 
property by either local or state levy. 

“To properly understand the proposed perma- 
nent tax relief program recommended by the 
Governor’s Tax Conference, one should read 
Senate bills 20 to 29 or House Bills 17 to 26, in- 
clusive. In effect, they provide for approximately 
$50,000,000 of revenue from three new sources, 
the most important one of which is the income tax 
bill. All this revenue is to be placed in the Public 
School Fund. They provide for repeal of author- 
ity by the General Assembly to appropriate for 
and the State Levying Board to levy upon prop- 
erty of the state for any amount of money for 
the State Distributive School Fund. 

‘This immediately takes nearly one-third of all 
levies by the state from property, or in other 


words, relieves property of approximately one-— 


third of state taxation. 

“Instead of having a maximum local tax rate 
for school purposes of $1 and an _ additional 
50 cents, if authorized by referendum of the 
people of the district, the maximum local tax 
rate becomes the average annual amount ex- 
pended by each school district during the past 
four years. 

*‘The measures provide that each school dis- 
trict is to receive from the Public School Fund, 
newly created, its just proportion of the esti- 
mated $50,000,000 provided from the proposed 
new sources. It becomes mandatory upon the 
county clerk of each county in the extension of 
taxes levied by the district to reduce the amount 

(Continued on page 9) 


4 
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December, 1931 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Nine 


ef certified levy by the local school 
board in an amount equal to the dis- 
trict’s participation from the Public 
School Fund. 

““Let me state it in another way. At 
the present time and during recent 
years, the school districts have been 
levying upon property approximately 
$82,000,000 per year for the educational 
fund of the public school. The State 
of Illinois has been levying an addi- 
tional $10,000,000 and more recently 
$10,500,000, making a total of $92,- 
$00,000 property is now paying for the 
support of the public schools. 

“Under the new plan suggested, if 
the proposed measures raise $50,000,- 
600 of revenue from new sources, it 
would all go toward defraying public 
school costs and must be used to reduce 
this previously levied $92,500,000, 
which would leave $42,500,000 upon 


property. 

“In a period of reasonable prosperity, 
these proposed new sources would raise 
much more than $50,000,000, possibly 
$75,000,000, and it would be used in 
hike manner. 

“While it is rather difficult to ex- 
plain in a letter the many features en- 
tering into this series of bills, yet I have 
tried to give you the practical effect, if 
this proposed legislation is enacted into 
law. I do not hesitate to go on record 
most definitely that, if this proposal is 
enacted into law, the property of Illinois 
will be relieved of substantially more 
than one-half of taxes now levied for 
the educational fund of the public 
schools.” 


Income Tax Measure 
Aids Property Taxpayers 


A® WE go to press, we learn that 
the Income Tax Bill now pending 
before the Special Session of the Illinois 
General Assembly and which carries the 
support of the Governor’s Revenue 
Commission has passed second reading 
(the amendment stage) in the Senate, 
and a special order for its final consider- 
ation or final vote was arranged for 
next Wednesday afternoon. 

“This bill embodies every principle 
which the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion has been urging in recent years be- 
fore the General Assembly of Illinois,” 
said President Earl C. Smith in com- 
menting on the measure. 

“In many respects, its provisions are 
strengthened and if enacted into law 
assures the property taxpayers of every 
school district in the State, substantial 
relief from taxes they are now paying 
for the support of the public schools. 

“Opponents of the bill are making 
every effort to confuse the public mind 
and detract attention and support from 


NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEET- 
ING OF ILLINOIS AGRI- 
CULTURAL MUTUAL 
INSURANCE Co. 


OTICE is hereby given that the 
annual meeting of the mem- 
bers of Illinois Agricultural Mutual 
Insurance Company will be held on 
Wednesday, the 27th day of January, 
1932, at the hour of 1:00 o’clock 
p. m., at the Faust Hotel, Rockford, 
Ill., to elect directors, receive, and, 
if approved, confirm the report of 
the board of directors of the com- 
pany for the fiscal year ending Dec. 
31, 1931, and to consider and, if 
approved, ratify and confirm all the 
acts and proceedings of the board of 
directors done and taken since the 
last annual meeting of the members 
of the company; and for the trans- 
action of such further and other 
business as may properly come be- 
fore the meeting. 
Dated at Chicago, Ill., Dec. 1, 


1931. 


GEORGE F. TULLOCK, 
Secretary. 


the bill,” he continued, “by insisting it 
is an added tax and does not guarantee 
relief to property taxpayers. 

“The Illinois Agricultural Association, 
and particularly its Tax Department, 
has been in very close touch with the 
preparation of this legislation. The series 
of bills having to do with the subject 
matter again offers the only opportunity 
pending before the General Assembly to 
bring permanent relief to property. 

“These measures are entitled to the 
support of every thinking citizen of the 
State who believes that the assessed 
property of Illinois has been bearing a 
very unjust portion of the total tax 
burden. 

“EVERYONE MUST DO HIS 
PART. IF YOU WANT RELIEF 
FROM THE TAXES YOU ARE 
NOW PAYING ON YOUR PROP- 
ERTY AND IF YOU ARE NOT 
NOW PAYING, BUT BELIEVE 
PROPERTY TAXPAYERS ‘ARE 
ENTITLED TO SUBSTANTIAL 
RELIEF, YOU CAN DISCHARGE. 
YOUR DUTY AND RESPONSI- 
BILITY AS A CITIZEN BY LET- 
TING YOUR SENATOR AND 
REPRESENTATIVES IN THE 
GENERAL ASSEMBLY KNOW 
WHERE YOU STAND.” 


On November 30 the _ Illinois 
Grain Corporation reported a mem- 
bership of 79 farmers’ elevators and 
co-operative grain marketing asso- 
ciations. , 


G, bservations 


HAT the middlemen have united 

their forces and concentrated their 
attack behind a powerful national pub- 
licity campaign against co-operative 
marketing is indicated by press stories 
and editorial comment appearing in at 
least one Chicago newspaper and ip 
several of the downstate dailies during 
the past few months. Congressman 
J. M. Beck of Pennsylvania, a high pro- 
tectionist of the Mellon-Grundy school 
of thought, apparently has been engaged 
to lead the attack against agricultural 
legislation in Congress. 


The middlemen backing the so-called 
Federation of American Business are 
attempting to hide their real object. 
“Take the government out of business” 
is their battle cry. They are not 90 
much concerned about getting the gov- 
ernment out of business as they are 
about keeping farmers out of the busi- 
ness of marketing their own products. 


The government has been in business 
for more than a hundred years. It has 
come to the rescue of many infant and 
ailing industries time after time witb 
legislatica giving subsidies of one kind 
or another. Because the government has 
attempted to do something for agricul- 
ture—the basic industry of the land— 
by encouraging farmers in marketin 
their own products there is muc 
talk about “Russianizing the American 
farm,” and “government in business.” 


The Farm Board’s attempt to stabilize 
wheat and cotton prices at a profitable 
level was an experiment, but an experi- 
ment fully provided for in the Agricul- 
tural Marketing Act. The Board merely 
tried to follow the instructions of the 
Congress. Organized farmers didn’t ask 
for that legislation. It was a compro- 
mise offer. 


The Farm Bureau asked for legislation 
that would make the tariff effective on 
farm products. It favored and _ still 
favors the equalization fee, a plan to 
raise domestic farm prices to artificial 
levels in line with the American system 
and charge the cost of doing so to each 
unit of the commodity sold. If protec- 
tion and subsidy is to be our national 
policy, farmers are within their rights 
in demanding a seat at the table of 
privilege.—E. G. T. 


The next monthly meeting of the 
I. A. A. directors will be held at 
Chicago on December 18. 


Page Ten 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


December, 1931 


Advises Women to Help 
Keep Records on Farm 


Farm women are more and more con- 
cerned with the keeping of farm ac- 
counts, production records, and breeding 
records of livestock, H. E. Babock, gen- 
eral manager of the G. L. F. Exchange, 
told farm women at Cornell University 
recently. 

“As time goes on they should know 
not only how to keep these records, but 
they should also be able to exercise 
good judgment in interpreting them,” 
he says. “Since all farmers, in order to 
operate at all, require three outside ser- 
vices, namely a buying service, a credit 
service and a marketing service, farm 
women should know more about these 
services. Farm women should know 
about the structure and control of co- 
operative marketing organizations. They 
should take more interest in what the 
_ markets require, and in how farm con- 
ditions and practices affect the grades 
of products which are sold from the 
farm.” 


Demand for Farms by 
Tenants in Southwest 


In. spite of all the talk about hard 
times on the farm there is more of a 
demand for farms in the Southwest 
than can be met, according to the Okla- 
homa Farmer-Stockman. Tenants began 
to make contracts early in the summer, 
said the editorial. Not much moving 
will be done. 

“The renter with an average or bet- 
ter farm is going to stay put unless he 
has a chance to rent a better one. The 
renter who is looking for a farm most 
likely was forced to move. In years 
gone by few renters valued the oppor- 
tunity of renting a farm. If they didn’t 
like the farm they were on or didn’t 
like the owner they left it and looked 
for another. Renters are voluntarily do- 
ing more work to keep up the improve- 
ments and the soil. In many cases own- 
ers are able to insist that such things 
be done. As a whole they are co- 
operating as they never did before.” 


Corporation Farming 


The Wheat Farming Company of 
Hays, Kansas, organized in 1927, and 
operating approximately 70,000 acres, 
has not yet failed to pay annual divi- 
dends, according to a recent report. 

It is said that Hickman Price, known. 
as the Wheat King of Texas, expects to 
make a profit out of this year’s opera- 
tions notwithstanding the low market. 


Uncle Ab says that your ship 
won’t come in if you haven’t 
launched it. 


Foir Utility and 
4 Freight Rates 


More than 
60, 000 voluntary 
memberships are 
backing the chain 
of I. A. A. --Farm 
Bureau services, 
each one an impor- 
tant link toward 

farm equality. 


Link YOUR Farm} 
to Your FARM BUREAU 


Freight and Utility Rates 


Influence Your Farm Profits 

Freight charges on 20,000 carloads of 
farm products, involving a freight bill of 
over $2,000,000, were checked by I. A. A.- 
Farm Bureau representatives during 1930. 
In many instances substantial reductions 
were obtained and rules modified to benefit 
the farmer. 

During the year over $25,000 was collect- 
ed in loss, damage and overcharge claims 
for Farm Bureau members. This service is 
available free of charge to members. 


Before The Commerce Commission 

When the Commerce Commission sits to con- 
sider matters affecting rural interests, an Illinois 
Agricultural Association representative is pres- 
ent to protect farmers’ rights. 

Because of I. A. A.-Farm Bureau watchful- 
ness, many rate advances on livestock, grain and 
other farm products have been successfully re- 
sisted. Other rate schedules have been materially 
reduced. This protection is made possible only 
thru the power of organization. 


Electrification— Utility Right-of-Way 


The I. A. A. is constantly striving to reduce 
the cost of bringing electricity to the farm. It was 
active in more than 20 high tension and pipe line 
right-of-way cases last year giving advice to mem- 
bers and representing them before the Commerce 
Commission. Right-of-way contracts were rewrit- 
ten to provide adequate safeguards for members. 


Telephone Rates 
The I. A. A. appeared before the State Com- 
merce Commission in more than 35 telephone 
cases affecting 26 counties. Rate reductions and 
improved service were secured in many instances. 


I. A. A.-Farm Bureau effort gets results be- 
cause it has ORGANIZATION ind it. 


For Your Farm Too! 


To get the full benefits of “this service, join 
your County Farm Bureau. Every member add- 
ed to the 60,000 who now belong lends increasing 
strength to this most effective organization of 
Illinois farmers. Why not link your farm to the 
Farm Bureau program? 

Call Your County Farm Bureau today, 
Say: ‘‘I’m Joining!’’ 


ILLINOIS 
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 


— and— 
Ninety- Five Affiliated County Farm Bureaus 
608 So. Dearborn Street Chicago, Illinois 


IN THIS ORGANIZED WORLD 
ONE MAN CAN DO NOTHING ALONE 


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December, 1931 


THE Il. A. A. RECOR 


Page Eleven 


Saving Money on Feed and Supplies 


How the Cook and Lake County Farm Bureau 


Beh heel bade purchasing of 
feeds and other necessary commodi- 
ties through their local farm supply 
companies is a project Farm Bureau 
members in Lake and Cook counties 
greatly appreciate. 

The Lake County Farm Supply Com- 
pany, the first to handle feed in large 
volume, is now getting out nearly a car- 
load a day, selling livestock feeds to 
approximately 1,400 farmers, according 
to A. D. Smith, manager. Fhe Garden- 
ers’ Supply, Inc., in Cook county, still 
in its first year of business, handles 
about two cars of feed a month. 

Feed has been sold through the Lake 
County Farm Supply since its organiza- 
tion in 1928, along with fertilizer, seed, 
potatoes, apples, fence posts, and other 
farm supplies. About 90 per cent of 
the Farm Bureau members are cus- 
comers of the company. 


Handle Variety Products 

Gardeners’ Supply, Inc., was set up 
in Cook county primarily to make it 
possible for truck gardeners to secure 
at cost insecticides recommended by 
the University of Illinois, not readily 
available locally, according to Farm Ad- 
Garden seed was 
added later to help make the enterprise 
pay. Truck farmers in Cook county 
buy annually $150,000 to $200,000 
worth of garden seed from independent 


__seed houses, Barrett said. 


Later fertilizer was added, and on 
the suggestion of farm people poultry 
and dairy feeds were included a short 
time after the company began business. 
The four main items handled now are 
insecticides, garden seed, fertilizer, and 
feed. Gardeners’ Supply does not handle 
petroleum products, but many Farm 
Bureau members in the northern part 
of the county buy from the Lake Coun- 
ty Supply Company. 

$25,000 in 6 Months 

The audit at the end of the first six 
months, which include the best busi- 
ness months of the year, showed a vol- 
ume of approximately $25,000 of busi- 
ness, or twice the amount expected. 

At the recent annual meeting of the 
board of directors action was taken to 
set up a second unit at Blue Island to 
serve the south half of the county. The 
present warehouse is at Arlington 
Heights in the extreme northern end 
of the county. 

“This project is to be an important 
factor in increasing Farm Bureau mem- 
bership in Cook county on account of 
the extensive dairy and truck farming 
interests for which many projects of the 


s Are Serving Their Members 


Se i 


TRUCKLOAD OF DAIRY AND POULTRY FEED READY TO BE oe 
BY 


GARDENERS’ SUPPLY, COOK COUNTY CO-OPERATIVE. 


organization had no appeal,” said Bar- 
rett. ; 

“To make Gardeners’ Supply go 
along with the general educational pro- 
gram of the Farm Bureau, Joe Zick- 
mund, a Cornell university man who 
specialized in horticulture, was em- 
ployed as manager. 


Pays Out from Start 


“Our price of feed to members is 
based upon the market price of ingred- 
ients plus a fixed sum per ton to take 
care of overhead, including milling, 
freight, and handling costs. We man- 
age to keep a little below retail prices 
and were still able to declare a 3 per 
cent patronage dividend at the end of 
the first six months. We also set aside 
a substantial sum for a reserve. 

“Since the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 
ciation is not yet in a position to pur- 
chase feed and fertilizer on a state-wide 
basis, we find it necessary to buy 
through the Indiana Farm Bureau. We 
buy insecticides from Illinois: Farm 
Supply. 

Formula on Every Sack 

“One thing I like about the Farm 
Bureau feed is that it has its formula 
on every sack,” continued Barrett. “If 
farmers think they can save money by 
buying the ingredients and mixing 
them, we sell them the ingredients. 
There is no secret about this feed.” 

The Lake County Supply Company 
buys its feed from independent dealers 
and sells at local retail prices. The 
profits go back to members in the form 
of patronage refunds. 

Farm Bureau leaders in both Lake 


and Cook counties believe that a real 
service can be rendered Illinois Farm 
Bureau members by large volume pur- . 
chasing and mixing of feeds on a state- 
wide basis. In normal years when farm 
prices justify the feeding of mixed 
grains and concentrates substantial sav- 
ings can be made to further reduce the 
farmers’ cost of production. 


Higher Livestock Prices 
Aim of New Sales Plan 


DYPACON county farmers who are 
shipping their livestock through 
the Illinois Livestock Marketing Asso- 
ciation are receiving better prices every 
week than they would have received as 
individuals from any other outlet, de- 
clares William Fulk, manager of the 
Macon County Marketing Association, 
one of the member co-operatives. 

R. W. Grieser, sales manager for the 
state association, attributes thas to the 
centralized direction of shipments on 
the basis of the latest market informa- 
tion rather than by guess. Livestock 
is directed to the market where it is in 
greatest demand. 

The stock is assembled, sorted and 
graded at the local marketing associa- 
tions and on the shipping instructions 
of the state co-operative is sent either 
direct to packers or to one of the Pro- 
ducers’ agencies on the terminals. 

The organization is sometimes handh- 
capped by lack of sufficient volume of 
the proper grades to bring the best 
price, but that is a problem which will 
have to be overcome by the farmers 
themselves, Grieser said. 


Advises Women to Help 
Keep Records-on Farm 


Farm women are more and more con- 
cerned with the keeping of farm ac- 
counts, production records, and breeding 
records of livestock, H. E. Babock, gen 
eral manager of the G.L.F. I xchange, 
told farm women at Cornell University 
recently 


gen- 


“As time goes on they should know 
aot only how to keep these records, but 
they should also be able to exercise 
good judgment in interpreting them,” 
he says. “Since all farmers, in order to 
operate at all, require three outside ser- 
vices, namely a buying service, a credit 
service and marketing service, farm 
women should know more about these 
services. Farm women should know 
about the structure and control of co- 
operative marketing organizations. They 
thould take more interest in what the 
markets require, and in how farm con- 
ditions and practices affect the grades 
of products which are sold from the 
farm.” 


ee 


Demand for Farms by 
Tenants in Southwest 


in spite of all the talk about hard 
times on the farm there is more of a 
demand for farms in the Southwest 
than can be met, according to the Okla- 
homa Farmer-Stockman. Tenants began 
to make contracts early in the summer, 
said the editorial. Not much moving 
will be done. 

“The renter with an average or bet- 
‘er farm is going to stay put unless he 
has a chance to rent a bettér one The 
center who is looking for a farm most 
likely was forced to move. In years 
gone by few renters valued the oppor- 
tunity of renting a farm. If they didn’t 
like the farm they were on or didn’t 
like the owner they left it and looked 
for another. Renters are voluntarily do- 
work to keep up the improve. 
ments and the soul, 


(ng more 


In many cases own- 


ers are able to insist that such thines 
1 an A i zi 
one AS a whol« they are Co- 

perating as they never did before.” 


a) ° < e 
Corporation Farming 


line Wheat Farming Company of 


Lys Kiana nites 7 
tlavs, Kansas, organized in 1927, and 
yperating approx mately U,000 actes, 
} not a y are) (ee - . ] . 
“4 ( Vet fatled to pay annual divi 
ICNUs, rccording to a recent report 


fc is said that Hicl man Price, known 
is the Wheat King of Texas, expects to 
make a profit out of this year’s opera- 
fons notwithstanding the low market. 

Uncle Ab says that your ship 
won’t come in if you  haven’t 
launched it. 


CLAIMS AND 
ADJUSTMENTS 


More than 
60,600 voluntary 
memberships are 
backing the chain 
of 1. A. A. --Farm 
Bureau services, 
each one an impor- 
tant link toward 
farm equality. 


IN THIS 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


December, 1931 


| Link YOUR Farm\ 
to Your FARM BUREAU 


Freight and Utility Rates 


Influence Your Farm Profits 

Freight charges on 20,000 carloads of 
farm products, involving a freight bill of 
over $2,000,000, were checked by I. A. A.- 
Farm Bureau representatives during 1930. 
In many instances substantial reductions 
were obtained and rules modified to benefit 
the farmer. 

During the year over $25,000 was collect- 
ed in loss, damage and overcharge claims 
for Farm Bureau members. This service is 
available free of charge to members. 


Before The Commerce Commission 


When the Commerce Commission sits to con- 
sider matters affecting rural interests, an Illinois 
Agricultural Association representative is pres- 
ent to protect farmers’ rights. 

Because of I. A. A.-Farm Bureau watchful- 
ness, many rate advances on livestock, grain and 
other farm products have been successfully re- 
sisted. Other rate schedules have been materially 
reduced. This protection is made possible only 
thru the power of organization. 


Electrification— Utility Right-of-Way 

The I. A. A. is constantly striving to reduce 
the cost of bringing electricity to the farm. It was 
active in more than 20 high tension and pipe line 
right-of-way cases last year giving advice to mem- 
bers and representing them before the Commerce 
Commission. Right-of-way contracts were rewrit- 
ten to provide adequate safeguards for members. 


Telephone Rates 
The I. A. A. appeared before the State Com- 
merce Commission in more than 35 telephone 
cases affecting 26 counties. Rate reductions and 
improved service were secured in many instances. 


I. A. A.-Farm Bureau effort gets results be- 
cause it has ORGANIZATION behind it. 


For Your Farm Too! 


.To get the full benefits of this service, join 
your County. Farm Bureau. Every member add- 
ed to the 60,000 who now belong lends increasing 
streneth to this most effective organization of 
Illinois farmers. Why not link your farm to the 
Farm Bureau program? 
Call Your County Farm Bureau today, 
Say: ‘I’m Joining!’’ 


ILLINOIS 
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 


and-- 
_ Ninety- Five Affiliated County Farm Bureaus 
608 So. Dearborn Street Chicago, Illinois 


ORGANIZED WORLD 


ONE MAN CAN DO NOTHING ALONE 


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December, 1931 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Eleven 


Saving Money on Feed and Supplies 


How the Cook and Lake County Farm Bureaus Are 


Gee ke purchasing of 
feeds and other necessary commodi- 
cies through their local farm supply 
companies is a project Farm Bureau 
members in Lake and Cook counties 
greatly appreciate. 

The Lake County Farm Supply Com- 
pany, the first to handle feed in large 
volume, is now getting out nearly a car- 
load a day, selling livestock feeds to 
approximately 1,400 farmers, according 
to A. D/ Smith, manager. The Garden- 
ers’ Supply, Inc., in Cook county, still 
in its first year of business, handles 
about two cars of feed a month. 

Feed has been sold through the Lake 
County Farm Supply since its organiza- 
tion in 1928, along with fertilizer, seed, 
potatoes, apples, fence posts, and other 
farm supplies. About 90 per cent of 
the Farm Bureau members are cus- 
comers of the company. 


Handle Variety Products 

Gardeners’ Supply, Inc., was set up 
in Cook county primarily to make it 
possible for truck gardeners to secure 
at cost insecticides recommended by 
the University of Illinois, not readily 
available locally, according to Farm Ad- 
viser O. G. Barrett. Garden seed was 
added later to help make the enterprise 
pay. Truck farmers in Cook county 
buy annually $150,000 to $200,000 
worth of garden seed from independent 
seed houses, Barrett said. 

Later fertilizer was added, and on 
the suggestion of farm people poultry 
and dairy feeds were included a short 
time after the company began business. 
The four main items handled now are 
insecticides, garden seed, fertilizer, and 
feed. Gardeners’ Supply does not handle 
petroleum products, but many Farm 
Bureau members in the northern part 
of the county buy from the Lake Coun- 
ty Supply Company. 

$25,000 in 6 Months 

The audit at the end of the first six 
months, which include the best busi- 
ness months of the year, showed a vol- 
ume of approximately $25,000 of busi- 
ress, Or twice the amount expected. 

At the recent annual meeting of the 
board of directors action was taken to 
set up a second unit at Blue Island to 
serve the south half of the county. The 
present warehouse is at Arlington 
Heights in the extreme northern end 
»f the county. 

“This project is to be an important 
tactor in increasing Farm Bureau mem- 
bership in Cook county on account of 
the éxtensive dairy and truck farming 
interests for which many projects of the 


Serving Their Members 


TRUCKLOAD OF DAIRY AND POULTRY FEED READY TO BE DELIVERED 


organization had no appeal,” said Bar- 
rett, 

“To make Gardeners’ Supply go 
along with the general educational pro- 
gram of the Farm Bureau, Joe Zick- 
mund, a Cornell university man who 
specialized in horticulture, was em- 
ployed as manager. 

Pays Out from Start 

“Our price of feed to members is 
based upon the market price of ingred- 
ients plus a fixed sum per ton to take 
care of overhead, including milling, 
freight, and handling costs. We man- 
age to keep a little below retail prices 
and were still able to declare a 3 per 
cent patronage dividend at the end of 
the first six months. We also set aside 
a substantial sum for a reserve. 

“Since the Hlinois Agricultural Asso- 
ciation is not yet in a position to pur- 
chase feed and fertilizer on a state-wide 
basis, we find it necessary to buy 
through the Indiana Farm Bureau. We 
Wlinois Farm 


buy insecticides from 


Supply. 
Formula on Every Sack 
‘One thing I like about the Farm 
Bureau feed is that it has its formula 
continued Barrett. “If 
farmers think they can save money by 


ingredients and 


on every sack,” 
buying — the mixing 
them, we sell them the ingredients 
There is no secret about this teed.” 

The Lake County Supply Company 
buys its feed from independent dealers 
and sells at local retail prices. The 
profits go back to members in the form 
of patronage refunds. 

Farm Bureau leaders in both Lake 


service can be rendered Illinois Farm 
Bureau members by large volume pur- 
chasing and mixing of feeds on a state- 
wide basis. In normal years when farm 
prices justify the feeding of muxed 
grains and concentrates substantial sav- 
ings can be made to further reduce the 
farmers’ cost of production. 


Higher Livestock Prices 
Aim of New Sales Plan 


Me county farmers who are 
shipping their livestock through 
the Illinois Livestock Marketing Asso- 
ciation are receiving better prices every 
week than they would have received as 
individuals from any other outlet, de- 
clares William manager of the 
Macon County Marketing Association 


Fulk, 


one of the member co-operatives. 
R. W. Grieser, sales manager for the 
state association, attributes thes to the 


Re oi ; : 
centralized direction of shipments or 


the basis ot the latest market informa 
tion rather than by guess Livestock 
ts directed to the market where 1t iS i 
greatest demand 

The stock 1S wssenibicd, sorted anc 
graded at the low 1 marketing associa 
tions and on the shipping instructions 
ot the state Co Opel ol | Sent either 
direct to packers Or to one of the Pro 


\ 
} ter 
Chie terminals. 


ducers’ igeneles ON 

The organization is sometimes hands 
capped by lack of suflicient volume of 
the proper grades to bring the best 
price, but that is a problem which will 
have to be overcome by the farmers 


themselves, Grieser said 


Page Twelve THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Bank Failure Cause Goes 


Back to War—Roberts 3 == =—— 


Farm Mortgage Debt Rises 119 Per 
Cent from 1910 to 1920 


Som= interesting figures are disclosed 
by George Roberts, economist of 
the National City Bank, in pointing out 
the cause of so many banks being forced 
to close, 

“The fundamental cause of the wide- 
spread bank failures goes back to the 
war-time rise of commodity prices and 
wages, and to the inflation of credit 
made possible by the rapid increase of 
our bank reserves which likewise was 
a consequence of the war,” he said. 


“Prices of everything rose and a new 
level of values was established which 
as the people became accustomed to it 
seemed to be real and permanent. A 
great volume of indebtedness was 
erected upon the basis of these values, 
and when it turned out that they were 
inflated the position of the debtors be- 
came a most difficult one. Banks, being 
debtors to their depositors and subject 
to call for repayment upon demand on 
short notice, have been involved in these 
difficulties, particularly where their 
funds were employed to an imprudent 
extent in long-term loans or invest- 
ments. 


Rural Banks Hit 


“The situation is well illustrated by 
reference to the rural banks in which 
the mortality has been highest. During 
the war and the succeeding boom pe- 
riod the prices of farm lands were 
marked up to accord with the higher 
values of the products grown upon 
them, and an abnormally active turn- 
over of farm properties began which 
was financed largely upon credit. 

Between 1910 and 1920 the esti- 
mated total farm mortgage debt in the 
United States rose from $3,600,000,000 
to $7,900,000,000, or 119 per cent. 
Farm real estate values by March, 1920, 
has risen 70 per cent above the 1913 
average. The rural banks became in- 


volved in loans which directly or in-' 


directly were based on these land values; 
and the subsequent decline in them was 
the cause of a great increase in bank 
failures. 
Decline Continued 

“By the year 1928 a further rise in 
farm mortgage debt to $9,500,000,000 
had occurred, while the decline in land 
values continued. Between 1928 and 
1930 the total debt remained practical- 
ly unchanged, but by 1930 land values 
averaged only 115 per cent of the 1913 
base, and on March 1 of this year they 
had fallen to 106, or nearly 40 per cent 
under the peak. The decline in the 
prices of farm products since May, 1928, 


when they averaged 148 per cent of 
the 1909-14 level, carried them down 
to 72 in September of this year, a re- 
duction of more than one-half. 

“These declines in prices and land 
values have left the new indebtedness 
without adequate support, and the fig- 
ures show plainly the grave difficulties 
with which the banks whose business 
is with farming communities have had 
to contend.” 


Routing the Depressionists 


The Cleveland Trust Monthly says: 
“In a recent speech, Prof. William T. 
Foster referred to the meeting of a 
group of leading financial statisticians 
—experts in business forecasting—in 
New York City on November 4. Pro- 
fessor Foster quoted eight of these ex- 
perts as: follows: ‘The farmers will not 
buy much from the proceeds of this 
harvest; and, with the price declines in 
process throughout the world, there 
would seem to be little prospect of any 
extensive business revival in the near 
future.’ ‘The general prospect is for 
slow and irregular business for ten 
years.’ ‘I expect to see a long and slow 
recovery to a general level of subnormal, 
slow business. ‘Prices will advance a 
little from present levels and then fall 
once more. Recovery will be slow.’ 
‘Conditions abroad will continue to af- 
fect our business conditions here. It is 
a conservative estimate to say that ten 
years must elapse before we can see 
genuinely prosperous business in this 
country.’ ‘Business will come back to 
fair, slow operations in three years.’ 
‘The period of readjustment will be 
long. It will take at least 10 years.’ 
“We may expect a slow return to a basis 
on which business can be done at a profit 
in about three years.’ Then Professor Fos- 
ter continued: “These pessimistic fore- 
casts were all made on the 4th of No- 
vember. But it was the 4th of Novem- 
ber of the year 1921. At that time 
business was actually improving, al- 
though the experts did not know it. 
Within four months the gain was so 
marked that everybody could see it. 
Within sixteen months business was so 
far above normal that experts became 
frightened again. Today, the major 
economic factors are more favorable. to 
a rapid recovery of business than they 
were in 1921. It is my sober belief that, 
just as the depressionists of 1921 were 
routed, so the depressionists of 1951 are 
in for a rude awakening.’ ” 


December, 1931 
L. P. McMillen, Rock 


Falls-Banker, Dies 


L P. McMILLEN, 50, president of the 
- First National Bank of Rock Falls, 
was buried at Tampico on November 22 
following a large funeral from the Me- 
Millen home in Rock Falls. Mr. Me- 
Millen was killed instantly in an aute- 
mobile accident near Malta on the Lin- 
coln Highway in DeKalb county om 
November 20. 

While on his way to the Notre Dame 
Southern California football game at 
South Bend the car ahead slowed up to 
turn off the pavement. Mr. McMilles 
jammed on the brakes and skidded os 
the wet pavement into the path of a cas 
coming in the opposite direction. The 
road between DeKalb and Malta had 
recently been repaired, widened, and 
covered with an asphalt material which 
becomes slippery in rainy weather. Mc- 
Millen was thrown against the steel 
framework of his car and suffered 
fractured skull resulting in immediate 
death. 

Mr. McMillen assisted in organizing 
the Whiteside County Farm Bureas 
more than 12 years ago and served as 
its first secretary-treasurer. He was 
especially active in the early history of 
the Whiteside County Farm Bureau @ 
signing up new members in the south- 
eastern part of the county. He served 
on the board of directors of the Ilkinois 
Agricultural Co-operative Association 
several years ago and more recently was 
chosen chairman of the Crime Preven- 
tion Committee of the Illinois Bankers’ 
Association. 

Mr. McMillen’s loss will be keenly 
felt. He made an outstanding record 
of service to his community. 


Hogs Sell Below Value 
Sees Better Market Ahead 


Due to the fact that hogs are coming 
to market earlier this year than usual 
and that the prospects are for lighter 
slaughter in the next few months, the 
present outlook is for considerable im- 
provement in the hog situation, accord- 
ing to H. M. Conway, National Live- 
stock Marketing Association. 

He attributes the early marketing te 


extensive wheat feeding and cholera in , 


the cornbelt. This condition, he says, 
is making for a winter hog market 
much the reverse of a year ago, and for 
extremely low prices at the beginning 
of the packing season. 

Hogs are now selling far below theis 
actual value, as: based on consumptive 
demand conditions, on the general level 
of commodity prices, on current and 
prospective supplies, and on the present 
level of wholesale and retail prices of 
hog products. 


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December, 1931 THE 1. A. A. RECORD Page T birteen 


Against Farm Expansion 


Need Sound Policy on Agricultural 
Land Utilization 


OPING for the day when there 
will be “proper supervision of 
colonization schemes,” when settlers 
can be “truthfully apprised of the eco- 
nomic facts,” and 
when “Uncle Sam 
will refuse to deed 
640 acres of sand 
and cactus to a man, 
no matter how cour- 
ageous and industri- 
ous he may be,” Sec- 
retary of Agriculture 
Arthur M. Hyde 
asked that the nation 
formulate a sound 
national policy of 
agricultural land 
utilization. He spoke at the opening 
session of a conference on land utiliza- 
tion at Chicago, November 19-21. 
The need for this land-utilization 
Vast Waste 
conference, the secretary said, “‘lies in 
the vast waste of human and material 
resources now taking place in our rural 
areas. Erosion has already gashed and 
gullied our country sides and ruined 
21,000,000 acres beyond repair. The 
wastage of natural resources in the 
East and South has already sapped the 
economic strength of communities and 
farmers and small towns. Every one of 
these presents problems of economic 
readjustment and political reorganiza- 
tion which might conceivably change a 
loss into a modest profit. Thousands of 
pioneer souls have listened to the siren 
song of the expansionists and have fol- 
lowed their land hunger into arid re- 
gions or onto cutover lands which Na- 
ture intended for other purposes than 
farms.” 


Secretary Hyde 


Stop Expansion 

Questioning the advisability of any 
sweeping purchase of submarginal lands 
by governmental bodies, and allaying 
the fears of those who expect a modern 
hegira from the submarginal areas, Sec- 
retary Hyde declared: 

“There is probably more hope of suc- 
cess in slamming shut a few doors 
through ‘which expansion is flowing 
than there is in the recapture of acre- 
age. Most of the expansion takes place 
in four directions: drainage, irrigation, 
clearing of forests, and dry land farm- 
img. The extent of that expansion is 
not generally recognized. There are 
both dynamite and enlightenment in the 
statistics, taken from the census, that 
there were 84,000 fewer farms in 1930 
than im 1925, but there were 15,000,- 


000 more acres in crops. This in five 
years, and the last five years at that! 
There are both pathos and problems in 
the fact that the 366,000,000 acres 
planted to crops in 1930 was 55,000,- 
000 acres more than our cultivated area 
in 1909, and larger than the war-time 
peak of 1919. 

““‘We must start some time. No pro- 
gram which we can conceive will im- 
mediately cure the present emergency. 
A long-time land-use program cannot 
write an immediate answer to the pres- 
ent emergency, but the present emer- 
gency emphasizes the immediate need 
for a long-time program. If we had 
begun even so short a time as 20 years 
ago—before the expansion of our culti- 
vated area by 55,000,000 acres—how 
much of tragedy and distress might 
have been prevented!” 


See Plot to Wreck 
Milk Producers' Co-Ops. 


Recent reductions in milk prices from 
twelve to seven cents per quart in Buf- 
falo were termed the initial move “in 
a plot to wreck farmers’ co-operative 
marketing organizations,” by George F. 
Snaith of Medina, a director of the 
Dairymen’s League Co-Operative Asso- 
ciation, Inc. 

“There is no economic reason for 
lower milk prices in Buffalo,” said Mr. 
Snaith. “The only purpose being 
served is to give consumers cheaper 
milk at the expense of dairy farmers 
so that dealers can break the farmers’ 
organizations and bring producers back 
to that state of 20 years ago when they 
were slaves to dealer interests. 

“For two weeks we have been hear- 
ing persistent rumors alleging that a 
group of dealers from cities as far apart 
as New York and Buffalo discussed 
plans at a milk dealers’ convention to 
attack farmers’ organizations by break- 
ing down milk prices. 

“Lowering of prices five cents a quart 
in Buffalo within a week has furnished 
dealers of other cities a basis for de- 
manding reductions. Compliance with 
such demands would be ruinous to the 
dairy industry, and would bankrupt 
thousands of farmers. 

“Present activities in various milk 
markets indicate that a treacherous plot 
is being worked out to crush farmers’ 
organizations, and force milk prices 
down until farmers are faced with 
starvation.” 


Limestone applied in addition to farm manure 
or crop residues increased the value of crops 
grown as much as $17.75 an acre annually on 
some soils, according to F. C. Bauer of the 
University of Illinois. This was a return of 
more than $7 a ton for the limestone used. 

The more productive, dark-colored soils did 
net give so great a response as the light-colored 
ones. 


National Fruit Exchange 
Plan Told by Wilson 


Farm Board Member Discusses Steck 
Set-Up and Method of Operation 


N an address before the annual meet- 

ing of the Vegetable Growers Asso- 
ciation of America at Cincinnati, 
Charles S$. Wilson, member of the 
Federal Farm Board, outlined the aims 
and objects together with recent de- 
velopments in organizing the National 
Fruit and Vegetable Exchange, Inc., of 
which A. B. Leeper, director of fruit 
and vegetable marketing for the I. A.A. 
is president. 

“While the organization has not be- 
gun to operate as yet, present indica- 
tions are that sufficient tonnage will be 
secured so that the Exchange will be 
ready to start operations about January 
1,” said Mr. Wilson. Temporary head- 
quarters of the Exchange have been 
established in the I. A. A. offices at 608 
So. Dearborn St., Chicago. 


Provides for Representation 


“The general set-up of the Exchange 
provides for representation on the Board 
of Directors by dividing the country 
into districts and allowing the co- 
operatives which are members within 
their respective districts to select the 
director to represent them on the board 
of the National. The Exchange will be 
financed by the sale of capital stock te 
the member organizations. No one as- 
sociation may own more than § per cemt 
of the capital stock of the Exchange. 
The amount of stock which any associa- 
tion will be required to purchase is de- 
termined by the average volume of ship- 
ments for the last three years. Roughly 
speaking, stock subscriptions are ex- 
pected to be in proportion to the vel- 
ume of shipments. 


Producer Control 


“In the case of new associations 
which have not operated, the directors 
of the National have the power to rec- 
ommend the capital stock subscription 
which will be required. Member asso- 
ciations are required to pay one-fifth of 
the purchase price of stock in cash and 
the balance in four equal annual in- 
stallments. The provisions governing 
the voting control and ownership of 
capital stock are such as to protect the 
interests of various member associations 
and through them that of growers at 
all times. 

“Three types of organizations may 
become members of the National Ex- 
change; namely, centralized associations, 
federations of locals, and local associa- 
tions contracting directly with the Ne- 
tional for marketing but having repre- 
sentation on the Board of Directors ef 

(Continued on page 14 Col. 2) 


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Page Fourteen . THE I. A. A.. RECORD December, 1931 


Chief of Grain Pchires 
Favors Trading Limits 


Amnual Report Reveals Interesting 
Figures on Grain Exchange 
Operations. 


ECOMMENDING _Iegislation 

which would impose “a rational 
limitation upon the volume of daily 
purchases or sales and the total futures 
holdings permitted a trader for specu- 
lative purposes,” in the contract grain 
markets of the country, J. W. T. Du- 
vel, chief of the Grain Furures Admin- 
istration, said in his annial report to 
Secretary Hyde that such a limitation 
“would inure to the direct benefit of 
all interests using the furures market 
for proper purposes.” 

The report of the activities of the 
Grain Futures Administration for the 
year ending June 30, 1930, covered a 
period of unusual activity in the con- 
tract markets. The total of transac- 
tions in grain futures for the year was 
nearly 25 billion bushels, a record which 
was exceeded only in 1925 when the 


transactions amounted to more than 31 
billion bushels. 


Transactions 20 Billion Bu. 

Transactions in wheat futures alone 
for this period aggregated nearly 20 
billion bushels and was the greatest of 
any year for which the Grain Futures 
Administration has records. The larg- 
est volume of trading in all grain fu- 
tures for any one day of tl.e year was 
on July 15, 1929, when sales on the 
Chicago Board of Trade totaled 193,- 
479,000 bushels. Another record was 
sett up on October 24, 1929, when 
sales of Chicago wheat futures alone 
areregated 156,126,000 bushels, sur- 
passing the previous record by more 
than 6,500,000 bushels. 

Heavy trading in wheat, according 
to Doctor Duvel, “twas not the result 
of any unusual speculative activity 
such as is most frequently associated 
with scarcity and advancing prices.” 
On the declining market “buying sup- 
port came largely from the so-called 
general public,” and “‘the large specu- 
lators as a class operated primarily on 
the short side of the market.” 


Publication Harmless 

Doctor Duvel commented that ex- 
perience has demonstrated that there 
have been no undesirable consequences 
of the publication daily of the open 
commitments, although some grain in- 
terests had regarded this as a danger- 
ous innovation when introduced in 
August, 1928. The result has been 
beneficial, he said. Open commitments 
of wheat futures at Chicago were the 
kishest ever recorded, nearly 250,000,- 
000 bushels,'on October 16, 1929. 


Doctor Duvel reviewed a report to 
the Senate which analyzed trading op- 


erations. He commented on efforts to 
relax regulations in regard to the re- 
porting requirement, and points out 
that there is no basis to believe that this 
would encourage speculative buying 
and result in higher prices for wheat. 
“It is not known,” he says, “by what 
magical process wheat prices could be 
boosted if the government were blind- 
folded,” and suggests the same process 
might as reasonably be expected to de- 
press prices. He reviews a fraud case 
in which the Administration was active 
and mentions several special investiga- 
tions in which the Administration is 
now engaged. 


Lime Returns Vary 


On Different Soils 


Limestone, when applied with ma- 
nure, fluctuated in annual acre returns 
from $16.22 at Ewing in southern Illi- 
nois, to six cents~at Minonk in north 
central Illinois. 

These two fields represent extremes in 
soil types, Ewing being an old, gray 
soil with impervious non-calcareous 
subsoil. Minonk is a very young, dark- 
colored soil. Both soils were on state ex- 
periment fields. In the crop residue sys- 
tem the limed soil increased in value 
from 55 cents an acre at Antioch to 
$11.94 at Aledo. 


National Fruit Exchange 

(Continued from page 13) 
the National through an informal re- 
gional. 

“It is the objective of the National to 
establish a co-operative sales agency 
which will be operated on a nation-wide 
basis. On terminal markets where the 
volume of Exchange business is suffi- 
ciently large, the Exchange will have 
salaried sales managers. Reliable broker- 
age representation will be used at other 
points. The plan of marketing fruits 
and vegetables also provides for the fur- 
nishing of shipping point sales service 
to member units which do not have 
their own sales personnel. 

“All tonnage of the member units 
will be under contract to the Exchange. 
The structure and operation of the Ex- 
change is such as to permit co-operative 
associations to affiliate with a minimum 
of readjustments in their sales policies 
and changes in personnel.” 


Coal Is Good Fertilizer 
German Chemist Finds 


German farmers have proved they 
know more about chemistry than Amer- 
ica’s best scientists, says a recent dis- 
patch from Berlin. 

For generations the belief has pre- 
vailed among farmers that coal is a good 
fertilizer. Now a German professor has 
discovered that science is wrong and 
that the farmer who knew nothing 
about thg chemical analysis of coal is 
right. — 

“Coal is the best fertilizer,” Professor 
Rudolf Liske, noted chemist, _ said. 
“When treated with a solution of am- 
monia it furthers the growth of plants 
to an astonishing degree. 

“Beans, peas and cucumbers,” he said, 
“attained a size three times as large as 
those left to grow without special treat- 
ment on ordinary sand soil.” 

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Buys Soybean Oilmeal 


Six cars of soybean oil meal have 
been bought co-operatively by Cook 
County Farm Bureau members, the 
Farm Bureau reports. Farm Adviser 
O. G. Barrett says that soybean of 
meal, carrying 40 per cent protein, 
ought to give dairymen some profit 
when they are buying it at less thas 
$1 a sack. 

The marketing committee of the 1. 
A. A. Board of Directors recommended 
at the October meeting that Farm Bu- 
reaus and Farm Bureau subsidiary or- 
ganizations in feeding districts should 
be urged to purchase their soybean meal 
requirements from processors who are 
co-operating with the Soybean Market- 
ing Association. 


Marshall-Putnam 4-H 
~ Clubs Make Money 


Record books of Marshall-Putnam 


4-H Club members this year show that 


they made a profit of more than $3,000 
from their 206 projects, according to 
the Marshall-Putnam Farm Bureau. 
They own, or have sold, 87 beef 
calves, 154 pigs, 39 dairy cattle, 3,588 
chickens, and 48 acres of corn. The 
total value of all crops and animals 
owned by members who completed their 
projects was $17,461. This includes 
$7,031 for beef calves, $2,701 for pigs, 
$4,577 for dairy cattle, $2,479 for 
poultry, and $672 for corn. The total 
cost of animals and crops grown was 
$14,050, making a net profit of $3,405. 


Bureau county with 510 enrolled in 
4-H Club boys’ projects this year has 
the largest membership of any county. 


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December, 1931 THE I. A. A. RECORD _Page Fifteen 


Oil Company Managers 
Plan '32 Sales Campaign 


HE forty-seven Farm Bureau ser- 

vice companies of the state are al- 
ready laying plans for the distribution 
of 40,000,000 gallons of petroleum 
products in 1932, announces L. R. 
Marchant, manager of the Illinois Farm 
Supply Company. 

More than 400 managers and sales- 
men representing the entire 47 com- 
panies attended three 
district meetings held 
at DeKalb, Peoria 
and Decatur, No- 
vember 18, 19 and 
20, to map out the 
year’s campaign. The 
1932 goal is 38,000,- 
000 gallons of mo- 
tor fuels, 1,500,000 
gallons of lubricat- 
ing oil, and 800,000 
pounds of _ grease. 
These figures are ap- 
proximately 20 per cent above 1931 
sales. 

Marchant expects lubricating oil or- 
ders for future delivery to total 300,000 
gallons by January 1. Reports were 
made at the district meetings on the 
progress already made in signing up or- 
ders for next year. 

The Champaign County Service Com- 
pany, under the management of Russell 
Stewart, was in the lead with future 
orders totaling 20,000 gallons. Three 
of his ten salesmen had a carload each 
to their credit. : 

When the contest closes January 1, 
the manager leading the state in the 
average number of gallons sold per 
salesman will receive a $100 Waltham 
Second prize will be a $75 
Waltham. The salesman with the larg- 
est total gallonage of future orders will 
receive a 22-inch genuine cowhide Glad- 
stone bag and a ladies’ overnight case 
to match. Runner-up will be awarded 
a leather traveling kit and ladies’ hat 
box to match. 

Information on motor fuels and lu- 
brication was given by Dr. O. D. Horne, 
refinery technologist of Tulsa, Okla., 
and Henry Sagemiller, lubrication en- 
gineer of Chicago, who were the prin- 
cipal speakers at the meetings. 


L. R. Marchant 


Everett Siegfried, a Hancock County 
Farm Bureau member, states that in 
checking the records for the past three 
years since he has been in the Dairy 
Herd Improvement Association, he finds 
he is making just as much profit now as 
he was three years ago. For every dol- 
lar expended for feed at present prices, 
$3.84 is returned to take care of labor, 
equipment and interest on investment. 


NOTICE OF ANNUAL 
MEETING OF 
ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 
AUDITING ASSOCIATION 


NOTICE is hereby given that the 

annual meeting of the members 
of Illinois Agricultural Auditing As- 
sociation will be held on Wednesday, 
the 27th day of January, 1932, at 
the hour of 10 o’clock A. M., at the 
FAUST HOTEL, ROCKFORD, 
ILLINOIS, to elect directors, receive, 
and, if approved, confirm the report 
of the Board of Directors of the As- 
sociation for the fiscal year ending 
December 31, 1931; and to consider 
and, if approved, ratify and confirm 
all the acts and proceedings of the 
Board of Directors done and taken 
since the last annual meeting of the 
members of the Association; and for 
the transaction of such further and 
other business as may properly come 
before the meeting. 


Dated at Chicago, Illininois, Dec. 
3, 1931. 
GeorGE E. METZGER, Secretary. 


Dairy Marketing Director 
On Job Following Illness 


B. “JACK” COUNTISS, formerly 

- in charge of the Joliet branch of 
the Peoria Creamery Company, reported 
for work as I. A. A. dairy marketing di- 
rector on November 16. Mr. Countiss 
had been convalescing at the hospital in 
Galesburg for several weeks following 
an operation. 

Countiss was born and reared at 
Cookeville, Tenn. After attending the 
local college (Ten- 
nessee Tech) for two 
years, he came to 
i Illinois where he was 
lemployed as super- 
visor of the Knox- 
Warren Dairy Herd 
i Improvement Asso- 
ciation from 1920 to 
1922. He graduated 
from the College of 
Agriculture, Univer- 
sity of Illinois in 
1925. Before and 
during his college work he assisted Prof. 
C. S$. Rhode in organizing dairy herd 
improvement associations. 

He was employed by the Peoria 
Creamery Company in 1925 where he 
has been engaged up to the present 
time. He established cream stations and 
directed the field work of the Peoria 
creamery for a number of years before 
taking over, the company’s branch office 
at Joliet. | 


J.B. Countiss 


Vermilion Livestock Co-Op. 
Brings Farmer More Cash 


ECORDS of the Vermilion County 

Livestock Marketing Association 
for its first year of operations show 
that an efficiently organized livestock 
concentration point working as a part 
of the state marketing organization can 
actually raise the price level in its sur- 
rounding territory. 

Danville prices are now approximate- 
ly 70 cents per hundredweight higher 
in comparison with 
Indianapolis prices 
than they were when 
the marketing asso- 
ciation began opera- 
tions, declared Ray 
E. Miller, director of 
livestock market- 
ing for the I.A.A. 

He points out that 
on the day the asso- 
ciation opened inde- 
pendent firms at 
Danville were buy- 
ing hogs at prices ranging from 25 
cents to $1.75 below the Indianapolis 
market. Quotations at Danville are now 
from 10 to 40 cents under Indianapolis. 
Competition of the association is credit- 
ed with decreasing the spread from am 
average of around $1.00 to approxi- 
mately 30 cents, or, in other words, 
with returning 70 cents more per hun- 
dred to the producers. 


Saves Thovsands 


This means a saving of thousands of 
dollars annually to Vermilion county 
farmers, according to Miller. The co- 
operative alone handled more than 6,- 
000,000 pounds of livestock this year. 

More than 450 members are shipping 
through the co-operative agency Farm 
Adviser Otis Kercher recently reported. 
During the year stock was sold through 
20 outlets, including six terminal mar- 
kets and 14 packers. The terminal 
markets were Indianapolis, Chicago, 
Buffalo, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and 
Cleveland. 

The Vermilion county association is 
a member of the Illinois Livestock 
Marketing Association, which recently 
opened headquarters at Decatur to co- 
ordinate the movement of livestock 
from county and district concentra- 
tion centers throughout Illinois. Work 
toward extending this service to sec- 
tions not served at present is being car- 
ried on by the I. A. A. 


R. E. Miller 


The Marshall-Putnam Oil Company, 
a subsidiary of the Farm Bureau, paid a 
patronage dividend of 24 per cent on all 
purchases made by Farm Bureau mem- 
bers during the fiscal year just ending. 


Page Sixteen 


Red Fox Deserves 
Some Protection 


Cornell Professor Says Reynard Does 
“Not Merit Bad Reputation 


The red fox should be given protec- 
tion as are skunk, coon, mink and other 
fur animals, before he goes the way of 
the passenger pigeons and other ex- 
tinct forms of wild life. His good 
habits far outweigh his bad traits, says 
W. J. Hamilton, Jr., of the zoology de- 
partment at Cornell University. 

Generally, he says, the fox is not so 
black as he is painted. In analyzing 
the stomachs of more than sixty foxes, 
Dr. Hamilton finds that the principal 
foods of the fox are meadow mice; 
ground squirrels; fruits, especially ap- 
ples and berries; insects; and other small 
forms of animal life. In only one stom- 
ach did he find chicken feathers or bird 
remains. A cat, he says, puts the fox 
to shame as a bird killer. Without ques- 
tion Reynard does take a bird now and 
then as the occasion demands. But 
what of it, when he eats about 600 
medow mice in a year and keeps cot- 
tontails in check? 

Young Like Kittens 

In late March or early April the vixin, 
or she-fox, bears four or five young. 
For their arrival she utilizes some wood- 
chuck hole or enlarges a rabbit retreat. 
At the end of four or five weeks the 
young are large enough to come out- 
ef-doors. They have woolly coats quite 
unlike those of their parents and romp 
and play much like kittens. The mother 
is never far off and at any indication 
ef danger an alarm sends the young 
tumbling into their retreat. 

The brood grows rapidly and is fed 
by both parents. Young woodchucks, 
meadow mice, an occasional small bird 
‘or butterfly is brought to them, often 
alive. The young tug and worry their 
victim and get an early training in 
hunting in this manner, he says. By the 
end of summer the young are grown, 
and the den is a mass of bones and fur, 
some feathers, and offal from their food. 
The young scatter when cold nights 
come in the fall and are capable of 
having young before they are a year old. 

Deserves Keen Reputation 

The sharp, shrewd looking muzzle, 
the quick eye and the erect ears give the 
fox the characteristic expression of 
acuteness which it does not belie. Many 
tales are told of the cunning and crafti- 
ness of the fox in eluding pursuit by 
men and dogs. Reynard has been 
known, when hard pressed, to jump on 
the back of sheep or cattle which are 
stampeded, so they may carry the fox 
some distance before he jumps off and 
retreats safely. 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEET- 
ING OF ILLINOIS AGRICUL- 
TURAL HOLDING CO. 


OTICE is hereby given that the 
annual meeting of the stock- 
holders of Illinois Agricultural Hold- 
ing Company will be held on Wednes- 


day, the 27th day of January, 1932, | 


at the hour of 11:00 o’clock a. m., 
at the Faust Hotel, Rockford, Il., 
to elect directors, receive, and, if 
approved, confirm the report of the 
board of directors of the company 
for the fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 
1931, and to consider and, if ap- 
proved, ratify and confirm all the 
acts and proceedings of the board of 
directors done and taken since the 
last annual meeting of the members 
of the company; and for the trans- 
action of such further and other 
business as may properly come before 
the meeting. 

Dated at Chicago, Ill., Dec. 1, 
1931. 


GEORGE F. TULLOCK, 
Secretary. 


Proper Seed Storage 
Increases Corn Yield 


The seed corn storage houses at Var- 
na, Granville and Henry will be open 
on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 
afternoons during the season for seed 
selection, announces the Marshall-Put- 
nam Farm Bureau. 

The Farm Management Department 
of the University of Illinois has found 
that corn yields may be increased twe 
bushels per acre where the seed is prop- 
erly stored and not allowed to freeze. 
Proper storage and testing will give an 
average yield of five bushels more per 
acre. An increase of only 1% bushels 
per acre will pay for the service of stor- 
age and testing. 


Public Forests Will Pay 
Their Own Way: Warren 


Public forests in a densely populated 
state will more than pay their own 
way, according to Dr. George F. War- 
ren, Cornell economist. They regulate 
the flow of streams and protect the 
water supply, as well as provide for 
hunting, fishing, and recreation, and 
improve the appearance of the state. 
None of these uses interferes with the 
growth of trees for timber products. 

It is unfortunate, he says, that large 
areas of excellent forest land, that were 
never well adapted to farming were ever 
cleared. Abandonment of these areas 


December, 1931 


Build Factory at Ames 
To Test Use Farm Wastes 


Factory-scale experiments will be 
conducted in a factory at Ames, Iowa, 
by the U. S. Department of Agricul- 
ture with a view of developing com- 
mercial utilization and finding a more 
profitable outlet for various farm by- 
products, including corn stalks, straw. 
oat hulls, rice hulls, cottonseed hulls, 
and other similar materials. 

Stressing the need for this work, Dr. 
W. W. Skinner, who will have charge 
of the experiment, said, “The farmer 
has to raise about 144 pounds of waste 
material to every pound of grain he 
produces. This represents a loss of fer- 
tility and brings on an immediate prob- 
lem of disposal. The cost of collecting 
such materials as corn stalks and straw 
is very great and one object of the fac- 
tory-scale experiment now being started 
is to determine whether by additional 
chemical treatment we can _ produce 
value in excess of this cost.” 


Dr. Skinner stated that the small-, 


scale laboratory experiments of the past 
have offered little opportunity for the 
solution of the problem. The recent 
Congress appropriated $75,000 for this 
work. 


Corn Price and Pen Rent 


In the last issue of the RECORD 
there appeared a statement which im- 
plied that commission firms are re- 
sponsible for present pen rent, corn 
prices, etc., at the stock yards; that 
commission firms are charging $1.30 a 
bushel for corn fed. 

It should be understood that the 
stock yards company, not commission 
firms, fixes the cost of pen rent, corn 
prices, etc. The price charged on corn 
includes delivery to the different pens 
and alleys in the stock yards. The 
packer and stock yards administration, 
U. S. D. A., has authority to regulate 
such charges. 


In 1929 the Land O’Lakes Creamery 
handled $52,500,000 worth of dairy 
products; the National Cheese Pro- 
ducers Federation in 1930 $11,886,102 
worth of cheese. The Dairymen’s 
League Co-operative Association of 
New York in 1929 handled more than 
$89,000,000 worth of milk and dairy 
products; the California Fruit Growers 
Exchange the same year shipped fruit 
valued at $104,900,000. 


began about fifty years ago and it has 
continued at an increasing rate. Fortu- 
nately the conditions which make land 
undesirable for farming often make it 
excellent for forestry. 


December, 1931 THE I. A. A. RECORD Page Seventeen 


Whiteside county increased coopera- 
tive shipments of livestock from 160 
cars in 1929 to 254 cars in 1930. The 
increase will be even larger in 1931 re- 
ports the Whiteside County Farm Bu- 
reau. During the first six months 194 
cars were shipped in comparison with 
133 cars in the first six months of 1930. 


Recently buyers on the market have 
complained that calves are being loaded 
in double deck trucks without suffi- 
cient head room, the upper deck be- 
ing too low. As a result calves come 
in bruised on their backs. This shows 
up badly in the dressed meat. 

Truckmen are asked to lend their co- 
operation toward avoiding this damage 
and loss in transit. 


6 Biers time to figure the proper 
weight, class, and especially grade 
of cattle to feed for the various seasons 
of the year, advises H. M. Conway, 
director of research for the National 
Livestock Marketing Association. Par- 
ticularly select cattle that will be best 
for prospective market conditions and 
the supply of feeds available, he said. 

Too frequently top choice feeders are 
selected for the late winter and spring 
market, whereas a lower grade animal 
will more likely make a profitable mar- 
gin. For the summer market the re- 
verse is true. 

The choice feeders normally require a 
cather long feeding period and a heavy 
grain ration, while with common steers 
roughage should be the principal feed 
with little grain. 


Shrink on Hogs 


On 1,252 hogs marketed by truck 
(average haul 26.7 miles) the average 
shrink from a farm feedlot to market 
was 1.23 per cent; on 2,084 hogs 
shipped by rail (average haul 128.8 
miles) the average shrink from farm 
feedlot to market was 1.19 per cent. 
In other words, no significant differ- 
ence. 

Hogs given less than a full feed at 
the farm appeared to shrink less both 
by rail and by truck—part of the 
shrink occurring before the farm 
weights were taken. Shrinkage by 
truck apparently tended to increase 
with the distance trucked, being 1.24 
per cent on 89 hogs trucked 36 miles 
or more, and 1.37 per cent on 69 hogs 
trucked 55 miles or more. This infor- 
mation was obtained following a survey 
by R. C. Ashby of the University of 


NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEET- 


ING OF ILLINOIS FARM 
BUREAU SERUM 
ASSN. 


OTICE is hereby given that the 
annual meeting of the mem- 
bers of Illinois Farm Bureau Serum 
Association will be held on Wednes- 
day, the 27th day of January, 1932, 
at the hour of 10:00 o’clock a. m., 
at the Faust Hotel, Rockford, IIl., 
to elect directors, receive, and, if 
approved, confirm the report of the 
Board of Directors of the Association 
for the fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 
1931; and to consider and, if ap- 
proved, ratify and confirm all the 
acts and proceedings of the Board of 
Directors done and taken since the 
last annual meeting of the members 
of the Association; and for the trans- 
action of such further and other busi- 
ness as may properly come before the 
meeting. 
Dated at Chicago, Ill., Dec. 2, 
1931. 
RAY E. MILLER, 
Secretary. 


Wolf Attacks Caribou; 
Dies on Enemy's Horns 


In Alaska, where wolves have terror- 
ized the timid reindeer and slaughtered 
them in great numbers, one bold wolf 
came to an inglorious end this summer 
when it tackled a bull caribou. 

A report to the Biological Survey of 
the United States Department of Agri- 
culture says: “Victorious in combat 
with the wolf but unable to free him- 
self from the dead body of his foe, a 
big bull caribou was seen a few days 
ago on Birch Creek in the Circle coun- 
try walking slowly along, bowed down 
under the wolf’s weight. The wolf 
apparently had been impaled upon the 
caribou’s horns and mortally wounded, 
but the caribou was unable to free him- 
self from his burden. One of those 
who saw the caribou said the weight he 
carried was too great to permit him to 
run. Every time he passed a tree he 
would try to rub the wolf from his 
horns. He was accompanied by another 
bull, which would run ahead a few 
paces and then wait for his slower com- 
panion.” 


$2,000 Difference in 
Net Income Per Farm 


Efficiency in livestock production is 
one of the most important factors ac- 
counting for the difference of $2,000 
between the net income ef the 41 most 


Farm and Home Week 
Slated for Jan. 11-15 


Plans are already underway for the 
thirty-fourth annual Farm and Home 
Week to be held at the University of 
Illinois, January 11 to 15, according 
to an announcement received by the 
I. A. A. 

Eugene Davenport, dean emeritus of 
the College of Agriculture, University 
of Illinois; President F. D. Farrell of 
Kansas State Agricultural College, and 
Dr. George F. Warren, head of the 
department of agricultural economics, 
Cornell University, are to be headline 
speakers. 

Last year 3,146 farm folks from 97 
counties registered during the week. An 
equally large attendance is expected this 
year. Recreation, inspiration, contests 
and entertainment, as well as instruc- 
tion, will again be featured. 


High School Boys Form 
Co-Op. Feed Grinding Co. 


Students of vocational agriculture im 
the Jacksonville high school under J. 
H. Loomis have organized a co-operative 
feed grinding company. Its purpose is 
to grind feed for local farmers, help 
them balance live stock rations, to foe 
ter and develop the co-operative spirit 
among its members, and to help finance 
the outside activities of the high school 
agricultural department. 

The feed grinder is a portable outfit, 
a Hammer mill mounted on a two-ton 
truck and driven by an International 
truck engine. It is taken from farm 
to farm where the feed is ground. The 
Farm Mechanics high school class did 
all the work in putting the truck and 
engine in good mechanical condition. 

“The price of grinding is 15 cents 
per cwt. to patrons not members of 
the company, or § cents less than the 
price others are charging for similar 
service,” says Loomis. ‘The average 
earnings per hour is about $4, with the 
cost of operating around $1 per hour.” 


profitable farms and the 41 least profit- 
able farms in the farm account project 
last year in the area comprising Mar- 
shall-Putnam, LaSalle and Grundy coun- 
ties, reports the LaSalle County Farm 
Bureau. 

“The operators of the more profitable 
farms secured $150 of livestock income 
from $100 worth of feed, while the 
least profitable had a corresponding in- 
come of $97. 

“Since these farms had about the same 
market outlet, the difference in net re- 
turns means that the most profitable 
produced meat, eggs, milk, etc., at 
lower cost.” 


Liability Insurance 
Applies in Farm Building 


Accidents Indicate Need for Em- 
ployers Protecting Themselves 


The question of whether or not the 
liability insurance of the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Mutual Insurance Company 
covers injury or death of employees 
while working on new buildings is ex- 
plained as follows by V. Vaniman: 

“Our insurance will protect the 
farmer employer against liability to em- 
ployees for work done on new buildings 
on farms providing the size of building 
and time involved does not bring em- 
ployees under the provisions of the 
Workmen’s Compensation Act. 

“A new building built on a farm re- 
quiring over two or three weeks to 
build and of size to make the building 
of it a hazardous enterprise would not 
be considered farming operations. 
Therefore, farmers should not have em- 
ployees working on jobs of this kind 
expecting protection under our insur- 
ance.” 

The ten high counties in total appli- 
cations written up to November 1 are 
McLean, DuPage, Livingston, Henry, 
Cook, Tazewell, Vermilion, St. Clair, 
Fulton, and Kendall. 

Some recent accidents are as follows: 

Cass County—Employee was load- 
ing calves in truck when he was kicked 
by a calf and slipped on the floor of the 
truck. Muscles were torn at his ankle 
and the bone injured, making plaster 
cast necessary. 

Menard County—Man was helping 
veterinary with sick mule when mule 
kicked him in left eye fracturing bone 
under eye, also cutting and bruising 
face. 

Pike County—Employee working on 
hog shed when a 2 by 8 fell on his 
finger bruising it severely, making it 
necessary to be lanced several times. 

Sangamon County—Hired man had 
legs scraped and bruised while driving 
wagon hauling beams. Injury caused 
by sudden start of team. 


Cook county again led the field in 
the amount of automobile insurance 
written in the Illinois Agricultural Mu- 
tual Insurance Company during Octo- 
ber. St. Clair, runner-up in September, 
was also second last month. 

Other leading counties in October 
were Livingston, Ford, McLean, Henry, 
Logan, Marshall-Putnam, Champaign, 
and Sangamon. 

Here are some of the accidents re- 
ported: 


Crawford County.— Insured was: 


driving and smoking a cigar; turned 
head to spit out of window and car ran 
off left side of road. In turning back 


Page Eighteen THE 1. A. A. RECORD December, 1931 


100% FARM BUREAU AzD COUN- 
TRY LIFE MEMBERS 

and Mrs. 

their five children, all Country Life 


Mr, Ray cons and 


policyholders. Mr. Stevens is a 
member of the Boone County Farm 
Bureau, 


on his car turned over and injured lady 
passenger. 

Jefferson County — Insured going 
south, about one block out of city, no- 
ticed car parked on east side of road. 
As he was passing car woman stepped 
out and was knocked to pavement, re- 
sulting in her death. 

Montgomery County—Insured’s car 
stopped on pavement during hard rain. 
Friend's car came along and in passing 
ran through water killing his engine 
before he could get off slab. Car fol- 
lowing tried to pass and had head-on 
collision with truck. Party in car col- 
liding with truck killed. 


60 Counties to Hold 
Jubilee Programs Dec. 12 


Between 40,000 and 50,000 Illinois 


farmers will attend the 60 Farm Bureau 


jubilee programs to be held on the night 
of December 12 in conjunction with a 
radio broadcast over station WMAQ, 
Chicago, estimates V. Vaniman, director 
of insurance service. 

Mr. Vaniman said most of the local 
programs would start shortly after 7 
o’clock so that counties holding beauty 
contests might send in the names of 
winners in time to be announced over 
the radio. The broadcast is scheduled 
to occupy a half-hour between 8 and 
8:30. 

About two-thirds of the counties put- 
ting on programs will feature beauty 
contests as one of the chief attractions. 
Mr. Vaniman said that the term ‘‘beauty 
contest” had taken on a hew meaning 
among Farm Bureau people who saw 
the contests last year. 

He calls attention to the statement 
of an eminent psychologist from Johns 
Hopkins University that ‘“‘the conserva- 
tion of human beauty is the question of 
the hour, because physical beauty is di- 
rectly associated with moral beauty, 
bodily well being, efficiency, and intel- 
lectual excellence.” 

Local program committees are al- 
ready arranging their programs, said Mr. 


Tisurance ¥ 


Country Life Insurance Company is 
attempting to establish a new world 
record by topping the list in millions of 
insurance gained in 1931. Country 
Life already holds world records for 
business gained in the first 30 days of 
operation and in the first year. 


The twenty counties leading in new 
business in Country Life wrote almost 
a half-million dollars worth of insur- 
ance during the first three weeks of 
November. 


Six agents each turned in more than 
$20,000 worth of new business during 
the three weeks ending November 21. 
They are E. A. Carncross, B. E. Mosier, 
Homer Hitchcock, Claude Hicks, J. D. 
Smith, and Ira Cottingham. 


The ten leading counties during this 
period were Cook, Champaign, Livings- 
ton, Winnebago, Lake, Sangamon, Lo- 
gan, Jersey, Henry, and Kendall. 


Ira Cottingham sent in $20,000 in 
one day and L. R. Welk sent in $15,000 
at once. Bernard Mosier wrote $19,000 
in one week. 


Country Life Declares 
Capital Stock Dividend 


The Board of Directors of Country 
Life Insurance Company recently voted 
to declare a 9 per cent dividend 
($9,000) payable to the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Holding Company, which 
owns all of the capital stock of Country 
Life. Stock in the Holding Company 
in turn is held entirely by Farm Bu- 
reau members, County Farm Bureaus, 
and the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion. 

Directors of the Illinois Agricultural 

Holding Company voted to pay divi- 
dends on the 7 per cent preferred stock 
to stockholders as of record December 
1, 1931. The preferred stock in the 
Holding Company is issued as of De- 
cember 19, 1929. 

The subject of dividends to policy- 
holders in Country Life will be con- 
sidered at the January meeting of the 
Board. 


Vaniman. All the numbers except those 
on the half-hour broadcast will be given 
by local people. L. A. Williams, mana- 
ger of Country Life Insurance Com- 
pany, will speak on the radio program. 


The “Brown County Farm Bureau 
News” recently made its appearance. 
It will replace “Farm Gist” as the 
Farm Bureau official organ. 


Volume 10 


1932 


coS_9» The cA>d 


Iflinois Agricultural As Association 
RECORD : 


Published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural mage at 165 So, Main St., 
Application for transfer of second class entry from Marshall, IIl., 
vided in Section 412, Act of Feb, 28, 1925, gag er ay 27, 1925, 
hicago, 


cultural Association Record, 608 So, Dearborn 8t., 


Number 1 


Northern Illinois Farm 
Advisers to Boost Meeting 


Seek to Get Out 5,000 Farm Bureau 
Members Within 60 Miles 
Of Rockford 


A BOOSTER meeting of farm ad- 
visers and Farm Bureau presidents 
in northern Illinois to get out a large 
local attendance at the coming I. A. A. 
convention int Rockford, will be called 
in the near future, according to Farm 


Adviser Chas. H. Keltner, who visited ' 


the I. A. A. offices recently. 

“We have plenty of accommodations 
for everyone at Rockford,” said Kelt- 
ner. “There is ample hotel room and 
the rates will be reasonable. We are 
asking that when making reservations, 
farm advisers specify the kind of ac- 
commodations wanted, including price 
of rooms, the number in a room, etc. 
We will try to fill every order as re- 
quested.” 


Hold Down Cost 


Mr. Keltner states that the capacity 
of the banquet room on the twelfth 
floor of the Faust Hotel is rated at from 
1,600 to 1,800 people. He is request- 
ing that reservations be made early. 

“Every effort is being made to hold 
down the cost of banquet and luncheon 
tickets below those of previous years,” 
he said. “We have approximately 5,000 
Farm Burcau members within a radius 
of 50 to 60 miles of Rockford, and we 
shall make every effort toward getting 
them out to the convention.” 


Where 60 Go 


Delegates and members arriving in 
Rockford are asked to report at the 
hotel assigned where definite advance 
reservations have been made. Others 
must report at the registration desk in 
the lobby of the Faust Hotel. 

The annual dinner and get-together 
for farm advisers, Farm 
Bureau presidents, I. A. 

A. officers and _ staff 
members will be held 
in the main dining room 


JANUARY, 1932 


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of the Nelson Hotel on Wednesday 
night, January 27. The dinner is being 
financed by the local Chamber of Com- 
merce. 


Board of Delegates Is 
Governing Body I. A. A. 


| likened organized county in Illinois 
will be represented by one or more 
voting delegates at the annual meeting 
of the I. A. A., Rockford, January 28- 
29, if each takes advantage of its privi- 


lege. According to the present count 
there will be approximately 200 dele- 
gates from the 94 County Farm Bu- 
reaus. 


The by-laws of the I. A. A. provide 
that ‘tthe members within a county in 
good standing and engaged in produc- 
tion of agricultural products shall be 
entitled to representation in the annual 
meeting of members, and in any special 
meeting, by one voting delegate, and 
one additional voting delegate for each 
500 members in good standing engaged 
in production of agricultural products, 
or major fraction thereof.” 

Thus, the county with 251 members 
is entitled to two delegates; 751 mem- 
bers, three delegates; 1,251 members, 
four delegates; and 1,751 members, five 
delegates. 

Who Is Eligible? 


All delegates must be members in 
good standing (dues paid) and engaged 
in production of agricultural products. 
This classification includes both land- 
lords ‘and tenants, and parties who are 

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Volume 10 


See |. A. A. Convention as 
Clearing House for Ideas 


One Place Where Man on Farm Gets 
A Chance to Tell What He 
Thinks About It 


Tae 17th annual meeting of the 
Illinois Agricultural Association to 
be held at Rockford, January 28-29, 
together with meetings of. associated 
companies on January 27, will be a 
clearing house for ideas and suggestions 
offered by real farmers from all sections 
of the state on what they can and 
should do in an organized way for the 
welfare of the industry. 

Of course there will be speeches and 
addresses as in past years by men of 
national prominence. But there will be 
a time also for the most obscure mem- 
ber to rise up and tell what he thinks 
his organization should and should not 
do in the next year. 


Five Business Conferences 


The five business conferences to be 
held simultaneously on Thursday after- 
noon as in former year, were arranged 
expressly for this purpose. The various 
sessions of the delegates, particularly the 
closing one on the last afternoon of the 
conyention, are open for free discussion 
of resolutions and policies governing the 
Association and its work. 

The opening morning of the I. A. A. 
meeting on January 28 will be largely 
devoted to the president’s address, and 
reports by the secretary and treasurer 
about the work of the organization dur- 
ing 1931 and its condition today. 


Banquet and Luncheon 


The banquet and luncheon Thursday 
night and Friday noon respectively will 
be held in the Faust Hotel dining room 
on the top floor. A large number of 
leaders representing other business and 
educational interests in the state, co- 

- operative marketing of- 
ficials, and men in pub- 
lic life are being in- 
vited to attend. 
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Page Four ) THE I. A. A. RECORD January, 1932 


President Ed. A. O’Neal of the Amer- 
ican Farm Bureau Federation, and Sam 
H. Thompson, former president of the 
I. A. A. and A. F. B. F. and now a 
member of the Federal Farm Board, 
have accepted invitations to attend the 
convention. Both will appear on the 
program sometime during the two-day 
meeting. 


Had Prominent Men 


A survey of the field reveals that 
nearly every man of national promi- 
nence in agriculture has addressed either 
an annual meeting of the I. A. A., or 
some other gathering sponsored by the 
Association in recent years. Yet an ef- 
fort is being made to maintain these 
former high standards in the selection 
of outstanding speakers for the 1932 
convention. 

As we go to press the programs for 
meetings of the associated organizations 
and the sectional conferences are being 
made up. Further details will be re- 
leased to the newspapers and carried in 
the Illinois section of the February 
Bureau Farmer, which will be published 
about January 18. 


Board of Delegates 
(Continued from page 3) 
farming on shares. No salaried or paid 
employee or agent in regular and con- 
tinuing employment of the Farm Bu- 
reau—I. A. A. or any associated or sub- 
sidiary company is qualified to serve as 

a delegate. 

The by-laws of the Association may 
be amended, repealed or altered in whole 
or in part at any regular meeting by 
a two-thirds affirmative vote of the reg- 
ular members in good standing repre- 
sented in the meeting by qualified dele- 
gates present, or by like vote at any 
special meeting of which due notice has 
been given. A quorum must be present 
at such meeting and amendments shall 
be in the hands of the secretary at least 
20 days prior to the meeting of the 
Association. The secretary shall have 


_ mailed at least 10 days prior to such 


meeting a copy of the proposed amend- 
ment or amendments to the last known 
post office and address of each member 
of the I. A. A. Board of Directors and 
to each affiliated County Farm Bureau. 

The supreme power to elect the presi- 
dent and vice-president and board of 
directors and to shape and adopt poli- 


_ cies of the Association is vested in the 


board of delegates constituted in ac- 
cordance with the provisions above. 


Mont Fox of Oakwood and John Lee- 
mon of Hoopeston were elected official 
delegates of the Vermilion County 
Farm Bureau to the annual meeting of 
the I. A. A., Rockford. George Lenhart 


and Ralph Mills are alternates. 


Consider Income Tax 
Bill in House Next 


Breakdown of Property Tax in Cook 
County Leads to More Favor- 
able Attitude Toward 
Measure 


ARLY consideration of the state 

income tax bill in the House, fol- 
lowing the reconvening of the legisla- 
ture on Jan. 5, will be asked by sup- 
porters of this measure which is the 
only legislation so far advanced offering 
substantial tax relief to property. 

The long-heralded breakdown of the 
general property tax, particularly in 

Cook county, is ex- 
| pected to result in a 
1 more favorable atti- 
| tude toward an in- 
| come tax by Chicago 
members of the 
House. 

The income tax, 
the revenue from 
which will go to re- 
place taxes now lev- 
ied for educational 
purposes on proper- 
ty, passed the Senate 
by a vote of 29 to 17 on Dec. 16. 


Lantz Calls Up Bill 


Sen. Simon E. Lantz of Congerville 
called up the bill and briefly explained 
its provisions emphasizing the fact that 
this measure and those which accom- 
pany it provide for a replacement and 
not an additional tax. Speeches support- 
ting the measure were made for the first 
time by Cook county members. Sena- 
tors Adelbert Roberts and Arthur A. 
Huebsch of Cook county, Charles H. 
Thompson of Harrisburg, N. M. Mason 
of Oglesby, and Andrew S$. Cuthbert- 
son of Bunker Hill. Senators Victor P. 
Michel of Peoria and Earl B. Searcy of 
Springfield spoke against the measure. 

“I have changed my mind about the 
income tax,” said Senator Roberts, one 
of the foremost members from Chicago. 
“This is a changing world and while I 
have previously voted against the meas- 
ure, I believe the time has come for us 
to inaugurate a fairer system of taxation 
and pass the income tax.” 

Senator Michel spoke against the 
measure “on constitutional grounds.” 
His discussion indicated he had not 
read the measure, nor was he informed 
about the provisions in the companion 
bills which make this a replacement tax. 


Sen. Thompson Speaks 
Senator Thompson of Harrisburg, an 
attorney, said: “I disagree with Senator 
Michel. I believe this bill is constitu- 
tional. This is sound legislation because 
it is based on ability to pay. My only 


Sen. Lantz 


interest is that the exemptions be made 
high enough to spare the little fellow.” 

Senator Huebsch of Brookfield sup- 
ported the constitutionality of the bill 
in which he pointed out that the State 
of Arkansas, which has an income tax, 
has a uniformity clause in the revenue 
section of its constitution much like 
that of Illinois. He read the list of 
states now. having income taxes. He 
said: ““We can’t continue to maintain 
our government and talk real estate 
tax reduction without — substituting 
something else for it.” 


Searcy Evades Issue 


Senator Searcy said he was friendly to 
the income tax in principle, but against 
the extension of government at this 
time. He was evasive regarding the 
question of bringing relief to overbur- 
dened farm and home owners. He failed 
to recognize the fact that many people 
of large incomes but without tangible 
property are now paying nothing to sup- 
port government. 

Senator Woods of Chicago agreed 
that an income tax eventually should be 
part of our taxing system, but held 
that an effort should be made first to 
put teeth in present laws to get per- 
sonal property on the tax rolls. “There 
is approximately $19,000,000,000 of 


personal property in Cook county,” he > 


said, “yet we have only $10,000,000,- 
000 worth of property on the tax rolls, 
nearly all of which is real estate.” 


How They Voted 

The bill which provides for a gradu- 
ated tax of from one to six per cent on 
net incomes in excess of $1,000 for a 
single person and $2,000 for married 
couples would be administered by a 
Department of Revenue. All the money 
collected from this source except a 
small portion for administering the act 
would go to the public school fund. 

The vote was as follows: 

FOR THE BILL—Huebsch, Rob- 
erts, Adair, Baker, Barr, Bohrer, 
Carlson, Cuthbertson, Dunlap, Ew- 
ing, Gunning, Hamilton, Hanna, 
Kessinger, Lantz, Lee, Mason, Mc- 
Cauley, Meents, Meyers, Miles, Mills, 
Paddock, Smith, Thompson, Wilson, 
Wright, Finn, Monroe—Total 29. 

AGAINST THE BILL—Serritella, 
Woods, Broderick, Carroll, Gillmeis- 
ter, Graham, Huckin, Kielminski, 
Loughran, Maypole, McDermott, 
Mendel, O’Grady, Ward, Michel, 
Searcy, Kline—Total 17. 


Some people notice that the days are 
getting longer; others that the nights 
are getting shorter. 


McGinty: “I’ve a terrible corn on the bot- 
tom of my foot.” 

Pat: “That’s a foine place to have it. No- 
body can step on it but you.” 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Five 


Lake Co. School Districts 
Seek More Taxing Power 


Consideration of Higher Tax Limit 
Bill Beferred Until Jan. 6 


AN effort to increase the property 
tax limit for school purposes in 
Illinois was mase by proponents of 
House bill 72 before the House Com- 
mittee on Education at Springfield, 
December 16. 

This measure amends sections 189, 
190 and 191 of the school law and pro- 
vides that exclusive of taxes to pay the 
principal and interest on bonds, school 
districts which heretofore might levy 
one per cent ($1.00) for educational 
purposes and three-eighths of one per 
cent (37.5 cents) for building and pur- 
chasing grounds may levy 114 per cent 
for all expenses and upon a referendum 
instead of 11% per cent ($1.50) for 
educational purposes, and one-half per 
cent (50 cents) for building purposes 
and purchasing of grounds, may levy 
not to exceed two. per cent ($2.00) 
and districts maintaining grades 9 to 12 
in addition to grades 1 to 8 which 
heretofore might levy an additional tax 
of one per cent for educational pur- 
poses and three-eighths of one per cent 
for building purposes and for purchas- 
ing of grounds may levy an additional 
tax of one and one-fourth per cent. 


Would Change Limits 


In districts which were heretofore 
authorized by referendum to levy more 
than one per cent but not more than 
one and one-half per cent for educa- 
tional purposes and more than three- 
eighths but not more than one-half of 
one per cent for building purposes and 
purchasing of grounds, may levy a tax 
of not to exceed one and three-quarters 
per cent and upon referendum may levy 
not to exceed two per cent and those 
districts maintaining grades 9 to 12 and 
heretofore authorized by referendum to 
levy an additional tax of one per cent 
for educational purposes and three- 
eighths of one per cent for building 
purposes and purchasing of grounds, 
may levy an additional tax of not to 
exceed one per cent and upon referen- 
dum may levy not to exceed one and 
one-eighth per cent. Provides that the 
levy for the payment of principal and 
interest on the bands shall be in addi- 
tion to the levy of taxes for the ex- 
pense and maintaining and conducting 
schools. 

The legislative committee of the I. A. 
A. has gone over the measure with its 
proponents taking the position that in- 
creases in taxes for educational purposes 
must not be allowed without approval 
of the people in a popular referendum. 


A representative of the Central Lake 
County (Ill.) Taxpayers’ Association 
from Lake Villa appeared against the 
bill, declaring that farm lands in Lake 
county were being assessed at 38 to 44 
per cent of their fair cash value, where- 
as in Highland Park real estate was as- 
sessed at only 16 to 20 per cent of its 
fair cash value. 

“We are not against the present sal- 
ary schedule of teachers,” he said, “but 
it’s the frills in our schools that are 
costing too much.” 

Up Again Jan. 6 

Representative Bolger of McHenry 
county moved that amendments pro- 
posed by friends of the measure to the 
bill be printed and placed in the hands 
of the committee on education before 
final vote. 

Representative Luckey of Vermilion 
county opposed the measure and advised 
the school board representatives from 
Lake county to go back home and pay 
their just share of the taxes, then they 
would have enough money to run their 
schools. 

The committee finally voted to post- 
pone action until January 6. 


Talk Over Problems 
17th District Meeting 


More than 40 delegates and members 
from the 17th district attended the 
I. A. A. sectional meeting in the Y. W. 
C. A. Building, Bloomington, Decem- 
ber 16. The meeting was called by 
A. B. Schofield, I. A. A. director, who 
presided. 

Among the subjects discussed were 
hog cholera control, livestock market- 
ing, including the 
@)| producers’ sales agen- 

j| cies, and plans for 
financing the Illinois 
Livestock Marketing 


Association. 
Legislation now 
before the General 


Assembly, including 
the proposed state 
income tax, entered 
the discussion. “It 
was a meeting in 
which we talked over 
our local problems,” commented Mr. 
Schlofield. “I believe such meetings have 
great value because they give everyone 
attending an opportunity to express 
themselves about Farm Bureau activi- 
ties and policies. Such an opportunity 


A. B. Schofield 


is lacking in the larger state-wide 


meetings.” 


Farm co-operative marketing asso- 
ciations in. the United States number 
approximately 12,000 at present with 
a total membership of 3,000,000. 


Safety First Principle 
In Investment Policy 


Bob Cowles Tells Agents How Funds 
Of Companies Are Invested 


HE reserve funds of the Farm Bu- 

reau insurance companies are in- 
vested in “‘back-log” securities, with 
first consideration being given to safety 
of investments and second consideration 
to returns, R. A. Cowles, treasurer of 
the Illinois Agricultural Association, 
stated in explaining the investment 
policy of the companies to a group of 
northern Illinois agents in Chicago De- 
cember 21. 

Following the only sound policy for 
any new company, Country Life Insur- 
ance Company and 
Illinois Agricultural 
Mutual have wisely 
sacrificed possible 
larger returns for 
safe investments, ‘a 
large part of which 
are made up of gov- 
ernment and munici- 
pal bonds, Mr. 
Cowles said. _ Al- 
though Country Life 
Robt. A. Cowles is a capital stock 

company and the au- 
tomobile insurance company is a mu- 
tual, the same investment policy has 
been followed in both. 

The committee of five, which has 
authority to make investments for both 
companies, has placed the funds in 
three types of securities, he explained. 
The first type is United States govern- 
ment obligations, such as liberty bonds, 
treasury notes, and other similar issues, 
which are readily convertible into cash 
and which fluctuate very little in value. 
The next type includes state and mu- 
nicipal bonds. The third class embraces 
utility bonds and first mortgage bonds 
on railroads. 

At present the committee is confin- 
ing investments largely to federal gov- 
ernment securities. The committee 
meets once a month and considers of- 
fers of current issues. Business is done 
through the oldest and most reputable 
investment houses in Chicago and all 
bonds are delivered in safe keeping to 
the Continental Illinois Bank and Trust 
Company, where they are kept. Cou- 
pons are clipped by employees of the 
bank and cashier’s checks issued to the 
companies. 

The investment committee is headed 
by A. R. Wright, banker-farmer of 
‘Varna, vice-president of the Illinois 
Agricultural Association. Other mem- 
bers are President Earl C. Smith, Treas- 
urer R. A. Cowles, and Directors M, G. 
Lambert and C. J. Gross. 


Page Six 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


January, 1932 


Farm Taxes Rise 166 


Per Cent Since 1914: 


Income Taxes Should Raise Half. 


Public Revenues, Wisconsin 
Professor Says 


INCE 1914 taxes on farm property 

have risen by 166 per cent, while 
the price of farm produce is now down 
to 68 per cent of the war level, Dr. 
B. H. Hibbard of the University of 
Wisconsin told delegates and visitors at 
the recent American Farm Bureau Fed- 
eration convention. 

“While the discrepancy between the 
prices paid by farmers for goods 
bought and the prices received by them 
for produce sold may be the crux of the 
farmers’ troubles,” said Mr. Hibbard, 
“the fact remains that one of the large 
items of his outgo consists of the taxes 
he pays. It is demonstrable that these 
taxes are higher than they should be 
as compared with the general tax bur- 
den resting on people in general. It is 
true that the taxes on real estate are 
about equally high in city and country, 
and in state after state. 


Real Estate Pays Taxes 


“Real estate is taxed somewhere from 
20 to 40 per cent of its annual rental 
value. In several states it was found 
that the taxation of both city and coun- 
try real estate amounted to from one- 
fourth to one-third of the annual in- 
come Before the present depression 
it was estimated that approximately 
30 per cent, nearly one-third, of the 
net income on cash-rented farms 
was absorbed in taxes. No busi- 
nesses other than those yielding 
profits can stand taxation as heavy 
as this. 

“The main hope of real, permanent 
tax relief for the farmer is in the pros- 
pect of a change from property to in- 
come as the main reliance in raising 
revenue,” continued Dr. Hibbard. We 
have been timid and halting in this re- 
form, although the need for a change 
and the justice of the income tax prin- 
ciples have long been accepted. Income 
is not based primarily on property. 
Hence the folly of trying to reach 
the main sources of ability to pay 
merely by enumerating and assess- 
ing property. We should not rest 
content until half the public reve- 
nues are raised by income taxes. 
Not until such a reform is brought 
to pass is there hope of a genuine, 
adequate relief from the overload of 
taxes now resting on the farm. 


Taxes Cause Bankruptcies 


Dr. Hibbard pointed out that- the 
taxes paid by farmers have been a large 
contributing cause to bankruptcies and 


foreclosures. He said that the tax is 
often one-third or one-half as great as 
the interest payment required on mort- 
gaged land, and it is reasonable to be- 
lieve that the cause of financial wrecks 
among farmers has been attributable 
to taxes as well as to heavy mortgages, 
and in the proportion that taxes bear 


_to interest charges. With farm income 


falling and promising to remain low 
for some time, taxes loom like a spectre 
over the farmers’ horizon, he said. 


‘An Illinois Editor 


On the Farm Bureau 


“The history of the Vermilion Coun- 
ty Farm Bureau illustrates the value of 
organization and co-operation of farm- 
ers,” declared the Danville Commercial- 
News in a recent editorial. ‘The in- 
dividual farmer stands alone. He ac- 
cepts what the stock buyer and the 
grain dealer choose to give him for his 
surplus stock and grain. He is at their 
mercy. Likewise he is at the mercy of 
those from whom he buys his supplies. 
His trade is not worth dickering over. 

“Acting in a body, the members of 
the Farm Bureau command the atten- 
tion of the big dealers, the wholesalers 
and the heavy buyers, and procure the 
best terms on the markets. This is true 
in buying fertilizer, farm machinery, 
seed grain and other supplies that every 
progressive farmer must have.  Like- 
wise it is true in selling farm products. 

“And a highly important work of 
organized agriculture is the influence it 
may wield in the matter of procuring 
favorable legislation, both state and na- 
tional. Members of congress and state 
legislatures, even the president and his 
cabinet, listen attentively to the ap- 
peals of farm organizations and enact 
legislation designed to meet their de- 
mands. Organized agriculture is a 
power to be reckoned with by legisla- 
tive bodies and administrative officers.” 


Donald Kirkpatrick, legal counsel for 
the I. A. A., was the principal speaker 
at the thirteenth annual meeting of the 
Edwards County Farm Bureau at Al- 
bion, December 16. Other speakers 
were F. E. Longmire and Mary Louise 
Chase, University of Illinois. 


Correction 


The monthly meeting of the board of 
directors, not the annual meeting of the 
Chicago Producers Commission Associa- 
tion will be held at Rockford on Tues- 
day, January 26, just prior to the an- 
nual meeting of the I. A. A. 

The annual meeting of the Chicago 
Producers will be held in March in Chi- 
cago as in previous years rather than 
at Rockford. 


Organization in Selling | 
And Buying, Farm Need 


Farmers Forced to Buy Co-Opera- 
tively to Cut Their Costs of 
Production 


Cee. upon recent devel- 
opments in co-operative purchas- 
ing of farm supplies before the Ver- 
milion County Farm Bureau December 
10, George E. Metzger, secretary of the 
Illinois Agricultural Association, de- 
clared that farmers were being forced 
into business in self defense. 


“No business can succeed by purchas- 
ing everything at retail and selling ev- 
erything at whole- 
sale, which is vir- 
tually what the 
American farmer is 
doing and has been 
doing for a consid- 
erable period of 
years,” he said. 

“A careful study 
of the commercial 
and semi-commercial 
projects of the Farm 
Bureau and the Illi- 
nois Agricultural 
Association will disclose that they are 


Geo. E. Metzger 


being set up on the chain principle. . 


Co-operation in agriculture had its be- 
ginning with the local co-operatives. 
They succeeded in cutting assembling 
expenses, but they cannot reach far 
enough into the markets to bring to 
the producer his fair share of the con- 
sumer’s dollar. 

“It takes wider organization than the 
local co-operative, and the solution is 
the merging of local co-operatives into 
state-wide and national sales aiid pur- 
chasing organizations. The farmer can- 
not be blamed for taking this step. He 
has learned it from business interests. 
Business has found co-operation and or- 
ganization to be advantageous and so 
will the American farmer find it so.” 

Regarding the extent to which the 
movement might develop, Mr. Metzger 
said, “The question is often asked, 


“Where is this movement going to stop?’ - 


Our answer is that whenever we find 
the margin made by distributors so 
wide as to work a hardship on pro- 
ducers of farm products you will un- 
doubtedly find the farmer getting into 
that line of business.” 


The Farmers National Grain Cor- 
poration is now getting from three- 
eighths to one-half of all the grain 
coming to the Peoria market, reports 
John Benson, manager of the Peoria 
office. There are about twenty firms 
buying grain on this market. 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Seven 


Social Justice Group Upholds Producers 


Commisssion’s Report Declares Contract of Pevely Dairy C o. “Indefensible,’ 


3 


States Issues of Controversy 


HE Social Justice Commission of St. 

Louis in response to an appeal from 
a religious leader, many of whose par- 
ishioners are members of the Sanitary 
Milk Producers Association who for- 
merly supplied milk to the Pevely Dairy 
Company, arranged conferences between 
representatives of the Pevely Dairy 
Company and the Sanitary Milk Pro- 
ducers Association. 

At these conferences it became evi- 
dent to all members of the Commission 
that all of the issues which precipi- 
tated the conflict could and should be 
arbitrated. The Sanitary Milk Pro- 
ducers Association agreed to arbitrate. 
The Pevely Company refused to arbi- 
trate. The Social Justice Commission 
did not propose that it would serve as 
an arbitration commission, but sug- 
gested some impartial group on which 
both sides could agree. 

As a result of these conferences, and 
as a result of research in the entire field 
of co-operative marketing of dairy 
products, the Commission issues this 
statement: 

States Issues 


I. That organizations similar to the 
Sanitary Milk Producers Associa- 
tion exist in many cities and func- 
tion satisfactorily. 

II. That such organizations are sanc- 
tioned by acts of congress and 
laws of Missouri and Illinois and 
are subject to legal control. 

III. That in communities where such 
organizations function, the price 
of milk is not higher than in com- 
munities where they do not exist. 
Differences in price are generally 
due to local conditions. 

IV. That the issues of the controversy 
are as follows: 


(A) A new contract issued by the Pevely 
Dairy Company on September 1, 1931, to mem- 
bers of the Sanitary Milk Producers Association, 
from whom it had been’ buying -milk, pre- 
cipitated the present “strike.” ‘This contract 
bound the farmer to supply his milk to the 
Pevely Company at a price which the com- 
pany assumed power to. fix. The farmer 
had no power even to cancel his contract. 
This contract seems to us to be ethically 
indefensible. Mr. Kerckhoff (president, Pevely 
Dairy Co.) has admitted that it was an error 
and he has given the farmer the privilege of 
cancellation, but the Pevely Company retains 
the power under the contract to set the price. 
Were it not for the protest of the farmers’ 
organization, even the privilege of cancellation 
might not have been extended. 


Request Is Just 


(B) The Pevely Company also refused to 
permit representatives of the Sanitary Milk Pro- 
ducers Association to check the butterfat con- 
tent of milk sold to it by members of the 
Association. The price of milk depends upon 
its butterfat content, which is determined in 
the first instance by the company at its -plant 
in the city. The Pevely Company is willing to 


permit each farmer to make his own check, but 
this is impractical for thousands of farmers. 
The request of the Sanitary Milk Producers is 
just and equitable, and the Pevely Company has 
conceded as much in writing. 

(C) The Sanitary Milk Producers Associa- 
tion has as its purpose collective bargaining on 
behalf of its members with the several distrib- 
utors of milk in St. Louis, Such collective bar- 
gaining has been carried on for more than a 
year with the other distributors, and the desire 
of the association to bring the Pevely Company 
into the plan presents a fundamental, though not 
the most immediate, issue in the controversy. 
The existing plan in no sense “draws a ring 
around St. Louis.” It permits the distributors 
to purchase as much milk as they please from 
any source, at any price not higher than that 
paid to members of the association. Moreover, 
the presence of consumers’ representatives at 
the price conferences, which is an integral part 
of the plan, is an important assurance to the 
public against extortion. We of the Social 
Justice Commission believe that the right 
to bargain collectively is an inalienable 
right of farmers as well as of workers and 
employers. That principle has been widely ap- 
proved. Among the religious bodies which 
have publicly approved it are: The Roman 
Catholic Church, through encyclicals or other 
official pronouncements by evety Pope begin- 
ning with Leo XIII, the Federal Council of 
Churches of Christ of America, the Central 
Conference of American Rabbis, and others. 


Pevely Is Wrong 


(D) Under the plan which is followed in 
the collective bargaining arrangement, a base 
price for a portion of the milk applied by each 
farmer is fixed by agreement, and the price for 
the remainder depends upon the Chicago but- 
ter market. The Pevely Company insists that 
a price which varies with the Chicago butter 
market is the only price to pay for all milk 
sold. This price is subject to short-time fluc- 
tuations and gives the farmer no assurance of 
stability such as prevails in the retail price of 
milk. The Sanitary Milk Producers have agreed 
to arbitrate the whole matter of price basis. 
It is not true that the price established by 
collective bargaining is independent of mar- 
ket forces, because necessarily it must be 
adjustd from time to time according to 
costs of production and market conditions. 
Similar plans are in effect in numerous of the 
larger cities of the country, in which the pres- 
ent retail price of milk varies from nine cents 
to fourteen cents per quart. The price paid 
by the dealers to farmers has been decreased 
twice under the collective bargaining plan in 
St. Louis. 


Does Not Approve Tax 


(E) Collection of dues in the association by 
the dealers through withholding them from the 
purchase price of milk, together with payment 
of a correspondingly reduced price for milk 
purchased from non-members, is objected to by 
the Pevely Company. ‘This practice his much 
to recommend it. The money appears to have 
been used for proper purposes. The Social Jus- 
tice Commission, however, does not approve of 
a virtual tax upon non-members of the asso- 
ciation. We believe the producers association 
skould yield this point, and they have already 
expressed willingness to arbitrate. 

(F) It has been charged that the Sanitary 
Milk Producers Association are engaged in rack- 
eteering. Violence against trucks and farmers 
supplying the Pevely Company has taken place. 


This violence is deplored by all parties to the 
controversy. We believe that the basic cause 
is a sense of social injustice which provokes some 
of its victims to reprehensible acts. 


Starkloff’s Moratorium 


V. That we regard the “moratorium” issued 
by Dr. Starkleff, which suspended one 
of the city’s sanitary milk regulations 
only for the Pevely Company, as un- 
justified, although it was declared in 
good faith. The Pevely Company was 
threatened with a shortage because of 
the “strike.” The city was threatened 
with a disturbance of not over one- 
fourth of its milk supply. There was a 
sufficient total quantity of milk with 
adequate means for distributing it, after 
some readjustment. Although the ac- 
tual quality of milk sold appears to have 
been safeguarded, this suspension was 
used ‘and is being used against the farm- 
ers’ organization. — 

It seems to be the intention of the Pevely 

Company to set up a new group of milk pro- 
ducers to replace members of the Sanitary Milk 
Producers Association with whom it formerly 
dealt. This is unjust to those who have 
expended large sums, partly at the urging 
of the Pevely Company itself, in order to 
be able to supply the city with milk. 
Not only is it bad social practice which ought 
to be unhesitatingly condemned but it leaves 
hundreds of families impoverished and socially 
embittered. The public must know that the 
milk producer-in many localities, although to 
a decreasing extent because of improvements in 
transportation, must sell his fluid to the dis- 
tributor who has a receiving station in his zone. 
He is more or less at the mercy of that com- 
pany. Unless he organizes with others, he must 
remain in the company’s power, because his in- 
vestments are on land in the company’s terri- 
tory. To deny him the right to bargain col- 
lectively is to force him to remain in this posi- 
tion. Against such a condition American farm- 
ers have the right to protest, and their protest 
should be heard with sympathy. 


Entitled to Justice 


The Social Justice Commission has sought in 
fairness to all and in behalf of the consumer, 
producer and distributor to bring about arbi- 
tration. It has sought to eliminate friction and 
emotional resentment. In that it has failed. 
The Pevely Company insists that there is noth- 
ing to arbitrate, that its present producers are 
satisfied. We are still concerned about the 
principle in the controversy and about the fate 
of the hundreds of producers and their depend- 
ent families who now have lost their market 
for fluid milk. They are entitled to justice. 
This statement is our summary of the issues 
as they appear to us. 

The report is signed by Professors FRANK 
J. BRUNO, PERCIVAL CHUBB, RALPH C. 
FLETCHER, RALPH FUCHS, CHAS. L. 
HODGE, JOSEPH KLAMON; by the follow- 
ing clergymen: DR. GEORGE A. CAMPBELL, 
D. R. CLARKE, DR. J. E. CROWTHER, 
FATHER RALPH GALLAGER, DR. GEORGE 
M. GIBSON, JR., DR. IVAN LEE HOLT, 
FATHER JOSEPH HUSSLEIN, RABBI FER- 
DINAND M. ISSERMAN, DR. M. ASHBY 
JONES, BISHOP WILLIAM SCARLETT, FA- 
THER THURBER M. SMITH, DR. JAY T. 
STOCKING, |RABBI SAMUEL THURMAN, 
DR. WOFFORD C. TIMMONS, FATHER 
RUSSELL WILBUR; and by Deans G. W. STE- 
PHENS, SIDNEY E. SWEET. 


Page Eight 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


January, 1932 


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samely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, political, 
end educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation, 
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Prediction Come True 


"] HE fact that 50,000 Illinois farmers turned 

out in spite of rain and muddy roads to attend 
some 60 County Farm Bureau Jubilee meetings 
the night of December 10 is convincing evidence 
that good cheer, confidence, and capacity to en- 
joy wholesome entertainment still abound on the 
farm. 

Although more than 150 rural banks in this 
state have closed their doors, hunger and want are 
almost unknown in farm communities. Money is 
tight, buying of almost everything except neces- 
sities has about dried up, but of such essentials as 
food, clothing, and shelter farmers are compara- 
tively well supplied. They are in a much better 
position to weather the economic storm than the 
majority of their 7,000,000 unemployed brethren 
now stalking the streets of the cities. 

With 40 per cent of the buying power of the 


country represented by rural communities virtu- 
ally out of the market, the farmer is using his 
most effective weapon in bringing down non- 
agricultural prices and distribution costs. There 
are signs that the gap between agricultural and 
other prices is gradually narrowing. 

When liquidation and readjustment has run its 
course farmers may be in a stronger economic 
position than at any time in the past decade. 
Perhaps the country now believes that it cannot 


maintain for any length of time business and 


industrial prosperity in the face of an unprosper- 
ous agriculture. At least farmers are getting some 
degree of satisfaction in seeing their predictions 
of former years come true. 


Who Is Crying “Wolf”? 


66" HE grain gamblers and their allies, who are 
fighting to ditch the Farm Board and the 
Agricultural Marketing Act, and any other law 
intended to help the farmer,” said Senator Capper, 
of Kansas, in a recent broadcast, “cry, “Take the 
Government out of business.’ That is simply the 
old cry of ‘Wolf’! The fact is they don’t want to 
take the Government out of business, except to 
take its support away from the. farm business. 
They still want to keep the Government in the 
banking business through the Federal Reserve 


Bank. They want to keep it in the railroad busi- 
ness through the guarantee of profits in the Esch-Cummins 
act. They want to keep it in the shipping business through 
the shipping act; they want above all, to keep it in industrial 
business through the tariff law. They want the protecting 
wing of the Government thrown around all of the business 
they are engaged in. But they don’t want it thrown around 
agriculture or oil—the two big industries of the West.” 


Ten Years Ago and Now 


EMBERSHIP returns from counties which have held 
regular or supplementary sign-up campaigns are very 
encouraging in view of the present level of farm prices. 
While deflation has gone farther than during the post-war 
depression of 1921-1922 which followed a period of un- 
precedented prosperity, greater confidence in the Farm Bu- 
reau is being manifested today than in the less trying times_ 
of a decade ago. PERE 
This is as it should be. The Farm Bureau in Illinois has» 
developed during the intervening period a broad service pro- 
gram of co-operative activities reflected in substantial money 
savings to members. There never was a time when the 
member received so many benefits for his annual dues as today. 
Ten years ago the I. A. A. was only fairly launched on its 
work. Membership then was sold largely on promises and 
things hoped for. While it is too much to say that every 
dream of the founders of the organization has been realized, 
yet the organization has demonstrated its usefulness, and 
today can be and is being sold on its accomplishments. 
Thinking farmers know that there is still more to be done 
than has yet..been achieved, particularly in the marketing 
field. The opportunity for achievement in that field alone 
will justify the united support of every farmer in Illinois 
behind the Farm Bureau. 


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(CERTAIN members of the grain ex- 
changes who are violently opposed 
to farmers organizing to market their 
own products have from time to time 
blamed the Farm Board and the Grain 
Stabilization Corporation for low prices 
of grain “because they have driven the 
speculator out of the market.” 


Let’s take a look at this assertion. 
Speculation in grain is more politely 
known as future trading. It is true 
that future trading has declined during 
the past year. The report of the Grain 
Futures Administration for the year 
ended June 30, 1931, reveals that future 
trading in grain on all of the contract 
markets combined aggregated 17,034,- 
201,000 bu. during the last fiscal year. 
This is the smallest volume since 1924, 
a striking decline from the 24,999,650,- 
000 bu. aggregate of 1929-1930. 


The greatest decline in the volume of 
trading occurred in wheat futures with 
total sales of 10,063,139,000 bu. This 
is nearly 50 per cent less than the spec- 
ulation in this grain for the year pre- 
vious, but exceeds the low record of 
1923-24 (when the Farm Board and 
stabilization were out of the picture) 
by about 38 per cent. “The decrease 
in volume of trading in wheat,” reports 
Mr. Duvel, chief of the Grain Futures 
Administration, “was due in part to in- 
creased speculativeginterest in corn as a 
result of much closer adjustment be- 
tween supply and demand for corn than 
for wheat. Stocks of wheat were abun- 
dant and burdensome, whereas the sup- 
ply of corn was abnormally short.” 


In spite of the substantial drop in 
futures trading, however, it was less 
than the decline of trading on the New 
York Stock Exchange. Speculation in 
grain dropped 32 per cent, while trad- 
ing in stocks declined 38 per cent. In- 
cidentally, listed stocks dropped far 
more in price than grain. The middle- 
men would have us believe the Farm 
Board and stabilization in wheat and 
cotton were responsible for that, too. 


Two stories were given wide publicity 
during the past year by agents of farm- 
er enemies in the grain trade to under- 
mine farmers’ confidence in co-operative 
marketing. Both of them are revealed 
as false by the Grain Futures Ad- 
ministration report. One which broke 
on September 23, 1930, concerns a 
telegram transmitted from Winnipeg to 
Chicago contained utterly false infor- 
mation relative to the alleged financial 
difficulties of the Canadian Wheat Pool. 


Tre Bell Syeters Booth where messages 
from the I, A. A. offices were received. 


Delegates attending the American 
Farm Bureau convention in Chicago 
December 7, 8 and 9 were supplied 
with the latest market news by daily 
teletypewriter direct from the I. A. A. 
offices in the Transportation Building 
to the Sherman Hotel. The news 
flashes were posted on bulletin boards 
as fast as they were received. A pri- 
vate line between the Department of 
Information and the A. T. & T. booth 
in the Sherman House was in use eight 
hours a day throughout the convention. 


Investigation disclosed, continues Mr. 
Duvel’s report, that the telegram was 
filed by tclephone with the Canadian 
Pacific Telegraph Co. in Winnipeg and 
dispatched to two futures commission 
houses in Chicago, and to the Liverpool 
Corn Exchange. The spurious message, 
purported to bear the signature of a 
prominent Winnipeg grain firm, and its 
contents were disseminated widely over 
the private telegraph wires of many 
Chicago commission houses before its 
spurious character became known. Al- 
though the authenticity of the telegram 
was denied before the opening of the 
market, buying confidence was greatly 
weakened and the dominant wheat fu- 
ture declined 244 cents for the day. A 
reward of $1,000 was offered for the 
identification of the person who filed 
the false telegram by the Winnipeg 
Grain Exchange. 


Our readers will remember that such 
papers as the Chicago Tribune and Chi- 
cago Journal of Commerce played up 
this false information as a blow to co- 
operative markéting. On another oc- 
casion the anti-farmer propagandists 
gave much publicity to the fact that 
Arthur Cutten, prominent grain trader 
of Chicago), and other bull speculators 
were joining the Winnipeg Grain Ex- 
change “because of government inter- 
ference with future trading in the 


United States.” On this point it is 
interesting to note the finding of the 
Royal Commission on Trading in Grain 
Futures headed by Sir Josiah Stamp, 
noted British economist. 


Said the commission: 

‘In some cases at least these new 
members had already been trading 
through the Winnipeg exchange, 
and membership entitled them to 
receive the benefit of the preferen- 
tial rates on commission accorded 
between members in their dealings 
on the exchange when acting on be- 
half of one another. The idea that 
it might be to escape regulation was 
inspired merely by inference from 
the fact that the list contained the 
name of a well-known speculaor. 
It transpired during the conversa- 
tions that his motives in joining the 
Winnipeg Exchange were solely for 
the purpose of entitling him to the 
lower rates referred to.” 


All of which indicates that enemies 
of farmer co-operation will not stop at 
spreading lies to weaken farmers’ faith 
in their own co-operative institutions. 
Such opponents have a selfish purpose. 
They fear that farmers will succeed in 
doing the job of marketing their own 
products better and at less cost than 
under the old system.—E. G. T. 


Milk Producers Discuss 
St. Louis Market Situation 


Approximately 30. to 40 representa- 
tives of milk bargaining associations in 
Illinois met at Bloomington Wednesday, 
December 16, to discuss their mutual 
problems. J. B. Countiss, dairy mar- 
keting director, represented the Illinois 
Agricultural Association. 

Among the managers present were 
Forrest Fairchild of the McLean County 
Milk Producers; Wilfred Shaw, Illinois 
Milk Producers Association, Peoria; and 
N. E. Armstrong of the Champaign 
County Milk Producers Association. 
Harry Blotts represented Decatur Milk 
Producers; G. E. Dickson, Pure Milk 
Association, Chicago; Archie McFed- 
eran, president, and C. Neureuther, the 
LaSalle-Peru Milk Producers. 

After hearing reports on the various 
markets, the group discussed the St. 
Louis situation and the controversy be- 
tween the Sanitary Milk Producers and 
the Pevely Dairy Company. It was 
generally agreed that the bargaining as- 
sociations and the I. A. A. should render 
every assistance possible to the organized 
dairymen of St. Louis in their effort to 
establish a sound milk marketing plan 
giving the producer as well as the con- 
sumers and distributors a voice in the 
St. Louis market. 


Page Ten . “THE I. A. A. RECORD January, 1932 


Getting Electricity to. 
Tenant Farmer, Is Aim 


Engineer Would Have Utilities Be 
Real Public Service Institutions 


LECTRIC service will have to be 

put on a basis which takes into 
consideration the tenant farmer before 
rural electrification can be developed to 
its fullest extent, according to L. J. 
Quasey, director of transportation for 
the I.-A. A. 

At present, he said, the electrification 
programs consider only the wealthier 
farm owner, who is able to pay the con- 
struction cost of lines or a high mini- 
mum charge. He pointed out that ap- 
proximately 43 per cent of the farms 
in the state are operated by tenants, 
many of whom cannot afford electric 
service under the present system. 

He showed that 15 to 60 per cent of 
urban consumers are minimum users, 
but the utility companies connect them 
without complaining. The practice has 
been to spend 100 to 200 times the 
monthly revenue to take on small users 
in town, but to take on a farmer the 
utilities as a rule will not spend more 
than 50 times the monthly revenue. 


Make More Business 

J. Howard Mathews, chief engineer 
for the Illinois Commerce Commission, 
has-stggested that when lines run past 
a tenant’s house he be given an oppor- 
tunity to ha service even though 
he cannot affor pay the same rates 
charged his neighbors. | 

“Such payments as he could make 
would be pure ‘velvet’ to the company,” 
Mathews told utility leaders recently. 
“This would help make the line pay 
even though the customer paid only a 
few dollars a month. Even if he does 
not bear his full share of the fixed costs, 
so long as the revenue from him ex- 
ceeds the operating costs, the rest of 
the farmers will profit by his being on 
the line. 

“As far back as I can remember the 
Commission has taken the position that 
as long as the whole is not a losing prop- 
osition and the utility is enjoying cer- 
tain monopolistic privileges in the com- 
munity, services should be rendered, al- 
though the immediate return from the 
specific extension does not pay its own 
way.” 

Mr. Quasey commends this plan and 
urges independent farmers to co-operate 
in extending electric service to tenants 
in their communities. Farmers who hold 
out against giving their tenant neigh- 
bors a lower rate are forcing themselves 
to pay more. The more business there is 
on’a line, the more beneficial it is to 
everyone, he declared. Farmers should 
also consider that electric service is like- 


ly to get better tenants, thus giving 
them better neighbors and improving 
the community. 


Farm Mortgage Situation 


HEN the full effects of the wheat 
and cotton situation commence to 
be realized foreclosures will doubtless 
increase and therewith will come in- 
creasing pressure to avoid them, writes 
George E. Anderson on “Delinquencies 
in Farm Mortgage Loans” in Barron’s. 
“What the effect of any such action 
would be on the $1,717,347,740 in 
Land Bank bonds now in the hands of 
investors need not be discussed, since 
both the Farm Loan Board and a safe 
majority in the two houses of congress 
will doubtless prevent any interference 
with the orderly operation of the Land 
Bank System. 

“That the farm-mortgage-foreclosure 
situation may become serious before the 
year is out, however, is apparent from 
the increasing delinquencies in the re- 
payment of loans, increased real estate 
holdings by the banks, and other evi- 
dences of forced liquidation of loans in 
the several varieties of Land Banks. 

“The total delinquencies are but a 
small proportion of the loans placed by 
the banks, and cannot be taken as im- 
pairing in any similar degree the safety 
of the bonds of the Federal Land Banks 
or of those Joint Stock Land Banks 
which heve been well managed and have 
been safely weathering the storm raging 
about them for the past five years.” 


Use Cotton Cloth for 
Letterheads in South 


Numerous ideas have been suggested 
for developing new uses for cotton since 
the slump in prices, but the most prac- 
tical appears to be its use for business 
and advertising letterheads. First intro- 
duced as a novelty, cotton cloth letter- 
heads have become popular in the East 
and South and in a short tithe have ac- 
counted for the use of more than 3,000,- 
000 yards of cotton cloth. A 500-pound 
bale of cotton will produce about 40,- 
000 letterheads of ordinary size. Cotton 
menu cards have been adopted by south- 
ern railways. 


Great Britain Abandons 
Free Trade for Tariffs 


A bill authorizing the imposition of 
a 100 per cent tariff on manufactured 
goods from all foreign countries for the 
next six months was passed recently by 
the House of Commons. British farm- 
ers will seek early legislation. to protect 
them with substantial tariffs against 
imported farm products. 


National Fruit and 
Vegetable Exch. Growing 


Rio Grande Vegetable Assn. and 
Florida Truck Growers Con- 
tract for Sales Service 


HE Rio Grande Vegetable Co- 

operative Association of Westlaco, 
Texas, is the latest producers’ organi- 
zation to join the National Fruit and 
Vegetable Exchange. The new organi- 
zation will receive full sales service, 
which includes shipping point as well 
as terminal service 
from the national 
body. A. B. Leeper, 
president of the Na- 
tional, announced 
that a salesman will 
be kept at Westlaco 
throughout the vege- 
table shipping season 
which lasts for 
approximately six 
months. The Florida 
Truck Growers’ Ex- 
change has contract- 
ed for sales service at the terminals 
only. - 

The National Exchange recently es- 
tablished its headquarters on the 12th 
floor of the Transportation building, 
Chicago, in the space formerly occu- 
pied by the Mid-West Grain Corpora- 
tion. The latter was bought out by the 
Farmers National Grain Corporation 
September 1. 

Officers and directors of the National 
Exchange are: A. B. Leeper, president 
(general manager, Illinois Fruit Grow- 
ers’ Exchange, Centralia) ; H. L. Robin- 
son, vice-president (general manager, 
Hastings Potato Growers’ Association, 
Hastings, Fla.); F. P. Hibst, secretary- 
treasurer (general manager, Michigan 
Potato Exchange, Cadillac, Mich.) ; 
T. W. Bennett, director (general man- 
ager, South Carolina Produce Associa- 
tion, Macon, S. C.); Walter W. Maule, 
director (secretary, Mushroom Growers’ 
Co-operative Association of Pennsyl- 
vania, Kennett Square, Pa.); C. L. 
Hunter, director (president, Rio Grande 
Vegetable Co-operative Association, 
Westlaco, Texas); Dudley Bagley, di- 
rector (North Carolina Fruit and Vege- 
table Exchange, Moyock, N. C.); 
C. V. Cochran, director (Kaw Valley 
Potato Growers’ Association, Topeka, 
Kan.) ; Lee M. Lampson, director (man- 
ager, Three Rivers Growers’ Associa- 
tion, Kennewick, Wash.). 

Mr. Leeper, who is now spending 


A. B. Leeper 


about half his time on business of the — 


National Exchange, reports that ap- 
proximately 60 per cent of the perish- 
ables marketed east of the Mississippi 
River are now sold through chain stores. 


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Job of Rural Pastor to 
Co-operate with Farmer 


Father Nell of Effingham County 
Sees Need of Arousing Farmer 
To Action 


 Ohrtnkegrnd- ais between the par- 
ish and the Farm Bureau is a prac- 
tical parish activity and will in no way 
detract from the religious leadership of 
the pastor, declared Rev. George M. 
Nell, director of parish activities ser- 
vice, Effingham, Illinois, at the second 
National Farm Women’s Conference in 
Chicago December 4. 

He said that the big job in improving 
the condition of the farmer today is 
to arouse him to ac- 
tion, cand it is here 
that the thousand 
rural parishes scat- 
tered throughout the 
country have an op- 
portunity to furnish 
much of the needed 
equipment, power 
and leadership. 

“It is a wonderful 
opportunity,” Father 
Nell said, ‘and we 
will be hurting our- 
selves and our cause, as well as holding 
back the farmers’ progress, if the rural 
churches fail to act.” 

Pointing to the Farm Bureau as the 
strongest and most widespread of the 
farm organizations, he said: “It is the 
farmer’s own organization, organized 
into county units which the farmer can 
locally control and dominate. These 
county units are in turn organized into 
state agricultural associations, controlled 
by County Farm Bureau delegates. 
These state units are organized into the 
American Farm Bureau Federation, con- 
trolled by state delegates. 

Father Nell is emphatic in his belief 
that religion will not suffer through 
this type of parish activity. ‘The peo- 
ple will follow the religious leadership 
of their pastor all the closer for enthu- 
siastically following him in outside mat- 
ters,” he explained. ‘Furthermore, the 
pastor’s religious leadership will be im- 
proved through the practice he gets in 
these non-religious affairs. Besides, his 
viewpoint will be broadened, and he 
will understand his people better as they 
understand him better.” 


Father Nell 


An increase in butter production in 
Canada, virtual cessation of Canadian 
exports of cream and milk to the 
United States, and the higher Canadian 
tariff on butter are the latest develop- 
ments in the dairy world, according to 
the U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Eco- 
nomics. 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Postoffice Salaries 


Editor, I. A. A. RECORD: 

For many years the postal employees as well 
as many other public officials and employees 
have been paid unnecessarily high salaries at the 
expense of needy and oppressed people. Now 
that the depression is on it seems that these 
salaries should be greatly reduced, as living costs 
also have been cut. 

But we are told now by the postmaster- 
general that we have a huge deficit and recom- 
mends that the postal rates be raised to take 
care of this and keep others from occurring. 

Now if these postal employees were being 
properly paid there never would have been a 
deficit. Why not reduce these salaries to the 
proper level and let a surplus instead of a deficit 
exist? Both political parties have been to blame 
for this waste of money and both should now 
unite in this salary reduction and keep down 
any further*rate increases and let this be a 
government of, for and by the people. I believe 
that all farm organizations and farm papers 
should get busy and demand this reform. 

F, J. McNar. 

Hamilton County, Il. 


Farmer Must Educate 
City People: Dr. Holt 


Secret of Prosperity Is to Keep 
Farmer Able to Buy Goods 


G Bisiog problem of the farmer today is 
that of educating city people to the 
needs and rights of agriculture in the 
affairs of the nation, declared Dr. A. E. 
Holt of the Chicago Theological Sem- 
inary at the National Farm Women’s 
Conference in Chicago, December 4. 

“It may be that the inability of the 
American farmer to buy will reveal to 
the city man that the formula for his 
prosperity is to keep the farmer able to 
buy his goods,” he suggested, ‘and that 
prosperity comes when men get rich to- 
gether and not off of each other.” 

Organization activities along the lines 
advocated by the Farm Bureau should 
be developed, Dr. Holt declared. “These 
organized rural communities, thorough- 
ly democratic, completely co-operative 
and possessed with the spirit of com- 
mon welfare, should be given every en- 
couragement,” he said. 

Dr. Holt insisted that the farmer’s 
right to market his goods should paral- 
lel the laborer’s right to dispose of labor, 
a true self-determination being accorded 
to both. It is their right to market sur- 
plus labor and surplus farm products in 
an orderly manner. 

“No attempt at industrialized farm- 
ing which does not conserve all the hu- 
man value of agriculture along with the 
more efficient production of crops, 
should be favored,” he said. 

Dr. Holt summarized the problem be- 
fore American Agriculture today as 
first of all the development of 4 
planned program, and second, such a 
vigorous education of public opinion 
that the nation will accept it. 


Page Eleven 


How to Improve Farm 
Home and Community 


Chief Subject Discussed at National 
Farm Women’s Conference, 


Chicago 


A SURVEY of the American farm 
home, its surrounding community 
and how to improve them was the gen- 
eral subject considered at the two-day 
National Farm Women’s Conference 
held in connection with the American 
Farm Bureau Federation convention in 
Chicago December 4 and 5. 

In addition to the long list of Farm 
Bureau officials who appeared on the 
program, talks covering various angles 
of the subject were made by C. A. 
Cobb, editor of the Progressive Farmer, 
Atlanta; Dr. Arthur E. Holt, Chicago 
Theological Seminary; Reverend Father 
George Nell of Effingham, Illinois; John 
Callahan, superintendent of education, 
Wisconsin; Ella Gardner, Children’s 
Bureau, U. S. Department of Labor; 
Mrs. John E. Gardner of the Frontier 
Nursing Service; Mrs. C. V. Biddle, 
Knoxville, Tennessee; Mrs. Spencer 
Ewing, Bloomington, and others. 

Mrs. Biddle, who is active in musical 
work in her home state and an accom- 
plished singer and song leader, spoke on 
the subject, ““Community Chorus Work 
in Tennessee.” She is a sister of President 
Earl C. Smith. Mrs. Biddle led com- 
munity singing during the women’s 
conference, served as one of the judges 
of the quartette contest, and sang sev- 
eral solos during the A. F. B. F. con- 
vention the following week. 

Secretary George E. Metzger of the 
I. A. A. appeared on the women’s con- 
ference program Saturday morning to 
discuss how improvements in the rural 
community can be brought about 
through organization. George Thiem, 
director of publicity, told how adver- 
tising and publicity might be used more 
effectively to gain the desired ends. 

The women’s conference was organ- 
ized by Mrs. Charles W. Sewell, director 
of home and community work for the 
A. 'F. B. F. It was well attended by 
both men and women. 


A committee representing the Adams 
County Shippers’ Association recently 
visited the livestock marketing concen- 
tration points at Danville, Champaign 
and Decatur to get a view of the new 
marketing system in operation. Several 
counties are considering the reorganiza- 
tion of their marketing..machinery on 
the concentration point plan. At pres- 
ent there are ten ‘counties in the state 
organized or being organized on this 
basis. 


Page Twelve 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


January, 1932 


MN ilk PP ices 


(For December, based on 3.5% milk unless 
otherwise specified.) 

Baltimore—Maryland State Dairy- 
men’s Association announces Class I 
basic $2.84 per cwt., f. 0. b. city. Re- 
tail 12c. November Class II price was 
19c per gallon, 4% milk, f. o. b. city. 

Milwaukee—Milwaukee Co-Opera- 
tive Milk Producers announces Class I 
basic $2.20. Retail 9c. Cash and carry 
6c. Price of fluid milk reduced from 
$2.50 to $2.20 effective Dec. 1, 1931. 

Pittsburgh—The Dairymen’s Co- 
Operative Sales Co. announces Class I 
basic $1.70 del’d, $1.10 country pt. 
Class II manufactured $1.44 del’d, 
$1.05 country pt. Retail 9c. Cash 
and carry 7c. 

DeKalb—Milk Consumers Associa- 
tion announces Class I basic $2.32 
del’d. Class III butter 92 Chicago score 
market. Retail 11%4c. Cash and carry 
10%2c. All customers subject to a 10% 
discount if accounts are paid on or be- 
fore the 27th of each month. 

Quincy—Quincy Co-Operative Milk 
Producers Association announces Class 
I basic $1.95. Retail 10c.. Cash and 
carry 8c. 

Rock Island and Davenport — 
Quality Milk Association announces 
Class I basic approximately $1.85. 

Chicago—Pure Milk Association an- 
nounces Class I basic $2.32 country 
pt. Retail 13c. Cash and carry 8c. 


NOVEMBER PRICES 
Philadelphia—Inter-State Milk Pro- 


ducers’ Association announces Class I 
basic $2.96. Class II, all milk in ex- 
cess of basic, $1.78. Retail 11c. 
Peoria—lIllinois Milk Producers As- 
sociation announces Class I basic $2.13 
f. o. b. Peoria. Class II manufactured 
$1.46. Class III surplus $1.04. Retail 
9 and 10c. Cash and carry 10c. Pro- 
ducers received the following net prices 
after deducting Illinois Milk Producers 
Association dues for 3.5% milk in No- 
vember: Basic $2.08—surplus $1.21. 
Bloomington—McLean County Milk 
Producers Association announces Class 
I basic $1.70 del’d. Class II manufac- 
tured $1.56. Class III surplus $1.48. 
Class Ila $1.67. Retail 934c. 
Pontiac—Pontiac Milk Producers As- 
sociation announces Class I basic 
$1.92Y,. Class II manufactured $1.26. 
Retail 10c. Cash and carry 8c. 
Decatur—Decatur Milk Association 
announces Class I basic $1.86 del’d. 
Class II manufactured $1.49. Class III 
surplus 92c del’d. Retail 10c. Cash 
and carry 8c. 


Champaign and Urbana—Cham- 
paign County Milk Producers an- 
nounces Class I basic $2.18 f. o. b. city. 
Class II manufactured $1.68. Class III 
$1.44. 
Retail and cash and carry 1lc. 

Chicago—Pure Milk Association an- 
nounces November Class II $1.26. 
Class III $1.04. ' 

Milwaukee—Milwaukee Co-Opera- 
tive Milk Producers announces $1.14 
for all surplus Class II manufactured. 

New York—Dairymen’s League Co- 
Operative Association, Inc., announces 
a basic net pool price of $1.71 per 100 
Ibs. for 3.5 milk at the 201-210 mile 
zone. 


Farm Bureau Membership 
Holding Up Well: Metzger 


NCREASED Farm Bureau member- 
ship in many Illinois counties dur- 
ing 1931, in spite of low farm prices, 
was reported by Secretary George E. 
Metzger, following a recent state-wide 
check-up. Approximately 50 counties 
held membership campaigns during the 
year. 

The LaSalle County Farm Bureau re- 
cently signed up 923 members within 
a few days through the efforts of 200 
volunteer solicitors. Mr. Metzger esti- 
mated that membership in the county 
would surpass last year’s total when the 
campaign is completed. 

Farm Adviser S. G. Turner reported 
that a supplemental membership drive 
in Livingston county had brought in 
120 new members. In Montgomery a 
similar campaign resulted in a 110 per 
cent increase in one township and 100 
per cent increases in several others, H. 
H. Walker, district organization mana- 
ger, reported. More than 60 members 
were added in Edgar county. In White- 
side county early returns showed 554 
members signed with 12 townships still 
incompletely canvassed. 

Seventy-three of the 94 County Farm 
Bureaus in Illinois are now on the con- 
tinuing membership plan. Under this 
plan membership in the organization 
continues indefinitely until the member 
cancels by giving notice in writing dur- 
ing the last 60 days of the year. 

“The broad service program of the 
Farm Bureau in Illinois is being appre- 
ciated more and more each year,” said 
Mr. Metzger. “The development of co- 
operative activities has been such that 
members not only receive the indirect 
benefits which come from having a 
strong and vigorous organization to 
fight for their rights, but also the many 
direct savings and cash returns which 
more than equal the small annual mem- 


bership fee.” 


Class IV butter mfg. $1.05. 


Railroads Want More 
Cash for Livestock Haul 


I. A. A. Will Oppose Increase When 
Case Comes Before State Com- 
merce Commission 


ROPOSED increases in rail rates on 
livestock in 30 western and northern 
Illinois counties would place an addi- 
tional freight burden estimated at more 
than half a million dollars on livestock 
producers annually in that territory. 
**This proposal is entirely out of line 
with current livestock prices and will 
be opposed by the 
Illinois Agricultural 
Association when it 
comes before the II- 
linois Commerce 
Commission for a 


Quasey, director of 
transportation. 

“Present freight 
rates which have re- 
mained unchanged 
while livestock prices 
have declined 50 per 
cent or more since 1929, are equiva- 
lent to an increase in rates. Where, in 
1929, the farmer paid a little over two 
per cent of the sales price for freight, 
the proposed increase coupled with the 
present price level would take between 
six and seven per cent of his receipts.” 

The counties affected by the proposed 
increase are north and west of the line 
from Chicago to Pekin, from Pekin to 
Ferris, and from Ferris to Burlington. 
This includes many of the leading live- 
stock producing counties in the state 
and would cost some counties as much 
as $25,000. 

“It is doubtful if the railroads would 
benefit from the increase even if the 
state commerce commission should ap- 
prove their petition,” said Mr. Quasey. 
“A large amount of livestock is already 
being trucked out of this area. We are 
of the opinion that any addition to rates 
would tend to increase trucking rather 
than increase the revenue of the rail- 
roads.” 

Following are figures from five rep- 
resentative shipping points showing pro- 
posed increased charges per carload of 
livestock shipped to Chicago: from 
Aledo, Mercer county, an increase of 
$15.40 per car on cattle, $10.73 on 
hogs, and $3.60 on sheep; from Gales- 
burg, Knox county, $14.30 on cattle, 
$10.73 on hogs, and $3.00 on sheep; 
from Stronghurst, Henderson county, 
$16.50 on cattle, $12.38 on hogs, and 
$5.40 on sheep; from Annawan, Henry 
county, $14.30 on cattle, $9.08 on hogs, 
and $1.80 on shep; from Monmouth, 
Warren county, $15.40 on cattle, 
$10.73 on hogs, and $3.60 on sheep. 


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Too Much Spread in Live 
And Dressed Meat Price 


The high cost of distribution which 
represents the many charges between the 
livestock market and the retail counter 
where the consumer buys the finished 
product, is an important factor in the 
present unduly low prices of cattle, hogs 
and sheep, according to H. M. Conway, 
statistician for the National Livestock 
Marketing Association. : 

“The tendency for packers and re- 
tailers to maintain past charges makes 
it necessary for them to take a. much 
greater proportion of the consumer’s 
dollar, thus making the present spread 
between the producer and consumer the 
widest on record,” said Conway. “With 
free competition between foods, the con- 
sumer will pay only so much for the 
supply of meat available, with the result 
that the producer is now carrying the 
increased burden in the form of lower 
livestock prices. 

“A similar change took place in 1920 
and continued during the past 10 years. 
The further widening that is‘now tak- 
ing place means continued agricultural 
depression with greater intensity.” 


Henry County Members 
Split a $13,386 Melon 


§ bse third fiscal year of Henry 
-County Supply Company closed Sep- 
tember 30. The sales for the period 
exceed those of the preceding year by 
a good margin and total $98,314.24. 
The gain in sales of the different prod- 
ucts ranges from 25% to 35%, accord- 
ing to a report given to the stockhold- 
ers of the company on December 5 by 


_R. T. Ferguson, manager. 


A 7% preferred stock dividend and a 
15% patronage refund, totaling some 
$13,386.49, have been paid to the Farm 
Bureau members of Henry ‘County. 
George F. Hayes is president of the 
company. 


Drive 10,000 Miles and 
Save Farm Bureau Dues 


From figures compiled by several 
service companies in the state, it is 
shown that the average Farm Bureau 
member who has a tractor and an auto- 
mobile, or who has no tractor but drives 
an automobile as. much as 10,000 miles 
a year, received more from 1931 patron- 
age refunds on petroleum products than 
his Farm Bureau dues cost him. 

The Shelby-Effingham Service Com- 
pany reports that the average patron 
this year made purchases amounting to 
$192.50. Some: of the service com- 
panies refunded as much as 24 per cent 
of the total receipts from Farm Bureau 
members. 


NOTICE nae 
ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 
ASSOCIATION 
ELECTION OF DELEGATES 


OTICE is hereby given that in connection 

with the annual meetings of all County 
Farm Bureaus to be held during the months 
of January‘ and February, 1932, at the hour 
and place to be determined by the Board of 
Diréctors of each respective County Farm 
Bureau, the members in good standing of 
such County Farm Bureau and who are 
also qualified voting members of [Illinois 
Agricultural Association shall elect a dele- 
gate or delegates to répresent such members 


of Illinois Agricultural Association and vote | 


on all matters before the next annual meet- 
ing or any special meeting of the Associa- 
tion, including ‘the election of officers and 
directors as provided for in the by-laws of 
the Association. 

During January annual meetings will be 
held in Carroll, Cook, Douglas, Fulton, 
Franklin, Greene, Knox, Lake, McHenry, 
Macon, Mercer, Peoria, Sangamon, Tazewell, 
Whiteside, and Woodford counties. 

During February annual meetings will 
be held in Mason, Will and DeKalb counties. 

Jan. 1, 1932. 

Signed, 


G. E. METZGER, Secretary. 


Farm Crop Values Drop 
49 Per Cent in Two Years 


- Based on December 1 prices, the total 
value of the crops produced in the 
United States in 1931 was estimated on 
December 16 by the U. S. Department 
of Agriculture at. $4,122,850,000 com- 
pared with $5,818,820,000 in 1930. 

The decline in crop values compared 
with two years ago is nearly $4,000,- 
000,000, or 49 per cent. 

The decrease is shared by practically 
all crops. About $1,043,000,000 of 
the decrease is in corn, $854,000,000 
in cotton and cottonseed, $446,000,- 
000 in wheat, $386,000,000 in hay, 
$263,000,000 in potatoes, $220,000,000 
in oats and $130,000,000 in tobacco. 


Move to Unite Counties 


There is a movement in Minnesota to 
unite some of the smaller counties to 
reduce the expense of local government. 
This movement is also gaining a follow- 
ing in Illinois. 

Commenting on the proposal an edi- 
torial in Commercial West says in part: 
“The idea is commendable. There are a 
number of areas in Minnesota where 
adjoining counties could well be united 
and the saving would be of large extent 
if the movement grows to proportions. 
Unwieldy counties, of course, should 
not be created, but’whete the counties 
are small the plan should work out satis- 
factorily to all concerned.” 


Uncle’ Ab says that most of us 
think that a man who is different 
must be wrong. 


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l. A. Auditing Association 
Makes 360 Reports in ‘31 


Complete 20 Per Cent More Audits 
This Year Than Last 


HE yearly growth of. the Illinois 

Agricultural Auditing | Association 
indicates that Illinois farmers are oper- 
ating their co-operatives and county 
Farm Bureaus more and more on a 
sound financial basis made possible by 
regular and thorough audits. 


An average of one account a day, or 
approximately 360 accounts, were au- 
dited by the Association during 1931, 
compared with 303 
for the year before. 
This is an increase of 
20 per cent. The 
Auditing Association 
serves only organiza- 
tions with an agri- 
cultural connection, 
such as farmers’ 
grain elevators, farm- 
ers’ oil companies, 
marketing  associa- 
tions, and general farm organizations. 
It operates on a cost basis. 


The fact that the auditing and 
business service was the first subsidiary 
organized by the I. A. A. indicates the 
importance attached to the use of 
standard business methods in farmers’ 
organizations from the very beginning. 
Even before the Association was 
formed in 1924, the I. A. A. offered 
auditing services to Farm Bureaus. 

The Association now acts as purchas- 
ing agent for accounting supplies de- 
sired by member companies, and offers 
an advisory service on problems of ac- 
counting. 

“Our big problem, like that of other 
auditing companies, is to get a proper 
distribution of accounts throughout the 
year,” said F. E. Ringham, manager. 
“We have busy months and light 
months, making it difficult to maintain 
a full staff all the year. However, we 
have been. working toward the point 
when we can get the fiscal closings of 
our member companies distributed even- 
ly over the year.” 

The number of accounts audited by 
months during 1931 shows the varia- 
tion: January, 67; February, 34; March, 
25; April, 19; May, 17; June, 22; July, 
25; August, 27; September, 21; Octo- 
ber, 35; November, 27, and December, 
41 (estimated). 


F. E. Ringham 


The time to sell the unprofitable 
cow is when she is found to be un- 
profitable; and she should be sold 
to the butcher. 


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Bureau services, 
each one an impor- 
tant link toward 
farm equality. 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Link YOUR Farm 
to Your FARM BUREAU 


Buy Life Insurance 
From Your 
Own Company 


I A. A.-Farm Bureau Service provides 
* thru Country Life Insurance Company 
low cost insurance giving you every safe- 
guard. A Country Life policy offers an 
exclusive advantage of insurance rates so 
low that no longer need any farm family 
be without the protection it affords. 
Among other advantages, a Country Life policy 


offers you: 


Money for old age income; 


Money to cover doctor bills, hospital and 
funeral expenses; 


Money to cover debt emergency; 


Money to create an estate, to educate 
your children, to take care of your fam- 
ily in time of trouble. 


You Gain Because 60,000 Are 


Working Together 


‘THROUGH the strength of cooperation, life 
insurance cost is kept down to the lowest pos- 
ible point. Remember too—the premiums you 
pay for your Country Life policy are not expense. 
Month by month, year by year, they accumulate 
to your credit, with a constantly growing ca 
or loan value. Profits in Country Life are re- 
turned to policy holders in the form of dividends 
—an additional help toward lowering your in- 
surance protection. 


In Country Life Insurance Co. :— 
1. Your rates can never be increased. 
2. Your claim is always sure to be paid 
' at death. 
3. At maturity your cash is certain to 
be paid to you. 
4. Legal reserve life insurance is the 
one outstanding safe place to put 
your money. 


See your local Country Life agent of write for 
the clear and simple explanation of this modern 
insurance investment. 


ILLINOIS 
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 


—end— 
Ninety- Five Affiliated County Farm Bureaus , 
608 So. Dearborn Street Chicago, Illinois 


ORGANIZED WORLD 


Ss 
CAN DO NOTHING ALONE 


January, 1932 


Court Upholds Hyde in 


St. Louis Livestock Case 


A decision of a special court filed in 
East St. Louis the middle of December 
upheld the order of Secretary of Agri- 
culture Arthur M. Hyde suspending 43 
old-line livestock commission firms at 
the National Stock Yards, accused of 
boycotting two co-operative organiza- 
tions. 

The commission firms had appealed 
to the Federal Court after Secretary 
Hyde directed that their trading licenses 
be suspended for ninety days. The 
court at Danville rejected each conten- 
tion of the dealers and upheld the con- 
stitutionality of both. Packers and Stock 
Yards Act of 1921 and the Agricul- 
tural Marketing Act under which the 
Federal Farm Board was created. 

It ruled the proceedings upon which 
Secretary Hyde’s order was based were 
not irregular; that they did not violate 
the dealers’ constitutional\ rights; and 
that the order was neither ynreasonable, 
discriminatory, nor confiscatory. 


John Miller Tells About 
St. Louis Milk War on WLS 


A Nese E. MILLER, president of the 
Madison County Farm Bureau, told 
about the dairymen’s fight for a square 
deal in the St. Louis milk shed, on radio 
station WLS, December 8, during the 
noon hour. 

He discussed the constructive pro- 
gram of the Sanitary Milk Producers 
and the fact that all interests except 
one dealer, the Pevely Dairy Company, 
are co-operating to give the St. Louis 
consumer high-quality milk at a mod- 
erate price. 

_ Comparing the organized farmers’ ef- 
fort to gain a fair price for his product 


/ to an army fighting for political justice, 


he said: “tA deplorable condition we 
must admit does exist. All armies have 
traitors. There are men who have joined 
the ranks and then turned their backs 
on their own organization—on their 
own people who are trying so hard to 
gain for them the right to market their 
products co-operatively. 

“These are the men who joined \the 
organization and are now selling milk to 
the Pevely Dairy Company. It is un- 
thinkable that some of our farmers to- 
day do not have any more co-operative 
spirit than to leave the rank and file of 
their own organization and work against 
everything the rest of us are fighting 
so hard to gain.” 


The Schuyler County Farm Bureau 
distributed more than twice as much 
anti-hog cholera serum and virus to 
members in 1931 than in any previous 
year. 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


l. A. A. Claims Dept. 
Collects $3,000 for I Man 


LLINOIS Farm Bureau saiisabinds have 
received an average of $50 a day in 
claim settlements every day for 12 
years through the claims department of 
the I. A. A. 
Since 1920 when this service was in- 
augurated as a part of the transporta- 
tion department, a total of $238,233.61 


_ has been collected in claims and returned 


to members. Up to December 1 $19,- 
420.82 had been collected for members 
in 1931. These claims include loss and 
damage, and overcharge. Claims are 
handled for members of the Chicago 
Producers, as well as Farm Bureau 
members. 

A. E. Adams, assistant manager of 
the Sycamore Sheep Feeding Yards, in 
a recent letter to the I. A. A. wrote: 

““We wish to express our appreciation 
of the service rendered us by your trans- 
portation department both through the 
Chicago Producers and the I. A. A. 

“During the past three or four years 
this department has repeatedly  col- 
lected claims from the railroads for us 
that would have been a complete loss. 
We have kept no track of the amounts, 
but feel certain they will run over 
$3,000. One thousand of this was col- 
lected recently on some sheep billings 
from the West. 

““We believe that this service to your 
members should receive its just due and 
be continued, as it certainly is a valuable 
part of your service.” 


Cream Pools in White Co. 
Make Members Money 


HE White County Produce Asso- 

ciation through its two units at 
Norris City and Enfield handled more 
than 152,000 pounds of butterfat dur- 
ing the year ending December 1, re- 
ports F. A. Gougler, director of pro- 
duce marketing for the I. A. A. The 
combined patronage refunds of the two 
units since they were organized totals 
more than $6,400. 

The Norris City: unit has just com- 
pleted two and one-half years of oper- 
ation. It now has 266 members, which 
is an increase of 23 per cent in the last 
year. This unit marketed a total of 
92,999.9 pounds of butterfat, an in- 
crease of approximately 30 per cent 
over a year ago. 

Since starting, the Norris City unit 
has made patronage refunds to its mem- 
bers totaling $4,481.28, or approximate- 
ly $4 per cow represented. O. S. Hos- 
kins of Norris City received a refund 
of $79.65 for the past four months. 
The operating costs are now slightly 
more than 2 cents a pound. 


The Enfield unit is still less than two 
years old and has 174 members, an in- 
crease of 15 per cent over a year ago. 
A total of 59,048.5 pounds of butter- 
fat went through the co-operative last 
year. The unit has made patronage re- 
funds totaling $1,919.99 since it began 
operations. Handling costs are approxi- 
mately 3 cents a pound. 


Five Year Plan for 
Cream Marketing Urged 


A five-year plan in cream marketing 
was urged by F. A. Gougler, director 
of produce marketing for the I. A. A., 
at the annual meeting of the Hender- 
son County Produce Association at 
Stronghurst November 16. 

“We must not only see to the devel- 
opment of our local association,” he 
said, “but we must look forward to the 
development of a state sales agency 
which will market Illinois butterfat to 
net the producer a fair price.” 

He showed from the experience of 
some of the older associations that the 
produce marketing program has already 
narrowed the spread between the local 
buying price and the Chicago butter 
quotations. 


Soybean Growers Get 
Second Advance on Crop 


More than $55,000 has been distrib- 
uted to Illinois soybean growers as a 
second advance on the 1931 crop han- 
dled by the Soybean Marketing Asso- 
ciation. 

An initial advance of 20 cents per 
bushel was made to member growers 
for No. 2 beans upon delivery to the 
contracting elevators. The second ad- 
vance brought the total up to 24 cents 
per bushel. The Association’s volume 
of soybeans for the 1931 crop has al- 
ready exceeded the amount handled in 
1930. Membership this year is more 
than 4,000. 

The entire volume of beans handled 
by the co-operative during the year was 
marketed on a profit-sharing basis with 
one of the leading processors. Under 
this arrangement members participate 
in the earnings from the merchandising 
of soybean oil and soybean oil meal 
throughout the normal movement pe- 
riod of these products. Thus, they are 
benefited by any increase in prices on 
these products. 

Christian county leads Illinois in 
soybean products with Champaign 
county second. More than half of the 
state’s estimated production of 6,000,- 
000 bushels for 1931 will be used for 
seed and feed. The remainder will be 


processed. 


Sam Thompson Tells. | 
What Marketing Needs 


UFFICIENT volume, adequate credit 
and proper adjustment of produc- 
tion are the three things most essential 
for the complete realization of the co- 
operative marketing program, declared 
Sam H. Thompson, member of the 
Federal Farm Board, at the annual 
meeting of the American Farm Bureau 
Federation in Chicago, December 8. 


Notwithstanding adverse conditions, 
co-operative marketing has grown rap- 
idly during the past two years, he said. 


“This showing has been made during 
a period when raw material prices 
throughout the world fell to levels rep- 
resenting the lowest buying price ever 
recorded for industrial products,” con- 
tinued Mr. Thompson. 


“By availing themselves of the facili- 
ties provided in the Agricultural Mar- 
keting Act, farm groups are being 
brought into step with large-scale busi- 
ness, and consequently are able to sup- 
port business management and ex- 
change the products of their members 
on a strictly service basis, gradually but 
surely attaining marketing advantages 
that farmers have fought for for half 
a century. 


“It is an advantage to both buyers 
and sellers to have organizations capable 
of delivering any amount, grade or 
quality at any time or place. Such 
sales service provides broader outlets 
and develops larger markets. 

“Six active sales agencies, grain, cot- 
ton, livestock, wool and mohair, pecans, 
fruits and vegetables, have been de- 
veloped by co-operatives as well as re- 
gional and state associations. The 
achievements of these national sales 
agencies make a record of which the 
farmers of the nation may well be 
proud, showing that farmers can suc- 
cessfully carry on business in a large 
way when properly supported.” 


New Stock Yards to Be 
Erected at Macomb 


The McDonough Livestock Market- 
ing Association is planning to erect 
modern stockyards at Macomb with a 
capacity for about eight double-deck 
carloads of livestock. The yards will be 
modern in every respect, with cement 
floors, running water, and_ electric 
lights. The greatest part of the yards 
will be covered. 


Uncle Ab says a lot of folks work 
like blazes to get where they won’t 
have to work—and never arrive. 


—— 


Page Sixteen _ THE TI. A. A. RECORD January, 1932 


65 Counties Join in 
Farm Bureau Frolics 


50,000 Illinois Farm Folks Turn Out 
For Jubilee, Drive Through 
Rain and Mud 


A ROLLICKING good time by an 
estimated 50,000 [Illinois farm 
folks featured the 65 County Farm Bu- 
reau jubilee meetings held on the night 
of December 12. 

Muddy roads and freezing rain over 
most of the state had no appreciable 
effect on the attendance, according to 
reports. Practically every meeting had 
a capacity crowd. 

Champaign county reports that 1,000 
people drove through the rain from all 
parts of the county to take part in the 
frolic. All seats and aisles at the Liv- 
ingston county jubilee were filled be- 
fore 7:30. DeKalb county had 2,500 
present and turned many away because 
the building was too small. Lee county 
had 1,500; McHenry, 1,500; Peoria, 
1,200; Stark, 1,200; snd the others 
ranged from 250 up. Gallatin county 
prepared for an attendance of 200 and 
had a turn-out of more than 1,200. 


36 Counties Contest 


The outstanding event of the evening 
at many gatherings was the contest 
staged by 36 counties to choose local 
“Country Life Queens” for 1932. More 
than 600 farm girls entered the com- 
petition. Other features were story tell- 
ing contests, liars’ contests, old fash- 
ioned style shows, one-act plays, pa- 
geants, and dances. Refreshments were 
served at most of the meetings. 

A half-hour radio program presented 
by Country Life Insurance Company 
over station WMAQ, Chicago, between 
8 and 8:30 p. m. linked the county 
meetings, during which winners of the 
“Country Life Queen” contests and in- 


surance returns by counties were an-' 
nounced. L. A. Williams, manager of . 


Country Life, and V. Vaniman, director 
of insurance service for the I. A. A., 
made short talks. A musical program 
by the studio orchestra proved popular. 
Doughnuts to Dunk 


The following telegram from Presi- 
dent Albert C. Kolmer of the Monroe 
County Farm Bureau in the St. Louis 
territory was typical of many: 


FULL HOUSE IN MONROE 
COUNTY LISTENING. SORRY 
THE REST OF YOU CAN’T HEAR 
OUR FARM BUREAU GERMAN 
BAND. THERE ARE A DOZEN 
BEAUTY QUEENS HERE TO 
DANCE WITH AND A BARREL 
OF DOUGHNUTS TO:‘DUNK. 
PLEASE SEND DIRECTIONS. 

Mark Foster, general agent in Mer- 
cer county, writes that 14 girls entered 


THEY WERE ENTRANTS IN LAKE COUNTY’S “COUNTRY LIFE QUEEN” 
CONTEST. 


Standing (left to right): Erlene Barron, Frances Dougwilo, Ella Grevel, Grace 
Umbdenstock, Leona oe (winner), Alice Wasko, Rose Henkel, Martha. Te- 
mpe, Margaret Van Zandt, 
Seated (lett to right): Vieion Davis, Mildred Elsbury, ‘Hazel Dillon, Marie Duba, 
Ruth Thies, Alma Read. 


the “Country Life Queen” contest at 
Aledo. Every township was represented. 
“Some folks drove nearly 25 miles over 
roads that were anything but good to 
be with us that evening,” he said. “I 


know that folks were there who have’ 


never before attended a county-wide 
Farm Bureau meeting.” Louise Lang- 
head was chosen as “Country Life 
Queen.” 

Three hundred and eighty-five at- 
tended the Lake County meeting at 
Gurnee. Leona Anne Bloom won the 
title of “Miss Lake County” over 15 
competitors. 


1,500 in McHenry 


McHenry county had 19 entrants in 
the “Country Life Queen” contest, 
which was won by Ruth Andreas. 
More than 1,500 gathered at St. Mary’s 
gymnasium for the event. Among the 
other features on the program were an 
old time fiddlers’ contest, an old time 
square dance, and modern dancing. Re- 
freshments of cider, milk and dough- 
nuts were furnished by che insurance 
department of the Farm Bureau and 
served by a committee of the Home 
Bureau. 

About 350 attended the jubilee in 
Edwards county. Robilee Coad was 
winner of the beauty contest over nine 
entrants. A story telling contest was 
one of the most enjoyable events of the 
evening, according to Delbert Saxe, gen- 
eral agent. 


29 ‘Queens” Here 

Livingston county reports 29 entrants 
in the beauty contest, in which Mildred 
Fischer was named “Country Life 
Queen.” The Roeschley Brothers quar- 
tette of Flanagan was featured in sev- 
eral selections. 

John D. Bryant, general agent in ‘De- 


Kalb county, writes that nineteen girls 
entered the DeKalb beauty contest, rep- 
resenting every township. Marian Mc- 
Conaghie was winner. “The contest was 
enthusiastically received and will have 
to be held in a place twice as large next 
year,” he said. An old fashioned style 
show, as the closing act of the evening, 
was a great drawing card. 

St. Clair county had nine entrants in 
the contest, with Bernell Emmerich 
named as winner. The attendance was 
about 300. Community singing, a hus- 
bands’ alibi contest, vocal numbers, and 
other features by local talent made up 
the remainder of the program. 


The Winners 


Winners of the “Country Life Queen” 
contest in other counties heard from are 
as follows: Bond county, 13 entrants, 
Rowena Stevenson winner; Champaign 
county, 15 entrants, Bernita Kurzweg 


winner; Effingham county, Evelyn 
Lloyd winner; Henderson county, 15 
entrants, Angeline Painter winner; 


Henry county, 11 entrants, Evelyn Mc- 
Neal winner; Johnson county, Thelma 
Reeder winner; Knox county, 17 en- 
trants, Dorothy Woolsey winner; Ma- 
rion county, Nora Michel winner; 
Montgomery county, Ruth Whitlock 
winner; Piatt county, Martha Haw- 
thorne winner; Pike county, Virginia 
Riley winner; Pope county, Dorothy 
Layman winner; Rock Island county, 
15 entrants, Ernestine Gifford winner; 
Shelby county, 6 entrants, Ruth Whit- 
aker winner; Washington colinty, 6 
entrants, Rose Pero winner; Wayne 
county, 11 entrants, Clara Clark win- 
ner; White county, 10 entrants, Mary 
Ridenour winner; Woodford county, 
Mary Park winner; Cook county, 62 
entrants, Laura Schoenbeck winner. 


January, 


Champa 
Aic 


RUCK 

County 
ited with se 
the Champ 
this fall. 

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pany, belie 
Farm Bure; 
for the org 
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men he allo 
each new Fj 
tained. 

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of the 1,34 
the county 
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whole-heart« 
ship. 

In additia 
members, 2 
cured duri 
orders were 
totaling apf 
Some 1,235 
non-membe 

The ann 
Urbana Dec 
7 per cent 
ferred stock 
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Another 5 
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The 10 per 
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DeWitt 7 


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DeWitt Co 
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cent patroi 
year which 
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7 per cent « 
preferred st 
company hi: 
petroleum 
chinery, an 
75 per cen 
Farm Bure: 


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753,000. 


January, 1932 THE I. A. A. RECORD Page Seventeen 


Champaign Service Co. 
Aids Membership Drive 


RUCK salesmen of the Champaign 

County Service Company are cred- 
ited with securing 25 new members for 
the Champaign County Farm Bureau 
this fall. 

R. G. Stewart, manager of the com- 
pany, believes that the employes of 
Farm Bureau subsidiaries should pull 
for the organization. When he drew 
up plans for a contest among his sales- 
men he allowed a number of points for 
each new Farm Bureau membership ob- 
tained. 

The fact that more than 90 per cent 
of the 1,346 Farm Bureau members in 
the county are customers of the Ser- 
vice Company indicates that it has the 
whole-hearted support of the member- 
ship. 

In addition to the new Farm Bureau 
members, 293 new customers were se- 
cured during the contest, and future 
orders were signed for lubricating oils, 
totaling approximately 25,000 gallons. 
Some 1,235 patrons of the company are 
non-members. 

The annual meeting was held at 
Urbana December 16, at which time a 
7 per cent dividend was paid on pre- 
ferred stock and a 10 per cent patron- 
age dividend to Farm Bureau members. 
Another 5 per cent patronage refund 
has been declared for payment later. 
The 10 per cent patronage refund, go- 
ing to 725 members, totaled $8,231.44. 


DeWitt Service Co. 
Pays 15% Dividends 


Walker H. Thorpe, manager of the 
DeWitt County Service Company, re- 
ports that the Company, voted a 15 per 
cent patronage refund for the fiscal 
year which closed recently. Ten per 
cent was paid in December and the re- 
mainder will be paid early in 1932. A 
7 per cent dividend was declared on all 
preferred stock. During the year the 
company handled $57,753.18 worth of 
petroleum products, weed killer, ma- 
chinery, and automobile tires. About 
75 per cent of the total was sold to 
Farm Bureau members. 


Thirty-one service companies in the 
state have purchased 1151 Brunswick 
tires and 999 inner tubes during the 
last four months through the Illinois 
Farm Supply Company. 


The 1931 corn crop was estimated 
on December 1 at 2,674,369,000 bu- 
shels as compared with 2,093,552,000 
bushels produced last year. The five- 
year average, 1925-1929, was 2,760,- 
753,000. 


This bulk storage plant at Paloma is one of the three owned by the 
Adams Service Company. 


Fulton County Members 
Profit by Co-Operation 


LION Service Company closed 
its second fiscal year October 31 
with a very substantial increase in busi- 
ness for the period. At the annual 
meeting of the company, held in Can- 
ton on December 4, Manager R. A. 
Garber reported an average monthly 
gain of 109% in gasoline sales, 78% 
in kerosene, 116% in lubricating oils, 
and 110% in grease in comparison to 
the corresponding. months of the. pre- 
vious year. : 

Harry L. Leeper, president of the 
company, announced that a total of 
$9,572.36 in dividends and patronage 
refunds will be paid. This will include 
7% on preferred stock and a 15%. pat- 
ronage refund to Farm Bureau members 
in good standing. In addition the pa- 
trons got higher quality petroleum 
products than they could buy at com- 
parable prices elsewhere. 

Thirteen Farm Bureau members re- 
ceived over $50 each, some eighty oth- 
ers more than $25 each, and approxi- 
mately 100 members received refunds 
exceeding $15. Six hundred Farm Bu- 
reau members participated in the dis- 
tribution of earnings. The customers 
of the company number 1,159. 


Kane County Service Co. 
Pays $10,000 Dividends 


HE patronage refund paid to Farm 

Bureau members bv Kane County 
Service Company during its first eigh- 
teen months’ business has averaged ap- 
proximately $800 per month. At the 
annual meeting of the company, held in 
St. Charles on December 10, Fred H. 
Wilson, president, announced that the 
patronage refund for the fiscal year end- 
ing August 31, 1931, would exceed the 
amount of the membership fund of 


Rich-Law Service Co. 
Pays Cash Dividends 


HE substantial dividend declared re- 

cently by the Rich-Law Service 
Company, operating in Richland and 
Lawrence counties, has served te give 
farmers in those counties more confi- 
dence in their ability to handle their 
own business co-operatively, according 
to Farm Adviser H. C. Wheeler of Law- 
rence county. . 


The company paid 7 per cent on pre- 
ferred stock and a patronage refund of 
10 per cent, and declared another 5 per 
cent patronage for payment. later. 


“The members were not expecting 
much of a refund,” says Wheeler. 
“Everywhere I go I meet the expres- 
sion: ‘I was surprised we could make a 
refund at all due to conditions we have 
had during the past year and this be- 
ing our first year of business.’ 

“There is another effect noticeable. 
It increases confidence in the ability of 
farmers to handle their own business. 
Some members are saying, ‘If the oil 
company did so well I see no reason 
why certain lines of produce market- 
ing handled by a good board of directors 
might not succeed.’ 


“I only regret that a larger number 
of Farm Bureau members did not avail 
themselves of Service. Company pur- 
chasing.” 


the Kane County Farm Bureau for the 
calendar year. 

Manager G. C. Warne stated that the 
company has 781 customers, and patron- 
age refund checks were written to 474 
Farm Bureau member patrons. 

_ The regular 7% preferred stock divi- 
dend and a 10% patronage refund have 
been declared, payable at a later date. 
These_ dividends will total over $10,- 
000. 


\ 


Page Eighteen 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


January, 1932 


By L. A. Williams 


i ae a moment of strength or weakness, 
as you wish, you applied for a life 
insurance policy. ‘The job was done, 
and your life was insured. No credit 
to the insurance man, for you were go- 
ing to do it anyway. Just hadn’t got 
around to it. Anyhow, you are and 
have been insured and have paid pre- 
miums, and for several years since had 
that feeling of security, which is of 
course the greatest of all reasons for 
carrying insurance. You know that 
feeling, “Well, if I go suddenly, honey, 
you'll get my life insurance.” 


Then, the year of D. P. 1931 came 
along, and you stopped just thumbing 
the bills over, and stopped saying “Pay 
’em” until you did some tall calculat- 
ing, and then some of them ‘were 
thrown aside. Second notices appeared, 
and then some final notices before you 
said “Pay it.” 


No man intentionally, or at least 


thinkingly, deliberately lets his life in- 
surance lapse until he has exhausted his 
last resources. He may postpone, he 
may forget, he may neglect, but not 
deliberately let it go by the boards. 
Little as you may. think of the impor- 
tance of that feeling of security that 
allowed you to say to your wife, “Well, 
if anything happens you'll get my life 
insurance,” still, it is so big a part of 
your man’s-protection role that you 
want it and want to keep it. 


Savings? No, I don’t think it is just 
the fact that you have some money 
salted away in legal reserve protection 
that appeals to you from a selfish angle. 
Nor do I believe it is the satisfaction 
of knowing that you would leave a lot 
of money at death. I think the manly 
man’s part of a responsibility met and 
taken care of just as a decent citizen 
votes, or just as one educates his chil- 
dren or pays his bills, is more the thing 
that prompts you to want to keep that 
insurance in force even though the third 
notice comes before you pay it. 


Regardless of why you bought it, or 
why you continue to pay it, this much 
is true, the insurance company is the 
insistent friend that keeps sending no- 
tices until it is paid. Friend! you say, 
and I repeat Friend. Life insurance 
is an exact science based upon premiums 
paid in advance on policies issued on 
selected numbers of lives. Sorhe die 


each year. Who they are, matters little, 
technically speaking, because so many 


claims must be paid according to ex- 
perience tables. Premiums must be col- 
lected so that policies are kept in force 
to as near the fullest extent possible. 
Claims can be paid if policies are in 
force, but a lapsed policy means no 
claim in case of death. The company’s 
business is paying claims just as truly 
as it is selling policies and collecting 
premiums, but the collecting of pre- 
miums and selecting of good risks is of 
as much importance as the paying of 
claims. 


It is friendly to send a second and a 
third notice, and a danger notice to 
you, if you know an added fact. That 
fact is, that the company does not lose 
money if you lapse the policy. It loses 
your future patronage, but that is all 
it loses. It can lose many policies by 
lapsation and never decrease its surplus 
to any extent. In fact, there would be 
an increase in surplus if the policies 
were not too old. 


But, the act of insisting that you pay 
your premium on the policy you have 
carried is friendly again, when you real- 
ize that the day after your 30 days of 
grace expire may be ,the day you slip 
physically and are never again insur- 
able. It may be the day, indeed, that 
you didn’t look to the left as an on- 
coming car thought you would, and the 
end may be written in marble, and that 
date posted in Hope Cemetery. 


If you have lapsed your policy, you 
can reinstate at any time by furnish- 
ing proof of good health and paying 
back premiums with interest regardless 
of how long ago you lapsed. 


Ohio Farmers Tell How to 
Bring About Farm Relief 


Lower taxes, better prices, and more 
co-operation among farmers! 

These three things can do more than 
anything else to bring about farm relief, 
according to the opinions of Ohio farm- 
ers as revealed in a survey of 45 counties 
made by the Ohio agricultural extension 
service. 

The largest number offering sugges- 
tions as to how to get out of the present 
depression in agriculture suggested co- 
operative marketing, purchasing sup- 
plies through farm organizations, and 
greater co-operaticn in all community 
activities. A program for the reduction 
of farm taxes was suggested by a large 
number. Others expressed the opinion 
that interest rates are too high, that 


farm machinery costs too much, and’ 


that farmers should solve their prob- 
lems by more efficient production and by 
emphasis on quality of preducts. 


Country Life Radio Party 
Routs Old Man Depression 


Total Business Written for Year 
Excecds $15,000,000 
EARLY a million and three-quar- 
ters dollars in life insurance writ- 
ten in the first twelve days of Decem- 
ber brought Country Life Insurance 
Company’s total written business for 
1931 to more than $15,000,000. 

“The $1,717,000 of reported business 
on ‘Radio Night,’ 
December 12, was 
enough to make Old 
Man Depression hide 
in his hole for quite 
some time,” said L. 
A. Williams, mana- 
ger of Country Life. 
“This gives a picture 
of what 100 organ- 
ized counties can do 
when they focus on 
Wm. E. Hedgecock 4 given point.” 

William E. Hedg- 
cock of McLean county was first in 
amount of business reported for the 12- 
day period. He turned in $101,000 of 
life insurance. E. A. Carncross of Cook 
county was second with $87,000. 
Other outstanding records were: $65,- 
000 from Effingham county; $61,000 
from DeKalb county, and $60,000 from 
Livingston county. 

“Every county in the state has pro- 
duced some business during the year 
with the exception of three,” said Wil- 
liams. “We congratulate Farm Bureau 
members, Country Life policyholders, 
and agents on completing a marvelous 
year of production, which is more out- 
standing by comparison with the larger 
life insurance companies. « Just where 
our. position will be among the 338 
companies cannot be given at this time, 
but it is certain to be in the top 10 
per cent for millions gained.” 


Sen. Capper Would Pay 


Farm Debt with Life Ins. 


The farm mortgage debt in the U. S., 
which has more than doubled since 
1920, can be paid off within a genera- 
tion by means of life insurance, says 
Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas. 

He believes the plan to be both feasi- 
ble and practical. “So much of the 
farm mortgage debt could be protected 
in this way that mortgages would no 
longer be a menace to agriculture and 
the future of the soil,”’ he said. 

“Business: men now make a practice 
of covering their indebtedness with life 
insurance. It would be )possible to pro- 
vide for the farm mortgage debt in the 
same way. The farmer’s mortgage 
could be cancelled with the maturity 
of the policy.” 


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conditions which confronted member- 
ship work during the period, according 
to George E. Metzger, director of or- 
ganization. 


There are many farmers who bélieve 
in the organization and would like to 
become members, he said, but have not 
been able to see their way clear to obli- 
gate themselves for the amount of the 
membership dues. On the other hand 
there is a new group of farmers inter- 
ested in. membership who. have here- 
tofore. thought. themselves independent 
and self-sufficient. Many of the latter 
have experienced an awakening and now 


see an advantage in organization which. 


had not.impressed them before. A good 
part of the 1931-increase came from 
this class of farmers. 


*‘An increase in membership:is an 
unprecedented accomplishment in the 
first year of the normal three-year mem- 
bership period, when fifty counties 
are required to put on membership cam- 
paigns,” Mr. Metzger said. 


Continuing Membership 


The continuing type of membership 
contract is now in effect in 74 counties. 
A new. type of contract, known as “a 
one-year continuing contract,” has. been 
approved and is recommended for use 
in counties which have heretofore signed 
on the'three-year continuing agreement, 
when the latter contract..has expired. : 
The new : one-year continuing type of 
contract has been used in a number of 
counties in the campaigns during the 
year. 


Thevdistrict plan of organization is 
in its fourth year of operation. During 
1931 membership was maintained on 
a higher level than in any similar time 


d, done entry from Marshall, I 


to Spencer, Ind,, pending. 


FEBRUARY, 1932 


Earl C. Smith 


in the last three-year period and at 
approximately 25 per cent less cost, Mr. 
Metzger said. 


Assistance was given by the organi- 
zation department in the organization 
of oil companies, milk marketing asso- 
ciations, the Illinois Grain Corporation, 
the Illinois Livestock Marketing Asso- 
ciation; the Auditing Association, and 
in a number of other projects. 


During the year O. D. Brissenden 
assumed ‘managership duties in District 
II, Clare Bradford in District I, L. B. 
Hornbeek in District VI, and H. H. 
Walker in District VII. L. F. Brissen- 
den is manager in District VIII, A. B. 
Culp in District V, John C. Moore in 
District IV, and R. J. Hamilton in 
‘District III. 


The Illinois Livestock Marketing 


. Association will hold its annual con- 


vention at Bloomington February 
17. C. B. Denman, member of the 
Federal Farm Board, will be the 
principal speaker. 


Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage pro- 
1925, a eee Oct, 27, aes. Address all communications for publication to Editorial Offices; Qlinois Agri- 
cago. ; 


Volume 10 


More Thchoush Organization © 
Will Speed Solutions—Smith 


Unorganized Farmer Pays in De- 
creased Revenues and Increased 
Costs for Failure to Co-operate 


I HAVE previously stated and yet be- 
lieve that unorganized farmers con- 
stitute the greatest obstacle operating to 
delay proper solutions to many of our. 
difficulties, President Earl C. Smith de- 
clared in his address before the 17th 
Annual I. A. A. Convention at. Rock- 
ford on January 28. 

“If I am right in my conclusions,” 
he continued, “organization, further or- 
ganization and complete organization of 
farmers should be the keynote of the 
convention. ~ 

“The membership of the Farm Bu- 
reau of Illinois yet fails to include a 
majority of the farmers in most of the 
counties of the state. A minority of 
our rural people, which have included 
nearly all of the natural community _- 
leaders|of the state have shouldered the 
responsibility and thus far maintained’ ~ 
our organization. They could have ac- 
complished much more if there had been 
included two or three times as many of 
our rural people with a unified spirit, 
information ind purpose. 

Influence with Members 

““An adequately organized agriculture 
could have wielded far greater influence 
in the councils of both state and na- 
tion. [Illinois and American - farmers 
could’ not have been forced into a 12- 
year period of deflation with such‘ an_ 
organization. Fast increasing and. un- 
just portions ‘of the cost of government 
could not have been shouldered upon 
agriculture. Their combined influence 
could and can operate to greatly reduce 
costs of government, particularly within 
the counties where most of our tax 
money remains. 

“The increased purchasing power of 
agriculture resulting from such an 
organization would have lessened the 
severity of the present depression. The 
unorganized farmer or farm owner is 


Page Four THE I. A. A. RECORD February, 1932 


grievously mistaken if he thinks he has 
not been paying, and is not still paying 
for his failure to co-operate. 
Pays Many Times 
‘“‘He is paying in decreased revenues 
and increased costs. He pays many times 
as much every year as it would cost him 
to support an adequate organization able 
to cope on better terms with the most 
powerful organizations of other indus- 
tries, capital and labor. 


“Farm people should view with con- 
cern and become fully informed before 
lending’ support to new movements 
springing up under the guise of offer- 
ing various forms of relief to farmers’ 
difficulties. Some of these movements 
are known to be connected with and 
supported by men and organizations 
who, throughout the years, have bene- 
fited because of division among farmers. 


New Movements 


“The existing depression and result- 
ing state of unrest seems to offer an 
opportunity for the stimulation of new 


movements which have for their pur- - 


pose the retarding of the fast develop- 
ment of co-operative marketing. So- 
lutions to farmers’ problems will be 
hastened by the strengthening of pres- 
ent forces rather than by the develop- 
ment of new organizations. 


“It was largely through farmers and 
rural people that the American republic 
was established. As thinking farmers, 
let us measure up to the responsibility 
which is ours, in maintaining a stable 
government, in resisting unhealthy radi- 
calism which never builds but always 
destroys. The farmers of America have 
the reputation of being the most stable 
of any large group in our national life 
in periods of distress; and in this crisis, 
let us carry on and work for those high 
ideals, Equality of Opportunity and 
Government by the People, conceived 
and established long ago by the founders 
of this nation.” 


Reviews Achievements 


Mr. Smith reviewed briefly the 
achievements of the associated com- 
panies during the year, discussed the 
legislative program of the association 
during 1931, and on the subject of the 
proposed state income tax said: 


“I am inclined to think most of the 
opposition to the income tax is prompt- 
ed and concerned by the fact it would 
cause them to commence doing some- 
thing they have never before done— 
pay taxes. Farmers can expect a reduc- 
tion of $7,500,000 in their tax bill if 
the income tax is enacted into law. 

“Opponents of farmers’ organized 
efforts sometimes refer to the cost of 
maintaining a militant organization. 
The income tax bill alone, if passed 


James G. Gridley (standing) and 
Ellery Jones, Ustick Township, with 
the clocks they won for signing the 
most members in Whiteside County’s 
organization drive. 


by the General Assembly will save the 
farmers of Illinois an amount of money 
annually, equal to thirty times the 
annual cost of the Illinois Agricultural 
Association. Stated in another way, this 
bill alone will every year save the farm- 
ers of Illinois an amount of money suff- 
cient to pay the total cost of the IIli- 
nois Agricultural Association for thirty 
years. Again may I ask, is this not con- 
clusive evidence of the need for and 
opportunity of a constructive farm 
organization? 


Reduce Cost Government 


“By and through organization, farm- 
ers must insist upon a substantial re- 
duction in the cost of all governmental 
units which can be realized by the dis- 
continuance of extravagance and waste, 
and through improved or increased effi- 
ciency. 

“Although the association carried a 
much heavier legislative program before 
the 57th General Assembly than at any 
previous session, a program covering a 
very wide range of subject matter; yet 
its percentage of success was much 
greater than ever before. Its influence 


on matters of public policy will con- 
tinue to expand just to the extent its 
program is sound and well-merited, and 
is directed in such manner as will best 
serve the agricultural interests of IIli- 
nois. 

Mr. Smith later drew an economic 
picture of the farm industry revealing 
the terrific deflation in farm values and 
income, the rapid rise in farm taxes, 
and the continuing efforts of organized 
farmers to secure the adoption of a 
national policy for agriculture. 

The Missing Link 

“The American people finally made a 
decision,” he said, “‘and the Congress 
of 1929 adopted the first national policy 
for agriculture. That policy embodies 
many of the demands previously made 
bv farm organizations, but left out the 
golden or missing link that was neces- 
sary to enable it to fully function. | 

“Although disappointed, the farmers 


_of Illinois agreed to give their support 


in the development of this policy and 
to assist those charged with the respon- 
sibility of administering the act in every 
possible way. In promising this sup- 
port, reservations were made, however, 
wherein and whereby should the act 
fail to meet certain of the essential needs 
of agriculture, our organization would 
seek to correct such weaknesses or limi- 
tations, should experience disclose the 
need therefor. 


The Warning Unheeded 


“Throughout this struggle, farmers 
insisted, when appealing to other in- 
dustries for support, that unless agri- 
culture was assisted in getting on a 
proper, sound and permanent basis, that 
sooner or later, the ill effects of such 
failure would be felt throughout all 
phases of our American economic life. 
Little attention was paid to this warn- 
ing, but today I stand before this con- 
vention keenly recognizing, as does 
every thinking citizen, that we are in 
the throes of difficulty and distress, 
wherein there are no exceptions.” 


Whiteside County Organization Teams from Montmorency, 


Coloma, Hume and 


Hahnaman townships, who put their membership over the top in twe days: Left to 


right—at back—Henry Olds, 


Ralph Bollman. 


Second row—N. H. Hand, Glenn 


Schutt, C. A. Gaulrapp, Jake Hine, Alfons Lippens, Lester Devine, Thomas Cooney, 


Peter J. Dietz, John Dirks. 


Front row—Edward Larson, Harry Butler, George 


Thome, Will Plautz, Frank Plautz, Frank Ufkin, Frank G. Plautz, 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Five 


Kelly Plan Delays | 
Vote on Income Tax 


A’ WE go to press the proposed state 
tax bill being sponsored by Repre- 
sentative Tice is expected to come up 
on. third reading in the House on Feb- 
ruary 2 when the General Assembly 
reconvenes. 

Although scheduled for consideration 
following the vote on the so-called Kelly 
plan bill on January 
20, proponents of the 
measure decided to 
delay consideration 
because of the late- 
ness of the hour. De- 
bate on the Kelly bill 
for revising the tax- 
ing machinery of 
Cook county began 
at 10:00 in the 
morning and _ lasted 
until 8:30 that 
night. As. a result the members ‘were 
worn out and in no‘mind to take up 
the consideration of an important meas- 
ure such as the state income tax. 

Friends of the revenue bill believe it 
has an excellent chance of passage. The 
fact that the property tax has broken 
down in Cook county, and that prop- 
erty owners in many other counties of 
the state are unable to pay their taxes 
has led to more favorable consideration 
of this legislation which is based on 
ability to pay. 


Chattel Mortgage Bill 
Passes House and Senate 


Rep. Tice 


B. No. 4 introduced at the request 

: of the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 
ciation by Representative Tice passed 
the Senate on Wednesday, January 20, 
after it previously had been passed in 
the House. 

This bill requires all notes secured by 
chattel mortgages to so state upon their 
face. Such notes and the mortgage are 
negotiable, the mortgage being only an 
incident to the indebtedness which it 
secures. 

When signed by the governor and so 
enacted into law this bill will make it 
possible’ for banks to rediscount mort- 
gages on livestock through the Federal 
Reserve banks ‘and so make available to 
Illinois farmers millions of dollars worth 
of additional credit. 

Because of an antiquated act (1895) 
on the Illinois statutes, Illinois banks 
have been unable to rediscount such 
paper through the Federal Reserve banks. 
This situation has worked a hardship on 
the credit machinery of the state. When 
the matter was brought to the atten- 
tion of the I. A. A. it immediately took 
steps to modify the law. 


“ Illinois soybean growers will meet 
at Decatur March 10 for the second 
annual convention of the Soybean 
Marketing Association. The meeting 
will be held at the Orlando Hotel. 


Three Kinds of Bosses 


_ Employees know a good deal about 
efficiency which they never tell the boss 
because they are never asked. For years 
they have been subjected to all sorts of 
efficiency tests so that the boss may 
have a line on their habits and abilities 
An employee writing in Nations Busi- 
ness turns the tables and suggests an 
efficiency test for bosses. 

He says there are three types of boss- 
es: First, those who don’t like to dele- 
gate authority; second, the one who del- 
egates as much as he can, recklessly and 
indiscriminately; third the boss who 
knows how much to delegate and how 
to check results. 

The first takes his loaded portfolio 
home at night and is tired and snap- 
pish the next day. An employee of this 
type of boss who makes a decision: of his 
own risks his very' job every time his 
mind works independently. 

At the other extreme is the boss who 
shoves all responsibility on his help. 
He generally pretends to know every- 
thing but in reality scarcely knows his 
own job. This charlatan-boob type 
never admits an error and probably does 
not know that his employees are laugh- 
ing at his bluff. 

All employees know the third type. 
He is calm when the office has nerves. 
When he doesn’t know he admits it— 
and it doesn’t hurt his dignity a bit. 

You do not feel frightened when 
you ask him for a salary raise which 
you think you deserve, nor shamed if 
he refuses it. When talking to you 
about your own job, he talks as an 
equal, 

His working rule is to find the right 
man for the job and then leave him 
alone. He delegates responsibility for 
the work, but he retains responsibility 
for the workers. He is—and feels— 
answerable for the work done in his of- 
fice because it was he who put the work- 
ers there. He is proud of them; he does 
not hire workers whom he expects to 
be ashamed of. He will instinctively go 
to the mat for his subordinates when 
his superior, or an outsider, criticizes 
them. 

And when he is sure that all through 
the office the right man is in the right 
place, he is likely to play golf. 


Carl F. Frey of Gilman was recently 
elected president of the Iroquois County 
Farm Bureau. Henry K. Johnston of 
Buckley. was chosen as vice-president, 
and A. J. Gillfillan, secretary-treasurer, 


MN, ilk y rices 
(For January, based on 3.5% milk unless other- 


wise specified.) 
PHILADELPHIA—Inter-State Milk Produc- 
ers announces Class I basic $2.71 del’d. Re- 


tail 11c. 
PITTSBURGH — Dairymen’s Co- ative 
Sales Co. announces Class I basic $1.7 oe, 
$1.10 country pt. Class I manufactured $1.4 
del’d, $1.05 country pt. Class III Chicago 92 
extra average. Retail 9c. Cash and carry 7c— 
no bottle charge. x wv 

BALTIMORE — Maryland State Dairymen’s 
Assn. announces Class I basic $2.84 f. 0. b. city. 
Retail 12c. ; 

ST. LOUIS—Sanitary Milk Producers an- 
nounces Class I basic $1.90 country pt. Retail 
lle. Cash and carry 10-1lc. Prices are net, 
that is, the association 3c checkoff has been 
previously deducted. 

CHICAGO—Pure Milk Assn. announces Class 
I basic $2.01 country pt. Class II 92 score 
butter x 3% country pt. Retail 12c. Price 
drop effective Jan. 1, Class II dropped and all 
milk over 90% base figure at butter x 3c for 


3.5 milk. 

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.—Producers Dairy Co. 
announces Class I basic $1.70 city del’d. Class 
III butterfat plus 5c per Ib. Retail 91-11c. 
Wholesale 8c. ; 

ROCK ISLAND and DAVENPORT—Quali- 
ty Milk Association announces Class I basic 
$1.85 del’d. Class III butterfat 90 and 92 
score. Retail 10c. Cash and corey 8c. 
QUINCY—Quincy Co-operative Dairy Co. an- 
nounces Class basic $1.95 del’d. Retail 10c. 
Cash and carry 8c. : 

PONTIAC—Pontiac Milk Producers Associa- 
tion announces Class I basic $1.92%  del’d. 
Class II manufactured $1.05 del’d. Retail 10c. 
Cash and carry 8c. 

December Prices 

ST. LOUIS—Sanitary Milk Producers an- 
nounces Class II manufactured $1.19 country 
pt. Class III surplus 99c country pt. Above 
prices are net, that is, the Association 3c 
checkoff has been previously deducted, 

PHILADELPHIA—Inter-State Milk Produc- 
ers announces Class I basic $2.96 del’d. Class 
II manufactured $1.57 del’d. 

PONTIAC, ILL. — Pontiac Milk Producers 
Assn. announces Class I basic $1.92%. Class 
II manufactured $1.22%. Retail 10c, Cas 
and carry 8c. 

BLOOMINGTON — McLean County Milk 
Producers Assn. announces Class I basic $1.70 
del’d. Class II manufactured $1.55 del’d. Class 
III surplus $1.16 del’d. Class IIa $1.65 del’d. 
Retail routes 9%c. Cash and carry 10-1lc. 

CHAMPAIGN and URBANA — Champaign 


- County Milk Producers announces Class I basic 


$2.06 del’d. Class II manufactured $1.53 del’d. 
Class III transfers to Ice Cream Co. $1.27 del’d. 


/ Surplus 90c del’d. Retail 11c. 
DECATU 


R— Decatur Milk Association an- 
nounces Class I basic $1.86 del’d. Class II 
manufactured $1.46 del’d. Class III surplus 
87c del’d. Retail 10c. Cash and carry 8c. 
PEORIA—Illinois Milk Producers’ Assn. an- 
nounces Class I basic $2.13 f. o. b. Peoria. Class 
II manufactured $1.45. Class III surplus $1.02. 
Retail 9 and 10c. Net price to members after 
deduction of Illinois Milk Producers’ checkoff— 
basic $2.08 per cwt., surplus $1.19 per cwt. 
December usage in percentage figures: Class I 
54%, Class II 7%, Class III 39%. 


The Illinois Grain Corporation is 
scheduled to meet at the Jefferson 
Hotel in Peoria February 22 for its 
second annual convention. 


Seventy-nine Illinois counties are now 
on the modified accredited list in tuber- 
culosis eradication. 


The Illinois Produce Marketing 
Association will hold its annual 
meeting at the St. Nicholas Hotel, 
Springfield, February 17. C. A. 
Brown, Department of Dairy Econ- 
omy, University of Illinois, will give 
an illustrated address as one of the 
features of the meeting. 


Page Six 


O'Neal Lauds |. A. A. 
For Accomplishments 


Membership Expansion Necessary 
for Utmost Achievment, 
He Says 


LLINOIS farmers offer the nation an 
outstanding example of the power 
of organized effort to affect the welfare 
of agriculture, Edward A. O’Neal, presi- 
dent of the American Farm Bureau 
Federation, declared, speaking at the re- 
cent convention of the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association in Rockford. 

The Illinois Association, Mr. O’Neal 
said, is one of the two largest state 
organizations of farmers affiliated with 
the American Farm Bureau Federation 
and has attained its envirble position be- 
cause of a very sincere desire on the 
part of its leadership to be of real ser- 
vice to the agricultu-al industry of 
the state. 


Lauds I. A. A.’s Work 


“Your accomplishments in co-opera- 
tive marketing and centralized pur- 
chasing of farm supplies h>ve few 
parallels elsewhere in the nation.” Mr. 
O’Neal said. “Your camnvign against 
unjust taxation has attracted the atten- 
tion of the entire nation 2nd so highlv 
does the American Farm Bureau think 
of it that we have for a lone time in- 
sisted on using the services of vour tax- 
ation expert, John C. Watson. in the 
work which our national committee on 
taxation is doing. 


“At .your state capital. Sprinefield. 
the energetic work of vour nrecident, 
Earl C. Smith, in speakine for MMlinois 
farmers when agriculture is con-erned, 
has long been under our observation. 
Last spring opportunity came to annex 
him more closely to our national organi- 
zation and now President Smith is doing 
effective work for the whole nation 
through his duties as member of the 
legislative committee of our national 
Board of Directors.” 


Membership Counts 


Membership is what counts in making 
the work of any farm organization 
effective, Mr. O’Neal continued, and he 
added that few states offer more con- 
vincing proof of this than does Illinois. 

“If that be true,” he continued, “then 
how important it is that Illinois farmers 
continue their efforts to build a num- 
erically great organization to serve 
themselves. At our national convention 
in Chicago early last month our voting 
delegates voiced the conviction that in 
this period of ecénomic distress mem- 
bership growth is of primary impor- 
tance. 


THEI, A, A. RECORD ... 


A Anne ce et RC A A AO 


“But if. membership increases .come, 
they will come chiefly through the ef- . 


forts of the individual. volunteer solici- 
tor. That thought I cannot _impress.- ! 


upon you..too deeply. - Some; of _our:. 
County Farm Bureaus have made rec- 
ords in voluntary .membership.-drives 
that we of the national organization are 


holding uv.as models for-the entirena- 


tion to follow. If-every countysunitiin”. 


the state would submit a record ‘like 
that of McLean ‘county and: EaSalle>: 
countv and some. of vour other coun= 
ties. what'a power the Illinois Agricul.’ ' 
tural Association could truly -become:” 
Mr. O’Neal devoted some’ time ‘to 
recounting the steps’ which led ‘to ‘a 


coalition between the Pee farce. 
the National Grange andthe’ National 


Farmers Union: to secute congressional 


ized farmers for agricultural tegislation. 


Six-Point Program abe 
The program behind. which the, “big 
three” are standing solidlv, he explained, 
covers six matters, First of all, he. said,. 
the three form grouns have. pooled. their 
streneth and are exerting their influence. 
to vush lecislation that -will. make. the. 
work of the Federal Farm Board more 
effective. This. he said;. means, amend- 
mert of the Acricultural Marketing 
Act, to include the equalization. fee and - 
the exnort. debenture plan. for control 
of cron curpluses, .. _. rere 
Stabilization ofthe monetary. system 
and imnrovement of the rural-: credit 
m>hinery of. the -nation.is..the ‘second 
pro‘ect hacked. unanimously. by. the three 
erouns.. he. stated, while tariff equality 
for agriculture, adjustments. in the 
n1tional tax program, control .of specu- 
lation in. farm. products and. Philippine 
independence are the other subjects on . 
which the united power of the organ-- 
ized farmers will be brought to bear. 


The Yax Question 


Touching on taxation, Mr. O’Neal 
declared a whole day would be required 
for its adequate consideration. Mount- 
ing costs of government, through waste- 
ful, extravagant expenditure of public 
funds, he pointed out, have resulted in 
running the nation’s tax bills up to un- 
believable proportions and the time is 
ripe for action. 

The Farm Bureau, he said, has been 
in the forefront of the battle to bring 
about a recognition of the disaster to- 
wards which all branches of the govern- 
ment, federal, state, county and local, 
are drifting, and to halt the trend be- 
fore it is too late. 

On the income tax, he declared, the 
organization pins its faith as the only . 
fair and just remedy for. the intolerable 
burden of taxes now borne by real - 
estate. : 


broadcast .on the .second Saturday of. 
- every month between 11/30 and 12:30) 
attention to the demands of the organ-- . 


writing the Department of Information, 


“tion, according to Fred L. Gumm, man- 


February, 1932 


«) 4 
The farm radio program of the Illi- 
nois Agficultural Association is broad- : 
cast daily except Saturday and Sunday 
over. station WJJD, Chicago (1,130 "o> 


kilocycles), between 12:30 and 12:45 
noon, 


The next_national Farm Bureau chain’ * 
broadcast will be on Saturday, Febru-' 
ary 13, according to the American Farm: 
Bureau Federation. This program ‘is: 


a. m. central standard time over the’ 
NBC chain.. Stations in and near’ Illinois: . 
on the hook-up are KYW; *Chicago3: 
KWK,. St. Louis; WIBA, Madison; 
WHAS, Louisville, and WHO-WOC, 
Des_Moines-Davenport. , 


Approximately 400 requests for copies 
of a,recent radio address on the pro- 
posed state income tax. by President ‘ 
Earl C; Smith from station WLS were 
received. Mr. Smith explained the main, 
features of the bill, gave examples - of 
its application to various amounts of 
income, and. answered criticisms made 
by opponents. Copies may be had by 


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I. A. A., 608 So. Dearborn St., Chi- 
cago. 


“ The'Paris Shipping Association in Ed- 
gar county at the time of its annual 
meeting, January 19, had 287 market- 
ing agreements signed toward forming. 
a concentration point as a unit of the 
Illinois Livestock Marketing Associa- 


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ager. During the past year the Paris 
association served 1,157 shippers, mar- 
keting 754 head of cattle, 624 calves, 
3,950 hogs, and 1,192 sheep. The total 
value of livestock marketed was more 
than $100,000. 


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The Illinois Grain Corporation reports that 
1,954 carloads of grain were shipped from 150 
shipping points from September 1 to Decem- 
ber 31, 1931. 

The leading counties in carload shipments 
were McLean, LaSalle, Mason, Champaign, and 
Iroquois. September led the other months with 
$41 carloads. 


‘The eighth annual meeting of the American 
Institute of Co-operation will be held in 1932 
at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, 
N. H. 

The open sessions of the Institute begin Aug- 
ust 1. The Institute is an educational enter- 
prise supported by the general farm organiza- : 
tions, farm co-operatives, and a number of { 


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WANT TO PLAY VOLLEY’ BALL? . 
Marshall-Putnam Would Like to Schedule Contests with oun Consiiitok 


ARL Anderson of Granville, Put- 

nam county, suggests that volley 
ball be added to the recreation program 
of the Illinois Agricultural Association 
as the official winter sport of farmers 
just as golf is the sport of professional 
men. 

He says there is considerable interest 
in the sport in Marshall-Putnam county, 
where several teams have been playing 
this winter. He points out that volley 
ball is better suited to farm players than 
practically any other game, in which 
they would be interested. 

“I have been wondering why : the 
I. A. A. doesn’t add this sport to its 
recreation program,” he writes. (“It 
comes. during the slack~ season; it per- 
mits a large group from each commun- 
ity to play rather than just a few scat- 
tered players over the whole county; 
older folks can play as easily as young 
athletes; and it would permit county 
and district tournaments. 


“The folks in my township have béen 


playing volley ball one evening each 
week this winter. But now they want 
some outside teams to play. I under- 


stand there are several other communities. 


in Marshall-Putnam county that are in- 
terested in the sport and we doubtless 


will get together before. this winter is 
over. 

“The size of the team can be flex- 
ible, making it fic the crowd. We have 
played as many as twelve to a team thus 
making it possible for twenty-four men 
to play at the same time. If our crowd 
is too large we prefer to choose three - 
teams, playing them alternately, and 
resting one of the teams. 

“The game makes an excellent mixer.. 
Our Farm Bureau is a ‘cross-section ot 


“the community, bringing together men 


from different churches, school districts 
and cliques. If we can get them to 
play together we: won’t have much 
trouble getting them to work together 
on ‘our’ projects. I noticed one evening 
that we had men’ from five churches on 


. the floor: at orie time. 


“Volley ball is suitable for either sex, 
in fact, much more suitable for the av- 
erage farm girl or woman than basket- 
ball. Ladies teams could be organized. 
Several ladies’ in our township have ex- 
pressed a:desire to play. . Thus the Home 
Bureau could co-operate in popularizing 
the. game.” 

Note: Is volley ball in-your county? If so, 
would you be interested’in forming a volley 
ball league., Write. the 1. A. A., 608 So. Dear- 
born St., Chicago, if interested. 


Illinois Holstein Ass'n. 
Employs New Field Man 


M. G. (Mike) Seath, formerly of Jef- 
ferson County, Wisconsin, began ‘work 
as Field Representative of The Illinois 
Holstein Association, with headquafters 
at St. Charles, Illinois, in January, 1932. 
Mr. Seath, who enjoys a wide acquaint- 
ance and excellent reputation in the 
Holstein fraternity, will be engaged jin 
extension work among the Association 
members in co-operation with Field. Rep- 
resentative Jim Ball, who has been with 
the Association since 1927. 


For the past three and one-half years, 
Mr. Seath has very successfully con- 
ducted the work of Secretary in Jeffer- 
son County, Wisconsin, Holstein Breed- 
ers’ Association. He acquired there an 
outstanding reputation as a constructive 
worker in the field and as showman and 
calf club leader. 

Mike Seath is doubtless most widely 
known as a showman having fitted and 
shown the Jefferson County show herd 
for five years, beginning in 1927, arid 
having, i in the course of this period, led 
into the ring such notable animals. as 


Artis Madam Wayne Denver, Reserve, 


All-American senior yearling in 1927, 
Inka Wayne Creamelle, All-American 
junior heifer of the same year, and Jo- 


hanna Pietertje Artis Creamelle, Nation- 
al Grand Champion in 1927. 

The Illinois Holstein Association ex- 
pects to. make 1932 its greatest year of 
service to the Holstein industry, ex- 
tending particularly its service to the 
buyers of Illinois cattle and the help and 


‘consultation which the Association can 


bring to its members in meeting every- 
day problems ‘of each individual in im- 
proving their herds and extending their 
dairy cattle market. 


18% More Pigs Saved 


About 18 per cent more pigs were 
saved in Illinois in the fall of 1931 
than a year ago, and 21. per cent more 
were saved in the corn belt, according 
to the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

The survey was made through the 
rural mail -carriers. Combining the 
spring and fall pig crops of 1931, an 
increase of about. 10 per cent. for IIli- 
nois and 9 per cent for the country 
as a whole is indicated. This increase 
amounts to about 4,500,000 heads of 
pigs in the corn belt where more than 
80 per ‘cent of the commercial hog 
supply is- produced. 


Uncle Ab says that the one form 
of expansion he grieves to see is 
the waistline. 


LA. A. Opposes Higher 
Rates on Soybeans 


Letter to Commerce Commission 
Asks That Beans Be Placed in 
Grain Group Schedule 


OF chi ground that soybeans grown 
for commercial. purposes should; be 
classed with grain in freight rate sched- 
ules, the Illinois Agricultural | ‘Associa- 
tion has recuested the Interstate Com- 

merce .Commiission to’ re- élassify ©, this 
commodity so as to exempt‘it from ‘the - 
cmergency increase which became ef- 
fective early in January. 

In a letter to George B. McGinty, 
secretary of the commission, L. J. Qua- 
sey, director of transportation for* the 
I. A. A., set forth the objections: of 
shippers to the increase and asked that 
soybeans be placed-in the grain- group 
in the rate schedule. RRS 


Under Grain Rates—-~ - a 


“Soybeans have come into commer- 
cial prominence within the past five or 
six years,” he said. “They have. gen- 
erally moved under grain rates,” and, the 
tariffs of the carriers generally ‘make 
grain rates applicable on soybeans. i ‘he 
rail movement of soybeans. is ; sone 
to that of grain. Some of last.’ yedt’s 
crop moved for export. The loading 
is practically the same as that: of. ‘wheat 
or corn. 

“A considerable quantity of sciylibias 
are used for seed each year, riot’ only 
for growing more beans but for grow: 
ing soybean hay and for soil improve; 
ment purposes. A large portion, of ‘thé 
crop is processed, the products ing 
oil and meal. The oil has a wide rangeé 
of industrial uses and the. meal is used 
to feed livestock. The value of soy- 
beans this past year and at the present 
time is approximately 35 cents a bushel, 
which compares favorably with the av- 
erage price of grain. 

Should Be Exempted 


“From this it follows that soybeans 
should be treated the same as grain, and 
since grain was exempted from the ap- 
plication of the emergency increase pri- 
marily on the ground of being an agri- 
cultural product, soybeans should like- 
wise be exempted.” 

‘Many corn belt: farmers are now 
growing soybeans as a commercial crop 
instead of oats and wheat. Approxi- 
mately 4,000,000 bushels go into com- 
mercial channels annually in the United 
States, about 2,500,000 bushels being 
produced in Illinois. Under the in- 
creased rates now in effect, Illinois farm- 
ers would pay an additional $25,000. a 
year in freight. 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


February, 1932 


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Farm Board the Goat 
It seems to be popular to criticize and malign 

the Farm Board. Yet under the limitations im- 
posed by recent economic trends and the Agri- 
cultural Marketing Act it is doubtful if any other 
group of men could have done better. 

The Farm Board has been blamed either direct- 
ly or by implication for the discouraging decline 
in the prices of wheat, cotton, livestock, dairy 
products, and produce. It is held responsible for 
the shortcomings of co-operatives, although even 
at their worst the overhead costs of co-operative 
sales agencies are decidedly less than the toll taken 
by the “trade.” 

The Farm Board is made the goat, and a most 
convenient goat so far as the middlemen and the 
commodity exchanges are concerned. The anti- 
Farm Board propaganda of the latter group and 
the newspapers and trade journals that front for 
them is easily understandable. They have a selfish 


interest in resisting inroads by farmer-owned 
agencies into the profits of distribution. 

But public denunciation by farm representa- 
tives is not in good taste. If the Board has made 
some mistakes it is only human. Certainly it is 
no more responsible for the deflation in farm 
prices than it is for the tremendous shrink in 
stocks and bonds, the low price of copper and 
silver, the grasshopper plague, or drouths and 
floods. The Board has made a conscientious effort 
to assist the commodity co-operatives in co- 
ordinating and improving their sales service. It 
can exercise due authority in correcting mistakes 
which may have been made by organizations re- 
ceiving Farm Board aid. More than that it can- 
not do until the Marketing Act is amended. 


Government Policy and Agriculture 
:G OVERNMENTAL policies since the war and 
the indifference of the nation to the farm 
problem are responsible for the plight of agri- 
culture, George N. Peek of Moline, Ill., declared 
in an address before the War Industries Board 
Association in New York City recently. 

“Our policy for the excessive expansion of for- 
eign trade in industrial products was a mistaken 
one,” said Mr. Peek: ‘“‘We have been trying to 
maintain our war-time industrial facilities at a 
capacity above peace-time demand. We have 
loaned abroad more money than represented by 
our entire war debt. We have put the facilities 
of our gigantic Department of Commerce be- 
hind the movement to expand foreign trade just 
as though we were a debtor nation, as we were 
before the war, instead of a creditor nation, as 
“we emerged from the war. - 

“We have half the gold supply of the world, 
so that foreign nations cannot pay us in gold; 
and we have prevented their paying us in goods 
and services by our tariffs, although at the same 
time we have insisted upon the payment of war 
debts. We have gone even further; to the extent 
that we have captured foreign markets, we have 
interfered with the normal relations of other 
countries between themselves.” 

This intelligent and concise statement of facts 
brings out in bold relief. the underlying reasons 
for the steady decline in agriculture since 1920. 
European war debts.and ‘excessive American in- 
dustrial: expansion have stimulated agricultural 
production abroad and dried up foreign markets 
for our farm products. And the concentration 
of wealth at home in too few hands followed 
by industrial retrenchment, fear, unemployment, 
and destitution for so many now have completed 
the rout of farm prices. 

While post mortems on the cause of our 
troubles do not lead the way out, they are useful 
in helping us avoid the same mistakes again. 


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From a Rural Mail Carrier 


Editor of I. A. A. RECORD: 


In the January RECORD I noticed an article 
by Mr. F..J. McNair of Hamilton county with 
a heading ‘Postoffice Salaries.” I should like 
to ask Mr. McNair if he was including rural 
route carrier when he mentioned ‘Postal Em- 
ployees”? If so, on what grounds does he ask 
them to take a reduction in wages? 

I wish it was possible for Mr. McNair to 
accompany me or any other carrier who has 
dirt roads to travel over. Am sure he would 
agree that the carriers earn their salaries. 

I am a rural carrier, also a Farm Bureau 
member of Woodford county, and have always 
tried to help our county organization as much 
as possible. 

At present the roads are frozen after several 
days of rain and heavy travel, consequently the 
ruts are deep and crooked and my car needs 
extra tall wheels to clear the bumps. But I 
try to give my patrons service with a smile even 
though my fingers get cold fishing pennies from 
the mail boxes. 

So, Mr. McNair, why not try and reduce the 
cost of the government by reducing the salaries 
of persons who are not as closely connected 
with the farmer as the rural carriers are? 

GeorcE T. Crark, 
Woodford County, Ill. 


From a Postal Employee 


Editor of I. A. A. RECORD: 

As a member of the Farm Bureau and I. A. 
A., also an employee in the Postal Service, may 
I ask that you publish the following in response 
to the article written by F. J. McNair in the 
January issue on “Postoffice Salaries.” 

“I have served in the capacity of postal em- 
ployee for the past 29 years and I think I know 
at least a few things with reference to this 
department—the responsibility attached thereto, 
the expenditure necessary to carry on this ser- 
vice, and also the rate of postage charged to 
meet this expenditure. 

“Pll agree with you, Mr. McNair, the Postal 
Dept. does have a deficit, and has had for many 
years back, even during the best times. This 
department is not intended as a money-making 
proposition, although it could easily be made 
into one. ‘This is a service to you, as you can 
go anywhere and you will not get one-tenth 
for your money as the service which the Postal 
Dept. gives you. 


Salaries the Same 


“You would still be getting this service cheap 
if the cost were five times as high, in which 
case the postal employees might be better paid. 
And still you think that postal salaries are too 
high. They are practically the same as when 
the farmer was getting six or eight times for 
wheat and corn over what he is getting now. 
And we, as well as everyone else had to pay 
the price for everything the farmer raised. 

“You did not see any articles written at that 
time about the salaries of postal employees being 
raised in proportion to the raise the farmer got. 
No, I think not. You also never read a word 
from the postal employees, condemning the 
farmer because he was receiving ridiculous prices 
for everything he raised. The farmer received 
high prices for years, and the biggest reason that 
some are in bad today is, that because of his 
greed for more, he bought still more land, 
and he is now stuck with it. The farmer who 
is not in debt today is getting along all right 
and he will continue to do so. 


The Army and Navy 


“You speak of taxes being so high. Yes, we 
all know that they are. But do you really think 
that the Postal Department is at fault on ac- 


count of it, even in a small way? I know it 
is not, and so do you. Also, do you really 
know just what government tax you pay? 
Look it up, you will find it one of your small- 
est tax items. Do you know where the heavi- 
est tax burdens of the U. S. fall? No?_ Well, 
Ill tell you—the United States army and navy. 


.-Do you know the second largest tax burden? 


It is for the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
a department created for the sole benefit of 
the farmer. And who do you suppose pays this 
tax? Just the farmer? Not by any means. 
Everyone helps pay, and the postal employees do 
their share? 

“But why kick about that now? Consider- 
ing all the wonderful improvements we have 
received the past 15 years, such as schools, roads, 
governmental services of various kinds and fine 
public improvements, what else can we expect? 


‘The Postal employees sincerely regret the de- 


plorable condition of some of the farmers, but 
who is to blame? Should the regular standing 
salaries of postal employees be cut now, to meet 
30c corn, and have nothing done about it when 
it sold for one and two dollars? That is cer- 
tainly a very ‘broad-minded’ view of the situa- 
tion, isn’t it? And to think that this so-called 
depression is less than a year old. 


Once a Farmer 

“I am glad to say that I am a Postal worker, 
an employee of the government, in the greatest 
business of the U. S. today. I have also been 
a farmer previous to this work, and with years 
of experience in the Postal Department serving 
farmers, I should know something about them, 
and I certainly am interested in them, anything 
which pertains to them, and above all, I like to 
see them prosperous and successful. 

“I am associated with the I. A. A., and I must 
say it certainly does not behoove the farmer to 
continually present for publication through the 
columns of their farm journals articles antago- 
nistic to the Postal employees, or any other) class 
of laborers for that matter, but especially the 
rural carriers, who through the generosity of 
the Postal Department in creating the rural 
routes, is the farmers’ best friend. And I fully 
believe any fair-minded person will bear me 
out in this statement, and I am glad to say 
that my experience has proven that the great- 
est per cent of the farmers are of the fair- 
minded type.” 

Joun C. ALEXANDER, 
Tazewell County, Ill, 


More About Postal Salaries 


W. WEEKS of Tazewell county expresses 

« himself feelingly in a 3,200 word letter 
upholding the postoffice service and salary sched- 
ule. Space does not permit publication of the 
entire letter. Mr. Weeks says in part: 

“I entered the Postal service in 1919 at a 
salary of $90 per month, and was sent to Chi- 
cago to work in the Union Terminal of the 
Railway Mail Service. At that time bread 
was fifteen cents per loaf, sugar was eighteen 
dollars per hundred, potatoes three dollars per 
bushel, and rent and other living expenses were 
correspondingly high. Mr. McNair, I suppose, 
lived during that period and should know what 
awful prices had to be paid for everything that 
was purchased. 


Loses $50 a Month 


“I worked in Chicago about three months 
when I was sent out on the railroads as a 
railway postal clerk. This service required 
that I spend at least a part of my time away 
from home, with the attendant necessary ex- 
pense, all to be paid out of ninety dollars per 
month. In November of that year I resigned 
my position in the Railway Mail Service, after 
discovering that I had found it necessary to 
spend approximately fifty dollars per month 
more than I was getting. 


“During the time we lived in Chicago we 
exercised the utmost care in providing for our- 
selves; in fact, we were unable to buy enough 
to eat in order that our rent might be paid 
and carfare provided. During that year and 
the next two to follow, many railway mail 
clerks found it necessary to quit the service 
because of inadequate pay. I wonder if Mr. 
McNair could have done any better than I did, 
or than the dozens of other clerks did. Also, 
I wonder if the years 1919, ’20 and ’21 come 
within the meaning of the word ‘many’ which 
he used when he stated ‘for many years.’ That 
much for the Railway Postal clerks who were 
paid ‘unnecessarily high salaries.” 

“Next, let us consider the case of the rural 
letter carriers. At the time of our entry into 
the World War in 1917, the rural carrier was 
getting $1,500 per annum. From that amount 
it was necessary to pay the expense of keeping 
a team of horses, for which he had to buy 
hay, corn and oats for feed, and straw for 
bedding. Also, he had to have a pasture for 
them during the summer months, which, as a 
rule, he had to rent. At that time the rural 
carrier was also using a car for delivery, when 
tke roads were good, and in fact, the rural pa- 
trons demanded this service. Incident: to the 
use of the car, was the necessary purchase of 
gas, oil and tires, in addition to the deprecia- 
tion in value of the car. 

“After our inception in the war, as everyone 
knows, prices of commodities went up and up, 
and continued that way until about 1922, when 
we had some decrease in certain articles such 
as sugar, bread and a few others, but high 
prices continued on other things until the be- 
ginning of the present depression in 1929. Did 
the salaries of the rural carriers follow this 
upward trend in prices? Not so that Mr Mc- 
Nair could notice it. Before the war the rural 
carriers got along fairly well on $1,500 per 
annum, but I don’t know of any of them who 
got rich. 


Rural Carrier in 1920 


“On March 15th, 1920, I accepted a position 
as rural carrier at a base pay of $1,500 per 
annum, plus $30 a mile for excess mileage, pur- 
chased an automobile for $800, a team of horses 
for $200, a set of second hand harness for $25 
and a mail wagon for $175. During that year 
I kept account of the necessary expense of serv- 
ing my route, and found that it amounted to 
$810 per annum. On July Ist of that year 
my salary was increased to $1,800 base pay with 
excess milage, which made me a salary of 
$1,920, which, after deducting $810 necessary 
expense of running my route, left me a net 
income of $1,100 for my year’s work. If Mr. 
McNair can explain why that was an ‘unneces- 
sarily large salary’ with prices as they were at 
that time, he can do better than I can. I 
wouldn’t be surprised to learn that he made 
more money than that himself, but what he 
made wasn’t ‘unnecessarily large.’ Mr. McNair 
should have had to keep himself and family 
and buy everything he used on that salary, and 
then he would be able to realize just how ‘un- 
necessarily high’ it was. 

“This salary pay continued until July 1, 1925, 
when it was again increased by the addition of 
a maintenance allowance, which increased the 
pay of carriers at our office approximately three 
hundred dollars, By adding this three hundred 
dollars to the $1,100 previous net pay, we find 
that the carriers were receiving a net salary of 
$1,400 after July Ist, 1925. But what about 
what had been happening to them the past 
eight years? With prices continuing the same 
as they were before, this increase was greatly 
needed, but still ic failed to furnish the carrier 
with what might be considered an ‘unnecessarily 
high salary.’ However, now that ‘the depression 
is on,’ as Mr. McNair puts it, and prices have 
decreased considerably, the rural carrier is just 


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Page Ten THE I. A. A.-RECORD February, 1932 


Arding . himself in a position where he is receiv- 
ing.a “éalary- -adequately large to allow him to 
put away a few dollars each month, and pay 
off some. of his past losses. And now at this 
satisfactory period, Mr. McNair insists that the 
salaries ‘be greatly. reduced.’ 

“Mr. McNair says..at the last of his article 
that the believes all farm. organizations and 
farm papers should get. busy and demand this 
‘reform,' but,.a little before this statement he 
says, he wants this country to be a government 
of, for and by the people. How does he coin- 
‘cide those two statements?. Would it be a 
government of, for.and by the people if the 
agricultural associations and farm papers could 
cause the postal employees to sustain a cut. in 
their salaries? Aren’t the postal employees as 
much a part of the people of.this country as 
the farm organizations and, farm papers? What 
.would Mr. .McNair..say.if the postal employees 
should be able to tell him how much he should 
get for his corn? Does he, think the postal 
employees should have nothing to say about 
whether or not .they should have a cut? I 
wonder what he would have said if, during the 
year 1921 when he was getting $45. per ton 
for alfalfa hay, the postal employees had de- 
manded that he receive half that much. But 
did they do it? .No.. They. .peddled right 
along. on their little old, pre-war salaries and 
hoped for better times to’come. Now those 
-better..times are here and the other fellow is 
yelping his head off about what unnecessarily 
’ large salaries the uncomplaining postal employees 
are. receiving., 


Farm Papers Subsidized 


“He says that ‘all farm organizations and 
‘farm’ papers get busy and demand this reform.’ 
‘The farm papers and the farm organizations 
“who are responsible for the edition of the farm 
‘papers might well consider that the Post Office 
Department is furnishing them a concession that 
is furnished to no other business. The Post 
Office Department allows newspapers and _ peri- 
odicals free transportation in tke mails in the 
counties of publication, and bulk rates on 
mailings outside the counties of publication. 
These bulk rates are so ridiculously low as to be 
less than half the rates of postage on the same 
mailings if sent by individuals. Mr. McNair, as 
a member of one of these farm organizations, 
might do well~to insist that his organization 
“furnish a vote of thanks to the Post Office 
‘Department for these concessions, rather than 
write articles for his paper that will tend to 
cause the department no end of trouble by 
fostering a feeling of unrest among the readers 
of that paper and a misunderstanding of such 
vital things as postal employees’ salaries. These 
concessions are of such financial value to pub- 
lications that editors themselves should see to 
it that no article should appear in the columns 
which would tend to cause the Post Office De- 
partment the least trouble whatever. 


School Teachers Cut 


“Of course, the idea behind this desire to cut 
salaries is to lower taxes, and everyone knows 
that taxes’‘are very high and should be lowered 
And in nearly every community there are those 
who think first of “slashing salaries of postal 
workers and public school teachers. But if 
just a little thought is given to the matter, it 
will be readily seen that by doing so, very little 
will be accomplished in the way of lowering 
individual taxes. This salary slashing took 
place in our community last year and the vic- 
tims were’ the public school teachers. Each 
tedcher received a 10 per cent cut and a big 
blow’ was made about the first step in tax 
lowering. When it was all over and the com- 
munity began’ to do some figuring, it was found 
that the salary cut had actually saved the 
average tax payer about ten cents. So the 
school teachers were called upon to lose from 
$100: to’ $180 in salary so that the individual 
tax payer could save a dime. That was what 


Farmers in England 
Having a Hard Time 


A recent editorial in The Field (Lon- 
don), a British agricultural journal, 
says: ‘“Depression has settled in a heavy 
cloud over the farming industry. The 
markets last week were as cheerless as 
could be imagined. Wheat, salvaged 
from the rainstorms of a miserable har- 
vest, was selling at 1. pound a quarter 
(fourth of a ton) which is barely half 
the cost of production. Fat cattle, 
pigs, sheep and even dairy cows, after 


the announcement of next year’s con- 


tract prices, were down in price again. 
Farming in this country does, indeed 
seem a hopeless business at times. 


But farmers must hold on. From 


Norfolk the answer may come that 


there is no option when two-thirds of 
the farms virtually belong to the banks, 
and they have no desire to foreclose. 
Holding on is a nerve-racking feat when 
the very foundations of business slip 
away. To-day there is no branch of 
British agriculture which can maintain 
its position. None has escaped the de- 
vastating ‘competetion from abroad, 
where labor is cheap or exports are sub- 
sidized to maintain agriculture at all 
costs in this topsy-turvy world. 


Low Milk Price 


Even the milk market is assailed, and 
now dairy farmers have to accept no 
more than 9d. a gallon for their milk 
through the year because it has become 
hopelessly unprofitable to manufacture 
condensed milk, dried milk and cheese 
in competition with the bargain sales 
conducted by overseas producers in our 
markets. If we were competing on 
equal terms, farmers in this country 
would have no grievance. But we are 
not. The cleverest producers, men who 
do not waste a penny on superfluous la- 
bor or extravagant feeding stuffs, are 
beaten by the prices of imported pro- 
duce. 

If the encouragement of farming 
were regarded by our politicians as one 
means of righting the adverse trade bal- 
ance, farmers could hold on with re- 
newed hope. Once confidence in the in- 
dustry is restored, there will be no lack 
of enterprise. We should be able to 
count on a great impetus to production, 
and this in turn would be reflected in 
many industries whose fortunes are 
closely bound up with agriculture.” 


I call mighty poor judgment, for it disrupted 
the morale of the school faculty, and if kept 
up long enough, will completely demoralize the 
entire school system and our kiddies will be 
the sufferers. And the same thing will happen 
to the postal workers if their salaries are cut, 
and you men and women who demand this cut 
will lose a whole lot more in postal efficiency 
than you will save in taxes. Think it over.” 


"Too Much Salesmanship 
Responsible for Depression" 


Dean-Emeritus Davenport Advo- 
cates Conference for Permanent 
Welfare of All 


N the next economic cycle, organized 

agriculture must resist the salesman- 
ship of industry which is responsible for 
the present plight of the farmer, de- 
clared Dr. Eugene Davenport at the 
University of Illinois during Farm and 
Home Week. Industry brought on the 
collapse of agriculture by over-selling 
the world on extravagance, he said. 

Dean Davenport spoke on the sub- 
ject, “What Shall We Do with the 
Next Cycle?” 


When Tide Turns 


“When the tide turns, instead of per- 
mitting the man with something to sell 
to do all the talking and again bewitch 
the public with a false and dangerous 
psychology,” he continued, “let the 
American Farm Bureau and the Na- 
tional Grange invite to a conference the 
biggest and best of our industrial fra- 
ternity, together with bankers and or- 
ganized labor, to meet around a common 
table and discuss the situation as a 
whole. 

“Such a conference should be guided 
by the permanent welfare of all classes, 
recognizing the natural danger of a gulf 
between the price level of that of manu- 
factured goods and that of foods and 
the perils of artificial methods in trade 
as bound to force the situation to the 
dizzy and dangerous heights from which 
we have just taken our economic and 
social tumble. 


Greedy for More 


*‘The present crash all happened as a 
result of a desire on the part of all 
branches of industry to show each year 
a vast increase in volume of business 
done and of paper profits piled up, often 
regardless of methods or of conse- 
quences. It established and maintained 
an impassable gulf between manufac- 
tured goods and farm prices. It has 
wrecked thousands of young families 
whose inexperience was unable to with- 
stand the onslaughts of high pressure 
salesmanship. And now it has broken 
down of its own weight, destroyed the 
farmers’ market and brought distress 
everywhere.” 


A 15 per cent patronage dividend 
was declared by the directors of the 
Peoria County Service Company prior 
to the annual meeting of the company 
January 16. Six hundred ninety-two 
Farm Bureau members will participate 
in the distribution of $12,000 patronage 
refund. 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Eleven 


Buy Enough Serum to 


Vaccinate |,500,000 Pigs 


Farm Bureaus Co-Operate to Pro- 
tect 1932 Hog Crop Against 
Cholera 


LLINOIS farmers bought enough an- 
ti-hog cholera serum and virus co- 
operatively during 1931. to vaccinate 
1,500,000 hogs, it was revealed at the 
annual meeting of the Illinois Farm Bu- 
reau Serum Association at Rockford. 
“During the 12 months’ period end- 
ing November 30, the association pur- 
chased for its 73 member counties a 
total of 49,321,245 cubic centimeters 
of anti-hog cholera serum and _ hog 
cholera virus,” stated the annual report 
of Ray E. Miller, secretary-treasurer of 
the organization. “In addition to pur- 
chasing this large volume of serum and 
virus, the association secured prices from 
manufacturing companies on other bio- 
logic supplies and instruments. 

“The 1931 volume represents an. in- 
crease of approximately 50 per cent over 
the best previous year. Prices paid for 
the serum, which was practically all of 
the clear concentrated variety, are the 
lowest ever obtained for supplies of this 
quality. 

“The quality of the serum is proved 
by the fact that less than 200 trouble 
cases from all causes were reported dur- 
ing the year in spite of the widespread 
cholera outbreaks in the state. In other 
words, the ratio of trouble cases re- 
ported to total herds treated was about 
six-tenths of one per cent.” 

In April the association was re-incor- 
porated under the Agricultural Co-oper- 
ative Act of Illinois, so as to give mem- 
ber counties control and ownership 
through the issuance of common and 
preferred stook proportional to the 
amount of business done by each county. 

Contracts for 1932 supplies of serum 
and virus totaling 38,785,000 cubic 
centimeters have already been awarded 
the two successful bidding companies at 
prices substantially lower than those in 
effect during 1931. 


Indianapolis Producers _ 
Earned $45,000 in 1931 


Net earnings of the Producers Com- 
mission Association at the Indianapolis 
stock yards during 1931 were $45,000, 
according to Sid Cherrill, field repre- 
sentative of the I. A. A. in livestock 
marketing, who spoke at the annual 
meeting of the Producers January 26 at 
Indianapolis. 

Since the organization started ten 
years ago cash refunds to member pa- 
trons have been 25 per cent of the com- 
mission fees. The year 1931 was one 


These women served a fine oyster stew 
at the annual meeting of the Tabor 
(DeWitt county) Shipping Association 
recently, writes G. E. Middleton of the 
Indianapolis Producers. oh 


of the best years the organization has 
gone through, Mr. Cherrill said. Total 
net earnings for the ten years approxi- 
mate $600,000 and more than $385,000 
have been refunded. About one-third 
of all the livestock received in Indian- 
apolis during the past ten years has been 
handled’ by this co-operative agency. 


Indiana Farm. Bureau. 


Buys. a Serum Plant. 


Co-Operative ‘Ass’n. Buys Wate- 
house and Office Buildings 


Le Indiana Farm Bureau. opetates, 


the only plant in Indiana, which 
manufactures _anti-hog cholera’. serum 
under government inspection, accord- 
ing to a récent statement. .Thée Farm 


‘Bureau recently took over the plant op- 


erated-by the Swine Breeders PureSteum 


Company and began _manufacturing. 


serum shortly after the first of the year. 
This company +has_ been providing 
anti-hog cholera serum and virus to 
swine raisers of Indiana and other states 
for sixteen years. Approximately 3,000 
Indiana farmers are interested in the 
plant either as stockholders or users of 
its products. The new plant, valued 
at $120,000, has an annual manufactur- 
ing capacity of 20,000,000 c. c. of 
serum and a relative amount of virus. 
The manufacture of tankage will be 
carried on in connection and also the 
making of soaps for household uses. 


Farm Supplies Also 


Co-operative purchasing of farm sup- 
plies in Indiana is proving to be one of 
the most thriving projects of the state 
Farm Bureau. -The -operating facilities 
of the company, known as the Indiana 
Farm Bureau Co-operative Association, 
now includes three buildings in Indi- 
anapolis. A large volume of business 
has been developed in mixed feeds, field 
seeds, farm machinery, fertilizer, oils 
and greases and other farm supplies 
which figure in the cost of production. 

The plant of the state co-operative is 
located near the entrance to the Indi- 
anapolis stock yards, which makes it 
convenient for livestock truck drivers 
to haul supplies back to their home 
communities on return trips. 


Market 23,463 Cars Live 
Stock Co-operatively 


Annual Report Reveals Trends in 
Marketing During 1931. 


HE outstanding developments in 
livestock marketing in 1931. were 
the expansion of trucking and the in- 
crease.in the movement of livestock di- 
rect from country points to packers, 
according, to, the annual report of Ray-E. 
Miller, director of livestock marketing. 
“Both of these factors have resulted 
ina further, decrease in the number of 
active livestock shipping associations in 
the state,” Miller states, “‘and have made 
it imperative that producers develop a 
different type of machinery to assemble 
and ship livestock. 

“The larger marketing units, or coun- 
ty marketing associations, have proved 
successful because they are able to make 
frequent and regular shipments, to prac- 
tice greater selectivity in moving live- 


«+ stock. of different. grades and weights 


to the market where it is in most de- 
mand, and to broaden the market out- 
Jet.” 
Seven County Ass’ns. 
Seven county marketing associations 


‘are in. operation in Macon, Vermilion, 


Shelby, Iroquois, Champaign, McDon- 


ough, and Coles counties, and units of 


the state association are being organized 
in Edgar, McLean, Knox and Warren 
counties, Miller said. 

The Illinois Livestock Marketing As- 
sociation was organized to serve as a 
parent. organization for these county 
units, to correlate their operation, to 
standardize their methods, and to pre- 
vent as far as possible competition be- 
tween county associations. 

Illinois farmers marketed co-operat- 
ively 23,463 carloads of livestock dur- 
ing the year. This was a decrease in 
volume in comparison with the previous 
year, but was a larger percentage of the 
receipts at the markets due to a decline 
in total receipts. Eighty Illinois Coun- 
ty Farm Bureaus now have livestock 
marketing as a major project. 


Kane Co. Service Co. 


Kane County Service Company has 
called our attention to an error in the 
article about their company ‘in the 
January issue of the I. A. A. RECORD 
wherein it was stated, “The regular 7% 
preferred stock dividend and a 10% 
patronage refund have been declared, 
payable at a later date.” This should 
have read, “The regular 7% preferred 
stock dividend and a 10% patronage 
refund have been paid, and another 5% 
patronage refund has been: declared, 
payable at a later date.” 


Page Twelve THE I. A. A. RECORD February, 1932 


Tazewell Service Co. 


Pays 15% Cash Dividend 


Annual Meeting First to Be Held 
In New Building at Pekin 


HE Tazewell Service Company had 

sufficient earnings during the past 
year to pay a 15 per cent patronage 
dividend to Farm Bureau members who 
were customers of the company, it was 
revealed at the recent annual meeting 
in Pekin. 

More than a million gallons of SER- 
VICE petroleum products were dis- 
tributed by the company. Approxi- 
mately 2,800 gallons of 
kerosene, gasoline, oil and 
grease were sold daily to 
farmers of the county. 
These sales represent a gain 
of 214.9 per cent in gaso- 
line, 138 per cent in kero- 
sene, 115.9 per cent in lubri- 
cating oil, and 200.9 per 
cent in grease during the 
year in comparison with the 
seven months’ period of 
operation during the pre- 
ceding year, according to 
Clyde Woolsey, manager. 

On the basis of volume 
of products handled by each 
of the 47 local service com- 
panies associated with the 
Illinois Farm Supply Com- 
pany during the past year, 
Tazewell Service Company held seventh 
place in gasoline, twelfth in kerosene, 
fourth in lubrication oil, and fifth in 
grease. 


Three Storage Plants 


The company operates three bulk 
storage stations, located at Pekin, Dela- 
van, and Richmond Crossing, with eight 
service trucks operating throughout the 
county. Further distribution is made 
from ten privately owned and operated 
filling stations located at various points 
in the county. 


The net earnings for the year on the 
basis of paid in capital stock represents 
a profit of 97.7 per cent on the invest- 
ment. The sum of $1,398.25 was paid 
in dividends on preferred stock in addi- 
tion to. patronage refunds totaling 
$15,648.25. More than $5,000 was 
added to the reserve fund. 


One farmer will receive more than 
$500 in patronage refunds for the year’s 
purchases, thirty members more than 
$50, 60 members more than $25, and 
410 more than their annual Farm Bu- 
reau dues. Nearly 350 non-members 
bought supplies totaling $27,500 from 
the company, which was approximately 
23 per cent of the sales. The profit on 
this made up most of the fund set aside 


as surplus. Walter Frazee is president 
and George Storey, secretary. Directors 
for 1932 are the same as they were last 
year. 


Opening Event 


The annual meeting of the service 
company was the opening event for the 
new Farm Bureau building at Pekin 
which is one of the largest and finest 
of its kind in the United States. It was 
built by the Tazewell County Farm 
Bureau and associated organizations to 
house the offices of the various com- 
panies and provide auditorium facilities 
for meetings. 


Farm Bureau members came in such 


Tazewell County Farm Bureau’s new office building houses 


e organization’s many activities. 


numbers from all corners of the county 
to dedicate the new structure that the 
assembly room and hall in the basement 
were crowded to capacity. The Taze- 
well Bureau deserves much credit for 
completing a venture like this.in a year 
such as 1931. The building will serve 
as the permanent office for the Farm 
Bureau, the Farmers’ Automobile In- 
surance Association, the Tazewell Ser- 
vice Company, and other subsidiary 
organizations. 


Woodford Pays 18% 


In Patronage Dividends 


The Woodford County Service Com- 
pany announced an 18 per cent patron- 
age dividend at the annual meeting of 
the Farm Bureau and Service Company 
on January 7, according to Manager 
G. G. Ludwig. Ten per cent dividend 
checks were distributed at the meeting 
and 8 per cent will be paid at a later 
date. The’S36 Farm Bureau members 
who have patronized the company will 
receive approximately $9,000. The non- 
members patronizing the company are 
almost twice the number of Farm Bu- 
reau member patrons. 


Refrigeration and Hard 
Roads Affect Dairying 


Mergers in Milk and Dairy Indus- 
try Reveal Need for Producer 
Organization 


LLINOIS dairy farmers, more com- 
pletely organized than most other 
producers, are faced with new prob- 
lems resulting from recent important 
developments affecting the industry, 
J. B. Countiss, director of dairy mar- 
keting for the I. A. A., said in. his 
annual report. 
The development of a network of 
hard roads, improved refrig- 
eration, and the tendency 
toward increased production 
of milk for the fluid market 
are at the bottom of some 
of the new problems which 
will have to be worked out 
in the near. future. 
A great merger is now 
taking place in the dairy 
industry, the dairy depart- 
ment report states. It makes 
possible a transfer of milk 
from one plant to another 
of the same company or 
from one milk shed to an- 
other in times of stress or 
disagreement. 
Haul Long Distances 
The development of hard 
surfaced roads and improved 
refrigeration makes possible the trans- 
portation of milk over long distances, 
which was not true a few years ago. 
The tendency toward increased produc- 
tion of this perishable product is also 
a problem confronting the farmer who 
undertakes dairying as a life work. 

Bargaining associations resisted price 
declines in milk during 1931 and were 
far more successful than most of -thé 
lesser organized farm commodities in 
maintaining a reasonable income. In 
downward market trends, the price of 
fluid milk has not fallen as fast nor as 
far as most other farm products. 

This situation created a new problem, 
however. It encouraged many farmers 
to go into milk production and their 
addition to the total production caused 
burdensome surpluses to appear near the 
close of the year. Much of this surplus 
was produced by farmers who had not 
had much experience in the milk busi- 
ness, and it is very questionable whether 
the milk they are producing and which 
is causing the disturbance on the mar- 
kets is being produced at a profit. 

This serves as an example of what 
happens when one industry becomes 
well organized and begins to benefit 
those who engage in that line of pro- 
duction. 


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February, 1932 THE I. A. A. RECORD Page Thirteen 


Tonnage Limestone and 
Phosphate Lower in 1931 


Quality Material Remains High, 
Annual Report of J. R. Bent 
States 


ALiiuEE agricultural limestone 
and ground rock phosphate for ag- 
ricultural purposes were lower in cost 
in 1931, there was a substantial reduc- 
tion in the tonnage used during the 
year, J. R. Bent, director of the lime- 
stone-phosphate department of the IlIli- 
nois Agricultural Association, showed 
in his annual report released at the I. 
A. A. convention last week. 

“Several factors have combined to 
cause this,” he said. ‘Chief among 
them is low farm income which cut 
in on the phosphate and limestone de- 
mand during the latter half of the year 
when normally the greatest use is made 
of these commodities. 

“During the spring the tonnage fig- 
ures compared quite favorably with a 
similar period in 1930, but with the 
continual decline in farm prices, coupled 
with bank closings, farmers were un- 
able to secure funds to purchase these 
soil improvement materials. As a result 
sales could not be made by the com- 
panies except on a basis of extended 
payment dates. 


Drought Also Cause 


“Another cause in the shrinkage in 
tonnage, especially in the southern part 
of the state, is the fact that the severe 
drought of 1930 resulted in clover fail- 
ures in many fields which previously had 
been limed and these fields were put 
back into clover in 1931 instead of ad- 
ditional fields which normally would 
have been limed and used for that pur- 
pose. 

““An estimate ‘for the state indicates 
that the amount of these commodities 
used in 1931 was about 40 per cent of 
the amount used in 1930. Ninety-three 
County Farm Bureaus, representing 97 
counties, signed limestone contracts 
with the I. A. A. at the beginning of 
the year to take advantage of the dis- 
counts secured through the organiza- 
tion. 


“When it came time for the com- 
panies to submit prices for the second 
half of the year, the I. A. A. refused 
to accept them, and the final result was 
a general reduction throughout the 
state. Although there was struggle, 
which came near disrupting the agree- 
ment, all the prominent companies, ex- 
cept one, agreed to reduce prices and 
extend the agreement. But even the 
low prices failed to produce business. 

“Under conditions such as prevailed 
in 1931, it was natural to expect that 


NOTICE 
ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 
ASSOCIATION 
ELECTION OF DELEGATES 


OTICE is hereby given that in connection 
with the annual meetings of all County 
Farm Bureaus to be held during the months 
of February and March, 1932, at the hour 
and place to be determined by the Board of 
Directors of each respective County Farm 
Bureau, the members in good standing of 
such County Farm Bureau and who are 
also qualified voting members of Illinois 
Agricultural Association shall elect a dele- 
gate or delegates to represent such members 
of Illinois Agricultural Association and vote 
on all matters before the next annual meet- 
ing or any special meeting of the Associa- 
tion, including the election of officers and 
directors as provided for in the by-laws of 
the Association. 
During February annual meetings will be 
held in McHenry, Will and DeKalb counties. 
During March annual meetings will be 
held in Kankakee, McDonough, Boone and 
Winnebago counties. 


Feb, 1, 1932. 
Signed, 
G. E. Merzcer, Secretary. 


quarry operators would become careless 
and indifferent in the matter of the 
grade of the material. It is, therefore, 
gratifying to be able to report that in- 
stead the grade has been steadily im- 
proved. Under pressure from the I. A. 
A. various companies have installed finer 
screens and better methods of cleaning 
and preparation.” 


Armour & Co. Packers 
Report $23,000,000 Loss 


uF Ue Sage declining meat prices in 1931 
hit the packers a hard blow is in- 
dicated by the $23,000,000 deficit re- 
cently reported by Armour and Com- 
pany for the year just closed. The 
surplus of the company was cut from 
$43,000,000 to $20,000,000. An in- 
ventory loss of $22,000,000 was sus- 
tained. 

Although tonnage sales were prac- 
tically the same, price declines in vari- 
ous meat products ranging from 20 to 
50 per cent reduced the gross income to 
about 70 per cent of the 1930 returns. 

Despite the poor earnings, however, 
the company retired $5,000,000 of 
funded debts, nearly $7,000,000 of pre- 
ferred stock of subsidiary , companies, 
and $2,000,000 of Illinois preferred 
stock without additional financing, the 
annual statement said. Current assets 
on October 31 totaled $138,616,230, 
while current liabilities were only $13,- 
724,177. Cash on hand was $33,208,- 
706, an increase of $21,305,979. 

“Current operating costs have been 
so adjusted that results for recent 
months have been on a more favorable 


Soybean Ass'n. Handles 
Larger Volume in 1931 


Quality of Crop Excellent, Report 
Membership Gain Over 1930 


HE volume of 1931 soybeans han- 
dled through the Soybean Market- 
ing Association showed a considerable 
increase over the 1930 volume, accord- 
ing to the annual report of Wilbur H. 
Coultas, manager of the association. 
“The quality of our 1931 crop was 
excellent,” said Mr. Coultas, ‘“‘and most 
of the carloads handled were good en- 
ough to grade No. 2. A few cars grad- 
ed No. 3 and only three cars graded 
sample. There were four carloads of 
outstanding quality which graded No. 1 
and received a premium of one cent 
per bushel.” 


229 Elevators 

He estimates that by the time the 
1931 crop is disposed of, the association 
will have handled 1,500,000 bushels 
during the year. Last year the volume 
was 1,150,000 bushels. This year’s 
beans were handled through 229 co-op- 
erating elevators located in 30 counties. 
The members’ beans were handled and 
reported by the contracting elevators 
for an average handling charge of ap- 
proximately three cents a bushel. 

During the summer membership cam- 
paign, 1,118 new members were signed, 
bringing the total membership to 4,096. 
Four new counties signed a sufficient 
number of members to organize and 
elect advisory councils. 

““Because there was some demand on 
the part of contract elevators to handle 
quantities of beans from non-member 
growers, the Soybean Marketing Asso- 
ciation handled a large processor’s daily 
bids on a brokerage basis,”’ Coultas said. 
“Thirty-nine carloads of non-member 
soybeans were handled on this account. 


Want to Get In 

“There was an increase in acreage of 
harvested soybeans in other corn belt 
states in 1931 and there has been a large 
number of requests on the part of grow- 
ers in other states to take advantage of 
the pooling privileges of the Soybean 
Marketing Association. In all probabili- 
ties, the board of directors and corpor- 
ate management will arrange to broaden 
out their field to take in growers from 
other states, looking toward the forma- 
tion of a central marketing association 
and the consequent control of a larger 
volume of the commodity.” 


basis,” said T. G. Lee, president. “It 
is apparent that stabilization of com- 
modity values and any subsequent im- 
provement in general business conditions 
should be favorably reflected in the 


earnings of the company.” 


Page Fourteen 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


February, 1932 


Country Life Ins. Co. 
Makes Big Gain in '31 


Adds Nearly $9,000,000 to Business 
In Force, Doubles Assets’ 


“*OUNTRY Life Insurance Company 

4 finished its third year with ap- 
proximately $44,000,000 of business in 
force, according to the annual report 
of Manager L. A. Williams given at the 
annual convention. 

This company, sponsored by the IIli- 
nois Agricultural Association and. the 
County Farm Bureaus, and owned and 
controlled by the 60,000 Farm Bureau 
members of the state, gained $9,000,000 
in paid for business in 1931 to lead all 
Illinois companies and to place well to- 
ward the top among the 338 companies 
for actual gain in business. 


Low Lapse Rate 


. Not.only did the 1,100 agents write 
a good volume of business, but the lapse 
of policies was held down to 8.5 per 
cent, which is considered unusually low 
in a year like 1931, Mr. Williams said. 
A regular monthly gain in new business 
is shown by the report. There were two 
months during the year in which regu- 
lar business written exceeded $2,000,- 
000. 

Dividends paid out in 1931 to policy- 
holders totaled approximately $46,000, 
a distribution made one year earlier 
than the guarantees in the policy. This 
was due partly to the low death claim 
figure, which was only $130,000 for 
the year. 


Assets Are Doubled 


The assets of the company are now 
well over $1,000,000, or double the as- 
sets a year ago. More important than 
this, however, is the fact that the assets 
are in the most liquid form possible, Mr. 
Williams said. Highest type bonds con- 
stitute the entire holdings of Country 
Life. : 

“Although the company was organ- 
ized at the beginning of the worst finan- 
cial crisis in history, the more credit 
is'due it for the great record made dur- 
ing such a time,” he said. “Fortunately, 
life insurance came through this finan- 
cial strain with flying colors, and proved 
that it could weather the worst of 
storms and maintain the highest known 
security for its policyholders.” 


Actuary’s Statement 

Lynn A. Glover, president of L. A. 
Glover & Company, actuaries for. the 
company, made the following statement 
regarding Country Life: 

“It is very gratifying, in reviewing 
the progress of Country Life through 
the stormy year of 1931, to see the 
company forging steadily forward, es- 


tablishing new records in growth, per- 
sistency of business, and establishing 
itself more firmly as a conservative 
financial institution. Deriving its sup- 
port entirely from the citizens of Illi- 
nois, it seems remarkable that in twelve 
months the company has doubled its 
assets, paid dividends to its policy- 
holders, increased its surplus practi- 
cally $100,000, and actually gained 
$8,500,000 to a total paid for amount of 
insurance outstanding of $43,768,000. 

“The wisdom of its ultra-conservative 
investment program has been justified 
by the fact that not one security held 
by the company has defaulted in inter- 
est or principal. Its mortality gains con- 
tinue to prove the wisdom and care 
exercised in the selection of the com- 
pany’s risks. 

“The continued confidence of the 
people. in Country Life, evidenced by 
its growth and the persistency of its 
business is well merited, and the man- 
agement is to be congratulated upon the 
business-like, conservative and economi- 
cal ‘record it has established.” 


Grain Co-ops. Choose 
Advisory Committees 


Ballots have been mailed by the Farm 
Board to approximately 3,500 co-opera- 
tive associations who have been asked 
to establish new advisory committees 
for wheat and coarse grains. Elections 
were scheduled to be held January 26 
at the offices of the Farmers National 


Grain Corporation, Chicago. The new 


committees will serve for one year be- 
ginning February 1, 1932. 

The co-operatives will select seven 
members for each of the committees as 
provided in the Agricultural Marketing 
Act. Five will be chosen by districts 
and the other two who “shall be experi- 
enced handlers or processors of the com- 
modity, will be chosen at large.” 

Members now serving on the wheat 
advisory ‘committee include George S. 
Milnor, Chicago; Bert Lang, St. Louis; 
F. J. Wilmer, Rosalia, Washington; 
John Manley, Enid, Oklahoma; William 
Settle, Indianapolis; J. A. Schnitzler, 
Froid, Montana; and E. G. Tharp, Pro- 
tection, Kansas. 

Members of the present coarse grains 
advisory committee are S. J. Cotting- 
ton, Stanhope, Iowa; George S. Milnor, 
Chicago; James Murray, Chicago; Way- 
land Magee, Bennington, Nebraska; Earl 
C. Smith, Detroit, Illinois; C. E. Huff, 
Chicago; and L. J. Taber, Columbus, 
Ohio. 


Taking advantage of price decreases, 
Japan has increased importation of 
American raw cotton and now ranks 
ahead of Germany as the best market for 
this product. 


Illinois Grain Corp. Closes 
Year with 80 Elevators 


Red Top Seed Growers Exchange 
Gains in Membership 


HE Illinois Grain Corporation, a 

regional co-operative, closed the year 
1931 with a membership of more than 
80 co-operative elevators, representing 
an annual volume of 14,000,000. bushels 
of grain, Harrison Fahrnkopf, director 
of grain marketing for the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association, said in his annual 
report for 1931 released on January 28 
at Rockford. 

At the beginning of the year. there 
were only 32 member elevators,: han- 
dling 5,500,000 bushels of grain, he 
said. In outlining the set-up he -ex- 
plained that the organization requires 
local elevators to operate as full co-oper- 
atives conforming to the Capper-Vol- 
stead Act to be eligible for membership. 


Outstanding Year 


“In grain marketing, the year 1931 
will stand out from all past years in 
that for the first time we have gone 
through a full period of 12 months with 
a state-wide and nation-wide machine 
at the service of the individual producer 
through his local co-operative,” Mr. 
Fahrnkopf said. ‘The elevators which 
have taken action to become members 
of the Illinois Grain Corporation might 
be considered as pioneers in the move- 
ment. They have given loyal support 
to the state regional and to the Farm- 
ers National Grain Corporation.” 


Membership Grows 


Mr. Fahrnkopf also told of the 
growth of the Egyptian Seed Growers 
Exchange at Flora, Ill., another co-oper- 
ative to which he gave considerable 
time during the year. This organiza- 
tion showed a marked increase both in 


membership and in the quantity of red 
top sced handled, he said. : 


953 New Members 


“Nine hundred and fifty new mem- 
ber-growers were added to the Exchange 
during the year,” his report stated. “The 
total is now 2,738 members. Although 
final records are not yet obtainable, the 
organization handled in 1931 one of the 
largest volumes of seed in its history. 
New cleaning machinery has been added 
to the plant and the exchange received 
the crop through 25 receiving points. 
Nine .bonded warehouses are being used 


to handle the red top. C. H. James 


became manager of the co-operative last 
May.” The red top seed co-operative 
is the only one of its kind in the world. 
Southern Illinois farmers grow around 
90 per cent of the red top seed pro- 
duced in the United States. 


U.S. SENATOR CAPPER 
OF KANSAS SAYS — 


“The farm mortgage debt in 
the U..S., which bas more than 
doubled since 1920, can be 
paid off within a generation by 
means of life insurance. 

So much of the farm mort- 
gage debt could be protected 
in this way that mortgages 
would no longer be a menace 
to agriculture and the future 
of the soil. 

Business men now make a 
practice, of covering their in- 
debtedness with life insurance. 
It would be possible to provide 
for the farm mortgage debt in 
the same way. The farmer's 
mortgage: could be cancelled 
with nxbbe maturity of the 
policy? 


orced Sale can be revente 
with Life Insurance 


‘*TIM would have paid for the farm if he had lived,” everyone said. 


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Too bad he didn’t let life insurance finish his job. A COUNTRY 
LIFE policy would have cleaned up the mortgage, given his widow and 
children a deed to the farm. 


Every forced sale is a record of someone’s unfinished work. We 
never know what the future holds for us. “Unfinished business” de- 
scribes all that many men thoughtlessly leave for their loved ones as 
a heritage. 


Country Life’s mortgage insurance policy provides a definite way 
to keep the farm in the family, to provide for the future. If you pass on 
it will mean that your plans will be finished. If you live, the policy 
can be converted into retirement income ...a check every month to 
insure comfort and leisure in your declining years. 


Don’t delay, act now, get the facts, mail the coupon for full infor- 
mation. 


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Page Sixteen 


Lower Assessments Save 
$1,500,000 in Farm Taxes 


Huge Losses in Farm Values Make 
*31 a Busy Year for County 
Tax Committees 


ARGELY as a result of the efforts 

of County Farm Bureau tax com- 
mittees, marked reductions were made 
in the assessed valuations of farm prop- 
erty during 1931, saving Illinois farm- 
ers approximately $1,500,000, as com- 
pared with what they would have paid 
under 1930 assessments, John C. Wat- 
son, director of taxation for the Illinois 
Agricultural Association, showed in his 
annual report released to delegates and 
members at Rockford last week. 

Mr. Watson estimates that farm prop- 
erty will pay about $6,500,000 less in 
all taxes on the 1931 valuations than 
it would have paid if assessments had 
remained unchanged since 1920. 

“Excluding Cook county, for which 
no information is yet available, valua- 
tions of lands and improvements as as- 
sessed for county and local purposes in 
1931, decreased $268,286,585, or nearly 
16 per cent,” the report states. “It is 
impossible to separate assessments of 
farm lands from assessments of lands 
used for other purposes, but it is certain 
that nearly all the decrease in valuation 
noted above was made in farm lands. 


Personal Property Lower 

‘Farm personal property also reflected 
in its assessments the huge losses in val- 
ues suffered in 1930 and early 1931. 
Excluding Cook county, all personal 
property assessments decreased a total 
of $142,805,843, or more than 23 per 
cent of the assessments of such prop- 
erty in 1930. It may be conservatively 
estimated that at least 40 per cent of 
the total reduction was in the valua- 
tions of farm personal property. 

“There can be no doubt that taxes on 
farm property have been substantially 
reduced by decreases in the 1931 valua- 
tions. The effect is most clearly seen 
in taxes for state purposes. If the high 
valuations of 1920 had remained un- 
changed relative to other assessments, 
farm property would have paid about 
$8,951,000 in state taxes in 1931. If 
the 1930 valuations had remained un- 
changed relative to other assessments, 
farm property would have paid $6,634,- 
000 in state taxes on 1931 assessments. 
With the changes in 1931 assessments, 
farm property will pay about $5,776,- 
000 in state taxes on 1931 assessments. 

Tax Cut for State Purposes 

“The cut of $3,175,000 in taxes on 
the 1931 valuations as compared with 


the amount that would have been paid 
on the 1920 valuations is due entirely 


I, A. A. RECORD - 


to the adjustment in valuations. The 
cut of $858,000 in taxes on 1931 val- 
uations, as compared with the amount 
payable on the 1930 valuations, is due 
to a similar adjustment. 

“The effect of changes in county and 
local valuations in taxes charged against 
property could easily be computed for 
any taxing district in the same manner, 
but it is difficult to estimate the effect 
in all county and local taxing districts. 
There can be no doubt, however, that 
relative decreases in valuations of farm 
property tend to produce the same effect 
on taxes for county and local purposes 
as they do for state purposes. 

“On the basis of previous tests of the 
effect of decreases in valuations on the 
amount of county and local taxes 
charged, the I. A. A. estimates that 
farm property will pay a total amount 
of $6,500,000 less on all taxes on the 
1931 valuations than would have been 
paid if valuations had remained the 
same as in 1920, and at least $1,500,000 
less than it would paid if valuations 
had remained the same as in 1930.” 


Farm Equipment Men 
Back the Farm Board 


6¢CINCE our last convention the press 

of the country has been flooded 
with propaganda hostile to the Federal 
Farm Board, including vicious and 
groundless attacks upon the board and 
the government. The source and the 
purpose of this propaganda are obvious 
and unmistakable. The attacks come 
from a limited group of speculators and 
middlemen who have long fattened on 
the proceeds of agriculture without 
benefit to either the producer or the 
consumer; and their manifest purpose 
is to destroy the agricultural marketing 
act or so to cripple it that the Amer- 
ican farmer will be denied government 
aid in regulating and distributing his 
products. 

“At the next session of congress, and 
perhaps thereafter, concerted and well- 
financed efforts will undoubtedly be 
made to repeal or emasculate the agri- 
cultural marketing act or to tie the 
hands of the farm board. Therefore, 
be it 

“Resolved, That we call upon all mem- 
bers in both houses of congress, and 
especially those from the agricultural 
states and areas, and upon the repre- 
sentatives of farmer organizations to 
make a vigorous resistance to this de- 
structive campaign, so that whatever 
amendment may be made to the agri- 
cultural marketing act shall be written 
for the benefit of agriculture, and not 
to its detriment and injury.” Resolution 
passed by National Association of Farm 
Equipment Manufacturers, 


Sen. Cuthbertson Urges 


February, 1932 


Support of Income Tax 


McLean County Annual Meeting 
Reveals Many Farm Bureau 
ccomplishments in 1931 


S. CUTHBERTSON, state ‘senator 

: from Macoupin county, speaking 
before 1,350 farmers at the annual din- 
ner of the McLean County Farm Bu- 
reau, January 7, commended the work 
of the Illinois Agricultural Association 
in behalf of a state income tax and 
urged united support of the proposed 
measure. 

The speaker said that the state con- 
tinues to use a taxing system that was 
in force back in 
1850, despite tre - 
mendous increases in 
population and in 
the burden of taxa- 
tion and despite the 
fact that tangible 
property no longer 
represents ability to 
pax taxes. 

The McLean 
County Farm Bureau 
and its auxiliary 
enterprises reported the following items 
of co-operative business transacted in 
1931: 


McLean Service Company 

The McLean County Service Com- 
pany had 2,500 patrons during the year. 
Its net profit was $61,483, and patron- 
age refunds were $49,613, averaging 
$29.85 for each of the 1,670 Farm Bu- 
reau member patrons. 

The Producers’ market had 56 mar- 
ket days in 1931. The average amount 
of sales per market day was $820.98 
and the total sales for the year were 
$45,974.89. 

Hog cholera serum and virus totaling 
two million cubic centimeters was used 
by Farm Bureau members at a saving 
of $5,000. 

The cream pools at Bloomington, 
Chenoa and Bellflower handled 175,000 
pounds of butterfat. Co-operative grain 
and livestock marketing also received 
considerable attention in the county. 

Life insurance business for 1931 was 
$452,000 bringing the total Country 
Life life insurance in force in the county 
to $1,750,000. Total automobile in- 
surance policies in McLean county in 
the Agricultural Mutual number 1,189, 
which is exceeded by only one county 
in the state. Hail insurance for 1931 was 
$80,530. Fire insurance was $83,553, 
windstorm insurance $64,150. Nineteen 
new employers’ liability policies were 
written during the year, making a total 
of 172 for the county. 


A. S. Cuthbertson 


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February, 1932 THE I. A. A. RECORD Page Seventeen 
cl hic 


85 Counties Given Aid on 
Public Utility Problems 


Estimate Value of Organization at 
Half Million Dollars or More 


S THE result of advice and repre- 

sentation in public utility matters 
made available in 1931 through the 
Farm Bureau and Illinois Agricultural 
Association, Illinois farmers are at least 
a half million dollars better off than 
they would have been if they had acted 
alone, a review of the year’s work on 
problems of this nature reveals. 


According to the annual report of 
the I. A. A. transportation department, 
eighty-five counties shared in this ser- 
vice which includes such matters as 
freight rates, train service, shipping fa- 
cilities, railroad station closing cases, 
railroad right-of-way cases, pipe lines, 


telephone complaints, electric transmis- 


sion lines, and rural electrification. 


Pipe line systems were in process of 
extension in 35 counties during. the 
year. Asa result of the combined efforts 
of. the Illinois Agricultural Association 
and County Farm Bureaus, landowners 
of the state received approximately 
$350,000 more for pipe line easements 
and damages in construction than the 
companies originally offered. In La- 
Salle county alone landowners received 
$30,000 more for the pipe line right- 
of-way across the county than they 
were originally offered. 


Dixon-Freeport Case 


Early in the year through the joint 
efforts of committees from Stephenson, 
Ogle and Lee counties and representa- 
tives of the I. A. A. an agreement with 
power officials regarding settlement for 
an electric transmission line right-of- 
way between Dixon and Freeport pro- 
cured for landowners $20,000 more 
than previously offered by the com- 
pany. dpe 

A total of 42 complaints from 31 
counties on telephone rates, service, and 
right-of-way matters were handled by 
the state association. Information was 
given during the year in response to 
104 requests for quotations of freight 
rates and interpretation of tariff rules 
on such commodities as grain, livestock, 
fruits, vegetables, and agricultural lime- 
stone. 

Other Service Given 


The I. A.A. also handled 26 cases 
dealing with shipping facilities, 20 cases 
resisting the closing of local stations, 
and 159 cases pertaining to right-of- 
way problems such as railroad fences, 
cutting weeds on right-of-ways, repair 
of farm crossings, and drainage com- 
plaints. 


Transportation service was also given 
to the Chicago Producers Commission 
Association, the Egyptian Seed Growers 
Exchange, the Illinois Farm Supply 
Company, the Ilinois Fruit Growers Ex- 
change, the Illinois Grain Corporation, 
the Illinois Livestock Marketing Asso- 
ciation, the National Livestock Market- 
ing Association and National Order 
Buying Company, and the Soybean Mar- 
keting Association. 

In addition to this service, the I.A.A. 
claims department collected 832 claims 
against public utility companies total- 
ing $20,159.88. 


Decline in 1931 Farm 
Income Shown by U.S.D.A 


The year 1931 was reasonably pro- 
ductive of crops but was marked by 
another staggering decline in the price 
of farm products, says the Department 
of Agriculture in its January report on 
the agricultural situation. The decline 
in prices places farm products at ap- 
proximately 50 per cent of their 1929 
value. 

Farm crops, although 10 per cent 
larger in 1930, had a gross value of 
$4,123,000,000 as compared with $5,- 
819,000,000 in 1930. Packers. paid 
farmers $1,103,000,000 for 10,834,- 
000,000 pounds of meat the first ten 
months of the year, as compared with 
$1,553,000,000 for 10,759,000,000 
pounds in the corresponding period of 
1930. The price decline during the past 
year shrank the value of crops nearly 
$1,750,000,000 and of meat nearly 
$500,000,000,: according to the report. 


A. F. B. F. Working on 


Legislative Program 


A six-point program covering the 
Agricultural Marketing Act, rural cred- 
its, the monetary problem, taxation, 
speculation, and Philippine independence 
covers the chief interests of the Ameri- 
can Farm Bureau Federation in the pres- 
ent session of congress, according to a 
recent announcement by President E. A. 
O’Neal. 

President Earl C. Smith is a member 
of the A. F. B. F. legislative committee 
which met in Washington several weeks 
ago with representatives of the Grange 
and Farmers’ Union to develop plans for 
a joint program of agricultural legis- 
lation. Mr. Smith was unable to attend 
this meeting. 

Farm Bureau policies as determined at 
the recent national convention in Chi- 
cago will guide the A.F.B.F. repre- 
sentatives in aJl their dealings, Presj- 


dent O’Neal said. 


Co-operatives in Illinois 
‘Handle Many Commodities 


Huge Volume of Farm Crops Now 
Marketed Through Farmers’ 
Own Agencies 


Cee marketing progress 
in all commodities was reviewed at 
the marketing conference held during 
the I. A. A. convention at Rockford 
on Jan. 28. 

Illinois farmers now have agencies for 
marketing milk, fruits, vegetables, live- 
stock, grain, soybeans, butterfat, red 
top seed, and other commodities. Sev- 
eral of these are affiliated with national 
marketing organizations. 

More than 23,000 carloads of live- 
stock were handled through Producers’ 
Commission Associations or sold direct 
to packers during 1931. Early in the 
year the Illinois Livestock Marketing 
Association was organized to co-ordi- 
nate the work of county and district 
marketing associations and direct the 
movement of livestock to the best mar- 
kets. 

The Illinois Grain Corporation, or- 
ganized in 1930, now has 80 member 
elevators as compared with 32 at the 
beginning of 1931.— These elevators 
have a combined business of 14,000,- 
000 bushels of grain annually. 


1,000 Cars Perishables 


The Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange 
fast year handled nearly 1,000 cars of 
fruits and vegetables, selling to 200 
markets in 23 states and three Canadian 
provinces, 

Practically every milk market in Illi- 
nois is now organized and it is estimated 
that around 85 per cent of the fluid 
milk in the state is marketed through 
co-operatives. 

The Illinois Produce Marketing Asso- 
ciation handled more than 3,000,000 
pounds of. butterfat during 1931 
through its 48 member county associa- 
tions. The first co-operative marketing 
of cream was begun in 1924. 

The Soybean Marketing Association 
last year handled for members 1,500,- 
000 bushels of soybeans as compared 
with 1,150,000 in 1930. This co-oper- 
ative has operated only two years. 

Nearly 1,000 new members were 
signed up by the red top seed co-opera- 
tive, the Egyptian Seed Growers Ex- 
change in 1931, increasing the member- 
ship to 2,738. In 1930 the volume was 
a little less than 700,000 pounds of 
fancy seed. The 1931 volume, although 
not yet determined, is expected to be 
larger than in any previous year. 


Ask your neighbors to join the Farm 
Bureau, 


eo re astern 


Page Eighteen es THE I. A. A. RECORD February, 1932 


Illinois Farm Supply 
Ranks High in '31 Sales 


Distribute. More Than $73,000:\in 
Patronage Refunds to Counties 


HE Illinois Farm Supply Company, 
co-operative purchasing agency or- 
ganized to help Farm Bureau members 
to cut their costs of producing farm 
crops, ranked fifth in gasoline sales and 
second in kerosene sales among the 874 
licensed petroleum distributors in IIli- 
nois during 1931, it was announced by 
L. R. Marchant, manager, in the. con- 
ference of county service company 
managers and directors at Rockford 
January 27. 
$5,000,000 Sales 
More than 4,000 cars of petroleum 


products, or 33,000,000 gallons, were 


handled by the 47 farmers’ oil com- 
panies affiliated with the state company. 
This totals more than $5,000,000 in 
gross sales. Out of the net profits, 
more than $73,000 was distributed on 
a patronage basis among the member 
companies. 
Facilities Increased 


“This growth and expansion has been 
brought about through increased facili- 
ties for distribution ‘and a: general im- 
provement in the merchandising meth- 
ods of the associated companies,” Mr. 
Marchand said. ‘The organization be- 
gan the year with 36 member com- 
panies, operating 92 oil-bulk storage sta- 
tions, and 243 truck tanks. At the 
close of the period 47 companies were 
in operation with 120 bulk storage sta- 
tions and 351 truck tanks. 

Big Gains Over 1931 

“Sales included 22,807,333 gallons 

of gasoline, 8,436,442 gallons of kero- 


sene, 1,059,504 gallons of distillate and 


fuels, 948,239 gallons of lubricating 
oil, and 642,785 pounds of grease. This 
repfesented gains of 74.8 per cent in 
gasoline, 57.4 per cent in kerosene and 
distillate, 69.49 per cent in lubricating 
oil, and 58.5 per cent in grease in com- 
parison with sales during the previous 
year. 


“The 47 companies associated with 
the Illinois Farm Supply Company, rep- 
resenting slightly more than one-twen- 
tieth of the co-operative oil companies 
in the United States, have almost one- 
sixth of the capital stock and -handle 
one-seventh of the business transacted 
by organizations of this type. *This 
financial strength of the associated com- 
panies is a credit to the entire co-opera- 
tive movement in Illinois.” 


The Livingston County Service Company 
recently declared a 17 per cent patronage divi- 
dend on gasoline, 14 per cent on lubricating 
oils, 1244 per cent on coupon books, and 10 
per cent on Blue gasoline, kerosene and grease. 


Jersey County Supply Co. 
Pays 25 Per Cent Refund 


HE 447 Farm Bureau ae a who 

patronized the Jersey County Farm 
Supply Company: during the past year 
will receive in patronage dividends near- 
ly twice the amount the entire member- 
ship pays in annual dues to the County 
Farm Bureau. A 25 per cent patronage 
dividend announced January 9 together 
with the preferred stock dividends of 
7 per cent will total $13,231.45 for the 
year. 


In less than three years this company 
has paid back to Farm Bureau members 
twice the amount originally invested in 
the company, the 7 per cent stock divi- 
dends annually, and set aside surplus 
and ‘reserve funds in excess of the paid 
in capital stock. Among the refund 
checks on 1931 business was one for 
$275, one over $200, and another $175. 
The 474 checks issued averaged $26.46 
per Farm Bureau member, according to 
Manager W. O. Wilson. 

The company sold an average of 
1,009.2 gallons of gasoline, 621 gallons 
of kerosene, 52.2 gallons of motor oil, 
and 21.3 pounds of grease per day 
during the year. 


Wabash Valley Service Co. 
Cuts Melon at Grayville 


Some-700°Farm Bureau members and 
their families assembled in Grayville, 
Wednesday, January 20, to enjoy the 
big melon cut by the Wabash Valley 
Service Company.: 

The announcement of the 20% pat- 
ronage refund by Grant Broster, presi- 
dent of the company, was most enthusi- 
astically received by those in attendance, 
reports L. R. Marchant. 

Checks totaling $6,000 wer distrib- 
uted at the close of the meeting and 
another $6,000 will be distributed at a 
later date. 

Nine hundred thirty-six Farm Bureau 
members in Wabash, Edwards, White, 
Wayne, Gallatin and Saline counties 
will participate in this distribution of 
the earnings according to J. D. Bunt- 
ing, manager of the company. The lar- 
gest check issued was $138 and the av- 
erage of all checks was $12.40 per 
member. 


The sales of the company were sub- 
stantially increased during the past year 
with a gain of 85% for gasoline, 56.6% 
for kerosene, 45.1% for lubricating oil, 
49.5% for grease and 132.7% for mis- 
cellaneous products. Nine directors 
were elected from Wabash, Edwards, 
White and Gallatin counties. 


National stock yards. 
order was approved, and permanent in-’ 
junctions refused as to all the plaintiffs © 


Court Decision Strengthens 


Packer-Stock Yards Act. - 


Commenting on the decision ren- 
dered recently by the Federal Court at 
Danville upholding the Secretary of 
Agriculture in ordering livestock com- 
mission firms at the St. Louis stock 
yards to stop boycotting co-operative 
agencies, counsel for the Department of 
Agriculture said: 

“‘The decision rendered was one on 
injunction proceedings brought by the 
‘old line’? commission firms operating at 
The secretary’s 


except four. The order which the court 


approved was issued last February and’ ~ 


ordered the livestock firms to cease the 
unfair practices charged. The order 
also suspended their registration for a 
period of 90 days. They were able to 
get a temporary injunction which 
stayed the suspension provision of the 
order.” 

This decision, according to the legal 
counsel’s statement, strengthened ‘the 
Department in the enforcement of the 
Packers and Stock Yards Act. The 
court ruled that individuals or agencies 
offering a public or quasi-public service 
who refuse to trade with anyone on a 
public live stock market are violating 
the act even though conspiracy may not 
be proved; that concerted action with- 
out agreement is a violation; and even 
the action of a single agency or indi- 
vidual in refusing to trade makes him 
subject to disciplinary action by the 
Secretary of Agriculture, who may sus- 


pend his right to operate on the mar- 


ket. Jury trial of such offenses, the 
court ruled, is not esseritial to the proper 
administration of the law. 


Three Essentials to 


Readjustment—A. B. A. 


Three essentials to completing the re- 
adjustment to the lower level of prices 
and income now prevailing include: 
(1) lower government expenditures, in- 
debtedness and taxes; (2) lower trans- 
portation costs, the largest item in 
which is railroad wages, and (3) lower 
building costs, corresponding with the 
drastic reductions in building materials, 
according to the American Bankers 
Association. 

“None of these charges is immovable 
and time will doubtless bring them all 
back into line,” states the association. 
“Purchasing power and prosperity never 
come from partial employment at’ nomi- 
nally high wage scales, but from full 


employment at ‘natural’ wages, deter- 


mined by supply and demand, be they 
high or low.” 


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Number 3 


MARCH, 1932 


Volume 10 


Organized Agriculture Scores Great Victory 


State Income Tax Bill Passes After Many Years of Effort 


HE organized farmers of Illinois 

scored their greatest victory on 
February 2, when as a result of their 
five years of continuing effort, the 
General Assembly of Illinois enacted 
into law a constructive State Income 
Tax bill. Companion measures were 
also passed, which provide and insure 
that all revenue derived from the In- 
come Tax will be used to reduce or 
replace taxes now levied upon and éol- 
lected from property. 

On February 22, Governor Emmer- 
son signed all bills having to do with 
this series of legislation. The legisla- 
tion goes into effect on July 1 next. 

The Illinois Agricultural 
Association prepared and 
sponsored its first Income 
Tax bill during the 55th 
General Assembly in 1927. - 
Its efforts at that time were 
largely put forth to secure 
attention and study on the 
part of all who recognized 
anid believed that taxes upon 
property were becoming un- 
bearable and that something 
must be done to secure a 
more equitable distribution 
of the cost of government. 
The bill passed the Senate, 
but it was impossible to se- 
cure proper attention in the 
House and it was dropped 
from the calendar during 
the closing days of the ses- 


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sion. 
Second Effort 1929 
The second effort was 


made during the session of 
1929. Again the bill passed 
the Senate, but was unfa- 
vorably reported out by the 
House Revenue Committee. 
The House refused to con- 
cur in the committee report 


and placed the bill upon the 


calendar. When called up on second 
reading or the amendment stage, a mo- 
tion was made to strike the enacting 
clause and it prevailed by a vote of 
72 to 69. 

The third income tax bill was intro- 
duced in the regular session of the Gen- 
eral Assembly in the spring of 1931. 
Its rates were much higher than those 
of its predecessors, thus offering an op- 
portunity for much greater relief to the 
property taxpayers than would have 
been afforded by the earlier proposals. 
It passed the Senate with five (5) votes 
to spare. In the House again it found 
rough sledding. After hurdling all ef- 


PTHIS issue of the I. A. A. RECORD is intended to 

convey to the membership brief, but authentic, 
information as to the voting record of members of 
the General Assembly, outsjde of Chicago, on the 
State Income Tax Bill. 


The main issue involved in the Income Tax fight 
was by and between those seeking just relief from the 
ever-increasing tax burden upon property of the 
state, and those owning intangible property and 
others receiving substantial incomes who were under 
present laws escaping and failing to bear their just 
portion of the cost of government. 


Property taxpayers owe a debt to all members of 
the General Assembly who voted for this legislation. 
The I. A. A. knows of no better way to discharge 
that debt than to go en masse to the polls on primary 
day and on election day and use the full power of 
the ballot in voting for those members seeking re- 
election who have stood by and with the property 
taxpayers of Illinois. 

Government of the people, by the people and for 
the people can only be restored and maintained by 
electing and keeping in office men and women who 
refuse to be stampeded by reactionary oppositionists, 
and who stand firmly with and for progressive and 
constructive legislation. 


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President. 


forts to seriously amend it and after 
reaching the stage of final passage, it 
failed by two (2) votes to secure the 
constitutional majority required. 

The regular session of the 57th Gen- 
eral Assembly adjourned in June of 
last year without enacting into law any 
measures directed toward permanent re- 
lief of the ever-increasing tax burdens 
upon property. Many municipalities 
were in dire distress for revenue, par- 
ticularly Chicago and Cook County. 
Recognizing these conditions and that 
something must be done, the Governor 
of Illinois called together 43 men who 
were representative of the various eco- 
nomic interests of the state. 

At that time, the Gover- 
nor very frankly presented 
the problems confronting 
the state and its municipal- 
ities, the imperative need 
for revenue reform and re- 
quested this conference of 
citizens to undertake the re- 
sponsibility for an intensive 
study of the problem and 
to bring forth suggestions 
for effective remedies. This 
conference of 43 citizens se- 
lected an Executive Com- 
mittee of Eleven to under- 
take the job, with instruc- 
tions to report back to the 
General Conference, if and 
when agreement could be 
reached. This committee 
consisted of eight (8) men 
from Cook County and 
three (3) from downstate, 
one of whom was the Presi- 
dent of the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association. 


Recommends Income Tax 


The Executive Commit- 
tee met regularly over a 
period of four (4) months 
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and made its report late in 
October to the General 
Conference. Included in this 
report was a recommenda- 
tion for a State Income Tax 
and the use of all revenue 
derived therefrom to be 
used in such manner as 
would reduce, dollar for dol- 
lar, taxes now levied upon 
and collected from prop- 
erty. 

In every particular, this 
proposed income tax em- 
bodied principles supported 
by the Illinois Agricultural 
Association in its previous 
efforts. When the proposals 
of the Governor’s Tax Con- 
ference were presented to 
the Special Session of the 
Illinois General Assembly, 
which was called by the 
Governor early in Novem- 
ber, the President of the 
Illinois Agricultural Asso- 
ciation was selected to pre- 
sent that phase of the con- 
ference program having to 
do with permanent tax re- 
lief, and particularly to ex- 
plain in detail the proposed 
State Income Tax. The fact 
that he had been Chairman 
of the Sub-Committee of 
the Governor’s Tax Con- 
ference on “New Sources of 
Revenue and Permanent Tax 
Relief,” and the further fact that infor- 
mation upon which this legislation was 
founded had been compiled by the De- 
partment of Taxation and Statistics of 
the I. A. A. throughout several years, 
resulted in placing upon the Illinois 
Agricultural Association a large part of 
the responsibility for actively sponsor- 
ing this proposal during its considera- 
tion by the Special Session of the Gen- 
eral Assembly. 


Lead Fight for Bill 
Senator Simon E. Lantz and Repre- 


sentative Homer J. Tice led the fight 
on the floor of their respective houses. 


Final passage was secured, with the _ 


legislation in substantially the form it 
was presented to the General Assembly. 
Minor amendments were adopted in 
both Senate and House, which will to 
some degree reduce the revenue; but 
that part of the proposal which had 
to do with the use of the revenue re- 
mained in its original form. 

The Income Tax Bill provides for 
exemptions of $1,000, $2,500 and $300 
respectively for single persons, married 
couples and dependents. Rates after ex- 
emptions are: 

One per cent (1%) on the first........ $1,000 
Two per cent (2%) from...$1,000 to $4,000 


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AX IN THE HOUSE 


Left to right: Rep. Homer J. Tice, who led fight for bill in 
House; Earl C. Smith, and Senator Simon E. Lantz, sponsor 


of measure which bears his name. 


Three per cent (3%) from.. 4,000 to 9,000 
Four per cent (4%) from... 9,000 to 16,000 
Five per cent (5%) from....16,000 to 25,000 
Six per cent (6%) on all income above 25,000 


Property Tax Offset 


The computed income tax may be 
reduced by any property taxes paid in 
the proportion that reported income de- 
rived from tax-paying property bears to 
the total reported income. In other 
words, if one-half (14) of any person’s 
net income is derived from tax-paying 
property, he is permitted to reduce his 
computed income tax one-half (14). If 
his entire net income is derived from 
tax-paying property, there will be no 
tax on his income. 

It is also provided that any person 
occupying his or her own residence as 
a home may deduct from the computed 
income tax the full amount of general 
taxes paid on such residence property 
up to but not in excess of $100. Any 
person either not entitled to or not 
claiming an offset may deduct any 
general taxes paid on property from 
his gross income in computing the net 
income. 

All moneys collected under this legis- 
lation are to be placed in the Public 


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School Fund of the State 
Treasury. Its distribution is 
to be made in the follow- 
ing manner: 


Replacement Feature 


Any moneys appropriated 
by the General Assembly for 
the State Distributive School 
Fund are to be taken from 
this newly created Public 
School Fund instead of be- 
ing levied upon the property 
of the state as has been done 
in former years. This will 
immediately remove from 
property approximately one- 
third (1%) of the require- 
ments of the state levy 
during recent -years. The 
balance remaining in the 
Public School Fund is to 
be divided between Cook 
County and the balance of 
the state in proportion to 
the assessed valuation of 
property. 

The down-state’s portion 
is to be divided among the 
various school districts of 
the state outside of Cook 
County in the proportion 
that the average annual ex- 
penditures by each district 
bear to the total average 
annual expenditures for the 
educational fund of the ele- 
mentary schools during the 
preceding four (4) years. Unless other- 
wise provided by special referendum of 
the voters of any school district, the 
average annual levy of the preceding 
four (4) years becomes the maximum 
amount that can be levied upon prop- 
erty for the educational fund of each 


. elementary school. 


One of the companion bills also pro- 
vides that after receiving the levy from 
the local school board or board of edu- 
cation, the County Clerk shall reduce 
the amount of such proposed levy by 
an amount equal to the sum received 
by such district from the Public School 
Fund in the preceding twelve months, 

During recent years, the state has 
been levying from ten to ten and one- 
half million dollars ($10,500,000) per 
year for the State Distributive School 
Fund. The local school boards and 
boards of education have been levying 
approximately eighty million dollars 
($80,000,000) per year for educational 
purposes in the elementary schools. It 
is believed that this newly enacted legis- 
lation will provided from twenty-five 
(25) to thirty (30) million dollars per 
year in years such as 1931, and from 
forty to forty-five million dollars per 
year in years of greater prosperity. 


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Replaces Property Taxes 

As this revenue is to be used in its 
entirety to replace taxes on property 
previously levied by the state and by 
local authorities for educational pur- 
poses in the elementary schools, it can 
be readily seen that whatever may be 
the amount of revenue derived from the 
income tax, property will be afforded 
relief by the same amount. 

The Association’s members and read- 
ers of its publication should not fail to 
recognize that to secure the passage of 
this legislation, tremendous opposition 
had to be overcome. Many of those 
who have been enjoying privileges and 
benefits of Government without con- 


tributing to its cost recognized imme- 
diately that this legislation would bring 
them into the tax-paying class. Mem- 
bers of the General Assembly were im- 
portuned on every hand to oppose the 
legislation. ‘To those members who 
stood up against all opposition and who 
overcame all obstacles obstructing its 
passage belongs a large share of the 
credit for these newly created statutes. 


Get Out and Vote 


The property tax-payers of Illinois 
owe these legislators a debt of gratitude 
and we know of no better way to dis- 
charge that debt than to go to the polls 
on primary day, and again on election 


day and use the full strength of the 
ballot to return to office those who, by 
their efforts and votes, made possible 
this first victory for the property tax- 
payers of this state. By so doing, think- 
ing property owners of Illinois will not 
only be repaying in part what they owe 
to their representatives, but will be lay- 
ing an effective ground work for fu- 
ture constructive legislation now in the 
making, which will bring about still 
greater relief to property. The time has 
arrived when the thinking voters of the 
state must lay aside party prejudices, or 
at least make them secondary to the 
economic interests of the people at 
large. 


HOW SENATORS, REPRESENTATIVES VOTED ON THE INCOME TAX 
In the Special Session of the Fifty-Seventh General Assembly 


District & Counties For Against 


7th District (rural and 
suburban Cook county and 
part of City of Chicago) 

Sen. Huebsch X 

Rep. Foster 

Rep. Ickes 

Rep. McGrath 
8th District (Boone, Lake 
and McHenry) 

Sen. Paddock 

Rep. Bolger 

Rep. Carroll 

Rep. Lyons 
10th District (Ogle and 
Winnebago) 

Sen. Baker 

Rep. Green Xx 

Rep. Hunter xX 

Rep. Nyman* 
12th District (Carroll, Jo 
Daviess.and Stephenson) 

Sen. Meyers 

Rep. Acker 

Rep. Babb 

Rep. Franz 
14th District (Kane and 
Kendall ) 

Sen. Kessinger 

Rep. McCarthy 

Rep. Peffers 

Rep. Petit ».4 
16th District (Livingston, 
Marshall, Putnam and 
Woodford ) 

Sen. Lantz 

Rep. Bestold 

Rep. Fahy 

Rep. Turner 
18th District (Peoria) 

Sen. Michel 

Rep. Crowley 

Rep. Jobst 

Rep. McClugage 


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20th District (Grundy, 
Iroquois and Kankakee) 

Sen. Meents 

Rep. Bratton X 

Rep. Burns ‘xX 

Rep. Wilson X 
22nd District (Edgar and 
Vermilion) 

Sen. Bailey 

Rep. Breen X 

Rep. Edwards* 

Rep. Luckey X f 
24th District (Champaign, 
Moultrie and Piatt) 

Sen. Dunlap X 

Rep. Black xX 

Rep. Gilmore 

Rep. Little xX 
26th District (Ford and 
McLean) 

Sen. Bohrer 

Rep. Childers 

Rep. Johnson 

Rep. Kane 
28th District (DeWitt, 
Logan and Macon) 

Sen. Lee 

Rep. Chynoweth 

Rep. Doyle 

Rep. Worth 
30th District (Brown, 
Cass, Mason, Menard, 
Schuyler and Tazewell) 

Sen. Mills 

Rep. Lohmann 

Rep. Teel 

Rep. Tice 
32nd District (Hancock, 
McDonough and Warren) 

Sen. Hanna 

Rep. Barnes 

Rep. Davidson 

Rep. Robbins 


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33rd Dist. (Henderson, 
Mercer and Rock Island) 

Sen. Carlson 

Rep. McCaskrin 

Rep. Searle 

Rep. Sinnett 
34th District (Clark, 
Coles and Douglas) 

Sen. Hamilton 

Rep. Brewster 

Rep. Handy 

Rep. Lewis, J. W. 
35th District (DeKalb, 
Lee and Whiteside) 

Sen. Wright 

Rep. Allen 

Rep. Collins 

Rep. Devine 
36th District (Adams, 
Calhoun, Pike and Scott) 

Sen. Adair 

Rep. Bush 

Rep. Scarborough 

Rep. Sullivan* 
37th District (Bureau, 
Henry and Stark) 

Sen. Gunning 

Rep. Jackson 

Rep. Rennick 

Rep. Wilson, R. J. 
38th District (Greene, 
Jersey, Macoupin and 
Montgomery) 

Sen. Cuthbertson 

Rep. Bray 

Rep. Snell 

Rep. Whiteley 
39th District (LaSalle) 

Sen. Mason 

Rep. Benson 

Rep. Conerton 

Rep. Soderstrom 

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In addition to the above, Sen. Roberts and Rep. Blackwell of Chicago voted for the Income Tax Bill, being the first two votes ever cast 


from Chicago for this legislation. 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


INCOME TAX VOTE—CONTINUED 


District & Counties For Against 


40th District (Christian, 
Cumberland, Fayette and 
Shelby) 

Sen. Smith 

Rep. Corzine 

Rep. Roe 

Rep. Sparks 


41st District (DuPage 
and Will) 
Sen. Barr 
Rep. Buck 
Rep. Hennebry X 
Rep. Walker 


42nd District (Clay, Clin- 
ton, Effingham & Marion) 

Sen. Finn 

Rep. Branson 

Rep. Lager 

Rep. McMackin 
43rd District (Fulton 
and Knox) 

Sen. Ewing 

Rep. Hawkinson 

Rep. McClure 

Rep. Mureen 
44th District (Jackson, 
Monroe, Perry, Randolph 
and Washington) 

Sen. Wilson 

Rep. Davis 

Rep. Kribs 

Rep. Waller 
45th District (Morgan 
and Sangamon) 

Sen. Searcy Xx 

Rep. Giffin X 

Rep. Lawler 

Rep. Sullivan D4 


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Smith Appears Before 
Committees in Washington 


Members of the Legislative committee 
of the A. F. B. F., including President 
O’Neal, and Directors Smith of Illinois, 
Hearst of Iowa, Settle of Indiana, Black- 
burn of California, and White of New 
York appeared before the Senate and 
House Committees on Agriculture re- 
cently in behalf of constructive amend- 
ments to Agricultural Marketing Act. 


They urged amendment to the Act, 
authorizing the Farm Board to use the 
equalization fee, if and when needed, to 
control crop surpluses in the interest of 
orderly marketing of farm commodities, 
and to further provide that its use be= 
come mandatory, if and when two- 
thirds of the Advisory Council of any 
commodity requested it be put into ef- 
fect. Evidence was presented to show 
that the equalization fee was the only 
device yet suggested that could be uni- 
versally used for this purpose. 

In the interest of harmonizing differ- 


District & Counties For Against 


46th District (Jasper, Jef- 
ferson, Richland, Wayne) 
Sen. McCauley 
Rep. Kuechler 
Rep. Parker 
Rep. Thompson, F. G. 


47th Dist. (Bond, Madison) 
Sen. Monroe 
Rep. Malloy 
Rep. O’Neill 
_ Rep. Vaughan X 
48th District (Crawford, 
Edwards, Gallatin, Har- 
din, Lawrence, Wabash 
and White) 
Sen. Miles X 
Rep. Lewis, F. W. X 
Rep. Ryan (deceased ) 
Rep. Thompson, J.R. X 


49th District (St. Clair) 

Sen. Kline 

Rep. Borders X 

Rep. Holten 

Rep. Huschle 
§0th District (Alexander, 
Franklin, Pulaski, Union 
and Williamson) 

Sen. Felts (deceased) 

Rep. Browner 

Rep. Kimbro 

Rep. Wilson, A. 
§i1st District (Hamilton, 
Johnson, Massac, Pope 
and Saline) 

Sen. Thompson 

Rep. Porter 

Rep. Rew 

Rep. Rush 


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ences between farm spokesmen and farm 
organizations, they expressed a willing- 
ness also to have included in the amend- 
ment provisions, authorization for the 
use of the debenture if and when same 
seemed to be advisable and necessary. 

While in no way criticizing legisla- 
tion in the making that had for its pur- 
pose the further extension of credit, 
yet spokesmen for the American Farm 
Bureau Federation insisted that further 
credit could only operate to delay the 
day of reckoning or pay-day, and that 
what must be accomplished was to pro- 
vide necessary legislation to stimulate 
and assist in bringing price levels of 
farm commodities to a basis that would 
offer substantial profits with which to 
pay debts already created. 

The committees were urged to give 
immediate attention to this all impor- 
tant question and the farm spokesmen 
expressed the opinion that the present 
depression would continue until the 
basic industry of all—AGRICULTURE 
—could be restored to a normal and 
profitable basis. 


March, 1932 


More Than 500 Attend 
Public Relations Meet 


State Legislation, Utility Problems 
Considered at I. A. A. Conference 


I a largely to interest in the state 
income tax bill which was pend- 
ing in the general assembly at that time, 
the Public Relations Conference was the 
largest of the five “open forums” held 
at the annual I. A. A. meeting, Rock- 
ford, Jan. 28. Chas Black presided. 


President Earl C. Smith and John C. 
Watson discussed this bill and the com- 
panion measures in 
detail, giving numer- 
ous examples of how 
they would relieve 
the property owner 
of a part of his tax 
load. They urged 
support of  repre- 
| sentatives voting for 
the income tax meas- 
‘ure. 

Legislation of in- 
terest to agriculture 
passed during the last 
regular session of the general assembly 
also was reviewed by Mr. Watson. He 
explained the provisions of the act per- 
mitting general taxes on real estate to 
be paid in two installments and com- 
pared it with the old law; described the 
act requiring state institutions to pur- 
chase at least 75 per cent of their fat 
requirements in the form of butter and 
lard instead of substitutes; and outlined 
the amendments to the motor vehicle 
act, one of which provides for exemp- 
tion from license fees of farm tractors 
using public highways in traveling from 
one field to another, the other provid- 
ing a different schedule of license fees 
for smaller trucks. 


Chas. S. Black 


Transportation and public utility 
problems were discussed by L. J. Qua- 
sey, director of transportation. The 
opinion of those taking part in the 
conference was that increases in the 
freight rates on livestock would curtail 
the movement of livestock by railroad, 
that reductions in the minimum weights 
per car would tend to encourage rail 
shipments of livestock, and that provi- 
sions should be made to take care of 
mixed shipments, which would still be 
made even if the minimum were re- 
duced. 

Members of the General Assembly 
who were presented to the audience in- 
cluded Senators Simon E. Lantz, Con- 
gerville; Harry S. Wright, DeKalb; 
Chas. Baker, Rockford, and Representa- 
tives: Wm. H. Jackson, Toulon and Den- 
nis Collins, DeKalb. 


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THESE SENATORS VOTED FOR STATE INCOME TAX 
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Charles W. Baker Richard J. Barr Florence EF. Bohrer 


0) Martin R. Carlson A. 8S. ‘Cuthbertson Henry M. Dunlap Clinton L. Ewing Dr. W. L. Finn Thos. R. Gunning 


John R. Hamilton Louis H. Hanna Arthur A. Huebsch H. C. Kessinger Simon E. Lantz Charles E. Lee 


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James O. Monroe Ray Paddock Guy L. Smith Chas. H. Thompson Harry Wilson 


Harry G. Wright 


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John Acker Henry C. Allen Alfred S, Babb Roy R. Barnes Ole E. Benson 


William Z. Black Thomas A. Bolger Grover C. Borders R. J. Branson Luther B. Bratton 


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P, J. Breen John F. Brewster M. F. Browner Carroll Bush William M. Carroll Gordon Childers | 


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John P. Devine Howard L. Doyle Michael Fahy Charlies D. Frans D. Logan Giffin Sol Handy 


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THESE REPRESENTATIVES VOTED FOR THE STATE 
INCOME TAX—SUPPORT THEM AT THE POLLS 


H. G. Hawkinson David Hunter, Jr. Wm. H. Jackson G. J. Johnson Earl C. Kimbro 


Chas. J. Kribs Dr. F. W. Kuechler Roger F. Little 


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M. B. Lohmann Hugh M. Luckey Charles F. Malloy F. A. McCarthy H. M. MeCaskrin 


John M. 
J. E. MceMackin E. W. Mureen Sidney Parker Frank Porter 


Frank W. McClure Claude L. Rew Arthur Ree Ww. V. Rush H, F. Searborough 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


March, 1932 


THESE REPRESENTATIVES VOTED FOR THE STATE 
INCOME TAX—SUPPORT THEM AT THE POLLS 


Clinton Searle 


T. J, Sullivan H. V. Teel 


Elbert Waller Robert Whitely 


Agricultural Legislation in the Regular 


Thomas P. Sinnett 


Alexander Wilson 


F. G. Thompson John R. Thompson 


Elmer C. Wilson 


Truman A. Snell R. G. Soderstrom 


H. D. Sparks 


Homer J. Tice Charles M. Turner 


Evan Worth 


Session 


Robert J. Wilson 


Of 57th General Assembly 


tise legislative policy of the Illinois 
Agricultural Association in each 
session of the General Assembly, except 
in minor emergency matters, is deter- 
mined by the delegates in session at the 
annual meeting. The major legislative 
projects approved at the annual meet- 
ing held in Springfield in January, 1931, 
were as follows: 

1. Requirement that at least seven- 
ty-five (75) per cent of the fats pur- 
chased for food of inmates and em- 
ployees of all state institutions be in 
butter and lard instead of substitutes 
therefor. 

The Association prepared, sponsored 
and secured the enactment of House 
Bill 451 in the regular session of the 


57th General Assembly for this purpose. 

2. Relief of owners from liability 
for damages caused by livestock when 
the owner can show that he has used 
reasonable care in the confinement and 
restraint of such animals. 

The Association prepared, sponsored 
and secured the enactment of House 
Bill 410 in the regular session for this 
purpose. 

3. Relief of farmers from liability 
to prosecution and suits for damages 
for killing stray dogs found molesting 
livestock upon their premises. 

The Association prepared, sponsored 
and secured the enactment of Senate 
Bill 761 in the regular session for this 


purpose. 


4a. Exemption of farm tractors and 
farm implements and machinery drawn 
by tractors from the requirement of 
motor licenses when they use the high- 
ways only in moving between fields or 
farms in carrying on farm operations. 

b. Establishing a more equitable 
schedule of license fees on the gross 
weight of smaller trucks and_ their 
loads. 

The Association did not prepare leg- 
islation on these subjects but sought 
modification of one or two of the sev- 
eral bills already introduced- relating 
thereto. After various bills were com- 
bined into one bill and were amended 
in different ways, the combined House 
Bill 1198, introduced by the House 


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Committee on Motor Vehicles and 
Traffic Regulation, was passed late in 
the regular session, ‘This Act would 
be improved by the passage of an 
amending bill, Senate Bill 135, as 
amended, now pending in the first spe- 
cial session of the General Assembly, 
which divides trucks of between 8,000 
and 12,000 pounds of gross weight 
(including weight of vehicle and maxi- 
mum load) into two classes. The 
lighter trucks of 8,000 to 10,000 
pounds of gross weight under this bill 
would pay a license fee of $24 instead 
of $35, and trucks of 10,000 to 12,000 
pounds of gross weight would pay $35 
as at present required of the entire 
class. 

§. Appropriations to provide Boys’ 
and Girls’ 4-H Clubs with adequate, 
commodious and permanent quarters at 
the Illinois State Fair. The require- 
ments of 4-H boys and girls at the 
State Fair were taken up with the proper 
authorities at Springfield. There was 
urgent pressure for substantial gppro- 
priations by the state to erect a suit- 
able structure for the coming Century 
of Progress Exposition in Chicago in 
1933. On the other hand, there was 
need of economy. It was, therefore, 
definitely agreed with responsible off- 
cials that all structural steel for a State 
building at the Exposition would be 
purchased with the understanding that 
after the close of the Exposition, such 
structural steel as would be necessary 
would immediately be removed to the 
State Fair Grounds and used for the 
erection of adequate and permanent 
quarters for the Boys’ and Girls’ 4-H 
Clubs. 

6. State Income Tax. 

The result of the I. A. A.’s many 
years’ efforts to enact income tax legis- 
lation is discussed elsewhere in this issue. 

The Association also prepared, spon- 
sored and secured the enactment of 
House Bill 467 amending the Agricul- 
tural Co-Operative Act of 1923 in sev- 
eral sections in such ways as experi- 
ence has shown necessary, in order that 
the Act may fully meet the needs of 
really co-operative farm enterprises. 


Legislation Opposed 


The annual meeting of January, 
1931, also directed the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association to oppose any regula- 
tion requiring vaccination by a licensed 
veterinarian before swine could be ex- 
hibited at-any county fair or the State 
Fair; to oppose legislation proposing to 
substitute, for purposes of administra- 
tion and revenue, a single school district 
in each county in place of all elementary 
and high school districts therein, until 
such time as local highways are suffi- 
ciently improved to make it possible at 
all times for children to be conveyed 


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to central or consolidated schools and 
until the revenues for supporting the 
public schools are at least in part col- 
lected by a system of taxation levied 
upon ability to pay rather than by a 
system of taxation levied wholly upon 
property; to oppose the diversion of any 
portion of gasoline tax funds to cities, 
towns and villages, but to favor amend- 
ment of the Act relating to hard roads 
through or within cities, towns and 
villages in such a way as to authorize 
and direct the State Highway Depart- 
ment to maintain and when necessary to 
reconstruct such hard surfaced roads on 
streets or roads within cities, towns and 
villages as have previously been desig- 
nated as state highways; and to author- 
ize and direct careful study of the op- 
eration and effect of a Drivers License 
Law and to withhold support therefrom 
until further directed. 

The first two named measures were 
successfully defeated, the diversion of 
the gasoline tax funds was defeated, but 
extension of the use of such funds was 
provided in the manner favored by the 
Association, and a Drivers’ License Law 
in the State of Illinois is still in the 
stage of discussion and study. 

Unemployment Relief Bills 


MAX* inquiries have reached the 
offices of the Association relative 
to the effect the unemployment relief 
bills will have upon down-state coun- 
ties and also requesting information as 
to the attitude assumed by members of 
the General Assembly representing dif- 
ferent sections of the state. 

There was introduced in the third 
Special Session bills covering sugges- 
tions and requests of a Chicago Com- 
mittee to provide immediate funds for 
use in meeting what was said to be a 
great emergency existing in Chicago 
and other metropolitan centers. 

The evidence presented to the Gen- 
eral Assembly disclosed a very serious 
situation in Chicago, due to the tremen- 
dous volume of unemployment and the 
necessity for funds to provide food for 
the hundreds of thousands of unem- 
ployed. 

Chicago Funds Exhausted 

It appeared that ten million dollars 
($10,000,000) had been raised by pri- 
vate subscription in the City of Chi- 
cago to meet the situation up to Febru- 
ary 1, that those funds were practically 
exhausted, and that immediate assistance 
was necessary.’ Evidence presented also 
disclosed the fact that bonds of the 
City of Chicago or of Cook County 
could not be sold due to the critical 
revenue situation prevailing in that 
county as a result of deferred tax pay- 
ments which were tied up in the courts. 

There were five bills enacted into law 
in the shortest possible space of time, 


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which in effect, provide: (1) the cre- 
ation of a state emergency relief com- 
mission; (2) a tax of twenty-five mil- 
lion dollars ($25,000,000) upon prop- 
erty in the 1932 levy for relief of resi- 
dents destitute because of unemploy- 
ment or otherwise; and for the issue of 
state anticipation warrants against such 
tax; (3) for appropriations necessary 
for the purpose of the bills; (4) for 
submission of a bond issue of twenty 
million dollars ($20,000,000) by the 
state in the general election in Novem- 
ber, 1932—such bonds to be used to 
retire the anticipation warrants issued; 
and (5) payment of the interest and 
principal of such bonds by such coun- 
ties as use state funds for unemploy- 
ment relief, payment to be made out of 
the gasoline tax funds allotted to such 
counties under the Motor Fuel Law. 


Pledge State’s Credit 


There was very evident resentment 
on the part of down-state representa- 
tives at what was called “unwarranted 
delay” in bringing this matter to the 
attention of the General Assembly if 
the need was so urgent and also at some 
of the alarmist statements used in 
bringing pressure to bear on down-state 
members for the support of these bills. 

In effect, the series of bills pledges 
the credit of the State of Illinois and 
involves the possibility of a state tax on 
property for emergency relief. This tax 
on property can be avoided if a ma- 
jority of those voting for the members 
of the General Assembly next Novem- 
ber vote for the proposed issue of bonds. 
If this bond issue is approved, part of 
the gasoline tax funds will be diverted 
from the state aid roads in every coun- 
ty using the state funds so provided for 
relief, and in that manner retire the 
bonds. Such counties as do not use 
such funds for unemployment relief 
will not be affected, if the proposed 
bond issue is approved. 

Representatives of the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association neither supported 
nor opposed the unemployment relief 
bills. In their opinion, the situation 
was not only so difficult but involved so 
many angles of public interest, particu- 
larly the humanitarian side of the ques- 
tion that sufficient evidence was not 
available to justify taking a definite 
stand. 


Support Bond Issue 


It was reported that the Illinois 
Bankers Association, the Illinois Cham- 
ber of Commerce, the Illinois Manufac- 
turers Association, the Illinois Federa- 
tion of Labor, the Chicago press and 
much of the down-state press had 
agreed to actively support the bond is- 
sue when submitted to the people next 
fall and it was recognized that with 

(Continued on page 12) 


Page Twelve 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


March, 1932 


the passage of the bond issue, all coun- 
ties not calling for funds under the 
legislation would not be affected in any 
way. 

The Illinois Agricultural Association 
believes that, regardless of whether 
downstate members of the General As- 
sembly voted for or against these bills, 
their interest in agriculture should not 
be challenged. 

The Association urges all down-state 
citizens and particularly its members to 
actively support the proposed bond issue 
in the election next November. 


Amend Grain Storage and 
Chattel Mortgage Acts 


The Association prepared, sponsored 
and secured the enactment of House 
Bill 7 in the special sessions of the 57th 
General Assembly which repeals section 
16 of the Grain Storage Act, so that 
insurance policies on grain stored on the 
farm can be made in favor. of any per- 
son or bank lending money on such 
grain instead of in favor of the State 
Department of Agriculture. 

The Association also prepared, spon- 
sored and secured the enactment of 
House Bill 198, amending the Chattel 
Mortgage Act, so that notes secured by 
chattel mortgages on livestock are ne- 
gotiable instruments, thus permitting 
legal loans to be made on such security. 


Marketing Farm Products, 
Subject I. A. A. Conference 


Geo. Jewett of Chicago, Chief 
Speaker, Tells Why Many Op- 
pose Farmer Co-Operation 


O-OPERATIVE marketing of grain, 

soybeans, livestock, fruit, vegeta- 
bles, produce, milk, and other farm 
products was discussed at the market- 
ing conference held 
at Rockford in con- 
nection with the an- 
nual meeting of the 
Illinois Agricultural 
Association. 

George C. Jewett, 
Chicago banker, 
speaking before the 
conference, de- 
nounced enemies of 
co-operative market- 
ing, charging that 
selfish reasons moti- 
vated their attacks. He urged farmers 
to give more serious consideration to the 
marketing of their products. 

“The big problem before you,” he 
said, “is better distribution of that 
which you raise. You have ‘largely 
solved the question of production, but 
you have not solved the question of 


Sam Sorrells 


AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, ILLINOIS FARM BUREAU BASEBALL LEAGUE, 
ROCKFORD, JAN. 27, 1932. - 


distribution. Organization is the only 
way; co-operative marketing is the way 
it is going to be done.” 

Harrison Fahrnkopf said the great 
need in grain marketing at present is to 
take the program to the individual pro- 
ducer, cited the impossibility in many 
sections of getting the co-operation of 
grain handlers. He reported that the 
Illinois Grain Corporation, which a year 
ago had a deficit, has entirely liquidated 
that indebtedness and expects to begin 
returning profits to stockholders in the 
near future. 

Promotion of greater consumption of 
soybean products by Illinois farmers is 
necessary to improve the soybean situa- 
tion, according to Wilbur H. Coultas. 
Considerable work has been done along 
this line in connection with the Uni- 
versity of Illinois and processors co- 


operating with the Soybean Association, 
he said. 


J. B. Countiss said that more than 
33,000 farmers are members of the va- 
rious dairy marketing organizations of 
the state. Although this is already the 
most thoroughly organized field in the 
state, membership showed a gain during 
the past year. 


All Products Represented 


Co-operative marketing of livestock 
last year was a major project in more 
than 80 Farm Bureaus in the state, ac- 
cording to Ray E. Miller. Organiza- 
tion work in developing the state mar- 
keting association took a great part of 
the department’s time. 

A. B. Leeper, describing the purpose 
and set-up of the National Fruit and 
Vegetable Exchange, emphasized the 
need for better correlation of the move- 
ment of fruit and vegetables into the 
consuming centers so as to avoid alter- 
nate periods of over-supply and scarcity. 

F. A. Gougler outlined a program for 
increasing butterfat volume, urging 
that counties that do not now have 
produce marketing associations immedi- 
ately take steps to provide this type of 
service. Samuel Sorrells, chairman of 


200 Attend Farm Women's 
Conference at Rockford 


HAT Illinois farm women have seri- 

ously attacked the problem of ad- 
justing the home to present economic 
conditions and that they are assisting 
the men in the solution of their prob- 
lems, was shown at the state-wide 
women’s conference held in connection 
with the annual meeting of the Illinois 
Agricultural Association at Rockford. 

Nearly 200 women took part in the 
conference, which had as its central 
theme “‘Meeting Present Economic Con- 
ditions in the Rural Home and Com- 
munity.” Mrs. Henry J. Mies of Pon- 
tiac, president:of the Illinois Home Bu- 
reau Federation, presided. 

Mrs. A. R. Wright of Marshall coun- 
ty covered the subject from the angle 
of food production, stressing especially 
the value of the long row garden; Mrs. 
Maude Watson, home adviser of Ste- 
phenson county, discussed wise food se- 
lection for the best nutritive values. 

A subject especially appropriate at 
the present time, ‘‘Feeding the Needy,” 
was discussed by Mrs. Edna Herbert of 
Livingston county. She showed that in 
many counties farm women were co- 
operating with relief agencies to ad- 
minister aid. Mrs. William Riegel of 
Champaign county stressed the impor- 
tance of play in times when people are 
engaged in serious work and_ serious 
thought. She outlined the possibilities 
of recreation through community meet- 
ings of the Farm and Home Bureaus. 

Within the past few years Illinois 
farm women have become aware of the 
new responsibility of voting and ac- 
cepted it as a part of their duty. Feel- 
ing that women should be interested in 
the tax situation, Mrs. Burl Hornbeek 
of Scott county discussed the income 
tax bill, at that time before the general 
assembly. 


the marketing committee, presided at 
the conference which was attended by 
350 to 500 people. 


March, 1932 


Help Restore Confidence, 
lroquois Editor's Plea 


Watseka Citizens Hold Mass Meet- 
ing and Solve Bank Problem 


PLEA to organized farmers to 

help restore confidence in down- 
state Illinois communities featured the 
address of C. W. Hinton, co-editor of 
the Iroquois County 
Times, Watseka, who 
spoke at the Or- 
ganization - Publicity 
Conference at Rock- 
ford, January 28. C. 
E. Bamborough pre- 
sided at the meeting 
which drew more 
than 300 people. 

Hinton gave a 
striking illustration 
C. E. Bamborough of the value and 

power of organized 
effort in meeting a local crisis. 

“At 9:30 A. M. one morning,” he 
said, ‘‘the last of our banks in Watseka 
closed. It meant that our 
city was to be seriously in- 
convenienced. The citizens 
got busy. By 11 o'clock a 
mass meeting had _ been 
called. The bank officials 
and directors laid all their 
cards on the table face up. 
The people of the communi- 
ty were shown the financial 
conditiom of the bank; that 
it was solvent, but that un- 
usual heavy withdrawals had 
made it impossible to take 
care of all depositors. 


Special Edition of Paper 


“A plan was worked out, 
the citizens agreed to de- 
posit all their money beyond 
immediate needs. Early in 
the afternoon a special edi- 
tion of the local newspaper 
gave the details of the plan 
and announced that the 
bank was open again for 
business. As a result con- 
fidence in that bank and the 
community was restored and 
we are doing business again 
on a normal basis. 

“The same plan we used 
in Watseka has been followed in several 
other towns in Iroquois county. Confi- 
dence was established through organized 
effort and information. 

“I would like to leave this slogan 
with you,” said Mr. Hinton in closing: 
“*°32 is up to you.’ I believe in that 
slogan. I believe that the new year will 
be just what we make it.” 

The title of Mr. Hinton’s interesting 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


address was, “As a Newspaper Editor 
Sees the Farm Bureau.” He gave val- 
uable pointers on news writing of Farm 
Bureau stories, told what constructive 
work the Farm Bureau was doing in 
Iroquois county. 


Martindale Speaks 


H. D. Martindale, director of or- 
ganization for the A. F. B. F., who fol- 
lowed Mr. Hinton, said: ‘“The I. A. A. 
is leading the way in organized agri- 
culture. It is setting an example for 
all others to follow. You have a well 
financed organization. That is the se- 
cret of your strength.” 


Reviewing his experiences in Indiana 
and in other states, he said: ‘‘In one In- 
diana county they had between 1,000 
and 1,100 members on a $10 member- 
ship fee. Then someone got the bright 
idea that they could get twice as many 
members if they would lower the fee to 
$5. What was the result? Not only 
did they fail to gain in membership, but 
the membership fell to around 500. 
Farmers of that county felt that an 


REINFORCEMENTS 


OMNGMENONGEYLAY 


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WE CAN'T GET 
ALONG WITHOUT 


OUR BANKS. LETS / 
HELP THEM! 


organization that was not worth at 


least $10 a year wasn’t worth belong- 
ing to. I hope you are not considering 
any cut, for if you are I predict that 
lower dues will mean a certain decline 
in membership. 

“In one state the Farm Bureau de- 
cided to get along without any dues, 
and in that state we had our biggest 
loss in membership.” 


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SF = 
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J (ZB 


Page Thirteen 


Director of Organi: ation George E. 
Metzger used an interesting chart in 
describing the many services now avail- 
able through the Farm Bureau and I. 
A. A. He stated that when the ques- 
tion was presented in county meetings 
as to which services should be discon- 
tinued, if any, there were always those 
who insisted on retaining the services 
they appreciated most. As a result the 
members invariably voted against any 
reduction in the service program. 


Thiem on Publicity 


It is impossible to maintain organiza- 
tion without publicity, George Thiem, 
director of information, said in opening 
the conference program. “The I. A. A. 
would crumble and decay without it. 
You can’t arouse or sustain people’s 
interest in anything without consistent- 
ly telling them about it. The founders 
of the Illinois Agricultural Association 
recognized the need for an informed 
membership when they provided in the 
membership contract that a definite 
amount be set aside annually for pub- 
lishing an official organ. 

“The fact that you are all 
here today is a testimonial 
of the effectiveness of pub- 
licity in organization,” con- 
tinued the speaker. ‘‘With- 
out modern communication 
methods organization would 
not be developed to its pres- 
ent stage. 

“The depression which is 
working a hardship on ev- 
eryone was largely brought 
on by the wrong kind of 
publicity. Pictures of bread 
lines in the papers and stories 
of closed banks have under- 
mined the confidence of the 
people in themselves and 
their institutions. Most of 
the banks are sound. But 
people have become fright- 
ened. National hoarding of 
currency is the result. When 
people fear for their jobs 
and their livelihood they 
stop buying. 

“I believe the right kind 
of a publicity campaign 
would go far toward over- 
coming this situation.”’ 


As a move to restore economic sta- 
bility, President Hoover recently issued 
an appeal to the country to cease hoard- 
ing currency. Hoarded funds were esti- 
mated by the President at $1,300,000,- 
000, every dollar of which, he said, 
meant the destruction of from $5 to 
$10 of credit. Heads of leading civic 
organizations were summoned to Wash- 
ington to further the campaign. 


Page Twelve 


the passage of the bond issue, all coun- 
ties not calling for funds under the 
legislation would not be affected in any 
way. 

The Illinois Agricultural Association 
believes that, regardless of whether 
downstate members of the General As- 
sembly voted for or against these bills, 
their interest in agriculture should not 
be challenged. 

The Association urges all down-state 
citizens and particularly its members to 
actively support the proposed bond issue 
in the election next November. 


Amend Grain Storage and 
Chattel Mortgage Acts 


The Association prepared, sponsored 
and secured the enactment of House 
Bill 7 in the special sessions of the 57th 
General Assembly which repeals section 
16 of the Grain Storage Act, so that 
insurance policies on grain stored on the 
farm can be made in favor of any per- 
son or bank lending money on such 
grain instead of in favor of the State 
Department of Agriculture. 

The Association also prepared, spon- 
sored and secured the enactment of 
House Bill 198, amending the Chattel 
Mortgage Act, so that notes secured by 
chattel mortgages on livestock are ne- 
gotiable instruments, thus permitting 
legal loans to be made on such security. 


Marketing Farm Products, 
Subject |. A. A. Conference 


Geo. Jewett of Chicago, Chief 
Speaker, Tells Why Many Op- 
pose Farmer Co-Operation 


O-OPERATIVE marketing of grain, 

soybeans, livestock, fruit, vegeta- 
bles, produce, milk, and other farm 
products was discussed at the market- 
ing conference held 
at Rockford in con- 
nection with the an- 
nual meeting of the 
Illinois Agricultural 
Association. 

George C. Jewett, 
Chicago banker, 
speaking before the 
conference, de- 
nounced enemies of 
co-operative market- 

Sam Sorrells ing, charging that 

selfish reasons moti- 
vated their attacks. He urged farmers 
to give more serious consideration to the 
marketing of their products. 

“The big problem before you,” he 
said, ‘“‘is better distribution of that 
which you raise. You have largely 
solved the question of production, but 
you have not solved the question of 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


March, 1932 


AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, ILLINOIS 
ROCKFORD, JAN. 27, 1982. 


FARM BUREAU BASEBALL LEAGUE, 


distribution. Organization is the only 
way; co-operative marketing is the way 
it is going to be done.” 

Harrison Fahrnkopf said the great 
need in grain marketing at present is to 
take the program to the individual pro- 
ducer, cited the impossibility in many 
sections of getting the co-operation of 
grain handlers. He reported that the 
Illinois Grain Corporation, which a year 
ago had a deficit, has entirely liquidated 
that indebtedness and expects to begin 
returning profits to stockholders in the 
near future. 

Promotion of greater consumption of 
soybean products by Illinois: farmers is 
necessary to improve the soybean situa- 
tion, according to Wilbur H. Coultas. 
Considerable work has been done along 
this line in connection with the Uni- 
versity of Illinois and processors co- 
operating with the Soybean Association, 
he said. 

J. B. Countiss said that more than 
33,000 farmers are members of the va- 
rious dairy marketing organizations of 
the state. Although this is already the 


most thoroughly organized field in the 


state, membership showed a gain during 
the past year. 


All Products Represented 

Co-operative marketing of livestock 
last year was a major project in more 
than 80 Farm Bureaus in the state, ac- 
cording to Ray E. Miller. Organiza- 
tion work in developing the state mar- 
keting association took a great part of 
the department’s time. 

A. B. Leeper, describing the purpose 
and set-up of the National Fruit and 
Vegetable Exchange, emphasized the 
need for better correlation of the move- 
ment of fruit and vegetables into the 
consuming centers so as to avoid alter- 
nate periods of over-supply and scarcity. 

F. A. Gougler outlined a program for 
increasing butterfat volume, urging 
that counties that do not now have 
produce marketing associations immedi- 
ately take steps to provide this type of 
service. Samuel Sorrells, chairman of 


200 Attend Farm Women's. 
Conference at Rockford 


HAT Illinois farm women have seri- 
ously attacked the problem of ad- 

justing the home to present economic 
conditions and that they are assisting 
the men in the solution of their prob- 
lems, was shown at the state-wide 
women’s conference held in connection 
with the annual meeting of the Illinois 
Agricultural Association at Rockford. 

Nearly 200 women took part in the 
conference, which had as its central 
theme ‘Meeting Present Economic Con- 
ditions in the Rural Home and Com- 
munity.” Mrs. Henry J. Mies of Pon- 
tiac, president of the Illinois Home Bu- 
reau Federation, presided. 

Mrs. A. R. Wright of Marshall coun- 
ty covered the subject from the angle 
of food production, stressing especially 
the value of the long row garden; Mrs. 
Maude Watson, home adviser of Ste- 
phenson county, discussed wise food se- 
lection for the best nutritive values. 

A subject especially appropriate at 
the present time, ‘‘Feeding the Needy,” 
was discussed by Mrs. Edna Herbert of 
Livingston county. She showed that in 
many counties farm women were co- 
operating with relief agencies to ad- 
minister aid. Mrs. William Riegel of 
Champaign county stressed the impor- 
tance of play in times when people are 
engaged in serious work and_ serious 
thought. She outlined the possibilities 
of recreation through community meet- 
ings of the Farm and Home Bureaus. 

Within the past few years Illinois 
farm women have become aware of the 
new responsibility of voting and ac- 
cepted it as a part of their duty. Feel- 
ing that women should be interested in 
the tax situation, Mrs. Burl Hornbeek 
of Scott county discussed the income 
tax bill, at that time before the general 
assembly. 


the marketing committee, presided at 
the conference which was attended by 
350 to 500 people. . 


on 


March, 1932 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Thirteen 


Help Restore Confidence, 
lroquois Editor's Plea 


Watseka Citizens Hold Mass Meet- 
ing and Solve Bank Problem 
PLEA to organized farmers to 


A beg restore confidence in down- 
state Illinois communities featured the 
address of C. W. Hinton, co-editor of 
the Iroquois County 
Times, Watseka, who 
spoke at the Or- 
ganization - Publicity 
Conference at Rock- 
ford, January 28. C. 
E. Bamborough pre- 
sided at the meeting 
which drew more 
than 300 people. 


Hinton gave a 
striking illustration 
Cc. E. Bamborough of the value and 


power of organized 
effort in meeting a local crisis. 

“At 9:30 A. M. one morning,” he 
said, ‘“‘the last of our banks in Watseka 
closed. It meant that our 
city was to be seriously in- 
convenienced. The citizens 
got busy. By 11 o’clock a 
mass meeting had __ been 
called. The bank officials 
and directors laid all their 
cards on the table face up. 
The people of the communi- 
ty were shown the financial 
condition of the bank; that 
it was solvent, but that un- 
usual heavy withdrawals had 
made it impossible to take 
care of all depositors. 


Special Edition of Paper 


“A plan was worked out, 
the citizens agreed to de- 
posit all their money beyond 
immediate Early in 
the afternoon a special edi- 
tion of the local newspaper 
gave the details of the plan 


needs. 


and announced that the 
bank was open again for 
business. As a result con- 


fidence in that bank and the 
community was restored and 
we are doing business again 
on a normal basis. 

“The same plan we used 
in Watseka has been followed in several 
other towns in Iroquois county. Confi- 
dence was established through organized 
effort and information. 


4 


“IT would like to leave this slogan 
with you,” said Mr. Hinton in closing: 
““°32 is up to you.’ I believe in that 
slogan. I believe that the new year will 
be just what we make it.” 

The title of Mr. Hinton’s interesting 


address was, “As a Newspaper Editor 
Sees the Farm Bureau.” He gave val- 
uable pointers on news writing of Farm 
Bureau stories, told what constructive 
work the Farm Bureau was doing in 
Iroquois county. 


Martindale Speaks 


H. D. Martindale, director of or- 
ganization for the A. F. B. F., who fol- 
lowed Mr. Hinton, said: ‘“‘The I. A. A. 
is leading the way in organized agri- 
culture. It is setting an example for 
all others to follow. You have a well 
financed organization. That is the se- 
cret of your strength.” 

Reviewing his experiences in Indiana 
and in other states, he said: ‘In one In- 
diana county they had between 1,000 
and 1,100 members on a $10 member- 
ship fee. Then someone got the bright 
idea that they could get twice as many 
members if they would lower the fee to 
$5. What was the result? Not only 
did they fail to gain in membership, but 
the membership fell to around 500. 
Farmers of that county felt that an 


REINFORCEMENTS 


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OUR BANKS. LETS [5 
HELP THEM! 


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Z 
organization that was not worth at 
least $10 a year wasn’t worth belong- 
ing to. I hope you are not considering 
any cut, for if you are I predict that 
lower dues will mean a certain decline 
in membership. 

“In one state the Farm Bureau de- 
cided to get along without any dues, 
and in that state we had our biggest 
loss in membership.” 


Director of Organi: ation George E. 
Metzger used an interesting chart in 
describing the many services now avail- 
able through the Farm Bureau and I. 
A. A. He stated that when the ques- 
tion was presented in county meetings 
as to which services should be discon- 
tinued, if any, there were always those 
who insisted on retaining the services 
they appreciated most. As a result the 
members invariably voted against any 
reduction in the service program. 


Thiem on Publicity 


It is impossible to maintain organiza- 
tion without publicity, George Thiem, 
director of information, said in opening 
the conference program. “The I. A. A. 
would crumble and decay without it. 
You can’t arouse sustain people’s 
interest in anything without consistent- 
ly telling them about it. The founders 
of the Illinois Agricultural Association 


or 


recognized the need for an informed 
membership when they provided in the 
membership contract that a definite 
amount be set aside annually for pub- 
lishing an official organ. 
“The fact that you are all 
here today is a testimonial 
of the effectiveness of pub- 
licity in organization,” con- 
tinued the speaker. “‘With- 
out modern communication 
methods organization would 
not be developed to its pres- 
ent stage. 

“The depression which 1s 
working a hardship on ev- 
eryone was largely brought 
on by the wrong kind of 
publicity. Pictures of bread 
lines in the papers and stories 
of closed banks have under 


mined the confidence of the 


people in themselves and 
their institutions. Most of 
the banks are sound. But 


people have become fright- 
ened. National hoarding of 
currency 1s the result. When 
people fear for their jobs 
and their livelihood they 
stop buving. 

“T believe the right kind 


of a publicity campaign 
would go far toward over 


coming this situation.” 


As a 


bility, President Hoover recently issued 


move to restore economic sta- 
an appeal to the country to cease hoard- 
ing currency. Hoarded funds were esti- 
mated by the President at $1,300,000,- 
000, of 
meant the destruction of 
$10 of credit. Heads of leading civic 
organizations were summoned to Wash- 


ington to further the campaign. 


every dollar which, he said, 


trom $3) to 


Page Fourteen 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


March, 1932 


ILLINOIS 
A OLTURAL ASSOCIA N 


RECORD 


To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organized, 


namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, political, 


and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation, 
and to develop agriculture. 


Georce Tui&EM, Editor 
Max Harre son, Assistant Editor 


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OFFICERS 
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24th. ---Charles Marshall, Belknap 
ones oe hs Fred Dietz, De Soto 
DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 

Comptroller........... ....-J. H. Kelker 
Dairy Marketing. ...J. B. Counties 
Finance..................... sang A. Cowles 
Grain Marketing Harrison Fahrnkopf 
Triforrmim thos ooo cence coi eovencsceuccgueveencice ns George Thiem 
Insurance Service . Vaniman 
Legal Counsel... sseugacensbaceceseaganes choos caccdencten Donald Kirkpatrick 
Limestone-Phosphate..........---2-2--2--2-c---2---e-ceseeceesceeeceopeecesecovensvenenensssseeees -_R._ Bent 
Live Stock Marketing.....2..-.222-....2-2-cc-ce-ecececeseeeseveveseseseceeesneeeetere: Ray E. Miller 

ST COs on takcnksn ts ctcina ope avecmensoneen tbe seyeonlunepapcenneer ons’ C. E. Johnston 
Organisation. <3 ne a ee G. E. Metzger 
Produce Marketing... 2.2.2.2... cecececececceocececececesssnenscaceseeee F. A. Gougler 
Taxation and Statistics... 02.02. 2.-..cecececcececeeccecieccecssseeessecsesneeenes J. C. Watson 
Transportation: oot il ha ey a ee L. J. Quasey 

. ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 

Country Life Insurance Co. i... ce cece ceceeeeenceseneneeee Williams, Mgr 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co... eeceeeecceececeeeeeeee J. Kelker, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Auditing Ass’n_.2 20... E. Ringham, Mgr 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co............. A. E. Richardson, Mgr. 
Illinois Farm Supply Co... ceececeecceeecsceeseeneeneeeee L. R. Marchant, Mgr. 
Illinois Grain Corp............ Chas. P. Cummings, Vice-Pres. and Sales Mgr. 
Illinois Livestock Mark. Ass’n.....Ray Miller, Mgr.; R. W. Grieser, Sales 
Illinois Produce Marketing Ass’n_.....----------0c0-0---.----- F. A. Gougler, Mgr. 


Soybean Marketing Ass’ noo... c cece eeeeeeeeeeee nee W. H. Coultas, Mgr. 


It’s Up to You 


R EPRESENTING the legislative interests of 

Illinois farmers in the General Assembly, and 
Congress of the United States is one of the im- 
portant activities of the Illinois Agricultural As- 
sociation. 

This issue of the RECORD is devoted largely 
to a disscussion and review of legislation of inter- 
est to Illinois farmers in the regular session of the 
57th General Assembly and in the special sessions 
of late 1931 and early 1932. 


Legislation invariably tends to move in the di- 
rection desired by active and powerful organiza- 
tions especially if those who may be injured there- 
by make no resistance. In former days many 
burdens were placed on farmers solely because 
they were not organized, and therefore could not 
make effective resistance. 


Representatives of the Association examined 
every important bill and resolution offered in the 
57th General Assembly. Besides sponsoring a con- 
structive program of needed legislation, the Asso- 
ciation opposed harmful bills and asked for modi- 
fication of measures in the interest of agriculture. 

The accomplishments of the Association in the 
recent legislative. sessions are in large part due to 
the effective work of the County Farm Bureaus 
and their supporting membership. The continued 
prestige and influence of the I. A. A. in matters 
of this kind in very large measure depend upon 
the understanding, determination and united ac- 
tion of the membership throughout the state. 
Our future influence, likewise, depends upon the 
united support of farmers in returning their 
proven friends to office. 

Study the records of your representatives as 
revealed on page 5 in this issue of the RECORD 
and regardless of party affiliation return your 
friends to legislative halls. Only by following such 
a policy can farmers render the most effective 
service in protecting their rightful interests in 
government. 


RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED AT 17TH ANNUAL 
MEETING, ROCKFORD, JAN. 29, 1932 


I 


Experience has justified nearly all the policies previ- 
ously adopted by the Illinois Agricultural Association. Ex- 
cept in those cases where new conditions have arisen or 
where it has seemed advisable to make some changes, we 
hereby reaffirm all previous pronouncements of the Asso- 
ciation. 


II 


The Illinois Agricultural Association approves the policy 
resolutions adopted by its national organization in annual 
session assembled at Chicago, on December 9, 1931. For 
the purpose of emphasizing certain of such resolutions and 
reafirming them at this time: 

We specifically desire to call to the attention of the 
delegates four of such resolutions. The substance of such 
resolutions is as follows: 


1. Rural Credits 


It is imperative that substantial improvement be made 
in existing credit machinery serving agriculture. Joint 
Stock Land Banks should be separated from the Federal 
Land Bank System; the Intermediate Credit Bank should 
be controlled and operated apart from the Land Bank; the 
directorates of both should reflect a personnel representing 
the stockholders of such banks; the privileges of the Inter- 
mediate Credit system should be made available to agricul- 
tural co-operative purchasing groups; and that the deben- 
tures of the Intermediate Credit Bank should be made eligi- 
ble for note issue or collateral for borrowing by banks in 
the Reserve System. 

Federal Land Banks should be furnished additional govern- 
mental capital of at least one hundred million dollars, such 
capital to be redeemed as operations may justify, and there- 
after maintained in a separate revolving fund for the pur- 
pose of stabilizing the system when necessary by (a) the 
acquiring of additional capital stock, and/or (b) the pur- 


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chase of Federal Land Bank Bonds; Land Bank Bonds should 
be made eligible for bank reserve investments; the capital 
stock of the Federal Land Banks should be held only by 
members of such banks and transfer of: stock should follow 
loans. 


The credit problem involves organization as well as legis- 
lative responsibility; the associational feature of the Federal 
Land Bank System should be preserved in building the agri- 
cultural credit structure of the country; to that end, we 
recommend that all state Farm Bureaus include in their 
programs (1) the strengthening of existing local farm loan 
associations, and (2) the organization, wherever necessary, 
of new local farm loan associations, local agricultural credit 
corporations and credit unions; in order to serve co-opera- 
tively and more completely the credit needs of agriculture, 
we recommend to State Farm Bureaus that they give con- 
sideration to this type of credit and that credit unions be 
organized and properly integrated into our rural credit 
structure. 


2. The Monetary Problem 


The present period of depression and the falling price 
level has increased the burden of taxes, interest, debts and 
other fixed costs on all producers to an intolerable degree; 
the principal cause of this deflation of values is monetary; 
the problem divides itself into two parts: first, the restora- 
tion of the prive level; and second, the stabilization of the 
purchasing power of money. 


First—all the powers of the Federal Reserve System and 
the executive officials of the federal government should be 
used to bring about the restoration of the price level near 
the average level at which the present long-time indebted- 
ness was incurred. 


Second—permanent prosperity in this country demands 
that the dollar be made an accurate measure of value—that 
its purchasing power be always constant. 


To effect this end it was recommended that Congress sta- 
bilize the purchasing power of money: 


1. By directing the Federal Reserve System to use all its 
powers, following restoration of price level, to stabilize the 
purchasing power of money insofar as possible, using for 
that purpose all its monetary and credit powers, including 
currency and credit control, open market operation, and 
changes in rediscount rates and in rediscount eligibility rules. 

2. By empowering and directing the Federal Reserve 
Board to raise or lower reserve requirements of the Federal 
Reserve Banks and to raise or lower the price of gold. 


3. By broadening the rediscount eligibility provision of 
the Federal Reserve Act. 


3. The Agricultural Marketing Act 

We insist that the present congress amend the Agricul- 
tural Market Act by including the equalization fee or some 
other equally effective method whereby the cost of con- 
trolling crop surpluses would be borne by each unit of the 
commodity benefited. 

We pledge our continued support to the Federal Farm 
Board in all efforts put forth to administer the Marketing 
Act in such manner as will best serve the American farmer 
and urge that in the development and administration of co- 
operative marketing organizations, the general farm organi- 
zations be properly recognized. 


4. Grain Futures Act 


The American public is being called upon for a return of 
confidence and to put forth every effort for the stabilization 
of American business, industry and agriculture. One of the 
greatest hindering influences to efforts being put forth in 
these directions is the continued system of short selling 


operating on the grain and other exchanges of the country. 
We favor such amendment to the Grain Futures Act as is 
necessary to give the Secretary of Agriculture full power 
and authority to regulate and, if necessary, to remove any 
further operations in short selling (except for legitimate 
hedging purposes) on the Grain Exchanges of the country. 


Ill 


We appreciate the cordial relationship existing between 
the United States and Illinois Department of Agriculture 
with the Farm Bureau movement of Illinois. 


We particularly commend Secretary Hyde of the United 
States Department and Director Pierson of the Illinois De- 
partment for sympathetic and immediate action taken on all 
matters coming under their jurisdiction in behalf of farm 
people. 

We pledge our continued co-operation and support to 
both Departments under their present leadership. 


IV 


The enactment of the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- 
tion Act by Congress and the appointment of Charles G. 
Dawes as its president, justify the confidence and support 
of Illinois Agriculture. 


The Illinois Agricultural Association stands ready to co- 
operate in every way with those charged with the adminis- 
tration of the Act to make its maximum service available 
to Illinois farmers. 


V 


Terminal livestock marketing costs are entirely out of line 
with the market price of livestock and general level of com- 
modity prices. Yardage and feed costs are subject to regula- 
tion under the Packer Stock Yard Act. The Packer Stock 
Yard Administration has announced that it contemplates 
regulating practices followed and prices charged on the vari- 
ous livestock markets. This convention urges that the in- 
vestigation be initiated at the earliest possible time and com- 
pleted as speedily as possible, so that if the investigation 
should reveal that the charges should be lowered the benefit 
of the lower costs may be quickly passed on to the livestock 
producers. 


We authorize, therefore, and direct the Board of Directors 
of the Illinois Agricultural Association to use its influence 
with the Packer Stock Yard Administration to commence 
its investigation and to order a reduction in terminal mar- 
ket costs at as early a date as possible and to the full extent 
the result of the investigation may justify. 


VI 


There is much organized opposition on the part of old 
line interests to co-operative marketing of farm products 
and the purchasing of farm supflies. 


The controversy in the St. Louis milk shed is an out- 
standing example. Sanitary Milk Producers Association is 
organized for the collective bargaining of its members’ 
product. The Association is able to secure the co-operation 
of all dealers except the largest on the St. Louis market. It 
is within the rights of farmers legally and morally to check 
weights and tests, to have a voice in the price of their 
product and to work in co-operation with dealers and City 
Health Departments in improving the quality of their prod- 
uct. 


On this program the largest dairy company has steadily 
refused to co-operate. Sanitary Milk Producers Association 
has demanded nothing unreasonable. The attitude of the 
dairy company cannot be construed in any light other than 
intention to deny organized milk producers a voice in the 
marketing of the products of their own labor and capital 


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March, 1932 


investment, in order that its own selfish interests may profit 
by fixing the price both to the producer and to the con- 
sumer. 


We condemn this attitude on the part of the dairy com- 
pany and serve notice to any industry taking this position 
that such a policy cannot be looked upon by the agricul- 
tural people of the country other than a desire on its part 
to deny to agricultural producers their rights under the 
constitution of the country and to impoverish one class of 
citizens for the enrichment of another. Such a policy will 
not be tolerated by American agriculture. It has not been 
the policy of this Association to encourage producers to 
enter into business activities on a wholesale scale, but such 
an attitude as has been displayed by the dairy company will 
force farmers into many lines of business activities which 
they otherwise would not enter. 


VII 


Farm people should view with concern and become fully 
informed before lending support to new movements spring- 
ing up under the guise of offering various forms of relief 
to farmers’ difficulties. Some of these movements are known 
to be connected with and supported by men and organiza- 
tions who, throughout the years, have benefited because of 
division among farmers. 


The existing depression and resulting state of unrest seem 
to offer an opportunity for the stimulation of new move- 
ments which have for their purpose the retarding of the 
fast development of co-operative marketing. Solutions of 
farmers’ problems will be hastened by the strengthening of 
present forces rather than by the development of new or- 
ganizations. Before aligning oneself with or contributing to 
any new movement, farmers should seek full information 
about such organization either from their County Farm 
Bureau, the Illinois Agricultural Association or a well estab- 
lished and recognized farm paper. 


Vill 


Because of the cost of construction of rural electric dis- 
tribution lines is an important factor in the rate charged 
for the energy, members are urged to consider this subject 
by groups and to thoroughly investigate such construction 
costs and secure all possible reductions before signing up 
for service. 


IX 


Since group action by land owners has proven successful 
in dealing with public utility easement matters, all mem- 
bers are urged to benefit by this experience and to carefully 
study and obtain full information regarding their legal 
rights before signing any right-of-way contracts for pipe 
lines, electric lines, or telephone and telegraph lines. 

ae 

In view of the greatly diminished purchasing power of 
the farmers, caused by the drastic reductions in prices for 
farm products, and in view of the decline in the costs of 
labor and materials, we urge that public utility rates be im- 
mediately reduced wherever possible and the principle of 
basing rates upon the cost of reproduction new less deprecia- 


tion be adhered to as strictly as it has been during the past 
decade of rising costs. 


XI 


At the present time there is a substantial over-production 
of high quality agricultural products within the state. This 
is especially true in the production of fluid milk and dairy 
products. Under these conditions, insofar as circumstances 
will permit, state and local governmental institutions should 
purchase their supplies of such products from Illinois farmers. 


XII 


In view of the gross injustice of the present revenue sys- 
tem, widespread concern over the increasing burden it is 
laying on property, and the difficulty property owners have 
in paying such taxes, all of which are greatly intensified 
and aggravated by the present severe economic depression, 
we demand that every possible effort be made immediately 
to lighten the taxes levied on real estate and tangible per- 
sonal property. For this purpose we favor a fairer distribu- 
tion of the cost of government by immediate enactment of 
the Income Tax Bill, now pending in the special session of 
the General Assembly, and the use of the revenue derived 
therefrom, as provided in companion bills, to replace, dollar 
for dollar, taxes now levied on property for educational 
purposes in the elementary public schools. 

We further recommend: 


1. Legislation providing for proper budgeting, account- 
ing and control of public expenditures. 


2. Legislation providing for reduction in public ex- 
penditures as far as this can be done consistent with proper 
public service. 


3. Immediate attention of taxpayers to public expendi- 
tures in their local communities, where the most of the 
taxes they pay are spent. 


4. Reduction of taxes by consolidating taxing districts 
wherever this can be done without impairing essential public 
services. 


§. Elimination of taxes for non-essential purposes. 


XIII 


We recognize that nearly all policies of government 
affect the welfare of agriculture either directly or indirectly. 
We also recognize that the per cent of population engaged 
in agriculture is steadily declining. When making selec- 
tions of men to occupy public positions of trust and re- 
sponsibility, farmers must stand together. 


The Illinois Agricultural Association during recent years 
has given to its membership through the columns of its 
official paper the attitude of those occupying positions of 
trust, and particularly the voting record of members of our 
law-making bodies on all measures directly affecting the 
welfare of agriculture. 


We approve this action of the Board of Directors of the 
Illinois Agricultural Association and urge the membership 
to carefully study these records, and to actively support all 
those seeking re-election, regardless of their party affiliations, 
whose votes and efforts have been responsive to the needs 
of our rural population. 


XIV 


The delegates and visitors of this Seventeenth Annual 


Meeting of the Illinois Agricultural Association held in 
Rockford, January 28 and 29, 1932, hereby express their 
grateful and hearty appreciation for the cordial welcome 
and for the unfailing courtesy and co-operation shown them 
by the Winnebago County Farm Bureau, the Mayor, the 
Chamber of Commerce, and the organizations of the City 
of Rockford, and the citizens of the City of Rockford and 
Winnebago County who have contributed so effectively to 
the comfort, convenience and success of this annual meet- 


ing. 


RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE, 
A. R. Wright, Chairman, Chas. Marshall, 
Chas. L. Bates, 
C. R. Ford, 


Grover Pierce, 
John Carlson. 


Harold C. Vial, 
Frank Oexner, 
W. A. Dennis, 
A. B. Schofield, 


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March, 1932 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Seventeen 


Some Observations on Asgriculture 
An Address Before the United States War Industries Board Association 


HE farmer, like many others in 

business, is suffering from too low 
a price, too much interest, too much 
tax. 

In order to get a correct picture of 
his condition, it is necessary to refer to 
figures, although I realize that it is not 
popular to do so, particularly before an 
industrial group which has so many 
troubles of its own at this time. 

The gross income of agriculture in 
1919 was $17,810,000,000 (the highest 
of which we have record); in 1930 it 
was $9,400,000,000, and in 1931 it is 
estimated at between six and seven bil- 
lion.* In May, 1928, farm commodity 
prices were 48% above the average for 
1909-1914, and in September, 1931, 
they were 28% below this five-year 
average, while the prices of supplies the 
farmer buys, not including taxes and 
freight, were 27% above the pre-war 
level. It is estimated by competent 
authorities that farm products have now 
but 57% of their pre-war purchasing 
power. 


Farm Debt Grows 


The farm mortgage debt in 1910 
stood at $3,600,000,000; in 1920 at 
$7,900,000,000 and in 1928 at $9,- 
500,000,000. These figures do not in- 
clude other debts, and are lower than 
they would be had not there been so 
many foreclosures and so much turn- 
ing over of property in cancellation of 
debt. Land values have returned to 
1913 levels. 

“Farm taxes in 1919 (the year of 
highest farm income) were but 30% 
higher than the average for 1910-1914, 
while in 1929 they were 167% higher. 
It has been estimated that in the state 
of Illinois tangible property receives but 
10% of the total income of the state 
and pays over 9614% of all taxes. De- 
linquency in taxes in some of the agri- 
cultural states runs as high as 80% in 
some counties. The situation in the 
cities is better known to industrial 
groups. 

Farm Migration 

Summing up the foregoing, I may 
say, in general, that the farm debt is 
three times as much as it was in pre- 
war times, and taxes much more than 
double, while land values are no more, 
if as much, and farm products repre- 
sent an exchange value for industrial 


*Note: Standard Statistics Co. of New York 
estimates the value of the 1931 agricultural in- 
come at $6,500,000,000, the smallest with one 
exception since 1910. 


products of little more than one-half, 
These figures tell an eloquent story. 

Migration from the farms for the 
ten years beginning in 1920 was about 
2,000,000 a year. It is true that about 
75% of this number found their way 
back to the farms, but only after mill- 
ing around in the cities looking for jobs 
and meeting with continued disap- 
pointments. I submit that their point 
of view was not the same as when they 
left the farms. Pace 

The Chamber of Commerce of the 
United States, through a special com- 
mittee, recently suggested as one meas- 
ure of relief from the unemployment 
situation the sending of men from the 
cities back to the farms, notwithstand- 
ing the fact that during the early period 
of this migration it was urged that the 
movement away from the farms was a 
natural one. The cities during the early 
part of this period mistakenly formed 
the impression that this influx was per- 
manent, with the result that many new 
buildings were built to accommodate 
this new population, particularly office 
buildings, hotels and apartment build- 
ings, which now are only partially occu- 
pied and which stand as a monument 
to the mistaken judgment of their 
builders. 

Hole in the Bottom 


Bank failures, starting in the country 
in 1920, have continued, and have ex- 
tended to our largest cities, until they 
reached such serious proportions as finally 
to attract the attention of our national 
administration, resulting in the organi- 
zation of a credit corporation for their 
relief. I think that this action was wise, 
but I believe that it is not a cure for 
the condition. We cannot fill a barrel 
by pouring water in at the top when 
there is a large hole in the bottom; and 
so long as the sources of new wealth— 
the mines, the oil wells, the forests and 
the farms—are all producing at or be- 
low cost, the condition is unhealthy, to 
say the least. 


Unemployment Situation 


The unemployment situation has re- 
sulted in national action. I refer to the 
organization and activity of the so- 
called Gifford Committee, and recently 
Ex-President Coolidge recognized the 
seriousness of the problem and asked us 
all to “‘Give all America is worth to 
you.” 

The present situation strikes at the 
very heart of our government—respect 
for property rights and the sacredness 


By GEO. N. PEEK, MOLINE, ILL. 


of contract. We now face in a large 
way inability to pay, which may be 
followed, if the situation continues, by 
lack of desire to pay; then repudiation; 
then chaos. 

Communism and other “isms” cannot 
be combatted successfully with oratory, 
but only by our providing and main- 
taining a better system. Sacred regard 
for the property rights of a large num- 
ber of small property owners rather 
than reverence for a small number of 
large property owners, is insurance of 
the highest type for the capitalistic or 
individualistic system. 


The Marketing Act 


The foregoing figures inadequately 
reflect a condition that has developed 
during the past 12 years, reaching its 
worst during recent months. A general 
demand for a national policy that would 
place agriculture on sound footing re- 
sulted in the passage of the Agricultural 
Marketing Act of 1929. The remedy 
it sought to offer differed from that 
offered previously by the farmers 


‘through their organizations. They rec- 


ognized marketing as practical, hard- 
headed business, involving costs and 
risks of loss, particularly in dealing 
with crop surpluses, and proposed that 
such costs and losses should be dis- 
tributed pro rata over the producers 
benefited, by a tax or fee, call it what 
you like. 

Another plan much discussed would 
have provided for the issuance of treas- 
ury debentures on exports, amounting 
to part or all of the duty on a farm 
product, and receivable at par in pay- 
ment of the duty on imports. In effect, 
this plan would draw indirectly upon 
the treasury of the United States, since 
it would divert to an export subsidy a 
substantial portion of the import duties 
that otherwise would be collected. 

The plan enacted into law was based 
on the assumption that there would be 
no losses, but provided that if there 
were, they should be borne by the gov- 
ernment. 


A Step Forward 


The Agricultural Marketing Act was 
a step toward an agricultural policy, 
but in failing to provide means for 
financing its operations other than by 
federal subsidy, it was like an auto- 
mobile without the engine, it might 
look like the real thing but the means 
were lacking to make it go. 

Presumably one of the objects, not 
only of what the farmers asked for but 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


March, 1932 


of the legislation they received, was tv increase 
agricultural income. Yet I noticed that Secre- 
tary Hyde recently said that either the equali- 
zation fee or the debenture would raise prices, 
and that higher prices secured in this way 
would increase production. I submit that if 
production is increased, as he surmises, it is 
the price itself which will be the reason for it 
and not the method of raising the price, such 
as the equalization fee or the debenture. If he 
means that the farmer should not have a higher 
price he should say so. 


Mellon’s Comment 

Secretary Mellon was more honest in voicing 
his objection to the equalization fee, when he 
said that it would raise the price of farm prod- 
ucts in the United States above prices prevail- 
ing in other countries, and that the American 
manufacturer would be at a disadvantage as 
compared with European competitors in seeking 
foreign business. Of course, that is just what 
the tariff. does on industrial products, but it is 
a point of view honestly entertained by many 
industrialists. 

Among the administration remedies proposed, 
some of them very recently, are: (a) cut-down 
production; (b) plow up every third row of 
cotton; (c) kill every tenth cow; (d) more and 
better golf courses. It should be borne in mind 
that acreage is only one factor in production; 
75 per cent of the variation in yield of crops 
from year to year is beyond human control, 
being due to weather, pests, drought, flood and 
similar causes. It is hard to understand why 
the recommendation should be made of plowing 
up every third row of cotton. Why not advo- 
cate letting it stand in the field and not pick- 
ing it? This suggestion would at least have the 
merit of saving the labor of plowing. If the 
recommendation “kill every tenth cow’ were 
not so serious it would strike some of us as 
very funny, because it was only very recently 
that loaning corporations were being formed for 
the purpose of putting more farmers into the 
dairy business, even when attention was called 
to the possible effect of breaking down this 
industry through the over-stimulation of pro- 
duction in the manner which was undertaken. 
The recommendation for more and better golf 
courses will meet with the approval of our 
enthusiastic golfers, of course, but it cannot be 
regarded seriously as a measure of farm relief. 


Corporation Farming 

Corporation farming is discussed in many 
quarters as a way out of the present trouble. 
I think that while this method may in a few 
instances, under certain conditions, prove suc- 
cessful, in general the whole idea is wrong. 
I say this because of the social as well as the 
economic conditions surrounding the farm. The 
farm is a home and farming is a business. Cor- 
poration farming suggests the payment of wages, 
and I believe that farming has been possible at 
all only on account of the unpaid labor of the 
women and children on the farm. I think that 
this factor alone will prevent any great growth 
of corporation farming. The social aspects are 
being recognized in many states where legis- 
lation already has been passed or is under con- 
sideration for restricting this enterprise. 


The Real Trouble 


The real trouble with the farmer is traceable 
to our governmental policies since the war and 
the indifference of the last three national ad- 
ministrations to agriculture. Our policy for 
the expansion of foreign trade in industrial 
products was a mistaken one. We have been 
trying to maintain our war-time industrial fa- 
cilities at a capacity above peace-time demands. 
We have loaned abroad more money than repre- 
sented by our entire war debt. We have put 
the facilities of our gigantic Department of 
Commerce behind the movement to expand for- 
eign trade just as though we were a debtor 
nation, as we were before the war, instead of 
a creditor nation, as we emerged from the war. 


We have had half the gold supply of the world, 
so that foreign nations could not pay us in gold; 
and we prevented their paying us in goods and 
services by our tariffs, although at the same 
time we have insisted upon the payment of war 
debts. We have gone even further; to the ex- 
tent that we have captured foreign markets we 
have interfered with the normal relations of 
other countries between themselves. 


10 Per Cent Foreign 

Ninety per cent of our commerce is domestic. 
Ten per cent is foreign. Half of the 10 per cent 
is industrial and half agricultural. If we re- 
stricted agricultural production to the demand 
of domestic markets, as we have been urged to 
do by our recent administrations, the interest 
ot the Middle West and South in exports would 
be hardly more than a fraction of 1 per cent 
of their commerce; and yet, as a result of the 
policy which has been followed, we have seri- 
ously impaired our home market, constituting 
the 90 per cent of our trade. It has been dem- 
ontrated, I think, that such statesmanship is 
not in the best interest of America. 

Evidence of what higher farm prices might 
do may be gathered from the immediate re- 
sponse in securities markets and commodity mar- 
kets from the recent advances in farm prices. 
Farmer have not been in a position to buy their 
normal requirements since the war, and I pre- 
dict that if it were possible to restore their 
normal poition, and by that I mean only the 
pre-war exchange value of their product with 
the products of industry, shortly we should see 
such a revival of buying and paying as we: have 
not seen in many a year. 


Amend the Act 


The Farm Marketing Act should be amended, 
not repealed. It should be possible for farmers 
effectively to control the marketing of their 
own products, and that can only be accom- 
plished by the concerted action of all of the 
producers of a particular commodity. Call the 
mechanism for accomplishing it the equalization 
fee or what you please, the principle is that the 
cost should be spread over the commodity bene- 
fited. The principle is not new. It is that the 
beneficiary of an improvement should pay his 
proportionate share of its cost. It is recognized 
in every drainage or irrigation project, paving 
project, or other improvement of this char- 
acter. 

The corporation form of organization does 
not lend itself to farmer co-operation, because 
of tke large number of producers of farm prod- 
ucts scattered throughout the length and breadth 
of the country. 

France, apparently, has found a way to im- 
prove her agricultural situation, as is evidenced 
by the prices of her wheat in the last three 
crop years, for example: 

August 1-July 31, 1928-1929— 
Low, December (1928).......... 
High, March (1929). 

August 1-July 31, 1929-1930— 

February and May (1930)............. $1.31 


July VIGSOR Sooo calyx oeyceswewes 1.66 
August 1-July 31, 1930-1931— 

October (1930) .............000 000 ee $1.64 

Tune 9S Dye ct si hoed Cok ene ees 1.91 


Contrast these figures with the prices and 
fluctuations during this period in the United 
States. This example is upon No. 2 hard winter 
at Kansas City: 

July 1-June 30, 1928-1929— 


High, July (1928)................ . $1.20 

Low, May (1929)............ 1.01 
July 1-June 30, 1929-1930— 

July: (1929). 2 clilca exact the Wins $1.25 

Juste: (1930) Fails oe ead es 89 
July 1-June 30, 1930-1931— 

faly” (ISO). ee Seas es $0.80 

June: (1939) oak katie t Bewb ck skeen -66 


Shift the Taxes 


Taxes on general property, particularly on 
the home, both in town and country, should be 


Ray C. Doneghue Heads 
Farm Advisers in 1932 


Ray C. Doneghue, farm adviser of 
McDonough county and 1932 president 
of the Illinois State 
Association of Farm 
Advisers, attended 
the first meeting of 
the new I. A. A. 
Board| of Directors 
in Chicago Feb. 12. 
He will represent the 
farm advisers in these 
meetings during 
1932, succeeding B. 
W. Tillman, farm 
adviser of St. Clair 
county, retiring pres- 
ident of the Farm Advisers’ Associa- 
tion. Mr. Doneghue is one of the old- 
est Illinois county advisers in point of 
service. 

Other officers in the Association are 
R. E. Apple, Clark county, vice-presi- 
dent; V. J. Banter, Stephenson county, 
secretary; L. E. McKinzie, Schuyler 
county, treasurer; J. G. McCall, Jack- 
son county; Alfred Tate, Scott county, 
and C. E. Johnston, Iroquois county, 
directors. 


R. C. Doneghue 


shifted largely to other forms of taxation. I am 
glad to say that this is under consideration in 
many states. In fact, 44 of our 48 states either 
have enacted state income taxes or had the tax 
subject under consideration in the last sessions 
of their legislatures. 


Lower interest rates on the home should be 
made possible. 

I would have the home the cheapest thing 
an American citizen could own, and I would 
make it as secure as it is possible to make it 
by law. I think that would be the greatest 
security for our government from the invasion 
of radical tendencies of any kind. 

Controlled Inflation , 

We should have a measure of controlled in- 
flation that debts may be paid with the same 
size dollar with which they were incurred, as 
far as that is possible. This subject is certain 
to be one of wide discussion in the coming 
months. 


Finally, and I do not mean to be partisan, 
we should put the problems of America first 
in the minds of all of our citizens, and we 
should elect only such people to public office 
as have an understanding of them and _ the 
courage and the will to look after those unable 
to look after themselves—that is what govern- 
ment is for. 


President Hoover recently signed a 
joint resolution appropriating $125,- 
000,000 to increase the capitalization of 
the Federal Land Banks. Of the 
amount appropriated, $25,000,000 is to 
be used to facilitate postponement of 
mortgage installment payments of needy 
farm borrowers. This appropriation 
was sought by the American Farm Bu- 
reau Federation and other farm organi- 
zations. 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Nineteen 


Honest Dollar, More Cash 
Needed for Prosperity 


Gregory Suggests Ways to Start 
Wheels of Progress to 
Better Times 


HE real cause of the decline in 

prices, which is responsible for ‘most 
of the farm ills today, is traceable to the 
shortage of money in circulation, ac- 
cording to C. V. Gregory, editor of 
Prairie Farmer, one of the principal 
speakers at the recent I. A. A. annual 
meeting, Rockford. 

Mr. Gregory pointed to the fact that 
money is affected by supply and demand 
just as anything else. 
When it is plentiful 
it is worth less. 
When money is 
scarce it will buy 
more commodities 
and the price of 
commodities declines. 

To restore the 
confidence of the 
public, he says, the 
country must get 
back on a basis of 
honest money. 

“While the value 
of any one commodity will always 
change to reflect changes in supply and 
demand, we have the right to expect 
that the purchasing power of the dollar 
will always be the same in terms of 
average commodity prices,” he states. 


Cc. V. Gregory 


Buying Power Gone 


“It now takes so much of our prod- 
ucts to pay debts, taxes and fixed ex- 
penses that there is little left to buy 
commodities. We cannot open fac- 
tories, put men back to work, and get 
back to producing and exchanging com- 
modities on a normal basis until the 
purchasing power of the people is re- 
stored to somewhere near normal.” 

This may be done, according to Mr. 
Gregory, either by reducing debts by 
bankruptcy and default, reducing taxes 
by the process of cutting down govern- 
ment expenses, and lowering wages and 
other fixed expenses in line with the 
present price level, or by raising the 
commodity price level to somewhere 
near what it was in 1929. The first 
would take from five to ten years; the 
second might be done very quickly. 

He points out three things the Fed- 
eral Reserve System can do to start 
prices upward: make open market pur- 
chases of government securities, lower 
rediscount rates, and broaden the re- 
discount policy. If these measures do 
not start prices upward, he suggests 
that the dollar be devalued or that fur- 


ther steps be taken to inflate currency. 


“This country was built up by cour- 
ageous, ambitious people who were not 
afraid to work and take a chance,” Mr. 
Gregory said. ‘‘Most of the producers 
of the country are debtors. It is that 
class of people who are hurt worst by 
declining prices. Every dollar of debt 
in 1929 has become $1.46 in terms of 
the commodities that must be produced 
to pay the debt. When all the public 
and private debts in the country have 
been paid on the basis of 1929 dollars, 
we will still have 80 billion more to pay. 
No loan shark ever dreamed of legalized 
robbery in such terms as that.” 


Smith Is Named Member 


Coarse Grains Committee 


Earl C. Smith, president of the Illi- 
nois Agricultural Association, was re- 
elected a member of the national Coarse 
Grains Advisory Committee January 28, 
according to an announcement from the 
Federal Farm Board. The committee, 
composed of seven members, will serve 
for one year beginning February 1, this 
year. 

Other members of the coarse grains 
committee are as follows: Jess W. Wade, 
secretary of Inter-Mountain Grain 
Growers, Ogden, Utah; Joseph Ihde, 
president of American Wheat Growers 
Associated, Inc., Aberdeen, South Da- 
kota; J. M. McNally, director of Farm- 
ers Westcentral Grain Company, Oma- 
ha; L. J. Taber, Master of National 
Grange, Columbus, Ohio; George S. 
Milnor, vice-president and general man- 
ager of the Farmers National Grain 
Corporation, Chicago; and James Mur- 
ray, vice-president of the Quaker Oats 
Company, Chicago. 


l. A. A. Board Names 
Meeting Dates for '32 


All regular meetings of the Board of 
Directors of the Illinois Agricultural 
Association during 1932 will be held 
at the office of the Association at 608 
South Dearborn street, Chicago, on the 
Friday following the second Monday of 
each month, unless otherwise ordered, 
it was determined at the February 
meeting of the Board. 

The Board will meet on the following 
dates: March 18, April 15, May 13, 
June 17, July 15, August 12, Septem- 
ber 16, October 14, November 18, and 
December 16. 

President Earl C. Smith made the fol- 
lowing committee appointments at the 
February session of the Board: 

Finance—A. R. Wright, Varna; M. 
G. Lambert, Ferris; and C. J. Gross, 
Atwood. 


DeFrees Is Only New 
Member of I. A. A. Board 


ALMAGE DeFREES of Smithboro, 
Bond county, serving his second 
term as president of the Bond County 
Farm Bureau, was the only new mem- 
ber of the I. A. A. 
board elected at the 
recent annual con- 
vention in Rockford. 
© Re-elected were Geo. 
| F. Tullock, M. G. 
| Lambert, Geo. M. 
© Muller, W. A. Den- 
| nis, Chas. S. Black, 
-and Chas. Marshall. 
Mr. DeFrees suc- 
ceeds Frank G. Oex- 
ner of Monroe coun- 
ty who retired as di- 
rector from the- 22nd district. 

Mr. DeFrees was born within two 
miles of his present home where he op- 
erates a 240-acre fruit and dairy farm. 
He has been a member of the Bond 
County Farm Bureau for the past 12 
years, is a director in the Illinois Fruit 
Growers Exchange, and in the past sea- 
son shipped 22 cars of fruit co-opera- 
tively through the latter organization. 

As a young man Mr. DeFrees secured 
an appointment to the U. S. Naval 
Acadamy at Annapolis, but circum- 
stances arose that made it impossible for 
him to go. His only brother, who went 
in his place and graduated at Annapolis 
in 1900, has had many promotions. He 
is now in the War College at Boston 
receiving special training preparatory to 
becoming an admiral in the navy this 
spring. 

Mr. DeFrees attended Greenville Col- 
lege near his home, and later was edu- 
cated at Drake University, Des Moines, 
and at the University of Chicago. 

As one of the outstanding farmers of 
southern Illinois, he was awarded the 
Master Farmer medal by Prairie Farmer 
in 1930. Mr. DeFrees is an able plat- 
form speaker and has been prominent 
for years in the Farm Bureau and other 
agricultural organizations in southern 
Illinois. 


Mr. DeFrees 


Organization-Information—C. E. 
Bamborough, Polo; Talmage DeFrees, 
Smithboro; W. A. Dennis, Paris; and 
Farm Adviser J. E. Harris, Aledo: 


Marketing—Samuel Sorrells, Ray- 
mond; Harold C. Vial, Downers Grove; 
A. B. Schofield, Paxton; W. L. Cope, 
Salem; and Farm Adviser R. J. Laible, 
Bloomington. 

Financial Business Service—George 
F. Tullock, Rockford; Fred Dietz, De- 
Soto; Charles Marshall, Belknap; and 


Farm Adviser C. E. Johnson, Watseka. 


Page Twenty 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


March, 1932 


BOONE COUNTY FARM BUREAU’S BAND WHICH PLAYED AT THE ANNUAL I, A. A. BANQUET, ROCKFORD, JAN. 28. 


Insurance Companies All 
Report Gains During 1931 


Illinois Farm Supply Co. Considers 
Establishing Feed Service If 
Demand Justifies 


PROGRESS and problems in the co- 
operative handling of life insurance, 
automobile insurance, fire, windstorm 
and hail insurance, farm supplies, lime- 
stone and phosphate, 
and in co-operative 
auditing were re- 
viewed in the Finan- 
cial-Business Service 
‘Conference during 
the convention at 
Rockford on Jan. 28. 
Geo. F. Tullock pre- 
sided. About 320 
were present. 
The two most im- 
Geo. F. Tullock portant problems in 
the life insurance 
field to come before the conference 
were those pertaining to county quotas, 
and of expanding Country Life Insur- 
ance Company to do business outside 
the state. It was decided to maintain 
the present quotas and to confine the 
‘company to Illinois. L. A. Williams, 
manager of Country Life, pointed out 
the trend in life insurance, particularly 
the tendency toward larger policies and 
the growing appreciation of life insur- 
ance as a secure investment. 


Holds Rates Down 


The fact that almost every automo- 
bile insurance company has increased 
rates recently, while the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Mutual Insurance Company has 
maintained its old rates, was cited by 
A. E. Richardson, manager of the auto 
insurance company, as evidence that the 
Farm Bureau member is a preferred risk. 
He attributed the reduction in accidents 
last year to the safety campaign put on 
by the County Farm Bureaus. 


J. H. Kelker, manager of the Farm- 
ers Mutual Reinsurance Company, de- 
clared that this meeting was the best 
the casualty company had ever had both 
in interest and attendance. This is the 
first time the company has held its 
meeting with the other associated com- 
panies. 

There is every reason to believe, ac- 
cording to V. Vaniman, director of in- 
surance service for the J. A. A., that all 


three companies will make a satisfac- 


tory growth in 1932. 
Three Plans Outlined 


Three plans of financing service com- 
panies in unorganized counties were out- 
lined by L. R. Marchant, manager of 
the Illinois Farm Supply Company. Un- 
der one plan the unorganized county 
can receive service from an established 
company in an adjoining county with a 
minimum amount of investment and no 
control of the business. A second plan 
enables an unorganized county to be- 
come affiliated with an established com- 
pany in an adjoining county and have 
joint control. The third plan is the or- 
ganization of a new company with full 
control within the county. 

Announcement was made that Illinois 
Farm Supply had purchased several car- 
loads of feeds recently in response to re- 
quests for this service, and that con- 
siderable study has been given to the 
possibility of establishing a feed service 
in the state, making available certain 
feeds under the trade-mark of the or- 
ganization. 

J. R. Bent, director of the limestone- 
phosphate department, reported that II- 
linois used only about 40 per cent as 
much of these commodities in 1931 as 
in the previous year, but that the state 
still used approximately as much as any 
other state had ever used in a year. The 
possibilities of direct purchasing and 
merchandising of limestone and phos- 
phate by the Association were discussed 
and recommended for further study. 

The Illinois Agricultural Auditing 


Boone County Farm Bureau 


Band Plays at Rockford 


Farm Bureau members are frequently 
entertained these days at unit, county, 
and even state-wide meetings by talent 
from their own membership. A good 
example of the kind of entertainment 
they give was seen at the annual ban- 
quet of the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 


‘Ciation at Rockford when the 75-piece 


Farm Bureau band from Boone county 
played before 2,000 visitors and dele- 
gates. 


This band is strictly a Farm Bureau 
project started less than two years ago 
to give the young people something 
worth while to do. The band is made 
up on the unit principle, having com- 
plete small bands in five different com- 
munities, which are all a part of the 
county band. In this way bands are 
available for local gatherings as well as 
for larger affairs. 


Members of the band pay monthly 


dues, which are used to employ a band 


director and to purchase music and 
other supplies. Harold Luhman, director 
of the band, was a member of the Bel- 
videre High School band when it won 
the state and national championships. 
He was also state champion soloist. 


Association had its best year in 1931, 
according to F. E. Ringham, manager. 
Three hundred and seventy-one audit 
assignments were completed during the 
year. Ringham reported a decrease in 
the cost of audits as compared with 
former years. The cost of Farm Bureau 
audits decreased $4.93, while elevator 
audits decreased $5.81 and oil com- 
panies decreased $8.99 below the 1930 
costs. 


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Lieut.-Gov. Sterling Sees 
Need for Prison Reform 


Advocates Modernization of Penal 
System in Address at Rockford 


ROPOSED reform of the state 
prison laws so as to permit prisoners 
to share in the profits of their labor, 
were advocated by Lieutenant-Governor 
Fred E. Sterling at the recent annual 
luncheon of the Illinois Agricultural 


‘ Association at Rockford. 


He pointed out that such laws are 
now in force in several states in this 
country and almost universally in Eu- 
rope. Under the proposed law the pris- 
oner would receive half the profits and 
the state the other half. One-half the 
prisoner’s share would be sent to his 
dependents at home, one-quarter turned 
over to him for his own use, and the 
other quarter credited to his account so 
that when he is released he will have 
something to start anew on. 


Has Labor Approval 

“This new law,” said the lieutenant- 
governor, ‘‘will compel every political 
division in the state, cities, counties and 
villages to make requisition on the state 
for such articles as may be needed by 
them. No effort will be made to cut 
the prices of state-made articles under 
those made by free labor on the out- 
side. This system has the approval of 
President Green of the Federation of 
Labor.” 


He believes that the $15,000 spent 
by the state in conducting the prison 
investigating tour of Europe will save 
the state not less than $1,000,000 a 
year and revolutionize the prison, pro- 
bation and parole system now in force, 
if the general assembly will enact into 
laws the recommendations made by the 
commission. 

Comparing the English prison situa- 
tion with that in Illinois, he showed 
that Illinois with a population of 7,000,- 
000 had almost as many inmates in its 
prisons as England with its 48,000,000 
people. What Illinois needs to remedy 
this, he said, is a more liberal use of 
probation and less of the spirit of ven- 
geance in its courts, especially when the 
offense is of a minor character. 

“Our commission believes there is a 
great chance to improve the penal sys- 
tem of Illinois,” he continued. “We be- 
lieve all prisoners should be classified 
and advanced in grades as they earn it. 
We favor making the parole board a 
full-time board. The commission would 
make the old Joliet prison an institution 
for the more hardened prisoners. We 
would make a reduction in our prison 
population by a careful rehearing of all 
cases, releasing those who are deserving 
of another chance. 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


NOTICE 
ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 
ASSOCIATION 
ELECTION OF DELEGATES 


OTICE is hereby given that in connection 
with the annual meetings of all County 
Farm Bureaus to be held during the month 
of March, 1932, at the hour and place to 
be determined by the Board of Directors of 
each respective County Farm Bureau, the 
members in good standing of such County 
Farm Bureau and who are also qualified vot- 
ing members of Illinois Agricultural Asso- 
ciation shall elect a delegate or delegates to 
represent such members of Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association and vote on all matters 
before the next annual meeting or any spe- 
cial meeting of the Association, including 
the election of officers and directors as pro- 
vided for in the by-laws of the Association. 
During March annual meetings will be 
held in Kankakee, McDonough, Boone and 
Winnebago counties. 
No annual meetings will be held in April. 
March 1, 1932. 
Signed, 
G. E. Merzcer, Secretary. 


“Many inmates, the commission be- 
lieves, have been lost in the great prison 
maelstrom, being without friends to in- 
tercede for their release. The commis- 
sion believes there must be a more scien- 
tific study of the individual cases of 
men accused of crime. It is as intelli- 
gent for us to imprison a man without 
studying him and learning why he is a 
criminal as it is to treat a man for the 
fever shown by the thermometer with- 
out making an effort to discover the un- 
derlying cause.” 


Country Life Agents 
Meet at Bloomington 


HE possibility of making Country 
Life Insurance Company a billion 

dollar institution within the next 20 
years was envisioned by Donald Kirk- 
patrick, legal counsel for the I. A. A., 
speaking before 300 Farm Bureau in- 
surance agents-in the annual agents’ 
round-up at Bloomington Feb. 16-17. 

He quoted state insurance examiners 
to the effect that Country Life is in the 
best financial condition of any com- 
pany examined in the past four years. 

C. M. Cartwright, managing editor 
of the National Underwriter, the prin- 
cipal speaker at the agents’ banquet, 
said: “You have made an outstanding 
record, and I have every confidence in 
the coming success of Country Life 
Insurance Company.” 

Other speakers during the two days 
included Prof. Fred Russell, University 
of Illinois; L. A. Williams, manager of 
Country Life; A. E. Richardson, mana- 
ger of the Illinois Agricultural Mutual; 
V. Vaniman, director of insurance ser- 
vice for the I. A. A.; and members of 
Country Life’s staff. 


Page Twenty-one 


Denman Addresses 
Livestock Growers 


Annual Meeting State Marketing 
Association Held at Peoria, 
February 17 


6¢ E have not heard so much criti- 

cism of the Agricultural Mar- 
keting Act since the Reconstruction 
Finance Corporation came into the pic- 
ture. The other crowd got over into 
our boat. And they seem willing to 
have the government lend a_ helping 
hand,” C. B. Denman, member of the 
Federal Farm Board, told more than 300 
delegates and members of the Illinois 
Livestock Marketing Association in their 
second annual meeting at Peoria, Feb. 17. 

“There has been a lot of confusion 
about what the Farm Board has been 
doing,” continued Mr. Deman. “Either 
ignorantly or purposely the stabilization 
operations in wheat and cotton have 
been confused with aid given the co- 
operatives. The latter is the more im- 
portant work. It has occupied nearly 
all our time.” 

Speaking of the stabilization work, 
Denman said: ‘There was far more de- 
mand from the ‘trade’ that the Board 
support the grain market than from 
farmers. Yet most of the criticism of 
this work is coming from the commis- 
sion men. 


20 Cents Bu. More 


“But let’s take a look at the results 
of stabilization in wheat. Before the 
stabilization corporation was formed 
wheat in Liverpool sold at 16.5 cents 
above the Chicago market. Since then 
the Chicago price has averaged 3.5 cents 
higher than Liverpool. The two added 
together make 20 cents a bushel more 
for the American producer. That 20 
cents if added to all the wheat sold in 
this country would be quite an item.” 

The speaker admonished the livestock 
growers that their only hope for secur- 
ing a fair share of the consumer’s dollar 
lies in organization. “Livestock grow- 
ers unorganized,” he said, “are forced 
to take what’s left after the processor, 
the retailer, the organized laborer, the 
transportation agencies, and others take 
out their costs, and profits. 


What a Packer Said 

‘““A prominent packer spoke of this 
situation to me a short time ago,” con- 
tinued the speaker. ‘‘He stated frankly 
that the packer and the retailer must 
add their costs of operation and a profit 
to selling prices. He admitted that the 
farmer is entitled to do the same but 
because he is unorganized must take 
what is left. 

“That’s a great challenge to the live- 
stock producer,” said Denman. “The 


Page Twenty-two 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


March, 1932 


Farm Board wants to help you, to put 
you in your own business—that of mar- 
keting products. Because others have 
taken over your duties they may look 
upon it as an inherent right. We in- 
sist that it is the producer’s right to 
market and distribute his own prod- 
ucts.” 

How waste in distribution of meat 
products is hurting the farmer’s live- 
stock income was illustrated by Mr. 
Denman. 


A Retailer Cuts Costs 


‘‘A man named Straus who has 220 
meat stores in the east told me some 
time ago,” he said, “that following the 
depression many of his stores began los- 
ing money. Some of them declined to 
a gross income of only $300 a week. 
The less he sold the more he had to 
raise the price on meats to take care of 
the overhead. And the more he raised 
the price the less he sold. This condi- 
tion kept growing worse. Straus be- 
gan to study his business and finally 
closed all his stores for a period of two 
weeks. 

“He decided that he was paying out 
too much for overhead at each store. 
So he established a central cutting plant 
employing three shifts of meat cutters 
working eight hours each. He sur- 
veyed each community and made an 
effort to supply each store with the 
particular kind of meats and cuts most 
in demand. All stores were serviced 
from the central cutting plant. 

“As a result he was able to get along 
with much less labor in the outlying 
stores. Because of the saving he was 
enabled to cut the price in half on most 
meats. Meat sales shot up until the 
stores were averaging $3,000 a week 
gross sales. The unprofitable stores 
began making money and the consumer 
got his meat at lower prices. 


Too Much Overhead 


“An Indiana meat dealer wrote me a 
short time ago,” continued Denman, 
“following a talk I made on the radio. 
Tll tell you what’s wrong with the 
livestock industry,’ he wrote. ‘I counted 
16 different packer salesmen who called 
on me in one day. In addition six dif- 
ferent trucks stopped the same day to 
deliver meats. If I gave all my business 
to one packer I doubt if the profits 
would have paid for the calls of even 
two salesmen and the trucks. The dis- 
tributors have been piling on costs and 
these costs are passed on to the farmer 
in lower prices for livestock.’ ” 

Charles E. Ewing, president of the 
National Livestock Marketing Associa- 
tion, stated that every dollar the live- 
stock co-operatives have borrowed from 
the Farm Board will be repaid. Com- 
petition offered old-line commission 


companies by co-operative agencies is 
only an incident, not an objective of 
organized producers, said Ewing. The 
farmer is seeking control of his own 
business to cut out the wastes of distri- 
bution, to gain market information, ad- 
just production to demand, and co- 
ordinate the producing end of his busi- 
ness with that of marketing and sell- 
ing. 
“We still have a long way to go in 
co-operative livestock marketing,” said 
Ewing. “Only about 10 per cent of 
the livestock of the country is being 
handled by members of our organiza- 
tion. The majority of our producers 
have not yet caught the vision.” 


Officers Report 

Ray E. Miller, secretary-manager, re- 
viewed the progress made during the 
past year in organizing and financing 
the association, and pointed out the rea- 
sons for the new movement. 

R. W. Grieser, sales manager with 
headquarters at Decatur, stated that the 
association began selling for six dis- 
trict co-operatives holding membership 
in the state organization on October 7. 
He described the daily market and 
weather report service through which 


information about livestock movements. 


and prices is obtained from the princi- 
pal markets, and how this information 
is used to direct the movement from 
Illinois to the markets offering the best 
prices. 

He stated that livestock is being 
moved in many cases direct to the 
packers as well as to order buyers and 
co-operative producer agencies. “We 
grade all our livestock and try to ship 
what the buyer demands,” said Grieser. 
“The packers have been satisfied with 
our supplies. We are putting up the 
livestock as ordered. We are able to 
save in freight rates, and we can get 
more for stock by selecting our mar- 
kets.” 

A motion was adopted to the effect 
that every effort be made to reduce 
commission charges, yardage fees, and 
costs at the terminal stock yards. 

President Samuel Sorrells of Ray- 
mond, who presided, was re-elected as 
were all other officers and directors. 
Geo. F. Tullock of Rockford, treasurer, 
and Mr. Sorrells represent the I. A. A. 
on the Board of the Marketing Associa- 
tion. 


Soybean Meeting 


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The annual meeting of Soybean Mar- 
keting Ass’n. will be held at the Or- 
lando Hotel, Decatur, Thursday, March 
10. Dr. W. L. Burlison, University of 
Illinois, and President W. D. McMillen 
of Allied Mills, will speak in addition 
to organization officials. 


Kirkpatrick Cites Uses, 
Abuses of Corporations 


Auditing Association Annual Meet- 
ing at Rockford We!l Attended 


ONALD KIRKPATRICK, coun- 

sel for the Illinois Agricultural 
Association, speaking at the annual 
meeting of the Illinois Agricultural 
Auditing Association at Rockford Jan- 
uary 27, described the good and bad 
points of corporations in agriculture as 
they operate at present, also the pos- 
sibility of their service to agriculture. 
The meeting was well attended. 

A corporation usually represents a 
business concern, he said. A corpora- 
tion is an identity 
which can sue and be 
sued. It protects the 
individuals who are 
interested in it and 
there is no liability 
resting on the indi- 
vidual stockholders 
over and above that 
prescribed. 


How Set Up 


Most corporations 
are set up with non- 
assessable stock. An outstanding exam- 
ple of a corporation -with assessable 


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stock is a bank. Corporations can serve 


agriculture best when the board of di- 
rectors and officers administer the busi- 
ness of the corporation from the stand- 
point of the company laying aside all 
personal feeling or personal business 
connections, he said. 

Too many of our co-operatives and 
companies with farmer boards of direc- 
tors are regularly controlled by a mi- 
nority on the Board, he pointed out. 
This comes about in an administrative 
way, through a desire on the part of the 


‘ president and members of the Board to 


have all matters passed on decided by a 
unanimous vote. In their operations 
the thing which commonly happens is 
that if the president feels the vote is not 
going to be unanimous he does not allow 
a decision to be made. Thus the mi- 
nority gets exactly what it wants. 

Officers and directors of the auditing 
association for 1932 are A. J, Gillfillan, 
Watseka, Iroquois county, president and 
director; Albert Heckle, Quincy, Adams 
county, vice-president and director; 
George E. Metzger, Chicago, secretary; 
R. A. Cowles, Bloomington, treasurer; 
Jesse L. Beery, Cerro Gordo, Piatt coun- 
ty; Henry H. Parke, Genoa, DeKalb 
county, and R. H. Vorhees, Jerseyville, 
Jersey county, directors. 


A full report of Illinois Grain Cor- 
poration’s Annual Meeting on Feb. 22 
will appear in the April Illinois Bureau 
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Number 4 


APRIL, 1932 


Volume 10 


Farm Bureau Leaders Adopt Policies 


450 to 500 County Presidents, Directors and Advisers Meet with I. A. A. 


tick the government take the $100,- 
000,000 allotted to agriculture by 
the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- 
tion and use it to get rid of crop sur- 
pluses now depressing farm prices. 
Loaning this money to buy farm seeds, 
feeds, fertilizers, spray materials, etc., 
will only result in more production to 
aggravate the surplus problem. And 
the extension of further credit will only 
drive farmers deeper into the mire of 
debt. 

Such was the sentiment expressed 
and later adopted at a closed meeting 
of 450-500 Farm Bureau presidents, 
secretaries, directors, advisers, and I. A. 
A. officers, directors, and staff held 
March 25 in the Orlando Hotel, De- 
catur. 

The government must stop subsidiz- 
ing more farm production, cut out its 
reclamation work, and confine its as- 
sistance to helping farmers build a more 
satisfactory mar- 
keting system in 
which every pro- 
ducer shares his 
part of the cost. 
This summarizes 
the opinion ex- 
pressed by a num- 
ber of speakers 
from the floor and 
platform. 

It was reported 
that limitations 
surrounding the 
loaning of R. F. C. 
money to farmers 
greatly weakened 
the eine if any, 
from such aid. The 
borrower is limited 
to a maximum of 
$400 per farm and 
must give a prior 
lien on the grow- 


Left to right: 


Front row—J, 


president ; 


W. Kirkton, McLean; J. 
Harvey J. Sconce, Vermilion, president; 


Representatives at Decatur 


ing crop as security. Such loans may 
not be used for taxes and hired help. 
Loans are limited to $15 per work ani- 
mal. The borrower will be virtually 
barred from securing credit from pri- 
vate sources since his entire crop would 
be mortgaged. 

Possibilities of relief through the for- 
mation of agricultural credit corpora- 
tions were viewed with more or less in- 
difference when advantages and disad- 
vantages of such organizations were 
weighed. It was pointed out first that 
stock in such corporations must be sold, 
and $1 in cash deposited for every $4 
of stock subscribed for; that farmers 
would be forced to pay 7% interest on 
loans; that the credit corporation could 
not safely count on loaning more than 
six times its capital stock and if such 
corporation were capitalized at $25,000, 
only about $2,250 annually would be 
available to pay a manager, stenogra- 


BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF I. A. A., 1919 

Back row—I. F. Gillmor, Mercer County; C. V. Gregory, DuPage county; 
John P. Stout, Sangamon; D. O. Thompson, secretary; Howard Leonard, Woodford, treasurer; 
J. W. Morgan, ‘Henry; Henry T. Marshall, LaSalle; A.A. Hill, Macon; G. Cc. Johnstone, McLean. 


R. Fulkerson, Jersey; J. 
J. W. Thier, LaSalle; Z. Mz. 
and John Gummersheimer, Monroe. 


W. Robinson, Edgar; 
Holmes, 


pher, office and other expenses even if 
no losses were sustained. The following 
explanation may be helpful. 

Funds for making loans through 
credit corporations are obtained by the 
latter from Intermediate Credit Banks. 
Debentures floated by such banks have 
been selling to yield 412% interest. The 
Intermediate Credit Bank ‘must have 
1% to pay its overhead. Thus when 
the local credit corporation gets the 
money it costs 514%, and if the farmer 
borrower is charged 7%, the local 
credit corporation receives a spread of 
114%. Six times $25,000 (the capital 
subscribed) is $150,000 and 114% of 
$150,000 is $2,250. 

Where larger agricultural credit cor- 
porations can be organized, the stock 
sold, a substantial volume of good loans 
made, and able management secured it 
was believed that such _ institutions 
might be of service in communities 
where private cred- 
it sources are no 
longer available. It 
was agreed that the 
policy of the I. A. 
A. in offering legal 
aid and informa- 
tion, but not urg- 
ing the organiza- 
tion of credit cor- 
porations, was 
sound, 

Following a dis- 
cussion of agricul- 
tural legislation 
now pending at 
Washington, by 
President Earl C. 
Smith, the meeting 
went on_ record 
unanimously  call- 
ing on Congress to 
strengthen the Ag- 


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April, 1932 


ing Act by the adoption of the equalization fee 
and such other amendments as may be offered 
by friends of the measure to make it more 
effective. Also that Congress restore to the 
revolving fund an amount equal to the value 
of any commodity taken from the Farm Board 
for charitable and- other uses. 

The audience cheered the reported statement 
of Chairman James C. Stone that he would 
welcome a congressional investigation of the 
Farm Board providing a similar investigation 
was made of the grain, livestock, and produce 
exchanges and their members, and that a full 
and impartial report be made at the same 
time of both. 

Clifford V. Gregory, editor of Prairie Farmer, 
pointed out some of the things that might be 
done to improve our national credit machinery. 
He gave a clean-cut analysis of the international 
economic situation before and following the 
war, and how the growth of European debts 
and poverty had destroyed the American farm- 
ers’ foreign markets. “The people in this coun- 
try cannot eat all we can raise,” he said, “even 
in normal times. We must either find new for- 
eign outlets for our surplus food products or 
else reduce our production.” 

Mr. Gregory expressed the belief that the de- 
pression had continued two years because the 
farmer financed it by supplying cheap food. 
Without cheap food we either would have had 
a revolution or else drastic measures would 
long ago have been adopted by the government 
to end it, he said. 

He called on all Illinois farmers to vote for 
members of the legislature seeking re-election 
who had voted for the state incorhe tax. “This 
is very important. If you as farmers are to 
have proper influence and retain the prestige 
you have gained at Springfield,” he continued, 
“make every effort to see that these men and 
women are returned to office.” 

Gregory paid his respects to the “traitors 
to agriculture.” ‘We don’t blame the middle- 
men for fighting for their interests,” said 
Gregory. “We would do the same thing. But 
I do blame those farmers and ex-farmers who, 
posing as friends and representatives of agri- 
culture, are betraying their neighbors. They 
are traitors to the cause.” 

“Get out and vote on primary day and on 
election day,” President Smith urged. ‘Farmers 
are fast becoming a minority as a group and 
to get a square deal we must stand together on 
matters affecting the welfare of agriculture. 

“The I. A. A. does not endorse candidates for 
political office,” he continued. “It does not 
enter into partisan politics. Its policy is to give 
full information on candidates for the legis- 
lature and congress and urge support of those 
whose records justify farmers’ votes.” 

It was moved, seconded, and unanimously 
carried that this policy of the Association be 
continued. : 

In reviewing the history of the fight for legis- 
lation to make the tariff effective on farm prod- 
ucts, it was stated that the very people from 
business and industrial groups of the country 
who strongly advocated the Agricultural Mar- 
keting Act are now attempting to crucify it. 

Someone asked for information about the so- 
called ‘‘Federation of American Business,” an 
anti-co-operative propaganda organization. A 
list of the directors giving their connections 
was read, The list revealed that nearly all the 
directors are either engaged in handling farm- 
ers’ products on a commission basis or are 
closely affiliated as employees and associates of 
middlemen. 


Secretary George Metzger reported that an 
advisory committee of five had been established 
to assist the Sanitary Milk Producers in their 
struggle at St. Louis. Illinois and Missouri farm 
and co-operative organizations are represented 
on this committee. It was reported that the 
Pevely Dairy Co. had dropped from first to 
second place as a milk distributor on that mar- 


ket, had lost approximately 54 wagon routes 
since last September. Financial assistance is 
being given the Milk Producers in their efforts 
to get their story before the consumers of 
St. Louis. 

“I have faith in the agricultural leadership 
of Illinois represented here in this room,” J. C. 
Spitler, state leader of farm advisers, said in 
a brief address at the close of the program. 
“The Farm Bureau is doing great things for 
agriculture but its greatest accomplishment is 
that it has developed and is developing think- 
ing farmers.” 

In the morning session membership main- 
tenance and collections policies were outlined by 
George Metzger, and Treasurer R. A. Cowles. 


A Farm-Minded Editor 


OWE V. MORGAN, editor of the Sparta 

News-Plaindealer, is a firm believer in 
the value of organization for farmers. He 
is a member of the Randolph County Farm 
Bureau and a stockholder in the Randolph 
County Service Company and the Illinois 
Agricultural Holding Company. 

Mr. Morgan’s interest in agriculture comes 
naturally, since he was reared on a farm 
and knows what it is 
like to follow the 
plow and milk cows 
each night and morn- 
ing. 

He has always used 
his editorial columns 
to help fight the 
battles of the farm- 
ers, believing, he 
says, that the welfare 
of the town and its 
business _ institutions 
are dependent upon 
the welfare of the 
farmer. 


H. V. Morgan 


In a recent editorial he said: ‘Randolph 
county farmers have learned that the in- 
dividual farmer stands alone. As long as 
he operates as .an individual, he will be 
forced to accept what the stock buyer, the 
grain buyer and the milk buyer choose to 
give him for his surplus products. He is 
at their mercy. Likewise, he is at the mercy 
of those from whom he buys his seed, his 
implements and his other necessities. 

“Acting as a body, the members of the 
Farm Bureau command the attention of the 
big buyers and the big dealer and procure 
the best terms on the market. This is true 
in buying as well as in selling. Thousands 
of dollars have been saved local farmers on 
their purchases of fertilizers, seed and other 
products through the Farm Bureau.” 

Mr. Morgan is a member of the Southern 
Illinois Editorial Association, the Illinois 
Press Association, and the National Editorial 

| Association. He was president of the Illinois 
Préss Association in 1930-31 and is now a 
member of the executive committee. He is 
also an honorary member of Sigma Delta 
Chi, national journalistic fraternity. His 
paper is one of Illinois’ outstanding weeklies 
and won first prize for its interest and at- 
tractiveness in a recent newspaper contest. 


* 


Farm Bureau members can get fire 
insurance at low rates compared with 
rates of old line companies in the Farm- 
ers Mutual Reinsurance Company. This 
company was organized in 1924 by the 
I. A. A. and a number of local fire 
mutuals to give farmers this service at 
a saving. 


Lower Minimum Weight 
Requirements on Livestock 


Livestock producers in northern and 
western Illinois can now ship their live- 
stock by rail in lots as small as one- 
third of a regular carload as a result of 
a decision of railroads in that area to 
lower the minimum weight require- 
ments. 

The area affected by this ruling in- 
cludes more than 30 Illinois counties 
in which more than 50 per cent of the 
state’s livestock is produced. The chief 


significance of the decision lies in the . 


fact that it offers additional facilities 
to shippers who are unable to obtain 
full carloads. 

The new minimum for all kinds of 
livestock is 6,000 pounds as compared 
with 22,000 pounds, the former mini- 
mum. These light carloads have spe- 
cial rates, although they do not go as 
low as regular cars. A 6,000 pound 
car is figured at 150 per cent of the 
regular carlot rate. Special rates range 
from 150 per cent down to 120 per 
cent, depending upon the weight of 
the load. 


The purpose of the lower minimum 


weight requirement is to encourage rail 


shipment of livestock. These rates ap- 
ply on single line traffic for a distance 
of 500 miles, which includes Illinois, 
and parts of Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin 
and Minnesota. 


Base and Surplus 
Plan for Selling Milk 


Milk is usually sold to distributors: or 
dealers by co-operative marketing asso- 
ciations on a classified or “use”’ basis. 
The dealers pay the association mem- 
bers one price for milk used as fluid 
purposes (commonly called base price) 
and a different price for milk used in 
manufacturing purposes, or pay accord- 
ing to the use of which they make of 
the milk. 

If the dealers reduce the retail price 
of a quart of milk two cents, or 93c 
per 100 pounds, it would not be fair to 
reduce the farmer’s price one-half or 
46'4c per 100 pounds on all milk sold 
because only a relatively small percent- 
age of milk sold to the dealers is mar- 
keted in quart bottles. Price changes 


should depend upon the whole market; 


including that sold for retail and whole- 
sale trade, and for manufacturing pur- 
poses. 


The Cook County Farm Bureau re- 
cently held a meeting of fruit and vege- 
table growers, looking toward the de- 
velopment of some marketing plan to 
assist the producers of these commodi- 
ties in the Chicago area. 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Five 


Facts About Soybean Marketing 


Association at Decatur Reveals Details of 1931 Crop Sales 


Annual Meeting of Growers’ 


OW the organized soybean grow- 
H ers of Illinois handled 60 per cent 
of the 1931 commercial crop produced 
in the state largely on a profit-sharing 

_ basis with the larger 
processors, was re- 
-vealed at the annual 
meeting of the Soy- 
bean Marketing As- 
1 sociation in Decatur 
1} March 10. President 
John W. Armstrong 
| presided. 
| Organized only 
| two years ago, the 
Association now has 
J. W. Armstrong 2 membership of 
more than 4,000 
growers. Up to March 1 it had handled 
1,513,150 bushels of soybeans. 


The 1931 soybean crop was har- 
vested in the face of a demoralized mar- 
ket for soybean oil and soybean oil 
meal, the two principal products in 
processing soybeans. The association 
early in the fall made a substantial ad- 
vance to members of approximately 90 
per cent of the country selling price 
at that time. Subsequently the associa- 
tion made an additional advance. 


The profit-sharing agreement was 
worked out with the co-operating proc- 
essors by which the latter financed the 
storage and advance on the 1931 soy- 
bean crop. Many non-members who 
sold their beans early last fall realized 
only 19 to 20 cents net. They are not 
now in a position to profit by the 
recent upturn in prices. 


Raised Market Level 


The Soybean Marketing Association 
has had a decided influence in raising 
the open market level on soybeans. 
After a conference with co-operating 
processors last fall, the Association 
opened up a brokerage department to 
handle these processors’ bids on a com- 
mission basis. The processors agreed to 
go just as far as possible in advancing 
the market price. As a result of these 
bidding operations, the Association defi- 
nitely forced the market up to 40 cents 
per bushel between Oct. 20 and Nov. 
15, 1931. 

Your organization was instrumental 
in another way to help bolster markets, 
Manager W. H. Coultas told the mem- 
bers. Early in November the Associa- 
tion closed a deal to export 50,000 bu- 
shels of soybeans to Germany, being 
the first handler of soybeans to enter 
the exporting field. The exported beans 


brought a higher price than those mar- 
keted at home because shipments from 
Manchuria practically dried up when 
China and Japan went to war. More 
recently an additional 150,000 bu. were 
sold to a foreign buyer at a very satis- 
factory price which will enhance the 
members’ final returns for pooled beans. 


Smith Reviews Facts 


Further details of the soybean mar- 
keting association’s operations in han- 
dling the 1931 crop were disclosed by 
Earl C. Smith, president of the manage- 
ment board, the last speaker on the aft- 
ernoon program. He went back to the 
beginning of the soybean association 
and quoted H. G. Atwood, chairman 
of the board of Allied Mills, who raised 
the question when the subject of a con- 
tract between the association and the 
processors was considered: “‘Will farm- 
ers stick together and live up to a con- 
tract? That is the only question. Will 
they stick if losses are incurred, or 
only when everything goes smoothly 
and the price is high?” 

“J am glad to say to you today,” 
continued Smith, “that the soybean 
growers have stuck together. The or- 
ganization is larger by more than a 
thousand members than it was a year 
ago. More beans were delivered this 
year than last. This fact is a great 
tribute to the co-operative spirit ex- 
isting among the farmers of Illinois. 


“Co-operative marketing can’t sell 
all of the commodity at the highest 
price. I want to say emphatically that 
your association returned to its members 
more money for the 1930 crop than 
the average received by non-members 
during the year. And I will say now 
that unless the market for soybean oil 
and soybean meal goes much lower the 
average settlement to members for the 
1931 crop will be larger than that av- 
erage received by all non-members for 
their beans. — 


Rumors Only 


‘When we began negotiating for the 
sale of the 1931 crop last fall there 
were rumors of a 35 cent per bu. price 
being offered by one processor. We ran 
this down and later learned from the 
individual who had spread the report 
that he was not authorized to offer 35 
cents a bushel, but that 25 cents was 
as much as hjs\company could pay. 
With that and much other information 
we contracted with two processors for 
a 30-cent per bu. minimum price and 


entered an agreement that if the price 
went up we would profit to the extent 
of 50 per cent of the increased returns 
from the sale of soybean oil meal and 
soybean oil. 


“The market went to 22 to 24 cents 
per bu. less the elevator handling charge 
which in the soybean territory averaged 
around 3.5 cents. As a result non- 
member growers who sold their beans 
at that time got from 19 to 20 cents a 
bu. But our processors stood by their 
contract in spite of the fact that the 
non-co-operating processors were buy- 
ing beans from non-members for con- 
siderably less. Over in Indiana where 
the growers are not organized, beans 
sold for three to four cents less than in 
Illinois. And when the Indiana growers 
got wise to the true condition they sent 
a delegation to our office and begged 
us to allow them to get in on our con- 
tract. This we could not do because 
the outlet did not justify such action. 


Why the Price Jumped 


“You may wonder why the price 
later jumped to 38 cents per bu. We 
got word from an exporter at New 
York that Germany was interested in 
buying soybeans. Through an exchange 
of telegrams we learned that we could 
sell 50,000 bu. to net Illinois growers 
38 cents at the country elevator. This 
was the first export sale on record. 
Your organization, because it had a 
large quantity available ready to sell, 
was enabled to take advantage of this 
situation. We recently completed a 
second sale of beans to Germany of 
more than 150,000 bu. to net a trifle 
over the country point price in Illinois 
today. 

“People who are opposed to co-opera- 
tive marketing for selfish reasons always 
like to tell about the high price some- 
one sold for. But they never mention 
the low price that the majority of non- 
members got for their crop. What we 
get for the rest of our beans in storage 
will depend upon the price of meal and 
oil between now and the time the last 
of our holdings are sold. On exported 
beans we are getting 75 per cent of 
the profits above the guaranteed mini- 
mum. The processors get the rest. 

“Some of our enemies are charging 
that the Soybeax Association fixed the 
price of beans at 20 cents a bu. when 
the advance was finally determined. I 
know that before our advance price 
was announced non-members were net+ 
ting 19 to 20 cents per bu. for beans 


Page Six 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


April, 1932 


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at country elevators. Some processors are re- 
sponding and dealing with co-operatives, and 
* others are not. By holding our forces intact and 
making a saving on procurement costs, I believe 
eventually the others will do business with us.” 


Use Soybean Oilmeal 


Mr. Smith urged that Illinois farmers use 
soybean oil meal rather than other concentrates 
in supplementing grains fed to livestock. “Why 
don’t we use our own home-grown feed,” he 
said, “instead of paying freight for shipping in 
cotton seed meal, linseed meal, and other im- 
ported concentrates? Let’s help ourselves and 
use what we have.” He quoted Harold C. Vial 
who operates a large dairy herd in DuPage 
county, who has found soybean oil meal supe- 
rior to any other concentrate for milk pro- 
duction. 

At the conclusion of Mr. Smith’s talk Frank 
J. Goodwine, soybean grower of Warren county, 
Indiana, who attended the meeting, arose and 
said: “I wish we Indiana farmers could get 
into your association. You got a better deal 
than we had. This is a better proposition than 
I ever thought farmers could get.” 

The meeting attended by 350 to 400 growers 
went on record by a unanimous rising vote 
giving their complete approval to the principles 
followed in the sale of the 1931 crop by the 
management, 


Dr. Burlison Speaks 


Dr. W. L. Burlison, chief. of the Agronomy 
Department, College of Agriculture, Urbana, 
gave a highly interesting illustrated talk on the 
development of soybean production in America 
during the past 15 years. He discussed imports 
and exports of soybeans and soybean products 
as well as other vegetable oils, the domestic pro- 
duction of cotton seed, linseed, peanut, and 
corn oils, and the uses now being made of soy- 
bean oil in commercial products. 

“Since 1922 the soybean acreage in Illinois 
has increased five-fold,” he said. ‘‘Illinois leads 
all states in production, but there have been 
great increases also in other states. The poten- 
tial production of soybeans in Illinois since 
1922 based on acreage in this crop has jumped 
from 4,250,000 bushels to more than 11,000,000 
bushels.” 

Imports of soybean oil, he showed, greatly 
decreased during the past decade. The same is 
true of soybean cake and the whole beans. The 
biggest drop came since 1929 when the new 
and higher tariff became effective. 

“There are great possibilities in the further 
use of soybean oil,” he said. “Soybean oil com- 
prises only a small percentage of the total 
volume of vegetable oil produced in America.” 
In 1929, Dr. Burlison showed, approximate- 
ly 56 per cent of the soybean acreage in 
the U. S. was devoted to hay, 16 per cent 
grazed, and 28 per cent were harvested for beans. 
Of the 28 per cent, 9 per cent went for seed 
and 12 per cent for feed, the balance for com- 
mercial asd other uses. 

Dr. Burlison’s slide pictures, showing the re- 
sults of using soybean oil paints at the Uni- 
versity of Illinois, excited much interest. Tests 
were made of paints using 100 per cent soybean 
oil down to a comparatively small percentage 
of soybean oil mixed with linseed oil. He said 
that the soybean oil paint is standing up very 
well in nearly every case, and that many who 
have examined the results prefer paints contain- 
ing soybean oil because of their luster. 


D. W. McMillen’s Address 


D. W. McMillen, president of Allied Mills, 
discussed soybean market conditions during the 
past year. “If we had known six months ago 
that a war between China and Japan would 
bring about a substantial demand for soybeans 
abroad we would have shipped most of our 
supply to New Orleans for export,” he said. 
“But without that knowledge large quantities 


of beans were processed here where the market 
for soybean products was so low as to bring 
about a low price for the beans. 

“Processing soybeans has been no more profit- 
able than growing them,” he continued. ‘We 
are not counting on making any money on 
processing this year. We are attempting to 
build good will and to avoid losing too much 
money. 

“When representatives' came to us last fall 
the market was so poor that we said 30 cents 
a bushel looks like all we can pay. We hated 
to even offer so low a price. But other com- 
panies at that time offered only 25 cents a 
bushel. When we found the other companies 
were offering only 25 cents we thought we 
could pay the same, but your representatives 
held us to the 30 cents offered. We agreed to 
split the profits, if any, from the sale of oil 
and meal after being allowed the cost of pro- 
cessing.” 


Absorbs the Shock 


“Think back a few months to the beginning 
of the harvesting of the 1931 crop and what 
the condition of the soybean market was at 
that time,” President Armstrong said in_ his 
annual address, “Then picture in your mind 
what would have been added to the distressed 
condition had there been no co-operative to 
absorb the shock of the 1,500,000 bushels of 
soybeans dumped on the 20-cent per bushel 
market then in existence. You will be told in 
the various reports today what was done and 
what caused the soybean market to rise from 
20 cents to 3§ cents per bushel and more. You 
will also realize that none of these things could 
have been accomplished by growers acting indi- 


vidually.. Some members have complained that 


the non-member benefits from our efforts and 
still bears no portion of the expense of operating 
our association. 

“In fact a non-member if he be fortunate in 
selling at the highest peak of the market may 
realize more net for his crop than a member 
and very likely this non-member will boast of 
his astuteness and make himself very obnoxious. 
This condition must be recognized as one of 
the problems of co-operative. marketing but is 
the same problem that has existed since civil 
government was set up. When you pay taxes 
or make contributions to any public welfare, 
the arrogant and loud-mouthed citizen who 
shuns his obligations to his comuunity enjoys 
all the benefits of your contributions and he is 
the fellow who usually has the most to say 
about how the country should be run. 


The Opposition Propaganda 


“We have also the organized opposition to 
all efforts toward co-operative marketing. It 
was to be expected that middlemen and those 
who profit from low prices to the producers, 
would resist our efforts, but it is surprising how 
successful they have been, in some cases, in 
poisoning the minds of uninformed producers 
against their own best interests. 

“A few weeks before our bean crop began 
moving to market last fall there were a few 
cars of beans contracted at 35 cents to 45 cents 
per bushel. Prices of meal and oil justified such 
a price at that time, but a rapid decline in the 
value of both these commodities left the con- 
tracting party facing a loss on his transaction. 
Yet the prices of those few carloads have been 
referred to many more times than have the 
sales of many more carloads at 20 to 21 cents 
by non-members who were not fortunate enough 
to have contracted their crop when values were 
higher. 

“Our plan of marketing does not contem- 
plate selling at a price which will ruin the 
purchaser but does contemplate selling at a 
price at which the buyer will come out with 
a reasonable profit and yet the grower will 
receive on the average better prices than the 
average between the lucky fellow who did con- 


tract on higher values and the unfortunate 
grower who had to sell on a market made by 
the fellow who.profits from low prices. 


Mutual Confidence 


“Relations with processors with whom we 
are now dealing are that of mutual respect and 
confidence. From an unknown group of grow- 
ers venturing out on the uncertain road of 
co-operation in 1929 your association — has 
rapidly gained recognition as a very important 
factor in the soybean industry of today. 

“Indications too numerous to mention in this 
brief address point to rapid growth in the im- 
portance of our association. Expansion in our 
membership to the extent of reaching out into 
other states is not without probability. 

“You loyal members have sacrificed both 
time and money to build up this organization. 
You have proved that producers will stand by 
their organization and deliver their product to 
be sold through their own marketing facilities. 

“You have proved sound the theory of co- 
operation between producers and processors.” 

The board of directors chosen for the coming 
year is as follows: Burton King, Hancock 
county; Dan Smith, Shelby county; W. J. San- 
dusky, Vermilion county; J. F. Probst, Macon 
county; John W. Armstrong, Champaign county; 
A. M. Piatt, Piatt county; L. A. Reed, Morgan 
county; Parke Kerbaugh, McLean county; Sam 
Sorrells, Montgomery county; Dwight Hart, 
Christian county; W. J. McCormick, Douglas 
county; T. H. Lloyd, Macoupin county; Edgar 
Boynton, Sangamon county; M. D. Tomlin, 
Mason county, and John Albright, Moultrie 
county. 

At the board meeting folloging the annual 
session of members all officers were re-elected as 
follows: John W. Armstrong, Champaign, presi- 
dent; Dwight Hart, Sharpsburg, vice-president; 
W. G. McCormick, Oakland, secretary; R. A. 
Cowles, treasurer, and W. H. Coultas, Chicago, 
assistant secretary. 

The executive committee in addition to the 
officers includes Samuel Sorrells, Raymond, and 
W. J. Sandusky, Georgetown. 

The board voted to change the annual meet- 
ing time to the fall. The next annual meeting 
will be held sometime between October 1 and 
January 1. 


The Macoupin Service Company, or- 
ganized in June last year, reports 1,100 
customers after eight months of opera- 
tion. ° 

Seven per cent preferred stock divi- 
dends were paid at the end of the fiscal 
year and a § per cent patronage divi- 
dend was declared after funds equal to 
25 per cent of the paid in capital stock 
were added to surplus. Patronage divi- 
dend checks were distributed to 448 
Farm Bureau members at the annual 
meeting at Carlinville March 5. The 
company operates a station at Carlin- 
ville and six trucks serve farmers of 
Macoupin county. 


More than 30,000 refund checks 
have been mailed out by the St. Louis 
Producers representing approximately 
$48,000. The Adams County Shipping 
Association received a check for $1,759, 
the largest received by any county ship- 
ping association selling livestock on the 
St. Louis market. John Pine of Scott 
county was the largest truck shipper 
selling through the Producers. He re- 
ceived a check for $70.21. 


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Farm Bureaus Succeed 
In Getting Tax Cuts 


Tax Committees Vigilant in Reduc- 
ing Burden on Farm Property 


EDUCTIONS in taxes on farm 
lands are being reported from a 
great many counties following the com- 
pletion of tax bills by county clerks. In 
almost every county the reductions can 
be traced directly to the efforts of Farm 


Bureau tax committees to adjust assess- 


ments on farm lands and property in 
line with present values. 


Farmers in Sangamon county will 
this year pay $202,431 less taxes on 
land than they paid in 1931. In addi- 
tion there has been a reduction of ap- 
proximately $9,000 in the personal 
property tax levied in the rural town- 
ships. 


Save $60 on 160 A. 


“The reduction in taxes to be paid 
in 1932 was secured entirely through 
the action of the Farm Bureau and the 
co-operation of certain public officials,” 
says the February issue of the Sangamo 
Farmer. “Provided no further reduc- 
tions are secured, the saving to farm 
owners will average approximately $60 
per 160 acre farm this year, or about 
$240 in the next four years.” 


Farmers in Marshall and Putnam 
counties are highly pleased with the re- 
sults obtained by tax committees of the 
Farm Bureau, according to local reports. 


Following the report of these commit- 


tees to the boards of supervisors in the 
respective counties, assessed valuation 
of land in both counties was reduced. 
In Putnam county the chief reduction 
was on the rougher lands; in Marshall 
county the valuation was reduced 25 
per cent. Several of the levies were also 
lowered following the reduced valua- 
tion. Some actual savings reported in 
Marshall county are as follows: $68.89 
saved on 200 acres, $67.25 on 160 
acres; and $100 on 300 acres. 


25% Cut in McLean 


The McLean County Farm Bureau 
News comments upon tax reductions as 
follows: 

“For more than ten years the Farm 
Bureau has been waging a fight in Mc- 
Lean county with the help of the Illi- 
nois Agricultural Association to secure 
lower valuations on farm lands. In 
1931 an approximate reduction of 25 
per cent in valuation was secured. 

“Valuations on farm land in McLean 
county were $59,616,665 in 1930. On 
a basis of board of review final figures 
for 1931, land values were $45,273,336. 
This is a reduction in land valuations 
of $14,343,329. 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


“The state tax is 39 cents on $100 
valuations. The reduction on valuations 
of farm land of $14,343,329 multiplied 
by the state tax rate of 39 cents makes 
a saving in state tax on McLean county 
lands of $55,938.98 this year. Each 
school district has a separate problem 
with respect to other taxes. We are 
informed, however, that the reduction 
in total taxes on farm lands this year 
averages 30 to 60 cents per acre.” 


Baseball League to 
Open on May |4 


More than 50 Farm Bureau baseball 
representatives from some 20 counties 
gathered at Bloomington, March 24, for 
the spring meeting of the Illinois Farm 
Bureau Baseball League. 


Lake, Kane, and possibly DuPage 
counties, plan to enter teams in the 
League this year for the first time. The 
executive committee was authorized to 
revise the plan for redistricting the 
counties to provide for all teams de- 
siring to play. Official play is scheduled 
to begin Saturday, May 14. Playing 
rules adopted are similar to those fol- 
lowed last year. 


County Service Companies 
Announce Cash Dividends 


During its second fiscal year, the Lee 
County Service Company had 1,040 
customers, 550 of which were Farm 
Bureau members, it was reported at the 
annual meeting of the company at Am- 
boy March 10. 


Preferred stock dividends of 7 per 
cent were paid prior to the annual 
meeting, and an 8 per cent patronage 
dividend has been announced for Farm 
Bureau members in good standing who 
patronized the company during the 
year. The company operates four bulk 
storage stations located at Franklin 
Grove, Harmon, Amboy, and Compton. 


Twenty-five members of the Effing- 
ham County Produce Association re- 
ceived refunds of $5 or more at the 
annual meeting of the association 
March 5. Two members received more 
than $25, one between $20 and $25, 
seven between $15 and $20, five be- 
tween $10 and $15, and ten between 
$5 and $10. The refund amounts to 
4Y, cents per pound of butterfat sold 
by Farm Bureau-Produce Association 
members between July 7 and December 
31, 1931, and 24 cents per pound sold 
by non-Farm Bureau members who are 
members of the Produce Association. 


Page Seven 


LaSalle Grain Co-Op. 
Making Good Progress 


HE LaSalle County Co-Operative 
Grain Company during its first 
eight months of operation handled 94 
cars of grain, according to the annual 
report of Manager 
i) E. L. Johnson. Every 
} car of grain shipped 
! was handled through 
} the Illinois Grain 
| Corporation and the 
| Farmers National. 
| The last sixteen 
cars of old corn 
shipped graded No. 
| 1. During the same 
period about eight 
per cent of the corn 
_ inspected at the Chi- 
cago market graded No. 1. Other grain 
likewise graded higher than the bulk of 
the market. Johnson believes that this 
co-operative company is getting more 
money for the grain it handles because 
it is equipped with modern machinery 
for handling and cleaning grain, which 
is largely responsible for improving the 
grade. 

Based on the volume of grain handled 
during the first eight months, the com- 
pany expects to handle between 250,- 
000 and 350,000 bushels when they 
have completed their twelve-month pe- 
riod. 


Sweet Cream Butter 
Brings Most Money 


E. L. Johnson 


If Illinois butterfat were sold on 
grade, three grades would likely be es- 
tablished as follows: 

A. sweet, 
B. No. 1 sour, 
C. No. 2 sour. 

Investigations show that on the aver- 
age Illinois produces 1312% of sweet 
cream, 4514 % of No. 1 sour and 41% 
of No. 2 sour. Taking a four year av- 
erage, butter made out of sweet cream 
is worth 1!4c more than butter made 
from No. 1 sour cream, while butter 
made from No. 2 sour cream is worth 
3'4¢ less than butter made from No. 
1 sour and 434c less than butter made 
from sweet cream. 

These figures prove quite conclusive- 
ly that producers of high quality cream 
are penalized severely when they get no 
more for their product than the pro- 
ducer of No. 2 sour cream. Stated in 
dollars, the average producer of sweet 
cream takes annually about $20 less 
for his butterfat than it is actually 
worth, while the poor producer gets 
from $20 to $25 more than he is en- 
titled to. Co-operative produce mar- 
keting should correct this injustice. 


Page Eight 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


April, 1932 


ILLINOIS 
a@couritnn ASSOCIARION 
: RECORD 


To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organized, 
namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, political, 
and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation, 
and to develop agriculture. 


GeorGE Tu1EM, Editor 
Max Harre son, Assistant Editor 


Published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Association at 165 So. 
Main St., Spencer, Ind Editorial Offices, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, 
Ill. Application for transfer of second class entry from Marshall, Ill., to 
Spencer, Ind., pending. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage 
provided in Section 412, Act of Feb. 28, 1925, authorized Oct. 27, 1925. 
Address all communications for publication to Editorial Offices, Illinois 
Agricultural Association Record, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago. The 
individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is five 
dollars a year. The fee includes payment of fifty cents for subscription 
to the Illinois Agricultural Association Record. Postmaster: In returning 
an uncalled for missent copy please indicate key number on address as is 
required by law. 


President, Earl C. 


OFFICERS 


Detroit 


Vice-President, A. Varna 
Secretary, Geo. E. ...-Chicago 
Treasurer, R. A. Cowles .... Bloomington 


BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
(By Congressional District) 


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Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co................... H. Kelker, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Auditing Ass’n. F. Je Ringham, Mer. 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co... A. E. Richardson, Mgr. 
Illinois Farm Supply Co. L. R. Marchant, Mgr. 
Illinois Grain Corp... Chas. P. Cummings, Vice-Pres. and Sales Mgr. 
Illinois Livestock Mark. Ass’n.....Ray Miller, Mgr.; R. W. Grieser, Sales 
Illinois Produce Marketing Ass’n......................... F. A. Gougler, Mgr. 
Soybean Marketing Ass’n....... cwsseeeeeeeW, Hi. Coultas, Mgr. 


More Propaganda 
ELVIN T. GODDARD, a Farm Bureau mem- 


ber, writes from Warren county enclosing a 
clipping reporting a speech made by one Frank 4, 
Delany, a representative of the grain trade, at 
a meeting sponsored by the so-called Farmers 
Protective Association. Mr. Delany is reported 
to have advised farmers at Clinton in DeWitt 
county to abandon their organization, the Farm 
Bureau, presumably that the predatory instincts 
of grasping middlemen may have full sway un- 
disturbed by effective farm organization. 

Mr. Goddard warmly resents Mr. Delany’s ad- 
vice, rightly indicating that his intelligence and 
that of every organized farmer has been insulted. 
It would have been proper to ask the speaker who 
seeks to“advise farmers on how to conduct their 
affairs, if the commission men are abandoning 


their exchanges, their “Federation of American 
Business Men,” and their representatives in Spring- 
field, Washington, and elsewhere; to ask him 
whether the commission men are reducing their 
charges for handling grain commensurate with 
the extreme decline in farm prices. 

Farmers know that such “trade” associations 
and propaganda societies as are represented by 
Mr. Delany are flooding the mails and newspaper 
offices with material against co-operative market- 
ing and all organized farm effort as never before. 
Such propaganda will serve to make farmers more 
thoughtful, determined, and respectful of their 
own accomplishments through organization. 


Say It with Votes 
PRESIDENT SMITH made the timely sugges- 
tion at the recent Decatur conference that 
every farmer leave his work long enough on pri- 
mary day, April 12, to vote. 

He pointed out that farmers represent a mi- 
nority of the voters of Illinois which means that 
to gain proper representation and equal privilege 
in government they must think and act together 
in legislative matters affecting their interests. 

The March issue of the RECORD presented 
the voting records on the state income tax of 
members of the 57th General Assembly most 
of whom are seeking re-election. The men and 
women in the legislature who supported this 
measure to remove part of the unfair burden of 
taxation on farm and home owners, stood firm 
against great pressure brought by opponents of 
this legislation to defeat it. They stood for the 
interests of the overburdened property taxpayers. 
Irrespective of party they should have the favor- 
able votes of all farmers in the coming primary. 
Consult the March RECORD before you go to 
the polls, and vote to return your friends to 


office. 


On Enjoying Life 
ARM BUREAU baseball will have a good year 
in 1932 judging from the enthusiasm displayed 
at the recent spring meeting of the State League 
in Bloomington. Price levels need not interfere 
with the ability of people to have a good time. 

It is well to remind ourselves that the things 
in life we enjoy most frequently cost the least. 
Happiness is not dependent upon wealth to those 
who have cultivated enthusiasm for health, out- 
door life, a field of waving grain, thriving live- 
stock, the beauties of nature, good literature, and 
wholesome fun. 

Most of us take life too seriously. Organized 
recreation like Farm Bureau baseball makes life 
more interesting, aids us in attacking our work 
and problems with added vigor and hope. 


Ap 


April, 1932 


While We Are Going Thru 
the Depression 


By A. L. Goodenough, President, 
Whiteside County Farm Bureau 
I suppose you have noticed that our 
clothes have not been pressed, 
And you couldn’t help but notice that 
our hats don’t look the best. 

And did you ever know the reason 
why our wives look so distressed, 
It’s just because we’re going through 

the depression. 

Hurrah, hurrah, let’s wipe away 
the tears, 

Hurrah, hurrah, let’s stand and 
give three cheers, 

We'll never know the difference 

In half a hundred years 

If any of us live through the 
depression. 


I know that we farmers were stepping 
high and wide, 
We thought we had all kinds of dough 
so buyed and buyed and buyed. 
But the goose that laid the golden egg 
worked overtime and died, 
And that’s why we’re going through 
the depression. 
Hurrah, hurrah, O yes, we’re all 
in debt, 
Hurrah, hurrah, but we’re hang- 
ing on, you bet. 
If your banker 
busted, 
Aw, just tell him he’s all wet, 
It’s just because we're going 
through the depression. 


says you're 


Of course there were city men who 
were hit just as hard, 
Their autos and their golf clubs they 
almost had to discard. 
And instead of eating butter, spread 
their bread with yellow lard, 
While they were going through the de- 
pression. 
Hurrah, Hurrah, I’m glad I’m 
on the farm, 
Hurrah, hurrah, these times may 
do no harm, 
They’ll teach the public how to 
live 
And our nation to disarm, 
While we are going through the 
‘depression. 


O yes, there are union men who can’t 
quite see the joke, 
They think we ought to pull the load, 
we're all so blamed well broke, 
It’s time we got together and slipped 
off that gosh-darned yoke, 
While we are going through the de- 
pression. 
Hurrah, hurrah, now’s the’ time 
to sign, 
Hurrah, hurrah, right on the 
dotted line, 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


If you don’t you may as well go 
home, 

Crawl in your hole and whine, 

While we are going through the 
depression. 

Note: Mr. Goodenough, accompanied on the 
piano by his daughter, Florence, sang this song 
to the tune “Marching Through Georgia” at 
the Farm Bureau presidents’ dinner, Rockford, 
January 27, 1932. 


Farm Bureaus May 
Use I. A. A. Emblem 


I. A. A. Board Votes to Permit Use 
Of Trade Mark, But Only for 
Legitimate Purposes 


Extension of the use of the Illinois 
Agricultural Association official emblem 
to County Farm Bureaus desiring to use 
it was approved by the board of direc- 
tors of the I. A. A. in Chicago March 
18. The action was recommended to 
the board by the organization-informa- 
tion advisory committee at the request 
of several counties. 

The Farm Bureaus, however, must 
apply to the board for this permission 
giving each specific use to which the 
emblem is to be put and the emblem 
must not be used in any other way than 
specified in the request. It was also 
stipulated that cuts. be ordered by the 
I. A. A. at the expense of the County 
Farm Bureau. 

The board further decided that no 
changes be made in the emblem except 
possibly where a state-wide organization 
serving a particular interest might re- 
quest some change of copy in the map 
of Illinois and that such a change must 
have the approval of the I. A. A. board. 

The use of the emblem will also be 
granted to the subsidiary companies of 
the I. A. A. and of the County Farm 
Bureaus upon approval of each specific 
case by the board. 

The board reserves the right to re- 
call the use of the emblem upon 60 
days’ notice with or without cause. 

It is the opinion of the organization- 
information committee that a wider 
use should be made of the emblem by 
the County Farm Bureaus and the Illi- 
nois Agricultural Association in‘ publici- 
ty and advertising material. 

It was further recommended that the 
officers of the association make a study 
of the possibilities and costs of develop- 
ing a Farm Bureau membership sign 
embodying the official emblem. 

- The department of information was 
authorized to canvass the Farm Bureaus 
and subsidiary organizations, to find out 
whether or not these organizations 
would be willing to proceed on the 
same basis in publishing a 1933 Farm 
Bureau calendar as they followed in 
the distribution of the 1932 calendar. 


Page Nine 


Chicago Producers Sell 
$18,500,000 of Livestock 


Handle 4,145 Cars of Stock from 
Co-Op. Shipping Associations 


Eyes 1931 the Chicago Pro- 
ducers handled 15,072 cars of 
livestock, including 3,377 cars received 
by truck, it was reported at the annual 
meeting in Chicago March 8. 

Receipts included 113,420 head of 
cattle, 44,878 head of calves, 579,132 
hogs, and 402,911 
sheep, having a total 
sales value of more 
| than $18,500,000. 
| The Producers han- 
i dled 4,145 cars of 
| Tllinois livestock 
| originating in co- 
| Operative shipping 
! associations, or 32.8 
| per cent of the TIli- 


Me) nOis co-operative 

shipments arriving 

H. H. Parke on the Chicago mar- 
ket. 


A total of 6,827 cars of livestock 
coming from local shipping associations 
in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, 
and other states went through the Pro- 
ducers Association. This amounted to 
17.32 per cent of the co-operative re- 
ceipts at Chicago. 

Truck shipments to the Chicago 
Producers in 1931 were 22,086 head of 
cattle, 12,132 calves, 141,402 hogs, and 
36,357 sheep, Mgr. Swanson said. 

The Producers last year did business 
as far west as Washington and Oregon, 
as far south as Texas, and as far east 
as New York and Pennsylvania. 

Earl C. Smith, president of the Illi- 
nois Agricultural Association, empha- 
sized the need for co-ordinating the 
operations of all marketing agencies so 
as to avoid competition among them- 
selves. Ray E. Miller explained that the 
Illinois Livestock Marketing Association 
is organized to co-ordinate and supple- 
ment the agencies on the market, and 
not to compete with them. 

Other speakers were President H. H. 
Parke, Genoa, Ill.; Henry Wieland, Be- 
loit, Wis.; Charles Hearst, president, 
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation; C. A. 
Ewing, president, National Livestock 
Marketing Association; “Farmer” 
Brown, Federal Farm Board; and R. F. 
O’Donnell, manager, Iowa Livestock 
Marketing Corporation. 


Five hundred and ninety-five cars of 
grain were handled through the Illinois 
Grain Corporation during February. 
During the month the Hamel Co-Oper- 
ative Grain Company of Worden, Madi- 
son county, was added as a member, 
making a total of 83. 


Page Ten 


McNair Writes Again 


Editor, I. A. A. Recorp: 

“I have had 10 years’ experience on 
an Illinois mail route, also lived on a 
farm all my life. Hence I feel qualified 
to say what the necessary expenses of a 
mail carrier are. They are largely what 
they are made. I know that the farmer 
must be more conservative than the 
ones taking exception to my recent ar- 
ticle published in the January REcorp. 

“I know what a carrier gets and what 
a carrier does, his sweets and his sours, 
and what his necessary expenses are. He 
can spend more. I know from my ten 
years’ experience. 

“I began my carrying at $900 and got 
some increases later and I was frank 
enough to admit at the time that we 
were getting upward of $1,200 that we 
were getting too much under the con- 
ditions. Then came greater and greater 
increases which were practically gifts. 
The country was prosperous those days. 
Farmers were getting a living and pay- 
ing taxes enough for himself and at 
least a part that his public servants 
should have paid. But they were work- 


ing twice as many hours as the public 
servants... . 


“We don’t blame the carriers for taking this 
sift, but we do blame them for trying to make 
the public think they are rightfully entitled to 
the gift. We are’ not asking them how they 
would like to have a reduction, but we are 
asking the public to get behind the reform and 
stop the fattening of a few at the expense of a 
multitude of oppressed people. 

“We are not asking that these public servants 
accept a reasonable reduction and go on for 
years more drawing public money. Bless your 
life no. There are millions more, fully as capa- 
ble and worthy as these who would be glad 
to accept public jobs. When they are gone or 
retired on pension, the letter sack will get 
around fully as satisfactory as before. . . : 

“It is a settled fact that if farm relief comes 
about, it must come by the farmers themselves 
and not by politicians or public servants. One 
of my opponents seems to think that the de- 
Pression has just come. Mistake. It has been 
for several years and there is no human power 
that can lift it under years of time. Nor will 
the cost of living be raised until the depression 
begins to ease... . 

“The wages of my opponent will each day 
buy approximately according to locality now 
two tons hay, 28 bu. corn, 40 bu. oats, 14 bu. 
apples, 12 bu. potatoes, a fair sized hog or half 
of a good beef, 45 bu. coal, a barrel of gasoline 
(enough to carry his mail for a month), a 
barrel of kerosene (enough to last a year), 10 
gallons motor oil, enough flour to run three 
or four months, 15 bu. wheat, enough eggs 
to run three months, enough butter or oleo to 
run half a year, 100 Ibs. lard, 500 or 600 Ibs. 
corn meal, a good auto tire, enough tubes for 
the whole car including the spare, half dozen 
Pairs overalls, four pairs work shoes, two pairs 
rubber boots, 150 Ibs. sugar, a daily paper for 
more than a year, railroad ticket for 200 miles, 
20 to 30 bu. peaches, his semi-annual taxes 
on his home in town or fire insurance for a 
year on it or many other common things. The 
annual salary will buy three automobiles. These 
are facts and cannot be disputed. . . . 

“No person should have a public job who 
does not believe in the Golden Rule. The R. 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


F, D. carrier is only a very small per cent of 
the ‘public servants’ which term my January 
article included. It includes all that are out 
of line from an election clerk or judge to 
U. S. Senator. Also P. M. Gen. Brown. Why 
pay election judges $6 per day when many 
would like it at $1.50? Yours for justice. 
F. J. McNair, Hamilton County, III. 


Direct Selling of Livestock 


The sale of hogs by farmers direct to 
packers or to packer representatives, 
results in disorganized marketing, 
throws one group of farmers against 
another group of farmers. The result 
is that the farmer not only sacrifices 
all control over the marketing of his 
own product, but also contributes to 
lower price levels because of this high- 
ly competitive and disorganized method 
of marketing. The Illinois Livestock 
Marketing Association, which is a Farm 
Bureau project, meets this situation by 
co-ordinating the movement of live- 
stock from country points with sales 
operations by Producer agencies on ter- 
minal markets. 


Three New Oil Companies 
Formed in Southern Ill. 


Three new service companies have 
been organized since the first of the 
year and the 47 already in operation 
have done considerably more business 
to date this year than in the correspond- 
ing period a year ago, according to 
Manager L. R. Marchant. 

The Fruit Belt Service Company, 
which started operations about March 
1, will supply petroleum products and 
other commodities entering into the 
cost of production to farmers in John- 
son, Union, Pope, Hardin, Massac, 
Pulaski, and Alexander counties; the 
Twin Counties Service Company, erect- 
ing bulk storage stations at Marion and 
Murphysboro at the present time, will 
do business in Jackson and Williamson 
counties; and the Madison Service Com- 
pany is planning to locate at Edwards- 
ville. 

During February the Illinois Farm 
Supply Company received orders for 
more than 400 cars of petroleum prod- 
ucts, representing an increase of 19.5 
per cent for volatile fuels, 22.3 per cent 
for lubricating oils, and 83.8 per cent 
for grease over the same month the 
preceding year. 

Marchant, comparing the extent of 
the company now to that of three years 
ago, states that in April, 1929, there 
were 16 companies associated with the 
state company, operating 42 bulk stor- 
age stations and approximately 100 
trucks, while today there are 50 mem- 
ber companies, 125 storage stations, and 
some 360 trucks serving farm trade. 


April, 1932 


| 
ANC, ilk P ices 


(For March, based on 3.5% milk unless 
otherwise specified. ). 

Philadelphia—Inter-State Milk Pro- 
ducers announces Class I basic $2.34 
f. o. b. city. Retail 10c. 

Milwaukee—Milwaukee Co-Opera- 
tive Milk Producers announces Class I 
basic $2.10 del’d. Retail 9c—cash and 
carry 8 and 9c. 

Baltimore—Maryland State Dairy- 
men’s Ass’n. announces Class I basic 
$2.84 country pt. Retail 12c. 

St. Louis—Sanitary Milk Producers 
announces Class I basic $1.35 country 
pt. (net). Retail 10c—cash and carry 
9-10c. Gross price is $1.40, checkoff 
Sc cwt. 

Quincy—Quincy Co-Operative Dai- 
ry Co. announces $2.20 per cwt. for 
milk del’d. Retail 10c—cash and carry 
8c. 

Moline, Rock Island and Daven- 
port—Quality Milk Ass’n. announces 
Class I basic $1.85 country pt. Sur- 


‘plus 92 score butterfat price country 


point. Retail 10c. Cash and carry 8c. 
DeKalb—Milk Consumers Ass’n. an- 
nounces Class I basic $2.01 del’d. Class 
II 92 score market. Retail 11c.. Cash 
and carry 10c. Ten per cent discount 
if accounts are paid by 27th each mo. 
Chicago—Pure Milk Ass’n. an- 
nounces Class I basic $2.01 country pt. 
Retail 12c. Cash and carry 10'Yc. 


February Prices 


St. Louis—Sanitary Milk Producers 
announces Class II 88c country “pt. 
Class III surplus 73c. Retail 10c. Cash 
and carry 9-10c. Feb. base price was 
$1.78 net on 1lc per qt. market. 

Springfield — Producers Dairy Co. 
announces Class I basic $1.70 to Feb. 
16, $1.55 after Feb. 15 del’d. Surplus 
Sc per Ib. above butterfat. Retail 
91-1lc. Wholesale 8c. 

Bloomington—McLean County Milk 
Producers Assn. announced Class I basic 
$1.70 f. o. b. city. Class II manufac- 
tured $1.28. Class III surplus 91c. 
Class Ila $1.28. Retail 934c. 

Champaign — Champaign County 
Milk Producers announces Class I basic 
$1.88 del’d. Class II cottage cheese 
$1.24, Class III sweet cream sales to 
ice cream trade $1.05. Butter 70c. 
Retail 11c. Cash and carry 9'4c. 

Decatur—Decatur Milk Ass’n. an- 
nounces Class I basic $1.61 del’d. Class 
II manufactured $1.26. Class III sur- 


plus 64c. Retail 10c. Cash and carry 


7 and 8c. 


Apr 


April, 1932 THE I. A. A. RECORD Page Eleven 


wei we # 
hes re 
cit seeatae 


Powers Bros. to insure 
their crops against hail 


SUMMER hail storm may destroy all your growing crops. Ask Powers 

Bros. who live near Galesburg, Knox county, Illinois, about the hail on 
July 18 last year that riddled their 100 acres of growing corn. Hail insurance 
in the Farmers Mutual was all that saved them from nearly a total loss: The 
check for $999.04 made the difference between failure and a fair return for 
the season’s work. 


The adjuster estimated 75 per cent damage in the 38 acre field and 65 per 
cent loss in the 62 acre field. The claim totaled $1,032, which left $999.04 
after the assessment. Fortunately the small grain crops had been cut. 


Can You Afford to Lose? 


Hail storms destroy crops every year somewhere in Illinois. If hail hits 
your farm in 1932, can you afford to lose? 


Why take a chance when for an initial outlay of only $4 per thousand 
you can insure against loss? You pay the balance of the assessment October 1 
after the crop is produced. 


During recent years hail insurance in the Farmers Mutual has cost only 
$20 per thousand on corn and small grains—slightly more for soybeans. This 
cost represents a saving of at least 30 per cent compared with similar coverage 
in other companies. 


All hail risks further reinsured to protect you. Also fire, windstorm and 
hail insurance on farm buildings and property. 


Mail the Coupon for full information. 


Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co., 
FARMERS MUTUAL | ‘*i.22,>strer se" 
REINSURANCE CO. | intormation about farm crop hail insur- 
s 608 SO. DEARBORN ST. ance At Cost in My Own Company. 
sid CHICAGO 


Name 


Address 


Page Ten 


McNair Writes Again 


Editor, I. A. A. Recorp: 

“T have had 10 years’ experience on 
an I]linois mail route, also lived on a 
farm all my life. Hence I feel qualified 
to say what the necessary expenses of a 
mail carrier are. They are largely what 
they are made. I know that the farmer 
must be more conservative than the 
ones taking exception to my recent ar- 
ticle published in the January Rrcorp. 

“T know what a carrier gets and what 
a carrier does, his sweets and his sours, 
and what his necessary expenses are. He 
can spend more. I know from my ten 
years’ experience. 

“I began my carrying at $900 and got 
some increases later and I was frank 
enough to admit at the time that we 
were getting upward of $1,200 that we 
were getting too much under the con- 
ditions. Then came greater and greater 
increases which were practically gifts. 
The country was prosperous those days. 
Farmers were getting a living and pay- 
ing taxes enough for himself and at 
least a*part that his public servants 
should have paid. But they were work- 
ing twice as many hours as the public 
servants. . 


“We don’t blame the carri 
sift, but we do blame them 
the public think they are rightfully entitled to 
the gift. We are not asking them how they 
would like to have a reduction, but we are 
asking the public to get behind the reform and 
stop the fattening of a few at the expense of a 
multitude of oppressed people. 

“We are not asking that these public servants 
accept a reasonable reduction and 


years more drawing public money. 


ers tor taking this 
for trying to make 


sO on for 
Ae \ Bless your 
life no. There are millions more, fully 


as capa- 
ble and worthy as these who 


W ould be gl id 


to accept public jobs. When they are gone or 


Ircd on pension, the lette: 


sack will get 

ind fully a . 
around fully as satisfactory as before. 

It is led fact that if far rehet « 

1 ; 
abou wt om ic | the fari s th Ives 
ind not by politicians or public ints. One 
I my Opponents seems to think ite the de 
Pression has just come. Mistake. It has been 
fore several warxre and! a ; 
I cyerar years and there is no human power 
: : 

at-can lift it under years of time. Nor will 
te cost of living be raised until thy depression 
begins to ease. 

The wages of my opponent will each day 
Duy approximately according to locality now 
two tons hay, 28 bu. corn, 40 bu. oats, 14 bu. 

ple > +) Fay f 
apples, 12 bu. potatocs, a fair sized hog or half 


of a good beef, 45 bu. coal, a barrel of gasoline 
(enough to carry his mail for a month), a 
barrel of kerosene (enough to last a year), 10 
gallons motor oil, enough flour to run 


é three 
or tour 


months, 15 bu. wheat, enough eggs 
o run three months, enough butter or oleo to 
run half a year, 100 Ibs. lard, 500 or 600 Ibs. 
corn meal, a good auto tire, enough tubes for 
the whole car including the spare, half dozen 
pairs overalls, four pairs work shoes, two Pairs 
rubber boots, 150 Ibs. sugar, a daily paper for 
more than a year, railroad ticket for 200 miles, 
20 to 30 bu. peaches, his semi-annual taxes 
op his home in town or fire insurance for a 
year on it or many other common things. The 
annual salary will buy three automobiles. These 
are facts and cannot be disputed. .. . 

“No person should have a public job who 
does not believe in the Golden Rule. The R. 


f 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


F. D. carrier is only a very small per cent of 
the ‘public servants’ which term my January 
article included. It includes all that are out 
of line from an election clerk or judge to 
U. S. Senator. Also P. M. Gen. Brown. Why 
pay election judges $6 per day when many 
would like it at $1.50? Yours for justice. 
PF. J. McNair, Hamilton County, II. 


Direct Selling of Livestock 


The sale of hogs by farmers direct to 
packers or to packer representatives, 
results in disorganized marketing, 
throws one group of farmers against 
another group of farmers. The result 
is that the farmer not only sacrifices 
all control over the marketing of his 
own product, but also contributes to 
lower price levels because of this high- 
ly competitive and disorganized method 
of marketing. The Illinois Livestock 
Marketing Association, which is a Farm 
Bureau project, meets this situation by 
co-ordinating the movement of _live- 
stock from country points with sales 
operations by Producer agencies on ter- 
minal markets. 


Three New Oil Companies 
Formed in Southern Ill. 


Three new service companies have 
been organized since the first of the 
year and the 47 already in operation 
have done considerably more business 
to date this year than in the correspond- 
ing period a year ago, according to 
Manager L. R. Marchant. 

The Fruit Belt Service Company, 
which started operations about March 
1, will supply petroleum products and 
other commodities entering into the 
cost of production to farmers in John- 
son, Union, Pope, Hardin, Massac, 
Pulaski, and Alexander counties; the 
Twin Counties Service Company, erect- 
ing bulk storage stations at Marion and 
Murphysboro at the present time, will 
do business in Jackson and Williamson 
counties; and the Madison Service Com- 
pany is planning to locate at Edwards- 
ville. 

During February the Illinois Farm 
Supply Company received orders: for 
more than 400 cars of petroleum prod- 
ucts, representing an increase of 19.5 
per cent for volatile fuels, 22.3 per cent 
for lubricating oils, and 83.8 per cent 
for grease over the same month the 
preceding year. 

Marchant, comparing the extent of 
the company now to that of three years 
ago, states that in April, 1929, there 
were 16 companies associated with the 
state company, operating 42 bulk stor- 
age stations and approximately 100 
trucks, while today there are 50 mem- 
ber companies, 125 storage stations, and 
some 360 trucks serving farm trade. 


April, 1932 


NGik 


(For March, based on. 3.5% milk unless 
otherwise specified.) 

Philadelphia—Inter-State Milk Pro- 
ducers announces Class I basic $2.34 
f. o. b. city. Retail 10c. 

Milwaukee—Milwaukee Co-Opera- 
tive Milk Producers announces Class I 
basic $2.10 del’d. Retail 9c—cash and 
carry 8 and 9c. 

Baltimore—Maryland State Dairy- 
men’s Ass’n. announces Class I basic 
$2.84 country pt. Retail 12c. 

St. Louis—Sanitary Milk Producers 
announces Class I basic $1.35 country 
pt. (net). Retail 10c—cash and carry 
9-10c. Gross price is $1.40, checkoff 
Sc cwt. 

Quincy—Quincy Co-Operative Dai- 
ry Co. announces $2.20 per cwt. for 
milk del’d. Retail 10c—cash and carry 
8c. 

Moline, Rock Island and Daven- 
port—Quality Milk Ass’n. announces 
Class I basic $1.85 country pt. Sur- 
plus 92 score butterfat price country 
point. Retail 10c. Cash and carry 8c. 

DeKalb—Milk Consumers Ass’n. an- 
nounces Class I basic $2.01 del’d. Class 
II 92 score market. Retail 11c. Cash 
and carry 10c. Ten per cent discount 
if accounts are paid by 27th each mo. 

Chicago—Pure Milk Ass’n.  an- 
nounces Class I basic $2.01 country pt. 
Retail 12c. Cash and carry 10'c 


v1CES 


February Prices 


St. Louis—Sanitary Milk Producers 
announces Class If 88c country pt. 
Class HI surplus 73c. Retail 10c. Cash 
and carry 9-10c. Feb. base price was 
$1.78 net on Ile per qt. market. 

Springfield — Producers Dairy Co. 
announces Class I basic $1.70 to Feb. 
16, $1.55 after Feb. 15 del’d. Surplus 
Sc per Ib. above butterfat. Retail 
91-1lc. Wholesale 8c. 

Bloomington—McLean County Milk 
Producers Assn. announced Class I basic 
$1.70 f. o. b. city. Class If manufac- 
tured $1.28. Class HI surplus 91c. 
Class IIa $1.28. Retail 934c 

Champaign — Champaign County 
Milk Producers announces Class I basic 
$1.88 del’d. Class If cottage cheese 
$1.24, Class III sweet cream sales to 
ice cream trade $1.05. Butter 70c. 
Retail 11c. Cash and carry 9'4c. 

Decatur—Decatur Milk Ass’n. an- 
nounces Class I basic $1.61 del’d. Class 
II manufactured $1.26. Class III sur- 
plus 64c. Retail 10c. Cash and carry 
7 and 8c. 


Apr 


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Powers Bros. to insure 
their crops against hail 


SUMMER hail storm may destroy all your growing crops. Ask Powers 

Bros. who live near Galesburg, Knox county, Illinois, about the hail on 
July 18 last year that riddled their 100 acres of growing corn. Hail insurance 
in the Farmers Mutual was all that saved them from nearly a total loss. The 
check for $999.04 made the difference between failure and a fair return for 
the season’s work. 

The adjuster estimated 75 per cent damage in the 38 acre field and 65 per 
cent loss in the 62 acre field. The claim totaled $1,032, which left $999.04 


after the assessment. Fortunately the small grain crops had been cut. 


Can You Afford to Lose? 


Hail storms destrov crops every year somewhere in Illinois. Tf hail hits 


your farm in 1932, can you afford to lose? 


Why take a chance when for an initial outlay of only $4 per thousand 
you can insure against loss? You pay the balance of the assessment October | 
after the crop is produced. 

During recent years hail insurance in the Farmers Mutual has cost only 
$20 per thousand on corn and small grains—slightly more for soybeans. This 
cost represents a saving of at least 30 per cent compared with similar coverage 
in other companies. 

All hail risks further reinsured to protect you. Also fire, windstorm and 


hail insurance on farm buildings and property. 


Mail the Coupon for full information. 


Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co., 

FARMERS MUTUAL | '"°.°.?sin2" 8" 
Chicago, Illinois. 

REIN URA Please send me without obligation full 

S NCE CO. information about farm crop hail insur- 

ance At Cost in My Own Company. 

608 SO. DEARBORN ST. 

CHICAGO 


Name 


Address_ 


Page Twelve 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


April, 1932 


Why | Believe in the Community Unit Plan 


By AN [IROQUOIS COUNTY UNIT DIRECTOR 


Pe Community Unit plan with a 
leader in each of the 19 local units 
has been in operation long enough in 
Iroquois county to prove its value. 
There is more interest shown by the 
membership of the Farm Bureau I think 
than ever before. I know that state- 
ment to be true for the past seven years 
as I have been a Farm Bureau member 
for that length of time. 

When I was still at home my father 
was a member, paid his $15 yearly with 
only a vague idea as to why he did so. 
He never attended a meeting and I am 
satisfied did not know of the work his 
organization was doing. He got no di- 
rect benefit as he did not use his organi- 
zation. What benefit he derived in- 
directly he knew nothing about. His 
job was farming and such matters as 
reduction in transportation costs, taxes, 
and other items which directly affected 
his income he took as a matter . of 
course — knew he could do nothing 
about it. 

Money Isn’t All 


Any organization to be effective must 
be backed by the interest of its mem- 
bers. You can’t pay in $15 a year and 
then say, “I paid my dues, now let’s see 
you do something to help me.” That 
attitude taken by a membership won’t 
get anywhere. You’ve got to take an 
active part in anything if you are going 
to get something out of it. Give your 
moral support as well as your money. 
You will have to know the problems of 
the people in your community, know 
what it is that they expect to achieve 
through co-operative effort or what in- 
formation they want that can be had 
through the Farm Bureau. 

Your Farm Adviser hasn’t time to 
visit everyone and discuss his personal 
problems, whether it be how to select 
seed corn, how to feed dairy cows, or 
raise hogs according to the sanitation 
plan. Here is where your local leader- 
ship comes into the picture. For ex- 
ample, a resident of the community has 
been appointed leader in a project of 
dairy feeding. He will be required to 
attend a dairy feeding school along with 
other leaders from the various units. 
He will then be qualified to give the 
information to his neighbors. Thus all 
the people will have been informed, the 
organization helped, and the project 
leader will have had a gratifying expe- 
rience by being able to serve his organi- 
zation and community. Care must be 
taken, however, in choosing project 
leaders. The unit leader should con- 
sider carefully the qualifications neces- 


Shelby County Farm Bureau’s 
New Home 


sary in a man for him to be able to 
serve in the project he intends to pro- 
mote. 

Enthusiasm and Sincerity 


The unit leader must have enthusi- 
asm and sincerity to get the confidence 
of the people he is trying to serve. If as 
Unit Leader you find you have made 
a mistake in your appointment choose 
someone else and try again. An in- 
active or inefficient leader will get you 
nowhere. Remember, you want to de- 
velop interest among your members. 
You can do it through your project 
leaders if they are willing to make an 
effort. 

So far I have spoken of the member- 
ship already in the organization. There 
is another reason for having an active 
community unit, namely, your neighbor 
who doesn’t belong to the Farm Bureau. 
You need him and you will have to 
make your organization so attractive 
that he can’t stay out. 

He may not know what the Service 
Company, or Shipping Association is all 
about. He doesn’t know that Farm 
Bureau members get their serum at cost 
or their auto insurance at a substantial 


saving, or that Country Life offers lower. 


net cost life insurance. More than that, 
he doesn’t realize that it was by co- 
operation that these things were made 
possible. 


Interesting Non-Members 


A good way to arouse the interest of 
the non-member who is your neighbor 
is through community meetings spon- 
sored by the Farm Bureau and Home 
Bureau. I say this from experience for 
we have held our third community 


Shelby County Farm 
Bureau Has New Home 


HE Shelby County Farm Bureau 

recently moved into its new home, 
the building formerly occupied by the 
Citizens National Bank at Shelbyville. 
Shelby is the eighteenth Farm Bureau 
in Illinois to buy its own building. 


The Shelby-Effingham Service Com- 
pany, the Shelby County Livestock 
Marketing Association, the Shelby 
County: Produce Association, and the 
general agent of the I. A. A.-Farm Bu- 
reau insurance companies have their 
headquarters in the new building in ad- 
dition to the Farm Bureau office, advises 
Walter S. Batson, farm adviser. 


Members of the Shelby County Farm 
Bureau voted in their annual meeting 
in October to leave the matter to the 
board of directors, who were given full 
power to act. Upon the advice of 
Donald Kirkpatrick, legal counsel for 
the Illinois Agricultural Association, 
the Shelby County Holding Company 
was organized to finance the project. 

The holding company issued 7 per 
cent cumulative stock and made a loan 
of $7,500 to the Farm Bureau, which 
in turn gave a first mortgage on the 
building and a promissory note. V. 
Vaniman, director of insurance service 
for the I. A. A., helped organize the 
project. 

It is estimated by the board that al- 
lowing for all expenses and taking into 
consideration present rental income of 
the building, the monthly expense to 
the Farm Bureau would be only a little 
over $43. 

The ladies’ reception room, a feature 
of the new Farm Bureau home, was re- 
cently completed. Mrs. Charles Krile 
and Mrs. Carl Middleton supervised the 
decorating and furnishing of the room. 


meeting in our unit. They have been 
interesting, well attended, and people 
are learning what the Farm Bureau and 
the Home Bureau have accomplished. 
We believe these meetings will be the 
means of adding to our membership de- 
sirable members who will have caught 
the co-operative spirit. 

The development of Community 
Units will be the major project for 
1932 in Iroquois county. It is, I be- 
lieve, the most important work yet 
undertaken. It will require some time 
and effort in each community. But 
thfough this plan we can build a bigger 
and better Farm Bureau in 1932. 


- St 


April, 1932 


"Jim" Stone Replies to 
Co-Op. Salary Criticism 


- Steward Reveals High Salaries and 
Profits Old Line Grain Commis- 
sion Men Make Off 
Farmers’ Grain 


I Baredideicras by law of salaries paid 
by co-operative marketing associa- 
tions would cause serious injury to the 
co-operative movement, declared James 
C. Stone, chairman of the Federal Farm 
Board, in a recent letter to Representa- 
tive Louis Ludlow, who had asked his 
opinion regarding a bill the congress- 
man had introduced. 

“For co-operative marketing to suc- 
ceed, the thing most needed is compe- 
tent and honest management, a manage- 
ment equal to or better than that of 
the association’s competitors in the pri- 
vate trade,” he said. “The only way 
a co-operative can get such manage- 
ment is by paying salaries comparable 
to those offered by private business in- 
stitutions engaged in the same line and 
handling a comparable volume of the 
product. 

“In business, whether co-operative or 
private, brains and ability are sold to 
the highest bidder, and in most in- 
stances, I believe you will agree with 
me, they command pay in proportion 
to the service rendered. Those who ob- 
ject to farmers marketing their prod- 
ucts in their own interest because it 
will interfere with huge private profits 
they have made in the past would like 
nothing better than for congress to 
place large-scale co-operatives in a po- 
sition where they cannot compete for 
the caliber of men needed to run their 
business. 


Not Public Servants 


“I cannot agree that co-operative ex- 
ecutives should be regarded as ‘public 
servants, for the function of co-opera- 
tives is to merchandise the product of 
their members and not to perform a 
public service. It is, therefore, hardly 
fair to compare the salaries of co-opera- 
tive employees with those of. govern- 
ment office holders or try to put the 
two on the same basis. 


“Honor and glory are generally re- 
garded as part of the compensation in 
government service. It is impossible to 
appeal to patriotism when an outstand- 
ing individual in his line or profession 
is asked to accept office at only a small 
part of what he can earn in private 
life, but generally speaking, when the 
directors of a co-operative, especially a 
large-scale organization, try to hire a 
man competent to handle the business 
of their members, it is hard cash, not 
sentiment, that talks.” 

Mr. Stone quoted from a letter ad- 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


dressed to him from Charles B. Stew- 
ard, secretary of the Nebraska Farm 
Bureau Federation, president of the 
Farmers Westcentral Grain Company 
of Omaha, and a director of the Farm- 
ers National Grain Corporation, who 
said: 
Astonished at Salaries 


“T will state frankly that as I be- 
came conversant with the grain move- 
ment I was somewhat astonished at the 
salaries. paid by competing private grain 
firms. As a business co-operative it was 
necessary that we secure the very high- 
est type of expert grain men to direct 
the marketing and distribution of the 
grain of our co-operative members. As 
farmer producers I think you will agree 
that we are not conversant with the 
technical details connected with the 
successful marketing program. Natural- 
ly we must go to the regular grain 
trade where-men have had a life time 
of experience in this business. . . . We 
had to compete with the privately- 
owned grain companies who because 
of the profits of their business had es- 
tablished a high level of salaries to their 
key men. 


Gets $32,000 a Year 


“One old-line firm at Omaha pays 
its president and general manager a sal- 
ary of $32,000 a year, besides being a 
holder of a substantial amount of the 
company’s stock, which has also been 
a good dividend paying proposition to 
him. 

“Another gentleman who is manag- 
ing one of our competing privately- 
owned grain companies on the Omaha 
market receives a salary of $25,000 per 
year. I have discussed the matter of 
salaries with these men and both of 
them have expressed to me their opin- 
ion that the salaries we pay our ex- 
pert grain men are not unreasonable 
considering the volume of grain and 
type of service they render.” 

In closing his letter to Representative 
Ludlow, Mr. Stone said: ‘I wish to 
emphasize with all the force at my com- 
mand that the proposed discriminatory 
salary restriction would be a most seri- 
ous blow to the co-operative marketing 
program which the Farm Board is help- 
ing farmers to develop under the pro- 
visions of the Agricultural Marketing 
Act, a program that for the first time 
offers agriculture an equal opportunity 
to gain economic equality with other 
industries.” 


Illinois ranked first among the states 
shipping to the St. Louis Producers last 
year with a total of 6,527 cars of live- 
stock. Missouri was second with 6,206 
cars, and Iowa was third with 416 cars. 
In all 13 states contributed shipments 
to the St. Louis Producers. 


Page Thirteen 


Macoupin Co. Dairymen 
For Quality Improvement 


Some dairymen believe that the best 
way to increase their sales is by cutting 
prices, but the dairymen at Carlinville 
in Macoupin county believe that the 
best way to increase their sales and 
maintain their market is to build up 
consumer demand by producing better 
milk. 

For this purpose a group of dairy 
farmers handling about 90 per cent of 
the city’s milk recently organized the 
Carlinville Retail Milk Producers’ Asso- 
ciation. 

J. B. Countiss, director of dairy mar- 
keting for the Illinois Agricultural As- 
sociation, attended the final organiza- 
tion meeting of the dairymen and as- 
sisted them in‘drawing up their pro- 
gram. 

“Tike most other markets of this size, 
they are not required to meet high 
standards because of any local ordi- 
nances,” he said, ‘but these men are 
interested in their future milk market. 
and they know that ‘quality milk’ is 
essential to maintaining and building 
good-will. 

“Dairymen who belong to such an 
organization and who faithfully live up 
to its requirements and give service, 
will not have to worry so much about 
the price cutter. They will render the 
community a great service that cannot 
be measured by the yardstick of dollars 
and cents.” 

In order to become a member of the 
Carlinville Retail Milk Producers’ Asso- 
ciation, the dairyman must meet the 
following requirements: 1. Must have a 
healthy herd free from tuberculosis; 2. 
Must have a doctor’s certificate certify- 
ing the health of all those coming in 
contact with the milk; 3. Must have a 
sanitary barn thoroughly cleaned daily; 
4. Must sterilize all utensils with steam 
or boiling water; 5. Milk must be 
strained through sterilized cotton 
strainer pads; 6. Milk must be cooled 
immediately to 50 degrees F. or less; 
7. Milk must have low bacteria count; 
8. Milk must have minimum butterfat 
content of 3.5 per cent. 


John, D. Horton, vice-president of 
the Gwin: Company in Chicago, has 
been appointed western sales supervisor 
for the National Fruit and Vegetable 
Exchange, according to A. B. Leeper, 
president and general manager. He will 
be located in the general offices at 608 
South Dearborn street. For ten years 
Mr. Horton was district sales manager 
for the California Fruit Growers Ex- 
change. More recently he has been con- 
nected with other co-operatives. 


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Pure Milk Ass'n. Pays 
$2.009 for 1931 Milk 


Capacity Crowd Attends Annual 
Meeting 


6 latter part of 1932 should find 
milk markets in a more healthy con- 
dition with sales possibilities on the up- 
grade, declared Don-N. Geyer, secre- 
tary-manager of the Pure Milk Associa- 
tion, at the annual meeting of the or- 
ganization in Chicago on March 15. 
Volume of milk sales, due to eco- 
nomic conditions, dropped 25 per cent 
in the Chicago area 
last year, it was dis- 
closed. The 19,000 
dairy farmers pro- 
ducing for the Chi- 
cago market sold 
1,464,439,532 — Ibs. 
of milk for a total 
of $29,413,572 
through the associa- 
tion during 1931. 
Geyer reported 
that members of the 
W. C. McQueen Pure Milk Associa- 
tion had received an average of $2.009 
per hundredweight for all milk sold in 
1931, a decrease of 66 cents since 1929. 
He pointed out that other farm prod- 
ucts are selling at one-third of their 
1929 price, while dairy products as a 
whole are two-thirds of the 1929 price. 


Must Restore Prices 


President W. C. McQueen speaking 
of this said: “We believe that, in main- 
taining our present standard of prices 
to the farmers for their milk, we are 
taking the course that must be taken 
by all others who desire a return of 
prosperous conditions and that all ef- 
forts should be made to restore and 
maintain for the farmers a return for 
their products which will put them in 
the buying class.” 

Harry Hartke of Cincinnati, presi- 
dent of the National Co-Operative Milk 
Producers Federation, pointed out that 
dairying was better organized than any 
other branch of agriculture and was 
also the best paying. He said that if 
dairymen wished to continued selling at 
a profit they must regulate their pro- 
duction by culling out low producers 
and sending them to the block. 


Equalization Fee Voted 


The by-laws of the association were 
amended making possible a maximum 
assessment of 5 cents a hundred pounds 
on basic milk for reimbursing members 
whose markets are destroyed by the 
closing of plants after July 1. Such 
farmers will dispose of their milk at 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


any price they can get and collect the 
difference between their receipts and the 
basic price from the fund. . 

A capacity crowd filled the old Chi- 
cago Auditorium. More than 1,600 
were served at luncheon on the top 
floor of the Auditorium Hotel. Chicago 
milk distributors and other farm or- 
ganization officials were luncheon 
guests. 


Southern Illinois Producers 
Pooling Egg Shipments 


OMMERCIAL egg producers in 

southern Illinois are now pooling 
their interests in the shipment of eggs 
to New York. 


Some of the larger producers have 
been shipping to New York by express 
for several years, but they find that 
they can get a much better rate by 
using pick-up freight service rendered 
by some of the main railroads passing 
through southern Illinois to the eastern 
market. 


Some 35 or 40 of the large producers 
in Edwards county are shipping twice 
a week and are loading around 85 cases 
of eggs each shipping day. 

“With a little effort on the part of 
these shippers,” said F. A. Gougler of 
the I. A. A., “it will easily be possible 
to interest enough producers to ship in 
carload lots. Shipments made during 
the past month have netted the pro- 
ducers from 3 to 6 cents a dozen more 
than the local market, depending upon 
the quality of the eggs.” 


Flora is another shipping point from 
which similar shipments will be under- 
taken shortly. Altogether there are 
nine counties interested in the project. 
They are Edwards, Richland, Clay, 
Wayne, Wabash, White, Lawrence and 
Crawford-Jasper. Grading demonstra- 
tions will be held in these counties from 
time to time as they take up the project. 

A committee composed of the fol- 
lowing members is developing the plan: 
Lyman Bunting, Edwards county; H. 
L. Eberhardt, Jasper county; L. E. 
Stoutenburg, Clay county; Curt Garri- 
son, Wayne county; George Greiss, Ed- 
wards county; L. E. Boyd, White coun- 
ty; C. E. Harper, Lawrence county; 
C. Everett Wilson, Crawford county; 
and J. C. J. McCord, Jasper county. 


Chicago stores prefer Pacific coast 
eggs because western eggs are of bet- 
ter quality and the supply is more uni- 
form. To meet this western competi- 
tion, Illinois farmers must produce eggs 
of better quality and market them more 
efficiently. This can be done best 
through co-operative marketing. 


Page Fifteen 


Illinois and Indiana 
Co-Operate in Wool Pool 


Sales of 1931 Clip Made at Satisfac- 
tory Prices 


HE Illinois Livestock Marketing 
Association will provide an oppor- 
tunity for wool growers of the state 
to market their 1932 clip co-opera- 
tively through its wool department, the 
executive committee decided March 9. 


A co-operative arrangement is being 
effected with the Indiana Wool Grow- 
ers’ Association to reduce handling 
charges and to cut overhead costs. Un- 
der this arrangement it is planned to 
ship Illinois wool to the warehouse at 
Ft. Wayne, Indiana, where it will be 
graded and stored until sold. 


Present plans provide for an advance 
on 1932 wool marketed through the 
pool amounting to approximately 75 or 
80 per cent of eastern market prices. 
Such an advance invariably equals, if 
it does not exceed, prices offered by 
local buyers. 


Illinois produced approximately 4,- 
700,000 pounds of wool last year, of 
which only a comparatively small per- 
centage was sold through the co-opera- 
tive, the National Wool Marketing Cor- 
poration. Final settlement for~ wool 
pooled last year was expected to be 
made by the end of March. When this 
wool was delivered growers received an 
advance of about 80 per cent of the 
Boston market price. 


Due to the substantial advances made 
by the co-operative during the past 
two years, Illinois wool growers re- 
ceived from two to four cents more 
per pound than they would have re- 
ceived had the co-operative not been 
operating. 

The U. S. production of wool in 1929 
was 400,000,000 pounds. Approximate- 
ly 27,000,000 of this was sold co-oper- 
atively through 13 of the larger co- 
operatives in existence at that time. 
Subsequently the National Wool Mar- 
keting Corporation was formed with 
the aid of the Farm Board. The Na- 
tional has 28 stockholder members and 
33 wool growers’ association co-operat- 
ing with it. 

In 1930 the National handled ap- 
proximataely 116,000,000 pounds of 
wool which represented 38 per cent of 
the country’s production. In 1931 it 
sold over 118,000,000 pounds of wool 
during the fiscal year. Sales of the 1931 
crop have been very satisfactory, and 
growers who sold through this channel 
last year invariably will receive greater 
returns than farmers who sold to pri- 
vate dealers. 


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Page Sixteen 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


April, 1932 


A. F. B. F. Board Acts 
On Legislative Matters 


Outlines Policy on New Taxes, 
Names Committee to Draft 
Farm Planks for Nomi- 
nating Conventions 


ONSTRUCTIVE action on a wide 

range of subjects affecting every 
phase of the American Farm rer om 
Federation’s service program for Amer- 
ican agriculture marked the regular 
spring meeting’ of the | Federation’s 
Board of Directors in Chicago, March 
10 to 12. President Earl Smith of the 
Illinois Agricultural Association par- 
ticipated as one of the five representa- 
tives of the eleven states in the mid- 
west group of state organizations. 

Urged by President E. A. O’Neal, 
the directors agreed to concentrate the 
major legislative ef- 
fort of the organiza- 
tion on a three-point 
program covering 
the following mat- 
ters: (1) restoration 
of farm purchasing 
power through legis- 
lation to correct in- 
adequacies in the 
monetary system; 
(2) attainment of 

E. A. O’Neal equality for agricul- 

ture, by bringing the 
farming industry into the American 
protective system; to be accomplished 
by amending the Agricultural Market- 
ing Act to include the equalization fee 
for use of the Federal Farm Board in 
surplus crop control activities; and (3) 
reduction of the cost of government 
to a point proportionate to the income 
of the people. 

Among resolutions approved by the 
national directors was one insisting that 
Congress in any consideration of the 
Marketing Act, “confine its efforts to 
strengthening the Act by adoption of 
the Equalization Fee, and such other 
amendments as may be offered by its 
friends to secure: greater effectiveness; 
that the revolving fund provided in the 
Act be left intact and necessary funds 
be made available for its proper admin- 
istration; further, that Congress restore 
to the revolving fund an amount equal 
to the value of any commodity taken 
from the Board and otherwise di- 
rected.” 

A second resolution restated the Fed- 
eration’s opposition to a general sales 
tax and declared that “only a national 
emergency and an absence of other 
sources upon which an equitable levy 
can be made, justify such a tax.” To 
balance the budget, this resolution de- 
mands that Congress “‘confine its adop- 


tion of new forms of taxation to a se- 
lective luxury tax and gift tax and in- 
creases in rates of inheritance and in- 
come tax schedules.” 

A special committee was authorized 
to draft proposals for the agricultural 
planks in the platform of the two ma- 
jor political parties when they meet in 
Chicago in June. In this project an 
effort will be made to develop a joint 
program with the National Grange and 
the Farmers Union, so that the “big 
three” farm organizations can approach 
the conventions with a united front. 

Another committee authorized will 
be known as the National Committee 
on Co-Ordination and Efficiency in 
Government. It will be commissioned 
to work out plans for securing greater 
efficiency in government, through co- 
ordination of the activitites of state and 
national units of government and 
through reduction of costs of govern- 
ment. The plan must be ready for con- 
sideration at the national convention in 
Chicago next December. 

The date of this convention was fixed 
for December 5 to 7, and again, as last 
year a great, national exposition of 
agricultural progress will be conducted 
in conjunction with the convention. 

By unanimous agreement the Board 
authorized another national Farm Bu- 
reau Muster Day, similar to those con- 
ducted in September for the past several 
years. Authorization was also given for 
conducting a nation-wide Farm Bureau 
Fourth of July picnic, as organized ag- 
riculture’s contribution to the observ- 
ance of the George Washington bi- 
centennial anniversrary celebration. 


Corn Credit Loans on 
Less Than 1% of Crop 


LTHOUGH loans made by the National 
Corn Credit Corporation have enabled 
many Illinois and Iowa farmers to meet press- 
ing obligations without selling their corn on a 
forced market, the total amount of corn sealed 
as security for loans to date is less than 1 per 
cent of the 1931 production of the two states. 
The bulk of the crop from both states is fed 
to livestock. 

Approximately 1,900 loans had been made up 
to March 23, according to Harry Laird, mana- 
ger of the credit corporation. These loans went 
to 70 counties in Illinois and 38 in Iowa. The 
average loan is slightly less than $400. 

“One of the most commendable features of 
the plan is the fact that loans are being dis- 
tributed to a large number of farmers rather 
than to a few large producers,” Laird said. 
“Thus, the corn credit corporation is serving 
the purpose for which it was created, namely, 
to give relief to the farmer who is hard pressed 
but who does not want to sell his corn crop 
at present prices.” 

The machinery for sealing cribs and handling 
applications is practically complete in both IIli- 
nois and Iowa. Up to December 15, Illinois 
counties had filed 83 requests with the state 
department of agriculture for the appointment 
of warehouse supervisory boards. Most of the 
sealers have been appointed and bonded. 


Livestock Growers Get 
Freight Rate Reduction 


I. A. A. Appeal to Commerce Com- 
mission Succeeds in Securing 
8 Per Cent Cut 


REIGHT rates on cattle and hogs 

from southern and eastern Illinois 
counties were recently reduced approxi- 
mately eight per cent through the ef- 
forts of the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 
ciation and the Producers’ marketing 
agencies at Peoria, Chicago, and East 
St. Louis. This will mean a saving of 
from $6 to $8 a car in many cases, de- 
pending on the distance from market. 


The new rates became effective 
March 14 in the entire territory south 
of the line between Chicago and Pekin 
and east of the Illinois river. 


Savings on cattle and hogs received 
by the co-operative Producers’ agencies 
alone from this part of the state is at 
least $15,000 a year, and this is a com- 
paratively small part of the total sav- 
ing. Figures on the total amount of 
the reduction are not available due to 


- the fact that it is not known what 


percentage of the receipts on Illinois 
markets comes from this area. 


In 1928 the Interstate Commerce 
Commission reduced interstate rates in 
Central Freight Association territory 
about 1214 per cent, leaving intra-state 
rates unchanged. Interstate rates were 
later raised four per cent, but were still 
814 per cent below rates in southeastern 
Illinois. 

After the I. A. A. had asked the rail- 
roads to adjust these rates without get- 
ting any action, a complaint was finally 
filed before the Illinois Commerce Com- 
mission requesting a reduction. As a 
result, the carriers immediately sought 
permission from the Interstate Com- 
merce Commission to adjust rates in 
this area. Rates for the northern and 
western part of the state were not af- 
fected by the change. 


According to G. W. Baxter of the 
I. A. A. transportation department, a 
farmer shipping a load of cattle from 
Lincoln to Chicago will save $6.60, or 
shipping a load of hogs from Lincoln 


he will save $3.68. From Mt. Pulaski 


to Chicago the saving on a car. of 


_cattle will be $4.40, or on a car of hogs 


$2.80. Champaign shippers will save 
$3.30 a car on cattle and $2.10 on 
hogs. 

Shipping to East St. Louis from El- 
dorado a farmer will save $7.70 a car 
on cattle and $5.50 on hogs; from 
Anna to East St. Louis, $4.40 on cattle, 
$2.15 on hogs; from Clinton, $6.60 on 
cattle, $4.58 on hogs. 


April, 1932 


19th District Conference 
Is Held at Mattoon 


Responsibilities of Farm Bureau and 
co-operative association boards of di- 
rectors was discussed by G. W. Smith 
of Charleston at the recent 19th I. A. 
A. district conference held at Mattoon. 
Director C. J. Gross presided. 

Mr. Smith expressed the belief that 
directors should attend all meetings, 

vote on all questions 
| brought up, enter 
into the discussion, 

be willing to sacri- 
| fice time to solicit 
membership and pa- 
tronage, and abide 
by majority rule. 

Mr. Gross led in 
a discussion of Farm 
Bureau office ad- 
ministration and of 
relationships between 
employees and offi- 
cials of the organization. It was gen- 
erally agreed that Farm Bureau officers 
and directors should not hold political 
office and should avoid partisan politics 
to safeguard the best interests of the 
organization. 

District Manager L. B. Hornbeek dis- 
cussed organization problems, Frank D. 
Barton, co-operative grain marketing. 
Farm Adviser C. E. Gates reviewed the 
grain marketing program in LaSalle 
county. He told how new equipment 
was improving grain grades and reduc- 
ing the expense of loading and handling 
grain. Air blower equipment for load- 
ing grain is now being installed in 
country elevators, it was reported. 

A. B. Culp emphasized the need for 
progressive but sound thinking, for de- 
veloping Farm Bureau leadership among 
the younger members who must carry 
on after present leaders retire. 

Farm Adviser C. C. Burns and Mr. 
Fulk suggested that a nationalistic 
viewpoint be developed favoring tariff 
protection and trade restrictions. It 
was unanimously voted that the next 


district conference be held at Shelby- 
ville. 


C. J. Gross 


Fahrnkopf and Vaniman 
Recovering from Illness 


Harrison Fahrnkopf, director of grain 
marketing, has been ill since the annual 
meeting of the I. A. A. in Rockford. 
He has been troubled with sciatic rheu- 
matism. Removal of his tonsils failed to 
correct the condition. He is still under 
the observation of physicians. More re- 
cently he entered the hospital in Bloom- 
ington for further examination, after 
which he had several teeth extracted. 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Mr. Fahrnkopf hopes to be sufficient- 
ly improved by April 1 to resume work. 

Vernon Vaniman, directof of insur- 
ance service, is recoverutg at his home 
in Urbana from a kidrfey operation. An 
infection which develdped following the 
operation is gradually subsiding. He 
hopes to be sufficiently\ strong to return 
to the office shortly affter April 1. 


Cold Weather Kills 
Peach Buds, Delays Crops 


The cold snap the second week in 
March damaged peach buds in the 
southern Illinois peach belt from 25 to 
100 per cent, according to Harry W. 
Day, of the Illinois Fruit Growers’ Ex- 
change. 

The damage in Pulaski, Massac and 
Pope counties in the extreme southern 
part of the state is estimated at from 
75 to 100 per cent. 

While peach buds were not opened, 
they were swelled nearly to the burst- 
ing point, Day said. Most of the buds 
were turned black by the freeze. Ex- 
tensive damage likewise is reported in 
the Arkansas and Missouri peach belts. 

Asparagus and strawberries in south- 
ern Illinois will be delayed from two to 
three weeks. Some damage has been 
done to pear orchards. 


Keltner and Winnebago 
Officials Did Good Job 


HARLES H. KELTNER, farm ad- 
viser, and President George F. Tul- 
lock of the Winnebago County Farm 
Bureau, together with the local com- 
mittee on arrange- 
ments, deserve much 
of the credit for the 
Outstanding success 
of the 17th annual 
I. A. A. convention 
held Jan. 27-28-29, 
in Rockford. 
| Several weeks be- 
| fore the meeting Mr. 
Keltner called a 
meeting of northern 
Chas. H. Keltner Illinois farm advisers 
and Farm Bureau 
presidents with the idea of getting out 
a large delegation of members from 
each of the nearby counties. The re- 
sults of this effort exceeded expecta- 
tions. The crowd was estimated at 
§,000, exceeding the attendance at most, 
if not all, previous convention. 
Delegates and visitors were comfort- 
ably provided for and the three-day 
schedule of events went off without a 
hitch. Secretary Patrick of the Rock- 
ford Chamber of Commerce and _ the 
hotel managers co-operated most effec- 
tively to this end. 


Page Seventeen 


Over 800 at Annual 
Winnebago Co. Meeting 


Geo. Jewett Defends Marketing Act, 
Warns Farmers of False 
Propaganda 


| 2 erases the extension of co-opera- 
tive marketing, co-operative pur- 
chasing, and general agricultural or- 
ganization as the only hope for a prof- 
itable agriculture in the future, George 
C. Jewett, vice-chairman of the board, 
Congress Trust and Savings Bank, Chi- 
cago, took up the cudgel in defense of 
the Agricultural Marketing Act at the 
annual meeting of the Winnebago 
County Farm Bureau at Rockford 
March 19, 

The Act has been of material benefit 
to farmers in setting up their co-opera- 
tive marketing system, he said, and al- 
though there may have been some mis- 
takes in the administration of the meas- 
ure, its enactment has been more than 
justified. 

Mr. Jewett pointed to the stabiliza- 
tion operations of the Federal Farm 
Board as one possible mistake in the 
administration of the Marketing Act. 
He said that the purchasing of grain 
by the Stabilization Corporation, no 
doubt improved the market at the time 
of the purchases, but that the effects 
of these operations were likely to be 
detrimental in the long run. 

He warned Winnebago county farm- 
ers to look carefully at those who were 
fighting the co-operative movement, 
pointing out that most of them were 
men who had formerly profited from 
the farmer’s lack of organization. 

President George F. Tullock and 
Secretary L. A. Frisby reported a suc- 
cessful year both for the Farm Bureau 
and the Winnebago County Service 
Company, which held its annual meet- 
ing jointly with the Farm Bureau. Be- 
tween 800 and 900 were present at the 
luncheon held in the ballroom of the 
Faust Hotel, where the annual banquet 
of the I. A. A. was held the latter part 
of January. 

It was reported that the amount of 
patronage dividends paid to Farm Bu- 
reau members by the service company 
in 1931 is equal to an average refund 
to each member of $23.93. A dividend 
of 10 per cent has been paid and an- 
other 10 per cent has been set aside for 
later distribution in 1932. The total re- 
fund amount to $15,125.32 for the 
year. 


Eighty head of purebred Angus cows, 
heifers and bulls sold by the Mercer 
County Breeders’ Association on March 
16 average between $95 and $100 per 
head. 


Page Eighteen 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


April, 1932 


Farm Accidents Reveal 
Need Liability Insurance 


Although the causes of farm acci- 
dents change with the various seasons 
of the year, there is not a month when 
farm employees get by without injuries 
of some kind. Thus, the employer is 
never relieved of his liability unless he 
is protected by insurance. 

During February an employee of a 
Mercer county farmer was injured while 
building a fence. He was pulling a 
small tree with a team of horses when 
a small branch struck his eye, punctur- 
ing his eyeball and lid. 

In Boone county an employee was 
seriously hurt when he was attacked by 
a bull and badly bruised, causing blad- 
der hemorrhage. He had just taken 
hold of a rope fastened to a ring in the 
bull’s nose to lead him away, when the 
animal charged. 

A St. Clair farmer and his hired man 
were weighing cattle and in dividing 
them one ran against the hired man, 
knocking him down and 
spraining his wrist. 

A farm employee in Win- 
nebago county tore the liga- 
ments on the back of his leg 
from the knee down while 
pushing a truck stuck in the 
mud. 

These are typical winter 
accidents. The ones which 
will be reported in the next 
month or so will probably be 
of a different nature. Spring 
activities bring a great many 
new risks. Outside the busy 
harvest months, April is one 
of the highest months in ac- 
cidents. July, August, Sep- 
tember and October are the 
peak months. 

More than 1,800 members 
have availed themselves of 
employers’ liability insurance 
service offered by the Illinois 
Agricultural Mutual Insur- 
ance Company. 


Five district meetings for 
Country Life agents will be 
held during the first two 
weeks of April, according to 
L. A. Williams, manager. 

On April 1 a meeting will 
be held at the Cottage Cup- 
board, DeKalb; on April 5, 
Pittinger Hotel, Centralia; 
on April 6, Farm Bureau of- 
fice, Bloomington; on April 
8, Elks’ Building, Galesburg; 


Skinner High Man 


A. N. Skinner, general insurance 
agent in Knox county, was high man 
in the February con- 
test for reinstating 
lapsed policies in 
Country Life Insur- 
ance Company, re- 
ceiving as a reward 
a set of Rogers sil- 
verware. He rein- 
stated 20 policiés. 

Mr. Skinner was 
a valued member of 
the I. A. A. Board 

A. N. Skinner of Directors from 

1927 to 1930, dur- 
ing which time he served on the finance 
committee. He has been an active Farm 
Bureau worker for many years. 


At present he is vice-president of the 
Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball League 
and dictator in his district. He has won 
a number of prizes in Country Life 
contests during the past year. 


“HOW ABOUT IT, TYKEE?” 


Master Herbert Stockley, son of Will Stockley, a member 


Life and Auto Companies 
Dedicate Policies to 'Van' 


Both Country Life Insurance Com- 
pany and the Illinois Agricultural: Mu- 
tual Insurance Company dedicat<d all 
policies that arrived in the home offices 
on March 31 to V. Vaniman, director 
of insurance service, who is convalescing 
from an abdominal operation. 


“Five years ago our old friend, ‘Van’, 
was jumping hither and yon, calling on 
telephone, driving at night, and trying 
to cover the whole state at once to get 
things in order so that we might start 
the auto insurance service to Farm Bu- 
reau members,” said A. E. Richardson, 
manager of the auto insurance com- 
pany, in a letter to members of the 
agency force. 

““*Van’ has been constantly in touch 
with the field and office since that time 
keeping the pipe line open—as he calls 
it. He will return to the office in the 
near future. We want to give him a 
real thrill by having every man who 
represents the company, get 
an application on his desk 
April 1.” 

L. A. Williams, manager 
of Country Life, wrote to his 
agents on March 23 as fol- 
lows: “Pin a ‘Van’ picture 
on each application that you 
write from now until March 
30 and mail them all _so 
they will arrive March 31. 
If all the agents think of 
‘Van’ as I think they do, 
March 31 will be a great 
homecoming for him.” 


If you have not been able 
to understand how the I. A. 
A.-Farm Bureau auto insur- 
ance company can furnish 
insurance at lower net cost, 
the following incident re- 
veals one reason: 

A Farm Bureau member 
policyholder ran into a ditch, 
the result being a minor me- 
chanical break. The adjuster 
recommended that the claim 
be paid as in his opinion the 
damage was caused by the car 
going into the ditch. 

After a few days the pol- 
icyholder returned the check 
stating that he had talked 
with the garage man whose 
opinion was that the car was 
not damaged by going into 
the ditch but by getting out. 
The policyholder did not feel 


and on April 13, Dunlap Ho- of the LaSalle County Farm Bureau executive committee, that he was entitled to the 


tel, Jacksonville. 


is trying to convince his dog “Tykee” he should have a 
Country Life policy. Q 


check and returned it. 


co™_9» The cA. 
| Illinois Agricultural Association 
RECORD 


Published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Association at 165 So. Main St., Spencer, Ind. Editorial Offices, 608 So. Dearborn St, Chicago, III. 
Application for transfer of second class entry from Marshall, Ill., to Spencer, Ind., pending. Acc 


vided in Section 412, Act of Feb. 28, 1925, authorized Oct. 27, 1925. 
cultural Association Record, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicag: 


Number 5 


3. 


MAY, 1932 


tance for mailing at special rates of postage pro- 
Address all communications for publication to Editorial Offices, Illinois Agri- 


Volume 10 


Addresses 2,200 at Kewanee 


Farm Bureau Mass Meetings Well Attended, Discuss Leading Problems and 
: Policies of Organized Farmers 


N an hour-and-a-half address before 
an attentive audience of 2,200 Farm 
Bureau members and their families, 
meeting in the Kewanee armory the 
night of April 19, 
eg) President Earl C. 
1 Smith reviewed 10 
years of effort by the 
I Illinois Agricultural 
| Association and the 
American Farm Bu- 
reau to arouse the 
#| nation toward estab- 
| lishing economic par- 
ity between agricul- 
‘}ture and industry, 
outlined the cause 
of the current eco- 
nomic situation, and discussed the poli- 
cies of the Farm Bureau toward effect- 
ing a solution and a way out of the 
dilemma. 

“When the powers of this country 
who control its finances make up their 
minds to end this depression, I firmly 
believe they can start us on the road 
to recovery,” said Mr. Smith. “And 
that recovery, I am convinced, must 
begin with a movement to re-establish 
the buying power of 40 per cent of our 
population who depend on agriculture 


for a livelihood.” 
Not Adequate 


Earl C. Smith 


Taking up the question of enabling 
legislation, he said, “the Agricultural 
Marketing Act is not adequate to do 
the thing that must be done to create 
farmer buying power and start the 
wheels of industry moving. The Act 
must be amended to include the equal- 
ization fee or something similar to re- 
move the disastrous influence of crop 
surpluses and make the tariff effective 
on American farm products. 

“To accomplish this does not neces- 
sitate the complicated machinery and 


red tape opponents of such legislation 


‘would have your believe. I suggest that 


the plan first be tried on wheat. I am 
convinced that wheat could be raised to 
$1 or $1.15 per bushel without advanc- 
ing the price of bread. Prices of other 
grains and farm products would follow, 
and the start made toward recovery of 
normal prosperity.” 

Mr. Smith charged that the grain ex- 
changes and middlemen’s organizations, 
particularly the speculators, who vigor- 
ously opposed the equalization fee 
measure, were the ones indirectly re- 
sponsible for the limitations in the Agri- 
cultural Marketing Act. “And now we 
see this same group which once favored 
a co-operative marketing bill bitterly 
fighting to repeal it,” he said. 

Look It Up 


“Look up the Congressional Record 
of 1926-1928 and read for yourself,” 
he continued. “Representatives of the 
grain exchanges and business groups ac- 
tive in Washington at that time re- 
peatedly said it was all right to assist 
farmers in building their own :market- 
ing machinery with the assistance of a 
Federal Farm Board, but the equaliza- 
tion fee measure is all wrong. 

“The Illinois Agricultural Association 
and the Farm Bureau never asked for 
the Agricultural Marketing Act. We 
never endorsed it as offering a solution 
to the farm problem. But when it 
finally appeared that this was the gov- 
ernment’s plan to end the farm depres- 
sion that began in 1920 we said we 
would support it wholeheartedly and 
give it a thorough trial, but reserve the 
right, if found inadequate, to amend 
and make it effective. That is our po- 
sition today. 


Big Loans to Europe 


“We said more than five years ago 
that the prosperity then being enjoyed 


by business and industry in this coun- 
try could not endure with agriculture 
out of balance. For several years it 
appeared that we were wrong. Indus- 
try continued prosperous in spite of the 
fact that farmers had little buying 
power. And why? Largely because of 
an artificial European demand created 
by enormous loans of American money 
to Europe. The Wall Street bankers 
received substantial returns from these 
loans and the industrialists reaped enor- 
mous profits from the sale of American 
goods to these foreign people. Now pay 
day has come, and we find the borrow- 
ers unable to meet their obligations. 
And they can get no more credit. 

“In the meantime our factories find 
that their old customer, the western 
farmer, is unable to buy. After years 
of going without there isn’t a thing 
from the front gate to the farthest 
field but what the western farmer needs 
—lumber, roofing, fences, paint, farm 
implements, furniture, automobiles, and 
the rest. The demand from Europe no 
more stimulated by American capital 
has dried up, with the result that from 
50 to 90 per cent of the factories in 
many industries are closed down and 
workmen turned out on the streets. 


Thinking Needed 


“If our leaders had been thinking, 
this situation could have been avoided; 
if they had listened to the plea of agri- 
culture, we would not now: be going 
through the worst depression in any- 
one’s memory. If anything, industry 
has not only fallen to the level of agri- 
culture but below it. Farm values are 
down, it is true, but they have not 
evaporated as have many investments in 
factories and business enterprises. 

“There is a silver lining in the clouds 
of depression for agriculture. The farm- 

( Continued on next page) 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


April, 1932 


Pa Page Eighteen 


Farm Accidents Reveal 
Need Liability Insurance 


Although the causes of farm acci- 
dents change with the various seasons 
of the year, there is not a month when 
farm employees get by without injuries 
of some kind. Thus, the employer is 
never relieved of his liability unless he 
is protected by insurance. 

During February an employee of a 
Mercer county farmer was injured while 
building a fence. He was pulling a 
small tree with a team of horses when 
a small branch struck his eve, punctur- 
ing his eyeball and lid. 

In Boone county an employee was 
seriously hurt when he was attacked by 
a bull and badly bruised, causing blad- 
der hemorrhage. He had just taken 
hold of a rope fastened to a ring in the 
bull’s nose to lead him away, when the 
animal charged. 

A St. Clair farmer 
were weighing cattle and in dividing 
the hired man, 


and his hired man 


them one ran against 
knocking him down and 
spraining his wrist. 

A farm employee in Win- 
nebago county tore the liga- 
ments on the back of his leg 


from the knee down while 


pushing a truck stuck in the 


mud. 

These 
accidents. The 
will be reported 1 
month or so will probably be 
of a different nature. Spring 
activities bring a great many 
new risks. Outside the busy 
harvest months, April is one 
of the highest months in ac- 
cidents. July, August, Sep- 
tember and October are the 
peak months. 

More than 1,800 members 
themselves of 


are typicé al winter 
ones. which 
in the next 


have availed 
employers’ liability insurance 
service offered by the Illinois 
Agricultural Mutual 
ance Company. 


Insur- 


Five district meetings for 
Country Life agents will be 
held during the first two 
weeks of April, according to 
L. A. Williams, manager. 

On April 1 a meeting will 
be held at the Cottage Cup- 
board, DeKalb; on April 5, 
Pittinger Hotel, Centralia; 
on April 6, Farm Bureau of- 


Skinner High Man 


A. N. Skinner, general insurance 
agent in Knox county, was high man 
in the February con- 
test for reinstating 
lapsed policies in 
Country Life Insur- 
ance Company, re- 
ceiving as a reward 
a set of Rogers sil- 
verware. He _ rein- 
stated 20 policies. 
Mr. Skinner was 
a valued member of 
the I. A. A. Board 
A. N. Skinner of Directors from 
1927 to 1930, dur- 
ing which time he served on the finance 
committee. He has been an active Farm 
Bureau worker for many years. 


At present he is vice-president of the 
Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball League 
and dictator in his district. He has won 
a number of prizes in Country Life 
contests during the past year. 


Life and Auto Companies 
Dedicate Policies to 'Van' 


Both Country Life Insurance Com- 
pany and the Illinois Agricultural Mu- 
tual Insurance Company dedicatid all 
policies that arrived in the home offices 
on March 31 to V. Vaniman, director 
of insurance service, who is convalescing 
from an abdominal operation. 

“Five years ago our old friend, ‘Van’, 
was jumping hither and yon, calling on 
telephone, driving at night, and trying 
to cover the whole state at once to get 
things in order so that we might start 
the auto insurance service to Farm Bu- 
reau members,” said A. E. Richardson, 
manager of the auto insurance com- 
pany, in a letter to members of the 
agency ferce. 

“*Van’ has been constantly in touch 
with the field and office since that time 
keeping the pipe line open—as he calls 
it. He will return to the office in the 
near future. We want to give him a 
real thrill by having every man who 
represents the company, get 


AUTOMOBILE 
INSURANCE 


FIRE - THEFT - COLLISION 


PROPERTY DAMAGE 


fice, Bloomington; on April 

Elks’ Building, Galesburg; 
and on April 13, Dunlap Ho- 
tel, Jacksonville. 


“HOW ABOUT IT, TYKEE?” 


Master Herbert Stockley, son of Will Stockley, 2 member % 
of the LaSalle County Farm Bureau executive committee, 
is trying to convince his dog “Tykee” he should have a 
Country Life policy. 


an application on his desk 
Aorn 1,7 

L. A. Williams, manager 
of Country Life, wrote to his 
agents on March 23 as fol- 
lows: “Pin a ‘Van’ picture 
on each application that you 
write from now until March 
30 and mail them all so 
they will arrive March 31. 
If all the agents think of 
‘Van’ as I think they do, 
March 31 will be, a great 
homecoming for him.” 


If you have not been able 
to understand how the I. A. 
A.-Farm Bureau auto insur- 
ance company can _ furnish 
insurance at lower net cost, 
the following incident re- 
veals one reason: : 

A Farm Bureau member 
policyholder ran into a ditch, 
the result being a minor me- 
chanical break. The adjuster 
recommended that the claim 
be paid as in his opinion the 
damage was caused by the car 
going into the ditch. 

After a few days the pol- 
icyholder returned the check 
stating that he had talked 
with the garage man whose 
opinion was that the car was 
not damaged by going into 
the ditch but by getting out. 
The policyholder did not feel 
that he was entitled to the 
check and returned it. 


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Illinois Agricultural Association 
RECORD 


Published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Association at 165 So. Main St., Spencer, Ind. 
Application for transfer of second class entry from Marshall, Ill., to Spencer, Ind., pending. 
vided in Section 412, Act of Feb. 28, 1925, authorized Oct. 27, 1925. 


cultural Association Record, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago. 


Editorial Offices, 608 So. Dearborn St, Chicago, IL. 
Acceptance for mailing at special rates of postage pro 
Address all communications for publication to Editorial Offices, Illinois Agri- 


Number 5 


MAY, 1932 


Volume 10 


Addresses 2,200 at Kewanee 


Farm Bureau Mass Meetings Well Attended, Discuss Leading Problems and 
Policies of Organized Farmers 


N an hour-and-a-half address before 

an attentive audience of 2,200 Farm 
Bureau. members and_ their families, 
meeting in the Kewanee armory the 
night of April 19, 
President Earl C. 
Smith reviewed 10 
years of effort by the 
Illinois Agricultural 
Association and the 
American Farm Bu- 
reau to arouse the 
nation toward estab- 
lishing economic par- 
ity between agricul- 
ture and industry, 
outlined the cause 
of the current eco- 
nomic situation, and discussed the polli- 
cies of the Farm Bureau toward effect- 
ing a solution and a way out of the 


Earl C. Smith 


dilemma. 

“When the powers of this country 
who control its finances make up their 
minds to end this depression, I firmly 
believe they cap start us on the road 
to recovery,” said Mr. Smith. “And 
that recovery, I am convinced, must 
begin with a movement to re-establish 
the buying power of 40 per cent of our 
population who depend on agriculture 
for a livelihood.” 


Not Adequate 


Taking up the question of enabling 
legislation, he said, “the Agricultural 
Marketing Act is not adequate to do 
the thing that must be done to create 
farmer buying power and start the 
wheels of industry moving. The Act 
must be amended to include the equal- 
ization fee or something similar to re- 
move the disastrous influence of crop 
surpluses and make the tariff effective 
on American farm products. 

“To accomplish this does not neces- 
sitate the complicated machinery and 


red tape opponents of such legislation 


‘would have your believe. I suggest that 


the plan first be tried on wheat. I am 
convinced that wheat could be raised to 
$1 or $1.15 per bushel without advanc- 
ing the price of bread. Prices of other 
grains and farm products would follow, 
and the start made toward recovery of 
normal prosperity.” 

Mr. Smith charged that the grain ex- 
changes and middlemen’s organizations, 
particularly the speculators, who vigor- 
ously opposed the equalization — fee 
measure, were the ones indirectly re- 
sponsible for the limitations in the Agri- 
cultural Marketing Act. “And now we 
see this same group which once favored 
a co-operative marketing bill bitterly 
fighting to repeal it,” he said. 


Look It Up 


“Look up the Congressional Record 
of 1926-1928 and read for yourself,’’ 
he continued. “Representatives of the 
grain exchanges and business groups ac- 
tive in Washington at that time re- 
peatedly said it was all right to assist 
farmers in building their own market- 
ing machinery with the assistance of a 
Federal Farm Board, but the equaliza- 
tion fee measure is all wrong. 

“The Illinois Agricultural Association 
and the Farm Bureau never asked for 
the Agricultural Marketing Act. We 
rever endorsed it as offering a solution 
to the farm problem. But when it 
finally appeared that this was the gov- 
crnment’s plan to end the farm depres- 
sion that began in 1920 we said we 
would support it wholeheartedly and 
give it a thorough trial, but reserve the 
right, if found inadequate, to amend 
and make it effective. That is our po- 
sition today. 


Big Loans to Europe 
“We said more than five years ago 
that the prosperity then being enjoyed 


by business and industry in this coun- 
try could not endure with agriculture 
out of balance. For several 
appeared that we were wrong. Indus- 
try continued prosperous in spite of the 
fact that farmers had little buying 
power. And why? Largely because of 


years it 


an artificial European demand created 
by enormous loans of American mone\ 
to Europe. The Wall Street 
received substantial returns from these 
loans and the industrialists reaped enor- 
mous profits from the sale of American 


bankers 


goods to these foreign people. Now pay 
day has come, and we find the borrow - 
ers unable to meet their obligations. 
And they can get no more credit. 

“In the meantime our factories find 
that their old Customer, the 


farmer, is unable to buy. 


western 
Atter years 
of going without there isn’t 
trom the front 


a thing 
gate to .the farthest 
held but what the western farmer needs 
—lumber, roofing, fences, paint, farm 
implements, furniture, automobiles, and 
the rest. The demand from Europe no 
more stimulated by American capital 
has dried up, with the result that fron 
50 to 90 per cent of the factories in 
many down and 


industries are closed 


workmen turned out on the streets. 
Thinking Needed 


“It our leaders had been thinking, 
this situation could have been avoided: 
if they had listened to the plea of agri 
culture, we would not now be going 
through the worst depression In any 
one’s memory. If anything, industry 
has not only fallen to the level of agri 
culture but below it. Farm values are 
have not 


evaporated as have many investments in 


down, it is true, but they 
factories and business enterprises. 

Chere is a silver lining in the clouds 
of depression for agriculture. The farm 


Continued on next page 


Page Four 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


May, 1932 


EXPENDITURES FOR ALL BRANCHES FEDERAL GOV’T. SERVICE, INCLUDING PAYMENTS FROM 
POSTAL REVENUES, FISCAL YEAR 1931, BASED ON TREASURY STATEMENT OF JUNE 30, 1931. 


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er is better off than the majority of his city 
neighbors. He at least has a job. Which would 
you rather have: a piece of land on which you 
can live and produce a livelihood or stock in a 
closed factory that pays no dividends and has 
no earning power?” 

Replying to a question regarding the forces 
directing propaganda against farm organization 
and co-operative marketing, Mr. Smith pro- 
duced a list of the directors of the so-called 
American Federation of Business whose slogan 
is “Take the government out of business,” but 
whose real purpose is to fight farmers’ efforts 
to help themselves. Mr. Smith showed that 
every director is either a member of a grain or 
livestock exchange or else provides services de- 
pendent upon speculation or commissions from 
selling farmers’ products. 


The Middlemen’s Solution 


“What has the opposition to offer us as a 
solution to our troubles?” continued Mr. Smith. 
“A speaker, who recently appeared before a 
farm gathering under the auspices of the 
middlemen’s organization, the American Federa- 
tion of Business, advised farmers to abandon 
their organization, the Farm Bureau, and use 
their dues to pay off their mortgages. At the 
same time this group is spending large sums 
through propaganda societies to block farmers’ 
efforts to help themselves. 

“Farmers are willing to see the government 
get out of business provided it gets out of all 
business without discriminating against agri- 
culture. Chairman Stone of the Farm Board 
made a commendable suggestion when in reply 
to critics, he said: ‘Investigate the Farm Board 
and the co-operative associations all you like 
but at the same time investigate the middlemen 
and their exchanges and make a full and im- 
partial report on both and compare them.’ 

“It is not strange that since Mr. Stone offered 


this suggestion we have heard little about a 
congressional investigation of the Farm Board.” 


The Tax Problem 


Addressing himself to the tax situation, Mr. 
Smith disclosed that one member out of every 
four and one-half families is now on the public 
payroll. ‘Taxes have grown out of all pro- 
portion to ability to pay,” he said. “Since 1920 
farm income in Illinois has declined from 
$1,106,000,000 to approximately $315,000,000 
last year. Thus 1931 farm income was less 
than one-third of that in 1920. But our tax 
bill has been going the other way. It has 
moved upward 40 per cent. This is something 
we can correct. The solution lies in organiza- 
tion. The place to start to reduce taxes is at 
home where -from 80 to 90 per cent of your 
tax money is spent. Why should not every 
County Farm Bureau sit around the table with 
representatives of business, labor, and other 
groups, and work out a program to reduce the 
cost of local government? 

“The Illinois Agricultural Association is the 
only organization in the state that has worked 
for a constructive program in the state legis- 
lature to equalize the unfair system of taxa- 
tion now crushing the property owner. And 
we have made some progress. We have brought 
the tax issue to the fore through the passage 
of the state income tax. I would not criticize 
the recent decision of the Sangamon county 
court on this measure, but I point to the fact 
that many state supreme courts have held that 
the income tax is not a property tax. It was 
on this point alone that the circuit judge’s de- 
cision holding the Illinois act unconstitutional 
was made.” 

Mr. Smith then discussed in detail how the 
$4.50 per year per member paid into the Illinois 
Agricultural Association is spent. He showed 
that the member is getting four times as much 


service and benefits as he got in 1926. 

“It is high time that all business men, bank- 
ers, and professional men realize that the farm 
problem has developed into the one big prob- 
lem before the American people,” he said. “We 
have the vision, courage, and ability to meet 
and solve this problem. The solution will come 
when leaders of various economic groups come 
to understand one another and co-operate in a 
spirit of mutual helpfulness.” 


The crowd which packed the armory in 
Kewanee came from the 10 adjoining “counties 


- including Henry, Bureau, Peoria, Mercer, Knox, 


Stark, Tazewell, Warren, Henderson, and Rock 
Island. 


The Farm Bureau presidents of each county 
sat on the platform. George Broman, president 
of the Henry County Farm Bureau, presided. 
R. J. Hamilton, district manager, had charge 
of the entertainment. Joe Saunders ably served 
as song leader. Farm Bureau quartettes from 
Mercer, Rock Island, and Knox counties were 
applauded. Short addresses of welcome were 
made by Mr. Broman, Mayor J. J. Andrews of 
Kewanee, and President Steele of the local 
Chamber of Commerce. 

The information presented by Mr. Smith at 
Kewanee is similar to that covered at other 
Farm Bureau mass meetings by I. A. A. speakers 
over the state. 


600 at Mattoon 


Mattoon, IIl., April 18.—Citing as an ex- 
ample the failure of recently launched sales 
program of two automobile companies, Earl C. 
Smith, president of the Illinois Agricultural 
Association, declared before an audience of 600 
farmers and business men here tonight that 


(Continued on page 5 col. 3) 


May, 1932 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Five 


CLASSIFICATION OF TOTAL EXPENDITURES CHARGED TO 
U. S. DEPT. OF AGR., FISCAL YEAR 1931, ON BASIS OF DAILY 
TREASURY STATEMENT, JUNE 30, 1931. TOTAL $296,865,945. 


Hyde Discloses Facts About 


U. S. Dept. of Agriculture Budget 


XPENDITURES of the U. S. Dept. 

of Agriculture and the Federal 
Farm Board have been singled out re- 
cently as targets for attacks by middle- 
men’s organizations and newspapers 
that front for them. 

Everyone agrees that taxes must 
come down and unnecessary govern- 
mental activities cease, but fairness de- 
mands that the truth be disclosed and 
all federal expenditures be placed in 
their true light. 

The accompanying chart received 
from a budget officer at Washington 
clearly reveals that of approximately 
$300,000,000 administered by the De- 
partment of Agriculture in the last 
fiscal year the greater part of it went 
for roads, emergency relief loans, and 
public service not confined to agricul- 
ture. The figures on the chart above 
vary slightly from those given below 
since one covers a fiscal year ending 
June, 1931, while the other (Mr. 
Hyde’s) is for the calendar year. 

Replying to a series of charts and 
other propaganda published some time 
ago by the Chicago Tribune Secretary 
Arthur M. Hyde presented these facts: 

$174,000,000 of the 1931 Dept. of 
Agriculture expenditures went to the 
states as federal aid in highway con- 
struction. This money served the gen- 
eral welfare and relieved unemployment. 

$50,000,000 went to farmers in 


drought areas as emergency relief loans. 
The Department of Agriculture did not 
ask for the money. It was no part of 
our regular program. 

$14,000,000 went to the states for 
experiment stations, extension services, 
and forest fire prevention. The Depart- 
ment of Agriculture did not spend it. 
We were merely the channel through 
which the money passed. 

Deducting these sums leaves $58,- 
000,000 spent by the Department. This 
contrasts with the $30,000,000 spent 
in1917. (All other moneys were either 
paid to the states direct, or were emer- 
gency funds for which this department 
made no request.) 

But even this $58,000,000 is not a 
fair statement of the expenditures for 
agricultural purposes. 

$4,000,000 in 1931 went to the 
Weather Bureau, including $1,200,000 
for commercial aviation—only $50,000 
of the entire appropriation being direct- 
ly for agriculture. 

$6,000,000 went for eradication of 
bovine tuberculosis—a public health 
service fully as much as an agricultural 
service. 

$5,000,000 went for meat inspec- 
tion—primarily for public health. 

$1,600,000 was expended for en- 
forcement of the Food and Drugs laws 
—another health service. 

$15,000,000, in addition to payments 


to states for forest roads already 
counted, went to the Forest Service to 
conserve our national resources. 

$2,000,000 went to Biological Sur- 
vey, principally for wild life conserva- 
tion. ms 

These items add up to $33,600,000. 
Minor non-agricultural items bring the 
total well above $35,000,000. That 
leaves, of the $58,000,000, only $23,- _ 
000,000 that can properly be charged 
against the Department of Agriculture 
for strictly agricultural expenditures. 
Of the $30,000,000 expended in 1917, 
about $11,000,000 was for strictly 
agricultural purposes. 

The increase in expenditures by the 
Department of Agriculture for agricul- 
tural purposes from 1917 to 1931 was, 
therefore, about $12,000,000. Any 
other statement is unjust to agriculture. 


(Continued from page 4) 
business is beginning to realize that industry 
cannot recover until the farmer regains his lost 
purchasing power. 

“We see new cars in showrooms all over: the 
country but not on the highways,” Mr. Smith 
pointed out. “The value is there, but we 
haven’t the down payment to make. It is a 
complex problem, but industry is beginning to 
realize that the farmer prostrated by two years’ 
depression has to get up first.” 


Cut Budget $47,000 

Polo, Ill., April 21.—Approximately 700 
Farm Bureau members and their families from 
Ogle, Lee, Whiteside, Carroll, Winnebago, Ste- 
phenson, and JoDaviess counties gathered in 
the community high school here tonight to hear 
President Earl C. Smith review problems of 
chief interest to organized farmers. C. E. Bam- 
borough, I. A. A. director from the 13th dis- 
trict, presided. 

Answering a question from the floor regard- 
ing a misleading article that appeared in the 
Chicago Tribune the day before, Mr. Smith 
stated that since October, 1931, the I. A. A. 
and the companies it manages had reduced the 
annual budget $47,000; that in only two in- 
stances did co-operatives affiliated with the I. 
A. A. borrow funds from the Federal Farm 
Board, not one cent of which was used for 
organization purposes. 

The I. A. A., he said, has borne all of the 
expense of organizing co-operatives affiliated 
with the I. A. A. In one instance (Illinois 
Grain Corporation) all the money borrowed 
from the Farm Board has been returned, and 
in the other instance (Soybean Marketing Asso- 
ciation) substantial payments on the loan have 
been made and a definite plan adopted to liqui- 
date this loan over a period of years. 


Metzger at Ottawa 


Ottawa, Ill., April 25.—Between 900 and 
1,000 Farm Bureau members attended the Farm 
Bureau mass meeting held in the high school 
auditorium here tonight. The principal address 
was made by Secretary George E. Metzger. 

Questioned from the floor as to how farmers 
could combat their enemies the audience 
cheered Metzger’s reply: “‘Patronize your own 
co-operatives.” Mr. Metzger disclosed the source 
of the opposition and challenged the middlemen 
to come forward with a constructive program 
that will bring agriculture out of the depression 
which began in 1920. Metzger substituted for 
Earl Smith, who was unable to attend because 
of serious illness in his family. 


Page Four 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


May, 1932 


EXPENDITURES FOR ALL BRANCHES FEDERAL GOV’T. SERVICE, INCLUDING PAYMENTS FROM 


POSTAL REVENUES, FISCAL YEAR 1931, 


ORGANIZATION UNIT 
SNECUOTUE OFFICE ANO /WOEPENOENT LSTAELISANENTS, 
ZKOLUSIVE OF FEDERAL FAR) BOARD (TOTALS 

perce Yo/ 


SH/PPING BOARD AND EMERGENCY 
FLEET CORPORATION 


EXPENDITURE 
S/ (2B TIB IRS 


fe 


KETERANS ADOMINISTCATION (090578 15|2/ 33 | 
SS, IC/, II6 | 


TOTAL $4,877,315,309. 


Oo | 


4 


os 


INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION 


PANAIIA CANAL 


| FECERAL BOARD? FOR KOCATIONAL 
LQUCATION 


EE 


IBLE 20h | 


2/00 /18\ 0/8 


IYVISCELLANLE OOS 


28 201997| O50 “J 


P-E-R -C.EN TA G:E 
2345 67 8 9 10 


— 


BASED ON TREASURY STATEMENT OF JUNE 30, 1931. 


OF TO: TAL 
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 


Il 12 


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<< 


\PUBL/C DEBT (TOTAL) me 


RETICEMENT OF DEBT a #900820 


INTEREST ON DEBT 


+ 


OV, 583,708 \ /2.5F 


POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT IND POSTAL 
SERVICE (7OTAL) 


— 


PAO FROME TREASURY 


+ 


PAID FROM POSTAL REVENUE 


WAR QEPART/ILEW 7 


WAY DEPARTMENT 
\ [Ce “e204 CONSTRUCTION AND $8 y 
es MERGENCY RELIEX LOANS?) 

. CRY” DPEPARITIIIENT (EXCLOSVUVE 
ae PUBLIC DEBI 
"(FEDERAL FART FS eal A CRICUL TURAL 


\MAIRAETING ACT) 


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296 BEE H: 
295398. 237| COS 


1V/,69F 21F| FB. IF 


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VW7IER/OR DEPARTMENT 
\DEPARTIIENT OF COMMERCE 
[DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
DEPARTMENT OF SUSTICE 
(LEGISLATIVE ESTABLISHMENT 
DEPARTMENT OF STATE 
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 


WSCELLANEOUS (DEDUCTIONS DUE 7O EXCESS 
\OF KELDIIE AND ADSUSTIVENTS) 


GRAND JOTAL 


er is better off than the majority of his city 
neighbors. He at least has a job. Which would 
you rather have: a piece of land on which you 
can live and produce a livelihood or stock in a 
closed factory that pays no dividends and has 
no earning power?” 

Replying to a question regarding the forces 
directing propaganda against farm organization 
ind co-operative marketing, Mr. Smith pro- 
duced a list of the directors of the so-called 
American Federation of Business whose slogan 
is “Take the government out of business,” but 
whose real purpose is to fight farmers’ efforts 
to help themselves. Mr. Smith showed that 
every director is either a member of a grain or 
livestock exchange or else provides services de- 
pendent upon speculation or commissions trom 
selling farmers’ products. 


The Middlemen’s Solution 


What has the opposition to offer us as a 
solution to our troubles?”” continued Mr. Smith. 
A speaker, who recently appeared before a 
farm gathering under the auspices: of the 
middlemen’s organization, the American Federa- 
tion of Business, advised farmers to abandon 
heir organization, the Farm Bureau, and_ use 
heir dues to pay off their mortgages. At the 
sme time this group is spending large sums 
chrough propaganda societies to block farmers’ 
forts to help themselves. 

“Farmers are willing to see the government 
vet out of business provided gets out of all 
business without discriminating against agri- 
culture. Chairman Stone of the Farm Board 
made a commendable suggestion when in reply 
to critics, he said: ‘Investigate the Farm Board 
ind the co-operative associations all you like 
but at the same time investigate the middlemen 
ind their exchanges and make a full and im- 
partial report on both and compare them.’ 


It is not strange that since Mr. Stone offered 


— 
7,516 109 IER 


[6747776 26 te 
Ei 
ial 2 i 


L3H76,0/3| O 


| azarae 025 
TOTAL AS ABLE $ETE [43007 


126 — | 


this suggestion we have heard little about a 
congressional investigation of the Farm Board.” 


The Tax Problem 


Addressing himself to the tax situation, Mr. 
Smith disclosed that one member out of every 
four and one-half families is now on the public 
payroll. “Taxes have grown out of all pro- 
portion to ability to pay,” he said. “Since 1920 
farm income in Illinois has declined from 
$1,106,000,000 to approximately $315,000,000 
last year. Thus 1931 farm income was_ less 
than one-third of that in 1920. But our tax 
bill has been going the other way. It has 
moved upward 40 per cent. This is something 
we can correct. The solution lies in organiza- 
tion. The place to start to reduce taxes is at 
home where from 80 to 90 per cent of your 
tax money is spent. Why should not every 
County Farm Bureau sit around the table with 
representatives of business, labor, and other 
groups, and work out a program to reduce the 
cost of local government? 

“The Illinois Agricultural Association is the 
only organization in the state that has worked 
for a constructive program in the state legis- 
lature to equalize the unfair system of taxa- 
tion now crushing the property owner. And 
we have made some progress. We have brought 
the tax issue to the fore through the passage 
of the state income tax. I would not criticize 
the recent decision of the Sangamon county 
court on this measure, but I point to the fact 
that many state supreme courts have held that 
the income tax is not a property tax. It was 
on this point alone that the circuit judge’s de- 
cision holding the Illinois act unconstitutional 
was made.” 

Mr. Smith then discussed in detail how the 
$4.50 per year per member paid into the Illinois 
Agricultural Association is spent. He showed 
that the member is getting four times as much 


service and benefits as he got in 1926. 

“Tt is high time that all business men, bank- 
ers, and professional men realize that the farm 
problem has developed into the one big prob- 
lem before the American people,” he said. “We 
have the vision, courage, and ability to meet 
and solve this problem, The solution will come 
when leaders of various economic groups come 
to understand one another and co-operate in a 
spirit of mutual helpfulness.” 

The crowd which packed the armory in 
Kewanee came from the 10 adjoining ‘counties 
including Henry, Bureau, Peoria, Mercer, Knox, 
Stark, Tazewell, Warren, Henderson, and Rock 
Island. 


The Farm Bureau presidents of each county 
sat on the platform. George Broman, president 
of the Henry County Farm Bureau, presided. 
R. J. Hamilton, district. manager, had charge 
of the entertainment. Joe Saunders ably served 
as song leader. Farm Bureau quartettes from 
Mercer, Rock Island, and Knox counties were 
applauded. Short addresses of welcome were 
made by Mr. Broman, Mayor J. J. Andrews of 
Kewance, and President Steele of the local 
Chamber of Commerce. 

The information presented by Mr. Smith at 
Kewanee is similar to that covered at other 
Farm Bureau mass meetings by I. A. A. speakers 
Gver the State. 


600 at Mattoon 


Mattoon, IIl., April 18.—Citing as an ex- 
ample the failure of recently launched sales 
program of two automobile companies, Earl C. 
Smith, president of the Illinois Agricultural 
Association, declared before an audience of 600 
farmers and business men here tonight that 


(Continued on page S$ col. 3) 


May, 193 . 


THE I. A. A. RECOR 


Page Five 


#8, 828 78 


CLASSIFICATION 


(642%), 


FEDEOAL HO 70 STATES... 
(FOREST ROADS AW? Thefildn®.. 
MOUNT HERMON HIGHWA. 


OF TOTAL EXPENDITURES CHARGED TO 


U. S. DEPT. OF AGR., FISCAL YEAR 1931, ON BASIS OF DAILY 
TREASURY STATEMENT, JUNE 30, 1931. TOTAL $296,865,945. 


Hyde Discloses Facts About 
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture Budget 


XPENDITURES of the U. S. Dept. 

of Agriculture and the Federal 
Farm Board have been singled out re- 
cently as targets for attacks by middle- 


men’s organizations and newspapers 
that front for them. 
Everyone agrees that taxes must 


come down and unnecessary govern- 
mental activities cease, but fairness de- 
mands that the truth be disclosed and 
all federal expenditures be placed in 
their true light. 

The accompanying chart received 
from a budget officer at Washington 
clearly reveals that of approximately 
$300,000,000 administered by the De- 
partment of Agriculture in the last 
fiscal year the greater part of it went 
for roads, emergency relief loans, and 
public service not confined to agricul- 
ture. The figures on the chart above 
vary slightly from those given below 
since one covers a fiscal year ending 
June, 1931, while the other (Mr. 
Hyde’s) is for the calendar year. 

Replying to a series of charts and 
other propaganda published some time 
ago by the Chicago Tribune Secretary 
Arthur M. Hyde presented these facts: 

$174,000,000 of the 1931 Dept. of 
Agriculture expenditures went to the 
states as federal aid in highway con- 
struction. This money served the gen- 
eral welfare and relieved unemployment. 

$50,000,000 to in 


went tarmers 


drought areas as emergency relief loans. 
The Department of Agriculture did not 
ask for the money. It was no part of 
our regular program. 

$14,000,000 went to the states for 
experiment stations, extension services, 
and forest fire prevention. The Depart- 
ment of Agriculture did not spend it. 
We were merely the channel through 
which the money passed. 

Deducting these sums leaves $58,- 
000,000 spent by the Department. This 
contrasts with the $30,000,000 spent 
in 1917. (All other moneys were either 
paid to the states direct, or were emer- 
gency funds for which this department 
made no request.) 

But even this $58,000,000 is not a 
fair statement of the expenditures for 
agricultural purposes. 

$4,000,000 in 1931 went to the 
Weather Bureau, including $1,200,000 
for commercial aviation—only $50,000 
of the entire appropriation being direct- 
ly for agriculture. 

$6,000,000 went for eradication of 
bovine tuberculosis—a _ public health 
service fully as much as an agricultural 
service. 

$5,000,000 went for meat inspec- 
tion—primarily for public health. 

$1,600,000 was expended for en- 
forcement of the Food and Drugs laws 
—another health service. 

$15,000,000, in addition to payments 


to states for forest roads already 
counted, went to the Forest Service to 
conserve our national resources. 

$2,000,000 went to Biological Sur- 
vey, principally for wild lite conserva- 
tion. 

These items add up to $33,600,000. 
Minor non-agricultural items bring the 
total well above $35,000,000. That 
leaves, of the $58,000,000, only $23,- 
000,000 that. can properly be charged 
against the Department of Agriculture 
for strictly agricultural expenditures. 
Of the $30,000,000 expended in 1917, 
about $11,000,000 
agricultural purposes. 

The increase in expenditures by the 
Department of Agriculture for agricul- 
tural purposes from 1917 to 1931 was, 
therefore, about $12,000,000. Any 
other statement is unjust to agriculture. 


was for strictly 


(Continued from page 4) 
business is beginning to realize that industry 
cannot recover until the farmer regains his lost 
purchasing power. 

“We see new cars in showrooms all over the 
Mr. Smith 
out. there, but 
the make. It is a 
complex problem, but industry is beginning to 


country but not on the highways,” 
pointed “The 
haven’t payment to 


value is we 


down 


realize that the farmer prostrated by two years’ 
depression has to get up first.” 


Cut Budget $47,000 
Polo, Ill., April 21.—Approximately 700 
Farm Bureau members and their families from 
Ogle, Lee, Whiteside, Carroll, Winnebago, Ste 
phenson, and JoDaviess 
the community high school here tonight to hear 


counties gathered in 


President Earl C. Smith review problems of 
chief interest to organized farmers. C, E. Bam- 
borough, I. A. A. director from the 13th dis- 


trict, presided. 
Answering a question from the floor regard- 


ing a misleading article that appeared in the 
Chicago Tribune the day before, Mr. Smith 
stated that since October, 1931, the I. A. A 


and the companies it manages had reduced the 


annual budget $47,000; that in only two in- 


stances did co-operatives athliated with the | 
A. A. borrow tunds from the Federal Farm 
Board, not one cent of which was used for 


organization purposes. 
The I. A. A., he 


expense of organizing 


said, has borne all of the 


co-operatiy es athliated 


with the I. A. A. In one instance (Illinois 
Grain Corporation) all the money borrowed 
from the Farm Board has been returned, and 


in the other instance (Soybean Marketing Asso- 
ciation) substantial payments on the loan have 
been made and a definite plan adopted to liqui 
date this loan over a period oft years. 


Metzger at Ottawa 


Ottawa, IIl., April 25.—Between 900 and 
1,000 Farm Bureau members attended the Farm 


Bureau mass meeting held in the high school 
auditorium here tonight. The principal address 
was made by Secretary George E. Metzger. 


Questioned from the floor as to how farmers 


could combat their enemies the audience 
cheered Metzger’s reply: “Patronize your own 
co-operatives.” Mr. Metzger disclosed the source 
of the opposition and challenged the middlemen 
to come forward with a constructive 
that will bring agriculture out of the depression 
which began in 1920. Metzger substituted for 


Earl Smith, who was unable to attend because 


program 


of serious illness in his family. 


iff 
| 

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i 


Page Six 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


May, 1932 


LV, 
A POLTURAL ASSOCIA N 


ECORD 


To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was orgenized, 
namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, political, 
and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation, 
and to develop agriculture. 


GEORGE THEM, Editor 
Max HarreELson, Assistant Editor 


eres eons in pig iene mean pe aapaimmagicinssanaiatpnss cmos ante 

Published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Association at 165 So. 
Main St., Spencer, Ind. Editorial Offices, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, 
Il. Application for transfer of second class entry from Marshall, Ill, to 
Spencer, Ind., pending. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage 
provided in Section 412, Act of Feb. 28, 1925, authorized Oct. 27 1925. 
Address all communications for publication to Editorial Offices, Illinois 
Agricultural Association Record, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago. The 
individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is five 
dollars a year. The fee includes payment of fifty cents for subscription 
to the Illinois Agricultural Association Record. Postmaster: In returning 
an uncalled for missent copy please indicate key number on address as is 
required by law. 


OFFICERS 
President, Earl C. Simith....2-2..222.2.2.-----eccce--encnenneccneeccccenencennneaennneneneanees Detroit 
Vice-President, A. R. Wright............-----------------------ssseeccseeeeeeecneeeneenenenenens Varna 
Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger.....- cccibeoteia Chicago 
Treasurer, R. A. Cowles........-....------------sss--ecs-eeensectencnncetenneeenneeenens Bloomington 


BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
(By Congressional District) 


Ist to 11th H. C. Vial, Downers Grove 
DOW a ci ccecnicapacicedlonsded quosboesecmeesvotaspeccqeneussatpucsuncoesatnpeeeipes G. F. Tullock, Rockford 
13th...... .C. E. Bamborough, Polo 
YD REN aL Dene Scene erat ON mR Soe ean ee RN Ee M. G. Lambert, Ferris 
BE aac ws epninss en cespacaennin ten edngessbabonenmannqepstiosnanaed Charles Bates, Browning 
Rect Rea ie i Pe OR SOE REE SOLD RETO Ne Geo. B. Muller, Washington 
STR cna scan ccc teccenccepen di gtiencsnep one A. B. Schofield, Paxton 
BGR ec as aca seccmsbonipereptovmnsetbecmmate W. A. Dennis, Paris 
Ree acc ssacccends enede tea becontectdecpecapeateanibiiabdonid C. J. Gross, Atwood 
+ 1 | ean te a aes Charles S. Black, Jacksonville 
LT co anaes ra elec Reet Mere a ON rE ee Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 
22nd. Talmage DeFrees, Smithboro 
AY 9 i aa a ne om a ci a PnP REN ES W. L. Cope, Salem 
DOIN ii cece cise cSnnnimonte Cabs SnanNetocnctanoenagdcmncediest Charles Marshall, Belknap 
OS CUR ach od cvs cecsettencna cneoyoasonpdertbeqwatinsaiavoentpompndedbnenites Fred Dietz, De Soto 

DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 

Comptroller .-..-J. H. Kelker 
Dairy Marketing ...J. B. Counuss 
Finance.............. ...R. A. Cowles 
Fruit and Vegetable Marketing................-.-----.-------------0--e0--0--- Harry W. Day 
Grain Marketing... 22------.-------0--0eeeeeeeeneneenneneeeeeee Harrison Fahrnkopf 
EER OUP GNU 5 sinc cstentngnsesncmndnsnpcneenisbbnvaidepanseasewinatnnnsjriabsnacnpeetonsacaned George Thiem 
Trngurance Service. n:..n.nnnnn-ncena-n2rnnn--nae enn nawenworneen--woseneespevvoouneventwenion V. Vaniman 

IE naga sctdarw cst nan sch at sopcanin ap susbaevnide tat snanoctacadetapitbcsian Donald Kirkpatrick 
Live Stock Marketing............--......----------c0---sseceeeceeeeneneeeneesereenes Ray E. Miller 
NN cia okse nels snocdccnct ln pgennccne iss ncepasiccagedsoumanetvedsnbscsnasnendiorweinone’ C. E. Johnston 
Organization.................. G. E. Metzger 
Produce Marketing... F. A. Gougler 
Taxation and Statistics.. J. C. Watson 
Transportation-............... ....L. J. Quasey 


ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 
Country Life Insurance Co. ....W.....---2..---2--ceceeeceeneeeeee L. A. Williams, Mgr. 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co.................... ......---J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Auditing Ass’n..........................- F. E. Ringham, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co. A. E. Richardson, Mgr. 
Illinois Farm Supply Co....... ....L. R. Marchant, Mgr. 


Illinois Grain Corp............. Chas. P. Cummings, Vice-Pres. and Sales Mgr. 
Illinois Livestock Mark. Ass’n.....Ray Miller, Mgr.; R. W. Grieser, Sales 
Illinois Produce Marketing Ass’n................-------..--------- F. A. Gougler, Mgr. 
Soybean Marketing Ass’ n__ 2 2--22-22.--2-20--eeeeeneneneeeeee- W. H. Coultas, Mgr. 


The Fittest Will Survive 


IN the long run the slush funds, speech-making, 

printer’s ink, publicity, and propaganda against 
co-operative marketing will not greatly affect the 
future of this system of selling farm products; 
the price received, savings effected, and service 
rendered are all that count and the producer is 
and will be the court of last resort. That’s a 
safe bet. Nothing the opposition can do or say 
will stop farmers from patronizing their own 
co-operative institutions if they do the job bet- 
ter than the private enterprisers. If they fail farm- 
ers will discard them eventually. Truth will pre- 
vail. Darwin’s theory of the “survival of the 
fittest” is the law of business as well as the law 
of the jungle. 


Where the Money Goes 


DURING the last fiscal year the federal gov- 

ernment spent nearly five billion dollars. 
Where did it go?..Read the Chicago Tribune and 
you'll get the impression it was all spent by the 
Farm Board and U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
Read the chart on page 4 that sets forth the facts, 
and you'll learn that more than 80 per cent went 
to pay disabled soldiers, their widows and orphans, 
war debts, national defense, roads, and to deliver 
the mail. Incidentally the government loses a 
good deal of money every year delivering news- 
papers and periodicals. Without this government 
subsidy metropolitan newspapers might not boast 
of their extensive country circulation. 

A very small part of the five billion went for 
agricultural research, extension, and service con- 
fined to farmers as pointed out on page 5 by 
Secretary Hyde. And the Farm Board’s loans to 
co-operatives are small compared with the gov- 
ernment-owned Reconstruction Finance Corpora- 
tion’s loans to railroads, banks, and insurance 
companies. 

Farmers applaud all sincere efforts to reduce 
taxes; in fact, the I. A. A. and Farm Bureau 
have been working on this problem for several 
years with creditable results. Tax reduction must 
come, but let it be applied impartially to all 
groups without discrimination against agriculture. 


The Income Tax 


[LEINOIS farmers will await with interest the 

decision of the State Supreme Court on the 
constitutionality of the state income tax. Judge 
Jesse Brown’s decision, given in the Sangamon 
county circuit court, that a tax upon income 
is a tax upon property, hence is unconstitutional 
because not uniform, clashes with State Supreme 
Court decisions in Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Mis- 
sissippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Caro- 
lina, and Wisconsin. All these courts have held 
that a tax upon income is not a tax upon property. 


On Co-operation 


‘THE early pioneers in co-operative marketing 

who fought to establish farmer-owned and 
farmer-controlled country grain elevators would 
turn over in their graves if they could witness 
how those principles of co-operation are being 
dragged in the mire by traitors to the cause with- 
in their own ranks today. 

The fact that more than 1,500 farmers eleva- 
tors in the United States are co-operating in the 
national co-operative grain marketing program 
is proof that the majority of elevators are still in 
good hands. 


May, 1932 


Business Relief 


(An editorial from the Dayton (Obio) Daily News, from 
the pen of Walter L. Locke, editorial writer.) 


"THE Reconstruction Finance Corporation bill 

—hbusiness relief—has gone to the President 
and received his instant signature. Within six 
weeks of the presentation of this measure of busi- 
ness relief, Congress has passed and the President 
has signed it while the entire country looks on 
and applauds. 


This measure puts an injection of half a billion 
dollars of government money and a billion and a 
half more of government guaranteed credit into 
the arteries of business. Banks and insurance com- 
panies with frozen assets will find blowing over 
them the warm breath of government credit and 
government cash. Hard-pressed railroads will re- 
ceive government aid. Frozen real estate securi- 
ties will be thawed in what is to be essentially a 
government mortgage market. With this help of 
legislation, of government, prices are expected to 
start upward—the prices of commodities, of 
bonds, of lands, of stocks. The government’s 
measure may not succeed in all this, but the coun- 
try hopes it will and approves the effort. If it 
succeeeds, the depression is in hand. 


Now, while we view so admiringly the strong 
action which, with big and little business insisting 
and consenting, the government takes, let us pause 
for a little smile at ourself. The smile may best be 
introduced by a remark which that wild “‘radi- 
cal,” Senator George W. Norris, of Nebraska, 
dropped in casting his vote against the measure 
now a law. Senator Norris said: 


“Tl have been called a socialist, a bolshevik, a 
communist, and a lot of other terms of a similar 
nature, but in the wildest flights of my imagina- 
tion I never thought of such a thing as putting 
the government into business as far as this bill 
would put it.” 


The words of the insurgent Nebraskan are true. 
He got himself written down a radical for insist- 
ing that the government operate a little power 
plant which it owns at Muscle Shoals. He has 
variously favored public operation of a public 
utility here and there. But put the government 
in control, through a control of money and credit, 
of all the business of the United States—such a 
thing as that the Nebraska radical, now a con- 
servative protesting against the radicalism of his 
stalwart associates in Congress, never dreamed of. 
This is what has just been done. 


We had to do it. The country was in a jam. 
Only the government, it seems, can break the 
jam. And so, under the leadership of the Presi- 
dent who vetoed Senator Norris’ Muscle Shoals 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Seven 


bill as a violation of “rugged individualism,” in- 
dividualism is laid on the shelf and the most com- 
pletely communistic measure ever adopted in time 
of peace passes hurrahing into law. It’s all right. 
We had to do it. But as we do it, let’s smile at 
ourselves; it will keep us sane. Let’s smile at our 
“rugged individualism,” at our insistent demand 
that the government keep out of business; and 
especially, as we set out now by law to increase 
the price of everything, let us smile at our old 
opposition to “price fixing.” And as we smile, 
can we complain if over at Moscow, which we 
refuse to recognize because of its socialism, there 
are a few smiles more? 


Smiling at ourselves, we can see why the farm- 
ers smile, the farmers we so sternly rebuked with 
vetoes, Mr. Coolidge’s at Mr. Hoover’s advice, for 
wanting to be helped by law.. Remember how 
long we stood out against the sinking farmers— 
12 years. And when it was ourselves struggling 
in the water, how long was government relief in 
coming? Six weeks! Oh, there’s very much to 
smile about in this connection; and, finally, when 
any of us hereafter in horror cry socialism at 
anything it will be more than a smile, it will be 
a snicker. 


From Illinois to Europe by Water 
HE recent shipment by the Soybean Market- 


ing Association of 150,000 bushels of soybeans 
by water to Rotterdam provides an interesting 
illustration of the value of the Great Lakes-St. 
Lawrence Waterway to farmers of the middle 
west. 

From Chicago via the Great Lakes and up the 
St. Lawrence river to Montreal where the beans 
were transferred to an ocean going vessel, the rate 
to Rotterdam is only 14 cents per bushel. This is 
the lowest possible rate obtainable to European 
markets. If the rail rate from Peoria to Chicago, 
which is approximately four cents, were added, 
the total cost of shipment would amount to 18 
cents from Peoria. 


The rate from New Orleans to Rotterdam 
alone is 13 cents per bushel, and if the beans were 
shipped down the Illinois and Mississippi rivers on 
barges to New Orleans and there transferred to 
ocean going vessels the rate would be 19.5 cents 
from Peoria to Rotterdam via this Southern route. 
By rail from Peoria to New Orleans the rate is 
approximately 13.5 cents per bushel (6.5 by 
water) or more than the cost of the ocean haul. 
With Europe back in the market for farm prod- 
ucts water transportation will be of decided help 
to the corn-belt farmer. 


Page Eight 


Kirkpatrick Cheered at 
Mass Meeting in Pontiac 


Penrc, APRIL 22.—Approxi- 
mately 1,000 farmers and business 
men from Livingston, Ford, Iroquois, 
Woodford and adjoining counties gath- 
ered here tonight at the Farm Bureau 
mass meeting to hear Donald Kirk- 
patrick, general counsel for the I. A. 
A., discuss legislative and marketing 
policies of the Association, and disclose 
the source of opposition to farmers’ or- 
ganized efforts to help themselves. 

Mr. Kirkpatrick charged that grain 
and livestock commission men, specu- 
lators, and_ other 
handlers of farm 
products organized 
as the Federation of 
American Business 
were seeking to de- 
stroy co-operative 
marketing under the 
guise of “getting 
the government out 
of business.” 

Commenting on a 
meeting at Jersey- Mr. Kirkpatrick 
ville April 15 spon- 
sored by the Federation of American 
Business and the Farmers Grain Dealers 
Association of Illinois, Mr. Kirkpatrick 
disclosed that one Millard R. Myers, 
now repotted to be in the employ of 
the grain trade, had written a fabri- 
cated story of the Jerseyville meeting 
in which he misrepresented what had 
happened; quoted Tom Cain of Jack- 
sonville as having attacked the Farm 
Bureau when Cain was in Washington 
at the time; quoted Lawrence Farlow 
as presenting resolutions against co- 
operative grain marketing which were 
unanimously adopted when no such 
resolutions were even offered; and mis- 
quoted what other speakers had said. 


Myers Confesses 

“Our report on that meeting,” said 
Kirkpatrick, ‘“‘shows that it was largely 
attended by Farm Bureau members, that 
when the commission men (W. A. 
Moody, president St. Louis Livestock 
Exchange, and R. I. Mansfield, grain 
commission man) saw the temper of the 
audience they spoke in generalities for 
a short time and adjourned the meeting 
early. 


“I challenge Lawrence Farlow, Robt. 
Orndorff, Millard Myers, or any of their 
associates to deny these facts,” contin- 
ued Kirkpatrick. Myers, who was in 
the audience, came forward and at 
first sought to deny the allegations, un- 
til Kirkpatrick reached in his brief case 


-_ and pulled out a copy of Myers’ story. 


When confronted with the evidence the 
latter admitted that he wrote the article 
and attempted to get it published in 


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THE. A. A. RECORD 


the local paper at Jerseyville. 

Thunderous applause greeted the ex- 
posure of Myers and the middlemen in 
the Pontiac meeting. Farm Adviser S. 
G. Turner of Livingston county said 
it was the largest farm meeting held 
there in years. 


500 at Olney 

Olney, Ill., April 21.—Agriculture, 
the basic industry, is being viciously 
attacked by middlemen’s organizations 
and certain metropolitan newspapers 
which are poisoning the minds of thou- 
sands of citizens by their misleading 
propaganda, declared Donald Kirk- 
patrick, legal counsel for the Illinois 
Agricultural Association, speaking be- 
fore 500 farmers and business men at 
the Central High school gymnasium 
here tonight. 

Kirkpatrick revealed that sources of 
Opposition to co-operative marketing 
are the same today as they have been 


“ever since the movement began. Middle- 


men are increasing their attacks because 
they see co-operatives growing. They 
realize that the farmer can handle his 
own marketing efficiently. ; 

The Olney High School band pro- 
vided entertainment. B. L. Hornbeek, 
district organization manager, presided. 


800 at Carbondale 

Carbondale, Ill., April 22.—Ap- 
proximately 800 farmers and business 
men attended a mass meeting here to- 
night to hear George E. Metzger, sec- 
retary of the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 
ciation, outline the policies of the asso- 
ciation with regard to the Federal Farm 
Board, co-operative marketing, taxation, 
legislation, and economic problems now 
facing the farmer. 


Metzger disclosed that the opposition 
to co-operative marketing was coming 
chiefly from middlemen and from un- 
informed or misinformed persons. He 
pointed out that some of the business 
groups which supported the co-oper- 
ative marketing act were now fighting 
to repeal it because they could see that 
the co-operative movement was suc- 
ceeding. 

Fred Dietz of DeSoto, director of the 
I. A. A. from the 25th district, intro- 
duced Metzger and later turned the 
meeting over to L. F. Brissenden, dis- 
trict organization manager. 


l. A. A. Radio Period 
Moved Up to 12:15 P. M. 


The daily farm program of the IIli- 
nois Agricultural Association over sta- 
tion WJJD (1130 kilocycles) , Chicago, 
has been changed to 12:15 p. m. cen- 
tral standard time. This change was 
made necessary by adjustments in the 
station schedule following the shift to 
daylight saving time in Chicago. 


May, 1932 


Metzger Addresses 400 
At Meeting in Carmi 


Carmi, IIl., April 21.—George E. 
Metzger, secretary of the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association, explained here to- 
night to an audience of between 300 
and 400 farmers and business men 
where the attacks on co-operative mar- 
keting were coming from. 

Metzger was the principal speaker at 
the meeting sponsored by the White 
County Farm Bu- . 
reau in co-operation 
with Farm Bureaus 
in adjoining coun- 
ties to enable farm- 
ers in this part of 
the state to get first- 
hand information on 
some of the ques- 
tions now before 
them. This was one 
of the series of eleven 
meetings in the state. 
Charles Marshall of 
Belknap, director of the I. A. A. from 
the 24th district. presided. 

Tracing the development of the 
state organization and of co-operative 
marketing from the beginning, he laid 
bare the source of opposition which the 
farmer has had to overcome. He pointed 
out that the present attacks being made 
against the Farm Board were coming 
from the same source, the middlemen, 
whose slogan is “get the government 
out of business,” but who in reality are 
fighting to put farmers out of business. 

St. Jacob, Ill., April 20.—Legisla- 
tive and economic questions of fore- 
most interest to farmers were discussed 
here tonight before an audience of 800 
by Donald Kirkpatrick of the I. A. A. 

The meeting, sponsored by the Madi- 


Geo. E. Metzger 


son County Farm Bureau, was attended 


by Farm Bureau members and non- 
members from Jersey, Macoupin, Bond, 
Montgomery, St. Clair, Clinton, Marion, 
Monroe, Randolph, Washington and 
Jefferson counties. John Miller, presi- 
dent of the Madison County Farm Bu- 
reau, presided. 

Kirkpatrick disclosed the source of 
opposition to co-operative marketing 
and denounced it as coming from 
middlemen and speculators. He also 
explained the policies of the I. A. A. 
with regard to legislation now being 
considered. 

Music was furnished by a Farm Bu- 
reau women’s quartette and a Farm Bu- 
reau men’s quartette. 


The Illinois Grain Corporation 
handled 666 cars of grain during 
March. This the largest volume of 
any month since August, 1931. 
These shipments came from 191 
shipping points in 58 countries. 


MISSING 
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THE I. A. A. RECORD © 


Page Thirteen 


i 
Marketing 


By Harrison Fabrnkopf 


TOCKHOLDERS and boards of 

directors of farmers’ elevators 
should know that their co-operatives 
can now become members of the Illinois 
Grain Corporation without any cost. 
In other words, the farmer, through 
his elevator, has an opportunity of 
building a strong terminal grain mar- 
keting agency without the necessity of 
advancing cash for the purpose. 


Grain... 


When an elevator board of directors 
earnestly looks into the matter, it 
eventually becomes a member of the 
Illinois Grain Corporation. Some of 
the members have even visited other 
member elevators and perhaps made 
trips to the terminal markets to meet 
the personnel of the Illinois Grain Cor- 
poration and of the Farmers National 
Grain Corporation and to study the or- 
ganizations at close range. 


If your elevator is a member, you 
should keep yourself informed that your 
faith in the organization will not only 
be sustained but strengthened. If your 
elevator is not a member, you as a di- 
rector are seeking information that will 
help you determine whether or not your 
Position is in the best interests of your 
co-operative. 


_ Illinois Grain Corporation has been 
in operation for more than a year, and 
during what might be termed an or- 
ganization period of twelve months, 
succeeded in originating for market 
nine million bushels of grain. If your 
elevator is one of those not supporting 
it with a membership, just what is the 
reason? 
stile 

Without attempting to enumerate a 
number of individual reasons, doesn’t 
it cover it pretty well to say: “Our 
board has just not got around to the 
place where they felt it was the thing 
to do?” Further enlightenment on the 
question will probably reveal that the 
directors talked it over several months 
ago and have not again given it fur- 
ther serious consideration. 


The Illinois Grain Corporation is an 
effort on the part of the farmer him- 
self to render more efficient his system 
of marketing. Certainly no industry 
should be criticized for endeavoring to 
conduct its business more efficiently. 
Roger W. Babson, the well known 
financial adviser and business forecaster, 
said recently: 


“The keynote to future prosperity is 
improvement in distribution methods. 
Distributors must cut ‘costs and pass 
along to the consumers the saving al- 
ready achieved in production. Progress 
in production has far outstripped prog- 
ress in distribution. Our distribution 
system because of its high cost, is still 
the bottle neck which prevents the free 
flow of mass production which gets to 
the consumers. This business must at- 
tract that great potential market among 
the lower income classes to provide an 
adequate outlet for its huge producing 
capacity and to do this it must reduce 
costs. Authorities estimate that the 
avoidable waste in distribution is be- 
tween $8,000,000,000 and $10,000,- 
000,000 a year.” 


After all, success in farming is de- 
termined by a number of factors of 
which marketing is one. If in local 
co-operative marketing it is a good 
thing for individuals to join together, 
then in going beyond the local unit it 
should be a profitable thing for co- 
operatives themselves to join hands. 


Uncle Ab says, no matter what eco- 
nomists may tell you, supply always 
equals demand. 


PROPHECY DIDN’T COME 
TRUE 


—_—— 


A PROPHECY made 30 years ago 
was scheduled to mature this 
year, but all signs indicate that the 
prophecy just won’t come true. 

At the turn of the century Sir Wil- 
liam Crookes, eminent British scien- 
tist, predicted that unless yields per 
acre were increased, the world would 
have a shortage of wheat by 1931, 
even if all the potentially available 
wheat land were put in use. 

Sir William noticed that wheat 
production in the United States had 
increased rapidly after the Civil War. 
Finally the expansion halted, and ex- 
ports began to decline. Prices stopped 
falling, and began to rise. The 
world’s wheat area, Sir William 
thought, could be increased by only 
about 100 million acres. 

If Sir William were alive today he 
would see his prophecy lying in 
ruins. It has been battered, Doctor 
Stine of the Bureau of Agricultural 
Economics points out, by the contri- 
butions of science to wheat produc- 
tion, by the introduction of power 
machinery, and by the utilization of 
lands hitherto thought useful only 
for grazing. ; 

Thirty years ago the average wheat 
yield of the world, so far as statis- 
tics are available, was 12.7 bushels 
per acre. In the last seven years it. 
has averaged 14.1 bushels per acre, 
an increase of 1.4 bushels. On last 
year’s wheat area, outside of Russia, 
this increased yield on 320 million 
acres makes a difference of nearly 
half a billion bushels, or approxi- 
mately 13 per cent of the world’s 
total production. 


Charge Trade Board 


With Discrimination 


Refusal of Membership on Chicago 
Market in Disregard of Law 
Alleged in Complaint Filed 


A charge of discrimination by the 
Chicago Board of Trade against the 
Farmers National Grain Corporation, 
which, if sustained, places the grain ex- 
change liable to a Federal order closing 
it under the Grain Futures Act, has 
been filed by the corporation with the 
commission of three cabinet members 
created by the act to hear such dis- 
putes, according to information made 
available April 15 at the Department 
of Agriculture and the Federal Farm 
Board. 

The Board of Trade, it was explained, 
refused membership in the clearing 
house of the grain exchange to the 
Farmers National Grain Corporation on 
the ground that the corporation was 
not qualified. Rules of the exchange 
prohibit membership of corporations in 
the clearing house, it was stated, al- 
though the Grain Futures Act provides 
specifically that co-operative marketing 
associations shall be entitled to member- 
ship on the Board of Trade “and all 
privileges on” the Board, on terms re- 
quired of other members. The follow- 
ing additional information was pro- 
vided: 

The Farmers National formerly em- 
ployed the Updike Grain Co. to handle 
its clearing house transactions, but some 
months ago it decided to eliminate the 
commission charges involved in this 
procedure by acquiring the Updike 
company. Since the acquisition the 
Farmers National has done its clearing 
through its subsidiaries. 

Recently the Board of Trade decided 
to investigate the status of the Updike 
company, now a subsidiary of a cor- 
poration, the Farmers National. The 
Farmers National then applied for 
membership for itself on the clearing 
house. Its application was rejected. 

The Farmers National now has asked 
a hearing on this rejection, to be held 
before the commission composed of the 
Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary 
of Commerce, and the Attorney Gen- 
eral of the United States, as provided 
in the Grain Futures Act. 

The Grain Futures Act authorizes 
the Secretary of Agriculture to desig- 
nate any board of trade as a contract 
market under certain conditions, and 
only these contract markets may deal 
in futures. One of the conditions spe- 
cified by the act is as follows: 

“When the governing board thereof 
does not exclude from membership in, 
and all privileges on, such board of 

(Continued on page 14 col. 1) 


Page Fourteen 


THE I. A. A. RECORD ' 


May, 1932 


Nominations in Order 


A. F. B. F. Service Award 


Nominations are now in order for 
candidates for the American Farm Bu- 
reau Federation’s 1932 Award ‘‘For 
Distinguished Service to Organized 
Agriculture,” according to an an- 
nouncement from the Federation. 

The award is given in recognition of 
service which called for personal effort 
and sacrifice far beyond the ordinary 
demands of duty. It is agriculture’s 
highest recognition of individual devo- 
tion to the advancement and well be- 
ing of agriculture through organized 
effort. 

The winner is determined by a com- 
mittee of three who examine the records 
of candidates submitted by their back- 
ers. Announcement of the winner is 
always a highlight of the great annual 
national assembly of the Farm Bureau 
Federation which will be held this year 
in Chicago on December 5 to 7. 

In the past four years nine persons, 
including one farm woman, have re- 
ceived the honor, which is symbolized 
by a gold medal and a diploma. Nom- 
inations are welcomed from Farm Bu- 
reau workers and those in affliated ag- 
ricultural organizations, from the ex- 
tension service, from farm paper editors, 
and all others interested in the welfare 
of agriculture. The closing date for 
entries is October 15, 1932, at mid- 
night. Nominations should be sub- 
mitted to M. S. Winder, Secretady, 
American Farm Bureau Federation, 58 
East Washington St., Chicago, Ill. 


(Continued from page 13) 

trade, any duly authorized representa- 
tive of any lawfully formed and con- 
ducted co-operative association of pro- 
ducers having adequate financial re- 
sponsibility which is engaged in cash 
grain business, if such association has 
complied, and agrees to comply with 
such terms and conditions as are or may 
be imposed lawfully on other members 
of such board: 

“Provided, that no rule of a contract 
market shall forbid or be construed to 
forbid the return on a patronage basis 
by such co-operative association to its 
bona fide members of moneys collected 
in excess of the expense of conducting 
the business of such association.” 

This paragraph has been upheld in a 
previous adjudication by the Supreme 
Court of the United States. The sole 
penalty provided for violation of the 
terms of the act is suspension of ‘the 
designation of the offending board of 
trade as a contract market for a pe- 
riod not to exceed six months, or revo- 
cation of such designation. — United 
States Daily, April 16, 1932. 


Tomato Juice Popular 


* 


Americans who have become tomato- 
juice conscious in the last two or three 
years should bear in mind certain simple 
facts when purchasing this popular bev- 
erage, says J. W. Sale, of the Federal 
Food and Drug Administration. The 
production of tomato juice and a num- 
ber of so-called “‘cocktails” made from 
it has increased amazingly in the last 
year or two and now there are a score 
of firms offering these products for sale. 

Playing upon the fact that the Amer- 
ican consumer is greatly concerned 
about his vitamins, a few manufacturers 
have made absurd claims concerning the 
vitamin content of their tomato-juice 
product, says Mr. Sale. Statements such 
as “rich in vitamins” or ‘‘contains all 
the vitamins”’ are considered by Federal 
food officials as misleading and _ there- 
fore illegal under the law. 

Neither tomato juice nor tomato- 
juice cocktails contains all the vitamins. 
When making vitamin claims, the man- 
ufacturer, if he is to operate legally, 
must restrict his claims to those particu- 
lar vitamins which are actually present 
in significant amounts. Fresh, ripe to- 
matoes contain vitamins A, B and C, 
but the extent to which these vitamins 
are present in the juice depends upon 
the methods used in its preparation. 


A CONTRAST 


Fifty years ago women wore hoop skirts, 
bustles, petticoats, corsets, cotton stockinzs, 
high-buttoned shoes, frilled cotton underwear; 
they did the cleaning, washing, ironing, raised 
big families, went to church on Sunday and 
were too busy to be sick, 

Men wore whiskers, square hats, Ascot ties, 
red flannel underwear, big watches and chains, 
chopped wood for the stove, bathed once a week, 
drank 10-cent whiskey and 5-cent beer, rode 


bicycles, buggies and sleighs, went in for polli-. 


tics, worked twelve hours a day and lived to 
a ripe old age. 

Stores burned coal oil lamps, carried every- 
thing from a needle to a plow, trusted every- 
body, never took an inventory, placed orders 
for goods a year in advance and always made 
money. 


In 1932 


Women wear silk “or no” stockings, short 
skirts, no corsets, an ounce of underwear, have 
bobbed hair, smoke, paint and powder, drink 
cocktails, play bridge, drive cars, have pet 
dogs and go in for politics. 

Men have high blood pressure, wear no hats 
and little hair, shave their whiskers, play golf, 
bathe twice a day, drink poison, play the stock 
market, ride in airplanes, never go to bed the 
same day they get up, are misunderstood at 
home, work five hours a day, play ten and die 
young. 

Stores have electric lights, cash registers and 
elevators, but never have what the customer 
wants, trust nobody, take inventory daily, never 
buy in advance, have overhead, mark up, mark 
down, quota, budget, advertising, stock control, 
annual and semi-annual, end of month; reports 
and audits, dollar day, Founder’s Day, rummage 
day and economy day sales, and never make any 
money.—Anonymous. 


Quality Milk Assn. 
Donates Milk to Poor 


Undernourished Babies to Get 40,- 
000 Quarts of Milk 


T HE Quality Milk Association, Farm 
Bureau organized milk marketing 
co-operative whose 800 members pro- 
duce 85 per cent of the milk sold at 
Rock Island, Davenport, Moline and 
East Moline, recently donated 40,000 
quarts of milk for undernourished ba- 
bies. This is said to be the largest gift 
ever received by charity organizations 
in the quad-cities. 

The resolution donating the milk fol- 
lows: 

*“Whereas, the board of directors of 
the Quality Milk Association has 
learned that a number of babies and 
children of pre-school age in the quad- 
city area are undernourished because 
such organizations as the Daily Times 
and Davenport Visiting Nurse Associa- 
tion do not have sufficient funds to 
carry on this work, 

*‘And whereas, there is an enormous 
surplus of milk being produced by the 
members of the Quality Milk Associa- 
tion who furnish the milk supply to 
the quad-cities, 

“And whereas, the Quality Milk As- 
sociation feels that no child should be 
deprived of_nature’s most perfect food 
because of present economic conditions. 
Therefore be it 

“Resolved, by the board of directors 
of the Quality Milk Association that 
40,000 quarts of milk be donated to 
these organiaztions in May and June to 
be distributed in any way they desire 
to the babies and children in the quad- 
cities. Be it further 

“Resolved, that each member of the 
Quality Milk Association be asked to 
contribute out of his surplus one quart 
out of every 100 pounds of milk pro- 
duced and sold in quad-cities.” 

A page-wide streamer and story an- 
nounced the gift in‘a recent issue of 
the Daily Times, Davenport, Iowa. 
Dealers agreed to deliver the milk free. 


Smith Named Member 
Of Conservation Board 


President Earl C. Smith was recently 
named as the farmer member of the 
board of directors of “More Game 
Birds in America, Inc.,” by Secretary 
of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde. 

This organization is devoted to the 
conservation of game and wild life, and 
supports the U. §. Department of Agri- 
culture in its efforts to protect birds 
and game recognized as friends of the 
farmer. The organization has _head- 
quarters in New York City. 


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—- 
OST of the nine districts in the 
Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball 
League held meetings within the past 
few weeks to work out schedules for 
the 1932 season, choose district dic- 
tators, and take up other problems pre- 
paratory to the opening of the season. 
The dates for the opening games of 
the different districts vary from May 
14 in the central part of the state to the 
latter part of May in the northern dis- 
tricts. 

District V, which includes Knox, 
Henry, Henderson and McDonough 
counties, will open its schedule on May 
21, it was decided at the recent district 
meeting in Galesburg. 

Representatives of the four counties 
agreed to follow the 1931 schedule ex- 
cept that the games be reversed and 
dates changed to comply with the 1932 
calender. 

W. <A. Stephenson of Henderson 
county was chosen as district dictator 
to succeed A. N. Skinner of Knox 
county, who declined to accept re- 
nomination on the ground that he is a 
member of the state arbitration com- 
mittee. 

It was decided that each county in 
the district submit the names of at 
least two umpires by May 1, and that 
if any county objects to any of the 
suggested umpires such objections must 
be made to the district dictator who 
will approve the umpires. 

The following representatives were 
present at the meeting: Melvin Bar- 
clay and E. W. Runkle, McDonough 
county; W. A. Stephenson and E. D. 
Walker, Henderson county; J. R. 
Johnson and John Weston, Henry 
county; T. J. Sullivan, F. G. Camp- 
bell and A. N. Skinner, Knox county. 

Thirty-five to 40 players with their 
managers and farm advisers from Grun- 
dy, LaSalle, Kendall and Will counties 
gathered at Morris the night of April 
20 for the Division III meeting. George 
Thiem, secretary, of the league, spoke 
optimistically of prospects for a good 
baseball season, reported results of the 
recent meeting of the league executive 
committee, and explained playing rules 
adopted at the spring meeting in Bloom- 
ington. He stated that the arbitration 
committee expected to interpret the 
eligibility rule in line with decisions 
made last year. 

Because ofthe lateness of the season, 
it was cid to defer the opening 


game in Division III until Saturday, 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


May 28. Each team will play other 
teams in the division at least two games, 
and the team having the highest stand- 
ing on August 13 will be declared di- 
visional champion. Farm Adviser Ray 
Watson of Grundy county presided. 

The offer of Lowe & Campbell to 
provide 12 gold baseball watch charms 
for the divisional champion, provided 
each team orders three dozen baseballs, 
was accepted. 

Boone county will have a team in 
Division II this year along with Lake, 
DeKalb and Kane counties, Mr. Thiem 
announced. He said there was also a 
possibility of McHenry and DuPage 
entering teams in this district. A meet- 
ing to organize the district and work 
out the schedule was held at Elgin 
April 28. 

A meeting of Division VII, including 
Cass, Menard, Morgan and Greene coun- 
ties, was held at Jacksonville April 18. 
By general agreement Sangamon will 
play in Division VIII with Macoupin, 
Montgomery and Christian. Mercer 
county is considering entering a team 
in the western division and Winnebago 
may organize a team to play in Divi- 
sion I, 

The league is already assured of 34 
teams, which is the same number com- 
peting last year. At least three addi- 
tional counties are considering organiz- 
ing teams. 


Outlook Hopeful for 
Future Wool Market 


The extremely low stocks of wool 
garments on the shelves of distributors 
of wool and woolen fabrics furnish the 
one refreshing inspiration for hope of an 
improved market, according to the Nat- 
tional Wool Marketing Corporation. 

“Growers who may still be waiting 
for final returns on their 1931 ship- 
ments will realize,” says the co-opera- 
tive, ‘‘that any effort to force wool on 
mills that are closed or partly employed 
would only result in further price dem- 
oralization, over-advances and great in- 
jury to the coming clip. 

“The National is committed to a 
policy of orderly marketing, having for 
its first consideration protection of 
reasonable price levels. Its future 
strength and usefulness will depend on 
the willingness of the growers to sup- 
port the continuation of this policy. 

“If the establishment of still lower 
prices seems possible, the manufacturer 
will not go ahead with production 
schedules even if substantial orders are 
in prospect.” 


If we didn’t have to work, what 
a lot of bother it would be to think 
up something to do with our time. 


Page Fifteen 


Wool Growers Receive 


Final Checks for '31 Clip 


Cite Benefits of Co-operative Mar- 
keting in District Meetings 


Ce covering final returns on 
1931 wool marketed through the 
National Wool Marketing Corporation 
have been mailed to Illinois growers, ac- 
cording to Ray E. Miller, director of 
livestock marketing. 

The average net price received by 
members of the Illinois pool for their 
1931 clip was approximately 13 to 14 
cents, some receiving as much as 15 
cents net for grades in most demand. 

Miller, who recently attended a series 
of wool marketing meetings, reports 
that a large number of counties have 
already completed preliminary steps in 
organizing county pools for the 1932 
clip. Among these are Knox, Henry, 
Mercer, LaSalle, Livingston, Adams, 
Morgan and Shelby counties. 

C. M. Allen, field representative of 
the national co-operative, accompanied 
Miller on the tour, explaining the oper- 
ations of the National Pool Marketing 
Corporation and the advantages of its 
methods of marketing wool. 

A specific example of the benefits the 
pool offers is found in the handling of 
burry and seedy wool last year. Instead 
of selling for the low price which this 
grade of wool brings, the National 
Wool Marketing Corporation had it 
scoured and made into tops. As a re- 
sult this wool netted the growers only 
slightly less than the better grades. In 
this way growers received additional 
profits, which ordinarily go to proces- 
sors and dealers. This is only one of the 
advantages of co-operative marketing. 

During the week April 18 to 22 wool 
marketing conferences held at Ottawa, 
Galesburg, Quincy, Springfield, Fair- 
field, and Champaign were attended by 
representatives from about forty Illinois 
counties. 


District Conference at 
Jacksonville April 18 


Approximately 150 Farm Bureau 
leaders from nine counties in the 20th 
J. A. A. district met at Jacksonville 
April 18 for an all-day district con- 


ference. President Earl C. Smith and 
Secretary George E. Metzger were 
present. 


Metzger addressed the morning ses- 
sion at the Fox-Majestic theater on 
membership problems. After luncheon 
at the Peacock Inn, President Smith 
spoke on problems and policies of the 
organization. Charles S. Black, director 
of the I. A. A. from the 20th district, 
presided. 


Page Sixteen 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


May, 1932 


The Illinois Livestock Marketing As- 
sociation is a state-wide organization of 
livestock producers set up to provide 
marketing service under co-operative 
control for farmers not now having 
that service because of the breaking up 
of co-operative shipping associations; 
to serve as a connecting link between 
livestock farmers, Producer agencies 
and the National Livestock Marketing 
Association; and to correlate livestock 
marketing at country points with the 
operations of Producer agencies on ter- 
minal markets. 


The five units of the Illinois Live- 
stock Marketing Association operating 
in Iroquois, McDonough, Macon, Shel- 
by, and Vermilion counties handled 
during the month of March 1,909,225 
pounds of livestock or 109 standard 
cars. 


The McDonough Livestock Market- 
ing Association at the close of its first 
month’s business showed that it had 
handled nearly 600,000 pounds of live- 
stock. This was made up of 2,388 head 
of all species. Hogs numbered 2,331 
head, cattle 24 head, and calves 33 head. 

Direct sales as well as sales on sev- 
eral terminal markets were used in dis- 
posing of the Association’s livestock. 
H. W. Trautmann, manager, says that 
the livestock producers have supported 
the marketing association substantially, 
but he points out the advantages of 
having a still larger volume. This co- 
operative is affiliated with the Illinois 
Livestock Marketing Association. 


Livestock Values Cut 
Three Billions in Two Years 


Values of livestock on farms have 
been marked down nearly three billion 
dollars in the last two years, according 
to the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 


Although the total number of flocks 


and herds increased slightly during 1931 
the value dropped from $4,450,000,000 | 


to $3,196,000,000 in the twelve 
months. This decline of a billion and 
a quarter dollars was due wholly to 
price decline, the statement said. 


The average value of a farm horse 
is now $63, the average value of a dairy 
cow is now $40 as compared with $57 
a year ago, and the average hog brought 
$6.14 on January 1 this year compared 
with $11.36 a year ago. 


Fewer Cattle on Feed 


In the eleven Corn Belt states there 
were about 16 per cent less cattle on 
feed for market on April 1 this year 
than on the same date last year, ac- 
cording to the U. S. Dept. of Agr. 

In the area east of the Mississippi 
river there was an increase of 12 per 
cent, but in the area west of the river 
there was a decrease of 21 per cent. 
The number on feed in Illinois was 110 
per cent of the number a year ago. 


A. F. B. F. Offers Prizes 
To Contest Winners 


OR the third consecutive year a 

contest is being conducted by the 
American Farm Bureau Federation to 
determine the county with the largest 
paid-up membership on next Novem- 
ber 30. The prize is a huge silver 
loving cup, which becomes the per- 
manent possession of any county Farm 
Bureau winning it three times. San 
Joaquin County Farm Bureau, Stock- 
ton, California, holds the cup at pres- 
ent on a record of 2,301 paid-up mem- 
bers on Nov. 30, 1931. They also 
won it the year previous. 

A new contest this year is to deter- 
mine the county Farm Bureau which 
has the largest number of farmers in 
its membership in proportion to the 
total farm population of the county 
based on 1930 census figures. 

Another contest is open to determine 
the nation’s champion volunteer mem- 
bership solicitor. The award is a free 
trip to the American Farm Bureau con- 
vention in Chicago next Dec. 5 to 7. 
Last year F. E. Pease, member of Ni- 
agara County Farm Bureau in New 
York state, captured this honor with 
160 members to his credit. 

Two national Farm Bureau quartet 
contests are to be conducted this year, 
one for male voices and one for mixed 
voices. Cash awards and medals ac- 
company this contest. 

For the women a national public 
speaking contest is to be conducted. 
Then finally for Farm Bureau publicity 
folks a contest has been instituted for 
which three silver loving cups will be 
the prizes. Complete details of the con- 
test have been sent to county agents 
and to state Farm Bureau officials. 


Membership in the Illinois Live- 
stock Marketing Association at 
Galesburg, Bloomington and Paris, 
where organization work is being 
done preparatory to the establish- 
ment of co-operative concentration 
points, now numbers 1,064, 807 
and 486 respectively. 


Asparagus Growers Plan 
Tour of Chicago Market 


RGANIZED asparagus growers 

from Madison and Jersey counties 
are planning a tour of the South Water 
market in Chicago some time in the 
near future, accord- 
ing to Harry W. 
Day, director of 
fruit and vegetable 
marketing for the 
Illinois Agricultural 
Association. The 
date has not been 
definitely set, but 
will be around the 
middle of May, Day 
said. 

The trip is being 
sponsored by the Il- 
linois Fruit Growers Exchange, the 
Farm Bureaus, and the C. & A. railroad 
to familiarize the producers with mer- 
chandising on the terminal. market. 
Asparagus growers in southwestern II- 
linois have for the past few years been 
marketing their commodity through 
the Godfrey Asparagus Growers Asso- 
ciation, a co-operativee affiliated with 
the Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange. 


Day became director of fruit and 
vegetable marketing for the I. A. A. 
on March 1, succeeding A. B. Leeper, 
who resigned to become general mana- 
ger of the National Fruit and Vegetable 
Exchange. He also succeeded Leeper as 
manager of the Illinois Fruit Growers 
Exchange. Up to March 1 Day was 
production manager of the exchange 
and had been in charge of track sales 
for some time. 


H. W. Day 


Demand for storage apples recently 
has enabled the Illinois Fruit Growers 
Exchange to dispose of all its storage 
holdings, according to Harry W. Day, 
manager. This is considerably earlier 
than the final holdings are usually sold. 


New co-operative produce marketing 
associations are now being organized at 
Louisville, Clay county; Marion, Wil- 
liamson county; Wyoming, Stark coun- 
ty; and Anna, Union county. A new 
unit was started in Lawrence county 
at Sumner recently. 


Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co.: 


I wish to thank you for your prompt and 
courteous treatment in your settlement of my 
loss by fire covered by policy No. 4163. 

Just four days after I mailed you the proof 
of loss I received the check covering the 
amount. 

As I am a charter member of the company, 
I am certainly proud of the way the business 
is being taken care of. Please accept my thanks. 


H. H. Wess, 
Franklin County, III. 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


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“Page Seventeen 


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$200,000,000 More for Wheat 


How the Marketing Act Has Narrowed the Chicago-Liverpool Price Spread 
and Helped the American Farmer 


HICAGO May wheat on April 1, 
1931, closed at 841% cents a bu- 
shel. On the same date Liverpool May 
wheat was 61% cents or 227% cents a 
bushel under the Chicago price. Win- 
nipeg May closed at 571% cents or 27 
cents under Chicago; and Buenos Aires 
461% cents a bushel or 15 cents under 
the Liverpool price and 37% cents a 
bushel under Chicago. 

Had the Federal Farm Board not been 
supporting the market at that time it 
seems certain that wheat prices at Chi- 
cago would have been depressed to the 
world parity and reached approximately 
the same price level as obtained at 
Buenos Aires. 

Another illustration will show fur- 
ther the benefits of the Agricultural 
Marketing Act during the latter part 
of 1930 and early 1931, when active 
stabilization operations were under way. 


Stabilization Begins 


The Liverpool May wheat future came 
on the board on September 19, 1930, the 
closing price on that date being 965% 
cents against a closing price for the 
Chicago May of 915%, or 5 cents un- 
der Liverpool. About three months 
later, or on January 2, 1931, after sta- 
bilization operations had become fully 
effective, the May future at Liverpool 
closed at 613% cents against 81 cents 
at Chicago. 

The Chicago price at this time was 
19% cents higher than the Liverpool 
price as compared with 5 cents lower 
on September 19. During this period 
the Liverpool price declined 3514 cents 
against a decline of only 10% cents at 
Chicago. 

During the five months immediately 
following, while stabilization operations 
were in full effect, the average closing 
price of the May future at Chicago was 


83% cents and at Liverpool 63% cents, 
or an average spread of 20% cents in 
favor of prices at Chicago, whereas 
under normal conditions the Liverpool 
price should have been 15 cents a bu- 
shel higher than the Chicago price. 
Stabilization operations, as previous- 
ly indicated, resulted in the price of 
wheat at Chicago being maintained at 
an average of 35 cents a bushel above 
world parity, and the American grow- 
ers who marketed their wheat during 
that period benefited accordingly. 


Liverpool Higher 


Using the average of all active future prices, 
Chicago futures were 217% cents below Liver- 
pool for the year 1921. In 1922 Chicago fu- 
tures averaged 2314 cents under Liverpool. 
These were two years of abnormally high trans- 
portation costs, especially in ocean freights. 
During the six years 1923 to 1928, Chicago fu- 
tures averaged 1614 cents, 15% cents, 161% 
cents, 1634 cents, 18 cents, and 144% cents 
respectively, below the average prices of Liver- 
pool futures, making a six year average spread 
of 16% cents. 


The Federal Farm Board was formally con- 
stituted July 15, 1929. On August 28, 1929, 
the policy of making loans to co-operatives was 
inaugurated. The average Chicago-Liverpool 
spread for the last four months of the year 
was 5.3 cents a bushel against 14.3 cents for 
the corresponding period in 1928 and 18.3 
cents for the corresponding period in 1927. 

In 1930 the effect of the Agricultural Mar- 
keting Act in keeping wheat prices at Chicago 
above world parity was still more pronounced. 
The average spread between Chicago and Liver- 
pool futures prices for the year 1930 was 55% 
cents, making the average price at Chicago 
approximately 10 cents a bushel above world 
parity. 


Spread Narrows 


In March, 1930, the Stabilization Corpora- 
tion, under the direction of the Federal Farm 
Board began operations in support of higher 
prices through the purchasing of futures. This 
was followed by a very distinct narrowing of 
the spread between Chicago and Liverpool. A 
comparison of the prices of May futures alone 
shows Chicago 11 cents a bushel below Liver- 
pool for the week ending January 10, 1930, 


whereas the average for the week ending March 
1 shows the price of Chicago May futures 1 
cent a bushel over the Liverpool. 

These stabilization operations were suspended 
with the expiration of the May future with 
the result that the average all-future spread 
widened to 125% cents a bushel for July. Be- 
ginning about the middle of August, 1930, 
support was again given to the market and 
the spread narrowed to an average of 2% 
cents for October. 

In December, Chicago was 8% cents above 
Liverpool. For January, 1931, the average of 
all Chicago futures was 16 cents over the aver- 
age of Liverpool futures. From the first of 
January to the end of May the weekly price 
differences ranged from 16 to 23 cents in 
favor of Chicago. The average difference for 
the five months was 20% cents. Taking 1931 
as a whole Chicago averaged 114 cents a bushel 
over Liverpool, whereas under normal condi- 
tions Liverpool prices would have averaged 
about 15 cents a bushel over Chicago, making 
the Chicago price for the year average about 
16% cents a bushel over world parity. 


Here Are More Facts 


Summarizing the wheat price situation dur- 
ing the past three years, it is found that: in 
1929 prices for Chicago futures averaged 7 
cents under Liverpool, and in 1930 the Chicago 
prices averaged only 55 cents under Liver- 
pool. In 1931 Chicago prices averaged 1% 


“cents a bushel over Liverpool. Combining the 


figures for these three years, an average price 
spread of 3.7 cents a bushel is shown. With 
normal transportation charges and other costs 
prevailing during that period, the spread should 
have been about 15 cents. In other words, for 
the past three years prices at Chicago average 
more than 11,cents a bushel above world parity. 

The wheat crop of the United States in 1929 
was 809 million bushels, in 1930 it was 858 
million bushels, and in 1931 it was 892 million 
bushels. At 11 cents a bushel this figures to a 
total of $282,930,000 for the three years. After 
making allowances for the amount used for 
seed and feed there is still left an increased 
return of above $200,000,000 to American 
wheat growers. 


The fact that the Agricultural Marketing 
Act has been the major factor in maintaining 
domestic wheat prices well above world parity 
with increased returns to growers completes 
only a part of the picture. The support given 
to wheat prices in turn helped the price of 
other grains and livestock, especially hogs. 


Page Eighteen 


Auto Insurance and Farm 


Supply Co.'s 5 Years Old 


Tremendous Growth in Volume 
Business Revealed at Close 
of 1931 


April 1 was the fifth birthday of two 
business enterprises of the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association. 

The Illinois Agricultural Mutual In- 
surance Company, organized to provide 
Farm Bureau members automobile in- 
surance at cost, issued its first policies 
April 1, 1927. The Illinois Farm Sup- 
ply Company, state purchasing agency 
for Farm Bureau co-operative oil com- 
panies, began operations on the same 
day. 

The first automobile insurance policy 
went to Josiah J. Bait of Bond county. 
More than 3,000 Farm Bureau members 
had already sent in applications for in- 
surance before the company started is- 
suing policies. By the end of the first 
eight months the company had received 
6,326 applications. Assets of the com- 
pany at the end of this period -were 
$125,000. 

The Farm Supply Company started 
business with ten county companies al- 
ready organized and a number of others 
in process of organization. By the end 
of seven months the company had 14 
member companies and had handled for 
them a total of 3,500,000 gallons of 
petroleum products. 

In contrast with its record at the 
end of the first year, the I. A. Mutual 
now has assets approximately $850,000 
and has received to date more than 
33,000 applications for insurance. 

The Farm Supply Company in 1931 
handled for its 47 member companies 
more than 33,000,000 gallons of pe- 
troleum products. Total capital stock 
in these county and district companies 
aggregates more than $900,000. Farm 
Bureau members received more than 
$500,000 in patronage dividends on 
last year’s business. 

Two other associated companies are 
older than these. They are the Illinois 
Agricultural Auditing Association, or- 
ganized in 1924, and the Farmers Mu- 
tual Reinsurance Company, which 
started operations in 1925. 


Plans for the expansion of the Shelby- 
Effingham Service Company have just 
been announced by Manager C. H. 
Becker. The program includes the 
building of a bulk storage plant in Ef- 
fingham or nearby, and the addition of 
three new truck salesmen to the num- 
ber already operating. More than $6,400 
in preferred stock was subscribed for 
recently guaranteeing the success of the 
extension program. . 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


JOHN REUTTER OF IROQUOIS 
CO. AND HIS THREE BOYS 


“John Reutter and his boys have three cars and 
two trucks insured in the Illinois Agricultural 
Mutual,’’ writes Carl Irving, special agent, ‘‘and 
all are policyholders in Country Life. 

“Mr. Reutter is a progressive Farm Bureau 
member and takes an active interest in the wel- 
fare of his community. He is a real booster 
for the Farm Bureau.”’ 

The three boys left to right are: Orville, 
who drives an Iroquois County Service truck; 
Earl, who handles a milk route from Cissna Park 
to Kankakee; and Paul, who helps his father 
manage the farm and 20 fine Holstein cows. 


March Leads in Farm 
Fires, Records Show 


There are more farm fires in March 
than in any other month of the year. 
March also leads all the other months 
in the amount of fire insurance written 
on farm property. This information 
was gleaned from the records of the 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Company. 

The fact that the company received 
applications for more fire insurance 
during the first week of March this 
year than in any week since it started 
business in 1925 indicates that hard 
times on the farm are not causing 
farmers to give up their fire protection. 

The large number of fires at this time 
of the year is attributed to seasonal con- 
ditions many of which might be avoided 
by more caution on the part of the 
farmer. One cause of March fires is the 
fact that chimneys become stuffed with 
soot near the end of winter, creating 
an additional hazard. 


Auto Insurance Company 
Has Earned Premium Gain 


The quarterly financial report of the 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance 
Company shows an earned premium of 
$89,961.31 as compared with $79,248 
during the first quarter of 1931, ac- 
cording to A. E. Richardson, manager. 

This is evidence that Illinois farmers 
have not seen fit to go without auto- 
mobile insurance. Approximately 1,000 
new policies were taken out by Farm 
Bureau members during the first quar- 
ter. During the week April 18 to 23, 
99 new policies were written. 

There seems to be quite a bit of trad- 
ing going on in the state, judging from 
the large number of transfers coming 
in now, Richardson said, 


May, 1932 


Country Life Increases 
Assets 25% in Two Mos. 


Policyholders Achieve Outstanding 
Record in Paying 1932 Premiums 


A? per cent increase in assets dur- 
ing the first two months of 1932 
is one of the newest records established 
by Country Life Insurance Company. 

Assets of the company grew from 
$1,201,000 on December 31, 1931, to 
$1,494,000 on February 29, according 
to Manager L. A. Williams. Country 
Life established an unusual record last 
year when its assets were doubled in 
twelve months. 

This rapid growth of assets is partly 
accounted for by the fact that the 
company has experienced a very low 
mortality rate. Williams reported that 
on children between the ages 0-15 the 
mortality was only 11 per cent of the 
expected. 

Another factor that Williams pointed 
out is that the entire assets of the com- 
pany are invested in the highest type 
of bonds available. Country Life has 
not had a single investment default in 
principal or in interest. 

“The confidence of the policyholders 
in Country Life is proved by the low 
lapse rate,” Williams said. “Out of the 
$11,940,000 worth of insurance in 
force in 1929, on which the fourth 
premium was due in February this year, 
all but 1 per cent paid the premiums 
due. In other words, only $80,000 
worth of insurance lapsed out of nearly 
$12,000,000 in force in 1929.” 


V. Vaniman, director of insurance 
service for the I. A. A., says it costs 
money to hurt people and to get hurt 
in automobile accidents. If for no other 
reason, the Farm Bureau auto accident 
prevention campaigns are worthwhile as 
a money saver, he says. 


Marshall-Putnam members are making 
auto accident prevention a major proj- 
ect in 1932. Other counties are con- 
tinuing their safety work. Last year 
work done by the County Farm Bu- 
reaus in accident prevention is credited 
with reducing farm auto accidents con- 
siderably. An extensive drive is being 
planned to make the 1932 auto safety 
program the greatest the Farm Bureaus 
have ever put over. 


He also mentioned the fact that 
spring activity on the farm was caus- 
ing a considerably number of farmers 
to avail themselves of the employers’ 
liability insurance service, which costs 
Farm Bureau members only about 214 
cents a day per man employed. 


co™_» The c*#> 


“Tilinois Agricultural As Association 
RECORD 


Published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Association “ — So. Main St., 
Application for transfer of second class entry from Marshall 
ded Section 412, Act of Feb, 28, 1925, authorized Oct, 27, 1925. 


cultural Association "Record, 608 So. 


Number 6 


Dearborn 8t., 


Spencer, Ind. 
Tll., to Spencer, Ind., pending, 


Chicago, 


JUNE, 1932 


Editorial Offices, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill. 
Acceptance for mailing at special rates of postage pro- 
Address all communications for publication to Editorial Offices, Illinois Agri- 


Volume 10 


Drive For Lower Taxes 


I. A. A. And Farm Bureaus Direct State-Wide Campaign To Reduce Cost of Government 


STATE-WIDE campaign of 

study and investigation into 
expenditures of local governments 
where 80 to 90 per cent of the 
farmers’ tax money ,goes will be 
carried on throughout June by 
County Farm Bureaus supported 
by the Illinois Agricultural As- 
sociation. 


The movement will be assisted 
in a series of district conferences. 
Its object is to cut out unnec- 
essary public offices and services, 
promote reasonable reductions in 
cost of needed services, reduce 
and perhaps temporarily abolish 
certain levies on property, and so 
lower the farmers’ tax burden. 

Dates and places of District Tax 
Conferences were _ tentatively 
scheduled as follows: district 14, 
May 25, Aledo; district 15, June 2, 


Rushville; district 25, June 6, 
Murphysboro; district 24, June 
7, Carmi; district 23, June 8, 


Olney; district 19, June 9, Tus- 
cola; district 18, June 10, Dan- 
ville; district 20, June 20, Jack- 
sonville; district 22, June 21, Ed- 
wardsville: district 21, June 22, 
Springfield; district 16, June 23, 
Peoria; district 13, June 24, Ore- 
gon; district 12, June 27, Syca- 
more; district 
17, June 28, 
Bloomington; 
district 11, June 
29, Geneva. 
Farm Bureau 
tax committees, 
which already 
have played a 
leading part in 
bringing about 
substantial cuts 
in assessed valu- 
ations in nearly 
all counties will 
be armed with 
facts. They will 
first check up 


the amount of bonded or other in- 
debtedness in each taxing dis- 
trict, get the levy on property in 
each district, scrutinize annual 
expenditures, and secure balances 
in treasuries. 

Money paid into the county 
general fund by the different fee 
offices such as the county clerk, 
circuit clerk, treasurer and sheriff, 
and amounts received by each 


‘school district from the state com- 


mon school fund will be studied. 

Stop the waste, if any, of public 
funds. Reduce or omit tax levies 
where there is a substantial bal- 
ance in public treasuries. Post- 
pone unnecessary equipment ex- 
penditures. Drive for. reasonable 
salary reductions. These will be 
the principal aims of the tax com- 
mittees. 

What can be done to lower taxes 
by consolidating small taxing dis- 
tricts into larger units? What sav- 
ings can be effected by combining 
country school districts and pay- 
ing local taxpayers to transport 
children to school? Are poor re- 
lief funds being administered 
wisely? Is the county poor farm 
self-supporting and if not what 
can be done to make it so? These 


THESE MEN TOOK AN ACTIVE PART IN ORGANIZING THE I. A, 
BASIS IN THE MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN OF 1919-1920. HOW MANY CAN YOU IDENTIFY! 


are some of the questions the 
Farm Bureau committees will dig 
into. 


The fIllinois Agricultural As- 
sociation will concentrate its 
efforts on a study of state ex- 
penditures and laws determining 
county and local expenditures. 
The driving force behind the 
movement is the knowledge that 
in the past 10 years the tax bill 
on all Dllinois farm property has 
decreased little or none in spite 
of heavy loss of values and re- 
peated cuts in farm land valua- 
tions, whereas farm income in the 
same period dropped nearly 70 
per cent. 

The state-wide campaign to get 
the facts on which to build a sen- 
sible, constructive program of 
further tax reduction is a con- 
tinuation of the tax studies in- 
itiated by the I. A. A. more than 
10 years ago, the results of which 
are familiar to informed Farm 
Bureau members. 

A slash of one and one-half 
million dollars from Illinois farm 
taxes this year in comparison with 
the 1931 tax bill is the latest ac- 
complishment largely brought 
about by efforts of county Farm 
Bureau tax com- 
mittees and the 
I. A. A. 

The 1932 taxes 
on Illinois farm 
lands and im- 
provements are 
at least. $6,500,- 
000 less than 
they would have 
been had the 
high valuations 
of 1923 not been 
reduced. 

This means an 
average saving 
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Page Eighteen 


Auto Insurance and Farm 


Supply Co.'s 5 Years Old 


Tremendous Growth in Volume 
Business Revealed at Close 
of 1931 


April 1 was the fifth birthday of two 
business enterprises of the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association. 

The Illinois Agricultural Mutual In- 
surance Company, organized to provide 
Farm Bureau members automobile in- 
surance at cost, issued its first policies 
April 1, 1927. The Illinois Farm Sup- 
ply Company, state purchasing agency 
for Farm Bureau co-operative oil com- 
panies, began operations on the same 
day. 

The first automobile insurance policy 
went to Josiah J. Bait of Bond county. 
More than 3,000 Farm Bureau members 
had already sent in applications for in- 
surance before the company started is- 
suing policies. By the end of the first 
eight months the company had received 
6,326 applications. Assets of the com- 
pany at the end of this period were 
$125,000. 

The Farm Supply Company started 
business with ten county companies al- 
ready organized and a number of others 
in process of organization. By the end 
of seven months the company had 14 
member companies and had handled for 
them a total of 3,500,000 gallons of 
petroleum products. ~ 

In contrast with its record at the 
end of the first year, the I. A. Mutual 
now has assets approximately $850,000 
and has received to date more than 
33,000 applications for insurance. 

The Farm Supply Company in 1931 
handled for its 47 member companies 
more than 33,000,000 gallons of pe- 
troleum products. Total capital stock 
in these county and district companies 
aggregates more than $900,000. Farm 
Bureau members received more than 
$500,000 in patronage dividends on 
last year’s business. 

Two other associated companies ‘are 
older than these. They are the Illinois 
Agricultural Auditing Association, or- 
ganized in 1924, and the Farmers Mu- 
tual Reinsurance Company, which 
started operations in 1925. 


Plans for the expansion of the Shelby- 
Effingham Service Company have just 
been announced by Manager C. H. 
Becker. The program includes the 
building of a bulk storage plant in Ef- 
fingham or nearby, and the addition of 
three new truck salesmen to the num- 
ber already operating. More than $6,400 
in preferred stock was subscribed for 
recently guaranteeing the success of the 
extension program. 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


JOHN REUTTER OF IROQUOIS 
CO. AND HIS THREE BOYS 


“John Reutter and his boys have three cars and 
two trucks insured in the Illinois Agricultural 
Mutual,” writes Carl Irving, special agent, “and 
all are policyholders in Country Life. 

“Mr. Reutter is a progressive Farm Bureau 
member and takes an active interest in the wel- 
fare of his community. He is a real booster 
for the Farm Bureau,” 

The three boys left to right are: Orville, 
who drives an Iroquois County Service truck; 
Earl, who handles a milk route from Cissna Park 
to Kankakee; and Paul, who helps his father 
manage the. farm and 20 fine Holstein cows. 


March Leads in Farm 
Fires, Records Show 


There are more farm fires in March 
than in any other month of the year. 
March also leads all the other months 
in the amount of fire insurance written 
on farm property. This information 
was gleaned from the records of the 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Company. 

The fact that the company received 
applications for more fire insurance 
during the first week of March this 
year than in any week since it started 
business in 1925 indicates that hard 
times on the farm are not causing 
farmers to give up their fire protection. 

The large number of fires at this time 
of the year is attributed to seasonal con- 
ditions many of which might be avoided 
by more caution on the part of the 
farmer. One cause of March fires is the 
fact that chimneys become stuffed with 
soot near the end of winter, creating 
an additional hazard. 


Auto Insurance Company 
Has Earned Premium Gain 


The quarterly financial report of the 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance 
Company shows an earned premium of 
$89,961.31 as compared with $79,248 
during the first quarter of 1931, ac- 
cording to A. E. Richardson, manager. 

This is evidence that Illinois farmers 
have not seen fit to go without auto- 
mobile insurance. Approximately 1,000 
new policies were taken out by Farm 
Bureau members during the first quar- 
ter. During the week April 18 to 23, 
99 new policies were written. 

There seems to be quite a bit of trad- 
ing going on in the state, judging from 
the large number of transfers coming 
in now, Richardson said. 


May, 1932 


Country Life Increases 
- Assets 25% in Two Mos. 


Policyholders Achieve Outstanding 
Record in Paying 1932 Premiums 


A” per cent increase in assets dur- 
ing the first two months of 1932 
is one of the newest records established 
by Country Life Insurance Company. 

Assets of the company grew from 
$1,201,000 on December 31, 1931, to 
$1,494,000 on February 29, according 
to Manager L. A. Williams. Country 
Life established an unusual record last 
year when its assets were doubled in 
twelve months. - 

This rapid growth of assets is partly 
accounted for by the fact that the 
company has experienced a very low 
mortality rate. Williams reported that 


on children between the ages 0-15 the © 
mortality was only 11 per cent of the 


expected. ' 

Another factor that Williams pointed 
out is that the entire assets of the com- 
pany are invested in the highest type 
of bonds available. Country Life has 
not had a single investment default in 
principal or in interest. 

“The confidence of the policyholders 
in Country Life is proved by the low 
lapse rate,” Williams said. “Out of the 
$11,940,000 worth of insurance in 
force in 1929, on which the fourth 
premium was due in February this year, 
all but 1 per cent paid the premiums 
due. In other words, only $80,000 
worth of insurance lapsed out of nearly 
$12,000,000 in force in 1929.” 


V. Vaniman, director of insurance 
service for the I. A. A., says it costs 
money to hurt people and to get hurt 
in automobile accidents. If for no other 
reason, the Farm Bureau auto accident 
prevention campaigns are worthwhile as 
a money saver, he says. 


Marshall-Putnam members are making 
auto accident prevention a major proj- 
ect in 1932. Other counties are con- 
tinuing their safety work. Last year 
work done by the County Farm Bu- 
reaus in accident prevention is credited 
with reducing farm auto accidents con- 
siderably. An extensive drive is being 
planned to make the 1932 auto safety 
program the greatest the Farm Bureaus 
have ever put over. 


He also mentioned the fact that 
spring activity on the farm was caus- 
ing a considerably number of farmers 
to avail themselves of the employers’ 
liability insurance service, which costs 
Farm Bureau members only about 2Y%4 
cents a day per man employed. 


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Volume 10 


Drive For Lower Taxes 


I. A. A. And Farm Bureaus Direct State-Wide Campaign To Reduce Cost of Government 


STATE-WIDE campaign of 
A study and investigation into 
expenditures of local governments 
where 80 to 90 per cent of the 
farmers’ tax money goes will be 
carried on throughout June by 
County Farm Bureaus supported 
by the Illinois Agricultural As- 
sociation. 

The movement will be assisted 
in a series of district conferences. 
Its object is to cut out unnec- 
essary public offices and services, 
promote reasonable reductions in 
cost of needed services, reduce 
and perhaps temporarily abolish 
certain levies on property, and so 
lower the farmers’ tax burden. 

Dates and places of District Tax 
Conferences were _ tentatively 
scheduled as follows: district 14, 
May 25, Aledo; district 15, June 2, 
Rushville; district 25, June 6, 
Murphysboro; district 24, June 
7, Carmi; district 23, June 8, 
Olney; district 19, June 9, Tus- 
cola; district 18, June 10, Dan- 
ville; district 20, June 20, Jack- 
sonville; district 22, June 21, Ed- 
wardsville: district 21, June 22, 
Springfield; district 16, June 23, 
Peoria; district 13, June 24, Ore- 
gon; district 12, June 27, Syca- 
more; district 
17, June 28, 
Bloomington; 
district 11, June 
29, Geneva. 

Farm Bureau 
tax committees, 
which already 
have played a 
leading part in 
bringing about 
substantial cuts 
in assessed valu- 
ations in nearly 
all counties will 


facts. They will 
first check up 


the amount of bonded or other in- 
debtedness in each taxing dis- 
trict, get the levy on property in 
each district, scrutinize annual 
expenditures, and secure balances 
in treasuries. 

Money paid into the county 
general fund by the different fee 
offices such as the county clerk, 
circuit clerk, treasurer and sheriff, 
and amounts received by each 


‘school district from the state com- 


mon school fund will be studied. 

Stop the waste, if any, of public 
funds. Reduce or omit tax levies 
where there is a substantial bal- 
ance in public treasuries. Post- 
pone unnecessary equipment ex- 
penditures. Drive for reasonable 
Salary reductions. These will be 
the principal aims of the tax com- 
mittees. 

What can be done to lower taxes 
by consolidating small taxing dis- 
tricts into larger units? What sav- 
ings can be effected by combining 
country school districts and pay- 
ing local taxpayers to transport 
children to school? Are poor re- 
lief funds being administered 
wisely? Is the county poor farm 
self-supporting and if not what 
can be done to make it so? These 


THESE MEN TOOK AN ACTIVE PART IN ORGANIZING THE I. A, 
BASIS IN THE MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN OF 1919-1920. HOW MANY CAN YOU IDENTIFY? 


are some of the questions the 
Farm Bureau committees will dig 
into. 

The Illinois Agricultural As- 
sociation will concentrate its 
efforts on a study of state ex- 
penditures and laws determining 
county and local expenditures. 
The driving force behind the 
movement is the knowledge that 
in the past 10 years the tax bill 
on all Illinois farm property has 
decreased little or none in spite 
of heavy loss of values and re- 
peated cuts in farm land valua- 
tions, whereas farm income in the 
same period dropped nearly 170 
per cent. 

The state-wide campaign to get 
the facts on which to build a sen- 
sible, constructive program of 
further tax reduction is a con- 
tinuation of the tax studies in- 
itiated by the I. A. A. more than 
10 years ago, the results of which 
are familiar to informed Farm 
Bureau members. 

A slash of. one and one-half 
million dollars from Illinois farm 
taxes this year in comparison with 
the 1931 tax bill is the latest ac- 
complishment largely brought 
about by efforts of county Farm 
Bureau tax com- 
mittees and the 
I. A. A. 

The 1932 taxes 
on Illinois farm 
lands and im- 
provements are 
at least $6,500,- 
000 less than 
they would have 
been had the 
high valuations 
of 1923 not been 
reduced. 

This means an 
average saving 
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Page Four 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


June, 1932 


of nearly $33 in taxes on each of 
the 214,000 farms of three acres 
or more in the state. In a number 
of counties the actual reduction 
amounts to this much from 1931 
to 1932 alone. 

Assessed valuations of Illinois 
farm lands and improvements 
were cut more than $286,000,000 
in 1931, it is shown in a survey 
recently completed. This means 
that the total assessed values of 
these farm properties, excluding 
Cook county, are now approxi- 
mately 15.9 per cent below 1930 


values. 
All Except Six 


Every county in the state except 
six received reductions in lands 
during the past year ranging from 
less than one per cent to as much 
as 37 per cent. In some instances 
land was assessed as much as $20 
to $25 an acre lower. The greatest 
decrease in dollars per acre was 
in Ford county, where $25.16 was 
cut from the old valuations. Re- 
ductions in McLean and Stark 
counties were $19.84 and $19.83 
respectively. 

Hamilton county reduced land 
values a greater per cent than any 
other county with a slash of 37.5 
per cent. Fayette county cut valu- 
ations 32.59 per cent and Clay 
‘county came next with 30.24 per 
cent. Fourteen counties had’ re- 
ductions of at least 25 per cent. 

Valuations of farm lands and 
improvements in McLean county 
were actually reduced more than 
$14,500,000, or from $59,581,775 to 
$44,883,425. In Iroquois county the 
cut totaled approximately $11,- 
739,000. 

Even with these drastic reduc- 
tions in assessed valuations, they 
are still out of line with present 
selling values. Figures just re- 
leased by the Bureau of the Cen- 
sus show that during the decade 
from 1920 to 1930 farm property 
valuations declined 26.5 per cent. 
Since 1930 there have been. more 
rapid declines in values. 

Piatt county offers a typical 
example of the influence of the 
Farm Bureau tax reduction pro- 
gram. “Taxpayers in Piatt county 
are paying $107,714 less taxes this 
year than a year ago because of 
lower assessments secured largely 


through efforts of the Farm:Bu- - 
reau,” according to M. F. Walsh,.: 
a member of the 1931 Farm Bu- 


reau tax committee. 


“It was not easy to secure lower 
assessments,” stated Mr. Walsh, 
“and very likely we did not get as 
great a reduction as many would 
have liked or as should be secured 
in the future. We would have 
greater effectiveness if we could 
state that we represent almost all 
the farmers in the county rather 
than a little less than half of 
them. 


Also Lower Taxes 


“We not only got lower valua- 
tions but also lower taxes. The 
decrease of $2,808,510 in valua- 
tions spread over the 275,557 acres 
of farm lands in the county means 
an average decrease of $10.19 an 
acre and an actual reduction of 
taxes on farm lands averaging 
31% cents an-.acre. 

“It goes without saying that the 
tenant as well as the owner will 
benefit from this tax relief of 
about $50 per quarter section. 
Credit must be given to local tax- 
ing units that helped work out 
such sensible and constructive 
movements.” 

Thirty-six farms picked at ran- 
dom from various townships in 
Rock Island county show how the 
fight waged by the Farm Bureau 
last December succeeded in low- 
ering farm taxes. All the farms 
examined except one paid less 
taxes for 1931 than for 1930. 

The only farm among these 36 
to show an increase in taxes is 


one of 185 acres which paid $2.88 
more than last year. The others 
ranged from $3 to $80 less. One 
90-acre farm saved $20 on its 1931 
tax bill; a 320-acre farm saved 
$40; a 250-acre farm, $14.61; anda 
160-acre farm, $80.88. 


From $2 to $72 


In a similar test in McDonough 
county, every one of 36 farms 
showed a reduction in taxes. The 
actual dollars-and-cents savings 
ranged from $2 to $72 per farm. 
In 10 cases out of the 36 the re- 
duction was more than $50 per 
farm. This saving is in the most 
part accounted for by the 25 per 
cent ‘reduction in assessed valua- 
tions secured through the efforts 
of the public relations committee 
of the McDonough County Farm 
Bureau. 

Sangamon county ‘is another 
example of the influence of the 
Farm Bureau in securing tax 
equalization. There the cut in 
valuations on farm lands and im- 
provements last year was 26.89 
per cent, a reduction of $18.88 per 
acre on the assessed valuation of 
lands. On a quarter section of 
land with a total tax rate of $3 
per $100 the saving amounts to 
more than $90. 

The following table lists the 
percentage reductions (or gains) 
in valuations of farm lands and 
improvements from 1930 to 1931: 


REDUCTIONS (OR INCREASES) IN ASSESSED VALUATIONS OF ILLINOIS 
LANDS AND IMPROVEMENTS, 1930-1931 


ee ib Percent- 
ze o age o age of 
County Change County Change County Change 
Adams ............ 18.26 Henderson ........ 13.97 Moultrie ......... 18.53 
Alexander ......... 13.27 Henry ............ 10.10. Ogte ... cei eee 18.76 
noon @ ibtwle raises ele ears 17.34 Iroquois .......... 26.78 Peoria ..........4. 10.45 
MONG! wc kiecehedee 15.40 Jackson .......... 18.60 <POETY bie cic sete 28.84 
Brown ............ 12.41. Jasper ............ 26.17 °) PUBtt. 0. wee wee 14.85 
Bureau ........... 13.82 Jefferson .......... 16.41 | PIB@ oo ee cee 19.04 
Calhoun .......... 24.53 Jersey ............ 4.34 Pope ......c...00. 14.78 
COIrroi) is ccc ce es 10.08 JoDaviess ........ 1.60 Pulaski ........... 12.97 
GOB iia gc acc pwns 18.04 Johnson .......... 13.09. Putnam ........... 22.02 
Champaign ....... 15.37 Kane ............. 6.82 Randolph ......... 10.75 
Christian ......... 14.98 Kankakee ........ 70.20 Richland ......... 13.40 
ye nd Sidi NaS aca neice 14.23 Kendall ........... 6.43 Rock Island ...... 5.24 
Sl ae oe ee 30.24 Knox ............ 40.003 Saline ............ 13.25 
CHnton” ......6 eee 10.47 Lake ............. 72:94 Sangamon ........26.89 
LOB oie hosec es eass 16.47 La Salle .......... 9.52 Schuyler .......... 23.02 
Crawford ....... :.27.76 Lawrence ......... 8.68 RE bie or Sissy 4 Shae beta 8.31 
Cumberland ....... 20.29 Lee ..... see e eee 17.04 Shelby ............ 20.67 
eKalb ........... 8.58 Livingston ........ 17.94; StAPK ccc ce cenens 27.20 
DeWitt ........... 17.20 Logan .-........46. 19.87 St. Clair .......... 15.74 
Douglas .......... 19.98 Macon ............ 16.17 Stephenson ....... +7.63 
DuPage ........... 15.39 Macoupin ......... 21.04 Tazewell .......... 16.79 
Waar ok ee 22.17 Madison .......... 5.80 MION: wee ew 4.34 
Edwards .......... 10.94 Marion ........... 22.13 Vermilion ......... 17.00 
Effingham ........ 29.53 Marshall .......... 25.60 Wabash .......... 25.02 
Fayette ........... 32.59 ARON eos vk e es 7.64 Warren ........... 19.25 
OPE ee eS eee bes 29.90 Massac .ii..s..... 11.01 Washington ...... 14.37 
Franklin .......... 29.07 McDonough ....... 20.90 wayne 17.30 
A ee 10.57 McHenry ......... BOS. wii, oe 14.20 
Gallatin .......... 15.98 McLean .......... 24.67 Be eens 8 eS / 
reene ........... 19.34. Menard ........... 3.76 Whiteside ........ 16.35 
Grundy............ 16.07 Mercer ..........: 19.67 Weve eee eee eee 19.26 
Hamilton ......... 37.50 Monroe ........... 0.24 Williamson ....... 9.68 
Hancock.......... 24.35 Montgomery ...... 23.47 Winnebago ....... 70.49 
Hardin ........... 11.15 Morgan ........... 17.06 Woodford ......... 11.92 
N. B. ¢ signs indicate increases in valuation. 


Pry 


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June, 1932 


was chosen dictator for District 
VI, Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball 
League, at the organization meet- 
ing held at Bloomington. This 
division includes McLean, Living- 
ston, Ford, and Logan counties. 


Most of the 36 teams in the 
Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball 
League went into action Saturday, 
May 21, when the ninth season of 
the league was officially opened in 
most of the nine districts. 


Although several of last year’s 
teams failed to enter the league 
this year, a number of new 
counties organized teams to take 
their places. Last year 34 teams 
were affiliated with the state or- 
ganization. 


Games within divisions will 
continue until about the middle 
of August. At that time winners 
in the nine districts will start the 
elimination contests for the state 
finals. 


The general practice is for each 
team to play every other team in 
its district. at least two games 
during the season. District win- 
ners are then chosen on their 
percentage of games won and 
lost. 


Ford county defeated McLean in the 
opener of the season May 21 by a score 
of 16 to 2. McLean was held to six hits, 
three of which were doubles by Builta. 
Read, the Ford county hurler, struck out 
six batters. The game was played at 
Purdueville in Ford county. Weinzeirl. 
and Caton pitched for McLean. 


Winnebago took JoDaviess for a 
cleaning 14 to 5 in their initial game. 
Winnebago is a newcomer in the league 
this year. The heavy hitting of the 
Winnebago team (19 hits) was an out- 
standing feature. JoDaviess got nine 
hits. Batteries for Winnebago were 
Rhyner and Walch; for JoDaviess C. 
Ware, Bonjour, and F. Kupersmith. 


Honefinger of Christian county turned 
in the best pitching record for the day 
when he let Montgomery county down 
with only 4 hits, resulting in a 13 to 1 
victory for Christian at Hillsboro. E. 
Ray and Claykamp pitched for Mont- 
gomery. Hawkins and Unser were the 
heavy hitters for Christian with three 
hits each. 


Carroll county defeated Lee 12 to 
6 in an evenly matched hitting contest 
in which 7 errors by Lee played an im- 
portant part. Carroll got 12 hits and 
Lee 10. Vivian, pitching for Lee, turned 
in eight strikeouts. E, Rahn and Levan 
hurled for Carroll. 


DeKalb hitters swamped Kane county 
with 22 hits to win 20 to 15. C. John- 
son, pitching for Kane, was unable to 
halt the DeKalb nine in spite of ten 
strikeouts. .DeKalb- used elson, x 
Challand, and McKenzie on the mound. 
The three pitchers together struck out 
17 batters. Bartelt, Kane county short 
stop, hit a homerun; Gramley, Kane 
third baseman, got a double and two 


G. L. Clarke of McLean county | 


THE L A. A. RECORD 


Page Five 


At the annual spring meeting of Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball League, Bloom- 
ington, where plans for the 1932 season were worked out. 


triples; Decker of DeKalb got 
doubles and two singles. 

Lake county. defeated Boone in a 10-6 
game at Belvidere. Lake got ten hits 
to Boone’s seven. Dowell itched for 
Lake; Camp for Boone. allace and 
Paddock of Lake and McEachran of 
Boone hit homeruns. The game was 
tied 2-2 at the opening of the eighth 
inning. Lake then ran in six runs and 
two more in the ninth to make Boone’s 
four-run rally in the ninth ineffective. 


McDonough county wound up on the 
long end of a 6 to 5 score in a see-saw 
game with Knox county at Macomb. 
Knox went into the sixth inning with a 
4 to 1 lead, but two errors, a hit batter, 
and a single gave McDonough two runs, 
and in the seventh two walks, an error, 
a single and a double scored three runs 
to give them the lead. Ross Sornberger 
did the pitching for Knox and Arntzen 
was on the mound for McDonough, Sorn- 
berger turned in three singles and a 
homerun to complete his day’s work. 


Henderson county’s six errors and the 
164 hits produced by the Henry county 
nine resulted in a 13 to 4 victory for 
the latter in a game at Carman. Henry 
played errorless baseball behind Van- 
dersnick and Robson, who allowed nine 
hits. Anderson and Samuelson of Henrv 
produced homeruns. Pogue, 
and Chandler pitched for Henderson. 


three 


Commission Men Trying 
To Ditch Co-op Marketing 


Agr. Marketing Act Working 
Too Well To Suit Them, 
Kirkpatrick Says 


RIVATE operators in farm 

products, who helped get the 
Agricultural Marketing Act en- 
acted, are today trying to ditch 
the whole program of co-operative 
marketing because they now see 
that it is succeeding in spite of the 
limitations of the Act, Donald 
Kirkpatrick, legal counsel for the 
Illinois Agricultural Association, 
declared before 600 farmers and 
business men at Decatur May 3. 


“The law is not working to the 
full satisfaction of the farmer,” 
he said, ‘‘but it is working so well 
that those who. originally were for 
it because they thought it would- 
n’t work, are now using every 
effort to get rid of co-operative 
marketing.” 

Kirkpatrick explained that the 
group especially interested in the 
repeal of the marketing act. was 


Leinbach,,. 


made up principally of grain and 
livestock commission men and 
was organized as the Federation 
of American Business Men. 


“This group does not attack co- 
operative marketing directly,” he 
said. “It attempts to cover up its 
activities by blaming the Agri- 
cultural Act and the government 
in general. They use every means 
to deceive farmers as to the actual 
results that are being accom- 
plished by co-operative market- 
ing. 

“Co-operative marketing tends 
to stabilize prices which is just 
what the speculative grain buyer 
does not want. He wants the 
prices ta bob up and down. 


“The Agricultural Marketing 
Act was not what farmers asked 
for through their organizations. 
The Farm Bureau leaders, how- 
ever, agreed to use the legislation 
and try to make it work, with the 
understanding that if it was found 
incomplete amendments would be 
asked to make it effective. 


“This is the position of the 
Farm Bureau today. It is not 
asking that the act be repealed, 
but that it be amended with the 
addition of some devices by which 
surplus may be controlled.” 


R An attorney named Hensley 
.from Decatur, and Fred Cum- 
mings of Mazon, formerly an or- 
ganizer for the Farm Bureau, en- 
gaged Mr. Kirkpatrick in friendly 
debate at the close of the meet- 
ing. Hensley and Cummings are 
trying to get a new organization 
started known as the Farmers 
Protective Association. 


It was generally agreed that 
farmers wouldn’t get anywhere by 
dividing their forces among new 
organizations. Kirkpatrick pointed 
to the record of the Farm Bureau 
and invited non-members to join 
and lend their influence for the 
good of the industry. 


Page Siz 


Jim Stone Replies To 
Grain Trade Criticisms 


Charges Grain Gamblers Trying 
To Get Stabilization Wheat Be- 
cause It’s Going Higher 


James C. Stone, chairman of 


the Federal Farm Board, bowled > 


over spokesmen for the grain 
trade who have been criticizing 
the methods of the Grain Stabili- 
zation Corporation in disposing of 
its wheat holdings, in a recent 
statement. 

He charged that “grain gam- 
blers” running true to form are 
trying to get hold of the stabil- 
ization corporation’s grain at bar- 
gain prices because the outlook 
is for higher wheat prices. . He 
challenged the grain trade to ex- 
plain how it is that wheat has 
been held from 5 to 15 cents a 
bushel above the world market, 
whereas before the stabilization 
operations the American price 
ranged considerably below the 
world price. 

“Newspaper reports of state- 
ments of Mr. Peter B. Carey, 
president of the Chicago Board of 
Trade, in regard to methods of 
disposal of the stocks of the Grain 
Stabilization Corporation, indicate 
an attitude towards liquidation of 
these stocks strictly in conformity 
with the long established view- 
point of board of trade members,” 
said Mr. Stone. 

“They look upon themselves as 
middlemen, entitled by custom to 
take a heavy toll from American 
wheat producers for so-called 
services, which consist chiefly in 
the pocketing by themselves of 
the largest possible share of the 
consumer’s dollar. Every sugges- 
tion so far made in the present 
depressed situation to this board 
for their assistance has contained 
as its chief element personal profit 
to those tendering aid either by 
buying at prices ridiculously be- 
low the market or for com- 
missions on huge volume. 


Calls Liquidation Orderly 


“Liquidation of the stocks of 
the Grain Stabilization Corpora- 
tion under the plan announced on 
June 30, 1931, has proceeded in 
such a manner that American 
wheat prices have been main- 
tained at substantially 5 to 15 
cents a bushel higher than world 
market price parity in the face of 
the most trying marketing condi- 
tions. known to any living man. 
Let the grain gambling critics ex- 


THE IL. A. A. RECORD 


plain to the public how and why 
this happened. 

“The crop outlook today leads 
qualified observers to conclude 
that brighter days are in prospect 
for our wheat producers. Winter 
wheat reports indicate low pro- 
duction. Spring areas do not 
promise excess supplies. No won- 
der the _ speculatively inclined 
seek wheat stocks on the bargain 
counter. The Grain Stabilization 
Corporation has none to offer on 
that basis. 


Predicts Upward Swing 


“Wheat is the only great major 

commodity which for the last five 
months has shown a definite up- 
ward tendency. Its influence un- 
der the present favorable statis- 
tical position may well lead other 
commodities to higher ground. 
That opportunity will not be 
risked in the hands of people in a 
group representing those who 
have grown rich from the profits 
gained by market manipulation. 
The recent disclosures as to the 
operations of brother speculators 
in stocks do not encourage the 
placing of great power in such 
hands. The orderly method of dis- 
tributing as demand arises will be 
continued. 
'-“The public should not be fooled 
by such attacks on the farm board 
as those of Mr. Carey. Their pur- 
pose is not to help in the present 
situation but to prevent the 
farmer organizing his business so 
that he, in a measure, can control 
the method under which his prod- 
ucts are sold.” 


Packers Shall Not 


Enter Grocery Business 


The Supreme Court of the 
United States recently denied the 
meat packers the right to pack 
and distribute other food prod- 
-ducts. The decision upheld the 
packers’ consent decree of 1921. 

“Size and aggressions induced 
the fear in 1920 that the defend- 
ants (the packers), if permitted 
to deal in groceries, would drive 
their rivals to the wall. Size and 
past aggressions leave the fear 
unmoved today,” the court stated 
in its majority opinion, written by 
Mr. Justice Cardozo. The packers 
contended that there no longer is 
need for any restraint against 
their handling groceries at whole- 
sale and that this prohibition is 
oppressive and unjust. 

A dissenting opinion by Mr. 
Justice Butler was concurred in by 


June, 1932 


Mr. Justice Van Devanter. Chief 
Justice Hughes and Mr. Justices 
Sutherland and Stone did not 
participate in the case, having en- 
gaged in prior proceedings. 


Pres. Smith In Washington 
Working For Legislation 


Seek Congressional Action On 
Measures To Raise Farm 
Prices 


As we go to press President Earl 
C. Smith is in Washington with 
other Farm Bureau officials to 
urge the passage of emergency 
crop surplus control legislation, 
and other measures designed to 
raise farm commodity prices. 

“T expect to stay on the job un- 
til something effective is done to 
raise the price of farm products,” 
he said before his departure. “The 
terrific decline in the price of 
farm products has wiped out the 


farmer’s debt-paying ability and - 


buying power. In my judgment 
the wheels in the factories will 
not start turning until Congress 
acts to restore farm prices to a 
reasonable level. Farmers are in 
the market for almost everything. 
They have no money to buy. It’s 
time our industrial, financial and 
political leaders came to a full 
realization of the fundamentals 
of this problem. 


Pleaded in Vain 


“Farmers have pleaded in vain 
for nearly ten years for effective 
surplus control legislation. They 
have been given half loaves long 
enough. We are approaching the 
end of our rope. Until this issue is 
met and met squarely industry as 
well as agriculture cannot hope 
for substantial improvement. 

“There must be more concerted 
effort and determination at Wash- 
ington than has yet been appar- 
ent. Some leaders have suggested 
that the farmer will be taken care 
of at the national political con- 
ventions. We believe that Congress 
can and should do something be- 
fore it adjourns.” 


Before House Committee 


The senate agricultural com- 
mittee approved the measure 
authorizing the Farm Board to 
use the equalization fee, export 
debenture, or crop allotment plan 
at its discretion in raising the 
domestic price on farm products. 
The bill at this writing lies in the 
house committee on agriculture 
where sentiment is divided for 
and against it. 


June, 1932 


Six Cities Invite |. A. A. 
For '33 Annual Convention 


Competition Narrowed After Vote 
to Peoria, Decatur, Danville 


IX Illinois cities including 

Peoria, Danville, Decatur, 
Springfield, Moline, and Joliet 
asked for the next annual con- 
vention of the Illinois Agricultural 
Association to be held January 
25, 26, 27, 1933. The invitations 
were extended at the May meet- 
ing of the I. A. A. board of di- 
rectors by representatives of 
County Farm Bureaus and cham- 
bers of commerce from Peoria, 
Vermilion, Macon, Sangamon, 
Rock Island, and Will counties. 

Delegations from the various 
counties were led by Albert Hayes, 
president, Peoria County Farm 
Bureau; Mike Finn, Peoria As- 
sociation of Commerce; Farm Ad- 
viser Otis Kercher of Vermilion 
county and Assistant Secretary 
Gage of the Danville Chamber of 
Commerce; M. C. Hamilton, secre- 
tary and E. H. Walworth, farm ad- 
viser of the Macon County Farm 
Bureau; C. C. Koller, Springfield 
Chamber of Commerce; B. H. 
Bollman, president, Farm Adviser 
John Spencer, Edgar Walther, di- 
rector, Wm. H. Moody of the Rock 
Island County Farm Bureau and 
Secretary Darland of the Moline 
Chamber of Commerce; and 
James Bell, manager convention 
bureau, Joliet Chamber of Com- 
merce. 

Mr. Finn stated that hotel rates 
at Peoria have come down and 150 
rooms have been added to the 
principal hotel; that facilities are 
available for handling a banquet 
for 2,000 people. 

Decatur offered its armory, the 
new Masonic Temple, and plenty 
of hotel facilities. Danville has an 
armory with improved acoustics 
to seat 1,800 people at the dinner 
table with a balcony for 1,500 
spectators. 

Moline offered its mammoth 
Field House to seat 2,000 people 
with room for 1,200 to 1,400 on the 
sides. Joliet called attention to 
its new hotel and offered the 
mammoth high school auditorium 
and gymnasium for the larger 
convention. Springfield based its 
claim for recognition on the serv- 
ice rendered at previous annual 
meetings. 

The board of directors narrowed 
the competition to Peoria, Dan- 
ville, and Decatur and appointed 
a committee to investigate facil- 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Seven 


UNEMPLOYED MEN TURN TO GARDENING 
The International Harvester Co. seeking to aid 4,500 former em- 
ployees of their factories in Chicago leased over 1,000 acres of land on the 
outskirts of the City, and furnished it with modern gardening machinery. 
Each man was given one-fourth of an acre with seeds and instructions 


for raising and storing vegetables. 


The men will be forbidden to sell their crops. 


Transportation in 


busses will be furnished to and from the plots and the gardens will be 


constantly guarded against thieves. 


ities in each city and report at the 
June meeting of the board. 


Expect Decision Soon 


On Chicago Milk Price 


R. Clyde L. King of the Whar- 
ton School of Commerce, 
Philadelphia, serving as milk price 
arbitrator at Chicago, is expected 
to make a decision shortly as to 
whether the present distribution 
of the 11 cents per quart price be- 
between the producers and distrib- 
utors shall stand. 

The 11 cent price went into 
effect on May 10 following a de- 
cision by Dr. King when he took 
under advisement the question of 
the price of milk to the farmers. 
He asked for time to study the 
effect on the market of the. one 
cent change on quarts. 

Said Dr. King, “I have grave 
doubts whether the dealers can 


live under the small margin left’ 


them. Market factors must also 
be considered. This change from 
12 to 11 cent milk passes on to the 
consumer under present farm 
prices more than the dealers saved 
under the recent wage agree- 
ment.” 

The present base price at Chi- 
cago is $2.01 per cwt. for 3.5 per 
cent milk f. o. b. country. Farmers 
already have taken two cuts 
amounting to more than 30 per 
cent, the Pure Milk Association 
pointed out, whereas organized 
labor took a cut of only 10 per 
cent, 


An effort to get milk wagon 
drivers to take a cut of $50 mini- 
mum per week to $40 per week was 
rejected. The milk wagon drivers’ 
union compromised by taking $45 
per week. The dealers did not 
press the point apparently but 
asked farmers to take an ad- 
ditional cut to $1.75 per cwt. The 
organized producers refused and 
so Dr. King was called in to arbi- 
trate the matter. 


Seek To Protect People 
Going Back To The Land 
REQUEST that Congress di- 
A rect the Secretary of Agri- 
culture to provide the services of 
his department in guiding and 
safeguarding both public and pri- 
vate movements to put the un- 
employed back on the land, was 
made by the National Advisory 
and Legislative Committee on 
Land Use during a recent meet- 
ing at Washington. President Earl 
C. Smith sat as a member of the 
committee during its deliber- 
ations. 

Because of the personal trag- 
edies and the group distress that 
have resulted from wholesale, in- 
discriminate back - to - the - land 
movements in the past, the com- 
mittee reported, the guidance of 
some well-equipped national 
agency is necessary. Business, 
civic, and relief agencies have 
been active recently in advancing 
plans by which the unemployed 
can be put on the land. 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


June, 1932 


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RECORD 


To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was or- 
ganized, namely, to promote, protect and represent the busi- 
ness, economic, political, and educational interests of the 
farmers of Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 


GEORGE THIEM, Editor 
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Regulated Production For Agriculture 


ERHAPS the biggest news that has come out 

of Washington recently is the Supreme Court’s 
approval of the oil proration plan adopted by the 
State of Oklahoma. 

The Supreme Court in a unanimous opinion writ- 
ten by Mr. Justice Butler, said relative to the argu- 
ment that the Champlin Refining Company “has a 
vested right to drill wells upon the lands covered 
by its leases and to take all the natural flow of oil 
and gas therefrom so long as it does so without 
stated physical waste, and devotes the production 
to commercial uses,” that “if plaintiff should take 
all the flow of its wells, there would inevitably re- 
sult great physical waste even if its entire produc- 
tion should be devoted to useful purposes.” 

While granting that every person has the right 
to drill wells on his own land and take from the 
pools below all the gas and oil he may be able to re- 
duce to possession including that coming from land 
belonging to others, the court said: “The right to 
take and thus acquire ownership is subject to the 


reasonable exertion of power of the state to prevent 
unnecessary loss, destruction or waste.” ° 

This far-reaching decision has great future sig- 
nificance to agriculture. It sets a precedent for a 
land policy to control crop production “in the inter- 
est of soil conservation.” Informed people know 
that the real reason for the Oklahoma statute was 
to control the surplus production and so improve 
prices. Conservation of oil was a factor but this 
argument was merely used as an excuse to compel 
the consuming public to pay more for petroleum 
products. At any rate the proration plan is helping 
to put the oil business back on a profitable basis. 
One large company announced that it had made a 
profit in April—the first in more than a year. 

There is as much if not more reason for control- 
ling crop production and conserving soil fertility as 
there is for limiting oil production, A far greater 
percentage of our population is dependent upon ag- 
riculture than on the oil business. Soil fertility, 
moreover, is not inexhaustible. Plant food is now 


- being taken from the soil and wasted in the produc- 


tion of crops for which there is no profitable 
market. 

Government repidation of crop production and 
soil conservation may be the solution to the farm 
problem. Oklahoma has pointed the way. 


Mr. Stone's Reply 


HAIRMAN “Jim” Stone has proved repeatedly 
his ability to handle critics of the Farm Board 
and its policies. 

Answering Peter Carey, the president of the Chi- 
cago Board of Trade who would have the Farm 
Board disband and turn over its wheat to “six Chi- 
cago grain traders who could dispose of it at a 
steadily advancing price,’ Mr. Stone said: 

“Reported statements of Mr. Carey indicate an 
attitude towards liquidation of these stocks strictly 
in conformity with the long established viewpoint 
of board of trade members.. 

“They look upon themselves as middlemen en- 
titled by custom to take a heavy toll from Amer- 
ican wheat producers for so-called services, which 
consist chiefly in the pocketing by themselves of 
the largest possible share of the consumer’s dollar. 
Every suggestion so far made to this board for 
their assistance has contained as its chief element 
personal profit to those tendering aid either by 
buying at prices ridiculously below the market or 
for commissions on huge volume. 

“The public should not be fooled by such attacks 
on the Farm Board as those of Mr. Carey. Their 
purpose is not to help in the present situation but 
to prevent the farmer organizing his business so 
that he, in a measure, can control the method under 
which his products are sold.” 

The public may be fooled by such statements but 
we are sure farmers are not. Grain trade attacks 
are making more friends for the Farm Board and 
co-operative marketing than they ever could hope 
to make without such aid. People are judged often- 
times by their enemies. The Farm Board has been 
fortunate in the selection of its enemies. 

Mr. Stone’s reply presented more fully on page 6 is sharp 
but refreshing and suited to the demagoguery and intem- 
perance of his critic’s reported statement. The Farm Board 
and some of the cooperative agencies it has sponsored may 
have made mistakes. Most young organizations do. But 
they are making progress that already is benefiting the 


man on the farm. And the enemies of organized agricul- 
ture know it. 


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June, 1932 


‘imately 210,000 farmers in 


THE LA. A. RECORD 


Page Nine 


in Whion There is Strength 


L=ss THAN ten per cent 
of the farmers of the 
United States are members 
of any co-operative organ- 
ization. There are approx- 


Clayton L. Patterson, editor and pub- 
lisher of the Brown County Press, Mt. 
Sterling, Ill., who wrote the accompany- 
ing editorial, served for fifteen years as parties, dominate the con- 
executive secretary of a trade association 
in Chicago before entering the news- 


fluence would be unlimited. 
They could elect or defeat 
presidents and legislators, 
make or destroy political 


trol of transportation and 


Illinois of which about 30 janer business. “I feel that I know some- istribution and fix the 


per cent are organization 
members. About 25 per cent 
of the farmers of Brown 
county are members of the 
county Farm Bureau. 

The farmer is not naturally gregarious. 
The very nature of his occupation tends to 
make him a more or less solitary individual, 
independent, inclined to depend upon his own 
efforts for success, rather than upon a united 
or co-operative activity. 

But this natural instinct has been changed 
to some extent in recent years, due to closer 
contact with his fellow-man, through the in- 
fluence of rural free delivery of mail, hard 
roads, the radio, the daily paper, the auto- 
mobile, and last but not least, the college 
trained agriculturists. The farmer today 
takes a far more active interest in the affairs 
of the community than formerly and his 
occupation no longer isolates him from social 
influences. 

We need only to compare the condition 
of the laborer today with that of fifty years 
ago to be convinced of the effectiveness of 
organization. There is no influence in gov- 
ernment, in business, in politics, in com- 
merce today as great as that of organized 
labor. Industries have been compelled to 
organize to maintain their position as_be- 
tween employer and employe, Bankers, 
manufacturers, musicians, government em- 
ployes, railroad men, sailors, all are organ- 
ized for their own protection and welfare 
and the promotion of the best interests of 
their industry or trade. 

Farmers, who are both producers and 
laborers, have been slow to realize the 
strength of organized effort, and because of 
lack of centralized and directed effort, have 
been the football of politicians and unwilling 
victims of both organized capital and labor. 

The number of farmers in the United 
States far exceeds that of any other single 
industry or organization. If farmers were 
organized to the same extent as are the 
manufacturers, bankers, merchants and 
workers of the country, their power and in- 


thing of the value of organized effort,” prices of food and clothing 
he writes in granting permission to re- 
print his discerning statement. 


as well as machinery and 
power. Organize the agri- 
cultural industry of the 
country and the farmer 
would be the czar of trade and commerce, 
no longer its victim. 

A Brown county farmer, no matter what 
his economic situation may be, can in one year 
save ,considerably more than the cost of a 
year’s membership in his county Farm Bu- 
reau through rebates on the purchase of gas 
and oil; through increased prices for his 
dairy products; through higher market 
prices for his livestock and through less 
costly insurance on farm property, life and 
automobile. A year’s Farm Bureau member- 
ship pays for itself and enables the agricul- 
tural industry of county, state and nation 
to function as a whole for the advancement 
of: individual interests. 

There has never been a time in the history 
of our country when every farmer in this 
country should more firmly stand shoulder to 
shoulder with his fellow husbandmen for the 
upbuilding of the industry of which he is a 
part and upon which he depends for a liveli- 
hood and he can best play his part in the 
game of existence between agriculture, 
manufacturing and commerce by becoming a 
member of his county Farm Bureau, co- 
operating with state and national organiza- 
tions, working for the recognition of agri- 
culture as a basic industry of the country. 

The Illinois Agricultural ‘association has 
demonstrated its ability, its strength, its 
wisdom and its economy of operation with 
but thirty per cent of the farmers of Illinois 
on its membership roster. The county Farm 
Bureaus are the county branch of the state 
organization. When one hundred per cent of 
the Illinois farmers join their county Farm 
Bureau, the farmers of Illinois will play an 
important part in the affairs of the state 
and their membership fee will be returned 
to them a hundred-fold. 


“So it’s all for-each and each for all. 
United, we stand; divided, we fall.” 


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Page Ten 


Higher Farm Prices And 


Stabilized Dollar, Aim | 


A. F. B. F. President Defines 
Object of Farm Bureau 


66 HE ultimate object of the 

DP asn Bureau program is 
the restoration of farm purchas- 
ing power. The price the farmer 
receives for his commodity de- 
termines that purchasing power. 
Farm Bureau effort is directed at 
this phase of the program, and it 
is a matter 
directly con- 
cerned with 
what you re- 
ceive for your 
farm produce 
that takes me 
to Washing- 
ton next 
week,” Ed- 
ward A. O’- 
Neal, presi- 
dent of the 
American Farm Bureau, said in a 
recent radio address to farm 
people. 

“Today the price level not only 
of farm commodities but of all 
goods of industry and commerce 
is below the 1921-’29 level. This 
deflation in price level is crushing 
farmers, merchants, and trans- 
portation agencies, and has 
caused such a decline in property 
values as to seriously impair the 
stability of our banking and in- 
surance institutions and endanger 
the welfare of the general public. 

“The chief cause is the failure 
of our monetary system to prop- 
erly function as a free medium of 
exchange. There is not sufficient 
actual money in circulation to 
meet every-day demands. In a 
time of great plenty people are 
starving and hungry because of 
the breakdown of distribution and 
the distribution instrument that 
has failed has been our monetary 
system.” 


Epw. A. O’NEAL 


A committee of the American 
Farm Bureau Federation has been 
at work for some time studying 
federal government expenditures 
and services with the idea of 
recommending ways and means of 
reducing costs and securing 
greater efficiency. 


The board of directors of the 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co. 
recently voted to offer a five per 
cent discount for hail insurance 
policy-holders paying their assess- 
ments promptly on October 1. 


THE LA. A. RECORD 


More than a million dollars in 
patronage refunds and savings. 
That’s what co-operative buying 
and insurance companies set up 
by the Farm Bureau in Illinois re- 
turned to members last year. More 
than the dues paid in to the or- 
ganization, county, state, and na- 
tional, by a wide margin. So have 
organized farmers helped them- 
selves, kept more of their money 
in the country where it is sorely 
needed. 


If the earnings, savings and re- 
funds of co-operative marketing 
associations organized by the 
Farm Bureau were included, this 
figure would easily be doubled. 
But because marketing associa- 
tions usually pay their “dividends” 
by compelling private buyers to 
offer better prices for farm prod- 
ucts, the value of the co-opera- 
tive selling agency is less appre- 
ciated and:frequently denied by 
people who are either intellec- 
tually dishonest, thoughtless, or 
uninformed. 


The patronage refund is a use- 
ful device to teach doubting 


Thomases the value of organized ° 


buying and selling. The refund 
check is tangible evidence that it 
pays to co-operate. Unfortunately 
it isn’t possible for all co-op- 
eratives because of their nature 
to offer such proof of their ability 
to narrow the spread between 
producer and consumer prices. 
Thus they must rely on the in- 
telligence of their members for 
continued support and patronage. 


Fluid milk producers in the Chi- 
cago milk shed have learned 
something about the need for and 
value of organization in maintain- 
ing a fair price for milk. They 
know there is a constant economic 
struggle underway between the 
producer, the distributor, and the 
organized worker for the con- 
sumer’s dollar, with the battle in- 
variably going against the’ one 
offering the least resistance. Chi- 
cago’s organized milk wagon 
drivers know it pays to be or- 
ganized. Asked to take a 20% cut 
in pay, they said “NO! we’ll take 
only a 10% cut, or Fight.” So milk 
wagon drivers continue to get a 
minimum of $45 per week plus 
commissions, more than $190 a 
month when many a man out of 


' June, 1932 


work would be glad to take the 


job for much less. The law of 
supply and demand works—some- 
times. 


Unorganized, unprotected peo- 
ple always pay dearly in this or- 
ganized world for their failure to 
defend themselves. They are 
pushed around by organized 
groups bent on taking care of 
their own interests first.—E. G. T. 


July 4th Picnics To 
Honor George Washington 


Farm Bureau Asked To Organize 
Agriculture For Ceremony 


LLINOIS county Farm Bureaus 
planning Fourth of July pic- 
nics as their part in the national 
celebration of George Washing- 
ton’s 200th anniversary, are asked 
to keep a-record of attendance 
and publicity material for the 
George Washington Bicentennial 
Commission, states the American 
Farm Bureau Federation. 

Numerous requests have been 
made by Illinois Farm Bureau 
folks for program material and 
picnic suggestions available at the 
A. F. B. F. offices in Chicago, it is 
learned, so that Illinois will prob- 
ably be well represented in the bi- 
centennial celebration. 

National officers are requesting 
that all Farm Bureaus keep them 
in touch with the development of 
local plans. This is an Official 
celebration, sanctioned by Con- 
gress. The American Farm Bureau 
Federation has been officially as- 
signed the task of organizing ag- 
riculture’s contribution to the 
ceremonies. 


Indiana Farm Bureau 
Fights High Taxes 


Court action will be instituted 
in a test case or cases where farm 


land appraisals seem to be un-. 


reasonably high, announces the 
Indiana Farm Bureau. The direc- 
tors voted in favor of such action 
at a recent meeting in Indianap- 
olis. 

The farm organization has 
taken the stand this year that 
farm land appraisals for assess- 
ment purposes shall not exceed 
true cash values. Taxing author- 
ities in many instances have as- 
sessed farms at higher values, 
probably with the view of meet- 
ing anticipated budgets of nor- 
mal government expenses without 
materially raising the tax rates. 


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THE 1L,A. A. RECORD Page Eleven 


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ureau Members Only 


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Higher Farm Prices And 
Stabilized Dollar, Aim 


A. F. B. F. President Defines 
Object of Farm Bureau 


66 HE ultimate object of the 

A hee Bureau program is 
the restoration of farm purchas- 
ing power. The price the farmer 
receives for his commodity de- 
termines that purchasing power. 
Farm Bureau effort is directed at 
this phase of the program, and it 
is a matter 
directly con- 
cerned with 
what you re- 
ceive for your 
farm produce 
that takes me 
to Washing- 
ton next 
week,” Ed- 
ward A. O’- 
Neal, presi- 
dent of the 
American Farm Bureau, said in a 
recent radio address to farm 
people. 

“Today the price level not only 
of farm commodities but of all 
goods of industry and commerce 
is below the 1921-’29 level. This 
deflation in price level is crushing 
farmers, merchants, and trans- 
portation agencies, and has 
caused such a decline in property 
values as to seriously impair the 
stability of our banking and in- 
surance institutions and endanger 
the welfare of the general public. 

“The chief cause is the failure 
of our monetary system to prop- 
erly function as a free medium of 
exchange. There is not sufficient 
actual money in circulation to 
meet every-day demands. In a 
time of great plenty people are 
starving and hungry because of 
the breakdown of distribution and 
the distribution instrument that 
has failed has been our monetary 
system.” 


Epw. A. O’NEAL 


A committee of the American 
Farm Bureau Federation has been 
at work for some time studying 
federal government expenditures 
and services with the idea of 
recommending ways and means of 
reducing costs and securing 
greater efficiency. 


The board of directors of the 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co. 
recently voted to offer a five per 
cent discount for hail insurance 
policy-holders paying their assess- 
ments promptly on October 1. 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 
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Observ 10NS | 


More than a million dollars in 
patronage refunds and _ savings. 
That’s what co-operative buying 
and insurance companies set up 
by the Farm Bureau in Illinois re- 
turned to members last year. More 
than the dues paid in to the or- 
ganization, county, state, and na- 
tional, by a wide margin. So have 
organized farmers helped them- 
selves, kept more of their money 
in the country where it is sorely 
needed. 


If the earnings, savings and re- 
funds of co-operative marketing 
associations organized by the 
Farm Bureau were included, this 
figure would easily be doubled. 
But because marketing associa- 
tions usually pay their “dividends” 
by compelling private buyers to 
offer better prices for farm prod- 
ucts, the value of the co-opera- 
tive selling agency is less appre- 
ciated and frequently denied by 
people who are either intellec- 
tually dishonest, thoughtless, or 
uninformed. 


The patronage refund is a use- 
ful device to teach doubting 


Thomases the value of organized ° 


buying and selling. The refund 
check is tangible evidence that it 
pays to co-operate. Unfortunately 
it isn’t possible for all co-op- 
eratives because of their nature 
to offer such proof of their ability 
to narrow the spread between 
producer and consumer prices. 
Thus they must rely on the in- 
telligence of their members for 
continued support and patronage. 


Fluid milk producers in the Chi- 
cago milk shed have _ learned 
something about the need for and 
value of organization in maintain- 
ing a fair price for milk. They 
know there is a constant economic 
struggle underway between the 
producer, the distributor, and the 
organized worker for the con- 
sumer’s dollar, with the battle in- 
variably going against the one 
offering the least resistance. Chi- 
cago’s organized milk wagon 
drivers know it pays to be or- 
ganized. Asked to take a 20% cut 
in pay, they said “NO! we’ll take 
only a 10% cut, or Fight.”’ So milk 
wagon drivers continue to get a 
minimum of $45 per week plus 
commissions, more than $190 a 
month when many a man out of 


June, 1932 


work would be glad to take the 
job for much less. The law of 
supply and demand works—some- 
times. . 


Unorganized, unprotected peo- 
ple always pay dearly in this or- 
ganized world for their failure to 
defend themselves. They are 
pushed around by organized 
groups bent on taking care of 
their own interests first.—E. G. T. 


July 4th Picnics To 
Honor George Washington 


Farm Bureau Asked To Organize 
Agriculture For Ceremony 


LLINOIS county Farm Bureaus 
planning Fourth of July pic- 

nics as their part in the national 
celebration of George Washing- 
ton’s 200th anniversary, are asked 
to keep a record of attendance 
and publicity material for the 
George Washington Bicentennial 
Commission, states the American 
Farm Bureau Federation. 

Numerous requests have been 
made by Illinois Farm Bureau 
folks for program material and 
picnic suggestions available at the 
A. F. B. F. offices in Chicago, it is 
learned, so that Illinois will prob- 
ably be well represented in the bi- 
centennial celebration. 

National officers are requesting 
that all Farm Bureaus keep them 
in touch with the development of 
local ‘plans. This is an Official 
celebration, sanctioned by Con- 
gress. The American Farm Bureau 
Federation has been officially as- 
signed the task of organizing ag- 
riculture’s contribution to the 
ceremonies. . 


Indiana Farm Bureau 
Fights High Taxes 


Court action will be instituted 
in a test case or cases where farm 
land appraisals seem to be un- 
reasonably high, announces the 
Indiana Farm Bureau. The direc- 
tors voted in favor of such action 
at a recent meeting in Indianap- 
olis. 

The farm organization has 
taken the stand this year that 
farm land appraisals for assess- 
ment purposes shall not exceed 
true cash values. Taxing author- 
ities in many instances have as- 
sessed farms at higher values, 
probably with the view of meet- 
ing anticipated budgets of nor- 
mal government expenses without 
materially raising the tax rates. 


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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


June, 1932 


Commission Rates Cut 


New rates for buying and sell- 
ing livestock on commission at 
the Kansas City and St. Joseph 
stockyards have been prescribed 
by the U. S. Department of Agri- 
culture. It is estimated that pro- 
ducers shipping to Kansas City 
will save $250,000 this year, and 
those shipping to St. Joseph 
$100,000. 


The order came as the result of 
a long inquiry. The reductions on 
both markets are practically the 
same. For example, the minimum 
for rail shipments of cattle has 
been $15 and the maximum $19; 
the minimum is now $13 and the 
maximum $15.50. 


On truck-in consignments to 
Kansas City the per head rate on 
cattle was reduced from 75 cents 
to 70 cents, on hogs from 30 cents 
to 25 cents, and on sheep from 
25 cents to 20 cents. St. Joseph’s 
reductions were practically the 
same. The Department of Agri- 
culture is now investigating a 
number of other stockyards, in- 
cluding the Union Stock Yards, 
Chicago. 


~The Indianapolis Producers 
handled a total of 1,032 carloads 
of livestock during April, the larg- 
est volume for this month in the 
history of the organization. This 
was 135 carloads more than the 
combined total of the next three 
largest firms on the market. 


‘The last thirty days have seen several 
new all-time records hung up by the 
Chicago Producers. The cattle depart- 
ment handled 140 cars of cattle during 
the week ending May 13, which repre- 
sents 9.36 per cent of total receipts for 
the week. The following week the Pro- 
ducers again handled 140 cars, equalling 
9.56 per cent of total receipts. 

new. record for the hog department 
was established in April when on 20,028 
head of hogs on which home weights 
were available they showed an average 
shrink of only .9 pounds per hundred- 
weight, the lightest for the month of 


- April on record. 


Still another record was made during 
the last week in April when the Pro- 
ducers received an equivalent of 118 car- 
loads of livestock in trucks. This live- 
stock belonged to 980 different farmers, 
with stock from 271 coming in on one 
day. They report that every account of 
“~ and check was in the mail the same 

ay. 


During the four weeks ending May 21, 
the Cincinnati Producers sold 608 cars 
of livestock representing 35.17 per cent 
of the total market receipts. Last year 
487 cars moved through this agency 
during the same period. They recently 
added to their sales force Charley Rose, 
who has had more than thirty years’ 
experience in selling and handling cat- 
tle. During the past four weeks more 
than 27 per cent of the cattle arriving 
for sale at Cincinnati was handled by 
the Producers as compared to.17 per 
cent a year ago. 


All steers shown at the 1932 
International Live Stock Exposi- 
tion will be classified by weight 
rather than age, announces Man- 
ager B. H. Heide. No steer weigh- 
ing less than 750 pounds nor more 
than 1,350 pounds will be admitted 
to competition. 

The four different classes are 
as follows: 750-875 pounds; 876- 
1000 pounds; 1001-1150; and 1151- 
1350 pounds. No steer calved prior 
to January, 1931 will be permitted 
to enter. 


Eat Plenty of Meat 
For Health Says Dr. 


R. Glen Wakeman of the Uni- 

versity of Colorado, investi- 
gator for the American Chemical 
Society, recently announced that 
meat and lots of it is necessary for 
health. 

Dr. Wakeman made exhaustive 
tests over a two-year period of 70 
persons who lived on vegetables 
exclusively. All of these had a 
low basal metabolism, “which in 
plain language means that their 
bodies produced less heat and 
energy than those of meat-eaters,” 
reports the Chicago Herald & 
Examiner. The average was 10 
per cent lower. In some cases it 
was much more. 

Most vegetarians assert that 
their diet gives them not only 
health, but “peace of the soul.” 
Dr. Wakeman remarks that this 
“peace of the soul’ is usually 
sheer laziness. He mentions the 
Hindus of India, who live almost 
solely on vegetables, as an ex- 
ample. 

The ordinary man to succeed in 
the strenuous ordeal of life needs 
plenty of energy and hence plenty 
of meat. 


Co-Op. Marketing Narrows 
| Butterfat Price Spread 


The average production of but- 
terfat on Illinois farms is ap- 
proximately 800 lbs. annually. 
Co-operative marketing is cred- 
ited with raising the average price 
level three cents per pound in 
communities served by co-ops, 
based on present and past spreads 
between country point and Chi- 
cago butter prices. 

This means that the average 
gain to [Illinois butterfat pro- 
ducers in co-op. communities ap- 
proximates $24 per farm, accord- 
ing to Frank Gougler, director of 
produce marketing. 


De Frees Elected Head 


Fruit Growers Exchange 

ALMAGE De Frees of Smith- 

boro, I. A. A. director from the 
22nd district, was elected presi- 
dent of the Illinois Fruit Growers 
Exchange at the recent annual 
meeting in Centralia. Mr. De 
Frees has been a director of the 
Exchange for the past two years. 
R. B. Endicott 
of Villa Ridge, 
president for 
the past six 
years, was elect- 
ed_ vice - presi- 
dent, and Joe 
W. Cummins 
‘was chosen sec- 
retary - treas- 
urer. ; 
General feel- 
ing toward co- 
operative mar - 
keting of fruits 
and vegetables in Illinois is im- 
proving rapidly, and growers are 
now more than ever feeling the 
need of co-operative selling, 
according to Harry W. Day, man- 
ager. He reported that the morale 
of the membership is exception- 
ally good in spite of the prospects 
for a very light crop of most tree 
fruits in Illinois this year. 

Prof. R. S. Marsh, University 
of Illinois, the principal speaker, 
talked on improved methods of 
marketing fruits and vegetables. 
A. B. Leeper, former manager of 
the Exchange, explained the set- 
up of the National Fruit and Veg- 
etable Exchange, with which he 
is now connected as general man- 
ager. 

During the morning Joe W. 
Cummins, field secretary, led a 
discussion and pointed out the 
problems concerning truck sales. 
Reports of officers and directors 
were also made at the morning 
session. 

The new directors of the Ex- 
change are as follows: William E. 
Williams, Sandoval; George E. 
Adams, West Liberty; W. L. Cope, 
Salem; Fred Hawkins, Texico; 
Logan N. Colp, Carterville; L. R. 
Allen, Carbondale; E. G. Kinsey, 
Centralia; Arthur Foreman, Pitts- 
field; D. R. Wade, Griggsville; 
Harry Fulkerson, Grafton: H. B. 
Koeller, Godfrey; and Prof. J. W. 
Lloyd, Urbana. 


Mr. DE FREES 


An acre of alfalfa or clover 
saves about 1,150 pounds of corn 
and 468 pounds of tankage com- 
pared to feeding pigs in a dry lot. 


June, 1932 


Ill. Auditing Association 
Distributes Paid-Up Stock 
Cash Dividends Paid To Members, 


Completed 371 Audits 
In 1931 


Two hundred and forty-eight 
co-operative agricultural organi- 
zations—chiefly Farm Bureaus, 
farmers’ elevators, and farmers’ 
oil companies—now hold paid-up 
capital stock in the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Auditing Association. 

Stock amounting to $12,080 was 
recently distributed following the 
reorganization of the association 
as a stock company. All stock- 
holders are patrons of the com- 
pany. The stock was paid for out 
of reserves accumulated during 
the past five years and is dis- 
tributed in proportion to the 
amount of service charges each 
company paid in during the 
period. 

In addition to the stock issue, 
the association also distributed 
$3,141.27 to 95 organizations as 
cash refunds on service rendered 
in 1924, 1925, and 1926. Stock 
issued on 1927 business will be re- 
deemable at the end of 1932; stock 
on 1928 business at the end of 
1933, etc. 

The contracts provide that each 
company using the services of the 
auditing association will take an 
amount of capital stock at the 
end of each year equal to 10 per 
cent of the sum it paid for audit- 
ing during the year. All stock is 
to be turned in and redeemed five 
years after date of issuance. 


Cash dividends paid this year 
were distributed as follows: 41 
Farm Bureaus received $814.92; 
28 farmers elevators received 
$1,056.17; two oil companies re- 
ceived $43.06; and 24 other agri- 
cultural organizations received 
$1,227.12. 

Stock issued for the five-year 
period 1927-31 was as follows: 65 
Farm Bureaus $2,195; 66 elevators 
$3,175; 50 oil companies $3,090; 
and 67 other organizations $3,620. 

During. 1931 the association 
audited 371 accounts, the largest 
number ever handled in a year. 
The service was established in 
1924 to provide a reliable audit 
to farm organizations and co- 
operatives at cost. 


Uncle Ab says that of all the 
mathematics he ever studied, he 
has never had to use much that 
he learned after the fifth grade. 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Champaign County. Grain 
Ass'n. Opens New Elevator 


The Champaign County Grain 
Association now has two plants in 


- operation following the opening 


of the air-force elevator at May- 
view, April 14. The first plant has 
been operating at Glover since the 
middle of February. 

About 200 farmers attended the 
opening of the Mayview elevator 
and saw the first grain received, 
weighed, put in storage tanks, and 
loaded into cars for shipment. 

After a luncheon served by 
ladies of the Mayview Church, a 
program was held with Klaas 
Saathoff, president of the associa- 
tion, presiding. Among the 
speakers were G. C. Johnstone, 
president, and Frank Barton, field 
man for Illinois Grain Corp.; 
E. L. Johnston, manager of the 
La Salle County Co-operative 
Grain Company; O. M. Korn- 
meyer, manager of the Penfield 
Elevator; and A. E. Peterson, 
manager of the Air-Force Con- 
veyor Company. 


50 Per Cent Loan On 
Farm Lands Too Much 


So long as the policy of lending 
approximately 50 per cent of the 
value of land continues, it will 
continue to provide inadequate 
protection against severe price re- 
cessions, according to David L. 
Wickens of the Bureau of Agri- 
cultural Economics. The continu- 
ing nature of farm-mortgage debt 
requires that farmers guard 
against such dangers by limiting 
their borrowings in periods of high 
prices. They should not be guided 
by the sums lenders are willing 
to advance. 


In 1928 owner-operated farms 
had nearly 59 per cent of all farm 
mortgage debt as compared with 
38 per cent for tenant-operated 
farms, and less than three per 
cent for manager farms. 


The Quality Milk Association at 
Rock Island, Davenport, Moline 
and East Moline is at work on a 
project to handle the surplus milk 
of its 800 members. J. B. Countiss, 
director of milk marketing for the 
Illinois Agricultural Association, 
has met with representatives of 
the association several times and 
is assisting in working out the de- 
tails of the plan. 


Page Thirteen 


Illinois Grain Corp. © 
Third Among Regionals 


National Sales Co-operative Gives 
Producers Control To Point 
of Final Sale 


In spite of the fact that or- 
ganized commission men have 
centered their opposition to co- 
operative marketing in [Illinois 
and spread volumes of propaganda 
throughout the state to discredit 
farmers’ marketing agencies, the 
Illinois Grain Corporation stands 
third among the 25 regional co- 
operatives in volume of grain 
handled through Farmers Na- 
tional Grain Corporation. 

During 1931 approximately 
eleven million bushels of grain 
was marketed co-operatively 
through Illinois Grain Corp. At 
least 60 of the 102 counties in 
the state have used the terminal 
facilities of the national co-op- 
erative, sending grain from more 
than 200 shipping points. 

Within the past eight months 13 
counties have passed the 100-car 
mark in grain marketed co- 
operatively, 25 counties have sent 


. more than 40 cars each through 


this agency, and 40 counties have 
shipped more than ten cars each. 

The average volume from Illi- 
nois for the last three months is 
more than 600 cars a month, with 
each of these months higher than 
any other month since August, 
1931. March was highest with 666 
cars. 


The establishment of a national 
selling agency removes many of 


-the limitations that have sur- 


rounded local efforts to market 
co-operatively. It enables the 
farmer to control his product all 
the way from point of production 
to point of final sale, minimizing 
speculation, handling costs, and 
other charges so as to return a 
greater part of the consumer’s 
dollar to the producer without in- 
juring the consumer. 


The farm value of American 
agricultural exports in the fiscal 
year 1930 to 1931 was the smallest 
in more than a decade, $696,000,- 
000 as compared with $1,215,000,- 
000 in the preceding 12 months 
covering the crop year 1929-’30. 

Exports of cotton, lard, pork 
and hogs, wheat and flour, and 
unmanufactured tobacco consti- 
tute about 85 per cent of the value 
of all American agricultural ex- 
ports. 


ELL SS SESS AEST ae See SE SES En 


Page Fourteen 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


June, 1932 


Mildred 3 ers ae 


Dorothy Layman 
Richland o. Pope Co. 


Angeline Painter 
Henderson Co, 


Norma Hicks 
Greene Co. 


Louise Laughead 
ercer Co, 


A Few of the Girls Who Will Compete in State “Country 
Life Queen” Contest at the Illinois State Fair 


Beauty Contest Feature 
Farm Bureau Day Aug. 26 


37 Counties Enter State-Wide 
Competition To Select Country 
Life Queen 


ISITORS at the State Fair on 

August 26, the date set aside 
as Farm Bureau Day, will have an 
opportunity to see winning farm 
girls from 37 counties compete for 
the title as “Country Life Queen 
of Illinois.” 

A similar contest with 10 coun- 
ties competing was held last year 
before a crowd which filled the 
Farm Bureau tent to capacity. 

“If the increased interest in the 
counties as shown by the number 
of county contests is a true crite- 
rion, we expect this feature to be 
one of the high spots of the day,” 
declared V. Vaniman who has 
charge of the contest. 

More than 600 girls entered the 
county contests last December for 
the privilege of representing their 
respective counties in the state 
contest. Entrants were judged on 
beauty, poise, personality, style, 
accomplishments, and character. 
One of the requisites is that con- 
testants be members of Farm Bu- 
reau families.or members of fam- 
ilies holding policies in Country 
Life Insurance Companies. 

The state contest is being 
planned as a part of the activities 
at the Farm Bureau tent on the 
fair grounds. The location of the 
tent will be the same as last year, 
south and east of the race track. 

The tent will be provided with 
plenty of chairs for visitors, a 
free check room, and other facil- 
ities. The I. A. A. and associated 
companies will have displays 
showing their activities and prog- 


ress during the year. Most of the 
officers, directors, and staff mem- 
bers of the I. A. A. will be in 
Springfield on Farm Bureau day. 

Winners in the county contests, 
who will enter the state compe- 
tition, are as follows: 


Rowena Stevenson, Bond coun- 
ty; Irene Hill; Boone; Bernita 
Kurzweg, Champaign; Anna Ho- 
mann, Coles; Laura Schoenbeck, 
Cook; Marian McConaghie, De- 
Kalb; Robilee Coad, Edwards; 


Evelyn Loy, Effingham; Lucille. 


Duffey, Gallatin; Norma Hicks, 
Greene; Angeline Painter, Hen- 
derson; Evelyn McNeil, Henry; 
Maude M. Bonnett, JoDaviess; 
Thelma Reeder, Johnson; Dorothy 
Woolsey, Knox; Leona Bloom, 
Lake; Rita Downs, Lee; Mildred 
Fischer, Livingston; Ruth An- 
dreas, McHenry; Nora Michel, 
Marion; Louise Laughead, Mercer; 
Myrtle Ruhl, Monroe; Ruth Whit- 
lock, Montgomery; Marjorie Wil- 
mot, Peoria; Martha V. Haw- 
thorne, Piatt; Vera Riley, Pike: 
Dorothy Layman, Pope; Mildred 
Fritchley, Richland; Ernestine 
Gifford, Rock Island; Ruth Whit- 
acre, Shelby; Bernell Emmerich, 
St. Clair; Mabel Oertley, Stark; 
Rose Ann Pero, Washington; Clara 
Clark, Wayne; Mary Olive Ride- 
nour, White; Maxine Chamness, 
Williamson; and Mary Parks, 
Woodford. 


W. A. Herrington, formerly 
farm adviser in Stephenson coun- 
ty, has been employed to do 
special work as field man for the 
Illinois wool pool. He will continue 
the work until the end of June, 
visiting all the counties in the 
wool producing area giving in- 
formation and instructions to wool 
marketing committees and in- 
dividual growers. 


Illinois Farm Supply Co. 
Breaks Record In April 


Illinois farmers during the 
month of April purchased more 
than five and one-half million 
gallons of petroleum products, or 
more than 700 carloads, through 
the Illinois Farm Supply Com- 
pany, central buying agency for 
the 52 co-operative service com- 
panies in the state. 

This is the largest volume of 
any month in the five years the 
company has operated, all com- 
modities showing an increase over 
the corresponding month in pre- 
vious years. 

Gasoline sales were 3.6 per cent 
higher than in any previous April, 
kerosene sales 29.1 per cent better, 
tractor and burner fuel~449.9 per 
cent, and lubricating oil 5.5 per 
cent. 


The gallonage of all petroleum 
products handled during the first 
eight months of the present fiscal 
year exceeds the volume for the 
same period last year by a sub- 
stantial margin. The volume dur- 
ing the last eight months was 
more than the entire gallonage 
during the fiscal years of 1929 and 
1930. This indicates that farmers 
are realizing more and more the 
economic value of co-operative 
purchasing as a means of re- 
ducing production costs. — 


The Egyptian Service Company, 


‘with headquarters at Salem, be- 


gan operations the middle of May 
with four trucks working in 
Marion county and adjacent terri- 
tory. Vermilion County Service 
Company has been incorporated, 
a manager employed, and property 
leased in Danville for the installa- 
tion of bulk station equipment. 


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June, 1932 THE I. A. A. RECORD Page Fifteen 


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corn and small grains has cost only $20 per 
thousand . . . slightly higher for soybeans. An 
additional five per cent discount will be given 
this year on premiums paid when due. Fair and 
prompt adjustments based on actual percentage 


More than 50 hail storms wiped out farm 
crops in Illinois last year. Thousands of dollars 
worth of growing corn, small grains, soybeans, 
were destroyed. In many cases the work and 
investment of an entire season were lost. 


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Yale Prof. Advocates 
Swing To Income Tax 
Intangible Property Should Pay 


Its Share and Lighten Burden 
On Real Estate 


FTY-THREE per cent of the 
revenue of cities of more than 


_30,000 population is produced by 


the tax upon real property, ac- 
cording to Professor T. S. Adams 
of Yale University. Nearly two- 
thirds of the revenue of the av- 
erage city comes from the general 
property tax, more than four- 
fifths of which is laid upon real 
property including land and 
buildings. 

Nineteen per cent of the real 
property tax comes from land and 
34 per cent from buildings. 

“With real estate carrying its 
present burden, and with tangible 
personal property taxed as 
recommended, there can be no 
justification for the complete 
exemption of securities and other 
intangibles in the hands of in- 
dividual investors,’ Prof. Adams 
says. “Intangible property should 
be taxed upon the basis of income 
at a rate not to exceed six per 
cent as an adjunct of the personal 
income tax.” 

A tax of this kind is effective 
in Massachusetts. A progressive 
personal income tax is 
recommended as a major remedy 
for the present undue concen- 
tration of taxes upon real estate. 
“In Massachusetts the present in- 
come tax produced $28,000,000 in 
1929 or 7.69 per cent of the total 
taxes collected. In New York it 
yielded $84,000,000 or 7.83 per cent 
of the total tax bill. But the state 
income tax should be made much 
more productive than at present. 
To accomplish this it will be 
necessary to make personal 
exemptions lower, and the rates 
on moderate incomes higher than 
in most of the state income taxes 
now in force.” 


Phosphate Sales 


In spite of low farm prices 
ground rock phosphate is moving 
into Illinois from the phosphate 
mines of Tennessee. Twelve cars 
were shipped out in one week in 
April, according to J. C. Lowman 
in charge of weighing and in- 
spection at the mines. 


Uncle Ab says there are times 
when the intelligent listener ex- 
cels the intellectual talker. 


THE LA. A. RECORD 


Hyde Cites Needs For 


A Prosperous Agriculture 


Emergency measures dealing di- 
rectly with agriculture are not 
necessary, Secretary of Agricul- 
ture Arthur M. Hyde _ stated 
May 16, United States Dairy re- 
ports. Markets for farm products, 
he said, are the.real need. This 
may be accomplished only by 
restoration of business and agri- 
culture by the use of credits 
available through the Reconstruc- 
tion Finance Corporation and 
other federal agencies which are 
ready for these functions as soon 
as business emerges from its 
frightened condition. 

He said the federal govern- 
ment has laid the foundation for 
the recovery of agriculture and 
industry and the actual use of 
immense reservoirs of credit is all 
that is needed now. He said 
bankers are afraid to lend and 
borrowers are afraid to obtain 
loans to finance their projects. 

Four things only are required 
to make agriculture prosperous, 
according to Hyde, “and three of 
these have been provided.” They 
are the tariff, Federal Farm 
Board, organization of farmers, 
and the land utilization policy. 
The last of these would have pre- 
vented the present extreme de- 
pression of. agriculture if it had 
been applied 10 years ago, he said. 


Investigate Telephone 
Rates In La Salle Co. 


The telephone committee of the 
La Salle County Farm Bureau has 
been very active during the past 
few weeks investigating rates. At 
a recent meeting it was disclosed 
that the increasing number of 
telephones: being removed was 
making it more expensive for 
other subscribers and at the same 
time was making the phone less 
valuable. 

It was decided that the com- 
mittee should make an _ inves- 
tigation to determine how much 
the telephone companies could re- 
duce their rates. Sub-committees 
were appointed to secure in- 
formation about different com- 
panies. As shown by a symmary, 
costs varied from $1.35 fo $2.25 
per month. 

The committee also discussed 
the advisability of working with 
the mayors of the various cities 
and securing their opinions as to 
the number of phones removed 
and the sentiment as to rates. 


June, 1932 


Vaccinate Pigs While : 
Young and Save Money 


The eight per cent ‘increase in 
anti-hog cholera serum and virus 
purchased through the Illinois 
Farm Bureau Serum Association 
during the first three months of 
1932 over the corresponding pe- 
riod a year ago is not as great as 
it should be under present condi- 
tions, according to Ray E. Miller, 
director of livestock marketing. 

“Considering the fact that 
farmers can now vaccinate their 
own hogs at a lower cost than at 
any time in history, they should 
take advantage of this opportu- 
nity to insure their herds against 
cholera,” Miller said. 

“If we are to profit by the 
experience of 1931, when serious 
outbreaks of the disease appeared 
in practically every section of the 
state, we must vaccinate while the 
pigs are young and light. Last 
year many farmers waited until 
cholera broke out in their own 
herd or in a neighbor’s herd be- 
fore they did anything. The result 
was a higher cost of vaccination 
and in many cases heavy losses. 

“Spring pigs which have not yet 
been vaccinated should be given 
attention as soon as possible, as 
delay will mean extra cost. 
Practically all the Farm Bureaus 
have reduced the price of serum 
an average of from five to 15 cents 
per hundred cubic centimeters 
since last year. The fact that hogs 
are selling at a very low price, 
thus seriously reducing the farm 
income, is all the more reason 
why farmers should not jeop- 
ardize their income by not vac- 
cinating.” 


Can Handle All '32 Wool 


The National Wool Marketing 
Corporation is prepared to handle 
the entire wool production of the 
United States for 1932, the 
growers’ co-operative with 35,000 
members announced recently. 

Ample funds, warehousing facil- 
ities, and experienced personnel 
for financing and efficient han- 
dling have been provided. 

“Acceptances by the growers of 
offers which ignore entirely pres- 
ent tariff protection will, there- 
fore, not be necessary,” L. W. 
Elliott, executive vice-president, 
declared. “The wool remaining 
from 1931 will be marketed to 
orderly mill demand as in the 
past, having in mind the protec- 
tion of values.” ‘ 


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THE LA. A. RECORD. Page Seventeen 


Break Ground For New 
World's Fair Ag: Building 


Illinois Men Have Prominent Part 
In Century of Progress 
Ceremonies 


HE development of agricul- 
ture from the period of the 
ox-drawn wooden plow to the 


period of the huge power-drawn 


plow, capable of doing fifty times 
as much work as the primitive 
implement, was shown in a pag- 
eant May 20 at the ground break- 
ing ceremonies for the Century of 
Progress agricultural building to 
be erected in Chicago in the near 
future. The building will be lo- 
cated on the island south of the 
new Adler Planetarium, on the 
south Grant Park lake front. 

Earl C. Smith, president of the 
Illinois Agricultural Association, 
gave a short address on the hopes 
and purposes of agriculture, and 
explained the pageantry illus- 
trating the four periods. Mr. 
Smith was introduced by Charles 


_§. Peterson, vice-president of the 


Century of.Progress Exposition. 

The periods were represented 
by the old ox-plow, the mule- 
drawn steel plow, the sulky plow, 
and the modern gang plow. 

‘The first period—agriculture a 
century ago—was dramatized by 
Dr. W. A. Bitting of the Century 
of Progress driving a team of 
Connecticut oxen harnessed to an 
eighteenth century plow loaned 
for the occasion by A. Watson 
Armour of Chicago. 


News-reel cameras clicked and 


an amused twitter went up in the 
audience of several hundred spec- 
tators as the crude plow skimmed 
the crust of the ground scarcely 
making a scratch. 

Mr. Smith explained that the 
plow was built in 1750 and was 
first used by James Armour at 
Quobbin, Mass. It has been 
handed down from generation to 
generation, its present owner 
being the fifth to own it. 

Frank I. Mann, pioneer farmer 
of Gilman, Iroquois county, IIlli- 
nois, illustrated the second period 
by plowing a furrow with a span 
of mules and the original wood 
beam steel bottom plow, commonly 
known as the walking plow. It 
was the first plow manufactured 
in the plow factory of William 
Parlin of Canton, Illinois, in 1847. 

Mr. Mann, widely known as an 
authority on practical farming 
and the use of fertilizers, has 
lived on the same farm for 71 
years. 


Earl C. Smith, president of the Illinois Agricultural Association, giving address 


at ground breaking ceremonies of the Century of Progress Agricultural Build- 
ing to be erected in Chicago. 


The third period was portrayed for permitting stop-over privileges 
by Eugene D. Funk of McLean to complete loadings. Unless sub- 
county, Illinois, with the original stantial improvement is made in 
sulky plow introduced into this handling livestock by rail more 
country more than sixty years business will be diverted to trucks, 
ago, drawn by three champion farmers told the railway men. . 
Clydesdale horses. Mr. Funk is the The matter of extending tran- 
third generation of his family to sit privileges at concentration 
operate the same farms, the fam- points—which means providing 
ily having owned these lands for one through rate from original 
a full century. shipping point to terminal market 

The final development wasillus- where livestock is unloaded and 
trated by Harvey J. Sconce, Agr Teens a concentration point 
cultural director of the Century of” —also was considered. Organized | 
Progress. Mr. Sconce drove a livestock shippers want transit 
tractor drawing a modern gang privileges on all livestock includ- 
plow. He is also the third gen- ing mixed shipments. 
eration of his family to operate “This matter is just as im- 
the Fairview Farm at Sidell, Ver- portant to the railroads as to the 
milion county, Illinois. The farm producers,” said L. J. Quasey, di- 
has been in possession of his fam- rector of transportation. “Ship- 
ily for 101 years. pers are no longer in the position 

“I. am convinced,” said Mr. of having to beg for better service. 
Smith, “that this Exposition will If railroads don’t meet the situa- 
bring home not only to those who tion of growing competition from 
are fortunate enough to attend, trucks they must suffer the con- 
but to those who read of its great- sequences. It is encouraging to 
ness, the gigantic proportions of note that the carriers are doing 
America and its wonderful de- more to accommodate the ship- 
velopment in all fields of agricul- per than ever before.” 
ture and industry.” The adjustment of rates from 


? mene ee ST western Illinois points to points 
Livestock Shippers And east of Buffalo also came up for 


Railroad Men At Macomb discussion. The railroads can bring 
about such changes and improve- 
HAT can the railroads do to ments by recommending them to 
improve the handling of the Interstate Commerce Com- 
livestock to hold this business mission and securing the approval 
against growing competition from of this body. 
trucking? Farm advisers and_ livestock 
This question formed the back- shipping association represent- 
ground of a nine-county meeting atives in McDonough, Adams, 
with I. A. A. and C. B. & Q. rail- Warren, Mercer, Knox, Henry, 
road representatives at Macomb Fulton, Schuyler, and Hancock 
May 19. counties attended the meeting. 


The livestock shippers asked for L. J. Quasey, and Ray E. Miller 
a modification of the rule govern- represented the I. A. A. Traffic 
ing charges on mixed shipments, and operating officials from the 
requesting that provision be made C. B. & Q. participated. 


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Page Eighteen 


Life_ 
Insuran 


J. B. McCann is the new head 
of the Farm Bureau insurance 
service in Clark county. C. W. 
Espy is the new general agent in 
Hancock county. He has recently 
been with Ruhm Phosphate, but 
prior to that he was a successful 
special agent in White county. 


Marion § Stiles of Winnebago 
county is one of the most success- 
ful women agents of Country 
Life, according to L. A. Williams, 
manager. During April she won 
an electric clock for her high 
standing in business written. 


The leading counties for busi- 
ness during the first four months 
of 1932 are as follows: Cook $251,- 
000; Livingston $179,500; Henry 
$160,500; Winnebago $151,000; 
Bond $148,000; Lake $121,500; Mc- 
Donough $116,000; Champaign 
$115,000; DeKalb $106,500; and 
Effingham $98,500. 


Country Life has written an av- 
erage of $1,000,000 a month in in- 
surance for the first four months 
of 1932. Its assets have increased 
more than 25 per cent since the 
first of the year; its surplus is in- 
creasing every month; and its 
mortality rate is lower than in 
1931. 


H. O. Henry, president of the 
General Agents’ Club, is on the 
verge of going over the top for 
his fourth consecutive quota, ac- 
cording to Larry Williams. He has 
made several times his yearly 
quota each year since he started 
in Effingham county in 1929. 


Know A Good Slogan? 


Members of the 95 county Farm 
Bureaus in Illinois are invited to 
take part in the search being 
conducted by Bureau Farmer this 
month for a national Farm Bureau 
membership slogan. 

A cash prize of $10 is offered for 
the best slogan, $5 for the second, 
and $1 each for the next five. 

Slogans must be original and 
must not exceed 20 words. They 
will be judged on originality, 
cleverness, thought content, word- 
ing, legibility, and neatness. They 
must be mailed by midnight, June 
15, to the Farm Bureau Member- 
ship Slogan Contest, 58 East 
Washington street, Chicago. 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


. Hail Insurance Coming 


In, Several Storms Reported 


A number of policies have al- 
ready been issued by the Farmers 
Mutual Reinsurance Company in- 
suring growing crops against hail, 
according to J. H. Kelker, man- 
ager. 

Several hail storms have been 
reported in Illinois within the past 
few weeks, and farmers are being 
urged to take out hail insurance 
early. 

“There is nothing to be gained 
by waiting until later in the sum- 
mer to get this protection,” he 
said. “Crops are getting up to the 
stage where hail can do serious 
damage. Now is the best time to 
insure, for delay only means an 
unnecessary risk. This insurance 
costs the same amount in the 
middle of the summer as it costs 
now. The farmer might as well 
get the benefit of the entire sea- 
son’s protection.” 

These policies are in effect from 
the time the crop gets two joints 
out of the ground until September 
20 or until the crop is harvested 
in case this occurs before Septem- 
ber 20. 


Lawrence Farm Bureau 
Buys a House and Lot 


The Lawrence County Farm Bu- 
reau office was moved from the 
court house at Lawrenceville 
May 11 to its new home at 1320 W. 
Dubois street, which was pur- 
chased recently. The house has 
been repaired and remodeled and 
a small warehouse placed on the 
lot. One room of the new office 
will be used by the Rich-Law 


_ Service Company and one by the 


insurance service department of 
the Farm Bureau. 

The house and lot cost $1,000, 
and the repairs and remodeling 
about $500 or $600, according to 
Farm Adviser H. C. Wheeler. “You 


.can see by these figures that it is 


not very elaborate,” he said, “but 
it will serve until such a time as 
we can afford further changes.” 

The Farm Bureau office. has 
been located in the court house 
since 1920 when the Lawrence 
County Farm Bureau first began 
work. 


June, 1932 


W. T. Martindale Dies 
Following Auto Accident 


Directed Organization Work For 
American Farm Bureau 
Federation 


Injuries incurred in an auto- 


‘mobile accident while attending 


to Farm Bureau business proved 
fatal to W. T. Martindale, A. F. 
B. F. field service director, Friday, 
May 20. Funeral services were 
held at Indianapolis Monday, 
May 23. 

The accident occurred May 2, 
while Mr. Martindale, in company 
with Harold Nevins, Indiana Farm 
Bureau insurance director, was 
driving to Bloomington, Il. 

One mile west of Brownsburg, 
Ind., a car coming towards them 
skidded on a wet pavement as it 
rounded a curve, directly in front 
of the car carrying the two Farm 
Bureau Officials. 

Mr. Martindale was _ hurled 
through the windshield of his car, 
suffering a broken knee, broken 
ribs, a broken nose, sprained 
wrists, severe lacerations and in- 
ternal injuries. He was removed 
to his home in Indianapolis and 
later taken to the Methodist hos- 
pital in that city where deat 
occurred. 

Mr. Martindale entered the 
employ of the A. F. B. F. April 1, 
1931, after several years of active 
service as organization director of 
the Indiana Farm Bureau Feder- 
ation. Within a month after 
assuming his new duties, he or- 
ganized the Arkansas Farm Bu- 
reau and gave it the necessary 
initial inspiration which has 
developed it into a going concern. 
Since then he had actively prose- 
cuted a carefully mapped out 
campaign for organization de- 
velopment in other states in the 
Middle West, the South, and the 
East. When death called him he 
was preparing to participate in a 
membership drive in Vermont. 

Mr. Martindale spoke at a num- 
ber of County Farm Bureau an- 
nual meetings in Illinois during 
the past year. He also addressed 
the Organization-Publicity con- 
ference during the last I. A. A. 


ER re RPE FORO a ART SO onvention in Rockford. His en- 
Uncle Ab says ideas like /ergy, and devotion to the cause of 


plants: once planted they 
be cultivated and nourished if 
they are to bear their best fruits. 


sf farm organization were outstand- 
“ing. His loss will be felt keenly by 


many friends and associates. 


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LAUNCH DRIVE AT DECATUR FOR 
EMERGENCY PRICE-RAISING BILL 


3000. Farm Bureau Leaders Dem: Demand Congress Stay in 
Session Until Something Effective Is Done 


DECATUR, ILL., June 17.—With the battle cry, “prosperity in 


America must begin on the farm” more than 3000 Farm Bureau. 


delegates representing every organized Illinois county thundered 
their unanimous approval and determination to move forward in 
a mammoth July 4th demonstration throughout Illinois in a meet- 
ing held in the Armory here today. 

Like the minute men of ’76 who left their plow handles on a 
moment’s notice to free their country from the yoke of oppression, 
came this loyal group of leaders from the cornfields of Illinois 


rallying to an emergency call to 


help free their industry and the 


country from the yoke of depression. 

The meeting which was called secretly “to consider matters of 
vital importance to agriculture” took on the appearance of a great 
party convention when pasteboard banners bearing the name of 


each county, were raised aloft 
launched a drive for emergency 


by the delegates. The meeting 
farm price improvement legisla- 


tion, which President Earl C. Smith explained had been introduced 
only two days before by Congressman Henry T. Rainey, majority 
leader in the*House, at the request of the Illinois Agricultural As- 


sociation. 

“This meeting and demonstra- 
tion may well be a ‘Boston Tea 
Party’ of American agriculture as 
well as a July 4th celebration,” said 
Clifford V. Gregory, editor of 
Prairie Farmer who was cheered to 
the echo when introduced as a 
great champion of agriculture and 
friend of farmers, by President 
Smith. 

“This emergency bill, if enacted, 
will operate for one year only,” ex- 
plained Mr. Smith. “It will raise 
farm prices within 15 days after its 
enactment. Its purpose is to make 
the tariff effective on farm prod- 
ucts, to raise domestic prices to 
the world price plus the tariff.” 

A_ bhundercus “Go” was the re- 


“sponse from 3000 voices when the I. 


A. A. president asked if he should 
go to Washington Monday to fight 
for the enactment of the emergency 
legislation. “Then go home, write 
your Congressmen and tell them 


. to stay in-Washington until some- 


thing effective is done to lift agri- 
culture out of theggepression,” he 
replied. 

“Let us sidetrack all other meet- 
ings and enterprises between now 
and July 4, make this demonstra- 
tion a success, get this bill enacted 
by congress, and maybe we’ll have 
something to celebrate after all,” 
he said. 

Reviewing the efforts of Farm 
Bureau leaders to secure price-im- 
provement legislation, Mr. Smith 
told of arriving in Washington on 
May 23 to prevail on congress to 
do something. 


Blame Each Other 


“We went to the Republicans and 
they laid the blame on the Demo- 
crats,” he said. “When we went to 
the Democrats they blamed the 
Republicans, so we got the leaders 
from both parties into one room 
and told them what farmers were 
had to be 
done.” 

In that appeal to Congress the 
farm leaders set out a program 
with three salient features: 

1—That funds be provided for 
the disposal of accumulated ..¢crop 
surpluses. 

2—Passage of emergency legisla- 
tion having for its purpose imme- 
diate price improvement for basic 
crops.. 

3—Establishment of a legitimate 


‘and effective control of future crop 


surpluses. 

“The Illinois downstate delega- 
tion promised solid suport for these 
three points,” Mr. Smith said. 

“After conferring with leaders in 
both parties in Washington we 
were asked to draft our own solu- 
tion of our problems. 

“We have done so and Wednes- 
day Congressman Rainey intro- 
duced into Congress a bill that, if 
passed, will give us relief within 15 
days. If you men will fight for 
that bill as I know you are capable 
of fighting, we will be out of the 
woods in a hurry.” 


What It Provides 


This bill provides for the emer- 
gency, only, as follows: 

1—That the Secretary of Agri- 
culture shall proclaim at once what 
percentage of this year’s crop of 
wheat, hogs and cotton is needed 
for home consumption. 

2—That any farmer selling wheat 
shall present his weight certificate 
to an agent of the Secretary of Ag- 
riculture in his county and shall 
receive a negotiable certificate for 
that percentage of his grain that 
the secretary’s estimate declares 
will be consumed at home on the 
basis of the tariff, or 42 cents for 
wheat. 


3—That an excise tax of 42 cents 


per bushel be levied on the process- 
ing of wheat, the tax to go into the 
government fund to redeem the 
negotiable grain certificates. 

Will Raise Price 

That in brief is the plan, Mr. 
Smith explained. The same system 
applies to hogs and cotton. It is 
designed to raise the price of farm 
products on the domestic market 
to a point equal to the tariff im- 
posed on them. 

“It will raise the price of wheat 
above the current price level to the 
amount of the tariff on wheat, 
which is 42 cents a bushel,” he ex- 
plained. “It will not disturb~ the 
present marketing: sysiiin~in -any-: 
way. The processors of ‘wheat will 
pay the excise tax. Whatever the 
price the farmer receives for wheat 
going into domestic consumption, 
he will be paid the additional price 
on his negotiable certificates. 
Wheat moving into export will not 
be taxed. 

“We could not specify all grains 
and all crops. But if wheat, hogs 
and cotton prices are raised other 
commodity prices will follow. This 
bill is very simple. All we have to 
do is put it over.” 


Purpose Kept Secret 

Friday’s meeting was one of the 
most remarkable ever conducted at 
Decatur. Its purpose kept secret, 
the call was issued Wednesday to 
Farm Bureau leaders and directors, 
and representatives of the various 
enterprises fostered by the Illinois 
| Agricultural association. 

Large placards expressing the 
needs and wants of farmers brought 
a tremendous response of approval 
when paraded up and down the 
aisles of the armory before the 
opening of the meeting. 

“Give Us a Price and We'll Buy 
the Nation Back to Prosperity,” 
said one huge sign. “Bring Back 
the Dollar of 1926,” said another, 
and “Higher Prices the Way to Re- 
covery,” advised a third, while a 
fourth asserted, “Taxes Must Come 
Down.” The theme of the meeting 
was expressed in “Prosperity for 
America Begins with The Farmer.” 

“We are here to do what the na- 
tional Republican convention failed 
to do,” C. V. Gregory, Prairie 
Farmer editor, explained to the 
crowd that had given him a tumul- 
tuous greeting as he was introduced 
by Mr. Smith. “To consider the se- 
rious situation in which we find 
ourselves. 

“Only twice before, at Valley 
Forge and at Gettysburg, has the 
nation faced the peril it faces in 
this year of 1932. Here in this 
meeting may be the turning point.” 

Gregory Cheered 

Mr. Gregory was cheered to the 
echo by men who had left their 
homes, some of them, before 4 
o’clock Friday morning from far 
northern and southern reaches of 
the state. Appearance of groups of 
men on the streets at an early 
hour in the day, obviously stran- 
gers, and their increasing ‘numbers 
started questions flying from mouth 
to mouth in the business district. 

No one knew why they were here 
and they did not know themselves, 
beyond the fact that something 
important was portending. By 11:30 
o’clock, the hour the meeting was 
called, the big armory was filled, 
the main floor with its folding 
chairs and the bleacher seats 
against the walls. 

In the meantime, the board of 
directors and officers of the asso- 
ciation were in session in the Hotel 
Orlando. 

(Continued on Page 4, Col. 7) 


ignated Monday, July 4, 1932 as a ‘day wien get 
cities of every community are urged to unitejand reded 


prosperity of the nation. 


Let us all gather on that day in our r 
land, to pledge our best efforts in bringing 


and national welfare. 


The nation is now stagnating in the 


ture, long’ out of balance with other indus 

and falling to its economic level. 
It is now generally recognized that pro city fo 

Higher farm prices must lead the way to 

ization as through organization alone can we peak lo 

must stand shoulder to shoulder on a sound basis and 

forward to the goal. The principles of fai 


fought are in the balance. 


Let’s have a coalition of the farmers a rd citizer 
make July 4 ring with the spirit and courage neces 


justice, and independence. 


4-H Club Boys and | 
Girls To Be In Parade 


More than 5,000 4-H Club boys 
and girls are expected to appear in 
the July 4th DEDICATION DAY 
parades scheduled in every Illinois 
county. 

Four-H Club floats and marchers 
will be given a prominent place. In 
several counties 4-H Club member- 
ship runs up into the hundreds and 
the various units themselves will 
make a colorful exhibition. The 4-H 
colors, green and white, will be 
much in evidence. An added attrac- 
tion will be the.prizes to be awarded 
at every county celebration: Thou- 
sands of children of Farm Bureau 
members not enlisted in 4-H Club 
work, likewise, will take part in the 
parade. 


Ask Charter Members To 
Take Part In Program 


Charter members of their respec- 
tive County Farm Bureaus will be 
requested to march as a_ select 
group in the 4th of July parades. 
Among these will be many of the 
early leaders of the Farm Bureau 
movement in Illinois. It will in- 
clude that substantial group who 
founded the I. A. A. on its present 
basis in Peoria, 1919 when they 
signed $100 notes underwriting the 
expense of an executive secretary, a 
staff, and a headquarters prior to 


ricull 


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Mawes ae Pee EN | E 25, 1932-EXM 


STATE-WIDE DEMONSTRA 


bcs ae OF 7 


Base 


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the organization campaign 
year. 

All of these notes were 
to their signers. uncashi 
many are now treasured 
possessions. In this group 
men as Uncle Joe Fulkersd 
Holmes, John Gummersh 
B. Culp, Henry T. Marshg 
Hill, G. C. Johnstone, L. EF 
John P. Stout, and others. 


Board Unanimous 
In Dedication Da 
fF 


Aroused over the pligh 
culture and the need for 
ing a fighting spirit, cor 
faith through these tryiz 
the Board of Directors of, 
A. voted unanimously o 
to recommend to the Fart 
membership of the state 
suitable DEDICATION Dp; 
celebration be staged on Jy 

“Only by standing sho 
shoulder can farmers hope 
many of their problems,” 
director. “Only through ‘ 
effort can agriculture » 
needs known and its voic 
where there is power and 
to bring about farm impre 

It was with this thought 
that the directors voted 
mously pledging their ef 
work for a successful red 
a|to the cause for. which 
Bureau movement was o 


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ourage neces 


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ation, campaign 


ose notes were 
signers. uncashi 
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cle Joe Fulkersc 
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enry T. Marshe 
fjohnstone, L. EF 
out, and others, 


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over the pligh 

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ing spirit, co 
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of Diresvors 
nanimously o 
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EDICATION Dj 
be staged on Jy 
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in farmers hope 
1eir problems,” 
Only through ¢ 
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out farm improa 
ith this thought 
directors voted 


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VOLUME 10 


CALLED JULY 4th 


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in wate-wide assembly have des- 


s and their friends in the towns and 


cate their efforts in patriotic assem- 
merican agriculture and with it the 


jounties to renew our faith in the 
early imprévement in farm prices 


} frozen credit, debt, unemployment, 
‘witnessed. The condition of agricul- 
ted in these other groups toppling 


America must begin on the farm. 
é main essential is thorough organ- 
enough ‘to be heard and heeded. We 
with militant determination move 
astice for which our forefathers 


di 
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s of every community in Illinois and 
le to restore economic freedom, 


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! - President 
ois Agricultural Association 


Prairie Farmer and 
WLS Join in Movement 


‘Prairie Farmer and its radio sta- 
tion WLS along with local newspa- 
pefs and organizations in down- 

*| state counties are joining in com- 

‘!memorating July 4 as Dedication 

*|Day when citizens of every com- 
munity will unite in pledging their 
best efforts toward accomplishing 
the objects of the movement. 

In its issue of June 25 Prairie 
Farmer will pay tribute to organ- 
ized agricultural effort and what 
farmers have accomplished by 
working together. News of the 
July 4 demonstration will be broad- 
cast daily from station WLS, sta- 
tion WJJD, and others in Chicago 
and downstate. Many counties will 

-| have special organization issues of 
local newspapers appropriate to the 
occasion in making July 4 a mem- 
orable occasion in the history of 
Illinois agriculture. : 

Affiliated co-operatives and as- 
sociated organizations are all co- 
operating in the July 4 celebration. 
Representatives of Country Life 
Ins. Co., the Illinois Agricultural 
Mutual Ins. Co., Illinois Farm Sup- 
ply Co., the Farmers Mutual Rein- 
surance Co., and others will be ac- 
tive in preparations for the demon- 
stration and big parade on the final 
day. 


eo" The Farmer Must Lead The 


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PLAN PARADE AND CELEBRATION 
FOR EVERY ORGANIZED COUNTY 


Restoge Farmer’s Buying Power And Prosperity Will Re- * 
turn to America. Re-dedicate Efforts to Agriculture 


A state-wide demonstration with a parade on July 4 in every 
county of Illinois was unanimously voted at a meeting of more 
than 3000 Farm Bureau leaders representing every county at 
Decatur, Friday, June 17. 


While the big celebration falls on the 20th Anniversary of the 
Farm Bureau in Illinois it is to be more than an anniversary cele- 
bration. It will be a militant demonstration of the farmers of IIli- 
nois rededicating their efforts in behalf of their industry, agricul- 
ture, on which the prosperity of the nation depends. 

As the farmers of 1776 united in that historical fight for in- 
dependence and freedom from political oppression, so will farmers 
of 1932 unite for economic independence to restore the farmer’s 
buying power and so lead the nation back to better times. 
7 Organized farmers have pleaded 

in vain for more than 10 years to 

ELABORATE FLO ATS arouse the nation to the plight of 
agriculture. Repeatedly farm rep- 

resentatives have told the presi- 

IN BIG PARADE dent, the Congress, and the indus- 

trial East that the nation could not 


continue prosperous with a d - 
Colorful parades with floats and| ing suricaiiuee. “— 


banners illustrating the aims and 
objects of organized farmers, will One Year Only 
be a high point in the July 4| .The Farm Bureau’s demand for 
DEDICATION DAY ceremonies) effective legislation to establish an - 
throughout rural Ilinois. American price for farm products 
Complete plans and illustrations| When industry was enjoying un- 
for five major floats have been ir gery sage aeons pr ee 
e y success and prosperity 
— up by a professional design resulting from a wide foreign out- 
One float recommended for the|/¢t for products of American fac- 
demonstration will illustrate 4-H| tories, manufacturers forgot their 
Club work with four leaf clovers|°l4 customer, the American farmer. 
labeled “Heart, Head, Hand, Much of this foreign demand was 
Health.” On the side of the float created with American capital, 
appear the words “For Better Farm through tremendous foreign bond 
Life.” issues tones by American citi- 
Another illustrating the tax prob-|2@0S. Many of these are now in 
lem displays the statement “Prop- a. and. American investors 
erty Carries 90 Per Cent of ths pase ost millions of dollars. No 
Burden.” On the side of the float|!0mser has American industry its 


“ Id customer, the farmer, to fall 
are the words “Organize—Equalize | ° ; ’ 
the Burden.” A large weight la- back on, and so the condition of 


beled “Taxes” is suspended on a agriculture has dragged down the 


long pole with a farmer in the rear whole economic structure to its 
carrying the bulk of the load while|°W” level. 
two other gentlemen in front illus- _ Restore Buying Power 


trating income and intangible} American prosperity must begin 
wealth carry the light end. on the farm. Restore the farmer’s 
One float shows a man trying/ buying power through an uplift in 
to raise a |] ge weight labeled| prices and the unemployed will be 
Pring sh =, 4 ae edn ‘om bas back to work. Make the tariff 
ckle. effective on farm products. Re- 
in vain unable to lift the load|move the weight cf accumulated 
alone. ening tik nent ~ oye crop surpluses from the market 
men. en they ali take hold Ol\and agriculture will lead the wa 
the rope, the load illustrating tax|out of hard times, Establish an 
problems, marketing, representa-|honest dollar and f%.:m mortgages 
tion, etc. is easily lifted: On the} will be paid and ccifidence in gov- 
side of the float appear the words| ernment restored. 
“Co-operation Will Win—But No| To this cause will Ilinois farmers 
One Can Raise it Alone.” and citizens in rural communities 
A float recommended for the oc-|2@Ssemble and dcdicate themselves 
casion shows a platform labeled|On Independence Day. The pro- 
“Organization.” On the platform is|8Tam for Dedication Day will be 
a table and three chairs labeled os in et rage —— bn 
“Industry, Labor, Agriculture.” The|%€ Some variations from county 
farmer is mounting the platform to| County made necessary by other lo- 
take his seat with other organized heen! nea aenat valy by ‘ 
groups. nds to start the 
day, registration at a designaied 
Another float carries a large din- 

: lace of all new members and 
ner bell and a banner with the|?. ’ 
slogan “The Farmer’s Dinner Bell Farm Bureau members in . good 
is the Liberty Bell of 1932. Keep|s@nding, of pe oy ph I Soaks wr 
it Ringing.” ureau members and of 4- u 

The plans provide for carrying angele a en for va bs 
the floats on trucks. Complete blue | P'#" Submitted to each county, ihe 
prints have been sent out showing lineup for the parade will take 
just how to build the scaffolding place after registration. Marchers 
which is very simple, and how to will carry banners heralding the 
trim ‘and decorate the platform aims and ideals of the demonstra- 
atter.its erection tion, announcing the goal of the 

: movement. Floats will be placed 

NES: GREER in order with plenty of space in the 
“Dedication Day” Crowd fine of nat peceners. aes aera 
* s113 ureau member an s family is 
Estimated Half Million asked to take part in the demon- 


: . stration and march or drive the 
The state-wide demonstration on| family car in the parade. 


DEDICATION DAY, it is estimated, . 
will bring out from 300,000 to 500,- Prize Contests 
000 people, based on early reports| At the given hour the parade will 
of counties working on the pro-|start moving from a designated 
gram for the day. Every effort is|point with Farm Bureau directors 
being made in some counties to|and other local officials in the re- 
have every farmer and his family| viewing stand. Prize contest an- 
as well as citizens of the towns and|nouncements will be made locally 
cities where parades will be held|so that all may competé for the 
on hand to take part in and wit-| awards. 
ness the program of the day. It is contemplated that the pa- 
The parade itself will be the big|;rade will last until shortly after 
drawing card but the prizes, con-|the noon hour when the celebra- 
tests, music, speeches, and the op-|tion will adjourn for picnic dinner. 
portunity for meeting friends will} The afternoon program in most 
be attractions for many others.|counties will include introduction 
Such prizes as a new farm wagon/of Farm Bureau and local officials 
which can be used with horses,|to be followed by prayer and by a 
truck, or tractor, a complete set of| public address, speaker to be fur- 
silverware, and a bicycle for chil-|}nished by the I. A. A. Many counties 
dren will be offered by many coun-|represented at Decatur plan to 
ties. Complete details about these|light a spectacular bonfire where 
will be given out by the Farm Bu-|enemies of agriculture such as Low 
reau later. Farm Prices, Unjust Taxes, Poison- 
The July 4th Dedication program/|ous Propaganda, Unfaithful Public 
in Illinois will be held simultane-|Servants, Old Man Indifference 
ously with Farm Bureau gatherings | and others will be burned in ef- 
in other states commemorating the|figy. Awarding of attendance 
two hundredth anniversary of| prizes will be left for the last event 
George Washington. of the day. 


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A countak! NO b8cr4 N 
RECORD 


To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organized, 
namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, po- 
litical, and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the na- 
tion, and to develop agriculture. 


GEORGE TuHIEM, Editor 
Max HARRELSON, ASsistant Editor 


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Alexander Legge 


Others Organize, Care For 
Their Own Interests First 


By Alexander Legge, ex-Chr. 
Federal Farm Board 


“Perhaps the soundest advice we 
can give to agriculture is contained 
in the one word, ‘Organize.’ 

“Properly organized, I cannot see 
any reason why agriculture might 
not go even farther than industry, 
inasmuch as most farm products 
are consumed every day and several 
times a day and the consumption 
must be fairly continuous if we are 
to live. 

“The greatest difficulty we have 
to contend with, is that in some 
mysterious way, through legislative 
action or otherwise, the handicap 
under which agriculture is suffer- 
ing, will be removed, and the posi- 
tion of the farmer made secure 
without any action on his part. My 
friends, this is not even a good 
dream. It is currently believed that 
dreams sometimes come true, but 
this one never will. 


“You have one of the greatest 
and most representative organiza- 
tions of agriculture anywhere. We 
need more organizations like yours. 
You can do almost anything when 
you are properly organized. If 
farmers don’t organize, others will, 
and they'll take care of their own 
interests first. 

“The agriculture of other nations 
has gone down largely because it 
lacked organization. If you are un- 
organized you must take what 
you’re offered.” — Alexander Legge 
before I. A. A. Annual Meeting, 
Jan. 29, 1931. 


Must Cut Distribution Costs 
For Future Prosperity 
—Babson 


“The keynote to future prosperity 
is improvement in _ distribution 
methods. Distributors must cut 
costs and pass along to the con- 
sumers the saving already achieved 
in production. Progress in produc- 
tion has far outstripped progress 
in distribution. Our distribution 
system, because of its high cost, is 
still the bottle neck which prevents 
the free flow of mass production 
which .gets to the consumer. This 
business must attract that great 
potential market along the lower 
income classes to provide an ade- 
quate outlet for its huge producing 
eapacity and to do this it must re- 
duce costs. Authorities estimate 
that the avoidable waste in distri- 
bution is between $8,000,000,000 and 
$10,000,000,000 a year.”—Roger W. 
Babson, issued June 14. 


TReETEPEER eee 


Raymond 
Talmage DeFrees, Smithboro 
L, Cope, Salem 


» De Soto 


All Agricultural Groups In 
Illinois Pledge Co- 
operation — 


Co-operation of nearly every 
farm organization and co-operative 
in and adjoining Illinois has been 
secured in carrying out the state- 
wide Dedication Day program on 
July 4. 

The problem of providing a 
peaker for every county on that 
ay is a tremendous undertaking 
n itself. To bring about uniform- 
ity in expressing the. aims and 
ideals of the demonstration and 
the Farm Bureau movement, a 
carefully outlined address is being 
prepared, a copy of which will be 
supplied every speaker. Each 
speaker will be expected to em- 
phasize the principles set forth in 
this outline, but using his own 
words in expressing them. 

A prayer written for the occasion 
by one of America’s outstanding 
clergymen is being prepared for 
delivery in every county on the des- 
ignated day. The prayer will pre- 
cede the address of the afternoon. 

Among the organizations pledg- 
ing their co-operation in the July 
4th demonstration are the follow- 
ing: Prairie Farmer, State College 
of Agriculture, National Live Stock 

Marketing Association, Chicago 
Producers Commission Ass’n., St. 
Louis Producers Commission Ass’n., 
Peoria Producers Commission Ass’n., 
Illinois Live Stock Marketing As- 
sociation, Illinois Grain Corpora- 
tion, Pure Milk Association, Illinois 
Milk Producers Ass’n., ‘ McLean 
County Milk Producers Ass’n., Sani- 
tary Milk Producers Ass’n., Quality 
Milk Ass’n., Champaign County 
Milk Producers Ass’n., Decatur Milk 
Producers Ass’n., Illinois Produce 
Marketing Ass’n., Egyptian Seed 
Growers Exchange, Illinois Fruit 
Growers Exchange, Soybean Mar- 
keting Ass’n., American Farm Bu- 
reau Federation, and all associated 
companies owned and controlled by 
I. A. A.-Farm Bureau members. 


Edw. A. O’Neal 
“Job Not Finished” 


“On behalf of the American Farm 
Bureau Federation, it is my great 
pleasure to extend to the Farm Bu- 
reaus and to the membership of 
the great state of Illinois a mes- 
sage of congratulation, commenda- 
tion and fellowship on the occasion 
of this, your 20th anniversary. 

“You have well demonstrated 
what can be accomplished by mili- 
tant, aggressive, organized effort. 
Your accomplishments of the past 
are your promise for the future. 
Your job is not yet finished. In the 
stern problems of today you have 
the greatest opportunity and the 
greatest responsibility. Go forward 
in the creation of an institution 
that is truly representative of the 
importance of agriculture to the 
economic and social well-being of 
your state. You are the hope of the 
farmers of Illinois.” 

~ Signed, Edw. A. O’Neal. 


THE FARM BUREAU 


“The Patriot believes that the Greene County Farm Bureau is 


, Bellnap |: 


one of the best organizations ever formed in this community. It 
has done more to put farming on a business basis, to develop better 
methods of farming, to bring the farmer out of his isolation, and 
to encourage a coming generation of farmers and farmers’ wives 
than all other factors combined. 

“The benefits of the organization are not limited to the mem- 
bers alone. Every farm and every farmer in the county receive in- 
direct benefit in the general uplift of the business. The Farm Bu- 
reau coula do much more if every farmer in the county were a 
member. Some farmers thoughtlessly speak disparagingly of the 
organization and discount its efforts. Those farmers are merely 
standing in their own light and hindering their own progress. 

“In these times it is not a question of ‘Can I afford to belong to 
the Farm Bureau?’ but ‘Can I afford to stay out of it?’”’—CHar.es 
BrapsHaw, Editor, Carrollton Patriot. 


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..“AGRICULT 


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' Ex-Gov. Frank QO. wden 


Organization Greatest Nee if American] 


—Lowd 


“Tt am more convinced than ever 
that organization is the greatest 
need of the farmers of this coun- 
try,” ex-Gov. Frank O. Lowden said 
in addressing a group of [Ilinois 
bankers some time ago. 

He pointed out that the com- 
bined efficiency of the Danish 
farmer plus his inherent ability to 
organize and co-operate with his 
brothers, in producing and market- 
ing his crops were responsible for 
the relatively happy condition of 
agriculture in Denmark. 

“The farmer’s interests are your 
interests and anything you can do 
to help them will react to your 
benefit and the good of the coun- 
try,” said Mr. Lowden. “It is more 


that you l 
agriculture ré 
, for when t 
bus there is jf 
e@ ex-governor 
a tour throu 
er Scandinavi 
day before th 
ory teaches : 
» “it teaches 

Ds psperity canno 
. prosperity. 

lanced agr 
ulture back t 
with other ind 
nization. Th 
n’s problem as 
‘No nation | 


vived tl e decay of its 


Arthur M. Hyg 


Organization, One Answer To F2 
By Arthur M. Hyde, Secretary 


“One general answer to farm 
problems is organization. Organ- 
ization to control marketing, to 
standardize output, to eliminate 
waste and duplication of a market- 
ing and distributing system, which, 
generally speaking, absorbs two 
dollars for every one dollar it ré- 
turns to the farmer. Thus the 
farmer can approximate the posi- 
tion of industry, or of other groups. 

“By the long arm of his own or- 
ganization, the farmer can make 
himself felt beyond his line fences 


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of Agriculture 


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Unorganized Farmers Hinder 
Earl C. Smith, Pres., I. A. A. at R 


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believe 
constit 
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many 
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Earl C. Smith 


; 
iL, A. A. RECORD 


waen 


American’ Farmers 


that you lend your aid 
agriculture rather than to 
, for when the farmer is 
bus there is prosperity for 
e ex-governor had return- 
‘a tour through Denmark, 
er Scandinavian countries 
day before the meeting. 
ory teaches anything,” he 
, “it teaches that perma- 
psperity cannot come with- 
m prosperity. We cannot 
lalanced agriculture, nor 
ture back to a state of 
with other industries, with- 
nization. This is a busi- 
n’s problem as much as the 
‘No nation has long sur- 
p decay of its agriculture.” 


m Problems—Hyde 
of Agriculture 


the markets of the world. 
hgh his organization, the 
can get. information as to 
lity supplies, can bring his 
ion within the limits of de- 
an control the surplus prob- 
preventing it. By organiza- 
farmef can take control of 
h industry; re-establish the 
dence of his calling; win 
place in the sun of eco- 
quality, and having won it, 
against all the changing 
des of the future.” 


Solution Problems 
ickford, Jan., 1932 


e previously stated and yet 
.that unorganized farmers 
ite the greatest obstacle op- 
to delay proper solutions to 
f our difficulties. 
am right in my conclusions, 
ation, further organization 
omplete organization of 
§ should be the keynote of 
vention. 
adequately organized agri- 
could have wielded far 
influence in the councils of 
ate and nation. Illinois and 
an farmers could not have 
rced into a 12-year period of 
bn with such an organiza- 
Fast increasing and unjust 
8 of the cost of government 
10t have been shouldered 
ulture. Their combined 
ce could and can operate to 
reduce costs of government, 
y within the counties 
most of our tax money re- 


RE MUST BE ORGANIZED” 


“More Than A Fight 
For Fair Farm Prices” 


Says C. V. Gregory, Editor 
Prairie Farmer 


In staging state wide farm pa- 
rades July 4th, Illinois farmers are 
doing more than lead a fight for 
fair farm prices. 

We are in the midst of a struggle 
in which farmers are furnishing 
the shock troops, but they are 
fighting for the rights of all the 
common people as well as for them- 
selves. They are leading the fight 
for all people who work for a living, 
who want a dollar only in return 
for a dollar’s worth of service. 

It is a struggle to determine 
whether the common people shall 
continue to work for themselves, 
using and enjoying the things that 
they produce in such great abun- 
dance, or whether the nation shall 
be turned over to the exploiter and 
the spoiler. 

The common people of America 
stand in battle array, and the God 
of Justice is fighting on their side. 
The farmers of Illinois are in the 
front line, confident that their or- 
ganized effort will win the victory. 

The great agricultural state of 
Illinois is fortunate in having in 
this time of emergency the great 
Illinois Agricultural Association, 
strongest and most ably manned 
state farm organization in the 
country. Twenty years of Farm Bu- 
reau experience in Illinois has de- 
veloped leaders whose ability is un- 
surpassed in any field. Their serv- 
ices are dedicated to this fight for 
equality for agriculture. 

When 10,000 new Farm Bureau 
members march in review July 4th, 
shoulder to shoulder with the vet- 
erans in the movement, that dem- 
onstration of loyalty and support 
will double the effectiveness of the 
leaders. Under the flag of the Farm 
Bureau the farmers of Illinois July 
4th will start the march to victory. 


Sam H. Thompson 


“Efficient Production 
Alone Not Enough” 


Sam H. Thompson 


Future progress of agriculture de- 
pends today more than at any time 
in the history of our country on 
strong organization of farmers. 
Efficient production alone, growing 
more bushels per acre, breeding 
more and better livestock will not 
solve the present day problems. We 
must put agriculture on a sound 
basis. Long hours of labor, working 
every member of the family and 
practising self-denial and contin- 
ually drawing out and exhausting 
the fertility of the soil have in the 
past made it possible to pay for 
farms. We cannot longer afford to 
farm that way. If we want to keep 
our children on the farm and con- 
tinue the business, we must put ag- 
riculture on a substantial paying 
basis that will bring satisfactory 
returns, so that they can make the 
home and farm attractive and 
really worth while, for the best of 
men. 


Organization—Only Way 
Farmers Can Be Effective 


By George C. Jewett, Vice-chairman 
Congress Trust and Savings Bank 


The Nation is in distress. Dis- 
tress—disaster—soup kitchens—un- 
employment and suicides prevail 
through the land. Improvement 
must start with agriculture. This 
is realized and frankly admitted by 
the business in- 
terests of the 
nation. This 
places on the 
shoulders of the 
farmer, the na- 
tion’s as well as 
his own welfare. 
It calls for and 
demands a mili- 
tant fighting 
farmer and a 
militant fight- 
ing farm lead- 
ership. The only 
way the farmer 
can effectively fight is through or- 
ganization. 

The only way the farm leader can 
fight is with a powerful organized 
backing. Without strong organized 
leadership, the farmer. will con- 
tinue in difficulty and distress, and 
eventually will be relegated to a 
peasantry class; the growth of the 
nation retarded and our social and 
civic life endangered. It is time to 
fully organize. It is time, too, to 
give farm leaders power and 
strength. Organization is the 
watchword of the hour and on it 
depends everything. 


Mr. Jewett 


Clifford V. Gregory 


Two Obstacles To Overcome 


By Jas. C. Stone, Chairman 
Federal Farm Board 


“The co-operative movement has 
two obstacles to overcome and pro- 
tect itself against. Perhaps the 
more serious is that within the 
ranks of agriculture—apathy and 
indifference on the part of many 
farmers, who do not .understand 
what the program means to them. 

“Then there is the opposition 
coming from some of those who 
are engaged in handling farm prod- 
ucts, This opposition is directing 
its fire largely against the Farm 
Board with such charges as ‘gov- 
ernment in business’, ‘price fixing’, 
and ‘setting aside the law of sup- 
ply and demand’, all designed to 
stir up public resentment against 
what is being done. 

“I would like to suggest to you 
leaders jn co-operative marketing 
and all others engaged in. agricul- 
ture that you must not let the real 
purpose be camouflaged by such 
tactics. That real purpose is 
against farmers organizing their 
own marketing system. Its object 
is to kill co-operative marketing. 

“Organized agriculture will have 
to make itself heard if it wishes to 
protect what it has gained. A most 
important work to be done is that 
of informing unorganized farmers 
and the public generally about the 
co-operative program.” 


Jas. C. Stone 


ORGANIZATION 


CUTS LIMESTONE- 
PHOSPHATE COST 


Co-operative Action Alone 
Makes Possible Savings 
To Bureau Members 


Since the Limestone-Phosphate 
Department of the I. A. A. was or- 
ganized early in 1920, a complete 
change has been brought about in 
both the methods of handling lime- 
stone and phosphate and the stan- 
dard quality grades acceptable to 
Illinois farmers. These changes, in 
both cases, resulted beneficially to’! 
the purchasers. 


In the cost of limestone, a con-| 
tinual check has been maintained | 
on the product produced by each 
company cooperating with the I. A. 
A. and County Farm Bureaus, with 
the result that a valuation score 


Ss 
ae 


| agreed upon. 


t 


EXTRA EDITION, JUNE, 1932 
‘overestimated. It has played a 
‘large part in putting Illinois in its 
present outstanding position in the 
‘use of agricultural limestone, 

| Since the inception of this de- 
partment Illinois has used an an- 
nual tonnage ranging from 300,000 
tons in 1920 to 925,000 tons in 1929 
—the largest tonnage of agricul- 
tural limestone ever used in one 


-| year by any one state. This ton- 


nage dropped to 750,000 tons in 1930 
and approximately 300,000 tons in 
1931, due to the big drop in the 
farmer’s buying power. 

During the ten years the I. A. A. 
has had contract relations with 
limestone producers, Illinois has 
used a total tonnage of agricultural 
limestone amounting to approxi- 
mately 6,500,000 tons. During eight 
years previous to the beginning of 
our contract relations and~-super- 
visional service, the total tonnage 
of agricultural limestone used in 
Illinois was only 1,714,000. 

Lower Prices Gained 

The I. A. A., through its Lime- 
stone-Phosphate Department, has 
kept in mind at all times, the ques- 
tion of price per ton on agricultural 
limestone, as well as the question 
of freight rates. Much has been ac- 
complished with both, with the re- 
sult that Illinois is today able to 
purchase limestone perhaps cheaper 
per ton than any other state, tak- 
ing into consideration the question 
of supervisional service maintained. 

It would be hard to estimate the 
savings in dollars and cents to the 
Illinois farmer due to this service. 
A differential in price to Bureau 
members has been established. 
During the year 1929, this saving 
alone amounted to $37,500. The 
savings represented by basic price 
of agricultural limestone, as com- 
pared with prices prevailing in 
other states, was estimated at $180,- 
000 in 1929 alone. This differential, 
or discount, to Farm Bureau mem- 
bers during 1930 amounted to more 
than $30,000. 

Ground Phosphate 

Organized buying of ground rock 
phosphate began in Illinois early 
in 1920. A branch office of the I. 
A. A. limestone-phosphate depart- 
ment was opened at Columbia, 
Tennessee, in the phosphate field, 
on March 15, 1920. This office re- 
ported on shipments, rendered in- 
voices, check tested, and looked 
after the interests of Farm Bureau 
members. 

At that time rock phosphate was 
being sold on the basis of 13% 
phosphorus and 90% through 100- 
mesh screen (10,000 openings to the 
square inch) at a price of $10.00 to 
$10.25 f. o. b. mines in Tennessee. 
These were the best prices avail- 
able, and they were based on a 
guarantee of buying 10,000 tons. 

After further negotiations, the I. 
A. A. was able to contract for a 
minimum of 20,000 tons at a price 
of $7.50 per ton f. o. b. mines, in 
Tennessee, with the understanding 
and agreement that each and every 
car was to be sampled and analyzed 
by the I. A. A.’s own sampler and 
chemist, and the shipping company 
agreeing to accept settlement on 
the results obtained by our own 
chemist. 

During the remaining nine 
months of this first year, 28,000 tons 
were handled through the depart- 
ment, a direct saving to the pur- 
chasing farmer of $2.50 to $2.75 per 
ton, or a total of more than $70,000. 


New Plan Tried 

This same method of contract 
dealing was maintained during the 
next four or five years, but it soon 
became evident that to produce 
sufficient tonnage to permit the 
producing companies to remain in 
business, would require the efforts 
of well-trained and highly efficient 
salesmen. ¥ 

With this in mind, a new plan 
was worked out whereby the I. A. A. 
ceased to merchandise, but main- 
tained a supervisional and advisory 
Service under which basis specifi- 
cations were established and each 
individual shipment was sampled 
and analyzed and reported upon to 
the customers by the I. A. A.’s own 
employees. 

A small fee per ton to the I. A. A. 
on everything the contract com- 
panies shipped into Illinois, was 
This fee, however, 
did not reflect itself in a higher 
cost to the purchaser, as the plan 
had a very great bearing upon the 
elimination of sales resistance and 
the contract companies were able 


| to sell much more phosphate per 
| Salesman and per dollar of sales ex- 


pense than they were able to do 
otherwise. 

Under this plan, which has been 
maintained since it was first in- 
augurated, tonnage began to in- 
crease, until in 1929 it reached the 
greatest tonnage ever supervised by 
the I. A. A. in any one year. 


Improves Quality 


card as to competitive quality was 
prepared, which put all agricultural 
limestone on the market at its own| 
value and price according to qual- 
ity, rather than permitting all 


At all times the I, A. A. has based 
its policies and activities on the 
latest scientific and experimental 
findings, until at the present time 
the specification for fineness is 95% 
through a 200 mesh sieve (40,000 


grades to be sold at same price, 
which unduly penalized the pur- 
chaser of material of low grade 
where he could have purchased a 
higher and more satisfactory grade 
at no greater cost. 
A Joint Service 

Also, the department has con- 
tinued at all times, to work in co- 
operation with and under advice of 
the authorities of the University of 
Illinois. The farm advisers are 
carrying out the latest research 
findings and advice of research 
authorities, thereby bringing about 
a more intelligent use of limestone, 
measuring the application to each 
acre’s needs. The work of the farm 
advisers along this line cannot be 


/ 


Openings per square inch) . 
pared to 90% through a 100-mesh 
Sieve at the start. The fineness on 
the 100-mesh sieve continued to in- 
crease year to year until it finally 
averaged on all shipments more 
than 99% and approximately 97% 
through a 200-mesh. This finer 
grinding has increased production 
costs somewhat, but it has very 
much more increased its value to 
the farmer. The Selling cost today 
is a very material factor in the 
price to the consumer. Increased 
demand for this product would tend 
to greatly decrease this Selling cost. 
During the 12 years life of the 
Limestone - Phosphate Department 
(Continued on Page 4, Col. 6) 


EXTRA EDITION EDITION, JUNE, 1932 


TAA. FIGHTS FOR 2 AGRICULTURI 


FARM C0-0PS 
GIVE PRODUCER | | 


BETTER PRICE| fae Sa 


Narrows Spread Between 
Price Paid By Consumer 
and Received By Grower 


Ten years ago when the tenth 
anniversary of the Farm Bureau in 
Illinois was observed there began a 
period of steady progress and de- 
re eenens in co-operative market- 
ng. 

Farmers who take part in the 
State-wide celebration July 4 have 
watched this movement develop 
from its meagre beginning to a 
great system of farmer-owned and 
controlled co-operatives operating 
on a national basis and handling 
farm commodities in volume never 
before handled through a single 
agency, private or otherwise. 

The co-operative movement in 
Illinois had its beginning in the 
formation of farmer-owned grain 
elevators and.co-operative livestock 
shipping associations which oper- 
ated as independent local organi- 
zations. It was not until after the 
depression of 1921-22 that Illinois 
farmers began seriously to develop 
machinery to control their com- 
modities after they left the country 
point. 

This movement led to the organ- 
ization of the Producers Livestock 
Commission Association of East St. 
Louis, followed by similar sales ‘co- 
operatives the next year at Chi- 
cago, Peoria, and Indianapolis. The 
Illinois Agricultural Association de- 
voted much time and effort to the 
organization of these co-ops. 


Began in 1921 


About this time the I. A. A. also 
began making surveys to find the 
possibilities in marketing other 
“commodities co-operatively. The 
year 1921 marks the beginning of 
the first state fruit and vegetable 
co-operative, the first co-operative 
milk association, and the first at- 
tempts at handling grain on the 
terminal markets. 

At present Illinois farmers have 
state-wide agencies for marketing 
milk, . vegetables, livestock, grain, 
soybeans, butterfat, poultry, red top 
seed, and other commodities. Sev- 
eral of these are affiliated with na- 
tional marketing organizations. 

More than 23,000 carloads of Illi- 
nois livestock were handled through 
Producers’ Commission Associations 
or sold direct to packers during 
1931. Early in the year the Illinois 
Livestock Marketing Association 
was organized to co-ordinate the 
work of county and district mar- 
keting associations and direct the 
movement of livestock to the best 
markets. 

At the present time the state as- 
sociation has six county concentra- 
tion points in operation and two 
more almost ready to open. The 
volume of livestock handled by 
these points has increased every 
month since last October when they 
started operating as units of the 
association. 

In May the volume was nearly 
3,000,000 pounds. During the eight 
months from October 1 to June 1 
the association handled 15,309,520 
pounds. The new organization is af- 
filiated with the National Livestock 
Marketing Association and works in 
co-operation with Producers’ Com- 
mission agencies. 

Over 80 Members 


The Illinois Grain Corporation, 
organized in 1930, now has over 
eighty member elevators as com- 
pared with 32 at the beginning of 
1931. These elevators have a com- 
bined business of 14,000,000 bushels 
of grain annually. 

Illinois Grain Corporation stands 
third among the 25 regional co- 
operatives in volume of grain 
handled through Farmers National 
Grain Corporation during the past 
year. At least 60 of the 102 coun- 
ties in the state have used the ter- 
minal facilities of the co-operative, 
sending their grain from more than 
200 shipping points. The average 
volume from Illinois for the past 
four months is more than 600 cars 
a month. In March, 666 cars were 
handled by the state organization. 

A seven per cent dividend on 
preferred stock in Mllinois Grain 
was recently paid out of the earn+ 
ings of the co-operative. This is an 
indication that the organization is 
getting the support of grain grow- 
ers. Deficits incurred during the or- 
ganization period also have been 


I. A. A. B 


Part of the 3,000 Entering Armory at Decatur, where State-Wide Demonstration July athYwas Un 


Approved. 


paid off. For the first time in his- 
tory farmers are organized to con- 
trol their grain until it reaches the 
processor or consumer. 

The Illinois Fruit Growers Ex- 
change last year handled more than 
1,200 cars of fruit and vegetables, 
selling to 200 markets in 23 states 
and three Canadian provinces. This 
is one of the oldest co-operatives 
in the state. It is affiliated with 
the National Fruit and Vegetable 
Exchange, recently organized with 
A. B. Leeper as its president and 
general manager. In addition to its 
marketing activities, the state ex- 
change purchases supplies for fruit 
growers and has only recently or- 
ganized a credit corporation to aid 
its members. 

Practically every milk market in 
Illinois is now organized and 85 per 
cent of the fluid milk in the state 
is marketed through co-operatives. 
The value of co-operatives in the 
fluid milk industry is shown by the 
fact that milk was the last farm 
commodity to suffer price declines 
and even now milk is much above 
the level of grain, livestock, and 
other major commodities. 


Care For Surplus 


An important step is now being 
undertaken at Rock Island and at 
Peoria to take care of surplus milk 
by setting up creameries owned and 
operated by the milk co-operatives. 
During the past year surplus milk 
has created one of the major prob- 
lems confronting the industry. 

The M[linois Produce Marketing 
Association handled more than 3,- 
000,000 pounds of butterfat during 
1931 through its 48 member county 
associations. It is estimated by 
F. A. Gougler, director of produce 
marketing for the I. A. A., that the 
co-operative actually raised the 
price of butterfat three cents above 
what the price would have been 
without farmer organization. This 
means a cash return of several 
hundred thousand dollars, not in- 
cluding patronage refunds to mem- 
bers. Non-members as well as mem- 
bers receive the benefit of the im- 
proved price level. 


The Soybean Marketing Associa- 
tion, which has just finished its 
second season, has handled nearly 
3,000,000 bushels of soybeans at 
prices from three to four cents 
above prices paid across the state 
line in Indiana where soybean 
growers are not organized. This 
year the association handled a con- 
siderable volume of beans for ex- 
port. About 31 counties sent soy- 
beans through the co-operative this 
year. More than 4,000 growers hold 
memberships in the organization. 
Illinois produces about 40 per cent 
of the soybeans produced in the 
United States for commercial pur- 
poses, and of these the Soybean As- 
sociation markets about 60 per cent. 

Nearly 1,000 new members were 
signed up by the red-top seed co- 
operative, the Egyptian Seed 
Growers Exchange in 1931, increas- 
ing the membership to 2,738. This 
co-operative controls a large part 
of the red-top grown in this coun- 
try. About 90 per cent of the coun- 
try’s supply comes from southern 
Tllinois where the Seed Growers Ex- 
change is located. 


INVITE YOUR NEIGHBOR 

TO ATTEND THE DEMON- 

STRATION YOUR COUNTY 
JULY 4 


From Rockford to Cairo They Came 


SAVE CASH CUT 
FARM COSTS BY 
VOLUME BUYING 


Organized Purchasing of 
Petroleum Products Pays, 
Save More Than Dues 


Most of the Farm Bureau mem- 
bers who drive to the celebrations 
to be held in every county in Illi- 
nois July 4 will be using oil and gas 
bought through their own company 
at an average saving of 15 per cent 
of what it would have cost them 
elsewhere. 

The Illinois Farm Supply Com- 
pany is an excellent example of 
what farmers can do to cut their 
production costs through organized 
purchasing of commodities they 
need. That the state company and 
its subsidiaries have succeeded in 
achieving this aim is demonstrated 
by their rapid growth and their 
substantial refunds. 

April 1 was the fifth birthday of 
the Farm Supply Company. In 1927 
it started business with ten county 
companies already organized and a 
few others in process of organiza- 
tion. At the end of seven months 
the company had 14 member com- 
panies and had handled for them 
3,500,000 gallons of petroleum prod- 
ucts. This was just a beginning. 


Ranked Fifth 


The state company in 1931 
handled for its 47 member com- 
panies more than 33,000,000 gallons 
of fuel oils and lubricants. This 
farmer-owned company ranked fifth 
in gasoline sales and second in 
kerosene sales among the 874 li- 
censed petroleum distributors in 
the state last year. 

But what about the savings which 
the company made possible for 
Farm Bureau members? In 1931 
more than $500,000 went back to 
member patrons from the county 
subsidiaries. This was enough to pay 
the Farm Bureau membership dues 
of every member in the counties 
where these companies operate. If 
members got no other benefit from 
the organization but the privilege 
of sharing in this enterprise they 
would be amply rewarded. 

Three years ago there ‘were only 
16 companies associated with the 
state company, operating 42 bulk 
storage stations and approximately 


100 trucks. Today there are 52) 


member companies, 125 bulk sta- 
tions, and some 360 trucks serving 
the farm trade. 

Yet, in spite of the rapid growth 
during the past few years, 1932 
promises to be the greatest year for 
the’ project. During February the 
Farm Supply Company received 
orders for more than 400 cars of 
petroleum products, representing 
an increase of 19.5 per cent for 
volatile fuels, 22.3 per cent for lubri- 
cating oils, and 83.8 per cent for 
grease over the same month the 
preceding year. 

April Big Month 

More than five and one-half 
million gallons of these products, 
or something over 700 carloads, were 
distributed to’ Illinois farmers 
through this agency during April. 
During the five years the compa vd 
has operated, no month has equa 
led this in volume. All commodities 
handled showed substantial in- 
creases over the corresponding 
month in previous years. 

Gasoline sales were 3.6 better 
than any previous April, kerosene 
sales were 29.1 per cent better, 
tractor and burner fuel 449.9 per 
cent better, and lubricating oil 5.5 
per cent better. 

The gallonage of all petroleum 
products handled during the first 
eight months of the present fiscal 


| year exceed the yolume for the 


same period last year by a good 
margin. The volume handled dur- 


ing the past eight months was more 
than the entire gallonage handled 
by the company during the fiscal 
years of 1929 and 1930. 

This increase in volume is not 
due entirely to the organization of 
the five new companies. The com- 


| 


panies already in opera 
shown substantial increas 
ness. This indicates that 


Jare realizing more and 


economic value of co-ope: 
chasing as a means of 
production, oot aan costs. 


SURVEY SHO 
MONEY SAI 


Benefits Revealed by 
County Farm Bur 
Typical of All Co 


The Carroll County Fal 
returned its members 
$25.75 in measurable ca: 
for every membership fee 
recent survey reveals. The 
of maintaining the o 
was $7,704 and the ¢ 
and direct savings th 
services were $16,522. 

This saving was reali 
cipally on five projects of 
Bureau; namely, automo! 
ance, life insurance, 
products, serum, and lim 
amount saved in farm 
rates, co-operative m 
other projects of -the 
is not included in the 

More than $8, 
to members as a cash 
and gas purchased ft 
Farm Bureau company. 
ing on life insurance in 
Bureau company was est 
$2,784, and on automob 
ance, $2,708. Comparis 
based on costs in neal 
petitive companies. TI! 
service returned $1,912 an 
ing on limestone obtaine 
the organization was $71 


Savings by Townsh 

In every township exce 
saving was more than $50 
of the 14 townships, the ; 
more than $1,000. In R 
township, where 79 men 
advantage of the servi 
than $3,000 was returned. 
Records of one of th 
townships in the county 
the returns per membe 
from $2 to $149, depenc 
how much they used tt 


iservices of the Farm Bur 


-Below are listed the say 
by a number of individu 
at random: Roland Afr 
Herman Heuerman, $8.94 
mobile insurance, $3.40 ¢ 
gas, and $14.63 on serun 
Bloyer and Son, $10.42 o1 


|surance and $11.52 on oi 


Christ Bremmer, $24.93 ¢ 
gas; Charles Cheeseman 
$21 on life insurance an 
oil and gas; H. L. Derrer 
oil and gas and $12.50 on 
Fritz Franklin and Son, 
auto insurance, on | 
ance, $36.52 on yr 
$11.42 on serum; F. A. 
$7.04 on auto insurance, 
oil and gas, $78 on serun 
on limestone. 


A Typical Count 
Carroll county is not. 
as an exceptional county 
Bureau work, but-as at 
ty. Similar direct Savin 
shown in every organized 
the state. These five se 
amples of actual cash § 
the figures are on the 
show exactly how eac] 
profited by patronizing 
companies. The amount | 
ing depends almost ent 
the amount of patrona; 
dividual gives to these gs 
The indirect benefit; 
from the tax reduction 
the I. A. A., from rep; 
before rate-making and 
ing bodies, and from ec 
marketing of farm prod 
swell the dollars and ce 
per member to a mu 
figure. 


THE FARMER MU: 
THE NATION BA\ 
PROSPERIT 


— 


of All Co 


ll County Fe 
S members. 
easurable cas 
embership fee 
y reveals. The 
ning the oO 
and the cas 
savings 
e $16,522. 
ng was reg 
ve projects of 
mely, automo 
insurance, 
rum, and lime 
ed in farm 
erative mée 
cts of -the 
ded in the 
Nn $8, UU vas" 4 
as a cash re! 
yurchased thr 
au company. 
insurance in 
npany was est 
on automoh 
8. Comparis 
costs in neg 
mpanies. Th 
rned $1,912 a 
astone obta 
‘ation was $ 
ngs by Townsh 
township excey 
more than $50 
ywnships, the s 
$1,000. In F 
where 79 mem 
of the servid 
was returned. 
of one of the 
in the county 
S per membe 
» $149, depend 
they used th 
the Farm Bure 
2 listed the savi 
er of individus 
: Roland Ari 
puerman, $8.94 
irance, $3.40 or 
14.63 on serum 
Son, $10.42 on 
d $11.52 on oil 
mmer, $24.93 or 
es Cheeseman 
insurance and 
3; H. L, Derrer, 
and $12.50 on | 
klin and Son, 
ance, $30. on 1 
2 on oil ant 
serum; F. A. 
uto insurance, 
s, $78 on serum, 
ne. 


Typical County 
county is not ¢ 
sptional county 
rk, but-as 2 typi 
r direct savings 
‘very Organized 4 
These five servic 

actual cash 
Ss are on the te 
‘tly how each 
y patronizing 
. The amount of 


ds almost entire 


nt of patronage 
ives to these sery 
direct benefits 


fax reduction. pro 


A., from repres 


e-making and ls 
; and from co-¢ 
of farm product 


dollars and cen 


ber to a much 


RMER MUST 


. 
a 
i 4 


se 


imously 


bn have 
in busi- 
farmers 
nore the 
ve pur- 
reducing 


—————— — 


Page 3 


- SAVES MEMBERS MONEY 


FARM BUREAU 
FIGHTS TO CUT 
TAXES FURTHER 


Tax Committees Reveal Lo- 
cal Districts Can Eliminate 
Levies Next Year 


Farm Bureau members who 
gather in every Illinois county to 
take part in the state-wide demon- 
stration July 4 will have in their 
minds the dramatic story of how 
their organization has led the fight 
for just taxation during the past 
ten years and will have at their 
command figures to show the dol- 
lars-and-cents value of such work. 

They will also gather in their 
various counties with a determi- 
nation to continue the fight and put 
across the new state-wide campaign 
of intelligent tax reduction now be- 
ing conducted by the Farm Bureaus 
and Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion. County Tax Committees are 
how getting the facts about tax- 
ation in their own communities 
with an eye to reducing if not wip- 
ing out levies in the next year or 
two. 

“Information brought to light at 
district tax reduction conferences 
held up to date indicate that many 
school districts have sufficient 
funds on hand so that substantial 
cuts can be made in local tax 
levies,” John C. Watson, director of 
taxation, reported recently. 

Can Eliminate Levies 

“Members of the County Farm 
Bureau tax committees, many of 
whom are local school trustees, 
showed that there were sufficient 
funds in local treasuries to entirely 
eliminate tax levies for the next 
year or two and still remain on a 
cash. basis,” he said. 

Watson reported that the local 
tax reduction program is being ac- 


cost/cepted enthusiastically over the 


ough its 


ed prin- 
he Farm 
ile insur- 
petroleum 
one. The 
es, utility 
ing, and 
m Bureau 


state and that tax committees are 
already taking steps to secure full 
information before proceeding fur- 
ther. 

“While the results of this inquiry 
cannot’be measured until late sum- 
mer or early fall,” said Mr. Wat- 
son, “the outcome so far looks en- 
couraging. We believe it will result 
in a substantial reduction in-gen- 
eral taxes on property without im- 
pairing any necessary or essential 


-| public services. 


through 


one the 
In eight 
ving was 
k Creek 
pers took 
PSs, more 


\ average 
how that 
' ranged 
bg upon 
various 
Au. 
ngs made 
Ss picked 
han and 
Ne auto- 
oil and 
Charles 
auto in- 
nd gas; 
oil and 
d Son, 
$1.17 on 
4 4.34 on 
mestone; 
7.06 on 


be 
‘ 


“The state-wide investigation 
growing out of the appointment of 
county and township Farm Bureau 
tax committees has for its goal tax 
reduction without creating or in- 
creasing public debt, but if possible 
with reductions in existing debts,” 
Mr. Watson said. 

“There is no intent in this survey 
to embarrass any public official, in 
fact, we expect it to result in ac- 
knowledgment and commendation 
of good administration wherever 
found.” 

Township Committees Too 

The County Tax Committees will 
secure all necessary information 
about the revenues, expenditures 
and financial condition of their 
own respective counties, Township 
Tax Committees will do the same 
for taxing districts wholly or par- 
tially within the township. 

Thus far all counties have been 
represented in the district. con- 
ferences held with one exception 
and that county is expected to be 
represented at a later meeting. 

Conferénces with attendance held 
to date are as follows: 

May 25, Aledo, 80 present 

June 2, Rushville, 105 present 

June 6, Murphysboro, 113 present 

June 7, Carmi, 150 present 

June 8, Olney, 47 present 

June 9, Tuscola, 43 present 

June 10, Danville, 78 present 

$1,500,000 Slash ¥” ‘ 

Reductions in farm valuations in 
Illinois during 1931 alone, through 
the efforts of the Farm Bureau, 


nsus-;were slashed approximately $1,500,- 


iS, and 
ilhelm, 
9.96 on 


000 from the tax bill of Illinois 
farmers as compared to what they 
would have paid under 1930 valua- 
tions. . 

Farm property will pay about $6,- 
500,000 less in all taxes on the 1931 
valuations than it would have paid 
if assessments had remained the 
same as in 1920. 

This. means an average saving of 
nearly $33 in taxes on each of the 


214,000 farms of three acres or more 


in the state. In a number of coun- 
ties the actual reduction amounts 
to this much from 1931 to 1932 
alone. 

On December 14, 1921, farmers 
were represented along with other 
taxpayers in a public, hearing. be- 
fore the Illinois Tax ommission 
for the first time (in the) history of 
Illinois. Mr. Watson was there to 


f| give the commission the results of 


higher 


AD 


(ATION BACK 


>ROSPERITY 


a 
+ 


studies he had been making. The 
Tilinois Agricultural Association 
protested against the increase in 
valuations which had raised farm 
taxes and asked for a new deal. 
In 1921-1922 

As a result of these efforts in be- 
half of the farmer, the commission 
cut valuations of land $181,066,785 
in 1921 and 1922. At the state rate 
then in effect this meant a saving 
of more than $1,000,000 to farmers. 
The following year saw practically 
every Farm Bureau checking land 
and improvement valuations. The 


eae | 


association failed to win its fight for 
equalization in certain counties, but 
at the end of the year the re- 
capitulation showed that from 1921 
to 1923 land owners had secured 
the benefit of a total reduction of 
$3,963,773 in state and county taxes. 

In both 1924 and 1925 the con- 
tinuing effect of the previous efforts 
Saved the farmers of [Illinois be- 
tween $2,000,000 and $2,500,000. 
Each year reduced valuations have 
helped cut the farmer’s tax burden 
in spite of some increases in rates. 

Assessed valuations of Illinois 
farm lands and improvements were 
cut more than $286,000,000 in 1931, 
it is shown in a survey recently 
completed by the taxation depart- 
ment of the I. A. A. This means 
that the total assessed values of 
farm property, excluding Cook 
county, are now approximately 15.9 
per cent below 1930 values. 

All. Except Six 

Every county in the state except 
six received reductions in land 
valuations during the past year 
ranging from less than one per cent 
to as much as 37 per cent. In some 
instances land was assessed as 
much as $20 to $25 an acre lower. 
Fourteen counties had reductions 
of at least 25 per cent. In one 
county $14,500,000 was cut from the 
total valuation of farm lands and 
improvements. 

Not only were valuations cut, but 
drastic reductions were made in the 
farmer’s taxes as a result of the 
cuts. Taxpayers in Piatt county are 
paying $107,714 less. taxes this year 
than a year ago because of lower 
assessments secured through the 
efforts of the Farm Bureau tax 
committee. 

‘Thirty-six farms picked at ran- 
dom from various townships in 
Rock Island county show how the 
fight waged by the Farm Bureau 
last December succeeded in lower- 
ing farm taxes. All the farms ex- 
amined except one paid less taxes 
for 1931 than for 1930. Reductions 
ranged from $3 to $80 per farm. 

Save $2 to $72 Per Farm 


In a similar test in McDonough 
county every one of the 36 farms 
showed a reduction. The saving 
varied from $2 to $72 per farm. In 
ten cases out of the 36 the reduc- 
tion was more than $50 per farm. 
This saving is in the most part 
accounted for by the 25 per cent 
reduction in assessed valuations 
secured through the Farm Bureau. 

Sangamon county is another ex- 
ample of the influence of the Farm 
Bureau in securing tax reductions. 
There the cut in valuations on farm 
lands and improvements last year 
was 26.89 per cent, a reduction of 
$18.88 per acre in the assessed valu- 
ations. This means a saving of 
about. $90 per quarter section of 
land in the tax bill under the pres- 
ent rate. 

Even with these drastic reduc- 
tions in assessed valuations and 
taxes, they are still out of line with 
present selling values. Figures just 
released by the Bureau of the Cen- 
sus show that during the decade 
1920 to 1930 farm property values 
declined 26.5 per cent. Since 1930 
there have been more rapid de- 
clines. 


Local Papers Called it 


Biggest Task Yet 
Undertaken In State 


All officers, directors, and the en- 
tire staff of the I. A. A. and as- 
sociated companies are mobilized to 
help out in organization work and 
preparation for Dedication Day. 
Officers, directors and staff mem- 
bers will appear as afternoon 
speakers at the celebration meet- 
ings to follow the big parade. Allied 
organizations in Dlinois and from 
adjoining states have been calle 
on for help in providing speakers 
for the occasion. 

This state-wide demonstration to 
to be held simultaneously in every 
county on the same day is the big- 
gest task ever undertaken by 
farmers of* Illinois. The problem of 
scheduling a speaker at every 
county looked almost impossible 
when the plan was first outlined, 
but with the co-operation of all 
groups a list of speakers was drawn 
up and a schedule arranged to pro- 
vide for every county celebration. 


IF THE FARMER DOESN’T 

ORGANIZE OTHERS WILL 

AND THEY’LL TAKE CARE 

OF THEIR OWN INTERESTS 
FIRST 


MILLIONS SAVED 
AS RESULT OF 
L.A. A. SERVICE 


Illinois Farmer Now Has 
Expert Representation And 
Freight Rate Service 


Farmers who attend the state- 
wide celebrations July 4 could count 
up several million dollars they have 
Saved as a result of advice and 
representation in public utility mat- 
ters made available through the 
Illinois Agricultural - Association 
since the organization was started. 

The transportation department 
works quietly in conferences with 
utility and railroad exécutives, be- 
fore state and interstate commerce 
bodies, and in its own office at the 
I. A. A. headquarters. Even the 
members of the Farm Bureau 
scarcely realize that matters vitally 
affecting their interests are being’ 
brought up almost daily.’ 


Railroads are constantly attempt- 
ing to change freight rates, to dis- 
continue local stations, and other- 
wise alter shipping facilities;, con- 
struction companies are continu- 
ously offering contracts for rights- 
of-way across farm lands which 
frequently would work out to the 
disadvantage of the farmer; tele- 
phone complaints come in almost 
every day; the construction of elec- 
tric transmission lines frequently~ 
starts controversies; and damage 
claims are made by the-hundreds. 


Need Expert Service 


In this day when every farmer 
has business sooner or later with 
railroads or utilities of some sort, 
he must have expert representation 
which he can get only through or- 
ganization. The individual farmer 
cannot protect his own interests 
against powerful corporations. He 
cannot keep informed as to freight 
rate matters which require expert 
interpretation. 

The I. A. A. transportation de- 
partment, organized in 1920, at first 
devoted its attention to settling loss 
and damage claims for members, 
but soon initiated the important 
work in. securing lower freight 
rates and opposing increases. 

The first outstanding accomplish- 
ment that really showed the pos- 
sibilities in transportation service 
was realized when the association 
secured freight rate reductions on 
limestone for western Illinois 
farmers, saving them  approxi- 
mately $30,000 on the basis of 1920 
figures. J. R. Bent and L. J. Quasey 
played an important part in this 
accomplishment. 

In 1923 the Interstate Commerce 
Commission’s decision in the mixed 
livestock case, for which the as- 
sociation was one of the hardest 
workers, saved Illinois farmers ap- 
proximately $270,000 a year. Re- 
duced rates on livestock were 
gained for shippers along the Wa- 
bash railroad to East St. Louis. A 


a “Mystery” Meeting. 


grazing-in-transit privilege was se- 
cured.from the Rock Island which 
meant a saving of $28 on a double 
deck car of sheep from the West. A 
transit privilege on red-top seed 
was established which made pos- 
sible a saving of $30.a car. 


Fruit Rates Cut 


Early in 1924 in a proceeding be- 
fore the Interstate Commerce Com- 
mission a proposed advance in 
fruit and vegetable rates was op- 
posed resulting in a saving of from 
$22 to $30 a car on peaches and 
strawberries, and from $7 to $9.50 
a car on other fruits and veg- 
etables. 

In a complaint brought by the 
I. A. A. before the state commerce 
commission the- minimum weight 
on hogs in carloads was reduced 
from 17,000 to 16,500 pounds, re- 
sulting in an annual saving of ap- 
proximately $100,000. The MIlinois 
Agricultural Association working 
with. the American Farm Bureau 
succeeded in defeating a proposed 
increase in freight rates on farm 
products asked by the railroads in 
1925. 

Each year the services of this de- 
partment have broadened and the 
savings to farmers have increased. 
Last year, advice and representa- 
tion meant a saving .of at least 
$500,000. Eighty-five counties shared 
in this service which includes ad- 
justment of freight rates, train 
service, shipping facilities, railroad 
station closing cases, railroad right- 
of-way cases, pipe lines, telephone 

(Continued on page 4, Col. 3) 


LA. A. PUTS 40. 
BILLS THROUGH 
LEGISLATURE 


In Every Session Are Many 
Measures of Interest and 
Importance to Farmers 


Farm interests have constantly 
been represented by the Illinois Ag- 
ricultural Association at Springfield 
since 1916 when the first legislative 
committeé of the organization was 
appointed and sent to the state 
capital to speak for agriculture. 

Since that time more than 40 
bills, initiated and supported by the 
I. A. A., have been incorporated in- 
to the laws of the state. The or- 
ganization has been equally as ac- 
tive in opposing legislation contrary 
to agricultural interests. 

Among the first bills sponsored 
by the I. A. A. were the pure seed 
bill, the farm advisers’ bill, and a 
bill to allow farmers compensation 
for the slaughter of tubercular cat- 
tle. The first of these was actually 
drafted by the legislative committee 
of the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion, as were a number of other 
bills. 

In every session of the general 
assembly since that time, there have 
been some bills in which the or- 
ganization was interested either as 
sponsor or supporter or as an 
opponent. Perhaps, thé three bills 
with the greatest significance to 
farmers were the state co-operative 
marketing act of 1923, the gas tax 
bill, and the state income tax bill 
the constitutionality of which is 
now being tested before the su- 
preme court. 


100 Per Cent Co-ops 

The marketing act opened the 
way for the organization of 100 per 
cent co-operatives. The gas tax has 
aided in giving the state an ex- 
cellent system of paved roads, and 
the income tax when fully in effect 
will reduce property taxes and lift 
part of the unjust burden from the 
farmer and home owner. 

The growing cost of distributing 
farm products early impressed farm 
leaders with the need for legisla- 
tion under which farmers might 
form non-profit co-operatives for 
the purpose of encouraging orderly 
marketing and reducing thé spread 
between producer and consumer 
prices. An insidious attempt, made 
by enemies of co-operative market- 
ing, to pass a bill which would have 
killed ‘every co-operative in the 
state, brought the mattef to a head. 

In the 1923 session of the gen- 
eral assembly, thé co-operative act 
was introduced and was the center 
of a bitter fight which continued 
throughout the session. Repre- 
sentatives of the I. A. A. appeared 
before both houses several times to 
explain and defend the bill. Near 
the end of the session it went 
through without a single amend- 
ment not approved by the associa- 
tion, and is now recognized as one 
of the best laws of its kind in the 
country. 

Favored Gas Tax 


Early in 1924 the executive com- 
mittee of the I. A. A. approved the 
following recommendation of the 
legislative committee: 

‘Inasmuch as we are convinced 
that the*question of tax on gaso- 
line used for motor-driven vehicles 
will come up in this» term of the 
general assembly, we believe that 
our association should take steps in 
advance looking toward the passage 
of legislation’ that will place this 
revenue in lieu of taxes already 
levied.” 


In 1925 several gas tax bills were 
introduced. The only one that re- 
ceived any favorable consideration, 
however, was the lieu tax bill 
drafted by the I. A. A. providing 
that the revenue be used-to replace 
taxes on property and that it be 
allocated to the counties in a large 
part for maintenance and con- 
struction of secondary roads. The 
state apparently was not yet ready 


It Was A 200 Mile Drive For Many the organization livestock rates 


for this legislation for it failed to 
pass. 
Two years later when the ques- 
tion again came before the legis- 
lature, certain provisions of the I. 
A. A. bill were not received with 
favor. Other bills were introduced 
in both houses providing that all 
funds from the tax should go to- 
ward the completion of bond issue 
roads. 

As soon as the proponents of the 


‘advisable. These amendments which! has assisted the staff of*the at- 


ary % 


own * a SR I I a ee x 


From Every Part of Illinois Came Farm Bureau Leaders In Resfhs, ; 


other bills saw that they were/the bill was passed early in Febru- 
headed for defeat, they approached] ary. Since the constitutionality of 
the representatives of the associa-| the bill has been attacked and the 
tion and asked them to prepare| case carried to the supreme court, 
whatever amendments they thought / the Illinois Agricultural Association IS 


BURI 


gave recognition to secondary roads|torney general’s office in defending 
were prepared,..submitted -to’ the/it-and will continue to do so until 
proper committee, and voted by an/the final decision is handed down. 
overwhelming majority. From that| It is estimated that the state in- 
time on the gas tax bill had the/| come tax when in effect will reduce 


support of the I. A. A. and had no! farm taxes $7,500,000 annually and ‘4 2 
trouble in passing. cut taxes of other property owners DeKalk bi d Kankal 
Bate ‘Income Tax around. $22,500,000 in a year like| Countgsées Organize 
Long: before th f thi . In years of normal prosperity, | . Es i 
g © ‘passage of this the reduction in property taxes will | . A } f b lished bh 


bill farm leaders had been studying 
the possibilities of a state income|& sonsiderably greate “ 
tax as:a means of reducing the or 


heavy property tax burden on farms MILLIONS S AVED THROUGH . ben 7 


ane oe rH The ag legislative 1 ati 
omm ale « Ka : 
mittee of the Constitutional Con-| L.A. A. REPRESENTATION |cte2nizaigijons in these co 


vention in 1922 and advocated. an known aig™ first as soil an 
provemer associations. 


Sago, in 
foundation of 
Illinois was 
Kankakee cou 


amendment to the revenue section| ° (Continued from page 3) farmers Haecame aware o 
ne: pare ght such a.measure|complaints, electric transmission problems#m affecting the 
ased on abllity to pay. lines, and rural electrification. which arfape beyond their 
After attempts to amend the con-| Pipe line systems were in process they sawal the need fo 


stitution had failed both in 1922|of extension in 35 counties durin 
and 1926, it was decided to see what|the year. As a result of the pate 9 ae. 
could be done under its present) bined efforts of the I. A. A. and|pefore le 
provisions. In 1927 an income tax|county Farm Bureaus, landowners| podies ; 
bill, similar in many respects to|of the state received approximately| parme 
the bill recently passed, was in-|$350,000 more for pipe line ease- was not 
troduced but failed by 10 votes. ments and-damages in construction | tne onl 
Another income tax bill, prac-|than the companies originally of-| tno pa vas marketed v 
tically identical with the 1927 bill, | fered. importa | e to its prod 
was introduced in 1929. It passed| Early in the year through the nated tidgn gave rin 
the Senate but was defeated in the|joint efforts of committees from Bureah novement as 
House, losing this time by only five|Stephenson, Ogle and Lee counties} +,q, ur years after 
votes, In 1931 the bill for the third| and representatives of the I. A. A.) ing 7 e vocal orga 
time failed to pass, lacking only|an agreement with power officials} nexaip d Wankakee 
two votes in the House. ; regarding settlement for an electric Agricult ral Association 
In.the summer of 1931 Governor | transmission line right-of-way be-| 4° 4 teqdmration of count 
Emmerson appointed the “Gov-|*ween Dixon and Freeport pro-| reaus, 


ernor’s Tax Conference” Committee |Cured for landowners $20,000 more 
to work out a tax relief program. than previously offered by the com- W. G.ggEckardt, first 


brganization td 
ry and-reprd 
Slative and r 


$s learned that 
finished when 
for market; th 


Py ” iser ing@@0eKalb county 
The “Conference” was composed of | P@Ny- a 

dealing with shipping facilities, 20 7 po am 
representing the important groups & pping s country,fmbegan work sin 


of Illinois citizens. pisagen resisting the closing of local aa 
L.A. A. Re t Stations, and 159 cases pertaining 

This ep thane an ais to right-of-way problems such as Ping 

committee of eleven, of which Eari|"#!/Toad fences, cutting weeds on tion ha¢ 

C. Smith, president ‘of the I. A. A. rights-of-way, repair of farm cross- 27, 1912, and the Kanka 


ings, and drainage complaints. Soil ang# Crop “‘Impro 
was a member. Omer N. Custer,| “5,” sadition to this service, the | Sociatior followed on A 


chairman of the state tax commis- ar : 
sion, ‘afid’ Ray. Wants, Rockford I. A. A. claims department collected | 54me ra These we 
832 claims against public utility|COuntieg in the United 
manufacturer, were the only other ; |b definit rm 
companies totaling $20,159.88, mak- C2 lite-farmer 
downstate men on the committee, > 
ae ing the total amount of clai .| tion té on a full 
of eleven. John C. Watson, director 8 of claims col 
of taxation for the IA A. and the lected by the organization neagiy ——— 
ating $240,000 since this service was| for farmgpers. ; 
started. _ Tazewell in 
Saved $25,000 on Soybeans On J@eme 1, 1913 Taze 
Recently the I. A. A. suceeded in|organigged and adopted 
getting the Interstate Commerce|“Tazewarll County Fa 
Commission to remove the 15 per|This iggy Said to be the 
cent emergency freight increase|the titg@je was used in 
from _ soybeans, saving Illinois| States. ¥in 1913 eight 
farmers about $25,000 a year.|began @’arm Bureau wi 
Through negotiations with rail|the tot™pl of organized 
executives, the association was able|10. A year later the 
to get a reduction in rates on/| Act as passed a 
peaches into eastern territory rang-| money for county age 
ing from $23 to $99 a car. An agree-| vear ve more counti¢ 


1, 1912. T 
soil Improveme 
been organize¢ 


’ 


ment was reached with Illinois rail-; bring z the total to 
roads regarding intra-state rates on| sevent@™ county Farm 
fruits, vegetables, dairy products, |beén*amganized, and b 


hay, and limestone, resulting in a|'were 9 counties in 
saving instead of an increase in the| were agetive Farm Bure 
freight bill on these commodities.| tions q@perating. 

Largely through the influence of| ‘The Mfllinois Acricult 
tion s@™tved first as a 
* Farm Burea 
to discuss state 
S. Its early effo 
rgely to represe 
ture in the stat 
1919 the foun 
Bureau visualize 


were lowered in eastern and south- 

“original” proponent of a state in-|ern Illinois, cutting about $100,000 
come tax, was invited to attend the; a year off the farmers’ freight bill. 
sessions and assist the committee. The association also recently 
Finally, a bill providing for a|represented the interests of Illinois 
state income tax along with other} farmers in important hearings be- 
measures was drawn up and pre-/|fore the Interstate Commerce Com- 


sented at Springfield with the ap-} mission on soybean rates into Iowa S W 
proval of the Tax Conference. and on a petition to remove the t 1 te libel 
The representatives of the asso-| $2.70 switching charge from live- nem in ouestions 
ciation worked untiringly for this| stock arriving at the Chicago yards|indivi@guals and coun 
measure from the time the special} by rail. The decisions on these| hand And s0 the 


session opened in November until|cases have not yet been rendered.| cult Association 


; é 
A. A. RECORD 


ized on its present basis with a 
$4.50 annual membership fee and 
a staff of meri tarefully selected to 
carry out the adopted program. 


Given First Attention 


Legislation, taxation, representa- 
tion before rate-making bodies, and 
organized buying of agricultural 
limestone and ground rock phos- 
phate were given chief attention. 
Next co-operative marketing with 
departments for each commodity 
were set up so as to help producers 
retain control of their product un- 
til it reached the processor or con- 
sumer. 

The Producer co-operative live- 
stock marketing associations, the 
milk and produce co-operatives now 
operating in almost every market 
center in and adjoining Illinois, the 
Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange, 
the Egyptian Seed Growers Ex- 
change, the wool pool, and now the 
Tilinois. Grain Corporation were 
outgrowths of that early movement 
to give the farmer a voice in the 
sale of his products. 


Early in 1924 a new service was 
added when the present Illinois 
Agricultural Auditing -Association 
was organized then as the Illinois 
Agricultural Co-operatives Associa- 
tion. The primary object of this 
service was to provide an adequate 
and competent audit and account- 
ing service for co-operative associa- 
tions and agricultural organiza- 
tions. 


| BUREAU 
| YEARS OLD 
IRMED IN "12 


d Kankakee First 
s Organized, I. A. 
blished In 1916 


Sago, in June, 1912, 
Murridation of the Farm 
Illinois was laid in De- 
Kankakee counties. Both 
ons in these counties were 
first as soil and crop im- 
associations. Later as 
pcame aware of the larger 
affecting their industry 
e beyond their line fences 
the need for a strong, 
brganization to fight for 
ry andrepresent them 
slative and rate-making 


s learned that their job 
finished when they grew 
for market; that the way 
vas marketed was of equal 
e to its production. This 
mM gave rise to the Farm 
hovement as we know it 
r years after the launch- 
e local organizations in 
d Kankakee the Illinois 
ral Association was formed 
ration of county Farm Bu- 


Later Services 


The Farmers Mutual Reinsurance 
Co. was launched a year later on 
November 21, 1925 to provide fire, 
hail, windstorm insurance, and re- 
insurance for local farm mutuals. 

Next came the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Mutual Ins. Co. im 1926, the 
Iinois Farm Suvply Co. in 1927, 
and the Country Life Insurance Co. 
in 1929. Throughout this period 
were organized many co-operatives 
about market centers and in rural 
communities throughout the state. 


Eckardt, first county ad- 
WéeKalb county, and John 
of Kankakee county, old- 
br in point of service in the 
began work simultaneously 
1, 1912. The DeKalb 
Soil Improvement Associa- 
been organized on March 
and the Kankakee County 
Crop ‘Improvement As- 
followed on April 20, the 
ar. These were the first 
in the United States to 
definite-farmer's organiza- 
on a full program of 
on and marketing service 
hers. 
Tazewell in ’13 
me 1, 1913 Tazewell county 
d and adopted the name 
ll County Farm Bureau.” 
said to be the first time 
was used in the United 


versary Celebration in DeKalb. 
Eugene Davenport, then dean of 
the State College of Agriculture. 
wrote of this celebration: “Illinois 
farm veople from everv corner of 
the great commonwealth, from the 
rolling hills. the fertile bottoms, 
and sweeping prairies, commemo~ 


YEW ARMORY 


} e To An Emergency Anveal—President Smith Is Seen Speaking To the Delegates. 


Ten years ago at the.10th Anni-. 


EXTRA EDITION, JUNE, 1932 


ahead—a promise of a profitable 
and permanent agriculture and a 
successful and satisfactory farm 
life.” 

So on July 4 will members of the 
Farm Bureau gather in every 
county, mindful of the fear and 
paralysis that for the present grips 
the nation; conscious of the greed 
and exploitation largely responsible 
for the condition of the country, 
but steadfast in support of organ- 
ized effort, and looking ahead to a 
more successful and satisfactory 
farm life.. 


AT DECATUR 


LAUNCH DRIVE 
TO RAISE PRICE 


(Continued from page 1) 


The executive session lasted un- 
til almost noon, and the waiting 
crowd was kept busy by J. H. Check- 
ly, Logan county farm adviser who 
led in community singing. 


President Smith was greeted with 
a. two-minute ovation when he 
mounted the platform. He did not 
waste time in preliminaries. He 
stated that the condition of the 
Illinois farmer had been growing 
worse and worse and that reports 
of staff members pointed to a 
critical situation. 


Smith Explains Bill 


Explaining the operation of the 
emergency price raising plan, Mr. 
Smith cited an example of a 
farmer selling 1,000 bushels of 
wheat. If the survey of the secre- 
tary of agriculture showed that 75 
per cent of the wheat crop was 
needed for home consumption, the 
farmer would have 250 bushels de- 
ducted from his total and receive 
negotiable paper for 750 bushels. 

“We do not intendsto wait until 
the excise tax of 42 cents is col- 
lected before paying off,” he said. 
“We expect that unappropriated 
resources of the treasury be used in 
payment and that these funds be 
repaid through excise tax levy. 

“On May 23 I went to Washing- 
ton to see what could be done 
about it,” he said. “With me were 
other farm leaders, interested in 
finding some relief for not only 
Illinois farmers, but the farmers 
of the nation. We wanted to know 
what was being done to get rid of 
accumulated crop surpluses. 


Credit Only Temporary 

“All we heard was discussion of 
ways and means to extend more 
lines of credit to more people. With 
prices of farm products at the 
point where we ship our capital 
away whenever we ship our corn 
or hogs, what good is credit going 
to do us? It is merely temporary. 

“We asked if America could come 
back if farm prices were not 
brought back. We got blank looks. 

“We told these party leaders that 
the way_to stop the depression was 
to hurdle it instead of trailing it. 

“We got the job of working it 
out ourselves. We have drafted the 
bill and it. has been presented by 


Decatur’s Armory Never Saw Such a Large Assembly 


ORGANIZATION CUTS LIME- 
STONE PHOSPHATE COST 


(Continued from Page 2, Col. 7) 


of the I. A. A., it has sold directly 
and otherwise supervised a total of 
approximately 243,000 tons of phos-. 
phate. In a matter of dollars, this 
represents an expenditure on the 
part of the Illinois farmer for this 
one commodity alone, of approxi- 
mately $1,950,000.00, exclusive of 
freight which approximated $1,150,- 
000.00, or a total of $3,100,000. 


As was true with agricultural 
limestone, a plan was worked out 
whereby the Farm Bureau member 
could purchase phosphate on a dif- 
ferential of 50c per ton under the 
price paid by non-members. This 
feature alone has saved the mem- 
ber farmer in this state approxi- 


mately $100,000. A further saving,! 


ward to the great promise that lies of grinding, and correct weights. 


n 1913 eight new counties 
arm Bureau work bringing 
1 of organized counties to 
r later the Smith-Lever 
as passed appropriating 
for county agents. In that 
e more counties organized 
the total to 15. By 1919 
county Farm Bureaus had 
nized, and by 1921 there 
5 counties in which there 
tive Farm Bureau organiza- 
perating. 
linois Acricultural Associa- 
rved first as a medium for 
* Farm Bureau leaders to- 
to discuss state and national 
1s. Its early efforts were con- 
rgely to representing Tllinois 
‘ure in the state legislature. 
1919 the founders of the 
3ureau visualized the vos- 
s of a strong, well-financed. 
t organization to’ represent 
+ in ouestions too laree for 
lals and county units to 
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Congressman Rainey. In a confer- 
ence with the Illinois delegation, 
at which all downstate members 
were present who were in Wash- 
ington, Mr. Rainey, as dean of the 
delegation pledged the solid sup- 
port of the group. There were no 
Cook county men there, but they 
were invited.” 

Details of the demonstration and 
Dedication Day program were ex- 
plained by Secretary Geo. E. Metz- 
ger after Larry Williams briefly 
sounded the call for an aggressive, 
fighting spirit in a rousing address. 

Copies of the plan together with 
photostats of floats and blue prints 
telling how to construct them were 
handed out or sent to each county 
Farm Bureau. 

In each county a general Dedica- 
tion Day committee with sub-com- 
mittees for program, prize contest, 
floats, publicity, parade, etc. will 
carry out the July 4th’ celebration. 


| Vernon Vaniman called on for 


brief remarks paid tribute to the 


rate the organization of the first|impossible to estimate, has- been great loyalty of the Farm Bureau 
Farm Bureaus in Illinois. They are| Made due to I. A. A. bargaining;leaders and members in_ Illinois, 
gathered to celebrate the achieve- | power and to supervisional service,| pointing to the fact that hundreds 
ment of 10 years, and to look for-| which guaranteed. quality, fineness: had got up before daylight that 
morning to be at the meeting. 


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Page 4 


MORE 


LALAPUTS 40. 
BILLS THROUGH 
LEGISLATURE 


In Every Session Are Many 
- Measures of Interest and 
Importance to Farmers 


Farm interests have constantly 
been represented by the Illinois Ag- 
ricultural Association at Springfield 
since 1916 when the first legislative 
committee of the organization was 
appointed and sent to the state 
capital to speak for agriculture. 

Since that time more. than 40 
bills, initiated and supported by the 
I. A. A., have been incorporated -in- 
to the laws of the state. The or- 
ganization has been equally as ac- 
tive in opposing legislation contrary 
to agricultural interests. 

Among. the first bills sponsored 
by the I. A. A. were the pure seed 
bill, the farm advisers’ bill, and a 
bill to allow farmers compensation 
for the slaughter of tubercular cat- 
tle. The first of these was actually 
drafted by the legislative committee 
of the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion, as were a number of other 
bills. ; 

In every session of the general 
assembly since that time, there have 
been some bills in which the or- 
ganization was interested either as 
sponsor or supporter Or as an 

‘opponent. Perhaps, thé three bills 
with the greatest significance to 
farmers were the state co-operative 
marketing act of 1923, the gas tax 
pill, and the state income tax bill 
the constitutionality of which is 
now being tested before the su- 
preme court. 


100 Per Cent Co-ops 

The marketing act opened the 
way for the organization of 100 per 
cent co-operatives. The gas tax has 
aided in giving the state an ex- 
cellent system of paved roads, and 
the income tax when fully in effect 
. will reduce property taxes and lift 
part of the unjust burden from the 
farmer and home owner. 

The growing cost of distributing 
farm products early impressed farm 
leaders’ with the need for legisla- 
tion under which farmers might 
form non-profit co-operatives © for 
the purpose of encouraging orderly 
marketing and reducing the spread 
. between producer and consumer 
prices. An insidious attempt, made 
by enemies of co-operative market- 
ing, to pass a bill which would have 
killed every co-operative in the 
state, brought the matter to a head. 

In the 1923 session of the gen- 
eral assembly, the co-operative act 
was introduced and was the center 
of a bitter fight which continued 
throughout the session. Repre- 
sentatives of the I. A. A. appeared 
before both houses several times to 
explain and defend the bill. Near 
the end of the session it went 
through without a single amend- 
ment not approved by the associa- 
tion, and is now recognized as one 
of the best laws of its kind in the 
country. 

Favored Gas Tax 

Early in 1924 the executive com- 
mittee of the I. A. A. approved the 
following recommendation of the 
legislative committee: 

“Inasmuch as we are convinced 
that the question of tax on gaso- 
line used for motor-driven vehicles 
will come up in this term of the 
general assembly, we believe that 
our association should take steps in 
advance looking toward the passage 
of legislation that will place this 
revenue in lieu of taxes. already 
levied.” 


In 1925 several gas tax bills were 
introduced. The only one that re- 
ceived any favorable consideration, 
however, was the lieu tax bill 
drafted by the I. A. A. providing 
that the revenue be used to replace 
taxes on property and that it be 
allocated to the counties in a large 
part for maintenance and con- 
struction of secondary roads. The 
state apparently was not yet ready 


It Was A 200 Mile Drive For Many 


THAN 3000 PA 


other bills saw that they were| 


headed for defeat, they approached 
the representatives of the associa- 
tion and asked them to prepare 
whatever amendments they thought 
advisable. These amendments which 
gave recognition to secondary roads 
were prepared, ‘submitted to the 
proper committee, and voted by an 
overwhelming majority. From that 
time on the gas tax bill had the 
support of ‘the I. A. A. and had no 


& 


trouble in passing. 
State Income Tax 

Long before the passage of this 
bill farm leaders had been studying 
the possibilities of a state income 
tax as a means of reducing the 
heavy property tax burden on farms 
and homes. The I. A. A. legislative 
committee appeared before a com- 
mittee of the Constitutional Con- 
vention in 1922 and advocated an 
amendment to the revenue section 
to pave the way for such a measure 
based on ability to pay. 

After attempts to amend the con- 
stitution had failed both in 1922 
and 1926, it was decided to see what 
could be done under its present 
provisions. In 1927 an income tax 
bill, similar in many respects to 
the bill recently passed, was in- 
troduced but failed by 10 votes. 

Another income tax bill, prac- 
tically, identical with the 1927 bill, 
was introduced in 1929. It passed 
the Senate but was defeated in the 
House, losing this time by only five 
votes. In 1931 the bill for the third 
time failed to pass, lacking only 
two votes in the House. 

In the summer of 1931 Governor 
Emmerson appointed the “Gov- 
ernor’s Tax Conference” Committee 
to work out a tax relief program. 
The “Conference” was composed of 
40 Chicago and downstate men 
representing the important groups 
of Illinois citizens. 

I. A. A. Represented 

This group chose an executive 
committee of eleven, of which Earl 
C. Smith, president of the I. A. A., 
was a member. Omer N. Custer, 
chairman of the state tax commis- 
sion, and Ray Wantz, Rockford 
manufacturer, were the only other 
downstate men on the committee 
of eleven. John C. Watson, director 
of taxation for the I. A. A. and the 


for this legislation for it failed to 
pass. 
Two years later when the ques- 
tion again came before the legis- 
lature, certain provisions of the I. 
A. A. bill were not received with 
favor. Other bills were introduced 
in both houses providing that all 
funds from the tax should go to- 
ward the completion of bond issue 
roads. 

As soon as the proponents of the 


“original” proponent of a state in- 
come tax, was invited to attend the 
sessions and assist the committee. 

Finally, a bill providing for a 
State income tax along w'th other 
measures was drawn up and pre- 
sented at Springfield with the ap- 
proval of the Tax Conference. 

The representatives of the asso- 
ciation worked untiringly for this 
measure from the time the special 
session opened in November until 


From Every Part of Illinois Came Farm Bureau Leaders In Resiem 


|farmers about $25,000 a year.| began arm Bureau w 
Through negotiations with rail|the to of organized 
executives, the association was able} 10. year later the 
to get a reduction in rates on as passed 


the bill was passed early in Febru- 
ary. Since the constitutionality of 
the bill has been attacked and the 
case carried to the supreme court, 
the Illinois Agricultural Association 
has assisted the staff ofsthe at- 
torney general’s office in defending 
it and will continue to do so until 
the final decision is handed down. 
It is estimated that the state in- 
come tax when in effect will reduce 
farm taxes $7,500,000 annually and 
cut taxes of other property owners 
around $22,500,000 in a year like 
1931. In years of normal prosperity, 
the reduction in property taxes will 
be considerably greater._ : 


MILLIONS SAVED: THROUGH 
[. A. A. REPRESENTATION 


(Continued frdm page 3) 


complaints, electric ' transmission | 5 
lines, and rural electrification. 

Pipe line systems were in process 
of extension in 35 counties during 
the year. As a result of the com- 
bined efforts of the I. A. A. and 
county Farm Bureaus, landowners 
of the state received approximately 
$350,000 more for pipe line ease- 
ments and damages in construction 
than the companies originally of- 
fered. 

Early in the year through the 
joint efforts of committees from 
Stephenson, Ogle and Lee counties 
and representatives of the I. A. A. 
an agreement with power officials 
regarding settlement for an electric 
transmission line right-of-way be-|; 
tween Dixon and Freeport pro- 
cured for landowners $20,000 more 
than previously offered by the com- 
pany. 

The I. A. A. also handled 26 cases 
dealing with shipping facilities, 20 
cases resisting the closing of local 
stations, and 159 cases pertaining 
to right-of-way problems such as 
railroad fences, cutting weeds on 
rights-of-way, repair of farm cross- 
ings, and drainage complaints. 

In addition ‘to this service, the 
I. A. A. claims department collected 
832 claims against- public utility 
companies totaling $20,159.88, mak-|* 
ing the total amount of claims col- 
lected by the organization nearly 
$240,000 since this service was 
started. 

Saved $25,000 on Soybeans 

Recently the I. A. A. suceeded in 
getting the. Interstate Commerce 
Commission to remove the 15 per 
cent emergency freight increase 
from soybeans, saving [Illinois 


BUR 


ais a0, ' 
foundation o 
Illinois was 
Kankakee co 
Dns in these ci 
first as soil a 
associations 
ecame aware ¢ 
affecting thé 
e beyond thei 
the need fo 
brganization 
ry and repi 
slative and 


s learned tha 
finished whe 
for market; t 
vas marketed 
e to its prod 
gave rise t 
hovement as 
r years after 
e local orga 
nd Kankakee 
al Associatio 
ration of coun 


Eckarat, first 
WéKalb count 
of Kankakee 
tr in point of s 
began work sin 
1, 1912. 
soil Improvem 
been organize 
and the Kank 

Crop “Impro 
followed on 
ar. These we 
in the United 
definite farmer 
wry on a full 
on .and marke 
her's. 


Tazewell in 
ane 1, 1913 Taz 
ed and adopted 
1 County Fa 
said- to be thé 
le was used in 
In 1913 eight 


for county age! 
e more counti 
g the total to 
county Farm 
ganized, and b 
» counties in 
tive Farm Bure 
perating. 
llinois Agricult 
rved first as a 
@ Farm Burea 
to discuss state 
8. Its early effo 
rgely to represe 
ure in the stat 
1919 the foun 
Bureau visualized 
S of a strong, v 
t organization 
is in ouestions 
als and coun 
And so the I 
Association 


peaches into eastern territory rang- 
ing from $23 to $99 a car. An agree- 
ment was reached with Illinois rail- 
roads regarding intra-state rates on|§ 
fruits, vegetables, dairy products, 
hay, and limestone, resulting in a 
saving instead of an increase in the 
freight bill on these commodities. 
Largely through the influence of 
the organization livestock rates 
were lowered in eastern and south- 
ern Illinois, cutting about $100,000 
a year off the farmers’ freight bill. 

The association also recently 
represented the interests of Illinois 
farmers in important hearings be- 
fore the Interstate Commerce Com- 
mission on soybean rates into Iowa 
and on a petition to remove the 
$2.70 switching charge from live- 
stock arriving at the Chicago yards 
by rail. The decisions on these 
cases have not yet been rendered. 


Farm 
sibilit 
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farme 
indiv 
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[ BUREAU 
) YEARS OLD 


and Kankakee First 
és Organized, I. A. 
tablished In 1916 


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Sars azo, in June, 1912, 
foundation of the Farm 
Illinois was laid in De- 
Kankakee counties. Both 
pns in these counties were 
first as soil and crop im- 
associations. Later as 
ame aware of the larger 
affecting their industry 
e beyond their line fences 
the need for a: strong, 
brganization to fight for 
ry and-represent them 
slative and rate-making 


s learned that. their job 
finished when they grew 
for market; that the way 
vas marketed was of equal 
e to its production. This 
gave rise to the Farm 
hovement as we know it 
r years after the launch- 
e local organizations in 
d Kankakee the Illinois 
ral Association was formed 
ation of county Farm Bu- 


Eckarat, first county ad- 
WéeKalb county, and John 
of Kankakee county, old- 
rr in point of service in the 
began work simultaneously 

1, 1912. The DeKalb 
Soil Improvement Associa- 
been organized on March 
and the Kankakee County 
Crop “Improvement ASs- 
followed on April 20, the 
ar. These were the first 
in the United States to 
definite Aarmer’s organiza- 
on a full program of 
on .and marketing service 
hers. 


Tazewell in °13 
me 1, 1913 Tazewell county 
ed and adopted the name 
1 County Farm Bureau.” 
said-to be the first time 
» was used in the United 
In 1913 eight new counties 
arm Bureau work bringing 
of organized counties to 
Year later the Smith-Lever 
as passed appropriating 
for county agents. In that 
e more counties organized 
e the total to 15. Bv 1919 
county Farm Bureaus had 
fanized, and by 1921 there 
5 counties in which there 
tive Farm Bureau organiza- 
perating. 
linois Agricultural Associa- 
rved first as a medium for 
* Farm Bureau leaders to- 
to discuss state and national 
Ss. Its early efforts were con- 
rgely to representing Illinois 
ure in the state legislature. 
1919 the founders of the 
Bureau visualized the vos- 
$ of a strong, well-financed. 
t organization to represent 
is in ouestions too larve for 
als and county units to 
And so the Illinois Agri- 
Association was reorgan- 


ARMORY AT D 


To An Emergency Anveal—President Smith Is Seen Speaking To the Delegates. 


ized on its present basis with a 
$4.50 annual membership fee and 
a staff of men carefully selected to 
carry out the adopted program. 


Given First Attention 


Legislation, taxation, representa- 
tion before rate-making bodies, and 
organized buying of agricultural 
limestone and ground rock phos- 
phate were given chief attention. 
Next co-operative marketing with 
departments for each commodity 
were set up so as to help producers 
retain control of their product un- 
til it reached the processor or con- 
sumer. 

The Producer co-operative live- 
stock marketing associations, the 
milk and produce co-operatives now 
operating in almost every market 
center in and adjoining Illinois, the 
Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange, 
the Egyptian Seed Growers Ex- 
change, the wool pool, and now the 
Illinois. Grain Corporation were 
outgrowths of that early movement 
to give the farmer a voice in the 
sale of his products. 

Early in 1924 a new service was 
added when the present [Illinois 
Agricultural Auditing Association 
was organized then as the Illinois 
Agricultural Co-operatives Associa- 
tion. The primary object of this 
service was to provide an adequate 
and competent audit and account- 
ing service for co-operative associa- 
tions and agricultural organiza- 
tions. 

Later Services 

The Farmers Mutual Reinsurance 
Co. was launched a year later on 
November 21, 1925 to provide fire, 
hail, windstorm insurance. and re- 
insurance for local farm mutuals. 

Next came the Illinois “Agricul- 
tural Mutual Ins. Co. in. 1926, the 
Tlinois Farm.Suvply Co. in 1927, 
and the Country Life Insurance Co. 
in 1929. Throughout. this period 
were organized many co-operatives 
about market centers and in rural 
communities throughout the state. 

Ten years ago at the 10th Anni- 
versary Celebration in DeKalb. 
Eugene Davenport, then dean of 
the State College of Agriculture. 
wrote of this celebration: “Tllinois 
farm people from everv corner of 
the great commoriWealth, from the 
rolling hills. the fertile bottoms, 
and sweeping prairies, commemo- 


ahead—a promise of a profitable 
and permanent agriculture and a 
successful and satisfactory farm 
life.” 

So on July 4 will members of the 
Farm Bureau gather in every 
county, mindful of the fear and 
paralysis that for the present grips 
the nation; conscious of the greed 
and exploitation largely responsible 
for the condition of the country, 
but steadfast in support of organ- 
ized effort, and looking ahead to a 
more successful and _ satisfactory 
farm life. 


EXTRA EDITION, JUNE, 1932 


ECATUR 


LAUNCH DRIVE 
TO RAISE PRICE 


(Continued from page 1) 


The executive session lasted un- 
til almost noon, and the waiting 
crowd was kept busy by J. H. Check- 
ly, Logan county farm adviser who 
led in community singing. 

President Smith was greeted with 
a two-minute ovation when he 
mounted the platform. He did not 
waste time in preliminaries. He 
stated that the condition of the 
Illinois farmer had been growing 
worse and worse and that reports 
of staff members pointed to a 
critical situation. 


Smith Explains Bill 


Explaining the operation of the 
emergency price raising plan, Mr. 
Smith cited an example of a 
farmer selling 1,000 bushels of 
wheat. If the survey of the secre- 
tary of agriculture showed that 75 
per cent of the wheat crop was 
needed for home consumption, the 
farmer would have 250 bushels de- 
ducted from his total and receive 
negotiable paper for 750 bushels. 

“We do not intendsto wait until 
the excise tax of 42 cents is col- 
lected before paying off,” he said. 
“We expect that unappropriated 
resources of the treasury be used in 
payment and that these funds be 
repaid through excise tax levy. 

“On May 23 I went to Washing- 
ton to see what could be done 
about it,” he said. “With me were 
other farm leaders, interested in 
finding some relief for not only 
Illinois farmers, but the farmers 
of the nation. We wanted to know 
what was being done to get rid of 
accumulated crop surpluses. 


Credit Only Temporary 

“All we heard was discussion of 
ways and means to extend more 
lines of credit to more people. With 
prices of farm products at the 
point where we ship our capital 
away whenever we ship our corn 
or hogs, what gdod is credit going 
to do us? It is merely temporary. 

“We asked if America could come 
back if farm prices were not 
brought back. We got blank looks. 

“We told these party leaders that 
the way to stop the depression was 
to hurdle it instead of trailing it. 

“We got the job of working it 
out ourselves. We have drafted the 
bill and it has been presented by 


Decatur’s Armory Never Saw Such a Large Assembly 


ORGANIZATION CUTS LIME- 
STONE PHOSPHATE COST 


(Continued from Page 2, Col. 7) 


of the I. A. A., it has sold directly 
and otherwise supervised a total of 
approximately 243,000 tons of phos-. 
phate. In a matter of dollars, this 
represents an expenditure on the 
part of the Illinois farmer for this 
one commodity alone, of approxi- 
mately $1,950,000.00,- exclusive of 
freight which approximated $1,150,- 
000.00, or a total of $3,100,000. 


As was true with agricultural 
limestone, a plan was worked out 
whereby the Farm Bureau member 
could purchase phosphate on a dif- 
| ferential of 50c per ton under the 
price paid by non-members. This 
feature alone has saved the mem- 


ber farmer in this state approxi-| 
mately $100,000. A further saving,' brief remarks paid tribute to the 


Congressman Rainey. In a confer- 
ence with the Illinois delegation, 
at which all downstate members 
were present who were in Wash- 
ington, Mr. Rainey, as dean of the 
delegation pledged the solid sup-. 
port of the group. There were no 
Cook county men there, but they 
were invited.” 

Details of the demonstration and 
Dedication Day program were ex- 
plained by Secretary Geo. E. Metz- 
ger after Larry Williams briefly 
sounded the call for an aggressive, 
fighting spirit in a rousing address. 

Copies of the plan together with 
photostats of floats and blue prints 
telling how to construct them were 
handed out or sent to each county 
Farm Bureau. 

In each county a general Dedica- 
tion Day committee with sub-com- 
mittees for program, prize contest, 
floats, publicity, parade, etc. will 
carry out the July 4th celebration. 

Vernon Vaniman called on for 


rate the organization of the first| impossible to estimate, has been great loyalty of the Farm Bureau 
Farm Bureaus in Illinois. They are} Made due to I. A. A. bargaining, leaders and members in Illinois, 
gathered to celebrate the achieve-| power and to supervisional service,| pointing to the fact that hundreds 
ment of 10 years, and to look for-| Which guaranteed quality, fineness: had got up before daylight that 


ward to the great promise that lies of grinding, and correct weights. 


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An Artist’s Drawing of One of the Floats Proposed For the July 4th Parade 


* the grand prize wagon drawn by 


WL 18 1932 


NUMBER 7 ‘ 


HALF MILLION WI 
FARM DINNER BELLS RING OVER 
ILLINOIS ON INDEPENDENCE DAY 


Counties Report Record Crowds As Banners and Floats c (( 
Proclaim Need For Action In Ending Depression \! ( 
ete Oro \ 
Toulon, July 4: Approximately 6,000 people attended the \( 
Stark county celebration here today, reported Wayne Gilbert, \ E 


farm adviser. Wm. G. Jackson of Toulon won the wagon, Mrs. 
Donald Leadey of Wyoming, the chest of silver, Mrs. Ray Putman, 
Yyoming, the community plate goblets, and Margaret Adeline 
Rogers, the bicycle. Thirteen floats in all including those entered 
by towns of Toulon, Wyoming, Bradford. Parade escorted by Uncle 
Sam and Goddess of Liberty, Boy Scout drum and bugle corps. 

' Floyd: Keepers’ address was well received by everyone. Incom- 
plete returns show that at least 20 new members joined the Farm 
Bureau. American Legion and Farm Bureau put on'Water fight 
with fire department hose, streams playing on empty barrel. 


narrsurg, Juy 4: toe saice| [FADERS FAIL 
SAYS GREGORY 


county Fair Grounds were crowded 
today at the big Farm Bureau cele- 
bration. The parade led by Judge 
H. N. Finney on a fine saddle horse, 
began soon after 11:00 A. M. and 


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proceeded through the business } e A, 
district and out to the Fair| Real Danger to Country Not| |’ ”X if 
Grounds. The executive committee] Red Menace but Black Flag seat 


of the Farm Bureau was at the 


front of the parade followed by of Financial Piracy 


a team of horses. 

Dinner Bell, Honest Dollar, 4-H 
Club, and other floats attracted 
much attention. Wabash Valley 
Service Co. also had a float. 


Note: Following is the outstand- 
ing address. delivered by Clifford 
V. Gregory, Editor of Prairie Farm- 
er at the Boone County Celebration 
July 4, also at the Mercer County 


Iinois Agricu 


tity LigiaATy R ) p C 3 RB 


DISTURBING 


A. O. Eckert of Belleville, former 
vice-president of the I. A. A., made. 
a splendid address in which he ex- 
plained the principles of the Rainey 
Emergency Relief Bill. 

The Wabash Valley Service Co. 
distributed patronage refund checks 


for the second 10 per cent. refund ‘Gepedigenee tron 


Alice Lewis, the 12-year-old 
daughter of Ralph H. Lewis of 
Stonefort won the bicycle. Mrs. 
Harmon Bramlet of Wasson was 
the winner of the 34-piece set of 


' silverware and a set of eight beau- 


tiful goblets. The grand prize, a 
McCormick - Deering - Weber, All - 
purpose, roller bearing wagon, com- 
plete with box, tongue and double- 
tree was won by J. O. Thaxton of 
Eldorado. The pienic will be long 


‘ remembered by this county. 


25 to 30 Dinner Bells 


Danville, July 4: “Our program 
went off in fine shape here today,” 
reported Otis Kercher, farm ad- 
viser. Traffic officers estimated 
the parade to be from two to four 
miles in length. The streets were 
crowded with people who witnessed 
it. Fifteen floats and 25 to 30 dinner 
bells were in the parade. The Dan- 
ville American Legion, city band, 
Chamber of Commerce, and other 
local business groups co-operated. 

Estimated attendance at the p 
nic grounds was 10,000 of which 
5,000 heard the program through 
the loud speaking system which 
was certainly worth the money. Mr. 
Needler of the Indiana Farm Bu- 
reau gave a very good address. 

L. H. Duke of Fithian won the 
wagon; Mrs. Thos. Allison of Dan- 
ville, the chest of silver; Mrs. 
Wayne Pruitt of Rossville the set 
of goblets; and Helen Strubinger of 
Ridgefarm won the bicycle. 

Nashyjlle, July 4: Approximately 
8,000 people including the Ameri- 
can Legion, and local business 
groups as well as farmers, gathered 
here today for Washington county’s 
Dedication Day program. The pa- 
rade was two miles long. It was the 
largest attendance of any 4th of 
July celebration ever held in the 
county. Floats included a dinner 
bell,. organization, insurance, 4-H | 
Club, Farm Supply trucks, and 
many others. .-The afternoon ad- 
dress, cont«sts, burning in effigy 
held a lerge audience throughout 
the a.ternoon. 


Fire Crackers and Effigies 


Montgomery County: We had a 
great day yesterdsy and we believe 
it accomplished its purpose, wrote 
Alden Snyder, farm adviser. The 
members took hole of the affair 
and worked wih wonderful co- 
operation. Every city organization 
came across 100 per cent. The 
farmers feei close: together and 
more sure of their strength today, 
and we know the townspeopie were 
surprised at the size of our organ- 
ization. 

The parade consisted of more 


|slow for the financial 


Celebration July 7. 


Bell rang 153 years ago in Phila- 
delphia. They are ringing out the 
a declaration 
and greed: , . 

The divine right of kings is dead. 
Today we are fighting against the 
divine right of the few to exploit 
the many. 

Farmers fought, at Lexington and 
Concord for the right to establish 
their own government. Farmers are 
fighting today to make that gov- 
ernment truly a government of the 
people and for the people. 

As we gather here today on the 
Fourth of July, 1932, our nation is 
facing a crisis as desperate as Val- 
ley Forge or Gettysburg. 

America has grown great because 
it has been the land of opportu- 
nity. We are fighting today to 
make it the land of opportunity 
for the people who work as well as 
for the people who speculate. We 
are fighting for the right of the 
little man to live. 


A Fool’s Paradise 


For ten years after the farm de- 
flation of 1920 the cities lived in 


ic-| 2 fool’s paradise. Our financial and 
| political leaders talked glibly about 


a “new era,” in which the cities 
were no longer dependent on farm 
prosperity and buying power. Bil- 
lions in income that should have 
gone to the farmer went to the 
cities, where it was diverted into 
speculation. City people watched 
paper fortunes grow over night. It 
became unpopular to work for a 
living. It was so much easier to 
take it away from someone else by 
speculation. 

Even that process became too 
overlords. 
They floated billions of dollars 
worth of domestic and foreign se- 
curities, backed by little real value, 
and sold them to a guilible public. 
Credit was expanded twice as fast 


as the needs of business demanded.| | 


Even the banks became infected 
‘with get-rich-quick germ, and un- 
sound banking practices helped to 
pave the way for the deluge. 

During all this period speculative 
fortunes obscured the fact that the 
solid foundation of farm buying 
power was lacking. The inevitable 
end came in 1929, with results that 
are too fresh in mind to need re- 
viewing. 

Courageous leadership even then 


could have brought about a re-: 


adjustment to sanity without se- 
riously hurting anyone but the 
speculators. But we had little 
courageous or intelligent leader- 
ship. 

At first the official policy of the 
country was to ignore the depres- 
sion. Then we tried to whistle our 
way out. We were told that pros- 
perity was just around the corner. 


than 250 cars and floats, and about 
1,500 people. We had two drum 
corps, a rube band, and about eight 
floats. as area 
burned effigies all of whic 
won filled‘with fire crackers. They 


The 4-H Clubs had charge of all 
(Continued on page 2 Col. 3) 


Beginning last winter Washington 
adopted the theory that we could 
borrow our way out, and provided 


billions in federal credit for that 


purpose. More recently we are try- 


ing to save our way out and tax our 
made quite a fuss as they burned. | way out, ignoring the fact that 


there is little left to save or tax. 
(Continued on page 2, Col. 4) 


I brew is the farmers’ day in Illi- 
nois. The dinner bells are ring- 
ing all over the state, as the Liberty 


oe 


SEEK EARLY VOTE ON?PR 


Washington, D. C., July 12— 
SPECIAL:—The fight for emer- 
gency price-raising legislation is 
being vigorously pushed here by 
Earl C. Smith, president of the 
I. A. A., and Edward A. O’Neal, 
president of the A. F. B. F. who are 
driving for an early vote on the 
Norbeck bill in the Senate. Both 
men have been in the national 
capital since July 5th. 

The Norbeck bill is identical to 
the Rainey bill introduced in the 
House several weeks ago. The Sen- 
ate Agricultural Committee ap- 
proved the Norbeck bill and voted 
it out last week. An effort is being 
made to get a vote on the measure 


in the Senate within the next day| vides for an appropation 


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or two. A promise ha} been s 
to bring it up immediatel 
the vote on the Home Loan 

Down-state Illinof} congré¢ 
are aggressively fighting to 
action on the Rainty bill 
House. This emergéncy m 
explained elsewhere in this 
would boost the prife of 
per cwt., add 42 at a bu 


the price of wheat,jand p 
cents a pound on thf price 
ton for that portiol, of th 
consumed in this cajntry. 
The unemploymejjt reli¢ 
vetoed yesterday Wy Pr 
Hoover because of tif? public 
appropriation it ca fed, alg 


FLOATS PuLLEO UP AF TE 
THE PARADE | 


ORANGE TOWNSHIP FLOAT 


Floats From Knox County's Ma 


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omise hai been secured 


up immediately after 
the Home Loan bill. 
e Illino#} congressmen 


vely fighting to force 
he Rainty bill in the 
s emergency measure, 
isewhere in this issue, 
the prite of hogs $2 
d 42 cen\s a bushel to 
f wheat,fand put five 
nd on thf price of cot- 
t portiol, of the crop 
1 this caintry. 
nploymejjt relief bill 
terday WY President 


use of tl}? public works 
n it canied, also pro- 
1 appropiation to ex- 


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PARADE | 


THIRD PRIZE TOWNSHIP FLOAT 


ON‘PRICE-RAISING BILL 


port accumulated farm crop sur- 
pluses which have had a depress- 
ing influence on prices. Farm Bu- 
reau representatives are on the job 
to see that this provision is retained 
in the revised measure now being 
prepared for submission to the 
President. 

The upturn in livestock prices 
following the state-wide demon- 
stration sponsored by the I. A. A. 
and Farm Bureau on July 4 has 
been encouraging to _ corn-belt 
farmers. The fight for higher farm 
prices waged by the Farm Bureau 
at Washington will be continued in 
an effort to secure favorable action 
on emergency legislation before the 
adjournment of Congress. 


Ei BD MBO Actin 


SFeP RIZE 


: County’ Mammoth Parade. 


Dedication Day Ceremonies 


5,000 present. 


Grove. Many other contests. 
Logan County—More than 5,000 
assembled at Lincoln Chautauqua 
Grounds for the biggest parade in 
the history of Lincoln and Logan 
county. Local business groups and 
labor organizations co - operated 
with Farm Bureau in floats and 
parade. It was a great demon- 
stration and dedication of farmers 
to bring about economic inde- 
pendence, writes Clem Garton. It 
was an inspiration for everyone to 
know that in 90 other counties 
farmers were holding similar Dedi- 
cation Day programs. O. D. Bris- 
senden made good speech. 
Gallatin County—Big parade at 
Shawneetown brought out tre- 
mendous crowd, 12 floats and many 
decorated cars. Farm Bureau mem- 
bership increased 50 per cent. 
Menard County—Great celebra- 


‘| tien .at- Petersburg, . 8,000 people 
present, 12 floats in parade three 
miles long, excellent program with 


Hon. Homer J. Tice and G. R. Wil- 
liams speakers. Effigies burned, 
prizes drawn, wonderful success. 


..|.Many new members joined organ- 


ization today. 


Macon County — Approximately 
5,000 people took part in the big 
demonstration. Parade required 33 
minutes to pass a given point. 
Fifteen floats included an out- 
standing one on taxation showing 
six men labeled “Members” pulling 
giant tax load with block and 
tackle, while 20 men labeled “Non- 
Members” were asleep on the side- 
lines. This float drew much interest 
and applause, Geo. E. Metzger, 
speaker. 

Kane County—G. E. Dickson and 
H. E. McDonough of Hampshire re- 


port that a crowd estimated at. 


8,000 to 10,000 witnessed the big 
celebration and parade at Hamp- 
shire July 4. The Commercial Club 
of Hampshire and civic groups had 
a prominent part in the parade 
which had 20 to 25 excellent floats. 
Had two elephants and camel from 
local circus in the procession. Cir- 
cus reported biggest gate in two 
ears. 

Will County—Celebration held in 
Dellwood Park followed parade 
through Joliet and Lockport. Wit- 
nessed by thousands with 5,000 to 
6,000 out for afternoon program. 
Largest gathering held in Will 
county. Dave Thompson big draw- 
ing card. Our baseball teams win 
district championship again wit 
six straight victories. 

Livingston County—Twelve thou- 
sand people filled Chautauqua 
Park, Pontiac following big parade 
with 51 floats in which many local 
organizations participated, says 
Steve Turner. Fifty-three organi- 
zations took part. Horseback bri- 
gade followed by 75 pieces in various 
sections of bands. Big dinner bell 
in front of Farm Bureau office 
started ringing when Art Page of 
WLS began broadcasting at 5:00 
A. M. V. Vaniman, speaker. 

Richland County — Excellent co- 
operation from business houses. 
Consensus opinion business men 
that depression will not end until 
farmer’s buying power restored. 
Special edition Olney Daily Mail 
featuring 4th of July demonstra- 
tion. Floats decorated by Chamber 
of Commerce and other organiza- 
tions, city furnishing band. Parade 
3 miles long, 12 floats, burned 4 
effigies. 

Bureau County — Qemonstration 
big success, parade two miles long, 
seven floats, 150 club members, 
Dave Swanson talked to enthu- 
siastic audience, 4,000 present re- 
ports Paul Dean, farm adviser. A. 
E. Stetson, chr. publicity committee, 
says: “Farmers from all 26 town- 
ships in county whether affiliated 
with Farm Bureau or not joined in 
celebration held at Princeton. Local 
business men co-operating. Dinner 
bells resounded this morning 


SS JULY 4th PARADES 


BIGGEST CELEBRATION IN HISTORY 
OF FARM BUREAU IN ILLINOIS 


and Floats Exceed All Ex- 


pectations, Business Groups Join In Movement 


Tazewell County—Parade 1% miles long was led by local 
American Legion and Pekin Municipal band, reports Ralph Arnett, 
farm adviser. Association of Commerce co-operated with 25 to 30 
floats and decorated cars. Farm Bureau floats included dinner 
bell, co-operative marketing, taxation, and six 4-H floats. Close 
to 10,000 people witnessed or took part. 

Iroquois County—All local organizations co-operated in big 
parade and demonstration at Fowlers Park, Watseka. More than 


Boone County—Upwards of 5,000 people representing all local 
organizations and Farm Bureau took part in 
stration held at Boone County Fair Grounds. Grandstand was 
filled with many standing on side-lines. 
excellent address. Boone County Farm Bureau band furnished 
music throughout the day. Milking contest for women sponsored 
by Pure Milk. Association, won by Louise Erbentraut of Poplar 


parade and demon- 
C. V. Gregory délivered 


throughout county proclaiming 


that agriculture must be restored 
to economic 


Henry County—H. K. Danforth 


reports 5,000-7,000 at big celebra- 
Thirteen 


floats, 
Legion color 


guard, band, burning in effigy, pa- 


rade 114 miles long. First three 


townships in attendance Andover, 
Osco and Western. Seventy new 


members joined, Walter Putman, 
D. P. Robinson, W. 8. Johnston 
signing 10. or more each. 

Christian County—Had a large 
celebration, parade included four 
floats which were exceptionally 
fine. Forty new members. 

Woodford County—“Had 45 floats 
and around 500 other cars in our 
parade at Eureka. Pronounced big- 
gest and best ever in Woodford 
County. All local organizations. 
operated. Between 4,000 and 5,000 
people attended. Howard Leonard : 
had parade organized in great 
Shape with mounted police, 60 
piece band, fire department truck 
with a huge dinner bell and shriek- 
ing siren, and combined bands of 
five high schools with around 200 
pieces. Put up radio and ampli- 
fiers for WLS dinner bell program. 
Folks heard radio announcement 
at their own parade within 15 
minutes after last car passed re- 
viewing stand. Newton Jenkins’ 
talk much appreciated.”—H. E. de 
Werff. 


Stephenson County—Crowd esti- 
mated around 6,000 to 7,000, 42 
floats in the parade besides many 
decorated cars. Donald Kirkpatrick 
made excellent address. Many new 
members signed. 

Kendall County—Parade with 25 
floats 250 cars, toured county going 
55 miles. Afternoon program 5,500 
present at Houses’ Grove. Sixty 
new members. R. H. Hamilton of 
I. A. A. speaker. 

Scott County — Biggest 4th of 
July celebration ever held in Win- 
chester, American Legion co-op- 
erating. Afternoon program in 
Monument Park. More than 5,000 
present. Dinner bell float and 
many others including 4-H Clubs. 
Many new members joined. Wilbur 
Coultas gave good talk. 

DeKalb County — More than 40 
floats in parade that toured from 
Sycamore to DeKalb over to Cort- 
land and back. Estimated 15,000 
Saw parade. Afternoon program in 
Municipal Park, Sycamore. More 
than 5,000 people turned out™ for 
Dedication Day program and 20th 
Anniversary of DeKalb County 
Farm Bureau. Biggest ever held in 
county. 

Piatt County — Celebration ex- 
ceeded expectations. Over 5,000 
present. Many colorful floats in the 
parade. Business men co-operated. 

Bond County—Had a wonderful 
celebration with many floats and 
decorated cars in parade mile long. 
Everyone co-operated. Had Green- 
ville Band. More than 50 new mem- 
bers. Talmage DeFrees, our presi- 
dent, signed 18 new members him- 
self. Greenville Advocate, Pocahon- 
tas News-Patriot, and Sorento News 
gave wonderful publicity. Our Pub- 
licity Committee did fine job. 


Knox County—Twenty thousand 
people witnessed or took part in 
the huge celebration at Lincoln 
Park, Galesburg, reports A. R.. 
Kemp. Parade biggest ever held in 
county with 40 floats and many 
decorated’ cars toured county. 
American Legion, the Mayor of 
Galesburg and other city officials 
as well as farmers and 4-H Club 
members took part. Chamber of 
Commerce and business men had 
many floats. People here learned 
more about Farm Bureau than 
they ever knew before.’ 

Cook County—Approximately 100 
new “members signed. Our presi- 

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The Farmer’s Voice Is Heard 
By their participation in numbers of thousands in 


the state-wide 


celebration July fourth, farmers of the tri-counties indicated in no un- 


certain manner their desire to arouse the nation to the 


culture. In impressive floats and the unique call of the “ 


Bilt of agri- 
iberty bell” 


and by spell-binding speeches from authorities, they vigorously sounded 
the slogan of the hour “prosperity in America must begin on the farm.” 

Those were great demonstrations staged by the farm folks in 
Cambridge, Toulon and Princeton as well as many other communities 
throughout the state and they should have their effect upon hastening 
the recognition to which the farmer is entitled. The Dlinois Agricul- 
tural Association and Farm Bureaus are to be congratulated upon the 


energy with which they put their message across. As th 


e farmers of 


1776 united and fought for independence, so did the Illinois farmers of 


1932 unite to 


tell the world of their economic independence to restore 


buying power and lead the nation back to better times.—Kewanee Star- 


Courier. 


A Glorious Fourth 


The 4th of July celebration promoted by the Stephenson County 
Farm. Bureau and allied organizations yesterday was one of the most 


spirited and beautiful that Freeport has ever witnessed. 


astonishing and encouraging spomace in the midst of an 


It was an 
uncomfortable 


and distressing year. The agricultural organizations deserve the great- 
est credit and congratulation for having exerted themselves to observe 
the 20th anniversary of their birth in this manner, and Freeport and 


its citizens were pleased and proud to be their hosts. 


.. . The success 


of yesterday’s undertaking promises well for the energy, the determina- 
tion and the coalescence we must expect of our agricultural industry if 


it is to become and remain a stable and self-sustaining 
whole economic picture.—Freeport Journal-Standard. : 


Agriculture Rings Bell! 


portion of our 


If Quincy and Adams county needed to be impressed with the 
strength and dignity of Agriculture, it learned its lesson in Quincy’s 


celebration of the Fourth of Jul 


y. The farmers of Illinois, with a 


sense of the dramatic as well as the patriotic, selected the nation’s 
birthday. as Agriculture’s Rededication Day. If all of Illinois received 


as impressive a reminder of Agriculture’s vigor and its 


determination 


to find its rightful place in the nation’s economic and social system, a 


valuable state-wide effect is certain 
_—Phe-Adams 


ie ty 
of its “Rededication Day” 


Farm Bureau, in the size, quality and dignity 
celebration, made the observance of the 


nation’s birthday truly, as The Herald-Whig predicted Sunday morning, 


a “Timely Fourth.”—Quincy Herald-Whig. 


The farming industry is the backbone of the nation and it is 


generally admitted that prosperity will continue to be a 
the past until this basic industry is placed on a more 


recollection of 
sound footing. 


Congress should give serious consideration to any remedial measures 
Ww. 


suggested that 
prices of farm products—Springfield Register. 


Plea of the Farmers 
The bill the farmers of this state are supporting 


1 help the farmer—and effect an increase in e 


will have the 


effect, they believe, of restoring buying power to farmers. It must 
be conceded that if such buying power was restored to them it 
would help mightily in the work of bringing back prosperity. 
Without having considered as yet all that would be involved in 
the passage of this measure, we do not hesitate to express our 
conviction that it is high time that congress give an attentive ear 
to the plea for economic independence made by the farmers of 
America. If the leaders of both parties asked the farmers to 
draw their own bill, and if this bill embodies what the farmers 
want, members of congress should give it careful consideration on 
its merits, with the plight of agriculture as well as the interests 
of all the people in mind and also should inform themselves on 


the history of all previous attempts at price fixing. The Farm 
Bureau of Rock Island county is arranging for a demonstration on 


July 4 to take place in Prospect park, Moline. The bureau is doubt- 


less prepared to tell all enquirers just what the passage of the bill 


‘would mean for agriculture, and most certainly the farm organiza- 
tion would welcome citizens in general to the celebration and 
would appreciate their cooperation.—Rock Island Argus. 


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the concessions. The men who drew 
the wagon and silverware had both 
signed new members. 

We had a special edition of the 
Hillsborg, Journal. It was a great 
day for everyone. — 

Clinton County: “Our celebration 
at Carlylé was a great success,” re- 
ports W. A. Cope, farm adviser. 
“The people of Carlyle insisted that 
I lead the parade on horseback. 
Next came the firing squad of the 
American Legion, the Carlyle band, 
and some 150 4-H Club members 
carrying banners and _ placards. 
There were 278 cars in the parade 


aris) —the best ever held in Clinton 


county. 

“Fifty-three new Farm Bureau 
members joined. Two of our men 
won the gold watches. Hy Ren- 
schen, our Farm Bureau president, 
signed 11 new Farm Bureau mem- 
bers. Fred Korte signed 13 new 
members. Fred’s brother, Frank, 
signed seven. To show you the hon- 
esty of our people, both Fred and 
Frank were working hard for new 
members, and if Fred had turned 
over three to Frank both would 
have won a watch, but he did not 
do this.” 

The crowd was estimated at 4,000 
to 5,000. 


Burn Five Effigies 


Greene County: “Our July 4 cele- 
bration was held at Whitehall,” 
writes R. H. Clannahan. “The pa- 
rade was over a mile long and in- 
cluded nine floats and approxi- 
mately 150 members from the 12 
clubs in the county. We burned five 
effigies starting with ‘old-man in- 
difference’ and following up with 
the rest. Ray Miller’s talk was much 
appreciated.” L. R. Lee signed 10 
members. 

Schuyler County: “There were 
approximately 20 dinner bells in 
our parade through Rushville, July 
4,” says L. E. McKinzie, farm ad- 
viser. “The parade was about a mile 
long and included 15 good floats 
with four bands and ‘old-man de- 
pression’ chained in a cage. Sheriff 
Bartlow, on horseback, led pro- 
cession. 

“L. L. Day of Ray te 10 new 
members, 27 in all. W d Shaw, 
our speaker, did a fine job working 
under difficulties. The afternoon 
program was held in th 
square and it was almost im 
to stop the fire crackers 2 
noise.” 

Peoria County: “Our parade was 
very much better than any of us 
had even dreamed it would be,” 
stated J. W. Whisenand, farm ad- 
viser. “In fact it is one of the finest 
we have ever seen. The afternoon 
program was held at Elmwood. The 
floats were excellent, as you will 
note by the pictures. Fifty new 
members joined the Farm Bureau.” 

Hancock County: “Four thousand 
participated in the program here 
July 4,” wired O. L. Welsh. “It was 
a grand success, exceeding all our 
expectations.” 

Clay County: “Celebration very 
successful. Twenty-one new mem- 
bers reported. Membership work 
will continue.” 


Prof. Rush Speaks 


White County: Our celebration 
went over with a bang from the 
start of the parade to the draw- 
ings. Prof. H. P. Rusk delivered the 
speech in great style. There were 
more than 2,000 people on the 
grounds when the program opened 
at 1:30 P. M., and with the. aid of 
an amplifying system the speaker 
was heard all over. The parade, 


including many floats and deco- 
rated cars, was nearly one-half 
mile long. . 

Our “Minute Men” reported 28 
new members, 


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RAONOR GRANGE FLOAT. 


Here Are A Few Of The Good Ones From Peoria County’s Demonstration 


program. 


and J. E. gtine bringing 

Sherril} Lamont, 2 
member, won the bicycl 
Stine, the set of silver 4 
and Herbert Austin, 
wagon, 

Wabash county: “O 
ion very successful. Jo 
Vincennes speaker. Ten 
bers.” 

5,000. at Morris 
Whiteside County: 
mately 5,000 people ca 
the big celebration and 
Morrison, July 4,” writes 
viser Frank Shuman. “ 
floats in all, including 

of those suggested. 
float was built by & 
Showed a house on @ tr 
old couple in front of 
They were being moved 
not know where to g0 
failure to pay taxes. M 
Ralph Allen portrayed 
the old couple. The sce 
that many bystanders } 

“Another very excelle 
presented by Hume tov 
was all white and show 
an and child standing 
pedestal with an open 
woman standing under 


roses. On the back were 4 


of wheat with caption 
faith in God, in our cou 
agriculture’. 

“The caption on an 
was ‘In 1860 our countr 
exist half slave and he 
1932 our country cannd 
to exist half protected ay 
protected’. _ 

“Mr. and Mrs. Wilso 
of Tampico dejerve hong 
tion for the originality 
stunt. Dressed as Hira 
randy, he with chin w 
she with an cd fascinaf 
an old buckbdoard, they 
bowed to everybody 
switched the flies off 
with a leafy b'anch fron 

“On the sice of the 
outfit were plicards re 
you ever ride in one 0 
roe don’t orgenize, you 


“We had a wublic add 
so that al’ “OUly hear th 


tT. Honna’s re 
very fitting.” | 


The parade ¥. 
Norrish, A ts Geng 
enough is presizent of 
Bureau, and M! worrig 
are 


gh hool b: 
champions, play +d. 
The floats were judge 


newspaper men: J. H. T 
Whitest Sentizel, O. C 
the Prophe Echo, 
Tobey of the Sterling G: 


Big Parde at Mo 


Grundy Courty: The 
at Morris was estimate 
to have been ‘he larges 
in the county. More thar 
ple gathered ‘or the e 
lasted from tie time — 
started at 11:4 in the n 
til almost nightfall. 

The parade was two 
length and insluded 15 
plays by loca, business 
organizations, vehicles 
scriptions ranging fron 
types of farm conveyar 
modern machines of t 
afternoon program we 
Goold Park. Charles 
manager of the Ilinois C 
and D. P. Moore of F 
speakers. 

Near the close of tk 
the crowd witnessed the 
effigy of the fur enem 
culture, including “unj 
“low prices,” “old-mar 
ence,” and “padsonous p! 


A. W. Fischer, DuP: 
Farm Bureau member | 
secretary, living at 
brought in 15 new mem! 
the Cook Courty Farm | 
five into the DuPage Cot 
ization. Mr. Fischer is a 
Surance agen; working 
alge agent Camcross in 


LEADERS Fi 
SAYS GRI 


(Continued jrom page 


All of the plans that 
tried have been adopte 
We have bee, running 
hind the depression. Th 
to stop it is j9 head it 

The depression has 
companied by the most 
in prices that this count 
seen. Nothing destroys 
fidence ang dries up bu 
like falling pyjees. Noth: 
80 surely ag rising price 

Prosperity ean exist 
we Can exchange good: 
ices freely. when prices 
some decline much m 
than others making f 
impossible ang drying ' 

When prices fall mon 
dearer and harder to ge 
debts must be paid in 
not in goods the burd 
becomes heayjer and 
prices go down. 

Prices are only the ! 


in 10 each. 
4-H Club 
ycle, Mrs. J. E. 
and glasses, 
the farm 


E. Stine bringing 
ill Lamont, 4 
', won the bic 
he set of silver 
erbert Austin, 


Sh County: “Our celebra- 
ry cneestal- John Dyer of 
les speaker. Ten new mem- 


5,000. at Morrison 
2st unty: “Approxi- 
5.000 ae ‘came out for 
celebration and parade at 
n, July 4,” writes Farm Ad- 
rank Shuman. “We had 18 
nN all, including all but one 
e suggested. The winning 
vas built by Lyndon and 


a house on a truck with an) 


ple in front of the door. 
ere being moved out and did 
w where to go because of 
to pay taxes. Mr. and Mrs. 
Allen portrayed the part of 
couple. The scene was such 
any bystanders wept. 
her very excellent float was 
ed by Hume township. It 
white and showed a wom- 
i child standing before ‘a 
1 with an open Bible, the 
standing under an arch of 
n the back were two sheaves 
at with caption ‘We have 
God, in our country, and in 
jure’, - 
caption on another float 
1860 our country could not 
alf slave and half free. In 
ir country cannot continue 
half ptotected and half un- 
od’. 
and Mrs. Wilson Cortright 
pico dejerve honorable men- 
r the originality of their 
Dressed as Hiram and Mi- 
he with chin whiskers, and 
h an did fascinator. Driving 
buckbdéurd, they waved and 
to’ everybody as they 
d the flies off the mules 
leafy b:anch from a tree. 
the sice of the dilapidated 
vere plicards reading: ‘Did 
er ride in one of these? If 
n’t orgenize, you may have 


had a wublic address system 
al’ OUly hear the afternoon 
a. Mr. Fianna’s remarks were 
ting.” | 

parade Yas led by R. A. 
» AL, enough, and I. 
ms, all Myynted. Mr. Good- 
is presiient of the Farm 
, and M! Norrish and Mr. 


! ta th charge to 
Sigh ‘&hool band, state 


ons, play.d. 

floats wete judged by three 
per men: J. H. Terry of the 
t Sentisel, O. C. Herrin of 
phe Echo, and E. H. 
bf the Sterling Gazette. 


Big Pamde at Morris 


dy Couzty: The celebration 
ris was estimated by many 
been ‘he largest ever held 
ounty. More than 5,000 peo- 
hered ‘or the event which 
from the time the parade 
at 11:15 in the morning un- 
pst nightfall. 
parade was two miles in 
and insluded 15 floats, dis- 
by loca, business and civic 
ations, vehicles of all de- 
ns ranging from countless 
f farm conveyances to the 
machines of today. The 
on program was held in 
Park. Charles Cummings, 
r of the Illinois Grain Corp., 
P. Moore of Peoria were 


the close of the program 
wd witnessed the burning in 
f the four enemies of agri- 

including “unjust taxes,” 
rices,” “old-man indiffer- 
nd “pasonous propaganda.” 


. Fischer, DuPage County 
Bureau member and former 
, living at Elmhurst, 
in 15 new members, 10 into 
k Courty Farm Bureau, and 
D the DuPage County organ- 
Mr. Fischer is a special in- 
agent working with gen- 
Put Cameross in Cook coun- 


— 


ERS FAIL 
AYS GREGORY 


nued jrom page 1, Col. 2) 


the plans that have been 
Ave been adopted too late. 
e bee running along be- 
€ depression. The only way 
it is to head it off. 
depression has been ac- 
ied by the most severe drop 
S that this country has ever 
Dthing destroys public con- 
and dries up buying power 
ing prices. Nothing restores 
Y as rising prices. 

Prity a exist only when 
exchange goods and serv- 
bly. When prices are falling 
ecline much more rapidly 
hers. making fair trading 
le and drying up business. 
prices fall money: becomes 
nd harder to get. Since er 
ust be paid in money ie 
R0ods, the purden of deb 
heavier and heavier as 


D down. 
are only the relation be- 


JULY, 1932 ° 


tween money and goods. Wh 
. e 

money is scarce prices go ray 

When it is nlentiful prices go up. 


The best way to fight decli 
prices is to increase the — a 
money. It is the duty of govern- 
ment to provide its people with 
sufficient money with which to do 
business. In normal times the banks 
perform most of that duty for the 
government by means of bank 
credit, which takes the place of 
money. 


When the banks fail to do it, it 
is the duty of government to step 
in and provide more money to 
make good the shortage of credit. 

That the government has largely 
failed to do. Its monetary policy 
has been vacillating and fearful. 


Suffering and Misery 


So we have come to a situation 
in which the richest nation in the’ 
world in natural resources and pro- 
ducing ability has 10 million men 
out of work, and six million farm 
families working for nothing. Our 
standards of living have been shot 
to pieces. A land of plenty is filled 
with suffering and misery. 

This is a depression without rea- 
son. There is no reason why it 
should not end tomorrow. 

It does not end because our fi- 
nancial overlords will not permit 
its end except on their own terms. 

They fought credit inflation bit- 
terly, and prevented it during the 
earlier stages of the depression 
when it might have been effective. 
Now that it is becoming apparent 
that it is too late for credit inflation 
to become effective, they are op- 
posing currency inflation just as 
bitterly. Rather than permit the 
people to control their own money 
system, they will pull down the 
house about their heads. 

It has become apparent that the 
credit being pumped into business 
by the Reconstruction Finance 
Corporation and the Federal Re- 
serve will not be sufficient. If it 
could be supplemented quickly by 
the Rainey emergency bill to raise 
farm prices, by the home loan 
mortgage bank bill, by the Steagall 
bank guarantee bill, and by an en- 
larged program of public works to 
put idle men to work, the combined 
force might prove strong enough to 
push back the forces of deflation. 

But the selfish influence of big 
money has blocked these measures 


in congress. The American Bankers 
Association has prevented the home 
loan mortgage bank bill from be- 
coming’ a law. It is' afraid of fi- 
nancial competition not under its 
control. 


If any one thing is obvious, it is 
that money and business is based 
on confidence, We cannot talk con- 
fidence back into people after bank 
failures have robbed them of. the 
Savings of a generation. We can 
restore it by placing the guarantee 
of the government through the fed- 
eral reserve system back of bank 
deposits. Such a plan is just as 
sound as any other kind of in- 
surance. It must be adopted if 
we are to save the financial system 
of the country from the penalty of 
its own folly. 

Business cannot recover without 
customers, and customers are of no 
avail without money in their 
pockets. Our lost customers are in 
two classes—the unemployed and 
the farmers. We can put large 
numbers of unemployed to work 
quickly only through an enlarged 
program of public works. 


High Prices and Work 


We can restore buying power to 
farmers quickly only through 
higher prices. The Rainey bill, pre- 
pared by the Illinois Agricultural 
Association, is designed to do that 
by giving farmers a higher price 
in the home market. The exchange 
value of farm products is only 50 
per cent of what it was before the 
war. That disparity must be re- 
moved so that farmers can buy, 
and so that their buying will open 
the factories and put man: back to 
work. 

Along with everythings else that 
may be done, and more important 
than anything else, is a sufficient 
supply of money. With credit frozen 
so completely, currency will have to 
be used much more extensively to 
take its place. Sooner or later the 
government will supply ‘that cur- 
rency, for we are not going to let 
people starve nor our big banks and 
life insurance companies go to the 
wall. We will go far to carry out 


the will of our financial overlords, 
but we will not starve for them. 
A new supply of money, adequate 
to the needs of business, will re- 
vive confidence and business as if 
by magic. The sooner we supply it 


SENTIMENT 


the sooner will we be on the road 
to recovery, and the greater the 
amount of unnecessary suffering 
we shall avoid. 

We need have no fear of such 
excessive inflation. as_ occurred in 
Germany and Russia after the war. 
We have efficient machinery for 
stopping inflation when it has gone 
far enough. 

There are still people who hold 
up their hands in horror at such 
remedies as these I have suggésted. 
They are the same people who told 
us in 1929 that prosperity would last 
forever. 

They tell us now that any remedy 
powerful enough to be effective is 
economically unsound. To this I 
reply that nothing can be more un- 
sound than our present condition. 

It is unsound to rob a hard work- 
ing generation of its savings. It is 
unsound to confiscate the farmer's 
capital to pay his taxes and inter- 
est. It is unsound to compel ten 
million people to tramp the streets 
looking for jobs that do not exist; 
dependent on charity for their 
daily bread. 

We have worshipped our. leaders 
of industry and finance. They told 
us to save our money, and we saved 
it. They told us where to invest it, 
and we invested it there. They told 
us to vote for high tariffs and 
special privileges for others, and we 
marked the cross in the circle. 


Leadership All Wrong 


Everything they told us was 
wrong. Now, with our savings 
gone, our jobs gone, our products 
begging for a market, the future 
dark with unknown dangers, why 
in the name of God should we 
follow their leadership any longer? 

Rather let us follow our farm 
leadership which says, “Give work 
to the idle, give the farmer a fair 
price for his products, give the na- 
tion a money system that is hon- 
est. Open the markets and the 
factory doors and let us work our 
way back to prosperity.” 

We hear much talk in these days 
about the red menace and the dan- 
ger of communism. There is no 
red menace in this country. The 
great, sound heart of the nation, 
the millions who work for a living 
and who want a dollar only in re- 
turn for an honest dollar’s worth 


(Continued on page 4, Col. 5) 


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RESTORED FARM PRICE LEVEL IS 
KEY TO RETURN OF PROSPERITY 


Dedication Day Speakers Emphasize Need For Militant 
Organization of Farmers To Insure Square Deal 


A restored farm price level is the one thing that will turn the 
tide of constant and continuous deflation and unemployment back 
to industrial employment and prosperity. With agriculture out 
of the market for the products of American factories, with nearly 
50 per cent of the American people directly dependent upon farm 
income for a livelihood, there is little hope for better times in this 
nation until that basic industry gets a reasonable return for its 
labor and investment. 

This was the thought driven home by scores of speakers in 
nearly every Illinois county on the farmers Dedication Day pro- 
grams July 4th. 

Comparing the farmers battle of 1932 for freedom from eco- 
* nomic oppression with the battle of the farmers of 1776 for free- 
dom from political oppression, the address set forth the issues 
at stake, and the solution offered by organized farmers to present 
economic problems. 

The text of the speech carefully 
prepared for the occasion and read 
by many of the Dedication Day 
speakers follows: 

The first Fourth of July was a 
day of Decision—one of Declara- 
tion—and likewise one of Dedica- 
tion. On yonder side of this his- 
torical guide-post of freedom the 
altars of sacrifice had been builded, 
at Lexington, at Concord, at Bun- 
ker Hill. Of such, history has pro- 
duced no parallel. It was at Con- 
cord Bridge— 

“The embattled farmers stood, 


Independence are the outlines of 
the honest face and features of that 
determined leader, well called the 
Father of his Country. Washington 
and Independence became synony- 
mous. But, to measure the mean- 
ing of either the. word Independ- 
ence or the man, George Washing- 
ton, in this remote day is well nigh 
impossible. We are too far from the 
need of that day to know aught but 
its cooled pages of history. 

Two hundred years later, as we 
celebrate the bicentennial of George 
Washington’s birth, we find it diffi- 
cult to relive the days that con- 
tributed that great heart to a giant 
cause, and difficult to know his real’ 
greatness. 

New causes and new -despairs 
confront us. Our dire need today 
tends to hide with its immediate 
oppression the history of far greater 
oppressions and the manner in 
which they were lifted by staunch 
men of great heart. 

Simple would be America’s prob- 
lems today, could we command the 
organized belief in the meed for 
united action that made the en- 
durance of a Valley Forge possible. 
Today’s cause calls not for sword 
and gun, but stern moving in or- 
ganized unison of the millions of 
agricultural people dedicated to the 
solution of their problems through 
the following of leadership born of 


58 Float 
Courty’s 
Eve 


an 

Fired the shot heard ‘round 

the world.” 

For days the spokesmen for the 
colonists had debated the proposi- 
tion — “RESOLVED, that these 
United Colonies are, and of right 
ought to be free and independent 
states.” Finally the day of decision 
arrived. It is this:day we celebrate. 

After the decision to act, came 
its declaration, a notice to all the 
world—The Declaration of Inde- 
pendence. 

At the head of the army in New 
York, upon orders of Washington, 
the Immortal Document was read. 
The wildest enthusiasm was cre- 
ated. One gilded statue of the 
tyrant king alone, yielded in the 
melting pot forty thousand bullets. 
Upon that day through that decis- 
ion and through the declaration of 
that decision, the moral fibre of the 
colonists was revivified and the 
heart of that people was tempered). 
Wey Forges thé were 
yet to come. Yes, my friends, that 
first day was one of Determination. 


Day of Dedication 


We also celebrate this day as a 
DAY OF DEDICATION. Seven long 
and weary years record the sacri- 
fices inspired by that Day of Dedi- 
cation. Few, if any, at the begin- 
ning of that period, save by- faith, 
could envision the final triumph at 
Yorktown. By citizen and soldier 
alike there’ on’ that day, commit- 
ment to the great cause was made. 

This day, therefore, my friends, 
is and will always be our outstand- 
ing national holiday. 

At Runnymede the charter of 
Anglo-Saxon liberties was wrested 
from an unwilling King. That hour 
was momentous. Bastile Day mark- 
ed the passing of the fallacy of the 
doctrine of the divine right of kings, 
a doctrine used to shackle brave 
hearts and to restrain the impulses 
of free hearts. 


On the first Fourth of July, there 
was published the grandest, the 


ey SS seit 


able Winston Churchill said in an| sacrificed on the altar of 


address on the world economic cri-| the benefit of those contri 
sis: “The hideous processes of de-| financial structure: of the 
flation have but to go on to isolate| The debtor and creditoy 
the nations and reduce them to the| mutual relationship. [f yo 
barbarian and to the bartering of| one you destroy both, ultin 
the dark ages.” Unless something is| This grasping group of 
done to check the forces of de-}is unwilling to restore the 
flation, they tell us that labor, city}ing power of the dollar to 4 
real estate, and all property values| level where the debts 
must inevitably come down to the| tracted. They want the 
level of commodity prices. This| stay dear and conmodit 
means that the wages of union! The little group 4 inte 
labor will have to be cut in half;| bankers who gamle in 
doctors and nurses, 25 to 50 per cent| tional securities 
less than they now receive; salaries| want. our dollar t/be we 
of school teachers and_professors|in exchange for feign c 
that cause. from 25 to 40 per cent, dollar cap-| And so they are h k ied 
. Agriculture Denied Seat - Hosen col Seen ; conipaines propose to make " iol 
the deflation off 1921-—for| on ‘gli. along the lines, from the ’ 
over ten years organized agriculture} jeast to greatest. That is the dis- 
has been making a fight for eco-| ma) picture of what will happen if 
nomic equality. All other lines of| the rest of this country is brought 
manny eg aytsg a rer ce down to a level with agricult=re. 
eappery Sn y consideration Of) — this also means further whole- 
Government. Agriculture has not) .4je pankruptcies and liquidation 
been given a seat at the family! oy an unparalleled scale because of 
table. 3 our. high debt level. In 1929, our 
Since the collapse in 1929, the| total debts, both public and private, 
situation has become exceedingly! in the United States totalled 203 
more aggravated, until at the pres-| pinion dollars, or 56 per cent of our 
ent time it is acute. A year ago the! national wealth of 386 billion dol- 


farm price index was 91—today it! jars according to estimates of War- 
is 56. On the first of last Decem-|;en and Pearson of Cornell Uni- 


ber, it had fallen to 71. By the first versity. Today they tell us, the na- 
of this last February, it dropped to/ tional wealth has shrunk until it 
60. On the first of April, 59, and it| is worth scarcely half that amount. 


is still receding. Thus our debts now are equal to the 
Organized agriculture has con-| value of our property. 


sistently insisted that action on the} pyrthermore, our dollar has be- 
part of the Federal Government) .ome so dear in exchange for the 
was necessary along. three or four! currencies of other countries, and 
lines to start a restoration by giving| we have acquired so much of the 
the basic industry a fair and equal| woriq’s store of gold at the expense 
chance. After the most careful! of the stocks of other countries, 
consideration by outstanding and| that other nations cannot buy our 
eminent students of the question,| products. How can we trade with 
your national organization proposed | other countries of the world when 


more.. le ae 
But the masses ‘of p 
‘farmers and othe; prod 
commodities, and the 
people who’ depenc, ypon 
duction of commos¢ ties, 1 
lars cheap and conmodit 
Laboring people in the « 
find employment at 
wages when the fastories 
prices for their praduct 
money is plentiful an 
everybody makes mOliey a 
‘body is happy. Whos wel 
be paramount in this eo 
masses of our citizenship 
clique of internationa] pa; 
gamble in internationg) ¢ 


Something Must Be | 
Something must be do 
store the farm price leye} 
ity with other grows, 
must provide for getting 
farm surpluses which no 
in our domestic markets, 
our farmers of the ben 
the tariff on these pro 
forcing domestic prices q¢ 
level of the world prices, 
What Congress. sh jyi 


ee TIS Lae Y 


bravest, and most profound docu- 
ment ever signed by the repre- 
sentatives of a free people: It was a 
Declaration of War against the 
most powerful Nation in the world 
—a Declaration of War by a few 
patriots, without organization, 
without military forces, without ap- 
parent strength, without wealth,— 
a Declaration against the greatest 
power of the Seven Seas—and at a 
time when her yessels of war were 
hovering along the Atlantic coast 
ready to pounce upon defenseless 
towns, to ravage and destroy. The 
principal cities were in substantial 
possession of the enemy. Thousands 
of British soldiers were upon our 
soil; and yet, notwithstanding these 
fearful odds, the stout-hearted 
fathers of the American Revolution 
made Declaration that they were a 
free and independent people. 


Declaration Was Beginning 


The glory of the nation begins 
with that declaration. Yet, insep- 
arable from that Declaration of 


Bill,”—a bill, which if adopted by| has fallen off 54 per cent in value 
Congress, would establish a funda-| and 35 per cent in volume since 
mentally sound monetary policy for| 1929. Unless our dollar is restored 
the Nation. This measure, in part,| to a fair value, we will have to en- 
proposes that all the powers now| act higher tariffs to protect us 
possessed by the Federal Reserve! against the imports of commodities 
System be directed to two ends:|from countries with depreciated 
first, to restore the purchasing| currencies. Already numerous in- 
‘power of the dollar to the average/|dustries are clamoring for such pro- 
for the period 1921 to 1929; andj tection and various bills are pend- 
second, to stabilize the purchasing| ing in Congress to bring this about. 
power of the dollar as nearly as Need An Honest Dollar 


practical at that level. ao sivoid this terrify ‘ 
0 avo errifying prospect, 

aueten. We have hla 7 we must have an honest dollar. A 
any other nation on the face of dollar which purchases 64 cents 
the globe. Our natural resources are worth one year and $1.52 worth an- 
enormots. Our. factories are the other year is dishonest. A dollar 
most efficient in the world. Yet, the| Wich makes the debtor today pay 
farmers are faced with ruin and back $202 for each $100 borrowed. in 
ten million unemployed walk. the 1929 is dishonest. The price level 
breets in ‘eeatoh of werk must be restored until the dollar is 
8 : worth the same amount as it was 

What May Happen when our debts were contracted. 

Eminent economists warn us that} All the relief measures thus far 
the worst has not yet been reached,| passed by the Congress have been 
unless something is done to check| drawn in the interest of the cred- 
the deflation. As the Right Honor-j| itor class. Millions of “ebtors are 


: McLean County Service Trucks In Parade 


for the relief of agricyit 
it adjourns is an emerge: 
ure to get rid of the high 
of farm products which 
cumulated. There are 
abroad for these produc 
could be sold on liberal cr 
but the cooperatives an 
traders are not finansjq) 
supply such terms, anq go 
goes hungry for our Strp 

Organized agriculture 
asking for months that 
authorize the allocation 
ever funds are neceSSary 
Reconstruction Finance 
tion to finance the &xpc 
pluses of wheat, cotton 
wool, mohair, and other 
ducts, and to distribut 
wheat to the destitute ; 
ployed in such a Mani; 
adversely affect the 46m 
ket. 

Organized agriculturs , 
nized and has repeate, 
that the raise in the Dri 
major agricultural crofs 
essential to bring AMer 
the present depression, 
and practical measure | 
duced in Congress by 
Rainey of Illinois, to | 
this purpose. The entire 
Illinois delegation agers 
ported it. Its provision; 
as follows: 


Digest of Emergency 4 
Bill 
TEMPORARY EMERG; 
—This Bill is a teMP% 
measure for a one Je 
pending such time 4s Co 
develop, enact, and pl, 
operation, a permanen; 
agricultural relief. 
PAYMENTS TO FAR4 


| Bill provides for immeq 


rme, 
payments to the fa 

portion of his productio; 
and cotton and hogs 4° 


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Courty’s Seven-Mile Parade—Greatest 


‘on the altar of greed for 
it of those controlling the 
structure: of the Nation. 
or and creditor have a 
‘lationship. [f you destroy 
lestroy both, ultimately. 

‘asping group of creditors 
ng to restore the purchas- 
‘of the dollar to an honest 
sre the debts were con- 
They want the dollar to 
‘ and commodities cheap. 


» group international 
who gan: in interna- 
curities nd currencies, 
dollar t worth more 
ige for fi currencies: 
1ey are h ied when we 
© make “ar dollar worth 
YY. C 6_worth 
e masses 'of people—the 
and othe; producers of 
es, and the laboring 


o depenc, upon the pro- 
f commoé¢ ties, want dol- 
p and commodities high. 
people in the cities can 
ployment ‘at profitable 
en the factories get high 
their pfducts. When 
plentiful and cheap 
y makes mOley anc every- 
appy. Whos welfare is-to 
ount in this country, the 
our citizenship or a little 
internationa] bankers who 
n internationg) currencies? 


thing Must Be Done 
ing must bé done to re- 
farm price level to a. par- 
other groW 3s, Any plan 
ide for getting rid of the 
pluses which now pile up 
mestic markets, depriving 
ers of the benefits from 
f on these products, by 
omestic prices down to the 
he world paces. 
ongress 2uld approve 
plief of agriculture ‘before 
s is an eM€rgency meas- 
rid of the high surpluses 
products Which have ac- 
d. Phage markets 
br these products, if the 
old on liberal cregit Mine 3 
poperatives and private 
re not finaNsially able to 
h terms, 2N4 so the world 
pry for our Stirpluses, 
red agriculture has been 
br months that Congress 
the allocation of what- 
is are neceSSary from the 
ction FinaMce Corpora- 
nance the port of sur- 
wheat, cotton, tobacco, 
air, and other farm pro- 
d to distribute surplus 
the destitute ang ynem- 
such @ MaMler as not to 
affect the G6mesti¢ mar- 


ed agricultUls also recog- 
d has repe@tedly stated 
raise in the Price levels of 
icultural CrOks was a first 
to bring AMerica out of 
nt depression. A simple 
tical measure was jintro- 
Congress bY Henry ft, 

Illinois, accomplish 
ose. The entile downstate 
plegation a88Tessively sup. 
Its provision’; are briefly 


Emergency Agricultural 
Bill 
RARY EMERGENcy pry 
li is a teMPorary relief 
for a one Year period 
uch time 85 Congress can 
enact, and Place in fy) 
a permaneMy plan for 
al relief. 
NTS TO FARMERS rine 
des for iIMM@iate direct 
to the farM€r ‘on that 
his production of wheat 
n and hogs fr the pres. 


Ever Staged in the County. 


ent year that will be used for 
domestic consumption. These ad- 
justment payments will be equal to 
tariff rates,—5c a pound for cotton, 


42c a bushel for wheat, and 2c a \ 


pound for hogs. The Bill imposes a 
tariff rate of 5c a pound on short 
staple cotton for which at present 
no tariff exists. 

“ECONOMIC: RESULTS—The Bill 
being a temporary one-year meas- 
ure and acreage for the present. 
year having been planted, the Bill 
cannot result in stimulation of pro- 
duction. Neither does the Bill fix 
prices nor alter the existing mar- 
keting machinery. It will, however, 
give the farmer an additional re- 
turn for the period of a year upon 
the three basic commodities whose 
prices havea controlling effect on all 
agricultural “commodities. In thus 
improving the condition of agri- 
culture, it is believed that the meas- 
ure will have a marked effect in re- 
lieving the present national eco- 
nomic emergency in industry, trans- 
portation, employment, and finance, 
as well as agriculture. . 

MACHINERY OF BILL—The Sec- 
retary of Agriculture will estimate 
and proclaim, on the basis of exist- 
ing statistics, the percentage of the 
present year’s production of cotton, 
wheat, and hogs that will be used 
for domestic consumption. If, using 
wheat as an example, the Secretary 
proclaims that 75% of the wheat 
will be so used, then the farmer, 
under the terms of the Bill, will re- 
ceive upon satisfactory proof of 
government agents, designated by 
the Secretary .of Agriculture, a 
certificate covering 3 out of every 
4 bushels of each lot of wheat 


marketed by him. All the farmer 


will need to do is to prove to the 
representative of the Department of 
-Agriculture that he has marketed a 
particular lot of, say, 100 bushels of 
wheat produced by him. Thereupon 
there is issued a certificate cover- 
ing 75 bushels. The certificate is 
redeemable at any fistal agency 
designated by the Secretary of the 
Treasury, for 42c for each of the 
75 bushels, less certain small ad- 
ministrative costs hereinafter re- 
ferred to. Redemption may occur at 
any time after 30 days, and not 
more than one year, from the date 
of issuance of the certificate. The 
certificate would obviously be the 
highest type of collateral for loans. 
These adjustment certificates would 
be issued to the farmer with re- 
gard to all wheat, cotton, and hogs 
marketed by him (commencing 15 
days after the passage of the’ Bill,) 
whether of this year’s production 
or from hold-over production. 


NO ADDED BURDEN ON TREAS- 
URY—tThe moneys for the redemp- 
tion of the certificates are obtain- 
able from a tax, called an adjust- 
ment charge, levied upon all pro- 
cessing of wheat, cotton, and hogs 
in a like amount to the adjustment 
payments, that is, 42c a bushel for 
wheat, 5c a pound for cotton, and 
2c a pound for hogs, Compensatory 
charges are placed on silk and 
rayon. If the processed product is 
exported, the adjustment charge is 
refunded; if the commodity is pro- 
cessed in bond for export, no ad- 
justment charge is collected on its 
processing. The charge in effect 
is-thus applied only to processing 
for domestic consumption. The re- 
ceipts from the adjustment charges 
will be placed in separate com- 
modity funds whose proceeds will 
be used to redeem the certificates. 
Any temporary advances necessary 
to redeem the certificates, pending 
the receipt of sufficient processing 
charges, will be made by the Treas- 
ury. There will, however, be no de- 
ficits or unbalanced budget result- 
ing, for the reason that the charges 
on processing will continue to be 


S PLIGHT OF AGRICULTURE 


tpi 1 FARMER OND T EET 
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imposed until their aggregate 
amout will equal the total amounts 
payable upon the adjustment certi- 
ficates issued to the farmer. 
ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS— An 
amount, not to exceed 242% of the 
processing charges, may be used for 
administrative expenses. This 
amount will be estimated in ad- 
vance by the Secretary of the 
Treasury- and payments to the 
farmer reduced pro rata. Such pro 
rata reductions at their maximum 
would approximate, in the case of 
wheat ic a bushel, in the case of 
cotton 1/10 of a cent per pound, 
and in the case of hogs 5/100 of a 
cent per pound. The Bill creates no 
new administrative machinery but 
merely makes use of existing gov- 
ernmental agencies. 


The Marketing Act 

Up to the time the Marketing Act 
was passed by the Congress, practi- 
cally all the legislation enacted for 
the benefit of agriculture was either 
of an educational or a credit na- 
ture. The Marketing Act while not 
entirely satisfactory opened the 
way for the development of co- 
operative marketing organizations, 
so as to give agriculture some 
chance to more ably compete in the 
markets of the world. Agriculture 
makes liberal use of credit and 
must continue to. have credit, but 
with periods of low prices, such as 
we have experienced lately, credit 
is of little use when the farmer or 
business man cannot make enough 
out of the money borrowed to pay 
the interest. The Marketing Act 
and the measure above referred to 
strike more directly at the agri- 
cultural problem than any legisla- 
tion enacted up to this time. , 

We are told that what. the coun- 
try needs is CONFIDENCE, that a 
restoration of CONFIDENCE is all 
that is needed to’ stop the forces of 
depression and restore prosperity. 
My friends, confidence cannot be 
restored by talking about it. We 
must give the people something in 
which to have confidence. 


How Have Confidence 

How can the farmers have con- 
fidence when farm prices are going 
down, down, down, farther and far- 
ther below the cost of production? 
How can they have confidence when 
they are unable to pay their taxes 
and interest, and when they are 
losing their homes? How can they 
have confidence when a dishonest 
dollar forces them to pay back 
from three to five times as much as 
they borrowed in terms of com- 
modities? How can they have con- 
fidence when the responsible leaders 
in government who are clothed with 
the power to act to bri relief, 
ignore their desperate condition and 
do nothing fundamental to bring 
them real relief? 


When the political and financial 
leadership of this country does 
something to really inspire confi- 
dence, when it goes to the root of 
this problem, and takes some fund- 
amental steps to remove the causes 
of the depression, then, and then 
only, will confidence return to the 
people. We must get down to the 
grass roots and restore the prices 
of agricultural products. Nothing 
else will avail. 

Agriculture’s patience is well-nigh 
exhausted. She has been long-suf- 
fering but she cannot longer toler- 
ate delay and inaction. You folks 
out on the farms know why. It is 
because the present condition of 
agriculture is intolerable. 

Others Helped, Not Farmer 

Congress and the President came 
to the rescue of foreign govern- 
ments and.granted them a mor- 
atorium on their war debts to us, 
involving billions of dollars of ob- 
ligations. They came to the rescue 


of the railroads, the banks, and the 
industrial corporations by loans out 
of the Federal Treasury to the tune 
of three billion eight; hundred mil- 
lion dollars. They came to the res- 
cue of the banks by passing the 
Glass-Steagall bill to help them 
meet the demands upon them for 
gold and thaw out some of their 
frozen assets. But what benefits 
have trickled down through these 
so-called relief measures to the 
farmers in the country and to work- 
ing people in the cities and towns? 
Have they kept farm prices from 
going down? Have they checked the 
increasing nimber of forced sales 
of farms? Have they relieved un- 
employment or given people more 
work? What good is this great pile 
of gold—78 per cent back of our 
currency—if it is not put to work 
for humanity? What good is it? For 
humanity to worship as children of 
Israel worshipped the golden calf? 
If this condition is not relieved, it 
will destroy our form of Govern- 
ment. 5 . 
The answers are obvious—farm 
surpluses pile up; farm prices and 
purchasing power still decline; un- 
employment increasés; wages de- 
cline; property values shrink; de- 
spair and dismay seize upon the 
people, and discontent rises with 
an ominous tide. ; 
Agriculture and labor cannot be 
made prosperous by relieving the 
banks, the railroads, and the great 
corporations alone. These two great 
economic groups are not content 
with picking up the crumbs from 
Industry’s table. The way to make 
the nation prosperous is to restore 
the purchasing power. of the farm- 
ers and the workers. All new wealth 
comes from the soil, the mines, or 
thie sea. Agriculture is our basic in- 


dustry. When you destroy it you de- . 


stroy the nation. The first steps to- 
ward a new day:is to restore: the 
buying power of agriculture, our 
basic industry, upon: which the 
economic welfare of one-half of our 
population depends. 

My friends, we have come to a 
critical point in the history of our 
great nation. The future welfare 
of our country trembles in the bal- 
ance. The very future of domestic 
government may be at stake. 


A Great Conflict 

We are in the ‘midst of a great 
conflict—a conflict that is more 
bitter, more sinister, more far- 
reaching in many respects than an 
armed, conflict. It is a struggle for 
the domination of this nation, be- 
tween the forces of entrenched 
greed and special pri 
one hand, and the masses of the 
people on the other hand. Powerful 
banking and industrial interests 
who have dominated our financial 
and: economic policies for many 
years, are determined to maintain 
their strangle-hold- upon the eco- 
nomic life of this country and 
maintain their privileged position, 
and are unwilling to give agricul- 
ture and labor their fair share of 
the national income. 

They are the Bourbons of today 
that the masses should sweat and 
toil for their benefit. They are the 
ones who, if they continue in con- 
trol, will destroy democracy and 
bring on revolution. | 

A great responsibility rests upon 
us all in these critical days. Our 
forefathers were true to the test— 
they braved the hardships and 
made the necessary sacrifices to 
win political freedom. We celebrate 
this year the bicentennial of the 
birth of George Washington, who 
led a brave and intrepid people in 
a successful battle against tyranny 
and oppression. 

Against Economic Oppression 

Today we also are in a battle for 
freedom, a battle for economic free- 
dom. That was a battle of principle 
fought by bullets; this is a battle 
of principle fought by ballots. That 
was a battle against political op- 
pression; this is a battle against 
economic oppression. God has 
blessed us with the richest nation 
- the world, with the greatest peo- 
ple. 

Patient Too Long 

Too long organized agriculture 
had faith, hope and charity. Too 
long organized agriculture dis- 
played these great virtues. At last 
organized agriculture finds that it 
must fight for its own and for our 
nation to secure the adoption of the 
golden rule as the first principle 
of our economic life. ’ 

During the morning hours of that 
first Fourth of July, the bell ringer 
impatiently waited in the old State 
House tower. For days he had hoped 
for a signal that action had been 
had by the Continental Congress. 
He had grown weary as he waited 
for the signal. On previous days he 
had stayed at his post and no one 
had come. Would the Continental 
Congress declare freedom and in- 
dependence? He had repeated over 
and over again—“They will never 
do it; they will never do it.” At last 
from below, he heard the voice of 
his grandson, crying out—“Ring 
Grandpa—Ring.” See that old bell 
ringer—swing the iron tongue— 
hear the tramping on the crowded 
streets—hear every church steeple 
re-echo the peals of freedom. Pos- 
sibly it is not a mere coincidence 
that on the shoulder band of that 
old bell was cast that classical text 
of scripture — “Proclaim Liberty 
throughout the land and to all in- 
habitants thereof.” 

| Today in this city and county, 
; and throughout the otner counties 
| Of the commonwealth, the spirit of 
| (Continued on page 4, Col. 7) 


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PAGE FOUR 


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THE IA. A. RE 


BUSINESS AND CIVIC GROUF 


FARMERS PROVE 
ABILITY TO. JOIN 
LIBERTY FIGHT 


Parades ahd Floats Surpass 
Expectations, Members 
Show Most Enthusiasm 


By Larry Williams 

Never in the history of farm or- 

ganization has a better atmosphere 

+ for cooperation been developed 
than in Illinois as a result of the 
Dedication Day celebration. From 
Rockford to Cairo, and from Dan- 
ville to Quincy there is a spirit of 
determination apparent, and en- 
mies who oppose the farmer in 
his organization for co-operative 
marketing and betterment are. in- 
clined to keep mum. 

The Liberty Bell of 1932 is es- 
tablished through the entire state, 
and the lowly farmers’ dinner bell 
has been glorified. Nothing but 
praise for the demonstration has 
reached our ears, and that praise 
is most, enthusiastic. The cooper- 
ation of leadership and membership 
was wonderful. In several counties 
doubting leaders were swept off 
their feet by enthusiastic members 
who carried forward Dedication Day 
plans. 

Chambers of Commerce and civic 
organizations almost everywhere in 
Illinois gave moral as well as prac- 
tical support to the campaign, real- 
izing as they did that prosperity 
must begin with the farmer. The 
newspapers of the State were most 
liberal in their support, and numer- 
ous papers had special issues for 
the occasion. 


Salesmen Good Workers 


Country Life agents, auto insur- 
ance agents, truck drivers, and 
managers of farm supply compan- 
ies’ did noble duty on the firing 
line. Scores of them won watches 
for signing more than ten new 
members. They put up advertising 
placards and gave unstinted sup- 
port in putting over the celebra- 
tion. 

On June 30 before Demonstration 
Day 1200 Minute Men met in Cen- 
tralia for a rally. Twenty counties 
were represented by generous dele- 
gations. Twenty Farm Bureau 
presidents were on the rostrum. 
“Théy had met to hear President 
Earl C. Smith address them. Un- 
fortunately he was called to Wash- 

* ington. The good news of a’ favor- 
able chance for the Rainey Bill that 
took him to Washington helped me 
satisfy the audience as a substitute 
speaker. 


Parades Exceed Expectations 


If you thought the Demonstration 
Day Parade was to be.a mere dog 
and pony show affair you must 
have been amazed at the sight’ that 
greeted your eyes on the morning 
of the fourth. Floats that did credit 
to genius moved before you, telling 
the demands of agriculture, telling 
its plight and need of remedial 
action. There were banners and 
more floats showing the accom- 
plishment of organization and vis- 


ualizing greater accomplishment if. 
all farmers would join. Dinner bells,| 4. 


dinner bells, and more dinner bells 
rang out the demand of farmers 
for fairness in prices and an equal 
chance with the other industries 
that have enjoyed the support of 
governmental agencies. 

About two o’clock in the county 
seats of the State approximately ‘90 
speakers told of organized farmérs’ 
battle for lower taxes, for higher 


prices and favorable legislation. All’ 


paid tribute to the Father -of his 
Country, and the spirit that brought 
about the Declaration of Indepen- 
dence. They pleaded for a revival 
of that spirit to win with men 


standing in organized power as' 


their forefathers won their decis- 
ive victories always celebrated on 
every Fourth of July. 

Great aS was the day, great as 
was the’ demonstration, still all 


able space given to it. 


unanimously felt it was just the; McLean County—Huge_ success, 
beginning of a fight to recruit every | parade four miles long, greatest in 
farmer in the line-up of organiza-| Bloomington history reports “Rus- 
tion. They determine wherever you| ty” Laible, farm adviser. Weather 
hear talk of the Demonstration}excellent. Mrs. Sewell speaker rang 
Day, that they will drive: on to| the bell. One hundred forty-five 
complete the job of organization,| new members, total now 2,076. sas 
They now know it can be done, and ne ne = ree have ae 
residen A : 
that our leaders shall be backed by| P ts evowd estimated at 11,000 
they present legislative demands 
and economic measures to rehabi- 
litate and maintain agriculture. 
Opposition Bitter But Weak 

Where now is the poison fang of 
the opposition which threatened 
dire result to farmers who at- 
tempted to get their just dues by 
resorting to organization and co- 
opefation. 

Do a half million parading 
farmers impress them? They strike, 
but vainly, at the rocks where they 
hide. They hiss their bitter attacks, 
but harmlessly they echo back to 
them. Their rattles fall on ears 
that hear, but heed not. Indeed, the 
laugh of knowing farmers who have 
found their strength greets each 
hiss of the recoiling enemy. Gone is 
the day when speculators and mid- 
dlemen shall wax fat on farmers’ Summer Park. 
be “a ot Peod ‘ainax'ed yw Cumberland County — Fourth of 

‘ posing | July celebration big success, record 
pobre oo. — a Brig ort attendance large floats good drum 
corps perpetuated since Lincoln’s 

to feed the world. / time lead parade all details of cele- 
Together we Stand” is the Farm| pration carried out in detail in 
Bureau war cry. “Fair prices for our) spite of fact that the Farm Ad- 
sake and for America’s sake.” “Our} viser was absent due to the death 


own markets clear through to our| of his mother favorable comments 
own terminals.” “Fair legislation| everywhere among crowd. 


and a fair chance for America’s 

= Champaign County — Twelve 
pega ecg ace agen gp ae at-/ thousand people at Crystal Lake. 
—_ a ir Prey t ese ores are! park, Urbana. Largest and most 
wa a e fight goes on until! attentive gathering ever held in 


the end shall see victory for or- Champai 
gn Co. exceeded all our 
ganization complete and a happier expettations. Not a single mishap 


co-operated 
through Springfield. 

Crawford-Jasper — 18 floats 350 
cars parade over one mile long 
crowd estimated at five to seven 
thousand. 

Pulaski-Alexrander—16 new mem- 
bers signed today more will be re- 
ported later. 

Coles County—Big parade 10,000 
attendance at Mattoon, wires Mel- 
vin Thomas. 

Lawrence County—Parade 5 miles 
long business men _ co-operating 
hundred per cent. The Lord has 
joined our Farm Bureau. Rained 
Sunday to stop farming. Weather 
fine today. Hundred floats and 
decorated cars. Parade through 
Lawrenceville, Bridgeport to picnic 


America. or oo 0 accident. 
Parade started with police es- 
BIGGEST CELEBRATION cort, Farm Bureau president, Mar- 
- |shal of Day, Flag Bearer and es- 
IN HISTORY OF FARM cort all on horseback followed by 
band, Farm Bureau -dinner bell 
BUREAU IN ILLINO float done with white background, 
blué shields, and trimmed with 
(Continued from page 1, Col. 7) | masses of red hollyhocks and 350 
dent, Dick Nietfeldt,‘one of our di-| pound, dinner bell. Parade lasted 
rectors, J. C. Precht, and Mr. and/over hour. Four miles of cars, 53 
Mrs. Henry Schilf each signed 10 or} floats. Twenty-four unit organiza- 
more members. We claim a. state| tions represented Farm Bureau and 
record for the Schilf family.: Joint|\7 subsidiary organizations in, pa- 
celebration with Blue Island, pa-|rade. Two Associations of Com- 
rade two to three miles long, six merce and city/and county officials 
bands, escort of\ 60 motorcycles. -gperated. Will jagriculture come 
Lake County—Parade four miles t OK? .One ' 
long, toured county over 70 imile| Thirty new members to date. | . 
route, witnessed by 70,000 people.| Warren County: Ten thousand 
Splendid afternoon program. : {people crowded. into Monmouth 
Madison County reports big; pa-| Park for: big celebration. Registra- 


rade and program at Edwardsville:|tion and parade held at public 
Parade headed by Edwardsville t square. Many, floats and decorated: 
American Legion. Troy drum and|cars. J.’ \V. Stevenson, Streator, 


band. 4-H club members in march. 
Farm Bureau officers on receiving 
stand. ‘Seven floats made up :for 
parade. Uncle Joe Fulkerson after+ 
noon speaker. Program followed by, 
baseball game between Farm Bu-\ 
reau and American Legion. Fifty} 
new members, more coming. 

Morgan County—Parade required |; 
an hour to pass in review. All ,busi=}; 


miles long. with \1,000 cars. Lazy 
Farmer, John ‘Turnipseed, and 
Slim. and Spud \ marched. with 
George ‘Washington, in parade. 

Moultrie County: More than 5,000 
joined in® parade and celebration 
iat Wyman Park. Burned enemies 
of agriculture in effigy. \Frank Bar- 
n speaker. 


local groups co-operating. 


ence, Unjust : Taxes, Low Prices, ckson County: The celebration 


Enemies of ‘Co-operative Effort 


for boy or girl given away in afte 
noon. L. R. Marchant gave prin 
cipal address. . 

Adams County—L..A. Williams, 
speaker,» reports: 20,000 people wit- 
nessed parade—4 to 5. miles long. 
Parade contained, 5,000 people who 
attended afternoon program. Mayor 
of town welcomed: group. Fine co-, 
operation from city, 52 dinner bells 
in parade, floats excellent. Won- 
derful co-operation ‘from: newspa- 
pers in playing up celebration and 
report ‘of it afterward. Daily Times 
-had special edition. Quincy .Herald- 
Whig had: editorial and’ consider- 
Sam H.| 
Thompson, spoke for 6 minutes to 
his neighfors. Hung in effigy “old- 
man indifference,” “high taxes,” 
“low prices,” etc., 


Jefferson County: Local groups 

co-operated. in great celebration. 
Biggest crowd in Farm Bureau his- 
tory. Ten thousand people. Special 
\issue Mt. Vernon Register-News. 
\ ‘LaSalte:: Many dinner bells and 
floats in our big two-mile parade 
through ;Ottawa. Four thousand 
peopie- took part. More than 100 
| new-members joined. 

Wayne County: Fine celebration 
| and two mile parade—3,000 people 
| present. ; 

Union: County: Great parade and 
wonderful spirit. More than 2;500 
present. 


Henderson County: More than 
'3,000 people out for our big pa- 
rade with 15 floats, two bands, and 
over 100 cars. 


— 


The three horsemen leading Whiteside County’s Parade are A. L. Goodenough, president, T. H. Adams 
and R. A. Norrish, former Farm Bureau presidents. Left to right on top are Will, Dupage and Champaign 


county floats respectively. In the corners below are pictures of “John Barleycorn’s Resurrection” 


Monroe county. 


from 


‘he; 
) qu 
an said Jonah did. |; 


proved an \ able, eloquent speaker. |: 
Effingham County: Parade three 


\\ DeWitt County: Five men signed) 


Burning Unfaithful 
pictures show) scenes fi 
Dollar float, | 


~ Randolph ( ounty: Ap 


in co-operation with 
Chamber of Commerce. 
ler gave excelent talk. 
dred cars and floats anc 
ple in pardde. Toure 
Percy, Cutler| Sparta, a 
Steeleville. enty-six 
bers. Parade jargest eve! 
Marshall-Pytnam Co 
thousand af our cele 
Henry Fair Grounds. §} 
operation fro business 
Buréau, othe: organiza 
rade two’ miles in length 
Legion took part. Good 
W. Rennick. !Ausic by : 


nicipal band. Four H-C 
inent. . 


ly 5,000 at ai big celeb 


Monroe Codnty: Thi 
boys, impersoyated the 
16” and led ‘the parac 
by boys with, hoes, rak 
etc. Parade- jorganized 
munities, many floats a1 


‘Waterloo band provided 


hundred or mpre cars 11 
our German Farm Bure 
fternoon. arm Adv 


Iman delivered addr 
Kolmer ‘announced mid- 
fronage dividend of 10 5 
Service Company patror 
stunt feature was “Resu 
Qld John Barle,corn.” A 
rege he made alittle tal 


Masog County: Prag 
over, inja wonderful. wa 
one andj one-palf miles 
ness meh co.pperated. 7 
new Farm Breau mem 
date and more to. be 
Burned five dummies i 
N. Skinner. performed 
speaker. } 

Macoupin County: 
5,000. Thret ae parade 
crowd cheered burning 
float “Unfaithful Publi 
etc. More than 500 cars 
Our next job to reduce 

Winnebagd County: B 
bration in history of ¢ 
raded througn Rockford 
Kishwaukee Park.\ Sixt 
members, Now have lar 
hership since peak \periq 

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Mercer Coynty; Our 
tion held at Aledo Fa 
July 7. Speejal issue Ald 
Record. Wonderful co-ofF 
V. Gregory delivered sp 
dress. Floats unusually g 
Williamson County: 
sand people attended pa 
long. Good eo-operatio 
erybody. Nyneteen ne 
Signed. A. p. Lynch ga 
address, Mafion Fair © 
Brown County: Our 
went over in a big way 
county. Parade one an 
miles long, Best ever 


jestimated gt 2,500. TV 
"|new members, -Chipma 


getting 12. 

Carroll county: Wh 
turned oyt for big de 
at Mt. Carroll. Secured 
more mempers t0 win 
drive. Parade biggest, a 
held here. Geo. C. Jewet 
address, — Big cr 

Shelby unty: Bl 
out for \ eaaie and de 
Signed 69 new mem 
Life queen: judged flo 
celebration, , 

Lee Coynty: Big cere 
at Assemtn Park, Dixo 
000 people, Big auditor! 
18 floats, 1,000 cars in 


groups co.aperated. 4 
Ogle County: Hunar 
from al] oer the count 
to Oregon July 4th © 
demonstragion. One 
Successfy] and most 


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OUPS BACK F 


loat. 


blph county: Approximate- 
at out big celebration held 
bperation with Steeleville 
r of Commerce. J. C. Spit- 
b excalent talk. Two hun- 
s and floats and 1,500 peo- 
pardde. Toured through 
utler| Sparta, and back to 
lle. enty-six new mem- 
rade jargest ever seen here. 
ball-Pytnam County: Ten 
d at our celebration at 
air Grounds. Splendid co- 
in from business men, Home 
, othe? organizations. Pa- 
0° miles in length. American 
took part. Good talk by F. 
nick. \Music by Henry Mu- 
mies H-Clubs prom- 


pe Co 


ty: Three of our 
hpersogated the “Spirit of 
d led ‘the parade followed 
} with, hoes, rakes, shovels, 
rade organized by com- 
8, many floats and banners. 
0 band provided music. Two 


i or mbre cars in line. Had 
‘man Farm Bureau band in 
pn. arm Adviser B. W. 


| delivered address. Albert 
‘announced mid-season pa- 
dividend of 10 per cent for 
Company patrons. Our last 
ature wis “Resurrection of 
in Barle,corn.” As old John 
made ajittle talk in which 


nm “Coury: Held our big 


Tine cohvreration from busi- 
Chamber -of Com- 
‘14000 to 6,000 heard 


‘rs. Twenty-two new mem- 
sorted jily 6. More coming. 
loats in parade. fx 

n Corvnty:. Approximately 


Rained all day Sunday— 


attendance. on Monday. 


‘ship responded wonderfully 
for ‘nelp. Local business 
4-H Cjubs, Farm and Home 
all. worked -together. Sen. 
ills made fine address. 
rR County: Program went 
ta wonderful. way. Parade 
i, one-palf miles long. Busi- 
* co-pperated. Twenty-two 
rm Breau members up to 
na more to be reported. 
five dummies in effigy. A 
nrier. performed well as 


ipin County:, More than 
hree 4 ile parade, 15 floats. 
heel burning in effigy of 
Unfaithful Public Service,” 
re than 500 cars in parade. 
‘t jo to reduce \local taxes. 
ebago County: Biggest cele- 
in history of county. Pa- 
hrougn Rockford and out to 
ukee Park.\ Sixty-nine new 
‘s, Now have largest mem- 
since peak \period of 1919- 


inty; Our big celebra- 
id ex ‘Medo Fair Grounds 
Special issue Aledo Times- 
Wonderful co-operation. C. 
ory delivered splendid ad- 
loats unusually good. 
imson County: Four thou- 
ople attended parade a mile 
ood eo-operation from ev- 
. Nyjneteen new members 
A. p. Lynch gave principa 
, Mation Fair sptterzcech 
unty: Our celebration 
met a big way for a small 
nd one-half 


Parade one 4 
ng. Best ever held. Crowd 


500. ‘Twenty-three 
My ‘Chipman Ratcliff 
12 

- Whole county 
plik ‘big demonstration 
Carroll. Secured nearly 200 
nempers to wind ve oer 
arade biggest, and wee he 
re, Geo. C. Jewett made 


y . Big crowd turned 
/ Coed demonstration. 
80 ee members. Country 
een judged floats. Great 


ig celebration held 
mbly Park, Dixon, with 10; 
ple, Big auditorium aoe “. 
ts, 1,000 are in parade. 

coopers rundreds of cars 
ne county poured in- 
4th for the big 


trafion. 


e 
ful and most 


ing Unfaithful Public Servants in Effigy at the Madison 
shor) scenes from the Monroe county parade including the Columbia Farmers 


county Celebration. 


ARM DEMANDS 


The four smaller 
Grain Co. Honest 


tended county events ever held due 


to co-operation business men with 
farmers, Parade 114 miles long with 
cars, 12 floats, and marchers. 5,000 
to 6,000 people. Sam Crabtree made 
good speech. The float winning 
first prize was that of the dinner 
bell by Mount Morris community; 
second prize, Maryland township 
float showing progress by organiza- 
tion; third prize, Scott township 
float showing the farmer taking 
his place with other organized 
industries.. 4-H Club members 
marched ahead of their float carry- 
ing banners. | 


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LEADERS FAIL 
_ SAYS GREGORY 


(Continued from page 2, Col. 7) 


of service, are not following the 
communistic road. They believe in 
private property and private in- 
itiative. But if the rest of their 
property is to be taken away from 
them by the cruel process of de- 
flation, if their debtors exact the 
impossible price of payment in dol- 
lars of doubled size, if every door is 
locked against them when they ask 
only for a chance to work—then 
what? 


Property rights mean more than 
the property rights of Wall Street. 


and confiscate the earnings of our 
weaker fellows. ; 


Where Danger Lies 


The red flag will never wave over 
the farmers and the working men 
of America. Their flag is the Stars 
and Stripes that they have so often 
fought for. Their symbol is the 
Liberty Bell that has been ringing 
out a»new allegiance to the faith 
of our fathers all over Illinois on 
this Fourth of July. 


No, there is no red menace in this 
country. The menace that threatens 
us is of another color. It is the 
golden calf that stands enshrined 
in the councils of the money kings. 
It is the god of speculation that 
rules over the New York stock ex- 
change. Its flag is the black pirate 
flag of the exploiters of the com- 
mon. people. 

It is in that direction that our 
danger lies. 

We stand at Valley Forge, with 
ragged clothes and bleeding feet. 
But .our hearts beat with high 
courage; our souls flame with the 
fire of a righteous cause. 


The farmers are marching, un- 
der the flag of George Washington 
and Abraham Lincoln, and the 
spirit of the fathers marches with 
them. They are leading a fight for 
the honest working people of a 
great nation—a nation that they 
love because they made it great. 
And with them marches the lord of 


JULY, 1932 


shall replace the law of the jungle, 
when the bright stars and stripes 
shall banish the black flag of fi- 
nancial piracy, when honest toil 
shall enshrine the American home 
in place of the golden calf. as the 
symbol of the nation’s glory. 


RESTORED FARM PRICE 
LEVEL IS KEY TO RE- 
TURN OF PROSPERITY 


(Continued from page 3, Col. 7) 


this text is dominant,.and the old 
Liberty Bell is ringing again for 
AGRICULTURE. 


None can expect the needs of or- 
ganized millions to be recognized if 
they cannot and will not in com- 
mon agree and voice their demands. 

The path of every farmer is out- 
lined clearly. His part in the war 
for justice is definitely set forth. 
His place is in line with his mil- 
lions of fellow workers in one great 
army under one banner, fighting. 
for one cause. ° 


Diffusion of power means defeat. 

United effort means victory. 

The farmers in Illinois have been 
laboring for twenty years to get this 
need of organization over to the 
thousands of indifferent farmers. 


Today all over Illinois in gigantic 
demonstration we are turning the 
tide toward a long delayed victory. 

The needs of agriculture can only 
be met in this organized age through 
the masses of farmers uniting in a 
militant and aggressive organiza- 
tion dedicated to their cause. 


Pres. Smith Injures Eye 


_ A few minutes before starting his 
address President Earl C. Smith 
suffered a painful injury to his 
right eye caused by the explosion 
of a torpedo at the Sangamon 
County Farm Bureau Dedication 
Day program in Caldwell’s Grove 
south of Springfield. 

Mr. Smith was given first aid by 
a doctor on the grounds and re- 
fused to leave until after he had 
delivered his address. The eye is 
responding to treatment d it is 
hoped’ no permanent injury\will re- 
sult. 

Mr. Smith also spoke briefly in 
the evening at a meeting of Cen- 


an Memorial Park, [- 


of the most 
largely cg ee Pe 


tral Illinois Odd Fellows Lodges on 
the State Fair grounds. 


Private opportunity does not mean 
the opportunity to cheat and rob 


Hosts, leading his people to a 
brighter day when the Golden Rule 


ee me ae enn me” a 


Lightning is Blamed for 
‘Fire Damage ‘at La Salle 
arket; Wire Lines Hi 


torist Injured j 


‘ rar { ws a ; S I 
Three Tie Ree hoe 1.92 Inches Here; Crop Near Ottane 
> Li ing;, Trees: & g sot ; : 
Lightning, oon \ Damaged, Basements: : 


Damage to crops, property and 


, Flooded 
Flood-burdenea streams 


lands over northwest Iowa rs Hail Finishes Up i 
‘|. the Strawberries; 
More Rain Today 


pwe 


ed by Heavy Rain and 
Hail Storm Tuesday 
Afternoon. 


This city and section of Central 
Illinois were visited by a heavy 


-_ E estr D Many cases of. strawberries electrical and rain storm and some 
, Y: 8 Creo a. Were destroyed here Saturday by sections to thc west of Pana by a 
WORST STORM OF KIND FOR apes 4, J the early morning hail which heavy’ hail storm Tuesday after- 
MANY YEARS BREAKS WIN- Territor J pore, companied the thunder pret 4 noon, causing serious ¢@cmage to 
DOWS AND CUTS CROPS SAT- yY Three Miles Strawberry growers were expect- rdens, the groving .vra and 
Lo ; es i t 4 ga .. e gr ° . 

URDAY AFTERNOON ong, Mile Wide Is — ng to make their final picking of I young ripening fruit 
D : the season Saturday but when Pana's streets were turned into 
amaged “fons teat perry cee — rivers in some sections by the 
il di — y m Y found the ripened @ ; inade- 
Hail did great damage to gardens, A beavy hail t bff berries mashed flat by the hail. ' downpour, the sewers being inade 
ruit trees, wheat, rye, roofs, etc., storm that struck #2- fi quate to carry off the water, 80 


& portion of About one inch of rain fel) dur- 


| lt. Lightning flash- 
ing the Saturday morning storm heavy was the fa g zZ 


rere ted 
/ and. anpther electric storm which in = Sot na Era eowieage til 
| visited us between 2 and 3 o'clock whesiaees o. 8 
offithis morning added another inch cyst gS Fare ; 


When HAIL Comes, Who Will - 
STAND THE LOSS? 


VERY hail storm destroys. If it is on your 

farm, the loss is all yours—unless youare in- 
sured. You can prevent loss by buying insurance 
against crop damage. Your Farm Bureau makes 
possible exceptionally low rates. He 


Only $4 Cash Required 


A Cash payment of only $4 per $1,000 of insurance 
is paid with application. A postdated check for the 
balance of $16, payable October 1 (less 5% for 
payment when due), gives full security on your 
crop up to $1,000 hailstorm damage, This rate ap- 
plies to corn and small grains—soybeans slightly 
higher. This represents a 30 per cent saving to 
you. 


FARMER'S MUTUAL 
REINSURANCE COMPANY 


608 S. DEARBORN ST., CHICAGO 


Vienna t t ‘ 
Met 4 shortly after 1 sca peg : 
rs 9 the crops of farmers Poppe 
rilury about 4 miles -wide i 
over a mile long. : atone: 


ast Saturday afternoon about four 
o'clock to an area of several miles 
west of Rockport, extending from 
De t. Zion. east of iloh and 


Farm Buildings and Property 


For your protection against fire, windstorm, tor- 
nado and hail damage to Farm Buildings and }f 
Property, a separate policy is available in this. /— 
Company. Ask ghout it. We also reinsure Town- 
ship and County?Mutual Companies, underwriting 
all or part of the risks which they consider too 
large for safety. 


Write for our special folder. It tells you how hail ‘ 
losses are computed and paid. Save money by in- 
suring In your own Company, backed by 60,000 
Farm Bureau members and the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association. 


Please send me full information about hail insurance 
at cost in My Own Company. 


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ng at 1a. m. today a terrific 
‘| storm, swept the county, accoan- 
panied by rain and wind that 


peen unable to work in the fields 
for nearly a week because of the 
In many cases Wat- 


ew It inches nt heavy raths. 
ere than four ant? ey ‘Webster blew down trees on state high-§*? er was standing in the fields from 
of rain felt th jou ray vt ways and streets and flattenc! @ raing which fell previous, to that 


@ grain fivlds on fa¥ihs, causing 


City in Juste 
= heavy damage. 


n Lasements, “ium: 
ternoon. 


uny great damago 
1d the raving of 


Other places were 


of last hight. 
1 ve our hail storm 


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Entered as secon claas, te? 14 ” 
1925, suthaneed Oct, 27, 
Dearborn 8t., Ohicawo” 


Number 8 


by the Illinois Agricultural Association at 165 So, Main 8St., Spencer, ha ye 
Perk office, Spencer, Ind,- Acceptance for mailing 
Address all communications for publication to a ditciel "Shea 


at special rates 


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, Illinois Agricultural Association 


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Volume 10 


Still Hope for Higher Prices 


A Review of the Fight for Emergency Legislation Made by the Illinois 
Agricultural Association in the Last Congress 


OPE and belief that the in- 
sistent demand of organized 
Illinois farmers that something be 
done to restore farm price levels to 
a reasonable basis may yet be an- 
swered were expressed by President 
Earl C. Smith on his return from 
Washington as Congress adjourned. 
While the Rainey-Norbeck bill 
was defeated, Mr. Smith pointed 
to the little understood provision 
in the general relief bill now en- 
acted into law which has “far- 
reaching possibilities, through loans 
for the sale of accumulated and 
recurring farm crop surpluses, in 
bringing about an early upturn in 
farm prices.” 


prices was the accumulation of farm 
crop surpluses in the United States. 

“When we arrived at Washington 
the first of May we recognized that 
the end of the present Congress 
was fast approaching,” said Mr. 
Smith. “Up to that time very little 
serious consideration had _ been 
given by the Congress to the con- 
dition of agriculture. Its delibera- 
tions had been confined almost en- 
tirely to the relief of banks, rail- 
roads, .insurance companies and 
other large corporations. There had 
been almost a total failure to give 
the farmer any consideration al- 
though half the population of the 


country is directly dependent upon 
agriculture,” continued Mr. Smith. 
The relief bill amending Recon- 
struction Finance Corporation Act 
then pending disclosed practically 
nothing for the relief of the agri- 
cultural industry. Therefore an ef- 
fort was made immediately to place 
in this measure some provision for 
the disposal of farm crop surpluses. 
An interview with Congressman 
Henry T. Rainey of Illinois, major- 
ity leader of the House and ranking 
member of the powerful Ways and 
Means Committee, resulted in 
President Smith securing a hearing 
before this Committee then con- 
sidering the retief 


Before leaving 
Chicago to spend a 
week at his home in 
Pike county to give 
attention to  per- 
sonal affairs, Mr. 
Smith addressed a 
letter to Hon. Ar- 
thur M. Hyde, Sec- 
retary of Agriculture, 
urging that efforts 
to make effective 
the provisions of the 
act be immediately 
inaugurated. 

This letter is of 
such importance 
that it is reproduced 
in full on this page. 


Began in May 


The determined 
fight made by the 
Illinois Agricultural 
Association under 
the leadership of 
Mr. Smith to compel 
Congress to give 
some attention to 
the immediate 
plight of agriculture 
began early in May. 
It was recognized at 
the outset. that the 
chief obstacle to an 
early rise in farm 


LETTER TO SECRETARY HYDE 


Hon. Arthur M. Hyde, 
Secretary of Agriculture, 
Washington, D. C. 


Dear Mr. Hyde: 


Before leaving for home, where I expect to remain for about 
ten days in semi- retirement, at least, I am taking the liberty 
of pces seein a few lines to you relative to the farm situation 
as see it 


It is my most sincere conviction that everything possible 
should be done, and done immediately, to take full advantage 


of authorizations contained in the recent amendment to the Re- 
construction Finance Corporation Act relative to the disposal of 
surpluses of agricultural commodities. 


I feel sure that paragraph 
(c), (ad) and the last sentence of paragraph (f), taken together 
and properly interpreted, make it possible to dispose of not only 
accumulated, but recurring surpluses of agricultural commodities. 
Iam equally sure that the diaposal of these surpluses and public 
knowledge of such accompt ishments should result in the im- 
mediate improvement of price levels of farm commodities. 


I have personally witnessed great encouragement on the part ; 


of livestock farmers as a result of the recent improve- 
ment in hog and cattle prices. If these increases can be main- 
tained with possibly some further improvement in hog prices, and 
in addition, if there could be secured substantial improvement in 
the price of wheat and corn, the reaction of farmers would be 
manifest throughout the business structure of the middle-west 
and should react to the betterment of all lines of industry. 

While I am keenly disappointed in the failure of the emer- 
gency legislation, such as contained in the Norbeck-Rainey 
measures; yet, I am hopeful that if energetically and courageously 
administered and every effort put forth immediately to do so, the 
authorizations contained in the above referred to amendment 
should, in a large measure, result in what was hoped for in the 
sd definite price-raising bill. 

I, of course, recognize that the provisions authorizing the dis- 
posal of surpluses are very much more simple from an adminis- 
trative viewpoint; and in making the above request for im- 
mediate action, I want to assure you of my willingness and de- 
sire to co-operate in every possible way to bring about proper 
results, and also the full co-operation of not only the institution, 
but the people whom I have the honor to represent. 

Again assuring you of my continued high personal regards, 
I beg to remain, 

Sincerely yours, 


ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION, 
(Signed) Earl C. Smith, President. 


bill. 

On May 31. Mr. 
Smith made his first 
appearance before 
the Ways and 
Means Committee in 
which he urged that 
a provision be placed 
in the measure 
authorizing and di- 
recting the Recon- 
struction Finance 
Corporation to fi- 
nance the disposal 
of farm crop sur- 
pluses so as to re- 
move their continu- 
ing depressing effect 
on farm prices. 

In his testimony, 
all of which was re- 
produced in the 
Congressional Rec- 
ord, Mr. Smith in- 
sisted that the first 
essential in getting 
the country back on 
the road to prosper- 
ity was to take such 
action as would im- 
mediately result in 
raising farm price 


‘levels so as to re- 
' store farm buying 


(Continued on next 
page) 


Page Four 


THE ILA.A. RECORD 


August, 1932 


power. He told the congressmen 
that. 50 per cent of the buying 
power of America is directly de- 
“pendent upon farm income, that 
only through such restoration of 
buying power could factories re- 
sume normal operations. 

While the provision requested by 
the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion was placed in the bil! through 
the efforts of Congressman Rainey, 
and reported out of the House 
Ways and Means Committee, it was 
seriously amended and its effective- 
ness restricted during consideration 
on the floor of the House. 

A similar provision which was in- 
cluded in the Wagner bill in the 
Senate was similarly amended on 
the floor of the Senate. 

But when the relief bill came up 
for consideration in conference 
- committee representing both House 
and Senate, the provision directing 
immediate disposition of farm sur- 
pluses was restored through the 
efforts of Congressman Rainey and 
Senator Norbeck, respective leaders 
from the House and Senate on this 
committee. 

The relief bill then went back to 
each House where it was passed 
and sent to the White House. 

Vetoes Bill 
- On July.:11, President Hoover 
vetoed the measure on the ground 
that the bill provided for loans to 
private corporations and individ- 
uals. : Sid 

Two days later a new relief mea- 
sure meeting all the requirements 
of the President was introduced, 
again including full authorization 
for loans for the disposal of farm 
crop surpluses as. originally re- 
quested by the Illinois Agricultural 
Association and the American 
Farm Bureau Federation. 

This revised bill was. finally 
passed by Congress on July 16 and 
was signed by the President. 

The sections of chief interest to 
agriculture are Section C and Sec- 
tion D under Title II—Loans by Re- 
construction Finance Corporation. 

These sections are as follows:— 

(c) In order that the surpluses 
of agricultural products may not 
have a depressing effect upon 
current prices of such products, 
the corporation is. authorized 
and directed to make loans, in 
such amounts as may in its 
judgment be necessary, for the 

purpose of financing sales of 
such surpluses in the markets 


of. foreign countries in which. 


such sales can not be financed in 
the normal course of commerce; 
but no such, sales shall be fi- 
nanced by the corporation if, in 
its judgment, such sales will af- 
fect.adversely the world mar- 
kets for such products. 

(d) The Reconstruction Fi- 
nance Corporation is authorized 


and empowered to make loans to 
bona fide financing institutions, 
organized under the laws of any 
State or of the United States and 
having resources adequate for 


their undertakings, for the pur- 


pose of enabling them to finance 
the carrying and orderly market- 
ing of agricultural commodities 
and livestock produced in the 
United “States. 


Rainey And Norbeck 


These provisions were consist- 
ently protected during all the de- 
liberations on the measure by Con- 
gressman Rainey and Senator Nor- 
beck whose earnest efforts and 
watchfulness prove them to be real 
leaders for and friends of the 
farmers of America. 

President Smith had been as- 
sured that the surplus disposal pro- 
vision would have the approval of 
the administration, particularly of 
Secretary of Agriculture Hyde and 
Chairman Stone of the Farm Board. 

An interpretation of the far- 
reaching possibilities of the surplus 
disposal provision for improving 
farm prices if aggressively and 
courageously administered was 
given by Mr. Smith in a radio ad- 


. dress from Station WLS Chicago on 


July 21, in which he said:— 


Authorization Given 


t 


“Careful study of this provision 
undoubtedly reveals that without 
any restriction, there is full author- 
ization given—first, for financing 


‘sales of agricultural surpluses in 


the markets of foreign countries in 
which such sales cannot be financed 
in the normal course of commerce; 
second, to provide loans to bona 
fide institutions for the purpose of 
enabling them to finance the 
carrying and orderly marketing of 
agricultural commodities and live 
stock. These provisions have re- 
ceived very little publicity. Had 
much publicity been given, no 
doubt, certain of the interests 
opposed to the improvement of 
farm prices would have im- 
mediately and possibly successfully 
thwarted the efforts that were be- 
ing made. 

“All who believe that the im- 
mediate disposal of accumulated 
surpluses of farm commodities is 
essential to the improvement of 
farm prices will be glad to know 
that the first mentioned provision 
not only authorizes but directs ac- 
tion be taken to bring this about. 


Meets Problem 


“It is generally recognized that 
one of the chief reasons for the 
failure of farm prices to improve 
has been the inadequacy of credit 
facilities to finance processors in 
being able to carry processed com- 
modities in storage or otherwise. 


The second provision meets this 


say that if aggressively, 


problem. For instance, one of the 
reasons given for the extremely low 
price of hogs during recent months 
was that the market for lard had 
been greatly restricted, particularly 
the export outlet. Second, that 
packers were not adequately fi- 
nanced to carry the lard in stor- 
age. The provision just referred to 
would meet a situation of this kind 
in two ways—either to finance the 
carrying of the lard until a normal 
demand was restored or to finance 
the sale to a foreign government of 
the excess accumulation of lard. 

“It should also be noted that 
these provisions are not confined to 
accumulated surpluses, but also ob- 
tain as to recurring surpluses. 
There is a substantial school of 
thought in both congressional and 
administration circles, which be- 
lieves that the amendment I am 
referring to should result in the 
immediate and substantial general 


improvement of farm commodity 


price levels. While I'do not person- 
ally believe that the same. results 
can be expected or obtained as 
would have resulted from the en- 
actment of the Rainey-Norheck 
measure; yet, I do not hesitate to 
coura- 
geously and immediately adminis- 
tered, farm price levels should re- 


. spond to a substantial degree. 


Predict $1 Wheat 


“It is interesting to note that al- 
though the bill finally passed Con- 
gress-on July 16, a Washington 
newspaper of Monday, July 18 
carried in its headlines a prediction 
of $1.00 wheat by September. Sen- 
ator Norbeck, to whom I have pre- 
viously referred, is quoted as saying 
that he believes an increase of 25 
cents a bushel is a possibility in the 
early future. 

“I do not believe anyone can ac- 
curately predict as to the future. 
Too many elements are at the 
present time operating to disturb 
the economic equilibrium of the 
Nation. I have no hesitancy in say- 
ing, however, that the complete 
disposition or removal from our 
domestic markets of the ‘surpluses 
that have been accumulating dur- 
ing the past two and one-half years 
should be most helpful in bringing 
about gradual, but substantial in- 
crease in farm commodity price 
levels. 


Getting Wise 


“Of one thing we can be sure, it 
is fast becoming generally rec- 
ognized and accepted that the res- 


‘toration of normal and prosperous 


conditions in agriculture must be 
realized before there can be any 
substantial or permanent improve- 
ment in any line of industry in the 
United States. The agricultural 
problem is receiving far more at- 
(Continued page 5 col. 3) 


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Brief Story Of The 
Rainey-Norbeck Bill 


Rules Committee, Speaker 
Garner, and Reactionary 
Senators Defeat It 


HILE in Washington early in 
’ May conferring with the 
leaders in Congress’ regarding 
measures for the relief of agri- 
culture, Congressman Rainey re- 
quested President Smith to under- 
take the preparation of emergency 
agricultural legislation having for 
its purpose the immediate increase 
in prices of basic farm com- 
modities so as to improve the in- 
come of the American farmer. 
On his return to Chicago, Mr. 
Smith called into conference other 
officers and staff members of the 
Association, C. V. Gregory, editor 
of Prairie Farmer, M. L. Wilson of 
Montana, a recognized agricultural 


economist, and a number of busi-— 


ness leaders and executives. 
Undivided Attention 


Undivided attention was given to 
the preparation of this legislation. 
After the principles of the legisla- 
tion had been generally agreed up- 
on, Mr. Fred Lee of Washington, 
an authority on constitutional law 
and legislative drafting,. was re- 


tained to write these principles in- . 


to a bill. This was done and the 
bill was delivered to Congressman 
Rainey on June 13. On June 15 Mr. 
Rainey introduced it in the House 
where it was referred to the Com- 


- mittee on Agriculture. 


In its deliberations the Committee 
on Agriculture was _ practically 
unanimous in asserting that the 
measure would have the desired 
effect in raising the prices of 
wheat, hogs, and cotton, yet in- 
sisted upon including~many other 
agricultural commodities which 
made it impossible of operation. 

Recognizing the impossibility of 
getting the Rainey bill out of the 
Committee on Agriculture in the 


~~House without serious amendment, 


the bill was introduced in the Sen- 
ate on June 28 by Senator Norbeck 
of South Dakota. On July 1 the Sen- 
ate Committee on Agriculture re- 
ported it out with favorable recom- 
mendation, and on July 13 the bill 
passed the Senate without a record 
vote. 


Favorable Consideration 


On its passage, the Norbeck bill 
was messaged to the House and on 
receipt was immediately referred to 
the Committee on Agriculture 
where it received prompt and fa- 
vorable consideration, being re- 
ported out unchanged by a vote of 
9 to 4. Congressman Rainey, who 
had the whole-hearted support of 


THE LA.A. RECORD 


the entire downstate Illinois dele- 
gation in Congress as well as in- 
fluential representatives from other 
states, then worked energetically 
for immediate consideration on the 
floor of the House. 

Under the Rules of the House, 
no bill can be brought up unless 
a rule for its consideration is ob- 
tained from the powerful Rules 
Committee. In getting a rule for 
consideration of the Rainey-Nor- 
beck bill in the House, sponsors of 
the measure met with difficulty. 


Seek To Recall Bill 


In the meantime, a situation had 
arisen over in the Senate which 
threatened the life of the bill. Re- 
actionary sentiment from the East 
led by Senator Bingham of Con- 
necticut, on July 14, sought to re- 
call the Norbeck bill from the 
House and move for a reconsider- 
ation. This was a parliamentary 
effort to destroy the measure, at 
least for the current session of 
Congress. But this effggt was tem- 
porarily blocked when Senator 
Norris of Nebraska, a valiant sup- 
porter of the measure, gained the 
floor and maintained it throughout 
the day to give time for ample 
consideration in the House. 

While Senator Norris’ filibuster 
was underway in the S e, mem- 


bers of Congress, both Republicans - 
and Democrats, wert repeatedly to . 


Speaker of the House Garner and 
the Rules Committee urging them 
to allow immediate consideration of 


. the bill. All of these efforts failed. 


Norris Yields 


Since nothing more could be 
done to secure consideration of the 
bill by the ‘House word was sent 
over to the Senate that it was use- 
less to continue the filibuster. 
Thereupon Senator Norris yielded 
the floor and Senator Bingham 
was recognized. His motion to recall 
the Norbeck bill from the House 
and recommit it to the Committee 
on Agriculture where it now rests, 
prevailed 30 to 25. The vote on this 
measure follows. All those who 
voted “yea” were against the bill, 
all those who opposed Bingham’s 
motion were for the bill. 


YEAS 
Ashurst Long 
Bailey Metcalf 
Barbour Morrison 
Byrnes Moses 
Cohen Patterson 
Couzens Reed 
George Smoot 
Goldsborough Stephens 
Gore Townsend 
Hale Tydings | 
Hastings Vandenberg 
Hebert Wagner 
Kean Walcott 
Keyes Walsh, Mass. 
King White 
NAYS 

Austin McKellar 
Bulow Neely 
Capper Norbeck 
‘Connally Norris 


Costigan Nye 


Page Five 


vleteher Pittman 
razier Robinson, Ark. 
peng Robinson, Ind. 
Johnson Schall 
Jones Sheppard 
LaFollette Shipstead 
Lewis Trammel 
NOT VOTING 
Bankhead Glenn 
, Barkley Harrison 
Bingham awes 
Black Hayden 
Blaine 
Borah Hull 
Bratton Kendrick 
Brookhart Logan 
Broussard McGill 
Bulkley McNary 
Caraway Oddie 
Carey Shortridge 
Coolidge Smith 
Copeland Steiwer 
Cutting Swanson 
Dale Thomas, Idaho 
Davis Thomas, Okla. 
Dickinson Walsh, Mont. 
Dill Waterman 
Fess Watson 
Glass Wheeler 


Responsibility for the defeat of 
the Rainey-Norbeck emergency 
price-raising measure which: would 
have brought about immediate in- 
creases in the price of wheat, hogs 
and cotton, and indirectly other 
agricultural commodities, rests with 
Speaker Garner and the Rules 
Committee of the House for their 
inaction, and with the reactionary 
interests in the Senate who insisted 
on the bill’s recall and recommit- 
ment. 


Bill Widens Farm Credit | 


Sénate bill 2409 to widen the 
powers of Federal Intermediate 
Credit banks and give them greater 
latitude in financing farmers re- 
cently went to President Hoover for 
approval. 

The measure would authorize 
Federal Intermediate Credit Banks 
to accept drafts drawn on them 
by co-operative marketing associa- 
tions and would permit rediscount 
by Federal Réserve banks of notes 
discounted by such banks. 


STILL HOPE FOR HIGHER PRICES 
(Continued from page 4) 


tention on the part of outstanding 
business men and executives in all 
walks of life than at any previous 
time. Certainly we still have in 
America the ingenuity of thought, 
the determination and willingness 
of effort, the brains and the states- 
manship that should when coupled 
together result in an early agree- 
ment upon and the putting into 
effect of such a permanent agri- 
cultural policy as is necessary to 
assure the future prosperity of the 
corner-stone of the Nation — its 
AGRICULTURE.” 


J. E. Mummert, our president 
who was seriously injured in an 
automobile accident, is making 
satisfactory recovery, writes J. E. 
Watt, farm adviser Fulton county. 
It will be several weeks before he is 
able to walk. 


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Watch For Hoover And 


Roosevelt Farm Pledges 


I. A. A. To Withhold Comment 


On Planks Until Presidential 
Nominees Have Spoken 


C OMMENTS by the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association on the 
Republican and Democratic party 
platform pledges to agriculture will 
be withheld pending such time as 
the presidential candidates in fu- 
ture addresses place their individual 
interpretations upon the party 
commitments. 

Experience has proved, said 
President Earl Smith in a recent 
statement, that party platforms 
and pledges amount to little ex- 
cept to the extent presidential 
nominees publicly interpret and 
define the planks, and upon such 
interpretation make their personal 
pledges for action if and when 
elected. 


A. F. B. F. Statement 
A formal statement issued by the 


‘American Farm Bureau Federation 


concerning the agricultural planks 


in the platforms of the two major . 


parties. declares that both plat- 
forms “include in part some of the 
features of the program of organ- 
ized agriculture, but both platforms 
fall short of covering the entire 
program. : 

“The American Farm Bureau 
Federation is awaiting with inter- 
est the interpretations of these plat- 
forms which will be made by the 
respective major candidates,” the 
statement continues. “This inter- 
pretation, it is felt, will be more 
significant than the phraseology of 
the platforms themselves. 

“President Earl C. Smith of the 
I. A. A. took a leading part in the 
activities of the A. F. B. F. com- 
mittee which presented a sugges- 
tive agricultural plank to the Reso- 
lutions -Committees of the two 
parties at their conventions in Chi- 
cago in June. Mr. Smith was 
quoted widely in the national press 
for his plea on behalf of the farmer 
before the platform builders. 


Suggested Plank | 


“The suggested farm plank draft- 
ed by the national leaders of the 
Farm Bureau organization included 
the following topics: means for dis- 
posal of accumulated surpluses; 
emergency measures to effect im- 
mediate improvement in _ price 
levels; amendment of the Agricul- 
tural Marketing Act to include the 
equalization fee; tariff protection 
for agricultural products; stabiliza- 
tion of the value of the dollar; de- 
velopment of agricultural credit 
facilities; governmental economy. 


“The Republican party. pledged 


THE LA.A. RECORD 


its support to the principle of as- 
sistance to farmer-owned and con- 
trolled co-operative marketing as- 
sociations and to prompt amend- 
ment or modification of the Agri- 
cultural Marketing Act as experi- 
ence may show to be necessary to 
fully carry out the preamble of the 
acts. It pledged tariff protection to 
agriculture, relief from unjust tax 
burdens and formulation of a na- 
tional land utilization program. 


Democrats Advocate 


“The Democratic party platform 
advocates better financing of farm 
mortgages; extension and develop- 
ment of the co-operative market- 
ing movement; effective control of 
crop surpluses to give the farmer 
full benefit of the domestic market; 


August, 1932 


farmer in getting commodity prices 
in excess of cost of production. The 
platform: condemns the Hawley- 
Smoot tariff act of. 1930. 


“President E. A. O’Neal of the 
A. F. B. F. has been especially 
caustic in his criticism of the con- 
ventions for their failure to dis- 
cuss the great economic problems 
before the nation. He has pointed 
out that even in the delegations 
from the great agricultural states 
there were none who would fight 
on the floor of the convention for 
the cause of the farmer. 

“Speech after speech was made 
on other subjects,” Mr. O’Neal said, 
in an address on July 4, “but not 
a single voice was heard telling the 
parties of the actual condition and 
needs of the 50,000,000 people di- 


enactment of measures to aid the rectly dependent on agriculture.” 


Republican Party Pledge 


HE Republican party pledges itself to the principle of assistance 

to co-operative marketing associations, owned and controlled 
by the farmers themselves, through the provisions of the Agricul- 
tural Marketing Act, which will be promptly amended or modified 
as experience shows to be necessary to accomplish the-objects set 
forth in the preamble of that act. 


“The party pledges itself to make such revision of tariff schedules 
as economic changes require to maintain the parity of protection 
to agriculture with other industry. 

“The American farmer is entitled not only to tariff schedules on 
his products but to protection from substitutes therefor. 


“We will support any plan which will help to balance production 
against demand and thereby raise agricultural prices, provided it 
is economically sound and administratively workable without 
burdensome bureaucracy.... 


“The time has come for a reconsideration of our tax systems—fed- 
eral, state, and local—with a view to developing a better coordina- 
tion, reducing duplication, and relieving unjust burdens. The Re- 
publican Party pledges itself to this end.... 


“We favor a national policy of land utilization which looks to na-. 
tional needs. Such a policy must foster reorganization of taxing 
units in areas beset by tax delinquency, and divert lands that are 
submarginal for crop production to other uses. The national welfare 
can be served by the acquisition of lands for watershed protection, 
grazing, forestry, public parks and game preserves. We favor such 
acquisition.” 


Democratic Party Pledge 


HE Democratic party solemnly promises by appropriate action 
to put into effect the principles, policies and reforms herein 
advocated, and to eradicate the policies, methods and practices 
herein condemned.... 
“We advocate: 


“For the restoration of agriculture, the nation’s basic industry, 
better financing of farm mortgages through reorganized farm bank 
agencies at low rates of interest, on an amortization plan, giving 
preference to credits for the redemption of farms and homes sold 
under foreclosure; extension and development of the farm co- 
operative movement and effective control of crop surpluses so that 
our farmers may have the full benefit of the domestic market. 


“Enactment of every constitutional measure that will aid the 
farmer to receive for basic farm commodities prices in excess of 
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Page Seven 


Lower Rates To Farm 
Co-ops Now In Effect 


Passage of Worbeck-Steagall 
Bill Reduces Interest From 
4% to 3% Per Cent At St. 
Louis Credit Bank 


Substantial reductions in the 
rate of interest on all new loans 
to financing institutions and 
farmers’ co-opgrative marketing 
have been put into 
of the twelve Fed- 


Congress of ®he: Norbeck-Steagall 
bill making debentures of the In- 
termediate Credit Banks eligible for 
note-issue and 15-day loans. The 
bill, which embodies principles ad- 


‘vocated by the American Farm Bu- 


reau Federation, was signed by 
President Hoover May 20 and the 
new scale of rates went into effect 
less than a month later, on June 
15. The reductions range from 1% 
per cent at the St. Paul bank, to 
34 of one per cent at Houston and 
with the St. Louis bank, which 
serves Illinois farmers, lowering its 
rate one per cent, or from 4% to 
3% per cent. 

Previously the banks had been at 
a disadvantage in the market with 
other securities which were eligible 
for note-issue and 15-day loans. 
Member banks in the federal re- 
serve system had in the past been 
unwilling to take intermediate 
credit debentures at the same rate 
of interest as other securities be- 
cause the debentures would not 
have this privilege. By placing the 
debentures on the same footing, 
which is provided by the Norbeck- 
Steagall bill, they are now able to 
get the same low rate of interest 
that other securities obtain. 


The American Farm Bureau 
Federation’s Washington office 
urged approval of the bill in hear- 
ings before the Senate and House 
Banking and Currency committees, 
in compliance with a _ resolution 
endorsed by delegates to the na- 
tional Farm Bureau convention last 
winter. This resolution was based 
on recommendations made by the 
National Committee on Rural 
Credits after a survey and study 
of agricultural credit problems. R. 
A. Cowles, treasurer of the Illinois 
Agricultural Association, was a 
member of this national committee. 


More counterfeit money is in cir- 
culation now than at any time 
within his memory, says W. H. Mo- 
ran, chief of the U. S. Secret Serv- 
ice. 

In the fiscal year 1931, 1,534 per- 
sons were arrested and $391,957 in 
counterfeit notes were destroyed by 
the Secret Service. 


Roosevelt Said— 


In his acceptance speech before 
the National Democratic Conven- 
tion in Chicago July 1, Franklin D. 
Roosevelt, presidential nominee, 
spoke at length on the agricultural 
problem. While discussing the un- 
employment question he advocated 
a plan for converting many mil- 
lions of acres of marginal and un- 
used land into timber land through 
reforestation. “There are tens of 
millions of acres east of the 
Mississippi river alone in aban- 
doned farms, in cut-over land, now 
growing up in worthless brush,” he 
said. “Every European nation has 
a definite land policy and has had 
one for generations. We have not. 
Having none we face a future of 
soil erosion and timber famine... . 

“In so doing, employment can be 
given to a million men. That is the 
kind of public work that is self- 
sustaining—therefore capable of 
being financed by the issuance of 
bonds made secure by the growth 
of tremendous timber crops. I have 
a definite program of providing 
employment by that means. I have 
done it, and am doing it today in 
the State of New York. . .. The 
practical way to help the farmer is 
to do something toward the reduc- 
tion of the surpluses of staple com- 
modities that hang on the market. 
It should be our aim to add to the 
world prices of staple products the 
amount of a reasonable tariff pro- 
tection, give agriculture the same 
protection that industry has today. 

“Final” voluntary reduction of 
surplus is a part of our objective, 
put the long continuance: and the 
present burden of existing surpluses 
make it necessary to repair great 
damage’ of the present by im- 
mediate emergency measures. . : . 

“And as to the actual wording of 
the bill, I believe that the Demo- 


cratic party standS ready to be. 


guided by whatever the responsible 
farm groups themselves agree up- 
on. That is.a principle that is sound. 

“One half of our population, over 
50,000,000 people, are depending on 
agriculture, and my friends, if 
those 50,000,000 people have -no 
money, no cash to buy what is pro- 
duced in the city, the city suffers 


to an equal or greater extent... .. 


“Rediscounting of farm mort- 
gages under salutary : restrictions 
must be expanded, and should, in 
the future,. be conditioned on the 
reduction of interest rates. Amor- 
tization payments, maturities, 
should likewise in this crisis be ex- 


tended before rediscount is per-’ 


mitted where. the mortgagor is 
sorely pressed. The tax burden 
caused by expansion and inefficient 
local government is an additional 
factor: . . . Our most immediate 


concern should be to reduce the in- 
terest burden on these mortgages.” 
Further statements of presidential 
nominees on the problems of agri- 
culture will be carried in future 
issues of the REcorD. 


Insurance Men Sign 
1100 New Members 


“Following their usual methods, 
Country Life insurance men went 
over the top in the 4th of July 
membership campaign with report- 
ed Farm Bureau memberships to- 
taling 1100,” says L. A. Williams, 
manager. “Headliners like George 
Dickson of Kendall county, Wm. 
Linker of Whiteside county, Ben 
Roth of Livingston county, all pro- 
duced over 20 members. Insurance 
agents in Livingston county wrote 
a total of 49, Peoria county 24, Ford 
county 24, Rock Island county 35, 
Schuyler county 19, Carroll coun- 
ty 44, etc. 

“General agents in many in- 
stances wrote the members and 
gave credit to their men. Others 
went out to win watches. More than 
30 watches were counted at the sec- 
tional meetings. It was to be ex- ’ 
pected that the men who have been 
active in Farm Bureau work and 
active in selling work would co- 
operate in putting over a gigantic 
program throughout the state of 
Illinois. Our general agents from 
Pope-Hardin to JoDaviess counties, _ 
throughout the length and breadth . 
of the State jumped in and did 
marvelous work. 

“Our leading. producer of the 


_year, Glen Kaufman, who sold 26 


applications on one special day for 


- Country’ Life, is also flashing a 
new Waltham watch for his Farm — 


Bureau effort, which’ proves the 
statement which I make that the 
man who sells life insurance finds - 
selling membership a very simple 
task. Ten of our men will be- very 
glad to challenge ten men from any 
other . subsidiary of the I. A. A. 
in any one month’s race for Farm 
Bureau membership, naming any 
prize which would be agreeable to 
the accepting party, the losers to 
purchase the prize. Think that one 
over.” 


Country Life Insurance ‘Co: an- 
nounces that it wrote more life insur- 
ance in July, 1932 than.in July, 1931. 


The Reconstruction Finance Cor- 


poration recently loaned the Balti- 


more and Ohio railroad $25,500;000, 
the largest single. loan approved by 
the Interstate Commerce Commis- 
sion, 

Cement prices were advanced.-re- 
cently by. several of the larger manu- 
facturers. j 


The farm ‘price index advanced 5 
points from June 15 to July 15.° 


Page Eight 


aGcovr inks NEO N 


To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was or- 
ganized, namely, to promote, protect and represent the busi- 
ness, economic, political, and educational interests of the 
farmers of Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 


GEORGE THIEM, Editor 


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OFFICERS 
President, Earl C. Smith ......... cece cece eee eee eee eeeeeeeenes Detroit 
Vice-President, A. R. Wright ........... cece cece cece eee eee eeeees Varna 
Secretary, Geo, E, Metzger .......5 05 cc cece cece ee eee ene ee eeeeeee Chicago 
Treasurer, R, A. Cowles ........ 0.2.0. cece eee c eee eeeewees Bloomington 
BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
(By Congressional District) 
Web: Fo DUGh. ci se Fide eee be eeagcesecees H. C, Vial, Downers Grove 
ROU 6 do skid cee tga ¥ Silesia 64. cbse pGaide Weelgis ee heeded G, F, Tullock, Rockford 
MOM og cigar bloga pe SEA hee bet Copa ase eke C. E. Bamborough, Polo 
BOER ond. cies Fade vee e cas Ssigtess Stes ear eininyeln ts Phe M, G, Lambert, Ferris 
UL S SoS ieee abt 058 bie dike 0 dao pre Gan ben be8 tau ¥'0 aogheb epee Charles Bates, Browning 
WINER Noa eg iMag vo oa O Che pis cris votreg's Vtg Meee ee Geo, B, Muller, Washington 
{HMMM ats o's wloigo' bw bs 0X ep Ges oie bealeae se Omid REE Oe A. B. Schofield, Paxton 
MONE GS sv yisipit'g alee Wo yacb'a bie CS ¢. Oe a alele Ne fe eb Kaew W. A. Dennis, Paris 
BARRE. Goro ie ccs a e's ole Hb bre head bb ce bees Lon ot bbade even ee Cc. J. Gross, Atwood 
BOON 50 ais. sk bb oF cae Maka eled obiegaaia coke Charles 8, Black, Jacksonville 
WIR ia io ace'e ie Since Gee pob Cle Mie Mee aiee CEN Oa we Oe Oba AER Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 
MN 26 aos Cie ae enks ano eee plete bie Rohe wks ob eae aes Talmage DeFrees, Smithboro 
MOGs oo ohn Kee ce ohare cob bb else Ouebeb saad oo ReMe Tei W. LL. Cope, Salem 
BOC occu ligee phe c ete qed eg vanes re en ve Charles Marshall, Belknap 
GRR a cic vip S ic ciode sieie jot oe baie slobu Selb bis hig 6 Cis dink we ate Fred Dietz, De Soto 
DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 
GemMDeP Ole ic. io pigr0 oc ee succes oda be gets CBee Sey bine oe ee EE op oie J. H, Kelker 
Dairy Marketing. .o.5s.. is occ hire pos vo cyte wu peidn oa veede veges J. B, Countiss 
WEMNR SE Sorceress Pac ce WG: gic sree 0,69,0 ee aeee ew ib ole gaa bibg ; RB, A, Cowles 
Fruit’ and Vegetab’e Marketing...................0.0ccees -...H. W. Day 
Groin. Marketing ... 50.6. cc ccc c cece emeccevade Harrison Fahrnkopf 
EOAOEUMROM ES a. Kin. 6 0:90 69 vg bc prey b0 Pare salad beep oe cuwe HevamE George Thiem 
Insurance Service............. 0... cece cee e cette eee seuveee Vv. Vaniman 
TMQBRE AIBUBRONS Sins ooo soe eee oie c's vores 05 ova usa ke epee ney Donald Kirkpatrick 
Live Stock Marketing............... 0.0.00 ccc cccuccueceeteus Ray E, Miller 
RNS Ri N Geo dey 90.8 sc Bae wok oa 0 ede oaths baele Sveti Cc. E. Johnston 
SUID ios on oso s5 0 vs once cuigalore pom vdiee palbiee selcped nan G. E, Metzger 
Produce Marketing................. 0.2 ccceccccccaeeeueeees F, A, Gougler 
Taxation and Statistics............. 0... cc cece ce eccccuecees J. C. Watson 
PGR IER TION 65065556. 6w ob oils g ba gic o ov Shiney Veteeia lp pices sla ae L. J. Quasey 
ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 
Country Life Insurance Co,................0.c0e- L, A. Williams, Mer. 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co.................ese00: J, H. Kelker, Mgr, 
Illincis Agricultural Auditing Assn................. F, E, Ringham, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co......... A, E, Richardson, Mgr. 
Illinois Farm Supply Co.............ceeecccuecees L, BR. Marchant, Mgr. 


Illinois Grain Corp..... Chas. P, Cummings, Vice-Pres, and Sales Mgr, 
Illinois Livestock Mark, Ass’n..Ray Miller, Mgr.; R. W. Grieser, Sales 
Illinois Produce Marketing Ass’n.............++. s..E, A, Gougler, Mgr, 
Soybean Marketing Ass’n..................ce0008 W. H. Coultas, Mgr. 
PN PS RIES SAA eS PRESSE AR SR OCICS TOR SRE LT SLEDS RIC 2 Sh Ra 


Higher Farm Prices 


HILE the Rainey-Norbeck bill was defeated 

in the recent session of Congress, efforts 
of organized farmers to secure action designed to 
raise farm prices met with a measure of success. 
The agricultural provisions, sections C and D, of 
the relief bill amending the Reconstruction Fi- 
nance Corporation Act, now enacted into law, have 
promise of bringing about substantial recovery. 
Everything now depends on the vigor and sin- 
cerity with which these provisions are adminis- 
tered. 

The corporation is authorized and directed to 
dispose of surplus farm products in the markets 
of foreign countries in which such sales can not 
be financed in the normal course of commerce. 
It is empowered to extend credit to domestic 
millers, packers, and other processors to enable 
them to finance the carrying and orderly mar- 
keting of agricultural commodities and livestock 
produced in this country. 

There is nothing in these provisions to restrict 
their application to present surpluses of farm 
commodities. They apply also to future surpluses. 


THE LAA. RECORD 


August, 1932 


They aim to correct one of the chief reasons for 
low prices, namely, restricted credit on the part 
of big buyers of farm crops who process and hold 
in storage for future sale. 

The opportunity to start farm prices on the up- 
ward grade is apparent. Will those charged with 
responsibility take advantage of it? 


The Facts In the Case 


HE Grain Futures Commission composed of 
the Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of 
Commerce, and Attorney General—all members of 
President Hoover’s cabinet—recently said to the 
Chicago Board of Trade “give the grain producers 
and their co-operative equal privileges on the Chi- 
cago exchange or be suspended for 60 days.” 

Peter Carey, president of the Board of Trade, 
replied that the organized middlemen will fight 
to the last ditch to bar the farmer-owned and 
farmer-controlled Farmers National Grain Corpo- 
ration from enjoying the full privileges of this 
terminal market. 

The controversy will presently be transferred 
to the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and even- 
tually to the Supreme Court for a final decision. 

The action taken by the Commission is author- 
ized in Section 6 of the Grain Futures Act of 1922 
which provides (Section 5) that “The Secretary 
of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed 
to designate any board of trade as a ‘contract mar- 
ket’ when, and only when, such board of trade 
complies with and carries out the following con- 
ditions and requirements: 

(e) “When the governing board thereof does 
not exclude from membership in, and all privileges 
on, such board of trade, any duly authorized rep- 
resentative of any lawfully formed and conducted 
co-operative association of producers having ade- 
quate financial responsibility which is engaged in 
cash grain business, if such association has com- 
plied, and agrees to comply, with such terms and 
conditions as are or may be imposed lawfully on 
other members of such board: Provided, That no 
rule of a contract market shall forbid or be con- 
strued to forbid the return on a patronage basis 
by such co-operative association to its bona fide 
members of moneys collected in excess of the ex- 
oe of conducting the business of such associa- 
ion.” 

Greed and selfishness are the primary motives 
of the middlemen in their war against farmers 
who would better themselves as thousands already 
have done through organized co-operative selling. 
The “trade” believes like the kings of old that it 
has a divine right to collect toll from the farmer’s 
grain; that the farmer must not do this for him- 
self even if he will. 

The present controversy as Mr. C. E. Huff, presi- 
dent of the Farmers’ National, points out, is 
reminiscent of the fight waged against co-op- 
erative farmers’ elevators 30 years ago. “Let it be 
recalled,” said Mr. Huff, “that when the first 
farmers’ elevators were organized, not a bushel of 
grain forwarded to market by them would be ac- 
cepted or handled by members of grain exchanges 
unless the sale was authorized by the local co- 
operative elevator making the shipment, to be 
made in the name of a local private grain dealer 
(their competitor) and for his account and with a 
commission deduction for his benefit. 

“They then thought that even local co-operatives 
were wrong. It required special action on the part 
of the federal government, the active interest of 


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the then President of the United States, and of 
the Attorney General; to secure for farmers’ ele- 
vators their initial right to have their grain sold 
by members of most grain exchanges at regular 
commission rates. 

“The issue today is not with regard to the Fed- 
eral Farm Board nor to the government in busi- 
ness, but has to do solely with the development 
of large scale co-operatives, which are putting the 
American farmer in control of his commodities in 
the market places to enable him to retain for 
himself those final values which heretofore have 
passed to others in the form of commissions, dis- 
counts and so on. 

“The early opposition to the co-operative move- 
ment was hardly more ridiculous than that of the 
present, and yet, looking backward, the utter un- 
reasonableness of it is more completely apparent. 
The passing of time will reveal the ‘folly of the 
present opposition.” 


Value of the Farm Bureau 


A news dispatch which came over the wires June 1 


“announced that Earl C. Smith, president of the Illinois 


Agricultural Association, had been in conference that 
day at the White House with President Hoover con- 
cerning proposed surplus control legislation now be- 
fore Congress. 

That brief item should have been a source of much 
satisfaction to every member of the Madison County 
Farm Bureau, and of every other Farm Bureau in the 
state. 

Their personal representative in the White House! 
Talking over matters of legislation of vital importance 
to every farmer! How different from the old days, 
when the farmer, of all groups; was unorganized and 
without voice in the legislative halls and executive 
offices’ of the nation. 

It is most fitting that the question of the value of 
the Farm Bureau be discussed at this time in Madison 
County. Many of the bureau memberships are expir- 
ing this summer. What the members themselves think 
of the bureau will be shown by their renewals. The 
Intelligencer hopes and believes that every expiring 
membership will be renewed. That this belief is justified 
may be seen from the fact that only last week 27 new 
members were taken into the organization. . 

The Madison County Farm Bureau has materially 
increased its value to its members in the last year or 
two. Every department has been strengthened and 
additional services have been instituted which have 
proven highly popular with and profitable to the mem- 
bers. 

The Intelligencer would like to see the Madison 
County Farm Bureau membership greatly increased. 
That would strengthen the organization. Its power to 
benefit the farm would be infinitely greater. 

Last of the great productive units to take up or- 
ganization, the farmer is now making up for lost time. 
The value of organization constantly becomes more 
apparent. And as it does the strength of the farmer 
associations grows. 

The farmer has often been termed the greatest of 
individualists. He still is. He has complete control 
over his crops, their rotation, variety, etc. The desir- 
ability of this individualism has been put forth by 
enemies of Farm Bureaus as a reason the farmer should 
not join them. As a matter of fact, they in no way 
affect his individualism. He is his own boss just as 
much now as he ever was. 

In fact, he has greater control over his own affairs. 
In times past he was almost completely under domi- 
nation of the middleman or the speculator. He took 
their price for his products or he could not sell. Or- 


LA.A. RECORD 


Page Nine 


ganization is changing that. The farmers’ co-operative 
marketing organizations have attained such power and 
influence that only the broader laws of supply and 
demand now affect his prices. The whims of the 
speculator no longer affect him. 

The organized farmer has been a powerful influence 
in legislative matters in the last several years. His 
voice, through his organizations, will grow in strength. 
If the Farm Bureaus throughout the nation are given 
the support they desire the time will soon come when 
the farmer will find himself on an economic parity 
with the manufacturer, the wholesaler and the re- 
tailer, all of whom have been organized efficiently for 
many years. 

Farmers of Madison County may speed the arrival 
of that time by associating themselves with the Madi- 
son County Farm Bureau. Every person a member 
should renew that membership and get as many of 
his neighbors on the roster as possible. He will thus 
be given additional protection to his own interests and 
those of his friends—Edwardsville (Ill.) Intelligencer. 


Service Company Men Sign 712 


The Illinois Farm Supply Company sales force is 
responsible for more than 22% of the new Farm 
Bureau members enrolled during the special state- 
wide campaign, reports L. R. Marchant, manager. 
C. W. Ward, field sales director, was active in work- 
ing with service company men to make this showing. 

Forty-four of the 52 associated county service com- 
panies reported 712 new 
members. Thirty-six man- 
agers and 154 truck sales- 
men demonstrated their 
ability to sell something 
besides oil and grease by 
signing one member or 
more. Nine of the man- 
agers and 21 of the truck 
salesmen signed ten or 
more each. 

LaSalle County Farm 
Supply Company leads 
with Manager Comisky 
and his eleven salesmen 
signing 87 members; Car- 
roll Service Company 
scored second with 59 
members signed by Man- 
ager Rahn and five sales- 
men; Macoupin Service 
Company was third with Manager Rodman and six 
salesmen signing 40; Manager Curtiss of - McLean ~ 
County Service Company and his fifteen salesmen 
ranked fourth with 34 members. 

Manager Ludwig of Woodford County Service Com- 
pany signed 15 members; Manager Rahn of Carroll 
Service Company 12 members; Manager Stewart of 
Champaign County Service Company 11 members; 
Manager Whitebread of Lee County Service Company 
11 members; and the following managers are credited 
with 10 each: Rodman of Macoupin, Campbell of Liv- 
ingston, Comisky of LaSalle, Wilkins of Fruit Belt, 
Winkleblack of Coles and Curtiss of McLean. 

Among the salesmen on the Honor Roll with 10 
members or more are: LaSalle County—Edward Geil, 
Lyle Albert, Roy Rees, Wm. Morrison, Sigurd Eike, 
and Don S. Bastian; Carroll County—C. P. Boddiger, 
Fred Nesemeier, Edwin Miller, Harold Frey; Ford 
County—Severt Hill; Henry County—Walter Putnam; 
Knox County—John Cisco; Logan-Mason Counties— 
Adolph Keith; Macoupin County—Ernest Costley, 
Keith Mitchell; Marshall-Putnam County—Clarence 
Austin; Monroe County—Alvin Prange; Richland- 
Lawrence Counties—H. D. Lewis; St. Clair County— 
Laclede Holcomb; McLean County—two salesmen. 


M. COMISKY 


Page Ten 


THE I.A.A. RECORD 


August, 1932 


Ford County Goes Over 
Top With Big Celebration 


Nearly 5,000 people from all parts 
of the county gathered at Paxton 
July 4th to help in the celebration 
and demonstration. The parade 
consisted of 400 cars, at least 2,000 
people, numerous floats, and three 
bands. Not more than a third of 
those in attendance could find room 
in the capacious pavilion during the 
program, and the park itself was 
filled to overflowing all afternoon. 

The success of this celebration 
was due not only to the efforts of 
Farm Bureau members, but also to 
support given by civic organizations 
of both Gibson City and Paxton, 
and by the American Legion of 
Ford county. Prairie Post, Ameri- 
can Legion, of Paxton, furnished a 
color guard to head the parade. 

Bands from Paxton, Roberts and 
Gibson City supplied music. The 
parade required 50 minutes to pass. 
Floats and trucks carried slogans 
such as “Taxes Must Come Down,” 
“Keep the Dinner Bell Ringing in 
America,” “You Can’t Have Pros- 
perity Without Prosperous Farm- 
ers,” “Restore the Farmer’s Buying 
Power and the Factories Will Hum,” 
“Give us a Price and We Will Buy 
the Nation Back to Prosperity.” 

A. B. Schofield, president of the 
Farm Bureau, who gave a most in- 
spiring address, introduced the 
speaker of the day, Phil Evans of 
the Chicago.Producers. 

W. F. Purnell, farm adviser, re- 
ported that a quota of 90 new mem- 
bers had been assigned to Ford 
county, that 88 new members had 
been reported by the “Minute Men” 
of the county, and that it was ex- 
pected that the full quota would be 
obtained. The previous member- 
ship in the Ford County Farm Bu- 
reau was 670. The addition of the 
quota will bring the membership up 
to 760. 


Prayer Offered At 
Dedication Programs 


This prayer, written by the 
famous minister, Dr. John Holland 
of St. Paul, was given from most of 
the platforms throughout Illinois at 
the beginning of Dedication Day 
Programs. 

“Our Father in Heaven and upon 
Earth; we come before Thee with 
strangely conflicting emotions. Our 
human wisdom seems to have failed 
us. Our dreams of justice and fair 
play seem to be broken in our 
hearts. Wars, greed, duplicity, and 
selfishness have broken our eco- 
nomic balance and upset our men- 
tal and spiritual poise. 

“Hunger co-exists with plenty, 
men tramp our country for work, 
and women and children cry for 


bread. We are not sufficient . for 
these things, and we turn with our 
whole hearts to Thee. 

“We pray for our President that 
he may be divinely led to think both 
of the lowly and the mighty. May 
those servants of the people elected 
to positions of public trust, legis- 
late for the welfare of the whole 
people. 

“We pray that our government 
may be so guided in equity that 
bloody revolution may not march 
down our streets. Bless, we pray 
Thee the millions of farmers, and 
the toilers whose labor brings them 
an inadequate livelihood, but bless 
especially those, who, in this land 
of plenty are denied the chance to 
work. 

“Help us as a people facing dis- 
couragement, uncertainty, and lead 
us to think, pray, and act as one 
people that justice may be guar- 
anteed to farmer and laborer alike. 

“We pray in the name of the 
Carpenter of Nazareth that workers 
may not, through our blundering 
States-craft be reduced to slaves. 
We pray in the name of Him whose 
feet walked through the fields of 


wheat that growers of grain and. 


food may not be forced into serv- 
itude to those who control the 
affairs of state. In Christ’s name we 
pray for a spiritual sense of the 
economic values of life which shall 
make us a people think and act in 
the fraternity of true brotherhood. 

“Bless these troubled but undis- 
couraged and unsurrendering hosts 
who march this day in the hope of 
a better day to come. Endow them 
with patience, guide them in true 
charity, and strengthen their hearts 
to persist until they prevail in their 
faith for the righting of their eco- 
nomic wrongs. 

“We ask these things in the Name 
of the Savior of Men. Amen.” 


Two Mile Parade Features 
Jo Daviess Celebration 


“The Farmers Dinner Bell is the 
Liberty Bell of 1932, Keep it Ring- 
ing” was the slogan uppermost in 
the minds of 5,000 farmers and 
townspeople who gathered in Eliza- 
beth on July 4th to impress on all 
people that the return to prosperity 
can be brought about by restoring 
the farmer’s buying power. 

The most impressive feature of 
Dedication Day was the two-mile 
parade, including 400 cars and 
floats. Some of the more elaborately 
decorated floats represented “The 
Farmers Dinner Bell,” “Co-opera- 
tion Will Win,” “4-H Clubs,” “Unit 
Organization,” “48 States,” etc. 

An old horse-drawn hearse carry- 
ing the effigy of “Old Man Depres- 
sion” drew many comments from 
the crowd. Old Man Depression was 
later buried with due ceremony on 
the park grounds. “Dick” Tapley as 


Rock Island County Crowd 


Estimated at 10,000-15,000. 


‘Moline, July 4:—Between 10,000 
and 15,000 farmers, members of their 
families and residents of the quad- 
cities and nearby communities 
joined in a celebration July 4 at 
Prospect Park here today.. 

The celebration was part of a 
state-wide campaign to help restore 
the economic independence of ag- 
riculture and at the same time to 
start the ball rolling for the return 
of prosperity in the nation. 

The parade which began at 11:15 
A. M. from Fifteenth street and 
Sixteenth avenue, Moline, to Pros- 
pect Park, included three elaborate 
floats entered by the Farm Bureau 
under the direction of C. V. Golden 
of Coe township, chairman of the 
parade committee. One, a 4-H club 
float, was prepared by Rural town- 
ship members, a taxation float was 
entered by Bowling and Edgington 
township residents, while the din-. 
ner bell float was the Coe town- 
ship entry. 

More than 200 automobiles were 
in the parade, the Tri-City brass 
band, seven horses, Sons of Union 
Veterans, members of 4-H clubs, Mo- 
line Eagles drum and bugle corps, 
prize wagon, decorated cars, Sal- 
vation Army band and ‘floats of 
Rock Island and Moline stores and 
business concerns. 

The highlight of the afternoon 
program was an address by Rev. 
Loyal M. Thompson, pastor of the 
First Methodist church of Mon- 
mouth. He made a stirring plea 
for agricultural relief. Ben H. Boll- 
man, Farm Bureau president, pre- 
sided, and Mayor John F. Huey of 
Moline welcomed the visitors with 
a brief talk. Others who gave short 
talks were John R. Spencer, W. H. 
Moody, and Robert Quick. Rev. Wil- 
liams, pastor of the Broadway Pres- 
byterian church, Rock Island, gave 
the opening prayer. 

Shortly after the talks were con- 
cluded the crowd witnessed the 
burning in effigy of “Old Man In- 
difference,” and “Unfaithful Pub- 
lic Servants.” 

The Farm Bureau prizes were 
awarded as follows: farm wagon, 
R. W. Wilson, Bowling township; 
chest of silver, Raymond Reed, Buf- 
falo Prairie township; bicycle, 
Ralph Keller, Drury township, and 
set of eight goblets, William G. 
Mueller, Prairie township. 

Eight acts of vaudeville were 
presented in the evening. G. L. 
Smith signed ten new members to 
win a radio for his car. Sixty new 
members were reported on July 6. 


George Washington headed the pa- 

rade, followed by Elizabeth band 

and a squad of soldiers from the 
(Continued on Page 11) 


August, 1932 


THE LA.A. RECORD 


Page Eleven 


How Illinois Senators and Representatives in Session of Congress Closed July, 1932 
Voted on Measures of Interest to Agriculture as Reported by 
American Farm Bureau Federation 


bill did not come to a vote 
in that House. 


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Savanna Proving Grounds. These 
were followed by floats and cars. 

More than 1,000 cars were parked 
on the main and side streets of 
Elizabeth, filled with people who 
came to see the parade. 

Fred Kammiller of Dubuque, 
farmer and speaker of wide repute, 
spoke on farm problems, followed 
by R. A. Cowles, treasurer of the 
I. A. A. who talked on policies of 
the state organization with em- 
phasis on legislation which the I. 
A. A. is endeavoring to secure for 
the benefit of agriculture in the 
present congressional session. 

Thos. Youngbluth of Rush town- 
ship was the lucky winner of the 
farm wagon, Donald Krug of Mass- 
bach won the bicycle, Mrs. Joe Bud- 
den of Menominee township re- 


ceived a fine set of silverware, and 
Mrs. Ross Pierce of Stockton the 
beautiful set of glassware. 

The best float prizes were award- 
ed to the Ladies Patriotic Circle, 
lst; 4-H Club, 2nd; for unusual 
floats. Joe Armitage horse drawn 
hearse with “Old Man Depression.” 
Henry Droegmiller, 2nd. 


Of a total of $17,000,000 of farm 
loans in 17 states for 1930, 38 per 
cent called for payments on the 
principal each year of the loan, 
eight per cent for one or more pay- 
ments, and six per cent for amor- 
tization. Forty-eight per cent were 
straight loans payable at the end 
of the term, whereas 90 per cent of 
the business reported for the pre- 


ceding year in 10 states was for: 


straight term loans. 


Open Season On Ducks 


The open season on wild ducks 
and geese has been set at two 
months for the coming fall. The 
earliest open season in any state 
will be October 1 and the latest 
opening date October 16 with the 
exception of Florida where it will 
be November 20. In [Illinois the 
new open season for ducks and 
geese is October 16 to December 15. 


Farm Hand: “I’m kinda expectin’ 
you to raise my wages next week, 
boss.” 

Farmer: “Well, I always have 
raised them every week an’ I guess 
I can do it next week.” 


Consumption of meat has_ been 
stimulated very noticeably as a re- 
sult of low prices. 


Page Twelve 


Shipping Associations 
Put Out of Business 


I. A. A. Conference at Shelby- 
ville Discusses Problems 


URVEYING the _ development 

of co-operative livestock mar- 
keting before Farm Bureau leaders 
attending the recent district con- 
ference of the Illinois Agricultural 
Association at Shelbyville, R. W. 
Grieser, sales manager of the Illi- 
nois Livestock Marketing Associa- 
tion, told how the local shipping 
association put the country buyer 
out of business and how about five 
or six years ago the packer buyer 
came in again and with the truck 
put the shipping association out 
of business. 

He explained that the passing of 
the local shipping associations 
made necessary the establishment 
of new marketing machinery and 
resulted in the organization of the 
Illinois Livestock Marketing As- 
sociation, an organization whose 
purpose is to seek the best outlet 


for all units of livestock with the 


idea of raising the general price 
level. ' 


Last year, he said, 23 to 24 per 


cent of the hogs in Illinois went 
direct to packers. Hard roads and 
trucks were another factor in 
doing away with the shipping -as- 
sociation. To meet this condition, 
concentration points were estab- 
lished. The Illinois Livestock Mar- 
keting Association is returning to 
the producer 17 cents per hundred 
pounds more for hogs than he 
could get without the organization, 
Grieser said. Seven cents of this is 
accounted for in freight, and 10 
cents in selectivity of markets. 

C. J. Gross, director of the I. A. 
A. from the 19th congressional dis- 
trict, presided at the meeting, and 
Farm Adviser J. H. Hughes of Moul- 
trie county acted as secretary. 

Among other speakers were L. B. 
Hornbeek and A. B. Culp, district 
organization managers of the I. A. 
A. Mr. Hornbeek spoke on “Organ- 
ization Morale” and Mr. Culp’s 
subject was “The Marketing Act 
and the Equalization Fee.” 

After a discussion of legislation 
on hard roads and waterways, it 
was decided to refer the matter to 
the state association in order that 
a more comprehensive study might 
be made. Upon the invitation of 
Farm Adviser Glenn Hoover of 
Douglas county, it was decided to 
hold the next meeting at Tuscola. 


Twenty-three states now permit 
branch banking in some form. 


A five-day week for the U. S. 
Department of Labor was estab- 
lished July 30. 


THE LAA. RECORD 


Farm Bureaus Act To 
Cut Farmers’ Tax Bill 


Largely as a result of Farm Bu- 
reau efforts, the majority of Rock 
Island and McDonough county 
farmers are paying less taxes this 
year than in 1931, a survey of 72 
farms picked at random in the two 
counties revealed. The average sav- 
ing on these 72 farms approximated 
$33 per farm. 

Out of 36 farms chosen from dif- 
ferent townships in Rock Island 
county, all except one showed a re- 
duction in taxes. The only farm to 
show an increase was a farm of 185 
acres which paid $2.88 more than a 
year ago. The other 35 Rock Island 
county farms ranged from $3 to $80 
less. For example, one 90-acre farm 
saved $20 on its 1931 taxes; a 320- 
acre farm saved $40; a 250/acre 
farm, $14.61; and a 160-acre/farm 
$80.88. 

All of the 36 examined in Mc- 
Donough county showed a reduc- 
tion. The actual dollars-and-cents 
savings ranged from $2 to $72 per 
farm. In ten cases, the reduction 
was more than $50 per farm. This 
saving is in the most part ac- 
counted for by the 25 per cent re- 
duction in assessed valuations of 
farm lands and improvements se- 
cured through the efforts of the 
public relations committee of the 
Farm Bureau. 


Randolph Co. Director 
Blind But Still Active 


Alfred Donjon, a member of the 
executive board of the Randolph 
County Farm Bureau, according to 
J. B. Countiss of the I. A. A. staff, 
took an active part in all arrange- 
ments for the big celebration at 
Waterloo. 

Mr. Donjon is blind, but he took 
home a copy of the special re- 
dedication issue of the I. A. A. 
RECORD and said he would have 
it read so he could get all the in- 
formation about what was going on 
throughout the state. 


Atlee Pomerene, former Demo- 
cratic Senator from Ohio, has been 
appointed by President Hoover as 
chairman of the Board of Direc- 
tors of the Reconstruction Finance 
Corp. 

Mr. Pomerene will succeed Eugene 
Meyer, governor of the Federal Re- 
serve Board who held the R. F. C. 
post since the resignation of Gen- 
eral Charles G. Dawes. 


Farm prices are entirely out-of- 
line with the gold supply and ulti- 
mately must rise—Any rise in the 
general price level will result in a 
greater rise in farm prices, says 
George F. Warren in the June 1932 
Farm Economics. 


August, 1932 


Hog Cholera Control Is 
Popular Bureau Service 


Savings To Members Estimated 
at $300,000 in 1931 


The Illinois Farm Bureau Serum 
Association, which serves 73 coun- 
ties, bought for Farm Bureau mem- 
bers last year nearly 50,000,000 cubic 
centimeters of anti-hog cholera 
serum and virus saving approxi-° 
mately $300,000 on farmers’ vac- 
cination bills. 


This service has been offered for 
a number of years with increasing 
volume and increasing savings. The 
unusually large amount of serum 
and virus bought last year was due 
mainly to serious outbreaks of hog 
cholera in many parts of the state. 

Indications are that farmers this 
year are going to take advantage of 
the lesson learned during last year’s 
outbreaks and vaccinate their pigs 
at an earlier age. This will mean an 
additional saving. 


Last year’s purchases were the 
largest: ever made by the associa- 
tion in a single year and this year’s 
contracts are thought to be the 
largest single purchase of serum 
ever made by any organization at 
any time. During the first three 
months of 1932 orders were about 
eight per cent above the corre- 


. Sponding period of a year ago, but 


this is not as great as it should be 
under present conditions. 

Considering the fact that farmers 
can now vaccinate their hogs at a 
lower cost than at any time in his- 
tory, they should take advantage of 
this opportunity to insure their 
herds against cholera. 

If we are to profit by the ex- 
perience of 1931, when serious out- 
breaks of the disease appeared in 
practically every section of the 
state, we must vaccinate while the 
pigs are young and light. Last year 
many farmers waited until cholera 
broke out in their own herd or in a 
neighbor’s herd before they did 
anything. The result was a higher 
cost of vaccination and in many 
cases heavy losses. 

The Farm Bureau Serum Associa- 
tion is a co-operative formed to buy 
high grade serum and virus _ for 
Farm Bureau members direct from 
the manufacturers. This service is 
provided for them not only to save 
money on serum costs, but also to 
make available a guaranteed supply 
of serum of tested quality at all 
times. 


The Illinois Milk Producers As- 
sociation at Peoria recently moved 
into its own building and is in- 
stalling eauipment to process part 
of its surplus milk and cream. Up 
to now the association has had to 
dispose of surplus milk on the open 
market. : 


August, 1932 2 


Anna Homann Ruth Whitlock 


THE LAA RECORD 


Dorothy C. Woolsey 


Martha V, Hawthorne 


Page Thirteen 


Ernestine Gifford 


Bernell Emmerich 


Country Life Queen Contest Features 
Farm Bureau Day at State Fair 


Two major attractions which 
promise to bring out a larger at- 
tendance than usual on Farm Bu- 
reau Day, Friday, Aug. 26 at the 
Illinois State Fair are the Country 
Life Queen contest, and the award- 
ing of state prizes to the lucky 
ticket holders who registered at 
one of the 90 county Dedication 
Day celebrations on July 4. 


Farm Bureau headquarters as in 
past years will be located in a large 
tent east and south of the race 
track grandstand. Checking facil- 
ities, chairs, drinking water,: and 
other conveniences will be available 
for Farm Bureau members who at- 
tend the Fair any day from Aug. 
20-26. Placards and charts arranged 
about the tent will visualize the 
work of the Farm Bureau and I. 
A. A. in serving members. 

The first prize in the registration 
contest will be a fine automobile in 
the medium priced field, the second 
prize a lower-priced car, and the 
third a handy chest of carpenter’s 
tools. The winners need not be 
present but no one is eligible who 
failed to register on July 4th in his 
or her respective county. 

The Country Life Queen contest 


‘will see 37 of the finest young 


women representing as many coun- 
ties in downstate Illinois. All are 
champions, having won their re- 
spective county contests. 

The county winners in the Coun- 
try Life Queen contest who are ex- 
pected to enter the competition at 
Springfield follow: 


Rowena Stevenson, Bond _ county; 
Irene Hill, Boone; Bernita Kurzweg, 
Champaign; Anna Homann, Coles; 
Laura Schoenbeck, Cook; Marian Mc- 
Conaghie, DeKalb; Robilee Coad, Ed- 
wards; Evelyn Loy, Effingham; Lucille 
Duffey, Gallatin; Norma Hicks, Greene; 
Angeline Painter, Henderson; Evelyn 
MeNeil, Henry; Maude M. Bonnett, Jo- 
Daviess; Thelma Reeder, Johnson; 
Dorothy Woolsey, Knox; Leona Bloom, 
Lake; Rita Downs, Lee; Mildred 
Fischer, Livingston; Ruth Andreas, Mc- 
Henry; Nora Michel, Marion; Louise 
Laughead, Mercer; Myrtle Ruhl, Mon- 
roe; Ruth Whitlock, Montgomery; 
Marjorie Wilmot, Peoria; Martha V. 
Hawthorne, Piatt; Vera Riley, Pike; 
Dorothy Layman, Pope; Mildred 
Fritchley, Richland; Ernestine Gifford, 


Rock Island; Ruth Whitacre, Shelby; 
Bernell Emmerich, St. Clair; Mabel 
Oertley, Stark; Rose Ann Pero, Wash- 


‘ington; Clara Clark; Wayne; Mary 


Olive Ridenour, White; Maxine Cham- 
ness, Williamson; and Mary Parks, 
Woodford. 


“We believe the Country Life 
Queen contest is of outstanding im- 
portance,” said V. Vaniman of the 
I. A. A. who will be in charge. “It 
is necessary that agriculture ad- 
vance in its culture and apprecia- 
tion of the best there is in woman- 
hood as well as to advance eco- 
nomically. The young women in this 
contest have been chosen because 
of their fine character, intelligence, 
personality and other qualities as 
well as for their natural physical 
beauty. 


“The Farm Bureau movement is 
to be congratulated for laying em- 
phasis on this phase of farm life. 
This contest, while only two years 
old, has attracted the favorable at- 
tention and support of the Home 
Bureau. 

“It is inconsistent for us to give so 
much attention to the improve- 
ment of farm life and the develop- 
ment of better farm practice and 
then neglect the human and social 
side. I predict that this movement 
within the near future will spread 
into all the other states for it is 
sound and constructive.” 


37 Girls Compete In 
Contest State Fair 


By V. Vaniman 


With 37 young ladies—each one a 
winner in her county—entering the 
contest to determine the “Country 
Life Queen of Illinois for 1932,” in- 
dications are that standing room at 
the state meet will be at a premium. 

This contest will be held at the 
State Fair, Springfield, on Farm 
Bureau Day, Friday, August 26, at 
11:30 A. M. 


The 1931 contest with only 10 


contestants filled the 60 x 90 foot 


Farm Bureau tent to capacity. This 
year’s contest will in all probability 
be held in the coliseum if stitable 
arrangements can be made. 

Grace, poise, dignity, sincerity, re- 
serve, personality, modesty, self- 
possession, charm, intelligence and 
vivaciousness, and physical attrac- 
tiveness will be given consideration 
by the judges in determining the 
winner. 


Emphasizes Culture 


Illinois Farm Bureaus are the 
first in the United States to hold 
a state-wide beauty contest. Aver- 
age attendance in the counties in 
1930, where contests were held, was 
600; in 1931 the average attendance 
was 720. Gallatin County made 
arrangements for an attendance of 
250 and 1100 came out. 

The Country Life Queen centest 
is designed to honor and emphasize 
the high type of culture and young 
womanhood found in rural Illinois. 
Should agriculture have a culture 
of her own or should she derive it 
from the city? Should country peo- 
ple cultivate grace, charm, poise, 
self-possession ? 

The more culture a person has 
managed to attain the more inde- 
pendent he is of outward circum- 
stances. Uncultured people live in 
the world without being conscious 
that to be alive at all is one grand 
mystery. Culture has the faculty of 
enabling us to be happy in the 
only way wherein most human be- 
ings can be happy—in complete de- 
fiance of their surroundings. Like 
charity defined by St. Paul culture 
is not puffed up, does not show it- 
self as something ponderous, ma- 
jestic, pompous, imposing, it does 
not show itself at all. 

“Old Inferiority Complex” is go- 
ing to have a hard time to survive 
among farm people that attend the 
Country Life Queen contest at 
Springfield. The ideals set up be- 
fore our young people determine 
what the future generation will be. 


Page Fourteen 


THE LAA. RECORD 


August, 1932 


Conferences To Reduce 
Taxes Now Completed 


Tax Committees At Work Get- 
ting the Facts, Co-operate 
With Others 


ECENT conferences with Farm 

Bureau leaders and county tax 
committees held in Rock Island and 
Warren counties concluded a series 
of district and county tax con- 
ferences sponsored by the Illinois 
Agricultural Association during the 
past two months. 

Attendance at the larger district 
conferences where a program of in- 
telligent tax reduction was present- 
ed by John C. Watson ran as high 
as 175 or more. The majority of 
those attending these meetings had 
had previous experience in their 
respective counties with tax matters 
and many were veterans of past 
battles to secure equalization of as- 
sessments. 

Latest reports coming to the De- 
partment of Taxation indicate that 
county tax committees are at work 
throughout Illinois studying levies, 
treasury balances, tax rates, and 
expenditures with an eye to reduc- 
ing wherever possible without ham- 
pering necessary public service. The 
Tax Department already has a 
number of requests on file for fur- 
ther co-operation both in compiling 
and presenting information to 
proper authorities for action. 

In a recent letter to the counties 
Mr. Watson said: 


Aug. 2 Last Day 
“Please note that Aug. 2 is the 


last day on which any school dis-. 


trict board of directors or board of 
education can legally certify the 
levies for school purposes, taxes for 
which are to be paid next year. 
Whatever tax reductions are to be 
Secured this year whether in ele- 
mentary or high school districts, 
must be secured before Aug. 2. This 
work should be done as soon as 
possible. If any board certifies its 
levy before Aug. 2, it has the right 
at any time up to but not after this 
date to withdraw such certificate 
— to substitute a new levy there- 
or. 

“There are some _ outstanding 
matters on which taxpayers’ com- 
mittees can properly and safely 
act this year if information secured 
warrants such action. These are as 
follows: 


1. Elimination of waste or ex- 
travagance. 

2. Elimination of expenditures 
for non-essentials. 

3. Reduction of levy for roads 
and bridges to require a rate of not 
over 25 cents where possible with- 
out jeopardizing maintenance. 

4. Reduction or omission of levy 


4-H CLUB DELEGATION FROM ILLINOIS TO WASHINGTON 


Left to right: EB. I. Pilchard, state Club leader; Bert McKee, Marshall-Putnam 
county; Clara Haun, Marshall-Putnam county; Caroline Farrar, Coles countyy 
Thomas Chamberlain, Coles county; Martha Hensley. who supervises girls’ club 


work in northern Illinois. 


Thomas Chamberlain represented the encamped club members from all the 
states in presenting a baton made from wood taken from the White House when 
it was remodeled in 1927 to Captain Tailor Branson, director of the U. 8S, Marine 
Band. The two boys and two girls were chosen for their outstanding work last 
year. Between 150 and 200 Club members from all the states participated in the 
six-day encampment on the grounds of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 


for school purposes where cash on 
hand is needlessly large and per- 
mits such action.” 

Mr. Watson recommends that the 
Farm Bureau invite the co-oper- 
ation of other constructive tax- 
payer organizations and persons so 
as to avoid duplication of effort 
and accomplish substantial tax re- 
ductions. 


Out For a Fee 


Farmers and others should be 
warned of the fact that there are 
many individuals, particularly law- 
yers, operating today who promise 
to secure reductions in taxes on a 
contingent base. It is not necessary 
to pay or bribe anyone to get taxes 
reduced. If it is necessary to go to 
court to obtain justice the cost 
should either be borne by the Farm 
Bureau or prorated among the 
beneficiaries. In court the Farm 
Bureau can represent only its mem- 
bers. 

Fifteen district tax conferences 
were held since the latter part of 
May in addition to several county 
conferences. All the organized 
counties in the state were repre- 
sented at the district meetings with 
the exception of three or four. The 
largest tax conference was held at 
Bloomington where 176 attended. 
There were 135 present at the 
Peoria conference. 


Tells How To Get Facts 


The Tax Department has supplied 
all County Farm Bureau tax com- 
mittees with detailed information 
on mimeographed sheets telling 
how to go about the compilation of 
necessary figures. 

In a recent letter regarding tax 
reductions for school purposes, Mr. 
Watson said that if the income tax 
is sustained by Supreme Court any 


President Earl C. Smith discussed 
farm legislation on the National 
Farm Forum conducted by the Na- 
tional Broadcasting Company over 
a chain of stations from Washing- 
ton during the last days of Con- 
gress. 


The daily farm program of the 
I. A. A. over station WJJD has been 
discontinued during August and 
early September. The station is 
economizing by reducing its hours 
of broadcasting through the sum- 
mer months. 

Instead the I. A. A. will have a 
15-minute period in co-operation 
with Farmer Rusk on station WJJD 
Thursday nights from 8:15 to 8:30 
P. M. Central standard time. 

“The Grain Exchange Contro- 
versy” was the title of a 10 minute 
radio address by George Thiem, ed- 
itor of The Recorp, Thursday night, 
July 28. 


iteietentpinetnntneripsishnatnetsentenl-dancnanapanpeniaenshageaapanenspaanpeamaaee 
balance remaining in the proceeds 
derived therefrom, after first de- 


- ducting the amount appropriated 


for the state school fund, will be 
distributed not on the basis of the 
average levies as often erroneously 
stated, but of the average expend- 
itures for educational purposes in 
the elementary grades in the im- 
mediately preceding four years. 
There is no reason, therefore, why 
the levy should not be reduced, or, 
if possible, entirely omitted in any 
school district which has a need- 
lessly large balance at the end of 
the preceding school year. 


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August, 1932 


THE LAA. RECORD 


Page Fifteen 


Tiedeman And Lynch 
On July 4th Programs 


Two officers of Sanitary Milk 
Producers, farm cooperative of the 
St. Louis milk territory, were among 
the 90 speakers on the Illinois state- 
wide Fourth of July program Mon- 
day at Marion in Williamson Coun- 
ty and Salem in Marion County. E. 
W. Tiedeman, president, spoke at 
the latter. A. D. Lynch, secretary- 
manager, was the speaker at Ma- 
rion. Both carried the message para- 


mount in the campaign of the Illi- — 


nois Agricultural Association, urg- 
ing passage of emergency price- 
raising legislation before the Con- 
gress. 

“Since the deflation of 1921—for 
over ten years—organized agricul- 
ture has been making a fight for 
economic equality,” Tiedeman de- 
clared. “All other lines of industry 
and labor have had the support and 
kindly consideration of the govern- 
ment. Agriculture has not even 
been given a seat at the family 
table. Since the collapse of 1929, 
the situation has become exceed- 
ingly aggravated until at the pres- 
ent time it is acute. A year ago the 
farm price index was 91—today it 
is 56. On the first of last December 
it had fallen to 71. By the first of 
February it dropped to 60.” 

Lynch in his speech at Marion, 
IHinois pointed to prevailing milk 
prices as an accurate example of 
the influence of uncontrolled buy- 


‘ing in pushing down commodity 


prices. The entire blame for in- 
equitable milk prices was laid at 
the hands of distributors unwilling 
to cooperate with the policy em- 
bodied in the program of milk co- 
operatives, he said. 


“While it must be admitted,” 
Lynch continued, “that lower milk 
prices than in 1929 are inevitable 
today, it is also true that organized 
farm action such as has availed 
labor groups and other farm bodies 
would have saved disastrous reduc- 
tions and saved the milk producer 
from his present plight. The milk 
price now should be at least $1.47 
and I firmly believe our base and 
surplus marketing plan could have 
maintained that level had not un- 
sympathetic distributors buying on 
the old-time butterfat basis forced 
cooperating dealers to batter down 
the price.” 


Since the Limestone-Phosphate 
Department was organized early in 
1920, a complete change has been 
brought about in both the methods 
of handling limestone and phos- 
phate and the standard quality 
grades acceptable to Illinois farm- 
ers. These changes, in both cases, 
resulted beneficially to the pur- 
chaser. 


KENDALL COUNTY ACES 


LEFT TO RIGHT: AUG. CORNEILS, GEO, M. 
DICKSON, GILFORD JOHNSON WHO SIGNED 
85 NEW MEMBERS IN THE “MINUTE MEN’”’ 
CAMPAIGN WHICH ENDED JULY 4, 


Ag College Graduates 
Get Jobs Facts Show 


Experience in Agriculture a Real 
Advantage in These Days 
When Positions Are Scarce 


Seventy-five per cent of the men 
graduated this year from the New 
York state college of agriculture, 
who had been brought up on farms, 
had jobs at commencement time. 
An equally high proportion of the 
graduates who had worked on 
farms before. coming to the col- 
lege, though not reared there, were 
also employed. Contrasted with this, 
only slightly over twenty-five per 
cent of those who had not had any 
farm experience had been able to 
find work, says A. W. Gibson, as- 
sociate secretary of the college. 


Those who are now employed are 
working on farms, teaching voca- 
tional agriculture, inspecting per- 
ishable products in terminal mar- 
kets, working in dairy plants, 
greenhouses, florist establishments, 
seed concerns, farm supply stores 
and marketing agencies, helping 
with the state soil survey, or, with 
few exceptions, in occupations 
closely related to their courses of 
study. Only two among those who 
came to college with a farm back- 
ground have taken jobs which 
are not connected with agriculture. 

The evident advantage which 
farm experience gives agricultural 
college graduates in getting jobs, 
at a time when it is difficult for 
“young men just starting out to find 
employment, is worthy of serious 
consideration by boys in the rural 
counties of the state, says Mr. Gib- 
son, in charge of placement of stu- 
dents. He adds that it is doubtful 
if, on graduation from any other 
type of college, they would find 
themselves three to one favorites 
over their classmates. 


I. A. A: Aids Fight To 


Lower Power Charges 


Gather Evidence For Hearing 
Before State Commission 
in September 


As we go to press, organized 
farmers who demand a reduction 
in minimum electric rates for light 
and power, are taking steps to 
gather evidence for presentation 
before the Illinois Commerce Com- 
mission in September, to  sub- 


% stantiate their contentions. 


The hearing scheduled at Spring- 
field for July 21 was postponed by 
the Commission until September to 
allow time for interested parties to 
gather evidence. The Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association is assisting 
members in efforts to reduce serv- 
ice charges. 

Complaints received from Frank- 
lin, Henry, Rock Island, McDon- 
ough, McLean, Sangamon, Clay, 
LaSalle, and other counties at the 
I. A. A. offices primarily refer to 
the $9 per month minimum charge 
to farm users, and to line construc- 
tion costs. 

“A number of complaints have 
been adjusted informally through 
the able efforts of the Commerce 
Commission’s engineering  divi- 
sion,” stated L. J. Quasey of the I. 
A. A. transportation department in 
a letter to the Commission. “But in 
our opinion complaints are too nu- 
merous for individual consideration. 


“We believe that in order to pro- 
mote rural electrification on a 
sound and equitable basis the con- 
struction costs of rural lines should 
be reduced to the lowest practical 
figures and that the rate schedules 
should be so adjusted as to en- 
courage the use of electricity in 
large quantities. 

“Furthermore we believe that 
some special provision should be 
made for the rural tenant who of- 
ten is not in a position either to 
bear the burden of construction 
costs or use as large a quantity of 
electricity as a customer who owns 
and operates his farm. Therefore we 
respectfully request that your hon- 
orable commission give consider- 
ation to making a general investi- 
gation into all phases of the sub- 
ject of rural electrification.” 


Editor, I. A. A. REcorp: 

The speech made by C. V. Greg- 
ory and published in the July 
number of the RECORD is a mas- 
terpiece and will go down in his- 
tory for future generations to read. 
What our country needs is a thou- 
sand men like him and we would 
not have to worry about old man 
depression. 

R. L. Sweetnam, 
Peoria County, Ill. 


Page Sixteen 


THE LA.A. RECORD 


August, 1932 


Insurance Service Was 
Initiated 7 Years Ago 


Farm Bureau Members Save 
Dues on This Benefit 
Alone 


Seven years ago the Illinois Ag- 
ricultural Association lead _ the 
foundation for what was to prove 
one of its most important under- 
takings when the board of directors 
decided to establish an insurance 
service at cost for members. 

The Farmers Mutual Reinsurance 
Company was organized in 1925 by 
the I. A. A., the county Farm Bu- 
reaus, and certain local mutuals. 
This company now has more than 
$45,000,000 in fire, windstorm and 
hail insurance in force at a con- 
siderable saving for farmers. 

Insurance is written on farm 
property on a cost basis. The com- 
pany was originally organized to re- 
insure local mutuals and to take 
risks which were too large for them 
to handle. Later, however, it started 
writing direct insurance. 


For Members Only 


Two years after the Reinsurance 
company began, the I. A. A. organ- 
ized the Illinois Agricultural Mutual 
Insurance Company to supply Farm 
Bureau members insurance on their 
automobiles at cost. This company 
sells to members only. Its rates are 
substantially below those of the 
nearest statewide competitor with 
the result that Farm Bureau mem- 
bers often save the entire amount 
of their dues through this service 
alone. This company, it is esti- 
mated, has saved Farm Bureau 
members in [Illinois more than 
$300,000 a year for the past several 
years. 

The Illinois Agricultural Mutual 
is a legal reserve company with 
assets of nearly $1,000,000 and is 
continuing to grow yearly. To date 
more than 33,000 applications for 
automobile insurance have been re- 
ceived. During April and May this 
year the company received 1,167 
applications, which is considerably 
more than the number for the same 
two months a year ago. 


This company also writes em- 
ployers’ liability insurance for Farm 
Bureau members. More than 2,000 
farmers have taken advantage of 
this service. 


Country Life Youngest 


The youngest and largest of the 
Farm Bureau insurance enterprises 
is Country Life Insurance Company 
which was organized three years 
ago and which has more than $44,- 
000,000 worth of insurance in force 
at present. Country Life is one of 
the outstanding examples of what 
organized farmers can do in the 
business field. 

This company, entirely owned and 


controlled by the 60,000 Farm Bu- 
reau members in Illinois showed a 
gain of $9,000,000 in paid for busi- 
ness during 1931. This is a larger 
gain than any other Illinois com- 
pany made and placed Country Life 
among the highest 15 of the 338 
legal reserve companies in the 
United States. 

The assets are now double the 
assets of a year ago and in the 
most liquid form possible, consist- 
ing mostly of government bonds 
and securities of the very highest 
type. Following the examination of 
the company by state insurance 
examiners some time ago, one of 
them said that Country Life was in 
better financial condition than any 
company he had examined during 
the past four years. 


Farmers National To 
Hold Annual Meeting 


Stockholders Assemble Aug. 16 
To Review Progress During 
Past Year 


HE annual meeting of the 

stockholders of Farmers Na- 
tional Grain Corporation will be 
held at the Chicago offices of the 
corporation Tuesday, August 16, for 
consideration of the annual reports 
of the corporation for the fiscal 
year ending May 31 and for the 
election of a board of directors. The 
final meeting of the present board 
of directors will be held the day 
preceding the stockholders’ meet- 
ing, which will be followed by a 
meeting of the new board for or- 
ganization and the outlining of 
plans and policies for the ensuing 
year. 

Reports to be placed before the 
stockholders will show steady 
growth of the corporation through- 
out the past year, officials said. In 
the matter of grain handling fa- 
cilities organized farmers now con- 
trol, through ownership or lease, 
more than three times the capacity 
in country and terminal storage 
space they had at the beginning 
of the 1931 crop season. 


Terminal Facilities 


Terminal facilities controlled by 
Farmers National Grain..Corpora- 
tion as of July 11, 1932, numbered 
42, of which 12, with total capacity 
of 13,256,837 bushels, were’ owned, 
and 30, with capacity of 40,116,800 
bushels, were under lease. 

Country facilities totaled 401 
houses, of which 293, with total ca- 
pacity of 17,748,999 bushels, were 
owned, and 108, with capacity 
of 2,343,629 bushels, were wn- 
der lease. The total of leased and 
owned terminal and country capac- 
ity was approximately seventy- 
three and one-half million bushels, 
against a total at the beginning of 


the 1931 crop season of something 
less than 25,000,000 bushels. 

Merchandising -operations of the 
corporation have been extended, 
through the opening of branch of- 
fices, into every important grain 
producing and consuming drea in 
the United States. Volume of busi- 
ness of the corporation for the last 
fiscal year showed substantial in- 
crease over that for the previous 
twelve months. 


Ship Grain Abroad 


Of the total wheat exports from 
the port of Galveston from July 1, 
1931, to July 1, 1932, Farmers Na- 
tional Grain Corporation handled 
in excess of 60 per cent. Belgium, 
Germany, France, Italy, England, 
Holland, Finland and Greece were 
among the foreign countries to 
which the corporation shipped 
grain. Establishment of a seed di- 
vision has further increased the 
merchandising services offered by 
the corporation to grain producers. 
Operations of this division were be- 
gun in the intermountain territory, 
with headquarters at Ogden, Utah, 
while arrangements are being made 
to extend this service into the 
North Pacific and hard spring 
wheat territories in the near future. 


Direct Marketing 


The direct marketing program 
approved by the board of directors 
of the corporation more than a year 
ago and offered to those stock- 
holders desiring it has been exten- 
sively developed. Acceptance of the 
plan by the Farmers Union Jobbing 
Association and the Equity Union 
Grain Company, both in the Kansas 
City area, within recent weeks, 
brought the number of stockholders 
marketing their grain directly from 
their country units through Farm- 
ers National Grain Corporation to 
19, out of a total of 28. The Co- 
operative Grain Growers of Cali- 
fornia, Berkeley, a new stockholder, 
is among those adopting the plan. 


Directors of the corporation are 
C. E. Huff, president, Chicago; 
William H. Settle, first vice-presi- 
dent, Indianapolis, Ind.; C. B. Stew- 
ard, secretary, Lincoln, Neb.; D. L. 
O’Connor, St. Paul, Minn.; Oscar 
Slosser, Fostoria, O.; E. R. Downie, 
Kansas City, Mo.; G. C. Johnstone, 
Bloomington, Ill.; John R. Maddock, 
Maddock, N. D.; Jess W. Wade, Og- 
den, Utah; F. J. Wilmer, Rosalia, 
Wash.; L. E. Webb, Dodge City, 
Kan.; C. W. Croes, Aberdeen, S. D.; 
A. F. Barbezat, Yuma, Colo.; Lyle 
Hague, Cherokee, Okla., and L. J. 
Taber, Columbus, O. 


E. A. Hake, our general agent, 
signed 16 Farm Bureau members, 
writes Lloyd R. Caldwell, Washing- 
ton county. Thirty-five new mem- 
bers joined. 


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August, 1932 


Story of Illinois Grain 
Told In New Booklet 


Sketches Development of Co- 
operative Grain Marketing 
In Illinois and Nation 


The story of the Illinois Grain 
Corp., the earlier development of 
co-operative grain marketing in 
Illinois, and a short sketch of the 
Farmers National Grain Corp, to- 
gether with statements by officials 
in each organization are contained 
in a 20-page booklet recently pub- 
lished under the title “We’re Pay- 
ing For Our Marketing Machinery— 
Now Let’s Own It.” The booklet was 
published by the Illinois Grain 
Corp. and is amply illustrated with 
pictures, charts, and drawings. 

“The founders of farmers’ co-op- 
erative elevators in the United 
States,” declares the booklet in its 
opening statement, “learned more 
than 50 years ago that the way 
to a better price for grain is 
through organized selling.” They 
knew that their grain and their 
patronage paid for the local ele- 
vator and its grain handling facil- 
ities, besides frequently returning 
the operator handsome profits. 

These early leaders of co-oper- 
ative thought did the logical and 
sensible thing. They said: “Let’s all 
get together, market our own grain, 
run our own business.” The co-op- 
erative elevator which blazed the 
trail for co-operation in America 
was the result. 


Many Had Monopolies 


At many shipping points private 
elevators had monopolies. Here the 
toll paid by farmer’s grain was fre- 


quently large. 
The courage 
an d_= intelli- 


gence of the 
co - operative 
pioneersin 
such cases was 
rewarded by an 
immediate in- 
crease of from 
two to six cents 
or more per 
bushel. 

The first co- 
operative elevators were met with 
hostility and opposition. Old line 
commission men in the terminal 
markets refused .to handle their 
grain. Railroads in league with the 
middlemen would not furnish cars. 
Discriminatory rules were adopted 
by the exchanges outlawing ‘“co- 
operative” grain. Much the same 
crowd that fought the early farm- 
er’s elevator is now fighting co-op- 
erative selling agencies in the ter- 
minal markets. 

The farmer’s elevator is an im- 
portant unit in a farmer-owned 


REFUNDS TO THE 
PRODUCER 


THE LA.A. RECORD 


and farmer-controlled grain mar- 
keting system. It is not a co-op- 
erative marketing system in itself. 
It IS an important part of the sys- 
tem. The founders of the early ele- 
vators knew this. The need for 
getting into the terminal markets 
and carrying their grain co-oper- 
atively all the way to the processor, 
exporter, and consumer was as ap- 
parent then as now. And so in the 
face of extreme difficulties, bitter 
opposition from the “trade,” and 
discriminatory rules and regula- 
tions against farmers elevators, co- 
operative terminal agencies were 
established. Some of these fell by 
the wayside, others succeeded and 
are going concerns today. 

The Illinois Grain Corporation 
with a membership at this writing 
approa c h- 
ing 100 
local ele- 
vators and 
associa- 
tions is 
one of the 
youngest 
regional 
coop - 
eratives, 
yet it has 
leaped in- 
to prominence as the third largest 
affiliated with nation-wide farmer- 
owned sales agency, the Farmers 
National Grain Corporation. 


REFUNDS TO THE LOCAL 
ELEVATOR 


Terminal Co-ops Object 


The co-operative in the terminal 
market serves the local farmer’s 
elevator as the local elevator serves 
the producer. Its object is to pay 
the highest possible price to the 
farmer for his grain. Private com- 
mission men and other handlers of 
grain thrive by maintaining a wide 
margin of profit for themselves. Co- 
operatives thrive by reducing this 
spread to pay the farmer more. 


The private handler is interested. 
in margins, the larger the better. 
The co-operative sales agency is in- 
terested in getting a high price for 
the farmer—the more the better. 
The old-line system of distribution 
with its excessive toll and waste 
was developed by private handlers 
of farm products. Naturally it 
favors them. Co-operative mar- 
keting has been developed by pro- 
ducers to favor the growers. That’s 
the difference. Which system do 
you want to support? 


Other Statements 


The organization and develop- 
ment of Illinois Grain Corp. is set 
forth briefly. Then follows a state- 
ment by G. C. Johnstone, president, 
under the title “Illinois Grain 
Corporation On a Sound Basis.” A 
statement by General Manager C. 
P. Cummings, “It’s a Long-Time 
Program,” gives the viewpoint of a 
man with 25 years’ experience in 


Page Seventeen 


the grain business regarding the 
problems and possibilities of co-op- 
erative grain marketing in the 
terminal markets. 

Statements by C. E. Huff, presi- 
dent, and Geo. S. Milnor, general 
manager of the Farmers Grain 
Corp., follow a brief history of the 
development of the big co-oper- 
ative. 

“The operations of the Corpo- 
ration’s facilities,” declares Mr. Huff, 
“result not only in substantial sav- 
ings to producers in the physical 
handling of grain, but enable the 
corporation to secure the most ad- 
vantageous outlets and prices, as 
well as to control to a degree the 
flow of grain into consumihg chan- 
nels. 


Here to Succeed 


“Grain exchanges must adjust 
themselves to the new facts and 
factors in marketing. Co-operative 
marketing is here to render serv- 
ice and to succeed. Farmers will : 
not be misled, nor can their mar- 
keting program be defeated. We 
shall move steadily forward.” 

A brief statement by Manager 
Geo. S. Milnor who at the age of 
19 found his first job in the ele- 
vator of the Sparks Milling Co. at 
Alton says: “Heretofore the farmer 
in many sections had only his local 
co-operative elevator. In some 
states he had district and state- 
wide co-operatives operating on 
one or two markets. All these lacked 
co-ordination. Now for the first 
time the farmer has a local, dis- 
trict, and nation-wide agency all 
working together which enables 
him to maintain his interest in the 
grain he delivers at the local ship- 
ping point until it reaches the pro- 
cessor or foreign buyer. The picture 
is now complete.” 


Contains Agreement 


Short biographical sketches’ of 
Farmers National grain men serv- 
ing Illinois producers, a description 
of the uniform marketing agree- 
ment, and a copy of the marketing 
agreement operating between the 
Illinois Grain Corp. and the local 
elevator complete the booklet. Pic- 
tures of representative elevators 
holding membership in the Illinois 
Grain Corp., of officers and direc- 
tors, pictures of facilities owned or 
controlled by the Farmers National, 
and maps of the United States and 
Illinois showing member elevators 
of Illinois Grain and branch offices 
of the Farmers National give the 
reader a fairly good understanding 
of this farmer-owned and farmer- 
controlled grain marketing system. 


Penny post cards are coming into 
use since the recent boost in postage 
rates. 


Automobile production fell more 
than half during the past two years. 


Page Eighteen 


Life_ 
Insurance 


By L. A. Williams 


Country Life Insurance Company 
policyholders are delighted with the 
information recently sent out that 
the Company’s position is perhaps 
as strong as the strongest in the 
United States. Country Life could 
cash its securities overnight and 
take only approximately an 8% 
shrink on all of its investments. Its 
position of strength is one: which 
eliminates worry on the part of the 
policyholder as to safety of funds 
invested with the Company. 


Country Life’s mortality for the 
first six months was about four- 
teen points better than the mor- 
tality of six months ago. In other 
words, our mortality for 1931 was 
35% of the expected, and for the 
first six months of 1932 was 21.4%. 
The Company’s interest earned fcr 
the first six months is 4% com- 
pared with 4.1% a year ago. Coun- 
try Life does not have one security 
in default. Country Life has never 
had a month that it hasn’t made a 
gain since it began business. 


The Company recently brought 
out a new policy called the Term to 
65, to enable those who are in strait- 
ened circumstances and could not 
otherwise afford to carry life in- 
surance, to get under the protect- 
ing wing of legal reserve life in- 
surance. This policy sells, at age 
35, for $13.39 a thousand, and pays 
annual dividends beginning at the 
end of the second year. It is sold 
only to people aged 20 to 50 years. 


Standard lines of life insurance 
policies sold by the Company pro- 
vide protection from the time a 
child is born, and insure people 
even as old as age 65. The Com- 
pany has paid its dividends regu- 
larly to policyholders, and has paid 
out already more in dividends than 
the capital stock of the Company, 
and the Company is still only three 
and one-half years of age. 


Country Life policyholders do not 
lapse their policies. They have 
found that the Company’s prompt 
payment of death claims means 
more to their beneficiaries than the 
small amount of satisfaction they 
would get by having the immediate 
use of a few dollars at the expense 
of a lapsed policy. If it is hard for 
the head of a family to get along 
now, it certainly wouldn’t be any 
easier for his wife and dependents 
to get along if he were gone, un- 
less he provided life insurance. 


THE IA.A. RECORD 


American people in general are 
proud of legal reserve life insurance, 
and the remarkable way that it has 
guaranteed security to its policy- 
holders. Millions of dollars have 
been loaned to policyholders, mil- 
lions have been paid out in death 
claims, millions have been paid out 
in matured policies. And, so sat- 
isfied are policyholders all over 
America that I am _ sure the 
next ten years will see a tremen- 
dous increase in estates created by 
life insurance over and above even 
the balmiest days prior to 1928 and 
1929. 


The great lesson that has been 
taught the American people in se- 
curity and soundness of their in- 
vestments in life insurance will 
continue to bear fruit. Mothers will 
start their children while their age 
rate is low. Boys and girls will start 
20 year policies as soon as they have 
any money to lay aside. Married 
couples will start housekeeping with 
$10,000 life insurance contracts in- 
stead of $1,000 or $2,000 which used 
to be the vogue. People will rely on 
$100,000 and $1,000,000 life in- 
surance estates for posterity rather 
than lay aside bonds and_ stocks 
which fluctuate in value. © 


Country Life’s low cost puts it in 
the running as a superior Com- 
pany, and a preferred Company for 
the most careful buyer to consider. 
We insist that price is important. 
We insist that there are two things 
for the buyer to consider, quality 
and price. And we of Country Life 
are very happy to have applicants 
investigate and compare quality 
and price before buying. The tre- 
mendous records of the Company 
have been built because of dis- 
criminating and appreciative pur- 
chasers. 


The movement of livestock by 
truck to the Chicago market is con- 
tinuing to show a sharp increase, 
reports the Chicago Producers. Dur- 
ing the month of June the equiv- 
alent of 2,540 carloads arrived by 
truck as compared with 1,507 for 
the same month a year ago. This 
represents 20 per cent of the cattle, 
20 per cent of the hogs, 19 per cent 
of the calves, and 6.7 per cent of 
the sheep. 


A warning to livestock growers 
against overproduction of hogs be- 
cause of the heavy impending corn 
crop was issued recently by the Na- 
tional Live Stock Marketing As- 
sociation. 


August, 1932 


Ford County Adds 97 


Farm Bureau Members 


33 Minute Men Active, Five of 
Whom Sign 10 Or More 


N A letter to Farm Bureau Unit 

Directors, expressing his apprecia- 
tion of their assistance in the re- 
cent Fourth of July Celebration and 
Dedication, A. B. Schofield, Presi- 
dent of the Ford County Farm Bu- 
reau, made the 
following state- 
ment, “No or- 
ganization can 
be stronger than 
the morale of its 
member s h i p. 
The hard work 
done by yourself, 
and your unit 
committees, has 
been one of the 
biggest contri- 
butions to the 
A. B. SCHOFIELD syccess of this 


drive. I feel that. . 


its greatest result will be in local 
communities like your own where 
this demonstration of loyalty and 
sacrifice will raise the prestige of 
the Farm Bureau.” i 

The splendid morale and devotion 
of Farm Bureau members in Ford 
County was conclusively shown by 
the efforts of 33 minute men, who 
added 97 new memberships during 
the present drive. Five of these 
men distinguished themselves by 
adding ten or more members each. 
They were, R. P. Cothern, A. B. 
Schofield, Severt Hill, Joe Meis, and 
Walter Carlson. 

The success of this membership 
drive follows like successes in three 
other drives during the past two 
and one-half years, during each of 
which substantial increases in 
membership have been made, giv- 
ing a total net increase during that 
period of 307, after deducting losses 
from death, removal, and other can- 
cellations. Officials of the organiza- 
tion point out that each and every 
month during that period has 
show a net increase in members. 

“The Farm Bureau Units have 
been of great assistance in the 
growth of our organization,” said 
Mr. Schofield. “They have been an 
ideal means of contact with the 
membership; they have assisted 
members to become acquainted 
with their organization, the Farm 
Adviser, and with each other; the 
programs presented have been of 
great educational value; they have 
furnished an opportunity for the 
clearing up of misunderstandings, 
and for the destruction of effects 
of insidious propaganda; finally 
they have contributed socially, 
young and old deriving much pleas- 
ure from an evening spent to- 
gether.” 


1 eee 


at We te tn el ee 


Entered as secon 


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agg egy at post office, Spencer, Ind. 
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Number 9 


SEPTEMBER, 1932 


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RS 28. 
ifinois ‘Apricultural Association Record, 608 So. 


Volume 10 


A Bond Issue to Reduce 
Property Taxes 


This Measure Must Be Approved by the Voters in November or the Prop- 


| raed in February, 1932, a series 
of bills enacted into law pro- 
vided relief for residents of the 
state who were destitute by reason 
of unemployment or otherwise. 
These measures were as follows: 


The [Illinois Emergency Relief 
Commission was created and the 
sum of $20,000,000 was appropriated 
thereto. 


Funds for immediate use were 
provided by authorizing the sale of 
state warrants in the sum of $18,- 
750,000 in anticipation of collection 
of taxes in 1933. 


$25,000,000 Authorized 


In order to provide a legal basis 
for the issue of such warrants, an 
additional state tax of $25,000,000 
was authorized upon all assessed 
taxable property for the year 1932, 
payable in 1933. At the same time 
a proposed state bond issue of $20,- 
000,000 to redeem all such anticipa- 
tion warrants and interest accrued 
thereon was submitted to the 
electors of the state to be voted on 
in the general election in Novem- 
ber, 1932. If the bond issue is ap- 
proved, it was provided that the 
additional state tax of $25,000,000 
on all property should not be levied. 

If the bond issue is approved, the 
State is authorized to withhold 
from each allotment of money to 
counties under the motor fuel tax 
law (gasoline tax act) an amount 
sufficient to pay such bonds and 
interest as they come due. The 
amount must be withheld from the 
different counties in the same pro- 
portion that the emergency relief 
funds expended in each county bear 
to the total relief funds expended 
in the state. Under this plan any 
counties WHICH HAVE NOT RE- 


erty Owner Will Have to Pay 


By John C. Watson 


TELL YOUR NEIGHBOR 


A bond issue every property 
owner can and must vote for will 
be up for adoption on a separate 
ballot in the November election. A 
vote FOR this proposal, in this 
case, will be a vote for lower prop- 
erty taxes. As explained in the ac- 
companying article this measure 
must carry or the property owners 
of Illinois will be saddled with an 
additional burden of $25,000,000 
for poor relief. If the bond issue 
carries, it means that poor relief 
funds already borrowed on 
state’s credit, and spent, will be paid 
back out of gas tax funds. Explain 
this measure to your neighbor and 
urge him to vote for it.—Editor. 


CEIVED STATE RELIEF FUNDS 
WILL PAY NO PART OF THE COST 
OF THE SAME. 


This rather complicated arrange- 
ment was unavoidable because pri- 
vate relief funds in Cook County 
were practically exhausted and 
public funds had to be raised -at 
once to prevent actual starvation. 
Because of tax delays and tax de- 
linquencies, Cook County, where 
the need was greatest, had been un- 
able to sell its own relief bond is- 
sues. The state’s credit, however, 
was good and could be, and was 
used, to borrow against the afore- 
said $25,000,000 state tax levy. This 
levy, as before stated, will not be 
imposed if the bond issue is ap- 
proved. 


However, if the bond issue fails 
of approval, an additional state tax 
of $25,000,000 on 1932 values, pay- 
able next year, will necessarily be 
levied on all assessed taxable prop- 
erty in the state. This means that 
the 1931 state tax rate of 39 cents 
must be nearly doubled in 1932. If 


such increased state taxes are re- 
quired, they must be levied in every 
county, whether it has received any 
state relief funds or not. 

This heavy increase in property 
taxes can be avoided only by ap- 
proval of the bond issue. Every 
owner of property, whether real or 
personal, should vote and work for 
its approval. 

To be approved, the bond issue 
must receive a majority of all votes 
cast for members of the General 
Assembly, in the November elec- 
tion. Every person who votes in the 
election and fails to vote on the 
bond issue, in effect votes against 
it. 

Vote “Yes” 


Vote “YES” on the bond issue, on 
the separate “emergency relief bal- 
lot.” 

Chairman of the State Emer- 
gency Relief Bond Issue Committee 
to work for the passage of this im- 
portant measure is Earl C. Smith, 
president of the Illinois Agricultural 
Association. Douglas Sutherland, 
(Executive Secretary, The Civic 
Federation and Bureau of Public 
Efficiency of Chicago) is serving 
the committee as secretary. 


Wants Candidates Records 


Editor, I. A. A. RECORD. 


The publication of the actual vot- 
ing record is the most valuable and 
useful thing the RECORD has done in 
political reporting. I hope you will add 
an analysis of the records and make 
recommendations fromthe farmers 
viewpoint on all that are candidates 
this fall. 


The RECORD is written excellently. 


HARRY L. DIEHL, 
Ford County, IIl. 


Page Four 


THE LA.A. RECORD 


September, 1932 


County Winners Who Competed in State Contest, Springfield, Aug. 26. 


Farm Bureau Day Draws Record Crowd 


Mercer County Girl Wins Country Life Queen Contest, Lake County Second 


ORE than 2,000 Farm Bureau 

members and their guests as- 
sembled in the huge Farm Bureau 
headquarters tent at the Illinois 
State Fair, Friday, August 26 to 
help celebrate Farm Bureau Day. 
Attendance at the fair this year 
was said to be a record for recent 
years. 

The feature of the day was the 
Country Life Queen Contest which 
was won by Miss Louise Laughead 
of Mercer county, a pretty brunette 
and a popular choice for the honor. 
Leona Bloom of Lake county, an- 
other charming dark-haired girl, 
placed second. 

Miss Laughead was _ presented 
with the crown by Harvey J. Sconce, 
former president of the Illinois Ag- 
ricultural Association, and now con- 
nected with the agricultural di- 
vision of the Century of Progress 
Exposition. 


He served on the committee of 
judges with Miss Gay Lee of Sta- 
tion KMOX, St. Louis; and Robert 
B. Irwin, manager of the Spring- 
field Chamber of Commerce. Mr. 
Sconce announced that he hoped 
to have a similar contest in con- 
nection with the Century of Prog- 
ress Exposition next year. 

Thirty-five girls between the ages 
of 16 and 25 competed in the con- 
test. Thelma Reeder of Johnson 
county and Dorothy Laymann, Pope 
county, were absent. 


The girls mounted the long T 
shaped platform singly, moving 
from one end to the other and back 
again to their corner of the tent so 
as to give the judges and audience 
ample opportunity to make their 
placings. The procession required 
about 40 minutes after which all 
of the contestants came out to form 
a long line stretching from one end 
of the tent to the other. 

V. Vaniman, director of insurance 
service for the I. A. A., had charge 
of the contest, and explained its 
purpose to the large audience. 

“The Country Life Queen Contest 
is designed to honor and reveal the 
fine culture and young womanhood 
found in rural Illinois,” he said. 
“Should agriculture develop a cul- 
ture of its own emphasizing qual- 
ities of modesty, gracefulness, nat- 
uralness, charm, poise, etc. or 
should it derive it from the cities? 


What Is Culture? 


“Real culture develops self-confi- 
dence and independence of environ- 
ment and circumstances. One of our 
great pyschologists states that un- 
cultured people live in the world 
without being conscious that to be 
alive at all is one grand mystery. 
Culture has the faculty of enabling 
us to be happy in the only way 
wherein most human beings can be 
happy—in complete defiance of 
their surroundings. Like charity de- 
fined by St. Paul, culture is not 


proud, majestic, pompous, nor im- 
posing, it does not show itself at 
all.” 


The contestants were judged on 
naturalness, personality, poise, 
gracefulness, sincerity, and similar 
qualities. The contest was in no 
sense a beauty contest as is com- 
monly conducted under that name. 
It was initiated to give emphasis 
to the development of qualities ad- 
mired by all in womanhood. 


The young women in the contest 
were chosen as representatives from 
their respective counties on the 
basis of character, intelligence, 
naturalness, poise, gracefulness, all 
of which to a large extent can be 
developed. ’ 


Developing People 


A frequent criticism heard on 
every hand is that the human race 
devotes more time and attention 
to breeding finer specimens of do- 
mestic animals and livestock than 
it does to the development of peo- 
ple. We have to go back thousands 
of years to the Spartans and Greeks 
to find examples of serious effort 
and intelligence applied toward de- 
veloping human perfection. Only 
within comparatively recent years 
have the American people given 
much attention toward growing 
healthier children through scientific 
diet and health practices'on a wide 
scale. And health is a first requisite 


September, 1932 


THE LA.A. RECORD 


Page Five 


of physical perfection, charm, and 
personality. 

President Earl C. Smith spoke 
briefly about the Farm Bureau Day 
‘program, stating that the selection 
of the country life queen was in no 
sense a beauty contest but was pro- 
moted in recognition of the finer 
qualities of womanhood as. ex- 
pressed in countenance and per- 
sonality. 

In the drawing contest Dana 
Mahaffey, 32 years old and unmar- 
ried (No. 37439) , of Kewanee, Henry 
county, won the Buick sedan. Ed- 
win Kooyenga (No. 16262) of Blue 
Island, Cook county, won the four 
cylinder Ford two-door sedan. Mr. 
Kooyenga is a loyal Farm Bureau 
member who gave splendid help in 
the “minute men” campaign prior 
to the July 4 celebrations. He now 
drives a model T. Ford and the new 
car will be very welcome to him 
and his family. F. H. Korte of Ger- 
mantown, Clinton county, won the 
set of carpenter’s tools. Korte is a 
loyal Farm Bureau booster who 
signed eight members in the recent 
campaign. 

The drawing was staged on the 
platform in the Farm Bureau tent 
directly after the country life 
queens made their appearances, 
and while the judges were deciding 
the winners. More than than 64,000 
tickets, stubs of which were held 
by Farm Bureau members who 
registered on July 4 at the county 
celebrations, were rolled around be- 
fore the audience in a large box. A 
little girl was brought up to select 
the three lucky tickets. The num- 
bers were announced immediately, 
also the winners’ names and ad- 
dresses as soon as they could be de- 
termined from the list in the hands 
of Secretary George E. Metzger. 


Exhibits Popular 

The Farm Bureau headquarters 
tent this year was larger than ever, 
but none too big for the huge crowd 
that surged in and out throughout 
the week. Exhibits of the Illinois 
Agricultural Association and the as- 
sociated companies attracted much 
favorable attention. The marketing 
exhibit was the same as that of 
last year, showing a relief map of 
the state of Illinois with a motor- 
driven train running from one end 
to the other. As the train moved 
through the various sections of the 
state lights flashed on a series of 
maps of Illinois telling the story of 
co-operative marketing of the dif- 
ferent farm commodities in Illinois. 

The Illinois Farm Supply exhibit 
showed a miniature bulk storage 
plant, service station, and a motor- 
ized train carrying SERVICE petro- 
leum products in the background. 
A map of Illinois above the plat- 
form was electrically lighted and 
showed the location of some 50 as- 
sociated county companies and 
their bulk plants. 


COUNTRY LIFE QUEEN 


Miss Louise Laughead of Aledo, Mer- 


cer county, crowned country life queen . 


at the Illinois State Fair, August 26, is 
a brunette, age 21, height five feet 
three inches, weight 110 pounds. She 
lives on the farm and attended the 
Alexis community high school and later 
business college in Quincy. She is at 
present employed as a stenographer. 
Her favorite sport is swimming. 


The Sangamon county 4-H club 
and Producers Dairy had a. booth 
in one end of the tent where they 
dispensed delicious sandwiches and 
dairy products. 

Checking facilities were taxed to 
capacity to care for the great de- 
mand for. this service. 


PLACES SECOND — 


Miss Leona Bloom of Wadsworth, 
Lake county, who placed second in the 
country life queen contest, is a blue- 
eyed brunette, age 19, height five feet 
five and one-half inches, weight 117 


pounds. She attended the Townline 
Warren high and Waukegan high 
schools, She lives on the farm, was 


president of her 4-H club, and plays 
the piano. Her hobbies are dancing 
and horseback riding; favorite sports, 
baseball, basketball, and skating. 


Conway's Comments On 
Live Stock Situation 


Fed cattle stand to continue in a 
strong position during September, 
but too many heavy steers and 
long-fed yearlings are headed for 
the late fall and early winter. The 
feeding demand is now centered 
on heavy steers suitable for a short 
turn in the feed lot and for a mar- 
ket that for two years has been 
quite attractive but promises this 
year to be somewhat the reverse. 
The coming late winter looks best 
for the lower grades and a year 
from this fall for the better grades. 

Seasonally short supplies con- 
tinue to support the hog market 
and with marketings much below 
last year the situation is favorable 
for improvement during the next 
few weeks. However, it is best to 
keep hogs topped out as finished 
and also see that spring pigs are 
finished before marketed as corn 
is cheap and should be well utilized. 
Hog prices are still relatively low, 
so the market is expected to hold 
well into the fall and continue 
much better than during last win- 
ter. This season it will be best to 
have early spring pigs marketed be- 
fore December and for late spring 
pigs the late winter looks best. 

The lamb market is now appar- 
ently passing its seasonal low with 
rather hard going in sight for the 
next four weeks. While proportion- 
ally large supplies of slaughter 
lambs are in sight for September, 
the demand for feeding lambs is 
increasing and the situation is quite 
favorable for materially higher 
aig during the late fall and win- 
er. 

Information has just been re- 
ceived from L. O. Grieser, Manager 
of the National Live Stock Credit 
Corporation of St. Louis, that here- 
after based on the appraised value 
of live stock representing the pri- 
mary security, cattle and lamb 
loans ranging upward to 100% can 
be made through that organization. 
This supersedes the old require- 
ments where cattle loans ranged 
only up to 80% and sheep loans to 
75%. In some cases it may be nec- 
essary to ask for additional live 
stock as a margin. Cattle loans may 
run for a term of nine months, and 
lamb loans a term of six months. 


A series of informal “schools” on 
cooperative marketing will be con- 
ducted this fall by Prof. R. W. 
Bartlett, agricultural economist of 
the University of Illinois, in vir- 
tually every local district of Sani- 
tary Milk Producers. Extending a 
similar series conducted last winter 
into new territory, Professor Bart- 
lett will continue the school this 
year at the request of farmers in 
many localities. 


Page Six 


THE LA.A. RECORD 


September, 1932 


Farmers’ National Has Good Year 


Net Profits in Excess of $1,300,000 Belongs to the Producers 


How the Farmers National Grain 
Corp. in the fiscal year ending 
May 31, 1932 handled in excess of 
148,000,000 bushels of grain, not in- 
cluding that purchased from or 
handled for the Grain Stabilization 
Corp. and derived net earnings in 
excess of $1,000,000 after adding a 
substantial sum to reserves, was 
revealed at the annual meeting of 
the co-operative in the Morrison 
Hotel, Chicago, on August 16. 


In the 15 months ending May 31, 
or since the last report (the end of 
the fiscal 
year was 
recently 
changed 
from Feb. 
28 to May 
31) net 
‘profits of 
the cor- 
poration 
were ap- 
proximate- 
ly $1,300,000 after reserves. 


Based on the fact that the Illi- 
nois Grain Corporation furnished 
approximately one-tenth of the 
member grain sold through the 
Farmers National, [Illinois grain 
producers and their elevators af- 
filiated with this movement have 
approximately a one-tenth interest 
in the Farmers National earnings. 


Everything to Gain 


This interest will be reflected in 
increased stock holdings, higher 
value of stock now and to be held, 
and in time cash dividends and 
patronage refunds. In other words 
every farmer who sells his grain 
through the Illinois Grain Corp. 
either direct or through a member 
farmers elevator, shares in the 
ownership of profits made from the 
sale of that grain. Under the old 
system of private handling, any 
profits made are kept by the com- 
mission man and the owners of 
terminal storage space. 

Thus the grain producer who 
sells through his own co-operative 
agency has everything to gain— 
since he gets just as much or more 
for his grain at time of sale—and 
nothing to lose. 

Merchandising policies of the 
Farmers National not only have re- 
turned higher prices to its mem- 
bers than those paid by its com- 
petitors, but have placed grain pro- 
ducers in all areas in a better posi- 
tion with respect to marketing their 
own commodities Manager George 
S. Milnor reported to the _ stock- 
holders. 


“While we appreciate the great 
importance of making sufficient 
profit to establish necessary reserves 
and meet all of our obligations,” 
Mr. Milnor said, “we also realize 
that a matter of even greater im- 
portance is our duty to market 
producer members’ grain efficiently, 
economically and at better prices, 
and that duty is one to which we 
are primarily giving -our time and 
effort. In: carrying out this policy 
we have been instrumental in 
bringing about material reductions 
in country elevator handling 
charges, giving the producer the 
benefit of a better price, compared 
to mill or export bids, than: would 
be the case were it not for our op- 
erations. 


Marketing Efficiently 

“Further than that, under our 
policy of selling all grain in the 
most advantageous domestic or 
foreign market available at the 
time of sale, the margin on which 
we operate; the spread between the 
price the producer gets and the 
price the consumer pays, is being, 
and will be still further reduced by 
our operations.” 

Mr. Milnor’s report showed that 
as of May 31, 1932, the corporation 
had under its control a total of 
more than 75,000,000 bushels of 
country and terminal storage space, 
owned or leased and operated by 
the Farmers National Warehouse 
Corporation, subsidiary of the grain 
corporation. This represents a gain 
of more than 55,000,000 bushels over 
the amount of country and terminal 
storage space at the close of the 
1931 fiscal year. 


Cut Per Bu. Cost 


“In our warehousing operations,” 
Mr. Milnor said, “we follow regular 
published rates, which are generally 
in line with the rates charged for 
similar services in terminal mar- 
kets. Our extensive operations, how- 
ever, have en- 
abled us_ to 
handle a large 
turnover 
through our 
facilities, 
thereby reduc- 
ing the per 
bushel cost to 
a very low 
level. 

“A de quate 
handling and 
Storage  facil- 
ities are vital to the effective mar- 
keting of producers’ grain. In the 
expansion of the corporation’s fa- 
cilities program, however, there has 


been constantly in mind the neces- 
sity of avoiding the tying up of 
capital in poorly situated elevator 
properties. 

“Since the last annual report,” 
Mr. Milnor said, “branch offices or 
representatives of the corporation 
have been established at Toledo, 
and Fostoria, O., Champaign, IIl., 
Des Moines, Ia., Hutchinson, Salina, 
and Dodge City, Kan., St. Joseph, 
Mo., Marshall, Minn., Aberdeen, S. 
D., Williston, N. D., and Amarillo, 
Texas. During the same period of- 
fices in several of the smaller cities 
that were no longer needed have 
been discontinued, these being 
principally the wire offices of the 
Updike Grain Company, a_ sub- 
Sidiary which is being liquidated.” 

Benefits to grain growers in all 
areas through national co-operative 
marketing, were cited by Mr. Mil- 
nor. 


Paid Bank Loans 


The report of Walter I. Beam, 
vice-president of the Corp., showed 
that during the fiscal year the Cor- 
poration completed the liquidation 
of bank loans, and that for the 
second year of operation it was en- 
tirely out of debt to all of its 
bankers at the same time. 

Two outstanding events of the 
year’s operations were the fund- 
ing of the corporation’s $16,000,000 
debt to the Federal Farm Board, 
making it payable over a period of 
10 years, and the adoption and de- 
velopment of the policy under 
which the national organization be- 
comes the single. grain marketing 
medium of its regional stockholders. 

Mr. Beam reported that banking 
relations had been quite satisfac- 
tory. “We have banking connec- 
tions with about 100 banks,” he 
said, “and our turnover of dollars 
has run into hundreds of millions. 
We have tied up in closed banks 
approximately $4,000. New arrange- 
ments have been made with cer- 
tain of our banking connections 
under the terms of which there has 
been made available to the corpo- 
ration for its current uses, substan- 
tial lines of credit without specific 
security, for caring for sudden 
swings of the market, and for fi- 
nancing grain out of collateral 
position. Our Kansas City sub- 
Sidiary, Hall-Baker Grain Company, 
which has heretofore enjoyed a 
substantial line of unsecured credit, 
also has had its credit lines re- 
affirmed, with an increased line 
from a bank not heretofore a cred- 
itor. 


September, 1932 


Company Has Prospered 


“While the Farmers National was 
born during the depression, and al- 
most any new-born company pro- 
duced under such inauspicious con- 
ditions has slim chance of surviv- 
ing, your company has survived, 
rendered an adequate service in 
marketing grain, and has pros- 
pered.” Mr. Beam stated that in 
deference to the trend of the times 
and to some extent to the expressed 
opinion of those from whom we had 
our financing, the income of the 
higher paid personnel was reduced, 
that while the operations continued 
to show a profit and the scale of 
salaries is moderate in comparison 
with the size and nation-wide char- 
acter of the corporation, and its 
very large turnover of capital and 
business, it was sensible to reflect 
the lower living costs by a fair re- 
duction in salaries. 


Salaries Reduced 


He stated that material operating 
economies have been made effec- 
tive by salary reduction, the con- 
solidation of certain offices and the 
centralization of effort made pos- 
sible thereby, which will result in a 
saving in operating costs of several 
hundred thousand dollars a year. 

The meeting was the most har- 
monious gathering of the Corp. 
since its organization in 1929. The 
problem of bringing nearly 30 co- 
operatives together in one national 
unified program over a period of 
two years is a tremendous accom- 
plishment. Naturally there had to be 
a great deal of self-sacrifice by 
leaders in all the groups to develop 
a unified marketing system. 

In his vigorous but dignified ad- 
dress to the stockholders, Presi- 
dent C. E. Huff asserted that the 
past year had been one of extreme 
growth, expansion, and adjustment 
for the co-operative. 

“Those who now seek to alienate 
farmers from the co-operative mar- 
keting program to which they have 
devoted themselves for more than 
a quarter century,” he said, “un- 
dertake a fool’s task.” 

Reviewing the efforts of the Na- 
tional Grain Corp. to obtain clear- 
ing privileges on the Chicago 
Board of Trade, President Huff pre- 
dicted ultimate victory for the 
Corporation in its demand for full 
trading privileges granted at the 
Chicago market. 


We Expect To Win 


“This attitude of defiance against 
law and authority on the part of 


the Chicago Board of Trade prob-- 


ably marks the final stand of pri- 


vate tradesmen against the grow-~ 


ing strength and importance of 
farmer-owned co-operatives,” as- 
serted Mr. Huff. “When this battle 
has been won, as it will be won, 


THE LA.A. RECORD 


Page Seven 


SEEK TO BAR FARMERS FROM TRADING PRIVILEGES AT CHICAGO 

Left to right: Weymouth Kirkland, chief counsel for the Chicago Board of 
Trade who is also attorney for the Chicago Tribune; Fred Uhlmann, vice- 
president, and Peter B. Carey, president of the Board of Trade. They are defy- 
ing the Grain Futures Act of 1922 which declares that farm co-operatives shall 
not be discriminated against on the public exchanges. 


we will be able to go forward with 
greater security and more rapid 
growth.” 

Announcing the establishment of 
a seed marketing department, Mr. 
Huff replied to criticisms of the 
seed trade. “The vital interests of 
more than a quarter of a million ag- 
ricultural producers must properly 
take precedence over the interests 
of 1,500 tradesmen. 

“Of the 28 stockholders of the 
corporation, 19 now have turned 
over to the National all the mar- 
keting operations formerly con- 
ducted by themselves, and others 
are considering like action,” Mr. 
Huff said. 


Influenced By Facts 

Referring to the favorable bank- 
ing relations of the Corp., Mr. Huff 
said: “Bankers are influenced in 
the lending of money more by 
sound facts than by loose propa- 
ganda. Based upon the soundness 
of our structure and operations, we 
have been able to obtain such 
credit. No such line of credit, once 
established, has ever been with- 
drawn. No bank, once entering up- 
on business relations with us, has 
yet voluntarily ended such relation- 
ships.” 

C. V. Gregory, editor of Prairie 
Farmer, whose address was one of 
the highlights of the meeting, 
stated that the opposition of the 
middlemen to the Farmers National 


was to be expected. We can forgive 
commission men for fighting for 
their business, said Mr. Gregory, 
but it is harder to forgive farmers 
who swallow their propaganda 
against co-operative marketing. 
This is the crucial battle of special 
privilege against the advocates of 
equal opportunity, he said. 

Business and industry in this 
country have for years controlled 
the government, continued Greg- 
ory. This talk about “government- 
in-business” is merely an expres- 
sion of their belief that they will 
not continue this control. 


Mr. Gregory scored the financial 
leadership of the country and up- 
held agricultural leadership. “Our 
financial leadership, which always 
has dictated business practice and 
even governmental policies, has 
shown itself hesitant and fearful 
in this crisis, and without effective 
remedies for the present condi- 
tions,” he declared. “Four years ago 
they told us that a new era was 
here in which business could con- 
tinue to prosper despite a prostrate 
agriculture. Events have shown our 
farm leaders to be right when they 
held consistently that no prosperity 
is possible for long unless based up- 
on a prosperous agriculture. To the 
farm leaders the suffering people 
both of citv and country must look 
for leadership,” he said. 

(Continued on page 18) 


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ad}corr tanks pion I 


To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was or- 
ganized, namely, to promote, protect and represent the busi- 
ness, economic, political, and educational interests of the 
farmers of Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 


GEORGE THIEM, Editor 


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OFFICERS 
Preatdent;: Wark’: ©, © Brith i el ie eek ees vias oy oe eee Detroit 
Vice-President, A, R. Wright ............ Gece e cece eee ete eens Varna 
Secretary, Geo, E, Metzger ......... 0: cc ccc eee cece eee ee eee eens Chicago 
Treasurer, R.A. Cowles... ee ee cence cceeadons Bloomington 
BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
(By Congressional District) 
Bah Be) RTE ie es aN he 03 TeV EE Ea H, C. Vial, Downers Grove 
BN sa ere ina ss RFD 6 dae ek ASAE ODS RE NES RTD G, F, Tullock, Rockford 
BPRS, nosh Tiletecle 8G AA ee Les one bed pe pale rash C. E. Bamborough, Pole 
» REET Gre roe es Len Pe SOP UT A M. G, Lambert. Ferris 
B65. 22s Scones y Tic aes a sibs 08 Ch ENG oy pak eee ete Charles Bates, Brownirg 
I 5 vial ch GOS Se oe bed Opes Sa Wate Re Ba L eee Geo. B, Muller, Washington 
MOINS ciole od Gb yoo ee 8 digg Oe vip Sele oes oleh vw enna ee eke A. B. Schofield, Paxton 
MER cho Ma oh Mayo abe eo wea be pier eee bk eee ty: A. Dennis, Paris 
BO a6 665 veined Riecaencp ete ce dje'e Fd Valens Sield 0 MO KO OS J. Gross, Atwood 
Pe a tie sche Taba ge ob ewe eb hive ke bw Oot Char'es s Black, Jacksonville 
NS -g. 0 og cote Nea bw ieee Fh Pehle acy oe aide wage COE Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 
BA 8c UNS tp ehh vies uns Pe Rael Le OUI Owes Talmage DeFrees, Smithboro 
BE ba S ia Sale be ad sek pik Maud p¥ cig a de odd blew aepee W. L. Cope, Salem 
Naso o's sok 4 55.0 g Seoteis Spe SOIC EO tee Abb AMAR ER Charles Marshall, Belknap 
PI 65 ois dg hb ag 8 Botte USO ee eBlog Ww cdtes siete rer eae a Fred Dietz, De Soto 
DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 
COOMATET OUI OE 9 a ino o.oo oo boo Moke an Sao come 0% Eleleie's wo bee Sp eespeand J, H, Kelker 
Dairy Marketing................. bas borg ak acbaipete tle Wakao’ a J. B, Countiss 
NG rs 60% WR be 5 prcde4 oom cok cc kb acto ce wee een bns bOweeeey R, A, Cowles 
Fruit and Vegetable Marketing...................2.csececeees H, W. Day 
Grain Marketing ............. 0.0.0 cece cence et eeees Harrison «Fahrnkopf 
MUIOEROE Sea co So sin C5 iia hk olbn 0 Lube eeins bo ees cea wba be BF George Thiem 
Insurance Service...... 2.0.0.0... 0... cece cence eee eet eee Vv. Vaniman 
pe) a Donald Kirkpatrick 
Live Stock Marketing.................. 00s cece cece ce ceeeas Ray E. Miller 
MRM re ea te Wine Soo boc con piv vs esc0e Saipan vetoes pide twat Cc, E,. Johnston 
PRR PAGCOR F565 sici5 acpi geese clea a cee econ ged cep ewig she eee’ G. E, Metzger 
Produce Marketing............... ssi og Sianeli ace uel slatatusig s bidlele F,. A, Gougler 
Taxation and Statistics............... 0.0 cc cece cence ceeeces J. C, Watson 
TEARS POPCOCION 805 55 oie ods vole dice bce Nice vocuneeucdaesseves L, J. Quasey 
ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 

Country Life Insurance Co...............0.02085- L. A. Williams, Mer. 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co...................+2-. J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Auditing Assn................. a E, Ringham, Mgr. 
MTllinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co......... A, Richardson, Mgr. 
Illinois Farm Supply Co...............cccceeeeees L. *. Marchant, Mer. 


Illinois Grain Corp..... Chas. P. Cummings, Vice-Pres. and Sales Mer. 
Mlinois Livestock Mark. Ass’n..Ray Miller, Mgr.; R. W. Grieser, Sales 
Illinois Produce Marketing Ass’n................+-: F, A, Gougler, Mgr. 
Soybean Marketing Ass’n..............cceceeees W. HH. Coultas, Mgr. 
nn —________—___ 


Vote "Yes" on the Bond Issue 


Carelessness on the part of any great percentage 
of voters in failing to vote “Yes” on the Emergency 
Relief Bond Issue in November may defeat it. 

This is the one danger that must be guarded against. 

The bond issue must receive a majority of all votes 
cast for members of the legislature which means that 
every person who votes in the election and fails to 
vote on the bond issue in effect votes against it. 

The fact that this proposal if carried will prevent 
an increase in property taxes is so unusual that there 
is likely to be misunderstanding. The article on Page 
3 explains why a vote for the measure is a vote for 
lower taxes. Get this information over to your neigh- 


bors and urge them to vote “yes” on the separate bond. 


issue ballot November 8. 
On Meeting Opposition 
AFTER Ai. the most effective way farmers can meet 
the opposition in the “trade” who would destroy 
their efforts in cooperative marketing, is to sell more 
farm products co-operatively ... patronize existing 
co-operative selling agencies. 

Slush funds raised to spread propaganda and hire 
workers to undermine the terminal co-ops come from 
commissions on handling farm products, Let’s not lose 
sight of this fact. 


THE ILA.A. RECORD 


September, 1932 


The spectacle of one group of producers furnishing 
the funds to fight the co-operative efforts of another 
group of producers is incongruous yet it exists and 
lends support to the statement that many farmers, 
because of their extreme individualism, are their own 
worst enemies. 

The future of co-operative marketing depends en- 
tirely on the producers of farm products. Legal diffi- 
culties can be ironed out, monopolistic tendencies of 
organized middlemen overcome, other obstacles in the 
terminals removed. But none can correct the lack of 
unity and ‘co-operative spirit among farmers except 
farmers themselves. 


Unreasonable Criticism 


OMEHOW certain business groups have the notion 
that the government is unfair in loaning money to 
farmers for the development of co-operative market- 
ing. Yet there has not been a single word of criticism 
so far as we know against the Reconstruction Finance 
Corporation’s huge loans to railroads, banks, insur- 
ance companies, building and loan associations, and 
similar enterprises. 

There has been no general complaint against’ the 
government for subsidizing a merchant marine, for 
financing the Inland Waterways Corp. on the Mis- 
sissippi and its tributaries, for subsidizing second, third 
and fourth class mail, nor against many other serv- 
ices the government renders for the beneft of Ameri- 
can citizens. 

The discrimination against agriculture is not rea- 
sonable and that school of thought should not be 
countenanced by legislators when efforts are made at 
Washington to discriminate against farmers and their 
business institutions. 


Handling Seeds Co-operatively 


Farmers will welcome the news that a nation-wide 
co-operative seed handling service is being developed 
for-their benefit by the Farmers National Grain Cor- 
poraton. In his annual address President Huff of the 
Farmers National said: “We have attempted to set 
up the seed handling operations in such a way as to 
effectively utilize all presently existing seed co-op- 
eratives, whether among producers or consumers of 
seed. 

“No other requirement is made of a producer’s seed 
co-operative than that it affiliate with some present 
stockholder of the Grain Corp. and that all marketing 
be to or through Farmers National. .. . We are at- 
tempting to give national extent and pattern to seed 
marketing; to secure more adequate returns to the 
farmer who grows seed for the market, and better 
seeds at more favorable prices for the farmer who 
must add the expense of purchased seed to the cost 
of producing his next crop.” 

This promises to be a worthwhile service and should 
result in reducing the spread between the price paid 


by farmers who buy and that received by the seed 


growers. 


One of the remarkable incidents of the current 
economic situation is the large attendance at almost 
every great sporting event. Baseball games, prize 
fights, athletic contests, state fairs, horse races, and 
similar shows are attracting unprecedented crowds. 
There seems to be no lack of interest and money to 
pay admission fees for these events. 

It is reported that the Illinois State Fair was more 
largely attended this year than at any time during 
recent years. Exhibits of crops and livestock were 
especially numerous. The chance to pick up a few dol- 
lars in premiums was not overlooked. Then, too, the 
Fair provides a comparatively inexpensive vacation 
for many who in more prosperous years would travel 
farther and stay longer. 


on QO WD PSP PSP LP 


September, 1932 


PRICE-DECLINE COMPARISONS COVERING THREE LEADING GROUPS OF STOCKS AND 


THE LAA. RECORD 


Page Nine 


THE THREE CLASSES OF FARM PRODUCTS MOST LARGELY MARKETED THROUGH 
COOPERATIVES RECEIVING ASSISTANCE FROM THE FEDERAL FARM BOARD 


je eee ee ee ae 
‘81 Low ‘82 Figure 

Average 50 Leading Industrial Stocks _-______________ $252.8! $60.0 $38.3 76.26% 85% 
Average 20 Leading Rail Stocks _____________________ 167.8 80.8 14.4. 81.64% 91.4% 
Average 20 Leading Utility Stocks __.__________________ 353.3 92.8 60.3. 73.73% 83% 
Wheat-Cash-Average all Classes & Grades ____________ 1.34 469 608. 65% 55.8% 
Cotton—Middling, Spot—Average Price _______________ .1933 .0515 0559 73.35% 71% 
Steers—Good Grade. 2222 ne ec cell 14.78 6.80 . 


A—<Associated Press Figures. 


6.49 54.06% 56.1% 


B—Bureau of Agricultural Economics Figures (Average for 2 Week) at Chicago. 
C—Bureau of Agricultural Economics Figures at New Orleans. 


a—Close for the last day of that week, 


b—Average for that week. 


Regardless of what people may 
think of the several proposals re- 
cently advanced by Gov. Franklin 
D. Roosevelt, the Democratic presi- 
dential nominee, to curb speculation 
and correct abuses which brought 
on and intensified the depression, 
his program to compel honesty and 
truth telling by promotors, invest- 
ment bankers, and others who of- 
fer securities to the investing pub- 
lic will meet with general approval. 


The orgy of financial piracy di- 
rected by greedy bankers, public 
utility magnates, and common pro- 
moters in the era preceding the 
market crash of 1929 should never 
have been tolerated. The excesses of 
this period which saw literally mil- 
lions of small investors cleaned out 
of their life’s savings would never 
have happened had bond and stock 
sellers been compelled to. tell the 
truth about each issue. 


“T propose that every effort be 
made to prevent the issue df manu- 
factured and unnecessary securities 
of all kinds which are brought out 
merely for the purpose of enriching 
those who handle their sale to the 
public,” said Gov. Roosevelt in his 
Columbus speech. “I further pro- 
pose that with respect to legitimate 
securities the sellers shall tell the 
uses to which the money is put. 
This truth telling requires that 
definite and accurate statements 
be made to the buyers in respect 
to the bonuses and commissions the 
sellers are to receive; and further- 
more true information as to the in- 
vestment of principal, as to the 


true earnings, true liabilities and 
true assets of the corporation it- 
self.” 


No one except those willing to 
see wholesale robbery of the inno- 
cent public continued, can object 
to more careful supervision and 
regulation by the government of 
such public offerings. Before the 
coming of stocks, bonds, and in- 
tangible property the rule of 
“caveat emptor” (let the buyer be- 
ware) might be defended on the 
ground that the buyer could see 
what he was getting. But we are 
living today in a different age. The 
rank and file of small investors 
have no way of judging whether or 
not a stock, bond, or other equity 
is worth the money. They must 
rely on the word of bankers and 
sellers who offer such “paper” for 
sale. The average prospectus. sheet 
is framed deliberately to deceive 
the investor. If they do not actually 
lie, they usually resort to puffing, 
and withhold essential information 
to help the investor judge intelli- 
gently the degree of risk involved. 


Prison sentences would be the pen- 
alty imposed upon fraudulent op- 
erators in many countries, but here 
we let most of them go. Will Rogers 
said with considerable truth after 
visiting a state prison “The trouble 
is they got the wrong crowd in 
there.” Intrenched privilege may 
again shout “government in busi- 
ness” but their cry is that of the 
wolf deprived of its prey. 


It’s time the government got in- 
to the business of protecting its 
citizens against the buccaneers 
parading as respectable investment 
bankers, realtors, contractors, util- 
ity magnates and what not. Protec- 
tion here is even more necessary 


than the police who guard us from 
the less hypocritical robbers who 
take our valuables by force rather 
than deceit. The tendency toward 
further consolidation in business 
makes such regulation all the more 
essential —E. G. T. 


Maintain Base Price 


For Milk at St. Louis 


Settlement of a dealer-producer 
milk price controversy involving 
numerous St. Louis dealers and 
Sanitary Milk Producers, was an- 
nounced recently in a report sub- 
mitted by Dean Isidor Loeb of 
Washington University, arbitrator. 


His decision permits the price for 
basic supply of milk to remain at 
the present figure of $1.74 per 100 
pounds for 3.8 per cent milk, while 
the price for surplus milk was es- 
tablished on the average price of 
butterfat on the Chicago market for 
August, with the provision that it 
do not exceed 18 cents a pound. 


The Pevely Dairy Co., which has 
never co-operated with the organ- 
ized producers, has been constantly 
bearing down the price to the pro- 
ducer with the result that the 
dealers buying from the associa- 
tion claimed they were at a disad- 
vantage in competing with Pevely. 

The dealers sought a reduction in 
the existing base price, while the 
organized dairymen sought an in- 
crease. 

Dean Loeb in announcing his de- 
cision explained that dealers buy- 
ing on the base and surplus plan 
enjoy certain advantages of steady 
supply and quality, and that they 
can afford to absorb a temporary 
reduction in profit in the interest 
of retaining the co-operative’s plan 
of operation. 


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Big Crowd Attends 14th 
Dist. Picnic, Monmouth 


Between 6,000 and 17,000 people 
gathered at Monmouth Park in 
Warren county for the annual I. 
A. A. Farm Bureau district picnic 
on August 16. President Earl C. 
Smith and Mrs H. J. Meis, presi- 
dent of the Home Bureau Federa- 
tion, were the principal speakers. 
The I. A. A. public address system 
carried the speeches far beyond the 
fringes of the audience. 

A full program of contests, races, 
and events was run off in the 
morning and early afternoon. Hen- 
derson County’s Baseball team de- 
feated the McDonough County 
Farm Bureau nine in an unofficial 
game, McDonough having pre- 
viously won the district champion- 
ship. 

Mr. Smith reviewed the economic 
history of American agriculture 
since 1920 and told of the long con- 
tinued effort made by farm repre- 
sentatives to gain the attention of 
political and business leaders to the 
plight of the farm industry. 

With all other groups prosperous, 
the farmer was given scant atten- 
tion although industry was warned 
that it could not continue on a high 
place of prosperity for long with 
agriculture out of balance. 

Today there is general recogni- 
tion among business and industrial 
leaders that the farmer’s buying 
power must be restored before nor- 
mal employment and income can 
return to the cities. This is the one 
bright spot in the picture. 

Mr. Smith later reviewed the tax 
reduction program of the Associa- 
tion over a period of. years stating 
that the I. A. A. was one organiza- 
tion that had been working on the 
tax problem long before the de- 
pression intensified the burden. 


Running Water In Movies 


A one-act play “Running Water” 
written by Dorothea Barton, Jo- 
Daviess county, is being produced 
as a two-reel motion picture. This 
play was one of 12 awarded a prize 
in the play-writing contest spon- 
sored in 1929 by the American Farm 
Bureau Federation. 

E. W. (Farmer) Rusk, former ag- 
ricultural adviser in Macoupin 
county, will play the part of the 
county agent in the screen version 
of the play. 

Advance applications for book- 
ings should be addressed to the 
Motion Picture Division, American 
Farm Bureau Federation, 58 E. 
Washington Street, Chicago. 


Uncle Ab says it is a good plan al- 
ways to have the courage to appear as 
good as you really are. 


THE LA.A. RECORD 


September, 1932 


FIGHT THE FARM BOARD AND THE CO-OPS 
Left to right at the banquet table are Peter Carey, president of the Chicago Board of Trade, 
and Congressman Shannon of Kansasi City. The latter is chairman of the congressional committee 


investigating so-called ‘‘government-in-business.’’ 


While 90 per cent of the government’s services 


are in fields other than agriculture approximately 98 per cent of the testimony encouraged and 
offered by witnesses was against the Farm Board and government aid’ to co-operatives, The de- 
mand for the ‘‘investigation’’ is understood to have come from the grain exchanges. 


"Whispering Campaign" 
Aims To Hurt Co-ops 
Co-operative Marketing Groups 


Handled $2,400,000,000 Busi- 
_ ness Last Year 


M. S. Winder, executive secretary 
of the American Farm Bureau Fed- 
eration, sounded a new note in the 
struggle between the old line 
traders and the farm co-operative 
associations, when in an address at 
Ionia, Michigan, in August, he 
likened the attacks on the co-opera- 
tive organizations to the “whisper- 
ing campaigns” conducted by the 
“reds” to undermine the stability 
of American financial institutions. 


Although handicapped by, this 
unscrupulous “whispering cam- 
paign” the co-operative movement 
is making rapid progress through- 
out the nation, Mr. Winder de- 
clared. The co-operatives have been 
in the “big business” class for a 
number of years, he stated, point- 
ing out that in 1930-31 the total 
business transacted by approxi- 
mately 12,000 co-ops. was $2,400,- 
000,000. 

“In a period which will go down 
in history as the world’s worst ex- 
perience with hard times,” he said, 
“certainly these figures are some- 
thing of which farm _ business 
leaders can be proud. 

“And yet, such organizations as 
the boards of trade and produce ex- 
changes in Chicago and other large 
cities, some of the live stock ex- 
changes, private commission houses, 
and others have thought it wise to 
conduct against these gigantic 
farmers’ business enterprises a 
campaign of ‘poison pen’ propa- 
ganda the like of which no com- 
mercial institution, certainly none 


doing $2,400,000,000 worth of busi- 
ness a year, has ever encountered. 


“The vicious,. unprincipled at- 
tacks of these hostile agencies have 
but one aim. Their purpose is to 
destroy the gigantic co-operative 
business built up by the farmers 
on the principle that the middle- 
men alone have the right to con- 
trol the marketing of the things 
they grow. 


“The banks have some _ protec- 
tion in law against the ‘whisperers’ 
who have been undermining public 
confidence in our financial insti- 
tutions. Thus far, however, farmers 
have had to take the attacks of 
their enemies squarely on the chin, 
while they carry on trusting to the 
intelligence of farm people to 
recognize the source of the mali- 
cious propaganda.” 


A 75 Cent Breakfast 


C. T. Croften, Farm Bureau mem- 
ber of Savanna, Carroll county, who 
was in Chicago recently computed 
the value of a 75 cent breakfast on 
a railroad diner in terms of farm 
commodities. 


He figured that 75 cents at coun- 
try prices would buy approximately 
three bushels of corn, or two and 
one-half bushels of wheat, four to 
five bushels of oats, five pounds of 
butterfat, 17 pounds of pork, seven 
and one-half dozen eggs, two four- 
pound hens, or a 10 gallon can of 
milk. 


Notify us promptly if you move or 
change your address so you will 
continue receiving the I. A. A. 
REcORD and Bureau Farmer. Drop a 
card to the Mailing Department, 
Illinois Agricultural Association, 608 
So. Dearborn St., Chicago. 


September, 1932 


THE IL A.A. RECORD 


Page Eleven 


Co-operation, Consolidation, or Decay 
Farmers Must Take Their Choice of These Three For Their Industry 


A good farmer in one of Illinois 
best counties remarked the other 
day that in spite of all he could do, 
in spite of the hardest kind of work 
by himself and family, he was face 
to face with the fact that his equity 
in his farm home was gradually 
Slipping away from him. 

He went ahead to say that he 


had done everything humanly 


possible as an individual to protect 
his property but that he had come 
to the realization that acting alone 
he was powerless. This farmer was 
willing to join forces with other 
farmers to act collectively in the 
interest of agriculture. 

The avalanche of farm foreclos- 
ure continues. Where is it to end? 
Some of our best thinkers are stat- 
ing in no uncertain terms that ag- 
riculture is at the cross-roads. The 


-industry is faced either with cor- 


porate control of large areas of 
land—and a lot of our great in- 
surance companies are already in 
the farming business—or individual 
farmers must join forces in doing 
those things which other industries 
are doing for their own protection. 


Glenn Frank Said 


Glenn Frank, president of the 
University of Wisconsin and one of 
America’s foremost thinkers, said 
“A farmer must choose between co- 
operative and chain control. He 
must organize as the rest of eco- 
nomic America has organized or be 
lost in the shuffle.” In another part 
of the same address he states, “He 
(the farmer) is today suffering the 
fate of the individualist in a cor- 
porate age.” Unless individual 
farmers everywhere are willing to 
face these facts and not only face 
them but act upon them agriculture 
in this country will come to occupy 


a permanent position at the foot of 


the economic ladder. 

Every industry passes through 
three rather definite stages of de- 
velopment. First, there is the period 
of experimentation, then there is a 
period of expansion and the third 
period which usually occurs with 
some variations is one of consolida- 
tion. 

In the railroad industry there was 
first that period of experimentation 
with the funny little engines, the 
cars about the size of the modern 
truck, the wooden rails and _ all 
those other things which we re- 
gard as absurd now. Then there 
was the period of expansion when 
the steel ribbons were pushed 
across the uncharted prairies of 


By Ray E. Miller 


this country and great railroad sys- 
tems were developed. Giants in- the 
railroad industry such as the Har- 
rimans and Vanderbilts and all the 
rest, were part of that period of 
expansion. We are told that there 
were something over 8,000 railroad 
systems in operation at one time in 
this country. Now the railroad in- 
dustry has reached the stage of 
consolidation and almost on every 
hand we see evidence of this tend- 
ency. Now the bulk of the railroad 
mileage is controlled by a few 
great systems. 


Same Three Stages 


In the automobile industry there 
were the same _ successive stages. 
Remember the sputtering. little two 
cylinder Buicks and earlier _ still 
those high wheel crosses between 
the old fashioned buggy and the 
modern automobile. That was the 
period of experimentation. Then we 
had a period of expansion when the 
automobile industry grew by leaps 
and bounds into one of America’s 
greatest industries. There were 
literally hundreds of automo- 
bile manufacturing concerns in op- 
eration. Later we had that same 
period of consolidation that we 
note in the case of the railroad. 
Now we have the General Motors 
group, Henry Ford, the Chrysler 
group and so on. One-half dozen 
great automobile groups manu- 
facture the bulk of the cars. Most 
industries take more or less the 
same course. 

Perhaps you are thinking that 
agriculture is an exception to this 
rule, but is it? Shortly after our 
country was first settled we had 
that same period of experimenta- 
tion in which our pioneer fore- 
fathers were experimenting with 
the virgin soil on this continent. 
They were not only experimenting 
in methods of production but they 
were also experimenting in those 
methods of distribution which pre- 
vailed at that time. 

Next we had the period of ex- 
pansion and who is there who has 
not read thrilling stories of the 
prairie schooners that fought their 
way westward in the face of all 
sorts of obstacles. Indians, disease, 
starvation, uncertainty, hardships 
of all kinds that I am afraid would 
stop most of us moderns if we 
were called upon to undergo half 
of them. That was a period of ex- 
pansion. The American agricultural 
industry developed from a few 
pioneer farmers clustered along the 


Atlantic seaboard until it reached 
its gigantic proportions of today 
with total investment of fifty- 
eight billion dollars producing an- 
nual gross income under normal 
conditions of around twelve_billion 
dollars. 

What does the future hold? Does 
agriculture face. the next step 
through which the railroads, the 
automobiles, the airplanes, and 
other industries too numerous. to 
mention, have gone through? Farm 
implement manufacturing, chain 
stores, theaters, newspapers and 
banks are other examples of the 
same thing. Is the farmer not fac- 
ing some sort of consolidation? 

There is no question but what 
American agriculture is today faced 
with one of perhaps three al- 
ternatives. Farmers must either 
consolidate their holdings into great 
operating units or cooperate in do- 
ing the things the individual cannot 
do for himself. The third alter- 
native is continued and permanent 
economic ruin of the industry and 
poverty for the individual farmer. 


Organize For Progress 


A. E. Russell, the great Irish 
philosopher and thinker, said, “I 
assert that there never can be any 
progress in rural districts or any 
real prosperity without farmers’ or- 
ganizations or guilds. Wherever 
rural prosperity is reported of any 
country inquire into it and it will 
be found that it depends on rural 
organization. Wherever there is 
rural decay, if it is inquired into, 
it will be found that there was a 
rural population but no rural com- 
munity, no organization, no guild 
to promote common interests and 
unite the countrymen in defense of 
them.” 

Russell recognizes that it is only 
through cooperative effort that the 
agricultural industry can cope with 
organized groups in other fields. 
There is the matter of taxes. To- 
day real estate in the middle west 
bears about 85 to 90% of the taxes 
although producing not more than 
10 to 20 per cent of the total in- 
come. There is the field of market- 
ing. The farmer is compelled to take 
what’s left after the middleman, 
the wholesaler, the manufacturer, 
the transporter has taken his toll. 
What remains, if any, is finally 


passed on back to the farmer for - 


the subsistence of himself and fam- 
ily. ‘ 

In the field of legislation we know 
that the politicians listen to those 


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Page Twelve 


who speak with the force of an 
organization behind them. How 
can the individual farmer expect 
to have his needs recognized if it 
is necessary for him to make his 
journey as an individual down to 
Washington or to the State Capital 
where he ‘may “buttonhole” the 
representatives and senators and 
plead his cause as a farmer from 
Podunk. The idea is absurd. 


Half Slave—Half Free 


Owen D. Young, in an article 
published in Collier’s under date of 
July 9, said, “Take this country as 
an example. Here we are down in 
the depths. Why? Partly, I think, 
because for years we have tried to 
live half-slave and half free. That’s 
exactly what I mean; half slave 
and half free. For selfish reasons, 
which can be ascribed about equally 
to industry and politics, we have 
created an exclusive tariff barrier 
around this country behind which 
the industrial half of our people are 
free. to make a profit out of their 
activities, while at the same time 
the unprotected other half, the ag- 
ricultural half, is held in bondage 
not only to the first half but also 
to the competition of the world as 
well.” 


Should any more convincing ar- 
gument be needed to the American 
farmer to interest him in the work 
which he can do in cooperation 
with men of similar interests but 
which he cannot do if he persists 
with his individualistic ideas? On 
every hand we see evidence of the 
concrete advantages obtained 
through organized groups. 


Too Much Indifference 


In the field of taxation a start 
has been made both in Illinois and 
Missouri, and in fact in twenty 
states, where income taxes or other 
new sources of revenue have been 
tapped and made to bear some 
share of the expense of government. 

In the field of marketing it would 
be difficult to find better examples 
of concrete advantages than you 
have right here in St. Louis. The 
Producers Live Stock Commission 
Association, beginning only ten 
years ago without a dollar—in fact 
they were $5,000 in debt—have been 
able to send back to the country 
through earnings and refunds on 
commissions paid, over $1,150,000, 
an average of more than $100,000.00 
a year. The Sanitary Milk Produc- 
ers Association today is fighting to 
send back to its members a fair 
price for milk, without penalizing 
the consumer. 

Examples of the benefits of coop- 
erative legislative action are too 
numerous to mention but bear out 
the fact that agriculture must find 
expression through organized groups 
if it is to protect itself and the 


THE LAA. RECORD 


American standard of living for 
American agriculture. 


The other day throughout Illinois 
the 4th of July was celebrated by 
County Farm Bureaus in over 
ninety counties. It was made not 
only a day of celebration but a day 
of dedication. A dedication of the 
energies, resources and man-power 
of agriculture toward the perpetua- 
tion of agriculture as a basic indus- 
try on a fair and just economical 
scale. As a part of the proceedings 
a number of the enemies of agricul- 
ture were burned in effigy. Among 
these was Old Man Indifference. 
It seems to me that the farmers 
have no worse enemy than Old Man 
Indifference. Even though a farmer 
may be financially independent at 
the present time he has no right 
to assume an indifferent attitude 
because unless he does bestir him- 
self, eventually he too will suffer 
the burdens of taxation, marketing 
costs and legislative injustice 
crowded upon all farmers alike un- 
less they all act collectively to pro- 
tect the industry. 


Note: From a recent radio address 


delivered over Station KMOX, St. 
Louis by Mr. Miller. 


St. Louis Producers 
Host To 200 Visitors 


Approximately 200 livestock 
growers in the St. Louis territory, 
representing 40 counties, gathered 
at E. St. Louis August 18 to tour 
the livestock market and review the 
progress of the St. Louis Producers. 

J. R. Fulkerson, president of the 
Producers, called the meeting to 
order and presided during the pro- 
gram. C. B. Denman, livestock 
member of the Federal Farm Board, 
attended the meeting and gave an 
interesting talk about the progress 
made in co-operative marketing 
since the Farm Board came into 
existence. 

American agriculture is a piker 
when it comes to asking relief from 
the government compared with 
other economic groups in our na- 
tional life, said Mr. Denman. Other 
interests are getting far more fi- 
nancial aid from the government 
than is agriculture. Mr. Denman 
referred to the large loans made 
and being made by the Reconstruc- 
tion Finance Corporation. 

Among those participating in the 
program were H. D. Wright, man- 
ager of the St. Louis Producers who 
explained the new commission 
rates; P. O. Wilson, secretary of 
the National Livestock Marketing 
Association who gave a progress re- 
port; and Ray Miller of the I. A. A. 
who led discussions of plans for the 
completion of county livestock mar- 
keting programs. 


September, 1932 


R. F. C. Loans Near One 
And Quarter Billions 


How business and financial or- 
ganizations secured more _ than 
twice as much money in loans from 
the federal government as agri- 
cultural co-operatives was revealed 
recently in a report submitted by 
Ogden L. Mills, secretary of the 
treasury. 

R. F. C. loans to banks, railroads, 
insurance companies and other in- 
stitutions totaled $1,219,000,000. Mr. 
Mills reported that 6345 loans were 
extended to 4747 different insti- 
tutions. Of the amount stated above 
$976,000,000 had been paid on Aug. 
19 and only $110,000,000 returned. 

The most money ever authorized 
to be loaned to co-operatives and 
for use by the Farm Board in 
stabilization operations to prevent 
a collapse of farm commodity 
prices and with it countless banks 
in 1929-30 was $500,000,000. The 
Farm Board never used all the ap- 
propriation and subsequently a 
substantial part of this sum was 
turned over to the Red Cross in 
the form of wheat and cotton. 

A higher percentage of its loans 
to co-operatives have been returned 
than that shown by the Reconstruc- 
tion Finance Corporation. 

Loans by the Reconstruction Fi- 
nance Corporation were distributed 
as follows: 

4190 banks and trust companies— 
$736,000,000 including $30,000,000 to 
aid in reorganization and liquida- 
tion of 34 closed banks. 

43 railroads—$230,000,000 

541 building and loan associa- 
tions—$68,000,000 

73 insurance companies—$67,000,- 
000 

60 mortgage loan companies— 
$81,000,000 

10 agricultural credit corpora- 
tions—$767,000 

14 livestock credit corporations— 
$8,000,000 ’ 

8 federal land banks—$26,000,000 

5 joint stock land banks—$1,500,- 
000 (approximately) 

3 credit unions—$405,000. 

Mills reported that 70 per cent 
of the banks obtaining loans were 
in towns of less than 5,000 popula- 
tion, 86 per cent in towns of less 
than 25,000 people, and 90 per cent 
in towns of less than 90 per cent. 

More than 20 per cent of all banks 
in the United States received loans, 
these banks having about 15,000,- 
000 of the 40,000,000 depositors in 
the United States. 

Loans to banks in the smaller 
cities were relatively small running 
from $25,000 in many instances up 
to $100,000 or more. The banks in 
the big cities, however, received 
heavy loans, one bank in Chicago, 
according to reports, receiving $80,- 
000,000 alone. 


September, 1932 


bdr ome 


As we go to press the race for 
the championship in the Illinois 
Farm Bureau Baseball League. is 
narrowing down to a handful of 
divisional winners. 


Christian county came out on 
top in the first inter-divisional con- 
test of the quarter finals with 
Macon winning in two successive 
games. Livingston and Will coun- 
ties were scheduled to settle their 
quarter-final series on August 27. 
They split the first two games. 


Marshall-Putnam and McDon- 
ough are hooked up in another 
quarter-final series, Carroll and De- 
Kalb in a third. 


Morgan county, winner in its di- 
vision, will probably play Christian 
in its first inter-divisional contest. 


The fact that there are nine 
divisions in the League this year 
may complicate the play-off for the 
state title. At this writing an effort 
is being made to get Christian 
county to play an extra quarter- 
final series against Morgan to de- 
termine which shall go on into the 
semi-finals. 


While this plan puts Christian 
county at a disadvantage, there is 
likelihood that a series will be so 
arranged to expedite the early com- 
pletion of the championship race. 


In the event that a contest can- 
not be arranged between Morgan 
and Christian, the former will be 
matched against one of the losing 
teams in the various quarter-final 
series. The losing teams will be 
required to draw lots to see which 
one plays Morgan and thereby re- 
news its chance at the state title. 
The remaining teams in the quar- 
ter and semi-final series will then 
draw lots to see which one stays 
out each time until only two teams 
are left to play for the state cham- 
pionship: If the state contest is run 
off under the “bye” system there 
is likelihood that the final series 
will not be played until late in 
October unless the teams consent 
to play several games a week. 


The nine divisional winners in the 
state League are Livingston, Will, 
McDonough, Marshall-Putnam, De- 
Kalb, Carroll, Macon, Christian, and 
Morgan counties. 


Barley, oats, buckwheat, and 
wheat, all lost money for the labor 
of growing them in New York state 
last year, according to farm ac- 
counts. 


THE LA.A. RECORD 


Accident Prevention 
Campaign Is Underway 


From September 1 on through un- 
til the last day of November, Farm 
Bureau members in Illinois. will 
take part in a state-wide accident 
prevention campaign sponsored by 
the I. A. A. insurance department. 

Recruits will be sought in the 
Illinois Farm Bureau Safety Club 
and present members will be urged 
to renew their study and observance 
of accident prevention measures. 

Illinois Farm Bureau members 
now have the lowest state-wide 
automobile insurance company in 
the Illinois Agricultural Mutual, 
organized by the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association, and every effort 
is being made through accident pre- 
vention to keep down the cost. Up 
to date this effort has been suc- 
cessful. While many companies 
have been forced to increase their 
rates, the I. A. A. company has held 
down assessments because its policy 
holders as a group are careful 
drivers. 

Our country needs more no-acci- 
dent drivers, observes the National 
Safety Council. In these days pre- 
ceding election, when everyone is 
being told what he can do for his 
country and what it is America 
needs, every good citizen can start 
a little campaign of his own as a 
candidate as a no-accident driver. 

You can cast a vote for safety 
every time you sit down behind the 
wheel of your car. If enough candi- 
dates of the no-accident driver 
party are successful in getting votes 
for safety, literally thousands of 
lives can be saved in America dur- 
ing the next twelve months. 

So why not get on the bandwagon 
in this worthwhile movement? Do 
your bit to check the peace-time 
war which is slaughtering more 
than 33,000 Americans each year. 
Toss your hat in the ring and start 
a one-man campaign that will as- 
sure you of a clear conscience when 
the motor vehicle death totals are 
figured up at one end of the year. 

Which is safer, you or your car? 
You can answer that question 
specifically for yourself, but we can 
tell you the answer for the country 
at large. The car is the safest part 
of the combination; the driver the 
more dangerous by far. 


Eighty-five to 90 per cent of all 
automobile accidents are caused by 
the driver, according to a recent 
analysis made by the National 
Safety Council. Automobiles, es- 
pecially those that are relatively 
new or have been kept in good con- 
dition, are just about as safe as 
engineering science can make them. 
The driver has a long way to go be- 
fore he attains an equal state of 
perfection. 


Page Thirteen 


HORSESHOE 


: Tournament 


The Century of Progress Exposi- 
tion announces a horseshoe pitch- 
ing tournament open to all comers 
in the central states on September 
22 and 23, 1932. The contest will be- 
gin at 10:00 A. M. and is open to 
Farm Bureau teams. 

The tournament will take place 
in the amusement section on the 
Century of Progress grounds near 
the replica of old Ft. Dearborn on 
the Lake front. 

There will be no entrance fee. 
Prizes will be offered but they have 
not yet been announced. The con- 
test will be in charge of Harvey J. 
Sconce, chairman of the Agricul-. 
tural Division, Century of Progress, 
Chicago. Contestants should make 
their entries without delay. 

Mr. Sconce explained that the 
tournament is being held this fall 
with the idea of arousing interest 
in a much larger tournament to be 
staged while the exposition is in 
full swing next year. 


Beef Cattle Numbers 
Greatest Since 1928 


The number of cattle on farms 
has been increasing since 1928 and 
it is expected to result in a marked 
increase in cattle slaughter within 
the next few years according to the 
Bureau of Agricultural Economics. 
The number slaughtered during the 
first half of 1932 was the smallest 
for the period in many years, the 
report states. If this slaughter con- 
tinues small during the remainder 
of the year the number of cows on 
farms January 1, 1933, will be near 
the largest total ever recorded in 
this .country. 

Although the total number of 


cattle in the United States is larger 


than a year ago, the number on 
feed is smaller. Marketings of grass 
cattle from the Western States dur- 
ing the remainder of the year prob- 
ably will be larger than in the cor- 
responding period last year. Be- 
cause of favorable range and feed 
conditions, grass cattle marketed 
this fall are expected to be in bet- 
ter flesh than those marketed last 
fall, and the time of their move- 
ment is likely to be somewhat later 
than usual. Present indications are 
that market supplies of grain-fed 
cattle during the remainder of the 
summer and the early fall will be 
smaller than those of a year earlier, 
but that supplies of such cattle 
during the late fall and early win- 
ter will be larger. 


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To Finance Movement 
Of Staple Commodities 


New Corporation Created To 
Stimulate Trade, May 
Improve Prices 


The Commodities Finance Corp. 
“to finance manufacturers and 
others in processing and moving 
commodities” particularly in inland 
cities where sufficient credit is not 
available, was proposed recently by 
Eugene Meyer, chairman of the 
Federal Reserve Board. 

According to the announced plan 
of organization, the corporation will 
be authorized to issue $50,000,000 of 
notes for which New York banks 
will be asked to subscribe. The stock 
in two wholly owned subsidiaries, 
one an acceptance corporation, the 
other a finance corporation, is to be 
offered as collateral. 

It is reported that the corpora- 
tion will not buy commodities in- 
cluding farm products itself, but 
will make loans to established pro- 
cessors and others to assist them in 
carrying on their business. The pur- 
pose of the new movement accord- 
ing to the announcement is to em- 
ploy some of the $230,000,000 of ex- 
cess reserves in New York banks 
to stimulate the movement of com- 
modities. A 


Banks Pick Directors 

The corporation will be governed 
by a board of directors chosen from 
the subscribing banks. 

It was announced on Aug. 23 that 
Mortimer N. Buckner head of the 
New York Clearing House Ass’n. had 
been elected president at the first 
meeting of the board, and C. A. Mc- 
Cain of the Chase National Bank, 
chairman of the executive com- 
mittee. 

There is some conjecture as to 
whether this organization repre- 
sents the administration’s plan for 
carrying out the agricultural pro- 
visions of the new Reconstruction 
Finance Corp. Act passed in the 
last session of congress. 

Section D of the Act provides that 
the Reconstruction Finance Corp. 
is authorized to make loans to bona 
fide financing institutions to en- 
able them to carry and market in 
an orderly manner agricultural 
commodities and livestock produced 
in the United States. 

Presumably the Commodities Fi- 
nance Corp, will make loans for the 
carrying, processing, and marketing 
of both agricultural and non-agri- 
cultural commodities. 

Apparently an effort will be made 
to achieve the desired results with- 
out government aid, but if further 
money is needed to finance the 
movement of farm products, the 
Reconstruction Finance Corp. will 
undoubtedly come to the rescue. 


THE LA.A. RECORD 


Spreading Propaganda 
In Central Illinois 


J. W. Brinton, author of a recent 
book attacking the Farmers Na- 
tional Grain Corp. and the Farm 
Board, is reported to be spreading 
propaganda against the Farmers 
National and Illinois Grain Corp. 
in central Illinois. 

Brinton is an old-time farm or- 
ganizer and was formerly with the 
Non-Partisan League which con- 
trolled politics in North Dakota for 
several years. Later he was con- 
nected with the Minnesota Wheat 
Growers and the Nebraska Wheat 
pool. More recently he sought jobs 
with the Farmers National Grain 
Corp. and the Federal Farm Board 
but without success. 

It is reported that he is now 
working for the grain trade in an 
effort to undermine farmers’ con- 
fidence in their co-operative grain 
marketing endeavors. 

The Farmers National Grain 
Corp. some time ago published a 
complete reply to the many charges 
made in Brinton’s book. Copies may 
be had by writing the Farmers Na- 
tional Grain Corp., Fisher Bldg., 
Chicago. The grain trade is leav- 
ing no stone unturned to fight co- 
operative marketing and ruin, if 
possible, all farmers’ efforts to con- 
trol their own marketing system. 


Protests Against Cheap 
Imports of Tapioca 


Protection for Illinois corn grow- 
ers against competition of imported 
tapioca is being stressed by D. C. 
Dobbins of Champaign, Democratic 
candidate for Congress in the 19th 
district, in talks before farmers. 

Congress permits tapioca, which 
is almost a perfect substitute in 
many uses for corn, to come into 
the United States free of import 
duty, said Mr. Dobbins. Because of 
its cheapness, cotton and paper 
mills all over the United States, and 
particularly near the seaboard and 
in the south, use tapioca instead of 
corn starch in their processes. 

Western factories are thus de- 
prived of markets that would 
greatly stimulate employment in 
that section. This cheap foreign 
substitute utterly destroys a mar- 
ket every year for from 5,000,000 to 
10,000,000 bushels of corn. If our 
corn growers were given protection 
against competition of this kind, 
as other producers and favored 
manufacturers are protected, a bet- 
ter market for corn would result. 

Practically all of the tapioca im- 
ported into America comes from 
the Dutch East Indies where the 
cassaba plant from which tapioca 
is derived is grown by coolie labor 
for a daily wage of a few cents. 


September, 1932 


Rock Island County 
Reports Lower Taxes 


Substantial reductions in 1932 tax 
levies for school districts were re- 
ported on August 22 by the Rock 
Island County Farm Bureau largely 
as a result of its current and past 
work in seeking lower taxes in that 
county. 

Tax levies for school districts of 
Rock Island county announced by 
County Clerk C. N. Isaacson for 
1932 payable in 1933, revealed sub- 
stantial reductions in the majority 
of the 107 school districts listed in 
the report. 

In Rural Township, for example, 
there was a reduction of approxi- 
mately $3,000 in levies for 1932. In 
this township there are 119 farms 
according to the recent U. S. census 
which means that the saving in 
school taxes alone in 1933 will 
average slightly more than $25 per 
farm. 

John R. Spencer, farm adviser, re- 
ports that the County Farm Bu- 
reau tax committee has secured _ 
complete figures for the past eight 
years under the general county tax 
of 25 cents, and is securing other 
figures for three additional county 
tax levies including the T. B. Sani- 
tarium, county highways, and bond 
issues. 

The Farm Bureau secured the co- 
operation of the Moline and Rock 
Island Chambers of Commerce in 
the county tax study. 


Ask 25°% Cut In Macon 


The Macon County Farm Bureau 
public relations committee, led by 
Archie P. McIntosh, chairman, 
asked for a 25 per cent cut in farm 
land taxes in a public hearing be- 
fore the county board of review 
early in August. 

“We are asking the cut in valua- 
tions with the conviction that the 
local governments will be able to 
carry on with the reduced income 
from taxes,” said McIntosh. “They 
can manage. If they don’t have 
the money to spend, they won’t 
spend it.” . : 


Asks Tax Cut 


The Montgomery County Farm 
Bureau recently filed a_ petition 
with the Board of Review asking 
for a flat reduction of 10 per cent 
on the assessment of all farm lands 
in the county for the present year. 


The crow eats most grain in winter; 
when he is supposed to be eating or 
pulling corn, he is usually hunting 
grubs, 


September, 1932 


THE LA. A. RECORD 


Page Fifteen | 


The organized milk dealers of 
Rock Island, Davenport, and Moline 
recently refused to deal with the 
Quality Milk Association represent- 
ing more than 800 dairymen in that 
territory in the sale of their milk. 

While declining to recognize the 
right of farmers to bargain collec- 
tively they insist on operating 
through a strong dealers’ organi- 
zation themselves. 

The producers offered to sell the 
dealers all the milk needed for their 
fluid milk trade and to take care of 
their own surplus. A 


Whole milk for the fluid trade 
was offered at $1.85 a hundred, the 
present price, which the dealers 
said would be too high if they got 
no surplus. Representatives of the 
producers countered by asking if 
this was not an admission that the 
dealers are not paying $1.85 now 
for fluid milk but are using sur- 
plus for fluid purposes. The dealers 
could not answer this question. 


The dealers asked for an abso- 
lute guarantee that the farmers 
will not go into business for them- 
selves, they asked for complete pro- 
tection of all price cutting of com- 
petitors which they don’t have now 
and never will have. The dealers re- 
fused to buy butter made in the 
association plant stating that they 
can make it cheaper with the pro- 
ducers’ surplus milk than can the 
association. 


The dealers insist that the 
farmers have no right to organize, 
that they are satisfied and don’t 
want an organization, that it is 
ill-advised, wrongly promoted, and 
that when the organization ac- 
cumulates funds through a check- 
off it will give the organized dairy- 
men too much power. 


The dealers have nothing to of- 
fer in place of the proposal of the 
organized dairymen, and insist that 
they will buy milk from individuals 
only, according to their own prices 
and grades. 


The dairymen in the meantime 
refuse to be bluffed. They have 
completed the financing and lease 
of a plant to manufacture butter 
and other dairy products from 
their surplus milk.At this writ- 
ing they plan, beginning Aug. 30, to 
deliver the milk from some 800 
farms to their own plant unless 
the dealers come to terms and 
recognize farmers’ rights to bargain 
collectively in the sale of their 
products. 


The Quality Milk Association con- 
trols about 85 per cent of the milk 
going to the organized dealers on 
the quad-cities’ market. Unless the 
two groups get together presum- 
ably the dealers will attempt to 
ship in milk from distant centers 
of production. One friendly milk 
processor who was refused mem- 
bership in the organized dealers 
bottle exchange, will begin dis- 
tributing fluid milk on Aug. 30 
in fibre bottles, co-operating with 
the producers and paying $1.85 per 
ewt. for all milk going into the 
fluid trade. “And you can check 
my sales every day if you like,” he 
said. The other dealers refused to 
let the producers see their records 
so they could determine what per- 
centage of milk was going into the 
fluid trade and how much manu- 
factured into butter and other 
products. 


This situation reveals the prob- 
lems farmers face in seeking to ob- 
tain a voice in the sale of their 
products. Every organized effort of 
producers meets with similar op- 
position when it seeks to overcome 
special privilege or monopoly and 
gain economic justice. 

The solution of this and similar 
problems is up to the producers. 
Are they going to be pushed around 
by organized dealers who them- 
selves insist on dealing collectively 
while refusing to recognize the right 
of producers to do likewise? 


The distribution of fluid milk and 
cream has been one of the few in- 
dustries that has thrived through- 
out the present depression. Four 
leading dairy distributing chains of 
America show a 40 per cent in- 
crease in net profits from the 
period 1929 to 1931. During the same 
time farmers’ income declined ap- 
proximately 40 per cent. Thus, 
through organization and _ semi- 
monopolies, these distributors were 
able largely to dictate prices and 
maintain high average profits while 
the price paid the farmer con- 
stantly diminished. 


Middlemen who have an unfair 
advantage in the setting of prices 
to their own profit will not relin- 
quish this privilege without a strug- 
gle. Farmers can meet such op- 
position only with more thorough 
organization and a determination 
to fight for their rights. 


“Probably the low point in prices 
of stocks, bonds, and basic commod- 
ities has been passed, but the world 
monetary chaos is still with us. For 
the next ten years, world demand for 
gold will probably be the major fac- 
tor affecting prices, as it has been 
for the past seventeen years. Caution 
about debts continues to be good ad- 
vice.’—G. F. Warren, August, 1932. 


ive 

Feeders who are in need of fi- 
nancial assistance to carry on their 
feeding operations should apply to 
the National Live Stock Credit 
Corporation of St. Louis. 

The National Live Stock Credit 
Corporation is owned and operated 
by the live stock feeders through 
their Producer terminal sales 
agencies, and has been engaged in 
financing feeders for over eight 
years. This organization was re- 
cently enlarged to such an extent 
that it is now in a position to han- 
dle the needs of any reliable and 
experienced feeder. 

Loans are at 6% net, taking a 
promissory note, secured by a chat- 
tel mortgage on the stock pur- 
chased, together with the feed nec- 
essary to finish them. They loan a 
varying percentage of the appraised 
value of the stock depending upon 
the grade and the financial stand- 
ing of the borrower. 

These loans are made for nine 
months in case of cattle, and six 
months for sheep with the amount 
loaned in general running from 
80% down in the case of cattle, and 
75% down in the case of sheep. 

For additional information write 
directly to the National Live Stock 
Credit Corporation, 228 N. La- 
Salle St., Chicago, Ill. 


A black, neatly polished steer 
calf belonging to Robert Woolsey of 
Williamsfield, in Knox county, sold 
for top price of all 4-H Club calves 
on Aug. 23 in the first calf club 
auction of the year, conducted by 
the International Livestock Exposi- 
tion at the Union Stock Yards, Chi- 
cago. Between 250 and 300 calves 
were auctioned off by Carey M. 
Jones. The Woolsey calf selling for 
$9.75 per hundred pounds was the 
only calf of the entire sale to bring 
that price. Armour and Company 
was the buyer. 

A total of 39 calves were sold from 
Knox county yesterday on a mar- 
ket that had declined $1 per hun- 
dred from the values a week pre- 
vious, market quotations on 900 to 
1100 pound steers ranging from 
$6.50 for medium grade to $8 for 
good steers. A total of 25 of the 39 
Knox county calves sold for $8, or 
better. 


Stronger Wool Market 
Reported By National 


We can report another week of 
very satisfactory sales with values 
showing decidedly advancing tend- 
encies, reports the National Wool 

(Continued on page 17) 


Page Sixteen THE LA.A. RECORD September, 1932 


When the driver lost control, this truck jumped the curb and took the side of the house off 
before turning over. 


Accidents are EXPENSIVE! 


Are you prepared to pay court costs, 
lawyer’s fees, hospital and repair bills- 
out of your present bank account? 


N case of an accident it makes no difference 
who is at fault. If you are uninsured you are 
immediately in serious trouble.. The other party 
may admit his share of the blame or he may force 
you to secure expensive legal representation to 
protect your interests. You cannot afford this ex- 
pense. 

Besides the cash, it will cost you much valu- 
able time if you are uninsured. If you are, 
a property owner a judgment may wipe 
out part if not all your estate. Judgments 
up to $5,000 and more are common. 

A policy in the Illinois Agricultural 
Mutual, your own company, is available at 


Save Money—Let us tell you how. 


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through our Safety Club is proving effective. 
With fewer numbers of accidents among policy 
holders, semi-annual assessments in this company 

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As a Farm Bureau member, you are 
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September, 1932 


THE LA.A. RECORD 


Page Seventeen 


Issues Last Call For 
i932 Tax Reductions 


I. A. A. Tax Director Tells Farm 
Bureau Committees How 
To Go About It 


The last call for tax reductions 
for all county purposes was issued 
recently by John C. Watson, direc- 
tor of taxation, in a letter to the 
County Farm Bureau tax com- 
mittees. ; 

Every county having a board of 
supervisors is required by statute 


—— 7 to make tax 


levies in the 
week beginning 
Tuesday, Sep- 
tember 13. In 
counties having 
a board of coun- 
ty commission- 
ers, except Cook 
county, tax 
-levies- must. be 
made beginning 


— Monday, Séep- 
JOHN WATSON tember 19. 
Each county 


board is required by law to prepare 
a budget of expenditures, setting 
forth the various purposes for 
which expenditures are believed 
necessary or ‘desirable and the 
amounts proposed to be expended 
for each purpose in the next fiscal 
year. 


Estimate Income 


Good practice requires that be- 
fore determining the amount which 
must be levied in general taxes on 
property, said Mr. Watson, each 
county board shall first estimate, 
as accurately as _ possible, the 
revenue of the county general fund 
which, on the basis of previous ex- 
perience, may be reasonably ex- 
pected during the fiscal year from: 

1. The fees collected by each fee 
officer after deduction therefrom of 
the salary of the-fee officer, the 
compensation of other employees 
in his office, and other necessary 
expense of the office. 


2. Other county non-property 
sources, such as the county farm. 


3. Refund of the State’s share of 
blind pensions and mothers’ pen- 
sions previously paid by the county. 

The sum of all revenues which 
may be reasonably expected from 
non-property sources should be de- 
ducted from the total general coun- 
ty levy. The remainder, if not re- 
quiring more than the maximum 
tax rate permitted by law, repre- 
sents the levy which must be made 
upon valuations of all assessed tax- 
able property for the current year. 

Mr. Watson suggested that each 
county tax committee should request 
a conference with the finance com- 


mittee and the chairman of the 
board of supervisors in counties 
having township organization, or 
with the county commissioners in 
other counties. In either case, the 
county clerk and county treasurer 
should usually be included in the 
conference, he said. 


What To Consider 


“In the conference each county 
tax committee should, with con- 
structive and helpful purposes, ask 
for further information about any 
matters which are not-clear. In 
particular the conference should 
discuss such matters as_ illegal 
levies, if any, and tax objections 
thereto, the method of determin- 
ing appropriations for the various 
items of the county budget in each 
of the last two years, the degree to 
which actual expenditures for va- 
rious items agree with appropria- 
tions therefor, the amount of rev- 
enue from non-property sources, 
delinquent taxes and. measures 
taken to require their collection, 
county indebtedness of any kind 
and methods of reducing or paying 
of the county board or of county 
officers, and the necessity of hav- 
ing all audits required by law made 
by unbiased persons who not only 
are competent and experienced in 
accounting but are familiar with 
the statutes relating to county gov- 
ernment. 

“If any county tax committee is 
convinced that expenditures are be- 
ing made for political or other use- 
less purposes, it should ask the 
county board to eliminate them. 
The conference should also care- 


fully consider any expenditures for 


non-essential, even though desir- 
able, purposes which might tem- 
porarily be reduced or even omitted. 


Reduction In Pay 


“The conference in each county 
should carefully consider a tempo- 
rary reduction, wherever legally 
permissible, in the compensation of 
county employees commensurate 
with the reduction made in wages 
and salaries paid to employes by 
private employers. Due to constitu- 
tional restrictions, reduction by 
county boards in the compensation 
of county officers is permissible this 
year only in the case of circuit 
clerks and recorders, who are to be 
elected this fall. In case of all other 
county officers, reductions will be 
valid only with the consent or by 
the voluntary action of the officers 
themselves. But the county board 
has power at any time to adjust the 
compensation of all other county 
employees, including deputies and 
clerks in the fee offices, but only, 
in the case of each fee office, if the 
county board has followed the-bet- 
ter practice of allowing a specifi 
amount. for such expense apart 


from the compensation of each fee 
officer himself. 

“All reductions in county costs 
effected by any economies should 
be fully reflected either in the com- 
ing levy of taxes by the county 
board or, in counties which have 
unpaid obligations, in specific pro- 
vision for their payment.” 


STRONGER WOOL MARKET 
REPORTED BY NATIONAL 


(Continued from page 15) 


Marketing Corp. for the week end- 
ing Aug. 20. 

Private wool dealers have fol- 
lowed the lead of the National 
when it advanced its holding prices 
5 cents per clean pound one week 
ago. The situation is, therefore, 
strong. 

Choice Fine. Territory wool, 
graded for staple, has touched 40 
cents, clean. Owing to the scarcity 
of rain and resulting unfavorable 
range conditions in many produc- 
ing sections during the growing 
season, the supply of staple wool 
is limited. For this reason the Na- 
tional can see no necessity for of- 
fering its holdings in volume at this 
moment. Choice Territory Fine 
wools, with a sprinkling of Half- 
blood, have also touched 40 cents, 
clean, in the original bags. 

Topmaking wools, in the original 
bags, are obtainable at from 35 to_ 
38 cents, according to quality. Half- 
blood graded wools are firm at 38 
cents, clean. Choice _ territory 
Three-eighths blood is very firm at 
32 to 33 cents, clean, while ordi- 
nary wools of this grade may be had 
at 30 cents, clean. Quarterblood ter- 
ritories are difficult to obtain un- 
der 30 cents or slightly more. 

This strong situation has brought 
on renewed buying activities in the 
West, and prices all the way from 
2 to 3 and 4 cents, in the grease, 
over prices obtainable at shearing 
time, have been paid. 

A GREAT DEAL of wool has 
changed hands during the past 21%, 
weeks. Topmakers and manufac- 
turers are still eager to buy in 
quantity at the old prices, but are 
finding it more and more difficult 
to trade on this basis. It is evident 
that many mills are now accumu- 
lating stocks for future needs. In 
these circumstances the National, 
being strongly financed, is pursu- 
ing a policy of conservative selling 
but cannot well refuse to consider 
offers from its regular customers 
based on its latest quotations. To 
date the National has sold only 10 
per cent from its holdings of 1932 
wool, believing it possible to obtain 
somewhat better prices as the sea- 
son advances. 


Uncle Ab says he is not sure which 
is worse, the knocker or the booster; 
one means deflation and the other in- 
flation, and both are bad. 


Page Eighteen 


Farmers Unorganized 
Haven't Got a Chance 


Handful of Rich Southern Cotton 
Shippers Block Legislation 


Through the efforts of lobbyists 
working for the 600 members of the 
old line southern cotton shippers, 
legislation of undoubted benefit to 
two million southern cotton farm- 
ers was defeated shortly before ad- 
_jpurnment of Congress, M. S. Win- 

"der, secretary of the American Farm 
Bureau Federation, charged in an 
address at the Louisiana Agricul- 
tural College recently. Winder 
stated that while the private cot- 
ton shippers number approximately 
600, in reality the situation was 
handled on behalf of 68 men who 
control the bulk of the business 
done by the shipping associations. 

“In other words,” said Mr. Win- 
der, “sixty-eight men were able to 
impress their will on the nation in 
a matter adversely affecting 2,000,- 
000 farmers. It happened because 
the 2,000,000 were not organized to 
defend their own rights.” 

Directing his remarks largely 
to a discussion of the sources and 
results of the vicious propaganda 
campaign aimed to destroy the Ag- 
ricultural Marketing Act, Mr. Win- 
der declared it is easy to under- 
stand why those who deal in agri- 
cultural commodities are so desper- 
ately opposed to the co-operative 
marketing movement. 

“Not for years,” he said, “have 
our farmers been able to secure a 
price that would pay for cost of 
production of their wheat and cot- 
ton and yet these traders on the 
commodity exchanges have been 
making rich profits from their deals 
in our farm products.” 


Cash to Canada 

In Chicago, he said, one promi- 
nent operator on the Chicago Board 
of Trade has been reported re- 
cently as having endowed sums 
ranging above $1,000,000 on each of 
his brothers and sisters, all of 
whom are Canadian citizens. 

“The strange thing about it,” 
said Mr. Winder, “is that this man 
himself is a Canadian by birth, 
who came to this country when a 
boy and made his money by deals 
in wheat. And yet, lately he has 
been one of the principal critics of 
the Agricultural Marketing Act and 
the Federal Farm Board, the agency 
designed to help the farmers retain 
some of those millions the grain 
traders have taken from them.” 

In the middle west, Mr. Winder 
charged, the head and front of the 
attack on the co-operative move- 
ment is an organization calling it- 
self the Federation of American 
Business. 

“If you read their statement of 


THE LA.A. RECORD 


policy,” he said, “it sounds so con- 
structive that anyone could sub- 
scribe it. Actually, however, the 
Federation of American Business 
has concentrated its efforts almost 
entirely on a campaign of misrepre- 
sentation to discredit the Agricul- 
tural Marketing Act and deal a 
fatal blow to co-operative market- 
ing. That is easy to understand 
since the board of directors of the 
organization is composed almost en- 
tirely of representatives of the self- 
ish speculative groups who operate 
on the grain, live stock and prod- 
uce exchanges. 
The Old Game 

“The most unfortunate feature 
of the whole attack,” he continued, 
“is the fact that these enemy 
groups do not attack us by them- 
selves alone. Instead they make use 
of the great army of unorganized 
farmers to carry on the attack for 
them. Farmers who are under obli- 
gations to the old line market op- 
erators are lined up at the Shan- 
non investigation hearings to 
testify as farmers against the Mar- 
keting Act and the activities of the 
co-operatives. 

“Farmers must ‘remember that 
the real purpose of the attacks on 
the Farm Board is the ultimate de- 
struction of the farm co-operative 
associations, whose success threat- 
ens the hold the old line operators 
have on the distribution of agri- 
cultural commodities.” 

While spokesmen for the enemies 


of the farmers charge that since 


creation of the Farm Board, the 
prices of all agricultural com- 
modities have declined, they care- 
fully avoid all reference to the fact 
that most other articles of com- 
merce have gone down even farther 
than the farm products, Mr. Win- 
der pointed out. 

“It is true,” he said, “that the 
price of wheat has dropped from 
the high average cash price for all 
grades and classes, of $1.34 in 1929 
to its present price between 50 and 
60 cents, a drop of more than 50 
per cent in three years. It is true 
that the 1929 high for middling 
spot cotton in 1929 was 19.33 cents 
and the current price is now 66 per 
cent below that figure or around 
six cents. It is true that steers have 
declined 56 per cent in the three 
year period. But if the enemies of 
co-operative effort were honest 
they would also tell you that a 
study of market prices for fifty 
leading industrial stock show a 
drop of 85 per cent in value for 
the same period. They would tell 
you that twenty leading rail stocks 
suffered a drop in value of 91.4 per 
cent since 1929. They would tell you 
that the copper and brass group de- 
clined 79.45 per cent, that the drop 
in General Motors values was 69.90 
per cent; that U. S. Steel has been 
worth only 54.50 per cent of its 


September, 1932 


1929 value, and that the New York 
city banks suffered a shrinkage in 
value of 71.29 per cent.” 
Will Keep The Act 

Mr. Winder declared that every 
member of the Farm Bureau and 
every organized farm group in the 
land must join in a demand that 
the Agricultural Marketing Act be 
retained on the statute books for 
the benefit of American agriculture. 


“If any change is made,” he said, ~ 


“let it be strengthened and im- 
proved so that it can more effec- 
tively do the work it is designed to 
do. To do that we farmers must, 
regardless of our political affilia- 
tions, immediately set about it to 
counteract the destructive propa- 
ganda of the special interests. We 
must convey to every candidate for 
Congress and to both presidential 
candidates our demand that the 
Marketing Act be retained. Other- 
wise, if Congress, aroused by the 
selfish insincere clamor against the 
Act, should repeal it, the co-op- 
erative marketing movement would 
be set back ten years.” 

Mr. Winder declared emphati- 
cally that the Farm Bureau organi- 
zation is in favor of reductions in 
the cost of government on an im- 
partial basis without discrimination 
against agriculture. 


FARMER’S NATIONAL HAS 
GOOD YEAR 
(Continued from page 7) 


“Had farmers followed the ad- 


‘vice long offered by business leaders 


to ‘put business practices into farm- 
ing’ they would have done as busi- 
ness has done in closing plants, 
discharging men and resisting price 
declines,” Mr. Gregory said. “This 
would have kept food prices high. 
Charitable organizations then could 
not have bought enough food to 
feed the hungry, and the depres- 
sion would have ended long since 
either by application of effective 
remedies or by the revolt of the 
hungry. On the other hand, had 
business followed the example of 
agriculture, producing normally and 
selling its product for what it 
would bring, adjustment would 
have been completed sooner and 
the depression could not have lasted 
three years.” 

All of the directors of the Farm- 
ers National were re-elected with 
three exceptions: Carl J. Martin of 
Lansing, Michigan, was chosen to 
succeed L. J. Taber of Ohio; A. R. 
Shumway of Milton, Oregon suc- 
ceeded F. J. Wilmer; and Wm. A. 
Schuldberg of Preston, Idaho, suc- 
ceeded’ Jess W. Wade. D. L. O’Con- 
nor of St. Paul, Minn., became a 
member of the executive com- 
mittee. C. E. Huff of Salina, Kansas 
was re-elected president; W. H. Set- 
tle, Indianapolis, Indiana, first vice- 
president; and C. B. Steward,Lin- 
coln, Neb., secretary. 


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Number 10 


OCTOBER, 1932 


Volume 10 


Throw Off The $5,000,000 


Vote for and Work for the Passage of the Emergency Relief Bond Issue 


ROSPECTS for a state tax rate 

for next year of approximately 
twice the 1931 rate looms ahead un- 
less the voters of Illinois pass the 
proposed bond issue for $20,000,000 
in the election on November 8. 

It is conservatively estimated that 
the farm owners and farmers will 
pay an extra $5,000,000 in state taxes 
on farm lands and personal property 
next year unless the bond issue pro- 
viding for the shifting of 
this burden to the coun- 
ties’ share of gas tax 
funds; carries. 

According. to John C. 
Watson, director of tax- 
ation, the increase in 


on November 8 


the sum of $18,750,000 in anticipation 
of collection of taxes in 1933. 

In order to provide a legal basis 
for the issue of such warrants, an 
additional state tax of $25,000,000 
was authorized upon all assessed 
taxable property for the year 1932, 
payable in. 1933. At the same time 
a proposed state bond issue of $20,- 
000,000 to redeem all such anticipa- 
tion warrants and interest accrued 


Pass the Bond Issue 


ARMERS and farm owners in Illinois are facing an 
increase of $5,000,000 in state taxes on their property 
this year unless the proposed state bond issue for 


law (gasoline tax act) an amount 
sufficient to pay such bonds and in- 
terest as they come due. The amount 
must be withheld from the different 
counties in the same proportion that 
the emergency relief funds expended 
in each county bear to the total re- 
lief funds expended in the state. 
Under this plan any counties WHICH 
HAVE NOT RECEIVED STATE RE- 
LIEF FUNDS WILL PAY NO PART 
OF THE COST OF THE 
SAME. 

This rather complicated 
arrangement was un- 
avoidable because private 
relief funds in Cook 
County were practically 
exhausted and_ public 


taxes would amount to 
approximately $25 on the 
average quarter section 
farm. It will probably 
mean an increase in the 
state tax rate of around 
35 cents on each $100 of 
assessed valuation. 

Based on this rate the 
increase in taxes on farm 
property and total prop- 
erty is estimated for each 
county on the pages fol- 
lowing. 

Allotments of state re- 
lief funds have been 
91.4% to Cook county, 
and 7.3% to 38 downstate 
counties with 1.3% left 
for expenses, overhead, 
and reserve. 

An explanation of the 
situation which gave rise 
- to the proposed bond issue 
follows: 


$20,000,000 is approved in the election on Nov. 8. This in- 
crease would amount to $25 on the average quarter sec- 
tion farm. In many counties it would wipe out all de- 
creases in taxes due to cuts both in valuations of prop- 
erty and in levies of taxes for county and local purposes 
already made this year. 

The property owners of Illinois must understand that 
this extra burden of taxation now rests on them. The 
power of the state to tax property is pledged to pay back 
this money already spent. The only way property owners 
can throw off the load is to pass the state bond issue in 
the general election on November 8, thus shifting the 
burden solely to counties in which state relief funds have 
been expended. Bonds will then be paid over a period of 
years, out of each county’s share of gasoline tax funds, 
in proportion to the expenditure of state relief funds 
therein. 

To pass, the bond issue must receive a majority of 
all votes cast for candidates for the lower House of the 
state legislature. It is imperative that every voter go. to 
the polls Nov. 8 and cast his or her ballot for this 
measure. 


(Signed) EARL C. SMITH, Chairman, 
State Emergency Relief Bond 


Issue Committee. 


"2D 


thereon was_ submitted to the 


funds had to be raised at 
once to prevent actual 
starvation. Because of tax 
delays and tax delinquen- 
cies, Cook County, where 
the need was. greatest, 
had been unable to sell its 
own relief bond issues. 
The state’s credit, how- 
ever, was good and could 
be, and was used, to bor- 
row against the aforesaid 
$25,000,000 state tax levy. 
This levy, as before stated, 
will not be imposed if the 
bond issue is approved. 
However, if the bond 
issue fails of approval, an 
additional state tax of 
$25,000,000 on 1932 values, 
payable next year, will 
necessarily be levied on 
all assessed taxable prop- 
erty in the state. This 


means-that the 1931 state tax rate 


Early in February, 1932, a series of 
bills enacted into law at Springfield 
provided relief for residents of the 
state who were destitute by reason of 
unemployment or otherwise. 

These measures created the IIlli- 
nois Emergency Relief Commission, 
and the sum of $20,000,000 was ap- 
propriated thereto. Funds for im- 
mediate use were provided by author- 
izing the sale of state warrants in 


_- 


electors of the state to be voted on 
in the general election in Novem- 
ber, 1932. 
proved, it was provided that the ad- 
ditional state tax of $25,000,000 on 
all property should not be levied. 


If the bond issue is approved; the 
state is authorized to withhold 
from each allotment of money to 
counties under the motor fuel tax 


“ 


If the bond issue is ap- 


a... 


of 39 cents must be nearly doubled 
in 1932. If such increased state taxes 
are required, they must be levied in 
every county, whether it has received 
any state relief funds or not. 

This heavy increase in property 
taxes can be avoided only by ap- 
proval of the bond issue. Every 
owner of property, whether real or 
personal, should vote and work for. 


Page Four 


its approval on November 8th. 
To be approved, the bond _ issue 
must receive a majority of all votes 
cast for members of the General 
Assembly, in the November election. 
Every person who votes in the elec- 
tion and fails to vote on the bond 
issue, in effect votes against it. 


Vote “Yes” 


Vote “YES” on the bond issue, on 
the separate “emergency relief bal- 
lot.” 


As we go to press McDonough, 
Livingston, and Christian are still in, 
the race for the state Farm Bureau 
baseball championship. McDonough 
is assured of a place in the final 
championship series by reason of its 
victory over Carroll county in two 
hard fought games, score 3 to 0 and 
1 to 0. The last game played at 
Chadwick in Carroll county was a 
pitchers’ battle, McDonough scoring 
its only run in the first inning. 

Livingston nosed out Christian 
after trailing most of the way in a 
Slugging contest at Taylorville, 
September 23. Errors by Christian 
county in the seventh, eighth, and 
ninth innings were responsible for 
the loss of the game. Until that time 
the Christian county boys were in 
the lead 7 to 3. Each side drove out 
13 hits. 

The second game of the series was 
scheduled to be played at Wing in 
Livingston county October 1, and the 
third, if necessary, by October 5. An 
effort is being made to start the 
championship series on Saturday, 
October 8. 


Farm Products Up 
2.5 Per Cent In Aug. 


Farm prices led the Labor Depart- 
ment’s index of wholesale commodity 
prices with a gain of 2.5 per cent 
from July to August. Increases were 
recorded in the average prices of 
barley, corn, rye, wheat, calves, poul- 
try, cotton, eggs, hay, and peanuts. 

Decreases in the average prices of 
oats, cows, hogs, fresh apples, lemons, 
oranges, leaf tobacco, and onions 
were shown for August. 


The Department reported increases 
in food prices for butter, cheese, rye 
and wheat flour, fresh and cured 
beef, cured pork, veal, coffee, lard, 
raw and granulated sugar, and most 
canned vegetables. Average food 
prices for August were 1.5 per cent 
above July. 


THE LAA RECORD 


October, 1932 


If The Bond Issue Fails To Pass, Additional’State Taxes Will 
Be Levied On Property Next Year As Follows: 


Taxes Re- State Taxes Re- Taxes Re- State Taxes Re- 
quired on Funds quired on quired on Funds quired on 
Lands andIm- Allocated all property Lands andIm- Allocated all property 
provements to by provements to by 
by Counties Counties Counties by Counties Counties Counties 
County 85 cent rate for Relief 35 cent rate County 35 cent rate for Relief 35 cent rate 
Adams $ 75.000 $ 20,000 $227.000 Lee 83 000 4,000 162 000 
Alexander 15.000 55.000 Livingston 135,000 254,000 
Bond 23,000 47.000 Logan 85,000 141,000 
Boone 82,000 70 000 McDonough 57,000 4,800 107,000 
Brown 19,000 28,000 
McHenry 77,500 , 161,000 
Bureau 88.000 * 4,000 170 000 McLean 157,000 75,000 314,000 
Calhoun 16.000 21,000 Macon 73 000 231.000 
Carroll 40 000 85 000 Macoupin 52.000 4,100 117,000 
Cass 34.000 4,000 64.000 Madison 97,000 88,485 378,000 
Champaign 108,000 229,000 
Marion 19,000 3.000 69,000 
Christian 77,000 131.000 Marshall 43.000 72.000 
Clark 21,000 45.000 Mason 42.000 65,000 
Clay 17.000 85 000 Massac 11.000 30,000 
Clinton 30.000 750 69,000 Menard 39,000 61,000 
Coles 45,000 3,750 95,000 
Mercer 52,000 82.000 
Cook 240,000( 2) 17,136,756.50 12,778.000(?) Monroe 29,000 19.000 
Crawford 25.000 52,000 Montgomery 52,000 113,000 
Cumberland 13,000 27.000 Morgan 74,000 5,600 142,000 
DeKalb 80.000 165,000 Moultrie 34,000 53,000 
DeWitt 44,000 9,165 76,000 . 
Ogle 83 000 149.000 
Douglas 47,000 75.000 Peoria 77,000 38,600 453,000 
DuPage 48.000 3,820 286.000 Perry 26 000 5.610 55.000 
Edgar 60.000 8.000 104.000 Piatt 56,500 104,000 
Edwards 12,000 1,700 22.000 Pike 43,000 82,000 
Effingham 19,000 53,000 
Pope 7,000 12,000 
Fayette 23,000 54.000 Pulaski 11,000 24.000 
Ford 55.000 82,000 Putnam 13,000 750 20,000 
Franklin 55.000 37,850 75 000 Randolph 27.000 5.400 65,000 
_ Fulton 72.000 8,500 142,000 Richland 15,000 30,000 
Gallatin 14,000 21,000 
Rock Island $ 54,000 96.900 252.000 
Greene * 86.000 67,000 St. Clair 119.000 197,504 453,000 
Grundy 47.000 5,500 93.000 Saline 18.000 59.730 ~° 49.000 
Hamilton 10.000 21,000 Sangamon 94,000 18,000 372,000 
Hancock 70.000 112.000 ‘Schuyler 23,000 33,000 
Hardin 7,000 12,000 
Scott 23,000 36,000 
Henderson 35.000 58,000 Shelby 60,000 100.000 
Henry 88.000 17,500 175000 = Stark 34,000 55.000 
Iroquois 113.000 171.000 Stephenson 59,000 153.000 
Jackson 21,000 1,650 64,000 Tazewell 92,000 2,500 194,000 
Jasper 15,000 24,000 
Union 22; 44,000 
Jefferson 17,000 63.000 Vermilion 108.000 12,500 298,000 
Jersey 22,000 38.000 Wabash 17,000 40,000 
JoDaviess 44,000 87,000 Warren 58,000 100 000 
Johnson 10.000 25,000 Washington 31,000 51,000 
Kane 74,000 $76,575 402,000 
Wayne 19,000 35,000 
Kankakee 58,000 157,000 White 16 000 33.000 
Kendall 37,000 55,000 | Whiteside 67,000 | 156,000 
Knox 73,000 28,205 214,000 Will 105,000 216,011.61 338,000 
Lake 86.000 20,000 400.000 Williamson 27,000 48,440 74,000 
LaSalle 179,000 80,155 412,000 
Winnebago 63,000 146,375 385,000 
Lawrence 19,000 5,800 51,000 Woodford 73,000 100,000 
SUMMARY 


Distribution of Taxes Required on 
$18,750,000 in Property to Repay 
State Unemploy- f 
ment Relief Funds $25,000,000 


Farm Property All Property 


Cook County .......... 2.000600 c eee eee $17,136.756.50 $ 240,000( ?) $12,778,000( ?) 
All other counties .................008 1,370,225.61 5,000,000 12, ,000 
Total allocated ..................005. 18,506,982.11 

Unapportioned and Unexpended ...... 243,017.89 ; 

TONG: 552555 o 606 ois 8 oa ake Cv ena raaeehis $18,750,000.00 $5,240,000 $25,000,000 


It should be noticed that the additional amounts of tax which failure 
of the bond issue would require of lands and improvements in each county 
include some urban lands which are not used for agricultural purposes. 
If it were possible to exclude urban lands from land assessments and if the 
additional tax were computed both on farm land, including improvements 
and on farm personal property, the amounts given above would be ap- 
proximately correct for most counties, including those in which reduc- 
tions in valuations have been made this year. Additional taxes which 


would be required in Cook County can only be estimated since the 1931 


assessment is not yet completed. : 


October, 1932 


THE 


ILA.A. RECORD 


Page Five 


Farm Bureau Tax Work Gets Results 


Substantial Cuts Follow Intelligent Program of Tax Reduction Initiated 


UBSTANTIAL reductions of taxes 

in nearly all Illinois counties have 
been reported during the past few 
weeks largely as a result of the cam- 
paign of intelligent tax reduction 
initiated by the 
Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association 
and the County 
Farm Bureaus 
last spring. 


Reductions in 
assessed valua- 
tions of property 
made by assessors 
and boards of re- 
view this year 
and last have 
been followed 
with voluntary 
and involuntary cuts in salaries and 
fees of county officers and em- 
ployees, expenditures for supplies 
and equipment, and in levies against 
property. 

The Winnebago County Farm Bu- 
reau submitted a detailed brief rel- 
ative to the cost of government in 
Winnebago county to the board of 
supervisors at a public hearing early 
in September. 


Letter Explains Study 


In a letter to the supervisors, 
signed by President Geo. F. Tullock, 
the Farm Bureau said: 

“The Winnebago County 
Farm Bureau is joining with 
the Farm Bureaus in nearly 
100 other counties in Illinois 
in a constructive, intelligent 
study of the cost of local, 
county and state govern- 
ment. We have set up an 
organization, with represen- 
tation in each tax levying 
district from the school dis- 
trict up, with the hope of 
getting at the facts of tax 
levying and tax spending. 
Our line of procedure is 
along lines outlined by John 
C. Watson, of the Depart- 
ment of Taxation and Sta- 
tistics of the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association. The in- 
formation being collected in 
this state-wide study should 
be of use to every tax levying 
body which desires to keep 
the costs of government 
down to the limit of efficient 
operation. 

“The group of members of 
the Winnebago County Farm 
Bureau to whom you are 
kindly giving audience this 
morning is composed of the 


GEO, F, TULLOCK 


‘and 1931. 
of the cost of operating charitable . 


By |. A. A. Last Spring 


officers, board of directors 
and members of our county 
tax committee. We are here 
in an effort to extend to you 
an offer of co-operation in 
your work of planning the 
budget for next year. 

“It is our belief that the 
cost of government has risen 
to a peak far above the plane 
of income of the taxpayer. 
We believe that the mem- 
bers of this honorable body 
desire to be familiar with the 
wishes of the electorate 
which has placed them in of- 
fice. Therefore, we are here 
to convey to you a message 
from our membership in 
which we ask you to adjust 
the costs of government 
radically downward, elimi- 
nating every nonessential 
activity, curtailing all lines 
as completely as can be done 
without destroying’ effi- 
ciency.” Mn 


Ask 30% Reduction 


The recommendations submitted 
by the Farm Bureau provide for a 
drastic reduction approximating 30 
per cent in salaries of many county 
officials and employees, and in the 
running expenses of the county home 
and hospital, and the Rockford 
tuberculosis sanitarium. County offi- 
cials whose compensation is fixed by 
law were asked to take a voluntary 
reduction. The survey of the Farm 
Bureau indicated extravagance and 
waste in the charitable institutions. 

In its report to the supervisors the 
Farm Bureau committee estimated 
that the following savings should be 
made: 

1. On salaries and fees at 

MOU a5 Ske k occ teaheais $40,000 

2. On dependent children.. 8,000 
3. Rockford Farm Home and 
4 


EROMOIGA 6 oss vvccvccccecs. 44,000 

. Rockford Tuberculosis 
Sanitarium ............. 80,000 
£1350 \ 7S ERR RSE ae RCE SS $172,000 


“The present condition of things 
absolutely cannot continue,” said the 
report. “The public cannot carry this 
load. Everyone will be bankrupt ex- 
cept the officeholders and the big 


_ financiers.” 


The survey submitted in tabular 
form revealed the increases in the 
salaries and wages of all county of- 
ficials and clerical help between 1914 
Comparisons were. made 


institutions in Winnebago county 


and other counties. The survey re- 
vealed that the Winnebago county 
institutions apparently are squan- 
dering money and paying out far 
greater sums for equipment and 
service than is true in other Illinois 
counties such as Peoria and Sanga- 
mon. 


Other Counties Busy 


The board of supervisors gave the 
report its careful consideration and 
while not concurring in all its 
recommendations, ordered a drastic 
reduction in salaries and expendi- 
tures demanding that -.county offi- 
cials whose compensation. is fixed 
by statute voluntarily bear their 
full share of the reduction. If such 
officials fail to comply with the de- 
mands of the supervisors the fight 
will be carried to the people in the 
next election of local officers. 

The work of the Farm Bureau in 
Winnebago county is typical of the 
organization’s tax reduction efforts 
in scores of other counties through- 
out Illinois. 

In Effingham county the board of 
review reduced assessments for 1932 
a total of $184,790. 

The McLean county board of re- 
view approved the petition of the 
Farm Bureau and the Taxpayers’ 
League and ordered a horizontal cut 
of 10 per cent on real estate values 
in that county for next year. This 
follows a substantial reduction in 
valuations made the previous year. 

The Bloomington Pantagraph re- 
ports that “every taxing body in the 
county has the responsibility of cut- 
ting expenses to the bone ... for 
there is no dodging the fact that 
collections of taxes are harder to 
make and smaller in quantity than 
for any year of the last 30, and gov- 
ernment expenses in every unit must 
come down to avoid disastrous and 
disgraceful public bankruptcy.” 

The Kane county board of review 
announced that real estate assess- 
ments in that county would be re- 
duced 20 per cent. Will county an- 
nounced a 10 per cent slash in 
assessments. 

Ford county, following a cut of 
15 per cent in assessed valuations 
last year, took another five per cent 
from the valuations this year. The 
decrease was not made uniform in 
all townships. 

Macon county also reduced valua- 
tions 10 per cent. This was a hori- 
zontal reduction. 

Sangamon county, following effec- 
tive work by the Farm Bureau, aided 

(Continued on Page 6) 


Page Six 


THE LAA. RECORD 


October, 


Farm Bureau Tax Work 
(Continued) 


by the I. A. A. reduced assessed valu- 
ations of farm lands an average of 
about 18 per cent for the whole 
county. Cuts ranged from five per 
cent in Ball township to 30 per cent 
in Woodside township. 


Gives Farm Bureau Credit 

Expressing the views taken by the 
three members of the board of re- 
view, Chairman Bradley was quoted 
in the Illinois State Register as fol- 
lows: “The reduction -was granted 
not because the Farm Bureau asked 
for it, but because the Bureau suc- 
ceeded in proving its points by pre- 
senting a mass of information. 

“The Bureau using tax experts 
from Chicago probably was better 
able to present its case than an in- 
dividual farmer or a_ group of 
farmers in one section of the coun- 
ty would have been... . 

“It has been the contention for 
15 to 20 years, which has been sub- 
stantiated by figures, that the as- 
sessed valuation on farm land is 
nearer the sale price of the land 
than is the assessed valuation on city 
property. The farm land assess- 
ments have been 45 to 25 per cent 
higher than on city property. 


Help From I. A. A. 


“The board is indebted to the 
Farm Bureau tax committees in the 
respective townships and to the 
county at large for information rel- 
ative to values. Experts from Chi- 
cago (John C. Watson of the Illi- 
nois Agricultural Association) as- 
sisted in the work, and the Farm Bu- 
reau made use of its own books and 
records in the recorder’s office. It 
would have cost the board a lot of 
money to undertake the task alone. 

“We believe the information ob- 
tained is authentic. It checks with 
the records.” 

Similar reports are coming in from 
many other counties indicating that 
the Farm Bureaus’ campaign of tax 
reduction based on accurate records 
and statistical information is getting 
results. Savings to the farm property 
owners of Illinois in taxes paid next 
year will be very substantial. This 
work would. not have been possible 


“without organization. 


Liked Bond Issue Story 


Editor, I. A. A. RECORD. 

“The article ‘A Bond Issue to Re- 
duce Property Taxes’ by Mr. Watson, 
is good, and I hope sufficient copies 
have been produced to scatter over 
the entire state. ... 

“TI feel that if the bond issue fails 
and the state tax is doubled with 
additional taxes for relief in the 
county, the future of the schools ap- 
pears dark indeed. 

“IT enjoyed the September number 
of the REcorp very much.” 


"Stop Farm Fires" Is 
Watchword During Week 


Here Are Some Things You Can 
Do To Prevent a Fire 
on the Farm 


The first week in October has been 
designated “Fire Prevention Week” to 
emphasize the importance of fire 
prevention particularly on the farm 
where there is least protection. The 
Illinois Agricultural Association is 
cooperating in the movement in the 
state to make all people fire con- 
scious, and active in preventing fir 
losses. ; 

Farm fires in Illinois two years 
ago destroyed approximately $14,000,- 
000 worth of property. While the 
figures for last year are not yet re- 
ported, it is estimated that 1931 
losses will exceed those of the year 
before. 

How many times have you read 
items: like.the following which ap- 
peared in a weekly newspaper in 
Illinois a short time ago? 

“Little Boyd = Loftien, four, 
playing with matches, caused a 
fire last Saturday morning, at 
the Loftien farm home east of 
town, and: west of Creston, caus- 
ing a damage estimated at $4,000 
which destroyed a barn, and its. 
contents of hay, machinery, also 
two horses and two calves which 
were burned to death in the 
building.” 


Learn The Cause 


Insurance adjusters who make. it 
their business to learn the cause of 
farm fires tell us that at least 90 
per cent of such losses are prevent- 
able. Even fires caused by lightning 
can in part be prevented by proper 
protection with lightning rods. Many 
farm fires are the result of sparks 
from chimneys falling on unpro- 
tected roofs. A chimney in the first 
place should be constructed of good 
hard brick and lined with tile. If 
tile is not available the chimney 
should be of two courses of brick 
thick and in all cases should be built 
by a competent workman. 

The top of the chimney should ex- 
tend at least two feet higher than 
the peak of the roof to secure proper 
draft. If soft coal or wood is burned 
a heavy wire spark screen should 
protect the opening at the top. Over 
$24,000,000 of property was destroyed 
last year because’ of preventable 
fires starting from defective chim- 
neys and flues. 


Watch For These 


Don’t let old newspapers, clothing, 
or other waste material accumulate 
in piles in the attic. 

Watch for bare electrical connec- 
tions. See that no metal objects are 
laying on exposed wiring, and that 
no extension cords are twisted 


around nails, pipes, or other metal 
materials. 

Do not plug the fuses. A fuse is a 
protection against an overloaded 
circuit which causes wires to get hot 
and start fires. 

When kerosene and gasoline cook 
stoves are used be sure there are no 
curtains or other inflammable ma- 
terial nearby that might catch fire 
should the. burner flare up. Don’t 
pile ashes on the floor, against wood 
posts or in wood boxes. Use metal 
containers. 

Keep all trucks and tractors off 
the barn floor. Backfiring of a cold 
motor. or a short circuit in the elec- 
trical equipment cause many a fire. 


1932. 


| 


There should be no portable gas en- 


gines operated inside a barn. 


Beware Oily Rags 

Keep the barn clean. Don’t let 
empty bags and rubbish accumulate 
in corners. Keep the building well 
ventilated. 

Don’t let oily rags pile up in cor- 
ners. Put them in metal cans or con- 
tainers. If they start on fire then 
they will do no damage. 

Go over the 
periodically. Inspect and clean out all 
the corners where rubbish accumu- 


lates. If the hay was put in damp, - 


spread it out so the heat will be 
liberated. Inspect the chimneys on 
the house and.make the needed re- 


pairs. Keep the fire extinguisher in | 


a handy place and be sure there are 
buckets, ladders, and water con- 
veniently located for instant use in 
time of need. 


J. Frank Grimes Chief 
Speaker For Supply Co. 


J. Frank Grimes, president of the 
Independent Grocers’ Alliance, Chi- 
cago, will be the headline speaker at 
the annual meeting of the Illinois 
Farm Supply Company, Bloomington, 
October 12. 

Mr. Grimes who appeared at the 
annual I. A. A. meeting two years 
ago will speak on the subject “What 
Independents Can Accomplish By 
Group Action.” He will have an in- 
teresting message. Mr. Grimes is an 
aggressive speaker and his hobby is 
co-operation and group action among 
small home-owned business institu- 
tions. 

Donald Kirkpatrick, legal counsel 
for the I. A. A. will discuss legal prob- 
lems affecting county service com- 
panies. 

The address of the President, Fred 


Herndon of Macomb,.and the man-. 


ager’s and treasurer’s reports, to- 
gether with election of officers and 
directors will comprise the business 
end of the program. 

The meeting will begin at 10:00 
A. M. in the Y. M. C. A. auditorium. 
Delegates and directors are expected 
from 52 county service companies 
affiliated with the state company. 


farm . buildings . 


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Poi Stn 


1 Rn 


October, 1932 


THE ILA.A. RECORD 


Paye Seven 


Soybean Growers Annual Meeting 


More Than 400 Attend Rousing Session at Decatur, Hear Full Explanation 


ROUSING meeting of Illinois 
A soybean growers at Decatur, 
Sept. 21 voted unanimously to stick 
to their organization, the Soybean 
Marketing Association, and carry on 
in their efforts to establish better 
markets for the grower. 

The svirit and confidence in the 
co-operative principle expressed by 
more than 400 growers who attended 
the annual meeting were remarkable 
in view of discouraging markets dur- 
ing the past year: Although the As- 
sociation could not sell all of its mil- 
lion and a-half bushels marketed 
during the year at top prices, it suc- 
ceeded in getting the member grow- 


- ers more money for their beans than 


the bulk of non-members got who 
marketed their crop when prices 
were at low ebb. 

Spontaneous applause followed the 
detailed explanation of the market- 
ing operations and the financial con- 
dition of the Association by Earl C. 
Smith, chairman of the management 
board. Sentiment expressed from the 
floor revealed confidence of the mem- 
bers that their representatives had 
done their best to find outlets for 
the crop at favorable prices. 


We're Going To Stick 


Speaking for the larger growers of 
soybeans, Frank Garwod of Chris- 
tian county said: “My brother and I 
grow 700 acres of soybeans. We are 
satisfied that the Association did the 
best it could in getting us a fair 
price. We are going to stick to the 
organization.” 

“Lack of understanding is at the 
bottom of criticism of our market- 
ing association,” said L. A. Moore, 
another large grower of Christian 
county. “I am following men like 
Frank Garwood. I believe the big 
growers are for co-operative mar- 
keting.” 

In. his report to the members 
Manager W. H. Coultas stated that a 


‘statistical survey of market receipts 


showed that 85 per cent of 1931 
domestic soybeans had moved into 
the terminal markets by November 
20, and 65 per cent had left the farms 
by November 1. At that time, he said, 
country elevators were paying from 
19 to 22 cents for soybeans. Most un- 
organized growers sold at that price. 
A few who held their beans and sold 
later in the fall and winter secured 
a substantially higher price largely 
because of the European outlet for 
Uren resulting from the war be- 
t 


een China and Japan which closed _. 


anchurian ports. 
Last year the Association handled 


of Marketing Operations 


1,538,723 bushels of members’ soy- 
beans. Ninety-four per cent of the 
beans received by the Association 
graded No. 2 or better. Members re- 
ceived an average of 2534 cents per 
bushel net after all expenses were 
paid. The crop marketed through the 
Association brought an average price 


‘ of 32 cents a bushel. Approximately 


3% cents of this went to country 
elevators, two cents to liquidate long- 
term loans, and three-fourths of a 
cent for operating expenses. 


Exported First Cargo 


“Your Association exported the 
first shipment of soybeans to Eur- 
ope,” said Mr. Smith. “The first cargo 
of 50,000 bushels consigned to Ger- 
many was sold to net us 38 cents a 
bushel. This outlet was unforseen at 
the beginning of the marketing sea- 
son. It developed after most of our 
beans had moved into storage at 
Peoria.” 

Before this sale beans had been 
bringing around 20 cents a bushel. 
Immediately afterward the price at 
country points jumped to, 38 
cents. Much lower prices were secured 
for beans sold earlier to domestic 
processors. But as soon as the foreign 
outlet opened up the entire complex- 
ion of the market changed. 

In reviewing the operations of the 
Association since its organization 
Mr. Smith gave from memory details 
about sales and prices. He discussed 
frankly how the market on soybeans 
steadily declined two years ago 
after the Association announced its 
original advance of. $1 per bushel to 
the grower. While the organization in 
1930 expected around 700,000 bushels 
of soybeans, more than 1,125,000 
bushels were received. There is evi- 
dence that non-members delivered 
their beans in the name of members 
to the Association because they could 
get a better price. 

To protect. itself last year, the As- 
sociation entered into a profit-shar- 
ing agreement with processors under 
which the price received depended 
upon the market price of oil and 
meal. In the fall of 1931 the price of 
soybean products continued their 
downward course, oil bringing as low 
as 2% cents a pound and meal $16 
to $18 a ton. 

“T am pleased to announce here 
that we have contracted to sell all 
your.beans of the 1932 crop at a 
premium above the market based on 
monthly average prices. The grower 
was given the privilege of picking his 
own market. Some chose to sell in 
November or wait until spring while 


others decided to take the average 
pool price for the period. We propose 
to close the pool next year in April. 
Some members expect the Associa- 
tion to sell the entire crop at the 
top of the market. But no man or 
group of men are smart enough to 
do this,” said Mr. Smith. 


Answers The Critics 


S. S. Baughman, Christian county, 
who raised 170 acres of soybeans last 
year, charged that unfriendly coun- 
try elevators were a source of much 
opposition to the co-operative. ““When 
all other grains have been selling at 
the lowest prices that anyone can 
remember,” he said, “why is it that 
our enemies continually harp on soy- 
beans. Let’s give our Association 
credit for finding a foreign outlet 
for our crop at a good price. Sure 
the non-members got the benefit 
without paying a cent for it. And 
now some of those who held their 
beans and got the high price are go- 
ing around the country damning the 
Association. ' 

“Some of our members forget that 
two years ago the Association paid 
them a much higher price for beans 
than they could get elsewhere. I 
know because I held my beans until 


all the terminal storage space was 


filled. When I: harvested the price 
was around $1.25 a bushel, but I 
finally took 70 cents a bushel when 
the members of the Association got 


.$1 or more. You don’t hear from the 


fellows who got less than the Assoc- 
iation paid. All you hear about is . 
some fellow who cashed in on the 
fight made by the Association for a 
higher price. 


‘ Milnor Speaks 


George S. Milnor, manager of the 
Farmers National Grain Corp., went 
to the platform immediately upon 
his arrival from Chicago early in the 
afternoon. In introducing ‘him Mr. 
Smith said: “There has been no valid 
criticism of the Farmers National 
under his management. If farmers 
will stick to the leadership of men of . 
his type and not let propagandists 
lead them down blind alleys they will 
win.” 

Mr. Milnor: spent some time ans- 
wering critics of-the Farm Board 
and the National Grain Corporation. 
“Eighty-five per cent of this abuse,” 
he said, “comes from the grain trade; 
the other 15 per cent from other 
business groups who have some spe- 
cial privilege they wish to protect. I 

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To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was or- 
ganized namely, to promote, protect and represent the busi- 
ness, economic, political, and educational interests of the 
farmers of Illinois and the nation, and to develop agr:culiure. 


GEORGE THIEM, Editor 


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OFFICERS 
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Treasurer, R, A, Cowles..............ccccccececceecuns Butea Bloomington 
BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
(By Congressional District) 
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; | AS ne at igvete G, F. . Tullock, Rockford 
ME Sse 6 San caidcat had boc Ving EMO eC nalts eae OL eRe Cc. E, Bamborough, Polo 
BUA S Sao esile bose pe Sas gu ea sg eel U RCs beso Wels ec ahelnaed M, G, Lambert, Ferris 
MENA, ooo Secs war tog delete sia 0d alesis hinesbs GUE dia sig ete Charles Bates, Browning 
MM note Cg oa Oey teed 8 gee Reh ecsecdd as rere Geo, B. Muller, Washington 
ROIS ee tee ie ose Son eee bbs wise brace Lola's ave Cade e Ai ee A. B. Schofield, Paxton 
Mis 5 Fae eM a dey el eta aipoded OMe uleh bts eatekye W. A, Dennis, Paris 
RSS iy tay CAs Sete ds scbne ee bSel eee ke aS C. J. Gross, Atwood 
WO sai ek ceil Coca loud Cee yp vie ee ecoie @ gis tiwag Charles. 8. Black, Jacksonville 
“2let...... eens fA ts nGhelimin en eee Ee ee Samuel Sorrel s, Raymond 
MI a so Sosy cstoiss edie BWA ky ga TREES Ceo be pele Talmage Ke la Smithboro 
28rd..... HSER via a ae Me oe als alee « Fob be ae’ e aoe eb ame L, Cope, Salem 
MGS Bape Cio bs bee dfn ekt pe one ay, BOS 4. ea ee ai “biatshatl Belknap 
PED So ieiers isis ties vegetal rs ode keievasiscpeclentikwens ce ed Dietz, De Soto 
, DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS. 
COMDEOEE S ioF oen vais Scais Se wes deeb 6C Chel Conde eudec'e Cobae J. H,; Kelker 
Dairy Marketing Satie nee ee Soins we Pile ailieee kre SUE ok ICEL Ca wok J. B. Countiss - 
p SAO streets Soda Nie'ole pa poeccs cs cheng chee cokctee R, — a 
Fruit and Vegetabie Marketing he Fo preacanee pee evy etch el oactua nee W. Day 
Grain Marketing.............0...2 0.0 cc cece uvuuseees PEERING Falirnkopf 
EME ORWIROIOI i oipinicig. core ic es cba eal eate she ces geen dicecce btgeeek George. Thiem 
Insurance Service.................. ccc k ec eccecccctecuvenes Vv. Vaniman 
- legal Counsel..................... Hee ak ene er eat en ~ Kirkpatrick 
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1 ones pbs OO ie COE Tar eee eee ey pe ev eahew ay E Johnston 
Organization BG Gilead S Wish os. gacreg te Bene chee a gs Lote CE Ee: G, E, Metzger 
Produce Marketing..............: pie cS aie Face Beaten on toate F, A. Gougler 
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‘ ASSOCIATIATED ORGANIZATIONS ks 
Country Life Insurance Co,.................ceuces L, A, Williams, Mgr. 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co............ Vw ed bee SE J, H, Kelker, Mgr. 
. Illinois Agricultural Auditing Assn,................., F, E,. Ringham, Mgr, 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance ‘Co....... A, E, Richardson, Mgr. 
Tilinois Farm Supply Co,.......2..... cece ceeeceecees L., BR, Marchant, Mgr. 
Illinois Grain Corp,...... Chas, P. Cummings, Vice-Pres, and Sales Mer. 
Illinois Livestock Mark, Ass’n...Ray Miller, Mgr.; R. W. Grieser, Sales 
Illinois Produce Marketing Ass’n.......,............ F, A. Gougler, Mgr. 
Soybean Marketing Ass’n..........0....0.0.0--. cede W. H. Coultas, Mgr. 


|. A. A. Political Policy 


HE Board of Directors of the Illinois Agricul- 
[ tural Association meeting in Chicago Sept. 16 


authorized and directed that the Republican. 


and Democratic party planks on agriculture be pub- 
lished in the October issue of the RECORD with the 
following statement of policy: 

“History discloses that party pledges amount to 
little, except to the extent that leading candidates 
place their personal interpretation upon their party 
platforms, and in addition pledge their active sup- 
port and participation in putting into effect their 
understanding of party pledges. 

“The Illinois Agricultural Association urges all 
of its members and friends to carefully study these 
platform’ pledges (see page 9) of the respective 
parties and throughout the presidential campaign 
to follow closely the interpretation placed upon 
these platform pledges by the leading candidates of 
the respective parties. By so doing, farmers and 
all friends of farmers, and in addition all those who 


believe that the restoration of agriculture to a basis 


of prosperity is a first essential to the restoration 


October, 1932 


of prosperity in America, will be enabled to vote in- 
telligently and effectively on November 8th on what 
the Association believes to be the greatest issue con- 
fronting the American people at this time. 

“The Association has never engaged in partisan politics 
and is not now offering any advice of a partisan character. 
It does, however, urge its members and friends to join 
forces in support of the candidate who most clearly, defi- 
nitely and courageously deals in understanding terms and 
commitments on this all important issue and, by such join- 
ing of forces, to discharge not only their rights but their 
duties at the polls in the interest of genuine public wel- 
fare and the perpetuity of the principles of government as 
outlined by the founders of the Nation.” 


Chicago Comes A'Begging 
F ANY further reason or demonstration were 
needed to show Chicago’s unfitness to control the 


state through unlimited legislative reapportion- 
ment; that reason has been completely. demon- 


Strated in the present unemployment. relief 


dilemma. 
Unable to borrow money on its own credit, Chi- 
cago came to Springfield last year appealing to the 


sentiments and emotions of. the legislators to use’ 
the state’s credit to get a huge loan to provide for . 
her destitute people. Because of the nature of the . 


plea permission was granted and a loan of $18,750,- 
000 was obtained, more than $17,000,000 of which 
went to Cook county... 


That money is now spent aria the property owners © 


of Illinois are left holding the sack. pledged to pay 
it back in state taxes unless the emergency relief 
bond issue carries in November. 


Meanwhile the Emergency Relief Cotamissinn ; 
~ went to Washington and secured $14,000,000 more 


from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Of 


‘the first $9,000,000 granted, 82.8 per: cent was 


allocated to Cook county, only 13.9 per cent to 53 
downstate counties. 
This money is to be repaid with interest at thiree 


‘per cent either on such terms.and installments as 


the state and R. F. C. agree upon, or by annually 
deducting one-fifth of the state’s share of regular 
federal appropriations for highways, beginning in 
1935. 

More than likély, Illinois’ portion of the federal 
highway fund, which incidentally comes through 
the U. S. Department of Agriculture appropriation 
which Chicago newspapers and grain speculators 
have delighted in maligning, will pay the loan. . 

Further attempts have been made at Springfield 
to saddle a general sales tax on the peonle of the 
state to get additional unemployment relief funds, 
the lion’s share of which would go to Cook county. 
But for the organized efforts of Illinois farmers 
represented. by the I. A. A. and downstate repre- 
sentatives in the legislature, this proposal un- 
doubtedly would have gone through. And farmers 
would have paid a substantial part of the bill. 

The I. A. A. has insisted in conferences held at 
the state capital that each county care for its own, 
and that unemployment relief legislation be drafted 
following out this sound principle. This whole situa- 
tion emphasizes the necessity for constant organ- 
ized vigilance of farmers in guarding against tax 


raids and demands for legislation by groups bent on. 


securing special privileges for themselves at the 
expense of others. 


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Page Nine 


Republican Party Plank 
On Agriculture 


Farm distress in America has its 
root in the enormous expansion of 
agricultural production during the 
war, the deflation of 1919, 1920, and 
the dislocation of markets after the 
war. There followed, under Republi- 
can administrations, a long record 
of legislation in aid of the coop- 
erative organization of farmers and 
in providing farm credit. The posi- 
tion of agriculture was_gradually im- 
proved. In 1928 the Republican Party 
pledged further measures in: aid of 
agriculture, principally tariff protec- 


-tion for agricultural products and 


the creation of a Federal Farm 
Board “clothed with -the necessary 
power to promote the establishment 
of a farm marketing system of farm- 
er-owned and controlled stabiliza- 
tion corporations.” 

Almost the first official act of 
President Hoover was the calling of 
a special session of Congress ‘to: re- 
deem these party pledges. They have 
been redeemed. . 

Th 1930 Tariff Act. increased the 
rates on agricultural products by 


thirty per cent, upon. industrial 
‘products only 12 per cent. That act 
equalized, so far as legislation can 


‘do so, the protection afforded: the 


_ farmer with the protection afforded 
industry and prevented a vast flood © 


of cheap wool,-grain, livestock, dairy 
and other products from entering the 
American “market. 

By the Agricultural Marketing Act, 
the Federal Farm Board was created 
and armed with broad powers and 
ample funds. The object of that act, 
as stated in its preamble, was—“To 
promote the effective merchandising 
of agricultural commodities in in- 
terstate and foreign commerce so 
that ...°. agriculture will be placed 
on the basis of economic equality 
with other industries. . . . By ~en- 
couraging the organization of -pro- 
ducers into effective association un- 
der their own control ... and by pro- 
moting the establishment of a farm 
marketing system of producer-owned 


* and producer- -controlled cooperative 


associations.” 
The Federal Farm Board, created 


by the Agricultural Marketing — Act; - 


has been compelled to conduct its 
operations during a period in which 
all commodity prices, industrial as 
well as agricultural, have fallen to 
disastrous levels, a period of de- 
creasing demand and of national 
e«alamities such as drought and flood 


has intensified the problem of agri-. 


culture. Nevertheless, after only a lit- 


‘tle more than two years’ efforts the 


Federal Farm -Board has many 


achievements of merit to its credit. 
It has increased the membership of 


eooperative farm marketing associa- 
tions to coordinate efforts of the local 


associations. By cooperation with 
other Federal agencies, it has made 
available to farm marketing associa- 
tions a large value of credit, which, 
in the emergency, would not have 
otherwise been available. Larger 


quantities of farm products have 


been handled cooperatively than 
ever before in the history of the co- 
operative movement. Grain crops 
have been sold by the farmer through 
his association directly upon the 


world market: 


Due to the 1930 Tariff Act and the 
Agricultural Marketing Act, it can 
truthfully be stated that the prices 
received by the American farmer for 
his wheat, corn, rye, barley, oats, 
flaxseed, cattle, butter and many 


other products, cruelly low though’ 


received. by the farmers of 
peting nation for the same products. 
The Republican Party has also 


they are, are higher than FS prices 


. aided the American farmer by relief 


of the sufferers in the drought- 
stricken areas, through sore for re- 


-habilitation and through road build- 


ing to provide employment, by the 
development of the inland waterway 


system, by the Perishable Products 


Act, by the strengthening of the ex- 
tension system, and by the ap- 
propriation of $125,000,000 to re- 
capitalize the Federal.Land Banks 
and enable them to extend time to 
worthy borrowers. 


The Republican Party pledges it- 
self to the principle of assistance’ to 
cooperative marketing associations, 
owned and controlled by the farmers 
themselves, through the provisions 
of the Agricultural Marketing Act, 
which will be promptly amended or 
modified as experience shows to be 


necessary to accomplish the objects 


set forth in the preamble of that act. 
Tariff and the Marketing Act: 


The Party pledges itself to make 
such revision of tariff schedules as 
economic changes require to main- 
tain the parity of protection to agri- 
culture with other industry. 

The American farmer is entitled 
not only to tariff schedules on his 
products but to protection; from 
substitutes therefor. 

We will support any plan. which 
will. help to: balance production 
against demand, and thereby raise 
agricultural prices, provided it is eco- 
nomically sound, and. administra- 
tively workable without burdensome 
bureaucracy. 


The. burden of. taxation borne by 
the owners of farm lands constitutes 
one of the major problems. of agri- 
culture. President Hoover has aptly 
and truly said — ‘‘Taxes upon real 
property are easiest to enforce and 
are the least-flexible of all taxes. The 
tendency under pressure of need is to 
continue these taxes unchanged in 
times of depression, despite the de- 
crease in the owner’s income. De- 


y com-: 


Democratic Party Plank 
On Agriculture 


The Democratic party solemnly 
promises by appropriate action’ to 
put into effect the principles, policies 
and reforms herein advocated, and 
to eradicate the policies, methods 
and practices herein condemned.... 

We favor the restoration. of agri- 
culture, the nation’s basic industry, 
better financing of farm mortgages 
through reorganized farm bank 
agencies at low rates of interest, on 
an amortization plan, giving prefer- 
ence to credits for the redemption 
of farms and homes sold under fore- 
closure. 

Extension and development of the 
farm co-operative movement and 
effective control of crop surpluses so 
that our farmers may have the full 
benefit of the domestic market. 

The enactmént of every constitu- 
tional measufe that will aid the 
farmer to receive for, basic, farm com.- : 
modities _prices:in excess of cost. 


On ‘The Tariff: 

“We advocate a competitive tariff 
for revenue with a fact-finding tar- 
iff commission free. from executive . 
interferenée; reciprocal tariff agree- 
ments with other nations, and an in- 
ternational economic: conference e- 
signéd to restore international tr. de 
and facilitate exchange. | 


November RECORD Will | 
Carry Voting Records 


Voting records on important agri- 
cultural issues of members of the - 
last General Assembly many of 
whom are candidates for re-election 


November issue of the REcorp to be 


_.0n November 8 will be "hoon in the 


‘published and delivered to all mem- 


bers on the mailing list a week be- 
fere the election. ; 

This action was authorized by the 
Board of Directors at its regular 
meeting on September 16. 

The statement of policy of the As- 
sociation wherein it urges its mem- 
bers to vote for candidates who de- 
serve support because of their vot- 
ing records in behalf of agricultural 
policies also will be carried in this 
issue. 
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creasing price and. decreasing income 
result.in an increasing burden upon 
property owners... which is now be- 
coming almost unbearable. The tax 
burden upon real estate is wholly out 
of proportion to that. upon other 
forms of property and income. There 
is no farm relief more needed today 
than tax relief.” 

The time has come for a recon- 
sideration of our tax systems, Fed- 
eral, state and local, with a view to 
developing a better coordination, re- 

(Continued on page 18) 


SERVICE COMPANY 
MANAGERS 


Front Row Kneeling Left to Right 


Manager County 


Morris Crandall Wabash Valley 
R.T. Ferguson Henry 

H. B. Roodhouse Greene 

T. M. Livingston Madison 

J. L. Stormont  Mercer-Warren- 


Henderson 
Geo. Curtiss McLean 
J. G. Williams JoDaviess 


D. R. Smith Marshall-Putnam 
Paul Symmonds Hancock 

J. M. WinkleblackColes 

Wilmer Cornwell Adams 


R. G. Stewart Champaign 
C..H. Becker Shelby-Effingham 
H. G. Jackson Fruit Belt 
Third Row 
W. O. Wilson Jersey 
Allen McWard Monroe-Randolph 
M. H. Colson Menard 
F. A. Leach Kendall 
Leslie Lewis Will ; 
G. D. Ludwig Woodford 
H. W. Oleson Macon 
P. L. ‘Roberts Egyptian (Clay, 
Wayne, Marion 
Dale Wilson ” Schuyler 
C. L. Siehr Fulton 


“= ONE OF THE 135 OIL STORAGE STATIONS 
“i a from Which 385 Tank Trucks Serve Farm: Trade 


SERVICE COMPANY 
~” MANAGERS 


Second Row 
Manager County 
. Clyde Woolsey Tazewell 
Fred Pollock Peoria 
m. J. Scholl Winnebago 
Montgomery 
McDonough 
Kane 
y Knox 
. Bunting Iroquois 
. P. Langellier Edgar 
. H. Jewsbury Morgan 
. A. Rahn Carroll 
. G. Bonar Vermilion 
alker Thorp DeWitt 
arl Keniston Whiteside 
.B. Hunter Christian 
. L. Miles Rich-Law. 
. O. Grossmann St. Clair 
Back Row 
. J. Lanterman Logan 
. B. Jackson-W’mson. 
. B. Macoupin 
. D. Smith 
. A. 
.N. 
Bae Oe3 


SSSHOQNSRAL 


Lake-Cook 
Roberts DeKalb, Ogle, Mc- 
Henry, Boone 
Whitebread Lee ' 
Campbell Livingston 
ay Garber (Ex Mgr.) Fulton 
. W. Johnson Ford 

Absent 

M. H. Comisky LaSalle 
C. V. Kellal Stephenson 


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APPRRCIATION OF SERVICE AND QUALITY BY 75,000 
FARMER CUSTOMERS MADE THIS RECORD POSSIBLE 


A Train Load Every Other Day 


ILLINOIS FARM SUPPLY COMPANY 
608 S. Dearborn St. 


ChigshO <5 oe Illinois 


Page Twelve 


THE ITLA.A. 


RECORD 


‘Farmers Always Paid 
Costs of Marketing''—Huff 


“Much has been said in the public 
press about our salaries, as though 
for the first time growers were pay- 
ing the costs of marketing, includ- 
ing the providing of incomes for 
those who carry on marketing pro- 
cesses,” said President C. E. Huff of 
the Farmers National Grain Corp. 
in a recent address to stockholders. 

“As a matter of fact, growers have 
always paid all of the costs and sal- 
aries involved in the handling of 
grain and in addition have provided 
wealth for private dealers in their 
commodities. Boards of Trade and 
_ Exchanges have afforded the means 
for amassing fortunes for many of 
their members through tthe tolls 
levied upon agricultural producers, 
and they today defy the producer in 
his attempt to discontinue the tolls 
which he has always paid them, and 
to market his own grain at actual 
cost. ‘ 

“Palatial homes in the finest resi- 
dential sections of Chicago, and the 
massive Board of Trade building it- 
self, eloquently testify to the liberal- 
ity with which private grain dealers 
have treated themselves at the 
farmer’s expense. 

“Even now grain producers are 
providing higher salaries and earn- 
ings for many outside of the co-op- 
erative movement, through broker- 
age and commissions, than to any 
within it. 

“Yet only within the co-operative 
movement has money paid in salaries 
brought to the preducer any service 
directly in his own behalf. For the 
salaries which the Grain Corporation 
is paying, the grain growers of 
America are receiving devoted and 
intelligent service, and a foundation 
has been laid upon which the grain 
marketing structure of the future 
will be built.” 


Discuss Marketing At 
14th District Conference 


A conference of Farm Bureau 
leaders in the 14th congressional dis- 
trict was held at Stronghurst, Sept. 2. 
The meeting was called by I. A. A. 
director M. G. Lambert. 

Manager Charles P. Cummings ex- 
plained the operations of the Illi- 
nois Grain Corporation stating that 
the regional cooperative handled 
1,000,000 bushels a month during the 
first seven months of 1932, with an 
additional 1,300 cars or nearly 2,000,- 
000 bushels during August. 

This is the best record made by 
the co-operative since its organiza- 
tion two years ago. The Corporation 
will handle at least 14,000,000 to 15.- 
000,000 bushels by the end of the 
fiscal year. 

The grain marketing committee of 


The eat 4: CHICAGO BOARD OF 


ADE BUILDING 
“eloquently testifies to the liberality 
with which private grain dealers have 
treated themselves at the farmers’ ex- 
pense.” : 


the Hancock County Farm Bureau 
this year is giving particular atten- 
tion to the marketing of grain 
through the Illinois Grain Corpora- 
tion, stated Arthur Kraushaar, chair- 
man, of Warsaw. “It hopes to bring 
to the attention of the farmers of 
Hancock county the advantages of 
owning and controlling their own 
marketing machinery and sharing in 
its earnings.” 


Harrelson Goes With 
A. P. At Albany, N. Y. 


Max Harrelson, formerly assistant 
in the I. A. A. Department of In- 
formation, is now working as night 
editor for the Associated Press at 
Albany, N. Y. He began his new 
duties Sept. 15. 


Uncle Ab says never to correct any- 
body, even—or especially—a child, when 
other persons are present. 


October, 1932 


Forty-four out of 55 counties send- 
ing livestock to the St. Louis mar- 
ket have shown increases in the 
number of carloads sent to the Pro- 
ducers Commission: Association. Pike 
county ranked first with an increase 
of 53 carloads, Macoupin county sec- 
ond with 45, and Morgan | county 
third with 41. Other leading counties 
showing gains in shipments \to the 
Producers include Greene with an 
increase of 38 carloads, Madison with 
27, Sangamon with 26, Effingham 
with 25, Montgomery with 24, St. 
Clair with 22. 

The above figures represent gains 


in the second quarter of 1932 com- 


pared with the first quarter. 

Forty-two leading counties shipped 
1,349 carloads to the Producers in 
the first quarter, and 1,995 in the 
second quarter. 


More than $165,000 has been paid 
back to livestock growers in patron- 
age refunds by the Peoria Producers 
Commission Association. 


Ninety-two per cent of the live- 
stock received at the Peoria market 
comes in by truck. 


A total of 274 baby beef club calves 
sold at the fifth weekly calf club 
auction in Chicago averaged 914 lbs. 
and brought. an average price of 
$9.46 per cwt. Wilson Bros. paid $11, 
the top, for a 1070 lb. Hereford fed 
by 13 year old Dale Andrews of Ver- 
milion county. 


Look For Larger Runs 
Market Cattle In Winter 


After the present brief period of 
scarcity, supplies of cattle may be 
expected to increase whether viewed 
from either the short or long-time 
point of view, according to L. J. 
Norton of the State College of Agri- 
culture. 

His recent report states: 

(1) Cattle on farms have been in- 
creasing since 1928. Slaughter of 
cows has been decreasing 

(2) Supplies of grain fed cattle 
will be larger during the late fall 
and early winter -than in the cor- 
responding months of last year. 

(3) Prospects are for larger sup- 
plies of well-finished cattle during 
the soring and summer of 1933. 

(4) While there has been’ an im- 
provement in business sentiment in 
recent weeks business activity and 
money level of consumers is at prac- 
tically the lowest level of the de- 
pression. As one financial observer 
summarizes the situation: ‘“The 
panic is over; the depression is not.” 


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LAA. RECORD 


Page Thirteen 


Milk Producers Demand Justice 


A Radio Address by George Thiem, Director of Information, over Stations WHBF, Rock 
Island, and WOC-WHO, Davenport-Des Moines, Sept. |, 1932 


REPRESENT an organization of 

60,000 [Illinois farmers which, 
since 1919, has attempted among 
other things to assist producers of 
farm products in marketing their, 
commodities co-operatively. 

Our association is supported en- 
tirely by farmers. It was organized 
to represent and protect farm inter- 
ests in all public questions and prob- 
lems arising beyond ‘farmers line 
fences which they cannot solve work- 
ing alone. 

Long before the Agricultural Mar- 
keting Act and the Federal Farm 
Board were created, farmers in Illi- 
nois, Iowa, in fact in all sections of 
the United States, have attempted 
through organization to have a voice 
in the sale of their products, to gain 
some recognition from the buyers of 
farm commodities, to bargain col- 
lectively for a fair price. 

As a result of this effort in Illi- 
nois in the dairy marketing field, 
practically every major milk market 
in the state-is now operating under a 
plan by which the milk producers 
bargain collectively with the dairy 
distributors in arriving at a fair 
price for fluid milk. In many cases 
representatives of the consumers sit 
in at conferences and have a voice 
in questions affecting their interests 
because the supply, quality, and price 
of milk are vital to them. 


Purpose of Organization 


A little more than two years ago, 
the milk producers in the quad 
cities trade territory organized the 
Quality Milk Association. Its purpose 
is to place the dairymen on an equal 
footing with the milk distributors in 
the sale of milk, to promote impartial 
checking of weights and tests, to im- 
prove quality, to regulate produc- 
tion to consumer demand in Daven- 
port, Rock Island, Moline, and East 
Moline, in short, to create an orderly 
program for the marketing of this 
essential commodity which directly 
affects the health and well being of 
the people of the community. 

The Quality Milk Association has 
a membership of 850 Illinois and 
Iowa milk producers who furnish 
approximately 85 per cent of the 
fluid milk supply for the quad cities. - 
The Association, organized under the 
co-operative laws of Illinois as a non- 
profit organization, has held many 
conferences with the organized milk 
distributors here in an effort to in- 
itiate on this market a plan similar 
to that now in operation on all the 
major milk markets of the country— 
a plan that will insure a safe steady 


supply of high quality milk, a plan 
in which the consumer has a voice 
along with the producer and dis- 
tributor in questions affecting the 
market. 


The Quad City Milk Council was 
set up here more than a year ago 
with equal representation of pro- 
ducers, distributors, and consumers. 
Its chief function was to provide an 
impartial butterfat test on each 
producer’s milk. The milk testers 
were employed jointly by the council, 
thus every precaution was taken to 
insure a fair test. 


Only Five Remain 


In the beginning, 13 dealers oper- 
ating on this market co-operated in 
this fair and equitable plan. I am 
informed that eight of the member 
dealers subsequently dropped out 
until today only five are left, which 
represents only about 10 per cent of 
the dealers in the four cities. 

You may-ask why? Their chief 
complaint was that the milk testers, 
employed mind you, by a Board on 
which both producers and dealers 
were represented, gave the farmers 
too high a test. This is virtually an 
admission that many distributors 
previously had been short-changing 
the producers and wished to con- 
tinue the practice unhampered by 
impartial testing. 

In every line of industry except 
farming, the seller reserves the right 
to specify the quality of his product, 
to have something to say about the 
price, and to weigh the commodity 
out to the buyer. When the farmer 
seeks to establish this right for him- 
self, a right that every seller should 
have, no stone is left unturned by 
his enemies to thwart him in his 
efforts to achieve simple justice. 


But what do producers themselves 
say about their reasons for asking 
that the weights and tests of their 
milk be made by an impartial tester. 
F. P. Lawson and Son of Coal Valley 
in Rock Island County, milk a large 
herd of Brown Swiss cattle. This 
fine breed produces milk that in- 
variably averages 4 per cent or more 
butterfat. Mr. Lawson who until re- 
cently sold his milk to the Midvale 
Dairy, last month received a 3.5% 
test. The official tester for the Rock 
Island-Henry Cow Testing Associa- 
tion, of which Mr. Lawson is a mem- 
ber, tested a composite herd sample 
the same month and found that the 
milk from this herd tested 4.47%, a 
difference of more than nine points. 
This, and numerous cases like it, 


have all the appearance of being 
mighty shabby treatment of farmers. 


A $25.00 Loss 


The price of milk per hundred 
pounds is determined partly by its 
butterfat content. At present the 
price varies 4c per 100 lbs. of milk 
for every 1% variation of the but- 
terfat content from 3.5%. Thus milk 
testing 3.5 per cent brings $1.85 per 
cwt., whereas milk testing 44% 
should bring 36c per 100 lbs. more, 
or $2.21 per cwt. 

In this case it appears that the 
buyer, knowingly or unknowingly, 
shortchanged the producer (based on 
the records of the cow testing associa - 
tion) at least 36 cents per 100 lbs. 
On the 7,000 pounds of milk delivered 
during the month, this man lost 
more than $25.00, or rather had it 
taken from him, if the cow testing 
association records tell the truth. 
Let me say here that my previous 
experience in this field leads me to 
testify that the records of a com- 
petent cow testing association super-' 
visor are highly accurate and are 
accepted by authorities everywhere 
as authentic. 

No wonder producers have organ- 
ized. No wonder they wish to throw 
off the yoke of a system which 
denies them protection against the 
dishonest tendencies of buyers who 
are more interested in their own 
profits than in giving the farmer a 
square deal. 


An Iowa Farmer Speaks 


What do farmers themselves say 
about the situation here? Mr. Hugo 
W. Schaff, a producer in Scott Coun- 
ty, Iowa, said in answer to the ques- 
tion, “Why did you join the Quality 
Milk Association?” “ Because I be- 
lieve farmers will get a square deal, 
fair weights and tests for his milk, 
and a fair price, only through or- 
ganization, because I wasn’t getting 
a fair price for my so-called surplus 
milk; because farmers ought to have 
a voice in. this market which they 
work 365 days a year to supply.” 

Mr. Schaff produced a milk receipt 
from one of his neighbors, Elmer 
Kuhl of Davenport, showing that he 
netted only 15 cents per hundred 
pounds for his surplus milk—much 
less than its value by whatever 
standard . measured. 

There is no justice in this kind of 
a deal. Dairymen at best are under- 
paid for their hard labor in milking 
cows day in, day out, but when they 
are deliberately denied a fair test 


(Continued on page 15) 


Page Fourteen 


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October, 1932 


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a feeling of security.” 


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you low cost old line legal reserve insurance. 
Everyone should protect his property and 
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Quality Milk Ass'n 
Plant Now Operating 


The Quality Milk Association plant 
in Dayenport shown in the accom- 
panying picture was leased from the 
Cudahy Packing Co. It contains com- 
plete equipment for manufacturing 
butter, separating milk, pasteurizing 
and sterilizing milk and cream, and 
for caring for the finished product 
in cold storage. 

It is equipped with three large 
10,000. pound churns. F. J. Watson 
who has been employed as manager, 
formerly operated the plant for the 
Cudahy Company. He states that 
they have made as high as 10,000 
pounds of butter a day in the plant. 
The first week in September milk 
deliveries were exceeding 40,000 
pounds daily.. Sixteen large trucks 
were hauling in. All of these trucks 
are controlled by the Association. 

_ The Cudahy Packing Co. is under 
contract to market the butter for 
the Association up to 1,500,000 pounds 
a year. 

The milk of members on the Illi- 
nois side is being delivered to the 
Sturtevant Ice Cream Co. which 


F. J. WATSON is 
manager of the Quality Milk plant 
in Davenport. 


the efficient 


owns the finest dairy manufacturing 
and distributing plant in any-of the 
quad-cities. The Sturtevant Co. is 
co-operating heart and soul with the 


_ producers and has agreed to pay $1.85 


per cwt. for all the milk going into 
its fluid trade. It is taking the other 
milk at the surplus price. — 

The Sturtevant Co. is building up 
a retail and wholesale fluid milk 
and cream business, and on Septem- 
ber 8 reported that it was making 
deliveries to more than 60 stores, 
restaurants, and other dealers in the 
four cities. 

The Sturtevant Co. is using “Seal- 
right” fiber bottles. The fiber is 
coated with wax inside and out, is 
more sanitary than the glass bottles, 
and does away with the necessity of 
washing and returning the con- 
tainer. 


THE LA.A RECORD 


Page Fifteen 


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UNLOADING AT QUALITY MILK ASS’N PLANT IN DAVENPORT 
As we go to press, this co-operatively controlled plant is receiving nearly 50,000 
Ibs. of milk daily. The milk is separated, pasteurized, the cream churned into 
butter and the skim returned to the farm. Members received 22c per Ib. net for 
butterfat the first month of operation—nearly as much as the milk distributors 


paid them for whole milk. 


Milk Producers Demand Justice 
(Continued from page 13) 


and short changed on weights, when 
they are subjected to the dictation 
and domination of a monopoly of 
arrogant distributors who go so far 
as to foment strife and disorganiza- 
tion among producers struggling for 
a square deal, it is too much for 
those with any sense of fairness and 
justice to stand idly by without ut- 
tering a vigorous protest. 

The action which the newspapers 
have designated as a strike, came 
about primarily because of the 
dealers’ refusal to allow the pro- 
ducers to check their records and 
determine the percentage of milk go- 
ing into the fluid milk trade; and 
that portion known as the surplus 
used for making butter and other 
products. 


The Spread Too Wide 

On this market for some time, the 
dealers have been paying $1.85 per 
cwt. for so-called base milk—sup- 
posedly that portion or percentage 
sold as fluid milk, and a lesser price 
based on the butterfat market for 
the surplus or manufactured milk. 
The price on the latter class has 
been netting the farmeérs..about a 
cent a quart, that on the base milk 
approximately 4 cents a quart. On 
the average, about 50 percent of the 
farmers’ milk goes in the base class 
at $1.85 per cwt. and about 50 per- 
cent in the surplus class at 66 cents 
per cwt. Thus his entire supply 
averages after hauling charges, 
about 99 cents per cwt., or a little 
over 2 cents a quart, which any fair- 
minded person must admit is too 
wide a spread. The distributor sells 
this milk to the consumer at 10 cents 
per quart. The farmers contend that 
they should be allowed the privilege 
of checking the distributors’ records 
to determine the percentage sold in 


4 
the higher bracket and that sold as 
butter and other manufactured 
products. 

The distributors here have con- 
tended all along that they have 
been losing money on the surplus, 
that they didn’t want it. “All right,” 
said the producers, “we’ll acquire our 
own. plant and process our own sur- 
plus, and supply you with just 
enough milk at $1.85 per cwt., to take 
care of your fluid milk trade.” 

The dealers replied. that they 
couldn’t pay $1.85 per cwt. for milk 
for their fluid trade if they couldn’t 
get any surplus. Thus they virtually 
admitted deception, that they were 
not now paying $1.85 for the base 
milk and were in fact, hoodwinking 
the producers by diverting so-called 
surplus milk bought at a butterfat 
price, into their more lucrative 
fluid milk trade. 

The organized dairymen hold that 
they can process the surplus milk 
themselves into butter more eco- 
nomically than can the distributors 
and are willing to sell butter to the 


distributors for their retail require- 


ments at the Chicago market price. 


Then the dealers asked the farmers 
to agree not to go into business for 
themselves. This request the dairy- 
men refused, since such action may 
be necessary to provide a future 
market for their milk. 

The dealers asked the producers to 
give them protection from all price 
cutting, an absolute monopoly. Such 
a request is absurd. The distributors 
don’t have any such protection now 
nor will they ever have so long as 
the market is kept free and open to 
all comers. 

Finally they told the producers in 
their last conference that they had 

(Continued on Page 18 Col. 1) 


Page Sixteen THE LA.A RECORD October, 1932 


With You Out of the Picture... 
How Would They Get Along? 


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October, 1932 


THE LA.A RECORD 


Page Seventeen 


A Year of Progress 


Thirty-Five Million Gallons Petroleum Products Sets New Record For Illinois 


Farm Supply Co. 


By L. R. MARCHANT, Manager 


HE effort put forth to organize 


-—---§ the buying power of the Farm 


Bureau members in Illinois dur- 
ing the past six years has progressed 
to the point where fifty-two local 
companies are serving approximately 
75,000 farmer patrons with Illinois 
Farm Supply Company products. This 
marvelous growth in centralized pur- 
chasing of petroleum products and 
other essential farm supplies stands 
out as a splendid achievement in the 
light of present business conditions. 

The sixth fiscal year of the com- 
pany has established a new record 
for cooperative purchasing of petro- 
leum products. A number of new 
county service companies have been 
organized, the volume of business 
has been increased, and the net earn- 
ings of the State Company for the 
period actually exceed the previous 
high mark of 1931. This concentra- 
tion of buying power, together with 
the economies of distribution prac- 
ticed by the associated companies 
has resulted in an annual distribu- 
tion of over $500,000 to Farm Bureau 
member patrons. 


135 Oil Storage Plants 
The fifty-two affiliated companies 


- own and control 135 oil storage sta- 


tions with a combined storage ca- 


pacity of over five million gallons and. 


operate 385 service trucks in some 
eighty counties. Five of these com- 
panies were organized and placed 
in operation during the year, name- 
ly: Egyptian Service Company, Fruit 


Belt Service Company, Madison Serv- . 


ice Company, Twin County Service 
Company, and Vermilion Service 
Company. 

The capital stock investment of 
Illinois Farm Supply Company and 
associated companies totals $1,030,502 


- and of this amount $71,500 represents 


the stock requirements to finance 
the new companies. 

Thirty-five million gallons of pe- 
troleum products were handled dur- 
ing the period. This is a gain of 6.83 
per cent in comparison to the gal- 
lonage handled during the preced- 
ing year,—a most remarkable show- 
ing in view of a general decline of 
five to fifteen per cent in the con- 
sumption of petroleum products ac- 
cording to the most authentic infor- 
mation available to the industry. 
This total gallonage includes 23,704,- 
640 gallons of gasoline, 8,754,487 gal- 
lons of kerosene, 2,215,718 gallons of 
distillate and fuel oil, 876,796 gal- 
lons of lubricating oil, and 659,867 
pounds of grease. This gallonage is 
equivalent to 2,963 tank cars of gas- 
oline, 1,371 tank cars of kerosene and 
distillate, 292 cars of lubricating oil, 
and 33 cars of grease. 

These figures speak for themselves. 
They are convincing evidence that 
county service companies under 
proper management can not only 
maintain ‘but increase an established 


business under the most adverse con- 
ditions. ? 

The volume of miscellaneous nrod- 
ucts handled has made a notable in- 
crease, particularly such items as Fly 
Spray, Stock Dip, Mange Oil, Wood 
Preserver, Cod Liver Oil, Alcohol, 
and Radiator Glycerine. A tabulation 
of the fly and insect killer and fly 
spray shipments shows a gain of 34 
per cent for the period, which is the 
ag outstanding among the entire 

st. 

Two new products, automobile 
tires and Soyoil paint, introduced 
late in the year 1931, have developed 
into leaders among the miscellaneous 
products sold by a goodly number 
of companies. First line tires and 
tubes have been furnished under a 
double guarantee of service, to sell 
at popular prices. The response has 
been a steadily increasing volume 
of orders which would indicate a 
most promising future for this par- 
ticular service. 


Soyoil Paint Wins 


Soyoil paint, the pioneer paint to 
be placed on the market containing 
not less than 25 per cent of soybean 
oil, has commanded the attention of 
farmers throughout the state. Some 
twelve thousand gallons have been 
distributed within the course of a 
few months with very satisfactory 
results. Judging from the experience 
with this product up to date a very 
substantial increase in volume can be 
expected in another year. 

The business of the company for 
the fiscal period ending August 31 
totaled $1,852,571.78 at wholesale 


prices, exclusive of Federal and State - 


taxes. This figure is $100,000 more 
than the value of the merchandise 
purchased during the preceding year 
even though lower prices for most 
commodities prevailed throughout 
the period. 

The Net Worth of the company 
as of August 31, 1932 was represented 
bv a capital stock investment of $96,- 
002.00 and a Surplus of $60,370.40, 
which with reserves for dividends 
total $242,887.08. Of this amount 
$186,671.73 was invested in U. S. Se- 
curities, $3,750 in the National Corn 
Credit Corporation, and the balance 
used for current requirements of the 
business. The capital stock of the 
company includes 93414 shares of 
Preferred “A” stock, having a par 
value of $100 per share. This stock 
is held by the fifty-two member com- 
panies. These shares are subject to 
7 per cent cumulative dividends. The 
common stock outstanding consists 
of 52 shares, having a nominal value 
of $1 per share, which are held by 
the member companies and entitle 
them to participate in the patronage 
refund. 

The gross operating income for the 
year was $145,572.55, an increase of 
11.7 per cent over last year. Broker- 


age income of $110,318.47 was an ad- 
vance of 6.39 per cent, and the trad- 
ing income of $35,254.08 resulting 
from profits on purchases and sales, 
a gain of 32.37 per cent. 

A net operating income of $104,- 
273.97 with additional income of $9,- 
777.30 from interest and discounts 
earned, less deductions of discounts 
allowed and loss on sales of bonds, 
resulted in a net income of $107,916.- 
44 or 74.13 per cent of gross operat- 
ing income, before deduction for pat- 
ronage and Federal income tax, as 
compared with $100,811.41 for the 
preceding vear. On the basis of the 
vaid-in capital stock held by all 
member companies, the earnings 
represent a profit of 112.4 per cent 
on the investment. 

Capital stock dividends in the 
amount of $6,424.25 will be paid to 
the member companies. This amount 
represents 4.41 per cent of gross in- 
come, and the addition of $17,580.84 
to Surplus, 12.22 per cent of gross 
income. Approximately $80,000.00 in 
patronage refunds will be distributed 
to these member companies on a 
percentage basis of the brokerage 
earned and trading income on pur- 
chases and sales. This will result 
in a total of $86,514.68 being returned 
to the associated companies on the 
year’s business. 


Pay Stock With Refunds 


Forty-seven of the companies to 
participate in the distribution of 
earnings were in operation the full 
time and the remainder from three 
to nine months. All companies or- 
ganized prior to the calendar year 
1931 have made full payment for 
their subscriptions for capital stock 
in Illinois Farm Supply Company 
from the annual patronage refunds. 
The majority of the companies or- 
ganized in 1931 have earned suffi- 
cient patronage this year to entirely 
clear their notes covering subscrip- 
tions for stock. 

The total aggregate sum of $243,- 
737.01, or more than double the capi- 
tal stock investment, has been re- 
turned to the member companies in 
the form of Preferred Stock divi- 
dends and patronage refunds durin 
the past six years. This is an annua 
yield of 77.85 per cent on the invest- 
ment, according to the amount of 
stock invested in the company, and 
253.7 per cent returned on the basis 
of the total capital stock investment 
as of August 31, 1932. 

This progress and achievement is 
now a matter of cooperative history. 
The future is of far greater concern. 
The period of most rapid expansion 
from the standpoint of new com- 
panies is almost at an end. Further 
development and advancement must 
necessarily come through concentra- 
tion of effort in the territory already 
served. Economical and efficient 

(Continued on page 18) 


Page Eighteen 


Republican Party Plank on 
Agriculture 
(Continued from page 9) 


ducing duplication, and relieving un- 
just burdens. The Republican Party 
pledges itself to this end. 

More than all else, we point to the 
fact that, in the administration of 
executive departments, and in every 
plan of the President for the co- 
ordination of national effort and for 
strengthening our financial struc- 
ture, for expanding credit, for re- 
building the rural credit system and 
laying the foundations for better 
prices, the President has insisted up- 
on the interest of the American 
farmer. 

The fundamental problem . of 
American agriculture is the control 
of production to such volume as will 
balance supply with demand. In the 
solution of this problem the co- 
operative organization of farmers to 
plan production, and the tariff, to 
hold the home market for American 
farmers, are vital elements. A third 
element equally as vital is the con- 
trol of the acreage of land under 
cultivation, as an aid to the efforts 
of the farmer to balance production. 


We favor a national policy of land 
utilization which looks to national 
needs, such as the Administration 
has already begun to formulate. 
Such a policy must foster reorganiza- 
tion of taxing units in areas beset 
by tax delinquency, and divert lands 
that are submarginal for crop pro- 
duction to other uses. The national 
welfare plainly can be served by the 
acquisition of submarginal lands for 
watershed protection, grazing, for- 
estry, public parks, and game re- 
serves. We favor such acquisitions. 


Milk Producers 
(Continued prom page 15) 


no business organizing, that they 
would rather deal with them as in- 
dividuals. Yet the dealers them- 
selves have an organization to help 
them fix prices to consumer and 
producer alike. 


Process Own Surplus 


Rather than submit to such dic- 
tation, the members of the Quality 
Milk Association last Tuesday began 
to deliver their milk to their own 
plant. They still stand ready, how- 
ever, to supply the distributors with 
- their requirements for their fluid 
milk and cream trade at $1.85 per 
hundred lbs. which is only four cents 
a quart, but to process their own sur- 
plus milk rather than deliver it to 
the dealers at less than cost of pro- 
duction or less than a cent a quart. 

Recognizing the fairness of the 
farmers’ program for intelligent milk 
marketing on the quad cities mar- 
ket, one dealer, the Sturtevant Ice 
Cream Company, has agreed to co- 


THE 


ILA.A. RECORD 


operate in every way, and pay the 
producers the agreed price of $1.85 
per cwt. for all fluid milk and allow 
the dairymen the privilege of check- 
ing their sales records. 


More recently an effort was made 
by certain distributors through legal 
technicalities to break up the Quality 
Milk Association and scare its mem- 
bers into withdrawing. This action 
was based on the contention that 
the co-operative organization had 
not secured permission from the Sec- 
retary of State of Iowa to organize. 
As a result, a few members were in- 
fluenced to sign applications for 
withdrawal. The legal counsel for 
the Illinois Agricultural Association 
who set up the Quality Milk Associa- 
tion organized under the co-opera- 
tive laws of Illinois advised late last 
night that the member producers on 
the Iowa side had been misinformed; 
that because the Quality Milk As- 
sociation is a co-operative organiza- 
tion of farmers formed not for pe- 
cuniary profit, it is exempt from the 
state. blue sky law, and in Iowa as 
in Illinois, needs no special per- 
mission to organize. 

The organized dairymen here are 
going ahead in a peaceful way to 
work out their problem and become 
established ds a factor in the quad- 
cities milk market. They appeal to 
the consumers’ sense of fairness and 
justice to co-operate with them by 
buying milk only from dealers who 
are fair and honest in their rela- 
tions with producers. 


Soybean Growers Annual Meeting 
(Continued from page 7) 


want to say that the Farm Board 
has been conducted efficiently and 
economically. The real reason for 
opposition to it is the inroads co- 
operative marketing has made into 
the trade and profits of the private 
dealers. 


“Your organization, the Farmers 
National which is a true co-op- 
erative, farmer-owned and farmer- 
controlled, is the largest grain mar- 
keting firm in the United States. It 
is represented in all the producing 
centers of the United States and in 
all importing countries. It is the 
only firm doing business from coast 
to coast and from the Canadian line 
to the Gulf. 


Over $2,000,000 Profit 


“During the last two and one-half 
years it made a profit of over $2,- 
000,000 and paid as much or more 
than any other buyer. I know for a 
fact that you would not have secured 
as good a price for grain in the past 
two years were the Farmers National 
not in the picture. I also know that 
the $2,000,000 profits your organiza- 
tion made would have gone to the 
grain trade. You producers don’t 
make any extra contribution to pay 


October, 1932 


my salary and that of the other em- 
ployees of the Farmers National. 
That is paid out of the commissions 
which heretofore have gone to the 
grain trade. After paying all ex- 
penses and getting more for your 
grain that $2,000,000 is what was left 
and that belongs to you.” 

Milnor defended Mr. Huff, presi- 
dent of the Farmers National. “The 
only thing they could find against 
Mr. Huff is that some 20 years ago 
out in Oronoque, Kansas where he 
was farming they did not have a 
preacher at the local church. Mr. 
Huff was an educated man—self-edu- 
cated—and he took the pulpit and 
conducted church. He has been active 
in co-operative marketing for more 
than 20 years and during that time 
has been an active producer. 


“You hear people say that you 
can’t help the farmer by legislation. 
I used to think the same before I 
began studying the problem farmers 
are up against. But I know that in 
a country following a policy of spe- 
cial privilege to different groups 


through the tariff and immigration: 


laws and other laws that the only 
way you can solve the farm problem 
is through legislation.” 
Only one change was made in the 
board of directors. L. A. Reed was 
replaced by Everett Reynolds of 
Morgan county. Officers and direc- 
tors elected were J. W. Armstrong, 
Champaign county, president; 
Dwight Hart, Christian county, vice- 
president; W. G. McCormick, Doug- 
las county, secretary; R. A. Cowles, 
Bloomington, treasurer; John Al- 
bright, Moultrie county; W. G. San- 
dusky, Vermilion county; J. F. 
Probst, Macon county; Parks Ker- 
baugh, McLean county; A. M. Piatt, 
Piatt county; Edgar Boynton, Sang- 
amon county; T. H. Lloyd, Macoupin 
county; Sam Sorrells, Montgomery 
county; Burton E. King, Hancock 
county; Dan A. Smith, Shelby coun- 
ty; M: D. Tomlin, Mason county; and 
Everett Reynolds, Morgan county. 


A Year of Progress 
(Continued from page 17) 


methods of operation, coupled with 
a sound, aggressive sales program, 
will do much to bring this about, 
while unity of action in the purchas- 
ing of essential supplies will continue 
to bring to the associated companies 
the highest quality merchandise at 
a minimum cost and at the same 
time accrue substantial earnings for 
the State Company from which an- 
nual patronage refunds will be paid. 
This was the ultimate object of those 
who sponsored the movement six 
years ago. 


Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. 
Hyde addressed a _ gathering of 
farmers from central Illinois at 
Mackinaw Dells in Woodford county 
on Sept. 23. 


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NOVEMBER, 1932 


Editorial Offices, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. 
‘Illinois Agricultural Association Record, 


Volume 10 


Vote “Yes” On Bond Issue 


All Organizations Unite In Drive To Pass Measure In Nov. 8 Election 


ITH the slogan “Vote YES on 
the Bond Issue,” the state-wide 
Emergency Relief Bond Issue Com- 
mittee representing all important 
civic groups and trade organizations 
in Illinois swung into action last 
week in a united drive to insure vic- 
tory for this important measure in 
the election on Nov. 8. 
President Earl C. Smith, chairman 
of the state committee representing 


funds will contribute from _ their 
share of state gas tax funds toward 
repayment of the loan. 

No increase in the gas tax will 
follow. : 

But if the bond i issue fails to carry 
it means that at least 35 to 40 cents 
per $100 assessed valuation will be 
added next year to the usual tax 
rate for state purposes on real and 
personal property throughout Illi- 


nois. This extra tax will approxi- 
mately double the 1931 state tax rate 
of 39 cents. 

Failure of this proposal to carry 
will result in an extra tax on the 
average quarter section farm in Illi- 
nois next year estimated at $25. 

Failure of the measure will mean 
that Illinois farmers in 1933 will be 
required to pay approximately $5,- 
000,000 additional state taxes. Fail- 


agriculture, labor, bank- 
ing, business, women’s 
clubs, real estate, manu- 
facturing, newspapers, 
motorists, and others, fol- 
lowing a series of con- 


ferences, announced that . 


all groups are actively 
working in the campaign 
to get a majority vote. 
The Illinois Agricultural 
Association and County 
Farm Bureaus are assum- 
ing responsibility for se- 
curing an overwhelming 
favorable vote throughout 
downstate rural districts. 
In addition many County 
Farm Bureaus have called 
or will call county-wide 


’ meetings representing all 


local interests to co-ordi- 
nate efforts in behalf of 
the measure. 

While there is no organ- 
ized opposition to the 
measure, indifference and 
misunderstanding loom as 
the chief obstacles threat- 
ening its passage. 

If enough “YES” votes 
are secured it means that 
the $18,750,000 spent by 
the State Emergency Re- 
lief Committee for unem- 
ployment relief will be re- 
paid out of each county’s 
share of gas tax funds in 
proportion as state relief 
funds have been expend- 
ed in such counties. 

If enough “YES” votes 
are obtained it means 
that only counties which 
have used state relief 


What a "Yes" Vote Means 


The Illinois Agricultural Association and the 
County Farm Bureaus are charged with the re- 
sponsibility for securing an overwhelming “YES” 
vote in downstate counties on the bond issue No- 
vember 8. The passage of this proposal is of tre- 
mendous importance to farmers because they are 
all property owners and taxpayers. 

A “YES” vote on this measure will be a vote to throw 
off $5,000,000 on the farmers’ 1932 tax bill payable in 
1933. 

A “YES” vote is a vote to throw off at least $25 in 
taxes on the average quarter section Illinois farm. 

A “YES” vote will be a vote to transfer the burden 
of unemployment relief from property to each county’s 
share of the gas tax in proportion as relief funds have 
been expended therein—without any increase in the 
gas tax. 

A “YES” vote means that Cook county must pay its 
own unemployment relief bill of more than $17,000,000, 
or 91.4 per cent of the whole. 

A “YES” vote and passage of the bond issue insures 
that counties which received no part of the $18,750,000 
spent for unemployment relief will pay no part of this 
loan. 

Finally a “YES” vote is a vote for lower taxes—a 
vote for reducing the levy on all property next year 
$25,000,000. 

A “NO” vote or a failure to vote is, in effect, a vote 
to force this levy on property. 

A “YES” vote is urged by the following state- 
wide organizations: Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion, Illinois Association of Real Estate Boards, Iili- 
nois Bankers Association, Illinois Chamber of Com- 
merce, Illinois Emergency Relief Commission, Illi- 
nois Federation of Labor, Illinois Federation of 
Women’s Clubs, Illinois League of Women Voters, 
Illinois Manufacturers Association, Illinois Press As- 
sociation, Chicago Motor Club, and many other 
groups both state and local. 


ure means that an extra 
$25,000,000 will be levied 
against property in Illi- 
nois to insure the pay- 
ment of the $18,750,000 
spent by the Emergency 
Relief Committee, most of 
bapa went to Cook coun- 
y. 

To insure a favorable 
vote a uniform plan has 
been developed by the I. 
A. A. and the County 
Farm Bureaus to: 

1. Provide speakers’ bu- 
reau in each county 
with a group of men 
and women thorough- 
ly informed on the 
measure who can 
explain it in a few 


minutes before all 
meetings held before 
Nov. 8. 


2. Prepare a statement 
signed by the head of 
every organization in 
each county and give 
it publicity calling 
upon their members 
and the public at 
large to vote “YES” 
on this measure. 

3. Man the polls in 
every rural precinct, 
with the Farm Bu- 
reau using its town- 
ship and road dis- 
trict tax committees 
as workers at polling 
places. 

4, Create a county pub- 
licity committee to 
contact all newspa- 

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THE LAA RECORD 


November, 1932 


pers, radio stations, and other 
publicity mediums to impress on 
readers and listeners the im- 
portance of approving the bond 
issue. 

In Chicago and Cook county, civic 
leaders supported by all newspapers 
went into action the middle of Oc- 
tober making addresses before 


nois State Poultry Show at Kewanee 
November 9 to 13. 

The waterfowl show is being held 
during the week of the National Corn 
Husking Contest. A special waterfowl 
judge will judge all entries. Many cash 
premiums, club specials and badges, 
and silver trophies are offered. 

Competition is open to anyone. 


l. A. A. Statement On 
Gateway Amendment 


In answer to numerous inquiries 
about the so-called Gateway amend- 
ment, proposing to modify the 
amending article of the State Con- 
stitution, and submitted for vote on 


luncheon clubs, trade as- 
sociations, and neighbor- 
hood, civic and business 
organizations. Fred Sar- 
gent, president of the C. 
& N. W. R. R., is chairman 
of the committee pledged 
to secure a favorable vote 
in Cook county. 

An effort is being made 
to schedule speakers on 
all the radio stations in 
Chicago and St. Louis to 
urge every Illinois citizen 
to vote “YES” on the bond 
issue November 8. 

Reports from County 
Farm Bureaus reveal that 
much work has been done 
during the past month. 

“The Farm Bureau has 
sponsored the cause at 
community meetings and 
if there is not a 100 per 
cent vote in favor of this 
proposition in St. Clair 
county it will be because 
there are more dumb folks 
here than we realize,” 
wrote B. W. Tillman, 
county agricultural agent. 
“Every organization in St. 
Clair county has endorsed 
the bond issue and urge 
the citizens to vote in its 
favor at the election. We 
shall continue our efforts 
along every reasonable 
line to foster a favorable 
vote on this proposition.” 

In Whiteside county the 
Farm Bureau sponsored a 
county-wide meeting rep- 
resenting all civic, busi- 
ness, and trade organiza- 
tions at Morrison on Oc- 
tober 20. Plans were laid 
to have at least six work- 
ers at each polling place 
in all towns and cities as 
well as rural districts in 
the counties on Novem- 
ber 8. It will be their sole 
duty to see that every 
man and woman votes 
“YES” on this measure. 

Similar meetings have 
been or will be held and 
definite plans adopted 
throughout the downstate 
counties for the purpose 


Vote To Re-elect. Them 


The greatest economic battle fought on 
the floors of the General Assembly in recent 
years was waged last spring over the pas- 
sage of the State Income Tax and the use of all 
revenue derived therefrom to reduce taxes upon 
property. 

On one side were the home and property 
owners of Illinois, commonly 
known as the property tax- 
payers. On the other side was 
a relatively small but influen- 
tial group enjoying large in- 
comes comparatively free from 
taxation as a result of con- 
stitutional 
legislation in behalf of special 
privileged classes. The home 
and property owners won this 
battle in the Senate by three 
votes, and in the House by a 
margin of one. 

The next General Assembly will have before 
it other far-reaching and effective legislation 
having for its purpose more equal distribution 
of the tax burden. To a large extent, the result 
of future efforts of this character will be de- 
termined by the voters in the election of mem- 
bers to the General Assembly on November 8th. 

The voting record of members of the Gen- 
eral Assembly on the Income Tax is presented 
on page 5. We urge all members and friends of 
the Association to carefully review this voting 
record and to put forth every effort to secure 
the reelection to the General Assembly of all 
present members seeking reelection, who by 
their favorable votes on this important measure 
have been tried and found worthy of this sup- 
port. 

By so doing, the property owners of Illinois 
will not only be repaying, in part, what they owe 
to their representatives, but will be laying an 
effective groundwork for future constructive 
legislation now in the making. 

The time has arrived when the thinking voters 
of the State must lay aside party prejudices, or 
at least make them secondary to the economic 
interests of the people at large. 


President 


EARL C, SMITH 


restrictions and . 


November 8, 1932, the IIli- 
nois Agricultural Associa- 
tion offers the following 
information: 

The only modification 
proposed is to change the 
word one to three in the 
amending article so as to 
permit the legislature in 
any biennial session to 
submit amendments to 
three articles of the Con- 
stitution instead of one, 
as at present. 

The Association is tak- 
ing no position on this 
proposed amendment, for 
the reason that such ac- 
tion, regardless of wheth- 
er for or against it, would 
tend to divert attention 
from the far more im- 
portant State relief bond 
issue. The submission of 
changes in two or three 
articles, instead of one, 
would probably not make 
it easier to secure the re- 
quired majority of all 
votes cast in any election. 


. It has usually been this 


requirement that has de- 
feated every constitution- 
al amendment submitted 
in the last 24 years. 
The constitutional] 
amendment is of little 
importance compared 
with the proposed State 
relief bond issue to pay 
State anticipation tax 
notes. Unless the bond is- 
sue is approved, another 
State tax, in addition to 
the usual State taxes, 
must be levied on all prop- 
erty. The constitutional 
amendment and the bond 
issue should not be con- 
fused. The constitutional 
amendment will be print- 
ed on the main ballot 
containing the names of 
candidates for the various 
national, state and coun- 
ty offices. The State bond 
issue--will be printed on a 
small ballot by itself. 
The Illinois Agricultural 
Association urges that its 
members and other down 


of securing a favorable decision. 


Waterfowl Show 
At Kewanee Nov. 9 
The third annual Illinois State 


Waterfowl Exposition will be held in 
connection with the 40tk annual IIlli- 


Past records include the largest Pe- 
kin and Rouen duck classes and the 
second largest Toulouse goose class 
ever exhibited in the world with en- 
tries from six states. Prospective ex- 
hibitors of ducks and geese should 
write the secretary, Ruth M. Adams, 
Alexander, Illinois, for catalog. 


state people concentrate their effort 
to secure approval of the State bond 
issue on the small ballot. 


Uncle Ab says he does not know 
anything that is good just because it 
is old, even though some old things 
are good. 


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Page Five 


HOW SENATORS, REPRESENTATIVES VOTED ON INCOME TAX 


In the Special Session of the Fifty-Seventh General Assembly 


District & Counties 


7th District (rural and 
suburban Cook county and 
part of City of Chicago) 

Sen. Huebsch 

Rep. Foster 

Rep. Ickes 

Rep. McGrath 
8th District (Boone, Lake 
and McHenry) 

Sen. Paddock 

Rep. Bolger 

Rep. Carroll 

Rep. Lyons 
10th District (Ogle and 
Winnebago) 

Sen. Baker 

Rep. Green 

Rep. Hunter 

Rep. Nyman* 
12th District (Carroll, Jo 
Daviess and Stephenson) 

Sen. Meyers 

Rep. Acker 

Rep. Babb 

Rep. Franz 
14th District (Kane and 
Kendall) 

Sen. Kessinger 

Rep. McCarthy 

Rep. Peffers 

Rep. Petit 
16th District (Livingston, 
Marshall, Putnam and 
Woodford) ~ 

Sen. Lantz 

Rep. Bestold 

Rep. Fahy 

Rep. Turner 
18th District (Peoria) 

Sen. Michel 

Rep. Crowley 

Rep. Jobst 

Rep. McClugage 
20th District (Grundy, 
Iroquois and Kankakee) 

Sen. Meents 

Rep. Bratton x 
* Rep. Burns 

Rep. Wilson x 
22nd District (Edgar and 
Vermilion) 


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Sen. Bailey 

Rep. Breen x 
Rep. Edwards* 

Rep. Luckey x 


24th District (Champaign, 
Moultrie and Piatt) 
Sen. Dunlap 


Rep. Black x 


Rep. Gilmore 

Rep. Little x 
26th District (Ford and 
McLean) 

Sen. Bohrer 


x 
Rep. Childers x 
x: 


Rep. Johnson 
Rep. Kane 
28th District (DeWitt, 


*Absent on account of illness and so notified representatives of Association. 


For Against District & Counties 


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Logan and Macon) 

Sen. Lee 

Rep. Chynoweth 

Rep. Doyle 

Rep. Worth 
30th District (Brown, Cass, 
Mason, Menard, Schuyler 
and Tazewell) — 

Sen. Mills 

Rep. Lohmann 

Rep. Teel 

Rep. Tice 
32nd_ District (Hancock, 
McDonough and Warren) 

Sen. Hanna 

Rep. Barnes 

Rep. Davidson 

Rep. Robbins 
33rd District (Henderson, 
Mercer and Rock Island) 

Sen. Carlson 

Rep. McCaskrin 

Rep. Searle 

Rep. Sinnett 
34th District (Clark, Coles 
and Douglas) 

Sen. Hamilton 

Rep. Brewster 

Rep. Handy 

Rep. Lewis, J. W. 
35th’ District (DeKalb, Lee 
and Whiteside) 

Sen. Wright 

Rep. Allen 

Rep. Collins 

Rep. Devine 
36th District (Adams, Cal- 
houn, Pike and Scott) 

Sen. Adair 

Rep. Bush 

Rep. Scarborough 

Rep. Sullivan* 
37th District (Bureau, 
Henry and Stark) 

Sen. Gunning 

Rep. Jackson 

Rep. Rennick 

Rep. Wilson, R. J. 
38th District (Greene, Jer-, 
sey, Macoupin and Mont- 
gomery) 

Sen. Cuthbertson 

Rep. Bray 

Rep. Snell 

Rep. Whiteley 
39th District (LaSalle) 

Sen. Mason 

Rep. Benson 

Rep. Conerton 

Rep. Soderstrom 
40th District (Christian, 
Cumberland, its and 
Shelby) 

Sen. Smith 

Rep. Corzine 

Rep. Roe 

Rep. Sparks 
41st District (DuPage and 


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present but because of car trouble arrived too late to vote. 
In addition to the above, Sen. Roberts and Rep. Blackwell of Chicago voted for pas Income Tax Bill, being 
the first two votes ever cast from Chicago for this legislation. 


For Against District & Counties 


For Against 
Will) 
Sen. Barr x 
Rep. Buck x 
Rep. Hennebry x 
Rep. Walker x 


42nd District (Clay, Clin- 
ton, Effingham & Marion) 

Sen. Finn x 

Rep. Branson x 

Rep. Lager x 

Rep. McMackin x 
43rd District (Fulton and 
Knox) 

Sen. Ewing x 

Rep. Hawkinson x 

Rep. McClure x 

Rep. Mureen x 
44th District (Jackson, 
Monroe, Perry, Randolph 
and Washington) 

Sen. Wilson 

Rep. Davis 

Rep. Kribs 

Rep. Waller 
45th District (Morgan and 
Sangamon) 

Sen. Searcy 

Rep. Giffin 

Rep. Lawler 

Rep. Sullivan 
46th District (Jasper, Jef- 
ferson, Richland, Wayne) 

Sen. McCauley 

Rep. Kuechler 

Rep. Parker 

Rep. Thompson, F. G. 
47th Dist. (Bond, Madison) 

Sen. Monroe 

Rep. Malloy 

Rep. O’Neill 

Rep. Vaughan 
48th District (Crawford, 
Edwards, Gallatin, Har- 
din, Lawrence, Wabash 
and White) 

Sen. Miles x 

Rep. Lewis, F. W. x 

Rep. Ryan (deceased) 

Rep. Thompson, J. R. X 
49th District (St. Clair) 

Sen. Kline 

Rep. Borders x 

Rep. Holten 

Rep. Huschle 
50th District (Alexander, 
Franklin, Pulaski, Union 
and Williamson) 

Sen. Felts (deceased) 

Rep. Browner 

Rep. Kimbro 

Rep. Wilson, A. 
51st District (Hamilton, 
Johnson, Massac, Pope and 
Saline) 

Sen. Thompson 

Rep. Porter 

Rep. Rew 

Rep. Rush 


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As we go to press, the crack Farm 
Bureau nines from Livingston and 
McDonough counties are scheduled 
to play the final game of the state 
championship series at Peoria (3-I 
League diamond) on Oct. 22. 

McDonough won the state title two 
years ago, and Livingston took the 
flag last year. The two teams are 
evenly matched, and judging from 
the outcome of the first two games 
which were evenly divided, the team 
that is nearest “right” on the final 
day will win the championship. 

After winning the first game 
played at Macomb by the one-sided 
score of 11 to 4—the game was much 
closer than the score indicates—the 
McDonough county boys drove over 
to Wing the following Saturday 
where the Livingston team gave 
them a severe drubbing, score 10 to 2. 

In the opening game of the series 
at Macomb on Oct. 8 McDonough 
started out in high gear driving in 
four runs the first inning. Living- 
ston came back in the fourth to tie 
the score at four all. But McDon- 
ough came up in the fifth and started 
a batting spree that netted five more 
counters. Then Arntzen, McDonough 
hurler, settled down and held the 
opposition scoreless the rest of the 
way. 

In the game at Wing, fragmentary 
reports credit Livingston with 13 hits 
against McDonough’s nine. Both 
teams made two errors. The 1932 
state champions will be awarded a 
trophy presented annually by the 
Illinois Agricultural Association. 


No Vote Recorded On 
Price-Raising Bills 


Many members of the Association 
have been making inquiries as to the 
attitude of their representatives in 
Congress on agricultural measures 
having for their purpose a raise in 
the price levels of farm commodities. 

The Association’s policy confines 
all pronouncements of this char- 
acter to the voting records of mem- 
bers of legislative bodies. 

The Rainey-Norbeck price raising 
bill did not come to a vote in the 
House, therefore, there is no voting 
record. It is only fair to all down- 
state Illinois Congressmen to say 
that in each case they had given 
their definite assurance of active 
support, if and when this legislation 
could be brought to a vote. 

Although the Norbeck bill passed 
the Senate, the record shows there 
was no roll call, it having passed by 
an Aye and Nay vote. 


THE LAA. RECORD 


Domestic Allotment 
Plan Principles 


Fits Specifications Presented By 
Gov. Roosevelt In Topeka 
Speech 


The domestic allotment plan in 
which considerable interest has been 
expressed both by farm and business 
leaders was first suggested, accord- 
ing to reports, by the late Dr. Walter 
J. Spillman of the U. S. Department 
of Agriculture, and developed by 
Professor John D. Black of Harvard 
University, and Prof. N. L. Wilson 
of the Montana State College. 


In April this year a committee was 
set up to draft a bill embodying the 
plan to be presented to Congress, 
reports the Business Week. That 
committee was composed of Mr. Wil- 
son, Henry I. Harriman, president of 
the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, R. 
R. Rogers of the Prudential Life In- 
surance Co., Louis S. Clarke of 
Omaha, president of the Mortgage 
Bankers Association of Nebraska, 
Henry Wallace, editor of Wallace’s 
Farmer, and W. R. Ronald, editor of 
the Evening Republican of Mitchell, 
South Dakota. 

The Rainey-Norbeck bill intro- 
duced in both houses of Congress 
late during the last session embodied 
the principal features of this plan 
which briefly is as follows:— 

Each farm producing wheat, cot- 
ton, hogs, tobacco, or rice is to be 
allotted each year, or at shorter in- 
tervals for hogs, a definite produc- 
tion allowance based upon the aver- 
age production of that product on 
that farm over the past five years. 

The total allotments for each prod- 
uct are to be determined for each 
state by the federal government on 
the basis of the Department of Ag- 
riculture figures showing average 
acreage during the preceding five 
years and average yield per acre for 
crops during the preceding 10 years. 
Each state would similarly determine 
the total allotment for counties 
through a state commission, and 


each county or township could set. 


up a voluntary board of farmers to 
determine allotments to individual 
farms. 

The plan would be put into effect 
only when at least 60 per cent of 
producers of the product by refer- 
endum agree to abide by it and sign 
contracts with the government. 
These contracts would stipulate that 
the farmer must not produce more 
than the allotted amount and must 
agree to reduce his production ac- 
cording to instructions issued by the 
Federal Farm Board or _ similar 
agency. 

In return for this agreement, the 
producer would be paid by the gov- 
ernment an amount equal to the 
tariff on the product for each unit 
domestically consumed. This would 


November, 1932 


amount to 42 cents per bushel for 
wheat, five cents per pound for cot- 
ton, two cents per pound for hogs. 
five cents per pound for tobacco, 
and one-half cent per pound for 
rice, these being the crops with a 
surplus for export to which alone 
the plan would be applied, since 
other products already receive the 
benefit of increased price through 
tariff. The proportion of the crop 
required for domestic consumption 
would be determined by the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture each year. These 
payments would be made in addition 
to the regular market price received 
by the farmer. 

The money to pay this subsidy to 
farmers agreeing to control produc- 
tion would be raised by a federal 
excise tax levied on processors or 
distributors of the product, and also 
on substitute products like silk and 
rayon. No tax would be levied on 
products exported, or on feed or 
products which are consumed on the 
farm. 

The plan meets the specifications 
presented by Governor Roosevelt, re- 
ports Business Week, because it pro- 
vides for the producer of surplus 
staple commodities a tariff benefit 
over world prices which would con- 
ceivably be equivalent to the bene- 
fit given by the tariff to industrial 
producers, and does not stimulate 
further production. 

It finances itself and does not 
draw on the public treasury. It does 
not involve any mechanism for 
dumping products abroad so as to 
cause European retaliation. It makes 
use of existing agencies, and is so 
decentralized that the chief respon- 
sibility for its operation rests with 
the local interests rather than with 
any new created bureaucratic ma- 
chinery. It operates on a co-op- 
erative basis and can be altered or 
withdrawn as conditions change. It 
is wholly voluntary. 


Farm Wages Are Now 
Below Pre-War Period 


Farm wages are the lowest in 
thirty years. Wages range from 60 
cents a day without board in South 
Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi, to 
$2.50 a day in Massachusetts, the 
average for the country being $1.19 
a day. 

The farm wage index computed 
by the Bureau of Agricultural Eco- 
nomics was 84 per cent of pre-war, 
on October 1, a decline of 3 points 
since July 1. 


The yield per acre of corn this 
year for Illinois will average around 
40 bushels, according to October 1 
returns from state crop correspond- 
ents. This is the highest since the 
1925 record yield of 42 bushels. The 
yield per acre of soybeans is reported 
the best in years. 


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l. A. A. States Policy 
On Relief Legislation 


Legislative representatives of the 
Mlinois Agricultural Association, who 
have been on the job in Springfield 
since the opening of the present spe- 
cial session of the General Assembly 
now considering unemployment re- 
lief, are holding to the principle that 

ach county should be responsible 
or raising and expending its own 
funds to relieve its destitute people. 

“The one danger we must avoid in 
all unemployment relief legislation is 
waste and extravagance of the tax- 
payers’ money,” said President Earl 
C. Smith, in a recent statement. “If 
relief funds are raised and spent lo- 
cally there will be less waste and less 
danger of perpetuating a dole system 
with all its attending evils. 

“We must prevent the development 
of a situation in which counties are 
forced into competition to get their 
share of unemployment relief funds,” 
he said. “Neither the federal nor 
state governments can afford any 
longer to be Santa Claus to any coun- 
ty.or relief organization. The farther 
away from home the money is raised, 
the more likely it is to be misspent.” 

If further funds must be provided 
the I. A. A. favors legislation to per- 
mit Cook county, and if absolutely 
necessary, other counties, by a two- 
thirds vote of the county board, to 
levy a two per cent tax on all retail 
sales except foods for human con- 


sumption, in providing funds for the - 


relief of their own destitute citizens. 


The Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion regards as undesirable any 
further diversion of the county’s 
share of gasoline tax funds for re- 
lief purposes. However, it did not 
oppose the measure recently passed 
by the legislature which allows coun- 
ties by vote of their respective boards 
to divert their share of gas tax money 


-to unemployment relief. 


It is doubtful if any further legis- 
lation of a relief nature will be pro- 
posed until after the election. Legis- 
lative representatives of the I. A. A. 
will be at Springfield if and when 
the General Assembly convenes 
again. 


Sen. Frazier Addresses 
Hoosier Farmers Nov. 16 


Senator Lynn J. Frazier of North 
Dakota will be the principal speaker 
at the annual convention of the In- 
diana Farm Bureau on November 16 
at Indianapolis. 

Senator Frazier’s bill to refinance 
farm mortgages at a low rate of in- 
terest through federal aid is expected 
to be one of the important measures 
before the next Congress. 


THE LAA. RECORD 


Credit Unions Now 
Operate In Indiana 


Credit unions are now operating in 
20 Indiana counties. Only producers 
of farm commodities are eligible to 
membership and only members are 
entitled to loaning privileges. Mem- 
bers subscribe for one or more shares 
at $5 each, constituting the deposits, 
and borrowings have ranged from $25 
to $400. \ 

“A growing interest is shown in 
the new movement among farmers 
because of the immediate accessibil- 
ity to small loans with which to fi- 
nance payments of taxes, crop and 
livestock production and other needs 
of the family at a time when the 
farm income is at low ebb and other 
local credit facilities not in position 
to serve the farmer,” says C. H. La- 
Selle, director of the credit union 
division, Indiana Farm Bureau Co- 
operative Association, Indianapolis. 

Each credit union is strictly a co- 
operative organization operated sole- 
ly for its members. The state bank- 
ing department maintains supervi- 
sion for the protection of members 
and depositors, but the primary pur- 
pose is to serve rather than make 
large profits. At the end of the fiscal 
year, the earnings, excepting some 
for a reserve fund, are returned to 
the members in the form of divi- 
dends or interest. A nominal inter- 
est charge is made to borrowers. 

Farm credit unions are now operat- 
ing at Greenfield, Wabash, Albion, 
Huntingburg, Goshen, Huntington, 
Columbia City, Greencastle, Evans- 
ville, Frankfort, Nob'esville, Sullivan, 
LaGrange, Angola, Auburn, Plymouth, 
Rochester, Kokomo, Seymour and 
Crown Point. 


R. F. C. Prepares To 
Export Farm Products 


The Reconstruction Finance Cor- 


poration, according to reports, is at 
last setting up an export division 
for the express purpose of moving 
farm surpluses into foreign countries 
which can buy only on a long-t’'me 
credit basis. Provision for this action 
was made in the act amending the 
original R. F. C. measure, passed in 
the last session of Congress 

One of the first projects will prob- 
ably be the exportation of large 
quantities of wheat to China. This 
news is of special interest to wheat 
growers in the northwest, reports the 
Farmers National Grain Corporation. 
A good wheat crop in that area this 
year has resulted in a large export- 
able surplus and since growers on 
the Pacific coast depend to a con- 
siderable extent on Oriental markets 
they are hopeful that the credit ar- 
rangement can be made. 

In this hope, however, grain 
growers do not seem to have the sup- 
port of the private grain trade on 
the coast which complains that the 


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Talks on the Emergency Relief 
Bond Issue which will be voted upon 
November 8 will be made on Chicago 
radio stations the week preceding the 
election. Stations WLS, WJJD, and 
WMAQ particularly are expecting to 
schedule speakers on this important 
measure. 


The Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion is providing a speaker for 
Farmer Rusk’s radio program each 
Thursday night at 8:15 P. M. from 
station WJJD, Chicago. 

The crop allotment plan and the 
possibilities in acreage reduction as 
a way to higher farm prices were 
discussed by George Thiem, director 
of information, the night of October 
13. G. W. Baxter of the Transporta- 
tion Department discussed the mixed 
livestock rule and other utility prob- 
lems October 20. J. H. Kelker was 
scheduled to speak on farm fire pre- 
vention the night of October 27. 

Station WJJD is seeking to get the 
farm organizations and co-operatives 
with headquarters in Chicago to 
sponsor a 15-minute program each 
evening at 8:15. In addition time 
will be allotted on the noon-hour 
farm service program from 12:30 to 
1:00. 

Station KMOX, St. Louis is broad- 
casting agricultural talks regularly 
during its noon farm service hour. 
Talmage DeFrees, president of the 
Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange and 
director from the 22nd district on the 
I. A. A. board, spoke over station 
KMOX on October 25, 12:45 P. M., 
subject “The Farmer’s Future.” The 
Department of Information has of- 
fered to co-operate in scheduling a 
series of farm speakers from this 
station during the fall and winter 
months. 


Country Life Insurance Company 
will broadcast a half-hour jubilee 
program over station WLS, Chicago, 
8:30 to 9:00 P. M. the night of Sat- 
urday, December 10. This program 
will be broadcast in connection with 
the county Country Life queen con- 
tests to be held over the state that 
evening. Radio hook-ups will be 
made so that those who attend the 
various celebrations may hear the 
broadcast. The broadcast will wind 
up an “Achievement” drive among 
the Country Life agents. 


former sale to China put local wheat 


prices so high that they were unable 
to sell wheat to the rest of the world 
and therefore are losing commis- 
sions. In other words the private 
handlers of grain preferred lower 
prices that they may make sales 
more readily. They are interested 
only in the commission. 


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a@pcour inks PN to. I 


To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was or- 
ganized namely, to promote, protect and represent the busi- 
ness, economic, political and educational interests of the 
Jarmers of Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 


GEORGE THIEM, Editor 


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Study Candidates’ Statements 


N THE October issue of the I. A. A. REcorp, there 
were printed the agricultural planks of the 
Democratic and Republican platforms, also a 
statement of the I. A. A.’s political policy as follows: 

“History discloses that party pledges amount 
to little, except to the extent that leading can- 
didates place their personal interpretation up- 
on their party platforms, and in addition pledge 
their active support and participation in put- 
ting into effect their understanding of party 
pledges. 

“The Illinois Agricultural Association urges 
all of its members and friends to carefully 
study these platform pledges of the respec- 
tive parties and throughout the presidential 
campaign to follow closely the interpretation 
placed upon these platform pledges by the 
leading candidates of the respective parties. 
By so doing, farmers and all friends of 
farmers, and in addition all those who be- 
lieve that the restoration of agriculture to a 
basis of prosperity is a first essential to the 

- restoration of prosperity in America, will be 


November, 1932 


THE LA.A RECORD , 


enabled to vote intelligently and effectively on 
November 8th on what the Association believes 
to be the greatest issue confronting the Ameri- 
can people at this time. 


“The Association has never engaged in partisan pol- 
itics and is not now offering any advice of a partisan 
character. It does, however, urge its members and 
friends to join forces in support of the candidate who 
most clearly, definitely and courageously deals in under- 
standing terms and commitments on this all important 
issue and, by such joining of forces, to discharge not 
only their rights but their duties at the polls in the 
interest of genuine public welfare and the perpetuity 
of the principles ef government as outlined by the 
founders of the Nation.” 

The soundness of this policy is best understood 


when considering that immediately after the party. 


conventions, the Democratic National Committee 
announcéd that its candidate would deliver at least 
one address in the mid-west, largely confined to 
agriculture and its party agricultural policy; and 
the Republican National Committee announced 


-that its candidate would deliver not to exceed three 


addresses in the campaign, one of which would be 
largely confined to its past and future agricultural 
policy. 

When called into conferences by party leaders, the 
I. A. A. has confined its position to urging candi- 
dates of both parties to lay greater stress upon the 
solution of the farm problem, believing that upon 
a sound and permanent solution of this question 
largely depends the return of America to a normal 
basis. 

As we go to press, in this, the last issue before 
election, the Democratic candidate has delivered 
one address, chiefly confined to agriculture. In 
other speeches he has referred directly to agricul- 
ture and its importance in the economic affairs of 
the Nation. The Republican candidate has delivered 
one address largely confined to agriculture and 
what may be expected by farmers if the present ad- 
ministration is continued. 

According to announcements of party headquar- 
ters, the Democratic candidate is to again come in- 
to the mid-west and is scheduled to speak in Spring- 
field, Illinois, to discuss matters of major economic 
interest to this section of the Nation, particularly 
agriculture. It is also understood the Republican 
candidate will, before election, again come into the 
mid-west, possibly Illinois, in a further address 
largely confined to agricultural policies and the 
party’s attitude toward the farm problem. 

Wide publicity has and will be given to all pro- 
nouncements of leading candidates of political 
parties up to the day of election. The I. A. A. con- 
tinues to urge its members and friends of agricul- 
ture to carefully study and review all previous pro- 
nouncements, both in platforms and in the inter- 
pretation of platforms by leading candidates and 
to watch closely further pronouncements of a 
definite character by such candidates. Only by so 
doing can voters be enabled to vote intelligently 
and effectively on what the I. A. A. believes to be 
the greatest issue confronting the Nation at this 
time. 


Vote For Your Friends 


HE state income tax passed by the General 

! Assembly on Feb. 2 and now awaiting a de- 

cision as to its constitutionality by the state 

supreme court, was the most important measure 
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Page Nine 


Vote for Your Friends 


(Continued from page 8) 


affecting farm interests before the 
special session of the legislature last 
winter. 

When in operation it is believed 
that this legislation will provide from 
$25,000,000 to $30,000,000 per year in 
such years as 1931, and from $40,000,- 
000 to $45,000,000 per year in years of 
greater prosperity—all of which will 
REPLACE a like amount of taxes now 
levied on property. 

The Mlinois Agricultural ‘Associa- 
tion sponsored this measure and 
urged a favorable vote by members 
of both houses at Springfield. The 
vote on this bill was a test of. each 
member’s interest in removing a part 
of the heavy tax burden now borne 
by property owners. The vote was a 
test of each legislator’s interest in 
bringing tax relief to the farmer and 
home owner. 

The members of the Association 
and friends of agriculture must rec- 
ognize that to secure the passage of 
this legislation, tremendous opposi- 
tion had to be overcome. Many of 
those who have been enjoying privi- 
leges and benefits of government 
without contributing directly to its 
cost recognized immediately that this 
legislation would bring them into the 
tax-paying class. 

Members of the General Assembly 
were importuned on every hand to 
oppose the legislation. To those mem- 
bers who stood up against all opposi- 
tion and who overcame all obstacles 
obstructing its passage belongs the 
credit for these newly created stat- 
utes. Farmers and other property 
owners, regardless of party faith, 
should support these members in the 
coming election. 


Put Export Bounty. On 
Hog Products of Ireland 


New governmental regulations re- 


lating to hog production and inter- 


national trade in pork products have 
been adopted or proposed recently in 
several European countries. 

Export bounties for hog products 
have been inaugurated in the Irish 
Free State and the Netherlands, and 
the establishment of quotas for 
imports of lard and pork products is 
being advocated strongly in Ger- 
many. 

Recent declines in hog prices in 
the United States are attributed to 
relatively large supplies of dressed 
pork. Inspected slaughter in Septem- 
ber was the largest on record for that 
month. 

Consumption of pork, lard, and 
mutton in the U.S. are greater this 
year than last, while beef and veal 
consumption are lower. Exports of 
hog products for the first eight 
months of ’32 were the smallest for 
any corresponding period in at least 
30 years. 


Acreage reduction as a way to 
higher farm prices is receiving more 


and more consideration as thinking d 


people delve deeper into the farm 
problem. 


Acreage reduction must be con- 
sidered whether we will or not, if 
higher prices is to be our goal. The 
American farmer’s market outlook 
is far different today than a few 
years ago. The entire civilized world 
is going through a depression. Coun- 
tries burdened with debt, of neces- 
sity, are conducting their businesses 
very much the same as an individual 
or a family in a similar position. 
They are growing more of their own 
food supply, buying as little as possi- 
ble, paying off their debts. Tariff 
barriers, import quotas, and embar- 
goes are symptons of this condition. 


As a result the export market for 
many American farm products has 
all but evaporated. Until that mar- 
ket is re-established and trading be- 
tween nations resumed, it seems folly 
to continue producing more than the 
market wants.at a price somewhere 
near cost of production. That is 
unless we desire to be altruistic and 
continue producing a cheap food 
supply at less than cost as a public 
benefaction. 


Few people doubt the effectiveness 
of a drastic cut in corn and. wheat 
acreage in raising prices. But there 
is some doubt about possibilities for 
accomplishing this feat following a 
voluntary plan. The fact is that such 
a plan has never been seriously at- 
tempted. There has never been any 
organization to put the job over. 
There has been advice and warning 
which, as might be expected, got 
nowhere. 


That farmers and others depend- 
ent on agriculture are giving serious 
thought to acreage reduction is in- 
dicated by expressions from many 
sources. They do not all agree on 
the amount of reduction, nor on the 
means of obtaining the desired ends. 
“A 25 per cent reduction is not 
enough,” writes Leon Lemaire, 
farmer and manufacturer of Des 
Moines county, Iowa, who states that 
he has lost large-sums of money in 
farming during the past eight years. 
Mr. Lemaire also manufactures pearl 
buttons a goodly share of the income 
from which he presumably has lost 
in farming. 

“The supply that is carried over 
would still make an oversupply and 
the price would not respond,” he con- 
tinues. “In order to make the prices 
respond enough to put the farmers 


in a good position and revalue the 
real estate, the crop must not be 
over two-tnirds of a regular normal] 
acreage. Anything above that would 
only continue very low prices. Then, 
after that is done, let them have a 
little backbone and sell their crops 
for cost of production plus a nice 
profit, same as a manufacturer might 
Oo. 


“If it were not talking out of 
school, I could tell you that in our 
line of production we see to it that 
we do not produce merchandise that 
is not wanted. That is what the 
farmers are doing, and they are suf- 
fering from the result.- Ten cents for 
corn is a joke. That is what it is 
worth here now for any corn. It is 
simply destitution. It is bankruptcy. 


“At the same time, if we had 1,500,- 
000,000 bushels of corn crop, and if 
we had had not over 550,000,000 
bushels of wheat raised, the farmer 
would be well-to-do today. There 
would not be any foreclosures for 
non-payment of taxes and interest. 
Country banks and all banks inter- 
ested in real estate would not have 
been forced into bankruptcy, and the 
farmers would be buying their sup- 
plies and paying for them. The 
whole country would be benefited, 
instead of Sovietized as we are today. 


“But they must be well guarded 
against the commission men and rail- 
roads and speculators. They will 
make the greatest howl against a 
reduced acreage that you have ever 
heard, but at the same time, that is 
the saving of the farming situation.” 


The surplus bugaboo is the stum- 
bling block which has wrecked nearly 
all previous efforts to maintain prof- 
itable prices for agriculture or other 
commodities. Once the crop is pro- 
duced, whether it is kept on the 
farm, impounded in terminal eleva- 
tors, or shipped abroad, it has a 
depressing influence on markets. But 
if an effective way can be found to 
curb production, to keep the surplus 
in the ground as in the case of crude 
oil in Oklahoma and Texas, the prob- 
lem will be largely solved. 


And with reduced acreage farmers 
will be conserving soil fertility, sav- 
ing labor, cutting down the wear and 
tear on machinery and equipment, 
and getting more actual dollars for 
their lowered production than they 
heretofore have secured for a record- 
breaking crop.—E. G. T. 


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November, 1932 


Farm Supply Meeting, ghana 


More Than 500 Delegates, Managers, and Farm Bureau Leaders Attend 


A RECORD breaking year in the 
sale of petroleum products 
through the 52 county service com- 
panies associated with Illinois Farm 
Supply Co. was reported at the an- 
nual meeting of the state-wide or- 
ganization at Bloomington, Oct. 12. 
More than 500 delegates and visitors, 
most of them leaders in the Farm 
Bureau movement in Illinois, attend- 
ed the enthusias- 
tic convention 
held in the Y. W. 
C. A. auditorium. 

In spite of the 
decline in most 
industries the 
State Supply Co. 
handled 35,500,000 
gallons of petrole- 
um products, a 
larger quantity 
than in any pre- 
vious year, during 
the 12 month pe- 
riod ending 


L. R, MARCHANT 


August 31. 

Manager L. R. Marchant reported 
that the Illinois Farm Supply Co. 
and its associated companies now 
ranks as the largest association of 
its kind handling petroleum products 
and farm supplies in the United 
States. 

“Our distribution of petroleum 
products exceeds that of any other 
group of farmer-owned and operated 
companies,” he said. “This fine record 
of achievement has not taken place 
of its own free will. Close observation 
of the membership contract, splendid 
co-operation, and co-ordination of 
member companies and their increas- 
ing tendency to bind themselves to- 
gether for their mutual protection 
and advancement have been the key- 
note to success. 


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pany is frequently expressed by the 
manner in which it meets obliga- 
tions. It is up to every local company 
to keep its own house in order. It 
should institute into the minds of its 
patrons the ‘pay as you go’ plan, and 
conquer the credit problem from its 
best means of approach. Experience 
shows that the chief cause of busi- 
ness failures is the result of inability 
to do this and farmer-owned and 
controlled companies are no excep- 
tion to the rule.” 

A statistical report of operations 
in the 12 month period ending Au- 
gust 31 was published in the October 
issue of the RECORD. 

One of the principal addresses of 
the afternoon was made by~-Jd.-Frank 
Grimes, president of the Independent 


Enthusiastic Session 


Grocers’ Alliance. “From the looks 
of the financial statement of your 


‘company which shows increasing 


dividends for six consecutive years, 
your company should be an institute 
or example for all America to see,” 
said Mr. Grimes. 


A Sleeping Giant 


“Have you the slightest conception 
of the enormous power that lies in 
the hands of agriculture that it does 
not even attempt to use? There is 
an enormous power lying sound 
asleep, and through sensible and 
powerful methods of merchandizing 
and advertising that great sleeping 
power can be awakened. Organiza- 
tion can accomplish almost anything 
it goes after, anything that is reason- 
able, that is proper, that is right. It 
is wonderful to see an organization 
built up of men who know what they 
are going after. There are sensible, 
practical, scientific ways of doing 
things if we will study them out and 
put them into practice.” 

“This thing called credit trouble 
can be diagnosed as the principal 
disease of the world today,” declared 
J. N. Moylan, credit manager of the 
American Steel and Wire Company, 
Chicago. “A sale is never complete 
until the money for that sale is de- 
posited by the seller. There is no 
glory in putting a volume of business 
on the books and waiting for the 
money to come back. There is no 
business wisdom having to do with 
credits, that can be swallowed in 
capsules. There is only one way you 
can control the credit problem and 
keep yourself out of trouble. Do busi- 
ness for cash as nearly as possible 
especially in handling consumption 
articles such as petroleum products. 


Troubles Within Hurt 


“In every co-operative organiza- 
tion of any form the troubles from 
within are the troubles that really 
hurt. Frequently those who sit in 
places of authority are inclined to 
ask for special privileges on the terms 
of sales, etc. Directors should have 
no reason to expect favoritism wh‘ch 
may lead to further violation of the 
company’s policies and break down 
sound business principles.” 

Referring to the fundamentals of 
a business organization Moylan com- 


pared it to the wheels of a wagon. 


‘The right front wheel he said might 


represent the stock of merchandise 
which should turn over quickly. Mer- 
chandise which is slow in selling will 
pull the wheel out of line. 

“The left front wheel, accounts re- 
ceivable. Too many accounts receiv- 
able will make the going lopsided. 
The right rear wheel, the cash or 
working capital, is a very important 
part of a business. The left rear 
wheel, the plant investment, the 
tanks, trucks, etc. These must all be 
kept up to keep the wagon running 
smoothly. All four wheels should be 
the proper size and stay well bal- 
anced to go along over all kinds of 
roads in good order. We are travel- 
ing the dirt roads- today and if the 
wheels are out of line it is almost 
impossible to travel.” 


Great Accomplishment 


“Business in no line can show the 
accomplishments of this cooperative 
endeavor,” said Donald Kirkpatrick 
of the I. A. A. Referring to the un- 
organized territory of the state he 
said: “Fill up those white spaces, 
improve your merchandizing meth- 
ods, tie the organization together in 
such a way as to present a united 
front.” 

Answering the question “Who 
should be entitled to the rights and 
privileges of the local companies?” 
Kirkpatrick said: “The County Farm 
Bureaus should furnish the county 
supply companies with a certified 
list of all members in good standing 
prior to the declaration of any pat- 
ronage refund. Failure on the part 
of the service company to strike from 
its records all Farm Bureau members 
who are not in good standing at the 
time the patronage refund is de- 
clared, might lead to legal difficul- 
ties.” 

Adoption of a resolution pertain- 
ing to the definition of membership 
in good standing as approved by the 
Illinois Agricultural Association at 
its annual meeting last winter was 
recommended. This resolution in 
part is as follows: 


Who Is a Member? 


In all matters relating to af- 
filiated or subsidiary organiza- 
tions connected with the Illinois 
Agricultural Association and 
County Farm Bureaus wherein 
the term “membership in good 
standing” or a term similar is 
used involving the right to serv- 
ice or distribution of savings or 
earnings, membership in good 
standing be allowed, if such 

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THE LAA. RECORD 


Page Thirteen 


PARTY of farmer elevator man-.- 


agers and grain producers from 
Livingston county on a recent tour 
visited elevators at Graymont, Secor, 
Kruger and Washington winding up 
their trip at the million bushel 
terminal elevator and offices of the 
Farmers National Grain Corporation 
at Peoria. 

Directors of the Farmers Grain 
Co. at Fairbury, and of farmers’ ele- 
vators at Ocoya, Pontiac, and Rooks 
Creek made the trip. 

Answering questions 
about the service of the 
Illinois Grain and Farm- 
ers National, A. B. Sheel- 
er, manager of the 500,000 
bushel house at Gray- 
mont, said: “Even though 
our agreement says that 
we are not compelled to 
market our grain through 
the Farmers National 
only when it can give us a 
net or on track price equal 
to or more than I can get 
from any other source, I 
find that between 60 and 
70 per cent of our grain 
goes to the national co- 
operative. The _ service 
from the office at Pontiac 
has been excellent.” 


George L. Potter, mem- 
ber of the grain market- 
ing committee of the Liv- 
ingston County Farm Bu- 
reau, made a complete 
report of the trip to the 
Bloomington Pantagraph. 

He quoted Mr. Greiner 
of the Secor elevator to the 
effect that about 80 per 
cent of their grain went 
to-the Farmers National 
Grain Corp. Mr. Potter’s 
report of the trip follows: 

Manager Smith of 
Kruger said, “We came 
into this program as one of the first. 
We were required to buy capital 
stock to the extent of $100 for each 
10,000 bushels handled. For the pro- 
tection of the few of us who 
pioneered this field, we bound our- 
selves together with an agreement 
to market all our grain through our 
own sales agency. We never altered 
from the course and for two years 
100 percent of our grain has gone 
through the Farmers National. 


“Now that the success of the ven- 
ture is assured, there being over 
100 elevators as members in Illinois, 
who have originated some twenty- 
five million bushels of grain to the 
Farmers National, we are allowed to 
find a better market if we can. Even 
though brokers continue to call us 


daily, I believe they offer no better 
market than the Farmers National 
and 100 percent goes to it.” 


Service Excellent 


Mr. Esch, manager of the Wash- 
ington elevator, said, “I was cautious 
of this proposition at first, and our 
board was divided. But the service 
is excellent and I find that approxi- 
mately 90 percent of all our grain 
finds itself in the Farmers National 
hands. Here is the one great opportu- 
nity that has been offered the grain 
farmer to organize and gain the ad- 
vantages offered of co-operative sale 
of his product.” 

The visitors were especially inter- 
ested in going through the million 
bushel terminal elevator owned by 
the Farmers National and the in- 


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AGAINST CO-OP 
GRAIN MARKETING 


AGENCIES 


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structive description of methods of 
handling by Mr. Wilke, the manager. 


All Sold or Hedged 


He said, “We have 985,000 bushels 
of grain on hand. We move in and 
out about 500,000 bushels a month. 
We have 27 different grades of wheat 
here at the present time. It is all 
sold or hedged. It is our job here to 
receive the grain from the country 
elevator, clean it, dry it, and blend 
or process the various grades re- 
quired by the miller or processor. 
The profits from this business now 
go to the Farmers National, from 
there to the Illinois Grain corpora- 
tion and down to the member ele- 
vators in proportion to the amount 


of grain they sell to the Farmers Na- 
tional.” 

A question was asked Mr. Wilke, 
“We understand from the opposition 
to this program that the Farmers 
National hasn’t employed good grain 
men, that it has employed inex- 
perienced personnel, incapable of 
handling such tremendous volume, - 
and, in the picture only for what 
they can exploit from the farmer.” 
What has been your experience as 
manager of this big terminal?” 


Everything Business-like 


Mr. Wilke answered: “I have been 
employed here since I was 13 years 
old and have been manager for 
many years. I can truthfully say 
that I have learned more 
about the grain business 
since the Farmers Na- 
tional took it over two 
years ago than I had 
learned in all my past ex- 
perience. Anybody that 
tells you that their co-op’s 
men don’t know their 
stuff is crazy. They handle 
everything on a business- 
like basis and their cards 
are on the table all the 
time.” 

It was reported at the 
Farmers National office at 
Peoria that with some 20 
commission firms on the 
Peoria market, the Farm- 
ers National handles from 
30 to 50 percent of the 
daily receipts. 


Same Fight Repeated 


Mr. McClintock, mana- 
ger of the office, said in 
part to the visitors: “You 
men, as_ directors of 
farmers elevators out in 
the country, have seen to- 
day that you have not 
gone far with the market- 
ing of your grain. You 
older men have been 
through the fight. You 
know of the storms of 
disapproval from the 
grain trade that came. You know of 
their first refusal to handle your 
grain. This avalanche of propaganda 
against the Farmers National and 
co-operative marketing is no differ- 
ent today. But you have seen that it 
was all worthwhile. You have been 
paid with what it was worth to 
firmly establish the Farmers ele- 
vator. 


Profits To Grower 


“Now the Farmers National is the 
next layer on the cake. It is the ex- 
tension of the farmers marketing 
machinery into the terminal. All the 
profits from commissions, terminal 
storage, processing, blending, etc. 
belong to the farmer members. The 

(Continued on page 15) 


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Now is the time to order your supply of Winter 
Oil. Penn Bond (100% pure Pennsylvania) and Blue 
Seal (pure paraffin base) Winter Oils make easy Win- 
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from dry bearings, friction, heat and wear. 


Be prepared for the first cold snap. Telephone your 
order to the local Farm Bureau Service Company or 
ask your “SERVICE” man. 


ILLINOIS FARM SUPPLY COMPANY 
608 South Dearborn St., Chicago 


November, 


1932 


Grain Marketing 
(Continued from page 13) 


program is sound, it is a going con- 
cern, it is adequately financed. Your 
only worry is the efficiency and in- 
tegrity of its management. 

“That you have with your local 
elevator. The whole program is set 
up in such a way that this problem 
is always in the hands of the pro- 
ducer who elects directors for his 
elevator. The elevator directors con- 
trol the regional, and the various 
regionals elect directors for the Na- 
tional.” Mr. McClintock explained 
that the grain stabilization was no 
longer a factor in the market, that 
the last held by the Red Cross would 
be consumed by May, 1933. 


Alibi Worn Out 


One of the party remarked how 
funny it was that the trade had 
contended that grain would be 25 
cents higher if it wasn’t for the 
wheat held by the farm board, and 
that all grains had dropped con- 
tinuously in price since it was known 
that the board’s wheat was gone. 
Another said, “We don’t hear so 
much about ‘government in busi- 
ness’ since everybody knows what 
the government has loaned to banks, 
insurance companies, railroads, etc.” 


O. D. Brissenden, field representa- 
tive of the Illinois Grain corpora- 
tion, accompanied the party on the 
tour. He explained how every legiti- 
mate objection to membership had 
been met. He said that no capital is 
required by the member elevator, 
that dividends were based on patron- 
age, that no elevator was required to 
market its grain through its own 
organization, unless it could give a 
net price equal to or more than the 
other fellow and that all questions 
of management are left to the local 
board. 


Now More Volume 


Mr. Brissenden said: “On this trip 
today we have seen the system in 
successful operation. We are assured 
by the audits of the national asso- 
ciation that it is making substantial 
profits. We know from its set-up 
that these profits will be returned to 
the producers But its ultimate suc- 
cess will depend on volume. There is 
a greater hope for this movement 
than to return a part of the handling 
charge to the producer. Its great 
purpose is to control sufficient vol- 
ume to affect the price paid for 
grain. 

“Should a lack of patronage cause 
the failure of this ultimate purpose 
it would be another generation be- 
fore there could be built another or- 
ganization with the promise that 
Farmers National offers. The sup- 
port of this movement, or the lack 
of it, will set a policy for the next 
generation to follow. Shall they have 
faith and carry on the co-operative 
movement because their forefathers 
paid the sacrifice necessary and 


THE LA.A. RECORD 


through it worth enough to go on 
with the next big job?” 


The Illinois Grain Corporation 
handled 1,131 cars of grain in Sep- 
tember making a total of 6,503 cars 
shipped during the first nine months 
of the year 1932. The state regional 
now has 100 member elevators and 
grain co-operatives. Four new ele- 
vators became members during Sep- 
tember. 

During the first nine months of 
the year the Illinois Grain Corpora- 
tion handled well over 11,000,000 
bushels of grain which is in excess 
of the volume handled during the 
entire calendar year of 1931. 


The first payment on butterfat to 
members of the Quality Milk Associa- 
tion was a net price of 22 cents per 
pound after all operating expenses 
were paid. This price is higher than 
the Chicago market, and returned 
the producers more for 100 pounds of 
milk than they received previously 
for the surplus sold to distributors 
at Rock Island, Davenport, Moline, 
and E. Moline. 


Market Cabbage For 
Whiteside Co. Growers 


The Illinois Fruit Growers Ex- 
change during the past season found 
a market for approximately 85 car- 
loads of cabbage for Whiteside 
county growers around Morrison, 
Fenton, and Oliver Siding. Most of 
the cabbage was shipped to southern 
markets such as New Orleans, Mo- 
bile, Nashville, and Memphis. Al- 
though prices obtained were very low 
the growers were fortunate to get a 
market at all since home grown sup- 
plies this year were unusually heavy 
at most markets. 

H. W. Day, director of fruit and 
vegetable marketing, states that a 
short apple crop has resulted in 
higher prices than obtained last 
year. Apples are retailing at from 
75 cents to $1.50 a bushel. 


Sell Apples To Truck 
Men From Central Point 


The Illinois Fruit Growers Ex- 
change is assembling apples on route 
10 a mile east of Jacksonville where 
sales are made to truck buyers from 
all sections. The same practice was 
followed last year and results from 
the experiment justified its con- 
tinuance this year. 

The Illinois apple crop is much be- 
low normal this fall and actual yields 
are falling under estimates made 
early in the season. It will be ap- 
proximately a 25 per cent crop when 
harvested. 


Page Fifteen 


Milk Prices 


(For September, based on 3.5% milk 
unless otherwise specified.) 


St. Louis—Sanitary Milk Producers 
announces Class I basic $1.35 f.o.b. 
country; Class II 7l1c f.0.b. country; 
Class III 58¢ f.o.b. country. 5c has 
been deducted for check-off. Aver- 
aged weighted price to producers al] 
milk 93c. Retail 10c. 


Indianapolis — Central Indiana 
Dairy Association announces Class I 
$1.60 f.o.b. city. Class II $1.00 f.o0.b. 
city. 

St. Paul — Twin City Milk Pro- 
ducers Association announces Class 
I basic $1.24 delivered Retail 8c. 

Cincinnati—The Cooperative Pure 
Milk Association announces weighted 
price per 100 pounds $1.21. 


Detroit—Michigan Milk Producers 
Association announces Class I basic 
$1.60 delivered; Classes II and I 
85c. Averaged weighted price to pro- 
re ge all milk $1.51 f.0.b. city. Re- 

9c. 


Cedar Rapids—Cedar Rapids Co- 
operative Dairy Company announces 
Class I basic $2.00 delivered. Aver- 
aged weighted price to producers 
$1.10. Retail 10c. 

New York—Dairymen’s League Co- 
operative Association Inc. announces 
Class I basic $1.79 delivered; Class IT 
$1.26 and Class III $1.15. Retail 12c. 


Bloomington — McLean County 
Milk Producers announces Class I 
basic $1.70 f.o.b. city. Class II de- 
livered $1.10. Class III 84c. Averaged 
weighted price to producers all milk 
$1.13. Retail 10c. 

Champaign — Champaign County 
Milk Producers announces Class I 
basic $1.834 f.0.b. city; Class II de- 
livered $1.1512; Class III 78%4c. Av- 
eraged weighted price to producers 
all milk $1.3414. Retail 1lc. 

Chicago — Pure Milk Association 
announces Class I basic $1.85 f.ob. 
city. Class II delivered 73c. Retail 11c. 


Galesburg — Galesburg Pure Milk 
Association announces Class I basic 
4% milk $1.85 f.o.b. city. Retail 9-10c. 


Peoria — Illinois Milk Producers’ 
Association announces Class I basic 
$1.65 f.0.b. city. Class II delivered 97c. 
Class III 69c. Averaged weighted 
price to producers all milk $1.19. Re- 
tail 9-10c. 


Springfield—Producers Dairy Com- 
pany announces Class I basic $1.40 
f.o.b. country. Retail 91/11c. 


Many a turkey grower can develop 
a profitable local market and a repu- 
tation for his flock by advertising in 
his local newspaper. 


A hen that does not lay is not even 
a fair risk any time; and now-a-days 
she is a greater liability than usual. 


THE LAA RECORD 


November, 1932 


‘ 


A NEW produce marketing asso- 
ciation was recently organized in 
Pope-Hardin counties for handling 
poultry, eggs, and cream. White 
county recently organized another 
cream marketing unit at Carmi. In- 
terest is being manifested in county 
produce associations at Mt. Vernon, 
and Marion. 

Frank Gougler announces that 
southern Illinois egg producers are 
getting along nicely in shipping eggs 
co-operatively to the eastern mar- 
kets in carload lots. Plans are being 
made to service these shipments 
through the produce marketing units 
with egg cases, fillers, etc. 


Further co-operation between the 
organized milk producers and cream 
shippers was discussed at a meeting 
of 35 to 40 representative producers 
from all sections of Illinois in the I. 
A. A. offices, Chicago, October 13. 

Consideration is being given to es- 
tablishing processing plants for tak- 
ing care of surplus milk which milk 
distributors do not wish to handle. It 
is contemplated that if such a plan is 
followed butter manufacturing plants 
will be established in a number of 
the larger downstate cities where 
surplus milk will be separated and 
the cream churned into butter. 
Cream from co-operative produce as- 
sociations. also will find a market 
through these plants. 

The fluid milk producers during 
the past two years in many markets 
have received such low prices for 
surplus, in some cases below butter- 
fat value, that ways and means of 
establishing outlets at more favor- 
able prices have been considered for 
a number of years. 

Steps already have been taken to- 
ward establishing processing plants 
at Peoria, Bloomington, and Rock 
Island. 


The newly organized farmers’ 
creamery company of Bloomington, 
owned and controlled by the Mc- 
Lean County Milk Producers, re- 
cently leased a building close to the 
present McLean County Farm Bu- 
reau offices, according to a recent 
announcement. The company ex- 
pects to begin making butter on or 
before January 1. 

Since the cream station was started 
here in 1927 Forrest Fairchild, man- 
ager of the Milk Producers Associa- 
tion, is quoted by the Pantagraph as 
saying: “The spread in price of 
cream has been changed from nine 
to two cents, to the benefit of the 
producer. And under the new plan 
possibly two to four cents more can 
go to the farmer. On the 1,500,000 
pounds of butterfat produced in Mc- 
Lean county this would amount to 
about $45,000 increase in returns to 
the producers annually.” 


Life Insurance Co.'s. 
Take 71% Farm Loans 


Farm mortgage loans were smaller 
in both total volume and average 
size in 1931 as compared with the 
preceding year, mortgage bankers in 
17 western and southern states re- 
ported recently. The ratios of loans 
to value of farms were higher than 
in preceding years. 

Of a total of 3,918 loans represent- 
ing more than $19,500,000 in loan 
contracts made during the year in 
these states, 67 per cent consisted 
of renewals, the balance, new loans. 

The average ratio of loans to value 
of farms was 39.4 per cent on new 
loans last year and 61.3 per cent on 
loans renewed. Loans requiring re- 
newal for the most part included 
farms with heaviest indebtedness. 

Most of the loans were made for 
a term of five years. Sixty-five per 
cent of all loans made last year re- 
quire some payment on principal an- 
nually. 

Life insurance companies took 71 
per cent of the total loans or less 
than in previous years. There was 
an increase in the proportion of 
farm mortgages bought by private 
investors and other local agencies. 


Get a Better Deal 
On Mixed Shipments 


Better rates on mixed shipments 
of livestock will become effective 
November 1 as a result of a ruling 
adopted by carriers following nego- 
tiations initiated by the I. A. A. 
Transportation Department. 

The modified mixed livestock rule 
applies on shipments between points 
in Illinois, according to G. W. Bax- 
ter. 

This rule provides that when cat- 
tle, calves, hogs, sheep, lambs, goats, 
or kids are shipped in mixed carloads 
the charge shall be based on the 
carload rate and actual weight of 
each species in the car. However, 
the total charge on the carload shall 
not be less than the carload rate and 
minimum weight for that class of 
stock contained in the car which on 
a straight carload basis carries the 
highest charge. 

The modified rates do not penalize 
shippers who have sheep in the car, 
as in the past. Heretofore shippers 
have paid the actual weight of all 
stock in the car at the highest rate 
class. In other words if the car con- 
tained 17,000 pounds of cattle, hogs, 
and sheep the entire 17,000 pounds 
of livestock paid the sheep rate which 
is higher than that on cattle and 
hogs. This new rule will permit the 
shipper to apply the weight and rate 
for each species in the car subject 
to a minimum for the stock in the 
car which on a straight carload basis 
will produce the highest charge. 


A total of 164 decks of livestock 
were handled by the Illinois Live- 
stock Marketing Association and its 
member co-operatives during Sep- 
tember. Of these, 50 decks were sold 
through the state sales office at De- 
catur. This is the largest volume 
handled in any month since its or- 
ganization. 

Shipments from Illinois counties 
to producer agencies indicate a total 
of 11,609 cars for the six months’ 
period ending June 30, 1932. This 


compares with a total of 11,946 cars _ 


for the corresponding six months of 
1931. 


The ninth and final calf club sale 
held under the auspices of the In- 
ternational Live Stock Exposition, 
Chicago, October 11 established a 
new top for the season when the 
Hygrade Food Products Corporation 
bid $12.25 per cwt. for an outstand- 
ing 900 pound Hereford. The calf 
was fed by 13 year old Jean Turn- 
bull of Marshall county, Illinois. 

A total of 162 calves brought an 
average price of $8.45. They weighed 
929 pounds average. The 1,927 calves 
auctioned off this season sold for an 
average price of $8.89, average weight 
905 pounds. 


The National Livestock Credit 
Corporation announces that 551 ap- 
plications for loans had been passed 
upon favorably by October 6, the 
loans granted totaling $832,000. 
There are ample funds available’ and 
feeders in need of financial assist- 
ance in their cattle and sheep feed- 
ing operations should write for ap- 
plication blanks to the nearest pro- 
ducer agency. Loans are made in 
some cases up to 100 per cent and at 
six per cent interest. 


The Indianapolis Producers sold 
913 carloads of livestock during Sep- 
tember, an increase of 138 cars com- 
pared with the same month last year. 
Illinois supplied 126 carloads of this 
total. 

Illinois counties showing an in- 
crease in livestock shipments to In- 
dianapolis Producers during the third 
quarter this year compared with last 
are Clark, Crawford, Jasper, Cum- 
berland, Effingham, Richland, 
Sangamon, White, and Williamson. 

Trucking of livestock from Illinois 
increased from nine carloads in Sep- 
tember, 1930 to 107 carloads in Sep- 
tember, 1932. 


The Chicago Producers showed a 
substantial increase in receipts of all 
livestock during September compared 
with the same month a year ago. 
Producers’ cattle receipts increased 
8.7 per cent, whereas market receipts 

(Continued to page 17) 


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THE LAA. RECORD 


Page Seventeen 


Livestock Marketing 
(Continued from page 16) 


of salable cattle fell off 11.5 per cent. 
The Chicago co-op. handled 12.5 per 
cent of the salable receipts of hogs 
compared with 10.9 per cent in Sep- 
tember a year ago. 


The market for fed cattle is ex- 
pected to hold fairly steady during 
the winter, according to H. M. Con- 
way of the National Livestock Mar- 
keting Association. This situation, 
he believes, makes short feeding of 
the lower and intermediate grades 
reasonably favorable for the period 
February to April. Supplies of hogs 
are expected to be lower in the late 

ter. 


Feeder lamb prices have weakened 
during the past eight weeks making 
a favorable situation for the feeder. 
The greatest scarcity of fed lambs 
and highest prices are expected dur- 
ing the winter. 


Eastern Livestock Men 
Organize At Baltimore 


The Eastern Livestock Cooperative 
Marketing Association, with head- 
quarters at Baltimore, Maryland, was 
recently admitted to membership in 
the National Livestock Marketing 
Association. L. T. Skeffington, for- 
merly with the Illinois Agricultural 
Association, has been employed as 
manager. 

The Eastern Association was or- 
ganized in September, 1931, by stock- 
men and farmers in the States of 
Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, 
Maryland, North Carolina Pennsyl- 
vania, and New York, and serves live- 
stock producers in this territory. Its 
first selling agency started operations 
at the Union Stock Yards, Baltimore, 
Maryland on August 1, 1932. During 
August, the Eastern handled 3.652 
head of livestock valued at $40,645, 
while during September the Associa- 
tion handled 5,542 head valued at 
$85,200. 


Indiana Votes On 
{Income Tax Amendment 


The Indiana Farm Bureau Federa- 
tion will sponsor income tax legis- 
lation in the coming session of the 
General Assembly at Indianapolis. 

The Farm Bureau has _ recom- 
mended and urged the passage of 
an income tax in Indiana during 
past years as a replacement tax that 
farmers and property owners may be 
relieved of a part of their heavy tax 
burden. 

An income tax amendment to the 
state constitution will be submitted 


_in the general election in Indiana 


on November 8. If the amendment 
passes it will settle for all time the 
constitutionality of a law to tax in- 
comes says Lewis Taylor, director of 
the tax and legislative department. 


By L. A. Williams 


HATEVER the original motive 

back of Country Life Insur- 
ance Company may have been, and 
we who had to do with it believe it 
was service, the fact remains that it 
has performed an invaluable service 
to the farmers of Illinois. 


$274,000 has been paid out in death 
claims to farmers’ beneficiaries since 
we started three and a half years 
ago. 

More than $125,000 in dividends 
have been paid to living policyhold- 
ers. 


More than one-half million dollars 
of premium outlay has been saved to 
farmers over the past three and a 
half years, because of the lower first 
cost of Country Life under the aver- 
age participating life insurance 
premium. 


Another savings which has accrued 
to the benefit of policyholders 
through careful management in the 
handling of funds is the holding and 
preserving securely, by careful in- 
vestment, of $1,600,000 of Company 
funds, not one security of which is 
in default, and the accumulating of 
$300,000 of surplus, through earnings 
and savings, for policyholders. 


Still. another service for farmers 
has been the placing of more than 
$50,000,000 of life insurance with 
farmers, a great number of whom 
would never have carried any life 
insurance had it not been for the 
confidence they had in their own 
Company, and the service they re- 
ceived from their own leadership and 
their own people, Needless to say, 
many thousands of dollars have been 
paid out to beneficiaries who would 
have had no life insurance had it 
not been for the origin of Country 
Life. 


We have paid out to Farm Bureau 
members who are agents of Country 
Life $570,000 in commissions, of 
which the Farm Bureaus have re- 
tained as their over-writing share 
nearly $60,000. 

Country Life Insurance Company 
has made a gain every month since 
it has been in business. Its income 
today is more than a million dollars 
yearly. It is true that we have lapsed 
several million of business, but we 
have always gained more in new 
business than we have lapsed. 


This Company has been built dur- 
ing the three and a half years of 
depression. Its record of accomplish- 
ments is unequaled anywhere in the 
annals of life insurance history. The 
fact that farmers have built this 


Company and operated it for their 
own benefit during the hardest fi- 
nancial years known to the country 
is proof of their ability to operate 
their own business in practically any 
line of marketing or group purchase, 
or through group action to build a 
defense against unjust legislation, 
and for fair taxation. 

In fact, Country Life Insurance 
Company stands as a monument to 
the ability of farmers to act in 
groups for their own welfare. 


Achievement Day Jubilee will be 
December 10, culminating in a radio 
broadcast that evening from 8:30 un- 
til 9:00, over WLS, at which time the 
accomplishments of the _ various 
counties, will be broadcast, also the 
names of the Country Life Queens. 
About seventy counties will hold 
beauty contests. Other counties will 
hold entertainments of other kinds. 


$38,000,000 Loaned 
Livestock Growers 


The National Feeder and Finance 
Corporation, co-operative credit 
agency affiliated with the National 
Live Stock Marketing Association 
with headquarters at Chicago, has 
loaned to livestock growers during 
the past two years more than 
$38,000,000. 

The six regional credit corporations 
loaning money to livestock growers 
are located at Chicago, Denver, San 
Francisco, Salt Lake City, Oklahoma 
City, and Fort Worth. These regional 
credit corporations now have a total 
loan capacity of approximately $40,- 
000,000 On September 1 only about 
$10,000,000 of loans were outstand- 
ing. There is still $30,000,000 available 
for loans. 

Illinois livestock growers can get 
full information about loans by 
writing the National Feeder and Fi- 
nance Corporation, Builders Build- 
ing, 228 No. LaSalle St., Chicago. 


The average taxes in dollars per acre 
in 1913 and-1930, and the 1930 indexes 
based upon 1913 as 100 per cent, are 
reported as follows: Ohio, $0.53 in 1913, 
$1.36 in 1930, index 258 per cent; Indi- 
ana $0.59 in 1913, $1.41 in 1930, index 
237 per cent; Illinois $0.49 in 1913, 
$1.16 in 1930, index 235 per cent; Michi- 
gan $0.54 in 1913, $1.34 in 1930, index 
247 per cent; Wisconsin $0.47 in 1913, 
$1.07 in 1930, index 226 per cent; Min- 
nesota $0.29 in 1913, $0.83 in 1930, in- 
dex 291 per cent; Iowa $0.56 in 1913, 
$1.24 in 1930, index 222 per cent; Mis- 
souri $0.14 in 1913, $0.45 in 1930, index 
311 per cent; 


Editor, 
I. A. A. RECORD 

The September issue of the RECORD 
is one of the best of the year. I read 


it from cover to cover.—Geo. F. Tullock, 
Winnebago County, III. 


Page Eighteen 


THE LA.A RECORD 


November, 1932 


Farm Supply Meeting, 
Bloomington 


(Continued from page 12) 


membership is free from default 
on any day during the 60 days 
next preceding the last day of 
the calendar month prior to 
such demand for service or 
declaration of distribution of 
savings or earnings. 


Secretary George E. Metzger of the 
I. A. A. congratulated the company 
on its splendid showing and discussed 
briefly the $20,000,000 bond issue 
coming up for vote on November 8. 


President Fred Herndon of the Illi- 
nois Farm Supply Co. gave an inter- 
esting address in which he recounted 
some of the problems of the local 
companies. He pleaded for uniform 
merchandizing methods and trade 
practices by the 52 companies over 
the state. He said that competition 
among the companies is unthinkable, 
yet it does exist. 


Congratulating the managers and 
truck salesmen for their excellent 
work in supporting the Farm Bureau 
membership drive preceding the 4th 
of July celebration he said: “The 
records show you secured 700 new 
members. You hold an important 
position in our Farm Bureau pro- 
gram. Your truck salesmen contact 
Farm Bureau members and non- 
Farm Bureau members every day. It 
is your duty to acquire and dissemi- 
nate proper information concerning 
the Farm Bureau and your local com- 
pany.” 


Excellent Statement 


The condensed financial statement 
distributed to delegates shows that 
total dividends to member companies 
had increased from $1,372.08 in 1927 
to $86,511.76 in 1932. Of this latter 
amount patronage dividends to com- 
mon stockholders amounted to $80,- 
090.43. Assets of the company at the 
close of the fiscal year were $248,- 
690.30 and liabilities including the 
$86,511.76 dividends payable were 
only $92,412.78. 


Mr. Fred E. Ringham, manager of 
the Illinois Agricultural Auditing As- 
sociation read the financial report 
and discussed briefly accounting 
problems of the local companies. 


Only one chgnge was made in the 
board of directors. H. A. Keele of 
Macoupin county replaced Sam Sor- 
rells of Montgomery county. Other 
directors are F. E. Herndon, Geo. F. 
Tullock, E. E. Stevenson, Grant 
Broster, J. M. Eyman, Frank J. Flynn, 
H. R. Neal, T. J. Penman. 


The number of hogs in Germany, 
Denmark, and Holland was 10 per 
cent less for June this year than last 
year. Reduced supplies resulted in 
higher hog prices in July than in 
June in both the United States and 
Europe. 


Chairman Stone On 
Farming The Farmer 


In one of his numerous blasts 
against the Farm Board and the U.S. 
Department of Agriculture, Arthur 
W. Cutten, Chicago grain speculator, 
is reported to have called on voters 
everywhere to defeat members of 
Congress who supported the Agricul- 
tural Marketing Act. In a recent pub- 
lic address Chairman Stone of the 
Federal Farm Board without men- 
tioning any names referred to Cut- 
ten’s articles published in Chicago 
newspapers, says the Farmers Na- 
tional Grain Corp. 

“IT think one of the most enlighten- 
ing newspaper articles I have seen in 
many days appeared in Chicago sev- 
eral weeks ago,” said Chairman 
Stone. “It was written by one of 
your largest and most influential 
grain traders in which he made the 
statement that he had never seen a 
better job of the farmer being farmed 
than was done by the Farm Board. 

“Yet that man came here from 
Canada some 20 odd years ago with 
practically no money. I understand 
he has given to his brothers and his 
sisters an endowment fund of $1,000,- 
000 each and God knows how much 
he has left. I would like to have 
him tell the people of this country 
whether he made it growing or sell- 
ing wheat. If there ever was a glar- 
ing example of how the farmer was 
farmed I think he gives a good dem- 
onstration.” 


Textile Trade Improves 


Rochester, N. H., Aug. 20: Five 
hundred employees of the Gonic 
Manufacturing Company here were 
notified today of a 10 per cent in- 
crease effective immediately. Im- 
proved conditions in the textile trade 
made this increase possible. 


A recent cartoon pictures an auto- 
mobile wreck with the car and the 
driver all scrambled together at the 
side of the road. The engine reared 
an angry head from the mass of 
wreckage and said to what was left 
of the driver: “Why blame me! 
Yow’re supposed to have brains.” And 
there’s the rub. The driver has the 
brains, but all too often he fails to 
use them. 


Alfalfa needs at least six inches of 
growth before winter. Take the first 
cutting next season earlier than usual, 
then the last cutting will he early 
enough for a good growth before winter. 


Farmers National Seed 
Market Service Explained 


Three sales plans for seed market- 
ing are now available through 
Farmers National Grain Corp. serv- 
ice, according to P. V. Kelly, manager 
of the Seed Division. 

“At the option of the producers, 
seed may be offered to the Farmers 
National for immediate cash sale. It 
may be delivered for storage and 
later sold upon order of the owner, 
or it may be handled through pools 
by the usual pooling methods. 

“Seed accepted for storage will be 
graded, cleaned, and stored. Against 
warehouse receipts for such stored 
seed, the co-operatives or the re- 
gional organizations may borrow for 
the purpose of making advance pay- 
ments to the grower. 

“Seed pooled by growers in accord- 
ance with usual pooling practice will 
be purchased by the corporation or 
sold for the account of the pool 
whenever the pool orders sale to be 
made. The entire marketing opera- 
tions will be in the hands of Farmers 
National Grain Corporation, but sales 
policies will be determined by the 
separate pools.” 

Any producer group may avail it- 
self of the cleaning, grading, ware- 
housing and marketing facilities of 
the Farmers National if organized 
as a co-operative under the Capper- 
Volstead law and affiliated with the 
regional such as Illinois Grain Corp. 

Extensive and permanent sales 
outlets will be provided by the con- 
tacts maintained with co-operative 
sales agencies, the Farmers National 
serving as a clearing house between 
the associations of seed producers 
and associations selling seed to other 
farmers. All the facilities of the Cor- 
poration will be available as seed dis- 
tribution agencies. 


Regional agricultural credit corpora- 
tions with paid up capital stock of $3,- 
000,000 set up and financed by the Re- 
construction Finance Corporation are 
authorized in the new relief bill re- 
cently signed by President Hoover. 
They may be set up in any Federal 
Land Bank district where needed. Man- 
agement would rest with the R. F. C. 
and such credit corporations will be 
able to make loans for agricultural pro- 
duction, breeding stock, etc, to farmers. 


Illinois farmers plan to reduce the 
fall sown wheat acreage about five 
per cent from that of last year. The 
marked slump in the Illinois wheat 
acreage during the past two years is 
chiefly due to the discouraging price 
situation, with the menace of fly and 
chinch bug damage a contributing 
factor. 


Proper care and feed prevents a well- 
bred pullet from molting in the fall. 
Plenty of feed will not make the- pul- 
lets too fat. 


coS\_» The cA 


Illinois ‘_m tral Association 


Published monthly by the Illinois R Association at 165 So. 
ffice, Spencer, Ind. Acceptance for mailing 
iaarese all communications for publication to Editorial Offices, 


Entered as second class matter at post o 
1925, authorized Oct, 27, 1925, 
Dearborn St., Chicago. 


Number 12 


DECEMBER, 1932 


Main street, Spencer, ind, tuditorial Offices, or So. Dearborn St,, Chicago, Li). 
at special rates of postage provided 28, 
Illinois Agricultural Association Record, 608 So 


in Section 412, Act of Feb. 


Volume 10 


Annual Meeting Jan. 25-26-27 


Peoria Connected With Early History of |. A. A., Many Will Recall Meetings 


HEN the organized farmers of 

Illinois gather at Peoria Jan- 
uary 25-26-27 for the eighteenth an- 
nual meeting of the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association and meetings of 
many associated companies, it will 
remind some of the pioneers in the 
movement of the historic meeting 
in this same city in January 1919. 

It was in Peoria 14 years ago that 
the founders of the I. A. A. decided 
to make it a live membership or- 
ganization with a broad program of 
service rather than a loose federa- 
tion of County Farm Bureaus. At 
that memorable meeting 120 men 
made personal pledges of $100 each 
to underwrite the 
employment of a 
secretary, the estab- 
lishment of an of- 
fice, and the in- 
auguration of a joint 
membership cam- 
paign throughout 
the state. 

The first I. A. A. 
office was set up in 
a couple of small 
rooms at 1103 Edison 
Building, across 
from the Federal 
Building in Chicago. 

At the end of the 
year, the organiza- 
tion committee re- 
ported that 40,551 
members had been 
secured through 
membership cam- 
paigns in 33 coun- 
ties. The following 
year, 1920, this figure 
had been more than 
doubled and_ since 
then the I. A. A. has 
been one of the 
largest and strongest 
state farm organiza- 
tions in America. 


The H. C. of L. 


When the mem- 
bers met in Peoria a 
year later in Jan- 


of 1919 and 1920 


uary, 1920, to review the year’s ac- 
complishments, one of the interest- 
ing subjects discussed was the boy- 
cott of eggs, butter, and other farm 
products by city housewives, and 
the nation-wide publicity given the 
High Cost of Living. 

“Because there is a lot of com- 
ment about the farmer being to 
blame for the high cost of living,” 
the Publicity Department reported, 
“the I. A. A. fed two families in 
Chicago for a week, kept strict ac- 
count of what that family ate, and 
what it cost them. The products 
were traced back to see how much 
the farmer got. Out of the four 


PERE MARQUETTE HOTEL, 


PEORIA 


Headquarters I. A. A. Annual Meeting Jan. 25-26-27. The last I. A. A. 
Convention was held in this city in Jaunary 1927. 


main necessities of life which come 
direct from Illinois farmers—meat, 
bread, milk, and potatoes—the 
farmer gets 42 per cent, and others 
get 58 per cent,” said the report. 
“In the case of bread, the farmer 
gets 3.1 cents for the wheat in a 10 
cent one-pound loaf which means 
that if he gave his wheat for noth- 
ing bread would still cost about 
seven cents a loaf. Carrying it out 
further it would mean a reduction 
of 75 cents per bushel for wheat to 
make a one-cent reduction in a loaf 
of bread.” 

How different is the picture to- 
day? The low cost of living and the 
lowest price for farm 
products in the 
memory of living 
men will character- 
ize the economic 
situation as dele- 
gates and members. 
gather from the 102 
caunties of Illinois in 
January 1933. 

In welcoming the 
delegates to Peoria, 
his home county, at 
the annual meeting 
on January 13, 1920, 
Zealy M. Holmes, 
then Association 
vice-president, struck 
one of the keynotes 
of the convention 
when he said: 

“What we want 
and expect is that 
the price of farm 
products can be sta- 
bilized so after pro- 
ducing the crops we 
can in return re- 
ceive the cost of pro- 
duction plus a rea- 
sonable profit. 

“In the contracts 
our government 
made with other in- 
dustries during the 
war, they allowed 
cost plus a certain 
(Cont’d. p. 4, col. 3) 


Page Four 


THE I. A.A. RECORD 


December, 1932 


President Smith Serves 
On National Committee 


U. S. Chamber of Commerce 
Calls Meeting To Devise 
Ways and Means of Re- 

habilitating Farm 
Buying Power 


A committee composed of repre- 
sentatives of business and agricul- 
tural interests met in the office of 
General Robert E. Wood, president 
of Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chicago, 
November 21 to consider ways and 
means of re-establishing an equi- 
table price ratio between farm and 
industrial prices. 

The meeting was called by H. I. 
Harriman, president of the United 
States Chamber of Commerce, Earl 
C. Smith, president of the Illinois 
Agricultural Association, is a mem- 
ber of the committee representing 
organized farmers. 

Others attending the meeting 
were: Burton F. Peek, vice-presi- 
dent, Deere & Company, Moline, 
lll.; F. A. Theis, vice-president of 
Simonds-Shields-Lounsdale Grain 
Co., Kansas City, Mo.; M. L. Wil- 
son, agricultural economist, Mon- 
tana State College; R. R. Rogers, 
Prudential Life Insurance Co., New- 
ark, N. J.; H. A. Wallace, editor of 
Wallace’s Farmer, Des Moines; Ly- 
man E. Wakefield, president, First 
National Bank of Minneapolis; 
Harper Sibley, managing director, 
Sibley Farms, Rochester, N. Y.; A. 
C. Hardison, Hardison Ranch Com- 
pany, Santa Paula, Cal.; N. P. Hull, 
president, Grange Life Insurance 
Company, Lansing, Mich.; Sydney 
Anderson, vice-president General 
Mills, Inc., Minneapolis; D. L. 
James, secretary to the new com- 
mittee; E. L. Bacher, secretary, 
foreign commerce committee, 
United States Chamber of Com- 
merce; Thomas Wickman, chair- 
man legislative committee, Chicago 
Association of Commerce. 


Resolution Adopted 


The resolution adopted by the 
committee follows: 

“With farm product prices at 
present levels, the burden of agri- 
cultural taxes, interest charges and 
freight rates is intolerable. Farm 
products today will buy only one- 
half their normal amount of con- 
sumer goods. 

“Inasmuch as it will be a slow 
process to negotiate reciprocal tar- 
iff agreements and make govern- 
mental debt adjustments in such a 
way as immediately to increase ex- 
ports to a material extent we ad- 
vocate the immediate development 
of a plan which will establish a 
domestie price level for basic farm 
products which is far enough above 
the world level to re-establish an 
equitable price ratio between farm 
and industrial prices. 


i | £ | 


SOUTHPAW HUSKER FROM KNOX COUNTY WINS 
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP 


Carl Seiler (right) member of the Knox County Farm Bureau, not only won 
the state title in the contest held near Monticello in Piatt county, but husking 
against 16 picked men, all winners, from eight other states, won the national 
contest before 20,000 or more people who gathered on the Robert Peterson 
farm east of Galva in Henry county Nov. 10. Seiler gathered a net load of 


36.91 bu. in 80 minutes. 


Orville Welch, Piatt county Farm Bureau member (left) was the national 
champion last year and placed second in the state contest, sixth in the na- 
tional contest, this year. The Henry County Farm Bureau, American Legion, 
and other local groups co-operated with Prairie Farmer in staging the big 


event. 


“We believe, therefore, that it is 
in the general public interest for 
all groups to cooperate with agricul- 
ture in formulating a plan which 
will restore the purchasing power 
of farmers.” 

A sub-committee was appointed 
to present a plan to re-establish 
farmers’ buying power for the con- 
sideration of the committee as a 
whole at a further meeting to be 
held at an early date. 


Business Leaders Aroused 


The significance of this com- 
mittee’s activity is that business 
leaders are showing vital interest 
in the farm problem and will likely 
give support to an effective plan to 


raise farm prices for submission in . 


the next Congress. It will be re- 
called that the Chamber of Com- 
merce endorsed the Agricultural 
Marketing Act passed in 1929 which 
since has proven ineffective in 
maintaining farm prices on a par 
with the prices of industrial com- 
modities. 

If business and agriculture can 
get together on an effective plan 
there is little doubt that it can be 
put through the coming session of 
Congress. The fact that business in 
general is desperate and is ready to 
do almost anything that promises 
to put factory wheels in motion is 
one bright spot in the future out- 
look. 


Annual Meeting Jan. 25-26-27 
(Continued from page 3) 
percent of profit. The farmer 
stood by the government at all 
times. We have worked from 
early morn until late at night to 
help feed the world and so far have 
succeeded in doing it. Was any 
profit guaranteed the farmer? 
Would we not as farmers be better 
off if the government had not fixed 
the price of wheat? Most of the 
wheat at present is in the hands of 
speculators, and they are asking a 
50 per cent raise. Do you think the 
price of pork should fluctuate from 
$1 to $2 in 24 hours? I see no real 
protection. Wool has gone down to 
the producer. Can you buy clothing 
any cheaper? You can answer if 
you will. What we need first is edu- 
cation as to our grave needs so that 
we may build the foundation of an 
organization that can perpetuate 
this great industry in which our 
lives and money are invested. Ever 
since the Pilgrim Fathers landed 
in America, organization of this 
great cause of agriculture has been 

needed.” 


Here’s Real Vision 


That the founders of the I. A. A. 
had prophetic vision and foresight 
in building the organization, is re- 
vealed in the report of the first Fi- 
nance Committee made by Joe 
Fulkerson, chairman. 


(Continued on page 5 col. 3) 


December, 1932 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Five 


British Farmers Get 
Price-Fixing Legislation 


Parliament Passes Marketing 
Act Much More Far-Reach- 
ing Than Ours 


GC ey British Agricultural Market- 
ing Act passed in July last year 
permits the producers of any farm 
commodity by means of a two- 
thirds majority vote to place the 
entire marketing of all the commod- 
ity produced under the control of 
their own organization. 

If the producers of a given com- 
modity wish to set up an organiza- 
tion they must first submit their 
plan to the Minister of Agriculture. 


The plan must provide for a board 


to control marketing, must define 
its powers and provide for the elec- 
tion of its members by producers. 
If the Minister approves the plan 
and is satisfied that the persons 
submitting it are representative of 
the producers of the commodity, he 
has to submit it to Parliament 
where, upon its approval, it becomes 
law. 

The Act provides wide powers. A 
commodity board under the terms 
of the Act could own and operate 
a meat packing plant. But before 
the plan can be made effective it 
must have a two-thirds majority 
vote of producers voting on it. At 
least half of the producers of the 
commodity must have taken part in 
the voting. 


Three Types Boards 


Three types of boards are con- 
templated under the Act, the trad- 
ing board which would handle the 
commodity in question, a regulating 
board which merely issues instruc- 
tions as to how the commodity is to 
be sold, and a third type which 
would have both regulatory and 
trading functions. A board cannot 
exercise any direct control over 
production, but it may control sales 
in such a manner as to impose a 
penalty on producers for produc- 
tion of excessive amounts. 

The law provides for co-operative 
buying as well as cooperative sell- 
ing. One difference between this 
Act and our own marketing act in 
the United States is that the British 
Act provides for compulsory co- 
operation of all producers when 
two-thirds of them approve the 
plan. 

If there is substantial opposition 
to the plan objectors can obtain 
redress in the courts. This must be 
done before the Act passes Parlia- 
ment. Once a plan is approved by 
Parliament no court action can re- 
peal it. In England Parliament it- 
self is the court of last appeal. 

While the Act has been in force 
about a year only one plan has 
come into operation, that for con- 
trolling the marketing of hops. 


NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEET. 
ING OF ILLINOIS AGRICUL- 
TURAL ASSOCIATION 


NOTICE is hereby given that 
the annual meeting of the 
members of ILLINOIS AGRI- 
CULTURAL ASSOCIATION 
will be convened at the Pere 
Marquette Hotel, in Peoria, 
Illinois, on the 26th day of 
January, 1933, at 9:00 o’clock 
a. m., for the following pur- 
poses: 

For the consideration and 
vote upon approval and ratifi- 
cation of the reports of the 
president, secretary and treas- 
urer of the Association, and 
the acts of the board of direc- 
tors and officers in further- 
ance of the matters therein 
set forth, since the last annual 
meeting of the members of the 
Association. 

To approve, ratify and con- 
firm the several purchases 
heretofore made by this Asso- 
ciation of stocks and evidences 
of indebtedness of corpora- 
tions whose activities will di- 
rectly or indirectly promote 
agriculture or the interests of 
those engaged therein. 

To secure consent and au- 
thorization to acquire on be- 
half of this Association, by 
purchase, certain stocks and 
evidences of indebtedness of 
corporations whose activities 
will directly or indirectly 
promote agriculture or the in- 
terests of those engaged 
therein. 

To elect eight members to 
the board of directors for two- 
year terms. 

To elect a president and 
vice-president. 

To consider any proposed 
amendments of the articles of 
association or of the by-laws 
of Illinois Agricultural Asso- 
ciation as may be propertly 
submitted. 

For the transaction of such 
other business as may properly 
come before the meeting. 

GEO. E. METZGER, 
Secretary. 
Chicago, Ill., Nov. 26, 1932. 


The principal objections raised 
against the Act by certain farmers 
is the compulsory feature, also that 
without control of imports or a 
tariff, the Act would be ineffective 
in raising prices since it provides 
no method of dealing with foreign 
competition. 

The plan for marketing hops ap- 
plies to a commodity of which the 
price in England is largely depend- 
ent on the domestic supply. A tar- 
iff has proven ineffective and at- 
tempts on the part of producers to 


organize for limiting supplies have 
failed owing to the refusal of a 
minority to co-operate. Producers 
are to be paid for their hops in ac- 
cordance with the principle of the 
seasonal pool. The hops plan was 
approved by Parliament early in 
July this year, and the producers 
gave it the required majority vote 
early in August. 

The British Marketing Act re- 
ceived more widespread support 
among farmers in Scotland than in 
England chiefly because Scottish 
farmers have made more headway 
in co-operative marketing than 
have English farmers. In Scotland 
plans have been developed for mar- 
keting milk and raspberries. 

The boards appointed under these 
plans may exercise both regulatory 
and trading functions. They may 
even process the commodity. Where 
the board does not itself market the. 
product, it will fix the price and 
payment will be made by the pro- 
ducer to the board and not to the 
producer. The board after deduct- 
ing its own expenses will distribute 
the proceeds among the producers, 
paying a uniform price for each 
grade of product. 

A bounty plan subsidizing wheat 
farmers in the British Isles was 
enacted during the past summer by 
which wheat growers are guaran- 
teed a price of approximately $1.30 
a bushel. 

This recent action by Great Brit- 
ain to help its farmers is in line 
with similar action taken by such 
countries as France, Italy, Ger- 
many, etc. 


l. A. A. Annual Meeting 
Set For Jan. 25-26-27 


(Continued from page 4, col. 3) 


“Our Organization Department 
has done its work and done it well,” 
said the Committee report, “but 
there will be times when our an- 
nual payments will come in slowly; 
times when money among farmers 
will be scarcer than it is today, then 
will come the test of the real 
strength of this Association. Is it 
wise to risk letting a great work fail 
just at the most important moment 
for lack of funds to carry it 
through? Is it just and right to ask 
the representatives from your dis- 
trict on the executive committee 
who are already donating their time 
and labor to loan their personal 
credit to tide this Association over 
a critical place? 

“Many organizations own real es- 
tate and office buildings valued up 
in the millions. They have a perma- 
nently established credit and can 
borrow money at any time. I hope 
to see the day come in the near fu- 
ture when the I. A. A. may have 
$100,000 invested in United States 
government bonds which could be 
put up as collateral at a moment’s 
notice. 

(Continued on page 6 col. 3) 


THE LA. A. RECORD 


December, 1932 


“New Plan of Cream Marketing 
in Illinois” will be the subject of a 
-radio talk by Frank Gougler, direc- 
tor of produce marketing on station 
KMOX, St. Louis Monday noon, Dec. 
5, 12:45 P. M. 


The following Monday, Dec. 12, 


W. J. Niergarth, manager of the 
Farmers National Grain Corpora- 
tion at St. Louis, will discuss co-op- 
erative grain marketing. 

“What Farmers can Accomplish 
Through Organization” was the 
subject of an address prepared by 
Secretary Geo. E. Metzger and de- 
livered over station KMOX, Mon- 
day, November 21, by A. D. Lynch, 
manager Sanitary Milk Producers, 
St. Louis. 

The address emphasized the fact 
that farmers had been forced to or- 
ganize in marketing their products 
and in buying needed supplies co- 
operatively, told what had been 
done in Illinois. “The chain prin- 
ciple of doing business,” he said, 
“has forced farmers, likewise, to 
adopt chain business methods.” 


More than a dozen listeners to 
Station KMOX still use crystal sets. 
Most of them are within 25 miles of 
Saint Louis, but one is in use in 
Oklahoma. 


Visit Fruit And Vegetable 
Market At Benton Harbor 


H. W. Day, director of fruit and 
vegetable marketing, visited and 
inspected the growers truck market 
at Benton Harbor, Michigan recent- 
ly. He was accompanied by repre- 
sentatives of the State Department 
of Agriculture. 

The purpose of the trip was to 
secure information about this type 
of market and determine the possi- 
bilities of establishing something 
similar for fruit and vegetable pro- 
ducers in southern Illinois. 

The Benton Harbor market is be- 
ing operated by the city for grow- 
ers within a radius of approximate- 
ly 50 miles. The question of estab- 
lishing such a market was discussed 
at a recent conference of farm ad- 
visers in Mt. Vernon. 


Pete Clausen, one of the early or- 
ganizers of the I. A. A. and Farm 
Bureau who now resides in Aurora, 
writes that he spent three months 
last summer in Norway, Sweden, 
Germany, and Denmark. “I hadn’t 
been ‘home’ for 42 years,” he said. 
“What a change!” 

Pete is contributing regularly to 
the Aurora Beacon News, still fight- 
ing for agriculture. 


An automobile insurance policy 
in the I. A. A. company remains in 
force until it is cancelled by the 
company or by the _ policyholder, 
states A. E. Richardson. The respon- 
sibility is placed upon the County 
Farm Bureau for notifying the com- 
pany if a policyholder is not a Farm 
Bureau member in good standing. 
The company will then cancel the 
policy at the next assessment date 
after receiving notice of cancella- 
tion. 


Income Tax Amendment 
Fails In Indiana Nov. 8 


The referendum on the income tax 
amendment to the state constitu- 
tion, November 8 failed, reports the 
Indiana Farm Bureau. It was fa- 
vored by a majority of the citizens 
who considered the proposal but a 
majority of all the citizens voting 
in the state did not endorse it, 
which is a requirement of the state 
constitution. Seventy-one of the 92 
counties in the state gave constitu- 
tional majorities to the proposal, all 
usually considered as strictly rural 
sections. 


The state farm organization was 
very active on the referendun hav- 
ing advocated income tax measures 
in various sessions of the legisla- 
ture during recent years as a means 
of securing government revenue to 
replace or reduce levies on farm 
and other property. 


With only Steuben county not re- 
ported and the total vote of Floyd 
county not in, the count shows that 
1,574,520 votes were cast in the elec- 
tion on November 8. To carry, it 
was necessary that the amendment 
receive a total favorable vote of 
787,261. The “yes” vote on the 
amendment totaled 695,791 failing 
by 91,470. The “no” vote on the 
proposal totaled 205,276. 


Industrial centers of large cities 
were responsible for its defeat. Not 
that it received a larger “no” vote 
than a “yes” vote in such centers 
but because it was entirely ignored 
evidently because no urban inter- 
ests were active in its behalf. The 
lack of interest shown in the result- 
ant vote in Marion county, seat of 
Indianapolis, was sufficient to kill 
it. In other words, eliminating Ma- 
rion county, the proposal would have 
been adopted by a constitutional 
majority of 21,930. Only 35,143 of 
213,463 persons voting in Marion 
county voted on the amendment, of 
which 27,193 were favorable. There- 
fore 178,320 did not vote either way 
on it. Other counties with large 
urban populations which had a 
similar situation were Allen, Dela- 
ware, Lake, La Porte, St. Joseph, 
Tippecanoe and Vanderburgh. 


Announce Speakers For 
Annual A. F. B. F. Meeting 


Among the speakers scheduled 
for the annual meeting of the 
American Farm Bureau Federation. 
Chicago, Dec. 5-6-7 are Admiral 
Richard E. Byrd, chairman, Na- 
tional Economy League, who will be 
the featured speaker at the annual 
banquet Tuesday evening, Dec. 6; 
Congressman Henry B. Steagall. 
Alabama; M. L. Wilson, director, 
Department of Agricultural Eco- 
nomics, Montana State College; 
Miss Helen Johnston, State Home 
Demonstration Agent, Alabama; 
Dr. G. F. Warren, Department of 
Agricultural Economics, New York 


’ State College of Agriculture; Henry 


I. Harriman, president, United 
States Chamber of 
Dean J. H. Skinner, Purdue Uni- 
versity; Ray Fife, Ohio State Su- 
pervisor of vocational education, 
and others. 

President Edward A. O’Neal will 
entertain the state Farm Bureau 
presidents and secretaries at a din- 
ner on Sunday evening, Dec. 4. 

The meeting will be held at the 
Sherman Hotel as in past years. The 
A. F. B. F. board of directors will 
hold its final meeting of the year 
on Friday, Dec. 2, and on Saturday 
there will be a special meeting of 
voting delegates, state Farm Bu- 
reau officials, and state directors of 
extension service. 


l. A. A. Annual Meeting 
Set For Jan. 25-26-27 


(Continued from page 5, col. 3) 


“This idea of collecting dues and 
tying them up may not be very 
popular with the members down 
home, but it is good business. Think 
it over.” 


Basis of Representation 


As in past years the I. A. A. meet- 
ing scheduled for January 26-27 
will be preceded by the annual 
meetings of the associated com- 
panies and organizations on Wed- 
nesday, January 25. 

This year the Illinois Produce 
Marketing Association also will hold 
its annual meeting at Peoria on 
January 25. There will be the usual 
conference for insurance agents, 
and a conference for managers of 
county service companies affiliated 
with Illinois Farm Supply Company. 

The basis of delegate representa- 
tion in the coming annual meeting 
will be the paid-up membership on 
any day during November and De- 
cember, 1932. Therefore counties 
are advised to get as many mem- 
bers on the eligible list as possible 
before the end of the year. 

The annual banquet will probably 
be held in the armory. The Pere 
Marquette Hotel, as at the 1927 
meeting, will be headquarters of the 
convention. 


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December, 1932 


THE LA. A. RECORD 


Page Seven 


National Grange Master 
Outlines Relief Program 


Expresses Friendly Interest In 
Domestic Allotment Plan 
To Lift Farm Prices 


HERE are four essential steps 

that should be demanded of the 
short session of Congress, L. J. 
Taber, member of the National 
Grange, declared in his annual ad- 
dress before the delegates and na- 
tional assembly at Winston-Salem, 
North Carolina on November 16. 

“There should be an amendment 
to the Marketing Act providing ma- 
chinery to deal with the surplus 
problem and lift prices. 

“Monetary stabilization must have 
consideration and an honest dollar 
must mean more than one hundred 
cents. It must mean a dollar honest 
to debtor and creditor alike. 

“Credit machinery must be set in 
motion to prevent foreclosures, to 
reduce interest charges, and where 
the farmer has any equity left, give 
him a fighting chance to hold his 
farm and home. 


Must Cut Taxes 


“Governmental costs, local, state, 
and national, must be reduced and 
tax burdens lightened on real es- 
tate.” He also recommended that 
the organization endorse a_ long- 
time policy for rural life founded 
on a sound program of land utiliza- 
tion. 

He advocated retention of the Ag- 
ricultural Marketing Act but that it 
be amended to overcome its weak- 


nesses and shortcomings. “When 


the Act is amended,” he said, “it 
must be amended by the friends 
and not by the enemies of agricul- 
ture. 

“The stabilization features of 
this Act have not been wholly suc- 
cessful ... yet it is apparent that 
a better substitute must be found 
if there is to be permanent good 
derived from machinery of this 
character,” said Taber. “The surplus 
problem is still with us. Some solu- 
tion must be found for this prob- 
lem, or continued disaster is ahead.” 


Allotment Plan 


After upholding the export de- 
benture plan which the Grange has 
consistently advocated, Mr. Taber 
said: “The Domestic Allotment 
Plan is now receiving considerable 
support from industrial and com- 
mercial leadership as well as rural 
groups. This method provides for 
the payment of the equivalent of 
the tariff on that portion of certain 
commodities domestically con- 
sumed; funds for this purpose to 
be raised by a tax on the processor. 
Overproduction would be checked 
by the fact that the farmer receives 
less for his surplus than for that 
used in the home market. 


“It is possible that this plan can 
be amended and simplified in a 
manner where the Grange can give 
it support. We never have advocated 
any measure because of name, ori- 
gin, or the nature of support be- 
hind it, but have always sought to 
favor any program economically 
defensible, lifting farm prices with- 
out burdensome or bureaucratic 
machinery. . . . Our organization 
stands ready to co-operate with 
every force in the nation to the 
end that the intolerable inequality 
of the export branches of agricul- 
ture shall be minimized... . 


Amend Marketing Act 


“The Marketing Act should be 
amended: First, to provide for a 
Bi-Partisan Board; second, by re- 
storing to the Board funds spent for 
wheat given to charity and to 
China; and third, by substituting 
for stabilization some additional 
method of lifting farm prices.” 

Mr. Taber recommended over- 
hauling and reorganization of the 
functions of government, but de- 
clared that agriculture must guard 
against the crippling of services 
necessary and helpful to industry. 

Tax reduction, lower cost trans- 
portation, extension of farm to 
market roads, opposition to exten- 
sive diversion of gas tax license fees 
for other than road building pur- 
poses, tariff protection, co-ordina- 
tion and improvement of the farm 
credit system, reduced interest 
charges on long-time farm loans, 
and constructive amendments to 
the present credit system without 
drastic changes, were other recom- 
mendations. 

Retention of the gold standard, 
avoidance of fiat money, but “cor- 
rection of the currency structure 
so as to stabilize the value of the 
dollar and its buying power in terms 
of commodities,” were also advo- 
cated by the National Grange 
Master. He voiced opposition to the 
proposed farm march on Washing- 
ton, opposed repeal of the 18th 
Amendment, and advocated co-op- 
eration with other farm organiza- 
tions and plans to improve the con- 
dition of agriculture. 


Bond Issue Goes Over 
With Large Majority 


How more than 20 Illinois coun- 
ties gave the emergency relief bond 
issue a 100 per cent vote or better 
(counting vote for state legislators 
as 100) will be revealed in a survey 
now being completed by John C. 
Watson, director of taxation. As we 
go to press some 70 counties have 
reported in each of which the pro- 
posal carried by an overwhelming 
majority. 

In a number of senatorial districts 
where there were no contests for 
state legislators many voters did 


not mark their ballots for members 
of the General Assembly, but voted 
“YES” on the small bond issue bal- 
lot. Such action in Mercer county, 
for example, resulted in a vote for 
the bond issue of approximately 32 


per cent greater than the vote for . 


state representative. 


While some of the following fig- 
ures may be subject to revision they 
are the leading counties in voting 
to approve this important measure, 
the passage of which saved property 
owners from an additional levy of 
$25,000,000 in taxes next year: Mer- 
cer 131.8, Rock Island 110.39, Henry 
107.67, Boone 106.87, Effingham 
105.55, Whiteside 105.46, Pike 105.12, 
Henderson 104.39, Putnam 103.39, 
JoDaviess 102.32, Menard 102.29, 
Moultrie 102.21, Tazewell 16221, 
Knox 101.55, DeKalb 101.54, Stark 
101.23, Piatt 100.99, McDonough 100.- 
97, Brown 100.720, Marshall 100.12. 
Other counties not yet heard from 
also may exceed the 100 per cent 
mark. 


A large number of counties gave 
the bond issue overwhelming ma- 
jorities of more than 90 per cent of 
the total vote for state legislators. 
Thorough organization by precincts 
with committees on hand during the 
day to talk to voters, coupled with 
widespread publicity, were respon- 
sible for the wonderful showing in 
the downstate counties. 


Pass Relief Legislation 
At Springfield Nov. 21 


The lower house of the state legis- 
lature at Springfield on Nov. 21 (1) 
approved a $17,000,000 Cook county 
relief bond issue, (2) approved the 
optional county sales tax of one 
per cent on the retail selling price 
of all tangible property which can 
be established by a two-thirds vote 
of the county board and kept in 
force until July 1, 1933 for unem- 
ployment relief purposes, and (3) 
approved the issuance of bonds by 
down-state counties without ref- 
erendum for relief purposes. 


Prompt passage of these meas- 
ures by the senate was regarded as 
assured. 

The bills are calculated to permit 
relief agencies in Chicago and other 
centers of unemployment to carry 
on until the new General Assembly 
meets in January when, according 
to the present outlook, an effort 
will be made by metropolitan in- 
terests to enact a state-wide sales 
tax. 

The I. A. A. has been represented 
at Springfield each week while the 
legislature was in session. It has op- 
posed the principle of taxing the 
people of one section of the state 
to provide relief for the people of 
another section. The association be- 
lieves that each community should 
provide for its own unemployed. 


Page Eight 


THE IL. A. A. RECORD 


December, 1932 


Pai TELLIN OIS. rc 
eeACULTURAL ‘RbD— N 


To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was or- 
ganized namely, to promote, protect and represent the busi- 
ness, economic, political and educational interests of the 
farmers of Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 


GEORGE THIEM, Editor 


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Published monthly by oe Illinois Agricultural Association at 165 So. 
Main St., Spencer, Ind, Editorial Offices, 608 So, Dearborn St., Chicago, 
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ance for mailing at special rate of postage provided in Section 412, 
Act of Feb, 28, 1925, authorized Oct, 27, 1925, Address all communications 
for publication to Editorial Offices, Tllinois Agricultural Association Record, 
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tion Record, Postmaster: In returning an uncalled for missent copy please 
indicate key number on address as is required by law. 

OFFICERS 

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MIU Fie EG a bade SSS Gain Re eka ap eb cero ea dea C. J. Gross, Atwood 
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DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 

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Country Life Insurance Co,........... cece eee eens L, A, Williams, Mer. 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co,...............2.000: J. H, Kelker, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Auditing Assn................. F, E, Ringham, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co......... A, E, Richardson, Mgr. 
Illinois Farm Supply Co............eeeeeeeeeeees L, R, Marchant, Mgr. 
Illinois Grain Corp......... Chas, P, Cummings, Vice- pa and Sa‘es Mgr. 
Mllincis Livestock Market, Ass’n,..Ray Miller, Mgr.; = Grieser, Sales 
Illinois Produce Marketing Asa’n..........cceeseeeeees A, Gougler, Mgr. 
Soybean Marketing Ass’n..............ceceeeeeceees Ww H, Coultas, Mgr. 


An Expression From The Taxpayers 


6 Briss overwhelming approval given the 
emergency relief bond issue to reduce 
property taxes was not only a tribute to 
the effectiveness of the campaign to carry 
it; it was a tribute as well to the in- 
telligence of the voters, and proof that they 
are aroused and determined to cut down 
the tax burden on farms, homes, and other 
property. 

The greatest progress in tax reduction 
during the past two years has been made 
in local taxing districts where government 
is nearer and most responsive to the will 
of the people. Tax cuts ranging from 20 
to 40 per cent in downstate counties over 
the two year period have been numerous. 
Let the state and federal governments take 
their cue from these expressions of the tax- 
payers. 


Breaking The Jam 


AVERAGE prices received by farmers 

for their products on Oct. 15 stood at 
an index of 56 using the 1910-1914 five year 
average as 100. 


This means that farmers now are ex- 
changing their crops at prices nearly 50 
per cent below the pre - war average 
whereas non-agricultural prices, wages, 
transportation costs, taxes, etc. vary from 
100 up to more than 200 per cent of the 
1910-14 average. 


Thus it requires from two to four times 
as many bushels of grain, fruits, and vege- 
tables, and pounds of livestock, milk, and 
butterfat to buy railroad transportation, 
fertilizers, farm implements, fuel, automo. 
biles, pay taxes, interest, and debts, as it 
did before the war. 


This unfair exchange value which places 
the farmer at a great disadvantage in any 
trade is the primary reason the country is 
in a Jam. And the reason the jam has con- 
tinued for three years is because of the re- 
sistance offered by creditors, industry, or- 
ganized labor, the railroads, and govern- 
ment to the same percentage of deflation 
as that suffered by agriculture. 


One or both of two things can happen to 
loosen the jam. Either farm prices will be 
raised so as to re-establish the exchange 
ratio of the pre-war period, or else the de- 
flation in industrial prices, wages, taxes, 
interest, and other costs, now underway, 
will continue to the level of agriculture. 


There is ample evidence to discount the 
possibility of relief through printing more 
money. That will probably do no good. 
There is plenty of money in the big banks, 
as much or more than ever, but for the mo. 
ment it lies idle. The banks will not loan 
it out except when secured by gilt edged 
collateral, and then for only short periods. 
And most of our daring enterprisers of a 
few years ago who were venturing into all 
sorts of new fields are now twiddling their 
thumbs, holding on to the money they sal- 
vaged from the crash. 


Deflation in agriculture apparently is at 
or near the end but non-agricultural prices, 
wages, taxes and other costs must yield ad- 
ditional ground unless farm prices are 
raised. That much is certain. When the 
equilibrium is reached and trading picks up, 
prices will rise and the debt situation will 
look less serious. 


December, 1932 


THE LA. A RECORD 


Page Nine 


| Why the Depression Continues 


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A Critical Analysis of Present Economic Ills With Suggestions For Their Cure 
By GEORGE ROBERTS, National City Bank 


es depression 
began three years 
ago, and by now there 
should be general rec- 
ognition of the fact 
that serious derange- 
ments exist in the eco- 
nomic system. 

By this time the 
natural economic 
forces would have ac- 
complished a substan- 
tial recovery, if their 
influence had had free 
play. Something in 
the nature of a log 
jam exists in the busi- 
ness stream, and it is 
of great importance 
to locate the key logs 
in the jam. There is reason for 
believing that the railroad situa- 
tion is one of them. 

Furthermore, the high cost of liv- 
ing, notwithstanding the low prices 
upon food and raw materials, to- 
gether with the state of unemploy- 
ment and low aggregate earnings 
of the whole body of wage workers, 
notwithstanding high nominal 
wages, afford a key explanation to 
the blockade of trade. 


Must Come Down 


It is a fair question, whether in 
this crisis, the railroad orders have 
done all that they can afford to do 
to sustain the industry which gives 
them employment, or all that is fair 
and right for them to do to sustain 
the entire industrial organization. 

Are they convinced that a reduc- 
tion of 10 per cent, limited in time 
to a period that will expire in now 
three months, is the utmost con- 
cession they can make from a wage 
increase of approximately 157 per 
cent (accomplished in a few years 
under the influence of war and in- 
flation) , as their share in a general 
readjustment of wages and prices 
which had yielded to them more 
than a 10 per cent increase in the 
purchasing power of their wages be- 
fore their concession was granted? 

Are they certain that even from 
the standpoint of their own inter- 
ests alone they could afford to see 
the railroads ruined, with resulting 
effects upon the country’s financial 
structure and all business, rather 
than make any further concession? 
Or do they count upon action by 
the United States Government, in 
their behalf, to assume railroad 
losses and liabilities, along with all 
its other undertakings for the sup- 
port of business and employment 
and the relief of distressed people? 


Here is an analysis of the present economic situation by 
an orthodox economist, offered without comment to our read- 
ers because it represents the views of one large school of 
thought on the depression and its cure. 

Inequalities in prices of services and commodities are half. 


responsible for our hard times and until these are adjusted 
so as to give everyone a fair trade, unemployment will con- 
tinue indefinitely says Mr. Roberts. “The drop in prices of 
what farmers and raw material producers sell warns of the 
necessity of reducing the prices of what they buy if recent 
improvement is to be turned into lasting recovery.” 

High wages, high taxes, high transportation costs, high 
costs of finished commodities, the continued high cost of liy- 
ing are all key logs in the jam blocking recovery. Resistance 
to deflation by the better organized groups in our society to- 
gether with the disturbing influences of foreign money values 
and international trade are having their influence in slowing 
up the return of a normal prosperity.—Editor. 


NEAREST TORS PEE Slat PTD ACLS aE LRRD ER 


If this expectation is the basis 
of their policy, it is not unreason- 
able to ask if they have considered 
how long the public credit would 
stand up under such demands, in 
view of the present state of the 
revenues and present ability of the 
country to pay taxes or subscribe 
for bonds? With 40 per cent of their 
members unemployed the railroad 
brotherhoods certainly have an in- 
terest of their own in the restora- 
tion of general prosperity... . 

When the economic system is 
seen to be what it is, a mutually 
supporting organization for ex- 
changing services and _ supplying 
each other’s wants, it should be ap- 
parent that the relations within the 
system are of great importance. 
Upon the stability of these relations 
depends the stability of trade, pro- 
duction, employment and consump- 
tion. The highest state of prosper- 
ity and well being is attained when 
all parts of this voluntary organiza- 
tion are in such balanced relations 
that there is full employment for 
all workers and the varied products 
and services readily pay for each 
other. 

In a sound economy the system 
is regulated automatically by price 
movements, which tend to distrib- 
ute the working population into the 
occupations as needed to maintain 
the desired equilibrium in produc- 
tion and prices. If anything occurs 
to seriously disturb the balanced 
relations trade necessarily slows 
down and unemployment results. 
This is the situation in which this 
country has been struggling for now 
nearly three years. Undoubtedly 
the wants of the people for goods 
of all kinds are as great as they 
ever have been and productive ca- 
pacity is greater than ever before, 
but price relations have been in 


such a state of con- 
fusion that the vol- 
ume of trade has 
fallen off between 
one-third and one- 


The excess of sup- 
plies over market de- 
mands has seemed to 
imply a general state 
of overproduction, but 
the true explanation 
is a loss of purchasing 
power to millions of 
would-be consumers. 
This loss is not by 
reason of a shortage 
of the money supply 
or any loss of physi- 
cal wealth, but is due 
to the fact that the different com- 
modities and services are not being 
valued to each other on the same 
terms as they were a few years 
ago. If the former price relations 
were restored the exchanges would 
soon be flowing as they were 
then. ... 


Many Costs Rigid 


Certain factors in the economic 
system are more rigid than others. 
Prices of commodities of current 
production coming in volume to the 
markets are constantly changing 
under the influence of supply and 
demand. Compensation for persona] 
services is controlled to a consider- 
able degree by custom and bargain- 
ing power and changes less readily. 
Contracts of all kinds extending 
over years usually are rigid. 

The costs of government have a 
high degree of rigidity, except that 
they tend to increase, particularly 
in good times, when people are free 
with expenditures and not paying 
much attention to taxes. Moreover 
the expenditures of governments 
are chiefly for personal services and 
interest on borrowed money, costs 
which are relatively unyielding. 

The people have just now waked 
up to the fact that taxes have be- 
come increasingly burdensome... 

Transportation costs are another 
important claim upon all business 
and all incomes, like the costs of 
government having a high degree 
of rigidity because the expenditures 
are chiefly in the form of compen- 
sation for personal services. Trans- 
portation costs stick out like a sore 
thumb in comparison with the re- 
duced prices of products trans- 
ported. 

Rents have a high degree of rigid- 
ity, but dependent in part upon the 

(Continued on page 12) 


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Page Twelve 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


December, 1932 


Why The Depression Continues 
(Continued from page 9) 


contract in them. Since the war, 
rents have reflected the high wages 
which have prevailed in the building 
trades and building material indus- 
tries. Construction costs are one of 
the “key logs” in the jam. 

Debts and interest rates on long 
term indebtedness are an inflexible 
element in the situation, and a very 
fmportant one. Debts always have 
increased importance in a period of 
reaction, after a boom period has 
induced a general increase of them. 
Interest rates in themselves are not 
inflexible, for market rates are as 
changeable as any economic factor, 
but legal contracts to pay money 
are not easily changed. The sub- 
ject, which always involves the 
money question, is too complex for 
a full discussion here, but reference 
is made elsewhere to the tendency 
of interest rates to decline in peri- 
ods of depression, and so far as the 
debt burden is increased by a fall of 
commodity prices, the effect always 
has been temporary. 


Debts Not So Crushing 

A general and rapid fall of prices 
always is due to derangements in 
the economic system which inter- 
fere with the normal flow of prod- 
ucts into consumption. When 
order is restored, as it always has 
been and will be again, prices re- 
cover, and the debts are found not 
to be so crushing as they appeared 
in the time of panic. 

Finally, wages constitute the prin- 
cipal factor in economic relations, 
because they are the chief item of 
costs in nearly every industry and 
therefore the chief factor in the 
making of prices. The greater part 
of the aggregate income of all the 
people of this country is first re- 
ceived as wages and salaries, and 
subsequently expended for commod- 
ities and services. ... 

We have seen that personal com- 
pensation in the form of wages and 
salaries is the principal factor in 
the costs of government and in the 
rigidity which characterizes them. 
There is great popular sentiment 
against any proposal to reduce 
wages, and wage rates therefore 
have a high degree of_rigidity. On 
the other hand, largely because 
wage rates are so rigid, employment 
and actual wage-earnings are sub- 
ject to great fluctuations, and this 
is one of the chief reasons why de- 
pressions sink as deep and last as 
long as they do. 

For in a period of depression 
large numbers of people find their 
incomes unavoidably reduced, and 
if the things they would like to buy 
do not decline in price there must 
be a drastic reduction in the physi- 
cal volume of their purchases, and 
unemployment results. 

The present state of disorder, the 
worst ever known, is due primarily 


to the war, which forced many vio- 
lent changes in industry and trade. 
It created an unlimited demand for 
man-power and caused a vast shift 
of labor into war industries, which 
was induced by bidding up wages, 
and of course had an influence 
upon all wages. Moreover, the cost 
of living rose rapidly, on account 
of the. extraordinary demands of 
Europe for foodstuffs and other 
necessities, and this properly was 
taken into account in fixing wages. 

In all the past, on account of con- 
tinuing improvement. in methods of 
production, transportation and dis- 
tribution, wages have normally 
moved on an upward course, and it 
has become a habit of mind to ex- 
pect them to do so. Furthermore, it 
has become a fixed principle of or- 
ganized labor never to permit a ret- 
rograde movement. With the usual 
rate of wage advancement this was 
possible, but the rise from 1915 to 
1929 was wholly abnormal, and could 
not be made in real wages (com- 
modities) out of current production. 

The country was not creating 


Index of Hourly Earnings 


Agricultural Implements ........... 
AULOMODIUES 26... ec eee eee 
Boots and Shoes ................... 
RIN iS 0G ire ce cctv ebeng paar 
Electrical Mfg. ..:...5...0..005-e008 
FIOM ATG oon 'c ob ia. cleo tied ey k sald & ben 
Fee kfc aie Space a Gipieveie bl eveisee ele 
Machines and Tools ............... 
Machinery—Heavy Equipment ..... 
DEORE PACKING 606i ceiiic eek canes 
Printing—Book and Job ........... 
ECUIOIOGR | os: o/s 5 oiskalvre Glee pe bed Mey W bea hie seer 


Simple Average of these Industries .... 
CLASS I RAILROADS ............. 


modities) , has upset the equilibrium 
of all industry and forced millions 
of wage-workers out of employment. 
Industrial costs are relatively so 
high that products cannot be sold. 
The labor leaders treat the situa- 
tion as a conflict between employ- 
ers and wage-workers and denounce 
the former for seeking wage reduc- 
tions. This is an inadequate and 
mistaken view. The _ responsible 
head of an industry very properly 
endeavors to conform to conditions 
as he meets them, in order to con- 
tinue doing business and affording 
employment for his working force. 
The conflict which develops when 
the industrial system is thrown out 
of balance is not primarily between 
employers and employes, but be- 
tween different sections of the eco- 
nomic system, over the terms upon 
which their products shall be ex- 
changed. There is no fundamental 
conflict of interests, for all of these 
groups would be best served by find- 
ing a fair basis upon which their 
products and services could be read- 
ily exchanged and enter into use. 


Base Year July 

1914 1929 1932 
... 100 235 204 
... 100 239 203 
... 100 235 190 
... 100 251 218 
... 100 229 222 
... 100 227 204 
... 100 240 ~ 212 
... 100 217 203 
... 100 215 185 
... 100 247 194 
... 100 241 230 
... 100 263 248 

100 236.58 209.42 
... 100 251 *231 


* June Source: National Industrial Conference Board. 


wealth at that rate, and the at- 
tempt to convert these money- 
(credit-) wages into commodities 
drove up the cost of living, render- 
ing the nominal wage advance 
largely fictitious, in the sense that 
it did not carry any such increase 
of purchasing power. These wage 
rates never should have been re- 
garded as other than emergency 
rates, intended to compensate for 
the existing depreciation in the 
purchasing power of money or, in 
other words, the rising cost of liv- 
ing. They were not effective in in- 
creasing real compensation at the 
time, and the attempt to maintain 
them later, when they did represent 
a substantial increase of real com- 
pensation (after the fall of com- 


Occupation 


BROMO MOLD 5c ahivctec eps disweeses 
Building Laborers ................. 
Pa | 5 nl a re 
Cement Finishers ................. 
Inside Wiremen ................... 
POUGOOLE oa eis evan cbcvececebas 
PIGSGCLOTS. 656 eee ec ccwedecvewcaee 
Plumbers 2.0.0... ccc ccc ccc ev eccues 


The preceding table gives figures 
showing the rise of wages upon the 
railroads and in twelve leading in- 
dustries from 1914 to 1920 and their 
comparative level in the month of 
July, 1932. The calculation is based 
upon average wage rates in 1914 as 
100, the figures for 1929 and 1932 
representing average wages in these 
years in percentages of 100. Thus, 
wages in the agricultural imple- 
ment industry in 1929 were 235 per 
cent of wages in 1914, or 135 per 
cent higher, and in 1932, 104 per 
cent higher. 

The following table gives in cents 
per hour a showing of union wage 
scales in the principal building 
trades in 1913 and 1932, with the 
percentage of increase, as given in 
the Monthly Labor Review: 

Cents Per Hour 


Year May 15, Per Cent 
1913 1932 Change 
.. 67.1 130.0 93.7 
.. 29.9 96.6 223.1 
~, 80.1 100.9 101.4 
.. 56.5 116.1 105.5 
51.3 121.7 137.2 
47.1 116.8 148.0 
64.9 129.9 100.2 
~~ OOF 120.5 101.8 
57.3 119.6 108.7 
60.6 125.3 106.8 


December, 1932 


THE LA. A. RECORD 


Page Thirteen 


It will be seen that notwith- 
standing the wage reductions made 
between 1929 and July, 1932, aver- 
age rates in the above-named in- 
dustries, including the railroads, 
this year are more than 100 per 
cent above the 1914 level. 

The primary industries, produc- 
ing foodstuffs and raw materials, 
were very much stimulated outside 
of Europe during the war, to make 
up for the loss of supplies that had 
previously come from Russia and 
Central Europe. Since the war this 
new production, largely in the 
United States, Canada, Australia 
and Argentina, has been maintained 
and with the recovery and increase 
of production in Russia and Cen- 
tral Europe, an excess of supplies 
has resulted, which has broken 
down prices. It is needless to say 
that these scattered producers of 
primary products have no way of 
controlling the prices of their prod- 
ucts as the workers in the highly 
organized industries are able to con- 
trol wages. Adjustments in produc- 
tion must be made, but these re- 
quire time. 


Farmer Hit First 


The American farmer has been 
selling his products this year at 
about one-half the average prices 
of 1913. In contrast with this the 
railroad employes have been insist- 
ing that they should not be asked 
to accept wages less than 157 per 
cent above their wages in 1913. In 
the principal American industries, 
as shown above, average wage rates 
are now 100 per cent above the 
1913 level. An exchange of services 
on this basis would mean that the 
farmer must give nearly four times 
as much of his products for an 
hour’s factory or railroad wage as 
in 1913... . With this heavy handi- 
cap upon him the farmer has had 
no alternative but to cut his pur- 
chases to the lowest possible point, 
and employment in factories and on 
railroads was reduced accordingly. 


Purchasing Power Down 


While the loss of purchasing 
power began with the farmers and 
other producers of primary prod- 
ucts, of course it did not end there. 
For as these consumers, under the 
pressure of necessity, reduced their 
purchases of the products and serv- 
ices of the other industries, and the 
latter cut down their working 
forces, the purchasing power of 
these groups also declined. The en- 
tire industrial organization slowed 
down. 

It is urged that the remedy for 
the situation is to cease reducing 
wages and promptly restore those 
which have been reduced. If every- 
body was a wage-worker, and there 
was any assurance that all employ- 
ers were in position to follow this 
advice, there might seem to be 
some plhausibility in the proposal, 

(Continued on page 14) 


O'Neal States Policy 
On Foreign Debt Situation 


Opposition to any scaling down of 
foreign debts unless compensatory 
trade agreements are made by 
which European countries agree to 
buy our products, was expressed by 
Edward A. O’Neal, president of the 
American Farm Bureau Federation 
in a recent letter to Alfred P. Sloan 
Jr., chairman of national debt com- 
mission. 


“The moratorium on the pay- 
ment of European debts to us, so 
generously granted by the President 
and the congress,” O’Neal wrote, 
“has not during the past year suc- 
ceeded in stimulating this trade 
(between America and her debtors) , 
and I am wondering if a permanent 
reduction in these debts would have 
any different effect from that which 
we have observed during the past 
year. If we could make a condition 
incident to the scaling down of these 
debts a provision that the nation 
so benefited should agree to buy 
certain quantities of goods from 
this country, then it seems to me 
there might be some justification 
for a scaling down of these debts.” 


But O’Neal said he felt the prob- 
lem is “not only a problem of inter- 
governmental debts, but of all debts, 
public and private.” He asserted 
that the mortgage indebtedness of 
American farmers is no less than 
the inter-allied war debts which 
now concern the debt committee. It 
was his judgment that the same 
factors rendering payment of gov- 
ernment debts difficult were also 
making impossible the payment of 
the debts of farmers and other pro- 
ducers of wealth in America. 


J Farm Dollar Drops 


“Of much more importance than 
consideration of any settlement of 
the foreign debt,” the farm leader 
wrote Sloan, “must be consideration 
of ways and means whereby com- 
modity values can be raised to a 
point where we will be enabled to 
pay off our farm indebtedness 
without being obliged to suffer fore- 
closure and loss of property.” Farm 
indebtedness incurred when prod- 
ucts brought reasonable _ prices 
must now be paid off while those 
products bring less than half the 
price they formerly commanded, he 
said. 


O’Neal made three suggestions: 


The Ultimate Remedy 


Charles Benedict, writing under 
the title “Deflation is the Ultimate 
Remedy” in The Magazine of Wall 
Street says: “The problem of defla- 
tion is world-wide. It has every- 
where wrought two evils: (1) It 
has indisputably made the world’s 
burden of debt beyond the world’s 
capacity to pay; (2) It has resulted 
in a great inequality of current 
prices, which disastrously impedes 
the exchange of commodities. 


“There are three ways of ap- 
proaching the problem. One is stub- 
bornly to resist all price declines, 
another is to let prices crash to new 
levels and scale down and write off 
debts with all possible speed; the 
third is monetary or credit infla- 
tion or a combination of the two. 


“The United States, together with 
England and Germany, is at present 
inclined toward resistance to price 
reductions and toward inflation in 
one form or another. France ad- 
vocates noninterference with prices 
and opposes inflation. She pro- 
poses to allow wages and produc- 
tion costs to come down to the price 
level rather than attempting to 
bring the price level up artificially 
to meet costs. Her reasoning and 
her policy are sound. 


“There has been no greater calam- 
ity in the present series of calam- 
ities than that of the artificial peg- 
ging of prices in all lines where 
such control was possible. Beyond 
a doubt this perverse rear-guard 
action against the inevitable has 
accentuated and prolonged the de- 
pression and will still further pro- 
long it. It is mainly responsible for 
the fact that as the depression has 
advanced the spread between urban 
and manufactured products and 
rural and raw materials has become 
greater and greater. 


“While surpluses have increased 
farm products have fallen 47 per 
cent in the past three years while 
urban products have gone down but 
25 per cent. Only recently have our 
export agricultural products sur- 
rendered to world price levels—and 
the surrender is not yet complete. 
.. . We might far better have rec- 
onciled ourselves at the outset to 
the fact that deflation is the nat- 
ural corrective to inflation—the 
correction of abnormal prices and 
maladjustments of supply and de- 
mand... .” 


devaluation of the American gold 
dollar to offset commodity price de- 
cline; world conference on adequate 
international mediums of exchange, 
and tariff revision to promote 
“freest possible interchange of com- 
modities.” 


Page Fourteen 


THE LA. A. RECORD 


December, 1932 


There are indications and some 
support for the belief that this na- 
tion is preparing at last to grapple 
with the farm problem more effec- 
tively and perhaps more success- 
fully than has been the case up to 
now. 


Until recently, our federal gov- 
ernment over a period of 50 years, 
or more, has placed emphasis on 
agricultural production. It has been 
effective through reelamation proj- 
ects and free land grants in ex- 
panding and pushing the produc- 
tion area steadily westward. It has 
suceeeded in encouraging more 
efficient production in the older ag- 
ricultural sections of the East and 
Middle-West. It has stimulated 
competition in agriculture. 


The world war gave powerful im- 
petus to the produce-more-food 
movement. “Food will win the war,” 
we were told. Farmers plowed up 
virgin acres in obedience to the 
sudden demand and the chance for 
profit. Production of wheat and 
other crops was stepped up in re- 
sponse to the highest farm prices in 
anyone’s memory. With the end of 
the war came deflation for agricul- 
ture and the beginning of a long 
series of mortgage foreclosures and 
losses. That story is too well known 
to be reviewed at length here. 


About 1922 if not before, we be- 
came conscious of the surplus prob- 
lem, of inequalities in the exchange 
value of farm commodities and non- 
agricultural goods. This problem 
has been with us ever since, only 
more intensified in the past three 
years. There are those who believe 
there would be no surplus problem 
here if everyone in this country 
were well fed. The facts indicate 
that they are wrong. True the un- 
employment situation with conse- 
quent low buying power in consum- 
ing centers is partly responsible for 
the more recent drastic decline in 
the prices of farm products. But 
agriculture was in a state of depres- 
sion from surpluses when industrial 
unemployment was comparatively 
negligible and consumer buying 
power in the cities was at high 
tide. 


The fact is there is too much food 
produced in this country for do- 
mestic consumption at any price. 
We have been relying on foreign 
markets for part of our production, 
ever since the war. We have been 
allowing foreign markets to fix the 
price on our entire production of 


such crops as wheat, corn, cotton 
and hogs, while buying needed sup- 
plies in a protected market. There 
has been a steady transfer of na- 
tional wealth from agriculture to 
industry. 


Were foreign markets open to us 
and foreign people financially able 
to buy at a price yielding us a prof- 
it, crop acreage reduction would not 
have to be considered. But the for- 
eign market outlook has completely 
changed. Where before the war, we 
were shipping our farm products to 
Europe to pay interest on our debts, 
now we are a great creditor rather 
than a debtor nation. And we are de- 
manding payment of debts although 
refusing to take our pay in the form 
of manufactured goods and serv- 
ices from abroad. 


Another disturbing influence is 
that Europe has gone back to farm- 
ing. The World War made the bellig- 
gerent nations extremely conscious 
of the importance of a domestic 
food supply. Economic agricultural 
nationalism has grown at a terrific 
rate among European countries. 
Practically all of these nations have 
set up tariffs, import quotas, mill- 
ing and mixing regulations, and li- 
censing systems which have prac- 
tically shut off the normal export 
flow of our farm products. 


Yet we in this country have gone 
along producing for a market which 
has ceased to exist. We will cut our 
production, however, within the 
next few years either voluntarily 
or involuntarily. In fact the point 
has been reached now where the 
actual cash outlay for production on 
large areas of land is greater than 
the value of the crops. Production 
this year was largely maintained 
by subsidy, out of borrowed or ac- 
cumulated capital. When that capi- 
tal is used up, great tracts of land 
will be allowed to lie idle until con- 
sumption catches up. Then and not 
until then will there be a rise in 
prices unless we carry out a plan 
of orderly acreage reduction. We 
can take our choice of managing 
production or allowing the law of 
the survival of the fittest to do it 
for us. Incidentally the more mon- 
ey is loaned by the government and 
others to continue surplus agricul- 
tural production, the greater will 
be the sum lost and the longer the 
time required for the inevitable ad- 
justment. 


If, and when, the domestic allot- 
ment plan or some modification of 
it is enacted into law, it will drive 
into the open and expose the folly 
of investing accumulated capital 
into the production of surplus com- 
modities for a market which will not 
or cannot pay their cost.—E. G. T. 


Why Depression Centinues 
(Continued from page 13) 


but the census figures showing the 
principal occupational divisions of 
the gainfully employed population. 
which were given in this publica- 


‘tion last month, indicate what may 


be expected of this policy. 


In 1930, of a population of 122,- 
775,000 there were 98,723,000 per- 
sons ten years of age or older and 
of these 48,830,000 in the language 
of the Census were “gainfully em- 
ployed.” Of these, 10,472,000 were 
employed in agriculture, of whom 
6,079,000 were owners, tenants or 
managers, 2,733,000 were hired em- 
ployes and 1,600,000 were unpaid 
members of the resident families. 
There were 9,550,000 operatives and 
laborers employed for hire in all 
the manufacturing establishments 
and 1,072,000 on the steam railroads, 
these two groups together number- 
ing about the same as the “gain- 
fully” employed upon farms. Forty- 
four per cent of the entire popula- 
tion lived either outside of incor- 
porated towns and eities or in towns 
of less than 2,500 people, where all 
incomes are largely dependent up- 
on farm prosperity. 


The total number of employes en- 
gaged in operating steam railroad 
trains, was 456,000 and the total 
membership of the American Fed- 
eration of Labor is less than 
3,000,000. Any one can make his 
own estimate of how many of 
the members of these groups, and 
how many of the remaining gain- 
fully employed, would be likely to 
have their incomes increased as the 
result of even the most effective 
wage-lifting movement that could 
be organized under present condi- 
tions. It is then to be considered 
that whatever might be thus added 
to the purchasing power of the re- 
cipients must be subtracted fram 
the purchasing power of the whole 
population, including the farmers 
and all others whose purchasing 
power is already below normal, after 
which he may draw his own con- 
clusions. For there is no way of in- 
creasing the income of any section 
of the population except either 
through an increased production of 
wealth within itself or by a transfer 
of income from other sections of the 
population. ... 


The conclusion appears to be in- 
evitable that the wage-paying in- 
dustries are on an artificial and un- 
economic basis, suffering an enor- 
mous waste in the idleness of both 
labor and capital, causing living 
costs to be 35 per cent above the 
1913 level, while wage scales which 
are nominally very high in com- 
parison with those of 1913 produce 
a smaller aggregate of actual wage 
payments. The explanation is to be 
found in the unbalanced state of 
industry, which prevents the normal 
flow of trade. 


ee ie ek aed ee ee oe |” ee ee 


December, 1932 


More than 600 fluid milk produ- 
cers around Rockford, members of 
the Mid-West Dairymen’s Company, 
met in Rockford the night of No- 
vember 18 to protest against the 
action of dealers cutting the price 
on all fluid milk to flat butterfat 
basis. 

News of the reduction in price to 


producers followed announcement . 


by the dealers that they would drop 
the price to the consumer from nine 
to six cents per quart. The dealers’ 
action in cutting the retail price 
one-third was precipitated by raw 
milk peddlers who have established 
milk depots on the outskirts of 
Rockford where they are dipping 
milk out of cans as it comes from 
the farm for five cents per quart. 
Raw milk peddlers have cut into 
their trade to such an extent say 
the distributors that they were 
forced to take this action. 

Members of the Dairymen’s Asso- 
ciation have been receiving a net 
average of approximately $1.13 per 
cwt. for milk, according to the fol- 
lowing schedule: base milk $1.50; 
class 2 or surplus $1.05; class 3 
(condensing) 90 cents. 

Sentiment at the meeting of 
dairymen was unanimous for with- 
holding milk the next morning. J. 
B. Countiss, director of dairy mar- 
keting for the I. A. A. who attended 
the session, recommended that such 
action be deferred until an outlet 
could be found for members’ milk 
and an opportunity was afforded 
to confer with the dealers. 

Newspaper publicity questioning 
that sanitary requirements were be- 
ing met by the raw milk depots re- 
sulted in a tremendous increase in 
demand for the lower priced prod- 
uct. The dealers apparently decided 
on the drastic cut from nine to six 
cents only after their established 
business had been demoralized by 
low priced competition. 

Members attending the indigna- 
tion meeting unanimously favored 
the Association withholding a $10,- 
000 payment due from the distribu- 
tors for milk and using the money 
to establish a plant of their own 
either for separating milk or carry- 
ing the product direct to the con- 
sumer. 

Newspaper reports quoted W. E. 
Sawdey, president of the Associa- 
tion, to the effect that producers 
would be ahead to separate milk on 
the farm, sell the cream, and feed 
the skim to the pigs. By so doing 
they would save 25 cents per cwt. 
including the 15 cent hauling 


charge, and 10 cents per cwt. for the 
skim. 

“This is the lowest price for milk 
offered recently to fluid producers 


THE LA. A. RECORD 


in this state,” said Countiss. “But 
before we do anything drastic let’s 
first consult with the dealers, de- 
velop a plan, and find out where 
we’re going. If we withhold our milk 
the dealers will get plenty anyway. 
There is plenty of condensery milk 
in this section.” 

W. H. Lee, the new manager of 
the Mid-West Dairymen’s Company, 
stated that under the new price 
farmers would be getting only 29 
per cent of each dollar paid by the 
consumer, whereas formerly the 
farmers received 42 per cent of the 
consumer’s dollar. 

Conferences with the mayor of 
Rockford and the City Health De- 
partment indicate that the pro- 
ducers have the friendly support of 
local officials. 

As we go to press plans are being 
developed to protect the interests 
of the organized dairymen and get 
them the maximum price possible. 


Livestock Exposition 
Is Bigger Than Ever 


As we go to press B. H. Heide, 
manager of the International Live 
Stock Exposition, announced that 
the best specimens of 35 different 
breeds of live stock will fill to ca- 
pacity 22 acres of exhibition barns 
that house the big show. 

Walter Biggar, famous Scotch fat 
cattle judge from Dalbeattie, Scot- 
land, is scheduled to place the steer 
classes. His grand champion steer 
selection in 1929 sold for the world 
record price of $8.25 a pound in the 
fat cattle auction. 

The utility corn show at the In- 
ternational ‘Hay and Grain Exposi- 
tion will find many Illinois entries. 
Smooth type corn will compete with 
the rough corn in the grand cham- 
pionship contest. Farmers of near- 
ly every state in the Union and in 
the Province of Canada are exhibit- 
ing wheat and other grains. 

The 4-H Club show promises to 
be a feature of the exposition as in 
past years. More than 1,000 farm 
boys and girls from nearly every 
state in the Union will be in Chicago 
the week closing Dec. 3. 


Choose Illinois Delegates 
A. F. B. F. Meeting Chicago 


Earl C. Smith, A. R. Wright, and 
Geo. F. Tullock were chosen as vot- 
ing delegates to represent the Illi- 
nois Agricultural Association and 
its members at the annual A. F. B. 
F. meeting, Chicago, Dec. 5-6-7. The 
entire board of directors will attend 
the convention. 


The December meeting of the I. 


A. A. board will be held the same 
week on Friday, Dec. 9. 


Mrs. Minnie Staffeldt owns a 
farm with fields situated on both 
sides of the railroad right-of-way 
just south of Eola in DuPage coun- 
ty. The railroad company maintains 
a farm crossing between the two 
fields. She stated that the ap- 
proaches were too steep to haul 
grain across registering her com- 
plaint with the Farm Bureau on 
July 20. Since she expected to move 
grain within the next 10 days 
prompt action was requested in re- 
pairing the crossing, and in extend- 
ing tile under a fourth track, newly 
built, so as to take care of the water 
being dammed up in the field by 
the right-of-way. 

The I. A. A. wrote the company 
on July 22 and on July 31 the work 
of reconstructing the crossing was 
under way and drainage provided 
under the tracks. 

H. S. Wright, farm adviser of 
DuPage county wrote: “Mrs. Staf- 
feldt is very thankful for the serv- 
ice rendered on these claims. I 
wish also to thank you for the speed 
with which you had these matters 
taken care of.” . 


Farm Supply Sales 
Meetings Well Attended 


An excellent attendance of coun- 
ty service company managers, oil 
truck salesmen, and county direc- 
tors was reported at the four dis- 
trict conferences sponsored by the 
Illinois Farm Supply Company at 
Mattoon, East St. Louis, Peoria, and 
Aurora, November 16-17-18 respec- 
tively. 

Attendance at each meeting 
ranged from 90 up to 200 or more. 
Manager L. R. Marchant reported 
that this series of meetings was the 
most enthusiastic and best attended 
of any yet held. 

Among the speakers were Mr. 
Marchant; C. W. Ward, supervisor 
of sales for the state company; 
Henry Sagemiller, of the W. H. Bar- 
ber Company who discussed the 
new process of refining to secure 
lower cold test oils; L. A. Williams, 
Country Life Insurance Co. who dis- 
cussed salesmanship; T. A. Faust 
who talked about the value of cod 
liver oil in the diet of young ani- 
mals; P. C. Battenfeld who told the 
advantages of asphalt roof coating; 
and Mr. Mason from the Goodrich 
Rubber Company who spoke on the 
subject “Making Timely Adjust- 
ments.” 


President Fred E. Herndon of Ma- 
comb presided. 


Page Sixteen 


THE I. A. A. RECORD. 


Sorrells Tells Advantages 
of New Livestock Co-ops. 


Livestock Growers Must Shoul- 
der Responsibility For Develop- 
ing More Efficient Distri- 
bution System 


ged Ly revamping our livestock ma- 
chinery in Illinois,” said Sam 
Sorrells in a recent radio address 
over Station KMOX, “we have found 
that larger marketing units such as 
those serving an entire county or 
parts of three or four counties, can 
meet competition because: 

“1, They can make frequent ship- 
ments. 

“2. They can ship regularly. 

“3. They can grade livestock at 
home and ship graded loads of one 
species. 

“4. They can use double-deck 
railway equipment, and in other 
ways economize in the handling of 
livestock. 

“5. They can provide full-time 
management by a man whose en- 
tire time is devoted to a study of 
the chief markets of the. country 
and their peculiar demands. 

“6. Livestock can be moved in the 
most direct and economical way to 
the particular market or outlet 
where it will command the highest 
price.” 

Mr. Sorrells, president of the Illi- 
nois Livestock Marketing Associa- 
tion and I. A. A. director, discussed 
recent changes made in the co- 
operative marketing setup in this 
state. He appeared as I. A. A. feat- 
ure speaker on the regular Monday 
noon farm program over the St. 
Louis Station on Nov. 14. 


New Units Established 


“Within the last year or two in 
Illinois, county marketing units 
have been established in Cham- 
paign, Vermilion, Shelby, Iroquois, 
McDonough, Knox, Coles, Edgar, 
and Macon counties,” he _ said. 
“Others are in process of organiza- 
tion and the demand is still com- 
ing from various sections of the 
state for similar work. In each case 
these larger marketing units are 
serving the territory previously 
served by from five to 15 small 
shipping associations.” 


Speaking of the organization of 
the State Marketing Association 
Mr. Sorrells pointed out that its 
purpose is to correlate marketing 
work of the district co-operatives, 
to assist in standardizing methods 
of handling, of grading, and ac- 
counting, to regulate the movement 
of livestock to market according to 
demand; to bring to. each district 
or county unit the full benefit of 
the experiences of other units, and 
to assist each district co-operative 
in finding the markets or outlets 


for livestock which will return the 
highest net price to the grower. 

In conclusion, said the speaker, 
the livestock farmer is recognizing 
as never before his responsibility in 
building an efficient distribution 
system to get the livestock to the 
processor and on to the consumer 
at the lowest reasonable cost con- 
sistent with the quality of the prod- 
uct and service rendered. Co-op- 
erative marketing success is a long- 
time program and to achieve its 
ends and aims members must con- 
tinue working together during bad 
as well as good years. 


The cattle market, reports the 
National Livestock Marketing As- 


sociation, as of Nov. 15, is still 
greatly depressed by large receipts 
of top yearlings and an excess of 
heavy short-fed steers. This has 
weakened the entire market and 
has resulted in an extremely wide 
spread in cattle prices for this time 
of year. . The outlook is favorable 
for some improvement by the end 
of the year and for substantial re- 
covery by the late winter, coming 
largely from a strong feeding de- 
mand and reduced supplies of fed 
steers and butcher stock. 


Many yearling heifers and medi- 
um grade feeder steers now look 
favorable for the March market. 
Also many of the better grades will 
find their best market at that time. 
The fall market a year from now 
is expected to be best for choice 
steer calves, best lightweight year- 
ling steers and good and choice 
fleshy steers taken out next spring 
and early summer. The late spring 
and early summer appears to be 
the period for the cattle feeder to 
avoid next year. Next summer it 
will be well to have light to medium 
weight steers and have them well 
finished. 


The hog market continues in a 
seasonably weak position. The sup- 
ply is centered in the early market- 
ing areas, which means relatively 
large supplies during the balance of 
the year. Storage demand on the 
part of packers, however, is ex- 
pected to be reflected in some price 
improvement by the end of the year 
as short supplies in the late winter 
are generally expected. The situa- 
tion is now favorable for fully fin- 
ishing hogs and the holding of the 
lighter weights for the February or 
March market. 


Substantial reduction in supplies 
of lambs is in sight for the next 
few months as the movement of 


December, 1932 


feeding lambs into the Corn Belt 
has been greatly curtailed. In 
general, the situation is favorable 
for the lamb feeder, but with the 
western feeder taking a_ slightly 
larger proportion of the crop, the 
situation indicates highest prices 
during December, January and 
February, slightly the reverse of 
last year. 


The eighth unit of the Mlinois 
Livestock Marketing Association at 
Paris, Edgar county, handled 31 
cattle, 30 calves, 1,577 hogs, and 53 
sheep during its first month of op- 
eration in October. 

The State Marketing Association 
handled during October 227 decks 
of livestock from its affiliated as- 
sociations. 


The Indianapolis Producers re- 
port that 1,180 different truckmen 
are now hauling livestock regularly 
to this co-operative commission 
firm. The ten in Illinois bringing 
the largest number of consignments 
to the Producers rank as follows: 
Wiley Ikemire, Jasper county; Fred 
Q. Payne, Cumberland county; Cecil 
Roberts, Douglas county; Chas. E. 
Burkett, Edgar county; William 
Ramsey, Shelby county; Chas. Mc- 
Clain, Effingham county; L. W. 
York, Douglas eounty; Everett 
Toppe, Champaign county; O. L. 
Bradford, Douglas county; and F. 
E. Knight, Coles county. 


Old Time Parties Beat 
Depression In Effingham 


“Farm prices may be at a low ebb 
and hard times with us, but the de- 
pression is not preventing us from 
having a good time in Effingham 
county,” says Farm Adviser Geo. H. 
Iftner. 


A feature article in the Decatur 
Herald of November 21 quoting 
Iftner reports that more than 350 
farm folks in Effingham county are 
taking an active part in planning 
and executing entertainment for 
the 11 Farm Bureau community 
units in that county. Most of these 
are young people, many just above 
the 4-H club age. 

Community meetings are held 
monthly in each district. Programs 
are arranged and most of the talent 
furnished by members of the com- 
munity units. All sorts of games are 
played. There is plenty of music by 
local pianists, fiddlers, and ban- 
joists. There are folk dances, relay 
races, and other features to provide 
wholesome fun at little or no ex- 
pense. 


The old songs and dances, the old- 
time parties are the best means of 
bringing our folks closer together, 
said Iftner. Our larger meetings 
bring out from 500 to 1,000 people 


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Declares Country Life 
In Excellent Condition 


Actuary Points Out Favorable 
Position of Company For 
Future Growth 


“Country Life Insurance Company 
is in probably the most liquid con- 
dition of any life insurance com- 
pany in the United States,” L. A. 
Glover, consulting actuary, said in 
a brief talk before the monthly 
meeting of the board of directors 
November 18. 

“You were very fortunate in start- 
ing the company when you did,” 
said Glover. “You have avoided 
the difficulties most other com- 
panies are experiencing. Country 
Life Insurance Company has been 
built on a sound foundation and 
you are in a very favorable position 
to go ahead. 

“Your business has been sold on 
a sound basis judging from your 
experience in keeping policies in 
force. Most of your policies are 
small and the premium payments 
are generally within the ability of 
the policyholders to meet them. 
Companies which have sold large 
policies based on inflated income 
are having difficulty in keeping 
such policies in force.” 

A. R. Wright, chairman of the 
Finance Committee, who, with the 
Treasurer, R. A. Cowles, has largely 
directed the purchase of securities 
for Country Life and other asso- 
ciated companies, announced that 
none of the securities of the life 
or auto insurance companies are in 
default in either interest or prin- 
cipal. 

The Country Life directors de- 
clared a dividend of 10 per cent on 
the capital stock of the company 
to take care of preferred dividend 
requirements of the holding com- 
pany due on December 19. 

The board also authorized that a 
discount of three per cent per an- 
num be allowed on all life insur- 
ance premiums paid in advance by 
policyholders. 

Country Life Insurance Company 
is now retaining risks without re- 
insurance up to $10,000 exclusive of 
the double indemnity. As a result 
of this action larger risks are being 
scrutinized more closely than ever 
by a risk committee composed of 
the medical director, the actuary, 
the active manager and counsel. 

Manager L. A. Williams reported 
to the Board of Directors that ac- 
quisition for October was $1,122,000, 
and that the paid-for business for 
the year would approximate TEN 
MILLION by the end of December. 

He reported business coming in 
from every County in the State with 
one exception, announced agents’ 
sales meetings at Centralia, De- 
catur, and DeKalb, for November 
28, 29 and 30, at which final prep- 


THE I. A.A. RECORD 


arations for the December 10th 
Achievement Day Jubilee were to 
be given out. 

Mr. Williams anticipates that 
Country Life will be one of the few 
companies in the United States to 
make a gain for 1932 in life in- 
surance in force. He reported cred- 
itable persistency of business for 
the year and that premium income 
for 1932 would be nearly a million 
dollars. 


Black Elected V. P. 
Anti-Thief Association 


Charles S. Black, I. A. A. director 
from Jacksonville, was elected na- 
tional vice-president of the Anti- 
Horse Thief Association at their re- 
cent annual meeting in Perry, Okla- 
homa. Mr. Black is also a member 
of the executive 
committee of the 
Illinois division 
i which he _ served 
two years as presi- 
dent. The Illinois 
division held its 
annual meeting 
recently at Litch- 
field where Presi- 
dent Earl C. Smith 
of the I. A. A. 
made the chief 
address. 

Charles McDan- 
iels of Macon county is national 
secretary-treasurer of the organ- 
ization, and Sydney Holben of Edin- 
burg in Christian county is state 
secretary. 

The Anti-Horse Thief Association, 
recently changed to Anti-Thief As- 
sociation, was organized in Clark 
county Missouri in 1854 by Major 
David McKee and his associates. It 
now has about 40,000 members lo- 
cated in Kansas, Oklahoma, Mis- 
souri, Iowa, Illinois, Arkansas, New 
Mexico, and Colorado. 

It is both a detective and protec- 
tive order. If property be stolen 
from any member, the organization 
seeks to recover the property and 
capture the thief. Its motto is “Pro- 
tect the innocent; bring the guilty 
to justice.” 

The order works hand in hand 
with law enforcement officials, and 
in many communities is so well or- 
ganized that thievery has been 
practically abolished. 

Annual dues regulated by the 
local lodge range from $2 to $3 a 
year. Full information about the 
organization may be had by writing 
the state secretary at Edinburg. 


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CHAS, S. BLACK 


It is estimated that there will be 
5,000 fewer automobile deaths this 
year than in 1931. A smaller num- 
ber of automobiles on the road 
coupled with more sober living and 
thinking are given as reasons for 
this decline. 


Page Seventeen 


Rich-Law Service 
Pays 20% Dividend 


350 Attend Annual Meeting of 
Lawrence County Farm 
Bureau 


Bi Rich-Law Service Company 
operating in Richland, Law- 
rence, Crawford and Jasper coun- 
ties voted to pay a twenty percent 
patronage dividend on major prod- 
ucts and a fifteen percent dividend 
on other products at the annual 
meeting of the company held at 
Olney Oct. 27. 

The total amount set aside by the 
company for patronage refunds was 
$9,933.44 according to Leslie L. 
Miles, manager. This was an aver- 
age refund of $13.09 to each Farm 
Bureau member patron. The larg- 
est patronage refund check was for 
$468.40. Five patrons received 
checks of $100 or over and 22 re- 
ceived checks of from $50 to $100. 

This dividend was declared after 
a 7% dividend on Class A Preferred 
stock had been paid, a considerable 
deduction for depreciation of equip- 
ment allowed, and a substantial re- 
serve set up. 


ore sonns hundred and fifty persons 
attended the annual meeting 
and dinner of the Lawrence County 
Farm Bureau held at Lawrenceville, 
Thursday November 3. L. A. Wil- 
liams, manager of Country Life 
talked to the group immediately 
after the noon hour. Considerably 
over a million dollars of Country 
Life policies are held in this coun- 
ty. Williams emphasized the need 
for truth as a basis of modern busi- 
ness with his main theme the value 
of group effort. 

The dinner and afternoon meet- 
ing were held in the Chamber of 
Commerce building. The morning 
meeting which consisted of reports 
of the activities of the Bureau was 
held at the Court House. Members 
of the board of directors elected to 
serve for two years were H. O. Ted- 
ford, Thomas Finley, H. R. Neal, 
Edwin F. Schrader, Charles Saums 
and Harry Warner. Three members 
of the board, R. C. Cunningham, 
Benton Haines and Ralph Zehner. 
hold over for another year. 


University of Illinois On Air 
Daily Over Station WILL 


Members of the agricultural and 
home economics staff of the Illi- 
nois College of Agriculture are 
broadcasting daily except Sunday 
over the University station WILL, 
reports Joe Wright, director of pub- 
licity. 

All of the agricultural features 
are broadcast during the noon-day 
period from 12:00 to 12:15. 

WILL operates on a wave length 
of 890 kilocycles. 


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Page Eighteen 


THE LA. A. RECORD 


December, 1932 


NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING 
OF ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 
AUDITING ASSOCIATION 


NOTICE is hereby given that the 
annual meeting of the members of 
Mllinois Agricultural Auditing Asso- 
ciation will be held on Wednesday, 
the 25th day of January, 1933, at 
the hour of 10 o’clock a. m., at the 
Pere Marquette Hotel, Peoria, Illi- 
nois, to elect directors, receive, and, 
if approved, confirm the report of 
the Board of Directors of the Asso- 
ciation for the fiscal year ending 
December 31, 1932; and to consider 
and, if approved, ratify and confirm 
all the acts and proceedings of the 
Board of Directors done and taken 
since the last annual meeting of 
the members of the Association; and 
for the transaction of such further 
and other business as may properly 
come before the meeting. 


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, No- 
vember 26, 1932. 
GEO. E. METZGER, 
Secretary. 


NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING 
OF ILLINOIS FARM BUREAU 
SERUM ASSOCIATION 


NOTICE is hereby given that the 
annual meeting of the members of 
fllinois Farm Bureau Serum Asso- 
ciation will be held on Wednesday, 
the 25th day of January, 1933, at 
the hour of 10:00 o’clock a. m., at 
the Pere Marquette Hotel, Peoria, 
lllinois, to elect directors, receive, 
and, if approved, confirm the report 
of the Board of Directors of the As- 
sociation for the fiscal year ending 
December 31, 1932; and to consider 
and, ii approved, ratify and con- 
firm all the acts and proceedings 
of the Board of Directors done and 
taken since the last annual meet- 
ing of the members of the Associa- 
tion; and for the transaction of 
such further and other business as 
may properly come before the meet- 
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ng. 
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, No- 
vember 26, 1932. 
RAY E. MILLER, 
Secretary. 


FARMERS MUTUAL REINSUR- 
ANCE COMPANY ANNUAL 
MEETING 


The annual meeting of the 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Com- 
pany will be held at the Pere Mar- 
quette Hotel at 3:00 P. M. Wednes- 
day, January 25, 1933. 

The annual reports of officers 
will be made and directors elected 
for the coming year. Policyholders 
are cordially invited to attend the 
meeting. 


NOTICE 
ILLINOIS era ee 


ELECTION OF DELEGATES 

Notice is hereby given that in con- 
nection with the annual meetings of all 
county Farm Bureaus to be held during 
the month of January, 1932, at the hour 
and place to be determined by the Board 
of Directors of each respective county 
Fa:m Bureau, the members in good 
standing of such county Farm Bureau 
and who are also qualified voting mem- 
bers of Illinois Agricultural Association 
shall elect a delegate or delegates to 
represent such members of Illinois Ag- 
ricultural Association and vote on all 
matters before the next annual meeting 
o: any special meeting of the Associa- 
tion, including the election of officers 
and directors as provided for in the 

by-laws of the Association. 
During January annual meetings will 
Douglas, DeKalb, 


Macon, Mercer, . 
Whiteside, and Woodford counties, 
Signed, 
G. BE. Metzger, Secretary 


NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING 
OF ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 
MUTUAL INSURANCE CO. 


NOTICE is hereby given that the 
annual meeting of the members of 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insur- 
ance Company will be held on Wed- 
nesday, the 25th day of January, 
1933, at the hour of 1:00 o’clock 
p. m., at the Pere Marquette Hotel, 
Peoria, Illinois, to elect directors, 
receive, and if approved, confirm 
the report of the board of directors 
of the company for the fiscal year 
ending December 31, 1932, and to 
consider and, if approved, ratify 
and confirm all the acts and pro- 
ceedings of the board of directors 
done and taken since the last an- 
nual meeting of the members of the 
company; and for the transaction 
of such further and other business 
as may properly come before the 
meeting. 

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, Novem- 
ber 26, 1932. 

GEORGE F. TULLOCK, Secretary. 


NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING 
OF ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 
HOLDING COMPANY 


NOTICE is hereby given that the 
annual meeting of the stockholders 
of Illinois Agricultural Holding 
Company will be held on Wednes- 
day, the 25th day of January, 1933, 
at the hour of 11:00 o’clock a. m., 
at the Pere Marquette Hotel, Peoria, 
Illinois, to elect directors, receive, 
and, if approved, confirm the re- 
port of the board of directors of the 
company for the fiscal year ending 
December 31, 1932, and to consider 
and, if approved, ratify and confirm 
all the acts and proceedings of the 
board of directors done and taken 
since the last annual meeting of 
the members of the company; and 
for the transaction of such further 
and other business as may properly 
come before the meeting. 

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, Novem- 
ber 26, 1932. 

GEORGE F. TULLOCK, Secretary. 


NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING 
OF ILLINOIS FARM BUREAU 
BASEBALL LEAGUE 


NOTICE is hereby given that the 
annual meeting of the members of 
Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball 
League will be held on Wednesday, 
the 25th day of January, 1933, at the 
hour of 9:30 a. m., at the Pere Mar- 
quette Hotel, Peoria, Illinois, to elect 
officers and directors, receive, and, 
if approved, confirm the reports of 
the officers and executive commit- 
tee of the League for the fiscal year 
ending December 31, 1932, and to 
consider and, if approved, ratify 
and confirm all the acts and pro- 
ceedings of the board of directors 
done and taken since the last an- 
nual meeting of the members of the 
League; and for the transaction of 
such further and other business as 
hg properly come before the meet- 
ng. 

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, No- 
vember 26, 1932. 


E. G. THIEM, 
Secretary. 


Indiana Grain Co-ops 
Vote To Consolidate 


Merger of the Central States 
Grain Association and the Indiana 
Farmers Co-operative Elevator Com- 
pany, the two Hoosier State stock- 
holders of Farmers National Grain 
Corporation, was announced Nov. 
18 by C. E. Huff, president of the 
corporation. Boards of directors of 
both organizations have approved 
the merger, which becomes effective 
at once. 


The consolidation brings together 
in one statewide marketing organ- 
ization co-operatives of the two ma- 
jor types, the Central States asso- 
ciation representing the so-called 
pooling plan and the elevator com- 
pany, as its name implies, the farm- 
ers’ elevator groups. 

The Central States Grain Asso- 
ciation was organized early in 1924 
under the name of the Indiana 
Wheat Growers Association and now 
embraces in its membership about 
13,000 grain growers in Indiana, 
Southern Illinois and Western Ohio, 
together with a number of local 
farmers’ elevator associations. 

The Indiana Farmers Co-opera- 
tive Elevator Company was organ- 
ized in 1929. and is made up of 
about twenty farmers’ elevators in 
Northern Indiana. It is estimated 
that the two groups handle co-op- 
eratively approximately one-third 
of al’ grain marketed commercially 
in the state. Membership campaigns 
involving both individuals and 
larmers’ elevators are now under 
way and the volume handled is 
steadily increasing. 


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Your Company 
will protect you against Loss 


BOVE is a duplicate of a draft drawn by our adjuster to settle 
a public liability claim against our insured. Suit for $10,000 
was started but the case was settled out of court. 


An average of 500 to 600 accidents involving Illinois Agricul- 
tural Mutual policyholders are reported each month. Approximately 
1,000 checks are written every 30 days to pay losses, attorneys’ fees, 
adjusters’ fees, hospital bills, court costs, and the numerous expenses 
incurred in operating your company. 


Safeguards Farm And Estate 
Some checks are large, many are small. But every policyholder 
with full coverage protection knows that the ILLINOIS AGRICUL- 
TURAL MUTUAL keeps its word .... stands between him and loss 
.... protects his farm and estate against confiscation growing out 
of liability from automobile accidents. 


How much is it worth to have such protection? Certainly far 
more than the cost. You can save money by insuring in your OWN 
COMPANY. Ask us to tell you how. 


A post card to your County Farm Bureau or to the address be- 
low will bring you full information. 


ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL MUTUAL INSURANCE CO. 


608 So. Dearborn Street, Chicago 


CLAIMS PAID PROMPTLY — NEARLY A MILLION DOLLARS IN ASSETS 


sia ; } ‘ . ——m >: <r > ie + 


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VERY farmer should be on his 

guard against cheap, inferior mo- 
tor oils. Cheap oil has its appeal but it 
takes quality to satisfy. 

Under the heat and friction of the 
modern high speed, heavy duty motor 
cheap oils quickly thin out and break 
down. They cause a host of motor 
troubles—scored cylinders, “frozen” pis- 
tons, smashed connecting rods, broken 


safe lubrication. 


Gt 
Inquire about these oils and lubricants 


tor every Winter use 


ILLINOIS FARM SUPPLY CO. 


608 South Dearborn St., Chicago 


crank shafts, and other serious motor 
damage. 

Illinois Farm Supply Company and its 
associated companies sell the best oil 
money can buy. You can buy Penn Bond 
(100% pure Pennsylvania) and Blue 
Seal (pure paraffin) oils with safety— 
the same high quality Summer and 
Winter, year in and year out, with a 
new and far lower cold test. 


F YOU want to save money place your order now for 
next season’s requirements. Telephone your local 
Farm Bureau company or ask your SERVICE man 
for these special prices. Don’t take chances with cheap, 
inferior oils; make the SERVICE sign your guide to 


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Your Company 


BOVE is a duplicate of a draft drawn by our adjuster to settle 
a public liability claim against our insured. Suit for $10,000 
was started but the case was settled out of court. 


An average of 500 to 600 accidents involving Illinois Agricul- 
tural Mutual policyholders are reported each month. Approximately 
1,000 checks are written every 30 days to pay losses, attorneys’ fees, 
adjusters’ fees, hospital bills, court costs, and the numerous expenses 
incurred in operating your company. 


Some checks are large, man\ are small. But every policyholder 
with full coverage protection knows that the ILLINOIS AGRICUL- 
TURAL MUTUAL keeps its word . . stands between him and loss 
.... protects his farm and estate against confiscation growing out 
if liability from automobile accidents. 

How much is it worth to have such protection? Certainly far 
more than the cost. You can save money by insuring in vour OWN 
COMPANY. Ask us to tell you how. 


A post card to your County Farm Bureau or to the address be- 
low will bring vou full information. 


ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL MUTUAL INSURANCE CO. 
608 So. Dearborn Street, Chicago 


CLAIMS PAID PROMPTLY NEARLY A MILLION DOLLARS IN ASSETS 


HERE'S A THOUCHT ABOUT 


Jule 
PASTE IN HIS HAT 


/ 


VERY farmer should be on_ his crank shafts, and other serious motor 
guard against cheap, inferior mo- damage. 
tor oils, Cheap oil has its appeal but it Illinois Farm Supply Company and its 
takes quality to satisfy. associated companies sell the best oil 
Under the heat and friction of the money can buy. You can buy Penn Bond 
modern high speed, heavy duty motor (100°, pure Pennsylvania) and Blue 
cheap oils quickly thin out and break Seal (pure .paratfin) oils with safety— 
down. They cause a host of motor the same high quality Summer and 
troubles—scored cylinders, “frozen’’ pis- Winter, year in and year out, with a 
tons, smashed connecting rods, broken new and far lower cold test 


F YOU want to save money place your order now for 

next season’s requirements. Telephone your local 
Farm Bureau company or ask your SERVICE mar 
for these special prices. Don't take chances with cheap, 
interior oils; make the SERVICE sign your guide to 
safe lubrication. 


ILLINOIS FARM SUPPLY CO. 


608 South Dearborn St., Chicago 


SERVING MEMBERS 
ON MATTERS OF 
VITAL IMPORTANCE 
MAKIN G POSSIBLE 
GREAT SAVINGS. 


TAXATION 
LEGISLATION 
TRANSPORTATION 
CLAIMS-UTILITIES 


CO-OPERATIVE 
MARKETING 


INSURANCE AT COST 
ORGANIZED BUYING 
AUDITING SERVICE 


One of-a series of messages to farmers who ought to belong to the Farm Bureau 


‘‘Every individual owes some- 
thing to . ae industry from 
wie: tee’ gets his living.” 


THEODORE ROOSEVELT 


“ DON’T need the Farm Bureau,” says Mr. Brown. “I 

have worked hard, paid for my farm. I am independ- 
ent. I know how to farm efficiently. I have all the comforts 
and conveniences in my home. I can get along without the 
county adviser’s help and the services of the organization. 
Why should I join?” 


Such argument is heard less today perhaps than in the 
past. Yet there still are many who have achieved relative 
financial independence. Have they no further obligation? 


Every farmer owes something to his industry .... 
owes his best efforts to improve farm conditions ... . to 
make farming a business as well as a way of living. 


How better can he make this contribution than through 
his organization, the Farm Bureau, the Hlinois Agricultural 
Association, which gives purpose, force, and direction to the 
combined constructive thought of the membership. 


Not to get, but to give. Not for’self, but for others, for 
future generations.. Such is the opportunity for service to 
agriculture offered by this orgatiization. 


Ask your neighbor to join. 


ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 


608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago 


Please hand this copy-of the RECORD to a non-member 


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1933 — 


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Get Ready For Annual Meeting 


Harriman, O'Neal, Smith And Others Will Discuss Economic Problems During 


O-OPERATION between busi- 

ness and agriculture to restore 
a fair exchange value for farm prod- 
ucts as a means of leading the na- 
tion back to prosperity will be one 
of the leading questions considered 
at the 18th annual convention of 
the Illinois Agricultural Association 
in the Pere Marquette Hotel, Peoria, 
January 25-26-27. 

Henry I. Harriman, prominent 
New England 
business man 
and president of 
the Chamber of 
Commerce of the 
United States, is 
scheduled to 
speak on this 
subject at the 
annual banquet of the Association 
Thursday evening, January 26. Mr. 
Harriman is a man of advanced 
ideas on economic questions and 
reflects the views of the progressive 
business men of the country. 

Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1872 
Mr. Harriman was educated at Wes- 
leyan University and the New York 
Law School. His entire life has been 
devoted to manufacturing and pub- 
lic utility interests mostly in Massa- 
chusetts. In his recent addresses he 
has frankly stated that the greatest 
Single factor responsible for the de- 
pression was the economic condi- 
tion affecting between one-third 
and one-half of the nation’s popu- 
lation directly or indirectly depend- 
ent on agriculture. Mr. Harriman 
also recognizes the need for con- 
Structive action in improving our 
money and credit system and stabi- 
lizing the value of the dollar. 

Ed O’Neal Scheduled 

Edward A. O’Neal, president of 
the American Farm * ‘ 
Bureau Federation, 
will appear on the 
banquet program 
with Mr. Harriman. 
Mr. O’Neal is well 
known to Mlinois 
farm people and will 


Three Day Session At Peoria Jan. 25-26-27 


bring an interesting message direct 
from Washington where he, with 
other farm leaders, has had a 
prominent part in framing a legis- 
lative farm program in the current 
session of Congress. 


Efforts are being made to secure | 


a speaker of sound yet progressive 
views on the question of reorganiz- 
ing the farm credit structure and 
refinancing farm mortgages. at 


lower rates of interest. Prospects 


are considered good for securing a 
man high in the councils of the 
new national leadership. This sub- 
ject will be given prominence on 
Friday morning, January 27. 

The annual address of Earl C. 
Smith, president of the Association, 
on Thursday morning, January 26, 
will be of widespread interest be- 
cause of the active part he has had 
during recent months in working 
out solutions of farm problems with 
national farm, business, and politi- 
cal leaders. 

Mr. Smith will review not only 
the record of progress of the Asso- 
ciation and its 
business en- 
terprises during 
1932, but also 
will devote con- 
siderable time to 
a discussion of 
up - to - the - 
minute develop- 
ments at Washington in price-rais- 
ing legislation, reflationary and 
farm credit measures. 


Luncheon Discontinued 


Crank up the 
Flivver 


The usual luncheon on the last 
day of the convention with intro- 
duction of guests and speakers will 
be discontinued this year. Part of 
this program will be held in con- 


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nection with the annual banquet. 
Election of officers, and directors 
from the odd-numbered districts, as 
in past years, will probably be held 
on Thursday evening after the 
banquet and speaking program. 
The sectional conferences on 
Thursday afternoon will not be 
varied since these sessions are par- 
ticularly designed to give every 
member ample opportunity for ex- 
pression on any part of the work or 
policies of the 
Association. 
Conferences 
will be held on 
Public Relations, 


and Publicity, 
Business Service, 
Marketing, and 
the Women’s 
Conference. District caucuses for 
delegates are usually held following 
these sessions where nominations 
are made for the board of directors. 


Get In Resolutions Now 


The Public Relations Committee 
of the Association met in Chicago 
on December 22 to consider legisla- 
tive problems and measures which 
are expected to come before the 
next regular General Assembly 
which convenes this month. Reve- 
nue for unemployment relief, in- 
surance laws, government economy, 
proposed amendments to the state 
constitution, and similar questions 
are among those which are likely 
to be discussed at the Public Rela- 
tions Conference on Thursday after- 
noon January 26 at Peoria. Voting 
delegates will pass on the legislative 
policies of the Association submitted 
in the form of resolutions. 

The Resolutions Committee com- 
posed of A. R. 
Wright, Varna; Har- 
old C. Vial, Downers 
Grove; Charles Mar- 
shall, Belknap; Tul- 
madge Defrees, 
Smithboro; W. A. 
Dennis, Paris; 


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THE I. A. A RECORD 


January, 1933 


Charles Bates, Browning; and A. B. 
Schofield, Paxton, will hold its first 
meeting in Chicago, Saturday, Jan- 
uary 14 when resolutions offered 
will be given consideration. 

Members who have resolutions to 
offer for consideration of the board 
of delegates, the supreme govern- 
ing body of the organization, should 
send them to Secretary Geo. E. 
Metzger at the Association offices 
at once. 


Friday morning session it is planned 
that delegates and visitors will get 
their lunch quickly and return to 
start the afternoon session prompt- 
ly at one o’clock. This arrangement 
should make possible adjournment 
of the convention by four or five 
o’clock. 

The fact that Peoria lies in the 
heart of one of the most populous 
Farm Bureau sections of Illinois in- 
dicates that attendance this year 


Many favorable reports have been 
received concerning the patronage 


dividends declared by local Farm 
Bureau service companies associated 


Members of the Cre- 
dentials Committee for 
the convention are as 
follows: M. G. Lambert, 
Ferris; C. J. Gross, At- 
wood; W.L. Cope, Salem; 
and Fred Dietz, DeSoto. 
The number of voting 
delegates eligible to rep- 
resentation in the an- 
nual meeting will be 
based on the paid-up 
membership in each 
county as stated in the 
by-laws. 


A Busy Day 

The annual meeting of 
the Illinois Farm Bureau 
Baseball League will 
start off the day on Jan- 
uary 25 when the asso- 
ciated companies all or- 
ganized by the I. A. A. 
will hold their annual 
meetings and _  confer- 
ences. This day promises 
to be busiest of all for 
the delegate or visitor 
whose interests are di- 
vided between auto in- 
surance, fire, hail, and 
windstorm insurance, 
auditing the accounts of 
co-operatives and farm 
organizations, produce 
marketing, serum serv- 
ice, life insurance, and 
baseball. Meetings and 
sessions of companies 
and associations repre- 
senting all these services 
and activities will be 
held that day, many of 
them simultaneously. In 
_addition there will be a 
meeting for managers of 
the county service com- 
panies sponsored by Illi- 
nois Farm Supply Co. 

Programs for these 
sessions are now being 
prepared but none has 
been definitely outlined 
so as to be ready for pub- 
lication at this writing. 


Speed Up Friday Session 
Complaints of previous 


A Word From Our President 


A® WE pause to look back over events of the past 
year and attempt to anticipate developments of 
the future, nothing stands out more impressively 
than the loyalty, the courage and the determi- 
nation displayed by the membership of the Illinois 
Agricultural Association and County Farm Bureaus 
during the year 1932. The fact that Illinois now 
leads all states by a substantial margin in support- 
ing Farm Bureau'membership is a record of which 
we all should be proud; a record that should be a 
source of satisfaction and further encouragement 


to continue our united efforts toward correcting © 


those evils which have all. but impoverished the in- 
dustry we love, and now engulf the Nation. 

Agriculture has felt the ,full effects of deflation 
and depression which has crystallized in its most 
acute form during 1932. Failure of government for 
twelve years to face the farm problem fairly and 
squarely has resulted in forcing the farmers out of 
the market as buyers and this depleted buying 
power of nearly one-half of the population has 
finally resulted in the closing of a large per cent 
of our manufacturing industries and has paralyzed 
business in general. Almost single handed and 
alone, constructive farm organizations have for 
eight years anticipated such a condition, unless ag- 
riculture was recognized in such proper and just 
manner as would restore a balance between agri- 
cultural income and industrial prices entering into 
the cost of farm production. If nothing else, this 
general paralysis of business has resulted in focus- 
ing the attention of thinking business, industrial 
and political leaders on the farm problem and a 
rapidly growing conviction that a restoration of 
farm buying power is a first essential to the return 
of America to a normal basis. 

Farmers have in the past been the backbone of 
America in meeting and overcoming serious dangers 
confronting the Nation. Their continued stamina, 
courage and determination, coupled with the fast 
increasing support of thinking business interests 
will again meet and overcome present difficulties. 
The time has arrived for directing our thoughts to 
facts and not fiction; for action and not debate. 

To this end our efforts must be dedicated, for 
only through constructive thinking and united ac- 
tion can agriculture hope to gain its rightful posi- 
tion in the economic life of the Nation and can 
the Nation hope to recover. 


with Illinois Farm Sup- 
ply Company, and other 
Farm Bureau organized 
co-operatives. 

Among the companies 
that closed their books 
during the fall months, 
Adams Service Company, 
Rich-Law Service Com- 
pany, Jersey County 
Farm Supply Company, 
and Marshall - Putnam 
Oil Company declared a 


- refund of 20 per cent or 


more to Farm Bureau 


- member patrons. 


Some of the companies 
that have declared a 
patronage dividend of 15 
per cent or more are: 
Champaign County Serv- 
ice Company, Ford Coun- 
ty Service Company ($8,- 
446.60), Fulton Service 
Company ($9,000), 
Greene County Service 
Company ($4,184.51), 
Henry-Stark Service 
Company ($10,966.50) , 
Kane County Service 
Company, LaSalle Coun- 
ty Farm Supply Com- 
pany, Livingston Service 
Company, Logan-Mason 
Service Company ($8,- 
500) , Peoria County Serv- 
ice Company, St. Clair 
Service Company, Ste- 
phenson Service Com- 
pany, Tazewell Service 
Company, Tri-County Oil 
Company — ($17,550), 
Whiteside Service Com- 
pany. 

One thousand one 
hundred and sixty-three 
patronage dividend 
checks, totaling over 
$24,000, were distributed 
to Farm Bureau mem- 
bers in good standing in 
LaSalle County. 

Champaign County 
Service Company has re- 
turned $24,561.71 to Farm 
Bureau members the past 
two years. Seven hundred 
and ten Farm Bureau 


years that the Friday afternoon 
business session was allowed to 
drag on too late into the evening 
making it necessary for many dele- 
gates to stay an extra night, will be 
met this year by the abolition of the 
luncheon and the long drawn out 


introduction of guests. After the 


will be heavy. At least 5,000 dele- 
gates, members, and friends are ex- 
pected to gather during the three- 
day session. Those who contemplate 
attending the convention are asked 
to make reservations at once with 
the Peoria County Farm Bureau, 
Peoria. 


members received dividend checks 
this year. One patron received over 
$250, two over $100, 41 over $50, and 
102 over $25. The average refund 
for the past fiscal year was $16.47 
per member. 

Six hundred and eleven Farm Bu- 

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THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Five 


Works Over Farm Bill 


All Major Farm Organizations Unite Behind Measure To Control Surplus And Raise 
Prices On Staple Farm Commodities , 


GRICULTURE’S own solution 
for the Farm Problem.was pre- 
sented to the House Committee on 
Agriculture December 14, President 
Earl C. Smith reported following 
his return from Washington where 
he attended several meetings and 
conferences of farm organizations 
and co-operatives called: by the 
American Farm Bureau Federation. 
The plan was outlined before the 
committee by Fred Lee, legislative 
counsel for the A. F. B. F. who also 
represented farm co-operatives and 
other general farm organizations. 
The plan is the result of many 
months of intensive study and was 
unanimously approved ‘by repre- 
sentatives of the major farm groups 
the day before. The plan is based, 
on the following definite principles: 


Here Are Principles 


1. The pre-war purchasing power 
of farm commodities in terms of 
goods the farmer buys must be re- 
stored insofar as the domestic 
market is concerned in order to per- 
mit a fair exchange of goods be- 
tween farm and factory and so 
make possible a general renewal of 
business activity. 

2. Production of farm products 
must be reduced in line with effec- 
tive demand. 

3. Plans to attain these objectives 
must be applied to basic products 
which have a price determining ef- 
fect on other products, and on 
which the tariff is not effective be- 
cause of exportable surpluses. 

4. Plans adopted must be self- 
financing and must not require the 
creation of any large new govern- 
mental agencies. 

The farmers’ plan as outlined by 
Mr. Lee would apply to wheat, cot- 
ton, tobacco, hogs and possibly to 
dairy products, and is to be admin- 
istered by the Secretary of Agricul- 
ture. 

In the case of wheat, cotton and 
tobacco, it provides for the payment 
to producers of these commodities 
of special adjustment payments, on 
that portion of their production re- 
quired for domestic consumption, 
sufficient to raise the total price to 
the pre-war purchasing parity. The 
adjustment payments will be made 
in two equal installments, the first 
thirty days after marketing, and 
the second six months later. 


Favor Those Who Cut 


Adjustment payments will be 
made only to those producers who 
Shall submit satisfactory proof to 
the designated local agent of the 
Secretary of Agriculture that they 


‘have reduced their 1933 acreage by 


20 per cent, and have not planted 
that acreage to other cash crops. 
Payments. will be made by the 
treasury of the United States, the 
money to be recovered by an excise 
tax on the commodity at point of 
first processing. 

The processing tax is to be the 
amount required, as- estimated by 
the Secretary of Agriculture, to be 
paid in adjustment payments in 
order to restore the total price of 
that portion of the commodity used 
in domestic consumption to its pre- 
war purchasing parity. Revision 
of the excise tax and payments to 
producers in accordance with the 
principle is to be made by six-month 
periods. The excise tax will become 


effective at the beginning of the ~ 


1933 crop marketing season and will 
apply to flour stocks in the hands of 
processors at that time. 

- If, in the judgment of the Secre- 
tary of Agriculture, it is necessary, 
after the first year, to make indi- 
vidual allotments to producers and 
enter into individual contracts with 
them in order sufficiently to control 
production, he is empowered to do 
so, and to designate the percentage 
of acreage reduction required. Ad- 
ministrative expenses are limited to 
not more than 2% per cent of the 
excise tax fund collected. 

In the case of cotton, the parity 
period is to be 1921-29 instead of 
1909-14, on account of the change 
in production costs caused by the 
boll-weevil. 


Applied To Hogs 


The plan is to be applied to hogs 
in the following manner: 

Thirty days after passage of the 
act, the excise tax on pork products 
is to go into effect on a graduated 
basis, on the basis of 50 cents per 
100 pounds of hog, live weight, for 
the first sixty days, $1.00 for the 
second sixty days, $1.50 for the third 
sixty days, and $2.00 thereafter, 
that rate to be advanced to the 
point necessary to restore pre-war 
purchasing power as rapidly as im- 
proved business and increased con- 
sumer income permits. 

The production control program 
will go into effect thirty days after 
passage of the act, producers to be 
paid an adjustment payment frem 
then until October 1 of $1.00 per 
cwt. on all hogs weighing 210 
pounds or less, and in consideration 
of an agreement that each pro- 
ducer’s total tonnage marketed 
during the year shall be 20 per 
cent less than ene 1932. 


Adjustment of hog production to 
effective demand is to be facilitated 
by the following temporary meas- 
ures. 

1. The Secretary of Agriculture is 
empowered, when and as necessary 
to prevent surplus pork and lard 
stocks from defeating the purpose 
of the plan, to purchase such stocks 
in the required amount and dispose 
of them in non-competitive chan- 
nels, such as unemployment. 

2. The close relationship between 
corn and hogs necessitates a reduc- 
tion in corn production for 1933. 
This is to be accomplished by pay- 
ment to corn growers who reduce 
their corn acreage by 15 per cent, 
of $4.00 per acre on the acres thus 
taken out of production. 

Pre-War Parity Sought 

This plan, in the opinion of farm 
leaders, will result in such adjust- 
ment of production to demand as is 
necessary to restore the pre-war 
parity between farm and industrial 
prices, and thus open the way to the 
resumption of business activity on 
a normal scale. Farm leaders are 
positive in their statements that 
there can be no approach to normal 
business conditions and employment 
until farm buying power is restored 
to normal. They point out that farm 
prices are now 31.6 per cent below 
pre-war, while goods purchased by 
farmers are 6 per cent above pre- 
war. Whenever restored employ- 
ment and improved world trade 
raises the open market price of 
farm products to their pre-war par- 
ity, the plan will automatically be- 
come inoperative. 

The plan is endorsed by the fol- 
lowing farm organizations: 
AMERICAN FARM BUREAU FED- 

ERATION 

Edward A. O’Neal, President 

Charles E. Hearst, Vice-President 

Earl C. Smith, Director and Chair- 
man of Legislative Committee 

George M. Putnam, Director and 
Member of Legislative Committee 

M. S. Winder, Secretary-Treasur- 
er. 
Chester H. Gray, Legislative Rep- 
resentative 
NATIONAL GRANGE PATRONS OF 

HUSBANDRY 

L. J. Taber, National Master 

F. A. Freestone, Executive Com- 
mittee. 

Fred Brenckman, Legislative Rep- 
resentative. 

FARMERS’ EDUCATIONAL AND 
CO-OPERATIVE UNION OF 
AMERICA 
John Simpson, President 

(Continued on page 7) 


Page Six 


A cu up tnk L ones HA’ N 


To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was or- 
ganized namely, to promote, protect and represent the busi- 
ness, economic, political and educational interests of the 
farmers of Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 


GEORGE THIEM, Editor 


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Unemployment Relief 


HROUGHOUT the third special session of the 

General Assembly ending last April and the 
more recent 4th special session, the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association opposed the enactment of any 
bills creating a system of additional state-wide 
taxes for unemployment relief. 

The Association will continue to oppose the en- 
actment of a state-wide sales tax for this purpose 
or of any tax which would relieve counties, town- 
ships, or other municipalities from the necessity, 
at least to the extent of their ability, of caring for 
their own. 

The I. A. A. is convinced that sufficient provision 
has been made in statutes now in existence to take 
care of destitute people in most counties. In ad- 
dition to general property taxes for relief, which 
are subject to limitations and restrictions in coun- 
ties, but not in townships, counties may, until 
July 1, 1933, divert to unemployment relief their 
gasoline tax allotments not otherwise obligated. 

Until January 1, 1934, any county may issue 
bonds without referendum by a two-thirds vote of 
its county board, the total of such bonds not to 
exceed six times such county’s share of gasoline 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


January, 1933 


tax receipts in the preceding calendar year. Such 
bonds and interest thereon must be guaranteed 
by general property taxes, but can be and no doubt 
will be paid out of future gasoline tax allotments 
to such county. 

In addition counties may enforce a retail sales 
tax of not more than one per cent which may be 
levied by a two-thirds vote of the county board 
to be effective to July i, 1933. 

The theory of providing relief through a state- 
wide tax and from a state-wide fund is wrong in 
principle because it places counties in competition 
with each other in securing their share of such 
funds. Such a plan is wrong because it takes away 
responsibility from local units of government in 
caring for their unemployed; it definitely leads to 
waste and extravagance in the administration of 
such funds. 

This whole question, affecting as it does, the 
farm tax burden, will be discussed in detail at the 
public relations conference to be held during the 
coming annual meeting in Peoria. This problem 
and many others involving the levying and collect- 
ing of taxes reveals the need for vigilant and effec- 
tive organization to protect farmers’ interests at 
Springfield. 


Growing Liberalism 


HE NEW liberalism displayed by business and 

a | political leadership throughout America toward 

solutions of farm problems may be set down as 
one of the gains produced by the current hard times. 

The cocksureness of their own position, and the in- 
tolerance toward organized farm effort once prevalent 
in: financial and industrial circles has been largely sup- 
planted by a new and commendable attitude of co- 
operation. 

No writer is doing more to promote liberal and con- 
structive thought on national economic and political 
problems than Walter Lippman of the New York Her- 
ald Tribune whose articles are syndicated and pub- 
lished in daily newspapers throughout the country. 

Commenting on the domestic allotment plan for 
raising farm prices now being considered at Washing- 
ton, Mr. Lippman recently wrote:—‘Because of its po- 
tential abuses and actual difficulties many persons, 
especially in the larger cities, will be disposed to reject 
the scheme out of hand. This would, I think, be a 
serious mistake. The plight of the American farmer is 
so serious that an experiment, provided it is based on 
a reasonable principle, is justified. The basic principle 
of the allotment plan is reasonable; if the farmers 
wish to try it, I do not see how the rest of us can re- 
fuse to let them. 

“For American agriculture is now producing under 
conditions of unrestricted individualism in a world 
where virtually all other production, including agricul- 
ture in almost all countries, is either protected or con- 
trolled. The American farmer should not be denied 
the right to set up his own collective defenses against 
the efforts of free competition until the time arrives 
when other producers accept free trade. 

“The allotment plan has all he faults of protection 
and all the complexities of state socialism. There is no 
use pretending that this is not the most daring eco- 
nomic experiment ever seriously proposed in the United 
States. But what other remedy is proposed for the 
plight of agriculture that might be substituted for this 
one? Until such a remedy is brought forward, and 
some assurance given that it can be put into opera- 
tion, an attitude of open-minded co-operation with the 
men who are trying to work out this plan, an attitude 
at once sympathetic and critical, would seem to be in 
order.” 


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The year 1933 promises to be an 
interesting and crucial one in the 
life of this nation. With it we begin 
the fourth consecutive year of a 
period of deflation unprecedented 
in American history. Whether or 
not we shall continue on the down- 
ward path beset as it is with low 
prices, business stagnation, unem- 
ployment, bankruptcies, wage and 
rate cutting, scaling down of debts, 
and headaches will be largely de- 
termined by the incom- 
ing administration and 
its policies. 


While controlled in- 
flation or reflation 
which can be brought 
about by revaluing gold 
may not cure all our 
troubles overnight so 
easily as the cartoonist 
has pictured it in the 
accompanying illustra- 
tion, that course offers 
more hope than the one 
we have been following. 


It is clear now that 
the policy of bolstering 
up our financial insti- 
tutions with huge gov- 
ernment loans is only a 
stop gap to put off the 
evil day of reckoning. 
These loans presuppose 
a return to higher price 
levels. So did wheat 
and cotton stabiliza- 
tion. For ten years the 
farmer particularly has 
been given all kinds 
and varieties of credit 
legislation and loans to 
make it easier for him 
to go in debt. But little 
has been done to aid 
him in paying back his 
borrowings. Lower in- 
terest rates and higher 
farm prices alone will do this. So 
reflation to the average 1920-29 
price level seems to be the solution 
of a difficult problem. 


_ Such a course will result in some 
injustices for no law or action can 
be applied to fit perfectly every 
case. The greatest good to the 
greatest number should govern. 
Certainly the interests of the large 
number who have been caught in 
the whirlpool of toppling prices 
through no fault of their own out- 
weigh those of the smaller group of 
creditors who have loaned money 
at present low levels. 


There are powerful individuals 
and groups whose influence will be 


THE LA. A. RECORD 


trained on the new law-making 
body and administration at Wash- - 
ington to defeat any efforts at es- 
tablishing higher price levels. These 
people belong largely to the cred- 
itor class. They are always at work. 
It is possible, not probable, that 
they may thwart not only reason- 
able inflationary measures but al- 
so present efforts at raising farm 
prices. What then? 


Agriculture will be no worse off 
than it is now and the farmers’ 
position likely will be improved. De- 
flation apparently has run its 
course in agriculture but not in 
freight and utility rates, taxes, 
farm machinery and supplies, lum- 


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ber, fencing, etc., which must yield 
considerably more ground before 
they are on a fair exchange ba- 
sis with farm products. American 
ingenuity will solve the problem 
eventually of producing services, 


machinery, and commodities at 
prices we can afford to pay. 


This readjustment in exchange 
values will not solve the debt prob- 
lem, however. That situation can 
and will be corrected by scaling 
down interest rates, or through 
moratoriums on interest and prin- 
cipal payments until we work back 
to higher price levels. The gradual 
climb will begin just as soon as 
everything is thoroughly deflated 
and we all are buying and selling 


Page Seven 


Congress Works Over Farm Bill 
(Continued from page 5) 


W. P. Lambertson, Director 
FARMERS’ EQUITY UNION 

Leroy Melton, President 
AMERICAN COTTON CO-OPERA- 

TIVE ASSOCIATION 

J. B. Blalock, President 

C. O. Moser, Vice-President 

N, C. Williamson, Director 

C. G. Henry, Director 
FARMERS’ NATIONAL GRAIN 

CORPORATION 

C. E. Huff, President 

H. W. Thatcher, Washington Rep- 
resentative. 

NATIONAL LIVESTOCK MARKET- 
ING ASSOCIATION. Charles Ew- 

ing, President. Dr. O. O. 

Wolf, E. A. Beamer. 

NATIONAL CO-OPER- 
ATIVE MILK PRO- 
DUCERS’ FEDERA- 
TION. John D. Miller, 
Fred Sexauer, Geo. 
Slocum, Charles W. 
Holman. 

NATIONAL WOOL 

: MARKETING ASS’N. 
Dr. O. O. Wolf. 

NATIONAL FRUIT 

W, AN D VEGETABLE 

ie MARKETING ASS’N. 

A. B. Leeper, C. V. 

Cochran. 

DAIRY AND POULTRY 

CO-OPERATIVES, INC. 
Leroy Melton. 

NORTHERN WISCON- 
SIN TOBACCO POOL 
Emerson Ela, General 

Manager. 

FARM PRESS. C. V. 
Gregory, Prairie 
Farmer. 

E. R. Eastman, Amer- 
ican Agriculturist. Dan 
Wallace, The Farmer. 
Dr. B. F. Kilgore, Pro- 
gressive Farmer. 
NATIONAL ASSOCIA- 

TION OF FARM OR- 

GANIZATIONS 

Ralph Snyder, Fred- 

eric P. Lee, Counsel. 

Opposition to the ap- 
plication of the do- 
mestic allotment plan to hogs was 
expressed by leading packer repre- 
sentatives before the House Com- 
mittee Dec. 19 and 20. 

The packers asserted the proposed 
excise tax of two cents per pound 
would result in a lower quoted price 
to producer on live hogs “because 
low buying power of the public 
could not absorb additional cost.” 

The packers have issued a pam- 
phiet attacking the plan among 
rural banks and corn belt farmers. 


again on a fair exchange basis. Not 
before. But this is the long hard 
road. Why should we take it when 
the government has the power to 
provide a smoother and shorter 
road? —E. G. T, 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


At The Livingston County Farm Bureau Jubilee In Pontiac, Dec. 10 


Beauty Contests Attract Large 
Numbers To County Jubilees 


By evan 50,000 people turned out 
for the Farm Bureau-Country 
Life Jubilee meetings in at least 55 
counties on Saturday night, Dec. 10 
when winners of local beauty con- 
tests were chosen. It is estimated 
that approximately 850 girls, all 
daughters of Farm Bureau members 
or Country Life policyholders, took 
part in the contest. 

The Jubilee meetings climaxed a 
10-day drive for new business by 
Country Life agents. More than a 
million and three-fourths dollars of 
insurance for the month was re- 
ported over the radio that night by 
Manager L. A. Williams in the half- 
hour broadcast from WLS. By Dec. 
ae total had climbed to $2,100,- 

The beauty contest winners will 
compete in the state contest to be 
held either at the Illinois State Fair 
next summer or at the Century of 
Progress Exposition in Chicago. 


Radio Program 


During the half-hour radio pro- 
gram talks were made by President 
Earl C. Smith, Manager L. A. Wil- 
liams, and V. Vaniman, director of 
insurance service. Mr. Williams who 
acted as announcer, discussed the 
value of life insurance, told about 
recent progress of the company, 
and read telegrams and announce- 
ments. 

President Smith reviewed the rec- 
ord of the company in which he 
paid tribute to the farmers of Illi- 
nois who by their wholehearted 
support made possible its progress 
and achievements. 

The object of the beauty contest 
as explained by Mr. Vaniman is to 
arouse interest in the development 
of personality, health, culture, 
gracefulness, naturalness, charm, 
modesty, poise, etc., in the young 
women of rural Illinois. To be eli- 
gible girls must be between the 
ages of 16 and 30 and unmarried. 

“Although recognizing the many 
opportunities for improving and in- 


creasing the social features of the 
I. A. A.’s program,” said Mr. Smith, 
“the very force of conditions ad- 
versely affecting the welfare of 
farm people and rural interests 
generally, have caused the program 
to become somewhat overbalanced 
in efforts to meet and solve our eco- 
nomic problems. 

““We have continued throughout 
the years, however, to actively spon- 
sor and support 4-H club activities 
for beth boys and girls, vocational 
training for older boys and young 
men, and in recent years have en- 
couraged the setting apart of at 
least one evening each year to rec- 
ognize and pay tribute to the fine 
young womanhood of rural Illinois. 

“The first essential to grace and 
attractiveness is good health. Health 
is necessary to long life. If for no 
other reason, this fact would justify 
giving special emphasis and support 
to this evening program in the 
many counties.” 


County Winners 


County winners of the beauty 
contest are as follows: Bond, Clar- 
ice Brewer; Bureau, Althea Mink- 
ler; Carroll, Alma Williamson; Cass, 
Alta Jokisch; Christian, Irene Em- 
merson; Coles, Martha June White; 
Cook, Alice Ettema; DeKalb, Hazel 
Jandt; DeWitt, Margaret Hoge; Ed- 
gar, Pauline Beatty; Edwards, Mary 
Ann Shepherd; Ford, Mildred No- 
land; Gallatin, Thelma Rodgers; 
Greene, Mary Strang; Henderson, 
Wilda McKeown; Henry, Maxine 
Radue; Iroquois, Edythe Baylor; 
Jackson, Bonnie Mae Allen; Jef- 
ferson, Catherine Simmons; Jo- 
Daviess, Doris Rife; Knox, Mary 
Catherine Davis; LaSalle, Ruth 
Anderson; Lake, Eleanor Van 
Zandt; Livingston, Lucille Holla- 
way; Lawrence, Martha Cunning- 
ham; McDonough, Bernice Arnold; 
McLean, Lucille Burnett; Madison, 
Marie Schafer; Marion, Gladys Jar- 
ren; Massac, Ruth Moller; Menard, 
Mildred Grosboll; Mercer, Elizabeth 


January, 1933 


. Rathbun; Montgomery, Ruby Mind- 


rup; Morgan, Marjorie Saunders; 
Peoria, Dorothy Heinz; Pike, Gen- 
evieve Lewis; Richland, Erma Roby; 
Rock Island, Grace Bollman; St. 
Clair, Elsie Schaller; Stark, Mable 
Irene Oertley; Stephenson, Edith 
Bear; Tazewell, Mary Louise 
Wertsch; Washington, Erna Heg- 
gemeier; Wayne, Juliana Crippin; 
White, Lena Burger; Whiteside, 
Beth Clark; Williamson, Marie 
Wagley; Woodford, Ruth Haas. 

Country Life Insurance Co. is ex- 
pected to finish the year with more 
than $10,000,000 of new business 
written with total life insurance in 
force of more than $47,000,000 and 
with a net gain of at least $3,000,000 
of insurance in force since last 
January. 

On November 30 the company had 
a total of 28,943 policyholders who 
carried a little more than $46,000,- 
000 of insurance. The average policy 
in the company is less than $2,000. 
Premium income for 1932 was close 
to $1,000,000, mortality under 25 
per cent of expected, interest earn- 
ings on investments approximately 
four per cent without a single in- 
vestment in default in interest or 
principal, and a lapse ratio of un- 
der 15 per cent. 

Assets of the company as of No- 
vember 1, 1932 were $1,731,458.54 or 
approximately 50 per cent greater 
than a year ago with an increase 
ix. surplus of $139,315.99 or about 75 
per cent greater than that of Janu- 
ary 1, 1932. 


Missouri Supreme Court 
Upholds Income Tax 


The Missouri Supreme Court re- 
cently upheld the constitutionality 
of a state income tax law including 
a 1931 amendment which substituted 
an increased, graduated schedule of 
individual tax rates varying from 
one to four per cent of net income, 


.for the former flat tax rate of one 


per cent. 

This rulfrig was the first by the 
Supreme Court on the new Missouri 
income tax law which became ef- 
fective September 14, 1931. Missouri 
has a revenue clause in its state 
constitution very similar to that in 
Illinois. 

Judge Ragland stated that the 
legislature was empowered to clas- 
sify the subjects of income taxation 
and. that a tax which was uniform 
upon all subjects in the same class, 
even though not uniform as_ be- 
tween the different classes, did not 
violate the uniformity provisions of 
the constitution, if the classifica- 
tions were reasonable. 

The basic principle underlying all 
such classifications is the ability of 
the taxpayey to pay. He held the 
classifications provided by the 
amendment were not discrimi- 
natory, 


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75 percent—No investments of any kind 
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Ordinary Life Policy 


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| Typical Rates 


Per $1,000 of Insurance 


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Age Quarterly | 
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This policy has loan values, ex- — 


tended insurance and pays dividends 
at end of second year contingent 
upon payment of third premium. 
Example: Age 35 annual rate per 
$1,000 $20.63. Dividends at end of 
second year, contingent dividend 
amount is $2.63, leaving the net 
cost of a policy issued 1929 $18.00. 
At end of third year, contingent 
dividend amount is $2.83 leaving the 
net cost of the policy issued in 1929 
$17.80 annually. 


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20-Pay Life Policy 


Typical Rates 
Per $1,000 of Insurance 


Age Quarterly 


A Paid Up Policy at the end of 
twenty years, or policy may be sur- 
rendered at that time for its cash 
value, plus any and all dividend ac- 
cumulations. 

This policy earns a dividend pay- 
able at the end of the second year 
the insurance is in force, contingent 
upon payment of third premium, 


The record of Country Life Insurance Company 
is a creditable one. It demonstrates the value of 
united action. Low costs are possible because insur- 
ance like any other commodity can be purchased 
co-operatively. Sponsored by ninety-four county 
Farm Bureaus of the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion and their more than sixty thousand members, 
Country Life Insurance Company is living proof 
that farm people can provide through their own 
efforts family security of the same high type en- 
joyed by those who pay stiffer rates. 


You Can Help Reduce Costs 


Realize what Country Life really holds out to you. 
Here is a company functioning as a legal reserve 
institution. It is on a self-supporting dividend pay- 
ing basis. The initial expenses of getting under 
way are all behind it. Overhead—cost of running 
an office with forty-seven million of insurance 
policies in force — is already far below the usual 
cost per policy. The same people, same offices, same 
management can handle additional business at little 
or no increase in cost. That is why every additional 
new policy taken out in Country Life means the re- 
duction of cost to present policy holders. 


Larger Volume—Lower Rates 


Thus not only an original low overhead in man. 
agement and operating expense works in favor of 
policy holders in Country Life, but also the most 
powerful of all expense reducers — large volume. 


Every time you get an applicant for Country Life 


Again we make new records! A better than 50% increase in 
percentage of lapse to amount in force, lower mortality, lowe 

to make a gain last year. Ten million new paid business in 193 
magnificent showing. Will you help us establish a still bigger 1 


Insurance you are helping yourself, you are making 
it possible for your family and yourself to enjoy 
standard protection in an old line legal reserve com- 
pany at still lower rates. 


Safe Insurance for Every 
Member of the Family 


Country Life Insurance Company was organized 
to provide for every member of the farm family a 
safe insurance, low in cost. In Country Life you 
can insure every member of the family, babes in 
arms or men and women, up to the age of sixty-five. 
Rates for men and women are the same for the 
same ages. All policies start with low participating 
rate. At the end of the second year each policy is 
eligible to dividends that still further reduce cost. 


Assets and Surplus Increased 


The healthy growth of Country Life is evident 
from the record. It is a remarkable record... An 
increase every month since it started doing business. 
In the short time of only four years more than forty- 
seven million dollars of insurance has been written 
and is in good standing today. During 1932, an ex- 
ceptionally bad year for most businesses, including 
insurance companies, Country Life showed a gain in 
assets of over 50% and a gain in surplus in excess 
of 75%. That is definite evidence of careful man- 
agement and low administration costs. Policy hold- 
ers are effecting much of this savings for them- 
selves by continually adding to the volume of insur- 
ance in force. 


> increase in assets, a 75% increase in surplus—low cost, low 
tality, lower expense per thousand, one of the few companies 
siness in 1932. I congratulate the policyholders on such a 
still bigger record for 1933? 


(Signed) L. A. Williams, 
General Manager. 


Since Starting in Business 


rease in assets 50 percent—Increase in surplus 
y kind in default—Benefits of economic 
BO ) to policy holders. 


Endowment at Age 65 


Typical Rates 
Per $1,000 of Insurance 


Quarterly 
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This Endowment at Age 65 Policy 
will provide an old age income for 
you if you survive and it gives pro- 
tection to your dependents if you do 
not survive. 

In other words, this policy pays 
the full amount of $1,000 (or multi- 
ples thereof) at age 65 or at death. 
Dividends are payable at the end of 
the second year the insurance is in 
force, contingent upon payment of 
third premium. 


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Term To Age 65 Policy 


Typical Rates 
Per $1,000 of Insurance 


Quarterly 
Rate 


This policy furnishes protection 
for a small annual outlay of money 
and still gives maximum security. It 
is convertible to any other standard 
form at any time and carries full 
face protection to age 65 if not con- 
verted. This policy pays dividends 
at end of second year, contingent 
upon payment of third premium, 
provides for cash and loan values 
and paid up insurance. 


It’s Not the Size of the Dog in 
a Fight 


There is an old saying, “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight but the size 
of the fight in the dog,” which applies here. Country Life has the fight be- 
cause it has its finances in shape. When business institutions are being tested 
in such times of stress as those of the past three years, it is the giant strength 
of Country Life with its showing of no defaults and its surplus to liabilities 
that makes it superior to even the oldest institutions when it comes to fight- 
ing ability. In this crisis Country Life has kept in the top rank of companies 
with high liquid financial strength. A conservative management assures every 
Country Life policy holder that he need not fear for his cash nor that his 
beneficiary need worry about his death claim being paid. Country Life Insur- 
ance Company is organized and operated as a legal reserve life insurance 
company for your benefit for the protection of your family, for the security 
of your estate. 


¥ | i Country Life Offers 
Unexcelled Security 


Country Life Insurance Company 
though only 4 years old holds an un- 
equalled position of strength owing to 
its liquid financial condition, its large 
surplus as compared with liabilities and 
the wonderful portfolio of investments. 

This Company was built to save pol- 
icyholders from error in matters of in- 
surance. We invite all Illinois farmers 
to Participate in our great Security, 
our Low Cost and our Guaranteed 
Rates. 


COUNTRY LIFE INSURANCE CO.,. 5 f 
608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois. | C O U nN t r y L 1 e 


I want to help Country Life make this 
new record. I am interested in an 


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CO Term to Age 65 608 S. Dearborn St. 


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January, 1933 


THE LA. A. RECORD 


Page Thirteen 


I. A. A. Gives Dinner To 
Illinois 4-H Champs 


Some of Best Lessons to Be 
Learned on. Farm, Dean 
Tells Club Members 


Some of the best lessons are to be 
learned on the farm and in the 
farm home, Dean H. W. Mumford of 
the Illinois College of Agriculture 
told his audience of more than 200 
Illinois 4-H Club members, leaders, 
farm advisers, I. A. A. officials, staff 
members and their guests who at- 
tended the annual banquet ten- 
dered the Illinois champions by the 
Illinois Agricultural Association and 
associated companies in the Great 
Northern Hotel December 1. 

“One of the lessons every boy and 
girl should learn is to be prompt,” 
said the Dean. “As a boy I worked 
on the stack with my father. He 
stacked with a fork and he always 
wanted ‘the bundles where they be- 
longed, and he wanted them on 
time. 

“The older you get the more you 
will realize how much there is to 
learn and how little you know. You 
will learn that you must work for 
what you get. Nothing is handed 
to you on a silver platter. You per- 
haps have had more of that sort of 
thing this week than you will have 
for some time.” 

Dean Mumford called attention to 
the fact that while attendance in 
the University of [Illinois has 
dropped off from 10 to 12 per cent 
registration in the Ag College this 
fall was only two less than a year 
ago. Jobs in other lines are scarce 
now, he said, and many boys are 
learning that there is no better 
place than on the farm. 

Interesting talks were made by 
Lloyd Atwell and Alda Von Ohlen 
for the Club members. 

President Earl C. Smith presided 
and introduced I. A. A. directors, 
members of the staff, and managers 
of the associated companies who co- 
operated in sponsoring the dinner. 
Each responded with a short talk. 

E. I. Pilchard and Miss Mary Mc- 
Kee, state club leaders, and Homer 
J. Tice, veteran member of the IIlli- 
nois Legislature and superintendent 
of the Illinois State Fair, assisted 
in awarding the medals. 

C. B. Denman, livestock member 
of the Federal Farm Board, and 
managers of several Producers’ 
Commission Associations in Illinois 
were guests. 

The dinner, entertainment, and 
the program as in past years were 
arranged by Ray E. Miller, director 
of livestock marketing. 

The following organizations co- 
operated in sponsoring the dinner: 
Illinois Farm Supply Company, Illi- 
nois. Agricultural Mutual Insurance 
Company, Country Life Insurance 
Company, Farmers Mutual Reinsur- 


I. A. A. WINS SILVER TROPHIES 


For “Outstanding Publicity on a State Project,” and for the “Best Single Issue 
of A State Farm Bureau Publication,” these cups were awarded to the Illinois 


la) pa Association oes the recent A. 


F. convention in Chicago. 


The I. A. A entered two of the three publicity contests winning both in compe- 
tition with eight other State Farm Bureau Federations. An exhibit and descrip- 
tion of the publicity campaign used in putting over the ge Wa Dedication 


Day Celebration July 4, and the September issue of the I. A. A 
d. 


submitte 


ECORD were 


Judges were Dean H. F. Harrington of the Medill School of Journalism, North- 


western University; Ralph D. McManus, publicity director, Armour 
Ross Bartley, director of publicity, Century of 


Co, and 
Progress Exposition, Chicago. 


Nevada won the third contest for best publicity on a national project. 


ance Company, Illinois Grain Cor- 
poration, Soybean Marketing Asso- 
ciation, Illinois Livestock Market- 
ing Association, Illinois Farm Bu- 
reau Serum Association, Illinois Ag- 
ricultural Auditing Association, Ili- 
nois Produce Marketing Associa- 
tion, and Illinois Fruit Growers’ Ex- 
change. 


Personality" Can Be 
Developed Says Prof. 


Personality may be partly an in- 
born quality but much of one’s per- 
sonality is acquired through living, 
says Prof. Paul J. Kruse of New 
York State College of Agriculture in 
advising farm boys to develop “per- 
sonality.” 

Growth of anything, he says, 
plant, animal, or human depends 
upon the condition surrounding it. 
Good seed may fail to make a good 
plant through improper cultivation; 
bad handling of a colt may result in 
a mean disposition horse; likewise a 
young man of promise may fail to 
become successful in his work and 
as a citizen through failure to culti- 
vate his mind and personality. Man 
is in some degree master of his own 
destiny. 


David C. Shepler of Logan county 
who for many years was active in 
soliciting memberships for the Illi- 
nois Agricultural Association re- 
cently passed away following a 
heart attack at his home in Lincoln. 
He was 64 years old. 

Mr. Shepler was an active mem- 


Whiteside County Folks 
Help Injured Neighbor 


Fifty men and 19 women with 17 
wagons gathered at the home of 
Frank Allen near Lyndon in White- 
side county recently to help him 
finish picking corn when Mr. Allen 
lost an arm in a mechanical corn 
picker. 

The party picked 800 bushels of 
corn and hauled it to the cribs. 

Frank is a son of Rep. Henry C. 
Allen who has represented the 35th 
senatorial district in the state legis- 
lature for many years. Both have 
been active in the past in Farm Bu- 
reau work in that county. 

Mr. Allen recently returned home 
from the Sterling hospital where for 
a time his condition was very grave. 


|. A. A. Float Wins 


Float No. 1, “The Farmer’s Din- 
ner Bell is the Liberty Bell of 1932” 
designed for the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association during the state- 
wide 4th of July demonstration was 
used by the Washoe County Farm 
Bureau at Reno, Nevada on Sept. 1 
and was awarded first prize in the 
parade. 


—_—————— 
ber of the Logan County Farm Bu- 
reau which he assisted in organizing 
many years ago. 


An organization of corn growers is 
being formed in Nebraska, decinres a 
press dispatch of Dec. 18, to get farmers 
in the corn belt to sign up for a 20 to 
toes. cent reduction in corn acreage 
n 


There is an old saying, “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight but the size 
of the fight in the dog,” which applies here. Country Life has the fight  be- 
cause it has its finances in shape. When business institutions are being tested 
in such times of stress as those of the past three years, it is the giant strength 
of Country Life with its showing of no defaults and its surplus to liabilities 
that makes it superior to even the oldest institutions when it comes to fight- 
ing ability. In this crisis Country Life has kept in the top rank of companies 
with high liquid financial strength. A conservative management assures every 
Country Life policy holder that he need not fear for his cash nor that his 
beneficiary need worry about his death claim being paid. Country Life Insur- 
ance Company is organized and operated as a legal reserve life insurance 
company for your benefit for the protection of your family, for the security 
of your estate. 


Country Life Insurance Company 
though only 4 years old holds an un- 
equalled position of strength owing to 
its liquid financial condition, its large 
surplus as compared with liabilities and 
the wonderful portfolio of investments. 

This Company was built to save pol- 
icyholders from error in matters of in- 
surance. We invite all Illinois farmers 
to Participate in our great Security, 
our Low Cost and our Guaranteed 
Rates. 


COUNTRY LIFE INSURANCE CO., C t L : f 
608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois. O Uu n C \ 1 e 
I want to help Country Life make this 

new record. I am interested in an 


eas Insurance Co. 


| Endowment at age 65 
} 20-Pay Lite 


5 Term to Age 65 608 S. Dearborn St. 


My Name is ~. Dena ae tht, Batt rl oe 


Address ~___-- elo att County on cel Ss at ak aw Chicago, Illinois 


January, 1933 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


|. A. A. Gives Dinner To 
Illinois 4-H Champs 


Some of Best Lessons to Be 
Learned on Farm, Dean 
Tells Club Members 


Some of the best lessons are to be 
learned on the farm and in the 
farm home, Dean H. W. Mumford of 
the Illinois College of Agriculture 
told his audience of more than 200 
Illinois 4-H Club members, leaders, 
farm advisers, I. A. A. officials, staff 
members and their guests who at- 
tended the annual banquet ten- 
dered the Illinois champions by the 
Illinois Agricultural Association and 
associated companies in the Great 
Northern Hotel December 1. 

“One of the lessons every boy and 
girl should learn is to be prompt,” 
said the Dean. “As a boy I worked 
on the stack with my father. He 
stacked with a fork and he always 
wanted the bundles where they be- 
longed, and he wanted them on 
time. 

“The older you get the more you 
will realize how much there is to 
learn and how little you Know. You 
will learn that you must work for 
what you get. Nothing is handed 
to you on a Silver platter. You per- 
haps have had more of that sort of 
thing this week than you will have 
for some time.” 

Dean Mumford called attention to 
the fact that while attendance in 
the University of TIllinois has 
dropped off from 10 to 12 per cent 
registration in the Ag College this 
fall was only two less than a year 
ago. Jobs in other lines are scarce 
now, he said, and many boys are 
learning that there is no better 
place than on the farm. 

Interesting talks were made by 
Lloyd Atwell and Alda Von Ohlen 
for the Club members. 

President Earl C. Smith presided 
and introduced I. A. A. directors, 
members of the staff, and managers 
of the associated companies who co- 
operated in sponsoring the dinner. 
Each responded with a short talk. 

E. I. Pilchard and Miss Mary Mc- 
Kee, state club leaders, and Homer 
J. Tice, veteran member of the IIlli- 
nois Legislature and superintendent 
of the Illinois State Fair, assisted 
in awarding the medals. 

C. B. Denman, livestock member 
of the Federal Farm Board, and 
managers of several Producers’ 
Commission Associations in Illinois 
were guests. 

The dinner, entertainment, and 
the program as in past years were 
arranged by Ray E. Miller, director 
of livestock marketing. 

The following organizations co- 
operated in sponsoring the dinner: 
Illinois Farm Supply Company, Illi- 
nois Agricultural Mutual Insurance 
Company, Country Life Insurance 
Company, Farmers Mutual Reinsur- 


Page Thirteen 


| 


I. A. A. WINS SILVER TROPHIES 


For “Outstanding Publicity on a State Project,” and for the “Best Single Issue 
of A State Farm Bureau Publication,” these cups were awarded to the Illinois 


Agricultural 
The |, A. 


Association during the recent A. F, B, F. 
A entered two of the three publicity contests winning both in compe- 


convention in Chicago. 


tition with eight other State Farm Bureau Federations. An exhibit and descrip- 


tion of the publicity campaign used in putting over the state-wide 
Day Celebration July 4, and the September issue of the 


submitted. 

Judges were Dean H. F. 
western University; Ralph D. 
Ross Bartley, director of publicity, 


Century of Progress Exposition, 


Dedication 
I. A. A. RECORD were 


Harrington of the Medill School of Journalism, North- 
MeManus, 


and 
Chicago. 


publicity director, Armour & Co, 


Nevada won the third contest for best publicity on a national project. 


ance Company, Illinois Grain Cor- 
poration, Soybean Marketing Asso- 
ciation, Illinois Livestock Market- 
ing Association, Illinois Farm Bu- 
reau Serum Association, Illinois Ag- 
ricultural Auditing Association, Illi- 
nois Produce Marketing Associa- 
tion, and Illinois Fruit Growers’ Ex- 
change. 


'‘Personality'’ Can Be 
Developed Says Prof. 


Personality may be partly an in- 
born quality but much of one’s per- 
sonality is acquired through living, 
says Prof. Paul J. Kruse of New 
York State College of Agriculture in 
advising farm boys to develop “per- 
sonality.” 

Growth of anything, he _ Says, 
plant, animal, or human depends 
upon the condition surrounding it. 
Good seed may fail to make a good 
plant through improper cultivation; 
bad handling of a colt may result in 
a mean disposition horse; likewise a 
young man of promise may fail to 
become successful in his work and 
as a citizen through failure to culti- 
vate his mind and personality. Man 
is in some degree master of his own 
destiny. 


David C. Shepler of Logan county 
who for many years was active in 
soliciting memberships for the Illi- 
nois Agricultural Association re- 
cently passed away following a 
heart attack at his home in Lincoln. 
He was 64 years old. 

Mr. Shepler was an active mem- 


Whiteside County Folks 


wagons gathered at the home of 
Frank Allen near Lyndon in White- 
side county recently to help him 
finish picking corn when Mr. Allen 
lost an arm in a mechanical corn 
picker. 

The party picked 800 bushels of 
corn and hauled it to the cribs. 

Frank is a son of Rep. Henry C. 
Allen who has represented the 35th 
senatorial district in the state legis- 
lature for many years. Both have 
been active in the past in Farm Bu- 
reau work in that county. 

Mr. Allen recently returned home 
from the Sterling hospital where for 
a time his condition was very grave. 


|. A. A. Float Wins 


Float No. 1, “The Farmer’s Din- 
ner Bell is the Liberty Bell of 1932” 
designed for the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association during the state- 
wide 4th of July demonstration was 
used by the Washoe County Farm 
Bureau at Reno, Nevada on Sept. 1 
and was awarded first prize in the 
parade. 


ber of the Logan County Farm Bu- 
reau which he assisted in organizing 
many years ago. 


An organization of corn growers is 
being formed in Nebraska, declnres a 
press dispatch of Dec. 18, to get farmers 
in the corn belt to sign up for a 20 to 
25 per cent reduction in corn acreage 
in 1933, 


Page Fourteen 


The Producers’ Milk Company, a 
subsidiary of the Mid-West Dairy- 
men’s Company, Rockford, was in- 
corporated recently with authorized 
capital stock of $40,000. This move 
was made following action of lead- 
ing dealers in reducing the price 
from $1.50 per cwt. for base milk 
to a flat butterfat price. J. B. Coun- 
tiss, dairy marketing director, is as- 
sisting the producers at Rockford. 

The organized producers who 
number more than 400, immediately 
raised $5,000 in notes and cash at 
their initial meeting. Approximately 
400 new membership contracts were 
signed providing for a check-off of 
five cents per cwt. and a differential 
to Farm Bureau members. 

The plan provides for a plant and 
equipment to handle all members’ 
milk. Producers volunteered to de- 
liver their own milk from door to 
door with their own horse-drawn 
conveyances until more satisfactory 
equipment can be obtained. 

As we go to press negotiations are 
underway leading to a reconsidera- 
tion by the dealers of the price of- 
fered producers. 


Co-op Creamery Soon 
To Open At Bloomington 


The Farmers’ Co-operative 
Creamery is expected to open early 
in January at 413 N. Center street, 
Bloomington. 

Equipment is now being installed 
to handle an annual output of ap- 
proximately 1,710,000 pounds of but- 
ter. The maximum capacity of the 
plant is reported at 5,700 pounds of 
butter daily. 

The plant will have a maximum 
storage capacity of 1,800 gallons of 
cream and will require 800 regular 
patrons to keep it running. Six em- 
ployees will be necessary to operate 
the machinery and office. 

The building is located directly 
north of the Farm Bureau office. 
Butterfat from co-operative cream 
marketing associations in DeWitt, 
McLean, Woodford, and Livingston 
counties will be processed as well 
as surplus milk not otherwise sold 
by the McLean County Milk Pro- 
ducers’ Ass’n. The Farm Bureaus 
of these counties are co-operating in 
getting this project under way. 


Congressman Joins Rock 
Island Farm Bureau 


Congressman-elect Chester 
Thompson of the 14th congressional 
district signed up in the Rock Is- 
land County Farm Bureau recently, 
reports Farm Adviser John H. Spen- 


cer. 


THE I. A. A RECORD 


DIRECTORS OF MID-WEST DAIRYMAN’S CO., ROCKFORD 


January, 1933 


Left to right, Front Row: Grant Westphal, Hugh Mainland, vice-pres., Wil- 
bur Sawdey, president, Clayton Hoisington, secretary, Harry Fenton. 
Back Row: Mauritz Nystrom, Harry Stevens, Wilkie Lee, Abel Larsen, Geo. 


Johns, Jr, 


Directors Wm. Nicholson and Harold Crandall were not present. 


New minimum weights of 10,000 
pounds on straight or mixed loads 
of livestock from country points to 
Chicago on the Rock Island, Illinois 
Central, and C. B. & Q. railroads 
were recently secured by the I. A. A. 


Transportation Department. Pre- 
vious minimum weights were 17,000 
pounds. 


Following this reduction the Chi- 
cago Producers announced a cut in 
commission charges to conform to 
the new freight minimums. The 
new schedule of charges placed on 
file with the Packers and Stock 
Yards Administration reduces the 
minimum charge on cattle from $17 
to $10 per car. The schedule states 
when the car contains less than 20 
head the commission charge will be 
nine cents per cwt. with a maxi- 
mum of $17 and a minimum of $10. 
When a car contains less than 50 
head of calves the charge shall be 
35 cents a head with a minimum of 
$10 compared with the old charge 
of $17. 


If the car contains less than 50 
hogs the commission charge is nine 
cents cwt. with a minimum of $10 
compared with the old rate of $15. 
In case of mixed livestock of single 
ownership the minimum ‘was cut 
from $16 to $10 per car and in the 
case of more than one owner of un- 
mixed stock the minimum has 
been reduced from $14 and $18 to 
$10. And on mixed cars from $17 to 
$10. 

Orderly marketing during the 
next six weeks and the holding of 
many steers that can be profitably 
fed into the late winter was recom- 


mended by the Research Depart- 
ment of the National Live Stock 
Marketing Association on Dec. 14. 

A general recovery of prices is 
expected in the late winter as a gap 
in supplies is expected at that time 
coupled with support from feeding 
demand and a relative scarcity of 
butcher stock. Recovery is expected 
in the hog market by late winter, 
although little improvement is indi- 
cated in the next four to five weeks. 
The trade generally expects reduced 
supplies for February and March. It 
seems advisable to continue to feed 
all lightweights and market only 
hogs that are well finished. Weight 
is not yet penalized. Early fall pigs 
will feed well for the late winter or 
early spring, and many late spring 
pigs can be steered for later mar- 
keting. The situation does not war- 
rant any increased breeding for 
next spring’s pig crop. 


The lamb market continues to 
hold most of its advance and is in 
a rather strong position as sup- 
plies are expected to show further 
reduction as the fed-lamb season 
advances. Shortest marketings are 
expected in January. Supplies are 
not expected to be particularly ex- 
cessive any time, but it will be well 
to go slow in taking out feeding 
lambs during the next 60 days. 
Lightweights might do well for late 
April or early May. 


Illinois Corn To Europe 


Farmers National Grain Corp. 


‘ loaded 60,000 bushels of Illinois No. 


2 yellow corn at New Orleans re- 
cently. The corn was bound for 
Liverpool and Manchester, England. 

This was one of the first export 
shipments via barge from this state. 
Additional consignments are booked 
by Farmers National for export dur- 
ing the first half of January. 


33 


an 


January, 1933 


THE I1.A. A. RECORD 


Page Fifteen 


Bond Issue Vote, Victory for 


Organization 


Downstate Leads Cook County In Giving Overwhelming Approval To 


A GREAT victory for organiza- 
tion aided by a_ well-direc- 
ted and effective campaign of 
publicity characterizes the favor- 
able vote on the Emergency Relief 
Bond Issue in the,elcetion on Nov. 
8. The effect of this'cécision by the 
voters will be to remove $25,000,000 
of taxes from property in 1933. 
Results of the smashing drive for 
passage of the measure led in most 
of the downstate communities by 
the County Farm Bureaus, finally 
have been tabulated by John C. 
Watson. They show that the meas- 
ure received better than a 90 per 
cent favorable vote over the state 
as a whole; in the downstate coun- 
ties 93.64% and in Cook county 


Tax Reduction Measure 


legislative contest, Henry county 


gained first place, Effingham coun- 
ty second place, and Pike county 
third place. 
Menard Ahead Here 
The highest percentage of all 
votes on the bond issue cast in its 
favor was secured by Menard coun- 


ty, with 98.27 per cent, followed. 


closely by Mercer county, with 98.14 
per cent, and Effingham county, 
with 97.78 per cent. 

The campaign for approval of the 
bond issue removed $25,000,000 from 
this year’s tax bill on property, 
more than $5,000,000 of which 
would have been on farm property. 
It was a worth while project for 


people, their approval by a consti- 
tutional majority, even against sel- 
fish opposition, can be assured by a 
well-planned campaign of educa- 
tion and organization for that pur- 
pose. ~ 


Tax Amendment Next 

With the experience gained in the 
bond issue campaign, the Illinois 
Agricultural Association believes 
that the time is ripe for urging the 
long overdue modification of the 
State constitution in the revenue 
and one or two other articles. 

President Earl C. Smith served 
as chairman of a_ representative 
State-wide committee to pass the 
bond issue. Much credit for the 


86.70%. this purpose. However, it was much favorable vote in Chicago should go 
‘ The table beginning on this page More worth while as a demonstra- to Douglas Sutherland of the Civic 
g contains the best information ob- tion of what organization can do. Federation of Chicago who acted as 
f : tainable although there is still some It showed clearly that whenever secretary of the committee and to 
4 doubt about the accuracy of the Properly drawn public policy ques- Fred Sargent, president of the Chi- 
: vote reported from several counties, tions which the Illinois Agricultural cago & Northwestern Railway, who 
i said Mr. Watson. “It is believed Association and other organizations served as chairman of the bond is- 
that the table is substantially cor- can support, are submitted to the sue committee in Cook county. 
4 rect and that the counties are listed 
t , ee HOW COUNTIES VOTED ON THE EMERGENCY RELIEF 
: What Table Discloses BOND ISSUE : 


The table discloses the following 
facts which are believed to be un- 


Highest Looe 

9 e 

islative Vote 
for 


s Senatorial Vot Bond | - 
s matched in the vote on any other  ,,, County Distriet ne ims "Aaainst —lallves Vote" Bond. Jesse 
i bond issue or public policy question #enderson*’§.1.........1. 33 31981 160 3856 111/98 
in the history of the State: eaten 37 21,098 641 19,594 107.68 
1. The bond issue received a con- wWhiteside* .............. 35 17,769 483 16,846 10648 
stitutional majority of the highest ike* 36 11.887 
legislative vote in every county of fuiton* .°:.2/.5212/22!) 43 18,472 1,008 17143 1oadt 
4 the State. JoDaviess* .............. 12 9,472 310 9,257 102.32 
| 2. In twenty counties more votes Moultrie*’..............: 24 6,178 247 Broad 102.22 
4) were cast for the bond issue than 7p.) .wene P 20,106 751 
#8 for candidates for the legislature. WEIN os cc. ee 8 4,858 248 watt, 102,08 
< 3. In the State as a whole, the fo0ck Jsland* ............ 43 28 866 1838 33°308 10783 
bond issue received 90.35 per cent DeKalb* :.:............: 35 15,483 494 iB 347 101.86 
of the highest legislative vote. In Stark 27 4,248 132 41 
Cook county the percentage was Putnam* :............°.. 16 27405 134 2376 10122 
4 86.70, and in the remainder of the 66 bc 6 Ros cri aces 24 6,991 220 6,922 101.00 
Stat IY So ee cog ces oo x's 30 3.775 105 3,748 100.72 
ate was 93.64. Marshall* ............%.. 16 7,028 327 7,019 100.13 
Mercer i Washington ............ 44 7,494 330 
County First MO bic ye ook. . oos 37 18,149 589 18,162 99°98 
Mercer county gains first place Livingston* --........... 16 17,341 863 17,383 99.76 
with the highest percentage of its Ggsss (12°2221.0/.00/.111 30 19st 361 S044 99.29 
legislative vote given by any county |, a ‘ac : os 
: NEE, 6.6. 0'¢ 0 0 bie wee 30,0 ote 296 835 
of the State. The thirty-third sen- weDonough .!)...)). 32 13/608 394 15.823 O8.42 
atorial district, consisting of Mercer, meateomery eee eet e eens ae siaee ; aay 16,095 98.15 
EE RE aN ; 1 29:301 i 
Henderson and Rock Island coun- Cumberland’ |...........: 40 5,007 311 5,108 98:03 
ties, secured first, second and thir- Sabuylere $0 5448 o62 
teenth places respectively in the Garroll* ....2.1......11) 12 724 348 7900 on tt 
order of the counties, and first ae eee 3 ie Ht 444 iets 97.75 
place in the order of the senatorial Dewitt...) 38 31999 381 eth 87.48 
N QO is Giiie's vibes duced sy ee 10 12,837 573 : 
In districts which either voted for Alexander ../.:........2! 50 9,065 548 +9306 on 41 
State senator or had more than Ford®, Daciedeucsccte aha 26 Rose 378 pits 97.23 
i a ’ ( +s 97.19 
three candidates for State repre- Greene .........1....112) 38 8.000 581 8,246 9702 


Sentative, and hence had a real (Continued ‘next: page) 


Page Sixteen 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Christian* ......e.eee00% 40 16,315 945 16,825 96.97 
Woodford* ....... ../.. 16 8,375 350 8,654 96.78 
SORGOG Gives ee onc ive ec’ 00 38 5,774 141 5,967 96.77 
EOP as o> tis © shh ia ofp Brees 36 4,319 164 4,466 96.71 
Randolph ............e08. 44 12,435 728 12,874 96.59 
Kankakee* ............. 20 21,627 1,666 22,444 96.36 
POOPIG? 900. cid veces vse’ 18 58,833 2,346 61,125 96.25 
MOrg@an sek abe eee. 45 16,760 733 17,533 95.59 
Sangamon .........ee-. 45 55,390 2,485 57,965 95.56 
MGOLGAN* 5s k vc eases ese 26 32,158 1,762 33,667 95.52 
Hancock ....¢....ccceees 32 12,661 414 13,256 95.51 
WHGTTOD 5.5 i. voce 6 vis vg oie ee 32 10,257 541 10,755 95.37 
gO URE ance een a ee 6,344 572 6,660 95.26 
TM ee ees a cing g d.0 sre een hee 35 13,418 709 14,090 95.23 
Macoupin .........ee000> 38 20,792 1,289 21,947 94.74 
BOP cc kav uwe hence neers 8 39,834 3,417 42,084 94.65 
AE ks icv 0%. cs ere oieles 48 8,380 416 8,882 94.35 
MOBTION® | okey ie vee esse 42 15,572 808 16,506 94.34 
CONES oi0 eases Ko 6 0 8 a0 bow 34 16,461 922 17,524 93.93 
DUPRSO Soviets 41 38,662 3,773 41,179 93.89 
CROWEOLE ooo). ocsieriais ete cise 48 10,067 472 10,746 93.68 
BR AGN bap. wh a-ha. aow:gcecbogia 41 46,701 2,628 49,912 93.57 
BAVOtte 6h. ee b ete 40 10,829 755 11,585 93.47 
TAPRIIG:. 5 sv oe. b50 Xie 0'bio RR ae 39 43,424 2,246 46,462 93.46 
OE ee 'v cla cp tb vee eeek 44 10,045 726 10,752 93.42 
CIO 6 oie cc ee ve 8 ae 8 wieors 50 8,140 464 8,716 93.39 
TOMO Aine aS ect eves wees 14 50,711 2,894 > 54,302 93.39 
SORTBON. (5s ieee caes cwcee 51 4,087 218 4,390 93.10 
McHenry .........eeeeees » 16,144 1,023 17,386 92.86 
BG Sin pa Siew es 22 12,727 13,742 92.61 
Champaign* ............ 24 26,886 1,840 29,063 92.51 
DER COT © 05.65 ee score wie orale 60 28 34,249 1,837 37,049 92.44 
ROPPIEONe oo aoe eg he's sraceweias 42 9,054 455 9,809 92.30 
Monroe .........02eeeeee 44 5,479 405 5,944 92.18 
Edwards .........eee00- 48 3,903 128 4,238 92.10 
WGI 5a oie eS ob i Sigel a's’ 40 11,610 675 12,622 91.98 
SHOMEOR: iiiicsco ic vice ce pa vies 44 15,708 811 17,185 91.41 
oh cL ait 48 2,883 126 3,167 91.03 
PRONG Sao ive ele u's ase areca ree 51 3,326 140 3,655 91.00 
Winnebago ...........6.. 10 39,615 2,411 43,538 90.99 
WRT a5 hos Siw eis ies 46 8,444 323 9,427 89.57 
WASBEBD 5: v's s'0's phere vey note 51 4,792 363 5,352 89.54 
WY EDRON ss vale co's vielen cece 48 5,687 230 6,393 88.96 
NG ois otc blah pie bts ve 34 8,617 627 9,755 88.33 
DOUBIAS ooo eicca cos oes tink 34 7,044 567 8,016 87.87 
Richland .......... eet eco ie 46 6,104 473 7,018 86.98 
Madison .........+eeeeee 47 47,843 ,087 55,055 86.90 
RG 5 ow. diy 313 obi 9 Boo 0.6 bho 1,279,392 144,470 1,475,672 86.70 
Hamilton .............-. 51 5.542 467 6,427 86.23 
SRBVOR i occa cacvoevene 46 5,801 391 6,737 86.11 
BORAT 6 ocd so bioseiao's Giees’s 51 13.956 1,163 16,245 85.91 
Grundy* .........02e2 eee 20 7,516 996 8,778 85.62 
Lawrence ...........2005 48 8,654 615 10,141 85.34 
CHE ci ais ba ebewnedweuse 42 7,052 382 8,405 83.90 
Gallatin ...........00008 48 3,813 293 4,687 81.35 
Calhoun ...........e0055 36 2,541 314 3,158 80.46 
Williamson ............. 50 16,084 2.001 20.807 77.30 
Franklin ............0..- 50 16,453 2,801 21,606 76.15 
Jefferson ........eeeeeee 46 10,673 1,449 14,455 13.84 
D1 a earner ae 50 4,381 424 6,456 67.86 
Vermilion .............4. 22 25,485 6,913 37,629 67.73 
Ber UBER «05 ogy ob 63.9 0s cers 49 40,975 4,808 66,609 61.52 
ERO 5658.5 Karlie ei dedyes 2,809,902 237,864 3,110,189 90.35 
State except Cook County 1,530,510 93,394 1,634,517 93.64 


Note: Senators were elected in all even numbered districts, and only in such 
districts. Districts in which counties are starred (*) had only three candidates 
for representatives, all of whom were certain of election. If starred counties 
are in odd-numbered districts, there was no real legislative contest therein. In 
such districts many voters ignored the legislative ticket. 


Dividend News 
(Continued from page 4) 


reau members in Whiteside county 
participated in the distribution of 
$9,316.17 on a patronage basis and 
$1,648.54 for preferred stock divi- 
dends. Four hundred and twenty- 
eight non-members patronized the 
company the past year. 

Seven hundred and_ sixty-two 
Farm Bureau members in St. Clair 
and Washington counties received 
patronage dividend checks totaling 
$8,185.51. One member received $88. 

Madison Service Company, or- 
ganized last April, has declared a 
15 per cent patronage refund on 
lubricating oil, grease, Soyoil paint, 
stock dips, and mange oil, 12 per 
cent on gasoline, 10 per cent on 
kerosene, automobile tires, and 
other miscellaneous merchandise at 


the end of the first six months’ 
operation. Twenty-five per cent of 
the net income for the period was 
set aside to surplus. Eighty-six per 
cent of the Farm Bureau members 
in Madison county received patron- 
age dividend checks. 


JoDaviess Service Company de- 
clared a 10 per cent cash dividend 
totaling $1,984.81 to Farm Bureau 
members. 


Twin County Service Company 
(Jackson & Williamson) declared a 
five per cent (station) and 10 per 
cent (truck) dividend totaling 
$422.75. 


Richland County Produce Asso- 
ciation recently refunded $2,107.54; 
Rich-Law Service Company de- 
clared a 20. per cent dividend of 


January, 1933 


Lauds I. A. A.'s Work In 
Co-op. Grain Marketing 


W. J. Niergarth, manager of the 
St. Louis office, Farmers National 
Grain Corporation, paid tribute to 
the work of the Illinois Agricultural 
Association in promoting co-opera- 
tive grain marketing, in a radio talk 
over KMOX, St. 
Louis, Dec. 12. 

Commenting 
fH on the Illinois 
Grain Corp. and 
its development 
he said: “The 
Illinois Agricul- 
i tural Association 
has played a 
leading part in 
‘establishing this 
service in Mlli- 

WwW. J. NIERGARTH nois, in carrying 

; the co-operative 
marketing principle beyond the 
local point and into the terminal 
markets. Certainly without the 
backing of this strong and effective 
farm organization real co-operative 
grain marketing in Illinois by farm- 
er-owned and farmer-controlled co- 
operatives would not have developed 
as rapidly nor as soundly as is the 
case.” 

Mr. Niergarth stated Illinois pro- 
ducers had not reaped the benefits 
of the privately-owned marketing 
system, “whose chief weakness, 
from the grower’s standpoint, is 
found, not in its structure, but in 
its ownership, for while industry 
controls its own distributive ma- 
chinery and takes the profits there- 
from, the producer previously has 
found it necessary to turn his prod- 
uct over to the private handler for 
distribution.” 


$2,972.79; Richland County Ship- 
ping Association refunded $257.59 
on commissions and $142.95 on sales 
of twine. 


The Menard County Farm Bureau 
announces total cash dividends of 
$4,375.76 paid by the Menard Coun- 
ty Farm Supply Company, the 
Springfield Producers’ Commission 
Company, and the County Farm 
Bureau Shipping Association. 


Coles-Douglas Supply Company 
declared a 15 per cent cash dividend 
totaling $1,828.25. Tuscola Co-oper- 
ative Grain Company distributed 
six per cent on common stock. 


Schuyler Service Company an- 
nounces a five per cent cash divi- 
dend totaling $980 to Farm Bureau 
members. 


Pulaski County Farm Bureau an- 
nounces that Ullin Livestock Ship- 
ping Association paid a 20 per cent 
cash refund and Villa Ridge Fruit 

(Continued on page 17) 


January, 1933 


Chicago Milk Price Cut 


Consumption Increases 


The retail price of a quart of milk 
in Chicago dropped from 11 to nine 
cents on December 1 following a 
conference between officials of the 
Pure Milk Association and the or- 
ganized milk distributors. The cut 
applies also to the suburbs of Chi- 
cago and to such cities as Wauke- 
gan and others. 

The new prices are nine cents per 
quarter for milk instead of 11, a 
return to the 1917 level; six cents 
per pint instead of seven; half pints 
of cream 15 cents, a drop of one 
cent; and nine cents for buttermilk. 

The milk wagon drivers’ union 
the previous week had accepted the 
$5 wage cut to $40 a week, and the 
producers were asked to take a cut 
of 40 cents per cwt. for base milk. 

Thus farmers assumed a reduc- 
tion of about one cent per quart, 
drivers about five-eighths of one 
cent, and the dealers the balance. 

“Members of the Pure Milk Asso- 
ciation,” declared W. C. McQueen, 
president and Don Geyer, manager, 
“have accepted a cut in their milk 
price which, in our opinion, is all 
out of proportion to our direct re- 
sponsibility to the consumers of 
milk in Chicago. This reduction of 
40 cents per cwt. added to the re- 
ductions already accepted by the 
association, equals 50 per cent of 
the 1929 price as against 20 per cent 
reduction for labor and a total re- 
duction of approximately 35 per 
cent in the price to the consumer. 

“Dairy farmers are accepting this 
reduction only under extreme pro- 
test. At the new price farmers will 
receive about three cents per quart 
of the nine cents paid by the con- 
sumer. They have a right to expect 
a more equitable distribution.” 

During the series of conferences 
between dealers and producers it 
was reported that in 1912 farmers 
were getting $1.90 per cwt. for 3.5 
per cent milk, the price to the con- 
sumer was eight cents a quart, and 
milk wagon drivers were paid $19 a 
week. At that time there were ap- 
proximately 1,600 milk dealers in 
Chicago, today there are 131. 

Following the reduction in price, 
consumption of bottled milk in- 
creased noticeably, according to 
Chicago newspaper reports. The 
new price to producers in the Chi- 
cago area will be $1.45 per cwt. for 
base milk and flat 92 score butter 
price for surplus. 

Several of the larger distributors 
since the cut have advertised a 
city-wide campaign calling atten- 
tion to the food value of milk and 
the new reduced price. Since the 
other dealers reduced to nine cents 
the Meadowmoor Dairies, Inc., 
which refuse to buy milk from the 
Pure Milk Association, announced 
an eight-cent price. 


THE LA. A. RECORD 


Continuation of the hearing be- 
fore the Interstate Commerce Com- 
mission involving extension of tran- 
sit privileges in change of owner- 
ship of livestock at various western 
markets was set for January 5 at 
Excelsior Springs, Missouri. From 
there the hearing will be trans- 
ferred d continued at Chicago, 
January /16. 


L. J. Quasey, director of trans- 
portation for the I. A. A. has been 
attending the hearing in an effort 
to secure a long-haul rate from the 
western cattle ranges to corn-belt 
feed lots via the terminal markets 
even though there is a change of 
ownership at such markets. Such a 
transit privilege is now accorded 
livestock shipped to country points 
for resale to corn-belt feeders. 


The co-operatives as well as in- 
dividuals make considerable use of 
the latter privilege. But those who 
buy their feeder cattle and lambs at 
the terminal markets have had to 
pay two rates, one from the range 
country to the market, and another 
short-haul rate from the market to 
the feed lot. ‘ 


The Illinois farmer at the pres- 
ent time is unable to buy Texas cat- 
tle at the Kansas City market for 
example and obtain the full billing 
from original point of origin be- 
cause that constitutes a change of 
ownership. 


Shippers now have such a priv- 
ilege at Denver and interests at 
Chicago, East St. Louis, St. Paul, 
Fort Worth and all Missouri River 
markets are asking for a like priv- 
ilege. 

As an example, on a carload of 
cattle moving from Alpine, Texas 
to Kansas City for re-sale and later 
shipment to a feeder in Illinois in- 
termediate to Chicago, a local rate 
of 60 cents applies to Kansas City 
plus the local rate from Kansas City 
to Chicago, or 40 cents, making a 
through rate of $1, while the 
through rate from Alpine, Texas to 
Chicago is 77 cents, or a difference 
of 23 cents which the shippers are 
now penalized if they stop at Kan- 
sas City on a change of ownership 
basis. In this particular instance, it 
would cost a shipper $50.60 to buy 
on the Kansas City market. The 
figures as given are based on final 
movement to Chicago on a feed in 
transit privilege on which the 
through rate to Chicago has been 
figured and the local rate to in- 
dividual feeding point. 


The contention is that these mar- 
kets are deprived of the privilege 
of trading in feeder stock; that it 
has a tendency of keeping feeder 
cattle out of the markets. 


Page Seventeen 


Dividend News 
(Continued from page 16) 


Shippers’ Association a cash divi- 
dend totaling $300. 


Kendall Farmers’ Oil Company 
announces a 10 per cent cash divi- 
dend on fuel oils, 20 per cent on 
lubricating oil. 


Robinson and Oblong units of 
Crawford County Produce Associa- 
tion recently distributed cash divi- 
dends of 1.5 to two cents per pound 
on butterfat totaling $1,047.73 an- 
nounces the Farm Bureau. Craw- 
ford-Jasper county members re- 
ceived $2,516.87 in dividends from 
Rich-Law Service Company; live- 
stock growers received 25 per cent 
of commissions on Sales to India- 
napolis Producers. it 


“4 


McLean County Service Company 
announces cash dividends of 18 per 
cent on sales of gasoline and kero- 
sene, 23 per cent on oil and grease, 
30 per cent on paint, and 5 to 17 
per cent on other items, a total dis- 
tribution of $43,958.93 to Farm Bu- 
reau members in good standing. 


Jersey County Farm Supply Com- 
pany declared a 22.5 per cent divi- 
dend on fuel oils and 10 cents a gal- 
lon on lubricants, total refund $12,- 
880. The County Produce Associa- 
tion returned $890.91 in cash to 
members. 


Ford County Dairy Marketing As- 
sociation refunded 1.25 cents per lb. 
on butterfat, total $588.05; Gibson 
City Farmers’ Cream Station re- 
funded one cent per pound on 
butterfat, total $203.85. 


Lake County Farm Supply Com- 
pany announces a 10 per cent divi- 
dend on petroleum products, total 
$9,000; four per cent on feed, seed, 
fertilizer, etc., estimated at $2,500, 
or a total of $11,500 to Farm Bu- 
reau members. 


Wabash Valley Service Company 
announces a seven per cent cash 
dividend to consumer stockholders 
totaling $12,066.55; the Albion- 
Browns and West Salem units of 
Edwards County Produce Associa- 
tion refunded $987.12 to patrons. 


Montgomery County Farmers Oil 
Co. declared a 10 per cent cash re- 
fund totaling $2,688.17;. Shelby-Ef- 
fingham Service Company a 10 per 
cent refund, total $4,372.63; Shelby 
County Livestock Marketing Asso- 
ciation refunded 4% cents per cwt., 
total $565.27. 


Scott Co. Division Morgan Farm- 
ers’ Oil Co. cash refund 10 per cent, 
total $1,079. 


Page Eighteen 


THE I. A. A RECORD 


Higher Prices Only Hope 
For Debtor And Creditor 


A. R. Wright Declares Worthy 
Debtor Must Be Helped To 
Preserve His Equity 


‘oor THE debtor is to be permitted 
to pay his debt and the cred- 
itor receive his pay, some means of 
inflation must be brought about 
and that before many months,” A. 
R. Wright, vice-president of the Illi- 
nois Agricultural Association, and 
president of the Marshall County 
State Bank, said in an address at 
the Farm Debt 
conference held 
recently at Ur- 
bana. The con- 
ference was call- 
ed by Dean H. 
W. Mumford of 
the State College 
of Agriculture 
and included 
college econo- 
mists, bankers, 
farmers and 
others. Robt. A. 
Cowles and John 
C. Watson repre- 
sented the I. A. A. at the confer- 
ence. 


“What the farmer needs is an in- 
crease in the sale price of his prod- 
ucts,” continued Mr. Wright. “Sup- 
plying the exhausted patient with 
oxygen in the form of more credit, 
without providing him with some 
opportunity of paying his loan, will 
only drive him more deeply in the 
mire. Temporary credit and re- 
financing of farm mortgages at 
low interest rates are sorely needed, 
but a means of providing him with 
an income somewhat equal in pur- 
chasing power to that level at 
which he contracted his debt is far 
more important. 

“The country banker is vitally in- 
terested in this problem but now 
the farm debt question has ceased 
to be a problem only of the local 
banker. Big industrial and busi- 
ness leadership is now concerned 
about its own welfare because of 
its dependence on the farm. 


Organization Needed 


“The farmer unorganized as he 
is has endeavored to maintain him- 
self in a highly organized field. In 
this respect he has failed. Bankers 
stress organization, and are organ- 
ized, mortgage bankers are organ- 
ized, the insurance companies have 
organized to advantage, yet all 
have loaned their resources to, and 
staked their bet on an _ industry 
that was unable to protect its rights 
through organized efforts. Worst of 
all, many members of these groups 
have not encouraged farmers to 
align themselves with the leading 


A. BR, WRIGHT 


farm organizations, in fact some 
bankers are discouraging such a 
step. I am convinced that this 
short-sighted policy is responsible 
to a greater degree than we appre- 
ciate, for the dire predicament in 
which the lender finds himself to- 
day. 

“Having gotten ourselves into 
this morass, leniency and co-oper- 
ative effort to the fullest extent 
possible must be resorted to by the 
creditors. Lapsed interest must be 
compromised or amortized over a 
term of years. Mortgages must be 
refinanced at the lowest rate of in- 
terest commensurate with the debt- 
or’s ability to pay, and for a length 
of time that will insure the worthy 
farmer a chance to make good. 


Must Work Together 


“The worthy debtor must be 
helped to preserve his equity and 
above all things, he must be en- 
couraged to maintain his morale. 
It is one thing for the creditor to 
take over a farm but an entirely 
different thing to manage it. Some 
of us are having our experiences 
with land trusts, receiverships, etc. 
The hooray and glamour of cor- 
poration farming has passed and 
farming has established its dual 
capacity once more—not only a 
business but a mode of living. 


“In instances where more than 


one creditor is involved they can 


best protect their interests by 
working together with the worthy 
debtor in a compromising spirit. 
There is nothing to be gained these 
days by a dog-eat-dog policy. There 
never has been a time when the 
need for practicing the Divine ex- 
hortation of Brotherly Love was as 
great as it is now. When the farm 
problem is solved the bankers’ 
problem will have largely faded 
away.” 


Pres. Smith On Farm 
And Home Week Program 


“The Aims and Objectives of Or- 
ganized Agriculture” will be the 
subject of a talk by Earl C. Smith, 
president of the Illinois Agricultural 
Association, on the general confer- 
ence program of Farm and Home 
Week at Urbana Friday morning, 
Jan. 20. MIlinois farm advisers will 
hold their annual meeting during 
the five day short course which be- 
gins Jan. 16 at the State College of 
Agriculture. 

Twenty-nine different short 
courses designed to help rebuild the 
incomes of farmers and _ restore 
their buying power will be offered, 
announces the State College. These 
courses will stress more effective 
marketing, cheaper unit costs of 
production, higher quality products, 
reduction of ldsses and wastes on 
the farm and in the home and 


January, 1933 


8 Livestock Meetings 
Scheduled In January 


Eight district conferences for 
county livestock marketing’ com- 
mittees will be held during Janu- 
ary as follows: January 4, Masonic 
Hall, Polo; January 5, Armory, 
Galesburg; January 6, Farm Bureau 
Office, Ottawa; January 9, Y. W.C. 
A., Danville; January 10, Dunlap 
Hotel, Jacksonville; January 11, 


Jefferson Hotel, Peoria; January 12, 


Broadview Hotel, E. St. Louis; Janu- 
ary 13, City Hall, Effingham. 

Meetings at Peoria and E. St. 
Louis will be held in conjunction 
with annual meetings of the Peoria 
and St. Louis Producers. Charles A. 
Ewing, pfesident of the National 
Livestock Marketing Association, 
will address both of these meetings. 

At each of the district meetings 
a director will be nominated for the 
board of directors of Illinois Live- 
stock Marketing Association. 

The annual meeting of the State 
Livestock Marketing Association 
will be held at the Farm Bureau 
office in Bloomington, Tuesday, 
February 14 where directors will be 
elected, reports made, and new 
business transacted. 


“From 67 to 90 per cent of Illi- 
nois farmers’ income in most sec- 
tions of the state is derived from 
livestock,” states Ray E. Miller, di- 
rector of livestock marketing. “It is 
high time livestock producers them- 
selves take vigorous steps to extend 
the operation and effectiveness of 
their co-operative marketing or- 
ganizations. They should receive 
and enjoy greater net returns from 
the sale of their livestock. No plan 
will succeed unless and until it is 
understood, approved, and given ag- 
gressive support of farmers them- 
selves.” 


higher living standards, as well as 
a wider variety of community in- 
terests and a happier rural life. 

Home makers will open their ses- 
sions Tuesday, Jan. 17 with a meet- 
ing of the Illinois Home Bureau 
Federation. 


Corn and grain honors of the 
season will be settled in the annual 
Illinois Seed Grain and Utility Corn 
Show. In addition to the grain show 
exhibit, there will be one on foods 
and nutrition and another on seed 
cleaning machinery. 


The 15 crops in order of their 
value in the 1930 census are corn, 
hay, cotton, wheat, oats, potatoes, 
tobacco, oranges, barley, apples, 
sugar beets, tomatoes, dry beans, 
grapefruit, and sweet potatoes. 

The Bureau of Chemistry and 
Soils has concentrated its farm crop 
research to find new uses for these 
crops not only as food but also in- 
dustrially. 


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Number 2 


FEBRUARY, 1933 


Illinois Agricultural Association “Record, 608 So 


Volume 11 


About the Convention at Peoria 


Strength, Determination, and Enthusiasm To Go Forward Seen at | 8th Annual Meeting 


A& A demonstration of strength 
and determination to carry on 
in building constructive services 
and maintaining proper representa- 
tion for the benefit of Illinois agri- 
culture, the 18th annual convention 
of the Tlinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion at Peoria Jan. 26-27 was never 
surpassed. 

While the crowd estimated con- 
servatively at more than 3,000 
might have been exceeded in former 
years, enthusiasm and determina- 
tion were there abundantly as if in 
reply to the concerted drive being 
made by organized middlemen and 
their allies to disorganize farmers 
and shake their faith in farm lead- 
ership and institutions. 


“What an organization! See the 
determined look in their faces,” 
commented Henry Harriman, the 
national chamber of commerce 
president, as he gazed from the 
platform at the vast audience— 
nearly 2,000 strong—during the an- 
nual banquet in Peoria’s great 
armory. That expression was spon- 
taneous. Any newcomer could have 
said as much. 

In a year of great depression and 
consequent unrest brought on by 
unprecedented losses and radical 
changes in economic and social 
conditions, you might expect such 
influences to be reflected in the 
annual meeting of a great or- 
ganized body like the I. A. A. There 


were evidences of low farm spend- 
ing power but not a ripple of the 
disunity and internal dissension 
which enemies of agricultural co- 
operation delight in, and which 
have hindered farm progress. 

Thus in fourteen years, since the 
I. A. A. was set up on its present 
membership basis in the city of 
Peoria, Illinois farmers have welded 
into their organization a measure 
of strength and stability un- 
equalled in any similar or contem- 
porary association in America. 

Shall we reduce dues and cut 
service? That was the question 
more than 300 County Farm Bureau 
presidents, directors, and leaders 

(Continued on page 5) 


More than 1,600 were served, approximately 2,000 attended the Annual Banquet in Peoria’s Big Armory on Thursday 


night, Jan. 26. The I. A. A. was launched in this city as a membership organization in 1919. 


- gaid. “It’s well to 


Page Four 


THE ILA. A. RECORD 


February, 1933 


Smith and Wright Re-elected 


Five New Directors Chosen, Bamborough, Sorrells And Cope Re-elected In | 3th, 


ARL C. SMITH of Detroit was 

re-elected to serve his eighth 
term as president of the Associa- 
tion and A. R. Wright, Varna, was 
re-elected for the fourth time as 
vice-president following the speak- 
ing program at the banquet on 
Thursday night. 

Mr. Smith’s name was placed in 
nomination by Albert Hayes, presi- 
dent of the Peoria County Farm 
Bureau who paid a glowing tribute 
to his leadership during the As- 
sociation’s period of greatest de- 
velopment beginning in 1926. The 
nomination was seconded by M. A. 
Goodmiller of JoDaviess county 
and Chas. H. Snyder of Brown 
county. A. R. Wright was nomi- 
nated by A. L. Goodenough, presi- 
dent of the Whiteside County Farm 
Bureau. Mr. Goodenough wittily 
made a play on the name “Wright” 
in his nominat- 
ing speech. 

“When you 
have the right 
man in the right 
place, let’s keep 
him there,” he 


have someone 
who is ‘Wright’ 
all the time.” 
The nomination 
was seconded by 
R. B. Endicott of 
Pulaski county. 


In the ab- 
sence of other 
nominations the 
secretary was in- 
structed in each EARL 
case to cast a 
unanimous ballot for the nominee. 


Five New Directors 


Five changes were made in the 
board of directors. Ebb Harris, 
Grayslake, was elected to suc- 
ceed H. C. Vial in the 11th district, 
M. Ray Ihrig of Golden succeeds 
Charles Bates in the 15th district, 
E. D. Lawrence, Bloomington, re- 
places A. B. Schofield in the 17th 
district, Eugene Curtis, Champaign, 
succeeds C. J. Gross in the 19th dis- 
trict, and Robert B. Endicott, Villa 
Ridge, succeeds Fred Dietz in the 
25th district. 


C. E. Bamborough of Ogle county 
was re-elected in the 13tl. district, 
Sam Sorrells of Montgomery county 
in the 21st district, and W. L. Cope 
of Marion county in the 23rd dis- 
trict. Directors are elected for two 
year terms, thus the terms of half 
the board members expire annually. 


2\st, And 23rd Districts 


Mr. Harris, age 58, is a charter 
member of the Lake County Farm 
Bureau, one of the oldest county 
organizations in the state. He 
served as president of the Farm 
Bureau for three years and at pres- 
ent is serving as vice-president. 
Harris operates a 245 acre dairy 
farm, is an officer in the Lake- 
Cook County Supply Company, and 
a member of the Pure Milk Associa- 
tion. . 


Ihrig Youngest Member 


Mr. Ihrig, age 30, is the youngest 
member of the board. He is sec- 
retary of the Adams County Farm 
Bureau, is married and has two 
children. He and his father are 
partners in the operation of a 320 
acre farm. 


Ed Lawrence has been active in 


the McLean County Farm Bureau 
for many years. A University of 
Illinois man, Mr. Lawrence man- 
ages a large estate where he has 
put into practice the best known 
methods of soil and crop improve- 
ment and livestock production. 
Lawrence served ably as president 
of the Illinois Farm Supply Com- 
pany several years ago. He has been 
closely associated with the develop- 
ment of Farm Bureau work in Mc- 
Lean county. 

Gene Curtis, age 37, has been an 
aggressive leader in the Champaign 
County Farm Bureau for a number 
of years. He served two years as 
president of the county organiza- 
tion and is still a member of the 
board. He is now serving as presi- 
dent of the Champaign County 


Livestock Marketing Association. . 


Curtis operates a 240 acre livestock 


A. BR, WRIGHT 


and grain farm, is married and has 
three daughters. 


Endicott From “Dixie” 


R. B. Endicott, age 51, is known 
throughout southern Illinois where 
he has been active among organ- 
ized fruit growers. He had a promi- 
nent part in organizing the Farm 
Bureau in Pulaski county in 1920 
which he served as president for 
the first five years of its existence. 
He has been on the board con- 
tinuously since that time. He served 
for many years as president of the 
Illinois Fruit Growers’ Exchange. 


Bob Endicott attended the Uni- 
versity of Illinois in 1898 and 1899 
shortly after the Agricultural Col- 
lege was established. His son grad- 
uated from the College of Agricul- 
ture at Urbana last June. He op- 
erates a 273 acre 
farm devoted to 
fruit and gen- 
eral farming. In 
addition to tree 
fruits including 
apples, peaches, 
and pears, he 
grows rasp- 
berries, straw- 
berries, and 
other small 
fruits, nuts, as- 
paragus, and 
general grain 
crops. 


- Myr. Endicott 
will travel the 
most miles to I. 
A. A. meetings. 
Vila Ridge is 

close to Dixie, only 12 miles from 

Cairo, and nearly 400 miles south of 

Illinois’ northern boundary. 


All of the five conferences on 
Thursday afternoon were well at- 
tended, the crowds ranging up to 
800 or more in each. 


The Rialto Theater seating near- 
ly 1,800 was filled for the opening 
session of the I. A. A. meeting 
Thursday morning. Attendance at 
the Friday session was somewhat 
smaller but still heavy. 


The Master Farmer Club of Illi- 
nois held a luncheon sponsored by 


‘Prairie Farmer Thursday noon. Ap- 


proximately 30 members, most of 
them delegates to the convention, 
were there. C. V. Gregory, editor, 
and Floyd Keepers of the Prairie 
Farmer staff attended. 


1933 


| has 


February, 1933 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Five 


About the Convention at Peoria 


(Continued from page 3) 


debated in the closed session on 
Wednesday night, a time when in- 
ternal, confidential problems vital 
to the organization are annually 
discussed. 

There was no set program that 
night. The question of dues was in- 
troduced from the floor by a Farm 
Bureau president asking for expe- 
riences and information from other 
counties. Then spontaneously came 
one after another, men who 
pioneered in the Farm Bureau 
movement, others who came later 
in response to the call to assume re- 
sponsibility and leadership in the 
county organizations. And here is 
the way they analyzed it: 

Cutting dues hasn’t resulted in 
increased membership -wherever 
tried; in fact it has weakened mem- 
bership by reducing service and so 
paving the way for a decline. Every 
member who uses his organization 
is getting more than his dues back 
in actual cash savings. and refunds, 
directly, to say nothing of the in- 
direct benefits through having a 
representative organization fighting 
for his interests before legislative, 
tax, and rate-making bodies. We 
need organization. now more than 
ever. We will do nothing to weaken 
our cause. 

The annual meetings and con- 
ferences of associated companies on 
Jan. 25 disclosed that the service 
institutions set up by the parent or- 
ganization are in a thriving con- 
dition, all having paid dividends on 
capital stock and with one excep- 
tion have added to capital reserves. 
Announcement of the declaration of 
an extra $48,000 of dividends to 
Country Life policy holders by the 
Holding Company was welcome 
news in view of recent action by 
many life companies in reducing 
their dividends. 

The opening session of the I. A. A. 
convention on Thursday morning in 
the Rialto Theatre found nearly 
every one of the 1,750 seats on the 
main floor and balcony filled. The 
Pawnee Four were back with new 
songs and poetry in tune with the 
times. The old time favorite, “Down 
On the Farm at Half Past Four”, 
sung at the banquet, was as good as 
ever to old convention goers, and 
more than delightful to the new- 
comers. 

Plans to round up the 120 found- 
ers of the I. A. A. who signed $100 
notes to underwrite the launching 
of the Association at the initial 
meeting in Peoria 14 years ago 
failed to materialize because a list 
of the signers was not readily avail- 
able. However, many of these old 
timers were around the convention 
halls taking honest and justified 
pride in the growth of the baby 
they produced early in 1919. 

Without vision of the founders, 


Nearly every seat was filled as the opening session of the big convention 
got underway in the Rialto Theatre Thursday morning. 


Fred Lee Outlines Farm 
Debt Refinancing Plan 


Higher Farm Prices The Way 
Out He Says, But Tells What 
Can Be Done In Mean- 

Ack time 


T= question of farm mortgages 
is tied up closely to reflation and 
higher prices. The price scale is the 
important thing for with present 
prices no farmer can pay off on his 
mortgage no matter how much re- 
funding and refinancing is done, 
Fred P. Lee, of Washington, D. C., 
legislative counsel of farm organi- 
zations, said in his address before 
the I. A. A. convention on January 
27. 

Pending the return of higher 
prices, said Lee, we need a plan to 
stave off foreclosures and ease the 
debt situation. There are many 
ways to refinance such as scaling 
down principal payments, extend- 
ing time of payment, and reducing 
interest rates. 

The Congress can’t flatly prevent 
foreclosures, nor can it reduce the 
first mortgage on a property, but 
the creation of conciliation commit- 
tees can do much toward adjusting 
debts, and composing secured and 
unsecured debts to give the debtor. 
a chance to pay out on a long time 
basis at reduced rates of interest. 


Details Plan 
Mr. Lee outlined in detail the plan 


and the continued support of those 
who saw beyond the bricks and win- 
dows and visualized the building 
and its possibilities, Illinois farmers 
today could not point with genuine 
satisfaction to a long list of 
achievements made possible by or- 
ganization.—Editor. 


embodied in the resolution on this 
question reproduced elsewhere in 
this issue. He suggested the forma- 
tion of a billion dollar corporation 
to take up present farm mortgages 
and debts that are in distress, ex- 
tend their maturity, and stop indis- 
criminate foreclosures. He would 
have the joint stock land banks 
liquidated gradually without caus- 
ing them to foreclose on their mort- | 
gages. 

Mr. Lee illustrated how he would 
compose farm debts by assuming 
that Farmer A has debts totaling 
$10,000. Of this amount suppose 
$6,000 represents a first mortgage 
on the farm, $2,000 a second mort- 
gage, and $2,000 of unsecured debts. 
He would scale down the second 
mortgage and unsecured debt total- 
ing $4,000 to $1,500, for example, 
leaving a total debt of $7,500 which 
the refinancing corporation would 
take over to be amortized over a 
long period of time at a reduced 
rate of interest. Lee thinks it doubt- 
ful if anything can be done to ar- 
bitrarily reduce a first mortgage on 
property. 

He closed by emphasizing the im- 
portance of organized farmers pre- 
senting a united front at Washing- 
ton and elsewhere in their efforts 
to gain needed legislation: It 
pleased Congress when on January 
12 the farm groups all got together 
on a program to raise farm prices, 
he said. Division in the farm ranks 
only plays into the hands of those 
who are against doing anything for 
agriculture. 


The resolution on farm mort- 
gage indebtedness follows the plan 
outlined by Fred Lee in his address 
on this subject at the Friday morn- 
ing session. 


Page Siz 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


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February, 1933 


Nearly 2000 Assemble 
In Armory For Banquet 


Harriman and O’Neal Speak, 
Many Guests Attend 


"T= largest single gathering of 
the convention was the banquet 
on Thursday night when nearly 
2,000 crowded into Peoria’s new ar- 
mory. A large number sat in the 
balcony to hear the speeches but 
did not take part in the dinner. It 
was necessary to cook the food else- 
where and bring it in since the 
armory has no kitchen facilities. 


“We served more than 1,600 peo- 
ple and never missed a fork,” com- 
mented the caterer the next day. 


The acoustics in the armory were 
very poor but with the aid of the 
I. A. A. public address system, 
speakers’ voices were carried clearly 
to nearly all sections of the big 
room. When speakers moved away 
from the microphone it was next to 
impossible to hear them beyond a 
few rows from the speakers’ table. 


H. I. Harriman, president of the 
U. S. Chamber of Commerce, the 
first speaker, received a warm wel- 
come from the audience. He stuck 
closely to his manuscript. President 
Edward O’Neal of the American 
Farm Bureau discarded his written 
speech and much to the delight of 
the audience gave an informal and 
intimate word picture of lobbying 
and legislative developments at 
Washington interspersed with plen- 
ty of Ed’s famous picturesque lan- 
guage. 

Presidents and managers of co- 
operative marketing organizations 
operating in Illinois, and the I. A. 
A. staff who were introduced en 
masse, occupied a long table imme- 
diately in front of the speakers’ 
platform. 

Among the guests introduced by 
President Smith were C. A. Atwood, 
Chicago, president Allied Mills; C. 
V. Gregory, editor, Prairie Farmer; 
Dean H. W. Mumford; Harvey 
O’Hair, ex-Chairman House agricul- 
tural committee; Senator Simon E. 
Lantz, chairman Senate agricultural 
committee; J. C. Spitler, state ex- 
tension leader; George C. Jewett, of 
Chicago; Allan Gordon, of the Illi- 
nois Manufacturers’ Association; C. 


G. Ferris, secretary, Illinois Cham-— 


ber of Commerce; Fred Stowe, 
editor Peoria Journal-Transcript; 
Homer Ahrends, mayor of Peoria; 
P. I. Rogers, president of Peoria 
Chamber of Commerce; Irma Hill 
Vogel, secretary Illinois Home Bu- 
reau Federation; Eugene Eckert, 
master State Grange; Senator Har- 
ry Wilson, president, and H. O. Alli- 
son, secretary, Illinois Farmers’ In- 
stitute; Harvey J. Sconce of the 
Century of Progress; Howard Leon- 
ard; George Milnor, Chicago, man- 


Produce Markets and Community Recreation were discussed at the Women’s 
Conference sponsored by the Illinois Home Bureau Federation. 


ager Farmers’ National Grain Corp.; 
Samuel R. Guard, editor, Breeder’s 
Gazette, and Fred Lee, legislative 
counsel, Washington. 


Women Hear About 
Farm Produce Markets 


Co-operative marketing, home 
bureau markets, and community 
recreation featured discussion at 
the women’s conference sponsored 
by the Illinois Home Bureau Fed- 
eration during the I. A. A. conven- 
tion, Peoria, Thursday, Jan. 26. Mrs. 
Irma Hill Vogel, secretary, presided 
in the absence of Mrs. Meis, presi- 
dent, who is recovering from se- 
rious injuries suffered in an auto- 
mobile accident. 

In her address on Home Bureau 
markets, Miss Grace Armstrong of 
the University of Illinois stated that 
when money is more plentiful it is 
a man’s world, but when cash is 
scarce it then belongs to the woman. 
“Women try to reduce expenditures 
and try to increase the net income,” 
she said. “Many women have gone 
back to the work they did before 
they were married, some are teach- 
ing school, and others have begun 
private trading.” 

Miss Armstrong stated that be- 
tween 600 and 700 Illinois women 
have formed co-operative organiza- 
tions to sell farm produce. There 
are 26 of these co-operative markets 
operating in 14 counties, she said. 
Of the 26 eighteen have been 
launched since 1930. These 26 or- 
ganizations are in towns ranging 
from 4,000 to 45,000 in population. 
A survey showed gross sales of 13 
of the 14 counties having such or- 
ganizations to be $107,577. 

Guy French of Putnam county 
told of the progress farmers are 
making in co-operative marketing. 
The farm woman, he stated, has 
borne more than she should because 
co-operative marketing has not yet 


Many An Old-Timer 
At The Peoria Meeting 


Memories of the early days of the 
I. A. A., particularly the historical 
meeting held in Peoria early in 1919 
when the Association was launched 
on its present membership basis, 
brought many an old-timer back 
for the 18th annual meeting. 

Zealy M. Holmes of Peoria coun- 
ty, gray-haired veteran Farm Bu- 
reau leader who served as vice- 
president of the I. A. A. in 1920-21, 
was an interested spectator at all 
the main sessions. 

Among other pioneers in the 
movement who attended were J. C. 
Sailor, Iroquois county, Charles 
Borgelt,, Mason county, Howard 
Leonard, Woodford county, Harvey 
J. Sconce, Vermilion county, Eugene 
Funk and G. C. Johnstone of Mc- 
Lean county, H. E. Goembel, Henry 
county, Geo. A. Fox and Henry H. 
Parke of DeKalb county, Edgar L. 
Bill, former I. A. A. publicity direc- 
tor and now owner of Station 
WMBD, Peoria, C. V. Gregory, mem- 
ber of the first I. A. A. legislative 
and publicity committees, and W. 
H. Moody, Rock Island county. 

President Earl Smith, Bob 
Cowles, I. A. A. treasurer since 1922 
and a pioneer in the organization of 
McLean County Farm Bureau, Vice 
President A. R. Wright, George F. 
Tullock, W. L. Cope, Sam Sorrells, 
Frank Barton, A. B. Culp, and 
others still closely identified with 
the Association, also were active in 
the early history of the organiza- 
tion. 


reached its goal—that of giving the 
farmer bargaining power through 
control of a large volume in the 
sale of his products. 

Mrs. Spencer Ewing led an inter- 
esting discussion on the subject of 
ae in Community Recre- 
ation.” 


February, 1933 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Seven 


Pres. Smith Reviews Year's Work 


Discusses State And National Problems And Solutions, Charts Course For Future In 


E ASSEMBLE for the 18th 

Annual Meeting of the Illinois 
Agricultural Association for the 
purpose of reviewing the develop- 
ments of the past year and to bet- 
ter define the program of the or- 
ganization for 1933. Certainly every- 
one in this audience recognizes that 
we have passed through the most 
trying year of the present century 
and possibly in the history of this 
country. 

“People engaged in all walks of 
life and institutions representing 
every phase of business and in- 
dustry have been seriously affected. 
Associations and membership groups 
throughout the country have been 
undermined and in many cases 
forced to give up some, if not all, 
of their former activities. The de- 
pression has continued its heaviest 
toll in agriculture. We have wit- 
nessed on every hand most heart- 
rending scenes and all this largely 
brought upon us as a result of the 
neglect of America in recognizing 
and meeting the farm problem 
which has increased in magnitude 
and complexities for more than a 
decade. 

“Under such conditions, it is with 
just pride that we meet this morn- 
ing with the knowledge that our 
Association has withstood the eco- 
nomic storm of the past year prov- 
ing again the soundness of the 
foundation laid for it in this city 
14 years ago.... 

“As we meet today and look back 
over the record we can justly feel 
some measure of satisfaction in our 
achievements. We know more today 
about the possibilities and limita- 
tions of organization. We have 
learned that farmers by working 
together can do many things to 
help themselves. 

“We have brought much con- 
structive influence to bear in the 
field of legislation and before ad- 
ministrative tribunals of various 
kinds, even with only a minority co- 
operating in organization. That in- 
fluence would be decidedly greater 
did the farmers of this state show 
more unity thru membership in 
standing together for the best in- 
terests of agriculture. 

Direct Savings Large 

“In the year 1932 every member 
of this organization who made use 
of the services available for his 
benefit can show actual cash sav- 
ings much in excess of his annual 
membership dues. And yet these 
direct savings, large as they loom in 
this year of depression when farm 
income is at its lowest point due to 


Annual Address At Peoria 


conditions beyond our control, fade 
into insignificance when com- 
pared with the indirect, less tan- 
gible, yet genuine benefits made 
possible by organization. 


“Karly last year your officers and 
directors adopted a budget of ex- 
penditures substantially lower than 
that of the previous year. As time 
advanced, and continued deflation 
forced farm prices to new low levels, 
further economy measures were 
adopted which could be effected 
without abolishing any of the serv- 
ices which time and experience 
have proved most valuable to the 
membership. While these economies 
resulted in reducing expenditures 
nearly $30,000, for the first time in 
seven years we were forced to use 
approximately $13,000 of our cash 
reserve. Few business institutions, 
and I feel sure no membership or- 
ganization such as ours, can equal 
that record—a record that stands 
as a tribute to the men who 
pioneered in establishing and set- 
ting the course of this organiza- 
tion, and to the effectiveness of 
the service program developed 
throughout the years. 


Successful Year ~ 


“Notwithstanding the very diffi- 
cult conditions prevailing during 
the year 1932, the organized farmers 
of Illinois again proved their ability 
to own, control and successfully di- 
rect business service corporations. 

“While we have witnessed all 
types of business failures and re- 
sultant bankruptcies from the 
smallest to the largest corporate in- 
stitutions, without a single excep- 
tion the ten business service cor- 
porations, owned, controlled and di- 
rected by the Farm Bureau move- 
ment of Illinois have provided for 
all dividend obligations on the 
stocks of the various companies and 
in nearly every case have added 
substantially to their respective sur- 
pluses. Savings in dollars and cents 
accruing from these efforts, to say 
nothing of the much more impor- 
tant and valued services thus made 
available, amount to more than the 
total of all county, state and na- 
tional Farm Bureau membership 
dues in Illinois. It would seem that 
such outstanding achievement 
would cause every thinking farmer 
to seek membership in a farm or- 
ganization with such a record. 


Service Company 


“Throughout the year, the guid- 
ance and direction of these corpo- 


rate services have continued under 
the Illinois Agricultural Service 
Company. 

“Because of the seriousness of 
present day conditions, much more 
time than formerly has been re- 
quired by the Service Company’s 
board of directors to properly safe- 
guard these various business insti- 
tutions. 


$12,000,000 Turnover 


“You may be surprised to know 
that the I. A. A. with its associated 
companies now constitutes the 
largest business or trade associa- 
tion west of the Alleghany moun- 
tains. Taken together, the busi- 
ness turnover approximates $12,- 
000,000 annually, which is equiva- 
lent to $40,000 per working day. Our 
auditor advised me that it required 
3,592 deposits to the accounts of 
these various companies, and the 
issuance of 44,656 checks that the 
affairs of these corporations might 
be carried out in an orderly and 
effective manner. 

“We particularly invite your at- 
tention to the financial statements 
of each of these organizations, 
which appear in the annual report. 
Recognizing the very natural state 
of unrest by many who hold 
equities in financial institutions and 
particularly insurance companies, 
the board of directors of Country 
Life Insurance Company and Illi- 
nois Agricultural Mutual Insurance 
Company authorized the inclusion 
in this report of an itemized list of 
the security holdings of these two 
large insurance companies. You will 
be glad to know that, without ex- 
ception, not a single security held 
by. either one of these companies, 
has defaulted, either as to principal 
or interest, and the total holdings 
of each company show only a 
nominal depreciation in market 
values as of December 31st. This 
record is most outstanding, es- 
pecially if one considers conditions 
prevailing within the security mar- 
kets during the year. 

“In each case these business 
corporations have been set up and 
developed along lines that guar- 
antee their perpetuity of control by 
the Illinois Farm Bureaus and IIli- 
nois Agricultural Association and 
the return of all earnings to those 
participating in the services pro- 
vided by each organization. 

“In reporting very briefly on their 
condition, I am taking them up in 
the order in which they were or- 
ganized. 


(Continued on page 11) 


Page Eight 


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To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was or- 
ganized namely, to promote, protect and represent the busi- 
ness, economic, political and educational interests of the 
farmers of Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 


GEORGE THIEM, Editor 


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OFFICERS 
President, Barl C. Smith........... ccc cece wee eee cee teen teens Dateatt 
Vice--President, A. R. Wright............ ccc c cece eter te eeweees Varna 
Secretary, Geo. S. Metzger...........cc ccc ce cece cect eter ereeneees Chicago 
Treasurer, R. A. CowleB.........csccceeecscecscnreretereees Bloomington 


BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
(By Congressional District) 


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BA re assstoee 00S vad eed Ubseb one. vekes 2a Rep EE M. Ray Ihrig, Golden 
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Ug oes Se hd eb Cee soa ee bab cd ky oes wr'eys «sigh E. D. Lawrence, Bloomington 
UES o SiS'VA voce e'ej ce'eg does bn cep op'etyaceaa’ ie 6 6p or ee gate W. A. Dennis, Paris 
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ER ro gica sures 6.08 S00 Le celtdeciyedanpeeadieee Charles 8. Black, Jacksonville 
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MM hci 8s og 5% 0 vw vg dais hictab awe dsc Charles Marshall, » Belknap 
MEG Nein cdc ia bide corn ehphaca yak eke Kod wa nee R. B. Endicott, ‘Villa Ridge 

DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 

CHURTITAGY FS 6's 6 divin és gg SR ae Rie Ub POLED Cupid esse baeae soe O08 J. H. Kelker 
Dairy Marketing..........0 cece ce ccc cee ee ee eee eee cent eeee J. B. Countiss 
WAMU. Gions.as sie cccarebcceeses eVeose Vice evnwecckéuh vp Mave R. A. Cowles 
Fruit and Vegetable Marketing..................0cseeceeeles H. W. D 
OE Naik oh Ree V ORD eRe eRe Ue es as cede oe ngiic dere c css elec eee George Thiem 
Insurance Service..........ce eee e cece ee eee cece eee eeeeeeeees Vv animan 
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ive Stock Marketing............... 0... cece eee renee weees Ray E. Miller 

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SINTON, Sie ig 0 o5 8h awn Sos care tp owas tecceasunsvis Vinee G. BE. Metzger 
Produce Marketing............... 0... cee cece cece cece eenee F, A. Gougler 
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ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 

Country Life Insurance Co.........-..seeeeeeseceee L. A. Williams, Mgr. 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co.................cccees J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Auditing Assn................. F. BE. Ringham, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co......... A. BE. Richardson, Mgr. 
Illinois Farm Supply Co...........cceesecccececese L. R. Marchant, Mgr. 
Illinois Grain Corp......... Chas, Cummings, Vice-Pres. and Sales Mgr. 
Illinois Livestock Market, Ass’n. hes Miller, Mgr.; % rk Grieser, Sales 
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Soybean Marketing Ass’N..........c.ceceeceeeeaeees i a Coultas, Mgr. 


Resolutions Adopted by Board of Delegates, Illi- 
nois Agricultural Association, 18th Annual 
Meeting, Peoria, Jan. 26-27, 1933 


I—Restore Farm Buying Power 


Long delay and neglect of the Government in 
squarely facing the agricultural surplus problem has 
resulted in a tremendous accumulation of agricultural 
surpluses greatly aggravating the unfortunate con- 
dition of agriculture and finally undermining the eco- 
nomic structure of the Nation. 


We believe a sound and effective solution of the sur- 


plus problem of agriculture and a resultant increase 
in farm price levels is a first essential to restore a 
normal condition in America. 

The purchasing power of farm products has now 
declined to approximately one-half its pre-war level, 
many thousands of factories are idle and millions of 
people are unemployed because the farmers and those 
dependent upon farmers are.out of the market as 
buyers. National welfare demands immediate action 
to restore farm buying power. 

We recognize the change in international trade that 
has taken place due to changed debt relations among 
Nations during the years of neglect and inequitable 
treatment of agriculture by the Government. We also 
recognize that rates of exchange by the Governments 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


February, 1933 


now adversely affect the normal disposal of crop sur- 


pluses abroad. 


We urge the Officers and Directors of the Association 
to use their full influence to secure the enactment of 
such emergency measures as may be necessary to re- 
store directly to the producer at least the pre-war 
purchasing power of the domestic requirements of our 
more important surplus agricultural products. 


We also favor such legislation as is necessary to 
secure proper and effective control of crop surpluses 
in such manner as will prevent farm prices from being 
forced below fair exchange price levels. 


We further authorize and direct the Officers and 
Directors of the Organization to use their full in- 
fluence in promoting such industrial uses of farm 
products as may be found possible as a result of years 
of research by our Colleges of Agriculture, the United 
States Department of Agriculture, and other agencies. 


We specifically authorize and direct the officers and 
directors of this organization to immediately investi- 
gate and, if justified, use their full influence in pro- 
moting legislation for the use of a blended fuel made 
by diluting all petroleum products used to develop 
power in internal combustion engines with Ethyl alco- 
hol made from agricultural products and by-products 
thereof grown within the continental United States of 
America. 


~~ [I—Support Co-operative Marketing 


In many quarters the Agricultural Marketing Act 
and the Federal Farm Board have been held re- 
sponsible not only for the very low price of farm prod- 
ucts, but for practically all other ills in America. 

The Illinois Agricultural Association has never be- 
lieved that the Agricultural Marketing Act embodies 
all the necessary provisions for a sound national agri- 
cultural policy. Recognizing, however, that many of 
its functions are very helpful in the building of co- 
operative marketing organizations, we have given it 
our wholehearted support. 

We emphatically reaffirm our support to co-operative 
marketing and urge all units of our organization to 
emphasize the importance of aggressive support of co- 
operative associations that are organized on a basis 
guaranteeing their control and management by pro- 
ducers and equitable participation by all members in 
the earnings and savings resulting from collective 
marketing of a large volume of products. We ask all 
rightful thinking people to differentiate between true 
and genuine co-operatives and those operating under 
the guise of co-operatives, but, in lana confining 
their earnings to a given few. 

We resent the continuous attacks upon many suc- 
cessful co-operative marketing associations by those 
who have only selfish interests to serve; we insist that 
any changes in the marketing act, or in its adminis- 
tration originate from farmers or their known friends 
rather than from private trading interests who have 
long controlled the marketing and processing of farm 
products and have made tremendous profits therefrom. 


IlI—Farm Mortgage Indebtedness 


‘While Congress and the Nation are engaged in 
formulating and considering suitable National legis- 
lation to restore reasonable price parity between basic 
farm commodities and goods and services required in 
farm operations, it is important to save the farm 
home and retain title in its farm owners and operators, 
pending the restoration of reasonable price parity. The 
continuing ruinous price levels of basic farm com- 
modities, sharply depressed to new low levels, since 
maturing 1932 crops, now directs attention to the im- 
mediate crisis, in the interest of debtor and creditor 
and the nation. 

We, therefore, respectfully importune the Congress 
to enact appropriate legislation and to provide funds 


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therefor, in the emergency, to relieve the farm debt 
situation. And to that end, we specifically suggest and 
recommend: 

1. That the wave of farm foreclosures be halted by 
the following means: 

a. The appointment of one or more conciliation 
commissioners for each rural county as special 
referees with jurisdiction, under the supervision 
of the federal courts, to compose farm indebted- 
ness and extend the terms thereof on petition of 
either debtor or creditor. Pending such com- 
position and extension proceedings, all fore- 
closures and other action, both within and with- 
out court, against the farmer or his property, 
should be stayed, whether instituted before or 
after the commencement of the composition or 
extension proceedings. The composition and 
extension proceedings should be decentralized 
and close to the farmer, simple in form, inex- 
pensive to the farmer and with a minimum of 
expense to the Government, and should not re- 
sult, in case of their failure, in placing the 
farmer in involuntary bankruptcy. ; 

b. Establishment of a temporary credit agency in 
the federal land bank system to refinance, by 
short term loans at a low rate of interest, the 
present frozen loans to the farmer on a scale- 
down in order to facilitate the composition, par- 
ticularly of subordinate liens and unsecured in- 
debtedness, and to permit worthy farmers 


gradually to work out of their financial diffi-. 


culties. 

c. Temporary loans to Federal land banks, and 
during liquidation, to joint stock land banks in 
order that mortgages held by either type of bank 
may be extended as to principle and interest and 
reamortized. 

d. Reduction of the interest rate on existing and 
new Federal land bank loans, and for that pur- 
pose the addition of new capital to the Federal 
Land bank system and the establishment of a 
revolving fund in the United States Treasury for 
the purchase of outstanding high interest bear- 
ing Federal land bank bonds as they become 
callable, and the purchase of new Federal land 
bank bonds at par. 

2. The strengthening of the Federal land bank sys- 
tem so that such banks can afford credit at the pres- 
ent time and refinance sound first mortgages offered 
by individual creditors, joint stock land banks, and 
other fiscal agencies that need to liquidate, to the end 
not only of preventing foreclosures but of maintaining 
an efficient co-operative credit system adequate under 
present conditions for the needs of farmer borrowers. 

3. Compulsory liquidation of joint stock land banks, 
either through their own directors or by a liquidation 
corporation under the Federal Farm Loan Board, in 
such manner as to protect the interest of their farmer 
borrowers and of their bondholders without the gov- 
ernment taking over or guaranteeing their mortgages 
or bonds through the Federal land bank system or 
otherwise. 


1V—Restrict Federal Injunctions 


Inasmuch as the unrestricted injunctive power of 
federal judges may present a menace to the efforts 
of organized agriculture, we urge that the Federal 
Judicial Code be amended to extend to farm organiza- 
tions the same security now obtained for labor. We 
oppose for appointment and confirmation to a federal 
bench any person who believes in the unrestricted use 
of injunctions against farmers in their development of 
co-operative effort. 


V—Revenue Reform, Reapportionment 


We reaffirm our position repeatedly declared in 
favor of such revision of the revenue article of the 


State Constitution as may be necessary to remove all 
confusion and uncertainty and to give unquestioned 
authority to the General Assembly to establish a taxing 
system applicable to all citizens according to their 
ability to pay. 

If and when the constitutional basis of reapportion- 
ing our legislative districts shall be changed, we favor 
the principle of apportionment approved in a resolu- 
tion adopted two years ago whereby representation in 
one House of the General Assembly shall be determined 
on the basis of population, in the other on the basis of 
territory. 

We believe that amendment of the revenue article 
of the Constitution’ should be accomplished at the 
earliest possible time. If, however, a more general 
revision of the State Constitution should seem desir- 
able, we favor action by the present General As- 
sembly to submit to the people of the, State the ques- 
tion whether they desire to have a constitutional 
convention. 


ViI—<Assess Income As Property 


The Supreme Court of the State of Illinois having 
set forth in its decision on the constitutionality of the 
State Income Tax Act that all “income and salaries” 
of the citizens of Illinois are “property,” we hereby 
authorize and direct the Officers and Board of Direc- 
tors of the Illinois Agricultural Association to take 
whatever steps may be necessary to require the assess- 
ment of this class of property on the same basis as 
other classes of property. 


VII—Economy In Government, Sales Tax 


We urge such immediate action by the General As- 
sembly as is necessary to substantially reduce all 
maximum tax rates created by law for each unit of 
government in the State of Illinois. 

We favor such reduction in public appropriations as 
can be accomplished without the serious impairment 
of necessary services provided by government. We 
urge repeal of all statutes setting minimum salaries 
for county officials whose compensation is paid out of 
county funds. 

In all matters affecting appropriations to provide 
services for agriculture, we insist that the proper 
officers of our organization and others -primarily en- 
gaged in agricultural production, be consulted as to 
the services which can best be dispensed with. 

After securing every possible saving in the cost of 
government from all such reductions, we recognize 
that new sources of revenue must be found to relieve 
property from its unjust portion of the tax burden. 

We favor, therefore, enactment of a state retail sales 
tax of two per cent on all tangible personal property 
except food and food products; division of all revenue 
derived therefrom on a fair and equitable basis be- 
tween Cook County and down-state counties; and in- 
clusion of such other provisions as are necessary to 
insure the full use of all revenue to replace taxes now 
levied upon and collected from property. 

Recognizing the existing acute unemployment situa- 
tion, we express a willingness to support a provision 
in such a law as will allow any county within the 
State to use any part or all of such moneys allocated 
to it for the years 1933 or 1934 for the purpose of tak- 
ing care of its needy and unfortunate people. 


VIII—Elect Able Supreme Court Judges 


The citizens of the rural areas in Illinois have here- 
tofore failed to realize the importance of the biannual 
judicial elections. In the June election of this year 
there will be selected to the Supreme Court of Illinois 
a majority of the members of this important bench. 
We urge our members to interest themselves in this 
election and support in a non-partisan way the ablest 
and most worthy candidates for this high office. 

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IX—Lower Utility Rates 


On account of the economic depression, large num- 
bers of public utility users have found rates and 
charges higher than they were able to pay and have 
discontinued the services. 


The remaining customers find it increasingly diffi- 
cult to meet the high cost of public utility charges. 


The decrease in customers reduces the revenues of 
the companies, makes maintenance and operation 
more costly, and in the case of telephone service, 
greatly diminishes the value of the service to the re- 
maining subscribers. 


The valuations of public utility properties are gen- 
piso) on a basis seriously out of line with present cost 
évels. 


We believe that the Public Utility companies should 
take the initiative in lowering their rates by reducing 
the valuations of their properties, construction and 
maintenance costs consistent with reductions in labor 
and materials. 


We urge the Illinois Commerce Commission to exer- 
cise the full extent of its legal and persuasive powers 
in bringing about reductions in all public utility valua- 
tions, costs and charges in keeping with general eco- 
nomic conditions. 


X—Excise Tax On Oleo 


Because of continued importation of large quan- 
tities of foreign oils and fats and their displacement of 
our farm products in manufacture for domestic con- 
sumption, we authorize and direct the Officers and Di- 
rectors of the Association to use every proper effort 
to secure enactment of a State excise tax on all oleo- 
margarine which contains any such imported oils and 
fats and is sold or offered for sale in the State of Illi- 
nois. 


Since relief workers for the Illinois Emergency Re- 
lief Commission apparently are recommending to their 
dispensing agencies the use of butter substitutes in 
the place of butter for supplying the unemployed; and 
since the keynote of this convention has been to re- 
store farmers’ buying power that the country may re- 
turn to normal business conditions; and since public 
funds are used for unemployment relief, it seems only 
fair that farmers’ products should be purchased with 
public money and thus return to him purchasing power 
to help business conditions return to a normal basis. 


Therefore we urge the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion to investigate this situation and if found to be 
true take such means as it deems advisable to correct 
this condition. 


XI—Better Supervision of Raw Milk Sales 


In practically all of the organized fluid milk markets 
of the State, certain standards of quality which or- 
ganized farmers have been required to meet, have 
been specified by the health departments in the various 
cities served by these organizations. Our organized 
dairymen have met these requirements. To produce 
high quality product, however, requires considerable 
capital investment in barns, equipment and labor to 
keep equipment in a sanitary condition. 


We now find interference with the milk markets by 
producers who are not equipped to produce a high 
quality product. We find further that the specifications 
of health departments in various cities are avoided by 
establishing retail milk stations outside the city limits, 
where milk of unknown origin is sold to consumers 
under conditions considered unsafe by city health de- 
partments. City health departments are powerless in 
these cases. In the interest of public health and for the 
protection of those dairymen who have been required 
to make substantial investments to produce quality 
milk, we favor the enactment of a law which will em- 


February, 1933 


power the State Department of Health to set up speci- 
fications covering raw milk and require such milk to 
conform more closely to the requirements of the 
various city ordinances. 


XII—Soybean Oil In Paint 


Experiments at the University of Illinois disclose that 
soybean oil as a basic ingredient in paint is at least 
equal, if not superior, to other oils. Tests of paints 
carrying different percentages of soybean oil have been 
made in different sections of Illinois by hundreds of 
farmers and such paints have met with great favor. 
Thus far, it has been found impossible to secure in- 
clusion of paint carrying soybean oil in the specifica- 
tions of public contracts. 

Without exception, all experiments justify specifi- 
cation of soybean oil in public contracts. We insist, 
therefore, upon such changes in statutes or regula- 
tions as will remove present discriminations. . 


XIII—Consolidation In Dept. of Agriculture 


We favor any reasonable consolidation of the 
Divisions of the State Department of Agriculture re- 
lating to the livestock, poultry and dairy industries, 
with transfer to the College of Agriculture, University 
of Illinois, of educational functions, when such con- 
solidation may be in the interest of economy and 
efficiency; and we emphatically urge, in order that 
the livestock, dairy and poultry industries may best be 
served, that the administration of such consolidated 
Division be in the hands of a practical livestock man 
who has the best interests of these industries at heart 
and who is free from selfish business or professional 
interests. 


XIV—Century of Progress 


The metropolis of Illinois is the agricultural capital 
of the world and celebrates during the year its one 
hundredth anniversary by opening to the world an 
international exposition displaying in modern and 
royal fashion the fine arts and sciences. The industry 
of agriculture is being given its proper place in this 
gigantic pageant which is under the immediate direc- 
tion of one of the first presidents of Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association. 


We hereby pledge to the commissioners of this inter- 
national exposition the heartiest cooperation of the 
Farm Bureau people of Illinois. 


XV—Stop Reserve Board Deflation 


Inasmuch ag the purchase of government securities 
by the Federal Reserve system expands deposits, and 
eventually loans, we view with alarm the sale in 
January, 1933, by the Federal Reserve system, of $70,- 
000,000 of bonds. This action is definitely deflationary, 
and we insist such policy be immediately discontinued. 


XVI 


The delegates and visitors of this Eighteenth Annual 
Meeting of the ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIA- 
TION held in PEORIA, January 26 and 27, 1933, here- 
by express their grateful and hearty appreciation for 
the cordial welcome and for the unfailing courtesy 
and cooperation shown them by the Peoria County 
Farm Bureau, the Mayor, the Convention Bureau of 
the Ass’n. of Commerce, and the organizations of the 
City of Peoria, and the citizens of the City of Peoria 
and Peoria County who have contributed so effectively 
to the comfort, convenience and success of this annual 
meeting. 

Members of the Resolutions Committee were A. R. 
Wright, Chairman, Harold C. Vial, Chas. Marshall, 
Talmage Defrees, W. A. Dennis, Chas. Bates, A. B. 
Schofield, Harvey Herndon, F. C. Thomas, R. B. Endi- 
cott, Geo. W. Lenhart. 


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Pres. Smith Reviews Year’s 
Work 


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Auditing Association 


“During the year, the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Auditing Association has com- 
pleted 366 audits for its members and 
shows an increase in membership of 13. 


Reinsurance Company 


“The Reinsurance Company closed 
the year with an increase in the volume 
of its direct and specific fire and wind- 
storm insurance, but a substantial de- 
crease in hail insurance, largely due to 
the reduced per unit value-of insured 
crops. 

“There is a school of thought fast de- 
veloping which believes the company’s 
operations should be changed to a basis 
comparable to other legal reserve 
mutuals, whereby insurance is written 
at conference rates and in addition 
provide that savings and/or earnings 
be paid back to policy holders in divi- 
dends at time of renewal. Levying of 
assessments, particularly special assess- 
- ments, always leads to disturbance and 
misunderstanding. With such a change 
in policy, the savings brought about as 
the result of organized effort would be 
apparent at each premium paying date. 
This matter is receiving attention of 
the management. Recommendations for 
changes, if any, will be made at an 
early date. 


Farm Supply Company 


“The Illinois Farm Supply Company 
enjoyed the best year in its history. 
From an organization six years ago 
consisting of six charter members and 
less than a dozen bulk plants, it has 
grown to 52 members with 135 bulk sta- 
tions, operating 385 trucks and serving 
approximately 75,000 farmers in 80 coun- 
ties. It is the largest association of its 
kind in the United States. The volume 
of petroleum products and farm sup- 
plies distributed exceeds that of any 
other group of farmer-owned and oper- 
ated companies. 

“During 1932, the company handled 
35,000,000 gallons of petroleum products 
approximating a train-load every other 
day with a retail value of $5,000,000. Its 
earnings last year were equal to 112.4 
per cent on capital stock, and besides 
adding substantially to its surplus the 
company returned $86,514 to member 
companies. 


“The Illinois Agricultural Mutual In- 
surance Company has continued to ren- 
der outstanding'service to its Farm Bu- 
reau member policyholders. It is always 
difficult to compare costs with other com- 
panies, for the reason that there are 
many types of policies and many 
methods of operation. It is without fear 
of contradiction, however, when I say 
that this company is now saving its 
policyholders more than one-quarter 
million dollars annually on auto insur- 
ance alone compared with the cost 
of similar insurance in any other com- 
pany operating throughout Illinois. 

“Although it has experienced a 


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greater number of cancellations than 
in any previous year, largely due to 
economic conditions, the company 
closed the year with a net increase of 
983 policies in force. As will be noted 
from the financial statement, the com- 
pany is in a splendid financial condi- 
tion, having added $109,622.56 to its sur- 
plus in 1932. 


Life Insurance Company | 


“The Country Life Insurance Com- 
pany has made an enviable record dur- 


ing the year. New paid-for business 


approximates $10,000,000. The net in- 
crease over that of a year ago is $3,600,- 
250, showing a net insurance in force 
at the close of the year of $47,368,250.00. 
Few legal reserve companies, if any, 
operating in the United States, will 
show a net gain in insurance in force 
for the year. Country Life’s mortality 
experience has been much better than 
anyone anticipated, approximating only 
25 per cent of the expected, which is 
the lowest annual mortality in the ex- 
perience of the company. 


“As previously stated, the financial 
condition of Country Life Insurance 
Company is all anyone could possibly 
expect or ask, and fully justifies the 
continuing confidence of its policyhold- 
ers. 


Produce Marketing Ass’n. 


“The Illinois Produce Marketing As- 
sociation last year handled approxi- 
mately 2,500,000 pounds of butterfat, 
having a value of $471,072. 


“Because of the steady increase in 
surplus milk within several of the IIlli- 
nois milk sheds and its resultant effect 
upon butterfat prices, our Dairy and 
Produce departments have been direct- 
ing their attention during recent 
months toward the development of a 
program which provides for surplus 
plants equipped to separate milk and 
manufacture the cream into butter. 
Such plants likewise will offer a market 
for cream handled by the produce asso- 
ciation. This subject will receive full 
attention in the Marketing Conference 
this afternoon. 


“Approaching the marketing season 
of 1932, the Soybean Marketing Associa- 
tion, because of its peculiar ability to 
negotiate in terms of large volume, suc- 
ceeded during the month immediately 
preceding the marketing of beans last 
fall to raise the Illinois country price 
of beans from 37-38 cents to 46-47 cents 
per bushel. This fact will not be dis- 
puted by anyone in a position to know. 
Within itself, such a service justified 
a much larger volume of beans. than 
had been previously marketed by the 
organization. Its experience, however, 
was to the contrary, as its volume 
shows a great decrease from that of the 
previous year. Every bushel of beans 
sold: by the organization was at the 
time of its sale disposed of on a premi- 
um basis above market price. Nearly 
all of its beans have now been disposed 
of. Thirty-five cents (35c) per bushel 
has been returned to each of its pool- 
ing members, and final settlement 
should be made and available in the 
near future. 


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“It is my belief that the officers, board 
of directors and interested members 
throughout the soybean territory of 
Illinois should convene without undue 
delay and make preparation for the 
complete reorganization and capitaliza- 
tion of this organization on a sound 
business basis. I am sure the service it 
has rendered, the influence upon price 
which it has had, and its reputation for 
sound business practice provides a basis 
upon which will yet be builded one of 
the strongest and most serviceable co- 
operative marketing institutions yet 
developed in the State of Illinois. 


Illinois Grain Corp. 


“The Illinois Grain Corporation has 
enjoyed a good year notwithstanding 
the insidious propaganda continuously 
put forth by opponents of co-operative 
marketing-to confuse and misguide the 
grain producers of the state. This cor- 
poration is now the second largest 
regional of the Farmers’ National Grain 
Corporation. Its membership now num- 
bering 111 farmers’ co-operative ele- 
vators and grain associations, handled 
9,140 cars of grain during 1932 or ap- 
proximately 14,500,000 bushels. This 
shows an increase of 30 per cent in 
grain handled over that of the previous 
year. 

“The corporation paid its cumulative 
dividends for 1931 and 1932 during the 
year, and placed in its surplus account 
$29,909.00. In addition, it received from 
Farmers’ National Grain Corporation a 
stock dividend carrying a par value of 
$52,815. In my judgment, the corpora- 
tion is justified in declaring and dis- 
tributing a substantial patronage divi- 
dend at this time. 

“Although only in its infancy, such 
a record certainly entitles the Tlinois 
Grain Corporation to much greater and 
widespread support by the grain pro- 
ducers of this state in efforts to secure 
control of their own marketing ma- 
chinery. 


“The Farm Bureau Serum Associa- 
tion handled a total of 41,011,000 cc of 
serum and virus during the year. This 
volume had a contract value of $185,176. 
While it is difficult to appraise the sav- 
ings made possible by this co-operative 
enterprise, a survey of prices prevailing 
in adjoining states indicates a saving 
equivalent to 15 cents per 100 cc on both 
serum and virus, or a total of $61,517. 


Holding Company _ 


“The Illinois Agricultural Holding 
Company was organized in the spring 
of 1929 for the purpose of acquiring the 
stock of Country Life Insurance Com- 
pany. The first Preferred stock is held 
by the Farm Bureaus and Farm Bu- 
reau members throughout Illinois; the 
Second Preferred Stock and Common 
Stock is held by the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association. All of this stock is 
limited to 7 per cent cumulative divi- 
dends. At the time of its organization, 
it was recognized and understood by 
the Farm Bureau leaders of Illinois 
that all dividends reaching the Holding 
Company as a result of its ownership 
of the stock of Country Life Insurance 


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Smith 


(Continued from page 11) 


Company, were to be distributed, after 
the payment of stock obligations, ac- 
cording to the provisions of a contract 
running between the Illinois Agricul- 
tural] Association and the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Holding Company. These con- 
tracts were duly presented, considered 
and approved by the delegates and 
stockholders in attendance at previous 
annual meetings of the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association and the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Holding Company. 

“The real purpose of this Holding 
Company is to provide a legal way in 
which excess savings and earnings ac- 
cruing from its ownership of stock in 
Country Life Insurance Company can 
be distributed to Farm Bureau mem- 
bers holding policies in Country Life, 
and to holders of the First Special poli- 
cies issued by the company immediate- 
ly after its organization. 

“I am particularly pleased to report 
that the board of directors of the Illi- 
nois Agricultural Holding Company, at 
its last meeting, authorized the distri- 
bution of $48,000, according to the terms 
of the agreement mentioned, which will 
be distributed in the very early future. 
Such a distribution coming at the end 
of a period such as we have been pass- 
ing through again furnishes proof as 
nothing else could, as to the soundness 
of and great possibilities in organized 
effort. The Holding Company occupies 
a peculiar position. Ordinarily we think 
of a holding company as an organiza- 
tion set up for the purpose of absorb- 
ing excess earnings resulting from its 
stockholdings. Our Holding Company 
is set up to make possible a legal dis- 
tribution of all earnings over and above 
cumulative dividend requirements. 

“I cannot refrain from expressing a 
feeling of satisfaction and pride at the 
achievement of these various business 
service corporations operating under the 
general management of the Service 
Company. In a large measure credit for 
the continued success of these com- 
panies is due to the active and aggres- 
sive attention given to the affairs of 
each company by its active manager, 
and by others participating in different 
degrees of responsibility. 

“I do not hesitate to say most defi- 
nitely that the results obtained by each 
company and the splendid relationship 
existing between companies and their 
active management fully justify re- 
peated statements I have made to an- 
nual meetings of the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association, that the Tllinois Agri- 
cultural Service Company is essential 
as a safeguard to the progress of each 
company and in addition, assures a 
proper balance between business serv- 
ices and co-ordination of all efforts.” 


| State Legislation | 


Reviewing the passage of the income 
tax act and the subsequent adverse 
opinion of the State Supreme Court as 
to its constitutionality in which the 
court held that “income” is “property,” 
he -said: “I recommend, therefore, that 
the delegates take action authorizing 
and directing the officers and board of 
directors of the Association to immedi- 
ately seek full application of the prin- 
ciple of law (place incomes on property 
tax rolls and relieve tangible property 


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thereby of one-fourth its tax burden) 
as laid down by the court in this de- 
cision.” 

Mr. Smith also advocated revenue re- 
form to spread the base of taxation, and 
reviewed unemployment relief measures 
and the $20,000,000 bond issue which due 
to the I. A. A.’s active support and the 
co-operation of other groups was 
passed. As a result, Illinois farms were 
relieved of $5,000,000 additional taxes in 
1933, a saving of approximately $25 per 
farm. 

On the question of a state sales tax, 
he said: “We believe the sales tax pro- 
posal now pending in the General As- 
sembly to be unfair and unsound, par- 
ticularly in its provision for distribution 
of the revenue derived therefrom. We 
believe that any law providing new 
sources of revenue should insure its full 
use to reduce or replace taxes now lev- 
ied upon property. We are told by the 
defenders of this bill that it is a tem- 
porary measure and will be repealed as 
soon as the Government can be relieved 
of responsibility for taking care of the 
large number of unemployed. History 
discloses, however, that when we pro- 
vide new sources of revenue for tem- 
porary purposes, they usually become 
permanent and seldom, if ever, are re- 
pealed. 

“When new sources of revenue are 
provided, we believe that such revenue 
should be distributed fairly among the 
various counties of the state. Certainly 
no one can defend the fairness of a 
sales tax that enables Cook County to 
use all of the revenue collected therein. 
On the surface, such a proposal may 
seem fair, but only casual information 
forces one to other conclusions. A sales 
tax is ordinarily not paid by the seller 
of goods, but by the consumer. Our 
large mail order houses ship goods to all 
portions of the State but would pay 
sales taxes thereon in Cook County. 
But who pays the tax? It is usually 
consumers of the wares and goods sold. 
I am informed on good authority that 
more than 90 per cent of the tremen- 
dous sales at retail by the mail order 
houses of Chicago are made to people 
in other regions than this great metro- 
politan county, a very large part of 
them in the State of Illinois... . 

“I believe we should immediately seek 
substantial reductions in maximum tax 
rates for each unit of government in 
the State of Illinois. In addition, I be- 
lieve all minimum fees and salaries pro- 
vided by statute for officers and em- 
ployees of county and lesser units of 
government should be repealed. Until 
such reductions are accomplished, I see 
no way of bringing about substantial 
economies in the cost of our local gov- 
ernments. 

“We must realize that after securing 
every economy of government that is 
in the realm of possibility, we must 
still find new sources of revenue if we 
are to remove from property its unjust 
portion of the cost of government. 

“Tt seems that the time has arrived 
for the enactment of a state-wide sales 
tax. We must face the situation square- 
ly, and see to it that the provisions of 
such a tax are equitable and fair and 
conform to the principles of taxation 
for which this Association has fought 
in the past. 

“Therefore, I recommend to this an- 
nual meeting its approval of a state- 
wide retail sales tax of two per cent on 
all commodities except food and food 


February, 1933 


products, with the understanding that 
any such measure, to have our support, 
must provide for the division of the 
revenue therefrom in a manner similar 
to that worked out by the 57th General 
Assembly for the distribution and use 
of revenues derived from state income 
tax. So far as we are informed, no one 
has ever questioned that the provisions 
of this plan adequately insure the full 
use of new revenues to replace taxes 
levied on property. 

“In order to provide temporarily for 
our unfortunate among the unem- 
ployed, I believe we would be justified 
in approving a provision that in the 
year 1933 or 1934, any portion or all of 
the fund so allocated to any county 
may, by a two-thirds vote of its county 
board, be: used for the purpose of tak- 
ing care of its unfortunate. The provi- 
sions of statutes such as I have de- 
scribed would make the sales tax a re- 
placement tax, and would provide a 
way by which such revenue could tem- 
porarily be used to meet urgent need 
for relief of unemployment in any 
county of the State.” 

Pointing to the enormous tax: delin- 
quency in Cook county which owes the 
state $22,000,000 and soon will owe $17,- 
000,000 more, Smith said: “It is time to 
impress the leaders of Cook County 
with the fact that a depression exists 
in all of the other counties of the state. 
and that not only is each county forced 
to practice strict economy, but its citi- 
zens are making every effort to keep all 
their governments in operation by the 
payment of taxes. They must not be 
called upon to assist great metropolitan 
centers, either because of tax delin- 
quencies bv individual taxpayers or be- 
cause local government in one county 
has failed in its obligations to the State 
of Tllinois. 

“It is conditions of this and similar 
kinds that demand eternal vigilance on 
the part of the organized farmers of 
Illinois, and they are entitled to and 
should receive the co-operation of all 
downstate units of government. all 
other citizens and particularly all home 
owners and other property taxpay- 
OTB: 


| National Legislation J | 


Summing up the efforts of organized 
farmers over a ten year period seeking 
government recognition of the agricul- 
tural situation, he said: “Your Associa- 
tion has repeatedly and continuously 
insisted that the longer we delay a 
sound, adequate and permanent solu- 
tion of our steadily increasing surplus 
problem, the more serious would be- 
come its effect upon all lines of Ameri- 
can industry, and that sooner or later 
such neglect would undermine the eco- 
nomic structure of the nation. We all 
know that such a condition now pre- 
vails.” 

He traced the decline of net farm 
income from nine and a quarter billion 
dollars in 1920 to less than one billion in 
1932; showed how taxes had mounted 
and farm indebtedness multiplied dur- 
ing this period. 

“Other countries have had the genius 
and courage.” he said, “to adopt policies 
that bring fair returns to their farmers 
while the United States, richest in nat- 
ural resources of any, has been stand- 
ing idly by. 

“As a result of national policy based 
on legislation, wheat in November, 1931. 


February, 1933 


was bringing $1.62 in Paris, France; 
$1.46 in Berlin, Germany; and $1.43 in 
. Milan, Italy, while at the same time in 
the United States, in Chicago, wheat 
was selling at 57 cents a bushel. In No- 
vember, 1932, the average wheat price in 
Paris was $1.19, in Berlin, $1.29 and in 
Milan, $1.55, while in Chicago, the price 
was 45 cents. 

“The average price for top quality 
hogs in November, 1931, was $11.55 in 
England, and $8.94 in Germany, com- 
pared with $4.82 in Chicago. In Novem- 
ber, 1932, $9.13 in England, $8.36 in Ger- 
many, and $3.56 in Chicago. 

“These are facts. They challenge the 
statesmanship of America. They chal- 
lenge the farmers of America to better 
organize for effective action. ...” 


As a way out, he suggested, (1) rais- 
ing farm prices, by whatever means, to 
a price level that .will give them the 
same exchange value they had in the 
five year period immediately preceding 
the war; (2) uniform scaling down of 
both public and private debts; (3) 
changes in our monetary system to give 
us a commodity dollar. 

Outlining the principles and contents 
of the domestic allotment plan bill, 
termed the “National Emergency Act,’ 
he said: “This legislation is directed to- 
ward the surplus problem, but more im- 
portant, it has for its purpose immedi- 
ate rise in the farm income from wheat, 
hogs, cotton, and tobacco... . 

“It is my opinion the most imme- 
diate and beneficial effect that would 
follow the enactment of such a law 
would be to bring renewed courage and 
hope to farm people in the feeling that 
at last the Government is giving cou- 
rageous attention to the justice of their 
demands. Further this bill will provide 
an opportunity for the development of 
a much more effective and permanent 
solution of our difficulties. 

“I do not underestimate the tremen- 
dous obstacles that must be overcome 
to achieve these ends. Not the least 
of these spring from the deliberate 
propaganda from hostile forces that is 
intended to confuse the thinking of the 
American farmers, and to drive them 
apart—propaganda that tells consum- 
ers in one breath that the legislation, 
if put into operation, would cost them 
more than one billion dollars a year; 
that tells you in the next that the pro- 
posed legislation would greatly reduce 
the returns to the farmers; and that 
tells the public that. the processers 
would be destroyed by the Act. 

“There is a contradiction here which 
I defy even the most skillful propa- 
gandist to reconcile..... 

“It should be remembered that the 
opposition to the emergency solution of 
our acute problems we are now en- 
countering emanates from the same 
sources that have fought farmers 
throughout the years in all efforts made 
to secure a sound national agricultural 
policy. It was the influence of this self- 
Same group that resulted in the weak- 
nesses and limitations of the Agricul- 
tural Marketing Act at the time of its 
passage. They now attempt to place 
responsibility for these weaknesses in 
the Act upon the shoulders of farm 
organizations, and they also bitterly 
criticize the Federal Farm Board for 
failure to secure results from the Mar- 
keting Act when they well know it is 
the same weaknesses and limitations 
within the Act, for which they are re- 


THE |. A. A.W RECORD 


sponsible, that have made it impossible 
for the Farm Board to assist in secur- 
ing such adequate control of crop sur- 
pluses as is necessary to keep these 
surpluses from depressing the price of 
the whole crop. 

“While we carry no responsibility for 
weaknesses in the Marketing Act, and 
have no brief for any mistakes that 
may have been made by the Farm 
Board in its administration; yet it be- 
hooves the farmers of this country to 
keep intact such provisions of the Mar- 
keting Act as have been helpful in the 
building of co-operative marketing in- 
stitutions and defend the Farm Board 
for all earnest and sincere efforts put 
forth in administering these provisions. 

“Before passing on to other matters 
which must be touched upon, I want 
to drive one truth home into your 
minds so that it will stick there even if 
everything else is forgotten—farm con- 
ditions will be improved, and farmers’ 
problems solved, if, and when, and 
just to the extent we farmers make up 
our minds to ignore hostile and destruc- 
tive propaganda that is intended to di- 
vide us, and determine that we will 
work shoulder to shoulder, through our 
organization, until the battle is won.” 

Referring to the National Emergency 
Act as an emergency measure only, Mr. 
Smith urged the necessity of adjusting 
production to the domestic market, 
pending resumption of international 
trade. “For my own part,” he said, “I 
would favor even more direct steps to 
bring about the production adjustment 
that is necessary if we are to stop creat- 
ing and piling up farm surpluses. I 
would at once provide for Government 
rental of lands that must be taken tem- 
porarily, at least, out of production, so 
as to provide an opportunity for the 
absorption of the present burdensome 
surpluses. The mere announcement of 
such a program with the conviction on 
the part of the people, particularly 
processors of such given commodities, 
that substantial reductions were to be 
made, would bring about real improve- 
ment of price levels of these com- 
modities. 

“I know of no governmental expendi- 
ture of money that has been or could 
be so effective in restoring public con- 
fidence, in opening up new avenues for 
purchase, in making possible the pay- 
ment of interest upon debts, premium 
upon insurance, the payment of store 
bills, etc., as would be brought about by 
such a program. All of such added in- 
come reaching farm people would be 
used immediately in the channels of 
trade, and financial economists tell us 
that money distribution in this manner 
would be turned over from fifteen to 
twenty-five times within the following 
year. 


“As a permanent solution of this 
problem, it is my belief that Govern- 
ment should assume leadership in the 
development of a program designed for 
the intelligent planning of our agricul- 
tural production... . 


| Economy In Government | 


“For many years, the I. A. A. has oc- 
cupied an outstanding position in urg- 
ing a reduction in the cost of Govern- 
ment as well as an equitable distribu- 
tion of the necessary costs thereof. The 
present depression has given rise to 
many and various types of organiza- 


Page Thirteen 


tions, seeking arbitrary reduction in 
costs of government. We cannot but 
view with regret as well as concern 
many of the suggested programs for 
bringing this about. The I. A. A. will go 
as far as any group, or institution, with- 
in the State of Illinois to secure intelli- 
gent pruning of public services and to 
put into effect every possible economy. 
We are willing that services made avail- 
able to agriculture, both in the state 
and nation, shall be curtailed in pro- 
portion to curtailment of services pro- 
vided for other groups. 

“We insist, however, that some of the 
efforts being promoted by certain busi- 
ness groups of our cities to make radi- 
cal reductions in appropriations for 
agricultural projects will not be coun- 
tenanced by the farm people of this 
country. ... 

“In their attacks upon the extension 
service and our experiment stations, 
and when speaking of the tremendous 
total appropriated for the department, 
they leave the impression that the 
enormous sums mentioned ($317,000,000) 
are expended for these particular pur- 
poses. As a matter of fact, less than 
$15,000,000 covers the total appropria- 
tions for all of our experimental and 
extension work. 

“IT am sure I speak the sentiments of 
a@ large majority of the farmers of Illi- 
nois in saying to those charged with’ 
the direction of our national and state 
governments that our full co-operation 
is available toward the intelligent prun- 
ing of public appropriations for agri- 
cultural purposes in full proportion to 
economies that are put into effect in the 
general structure of government. We 
insist, however, that farmers be con- 
sulted as to what portion of agricul- 
ture’s departmental program shall be 
affected and curtailed. Farmers resent 
efforts being made by those prompted 
only by selfish interests, to dictate what 
services Government can and should 
render farm people. 

“I am firmly convinced that there 
never was a time when thorough, con- 
structive and militant organization of 
farmers was more needed than now. 
We are at the turn of the road. Either 
agriculture is going to be recognized and 
recognized to the extent of its impor- 
tance in our national economic life, or 
through a continuation of belated and 
half-way measures farmers will be per- 
manently committed to that level on 
which they can barely survive and con- 
tribute necessary food and other raw 
materials to the balance of the popula- 
tion, 

“Only by thorough and proper or- 
ganization can 200,000 scattered farmers 
in Illinois, or six million farm families 
in the United States, hope to regain 
in whole, or in part, a fair share of the 
national income and the distribution of 
necessary costs of Government among 
all the people according to their ability 
to pay. ; 

“I trust every Farm Bureau member 
attending this convention may go home 
definitely resolved to make organization 
his or her uppermost thought through- 
out the coming year. More time spent 
by farm people to secure a genuine un- 
derstanding of their problems, and less 
attention to the continued production 
of burdensome surpluses, would be the 
most profitable time that could possi- 
bly be spent in 1933. 

“Farmers have in the past been the 
(Continued on page 16, first column) 


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MA 


STATEMENT OF CONDITION 


December 31, 1932 


ASSETS LIABILITIES 


$1,546,599.61 Policy Reserves $1,264,648.00 
18,756.22 Other Reserves 54,959.82 
156,381.66 Other Liabilities 37,864.71 
102,272.75 Capital and Surplus . . 466,537.71 


$1,824,010.24 Total $1,824,010.24 


A 


3 
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Paid for Insurance in Force, December 31, 1932..... $47,368,250.00 


COUNTRY LIFE INS& 


Home Ottice: 608 South Dearbors 


Country Life Insurance Company again in 1932 
demonstrated that a legal reserve life insurance com- 
pany, cooperatively owned, can guarantee unsurpassed 
strength, complete protection and low net cost per 
thousand to its policy holders. 


M anager 


1SURANCE COM PANY 


‘rn otreet - ad Chicago. lllinots. 


Page Sixteen 


Country Life Agents Meet 
In Enthusiastic Session 


Plan For Big Year in 1933, Joint 
Conference for all Agents Held 


Cee and special agents to 
the number of about 350 were 
present in the Grand Ball Room of 
the Pere Marquette Hotel at Peoria, 
on Wednesday morning, Jan. 25, for 
the conference of Country Life In- 
surance Company, held in connec- 
tion with the annual meeting of the 
the I. A. A. L. A. Williams, man- 
ager, presided and the session was 
marked by great 
enthusiasm over 
the record of ac- 
complishment of 
the Company 
during 1932, as 
well as optimism 
over 1933 pros- 


pects. 
Reviewing the 
work of the 


Company in the 
year just closed, 
Mr. Williams 
pointed out that Country Life now 
has more than $47,000,000 insurance 
in force, an increase of considerably 
more than $3,000,000. Laspes of 
policies, on the other hand, totalled 


Smith 


(Continued from page 13) 


backbone of America in meeting and 
overcoming serious dangers confronting 
the nation. Their continued stamina, 
courage and determination, coupled 
with the fast increasing support of 
thinking business interests will again 
meet and overcome present difficulties. 
The time has arrived for directing our 
thoughts to facts and not fiction; truth 
instead of propaganda; for action and 
not debate. To this end, our efforts 
must be dedicated, for only through 
constructive thinking and united action 
can agriculture hope to gain its rightful 
position in the economic life of the na- 
tion, and can the nation hope to sur- 
vive.” 


THE LA. A. RECORD 


Manager “Larry” Williams talking at Country Life’s Conference at Pere Marquette Hotel, Wednesday, Jan. 25. 


less than 14% of the normal expec- 
tancy and an extremely good record 
was made in holding down operat- 
ing expenses, all of which redounds 
to the advantage of the policy- 
holder. 

Plans for the coming year were 
outlined by Mr. Williams and re- 
ceived the enthusiastic support of 
all present. Confidence was ex- 
pressed that regardless of adverse 
business conditions prevailing at 
the turn of the year, the 1933 rec- 
ord would equal if not surpass that 
of its predecessor. 

Dr. John Boland, medical director 
of Country Life, dwelt on mortality 
and risk selection in his talk to the 
agents, pointing out that the ex- 
tremely low mortality figures were 
of distinct advantage to policyhold- 
érs in that they increase dividends 
and that this record has been ac- 
complished and can only be con- 
tinued through continued coopera- 
tion between the medical depart- 
ment and the agents in the field in 
selecting the best possible risks for 
Country Life policies. 

Clarence Ramler, service man- 
ager, explained the working of the 
Home Office for the benefit of the 
newer agents and made a number 
of suggestions for cooperation be- 
tween the field force and the home 
office force for the improvement of 
service to policyholders. 

On the afternoon of the same 
day, there was a joint meeting be- 
tween the agents selling life, auto- 
mobile, and fire and crop insurance 
which was addressed by the man- 
agers of the respective insurance 
organizations. 

Mr. Vaniman spoke on “Coordi- 
nated Effort,” Mr. Williams on “The 
Psychology that Never Fails,’ Mr. 
Richardson on “The Economies of 
Cooperative Insurance” and Mr. 
Kelker on “The Agent’s Opportu- 
nity.” 

Thursday evening the annual din- 
ner of the Country Life General 
Agents Club was held in the La- 
Salle Room of the hotel. This or- 


ganization is composed of general 
agents who make their sales quotas, 
as well as such special agents as 
write fifteen applications in any 
one month throughout the year. 
Claude Hicks of Livingston County 
was selected as president for the 
ensuing year succeeding H. O. 
Henry, Effingham County. 


Farm Advisers Name 
Whisenand President 


J. W. Whisenand, Peoria county 
farm adviser, was named president 
of the Illinois Association of Farm 
Advisers at the annual meeting of 
the organization during Farm and 
Home Week at the University of 
Illinois on Jan- 
uary 20. 

L. E. McKinzie 
of Schuyler coun- 
»| ty was named 
vice - president, 
Geo. H. Iftner, Ef- 
fingham county, 
secretary, and S. 
1G. Turner, Liv- 
ingston county, 
treasurer. 

Mr. Whisenand 
succeeds Ray C. 
Doneghue of Mc- 
Donough county. 
Whisenand is one of the oldest farm 
advisers in Illinois in point of serv- 
ice. He left the animal husbandry 
department of the State College of 
Agriculture more than 10 years ago 
to take a position as associate farm 
adviser in Iroquois county. Later he 
became farm adviser in Henry 
county where he served ably for 
many years. When Wilfred Shaw 
resigned to become manager of the 
Illinois Milk Producers’ Association 
Whisenand was invited to take the 
post as farm adviser in Peoria coun- 
ty where he has been successful in 
maintaining a strong organization 
and developing a broad program of 
service to the farmers of the county. 


J. W, WHISENAND 


February, 1933 


$ 


February, 1933 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Seventeen 


The Money Question 


Our Nation Can't Continue With Half Its People On One Price Level And The Other 
Half On Another Says Henry Wallace 


VERY country except the United 

States, Holland, and Switzer- 
land has eased the internal prob- 
lem for debtors by depreciating 
their currencies and raising prices, 
Henry A. Wallace, editor of Wallace’s 
Farmer, told more than 1,500 men 
and women who attended the Fri- 
day morning session of the recent 
I. A. A. convention held in Peoria. 


An honest way out of our diffi- 
culties, he said, is to reduce the 
grains of gold in the dollar. Another 
way out is not to balance the bud- 
get and float gracefully off the gold 
standard as France did. One thing 
is certain, the United States is a 
dominant economic force in the 
world, and if this country starts 
back to normal prosperity the rest 
of the world will undoubtedly start 
with us. 

Wallace expressed the hope that 
silver would be used on a world- 
wide basis through symmetalism by 
which paper currency would be re- 
deemable partly in gold and partly 
in silver rather than in one or the 
other exclusively. 


Debt Adjustments 


Debt adjustments, he said, only 
temporize with the situation. It is 
difficult to make debt adjustments 
uniform in treatment. The farmer 
has been caught in a trap or en- 
closure with four walls something 
like a bunch of cattle. When we 
push on one side to get out, our 
opponents tell us to try the other 
side. There are several ways to 
ease the predicament in which we 
find ourselves. One way is to raise 
farm price levels with legislation 
like the domestic allotment plan, 
another way is to devalue the dol- 
lar. When Fred Lee, your next 
speaker, suggested to an insurance 
man who was in Washington that 
his company write down their farm 
mortgages 40 per cent, he threw up 
his hands in alarm and said: “If 
we do that how can we pay our 
death claims?” Before, he had op- 
posed price raising legislation, but 
after thinking it over he became an 
ardent advocate of establishing 
higher price levels. 

The public and private debt of the 
United States, Wallace said, is close 
to 200 billion dollars whereas the 
national wealth is estimated to be 
not much more than 180 billion dol- 
lars. “Something is going to snap,” 
he continued, “we can’t continue on 
our present basis trying to pay our 
debts with prices half or less than 
they were when the debts were 


created. Our nation cannot continue 
much longer with half its people on 
one price level and the other half 
on another. The tension is too 
great. 


Effect. of Deflation 


“Some people say that the proper. 


way to deal with this situation is 
to go ahead with the deflation. This 
means that debts and taxes must be 
cut in half, and that the rates of 
public utilities and railroads must 
be reduced very materially. If the 
reduction in debts is accomplished 
by the customary procedure of 
bankruptcy and sale of foreclosed 
properties, there can be no large 
volume of construction activity in 
the cities until 1937 or 1938. If the 
freight rates are brought down and 
the railroads thrown into receiver- 
ship, the effect on the insurance 
companies may be disastrous be- 
cause they hold about three-fourths 
of the railroad bonds. If farm mort- 
gages are cut in half, the insurance 
companies may again be embar- 
rassed because they have to pay 
their policies in full. Some people 
think there is something fine, 
righteous, pure and high-minded 
about deflation and that inflation 
is something wicked and luxurious 
against the laws of God and man. 
As a matter of fact, what we want 
is neither inflation nor deflation 
but stability at a price level which 
will do the maximum of justice be- 
tween debtor and creditor. 

“Our present monetary system is 
based on the theory of a fixed price 
for gold without regard to the law 
of supply and demand. For more 
than 50 years in the United States, 
the price of gold has been $20.67 
an ounce no matter how scarce or 
how abundant gold might be. If the 
law of supply and demand were 
really functioning with respect to 
gold, the price might well have gone 
down to $10 an ounce during the 
early part of this century, whereas 
at the present time, in view of its 
scarcity, the price might well be $30 
or even $35 an ounce. In times like 
these, it is barbarous to compel all 
industries to adjust themselves to 
a suspension of the law of supply 
and demand with respect to gold. 
This has been recognized in every 
country but the United States, Hol- 
land and Switzerland. All of the 
others have at one time or another 
during the past 10 years devalued 
their respective units of currency 
and, in so doing, have eased the 
burden of debt. 


“It has ever been thus. When 
debts have reached an impossible 
point, and repudiation on a scale 
sufficient to endanger the creditors 
has started, it has keen customary 
to reduce the amount of metal be- 
hind the unit of currency. Often- 
times this has not been done openly 
but by issuing paper currency and 
government bonds. 


Col. Ayres’ Prediction 


“At Cincinnati I heard Colonel 
Leonard Ayres of the Cleveland 
Trust Company say that he thought 
the year 1933 would be known as 
the year of the great battle between 
the inflationists and the deflation- 
ists and that in his opinion the in- 
flationists would" lose, as_ usual. 
Colonel Ayres is a very level-headed 
man for whose judgment I have 
the greatest respect. But in this 
case, I am inclined to think he is 
wrong. The continuance of present 
prices means such a volume of fore- 
closures, bankruptcies, receiverships 
and failures that no man in his 
right senses can think about them 
without wanting to do something to 
bring a more even-handed justice 
between debtors and creditors. We 
must have inflation but it must be 
a controlled inflation. We must 
avoid an uncontrolled inflation such 
as that which plunged Germany 
over the precipice after the World 
War. 

“The most honest method of con- 
trolled inflation is to increase the 
price of gold from $20.67 an ounce 
to $30 an ounce. This is the same 
thing as reducing the weight of gold 
behind the dollar from 23.22 grains, 
as at present, to 16 grains. If this 
were done, the foreign currencies 
would at once be able to buy more 
dollars and, therefore, more pounds 
of wheat, lard and cotton. The price 
of our exports in terms of British 
pounds and French francs would 
not go up but in terms of American 
dollars, the price would be ma- 
t rially higher. The price of imports 
into the United States would also 
be higher in terms of American dol- 
lars although there would be no in- 
crease in the price in the country 
from which they came. Domestic 
prices would move more slowly. 


Objections To Reflation 


“The common objection to de- 
valuing the dollar is that more than 
50 billion dollars of contracts have 
in them the celebrated ‘gold 
clause.’ The ‘gold clause,’ it is 


' claimed, would compel a man who 


Page Eighteen 


owes the money in terms of gold to pay 
perhaps $140 in currency to settle the 
obligation, whereas he expected to pay 
only $100. It happens that farmers are 
very little affected by this situation 
because more than 90 per cent of their 
contracts do not have in them the 
‘gold clause.’ Other nations have not 
written ‘gold clause’ contracts because 
they have been common sense ehough to 
realize that if the emergency were great 
enough to push a nation off the gold 
standard, it would also be great enough 
to cause an abrogation of the con- 
tracts. As a matter of fact, this is 
exactly what would happen in the 
United States. It is my guess that in 
case we go off the gold standard, the 
‘gold clause’ will either be proved un- 
constitutional or a law will be passed 
taxing away completely any profits re- 
sulting from the ‘gold clause.’ Con- 


‘gress has the right to abrogate con- 


tracts and I feel confident it would do 
so in a case of this sort. Moreover it 
is likely that public sentiment would 
make it unhealthy for anyone to at- 
tempt to collect ‘gold clause’ profits. 


Need International Conference 


“The other argument customarily 
presented against devaluing the dollar 
is that the matter cannot be taken up 
in Congress without creating a panic. 
Under the constitution, Congress is 
given the specific duty of ‘coining 
money and regulating the value there- 
of.” It is claimed that Congress is a 
debating society and cannot act 
promptly in case of emergency. Some 
people say that it would be all right 
for the United States to devalue the 
dollar if it could be done overnight in 
the same way as England did it. 

“Devaluing the dollar would at once 
give us the whip hand in holding an 
international monetary conference. At 
the present time, foreign nations com- 
peting with us for the markets of the 
world are exceedingly anxious to keep 
us on the present gold standard. A 
great variety of proposals might be con- 
sidered at an international monetary 
conference. A definite effort might be 
made to set up an international bank 
in some neutral country, like Switzer- 
land, to which the Federal Reserve 
System of the United States and the 
central banks of the other nations 
would contribute one-fourth of their 
gold reserves. This international bank 
might issue an international currency 
and take care of the bookkeeping debits 
and credits in international trade. 
Eventually it may be possible for the 
international currency to represent con- 
stant purchasing power in terms of the 
basic commodities which move in world 
trade. Inventions of this sort are 
scientific and can eventually be made 
to work when international fears and 
hatreds are to some extent over- 
come.... 


England More Sensible 


“It is unfortunate that the wild-eyed 
inflationists of the thirties, seventies 
and nineties of the last century should 
have so scared our bankers and finan- 
cial leaders that it is impossible for 
them to think sensibly in the present 
emergency. England has understood 
from past history how to handle her 
monetary matters more sensibly than 
we. Her problem has been enormously 
more difficult than ours but she has 
handled it much more skillfully. Many 
people in England feel that the Fed- 


THE IA. A. RECORD 


eral Reserve System of the United 
States has not only handled the mon- 
etary problem in such a way as to dam- 
age the United States, but the rest of 
the world as well. 

“There are a few people who believe 
that the United States is such a domi- 
nant figure in world affairs that, the 
all important thing is for her to get 
business activities started again and 
that it doesn’t make a lot of. differ- 
ence which monetary method is used. 
These people claim that inasmuch as 
the United States consumes a very 
high percentage of the world’s rubber, 
silk, coffee, etc., and inasmuch as she 
holds 40 per cent of the world’s mone- 
tary gold and also inasmuch as the 
hopes and fears of other nations go up 
and down with what is going on in the 
United States,—it is simply a matter of 
the United States striking out boldly. 
If our prices go up and our activities 
start, business will revive over the en- 
tire world. It is confidence which 
makes for high velocity of credit and 
money. It is confidence which will bring 
the money out of hiding, most of which 
ts said to be hoarded in bills of $1,000 
or more. Some of the people who hold 
to this theory claim that confidence is 
more likely to re-establish itself if 
there are no inflationary measures 
whatever. I might agree with them if it 
were not for the fact that there is a 
world wide fear of gold shortage. Fur- 
thermore, the currents of trade be- 
tween the United States and the rest 
of the world are being cruelly inter- 
fered with by the fact that we have not 
reduced the quantity of gold behind the 
dollar to the same extent as the rest 
of the nations of the world. If the 
United States is to restore herself to her 
narmal parity with outside nations, she 
should reduce the weight of gold be- 
hind the dollar by at least 25 per cent. 


We Forced ’Em 


“It must be recognized, of course, that 
the foreign nations have been forced 
into currency depreciation partly as a 


result of our high tariff and our atti-. 


tude on the inter-governmental debts. 
Some of the leading foreign nations 
finding that we could not learn to be- 
have as a mature creditor nation 
should, decided that we were vulnerable 
through currency and gold manipula- 
tions. It is reported that certain large 
bankers have on occasion shifted 100 
million dollars in gold back and forth 
between the United States and France. 
When gold is shipped out of a country 
suddenly, prices tend to fall on the 
stock exchange, whereas when it comes 
into a country, prices tend to rise. It 
is, therefore, possible by handling large 
gold shipments and by buying and sell- 
ing stocks, to conduct a huge ‘shell 
game.’ 

“We must adopt new rules for the 
banking system of the world. These 
rules must make it possible to maintain 
a stable price level from year to year. 
If the rest of the nations of the world 
are not yet ready for such rules, the 
United States should adopt them by 


February, 1933 


herself. Holding, as she does, 40 per 
cent of the gold of the world and 
dominating the world trade in many 
fundamental commodities, she can 
eventually force the other nations to 
adopt her rules if they are funda- 
mentally sound and just. 

“The first. step is for the United 
States to inflate to the same extent 
as England. The next step is for the 
United States, England, France and 
Germany to hold a monetary con- 
ference and agree on uniform rules of 
procedure. At such a conference should 
be discussed the money problem, tariffs, 
inter - governmental debts, tonnage 
quotas, currency quotas and all of the 
other things which are now so upset- 
ting the world.” 


Harriman Suggests Way 
Out of Economic Storm 


The well being of agriculture is 
the key to national prosperity H. I. 
Harriman, president of the U. S. 
Chamber of Commerce, said in his 
address before the annual I. A. A. 
banquet the night of Jan. 26. The 
balance between agriculture and 
other groups must be restored. 
There is no gain for anyone when 
prices are below cost, wages are low 
and buying power is gone. 

Harriman recommended stabiliza- 
tion of the dollar with the index 
of commodity prices, the unshack- 
ling of business, opening up of trade 
and commerce through the removal 
of tariff barriers, and reduced gov- 
ernment expenditures along with 
higher farm prices as the way to 
restore national prosperity. 

As a long range solution to the 
farm problem he advocated taking 
marginal lands out of production 
and encouraging the use of agricul- 
tural products for other purposes 
than food. He suggested that farm- 
ers make a study of the possibilities 
in using ethyl alcohol as an adul- 
terant of motor fuels. 

Something must be done imme- 
diately, he said, to restore farm 
prices. “Too much peanuts” was his 
comment on the domestic allotment 
bill which passed the House. 

In introducing Mr. Harriman, 
President Smith called attention to 
the fact that for the first time the 
president of the American Farm 
Bureau Federation and the presi- 
dent of the U. S. Chamber of Com- 
merce were speaking from the same 
platform. This is indicative of bet- 
ter co-operation between business 
and agriculture for the welfare of 
the nation, he said. 


A number of I. A. A. staff members 
and convention visitors including Larry 
Williams, Ray Miller, George Thiem, 
Vernon Vaniman, Lee Quasey, Frank 
Gougler, G. C. Johnstone and- Mrs. 
Burl Hornbeek talked over Ed Bill’s 
Station WMBD, Peoria during the 
three day session. The address of H. 
I. Harriman on Thursday night also 
went out over this station. 


February, 1933 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Nineteen 


Metzger Tells How $4.50 
Membership Fee Is Spent 


Compares I. A. A. Service Pro- 
gram To Machine Capable 
of Benefiting More 
Members 


OMPARING the services and as- 
sociated companies established 
by the I. A. A. to a great machine 
designed to divert part of the profits 
from the sale of farm products and 
the purchase of 
farm supplies to 
Illinois farmers, 
Secretary George 
E. Metzger in his 
annual report 
said, “the ma- 
chine is large, 
and it may need 
refining in some 
parts, it may need 
more skilled me- 
chanics to handle 
its operation but 
GEO. E, METZGER jt is capable of 
serving many 
thousands of Illinois farmers in a 
much better way than they are now 
being served. We must develop a 
program of organization and edu- 
cation to inform members and non- 
members how they can _ benefit 
through taking advantage of these 
services.” 


He urged that farmers use the 
co-operative selling agencies so as 
to increase the volume of products 
handled that the full benefits of 
organized bargaining power may be 
realized. 


Expenditures Cut 25% 


Commenting on membership dues 
he said, “A great deal of thought 
has been given to this question by 
sincere friends of the organization. 
Enemies of the Farm Bureau move- 
ment, too, have advocated reduced 
dues knowing that the most effec- 
tive way to cripple the organization 
is by decreasing its income. Officers 
and directors of the Association 
have not been unfriendly to sug- 
gestions for cutting expenditures. 
Substantial cuts have been made in 
our operating expenses. Salaries 
and operating expenses have been 
reduced more than 25 per cent. But 
an analysis of the pay roll and total 
expenditures of the organization 
shows that if all salaries were cut 
out and the staff paid nothing for 
its services it would reduce the 
total expenditures of the Associa- 
tion only 24.4 per cent. This would 
lower the total fee only about one 
dollar. 


“A substantial item of expendi- 
ture in your Association is that of 
travel. Railroad rates have not de- 
creased. In the operation of auto- 
mobiles the allowance has been re- 


duced from seven to four cents per 
mile. Every possible economy has 
been made where it would not in- 
terfere with service to members. 


Salaries Less Than Fourth 


“It may be of interest to the dele- 
gates and members to know how 
the $4.50 dues in the I. A. A. are 
spent; Salaries constitute 24.4 per 
cent of the Association’s expense; 
travel, 4.6 per cent; clerical help, 
10 per cent; annual meeting, 3.2 
per cent; travel and subsistence of 
the board of directors, 2.4 per cent; 
expense of advisory committees, .6 
per cent; finance committee, .5 per 
cent; general conferences, one per 
cent; district conferences, .2 per 
cent; county meetings, .4 per cent; 
per diem, travel and office expense 
of the president, 2.8 per cent; sec- 
retary’s office, 5.6 per cent; treas- 
urer’s office, 5.4 per cent; comp- 
troller, .3 per cent; legal service, 5.4 
per cent; marketing program, 15.01 
per cent; organization, 28 per cent; 
publicity, ineluding publication of 
REcorD and Illinois Section of Bu- 
reau Farmer, 8.2 per cent; taxation 
department, 3.9 per cent; trans- 
portation, .8 per cent. 


How Dues Are Spent 


“The $4.50 membership fee when 
split up among the various activ- 
ities and departments of the As- 
sociation is as follows: 


Annual meeting, 1932 ........ $ 174 
Board of directors’ travel and 
subsistence ................ 129 
Advisory committee work .... .03 
Finance Committee .......... .026 
General Conferences ........ 052 
District Conferences ........ 01 
County Meetings ............ .014 
Maintenance of President’s 
RMN noes cs chad dc powebace 153 
SEE ovo ws varcdeegeteees 305 
Treasurer and his office ..... .289 
Comptroller ................. .018 
Department of Taxation .... .209 
REcorD, Bureau Farmer, Pub- 
SOE pts ands tees kes 606s 441 
Legislative Program ......... 106 
Organization and Membership 
Maintenance .............. 1.51 
Limestone-Phosphate Depart- 
RRR aie ita ne NS US .144 
Business Service ............ 02 
Clerical help ................ 59 
UME SOs ele biocs ec ee be eenoeeees .267 
Sy a | i a or 816 
Legal Service ................ .288 
Transportation .............. 044 
General Office ............... 108 


“Our experience shows that a re- 
duction in membership does not in- 
crease the number of members. 
When counties, or states, have de- 


creased membership fees they have © 


usually lost members rather than 
gained because of the almost im- 
mediate reduction they necessarily 
had to make in their service pro- 
gram. Experience in the middle 
west during the past six years has 
proved that the states with the 


higher membership fees have re- 
tained the higher number of mem- 
bers. It seems that farmers don’t 
care to belong to an organization 
offering little or no service even 
though the membership fee is small. 

“In a few counties in the state 
nearly 70 per cent of the farmers 
residing therein are members of the 
Farm Bureau. An increase of 10 
per cent in the membership in those 
counties is probably all that can 
reasonably be expected. On the 
other hand, we have a few coun- 
ties where it would seem possible to 
increase the membership 200 per 
cent. It does not seem unreasonable 
to expect that 100,000 farmers in 
Illinois should be carrying member- 
ship in the organization. 

“We have built a fine machine of- 
fering real benefits to the farmers 
of this state. Let us make every ef- 
fort in the coming year to use this 
machine to greater capacity and ex- 
tend the benefits to a larger num- 
ber of members.” 


Newspaper Men 
At The Convention 


Peoria newspapers did a good job 
of covering the convention. The 
Journal was represented by Flaher- 
ty and Kinsey, the Transcript by 
Maggenheimer and Perry, and the 
Star by Mr. Johnson. Photogra- 
phers were on hand from all three 
newspapers. 

Floyd Keepers, managing editor, 
covered the meeting for Prairie 
Farmer. 

Gifford Ernest of the Chicago 
News and Paul Potter of the Chi- 
cago Tribune reported the conven- 
tion for their respective papers. Bob 
Howard of the Associated Press, 
Chicago sent the news out over the 
wires to all dailies in and beyond 
Illinois having A. P. service. How- 
ard is a son of J. R. Howard of Iowa, 
first president of the American 
Farm Bureau Federation. Flaherty 
took care of the Chicago Herald 
Examiner and Johnson filed stories 
for the International News Service. 


Farm Supply Co. Officers 


Officers elected by the board of 
directors of the Illinois Farm Supply 
Company at their recent meeting 
were: Fred E. Herndon, Macomb, 
president; Geo. F. Tullock, Rock- 
ford, vice-president; E. E. Steven- 
son, Streator, secretary; and R. A. 
Cowles, Bloomington, treasurer. 

Directors who will serve in the 
coming year are Grant Broster, 
Grayville, J. M. Eyman, Warrens- 
burg, Frank J. Flynn, Woodson, 
Fred E. Herndon, Macomb, H. A. 
Keele, Chesterfield, H. R. Neal, 
Lawrenceville, T. J. Penman, York- 
ville, E. E. Stevenson, Streator, and 
Geo. F. Tullock, Rockford. 


Page Twenty 


THE IL. A. A. RECORD 


February, 1933 


Illinois Leads All 
States In Membership 


Report of Organization-Publicity 
Conference At Peoria Jan. 26 
C. E. Bamborough, 
Chairman 


ARM Bureau membership ex-. 


perience throughout the United 
States clearly reveals that if the 
organization is to maintain a serv- 
ice program offering real benefits 
to farmers it must be adequately 
financed. Reduction in dues by 
other State Farm Bureaus in- 
variably has been followed by re- 
duced membership. 


M. S. Winder, secretary of the 
American Farm Bureau Federation, 
stated that when 
he served as sec- 
retary of the 
Utah State Farm 
Bureau the or- 
ganization had a 
$10 membership 
fee, approxi- 
mately 7,000 
members, and a 
real service pro- 
gram which 
represented the 
farmers of the 

Cc. E, BAMBOROUGH state in tax 

matters and leg- 
islation and carried on organized 
buying and other helpful projects. 
Then the Board of Directors de- 
cided to cut the dues to $5 in the 
hope of doubling the membership. 
The result was quite the contrary of 
that expected. The membership 
steadily declined largely because the 
Farm Bureau was forced to dispense 
with the services of its tax expert, 
organization director, and other 
employees. Within a few years the 
membership had fallen from 7,000 
to 1,800. 


Illinois Suffers Less 


Secretary Geo. E. Metzger dis- 
closed the results of a survey in 
other states showing the decline in 
membership since the high point 
of the past six to eight years. Illi- 
nois which has a higher member- 
ship fee showed a smaller percent- 
age reduction than any middle west 
state, whereas the states having $5 
fees and less showed the greatest 
decline. Several Farm Bureaus which 
have $10 dues showed greater re- 
ductions in membership than the 
I. A. A. but much less than reduc- 
tions in the smaller fee states. 

An open discussion was held on 
the question of the volunteer or- 
ganization plan versus the paid 
solicitor plan. No conclusions were 
reached. 

J. C. Spitler, state leader of farm 
advisers, reviewed extension work 
in Illinois over a 20 year period. He 


stated that few counties in Dlinois 
ever had taken advantage of the 
1913 act which allows county 
boards of supervisors to appro- 
priate up to $5,000 annually for ex- 
tension work in agriculture. Only 
three or four counties in Illinois 
make such appropriations at the 
present time, he said. It has been 
our experience that extension work 
and Farm Bureau organization 
thrive best where farmers them- 
selves assume responsibility not 
only for maintaining the organiza- 
tion but also for directing exten- 
sion and Farm Bureau work. 


Improve The Product 


George Thiem, director of in- 
formation, called attention to the 
need for maintaining favorable 
public relations between the Farm 
Bureau, its membership, non-mem- 
bers, and the general public. If the 
Farm Bureau is not thriving, the 
first thing to do, he said, is to care- 
fully analyze the situation, find out 
where the weaknesses are, and then 
correct them. When everything else 
fails try improving the product, 
said a wise advertising man. Let’s 
apply that advice to the Farm Bu- 
reau. If the membership isn’t up 
to par, try improving the service 
program and make it so attractive 
that farmers will want to belong. 
There may be weaknesses in the 
Farm Bureau management and if 
so this situation should be corrected, 
but oftentimes it is not so much 
the personnel as lack of aggressive 
administration of the service pro- 
gram. More attention to publicity 
to keep the members fully informed 
about their opportunities for profit 
in using Farm Bureau services was 
urged as one way to build stronger 
membership. - 


Robert A. Cowles, treasurer of the 
Association, led an active and valu- 
able discussion on ways and means 
of collecting Farm Bureau dues. He 
outlined the collection plan de- 
veloped by the treasurer, secretary, 
and Mr. Vaniman by which com- 
petent men are employed on a com- 
mission basis—not exceeding 20 per 
cent of the cash collected—to col- 
lect past due items. C. E. Carrier 
who was employed to collect in his 
home counties, strongly urged Farm 
Bureau leaders to act promptly in 
collecting dues before they are more 
than a year in arrears. “It is next 
to impossible to make collections,” 
he said, “when the delinquent mem- 
ber owes more than one year’s 
dues.” 


The board of directors of the Illinois 
Agricultural Association held 12 
monthly meetings during 1932 with 
only four absences. The board held a 
brief session at Peoria Wednesday 
morning Jan. 25 before the opening 
of the regular meetings and confer- 
ences of associated companies. 


Serum Association Makes 
Good Record In Past Year 


Hear About Efforts To Prevent 
Farmers From Vaccinating 


HE Illinois Farm Bureau Serum 

Association during 1932 handled 
more than 41,000,000 cc of serum 
and virus for the benefit of 17 
member counties Secretary Ray E. 
Miller reported at the annual se ee 
ing, Peoria, Jan. 25. 


The report showed the organiza-. 


tion to be in excellent financial 
condition with a total net worth of 
$23,188.80. The Association paid 
dividends on all outstanding pre- 
ferred stock. Cholera outbreaks, it 
was reported, were considerably less 
than in the previous year. 

Some discussion was had regard- 
ing the efforts of organized vet- 
erinarians to prevent farmers from 
vaccinating their own pigs. The at- 
tack, brought to a head in the re- 
port of the so-called Shannon in- 
vestigation committee, centered on 
farm advisers for their efforts in 
advocating livestock sanitation and 
disease prevention. It was brought 
out that the attack against Farm 
Bureau Serum Service was prompted 
by the reduced income and profits 
of veterinarians who believe that 
they alone should be allowed to im- 
munize pigs. 

All the evidence shows that for 
the most part farmers who vacci- 
nate their own pigs are more care- 
ful in the use of serum and virus 
than professionals and that as a re- 
sult there has been less loss in Illi- 
nois from hog cholera and other 
swine diseases since the Farm Bu- 
reaus took hold of the situation. 

The fact that farmers are now 
saving thousands of dollars an- 
nually not only in the cost of pro- 
tecting their herds against cholera, 
but also in the less frequent losses 
of livestock as shown by facts and 
figures, is unanswerable argument 
favoring the continuation of this 
helpful service, members agreed. 

The report before the Shannon 
Committee regarding activities of 
the Farm Bureaus in hog cholera 
control and livestock sanitation 
work, together with many spurious 
conclusions was submitted by D. F. 
Luckey, secretary of the [Illinois 
State Veterinary Medical Ass’n. 

Directors of the Serum Associa- 
tion all were re-elected. Chas. S. 
Black of Jacksonville was added to 
the board as a representative of the 
Illinois Agricultural Association. Of- 
ficers and directors of the Associa- 
tion are as follows: Samuel Sorrells, 
Raymond, president; Edgar Wal- 
ther, Port Byron, vice - president; 
Ray E. Miller, Chicago, secy.-treas.; 
Adam McWilliam, Toulon; W. H. 
Stockley, Earlville; A. B. Schofield, 
Paxton; James Gillespie, Lawrence- 
ville. 


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February, 1933 


Auto Company Makes 
Wonderful Record In '32 


President Smith and Manager 
Richardson Report on Prog- 
ress of Organization 


Your company is to be congrat- 
ulated for finishing the year with 
the strongest financial statement 
ever presented to its policyholders, 
President Earl C. Smith reported at 
the annual meeting of the Illinois 
Agricul tural 
Mutual Insur- 
ance Company, 
Peoria, Jan. 25. 
More than 600 
attended the 
meeting. 

“The assets 
now total $934,- 
193.49 of which 
$890,008.28 is in- 
vested in high 
grade bonds,” he 
said. “It is with 
pleasure that I 
report to you 
that not a single bond of this com- 
pany. has defaulted either in in- 
terest or in principal. 


“During the past year the pre- 
mium earned was $363,756.94. This 
item refers to assessments due and 
paid. During 1932 Illinois farmers 
purchased a greater volume of auto 
and employers’ liability insurance 
through their own company than in 
any previous year. A total of 4,728 
applications were received for auto 
insurance and 166 for employers’ 
liability. 


“While it is difficult to compare 
costs for the reason that there are 
many types of policies and many 
methods of operations,” said Mr. 
Smith, “we can say without fear of 
contradiction that this company is 
saving its members more than‘a 
quarter of a million dollars annually 
on auto insurance alone when com- 
pared to the cost of similar insur- 
ance in any other company operat- 
ing throughout the state.” 


20,000 Claims Handled 


More than 20,000 claims have 
been reported to the company since 
it was organized. Of the large num- 
ber filed there are only 46 unsettled 
claims which occurred prior to 1932. 
A year ago the audit report showed 
a reserve of $111,207 to cover 520 
claims which were open at that 
time. All of these have subsequently 
been settled except 46, and on 
Jan. 1 this year a reserve of $54,051 
was in reserve to take care of these 
remaining claims. If it should take 
all of this reserve, the company 
would have disposed of the claims 
open a year ago for $91,100.61 in- 
Stead of $111,207, the reserve which 
was set up. 

Manager A. E. Richardson and V. 


A,.E, RICHARDSON 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Paye Twenty-one 


Every chair filled at the Annual Meeting of Illinois Agricultural Mutual 
Insurance Co. in the Pere Marquette Hotel, Peoria, Jan. 25. 


Vaniman, director of insurance 
service, discussed briefly acquisition 
experiences during 1932. Vaniman 
reported on the accident prevention 
work through the Illinois Farm Bu- 
reau Safety Club. He later presented 
Emory W. Parks of Macon county 
with a silver cup awarded by the 
Illinois Agricultural Association to 
the County Farm Bureau most ac- 
tive in accident prevention work. 


Agents Get Hats 


Manager Richardson awarded 
three new hats to agents for the 
company making the best records 
during the December drive. The 
winners were E. A. Carncross of 
Cook county, R. P. Cothern, Ford 
county, and D. J. Auble of DuPage 
county. 

Mr. Richardson stated that there 
was no consistent variation in the 
loss ratio between the various sec- 
tions of the state. Contrary to ex- 
pectations, the policyholders in the 
area closest to the largest metro- 
politan center in the state had com- 
paratively fewer accidents than 
policyholders in some of the down- 
state areas. He stated that there 
has been a steady decrease in per- 
centage of operating expense since 
the company was organized. In 1927 
operating expenses took 31% of 
premium income whereas in 1932 it 
required only 18.2%. 


Auditing Association 
Holds Annual Meeting 


iG Boge: importance of proper and 
accurate accounting and audit- 
ing for farm co-operatives and or- 
ganizations was traced by M. S. 
Winder, secretary of the American 
Farm Bureau Federation, in ad- 
dressing more than 100 delegates 
and members at the annual meet- 
ing of the Illinois Agricultural Au- 


’ diting Association in Peoria, Jan. 


25. 


Mr. Winder 
praised the Illi- 
nois Agricultural 
Association for 
its aggressive at- 
titude and busi- 
ness policies as 
exemplified in | 
the success of | 
the many service 
companies each 
has _ established. 
He cautioned 
against too great 
economy at the 
expense of high grade service. 


Manager F. E. Ringham presented 
details about the organization’s 
work during 1932 in which he re- 
ported the completion of 366 audit 
assignments for the 314 members 
of the Association. 


M. 8. WINDER 


Increase In Members 


The membership showed a net 
increase of 13 for the year. He in- 
vited the co-operation of all mem- 
ber companies in an effort to se- 
cure a better distribution of the 
work of the auditors throughout 
the year. He stated that every ef- 
fort had been made to reduce op- 
erating costs so that member com- 
panies might benefit through lower 
expense. He showed how the aver- 
age service charge per member had 
declined from $107.06 in 1928 to 
$87.94 in 1932. 


A. J. Gilfillan of Watseka who 
has served ably for many years re- 
tired as president of the organiza- 
tion and member of the board of 
directors. Directors and officers 
elected for 1933 were Albert E. 
Heckle, Quincy, president; Jesse L. 
Beery, Cerro Gordo, vice-president; 
Geo. E. Metzger, Chicago, secretary; 
R. A. Cowles, Bloomington, treas- 
urer; C. R. Hays, Normal; Henry H. 
Parke, Genoa; R. H. Vorhees, Jer- 
seyville. 


Page Twenty-two 


THE ILA. A. RECORD 


February, 1933 


Co-operative Finance New 
Field For Organization 


C. V. Gregory and Department 
Directors Address Market- 
ing Conference 


 biecoet? farmers must soon get into 
the field of co-operative finance 
was the assertion made by C. V. 
Gregory, editor of the Prairie Farm- 
er, in the marketing conference at 
the recent I. A. A. convention. Ap- 
proximately 800 interested members 
crowded into the ball room of the 
Pere Marquette Hotel and a large 
number were turned away because 
of lack of room. 


The meeting was presided over by 
Samuel S. Sor- 
rells, chairman 
of the market- 
ing committee 
for the I. A. A. 
“You have 
made millions of 
dollars in the 
past decade and 
that money has 
passed out of 
your control into 
banking institu- 
tions in all parts 
of the country,” 
he said. “By or- 
ganizing credit unions farmers’ sur- 
plus money can be kept in the 
community where it is most needed. 
From such a beginning we can build 
larger institutions in. the future. 
For the present and perhaps for 
some years to come we may have to 
depend on government credit, but 
farmers should begin to plan to set 
up their own financial credit 
agencies on a sound basis.” 


Not Enough Alone 


In discussing co-operative mar- 
keting, Gregory said that the co- 
operative program alone cannot 
save the farmer today. He said 
they must adopt emergency meas- 
ures. He expressed the belief that 
patronage dividends are being over- 
emphasized and are harming the 
co-operative program. He believes 
that the greatest opportunity in co- 
operative marketing lies in concen- 
trating a large volume of products 
through the co-operatives to give 
them bargaining power in influenc- 
ing prices. 

W. H. Coultas reported that soy- 
beans was one of the few farm 
commodities, if not the only one, 
that registered a price increase dur- 
ing 1932. This was due in no small 
measure to the volume of beans 
controlled by the Soybean Market- 
ing Association he said, and to the 
Association’s efforts in seeking and 
finding export outlets, also in 
stimulating new uses for soybean 
products. 

F. A. Gougler, director of produce 


SAM SORRELLS 


marketing, reported that more than 
4,000,000 pounds of butterfat had 
been marketed during 1932 by co- 
operative produce associations. He 
told the delegates that develop- 
ments in the industry had rendered 
necessary the establishment of co- 
operative creameries because of un- 
satisfactory outlets for cream, also 
because of the immense quantities 
of surplus milk accumulated on the 
principal fluid markets. 


Much Surplus Milk 


J. B. Countiss, director of dairy 
marketing, emphasized particularly 
the immense quantities of surplus 
milk which are being produced and 
urged that both cream producers 
and whole milk producers alike sup- 
port the program as outlined by Mr. 
Gougler. He described the co-op- 
erative dairy marketing organiza- 
tions in Illinois which are now serv- 
ing practically every principal mar- 
ket. 

H. W. Day, director of fruit and 
vegetable marketing, stated that 
the extensive use of the truck is a 
complicating factor in the market- 
ing of fruits and vegetables. He 
stated that this situation could be 
corrected_by the centralized sale of 
fruits and vegetables through the 
Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange and 
cited the accomplishments of that 
organization in marketing apples 
from western Illinois during the 
past season. 


Harrison Fahrnkopf traced the 
growth of the Illinois Grain Cor- 
poration to its present membership 
of 112 elevators throughout the 
state. C. P. Cummings, manager, 
told the delegates that [Illinois 
Grain Corp. had handled 9,463 cars 
of grain during the past year or 
14,500,000 bushels, and had a pres- 
ent surplus of approximately $30,- 
000. 


Livestock Biggest Crop 


Ray E. Miller, director of live- 
stock marketing, stated that chang- 
ing marketing conditions, partic- 
ularly the use of the truck in trans- 
portation and the increase in the 
direct movement of livestock to 
packers has resulted in the decline 
of shipping associations. 


To meet this situation the de- 
partment organized the [Illinois 
Livestock Marketing Association 
with 8 district co-operative assem- 
bling points and carried on educa- 
tional work in 86 counties. Dur- 
ing the 12 months’ period ending 
September 30, 1931 Illinois farmers 
marketed through member agencies 
of the National Livestock Market- 
ing Association a total of 23,463 cars 
of livestock. For the corresponding 
period in 1932 they marketed 23,762 
cars, although during the same pe- 
riod terminal market receipts of 
hogs on the Chicago market de- 
clined 17 per cent. 


O'Neal Lauds Work of 


Organized Illinois Farmers 


A. F. B. F. President Tells About 
Lobbying at Washington in 
Stirring Address 


F every state had an organization 
like the Illinois Agricultural 

Association we would have little 
trouble in solving our problems, 
President Edw. A. O’Neal, of the 
American Farm Bureau Federation, 
said in a stirring address before the 
annual I. A. A. banquet in Peoria’s 
mammoth armory on Jan. 26. 

“The I. A. A. is-the most influ- 
ential state organization repre- 
sented at Washington. Your state 
is carrying-more than its share of 
the burden of fighting for the Amer- 
ican farmer and you should feel 
proud of the contribution you are 
making for agricultural welfare in 
America,” he said. 

O’Neal gave an intimate descrip- 
tion of lobbying at Washington for 
the domestic allotment bill and 
other farm measures. He predicted 
the passage of an honest dollar 
measure either in the present ses- 
sion or in a special session of Con- 
gress. . 

Roosevelt With Us 

He expressed the assurance that 
President-elect Roosevelt will co- 
operate with organized farmers of 
the nation in working out a new 
policy for agriculture. Mr. O’Neal 
told of a conference he had had 
only a week before with the Presi- 
dent-elect in which he secured a 
definite promise that everything he 
said in his Topeka address in regard 
to farm mortgages and surplus con- 
trol, he still supports. He further 
confirmed this, said O’Neal, by ask- 
ing help from Senator McNary, 
chairman of the Senate Committee 
on Agriculture, in passing the sur- 
plus control bill so that it could be 
expedited into law before March 4. 

O’Neal stated that while farmers 
have been successful in securing at- 
tention in Washington other groups 


are spending from six to 50 times as 


much annually at the national 
capitol as is the American Farm 
Bureau. It is nothing unusual, he 
said, for industrial and business 
groups to spend more in one week 
sending men into Washington than 
we spend in a whole year. 


The outspoken A. F. B. F. presi- 
dent expressed the belief that on 
farm legislation it is doubtful if the 
Congress could function without 
the leadership of the united farm 
organizations. The farm organiza- 
tions have succeeded in crystalliz- 
ing support behind a definite pro- 
gram and overcoming to some ex- 
tent the lack of unity among the 
members of the Congress, O’Neal 
said. 

(Continued on page 26) 


moO § §F tt =m oe ODO KY 1 


February, 1933 


Farm Supply Conference 
Peoria Well Attended 


Hear of Tremendous Growth of 
Company In Recent Years, 
Big Gain In Future Orders 


TMOST confidence that 1933 . 


will surpass even the remark- 
able record made in 1932 was ex- 
pressed at the various conferences 
of officials of Illinois Farm Supply 
Company and 
officers of affil- 
iated county 
companies held 
in connection 
with the annual 
meeting of the 
I. A. A. at Peoria. 
Approximate 1 y 
350 attended the 
session. 

L. R. Mar- 
chant, manager 
of the Company, 
announced at 
the “Victory 
Breakfast” on January 27 that the 
Company now has on order 579,805 
gallons of lubricating oil for 1933 
delivery as compared with approxi- 
mately 350,000 gallons which were 
on order at the same time a year 
ago. Sales for 1933 in all depart- 
ments will exceed 1932, C. W. Ward, 
superintendent of sales, predicted, 
for a number of reasons. First the 
operations of the Company have in- 
creased enormously in scope, due to 
the extension of existing county 
supply service and to the formation 
of new companies; also to the fact 
that the managers and salesmen 
are better informed regarding their 
product, while the field offers 
plenty of room for expansion. 


22 Exceed Quotas 


Twenty-two company managers, 
who made or exceeded their quotas 
for 1933 delivery were guests at the 
breakfast. 

At the conference held at the 
Board of Education Building on 
Jan. 25 at which F. E. Herndon, 
president of the Company, presided, 
special emphasis was laid on the 
scope of Company operations, and 
the importance of the supply busi- 
ness to the Farm Bureaus of the 
state. The annual report of the 
Company was reviewed and it was 
revealed that last year approxi- 
mately 75,000 Illinois farmers were 
customers of the county service 
companies. Mr. Marchant pointed 
out that the organized buying 
power of €0,000 members of Illinois 
Farm Bureaus, plus the economies 
of group distribution effected 
through the county service com- 
panies, has resulted in a distribu- 
tion of patronage dividends to 
member - customers amounting to 
more than half a million dollars 


L, R, MARCHANT 


THE L.A. A. RECORD 


Page Twenty-three 


Standing room only at the meeting of Service Company managers spon- 
sored by Illinois Farm Supply Company, Peoria, Jan. 25. 


annually. At this meeting also there 
was a general discussion of business 
methods, methods of improving 
service to the customer, and one 
of the interesting features was a 
chart showing that fifteen cents of 
the farmer’s dollar spent with the 
county supply companies was re- 
turned to member-patrons in the 
form of patronage dividends. 

There was much interest in the 
contest among the companies to sell 
their various quotas of lubricating 
oil for futur delivery. This contest 
was won by Carroll county with a 
sale of 159.5% of its quota. It was 
notable that the twelve high com- 
panies among the 52 competing 
averaged 135.75% of the quotas as- 
signed to them. F. E. Bender, of 
Tazewell County, stood first in the 
contest among the salesmen, with a 
total of more than 6,400 gallons of 
oil to his credit. 


Hear Report Year's Work 
at Farmers' Mutual Meet. 


Nearly $11,000,000 fire and light- 
ning insurance on farm buildings 
and crops was written in 1932 by 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Com- 
pany, it was reported at the annual 
meeting of the Company held at 
Peoria January 25. Geo. F. Tullock 
of Rockford, president of the Com- 
pany, presided. About 300 were 
present. 


This impressive amount of fire 
and lightning insurance was aug- 
mented by the following totals writ- 
ten by the various departments of 
the Company: 

Windstorm, cyclone and tornado, 
about $6,000,000, farm crop hail in- 
surance approximately $947,000 and 
hail on buildings about $615,000. 

At the annual election the fol- 
lowing were chosen as directors: 
Norman Flagg, Moro; G. F. Hayes, 
Aledo and J.. M. Beckett, Blue 
Mound, the latter being a new ad- 
dition to the board. 


Prospects for the coming year 
were favorable, the various speakers 
asserted, particularly in the line of 
fire prevention where the com- 
pany’s efforts since its inception 
have been unceasing and which J. 
H. Kelker, manager, declared are 
bearing more and more fruit, with 
satisfactory results in cutting down 
claims and keeping insurance costs 
at a minimum. 


Grain and Livestock 
Conventions In Febr. 


The annual meeting of the Illi- 
nois Livestock Marketing Associa- 
tion at Bloomington on Feb. 14, and 
the annual meeting of Illinois Grain 
Corp. at Peoria on Feb. 22 head the 
list of activities of organized Illi- 
nois farmers for this month. 

Addresses by Earl C. Smith and 
Chas. E. Ewing will feature the 
meeting of livestock growers at the 
McLean county seat. Mr. Smith will 
discuss “The Essentials of a Suc- 
cessful Marketing Program,” and 
Mr. Ewing will talk on the subject, 
“A Year with the National Live- 
stock Marketing Association.” The 
meeting will be held in the Farm 
Bureau building. 

In addition there will be reports 
from Ray E. Miller and R. W: 
Grieser on the first year’s business, 
and operation of the state sales of- 
fice. Geo. F. Tullock will deliver 
the treasurer’s report. 

The annual meeting of Illinois 
Grain Corp. scheduled for Washing- 
ton’s birthday will be held in the 
Jefferson Hotel, Peoria. C. E. Huff, 
president, Farmers National Grain 
Corp. will address the gathering. 
a speakers will be announced 

ater. 


Truck competition is costing the 
railroads at least $275,000,000 a year, 
according to an estimate of the 
U. S. Department of Commerce. 


Page Twenty-four 


|. A. A. Business Service 
Real Aid To Members 


Speakers Tell About Achieve- 
ments and Outline Plans For 
Greater Growth in ’33 


NE of the best methods of es- 

tablishing and maintaining 
confidence of membership is to au- 
dit books and accounts periodically, 
Fred E. Ringham, manager of the 
Illinois Agricultural Auditing Asso- 
ciation, said in the business serv- 
ice conference at the recent an- 
nual meeting in Peoria. Approxi- 
mately 240 attended. Geo. F. Tul- 
lock acted as chairman. 

The audit 
serves to offset 
Suspicion and 
counteracts 
whispering cam- 
paigns that may 
exist, he _ said. 
Careful audits 
enable the board 
of. directors to 
plan effectively 
in overcoming 
their difficulties 
and in restoring 
their business to 
a profitable 
basis. The Auditing Association, he 
said, completed 366 audits for its 
member companies during 1932. 

L. R. Marchant pointed out that 
the 52 companies associated with 
the Illinois Farm Supply Company 
did a business last year in excess of 
$5,000,000 which places the organ- 
ization in a prominent position 
among the leading co-operative 
purchasing organizations in the 
United States. 


Efficiency The Key 


Marchant reported the results of 
a comparative study of local com- 
pany operations which clearly in- 
dicated that the benefits to be 
derived in purchasing organiza- 
tions depends largely upon the effi- 
ciency of the company handling the 
business. It was generally agreed 
that the State Supply Company and 
associated companies are rendering 
an excellent service to farmers over 
the state and that the Farm Bureau 
differential maintained was highly 
commendable. 


It was stated that the limestone 
contract now in force between the 
Farm Bureaus and certain com- 
panies maintains the principle of 
the cash dividend to purchaser and 
the differential to Farm Bureau 
members. It also provides a small 
fee to be paid by the limestone 
company to County Farm Bureaus 
to partially offset the money out- 
lay for soil testing service and 
equipment. 

J. H. Kelker, manager Farmers 
Mutual Reinsurance Company, 


G, F, TULLOCK 


THE ILA. A. RECORD 


stated that the outstanding problem 
in the fire and lightning insurance 
field is determining the insurable 
value of buildings. Three points 
must be taken into consideration: 
(1) Actual value, that is, cost less 
depreciation; (2) Use value of 
building; (3) Moral hazard. 


Interest More Members 


Plans for a concerted effort in 
1933 to interest every member in 
the casualty insurance program of 
the Association were outlined by A. 
E. Richardson, manager of the Illi- 
nois Agricultural Mutual Insurance 
Company. He further suggested that 
special attention and study be given 
to encouraging increased Farm Bu- 
reau membership by enlightening 
non-members about the benefits 
they can secure through affiliation 
with the organization. 


L. A. Williams pointed out the 
need for interesting more County 
Farm Bureaus to become active in 
the life insurance program because 
of the opportunity to provide a 
beneficial money-saving service to 
members and for the 10 percent 
overwriting income received. Mr. 
Williams stated that Country Life 
and its.agency system will return 
$146,000 in 1933 to policyholders as 
dividends and refunds. 

V. Vaniman, director of insurance 
service, stated that the present 
agency system is working out satis- 
factorily and that 100 per cent co- 
operation between the county 
agency, general agent, special 
agents, and the company is the 
ideal to be obtained. 


Butterfat Producers Set 
Five Year Marketing Goal 


Change Name To Illinois Pro- 
ducers Creameries, Reor- 
ganize For New Year 


6 Bos year 1930 is going to mark 
the beginning of a new plan for 
marketing our dairy products. Our 
producers are going to undertake to 
process the butterfat produced on 
their farm through their own 
plants. Frank Gougler, manager of 
the Illinois Produce Marketing Asso- 
cation, stated the annual meeting 
was attended by more than 300, in 
Peoria, Jan. 25. 

“Shall we not say that by 1937 we 
will make 35,000,000 pounds of but- 
ter co-operatively in farmer-owned 
and farmer-controlled plants,” he 
continued. “Indiana started operat- 
ing co-operative creameries five 
years ago and now they are making 
nearly 15,000,000 pounds of butter 
annually in these plants. We can 
surpass that record in the next five 


February, 1933 


years. Are you ready to assist in 
putting it over?” 
Opportunities Ahead 

Gougler pointed out that the op- 
portunities are attractive to cream 
producers in the co-operative field. 
First, the present method of assem- 
bling butterfat can be greatly im- 
proved, he said. The station method 
whereby approximately 2,000 sta- 
tions in Illinois assemble cream, is 
wasteful and uneconomic. Most 
towns have from four to eight cream 
buyers. The volume handled by 
each station in a given town, for 
example, averaged only 15,625 
pounds for the year. 

“In establishing our own co-op- 
erative creameries we propose to 
replace the station idea with the 
trucking system. Cream will be 
trucked direct from farm to plant.” 
Gougler expressed the belief that 
higher quality butter eventually 
would be made in_ co-operative 
plants because farmers would have 
a money incentive for delivering 
high grade cream. He emphasized 
the necessity of delivering a large 
volume of cream to each plant so as 
to reduce the cost of processing. 

Figures were presented showing 
that plants manufacturing 100,000 
pounds of butter or less did so at 
a cost of 3.5 cents per pound, 
whereas plants manufacturing 500,- 
000 pounds or more reduced the cost 
to 2.4 cents per pound. 

C. R. George, ‘manager of the 
Producers Creamery, Marion, Indi- 
ana, gave an interesting talk in 
which he reviewed the progress 
made by organized farmers in that 
section of Indiana in manufactur- 
ing and selling their cream co-op- 
eratively. 


Elect Directors 


At the organization meeting 
which followed the reports and 
speaking program the following di- 
rectors were elected: Wm. Krause, 
Lincoln; Ryland Capron, Peoria; 
Elery Leefers, Carlinville; Tom 
Jackson, Timewell; A. B. Schofield, 
Paxton; Herb Klowan, Rock Island; 
Harold Enns, Bloomington; Burton 
Leamon, Olney; and Talmage De- 
Frees, Smithboro. 

The delegates and members voted 
unanimously to change the name of 
the organization to “Illinois Pro- 
ducers Creameries.” The indivi- 
dual units will be known as ————— 
Producers’ Creamery, each organ- 
ization to carry the name of the 
town or city in which the creamery 
is located. 

At the directors’ organization 
meeting Wm. Krause was elected 
president, Ryland Capron, vice- 
president, and Elery Leefers, secre- 
tary-treasurer. Frank Gougler was 
re-elected manager. 

The directors adopted a budget 
for 1933 and voted to employ the 
Illinois Agricultural Service Com- 
pany as corporate manager. 


933 


February, 1933 


Legislative Policies Up At 
Public Relations Conf. 


Tax Measures, Tax Reduction, 
Utility Rates and Service Con- 
sidered in Large Meeting 


HE STATE sales tax, the effect 

of the Supreme Court decision 
on the income tax, exemption of 
uncultivated farm lands from tax- 
ation, tax reduction, and proposals 
for consolidating taxing districts 
featured the discussion before the 
public relations conference at the 
I. A. A. convention, Peoria, Jan. 26. 
Chas. S. Black of 
Jackson ville, 
chairman of the 
advisory com- 
mittee on public 
relations, pre- 
Sided before a 
large audience. 

Mr. Smith 
pointed out ob- 
jections from 
the farmer’s 
standpoint to 
the sales tax 
measure pend- 
ing in the legis- 
lature. He stated that the bill, to 
protect farm interests, should be so 
amended as to provide that the 
proceeds be used primarily to levy 
taxes upon property and that in 
the present emergency it be made 
possible for any county board by a 
two-thirds vote to use any portion 
of its share of such taxes for un- 
employment relief in 1933 or 1934. 

Commenting upon misrepresenta- 
tion of the I. A. A.’s position on the 
state sales tax appearing in a cer- 
tain Chicago newspaper, Mr. Smith 
cited this as an example of careless 
if not deliberate misrepresentation 
of truth. Some curb should be 
placed on publications knowingly 
misrepresenting and misleading the 
public through false assertions, he 
stated. 

Both Mr. Smith and John C. Wat- 
son, director of taxation, discussed 
the necessity of reducing the cost 
of state, county, and local govern- 
ments. Watson pointed out that the 
proposed exemption of fallow land 
from taxation in Illinois is pre- 
vented in the constitution. He also 
discussed briefly the proposed 
limitation of the proposed tax rate 
of $1 or $1.50 per $100 valuation and 
the obstacles to overcome in ac- 
complishing this worthy end. 

It was stated that the Associa- 
tion expects to introduce a bill in 
the legislature providing a way by 
which farm land can be withdrawn 
from within the corporate limits of 
villages; also that the I. A. A. will 
ask for legislation to provide a later 
date for certifying school taxes. It 
is also proposed to introduce in the 
General Assembly a bill to place in- 


Aan 


CHAS, 8, BLACK 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


Page Twenty-five 


come on the property tax roll in 
accordance with the State Supreme 
Court decision holding that income 
is property. A proposed bill to tax 
oleomargarine containing foreign 
fats and oils also was considered. 

L. J. Quasey pointed out that the 
time is here to demand lower rates 
for power, light, and telephone serv- 
ice based on downward revaluations 
of public utility properties. 


Lower Valuations Now 


The utility companies, he stated, 
heretofore have insisted that valu- 
ations shall be based on cost of re- 
production. As a result, during the 
high cost period valuations were 
boosted and rates along with them. 
Now that we have much lower labor 
and material costs, it is only fair 
that valuations and rates shall be 
reduced commensurately. 

Members were urged not to sign 
agreements for granting rights-of- 
way to pipe line and high tension 
electric corporations unless they 
thoroughly understand the _ con- 
tracts which they -were asked to 
sign. 

Quasey expressed the belief that 
the Illinois Waterway development 
not only affords an outlet for grain 
from the Mississippi Valley, but al- 
so promises to influence reductions 
in grain rates by rail. 

The conference favored reduc- 
tions in utility rates and particu- 
larly costs of rural electric lines. It 
recommended group action on pub- 
lic utility problems. 


Col. Ayres Sees Danger 
In Price Level Inflation 


“The problem of trying to fore- 
cast the business developments of 
1933 is one that involves in large 
measure the attempt to guess or es- 
timate the degree to which the poli- 
cies of the new administration at 
Washington will be formulated with 
wisdom and its actions guided by 
Sagacity,” said Col. Leonard P. 
Ayres of Cleveland, nationally 
recognized economist, in a recent 
statement. “It is quite literally a 
problem of political economy rather 
than one of business economics.” 

He stressed probabilities of lower 
industrial wage rates, a lower cost 
of living, a greater number of com- 
mercial failures, less dividend pay- 
ments, and lower interest rates. 

There are two alternatives ahead, 
he said: inflation or adjustments 
“necessary for a resumption of nor- 
mal business at lower prices. It is 
prudent to expect,” he said, “that 
the long, hard grind of sound money 
will be chosen.” 

He believes that if a course of 
attempting to lift price levels by in- 
flation should be chosen, the at- 
tempt would in all probability fail 
and the subsequent events prove 
disastrous. 


Black and Skinner Head 
Baseball League in ‘33 


Chas. S. Black, Jacksonville, was 
re-elected president and A. N. Skin- 
ner, Yates City, vice-president at 
the annual meeting of the Illinois 
Farm Bureau Baseball League in 
Peoria, Jan. 25. 


The principal 
action taken was 
to amend the 
eligibility clause 
of the by-laws. 
Hereafter any 
Farm Bureau 
member or de- 
pendent mem- 
ber of his fam- 
ily, in good 
standing, shall 
be entitled to 
play in the 
League. Mem- 
bers who are in 
arrears more than six months will 
automatically be disqualified. 


The new rule is largely an ex- 
periment to simplify the eligibility 
requirements and make it possible 
for young men closely associated in 
Farm Bureau work even though 
they are not actually living on the 
farm and working there full time, 
to’ play Farm . Bureau baseball. 
Counties having teams were advised 
that it is up to them to keep the 
sport strictly on an amateur basis 
as a recreational activity for farm 
boys. : 


Roettger Speaks 


Walter Roettger of Bloomington, 
outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds, 
gave a highly interesting talk in 
which he related his experiences in 
the big leagues, and told what is 
necessary for good team play. 

“Team morale means hanging on 
when you’re behind,” he said. “A 
winning team must have good 
players but team spirit is highly 
important.” He called the Car- 
dinals team of 1931 the greatest he 
ever played with. “This team never 
quit trying,” he said. “It was the 
Cardinals spirit that beat the Ath- 
letics that year.” 


Secretary George Thiem reported 
that the 32 teams competing last 
year played 120 official games ac- 
cording to reports received at 
League headquarters; that every 
team appeared for regularly sched- 
uled games except where satisfac- 
tory postponement arrangements 
were made. 


He urged that teams select com- 
petent umpires and then abide by 
their decisions. He stated that the 
State Arbitration Committee would 
refuse to review questions of fact 
regarding plays, and that if pro- 
tests were made, they must be an- 
nounced during the course of the 
game. 


Page Twenty-six 


|. A. A. Sponsors Sales 


Tax Amendments 


EGISLATIVE representatives of 

the Illinois Agricultural As- 
sociation were in Springfield on 
Tuesday and Wednesday, January 
31st and February 1st watching 
measures pending before the Gen- 
eral Assembly. They secured intro- 
duction, in the Senate, of amend- 
ments to the sales tax bill to pro- 
vide as follows: 


1.—Exemption from the sales tax 
of all food for human consumption. 
2.—To make the sales tax pri- 
marily a replacement tax for edu- 
cational purposes in the elementary 


schools instead of being primarily : 


an unemployment relief tax. 


3.—To remove from the State 
Emergency Relief Commission the 
power to decide for what purpose 
any county’s share of the sales tax 
fund is to be expended. 


4—-To permit diversion of the 
sales tax fund from educational 
purposes to unemployment relief 
purposes in any county only when 
the county board by two-thirds vote 
adopts a resolution requesting such 
diversion and files the same with 
the State Department of Finance. 

5.—To distribute the sales tax fund 
not on the basis of collection, but 

(a)—on the basis of assessed 
valuations of property as between 
Cook county and the other counties 
of the State. 


(b) —On the basis of average ex- 
penditures for educational purposes 
in the elementary schools in all 
downstate counties. 


These and other amendments of- 
fered to the sales tax bill were to 
be considered by the Senate Tues- 
day, February 7th. 


O'Neal 


(Continued from page 22) 


He paid tribute to the leadership 
furnished by Illinois for the farm- 
er’s cause, mentioning Sam Thomp- 
son, Earl Smith, Geo. Peek, and 
Clifford Gregory. He gave much 
credit to Mr. Smith for his good 
work in securing a more favorable 
provision for hog producers in the 
domestic allotment bill. 


“Weaker states in the Farm Bu- 
reau family are counting on Illinois 
to carry on as you have so ably done 
in the past,” he said. “You mem- 
bers and leaders of the Illinois Ag- 
ricultural Association have an- 
swered the call for leadership. You 
have fought a great fight in your 
state. You have shown great cour- 
age. Faith and courage and great 
leadership will give us a new day 
for agriculture.” 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


NOTICE 


ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 
ASSOCIATION 
ELECTION OF DELEGATES 


Notice is hereby given that in 
connection with the annual meet- 
ings of all county Farm Bureaus 
to be held during the months of 
February and March, 1933, at the 
hour and place to be determined 
by the Board of Directors of each 
respective county Farm Bureau, 
the members in good standing 
of such county Farm Bureau and 
who are also qualified voting 
members of Illinois Agricultural 
Association shall elect a dele- 
gate or delegates to represent 
such members of Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association and vote on 
all matters before the next an- 
nual meetin 


and directors as. provided for in 
the by-laws of the Association. 

During February an annual 
meeting will be held in Will 
county. 

During March annual meetings 
will be held in Kankakee, Mc- 
Donough, and Boone counties. 


Signed, 
G. E. Metzger, Secretary 
Feb. 1, 1933 


Farmers’ Institute, Joliet 


“Raising the Farmers’ Price 
Level,” will be the subject of an ad- 
dress by President Earl Smith on 
Thursday morning Feb. 23 at the 
annual Illinois Farmers Institute, 
Joliet. Henry Wallace, C. V. Greg- 
ory, Dr. C. L. Holmes and others 
will address the three-day session 
beginning Feb. 22. 


Smith To Washington 
On Legislative Work 


President Earl C. Smith left Chi- 
cago for Washington on Feb. 1 to 
work for the early passage of legis- 
lation to raise farm prices and re- 
lieve the farm debt situation. 

John C. Watson, Donald Kirk- 
patrick, Robt. A. Cowles, and Chas. 
Black, chairman of the Public Re- 
lations advisory committee are 
representing the Association alter- 
nately at Springfield to protect the 
interests of Illinois farmers in leg- 
islation pending before the General 
Assembly. 


Mrs. Meis Doing Well 


Mrs. Henry J. Meis, president of 
the Illinois Home Bureau Federa- 
tion, who was seriously injured in 
an automobile accident at a rail- 
road crossing near Jacksonville in 
Morgan county, is making satis- 
factory progress toward recovery at 
her home in Pontiac. One leg was 
broken in several places and two 
ribs were fractured, in addition to 
other injuries. 

Mr. Meis was fatally injured in 
the same accident. He passed away 
in the local hospital at Jacksonville. 

Mrs. Meis was out on a speaking 
tour addressing Farm and Home 
Bureau annual meetings when the 
accident occurred. 


February, 1933 


Quality Milk Ass'n. 
Seeks New Agreement 


As we go to press, efforts are be- 
ing made by directors of the Quality 
Milk Association at Rock Island, 
Moline, E. Moline, and Davenport 
to work out a new agreement with 
milk distributors at the quad cities. 
The contract entered into last fall 
expired Feb. 1 when several dealers 
served notice that they would buy 
their requirements from unorgan- 
ized farmers. 

Possibilities of a milk price war 
loomed between dealers who dis- 
agree over co-operating with the 
Association. The fact that Quality 
Milk has members both in Iowa and 
Illinois is complicating matters. 
Davenport dealers are attempting 
to divide the Association and re- 
move I. A. A.-Farm Bureau in- 
fluence, thinking that by so doing 
they can have .a freeer hand in 
dictating the basis of dealer-farm- 
er co-operation, if any. 

In the meantime, members of the 
Association have a market through 
their plant in Davenport which is 
manufacturing 93 score sweet cream 
butter commanding a premium 
price. 


New Farm Bloc In ¥ 
Congress Announced 


Formation of a farm bloc in Con- 
gress composed of approximately 
150 members representing all 
parties and determined to secure 
legislation at the present session 
for the relief of agriculture and the 
entire nation was announced by the 
A. F. B. F. 


Four such committees were ap- 
pointed, according to the announce- 
ment as follows: Farm Mortgage 
Foreclosures—Congressman John N. 
Sandlin, Louisiana; Farm Relief— 
Congressman Wm. W. Arnold, IIli- 
nois; Currency Reform—Congress- 
man Jeff Busby, Mississippi; City 
Co-operation—Congressman James 
M. Mead, Buffalo, N. Y. 

Edward A. O’Neal, president, 
American Farm Bureau Federation, 
was invited by the first three of 
these sub-committees to sit in and 
counsel with them in behalf of or- 
ganized agriculture. The sub-com- 
mittees are meeting and working 
with all possible haste to whip leg- 
islation into concrete form and 
drive it through Congress regardless 
of whether either major political 
party formulates a legislative pro- 
gram. 


The committees contemplate leg- 
islation to lower the price of the 
dollar, stop wherever possible farm 
mortgage foreclosures, and bring 
about equality for agriculture and 
labor. 


RECORD 


Published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Association at 165 So. Main Street, Spencer, Ind, Editorial Offices, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chieago, 111. 
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Number 3 


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MARCH, 1933 


Address all communications for publication to Editorial. Offices, Illinois Agricultural Association Record, 608 


Volume 11 


Sales Tax, Mortgage Legislation 
Before ‘General Assembly 


|. A. A. Legislative Committee at Springfield to Protect Illinois Farm Interests 


MPORTANT progress which 
promises to mean much to the 

taxpaying farm and home owner 
in Illinois was made recently when 
through the efforts of the Illinois 
Agricultural Association, and its 
friends in the state senate, the 
three per cent sales tax bill was 
amended, first to provide for the 
distribution of revenue therefrom 
between Cook county and down- 
state on the basis of population; 
and secondly, paving the way to 
make it a replacement tax rather 
than an additional tax. 

The latter feature which is. of 
tremendous importance to property 
owners will reduce taxes now levied 
on property for elementary edu- 
cational purposes when further 
amendments to protect the replace- 
ment feature are finally adopted. 
With the inclusion of these new 
amendments the I. A. A. is favor- 
ably disposed toward the passage of 
this measure because of the oppor- 
tunity afforded for taking part of 
the burden of government from 
property and bringing many who 
now escape into the taxpaying fold. 


Before The House 


As we go to press, the sales tax 
measure which passed the senate 
has been reported out of the Judi- 
ciary Committee in the House. The 
I. A. A. public relations committee 
presented a plan in the form of 
amendments mentioned above to 
make sure that property will be re- 
lieved of taxes as funds are de- 
rived from the sales tax. 

“We estimate that taxes now 
levied on property for the educa- 
tional fund of the elementary 
schools will be reduced at least 60 
per cent if and when the three per 
cent sales tax carrying our amend- 
ments becomes operative,” said 
President Earl C. Smith. “This esti- 
mate is based on expected returns 
from the three per cent revenue 


measure which passed the senate, 
when placed in operation. 

“While we shall support the sales 
tax measure when properly 
amended in the Hous. because it 
promises to be a step toward re- 
moving part of the cost of govern- 
ment from farm property, we are 
also actively working for every rea- 
sonable economy in government. 
Now that we have succeeded in 
providing for a fair distribution of 
revenue from the sales tax between 
counties, our next purpose is to 
work out the replacement feature 
of the bill and secure a fair dis- 
tribution of the returns between 
districts within counties.” 


Redistribute Gas Tax 


To this end amendments have 
been presented to sharply reduce 
the maximum levy for elementary 
educational purposes unless the 
voters of a given district by refer- 
endum permit a higher levy. The 
purpose of this is to prevent dis- 
tricts from securing more funds 
than they had before which in- 
variably leads to waste and ex- 
travagance to the detriment of the 
taxpayer. 

Another question of outstanding 
importance to farm taxpayers to 
which the I. A. A. is giving active 
attention is a redistribution of the 
three cent state gas tax. Based on 
careful estimates, it seems likely 
that receipts from automobile and 
truck license fees will provide suf- 
ficient revenue to pay off interest 
and amortized principal payments 
on both the $60,000,000 and $100,- 
000,000 state hard road bond issues 
and also maintain and police the 
state paved roads. 

The state gas tax provides 25 
million dollars or more annually. 
Annual levies against property for 
roads and streets throughout the 
state approach this figure. Thus the 
opportunity presents itself for 


equitably apportioning gas tax 
money among the county and town- 
ship road districts of the state so 
as to replace road levies against 
property. 


Farm Mortgage Bill 


The I. A. A. legislative committee 
is giving careful study to various 
proposals with the idea of support- 
ing legislation fair to rural districts, 
and providing for careful adminis- 
tration of gas tax funds so that 
property taxpayers will secure fur- 
ther tax relief and the people gain 
maximum mileage of needed roads 
from such expenditures. 

Another problem on which the 
I. A. A. has been working for many 
weeks, both at Washington and 
Springfield, is to secure relief for 
the worthy farm debtor without 
doing anything to hamstring future 
credit for agriculture. 

At this writing a bill has been 
prepared addressing itself to the 
farm mortgage question. It provides 
that in worthy cases now pending 
in the courts, or hereafter com- 
menced, the court upon application 
of the mortgagor who is defendent 
in such proceeding and who is not 
in default in pleading, shall after 
a hearing in which good cause 
therefor is shown, and unless good 
cause is shown to the contrary, by 
order continue such proceeding un- 
til July 1, 1935. The court, however, 
has the right for just cause to set 
aside such order. 

In all proceedings now pending 
in which the debtor is in default 
in pleading but in which no judg- 
ment or decree has been entered, 
the court shall take no further ac- 
tion therein for 15 days after the 
Act becomes effective so as to allow 
mortgagors to apply for the ex- 
tension. After a hearing and un- 
less good cause is shown to the 
contrary, the court shall by order 

(Continued on page 4, Col. 3) 


Page Four 


Take Further Steps In 
Alcohol Dilution Plan 


Chester Davis Retained By Com- 
mittee of Farm Organiza- 
tion Leaders To As- 
semble Facts 


i URTEER steps toward co-or- 
dinating all facts and informa- 
tion and promoting early consider- 
ation by congress of the alcohol- 
gasoline dilution plan were taken 
recently when Chester C. Davis, 
former grain marketing director of 
the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion, was re- 
tained  tem- 
porarily by the 
committee of 
farm leaders re- 
cently set up to 
investigate and 
promote the 
plan. 

Mr. Davis who 
during recent 
years has been 
associated with 
Maizewood Prod- 
ucts Company 

which manufactures building board 
from cornstalks in their Dubuque 


CHESTER DAVIS 


plant, is well known to Illinois farm 


people. The Maizewood plant has 


‘been closed temporarily because of 


business stagnation in the building 


field. For many years Mr. Davis 


was associated with Geo. N. Peek 
of Moline at Washington in efforts 
to secure enactment of surplus con- 
trol legislation. He will delve into 
the pile of information already as- 
sembled and seek further facts 
bearing on the feasibility of the 
plan. 

The Illinois Farm Supply Com- 
pany is considering a road test, in 
a limited territory, of gasoline 
diluted with 10 per cent ethyl alco- 
hol. Permission must. first be se- 
cured from the Federal Prohibition 
Department which supervises the 
distribution and use of industrial 
alcohol. For diluting purposes only 
anhydrous alcohol can be_ used, 
containing less than one-half of 
one per cent water, and dilution 
may be made only under the super- 
vision of a federal officer. At this 
writing an early conference has 
been scheduled to secure permis- 
sion and arrange details of the pro- 
posed test. 

Gasoline diluted with 10 per cent 
alcohol will sell for a premium of 
three cents per gallon above the 
ordinary price of gasoline. Even at 
this price all profit will be stripped 
from the handling of the alcohol. 

The Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion hopes to sponsor legislation 
containing the alcohol dilution plan 
as offering a new outlet for the dis- 
posal of surplus grain. The plan is 
in no sense an emergency measure 
since several years will be required 


THE LA.A. RECORD 


Henry A. Wallace New 
Secretary of Agriculture 


TS appointment of Henry A. 
Wallace,’of Iowa, editor of Wal- 
lace’s Farmer, as the new Secretary 
of Agriculture assures American 


agriculture of an outstanding 


champion in President Roosevelt’s 
cabinet. Mr. Wallace, age 44, will 
be the youngest Secretary of Agri- 
culture appointed since the posi- 
tion was created. He follows in the 


‘footsteps of his father, Henry C. 


Wallace who was Secretary of Ag- 
riculture in the cabinets of both 
Presidents Harding and Coolidge. 

Mr. Wallace long has been recog- 
nized as an outstanding writer and 
thinker on farm economic and 
social questions. He and his father 
both have vigorously opposed gov- 
ernment policies tending to pro- 
mote industrial development at the 
expense of agriculture. This atti- 
tude on the part of Henry C. Wal- 
lace brought him into sharp con- 
flict with Herbert Hoover when both 
were in President Harding’s cabi- 
net. 

The selection of Henry Wallace 
will meet with general satisfaction 
among farmers throughout the 
country because of his unquestioned 
devotion to the best interests of 
agriculture. 


to erect plants for making alcohol 
from grain. 

In the meantime the I. A. A. and 
Farm Bureau will continue their 
support of surplus control legisla- 
tion of an emergency nature con- 
sideration of which is expected in 
the proposed special session of con- 
gress to meet soon after March 4. 


Wm. E. Reigel, Tolono, manager 
of the Meharry Farms, was recently 
elected president of the Mlinois 
Farm Managers Association. E. D. 
Lawrence, Bloomington, was elected 
vice-president; and Carl Olson, Sib- 
ley, secretary-treasurer. 


March, 1933 


Sales Tax, Mortgage Legislation 
Before General Assembly 
(Continued from page 3) 
continue such proceedings until 
July 1, 1935, although reserving the 

right to set it aside later. 


Operation of Property 

Under the bill the court is author- 
ized to make provision for the con- 
trol and operation of the property 
so as to give due consideration to 
the mortgagor, shall determine and 
fix a fair rental or consideration to 
be paid by the party in possession, 
and shall make provision for the 
distribution of rents, income, and 
profits from the real estate and for 
care and preservation of the prop- 


erty. 


The bill would further preclude 
obtaining deficiency judgments in 
similar cases where good cause is 
shown and the debtor is worthy of 
consideration. 

The order of the court shall pro- 
vide that taxes, including special 
assessments in the case of real es- 
tate, costs, insurance, maintenance 
and upkeep shall be paid in the 
priority named from the rents, in- 
come, and profits, and any balance 
distributed in such manner as the 
court may direct. 

If the mortgagor violates any 
order of the court, the latter may 
set aside its stay of execution and 
permit a final determination of the 
proceedings or may order the sheriff 
to levy upon and sell the property 
subject to execution. 

The court also is authorized to 
recommend conciliation and may 
enter orders acceptable to the in- 
terested parties not covered in the 
provisions of the Act. The Act if 
passed will expire July 1, 1935 and 
will take effect on passage. 


Changes In Farm Advisers 


FP. A. Fisher, formerly county ad- 
viser in Wabash and Morgan coun- 
ties and more recently director of 
Farm Bureau farm management 
service in northwestern Illinois, was 
recently employed as county ad- 
viser in Macon county. 

L. J. Fultz, formerly farm adviser 
in Johnson county, was employed to 
succeed the late J. E. Whitchurch 
as county adviser in Saline county. 

Reorganization of the Soil and 
Crop Improvement Association in 
Kankakee county as the Kankakee 
County Farm Bureau and employ- 
ment of a farm adviser to succeed 
the late John H. Collier are being 
considered in that county. 


Fred Campbell, formerly assistant 
farm adviser in Knox county, has 
accepted a position as farm man- 
ager in northwestern Illinois for the 
John Hancock Life Insurance Com- 
pany. This company, like many 
others, has large sums of money in- 
vested in farm mortgages. 


.Mareh, 1933 


THE LAA RECORD 


Page Five 


The Farm Bureau at Washington - 


Allotment Plan, Farm Mortgage Legislation, Demand For Lower Freight Rates, 
And Reflation Feature Relief Program 


S this is written, barely a week 
remains of the so-called “lame 
duck” session of congress. This 
session has been almost barren of 
results in raising prices or alleviating 
the farm debt situation, although 
there is a possibility of passing the 
“debt composition” measure spon- 
sored by the Farm Bureau and 
other farm organizations in the 
few remaining days. Enactment 
of the allotment 
plan or other 
price improve- 
ment legislation 
and reflationary 
measures, if any, 
will be left for 
the proposed 
special session 
* which will prob- 
ably be called 
after March 4. 
The measure 
‘originally pro- 
viding for raising prices on wheat, 
cotton, tobacco, and hogs to pre-war 
parity was passed in the House aft- 
er being weakened by the inclusion 
of peanuts, butter and other prod- 
ucts which would have complicated 
its administration. This bill in the 
main, however, embodied the 
principles, including acreage and 
crop reduction, desired by the farm 
organizations. 


E, A. O’NEAL 


Weaken Measure 


The death knell of the measure 
was virtually sounded in the senate 
when the agricultural committee 
removed all acreage reduction and 
surplus control features from the 
bill and took out everything except 
wheat. and cotton which at once 
alienated support of the middle 
west, and in fact all thinking peo- 
ple. 

In the meantime, Senator Smith, 
chairman of the agricultural com- 
mittee, introduced a bill; applying 
to cotton alone, which provides for 
drastic acreage reduction and loans 
to cotton growers to buy cotton fu- 
tures to the extent of their re- 
duced production. The theory of 
this measure is that growers will 
profit when the market rises as a 
result of reduced production. 

This bill which did not have the 
support of the Farm Buréau, was 
hustled through the senate, sent 
over to the house, reported out by 
the house agricultural committee, 
and given a rule for early con- 
sideration. Then, according to re- 
ports, word came from the demo- 
cratic leadership to let the meas- 


ure die since it was purely a sec- 
tional measure and would have 
split the forces now united in sup- 
port of effective price-raising legis- 
lation. 

The Smith bill has hindered the 
progress of the allotment meas- 
ure, which may or may. not come 
to a vote in the senate before 
March 4. 

The American Farm Bureau Fed- 
eration has exerted all possible in- 


‘fluence. to get. early enactment of 


its: debt. relief program embodied 
in senate bill 5515 and amendments 
to. H. R. 14359 sponsored by Senator 
Robinson of Arkansas. 


Debt Situation Grave 


“So grave is the situation with 
respect to foreclosures of farm 
debts that this committee and. this 
congress have a terrible responsibil- 
ity if in the face of such conditions, 
Congress adjourns without having 
done at least something substantial 
to alleviate the situation,” Presi- 
dent Edward A. O’Neal wrote the 
Senate banking and currency com- 
mittee recently. 

“Each day of delay the situation 
becomes progressively worse,” he 
continued. “If something is not done 
soon, I am fearful-of what may 
happen. Already there are ominous 
signs on the horizon. The very des- 
perateness of conditions is driving 
many to resort to desperate meas- 
ures. I have used. my influence to 


restrain fariners from the use of’ 


force and illegal measures, and 
have urged them to exercise re- 
straint, but the continued foreclo- 
sures of farm mortgages are driving 
many to resort to extreme meas- 
ures in a great many localities.” 
“The farm mortgage debt now is 
nearly three times the pre-war 
level, while the farm price level is 
only about one-half the pre-war 
level. The gross farm income has 
shrunk from 16 billion dollars an- 
nually in 1919 to 5 billions an- 
nually in 1932. Farm land values 
are now less than half their 1920 
value. Farm interest rates have 
been reduced but little since 1920. 
All credit agencies have engaged 
in a harsh contraction of credit to 
agriculture. One-tenth of all the 
farmers in the United States have 
lost their farms during the past 5 
years, involving foreclosures total- 
ling approximately one billion dol- 
lars. The estimated total farm debt 
of 12% billion dollars, measured in 
terms of prices of farm commod- 
ities with which this debt must be 


paid, would amount to nearly 30 
billion dollars. 

“Confronted with these deplor- 
able conditions, farm leaders have 
developed an emergency program 
which they believe will bring effec- | 
tive and immediate relief and will 
tide over the situation until perma- 
nent remedial legislation can be 
put into effect.. After months of 
study, the principal farm organiza- 
tions have agreed upon an emer- 
gency program. In the main, it 
is embodied in two bills—S. 5515 
by Senator Robinson of Arkansas, 
now before this committee, and the 
amendments of Senator Robinson 
to H. R. 14359 now before the Sen- 
ate Judiciary Committee. Some 
modifications of S. 5515 will be re- 
quired, but in the main it. embodies 
the emergency program of the 
farm groups, when coupled with the 
Robinson amendments to H. R. 
14359. 


Cannot Wait 


“This relief cannot wait until the 
special session. I do not agree with 
the thought that I have heard ex- 
pressed that our program is too 
large to put through before. this 
session ends on March 4. Let me 
call attention to the fact that in 
the last session of Congress the 
original Reconstruction Finance 
Corporation Act was passed by both 
Houses of Congress within thirteen 
days and it authorized a total of 
two billion dollars. Later Congress 
rushed through the Wagner-Rainey 
bill appropriating over two billion 
dollars more. About three-fourths 
of the money loaned by the R. F. C. 
has gone to the banks and the rail- 
roads. 


Why should it take longer to do 
something for the farmers than 
it does to do something for the 
banks and the railroads? 


Speaking for the American Farm 
Bureau Federation, the emergency 
program may be summarized as 
follows: 


(1) Stop the wave of farm fore- 
closures by providing a _ simple 
means for the extension of delin- 
quencies and the composition of 
debts. 


(2) Set up an Emergency Agri- 
cultural Refinance Corporation op- 
erated by the Federal Farm Loan 
Board, with a capital stock of one 
billion dollars subscribed by. the 
United States Treasury, to refi- 
nance the debts of any distressed 


st 


THE LA.A. RECORD 


March, 1933 


Page Siz 


farmer at a rate of interest not to 
exceed 3 per cent. 


(3) Strengthen the Federal land . 


banks by: 

(a) Subscription of $100,000,000 
of non-voting stock in the 
Federal land banks by the 
United States Treasury, to be 
repaid out of future earn- 
ings, to provide additional 
funds for new loans, for 
carrying delinquencies and 
for aiding in the sale of new 
bonds. 
Appropriation of $50,000,000 
to $60,000,000 to the Federal 
land banks by Congress for 
the specific purpose of mak- 
ing extensions to borrowers. 
These extensions should be 
added to the principal debt 
and amortized over the life 
of the original loan. 


(4) Strengthen the national farm 
loan associations, as follows: 

(a) Subscription of 50 to 75 mil- 

lion dollars to the capital 
stock of solvent national farm 
loan associations by the 
United States Treasury, to be 
repaid out of future commis- 
sions and dividends. 
Permit direct loans by the 
Federal land banks to farm- 
ers, but require such _ bor- 
rowers to subscribe to the 
stock of the system and to 
join national farm loan asso- 
ciations whenever as many 
as ten farmers in that local- 
ity become borrowers. 

(c) Amend Federal Farm Loan 
Act to provide a fixed com- 
mission rate for the associa- 
tions at % of 1 per cent semi- 
annually on the unpaid prin- 
cipal of any loan endorsed 
by such association. The 
banks should be required to 
repay any commissions which 
they have denied to associa- 
tions heretofore. 


(5) Reduce the interest rate on 
existing loans and on new loans 


(b 


— 


(b 


_— 


.in the Federal Farm Loan system 


very materially. A rate of 5 per cent 
is too high under present and prob- 
able future conditions. Govern- 
ment guarantee of new issues of 
Federal land bank bonds would 
surely result in lowering the inter- 
est rate. 


(6) Liquidate the joint-stock land 
banks without injury to the Fed- 
eral land banks and repeal the sec- 
tions of the Federal Farm Loan 
Act which relates to the joint-stock 
land banks. 


How Plan Operates 


Farmer owes $12,000 at average 
interest rate of 7 per cent. 

Present appraised value of his 
property $11,000. 

Original appraised value of his 
property $22,000. 


Foreclosure would wipe out all 
of the farmer’s equity and entail 
losses to the creditors, even if a 
cash buyer could be secured, which 
is doubtful. 

Farmer appeals to local debt con- 
ciliation commissioner, who gets to- 
gether the debtor and his creditors 
and works out a settlement as fol- 
lows: 

Creditors are. willing to scale 
down principal: to $8,000 if paid 
cash in full. | 

A loan of $8,000 at 3 per cent in- 
terest is obtained for the farmer, 
with the proceeds of which he pays 
off his creditors in full. 
RESULTS: 

Farmer’s debt is reduced 33-1/3 
per cent and his interest charges 
are reduced from $840 to $240 an- 
nually. 

Creditors,get rid of frozen assets 
and obtain $8,000 in cash which can 
be put to immediate use. 

The loan of the government 
agency represents less than 75 per 
cent of the value of all the farmer’s 
property, based on a new appraisal. 
It may take a mortgage on the 
land, a chattel mortgage on other 
property, and, if necessary, a crop 
lien, as security for the loan. 


Hull Debt Bill 


Another mortgage bill has been 
introduced by Senator Hull of Ten- 
nessee which would refinance farm 
mortgages wholly through the Re- 
construction Finance Corp., largely 
disregard the Federal Farm Loan 
system, financing only corporate 
holders of mortgages, thus not 
serving directly 60 per cent of the 
farm mortgagors. This bill is ob- 
jectionable to the Farm Bureau, 
and is not making much progress. 

The A. F. B. F. likewise is seek- 
ing to amend the R. F. C. Act so 
that financial aid to co-operative 
marketing activities, the acquisi- 
tion of facilities for handling farm 
crops, and similar functions will be 
definitely authorized in the R. F. C. 
law, as amended, beyond the power 
of unfavorable interpretation by 
legal counsel. The present’ farm 
crop loan feature of the R. F. C. act 
has been of no value to agriculture 
because of adverse legal interpreta- 
tion. 


Acreage Lease Plan 


Some support has been given to 
a plan, along the line suggested by 
Secretary Hyde, involving govern- 
ment leasing of surplus acreage 
formerly devoted to growing corn, 
cotton, wheat and other crops. The 
government would get its funds to 
pay rental from a small fee or ad- 
justment charge levied on the proc- 
essors who handle the crops for- 
merly produced on the rented acres. 
The farmer who rents his acres to 
the government is to be obligated 
in some way not to put in equiva- 
lent acreage somewhere else. 


“I feel that if we accept the 
acreage rental plan, it will be given 
us,” said Mr. O’Neal in a recent 
statement. “And, moreover, that is 
all we will ever get in the way of 
surplus control legislation. It is my 
thought that we need to cover more 
ground in surplus control legisla- 
tion than merely to rent and with- 
draw acreage from production. We 
need to be on guard that instead of 
getting a loaf in regard to surplus 
control, we will be handed less than 
one slice.” 


Demand Freight Cut 


The recent petition of the Ameri- 
can Farm, Bureau Federation to the 
Interstate Commerce Commission 
asking for a general study of freight 
rates on basic commodities with a 
view towards a_ reduction has 
created a tremendous impression at 
Washington and throughout the 
nation. There are many who feel 
that organized farmers are wrong 
in trying to get  price-raising 
legislation through surplus control 
plans or inflationary measures or 
both. They would like to see farmers 
sharpen their axes and go after 
freight rates, taxes, utility rates, 
the protective tariff, etc. with the 
idea of bringing everything else 
down to the level of farm prices. 

“Such representative publications 
as Business Week and Whaley- 
Eaton Service have picked our peti- 
tion out for special mention as of 
great national consequence,” re- 
ports President O’Neal of the A. F. 
B. F. “The Interstate Commerce 
Commission also has recognized it 
by immediately declaring a date 
for oral arguments and then post- 
poned that date until Friday, 
March 24 at the request of rail- 
road representatives. Senator Cap- 
per put the entire document in the 
Congressional Record of February 
8 with a brief introductory state- 
ment by himself, expressing his 
general interest on the question of 
reduced freight rates.” 

If the bitter-end deflationists 
win their fight in the proposed spe- 
cial session of congress after March 
4, it means that a lot of railroads 
will be forced into receivership, 
debts both public and private will 
have to be scaled down wholesale, 
taxes cut another 25 to 50 per cent, 
and freight rates reduced to pre- 
war levels —Editor. 


Hancock County Back 
To $15 Membership 


After one year’s experience with 
a $10 membership fee, the Hancock 
County Farm Bureau went back to 
their former $15 annual dues, in 
the county, state, and national or- 
ganizations. The $10 fee: had no 
appreciable influence in increasing 
membership. 


March, 1933 


Plan Co-op. Creameries 
At Several New Points 


Directors of Illinois Producers 
Creameries Meet To Con- 
sider Marketing Problems 


Establishment at an early date of 
additional co-operative creamery 
plants in the Olney, Quincy, and 
Champaign districts was considered 
at the first meeting of the board of 
directors of Illinois Producers 
Creameries, Inc., in Chicago, Feb. 
16. 

Stock is being sold ‘both in the 
Olney and Quincy districts in pro- 
posed manufacturing plants, and 
mass meeting of cream pro- 
ducers was held in Champaign Feb. 
18 where plans were laid for es- 
tablishing a creamery there. 

C. R. George, manager of the 
Producers Creamery, Marion, In- 
diana, a successful co-operative, 
spoke at the meeting of cream pro- 
ducers in Champaign. 

At a meeting in Peoria, Feb. 15 
representatives of co-operative 
cream pools in that territory ap- 
pointed a committee and voted 
unanimous approval of plans for 
membership work. 

Seven directors were chosen for 
the proposed creamery in the Olney 
district at a meeting Feb. 22 at 
Sumner in Lawrence county. The 
directors chosen were Burton Lea- 
mon, Richland county; L. R. Gantz, 
Wayne county; Luke Crouse, Clay 
county; Silas Andrus, Wabash 
county; J. C. Piper, Lawrence 
county; Raymond Kegley, Edwards 
county; S. M. Austin, White county. 
This board of directors will serve 
until the annual meeting of stock- 
holders when the latter will elect 
new directors. 

Following an explanation of the 
stock setup by Frank Gougler, 
produce marketing director, applica- 
tion for incorporation was made 
and it was voted that counties 
shall raise their quotas of stock 
subscriptions by April 1. The name 
of the. new organization will be 
“Producers Creamery of Olney.” 

Butter will be marketed by the 
chain of co-operative creameries, 
all of which are to be affiliated 
with Illinois Producers Creameries, 
under the trade name “Illini.” A 
central agency will be set up to 
sell butter direct to stores, hotels, 
and other distributors. A superior 
butter made only from sweet cream 
and grade A sour cream will be 
manufactured and sold when pres- 
ent plans are in operation. 

Truck routes will be established 
and cream picked up several times 
a week. This plan, it is believed, 
will reduce the cost of assembling, 
result in a higher quality product, 
and increase the farmers’ returns 
from butterfat. 


THE LA.A. RECORD 


‘securities 


Page Seven 


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ILLINOIS PRODUCERS CREAMERIES BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
Left to right, seated: Tom Jackson, Timewell; Frank Gougler, manager and 


director produce marketing; 


Wm. Krause, 


Lincoln, president; Elery Leefers, 


Carlinville, secretary-treas.; Ryland Capron, Peoria, vice-president; Herb Klow- 


ann, Rock Island; J. B. 
A. B. 


Countiss, director dairy marketing. 
‘ Standing, left to right: Burton Leamon, Olmey; Harold Enns, 
Schofield, Paxton; Talmage DeFrees, Smithboro. 


Bloomington; 


Baruch Outlines Plans 
To Restore Agriculture 


New York Financier Tells Sen- 
ate Committee How He 
Would End Depression 


“Inflation will precipitate general 
starvation, and: Congress is trifling 
with disaster by allowing the treas- 
ury deficit to continue to mount,” 
Bernard M. Baruch of New York, 
prominent business leader and close 
friend and adviser of President- 
elect Roosevelt, testified before the 
Senate Finance Committee recently. 
Baruch who served as chairman of 
the War Industries Board during 
the Wilson administration told his 
senatorial listeners that they must 
balance the budget, asserting that 
the only defense between this coun- 
try and ruin are these government 
which are dependent 
upon government credit. Baruch 
was prominently mentioned as a 
possible appointee to the President’s 
cabinet. 

“Every bank, every insurance 
policy, the solvency and continued 
operation of every corporation em- 
ploying men—the wages of labor, 
the wherewithal to pay wages and 
above all the resources to feed the 
hungry and relieve distress, all 
hang by a single thread, the credit 


of the United States,” Baruch 
testified. 
Will Attract Money 
“Balance the budget,” he con- 


tinued, “and money will flow here 
from all the world and the people 
will find the means to earn their 
daily bread with great rapidity.” 
He suggested an international 
agreement on silver, revision of the 
Versailles Treaty to speed disarma- 
nent, increase the profits of farm 
crops by decreasing output, aids to 
rapid liquidation of debts, encour- 
agement of rapid consumption of 


commodity surpluses and control 
of productive capacity. 

Four causes of the depression he 
said were “Inflation due to the 
war, debts and taxes, failure on the 
part of the United States to main- 
tain friendly trade relations with 
other countries, and excess produc- 
tive capacity. 


Farm Mortgage Plan 


Dealing at length with the farm 
problem, Baruch proposed a farm 
mortgage plan suggesting a cor- 
poration to issue three per cent tax 
exempt thirty-year bonds with in- 
terest unconditionally guaranteed 
by the government. 

The bonds would be exchanged 
for existing farm mortgages or for 
the title of foreclosed farms, but 
not to exceed 60 per cent of par of 
such mortgages. 

Mortgages would be revised on 
the basis of 314 per cent interest 
on a scaled down principal, the ef- 
fect being to write down the prin- 
cipal of existing mortgages by one- 
half and the interest rate by two- 
thirds. 

Baruch’s second proposal for 
farm relief was to have a govern- 
mental agency rent land from 
farmers to be taken out of produc- 
tion. This, he said, was an exact 
reversal of the principle now pro- 
posed for bounties on production. 

Mr. Baruch would raise $200,000,- 
000 to be used for renting land to 
reduce acreage by levying an excise 
tax on the processing of crops whose 
production is reduced by the gov- 
ernment leasing program. He sug- 
gested a one-half cent tax on all 
meats. An average rental of $3 
per acre would be paid to provide 
for taxes and make it attractive for 
farmers to reduce acreage. 

The financier opposed cancella- 
tion of war debts, urged a beer tax 
and repeal of the 18th amendment 
and asserted that the world’s hope 
is to revive commerce and give 
men a chance to work for a living. 


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The Sales Tax 


HERE are two ways for property owners to get 

tax relief. One is to insist on every reasonable 
economy in government expenditures; the other to 
replace part of the property tax with revenue from 
other sources. The Illinois Agricultural Association has 
its legislative committee at Springfield working for 
both these ends. 

The three per cent state sales tax which passed the 
senate, and as this is written is being considered in the 
House will be a “replacement” rather than an addi- 
tional tax when amendments sponsored by the I. A. A. 
and its friends in the General Assembly, are adopted. 
Only by a two-thirds vote of the county board of 
supervisors may any portion of this new revenue be 
diverted to unemployment relief. Otherwise taxes 
levied on property for the elementary educational fund, 
based on the Association amendments, are to be de- 
creased to the extent revenue is derived by school dis- 
tricts from the sales tax. The I. A. A. will support the 
measure, however, only when its “replacement” 
feature is properly protected. 

This tax is based more nearly on ability to pay than 
the property tax. Wealth is largely proportional to 
buying power. The person who buys little pays very 


THE ILA.A. RECORD 


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March, 1933 


little tax. This measure will broaden the tax base. It 
will bring contribution from many who heretofore have 
paid little or nothing. 

This measure when amended will save the farm 
and home owner substantial amounts. So long as 
farm buying power is at its present low ebb farmers 
will contribute little to revenue derived from this 
source. 

Another amendment sponsored by the I. A. A. and 
adopted in the Senate provides for division of sales tax 
revenue among Cook county and down-state on the 


‘ basis of population. The original proposal would have 


allowed each county to retain all revenues collected 
therein. This would have been grossly unfair to 


. counties having no large trading centers. 


These modifications of the original sales tax meas- 
ure, both of great importance to Illinois farmers, in- 
dicate the need for effective representation where laws 
involving farm interests are being made. 


Stop Farm Foreclosures 


HE WAVE of farm foreclosures which in the past 

five years resulted in nine and one-half per cent 
of the farms of the United States changing hands, will 
be halted, at least until July 1, 1935 if a bill to this 
effect supported by the I. A. A. in the General Assembly 
is enacted. 

Under this measure worthy mortgagors who are not 
hopelessly in debt, on proper appeal to the courts may 
secure suspension of foreclosure proceedings until the 
above date. The bill in no way impairs the equity of 
the creditor. It is fair to both parties concerned yet 
does not jeopardize future farm credit. This legis- 
lation will meet with the approval of all fair-minded 
debtors and creditors. It would be unnecessary were 
all mortgagees and mortgagors willing to bear with 
each other until normal trading, employment and 
higher prices are established. This measure will stop 
those who are disposed to take advantage of the 
present situation for selfish reasons. 


Industry To The Rescue 


ATE reports of new uses for the soybean being de- 

veloped by Henry Ford is encouraging news to 
Illinois farmers. Steering wheels, distributor shells, 
knobs, insulators, and other automobile parts have 
been made successfully from the soybean. Pointing 
to the parts mentioned above Mr. Ford is quoted in 
“Business Week” as saying “Cheaper than plastic we 
have used heretofore and better because more elastic. 
We raised 18,000 tons of soybeans this year. We’re just 
trying to see if we can’t help develop some crops that 
the farmer can sell to industry.” 

Soybean. oil is being used to finish Ford bodies, also 
for core making in the Rouge foundries where it is 
reported more satisfactory than linseed ofl ‘and 25 
per cent cheaper. 

With the rate of population growth seriously de- 
clining, industrial outlets for farm products are of 
vital importance. Where such uses increase. the 
efficiency or lower the cost of industrial commodities 
so much the better. A natural development is to be 
preferred to one based on compulsion. 

The creation of a more efficient and economical 
motor fuel by dilution of gasoline with alcohol made 
from farm products would be a great boon to agri- 
culture. Such a development is not beyond the realm 
of possibility. 

Temporarily, almost any kind of compulsory act 
that raises farm prices and re-establishes farm buy- 
ing power is justifiable. But any unsound and un- 
economic measure cannot be counted on to secure 
permanent public support. Some day the world will 
have its fill of impractical artificial devices and eco- 

(Continued on page 9, Col. 2) 


March, 1933 


DISQUIETING aspect of the 
farm surplus situation is the 
keen competition it has aroused 


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among producers, for preferred 
markets. Thus we find unorganized 
farmers fighting producer associa- 
tions which through superior bar- 
gaining power and a better quality 
product have been able to secure 
higher prices. Nowhere is this con- 
dition more apparent than in the 
sale of fluid milk, although it exists 
among fruit and vegetable growers 
and others. 


Because the milk business in the 
larger cities is well organized, both 
in production and distributing, it 
has been able to maintain relatively 
satisfactory prices. Farmers in fluid 
milk territory have fared better 
than dairymen in the _ butter, 
cheese, and condensery districts. As 
a result, milk production not only 
has been stepped up in the higher 
price territory but “outsiders” have 
exerted more and more pressure to 
get in the preferred group. 


Even $1.25 or $1.40 a hundred 
pounds, low as it is, is decidedly 
more attractive than a butterfat 
price of around 70 cents. A pro- 
ducer who is “off” the market while 
his neighbor is “on,” can’t see the 
justice of the discrimination. So we 


have the situation of a McHenry . 


county producer, for example, man- 
damusing the Chicago Health com- 
missioner to inspect his herd, that 
he too, may sell his milk on the 
big market. And there is good rea- 
son for such action particularly 
where milk is being brought into 
Chicago from more remote sections 
of Wisconsin. 


Whenever a price in one section 
or point gets out of line with the 
general average, it immediately be- 
comes a target for larger supplies of 
the commodity, and price cutting. 
A producers organization can’t 
maintain a price for fluid milk too 
high above its “surplus” value, 
commented H. D. Allebach, presi- 
dent of the Philadelphia milk pro- 
ducers association recently. If the 
price is too high unorganized dairy- 
men farther back in the country 
flood the market with their cheaper 
milk. This leads to disorganization 
and loss of all that has been gained 
by organization. 


It was definitely demonstrated 
during the recent milk war at the 
Quad Cities that a low price for 
milk greatly increases consump- 
tion. In view of the tremendous 
surpluses everywhere, and _ the 


THE LA.A. RECORD 


dwindling percentages of milk go- 
ing into fluid classes, cutting the 
price may be a wise step both for 
the organized producers and the 
established distributors. 


In a period like the present, the 
importance to the farmer of dis- 
tributing milk efficiently to the 
consumer cannot be too strongly 
emphasized. Farmers must work for 
a larger portion of the consumer’s 
dollar, though the effort places 
them in direct conflict with the 
dealers and their employees whose 
main interest lies in maintaining 
high wages and comfortable profits. 
Where a board of health doesn’t 
autocratically eliminate distributor 
competition, the situation rights it- 
self for a wide margin invariably 
attracts new and perhaps more 
efficient milk dealers into the field. 


The ideal situation, of course, is 
to have comparatively few but 
highly efficient milk distributors 
charging the consumer a moderate 
price, and returning to the pro- 
ducer a maximum percentage of 
the retail price. To bring such a 
situation about it may occasionally 
be necessary for producers to get 
into the distributing business them- 
selves—E. G. T. 


Industry To The Rescue 
(Continued from page 8) 


nomic barriers which in the long 
run only tend to throw everything 
out of joint with resulting unem- 
ployment and hard times. 

There is plenty of evidence to 
support. the belief that this de- 
pression would not have lasted so 
long had there been less inter- 
ference with natural trade and 
commerce between nations, with 
prices, rates, national currencies, 
etc. The world has never seen such 
an orgy of manipulation as today. 
And judging from the condition of 
business in this country other na- 
tions so far have out-manipulated 
us. 


Hyde Would Pay Farmers 
Rent For Idle Lands 


Secretary of Agriculture Arthur 
M. Hyde recently proposed a plan 
under which the federal govern- 
ment would lease and eventually 
purchase farm lands withdrawn 
from cultivation. 

Under this plan a fund of from 
$150,000,000 to $200,000,000 a year 
would be provided. The treasury 
would be reimbursed from the pro- 
ceeds of a tax of eight cents a 
bushel on domestically consumed 
wheat and corresponding taxes to 
be paid by the consumers of other 
farm products. 

At present there are 60,000,000 
acres planted to wheat, and 465,- 


Page Nine 


$90,000,000 Available 
Crop Production Loans 


A reduction of 30 per cent in the 


_acreage planted to cash crops will 


be required this year to procure 
crop production loans according to 
Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. 
Hyde. 

Approximately $90,000,000 have 
been made available for crop pro- 
duction loans through the Recon- 
struction Finance Corporation. As 
a condition of any loan the Secre- 
tary of Agriculture is authorized to 
require “that the borrower agree to 
reduce his acreage or production on 
such basis, not to exceed 30 per 
centum, as may be determined by 
the Secretary.” 

Farmers seeking crop production 
loans this season are advised to ob- 
tain application blanks and copies 
of the regulations in their home 
county rather than from Washing- 
ton. Field agents of the Crop Pro- 
duction Loan office are now 
designating representatives in each 
farming county to inform prospec- 
tive borrowers of the requirements 
governing loans and to distribute 
application blanks and other nec- 
essary forms. These agents will as- 
sist farmers in filling out applica- 
tions without charge. 

The 1933 regulations limit the 
amount available to any individual - 
to $300. As last year, interest is 
fixed at 5.5 per cent to be deducted 
when the advance is made. All 
notes are due October 31, 1933. 
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000,000 acres to cotton. Secretary 
Hyde suggests that the first year 
the government might lease 10,000,- 
000 acres each of wheat, corn, and 
cotton lands, paying about $1.50 an 
acre for wheat, $3 for corn, and $2 
for cotton. At that annual rental 
30,000,000 acres of marginal lands 
now in crops could be taken out of 
cultivation for $65,000,000. 

“With this fund at its disposal,” 
said Secretary Hyde, “enough land 
could be leased by the government 
to bring about a balanced produc- 
tion. The plan is direct, positive, 
and reaches the real disease and is 
not a mere bandage on a symptom. 
The effect on farm commodity 
prices would be felt the instant the 
commodity markets knew that a 
part of the land now producing the 
surpluses was to be taken out of 
cultivation.” 

The government, under the Hyde 
plan, would take a ten year lease 
on the withdrawn lands, with an 
option to purchase and devote them 
to a general land utilization pro- 
gram, whereby marginal lands 
would be set aside for forest pro- 
duction or other purposes. 


The Organization-Publicity Ad- 
visory Committee will meet in the 
I. A. A. offices on Friday, March 10. 


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Livestock Growers Plan Expansion 


Officers Discuss Marketing Trends and Problems in Annual Meeting, Bloomington 


ONTINUED expansion with co- 

ordination of all co-operative 
livestock marketing agencies in and 
adjacent to Illinois were emphasized 
as the goal for 1933 at the annual 
meeting of the Illinois Live Stock 
Marketing Association, Blooming- 
ton, February 14. More than 300 
livestock growers 
representing all 
sections of the 
State gathered 
for the meeting 
held in the Mc- 
Lean County 
Farm Bureau au- 
ditorium. _ Presi- 
dent Samuel Sor- 
rells, of Raymond, 
presided. 

How the tre- 
mendous increase 
in the movement 
of livestock to 
market by truck has affected mar- 
keting machinery was outlined in 
the annual report of Ray E. Miller, 
secretary and manager of the Asso- 
ciation. During the year 1932 there 
were three outstanding develop- 
ments, he reported, which include: 
(1) increase in trucking and 
further decrease in rates charged 
by truck, (2) increase in the direct 
movement of livestock to packers 
and (3) a continued decline in the 
price of farm products with a cor- 
responding effect upon economic 
conditions of Illinois farmers. 


Truck Rates Cut 


The decline of truck rates to a 
point where they are now in many 
instances lower than rail rates, and 
the convenience of truck trans- 
portation, have eliminated most of 
the remaining livestock shipping 
associations and promoted an enor- 
mous increase in the direct move- 
ment of hogs to packers, Miller 
said. As a result, the marketing of 
hogs has been decentralized and 
country buyers, whether private or 
packer representatives, are again 
playing one producer against the 
other in driving down prices. 

High freight rates as well as ex- 
orbitant costs which farmers are 
compelled to pay for corn, yardage, 
and commissions are among the 
chief reasons for the increase in 
the direct movement of livestock. 
“The only substantial relief of these 
costs which farmers have been able 
to secure at all have been secured 
as a result of co-operative com- 
mission agencies which either have 
reduced commissions, refunded 
substantial parts of commissions, 
or increased and improved the serv- 


SAM SORRELLS 


ices which their members received,” 
Miller continued. 

“The net result of this decentral- 
ization of marketing has been to 
throw one community in competi- 
tion with another, one state in 
competition with another state, and 
one part of our marketing system 
in competition with another part. 
While the terminal market is seek- 
ing to stabilize prices on a satisfac- 
tory basis, the disorganized move- 
ment from many country points 
exerts continued bearish pressure. 
We are still depending on the ter- 
minal markets for our price deter- 
mining machinery but are doing 
nothing or.very little to protect 
them. 

“The Illinois Live Stock Market- 
ing Association was established to 
give livestock growers the highest 
price to be obtained for the partic- 
ular kind of livestock they have to 
offer at the time they wish to sell. 
And in doing so the Association is 
correlating the movement and sale 
of livestock from country points 
with the operations of co-operative 
sales agencies on terminal markets. 
Under present conditions both 
parts of this marketing machinery 
are essential and will be a perma- 
nent part of the marketing or- 
ganization.” 

In a little more than a year the 
Association gained from an initial 
membership of four units in Ver- 
milion, Macon, Shelby and Iroquois 
counties to eight units now operat- 
ing in the above counties and in 
Edgar, Knox, McDonough, and 
Coles. The ninth, at Bloomington, 


McLean county, will probably be in - 


operation by April 1. Individual 
membership increased since Octo- 
ber, 1931 from 950 to 4,379. Seven 
district units marketed 2,033 decks 
of livestock during the year 1932 or 
an average of 169 decks per month. 
Vermilion county led with 460, 
Macon 389, McDonough 348, Gales- 
burg 302, Shelby 271, Iroquois 199, 
and Edgar county 61. More than 
three-fourths of the livestock han- 
dled in the co-operative concentra- 
tion points consisted of hogs. 


More Volume Needed 


“The one factor which has the 
most to do with the service to be 
rendered by the Illinois Live Stock 
Marketing Association is volume,” 
Miller said. “A particularly fertile 
field for increased shipments co- 
operatively lies in the Farm Bureau 
membership itself. Many Farm Bu- 
reau members who thoroughly be- 
lieve in that organization and who 
are consistent patrons of the insur- 


ance and oil companies, have not 
yet given their wholehearted sup- 
port to the co-operative marketing 
of their livestock which accounts 
for nearly two-thirds of total Mli- 
nois farm income. 

“With the support of more pro- 
ducers the Association can. render 
the highest type of marketing serv- 
ice and can be a powerful factor 
in helping to raise country prices 
for liyestock and support the co- 
operative commission agencies on 
the terminal markets.” 


President Sorrells Speaks 


“Disintegration of livestock ship- 
ping associations, rapid expansion 
of direct marketing, the need for 
better contact between the individ- 
ual. producer and the co-operative 
selling agencies on the terminal 
markets, and mounting marketing 
costs all have pointed the way to’ 
the need for more complete or- 
ganization in the country,” said 
President Sorrells in opening the 
meeting. “Our units, commonly 
called co-operative concentration 
points, make available more fre- 
quent and regular shipping service, 
make possible home grading of 
livestock and shipment in graded 
loads of one species, effect savings 
in freight costs by the use of 
double-de7k equipment and reduc- 
tion of mixed shipments, reduce 
losses from dead and crippled stock, 
decrease competition between small 
shipping associations, and make 
possible the full-time employment 
of men trained and experienced in 
grading and marketing livestock. 

“The organization of the. State 
Marketing Association is merely a 
step toward consolidating what’s 
left of some 500 local shipping as- 
sociations which existed at one time 
in Illinois,” said Mr. Sorreils. “Live- 
stock growers know that under the 
old marketing system the tendency 
always has been toward higher 
marketing costs until co-operative 
agencies entered the field. More re- 
cently the grower has learned that 
he can provide marketing service 
for the same cost or less and build 
up a surplus or reserve for future © 
needs. 

“In developing our organization 
we must recognize that direct mar- 
keting is here to stay. We must also 
recognize that the terminal mar- 
kets are playing and will continue 
to play a highly important part in 
determining price levels. Any mar- 
keting system which attempts to 
move all livestock direct is ill con- 
sidered and weak, and will not pro- 

(Continued on page 13, Col. 3) 


March, 1933 


Hog Control Plan 
In Holland 


All Pigs Earmarked, Processing 
Tax Assures Growers a 
Fair Return 


Bn Netherlands last July passed 
an Emergency Hog Act setting 
up a “Netherlands Hog Central,” 
composed of representatives of the 
hog industry to establish a price 
stabilization fund, to import and 
export hogs and ‘pork products, and 
to enforce production control. 

The purpose is to maintain do- 
mestic hog prices at a level that 
will represent “at least the indis- 
pensable cost of production.” 

A tax levied on practically all 
hogs slaughtered in the Nether- 
lands is the main support of the 
stabilization’ fund. Hogs slaugh- 
tered for consumption by ‘owners 
are taxed too, except in: cases where 
the tax may be adjudged as exces- 
sively burdensome. The slaughter 
tax was fixed on August 15, 1932, at 
$1.64 per 100 pounds and was in- 
. to $1.82 on January 15, 


Slaughter Tax 


The hog slaughter tax is paid at 
the time of official inspection, and 
the inspection service has been 
authorized to refuse certification of 
live hogs or hog products unless the 
tax has been paid. The amount of 
the tax must always be such that 
“including expenses for the execu- 
tion of the Act, by means of a sta- 
bilization fund a basic price may 
be obtained for the hogs, corre- 
sponding as far as possible with the 
indispensable cost of production.” 

The Hog. Central imposes an im- 
port duty on all hogs and pork 
products imported into the Nether- 
lands, and the tax must be “fixed 
in such a way that the differences 
between the price of pork products 
in the home market and in the 
world market are thereby equal- 
ized,” the law states. One-third or 
more of the total production of 
pork in Holland usually is exported, 
so that the granting of an exclusive 
export monopoly to the Hog Cen- 
tral makes it predominant. 

Last September the Hog Central 
announced ‘it would pay $5.47 per 
100 pounds live weight for hogs of 
less than 330 pounds delivered for ex- 
port. At that time the regular mar- 
ket price ranged from $2.92 to $3.65 
per 100 pounds. January 15, 1933, the 
Central price was reduced to $5.11. 
The losses incurred by the Central, 
in exporting the surplus are met 
through the medium of the stabili- 
zation fund. The Central has exciu- 
Sive control over the 25 bacon fac- 
tories which produce the bacon ex- 
ported from the Netherlands and 
these factories are under contract 


THE LA.A. RECORD 


with the Central on a fixed-price 
basis. Factories are required to de- 
liver for export as ordered, the ex- 
ports of hogs and pork products 
being controlled so as to maintain 
the home market. price. 


All Hogs Counted 


The first step in production con- 
trol was a complete count of all 
hogs late in 1932, and it was an- 
nounced that the Central intended 
to reduce the hog population to 
about the 1930 level. It was esti- 
mated that at that level the re- 
sulting marketable supplies could 
be disposed of at a profit. 

The production control centers 


upon a system of earmarking of 


hogs to the number designated by 
the Ministry of Agriculture. The 
responsibility for earmarking rests 
upon. eleven Provincial Centrals 
which have been established by the 
Hog Central. The Minister of Agri- 
culture determines periodically and 
for specified periods the total num- 
ber of marks to be placed, as well 
as the number of marks available 
for the territory of each Provincial 
organization. District organizations 
have been set up by each Provincial 
Central, and earmarks can be 
placed only on hogs that belong to 
members of these district organiza- 
tions. The average district includes 
about 350 farms and 3,500 hogs. 


Production Control 


The law provides that the keep- 
ing, transporting, and marketing of 
hogs heavier than a live weight to 
be determined by the Minister of 
Agriculture is permissible only 
when the animals are provided with 
official earmarks. The hogs must 
be earmarked before they weigh 22 
pounds. A fee of 10 cents is charged 
for each earmark, for the number 
approved, and additional marks 
may be obtained upon payment of 
a high fee—at present $4.02 each— 
which usually makes. the raising of 
excess hogs too expensive. 

The Central agrees to purchase 
at a fixed price all hogs delivered 
by producers in conformity with 
present or future regulations. Cer- 
tain localities have been designated 
for receiving hogs from farmers. A 
representative in each village keeps 
the Central informed as to the 
number of hogs to be marketed in 
his territory, dates of shipment, 
etc., and farmers must give at least 
eight. days’ notice of contemplated 
shipments. Each farmer is notified 
upon what date he may ship: If of- 
ferings appear excessive, the Cen- 
tral may hold them up. 


The index of farm prices of 27 
agricultural products reached a new 
low point at 51 per cent of pre-war 
on January 15. The index on Jan- 
uary 15, 1932, was 63 per cent of 
pre-war. 


Page Thirteen 


Live Stock Growers Plan 
Expansion 
(Continued from page 12) 


tect the farmers’ interests. On the 
other hand, it is illogical and un- 
economic to assume that all live- 
stock must go through a terminal! 
market regardless of conditions.” 

Commenting upon the effect of 
the tariff upon American agricul- 
ture Charles A. Ewing, president of 
the National Livestock Marketing 
Association, said: “During the past 
10 years farmers have been paying 
a sales tax through the tariff of 
$10,000,000,000 to $15,000,000,000 as 
a special protection to one class of 
industry.. The Tariff Act of 1922 
gave an average protection to in- 
dustry of 45 per cent ad valorem 
effective on 90 per cent of its out- 
put, and on everything the, farmer 
bought from the hat on his head 
to the shoes on his feet, he paid a 
tribute because of the 1922 Tariff 
Act. 


Tariff Barriers Hurt 


“Our policy of raising higher and 
higher the barrier of tariff protec- 
tion against our foreign neighbors 
has led at last to retaliation. They 
have built around us new trade re- 
lationships, have established new 
trade quotas, and are rapidly re- 
ducing their business contacts with 
this country. As a result much of 
our foreign trade has been lost and 
this is one of the outstanding rea- 
sons for the terrific decline in farm 
income. I do not blame foreign na- 
tions because our whole policy to- 
ward them has been unwise and 
destructive.” 

Secretary George E. Metzger of 
the I. A. A. in addressing the meet-* 
ing commented on the splendid fi- 
nancial record which co-operatives 
generally have been able to main- 
tain in the face of failures, bank- 
ruptcies, and foreclosures being 
suffered on every hand by various 
other industrial and commercial} 
concerns. He emphasized particu- 
larly the fact that the major ob- 
jective in the co-operative program 
is not merely to save a fraction of 
the handling cost but it is to con- 
trol sufficient volume to enable the 
organization to raise price levels. 


The following officers and direc- 
tors were elected: Samuel Sorrells, 
Raymond, president; Sam McClug- 
gage, Peoria, vice-president; Ray E. 
Miller, Chicago, secretary; Geo. F. 
Tullock, Rockford, treasurer; H. H. 
Parke, Genoa; A. E. Crum, Virginia; 
O. B. Goble, Charleston; Wm. 
Temple, LaSalle county; W. E. 
Sawdey, Rockford; Harvey Hern- 
don, McDonough county; Mont Fox, 
Vermilion county; D. H. Myers, 
Adams county; Joe Fulkerson, Jer- 
sey county; C. G. Oakes, Shelby 
county; Carl Lage, Bloomington. 


PA ORL TN “ 


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THE LA.A RECORD 


March, 1933 


Illinois Grain Corp. Meeting 


550 Attend Largest And Most Enthusiastic Annual Session at Peoria, Feb. 22 


G C. JOHNSTONE of Blooming- 
e ton, president of Illinois 
Grain Corporation was reelected at 
the annual meeting of the corpora- 
tion, held at Peoria, on Wednesday, 
February 22. A. R. Wright, Varna, 
vice-president of 
Illinois Agric ul- 
tural Association, 
was re-elected 
vice - president, 
and R. A. Cowles, 
Bloomington, was 
re-elected treas- 
urer. Fred Ro- 
mine, Tuscola, 
was elected secre- 
tary. The follow- 
ing were chosen 
as directors: E. E. 
G. C, JOHNSTONE Stevenson, La- 
Salle County; E. 
H. Williams, Lee County; B. L. 
Baird, Knox; Ralph Allen, Taze- 
well; J. C. Sailor, Iroquois; O. G. 
Anderson, Ford; G. C. Johnstone, 
McLean; Charles Schmitt, Logan; 
Fred Romine, Douglas; Ralph Mills, 
Vermilion; A. C. Kolmer, Monroe; 
Fred Zimmerman, Mason; A. R. 
Wright, Marshall; G. L. Potter, Liv- 
ingston and H. P. Joy, Morgan. 


The meeting was the largest and 
most enthusiastic in the history of 
the Corporation. Approximately 550 
representatives of the 122 member 
elevators were present when the 
meeting was called to order by 
President Johnstone. 


Flourishing Condition 


The annual reports of the presi- 
dent and C. P. Cummings, manager, 
revealed that the Corporation is in 
a most flourishing condition. Mem- 
bership increased more than 50 per 
cent since January 1, 1932, and the 
volume of grain handled by mem- 
ber elevators increased in about the 
same proportion. More than 15,- 
500,000 bushels of grain were mar- 
keted during the year, about 25 per 
cent of that amount being from 
non-members. This was cited as a 
favorable omen by President John- 
stone, who pointed out that this 
grain was handled on a competi- 
tive basis. The scope of the service 
being rendered by the Corporation 
was revealed by the fact that 9,142 
cars of grain were originated by 
the Corporation in 1932 from 302 
points in 66 counties in the state. 

The report of the _ treasurer 
showed that Illinois Grain Corpora- 
tion had a net income of more than 
$39,000 and that dividends were de- 
clared by the board of directors, 
two on the preferred stock of the 


corporation and in addition a pat- 
ronage dividend of 4% cent a bushel 
on oats and % cent a bushel on 
wheat, corn and other grains han- 
dled during the year. Harrison 
Fahrnkopf, director of acquisition 
and organization, spoke enthusias- 
tically of the work accomplished 
during the year and voiced his con- 
viction of even greater advances 
during 1933. 

Manager Cummings told the dele- 
gates of some of the problems of 
co-operative grain marketing, cited 
the progress that has been made, 
announced that a new office had 
been openéd recently at Mendota 
to take care of a rapidly growing 
membership in northern [Illinois 
and predicted a successful future 
for the cooperative marketing of 
grain in this state. 


Mr. Huff Speaks 


At the afternoon session C. E. 
Huff, president of the Farmers’ Na- 


= 


of $16,295,000, he said, covers all 
co-operative grain marketing pur- 
poses in the United States includ- 
ing money loaned to the most iso- 
lated country elevator. This amount 
will be reduced to 15% millions 
when the payment due the farm 
board, May 31, and now ready to 
turn over, is completed. 


Mr. Huff pointed out that the 
Farmers’ National is now the larg- 
est grain handling organization in 
the country, with branches in every 
grain producing section. Criticism 
of the organization and its policies, 
he said, are prompted because the 
Farmers’ National is a true co-op- 
erative which gives the grain pro- 
ducer the benefit of all profits and 
savings on a patronage basis. 

“Let me call to your attention,” 
he added, “that we are paying off 
our debt to the farm board, are even 
prepared to pay ahead of schedule; 
that while our activities are coun- 
try-wide and that grain marketing 


OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS ILLINOIS GRAIN CORPORATION 


Left to right, front row: Harrison Fahrnkopf, director of field service; Fred 
Romine, Tuscola, secretary; A. R. Wright, Varna, vice-president; G. C. John- 
stone, Bloomington, president; Ralph Allen, Delavan; Charles Schmitt, Beason; 
Cc. P. Cummings, vice-president and manager. 


Second row: E. E. Stevenson, Streator; Albert Kolmer, Waterleo; H. P. Joy, 
Chapin; George L. Potter, Pontiac; 0. G. Anderson, Gibson City; Frank Zimmer- 
man, San Jose; O. D. Brissenden, field representative, Pontiac; E. H. Williams, 


Sterling. 


Third row: Ralph Mills, Vermilion Grove; Frank Barton, Cornell, field repre- 


sentative, and B. L. Baird, Williamsfield. 


tional Grain Corp., outlined policies 
and activities of the national body 
and discussed the extremely bitter 
attacks made against cooperative 
grain marketing in general during 
the last several years. He stated 
that without exception these at- 
tacks were selfishly inspired and 
were without foundation. The 
Farmers’ National, Mr. Huff said, 
has never defaulted in the payment 
of interest or principal due the fed- 
eral farm board. The funded debt 


is extremely essential to the wel- 
fare of all the country, the entire 
amount we borrowed—and are now 
paying off—is only about 20% as 
much as was reported to have been 
borrowed by a single Chicago bank 
from the Reconstruction Finance 
Corporation.” 

Resolutions were adopted at the 
meeting in favor of reducing rail- 
road rates on grain to meet truck 
competition and at the first meet- 

(Continued on page 18) 


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THE LAA RECORD 


Page Fifteen. 


Mil Producers Winning Fight at 


Quad Cities 


Build Up Fluid Outlet Through Sturtevant Ice Cream Co. When Organized 


As WE go to press organized milk 
producers at the Quad Cities’ 
market represented by Quality Milk 
Association are winning their fight 
to establish a retail fluid milk out- 
let following cancellation by the 
organized distributors of their 
agreement to buy milk from the 
Association February 1. 

The Sturtevant Ice Cream Com- 
pany of Rock Is- 
land, owned and 
operated by O. G. 
Sturtevant and 
his son Kenneth, 
with the finest 
dairy plant in the 
Quad Cities, has 
been distributing 
milk of Associa- 
tion members 
since February 7 
when the produc- 
ers, fighting des- 
0. G. sTURTEVANT perately for their 

market, put the 
price down to three cents per quart 
in an effort to build up a fluid 
outlet. Within 10 days the Sturte- 
vant Company had grown from 
two truck routes to 15, and by Feb- 
ruary 25 had put on 23 trucks serv- 
icing 4,000 retail stops. The or- 
ganized dealers voted to hold their 
price at 8 cents and lost business 
consistently since February 7. 


The tremendous demand created 
immediately could not be taken 
care of by the Sturtevant Company 
because of shortage of bottles and 
equipment. As a result, the price 
was raised to six cents per quart 
on February 22, and contrary to 
expectations the volume of output 
was not only 
m ain tained 
but actually 
grew the lat- 
ter part of 
that week. 


Better Milk 


“In talking 
toseveral 
people,” said 
Ben H. Boll- 
man, field | 
representa- | 
tive for the 
Associatio n, 
“they report 
that Sturte- 
vant is deliv- 
ering milk of 


Dealers Cancel Contract 


such fine flavor and quality that 
they will never go back to the other 
dealers.” 

The organized dealers, prior to 
February 1, had set up a “rump” 
organization composed largely of 
outlying sour cream producers, non- 
members, and a few “deserters” 
from the Quality Milk Association. 
This organization, called the Illi- 
nois-Iowa Milk Producers’ Associa- 
tion, is largely controlled by the 
organized distributors who assisted 
in selecting the manager, and 
picked the first board of directors. 


Promote Dissension — 


The strategy of the dealers has 
been to promote dissension among 
milk producers, and break up the 
Quality Milk Association or get the 
organization hopelessly in debt. To 
this end, the dealers first demanded 
that the Association sever all con- 
nections with the Farm Bureau and 
Illinois Agricultural Association, 
that it get the Sturtevant Company 
out of the milk business, that it buy 
the dealers’ old butter churns and 
other obsolete equipment, and fi- 
nally employ a manager meeting 
with their approval. The Association 
refused to go along on those terms 
contending that the dealers had no 
right to dictate the kind of organi- 
zation farmers shall have. 

In the meantime the distributors, 
the ringleaders of which control 
the smaller dealers through a bottle 
exchange, held their price at eight 
cents and thereby suffered a tre- 
mendous loss of business to the As- 
sociation and its co-operating dis- 
tributor, Sturtevant. At this writ- 


ing the organized dealers are meet- 
ing daily and are expected to drop 
the price to six cents in a desperate 
effort to regain their lost business. 
House to House Canvass 

Members. of the Quality Milk As-. 
sociation are continuing their fight: 
for a fluid market by house to house. 
and store to store _ solicitation. 
Shortage of bottles and equipment. 
has been the only obstacle to tak- 
ing over a much larger volume of 
the distributing business from the 
non-cooperating dealers. Kenneth 
Sturtevant of the Sturtevant Com- 
pany started by airplane for New 
York February 23 to speed up the 
delivery of more sealright fiber bot- 
tles from the factory there, but. 
found it unnecessary to continue 
the journey. 

The drastic action taken by the 


Quality Milk Association in lower-. 


ing the price to three cents was the 
only course left, for when the dis- 
tributors summarily cut off the 
regular producers who for years. 
have produced for the Quad Cities’ 
market the only outlet left was a 
butter market. They chose to sacri-. 
fice temporarily to build up a retail 
fluid milk outlet and market for 
the future. The course of the battle 
indicates their sound judgment. 

More than 600 members of the 
Association in several mass meet- 
ings and in the annual meeting on 
February 24 voted unanimously to 
stick to their program until they 
have established sufficient fluid 
milk volume to insure a fair price 
and a year ’round market. 

At the annual meeting in Rock 
Island February 24 attended by ar 
p ro ximately 
400 members, 
the following 
directors were 
chosen: F. H. 
Schafer, Port. 
Byron; H. E. 
Wells, Port 
Byron; H. M. 
Sheesley, Coal 
Valley; H. O. 
Klawon, Coal 
Valley; Earl 
Phillips, Rey- 
nolds; Hugo 
Schaff, El- 
dridge, Iowa; 
Herman 


Modern Plant of Sturtevant Ice Cream Co. at Rock Island 


(Cont’d p. 16) 


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THE LA.A. RECORD 


March, 1933 


Ralfs, Walcott, Iowa; F. A. Mart- 
zahn, Davenport, Iowa; and Robert 
McKnight, LeClair, Iowa. The new 
alignment gives Illinois five direc- 
tors and Iowa four. 


Battle For Equality 

The fight of the milk producers 
at the Quad Cities is the old battle 
of the farmer against organized 
and strongly entrenched middlemen 
who insist on maintaining dicta- 
torial powers and naming the price 
both to the producer and consumer. 
It is a fight for equal privilege 
against special privilege. When the 
dealers could not control the Quali- 
ty Milk Association they sought to 
destroy it. They attacked Farm Bu- 
reau and I. A. A. support and joint 
stock control because they recog- 
nized in this setup a factor of ad- 
ditional strength for the producers. 

To prejudice the public against 
the Quality Milk Association, the 
dealers through their puppet or- 
ganization came out in the Quad 
Cities’ newspapers with large ad- 
vertisements in which they referred 
to the Illinois Agricultural Asso-ia- 
tion as the “Chicago group” and 
“outside control.” The appearance 
of the so-called Illinois-Iowa Milk 
Producers’ Association on the scene 
was designed to confuse and give 
the distributors “face” with the 
public. The Quality Milk Associa- 
tion countered by telling its story 
in radio speeches over the Daven- 
port and Rock Island stations and 
through publicity in the newspa- 
pers. The determining factor in the 
fight was the price of milk. 

Distributors Disturbed 

With a six cent retail market the 
producers will receive approximate- 
ly 90 cents per 100 pounds for milk 
which is something better than the 
butterfat price and approximately 
as much as producers netted when 
they were selling previously to the 
organized dealers. The public will 
consume more milk at this price 
than at 8 or 9 cents. At this writing 
certain of the organized distributors 
are reported to be frantic over the 
loss of business they have suffered 
and are expected to lower their 
price to six cents per quart to meet 
the competition. 

O. G. Sturtevant and his son Ken- 
neth have gone all the way with 
the producers in helping them fight 
for a fluid market. Without them 
the Quality Milk Association either 
would have been forced into the 
distributing business directly, or 
else become resigned to a surplus 
market. The modern and well 
equipped plant of the Sturtevants 
together with their past experience 
in the milk business, and ample 
capital, prompted the producers to 
seek their co-operation which has 
been freely given from the begin- 
ning. 

The Quad Cities’ market like 
other markets where producers are 


Kenneth Sturtevant ready to take off 
for New York to speed delivery of 
more bottles. 


unorganized, has been a favorable 
one for the distributors for many 
years. With an air-tight organiza- 
tion reenforced: by a bottle ex- 
change by which the big dealers 
whipped the little ones into line, 
the distributors had absolute con- 
trol, bought their milk at a low 
price from the producers, and 
charged the consumer at a rate to 
give them a wide and_ profitable 
spread. 


20% Censumers’ DoHar 


For many years local milk pro- 
ducers secured only around 20 per 
cent of the consumers’ milk dollar. 
As late’as the summer of 1932 pro- 
ducers were netting only around $1 
per 100 pounds for milk which was 
being sold to the consumers in bot- 
tles at $4.60 per 100 pounds. More 
than. that, the dealers for a long 


time controlled the hauling of milk — 


from the farmers to the plants 
charging the producers up to 35 
cents per cwt. for the service. The 


Quality Milk Association broke up. 


this racket last year when it put 
in its own truck drivers and low- 
ered the hauling price to 20 cents. 
Last June, according to Herman 
Ralfs of Walcott, Iowa, it required 
half of all the milk he produced to 
pay the cost of hauling. 

Frank Watson, manager of the 
Quality Milk Association and its 
surplus plant in Davenport, points 
out that when the dealers lowered 
the price to the farmer on cream 
last November, the farmer was giv- 
en a cut of $4.70 per 100 pounds of 
20 per cent cream, whereas the 
price to the consumer was cut only 
$1.84 per cwt. In other words, the 
dealers used the situation to in- 
crease their profits from handling 
cream $2.86 per cwt. more than they 
previously had taken. 

The organized producers, more 
than 400 strong who attended the 
annual meeting at the Fort Arm- 
strong Hotel, Rock Island, Feb. 24, 
were unanimous in favor of con- 
tinuing their fight for a fluid mar- 
ket through the Sturtevant Com- 
pany. 

Larry Williams, manager of Coun- 
try Life, talked to the group con- 
gratulating them on their fine 
spirit, emphasizing the importance 


Base Milk Declines At 
Bloomington During 1932 


McLean County Milk Producers 
Meet In Annual Session 
Feb. 28 


TERING the year 1932, 442 mem- 
bers of the McLean County 
Milk Producers’ Association pro- 
duced 20,723,966 pounds of milk, a 
slight increase over 1931, Manager 
Forrest Fairchild reported at the 
annual meeting, Bloomington, Feb- 
ruary 28. ¢ 

Of this quantity nearly 32 per 
cent was used for fluid milk and 
cream compared with 37 per cent 
the year before. A little more than 
10 per cent .of: i 
milk was sold to 
other than con- 
tracting dealers, 
22% per cent was 
used for manu- 
facturing pur- 
poses, 1% per 
cent was used in. 
a. special class, 
and nearly 34 per 
cent was turned 
into butter. 

Total value of . ; 
milk sold W&S*FrorREST FAIRCHILD 
nearly $290,000, 

a decrease of 28 per cent from 1931. 
Base milk was 31.87 per cent of the 
total, and surplus 68.13 per cent. 

“This year the quality of milk 
delivered has been considerably 
better than that delivered in pre- 
vious years,” said Fairchild. The 
Association: purchased supplies for 
members, profits from which were 
paid back in the form of patronage 
refunds. 

The Farmers’ Creamery Company 
set up late in the year began mak- 
ing butter early in: February, 
churning sweet cream from surplus 
milk of members, and also cream 
received from produce associations 
in McLean and adjacent. counties. 
The creamery is equipped to take 
care of an annual capacity of 1,- 
200,000 pounds of butter. 

Donald Kirkpatrick and J. B. 
Countiss of the Illinois Agricultural 
Association spoke on legal and 
technical problems in co-operative 
marketing. 

Dr. H. A. Ruehe of the University 


.. 


of Mllinois spoke on the subject, 


“Operating a Creamery and Putting 
Out a Quality Product.” Officers and 
directors were re-elected. 


of following leadership and stick- 
ing to the finish. He cited case after 
case of victory resulting from co- 
operation, and failure from division. 
Attorney Wier of Davenport paid 
his respects to the farmers of the 
“rump” association who have al- 
lowed themselves to be used as tools 
of the organized dealers to the 
detriment of their neighbors. 


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March, 1933 


THE LAA RECORD 


Page Seventeen 


_ Smith and Kirkpatrick 
At Country Life Banquet 


400 General And Special Agents 
Gather For Annual Roundup 
at Peoria 


OUR hundred general and spe- 
cial agents of Country Life In- 
surance Company warmly wel- 
comed President Earl C. Smith and 
Donald Kirkpatrick, general coun- 
sel, at a banquet held in the Pere 
Marquette Hotel, Peoria, February 
21. The dinner marked the high 
point of the annual “round-up” of 
Country Life agents. Mr. Smith and 
Mr. Kirkpatrick 
ma; were not only the 
honored guests 
| but also the prin- 
| cipal speakers. 
1 The annual 
/ “round-up” open- 
i ed on the morn- 
ling of February 
21 and continued 
1 through the aft- 
ernoon of the 
following day. It 
was the largest 
EARL C. SMITH and most enthu- 
siastic meeting 
of its kind held in the history of 
the Company. L. A. Williams, man- 
ager, presided. 


In his address Mr. Smith traced 
the history of the Company, telling 
how the Illinois Agricultural As- 
sociation in 1927 decided to foster 
such a company in response to de- 
mand from members, the long and 
laborious preliminary steps neces- 
sary before the Company finally 
came into being, and of the stock 
setup and control worked: out by 
Mr. Kirkpatrick to keep its owner- 
ship within the Farm Bureau move- 
ment. Special tribute was paid to 
Vernon Vaniman, who directed the 
original “selling” campaign with 
the result that the necessary stock 
was oversubscribed, and to L. A. 
Williams, under whose direction 
the growth of. the Company in 
strength, in prestige, and in the 
amount of insurance in force has 
been continuous. 


“Every member of the I. A. A. is 
proud of Country Life,” Mr. Smith 
said, “because from these small 
beginnings it has flourished and 
grown until it commands the at- 
tention and respect of the oldest 
companies in the insurance field 
and because of the outstanding 
position it occupies, not only as an 
insurance company, but also as a 
truly successful agricultural co- 
operative.” 

The speaker’s mind was never far 
from the needs and problems of 
present day agriculture, however, 
and he brought a message of opti- 
mism to the guests who were al- 


most to a man practical farmers. 

“I believe the bottom has been 
reached,” Mr. Smith said, “and that 
from here on we may begin to note 
improvement. I am confident that 
existing farm problems eventually 
will be ironed out and brought to 
a successful solution.” 


He stressed the importance of 


complete organization among the 


farmers of the nation as a means 
of obtaining a voice in the settle- 
ment of agricultural problems and 
said that through organization the 
entire country may be impressed 
with the true importance of the 
farmer in the economic scheme of 
the nation. Through organization, 
he said, it can be clearly demon- 
strated that the first necessity is to 
restore the prosperity of agriculture 
as a means to restoring the pros- 
perity of every other class in 
America. 

Mr. Kirkpatrick paid an eloquent 
tribute to the memory of George 
Washington, whose birthday was 
the following day. He stressed the 
importance of team work in any 
cooperative organization and show- 
ed how no one aspect of a coop- 
erative group could be permitted to 
prosper at the expense of another 
but that all must bear their full 
share of the burden and accept full 
responsibility if success is to be 
achieved. 

He emphasized the importance of 
life insurance in general to the peo- 
ple of the United States and showed 
how it forms an extremely im- 
portant part in the financial struc- 
ture of the country. He likewise 
stressed the importance of life in- 
surance service in the I. A. A. pic- 
ture and pointed with pride to the 
record the Company has made. 

At the other sessions of the 
“round-up” speakers were for the 
most part members of the Country 
Life organization, their subjects 
being matters of interest to the 
agents, and discussions of the 
agents’ problems. W. K. Braasch, 
sales engineer, of Chicago and A. 
R. Jaqua of Cincinnati addressed 
the agents on insurance subjects. 
Mr. Williams opened the meeting 
with a talk on “The Importance of 
a Purpose,” and other speakers and 
leaders of the discussions included 
Dr. John Boland, medical director, 
C. C. Ramler, Dave Mieher, Bernard 
Mosier, M. E. Roberts, H. O. Henry, 
G. R. Williams, V. Vaniman and A. 
E. Richardson. 


The Illinois Agricultural Holding 
Company recently declared and 
paid a dividend of $48,000. Approxi- 
mately 10,000 checks were mailed 
out. 

This distribution is another ex- 
ample of the value of co-operative 
effort among Farm Bureau mem- 
bers. 


Walter W. McLaughlin 
Director of Agriculture 


Walter W. McLaughlin, former 
farm adviser in LaSalle county, was 
recently appointed state director of 
agriculture by Governor Horner. 

McLaughlin is a native of Ma- 
rion county, Illinois, where he re- 
sided until he started to school at 
Southern Illinois Normal college, 
Carbondale. After graduating there 
he taught country school for three 
years before entering the University 
of Illinois in 1913. Out of college 
during the war, McLaughlin re-en- 
tered the State University in 1920 
where he secured his bachelor’s de- 
gree in the College of Agriculture. 
He worked in LaSalle county seven 
years, first as assistant farm ad- 
viser then later as adviser. 

During recent years McLaughlin 
was employed as farm manager for 
the Citizens National Bank at De- 
catur. More than a year ago he 
joined Dudley C. Smith and Frank 
D. Baldwin in organizing Decatur 
Farm Management, Inc. which has 
been supervising approximately 17,- 
000 acres of land in Macon and ad- 
joining counties. 

McLaughlin’s appointment is a 
popular one, and he is assured of 
securing the good will and co-op- 
eration of agricultural interests 
throughout the state. 


1200 Attend Sanitary 


Milk Producers Meeting 


More than 1,200 milk producers 
attended the annual meeting of 
Sanitary Milk Producers, at St. 
Jacob Feb. 23 reports Sec. Geo. E. 
en who attended the meet- 
ng. 

An active discussion was had on 
the question of establishing surplus 
plants in the country. At current 
prices, farmers are receiving less 
for surplus milk after paying‘ truck- 
ing charges, than they would re- 
ceive were the milk condensed or 
separated and the cream churned 
into butterfat. 

Dr. Arthur E. Holt of the Chicago 
Theological Seminary was the prin- 
cipal speaker at the gathering rep- 
resenting 9,000 members of the As- 
sociation. 


Soyoil Paint at 


Century of Progress 


The Illinois Farm Supply Com- 
pany recently announced the sale 
of more than 400 gallons of Soyoil 
paint to the Century of Progress 
Exposition. 

The paint will be used both in- 
side and outside in covering the 
walls of the Illinois Host building. 


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Page Eighteen 


Illinois Grain Corp. Meeting 
(Continued from page 14) 


ing of the new board of directors 
went on record as favoring com- 
plete investigation of the plan now 
under consideration for the dilution 
of motor fuel with alcohol produced 
from farm products as a possible 
means of restoring the farmer’s 
purchasing power through provid- 
ing a better market for his grain. 


Smith Lauds Illinois Grain 


The importance to every resident 
of the United States of the coop- 
erative grain marketing movement 
was stressed by Earl C.. Smith, pres- 
ident of the Illinois Agricultural 
Association, in addressing the 
morning session of the annual 
meeting. 

After outlining efforts that are 
being made to restore the farmer’s 
purchasing power to a parity with 
other classes of our citizens, Mr. 
Smith said: 

“We who are fighting the battle 
of agriculture in this state are very 
proud of Illinois Grain Corpora- 
tion. Starting about a year after 
some of the others in our sister 
states we have outstripped them 
and Illinois now has one of the 
largest of all the Farmers’ National 
regionals in volume of grain han- 
dled. 

“Slowly but surely organized ag- 
riculture is getting recognition. 
Through his cooperative marketing 
organizations the farmer is coming 
to have a voice in the price of the 
grain and other products he raises 
and sells. He is beginning to help 
himself and regain his place in the 
economic scheme of our country.” 

Touching: on the depression, Mr. 
Smith said: 

“In my judgment the bottom has 
been reached. The farmer is com- 
ing back and everywhere organized 
agriculture is being recognized as a 
real power in the recovery from 
present depressed and depressing 
conditions. People everywhere are 
beginning to realize that no class 
of industry or business will recover 
until the farmer recovers and we 
feel that victory is in sight. 


Grow Despite Propaganda 


“T predict that Illinois Grain Cor- 
poration will double in membership 
and in the volume of grain handled 
within the next year or two.” 

G. C. Johnstone, president of Illi- 
nois Grain Corporation, while opti- 
mistic for the future, pointed out 
to the delegates attending the 
meeting that difficulties are daily 
being encountered in the movement 
to give the producer a voice in se- 
curing a fair price for his products. 

“Cooperative Marketing is having 
to fight for its existence,” Mr. John- 
stone said, “but we are winning. 


THE ILA.A. RECORD 


March, 1933 


BAGS OF MONEY FOR THE McLEAN COUNTY MEMBERS 


At the annual meeting of the McLean County Service Company one of the 
features was the payment of = B esi me refund amounting to approximately 


$45,000. This was dramatized b 


the individual truck salesmen appear 


on the stage with bags of ls im the amount of the refund paid to the 
customers on their various routes, and guarded by members of the American 
Legion. They are shown above, grouped around Manager George Curtiss. When 


its loaded into bags $45, 


000 sure = a lot of money. (Just between us the sacks 


were filled with washers and the guns loaded with blanks but the patronage 
divided was distributed just the ‘nemer-I04.) 


We must continue to have strong 
and fearless leadership and we 
must have loyal support from the 
ranks. Our growth and develop- 
ment in Illinois and the nation in 
the last two years has been accom- 
plished in spite of the most insid- 
ious propaganda ever attempted, 
with the exception perhaps of that 
directed at the prohibition question. 
This propaganda is being dissemi- 
nated through every conceivable 
channel. Never before has it been 
so well financed and so well or- 


- ganized. 


“And grain marketing is not the 
only target. Propaganda is being 
directed at all efforts of the farm- 
ers to organize for their mutual 
benefit. The charges made in the 
beginning have been exploded but 
new ones have been created to take 
their place. And it has been the 
policy of Illinois Grain Corporation 
not to attempt to answer the many 
absurd charges but rather to dem- 
onstrate by our operations, that the 
service we render is really in the 
interests of the farmers themselves. 


“It is more important now than 
ever that the farmers be awakened 
to the fact that they should join 
together to protect their own in- 
terests. A renewed, nation-wide 
drive is being made by all handlers 
of farm products to break down the 
confidence of farmers in their own 
organizations of every kind, both 
cooperative marketing and general 
farm organizations. Under the guise 
of economy, they are also attempt- 
ing to make all protective legisla- 
tion and appropriations for the 
benefit of the farmers inactive. 

“No individual farmer can hope 
to resist this attack. Strong organi- 
zation, with a loyal and determined 
membership, is his only chance.” 


|. A. A. Committees 
Appointed For 1933 


President Smith appointed the 
following advisory committees at 
the February meeting of the I. A. A. 
board of directors: 


FINANCE COMMITTEE: A. R. 
Wright, Varna, Chairman, M. G. 
Lambert, Ferris, Talmage DeFrees, 
Smithboro. 


ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE: 
C. E. Bamborough, Polo, Chairman, 
E. D. Lawrence, Bloomington, M. 
Ray Ihrig, Golden, T. W. May (Ad- 
viser), Edwardsville. 

PUBLIC . RELATIONS COM- 
MITTEE: Chas. 8. Black, Jackson- 
ville, Chairman, Geo. B. Muller, 
Washington, R. B. Endicott, Villa 
Ridge, Edwin Bay (Adviser), 
Springfield. 

MARKETING COMMITTEE: 
Samuel Sorrells, Raymond, Chair- 
man, W. A. Dennis, Paris, W. L. 
Cope, Salem, Eugene Curtis, Cham- 
paign, J. R. Spencer (Adviser) , Mo- 
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BUSINESS SERVICE COM- 
MITTEE: Geo. F. Tullock, Rockford, 
Chairman, Chas. Marshall, Belknap, 
E. Harris, Grayslake, W. L. Purnell 
(Adviser), Gibson City. 


|. A. A. Board Meetings 


Monthly meetings of the I. A. A. 
board of directors will be held dur- 
ing 1933 on Friday following the 
second Monday of each month un- 
less otherwise ordered. On this basis 
the dates for board meetings for 
the balance of the year are as fol- 
lows: February 17, March 17, April 
14, May 12, June 16, July 14, August 
18, Sept. 15, Oct. 13, Nov. 17, Dec. 15. 


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RECORD 


Published monthly by the Illinois ae a Association at 165 So. Main Street, Spencer, Ind, Hditorial Offices, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, !1l. 


Entered as second class matter at 
1925, authorized Oct, 27, 1925 
Dearbern St., Chicago. 


Number 4 


Spencer, Ind. Acceptance for mailing at special 


APRIL, 1933 


rates of postage provided in Section 412, Act of Feb. 28, 
m B lly alt communications for publication to Editorial Offices, Illinois Ravieuiiural Association "Record, 608 So 


Volume 11 


The Roosevelt Farm Bill 


It Gives The Secretary of Agriculture Broad Powers To Attack The Price Problem And 
Restore Farm Purchasing Power 


HE farm bill of the Roosevelt 

administration which was 
unanimously approved at a con- 
ference of 52 representatives of the 
general farm organizations, co- 
operatives, and farm press is dif- 
ferent than any agricultural legis- 
lation heretofore proposed. 

It sets forth certain objectives 
the chief of which is to raise farm 
prices gradually until the farmer 
has the same purchasing power he 
had in the five-year period from 
1909 to 1914. The bill clothes the 
Secretary of Agriculture with broad 
powers to act in achieving the goal. 


It does not tie the administration © 


down to any one plan or principle. 
It does point out several ways of 
starting agriculture on the upgrade 
leaving it to the discretion of the 
Secretary to use one or all of the 
methods suggested. In this respect 
the measure blazes a new trail in 
legislation’ so far as agriculture is 
concerned. 

As a means toward raising prices, 
the bill would restore the balance 
between production and consump- 
tion of farm crops. It gives the Sec- 
retary of Agriculture power: 

(1) To provide for reduction in 
acreage or production of specified 
farm products and to compensate 
producers for such_ reduction 
through rental or benefit payments. 

(2) To enter into marketing 
agreements with producers, mar- 
keting agencies, and processors of 
farm products. 

(3) To license processors and dis- 
tributing agencies engaged in inter- 
state or foreign commerce in. han- 
dling agricultural products and to 
regulate them so as to eliminate 
unfair practices and charges. 

(4) To use the Smith Cotton op- 
tion contract plan on the 1933 crop 
of cotton. 


(5) To impose taxes on. the 


processing of the basic agricultural 
commodities at an amount not in 
excess of that necessary to restore 
the pre-war price parity, subject to 
the limitation that the tax shall be 


reduced if the full amount is more 
than can be borne under existing 
conditions without excessive  re- 
duction in consumption. 

It is intended under this broad 
grant of power that the Secretary 
will call in representatives of the 
producers and processors for each 
commodity and shall work out sep- 
arately for each commodity the 
method of dealing with it which 
offers the best hope of effective 
control of production for the 1933 
crops and of progressive action to- 
wards an_ elimination of surplus 
stocks or production, and restora- 
tion of normal price parities. 

Under the taxing power, provi- 
sion is made for hearing interested 
parties so that before applying the 
law the Secretary will discuss each 
proposed step with those interested 
and will take into account their 
expert advice. 

In controlling production of dif- 
ferent commodities different sys- 
tems will probably be used. Thus it 
is anticipated that in the case of 
hogs benefit payments will be con- 
tingent upon a reduction in the 
tonnage of pork marketed by the 
producer. In the case of cash crops 
the rental or benefit payment may 
be based primarily upon reduction 
in acreage of the particular crop 
in question, with supplementary 
provisions as to the alternative 
use of the land. Under the plan the 
Secretary is also at liberty to rent 
land in large tracts or in selected 
regions, or to allot the sums for 
land rentals by States and counties 
so that each producer will have an 
equal opportunity to rent a portion 
of his land. 

Provisions are included for taxes 
on the existing warehouse stocks at 
the time the processor’s tax goes 
into effect and refunds on the ex- 
portation of finished products upon 
which processing taxes have been 
collected and for the imposition of 
such taxes as are found necessary 
on commodities or products com- 
peting with the basic agricultural 


commodities or -their products. 
Commodities used by unemploy- 
ment relief agencies are exempt 
from taxation. Through these, and 
other special provisions it is hoped 
that the. tax can be applied with 
the least possible necessity for ad- 
justment!in the. various. industries 
and without injustice to the va- 
rious individuals and concerns in- 
volved, so that in every way the ad- 
dition of the tax will work out in 
the same way as an increase in the 
price of the product itself. 

In practically all cases the per- 
centage of the retail prices which 
now goes to the farmer is so small 
that the addition of the tax will 
have only a very slight effect on 
the retail price. It is anticipated 
that that part of the tax which is 
added to the retail price will not 
be burdensome to consumers. At 
the same time by increasing the 
funds available in rural commu- 
nities and thus increasing the as- 
sets behind the rural banking 
structure and increasing the pur- 
chasing power of farmers for in- 
dustrial products it is expected that 
there will result an increase in city 
industrial activity. As this develops 
the increased activity will even- 
tually provide city workers increased 
incomes far greater than the small 
increase in food cost. 

The basic products to which the 
Act applies are: wheat, cotton, corn, 
tobacco, rice, hogs, cattle, sheep, 
and milk and its products. In prac- 
tically all cases these products are 
now selling at retail far below the 
cost of other items of food and the 
prices of goods and services which 
consumers buy. The Bill specifically 
states that the Act is not to be so 
administered as to advance the re- 
tail price of the products affected 
out of line with the prices of other 
products. 


The President may terminate the 
measure whenever he finds that the 
existing emergency in relation to 
agriculture has been ended. 


Page Four 


THE I. A. A. RECORD 


April, 1933 


‘Hew The New Bill Was Written 


The Emergency Banking Act Furnished The Principal Idea ln The Measure 


HE farm bill of the Roosevelt 

administration described on 
the preceding page proposes to do 
for agriculture what the new bank- 
ing act does for finance. 

Passage of the Emergency Bank- 
ing Act which gives the President 
certain dictatorial powers to 
straighten out the financial situa- 
tion inspired the idea back of the 
new farm measure. The plan of giv- 
ing the Secretary of Agriculture 
broad powers to handle the situa- 
tion was first discussed by a small 
group of farm leaders on the way to 
Washington to attend the confer- 
ence called by Secretary Wallace. 
The thought was to empower the 
Secretary to apply different prin- 
ciples of surplus control to each of 
the several commodities as the pe- 
culiarities of the commodity might 
best justify. 


This provision incorporated in 


the new bill removes the outstand- 
ing weakness of previous measures 
which attempted to apply one prin- 


ciple of law to several basic com- 


modities regardless of their re- 
lationship or the special problems 
they presented in production, pro- 
cessing, or marketing, said Presi- 
dent Earl C. Smith who attended 
the many conferences held before 
the measure was finally drafted. 


Confidence In Wallace 


This broad grant of power unani- 
mously agreed upon at the confer- 
ence of 52 farm representatives ex- 
presses the implicit confidence 
farmers everywhere have in Henry 
Wallace. 

The conference appointed a com- 
mittee representing each com- 
modity and major farm organiza- 
tion the members of which appear 
in the picture below. This com- 


mittee conferred with the President 
in the White House office building 
following which several changes in 
the bill were made before submit- 
ting it to Congress. 

The new farm bill is definitely a 
Roosevelt administration measure 
and as such has the unqualified 
support of the President. The gen- 
eral farm organizations and co- 
operatives have offered their serv- 
ices in helping the President and 
Secretary of Agriculture to make it 
operate when enacted. 

The bill which passed the House 
by a vote of 315 to 98 on March 22 
empowers the Secretary of Agri- 
culture to invoke one or more of 
several plans to restore farm prices 
to pre-war parity. 

As we go to press plans to re- 
finance farm mortgages through a 
federal credit agency are being dis- 

(Continued on page 14, Col. 1) 


Committee of Farm Organization, Co-operative and Farm Press Representatives, Who 


Left to right: Dan Wallace, editor, Farmer, St. Paul; W. R. Ronald, editor, Republican, Mitchell, S. D.; Chas, Holman, 


secretary, National Co-op. Milk Producers Assn.; M. S. Winder, 
O’Neal, president, American Farm Bureau Federation; R. G. 


secretary, 


American Farm 
Tugwell, asst. sec’y of Agriculture; C. V. Gregory, editor 


Bureau Federation; E. A. 
’ 


Prairie Farmer; L. J. Taber, president, National Grange; Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture. 


April, 1933 


THE LA. A. RECORD 


Page Five . 


The State Sales Tax 


|. A. A. Amendments Provide For Equitable Distribution And Make It a Replacement Tax 


Enactment of the administra- 
tion’s state sales tax which went 
into effect April 1 paves the way 
for substantial reductions in prop- 
erty taxes in all down-state coun- 
ties where unemployment relief is 
not a major problem. 

The measure of relief to property 
will depend upon the amount of 
revenue raised by the new taxing 
measure. Based on estimated re- 
turns of $40,000,000 in the next 
twelve months, the sales tax will 
make possible reductions in levies 
against property for educational 
purposes in the various counties as 
indicated in the accompanying 
table. 

The revenue from the sales tax 
in each county will be used wholly 
to reduce property taxes for educa- 
tional purposes unless the county 
board by a two-thirds vote decides 
that part or all of such revenue 


be diverted for unemployment re- 
relief in 1933 or 1934. 

The prospective reduction in 
property taxes, according to John 
C. Watson, director of taxation, who 
compiled the data, is contingent 
upon all of the money returned to 
the counties being used for educa- 
tional purposes in which case levies 
against property by school districts 
must be cut to the extent funds are 
derived from the’ sales tax. The re- 
duction in property taxes, likewise, 
is contingent upon local school 
boards not increasing their levies 
for educational purposes above ex- 
penditures in the school year of 
1930-31. 

“If any school board,” said Mr. 
Watson, “takes advantage of the 
situation to increase its levy in the 
coming year above the 1930-31 fig- 
ure the effect will be to lower the 
saving made possible by the re- 


placement feature of the sales tax. 
It is up to the taxpayers of every 
county to see that there is no un- 
necessary diversion of sales tax 
revenue to unemployment relief, 
and also to see that school boards 
hold down their levies consistent 
with the greatly reduced ability to 
pay, of property owners.” 

Some question has arisen regard- 
ing the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion’s interest and part in the pas- 
sage of the state sales tax com- 
mented President Earl C. Smith. 
The I. A. A. did not sponsor this 
measure. The sales tax was 
sponsored by the state adminis- 
tration. The. original measure 
provided that all revenue was to be 
made available to the state unem- 
ployment relief commission. Ex- 
penses in 1932 revealed that Cook 
county received more than 90 per 

(Continued on page 6) 


called on President Roosevelt recently. The White House is in the Background. 


Left to right: Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agrriculture; C, E. Huff, president, Farmers National Grain 


Corp.; 


Ralph Snyder, Nat’l Committee of Farm Organizations; Earl C. Smith, president, Illinois Agricultural Ass’n; W. B. 
Blalock, president, American Cotton Co-op. Ass’n; Dr. 0. O. Wolf, Director, National Livestock Marketing Ass’n; Cong. 


Wallace’s Farmer-Iowa Homestead. 


- P. Lambertson, vice-president, Farmers Union; M. L. Wilson, Montana Agricultural College; Dante Pierce, publisher 


PTO 


Page Siz 


The State Sales Tax 


(Continued from page 5) 


cent of all funds expended for the 
relief of destitute people in Mlli- 
nois. 


The Illinois Agricultural Associa- 


tion early recognized that new 
revenue would have to be found 
from some source to take care of 
unemployed people particularly in 
the metropolitan areas. When the 
measure was introduced the I. A. A. 
insisted that any proposed tax im- 
posed on the people of the state 
would be unfair if nearly all of it 
were spent in metropolitan areas. 


In line with the Association’s 
well-known policy to the effect that 
all new revenue derived from taxes 
be used primarily to replace or re- 
duce taxes on property, the I. A. A. 
sponsored three amendments to the 
administration’s sales tax bill. Two 
of these were passed in the senate 
and are now incorporated in the 
enacted bill. One makes the sales 
tax a replacement tax, although a 
county board of supervisors by a 
two-thirds vote may divert sales tax 
revenue to unemployment relief, 
during 1933 and 1934. The other 
amendment provides for an equi- 
table distribution of sales tax rev- 
enue among the counties accord- 
ing to population. The third 
amendment sponsored by the I. A. 
A. would have reduced the maxi- 
mum levy against property for the 
educational fund in school districts 
to 80 per cent of the average an- 
nual levy in the four years end- 
ing June 30, 1932 unless higher 
levies are permitted by referendum. 


Because of organized opposition of 
Illinois teachers who insisted on 
maintaining the salary levels of the 
prosperity era this amendment was 
defeated. Therefore the Association 
urges the property taxpayers to see 
that educational fund levies are held 
down in line with the spirit of the 
defeated amendment. This is nec- 
essary to secure the maximum re- 
duction in property taxes from the 
replacement feature of the Sales 
Tax Act. In the meantime the 
Association is giving consideration 
to the introduction of a bill to make 
cuts in levies for the educational 
funds of school districts mandatory. 


The Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion believes strongly in education 
and in maintaining efficient public 
schools, but it believes that schools 
should reduce their expenditures 
and cost of maintenance along with 
other branches of government. so 
as to share at least in part the tre- 
mendous decline in the incomes of 
taxpayers. 


Twenty thousand dollars in cash 
dividends were paid to patrons of 
the Will County Farm Supply Com- 
pany on March 4. 


THE I. A.A. RECORD 7 April, 1933 


Estimated Annual Replacement of Property Taxes for Elementary 
Educational Purposes by Counties Based on $40,000,000 
Revenue for Entire State from 3% State Sales Tax 


*. Expenditures 


For Elementary Return From 
Educa’l. Fund Est. Sales Tax 
County In Yr. 1930-31 Of $40,000,000 
PM ie eck 68h kcal in: 6p wp poe eve RL aha ee $ 522,050 $ 329,200 
PISRONG OT 60 wg ib ea Lh ew bets 324,779 118,000 
PI Win 6 isd 6 5 och g eb hbk a ie aes Cae 133,344 75, 
SINE 85 oA Ns reghanee Kaiee ees Oe Lae Oe 78,69 79,200 
TRRINER in 6a Biv ok ewe OE ok Die ae vate eee Re ane 68,606 41,200 
OMNES ig alae) Lhe epee won tt weg! o Ce taabign Mak eatin yi aie 398,662 203,600 
CMTE ose on einige OER SD ERS Che he 38,821 ' 
CORO ag hia Se eed cte bo Be oR ah we Meas sok 194,446 96,800 
SSG x's boH'o 05s hak ele SORA ak RS Belden k 119,273 86,800 
CRM B LT ok oi. ale sae ele herb aces owen dk creed 667,463 336,800 
CSRAMTR UR ee ese alice Noe Soa BAW Oey ele ae 328,065 196,800 
SN a5 haw Ke bg lak hides wb MR ORES °142,761 93,600 
CE ea pra hb iwiereON a a ale p cE he Abe Ria wl eleie eis 137,194 $4,800 
NEE aah Tey lees ig Vik. boo e Kew kd ale Bole ae bles 105,442 112,000 
RN ots. a aS ee, 0 Scie adn Sova hited ad che wine 236,482 195,600 
aiid onie'e aise oka wis ¢ einkasb goa aie ae ae he 62,053,366 20,874,400 
CRMC ONG 5 Fb ee egw he ee etl ebb ea als ble 202,091 110, 
COMO IO io OE ae oe Scie bee ale 88,309 54,800 
DeKalb'........ Pace tin dearer rae g Rati e a 400,082 171,200 
RP ihe, Sea ae Wie bh oo ole ocpln O28 bla we be ew 208,346 97,600 
NN Soy ink Roca 5:0 Bip fon @ pid ecabe Sie ete hoe aly Was 209,171 . 
PN 536s a Pale eee hibss din SN OEE CS wHCke 1,143,723 482,400 
MIT a eos Wi 8's aoe ic be ew Cate eae ob alta 247,676 130, 
OO 53s hee Ne sO W 8S Pew Chahane oles sale 52, 43,600 
BE ee eee ace’ Lich Oba sa Be blacks 118,367 . 
PN a a Uke 8 PaaS A She ve hw Dee 177,418 123,200 
ea 6. bo bas Ue aks RES ihe eka Sv 195,373 81,200 
Sy) RRR is ai ig PR aR Ear kere ear 419,506 311,600 
aia ees a Soc gse a a nthe bike 8 se Webseg Wredeaasecg ot 377,563 230,400 
CORN irs ie oe hte 6h ae we ea ele ees 60,672 52,800 
RS PIR aes are CRS AD ce BS Ena 173,663 107,200 
oes te Au eteleve eeaibe eracd ecaup Hue 211,547 98,000 
PAOESEROTD ol 5 oon 5.5.50 iach se, veg cha ope oe 82,265 68,000 
Un ee yutiinve be laibiece 262,927 138,400 
PRN bao a shu e Behe ep Siw bie ale eben we acme 40,536 36,400 
FEOMGGPBON.. . a) ib es ela oie aes 104,333 46,000 
PRM Eg Siok 's vd 9, pik ove nietw pid ach ago a9 pide karen pee 395,628 230,000 
RMOMMNMNEO Sey ced pica aw ache 8 we 8 GR 8 ae Cb Bia ee 405,265 172,400 
WTROOO 5 068i OS Siac bed SN eee 261,801 187,200 
Ng net Se ti hace 122,640 67,200 
A SS CURR RE ois I ene ears Ahaha re ey a ae 214,229 162,800 
UMM aes sol Chios xl tiers Woe ee & Waa» 89,917 . + 66,000 
PORPIORE oie o's OR RG bi ale Pe bee me 161,194 106,000 
EET Ae are Ee Sone TCE Nm 59,106 53,600 
eh dao oa ko ec 5s8 006s WIR OS ORS ET oO Na OR CD 1,210,848 656,800 
WE OO eS Pe Shen se Miek a Co bia ob Aw Vile 393,279 262,400 
MEIN 50 oe 5 sors waive alaters < elcaie Mbiaewn’ 115,839 55,200 
Moe ia on ion ks or ise Pane gi oe ale ES 426,791 269,200 
EE Sor is Gil eo Nie ines bela sa Oe eRe 1,328,857 547,200 
Aes gd vag bic acevgic ecbre peed int ae 942,514 512,000 
CMO 2 noise Foo es ne UES Ce Sie grub wn Face 177,274 114,800 
MOORES RES eS oh Sco acai 9% w, ¥-B Cie oo cel on Wea) MER 274,531 169,600 
EAVIRMBCON | oioois oe Fie Bee etc ewe eh hes 471,575 204,800 
ee ano ACI OEE ICE ICR Ie EO EO 284,642 151,200 
PAGO OOUGR 8. ois i ie ee ee ee ees 253,306 143 
ET ogo. sa cosk-olnaie-« bie-cige Bie pis Wotans' a: oa ete 418,554 184,000 
MMMM 2s. gc. avowed, ofehiy o & Wie, oscd bop" Din ab Boe ee 673,070 383,200 
nS 05.5 Sap op Pieces awe Rivctcele ewh ow ge 806,677 428,400 
MURTBERD oS ae ue eho! Bo bttaee-t0 Sivlip es dle ew ces 480,782 255,200 
MMII oo cee ach acee Ga bieee aseebie ee Wee wire 1,169,516 754,000 
ENE Woe ab oe oe ce llbes Oe dee wee RES 305,074 186,800 
IRE 5s Beh vale 00k 7 ced POUR T ERS 135,861 68,400 
a5 6 ad SS e ccke olka ote She eee a 183,484 79,200 
ENS a5 Sa: 6 a so" esa ew bse OD. Bie SiN eee eee 102,403 74,000 
ETE ood. bin BSc yaw k MS 8b Siw ble hk Oe Teo 88,775 55,600 
I neo ho Siento ale Vw tv bEba as ew eee 184,707 87,200 
UN 5s cleo ack oS Ginl's 'o ele nly Date ele wine 81,1 64, 
DAOMEMOMOCLY. okie ai ce cows eat ewpeees 287,705 184,800 
EI og akd oh ois d-ba ee blehewcaen ge Bib ee RN OES 226,851 179,600. 
MEE es eM Tk og COR BS ede he nae eawe 131,869 69,600 
CT Se Nie Aa Sik 6 o aie ah Seip hw eyes orale 314,411 147,200 
I 0 ay ois tooo pik bb '5 a CEN FO OPE tack Me Oe 1,096,696 
PEMD 06S o%o 0,6 FT| b's go 8-40.00 Hs Ma OE ROE Ed & 161,981 119,200 
WOMNIEC is Vin A aie baie soe bib cob b's. Hew De ens 4,345 81,600 
se ach 4 ole 6.6. ecb oleh be a wese 8 ALTE E Whe eee GEES 253,542 127,600 
ee cS Sete ie e oid bie cprhla a eRe pede 54,73 42,000 
EE Fs ae care a eb galery ereleve Sere ho Ve beaver en 87,966 77,600 
eM eg conte a sp ie gdb a ble te Soe able ws 8 68,707 27,600 
EL "55 ip. c Win 2a 5ee eS go: 0 oH 9 ORR RS ORS 183,759 153,600 
PPRNN SS Boo io ey oace’e pedicle waie we paree 8 die 113,391 73,600 
PRM RUGS a6 os erect ip wet vee eee 1,036,384 514,800 
St _. a Serer Saree ace 1,709,287 827,200 
ES is pos ccs a Fa bw ges ea DOR wane eee 258,343 194,400 
SINE ok ni e's ew pib-de a cies 0d cslo ee aedve als 1,005,777 585,600 
SIE a6 5 aa eee os eee eb date ere hake ek 125,616 61,200 
STE Se at er i rae I oe 83,752 44,800 
NI iS a5 one gote oe ode eg oP ved a Vay 210,363 133,600 
eos. 56'S soe iN op eg Va bad aH eee'e ne si 122,501 48,000 
BRGDMONBON i. kw cc eee cc cee sone eile 325,025 210,000 
E TENNER a ego cies gic Eh wit bine eb be beRa gis 493,566 241,600 
(ll OSCE i ees TAS eae igri sar |: MI Lis a re 119,208 104,400 
WONG tee Se Re we ae eh 821,165 468,400 
NIE op5.a 4.5.4 bk 0% sony cowl oobop bra -0.0 Vib .e,o 0b: 6% 99,912 69,200 
too, SSR ea Sr ee are Comer oe ores 236,739 114,000 
By CS CR aa ei Roar ee 104,450 85,200 
OID hg 8 5b.c 05 ob fe ock 6 ewe Seb hee aa eles 157,142 100,400 
WI ag V4 obs c.h0 iy ole Beta wag Oa. e's Orbe histece ® 159,024 95,200 
WV IUOONOO oo oie a icc Case 6 hbelw woe 8 58 bales 395,544 204,400 
ON ie ehh a kc oie... 6 Bib 0 REOES £08 Behe eB Ege HS 1,002,565 580,400 
Williamson ..... cece ec ee eee ee eens 488,627 282,400 
WRAIRTOUGNO |. isco ie ens cee eb gy Fils. Cues 1,259,008 615,200 
WOGOGMONS Here k Ges cab o.e Rhea oe ceaet 218,045 98,400 


* No school district can be apportioned any sum from the sales tax which when 
added to its receipts from the state school fund in any year exceeds its average 
annual expense ures for elementary educational purposes in the four years ending 
July 30, 1932. The balance, if any, is to be apportioned to all high schools and non- 


high school district in the same county in proportion to assessed valuations. 


April, 1933 


THE L.A. A. RECORD 


Page Seven 


Hi-Ball Gas Proves Popular 


Users Are Enthusiastic About New Motor Fuel, Hope For Legislation 


G ASOLINE diluted 10 per cent 
with anhydrous (dry) grain 
alcohol makes a better motor fuel 
than either ordinary or the so- 
called “premium” brands of undi- 
luted gasoline. This is the conclu- 
sion reached almost unanimously by 
users of the new blended fuel who 
have been testing it under actual 
daily driving conditions 

in ten down-state Mlli- 

nois counties. 

A total of 300,000 gal- 
lons had been dis- 
tributed by the County 
Farm Bureau __ Service 
Companies up to March 
29. In their opinion, the 
alcohol-gasoline blend is - 
superior in every depart- 
ment of motor operation 
to straight gasoline of 
whatever test. Only a 
negligible minority dis- 
sented from this opinion 
in the slightest particu- 
lar. 

Throughout most of 
the month of March, 
Illinois Farm Supply 
Company has been distributing 
through the County Farm Bu- 
reau service companies, the new 
“Hi-Ball Gasoline,” diluted with 
anhydrous alcohol at the ratio of 
10 to 1. It was distributed to con- 
sumers at 3 cents per gallon higher 
than ordinary gasoline. The dis- 
tribution of the new fuel was made 
possible by a permit from the Fed- 
eral Bureau of Industrial Alcohol 
secured by the Illinois Agricultural 
Association and the American Com- 
mercial Alcohol Corporation of Pe- 
kin. 

Laboratory Experiment 

Distribution of “Hi-Ball” gas was 
in effect a gigantic laboratory ex- 
periment conducted under the 
strictest supervision in an effort to 
determine the facts concerning a 
gasoline-alcohol blend as motor 
fuel. Wide publicity had been given 
the proposals for such a blend as 
a means of supplying the farmer 
with a market for his surplus grain 
and of advancing grain prices. Bills 
were introduced in the Congress. 
Claims had been advanced that the 
plan offered the only real hope of 
farm relief and there was consider- 
able misinformation circulated re- 
garding the scheme. 

At the instance of Earl C. Smith, 
president of the I. A. A., a national 
committee was formed headed by 
C. V. Gregory of Prairie Farmer to 
investigate the plan from all angles. 
Dr. L. M. Christiansen, of the Iowa 
State College at Ames, one of the 
first to experiment with alco-gas 


‘ 


ture the task 


This information is bein 
Results of the first reports received are outlined in 
the accompanying story. 


‘ distributed 


blending, supplied the committee 
with much information. Chester 
C. Davis, vice-president of the 
Maizewood Products Corp., was 
retained temporarily to assemble 
the data. 

Very little concrete information 
about the fuel was available and 
the Illinois Agricultural Association 


Administration Investigates 


News dispatches from Washington state that 
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace has as- 
signed investigators in the Department of Agricul- 
of gathering complete information 
about diluting gasoline with alcohol made from 
grain. The results of the experiment among several 
thousand users of Hi-Ball gasoline 


available to the Secretary together with data being 
compiled by Chester C. Davis for the Committee of 
Farm Organizations. Large numbers of replies have 
been received in response to questionnaires sent out 
by the Illinois Farm Supply Co. to County Service 
Companies in the Peoria and Bloomington areas. 


determined to make a test so that 
all agencies and groups interested 
might have actual facts upon which 
to base reliable conclusions. Illinois 
Farm Supply Company and its as- 
sociated service companies were 
ideally situated to conduct the 
test. 
300,000 Gallons 

Up to date, approximately 300,000 
gallons of Hi-Ball Gas have been 
in the counties of 
Peoria, Knox, Fulton, Tazewell, Lo- 
gan, Mason, DeWitt, Henry, Mar- 
shall, Putnam, Woodford, Living- 
ston, McLean and McDonough 
counties. The return of the ques- 
tionnaires supplied each purchaser 


- of the new fuel has led to the above 


conclusions. 

Of 240 users who compared “Hi- 
Ball” gas with ordinary motor fuel 
178 reported increased mileage. 
(The average increased mileage per 
gallon for all cars with Hi-Ball was 
3.07.) Only one out of 240 reported 
a decreased mileage and 78 did not 
report either increase or decrease. 

In the other various departments 
of motor operation results were re- 
ported as follows: 

Two hundred seventeen reported 
better starting with Hi-Ball gas, 
two reported better starting with 
ordinary gas and 21 could see no 
difference; 228 got better accelera- 
tion with Hi-Ball, one with ordinary 
gasoline, and eleven could see no 
difference. In smoothness of op- 
eration, 231 preferred Hi - Ball, 
none thought ordinary gas was bet- 


be made 


tabulated and analyzed. 


ter and nine thought that the new 
fuel made no difference. Only 
eleven out of 240 users thought-that 
anti-knock qualities were not im- 
proved by the new fuel while 229 
were sure they were improved. In 
this classification not one user 
found that gasoline’s anti-knock 
properties were superior to Hi- 
Ball. 
More Power 


Only one user reported 
that he got more power 
with ordinary gasoline, 
while 231 were of the 
opinion that their mo- 
tors developed greater 
“pull” with Hi-Ball, and 
eight could note no dif- 
ference. Two hundred 
thirty - four expressed 
the opinion that their 
motor performance was 
generally better with Hi- 
Ball, not one thought 
that gasoline gave “better 
motor performance and 

‘in the opinion of six it 
was about a stand-off 
between two fuels. 

One question developed an ex+' 
ceedingly interesting answer. 
Asked whether they would be will- 
ing to pay two or three cents a gal- 
lon more for blended fuel, provided 
its use would provide a market for 


- surplus corn, 239 declared they 


would willingly pay this premium 
and only one said he would be un- 
willing to do so. 

A special comparison is being 
made of the results obtained with 
Hi-Ball Gas and high test or pre- 
mium motor fuel. Out of thirteen 
such users, 10 reported an average 
increase of 3.74 miles per gallon, 
not one reported a decrease as 
compared with straight high test 
gasoline and three did not report 
any change. 


Aids Motor Operation 


The following tabulation covers 
other departments of operation. 


mi 
Hi-Ball Gas No 
Better Better Difference 

RSS Ope 9 _- 8 

Acceleration ........-. 10 1 1 
Smoothness of 

eration ........-. 11 ~= 1 

POWGE cepescccccsccess 10 1 1 

Anti-Knock .......... . 9 -= 3 
General Motor 

Performance ...... 9 —_ 3 


Of the thirteen reporting, 12 ex- 
pressed their willingness to pay a 
premium of 2 to 3 cents per gallon 
for the new fuel and one decided he 
would stick to high test at the lower 
price. 

After the fuel has been tested for 
a period of 60 to 90 days depending 

(Continued on page 15) 


‘Page Eight 


THE I. A. A. RECORD April, 1933 


IL rT 
A couruak i N OER os |] 


RECORD 


To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was or- 
ganized namely, to promote, protect and represent the busi- 
ness, economic, political and educational interests of the 
farmers of Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 


GEORGE THIEM, Editor 


teen ener aiepinenmpeoeeeteesnemcnpen ncmgensomct 

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OFFICERS 
President, Farl ©, Smith................ cece ccceccecccccevcvecs Detroit 
Vice-President, A. R, Wright...............cccccccccecccceeeces Varna 
Secretary, Geo. H.. Metzger............ccccccceccvucccceuvcsecves Chicago 
Treasurer, BR. A: Cowles. oes cccccdeccccvsccsccyesccccceces Bloomington 


BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
(By Congressional District) 
al 0G: RUB ods 6 i's pelts Cate hissed Fee's ALES AREER ES Ebb Harris, Grayslake 
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RE a ORS 65 dn-055 4 oH Pele NTE STAC SOM Re Pea Pee G. F,. Tullock, Rockford 
EN CRS pie a aie ces + eS ed Nee eb ces Oy .ko hebea hake ee C. E, Bamborough, Polo 
es a) wie SEL Gia pian GUM PRON hlat ed Dhahran M. G. Lambert, Ferris 
BO 9 fine SMA DB dan Oo e deinen doin pag ae elk abe pein M. Ray Ihrig, Golden 
ES ENACT SC ulpieie ate ti peice GOR e eee Leow Reh ae Geo. B. Muller, Washington 
NNN Dh, hav eae bideo eR E AG Pec ARR ae oer bake BE. D. Lawrence, Bloomington 
BONES aces Shae co ce ice ap ce de NM by hie oh ined Pees W. A. Dennis, Paris 
MENG ieab.s, Sip een vee 6 pbc ck 0, 0 CMMEOP UL 0'o.0 30a %s eee E. G. Curtis, Champaign 
MRS pin 065 6 ub cb Be GN ewe 0 Lela e wid EMO wey Charles S. Black, Jacksonville 
MRC 36 555 5 p'e'e ye Ub einty ob UE Blah ate Me beh AE Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 
PE ios REET ein 6h Korg wat ad Oboes deabenseleg Talmage DeFrees, Smithboro 
MINA ig: 550! pie 9's 9 0 as che wu nsionoila pidca. 0, dead San 08 Ge SR W. L. Cope, Salem 
PRG soe c ob ale dh od cdtd bathe oe CR ea eda RRO R Eee Charles Marshall, Belknap 
PUR Sos: o's andie okc.a' ars ie oad ian GUIS ula a cals Sale k Cee ee R. B. Endicott, Villa Ridge 
DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 
CIILOINOR so 5.5 5 a 052 0:0 Gio 80.49 0d died e'.d0.c ue 'elel'e pC Sab aces eae eet J. H, Kelker 
DOGRED PEREMOINE 066s ck cece eine due ps dees ep cs cue scivaieeess J. B. Countiss 
MMe Apia tains bre $95.04 0:4 Gia b-okdiee 6700.5 0 orahsivid se kere c'sncbesbe' R. A. Cowles 
Fruit and Wegetable Marketing..................ceceeeeeeees H, W. Day 
RNs BSS s Se kao oroie So's cc-s tced clues steve coe odes Suetees George Thiem 
RRMUPRMCO OT WICO 66.6 os ce ice e cee bic t es onsccsneecegecabhebe Vv. Vaniman 
EMET -COUMBON S655. 5.5 5 occ ce ced iccv cnc occeviascesevvéve Donald Kirkpatrick 
Live Stock Marketing............... ccc ecccec cece ecneeeees Ray B. Miller 
MCSE SR is O06 bk Wa 6.0 6c crcle da opie e:iiece gis ves nae tog eweope C, E, Johnston 
RUPEE Oe cias dic e's 0 03's oo nies ole c.c's 854 cle elps rece eRé ge'e G. E. Metsger 
Produce Marketing................. ce cece cece ceceeeeeeeeee F. A. Gougler 
Taxation and Statistics. ......... 0... cc cece eee eter en eens J. C. Watson 
DMO OCC GIO. 6's 5 565 60's k Ei isi85s poe ow bora, ale siccoe dihgew ec ewegeeee L. J. Quasey 
ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 
Country Life Insurance Co.........0+-+2+e+eeeeerees L, A. Williams, Mgr. 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co............+-++eeee J. H, Kelker, Mgr. 
Illino's Agricultural Auditing Assn............... F. EB. Ringham, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co....... A. BE. Richardson, Mgr. 
Illinois Farm Supply Co........scssscecseseteeeceee L. R. Marchant, Mgr. 
Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange...........++-s+sseeess H. W. Day, Mgr. 
Illinois Grain Cerp....... Chas. P. Cummings, Vice-Pres. and Sales Mgr. 
Illinois Livestock Market. Ass’n...Ray Miller, Mgr., R. W. Grieser, Sales 
Illinois Produce Marketing Age’Nn.....-+.seseseeeseens F, A. Gougler, Mgr. 
Soybean Marketing Ass’D..........cseee005 Viawtbe sg W. H. Coultas, Mgr. 


Administration Farm Program 


ERE’S to the Business Week for a clear and hon- 

est appraisal of the economic situation and the 
Roosevelt program to raise agricultural prices. Ad- 
mitting that there may be sound objections offered to 
the proposed farm legislation, the weekly declares in 
its March 29 issue: 


“President Roosevelt’s farm program has one 
supreme justification which overrides objections. 
It is necessary to do something for the farm popu- 
lation and do it quickly. .. . One way or another, 
the rest of the population is going to be taxed 
for the benefit of the farmer... but that aspect 
of the situation is mitigated by the reflection that 
for a long time the farmer has subsidized the rest 
OF U8. 6. 3% 

Here is an honest statement of fact. It has been 
too often denied in business and industrial circles. 
Our “protection for industry” policy pursued for many 
years is largely responsible for putting the farmer 
down where he is. That policy has led to the near 
destruction of American agriculture’s foreign markets 
and compelled the farmer to pay exorbitant tariff- 
made prices for nearly everything he bought. Fur- 
ther, our high tariff policy, immigration restrictions, 


and rate-fixing have greatly increased the cost of pro- 
cessing and distributing farm products. As a result 
the American farmer receives an unwarranted small 
percentage of the consumer’s dollar. 

Higher farm prices will immediately release a 
wave of buying that will be reflected in greater em- 
ployment and prosperity in industrial centers. Thus 
the administration farm program strikes at the heart 
of the depression. It is a program designed not to 
benefit agriculture alone, but to benefit the entire 
nation. 


Inflation Not Enough 


C ONTROLLED inflation is now being offered by the 
conservative Chicago Daily News as the cure for 
the farm problem in particular and the depression in 
general. In doing so it expresses opposition to the 
administration farm program and plans to refinance 
farm mortgages at lower rates of interest. While it 
is gratifying to see additional city support to the move- 
ment for reflation, this alone will not establish parity 
prices for agriculture. 

Inflation will tend to raise all commodity prices 
equally. This will bring relief to the farmer from such 
fixed charges as debts, interest, taxes, transportation 
and utility rates, and excessive costs of distribution. 
Possibly no other one thing will do more for those 
deeply in debt. But inflation alone will not eliminate 
farm surpluses nor open up foreign outlets for farm 
products. 

It will not eliminate the disparity between farm and 
non-agricultural prices. More than that is necessary. 
The situation calls for a broad attack all along the 
line, for a plan of acreage reduction in some instances, 
reciprocal trade agreements, a retreat from our high 
tariff policy, property tax reduction, and the like. And 
the administration should be given power to apply 
any one or all of the things necessary to do the job. 


Social Legislation 


Lo state sales tax was conceived as a piece of 
social legislation for unemployment relief. The 
original bill in effect declared that every time you 
spend a dollar you must contribute three cents to the 
unemployment relief commission to buy food and 
shelter for a less fortunate neighbor. No one with an 
ounce of social consciousness can deny subsistence to 
those who are worthy and in want. The danger of 
such legislation lies in the possibility of creating a 
permanent class of dependents. Incidentally, Presi- 
dent Roosevelt’s reforestation program to provide work 
for the unemployed attempts to meet this serious 
problem. 

As a result of the amendments sponsored by the 
Illinois Agricultural Association,. however, the state 
sales tax has been made primarily a measure to re- 
duce property taxes. This was accomplished without 
destroying its value as a source of revenue to feed 
the destitute. One way or another, hungry people are 
going to be fed. If food isn’t offered at public expense 
many will take it by force. It is far better to give the 
needed relief in an orderly and equitable way. And 
it is no more than just that the property owner be not 
required to bear this additional load. 

Sales tax revenue may not be used for unemploy- 
ment relief except by a two-thirds vote of the county 
board. In rural counties there need be little if any 
diversion. Where none is voted, it must replace prop- 
erty levies, dollar for dollar. In more populous coun- 
ties the revenue if needed can be used for relief pur- 
poses. There, people are being fed now either out of 
gas tax money, or from funds contributed by property 
taxpayers. So in any case, the overburdened prop- 
erty owner is no worse off, and he may have his taxes 
reduced. 


April, 1933 


THE LA. A. RECORD 


Ts complaint of the grain ex- 
changes for an_ unrestricted 
futures market has always seemed 
to us more an expression of resent- 
ment by professional speculators 
against the government keeping an 
eye on their operations, rather than 
because of any actual interference 
with the play of legitimate market 
factors on prices. 


It. may be true that the wolves 
like to shear the lambs without the 
government knowing about it, but 
recent events indicate the ex- 
changes are not averse to “regula- 
tion” so long as they can do their 
own regulating in the interest of 
the speculators regardless of the 
effect on the farmer who produces 
the grain. 


When the grain exchanges 
opened following the recent na- 
tional bank holiday, they found it 
“convenient” to impose restrictions 
on trading by setting a maximum 
price advance of five cents on 
wheat, three cents on corn, and two 
cents on oats. In other words, the 
exchanges did the very thing they 
have continually complained 
against. 


Farmers weren’t consulted, in- 
cidentally, when the maximum 
price was established. Only the 
interests of a lot of “shorts” were 
protected by the move. The farmers 
lost by the “restricted” market, for 
wheat prices the first day of open- 
ing would have gone considerably 
higher than the five cent limit. The 
maximum was reached early and 
the price stayed there all day. 


At one time, apparently very 
few trades were made because there 
were unlimited buying orders: but 
none willing to sell at the “regu- 
lated” price. The trade has con- 
tinually complained about the bear- 
ish influence of the Grain Sta- 
bilization Corporation, yet at the 
first sign of an economic revival, 
the market went ahead in spite of 
the Stabilization Corporation’s 30,- 
000,000 bushels. All of which is 
proof that business conditions and 
low buying power throughout the 
world are responsible for depressed 
grain prices, not the Federal Farm 
Board or the paltry 30,000,000 bu. 
or less owned by the Stabilization 
Corporation. 


Do we really have unrestricted 
commodity markets when the ex- 
changes can arbitrarily set the 
price, as was done in this case, on 
the farmers products? When the 


government seeks regulation in the 
interest of the farmer it appears 
to be all wrong from the standpoint 
of the middlemen. But when the 
latter impose regulations in the in- 
terest of the speculators, restriction 
seems to be a blessing. 


The cash grain market advanced 
steadily during the bank holiday 
when future trading throughout 
the United States was dead as a 
mackerel. So the argument that 
speculating in grain is an aid to 
higher prices and necessary to 
business was not borne out by re- 
cent experience. The proponents of 
unlimited future trading never have 
satisfactorily answered the charge 
that the tremendous sums collected 
by grain brokers who take toll from 
every bushel bought and sold, is a 
burden on the back of the farmer 
and consumer. 


To our mind, the biggest hope of 
the farmer lies not in an unre- 
stricted or restricted future trading 
market, but in the development of 
their own co-operative agencies 
which not only accumulate profits 
to the producers’ credit, from buy- 
ing and selling, but also from con- 
ditioning, mixing, storing, and mar- 
keting grain at the highest price 
the world market affords.—E. G. T. 


The Kasbeer Incident 


HE farmers elevator at Kasbeer 

in Bureau county on December 
19, 1932, voted to become a mem- 
ber of the Illinois Grain Corpora- 
tion. The board of directors of the 
elevator appeared to be agreed on 
the advisability of the action and 
the manager, Mr. Postlewaite, ex- 
pressed his willingness, in the 
presence of Illinois Grain fieldman, 
to sell through the state regional 
and Farmers National Grain Cor- 
poration whenever he could get the 
price. 

Apparently the opposition heard 
of the action and sent their workers 
into the territory spreading false 
and malicious propaganda. With 
the help of the manager, these 
representatives succeeded in stir- 
ring up a fight among the local 
grain producers which culminated 
at a stockholders’ meeting at Kas- 
beer on March 10. 

Previously, it should be men- 
tioned, the manager attempted to 
persuade his board of directors to 
rescind their action in voting to 
affiliate with the farmer-owned 
state co-operative. When the board 
refused, the manager carried the 
fight to the stockholders. 

The manager is reported to have 
secured proxies from more than a 
third of the stockholders and lined 
up sufficient others to support him, 
first in electing a new board of 
directors, and secondly in opposing 


Page Nine 


the membership in MHlinois Grain 
Corporation. 

Charles Peavey, who has gone up 
and down the state for years sing- 
ing praises of farmers elevators who 
give their business to old line com- 
mission men and condemning all 
efforts at carrying farmer co-op- 
eration into the terminal markets, 
was present to read the audit and 
the manager’s report, and shout his 
disapproval of Illinois Grain Cor- 
poration and the Farmers National 
Grain Corporation. The latter in- 
cidentally have taken a_ sizable 
amount of business away from 
Peavey’s friends. 

Spokesmen for Illinois Grain Cor- 
poration were not allowed to ap- 
pear until after the manager’s 
hand-picked board of directors had 
been voted in with the help of the 
proxies in his pocket, and only then 
at the insistence of stockholders, 
who demanded fair play, was O. D. 
Brissenden, fieldman for Tlinois 
Grain Corporation, introduced. 


A Publicity Stunt 


The fact that the Chicago Jour- 
nal of Commerce which propagan- 
dizes for the grain exchanges and 
other middlemen groups, against 
farmer co-operation, announced 
the incident in headlines a few 
days later as follows: “FARMERS 
NATIONAL UNIT DEVELOPS RIFT, 
Kasbeer Farmers Elevator With- 
draws Completely from _ [Illinois . 
Grain Corporation,” indicates that 
certain grain producers around 
Kasbeer were used by the grain 
commission crowd and the local 
manager to further publicity 
against Illinois Grain Corporation 
and Farmers National Grain Cor- 
poration. 

One elevator, more or less, doesn’t 
make much difference to the Ili- 
nois Grain Corporation or the 
Farmers National Grain Corpora- 
tion. These farmer-owned and 
farmer - controlled marketing 
agencies are going concerns, earn- 
ing dividends every day for intelli- 
gent producers who are working to- 
gether for their mutual welfare. 

Illinois Grain Corporation is pay- 
ing $26,998.75 in patronage divi- 
dends on business handled in 1932. 
One central Illinois elevator alone 
received $1,133.55 of patronage divi- 
dends in stock; another $941.65 in 
cash, and this stock today is worth 
one hundred cents on the dollar. 

Commenting on the Kasbeer 
meeting, C. P. Cummings, Manager 
of Illinois Grain Corporation, who 
was compelled to leave to keep an 
engagement that evening in Bloom- 
ington, said: 

“T personally am opposed to our 
organization doing anything to 
divide the stockholders of an ele- 
vator. I would like to have so stated 
at the Kasbeer meeting had I been 
given an opportunity. We would 

(Continued on page 12, Col. 2) 


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The situation during the next six 
weeks calls for orderly marketing 
and the topping out of finished cat- 
tle, particularly heifers and mature 
steers, the Research Department of 
the National Live Stock Marketing 
Association advises. 

There is danger of marketing too 
many unfinished calves and light 
weight steers during the late spring 
and summer. Quality and finish are 
what count in the cattle market 
during the last half of the year. As 
heavy cattle supplies decrease and 
the better grades assume more nor- 
mal proportions the fat cattle mar- 
ket is expected to show further 
strength during the next few weeks. 

Highest prices in hogs are ex- 
pected early in April. The market is 
still in a strong position. All weights 
are selling close together and it will 
probably be late May before fall 
pigs become seasonably excessive, 
and from then until early July is 
the period to be avoided. A sub- 
stantial improvement in the hog 
market is looked for in the summer 
reaching the highest level during 
August and September with a pos- 
sible tendency to hold well into fall. 
Buying is on a fresh pork. basis 
which makes seasonal variations in 
prices more marked. 

Highest prices for fed lambs are 
expected during late April and early 
May. Fed lambs will be relatively 
scarce and a substantial cut in sup- 
plies of early spring lambs is ex- 
pected. The outlook indicates the 
advisability of fully finishing lambs 
on feed and holding back market- 
ings as far as weight limitations 
make possible. Crowd early native 
lambs on the market as quickly as 
possible because the situation looks 
less favorable for later marketing. 


Ask Illinois Senators 
To Support Farm Bill 


A telegram urging the two United 
States senators from Illinois, Hon. 
J. Hamilton Lewis and Hon. William 
H. Dietrich to support the ad- 
ministration’s emergency agricul- 
tural bill was dispatched by the IIli- 
nois Agricultural Ass’n. following a 
meeting of the I. A. A. board and 
staff on March 24. 

The telegram signed by Presi- 
dent Earl C. Smith said: “After 
carefully reviewing the administra- 
tion’s emergency agricultural bill 
the board of directors and staff of 
Illinois Agricultural Association 
unanimously and respectfully urge 
your active support of this meas- 
ure.” 


THE I. A. A RECORD 


Ewing Chosen Again To 
Head Live Stock Group 


Chas. A. Ewing of Decatur was 
re-elected president of the National 
Live Stock Marketing Association at 
the annual meeting of stockholders 
in Chicago, March 22. C. N. Arnett, 
Denver, was elected vice-president; 
P. O. Wilson, Chicago, secretary; 
and H. H. Parke, Genoa, IIl., treas- 
urer. 

New directors are C. W. Fine, St. 
Paul Farmers Union; J. N. Horla- 
cher, Des Moines; and Lloyd Nickles 
of Cincinnati Producers. Directors 
re-elected were C. A. Ward, Chas. E. 
Hearst, Chas. E. Collins, L. J. Taber, 
Dr. O. O. Wolf, J. R. Fulkerson, Sam 
McCluggage, E. A. Beamer, Chas. A. 
Ewing, M: S. Barker, Irwin Porteus, 
E. F. Forbes, H. L. Kokernot, C. D. 
Bellows, J. L. Snook, Jr., John O’- 
Mealey and L. L. Lehman. 

Manager P. O. Wilson reported an 
increase of 15 per cent in volume 
of livestock handled in ’32 as com- 
pared with the previous year, and 
a decrease of sales value of 46 per 
cent. 

Resolutions were adopted pledg- 
ing support to the new farm bill 
before Congress, and urging that 
present credit features of the Agri- 
cultural Marketing Act be retained. 


Macon Co. Live Stock 
Ass'n. Steps Up Volume 


The Macon County Livestock 
Marketing Association handled 25,- 
199 head of livestock during the last 
fiscal year which represents an in- 
crease of 247 per cent over 1931, it 
was reported at the recent annual 
meeting in Decatur. 


Kasbeer Incident 
(Continued from page 9) 


gladly have cancelled their mar- 
keting agreement if they had so re- 
quested. If an elevator isn’t sold on 
the idea of co-operative marketing, 
it can’t help us nor can we help 
them. I’d rather have a hundred 
elevators on the outside fighting us, 
than to have one sharpshooter on 
the inside. We have received no of- 
ficial notice of cancellation of the 
Kasbeer elevator but if such a 
notice comes in it will receive more 
courteous treatment than we were 
given recently at their meeting.” 


April, 1933 


Warn Wool Growers 
Against Advance Sale 


Illinois Livestock Marketing As- 
sociation Will Conduct Wool 
Pool In 1933 


A warning to wool growers against 
the advance sale of wool at un- 
necessarily low prices was issued 
recently by the Illinois Live Stock 
Marketing Association, following 
reports to the effect that wool 
buyers are already out contracting 
for wool at below market levels. 

The National Wool Marketing 
Corporation of Boston, which han- 
dled all pool wool in Illinois last year, 
reports that in certain sections 
wool has been contracted on the 
sheep’s back at 10 cents or less per 
pound and that advances have been 
made on such wool at 50 cents per 
head. 

“While no one is in a position at 
this time to forecast the trend of 
prices for 1933,” says the Wool Mar- 
keting Corporation, “we feel justi- 
fied in again emphasizing the im- 
portance of holding wool for a fair 
market price. The market will most 
likely be determined by the price 
levels established in the producing 
sections. Thus, the farmer who sells 
his wool cheap to a local buyer 
exerts a bearish influence on prices 
throughout the country. A de- 
termined effort during the next few 
months to obtain all the market 
affords for wool over a period of 
time rather than the maximum of 
cash at shearing time will hasten 
the return of better days for the 
wool grower. 

“While price forecasting is dan- 
gerous, we feel justified in advising 
against contracting for wool at this 
time.” 

The Illinois Live Stock Market- 
ing Association through its wool 
division will conduct a wool pool in 
1933 similar to that of last year. A 
substantial advance will be made 
at time of delivery as in the past, 
and final payment will be made 
after the wool is sold. 

Under the pooling plan the 
grower is assured of getting all the 
market affords for the particular 
grade and quality of wool he de- 
livers. The Wool Marketing Cor- 
poration with which the State Mar- 
keting Association is affiliated is 
the largest handler of wool in the 
country, and through control of a 
large volume exerts a powerful in- 
fluence toward maintaining satis- 
factory prices to benefit the grower. 


E. W. “Farmer” Rusk formerly 
connected with radio stations 
WMAQ, WENR and WJJD is now 
employed as farm manager in 
northern Illinois and eastern Iowa 
for the Mutual Life Insurance Co. 
of New York. His headquarters are 
Galesburg. 


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THE IA. A. RECORD 


Page Thirteen 


Tax And Other Problems 
Interest 19th District 
Discussion At Conference In 


Tuscola Covers Many Farm 
Bureau Projects 


- AX reduction, grain marketing, 
co-operative creamery, and or- 
ganization and collection problems 
featured the discussion at the dis- 
trict conference for Farm Bureau 
leaders at Tuscola, March 2. The 
meeting was called by Eugene 
Curtis of Champaign, I. A. A. direc- 
tor from the 19th district. Between 
50 and 60 attended the meeting. 

John C. Watson, director of tax- 
ation, analyzed the sources of tax 
money in the general revenue fund 
of Illinois and showed how the 
farmer’s tax dollar is spent. Eighty 
per cent of the tax dollar stays in 
the county, he said, about 70 per 
cent in the township, and the bal- 
ance goes for state purposes. The 
local tax problem is the real prob- 
lem. The greatest opportunity for 
saving lies in enforcing economies 
in local government. 

Mr. Watson presented figures for 
each county in the 19th district 
giving the total expenditures for 
educational purposes in the year 
1930-31. He also showed the prob- 
able return by counties from the 
state sales tax assuming that $40,- 
000,000 would be collected through- 
out Illinois, and indicated how this 
money will be used to replace prop- 
erty levies unless diverted. 


Grain Marketing Success 


J. Fred Romine, secretary-treas- 
urer of the Illinois Grain Corpora- 
tion, reviewed the progress of the 
state regional and the Farmers Na- 
tional in the past year. He reported 
that his own local elevator at Tus- 
cola which purchased $1,000 of stock 
in Illinois Grain Corporation, had 
so far received a total of $805.20 
of cash and stock dividends for the 
years 1931 and 1932. This does not 
include the elevator’s equity in the 
stock dividends received by the IIli- 
nois Grain Corp. from the Farmers 
National, he said. . 

The Tuscola elevator was estab- 
lished right in the center of a well 
organized “old line” grain territory, 
he reported. At present the bid in 
Tuscola is about two cents above 
territory to the south. He empha- 
sized the fact that greater volume of 
grain delivered to the Illinois Grain 
and Farmers National will decrease 
the overhead per unit and make 
possible greater patronage returns 
to the producer. All together the 
Farmers National has borrowed ap- 
proximately $40,000,000 from the 
Farm Board, said Romine. And all 
of this except $15,000,000 has been 
repaid. The Farmers National not 
only has met its interest and prin- 


cipal payments on time, but in ad- 
dition has offered to make its June 
1 payment well in advance of the 
due date. 


Source Extension Funds 


J. C. Spitler of the University of 
Illinois discussed the extension 
service and its relation to the Farm 
Bureau. The state appropriation for 
county advisers and home extension 
workers at present is $145,500 for 


the fiscal year, said Spitler. This’ 


money is paid from the general 
revenue fund of the State of Illi- 
nois. It goes entirely as salaries to 
farm and home advisers. The ex- 
tension staff at the University of 
Illinois gets no state money. About 
one-third of the cash in the general 
revenue fund is derived from real 
estate and personal taxes. Therefore, 
a property owner paying $100 of 
taxes pays one and one-fourth 
cents to support agricultural ex- 
tension work in Illinois. 

J. B. Countiss discussed the co- 
operative creamery project. Farmers 
are justified in launching a co- 
operative creamery program at this 
time, he said, because they can 
churn butter of higher quality and 
do it more efficiently than is being 
done at the present time. He cited 
opportunities in cutting down over- 
head for equipment and buildings, 
of assembling cream of high qual- 
ity more efficiently by truck routes, 
pre of reducing the manufacturing 
cost. 

A. B. Culp and B. L. Hornbeek 
of the Organization Department 
discussed collections and organiza- 
tion problems. It was voted to hold 
the next district conference in De- 
catur, June 1. 


New Auto Insurance 
Policy Is Announced 


A new auto insurance policy for 
Farm Bureau members requiring a 
lower initial investment than the 
regular policy was described by 
Manager A. E. Richardson of the 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual before 
the board of directors on March 23. 

The new policy known as the 
“Surplus Fee Plan” eliminates the 
surplus share and reduces the 
premium deposit. A smaller surplus 
fee is substituted for the surplus 
share. 

The net result of the change is 
that under the surplus fee plan the 
policyholder pays a little more for 
his insurance each six months but 
avoids the necessity of making a 
rather substantial surplus and 
premium deposit when he takes out 
a policy. The surplus fee payable 
each six months covers semi-an- 
nual interest on the surplus share 
and extra premium deposit which 
he would have to put up under the 
old policy. 

Thus, on a low-priced, one-year 


Indoor Picnic Makes A 
Hit In Winnebago Co. 


A novel annual meeting attended 
by more than 1,000 Farm Bureau 
members, their families, and friends 
was held by the Winnebago County 
Farm Bureau in Rockford, March 
11. President Geo. F. Tullock re- 
ports that it was probably the larg- 
est crowd that ever attended such 
a gathering. 

A feature of the meeting was the 
indoor picnic dinner at noon held 
in the basement of the Shrine 
Temple. Each family brought a 
well-filled basket and sat down at 
long tables for an informal hour 
and a half of visiting and enter- 
tainment. 

While the program for the older 
folks was underway in the audito- 
rium upstairs, the 4-H club boys and 
girls and children of Farm Bureau 
members led by their club leaders 
gathered in the basement where 
they played games, sang, and were 
entertained by the WLS Prairie 
Ramblers. 

A special drawing card was the 
offer by the Farm Bureau to give 
every member in good standing who 
attended five gallons of gasoline. 
Winnebago Service Co. truck drivers 
distributed coupons among mem- 
bers the previous week. Those at- 
tending the meeting had their 
coupons stamped and validated to 
make them eligible for the free 
offer. 

“Several of our members com- 
mented that this was the best meet- 
ing we ever had in the county,” said 
Mr. Tullock. “The informal indoor 
picnic was very popular. We expect 
to try it again next year.” 

Speakers were Sec’y Geo. Metzger 
of the I. A. A. and C. W. Ward, 
supervisor of sales for Illinois 
Farm Supply Company. 


old car a full coverage policy with 
Stationary and movable object 
collision would cost $15.13 with ap- 
plication (including policy fee) 
against $35 with application under 
the surplus share plan. Howevef, 
the full coverage semi-annual 
premium under the old plan on a 
low-priced one-year old car is $6.63 
whereas the surplus fee plan policy- 
holder under present schedules 
would pay $8.13 semi-annually. 

The surplus fee plan costs a lit- 
tle more to keep in force but makes 
auto insurance available to Farm 
Bureau members with a minimum 
initial outlay of cash. 


Stocks of old crop corn in Argentina 
and the Union of South Africa are al- 


Page Fourteen 


How the New Bill 
Was Written 


(Continued from page 4) 


cussed pro and con in the press. 
The plan which has the most gen- 
eral support of farm leaders pro- 
vides for an extensive issue of gov- 
ernment bonds to be offered holders 
of farm mortgages in amounts 
equivalent to a fair appraised value 
of the mortgaged property. In many 
cases this means an appraisal be- 
low the face value of the mortgage. 

It is contemplated that these 
bonds will bear 2% to three per 
cent interest, the rate to be held 
down as low as possible. The rate 
will depend upon the state of the 
money market and the mortgagees’ 
willingness to take the bonds at par 
value. It is estimated that the gov- 
ernment will find it necessary to 
add approximately one per cent in- 
terest to the bond issue rate to the 
farmer, to cover. administration 
costs, thus offering him a long term 
loan at the revised valuation in re- 
turn for a first mortgage, principal 
and interest to be amortized over a 
period of 35 to 40 years. 


Wholly Voluntary 


This plan, if enacted, will be 
wholly voluntary. No holder of a 
farm mortgage will be compelled to 
take the government bonds. It is 
likely, however, that with the pas- 
sage of such a measure the govern- 
ment will be called upon to take 
over many distressed mortgage 
loans, particularly those bearing 
high rates of interest where inter- 
est and principal payments are in 
default. 

The details of the farm mortgage 
refinancing program will depend to 
some extent on the policy of the 
new administration with reference 
to inflation. As we go to press there 
are indications from _ influential 
quarters that a reflationary move- 
ment may gain considerable mo- 
mentum. 

Heretofore controlled inflation as 
a remedy for the depression has 
been sponsored largely by farm or- 
ganizations, but more recently city 
interests, particularly holders of 
distressed real estate, life insurance 
companies, and others who have 
even a larger stake in the debt 
situation than farmers, have shown 
much interest in relief from this 
quarter. 

In a leading editorial on March 
27 the Chicago Daily News, a con- 
servative newspaper, definitely 
favors controlled inflation as a way 
out. Opposing the farm mortgage 
refinancing program the Daily 
News says: “Instead of indulging 
in such complicated experiments 
the Roosevelt administration should 
employ a method of farm relief that 
is already available. The emergency 
banking act has created the ma- 


THE IL. A. A. RECORD 


Suit was filed in the Scott coun- 
ty, Iowa district court March 15 
and March 18 by the Quality Milk 
Ass’n., Moline, to collect sums ag- 
gregating $7,477.89 against the Su- 
perior Dairy Company and _ five 
other distributors at the Quad- 
Cities. 

The money is due the producers 
association for milk delivered the 
last two weeks of January. The 
dealers refused payment appar- 
ently as another move to harm the 
producers’ organization. 

Defendants named in the suits 
filed in Iowa were Superior Dairy 
Company, $2,182.17; Double Y 
Dairy, $349.33;"Micheel Bros. Dairy, 
$1,327.76; Washington Dairy, $1,- 
320.80; Model Dairy, $1,011.97; 
Iowana Farms, $1,285.86. 

When the dealers summarily re- 
fused to 1 uy milk from the 800 or- 
ganized dairymen who have always 
supplied the Quad-Cities’ market, 
the producers temporarily dropped 
the price to 3 cents in an effort to 
build up an outlet through a co- 
operating distributor, Sturtevant 
Ice Cream Company. Later the price 
was raised to six cents. 

Retail milk business developed by 
the Quality Milk Association 
through the Sturtevant Company 
has increased steadily as a result of 
the house to house canvass of the 
producers. Twenty or more trucks 
are now operating daily. 

All dairies in the Quad-Cities are 
now selling at six cents per quart, 
although a number of milk depots 
have been peddling raw milk direct 
to the consumer at five cents. 


chinery for controlled inflation. 
Properly and aggressively directed, 
such expansion of the currency 
could raise price levels of all farm 
commodities within a _ reasonable 
period. The farmer’s burden of 
taxes and mortgage payments 
would be lightened as rural dollar 
incomes rose. If with inflation there 
was also a temporary moratorium 
on foreclosures, the major causes of 
farm discontent would be re- 
moved.” 

Inflation will bring some relief 
through higher farm prices from 
debts, high taxes, and burdensome 
transportation and _ distribution 
costs. Economists generally agree 
that farm commodity prices would 
be among the first to be influenced 
by inflation. But inflation also will 
raise the cost of things the farmer 
must buy. Inflation will not alone 
establish parity prices for agricul- 
ture. Control of farm surpluses, de- 
velopment of foreign markets, and 
relief from excessive interest rates 
are likewise needed. 


April, 1933 


1932 Farm Income Is 
56°%, Less Than In '29 


“Farmers are finding it extremely 
difficult, and many find it impos- 
sible to pay their taxes and other 
fixed charges” says the Bureau of 
Agricultural Economics, in its re- 
cent report on the farm: situa- 
tion. It is stated that there is “uni- 
versal complaint that fixed charges 
now swallow income.” 

Reviewing the drop in farm in- 
come, the bureau points out that 
“in the last three years the pro- 
ducers of grains, of cotton, of meat 
animals, and of dairy products 
have seen their income shrink 
roundly a billion dollars in each of 
those lines; and these industries 
are not the only large losers.” 

The bureau places: responsibility 
for the long deflation in farm prod- 
ucts prices in “causes largely out- 
side agriculture.” Net production of 
farm products, it is stated, has been 
comparatively stable for ten years 
while all sorts of farm shifts and 
readjustments have been resorted 
to, and production is less this year 
than in 1929. Nevertheless, the gross 
farm income is only 44 per cent of 
that for 1929. 

Gross income from farm produc- 
tion for 1932 is tentatively estimated 
at $5,240,000,000. In 1931 it was $6,- 
955,000,000, in 1930 $9,403,000,000, 
and in 1929 $11,950,000,000. 

The livestock industry shows a 
return of approximately $2,958,000,- 
000 for 1932 compared with $4,191,- 
000,000 in 1931. Gross income from 
crops is placed at $2,282,000,000 for 
1932 as contrasted with $2,764,000,- 
000 for 1931. 

The biggest shrinkage in the 
livestock group this year has been 
in returns from cattle, hogs, and 
sheep, and in dairy products. 


Co-operate In Treating 
Horses Against Bots 


F. J. McNair, manager of the 
Shipping Association, at Dahlgren, 
Hamilton county, reports that in 
that section farmers have _ co- 
operated successfully in treating 
horses and mules for bots and stom- 
ach worms, at a decided saving in 
cost. 

“Local farmers purchased a cap- 
sule gun for $1.75 and a quantity of 
liquid carbon disulfid,” said McNair. 
“Each dose including capsule costs 
only a few cents. Carbon disulfid 
bought in 100 pound lots can be 
had as cheaply as linseed’ oil and 
this amount will treat approxi- 
mately 1600 horses. 

“Farmers everywhere should or- 
ganize in December and buy carbon 
disulfid,” writes McNair. “If any 
community is interested we will be 
glad to give additional informa- 
tion.” 


April, 1933 


Marchant Sees Good 
~ Year For Oil Company 


[408 Farm Supply Company 
has passed the half-way mark in 
another year with the largest vol- 
ume for a corresponding period 
during the history of the company, 
Manager L. R. Marchant said be- 


fore the I. A. A. board of directors 


March 23. 

The total number of tank car 
shipments is approximately 6.76% 
above the corresponding period in 
1932 which is considered remark- 
able in view of the average de- 
cline of 8.98% in the industry in 
Tllinois. 

A consolidated statement of all 
companies associated with Illinois 
Farm Supply Company during the 
calendar year 1932 shows total sales 
of $4,475,185.03. If the income of all 
the companies had been equally 
distributed among all Farm Bureau 
members in good standing in the 
State at the end of the calendar 
year 1932, the return would have 
been $13.68. If distribution had 
been made to Farm Bureau mem- 
bers in good standing in the terri- 
tory served, the average would have 
been $15.95. On the other hand, if 
distribution had been made among 
the Farm Bureau members in good 
standing in the territory served, 
who were patrons of the companies, 
the average would have been well 
above this figure. 


Difference In Companies 


A summary of the comparative 
analysis of the business operations 
of the associated companies indi- 
cated that the fifty-two companies 
could be classified in four different 
groups, on the basis of net income. 
The control of operating expenses 
is a prominent factor in the oper- 
ations. The more efficiently oper- 
ated companies were able to show a 
better net income at the end of the 
year and consequently a higher 
patronage refund. 

Detailed information on the 
twelve most efficiently operated 
companies in the state was pre- 
sented and the importance of con- 
trolling certain operation factors 
brought out. It was pointed out that 
a substantial Farm Bureau mem- 
bership must be maintained; other- 
wise there will be a tendency to 
break down the system of distribut- 
ing the income among Farm Bu- 
reau members; also that an ag- 
gressive sales program must be car- 
ried on at all times in order to 
maintain the present volume which 
in a large degree governs the pos- 
Sible net income to the income. 
Furthermore, the lack of aggres- 
Siveness and proper management is 
likely to lead to the outcropping of 
undesirable competition in the ter- 
ritory. 

“In general,” said Mr. Marchant, 


THE IA. A. RECORD 


l.A.A. Audit Service 


“An audit service such as 
that given by the Illinois Ag- 
ricultural Auditing Association 
is fundamental to the success 


of any co-operative business,” 
C. V. Gregory of Prairie Farm- 
er said in a recent letter to 
Manager F. E. Ringham. “I 
only wish that the various co- 
operatives in the state would 
make still greater use of it.” 


Fewer Fires Improve 


Casualty Co. Earnings 


A smaller number of fire losses 
and an increase in earnings were 
reported by J. H. Kelker, manager 
of the Farmers Mutual Reinsurance 
Company before the I. A. A. board 
on March 23. 

In times of depression. the prob- 
lem of eliminating moral hazards 
faces every insurance company, 
said Kelker. When.money is needed 
to pay taxes and mortgage interest 
the temptation to set fire to a build- 
ing to get the insurance is ever 
present. A number of companies in 
adjoining states, he said, are now 
withholding insurance money 
where the building is not replaced. 
Sentiment is growing against pay- 
ing claims except where insurance 
money is used to replace the de- 
stroyed building. 

The financial statement of the 
Farmers Mutual was stronger than 
that of last year and reveals the 
improvement in operations. The 
company gives reductions for fire 
prevention measures such as fire- 
proof roofs, lightning rods, etc., 
with the result that the average 
rate on fire is around 32 cents per 
$100. 


Lester Ryan has been employed to 
manage the Galesburg unit of the 
Illinois Livestock Marketing As- 
sociation. 

Sid Cherrill who had been man- 
aging the Galesburg unit is back on 
his old job doing field work for the 
State Association. 


“sound business ‘principles must be 
applied; managers must be active, 
alert, and have some common 
knowledge of business practices. 
Sound sales and credit policies must 
be maintained. Those in positions 
of leadership must not be in- 
fluenced by personal interest and 
must have courage to run the com- 
pany on a business basis; other- 
wise they will be unable to main- 
tain the good-will and the respect 
of the people they are supposed to 
serve.” 


Page Fifteen 


Hi-Ball Gas Proves Popular 
(Continued from page 7) 


on results a complete tabulation 
will be made of the results obtained 
under actual driving conditions, 
with all makes of cars and trucks 
and motors of every age and con- 
dition. This is expected to furnish 
most important facts from one — 
angle of the proposition, namely, 
whether the new fuel will actually 
work in a satisfactory manner and 
whether it will find a ready market 
at a premium. 


President Smith points out that 
this is only one step in the march 
for adoption of blended fuel as a 
farm relief measure. In the first 
place, comparatively few existing 
distilleries are equipped to manu- 
facture anhydrous alcohol which 
must be used. Alcohol containing 
water will not mix with gasoline. He 
said that the committee’s investi- 
gation has revealed that if all the 
distilleries capable of producing 
anhydrous alcohol were to work at 
full capacity and their entire out- 
put devoted to dilution of gasoline, 
the resulting blend would be only 
about % of 1 per cent. It has been 
learned that it will require three 
years of intensive construction to 
build distilleries of sufficient ca- 
pacity to produce a_ sufficient 
amount of alcohol to bring about a 
10 per cent dilution. 


Legislative Problem 


The problem of legislation also is 
important. It is recognized that 
producing oil companies and re- 
fineries will be inclined to oppose 
dilution to the utmost. Whatever 
legislation is attempted must over- 
come this opposition and extreme 
care must be taken in formulating 
the measure to prevent it being de- 
clared unconstitutional. 

Members of the committee, Mr. 
Smith said, are extremely opti- 
mistic regarding the whole dilution 
scheme, particularly since early re- 
ports indicate such a favorable re- 
ception and such excellent operat- 
ing results. They are proceeding 
slowly, however, testing every step 
in order that what may prove a 
boon to grain producers in the long 
run is not throttled by hasty action 
in the beginning, and so that no 
ill-advised action may be taken 
which would be a detriment rather 
than a help to the plan. 

“Everything will be done that it 
is possible to do,” Mr. Smith said, 
“but we must proceed. cautiously, 
and base whatever conclusion we 
reach on the facts, rather than on 
opinion, however rosy the opinion 
may paint the picture.” 


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Page Sixtéen 


Cost of Flour Small. 
Item In Loaf Bread 


Baker’s Profit Per Loaf Amounts 
To More Than Farmer Gets 
For Producing Wheat 


T ESTIMONY showing that the 
price of wheat has little in- 
fluence on the price of bread was 
given before the Senate Committee 
on Agriculture recently by Wm. H. 
Settle of Indiana, president of the 
Indiana Farm Bureau, while dis- 
cussing the domestic allotment 
plan. 

Quoting from a report of the 
Senate Sub-committee which in- 
vestigated this subject two years 
ago he said: “This investigation re- 
vealed an alarming tendency to- 
ward the monopolistic control of 
the food supply of the nation by 
a small group of powerful corpora- 
tions and combinations. This is 
particularly true as to bread and 
milk. 


“Bread-cost per pound for three 
large baking companies was 1.27 
cents in 1922-24; 7.89 cents in 1926; 
and 17.78 cents in 1930; bread- 
cost for 1926 was only 11/100 of a 
cent per pound higher than the 
1930 price of 7.78 cents. 

“On the other hand, wheat at 
Liverpool for 1926 ranged from $1.55 
to $1.74 per bushel whereas in 1930 
the price range was $1.37 down to 
70 cents per bushel. The 1926 av- 
erage Liverpool price was approxi- 
mately $1.57 per bushel, while the 
1930 average was $1.04, or 53 cents 
per bushel lower in 1930 than 1926. 


Flour Small Item 


“The wheat flour cost in 1926 per 
pound loaf of bread was 2.47 cents 
as compared to 1.92 cents for 1930, 
a decrease of 55/100 cents per 
pound loaf of bread. The average 
wheat price decrease from 1926 to 
1930 was 53 cents per bushel and 
the wheat flour per pound loaf of 
bread shows a decrease from 1926 
to 1930 of 55/100 cents. It is con- 
stantly stated that a bushel of 
wheat makes 62 loaves of bread. 
That being true, it follows that a 
decrease in the wheat price of 53 
cents per bushel should be equiv- 
alent to a decline in bread price 
in the amount of 52/62 cents per 
pound loaf of bread, or 9/10 cent 
per loaf. 


“At the average farm price of 25 
cents per bushel of wheat, the 
farmer’s interest in a pound loaf 
of bread is 25/62 or 2/5 cents per 
pound loaf of bread. At present 
wheat prices, if the farmer fur- 
nished wheat for nothing the de- 


crease in bread price would only be - 


cut 2/5 of a cent per pound loaf. The 
baker’s profit per loaf in 1930 was 


THE LA. A. RECORD 


over 4/5 of a cent. The baker’s 
profit in 1930 was twice as much 
per loaf of bread as the farmer’s 
wheat-interest in the present price 
of a pound loaf.” 

Mr. Settle also quoted Sydney 
Anderson, vice-president of the 
General Mills, Inc., who in a pre- 
vious hearing said: “But it is un- 
questionably a fact that flour is a 
comparatively small element in the 
cost of a so-called better-type loaf 
of bread that is made today; one 
that contains milk and eggs and 
sugar and butter. If the flour costs 
the baker nothing you still have 
difficulty in reflecting that dif- 
ference in cost into a loaf of bread.” 

Settle showed that while wheat 
rose to $1.51 per bushel in 1925 and 
declined to 80.9 cents in 1930 the 
average price of bread per pound 
loaf in the two years was 9.4 cents 
in 1925 and 8.7 ‘cents in 1930. 


Marketi: ng 


The Farmers National Grain 
Corporation reports that 280 car- 
loads of grain may be unloaded in 
a 10-hour day into the remodeled 
and newly equipped Northern 
Pacific elevator at Kansas City op- 
erated under lease by the Farmers 
National. 

The elevator has a capacity of 
5,762 bushels. Complete overhauling 
and modernization of the plant 
followed the fire and explosion 
which destroyed the old frame 
workhouse a year ago. The plant is 
said to be the most modern, eco- 
nomical handling grain elevator in 
the country. 

It is equipped to perform all 
services of cleaning, scouring, clip- 
ping, washing and drying grain. 
Cleaning machinery includes the 
largest capacity disc separator 
made, capable of handling from 
1,600 to 2,000 bushels of wheat an 
hour. The dust control system in 
the new concrete work-house in- 
cludes eight large dust collectors 
with valves, traps, belt loader 
hoods, floor sweeps and piping which 
connect with the cleaners and clip- 
pers. The system also is connected 
with the car dumper sink to elim- 
inate dust in unloading. More 
than 21 tons of galvanized steel 
were used in constructing the dust 
control system. The dust explosion 
hazard has been greatly reduced 
by installation of huge explosion 
ventilators of galvanized _ steel. 
These contain patented caps which, 
in case of explosion, open outward 
and provide enlarged space for the 
expansion of the exploding gases. 


April, 1933 


Texas Wheat Growers 
Making Good Progress 


The Texas Wheat Growers As- 
sociation, member of the Farmers 
National Grain Corporation, will 
handle more than 50 per cent of 
the entire wheat area in that sec- 
tion harvested in 1933, according to 
J. Frank Triplett, organization 
manager at Amarillo. 

On January 1, 4,424 members of 
the Texas Association had pledged 
delivery to the co-operative of ‘the 
1933 crop from their 1,508,000 acres 
seeded to wheat in the Texas Pan- 
handle and New Mexico counties, 
an average of 340 acres per mem- 
ber. Last year 2,958,000 acres of 
wheat were harvested in the Lone 
Star state. 

Establishment of a regional of- 
fice of the national co-operative at 
Amarillo has given the wheat 
growers of west Texas and eastern 
New Mexico the most advantageous 
outlet possible for their grain. 
Farmers National has handling fa- 
cilities for grain at 62 buying points 
in the Texas-New Mexico territory. 
Volume handled by these houses in 
a normal crop year varies from 
30,000 to 1,000,000 bushels, with a 
total of more than _ 13,648,000 
bushels. 

“Our old members are agreed,” 
said Triplett, “that Farmers Na- 
tional sales service in the Texas 
wheat area has created a better 
market than they ever had before. 
Re-collection of some, 2,000,000 
bushels of wheat delivered by Texas 
growers but never paid for on ac- 
count of business failures of va- 
rious private buyers and users dur- 
ing a recent season is having its 
influence in turning farmers to 
their own co-operative.” 


Farm Bureau Service 


In Richland County Pays 


During the past six and one-half 
years the Richland county cooper- 
ative cream pools have refunded to 
their patrons $20,579.02. During this 
time Richland farmers pooled a 
total of 1,010,821.9 pounds of but- 
terfat. The refund amounted to a 
little more than two cents per 
pound. The cream pools have aided 
non-members also by forcing up 
prices paid by private cream sta- 
tions. 


The I. A. A. board of directors 
recently authorized the use of the 
official I. A. A. emblem to Cook 
County Farm Bureau, Gardners’ 
Supply Company of Cook county, 
and to tthe [Illinois Producers 
Creameries. The latter will use the 
emblem on cartons’ containing 
“Tllini” butter. 


April, 1933 


THE LA. A. RECORD 


H. C. Vial Receives Gold 
Watch At Dist. Conference 


Counties Report On Their Ac- 
complishments In Many Fields 
At Meeting In Wheaton 


T AX problems, telephone, and 
electric power rates, insurance, 
agricultural extension work, organ- 
ization and a host of other ques- 


tions were discussed at the 11th 


district conference for the Farm 
Bureau leaders held at Wheaton, 
March 22. Approximately 50 at- 
tended. The 
meeting was 
called and pre- 
sided over by E. 
Harris of Lake 
county who rep- 
resents the dis- 
trict on the I. A. 
A board. 
Farm Adviser 
Wright reported 
that the Dupage 
County Farm 
Bureau has 920 
members and 
that less than 
100 actual Dupage county farmers 
are now outside the organization. 
I. A. A. auto insurance is an influ- 
ential factor in maintaining a 
strong membership throughout the 
district. Wright also told of the 
Farm Bureau’s work in securing a 
17.5 per cent reduction in taxes this 
year through co-operation of local 
assessors and county officials. 


President Swayer of Lake county 
reported that the Farm Bureau now 
has approximately 50 per cent of 
the 1200 farmers in the county as 
members, an increase of 20 per cent 
in membership in the last four to 
five years. The Farm Bureau’s tax 
reduction work supported by the 
county treasurer and assessors he 
cited as an outstanding service. He 
felt that the tax program and com- 
mercial activities of the Farm Bu- 
reau were the life blood of the in- 
stitution although recognizing the 
value of extension work. The most 
permanent members, he said, are 
those signed by local men and the 
collections among them are much 
better. 


H. C, VIAL 


Against Branding 


J. D. Bilsboro of the University of 
Illinois discussed membership, and 
state and federal appropriations for 
extension work. ‘ 

Farm Adviser Kelley stated that 
the Kane County Farm Bureau was 
opposed to branding of feeder cat- 
tle because of the harm and shrink- 
age involved in chasing them all 
over the yards. Branding with acid 
only lasts 30 days, he said, and its 
value is questionable. 

H. C. Vial, former director on the 


I. A. A. board in the 11th district, 


was presented with a gold watch 
and chain by Fred Landorf, presi- 
dent of the Dupage County Farm 
Bureau on behalf of the counties 
in the district. 

On the back of the watch was 
engraved the I. A. A. emblem and 
inside the case “Presented by the 
11th District to H. C. Vial in ap- 
preciation of six years service as 
Director of the I. A. A.” 

Additional speakers included 
Farm Adviser H. C. Gilkerson, who 
commended the Farm Bureau tax 
committee for its work with the 
county board of review in securing 
a 15 per cent tax reduction in Lake 
county; President Keslinger of Kane 
county; Farm Advisers L. H. Bra- 
ham of Will, W. A. Herrington of 
McHenry, O. G. Barrett and W. A. 
Tasher of Cook county; President 
Dick Nietfeldt, Cook county; A. J. 
Stahl, Lake county; Vice-President 
Schroeder of Will county; President 
Earl Swenson, McHenry county; 
Clare Bradford, I. A. A. district or- 
ganization manager; and others. 


Suggest Use Unemployed 
To Build Secondary Roads 


A campaign to use the unem- 
ployed in building a secondary road 
system in Illinois was launched re- 
cently by the Chicago Herald & 
Examiner. 

“The biggest question before this 
state, or any other state, at this 
time is how to obtain something in 
return for the relief voted and so 
avoid the dole,” says the Examiner. 

“Not only the present but much 
of the future depends on the 
method used in expending this re- 
lief. This can be done, advocates of 
low cost roads maintain, by the 
scientific expenditure of the road 
dollar, instead of the present meth- 
od of using all the funds on a few 
high-cost roads which benefit only 
a few.” 

Figures are cited showing that in 
Pennsylvania the average cost of its 
low-cost roads per mile is $6,000 for 
a road which will carry from 1,000 
to 1,200 vehicles per day. Pennsyl- 
vania formerly spent between $50,- 
000 and $70,000 a mile on some 
roads. 

Illinois now has more than 3,800 
miles of $30,000 per mile roads 
which carry less than 1,000 vehicles 
per day. The situation in Illinois is 
that the state has only about 25 per 
cent of its roads paved. There re- 
main more than 70,000 miles of un- 
improved roads. These roads form 
the secondary system of [Illinois 
which so far has been completely 
overlooked. 


The Indiana Farm Bureau Co-oper- 
ative Association is considering the or- 
ganization of a central co-operative 
bank to serve farmers’ co-operative 
associations throughout the state. 


Page Seventeen 


Exempt Real Estate 
Mortgages From Taxation 


Editor, I. A. A. RECORD: — 


As a member of our local Farm 
Bureau of Richland county I have 
from time to time read with much 
interest, the articles on how to lift 
the mortgage and relieve the bur- 
dened farmer. We all agree that the 
price of farm products is low, and 
that it is hard to legislate farm 
prices and products. Why not strike 
at the proper place, and here is a 
plan that will help the farmer: 

1. There is no better nor safer 
security than good real estate se- 
curity. 


2. The rate of interest has been 
too great, for the risk or hazard 
taken. 


3. The holder of the mortgage is 
taxed (if he gives it in for taxes, 
and many do not), and the farmer 
is taxed onthe full value of the 
lands, which is unjust, for he pays 
on something that he does not own. 


Now pass laws reducing interest 
as follows: that the rate of interest 
for the loan, when secured by real 
estate, shall not exceed three per 
cent per annum; that the note and 
mortgage securing said loan on real 
estate shall be exempt from all 
taxation, state or national. This 
will give the farmer a low rate of 
interest,.and the money lender can 
afford to loan the money on good 
real estate security at three per 
cent interest, because it is exempt 
from all taxes. 

Many mortgages are never re- 
corded, and many loans are made 
by requiring the owner of real es- 
tate to deed the lands to the party 
making the loan, and the lender 
giving back to the landowner a 
contract agreeing to reconvey when 
the loan is paid (which is in effect 
a mortgage), all of which is done 


by the money lender to evade tax- 


ation, which he does. By reducing 
the rate of interest to three per 
cent per annum, and making the 
note secured by mortgage non-tax- 
able, idle money would be loaned 
on good real estate to the farmer, 
and the farmer save one-half the 
interest he is now required to pay 
at the present rate of interest. This 
law could be enacted in every state 
of the Union, and do away with the 
Federal Land Bank, who sell their 
loans to the general public, and 
which are tax exempt, but the rate 
of interest has been too high, and 
not satisfactory to the farmer. 


R. S. Rowland, Attorney 


The Farm Bureau is now aggressively 
supporting federal legislation to re- 
finance farm mortgages at a low in- 
terest rate. Revision of the state con- 
stitution is necessary to do away with 
our antiquated property tax law with 
its double taxation of mortgaged real 
estate. The I. A. A. has been working 
for such revision for a number of 
years.—Editor. 


Page Eighteen 


Farm Organizations Reply 
To Shannon "Investigation" 


Issue Open Letter to Congress 
Exposing Questionable Con- 
duct of Committee 


An open letter to Congress in re- 
ply to the report of the so-called 
Shannon Investigation Committee 
was recently released by the na- 
tional farm organizations and co- 
operatives including the American 
Farm Bureau Federation, National 
Grange, National Co-operative 
Council, National Cooperative Milk 
Producers Federation, American 
Cotton Co-operative Association, 
California Fruit Growers Exchange, 
Eastern States Farmers Exchange, 
National Live Stock Marketing As- 
sociation, Farmers National Grain 
Corporation, National Wool Mar- 
keting Corporation, National Fruit 
and Vegetable Exchange, American 
Cranberry Exchange, National Pe- 
can Marketing Association, and Co- 
operative G. L. F. Exchange. The 
Shannon committee “investigation” 
is thought to be a publicity stunt 
created largely by organized mid- 
dlemen to spread propaganda 
against co-operative marketing. 

“We are amazed that a commit- 
tee of the House of Representatives 
should expose its lack of apprecia- 
tion and understanding of farm 
welfare as completely as does the 
so-called Shannon Committee in 
that portion of its report which 
deals with Farm Board operations,” 
said the letter. 


One From Rural District 


“Apparently four members of the 
Committee, coming from industrial 
constituencies and lacking in ag- 
ricultural information, have been 
deceived and misled by traders and 
speculators in farm products. It is 
noteworthy that the fifth member 
of the Committee, the only one rep- 
resenting an agricultural district 
and having an appreciation of 
farmers’ problems, has filed a 
vigorous minority report. 

“We respectfully call your atten- 
tion to the fact that the Commit- 
tee’s review of testimony shows a 
long string of witnesses representing 
dealer and speculator interests, and 
that the Committee either made no 
effort to secure adequate testimony 
from cooperatives and their mem- 
bers, farm organizations and their 
members, disinterested business 
men, bankers, economists, etc., or 
else the Committee has evaded sum- 
marizing such testimony beyond 
brief and vague references. 

“The report neglects the testi- 
mony of farm organization repre- 
sentatives, but on the other hand, 
gives much space and emphasis to 
the opponents. Not only were or- 


THE IA. A. RECORD 


ganized agriculture’s representa- 
tives not encouraged to present 
their views, but when they sought 
to present them, the committee ma- 
jority endeavored in its report to 
discredit their testimony by im- 
pugning their motives. 

“The Committee’s recommenda- 
tions reveal a distressing bias in 
favor of a class of private farm 
product dealers who for generations 
have assumed that they possessed 
some sort of inalienable right to 
buy as cheaply as possible from 
producers and to sell as dearly as 
possible to consumers, even though 
producers desire to reserve to them- 
selves the right to form their own 
handling agencies. The Committee’s 
proposals to do away, in a period of 
great agricultural distress, with any 
of the advantages now enjoyed by 
farmers under the Agricultural 
Marketing Act not only constitute 
an insidious thrust at rural welfare 
but, we believe, are also an affront 
to the intelligence of Congress. ... 


Against the Co-ops. 

“The Committee apparently would 
deny cooperative associations’ ac- 
cess to Farm Board credit (except 
as dealers are also given credit) 
and thereby prevent their rapid de- 
velopment in the manner intended 
by Congress in the Capper-Volstead 
Act of 1922, the Cooperative Mar- 
keting Act of 1926 and the Agricul- 
tural Marketing Act of 1929. The 
effect would be to subject coopera- 
tives to all the unconscionable fi- 
nancial and economic attacks 
which have characterized the op- 
position of speculative interests for 
many years and which were the 
cause of these Congressional enact- 
ments. ... 

“If Farm Board credit is to 
be denied cooperatives, why 
should not loans and subsidies be 
denied to all private business 
agencies by abolition of the Recon- 
struction Finance Corporation and 
by abolition of the preference given 
industry by the tariff system? Why 
not deny national banks the sub- 
sidy involved in the right to issue 
currency? Why not discontinue the 
subsidies for the merchant marine, 
and for aviation? Why not deny 
publishers their second class mail 
bonuses under the postal acts? If 
Congress ever chooses to repeal all 
such measures of assistance to 
business men, then we suspect that 
agriculture will be willing to yield 
its access to Farm Board credit, 
but only then. 

“The Committee’s proposal to 
prevent cooperatives from buying 
any farm products from non-mem- 
bers appears to be an effort (1) to 
prevent the enjoyment by farmers 
who are not cooperative members 
of some of the advantages of the 
various federal laws; (2) to pre- 
vent cooperatives from demonstrat- 


ing their merchandizing advantages: 


April, 1933 


Next District Conference 
At Bloomington May 24 


The Bloomington Co-operative 
Creamery, collection of dues, and 
alcohol-gasoline dilution were dis- 
cussed at the first Farm Bureau 
conference of the year in the 17th 
district held at Bloomington, Feb. 
27. 

The meeting was called and pre- 
sided over by E. D. Lawrence of 
McLean county, who represents the 
district on the I. A. A. board. The 
next. conference will be held May 
24 at the same place. 


2st District Conference 
Considers Debts And Taxes 


. Tax problems, progress report on 
Sanitary Milk Producers, member- 
ship collections, and debt adjust- 
ment legislation featured the dis- 
cussion at the 2ist I. A. A. district 
conference held at Taylorville, 
March 15. Approximately 40 Farm 
Bureau directors and county ad- 
visers attended the meeting called 
by Sam Sorrells of Raymond. 

Discussion was led by W. F. Cool- 
idge of Macoupin county, Alden 
Snyder, Montgomery county, Mr. 
Sorrells, Edwin Bay, Sangamon 
county, and T. H. Brock, Christian 
county. 


to non-members in order that such 
non-members may be encouraged 
to join as members; and (3) to 
prevent cooperatives from filling 
out odd lots of stock by open mar- 
ket purchases which. facillitate ef- 
ficient merchandising of members’ 
products. The cooperatives are al- 
ready adequately restricted by fed- 
eral law with respect to the amount 
which they may handle for farmers 
who are not members. 

“The Committee’s proposal that 
cooperatives be subjected to a ‘more 
close and direct supervision’ is 
vague and insidious. What does the 
Committee mean? Is this proposal 
anything but subterfuge to hide 
some scheme of licensing and de- 
stroying cooperatives? What more 
supervision can honestly be ex- 
pected than that to which co- 
operatives are already subjected? Is 
the Committee so poorly informed 
that it does not know the Secre- 
tary of Agriculture and the At- 
torney General, under the Capper- 
Volstead Act, already have full 
power to prevent cooperative en- 
terprises from becoming monopolies 
in restraint of trade or unduly en- 
hancing prices? Is the Committee 
ignorant of the fact that the Agri- 
cultural Marketing Act gives the 
Farm Board enormous powers to 
audit and check all cooperative as- 
sociations to which it renders a 
loan service?” 


April, 1933 


E, HARRIS 


Lake county 
llth Dist. 


|. A. A. Board Hears 


Review of Ass'n. Program 


M,. R. 


Officers And Staff Report On 
Activities In Two Day 
Session 


GENERAL review of all the 

activities of the I. A. A. and 
the associated companies by of- 
ficers and staff members featured 
the two day meeting of the I. A. A. 
board of directors on Thursday and 
Friday, March 23 and 24. Each de- 
partment and company was as- 
signed 20 minutes or more to dis- 
cuss current activities and future 
program. 

President Smith reviewed in de- 
tail recent developments at Wash- 
ington having to do with the fram- 
ing of the new Roosevelt adminis- 
tration farm bill. He expressed the 
belief that the measure, which at 
this writing has passed the House, 
would pass the Senate without 
serious amendment. 


Deserves Support 


“The emergency agricultural 
measure pending in Congress is the 
most feasible, practical farm meas- 
ure presented to Congress in recent 
years,” he said. “This bill is deserv- 
ing of the united -support of 
farmers and also those indirectly 
dependent on agriculture in other 
lines of business and industry. 

“Under its provisions, it is pos- 
sible to apply different principles 
of surplus control to each of the 
several commodities as the peculiar- 
ities of the commodity might best 
justify, thereby removing the out- 
standing weakness of previous 
measures.” 

John C. Watson, Donald Kirk- 
patrick, and Charles Black reported 
on state legislation at Springfield. 
Mr. Watson outlined a proposed tax 
reduction program with cuts in 
State appropriations, salaries of 
state and county officials, and ex- 
penditures all along the line. He 
also discussed the reallocation of 


IHRIG 


Adams county 
15th Dist. 


THE IA. A. RECORD 


HERE ARE NEWLY ELECTED |. A. A. DIRECTORS 


E. D. LAWRENCE 


McLean county 
17th Dist. 


the gas tax among counties, town- 
ships, and municipalities so as to 
relieve property from all or nearly 
all of road and bridge levies. 


Review Bills 


Mr. Kirkpatrick commented 
briefly on a large number of bills 
indicating the progress of measures 
in which the I. A. A. is most directly 
interested. These include a chattel 
mortgage bill, a measure providing 
for a moratorium on farm loans, 


tax reduction measures, ice cream’ 


and oleo bills, possibilities of a flat 
rate income tax, and the sales tax. 

On Thursday night the board 
approved the report of the Organ- 
ization-Publicity advisory commit- 
tee providing for: 

1. A publicity contest among the 
County Farm Bureaus supervised by 
the Director of Information. 

2. Continuation of collection plan 
used successfully in past months. 

3. Maintenance of seven district 
organization men who will devote 
time to collections as well as to or- 
ganization. 


4. Approval of organization cam- 
paign in 1933 under which each 
county, township, and solicitor will 
be assigned quotas with suitable 
recognition to reward those achiev- 
ing the goal. 

5. Approval of plan to try out 
full time man in charge of organ- 
ization and collection in one or 
more counties. 


6. Approval of experiment of or- 
ganization plan in one or more 
counties involving credit to member 
on his dues for signing new mem- 
bers. 


It was unanimously agreed that 
the volunteer system of solicitation 
should be maintained but that it 
might be supplemented with ad- 
ditional effort on a paid basis. 

The directors voted unanimously 
to send a message to the two 
United States senators from Illi- 
nois expressing unanimous approv- 
al of the new farm bill and urging 
their co-operation in securing its 
enactment. 


EUGENE CURTIS 


Champaign county 
19th Dist. 


Page Nineteen 


R. B. ENDICOTT 


Pulaski county 
25th Dist. 


Seek To Improve Farm 
Bureau News Service 


A County Farm Bureau Publicity 
Contest sponsored by the [Illinois 
Agricultural Association for the bal- 
ance of the calendar year beginning 
April 1 was approved by the I. A. A. 
board on March 23. Entries are to 
be made on or before June 1, 1933 
and exhibits to be submitted on or 
before January 10, 1934. 


Three cash prizes totaling $150 
will be offered to the winning en- 
tries, the money to go to the County 
Farm Bureaus in furtherance of . 
more effective informational service. 


The plan calls for the appoint- 
ment of county committees of three 
members to work out details of a 
more effective news service. It is 
suggested that township or com- 
munity reporters be appointed to 
get local Farm Bureau news to the 
papers and to the Farm Bureau of- 
fice for publication in the county 
bulletin. 

Exhibits will be judged on the 
quality and effectiveness of the 
news service to the local papers, at- 
tractiveness, make-up and news 
content of the official Farm Bu- 
reau paper, exhibits, pamphlets, 
direct by mail literature, etc., and 
stories in other than local publica- 
tions. The effect of the publicity 
program on membership acquisi- 
tion and maintenance also will be 
taken into consideration. 


The contest is designed to stimu- 
late a more varied and aggressive 
program of Farm Bureau service 
and the establishment of an infor- 
mational service through the local 
newspapers. 


Winners will be recognized and 
prizes awarded at the annual meet- 
ing of the I. A. A. next January. 


Horses and mules are the only prod- 
ucts of the farm that are’ bringing 
better prices than a year ago. In 
February horses averaged $62 and 
mules $67 compared with $58.65 a year 
ago. The price of horses declined from 
1918 to 1932, 


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“And now about 
that New State 
Sales Tax’? 


¢¢” T* HE cities have an unemployment problem we 
know little about on the farm. 


“They were nearly out of funds and the relief com- 
mission had reached the end of its borrowing power 
from the federal government. It was impossible to 
get enough people to chip in to feed the vate cuban 
particularly in Chicago. 


“So the sales tax was brought out as a solution. 


“The bill as originally framed gave the counties 
having big cities nearly all the revenue. And the 
state relief commission would have administered it. 


“My organization, the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 
ciation, studied the bill and suggested some amend- 
ments. It proposed that revenue from the sales tax 
be apportioned among the counties according to 
population; and that the money be used dollar for 
dollar to replace property taxes except where the 
county board by a two-thirds vote decides to use part 
or all of it for unemployment relief. 


“The I. A. A. and our friends in the legislature 
put through these amendments and now they are 
part of the law. That’s service. That’s organization. 
That’s representation. That’s one of the reasons why 
I’m a booster for the Farm Bureau. 


“My Farm Bureau membership is the best invest- 
ment I ever made. The direct savings and indirect 
benefits are worth far more than the cost.” 


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Number 5 


MAY, 1933 


Volume 11 


|. A. A. Sponsors 


Bills To 


Reduce 


Property Tax 


Outline Program To Members of General Assembly Fol- 


lowing Approval By 1000 Leaders 


1933 :— ' 

A legislative program designed 
to reduce property taxes throughout 
Illinois at least $60,000,000 annually 
was launched here today by Illinois 
Agricultural Association following a 
dinner given last night to approxi- 
mately 100 members of both houses 
of the General Assembly. Lieut.-Gov. 
Thomas F. Donovan and Speaker Ar- 
thur Roe sat at the speakers’ table. 


S v2 ILL., April 19, 


Edwin Bay represented the Sangamon - 


County Farm Bureau. Rep. Jackson 
of Toulon led a round of first class 
community singing. 

The measures introduced include 
one providing for a redistribution of 
the three cent gas tax back to coun- 
ties, townships, and municipalities, 
companion bills to sharply reduce 
county and township road and bridge 
levies, a bill to assess income from 
property not othérwise assessed such 
as stocks, bonds, mortgages, etc., an 
occupational tax of 1% per cent, with 
$100 per month exemptions, on those 
earning salaries, wages, fees, and 
commissions, and a number of meas- 
ures restoring to county boards the 
power to fix certain costs and fees 
within the maximum limits now es- 
tablished by law. 

The I. A. A. also is supporting an 
amendment to the revinue article of 
the Illinois constitution giving the 
General Assembly broad powers to en- 


act laws to provide revenue, without 
present constitutional limitations. 


“We are facing a breakdown in gov- 
ernment in Illinois,” said President 
Earl C. Smith in addressing the legis- 
lators, “because of the inability of the 
property owners of the state to pay 
the enormous taxes levied against 
them. Even with substantial economies 
which the farmers of the state and 
our organization greatly desire, the 
cost of government is still too large 
for the property taxpayers to bear. 
This means that there must be new 
sources of revenue if our govern- 
ments are to meet their obligations. 
And that revenue must come from 
those who have ability to pay but are 
contributing little or nothing to the 
support of government.” 

Explaining the two revenue meas- 
ures proposed by the I. A. A., Donald 
Kirkpatrick, general counsel, said that 
the bills had been framed as a re- 
sult of the recent State Supreme 
Court decision on the income tax 
which held that income is property, 
hence must be assessed with uniform- 
ity. 

“This legislation,” he said, “does not 
vote more taxes upon the people, but 
merely spreads the burden a little 
more evenly until such time as the 
constitution can be amended. The two 
measures proposed will be effective 
only for two years through the pres- 
ent emergency. Every dollar of reve- 


nue raised by these bills when enacted 
will be used to reduce and replace a 
like amount of taxes now levied 
against property.” 

Speaking in favor of House Bill 579 
which ailows courts to stay the execu- 
tion of mortgage foreclosures and 
judgments in the case of worthy mort- 
gagors until 1935, Mr. Kirkpatrick 
pointed out that the House had voted 
to abrogate the life insurance con- 
tracts of policyholders involving mil- 
lions of dollars by preventing them 
from securing their cash values. Yet 
there are some who oppose the mort- 
gage moratorium legislation although 
there is nothing mandatory about it. 
It merely allows the court to issue 
orders to. delay foreclosures under 
certain conditions so as to protect the 
interests of both creditor and debtor. 


“You have voted to protect the life 
insurance companies,” he said. “Now 
let’s protect the worthy farm mort- 
gagors and home owners and give 
them a fighting chance to retain their 
property.” 


John C. Watson, director of tax- 
ation, explained that the time is close 
at hand when revenue from motor 
license fees will pay for maintenance 
of the nearly completed 10,000 mile 
state paved road system, for policing 
the same, and for interest and 
amortized principal payments on the 
$160,000,000 of state road bonds. 
“This will leave the income from the 
three cent gas tax or approximately 
$27,000,000 annually, for the improve- 
ment of county and township second- 
ary roads, city and village streets, 
and for payment of interest and prin- 
cipal on county and township road 
bonds,” said Mr. Watson. 


“We propose to distribute the gas 
tax three ways as follows: One cent 
to the county as at present, one cent 
to the township for paying off bonds 
or building new all-weather roads un- 
der the supervision of the county 
highway engineer, and one cent to 
cities and villages for paying off 
bonds or building new streets. By so 
doing road, bridge, and street taxes 
now levied against property can be 
substantially reduced and further re- 


lief brought to the long suffering 
property owner.” 


Chas. S. Black, chairman of the 
Public Relations Committee, and 
George Muller of Tazewell county rep- 
resented the I. A. A. board. Other of- 
ficers and staff members present in- 
cluded R. A. Cowles, treasurer; A. E. 
Richardson, and George Thiem. 


The legislative program presented 
to members of the General Assembly 
who listened attentively to the discus- 
sion followed unanimous approval of 
the proposed measures at a state-wide 
meeting of more than 1,000 County 
Farm Bureau leaders at Springfield 
on April 11. 

At that meeting President Smith 
eloquently reviewed in great detail the 
history of the state sales tax spon- 
sored by the new administration. He 
revealed how the Association and its 
friends in the Senate succeeded in 
amending the measure when it was 
slated to pass in the original objec- 
tionable form, so as to distribute the 
revenue equitably among the counties, 
and to make it primarily a tax to re- 
duce and replace property taxes. 


Two-Thirds Vote to Divert 


As originally drafted, the measure 
would have placed all sales tax reve- 
nue at the disposal of the State Re- 
lief Commission. Only by a two-thirds 
vote of the county board of super- 
visors can sales tax revenue be di- 
verted during 1933 and 1934 from re- 
placement of property taxes to the 
relief of destitute people. 


Proposed legislation to restore to 
' the counties the power to determine 
costs, fees, and salaries of local offi- 
cials was explained thoroughly at the 
state meeting of Farm Bureau leaders 
by John C. Watson. A Supreme Court 
decision, he pointed out, holds that the 
county has no jurisdiction over the 
salaries of probate judges, county 
judges, and states attorneys. It is pos- 
sible that this decision may extend 
to juries’ fees. Bills have been in- 
troduced in the legislature, he said, 
to reduce salaries of such officials up 
to 20 per cent. The I. A. A. favors 
this legislation, but wherever legally 
possible it hopes to restore to the 
counties authority to name salaries, 
fees, and costs within the maximum 
limits fixed by statute. Such proposed 
bills include home rule for fixing blind 
pensions, costs of publishing county 
assessments, costs of publishing de- 
linquent taxes, etc. 

The I. A. A. also will sponsor a bill 
to postpone the date for fixing school 
levies from the first Tuesday in 
August to the first Tuesday in Sep- 
tember. This will give more time to 
school boards and taxpayers to as- 


FILLING UP WITH “HI-BALL” pe TAZEWELL SERVICE STATION, 


Practical’ road tests of the new motor fuel composed of 10 per cent anhydrous 
grain alcohol and 90 per cent Aladdin gasoline are being conducted throughout 
the Peoria and Bloomington area of central Illinois under the auspices of the 
I. A. Ay, Illinois Farm Supply Co., and the County Farm Bureau service com- 
panies. Manager Clyde Woolsey, President Walter Frazee, Sec. Storey, and Di- 
rectors Fasse and Aisle of Tazewell Service Co. were on hand as the first mix of 


blended fuel went on sale. 


SOOO 


certain the financial condition of their 
districts. 

Redistribution of the three cent gas 
tax, along lines suggested will make 
possible a substantial reduction in 
county and township road and bridge 
levies on property. Details of the plan 
outlined by Mr. Watson at the Spring- 
field conference may be changed and 
modified as the legislative situation at 
the state capital directs. 


Watching Legislature 

The fact that a number of other bills 
have been introduced germane to dis- 
position of gas tax funds, indicates 
that modifications may be required to 
insure enactment of a measure that 
will bring the maximum possible re- 
lief from property taxation. The 
membership will be kept informed 
from time to time about developments 
regarding this important legislation. 
The Public Relations Committee in 
Springfield each week will watch this 
measure and use proper influence to 
see that the bill finally reported out 
of committee protects the interests of 
farmers and provides for maximum 
replacement of property taxes. 

Following an explanation of the 
proposed gas tax redistribution the 
County Farm Bureau leaders voted 
unanimously against abolition of 
township road districts at this time. 
It was feared by many that if the 
township road system is turned over 
to the county many farmers will be 
forced to wait indefinitely for the im- 
provement of township roads. 

The bill providing for a moratorium 
on mortgage foreclosures until July 1, 
1935 at this writing rests on third 


reading in the House. 

Another bill proposed by the As- 
sociation will make it possible for 
farmers owning 10 acres or more of 
unsubdivided farm lands within the 
corporate limits of a city or village 
to detach such land on application to 
the county or circuit court. A bill 
to tax butter substitutes containing 
foreign oils and fats also has I. A. A. 
approval. 

Farm Bureau leaders applauded 
proposals to take the Supreme Court 
at its word when it declared that in- 
come is property. “If there is a legal 
way to do it we’re going to put in- 
come on the property tax rolls,” said 
Mr. Kirkpatrick. “That’s the only way 
to get relief from the burdensome 
property tax.” 


Cowles Warns -Leaders 

Explaining efforts being made to 
wipe out federal and state appropria- 
tions for agricultural extension and 
experimental purposes, Mr. Smith ex- 
plained that the I. A. A. is favorable 
to reasonable economies in govern- 
ment, but that the organization would 
insist on having something to say as 
to where the economies are to apply. 

Robert A. Cowles, treasurer, warned 
the County Farm Bureau leaders 
against losing sight of the purposes 
for which the Illinois Agricultural As- 
sociation was formed. “The com- 
mercial services developed through 
the associated companies are a sec- 
ondary program,” he said. “They were 
developed when the I. A. A. had 
money to invest in such enterprises. 


‘ Our children have measured up and 


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Inflation Move — 
Improves Picture On 


Farm Aid 


Farm Mortgage Legislation Would Lighten Burden On 


Debtors, Provides Big Refinancing Program 


HE legislative picture as it 

| affects agriculture and farm 
prices is changing so rapidly 

from day to day at Washington that 
any forecast as to what may happen 


in the coming weeks must be largely 
conjecture. 


At this moment, the stock markets 
and commodity exchanges are in great 
excitement over the embargo on gold 
and President Roosevelt’s reported 
statements favor- 
ing controlled in- 
flation. Stocks 
have advanced 
sharply, wheat 
and corn futures 
in the past two 
days have shot 
upwards from 
seven to ten 
cents per bushel 
or more, and 
there is talk that 
the proposed fed- 
eral farm mort- 
gage re-financing program will be un- 
necessary if inflation restores 1928- 
29 price levels. 


The emergency farm bill has been 
pending in the Senate for more than 
a month while minority groups have 
wrangled over amendments. The vote 
this week to remonetize silver lost by 
only six votes, and only then when the 
President announced he would present 
his own inflation program. 


It now seems probable that in- 
flationary legislation may be hooked 
onto the administration farm bill in 
the form of an amendment. Sentiment 
in both houses on the question of con- 
trolled inflation is strong enough to 
indicate prompt and favorable action. 


GEO, PEEK 


When the emergency farm bill de- 
scribed in the April issue of the 
RECORD is enacted, Secretary Wal- 
lace will need able“asyistance to help 
administer such measures as are taken 
to raise farm prices. Prominent among 


those being considered for an _ im- 
portant post to work with the Presi- 
dent and Secretary of Agriculture is 
George N. Peek of Moline, Ill. who 
has been an outstanding leader in the 
fight for farm equality during the 
past 10 years. 

Mr. Peek is an able executive with 
plenty of courage and drive, qualities 
that are necessary in the difficult task 
of restoring pre-war parity prices for 
agriculture. 

The administration of the farm 
mortgage bill, if and when enacted, 
will be supervised by Henry Morgen- 
thau, Jr., chairman of the Federal 
Farm Board, and designated to be 
Governor of the Farm Credit Admin- 
istration. This measure has been com- 
bined with the emergency farm bill 
which at this writing is pending in the 
Senate. 

The Farm Mortgage bill provides 
for the issuance of Federal Land Bank 
bonds in an amount not to exceed two 
billion dollars, the bonds to be a joint 
obligation of all 12 federal land banks. 
They will bear interest of 4% or less. 
Payment of interest on bonds is to be 
guaranteed by the treasury. The 
banks will have authority to exchange 
the bonds for approved first mort- 
gages on farm property, or to pur- 
chase such mortgages which would 
bear 4%% interest. The purchase 
price of any mortgage shall not ex- 
ceed its face value nor 50% of the 
normal value of the land mortgaged 
plus 20% of the value of permanent 
improvements thereon. 

The bill also provides for reducing 
the interest rate on existing federal 
farm loans to 4% per cent. An ap- 
propriation is provided for reimburs- 
ing the federal land banks to cover 
loss from reduction in interest rate. 
Also amortized principal payments on 
federal farm loans would be deferred 
for five years. Thus a farmer could 
keep his federal farm mortgage in 
good standing by paying only 4%% 


Kirk And Larry At 
Carthage 


D. KIRKPATRICK UL. A. WILLIAMS 


A mass meeting attended by 
more than 600 Hancock County 
Farm Bureau members and their 
guests was held at the Carthage 
College field house the night of 
April 6. The meeting was called 
by Burton E. King, president of the 
Hancock County Farm Bureau. 

Chief speakers were Donald Kirk- 
patrick, counsel fcr the I. A. A., 
and Lawrence A. Williams, man- 
ager, Country Life Insurance Com- 
pany. Mr. Williams delivered an 
entertaining and dynamic _ talk 
playing up organization as_ the 
basis for all farm progress. Mr. 
Kirkpatrick discussed the state 
sales tax, the amendments secured 

| by the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 
ciation and its friends in the state 
senate, and other legislation of 
interest to farmers pending at 
Washington and Springfield. 

Hancock county business men are 
up in arms against the sales tax 
and wrongfully accused the I. A. A. 
of sponsoring the measure. Mr. 
Kirkpatrick cleared up the misun- 
derstanding by showing that when 
it became apparent that the admin- 
istration had the votes to pass a 
state sales tax the Association 
strove to amend the bill to make it 
primarily a replacement tax in 
downstate counties, and to distrib- 
ute the revenue equitably among 
the counties. With the help of 
friends in the senate, it succeeded 
in this task. 


annually instead of the present 6%%. 

Another provision makes possible 
loans direct to farmers by the farm 
loan commissioner on the security of 
farm mortgages, chattels, or crops. 
The amount of such loans is limited 
to $5,000 and may not be in an 
amount more than 75% of the normal 
value of security pledged. The inter- 
est rate on these individual loans is 
to be 5% or less and they are to be 
amortized in 10 years. This provision 
is to help farmers regain possession 
(Continued on page 18) 


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To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was or- 
ganized namely, to promote, protect and represent the busi- 
ness, economic, political and educational interests of the 
farmers of Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 


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Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co............0+seee+s J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Auditing Assn............... F,. BE. Ringham, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co....... A. E. Richardson, Mgr. 
Illinois Farm Supply Co.........eeeeeeceeereecceee L. R. Marchant, Mgr. 
Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange...........++-sseeeeees H. W. Day, Mgr. 
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Soybean Marketing ASS8’D.......eceeeeeeeeeerserens W. H. Coultas, Mgr. 


A Constructive Tax Program 


HE long-heralded breakdown of the property 

tax forecast by the I. A. A. more than eight 
years ago is here. Tax collections in 1933 promise 
to shrink sharply even from the low returns of 
last year. Some economies have been effected in 
government but further cuts can and should be 
made. Even then assessed property will be unable 
to bear the cost of needed services under existing 
tax laws. 

The Illinois Agricultural Association offers a 
constructive program of tax legislation to re- 
move a substantial portion of the burden from 
farms, homes, and other real estate. That pro- 
gram outlined on page 8 is set forth in greater de- 
tail in a folder just off the press. 

The I. A. A. proposes to stop the confiscation 
of real property first by further reducing appro- 
priations and expenditures in the county and 
state. Next it would distribute the tax load more 
equitably among people having ability to pay 
through new revenue legislation. It would shift 


I. A. A. RECORD—May, 1933 


the cost of building roads, bridges, grade separa- 
tions, and streets from property to the gas tax 
as quickly as possible. Lastly it would give the 
legislature .broad powers through constitutional 
amendment to revise the state’s taxing system. 

The tax situation in Illinois demands prompt 
and aggressive action at Springfield. Much can 
be done before 1935, the earliest possible date for 
general tax revision if the people approve a con- 
stitutional amendment. The situation demands 
greater vigilance by taxpayers and more decisive 
action by tax spenders in many counties and town- 
ships. Property taxpayers are crying for relief. 
Their appeal must be heard. 


Pass The Emergency Farm Bill 


HE strategy of the emergency farm bill 

which would give the administration broad 
powers and discretion as to the use of one or more 
of several plans to raise commodity prices is be- 
ing borne out by recent developments at Washing- 
ton. The inflationary amendment most recently 
proposed is necessary to make the picture com- 
plete. With the authority granted by the bill now 
before the senate, the President will have many 
weapons to combat the depression. If one doesn’t 
work he can try another. Inflation alone, as the 
President pointed out, will not solve the farm 
problem. It will not restore parity prices for ag- 
riculture. It will not balance production nor re- 
move crop surpluses. It will bring instant relief 
from high fixed charges including debts and in- 
terest. The outlook for better times grows 
brighter day by day. Further steps to rout the 


_depression now only await congressional approval 


of pending legislation. That approval should be 
given at once. 


The Grain Producer Replies 


HE grain producers of Illinois resent the tac- 

tics employed by certain elements in the grain 
trade to undermine their efforts at marketing 
grain co-operatively. During recent weeks farm- 
ers: have shown their resentment most effective- 
ly by helping their state regional, Illinois Grain 
Corporation, add 14 new elevator members. This 
splendid increase was obtained in a little more 
than seven weeks following the annual meeting 
on Feb. 22 at Peoria. No better answer to grain 
trade propaganda against the Illinois Grain Cor- 
poration and Farmers National Grain Corpora- 
tion could have been given. 

Volume of grain concentrated in farmer-owned 
and farmer-controlled marketing agencies counts 
more than verbal or written argument. Mud- 
slinging, false charges, and innuendo will not head 
off the development of co-operative marketing. 
The opposition had better save its energies and 
money spent for high-priced publicity bureaus 
and field workers. We farmers are interested in 
better marketing service and net returns for our 
grain. We shall judge private handlers as well as 
our own institutions accordingly. 


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I. A. A. RECORD—May, 1933 


W. H. Moody of Port 
Byron Passes Away 


W. H.-Moody of Port Byron, died 
suddenly the night of April 20, the 
Rock Island County Farm Bureau 
announced in a telegram received at 
I. A. A. headquarters. Mr. Moody was 
on the I. A. A. board many years 
where he served as chairman of the 
finance commit- 
tee. Subsequently 
he became a di- 
rector in the Chi- 
cago Producers 
Commission As- 
sociation. His was 
a familiar face at 
state and district 
meetings of the I. 
A. A. and asso- 
ciated companies. 
He attended the 
recent annual 
meeting of the Chicago Producers at 
the Sherman Hotel, Chicago and also 
was a visitor at the district meeting 
of the Illinois Agricultural Mutual 
Insurance Co. in Galesburg a short 
time ago. 

Moody was a pioneer in the Farm 
Bureau movement and held member- 
ships in both the Rock Island and 
Whiteside County organizations in 
past years. He served as_ general 
agent for the I. A. A. insurance com- 
panies in his home county in 1929 and 
1930 and invariably took a keen in- 
terest in all the new services and 
companies set up by the Association. 
He subscribed for $5000 of insurance 
in Country Life Insurance Co. soon 
after it was organized. Mr. Moody’s 
service to agriculture in Illinois is 
worthy of the highest tribute. His 
kindly greeting and smile will be 
missed by a host of friends. 


W. H. MOODY 


Chicago Health Board 
Drawing In Milk Shed 


The Chicago Board of Health on 
March 28 announced that it would in- 
spect additional dairy herds in north- 
ern Illinois closest to the Chicago 
market. This announcement represents 
a change in policy. For several years 
the health commissioner has refused 
inspection to new dairy farms re- 
gardless of their location. 

Assurance was given milk producers 
of Boone and McHenry counties who 
gathered at the city hall in Chicago 
that the board was proceeding on its 
policy of gradually drawing in the 
area from which milk and cream for 
Chicago would be obtained. 


Exports At 71 


A further decrease in volume ex- 
ports of farm products in February 
brought the Bureau of Agricultural 
Economics index of exports down to 
71 for that’ month as compared with 
a 1909-14 average of 100. | 

The index of exports of wheat and 
flour dropped to 25 as contrasted with 
89 in February a year ago. 


Representatives of cities desiring‘ 


the next annual meeting of the IIli- 
nois Agricultural Association will ap- 
pear before the I. A. A. board. on 
May 12. 


United States corn will meet less 
active competition in world markets 
this year because of prospective short 
supplies in the Argentine and South 
Africa. 

Stocks of old corn have been ma- 
terially reduced in Roumania and other 
Danubian countries of Europe. The 
United States is the only country hav- 
ing relatively large supplies on hand. 


"Mac" and "Hank'' 


W. W. McLAUGHLIN J. H, LLOYD 


Walter W. McLaughlin, state di- 
rector of agriculture, whose ap- 
pointment was announced in the 
April RECORD, recently announced 
the selection of J. H. “Hank” Lloyd 
as assistant director. Mr. Lloyd 
has been managing farms in Kane 
and adjoining counties for the Frst 
National Bank of Aurora. He be- 
gan his new work at Springfield 
April 10. 

“Hank” graduated from the Uni- 
versity of Illinois in 1911, was in- 
structor in crops for two years at 
Purdue University, and was em- 
ployed for 14 years as farm ad- 
viser in Hancock county. In 1930 
he became manager of the Soybean 
Marketing Association which he 
served until 1931 when he moved to 
Aurora. 

Mr. Lloyd will assist in carry- 
ing out the many regulatory duties 
connected with the state depart- 
ment. 


Tax Commission Order Is 
Unconstitutional—Watson 


The reported order of the Illinois 
Tax Commission that personal prop- 
erty be assessed at 100 per cent of 
fair cash value, while real estate is 
assessed at a lower figure is not in 
accord with the uniformity provision 
in the Constitution of Illinois, accord- 
ing to John C. 
Watson, director 
of taxation. 

In a recent 
statement to the 
McLean County 
Farm Bureau, Mr. 
Watson said that 
if real estate in 
that county is as- 
sessed at approxi- 
mately 60 per 
cent of its fair 
cash value this | 
percentage also should be used in the 
assessment of all personal property. 
Watson states that this method of as- 
sessing personal property is the only 
one that can be defended in the courts. 

Len Jones, chairman of the Mc- 
Lean county tax committee, reported 
that his committee would oppose a 
100 per cent valuation in that county 
because such assessment would throw 
an unfair proportion of taxes on per- 
sonal property. 

The tax committee also went on 
record against diversion of funds de- 
rived from the state sales tax for 
relief purposes. The McLean County 
Farm Bureau believes that sales tax 
revenue should be used to replace and 
reduce dollar for dollar taxes now 
levied against property for educational 
purposes in that county. 


JOHN WATSON 


Gross Income Tax In 


Indiana Fair To All 


The gross income tax adopted by 
the Indiana legislature of 1933 has 
brought about an equitable distribu- 
tion of the tax burden, according to 
the Indiana Farm Bureau. “No tax 
battle has been more bitterly fought 
nor more decisively won than that 
fought by the ‘artful taxdodgers’ on 
the one side and the ‘embattled farm- 
ers’ on the other,” said Lewis Taylor, 
director of the tax department. “The 
tax load is now shifted to all citizens 
on a parity, and although farmers 
will pay their just share, their load 
will be greatly lightened, which will 
enhance their opportunities to save 
their farms and homes during this 
critical period.” 


8 


lA. A. Opposes 
Measure To Cripple 
Motor Trucking 


() ‘cxrtsimen to unreasonable 


curtailment of motor truck 

transportation was voiced be- 
fore the Senate Committee on Roads 
and. Highways at Springfield on 
March 29 by L. J. Quasey, director of 
transportation who represented the 
Illinois Agricultural Association in the 
hearing on Senate Bill 316. 

The opposition of the I. A. A. was 
based on the probability of increasing 
the cost of marketing hogs, milk, and 
other farm products if the length and 
tonnage of motor trucks were further 
reduced at this time. 

The I. A. A. took the view that the 
State Highway Department should 
first initiate legislation to protect the 
highways against premature destruc- 
tion. It was reported that railroads 
are behind the bill because of the 
great inroads made by motor trucks 
on their freight business during the 
past two years. 

“Transportation of products from 
the farms and materials and supplies 
to the farms is a matter of great im- 
portance to the agricultural industry,” 
said Quasey. 

“We are interested in the develop- 
ment and co-ordination of all forms 
of transportation, each to be given 
fair opportunity to find its proper 
place in the transportation field, un- 
hampered by unnecessary, unreason- 
able, or vicious restrictions. 


Reduced Year Ago 


“The measure under consideration 
here seeks to drastically reduce the 
weights and lengths of trucks and 
particularly trailers. It will be ob- 
served that the lengths and weights 
of trucks and trailers were substan- 
tially reduced by a law passed only 
two years ago. Since that time there 
has been no change in design of our 
hard surface roads, nor are we aware 
of any change in conditions that would 
warrant further reductions at this 
time. 

“The State Highway Department 
has made great progress in highway 
design—it has developed much in- 
formation regarding theveffect of mo- 
tor truck traffic on highways. It is 
charged by law with responsibility of 
building, maintaining and policing our 
highway system. Therefore, we are of 
the opinion that the Highway Depart- 
ment is in the best position to pro- 
pose necessary highway regulations. 

“Since it does not appear that this 
measure either originated in the 
Highway Department or is sponsored 
by it, it is proved quite conclusively 


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AGRICULTURAL BUILDING AT CHICAGO 1933 WORLD’S FAIR 


I. A. A. RECORD—May, 1933 


This huge building will be filled with agricultural exhibits including finished 
food products and farm implements demonstrating the progress made during 


the past 100 years. 


The Agricultural Building is located on Northerly Island. It is of steel frame 
construction, 600 feet long, 100 feet wide and 40 feet high, with roof terraces 
and observation lounges extending the full length of the building. The Fair will 


open June 1. 


Outlook For Cattle And 
Hogs In Coming Months 


The cattle market should continue 
in a strong position with a rebound 
in prices expected within the-next few 
weeks, H. M. Conway, market an- 
alyst for the National Livestock 
Marketing Association, reported on 
April 5. 

Any recovery should be taken ad- 
vantage of by marketing finished 
steers and butcher cattle. It is no time 
to get panicky and rush in half-fin- 
ished stuff. Butcher cattle will con- 
tinue strong well into May and fur- 
ther strength is expected in the stock- 
er and feeder market. It will be well 
to avoid the late spring and summer 
as price and supply changes are ex- 
pected to be somewhat the reverse of 
last year. Steer calves should be car- 
ried and fully finished for the fall 
market. Short feeding for the late 
fall and winter appears good at this 
time. . 

While the spring peak in the hog 
market apparently has been passed, 
hogs are still in a strong position. 
Finished hogs might as well be topped 
out on any upturn and those on feed 
crowded for as early a market as 
possible. Fall pigs will be moving 
quite freely by late May and are ex- 


that there is no necessity for further 
reduction in weights and lengths of 
motor trucks and trailers to protect 
the highways of the state. 

“T respectfully suggest, Mr. Chair- 
man, that the Highway Department 
be asked to present information per- 
tinent to this matter.” 

The Association favors reasonable 
regulation of trucks to preserve paved 
roads against destruction, but believes 
such regulation should have scientific 
backing. 


pected to continue well into July. 
Feeding for August and September 
looks attractive. However, some cau- 
tion in regard to weight seems desir- 
able. Developments following farm 
relief legis!ation should be watched 
rather closely, as hogs will be par- 
ticularly affected. 

The lamb market continues to have 
hard going, but improvement is still 
expected by the middle of the month 
with a sharp comeback by late April 
and early May. Western fed lambs are 
still moving in considerable volume, 
but this supply can chop off rather 
sharply most any time. The number 
was curtailed but they have moved 
early, thus throwing the full reduc- 
tion at the close of the feeding season. 


New York Considers 
Fixing Minimum Prices 


The Dairymen’s League of New 
York is sponsoring the Smith bill in 
the state legislature which provides 
for fixing the minimum price of milk 
to consumers by a state board charged 
with the duty of seeing to it that 
dealers pass these benefits back to 
farmers. 

The control board would be only 
temporary. The members would serve 
without salary. The board is author- 
ized to revoke the license of any 
dealer who does not comply with the 
provision. 

“We believe the Smith bill is the 
least objectionable to the dairy in- 
dustry of any thus far presented,” 
said F. H. Sexauer, president of the 
League. “It aims to stop price cutting 
by giving the control board power to 
fix the minimum price at which milk 
shall be sold to consumers. Abolish- 
ment of price cutting will go a long 
way toward correcting the evils from 
which farmers are suffering.” 


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OUNTRY LIFE Insurance Company has only one 
reason for its existence — to be of service to 
Farm Bureau members. Now it has extended 

that service to the wives and children of Farm Bureau 
members by extending to them for the first time the 
opportunity to obtain complete life insurance protec- 
tion at the lowest possible cost through the Country 
Life Group Insurance plan. 


This opportunity is open only during the months of 
April and May. 


Country Life Group Insurance for Farm Bureau 
members and their families is an answer to the need 
for low-cost insurance to tide policy holders over the 
hard times. Right now, with money none too plentiful 
anywhere, and the need for adequate insurance pro- 
tection greater than ever before, thousands of policy 
holders in all companies find it difficult to pay their 
premiums. 


Farm Bureau members are no exception, and Coun- 
try Life, seeing their need, has made available to them 
as part of its service to the needs of organized agri- 
culture, a policy that will give complete protection at 
a price they can afford to pay. 


Complete details of the Country Life Group Insur- 
ance plan are set forth on the following page. I most 
earnestly urge every Farm Bureau member to acquaint 
himself with them and learn at first hand of this ex- 
ceptional opportunity offered only to Farm Bureau 
members and their families. 


Let me again call attention to the fact that Coun- 
try Life’s offer holds good only during April and May. 


L. A. Williams, Manager, 


COUNTRY LIFE 
INSURANCE COMPANY 


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By enrolling in a class of 50 or more, Farm Bureau 
~ members, their wives and children can take advantage 
of the most sensational insurance offer ever made by 
your own insurance company, Country Life. Complete 
protection for every member of the family between 
the ages of 15 and 50, at a cost so reasonable it hardly 


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seems possible. This special offer, effective only during the remainder of April and the 
month of May, applies only to Farm Bureau members and their families. By making 
it, your own insurance company is helping you to beat the hard times. 


Here Are Some of the Advantages of 
Country Life Group Insurance 


time within 12 years to any other 
standard form of policy at the rate 
applying to your original or attained age. 


1 It is a term policy convertible any 


Bureau members and their families 

between 15 and 50 without the for- 
mality of a medical examination if their 
health record is good. 


2 Policies of $1,000 are issued to Farm 


page how reasonable the rate per 
$1,000 is at your age and how for 
only a few pennies a day you can obtain 
complete insurance protection for your- 
self and your family with absolute safety. 


3 Note from the table on the opposite 


nual dividends starting at the be- 
ginning of the third year, thus re- 
ducing still further the net insurance cost. 


f Country Life Group policies pay an- 


owned and operated by organized 

agriculture. Its assets are 100% 
liquid; its strength unsurpassed by any 
company anywhere. You can have com- 
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5 Country Life is your own company, 


ance you can safeguard your loved 

ones during the hard times at mini- 
mum cost, and then change to some policy 
more suited to your needs when condi- 
tions improve without sacrificing any ad- 
vantage of age. 


6 Through Country Life Group Insur- 


Your Farm Bureau will be glad to cooperate with you in taking advantage of this 
special offer. They can give you complete information and will assist you in 


forming a group of 50 if you desire. Just phone them and ask to speak to the 
Country Life General Agent. Or, if you’d rather, fill out the coupon. In either 


case you will not be obligated in any way. 


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12 


- Talk Over Problems 
Atl. A. A. District 


Conference 


County Farm Bureau Leaders Find Plenty of Topics To 


Interest Them, Sales Tax Is Live Issue 


HE STATE sales tax and the 

; relative merits of the county 

commissioner form of govern- 
ment vs. the board of supervisors form 
were discussed by John C.. Watson 
of the I. A. A. at the 15th district 
conference in Quincy, April 3. Ray 
Ihrig, I. A. A. director, called the 
meeting and presided. Farm Bureau 
leaders who attended from Adams, 
Knox, Schuyler, Henry, and Fulton 
counties got down to fundamentals 
and exchanged views informally on a 
variety of subjects of vital interest to 
the organization. 

Mr. Watson stated that the sales 
tax was not sponsored by the Illinois 
Agricultural Association, although the 
I. A. A. did not oppose it. “It be- 
came apparent,” he said, “in view of 
the new political lineup that some 
sort of a sales tax would be passed so 
the I. A. A. immediately interested 
itself in getting a tax that was least 
objectionable to rural people. 


Amended Original 


“With the help of its friends in the 
senate, the Association succeeded in 
amending the original bill to distribute 
the sales tax funds among the coun- 
ties according to population and to 
make the new tax primarily a re- 
placement tax to reduce levies against 
property.” 

The commission form of county 
government, Watson said, has greater 
possibilities for efficiency but also is 
more open to rule by political cliques. 
The county manager form offers the 
greatest hope for efficient and eco- 
nomical government, he said. 

The only legal basis for assessing 
personal property under the constitu- 
tion of Illinois, Mr. Watson told the 
delegates, is at the same percentage 
of fair cash value as real estate is 
assessed. He recommended conferring 
with the county treasurer on personal 
property assessment, expressing the 
belief the reported order of the state 
tax commission to assess personal 


property at 100 per cent is in error. 

Sam H. Thompson, former I. A. A. 
and A. F. B. F. president, who re- 
cently retired from the Federal Farm 
Board, attended the meeting and dis- 
cussed general agricultural conditions 
and pending legislation. He concluded 
his talk by saying that he returned to 
Adams county as an ordinary citizen 
and Farm Bureau member in the 
ranks and hoped to prove that he 
eould be a good follower. Dudley 
Myers, president of the Adams Co. 
Farm Bureau for 14 years who with 
Mr. Thompson was awarded a medal 
by the A. F. B. F. for distinguished 
service to agriculture, expressed the 
belief that the depression had brought 
about an awakening among all groups 
to the farmers’ plight and the need 
for restoring farm prosperity before 
there could be general prosperity. 

G. A. Broman of Henry County re- 
ported that money was tight and 
Farm Bureau collections slow in that 
county. Farmers are paying insurance 
premiums, gasoline and oil bills, and 
neglecting to pay their dues, he said. 
He suggested that volunteers be di- 
rected to look after collections in their 
respective communities. John Moore 
of the organization staff outlined sev- 
eral plans for collecting dues. 

A. R. Kemp of Knox county recom- 
mended school and town hall commu- 
nity meetings as a means of reach- 
ing members and keeping them in- 
formed on organization activities and 
accomplishments. Let’s spend more 
time serving our present paid up 
members, 
much time on delinquents and figur- 
ing how to get new ones. He related 
how 18 successful “fireside” meetings 
in members’ homes were held where 
livestock marketing was discussed. 
Harry Gehring emphasized the need 
for getting the Farm Bureau story 
before the people through local meet- 
ings and told of school house gather- 
ings promoted with excellent results 
in two townships in Knox county. 


said Kemp, and not so 


I. A. A. RECORD—May, 1933 


Sam Thompson Retires 


Sam H. Thompson of Quincy, 
member of the Federal Farm Board 
and former president of the IIli- 

nois_ Agricul- 
’ tural Associa- 

tion and A. 

F. B. F., an- 

nounced » his 

resign ation 
from Wash- 
ington on 

March 29. He 

was: appointed 

in March, 1931 

to complete 

the unexpired 

term of Alex- 
ander Legge, first chairman of the 
Board. Mr. Thompson resigned as 
president of the American Farm 
Bureau Federation to accept the 
appointment by ex-President Hoo- 
ver. 

Mr. Thompson will long be re- 
membered for his sincere devotion 
to the welfare of agriculture and 
for his many. years service in the 
Farm Bureau movement which he 
entered first as a membership so- 
licitor in his home county, Adams. 


8. H. THOMPSON 


Wm. Brown of Fulton county em- 
phasized the value of 4-H club work 
to county fairs expressing the belief 
that this feature had made possible 
continuation of the fair in his county. 
“Many farmers are not the right 
calibre for Farm Bureau members,” 
said Brown, “and should not be in- 
vited to join.” Increased taxes from 
unemployment relief, he said, are im- 
posing a heavy burden on farmers. 

J. E. Meatheringham of Adams ex- 
plained his organization plan in which 
each member would be allowed a dis- 
count on his dues for every new paid- 
up member secured. Thus as member- 
ship increased per capita dues would 
go down and vice versa. “Let’s put 
responsibility on the members for 
maintaining the organization, but 
credit the man who signs up his neigh- 
bors, with a lower cost membership 
fee for his effort.” 

Resolutions were adopted referring 
the question of appropriation for State 
Fair to the I. A. A. legislative com- 
mittee; opposing legislation to wipe 
out or seriously cripple Farm and 


‘Home advisory work; recommending 


maintenance of 4-H club work on the 
present basis. 

The next meeting will be held after 
corn planting in Henry county. L. E. 
McKinzie of Schuyler county, was 
elected secretary of the district for a 
two-year term. 


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I. A. A. RECORD—May, 1933 


Chicago Producers 
Gain In Percentage 


Receipts 


Handled 


Money And Prices And Economic Developments Interest 


Livestock Growers At Annual Meeting 


RISE in commodity prices is the 
most hoped for solution to the 
economic predicament affecting the 
entire world, Prof. F. A. Pearson of 
Cornell University told approximately 
300 members and guests of the Chi- 
cago Producers’ Commission Associa- 
tion in their annual meeting at the 
Sherman Hotel, 
Chicago, April 4. 
President Henry 
H, Parke of Genoa 
presided. 
Dr. Pearson 
presented a mass 
of statistical data 
including charts 
and curves. which 
held his audience 
with rapt atten- 
tion for more 


HENRY PARKE 


than three hours. - 


With simple illustrations he clearly 
outlined the money question and 
showed how widely prices had de- 
parted from their close relation to 
gold reserves during the 1928-1929 
period of inflation. 


“Only two courses are open,” Prof. 
Pearson said; “one is deflation, the 
other reflation. If we wish to go 
through with deflation we may as well 
proceed with bankruptcies, foreclos- 
ures and public defaults and get them 
over with. An early postponement by 
lending some money or attempting to 
hold up the price of this or that will 
accomplish little. 


“Probably nothing is more univer- 
sally wished for than a rise in com- 
modity prices. We are willing to have 
the Farm Board buy wheat and cot- 
ton, pile tariff on tariff, lend billions 
of government money all in the hope 
that commodity prices may rise, but 
when any proposal is put forward 
that will raise the whole price level 
it is commonly considered sacrilegious. 
There is probably no other subject on 
which so many people have formed 


positive convictions without scientific 
evidence.” 

Dr. Pearson traced the history of 
money and prices since before the 
revolutionary war, outlined in some 
detail how European and other coun- 
tries are attempting to solve the 
money question. Answering the ques- 
tion, “what price level should be re- 
stored?” he said: “That price level to 
which debts and other relationships 
are most nearly adjusted. Freight 
rates, telephone, and similar charges 
are adjusted to the present price level 
before the collapse. To bring com- 
modity prices into adjustment with 
these charges would require a price 
level of about 40 to 50 per cent above 
pre-war. If a very prompt recovery 
from the present situation is desired 
a higher price is necessary. : 

“We should not be too disgruntled 
because so little progress has been 
made in solving the money question. 
Past experience guides the action of 
most of us and only a few ever de- 
part from its teachings. Inertia is 
such a commanding force in our 
thoughts and actions that a_ great 
change rarely occurs until an unusual 
event forces it upon us.” 

In opening the meeting, President 
Henry H. Parke delivered a_ well- 
thought-out address in which he 
pointed out economic factors which 
have reduced livestock prices. He con- 
demned the home-buying campaigns 
as a hindrance to recovery. “We must 
master the major principles of infla- 
tion, deflation, and the gold standard,” 
he said. “Restoration of trade between 
nations is necessary to bring back 
prosperity. If deflation is carried on 
it will be a victory for the creditor 
class and the bondholder who will take 
over much property at rock-bottom 
prices. The nineteen or more coun- 
tries which are off the gold standard 
with depreciated currencies are under- 
mining our industries and agriculture. 


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“Our association came through the 
year with net profits of $15,683.48,” 
said Mr. Parke. “The fact that we had 
a reserve was very helpful during 
the first two weeks of March when the 
bank holiday was on. This reserve 
made possible an uninterrupted flow 
of cash to the country. The result 
was an immediate increase in receipts. 


“The Chicago Producers took the 


' jnitiative in reducing commissions at 


Chicago and is now working with the 
packer and stock yards administration 
toward securing more equitable rates. 
The hearing will probably be held in 
May.” In closing he paid a tribute to 
the Farm Bureau for laying the 
groundwork that made possible the 
Producer commission associations. 


A complete analysis of the year’s 
operations which showed another gain 
in percentage of receipts handled, was 
given by Manager D. L. Swanson. 
During 1932 the Producers handled 
9.3 per cent of all livestock sold on 
the Chicago market. This compares 
with 8.4 per cent handled in 1931. 
While livestock averaged approxi- 
mately $1,200 per car in 1931, last year 
a carload averaged only $900 in value. 
Illinois contributed more than 70 per 
cent and Iowa 14.07 per cent of the 
Chicago Producers’ receipts. 


The mass of statistical data pre- 
sented by the manager was impres- 
sive. It shows that the organization 
is in constant touch with all details 
affecting its business and the market- 
ing of livestock. 

Mr. Swanson stated that the Pro- 
ducers’ subsidiary, the Chicago Stock- 
er and Feeder Co., saved more than 
$15,000 in actual cash to producers 
last year, and also had been helpful in 
maintaining livestock prices, for when 
animals are shunted over to the 
Stocker and Feeder Co. that much is 
removed from competition for sale to 
killers. “This is an example of a 
service refund,” said Swanson, “in 
contrast to a cash refund.” 


He named 16 distinct services the 
Chicago Producers has developed for 


livestock growers, few of which he-- 


said are available elsewhere. Truck- 
ing-in increased 64 per cent during 
the past year. The Producers sold 
more than 19 per cent of all trucked- 
in stock. 


L. J. Quasey and G. W. Baxter of 
the Transportation Department saved 
Illinois and Iowa livestock shippers 
more than $75,000 last year by secur- 
ing modified mixed livestock rates and 
rulings. More than $7,100 of claims 
were collected for members last year, 
a total of $109,395 since the collection 
service for livestock shippers was 
started. 

Two hundred and sixty-six feeders 


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borrowed a little more than $400,000 
through the Chicago Producers’ Loan 
Service in 1982. Since 1924 the Pro- 
ducers loaned approximately one and 
two-third millions of dollars of which 
only a little more than $6,000 was 
lost. The association carries ample 
bonds to protect shippers. The organi- 
zation has investments of $107,627 of 
which $35,000 is in government bonds, 
and $64,000 in the stock of associated 
companies. Net worth at the close of 
the year was $156,770.85, a gain of a 
little more than $16,000 for the year. 

Chas. A. Ewing, president of the 
National Association, gave a highly 
interesting talk in which he expressed 
optimism over the outlook for agri- 
cultural relief from Washington. He 
lauded the progress made by the new 
administration, but suggested that or- 
ganized livestock growers better get 
ready in the next few years to do 
their own financing. “Nothing is so 
uncertain as the uncertainty of poli- 
tics,” he said. “We must not depend 
too much on any one bill. We must 
become self-reliant. 

“Our biggest job,” he said, “is to 
concentrate terminal and direct mar- 
keting. Science has done much for 
agriculture since the turn of the cen- 
tury, but apparently it has not solved 
the problem of maintaining prosperi- 
ty. While the National Marketing As- 
sociation members increased their 
business 15 per cent in volume last 


year the livestock handled brought ap- 


proximately 46 per cent less money.” 

Ewing expressed approval of the 
new farm bill, but believes its most 
hopeful feature is that concerned with 
establishing reciprocal trade agree- 
ments with foreign countries. He at- 
tacked the industrial tariff which, he 
said, had nursed industries along for 
more than 100 years. “I agree with 
Joe Fulkerson of Jerseyville,” he said: 
“If I had a calf that couldn’t stand up 
and suck after 140 years, I would veal 
it.” 

Directors chosen to represent the 
four districts whose directors’ terms 
had expired were as follows: Chas. J. 
Hearst, Jr., Blackhawk county, Iowa; 
Earl Gehring, Knox county, Illinois; 
Frank Snodgrass, Geneseo, Henry 
county, Illinois, and Theodore Oriez, 
Washington, Iowa. 


Dolomite, or dolomitic limestone, 
added to complete fertilizers which 
contain ammonium compounds will 
prevent them from increasing soil 
acidity. 


The gross income from dairy prod- 
ucts last year was $1,180,000,000 or 
about half the income of 1929. Poultry 
and eggs yielded $608,000,000 in 1932; 
a decline of 52 per cent since 1929. 


I. A. A. RECORD—May, 1933 


NEW STOCKYARDS ON I. C. AT BLOOMINGTON 


The McLean county unit of Illinois Livestock Marketing Association will use 
these facilities recently completed at Bloomington. There are 28 pens under one 
roof. Lower view shows unloading platform for trucks. 


Direct Shipping of Hogs 
Cuts Terminal Prices 


How direct buying of hogs at local 
concentration points is undermining 
terminal market prices was explained 
by Ray Miller, director of livestock 
marketing, before the I. A. A. Board 
March 24. 

A recent survey shows that hogs 
are being bought by local packer 
buyers for direct shipment at 29 dif- 
ferent points in Illinois, said Miller. 
In many cases these hogs are shipped 
direct to eastern markets such as 
Buffalo and Pittsburgh. By shipping 
direct the buyers make a substantial 
saving on freight rates, compared 
with the combined rate from the coun- 
try point to Chicago or St. Louis, and 
then on east to destination. 

For example, the hog rate from 
Bluffs, Ill. to Buffalo, N. Y. is 46 
cents per cwt. Thus a buyer at Bluffs 
could secure plenty of hogs within 
the past week for $3.65 per cwt. He 
could add a commission of 15 cents 
and lay these hogs down at Buffalo 
to the packer at $4.26. Hogs were sell- 
ing on the open market at Buffalo at 
considerably more money. 


Has Bearish Influence 


This district buying has a bearish 
influence on all the terminal markets 
according to Miller. The result of the 
system is to place farmers in direct 
competition with each other. The seller 
for the lowest price tends to set the 
price for all. 

Miller stated that farmers today 
are receiving less than 30 per cent of 
the consumer’s pork dollar. Based on 


recent prices the Illinois hog ‘crop for 
1933 he said will bring the farmer ap- 
proximately $44,000,000 whereas the 
consumer will pay approximately 
$176,000,000 for the finished product. 
In other words, it will cost close to 
$132,000,000 to process and distribute 
the Illinois hog crop. Packers and dis- 
tributors thus receive three times 
more for processing and handling the 
hogs than the farmer receives. 

In Denmark where farmers have 
co-operative packing plants, the pro- 
ducer gets close to 60 to 70 per cent 
of the consumer’s dollar. Before the 
war Illinois farmers were receiving 
upwards of 50 per cent of the con- 
sumer’s pork dollar. 

“It is time that livestock growers 
made a more complete study of pack- 
ing and distributing their commod- 
ities,” said Miller, “not so much with 
the idea of getting into the packing 
business themselves, but to learn how 
the excessive cost and waste of get- 
ting the finished product to the con- 
sumer can be reduced.” 


Dairy Products Lead 
In Gross Farm Income 


Dairy products assumed first place 
in the amount of gross farm income 
during 1932. This position was form- 
erly held by the livestock group, in- 
cluding cattle, hogs, and sheep. Live- 
stock in 1932 was the second largest 
source of income to farmers of the 
U. S. and vegetables third. 

Gross income from cattle, hogs, and 
sheep declined from $2,807,000,000 in 
1929 to $1,122,000,000 in'1932—-a drop 
of 60 per cent. 


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I. A. A. RECORD—May, 1933 


Business Men 
Advocate 75 Per Cent 
Inflation 


Movement To Revalue Gold Gains Momentum, Industry 


Supplies New Recruits 


tion—to be accomplished by rais- 

ing the price of gold from $20.67 
to $36.17 an ounce is being urged by 
a group of 300 industrial leaders or- 
ganized as the “Committee for the 
Nation to Rebuild Prices and Purchas- 
ing Power.” 

Chairman of the directing commit- 
tee is Frederic H. Frazier, chairman 
of the General Baking Company. Other 
members are Vincent Bendix, presi- 
dent, Bendix Aviation Corporation; 
Lessing Rosenwald, chairman, Sears, 
Roebuck & Co.; F. H. Sexauer, presi- 
dent, Dairymen’s League Co-operative 
Association; and J. H. Rand, Jr., presi- 
dent, Remington Rand, Inc. 


G tion to be sce per cent infla- 


Five Next Steps 


The committee now proposes what 
it calls the “Five Next Steps” to in- 
flate prices, as follows: 


1. Reopen the maximum number of 
banks as rapidly as possible. 

2. Continue an embargo on gold ex- 
ports and suspension of specie 
payment. Confer with Great Brit- 
ain with the idea of both coun- 
tries returning to gold basis simul- 
taneously. 

8. Remove restrictions. upon foreign 
exchange dealings which do not 
involve export of gold. Discon- 
tinue efforts to keep the dollar at 
its former gold parity. 

4. Announce at once that prior to 
lifting the embargo on gold at a 
future date it will be the policy of 
the United States to revalue gold. 
It is the opinion of the committee 
that the U.-S. treasury should 
raise the price of gold from $20.67 
per ounce to a new price of $36.17 
per ounce. This 75 per cent in- 
crease it is estimated will bring 
the commodity level to a 1926 
base. 

5. Create a federal non-partisan 
board to stabilize the United 

States price level of wholesale 


commodity prices at 100. This is 
the average of the U. S. Bureau of 
Labor price levels from 1921 to 
1930. 


These Men Signed 


Among the prominent business men 
signing the report were Philip K. 
Wrigley, president, William Wrigley, 
Jr. Company; E. L. Cord, president, 
Cord Corporation; Gen. R. E. Wood, 
president, Sears, Roebuck Co.; Carl 
W. Ullman, executive vice-president, 
Dollar Savings and Trust Company, 
Youngstown, Ohio; F. L. Innes, presi- 
dent, Speigel May Stern Company; 
Prof. Irving Fisher, Yale University; 
G. R. Meyercord, president, the Meyer- 
cord Company; E. M. Allen, president, 
National Surety Company; Edwin L. 


‘Lobdell, vice-chairman, Chicago City 


and Connecting railways; M. B. Nel- 
son, president, Long Bell Lumber 
Company; George W. Borg, chairman, 
Borg Warner Corporation; and Fred 
G. Wacker, president, Automatic 
Maintenance Machinery Company. 

The committee quoted at length 
from the recent report of the Na- 
tional Industrial Conference Board to 
the effect that between 1929 and 1932 
the price the farmer received for 
goods he sold fell from 100 to 41, 
while the cost of his purchases de- 
creased only to 75. 


All Groups Injured 


“Debts and interest payments con- 
tinued unchanged. Taxes increased, 
the report states. The farmers’ income 
was almost wiped out. The disparity in 
prices makes it unable for him to buy 
as formerly from industry in the city. 

“This cuts down the volume of 
freight shipments, closes factories, 
throws city workers out of employ- 
ment, and reduces their ability to buy 
from other industries. The drop in 
price level thus makes it difficult for 
one group to carry on business with 
another.” 

All economic groups, the committee 


15 


says, have been injured by the drop 
in the price level, which has already 
wiped out approximately $175,000,- 
000,000 of value. 

“Until we deal with this monetary 
cause of the depression, there can be 
little hope of recovery. Measures to 
reduce the debt structure or to re- 
lieve distress or give employment out 
of public funds are only palliative. 

“The best place where 12,000,000 


of unemployed can find work is in 


their formerly accustomed positions 
in factory, commerce, and agriculture. 
Our efforts must be directed to re- 
moving the causes which brought this 
organization to a standstill. | 
“Our economic system has proved 
itself the most efficient for produc- 
tion that the world has ever seen. Like 
a high-powered automobile, it is 


stalled because the distributor on its 


magneto has broken down. 

“Instead of tinkering with the body 
of the car we must direct our efforts 
at the source of the trouble.” 


Auditing Ass'n To 
Refund $2020 Cash 


The Illinois Agricultural Auditing 
Association announces that it is ready 


to issue $3,345 of preferred stock cov- 


ering 1932 contributions to capital re- 
serve. It will also redeem $2,020 of 
preferred stock issued on 1927 capital 
reserve contributions. 


From January 1, to April 19, 1933 
the Association had completed 115 
audits and prepared 20 income tax ex- 
emptions, states Fred E. Ringham, 
manager. 


Nine new contracts to audit ac- 
counts of co-operatives were secured 
since January 1, 1933 as follows: 


Chadwick Co-operative Produce 
Assn., Chadwick, IIl. 

Illinois Grain Corporation, Chicago, 
Ill. 

Jersey County Produce Assn., Jer- 
seyville, Ill. 

Bureau Service Company, Princeton, 
Ill. 

Farmers Creamery Company, 
Bloomington, IIl. 

Winnebago County Farm Bureau, 
Rockford, Il. 

Farmers Co-operative Dairy Prod- 
ucts Co., Davenport, Iowa. 

Rees Farmers Elevator Co., Frank- 
lin, Ill. 

Burlington Co-operative Pure Milk 
Ass’n, Burlington, Wisc. (Office in 
Chicago.) . 


The German import duty on lard 
was recently raised from $1.08 per 
10M pounds to $5.40. 


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Corn Yield May 
Again Be Reckoned 
In Gallons 


Hi-Ball Gasoline. Containing 10 Per Cent Alcohol Wins 
Out In New Road Tests — 


ISTORY is repeating itself in 
H the Corn Belt. Years ago, be- 


~ fore the brass rail and the 


swinging door became obsolete, grain. 


growers of the Middle West would 
jokingly estimate the yield from their 
broad fields at so many “gallons to 
the acre.” National prohibition put 
an end to that. © - 

But today it seems. pos- 
sible that the phrase may 
again come into ~circula- 
tion.: King .Corn, , whose 
ultimate destiny ‘has for - 
years -been’ corn meal, 
corn syrup, starch, beef or 
ham, may again find his 
way to the distillery to — 
emerge as alcohol, not for 
beverage purposes this- 
time, but for use in. pro- 
pelling thousands of auto- 
mobiles along millions of 
miles of paved highways, 
and doing the job better 
—and possibly cheaper— 
than it has ever been done 
before. And.as a_ result 
the grain farmer may 
once’ again come into his 
own and ‘have something. 
to cheer about after many 
long years in the Slough 
of Despond. 

For about two months, 
Illinois Farm Supply 
Company. has been dis- 
tributing to thousands of 
motorists “Hi-Ball Gaso- 
line,” a motor fuel com- 
posed of 90 per cent gaso- 
line and 10 per cent an- 
hydrous (dry) grain alcohol. Careful 
tests have been made under actual 
_ working conditions. Thousands of 
“questionnaires have been distributed 
in which users.of the new fuel have 
noted their experiences and their con- 
clusions. And the result seems to be 
‘that the blended fuel is far superior, 


not only to regular grades of gasoline, 
but to the premium grades, and fur- 
ther that its users would gladly’ pay 
a premium of two to three cents a 
gallon if the new fuel were made 
available to them permanently. 

For months scientists and others 
interested in farm relief had ‘been dis- 


LADIES avd GENTLEMEN 
“OF the BOARD=WE ARE 
JUST BEGINNING A NEW 
. BUSINESS YEAR. and 

EXPECT EACH ONE. 


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cussing the possibility of providing a 
market for surplus farm products 
from which alcohol might be produced, 
by blending it with gasoline for a 
motor fuel. Extensive laboratory tests 
were made. As is always the case, 
over-enthusiastic proponents of the 
idea advanced extravagant claims for 


‘A PERMANENT JOB | 


1. A. A. RECORD—May, 1933 


it. .There was much reference to 
similar experiments abroad. Some pro- 
fessors thought it would work. Re- 
finers were equally sure it wouldn’t. 
Farmers were hopeful but skeptical 
and the voice of the promoter was 
heard in the land, extolling not a 
chicken in every pot, but a distillery 
in every township. 

At the instance of Earl C. Smith, 
president of Illinois Agricultural As- 
sociation, Illinois Farm Supply Com- 
pany was asked to make a practical 


test of the plan and get some facts. 
-And the results of that test, con- 


ducted in co-operation with the Ameri- 
can Commercial Alcohol Corporation 
and under the supervision of the Fed- 
eral Bureau of Industrial Alcohol, now 
are available. ; 

The verdict is overwhelmingly in 
favor. of “Hi-Ball Gasoline.” About a 
thousand questionnaires have. been re- 
turned giving the results achieved 
with the new gas, and the unfavor- 
able reports are so few as to make 
the favorable reaction almost unani- 
mous. For instance, out of 712 users 
who compared ‘Hi-Ball with ordinary 
“gasoline, 480 reported an 

increase in miles per gal- 
' lon. Only three reported a 

decrease and 279 did not 
‘report on mileage. The 

430 who did report showed 

an average increase of 

2.66 miles per gallon with 

the blended fuel. In this 

same group, 709 reported 
that they would be willing 
to pay a premium for the 
blended fuel if it were 
produced from the surplus 
grain crop. Only three 
‘said they wouldn’t pay a 
premium. i 
Another group of 29 
made a comparison of Hi- 
‘Ball Gas with premium 
motor fuel of other grades. 


increase ,in mileage, but 
the 17 who did reported 
an average 
miles per gallon of 3.09 
miles with Hi-Ball. ~ All 
but one favored paying a 
premium. 

In both groups reports 
were made on the various 
phases of motor operation 
and comparisons drawn 
between the old and new 


fuels with the result that Hi-Ball’s . 


performance was better by a _ wide 


“margin as regards starting, accelera- 


tion, smoothness of operation, anti- 
knock qualities, power and general 
motor performance. Only one reported 
that his motor ran better with regu- 
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Twelve did not report any . 


increase in 


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I. A. A. RECORD—May, 1933 


Broader 


fe W aterway Creates 


Outlets 


For Grain 


New Facilities at Peoria For Loading River Barges 


the deep waterway system for 

the benefit of Illinois grain pro- 
ducers are being developed by the IIli- 
nois Grain Corporation and_ the 
Farmers National Grain Corporation. 
Of special interest to Illinois farmers 
are the new facilities to be erected at 
Peoria where the Farmers National 
million bushel warehouse is being re- 
modeled and facilities installed to un- 
load and load large trucks. 

Handling equipment also will be es- 
tablished at the [Illinois river for 
transferring grain direct from trucks 
to barges. 


P LANS to make maximum use of 


A comprehensive program is being 
launched by the Farmers National in- 
volving the establishment of additional 
warehouse space at Chicago, Buffalo, 
and other points necessary to take ad- 
vantage of low cost waterway trans- 
portation. : 

C. P. Cummings, manager of IIli- 
nois Grain Corporation, reports that 
it is impossible to forecast what’s 
ahead on truck and river transporta- 
tion of grain. “It is our intention to 
make available to our member ele- 
vators the full benefits of savings in 
marketing grain over water routes to 
the markets of the world. Whatever is 
.in store for the country elevator as 
a result of changes in transportation 
methods, we intend to work whole- 
heartedly for the best interests of our 
,member elevators and the grain pro- 

ducers who own them.” 

'. The new loading facility at the 
‘Peoria elevator will make it possible 
to unload grain from trucks and store 
it in the big warehouse for later 
shipment. This facility will be ex- 
tensively used when river transporta- 
tion is closed or when it is not de- 
sirable to ship by water. 

At the same time the loading equip- 
ment at the water’s edge will make 
possible conveyance of grain direct 
from trucks to the river barges for 
movement to Chicago and other Great 

Lakes ports or to New Orleans for 


transfer to ocean-going ships. 

It is contemplated that the plant at 
Peoria will be built in units, the first 
to cost about $50,000 and to have a 
capacity of 100,000 bushels daily. If 
water transportation proves advan- 
tageous, additional handling units 


close tothe river will probably be 
erected. The present million bushel 
warehouse at that point is located 
about a mile from the site now under 


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have anticipated from water trans- 
portation, 


“Through the development of these 
facilities, cities located at strategic 
points on the vast system of inland 
waterways will become important 
grain ports. The system taps one of 
the world’s richest grain areas; with 
immense acreages within feasible 
trucking distance, permitting either 
truck or rail shipment to barge ter- 
minals.” 


Illinois farmers have good prospects 
for a new market for upwards of 
10,000,000 bushels of corn annually on 
the Pacific coast. Approximately this 
quantity is now being consumed by 
the big poultry, egg, and dairy co- 
operatives in California and other 
Pacific coast states. Heretofore most 
of the corn used for feed by Pacific 
coast farmers has come by rail. By 
shipping down the Illinois and Missi- 
sippi rivers and through the Gulf of 
Mexico and Panama Canal, corn can 
be laid down at San Francisco for ap- 
proximately half the rail rate from 
interior points. In the same way corn 
can be laid down at European ports 


‘ONE MILLION BU. FARMER-CONTROLLED WAREHOUSE AT PEORIA 


This big grain elevator is being remodeled and new facilities installed to un- 
load and load grain from trucks for storage and later shipment by rail or water. 


consideration, C. E. Huff, president 
of the Farmers National Grain Cor- 
poration, announced recently. 

“Our handling of several thousand 
tons of corn by barge from Havana, 
Illinois to the Gulf, which pioneered 
in the movement of grain from in- 
terior Illinois by use of the new water- 
way,” said Huff, “proved so success- 
ful that we have planned expansion of 
this service on a permanent and com- 
prehensive basis for the benefit of IIli- 
nois grain producers. 


“The installation of necessary equip- 
ment at Peoria, with continuance of 
our outlet through Havana, together 
with adequate facilities at Chicago for 
handling barge grain, constitutes the 
nucleus from which we expect to de- 
velop grain handling service through- 
out the entire system of inland water- 
ways to give farmers the benefits they 


from [Illinois by using the inland 
waterway system at a substantial sav- 
ing compared with the rail-water rate. 
All in all the Illinois corn grower has 
prospects of a much broader outlet 
for his product. 


The waterway system fits in ad- 
mirably for shipping corn, soybeans, 
and other Illinois products to farmers 
and dairymen in the Middle Atlantic 
and New England states. 

The G. L. F. Exchange of New 
York, for example, which buys and 
mixes feeds co-operatively for thou- 
sands of northeastern dairymen and 
poultrymen is one of the best cus- 
tomers of Illinois farmers. Hook-ups 
are being arranged whereby these big 
farm buying co-operatives will pur- 
chase direct from farmers through 
their own farmer owned and farmer 
controlled grain selling agencies. 


nad 


18 


State Watches Motor 
Fuel Tax Evasion 


J. M. Braude, superintendent of the 
division of motor fuel tax, is beginning 
to supervise more carefully applica- 
tions for refunds of the three cent gas 
tax on motor fuel. 

“We ask the co-operation of the Thli- 
nois Agricultural Association. and the 
County Farm Bureaus and service 
companies in seeing that/the law is 
complied with,” said Mr. Braude. “The 
law provides for a 3c tax on fuel 
used in motor vehicles on the public 
highway. We have had plenty of evi- 
dence that many have been claiming 
tax exemption forall motor fuel pur- 
chased regardless of whether or not 
part of the gasoline was used in auto- 
‘ mobiles and trucks. Some have claimed 
that they purchased all gasoline for 
their cars and trucks at filling sta- 
tions and use’ that delivered to the 
farm only in tractors and gas en- 
gines. This may be true in some in- 
stances but we shall insist that ap- 
plicants for refunds secure and send 
in receipts for gasoline bought for cars 
and trucks at filling stations with 
their applications. Otherwise refunds 
will be held up. We insist that farmers 
deduct from total purchases that por- 
tion used in cars and trucks when 
applying for refunds.” 

Mr. Nudelman, in charge of gas tax 
inspection, states that a number of 
farmers he -called on admitted that 
they applied for refunds on all gaso- 
line purchased, although part of it 
was used in their automobiles. 


I. A. A. Sponsors Legis- 


lation At Springfield 


(Continued from page 4) 


rendered a fine service, but don’t over- 
look the fact that membership is the 


life blood of the organization. ‘These 


institutions depend on membership. 
We are just one family and all of 
our state_And county commercial en- 
terprises are part of the program, but 
their continued success depends to a, 
large extent on the maintenance of a‘ 
strong parent organization. The I. A. 
A. has currently met its dues and paid 
10 per cent of its receipts from mem- 
bership each month to the American 
Farm Bureau Federation needed to 
carry on the national program. It 
will continue doing so so long as the 
members recognize the importance of 
putting first things first.” 

Secretary Geo. E. Metzger outlined 
the membership plan with a quota 
system for each county designed to in- 
crease membership throughout IIli- 
nois. 

Following an explanation of recent 


developments in the alcohol-gasoline 
dilution plan, Mr. Smith stated that a 
bill would be introduced in Congress 
shortly which attempts to meet the 
obstacles toward relief from this 
source. 


Corn Yield May Again. 
Be Reckoned in Gallons 
(Continued from page 16) 
lar gas than it did with Hi-Ball; 


aligned against him were 683 who re- 
ported that with Hi-Ball their general 


motor performance was distinctly bet-. 


ter. In the premium fuel group 25 
had better performance with Hi-Ball, 


_ and four could notice no difference. 


One particularly interesting experi- 


- ment was conducted which would seem 


to indicate that regardless of its 
higher price the blended fuel may 
prove to be a real economy for the 


~ motoring public should. it ever come 


into general use. 

.Aldoph ‘Woolner, Jr., a prominent 
citizen of Peoria, IIl., made this test 
over a measured course of 128 miles, 
extending from Peoria to Bureau 


Junction, back to Sparland, IIl., thence 
to Mt. Hawley road and back to the 


starting -point. The first test was 
made with Hi-Ball gas. Mr. Woolner 


drove over the course, until he had’ 
covered 500 miles during which trip 


his car consumed 40 gallons of. Hi- 
Ball, or an average of 12.5 miles to 


the gallon. The following day he. 


drove over the course until he had 
consumed 40 gallons of “regular” 


gasoline and compared the mileage. : 


He was surprised to note that while 
40 gallons of Hi-Ball had driven his 
car 500 miles, 40 gallons of the regu- 
lar gas drove him only 380 miles, or 
an average miles per gallon of only 
9.5 miles, as compared with 12.5 for 
Hi-Ball. Soe 
Several days later Mr. Woolner 
made another test, this time using 40 


_ gallons of ethyl-gasoline. On this oc-— 


casion he succeeded in making 488 
miles on the 40 gallons, or an average 


/of 11.2 miles per gallon as compared 


with 9.5 for the regular and 12.5 miles 
for Hi-Ball. ~~ 

It is interesting to note the cost 
figures compiled by Mr. Woolner fol- 
lowing his test. His Hi-Ball gasoline 
cost him 18.6 cents per gallon, he 
bought his regular gas for 14.6 cents 
per gallon and he paid 18. cents per 
gallon for Ethyl-gas. At these prices 
his average cost per mile for gaso- 
line was: regular gas 1.53 cents per 
mile, ethyl-gas 1.60 cents per mile, Hi- 
Ball Gas 1.48 cents per mile. The con- 
clusion is inescapable that should the 
blended fuel come into general use, 
users who pay th premium per gal- 
lon which will be necessary to cover 


I. A. A. RECORD—May, 1933 


increased blending and refining ex- 
pense, will more than get it back in 
reduced gasoline cost per mile in op- 
eration of their motor vehicles. All the 
tests above referred to were made 
with a Packard car, 1929 model, 
weighing 5,400 pounds.. 

There is only one conclusion to be 

drawn from this test and that is that 
gasoline, diluted with grain alcohol at 
a ratio of 10 to 1 and used as a motor 
fuel works as well in the engine of a 
Model T Ford on a country road as it 
did in a shiny laboratory cluttered 
with tachometers and what not. The 
folks who said the idea was practical 
were right. It seems to not only work, 
but work better than anything else we 
have today. 
' Of course, Illinois Farm Supply’s 
test is only the first step. Much re- 
mains to be done in the way of over- 
coming selfish opposition’ and there 
are many legislative and constitutional 
obstacles still to be hurdled. There is 
also, the matter of inadequate distil- 
lery capacity. which may require 
years to correct. 


We must not be overcenthustaatic 
or over-confident. Much remains to be 
done and -alcoholic dilution of ' gaso- 
line isn’t going to make the grain 
farmer rich over night. But, on the 
basis of the results obtained in a fair, 
impartial and carefully conducted test, 
there seems to be a good deal of hope 
for better things in the future. Of 
course we must wait for a little while, 
but farmers don’t mind waiting. We 
are used to it. 


Inflation Move Changes 
Picture On Farm Aid 


_ (Continued from page 5) 


of farms lost through foreclosure 
within the last year. The Reconstruc- 
tion_Finance Corp. is authorized to 
advance $200,000,000 to the Farm 
Loan Commissioner for this purpose. 
Under the proposed bill, joint stock 


land banks would be slowly liquidated. ° 


Arbitrary foreclosing of farm prop- 
erty would be stopped. The. joints 
would be permitted to borrow up to 
$100,000,000 to refinance present 
mortgages. This would be at the dis- 
posal of the Farm Loan Commissioner 
to take over joint stock farm mort- 
gages at not to exceed 60% of the 
normal value of farms so pledged. 

Another $50,000,000 would be avail- 
able from the R. F. C. to refinance 
encumbered lands in drainage, levee, 
and irrigation districts. 

Reports from Washington at this 
moment indicate possibilities of the 
congress giving President Roosevelt 
broad powers to inflate the currency 
using one or more of several methods. 


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RECORD 


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Number 6 


JUNE, 1933 


«President Roosevelt 


‘Signs Farm Bill 


Siting Wallace Plans Early Adninistrative Action, 


"Loans Begin Under t Mortgage Refi inancing Section 


= S THIS is written, news dis- 
A patches from Washington re-: 


port. that. President Roosevelt — 


has signed the Emergency: Farm-In- 
flation Bill and Secretary of Agri- 
culture Henry Wallace plans to take 
steps immediately to do whatever is 
possible and. practicable to ‘apply 
price-raising measures to the 1933 
crop. 

The community markets have ad- 
vanced miraculously now for more 


than three weeks until on Wednesday, | 


May 17, hog prices at Chicago av- 
eraged $5 per cwt. with a top of 


$5.35 for the: day. The grain mar-. 


kets and other livestock have ad- 
vanced similarly, most of. -which is 
psychological in anticipation of com- 
ing inflation, although continued wet 
weather delaying corn planting, and 
an indicated 50 per cent reduction in 
winter wheat from winter-killing are 
having a bullish influence on all 
grains. 

All in all'a splendid beginning, has 
been made in the march back to pros- 
perity although the only action taken 
_ thus far by the administration was 
first to restore confidence in banks, 
and secondly to stop exports of gold 
which resulted immediately in the de- 
cline of the dollar abroad. 


The powers given the Secretary of 
Agriculture to restore parity prices to 
agriculture, the stated purpose of the 
bill, may be used in whole or in part. 
It isn’t likely that buying power of 
farmers equivalent to that enjoyed in 
the five year period from 1909 to 


1914 will be restored in the next few 
months nor in the next year. Presi- 
dent. Roosevelt indicated in his radio 
talk’ to the people of ‘the United 


- States on Sunday night, May 7, that 


measures. would be applied to bring 
about’ a. gradual rise rather than a 


boom. But’ he did state specifically — 
that 


“the administration has the 
definite-. objective. of raising’ com- 
modity prices to such an extent that 
those who have borrowed money will, 
on the average, be able to repay that 
money in the ‘same kind of dollar 
which they borrowed. We do not seek 


.to let them :get such a cheap dollar 


that they will be able to pay back a 
great deal less than they borrowed.” 


Commenting on the farm bill, the 
President said: “The farm relief bill 
seeks by the use of. several methods, 
alone or together, to bring about an 
increased return to ‘farmers for their 


*major-farm products, seeking at the 


same time. to prevent in the days to 
come disastrous overproduction which 
so-often in the past has kept. farm 
commodity prices far below reason- 
able return. This measure provides 
wide powers for emergencies. The ex- 
tent of its use will depend entirely 
upon what the future has in store.” 
Specifically, the bill now enacted in- 
to law provides: 
‘1. For reduction in acreage or pro- 
duction of any basic agricultural 


-commodity (wheat, cotton, field corn, 


hogs, rice, tobacco, and milk and its 
products) through agreements with 


’ producers or other voluntary methods, 


Illinois Agricultural Association Reeord, 


Volume 11 


and .to provide for rental or benefit 
payments in connection therewith. 

2. For a tax at the point of pro- 
cessing on basic commodities, or com- 
peting commodities if necessary, with 
which to make benefit payments to 
producers who co-operate in reducing 
production. Commodities expurted are 
exempt from the tax. t 

3. For entering into marketing 
agreements with processors and 
handlers for the purpose of raising 
farm commodity prices. 

' 4, For licensing processors, co-op- 


erative associations, and other han- 


dlers of farm products to eliminate un- 
fair practices or charges “that tend 
to prevent the effectuation of the de- 
clared policy and the restoration of: 
normal economic conditions in the 
marketing of such- commodities or 


_ products and the financing thereof.” 


5. For revoking any such. license | 
after due notice and opportunity for . 
hearing, for violations of the terms or 
conditions thereof. 

The processing tax shall commence 
on the date of proclamation by the 


Secretary of Agriculture that rental 


or benefit payments are to be made 
with respect to such commodity. 

The rate of the tax shall be the 
difference between the current. av- 
erage farm price for the commodity 
and.the “fair exchange” value of the 
commodity. (Fair exchange value 
means that price which will give the 
producer purchasing power equivalent 
to that of 1909-1914.) If the tax re- 
sults in an accumulation of surplus, 
however, the Secretary may lower the 
rate. 


To administer the Act, the Secre- 
tary is authorized to set up the 
Emergency Agricultural Adjustment 
Administration in the Department of 
Agriculture. No officer or employee 
may receive more than $10,000 per 
year. The Secretary may establish 
state and local committees or associa- 
tions of producers, and may permit 
processors. and co-operative associa- 
tions when qualified, to act as agents 
of their members and patrons in dis- 
tributing rental payments. 

The Act may be terminated “when- 


I, A. A. RECORD—June, 1933 


PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SIGNING THE BILL THAT PROMISES A NEW DEAL FOR AMERICAN AGRICULTURE 


Grouped about the President in the White House when he signed the Emergency Farm-Inflation Act on May 12 are: 
left to right, Congressmen Wall Doxey, Miss.; Hampton P. Fulmer, 8S. C.; Geo. N. Peek, Moline, Ill. (rear); Marvin Jones, 
Texas, chr. House Agricultural Committee; L. J. Taber, pres. National Grange; Senator Ellison D. Smith, S. C.; Henry Mor- 
genthau, Jr., chairman Farm Credit Administraton; Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture; Edward A. O’Neal, presi- 
dent, American Farm Bureau Federation. - 


ever the President finds and pro- 
claims that the national economic 
emergency in relation to agriculture 
has been ended.” The President like- 
wise may terminate the application 
of the act to any basic commodity. 

The “cost of production” section 
providing for fixing minimum prices 
for farm products was stricken from 
the bill in conference committee. This 
section would have made it unlawful 
for anyone to buy farm products for 
domestic consumption below a certain 
price named by the Secretary. 

The bill as passed provides for an 
immediate appropriation of $100,000,- 
000 to administer the Act and make 
benefit payments. The Secretary of 
the Treasury is authorized to permit 
postponement for a period not to ex- 
ceed 90 days, of the payment of the 
processing tax. 


Farm Mortgage Section 


As we go to press, Henry Morgen- 


thau, Jr., farm credit administrator, 
according to press dispatches, has ap- 
pointed nine regional loan agents to 
carry out the provisions of this sec- 
tion of the Emergency Farm Act. 

The bill provides for: 

1. Issuing up to two billion dollars 
of 4% federal land bank bonds the 
interest of which is unconditionally 
guaranteed by the government. Such 


bonds may be exchanged for farm. 


mortgages or the proceeds used for 
making new loans. 

2. Reducing the interest rate on 
present federal farm loans to 442% 
and waiving principal payments for 
five years. 

3. Making loans at 5% on farm 
lands or property up to 75% of nor- 
mal value of the property pledged. 
Limit of loan is $5,000 and principal 
and interest must be paid pack in 10 
years, 

4. New mortgage loans shall be 
limited to 50% of normal value of 


land mortgaged and 20% of perma- 
nent improvements thereon, and in no 
case shall purchase price of any mort- 
gage exceed its face value. 

5. $200,000,000 from Reconstruc- 
tion Finance Corp. for loaning up to 
$5,000 to farmers on good security as 
outlined above. 

6. Slow liquidation of joint stock 
land banks--and halting of arbitrary 
farm foreclosures. The joint stock 
land banks are permitted to borrow 
up to $100,000,000 from the R. F. C. 
to refinance present mortgages. Loans 
may not exceed 60% of the normal 
value of farm lands pledged as se- 
curity. 

7. Loans up to $50,000,000 from R. 
F. C. to refinance encumbered lands in 
drainage districts, levee, and irriga- 
tion districts. 

Farmers may apply for loans up to 
$5,000 on farm property at once 
through the Federal Land Bank of 
St. Louis. 


<i Be a 


I, A. A. RECORD—June, 1933 


Organized Farmers 


Win Long Battle 


President Roosevelt Signs Bill Containing Principles Farm 
Bureau Fought For Since 1921 


NEW deal for agriculture, 
A victory after a 12 year fight 
* marked by broken political 
promises, the selfish opposition of 
vested interests, two presidential 
vetoes of effective farm legislation, 
and finally a half-way measure, was 
realized by the signing of the Emer- 
gency Farm Act at the White House. 
This is a victory for organized farm- 
ers, a victory for the Farm Bureau 
which vigorously led the fight at 
Washington and kept the issue in the 
forefront during the most trying 
period in the history of American ag- 
riculture. 

The seventy-third Congress and the 
President have finally given not only 
American farmers but. the nation a 
law with teeth in it granting ample 
authority to the administration to re- 
store the buying power of farmers 
and thereby the prosperity of the 
country. 

Now only aggressive administration 
of the Act, and the co-operation of 
farmers, handlers, and processors of 
farm commodities are needed to make 
it work. 

Weeks before the passage of the 
Act, the well known views of Frank- 
lin D. Roosevelt, and his strategic 
moves to restore confidence in banks 
and stop exporting and hoarding of 
gold, began routing the depression 
and sending prices upward. 

Miracles have been happening at 
Washington. How different from the 
dark days of the nineteen-twenties 
when organized farmers were thwart- 
ed time after time in the fight for 
a reasonable share of the prosperity 
that finally swept business and in- 
dustry into a whirlpool of profiteer- 
ing and speculation never before 
equaled in the history of civilization. 

The Farm Bureau movement 
launched its fight following post-war 
deflation which hit agriculture the 
hardest. It battled to wipe out the 
disparity between farm prices and 
non-agricultural prices. In this state, 
the Illinois Agricultural Association 
simultaneously waged war against 


high assessed valuations which did 
not reflect the terrific decline in farm 
land values until the I. A. A. de- 
manded and secured ‘substantial re- 
ductions. 

The Farm Bureau gathered facts 
and evidence to show that agriculture 
was being discriminated against, that 
farmers were compelled to buy in a 
protected market, pay prices fixed by 
a high protective tariff, although 
their staple crops, both that consumed 
at home and that portion marketed 
abroad, sold at the low world price. 

Industrial prices and _ prosperity 
rose rapidly beginning in 1922 and 
1923 but the farmer lagged behind 
because of the indifference of suc- 
cessive administrations and their re- 
fusal to strike at the heart of the 
problem, farm surpluses. 

The fight for the McNary-Haugen 
bill, twice vetoed, ended in the pas- 
sage of the Agricultural Marketing 
Act which was supported by industrial 
and business groups including han- 
dlers of farm products. Farmers asked 
for something more effective, and 
although skeptical of the value of the 
measure in raising prices, recognized 
it as better than nothing, and co-op- 
erated whole-heartedly in the laudable 
policy of government support to 
farmer-owned and farmer-controlled 
marketing agencies. 

The Farm Bureau continued its 
fight into the 1932 political conven- 
tions on a non-partisan basis, and 
when Governor Roosevelt took a clear 
and definite stand in favor of effective 
legislation to give farmers a square 
deal, they voted overwhelmingly for 
him for President. 

Without effective organization, it is 
extremely doubtful if farmers would 
have received any real consideration 
at the hands of government. The out- 
standing contribution organized 
farmers made was to educate not only 
law makers, but also influential busi- 
ness and industrial leaders about ag- 
riculture and the merits of their de- 
mands for consideration. 

Events of the past few years have 


A Victory For Organ- 
ization 


The signing of the Emergency 
Farm Bill by President Roose- 
velt is\the victorious culmina- 
tion of a 12 year fight of the 
Farm Bureau for effective legis- 
lation to wipe out the discrep- 
ancy between farm and non-ag- 
ricultural prices. The Illinois 
Agricultural Association took 
an-active and prominent part in 
this struggle. Previous admin- 
istrations said co-operative mar- 
keting is all you need. Farmers 
said we want co-operative mar- 
keting support but more than 
that is necessary. We must have 
equal privilege legislation, an 
American price for farm prod- 
ucts, effective measures to help 
us dispose of or eliminate sur- 
pluses that depress our markets. 

President Roosevelt’s bill 
paves the way for a new deal 
for the farmer. Vigorous ad- 
ministration of the measures 
permitted under this act will re- 
store farmers’ buying power 
and some of the comforts of life 
for farm families. The contin- 
uous hammering away of OR- 
GANIZATION fighting for a 
worthy and righteous cause 
made all this possible——Editor. 


eloquently testified to the soundness 
of the farmers’ position. Had the 
McNary-Haugen bill been enacted and 
put into operation, many believe the 
more extreme measures of the pres- 
ent day would not be necessary. 


Had national prosperity of the 
boom years been more evenly dis- 
tributed and the agricultural popula- 
tion given its fair share, certainly the 
extreme decline of the past few years 
would not have gone so far. Millions 
of dollars were loaned abroad much 
of which came back through pur- 
chases of American industrial prod- 
ucts to further stimulate the un- 
healthy spiral of inflation. 


Had farmers been able to store up 
cash reserves and liquidate debts in 
the post-war period they might have 
cushioned the fall of industrial ac- 
tivity with all its attending evils, 

Now farmers must continue their 
organized vigilance so they may offer 
the administration complete co-opera- 
tion in putting into action wise meas- 
ures to restore parity prices for agri- 
culture and with that ultimate return 
of prosperity to the nation. 


“We Are Going - 
To Raise Farm 
Prices” 


By George N. Peek, Administrator of the Agricultural 


Act, U. 


the administration of the Agri- 

cultural Adjustment Act, it is only 
fair to agriculture, to so much of in- 
dustry as is affected by its operation, 
and to the consuming public, to state 
the principles of 
that legislation as 
I understand them 
and as it is in- 
tended to apply 
‘them. 

In the first 
place the sole 
aim and object of 
this Act is to 
raise farm prices. 
Generally speak- 
ing, it is to raise 
them to a point 
where farm products will purchase 
as much of industrial products as 
they did before the war, and to keep 
farm prices at that level. This is just 
what farmers through their organiza- 
tions have been demanding for a 
dozen years. 


To agriculture it should be said that 
the purpose is not to do something for 
the farmers. It is to enable farmers 
to do something for themselves that 
they have been prevented from doing 
through many long, painful and dis- 
tressing years, and that they could not 
do without this law. It is to enable 
them to do what all other producing 
social groups do, and that is (approxi- 
mately and in the long run) not to 
produce and send to market more 
goods than consumers at home and 
abroad want and have money to pay 
for. 


Ie ASSUMING responsibility for 


CHAS. J. BRAND 


Unless farmers will work with each 
other and with government to do that, 
government cannot maintain fair 
prices and restore prosperity to them 
—nobody can. They must help do this 
particular job. In adopting the law 
and through the work that will be 


S.D. A. 


done under it, the Government goes 
the limit to help them, but that is the 
most that it can do or that they in 
justice and: fairness can ask. 


To the food and textile industries, 
I want to make it clear that the spirit 
and purpose will be to act with as 
little interference with established in- 
stitutions and methods—indeed with 
as little administration of any kind 
as is consistent with the fixed purpose 
of the law; namely, to raise farm 
prices. It is my opinion that much of 
that purpose can be accomplished by 
these industries without anything 
more than the aid that government 
and agriculture can and will give 
them. 


The first step will be to discuss 
with industries and trades our pur- 
poses, to ask them what they need 
from farmers and from government, 
and to call upon them, with the help 
of those concerned, to work out the 
difficult task themselves in such 
manner as will least interfere with 
their business and established meth- 
ods, with as little government inter- 
ference in their affairs as is reason- 
ably possible. But none will be per- 
mitted to forget the purpose of the 
legislation—to raise farm~ prices in 
the national interest. 

To the consuming public it is un- 
necessary to say that what is to be 
done is to bring about. economic 
justice —to right a social wrong — 
which grew up under our economic 
system in the false theory that the 
urban half of our population could 
enjoy the benefits of an artificial, pro- 
tective system, leaving the rural half 
largely outside the benefits of that 
particular device. It seemed to work 
all right at first, but lately it has re- 
sulted in taking the farmer’s crop 
away from him without paying for 
it. Nobody wants to do that. I am 
aware of no objection from labor, or 


I. A. A. RECORD—June, 1933 


GEO. N. PEEK 


Illinois farmers rejoice in the selec- 
tion of a fellow Illinoisan and a real 
champion of agriculture as adminis- 
trator of the Emergency Farm Act. 
Mr. Peek, whose home is at Moline, is a 
member of the’ Rock Island County 
Farm Bureau and Illinois Agricultural 
Association. His driving force and 
courage, displayed during the long 
fight for the McNary-Haugen bill, 
Promises an ‘able and vigorous admin- 
istration of this measure to raise farm 
prices, Mr. Brand, his co-worker, was 
former marketing specialist with the 
Department of Agriculture. He put the 
finishing ‘touches on the McNary- 
Haugen bill at the direction of former 
Secretary of Agriculture -Henry C. 
Wallace, father of Henry A. Wallace. 
Mr. Brand was banquet speaker at the 
10th annual I. A. A. meeting at Cham- 
paign in 1925, and will be remembered 
by many who attended that meeting. 


indeed from anybody, to this attempt 
to do what is right. 

Agricultural prices are and for a 
long time have been unduly depressed 
and ruinously below their fair rela- 
tion to other prices. Putting them 
where they belong has the support of 
all fair-minded people and will not be 
a heavy burden on any person or class 
in our country. Agriculture must be 
restored to its proper place in the 
Nation’s life, not only for the sake of 


the farmer but for the general wel- 


fare. 

Upon the request of Secretary 
Wallace and myself, the President has 
requested Mr. Charles J. Brand to act 
with me as co-administrator. Mr. 
Brand is recognized throughout the 
Nation by farmers and the food and 
textile industries as one of our fore- 
most authorities in the marketing of 
farm products. 

In administering this Act, we shall 
draw heavily upon the advice and as- 
sistance of Frank O. Lowden and B. 
M. Baruch, who have pledged to the 
President, Secretary Wallace, and to 
me their cooperation. 


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1,200 Hear Farm 
Bill Explained 
In Grundy 


President Smith Expresses Belief That With Vigorous Ad- 


ministration And Co-operation of Producers 


Measure Will Be Effective 


is brighter and more hopeful 
today than at any time in the 
past 10 years, President Earl C. Smith 
told more than 1,200 Farm Bureau 
members and their guests who came 
out in spite of a heavy rain to attend 
a mass meeting in Morris, Grundy 
county, Wednesday night, May 10. 
The meeting was held in celebra- 
tion of the passage of the Emergency 
Farm Bill at Washington and to bring 
latest information to local farmers 
and their friends from the towns 
and cities of the county, on the con- 
tents and probable operations of the 
measure. 


In addition to discussing the farm 
bill, Mr. Smith reviewed the economic 
situation as it affected agriculture be- 
fore and after the world war, traced 
the decline of farm income and the 
terrific rise in taxes, and outlined the 
legislative program for the relief of 
the property taxpayers -the Associa- 
tion is fighting for at Springfield. 
C. V. Gregory, editor of Prairie 

Farmer, explained the credit sections 
of the bill, the inflation amendment, 
and briefly reviewed latest develop- 
ments in alcohol-gasoline blending 
legislation. 

“The effectiveness of any law de- 
pends on its administration and the 
co-operation of the people it is de- 
signed to help,” said Mr. Smith in 
commenting on the farm bill. “With 
the fullest co-operation of the farmers 
of America and with vigorous ad- 
ministration from Washington, I have 
no hesitancy in saying that this meas- 
ure in time will restore parity prices 
for farm products and prosperity for 
the entire nation. It will not only re- 
sult in farm prices that bring cost of 
production, but also prices that will 
restore profits with which to pay debts 


Ts OUTLOOK for agriculture 


and buy some of the comforts of life 
for the farm family.” 


The purpose of the bill, Mr. Smith 
explained, is to establish prices for 
farm products that will give the farm- 
er buying power equal to that he 
possessed in the period from. 1909- 
1914. He expressed faith in the 
possibilities of the trade agreement 
section of the bill under which, for 
example, it will be possible to control 
the tonnage of pork marketed by 
premiumizing earlier selling of hogs 
at lighter weights, reduce the produc- 


‘tion of wheat and cotton by cutting 


acreage and compensating producers 
therefor, and compelling the handlers 
and processors of farm products to 
co-operate toward establishing fair 
prices and so stop the confiscation of 
farms through taxation and fore- 
closure. 


A striking picture of what has been 
happening to the farmer during the 
past 30 years was presented in figures 
on farm income and taxes. Net income 
of American farmers in 1920, Mr. 
Smith showed, was approximately 914 
billion dollars. By 1925 it had de- 
clined to a little more than 7% bil- 
lions. In 19380 it had dropped to around 
$4,200,000,000 and last year, 1932, net 
farm income was estimated at only 
one billion dollars, although national 
net income was approximately 38 bil- 
lion. Thus the farmer comprising 
around 30 per cent of the population 
received only 1/38th of the national 
income, 


But what happened to taxes during 
the past 80 years? Total property 
taxes for state, county, and local gov- 
ernment in Illinois outside of Cook 
county in 1899 amounted to $24,417,- 
020; by 1909 taxes had increased to 
$39,494,276; in 1919 the-downstate tax 
bill was $89,781,442; and in 1929 


EARL C. SMITH 


property taxes had risen to the enor- 
mous total of $144,358,582. In Grundy 
county, it was shown, property taxes 
had grown from $187,436 in 1899 to 
$847,345 in 1929. © 

The tax problem and its solution 
alone justifies and demands a strong 
organization of farmers to head off 
ultimate confiscation of all property, 
Mr. Smith said. The public and pri- 
vate debt of the United States has 
been estimated at 200 billions of dol- 
lars which is said to be more than 
all the wealth of the country. Thus 
the national debt amounts to around 
$9,000 for each head of a family, the 
interest on which approximates the 
average annual income per family 
head. 

Explaining the important work of 
the I. A. A. legislative committee at 
Springfield, Mr. Smith said that 1,500 
bills were now under consideration 
by the General Assembly, 1,000 of 
which directly or indirectly affect the 
welfare of the farmer. 

Had the emergency relief bond is- 
sue not been passed largely through 
the influence of the Farm Bureau 
movement, Illinois farmers this year 
would have paid five millions more 
taxes, 14%, millions of which would 
have been contributed by Farm Bu- 
reau members. This alone is more 
than the total cost of the county, 
state and national organization for 
the year by a wide margin. 


Farm Bureau members about Tus- 
cola are considering the establish- 
ment of a co-operative livestock con- 
centration point there. 


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ness, economic, political and educational interests of the 
farmers of Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 


GEORGE THIEM, Editor 


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DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 

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Dairy Marketing..........cccecccccceccceteccatececeeetees J. B. Countiss 
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Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange. ......cecesssesesesess H. W. Day, Mgr. 
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A Victory For Organization 


HE Emergency Farm Bill is passed, signed 

by the President. It began working for farm- 
ers, lifting prices, even before its passage because 
of speculation based on belief in coming inflation. 
Nearly all, if not all, the principles fought for by 
the Farm Bureau since 1921 have been enacted 
into law. 

The way has been cleared for reflation, higher 
farm prices, payment of debts, refinancing mort- 
gages at lower rates of interest, saving farms and 
homes for their owners, giving new hope to mil- 
lions. Only lack of vigorous administration of the 
powers granted and co-operation of farmers in 
discharging their responsibilities can prevent the 
realization once more of fair returns to agricul- 
ture. With a liberal socially-minded president, with 
Henry Wallace, Henry Morgenthau Jr., George 
Peek, and Chas. J. Brand in charge, aggressive ad- 
ministration of the Act is assured. 

All this is a victory for ORGANIZATION. Noth- 
ing less. These things did not just happen. Or- 


I. A. A. RECORD—June, 1933 


ganized agriculture made them happen. The Farm 
Bureau led the fight nationally for reflation. Re- 
flation began with the suspension of gold pay- 
ments by presidential order, and the inflation 
amendment in the Farm Act. The two are largely 
responsible for the doubling of farm prices within 
a few weeks. 

Miracles have happened again because there 
were those who had faith, and backed that faith 
with organized effort. 


Those Gas Tax Bills 


WO principles are involved in the series of 

bills now pending at Springfield to redistrib- 
ute state gas tax funds. The I. A. A. is insisting, 
first, that the state keep its pledge made when the 
10,000 mile paved road system was initiated to 
the effect that on completion of the trunk lines, 
attention would be given to secondary roads. Sec- 
ondly, that gas tax revenue gradually be used to 
reduce and replace levies against property for road 
and bridge building. The McClure-Hall bills spon- 
sored by the I. A. A. recognize these principles. 
Other bills do not. 

A third principle might be emphasized, namely, 
that diversion of gas tax funds for other than 
road purposes be discontinued. The state already 
has taken $13,900,000 from the motor fuel tax 
fund to spend elsewhere. Cook county now owes 
the state approximately $35,000,000, a total of 
$50,000,000 including 1932 taxes payable this 
year, and is largely responsible for the diversion 
of these funds. Such diversion of gas tax funds 
is a growing menace to the road program and 
property tax relief. It furnishes another reason 
for sending this revenue back to the counties, 
townships and cities expressly designated for 
road and street purposes. 

The thousands located on the 70,000 miles of 
unimproved roads who also pay auto license fees 
and gas taxes deserve something. The I. A. A. 
is fighting for them—not for a paved road past 
every farm but for gravel or other inexpensive 
all-weather roads to provide a year round connec- 
tion with the pavement. 


High School Districts 

NUMBER of bills have been introduced in 

the Illinois General Assembly which author- 

ize under certain conditions the transfer of specified areas 
in a high school district to an adjacent high school district. 
The purpose of this legislation is to correct some of the 
injustices created during the organization of community 
high schools. Residents of territory remotely situated from 
the high school which arbitrarily annexed them are anx- 
ious to pull out and join districts where the school is closer. 
John C. Watson, director of taxation, is studying these 
bills at the request of a number of Farm Bureau mem- 
bers. It is at once recognized that any new act will prob- 
ably not correct the offenses of early community high 
school land grabs. What is needed is a state-wide plan of 
redistricting which will take territory out of one district 
and place it in another high school district where it 
naturally belongs. Any such, action must take into con- 
sideration the welfare of the people in the districts af- 
fected and obligations incurred in erection of buildings. 


I. A. A. RECORD—June, 1933 


Country Life At 50 Months 


RECORD of $1,000,000 of life insurance each 

month since it was organized early in 1929 or 
approximately $50,000,000 in 50 months has been 
achieved by Country Life Insurance Company. 

Organized and launched by the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association in February, 1929 to provide 
safe, dependable protection at minimum cost for 
the farm families of Illinois, the company has 
grown in stature and importance until today, ac- 
cording to Manager L. A. Williams, it has ap- 
proximately one-fifth of all policies in force among 
the 24 Illinois companies. This record of growth, 
Mr. Williams believes, has never been equalled in 
life insurance history. 

The wisdom of the Farm Bureau movement in 
setting up its own life company on a sound basis 
is emphasized by recent revelations in the life in- 
surance field. ; 

Country Life Insurance Company is controlled 
and operated by the chosen representatives of 
Farm Bureau members. It is not a profit-making 
enterprise. It was founded on the principle of 
providing a needed service at cost. The moral 
hazard present in private profit-making enter- 
prises is lacking in this one. No one can get any 
profits out of the company except the policy- 
holders. 

Only one principle guides the officers and man- 
agement, that is, to make the company serve the 
farm families of Illinois, offering highest security 
for their investments and protection for families 
and estates at minimum cost. 

Country Life Insurance Company has kept it- 
self in a position to carry out to thé limit its con- 
tracts with policyholders. The company is in an 
enviable liquid condition and will welcome any 
move to lift the moratorium on withdrawals of 
cash values. It has an A-1 rating in the insur- 
ance world. Country Life represents one of the 


finest achievements of organized farmers in mod- 
ern co-operative history. It is a living example of 
what farmers can do through organization and co- 
operation to help themselves. 


Milk Price Up 


HE trade agreement section of the Emer- 

gency Farm Act, considered by many the 
trump card in the new deal for agriculture, is al- 
ready at work. The price of base milk in the Chi- 
cago district was raised to $1.75 per 100 pounds 
beginning May 15 largely on the strength of this 
provision. The price of milk was advanced one 
cent to the consumer but this time the farmer got 
all the benefit: 

A similar move is underway to raise prices in 
the condensery districts. Processors will be re- 
quired to co-operate. The purpose of the new farm 
deal, as Mr. Peek points out, is to raise farm 
prices. That will:be good for-the entire country. 
Measures already taken by the administration are 
proving effective. All indications point to the fact 
that we are on the road to recovery. 


Administering the Act 


‘TATE administrators will be announced short- 
ly by George N. Peek and Charles.J. Brand, 
in charge of carrying out the new Farm Act. 
Present employees of the U. S. Department of Ag- 
riculture will be used wherever possible in the 
Emergency Agricultural Adjustment Administra- 
tion. The office force at Washington will be held 
down to a minimum, and employees will be sub- 
ject to civil service rules and regulations. Ap- 
pointments in the field will not be subject to civil 
service rules except the positions of special coun- 
ty assistants for which an examination will be 
announced at an early date. 

Emphasis is laid on the fact that the majority 
of the work involving acreage reduction, super- 
vision of trade agreements, etc. will be in the field. 

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Center Row—McKinley, McDonald, Baptist, G. Kull, Foley, 


Farm Adviser and Originator of the “Man A Month” plan. 


H. Kull, Lantz, L. Boys, Scott, Smith, Bunning, W. S. Batson, 


. Bottom Row—Hauter, R. Baptist, Anderson, Compton, District Organizer Hornbeek, Parks, Jordan, Ruff, Bonser, Hawk. 


Absent Members—Diefenthaler, Lichtenwalter, 


Renshaw. 


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Three Sets OF 
Gas Tax Bills 


~ In Legislature 


|. A. A. Sponsors Measures To Use Gas Tax To Reduce 
And Replace Property Taxes 


HREE sets of bills providing 

! for the apportionment and use 

" Of the three-cent state gas tax 
are now pending in the legislature at 
Springfield. One set is advocated by 
a commission of legislators estab- 
lished by the last General Assembly. 
Rep. David Hunter of Rockford is 
chairman of the commission. 

The Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion is sponsoring another series of 
bills being handled by Rep. McClure 
and Rep. Hall in the House. 

A third bill is reported to be spon- 
sored by the Illinois Municipal League 
and was offered by Reps. Doyle and 
Galvin. 

The Commission bill, H. B. 553, 
would leave one-third of the three- 
cent gas tax with the State Depart- 
ment of Public Works and Buildings, 
one-third in the counties as at present 
on basis of motor license fees, and 
would give one-third to cities, villages, 
and incorporated towns. The Doyle 
and Galvin bills would apportion gas 
tax revenue in the same way. The Mc- 
Clure-Hall bills, sponsored by the I. 
A. A., would give one-third of the gas 
tax fund to counties for state aid 
roads as at present, one-third to coun- 
ties for township and road district 
roads, and one-third to cities, villages 
and incorporated towns. 

The Commission and I. A. A. bills 
would distribute one-third of the 
funds to cities and villages in propor- 
tion to the population of each munici- 
pality. The Doyle and Galvin bills 
would give the one-third for cities and 
villages to counties in proportion to 
motor vehicle license fees to residents 
thereof to be allotted prior to January 
1, 1934 to each city or village in pro- 
portion to the population thereof and 
after that date in proportion to motor 
vehicle license fees paid by residents 
of such cities and villages. 

The I. A. A. bills would apportion 
one cent of the gas tax to each coun- 
ty to be distributed to townships and 


road districts in proportion to total 
average lawful extensions of road and 
bridge taxes therein in 1931 and 1932; 
to be further allotted to each township 
or road district therein in proportion 
to the total average lawful extensions 
of road and bridge taxes in each in 
1931 and -1932. 

The Commission bill would use the 
one cent retained by the state for the 
construction and maintenance of bond 
issue roads, federal aid roads, high- 
ways, belt lines and separation of 
grades. The Doyle and Galvin bills 
would use the one cent to the state 
as provided in the present laws. 

The commission bills would have 
roads built by the counties out of their 
share of gas tax funds approved by 
the State Department. The Doyle and 
Galvin bills would use this one cent for 
the construction and maintenance of 
roads and streets subject to approval 
by the State Department. The Mc- 
Clure-Hall bills supported by the I. 
A. A., would leave the construction 
and maintenance of state aid roads by 
counties as in the present law. 

While neither the Commission nor 
the Doyle and Galvin bills would give 
any gas tax funds to the townships or 
road districts, the McClure-Hall bills 
sponsored by the I. A. A., would ap- 
portion one-third of the gas tax rev- 
enue for construction and mainte- 
nance of all-weather roads or by refer- 
endum for paying bonds heretofore or 
hereafter issued for such construc- 
tion. Township or road district offi- 
cials specify the section of road to be 
improved and the type of construc- 
tion. The county superintendent of 
highways must approve such plans 
and specifications. 

The McClure-Hall bills, sponsored 
by the I. A. A., have for their first 
consideration the reduction of levies 
against property for road, bridge and 
street purposes in the townships and 
road districts and in cities, villages 
and incorporated towns. There is no 


I. A. A. RECORD—June, 1933 


provision for reducing levies against 
property for road and street purposes 
in the other bills. 

The Commission Bills, H. B. 551 
to 559, provide for a county-wide 
referendum in each county Novem- 
ber, 1934, to submit the question of 
abolishing townships and local road 
districts and the transfer of such 
jurisdiction over local roads to the 
county superintendent of highways. In 
any county where this proposition is 
approved the county board is em- 
powered to levy a tax up to 30 cents 
or by referendum not over 40 cents 
for construction and maintenance of 
all state and local roads. 

The I. A. A. bills would reduce 
township and road district taxes by 
cutting the present maximum of 33 
cents to 15 cents, or by referendum to 
25 cents. The maximum rate required 
for the preceding two years to enable 
any town or road district to secure 
county aid in building bridges and 
roads is also reduced to 15 cents. 


Would Detach Farm 
Lands From Villages 


Senate bill No. 552 supported by the 
Illinois Agricultural Association would 
make it possible for owners of farm 
lands lying within the corporate limits 
of cities and villages to disconnect 
them under certain conditions and 
thereby escape certain tax levies from 
which they receive no benefit. 

The bill provides that the owner of 
any tract of land lying within such 
corporate limits may have the same 
disconnected if the tract of land: (1) 
contains 10 acres or more; (2) is used 
exclusively for agricultural purposes; 
(3) is not subdivided into lots and 
blocks; (4) is not located on the bor- 
der or boundary of the city, town or 
village; and (5) is not bounded on 
more than two sides by lands sub- 
divided into lots and blocks. 

The owner shall file a petition in 
the county or circuit court of the coun- 
ty where the land, or the greater part 
thereof, is situated. The petition must 
set forth facts in support of such dis- 
connection. If the court finds that the 
allegations are true, and that such 
tract is entitled to disconnection under 
the Act, the tract shall be ordered 
disconnected. 

The disconnection shall not exempt 
such land from taxation for the pur- 
pose of paying any indebtedness con- 
tracted by the corporate authorities 
of the municipalities, but the tract 
shall be assessed and taxed for unpaid 
debts as if it had not been discon- 
nected until the indebtedness is com- 
pletely paid. 


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Nobody W ants 
Our Surplus 


Farm Products 


Therefore We've Got To Cut Acreage and Reduce 
Production Or Else— 


culties the administration of the 
new farm bill faces, Secretary 
of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, in 


Fh cates admitting the diffi- 


‘an address on May 10 told the Bos- 


ton Grain and Flour Exchange that 
the measure could succeed only if 
farmers, processors, and consumers 
operated under the measure in a new 
spirit of interdependence. 

The most difficult operation will be 
that of reducing farm acreage, the 
Secretary said. “Yet, as you survey 
the world situation,” he added, “and 
appreciate the prospective demand 
from abroad for our surpluses, I chal- 
lenge you to discover any alternative 
course we might take.” 

Huge export surpluses would not 
have bothered us so much before the 
World War, Mr. Wallace explained, 
because then we were a debtor nation, 
and it was possible to move things 
abroad onto the European market. 
But today, he continued, we are a 
creditor nation; other nations want to 
sell to us, rather than buy from us; 
and there is no immediate prospect of a 
substantial’ foreign demand for our 
surplus farm products. 


Like An Ostrich 


“How I wish I could drive that 
thing home to all the people of the 
United States,” the Secretary ex- 
claimed. “We have hidden our heads 
in the sand for the last 12 years, re- 
fusing to face that fact. It was con- 
cealed from us by loaning vast sums 
of money abroad, $500,000,000 to 
$1,000,000,000 a year from 1921 up to 
1929. Now we have stopped loaning 
that money abroad, but we have still 
refused to face in any definite manner 
the implications of what it means to 
be a creditor nation. 

“IT am not accusing any particular 
group. The farmers do not understand 
it; the business men do not under- 


stand it. We have not learned to act 
as a creditor nation should. What we 
really have to do is to change the 
whole psychology of the people of the 
United States. 

“There is abroad in the land today 
the feeling that we do not need to face 
this fundamental fact of a surplus 
acreage, that inflation is going to 
keep us from facing it. We do not need 
to face it, so it is said, because foreign 
markets are going to be restored by 
reciprocal tariff agreements. We do 
not need to face it, it is said, because 
under the agreement section of the 
new Farm Bill, it is possible to enter 
into agreements to smooth out those 
things that have caused so much 
trouble. 


Reciprocal Tariffs Not Enough 


“I am hoping that we will be 
benefited by the right kind of money 
control. I am hoping that we will re- 
store a very substantial volume of 
foreign purchasing power by ap- 
propriate reciprocal tariff agreements 
and wisely administering the trade 
agreements section of the farm bill. 
However, as I examine each of those 
three sources of hope and try to 
measure them, I feel that there is not 
enough to turn the trick. 


“T do hope that as hard-headed 
business men, you will not allow your- 
selves to fall into that contagion which 
so easily clouds our judgment. We 
have undoubtedly such an _ insuffi- 
ciency of stocks of many kinds that a 
very real upturn was in the cards, 
and while we utilize that to the full 
and keep it going, I trust in the back- 
ground of our minds we will prepare 
to take appropriate steps to build a 
firm foundation to continue it. 


Hope In Trade Agreements 


“There is an unusual amount of in- 
terest in the trade agreements section 


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of the farm bill, I find, among the 
cotton spinners of both New England 
and the South. Apparently destruc- 


_ tive competition has been almost as 


- 


remorseless in the cotton textile in- 
dustry as in agriculture. Under this 
bill it is possible to discipline that re- 
calcitrant minority which has_ pre- 
vented the entire cotton industry from 
doing some of the things it has long 
needed to do. By the terms of the 
new bill it will be one of the re- 
sponsibilities of the Department of 
Agriculture to help the affected in- 
dustries observe a code of ethics which 


_ all believe to be sound, while at the 


same time the rights of the consumer 
are adequately protected. It is to be 
hoped that this can be done in the 
spirit of cooperation, rather than in 
the spirit of compulsion.” 


Illinois Farmers May 
Borrow Up To $5000 


Paul Bestor of St. Louis has been 
selected Farm Loan Commissioner in 
the new Federal Farm Credit Ad- 
ministration headed by Henry Mor- 
genthau, Jr. 

C. W. Carson of Amarillo, Texas 
has been chosen as assistant and will 
have charge of the direct loan pro- 
visions of the new Farm Mortgage 
Act. Details of the plan for adminis- 
tering the $200,000,000 made available 
to the Farm Loan Commissioner 
through the R. F. C. under the Act 
are now being worked out. This money 
will be lent to farmers through 12 
offices located in the Federal Land 
Bank regions. Security required will 
be first and second mortgages upon 
real and personal property. Loans are 
to be made up to 75 per cent of ap- 
praised value of property offered as 


- security. 


The Act provides that individual 
farmers may borrow as much as 
$5,000 at an interest rate not to ex- 
ceed five per cent annually. Borrowers 
may use the money for the following 
purposes: to repay indebtedness, se- 
cured or unsecured, of the farmer; to 
provide working capital for farm op- 
erations, and to provide funds to en- 
able any farmer to redeem or pur- 
chase farm property owned by him 
prior to foreclosure which has been 
foreclosed at any time after July 1, 
1981. 


Ernest J. Bodman, Federal Land 
Bank, St. Louis, Mo., has been desig- 
nated as agent of the Farm Loan 
Commissioner in charge of such loans 
for Arkansas, Illinois, and Missouri. 


COUNTRY LIFE... A CONTRIBUTION 


On Februar; 1, 1929 Country Life wrote its first Life Insurance Policy. 
Today, fifty n onths later, the Company has approximately $50,000,000.00 
Life Insurance in force. Since the beginning, Country Life has added to 
the amount of its insurance at an average rate of a million dollars every 
30 days, or ab «ut $33,000 every day. 


Country Life Has the Confidence of the 
People It Serves 


The fact that Country Life Insurance Company has been able consistent- 
ly to increase the amount of its insurance while older, better-known com- 
panies were steadily running behind in volume as the result of the depres- 
sion, is proof positive to its policy holders of the strength and stability of 
the Company to which they have entrusted their savings in the form of 
Life Insurance Premiums. 


Mortality 25%—Dividends Reduce Cost 


Careful selection of risks has resulted in Country Life having one of the 
lowest death rates on record. Last year this rate was less than one-fourth 
of what reasonably might be expected according to the best available 
actuary tables. And because Country Life has operated carefully and con- 
servatively, holding its operating expenses to a minimum, its dividends are 
proportionately greater than those of companies where high official sal- 
aries and careless management operate to the detriment of the policy 
holders. Country Life dividends have reduced the net cost of its insurance 
so that our policy holders are in a most favorable position. 


Country Life’s assets are invested in sound securities—many of them 
U. S. Government issues which offer our policy holders unusual safety for 


, a ee investment. It is one of the very few companies which, if called upon 


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to pay the entire cash value of every one of its policies, could do so and 


bs still have nearly three-quarters of a million dollars left over. 
to 
ery Country Life Gives Complete Insurance 
Service . 
No matter what your particular Life Insurance needs may be, Country 
le Life has a policy that will be of value to you. Its standard contracts in- 
clude Straight Life, Term Insurance to Age 65, Endowment at Age 65, 20- 
Payment Life, and 20-Year Endowment policies. It has in addition a 12- 
nt- Year Term policy available as group insurance to Farm Bureau members 
pm- and their families. In general, Country Life insures from birth to Age 65. 
res- 
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of Country Life Thrived on Hard Times 


Country Life is one of the few companies in America, regardless of size, 
that did not need the insurance moratorium to tide it over the bank holiday 
and its after-effects. Hard times have been the rule almost constantly since 
the Company was formed, but there has been no halt in our growth and 


expansion. 

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ble Strength, safety, economy, low net cost of insurance—these are only a 
on- few of the advantages of Country Life. The Company’s control resting in 
are the Illinois Agricultural Association and the Farm Bureau gives assurance 
Ga]. that it will always continue policies which have made it almost miracu- 
icy lously successful. 7 

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TO THE SCIENCE OF LIFE INSURANCE 


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1. A. A. Auto Insurance 
Co. Breaks All Records 


All previous records for auto in- 
surance applications were broken dur- 
ing the month of April when the IIli- 
nois Agricultural Mutual received 
1,472 applications for policies during 
April and the first seven days of May. 
Most of the applications were for auto 
insurance under the surplus fee plan 
by which the surplus share and pre- 
mium deposit are waived. 

Early reports indicate that a sub- 
stantial number of the new applicants 
recently joined the Farm Bureau, 
probably 10 per cent or more. 

Whiteside county led all others in 
the number ef insurance applications 
turned into the home office. The rec- 
ord for April was as follows: White- 
side, 117; Madison, 77; Cook, 68; 
Henry, 47; Bureau, 39; DeKalb and 
LaSalle, 37; Champaign, 36; Kane and 
Lake, 34. 

The 10 high general agents in auto 
insurance applications for April were 
as_ follows: Stanley Castle, Madison, 
46; Roy Mitchell, Champaign, 31; Wm. 
C. Linker, Whiteside, 31; Fred H. Wil- 
son, Kane, 25; Bertram Abney, Lake, 
24; A. B. Shubert, Kankakee, 23; 
Homer Hitchcock, Winnebago, 23; E. 
B. Young, Montgomery, 21; E. A. 
Carncross, Cook, J. D. Smith, Sanga- 
mon, H. A. Bonser, Shelby, 18. 

The 10 high special agents were as 
follows: Earl Keniston, Whiteside, 16; 
L. D. Snavely, Whiteside, 13; Ezra 
McClaughry, Cook, 12; A. H. Booth, 
Bureau, D. J. Auble, DuPage, and L. 
W. Wiese, Henry, 11; Loy J. Knox, 
O. C. Beatty; and L. S. Johnson, 
Whiteside, and E. L. Wilson, Will, 10. 


I. A. A. Men Speak At 
Stronghurst Meeting 


The emergency farm bill and the 
need for organized action by farmers 
in solving their problems featured ad- 
dresses by Donald Kirkpatrick of the 
Illinois Agricultural Association and 
L. A. Williams, manager of Country 
Life Insurance Co. before more than 
400 Farm Bureau members and their 
guests at Stronghurst, Henderson 
county, the night of May 10. 

Mr. Kirkpatrick explained the con- 
tents of the new measure which, he 
said, embodies the principles the Farm 
Bureau movement has been fighting 
for over a 12 year period. A group of 
business men from Burlington, Iowa 
came as guests of the Farm Bureau 
seeking further information on the 


How To Market Wool 


. Remove heavy dirty locks be- 
fore shearing. 

. Shear sheep only when fleece 
is dry. 

. Remove fleece from animal 
unbroken. 

. When rolling, spread fleece 
with flesh side down, fold in 
from the sides and ends, then 
roll from tail to neck. Always 
keep flesh side out. 

- Do not roll too tightly. 

. Tie each fleece separately us- 
ing only paper twine—never 
use sisal or hemp twines. 

. Keep burry, seedy, cotted, 
dead, black and gray fleeces 
separate from good clear 
wool. 

. Place fleeces in wool sacks or 
covered piles. 

- Do not pile nor store in a 
damp. place. 


Kankakee Farm Bureau 
ls Getting Under Way 


“The Kankakee County Soil and 
Crop Improvement Association will 
soon be known as the Kankakee Coun- 
ty Farm Bureau,” writes Farm Ad- 
viser Geo. T. Swaim in the inaugural 
issue of the Farm and Home Bureau 
News of Kankakee county. “We ex- 
pect that a co-operative organization 
will control the seed and hatchery 
business,” he says. “Suggestions for 
the improvement of the organization, 
the paper, or the activities are open 
to the membership.” 

Officers of the Kankakee County 
Farm Bureau are: President, Len 
Small; Vice-Pres., Chas. H. Schmidt; 
Secretary-treasurer, L. B. Bratton. 

A. B. Shubert has been appointed 
insurance manager and W. B. Peter- 
son, manager of the service company. 
Del George is in charge of the hatch- 
ery and Fred J. Osterlee manages the 
seed department. 


operations of the new relief legisla- 
tion. 

Emphasizing the basic importance 
of a prosperous agriculture if other 
interests are to be prosperous, Mr. 
Williams told the business men that 
if farmers failed to organize effec- 
tively to help themselves maintain a 
prosperous industry, it would be to 
the interests of business and indus- 
trial groups from a selfish point. of 
view to organize farmers and thereby 
help place the farm industry on a 
profitable basis. 


I. A. A. RECORD—June, 1933 


Seven Cities Ask For 
Next I. A. A. Meeting 


Springfield, Danville, and Peoria led 
in the order named when I. A. A. 
directors finished voting on the place 
for 1934 annual meeting of the Asso- 
ciation at the May board meeting. 


Invitations were presented by dele- 
gations from seven cities including 
those above and Decatur, Rockford, 
Kankakee, and Moline. 

“Come to Moline,” pleaded Secre- 
tary Lydig of the Chamber of Com- 
merce. “‘Come out and let the people 
of the Quad-Cities know what a fine 
organization you- have. Out there 
where the milk dealers are fighting 
the producers, they have advertised 
you as a Chicago group. The thinking 
people know better, but come out and 
show ’em. It will have a wholesome 


‘influence on everyone.” 


Otis Kercher, Vermilion county 
farm adviser, and C. C. Simpson of 
the Danville Chamber of Commerce 
extended the invitation for that city. 
“Kight thousand dollars have been 
spent on the accoustics of the armory 
since you were there last,” said Ker- 
cher. 

“It’s our turn to have this meeting,” 
said Mr. Coulter of the Springfield 
Ass’n of Commerce. “You know what 
we can do.” 

A cordial invitation to come to 
Kankakee was extended by ex-Gov- 
ernor Len Small, president of the 
Farm Bureau, and by Farm Adviser 
George T. Swaim, and the Chamber of 
Commerce secretary. Complete tover- 
age of the meeting was promised 
through the Kankakee County Re- 
publican, edited by Leslie Small who 
accompanied the delegation. 

President Dillinger, Secretary Ham- 
ilton, and Farm Adviser Fisher of the 
Macon County Farm Bureau and Mr. 
McClelland of the Chamber of Com- 
merce presented the arguments for 
Decatur. Farm Adviser Whisenand 
and Mike Finn of the Association of 
Commerce spoke for Peoria, and Farm 
Adviser Keltner and the Chamber of 
Commerce secretary for Rockford. 

Springfield, it was pointed out, is 
the most strategic city with ample 
accommodations for members in the 
Southern Illinois ceunties who were 
compelled to travel far north to Rock- 
ford and Peoria the last two years. 

Chamber of Commerce secretaries 
commented that the I. A. A. annual 
is the cleanest and largest convention 
in the state. The I. A. A. board will 
decide on the meeting place after 
hearing the committee’s report at the 
June meeting. 


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I. A. A. RECORD—June, 1933 


Talmage DeFrees Heads 
Illinois Fruit Growers 


Talmage DeFrées, I. A. A. director 
from Smithboro, was re-elected presi- 
dent of the Illinois Fruit Growers’ 
Exchange, at their annual meeting in 
Centralia on May 10. Seventy-five per 
cent of the local associations and in- 
dividual contract holders were repre- 
sented. 

Following the reports of Manager 
H. W. Day and Fieldman H. W. Cum- 
mins, talks were made by Secretary 
George E. Metzger of the I. A. A. 
and A. B. Leeper, president of the Na- 
tional Fruit and Vegetable Exchange. 

Professors W. P. Flint and R. S. 
Marsh of the University of Illinois 
discussed production problems. A. O. 
Eckert, president of the new Belle- 
ville produce market, and L. N. Colp, 
manager, stated that the new market 
would probably be in operation June 1. 
Horace Newell, superintendent of the 
Division of Standardization and Mar- 
kets, pledged the full co-operation of 
the state. 

Other officers and directors elected 
are as follows: Vice-President, R. B. 
Endicott, Villa Ridge; Secretary, J. 
W. Cummins, Centralia. Other direc- 
tors elected are: Prof. J. W. Lloyd, 
Urbana; Fred Hawkins, Texico; E. 
G. Kinsey, Centralia; L. R. Allen, Car- 
bondale; L. N. Colp, Carterville; W. 
L. Cope, Salem; Geo. Adams, West 
Liberty; Harry Fulkerson, Grafton; 
Arthur Foreman, Pittsfield; L. L. An- 
derson, Summer Hill; R. B. Shaffer, 
Edwardsville; and H. B. Koeller, God- 
frey. - 


Producers Creamery of 
Champaign Sells Stock. 


Steady progress is being made in 
selling stock for the Producers Cream- 
ery of Champaign, reports the Cham- 
paign County Farm Bureau. The 
Savoy unit in that county is leading 
with subscriptions for 40 shares. A 
plant will be established when enough 
members are secured to supply at 
least 850,000 pounds of butterfat an- 
nually. This will require cream from 
approximately 6,000 cows. 

The creamery district in the seven 
counties of the Champaign area con- 
tains around 52,000 cows owned by 
approximately 16,000 farmers. 


The quotas assigned by the board of 
directors to each county in this dis- 
trict are as follows: Champaign coun- 
ty $14,000; Vermilion $7,000; Ford 
$6,000; Douglas $6,000; Piatt $6,000; 


PRODUCERS CREAMERY OF PEORIA OPENS FOR BUSINESS 


Wilfred Shaw, manager, left, 


and Fulton Miller of Hanna City who de- 


livered the first can of cream to the new co-operative. The creamery had te buy 
a new churn the first week of operation to care for the tremendous volume. A 
total of 119 shippers delivered on the opening day, May 1. 


Baseball League Plans 
Opening Sat. May 20th 


More than 20 teams playing in six 
divisions are scheduled to open the 
1933 season of the State Farm Bu- 
reau Baseball League on Saturday, 
May 20. DuPage and Shelby counties 
have organized teams and will play 
for the first time this year. The late- 
ness of the Spring has delayed base- 
ball interest and activity and may re- 
sult in postponement of opening 
games in several divisions to May 27 
or later. 


Country Life Rates "A" 


Country Life Insurance Company 
was recently given an “A” rating by 
the Best life insurance rating agency. 
Farm Bureau members who own and 
control the company will be pleased to 
learn that their high estimate of 
Country Life is shared by professional 
life insurance people. This rating was 
given without the purchase of adver- 
tising books, agents supplies, or other 
forms of petty bribery which recent 
newspapers report is getting to be 
something of a racket in the insurance 
world. 


Moultrie $5,000; and Iroquois $7,000; 
total $51,000. 

Champaign county had sold 28 per 
cent of its quota on May 1. The Cham- 
paign Chamber of Commerce has en- 
dorsed the project and offered to help 
locate a site for the plant. 


The National Broadcasting Com- 
pany announces that talks by leaders 
at Washington will be featured on 
the NBC chain at 11:30 A. M. central 
standard time for the week beginning 
Monday, May 29 and ending June 2. 

Latest decisions reached on methods 
of carrying out the emergency farm 
act will be explained. Names of 
speakers will be announced only a 
short time previous to the broadcasts. 


The next American Farm Bureau 
Federation broadcast on the NBC 
chain is scheduled for Saturday, June 
10 at 11:30 A. M. central standard 
time. News of Farm Bureau accom- 
plishments throughout the country will 
be broadcast. A radio tribute to Dud- 
ley Myers, former president of the 
Adams County Farm Bureau, will be 
read by Secretary M. S. Winder. 


Tune in and hear the speaker on 
the I. A. A. period at 12:45 P. M. 
central standard time over station 
KMOX, Monday, May 29. The I. A. A. 
is furnishing a speaker the last Mon- 
day of each month during the noon 
farm program over. the Voice of St. 
Louis. 


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Chicago Producers Hits 
New High In Receipts 


During April Chicago Producers’ re- 
ceipts increased 37.8 per cent over the 
same month a year ago. A total of 
721 cars were received by rail and the 
equivalent of 859 by truck, a total of 
1,580. 

The Hog Department handled 19.1 
per cent of all hogs sold on the Chi- 
cago market which represented the 
highest percentage in Producers’ his- 
tory and an increase of 14.7 per cent 
over a year ago, although salable re- 
ceipts on the market fell off 17.1 per 
cent. 


Wool Market Advances 
Illinois Pool Growing 


The National Wool Marketing Cor- 
poration recently authorized the IIli- 
nois wool pool to advance 13 cents per 
pound on good grades of wool. The 
Corporation reported on May 13 that 
prices have been advancing steadily as 
a result of depleted wool stocks. 
“The failure of prices to advance as 
fast in this market as in producing sec- 
tions is due to the early sales from 
non-co-operating farmers at low 
levels,” reports the Corporation. 
“When stocks of cheaply bought wool 
disappear, further advances may be 
expected. 

“Buyers have been active in all 
fleece wool sections. A clip of one- 
fourth million pounds brought 22% 
cents this week in Texas. From 20 to 
22 cents has been paid in Montana. 
In Missouri and northern Texas 21 
cents has ben freely offered for 
small clips, while 20 cents is the go- 
ing price for fine and fine medium 
combing wool in Michigan, and ad- 
jacent territory, and from 20 to 21 
cents in Indiana.” 

Reports from many counties indi- 
cate there will be a substantial in- 
crease in the amount of wool pooled 
this year in Illinois. 


Smith Heads Conference 


President Earl C. Smith has been 
named chairman of the committee to 
arrange a program for the annual 
conference of mid-west Farm Bureau 
federations to be held July 25, 26, 27 
at the Sherman Hotel, Chicago. Mr. 
Smith will act as general chairman 
of the conference and will be called 
upon to deliver the keynote address. 

The Emergency Agricultural Relief 
Bill and its operations will be one of 
the principal topics to be discussed. 


I. A. A. RECORD—June, 1933 


SORTING HOGS FOR SHIPMENT—MACON COUNTY LIVESTOCK 
MARKETING ASSOCIATION, DECATUR 


The co-operative concentration point, nine of which are now operating in 
conjunction with Illinois Livestock Marketing Association, makes possible 
selective grading and shipment in carload lots direct to processors or markets 
where they will bring the most money. Sell your livestock through the Pro- 
ducer Commission companies at the terminals, or deliver to your local live- 
stock marketing association. Only by so doing can farmers hope to gain bar- 
gaining power and thereby exercise influence in raising the average level of 


prices. 


500 At Schuyler Meet 


“We held our third annual Farm 
Bureau blow-out last night, April 27,” 
writes L. E. McKinzie, farm adviser in 
Schuyler county. “We had about 500 
present, 

“George E. Metzger explained 
emergency relief legislation and the 
legislative program of the I. A. A. at 
Springfield. The rest of the program 
consisted of 45 minutes of music by 
Frank Busby and four boys, a poetry 
box by Laurence Royer and other en- 
tertainment.” 


Gets Check For $25 


Unable to secure settlement cover- 
ing damages following the laying of a 
pipe line through one of his fields 
Carl E. Baughman, Macon county, 
Illinois, appealed to the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association for help. 

The I. A. A. Claims Department 
wrote the contracting engineer who 
built the line for the Panhandle IIli- 
nois Pipe Line Company. A check for 
$25 was received recently in settle- 
ment of the claim. 


Booster Club 


The Edgar County Farm Bureau 
announces that 20 members recently 
joined the Farm Bureau Booster Club. 
The Club will hold its first meeting on 
June 6. 

Membership cards are being issued. 


68 County Leaders 
At Belleville Meet 


Organization and publicity prob- 
lems featured the discussion at the 
22nd I. A. A. district conference at 
Belleville on May 8. The conference 
attended by 68 Farm Bureau leaders 
from five counties was said to be the 
best ever held in the district. 

The meeting was called by Talmage 
DeFrees of Smithboro, I. A. A.,direc- 
tor, who arranged the program in co- 
operation with farm advisers and 
other leaders in this territory. 

Farm Adviser C. A. Hughes of Mon- 
roe county discussed “Our Publicity 
Program for 1933,” T. W. May of 
Madison county told about the “Value 
of Community Units” in getting in- 
formation over to farmers. 

Following each talk there was a 
review and discussion led by Farm 
Adviser L. R. Caldwell of Washing- 
ton county and J. H. Brock of Bond 
county. L. B. Eidman of St. Clair 
county presided. 

H. H. Walker, district organization 
manager, introduced the afternoon 
session with a talk on organization 
problems. Secretary George E. Metz- 
ger outlined the legislative program 
of the I. A. A. in the morning ses- 
sion. 


Each member has agreed to secure at 
least six new Farm Bureau members 
between now and Dec. 1. 


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Number 7 


JULY, 1933 


Road Bills Pass, 
58th Asseniily 
Nears End 


State Sales Tax Approved in Senate Faces Fight in House, 
l. A. A. Favors Local Responsibility for Poor Relief 


S WE go to press the 58th Gen- 
A eral Assembly is rapidly draw- 
ing to a close and is ex- 
pected to adjourn within the next ten 
days. As in former years, it is faced 
with another legislative jam with 
more than a thousand bills in various 
stages of passage, most of which will 
get left in the shuffle. 

The ‘administration is putting on 
pressure in these last few days to 
enact the legislation in which it is par- 
ticularly interested. Foremost in the 
administration’s program is the two 
per cent retail sales tax bill and com- 
panion measures which distribute the 
revenue derived from the tax. 

The main bill and the companion 
bills met with considerable opposition 
in the senate where it appeared for a 
time that they would not receive the 
required 26 votes for passage. But at 
the insistence of the governor accord- 
ing to reports, unwilling downstate 
members of his party came across, 
with the result that the bills passed 
on June 15 by a vote of 26 to 17. 


How Senate Voted 


The vote was reported as follows: 

AYES: Democrats—Boeke, Carroll, 
Clifford, Gillmeister, Graham, Hick- 
man, Huckin, Kielminski, Kribs, Lee, 
Loughran, Maypole, McDermott, Wil- 
liams, Mendel, O’Connell, O’Grady, 


Shaw, Sieberns, Stuttle and Ward— 
22; Republicans—Barbour, Leonardo, 
Roberts and Woods—4. Total 26. 
NAYS: Democrats—Behrman, Bur- 
Karraker, 


gess, Lohmann, Mayor, 


Monroe, Mundy and Penick—8; Re- 
publicans—Baker, Benson, Carlson, 
Ewing, Gunning, Lantz, Mason, Searcy 
and Thompson—9. Total, 17. 


ABSENT OR NOT VOTING: Demo- 
crats—Broderick and Kline—2; Re- 
publicans—Barr, Huebsch, Paddock, 
Serritella and Wright—5. Total, 7. 


As a result of the determined oppo- 
sition of the Illinois Agricultural As- 
sociation to a tax on the bulk sales 
of farm crops as originally contained 
in the bill, the senate on June 14 


‘adopted an amendment prepared by 


the attorney general’s office which the 
administration states will exempt farm 
products from the tax when sold in 
the usual course of commerce. 


Under this amendment, the admin- 
istration states, the farmer who oc- 
casionally sells corn or small grain to 
his neighbor for livestock feeding pur- 
poses will not be subject to the tax. 


Appropriate $25,000,000 


The companion bills to the sales tax 
appropriate $25,000,000 from the oc- 
cupational tax fund, where sales tax 
money will be placed, to the Illinois 
Emergency Relief Commission for un- 
employment. They also provide that 
after February 1, 1934, revenue re- 
ceived from the sales tax shall be 
used to reduce and replace state prop- 
erty taxes. 

It is generally conceded that Chicago 
will get the bulk of the first six 
months receipts from the sales tax, 
and many believe that after January 


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1, 1984, pressure will be brought to 
bear on the governor to call a special 
session of the legislature for the pur- 
pose of appropriating the balance of 
the year’s tax receipts to the dole. 


Policy of I.'A. A. 


The Illinois Agricultural Association 
is strongly of the opinion that coun- 
ties and municipalities should provide 
their own unemployment relief, Presi- 
dent Earl C. Smith announced re- 
cently in a public statement. To this 
end the I. A. A. is supporting a series 
of bills introduced by Senator Simon 
E. Lantz of Woodford county to give 
the cities with over 500,000 population 
additional taxing power for poor re- 
lief, and to give all counties under the 
commission form of government to- 
gether with all cities within such coun- 
ties, additional power to raise revenue. 


Counties having the township form 
of government have had this power 
many years and through township 
levies have been taking care of their 
own unemployed. This series of bills 
which can be employed either by coun- 
ties or municipalities for poor relief 
passed the senate, and at this writing 
is pending in the house. 


For Tax Replacement 


“By the adoption of the Lantz bills,” 
said Mr. Smith in a statement re- 
leased to the press, “all counties and 
cities will have equal opportunity to 
take care of their own needy people: 
The Illinois Agricultural Association 
still maintains that if a state sales 
tax is necessary, the revenue derived 
should immediately be used to reduce 
and replace property taxes in equi- 
table proportion among all the coun- 
ties of the state. The I. A. A. has 
made it known to the governor and 
members of the General Assembly 
that it CANNOT and WILL NOT 
support ANY new revenue legislation 
unless such legislation provides im- 
mediate reduction and replacement of 
property taxes. We believe that des- 
titute people should be taken care 
of by the local units of government— 
that by keeping responsibility for peor 
relief af home, economy in the admin- 


istration of such funds can best be 
achieved.” 

This position follows the policy laid 
down in resolutions passed by the 


board of delegates at the last annual 


meeting of the I. A. A. in Peoria. 

Experienced legislators say that it 
is not certain, by any means, that the 
sales tax bills will be passed in the 
house where downstate opposition is 
said to be better organized. 


The Road Bills 


Of great interest and importance to 
farmers is the series of road bills 
sponsored by the Hunter Highway 
Commission outlining road-building 
in Illinois for the immediate future. 

These bills, as explained in the June 
issue of the RECORD, were amended 
by the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion in the House Road and Bridge 
Committee so as to provide that when 
the 10,000 mile state paved road sys- 
tem is completed, the state’s one-third 
of the 3 cent gas tax shall be ex- 
pended on road building and improve- 
ment. only outside of municipalities 
which means in rural areas; further 
that the one-third of the gas tax going 
to cities and villages shall first be used 
to build, improve, and maintain the 
state highways within municipalities 
which formerly were improved and 
maintained by the state. 

As these bills were originally drawn, 
it was indicated that the state would 
spend its portion of gas tax revenue 
largely in metropolitan areas and was 
authorized to build and maintain ar- 
terial highways within municipalities. 


Important Amendments 


As amended, no part of the state’s 
portion of the gas tax fund may be 
spent within municipalities over 2,500 
population after January 1, 1934. 

The amendments to House Bill 557 
inserted at the request of the I. A. A. 
are of greater importance, however, 
to the farmers of Illinois. They de- 
clare that each year current expendi- 
tures for road purposes shall be 
equitably distributed among all of 
the counties of the state. This bill 
now provides that as the state takes 
over additional mileage from the coun- 
ties into the state road system, esti- 
mated at 1,000 miles yearly, such mile- 
age shall be equitably distributed 
among the different sections of the 
state. This provision will prevent the 
concentration of additional state roads 
in any one section. 

The federal government now dis- 
tributes approximately $3,500,000 an- 
nually for federal aid roads in IIli- 
nois which the state must match. Un- 
der the I. A. A. amendments this 
$7,000,000 will be distributed among 


-- the rural areas. 


Another I. A. A. provision also of 


I 


extreme importance is embodied in 
House bill 1012. This bill prevents 
further diversion of the state motor 
fuel tax fund to other than road build- 
ing purposes. During the past year, 
state road building in Illinois has been 
halted because nearly $14,000,000 was 
removed from the road fund and used 
for state expenses. This diversion of 
funds was occasioned by the failure of 
Chicago to pay its share of state 
taxes. At this writing it is estimated 
that. Chicago owes the state approxi- 
mately $50,000,000 including 1932 
taxes. This bill passed the senate on 
June 16 along with the other road 
measures. 
Oleo Bill Vetoed 


The Governor vetoed Senator Kribs’ 
bill levying a 10 cent tax on oleomar- 
garine containing imported oils and 
fats such as cocoanut oil, following an 
opinion from the Attorney General 
that the bill was unconstitutional. 

Another bill sponsored by the State 
Department of Health would make it 
impossible to bring raw milk for hu- 
man consumption into any municipali- 
ty having a pasteurization ordinance, 
from within a five mile zone around 
city limits: This bill also paves the way 
for cleaning up pasteurization plants 
and preventing the spread of undulant 
fever and other diseases. The measure 
passed the senate and at this writing 
rests in the House Committee on Agri- 
culture. 

A large number of: other bills in 
which the Association is interested are 
in various stages of passage. A more 
detailed report on these will be made 
by the I. A. A. legislative committee 
after the General Assembly adjourns. 


Horses and Mules Are 
Coming Back—Robbins 


Signs of a horse raising revival in 
Illinois recall the fact that in 1910 
farmers of the state were taking in 
more than $5,000,000 annually from 
the sale of surplus horses and mules, 
according to Prof. E. T. Robbins of 
the State College of Agriculture.. 

“In 1910 when Illinois farmers took 
in more than $5,000,000 from the sale 
of about 50,000 surplus horses and 
mules they were doing a good job of 
farming with about $73,000,000 in- 
vested in farm machinery. Farm mort- 
gage debt was only $115,000,000. By 
1930 they were paying out money for 
horses. and mules, had more than 
$160,000,000 invested in farm imple- 
ments and machinery, and had a mort- 
gage debt of $199,000,000 on owner- 
operated farms. Many students of the 
industry believe that part of this in- 
crease in debt is a result of farmers 
failing to maintain their horse stocks.” 


I. A. A. RECORD—July, 1933 


Heavy Attendance at 
Farm Bureau Meetings 


President Smith and L. A. Wil- 
liams Address Large Audiences 


-- MASS meeting attended by an 
enthusiastic crowd estimated 


at 1,600 to 1,800 people was 
held in the Galesburg armory the 
night of June 2 where President Earl 
C. Smith discussed state and national 
legislation of interest to farm people. 
He outlined economic trends, traced the 
rise of taxes and the decline of farm 
income and told what organized agri- 
culture had done and was doing: to 
bring about higher farm price levels 
and reduce the unfair burden of taxes 
now resting on real property. 

He discussed the Association’s policy 
on the state sales tax elsewhere re- 
ported in this issue and talked briefly 
about other measures of direct inter- 
est to farmers before the General As- 
sembly. 

The meeting was arranged by the 
Knox County Farm Bureau. President 
Harry Gehring presided. Many busi- 
ness men attended. L. A. Williams, 
manager of Country Life Insurance 
Co., was the principal speaker at a 
series of meetings during June in Jo- 
Daviess, Stephenson, Lee, Ogle, Du- 
Page and Kane counties. 

: 400 at Stockton 


“We had a crowd of around 400 at 
our meeting in Stockton,” reported H. 
R. Brunnemeyer, JoDaviess county 
farm adviser. “Larry Williams gave 
a mighty good account of the organi- 
zation. His talk was straight from 
the shoulder and was very well re- 
ceived. The dance after the program, 
in spite of the heat, was popular and 
most of the crowd much to our sur- 
prise stayed until the end.” 

Lee County Farm Bureau sponsored 
a meeting celebrating the victory of 
farm organizations in passing effective 
legislation that already has resulted 
in raising farm prices. More than 500 
attended the gathering held in the 
grandstand on the fair grounds at 
Amboy. Mr. Williams took full credit 
on behalf of organized farmers for 
the legislative victory. 

Nearly 600 people turned out for the 
mid-summer meeting arranged by the 
Kane County Farm Bureau at Sugar 
Grove the night of June 16. Mr. Wil- 
liams addressed the audience on the 
subject, “The Future of Co-operative 
Action.” He also addressed the annual 
meeting of Country Life policy hold- 
ers at Freeport in Stephenson county, 
the annual meeting of Ogle County 
Farm Bureau at Oregon, and the an- 
nual session of. the DuPage County 
Home Bureau at. Wheaton. 


I, A. A. RECORD—July, 1933 


Plan Cut In ~ 
~ Wheat Acreage — 


Wallace Announces Application of Domestic Suna 
Plan, Await Decision on Corn and. Hogs 


of Agriculture Henry A. Wal- 

lace that acreage reduction will 
be applied to the wheat and cotton 
crops of 1934 indicates that the do- 
mestic allotment plan will be relied 
upon mainly to bring the prices of 
these commodities up to a pre-war 
parity basis whereas the trade agree- 
ment section of the Emergency Farm 
Act will probably be used in the case 
of hogs and milk. 


As we go to press, we have seen no 
official statements regarding the ad- 
ministration’s policies, but newspaper 
reports of a press conference state 
that benefit payments are to begin 
September 1, to farmers who sign an 
agreement to reduce their wheat acre- 
age in 19384 and 1935. The payment 
will depend upon the amount of the 
processing tax levied, estimated at 
around 30 cents per bushel. The date 
for levying the tax is expected to be 
announced by proclamation shortly. 

It is understood that each state will 
be allotted a certain acreage from 
which county and individual allotments 
will be computed. County wheat pro- 
duction control committees or asso- 
ciations will be formed to see that the 
plan is carried out. The domestic al- 
lotment plan has the advantage, ac- 
cording to M. L. Wilson, wheat admin- 
istrator, of being self-policing since it 
will be to each farmer’s interest to 
Watch his neighbor to see that he does 
not put in a greater acreage than the 
plan calls for and thereby undermine 
the effort to raise prices. 


Pay Sept. 1 


News dispatches announcing devel- 
opments continue as follows: 

“The compensating payments to 
farmers are to be premised on. the 
farmer’s signing a contract to reduce 
his acreage in 1934 and 1935. Two- 
thirds of the payment is to be paid: the 
farmer on or about ‘September 1, 1983, 
and the remaining one-third will-be 
allowed him when he has lived up-to 
his contract to reduce the next plant- 
ing. 

“The basis of allotment of benéfit 
money was outlined by the secretary 
as follows: Each state will be allotted 


A NNOUNCEMENT by Secretary 


an amount in proportion to its part. of 
the national average production in the 
preceding five years. Each county is to 
be allotted its share on the same basis 
and each individual farmer will be 
given his proportionate amount on the 
basis of his average production in the 
preceding three years. Only that part 
of the farmers’ produce estimated to 
represent wheat for domestic consump- 
tion will figure in the allotment, how- 
ever, it being now estimated that that 
part will amount to about 80 per cent 
of his crop. 


Production Control Groups 


“In addition the contracting farmers 
in each county are to form a wheat 
production control association, which 
will supervise operation of the plan in 
that county. The extension service of 
the department of agriculture is also 
to be utilized for this purpose in coun- 
ties where the number of contracting 
farmers is too small to warrant forma- 
tion of control association. 

“Operation of the domestic allot- 
ment plan, according to the secretary, 
will serve materially to facilitate the 
export of American wheat by bringing 
the exportable surplus more closely in 
line with the price of the grain in 
world markets. At the same time, as 
an adjunct to the domestic allotment 
plan, the agricultural adjustment ad- 
ministration, created under the farm 
relief bill, is to make new efforts to 
expedite the outward. movement of 
wheat from this country.” 


Conferences Held 


A series of conferences with or- 
ganized producers and dealers repre- 
senting milk, wheat, and cotton were 
held during recent weeks both at 
Washington and at market centers at 
the call of Secretary Wallace and Geo. 
N. Peek, farm adjustment adminis- 
trator. 

Representatives of the cotton indus- 
try met on June 3 to present their 
suggestions on the application of the 
Emergency Farm Act to this com- 
modity. 

Charles J. Brand, co-administrator 
of the Adjustment Act, and Dr. Clyde 
L. King, arbitrator for the Chicago 


Henry A. Wallace 


milk zone, conducted a series of hear- 
ings early in June relative to the mar- 
keting agreement in the Chicago area. 

Mr. Brand asserted that it is the 
duty of the adjustment administration 
under the law to make milk produc- 
tion pay the farmer better, to get milk 
to consumers without excessive in- 
crease in price and see that the dis- 
tribution system does not get more for 
its services than it is entitled to re- 
ceive. “Fairness to the consumer and 
distributor will be our constant pur- 
pose, but not at the expense of the 
producer,” Mr. Brand concluded. 

Representatives of the Pure Milk 
Association, Chicago dealers, and Mrs. 
W. B. Fribley, president of the Chi- 
cago Housewives’ League, attended 
the hearings. 

It was announced that when the 
hearing closes the testimony and 
statements will be used by the admin- 
istration to determine whether the 
Secretary of Agriculture is aneeien in 
entering into a compact. 

Marketing agreements and price 
schedules covering five milk market- 
ing areas in Georgia ‘have been filed 
with the Secretary of Agriculture 
pending the fixing of a date for hear- 


ing. An effort will be made in the 


Georgia milk area and _ adjacent 
regions to work out an agreement giv- 
ing the producer. a better price. 


Corn-Hog Administrator 


Dr. A. G. Black of Ames, Iowa; was 
appointed Acting Corn-Hog Produc- 
tion Chief of the Adjustment Admin- 


istration for an indefinite leave-of- 


absence period from his duties as head 
(Continued on page 12) 


Senate Committee Tries 
To Kill Moratorium Bill 


Charges by the Chicago Tribune 
and others who apparently support in- 
discriminate mortgage foreclosures, 
that passage of the moratorium bill 
now before the Illinois General As- 
sembly would shut off federal farm 
credit in this state, were denied in a 
recent statement by Henry Morgen- 
thau, Jr., governor of the Farm Credit 
Administration. 

In reply to a question from the Gov- 
ernor of Arkansas, the latter was in- 
formed by Mr. Morgenthau that “the 
law governing the administration of 
the land banks indicated no reason for 
objection to state laws which for a 
limited emergency period such as two 
years would empower the courts to 
grant continuances of mortgage fore- 
closure sales or confirmation of them, 
or extend the time of redemption, if 
the purpose of these statutes is to pre- 
vent sales on a markedly unfair and 
unreasonable basis.” 


Earl C. Smith, president, and Don- 
ald Kirkpatrick, general counsel of the 
Illinois Agricultural Association, spoke 
for the moratorium bill, H. B. 579, in 
the hearing before the Senate judi- 
ciary committee. Certain Chicago 
members led by Senator Ward, the 
committee chairman, and Senators 
Graham and Barbour sought to kill 
the bill in committee, and failing in 
this prevented passing it out with fa- 
vorable recommendation by raising the 
question of a quorum. 

The next day Senator Martin Loh- 
mann of Pekin who is handling the bill 
in the senate, succeeded in his motion 
to take the bill from the committee 
and place it on the senate calendar 
where it now rests in the final pas- 
sage stage. The bill had previously 
passed the House by a large majority 
vote. 


The bill is improperly called a 
moratorium measure because it merely 
authorizes courts to continue proceed- 
ings in foreclosure in the case of 
worthy mortgagors. It provides for 
the protection of creditors by virtually 
making the court receiver for the 
property, so that rents and income 


may be equitably applied on payment . 


of taxes and interest. There is noth- 
ing mandatory about the legislation. 
It merely outlines a course of pro- 
cedure for the guidance of courts. The 
termination of the length of the con- 
tinuance, if any, is left to the judge. 
The bill declares that levy and pay- 
ment in a foreclosure suit may be 
stayed for a reasonable time, but no 
longer than July 1, 1935. 


How Farm Land Values 
Dropped Since 1920 


The value of farm lands in Illinois 
compared with the 1912-1914 value 
figured at 100 has been as follows 
since 1920: 1920 @ 160; 1925 @ 115; 
1926 @ 109; 1927 @ 99; 1928 @ 96; 
1929 @ 95; 1930 @ 91; 1931 @ 80; 
19382 @ 66; 1988 @ 54. Trends in 
other corn-belt states were similar. In 
the New England States the value of 
land has been much more constant. 
Land did not rise as high nor did it 
sink as low. In Maine, for example 
the value of farm land in 1930 was 
@ 142, whereas in 1933 it had sunk 
only to 94. In the southeastern states, 
the variation was nearly as large as 
in the corn belt. 


500 Attend Jubilee 
Celebration in Cook 


“Our Jubilee Celebration and barn 
dance was a great success,” reports 
O. G. Barrett, Cook county farm ad- 
viser. “More than 500 Farm Bureau 
members and their friends attended.” 

The evening was largely devoted to 
entertainment with only a few short 
talks during the evening. The pro- 
gram was arranged to celebrate the 
passage of the Emergency Farm Act. 

“The Farm Bureau, county, state 
and national, made this legislation pos- 
sible,” said Barrett, “and our members 
are taking credit for what it already 
has done to raise prices and bring 
back better times.” 


| 6th District Conference 


Farm Bureau members in the 16th 
district held a conference Saturday, 
June 7, at the recreation park in East 
Peoria. The program was largely con- 
fined to a discussion of organization 
and publicity problems. 

George B. Muller, I. A. A. director 
from Tazewell county, presided. Sec- 
retary George E. Metzger; district or- 
ganization manager, R. J. Hamilton; 
and Farm Advisers, J. H. Whisenand 


. and Wayne Gilbert were scheduled as 


speakers. 


Next Annual Meeting 
|. A. A. at Danville 


The next annual meeeting of the 
Illinois Agricultural Association will 
be held next January at Danville, the 
board of directors decided at their 
meeting in Chicago, June 16. The I. 
A. A. held its annual convention in 
Danville also in January 1929. 


I. A. A. RECORD—July, 1933 


Launch Cream Sign-Up 
In Rock Island Area 


Plan To Build Up Production of 
Local Co-operative Creamery 


MEMBERSHIP sign-up -of 
Ace producers preparatory 
~to the establishment of addi- 
tional cream routes in the Rock Island 
district is underway, according to 
Frank Gougler, director of produce 
marketing. The nine counties in this 
territory, including Whiteside, Lee, 
Bureau, Henry, Rock Island, Mercer, 
Henderson, Warren, and Knox have 
approximately 19,248 farms which in 
1930 marketed approximately 6,500,- 
000 pounds of butterfat. 

It is planned to 
haul the cream to 
the plant of the 
Farmers Co - op- 
erative Dairy 
Products Com- 
pany plant in 
Davenport. The 
latter is a mem- 
ber of the Illinois 
Producers Cream- 
eries and has been 
FRANK GOUGLER operating success- 
fully since last 


fall. 

“It now requires a total of 219 
cream stations in these nine counties 
to assemble the cream,” said Gougler. 
“The farmer has to pay the cost. The 
cream station system of assembling 
frequently results in an inferior prod- 
uct, particularly in hot weather. The 
producer pays for that. Cream can be 
assembled by truck cheaper than by 
stations. The farmer is thus served 
better, the creamery gets good cream, 


‘and as a result makes a higher qual- 


ity butter.” 


The Illinois Agricultural Association 
recently issued a prospectus on the 
cream marketing project for the use 
of producers in the Rock Island terri- 
tory in developing their co-operative 
marketing program. 

The requirements for producers to 
get more money for butterfat, accord- 
ing to Gougler, are as follows: (1) 
Large volume creameries for low cost 
operation. (2) High quality butter 
made from good cream collected at 
farm by truck. (3) Farmer-owned 
plants to reflect prices for higher 
quality back to producers. (4) Good 
plant management. (5) A co-opera- 
tive sales agency to sell their own 
brand of butter on the best markets. 
(6) Statewide co-operation for manu- 
facture, sale and purchase of sup- 
plies. (7) Adequate capital. (8) The 
spirit of co-operation. (9) Own test 
and weights. 


I. A. A. RECORD—July, 1933 


- Quality Milk Wins 
Suit At Davenport 


Dealers Reported Dissatisfied With Their Leadership, Now 
Buying Milk From Quality Association 


close tieup between the organ- 

ized milk dealers in the Quad 
Cities and the “rump” organization 
which they brought into being, known 
as the Illinois-Iowa Milk Producers 
Association, began several weeks ago 
when the Mississippi Dairy of Rock 
Island and Midvale Farms of Moline 
broke away and are now buying milk 
from the Quality Milk Association. 
Additional dealers are expected to do 
likewise. 

Distributors who have been seeking 
to disorganize producer members of 
the Association received another blow 
when the justice court at Davenport 
recently rendered a decision favorable 
on all accounts to the organized farm- 
ers. C. M. Strawman of the I. A. A. 
legal department assisted in winning 
the case. 

The court held (1) that the Quality 
Milk Association is a lawful agent of 
the producers and has a valid contract 
with its members to receive payment 
for milk delivered, and may dispense 
such payment if and when received 
from the dealers; (2) a membership 
in a co-operative is not a security and 
therefore does not come under the 
Iowa Blue Sky Act; (8) plaintiff 
(producer, believed to be backed by 
local dealers) must pay all court costs. 

The suit before the Iowa justice was 
brought against the Association by 
William Gronewalt, a producer, to col- 
lect $9.93 covering milk delivered to 
one of the contracting dealers during 
the last few weeks of January. The 
Quality Milk Association had a con- 
tract with the dealers up to February 
1 when the latter refused to renew 
and instead entered into a contract 
with the “rump” organization in Iowa 
for their requirements. 

The dealers thereupon refused to 
pay Quality Milk Association for milk 
delivered by member producers during 
the two weeks’ period, in defiance of 
their contract. As a result Quality 
Milk could not pay its members. 

The court in its decision showed 
that the producer, Mr. Gronewalt, 


Cee disintegration of the 


under an - agreement had appointed 
Quality Milk Association as his agent 


to sell his milk and collect the pay- 
ment therefor. 

The court said: “I construe the 
agreement to be a contract of an 
agent (Quality Milk) of the producer 
(plaintiff, Mr. Gronewalt) with the 
distributor. The intention of the 
parties as disclosed in the agreement 
was that the Quality Milk Association 
will be recognized by the dealer as a 
sales agent for the milk producers. 
Therefore a principal (plaintiff Grone- 
walt) cannot sue his agent (Quality 
Milk Association) for money that the 
agent has not received from the dis- 
tributor. 

“In other words I am-of the opinion 
that the agreement was an agreement 
between the distributor and the agent 
of the milk producers to accomplish 
the act of collective bargaining. The 
contract disclosed that Downing 
(dealer) was to pay Quality Milk As- 
sociation as the plaintiff’s agent—‘all 
milk producers supplying him with 
fluid milk shall be paid through the 
offices of the Quality Milk Associa- 
tion!’ 

“I am therefore deciding the case 
that the farmer producer cannot re- 
cover a judgment against his agent 
for money that the agent has not yet 
received from the distributor. 

“Regarding the plaintiff’s claim for 
a refund of $4 for a membership 
please be informed that I made a thor- 
ough search of the Iowa Blue Sky Law 
and was unable to find any authority 
to classify the membership in a co- 
operative company as a ‘security.’ 

“Therefore under the Blue Sky Law 
a person cannot recover the considera- 
tion paid. The defendant (Quality 
Milk) then being a foreign corpora- 
tion not licensed to do business in 
Iowa could not maintain a _ suit in 
court to recover the price of a mem- 
bership. The membership once having 
been paid, I find no authority au- 
thorizing the purchaser to recover the 
price of the membership since the 
membership is not a security.” 

Mr. Gronewalt, the plaintiff, also 
subscribed for a share of stock in the 
co-operative creamery of the Quality 
Milk Association’s subsidiary at Daven- 


A Lesson In Organiza- 
tion 


Organized milk producers 
numbering more than 500 ad- 
jacent to the Quad Cities refused 
to accept defeat when the or- 
ganized dealers last winter 
sought to shut them off the fluid 
market by purchasing their milk 
from a “rump” organization of 
outlying producers in Iowa which 
they set up. 

The Quality Milk Association 
representing the regular: pro- 
ducers for the local market be- 
gan developing their own fluid 
milk outlets. The members stuck 
together although it meant a 
sacrifice temporarily. The or- 
ganized dealers then waged a 
newspaper campaign against the 
Quality Association, and the IIli- 
nois Agricultural Association 
for the aid given its members in 
that area. An effort was made 
to prejudice the public against 
the Quality Association, its mem- 
bers, and dealers friendly to the 
latter’s cause. 

Battling against odds, the 
Quality producers maintained 
their position and the right of 
collective bargaining. The re-. 
cent court decision outlined in 
the accompanying article upholds 
the Association and deals a blow 
to efforts of certain dealers to 
hurt the organization by illegally 
withholding payment for milk. 

In efforts to obtain fair prices 
and equitable laws, farmers may 
receive temporary reverses but 
they can win eventually by 
standing together for their 
rights. ORGANIZATION alone 
makes victory possible.—Editor. 


port for which he gave a note of $12. 
Then he filed suit to collect the $12 
subscription, although the note had 
not been paid. On this point the judge 
said: “Regarding the plaintiff’s claim 
for $12 as the value of his note held 
by the defendant, and the claim as 
amended for the return of the note, 
please be informed that a note is a 
security as defined in the Blue Sky 
Law, but the plaintiff has not paid the . 
note therefore he cannot recover the 
price thereof. The plaintiff did not 
buy a note, he executed and delivered 
a note. Again, the plaintiff has a 
valid defense to an action on the note 
because the defendant was not li- 
censed to do business in Iowa at the 
time of the transaction. 
(Continued on page 9) 


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NOG 25 05:22 ds sic.c Bens < Oop MESS 191 ew bea OD BE. D. Lawrence, Bloomington 
OUR aah bv 0 655.0 orb ap dine ace apiee's Regus 000 Oh edie done eae W. A. Dennis, Paris 
MAUI G A 580.0 5k y'e.6 08 dine Ale Ca ab OES gk op wes Fae ek ROE E. G. Curtis, Champaign 
MIN «cee Sie acct cig oven 8d 0-0 eb 20 oa Oe SER ERNE Charles S. Black, Jacksonville 
ME os a bog, 0 d.4.0.5 ewe a8 bac Heecdie 4 bia ieleithe ata Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 
MS oS psé:b Clapieaca' doled Ubon es oda wan tebe bb ogee Talmage DeFrees, Smithboro 
SOU « ois.-9  0:8.c. bei ois <n 0:59 sua vide sie 0 vin-ela gate pa'e V0 PS ERE W. L. Cope, Salem 
SORA sins sine eed phic sscbsield ewe hee aa were ee Charles Marshall, Belknap 
WR iia cid ssc sc cnsccsseperreRee tee eekeae aoe R. B. Endicott, Villa Ridge 
DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 
COUT EOIS 55's vdig.we o's wc Chale See snc ond aCedbebiecesseftonecne J. H. Kelker 
Dairy Marketing... 6... ...cescevecccccsccccecsccsgvevecocvce J. B. Countiss 
MRIS 6:6 eRURD AN boas oo Vela tgs th ceeTivwecaniaescciet wane R. A. Cowles 
Fruit and Vegetable Marketing.............:ceeseeccseceeces H. W. Day 
ENING a6 0 bin Web's p.clncicle Cebecs oVers cies oaddesevess éagee George Thiem 
Imsurance Service. .......0.. eee eee cee cee e eee e ee eeeeeseseeses Vv. Vaniman 
EMAL COURS oiocas ose eek reece recog tae ccweccdes Donald Kirkpatrick 
Live Stock Marketing... ............cccccccceccccccecceeeee Ray BE. Miller 
CROG 6 ieee ie dpa as esis eos Mele a dive uebevele cP Res eee er he Oo xyeae C, KE. Johnston 
GQrgAWIMAtGOMs voi6ci6 cc iisc cet cc aceeevecestecetoccasncoveces G. BE. Metzger 
Produce Marketing...............cceescsceecctcecesececeee F. A. Gougler 
Taxation and Statistics. ........ 00... cece cece eee ceecceeveees J. O. Watson 
THONSPOTESLION < . é6's'5 6.0.0'c vee avescboesceweovcencecvectwevecns L. J. Quasey 


ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 
Country Life Insurance Co............-eeeeeceeenee L. A. Williams, Mgr. 


Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co............++seeeee J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Auditing AssM..............-. F. E. Ringham, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co....... A. E. Richardson, Mgr. 
Illinois Farm Supply Co..........cssccecceseeerees L. R. Marchant, Mgr. 


Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange.........sesesesesecess H. W. Day, Mer. 
Chas. P. Cummings, Vice-Pres. and Sales Mgr. 


Soybean Marketing ASS’N..........sccescesesesecs J. W. Armstrong, Pres. 


Industrial Control Bill and Agriculture 

ASSAGE of the industrial control bill by con- 

gress just before adjournment makes it im- 
perative that the emergency farm act be aggres- 
sively administered and that farmers co-operate 
in whatever steps are found advisable to raise 
farm prices. 

The industrial control bill has for its purpose 
the stabilization of industrial prices at profitable 
levels with government aid—also reemployment 
and the raising of wages. This indicates that 
farmers will have to pay more for manufactured 
products if the bill succeeds in its purpose. 

There is evidence to support the belief that 
the better organization of industry with con- 
trol in fewer hands, will enable it to attain a 
larger measure of success than agriculture in 
establishing profitable price levels. Some brances 
of industry have been able to do this with- 
out government aid. This much is certain, 


however. Increased prices will restrict sales and 
defeat re-employment unless purchasing power, in- 


I A. A. RECORD—July, 1933 


cluding the farmer’s, rises as industrial prices ad- 
vance. : 

It is important to agriculture that the unem- 
ployed be put back to work so they can buy more 
meat, milk, butter, eggs, fruits, vegetables and 
other products of the farm. Both labor and in- 
dustry have stood in their own light by their re- 
sistance and reluctance to accept reasonable cuts. 
This has prolonged the depression by preventing a. 
free exchange of goods and services between the 
farmer and these other groups. The necessity for 
striking the proper balance in the new economic 
planning is emphasized by past and current ex- 
periences. Only by so doing can the new ventures 
succeed. 


Grain Trade Propaganda 


ANY farmers elevators in line with most 
business institutions have suffered losses 
during the last two years. This reflects economic 
conditions affecting agriculture and, in fact, the 
entire country. Shrinkage in inventory of grain 
and supplies, and slow collections have been large- 
ly responsible. Then too, the volume of grain and 
supplies handled by many elevators has shrunk. 
Farmers’ unwillingness to sell at unreasonably 
low prices and their inability to buy are the cause. 
Grain trade propagandists have seized upon this 
situation like a drowning man grasping for a 
straw. They have named several elevators affili- 
ated with the Illinois Grain Corporation which 
they allege suffered losses during the last year, 
whereas it was asserted they formerly made 
money. Their affiliation with the state co-oper- 
ative was held to be responsible for the losses. 
Of course this kind of reasoning is-absurd but 
so is much of the cheap propaganda of the 
“trade” against the co-operative efforts of farm- 
ers who are trying to better their condition. 


Charles Schmitt, president of the Beason-Skel- 
ton farmers elevator in Logan county answers this 
charge most effectively by pointing out that “the 
report of Manager Keys and the audit show that 
the company had a very successful year with net 
earnings of $5,459.62. Our company was one of 
the first to become a member of the Illinois Grain 
Corp.,” continues Schmitt. “The stock we pur- 
chased in the Illinois Grain Corporation three 
years ago has not only paid 7 per cent during the 
entire period but our company received a cash 
patronage dividend from the corporation last 
year amounting to $941.66.” 


Let's Be Alert 


N important service of co-operative marketing in- 
stitutions many farmers overlook is their influence 
in forcing private traders to bid up for farm prod- 

ucts. It is entirely possible for a co-operative association 
that is operating conservatively, to be outbid by a private 
buyer or commission man, particularly if the latter wishes 
to make capital out of the high price offered, to destroy 
farmers’ confidence in their own agencies. Let’s be alert 
and not out-generaled by these tricks of the trade. Some 
co-operatives have been destroyed by such tactics to the 
everlasting sorrow of farmers who unwittingly contributed 
to their downfall. 


I. A. A. RECORD—July, 1933 


HE fact that a number of state 

[ farmer elevator associations 

have drifted into the hands of 

mere propagandists against farmer- 

owned and farmer-controlled market- 

ing in the terminals is a reflection on 

farmers’ elevators everywhere and an 

outrage upon the co-operative ideals 

of those who pioneered in the move- 
ment. , 


Farmers’ elevators together with 
township and county mutual insur- 
ance companies represent the first suc- 
cessful achievements of farmers in the 
co-operative field. These service insti- 
tutions were organized to meet a defi- 
nite need. They blazed the trail in 
farmer co-operation and thereby ren- 
dered a great service. 


The first farmers’ elevators came 
into being more than a half century 
ago to correct abuses in the handling 
and grading of grain, and in the pur- 
chase of feeds and commodities, at 
country points. They demonstrated 
that with competent management and 
adequate capital, farmers can succeed 
in reducing the cost of assembling and 
shipping grain and handling certain 
supplies. Early successes in this field 
developed the necessary self-confidence 
and leadership to bring about further 
achievements in the co-operative move- 
ment. 


So it is that many leaders in the 
terminal grain co-operatives of today 
secured their training and knowledge 
to fit them for the larger tasks from 
their experience in working through 
local elevators in their home commu- 
nities. Such men as President Huff, 
Webb, Johnstone, Peterson, Horn, 
Hague, and Maddock of the Farmers 
National Grain Corp. directorate, have 
served as officers and directors in local 
elevators. 

Likewise in this state the direc- 
torate of Illinois Grain Corporation is 
composed of former or present farmer 
elevator officers and directors, a num- 
ber of them such as J. C. Sailor, Geo. 
L. Potter, E. H. Stevenson, and others, 
pioneers in the work. 


The terminal co-operatives already 
have demonstrated that there is just 
as much, if not more, opportunity to 
render a great service to grain pro- 
ducers at the big markets as at the 
country points. Therefore it is incon- 
ceivable that anyone thoroughly sold 


on the co-operative idea should hold 
that the local farmer elevator is all 
right, whereas the terminal co-oper- 
ative is all wrong. Yet this is exactly 
the position held by officers and em- 
ployees in two or three so-called state 


farmer grain dealers associations. The 


inconsistencies of the situation do not 
seem to bother them. A searching in- 
vestigation of the reasons for the 
close connection between the in- 
dividuals operating such associations, 
and the grain trade, undoubtedly 
would develop much interesting in- 
formation. 


‘The state elevator associations in 
the northwest, we are told, have de- 
generated into mere “paper” organi- 
zations, without a substantial follow- 
ing. Certain elements in the grain 
trade apparently have seized these 
derelicts, manned them with their own 
hirelings, and now use them to fire 
broadsides of propaganda against the 
grain co-operatives in the central mar- 
kets. 


Thus it has been made to appear 
that farmers are divided in their sup- 
port of real co-operative marketing. 
And in reality many sincere grain 
producers and local elevator boards 
have been so confused by the malicious 
and baseless charges against the 
Farmers National Grain Corporation 
and its member stockholders that they 
have hesitated to support the insti- 
tutions which were expressly created 
with the friendly assistance of gov- 


‘ernment to help them. 


In time, of course, the fabrications 


of these enemies of the grain producer © 


will fall of their own weight. The at- 
mosphere will clear. The continued 
growth of the co-operative movement 
is an indication that this is now com- 
ing to pass. The constant demonstra- 
tion of successful handling of grain 
by the big co-operatives breeds con- 
fidence in itself. 


The lesson to be learned from the 
activities of these renegade farmer 
elevator associations which work 
against the real interests of grain 
producers is that in too many in- 
stances boards of directors have ceased 
to direct. This situation is not con- 
fined to farmer boards. In a recent 
decision, a New York judge held the 
directors of the International Match 
Corporation liable for the mishandling 
of the finances of that organization al- 
though they pleaded ignorance, there- 
fore exemption from the consequences 
of their employees acts. “Boards of 
directors are supposed to direct,” said 
the judge.—E. G. T. 


The Trouble With Hogs 


American hog farmers are beset 
with an excess production problem be- 
cause of a severe contraction in their 
export outlet says the Bureau of Ag- 
ricultural Economics. Where the 
American hog farmer averaged 20 
foreign customers for pork in the 
1926-29 period, he had only eight left 
in 1982. And where he had 40 foreign 
customers for lard during this same 
pre-depression period, he had less than 
80 in 1982. 

The shrinkage in exports during the 
past year alone was equivalent by 
weight to approximately a half million 
market-weight hogs. And the differ- 
ence between exports last year and 


‘our record peace-time exports in 1923 


is equivalent to about 8,000,000 hogs. 
In other words, the decrease in an- 
nual exports since 1923 is equivalent 
to one hog out of every six hogs in 
the Corn Belt farm feed lots this year. 

Germany recently raised the tariff 
on lard to $9.40 per 100 pounds. 
Previous to February, 1933, the tariff 
was only $1.08. 


Quality Milk Wins Suit 
(Continued from page 7) 

“Judgment is therefore rendered in 
favor of the defendant against plain- 
tiff for costs herein assessed at 
$12.70.” 

The effect of the decision is to out- 
law further efforts by friends of the 
dealers to collect money from_ the 
Quality Milk Association until dealers 
have paid the Association for milk de- 
livered during the two week period. 

Reports from “rump” organization 
members indicate general dissatisfac- 
tion due to the fact that they received 
only 79 cents per cwt. for milk, al- 
though 75 per cent of their deliveries 
were reported sold in the fluid milk 
class. On the other hand the Quality 
Milk Association which marketed only 
about 25 per cent of its production lo- 
cally as fluid milk through the Stur- 
tevant Company, Midvale, Mississippi 
Dairy and others, paid producer mem- 
bers 84 cents per cwt. by developing 
an attractive outlet for surplus sweet 
cream. 

In has been reported that the bot- 
tle exchange of the of the dealers as- 
sessed all members $25 each to fight 
the Quality Milk Association and that 
an additional assessment of $15 was 
made on a second appeal for funds. 

Producers point out that when milk 
was retailing in the Quad Cities for 
ten cents per quart farmers only real- 
ized an average of $1.00 per cwt., 
whereas milk is now retailing at six 
cents and the Quality Milk Associa- 
tion has been able to pay its members 
84 cents per cwt. 


COUNTRY LIFE’S § 


K. W. CLELAND T. DRAYTON A. BOOTH D. TEARE I, H. COULTER R LEE WwW. G. ACKMANS 
Boone Bureau Bureau Champaign Christian Clarke Clinton 


Cc, CUSICK L. R. ROWE P. BROWN Cc. W. ESPY W. STEVENSON D. P. ROBINSON H. PALMER 
Ford Lee Grundy Hancock Henderson Henry Henry 


A. N. SKINNER B. ABNEY W. H. NUTTALL F. W. PECKHAM C. W. ROBBINS Cc. HICKS G. CHENOWETH, 
Knox Lake Lawrence Lee Lee Livingston McDonough 


R. C. HIETT Cc. A. MeDOLE M. FOSTER E. B. YOUNG L. T. OXLEY A. BRYANT HOLMES 
Menard Menard Mercer Montgomery Morgan Moultrie Ogle 


K. BAYLOR WM. FREITAG E, L. DILLON G. R. BOGGS E. L. WILSON W. C. LINKER J. E STINE 
Stephenson Tazewell Vermilion Warren will Whiteside White 


fiw c= = 
pr Se ee 


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\CK MANN . FOEHNER E. A. CARNCROSS A. P. YORK Cc. JESSEN D. JI. AUBLE G. THORNTON H, 0. HENRY 
nton f + clinton Cook Crawford DeWitt DuPage Edgar Effingham 


q. BRADSHAW Cc. J THOMAS H, H. GLICK L. WURSTER Ww. E. BISHOP A. B. SHUBERT GEO. DICKSON 
Iroquois Jackson Jefferson JoDaviess Johnson Kankakee Kendall 


L..»W. HODGES R. BURROUGHS A. STEDSCHLAG W.E.HEDGCOCK S. M. BECHTEL Ss. CASTLE H, cnt 
3 McDonough McHenry McHenry McLean Macoupin Madison Marshall 


L. R. WELK A. NASH G KAUFMAN W. ACKER H. A. BONSER 0. L. HATCH 
Ogle Peoria Rock Island Scott Macon Shelby Stark 


YOUR SALES ORGANIZATION 
HONORED 


These agents of Country Life Insurance 
Company, who qualified in recent contests, 
are largely responsible for the Company’s 
record of Fifty Million dollars of insurance 
written in Fifty Months. 


L. A. Williams, Manager 


B. ROTH H. HITCHCOCK T. E. BENTON J. D. SMITH 
»* Woodford Winnebago Williamson Sangamon 


12 


Net Farm Income For '32 
Estimated $1,302,000,000 


Income Fell Short More Than 
Billion Dollars of Paying 
For Labor of Family 


A decline of nearly $6,800,000,000 in 
gross farm income from 1929 to 1932 
or about 57 per cent is estimated by 
the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. 
Gross farm income in 1932 was $5,- 
143,000,000. The net farm income 
after production expenses were de- 
ducted was estimated at $1,302,000,000 
for 1932. 

Farm income last year was the low. 
est in 23 years. The most drastic de. 
cline in expenditures by farmers was 
for machinery, building materials, and 
fertilizers. 

The Bureau points out that “in- 
come available for farmers’ capital, 
labor, and management last year pro- 
vided no return on investment, and 
fell short by nearly $1,200,000,000 of 
paying the farm family for their labor 
even at the reduced wage rates for 
hired labor.” 

There was a sharp reduction in the 
inventory value of farm capital. All 
land and buildings which had a value 
of about $48,000,000,000 in the spring 
of 1929 were down in value to about 
$37,000,000,000 in 1932. The value of 
livestock on farms during this inter- 
val declined from about $6,600,000,000 
to about $3,500,000,000. 

Gross income from dairy products 
declined less than that for any other 
major commodity. Expenditures for 
farm machinery, tractors, and repairs 
in 1932 were only about 16 per cent of 
1929, and for automobiles and trucks 
only 15 per cent. 

The ranking of the principal lines 
of production in gross value. for 1932 
was as follows: milk, poultry and 
eggs, hogs, and cattle and calves. 
Among the crops vegetables ranked 
first, cotton and cottonseed second, 
fruits and nuts third, and grains 
fourth. 


Scott Got His’ Fence 


“The railroad recently repaired the 
fence along my farm thanks to your 
help,” writes E. B. Scott of DeKalb 
county in a letter to the I. A. A. 
Transportation Department. 

Mr. Scott tried unsuccessfully for 
several months to get the Chicago 
Great Western to repair the fence but 
without success. Then he appealed to 
the I. A. A. which secured immediate 
attention from officials of the com- 
pany at Chicago. 


I. A. A. RECORD—July, 1933 


McLEAN COUNTY SERVICE COMPANY’S NEW SERVICE STATION 
: AND GREASING PALACE 


This modern filling station located just off the square in Bloomington was 
opened May 27. The first two days it sold 8,500 gallons of gas, 125 gallons of oil, 


greased 42 cars, and had 57 oil changes. 


Manager Geo, Curtiss, and C. W. Ward, 


sales supervisor for Illinois Farm Supply, believe this to be one of the outstand- 


ing stations in Illinois. 


Plan Cut in Wheat Acreage 
(Continued from page 5) 


of the agricultural economics depart- 
ment at Iowa State College. 

Dr. Black will assist with the formu- 
lation of initial policies for applying 
the Agricultural Adjustment Act to 
corn and hog production and market- 
ing problems. He will collaborate with 
Guy C. Shepard of Evanston, Illinois, 
chief of meat processing, who is in 
charge of trade agreements in the field 
of processing and distribution of pack- 
ing house products. 

Black has made an extensive study 
of corn and hog production in the 
Corn Belt during the past few years. 
He is a graduate of the University of 
Illinois and was born near Peoria. 

General William I. Westervelt of 
Chicago has been appointed Director 
of Processing and Marketing, which 
completes appointments for the two 
main divisions of the Administration 
set-up. Chester C. Davis occupies the 
comparable position as Director of 
Production. 

General Westervelt is a West Point 
graduate and has served in a military 
capacity for more than 25 years, ris- 
ing to the rank of Brigadier General. 
Since 1927 he has served as research 
director for Sears, Roebuck, and Com- 
pany at Chicago. 


Here Is Procedure 


The method of procedure for con- 
ducting hearings on proposed market- 
ing agreements between producers, 
processors and distributors was re- 
cently outlined as follows: 

1. Reading of proposed marketing 

agreement without comment. 

2. Appearance of those who favor 


News of the progress being made 
toward the goal of the Emergency Ag- 
ricultural Act and the restoration of 
the purchasing power of basic farm 
commodities to pre-war levels. was 
scheduled to be broadcast over the 
NBC chain on the National Farm and 
Home Hour program daily and Sun- 
days throughout the last half of June. 

These programs featuring men in 
charge of the Adjustment Adminis- 
tration will come on the air at 11:30 
A. M. central standard time. Among 
the leaders who are to appear in the 
broadcasts are George N. Peek, 
Charles J. Brand, M. L. Wilson, and 
Cully Cobb. 

Technical advisers to the Adminis- 
tration will also be heard. 


the establishment of such a mar- 
keting agreement. 

3. Those who are opposed to the set- 
ting up of such an agreement. 

4. Persons favoring detailed provi- 
sions of the agreement. 

5. Persons opposed to specific pro- 
visions, or urging additions or 
changes. 

6. Supporters of the agreement con- 
cluding with replies to those de- 
siring changes or additions in the 
proposed agreement. 

The Secretary of Agriculture will 
tender the decision for or against the 
proposed agreement within a reason- 
able time. 


ya 


I, A. A. RECORD—July, 1933 


13 


Some Facts About Marketing Wool 


HAT the wool grower wants 
V V most are higher prices for 
wool and lower marketing 


costs. Higher prices can be obtained 
by growers through selling collec- 


‘tively and retaining their bargaining 


ability. Lower costs can be secured 
by growers selling collectively, thus in- 
creasing their vol- 
ume and decreas- 
ing their per unit 
cost whether that 
cost be freight, 
storage or grad- 
ing, and national, 
state or local 
handling charges. 
What’s true of 
wool marketing is 
true in principle 
in the marketing 
of livestock, cot- 
ton, produce or beans. True, volume 
control will not fix prices but it will 
help to determine prices and is very 
instrumental in determining marketing 
costs. 


No matter how much we may blame 
others for the prices of farm products, 
part of the blame for low prices and 
certainly a lot of the blame for the 
high costs of marketing farm products 
rests squarely on the shoulders of 
farmers themselves. During the last 
ten or fifteen years particularly, co- 
operative marketing machinery has 
been set up by the more progressive 
groups of farmers to handle practi- 
cally all kinds of farm commodities. 
When judged fairly it can be truth- 
fully said that they have been highly 
successful. They have demonstrated 
their ability to affect prices, they have 
reduced marketing costs or have in- 
creased the amount of service ren- 
dered. In spite of these facts, there 
are still only a small part of the 
growers who are taking advantage of 
the opportunities open to them. These 
non-cooperators are not only standing 
in their own light but they are pre- 
venting by their indifference or op- 
position, other growers from securing 
the benefits possible through coop- 
erative effort. 


Here’s What Happened 


Take the 1933 wool pool as a spe- 
cific example. Prices opened around 8c 
or 9c a pound. The Illinois Livestock 
Marketing Association started the sea- 
son with a cash advance of 7c. A 
great many growers sold out because 
the price looked higher than it did last 


RAY MILLER 


By Ray E. Miller 


season at shearing time. Others, of 
course, sold because of their urgent 
need for cash. Prices have continued to 
advance but unfortunately a great 
deal of the Illinois clip was sold to 
buyers at prices ranging from 10c to 
15¢c per pound. Others who held off 
longer have received more. The Illinois 
Livestock Marketing Association is ad- 
vancing 16c per pound, twice as much 
as a great many growers received for 
their wool early. 


The situation affords a striking ex- 
ample of what the wool growers of 
Illinois could have saved had they had 
a little more faith in their own ability 
to market their own product. We pro- 
duce in Illinois about 4,000,000 pounds 
of wool. The growers of the state have 
easily sacrificed an average of 10c a 
pound because of the vast number who 
sold early at ridiculously low prices. 

In other words about $400,000 has 
passed from the pockets of the wool 
growers to the pockets of the dealers 
simply because the growers did not 
use the key which reposes in their 
own hands, namely, ownership of their 
own property and the right to market 
it in any way they choose. 


This Is More Serious 


As serious as this is it is not the 
most important part of the picture. 
The $400,000 which Illinois growers 
have sacrificed is but a fraction of the 
net losses resulting from this disposi- 
tion to cash out at the first opportu- 
nity. The buyers who have gotten 
possession of this wool at low prices 
are in @ position to offer it on the 
Boston market at less than its present 
value and still make a handsome profit. 
No matter how efficiently the Na- 
tional Wool Marketing Corporation 
may operate nor how skillfully its 
salesmen may endeavor to mark up 
their prices in accordance with cur- 
rent values for wool these low priced 
wools hang like a pall over the mar- 
ket. 

If the National asked 30c for IIli- 
nois wools there are plenty of wools 
that have been bought by independent 
buyers that can be sold at 28¢ with 
substantial profit to the purchaser. 
Thus, the wool grower himself by at- 
tempting to match his wits against 
the experience and superior market in- 
formation of the buyer has not only 
deprived himself of a legitimate price 
for his product but he has contributed 
to a market condition which prevents 
all growers from getting fair values 


for their product. There is only one 
answer to this situation and that is 
the united effort on the part of the 
growers themselves to develop their 
own marketing machinery. 


Private Buyer vs. Co-op. 


Someone asks “What’s the differ- 
ence between the private buyer and 
the cooperative?” That question can 
be best answered by quoting the re- 
ply of an Illinois wool buyer when 
asked how he determined what to pay 
for wool. He replied, ““Well I read the 
Journal of Commerce and the Boston 
wool market and then I start out to 
buy it as cheap as I can. If some 
competitor forces me to raise my price 
I have to raise it, but I don’t raise it 
unless I have to.” Contrast this with 
the policy of the cooperative. Instead 
of paying the producer of wool, live- 
stock or cotton as little as they can, 
they pay him as much as they can. 
Which system holds the most promise 
for the producer? 

The pooling pfan of marketing has 
certain fundamental weaknesses which 
we shall probably never get away 
from. In the first place most growers 
expect the average seasonal prices to 
be equal to the highest price that is 
paid for the commodity at any time 
during the entire season. This is, of 
course, impossible. If all growers sold 
or attempted to sell at the peak pe- 
riod no peak period would appear at 
that particular time. It is easy to 
look back and see when the peak pe- 
riod was, but it is impossible to look 
forward and determine when the peak 
period will be. 


Grower Usually Easy Prey 


If the individual grower has or feels 
that he has more knowledge of the 
markets than the professional dealer 
in any commodity and if he has no 
interest in the building of a per- 
manent selling agency under producer 
control perhaps he is justified in sell- 
ing as an individual. But if the 
grower is willing to recognize that he 
is at a disadvantage about nine times 
out of ten when he attempts to match 
his information and experience in sell- 
ing with that of the professional 
dealer, and if he does not have any 
interest in building a permanent sell- 
ing organization operated on a policy 
of profits to growers instead of profits 
to purchasers, then he should partici- 
pate in the pooling plan of market- 

(Cont’d next page, Col. 3) 


14 


Hear Watson On Tax, 
Road Bills in | 7th 


Prof. Case, Cherrill and Others 
Speak at Bloomington 
Conference 


HE chief concern of the Illinois 

I Agricultural Association is to 

insure that any new revenue 
legislation proposed at Springfield 
contain features similar to those in 
the previous sales tax bill providing 
for replacement 
of property taxes, 
John C. Watson, 
director of tax- 
ation, told Farm 
Bureau leaders at- 
tending the 17th 
district confer- 
ence at Blooming- 
ton May 27. 

Mr. Watson 
called attention to 
the fact that un- 
constitut ional 
features of the previous sales tax bill 
were placed there originally without 
any effort on the part of the I. A. A. 
He also reported on the progress of 
the bill now being sponsored in the 
legislature which provides for a prop- 
erty tax on income from intangible 
property. As this is written this bill 
has passed the senate and lies in the 
House Committee on Revenue. The 
revenue received from the application 
of this measure will go to all taxing 
bodies that receive the general prop- 
erty taxes, and the regular tax rates 
will apply. 


E. D, LAWRENCE 


Other Legislation 


Mr. Watson also reported on other 
measures including road bills, and ex- 
plained the amendments which protect 
the interests of farmers in future road 
building. He explained that the I. A. 
A. is backing the revenue amendment 
to give the legislature broad powers 
toward developing a new system of 
taxation. 


Prof. H. C. M. Case of the Illinois 
College of Agriculture, discussed the 
farm mortgage situation and the plans 
of county debt conciliation com- 
mittees. He showed that the total 
farm debt tripled during the period 
1910-1928 and now totals about $12,- 
000,000,000. About 40 per cent of the 
farms of the country are mortgaged 
with an average of about $15,000 per 
farm. In Illinois the average mortgage 
indebtedness on farms that are mort- 
gaged is about $7,500, the annual in- 
terest payments on which total about 
$500,000,000. 

S. C. Cherrill of the Illinois Live- 


stock Marketing Association pointed 
out that a large proportion of the live- 
stock grown in the United States is 
processed by comparatively few firms 
and that sales are made on the ter- 
minal markets by a large number of 
commission men. This situation,: he 
said, results in a market where the 
chief advantage rests with the buyers. 
The large processors have an organ- 
ization operating in all the large mar- 
ket centers. Thus they are able to take 
advantage of the situation and buy 
livestock at the lowest possible price. 
In order to compete, farmers also 
must have a large organization to 
give them bargaining power. It should 
be so set up that it will be possible 
to co-ordinate selling operations on 
the various markets and raise low 
spots existing on any day. 

Cherrill discussed the direct mar- 
keting problem and showed how the 
State Marketing Association is at- 
tempting to meet it by the organiza- 
tion of co-operative concentration 
points. 


A. B. Culp told what community in- 
formation committees were doing in 
many counties and called attention to 
the influence of this work on member- 
ship. 

Forrest Fairchild, manager of the 
Farmers Co-operative Creamery stated 
that the local plant had been operat- 
ing at. an annual rate of 1,600,000 
pounds of butter during the last two 
weeks. He said it would be necessary 
to install another vat and also an ad- 
ditional churn, and to operate at least 
20 hours daily to manufacture the 
large quantity of butterfat being re- 
ceived. 

The conference was presided over by 
Director Ernest D. Lawrence. W. F. 
Purnell of Ford county acted as sec- 
retary. After the meeting the group 
inspected the Bloomington concentra- 
tion point operated by the Illinois 
Livestock Marketing Association. 


Settle For $100 More 
Than Original Offer 


A settlement for $175 to cover 
loss of a two-year old colt, injury to 
two other horses, and veterinary fees, 
was secured by the I. A. A. Claims 
Department recently for Albert Char- 
lier of LaSalle county recently. 

The above sum is $100 more than 
the original offer of the railroad com- 
pany to Mr. Charlier. 

Two colts and an older horse broke 
through the defective railroad fence 
along the right-of-way and were hit 
by a passing train. 


I, A. A. RECORD—July, 1933 


Wool Marketing 


(Continued from page 13) 


ing and other cooperative enterprises. 

There will be some seasons in any 
pooling plan of marketing when some 
individuals will get more selling on 
the outside than they would in the 
pool but on the average the man 
who will market his wool through a 
pool whether in Illinois or any of the 
other states where pools are conducted, 
over a period of ten years, will secure 
more dollars through the pool than he 
will selling as an individual. Not only 
that, but constant pooling on the part 
of a majority of the growers would 
raise price levels for everybody and 
reduce marketing expense. 


The 1932 Pool 


In 1932, especially, at shearing time 
prices for wool were very low. This 
condition continued for a period of 
two or three months. In some coun- 
ties wool was sold for as little as 5c 
per pound. In other counties buy- 
ers refused even to bid on the com- 
modity. Last year the _ Illinois 
Livestock Marketing Association 
made a cash advance of Tc per 
pound. Final returns resulted in a net 
to producers of good wool of around 
9c per pound. Most of the 1,300 con- 
signors in last year’s pool were well 
satisfied. There were a few, particu- 
larly those who had fine wool or burry 
wool, who were dissatisfied. There 
were some who could have got more 
money outside of the pool than they 
did in the pool but on the whole the 
1932 Illinois wool pool resulted in 
higher prices to the wool growers of 
Illinois and contributed somewhat to 
supporting price levels in general. 

There have been few seasons in 
which the circumstances were more 
favorable for the cooperative plan of 
marketing wool than they have been 
in 1938. A tendency on the part of the 
growers to withhold their wool this 
season would have actually resulted in 
increasing returns to Illinois farmers 
of approximately a half million dol- 
Jars. We always hear about the cases 
when the cooperative gets less money. 
It would be refreshing to hear from 
some of these same persons who got 
8, 9 and 10c, this year when they 
could have secured much more co- 
operatively. 

There is a valuable lesson to be 
learned from our experience in wool 
marketing in 1933. It merely furnishes 
further evidence of the fact that the 
producer holds the key to his mar- 
keting problem. Acting collectively he 
can answer to his own advantage the 
problems of price and marketing costs. 
Acting individually he never can. 


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I, A. A. RECORD—July, 1933 


Moving Grain By 
Truck And Water 


Farmers Elevators Can Meet the New Situation by Pro- 
viding Patrons With Trucking Service 


NCREASING use of the motor 
| ees and prospective expansion 
of waterway service, in the trans- 
portation of grain, not only has 
aroused considerable discussion in IIli- 
nois and other states bordering the 
Mississippi river, but has led a few 
persons with private axes to grind to 
lay down a barrage of misinformation 
upon country elevator managers. 
The purpose of this tirade obviously 
is to check the development of na- 
tional co-operative grain marketing. 
That this effort has signally failed is 
indicated by the tremendous growth 
during the last year of Illinois Grain 
Corp., and other stockholders in the 
Farmers National Grain Corporation. 
The statement has been made by 
Lawrence Farlow of the [Illinois 
Farmers Grain Dealers Ass’n. that 
the development of truck and water- 
way transportation has been inspired 
by the grain co-operatives with the in- 
tent to destroy the business of farm- 
ers’ elevators. To any one of intelli- 
gence the statement is as false as it is 
ridiculous. For years the use of trucks 
in hauling freight of all kinds, includ- 
ing livestock, has been steadily in- 
creasing. During 1932 trucks hauled 
more than 40 per cent of all receipts 
at seventeen principal livestock mar- 
kets. Similarly, for many years wa- 
terway transportation, lake and river, 
has been used out of leading terminal 
markets such as Chicago and St. 
Louis, with railroads participating. 


Another Charge Nailed 


It has been further stated that be- 
cause of humid atmospheric conditions 
grain shipped south was subject to 
hazards that the country elevator 
manager could not afford to risk. As a 
matter of fact, the atmospheric con- 
ditions have not offered any serious 
obstacles to skillful handlers of grain. 
Of more concern to the country ele- 
vator manager and Illinois grain 
grower, however, is the fact that grain 
purchased by Farmers National Grain 
Corporation has been settled for on 
point of shipment grades, so that re- 
gardless of deterioration in shipment, 
the elevator manager is paid for the 
quality of corn he delivers. 


One of the definite objects of the 
co-operative marketing movement is 
to bring to farmers the benefit of 
every possible saving in the costs of 
getting their products from the farm 
to the market. One of the principal 
items that enters into these costs is 
transportation, for which the farmer 
pays. Farmers National Grain Cor- 
poration moves grain from points 
along the Illinois river to New Orleans 
as cheaply as it could be moved from 
point of origin to Chicago. In export 
years, through a movement of this 
kind, the national co-operative places 
the grain in a position where it has 
only the ocean rate between it and 
the world market, whereas had the 
grain moved to Chicago, it would have 
between it and the world market not 
only the ocean rate but the inland 
cost of transportation from Chicago to 
tidewater. In many instances this adds 
sufficiently to the cost of the opera- 
tion to prevent our entry into the 
world markets. 


The Farmer Benefits 


Delivered prices to any destination 
are calculated on the cost of the grain, 
plus insurance and _ transportation, 
therefore any saving on transportation 
increases the possibility of larger vol- 
umes of business. This is desirable 
from the standpoint of the producer, 
because it enlarges his outlet for grain 
and lessens the chances of burden- 
some surpluses at the terminals. From 
the standpoint of the co-operative, it 
means lower handling costs per unit 
by reason of the increased volume. 
These savings result not only in higher 
price levels at country points, but in 
increased earnings of the co-operative 
and increased dividends to co-operative 
membership. 

Within an actual operating period 
of about three months Farmers Na- 
tional Grain Corporation handled at 
Havana, IIl., more than a half. million 
bushels of corn for destinations on the 
Pacific Coast via the Panama Canal 
and for export. Present water rates 
to the Pacific Coast from central IIli- 
nois points offer distinct savings over 
rail costs to Illinois shippers, in some 
cases 50 per cent or more. Similarly, 


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water rates from interior Illinois 
points to consuming centers in nearby 
states, offer even greater savings 
over rail rates. Coarse grain rates 
from St. Paul to New Orleans by 
barge are lower by more than one- 
half the rail rates between the same 
two points. Numerous other similar 
comparisons could be made. 


Dealt With Elevators 


In its waterway operations Farmers 
National Grain Corporation has dealt 
entirely with country elevators. Every 
bushel of grain shipped via the river 
was bought from a country elevator. 
Thus the benefits of water transporta- 
tion were shared by both producers 
and country elevators. It is the policy 
of the national co-operative to con- 
tinue to market its members’ grain 
as economically as possible. To that 
end it has acquired facilities in Chi- 
cago for the unloading of river barges 
and is planning facilities in connec- 
tion with its terminal elevator at 
Peoria, to make water transportation, 
with its lower costs, available to grain 
producers of central Illinois. 

Railroad rates, although reduced in 
some instances, still are generally the 
same as they were,when grain prices 
were three to five times higher than 
they are now. The result has been the 
steady increase in the use of trucks to 
haul grain from country points to 
terminal markets and to river ports. 
Trucks are hauling grain 100 miles or 
more, in many cases direct to mills, 
with a consequent threat to the ex- 
istence of many country elevators. 


Everybody Is Trucking 


No organization is responsible for 
this changing situation. Private grain 
firms are accepting and handling such 
business. Low prices of grain at the 
farm are forcing growers, who must 
pay the freight, to take advantage of 
the cheapest forms of transportation, 
just as low prices of all commodities 
and decreased earnings in industry are 
forcing increasing use of motor trucks, 
causing tremendous revenue losses to 
the railroads. 

The situation is both competitive 
and evolutionary. Development of 
motor trucking and of waterways is 
changing the transportation map. 
Railroads may adjust their rates and 
meet this competition to some ex- 
tent. However, there are those who 
predict that in time railroad freight 
business will be confined largely to 
long-distance hauling. It is possible 
that these developments may, in the 
course of time, spell the doom of 
many farmer elevators. Farmer own- 
ers of these elevators, however, real- 
ize that they were built to perform a 
service in the marketing of grain, and 


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many of them express the opinion that 
if and when economic necessities force 
the use of other facilities, which ren- 
der equal or better service at lower 
cost, the elevators not able to meet 
changing conditions may pass out of 
the picture, as handlers of grain. 


From the Grain Trade 


On this point H. C. Donovan, well 
known Chicago crop expert, recently 
had this to say: 

“Radical changes continue to 
beset country elevators because of 
truck hauling and such elevators 
that are within one hundred miles 
of a grain terminal market or a 
large mill where roads are in good 
shape, are losing out consider- 
ably in the handling of grain, 
with the prospect that the dis- 
tance of truck hauling may be- 
come still greater, and it seems to 
me large grain concerns may do 
a whole lot better to send so- 
licitors among the farmers to en- 
courage, trucking and even going 
so far as to run a fleet of trucks 
themselves, rather than to oper- 
ate small. elevators along the 
railroads ‘as they ‘have done in the 
past or are still, doing. 

“Many of those small elevators 
are now dying out, but the towns 
that they are in are also dying 
because the stores are closing 
down and there is little left out- 
side of the post offices and gas 
stations. This being so, those who 
may own a string of such ele- 
vators and can not rid themselves 
of them had better develop other 
resources in which they can put 
them to use, by not only dealing 
in farm implements, coal and lum- 
ber, but also in many of the staple 
articles the farmers purchase— 
such as auto tires, sugar, coffee, 
heavy hardware and many other 
of the non-perishable commodities 
which, if bought direct from the 
manufacturers on standing orders, 
could be sold at a profit to the 
farmers at a cheaper price than 
they would have to pay in their 
nearby big town. All of which 
means—make such elevators more 
of a selling station than a buying 
one.” 


Do It Now! 


Similarly, a bulletin issued by 
Lowell, Heit & Co., discussing the 
truck development from the stand- 
point of the country grain dealer, 
says: 

“Tf there was any grain in this 
territory that was going to be 
trucked he should have had what- 

ever little profit there was in it. 
Right now he. should lock up his 


elevator—leave only the office 
open where the telephone is. lo- 
cated—get in touch with every 
farmer who is going to sell or 
ship grain of any kind, and ar- 
range if necessary to forward it 


by truck. He doesn’t have to in-_ 


vest in trucks. There are plenty 
of them waiting to haul grain. 
But do the business and don’t per- 
mit the outside, irresponsible and 
incompetent grain bootlegger with 
no money invested to handle the 
grain business of the community. 

“If the railroads do not care 
for the business of the country 
grain dealer, then some other 
method of transportation must be 
provided if necessary in this 
emergency. No matter to. what 
terminal nor to whom grain must 
go—protect your business and ar- 
range to do all the trucking of 
grain from farm to terminal that 
is going to be done. And do it 
now!” 


Winnebago Co. Issues 
Credit Slips to Members 


Our service company is_ issuing 
credit slips covering patronage divi- 
dends to Farm Bureau members ad- 
vises Charles H. Keltner of Winnebago 
county. “These credit slips may be 
exchanged for merchandise, applied to 
the payment of Farm Bureau dues, or 
cashed at the Farm Bureau office if 
dues are paid,” said Mr. Keltner. “We 
do not issue credit slips to any mem- 
ber whose dues are in arrears, al- 
though they are made out to the mem- 
ber who may endorse them in the of- 
fice to be applied on his dues.” 


NOTICE 

ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 
: ASSOCIATION 

ELECTION OF DELEGATES 


Notice is hereby given that in 
connection with the annual meet- 
ings of all county Farm Bureaus 
to be held during the months of 
July, August and September, 1933, 
at therhour and place to be deter- 
mined by the Board of Directors 
of ‘each respective county Farm 
Bureau,. the members in good 


standing of such county Farm 
Bureau and who are also quali- 
fied voting members of Illinois 
Agricultural 


Association ‘shall 
elect a delegate or delegates to 
represent such members of Illinois 
Agricultural Association and vote 
on all matters before the next an- 
nual meeting or any _— special 
meeting of the Association, in- 
cluding the election of officers 
and directors as provided for in 
the by-laws of the Association. 

No annual meetings will be 
held during July and August. 

During September annual meet- 
ings will be held in Christian and 
Jefferson counties. 


Signed, 


G. E. Metzger, Secretary 
June 20, 1933 


I, A. A. RECORD—July, 1933 


From a Washington Farmer 


Reduction of the interest rate on 
Federal Land Bank mortgages has 
created joy in at least one farm house- 
hold in the Pacific Northwest, a let- 
ter received by the Federal Land Bank 
of Spokane indicates. This immigrant 
farmer in the State of Washington 


_ finds other signs of cheer in the situa- 


tion, as his letter shows. It was made - 
public without change in the eccentric- 
ities of his writing, as follows: 

“May 17—1933 Federal Land Spokane 

Wash 

Gentlemen: Im _ pleased to advise 
you that I have received your notice 
of Lower Interest on our mortgage as 
you will see in your record I stand in 
a No. 1 in my payments interest and 
Principal prompt paid Insurance and 
taxes prompt paid no default. Bot 
after 3 years of Darknes I can see a 
little sonnshein I can buy me par of 
shoe and my wife a dress and me a 
Schirt I have workt hard and I an 
mey wife still will ceep on working 
to pay our honest dept with honest 
mony. I came to this Country in 1909. 
I had nothing. I Have now Niecé Farm 
not big 40 acre we have 16 Beutiful 
cows jersey we hav big flok chikens. 
We heve a No 1 beautiful team we do 
not owe on cent except the Federal 
reserve Bang. Im the happiest mon 
on erth I get up 5 A M morning sing 
a song and go to work. Work is pleas- 
ur for me since our President has 
given us a glass of Beer I can sing 
better (God Bless Him) I never askt 
Onkle Sam for help if he give a lift, 
thanks. Well gentlemen the trubl is 
with majority of our American Peo- 
ple they heve a Perdieis of 4 Contry 
and they do not know it. I remain re- 
spekful yours.” 


Fence Was Repaired 


The Tazewell County Farm Bureau 
wrote the I. A. A. some time ago that 
B. F. Schmallenberger, a member, was 
unable to pasture some of his land 
along the Pennsylvania Railroad due 
to the fact that the railroad fence 
would not turn steck. It was in very 
bad condition. 

The I. A. A. referred the matter to 
the proper officials of the company 
with the result that the fence was 
quickly repaired. 

Mr. Schmallenberger wrote as fol- 
lows: “Replying to your recent letter 
will state that the fence along the 
Penn. Railroad has been repaired, and 
I wish to thank the I. A. A. for bring- 
ing this matter to a finish, which has 
been hanging fire about two and one- 
half years.” 

This service is free to Farm Bu- 
reau members, 


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I. A. A. RECORD—July, 1933 


- What Of The New 


~ Credit Legislation 


The Intent and Purpose of the Act is to Bring Relief to 
Worthy Debtors in Need 


ters of the Illinois Agricultural 

Association it is evident that 
some local farm loan associations are 
still operating under rules and regula- 
tions developed by the federal land 
banks over a long period of years. 

Complaints from members indicate 
that the intent and purpose of the 
Emergency Farm Mortgage _ Act, 
namely to bring relief to farm debtors, 
is being disregarded in some counties 
... that the practices of some county 
farm loan association officials com- 
pare with those of hard boiled bankers 
and loan agents. 

For example, a member in a western 
Illinois county applied for a $5,000 
first mortgage loan on a 78 acre farm 
which cost $12,000 unimproved back 
in 1920. Since then the land has been 
improved, the owner advises, the mort- 
gage on the land has been whittled 
down to $7,000 and the holders of the 
mortgage are willing to take $5,000, 
throw off $1,000 and take a second 
or third mortgage for the other 
$1,000. 

In addition to the income from the 
farm, the family has an outside in- 
come of $800 per year. 


Turned Down 


We are informed that the local loan 
association secretary came and looked 
over the farm, made his report to the 
board, and the board turned down the 
loan with the advice that no loans 
were being made on rolling land. 

While we have no first hand knowl- 
edge of the merits of this case, we do 
know that there is nothing in the 
Emergency Farm Mortgage Act which 
forbids making loans on rolling land. 
Nor is there anything in the act 
authorizing similar regulations which 
are reported to have become a part of 
the system. 

Going back to the case mentioned 
above, our member writes that the 
representative of the farm loan as- 
sociation who called to inspect the 
farm remarked that the Emergency 
Credit act “was just so much bally- 
hoo.” Yet, we are informed, this same 
association made a loan to the owner 
of a choice 160 acre farm free of all 


Fi: letters reaching headquar- 


indebtedness who took over a farm to 
help out a bank. “Now it is up to me 
to go to the mortgage holders and 
admit that farm relief is all political 
propaganda and will give no assist- 
ance where actually needed,” writes 
this indignant member. “I am writing 
this hoping that this policy will be 
given an airing and that someone be- 
sides the owners of 160 acre farms 
clear of debt will sometime be given 
assistance.” 

This case reveals that it’s one thing 
to have a law, and another thing to 
get proper and sympathetic adminis- 
tration in carrying out the purpose of 
the law. 

Judging from reported statements 
of the new governor of the Farm 
Credit Administration, Henry Mor- 
genthau, Jr., he proposes to make the 
new emergency credit act really bring 
relief to needy farmers. Numerous 
statements coming from his office 
cite cases showing how mortgage 
debts are being scaled down and re- 
financed through loans made by farm 
loan commissioners and land banks. 

The fact that the new credit ad- 
ministration hardly has had an op- 
portunity to work out its policies in 
administering the new act should be 
taken into consideration. Supplemen- 
tary legislation necessary to make the 
credit act a real relief measure was 
passed only shortly before congress 
adjourned. 


Must Be Patient 


Those in charge of administering 
the federal credit legislation both at 
Washington and in the Federal Land 
Bank at St. Louis apparently are 
sincere in wanting to bring the maxi- 
mum relief to worthy farm debtors 
within the limits of the authority 
granted them. If certain subordinates 
and local administrators make rules 
of their own which are clearly not in 
sympathy with the intent of congress 
and the administration, such a situa- 
tion can and undoubtedly will be 
handled. For the present, patience 
must be shown both by. creditors and 
debtors. 

On the other hand, no reasonable 
debtor should expect to secure a fed- 


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eral land bank loan for more than 50 
per cent of the normal value of the 
land plus 20% of the improvements. 
This is the law. If the land was 
bought in the speculative era at a 
long price, and the mortgagor is hope- 
lessly in debt, it is too much to ex- 
pect Uncle Sam to step in and take 
over a mortgage which the owner 
would have little chance of paying off 
even in normal times. Bankruptcy and 
a new start may be the preferable 
course if creditors are unwilling to 
co-operate in scaling down the debt to 
allow for re-financing. 

Cases like the one mentioned here 
should be brought before county con- 
ciliation committees, or a conciliation 
commissioner authorized under the 
amendment to the federal bankruptcy 
act passed in the regular session of 
congress last winter. Bankruptcy 
courts are authorized to appoint one 
or more such commissioners on appeal 
by 15 or more farmers who certify 
that they intend to appeal for an ex- 
tension of their loans. 


Two Kinds of Loans 

Both in the May and June issues of 
the RECORD, provisions in the new 
emergency credit act for refinancing 
farm mortgages were made clear. Gov- 
ernment loans, it should be remem- 
bered, are divided into two classes as 
follows: 

1. Federal land bank loans which 
are limited to 50% of the NORMAL 
value of the land plus 20% of the 
NORMAL value of improvements. 

2. So-called “farm loan commission- 
er” loans limited to $5,000 which may 
equal but not exceed 75% of the NOR- 
MAL value of the land or other farm 
property offered as collateral. The 
75% rule applies to the total of all 
loans on the property offered. 

Federal land bank loans bear 4% % 
interest and principal payments are 
waived for a period of five years. 
“Commissioner” loans bear 5% inter- 
est and most of them are being made 
for a period of 13 years with the 
principal installments waived the first 
three years. 

Governor Morgenthau of the Credit 
Administration is giving close super- 
vision to the “commissioner” loans 
through his personal agents stationed 
in the 12 federal land banks. Loans 
requested during the three weeks fol- 
lowing the passage of the act totalled 
$9,000,000 and in the week ending 
June 2 nearly 2,400 requests came in 
for over 6% million dollars. St. Louis 
and St. Paul districts reported the 
heaviest volume. 


Uncle Ab says he does not know 
whether happy folks are lucky, or 
lucky folks are happy; but that happi- 
ness and luck go together. 


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Lower Farm Light And 
Power Rate Now Effective 


Minimum Charge Cut to $6, 
Applies in 61 Illinois Counties 


A 83% per cent reduction in the 
minimum charge for farm electric 
light and power service affecting rural 
users in 61 central and southern IIli- 
nois counties was secured recently fol- 
lowing an appeal for lower rates to 
the Central Illinois Public Service Co. 
and the Illinois Commerce Commission 
by the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion. 

The new rate reduction effective 
June 15 will save farmers in the terri- 
tory served, an estimated $18,000 an- 
nually. The order of the Commission 
which makes the reduction mandatory, 
also provides that at the end of two 
years the minimum charge to farm 
users shall be reduced an additional 
one-third which will bring the mini- 
mum charge down to $3 per month 
from the present $9. 

L. J. Quasey, director of transporta- 
tion for the Illinois Agricultural As- 
sociation, represented the interests of 
rural subscribers before the Commis- 
sion in the various hearings. 

To illustrate the effect of the new 
rate schedules, Mr. Quasey cites the 
following examples: 

1. A home with a rating of five 
rooms with no electric motors, one 
horse power or more, the charges 
would be 9c for the 15 k. w. h., or 
$1.35; 8c for the next 20, or $1.60; 
5c for the next 25, or $1.25, making a 
total of $4.20 for the 60 k. w. h. All 
energy over 60 k. w. h. would be 
charged for at 3c. Since this is $1.80 
less than the $6.00 minimum, a cus- 
tomer would be entitled to use 60 more 
k. w. h.s at 3c per k. w. h., or a total 
of 120 k. w. hs for $6.00. 

2. A customer with a 5 room rating 
and a one horse power motor would 
pay 9c for 21 k. w. h., or $1.89; 8c for 
26 k. w. h., or $2.08; 5c for 31 k. w. h., 
or $1.55, or a total of $5.52 for 78 
k. w. h. Since this is 48¢ less than 
the $6.00 minimum, the customer 
would be entitled to 16 additional k. 
w. h. at 3c, or a total of 94 k. w. h. 
for $6.00. 

3. A customer with the same room 
rating but with a three horse power 
motor, or an aggregate of three one- 
horse power motors, would get ap- 
proximately 71 k. w. h. for $6.00 per 
month. 

4. A customer with a five horse 
power motor, or an aggregate of sev- 
eral motors, one horse power or over, 
would get approximately 79 k. w. h. 
for $6.00. 

Commenting on the rate reduction 


Harry L. Diehl, Ford county Farm 
Bureau member, wrote recently as fol- 
lows: 

“Accept my commendation on the 
fine work so far done by your depart- 
ment in securing reduced rates for 
electricity for farmers. 

“How much of a showing would be 
necessary to secure a reduction of 
telephone rates? We pay $1.75 per 
month for a farm ’phone. 

“Is there any chance for a lower 
rate on the price of construction of 
farm lines for electric light and 
power? The local company, C. I. P. 
S., quotes $1,300 per mile with an 
allowance of $400 for each user who 
guarantees to pay $9 per month for 
electricity.” 


Getting That Extra Cent 
For Grain Short-sighted 


Disappointment awaits the stock- 
holders of a farmers’ cooperative ele- 
vator who expects to sell where he 
can get an extra cent. How would he, 
as an individual, get the extra cent 
were it not for the competition of his 
own cooperative? The stockholder who 
uses his cooperative as a pry-pole, in 
order to get an extra cent from a 
competitor, or who uses it as just. an- 
other place to shop, cannot expect pat- 
ronage dividends. He cannot expect 
his elevator to continue as a fair-price 
insurance factor if his neighbors fol- 
low his example. He cannot expect his 
elevator to meet every trick bid put 
up against it and, at the same time, 
return big refunds at the close of the 
season. He cannot expect his elevator 
to pay out its capital stock as an 
added price on grain and still pay the 
usual dividend. There are many things 
a grower cannot do to his own co- 
operative and still be satisfied with 
results. His cooperative elevator as- 
sociation is, in fact, much like a bank. 
A man seldom expects to get some- 
thing out of a bank unless he has put 
something in. 


As Others See Us 


The important matter with 
the farmers is this, writes 
Arthur Brisbane in the Chi- 

‘cago Herald & Examiner: 
. “They. work in isolation, never 
build up any real nation-wide 


organization and are always 
at the mercy of middlemen 
and conditions. 

“They could make their own 
terms, since the nation can- 
not live without them, but, 
apparently, they do not know 
it.” 


I. A. A. RECORD—July, 1933 


The Livestock Market 
Outlook By Conway 


The situation now calls for a 
prompt marketing of low grade fed 
steers and butcher cattle and also the 
better grades that are finished says 
H. M. Conway, market analyst for 
the National Livestock Marketing 
Ass’n. He says the situation is fa- 
vorable for further feeding of half- 
fat high quality steers. “The cattle 
feeder often makes his money on 
what seems to be high priced corn.” 

A better market for grass cattle al- 
so is expected in the fall. Conway 
states that while quality and finish 
are what count during the summer and 
fall, many well-bred heavy grass 
steers could be given a turn in the 
feed lot after the grazing season. 

He continues to advise heading the 
lighter weight hogs for the August 
and September markets. “Many hogs 
can safely mark time on cheap pas- 
ture followed by a short turn in the 
feed lot. In some areas he predicts 
that many: hogs will be sold prema- 
turely which means rather short sup- 
plies for next year. If the normal do- 
mestic demand outlet prevailed, this 
country, he says, would be short on 
hogs. 

Feeder lamb prices are headed for a 
rather strong early market and the 
situation calls for some caution in re- 
gard to early feeding. Receipts are 
exceptionally short at many markets, 
and this year the westerns are in 
stronger hands. 


l. A. A. Opposes Move 
to Raise Cattle Rates 


The Illinois Agricultural Association 
in co-operation with the National 
Livestock Marketing Association re- 
cently filed a brief in opposition to 
efforts of the railroads to place stocker 
and feeder cattle on the same rate 
basis as finished cattle. Under present 
regulations the stocker and feeder rate 
is approximately 85 per cent of the 
fat stock rate. 


The Illinois Livestock Marketing 
Association had its largest month dur- 
ing May when the nine units handled 
273 decks of livestock. A total of 189 
decks, all hogs, were shipped direct 
to packers in the East, and the bal- 
ance went to the terminal markets 
with the exception of the small per- 
centage sold to local buyers. 


The Illinois Farm Bureau Serum 
Association reports that volume of 
sales this year by member counties is 
running nearly ten per cent ahead of 
last year for the same period. 


I. A. A. RECORD—July, 1933 


Milnor Tells Illinois 
Grain Board About 
The Farmers National 


We Are Thriving and Growing 
Constantly, He Says, That’s 
Why the Trade is 
Fighting Us 


BRIEF report on recent prog- 
A ress of the Farmers National 

Grain Gorporation was made 
by General Manager George S. Milnor 
before the Illinois Grain Corporation 
board in Chicago June 12. 


Mr. Milnor made clear the position 
of the Farmers National on its loans 
from the Farm Board and answered 
what he branded as false charges and 
propaganda circulated by the grain 
trade. 


“It is true that the Farmers Na- 
tional refunded its $16,000,000 loan 
from the Farm Board about a year 
ago to provide for payment over 
a ten-year period,” said Mr. Milnor. 
“This fact was given plenty of pub- 
licity at the time. More recently the 
grain trade and the newspapers that 
speak for them have tried to make 
it appear that there was something 
irregular about this procedure. The 
Farmers National secured this loan 
at a low rate of interest. But under 
the Marketing Act it was definitely 
provided that co-operatives should pay 
the same interest rate as the Federal 
government paid on its lowest inter- 
est bearing securities.. Under the law 
Farmers National could pay no more. 


They Were Disappointed 


“The grain trade is now boasting 
about its propaganda having elimi- 
nated the Federal Farm Board and 
the Grain Stabilization Corporation. 
Apparently they expected the Farmers 
National to be eliminated along with 
them and were chagrined when your 
organization kept right on doing 
business.” 


Mr. Milnor stated that the national 
co-operative will handle approximately 
one-sixth of all the wheat raised in 
the United States this year. “This 
hurts the grain trade,” said Milnor. 
“Much of this business formerly went 
to private commission men. Now the 
farmers are doing it themselves 
through their own agency. The Farm- 
ers National is making money. It has 
always made money, but this money 
belongs to the producers and is re- 
flected in their growing investments, 
facilities, and in dividends to the 
stockholder co-operatives. 


ALADDIN GAS STATION AT ROCK ISLAND 


Leslie Smith, member of the Rock Island County Farm Bureau, has installed 
this filling station adjoining his apple house at 41st street and 6th avenue, Rock 
Island, where he dispenses service petroleum products to the public. 


Gas and oil are obtained through the Henry-Stark Service Company. 


Smith 


has been active in both the Henry and Rock Island County Farm Bureaus since 


he returned from the army in 1920. 


0 ee — 


“So far as our loans are concerned,” 
said Milnor, “the Farmers National 
will have liquidated its borrowings 
from the Farm Board, in my judg- 
ment, many years before the govern- 
ment gets back all the money it loaned 
to railroads and banks. The fact that 
125 farmers’ elevators in Iowa joined 
the Farmers National in the past year 
was another blow to the trade.” 


Illinois Grain Leads 


Milnor stated that the Illinois Grain 
Corporation had shawn the largest 
growth in volume of grain handled of 
any stockholder member during 1932. 
He indicated that this is the reason 
why propaganda against [ linois Grain 
and Farmers National is being con- 
centrated in this state. The Farmers 
National, he said, had met all its obli- 
gations to the Farm Board on the day 
due. Also that the co-operative was 
borrowing large sums from private 
banks in New York, Chicago, St. Louis 
and other cities. “We are the largest 
grain handling concern in the United 
States,” he said. “And we need large 
sums of money for working capital. 
The Farmers National today has 
about 20,000,000 bushels of grain.” 


In spite of the outlook for a small 
winter wheat crop Milnor expressed 
the belief that application of the do- 
mestic allotment plan embodied in the 
Emergency Farm Act would have to 
be made to avoid piling up another 


surplus next year. The carry-over this 
year, he said, is approximately 360,- 
000,000 bushels, and production for 
1933 is estimated about the same. “If 
we don’t export any more wheat than 
last year (38,000,000 bushels) and 
consume a normal amount at home, 
we will still have an estimated carry- 
over of 260,000,000 bushels of wheat 
a year from now in spite of the light 
1933 crop. — 


Furnishing Competition 


“We at the Farmers National don’t 
claim to be able to bid the highest 
price for grain all the time,” said Mil- 
nor. “We can and are meeting compe- 
tition most of the time,” he said. 
“Moreover the competition furnished 
by the Farmers National in buying 
grain all over the country has nar- 
rowed the spread between the local 
elevator and terminal and future 
prices. You have seen the result of 
this in Illinois,” he continued. “It has 
been more noticeable in the southwest 
where the private trade used to take 
a margin of eight to 12 cents per 
bushel on wheat in Oklahoma where 
at present the margin is only three 
to four cents per bushel. The Farm- 
ers National has been responsible for 
elevating the price of grain in this 
country compared with the world 
market, A study of prices during the 
past five years will convince anyone 
of this fact.” 


tect itself. A famous philosopher once said that “every 
time a law is passed the national income is redivided.” 


Agriculture i is in the minority. Farmers are outnumbered 
more than two to one by the combined forces of business, 
labor, arfakindustry ... all the more reason why Agriculture 
Must Present a Solid Front. 


The farmers of Illinois through the I. A. A. occupy a 
position of leadership as a state ORGANIZATION. They 
have demonstrated through many accomplishments the 
possibilities for self-help through united effort. 


Organized farmers are responsible for the passage of the 
Emergency Farm Act which was followed immediately by 


rising farm prices. This victory from which the entire coun- 
try has profited is an everlasting tribute to the value of 
ORGANIZATION. 


With the law enacted, we now have the responsibility of 
co-operating with the administration to make it effective 

. to establish parity prices for farm commodities. There 
is work ahead. The Illinois Agricultural Association is 
ready to doits part. But its effectiveness can be greatly in- 
creased with a larger membership. 


Mi constant clash of group interests in our national 
life demands that AGRICULTURE be prepared to pro- 


I. A. A. SERVICES 


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Number 8 


AUGUST, 1933 


The 58th 
General Assembly 


With Special Emphasis On What Happened To Legisla- 
tion of Chief Importance To Farmers 


propriations, relief to property 

taxpayers, the halting of indis- 
criminate foreclosures on farms and 
homes, and revision of the road laws 
of the state were the chief interests 
of the Illinois Agricultural Association 
in the 58th General Assembly. 

The make-up of the legislature this 
year was considerably different from 
that of former years. There were 
many new faces—a large number serv- 
ing for the first time. Problems grow- 
ing out of the unemployment situation 
and inability to collect taxes in Chi- 
cago and Cook county occupied the 
center of attention during the fore 
part of the session. 

It soon became apparent that Chi- 
cago and Cook county leaders were un- 
duly influencing legislation. 


R oversee reform, reduced ap- 


Revenue Amendment 


The I. A. A. early expressed its in- 
terest in securing ‘a _ constructive 
amendment to the revenue article of 
the constitution. It recognized this as 
of first importance. On several occa- 
sions members of the I. A. A. legisla- 
tive committee suggested to the Gov- 
ernor their willingness and desire to 
be helpful in securing the passage of 
constructive revenue legislation and 
particularly an amendment to the con- 
stitution giving the legislature power 
to revise our unfair and ancient tax- 
ing system. 

With the General Assembly fast 
approaching its close and no move 
made by administration leaders to sub- 
mit an amendment, the I. A. A. ap- 


peared before the Senate Executive 
Committee on May 6 and supported a 
revenue amendment which had been 
introduced by Sen. Carlson of Moline 
after the latter had agreed to certain 
changes desired by the I. A. A. 


This amendment, known as Senate 
Joint Resolution 18, in effect would 
have given the legislature power by 
majority vote to enact revenue laws 
based upon ability to pay. This meas- 
ure received a favorable vote of 6 to 
3, but was never reported to the sen- 
ate by the chairman of the Committee, 
Senator Graham of Chicago. Chicago 
influence and the fear of an income 
tax apparently were responsible for 
this attempt to defeat it. Therefore 
a few weeks later, at the suggestion 
of the I. A. A., a motion was made 
to take the revenue amendment reso- 
lution, S. J. R. 18, from the Senate 
Committee and place it on the cal- 
endar. This motion was lost by a vote 
of 21 to 20, failing by 5 votes to re- 
ceive the necessary 26 for passage. 
The vote was as follows: 


The NAYS Against Us 


YEAS (for S. J. R. 18 supported by 
the I. A. A.)—Baker, Barr, Benson, 
Burgess, Carlson, Clifford, Ewing, 
Finn, Gunning, Kline, Lantz, Lee, 
Mason, Mayor, Mundy, Paddock, Pen- 
ick, Searcy, Serritella, Sieberns, and 
Thompson. 

NAYS—Barbour, Broderick, Gill- 
meister, Graham, Hickman, Huckin, 
Huebsch, Karraker, Loughran, Loh- 
mann, Maypole, McDermott, Monroe, 


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O’Connell, O’Grady, Roberts, Shaw, 
Stuttle, Ward and Williams. 

Senators who voted against this 
motion in effect voted against the in- 
terests not only of farm people but of 
all property taxpayers. 

The I. A. A. continued discussing 
with members of both houses of the 
General Assembly the need for a 
revenue amendment. Up to the final 
week of the session the administration 
had failed to offer one. In the mean- 
time a sub-committee of the Judiciary 
Committee in the House brought out a 
proposed revenue amendment known 
as House Joint Resolution 65. This 
amendment when brought to the floor 
of the House won widespread support 
because it placed a limit of one per 
cent tax on the fair cash value of 
tangible property, exempted from tax- 
ation homesteads up to $1,000 in value 
when occupied by the owner, and gave 
the legislature power by majority vote 
to pass new revenue laws without 
present constitutional restrictions. 

This resolution passed the House by 
the overwhelming non-partisan vote of 
129 to 5. 

Recognizing the importance of 
amending the revenue article of the 
constitution, the I. A. A. succeeded in 
getting certain amendments into H. J. 
R. 65 that justified the united support 
of the taxpayers’ organizations repre- 
sented at Springfield, including the 
Illinois Association of Real Estate 
Boards, the State Grange and the IIli- 
nois Agricultural Association. 

On Thursday morning, June 29, the 
resolution carrying the I. A. A. amend- 
ments was placed on special order for 
a vote at two o’clock that afternoon 
at the request of the senate majority 
floor leader. This amendment carry- 


ing provisions desired by the I. A. A. 
was as follows: 


HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 65 
(As Amended in Senate) 


Resolved, by the House of Repre- 
sentatives of the Fifty-eighth Gen- 
eral.Assembly of the State of IIli- 
nois, the Senate concurring there- 
in, There shall be submitted to the 
electors of this State for adoption 
or rejection at the next election of 
members of the General Assembly 
of the State of Illinois, in the man- 
ner provided by law, a proposition 
to amend Article IX of the Consti- 
tution by repealing sections 2 and 3 
thereof, and by amending sections 1 
and 10 to read as follows: 

Section 1. The General Assembly 
shall have power to provide revenue 
by general law. Except for the pay- 
ment of indebtedness existing at the 
adoption of this amendment and of 
indebtedness thereafter incurred by 
authority of the vote of the People 
of the State or municipal corpora- 
tion incurring the indebtedness, the 
aggregate of general property taxes 
for all purposes on any tangible 
property shall not exceed one per 
centum of its fair cash value. 

The property of the State, coun- 
ties and other municipal corpora- 
tions, estates of homesteads to the 
extent in value of $1,000 when oc- 
cupied by the owner as a residence 
and such other property not used 
with a view to profit and used ex- 
clusively for agricultural and horti- 
cultural societies, for schools, re- 
ligious, cemetery and charitable pur- 
poses shall be exempt from taxation. 
In the assessment of real estate en- 
cumbered by public easement any 
depreciation occasioned by such 
easement may be deducted in the 
valuation of such property. The pro- 
visions of this section as herein 
amended shall not affect the collec- 
tion of any taxes levied before Jan- 
uary 1, 1935, nor any assessment of 
property for the purposes of such 
taxes. 

Sec. 10. The General Assembly 
shall not impose taxes upon mu- 
nicipal corporations, or the inhabit- 
ants or property thereof, for cor- 
porate purposes, but shall require 
that all the taxable property within 
the limits of municipal corporations 
shall be taxed for the payment of 
debts contracted under authority of 
law, such taxes to be uniform in re- 
spect to persons and property, with- 
in the jurisdiction of the body im- 
posing the same. But the General 
Assembly by vote of two-thirds of 
the members elected to each House 
may by general law provide for the 


distribution in whole or in part of 
taxes collected by the State, among 
the counties and other municipal 
corporations of the State. Private 
property shall not be liable to be 
taken or sold for the payment of 
the corporate debts of a municipal 
corporation. 


‘Chicago Ran the Show 


Immediately after lunch, the day 
the revenue amendment supported by 
the I. A. A. was moved up to final 
passage stage, the administration, 
supported by Patrick Nash, Demo- 
cratic national committeeman from 
Chicago, and other party leaders, 
called a caucus of Senate Democrats 
and as a result a new and very ob- 
jectionable revenue amendment, S. J. 
R. 35, was presented by Senator Ward, 
administration leader of Chicago, 
when the Senate convened that after- 
noon, 

Sen. Ward asked that the rules be 
suspended and that an immediate vote 
be had on his amendment. One senator 
after another arose and protested 
against such irregular action. They 
asked for delay until the Ward amend- 
ment could be printed so they might 
study it. This proved of no avail. Sen. 
Ward insisted on an immediate roll 
call and won his point to suspend the 
rules. Then Sen. Searcy of Springfield 
moved to substitute H. J. R. 65, the 
revenue amendment which had I. A. A. 
support and the support of other tax- 
payers’ organizations, for the Ward 
proposal, which not only offered no 
relief to property but required a two- 
thirds vote of both Houses to enact 
any revenue legislation not subject to 
the narrow limitations of the present 
constitution. 

A test vote came on Sen. Ward’s 
motion to lay Searcy’s motion on the 
table, which in effect was a motion 
to kill the revenue amendment sup- 
ported by the I. A. A. The vote on 
Sen. Ward’s motion will be found in 
the table on Page 5. 

Those downstate members who voted 
to table H. J. R. 65 showed a marked 
lack of independence and disregard of 
needed relief for the overburdened 
farm and home owners in their dis- 
tricts. 


Same Story in House 


When this motion was disposed of 
the objectionable Ward revenue 
amendment, S. J. R. 35, was adopted 
and sent to the House. 

The same tactics were used in an 
effort to force the House to accept 
the objectionable Ward revenue pro- 
posal. Again a Democratic caucus was 
called. As in the senate, the test vote 
came on a motion to kill H. J. R. 65 
which was offered by Rep. Bederman 


I. A. A. Record—August, 1933 


as a substitute for the Ward amend- 
ment, S. J. R. 35. The motion to kill 
H. J. R. 65 carrying I. A. A. support 
won by a vote of 75 to 60, This vote 
will be found in the table on page 5. 

When the Ward amendment came 
up for vote it failed to receive the 
two-thirds majority necessary for ap- 
proval, and so the session ended with 
nothing accomplished toward needed 
revenue reform. 


| The First Sales Tax Bill | 


In line with resolutions approved at 
the last annual meeting of the I. A. 
A., the Association took a firm stand 
when the first state sales tax was pro- 
posed to the effect that the proceeds 
therefrom be distributed equitably 
among the counties, and that the rev- 
enue be used to reduce and replace 
property taxes. 


The I. A. A. succeeded in amending 
the original administration sales tax 
in several particulars so as to provide 
that: 


1. The revenue from the tax 
be divided among the counties 
according to population. 


2. The revenue be used by the 
counties to reduce and replace 
property taxes for educational 
purposes unless by a two-thirds 
vote of the county board it was 
decided to divert such revenue or 
part thereof to unemployment re- 
lief. 

Administration sponsors of the bill 
also included a clause to exempt 
farmers who retail their own prod- 
ucts, and retail distributors of motor 
fuel from the tax. 

After being in force only a few 
weeks this Act was declared uncon- 
stitutional by the Illinois Supreme 
Court. 

When this act was declared uncon- 
stitutional, the Association proposed 
that the tax base be broadened by the 
adoption of an occupational tax meas- 
ure levying a 1%% tax on the income 
of persons engaged in some 350 occu- 
pations, in excess of $300 per quarter. 
This bill provided that the revenue 
therefrom be used to abate the state 
levy for general revenue purposes. In 
the face of administration opposition, 
this measure failed to move in the 
Senate. 


| The Lantz Bills | 


The I. A. A. further advocated that 
legislation be enacted giving com- 
mission-governed counties, and cities 
within such counties, full: power to 
levy taxes for poor relief in line with 

(Continued on page 7) 


I. A. A. Record-—August, 1933 


How Your Senators and Representatives Voted on Legislation Affecting Farm Interests 
(The I. A. A. strongly supported all these measures) 


Districts & Counties 


7th District (Rural section of Cook and parts 


of Chicago) 
Sen. Huebsch ...............--2--22:c-ecceecceeeeeeeees 
TRIN ON oo icsccaccascsvcscaisnpasessesceccent Shedcs 
TROD, Pr MUIE onion cops d nS cevtesecel eat 
Rep. McGrath. ....0..........::::tcceceeeeeeeeceeeees 


8th Dist. (Boone, Lake and McHenry) 
Sen. Paddoclhe 22.05.2225... 2.5 ..55...csscsecceeeeeess 
PRM pin cnnctackns acaheins'nic4i pov ccessuesndsnieny 
Rep. Wm. M. Carroll .............2...20.:.-..--+-- 
TRO, TOONOE oa soacicc ccc pasencntisscseveckccdaccenesicon’s 


10th Dist. (Winnebago and Ogle) 
SOU RGR oo csc lech cccckessccdoseeesdsecnsseegacetvens 
SRL «SARA SHESD en ne A re Sa 
WOMIE ERIE: i cchiscscs cen sss .nncsenscsntusedecuganceess 
Rep. F. B. Wilson. ...............-:--:-:e-secee0e+ 


12th Dist. (Carroll, JoDaviess and Stephenson) 
SOR OOO soca snes ccguacscoovhapegdiscedaveioces 
Rep. Acker ...... Se ere Gaeta eeumictnarartecases 
Rep. Bingham .......0.......2.....c.s-cccccssseseeeseee 
Rep. C. Dz Franz, ......2.:......:..--200..iceeeZeceees 


14th Dist. (Kane and Kendall) 
SOOT, DOOPBOE oso soo siccsi ccc. ccckecgelbedacabce ete, 
Rep. McCarthy ...............2..2.::.:ccseeeeeeeee 
Rep. Peffers .................... wie taGass Naieccsetde 
WOOT MPMI asin be insstincheransisdacdass couerdsaccopbesshes 


16th Dist. (Livingston, Marshall, Putnam, 
Woodford) 

Sen:: Lanta = <......-....c..c cic ccees eR EEE a 

WOU: WINE snips — oi. apscecnccsecceossezeanpeccpdboneeier 

Rep. Turner ....... wig scjadtigtashocniobbasscNecsadsvedens 

WN I oaks oss ccs) nase snkcdtcrntuanpedenctistab tat 


18th Dist. (Peoria) 
Sen. Behrman ..................2....--02::eceeee0e 
FROD SHOU: oo oak con cocacscecapseccseleconcosancensezecunetln 
PEGI PR a csncooserccs sdugiccscsaccacctscetuctiaseciea 
Rep. McClugage ..............--::----ccssseseeeeeeees 


20th Dist. (Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee) 
Sen. O'Connell -....2222....000..20. ccc eeeeeeeeeee eee 
Rep. Bratton. °-..c...2.....0.00..00ij.eclle cc ceeeteeees 
Rep. Elmer Wilson ............................--. 
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22nd Dist. (Edgar and Vermilion) 
Sen. Hickman ...................2.....22-2eccee--se0es 
Rep. Bookwalter ........................:cccese-ee0 
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Rep. Edwards .................-.ccscscssssceeceeeeee 


24th Dist. (Champaign, Moultrie, Piatt) 
Ben, CHEROT «22... 52... ices sciencececeebeedcenes 
Wg BIE ce cng. 0: uci pe rcwsinndesatectecqeeseseteees 
TUMORS II npesss oboe fabian’ sone inosiiaceseoeccansnecnsees 
Rep. Anderson .................2:::..:cc:seeeeeeeeee: 


26th Dist. (Ford, McLean) 
Sen. Sieberns ...............2.....2.....2-0ceeceeeee 
Rep, alaiar ..:...................:..ccccccsccseseeessees 
Rep. Johnson .............2....2-.....--:seessseeeeeee 
PA TERI anna vonseoocsceeesecestssspupecpadesopedacesas 


28th Dist. (DeWitt, Logan, Macon) 
Ot WO MMIADID occ encccccdecncrsoncsnccpacenassnsnens 
Rep. Chynoweth ..................2.....:..0:0000: 
DRO FIO ois ccsnan oases ceisaceniangn scovespoiacneoecees 
PMS EI, occa seco skeen scanyasvines rises tneteceeevesce: 


30th Dist. (Brown, Cass, Macon, Menard, 
Schuyler, Tazewell) 
Sen. Lohmann .............2......--:::-sseeeeeeeeeeees 


FO I eho cists Scum caiscopecepinagsvedvesyconctcsecsess 


32nd Dist. (Hancock, McDonough, Warren) 
Beth; PRIS a0 552 -c0. 5s. niet Setepsseonieegstenes dann 
TRD, TUMOMIOD .-<0.-555--c2ocees-cntondseeetsbecsaceates 
5 BRM IS a 52 ocse wn cscee de Seledneseedccnagnee 
Rep. Davidson ...... ai ceshaveqasdedcogebasasvaedsols 


H. J. R. 65 
(Revenue 
Amendment) 

For Against 
x 
x 
x 
x 
x 
x 
x 
x 
x 
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33rd Dist. (Henderson, Mercer, Rock Island) 
SOP CHP IBORE acciceicdeccesesinnnss cacksceotenssecrcwess 
Rep. McCaskrin ..............2....22200--22c0000ce-0 
WROD BEOREIG: So cisnssicisinlscecnapeccscbansdngiccesseceisces 
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34th Dist. (Clark, Coles, Douglas) 
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36th Dist. (Adams, Calhoun, Pike, Scott) 
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Rep. Heckenkamp _.................2...-2..2.0.---. 
Rep. Lenane ...............0....-2200000ceeeeeeeeeee eee 


387th Dist. (Bureau, Henry, Stark) 
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38th Dist. (Greene, Jersey, Macoupin, Mont- 
gomery) 

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39th Dist. (LaSalle) 
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40th Dist. (Christian, Cumberland, Fayette, 
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42nd Dist. (Clay, Clinton, Effingham, Marion) 
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43rd Dist. (Fulton, Knox) 
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44th Dist. (Jackson, Monroe, Perry, Randolph, 
Washington) 

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Rep. Hugh Green ....................0::eeeeeceeeees 
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46th Dist. (Jasper, Jefferson, Richland, Wayne) 
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Districts & Counties 


47th Dist. (Bond, Madison) 


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Rep. Schaefer O’Neill .............. 
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48th Dist. (Crawford, Edwards, Gallatin; Har- 


din, Lawrence, Wabash, White) 
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Rep. Thompson .................. Wetaass 
Rep. F. W. Lewis ...................... 
Rep. D. T. Woodard ................ 


49th Dist. (St. Clair) 


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Rep; BOrmere i. ecigsccecieceiad 


50th Dist. (Alexander, Franklin, Pulaski, 


Union, Williamson) 


Sen. Karraker ......................2.0.... 
Rep. Browner .............--...:.20:---200++ 
Rep. L. E. Lewis ........................ 
Rep. Ray C. Carroll .................. 


51st Dist. (Hamilton, Johnson, Massac, Pope, 


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58th General Assembly 
(Continued from page 4) 


the authority now possessed - and 
widely used for pauper relief in coun- 
ties having the township form of gov- 
ernment. 

Three bills to accomplish this pur- 
pose were drawn by the I. A. A. and 
introduced by Senator Lantz. They 
were Senate bills 683, 715 and 729. 


The Second Sales Tax Bill 


The administration, however, de- 
cided to submit another: sales tax, the 
primary purpose of which was to con- 
tinue unemployment relief work es- 
pecially in Chicago. This measure the 
Association could not support. To win 
downstate favor, and apparently in an 
effort to meet the objections of the 
I. A. A., the new bills provided that 
after Jan. 1, 1934, revenue derived 
from the sales tax shall be used to 
reduce and replace property taxes for 
State purposes; the income from July 
1, 1933, to Jan. 1, 1934, to go to the 
Illinois Emergency Relief Commission. 

The administration also included an 
amendment which the attorney gen- 
eral stated would exempt certain 
isolated retail sales of farm products 
from the tax. 

This measure was passed and signed 
by the governor. It is now in opera- 
tion. . 

The I. A. A. did not and does not 
yet believe the property tax relief fea- 
ture in the recent sales tax legisla- 
tion can be made to operate on 1933 


taxes. The legislation provides that 
the state tax rate shall be reduced in 
proportion to the amount paid into 
state funds from the sales tax fund 
at the time the state levy is made. The 
state levy is made in December but 
under the provisions of the sales tax 
legislation all revenue collected in 
January on sales up to December 31, 
is to go to the Emergency Relief Com- 
mission. It is not until in March, 1934, 
that any revenue from the sales tax 
can be paid into any df the state tax 
funds. The I. A. A. does not believe 
the sales tax can be made to function 
as intended by the administration to 
reduce the state tax rate next year. 


The Lantz bills, primarily intro- 
duced to give Chicago and Cook county 
greater authority to levy sufficient 
taxes locally for pauper relief, passed 
the senate but were held back in the 
house while the sales tax had the 
right-of-way. 

While a number of downstate mem- 
bers voted for the sales tax, the first 
six months’ proceeds of which will go 
largely to feed Chicago unemployed, 
Chicago legislators in the House bit- 
terly opposed the Lantz bills to enable 
the metropolitan area to get on a self- 
supporting basis by Jan. 1, 1934. This 
opposition was not successful but it 
indicates that Chicago politicians may 
strive to continue the dole system next 
year from sales tax revenue, in part 
at the expense of downstate people 
many of whom are paying local prop- 
erty taxes for the same purpose. 

The vote on the key bill S. B. 729 


giving Chicago and other cities and 
villages in commission governed coun- 
ties power to levy taxes locally for 
poor relief will be found in the table 
on page 5. Every vote against this 
measure was a vote against the best 
interests of farmers and other down- 
state people. 


| Lantz Bills Vetoed | 


Just before going to press, we are 
informed the Governor vetoed all of 
the Lantz bills, Senate Bills 683, 715 
and 729. The veto message in part as 
carried in the press states: 

“It is not my thought that there 
will be no needy persons by Feb- 
ruary, 1934, or that by that time 
there will be positions and work 
for all who seek employment. But 
it is my hope that by that time - 
the necessity for care and relief 
of these persons will be so re- 
duced that such care and relief 
can be returned to the local com- 
munities. 

“The county board of Cook 
County has, by resolution, re- 
quested me not to approve this 
bill and senate bills Nos. 683 and 
729, which are to some extent 
companion measures.” 

This statement by the Governor is 
amazing in that these bills were in- 
tended only to provide an opportunity 
for Chicago, Cook County and _ all 
counties under commission form of 
government to take care of their own 

(Continued on page 9) 


A courlinks once 


To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was or- 
ganized namely, to promote, protect and represent the busi- 
ness, economic, political and educational interests of the 
farmers of Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 


GEORGE THIEM, Editor 


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OFFICERS 
President, Earl C, Smith.........cccccccccccccccccceseccececacene Detroit 
Vice-President, A. R. Wright.........ccecccccececccucsescucsnceere Varna 
Secretary, Geo. EB. Metzger..........ccccceccccccccercseeerceceens Chicago 
Treasurer, R. A. Cowles......- ssc cceeeecccee reece nereseeees Bloomington 


BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
(By Congressional District) 


MBE GO TAG o-.oin.c och 56 ob cle ee wae bie One DSM GS oR pee Ebb Harris, Grayslake 
BE os coc edie uate ces buen ee MR ab .0n bole Ceee te G,. F.. Tullock, Rockford, 
BOR ie 5 6.5 ik Tp Lb ae ee Hay aS hie # SRM O bh ee DE C. BE. Bamborough, Polo 
Mas aap’ 5.0.90 "8 Sn 4, bia we Ka E Be yee aie, a0 Oe vere. 0G ae CRE M. G. Lambert, Ferris 
DUNE sc: 0'0 Sis s'0 os ote diciate'e G's e-aibis bio-e.o e't'eicle es 04 © db eglete oii M. Ray Ihrig, Golden 
NN ioe owe igs pCi’ capucbicnlons sddiecaad caine Geo. B. Muller, Washington 
ONES S50 cools cece aegie S beaaln'§ Galen eas Becng tp oute E. D. Lawrence, Bloomington 
MMe ng b's Ob at ehce Sole Bu op ele Coe peo pcan eh alg evs SER METRE W. A. Dennis, Paris 
MN aria ea be De bia Biiierajergs esq, 0c Oe aly Kae KE. G. Curtis, Champaign 
ME eon ee aS ak VAAN Oe Hh) Lied ewe deg Caveee ee Charles S. Black, Jacksonville 
WER cre ces aby ve BA Ges y 6c a Rew steleseRyy si adeees Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 
Baa vieva Noid 'e epic ie Ces Whe oaiiele, wal vars dipte s,s erate pig Talmage DeFrees, Smithboro 
MN ood aS. bo old Lea eels 840d elqe ee binle'e's are 8'y ace PADRE W. L. Cope, Salem 
Mises Nahe 0 Sard s tat gitee CUNT Mabie 5 Shaw a ee Charles Marshall, Belknap 
PONE 8 ba ice ote hve Bele ane CoA aie GRE aN nw od Rw R. B. Endicott, Villa Ridge ° 
DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 
CRONE eas vos 5 FT Eek eek ele bib age bee a eee BA DOEw) Oe J. H. Kelker 
pe A TO ct a a oP J. B.-Countiss 
WMG, io SEON eae Save peb wes seh eat hsv as cede pe certpesese R. A. Cowles 
Fruit and Vegetable Marketing.................ccccceeeeceeees H. W. Day 
DM is atag- 6b Kane OS oe 0's Coble cteecnsicevcccavccacedeugedé George Thiem 
Imsurance Service......... ccc cece ccc cece cece cee cece eeteeeee Vv. Vaniman 
TOBA COUNRCT cc viivcccc cee ce rete ves eeeeeigeccseesien’e's Donald Kirkpatrick 
Live Stock Marketing.................0..0 ccc ccceececeeuce Ray E. Miller 
DREN eG OTN CA VA 's't 5506 0 eile seaweeds eSadeeei'sobe cece Cc, E. Johnston 
GRAM TORTII ios 6.5.6 606 o-a.0 6a bot 'e vie ce bein tee ccaees og elle hacks G. E. Metzger 
Produce Marketing............ 0.0.0... c ccc c cece cnc eeeecees F. A. Gougler 
Taxation and Statistics............. 0.0... ccc cece cece eee J. C. Watson 
TRAMMDOTIRTIOR 6 055.66 siad 5 6 ty cele once ccadsoeces pr cacevelesvoves L. J. Quasey 
ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 
Country Life Insurance Co..................0c0 eee I.. A. Williams, Mer. 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co...................0005 J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Auditing Assn................. F. EB. Ringham, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance (o......... A. E, Richardson, Mgr. 
Illinois Farm Supply Co.............eece ee eeeeceeee L. R. Marchant, Mgr. 
Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange................5..0e0e H. W. Day, Mgr. 
Illinois Grain Corp....... Chas. P. Cummings, Vice-Pres. and Sales Mgr. 
Illinois Livestock Market. Ass’n..Ray Miller, Mgr., R. W. Grieser, Sales 
Illinois Producers Creameries..........ceeeeeeeeceees F. A. Gougler, Mgr. 
Soybean Marketing Ass’n............ceceeeeeeeee J. W. Armstrong, Pres. 
Study Thei 
tudy Their Records 


HE I. A. A. has endeavored since its organiza- 

tion to represent and protect the best inter- 
ests of farmers in legislation. At the same time 
it has tried to be constructive, non-partisan, fair, 
and helpful to successive administrations in work- 
ing for good government and the welfare of the 
state as a whole. 


This policy was adhered to in the 58th General 
Assembly just closed. In bringing to the member- 
ship a report of that session in the article begin- 
ning on Page 3, an effort has been made to pre- 
sent the issues of greatest consequence to agri- 
culture, and to show how the downstate senators 
and representatives conducted themselves when 
put to test. 


If some voting records look bad the legislators 


so classified have no one to blame but themselves. 
We urge that each member study carefully the 


I. A. A. Record—August, 1933 


record of his senator and representatives and 
retain this issue of the RECORD as a guide for 
future use. 


To place the welfare of constituents above 
everything else is the obvious duty of members 
elected to the General Assembly. Farmers have 
a right to expect that of the men and women they 
send to Springfield. 


Railroad Stupidity 


HE Illinois Central railroad has refused to 

spot cars for loading grain with portable 
blowers along its right-of-way in Douglas county. 
It will furnish cars if farmers will resort to the 
back-breaking scoop shovel to load them. But the 
mechanical device seems to be obnoxious. 


The railroad contends that it has leased space 
to certain private elevator companies along its 
lines and that farmers should load and ship their 
grain through these elevators. This regardless of 
the toll the elevator wishes to extract from the 
producer for the service. The railroad hints that 
the portable blower, likewise, should lease space 
if it wishes to operate, which raises the question 
as to whether a railroad is primarily in the busi- 
ness of transportation or real estate. 


We might be inclined to dismiss the matter as 
just another case of railroad stupidity, an illus- 
tration of the lack of business enterprise and 
progressiveness largely responsible for declining 
income. This is the more charitable view. 


But we are also informed that the same railroad 
permits an old-line grain company to install a 
grain blower at Thawville in Iroquois county, al- 
though the farmers’ elevator there has ample fa- 
cilities for loading grain. Thus, the situation has 
the aspect of collusion between the railroad and 
the private grain trade to head off the fast-grow- 
ing co-operative grain marketing movement in 
Illinois. 


The Douglas County Co-operative Grain As- 
sociation which has been grossly and unfairly 
discriminated against is preparing to file a pro- 
test with the Illinois Commerce Commission. While 
the law is taking its course, the farmers are scoop- 
ing grain and telling the railroad officials that un- 
less they withdraw their stupid regulation trucks 
will be employed to haul their grain to the ter- 
minals. 


One would think that the railroads had learned 
a lesson from their vast loss of freight to the 
trucks. Apparently not. But this much is cer- 
tain. The organized farmers of Illinois will not be 
stopped in their efforts to market their own grain. 
They will not be cowed by collusion between the 
grain trade and the railroads to deprive them 
illegally of transportation service. The railroads 
may force farmers temporarily to use the scoop 
shovel when they prefer the blower as a method 
of loading grain, but by so doing they are build- 
ing nothing but ill will. And they may expect to 
reap the consequences of their folly. 


I. A. A. Record—August, 1933 


58th General Assembly 

(Continued from page 7) 
destitute people. Eighty-five (85) 
counties in the state which are under 
township organization have been oper- 
ating under the law which provides 
for no limitation upon taxes that can 
be levied by townships for the pur- 
pose of taking care of their un- 
fortunate and destitute people. In all 
townships of over 7,000, there is still 
no limitation on this power. 

The I. A. A. fails to understand why 
85 counties should, through property 
taxes and often with the sky the 
limit, be expected to take care of their 
own destitute people when at the same 
time a law should not exist which 
would enable the other counties, par- 
ticularly Cook county, to enjoy the 
same privilege and discharge the same 
duty. 

This action by the Governor fur- 
nishes another outstanding instance 


wherein decisions of State are unduly- 


influenced by authorities of Chicago 
and Cook county. It also provides 
most definite reasons why every mem- 
ber of the General Assembly from 
downstate should refuse hereafter to 
vote for legislation taxing down-state 
people for the purpose of furnishing 
funds to carry a part of the rightful 
responsibilities of the City of Chicago 
and Cook county. : 

The I. A. A.’s one and one-half 
per cent occupational tax in the face of 
Chicago’s opposition failed to move in 
the senate. 

The Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion also had introduced a series of 
measures to redistribute the state gas 
tax and insure the use of an equitable 
portion of gas tax revenue for the 
improvement of secondary roads and 
the replacement of road taxes in town- 
ships and road districts. 


State Road Commission Bills 


A commission of legislators and 
others was authorized by the previous 
General Assembly to study the state 
road program and submit legislation 
embodying its recommendations for 
the approval of the 58th General As- 
sembly. This commission brought for- 
ward a comprehensive road improve- 
ment program of great merit, although 
in the I. A. A.’s opinion it did not 
properly safeguard nor provide ade- 
quately for the interests of rural peo- 
ple in future road building. 

The key commission bill made a 
three-way division of the three cent 
gas tax after Jan. 1, 1934 as follows: 
one-third to the state; one-third to the 
cities and villages according to popu- 
lation; and one-third to counties as at 
present on the basis of motor license 


fees. As originally drawn, this bill in- 
dicated that the state’s portion of the 
tax would first be used to widen roads 
in congested: areas, construct belt line 
highways around municipalities, and 
the balance spent on grade separa- 
tions and state highways both within 
and outside municipalities. 

» The I. A. A. opposed these bills in 
committee with the result that a series 
of conferences were held which re- 
sulted in amendments later adopted. 
These amendments are of far-reach- 
ing importance to downstate people. 
They protect the interests of farmers 
and other rural residents in millions of 
dollars of road money spent annually. 
The net result of the revised road bills 
which passed both houses of the legis- 
lature is as follows: 

1. The state’s portion of the 
gas tax, also federal road funds 
coming to Illinois, will be dis- 
tributed equitably for road build- 
ing in the different sections of 
the state, first preference to be 
given to building and maintenance 
of state roads. 

2. As the state takes over ad- 
ditional mileage for improvement 
from the counties under the fed- 
eral-aid plan, such mileage shall 
be distributed equitably and si- 
multaneously among the several 
counties and sections of the state. 

3. The state’s portion of gas 
tax revenue shall not be spent 
within municipalities of 2,500 or 
more population. 

4. The one-third portion of gas 
tax revenue received by cities and 
villages shall first be used to build 
and maintain state roads and 
arterial highways within such 
municipalities. 

The I. A. A. also sponsored a bill, 
H. B. 1012, which passed both houses 
of the legislature, to prevent after 
Jan. 1, 1934 the use of gas tax rev- 
enue retained by the state for other 
than road-building purposes. The I. A. 
A. proposed this bill because approxi- 
mately $14,000,000 had been loaned 
from the state gas tax fund on state 
tax anticipation notes and used for 
other purposes with the result that 
road building was crippled throughout 
Illinois. 

The road bills carrying the I. A. A. 
amendments passed both houses of the 
legislature and are now law. The gov- 
ernor vetoed H. B. 1012, however, 
which leaves the road fund wide open 
for further borrowing for other pur- 
poses and further delay of rural road 
improvement. 


Relief from Mortgage Foreclosures 


Early in the session the Association 


threw a bill in the legislative hopper 
designed to bring relief to distressed 
farm and home mortgagors by author- 
izing courts to stay foreclosures in 
worthy cases and at the same time 
protect the interests of creditors in 
rents and income from the mortgaged 
property. This bill was amended in 
Committee at the suggestion of the 
governor and later passed the House 
by a vote of 111 to 20. 

A powerful lobby of mortgage bank- 
ers and real estate operators from 
Chicago immediately got busy and 
vigorously opposed this bill in the 
senate. The Senate Judiciary Com- 
mittee, largely dominated by Chicago . 
members, sought through unfair 
tactics to kill the bill in committee, 
and failing in this refused to vote it 
out. The next day Senator Martin 
Lohmann, who handled the measure, 
moved that the bill be taken from the 
committee and placed on the senate 
calendar. This motion was carried. 
Then Senator Lohmann made a valiant 
effort to secure its passage but on the 
final attempt it received only 21 votes, 
five short of the necessary number for 
passage. The vote on this bill will be 
found in the table on page 5. 

Contrary to many charges made on 
the floor of the senate, this bill would 
not have jeopardizéd the interests of 
creditors; in fact, it specifically pro- 
vided that courts shall protect the in- 
terests of creditors in the rents and 
incomes of distressed property. A 
statement by Henry Morgenthau, Jr., 
chief of the Farm Credit Administra- 
tion, revealed that the passage of this 
legislation would not hamper the 
loaning of federal funds on farm 
lands, as was charged by opponents, 
but would be helpful until Federal re- 
financing machinery could be made to 
function smoothly. 


Property Tax On Income From 


Intangibles 


After passing the senate with 32 
favorable votes, two measures propos- 
ing to place income from intangible 
property not otherwise taxed on the 
property assessment list, were held up 
in the House Judiciary Committee for 
more than a month. Cook county hold- 
ers of intangible property again used 
their influence to dodge their share of 
the tax burden. As a result this bill 
was caught in the legislative jam and 
was stricken from the calendar the 
last week of the session. 


| Other Legislation | 


The Association also assisted in kill- 
ing a number of bad bills including 


10 


one that proposed to place trucks haul- 
ing for hire under the State Commerce 
Commission and compel increases ‘in 
truck rates in line with the cost of 
railroad transportation for similar 
hauls. These bills, which were reported 
to be sponsored by railroads, would 
have greatly increased the cost of 
marketing farm products, particularly 
livestock, fruits and vegetables, and 
dairy products. 

The Association supported the bill 
to tax oleomargarine containing im- 
ported oils and fats. This bill passed 
both Houses of the legislature but was 
vetoed by the governor. Had this 
measure been approved it would have 
opened up a broader outlet for do- 
mestic oils and fats which the farmer 
requires to secure a better price for 
his products. 

The Illinois Agricultural Association 
also vigorously supported all measures 
which had for their purpose economy 
in government where conditions war- 
ranted such support. 

With few exceptions the economy 
bills as amended called for, a 10 per 
cent cut in salaries of state officials 
and employees. In the Agricultural 
Appropriation Bill the appropriation 
for farm advisers was cut 22 per cent 
and for home advisers 40 per cent. 
When this bill came before the senate, 
Senator Lantz pointed out that the 
legislature should be consistent and 
reduce the farm advisers’ and home 
advisers’ appropriation not more than 
10 per cent in line with other reduc- 
tions. 

Sen. Lantz then offered two amend- 
ments to the Agricultural Appropria- 
tion Bill so as to cut appropriations 
for farm advisers and home advisers 
the standard 10 per cent. The farm 
advisers’ appropriation amendment 
lost by the close vote of 18 to 17. The 
vote on-the home advisers’ amendment 
was almost the same. 

Those who voted to kill Sen. Lantz’s 
amendment were as follows: Behr- 
man, Clifford, Gillmeister, Graham, 
Hickman, Huckin, Kielminski, Kribs, 
Lee, Loughran, Maypole, Mendel, Mon- 
roe, O’Connell, O’Grady, Shaw, Stuttle 
and Ward. 

Those who voted with Sen. Lantz 
were as follows: Baker, Barbour, Barr, 
Benson, Boeke, Burgess, Gunning, 
Huebsch, Lantz, Mundy, Paddock, Pen- 
ick, Roberts, Searcy, Sieberns, Thomp- 
son and Williams. 

To facilitate greater economy in lo- 
cal expenditures, the Association also 
sponsored a bill, S. B. 559, to extend 
the time from the first Tuesday in 
August to the first Tuesday in Sep- 
tember in which directors or boards of 
education of school districts are re- 
quired to certify the amount of money 


to be raised by special tax for educa- 
tional and building purposes for the 
ensuing year. This bill passed the 
Senate, but was lost in the legislative 
jam in the House on the last day of 
the session. 

Another bill sponsored by the Asso- 
ciation which passed both houses of 
the legislature allows the detachment 
of tracts of 10 acres or more of un- 
subdivided agricultural lands from 
cities and villages where such lands 
are not bounded on more than two 
sides by subdivided property. 

The owner may file a petition either 
with the county or circuit court and if 
the land described in the application 
meets the requirements of the Act the 
court shall grant the request. 


Defeat Bad Bills 


The I. A. A. also assisted in de- 
feating a bad bill that would make an 
auto insurance company co-defendent 
in every suit brought against a policy- 
holder. This bill would not only great- 
ly inerease the size of judgments 
against policyholders, but also would 
increase tremendously the cost of au- 
tomobile insurance. 

An atterhnpt was made to amend the 
Uniform Mutual Insurance Act during 
the session. The I. A. A. has used 
this Act in the organization of certain 
of its insurance activities, and has 
therefore been interested in keeping 
the integrity of the Uniform Mutual 
Act intact. H. B. 745 was introduced 
at the request of certain interests 
wherein the Uniform Mutual Insur- 
ance Act would have been amended to 
provide for the issuance of a limited 
amount of capital stock, the holders of 
such stock being entitled to elect one- 
half of the Board of Directors. 

The Association believed that such 
a provision in the Act would affect the 
integrity of mutual insurance as it 
would make it possible for an inside 
group of persons to perpetually con- 
trol a mutual company against any ob- 
jection of a majority of the policy- 
holders. The Association forced the 
amendment of the bill to such a form 
that the control of a mutual company 
would be kept, at least insofar as the 
law is concerned, in the hands of the 
policyholders. 

There was sponsored by the state 
insurance department an _ insurance 
agents’ bill which was introduced in 
the House, H. B. 776. This bill would 
have required all insurance agents to 
be licensed by the Department. It 
would have made it impossible for 
County Farm Bureaus to act as the 
county agency of any of the Associa- 
tion’s insurance activities. Because of 
substantial objection from all quarters, 


I. A. A. Record—August, 1933 


two bills at a later date were substi- 
tuted in the House by the Superintend- 
ent of Insurance to take the place of 
H. B. 776. 

One of these bills would have re- 
quired all life insurance agents to be 
licensed, and while containing many 
objectionable’ provisions, was not seri- 
ously objected to by the Association. 
The companion measure, however, 
which required a license for all fire 
and casualty insurance agents, had a 
much larger license fee than the life 
insurance agents’ bill, and had other 
objectionable features, although both 
of of these substitute bills changed 
the provision of the original bill that 
would have embarrassed the Associa- 
tion in the use of the County Farm 
Bureau as the county agency. 

The objection of the Association and 
other interested parties was so strong 
that the casualty and fire insurance 
agents’ bill was never pressed for pas- 
sage and the life insurance agents’ bill 
was lost in the House by a very sub- 
stantial vote. 


State Department Bills 


The State Department of Agricul- 
ture at the request of milk producers 
co-operatives in and adjoining Illinois 
sponsored Senate Bill 673 which would 
give the department the power to li- 
cense milk dealers and thereby enforce 
trade agreements between dealers and 
milk producers to establish fair prices 
for milk on strictly Illinois markets. 
After passing the senate this bill was 
approved in the House on June 29 by 
a vote of 96 to 5. The Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association had a representative 
in the several conferences that re- 
sulted in drafting the measure and 
gave assistance in securing its pas- 
sage. This bill was vetoed by the Gov- 
ernor. 

The Department of Agriculture also 
sponsored H. B. 827 which would li- 
cense truck peddlers handling fruits 
and vegetables. This measure was 


sponsored at the request of southern - 


Illinois fruit and vegetable growers 
who complained that itinerant truck 
merchants have been giving Illinois 
fruits and vegetables a black eye by 
selling inferior products and misrep- 
resenting their quality. 

The bill carried an appropriation of 
$25,000, and imposed a fee of $25 on 
truck drivers who sell other than their 
own products. Fruit and vegetable 
growers marketing their own stuff 
would be exempt from the payment of 
a fee but would be required to take 
out a license. 

This bill was objected to by House 

(Continued on page 12, Col. 2) 


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AFTER THE HAILSTORMIN NORTHERN ILLINOIS 


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(Pictures and cut courtesy Farmers Mutual Rein uvance Company and Boone County Farm Bureau.) 

(1) Buildings wrecked by tornado on A. R. Ransom farm, DuPage county. (2) Leaves stripped from trees by hail give this 
scene on the Ruth Nesler farm, Cook county, a wintry appearance. Crops all destroyed, buildings demolished. (3) “The barn 
can wait until we finish replanting,” said Albert Krahn of near Dundee in Kane county. (4) Corn field laid waste on I. R. 
Hasie farm near Bartlett, Cook county. (5) Barley that was Waist high on farm of Bert Hewer, Boone County Farm Bureau 
director, It was difficult to identify what grain was growing. (6) A crowd gathers to survey the wreckage on Andrew 
Miller farm near Dundee, Kane county. (7) Walls blown out exposing interior at Yeoman City of Childhood, south of Dundee, 
Kane county. (S) This corn field was tasseling out on farm of Blake and Reed, southeastern corner Boone county. It looks 


like a total loss. 


12 


Lee J. Quasey Leaves 
Employ of I. A. A. 


Connection Severed After Many 
Years As Director of Trans- 
portation 


A. A. Transportation Depart- 
ment for more than 10 years, 
left the employ of the Association July 


L J. QUASEY, director of the I. 
@ 


Mr. Quasey 
came with the 
Association short- 
ly after it was or- 
ganized on its 
present basis in 
1919 to assist in 
managing the of- 
fice. Soon after 
he was given 
charge of the 
wool pool until 
the Livestock 
Marketing De- 
partment was organized and took over 
this work. 

Mr. Quasey then began handling 
claims of various kinds referred to the 
Association by members. This work 
brought him into contact with rail- 
roads and other public utilities. As a 
result he with the aid of G. W. Bax- 
ter developed a valuable service to 
members which has expanded under 
his direction. 

With engineering training as a back- 
ground Quasey studied traffic and 
public utility law and several years 
ago completed a night law course at 
the John Marshall Law School of Chi- 
cage. He was admitted to the bar in 
1930. 

Hearings before the State and In- 
terstate Commerce Commissions in 
which the Association was represented 
by Mr. Quasey, resulted in a number 
of rate reductions and substantial sav- 
ings for farmers. Similarly, more fa- 
vorable easement contracts and in- 
creased compensation were secured for 
many Farm Bureau members in con- 
nection with pipe lines, telephone and 
power lines crossing farm lands. 

Representation of Farm Bureau 
members’ interests in these problems 
will be continued as in the past 
through the Legal Department under 
the direction of Mr. Kirkpatrick. The 
handling of loss and damage and other 
claims, and freight rate service will 
be continued in the Transportation 
Division of the Legal Department un- 
der the able direction of Guy W. Bax- 
ter who has been performing this part 
of the Association’s service for many 
years. 


L. J. QUASEY 


Arrangements are being made to 
further reinforce the Legal Depart- 
ment of the Association. A more de- 
tailed announcement will be made in 
the next issue of the RECORD. 


About Federal Farm Credit 


Editor: The I. A. A. Record. 

In your July “RECORD” you ask 
“What of the new credit legislation?” 
As near as I can figure it out and from 
all paper reports, it is just so much 
bunk to soothe the farming element. 
And when he wakes up he will have a 
worse headache than when he went in- 
to the coma. In the first place the Fed- 
eral land bank will have its pound of 
flesh regardless of where it comes 
from. You.say that some of the prac- 
tices of county farm loan officers com- 
pare with the hard-boiled bankers and 
loan officers. If they were not hard- 
boiled they would not be in the employ 
of the Federal land bank very long, for 
I have met two or three of these birds. 
They just up and tell you that they 
are not working on human sympathy. 


The article you printed on page 17 
of your July “RECORD” in the ‘first 
column and part of the second, I think, 
is not so much tthe attitude of the 
home loan secretary as it is the atti- 
tude of the Federal land bank. When 
you come to the expression “worthy 
farm debtors” you will find very few 
in this country, for the vast majority 
of the 40% of farm indebtedness will 
have to be foreclosed because none are 
worthy of any more credit than what 
they have, and the vast majority of 
those who could get credit don’t need 
it for they are so conservative that 
they never venture into any enterprise 
especially if it would help their neigh- 
bors. But the trouble is that the whole 
commodity price from a shoe string 
to a threshing machine has fallen to 
l% or % of our 1910-14 average, but 
our farm mortgages and interest have 
stayed the same with interest slightly 
higher than before the slump.—A. O. 
Behnke, Hancock county, IIl. 


58th General Assembly 
(Continued from page 10) 


members on the ground that it would 
interfere with farmers who sell their 
own and perhaps their neighbors’ 
products to consumers in neighboring 
cities. The bill lost by a vote of 25 to 
74." 


Study The Records 


As a result of the failure of this 
General Assembly to enact construc- 
tive revenue legislation, or to submit 
a revenue amendment to make possible 


I. A. A. Record—August, 1933 


All Counties In 16th 


At District Conference | 


Legislative activities of the Illinois 
Agricultural Association at Spring- 
field, together with latest develop- 
ments in the administration of the 
Emergency Farm Act occupied the 
center of attention at the 16th I. A. A. 
district con- 
ference held at 
the East Peoria 
recreation camp 
June 24. All coun- 
ties in the district 
were represented. 

Secretary 
George E. Metz- 
ger called atten- 
tion to the ad- 
vance in farm 
prices which was 
largely brought 
about by the inflation amendment and 
the power vested in the President 
through the Emergency Farm Act to 
raise prices. Mr. Metzger stated that 
the Farm Bureau movement more than 
any other agency, was responsible for 
the passage of this far-reaching legis- 
lation. On the subject of state legis- 
lation he disclosed that the influence 
of the I. A. A. was used at Spring- 
field to make the first state sales tax 
primarily a property tax replacement 
measure and to divide the receipts 
therefrom among the counties on an 
equitable basis according to popula- 
tion. : 

Four-H Club work was discussed by 
Wayne Gilbert, Stark county farm ad- 
viser; “Publicity” by J. W. Whisenand, 
Peoria county; and “Organization” by 
R. J. Hamilton, district I. A. A. or- 
ganization manager. George B. 
Muller, member of the I. A. A. board, 
opened the meeting and presided. 


MR, MULLER 


taxation based on ability to pay, the 
Illinois Agricultural Association be- 
lieves that it will be necessary to call 
a special session of the legislature 
later in the year to meet the ever-in- 
creasing and pressing problems that 
threaten the very maintenance of gov- 
ernment. In line with its well known 
policy the I. A. A. will hold itself in 
readiness to work with - responsible 
state officials and others to meet these 
problems in a manner that is fair and 
equitable to all interests concerned. 
The legislative committee urges that 
Farm Bureau members make a most 
careful study of the voting records of 
their respective senators and repre- 
sentatives on what the committee be- 
lieves to be important measures af- 
fecting farm interests in this state. 


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I. A. A. Record—August, 1933 


Prairie Farms 
Butter 


It’s Better Because We Make It 
From Fresh Cream 


By J. B. Countiss, 
Director Dairy Marketing 


trap than anyone else, the 

world will beat a path to your 
door,” said Emerson. True enough, 
but why wait for the world to come 
to you? 

The Illinois Producers Creameries 
are making the best butter humanly 
possible to make under present con- 
ditions but we are not expecting the 
world to beat a path to our creameries 
to get an opportunity to buy it. They 
do not act that way today. We have 
got to tell them about its goodness 
and how good it really is, and why it 
is good, and what makes “Prairie 
Farms Butter” better than other but- 
ter. 


ad i YOU build a better mouse 


No. 1 All Ready To Go 


A good buttermaker under normal 
conditions with proper equipment can 
make good butter out of good cream 
but regardless of conditions or equip- 
ment or the expertness of the butter- 
maker, he cannot make good butter 
out of poor cream. Therefore, when 
the group representing Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association, Milk Producers 
Associations, Illinois Produce Market- 
ing Association, and others interested 
in the program met to formulate the 
plan of establishing farmers co-op- 
erative creameries in Illinois, they all 
said, “We must make better butter 
and in order to make better butter we 
have to have better cream.” 

So the first principle of our or- 
ganization has been to get quality 
cream, After six years’ experience in 


operating cream stations in Illinois, 
we are convinced that in order to get 
good cream we cannot wait for pro- 
ducers to come to town and bring it 
Saturday night or until he gets his 
can full but we must go and get it and 
get it often. 

Therefore, truck routes were es- 
tablished whereby the cream is picked 
up regularly twice each week at the 
farm whether it is one gallon or ten 
gallons, and the patron’s can returned 
together with his check on the return 
trip. 

Then when it gets to one of these 
modern creameries at Bloomington, 
Peoria or Rock Island, it is properly 
weighed, graded and tested and within 
20 hours is made into “Prairie Farms 
Butter” by expert buttermakers. Clyde 
Hamlin, buttermaker at Bloomington, 
operated the University of Illinois 
creamery for 11 years. Mr. Johnson 
at Peoria was one of the outstanding 
buttermakers in Land O’Lakes Cream- 
eries before he met Wilfred Shaw, 
manager of Producers Creamery of 
Peoria. Mr. Shaw not only met Mr. 
Johnson but brought him home with 
him to make “Prairie Farms Butter” 
at Peoria. At Rock Island, well when I 
think of good butter I always think of 
“Louie” the buttermaker at Rock Is- 
land who has been making it for years. 
Good butter is the only kind he really 
knows how to make. 

This butter is then carefully packed 
in 64 lb. tubs and properly marked 
with Illinois Producers’ Creameries 
emblem which identifies it as a quality 
product and shipped in refrigerator 


cars to Chicago. Here a representative 
of Illinois Producers’ Creameries sells 
it to buyers who want especially fine 
butter for select trade. A large per- 
centage of this butter has been sold at 
a premium over Chicago 92 score or 
“Extras.” 

“Prairie Farms Butter,” although a 
new product in the market, is being 
enthusiastically received by critical 
buyers and we have permanent out- 
lets for all of this high quality butter 
we can manufacture because it passes 
the test or score on flavor, 45 points, 
body 25, color 15, salt 10 and package 
5 when inspected by government in- 
spectors on the market. 

Farmers in this state along with 
others have been unjustly accused of 
selling cream and taking home “Oleo.” 
This, of course, has happened and the 
reason has not been that the farmer 
liked “Oleo” but he has had the sad 
experience of seeing his can of nice 
smooth sweet cream which he de- 
livered to the local cream buyer mixed 
with sour lumpy and sometimes yeasty 
cream, and he decided in his own mind 
that he would not want to take home 
to his wife and kids creamery butter 
made from this kind of cream. There- 
fore, he went around to the corner 
grocer and bought “Oleo,” and yet we 
wonder why the per capita consump- 
tion of butter is less than 20 lbs. per 
year. 


“No. 1” On the Job 


We believe one way of helping this 
situation is to get better cream by 
(Continued on page 16) 


Effect of frequency of delivery in summer upon quality of Illinois cream.* 


Less than 3% ta 8% Over .6% 
Frequency of 3% Acidity Acidity Acidity 
Delivery (Sweet) (No. 1 Sour) (No. 2 Sour) 
3 times per week ehisebnatiatules 8.6 67.5 23.9 
ene 3.8 58.2 38.0 
RE.» een tems Ege ea 8 42.9 56.3 


(*) Research by Dr. C. A. Brown, University of Illinois. 


14 


Farm Bureaus Bring 
Relief To Storm Area 


Organization Makes Possible 
Speedy Help To Stricken 
Farmers 


HE hailstorm and tornado that 


struck northern Illinois early, 


Sunday morning, July 2, was 
the most severe that ever visited that 
section of the state. Damage was re- 
ported as far west as the Mississippi 
River, although most of the loss was 
confined to southernmost parts of 
Winnebago, Boone, and McHenry and 
to larger areas in Kane, DeKalb, Cook 
and DuPage counties. 

The storm reached its greatest fury 
around Dundee in Kane County where 
it leveled farm buildings and de- 
stroyed all growing crops. It reached 
down into the truck growing regions 
of southern Cook county where hai} 
beat the vegetation into the ground and 
necessitated replanting. 


Wintry Appearance 


Along the state highway north of 
Elgin farmsteads presented a wintry 
appearance. Leaves were stripped 
from trees, corn cut off near the 
surface of the ground and in some 
cases even the straw was blown out 
of barley and oats fields. Considerable 
damage to livestock and poultry flocks 
was reported. Very few farmers were 
protected with growing crop hail in- 
surance, although farm buildings were 
generally covered against windstorm 
damage. 

The County Farm Bureaus in the 
affected area immediately became ac- 
tive in bringing relief to the stricken 
people. Within 48 hours after the ap- 
peal for help went out the Illinois Ag- 
ricultural Association, Prairie Farmer, 
Pure Milk Association and WLS were 
all co-operating to see what could be 
done. 

An appeal was made through the 
Federal Land Bank in St. Louis to re- 
open the Seed and Feed Loan Division 
which until May 31 had been mak- 
ing emergency loans up to $400 per 
farmer. A_ belated announcement 
comes from Washington, as we go to 
press, to the effect that the seed loan 
service will be opened until July 31 
with a limit of $10 for each family. 
This statement may be in error but if 
true, the offering will be looked upon 
as a sardonic joke by hailed-out farm- 
ers needing ready cash to buy feed for 
their dairy cows. Wood Netherland, 
president of the St. Louis Land Bank, 
was helpful in relaying the appeal for 
emergency aid to Henry Morgenthau, 


Wrsken on) Rea Ae ae 


I. A. A. Record—August, 1933 


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FARM BUREAU ANDI, A. A. OFFICIALS AT 16th DISTRICT CONFERENCE 


Front row, left to right: E. I. Culp, Bureau county president; C. W. McMillen, 
Peoria county secretary; Ralph Allen, Tazewell county secretary; Secretary G. E. 
Metzger of I. A.’A., Chicago; Albert Hayes, Peoria county president; and Edward 
Schrock, Tazewell county president. In the back row, left to right, are C. E. 
Bergren, Henderson county president; Ira E. Moats, Knox county president; G. A. 
Broman, Henry county president; E. E. Stevenson, LaSalle county president; R. J. 
Hamilton, I. A. A. district organizer; George B. Muller, I, A. A. direetor for 16th 
district; and R. J, Stevens, Mercer county president. : 

This is part of the group that attended the Farm Bureau conference June 16-18 


at the Recreation camp in East Peoria, 


Jr., of the Credit Administration. 
Netherland said that applications for 
commissioner loans from the storm 
stricken area would be given prompt 
attention. 


$15,000 For Seeds 


The I. A. A. also co-operated with 
Prairie Farmer, Pure Milk Association 
and the County Farm Bureaus in ask- 
ing for a moderate appropriation to 
buy seed, from the Illinois Emergency 
Relief Commission. The Commission 
appropriated $15,000 and approxi- 
mately that much seed was purchased 
under the direction of J. H. Lloyd, as- 
sistant state director of agriculture, 
and distributed from the Wilbern Seed 
Warehouse at Elgin. 

A total of 1,800 bu. of corn, 2,500 
bu. soybeans, 75,000 pounds of Hun- 
garian millet, 72,000 pounds Sudan 
grass, 1,000 bu. buckwheat, and ap- 
proximately 13,000 pounds of garden 
seeds were distributed beginning July 
12. The Gardeners Supply Company of 
Arlington Heights handled the garden 
seed order. 

The free seed proved very helpful 
to many farmers who lacked credit to 
buy seed for replanting. Much of the 
devastated area was planted to corn 
for silage and fodder. 

In addition to this aid, the DuPage 
and Kane County Farm Bureaus and 
possibly others raised money to buy 
seed and feed for the most needy. The 
Pure Milk Association also was help- 
ful in aiding members to purchase 
dairy feed to hold up their base pro- 
duction during the so-called base pe- 
riod. 


Farm Bureau Leaders 
Two-Day Conference 


“We have two conferences each year 
in which the presidents and secreta- 
ries of the Farm Bureaus in the 14 
counties of R. J. Hamilton’s organ- 
ization district attend,” writes Albert 
Hayes, president of the Peoria County 
Farm Bureau. “The recent two-day 
conference was held at the East.Peoria 
recreation park. 

“Our December session is devoted 
entirely to business concerning the 
Farm Bureau. All problems pertaining 
to the improvement of the Farm Bu- 
reau program are discussed. We get 
many helpful ideas out of these con- 
ferences. 

“We always get together for break- 
fast during the I. A. A. annual meet- 
ing and our district is organized with 
a president, vice-president and secre- 
tary. ; 
“The summer conference is not all 
business but consists of programs, 
moving pictures and sports. The farm 
advisers and their families also at- 
tend. On Sunday morning church serv- 


ices are held in charge of Ira Moats, 


secretary of the Knox County Farm 
Bureau, who was formerly in the min- 
istry. Everyone looks forward to this 
get-together and a great many warm 
friendships are made.” 


An eighteen per cent rise in the 
price of gold was accompanied by an 
eighteen per cent rise in farm prod- 
ucts. 


1, A. A. Record—August, 1933 


|. C. Forbids Use 


of Grain Blower 
to Douglas Co-op. 


vators in Douglas county and 

the Illinois Central Railroad to 
prevent farmers from marketing grain 
through their own co-operative was 
charged recently by the Douglas Coun- 
ty Farmers Grain Association in a 
statement reported by the Decatur 
Review. 

Considerable feeling has been stirred 
up between grain producers over the 
railroad’s refusal to supply grain cars 
which farmers desire to load with a 
portable blower rather than scoop it in 
by hand. Although the railroad super- 
intendent contended that the farmers 
should lease space along their right- 
of-way for the blower, farmers regard 
this contention as a smoke screen and 
a move to compel the producers to 


C OLLUSION between private ele- 


market their grain through the private. 


elevators in that county. 

The co-operative association in the 
meantime is reported to have lodged 
a complaint with the Illinois Com- 
merce Commission pointing to the law 
which provides that common carriers 
are required to furnish cars when re- 
quested by shippers. The Illinois Cen- 
tral, it is understood, proposes to 
make a test case out of the contro- 
versy and if necessary carry it on up 
through the courts. 


May Use Trucks 


The Douglas county grain producers 
are now threatening to move their 
grain by truck direct to the terminal 
markets if the railroad persists in its 
refusal to spot cars where convenient 
for loading. 

A. Z. Martin, prominent farmer and 
a director of the Douglas county co- 
operative, said in an interview re- 
ported in the Decatur Review: “Under 
the railroad’s ruling that all loadings 
made at team tracks must be done with 
scoop shovels or through established 
elevators, the farmer is given no 
choice to market his produce except 
through such old-line companies as 
may have a monopoly in the territory. 
He must sell through this agency and 
at such margins as the buyer chooses 
to impose or else haul to more distant 
points, 


“Farm leaders have long recognized 
the effects of this particular evil, and 
have encouraged the farmer to or- 
ganize into co-operative groups where- 
by the profits ordinarily distributed 
among the dealers may go back to 
the producer. 

“Quite naturally,” said Mr. Martin, 
“the old-line grain companies which 
have built expensive grain elevators— 
monuments that the farmer is obliged 
to pay for or contribute to their up- 
keep—dislike the idea of farmers sell- 
ing through their own co-operative 
agency. Such dealers thereby lose a 
chance at the fat profits they have 
earned off the farmer in years past, 
and it is no surprise that they have 
enlisted the aid of the railroad com- 
panies to keep the farm co-operatives 
out of the field as far as possible. 

“This action in forbidding the use 
of a mechanical device to facilitate the 
loading of grain is but one example 
of this attitude.” 


Replaces Six Men 


A grain blower, it is estimated, does 
the work of about six men in loading 
a freight car. To comply with the rail- 
road’s terms Douglas county farmers 
are using scoop shovels temporarily 
to load grain. 

The Decatur paper states that eight 
carloads, or approximately 12,000 
bushels, were loaded in one week at 
the Hayes station north of Tuscola. 
The corn was hauled from the John 
Black farm, managed by Mr. Martin, 
on six trucks and loaded into the car 
in two days. 

The co-operative association owns a 
blower and it could have been moved to 
the team track there loading the cars 
quickly and inexpensively, but the 
railroad prevented its use by its re- 
fusal to furnish cars. 

“Even by hiring trucks and six men 
to load the cars,” said Mr. Martin, “I 
saved more money by selling through 
the co-operative association than I 
ever did in the 20 years I have been 
selling corn from the Black farm. 

“Naturally I dislike the idea of us- 
ing scoop shovels, but it is a well 
known fact that the farmers have been 


15 


charged too much for elevator service 
for a long time. 

“Ordinarily, Douglas county ships 
out about 2,000,000 bushels of grain 
in a year’s time. More than a half 
million bushels have been sold through 
the co-operative association thus far 
in 1933. Even when hauled directly to 
the co-operative elevator in Tuscola 
and for long distances, the farmers’ 
returns have been higher.” 

The statement of higher. returns, 
says the Decatur paper, is substan- 
tiated by Albert Long, owner and 
manager of a dozen farms in the 
county who relates how one of his 
tenants received a premium of three 
cents a bushel for two carloads of 
corn marketed through the association 
when the tests were advanced one 
notch at the terminal markets by the 
inspectors there. Another farmer who 
hauled his wheat crop to Tuscola in 
trucks, after his crop was reported to 
test 54 at one of the outlying ele- 
vators, found the test to show 60 and 
with a corresponding gain in selling 
price. 

“There are other instances of a like 
kind,” Mr. Martin insists, “and they 
explain why the state-wide grain as- 
sociation (Illinois Grain Corp.) is tak- 
ing a lion’s share of the farmer’s busi- 
ness.” - 

The Douglas County Farmers Grain 
Association was organized last March, 
the records show, and membership is 
open to all farmers in the community 
without fee upon the condition that 
their grain will be marketed through 
the association, provided that the price 
offered by the association equals or 
is higher than the price offered 
through another agency. 


Prefer Railroads 


“It is our plan to continue in the 
county, giving the farmer the advan- 
tage of every possible test and pre- 
mium,” Mr. Martin says. “And so far 
as possible, we will continue to ship 
our grain over the already established 
carrier systems, even if obliged to 
use old-fashioned methods in loading 
the cars.” 


However, the ill-concealed contempt 
for the railroad’s stand in preventing 
loadings by the more modern methods, 
may bring about the use of trucks in 
transporting grain into the terminals. 
Overtures have been made by man- 
agers of established truck fleets, and 
bids have been received to haul grain 
directly from the farm to river points 
for five cents a bushel. 


Illinois farm prices advanced 25 per 
cent during the month ending May 15, 
and averaged the highest since Decem- 
ber, 1931. 


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“Prairie Farms” Butter 
(Continued from page 13) 
the truck pick-up system and make 
better butter in our own plants and 
sell it direct to stores, restaurants, 
hotels and confectioners in the respec- 
tive creamery territories. 

Bloomington purchased the first 
sales delivery truck last week and 
within a few days “No. 1” will be roll- 
ing around the territory with a high 
class experienced salesman calling on 
the local trade with “Prairie Farms 
Butter.” Farmers should see that their 
local grocers handle their high quality 
“Prairie Farms Butter” because in so 
doing, they are not only helping the 
grocer but their friends who buy it 
and themselves because it is made 
from the best cream in Illinois, which 
gives it that wonderfully fine delicate 
flavor found only in “Prairie Farms 
Butter.” ; 

Once each year farmers in Illinois 
market their grain, probably twice a 
year they sell a car of livestock but 
he sells his cream 104 times a year. 
Co-operative creameries are bringing 
the consumer of butter and the pro- 
ducers of cream closer together 104 
times a year and every time this is 
done, the producer gets a greater per- 
centage of the consumer’s dollar, and 
the consumer gets a better pound of 
butter for his money. 


Doing It Ourselves 


Farmers have invested thousands of 
dollars in production machinery in- 
cluding farm machinery and livestock, 
but very little in marketing and sell- 
ing agencies, consequently “we have 
been coming out at the little end of 
the horn.” We sell our cream, live- 
stock and grain and buy back Jones’ 
“Homemade” butter; Smith’s “Sugar- 
cured” hams; and Johnson’s “Self-ris- 
ing” flour and wonder why we pay so 
much and receive so little. 

Co-operative creameries in Illinois 
were established for just one thing— 
to give the producer a bigger percent- 
age of the consumer’s dollar and give 
the consumer a better pound of butter 
for his money. It is the one program 
of farmers in Illinois where we can 
control our product from the time it is 
produced until it reaches the con- 
sumer. We produce our own cream, 
haul it to market in our own trucks, 
have our own men weigh, test and 
grade it and manufacture it in our 
own plants which we established our- 
selves, sell it through our own sales 
outlets with our own name on it to our- 
selves, friends and neighbors — not 
once a year but every day in the year 
and all savings made are passed back 
to the stockholders the same as any 
other creamery except—our stockhold- 
holders are the producers. 


If You Have an 
Accident! 


If you are a Policyholder in 
the Illinois Agricultural Mutual 
Insurance Company and have an 
accident in Chicago or nearby 
while attending the World’s Fair 
this Summer or Fall, call the 
Home Office, Harrison 4772, dur- 
ing office hours. Should an acci- 
dent occur at night time or after 
office hours call Leslie V. Drake, 
our Chicago adjuster, Village 
5016. Immediate attention will 
be given your claim. 


Corn and Hog Plan 
Discussed in 19th 


ECENT developments in the 
R movement to raise farm prices, 
the legislative program of the 


I. A. A. at Springfield, and co-opera- 
tive livestock marketing were the 


-_principal topics considered at the 19th 


I. A. A. district conference at De- 
catur, June 28. The meeting was called 
by Eugene Curtis, member of the I. 
A. A. board. 
Approximately 50 
Farm Bureau 
leaders ‘represent- 
ed the eight coun- 
ties in the dis- 
trict. 

Speakers in- 
cluded Secretary 
Geo. E. Metzger, 
Chas. A. Ewing, 
president of the 
National Live- 
stock Marketing 
Association, Bob Grieser, Illinois Live- 
stock Marketing Association, Mr. Cur- 
tis, and others who spoke briefly dur- 
ing the question and answer period. — 

Mr. Ewing suggested that every ef- 
fort be made to open up foreign out- 
lets for surplus pork and lard rather 
than apply a processing tax on hogs, 
receipts from which would be used to 
finance corn acreage reduction. The 
livestock commission companies as 
well as packers would rather not see 
the supply of livestock curtailed since 
their facilities are geared up to handle 
a heavy volume. It is generally ap- 
preciated that the application of the 
allotment plan to corn and hogs is 
a more complicated task than in the 
case of wheat and cotton. 

Secretary Metzger reviewed the I. 
A. A. legislative program at Spring- 
field and also discussed organization 
problems. 

Mr. Grieser stated that the greatest 


EUGENE CURTIS 


I. A. A. Record—August, 1933 


Farm Bureau Day At 
State Fair Aug. 25th 


Country Life Queen Contest for 
1933 is Chief Drawing Card 
for Annual Get-together 


Fifty-four Country Life Queens se- 
lected by 54 County Farm Bureaus 
will compete for the honor of being 
the Country Life Queen of Illinois for 
1933 at the State Fair next month. 
The contest will be held at Springfield 
on Farm Bureau Day, Friday, August 
25, at 11:00 A. M. “The young ladies 
will be judged on grace, poise, dignity, 
sincerity, charm, personality and other 
qualities that go to make up win- 
some American womanhood,” says V. 
Vaniman, director of insurance service 
who has charge of the contest. 

“It has been said that the con- 
servation of human beauty is the 
question of the hour because physical 
beauty is directly associated with 
moral beauty, bodily well being, 
efficiency and intellectual excellence,” 
says Van. 

“This year’s contest will surpass 
any Beauty Contest yet held, as the 
54 young ladies selected in the 54 
county contests were the winners in 
which there were 850 young ladies 
competing. 

“Agriculture is developing a culture 
of its own emphasizing qualities of 
modesty, gracefulness, charm, natural- 
ness, poise, etc. 

“Uncultured people live in the world 
without being conscious that to be alive 
at all is one great mystery, states an 
eminent psychologist. Real culture de- 
velops self-confidence and independ- 
ence of environment. 

“A mother of one of the young 
ladies entered in the Country Life 
Queen contest last year states that the 
contest gives encouragement and 
recognition to the young ladies in the 
country which they should have, and 
are entitled to. The measure of popu- 
larity and interest in the contest held 
by the County Farm Bureaus and I. 
A. A. is shown by the fact that in 1931 
twelve counties selected County Coun- 
try Life Queens, in 1932 37 counties, 
and in 1933 54 counties.” 


problem of the livestock co-operatives 
is to secure a heavy enough volume of 
hogs, cattle and sheep to obtain the 
necessary bargaining power to raise 
price levels. 

It was voted to hold the next dis- 
trict conference in Sullivan, Moultrie 
county. Little sentiment was expressed 
for a district picnic so each county 
will hold its own. 


I. A. A. Record—August, 1933 


Whiteside Leads State 
In Fly Spray Contest 


LLINOIS Farm Supply Company’s 
I fly spray contest which was in 


effect between April 15 and June * 
15 more than doubled the sales of Blue’ 


Seal fly spray and Blue Seal fly and 
insect killer compared to a corre? 
sponding period a year ago. More than 
30,000 gallons of these products were 
sold within recent weeks which is ap- 
proximately 30 per cent more than the 
entire gallonage sold during the Sum- 
mer of 1982. 

Whiteside Service Company carr‘ed 
off first honors in the contest with 
Burnie Vos leading the state with 1,216 
points covering 341 gallons sold, de- 
livered and paid for prior to June 15. 
Earle B. Johnson, another truck sales- 
man for Whiteside Service, took second 
place with 1,007 points, covering 375% 
gallons. Vos won the contest because 
he sold more customers than his team- 
mate. Each sale to a customer counted 
five points while each gallon of fly 
spray counted one point and each gal- 
lon of fly killer two points. Vos won a 
pair of high top boots and Johnson 
an electric alarm clock. The total gal- 
lonage sold by Whiteside during the 
contest period was 954% gallons. 

Other companies having two or more 
men qualifying among the 75 high 
men in the state, each of whom will 
receive an automatic focusing flash- 
light, were: Shelby-Effingham Serv- 
ice Company, Will County Farm Sup- 
ply Company, St. Clair Service Com- 
pany, Madison Service Company, Pe- 
oria County Service Company, Greene 
County Service Company, Ford Coun- 
ty Service Company, Adams Service 
Company, Randolph Service Company, 
Champaign County Service Company, 
Stephenson Service Company. Monroe 
Service Company, Jersey County 
Farm Supply Company, Livingston 
Service Company, Fruit Belt Service 
Company, Iroquois Service Company, 
Winnebago Service Company, Lake- 
Cook Farm Supply Company, and 
Schuyler Service Company. 

The price of Blue Seal fly spray was 
substantially reduced this season al- 
though the killing strength and the 
repellency of this spray have been de- 
cidedly improved. One additional in- 
gredient (which costs $300 per drum, 
wholesale) has been largely respon- 
sible for the improvement over the 
spray sold last year. This spray is 
clean, safe, dependable, will not burn, 
blister, or irritate the skin of the ani- 
mal, or taint the milk. 

Blue Seal fly and insect killer has 
proved to be one of the most effective 
sprays for use in dairy barns, milk 
houses, and in the home. It is es- 


WAYSIDE SERVICE CO. LEADS STATE , 
This smart-looking aggregation hails from Whiteside county. Left to right; 
they are (back row): Earl Bollen, Ed. Fullerton, Earl Scribner, salesmen; C. H. 
Becker, manager; Earle Johnson, Burnie Vos, salesmen, ; 
Front Row, left to right; John Houzenga, salesman; Clayton Delp, station sales- 
man; Lee Coster, warehouseman; Sam Howe, Harry Schipper, salesmen. 


sentially prepared for use in buildings 
where ventilation can be controlled. It 
is stainless, effective, and deadly to 
all insect pests but harmless to hu- 
man beings and animals. 


Represent Illinois At 
Des Moines Conference 


To co-ordinate the views of corn and 
hog grower representatives in the dif- 
ferent farm organizations and agri- 
cultural agencies in Illinois, the fol- 
lowing committee was appointed at 
Bloomington July 8 at a meeting of 


NOTICE 
ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 
ASSOCIATION 
ELECTION OF DELEGATES 


Notice is hereby given that in 
connection with the annual meet- 
ings of all county Farm Bureaus 
to be held during the months of 
August, September and October, 
1933, at the hour and place to be 
determined by the Board of Di- 
rectors of each respective county 
Farm Bureau, the members in 
good standing of such county 
Farm Bureau and who are also 
qualified voting members of Illi- 
nois Agricultural Association 
shall elect a delegate or delegates 
to represent such members of 
Illinois Agricultural Association 
and vote on all matters’ before 
the next annual meeting or any 
special meeting of the Associa- 
tion, including the election of of- 
ficers and directors as provided 
for in the by-laws of the Associa- 
tion. 

No annual meetings will be held 
during August. 

During September annual meet- 
ings will be held in Christian and 
Jefferson counties. 

During the month of October 
the following counties will hold 
annual meetings: Adams, Cass, 
Cumberland, Ford, Scott, Han- 
cock, Henderson, JoDaviess, War- 
ren, Marshall-Putnam, Menard, 
White, Montgomery, Pike, Pu- 
laski-Aiexander, Shelby, Stark. 

Signed. 


G. E. Metzger, Secretary 
July 20, 1933 


some 75 leaders, to speak for Illinois 
at the Des Moines corn-hog con- 
ference on July 18:—Dean H. W. 
Mumford, Earl C. Smith, C. V. Greg- 
ory, C. A. Ewing, E. D. Lawrence, J. 
R. Fulkerson, John W. Armstrong, E. 
A. Eckert, E. C. Coulter, W. W. Mc- 
Laughlin, and J. L. McKeeghan. 

It was hoped that the Des Moines 
meeting would crystallize support be- 
hind a definite plan to raise corn and 
hog prices, 


Here's How Sales Tax 
Revenue Is Spent 


CHARITY AS A CAREER 

Chicago, July 6.—I am hiring sales- 
men and saleswomen. Last week a 
man came in to see me, sent by a 
church organization. He was well 
dressed and well educated. In time he 
asked what basis we paid on. When I 
told him that it was all commission, 
but that we furnished all the leads, 
and his customers were strictly his 
and that we protected him on that, he 
asked, “Can you guarantee me $19 a 
week ?” I told him that we could not, 
but that it would be very easy to make 
that, and he said, “There are four of 
us in the family, my brother-in-law 
and his wife, myself and my wife, and 
we are each on the relief rolls and get 
$49.50 a week, and we can live very 
comfortably on that, so guess it will 
not pay to give up a good thing for 
such an indefinite proposition.” 

Are the men and women of Chicago 
getting so indolent that they will ac- 
cept charity rather than go to work? 
No wonder there is a seeming de- 
pression. We cannot get business go- 
ing unless every one gets his hands, 
feet, and brains working CHESTER 


G. WOOD. Reprinted from Chicago 
Tribune. 


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Agricultural Trade 
Agreements To Wallace 
President Roosevelt Makes De- 
cision After Conference With 


Farm Bureau Leader and 
Dairy Co-operatives 


Neal and the influence of the 

Farm Bureau that moved Presi- 
dent Roosevelt to turn over the ad- 
ministration of the fluid milk trade 
agreement to the Secretary of Agri- 
culture rather than to the Recovery 
Administration, Don Geyer, secretary 
of the Pure Milk Association, reported 
in a telephone conversation to C. V. 
Gregory, editor of Prairie Farmer, re- 
cently. 

This information was disclosed by 
Mr. Gregory in a brief talk to the 
board of directors of the I. A. A. in 
Chicago July 14. 

“TI remember when the I. A. A. was 
organized down at Peoria in 1919,” 
said Gregory, “that one of the things 
we hoped for was an organization big 
enough and strong enough so it could 
go down to Washington and tell the 
President of the United States what 
farmers wanted. That seemed like a 
big order at the time, yet that thing 
has actually happened. This incident 
illustrates why farmers need a strong 
organization ready to speak for them 
at all times.” 


LT: WAS President Edward A. O’- 


Sought: Approval 


For more than two months dairy 
groups including the Pure Milk As- 
sociation and Chicago milk dealers had 
sought approval of a trade agreement 
to stabilize the market at Chicago so 
as to give dairy farmers a reason- 
able price for fluid milk, stop cut- 
throat competition of milk peddlers 
and bootleggers, and at the same time 
give consumers a pure, safe supply of 
pasteurized milk at a fair price. 

Little progress was made due to a 
difference of opinion as to which 
group, National Industrial Recovery, 
or Agricultural Adjustment Adminis- 
tration under Secretary Wallace 
should pass on and administer the ag- 
ricultural trade agreements. 

The Industrial Recovery Act gives 
no authority to the administrator, 
General Hugh Johnson, to approve 
price agreements. On the other hand 
the Emergency Farm Act does give 
such authority to the Secretary of Ag- 
riculture. The dairy organizations in- 
sisted that Secretary Wallace admin- 
ister the milk trade agreement where- 
as the Industrial Recovery Adminis- 
tration believed it should have juris- 
diction. 

In the meantime, milk dealers at 


I. A.. A. Record—August, 1933 


JUDGING HORSES AT FLOYD GUTSHELL’S FARM NEAR ELMWOOD, PEORIA 
COUNTY 


Forty-two 4-H Club members competed in the Peoria county 4-H Club contest 
on July 7. Four classes of livestock, horses, cattle, hogs, and sheep were judged 


by the Club members, 


The team from Elmwood, composed of Carroll Taylor, Paul Thompson, and 
Manford Harding, will represent the county in the state 4-H Club contest at 


Urbana August 1. 


Chicago were losing business as a re- 
sult of general price cutting by so- 
called “independent” dairies and raw 
milk peddlers. The dealers threatened 
to cut the price to the consumer from 
10 to 9 cents and pass the reduction 
on to the producer by lowering the 
base price from $1.75 per cwt. to $1.45. 

Farmers threatened to strike unless 
the trade agreement was approved by 
Washington and an increase obtained 
to help restore their buying power and 


‘ debt-paying ability. 


After considerable delay the dairy 
organizations called on President 
O’Neal and asked him to accompany 
them to the White House. This was 
done’and the President announced that 
the Secretary of Agriculture would be 
authorized to administer agricultural 
trade agreements under the Emer- 
gency Farm Act. 

The importance of this decision may 
not be apparent to many, but it means 
that full authority hereafter will be 
given to the Agricultural Adjustment 
Administration to establish fair prices 
for farm products through trade 
agreements with dealers and proces- 
sors. The decision established a prec- 
edent of far-reaching importance to 
farmers in the price-raising program. 


Evaporated Milk Agreement 

The proposed trade agreement of- 
fered by evaporated milk companies 
struck a snag when fluid milk co- 
operatives recently filed objections on 
the ground that the agreement did not 
properly recognize the interests of 
producers. 

B. F. Beach, manager of the Michi- 
gan Milk Producers Association, said 


the agreement was not fair because 
“the farmers have no voice in fixing 
the price stated in the agreement.” 


W. T. Nardin of St. Louis, repre- 
senting the milk condenseries, said the 
proposed agreement was a step to- 
ward assuring dairymen a larger re- 
turn for their product. He added that 
less than 10 per cent of the farmers 
supplying milk to condenseries are 
members of organizations. 


“The organizations represented by 
the men who are antagonistic to this 
agreement are working against the in- 
terests of the evaporated milk in- 
dustries and farmers whose fresh milk 
we purchase,” Nardin said. 


The agreement proposes,a schedule 
of prices to be paid producers varying 
by regions and based on current mar- 
ket prices for butter and in some cases 
cheese and other dairy products. It al- 
so proposes a schedule of wholesale 
prices both maximum and minimum. 


Milk producer representatives assert 
that the price schedule is not high 
enough to give farmers a satisfactory 
return for their product; moreover 
that the price fixed by the con- 
denseries in the agreement would be a 
bar to farmers in fluid milk districts 
obtaining a satisfactory price from 
distributors. 

Meanwhile a committee of butter 
producers and distributors has been 
appointed to draw up a trade agree- 
ment for this industry. The close re- 
lationship of all branches of the dairy 
industry to each other makes it im- 
perative that each co-operate with the 
other in advancing prices all along the 
line. 


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Number 9 


SEPTEMBER, 1933 


Submit Program To 
Raise Hog Prices 


A the proceeds of which would 

be used to encourage the mar- 
keting of 4,000,000 pigs weighing from 
25 to 100 pounds between now and Oct. 
1, 1933 was recommended by the Na- 
tional Corn and Hog Committee fol- 
lowing a recent conference in Wash: 
ington with the Agricultural Adjust- 
ment Administration. 

In addition the 
committee, of 
which President 
Earl C. Smith is 
chairman, pro- 
posed that 1,000,- 
000 sows soon to 
farrow, weighing 
275 pounds and 
over, be encour- 
aged to market 
by paying a bonus 
of $4 a head in 
exe addition to what- 
ever-price they may bring. 

This program, it is estimated, will 
relieve the hog market during the 
next year of approximately 2,000,- 
000,000 pounds of pork, or around 
5,000,000 hogs. . 

It was also suggested that large 
quantities of pork might be disposed 
of by sale to relief agencies under 
definite agreements that the normal 
purchase of meat by these agencies 
will not be reduced. 

The lower grade animals could be 
used for tankage and soap. It is esti- 
mated that from $40,000,000 to $60,- 
000,000 will be required to carry out 
this one year emergency program. 

The Corn and Hog Committee sug- 
gested that the emergency program 
be completed by Oct. 1 when a more 
permanent program can be. formu- 
lated and launched to reduce the 1934 
spring pig crop and corn acreage. 


EARL C, SMITH 


PROCESSING tax on hogs. 


No recommendation was made as to 
the rate of a processing tax to raise 
the required sum. 

At the general meeting on August 
10, all farm organizations represented 
vigorously supported the recommen- 
dations of the committee, 

Thomas E. Wilson, Chicago packer, 
stated that the packing industry was 
interested in helping farmers obtain 
an increase in their income and that 
it would co-operate in the final pro- 
gram offered by the Adjustment Ad- 
ministration. 

Department of Agriculture econ- 
omists advised the Corn and Hog 
Committee that the increase in pigs 
farrowed and to be farrowed during 
1933 will be approximately seven per 
cent more than the farrowings of 
1932. In terms of tonnage this in- 
crease would amount to approximate- 
ly 700,000,000 pounds of live weight 
pork, 

The committee was also informed 
that the decrease in normal exports 
amounts to approximately 500,000,000 
pound-, Taken together this presents 
a problem: of removing at the earliest 
possible time and in the most eco- 
nomical way around _ 1,200,000,000 
pounds of pork production. In addi- 
tion, some further reduction seems to 
be essential if a substantial raise in 
the price of hogs is secured. 

The enormous increase in produc- 
tion, coupled with a drop in normal 
demand, has resulted in holding the 
price of hogs to approximately 50 per 
cent of the pre-war parity price level. 

To meet this situation the com- 
mittee recommended the removal from 
the domestic market of 500,000,000 
pounds of pork and pork products be- 
tween now and January 1, 1934, and 
a total of 2,000,000,000 pounds during 
the coming marketing year by any 


Volume 11. 


one or a combination of the following 
methods: 


(a) Encouraging the market- 
ing of 4,000,000 pigs of 
from 25 to 100 pounds 
average weight between 
Aug. 15 and Oct. 1, 1933 
by paying the following 
prices: 

25 to 40 pounds. .$9.00 cwt. 
41-50 ” «. 850 
51 - 60 8.00 
61-70 ” 7.50 
71 - 80 7.00 
81 - 90 fe 6.50 
91 -100 * 6.00 
(b) Inducing the immediate 


marketing of 1,000,000 
sows above 275 pounds in 
weight, soon to farrow, 
by offering a premium of 
$4 per head, plus the re- 
moval of the usual dock- 
age, 

It is proposed to dispose of the re- 
sulting meat and meat products from 
the best of these animals by the sale 
on a moderate basis to relief agencies, 
under definite agreement that their 
normal purchases of meat will not be 
reduced. The balance of the lower 
grades of meat resulting from this 
type of marketing should be con-. 
demned, tanked, and such salvage 
realized therefrom as would be possi- 
ble without serious inconvenience or 
injury to the immediate demand of 
this kind of product. . 

To make this program effective the 
committee recommended that a very 
substantial or restrictive processing 
tax be placed upon all hogs of 235 
pounds live weight, other than pack- 
ing sows at the earliest practicable 
date, 

It is further proposed that the reve-’ 


-nue necessary to make prompt pay- 


ment to farmers for their marketings © 
of this class of animals, according to 
the suggested price schedules, be pro- 
vided by a processing tax on all hogs 
marketed in the usual way during the 
next 12-month period. 

In addition, this program will pro- 
vide very substantial and necessary 
cash for the present owners of mil- 
lions of pigs and brood sows, who live 
in distressed areas where drought and 
insect pests have destroyed necessary 


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feed, thus giving to the farmers en- 
gaged actively in the hog producing 
and feeding industry very substantial 
benefits. 

In making these recommendations, 
the committee stated that it is fully 
aware of their temporary character 
and they are being made only to meet 
the present emergency. “They will 
be followed, not later than Oct. 1, by 
recommendations of a much more 
permanent and, we believe, effective 
character with the one purpose in 
mind of getting corn and hogs into'a 
parity price relationship, and keeping 
them on such a basis,” says Mr. Smith. 


Mr. Smith explained to the confer- 
ence that the present potential sup- 
plies of pork were more serious than 
indicated in the official report of the 
committee. In addition to the seven 
per cent increase in pigs farrowed and 
to be farrowed in 1933 over and above 
that of 1932, and the decrease in ex- 
ports the past year of around 500,- 
000,000 pounds, he asserted that the 
present stocks of processors amounted 
to approximately 1,000,000,000 pounds 
which is far in excess of normal 
stocks for this time of year. In- 
formed students of the subject, he said, 
agree that unless drastic measures 
are adopted immediately to curtail 
production, hog prices in the next few 
months will fall substantially below 
present low levels. 


He also set forth clearly that the 
suggestions and recommendations of 
the committee in no way implied de- 
stroying the meat from the better 
class of pigs and sows marketed under 
the proposed plan. 

The committee has been assured, he 
declared, that those in charge of the 
disposition of national relief funds 
could arrange to take all such meat 
on a moderate price basis and place 
it in channels that would insure its 
consumption by the millions of desti- 
tute people in America without in any 
way decreasing the present purchases 
of meat for that purpose. 


It was most definitely indicated that 
if farmers of the corn and hog belt 
give their immediate and_ whole- 
hearted support in putting into effect 
this emergency program there can be 
but one result, namely, that farmers 
who now own pigs and brood sows in 
drought and insect stricken areas will 
receive substantial benefits by mar- 
keting their sows and pigs and that 
farmers living in more favored areas 
who desire to continue their feeding 
operations on a lighter weight basis 
than during the past year may expect 
a substantial increase in the price of 
hogs. Millions of destitute people 
now receiving little or no meat also 
would be benefited under the pro- 


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visions recommended by the com- 
mittee. 


The suggested program does not 
call for a processing tax in the im- 
mediate future. Later a processing 
tax would be levied to provide the 
necessary revenue to balance all costs 
of the operation over and above mar- 
ket values received. The processing 
tax necessary to accomplish the in- 
tended purpose will be very nominal 
when compared with the results to be 
obtained in raising hog prices. 


Around. 250 representatives of pro- 
ducers and farm organizations, pack- 
ers, local butéhers and retailers, live- 
stock commission merchants, and live- 
stock exchanges attended the meeting 
at the Willard Hotel in Washington 
on Aug. 10. 


Not a single proposal was offered 
at the close of the conference other 
than that of the National Corn and 
Hog Committee, and the meeting went 
on record in favor of the committee’s 
report with only one dissenting vote, 
that of a representative of eastern re- 
tail butchers. 

The Adjustment Administration 
was urged to put the emergency pro- 
gram into effect at the earliest possi- 
ble date because of the acuteness of 
the situation. 

The conference unanimously . adop- 
ted a resolution offered by Presi- 
dent Smith to the effect that every 
proper official of government, par- 
ticularly the Secretary of Agriculture 
and the administrators of the Adjust- 
ment Act, put forth every effort to 
dispose of pork and pork products in 
the export markets of the world. 

The official report of the National 
Committee submitted by Mr. Smith, 
the chairman, was also signed by 
Edward A. O’Neal, president of the 
A. F. B. F., C. V. Gregory, editor of 
Prairie Farmer, and Ralph Moyer and 
Roswell Garst of Iowa. 

Pledges of support for the program 
were voiced by S. S. McCloskey of the 
National Grange, E. E. Kennedy, 
Farmer’s Union, Chas, E. Hearst, 


I, A. A. RECORD—September, 1933 


Iowa Farm Bureau Fed., A. Sykes of 


Iowa, Corn Belt Meat Producers 
Ass’n., A. H, Baker, Missouri, for the 
National Livestock Exchange, C. B. 
Crandall, So. St. Paul, for the Central 
Co-op. Livestock Commission Ass’n., 
Thos, E. Wilson, Chicago, prominent 
packer representing the American 
Meat Packers Institute, J. H. Mercer, 
Kansas Livestock Ass’n., Chas. A. 
Ewing, pres. National Livestock Mar- 
keting Ass’n., Geo. R. Collett, Ameri- 
can Stockyards Ass’n., Kansas City, 
John B. Gage, U. S. Livestock Ass’n. 
Milo Reno of the National Farmers 
Holiday Ass’n., pledged the support 
of his organization to “any emergency 
program which will give production 
costs to the farmer.” 


See Your Friends, State 
Fair Friday, Aug. 25th 


Preparations Complete For a Big 
Farm Bureau Day. Quincy 
Band To Play 


S WE go to press preparations 
A are being completed for Farm 
Bureau Day at the IIlinois 
State Fair, Friday, Aug. 25. The I. 
A. A. tent will be erected in approxi- 
mately the same location as last year, 
south and a little west of the farm 
machinery exhibits. It will be ready 
for visitors by Saturday, Aug. 19, the 
opening day of the fair. 

The tent will have plenty of chairs, 
a rest room for women and children, 
a check room, and drinking water. 

The coliseum on,the Fair Grounds 
has been secured for the personality 
contest sponsored by the I. A. A. and 
County Farm Bureaus. Fifty-four 
young women representing as many 
counties—all winners of county con- 
tests—will compete for the cash prizes 
and the honor of being crowned Coun- 
try Life Queen of Illinois. Pictures of 
the girls will be found on pages 14-15. 

V. Vaniman announces that the 
Quincy High School band will play be- 
fore and after the contest. Earl Smith, 
president of the I. A. A., will open the 
program in the coliseum with a short 
address at 10:30 A. M. Mrs. Chas. 
Sewell of the American Farm Bureau 
Federation will deliver the principal 
address. 

The Farm Bureau headquarters tent 
will display a series of decorated IIli- 
nois maps and charts illustrating the 
many services and accomplishments 
of the I. A. A., County Farm Bureaus, 
and Associated Companies. 

Members are invited to come and 
bring their friends, both to their head- 
quarters tent and to the beauty contest 
in the coliseum. 


I. A. A. RECORD—September, 1933 


Wheat Production 
Control Campaign 


in Illinois 


By R. R. Hudelson, Extension Economist, University of 
Illinois, Acting State Manager, Wheat 
Adjustment Campaign 


HE campaign to sign up the 

| 100,000 wheat growing farmers 

of Illinois so that they can get 

the benefits of the wheat program of 

the Agricultural Adjustment Act is 

now in full swing in every county of 
the state. 

If all Illinois wheat growers come in 
on the plan, approximately $4,771,691 
would be added 
almost immediate- 
ly to their cash 
income and pur- 
chasing power 
and more lasting 
benefits would be 
expected to come 
later through ad- 
justing the supply 
of wheat to the 
effective demand. 
Cash benefits also are to be paid in 
1934 and 1935, in addition to the ap- 
proximately four and three-fourths 
million dollars which would be paid on 
this year’s crop. 

The task of directing the educational 
and preliminary organization work of 
the campaign has been assigned by the 
Agricultural Adjustment Administra- 
tion to the extension service of the 
College of Agriculture, University of 
Illinois, including county farm ad- 
visers. Where there is no county farm 
adviser or where the number of 
growers in the territory is so large 
as to make it impossible to get the 
work done on time, an emergency ag- 
ricultura] assistant has been put on 
special civil service appointment for 
the work. 


DEAN H. W. MUM- 
FORD 


County Associations 


Later on, the administration of the 
wheat program in the various counties 
will be passed over to the county 
wheat production control associations 
which will be organized after the cam- 
paign is a little farther along. 

The broad economic purpose of the 
wheat program is to balance produc- 
tion with effective demand and, in the 


public interest, to stimulate the buy- 
ing power of agriculture. This stimu- 
lus to farm buying power will be 
brought about by bringing the price 
of domestically consumed wheat to 
parity, or, in other words, by giving it 
the same purchasing power which it 
had in the pre-war period, 1910-1914. 
Briefly, the plan is the domestic allot- 


ment one. About 54 percent, or that. 


part of the country’s wheat which is 
used in the United States for human 
consumption, is put under a processing 
tax, and the fund thus raised is used 
to guarantee the producer a parity 
price for his proportionate share of 
the wheat which is consumed at home. 
Thus the plan is self-supporting and 
not a drain on the Federal treasury. 

Most people mistakingly believe that 
the government’s wheat program is 
necessary because farmers have been 
“making two blades of wheat grow 
where one grew before.” As a matter 
of fact the wheat crisis has been 
brought about not so much by any 
blind overproduction on the part of 
American farmers but rather because 
the foreign market for wheat has 
largely disappeared and exports have 
dwindled to far less than they used 
to be. 


Plan Is Voluntary 


The plan is entirely voluntary, and 
any wheat grower, regardless of 
whether or not he is a member of any 
farm organization, may make applica- 
tion for taking part. To this end, 
county farm advisers already have 
made up mailing lists of every wheat 
grower in their counties. County 
campaign committees of seven to nine 
men also have been appointed in prac- 
tically all counties to assist the farm 
advisers. Community meetings al- 
ready have been held in some counties 
to explain the plan to growers, and 
the remaining counties will hold such 
meetings immediately. Once the plan 
is explained to farmers in these com- 
munity meetings, they will start send- 


5 


ing in their applications for acreage 
adjustment contracts. Signup stations 
will be set up in each county to which 
farmers can go a few days after their 
community meeting and turn in their 
applications. 

In his application each grower will 
give his acreage and total production 
for each of the three years, 1930, 1931 
and 1932. The average acreage for 
these three years will be the standard 
base for figuring each farmer’s acreage 
adjustment. Similarly, the average 
production for these three years will 
determine each farmer’s allotment. 
Under exceptional conditions, five-year 
averages may be used instead of three- 
year. However, the decision on this 
will rest with the county allotment 
committee which is appointed later in 
the program. 

Each farmer’s allotment upon which 
he will get the compensation payment 
for acreage adjustment will be ap- 
proximately 54 percent of his average 
production for the base period, 1930- 
1932. ~The idea, as was explained, is 
to give the farmer a parity price for 
that proportion of his wheat which 
goes into domestic consumption, and 
that proportion has been figured out 
as 54 percent. 

The rate for the compensation pay- 
ments will be approximately 28 cents 
a bushel. Twenty cents of this will be 
paid soon after September 15 and the 
remainder next spring upon satisfac- 
tory proof that the farmer has carried 
out his acreage adjustment contract. 


$160 On 1,000 Bu. 


The total allotment for Illinois is 
17,041,754 bushels. If all farmers in 
the state came in on the plan, the 
total cash benefits on this year’s crop 
would amount to $4,771,691. For the 
individual grower with an average 
production of 1,000 bushels, the 
cash benefits would be about $160, of 
which $108 would be paid this fall. 

As fast as applications come in 
from growers of each community, they 
will be checked by a community com- 
mittee and then passed on to the coun- 
ty office. After all the applications 
for the'county are in, there will be a 
series of community meetings at 
which wheat growers who filed appli- 
cations will vote for a permanent 
community committee of three mem- 
bers. One of these three will be a 
member of the board of directors of 
the county wheat production control 
association. This board of directors 
will then meet and elect officers, in- 
cluding the county allotment com- 
mittee. This allotment committee and 
the board of directors will be the final 
authority on individual acreage and 
allotments. 

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Paddle Your Own Canoe 
Governor Tells N. Y. City 


Gov. Lehman Turns Down Re- 
quest To Tax Farmers and 
Upstate People For Relief 
of Cities 


FIRM refusal to tax upstate 
A people for the relief of New 

York City was the response of 
Governor Herbert H. Lehman to an 
appeal by Mayor John P. O’Brien for 
aid. 

In a recent message to the New 
York legislature, Gov. Lehman recom- 
mended that New York City and any 
other city in the state be authorized, 
during the emergency period, to levy 
taxes on its own people for such pur- 
poses as it deems necessary for work 
and home relief. The cities now are 
unable to do that because of legal re- 
strictions. 

“IT recommend to your considera- 
tion,” the governor also said, “general 
legislation authorizing the governor, 
in the event of a default on the part of 
any county, town, city, village or spe- 
cial improvement district, to set up a 
financial agent or agents with author- 
ity to limit any expenditure of public 
funds by such municipality, or the in- 
curring of any debt by it.’ 

Would Get 41 Million 


The Governor flatly turned down 
Mayor John P. O’Brien’s request for 
doubling the state sales and stock 
transfer taxes, the proceeds to be 
turned over to the cities. New York 
would get $41,000,000. 

“To that request I do not accede,” 
the governor said. “I so notified the 
city of New York when its petition 
reached me.” 

The message showed he has not 
wavered from his original proposal 
that New York must pull itself out of 
its own financial difficulties. 

The governor would have the legis- 
lature go no further than to permit 
the city to raise the money it needs 
by imposing its own taxes, without 
state financial aid. The governor de- 
clared in favor of economies in all 
units of government throughout the 
state. He promised to send messages 
on other topics. 


Logan Leads 


Logan county has the highest five- 
year average wheat production of any 
county in Illinois, and will probably 
secure the largest amount of benefit 
payments in the acreage reduction 
program. St. Clair county is second. 

Other leading counties in wheat are 
Mason, Madison, Morgan, and Sanga- 
mon. 


Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of New York 


Wheat Production Control Cam- 
paign in Illinois 
(Continued from page 5) 


Farmers who have made application 
and who have decided to take ad- 
vantage of the cash payment on their 
assigned allotment sign a contract to 
reduce their acreage for the 1934 and 
1935 crops, if so required. The exact 
amount of this reduction will not be 
announced by Secretary of Agriculture 
Henry A. Wallace until August 24, but 
the reduction will not be more than 20 
percent of the farmer’s average seeded 
acreage during the three years of the 
base period. 


Six Advantages 


There are at least six advantages to 
the plan. First, it offers'crop insur- 
ance in that the grower gets the cash 
compensation payments in 1933, 1934 
and 1935 regardless of what hail, 
flood or other disasters do to his 
wheat crops. Second, growers are as- 
sured a parity, or higher price for 
that portion of their crop which goes 
into domestic consumption. Third, land 
taken out of wheat production can be 
put to other uses, thereby making it 
possible for the farmer to build up 
his soils and better adjust his crop- 
ping systems. Fourth, production costs 
can be reduced. Fifth, there is a pos- 
sible allowance because the required 
acreage reduction may not be as much 
as 20 percent. 

Illinois is said to be in one of the 
strongest positions of any state in the 
government’s wheat production control 
campaign, because of the agricultural 
adjustment conferences which have 
been held annually throughout the 
state since 1928 under auspices of the 
College of Agriculture, University of 
Illinois, and at the instance of Dean 
H. W. Mumford. One official of the 
wheat administration declared that 
these adjustment conferences had put 
Illinois seven to eight years ahead of 
other states in the matter of acreage 
adjustment. 


I, A. A. RECORD—September, 1933 


Illinois Leads 


In this connection it is recalled that 
Illinois farmers, guided by the College 
of Agriculture, University of Illinois, 
have made a 26 percent adjustment in 
their wheat acreage in the past four 
years, the acreage having been re- 
duced from 2,093,000 in 1929’to 1,549,- 
000 in 1932. Furthermore, farmers of 
the state have adjusted their acreage 
of corn and other crops so radically 
that the acreage of soybeans in IIli- 
nois has been multiplied 44 times in 
the past 14 years. Also, the 288,000 
acres of alfalfa grown in Illinois in 
1932 represented a 50 percent increase 
over the 1928 acreage, while the state 
now grows almost 900,000 acres of the 
soil building sweet clover crop, where- 
as not so long ago this legume was 
considered a worthless weed. 

Having already made these adjust- 
ments, Illinois farmers, in the main, 
will not be required to reduce their 
present wheat acreages, whereas 
farmers in those sections where the 
acreage has been mounting will be 
obliged to cut down their plantings in 
order to comply with the terms of the 


-government’s program, -. 


Trade With Russia Seen 
As Aid to Farmers Here 


Restoration of trade between the 
United States and Russia is advocated 
by ex-Senator Brookhart of Iowa who 
has been investigating possibilities for 
selling surplus farm products abroad. 

Brookhart stated that the Russian 
government is seeking credit on a 
seven year basis. The Reconstruction 
Finance Corporation already has 
loaned the Amtorg Trading Company, 
Russia’s commercial representative 
here, $4,000,000. Part of the $200,000,- 
000 available to the Agricultural Ad- 
justment Administration, it is said, 
may also be used to stimulate exports 
of surplus American farm products to 
Russia. ; : 

Brookhart stated that Russia is in 
need of large quantities of American 
cotton and livestock products includ- 
ing beef and lard. The Russian foreign 
minister announced that his country is 
ready to buy up to $1,000,000,000 in 
foreign goods and raw products pro- 
vided long-term credit is extended. 

The potential annual trade with 
Russia is. estimated at $500,000,000. 
The Russian. government during re- 
cent years has acquired an excellent 
reputation for meeting all its obliga- 
tions, and. the fact that many large 
corporations both here and abroad are 
trading with Russia indicates that her 
credit is satisfactory. 


I. A. A. RECORD—September, 1933 


Former Gov.:Lowden Is 
Honored In Broadcast 


Awarded Medal For Distin- 
guished Service to Agriculture 


TRIBUTE to Frank. 0., Low- 
A den of Oregon, Il., “recently 

awarded the > Distinguished 
Service Medal of the American Farm 
‘Bureau Federation for “distinguished 
service to agriculture” was delivered 
by President Earl C. Smith, over 57 
radio stations in the NBC chain Sat- 
urday noon, Aug. 12. 

“On behalf of the American Farm 
Bureau Federation, I am highly hon- 
ored in being afforded this opportu- 
nity to pay its tribute and respect to 
a great national leader on this occa- 
sion when it publicly confers upon the 
Honorable Frank O. Lowden, Illinois 
farmer and former Governor of this 
great state, its highest award for dis- 
tinguished service,” said Mr. Smith. 

“It is pleasing, indeed, to know that 
farmers and their friends throughout 
the United States are listening in on 
this broadcast and are in full accord 
with the speaker as we honor this 
great leader and statesman. 

“I keenly recognize my responsibil- 
ity in choosing the words to confer 
this honor, as words seem meager, in- 
deed, to express my innermost feelings 
to and of Mr. Lowden. for his great 
service and sacrifice in behalf of 
justice and equity to the farm people 
of this nation. - 


His Words Prophetic 


“For many years as ‘a “farmer, later 
asa Congressman and then as Gover- 
nor of Illindis, he has never failed, 
whenever opportunity would afford, to 
express clearly and definitely that the 
nation’ could only enjoy permanent 


prosperity to the extent that its agri-' - 


culture was recognized as the basic 
industry .of all and those engaged in 
farming pursuits were allowed to re- 
ceive incomes commensurate with the 
importance of the industry and on a 
plane of equality with that enjoyed by 
the other citizens of the nation. 

“Throughout his career, he has 
proven himself an advanced student of 
taxation and other public policy mat- 
ters. He was the first citizen of na- 
tional prominence in saying to the na- 
tion that government policy toward its 
agricylture must be changed, so that 
the «surpluses of agricultural com- 
modities which our bountiful soil was 
providing be not allowed to depress 
the domestic price. levels for such 
commodities. 

“For many years, from the platform 
and through the press, he pleaded with 
those controlling public policy for the 
enactment of laws necessary to se- 


Frank O. Lowden 


cure for the American farmer, for that 
portion of his production consumed in 
the American market, a price in line 
with American standards of living and 
society. He insisted that unless this 
were done the whole economic fabric 
of America would break down, that 
we would find ourselves in a state of 
chaos and great unemployment be- 


cause the greatest buyers of all—the- 


American farmer and those dependent 
upon farmers—were being forced. out 
of the buying market for the products 
of other industries. 
Made Great Contribution 

“Had his’ pleadings. been heard. and 
his coungel’and “advice followed, we in 
America would not today be strug- 


‘gling ‘to restore the. Jpillions of ,un- 


employed, people to their former jobs 


—the Américan farmer would. not to-- 


day find himself burdened;with debt 


and the nation as a whole: facing: “B 
total ‘debt’ of $200,000,000;000 ‘which-is’ 


more than the value of all the prop- 


erty in. the United States. Ane 


- “He contributed more than any liv- 
ing American in efforts to awaken the 
citizens.of this great country to the 
seriousness of this situation and we 
are forced to recognize the soundness 
of his predictions when he. said, ‘un- 
less this great farm problem. is 
squarely met and properly: solved, it 
will ultimately undermine the eco- 
nomic welfare of the nation.’ 

“No sacrifice has been too great 
for him to make in expressing these 
honest convictions and’ forewarning 
the nation; even possibly. sacrificing 
what is nationally termed the greatest 
honor of all—the Breqidency of the 
United States. 

“The consistency with ak he has 
for so many years championed the 
cause of agriculture and the welfare 
of the United States, could lead the 
Awarding Committee of the American 
Farm Bureau Federation to no other 
conclusion than selecting him as the 


Debate Price of Cream 
In Ice Cream Code 


Farmers Represented by I. A. A. 
and s. in Conferences 
~ with anufacturers 


HE Hlinois Agricultural As- 

} sociation and the milk producer 

co-operatives in Illinois set up 
by the I. A.A. and County Farm Bu- 
reaus are trying to get farmers a bet- 
ter price for sweet cream through the 
adoption of a code for the ice cream 
industry that protects the interests of 
producers, 

J. B. Countiss of ‘the L A. ne Don 
N. Geyer of the Pure Milk enectas 
tion, Chicago; A.-D. Lynch, Sanitary 
Milk Producers, St. Louis; Wilfred 
Shaw, Illinois Milk Producers Associa- 
tion, Peoria; Forrest Fairchild, Mc- 
Lean- County Milk Producers; and 
Wilkie Lee, Mid-West Dairy Company, 
Rockford, represented producers at a 
recent conference in Chicago with Illi- 
nois ice cream manufacturers. 

The producer representatives. in- 
sisted on a provision for a substantial 
premium price over the Chicago 92 
score butter market that gives -full 
recognition to extra labor and expense 
involved in producing ‘high ‘quality 
sweet.cream for the ice cream: trade. 

A national code forthe i ice cream, in- 
dustry was considered at. a hearing 
before the Agricultural : ‘ Adjustment 
Administration at Washington or 
August 10. The marketing agreement 
submitted by the Ice: ‘Cream Manufac- 


turers Association. is- -now on file. with 


Secretary Wallace-. ‘Tt: ‘inc}judes, 3 mini- 
mum price ‘Proposals, the set-up) ofthe 
governing committee, . terms of. dis- 
counts and fair trade practices, and a 
sample of a tentative marketing agree- 
ment for the different state units to 
submit so as to co- ordinate the whole 
industry. A: 

‘The national ice cream manufac- 
turers’ agreement proposes. minority 
representation for producers. The:}; A. 
A. objected to this provision when sub- 
mitted by Illinois manufacturers an 
will insist on equal representation for 
farmers on the national control board 
when sweet cream and butterfat price 
schedules are considered. 


outstanding citizen and farmer in the 
United States to receive its highest 
award for distinguished-service. 

“In closing, I want to say to Mr. 
Lowden, if he is listening in, that I 
am sure I voice the heartfelt feelings 
and sentiments of the thinking people 
of the United States when I say—we 
not only love you and honor you, but 
shall esteem your memory as long as_ 
the present generation may survive.” 


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To advance the purpose sing sae the Farm Bureau was or- 
ganized namely, to promote, protect and represent the busi- 
ness, economic, political and educational interests of the 
farmers of Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 


GEORGE THIEM, Editor 


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Live Stock Marketing..................cccccccuceecevceees Ray E. Miller 
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ASSOCIATED SOS ANESS TORE 
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Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co........ A. EB. Richardson, Mgr. 
Illinois Farm Supply Co.........cecccceescescscccce L. R. Marcbant, Mgr. 
Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange................seceeees H, W. Day, Mgr. 
Illinois Grain Corp....... Chas. P. Cummings, Vice-Pres. and Sales Mgr. 
Illinois Livestock Market. Ass’n..Ray Miller, Mgr., R. W. Grieser, Sales 
Illinois Producers Creameries...........ccecsesceecees F. A. Gougler, Mgr. 
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The Difference 


ARMER-OWNED grain marketing co-opera- 
tives are primarily interested in getting the 
farmer a better price for grain. 

The so-called grain trade is primarily interested 
in commissions and profits from handling the 
farmer’s grain—the larger the volume the better. 

This is the chief difference between the co-op- 
erative and the old-line system. 

Directors of the Illinois Grain Corporation and 
Farmers National are emphatically on record in 
favor of higher prices for grain thru acreage re- 
duction under the domestic allotment plan. 

Grain trade papers and official spokesmen are 
denouncing acreage reduction and the Farm Act, 
not because they are afraid of a wheat famine as 
they would have us believe, but because a smaller 
volume of grain to handle means fewer com- 
missions, lower profits. 

It should be easy for growers to decide which 
system to support. 


; I. A. A. RECORD—September, 1933 


Good Work In Illinois 


HE timeliness and value of the agricultural 
adjustment conferences sponsored during 
recent years by the University of Illinois College 


of Agriculture under Dean H. W. Mumford is em- 


phasized by the wheat acreage control campaign 
now underway throughout the country. 

The fact that Illinois farmers have substantially 
reduced their wheat acreage since 1929 largely as 
a result of this work, puts them in a favored posi- 
tion to comply with the government’s program 
with a minimum of rearrangement. 

Illinois corn and oat acreages, likewise, were 
cut in favor of the more profitable crops of soy- 
beans and alfalfa. Had other states been as for- 
ward-looking the evils of price-depressing sur- 
pluses would have been less pronounced. 


The Grain Price Bubble 


HE mid-July price crash on the Chicago 

Board of Trade has its good points. Specu- 
lators were run to cover. Exchange officials dem- 
onstrated again their inability to keep pure gam- 
bling and trading in privileges under control with- 
out government regulation. The resulting wild 
market broke a lot of little speculators and some 
big ones, brought easy money to others, which 
has its disadvantages, and threatened to smash 
the wheat acreage reduction program which alone 
offers the farmer a way to a permanent satisfac- 
tory price level. With proper regulation the market 
again will reflect the true value of grain, and 
farmers may intelligently apply needed remedies. 


Gov. Lehman To Mayor O'Brien 


66H DO NOT accede to that request,” was the 
terse reply of Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of 
New York to Mayor John P. O’Brien’s request that 
state sales and stock transfer taxes be doubled 
and the proceeds turned over to New York City 
and other cities for unemployment and work relief. 
In a recent address to the special session of the 
legislature at Albany, Gov. Lehman said it is 
wrong in principle to tax the people of one com- 
munity for the benefit of people in another com- 
munity. He asked the assembly to give the cities 
emergency power to levy their own taxes that 
they may pull themselves out of their difficulties. 
It is to be hoped that Gov. Lehman’s wholesome 
and sound policy will be followed hereafter in 
other states including Illinois. 


HE futility of relying on speculation and 

pegged markets for higher farm prices is 
amply illustrated by recent experience. The grain 
exchanges which a few weeks ago were loudly ac- 
claiming what they had done for the farmer are 
strangely silent now. A short time ago board of 
trade officials were taking much credit for peg- 
ging grain prices, doing exactly what they pre- 
viously condemned in the Farm Board. As this is 
written they are disclaiming responsibility for 
such action and are looking in vain for a goat. 


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I. A. A. RECORD—September, 1933 ' 


N A recent press conference at 
Washington; Henry Morgenthau, 
Jr., Governor of the Farm Credit 
Administration, disclosed some of the 
things he is up against in the farm 
mortgage refinancing program. : 
Knowledge of some of these prob- 
lems may influence many to be less 
critical and more. charitable toward 
those in charge of the farm credit ma- 
chinery. 


As Mr. Behnke of Hancock county 
pointed out in the July RECORD, the 
whole trouble lies in the fact that the 
commodity price level is still far below 
the average of 1921-1929 when most 
farm debts were contracted. Inflation 
and farm surplus reduction work have 
not gone far enough yet to bring 
sufficient relief. And land bank of- 
ficials along with private bankers 
are still smarting from the blows of 
the depression which drove farm land 
values down in many cases below the 
face value of what a few years ago 
were considered conservative mort- 


gages. 


“In June and July alone we received 
114,000 applications for loans repre- 
senting about $400,000,000,” Mr. Mor- 
genthau told the press. “And to give 
you something to compare with that, 
for the last six months of last year we 
had only 10,000 applications represent- 
ing $45,000,000. 


“On my recent trip to Illinois, Iowa, 
Wisconsin, Kentucky and South Caro- 
lina, I found our boys working 18 and 
20 hours a day to catch up on this 
job,” he continued. “It’s a terrific job. 
On the first of. April the.whole land 
bank system had only 210 appraisers, 
and an appraiser can do only about 
one and one-half farms a day. On the 
28th of July we had 803 appraisers 
working and 802 in training. And we 
have to build this force up to 2,500 or 
3,000 men if we are just going to keep 
up with the demand. 


“Everywhere I went we told the 
people that it would be 60 to 90 days 
until money would begin to flow into 
these states. It would take that long 
until they appraise and title search 
and all that. But there are two 
things I got out of this trip, one, 
that the people in the banks are do- 
ing everything humanly possible to 
take care of this sudden deluge of 
business. There is nobody loafing. 


And the other thing is that the de- 


mand is so much greater than we had 
any conception it would be.” 


The administration, Mr. Morgenthau 
said, is making a special campaign in 
five states, one of which is Illinois, 
to refinance farm mortgages and 
loans -whether held’ by banks or -pri- 
vate parties. In Illinois they expect 
to have at least 100 special appraisers 
soon at work in addition to the local 
farm loan secretaries. The new men 
have instructions “to take care of 
everybody who wants his mortgage 
refinanced whether in closed banks, 
open banks, or no bank. Before we 
leave a county we will take care of 
every application from any farmer 
who wants to be refinanced,” he said. 


The land banks in all the states 
have about $90,000,000 on hand and 
another $100,000,000 has been prom- 
ised by the R. F. C. After this 
money is used up in exchange for 
mortgage paper, the Administration 
will be forced to sell land bank bonds 
to the public unless more loans can 
be secured from the Reconstruction 
Corporation. 


Applications for land bank loans 
and so called “commissioner’s” loans 
are now being received on one blank. 
Land bank loans at 4%% are being 
made up to 50% of the appraised 
normal value of the land and 20% of 
the buildings, Mr. Morgenthau said. 
Commissioner loans are made on 
second mortgages on land and on 
chattels up to 75% of the appraised 
value. The Credit Administration has 
opened an office in the State House 
at Springfield, Ill. and is working 
with the State banking department 
particularly in refinancing frozen 
paper held by State banks. 


Quality Milk Ass'n. 


Sells New Dealers 


HE Quality Milk Association is 

] supplying three additional milk 

distributors on the Quad-Cities 
market, and reports that it now has 
approximately 50 per cent of the local 
fluid milk outlet. 

The association recently boosted its 
price to the dealers to 95 cents per 
cwt. Members of the Quality Milk As- 
sociation are now receiving a higher 
price for milk than the outlying pro- 
ducers who are supplying non-co-op- 
erating dealers. The price to the con- 
sumer continues at six cents per quart. 

A protest against extension of the 
Quad-City milk shed beyond the limits 
of the trade territory was voiced at 
the last meeting of the board of di- 
rectors. 


Speaker Rainey Favors 
Recognition of Russia 


Devaluation of Gold Necessary 
For Higher Price Level, 
Says Pearson 


Rainey of Illinois, a member of 

the Greene County Farm Bureau 

and the I. A. A., declared in a recent 

address before the International Apple 

Association in Chicago that the Roose- 

velt administration expected to re-es- 

_tablish price 

levels at or near 

those for the year 
1926. 

Congress m an 
Rainey asserted 
that devaluation 
of the dollar is the 
quickest and most 
effective way to 
restore the 1926 
level of prices. 

He also urged 

recognition of 
Russia to stimulate export trade and 
provide an outlet for American prod- 
ucts. Russia is one of the few nations 
in the world which has not lifted tariff 
barriers against tle United States. 

“Russia needs everything we pro- 
duce,” he said, “and we should not 
continue to withhold recognition from 
the country whose government has 
been in power for 14 years and which 
today has a strong central authority.” 

Prof. F. A. Pearson of Cornell Uni- 
versity whose immediate superior, Dr. 
Geo. F. Warren, is close to the Roose- 
velt administration, expressed the be- 
lief that substantial increases in farm 
commodity prices would not. be 
brought about until the administra- 
tion definitely acted to reduce the 
value of gold. He asserted that the 
nation’s attempt to manage the price 
level is fully justified and will not re- 
sult in wild inflation. 

“Devaluation of the dollar is the 
simplest way to restore commodity 
prices,” he said. “But this will not in- 
sure the future stability of that price 
level. Stability can only be accom- 
plished by varying the price of gold.” 


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Wallace money at four per cent but 
he turned down the R. F. C.’s offer 
and obtained $30,000,000 at 2% and 
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Code Would Clean 
Up Board of Trade 


Administrator Peek Warns Grain Exchanges To Measure 
Up or Face Stringent Regulation 


r : NAHE wild speculation of mid- 
July when the grain market 
crashed on the Chicago Board 

of Trade would be done away with as 

a result of the new grain code ordered 

drawn up by Geo. 

N. Peek, chief of 

the Agricultural 

Adjustment Ad- 

ministration. 

Under the terms 
of the code ori- 
ginally submitted 
margins required 
for open contracts 

up to _ 250,000 

bushels shall be 

10 per cent of the 

market price. On 

open contracts up to 2,000,000 bushels 
the margin shall be 10 per cent on the 
first 250,000 bushels and 15 per cent 
on the remainder. On all trades over 

2,000,000 bushels the rate shall be 20 

per cent. 


Exchange authorities are given wide 
authority to examine any and_ all 
tickets, records, contracts, accounts 
and papers of any Exchange member. 

Mr. Peek objected to the code sub- 
mitted suggesting that the exchanges 
should exclude from membership all 
persons actively engaged in trading 
and speculation. 

Some exchanges, he said, now have 
conduct committees from which active 
traders and speculators are excluded, 
but the Chicago Board of Trade is not 
one of them. 

Mr. Peek outlined several sugges- 
tions for inclusion in the grain ex- 
change code, as follows:— 

1. That they do a more thorough job 
of cleaning up their own organization 
and practices. 

2. That business conduct committees 
exclude speculators and traders and 
that they be selected as to warrant 
public confidence. 

3. That trades be policed by special- 
ists hired for that purpose. 

4. That exchanges co-operate fully 
with the grain futures administration 
at Washington and with local repre- 
sentatives of the administration in the 
cities where located. 


Before the grain code was con- 
sidered Peek warned the grain men 


GEO, N, ‘PEEK 


that they faced the most drastic gov- 
ernment control if the code proposed 
was not satisfactory. 

He said: “We have one responsibil- 
ity under the law. That is to get the 
farmers’ prices up to parity and to 
keep them from falling below that 
point. You gentlemen operating the 
market also for the farmers’ grain 
also have a responsibility. Under the 
law we are going to exercise every 
power that we have, if it is necessary, 
to accomplish the purpose of the law. 

“Unless we can get these farm 
prices up—I don’t mean after the 
farmer has ‘sold his grain, but before 
he has sold his grain—I anticipate 
that you will face legislation next 
winter which may make what we are 
talking about now fade into insignifi- 
cance compared with the restrictive 
provisions that will be placed upon 
you. 

“I say that with all the candor in 
the world, because I am interested 
primarily in preserving the social 
order under which we have all grown 
up and prospered to a greater or less 
degree. 

“With the number of strikes all over 
the country — the coal strike in 
Pennsylvania, the milk strike in New 
York, the lumber strike throughout 
the entire lumber regions, and others 
—if you don’t keep the farmer con- 
servative, then he is going with the 
other crowd. He isn’t going to stand 
still and be dispossessed of his home 
and his property through no fault of 
his own. 

“It is in the interest of the nation, 
I think, that everything that can be 
done shall be done to keep him con- 
servative. 

“That has got to be changed, and if 
this code doesn’t go far enough to cor- 
rect the abuses on the exchanges, then 
I urge you with all the sincerity I 
have in my heart to undertake to do 
whatever is necessary to clean your 
own house and justify your existence 
as the market for the farmers’ grain.” 

In the meantime the Grain Futures 
Administration is making a complete 
investigation of the grain markets and 
will report to the Secretary of Agri- 
culture with recommendations for fur- 
ther regulation if necessary. 


I. A. A. RECORD—September, 1933 


The grain code was ordered to pre- 
vent recurrences of the 30 cent drop 
in wheat prices in two days caused by 
one speculator, “Doc’” Crawford, ob- 
taining 138,000,000 bushels of corn 
alone on margin contracts besides sev- 
eral million bushels of other grain. 

When prices started on the tobog- 
gan and Crawford was unable to put. 
up any margin he had to be sold out. 

This selling out process meant in 
effect that his brokers, 17 in num- 
ber, would be compelled to dump this 
huge quantity of grain and thereby 
cause a severe break in grain prices. 

It is known that Crawford traded in 
a large volume of grain privileges or 
indemnities which is purely gambling. 
At one time the government barred 
this practice and the new grain code 
also will stop this kind of speculation. 


Since the sharp break in the market 
Board of Trade spokesmen have been 
strangely silent. Only a few months 
ago they were loudly berating the 
Farm Board, the Department of Ag- 
riculture, the Grain Futures Act and 
farmer-owned and farmer-controlled 
co-operative marketing institutions de- 
manding absolute freedom against any 
kind of regulation. As a result the 
grain exchanges were given a free 
hand with the result noted. 

An unregulated speculative market 
is not only a nuisance but also a detri- 
ment to the grain grower. He doesn’t 
know whether the crop will bring 
enough to pay the threshing bill and 
taxes or not: With such an unreliable 
market it is impossible for him to 
plan ahead. The speculative system is 
directly opposed to planned production 
and price stabilization provided for in 
the Agricultural Adjustment Act. 

On July 31 the grain market 
dropped to the limit set by the Ex- 
changes at the direction of the Sec- 
retary of Agriculture. On August 1 
the market went to the other extreme 
with but few trades in between. 

The supposition is that a few big 
speculators were pushing it up or 
down at will. Incidentally, during the 
moratorium on speculative trading a 
few months ago cash prices steadily 
advanced. Many believe that if a six 
months moratorium were placed on 
future trading and speculation, the 
farmer would be benefited. In such 
an event the public would be forced 
to turn to horse racing, or the stock 
market to satisfy its gambling in- 
stincts, and the grain brokers would 
miss their lucrative commissions, but 
farmers would be in a better position 
to work out an orderly production and 
marketing program which in the end 
is the only way to re-establish and 
maintain reasonable prices for farm 
products. 


Farmers Can Win 


Through Organization 
By J. B. Countiss and Frank 
Gougler 

VERY time you see the name 

EK “Prairie Farms,” or the emblem 

of “Illinois Producers’ Creamer- 

ies, you should be reminded that an- 

other mile post has been passed by or- 

ganized farmers in their efforts to se- 

cure a greater share of the consumer’s 

dollar and give the consumer a better 
quality butter for his money. 

To get more money back to the pro- 
ducer for his butterfat it is necessary 
first, to produce good cream; second, 
to get it to the creamery while it is 
still fresh; and third, to manufacture 
this cream into butter of superior 
quality in economically operated 
plants. 

Now Illinois farmers in addition to 
producing and processing their cream 
are going a step farther. They are 
selling their product under their own 
name and trademark to stores, hotels 
and restaurants. They are offering the 
consumer a high quality butter at a 
reasonable price. 

This is the new deal in Illinois for 
cream producers. All savings in pro- 
curement, manufacturing and selling 
of his product go directly to the pro- 
ducer. 

Three centralized co-operative plants 
are now operating at Bloomington, 
Peoria and Rock Island. Four more 
similar units are being organized. 

The plants now making butter at 
the rate of three to four million 
pounds annually are supplied with 
fresh cream picked up at the farm at 
least twice a week by a fleet of 70 
trucks. 

Contrary to expectation experience 
shows that procurement costs have 
been reduced by this method and the 
quality of butter decidedly improved 
over that resulting from the cream 
station method of assembly. 

The annual production of butterfat 
in Illinois approximates 50,000,000 
pounds. The value of this crop can 
be stepped up easily two cents per 
pound by more frequent marketing 
and manufacture into a higher quality 
butter. Not counting the additional 
savings possible through efficient and 
economical plant operations and sale 
of the finished product, this price ad- 
vance alone would amount to $1,000,- 
000 more annually to Illinois farmers 
if applied to their entire output. 

Here is one more way in which 
farmers can win through organiza- 
tion. 


The Claims Department of the I. A. 
A. collected a total of $263,068.79 in 
loss and damage and other claims 
from 1920 up to July 1, 1933. 


I, A. A. RECORD—September, 1933 


Milk Producer Co-ops. 


In Illinois Organize 


Co-operative milk producer associa- 
tions operating in Illinois organized a 
state federation and considered the 
details of a milk trade agreement for 
the state as a whole at a meeting in 
the I. A. A. offices Tuesday, August 
15. 

As soon as adopted, the trade agree- 
ment or code will be submitted to the 
Agricultural Adjustment Administra- 
tion for consideration and approval. 


Meet With Truckers 


Ray E. Miller, director of livestock 
marketing, and G. C. Storey of the 
Chicago Producers met with livestock 
truckers and producers in the Mar- 
shall-Putnam Farm Bureau office, 
Henry, on Aug. 10. 

The following day Miller, Storey, 
and E. T. Robbins, extension special- 
ist, attended a cattle feeders’ tour 
sponsored by the M.-P. Farm Bureau. 


“Go into the history of any law en- 
acted for the benefit of farmers and 
you will find in the background the 
farmer’s own organization.”—Ralph 
Snyder, President Kansas State Farm 
Bureau. 


“The rugged individualism of 
farmers has helped the organ- 
ized consuming world buy its 
foodstuffs at the cheapest price. 
The result has been disastrous 
both to the other fellow and to 
farmers, but to farmers first. 
The only logical system in stght 
so far by which the farmer can 
bargain collectively—and effec- 
tively—for the sale of his prod- 
ucts, in a highly organized so- 
ciety of buyers, is through co- 
operative marketing.”—Senator 
Arthur Capper. 


Paul E. Mathias Added 
Tol. A. A. Legal Staff 


AUL E. MATHIAS, first ass st- 
P ant to DeWitt Billman, executive 

secretary of the Legislative Ref- 
erence Bureau at Springfield, during 
the past five years, was recently em- 
ployed by the I. A. A. as assistant 
counsel in the Legal Department. He 
began work with the Association on 
Aug. 1. 

Mr. Mathias was born near Roches- 
ter, Indiana where he attended the 
rural schools, working on his father’s 
farm during vacation until he finished 
college. 

He took his pre-legal and legal work 
at the University of Chicago where he 
received his LL. B degree in December, 
1926. Since that time he has been em- 
ployed by the State of Illinois in draft- 
ing bills for introduction in the legis- 
lature, and doing 
legal work for the 
legislature, the 
Governor and the 
executive depart- 
ments. 

Mr. Mathias at- 
tracted the atten- 
tion of I. A. A. of- 
ficials while en- 
gaged in drafting 
measures __intro- 
duced and spon- 
sored by the As- 
sociation in recent sessions of the 
General Assembly. He comes to the 
Association highly recommended and 
with years of successful experience in 
his field. He addressed the state as- 
sociation of county officials, super- 
visors and commissioners at their re- 
cent meeting in Danville, on legisla- 
tion passed in the last General As- 
sembly affecting their interests. 

Mr. Kirkpatrick, general counsel 
and head of the Legal Department, 
with his associates, will handle all 
public utility, transportation, and 
right-of-way matters in addition to 
other legal matters referred to the As- 
sociation by members and associated 
organizations. 

Mr. Guy Baxter will direct the 
claim work, and rate service to mem- 
bers and associated companies as head 
of the transportation division under 
the general supervision of Mr. Kirk- 
patrick. 


PAUL E, MATHIAS 


“The Farmers National Grain Cor- 
poration was built largely out of fa- 
cilities already owned by grain 
growers, and today either owns or 
controls 75,000,000 bushels of terminal, 
sub-terminal, and country elevator 
space,”—C, E. Huff. 


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WHICH WILL BE THE 1933 COUNTRY LIFE QUEEN? 


1 Clarice Brewer, Bond; 2 Beith Herbert, Boone; 3 Althea Minkler, Bureau; 4 Alma Williamson, Carroll; 5 Alta Jokisch, 
Cass;:6 Irene Emerson, Christian; 7 Martha June White, Coles; 8 Alice Ettema, Cook; 9 Hazel Jandt, DeKalb: 19*M@rgaret 
Fay, Hoge, DeWitt; 11 Pauline Beatty, Edgar; 12 Mary Ann Shepherd, Edwards; 13 Marie Schottman, Effingham; 14.Mildred 
Noland, Ford; 15 Thelma Rodgers, Gallatin; 16 Mary Strang, Greene; 17 Wilda McKeown, Henderson; 18 Mazine Radue, 
Henry; 19 Edythe M. Bayler, Iroquois; 29 Catherine Simmons, Jefferson; 21 Doris Rife, JoDaviess; 22 Mary Catherine Davis, 
Knor; 23 Eleanor Van Zandt, Lake; 24 Ruth Anderson, LaSalle; 25 Martha Cunningham, Lawrence; 26 Roma Breimer, Lee. 


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27 Lucille Holloway, Livingston; 28 Bernice Arnold, McDonough; 29 Dorothy Zickuhr, McHenry; 30 Lucile Burnett, Mc- 
Lean; 31 Marie Shafer, Madison; 32 Barbara Olson, Marshall-Putnam; 33 Ruth Moller, Massac; 34 Mildred Grosboll, Menard; 
35 Elizabeth Rathbun, Mercer; 36 Marjorie Ann Rausch, Monroe; 37 Ruby Mindrup, Montgomery; 38 Helen Marjorie Sanders, 
Morgan; 39 Dorothy Heinz, Peoria; 40 Genevieve Gay Lewis, Pike; 41 Erma A. Roby, Richland; 42 Grace Bollman, Rock Is- 
land; 43 Elsie Schaller, St. Clair; 44 Mable Irene Oertley, Stark; 45 Edith Bear, Stephenson; 46 Mary Louise Wertsch, 
Tazewell; 47 Juliana Crippin, Wayne; 48 Lena Burger, White; 49 Beth Ordella Clark, Whiteside; 50 Marie Wagley, William- 
son; 51 Ruth Haas, Woodford. 

Bonnie Mae Allen, Jackson; Gladys Garren, Marion; and Irma Heggemeier, Washington; are included among the con- 
testants but failed to send in pictures. 


16 


Acreage 


Regulates 


Production In Long Run 


Department of Agriculture Presents Arguments For 


Wheat Acreage Reduction Campaign 


N the long run acreage and not the 
weather man regulates wheat pro- 
duction, according to the U. S. De- 

partment of Agriculture. It is true that 
the wheat crop will be short this year, 
the Department says, but a study of pro- 
duction. in the past ten years shows 
that weather has had much less to do 
with piling up surpluses than increased 
acreage. The accompanying chart re- 
veals how closely production and 
acreage have gone along since 1866. In 
the same period it has been shown that 
the yield has been comparatively 
stable. 

As a corrective to inferences that 
may be drawn from the May winter 
wheat forecast, which indicated an out- 
turn nearly 30 percent below that of 
last year and nearly sixty percent be- 
low that of 1931, the Department draws 
attention to the trends of production 
and acreage during the last 40 years, 
Production in- 
creased about 80 
percent and 
acreage about 60 
percent. The dif- PER CENT 


ference is attrib- 

utable to a gain 140 
of more than 20 20 
percent in yields | 


per acre. But this 
gain is as much a 


man-made _ factor 80 
as the acreage. It 
reflects the im- | 
provement of va- 60 ’ | 
rieties, of better 
farm practice, and 40 o 
of pest control. 

, 20 


The accompany- 


the trends of pro- 


duction, acreage, 
and yields per acre 120 
inthe United 
States. Acreage 100 


and production 


from 1890 to 1930 = 
cheved apward te... 2 
gether, with the 1860 1870 


former increasing 

its lead as the yield per acre rose. 
Taking the country as a whole, the 
production per acre was surprisingly 
uniform from year to year. From 1905 
to 1930 the average yield was 14.5 
bushels. The highest yield was only 17 
bushels and the lowest 12.2. Seasonal 
influences affecting yields had obvious- 
ly a small influence as compared with 
the acreage in determining the volume 
of production. Locally and seasonally 
the effect of the weather and of in- 
sects and diseases often seemed pro- 
ponderant. But these influences varied 
in opposite directions from year to year 
and canceled out, whereas the influence 
of a growing acreage remained con- 
stant. 

Price developments in the present 
crop season do not necessarily betoken 
a permanent improvement in our wheat 
situation, the Department declares. 
They reflect inflation buying, as well 
as heavy winterkilling, an abandon- 
ment of nearly a third of the acreage, 
and the probability of the smallest 
crop in 29 years. This country’s wheat 


i Ds ae 


acreage jumped from 50,185,000 in 1913 
to 73,099,000 in 1919, and was 12,000,000 
acres above pre-war as late as 1929. It 
totaled 55,177,000 acres last year. With 
a carryover three (360,000,000 bushels) 
times the normal and a tremendously 
reduced foreign demand, this acreage 
was heavily excessive. Normal produc- 
tion next year on an acreage as large 
as that seeded this year would give 
us more than 800,000,000 bushels, and 
this, in view of the great decline in ex- 
ports, would mean a substantial addi- 
tion to the domestic carryover. 

It would be a dangerous mistake, the 
Department says, for farmers to con- 
clude from the immediate crop and 
price situation that a _ reduction of 
acreage is unnecessary. Such a view 
would virtually ensure heavy over- 
production next year. Unless. steps 
are taken to prevent it, the winter 
acreage abandoned this season will be 


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CE Beane Coren 


= 
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@ 


‘e \adpoouciion 


Yield | 


i880 6.1890 ~—s« 1900 1910 


planted again next fall. Indeed, the 
acreage will tend to be increased. That 
is the usual sequence when a partial 
crop failure boosts prices. But it is 
not usual for generally low yields to 
come in succession. Hence on the 
acreage that the ordinary course of 
events would bring into production for 
the crop year 1933-34, a surplus above 
marketing possibilities would be vir- 
tually a certainty. 

Relying on nature to correct surplus 
difficulties has another serious draw- 
back in that it increases the farmers’ 
unit costs of production. When bad 
weather, pests, and diseases cut down 
production, rising costs incurred in an- 
ticipation of a normal yield frequently 
more than counterbalance any result- 
ing rise of prices. This is particularly 
true of wheat in the United States 
when it is on an export basis; for low 
yields associated with high unit costs 
in this country may run against high 
yields and low unit costs in competing 
countries. Profits in agriculture, as in 
other industries, depend on the margin 


I. A. A. RECORD—September, 1933 


between production costs and prices, 
It is necessary when overproduction 
exists to reduce production by methods 
that do not increase costs. Depending 
on the destructiveness of diseases and 
pests to regulate the output is uncer- 
tain and inefficient. 

In the case of this season’s winter 
wheat crop, the rise of prices that has 
taken place already offsets the effect 
of the reduced yield. The farm price of 
wheat in April averaged 43.1 cents a 
bushel, as compared with 31.6 cents in 
December last. Certain of the effects 
of reduced yields lower the farmer’s 
expenses. His outlay is less, for exam- 
ple, for threshing and handling the 
crop. Present indications are that the 
winter wheat growers will get as 
large a gross income from their pro- 
duction this year as they got for their 
much greater output last year. On many 
previous occasions, reduced yields have 
not been adequately compensated by 
a rise of prices. 

Farmers cannot expect a repetition 
of this conjunction of circumstances 
favoring a rise in price. On the con- 
trary they should expect, in the ab- 
sence of production control, a distinct- 
ly opposite result. Yield statistics 
covering the last half century seem to 
warrant the prediction that the sharp 
drop in the yield per acre will be com- 
pensated next season by a sharp rise. 
Acreage statistics warrant the predic- 
tion that, if nothing is done to restrain 
the tendency, the acreage too will rise. 
Hence the existing situation tends to 
throw the balance between the supply 
and demand elements still further out 
of adjustment, rather than to put it 
right. Should things work out that 
way, only an inflationary price rise or 

a big increase in 


Wheat: Acreage, Yield, and Production hand conte bees 


vent wheat from 
becoming still 


Acreag e more a drugin the 
J \i market. 
iv we Pe nS | 
y ee 4 v\ 
‘ ‘| Less Wheat In 


Nine Coun- 


ai Po 


Wheat produc- 
tion in nine coun- 


more than 30 per- 
igen Gg RST SE SaaS NSN ORR mene eter i 


cent of the world 
crop outside Rus- 
sia and China is 
forecast at 983,- 
891,000 bushels in 
1933 against 1,- 
154,221,000 bushels 
harvested in 1932, 
by the Bureau of 
Agricultural Eco- 
1920 1930 nomics. These 
countries produced 
1,421,961,000 bushels in 1931. Seeding is 
almost completed in Australia and is 
proceeding under fairly favorable con- 
ditions in Argentina. 

Of the nine countries—United States, 
Mexico, Spain, Algeria, Morocco, Tunis, 
Egypt, India, and Japan—only three 
countries—Mexico, India, and Japan— 
expect increased production this year 
over last. The crop in India is forecast 
at 347,162,000 bushels compared with 
339,621,000 bushels last year. 

The bureau reports favorable wheat 
prospects but probable reduced yields 
in Germany, an early harvest in France, 
better than average wheat condition in 
Czechoslovakia, some deterioration of 
the crop in Poland, and above average 
condition in Sweden. The 1932-33 crop 
in Uruguay will be insufficient to meet 
domestic consumption requirements. 

Secretary Wallace is expected to an- 
nounce the percentage of wheat acre- 
age reduction for 1934 on or about Aug. 
24. To get benefit payments growers 
must reduce their acreage the specified 
percentage. 


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Magic Aladdin Gas 
~ * Is New Motor Fuel 


County Managers Meet at Chi- 
' cago and Springfield to 
Launch Sales Program 


PANY, and the 53 cooperative 

county service companies affiliated 
with it in supplying petroleum prod- 
ucts and kindred farm supplies to 
more than 75,000 Illinois farmers, on 
August 15 introduced a new gasoline, 
Magic Aladdin, to its customers. In- 
dications are that the new motor fuel 
will enjoy widespread popularity. Of- 
ficers of Illinois Farm Supply Com- 
pany confidently predict that all gaso- 
line sales records will be broken as 
soon as the company’s customers have 
had an opportunity to try out the new 
fuel. 

L. R. Marchant, manager of the IIli- 
nois Farm Supply Company, says re- 
garding the new product: 

“Constant improvements have been 
made in our Aladdin gasoline ever 
since Illinois Farm Supply Company 
was organized, but the greatest im- 
provement has taken place within re- 
cent weeks. The most modern methods 
of blending and refining have produced 
an outstanding motor fuel — Magic 
Aladdin — a high-compression, anti- 
knock gasoline that is clean-burning 
and free from sulphur, gum and the 
gum-forming ingredients that multiply 
motor ills. 

“Most ordinary gasolines burn with 
extreme rapidity under the temper- 
ature and pressure of modern, high- 
compression engines. The sudden ex- 
pansion of gas causes a distortion of 
piston heads and cylinder walls, pro- 
ducing the familiar ‘knock,’ which 
greatly reduces engine power and 
eventually results in mechanical in- 
jury to the motor. In Magic Aladdin, 
our customers have a real knockless 
gasoline that has the additional ad- 
vantages of instant pick-up, split sec- 
ond get-away, and greater power and 
mileage. The new Magic Aladdin is to 
be sold to our customers at no in- 
crease in price; that is, they have the 
opportunity of obtaining this new 
power-plus fuel at exactly the same 
price they have been paying for Alad- 
din regular.” 

Magic Aladdin was “launched” at 
meetings of service company managers 
and directors held at Chicago on 
August 11 and at Springfield on 
August 14. Practically every company 
in the state was represented at these 
meetings which were presided over by 
F. E. Herndon of McDonough county, 
president of Illinois Farm Supply 
Company. 


[ray FARM SUPPLY COM- 


I. A. A. RECORD—September, 1933 


NOTICE 
ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 
ASSOCIATION 
ELECTION OF DELEGATES 


Notice is hereby given that in 
connection with the annual meet- 
ings of all county Farm Bureaus 
to be held during the months of 
August, September and October, 
.1933, at the hour and place to be 
determined by the Board of Di- 
rectors of each respective county 
Farm Bureau, the members in 
good standing of such county 
Farm Bureau and who are also 
qualified voting members of Illi- 
nois Agricultural Association 
shall elect a delegate or delegates 
to represent such members of 
Illinois Agricultural Association 
and .vote on all matters before 
the next annual meeting or any 
special meeting of the Associa- 
tion, including the election of of- 
ficers and directors as provided 
He in the by-laws of the Associa- 
tion. 

No annual meetings will be held 
during August. 

During September annual meet- 
ings will be held in Christian and 
Jefferson counties. 

During the month of October 
the following counties will hold 
annual meetings: Adams, Cass, 
Cumberland, Ford, Scott, Han- 
cock, Henderson, JoDaviess, War- 
ren, Marshall-Putnam, Menard, 
White, Montgomery, Pike, Pu- 
laski-Alexander, Shelby, Stark, 


Macon, 
Signed, 


G. E. Metzger, Secretary 
August 20, 1933 


Larry. Williams Addresses 
County Bureau Picnics 


Lawrence A. Williams, manager of 
Country Life Insurance Co., reports 
excellent attendance and widespread 
interest in acreage and crop reduction 
plans at Farm Bureau picnics he has 
addressed during recent weeks. 


700 at Meeting In 
McHenry County 


More than 700 McHenry County 
members and their guests attended a 
county-wide meeting held at Wood- 
stock the night of Aug. 10. Secretary 
Geo. E. Metzger substituted for Presi- 
dent Earl C. Smith who was scheduled 
to speak. Mr. Smith was unavoidably 
detained in Washington by develop- 
ments in the hog reduction program 
which he submitted to a general con- 
ference called by Chief Administrator 
Geo. N. Peek on Aug. 10. 


McQueen With AAA 


W. C. McQueen of Elgin, formerly 
president of the Kane County Farm 
Bureau and first president of the Pure 
Milk Association, has been employed 
by the Agricultural Adjustment Ad- 
ministration to serve in an advisory 
capacity on milk trade agreements. 


17 


LaSalle County Grain 
Growers Meet Mendota 


Hear President Huff of Farmers 
National, Secy. Geo. E. Metz- 
ger and C. P. Cummings 


HE Farmers National Grain 

I Corporation’s job is not merely 

merchandising a car of grain on 
any market to which it may happen to 
be shipped but to so organize its 
efforts that this grain may be moved 
as directly as possible from the point 
of surplus to the areas of need and 
that this be done as cheaply as pos- 
sible, C. E. Huff, president of the 
Farmers National Grain Corporation, 
told more than 400 farmers and their 
wives at a meeting in the Mendota 
high school July 17. 

“We are building a marketing or- 
ganization,” said Mr. Huff, “to help the 
farmer secure a price for what he has 
to sell on a parity with the price of 
commodities he has to buy. The 
Farmers National will handle 15 to 20 
per cent of all the wheat marketed in 
the United States this year.” 

Mr. Huff explained that of the $15,- 
000,000 borrowed from the Farm 
Board approximately $5,500,000 had 
been loaned on good security to coun- 
try elevators, and approximately the 
same amount has been used to buy 
terminal facilities which have proved 
very profitable; and a little more than 
$4,000,000 is in a liquid position for 
use in transacting business. This loan, 
he says, benefits more than 300,000 
farmers and is less than one-fifth as 
much as a single bank in Illinois se- 
cured from the government. 

Secretary George E. Metzger of the 
I. A. A. reviewed the program of the 
I. A. A. in the recent General As- 
sembly. 

“The value of representation by or- 
ganized farmers at Springfield in the 
last session was not determined so 
much by the bills that were passed as 
by the bad bills the I. A. A. helped to 
kill,” said Metzger. He predicted that 
organized agriculture will have a bat- 
tle on its hands next winter in pre- 
venting Cook county from driving 
through new legislation taxing down- 
state people for the relief of unem- 
ployed in the metropolitan area. 

C. P. Cummings,’ general manager 
of Illinois Grain Corporation, asserted 
that the Illinois regional handled more 
than 15,000,000 bushels of grain last 
year which undoubtedly was the rea- 
son so much opposition was shown to 
the co-operative marketing program 
in Illinois which returns the profits in 
handling grain to the producer. 

E. E. Stevenson, president of the 
LaSalle County Farm Bureau, pre- 
sided. 


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18 


Chicago Milk Shed Gets 
First Trade Agreement 


But Legal Battles Loom as 
Roadside Stands Refuse To 
Abide By 10c Price | 


<2 O the fluid milk industry in the 


Chicago milk shed goes the hon- 
or of securing the first trade 
agreement under the Agricultural Ad- 
justment Administration. The agree- 
ment was initiated by the Pure Milk 
Association and Chicago milk dealers. 
It was delayed for weeks while the 
Agricultural Ad- 
justment Admin- 
istration (Geo. N. 
Peek) and the Na- 
tional Reco very 
A d m inistration 
(Gen. Johnson) 
argued as to 
which should have 
jurisdiction. — Fi- 
nally the matter 
was taken to the 
White House 
where President 
Roosevelt decided for the A.A.A. 
The influence of President Ed. A. 
O’Neal of the American Farm Bureau 
Federation was mighty helpful in get- 
ting our agreement administered by 
the Adjustment Administration, said 
Don N. Geyer, manager of the Pure 
Milk Ass’n. ; 
The agreement prescribes among 
other things that the producer shall 
receive $1.75 per cwt. for base milk 
and that the retail price shall be 10 
eents per quart to the consumer. The 
so-called “independent” dairies and 
roadside milk stands which have been 
retailing unpasteurized milk, often in 
unsanitary and germ-breeding sur- 
roundings, at 6 to 9 cents a quart or 
less, are contesting the agreement and 
propose to carry the question up to 
the Federal Supreme Court. They in- 
sist on the right of selling milk for 
less than 10c when the consumer 
comes after it. Meantime the State 
Department of Agriculture has 
started to prosecute a number of milk 
stands for violation of sanitary regu- 
lations under the state pure food 
laws. Until these questions are 
settled the Chicago market will con- 
tinue in an unstable condition, with 
the regular dealers threatening to 
lower the price to save their business 
unless the unfair cut throat competi- 
tion of the roadside stands and “inde- 
pendents” is eliminated. At the same 
time organized dairymen are demand- 
ing that the trade agreement be 
amended at an early date to give 
them a 50 to 75 cent increase in the 
base price so they can pay interest 
and taxes and maintain their farms. 


D. N, GEYER 


Honor Frank |. Mann 


More than 300 friends of Frank I. 
Mann, noted soil and crop expert of 
Gilman, Iroquois county, gathered at 
his home Sunday, July 80, in recogni- 
tion of his contribution to the better- 
ment of Illinois agriculture. 

Robt. A. Cowles, treasurer, repre- 
sented the I. A. A. The picnic in 
honor of Mr. Mann was arranged by 
Prairie Farmer and the _ Iroquois 
County Farm Bureau. Ex-Gov. War- 
ren T. McCray of Indiana, Dean Mum- 
ford, Prof. Lehmann and Dr. Bauer of 
the University of Illinois, Congress- 
man Chas. Adkins of Decatur, C. V. 
Gregory and Floyd Keepers of Prairie 
Farmer, Eugene Funk of Bloomington, 
and many others including Farm Bu- 
reau member delegations from central 
and eastern Illinois counties attended. 


Scale Down Debts, Get 
'-" Commissioner Loans 


Examples of How Farmers Are 
Being Refinanced 


“Reports from the Commissioner’s 
agents show that much assistance al- 
ready is being extended to farmers in 
the numerous ways made possible by 
their loans, including forestalling fore- 
closures, scaling down of debts and 
reduction in interest rates,” says a re- 
cent statement from the Farm Credit 
Administration. 

“A Commissioner’s loan of $900 re- 
cently made to a farmer in Louisiana 
whose total debts practically equalled 
the appraised value of his farm made 
it possible for him to scale down a 
$726 second mortgage bearing 8 per 
cent to $450, to settle his $161 tax bill 
for $147 cash, and to pay off $662 
of other debts for $165 cash and have 
somethi..g left with which to carry on 


‘ his farm operations for the current 


year. He secured a scale-down of ap- 
proximately $724 on his indebtedness 


or about 25 per cent. 


“Another farmer in North Carolina 
had a first mortgage amounting to 
$3,751 on 126 acres appraised at $4,- 
213. This farmer secured a Federal 
Land Bank lo.n for $1,700, and a 
Commissioner’s second mortgage loan 
for $1,200. He used the Federal Land 
Bank loan and $702 from the Com- 
missioner’s loan to retire the first 
mortgage, securing thereby a scaling 
down of about 33 per cent. Of the 
Commissioner’s loan, $451 was used to 
pay off a second mortgage amounting 
to $994. The balance was used to pay 
other debts. 


I, A. A. RECORD—September, 1933 


“A Commissioner’s loan of $2,500, 


made to a farmer in Minnesota, paid 
off a loan of’ $2,906, other indebted- 
ness amounting to $54.20, and taxes 
of $148.53. This farmer secured. a 
scale-down in his debts of approxi- 
mately $638, a slight reduction in in- 
terest and had funds left for farm 
operations during the current year. 
“Another loan made in Missouri re- 


sulted in a scale-down of about $300, - 


or 10 per cent on the first. mortgage 
and a reduction in the interest rate to 


the borrower from 6 to 5 per cent.. 


This farmer obtained a Commission- 
er’s loan for $3,000. His farm was 
valued at only $3,200 and he had a 
first mortgage on it for $3,300, bear- 
ing 6 per cent. Obviously, it was nec- 


essary for the Commissioner to secure . 


other collateral than that of the farm 
for a loan of this size. A chattel mort- 


gage for $411, and a-crop lien of-$189 . 


on 42 acres of crops gave the Com- 


missioner’s agent the required amount 


of collateral. 

“A Commissioner’s second mortgage 
loan of $5,000 on a 98-acre farm in 
Massachusetts, and a $10,000 Federal 
Land Bank loan enabled a farmer to 
wipe out his first mortgage of $23,000. 

“Of course, not all farmers getting 
Commissioner’s loans are able to se- 
cure a scale-down in the amount which 
they owe, but in nearly all cases there 
has been a reduction in the rate of 
interest from that which they have 
been paying. Several reports on loans 
made in the Middle and Far West 
indicate that the borrowers have been 
paying 8 per cent interest. Com- 
missioner’s loans carry an _ interest 
rate of 5 per cent. They are made for 
a longer period of years than most 
cf the loans which are being replaced. 
Usually, they are for a 13-year period 
and during the first 3 years no in- 
stallment on the principal is re- 
quired.” 


Tomato Prices Boosted 


Tomato prices to farmers were 
boosted 25% by several large pro- 
cessors at the request of Chas. J. 
Brand, co-administrator of the Ad- 
justment Act. The Campbell Soup 
Co. announced that the price of firsts 
in Eastern States was raised from 
$14 to $17.50 a ton and seconds from 
$8 to $10. 

H. J. Heinz increased its contract 
price in New Jersey from $11 to $13. 


C. S. Love, farm adviser in Clay 
county for the past several years, has 
been employed as adviser to succeed 
T. R. Isaacs in Mason county. 


1925, authorized Oct. 27, 
Dearborn St., Chicago, 


Number 10 


1925. 


ORE than 2000 Farm Bureau 
M leaders representing every or- 
ganized county in the state 
unanimously voted to launch a state- 
wide campaign beginning Oct. 1 “For 
the Mobilization of Illinois Agricul- 
ture,” at a mass meeting in the Deca- 
tur Armory, Monday Sept. 18. 
Meeting at the call of President 
Earl C. Smith, leaders from every sec- 
tion of Illinois had arrived by noon. 
The armory, gaily decked with huge 
signs bearing slogans suggesting the 
objectives of the drive, and banners 
for each organized county, was near- 
ly filled by 12 o’clock. A band pro- 
vided entertainment while the leaders 
assembled under the banners of their 
respective counties and waited for the 
call to order which came shortly after 
12:30 by’ President Smith. 


To Fight for These 


“Give Us a Price and We'll Buy the 
Nation Back to Prosperity,” “Cut 
Property Taxes in Half,” “Make the 
Farm Credit Act Effective Without 
Delay,” “Mobilize for Crop Planning, 
Co-operative Marketing, Lower Taxes, 
and Higher Prices,” were the chal- 
lenging slogans which not only ex- 
pressed the aim of the drive for great- 
er organization, but also the spirit and 
determination of the conference to 
fight for their achievement. 

Following short opening remarks by 
the President, Secretary Geo. E. Metz- 
ger read the report of the Board of 
Directors of the I. A. A. to the boards 
of directors and executive committees 
of Illinois County Farm Bureau as 
follows: 


Serious problems confront the agricul- 
tural people of the United States. Illinois 
has its share of these difficulties. A new 


9 


deal is on nationally which contemplates 
raising price levels of agricultural com- 
modities with the consequent widening 
of industrial margins and 
wages. 


increasing 


co_» The c#> 


Illinois Agricultural Association 
RECORD 


Published monthly by the IllMnois Agricultural Association at 165 So. Main Street, Spencer, Ind. Editorial Offices, 608 So. Dearborn St., 
Entered as second class matter. at post office, Spencer, Ind. 


OCTOBER, 1933 


Trade agreements and industrial codes 
are a part of the program and are now 
being worked out by industrial and pro- 
ducer groups for approval by adminis- 
trative heads in Washington. Practically 
all these codes and trade agreements in 
so far as industry is concerned are being 
handled by trade organizations. Usually 
these trade organizations are in a posi- 
tion to appoint a small committee that is 
in position to speak for its industry. Ag- 
riculture faces a serious handicap in this 
respect. 


Why Organization? 

Agriculture’s danger may be set forth 
briefly under five heads: 

1. That trade agreements involving the 
practices, ethics, method of handling and 
price of agricultural products may be 
largely worked out by processor or han- 
dlers of agricultural products without 
proper producer representation. 

2. That if there are to be higher price 
levels, the price of manufactured and 
processed products may rise out of all 
proportion to the price of agricultural 
products, because of the better organiza- 
tion in those industries. 

3. National legislation enacted by the 
Congress and intended to restore agri- 
culture contemplates a parity price on 
the farm, but farmers are not in position 
to assist in the administration of these 
laws which make a parity price at the 
farm possible, without strengthening their 
organizations and action through them. 

4. New Federal agricultural credit 
legislation has been designed to refinance 
agriculture through long time, inter- 
mediate and short time credit at lower 
rates of interest. The aim and intent of 
the law is that farmers should ultimately 
own and control their credit machinery. 
Apparently administration of the Act is 
failing to get underway with the result 
that many mortgages are being foreclosed 
and many farmers are losing their homes 
and their property, most of which appears 
to be unnecessary and uncalled for. 

5. Illinois farmers are in danger of los- 
ing such advantage as they have gained 
in their past organized tax programs and 
have additional taxes loaded on them un- 
less immediate organized effort is made 
to curb public expenditures and spread 
the tax base so as to make possible dras- 
tic reductions in the present taxes im- 
posed on agricultural property. 


Chicago, Ill. 


Acceptance for mailing at special rates of postage provided in Section 412, Act of Feb. 28, 
Address all communications for publication to Editorial Offices, 


Illinois. Agricultural Association Record, 608 So. 


Volume 11 


It's Time To Mobilize For Action! 


County Leaders at Decatur Unanimously Endorse Fall Campaign For Greater Unity of 
Agricultural Forces, Higher Farm Prices, Lower Taxes, Adequate Credit the Goal 


To this end the Board of Directors of 
Illinois Agricultural Association sets forth 
for your consideration and your approval 
A FALL MOBILIZATION CAMPAIGN 
FOR 1933 with the specific purpose of 
raising farm prices, lowering property 
taxes and speeding the administration of 
credit legislation; so that agriculture can 
be placed on a parity with increased price 
levels and wages in other industries. - 

The Farm Bureau is the dominant farm 
organization in Illinois. The Farm Bu- 
reaus and Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion for years have had a program which 
would justify a much larger membership 
than we have experienced. The time is 
here when the Association and the Coun- 
ty Farm Bureaus should take an aggres- 
sive lead in mobilizing the agriculture of 
Illinois for its economic betterment. 

Therefore, the Board of Directors 
strongly recommend that a campaign be 
launched for the purpose of arousing the 
farmers of Illinois to the existing situa- 
tion and take the responsibility of point- 
ing out to unorganized farmers the need 
of their immediate support in order to 
measure up to the grave situation con- 
fronting agriculture. 

The Board of Directors of Illinois Ag- 
ricultural Association authorized the call 
of Farm Bureau leaders and recommends 
to Count; Farm Bureaus the following 
plan for the immediate mobilization of 
agriculture throughout the State: 


Here is the Plan 


(a) That improvement of farm prices 
be obtained through co-operation to the 
fullest extent with existing federal 
agencies, and the more complete develop- 
ment of our co-operative marketing ma- 
chinery. 

(b) Immediate, effective and sympa- 
thetic administration of the Farm Credit 
Act to the end that farmers may ulti- 
mately control credit machinery and be 
benefited by lower interest rates intended 
by the Congress. 

(c) To mobilize the man power in the 
industry of agriculture in Illinois in an 
organized way to the end that the prop- 
erty taxes be limited and public expendi- 
tures reduced. 

That a suitable petition be circulated 
among the farmers and property owners 
in the State of Illinois, petitioning his 
Excellency, the Governor of Illinois, to 
call a special session of the Legislature 


Part of the audience of approximately 2,000 in the Armory at Decatur, Monday afternoon, Sept. 18. C. V. Gregory, editor 
of Prairie Farmer, is speaking on farm credits. The Farm Bureau leaders pledged 100 per cent co-operation in the Fall 
Mobilization Campaign to speed the realization of Parity Prices for Agriculture, Property Tax Limitation and Credit Relief. 


for the purpose of submitting to a vote 
of the people, in November, 1934, needed 
amendments to the Revenue Article of 
the Constitution, which will make possible 
the broadening of the tax base and place 
upper restrictive limits on property tax 
rates. 

To promote this program of education, 
to circulate the petition for tax reform 
and to execute the campaign of mobiliza- 
tion, the Board of Directors of the [lli- 
nois Agricultural Association recommends 
for your consideration the following 
plan: 

That there be appointed by the Presi- 
dent of the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion, from the staff and/or affiliated com- 
panies, a Campaign Committee, of which 
the President and Secretary of the IIli- 
nois Agricultural Association shall be 
members. That this Committee employ for 
a period of from four to six weeks a special 
campaign director who shall have active 
charge of the campaign under the direc- 
tion of the Campaign Committee. That 
under the campaign director there be ap- 
pointed from the staff of the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association and/or affiliated 
companies, three regional directors, who 
shall have charge of respective territories 
allotted to them by the Campaign Com- 
mittee. That in each county there be se- 
lected a Campaign Captain, to be selected 
and appointed by the chairman of the 
Campaign Committee, subject to the ap- 
proval of the County Farm Bureau Presi- 
dent. That within the several counties 
co-operating in the campaign there be 
selected by the county captain, by and 
with the advice of the County Farm 
Bureau, a force equal in number at 
least to the number of townships in the 
county, these selected men to be known 


as lieutenants. The lieutenants to be se- 
lected from men in the organization who 
have shown their ability to mobilize man 
power and influence men to take con- 
structive action. 

The circularization of the petition shall 
be a part of the work of the county field 
force and every farmer residing within 
the respective counties shall be inter- 
viewed. 

To partially compensate the field force, 
the Board of Directors of the [Illinois 
Agricultural Association have authorized 
the execution of a memorandum of agree- 
ment allowing reasonable compensation 
for their time and efforts. 

Further, that a proper publicity cam- 
paign be arranged which will set forth 
the necessity for such mobilization within 
the state. 

That if this plan for a Full Mobiliza- 
tion Campaign meets the approval of a 
substantial majority of the County Farm 
Bureau Boards, that each County Farm 
Bureau Board of Directors approving the 
plan pass proper resolutions authorizing 
their respective officers to execute suit- 
able memoranda of agreement with the 
Illinois Agricultural Association as may 
be necessary to expedite the campaign 
and contribute in making it a success. 


Authority In The Law 


President Smith followed the report 
by briefly outlining the tremendous 
decline in net farm income from 
around seven billions to one billion 
dollars in 1932, the sharp rise in taxes 
from 24 to 144 million dollars in the 
state, and the consequent increase in 
debt not only of agriculture but of 


all groups. Total indebtedness in the 
United States, he said, approximates 
our national wealth as now appraised. 

We have the authority of law to 
put agriculture prices up and relieve 
the distress of farm debtors, said Mr. 
Smith, but the trouble comes in its in- 
terpretation and administration. 

The time has come for greater unity 
of Agricultural forces. 


We are witnessing organized labor 
stepping out and insisting that their © 
increased cost of living be met by 
higher wages. Their demands are be- 
ing met. Shorter hours, and minimum 
wage scales are being reflected in 
higher prices for the things. farmers 
must buy. Farm prices have not kept 
pace with farmers’ increased costs. 

What are we going to do about it? 
What is the answer? Shall we oppose 
what others are doing for themselves, 
or shall we work constructively for 
the advancement of our own cause? 

President Roosevelt has said that 
farm prices must rise first, the farm- 
ers’ buying power must be restored 
to lead us out of the depression. The 
intent and purpose of the administra- 
tion to accomplish this, I believe, is 
sincere but realization of the goal is 
not coming as rapidly as we would 
like to see. 

Reflecting the widespread criticism 
of administration of the new farm 


I. A.. A) RECORD—October, 1933 


eredit act, it was pointed out that re- 
lief is not getting back to needy farm- 
ers who are trying -to save their 
-homes. Farm loan officials are dis- 
regarding the “Normal Value” clause 
in appraising farms for which appli- 
cations for federal loans have been 
filed. 

Even where appraisals are being 
made, such appraisals, speakers from 
the floor said, are being made at the 
rate of only 25% of the normal value 
of such farms, contrary to the law 


which allows 50% of normal appraised . 


value plus 20% of normal value of 
buildings. 

It is up to us to organize, to be 
militant in demanding that Agricul- 
ture be rehabilitated not only for our 
sake but to save America itself, said 
Mr. Smith. Even the industrial East, 
he said, has changed its attitude about 
the need for restoring agriculture to 
a profitable basis. The New York 
Times which fought the McNary- 
Haugen plan years ago, recently 
stated editorially that the hope of the 
country rests upon the restoration of 
agriculture and farm buying power 
and went so far as to suggest that the 
leaders of Tammany Hall go out and 
organize the farmers more effectively 
so they may help themselves, and so 
help the nation. 

Predicts Inflation 

Clifford V. Gregory, editor of 
Prairie Farmer, received a fine ova- 
tion when introduced to discuss farm 
credits. “It’s important to be able to 
borrow money,” he said, “but it’s 
more important to be able to pay it 
back. We need higher prices.. I be- 
lieve the answer to our problem is in- 
flation. It is worth more than all the 
others—NRA, AAA, etc. I believe we 
will have inflation within the next 60 
to 90 days. 

“But it is up to farmers to reduce 
production enough to make up for 
- our lost foreign markets. Even if 
everyone was employed and could buy 
our products, we would still have too 
much to supply domestic needs. Un- 
popular as acreage and crop reduc- 
tion is, we must co-operate.” 

Speaking of the Farm Credit Ad- 
ministration, he said, apparently there 
is no Santa Claus. We are not going 
to get much help from that source. 
The only way for agricilture to get 
proper credit is for a strong organiza- 
tion like the Farm Bureau and I. A. A. 
to go down in every county where 
needed and organize local credit asso- 
ciations to supplement the banks. Re- 
member that most of the credit ad- 
ministration officials have a banking 
background. They are afraid the 
money loaned will not be paid back. 

“Only the things we do ourselves are 
the things that are sure to be done.” 


OFFICERS 


AND DIRECTORS OF I. A. A. AT DECATUR 


They unanimously adopted and submitted plans and resolutions to state-wide 
conference of County Farm Bureau leaders, for approval. 
LEFT TO RIGHT STANDING are Directors Harris, Black, Endicott, Sorrells, 


DeFrees, Ihrig, Curtis, Lawrence, Marshall, Muller, Bamborough, and 


Dennis. 


SEATED, LEFT TO RIGHT are Directors Lambert, Cope, Secretary Metzger, 
Vice-President Wright, President Smith, and Treasurer Cowles. 


Stop Tax Raids 


Donald Kirkpatrick made a_ brief 
but vigorous plea for a more power- 
ful mobilization of agricultural forces 
to stop tax raids by the metropolitan 
area of Chicago on downstate for un- 
employment relief. 

A large part of the wealth of IIli- 
nois is concentrated in Chicago and 
the metropolitan area, he said, but 
Cook county still owes the state be- 
tween 40 and 50 million dollars and 
downstate people have been compelled 
to make up in higher state taxes for 
Chicago’s delinquency. 

Downstate people through the sales 
tax are being levied upon to care for 
the unemployed in Chicago, besides 
caring for their own through local 
tax levies on property. 

Chicago has levied comparatively 
nothing for local pauper relief, said 
Kirkpatrick. “Downstate people must 
stand together and say to (hicago, 
‘You shall not have further opportu- 
nity to sidestep your responsibility.’ 
We are suggesting a constitutional 
limitation through a new amendment 
to cut property taxes in half, a tax 
limitation of less than one per cent 
of fair cash value.” 


This Idea Pleases 


“The suggestion has been made that 
all our problems would be solved if 
farmers would work from 8 to 4 in- 
stead of from 4 to 8, and 50 per cent 
of all public office holders were re- 
moved,” said President Smith. This 
idea apparently appealed to the ima- 
gination of the county leaders for 
they responded with enthusiastic ap- 
plause. 

Then ‘Secretary Metzger explained 
the memorandum of agreement be- 
tween the state organization and 
county Farm Bureaus for the mobili- 

(Continued on page 18) 


Stop Diversion Of 
Gas Tax Funds Now 


Give Chicago Full Authority To 
Levy Taxes Locally For Poor 
Relief Is Sentiment at 
Decatur Meeting 


WO resolutions outlining the 
[ position of the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association on tax and 
legislative matters of current interest, 
were presented by John C. Watson, 
director of taxation before the Coun- 
ty Farm Bureau leaders at Decatur 
Sept. 18. Both were adopted without 
a dissenting vote. 
The resolutions are as follows: 


I 


It appears from newspaper re- 
ports that a special session of the 
General Assembly is to be called 
on October 3rd, 1933, to make 
further provision for relief of the 
unemployed; that the State Admin- 
istration will propose a property tax 
levy against which tax anticipation 
notes will be issued to provide im- 
mediate funds; that a state bond 
issue for at least $20,000,000 will be 
submitted to the voters in Novem- 
ber, 1934, and if the bond issue is 
approved, the proceeds of the roads 
will be used to retire the tax war- 

‘ yants and the state property tax will 
thus be cancelled. 

If the bond issue fails of adop- 
tion, the state property tax will be 
levied and collected in 1935. It ap- 
pears to be further proposed that 
these bonds shall be retired from the 
counties’ portion of the gasoline tax, 
each county to pay in proportion to 
the relief received from this source, 
About 80% of this money will prob- 
ably be expended in Cook County. 


sae 


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Approximately $25,000,000 of 
the counties’ portion of the gaso- 
line tax funds are already pledged 
for retirement of the principal and 
interest of the $20,000,000 state 
bond issue voted in 1932. Several 
million dollars more of county gaso- 
line tax moneys have been used by 
the counties to provide direct re- 
lief. In addition more than $43,000,- 
000 have been advanced to Illinois 
by the Federal Reconstruction Fi- 
nance Corporation, which amount is 
to be deducted from future allot- 
ments of Federal aid road funds to 
this State. Competent engineers 
state that more than 90% of all 
moneys used in road building ulti- 
mately go directly or indirectly as 
compensation for labor. Reports of 
the Illinois Emergency Relief Com- 
mission indicate that approximately 
8% of its moneys are used for ad- 
ministrative expenses and approxi- 
mately 92% are used for direct re- 
lief. It appears that road building 
provides practically the same 
amount of money for employment 
as direct relief provides for the re- 
lief of unemployment. 

Downstate townships and counties 
have raised, by property taxation, 
large sums of money to provide re- 
lief for their residents while in Cook 
county the townships have no power 
to make any levy for this purpose 
and but a very small portion of the 
total county levy has been used for 
relief purposes. 

Therefore, it is the sense and rec- 
ommendation of this State Confer- 
ence of Farm Bureau leaders: 

1. That any further diversion of 
gasoline tax funds from the mainte- 
nance and construction of roads 
should be opposed. 

2. That until all local communities 
have drawn reasonably upon their 
own resources, any further extension 
of the principle of state support for 
the unemployed should be opposed. 

3. The General Assembly should 
be urged to enact the legislation 
necessary to enable the appropriate 
taxing districts in Cook County and 
other commission-governed counties 
to care for the unemployed and 
destitute residing therein. 


II 

In view of the grossly unjust 
burden laid upon owners of tangible 
property for support of State, Coun- 
ty and local government, the ad- 
verse effect of such burden upon the 
values of property, and the rapidly 
increasing delinquency in the pay- 
ment of taxes, this Conference of 
Farm Bureau leaders earnestly urge 
the officers and Board of Directors 
of the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 


LUCIUS E. WILSON 


Mr. Wilson who will direct the Mo- 
bilization Campaign during the next 60 
days has had wide experience through- 
out the United States as an organizer 
and business executive. Born on a farm 
in Livingston county, Michigan in 
1878, he taught country school and 
later graduated from the Detroit Col- 
lege of Law. Who’s Who says of him: 
“He organized the movement for new 
city governments or chambers of com- 
merce in more than 100 cities up to 
1921; executive secretary Greater Des 
Moines Committee 1906-1910; director 
Dayton, Ohio Citizens Committee 1913 
during which time government by city 
manager was adopted; executive direc- 
tor Detroit Board of Commerce 1911- 
1912; founder 1914 and managing direc- 
tor American City Bureau Summer 
Schools for Commercial Secretaries; 
manager American City Bureau 1914- 
1921; president General Organization 
Co. from 1921 to 1929. 


tion to take such action as they may 
deem advisable or necessary to se- 
cure the calling of a special session 
of the Fifty-Eighth General Assem- 
bly and the submission, by that 
body,:of an amendment to the Rev- 
enue Article of the State Constitu- 
tion, to be voted on in November, 
1934, embodying the following prin- 
ciples: 


1. Removal of all restrictions 
which prevent a broadening of the 
base of taxation and the establish- 
ment of an equitable system of taxa- 
tion. 


2. The imposition of restrictions 
upon the taxation of property which 
will relieve tangible property, both 
rural and urban, of at least one-half 
of the burden now laid upon it. 


Dairy products since 1925 have 
constituted an ever increasing por- 
tion of total farm income. In 1925 
14.51 per cent of farm income came 
from dairy products, whereas in 1931, 
23.36 per cent of farm income came 
from the dairy cow. 


I. A. A. RECORD—October, 1933 


Soybean Growers To 
Meet Decatur 29th 


The Annual Meeting of the Soy- 
bean Marketing Association will be 
held at Decatur, on Friday, September 
29th, where complete reports of offi- 
cials of the organization will be made 
to the members. 

As previously announced, the pool 
plan will be abandoned this year. and 
all sales will be handled on a daily 


' bid basis with the grower making his 


own arrangements with his _ local 
elevator to ship to the organization. 

The fact that the crop is short this 
year and the trend of grain prices 
higher indicates a substantial improve- 
ment in soybean prices compared with 
going prices at this time last year. 

Charles P. Cummings, manager of 
the Illinois Grain Corporation, will 
give his personal attention to the soy- 
bean marketing program throughout 
the marketing period. 

Daily prices will be posted with the 
elevators by the Soybean Association, 
these bids to be the best prevailing 
legitimate bids in the state. 

A series of meetings has been held 
in the soybean region to explain the 
marketing plan and solicit the support 
of members in delivering their crop. 

_At the county meetings, the Coun- 
cils named delegates to the Annual 
Meeting on September 29th. 

The Association contemplates buy- 
ing non-member beans also. It hopes 
to secure a large enough volume to 
justify the payment of patronage 
dividends at the close of the market- 
ing season. 


Illinois Farm Supply 
Annual Meeting Decatur 


The seventh annual meeting of the 
Illinois Farm Supply Company will be 
held in the Orlando Hotel, Decatur 
Tuesday, October 17. . 

Earl C. Smith. and I, A. O’Shaugh- 
nessy, president of the Globe Oil and 
Refining Co., Minneapolis will be the 
principal speakers. 

In addition to reports of officers and 
the manager, nine directors from the 
various districts will be elected. Pres- 
ent directors whose terms will expire 
with the coming meeting are Grant 
Broster, J. M. Eyman, Frank J. Flynn, 
Fred E. Herndon, president, H. A. 
Keele, H. R. Neal, Thos. J. Penman, 
E. E. Stevenson, secy., and Geo. F. 
Tullock, vice president. 


The manager’s report will show that 
the company had the best year in its 
history in 1933. 


I, A. A. RECORD—October, 1933 


"We'll Distribute Our 
Own Milk" 


This is the Answer of Organized 
Producers at Peoria to 
Local Dealers 


N overwhelming vote to go into 
A the business of distributing 

their own milk was the answer 
of 700 militant organized milk pro- 
ducers to dealers’ efforts to shut them 
off the market given at a meeting 
held in the ballroom of the Pere Mar- 
quette Hotel, Peoria, Saturday night, 
September 16th. 

The members came on a 24 hour 
call by President Ryland Capron from 
all sections of the Peoria milk shed 
to voice their sentiments on which 
way to go in solving the controversy 
which began September ist. On that 
day, the Illinois Milk Producers Asso- 
ciation, comprising more than 1,000 
producers who have always supplied 
the Peoria market, voted unanimously 
to withhold their milk until the deal- 
ers either cease their discrimination 
against members of the Association 
or else submit their differences to a 
Board of Arbitration on which the pro- 
ducers would have fair representation. 

When it became apparent that there 
would be no ready solution to the con- 
troversy because of the dealers’ un- 
willingness to cooperate toward se- 
curing a fair settlement, the producers 
took the only course left open to them 
and that was to vote to distribute their 
own milk. 


Subscribe $9,000 Stock 


The producers backed their faith 
and enthusiasm by subscribing for 
more than $9,000 worth of stock in 
the new proposed subsidiary, tempo- 
rarily named “Producers Dairy of 
Peoria.” 

The meeting opened with a review 
of all that has transpired before and 
after the action of September 1 by 
the organized producers in withhold- 
ing their milk. President Capron 
briefly reviewed how the larger deal- 
ers during the past year have been 
acquiring herds and placing cows out 
on shares until one dealer, he said, is 
reported to have approximately 1,000 
cows under his control, the milk from 
which he has insisted all go into Class 
1 at $1.65 per 100 lb. 

“The Association,” said Mr. Capron, 
“insisted that this move was one to 
undermine the organization and force 
the milk of members of the Associa- 
tion into the surplus classes. We 
thought it no more than fair that the 
milk from these cows be treated just 
like the milk from members’ herds; 
that it bear its share toward assum- 
ing surplus burden of lower prices.” 


MASS MEETING, ILLINOIS MILK PRODUCERS, PEORIA 


Voting unanimously to distribute their own milk rather than lose their mar- 
ket, members subscribed for more than $9,000 worth of stock to equip a plant, 
at their meeting Sept. 16. 


The dealers not only refused to 
listen to the producers but they also 
refused to arbitrate in line with sug- 
gestions made by Governor Horner 
looking toward an equitable solution 
of their differences. They agreed to 
arbitrate only if the organized pro- 
ducers were limited to one man in 
five on’ an arbitration board. The 
dealers reserved the right of selecting 
three men of the committee of five, 
the organized producers one man, and 
the Peoria Medical Association one 
man. 

Dale Morgan, attorney for the Milk 
Producers Association, gave a clear 
presentation of the issues involved, 
told of the conference of dealers and 


producers with the Governor, and out- 


lined how the proposed arbitration 
had failed because of the obstinacy 
of one Bruce Roszell, distributor, in 
submitting the controversy to a fairly 
selected arbitration board. 


Other speakers included Archie Mc- 
Pfedderan, president of the LaSalle- 
Peru Milk Producers Association and 
of the Mississippi Valley Milk Pro- 
ducers who gave a short, fiery address 
in which he urged the members to 
stick together for their rights. “I 
have milked cows for 35 years,” said 
Mr. McPfedderan. “I know the toil 
and hardship that goes with the busi- 
ness. Farmers have never had enough 
to pay them for their hard work in 
milking cows. There is no justice in 
a situation where the dealers get 7c 
a quart for bottling and distributing 
and the farmers get 3c or less of the 
consumer’s 10c.” 

“Rather than be deprived of a re- 
tail outlet for your milk, a market for 
which you have been producing for 
many years, you had better go all 
the way and put your product on the 
doorstep of the consumers in Peoria,” 
said J. B. Countiss, Dairy Marketing 
Director of the Illinois Agricultural 
Association. “Dealers have refused to 


submit to fair arbitration; they insist 


on dictating the terms on which they 
will cooperate and so far as I can see, 
there is only one thing left and that 
is to go into business for ourselves,” 
he continued. 

The producers responded unanimous- 
ly with applause to this and similar 
suggestions made by McPfedderan, 
Morgan, Albert Hayes, President of 
the Peoria County Farm Bureau, and 
officers of the Association. 

Joe Morris, former President of the 
Tazewell County Farm Bureau, was 
one of the first to respond by sign- 
ing an application for 4 shares of 6% 
stock, $25.00 par value, for which he 
paid cash, 


< 


A Big Job 


Both Mr. Capron and Wilfred Shaw, 
Manager of the Association, em- 
phasized the difficulties in the way of 
launching into the distributing busi- 
ness. “Let’s not kid ourselves,” said 
Mr. Capron, “into believing that our 
problems will be solved when we make 
this decision. There will be plenty of 
work and trouble ahead. We ought to 
have at least $50,000 to go into busi- 
ness in a big way. We probably can 
get along with less.but don’t forget 
that it takes plenty of capital. We are 
not urging you to do this. If we go 
into business for ourselves, our milk 
checks will probably not be as large 
as we would like to have them the 
first year or two. We will have plenty 
of competition. Yet, I believe this is 
one way out and perhaps the only 
way to maintain our organization and 
protect our interests in this market.” 

Both Mr. Morgan and Mr. Shaw 
spiked false rumors and propaganda 
circulated by the dealers to shake the 
confidence of members in their offi- 
cers and organization. 

Albert Hayes read from the plat- 
form a statement received from the 
Roszell Dairy in which they pointed 
out the amount of the check-off each 

(Continued on page 16) 


Approximately $25,000,000 of 
the counties’ portion of the gaso- 
line tax funds are already pledged 
for retirement of the principal and 
interest of the $20,000,000 state 
bond issue voted in 1932. Several 
million dollars more of county gaso- 
line tax moneys have been used by 
the counties to provide direct re- 
lief. In addition more than $43,000,- 
000 have been advanced to Illinois 
by the Federal Reconstruction Fi- 
nance Corporation, which amount is 
to be deducted from future allot- 
ments of Federal aid road funds to 
this State. Competent engineers 
state that more than 90% of all 
moneys used in road building ulti- 
mately go directly or indirectly as 
compensation for labor. Reports of 
the Illinois Emergency Relief Com- 
mission indicate that approximately 
8% of its moneys are used for ad- 
ministrative expenses and approxi- 
mately 92% are used for direct re- 
lief. It appears that road building 
provides practically the same 
amount of money for employment 
as direct relief provides for the re- 
lief of unemployment. 

Downstate townships and counties 
have raised, by property taxation, 
large sums of money to provide re- 
lief for their residents while in Cook 
county the townships have no power 
to make any levy for this purpose 
and but a very small portion of the 
total county levy has been used for 
relief purposes. 

Therefore, it is the sense and rec- 
ommendation of this State Confer- 
ence of Farm Bureau leaders: 

1. That any further diversion of 
gasoline tax funds from the mainte- 
nance and construction of roads 
should be opposed. 

2. That until all local communities 
have drawn reasonably upon their 
own resources, any further extension 
of the principle of state support for 
the unemployed should be opposed. 

38. The General Assembly should 
be urged to enact the legislation 
necessary to enable the appropriate 
taxing districts in Cook County and 
other commission-governed counties 
to care for the unemployed and 
destitute residing therein. 


II 

In view of the grossly unjust 
burden laid upon owners of tangible 
property for support of State, Coun- 
ty and local government, the ad- 
verse effect of such burden upon the 
values of property, and the rapidly 
increasing delinquency in the pay- 
ment of taxes, this Conference of 
Farm Bureau leaders earnestly urge 
the officers and Board of Directors 
of the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 


LUCIUS E. WILSON 


Mr. Wilson who will direct the Mo- 
bilization Campaign during the next 60 
days has had wide experience through- 
out the United States as an organizer 
and business executive. Born on a farm 
in Livingston county, Michigan in 
1878, he taught country school and 
later graduated from the Detroit Col- 
lege of Law. Who’s Who says of him: 
“He organized the movement for new 
city governments or chambers of com- 
merce in more than 100 cities up to 
1921; executive secretary Greater Des 
Moines Committee 1906-1910; director 
Dayton, Ohio Citizens Committee 1913 
during which time government by city 
manager was adopted; executive direc- 
tor Detroit Board of Commerce 1911- 
1912; founder 1914 and managing direc- 
tor American City Bureau Summer 
Schools for Commercial Secretaries; 
manager American City Bureau 1914- 
1921; president General Organization 
Co. from 1921 to 1929, 


tion to take such action as they may 
deem advisable or necessary to se- 
cure the calling of a special session 
of the Fifty-Eighth General Assem- 
bly and the submission, by that 
body,-of an amendment to the Rev- 
enue Article of the State Constitu- 
tion, to be voted on in November, 
1934, embodying the following prin- 
ciples: 


1. Removal of all restrictions 
which prevent a broadening of the 
base of taxation and the establish- 
ment of an equitable system of taxa- 
tion. 


2. The imposition of restrictions 
upon the taxation of property which 
will relieve tangible property, both 
rural and urban, of at least one-half 
of the burden now laid upon it. 


Dairy products since 1925: have 
constituted an ever increasing por- 
tion of total farm income. In 1925 
14.51 per cent of farm income came 
from dairy products, whereas in 1931, 
23.36 per cent of farm income came 
from the dairy cow. 


I. A. A. RECORD—Octeber, 1933 


Soybean Growers To 
Meet Decatur 29th 


The Annual Meeting of the Soy- 
bean Marketing Association will be 
held at Decatur, on Friday, September 
29th, where complete reports of offi- 
cials of the organization will be made 
to the members. 

As previously announced, the pool 
plan will be abandoned this year. and 
all sales will be handled on a daily 


‘ bid basis with the grower making his 


own arrangements with his local 
elevator to ship to the organization. 

The fact that the crop is short this 
year and the trend of grain prices 
higher indicates a substantial improve- 
ment in soybean prices compared with 
going prices at this time last year. 

Charles P. Cummings, manager of 
the Illinois Grain Corporation, will 
give his personal attention to the soy- 
bean marketing program throughout 
the marketing period. 

Daily prices will be posted with the 
elevators by the Soybean Association, 
these bids to be the best prevailing 
legitimate bids in the state. 

A series of meetings has been held 
in the soybean region to explain the 
marketing plan and solicit the support 
of members in delivering their crop. 

_At the county meetings, the Coun- 
cils named delegates to the Annual 
Meeting on September 29th. 

The Association contemplates buy- 
ing non-member beans also. It hopes 
to secure a large enough volume to 
justify the payment of patronage 
dividends at the close of the market- 
ing season. 


Illinois Farm Supply 
Annual Meeting Decatur 


The seventh annual meeting of the 
Illinois Farm Supply Company will be 
held in the Orlando Hotel, Decatur 
Tuesday, October 17. 

Earl C. Smith, and I. A. O’Shaugh- 
nessy, president of the Globe Oil and 
Refining Co., Minneapolis will be the 
principal speakers. 


In addition to reports of officers and 
the manager, nine directors from the 
various districts will be elected. Pres- 
ent directors whose terms will expire 
with the coming meeting are Grant 
Broster, J. M. Eyman, Frank J. Flynn, 
Fred E. Herndon, president, H. A. 
Keele, H. R. Neal, Thos. J. Penman, 
E. E. Stevenson, secy., and Geo. F. 
Tullock, vice president. 

The manager’s report will show that 


the company had the best year in its 
history in 1933. 


“ip > 


I. A. A. RECORD—October, 1933 


"We'll Distribute Our 
Own Milk" 


This is the Answer of Organized 
Producers at Peoria to 
Local Dealers 


N overwhelming vote to go into 
A the business of distributing 

their own milk was the answer 
of 700 militant organized milk pro- 
ducers to dealers’ efforts to shut them 
off the market given at a meeting 
held in the ballroom ot the Pere Mar- 
quette Hotel, Peoria, Saturday night, 
September 16th. 

The members came on a 24 hour 
call by President Ryland Capron from 
all sections of the Peoria milk shed 
to voice their sentiments on which 
way to go in solving the controversy 
which began September ist. On that 
day, the Illinois Milk Producers Asso- 
ciation, comprising more than 1,000 
producers who have always supplied 
the Peoria market, voted unanimously 
to withhold their milk until the deal- 
ers either cease their discrimination 
against members of the Association 
or else submit their differences to a 
Board of Arbitration on which the pro- 
ducers would have fair representation. 

When it became apparent that there 
would be no ready solution to the con- 
troversy because of the dealers’ un- 
willingness to cooperate toward se- 
curing a fair settlement, the producers 
took the only course left open to them 
and that was to vote to distribute their 
own milk. 


Subscribe $9,000 Stock 


The producers backed their faith 
and enthusiasm by subscribing for 
more than $9,000 worth of stock in 
the new proposed subsidiary, tempo- 
rarily named “Producers Dairy of 
Peoria.” 

The meeting opened with a review 
of all that has transpired before and 
after the action of September 1 by 
the organized producers in withhold- 
ing their milk. President Capron 
briefly reviewed how the larger deal- 
ers during the past year have been 
acquiring herds and placing cows out 
on shares until one dealer, he said, is 
reported to have approximately 1,000 
cows under his control, the milk from 
which he has insisted all go into Class 
1 at $1.65 per 100 lb. 

“The Association,” said Mr. Capron, 
“insisted that this move was one to 
undermine the organization and force 
the milk of members of the Associa- 
tion into the surplus’ classes. We 
thought it no more than fair that the 
milk from these cows be treated just 
like the milk from members’ herds; 
that it bear its share toward assum- 
ing surplus burden of lower prices.” 


MASS MEETING, ILLINOIS MILK PRODUCERS, PEORIA 


Voting unanimously to distribute their own milk rather than lose their mar- 
Ket, members subscribed for more than $9,000 worth of stock to equip a plant, 
at their meeting Sept. 16. 


~The dealers not only refused to 
listen to the producers but they also 
refused to arbitrate in line with sug- 
gestions made by Governor Horner 
looking toward an equitable solution 
of their differences. They agreed to 
arbitrate only if the organized pro- 
ducers were limited to one man in 
five on’ an arbitration board. The 
dealers reserved the right of selecting 
three men of the committee of five, 
the organized producers one man, and 
the Peoria Medical Association one 
man. 

Dale Morgan, attorney for the Milk 
Producers Association, gave a clear 
presentation of the issues involved, 
told of the conference of dealers and 


producers with the Governor, and out- 


lined how the proposed arbitration 
had failed because of the obstinacy 
of one Bruce Roszell, distributor, in 
submitting the controversy to a fairly 
selected arbitration board. 

Other speakers included Archie Mc- 
Pfedderan, president of the LaSalle- 
Peru Milk Producers Association and 
of the Mississippi Valley Milk Pro- 
ducers who gave a short, fiery address 
in which he urged the members to 
stick together for their rights. “I 
have milked cows for 35 years,” said 
Mr. McPfedderan. “I know the toil 
and hardship that goes with the busi- 
ness. Farmers have never had enough 
to pay them for their hard work in 
milking codws. There is no justice in 
a situation where the dealers get 7c 
a quart for bottling and distributing 
and the farmers get 3c or less of the 
consumer’s 10c.” 

“Rather than be deprived of a re- 
tail outlet for your milk, a market for 
which you have been producing for 
many years, you had better go all 
the way and put your product on the 
doorstep of the consumers in Peoria,” 
said J. B. Countiss, Dairy Marketing 
Director of the Illinois Agricultural 
Association. “Dealers have refused to 
submit to fair arbitration; they insist 


on dictating the terms on which they 
will cooperate and so far as I can see, 
there is only one thing left and that 
is to go into business for ourselves,” 
he continued. 

The producers responded unanimous- 
ly with applause to this and similar 
suggestions made by McPfedderan, 
Morgan, Albert Hayes, President of 
the Peoria County Farm Bureau, and 
officers of the Association. 

Joe Morris, former President of the 
Tazewell County Farm Bureau, was 
one of the first to respond by sign- 
ing an application for 4 shares of 6% 
stock, $25.00 par value, for which he 
paid cash. 


A Big Job 


Both Mr. Capron and Wilfred Shaw, 
Manager of the Association, em- 
phasized the difficulties in the way of 
launching into the distributing busi- 
ness. “Let’s not kid ourselves,” said 
Mr. Capron, “into believing that our 
problems will be solved when we make 
this decision. There will be plenty of 
work and trouble ahead. We ought to 
have at least $50,000 to go into busi- 
ness in a big way. We probably can 
get along with less.but don’t forget 
that it takes plenty of capital. We are 
not urging you to do this. If we go 
into business for ourselves, our milk 
checks will probably not be as large 
as we would like to have them the 
first year or two. We will have plenty 
of competition. Yet, I believe this is 
one way out and perhaps the only 
way to maintain our organization and 
protect our interests in this market.” 

Both Mr. Morgan and Mr. Shaw 
spiked false rumors and propaganda 
circulated by the dealers to shake the 
confidence of members in their offi- 
cers and organization, 

Albert Hayes read from the plat- 
form a statement received from the 
Roszell Dairy in which they pointed 
out the amount of the check-off each 

(Continued on page 16) 


: IULINOIS 
adcourtiniy ASSOCIAWAON 
RECORD 


To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was or- 
ganized namely, to promote, protect and represent the busi- 
ness, economic, political and educational interests of the 
farmers of Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 


GEORGE THIEM, Editor 


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BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
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NE Sr aed OS ee te ee Be Charles 8, Black, Jacksonville 
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BANG 2s on aiaiciaree a ss Vie vie Whur y oa obec ee en ege a's ced oho eee W. LL. Cope, Salem 
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DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 
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DORDOO 55 naR Obi oso CH REDD Ueisien ele es ecu 8 oly Retin eee cee cad R. A. Cowles 
Fruit and Vegetable Marketing............ccccccccccccccccuce Tl. W. Day 
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WEES x Whey ceo Cabin (Fé pg Chine a etia’'s 6 Gee oreed we CORD Coa eat Cc, E, Johnston 
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ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 
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Warmers Mutual Reinsurance Co............ceceececece J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Auditing Assn................. F. BE, Ringham, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co........ A. E. Richardson, Mgr. 
Illinois Farm Supply Co...........ccccceccccceccecs L. R. Marcbant, Mgr. 
Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange............ccceceeecece H. W. Day, Mer. 
Illinois Grain Corp....... Chas, P, Cummings, Vice-Pres. and Sales Mgr. 
Illinois Livestock Market. Ass’n..Ray Miller, Mgr., R. W. Grieser, Sales 
Illinois Producers Creameries............cccccececees F. A. Gougler, Mgr. 
Soybean Marketing Ass’n..........cccecceccecucs J. W. Armstrong, Pres. 


The Issue In Unemployment Relief 
l THE editorial reprinted on the opposite page 
the Decatur Herald seeks to defend the per- 
sistent dodging of responsibility in certain com- 
munities, particularly Chicago, in raising funds 
through taxes or otherwise for local unemploy- 
ment relief. 

In doing so the editor makes certain serious 
charges and erroneous assertions which demand 
answer and correction. 

It is charged that the Illinois Agricultural As- 
sociation proposes to use its influence to prevent 
starving people from being fed. 

This statement is absurd. The editor knows 
better. The Association from the beginning has 
used its influence toward finding ways and means 
of providing for destitute people. It assisted in 
giving Chicago and commission-governed coun- 
ties a constructive program through the Lantz 
bills for raising money to feed their poor. The 
Governor stated publicly that these were good 


I, A. A. RECORD—October, 1933 


bills and should pass, yet when Cook county poli- 
ticians remonstrated he later vetoed them. | 

The Association never has opposed reasonable 
measures for unemployment relief. It has looked 
with disfavor on the frequent trips of Chicago 
politicians to Washington and Springfield after 
easy money while not a finger is raised to tap the 
wealth at home. 

Rich Chicago, with millionaires by the score, 
her banks and safety boxes overflowing with cash 
and valuable securities, a city able to finance a 
great world’s fair to which the entire country pays 
tribute with its presence and money, this city 
where politicians treat themselves so liberally, 
able but unwilling to care for its unfortunates. 
Fifteen billions of untaxed intangibles lie in Cook 
county strong boxes, tax experts testified in Judge 
Jarecki’s court. Poor Chicago! 

The Herald editor states that there will be no 
proposal to put a tax on farms to feed people in 
the cities. 

Wrong again. The proposal already has been 
made to levy an additional tax on property one- 
third larger than the $30,000,000 desired on which 
anticipation warrants will be issued. It is true 
that it is proposed to submit a bond issue for the 
desired amount, interest and principal to be re- 
deemed by payments from the state gas tax. But 
there is no assurance that the people of Illinois 
will approve such a bond issue. The approval of 
the bond issue last year cannot be regarded as 
proof that voters, alarmed by repeated demands 
for relief funds, will approve another one. 

Gasoline tax allotments already are pledged up 
to nearly $25,000,000 for the previous bond issue 
and interest. Several million dollars more of gas 
tax funds were taken under the Meents Act for 


direct aid before July 1, 1933. 


The Reconstruction Finance Corporation allot- 
ted more than $43,000,000 to Illinois against fu- 
ture allotments of Federal road funds. This sum 
will be further increased by interest. 

Thus a total of more than $75,000,000 have been 
taken from present and future road funds in IIli- 
nois for direct relief. 

Is not the Herald editor shortsighted when he 
advocates stopping future road building? Does 
not his program produce the very condition it is 
intended to relieve? Competent authorities de- 
clare that more than 90% of all road improve- 
ment costs are paid directly or indirectly for labor. 

The editor says, ‘““‘We now have a very satis- 
factory network of improved roads in this state.” 

The road system is not satisfactory to more 


‘than three-fourths of all farm residents who still 


live on dirt roads and are cut off from the hard 
road system part of every year. 

It is alleged that “rural areas are not taking 
care of their own.” 

The facts are that 32 counties have taken care 
of their own wholly at their own expense. Others 
have asked and received comparatively small 
amounts from the State Relief Commission. Very 


(Continued on page 9) 


I. A. A. RECORD—October, 1933 


The Issue In Unemployment 
Relief 


(Continued from page 8) 


little of the funds given any county 
have been used in rural areas. 

The reference to subsidies is beside 
the point. Farmers have been pay- 
ing subsidies to the cities in support- 
ing high protective tariffs on the 
things they must buy, for a half cen- 
tury. Only a small amount of ap- 
propriations in the Hoover adminis- 
tration came to Illinois. A substantial 
part of the money lost in the price- 
pegging program for wheat and cot- 
ton went to speculators in the cities. 
Most of the money loaned co-opera- 
tives has been or will be repaid. 

The editor refers to current admin- 
istration measures to give farmers 
parity in their purchasing power. Is 
it fair to refer to such measures as 
providing subsidies for farmers? 
When the farmer gets a dollar where 
does it go? To town, to the cities of 
course, for debts, taxes, and merchan- 
dise to create more employment. Are 
not such measures designed to benefit 
urban residents equally by increasing 
manufacturing, transportation, and 
labor? 

The editor completely ignores the 
vital issue. That issue is this. Is it 
fair for one-half of the people of the 
state, concentrated in a single county 
and largely in a single city, to con- 
tinue to support their unemployed 
chiefly at the expense of the rural 
road system of Illinois? 

The vital issue is not whether the 
poor and unemployed shall be fed. 
The issue is, shall any community be 
allowed to sidestep its responsibility 
and duty to the full extent of its 
ability ? 

Shall any community be permitted 
to wreck the rural road program 
thereby shutting down employment in 
order to spare its own taxpayers and 
tax dodgers? 

On these issues, the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association is fighting for 
the City of Decatur as well as for the 
farmers of Macon county. 


Illinois Crop Yields 


Yields per acre in Illinois for 1933 
as indicated by reports from farmers 
up to Sept. 1 are estimated as fol- 
lows: Corn 27% bu., oats 18% bu., 
winter wheat 16 bu., barley 15 bu., 
tame hay 1.15 tons. 


Illinois now has 86 modified accred- 
ited counties in tuberculosis eradica- 
tion, or 84.3 per cent of all counties 
in the state. More than 2,000,000 cat- 
tle are under supervision. 


| Views From The Press 


Those Lantz Bills 


OV. HENRY HORNER admits 
(GS that a “serious” situation con- 
fronts the state in the matter 
of relief for the unemployed this win- 
ter. Most of these are in Chicago. 
The governor should have thought of 
this when he vetoed the three Lantz 
bills passed at the regular session of 
the general assembly. These measures 
would have permitted Chicago and 
Cook county to levy a pauper tax to 
take care of its own, just as down- 
state is doing. But the governor 
vetoed these bills and that’s that. At 
the time of the veto the federal gov- 
ernment was pouring relief money in- 
to Illinois and the sales tax bill had 
been enacted. The latter was expected 
to furnish something like $80,000,000 
per year. Both have been disappoint- 
ments. The federal government has 
tightened up and announced that it 
will furnish only $1 in relief funds for 
every $3 furnished by the state itself. 
The sales tax in its first month 
brought in only $2,000,000 or at the 
rate of $24,000,000 per year, and Chi- 
cago has been averaging around five 
million dollars expenditures monthly. 
The governor admits a special session 
of the legislature likely to furnish re- 
lief. He most surely will urge an ex- 
tension of the sales tax for relief pur- 
poses after Jan. 1. It can-be so used 
only on a vote of the general assembly. 
After the new year the sales tax be- 
comes a replacement tax. Downstate 
should answer Gov. Horner’s plea for 
an extension of the sales tax by re- 
enactment of the vetoed Lantz bills 
placing the burden of furnishing relief 
on the metropolitan area. The unem- 
ployed must be taken care of this 
winter, but Chicago is not and has not 
been meeting its responsibilities. Leg- 
islative enactment should compel them 
to. The coming special session before 
the end of the year promises to be one 
of the most important ever held by the 
general assembly, and will probably 
witness a tightening of the lines be- 
tween the metropolitan area and down- 
state particularly over relief matters. 
—Peoria Star. 


| THE OTHER SIDE 


Ungracious and Short-Sighted 
(From Decatur Herald) 


ha Bc ILLINOIS AGRICUL- 


TURAL Association will go 
before the special session of 
the legislature Oct. 3 with a program 
of tax legislation to enable Chicago 
and other municipalities to care for 


their unemployed this fall and winter, 
at the same time protecting rural 
areas from taxation for other than lo- 
cal poor relief.” 

So announces John Watson, director 
of taxation for the Illinois Agricul- 


tural Association. Mr. Watson has 
worded his statement to make it sound 
well. Most persons reading it in this 
form will respond with an automatic 
“Yes, yes,” without any critical effort 
to examine its real meaning. Sup- 
posing we put the thing in another 
way, to show just what it does mean. 
It would read like this: 

“The Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion proposes to do everything in its 
power to prevent any assistance 
being given to men, women and chil- 
dren who are threatened with starva- 
tion this winter.” 

Make no mistake, this is precisely 


. what it does mean, and if the Illinois 


Agricultural Association goes ahead 
with this announced program, exert- 
ing the political power it has, there is 
more than an even chance that freez- 
ing and hunger will be the result for 
the most helpless and innocent of the 
needy. The stronger, of course, will 
take care of themselves, although the 
consequences may be more costly for 
“rural areas” than Mr. Watson con- 
templates. 

There will be no proposal before the 
coming session of the legislature to 
put a tax on farms in order to feed 
people in cities. Probably there will 
be a proposal to permit the use of 
gasoline tax funds to be used for this 
purpose. It is this presumably that 
Mr. Watson and his organization pro- 
pose to fight. 

The arguments have been heard be- 
fore. They run like this: “Farmers 
pay a part of the gasoline tax—not a 
large part, but some fraction of it. 
This tax orginally was intended for 
road building purposes, and it ought 
to be used exclusively in building roads 
past farms. If it is used for relief in 
the cities, some gasoline tax money 
paid by farmers will be spent to feed 
people in towns. This is rank injus- 
tice. Let the cities take care of their 
own needy, as rural areas take care 
of theirs.” 

The answer to all this might be put 
into one statement: When human be- 
ings and neighbors are without food, 
an extraordinary emergency exists 
and it is necessary to feed them with 
whatever fund can be found. It’s no 
time for debates about technicalities. 

If this humane principle is not 
enough, the specific contentions can 
be met one by one. It is true that 
gasoline tax money was originally in- 
tended for road building, but there is 
no sacred commandment that compels 
using it eternally for that one purpose. 


10 


If the people of Illinois need it more 
desperately for some other purpose, it 
is the prerogative of the people to 
give up the building of new roads for 
a time. We have now a very satisfac- 
tory network of improved roads in this 
state. 

It is true that use of gasoline tax 
funds in relief would necessitate 
spending some money paid by farmers 
in city relief. The amount of farm 
money carried into the city in this 
way would be microscopic, in compari- 
son with the amount of gasoline tax 
paid by city motorists for the improve- 
ment of highways in the country. 
After years and years during which 
money has flowed out from cities in 
hundreds of millions for road build- 
ing, who has a right to kick if possi- 
bly as much as one million collected 
in country filling stations goes to 
meet an emergency in the cities in 
the next year? 

There remains the contention that 
rural areas take care of their own 
poor; the cities should do likewise. 
This assertion has been heard in the 
legislature a thousand times in the 
past; it will be repeated over and over 
again in the session just to come. The 
only thing the matter with it is, it 
isn’t so. 

Rural areas are not taking care of 
their own. There isn’t a township in 
Illinois that is taking care of its own. 
One and all are demanding heavy sub- 
sidies in order to live. The subsidies 
come mainly from the cities, for un- 
fortunately there are few income tax 
payers on farms. Half a billion dol- 
lars was appropriated during the Hoo- 
ver administration for the relief of 
farmers. The Roosevelt administra- 
tion has only begun, with appropria- 
tions to buy four million pigs, with 
heavy taxes upon the consumers of 
cotton, of bread and of meat and of 
milk, all for the benefit of farmers. 


People in cities have not raised a 
voice in opposition to these taxes laid 
upon them for the relief of the people 
in rural areas. The need of the farmer 
is recognized, and everybody will be 
happy if only the schemes will work 
to restore prosperity on the farms. 


But a little of the spirit of reciproc- 
ity is in order. Unemployment is a 
disaster peculiar to cities. At the 
moment cities are tormented by mis- 
fortunes they can not meet alone. De- 
catur has not been able to support its 
unemployed; Chicago naturally is less 
able to. In the long run they will be 
able to pay back all that they receive 
but in this moment of crisis they must 
have the help of national and state 
credit. 

If the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion undertakes to say that cities shall 


not have this help in their time of 
emergency, that their people shall be 
left to go hungry first, the Illinois 
Agricultural Association is not only 
selfishly ungracious. In the long run 
it .will find the policy expensively 
short-sighted too.—Decatur Herald. 


lowa Governor Favors 
Minimum Farm Prices 


Governor Clyde Herring of Iowa re- 
cently telegraphed President Roose- 
velt urging that the federal govern- 
ment immediately fix minimum prices 
for farm products. 

Governor Herring said the NRA 
program already has raised the gen- 
eral wage level of workers and the 
retail price of manufactured products, 
and that farmers are at a distinct 
disadvantage because the price of farm 
products is lagging behind. 

The price on farm products should 
be pegged, Herring said, at a level 
high enough to cover cost of produc- 
tion and show a fair profit. 


Set Up Farm Credit 
Unit At Champaign 


The first Crop Credit Association to 
be organized under the new Agricul- 
tural Credit Act was set up at Cham- 
paign, Illinois on September 20. C. R. 
Arnold, of the Farm Credit Adminis- 
tration, assisted in starting operations. 
Farm Adviser C. C. Burns was active 
in getting the new Association under- 
way. According to Mr. Burns, local 
farmers have been hard pressed to ob- 
tain adequate financing, particularly 
loans for longer than 70 to 90 days. A 
number of rural banks in Champaign 
county, he said, are still closed and 
farmers are unable to secure needed 
credit. 


Seek To Get World 
Reduction Of Wheat 


The International Wheat Advisory 
Committee organized to help bring 
about reduced world surpluses and 
raise prices, held its first meeting in 
London beginning September 18. An 
attempt is being made to work out 
export quotas for each major wheat 
growing country. 

United States representatives are 
Robert W. Bingham of Kentucky, am- 
bassador to Great Britain; John Van 
Antwerp MacMurray, recently ap- 
pointed American minister to the Bal- 
kan states, and Frederick E. Murphy, 
publisher of the Minneapolis Tribune. 


I. A. A. RECORD—October, 1933 


Country Life Makes 
New Gains In 1933 


Company Employs New Actuary, 
Agents Hold Picnics at 
Pontiac and Pana 


At the end of August, 1933, Coun- 
try Life Insurance Company had 
gained more in insurance in force 
than it did the entire twelve months’ 
period of 1932 according to Manager 
L. A. Williams. Country Life’s total 
in force is approximately $53,000,000 
at the present time. 

The Company wrote $1,211,000 of 
new business in the month of August 
alone. 

The agents of Country Life Insur- 
ance Company dedicated September as 
“Manager’s Month” and pledged $2,- 
500,000 for that occasion. Mr. Wil- 
liams completed just five years of 
service with the Company at the end 
of September, 1933. 


Agents of Country Life Insurance 


Company and their wives attended 
picnics at Pontiac and Pana on Sep- 
tember 5 and 6. Approximately 700 
people were present for the two gath- 
erings. The object of the picnics was 
to celebrate the part that the agents 
played in putting Fifty Million of 
business on the books, and having>it 
in force at the time the Company was 
50 months old. 


The outstanding agent for produc- 
tion in the month of August was R. R. 
Barr of LaSalle County. 


Country Life Insurance Company 
has a new addition to its official fam- 
ily in Howard Reeder, who has been 
appointed the Company’s actuary. He 
comes from the Royal Union Life of 
Des Moines, Iowa. 


Every county in the state has pro- 
duced some business in 1933. The 
pledges for Manager’s Month included 
pledges from all but five counties, and 
it is believed that three of those will 
have pledges in within the next few 
days. 


Du Page county signed 85 new mem- 
bers since Jan. 1 according to Clare 
Bradford, district organization man- 
ager. This county had secured ap- 
proximately 75% of its quota by Sept. 
15. 


The AAA recently increased the 
maximum number of pigs to be bought 
by the government from 4,000,000 to 
5,922,000. The marketing period ends 
September 29. Permits are granted 
only to original owners by telegram 
or letter which must accompany ship- 
ment. 


I. A. A. RECORD—October, 1933 


Speaker Rainey Critical 
Of Credit Administration 


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Sees Influence of Eugene Meyer 
in Failure of System to 
Help Farmers 


(J Rainey of Gn Henry T. 


Rainey of Carrollton, speaker 

of the house, made a sharp at- 
tack on Henry Morgenthau Jr., gov- 
ernor of the Farm Credit Administra- 
tion, at a recent meeting in E. St. 
Louis sponsored by the Home Owners 
Loan Corporation. 


According to the St. Louis Globe 
Democrat, Rainey asserted that Mor- 
genthau “is perpetuating reactionaries 
of the Eugene Meyer school who be- 
lieve in making peasants of the Amer- 
ican farmer.” Rainey predicted that 
the course which he ascribed to Mor- 
genthau would seriously affect the 
success of the administration plan for 
‘farm recovery. 


“In combating the present unprece- 
dented depression, we must assure 
people that their homes are safe,” 
Rainey declared in his address. “Re- 
volutions commence always with the 
land. The situation in Russia is due 
entirely to the fact that for a long 
time the nobility of Russia expanded 
their properties until a few owned all 
the land. The freeing of the serfs did 
not do any good as long as they did 
not own real property. 

“When they revolted, they disposed 
of the land owners very simply. There 
were so few that they were all killed 
or exiled. Now all the people own the 
land, which is not any more satisfac- 
tory than the other way. Communism 
can never obtain much headway as 


long as the people preserve their 
homes. 


Farmers Must Liquidate 


“Up to March 4 of this year, the 
United States was making greater 
progress toward Communism than any 
other country ever made except Rus- 
sia. The Federal Land banks were 
taking over the farm lands at forced 
sales, following the policy of Eugene 
Meyer. 

“This situation was forced by the 
Federal Land banks, who followed the 
Wall street viewpoint of treating 
farms and homes just as one would 
treat a business that is unprofitable. 
The values of homes and land can 
never be determined withott taking 
into consideration the human element. 
Homes do not earn income of them- 
selves. They furnish a place for peo- 
ple to live while they earn their in- 
comes in other places. 

“Estimating values on a basis of 


URGE SUPPORT OF AAA AT PEORIA 


Edward A. O’Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, speaks 
at Peoria County Farm Bureau picnic attended by more than 2,000 members and 
their guests. Left to right are: Albert Hayes, president, Farm Bureau; State 
Senator Carl Behrman, Mr. O'Neal, and Congressman E. M. Dirksen. Dirksen 
lauded Mr. O’Neal and the Farm Bureau for effective work in securing the pas- 


sage of the new farm legislation. 


returns never ought to be the method 
of establishing values for homes and 
farms. The farmer is just a laborer. 
He gets his wages when he sells his 
crops. 

“It has been necessary in the past 
months to resort to unusual methods 
to raise the prices of farm products, 
and the price of living in cities has 
been rising as a consequence. We be- 
lieve that the increased money in the 
farmer’s hands will lead him to buy 
the products of the city factory, and 
bring the city to prosperity.” 


Roar of Disapproval 


Following a hurried trip by airplane 
to Washington, Mr. Rainey on Sept. 
13 issued a public statement reiterat- 
ing previous criticism of the Farm 
Credit Administration. 


“Farmers are having the same dif- 
ficulties in obtaining mortgage relief 
that they had when Eugene Meyer 
and his crowd directed that whenever 
a mortgage was in default it should 
be foreclosed. 

“There is just a roar of disapproval 
in the farm belt. All they can do is 
kick. A few loans are being made 
but they are not enough. And the land 
is being appraised at ridiculously low 
figures—not enough to carry the 
loans.” 

Herbert Gaston, deputy administra- 
tor under Morgenthau, in reply to 


Mr. Rainey said the administration 
closed $5,000,000 of loans in August 
and hoped to step this up to $15;000,- 
000 in September. 

“There ought to be a great jump 
from now on,” said Gaston, “now 
that we have our organization pre- 
pared to dispose quickly of the ap- 
plications.” 


Sells $1500 Of Dairy 
Stock In 3 Hours 


Charles Cameron, member of the 
board of directors of Illinois Milk 
Producers Association, Peoria, went 
out calling on his neighbors Tuesday 
morning Sept. 19, and in about three 
hours sold $1500 worth of stock in 
the “Producers Dairy of Peoria,” or- 
ganized to distribute the milk of mem- 
bers at that market. 

The new co-operative expected to 
raise at least $25,000 by the end of 
the week. Many members who signed 
up for stock at the initial meeting 
Sept. 16 expressed a willingness to 
raise their subscriptions should addi- 
tional money be needed. 


The New York state college of ag- 
riculture has designed a fruit washer 
that can handle from 50 to 60 bushels 
an hour and can be built at home for 
about $150. 


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Auto Accident Prevention 
By V. Vaniman 


for the past three years have 

been doing some real thinking 
on auto accident prevention. One of 
the reasons for this is that they ap- 
preciate the effect on their pocket 
books, the consequent reduced rate in 
the cost of their automobile insur- 
ance. A more important motive, how- 
ever, is to be considered, namely, the 
saving of human lives and the preven- 
tion of human suffering. 


The fact that 29,500 persons were 
killed in auto accidents and nearly 
1,000,000 injured in the United States 
in 19382, makes us realize that it is 
high time for serious thought on the 
subject of auto accident prevention 
when traffic experts state that 80% 
of the auto accidents are preventable. 

Reasonable Care—If a person should 
take a revolver and shoot promiscu- 
ously somebody would do something 
about it because somebody would like- 
ly get hit and that somebody might 
be you. Without using reasonable care 
in making left hand turns, passing 
cars on curves and grades, stopping 
on the highway, someone is likely to 
be killed or permanently injured. 

Accident Talk—‘“Bad tires,” “slip- 
pery pavements,” “poor lights,” 
“brakes slipped,” “I thought I could 
get by,” are no longer reasonable ex- 
cuses nor do they indicate that rea- 
sonable care is being used in driving 
a car. 

Things To Think About—Crutches, 
hospitals, inquests, cripples, nurse, 
doctor, poor house, death, disability— 
all are the result of careless driving. 

The A B C of Accident Prevention 
—The A B C of accident prevention 
is ALWAYS BE CAREFUL. There 
is everything to be gained and nothing 
to be lost. 

Fundamental Principles of Accident 
Prevention—The biggest thing in auto 
accident prevention i. to really get 
people to THINK; not only the drivers 
but the pedestrians. The following 
figures indicate human actions of 
drivers that produce death: 


| ress Bureau members in Illinois 


Driving too fast ..............0.22.-244-- 35.31% 
On wrong side of road ............ 12.25 
Did not have right of way ........ 11.92 
Drove off roadway .................... 18.84 
Improper passing, turning, 
PASAT 5. acenceisonsceve;epgecioesa-es 7.69 
Miscellaneous ............2....2s:000-000+- 13.99 


Human actions of pedestrians that 
produce death: 


Crossing between intersec- 

ROIS anaes cigenvdsmedsieinsiaccesdsncnsecente® 28.83% 
Crossing at intersections ........ 23.52 
Walking along highway ............ 13.81 


Children playing in street ........ 10.77 
Miscellaneous. .............--.--see0-ee0-e++ 14.11 


Reverse Psychology—Reverse Psy- 
chology has a definite part in making 
people think. The ridiculousness of 
the following statements indicates 
what is meant by reverse psychology: 

Never stop on entering a main 
highway; there’s no chance of you 
being hit by an oncoming car. 

Always pass cars on turns or 
grades; there couldn’t be a car com- 
ing from the opposite direction, and 
if there was they would slow down 
and let you by. 

Never signal in making left hand 
turns—other motorists will know 
what you intend to do and. will be 
careful not to hit you. 


Your brakes never need attention. 
If they don’t work just right it will 
stimulate your wits as to what to 
do when you really need them. 

If you can’t stop within the dis- 
tance you can see ahead, step on the 
gas and knock out of the road any- 
thing that is in your way. It will 
keep you from growing old. 

Dart in and out of traffic—there 
is no chance of you getting hit. Be- 
sides it will demonstrate what a 
wonderful driver you are. 


A New Germ—tThe report has been 
received that in Missouri the State 
Board of Health is claiming credit for 
discovering the germ of a new dis- 
ease. The malady is termed “speed- 
itis auto-mobilitis” and the name of 
the offending microbe is the micrococ- 
cus “speeditis auto-mobilitis.” 

Speeditis is principally a disease of 
young life, however older persons 
readily acquire it. There is no doubt 
about the result of this dreaded dis- 
ease. A serum that can be manufac- 
tured quite easily for the driver of the 
automobile to overcome this dreaded 
organism is CAUTION and COUR- 
TESY. 

The September auto accident pre- 
vention campaigns are getting results. 
Mr. Richardson, manager of the IIli- 
nois Agricultural Mutual Insurance 
Company, which has 30,000 policies in 
force, states that the accident curve 
for the month of September, when 
the greatest number of auto accidents 
occur, is straightening out. 


Heard In Union Co. 


Farm Bureau Office 


Non-member: “Mr. Bierbaum (farm 
adviser) What does it cost to belong 
to the Farm Bureau?” 

Mr. Bierbaum: “Mister, if you use 
it, it won’t cost you anything, and if 
you don’t it will cost you $15 a year.” 


I, A. A. RECORD—October, 1933 


Sangamon and Will counties, as we 
go to press, are engaged in the final 
series for the championship of the IIli- 
nois Farm Bureau baseball league. The 
two teams are playing a three game 
series for the State championship. 

Sangamon County won the first con- 
test at Springfield on September 16th, 
when it nosed out Will County by a 
close score of 4 to 3. Sangamon’s new 
star hurler, J. C. Honn of Pawnee, 
struck out 15 men and allowed only 
two walks. Nevertheless, it was a 
close game, Will County making six 
hits to Sangamon’s eight. 

The second game of the series is 
scheduled to be playel at Manhattan 
on September 28rd. If a third game is 
necessary, the two teams will flip a 
coin to determine where and when 
the game shall be played. : 

In the semi-final play-off, Carroll 
County eliminated Woodford in a hard- 
fought game at Eureka on September 
9th. “Carroll County played the best 
defense game of any team we com- 
peted against in the semi-finals,” 
wrote H. A. deWerff, Farm Adviser. 
The score was 5-1. Had Woodford 
County won, it would have been a 
three-cornered tie for the State title 
between Sangamon, Will and Wood- 
ford. Lake County was defeated by 
Sangamon the same day at Spring- 
field. 


Middlemen Take 
Advantage of AAA. 


George N. Peek, agricultural ad- 
ministrator, recently atnounced that 
steps would be taken to safeguard the 
farm recovery program from being 
jeopardized by unreasonable prices to 
the consumer. 

Evidence of profiteering by whole- 
salers, retailers as well as manufac- 
turers has been uncovered by Dr. Fred 
C. Howe, consumer’s counsel for the 
Administration. 

When a farmer or laborer buys a 
pair of overalls for $1.41, Dr. Howe 
pointed out, he makes a contribution 
of about eight cents as a tax toward 
the Administration’s cotton campaign. 
When a customer buys a loaf of bread 
for eight cents about one-half cent 
goes to the wheat farmer through 
the processing tax. 

Pyramiding of these taxes and mis- 
representation of the taxes are caus- 
ing much uneasiness in Washington. 


I. A. A. RECORD—October, 1933 


AAA Rewrites Meat 
Packers Agreement 


Officials of the Agricultural Adjust- 
ment Administration recently rejected 
the marketing agreement submitted by 
the meat packers. They are writing a 
new one demanding that accounts and 
records of packing plants be made ac- 
cessible to Secretary Wallace. 

The change is being made in the in- 
terests of both producers and consum- 
ers in an effort to determine whether 
the spread in processing and distribu- 
tion can Le narrowed. 


Watson Studies County 
Expenditures In Adams 


John C. Watson, director of taxa- 
tion, recently made a study of public 
finances and expenditures in Adams 
county at the invitation of the Adams 
County Farm Bureau. Evidence of ex- 
travagance and needless expense was 
presented by Mr. Watson before Farm 
Bureau officials and members of the 
board of supervisors. 

The investigation reveals the need 
for Farm Bureau tax committees to 
become better informed on the statu- 
tory provisions regarding fees and 
county expenditures and to learn how 
to gather evidence so they may care- 
fully check and help root out illegal 
charges and. waste. 

“The county records are public prop- 
erty,” said Mr. Watson, “and are open 
to inspection during office hours.” 

Comparatively few members of 
county boards of supervisors are fa- 
miliar with statutory laws governing 
fees and expenditures of public funds. 
This situation makes it possible for 
dishonest public officials to run up 
bills and practice petty graft result- 
ing in higher taxes. 


St. Louis Milk Agreement 
Slated For Hearing 


Secretary of Agriculture Wallace 
has issued formal notice of a hearing 
on a milk marketing agreement pro- 
posed by the Sanitary Milk Producers, 
Inc. of St. Louis. The hearing will 
take place in Washington, D. C., on 
September 25 at 9:30 A. M. 

Production prices for Class 1 fluid 
milk are set at $1.94 in the tentative 
schedule which St. Louis parties have 
submitted for hearing. Class 2 milk 
is paid for on the basis of 3.5 times 
the price of 92 score Chicago butter 
plus 20 percent plus 15 cents. A Sep- 
tember minimum price of $1.20 is pro- 
posed for Class 2. Class 3 price to 
producers would be 3.5 times 92 score 
Chicago butter plus 15 cents, 


Retail prices quoted from the tenta- 
tive schedule are 11 cents per quart 
for standard milk and 7 cents for 
pints. On the basis of Class 1 producer 
price of $1.94 per. hundred pounds this 
means that the producer would get 
4% cents and the distributor would 
get 6% cents of the quart price at 
retail. The Sanitary Milk Producers, 
Inc. and 75 percent of the dealers of- 
fer the agreement. 


Producers Seek $2.05 Milk 


As we go to press the Pure Milk 
Association and cooperating milk dis- 
tributors are hopeful of securing Secre- 
tary Wallace’s approval to an amend- 
ment to the milk marketing agreement 
providing for an eleven cent market, 
an advance of five cents a quart in 
18 per cent cream, and a base price of 
$2.05 per cwt. to the producer for 
milk. 


St. Louis Producers Beef 


Club Show Oct. 19th 


The St. Louis Producers will hold 
their tenth annual baby beef club show 
show and sale at East St. Louis Oc- 
tober 19. Charles M. Hay will speak 
at the banquet that evening. Mr. Hay 
ran for the United States Senate from 
Missouri and is now city counselor for 
St. Louis. 


National Committee Busy 
On Corn-Hog Program 


As we go to press the National Corn 
and Hog committee is in session in 
Chicago in an effort to work out a 
permanent program for securing and 
maintaining hog and corn prices on 
a pre-war parity level. “We expect 
to stay in session until we have a defi- 
nite program to submit to the agri- 
cultural adjustment administration,” 
said President Earl C. Smith who is 
chairman of the committee. Follow- 
ing its meeting in July the committee 
pledged itself to submit a permanent 
program by October 1. 


Hudelson Succeeds 
Dean Rankin 


Assistant Dean F. H. Rankin of the 
Illinois College of Agriculture retired 
September 1 after 32 years of service. 
Dean Rankin has a host of friends 
among farmers and graduates 
throughout Illinois. 

R. R. Hudelson, a member of the 
college staff for the past eight years 
and now in charge of the wheat ad- 
justment campaign, has been ap- 
pointed to succeed Dean Rankin. 


Country Elevator Code 
Submitted For Approval 


A code for country elevators was 
recently presented by the newly or- 
ganized national federation of country 
grajn elevator associations. Maximum 
work hours of 48 hours a week are 
established on an 180 day average. A 
minimum wage scale also is provided. 
The code outlaws a number of trade 
practices including over and under 
grading, over and under docking, gra- 
tuities and free services, sales or pur- 
chases which represent an intentional 
loss, free storage of grain unless pro- 
vided for by state law, and buying and 
selling of grain by persons or firms 
engaged in transportation for hire and 
not owning or operating grain han- 
dling facilities. 


30 Day Trial Plan For 
Milk Adopted By AAA 


An emergency plan providing for a 
30-day trial period has been worked 
out for fluid milk trade agreements by 
the AAA. During the 30 day period 
there will be no fixed schedule of re- 
tail prices although a maximum retail 
price will be established. Dealers and 
distributors will be required to make 
reports on uniform forms during the 
first 30 days. The administration will 
have full access to the books of dis- 
tributors, dealers, and stores to aid 
in its study of the price spread be- 
tween producer and consumer. Sub- 
sequent amendments to the price 
schedule will be based on the informa- 
tion obtained during the 30 day pe- 
riod. 


Hog Control Plan Raises 
Prices In Netherlands 


The Netherlands Hog Control plan 
initiated in August, 19382 has resulted 
in substantially higher prices than be- 
fore the act was passed, reports the 
Foreign Agricultural Service of the 
U.S. D. A. Essential features of the 
plan are price fixing on bacon hogs, 
complete control of exports, imposition 
of a slaughter tax on hogs for do- 
mestic consumption to offset losses 
incurred in exports, control of imports 
including the levying of import duties 
to equalize the price of domestic and 
foreign ports, and hog production con- 
trol. The plan has been in effect 
about a year. It was enacted to give 
Dutch farmers at least cost of produc- 
tion. 


The Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion and associated companies began 
operating under the NRA early in Au- 
gust. All clerical help is operating on 
a 40 hour week. 


14 


Things To Think About 


N the last day of August, this 
O year, organized grain growers 

of Saskatchewan, Canada, paid 
the final installment on an original 
debt of $11,061,269, thereby gaining 
clear title to 451 country elevators, 
several terminals, a head office build- 
ing at Regina, a transfer house or 
two at Buffalo, and other property 
purchased in 1926 from the old Sas- 
katchewan Cooperative Company. 
Here is proof again that farmers can 
acquire title to all the machinery they 
need in a complete marketing program 
when they support their cooperative 
unflinchingly through the years. When 
the obligation was assumed seven 
years ago, the critics were free to 
predict the debt never would be paid. 
It has been paid in full by ordinary 
deductions from the wheat of grow- 
ers; deductions that would have been 
made had they sold their grain 
through any other channel. Farmers 
in Illinois who sell their grain through 
the Illinois Grain Corporation and the 
Farmers National Grain Corporation 
are acquiring physical facilities in the 


same way. Organization makes it pos- 
sible. 


AGES for skilled workers in 
Wii country once ranged from 
$6.75 to $10.50 per week, with 
hours from “sunrise to sunset,” says 
a booklet recently issued by the United 
States department of labor for dis- 
tribution at A Century of Progress in 
Chicago. Organization has increased 
wages, shortened hours and improved 
working conditions, says the booklet, 
which, by comparing the status of la- 
borers then with their position now, 
shows clearly the great progress the 
labor movemeut has made. Parallel- 
ing that progress, to those who know 
the abuses that used to exist in the 
distribution of farm products, is the 
rapid advancement of the farmers’ 
own cooperatives and the big improve- 
ment in marketing practices that has 
followed as a result. Both movements 
were called into being by abuses, and 
both, in spite of mistakes and set- 
backs, have gained title to better 
things for their supporters. One must 
know conditions as they used to exist 
to appreciate and correctly appraise 
the truly remarkable achievements of 
either group. 


T the head of its editorial page, 
the Northwestern Miller car- 
ries a paragraph demanding 


repeal of the processing tax on flour, 
declaring it unfair and a burden to 


distressed consumers. It should not 
stop there, suggests Harry N. Owen, 
editor of a farm paper in St. Paul, 
Minn., but should demand the repeal 
of all tariffs, which do to the dis- 
tressed people exactly what it says 
the processing tax does. If the prin- 
ciple of the protective tariff is cor- 
rect—increasing the cost of goods to 
the people in order that manufacturers 
can pay higher wages—then there can 
be no quarrel with the processing tax, 
Mr. Owen continues. The processing 
tax seeks to increase the farmers’ in- 
comes so they can buy more of the 
products of protected factories so the 
owners can, if they feel like it, pay 
their workers more. The processing 
tax, he concludes, is an attempt to ex- 
tend to agriculture some of the spe- 
cial privileges that have been granted 
industry for more than a century. 


for injunction against Henry A. 

Wallace, secretary of agriculture, 
to prevent him from enforcing the 
Chicago milk agreement under the Ag- 
ricultural Adjustment Act, Justice D. 
W. O’Donoghue, of the Supreme Court 
of the District of Columbia, said: “The 
court finds that a national emergency 
exists and that the welfare of the peo- 
ple and the very existence of the gov- 
ernment itself are in peril. The day 
has passed when absolute vested 
rights in contract or property are to 
be regarded as sacrosanct or above the 


ie dismissing recently the petition 


“law. Neither the necessities of life 


nor commodities affected with public 
interest can any longer be left to ruth- 
less competition or selfish greed for 
their production or distribution.” Milk 
dealers who sought the petition have 
served notice of appeal to the United 
States Supreme Court. And that tri- 
bunal, incidentally, when it convenes 
again, is faced with making the most 
momentous decisions it has been called 
on to make in this century. 


Hold ''Fireside'’ Meeting 
In Sam Sorrells Home 


Eighty members and _ prospective 
members and their wives attended a 
county-wide “fireside” meeting at the 
home of Samuel Sorrells, I. A. A. di- 
rector from the 21st district, the night 
of Sept. 18. 

Talmage DeFrees, I. A. A. direc- 
tor from the 22nd district, Sid Cherrill 
and Bob Grieser of the Illinois Live- 
stock Marketing Association, M. E. 
Roberts, field insurance, E. B. Young, 


I, A. A. RECORD—October, 1933 


Make Progress In Co-op. 
Creamery Financing 


By Frank Gougler 


Since cream producers have their 
rush of farm work out of the way, 
they are putting forth new effort in 
raising funds to finance co-operative 
creameries. 


Organization work is underway in 
the Champaign, Mt. Sterling and 
Olney districts. The Champaign dis- 
trict is making excellent progress in 
all counties. In this district they have 
set out to raise at least $25,000 in 
cash to finance this project. Cham- 
paign county is raising a large block 
of this money. 

On August 15th a meeting was held 
of fifty or more workers in Cham- 
paign. J. B. Countiss addressed this 
meeting. At the close of the meeting 
President G. C. Williams of the Cham- 
paign County Farm Bureau announced 
the following prizes to be given away 
September 15: 

To the person ‘selling the greatest 
number of shares of stock by Septem- 
ber 15th, a handsome gold watch. This 
was won by Cecil Pittman, Mahomet, 
for selling 29 shares. The second win- 
ner was John Douglass, Urbana, who 
was given a fine Parker pen for sell- 
ing 21 shares. Similar prizes were 
given to winners for the sale of stock 
for the period August 15 to Septem- 
ber 15. Francis Jackson, Fisher, won 
a gold watch for selling 29 shares of 
stock and Ira B. Burgfield, Sidney, 
was given a fountain pen for selling 
14 shares during the month. 


To date more than 300 shares have 
been sold in Champaign county and 


the campaign goes on. At the meet- 


ing held Sept. 15, President G. C. Wil- 
liams announced additional prizes to 
be given to those selling the most 
stock by Oct. 2. In order to qualify, 
a minimum of three shares must be 
sold. 


In the Mt. Sterling district all coun- 
ties are carrying on active stock sell- 
ing campaigns and Scott County is 
the first in the district to raise its en- 
tire quota. This district is going for- 
ward with its campaign without out- 
side assistance. Farmers are deter- 
mined to get these plants operating 
at the earliest possible date. 


general agent in Montgomery county, 
H. H. Walker, district organization 
manager, Mr. Sorrells, and others 
spoke informally. 

“It was one of the peppiest meet- 
ings I ever attended,” said Mr. 
Walker. “We are planning other meet- 
ings like this one in our district.” 


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I, A. A. RECORD—October, 1933 


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GTAar now to save systematically for a 
substantial monthly income starting 
when you are 65 years of age. 


One dollar or two dollars saved weekly 
while you have youth and health will grow 
into a sure, unfailing income, sufficient to 
keep you in comfort—even luxury—during 
old age. 
The exact amount of your weekly sav- 
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premiums will purchase depend on your 
present age. The younger you are the 
more your money will buy. 
While you are saving and assuring yourself 
a comfortable old age, you have the added 
advantage that should you die before 65, 
your dependents will receive the face value 
of your endowment policy to keep them in 
comfort after you are gone. 


This systematic plan of saving for the in- 
evitable “rainy day” that comes with declin- 
ing years is called the Country Life Endow- 
ment at 65. It is the safest, surest, easiest 
way to assure yourself a comfortable happy 
old age. 


You will want to know more about this 
plan. Just fill out the coupon and mail it 
to your County Farm Bureau or to the 
Home Office direct. Mail it at once. To- 
morrow may be too late. 


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O'Neal Pleads Before 
President For Speed 


Asks For Inflation and Honest 
Dollar in National Radio 
Broadcast Sept. 9 


A plea for quicker action in rais- 
ing farm prices and approving farm 
loans under the AAA and Farm Cred- 
it Administration was delivered by 
President Ed. A. O’Neal of the Amer- 
ican Farm Bureau Federation to Presi- 
dent Roosevelt in Washington recently. 

Lagging farm prices coupled with 
higher retail prices resulting from 
wage and minimum hour agreements 
under the NRA, Mr. O’Neal pointed 
out are placing farmers at a further 
disadvantage in arriving at the goal of 
pre-war parity. | 

In a national radio hookup on Sept. 
9, President O’Neal strongly urged 
that the President use the power given 
him by the last Congress to bring 
about an Honest Dollar through in- 
flation. 

Farmers are struggling with debts, 
interest, and taxes which they cannot 
meet because the purchasing power 
of the dollar in terms of farm com- 
modities is still far greater than it 
was when their debts were contracted, 
and taxes raised, said Mr. O’Neal. A 
commodity dollar that restores farin 
purchasing power to pre-war parity 
is still far from being realized, and 
while there has been some improve- 
ment from the low point last year, no 
substantial relief has yet been had. 


We'll Distribute Our Own Milk 
(Continued from page 7) 


member paid into the Association. 
‘“Roszell did not tell you,” said Hayes, 
“how much check-off the dealers are 
taking out of the price paid by the 
consumer. He failed to say that the 
dealers took 70% of the consumer’s 
dollar, while the dairymen only got 
30%.” ; 

Without any urging, the members 
surged forward, following the an- 
nouncement by President Capron that 
applications for stock could be made 
at the front of the room following 
adjournment. Due to the lateness of 
the hour, many members took the 
blanks home with them, saying they 
would sign and bring in their appli- 
catians the following week. 

Unless later developments make it 
advisable to act otherwise, the Asso- 
ciation will probably install bottling 
equipment in the plant now occupied 
by the Producers Creamery of Peoria. 
If the offices are moved out, there will 
be ample room to take care of the new 
machinery. 


Edward A. O’Neal 


Russia Encourages Dairying 


With the slogan “a cow for every 
collective farmer,” the Soviet govern- 
ment has launched a campaign to en- 
courage the breeding of cattle by 
creating a fund of 35,000,000 roubles 
(nominally $17,500,000) to be loaned 
to those collective peasants who are 
unable to buy their own, the Asso- 
ciated Press reports from Moscow. 
One million cowless collective mem- 
bers are to be helped in this way to 
buy one calf each. The government 
hopes to improve the lot of the pea- 
sant, and gradually to build up the 
country’s cattle herds. Collective farm- 
ers owning more than one cow are to 
be called on to sell to the less fortu- 
nate, 


New Process Promises 


Cheaper Phosphates 


Cheaper phosphates for farmers are 
expected to result from a new process 
for treating rock phosphate with wa- 
ter vapor and silica at high tempera- 
tures recently discovered by the Bu- 
reau of Chemistry and Soils. The 
method is a radical departure from 
that now used to produce superphos- 
phate. When the rock phosphate is 
heated to 1400° C. the fluorine which 
locks the phosphorus is driven off 
within 30 minutes and the residue 
after being ground is ready for the 
spreader. 


8,185 employees have been added to 
the pay rolls of Sears Roebuck & 
Company since July 29, General R. E. 
Wood, President of the Company, an- 
nounced recently. The increase in em- 
ployment was partially due to the 
increase in business and partially to 
the effect of the NRA code. 


I. A. A. RECORD—October, 1933 


Whiteside Man Wins 
Soyoil Paint Contest 


Biggest 60 Days Sales In History 
of Company Completed 
Aug. 15 


HE World’s Fair SOYOIL 

] Paint Contest began June 15 

and closed August 15 during 
which period the 53 county service 
companies associated with [Illinois 
Farm Supply Company purchased 35,- 
444% gallons of SOYOIL paint, 6,601 
gallons of roof coating, and 540 pounds 
of roof cement. 

The winner in the contest was Earl 
B. Johnson, truck salesman for White- 
side Service Company, who scored a 
total of 2,003 points, based upon the 
number of sales and the number of 
gallons of the different grades of 
paint. 

Laclede Holcomb, truck salesman 
for St. Clair Service Company, won 
second place with 191814 points. 

Ernest C. Costley, truck salesman 
for Macoupin Service Company, was 
third with 1887 points. 

Mr. Johnson was awarded four 
books of Century of Progress tickets 
consisting of general admission and 
various attractions on the grounds; 
Mr. Holcomb received three books; 
Mr. Costley two books. The 50 other 
high ranking men, each of whom re- 
ceived two souvenir general admission 
tickets to A Century of Progress, are 
as follows: 


COUNTY SALESMAN 
CHAMPAIGN Clyde S. Carper 
EDGAR Frenton Farker 
George Boyars 
JERSEY W. O. Wilson 
KANKAKEE Orlin Hendrix Pi 
LAKE Elmer Rosene 
George Zoellick 
Harry Berghorn 
LA SALLE Marshall Eike 
LOGAN-MASON Kreiling 
MACOUPIN David E. Coultas , 
Paul A, Franke 
MADISON Ollie D. Nemnick 
Martin Sievers 
Milton H. Voss 
McDONOUGH Pendarvis 
- Highee 
Mings 
PEORIA W. G. Heinz 
Fred Jones 
RICH-LAW % E. Vandervort 
R. E. Fritchley 
SHELBY- E. R. Henderson 
EFFINGHAM Edgar Bartke 
Wesley Warner 
Bill Bonser 
Lee V. Hauter 
G@. C. Hull 
Clarence Ruff 
BE. D. Wilkins 
ST. CLAIR Oliver Voelkel 
Paul Fark 
Edgar Muskopf 
Leslie Hogshead 
STEPHENSON K. Wohlford 


TWIN-COUNTY 


L. Stukenberg 
V. Barmore 
E. Folgate 
Fred Zeigler 
Fred Fosse 


WABASH L. D. Siegert ag 
Ralph Ackerman 
Virgil Avery 
W. G. Perkins vf 
WHITESIDE Bernie Vos 
Harry Schipper Fi 
Sam Howe y 
WOODFORD B. T. Heiken : 
MACON J. J. Johnson 
ADAMS J. H. Donley 


I. A. A. RECORD—October, 1933 


~ A Call For Action 


By Henry Morgenthau, Jr., 


Governor, Farm Credit Administration 


AM addressing here publicly every 
| officer and employee of the Farm 

Credit Administration and every 
individual in any way concerned with 
the work of putting into effect the 
Emergency Farm Mortgage Act of 
1938. I include not only every officer 
of every land bank, from the presi- 
dent and the board of directors down 
to the newest clerk or stenographer, 
but every officer and every member 
of a farm loan association. I wish 
especially that what I have to say be 
read and understood by land ap- 
praisers and loan committees. 

In passing the Emergency Mortgage 
Act, Congress expressed its confidence 
in the land bank system and reposed 
faith in that system as an agency 
proper and fit to carry out the task 
of bringing speedy relief to debt- 
burdened American farmers. The 
President in his consultations with 
members of Congress before the pas- 
sage of the act and in signing it gave 
expression to the same faith and con- 
fidence. 

Do Everything You Can 

You officers and appraisers of the 
Land Bank Division, you directors, of- 
ficers and employees of land banks 
and you officers and members of 
National farm loan associations have 
each and all been charged with a great 
duty and responsibility by the Gov- 
ernment of the United States. That 
duty and responsibility are to do 
everything that you can to extend the 
benefits of the Emergency Mortgage 
Act as speedily as possible to all to 
whom it-can be of service. 

I realize as well as you do that the 
job is a huge one and the responsibil- 
ity is great. The land banks never 
before have been called on to do a job 
even comparable to this. Applications 
for loans received since the Emer- 
gency Farm Mortgage Act was passed 
last May amount to about three- 
fourths of all the outstanding loans of 
the land bank system, which has been 
doing business since 1917, 

We can take some credit for the 
speed with which we have built up 
our organization to deal with this sit- 
uation, but we can’t take time out to 
pat each other on the back. With a 
back log of some 185,000 applications 
for loans hanging over us and new 
ones coming in at the rate of 17,000 
or more a week we are a long way 
from having the job licked yet. 


Farmer Wants Action 


The fact that we have increased the 
number of appraisers at work from 
210 when the law was passed to near- 
ly ten times that number at present 
means little to the farmer who has 
been waiting sixty or ninety days to 
learn whether he can get a loan. He 
knows there has been delay; he doesn’t 
know why and it wouldn’t help him to 
pay his debts if he did. He wants ac- 
tion; and so do I. So, I believe, do you. 

This is an emergency. We have been 
busy, but we’ve got to get busier. 
Every man and woman must get re- 
sults or give way to somebody who 
will. I mean that. It’s too serious a 
job for me to mince words. I intend 
that every employee and every agent 
shall have fair and considerate treat- 
ment, but we’ve got to get results. 


We have been hiring appraisers and 
other help as fast as we thought the 
system could absorb them, but it 
hasn’t absorbed them fast enough. 
We’ve got to take on men at an ir- 
creased rate and train them efficient- 
ly. Every appraiser, every chiei ap- 
praiser, every reviewing appraiser 
must seek and find ways to increase 
the output of appraisals—but it must 
be: done without slighting the job of 
making an accurate and fair appraisal. 


The Word “Normal” 


What is a fair appraisal? Our an- 
swer to that question will determine 
how far we can go to help those whom 
we want to help. Congress has given 
us one word as a guide, leaving the 
rest to our experience and judgment. 
The word is “normal.” Appraised 
value is to be “normal” value. In de- 
fining this word we have said that dis- 
tress sales in these recent bad years do 
not fix normal value and that neither 
do high sale prices of boom years. Nor- 
mal value is somewhere between. The 
Agricultural Adjustment Act, passed 
by Congress as a part of the same bill 
that included the Farm Mortgage Act, 
indicates that the years 1909 to 1914 
inclusive were years of normal price 
relations as between farm crops and 
consumers’ goods. So we have been 
using farm commodity prices of 
1909-14 as a principal guide in deter- 
mining normal value of farms. 

There have been complaints that 
this principle was not being faithfully 
applied—complaints that many ap- 
praisals since the act was passed have 


17 


been too low. We have had special 
examinations made of many of these 
complaints. We have had investiga- 
tions by soil experts who have no 
connections with the land bank sys- 
tem, which are continuing. 

The reports I have already received 
convince me that some of these com- 
plaints—perhaps many of them—are 
well founded. I have not sufficient 
information to say that appraisals are 
generally too conservative; some may 
even be too high. But I am convinced 
that some appraisers have not under- 
stood properly the rule of value that 
we have instructed them to apply. 

A land bank loan has a maximum 
limit of 50 per cent of the appraised 
normal value of the land for agricul- 
tural purposes, plus 20 per cent of the 
value of permanent, insured improve- 
ments. The purpose of that 50 per 
cent margin is to give protection 
against declines in value and these 
may be due either to special causes 
which affect the particular property 
or they may be due to price declines 
and bad business conditions that af- 
fect all farm property. In the midst of 
such a depression period it is illogical 
to impose the same strict rules as to 
farm earnings as a determinant of 
value that we would impose in a pros- 
perous period. That would mean ex- 
acting a double margin of safety 
which would block us from lending 
to many able farmers who deserve 
credit. That was the reason for the 
phrase “normal value” in the act. It 
is the basis for the explanations we 
have given with respect to appraisals. 


Must Make Sound Loans 


Both the land banks and the Na- 
tional farm loan associations are re- 
quired to make sound loans, but they 
need not exact excessive security. 
Members of associations as well as 
land bank officials know that the 
character and ability of the farmer 
who gets the loan has much to do with 
its soundness. The Emergency Mort- 
gage Act does not instruct you to 
make loans to open up new areas tu 
the plow or to establish more people 
on farms. It was drafted to take some 
of the burden of debt from the backs 
of experienced, capable farmers, es- 
tablished on the land, and to release 
funds to rural communities by re- 
financing farm mortgages and other 
debts on terms which the farmers 
might reasonably be expected ,to pay 
over a period of years out of the prod- 
ucts of the soil. 

A loan to such an experienced, 
capable farmer, to permit him to re- 
tain the homestead he has farmed 
successfully, may be made more safe- 
ly than to a newcomer, inexperienced 
(Continued on page 18) 


18 


Earl Smith Talks At 
Southern Ill. Meetings 


Approximately 1200 Farm Bureau 
members, business men, and their 
guests from Wabash, Edwards, White, 
and Wayne counties attended a rous- 
ing meeting in the High School Gym 
at Grayville the night of Sept. 19 re- 
ports L. F. Brissenden, district or- 
ganization manager. 

President Earl C. Smith was the 
principal speaker. 

The Williams Colored Quartet from 
Carrier Mills were enthusiastically 
applauded when they sang negro spir- 
ituals and folk songs. 

About 800 attended a similar meet- 
ing in the afternoon of the same day 
at the Fair Grounds in Marion, Wil- 
liamson county where Mr. Smith also 
was the principal speaker. 

The colored quartet from Carrier 
Mills provided entertainment at Ma- 
rion too, under the auspices of the 
Saline County Farm Bureau which 
led with 89 new members signed by 
quota men since Jan. 1. 

At Grayville, the Mercury-Independ- 
ent published a special edition ad- 
vertising the meeting and welcoming 
farmers from the four counties, to 
Grayville. Local merchants joined in 
the welcome with paid advertising. 
The meeting was sponsored by the 
Farm Bureaus from Wabash, Edwards 
and White counties, and by the Wa- 
bash Valley Service Co. 


It’s Time to Mobilize 
(Continued from page 5) 


zation campaign. It provides for a 
state campaign committee with Earl 
Smith as chairman. The state chair- 
man will select county organization 
captains on recommendation of the 
county presidents. The county captain 
will select lieutenants so there will be 
at least one for every township or 
community in the county. The mo- 
bilization campaign will be directed 
toward obtaining new members and 
bringing present members into good 
standing. 

Each county under the agreement 
shall appoint a county organization 
committee if one is not already in 
existence to work with the campaign 
captain and his lieutenants. 

The I. A. A. will furnish publicity 
which the local counties many sup- 
plement, and has retained Mr. Lucius 
Wilson, a trained sales and organiza- 
tion director, for a period of six weeks 
to take charge of the state-wide cam- 
paign. He will address county and 
district meetings of organization work- 
ers, and direct the movement all along 
the line. 

“McDonough county is ready to go 


along and put the job over,” saiu Fred 
Herndon, president of the Farm Bu- 
reau who was first to respond to an 
invitation by President Smith for com- 
ment from the floor. 

“I am authorized by our board tv 
pledge the co-operation of Pula~k. 
Alexander county,” said Presiu at 
Lingenfelter, 

“We'll do our best to make this a 
success in Mason county,’ responded 
President Chas. Borgelt. 

“We’re going to put it over in our 
county,” said President Williams of 
Champaign county. 

“We’ve needed this for a long time,” 
asserted an official of the Will Coun- 
ty Farm Bureau. 

“We’re ready to go along in Cook 
county, all except Chicago,” said Dick 
Nietfelt, president of the Cook Coun- 
ty Farm Bureau, amidst a burst of 
applause. 

“It’s time to organize more effec- 
tively. We’re ready,” said a spokes- 
man for Vermilion county. 

“During the past two years or more 
our membership has shown an_in- 
crease every month. We'll be with the 
I. A. A. 100 per cent in this program 
to mobilize farm support,” said Presi- 
dent John Miller of Madison county. 

So spoke many others. Finally 
someone suggested that all in favor 
rise with their county banners. “This 
reminds me of Kansas City in 1928 
and Chicago last fall,” commented Mr. 
Smith as the county banners were 
waved on high in response to the 
suggestion. “The sentiment seems to 
be unanimous. Now I’d like to receive 
recommendations very soon from every 
Farm Bureau president for a cam- 
paign captain for his county. And let 
nothing but fitness of the man for this 
particular job influence us in his 
selection.” 


A Call For Action 
(Continued from page 17) 


in farming in that particular area. 

It was to take care of such experi- 
enced, capable farmers who stood in 
danger of losing their farms that the 
Commissioner’s fund of $200,000,000 
was provided from Federal funds by 
the Emergency Mortgage Act. This 
permits the refinancing of farmers 
deeply in debt without imposing undue 
risk on the land banks and the farm 
loan associations. If not more than 
$5,000 is required from this fund in 
any one case, a farmer may be re- 
financed up to 75 per cent of the 
normal value of his farm and farm 
property. If normal value has been 
fairly fixed, creditors of a farmer who 
owes more than 75 per cent will often 
find it to their advantage to reduce 
their claims so that all debts may be 


I. A. A. RECORD—October, 1933 


liquidated by land bank and commis- 
sioner’s loans. 


The Next Few Months 


We shall have to give an account- 
ing to the President and to Congress 

* what we have accomplished in the 
administration of this Emergency 
Farm Mortgage Act. We have an ac- 
counting to make also to the people 
of the United States. What we do in 
the next few months will determine 
how good an accounting it is to be. 
Let me summarize my ideas of what we 
must do to make ours a good report. 

1. We must increase our forces; we 
must find more efficient methods; we 
must speed up the work. 

2. We must interpret “normal 
value” fairly, so that, without making 
unsound or excessive loans, we may 
extend the benefits of refinancing to 
as many farmers as possible. 

3. We must study every application 
sympathetically and patiently and 
strive to find a way to help the ap- 
plicant out of his difficulties with one 
or more of the means at our com- 
mand. 

I congratulate all of you on the op- 
portunity to render a great service. 
Let’s not muff it. 


New York City To Care 
For Its Own Destitute 


Tammany Hall, in control of the 
administration in New York City, re- 
cently devised an emergency tax pro- 
gram to care for their unemployed. 

The program provides an increase 
of 50% in the water tax, a 5% tax on 
each taxi ride, a 5% tax on the gross 
incomes of brokerage houses with a 
4% share tax on stock transfers, a 
tax of 112% on the gross income of 
all public utility companies and a tax 
of one quarter of one percent on the 
value of investments of savings banks 
and life insurance companies. 

With the city coffers all but empty 
and more than 50% of its total taxes 
due in 1933 still uncollected, the Tam- 
many administration was forced 
either to find new sources of revenue 
to appease the bankers’ demands for 
a sound credit position or cut down 
city expenditures sufficiently to bal- 
ance its budget. 

Unlike the situation in Illinois, 
Governor Lehmann of New York flat- 
ly refused proposals of the Tammany 
leaders to place the burden of unem- 
ployment relief in New York City on 
the people of the whole state through 
state-wide taxation. 

Governor Lehmann told the Tam- 
many leaders to go home and work 
out their own tax program in New 
York City to care for their destitute 
people. 


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Price Levels 


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Possible Moment—Smith 


By 


EARL C. SMITH, PRESIDENT, 
Illinois Agricultural Association. 


Practically all students of 


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national affairs and economics 


agree that it is imperative to raise farm price levels at the. 


earliest possible date. They 
those dependent upon farmers 


recognize that farmers and 
constitute approximately one- 


half the total buying power in the Nation They agree that 
if this buying power can be restored thru increasing farm 


incomes as a result of normal 


farmers could and would be effective in absorbing the prod- 
Such buying would furnish a 


ucts of mills and factories. 
necessary outlet for increase 


factories that must be had if in-® 


creased employment in industrial 


regions is to be realized. 


How to raise farm prices is the 
problem. Were it not for the tre- 
meéendous surpluses of farm. crops 
this would be a comparatively easy 
task. The Farm Bureau move- 


has for many years insisted that 


proper control of crop surpluses 
must be had if reasonable price 
levels were to-obtain for. that 


portion of farmers production con- 
sumed in the domestic market. 
MecNary-Haugen Bills. 

The MecNary-Haugen Bills 
1926-27-28, were directed at. the 
heart of this question. Many yet 
believe that had this legislation 
been enacted into law and effec- 
tively administered, Amer ica 
would not now -be in the throws of 
distress. The problem then pre- 
sented was very different and 
comparatively simple _ to that 
which exists today. At that time 
it was merely a matter of provid- 
ing ways and means for surplus 
production to flow into world 
channels of trade on a world priee 
level basis while maintaining price 


levels. for the. large. portion of 
production consumed in the do- 
mestic market on the basis of 


American standards of living: 

At that time there was almost 
unlimited export outlets for sur- 
plus farm crops. Today such out- 
lets are greatly reduced, in some 
cases almost non-existent. The 
American farmer has: continued to 
produce far beyond the possibili- 
ties of consumption in the United 
States. This changing condition 
was largely the cause of farm or- 
ganizations supporting the Agri- 
cultural Adjustment Act with its 
wide and varied authority placed 
in the Department of Agriculture 
to increase price levels of farm 
crops to parity, at least for that 
portion consumed at home. 

President Roosevelt and Secre- 
tary of Agrciulture Henry A. Wal- 
lace, have repeatedly told farmers 
that the only way they could ex- 
pect substantial improvement in 
price levels necessary to restore 
the purchasing power farmers had 
in the average of the years 1909- 
1914, was to plan their produc- 
tion so as to remove the tremend- 
ous surplus now coming to 
market. 

Means A Reduction. 

In effect, this means 
stantial reduction in the 
tion of the many basie farm 
modities. A vast majority of 
students of the agricultural prob- 
lem agree that this the first 
essential to restore farm prices, at 
least until such time as normal 
export outlets may be established 
thru reciprocal trade agreements 
and international understandings. 

Based. upon the general princi- 
ple of planning commodity pro- 
duction to the needs of the do- 
mestic market, the Secretary of 
Agriculture and administrators of 
the Agricultural Adjustment Act 
hive developed and are putting 
into effect, programs which they 
believe are addressed to the pe- 
tuliar problems presented by the 
several basic farm commodities 
and which they believe will. ef- 
fectively result substantial im- 


a sub- 
produc- 
com- 


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in 


provement of farm price levels to| 


full extent farmers will re- 
spond and cooperate, 

The wheat control program 
which has been underway for sev- 
eral months needs no further ex- 
planation. Undoubtedly, there are 
inequities or inequalities in the 
application or effect of this pra- 
gram upon many. farmers. The 
‘outstanding fact .remains, how- 
ever, that practically every stu- 
dent the situation confronting 
wheat farmers that it is 
necessary to reduce total wheat 
production in this country from 


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agree 


of 


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prices for farm products that 


d production of mills and 


20% to 25% if we are to have 
any substantial reasons for ex- 


STOP! THINK! ACT! 


. —_. 
Information reaching the of- 
fices of the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association discloses that 
the efforts now being made to 


successfully admminister the 
Agricultural Adjustment Act 
are being resisted by various 


groups of processors of differ- 
ent commodities. These people 


are effectively organized. They || 


are presenting almost solid 
fronts to protect what they call 
their rightful interests. In 


many cases this means to pro- 
tect abnormal margins of prof- 
it in. the processing or the 
later handling of the products 
of the American farmer. 

It is well known that many 
processors of farm commodi- 
ties are appealing to and get- 
ting support from unorganized 
farmers to offset or break 
down the efforts and influences 
of farm organzations. 

To which camp do you be- 
long? 

With the proces#ors and 
other handlers of farm crops 
in the channels of. distribution, 
or in an organization. fighting 


pecting parity prices for that part 
domestically consumed, 

Very definite price-controlling 
plans are underway for the dairy 
farmers in the larger milk shegs 


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The temporary production con- 
trol program for the cotton farm- 
ers in the South was accepted by 
them in a very large: way. More 
permanent plans. to maintain 
reasonable prices for this group 
of farmers is well underway. 

Hog Program. 

A temporary program for the 
hog farmer is about completed. 
An intermediary program for 
corn-hog farmers. coupled with a 
more permanent program, has 
heen recommended to officials at 
Washington by the National Corn- 
Hog Committee. Much _ publicity 
has been given to the details of 
these plans. Every farmer should 
fully -understand the complexities 
of the corn-hog problem that he 
may be prepared to understand 
the reasons underlying the pro- 
posed solutions. 

Many leaders’ of national. promi- 
nence in the political and business 
world have contended that nothing 
could be done to stimulate corn 


| numbers before the committees of 
Congress when the Agricultural 
Adjustment Act was under con- 
sideration and stated in the pro- 
ceedings of these hearings that 
the delicate and peculiar relation- 
ships existing between ‘corn and 
hogs made it economically and 
; practically impossible to success- 
fully do anything to improve and 
maintain the price levels of these 


and hog prices except improve- 
ment in general economic condi- 
tions, They. appeared in large 


commodities. 
The _ Illinois Agricultural As- 
sociation assumed the leadership 


| 
in insisting that any National agri- 
cultural program would. break 
| down that failed to effectively in- 
clude corn and hogs because 
taken together, they constitute 
the largest cash ‘crop of the 
American farmer. Economists 
have stated that hog prices could 
not artificially be raised that to do 
so would decrease pork consump- 
tion with the result that the large 
increase in the tonnage of hogs 
coming to market would force a 
break-down in such a program, 
The National Corn and Hog 
| Committee has attempted in. its 
recommendations which have gone 
| forward to Washington, to meet 
every economic problem that the 
peculiarities of the commodities of 


corn and hogs present. 
Problem Summed Up. 
Summed up, the problem pre- 
sented disclosed a decrease in the 


exports of pork products of more 
than five hundred million pounds 
during the last year, coupled with 
an estimated increase in pigs far- 
rowed of around seven per cent. 
The temporary program, although 
drastic, called for the immediate 
marketing of six million pigs or 
approximately. one-third of the 
numbers that would have normal- 
ly come to market during the 
next six to eight months’ period. 
This effort has now been fully ac- 
complHshed. 

| The recommendations now 
under consideration in Washing- 
ton call for an immediate im- 
provement of price levels which 
should result in parity prices on 
all hogs below 220 pounds” by 
November ist. The levying of a 
$2.00 processing tax on all hogs 
reaching market, $1.00 of this tax 
to be returned to all farmers who 
contract to reduce their corn acre- 
age twenty per cent in 1934 under 
ithat of the average of 1932 and 
1933; also to pay such co-operat- 
ing farmers on a basis of 30¢ per 


shoulder to shoulder with your 
neighbor producer? 

There is no middle. ground, 
There can be no middle ground. 
The Illinois Agricultupg] 'Asso- 
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bushel. on the normal yield of 
acres taken out of corn. produc- 
tion, such acres to ‘be allowed to 
go to pasture or cut for hay. 
The other revenue derived from 
the processing tax, it 
mended, be used to. remove from 
normal market channels the per- 
centage of hog receipts above that 
which can be consumed in the 
domestic market. on a ‘basis of 
parity prices to the producer. The 
hogs so purchased would he 
cessed into an’ edible and. whole- 
some sausage upon which a low 
price could be. fixed uniformly 
throughout the United States. Such 
a program will make available on 
a lower price.basis than exists at 
the present time, a pork product 
for citizens: with reduced incomes. 


Calls For Cooperation, 


This program calls for the_co- 
operation of a large. percentage of 
the corn-hog farmers of the 
middle west. Practical men in all 
lines of the meat industry, in- 
cluding producers, packers and 
retailers, agree such a plan can be 
so coordinated as to result in 
parity prices for approximately 
90% of the estimated pork ton- 
nage to come to market during 
the next eight months. 


The question resolves itself into 
the following: 


Shall corn-hog farmers do noth- 
ing and as ajresult of their 
lethargy be prepared to expect 
even lower prices than have pre- 
vailed during the last year, or 
shall they organize and fully co- 
operate so as to have reasons to 
expect parity price levels for ap- 
proximately 90% of their normal 
production of hogs and 80% of 
their normal production of corn. 

Less than 10% of the farmers 
in the United States thru organi- 
zation have made possible this far- 
reaching federal law. 

A much larger. percentage of 
farmers are required in organiza- 
tion if they are to expect effective 
and successful administration of 
the law. 

Farmers are 
to secure reasonable: and fair 
prices for wheat, corn, hogs, 
dairy products, cotton and tobacco. 


now in a position 


Other farm commodity © prices 
have and Will seek comparable 
price levels. 


Through organization and organi- 
zation alone can these results be 
obtained, 

I appeal to every farm family in 
the State of Illjnois to do their 
part by getting into organization 
harness; force farm price levels to 
a parity basis and with such in- 
creased, incomes, assist in buying 
the. Nation back to prosperity. 


IAA LEGISLATIVE 


The legislative committee of the 
Illinois Agricultural Association 
was on hand at Springfield this 
week when the General Assembly 
convened in special session. 

The I, A. A. is attempting to 
protect the interests of farmers, in 
| fact, all downstate people against 
unfair legislation that may be pro- 
posed by Chicago political leaders 
in the interest of poor relief. 


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By R. A. COWLES, 
Treasurer Illinois Agricultura 
Association. 


Members of the Association w 
attended the Annual Meeting, hf 7 
in Peoria last January, will req I 
the address of Fred Lee, Washi P ry 
ton, D. C. SPECIAL LEGISI[#*- 
TIVE COUNSEL, who presenf 
the bills in preparation and beff{T© 
the 72nd Congress, proposed [PY 
farm organizations for the rePet 
of distressed farmers threate?® 
with loss of their homes and prPP- 
erty through foreclosure—with no 
source of funds available for fuf'¢~ 
ing such obligations, 

The program, as explained | bY 
Mr. Lee, proposed briefly: 

(1) Amendment of the Fea¢ral 
Dankruptey Act, to enable far 
in suitable manner and with mfi- 
mum expense, to secure befor 
Special Referee in the home c 
ty, agreement by majority ac 
of creditors as to extension 
composition of the farmer's d 
(2) Amendment of the Feaf'@l 
Farm Loan Act and enactmen of 
other legislation necessary to 
vide a substantial source of fi 
needed for such purpose and °F 
new farm financing. 

The. 72nd Congress, in the 
ing days of the session, ame 
the Federal Bankruptcy. Act by 
adding a new chapter, inclu ing 
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COMPOSITION AND EXTEN- 
SION,” which was approved March 
8rd by the President. 

No agreement, however, 
reached by this Congress in regard 
to providing the source of funds 
needed in funding such obligations, 
and for new finance. 

Honorable Tom D. 
member of the Committee on Ju- 
diciary, House of Representatives, 
has prepared an excellent digest of 
Section 75 of the Amendment men- 
tioned, which appeared in, and is 
here reproduced by courtesy of the 
United States News. 

How Secure Relief. 

“How can the farmer burdened 

with debts secure relief from the 


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bankruptcy? 


Congress created a system of debt 
relief for the individual, making 
special provision for the farmer. 

“Section 75 of the bankruptcy 
law now provides that 15 or more 
farmers in any county may get to- 
gether and, petition the Federal 
District Court to appoint a referee 
or conciliation commissioner to 
handle their debt problem. 

“How can the farmer obtain re- 
lief, when a conciliation commis- 
sioner has been named by the 
court? 

“At any time within five years, 
the law provides, the farmer may 


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file a petition with the court, stat- 
ing that he is insolvent or unable 
to meet his debts as they mature, 
and that he desires a settlement or 
an extension of time to pay his 
debts. The fee charged in filing 
the petition is $10. The petition 
must show a list of debts owed by 
the farmer. It must be in dupli- 
cate, and one copy will be sub- 
mitted ‘o the conciliation commis- 
sioner by the court, if the petition 
js approved. 

“Within ten days the farmer 
must file a list of his assets with 
the commissioner, who then is re- 
quired to call the first meeting of 
creditors. 

“They will be notified that the 
farmer proposes to offer terms for 
a settlement or for additional time 
and will receive a statement of the 
farmer's debts and the names of 
creditors. 

“If the creditors wish, they may 
examine the farmer at the first 
meeting, and they may name a 
committee to submit to the com- 
missioner a supplementary inven- 
tory of the debtor’s estate. The 
commissioner will determine the 
final inventory of the debtor's 
estate. 


Farmers May Apply. 

‘Tf an agreement is reached 
with a majority in number of all 
creditors whose claims are a ma- 
jority in amount of all claims that 
have been allowed, the farmer may 
apply to the commissioner for con- 
firmation. The commissioner will 
4end the order to the court, with 
the following facts: 

“1.—Acceptances of creditors. 

“2—-Proofs of claims which 
have been allowed and those which 
have been disallowed; 

“3.—List of debts 
ority; 

“4.—List of secured debts, 
a description of the 
each; 

“}.—Final inventory, with list of 
exemptions; 

6.—Certificate showing that de- 
posit has been paid; 

“T,—Report of the commissioner 
recommending or opposing confir- 
mation and, in the case of an ex- 
tension, stating to what extent, if 
any, it would be desirable for the 
court, after confirmation, to retain 
control over the farmer and his 
property. 

“The judge will fix a date and 


having pri- 


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security of 


(Continued on page 7, column 4.) 


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MOBILIZATION 
CAMPAIGN ISSUE 


SPECIAL 


; Vol. 11 


Three Point Program Can 
Be Achieved With United 


Support Of Farmers 


Agriculture Faces Crisis As Farm Prices Lag While Others 
Go Up—Minimum Prices For Farm Commodities 
Seen As Solution To Immediate Problem. 


With a challenge to all Illinois farmers to organize 
more effectively to speed the arrival of higher farm prices, 
lower property taxes, and immediate federal credit relief, 


the Fall Mobilization Campaign sponsored by the Illinois ~ 


‘Agricultural Association and County Farm Bureaus will 
‘swing into action in every county on Monday, October 9. 


“With more powerful 


organization of agricultural 


forces all three of these things should be vigorously in- 
sisted upon,” said Earl C. Smith, president of the I. A. A, 
and chairman of the state campaign committee, 


TAX OBJECTIVES 


SAYS JON WATSON 


Must First Revise The State 
Constitution To Secure Fair 
Tax Laws. 


By JOHN ©. WATSON 
Director of Taxation. 


Cut present property taxes 50 
per cent! 

Broaden the tax base and dis- 
tribute the cost of government 
among all the people of Illinois 
having ability to pay. 

Remove from property, both 
rural and urban, at least half the 
burden it now bears and has un- 
justly born for so many years. 

This is the job Organized 
Farmers through the IL A. A. and 
Farm Bureaus have set out to ac- 
complish, a job which requires 
and deserves the support of every 
farmer and landowner if it is to 
succeed. 

To this end the Illinois Agricul- 
tural. Association submitted gen- 
eral provisions for a proposed con- 
stitutional amendment, to nearly 
2,000 county farm bureau leaders 
who met at Decatur on Tuesday, 
Sept. 18. 

The leaders unanimously’ en- 
dorsed the _ resolution favorable 
to such an amendment and 
also authorized the circulation 
of a petition among Illinois farm- 
ers asking the governor to call a 
special session of the general as- 
sembly to approve and submit 
such an amendment for vote in 
the next general election, 

The Resolution. 

The resolution adopted at the 
Decatur conference is as follows: 
“In view of the grossly unjust 
burden laid upon owners of tangi- 
ble property for support of State, 
County and local government, the 
adverse effect of such burden upon 
the values of property, and the 
rapidly increasing delinquency in 
the payment of taxes, this Confer- 
ence of Farm Bureau. leaders 
earnestly urge the officers and 
Board of Directors of the Illinois 
Agricultural Association to. take 
such action as they may deem ad- 
visable or necessary to secure the 
calling of a special session of the 
Fifty-Zighth General Assembly 
and the submission, by that’ body, 
of an amendment to the Revenue 
Article of the State Constitution, 
to be voted on in November, 1934, 
embodying the following. princi 
ples: 

1. “Removal of all restrictions 
which prevent a broadening of the 
base of taxation and the estab- 
lishment of an equitable system 
of taxation. 

2. “The imposition of  restric- 
tions upon the taxation of prop- 
erty which will relieve tangible 
property, both rural and urban, of 
at least one-half of the burden 
now laid upon it.” 

Billions Untaxed, 

“No equitable system of taxa- 
tion can be initiated in Illinois 
until the legislature is given full 
authority to revise our revenue 
laws so as to bring into the tax- 
paying class those who are now 


(Continued on Page 2, Col. 4) 


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'ished; 


» The fact that farm prices are 
lagging behind while well or- 
ganized labor and industry aided 
by the NRA are reducing hours 
of labor, setting minimum wage 
scales and boosting retail prices 
I! along the line, is cause for 


changing their products for fin- 
ished commodities, but the whole 
recovery program is. threatened 
unless farmers unite to demand 
quicker action in boosting farm 
prices, and then co-operate in re- 
ducing surpluses. 

Farmers as a group constitute 
the largest consuming class in the 
country. Their buying power 
must be raised or the whole re- 
covery program will break down, 
By failing to lend their influence 
and support unorganized farmers 
are holding back the realization 
of parity prices for farm prod- 
ucts, prices that would give them 
buying power equal to that ene 
joyed in the 1909-1914 period, 

Immediate Relief Asked. 

The situation first may call for 
fixing of minimum prices for cere 
tain farm products to provide ime 
relief. This is nothing 
more nor less than organized labor 


and industry are doing with or 
without government aid, 
Secondly, it calls for whole- 


hearted support by farmers of the 
acreage and crop reduction pro- 
gram. This. will provide perma- 
nent relief when followed up with 
intelligent production in line with 
market needs in future years. 

Here is a job for organization, 
Here is reason for powerful 
mobilization of agricultural forces 
in Illinois. Farmers are being so 
hedged about by codes in indus- 
try and labor that they will be 
lost unless they demand equal 
privileges fixing their own 
prices, 


in 


Plan Under Fire. 

same old opposition that 
the. McNary Haugen bill, 
that Opposed all past efforts 
of farmers to control surpluses 
and raise prices is working again, 
this time largely under cover. The 
hog control plan is under fire. 
Enemies of agriculture are cene- 
tering their attack on the whole 
agricultural adjustment program 
because nearly 6,000,000 pigs were 
removed from market channels. 


The 
fought 


They. forget, or perhaps are 
not interested in the fact that 
our foreign markets which once 


tcok one hog out of six produced 
in this country have nearly vane 
that it is suicide for farme 
ers to go on producing for a mare- 
ket that no longer exists. 

City consumers are _ interested 
primarily in cheap food. Com- 
mission men, processors, and specs 


ulators are chiefly interested in 
volume and margins. They pro- 
tect their margins regardless of 


what the farmer gets for his pros 
duce, 

Agriculture is facing a_ crisis. 
Will farmers rise up as a unit, 
will farmers mobilize to protect 
what has been gained, to sup- 
port sound measures of acreage 
and crop reduction for their own 
good? Will those who have been 
withholding their support now 
join and back the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association and Farm 
Bureau in their determination to 
protect the farm industry? 

Everywhere, even in Illinois, a 
minority of farmers are carrying 
the load. The unorganized ma- 
jority, apparently indifferent to 
their opportunities, are holding 
back while labor and _ industry, 
better organized, forge ahead un- 
der the NRA minimum wage and 
price-boosting program. 

Farmers are not a unit—not 


a 


(Continued on page 2, eolumn 7.) 


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BY JOINING IN’ ORGANIZED 
AGRICULTURE’S FIGHT FOR YOU 


PAGE TWO 


ILLINOIS —s 
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 


RECORD 


To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau | 
was organized namely, to promote, protect and rep- | 
resent the business, economic, political and educa- 
tional interests of the farmers of Hllinois' and the 
nation, and to develop agriculture. 


GEORGE THIEM, Editor 


-_-_- ee eee I 

Published monthly by the Ilinoia Agricultural Association at 
165 So. Main St., Spencer, Ind. Editorial Offices, 608 8. Dear- 
born §St., Chicago, Ill. Entered as second class matter at post 
office, Spencer, Ind. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of 
postage provided in Section 412, Act of Feb, 28,1925, author- 
ized Oct. 27, 1925. Address all communications for publication 
to Editorial Offices, Illinois Agricultural Association Record, 
B08 So. Dearborn St., Chicago. The individual membership fee 
of the Illinois Agricultural Association is five dollars a year. 
The fee includes payment of fifty cents for subscription to the 
Olinols Agricultural, Association Record. Postmaster: In return. 
ing an uncalled for missent copy please indicate key number on 
address. as is required by law, 


OFFICERS 
President, Bari ©. Gaenith...« soc ccccwucccevcsecececdes Detroit 
Vice-President, A. R.. Wright... cciveccccccccssetbe Varna 
Beeretary,> Geo. EB. Metzger... ... cess ceeeeeeseecees Chicago 


Treasurer, R. At Cowles 


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BOARD OF DIRECTORS 


TR WeSC aren eer cea ee ee Ebb Harris, Grayslake 
BOND a 6. 0.0:6.0.05 0108-06 O68 CO pa Oe oa ree es G. F. Tullock, Rockford 
COE inns 6. n'6.d.0's 00-69 9500.00.46 Vow eiestet C. E.. Bamborough, Polo 
L4th....0.%. pels 'Sbve.4,0 6:0 4. aB os one OR eels M. G.. Lambert, Ferris 
BEG i e560. 6-0 056 6.0600 Fb Phe bla bsesh 018 nO py hve M. Ray Ihrig, Golden 
GON Fa i ogee bo. 6 ee bared ecieteas Geo, B. Muller, Washington 
TUN a pancccevedeespedervegecs E, D. Lawrence, Bloomington 
BWM ie a b:66,6'b'0 006-0048 ga e e/sie obese ecde a W. A. Dennis, Paris 
RIOEM «: 525: ecisinuee’s 9 wiGiere'e U8 ele.tie G's a:a0aa atk E, G, Curtis,. Champaign 
DOE sso 0a o Nice. 6 6 Nahin iene oe bcacenal ens Charles S$. Black, Jacksonville 
BEGG. 0 0.00.00 0068 ere iC erit a eo eae tee Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 
MOA «6 'a'c 00k a0. 30 0:80 8 bo vies ib 0's Talmage DeFrees, Smithboro 
IN 6. 0 G'610'5'6:4:854. 1010 0 is 8.0 01d 8 9.0 esk a atik aa ea W. L. Cope, Salem 
24th... a0. Abas 01g 4y ache’ Blbe b ares Charles Marshall, Belknap 
INS so a'éicla d.5 cca Ged etn ajeatean R. B. Endicott, Villa Ridge 
DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 
Zomptroller.......,. Mica 's a4. Oc8ie R06 o.6 0d aie le 8 bree 08s J. H. Kelker 
Daley Marketing. . 2/0. cca wccyaadeceeesrdene J. B. Countiss 
POMOE ccc or eels cotcceeccegerbugeeseven R. A. Cowles 
Fruit and Vegetable Marketing... .......ceeeee008 H. W. Day 
POANEG 56.6 GRE eretin a Ree ERO Boab a ean George Thiem 
Prbtipanad. -Bervie’. ois ccccceccvacccceetesveene Vv. Vanimap 
Lepal | Cotansel:... . oc. 00.00 cece cesses veces Donald Kirkpatrick 
Live Stock Marketing. .........ccccecreeverus Ray E. Miller 
Ee acekiscccevebeesc CWevdcssccecsievence Cc. E. Johnston 
OM RAINE 6 5.655 05055 6 oie ne 0°08 056%:6'0 Vek ole wae G. E. Metzger 
Produce Marketing. ......cccccicscicossnegenes F, A. Gougler 
Taxation and Statistica.........e5. OB 60-00’ 08's 8 J. C. Watson 
ZIARUHOTANON 0. sb cincccanccicscdslocic paccccgeees Guy Baxter 
ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 
Sountry Life Insurance Co..........60:- L. A. Williams, Mer. 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co......4/... J. H. Kelker, Mer. 
Milinois Agricultural Auditing Assn.......F. E. Ringham, Mer. 
M“ilinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co........:0.005+ ’ 
KEY CERT CREE Cie ee A. E. Richardson, Mer. 
Olinois Farm Suphly Co..........00065 L. R. Marchant; Mer. 


Qlinois Fruit Growers Exchange... H. W. Day, Mer. 


MOMS: EOIN: CORB Fae bib cc dk cbt bige bee 8b er cbwebe eae 
yen eeccese’s Chas. P. Cummings, Vice-Pres. and Sales Mer. 
Mlinois Livestock Market As8'N.........eeeeeecaedes eee 
Mervccasteeee Ray Miller, Mer., R. W. Grieser, Sales Mer. 
filinois Producers Creameries............5 F. A. Gougler, Mer. 
Soybean Marketing Ass'n. .........000 J. W. Armstrong, Pres. 


THE SPECIAL SESSION 


A special session of the Illinois legislature was 
called by Governor Horner to convene on Oct. 3, 
The chief purpose, as expressed in the call is “To 
enact laws to providesefunds for the Illinois Emer- 
gency Relief Commission to be used for the relief 
of persons who are destitute and in necessitous cir- 
cumstances.” These funds are needed principally 
for Chicago and Cook county. 

At a special session the legislature may con- 
sider only those subjects designated in the gov- 
ernor'’s call for the session. Again Governor Horner 
seems to have been persuaded or to have decided 
to perpetuate the present scheme for relief under 
which the county board of Cook county appropri- 
ated and levied but $253,000 for the year 1933, 
slightly more than $20,000 per month, for relief 
purposes while the Illinois Emergency Relief Com- 
mission was spending more than five million dol- 
lars per month in Cook county for relief. 

The money appropriated by the county board 
has merely been levied, none of it has been collect- 
ed, as tax collections are more than a year behind 
in Cook county. Chicago and the townships in Cook 
county do not raise any money for relief purposes. 
A Tt lS... 2°01 ig adie IRR RE DP 
the scheme adopted in 1932, and to submit a 
state-wide bond issue for 30 million dollars to the 
voters in 1934, the principal and interest on these 
bonds, if the bond issue is approved, to be paid 
from the cities’ and counties’ portion of the gasoline 
tax, each county to pay in proportion to the amount 
of relief received from this source. 

Pending approval of this bond issue, in order 
to provide funds immediately, the general assembly 
would levy a state-wide property tax for possibly 
40 million dollars and would issue state anticipation 
notes against this tax levy, these anticipation. notes 
to be retired from the proceeds of the bond issue 
after it is approved in November, 1934, If the bond 
issue is not approved, the state-wide property tax 
would be collected in 1935. 

Governor Horner has said again and again that 
local communities should be empowered to care for 
their pogr but this call does not contemplate such 
legislation, in fact it attempts to forestall it. At the 
rate of $5,000,000 per month, the $30,000,000 will 
provide relief for six months. No provision is made 
beyond that time. 

The state conference of Farm Bureau leaders 
which met in Decatur in September adopted a reso- 
lution opposing any further extension of state cred- 
it for the benefit of Cook county or any other com- 
munity until that community had drawn reasonably 
upon its own resources. Chicago and Cook county 
have not done this. 

The Illinois Agricultural Association has always 
recognized that all citizens of Illinois should be 
properly fed and housed. It has insisted and will 
continue to insist that the initial responsibility rest 
with the local communities or counties to take care 
of its own destitute or unemployed. It still believes 
that this is the most economical and effective way 
to accomplish these ends, 

The Association has attempted 
enactment of laws, first, to make it possible for each 
county to assume this responsibility; and secondly, 


to secure the 


to force each county if necessary, to accept this re- 


State an in- 
unemploy- 


of the 
tax burden for 


upon all citizens and property 


crease in the property 
ment relief. 

We also have insistfd that the known billions of 
hidden wealth (intangible property) should be taxed 
on an e@quitable basis with real property before an 
added tax for any purpose is placed upon property. 

During the special session and possibly in suc- 
ceeding sessions, the Illinois Agricultural Association 
will continue to use every reasonable and proper 
effort and influence to protect the property tax- 
payers of Illinois against any further inroads of tax- 
ation, since it is well “known that a very large por- 
tion of revenue from such added would be 
spent in one county which has assessed and collected 
less taxes for this purpose, population considered, 
than possibly any other county in the State of IIli- 


nois, 


taxes 


mrinssinseieaiactnadl ierhigenigmennecneie 
PARITY PRICES THROUGH ORGANIZATION 
The passage of the Agricultural Adjustment 
act last spring is the culmination of 12 years’ effort 
led by the Farm Bureau to control surpluses and 
raise farm This the far-reaching 
piece of legislation ever secured by farmers. 
It the of 
prices which means prices that will restore to farm- 
erg the purchasing power equal to that had in the 
1909-1914 period. 


prices. is most 


provides for establishment parity 


sponsibility before any attempts are made to ra 


ee 


It provides for farm credit relief, 
vates of interest. 

It authorizes the president to establish an hon- 
est dollar, for currency inflation by requiring’ the 
federal reserve banks to purchase federal securities 
in the open market; devaluate the dollar up to 50 
per cent; issue U. S. notes (greenbacks)-up to §$3,- 
000,000,000; accept up to $200,000,000 in silver on 
allied war debts; coin silver in unlimited quantities. 

It authorizes trade agreements with processors 
and distributors to raise prices; it embodies the do- 
mestic allotment plan of surplus farm crop control. 

All these and more are provided in this meas- 
ure, the enactment of which was made possible by 
Organized Farm Effort. 

Largely as a result of this legislation certain 
farm prices are up 50 to 100 per cent over extreme 


low levels of last year. 
Organized agrigulture can justly take credit 
for much of this¢gain. Friends of agriculture for 


the most part have been placed in control of ad- 
ministering the Farm Adjustment act. 

But parity prices have not yet been realized. 
There is work ahead and much of that work must 
be done by farmers themselves, 

Price depressing surpluses must be removed. 
Acreage and tonnage of wheat, corn, hogs, milk and 
other products must be reduced until foreign out- 
lets are regained. Temporarily the situation may 
call for the fixing of minimum farm prices to keep 
agriculture in line with other price levels. There is 
nothing 


sida assencgllasalip cietglltdeicinss 


THE PRESIDENT ON COMMUNITY 
RESPONSIBILITY 


Speaking before the annual convention of the| stand together in strong 9¢r- 
_ recently, . President} ganizations in mutual infr- 
Roosevelt in the presence of local public officials| est, For the first time, gov- 
again emphasized that it is first the duty of each! ernment is offering fully to 


American Legion in Chicago 


community to provide for its destitute people. 


“If he (the individual) has not the wherewith-| powers. to do what farmers 
all to take care of himself,” said the President, it} are, unable to do for them- 


THE ILLINOIS AGRIC 


eo 


A Time For 


for lower 


impossible about ithis situation. Parity | Paign approaches, I am 


gt ffganivatiofi “and envwe- | “8 
tive cooperation is the only answer. 


> 


Faw 


teen 


ir. Earl C. Suith, 


Lilinots Agricta tural Assoctations 


, me : 
Caicage lines, 80 
Dear Earl! haining and 
. of ers 
as Pe ic 
in of the ieportance © which fi 
Tiong organizations devored 80 t oS 
mis, of ail snes. i & pay ee Oe 
stand together in strong My 
woe fire’ tine, rete ae peg iu 
conerslisias ras vieeal ly. Avety. 


1t te particularly F108 
are in & position te Bele 
under the 


Tare Act. 


elasios 6 © 
other group? 


Can; ai 
rtduals, 
The 
imeion is ¢ 
ricultur 


“yy Adjust 
Jier whi 


Se By SR mobiliz 
HENRY A. WALLACE That 

add to 

FARMERS SHOULD reat 
STAND TOGETHER [oe suc 

By HENRY A. WALLACE |*) ry 
Secretary of Agriculture. farmer; 
As your membership cam; justmer 


¥ “9 ue 


pertaiicee* ‘autg 
and extending the strong 0 nation 
ganizations devoted to the} Aft 
cause of agriculture: | PS i 
This, of all times, is a fe- ater _ 


riod in which farmers should solve 


group 
can e 
any 0 


lh 


farmers its own centralizing 


is FIRST OF ALL the duty of his community to take | selves, individually. 


care of him and next the duty of his state. Only if 


under these circumstances his own community and | relatively, by outsmarting his 


One farmer may succeed, 


his own state are unable, after reasonable effort, to| neighbors, but prosperity for 


care for him, then, and then only, should the fed- farmers, in general, is not to 
eral government offer him hospitalization and care.” | be achieved simply by indi- 
The President's position has been that of the | yjdual 


shrewdness.: There 


Illinois Agricultural Association on the question of |must be a large effort to 


unemployment relief, from the beginning. It seems | pgige 


to us that any other stand is indefensible. 


the whole level on | 


Easy |which American farming is 


money is as bad for local governments as it is for conducted. This can be done 


bankruptcy. Let each community make a reason- 


j individuals. It promotes extravagance, dependence, only through organized ac- 
|and irresponsibility. It leads to moral and financial | tion. 


It is particularly fitting 


able effort to help itself. Having done this neither that strong farm organiza- 
the state nor the federal government should or will tions are in a position to help 


deny necessary aid. 


| Views From The Press | 


FARM ASSOCIATION OBJECTS 


(From Moline Dispatch) 


carry out the program of ad- 
justment under the Farm 
Act. This is to follow through 
to a logical conclusion a cam- 
paign for raising agriculture 
to an equality with other 


The Illinois Agricultural Association has gone| groups, begun by farm lead- 
on record formally against further taxation of the/ers more than ten years ago. 


other counties of Illinois to finance Cook county’s 
distribution of food. 

It sets forth the record of the regular session 
of the general assembly in which the Lantz bill was 
passed, authorizing Cook county to levy taxes to 
support her own unemployed. This bill was backed 
by the farmers, and the association's bulletins have 
said repeatedly that Governor Horner 
himself as satisfied with the measure, 

Then the governor exercised his power of veto, 
giving as his reason therefor that the county board 
didn’t want the power. 

As long as Cook county’s paupers can be fed by 
funds from the state government and from the na- 
tional government, of course, it does not desire to 
tax itself as the rest of the state has to do. 

It probably is right in the present conditions 
for a city having as many unemployed as Chicago 
has to receive aid from botly the state and the na- 
tional governments, It is not reasonable, however, 
that it should escape without levying a single cent 
for support of its own. It should be known that dur- 
ing the three years in which other localities have 
been paying rising local taxes to support their un- 
employed, Chicago has not paid a cent of local 
taxes for this purpose. 

Chicagoans first go to Springfield and dangle 
a red riot before the legislature and then they take 
their little riot down to Washington and dangle it 
there. Results have been obtained every time, 

“The association will resist any further efforts 


to put over the new state taxes which all the peo- 


ple of the state must pay, to spare the metropolitan | 


area from assuming its rightful responsibilities,” 
says the bulletin of the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 


ciation. 


expressed | 


CHESTER C. DAVIS 


GOING IT ALONE 
DOES NOT PAY— 


By CHESTER C, DAVIS 
‘Director, Production Division 
Agricultural Adjustment Ad- 

ministration, 

I understand that your 
‘membership campaign gets} | 
| under way next week. I hope 


RAL ASSOCIATION RECORD 


(se ee 
= 


i Septeader 29, 1939 


@© my 
¢, 
11; ate, Prentdens, 


Mr. Berl C, Maith, 


« 


. 


FRIDAY, OCT. 6, 1933 


ers To Stand Together 


Dilinets res 
ww A Patton 
Mah cateeine te ee Bat Se. dihaeie! 
Rolaing Saal bares I visb £¢ wore posstbte for ae ay next»? 
ship campaig to talk to every farmer in Ii weak, 


necessity ae ciate ead te urge th a 
o! ‘Llding * vit 
Agricelitural Association “TOM bis organization, the Tlincig 


There ie neo greater thing thet toge ha 
himeslf, At the TLinote farmer can ther ° 
bss alt gs aan St er i 


wel, vy outenarting his Te 
ne ‘ oat vee tares essential for th ia the history of this eomtry bes tt derintttion, 5p, Sheng rap 8*tfon ty ould 
wee seorican faraing 18 008" Sry and labor, apurten ca ie eanritt ©? be So eommbeen Senta. pal tarad ganna? oan acne Asatte tte by en, 
organised action. wontons, igriculture, Likewtee, ‘enot set Program, are getting Cully " ¢ A.J aitadrwena 04 Paras 
Protection, fully organised for h er ty furan 
organizations or own That when Prie tad 
ba strong fare stment ep es ; 0s Ah? Mitgot WY 8 @ "067 area) mnter 
ov varough TA yt o bronse eagle, Ondertite aoe santana of the Farm Pureau — the seed wetted te hurat 4, Sttong 
culture to an south, east and weet can join @ the farmers of the north Famer Stnene’, Mortar ttton. 4 ant 
me wore than yen years 86° It inh ayubol of protection and eect 24 Sight for their interests, * 8 fair guanment new Being tate Pane mch ray, ei P 
After "Atlonay 4 ung zat Canes 
T hope that every farmer in f008 aoe oF * decag . law te . 
pO Raw bronse sable of the American Fare Burese seit will solist under the Pan enter, Met gop 1 0Pder, 2 
Agricultural dssociati ‘ederation and the Illinois bra our 
culture, om %© comtioue our Fight for « new day for agei~ > Mit OF ore than ZOOL ane ay at that tng-4 
Seeretary - Sordiay p ue have ora Acting oserg 
th beet wishes for the complete aus Pr ~ . ¥ 
© alg, 
* Sincerely yours, Sincere, fears 
bepress , 
i: (wma . Directs’ ¢ Davie, eu 
‘ + Om a wy 
on 
’ ’ 


ages From Agricultural Leaders At Washington To Illinois Farmers. 


= — 


che farmers of Illinois will | taxea successfully only on the 

1 }'ealize the importance to} @sis of earnings. 

| | hem of being associated with} BY constitutional amendment, 
th 


uch an organization. eI. A. A. would place a_ tax 
limit of around one per cent or 


Few worthwhile goals have less on the fair eash value of 
A. won by individual ac-! tanginie property, both in the city 


An; only when men stand|ana on the farm. And then if 
i rether in a common effort | more revenue is needed to carry 
f they succeed in the long| on necessary government it pro- 


Ca; as juncoordinated indi- | Poses to raise it through other 
rtduals, they fail. forms of taxation based on ability 


J 
1 to pay. 
" The need for common ac Hem tk Aitieved: 
jon is emphasized by the Ag-| 1 am confident :that with the 
ricultural Adjustment. Act, | support of all Illinois farmers this 
| ‘ $ program can be accomplished. 
a yStrong farm organizations The property tax has broken 
pyare ready-made to furnish | aown and all but paralyzed gov- 
this action. Farmers can|ernment in many communities, 
: 7m Particularly is this true in Chicago 
achieve the goal of parity where inability to. pay coupled 
prices under the Agricultural] with open rebellion by property 
}Adjustment Act much soon- 
er when they are already 
mobilized as a group. 


owners against the tax gouging of 
That is why an effort to 


public officials has resulted in r - 
putting Chicago deep in the mire GEORGE N. PEEK 

add to ranks such as is now 

jbeing made by the Illinois 


of financial distress. 
Agricultural Association, |e downstate . communities 


wards of $30,000,000 in back and 
delayed taxes. Yet I am aatisfied VALUE ORGANIZED 
per cént or more. 


jall agriculture. By supporting | iiere never yas a time when| Administrator Agricultural 
their farm organization, | tarmers needed to be more on the Adjustment Administration 
farmers speed up the ad-! alert to protect their interests in m 


justment now b ei n g at- ! state governnrent than now, Farm organizations are not 


Chicago now owes the state up- 
‘fof such real significance to | where tax collections are up to 90 By GEORGE N. PEEK, 


There never was a time whe ° 
ader fhe law to give! they needed stronge sonends in themselves; they are 
ers a fair share 0 nh how ogre P 


mg OF Mi national income. The things that have been ac- desired by all agriculture. 


complished toward solving our tax 
to te After a decade of disor-| Problems have been made possible That has been the goal of the 
der, it is clear that going-it| ¥,the o"sanized minority Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
} a fe- How much quicker and surer tion for vears 
howe alone does not pay; we must] could we attain the reasonable ob- y , 


solve our problems ag a|J¢ctives announced here with more It must be inspiring to 
group, acting together, we| ?°Y Tt! orsanization. farm organization men that 
can enter a brighter era than| Co. : they now have a law, the Ag- 
any of us have ever known. Co op Marketing ricultural Adjustment Act, 
alizing Makes Big Gains through which they may help 
orheall In Six Months |effectuate a restoration of 
them: farm well-being. Uniting with 
During the first six months of 


a sound farm organization is 
1933 Illinois farmers shipped 1,- 


ieceed, 582 more cars of livestock than a significant step at any 
his were shipped to the same co-| time; it is more so now. The 
ried operative agencies during the first more we learn to work to- 
ity tor ' j 


six months of 1932. A comparison 


not to . of shipments from Illinois coun- gether for the common good 
> indi (Continued from Page 1) tee Ne iereyters fax ntonrtagyrn DD ned pe in this way, the easier it is 
y r ating in e joint state-wide fie 
‘here scaping their just share of the] service oraaskes follows: for us to make the funda- 
ort. “ts burden of government. 1932 1933 mental adjustments so nec- 
The evils of the present property | Chicago ..... 4,806 cars 5,898 cars|/essary at present. The value 
e on ax, which it is estimated bears at | Indianapolis . 909 cars 769 cars Bo s 7 4 * 
ing is |(peast 85 per cent of the cost of | St. Louis..... 3,562 cars 3,973 cars| Of Organized effort to the in- 
d tate and local government, lie in| Peoria ......1,729 cars 1,860 cars|dividual farmer has _ never 
© Gone | Bhe fact that billions of dollars of | Cincinnati ... 190cars 221 cars| been more apparent. I speak 
ed ac- personal service income are not! Buffalo ..... 264 cars 161 cars fell b . ‘ell 
axed, and other millions of dol-| Pittsburgh ... 48cars 41cars|48 & Lellow member, as we 
fitti ars of property in the form of | Illinois as a charter member of your 
itting tocks, bonds, and other intangi-| Livestock ... 144 cars 360 cars organization 
yaniza- les escape assessment. Nor has} National Order 
to hel here ever been any effective | Buying Co.... 51 cars 2 cars 
p 1ethod devised of taxing intangi- 

of ad- les as property. They can be 11,703 cars 13,285 cars 

Farm a 
hrough 

i his Tax Relief Petition Whe 

a cam-||1 Sign This Tax Relief Petition n 
culture 


other]! Your Neighbor Calls. It Is the 
pers Opening Gun of the I A A’s 


rs ago. 
Tax Reduction Drive. 


Recognizing that it is impossible to relieve real prop- 
erty of its disproportionate burden of taxation and to se- 
Clire a modern equitable revenue system under the present 
Provisions of our State Constitution, and that such relief is 
OF vital-importance to every farmer and home owner of this 
Sitate, the undersigned citizens and electors of the State of 
Ihinois request action as follows: 


We respectfully request the officers of the Illinois 
Aigricultural Association to urge upon his Excellency, Henry 
horner, Governor of Illinois, the imperative need of calling a 
sipecial session of the Fifty-eighth General Assembly for the 
exclusive purpose of proposing proper amendments to the 
révenue article of the State Constitution for adoption or EDW. A. O'NEAL 
rdjection by the electors at the general election on Novem- 
bér 6, 1934. 


| We further respectfully petition and request the Fifty- ENLIST NOW UNDER 
eighth General Assembly, when called into special session THE BRONZE EAGLE 
for this purpose, to propose amendment of Sections 1, 2, 3, 9 Ses 
arid 10, of Article IX, the Revenue Article, to provide: ° By EDWARD A, O'NEAL, 
REMOVE INEQUITABLE LIMITATIONS President American Farm 
1. That the present limitations which prevent an Bureau Federation. 
equitable distribution of the tax burden be removed. I wish it were possible for 
CUT PROPERTY TAXES IN HALF me during the approaching 
PAY— 2. That the total general property taxes shall not ex- | membership campaign to talk 
cepd $1.00 on the $100.00 fair cash value unless the excess |to every farmer in_ Illinois 
\VIS |S approved by referendum vote. and to urge the vital necessi- 
ivision RESTRICT FUTURE INDEBTEDNESS Fe Geccnteitnae thar wien 
nt Ad- 3. That no further indebtedness shall be incurred by a Aerie it ‘al Fhe ‘iat ; 
taxing district without a referendum vote. g “pie: is be hv hapa banie ee 
There is no greater thing 
your DIVIDE STATE REVENUE EQUITABLY that the Illinois farmer can 
gets! | 4. That the General Assembly may by two-thirds vote |do for himself, his county, his 
I hope | distribute State revenues among any taxing districts, state and his nation than to, 
2" 
r) 


7 


that this city has more ability to Cn 
pay its just assessments than EFFORT APPARENT pay. 


a nee <a ee 


'3 POINT PROGRAM 


CAN BE ACHIEVED 


(Continued From Page 1) 


presenting a solid front. Too 
much is being left to Washing- 
ton. The indifference of the many 
is discouraging not only to lead- 
ership but also to the minority of 
farmers to whom is due the credit 
for all accomplishment yet at- 
tained, 

By powerful organization and 
combined action, farmers could 
put prices up within a week. 

The I, A. A. and Farm Bureau 
offer unorganized farmers an op- 
portunity to join with their 
neighbors in fighting for the reali- 
zation and maintenance of parity 
prices for farm commodities, at 
least a 40 per cent reduction in 
property taxes, an Honest Dol- 
lar, and a permanent and ade- 
quate farm credit structure, at 
a rate agriculture can afford to 


Will you do your part? 


70,000 MILES OF 
ROADS IN ILLINOIS 
YET UNIMPROVED 


Tllinois, has a little more. than 


according to Frank T. Sheets, 
former superintendent of state 
highways. 

Of the 10,074 miles in the “state 
bond issue system,’’ 8,987 miles 
had been improved at the time of 
the last report. 

The “state aid road system” con- 
tains approximately 17,000 miles 
of which 7,078 miles have been 
surfaced leaving 9,922 miles un- 
improved. 

Of the 70,000 miles of township 
secondary roads, according to Mr, 
Sheets, 11,890 miles have been im- 


proved as “all weather" roads 
leaving 58,110 miles still unim- 
proved, 


Thus there is a total of 69,119 
miles of farm to market dirt roads 
in Illinois most of which are im- 
passable certain months of the 
year. 


————— a 


LET GEORGE DO IT? 

Wallace's Farmer and Iowa 
Homestead, recently comment- 
ed as follows in regard to 
Farm Bureau work: “A short 
time ago we heard a man aay, 
“Why should I pay annuat 
dues for membership in the 
Farm Bureau, when I can 
keep in touch with its work 
and secure all the benefit 
there is to be derived there- 
from as a non-member?” 

What if everybody assumed 
that attitude toward farm or- 
ganizations? Then there could 
be no organizations and noone 
to speak for agriculture. We 
hear much nowadays about 
bringing the profits of agri- 
culture up to the level of 
those of other industries. But 
how is that to be brought 
about if each one said, ‘let 
George do it?’” 

In Illinois many direct ben- 
efits are confined to members 
who take advantage of I. A. A. 
— Farm Bureau Services. 


become a member of this 
great organization. 

Never before in the history 
of this country has it been 
more essential for the farm- 
ers of America to be com- 
pletely organized. Industry 
and labor, spurred on by the 
N. R. A. program, are get- 
ting fully organized. Agricul- 
ture, likewise, must get fully 
organized for her own pro- 
tection. 

How fitting is the national 
emblem of the Farm Bureau 
—the bronze eagle. Under its 
protecting wings the farmers 
of the north, south, east and 
west can join together and 
fight for their interests. It 
igs & symbol of protection and 
power. 

I hope that every farmer 
in Illinois will enlist under 
the bronze eagle of the 
American Farm Bureau Fed- 
eration and the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association to con- 
tinue our fight for a new 
day for agriculture, 


FRIDAY, OCT. 6, 1933 THE ILLINOIS AGRI | | ay 


1,000 COUNTR 
| lad 
1 Higher Pri 


2 Lower Taxe 
3 Adequate F< 


These Men Will Cooperate to Obdta 


VERY ounce of man-power in the state - wide organization of 


ountry Life Insurance Company stands solidly be i the . 
Mobilization campaign of the Farm Bureau and the Illinois Agri- | 
cultural Association. Why? Because Country Life is a part and parcel of 
the Farm Bureau movement. Because we know that the Illinois farmer 
can never gain the recognition to which he is entitled without Organi- 
zation. Because we know that without the power of an Organized Farm 
Group, indifferent legislators will continue to press down upon the 
farmer unfair tax burdens. Because without Organization, the farmer 
can never hope to obtain the parity price for his product to which he is 
entitled. | 


We have seen what happens to un-organized farmers. It has been clear- 


ORGANIZATIONJA 


OUNTRY Life Insurance Company is a Farm Bureau organjZ@tion. 
obtain a “better break” in the life insurance field. The comP@ny is | 
for huge profits to a few stockholders and officials), and mot of its 


than $50,000,000 of insurance in 50 months, It is an example of hat Org 
same group of salesmen who have accomplished this will turn BW the eff 
thousands of new Farm Bureau members, who are needed to soly¥® the me 


Country Life Insurance Company has made the most caveat recor¢ 


VA 


COUNTRY LIFE | 
608 South Dearborn 


MURAL ASSOCIATION RECORD | PAGE THREE 


SS ee 
| 


WY LIFE AGENTS 


PLIZE 


fer 


arm Credits 


Obtain Farm Bureau Memberships! 


ly demonstrated that the farmer, fighting as an individual, never gets 
anywhere. His needs are neglected; his petitions are ignored; the pric 

! of his products goes down and down and down, while the cost of every- 
thing he buys goes up and up. 


But, we have also seen how, with a comparatively small proportion of 


farmers organized in the Farm Bureau and the. A. A., how much can be 
accomplished. We see legislators willing, even anxious to support legis- 
_ lation proposed by Organized farmers. We have seen a national admin- 
istration bend an attentive ear to Organized Agriculture in shaping its 
agricultural program. We have seen farmers, through cooperative Or- 


ganizations able to influence the price of their own products. 


ALWAYS WINS 


anjzation. It was organized by farmers in order that farmers might 
ompPany is operated by farmers for the benefit of the policyholders (not 
most of its policy holders are farmers and their families. 


hat Organized Agriculture can do in the fieid of protection. And the 
qll their efforts and enthusiasm to the task of helping get in line 
“ale the most important problems farmers have ever faced. 


x record of accomplishment in life insurance history, writing more 
| 


| 


INSURANCE Co. 
rn St., Chicago, Ill. 


PAGE FOUR THE ILLINOIS AGRICULTURE 


The 
COULDN” 


THE PROBLEM NATION 


1923 Organized farmers asked for equal privilege legislation to control surpluses and make ( 


the tariff effective on American farm products consumed at home. Bitter opposition 
developed. Cities feared higher priced food. Many said, “This legislation can never 
be passed.” ; 


41 929 Surplus problem wemained. Became national issue. Organized farmers contended that 
unless farm prices were raised, all industry and national prosperity in America 
would be undermined. 


193OQO Beginning of deflation and depression. 
193 1 Many businesses collapsed causing great unemployment. 


193 2Surplus problem still unsolved. Every industry in America suffering from destroyed 
farm buying power due to national neglect of agricultural problem. Farmers continue 
fight for surplus legislation and opportunity to own, control and direct farm credit 
machinery. Demand commodity dollar. ' 


STAT 


1 9 2 1 Foresighted Illinois farmers saw the dire need for eradicating tuberculosis from live stock. Strong 
opposition developed. Qpponents said: “It couldn’t be done.” 


Organized farmers demanded legislation making it possible to organize along’ genuine co-operative 
1 92 Zines with limited returns on capital and with excess earnings returned to patrons in the form of 
patronage dividends. Strongly organized opposition attempted to defeat this legislation. 


1 921 Terrific drop in value of farm lands. Taxes exhorbitant. Organized farmers insist that State 
Tax Commission and county officials sharply reduce assessed land valuations. “It’s no use,” said 
many. 
1 927 Continued tax studies showed inequalities in many counties. Vigorous opposition to equalization. 
I, A. A. insists on further cuts by State Commission. 


POT ee 


Farmers demanded completion of state bond issue road system to be supplemented by secondary 
1 92G woaas. Asked for state gas tax to provide revenue. Powerful opposition developed. Many said: 
“It couldn’t be done.” 


e . - 


ee CPST gd farmers i dag thajgggpeperty sae duced and demanded tax on incomes to re- 
place part of the property tax. IA. A. ins educed and de nue Commission Tie sae 


income tax and recommendations to General Assembly. Powerful oppositiop by organized owners 
of hidden wealth. “The income tax cannot and must not pass,” they said. ’ 


/ 


1 9 32 Compromise legislation enacted by General Assembly to provide $20,000,000 for state unemploy- f 
ment relief, Bond issue submitted to remove $25,000,000 in taxes from property. Many business, 
civic and political leaders said it couldn’t be passed. 


Organized agriculture continues fight for property tax reduction. Urges enactment of legislation 
1 933 to tax income from intangible property. Urged legislation requiring each county to take care of 
own destitute people. 


They Also Said Farmers Couldn 


1 92 4 Farmer boards of directors needed dependable audit service to protect their investments in co- 
operatives. Opponents said it couldn’t be provided, couldn’t succeed. 


Because of legal limitations placed on local farm mutual fire insurance companies, farmers needed 
1 924 state-wide reinsurance company to make possible fire, hail and windstorm protection on cost basis. 
Strong opposition developed. ‘‘You’ll never succeed,” they said. 


923% cholera serum was costing farmers from $1.00 to $1.25 per 100 c.c. Farmers demanded lower 
1 cost vaccination. Strong opposition said it couldn’t be done. 


creasing hazards on highways seriously endangered farmers’ investments. Rates for such insur- 
ance seemed exhorbitant. Farmers demanded lower costs. Strong opposition supported by propa- 
ganda said it “couldn’t be done.” 


Power farming rapidly increasing. Tractor motors being ruined by inferior oils and lubricants. 
1 926 Farmers demanded products of uniform high quality at lower costs. Organized opposition said it 
“couldn’t be done, farmers can’t succeed in business.” 


2 Farmers demanded legal reserve life insurance at lowest possible cost. Strong opposition said costs 
1 9 ouldn’t be lowered and that farmers could not successfully operate such a company. 


Farmers demanded development of truly co-operative, state-wide grain sales agency. Strong organ- 
1 929 ized opposition said it couldn’t be done. 


1 926 Survey disclosed that a comparatively small percentage of farmers carried auto insurance. In- 


} 


ILLINOIS AGRICULT 


608 SOUTH DEARBOK 


ASSOCIATION RECORD 


FRIDAY, OCT. 6, 1933 


Said 
BE DONE 


\ TIONAL THE ANSWER 


ry 


e i 1924 zat MecNary-Haugen bill is introduced in Congress to control farm surpluses. De- 
mn eated. 
by 1926 Second McNary-Haugen bill introduced. Secured strong support but was lost. 

1927 McNary-Haugen bill passed by Congress. Vetoed by President. 

1928 MeNary-Haugen bill passed by Congress second time. Vetoed by President. Effective 
farm relief legislation became prominent issue in presidential campaign. Farmers 
failed to gain adequate farm plank in platform of successful party largely through 
lack of powerful organization. Later Congress conceived and passed Agricultural 
Marketing Act. } 

1932 Farm surplus problem continues as prominent issue in presidential campaign. 

19383 Agricultural Adjustment Act passed by Congress authorizing; (1) parity prices for 
farm products; (2) extension of credit machinery and $2,000,000,000 to refinance 
farm mortgages on long-time basis at lower interest rates; (38) far-reaching mone- 

ed tary powers given President to inflate credit and currency and establish commodity 
ne dollar. The program of organized agriculture all in one act. 
Hit . 


STATE 


ng H 1 9 2 3 Organized agriculture secured the passage of a state tuberculosis eradication act with appropria- 
tions to carry it out. 


1 933 Approximately 85 counties are modified accredited areas with herds practically free of tuberculosis, 


ive 19283 Co-operative Act of Illinois enacted providing for organization of genuine co-operatives. 


1 9 3 3 More than 200 successful co-operative institutions formed under this act through the efforts of the 
I. A. A, and County Farm Bureaus. 


rr 1 9 2 3 Tax Commission cut valuations $220,256,863 from 1920 figures. Lowered farm taxes $2,163,733 
1 Farm property paid a total of about $6,500,000 less in all taxes on 1931 valuations than it would 
on. have paid if 1920 assessments had remained. 
‘ 
ve i 192377 Two-cent gas tax law enacted. Courts declared invalid. 


| 929 Three-cent gas tax law enacted, 


1 9 33 State bond issue system nearing completion. A total of 7,078 miles of state aid roads improved—~ 
nearly 70,000 miles of secondary public roads still unimproved. 


~—agetiion e _Stafa,income tax passed senate. Peters house by two votes. | } 
rs / f. 1 9 32 Legislature passed state income tax. Later\declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court. 


y= | 1 9 32 Illinois Agricultural Association asked to assume leadership in organized movement to secure ap- 
proval of bond issue in general election. Adopted by overwhelming vote thereby removing $5,- 
000,000 in taxes from farm property in 1933. 


Bill to tax incomes from intangibles passed senate. Delay in Judiciary Committee in House re- 
er 1 933 sulted in its defeat. is 
Lantz bills to place all counties and communities on same basis in providing for local poor relief 
passed General Assembly with more than 90 per cent of members outside Cook county voting for it. 


Assured necessity for all counties to make equal effort to care for own unemployed before requiring 
state assistance. Vetoed by Governor. 


Idn’t Successfully Run a Business 


0- 1 9 2¢A. illinois Agricultural Auditing Association organized. 
1 9g 3 Has 305 members receiving high grade regular and uniform audit reports AT COST. 


1 925 Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Company organized. 
1 933 24,250 policies in force with $54,400,000 of fire, hail and windstorm insurance on a cost basis. 


ed 
is. 


1 9ZFA Mlinois Farm Bureau Serum Association organized. 
19 3 3 Volume handled, 288,750,000 c. c. Average price to farmer now approximately 45 cents per 100 c. ¢ 


er 


1 927 Illinois Agricultural Mutual Ins. Co. organized for Farm Bureau members only. 


1 933°°476 policies in force with liquid assets of $985,700. Premiums lowest of any state-wide company 
saving members several hundred thousand dollars annually. 


This company with its 53 affiliated county and district service companies has handled 151,453,000 
1 93 Qellons of high quality petroleum products having a value of $9,413,000. Savings to Farm Bureau 
ri member patrons approximately $2,142,000. 


1 928 Country Life Insurance Company organized. 


1 933” months old with $51,500,000 of low cost legal reserve insurance in force held by 32,700 policyhold- r 
ers, Dec. 31, 1932, published list of security holdings disclosed outstanding investment position. 


‘ts 


1 93 O Llinois Grain Corporation organized. 
Has handled 35,000,000 bu. grain for 145 elevator stockholder members. Largest regional grain 
1 93 Srorporation in America. 


Organized Illinois Farm Supply Co. 
is 1927 


TURAL ASSOCIATION 


}ORN ST., CHICAGO, ILL. 


THESE THINGS 
BE DONE TO SAVE 
AND RESTORE | 


1. Establish and Mair 
for Farm Products 


and Establish P. rn 
~ Controlled Credil ] 


Strongly Organized Gro 
this Program and Sa 


COMPLETE MOBILIZA 
_IN ORGANIZATION 


SUPPLY THE 


[CAN AND MUST 
E AGRICULTURE 
~ THE NATION: | 


faintain Parity Prices | 
cts 


y Lax in Half 
a sdit Retier— ie tinal 


>drmanent Farmer- oe, 


f Machinery 
: | 
. 


Groups Actively Oppose 
“It Can’t Be Done”’ 


ZATION OF FARMERS 
)N CAN AND WILL 
ANSWER 


i 


PACE SIX 


ae 


COUNTY CAPTAINS 
RECT SIGN-UP 
LIEUTENANTS AID 


State Campaign Director Sees 
Job As Fundamental To 
Bring Economic Betterment. 


The men who will direct the 
state-wide mobilization campaign 
in their respective counties are 
listed « below. These men ve 
been designated as “captains” and 
each will be assisted by a squad 
of lieutenants sufficient in num- 
ber to. canvass. every: prospective 
member in the county. Delinquent 
members also will be seen regard- 
ing payment of back dues, 

In a letter to County Captains, 


Lucius E. Wilson, state director of 
the Fall. Mobilization Campaign 
said: 


“In accepting the captaincy of 
the county for the. mobilization 
campaign, you are doing the one 
fundamental thing within your 
power to bring actual economic 
betterment. to yourself and your 
farm neighbors. 


“With the Federal government 
appropriating millions of dollars 
for agricultural adjustment and 
manifesting a willingness to go as 
far as representative farm opinion 
desires, no farmer can justify his 
failure to participate now in shap- 
ing the course of legislation this 
fall and winter. 


. “Don’t forget that every farm 
home with children should stand 
ready to make whatever present 
sacrifices are necessary and not 
let the New Deal for agriculture 
fail—else there is no future for 


boys and girls.” 

County Captain 
Adams Toy L. Sharrow 
Bond Chas. P. Boggess 
Boone F. A. Lobdell 
Brown Roy McCaskill 
Bureau Justis, S. Reeve 
Carroll Miles Rogers 
Cass P Geo. Dirreen 
Champaign Eugene Curtis 
Christian John W. Kohl 
Clark John Hoecker 
Clay Fred McCollum, 

sr. 
Clinton Fred 'Weedle 
Coles A. P. Coaper 
Cook H. C. Mills and 


Yezra MeClaughry 


Crawford A. C. Bveringham 
Cumberland ° 
De Kalb Kk. FE. Houghty 
De Witt Sam Cobb 
ouglas L. D. Hendricks 
bu Page Leo Pauling 
Edgar H, A, Bramlet 
Edwards Kent Crome 
Effingham R. H. Kelly 
Ford A. B. Schofield 
Franklin Albert Webb 
Fulton Harry Leeper 
Gallatin Geo. Gable 
areene Norman Davis 
Srundy H, L. Hough 
Hancock M. G. Lambert 
Henderson Otto Steffey 
Henry Ebon Coll , 
Iroquois H. K. Johnson 
Jackson Wm. Ziegler 
Jefferson Clarence McCau- 
ley 
Jersey Wm. E. Williams 
on a vréss « mbit 
Johnson W. W. Hampton 
Kane Chas. Keslinger 
Kankakee 
Kendall Edwin South- 
worth 
Knox Ear) N. Swanson 
Lake A. E. Read 
La Salle J. R. Bent 
Lawrence x3 
Lee Eddie Mau 
Livingston Reid R. Tom- 
baugh 
Logan James Cowan 
McDonough Marion E. Herzog 
McHenry ° 
McLean A. J. Hagar 
Macon Emory Parks 
Macoupin Frank Richie 
Madison John E. Miller 
Marion H. O. Hinkley | 
Marshall- 

Putnam suy R. French 
Mason Leonard H. Keith | 
Massac ° 
Menard EK. J. Rosendohl 
Mercer J. O. Carlson 
Monroe Albert C. Kolmer 
Montgomery Emory Killpat- 

rick 
Morgan Frank Flinn 
Moultrie Chas. B. Shuman 
Ogle ° 
Peoria Harvey 8S. Me- 
Naughton 
Piatt Ellis Perkins 
Pike Jobn MeTucker 
Pope Geo, Clark 
Pulaski R. B. Endicott 
Randolph Wm. Harmson 
Richland Lloyd Combs 
Rock Island Edgar Walther 
Saline B. D. Gates 
Sangamon J. Frank Thorn- 
ton 
Schuyler F. M. Hare 
Scott Walter Scott 
Shelby R. C. McKinley 
St. Clair Oscar Grossman 
Stark Lloyd Hewitt 
Stephenson Ed. Stukenberg 
Tazewell Geo. Deppert 
Union Chas. Eddleman 
Vermilion Ore Ross 
Wabash Lew Stillman 
Warren . 
Washington Paul Meyer 
Wayne Cc. R. Richison 
White Lawrence Um- 
fried 
Whiteside Lowell Johnson 
Will . 
Williamson Jake Bowyer 
Winnebago Clarence Wishap 
Woodford J. E. Roche 


"Captain had not been approved 
at time of going 


Sangamon County 
Wins Farm Bureau 


Baseball Title 


Sangamon county won the 
championship of the Illinois Farm 
Bureau. Baseball League in the 
final. game of the title series 
played at Manhattan Septemver 
23. 

J. C. Honn, 
star hurler, 
scattered hits 
out 4 to 0. 
errors aided 
ning the game. 

Sangamon won 


to press. 


Sangamon county's 
allowed only seven 
and scored a shut- 
Will county's four 
Sangamon in win- 


the first of the 
series by a score of four to three 
at Springfield September 16. In 
this game Honn struck out 15 Will 
county men and allowed only 
seven * hits. Will county’s errors 
again proved costly. 

Nineteen Farm Bureau teams in 
five districts played in the league 
More than 300 
took part in the 


during the season. 
men 
sport. 


and boys 


impression on the 
neys,” said G. W. 


IAA. ORGANIZES 


APPROVAL BOND | 
ISSUE CUT boy we 
TAXES S $5, 000, 


Pass the emergency relief bond 
issue and take $25,000,000 in added 
taxes from property. 

Remove at least $5,000,000 in ex- 
tra taxes from farm lands and 
property alone. 

This was the task Illinois farm- 
ers and other tax payers were faced 
with a little more than a year ago. 

The state legislature had reluct- 
antly voted to impose an additional 
state property tax in 1933, if neces- 
sary, to pay back expenditures of 
nearly $19,000,000 by the Illinois 
Emergency Relief Commission 
around 90 per cent of which went 
into Cook county. A levy of ap- 
proximately $25,000,000 would have 
to be made to assure enough col- 
lections to take care of the debt. 

However, the property tax would 
not need to be levied if the voters 
would approve a bond issue in the 
general election of November 1932 
the proceeds to go for emergency 
relief and the bonds to be retired 
from the proceeds of the state gas 
tax. q 

When this proposal was dis- 
eussed in the General Assembly it 
was freely predicted that the peo- 
ple would never approve it. 


Earl C, Smith, president of the 
Tllinois Agricultural Association 
was made chairman of the state- 
wide campaign to pass the bond 
issue, Fred W. Sargeant, president 
of the Chicago Northwestern rail- 
road, was placed in charge of the 


campaign in Cook ‘county. with 
Douglas Sutherland of the Chi- 
cago Civic Federation acting as 
secretary. 

Downstate, the I. A. A. and 
County Farm Bureaus = assumed 


leadership in the campaign. Farm 
Bureaus vied with each other for 
the honor of delivering the most 
votes for the proposal. Daily and 
weekly newspapers, Prairie Farm- 
er, WLS and other radio stations 
gave it wholehearted support. 


This constructive effort led by 
organized farmers resulted in se- 
curing approval of the measure 
both in Chicago and downstate. 

Every owner of a quarter sec- 
tion of land was spared on the 
average between $25 and $30 in 
added taxes. 

Does it pay for farmers to have 
a strong organization? Is it worth 
while to contribute a modest mem- 
bership fee which comes back to 
you many times over? 

“There may be 
against Farm Bureau 
ship,” said one member, 
don't know any of them.” 


arguments 
member- 
“but I 


FANCY PRAIRIE IN. 
MENARD COUNTY 
GETS A BREAK 


The Chicago and Alton railroad 
agreed to reinstate its station 
agent at Fancy Prairie in Menard 
county following a recent hearing 
before the Illinois Commerce Com- 
mission at Springfield. 

The comrnission previously had 
ordered the station closed when 
little or. no opposition to such 
action appeared. Farm Bureau 
members and local merchants ap- 
pealed to the I. A, A. for help. 
The commission was petitioned for 
@ reopening which was granted. 
About 30 farmers and local mer- 


second time. 


“This showing made quite an 
C. & A. attor- 
Baxter of the I. 
A. A. Transportation Department, 
“and we came to an agreement be- 
fore the case was heard. 


“This little incident is an ex- 
ample of what organization can 
do. When the whole group came 
in together with the support of 
the Farm Bureau and I, A. A, they 


got results. 
“Those attending the hearing 
were certainly happy when they 


went home last night.” 


Pool Buying Of 
Serum Saves Over 


Million Dollars 


How the pooling of orders for 
hog cholera serum by more than 


70 County Farm Bureaus through 
the Illinois Farm Bureau Serum 
Association brought down the 
price from $1,25 to an average of 
approximately 45 cents per 100 
ec. ec. throughout the state today, 
is one of several striking exam- 
ples of the value of organizing 
farm bargaining and buying 
power. 

The fact that many 
day are immunizing 
pigs with safe, 


farmers to- 
their own 
dependable serum 
obtained through the Farm Bu- 
reau is due largely to the § fact 
that they can do it at minimum 
cost. Many livestock growers are 
now protecting their herds 
through vaccination who formerly 
took chances on losing’ or lost 
their entire herds. 


Since its organization 
the Illinois Farm Bureau 


in 1924 
Serum 


Association has handled 288,750,- 
000 ec. c. of serum'and virus for 
Farm Bureau members at a sav- 
ing conservatively estimated at 
more than a million dollars. All 
livestock growers obviously have 
profited by the reduced costs of 
serum and immunization brought 
about by the Farm Bureau. 


MORE THAN 200 
CO-OPERA TIVE S 


The tremendous growth of co- 
operative marketing and purchas- 
ine in Illinois during the past ten 
vears is revealed by the large num- 
ber of such associations ofganized 
with the aid of the Il. A. A. legal 
department. 


The legal department has pre- 
pared papers and _ incorporated 
more than 200 cooperatives under 
the 1923 Illinois Cooperative Act 
during this period. These are in 
addition to three large state-wide 
insurance companies organized and 
operated by the association, 

The cooperatives include farm- 
ers’ elevators, County Farm Bu- 
reau oil companies, cream pools, 
livestock shipping and marketing 
associations, fruit and vegetable 
marketing associations, milk pro- 
ducer organizations, cooperative 
creameries, and others. 

The savings and patronage divi- 
eids of all these institutions set 
up with the assistance of the I. A 
\. and Farm Bureaus run into mil- 
lions of dollars annually. All this 
was made. possible by farmers 
working together through organi- 
zation. 


THE ILLINOIS AGRICUL 


\MERICAN FARMER 
ss: FAES SEVERE TEST 
SAYS FARM WRITER 


Sees Same Opposition At Work 
To Destroy Present Effort For 
Agricultural Betterment. 


. By BILL STAHL 


today 
facing their most severe test. New 
and far-reaching governmental 
policies, designed to improve agri- 
cultural incomes: and living condi- 
tions, daily challenge the ability of 
farmers to maintain a solid front. 
Those who ‘oppose. agricultural 
organization, legislative and. co- 
operative, already are deriding the 
farmer and are asserting that he is 
too shortsighted and too greedy to 
cooperate with his neighbor in the 
building of a better and a happier 
agriculture. 


Some economists are 


American farmers are 


insisting 
that the future of agriculture is 
that of peasantry, because the 
farmer will refuse to take advan- 
tage of the opportunities offered 
him, through organized effort, to 
build the machinery that will give 
his industry. 


The same forces that in the past 
have been exerted to defeat far- 
organization, both general 
now are being 


mer 

and cooperative, i 
exerted to defeat the crop reduc- 
tion program being pushed by the 
Agricultural Adjustment Admini- 
stration. They are ‘the same 
forces that for years have persist- 
| 

' 


ently proclaimed that American 
farmers would not give their sup- 
port to programs developed by 
their own leadership. 


What They Say. 


The Chicago Tribune declares 
that farmers themselves will de- 
feat their own program. 

‘“Tt is significant,’’ says the Trib- 
une, “that farmers have been 
swamping the markets with their 
but the receipts of 
sows have been disappointing. 
That can only mean that the 
farmers propose to take advan- 


tage of the government's offer by 
* * * 


young pigs, 


raising more pigs than ever. 


“We are on the way to learning 
that it is futile to attempt to raise 
prices: by 
duced production. 
cortainty that the produetion will 
actually diminish and every rea- 
son to expect the farmers to exert 
their brains to defeat the scheme.’ 


The Chicago Journal of Com- 
merce indicates its belief that far- 
mers are too stupid to see the 
need of crop reduction, are too 
selfish to work with other farmers 
in carrying out the plan, and are 
crooked enough to deal dishonest- 
ly with the government. 


“Those corn belt growers of 
pork, both on the hoof and the 
husk,’ says the Journal of Com- 
merce, “who were so precious an 
object of Secretary Wallace’s. sym- 
pathy—are not as scrupulous as 
they might be. * * * When he 
read Mr. Wallace’s noble offer to 
buy four million pigs, producing 
a shortage and raising the price 
generally, Mr. Farmer got a gleam 


giving bounties for re- 
There is no 


out to his pig pen, poked around 
with a clinical thermometer and 
a blood ‘pressure tester. Those 
pigs which he found below par, 
with a slim chance of claiming 
much mazuma on the open mar- 
ket, were selected and shipped to 
the government for a price above 
the market.” 


A Misstatement. 


“Actually,” says the current is- 
sue of Wallaces’ Farmer, “runts 
were thrown out by federal in- 
spectors. The misstatement of 
facts is not so important, however, 
as the frank statement of the ‘be- 
lief that the farmer will always 
conspire to evade’a plan drawn up 
by his own representatives for his 
own benefit. 


“It is evident that the opposition 
is attempting to destroy farm 
solidarity by trying to make every 
farmer believe that his neighbors 
are a set of half-witted scoundrels 
wh6é will use every chance to cut 
their own throats—and his own— 
by wrecking any plan brought for- 
ward. This is a libel on the char- 
acter and the intelligence of the 
farmer.” 

In many parts of the country 
the end of the harvest season 
marks the beginning of the farm 
organization building season. In 
niany states and communities 
farmers are preparing to strength- 
en their organizations, both gen- 
eral and cooperative. The extent 
to which they increase the mem- 
bership of their general organiza- 
tions and develop their bargaining 
power by increasing the volume 
of their commodities markcted 
through their cooperatives, will be 
their answer to the challenge 
hurled in their teeth by those who 
profit through keeping farmers 
disorganized, through the disrup- 
tion of farm organizations and 
through the doubt that they can 
create in the minds of farmers as 
to the sincerity of their leadership 
and the integrity of their associ- 
ations. 

Throughout the 
farmers have struggled to build 
their marketing and general or- 
ganizations succeeding generations 
have found themselves confronted 
by much the same problems, They 
have been ridiculed, subjected to 
boycott and discrimination, and 
branded as the easy prey of those 
who, for selfish reasons, oppose 
farm organizations. Their answer, 
throughout, these years, has been 
slow but Steady building. 

No Disintegration. 

During the long depression the 
end of which, we hope, may now 
be in sight, farmers often have 
been pinched to meet even the 
reasonable costs of organization. 
It has been our privilege to at- 
tend many conventions of farm 
organizations in recent years and 
we have been struck by the vigor- 


years’ that 


ous actions and enthusiasm that 
uniformly have attended these 
meetings. They presaged not the 


disintegration of farm organiza- 
tions but their future development 
on a larger scale than ever. 


Hard times have left farmers 
undaunted, more determined. This 
determination has found expres- 


sion. not only in the development 
of the legislation that now gives 
promise of changing conditions for 
the better on American farms, but 
in the building of great national 
cooperatives and the strengthen- 
ing of local cooperatives through 
which the products of those farms 
may be marketed under producer 
control. Agricultural legislation, 


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prance a marketing, equitable 
arm taxation, wherever they have 
been brought about,. have been the 
product of farm organization. 


“The future of the American 
farmer,’ says one writer, “is the 
characteristic one of all peasants 
for whom, in our present system 
of society, there is no hope.” He 
doubts the ability and the willing- 
ness. of farmers to meet today’s 
test, believes that great industries 
which want cheap food for their 
workers, so that low wages may 
be paid,. will continue to oppose 
the farmer's plans and that these 
industries will be able not only to 
set the consumer against the 
farmer. but to poison the minds of 
many farmers against their own 
programs, 

Farmers Who Join. 

What Wallaces’ Farmers has to 
say about the farmers’ crop reduc- 
tion program will apply with 
slight modification to every pro- 
gram on which the*farmer em- 
barks. , 


“In every permanent program,” 
says this publication, ‘farmers 
who join will get more than those 
who stay out. In every case, suc- 
cess dep s on the willingness of 
the parfcipating farmers to trust 
and work with their neighbors. 

“The farmers who are working 
on the reduction programs are like 
men working against time to build 


=. 


a levee before the flood waters 
roar down the river bed. There 
are those who cry to them: ‘There 
won't be any more floods!’ There 


are those who whisper: ‘Those fel- 
lows up the levee are stealing 
sandbags!’ There are those who 
roar: ‘Lets not do this hard work! 
Let’s demand that the president 
issue a proclamation telling. the 
flood water to go back!’ 

“Those economists are right who 
say this is the hardest test Amer- 
ican. agriculture has ever faced. 
They are right when they say no 
group of farmers has ever made a 
change in national policy without 
years of suffering. But they are 
wrong when they declare that 
American farmers are not wise 
enough or. unselfish’ enough = to 
meet the issue. 

100 Per Cent Sign-Up, 

“For the corn belt, the test will 
come when. farmers. have the 
chance to pledge a reduction in 
corn and hog production for next 
year. Let’s throw a 100 per cent 
sign-up in the teeth of those who 
claim the farmer is too dumb and 
too greedy to use the new farm act 
to save himself,’’ 

And let's start with another 100 
per cent sign-up in our farm or- 
ganizations, without which the op- 
portunity now offered to save our- 
selves never would have knocked 
at our doors. 


MAKING FARM AGT 
EFFECTIVE IS NEAT 
JOB SAYS O'NEAL 


Cites Accomplishments Of 
American Farm Bureau Fed- 
eration In Twelve Years. 


Farm Bureau members in Illi- 


members in every section of thg 
country this year in a great cel o 
bration of victory for organize 
agriculture, declared Edward f 
O'Neal, president of the Amer- 
can Farm Bureau Federation inja 
special message prepared for the 
Record. 

“Great progress has marked the 
development of the Farm Bureau's 
program during the past = 12 
months,”’ pointed out Mr, O'Neal. 
“Agriculture today moves forward 
on a new plane and occupies a 
place of economic equality, recog- 
nized as the nation’s source of life 
and prosperity. This victory is, in 
a great measure, the fruit of the 
program developed and sponsored 
through the past years of our 
Farm Bureau organization. 

“Since 1920, the organized far- 
mer, through the American Farm 
Bureau Federation, has been care- 
fully and consistently taking the 
leadership and educating the peo- 
ple of the United States to the 
understanding of the needs of 
agriculture. It has been a_slow, 
heart-breaking job but we have 
continued diligently in our fight 
and have gained most of the legis- 
lation asked for. Now “we must 
work together to make it effective. 

Prices Higher. ‘ 

“Already much progress has 
been made in restoring the farm 
commodity price level. During the 
past six months, the average 
wholesale price of all commodi- 
ties has risen to nearly the aver- 
age of pre-war level. Certain 
commodity prices still lag behind 
and the problem of raising price 
levels particularly of corn, hogs 
and wheat can and must be solved. 

Mr. O'Neal explained that the 
Agricultural Adjustment Act opens 
the way for a nationally planned 
agriculture, “It confers upon the 
Secretary of Agriculture broad 
powers whereby the farm pur- 
chasing power is to be restored to 
normal, the pre-war period being 
called a normal period,” he said, 

“Under its far-reaching powers, 
we can make a public utility of 
agriculture. It lays the foundation 
for bringing about a balance be- 
tween production and consump- 
tion of farm products under a 
voluntary national program to be 
adopted by the farmers—a _ pro- 
gram which will reward those who 
cooperate in the plan. Those who 
stay out of the plan must bear the 
economic consequences of their 
noncooperation. 

“The AAA gives the farmers an 
instrument whereby they can ad- 
just their production to market 
demands and obtain a fair price 
for their products.” 

A New Policy. 

The Farm’ Bureau's. cotton- 
planter-president pointed with 
pride to the fact that this new pro- 
gram is the result of the efforts of 
the American Farm Bureau Fed-, 
eration. “This is a broad, far- 
reaching program—a. new policy 
for our nation,” he stated. "It 
marks a new era in American life. 
It is the results of years of effort 
on the part of the Farm Bureau 
and other farm groups. It is evi- 
dent now that the primary job of 
farm people is to organize fully 


and to cooperate to make this pro- |. 


gram a success.” 

Mr. O'Neal traced briefly some 
of the accomplishments of the 
American Farm Bureau Federa- 
tion through its legislative and 
general nation-wide cooperative 
effort, during thé past _ twelve 
years. First, he cited the fact that 
the Farm Bureau had backed and 


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he sd to write the “New Deal” 
fo hericulture in the form of the 
) bus farm bill signed by Presi- 
de Roosevelt; May 12, 1933, re- 
gated as the most far-reaching 
an@™-sweeping legislation ever en- 
act@##i by Congress, 
Save $4,000,000,000, 

@eher Farm Bureau accomplish- 
mets made possible by the com- 
binfid action of national, state and 


Pres. Roosevelt On 
Higher Prices And 


Honest Dollar 


Higher farm prices and the 
commodity dollar, both fought for 
by the Farm Bureau and provided 
in the Agricultural Adjustment 


What Prominent 
Leaders Say Of 


The Farm Bureau 


President Roosevelt, speaking at 
the eleventh annual convention of 
ithe A. F. B. F. in 1929 said: “With- 
lout the cooperation’ of the farm 


FRIDAY, OCT. 6, 1933 


Tune In KYW 


CHICAGO, Oct. .4.—(Spe- 
cial) ——Direct contact between 
American Farm Bureau Fed- 
eration headquarters here and 
members of the Wlinois Agri- 
cultural Association is provided 
on the second Saturday of each 
month through the chain radio 


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s may| thd Capper;Volstead Act legaliz- Roosevelt in recent public state-/could have gotten nowhere, The|] Broadcasting Company, — 

oppose | ing cooperative marketing. ments. Farm Bureau is to be congratu- Special news of the Farm 

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st «6rtthe | termining freight rates that has “Tt is not sufficient to es- fluence of the Farm. Bureau can | which are featured on the pro- 
inds of | an@ually saved American farmers cape from present evils, but be found anywhere. More power} gram. — 

r own | $14%),000,000; defeated a proposed it is our duty to consider to- to you.” Illinois listeners hear the 
55, per cent rate increase that gether how to avoid a recur- At the thirteenth annual con-| American Farm Bureau Fed- 
womild have added an additional rence in the future. vention of the A. F. B. F. in 1931, eration's NBC _ program over 

h t $3480,000,000 freight bill to Ameri- “The first task is t t Frank O. Lowden, former gov- radio station KYW at 11:30 

as © | og agriculture. This one ac- ° why an " 2 ore ernor of Illinois, said: ‘‘Cooper- a. m. Central Standard Time 
reduc | coy plishment in 10 years (1920- prices to & level at keg 1n- ative marketing seems to be the|]| on the second Saturday of 
with 1990) saved American agriculture dustry, and above all, agri- remedy for this unbalanced condi- each month. 

fi pro $4,800,000,000. culture gp A er ta profit- tion. Wherever cooperative mar- 

roem=|. @n May*9, 1921 the first farm ably and efficiently, keting is furthest advanced, 508 
blde was organized in the Wash- “The second task is to pre- whether in the United States or — 

gram,” f inglton offices of the Farm Bu- serve the stability of this ad- abroad, there you find agriculture] their country's future. These 

armers | rewfu, resulting in more legislation justment once achieved.” in the best estate; violent fluctua-| young men and women. are the 

. those | of # benefit to agriculture’ being And on the subject of the com- |tions in the market lessened; bet- : ee ; : 

e, suc- landied hundreds of freight | Modity dollar, he said. lter prices to the. producers. with-| ™OSt !mportant pr oducts of “the 

ness Of | raj adjustments resulting in sav- “Old fetishes of so-called eut increase in cost and some-| American farm.” 

> trust | ings from $$3.00 to $50.00 a car, international bankers are times with ‘an actual. decrease to The late Calvin Coolidge, at the 

er Me ping fm, Sane eaving of eh, - peioe ep laced by efforts = _ Meenerriorr vt ors apureses tO] national convention of the Farm 

orking P y as repeatedly ocke plan national currencies with standardization o products; a ‘ _ gs “ 
re like | at@»mpts at freight increases af- the objective of giving to more intelligent effort to adjust Bureau in 1925 said: “The most 

o build | f@™Ming millions of dollars in an- those currencies a continuing production to probable deman&;|important development of late 

waters | NW@Al savings for farmers. purchasing power which does a finer and more satisfying com-| years has been the cooperative 

There Nided in lifting the $30,- not greatly vary in terms of munity life.” movement. With a production ine 

‘There | 00%,000 annual phantom freight the commodities and*needs of Gen. John J. Pershing, at the : 

There | bi, caused by Pittsburgh-Plus modern civilization...The ninth annual meeting of the A, F. fluenced by information from the 

se fel- | S¥Mitem, from agriculture. United States seeks the kind B. F, in Chicago in 1927 stated: | United States department of agri. 

tealing n 1920, 1924, 1929 and 193 of dollar which a generation “Nothing about the activities of] culture, with adequate storage, 

ic who] réeMresented organized farmers a hence will have the same pur- the Farm Bureau has impressed] supplied with necessary credit and 

work! Rud ublican and Democratic na chasing power and debt-pay- me more than the work of train-|the orderly marketing effected 

esident | tinal conventions and wrote re ing power as the dollar value ing the youth of the farm, through| through cooperatives, agriculture 

ig the] COfmmendations into party plat- we hope to attain in the near your boys’ and girls’ club work,| could be placed on a sound and 
fokms, future.”’ for the places they are to fill in' independent basis.”’ 

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MEMBER You Get 
FIRE—LIGHTNING 


TORNADO-HAIL 
INSURANCE AT COST 


ORGANIZED AGRICULTURE has made it 


able fire, hail and windstorm insurance AT 
COST. 

_ |  TheFarmer’s Mutual Reinsurance Company 
was sponsored by the I. A. A. and the Farm Bu- 
reau because legal limitations on local farm 
mutual companies made it impossible for farm- 

ers to get sufficient protection against damage 

by the elements to their crops and buildings at 
a mutual rate. Because they were forced to 
turn to the old-line com:sanies for the protec- 
tion thev needed, farminsurance was costing 
too much. 


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“m>-| Today, in spite of organized opposi- 

tion it has 24,250 policies in force, 
mounting to $54,400,000 of insur- 


, ON A COST BASIS. 
nce, O S tage through membership in the 


armer’s Mutual Reinsurance Com- Farm Bureau and the I.A.A. 
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| FARMER’S MUTUAL 
EINSURANCE COMPANY 
re : 608 SOUTH DEARBORN ST., CHICAGO, ILL. . 


pany demonstrates the effectiveness 
of ORGANIZATION. It is one more 


reason why every Illinois farmer 
should co-operate with his neighbor 
to his own and his neighbor’s advan- 


mers an 
can ad- 
market 
ir price 


Bureau 
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FRIDAY, OCT. 6, 1933 


SAVE MONEY THRU 
RATE, CLAIM AND 


UTILITY SERVICE 


Powerful Organization Farm- 
ers Only Hope In Fight For 
Lower Transportation, 
Power And Telephone 
Costs. 


— 


The transportation department 
of thé Illinois Agricultural Asso- 
ciation has been serving Farm Bu- 
reau members since 1920. Through 
been 


these years there. have 


booms and depressions. The after- 
math of the world war and gvuv- 

the 
many 
rates. 


ernment administration of 
railroads brought = about 


general increases in freight 


Through organized Farm Bureau 
these high rates 


effort many of 
have heen lowered. 


It is the purpose of this I. A. A. 
Illinois 


Service to see that the 


farmer does not pay more than his 
fair share of transportation costs; 
that he may meet the competition 
of producers of the same com- 


modities in other states 
Same markets; 


markets; that he 


of transportation. 


The association has assembled, 


over a period of years, a file o 


over one thousand rate tariffs. We 


are, therefore, in a _ position 


products of members. 


Advance data is received which 


enables 
posed rate 
hearings involving 
which farm interests 
represented. 


Constant Vigil Necessary, 


matters 


Illinois has for many years 
been a ‘buffer’ state between 
eastern or official classification 


territory and the western territory. 
The Illinois classification govern- 
re- 
flected the lower of the two clas- 
depending upon com- 
Naturally, 
each freight association seeks to 
include Illinois in its territory and 
efforts of the Illinois Agricultural 
in- 
creases has resulted in saving the 
Illinois farmer thousands of dol- 


ing state traffic generally 
sifications 


petitive conditions. 


Association in opposing rate 


lars in his transportation costs. 
Continual study and 


A number 
attended before 


state Commerce 
matters 
cultural products, 
Personal Contacts Made. 
Personal contacts have 


feel free ‘ 
our organization for informa- 
tion and cooperation. Their under- 
standing of our program is help- 
ful to them in making decisions on 
our requests, 

In the interest of economy, the 


S 


railroads have in many ¢ases pe- 
titioned the Illinois Commerce 
Commission for permission to 


close local railroad stations: take 
off trains and abandon portions 
of their lines. There. are some 
cases of this kind pending. Where 
local interest is shown, 
partment has assisted Farm 
reau committees 
needed services. 

Railroads are required by 
their right-of-ways, 
obnoxious weeds. 


and 
AS a 


to 


times killed or injured. Fire start- 


ed by railroad locomotives or sec- 
tion employes sometimes spreads 
causing con- 
member 
has the misfortune to suffer losses 
he has to do is 
give the facts to his organization 


to adjoining fields 


siderable damage. If a 


of this kind, all 


for handling. 


Considerable service has been 
given members in the past on 
matters involving private farm 


crossings, drainage, and repairs to 


railroad stock yards, 
Aid Live Stock Grower. 


Large numbers of stocker and 
sheep an@ 
Illinois 
of 
A high 
loss to 
The association has 
these 
stock down to a 
rates 
secured by organized 
should 
A. 
shipment 
to determine the actual transpor- 


feeder cattle, 
hogs are purchased by 
farmers in the 
the west and southwest. 
freight rate may mean a 
the feeder. 
used its influence 
rates on feeder 
minimum. 
have been 
farm__ effort. Members 

avail themselves of this I. 
service before making 


calves, 


range territory 


to keep 


Feed-in-transit 


A. 


tation expense. 
Claims for loss or damage 
transit, such as dead and crippled 


animals while tn railroad cars; de- 
lay in transit, such as missing the 
intended, | 
also handled hy 


market for which 
and shortages are 
the association. 


it is 


Since 1920 we have collected 
over $264,000.00 in claims against 
railroads and public utility com-| 
panies. We also assist and repre- 
Sent various affiliated coopera- 
tives in quoting rates, giving as- 
sistance on leases, routing ship- 
ments, auditing freicht bills, and 
various other matters involving 


railroad transportation. 
The Illinois Agricultural 
ciation and affiliated 


of railroad 
state of 


transportation 
Illinois and 


in 
control 


of farm and other products, which 


to the 
that he is given 
the benefit of his advantage of 
physical location with reference to 
be accorded the 
same consideration in every phase 


to 
quote and check rates on all farm 


us to determine all pro- 
increases and public 
in 
should be 


rate sur- 
veys are necessary in order to keep 
informed of existing rate changes. 
of hearings have been 
the Illinois Com- 
merce Commission and the Inter- 
Commission on 
involving rates on agri- 


been 
made with railroad traffic execu- 
tives over a period of years and 
the aim and purpose of this or- 
ganization has been sold to them, 

aus making the work of the de- 
*ffective. We want 


this de- 
Bu- 
in maintaining 


law 
to maintain adequate fences along 
cut 
result of 
defective fences live stock gets out 
on the right-of-way and is some- 


in 


Asso- 
companies 
represent one of the largest users | 
the 
the 
routing of thousands of carloads 


places this organization on a pari-| 


ty with other 


industries in seeking 
fair and 


equitable rates for 
members. Without organization, 
the individual 
ceive little or no consideration. 
Public Utilities, 

Hich tension 
steadily extended until they form 
almost 
the entire state, 

Electricity on the farm has been 


its 


farmer would re- 


lines have been 


a complete network over 


isight and it is a year when it will 


urged and experimented with by 
power companies and educational 
instltutions, As a result, a large 
number of farms are using elec- 
tricity. We find, however, that | 
there fs lack of uniformity both 


as to conditions under which lines 
for farm distribution were built 


| 


' 


| tional program in live stock mar- 


|keting as it is being carried out! 
by that organization. | 


| presented 


|ings. 


and the rates charged for the en- 
ergy used, ' 


The I. A. A. has secured some 
reductions in rates and minimums 
during the past year and is now 
seeking others, complaints on 
which will be heard in the near 
future, 


Transmission lines have some- 
times been proposed over farm 
lands without regard to rights of 
property owners. In numerous in- 
stances the I, A. A, has collab- 
orated with county farm bureaus 
in protecting the interests of mem- 
bers. Routes have been changed, 
contracts made more equitable for 
the landowner and compensation 
for damages increased as a re- 
sult of this organized effort. 

Pipe Mnes to serve the large ci- 
ties with natural gas have been 
built across farm lands in various 
parts of the state. In several in- 
stances the I, A, A, has secured 
highly important changes in ease- 
ment contracts to assure the prop- 
erty owner of adequate compen- 
sation for damage to farm crops, 
Extensions to pipe line laterals are 
being proposed. for the near fu- 
ture in several parts of Illinois, 
Members should consult this de- 
partment before signing any ease- 
ment contracts, 


PLAN THOUSAND 
MEETINGS SAME 
NIGHT USE RADIO 


582 Livestock Growers At- 
tend Five Short Courses 
In September. 


Five hundred and _ eighty-two 
leaders from 85 counties through- 
out Illinois recently attended a 
series of live stock marketing 
short courses just completed. The 
meetings were arranged by Ray E. 


Miller, director of live stock mar- 
keting, aided by producer agencies 


on the terminal markets. The at- 
tendance was as follows: 
Counties 

Place Represented Attendance 
Charleston 9 41 
Chicago 22 99 
Monmouth 8g 73 
St. Louis 34 195 
Peoria 12 174 


It was agreed by those who at- 
tended the conferences that live 
stock producers generally have 
given little serious thought to ac- 
tual problems involved in market- 
ing their products. They have not 
paid much attention to the under- 


lying factors which determine 
prices. It was the consensus of 
opinion that the major problem 


in carrying forward a cooperative 
program was one of information, 
Information Is Need. 


In order to meet this need a 
plan for a state-wide live stock 
markéting program of information 
was adopted. One meeting is to 
be held in’ each county to which 
a selected committee of live stock 
producers from each township or 
community of the county is to be 
nv 

This county meeting is to be fol- 
lowed by local meetings held inh 
various townships or committees 
throughout the country all on the 
same night. The series of local 
meetings in all the participating 
counties is to be carried out. si- 
multaneously. It is expected that 
there will be from 1,000 to 1,500 
local meetings held on the same 
night throughout the state. 


As a part of the program for 
local and community meetings ar- 
rangements are being made for a 
special radio broadcast. 


At each of the live stock mar- 
keting short courses four major 
subjects were presented and dis- 
cussed. Professor R. C. Ashby of 
the University of Illinois, pre- 
sented results of studies which he 
has made in live stock marketing, 
particularly those factors which | 
are important from the standpoint 
of price determination. The man-| 
ager of the producer agency serv- 
ing the territory in each instance 
presented recent developments in| 
connection with the operations of| 
that agency and of the market on| 
which located. A representative of! 
the National Live Stock Market- 
ing Association discussed the na- 


- 
eur. 


Corn-Hog Program. 

Ray E. Miller, director of live 
stock marketing for the I. A. A.} 
the Lllinois program 
and led the discussion as to meth- 
ods of extending the service of the 
cooperatives to more Illinois farm- 
ers. The emergency corn-hog pro- 
gram as well as the wide variety 
of other subjects were presented 
and discussed at the various meet- 


There has never been a time in 
which Illinois live stock producers 
were more intensely interested in| 
the cooperative program. It is 
cenerally recognized that through 
the establishment and operation of | 
cooperative sales agencies some of 
the things can be done for the live 
stock producers which are heing 
done by the NRA for the various 
industrial and labor groups. 


GET HOGS IN EARLY 
IS EXPERTS ADVICE. 


Sharp seasonal reduction in hog | 
receipts has strengthened the mar- 
ket and prices are expected to hold 
steady to strong well into October, 
according to H. M. Conway of 
the National Livestock Marketing 


Association. Storage stocks, the 
market analyst says, are particu. | 
larly heavy so it seems advisable | 


to keep hogs well topped out and 
crowd the early supply of spring 
pigs for October or early Novem- 
ber. 

Lower prices seem likely In 
December but a sharp come-back 
is expected in the late winter. The 
fall pig crop has been greatly re- 
duced and similar reduction which 
is unofficially reported, will take 
place in the pig crop thus making 
for a sharp downward swing in 
hog production. 

Despite relatively high corn 
prices the situation is becoming 
more favorable for live stock feed- 
particularly so in the case of 
cattle. Short supplies are now in 


ers, 


pay to emphasize quality and fin- 
ish. tather wide price variations 
are expected thus making for 


ee ee 


more attractive margins. 


| tages of 


ROOSEVELT 10 WORTHY FARMER 


SPEED FARM AID 


Farm Bureau Leader Heads 
Delegation In Call At 
White House. 


Led by Edward A. O'Neal, presi- 
dent of the American Farm 
Bureau Federation, leaders repre- 
senting farm organizations and 
publications made three definite 
recommendations to President 
Roosevelt on Sept. 25 to speed 
agricultural relief. They called on 
the president and submitted to 
him resolutions adopted at a meet- 
ing called by the American Farm 
Bureau Federation, Sept. 18 and 
19 at Chicago which was attended 
by 16 representatives of general 
farm organizations, cooperatives 
and farm’ papers. 

Embodied in the recommenda- 
tions were these three principal 
propositions: 

“l—-Harmonizing the NRA and 
AAA s0 that progress of the for- 
mer will not result in too rapid in- 
crease of farm costs of operation 
prior to the effects of the latter in 
increasing prices of farm prod- 
ucts. Controlled inflation will un- 
doubtedly be very effective in 
speeding up the effects of the 
AAA on farm prices. 

“2—-More effective and \quicker 
service in regard to the farm 
mortgage debt of the nation by 
Farm Credit Administration. 

“83-—-A more definite recognition 
of organized agriculture, both in 
regard to general farm organiza- 
tions and farmers’ cooperative as- 
sociations.”’ 

NRA Boosts Costs, 

The resolutions presented to the 
president were emphatic in point- 
ing out that the first step in any 
program of national recovery is to 
restore farm. purchasing power, 
according to Mr. O'Neal. They 
pointed out that this opinion is 
also sharéd by many leaders of in- 
dustry as well. “While entirely 
sympathetic to the objectives of 
the NRA act, farm people are 
convinced that its operations to- 
day have worked to the disadvan- 
tage of agriculture, in that the 
disparity which has for years ex- 
isted. between the exchange value 


of farm commodities and _ the 
goods and services that farmers 
must buy has actually been in- 


creassed,”’ said a resolution. - 

It was pointed out that restora- 
tion of price parity, which is the 
objective of the AAA, would prove 
the salvation of agriculture in this 
time of emergency and would like- 
wise be of tremerdous benefit to 
the nation as a whole. “If this 
restoration of price parity or 
proper exchange value of farm 
products is not accomplished at an 
early date, it is the opinion of this 
group of farm representatives that 
the entire recovery program is in 
grave danger,” the resolution 
warned. 

“It is easily possible to secure 
immediate action in applying the 
rules and regulations of the NRA, 
The application of the AAA in- 
volves difficulties hecause 
of the nature of the farming busi- 
ness. This fact explains why 
wages can be quickly increased 
and the price of non-agricultural 
commodities quickly raised, both 
to the great disadvantage of the 
farmeér until such time as the price 
level of farm products can be 
brought to a proper price parity.” 

Ask Inflation. 

The farm leaders explained that 
the president has the power to 
harmonize and unify the advan- 
both acts and urged as 
the quickest and easiest way to 
bring about this action, that the 
president immediately launch a 
program of inflation along the 
lines which have been repeatedly 


PaLLS 


suggested by farm organizations. 
“Further delay,”’ they said, 


“threatens the success of the re- 
covery program and destroys the 
hope which has been the sus- 
taining force in agriculture dur- 
ing the past three years.” 

The group expressed approval 
of the steps taken by the. Farm 
Credit Administration but felt 
that progress in administering the 
benefits of the farm credit act has 
been rather halting to date. “In 
the endeavor to establish perfectly 
safe methods of financing, the 
Farm Credit Administration may 
feel justified in making progress 
slowly,” it was stated. “However, 
it is our opinion that the critical 
condition of agriculture at this 
time justifies great tolerance in 
the formulation of credit require- 


| ments and justifies all possible 

speed in relieving a very acute 
situation.”’ 

It was recommended by the 


group headed by the Farm Bu- 
reau’s national 
Farm Credit Administration and 
federal land banks base. their 
policy of the probability of price 
recovery and so insure that the 
benefits of recovery shall accrue 
to present owners of farm land in- 
stead of to those money lenders 
who are rapidly acquiring farms 
through foreclosures. 

“The term ‘normal’ as applied to 
appraised values should be rede- 
fined on a much more liberal 
basis," a resolution explained. 
“Valuations and loans must be 
high enough to prevent the ma- 
jority of good farmers from being 
dispossessed. Unless farm prices 


are quickly restored to a parity, 
the whole economic structure will 
} collapse. The Farm Creditg Ad- 


ministration should do its full part 
to avert that collapse.” 

The resolutions declared that in- 
asmuch as farmer cooperatives are 
the only agencies engaged in dis- 
tributing farm products which are 


| sincerely striving to increase com- 


modity price levels, these associ- 
ations should be given special con- 
sideration in determining credit 
policies. 

Adequate credit accommodations 
were particularly recommended 
for the sound cooperative organi- 
zations. 

“It is our observation,” said the 
third resolution, “that under the 
NRA the government is giving full 
recognition to organized labor 
through insisting that all indus- 
trial codes shall recognize the 
right of labor to organize and en- 


gage in collective bargaining. 
“We urge and insist that the 

officials of our federal govern- 

ment now proceed to give the 


same degree of approval and re- 
cognition to organized agriculture, 
both to general farm organizations 
and the farmers’ cooperative asso- 
ciations, that is now being giyen 
to organized labor.” , 


president that the | 


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(Continued from Page 1) 


place for a hearing, at which ajy 
creditors opposing confirmatidn 
may state their opposition. 


“If the judgé does not confir 
the proposal he may dismiss t 
proceedings or refer the specific 
tions to the commissioner for tes§- 
mony and report, and then mdy 
confirm the proposal or dismiss tle 
proceedings. 

“After a settlement or extensiq 
has been confirmed, the judge may 
set it aside and reinstate the cage 
if fraud has been discovered, 


“The filing of a petition pleading 
for relief under the new la 
places the farmer and his proper 
in the exelusive jurisdiction of tle 
court, and he ¢an not be put in 
involuntary bankruptcy or sued ¢ 
any debt. 


“No execution can be levied on 
judgment. of foreclosure nor ally 
writ to oust the farmer even-unddr 
a tax sale. 


“No levy can be had touchi 
his home without consent of t 
Federal judge until action is term 
nated on the farmer's petition.” 
(Copyright, 19338, by The Unite} 

States News) 

Since, our new President has as 
sumed the duties and responsibilit 
of the office of President of thpb 
United States, and a Special Se 
sion of Congress has been cq 
vened and adjourned, giving tb 
farmers the “EMERGENCY RHE- 
LIEF AND PRICE INFLATIO 
ACT,” and the “FARM. CREDI 
ACT,” proposed by the Congress 
directly address our basic proble 
in agriculture, together with othe 
major legislations needed in th 
present day grave emergent si 
uation, 

Through enactment of the law 
mentioned, the Congress intende 
to provide adequately and exped 
tiously for all reasonable need 
of funding farm debts. 

Through the Farm Credit Ac 
the Congress intended to mak 
available to farmer cooperative 
and farmers, cooperative credi 
and funds needed to carry on farm 
ing and marketing operations, a 
lower rates of interest and accord 
ing tO reasonable needs. “Far 
Credits” are now centralized by 
legislation under the “FAR) 
CREDIT ADMINISTRATIO 
with its Governor, Deputy G 
ernor and Commissioners, and w 
twelve regional divisions. W 
have the banks for cooperatives—a 
“Central Bank for. cooperatives’ 
and twelve regional “Banks for Co 
operatives.” We have twelve re 
sional “Production Credit Corpora 
tions,” and “Production Credit As 
sociations,”’ as and when chartere 
by the Governor of the Farn 
Credit Administration. These new 
institutions are in addition to th 
Federal Land Banks now “Jiberal- 
ized"’ by authority of Congress an 
intended to be so administered i 
reason, and also the Intermediat 
Credit Banks. Other emergency 
credit agencies, heretofore created 
are continued for the present, t 
which has been added new emer 
gency financing, “LAND BAN 
COMMISSIONER'S LOANS.” 

Congress intended, through First 
Mortgage Federal Land Bank 
Loans and Land Bank Commission- 
er’s Loans, at lower rates of_in 
AARRA SAP UV 
the worthy debt-ridden farmer 
might fund his indebtedness, sub- 
ject to reasonable requirements o 
rules and regulations protecting 
and assuring the permanency o 
these institutions. 

Congress intended that Produc 
tion Credit should be freely avail 
able, in reason, to farmers, throug 
“Production Credit Associations,’ 
and at reasonable rates of interest 
particularly in the absence of man 
country banks and by reason of 
light deposits and present day re 
quirements on banks with respect 
to keeping assets liquid. 

We appreciate the unprecedent 
ed demands made on Federal Land 
Banks and National Farm Loan 
Associations, immediately on en 
actment of the legislation by the 
Congress in a Special Sesgion, put 
ting the Land Banks in funds and 
actively in operation again, with ne 
other source of funds available fo 
farm loans. Normal valuations of 
farms for loans were to he de 
termined on a new basis, “the val 
ue of the land for agricultural pur- 
poses shall be the basis of ap- 
praisal and the earning power o 
said land shall be a principal fac 


| tor.” The Land Banks were with 


out trained personnel in number: 
to take care of applications: result 
ing in delays, discouragements, dis- 
appointments and criticism. 
Farm Loan Commissioner's Loa 
were well “advertised” by th 
Press Service of the Farm Credit 
Administration and literature or 


the subject distributed, encourag 
ing and leading many distresse 
farmers to believe. such loans 


would be freely available: result 
ing in disappointments and criti 
cism, i 
We are now witnessing the for- 
mation of the first Productio 
Credit Associations in our State 
These institutions are intended’ ta 
be permanent, providing coopera. 
tive credit for farmers, arid are 
needed, particularly at the presen 
time. The Association has offered! 
its services intending, within its} 
limitations, to be helpful to the 
Deputy Governor, of the Far 
Credit Administration, in connec 
tion with the setting up of the Prog 
duction Credit Corporation of St 
Louis and local production Credi 
Associations. In this connection ij 
was stated by your officers that 
we regard it as essentially im. 
portant, if the Production Credit 
Corporation and local Productior 
Credit Association are really te 
serve farm people, that the region 
al administration is free to formu 
late reasonable rules and regula 
tions that are Suitable, and are 
sound, for the guidance or limita. 
tion of local Production Credit As 
sociations. Equally important ir 
Our judgment is the selection 0; 
properly qualified and informed 
personnel that is both wise anc 
sympathetic, to conduct the busi 
ness of the local Association. Th 
Services of the Association wer. 
proffered in the interests of 
farm people in Illinois, which f 
lows the established policy of t 
Association in such matters. 
Congress intended that the f 
benefits available through the 


credit institutions should rea 
worthy farmers, Administratid 
of these acts, 


4S organization 
in the Administratia 
termine the permanency 
institutions and their re 
usefulness to farmers. Our far 
ers in Illinois through organi 
tion, their Association, should 
operate in developing the full va 
of these institutions, as intend 
by the Congress, 


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1STAND FIRMLY BEHIND 


‘| The Fall Mobilization 
Campaign 


Illinois Farm Supply Company’s state-wide or- 
ganization stands 100 per cent behind the 
1933 Fall mobilization campaign of the I. A. 

A.-Farm Bureau. Not ony that, but the 53 asso- 
on ciated service companies and their employes 
es pledge their active support a nd co-operation 


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scope and influence of Organized Agriculture 


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1 grew out of the Farm Bureau move- 
ment. Last year Farm Bureau mem- 


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nois farmer to extend the influence 
of Organization as widely as possible 
so that a constantly increasing num- 


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avail bers received a patronage refund of . . 
Fours P 8 ber of farmers can participate in the 
«ref/more than $500,000.00—the result of advantages—and the financial re- 
son of bd bd 
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caenf| their own co-operative company. membership. 
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ts Adams Service Company Jersey County- Farm Supply Montgomery County Farmers 
s Loa Quincy. Company Oil Company 

Credit Carroll Service Company Jerseyville, Hillsboro. 

oon ar Lanark. Jo Daviess Service Company Morgan Farmers Oil Company 
eb ves Champaign County Service Com- _ Elizabeth, R socksonville. ie 

loan , Kane County Service Company Peoria County Service Compan 
result pany pany 
1 eriti Champaign. _ Elburn, Peoria. 
_ Kankakee Service Company Randolph Service Company 

he for, Christian County Farmers’ Sup- Kankakee. Sparta 

weaned ply Company Kendall Farmers Oil Company Rich-Law Service Company 
ded td Taylorville, Yorkville, Lawrenceville ° 
a ard Coles-Douglas Supply Company Knox County Oil Company Schuyler Servies Company 
presen Charleston. Galesburg. Rushville 
offered) ° > y 4 7 7 i 
hin it DeKalb County Agricultural Lake-Cook Farm Supply Com Shelby-Effingham Service Com- 
pt es i—m vans 
ne Fre a ee LaSalle County Farm Supply Shelbyville. 

of st’| aah = — Service Company Company St. yaw — Company 

Credi inton. Ottawa. eville, 
rage tay Edgar County Farm Bureau Lee County Service Company Stephenson Service Company 

ly im. Supply Company - Amboy. ; ; Freeport. 
Ene Paris. ae coe Service Company Tazewell Service Company 
ally t Loswina: : ontiac. Pekin. 

reion . Egy fon wl ice Company Logan-Mason Service Company Tri-County Oil Company 

formu ° Lincoln. 

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limita (Hancock) Decatur. Bier sre Service Company 
md ag 9 Carthage. Macoupin Service Company eer wcnacoMer fea 

tion 0; Ford County Service Company Carlinville, on ce pan) 
wale Me Gibson City Madison Service Company Danville. 

: " “i Edwardsville. Wabash Valley Service C 
é bus er A abas alley Service COmpany, 
on, Th wird bron Service Company Marshall-Putnam Oil Company Grayville, _, 
n we lenna, y 

of P er Henry, Whiteside Service Company 
ich f Fulton Service Company pitt gle Company Morrison. 

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ey _— McLean County Service Com- Will County Farm Supply Com- 
.. tie Greene County Service Company pany pany 
a. Carrollton. Bloomington, ; Joliet. eee 
ation Henry-Stark Service Company Menard County Farmers’ Supply aren <A pg Company 
_— Cambridge. Company Picea ee 
rte ee Re Petersburg. Woodford County Service Com- 
oye [roquois Service Company Monroe Service Company pany 
rgani Watseka. Waterloo. Eureka. 


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Would Never Have'K 
AUTO INS 
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Until the ILLINOIS AGRICULT URAL MUTUAL INSURANCE 
COMPANY was started by the Illinois Agricultural Association, 
Illinois farmers had no way of knowing what their automobile 


insurance should cost. 


ned een ee ee 


Old line companies, operating solely for profit, had failed to 


vive the farmer—who is a prefe isk fey auto insurance— 
the rate to which he was entitled. In other words, the farmer 
who rarely has an accident, paid as much, or nearly as much for 
protection as the city driver, whose accidents are much more 
numerous. ; 


Organized Agriculture started the ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 
MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY. 


Organized Agriculture operates the Company today. And be- 


cause it does operate its own Company, with insurance for 
members at cost, Organized Agriculture in Illinois can buy com- 
plete protection for less money. Farm Bureau members save 


Asanexample of the low rates availlable under our Surplus 
lowing: One of our members insures his 1927 Buick agains 
age for a premium of $3.95 every six months; anotherinsu 
collision (both moving and stationary objects), public liabi 
$6.38; public liability and property insurance on 19 
six months, and one member has a 1928 Pontiac insur 
for a semi-annual assessment of only 45 cents. The Count 
you can save on your insurance. Call them TODAY. 


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money on automobile insurance because of organization. In 
many cases, this saving runs as high as 30 per cent. 


Through its auto insurance company, Organized Agriculture 
_ saves Farm Bureau members thousands of dollars every year. In 

hundreds of cases, the saving on automobile insurance alone is 

enough to pay the member’s annual Farm Bureau dues. 

For this reason, if for no other, every farmer in Illinois should be 
a member of his County Farm Bureau. The amount of annual 
dues is negligible when compared to the benefits to be derived. 
And remember that safe, sound, economical automobile insur- 
ance is only one of the services available to every Farm Bureau 
member. 


If you are not nowa Farm Bureau member, JOIN TODAY! If you 
are already a member get your neighbor to JOIN. Get him to do 
it NOW, because the greater numerical strength the Farm Bu- 
reau can muster, the greater the benefits that accrue to all. 


r Surplus Fee planof automobile insurance, note the fol- 
-k against fire, theft, public liability and property dam- 
herinsures his 1931 Ford against fire, theft, windstorm, 
bli¢ liability, property damage and theft of spare tire for 
1 @ 1926 Packard costs the owner only $2.55 every 
ac insured against fire, theft and windstorm damage 
1e Cbunty Farm Bureau will be clad to tell you how much 


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Which will have the First Accident? 


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your automobile if you are insured in the Illinois Agricultural Mutual 


Y OU DON’T need to list the names of all the persons authorized to drive 
Insurance Company. 


In our Company, you are fully protected so long as the driver is more than 19 1s 
15 years old and has your permission to drive the car. id 

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This elimination of troublesome listing is only one of the advantages of Farm Nine 
Bureau automobile insurance. Some of the others are dependable .coverage, ants 
low cost, fair adjustments and prompt payment of claims. oe 
Did you know that if you are a farmer you are entitled to a lower automo- ing ¢ 


bile rate than if you live in the city? If you are not getting it, call the Farm 
Bureau in your county at once. They can tell you how to save money on 
automobile insurance. 


| Don’t drive without adequate, dependable automobile insur- | signe 
ance. Even the most careful drivers have accidents. Yours | 
| may happen tomorrow. Protect yourself; call the Farm . ago. 

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Published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Association at 165 So. Main Street, Spencer, Ind. 


Entered as second class matter at post office, Spencer, Ind, 


Asticultural As Association 
RECORD 


Editoria) Ottices, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, Il. 
Acceptance for mailing at special rates of postage provided in Section 412, Act of Feb. 28. 


1925, authorized Oct. 27, 1925. Address all communications for publication to Hditorial Offices, Illinois Agricultural Association Record, 608 So. 


Dearborn St., Chicago. 


Number 11 


NOVEMBER, 1933 


Volume 11 


Many Join In Campaign 


Captains And Lieutenants Report Progress In First 10 Days Work. 


HE Mobilization campaign is 

speeding up. More than 1,000 

new members were reported 
signed the first ten days. Approxi- 
mately 2,000 members were brought 
into good standing. Reports indicate 
that between 50 and 55 counties are 
working satisfactorily and that others 
are getting under way. 


“The differences in results among 
counties are due more to captains and 
lieutenants than to conditions,” said 
Secretary George E. Metzger. The ac- 
complishments of individual captains 
and lieutenants seem to bear out this 
belief. Otto Steffey of Henderson 
county, for example, wired: “October 
19 largest day in Henderson county. 
Seven teams, 19 lieutenants working. 
Made 465 calls, signed 25 new members. 
Nine of remaining favorable. Lieuten- 
ants Earl Brokaw, Ray Louden, Clif- 
ford Thompson of Media . township, 
saw 10 men and signed them all. Noth- 
ing can stop us now.’ 


32 Out of 36 


In Woodford county Ellis Sharp was 
high man in collections with 32 out of 
86 in two days. Edward R. Schertz 
signed five new members in the first 
three days of the campaign. Ben Roth 
signed three in Roanoke township in 
one day. One township has three times 
as many members as it had two years 
ago. 

Twenty-five new members joined in 
Kendall county during the first week. 

Whiteside signed 38 new members 
and brought 40 present members into 


good standing the first week, Capt. . 


Lowell S. Johnson reported. This is 
the best record of the first week’s 
work. 

Knox county signed 34 and collected 
57 items. 

Capt. Houghtby of DeKalb county 
reported 17 lieutenants working, -10 
new members sighed and 48 delin- 


quents restored to good standing. 
“The campaign is gaining momentum,” 
he writes. “We expect to keep right 
on going. Some of ‘the lieutenants 
haven’t started yet, but they will as 
soon as the corn is harvested. Tax 
petition going over in ‘fine shape.” 


17 In One Township 


J. W. Whisenand writes from Peoria 
county that Frank Graham, John 
Griggs and Paul ‘Harker of Elmwood 
township worked together and signed 
17 in that township. “The secretary 
of our mail-carriers’ association re- 
ceived one of the special issues of the 
I, A. A. RECORD,” said Whisenand. 
“He is very much pleased with the 
I. A. A. road program and states that 
he is recommending that mail-carriers 
join the Farm Bureau. He himself has 
joined.” Peoria has 96 new members. 


“We have 50 lieutenants actually 
working, 6 new members signed, 66 
delinquents collected. The outlook is 
brighter,” writes Capt. A. P. Cooper, 
Coles county. 

“Six of our lieutenants have re- 
ported nine new members,” reports 
G. O. Carlson from Mercer county. 
“We do not want our members sold 
entirely on the commercial services as 
there is a bigger objective in farmer 
organization. After a man once be- 
comes a member his dues are a small 
factor if he makes any use of the 
Farm Bureau.” 


John L. Hawker, Clark county, re- 
ports eight new members and nine 
collections with the campaign gaining 
in momentum. 

From southeastern Illinois pationté 
show that farmers are generally fa- 
vorable to the 1. A. A. and Farm Bu- 
reau and that new members are being 
signed. Shortage of ready cash seems 
to be the only obstacle to a widespread 
signup. 


William Stevenson of Henderson 
county interviewed 22 prospects and 
signed 18, 

In Mason county Captain Keith 
and Lieutenant Hall wrote 19. mem- 
bers in two days, John C. Moore re- 
ported. Forty-one had been signed in 
this county by Oct. 19. “We are do- 
ing our best to get Mason county’s 
quota,” writes Keith. 

Ten lieutenants working in Macon 
county, reports Capt. Emory Parks. 
Three members signed on Oct. 18. 
Other reports in brief are as follows: 


Ogle county—8 members signed, 17 


delinquents restored—L. D. Carmi- 
chael; B. D. Gate, Saline county, re- 
ports 21 members signed with 10 
lieutenants working; Eugene Curtis, 
Champaign county, wired on Oct. 16: 
“11 new members from October ninth 
through 14th and collected $1,181 
cash.” 

In St. Clair county Oscar Grossman 
reports 17 new members signed, 10 
delinquent memberships collected; 
Walter H. Scott of Scott county re- 
ports 16 signed; Rock Island county 
six new members, 11 delinquents c: I- 
lected. 


21 In Hancock 
M. G. Lambert from Hancock coun- 


ty reports 21 new members signed and 
many delinquent memberships re- 


stored. Twenry sive lieutenants work- , 


ing. 

George W. Deppert, Tazewell coun- 
ty, reports 12 new members and 12 
collections. “Our campaign is just 
getting a good start,” he says. “The 
boys seem’ to be. enthusiastic . about 
their work.” 

In Morgan ‘county David Reynolds 
reported 24 members signed, 33 col- 
lections made with 15 lieutenants 
working. 

Harry L. Leeper of Fulton county 
(Continued on page 4 col. 3) 


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Joe Fulkerson Tells 
Why He's A Member 


Agriculture Has Great Opportu- 
nity to Get an Even Break, 
He Says 


“Although we hear a great deal 
more about the NRA it is no more im- 
portant than the AAA. Those in the 
NRA, that is the miners, manufac- 
turers, jobbers, wholesalers, retailers 
and laborers are simply better or- 
ganized than those in the AAA,” said 
J. R. “Uncle Joe” Fulkerson, presi- 
dent of the St. Louis Producers’ Live- 
stock Commission Association, in a 
radio address from Station KMOX, St. 
Louis, October 10. 

* “Tf we farmers want to get our 
share of the new deal we must get 
into some farm organization,” con- 
tinued Mr. Fulkerson. “The Adminis- 
tration wants to help us farmers if 


we will try to help ourselves, but they - 


are not going to force prosperity on 
us if we do not show enough interest 
in the matter to organize and co- 
operate. 

“Agriculture never before had such 
an opportunity to get an even break 
with industry. From a personal letter 
[ received from President Roosevelt 
recently, I quote the following para- 
graph: 

“‘Other measures are also being 
taken to restore a better balance be- 
tween agricultural .and industrial 
prices, and to restore as soon as pos- 
sible a larger measure of purchasing 
power in the distressed agricultural 
areas.’ 
_ “Secretary Wallace also has the in- 
terest of the farmer at heart as no 
other Secretary of Agriculture has had 
in- years. He comes from the heart of 
Iowa, out where the tall corn grows. 
He owns and operates a farm, so 
speaks our language and has felt some 
of our jolts. 

“Congressman Henry T. Rainey, 
Speaker of the House, had a shipment 
of hogs to the Producers’ Commission 
Association last week that topped the 
East St. Louis market, selling at. 20 
cents above the Chicago top that day. 
This speaks well for Mr. Rainey both 
as a feeder and a co-operator. He, too, 
lives on his farm and speaks the farm- 
er’s language. Again I say, never in 
the past 14 years has agriculture had 
as many powerful friends and such 
an opportunity to get back on its feet. 

“Now that we have discussed the 
AAA and the NRA, let’s consider the 
I. A. A. I. A. A stands for Illinois 
Agricultural Association, the State 
Farm Bureau. This undoubtedly is the 
most outstanding State farm organiza- 
tion in the country. It played an im- 


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I. A. A. RECORD—November, 1933 


STATE CHAMPION FARM BUREAU TEAM FROM SANGAMON COUNTY 


Left to right, front row: Lyman Easley, pitcher; Bill Mathews, outfielder; 
Lauren Davis, pitcher; Preston Wilson, manager; J. C., Honn, pitcher; Richard 


Dunkel, third base. 


Left to right, back row: Steve Simko, outfielder; Norman Davis, shortstop; 
Bert Jarrett, infielder; Arnott Smith, outfielder; Wayne Carruthers, outfielder; 
Carl Knelper, first base; Wm. Carson, second base. 


Kesley Crain, catcher, and Norman Wilson, pitcher, not in picture. 


portant part in organizing the Pro- 
ducers’ Livestock Commission Asso- 
ciation at.the National Stock Yards, 
which is now serving thousands of 
members in the corn-belt states, having 
turned back to them in refunds and 
reduced commissions over $1,200,000. 

“The I, A. A. is sponsoring a mobili- 
zation campaign to get Illinois farm- 
ers to work together for their own in- 
terests. I have been a member of the 
I. A. A. and my County Farm Bureau 
ever since they started, because I 
want to know that when the legisla- 
ture meets at Springfield and the 
Congress at Washington, someone with 
ability and authority is there looking 
after my interests. I want to know 
there is someone there working to 
reduce my taxes, working to adjust 
the difference between agricultural 
and industrial prices, working to save 
our farm homes. Now, if your neigh- 
bor asks you to join the Farm Bureau 
don’t tell him you'll think about it. 
Get in now and do your part. Not 
next week nor next month, but NOW!” 


Let's Get Greater Unity 


Awaken farmers of our land, 
The time for action is at hand, 
No time in peace or war have we 
Had greater need for unity. 


We have a program now at hand 
To right the errors of our land 
Let’s put it into action men, 

By getting all our neighbors in 
To help each other work our cause 
And not depend on Santa Claus. 


It can be done we will agree, 


If we get greater unity 
Let’s therefore not forget that we 
“Are pledged to get that unity. 


GEO. FLECKENSTEIN, 
Dillon Twp. Director Tazewell 
County Farm Bureau. 


Many Join In Campaign 
(Continued from page 3) 


reports 12 signed, 14 collected, 20 men 
working; In Greene county Norman 
Davis reported 5 new members. 

McDonough county seven signed, 
three collected; Marion county ore 
signed, two collected; Pike county 
five signed, four collected. Richland 
county five signed, 27 delinquent mem- 
berships restored; White county one 
signed, 10 memberships collected; Ed- 
wards county two signed, one col- 
lected. 

L. W. Williams, manager of Coun- 
try Life Insurance Company, and A. 
E. Richardson, manager, Illinois Ag- 
ricultural Mutual Insurance Company. 
are jointly awarding prizes of a 3° 
gallon barrel of Penn Bond or Blu 
Seal motor oil to the general or spé- 
cial insurance agent selling the largest 
number of members and old collectior 
items in his congressional district. 
The minimum amount on which * 
prize will be awarded will be ten new 
sales or old items collected. 

The general or special agent, other 
than the captain, who writes the larg: 
est number of members in the entire 
state also will be honored in a fitting 
way as one who made an outstanding 
contribution to agriculture. 


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I. A. A. RECORD—November, 1933 


The AAA 
Corn-Hog Plan 


Immediate Relief From Low Prices May Come If Govern- 


ment Starts Substantial Buying To Feed Unemployed 


The long expected plan to raise corn 
and hog prices has at last been an- 
nounced by Secretary Wallace. It will 
be placed in operation beginning No- 
vember 5 when the processing tax on 
hogs goes into effect. 


The plan provides for bonus pay- 
ments by the government of $5 per 
head on 75 per cent of the average 
number of hogs farrowed annually on 
farms of contracting producers and 
sold by each during 1932 and 1933, 
provided the farmer reduces the num- 
ber of litters farrowed and hogs sold 
at least 25 per cent in 1934. 


The first payment of $2 per head is 
to be made on acceptance of the con- 
tract, $1 about Sept..1, 1934, and $2 
about Feb. 1, 1935. 


Farmers who agree to reduce their 
corn acreage in 1934 to not less than 
20 per eent of the average annual 
production in 1931-32-33 will receive 
benefits in the form of a rental of 30 
cents a bushel minus administrative 
costs on the three-year average pro- 
duction of the contracted acreage; 20c 
per bushel to be paid soon after ac- 
ceptance of contract and the remainder 
following fulfillment of contract after 
Aug. 1, 1934. 


Hew It Will Operate 


The plan as announced will operate 
about as follows: Farmer A during the 
past three years has been producing 
100 acres of 50 bushels an acre corn, 
and raising two litters of pigs a year 
from 16 sows (32 litters) from which 
he has sold about 160 market hogs. 
To come under the plan he must cut 
his corn acreage (20%) to 80 acres 
or less, the number of litters (25%) 
farrowed to 24 or less and the number 
of hogs marketed to 120. If he car- 
ries out this adjustment program he 
will receive from the government 30 
cents per bushel (minus local deduc- 
tions) on 1,000 bushels of corn, the 
average production on the 20 acres 
left idle. He will also receive a bonus 
of $5 per head on 120 hogs (75% of 
the average number farrowed on farm 
and sold). Thus, roughly, he will be 
paid cash benefits for his co-operation 


in the corn-hog adjustment plan ap- 
proximating $900. The cost of operat- 
ing the county control association will 
be deducted from the computed pay- 
ments to local growers. 


In addition he will receive the in- 
come from the 24 litters of pigs and 
80 acres of corn. The market price of 
both corn and hogs should be raised 
considerably in time if the crop reduc- 
tion program is carried out as planned 
and if non-co-operating farmers do 
not take advantage of the situation to 
step up production in the hope of in- 
dividual profits. 

The grower who fails to fulfill his 
contract forfeits his final payment and 
must surrender also the initial pay- 
ment. ‘ 


Basis of Allotments 


Allotments of corn and hogs will be 
made to the various states and coun- 
ties on down to the individual farmer. 


On the basis of information already 
available through the Department of 
Agriculture, each State will be allotted 
for the purpose of determining pay- 
ments: 


(a) That number of acres of corn 
which represents its proportion of the 
total number of acres to be withdrawn 
from corn production for the United 
States. County allotments will be de- 
termined on the same basis in rela- 
tionship to the State. Within the coun- 
ty, allotments to individual farmers 
who have signed contracts will be 
made by the County Corn-Hog Pro- 
duction Control Association, and these 
allotments will be published in the 
county press. 

(b) That number of sows to far- 
row, litters farrowed, and numbers to 
be marketed, which will be propor- 
tionate to the corresponding totals for 
the United States. County allotments 
will be determined on the same basis 
as the State. Individual allotments 


will be made by the Corn-Hog Produc- 


tion Control Association, and publica- 
tion will be made in the same manner 
as on corn. 

(c) A County Corn-Hog Produc- 
tion Control Association which will 


choose its own directors and officers. 


Any. salaries or expenses which the 
association is authorized by its direc- 
tors to incur will be withheld pro rata 
from the adjustment payments to be 
made within the county. Extension 
service agencies will be used wherever 
available to assist in the educational 
and organizational work. These may 
be supplemented by temporary emer- 
gency workers appointed to serve in 
counties where additional help is re- 
quired. 


Government Buying 


In addition to the above proposals 
the government promised further sup- 
port to the market by subsequent pur- 
chases of hogs and pork products for 
poor and unemployed people through 
the Federal Emergency Relief Cor- 
poration. The extent of these pur- 
chases may determine whether or not 
any immediate improvement will be - 
felt in the hog market. 


To raise the funds for bonus pay- 
ments to farmers the government will 
place a processing tax on all live hogs 
beginning November 5, of fifty cents 
per cwt. Many predict that this pro- 
cessing tax will result almost imme- 
diately in a lower price to the grower. 
According to an announcement by Sec- 
retary Wallace, the processing tax will 
be increased to $1.00 per cwt. by De- 
cember 1; $1.50 by January 1 and 
$2.00 on February 1. The tax also 
will be placed on products held by 
packers and wholesalers on November 
5, but will not apply to floor stocks of 
retailers. Tax collections on live hogs 
through the two-year period are ex- 
pected to total $348,000,000. Hogs 
butchered on the farm for use by the 
farm family and employees will be 
exempted from the tax. 


In addition there will be a 28c per 
bu. tax levied on processed corn and 
later it is possible that a processing 
tax will be applied to beef and other 
products competing with both hogs 
and corn. The competitive condition 
of corn and hogs will also be protected 
against imports. 

Every effort will be made to extend 
foreign markets. Land rented by the 
government and taken out of corn pro- 
duction may be used for pasture, mea- 
dow, soil improvement and erosion 
prevention crops subject to the regu- 
lations of the Secretary. 

As we go to press the Agricultural 
Adjustment Administration through 
Administrator Geo. N. Peek is quoted 
as stating that loans will be made to 
corn and wheat growers through the 
Commodity Credit Corporation, where 
grain is warehoused under bond; that 
loans would be made at a rate “that 
would increase farm prices.” 


Pres. Smith Comments 
On Corn-Hog Plan 


Urges Government Loan on 
Corn of 60c Per Bu. Chi- 
cago Basis to Provide 
Immediate Relief 


“The permanent corn-hog program 
announced recently by Henry A. Wal- 
lace, Secretary of Agriculture, and 
George N. Peek, administrator of the 
Agricultural Adjustment Act is sub- 
stantially different, is much more con- 
servative, and in my judgment, its 
price improvement effect on hogs will 
be much less immediate than the pro- 
visions of the program recommended 
by the National Corn-Hog Commit- 
tee,” said President Earl C. Smith in 
a recent statement. 

“As Chairman of the Committee, I 
feel sure I reflect its position in ex- 
pressing regret that the Administra- 
tion program fails to recognize the 
great importance of definitely and im- 
mediately raising and maintaining hog 
prices until the effects of a tonnage 
reduction policy can be made to oper- 
ate. 

“While the announced program, if 
fully supported by farmers, will, un- 
doubtedly, be very effective in improv- 
ing the price level of hogs in the 
spring, summer and fall of 1934; yet 
its immediate effect on hog price levels 
will be determined by the amount of 
continuous and aggressive support 
given the hog market by the Adminis- 
tration through purchases of hog prod- 
ucts for the Federal Unemployment 
Relief Administration. Every influence 
will and must be brought to bear to 
keep such support of the hog market 
operating to the full extent and while 
doing so, farmers must speedily co- 
operate with the local committees that 
will be authorized to assure the needed 
reduction in hog tonnage during 1934, 
so as to justify the government in re- 
lieving the over-burdened markets 
throughout this coming fall and win- 
ter. 

“If proper co-ordination of all ef- 
* forts—both by the Administration and 
by farmers can be had—hog price 
levels can and will be raised and sta- 
bilized. That part of the program hav- 
ing to do with reducing future corn 
production is substantially in line with 
the recommendations of the National 
Corn-Hog Committee. 

“To secure substantial improvement 
in the price of corn, we are urging 
government support to the corn mar- 
ket through a system of loans on state 
farm warehouse receipts on a basis of 
60 cents per bu., Chicago. In my opin- 
ion, such a program is both defensible 
and fully justified to meet the present 


crisis by getting improved price levels 
now and to keep them improved until 
the effect of the corn reduction cam- 
paign can be made operative. 


“In the future our efforts will be 
largely confined to securing and main- 
taining government support to the 
corn and hog markets during the win- 
ter, so as to assist farmers in the 
present hour of great need for in- 
creased income.” 


First Checks To Corn 
_ Belt By January 


Secretary Wallace Comments on 
Permanent Corn-Hog Plan 


Farmers who co-operated in the 
pig control plan received around $31,- 
000,000 Secretary Wallace announced 
in a radio talk over NBC Oct. 18. 
More than 100,000,000 pounds of pork 
—50 or more train loads—were turned 
over to the Relief Administration. 
More than 600 carloads of this meat 
has been ordered shipped to relief 
agencies in 40 states. 


Discussing the more permanent 
corn-hog control program recently 
announced, Secretary Wallace said, 
“we expect to have the first checks 
in the hands of farmers in the corn 
belt sometime in January. ....... 


“I suppose we have spent ten times 
as much time and mental labor in de- 
veloping this corn-hog program as we 
have spent on any of the major pro- 
grams previously announced, but in 
spite of this the complexities of the 
problem are such that I do not feel 
entirely satisfied with the plan... .” 


After discussing the details of the 
program as presented elsewhere in this 
issue the Secretary said: “I do not 
underestimate the difficulties and 
complexities, but I am inevitably more 
impressed by the difficulties and com- 
plexities that will surely confront the 
corn belt if corn and hog producers 
go ahead without any program. For 
if nothing is done, if farmers refuse 
to co-operate we will then continue to 
grow those 15,000,000 of surplus acres 
of corn just as though gasoline had 
not displaced ten or eleven million 
horses and mules, and just as though 
we had made no improvements in re- 
cent years in the number of bushels 
of corn required to produce a 100 
pounds of pork. 


“If nothing is done, we will then 
be continuing in amazing ignorance 
of the fact that Germany now has a 
tariff on lard of more than $15 a hun- 
dred pounds, that our share of the 
British pork market is no longer the 
usual 20 per cent, but only six per 


I. A. A. RECORD—November, 1933 


Corn-Hog Committee 
Plan Compared 


The corn-hog control plan adopted 
by the AAA differs considerably 
from the plan recommended by the 
National Corn-Hog Committee ,; 
grower representatives. 


The committee recommended that 
prices be fixed through agreements 
between the Secretary and processors 
so as to reach parity at Chicago by 
November 1, 1938. This means about 
$8 hogs which would include the pro- 
posed processing tax of $2 per 100, this 
price to be maintained until June 1, 
1934. The committee also proposed a 
benefit payment of $1 per cwt. on all 
hogs weighing less than 220 pounds 
sold between Nov. 1, 1933 and June 1. 
1934 by contracting growers. 

Thus, under this plan contract 
signers would have received around 
$7 per cwt. for top hogs f. o. b. Chi- 
cago and would have been required to 
reduce their 1934 hog tonnage a mini- 
mum of 20 per cent. 


The corn acreage reduction pro- 
posal of the national committee is 
similar to that adopted by the AAA. 


It is believed that the committee 
plan as applied to hogs would have 
raised prices immediately. The AAA 
plan will depress prices on the other 
hand, and the producer will receive 
little or no benefit until a year from 
now unless the government comes in- 
to the market and buys substantial 
quantities of live hogs and pork prod- 
ucts for poor relief. 


cent, and that the total decline in our 
export trade has left us with an un- 
saleable, unusable surplus of perhaps 
seven million head of hogs. The cost 
of a do-nothing policy might be reck- 
oned in terms of 10-cent corn and two- 
cent hogs next year, and the resulting 
social stability would likewise bé¢ 


worth just about that much.....- - 


“Many people resent the idea of 


restricting production so long as pe°- 
ple are hungry. They call it wicked— 
and so do I. Fortunately, we have # 
President who shares these views. 
Under the policy he has recently 4”- 
nounced, the hungry will be fed, and 
it will be possible for farmers to Co” 
tinue to produce not only for all w'° 
can afford to buy, but for all in ths 
country who need food.” 


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Chicago Gets Its Way sateahseie 
In Senate Vote 


Downstate Senators Swing Over Under Administration 
Whip, Pass Bill For $38,000,000 State Levy On 


Property 


S WE go to press the State Ad- 
A ministration program to con- 

tinue the “dole” in Illinois on 
the present scale is being considered 
in the House after being forced 
through the Senate under the patron- 
age whip. 

The Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion is insisting that the Streeper- 
Green bills in the House, identical to 
the Lantz bills, be passed as intro- 
duced. These bills carry a mandatory 
provision that would insure Chicago 
and Cook county and commission- 
governed counties levying taxes local- 
ly, as 85 township-governed counties 
are now doing, to provide at least in 
part for their destitute people. 

The Lantz bills were to be offered 
in the House as substitutes for the 
Administration measures. 

The I. A. A. vigorously opposed the 
Administration measure, Senate Bill 
No. 1. which passed the Senate on 
October 18 by a vote of 36 to 13. It 
did not compromise on this position. 
This bill provides for a state tax on 
property of approximately $38,000,000 
“for the relief of residents of the state 
of Illinois who are destitute and in 
necessitous circumstances.” If this tax 
is levied farmers will pay around $7,- 
500,000 more taxes next year. 


How They Voted 


The following senators voted for 
this measure: Barbour, Barr, Benson, 
Boeke, Broderick, Burgess, Carroll, 
Finn, Gillmeister, Graham, Hickman, 
Huckin, Huebsch, Karraker, Kielmin- 
ski, Kline, Kribs, Lee, Loughran, Leo- 
nardo, Maypole, McDermott, Mendel, 
Monroe, Mundy, O’Connell, O’Grady, 
Penick, Roberts, Serritella, Shaw, Sie- 
berns, Stuttle, Ward, Williams, Woods. 

The following voted in the negative: 
Messrs. Baker, Behrman, Carlson, 
Clifford, Ewing, Gunning, Lantz, Loh- 
mann, Mason, Mayor, Paddock, Searcy, 
Thompson. 

When the State Administration’s 
$30,000,000 bond issue program failed 
the first time to receive the necessary 
Votes.in the State Senate administra- 


tion representatives offered to pass the 
Lantz bills with certain amendments 
prepared by Corporation Counsel Sex- 
ton of Chicago at the Governor’s di- 
rection. Without having the text of 
these amendments read, a number of 
senators accepted this offer and voted 
for the bond issue program and after- 
wards to amend the Lantz bills. 

- When the Senate convened on 
Thursday, October 19, Senator Lantz, 
after studying the "Chicago amend- 
ments, and conferring with downstate 
senators made the following state- 
ment: 


The Chicago Amendments 


“The Chicago amendments to the 
Lantz bills are not acceptable to the 
downstate senators who opposed the 
State Administration’s Thirty Million 
Bond Issue program for the following 
reasons: 

First: It is questionable whether 
the amended bills are within the Gov- 
ernor’s call for the special session be- 
cause they leave to the discretion of 
the local officials whether the funds 
realized shall be turned over to the 
Illinois Emergency Relief Commis- 
sion. The call states as its first pur- 
pose, “To enact laws to provide funds 
for the Illinois Emergency Relief Com- 
mission to be used for the relief of 
persons who are destitute and in ne- 
cessitous circumstances.” 

Second: The language used in the 
amended bills is not expanded to un- 
questionably permit local authorities 
to care for the unemployed. As in- 
troduced the Lantz bills provided re- 
lief for all poor and indigent persons 
including those “who are destitute and 
in necessitous circumstances by rea- 
son of unemployment or otherwise.” 
The amended bills include only “poor 
and indigent persons.” It appears this 
is an attempt to divide poor relief into 
two classes (1) pauper relief under 
ordinary economic conditions and (2) 
unemployment relief. If localities are 
not empowered to care for the unem- 
ployed this burden must be carried by 
the State. We cannot agree to this 


Probably Unconstitutional 


Third: The classification of cities, 
villages and incorporated towns used 
in the amended bills is identical with 
the classification held invalid by the 
Attorney General in his opinion on the 
similar bills passed at the regular ses- 
sion and vetoed. He pointed out that 
a classification of municipalities ac- 
cording to the vopulation of the coun- 
ty in which they are located is uncon- 
stitutional. Many attorneys agree that 
of the objections to the earlier bills 
raised by the attorney general, this 
objection is the only one that is fairly 
established as a legal proposition. This 
unconstitutional classification of the 
regular session bills was corrected in 
the Lantz bills as introduced in this 
special session, but is again incor- 
porated in the amended bills. 

Fourth: The amended bills empower 
Cook County to levy taxes for poor 
relief up to the constitutional limit 
of 75 cents on the $100 for all pur- 
poses. This will permit an additional 
levy of approximately 20 cents on the 
$100 assessed value, which with the 
25 per cent reduction in assessed valu- 
ations of real estate will not produce 
much more than $5,000,000 per year 
and is entirely inadequate in view of 
expenditures of $4,000,000 or more 
per month for relief purposes in that 
county. The bills as amended do not 
require Cook County to draw reason- 
ably upon its own resources and will 
afford only a small measure of relief. 

We are convinced that all communi- 
ties should be required to draw reason- 
ably upon their own resources before 
appealing to the State for aid. And 
all localities should be placed upon the 
same basis with reference to relief 
taxes. Chicago and the townships in 
Cook County should be required to 
levy taxes for relief purposes just as 
downstate townships are now required 
to levy taxes for this purpose.” 


Voted With Chicago 


After reading this statement, Sena- 
tor Lantz moved to strike his bills as 
amended from the calendar. Ordinari- 
ly, this privilege is accorded without 
question. However, Chicago senators 
with the support of a few downstate 
senators who had voted for the bond 
issue program kept the bills on the 
calendar, but permitted Senator Lantz 
to withdraw as sponsor. The amended 
bills were then called by Senator Mon- 
roe for passage, but failed to receive 

(Continued on page 12) 


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ness, economic, political and educational interests of the 
farmers of Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 


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Corn Hog Plan 


HE administration plan to raise corn and hog prices 

| is out. It is offered as the best judgment of officials 

charged with responsibility for improving farm buy- 

ing power in the corn belt. It involves substantial cuts next 

year both in the acreage of corn planted and the numbers 

of hogs marketed. Whatever success the plan may have 

in raising future prices depends on the achievement of 

this goal. Thus, it offers another great test of farmers’ 

ability and willingness to work together for their mutual 
welfare. 


The program as anhounced is probably not perfect. 
Secretary Wallace, himself, stated publicly last week that 
he is not altogether satisfied with it. It seems apparent 
that the plan, as pointed out by President Smith, fails to 
recognize the need for immediate relief. But action can 
yet be taken to overcome this weakness and others which 
may develop. ¥ 


I. A. A. RECORD—November, 193; 


The attitude of every corn and hog grower toward the 
proposal should be clear. Whole-hearted co-operation by 
every Illinois farmer in reducing production is imperative 
if reasonable prices are to be realized. Nothing less wi!! 
suffice. The job is a challenge to organization. It’s our 
turn to demonstrate that we are in earnest. 


Brazil Destroys Coffee 


RAZILIAN coffee growers have learned that they 
B cannot sell all the coffee they produce at a fair price. 

They can sell a limited quantity at a good price to 
yield a profit. Instead of dumping their huge surpluses 
in the markets of the world, they are dumping them in the 
ocean or burning them. During the past two years the 
government has destroyed more than three billion pounds 
of coffee which equals the world’s annual consumption. 
At present prices that coffee would bring around $200,- 
000,000. Yet if this surplus were allowed to enter trade 
channels it would so demoralize the price level that the 
larger quantity would probably bring much less than the 
limited supply now marketed. 


The President On The Radio 


HE President’s definite promise to raise farm price 
I levels and bring about parity between agriculture 
and industry reiterated in his Sunday night radio 
address is heartening. “If we cannot do it one way we will 
do it another,” he said. “Do it we will.” This statement 
together with that in support of “a dollar which will not 
change its purchasing and debt paying power. during the 
succeeding generation” comprises two of the principles Or- 
ganized Farmers have been fighting for. To have the 
chief executive of the nation adopt and support these 
principles is at once encouraging to all farmers and a 
tribute to the value of organized effort. With faith and 
persistence, farmers through organization eventually will 
secure justice and equity. 


Nearly T B Free 


HE AUGUST, 1933 report of bovine tuberculosis 

: eradication work in Illinois shows that 95 counties 

are designated as modified accredited areas where all 

cattle have been tested at least once and the reactors re- 

moved. Nearly 11,000 herds were tested during August. 

A total of 241,298 herds are under supervision, 5,854 of 

which are accredited and 87,649 herds have gone throus? 
at least one clean test. , 


The report shows that reactors are comparatively *°” 
in numbers. Only 261 cattle reacted out of 101,915 tes'e° 


during the month of August. 


The Illinois Agricultural Association and the County 
Farm Bureaus were largely responsible for securing ‘© 
necessary state appropriations and pushing this work °° 
ginning ten years ago when tuberculosis eradication W° 
very unpopular in certain sections. 

At that time Illinois had a reputation as a center 107 
infected cattle, particularly the northern counties. The T. 


B. test was denounced as a fake and many said 1. B. 
could never be controlled. Yet today the state is rel- 
atively free from bovine tuberculosis and cattle breeders 
have the satisfaction of knowing that this state 
gained in reputation as a source of clean tuberculosis-freé 
breeding stock. 


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1, A, A. RECORD—November, 1933 


David Lloyd George, the British 
political leader, once said, “Americans 
are a docile people.” He might not 
say that were he an observer here to- 
day. Strikes, mass meetings, picket- 
ing, and the like, of which we have 
seen much, and may see more, ex- 
press the resentment of a people who 
have been divested of their farms, 
homes and jobs many through no fault 
of their own. 


They are rebellious of a system 
which takes away the little they have 
while others have more than plenty. 
No one appreciates this more than 
President Roosevelt. With a less pro- 
gressive man in the White House, re- 
volution might have broken out before 
now. His recent assault against high 
salaries is a recognition of one of the 
things that breeds resentment and 
anger among under privileged people. 


It was the concentration of wealth 
and privilege in the hands of the few 
that brought on the Russian revolu- 
tion and produced the Soviet Union 
which despite all its critics at least 
seems to be holding together. In 
America the concentration of wealth 
has been proceeding at a dangerous 
pace, and that process, allowed full 
sway, would eventually produce an up- 
rising against the very rich similar 
to that of Russia. 


The present administration wisely 
is giving attention to social problems. 
Whether they succeed or not, the pro- 
jects underway are designed to dis- 
tribute wealth more evenly among the 
people. The communists tell us that 
capitalism sows the seeds of its own 
destruction; that its greed knows no 
bounds; that it allows the strong to 
plunder the weak. In this country we 
are not convinced that capitalism 
should go, but we are fairly well 
agreed that returns on capital should 
be limited and that gouging of the 
public should be stopped. The rich, 
of course, fight all government poli- 
cies which disturb their wealth. 
Hence the income tax, particularly the 
graduated rates and surtaxes on huge 
incomes, is unpopular. So is any tax 
on intangibles. — 


The securities act is not liked by 
many financiers. It protects the 
small investor and places more re- 
sponsibility on the promoter and bor- 
rower than heretofore. During the 
period of exploitation which preceded 
the depression, many promoters were 


very free with other people’s money. 
If the projects succeeded they made 
the big profits, if the enterprise failed, 
the lowly bond and stockholders stood 
the loss. So this act is under fire and 
the clever argument is being used that 
new enterprise is being stifled and re- 
employment retarded. 


Some students of social movements 
are proclaiming that co-operative or- 
ganization offers the greatest hope for 
building a happier and more contented 
America; that co-operatively-owned 


_plants, co-operative marketing and co- 


operative buying and _ distribution 
should be vigorously pushed as the 
solution to a growing social problem. 
There is evidence that most of the 
world is headed in the direction of 
leveling off the wide inequalities be- 
tween people. As President Roosevelt 
suggests, his ideal for America is 
“a temple which when completed will 
no longer be a temple of money- 
changers or of beggars, but rather a 
temple dedicated to and maintained 
for greater social justice.”—E. G. T. 


VIEWS FROM THE PRESS 


Farmers Must Organize 
The farmer is America’s outstand- 


ing exponent of rugged individual- 
ism, a reminder of the pioneer days 
of the Republic when industry and la- 
bor were also individualistic. In la- 
bor and industry that earlier period 
has been succeeded by a grouping 
and combining of forces to which the 
individual has yielded authority and 
entrusted his financial welfare. 

If agriculture, the industry which 
produces food, the most vital of all 
needs, is to command its own mar- 
kets and insure its own profits, there 
must be a change of working policy. 
Individual independence of action 
must be surrendered to delegated 
authority which has full and unre- 
stricted powers. Powerful opposition 
to commodity price advances must be 
overcome by the combined power of 
the producers of foodstuffs, an or- 
ganization strong enough to keep its 
own members from rocking the boat. 
It must have market control and crop 
control. Its recalcitrants must be 
disciplined. 

Such an organization is being 
sought to-day by the national admin- 
istration at Washington, which is seek- 
ing earnestly to alleviate the suffer- 
ings of the farmer and restore his 
prosperity. Unless the farmers of 
America can organize and create an 
all-powerful central authority and 
stop the confusion of council, the 
present strenuous effort to restore 


commodity prices may fail or be se- 
riously delayed.—Gibson City Courier. 


When Farmers Prosper 
Everyone Prospers 

“There are so many super-minds 
making experiments and seeking ways 
and means to get the nation back to 
normalcy that it would be very pre- 
sumptuous indeed for any of us crack- 
er-box philosophers to offer any sug- 
gestions. But we can ask questions. 

“How can our factory employes get 
off the relief lines and back into their 
factory jobs until the farmers of 
America have money to buy factory 
products? How can the farmer ever 
become a buyer when everything he 
produces sells so cheap and every- 
thing he buys is going up in price? 
How can the farmer survive the terri- 
ble burden of mounting taxes, with 
his credit shut off and his income al- 
most at the vanishing point? 

“The Lee County Farm Bureau, in 
concert with other farm bureaus in 
Illinois is staging a drive for mem- 
bership and a campaign for tax re- 
lief. This movement deserves the 
wholehearted support of every citizen 
of the state, regardless of whether he 
lives in the town or country...... 
The nation as a whole cannot ever be 
prosperous while the buying power of 
the farmer is so universally stifled. 

“The movement in Illinois must 
have the cooperation of every farmer 
to be a success. The Telegraph be- 
speaks the support of all residents of 
the county, urban or rural, in the Lee 
County Farm Bureau’s effort to gain 
membership and secure tax relief.”— 
Dixon Evening Telegraph. 


Use Gas Tax Money 
To Build Roads-Stuart 


“If the state gas tax were properly 
expended in the building of roads, in- 
stead of being diverted to finance more 
bonds and pay more doles, there would 
be work for an army of Illinois men 
now on the relief rolls,” writes Wil- 
liam H. Stuart, prominent political re- 
porter in the Chicago Evening Amer- 
ican, 

“The state might build roads by day 
labor, which would eliminate road con- 
tractors who hire cheap labor from 
other states with Illinois money on 
Illinois projects. 

“We are entitled to new ideas, new 
policies, new methods from the ILLI- 
NOIS EMERGENCY RELIEF Com- 
mission, not simply requests for more 
money for the Illinois dole, which dole 
Speaker HENRY T. RAINEY declares 
is the greatest dole per capita paid 
anywhere in the whole world, England 
not excepted.” 


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‘OR the seventh consecutive year, the Illinois Farm Supply 
Company has made a new record. The chart tells the 
story. 


In 1927 the Illinois Farm Supply Company returned $1,138.21 
to 11 associated county service companies on their purchases 
of 1,979,334 gallons of petroleum products—in 1933, $100,000 
was returned to 54 county service companies on their pur- 
chases of 40,000,000 gallons of petroleum products. 


This cash saving goes back to the Farm Bureau members’ 
pockets through patronage dividends from local service com- 
panies which totaled more than $500,000 each of the past 
two years. 


This record of achievement is an outstanding example of 
organized endeavor. 


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Chicago Gets Its Way In Senate 
Vote 


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the votes necessary to pass as emer- 
gency measures, effective immediately. 
The emergency clause was stricken 
and the bills passed by the Chicago 
bloc with the aid of downstate sena- 
tors Barr of Will County, Burgess of 
Wayne County, Finn of Marion Coun- 
ty, Hickman of Edgar County, Kar- 
raker of Union County, Monroe of 
Madison County, Mundy of Clark 
County, O’Connell of Grundy County, 
Penick of Adams County, Shaw of 
Lawrence County, Stuttle of Mont- 
gomery County, and Williams of De- 
Witt County. 

In addition to the objections stated 
by Senator Lantz, the bills as passed, 
since the emergency clause has been 
stricken, cannot become effective until 
July 1, 1934. By that date the Chicago 
1984 tax levy will have been made and 
a poor relief levy cannot be made in 
Chicago until 1935. Instead of enab- 
ling Chicago to support her poor and 
unemployed, the amended bills as 
passed by the Senate made it impos- 
sible for Chicago to help herself until 
1985 thereby forcing continued appeals 
to the State and National govern- 
ments. 


I. A. A. Policy 


The Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion has repeatedly declared that it is 
not opposed to but favors proper meas- 


ures for emergency unemployment re- 


lief. It is opposed to enactment of the 
relief bills which passed the State 
Senate. 

These bills involve the gravest dan- 
ger that the State obligations proposed 
will fall upon property. If the legisla- 
tion providing therefor should be sus- 
tained by the courts and if bonds are 
approved to finance relief funds, to be 
repaid out of gasoline tax allotments 
to the counties and municipalities, 
they will necessarily lead to the fol- 
lowing results: 

1. Money will be provided for only 
a few months, thus permitting another 
emergency to arise, requiring that the 
General Assembly again be called into 
special session early in 1934 to provide 
additional relief funds. 

2. Gasoline tax funds will be fur- 
ther diverted from highway and street 
improvement and maintenance in most 
of the counties, thus either depriving 
the people of such improved facilities 
and reducing the employment so ur- 
gently needed in providing them, or 
throwing the burden of supplying such 
facilities back again on property. 

8. The City of Chicago, if again 
successful in opposing legislation im- 


mediately effective to enable and re- 
quire her to assume some portion of 
the duty, to the extent of her ability, 
to care for her own unemployed, will 
continue to demand legislation enab- 
ling her to use the credit of the State 
or to draw upon the resources of the 
people of the entire State. 

4. Downstate counties and com- 
munities more and more will demand 
“easy” money for relief provided by 
the State, thus dulling a proper sense 
of community responsibility, continu- 
ing the waste of funds inevitable in 
the present State Relief system, and 
fastening the dole more tightly upon 
the people of Illinois. 


Many Counties Get 
Credit Associations 


Production credit associations have 
been or are being organized in‘a num- 
ber of counties including Champaign, 
Vermilion, Livingston, McLean and 
others. The production loan division 
of the Farm Credit Administration is 
pushing organization work. 

Loans may be made for crop pro- 
duction; the purchase of feeding cat- 
tle or sheep, financing breeding herds 
and for advances on grain in storage. 

Farmers who borrow must purchase 
Class B stock in the local association 
to the extent of five per cent of each 
loan made. The rate of interest will 
be determined by the rate at which 
debentures may be sold to the invest- 
ing public by the Intermediate Credit 
Bank which rediscounts collateral of- 
fered by the local associations. Money 
loaned to farmers by the Production 
Credit Association is not government 
money, but is obtained through the 
sale of bonds to the public. 

The associations will be helpful in 
communities where there are no banks 
or where banks are restricting their 
loans to 60 and 90 days. The produc- 
tion credit associations propose to 
make longer term loans than some 
banks are willing or able to make. 
There will probably be no saving in 
interest. 


From A Friend 


“We are receiving the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association RECORD and are 
enthusiastic over the publication. We 
are using some of the material in our 
publication, especially to get it to non- 
Farm Bureau members in our com- 
munity. 

“You may count on this publication 
and its staff for whole-hearted sup- 
port in your work. Any Hancock 
county farmer will tell you of our 
stand for the farmer.”—M. Clausen, 
Editor Hamilton Press. 


I. A. A. RECORD—Nevember, 1933 


Organized Labor Is 
Against Inflation 


The American Federation of Labor 
adopted a resolution in its recent con- 
vention opposing inflation of the cur- 
rency. 


Indorsing directly Green’s statement 
at the opening of the convention that 
unrestrained and unregulated infla- 
tion would harm the worker, the 600 
delegates then approved a resolutions 
committee report saying: 

“Whether minimum wages are 
fixed by codification through the na- 
tional recovery act, or by voluntary 
collective agreements between organ- 
ized workers and associated em- 
ployers, the fact remains that they 
are fixed and subject to change only 
after the most persistent and aggres- 
sive pressure on the part of wage 
earners. 


“If our currency is to be allowed 
to fluctuate at random, and the level 
of money values is permitted freely to 
lessen, it must be apparent that with 
wages remaining at their fixed de- 
nominational values, there will then 
be experienced a corresponding lower- 
ing of the wage levels and earnings. 
Such a condition must not be allowed 
to take place.” 


Wheat Signup Grows 


A reduction of 6,600,000 acres for 
1934 had been pledged up to Oct. 4 by 
American wheat growers. This repre- 
sents about 70 per cent of the nation’s 
total wheat acreage. A full signup 
would mean 9,000,000 less acres 
planted. 


The main wheat states, according 
to estimates, will sign up about 90 per 
cent, states immediately east of the 
Mississippi, including Illinois, about 70 
per cent, and eastern states about 50 
per cent. Many seriously doubt that 
there will be any substantial reduction 
in wheat production next year unless 
adverse weather cuts the yield. 

At the time of the last report IIli- 
nois growers had signed 18,600 appli- 
cations covering 691,077 acres. 


The validity of Grain Futures Act 
was upheld by the Supreme Court of 
the United States on Oct. 9 when it 
refused to review the decision of the 
Seventh District Court of Appeals sus- 
taining the law. The ruling ended the 
fight of four Chicago grain brokerage 
houses to escape the provisions of the 
Act requiring-brokers to report their 
transactions in futures to the govern- 
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Let’s All Do Our Part 


Radio Address Delivered By Donald Kirkpatrick, General 
Counsel, Illinois Agricultural Association, 


Station WLS, October || 


under way throughout the state 

is not a movement to build a 
powerful organization for the sake of 
organization. Organization is not an 
end in itself. It is merely a means 
to an end—a means to accomplish cer- 
tain things that can be achieved in 
no other way. 

George Bernard Shaw, the British 
philosopher, once said: “Every time a 
law is passed the national income is 
redivided.” Farmers have come to 
learn the truth of this statement by 
bitter experience. 

Because farmers comprise a sub- 
stantial part of the tax-paying class 
they have a large stake in govern- 
ment. What the General Assembly 


eee mobilization campaign now 


-and the Congress does affects all of 


us, our business, our income, our 
standard of living. Because legisla- 
tion is often influenced by money and 
organization, because laws frequently 
take money away directly or indi- 
rectly from one group and give it to 
another, is reason why farmers com- 
prising a minority of all the people, 
must stand together to protect their 
industry or take the consequences. 


The Special Session 


We have a current illustration of 
what I mean in the special session 
of the Illinois General Assembly now 
convened at Springfield to consider 
unemployment relief. The State Relief 
Commission, we are told, is out of 
funds and requires $30,000,000 to op- 
erate between now and July 1, 1934. 
Most of this sum it is generally con- 
ceded will be spent in Chicago and 
Cook county. The question is not 
whether destitute people shall be given 
food and shelter, but how shall the 
funds be raised. Every farmer, every 
land owner and every property tax- 
payer in downstate Illinois will be af- 
fected bythe way this problem is 
finally settled. 

The Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion has believed from the beginning 
that care of the poor and destitute is 
primarily a local problem; that money 
for poor relief should be raised for the 
most part in the community where 
needed. Downstate counties under the 
township form of government have 
to a large extent been caring for their 
own unemployed through levying 


taxes in each township for this pur- 
pose. Although the Illinois Emergency 
Relief Commission has been in exist- 
ence for approximately two years, 32 
downstate counties have taken care of 
their own destitute people entirely at 
their own expense. Others have asked 
for and received comparatively small 
amounts from the State Relief Com- 
mission. Very little of the funds given 
any county have been used in rural 
areas. 

Under our present statutes Chicago 
and Cook county, and the commission- 
governed counties in downstate IIli- 
nois do not have sufficient authority 
to levy taxes locally for this pur- 
pose. They do not have the same 
right and opportunity to care for their 
own through property taxation. As a 
result, Chicago and Cook county 
leaders have made successful efforts 
to place the burden not on their own 
people but on the people of the entire 
state and nation. 


$75,000,000 Taken 


Altogether a total of more than $75,- 
000,000 has been taken from present 
and future road funds in Illinois for 
direct unemployment relief. Chicago 
and Cook county got most of it. Yet 
there are still 70,000 miles of unim- 
proved farm-to-market roads in IIli- 
nois, And when road and gas tax 
funds are diverted to other uses, it 
means loss of unemployment and more 
taxes on property if these roads are 
ever to be improved. 

Now it is proposed by Chicago ad- 
ministration leaders that an additional 
state tax levy of $38,000,000 be author- 
ized on all Illinois property next year 
in the interest of unemployment relief. 
If a proposed bond issue of $30,000,000 
payable out of gas tax funds is ap- 
proved by the voters in 1934, the levy 
against property will not be necessary. 
But what if the bond issue fails? 
There“is nothing certain about the 
people of Illinois approving such a 
proposal. Many legislators seriously 
doubt its passage. 

The State Relief Commission has 
asked for this sum to carry on its 
work up to July 1, 1984. Where are 
funds to come from after that? No 
one has indicated. Presumably the 
road fund will be raided again. Chi- 
cago ‘apparently is determined to con- 


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tinue indefinitely taking all the money 
it can pry loose from road funds and 
from the federal and state govern- 
ment. When will it start raising its 
own relief funds at home as many 
rural communities are doing? Prob- 
ably not until the people from rural 
Illinois stand together and call a halt. 

It is one thing to assist a commu- 
nity in its relief work after it has 
made a serious effort to help itself. 
It is another thing for all the people 
of the state to run the risk of pay- 
ing $38,000,000 additional taxes to aid 
a community which makes absolutely 
no effort whatsoever to discharge its 
responsibility. 


15 Billion Untaxed 


Only this week Mayor Kelly of 
Chicago told how millions of dollars 
had been brought to Chicago by vis- 
itors to the World’s Fair. More than 
a year ago competent authorities 
testified in Judge Jarecki’s court that 
there were approximately $15,000,- 
000,000 of untaxed intangibles, mostly 
stocks and bonds, lying in Chicago 
and Cook county strong boxes. Here 
we have a picture and evidence of 
great wealth in the metropolitan area; 
yet practically nothing has been done 
in this city to raise funds for its poor 
people. 

For this reason the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association is supporting a 
series of bills that lay the same man- 
datory duty upon the City of Chicago 
and upon the townships outside of 
Chicago in Cook county to levy taxes 
for poor relief and give the same tax- 
ing power therefore that now exists 
im 85 counties of the state. These bills 
introduced by Sen. Lantz'and up for 
final vote in the senate also give an 
additional tax rate up to 15 cents to 
the commission - governed counties 
downstate to be used exclusively for 
poor relief. 

All such additional taxes both in 
Cook county and in the commission- 
governed counties are to be paid over 
to the State Unemployment Relief 
Commission. In all such counties the 
Commission is required to spend in 
each taxing unit taxes collected there- 
in for relief. 


We believe the position of the IIli- 
nois Agricultural Association in sup- 
port of the Lantz bills is eminently 
sound and fair. The same position 
was supported by President Roose- 
velt last week in addressing the 
American Legion convention in Chi- 
cago when he said: 

“If he (the individual) has not the 
wherewithal to take care of himself it 
is first of all the duty of his commu- 
nity to take care of him.” 

Many are predicting that until 


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every city and every county is made 
to assume responsibility for its worthy 
poor who are in need there is no hope 
for an end to the “dole.” That is the 
real danger in the present situation. 
Many are asking the question: “Are 
we perpetuating a permanent class of 
unemployed? Are we creating a class 
of people who will always be content 
to live on charity?” The easier it is 
to obtain funds and the farther away 
from home they are raised the more 
wasteful will be their distribution. 
And the longer will this problem be 
with us. 


A Few Questions 


The question for farmers to decide 
is “Shall Chicago and Cook county 
be given everything they ask regard- 
less of who pays the bill? Shall the 
credit of the state be made available, 
and our farms and homes jeopardized 
through additional taxation to provide 
relief for the metropolitan area when 
that community does nothing to help 
itself? What is to prevent Chicago 
and Cook county going to Springfield 
again and again for relief? What is 
to. prevent the metropolitan area at- 
tempting further tax raids for all 
sorts of things now that this begin- 
ning has been made?” 

Nothing except the determination 
of rural people working together 
through organization. Downstate peo- 
ple are grateful to those state sen- 
ators who yesterday opposed and de- 
feated the attempt to put over the bill 
authorizing $38,000,000 additional 
taxes on all Illinois property next 
year. 

The three-point program established 
as our goal in this campaign is first, 
parity prices for farm products; sec- 
ond, quicker farm credit relief; 
third, a 50 per cent tax cut on prop- 
erty. To attain these objectives de- 
mands and deserves the united support 
of farmers. 

Higher farm prices through effec- 
tive administration of the Agricul- 
tural Adjustment Act is not impos- 
sible. We must not quit now that we 
are half way up the hill. 

Immediate farm credit relief as in- 
tended by the Congress can be ob- 
tained. We must continue our fight 
until we get it. 

A 50 per cent cut in property taxes 
is entirely possible if farmers will or. 
ganize powerfully and_ effectively 
enough to do the job. 

There are those who will tell you 
that these things cannot be done. But 
organized farmers in Illinois are accus- 
tomed to doing things that others 
have said could not be accomplished. 

For 12 long years we fought to ob- 
tain far-reaching legislation to con- 


NOTICE 
ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 
ASSOCIATION 
ELECTION OF DELEGATES 


Notice is hereby given that in 
connection with the annual meet- 
ings of all county Farm Bureaus 
to be held during the months 
of November and December 
1933, at the hour and place to be 
determined by the Board of Di- 
rectors of each respective county 
Farm Bureau, the members in 
good standing of such county 
Farm Bureau and who are also 
qualified voting members of IIlli- 
nois Agricultural Association 


shall elect a delegate or delegates 
to represent such members of 
Illinois Agricultural Association 
and vote on all matters before 
the next annual meeting or any 


special meeting of the Associa- 
tion, including the election of of- 
ficers and directors as provided 
for in the by-laws of the Associa- 
tion. 

During November annual meet- 
ings will be held in Boone, Law- 
rence, Monroe, St. Clair, Clay, 
Schuyler, Madison, Moultrie, 
Washington, Clinton, Marion, 
Williamson, Logan, Gallatin, Ma- 
ecoupin and Brown counties, 

During the month of December 
the following counties will hold 
annual meetings: DeWitt, Clark, 
Tazewell, Edwards, Pope, John- 
son, Jersey, Randolph, Union, La- 
Salle, Kendall, Rock Island, Bu- 
reau, Richland, DuPage, Effing- 
ham, Jackson, Kane, Morgan, 
Iroquois, Vermilion, Coles, Lee, 
Crawford-Jasper, Champaign, 
Massac, Edgar, Livingston, 
Grundy, Wabash, Piatt, Stephen- 
son, Saline, Henry and Cook. 

Signed, 


G. E. Metzger, Secretary 
: Oct. 23, 1933 


trol crop surpluses. After many re- 
verses we obtained the Agricultural 
Adjustment Act which contains nearly 
all if not all the principles we fought 
for. 

To pass a state income tax measure 
in Illinois was considered impossible 
and yet such legislation finally re- 
ceived the required votes in the Gen- 
eral Assembly. 

We were told that farmers could 
not successfully run an automobile 
insurance company, yet we have been 
operating our own for the past six 
years at half the manual rates saving 
Illinois Farm Bureau members sev- 
eral hundred thousand dollars annual- 
ly. 

We were told that farmers could- 
n’t organize and operate a life insur- 
ance company, yet we did organize 
such a company which in 50 months 
had more than $50,000,000 of life in- 
surance in force at new low rates with 
a strong investment position. 

Farmers were told that they could 
not successfully operate an oil distrib- 
uting company, yet during the past 
seven years we have developed such an 
organization on a co-operative basis 
supplying high-quality petroleum 
products and returning to Farm Bu- 
reau members more than $2,000,000 in 
patronage..dividends. 

Against the opposition and the pre- 


I. A. A. RECORD—November, 1933 


dictions of those who said it couldn’t 
be done tuberculosis has been practi- 
cally driven out of our herds of 
livestock in 85 per cent of our coun- 
ties. Also the state gasoline tax to 
assure the completion of our splendid 
primary road system was passed— 
both sponsored and vigorously sup- 
ported by the I. A. A. and County 
Farm Bureaus. 

Through organized action we have 
lowered the cost of immunizing our 
pigs against cholera to less than half 
of the former cost; we have set up a 
state-wide grain sales agency, the IIli- 
nois Grain Corp., which has handled 
35,000,000 bushels of grain for 145 
elevator stockholder members. 

All these things have been gained 
by a minority of farmers working 
through organization. How much more 
could have been accomplished with 
united support. The objectives of the 
present mobilization campaign in Illi- 
nois can be realized. Let’s all do our 
part to make them effective. 


Relief Commission 
Urges Chicago Plan 


The Illinois Emergency Relief Com- 
mission, temporarily an arm of the 
state government, is directing local 
relief workers and committees in 
downstate counties to influence state 
senators and representatives in sup- 
port of the administration program 
desired by Chicago political leaders. 

A two-page letter signed by Wilfred 
S. Reynolds, secretary of the Com- 
mission, was sent out with a news 
story for local editors. The letter 
urged the county committees to play 
up their relief needs before luncheon 
clubs, women’s and labor organiza- 
tions, Farm Bureaus, chambers of 
commerce, ministerial associations, 
etc. It was directed to counties where 
legislators opposed the $38,000,000 
levy on property and continued diver- 
sion of gas tax funds away from roads. 


Ic Per Pound Tax 
On Butter Coming 


A one cent per lb. processing tax 
will be levied on butterfat part of 
which will be used to buy surplus but- 
ter for unemployment relief and part 
to pay bonuses to farmers who reduce 
their dairy production according to an 
announcement by the AAA. 

There were about 100,000,000 Ibs. 
more butter in storage in September 
than a year ago. The government has 
been supporting the butter market for 
the past several weeks, buying for the 
account of the Federal Emergency 
Relief Corporation. 


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1. A. A. RECORD—November, 1933 


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Illinois Farm Supply Company 
Has Record Year 


600 Attend Annual Meeting, Decatur, Urge Government Support Corn Market 


ment of the corn market with 

loans on the grain stored in state 
sealed warehouses was advocated by 
President Earl C. Smith at the an- 
nual meeting of Illinois Farm Supply 
Co., at Decatur, on Oct. 17. Approxi- 
mately 600 Farm Bureau leaders, man- 
agers and directors representing all 
the affiliated county service companies 
attended. 


Mr. Smith pointed to the fact that 
the government had given such sup- 
port to the cotton market pegging the 
price at 10c per lb. A corporation could 
be set up quickly, he said, and with a 
small force could operate at small ex- 
pense giving much needed immediate 
relief. 


[ ‘nent of support by govern- 


He urged the leaders assembled to 
make known their thoughts and wishes 
regarding market support for corn, 
to government officials and repre- 
sentatives at Washington and to ask 
local business men and leaders to do 
likewise. 


Need Immediate Relief 


Speaking on the corn-hog plan, Mr. 
Smith stated that the National Corn 
Hog Committee recommended a plan 
for immediate relief to hog growers 
which is the chief point of difference 
between the committee proposal and 
that adopted by the administration. 


He stated that any immediate relief 
in raising hog prices under the AAA 
proposal would have to come from 
government buying of hogs and pork 
products for feeding the unemployed 
—that with this one exception, the 
government plan was a long time pro- 
gram looking to curtailment of pro- 
duction first and higher prices some- 
time in the future. 


Speaking on the subject, “Organ- 
ization Dividends,” Mr. Smith placed 
among the first accomplishments of 
the Farm Bureau movement the de- 
velopment of leadership and mass 
thinking and action throughout the 
organized counties. The real organiza- 
tion is out in the counties, he said, 
and the strength of our movement 
lies in the fact that it is built from 
the grass reots up, not from the top 
down. 


Pointing to the huge gains recently 
made by labor organizations in build- 
ing membership, he asserted that the 
great need of agriculture is a major- 
ity of farmers working together 
through membership in their organiza- 
tion. “We must preserve the morale 
of the farm people to save America,” 
he said, “and in order to preserve the 
morale we must organize and stand as 
a unit, thinking and acting together 
for justice and equity.” 

Fred E. Herndon of McDonough 
county, president of the Supply Com- 
pany, asserted that Illinois farmers 
had demonstrated their ability to op- 
erate successfully a farmer-owned 
and farmer-controlled purchasing and 
distributing organization with — in- 
creased earning and profits through- 
out the years of depression while 
many large business institutions were 
showing losses, 


“It was our ambition to establish 
by 1933 a $3,000,000 business,” said 
Herndon. “We have far exceeded that 
amount, in fact, have nearly doubled 
that volume. The company is making 
a larger patronage distribution than 
ever before. 

“In my opinion our greatest need is 
more common stockholders, Farm Bu- 
reau members, that we may be able 
to expand our business and keep with- 
in the co-operative law under which 
we are operating. Let us charge our- 
selves with that responsibility to sell 
the whole Farm Bureau program and 
to co-operate to the fullest extent 
with other affiliated organizations.” 


Manager’s Report 


Manager L. R. Marchant reported 
that gross operating income for the 
year was $170,565.82, an increase of 
17.17% over last year. Net operating 
income of $124,162.12 with additional 
income from interest on investments 
resulted in a net income of $128,287.31 
or 75.21 per cent of gross operating 
income. 

The earnings represent a profit of 
127.96% on paid-in capital stock which 
compares with 85% in 1929, 93.5% in 
1930, 115% in 1931, and 112% in 1982. 

The company is paying to member 
companies a total of $100,000 patron- 
age refunds which compares with only 


$80,000 last year, and a little more 
than $73,000 the year before. 

The capital stock holdings of the 
state company and the 54 affiliated 
county service companies now totals 
$919,059.00 which represents Illinois 
farmers’ financial interest in the larg- 
est co-operative association of its kind 
in America. 


Other interesting information re- 
ported by the manager follows: 

In less than five years and in the 
face of the most severe panic the 
world has ever known, 38 companies 
were organized and placed in oper- 
ation. This necessitated selling stock 
in the amount of $639,826.00 to ade- 
quately finance the business. This sum, 
subscribed by the farmers in these 
various communities, is 69.6 per cent 
of the paid-in capital stock of all 
member companies as of August 31 
this year. Fifty-four companies, 143 
bulk storage stations, some 400 serv- 
ice trucks, and over 500 retail outlets 
with operations in 90 different coun- 
ties and not less than 75,000 patrons— 
a five million dollar business trans- 
acted annually, and an average pa- 
tronage refund per member, in the 
territory served, of $15.95—an out- 
standing example of organized en- 
deavor—describes the condition of the 
organization at the close of the year. 


A New Record 


In referring to the volume of pe- 
troleum products sold during the pe- 
riod ending August 31, 1933 we find 
that the aggregate of all petroleum 
products kandled has established a 
new record of 40 million gallons. This 
figure towers well above the 35 mil- 
lion mark established in 1932. Each 
commodity shows a substantial gain 
in spite of all handicaps. The statis- 
tical records show the following total 
purchases for the period ending Au- 
gust 31, 1933: 


Gasoline 25,909,778 gallons 
Kerosene 9,661,209 gallons 
Distillate and fuel oil 38,404,890 gallons 
Lubricating ofl 965,208 gallons 
Grease 700,041 pounds 


In comparison to the totals of each 
commodity purchased last year, gaso- 
line shows a gain of 9.302 per cent 
or 2,205,183 gallons, kerosene 10.35 
per cent or 906,722 gallons, distillate 
and fuel oil 53.6 per cent or 1,188,672, 
lube oil 6.66 per cent or 58,413 gal- 


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lons, and grease 7.61 per cent or 50,- 
174 pounds. 

At this point it should be mentioned 
that there were only two membership 
applications received and accepted 
during the year. One of these—Kan- 
kakee Service Company—became af- 
filiated. early last Winter, and_ the 
other—Bureau Service Company—was 
organized and placed in operation un- 
‘der the management of LaSalle Coun- 
ty Farm Supply Company, late last 
Spring. 

According to all information as- 
sembled to date, Illinois Farm Supply 
Company holds a record for returning 
to its member companies the largest 
percentage of gross operating income 
of any state purchasing agency in 
existence today, notwithstanding the 
fact that the Company operates on a 
lower rate of brokerage and trading 
income than some other organizations 
rendering a similar service. 

From the earnings for the year 
capital stock dividends in the amount 
of $6,853.57 will be paid to member 
companies. This amount represents 
4.02 per cent of gross income, and the 
addition of $18,307.15 to surplus 10.73 
per cent of gross income. 

The balance, less Federal income 
tax, will be distributed to the mem- 
ber companies on the basis of patron- 
age purchases, less any necessary de- 
ductions to cover subscription for 
stock and interest charges. 


The upward trend of the patronage 
refunds paid to the member. com- 
panies in the past, and the amount 
made payable by the action of the 
board for the period ending August 31, 
1933 follows: 1927—$1,138.21; 1928— 
$11,239.71; 1929—$20,772.74; 1930— 
$38,307.89; 1931—$73,394.82; 19382— 
$80,090.43; 1933—$100,000.00. 


Unorganized Farmer 


Takes What's Offered 


“Keep your eye on the farm co- 
operatives,” advises the Western Farm 
Life, Denver. “The average farmer,” 
it continues, “has learned that non- 
cooperation is another word for sher- 
iff’s sale. He must sell his products in 
highly organized distributive channels. 
The buyer is going to buy at the low- 
est possible price—the unorganized 
farmer takes what is offered or goes 
without a sale. Fair prices are pos- 
sible only when the selling and buying 
groups meet on equal grounds—when 
the cooperative faces the middlemen. 
Industry’s plans for recovery are all 
wisely based on cooperation—on en- 
lightened self-interest. And the farmer 
is in exactly the same position.” 


I, A. A. RECORD—November, 1933 


Federal Court Upholds 
Adjustment Act 


The federal district court at San 
Francisco recently upheld the consti- 
tutionality of the Agricultural Ad- 
justment Act in a far-reaching de- 
cision of interest to farmers through- 
out the country. 

Federal Judge St. Sure granted a 
permanent injunction restraining the 
Calistan Packers, Inc. from violating 
the license provisions issued to enforce 
the California peach agreement. 


The Calistan Packers was cited for 
greatly exceeding its allotment of pro- 
duction and sale of canned peaches, 
for failing to pay into the control 
fund the sums assessed against can- 
ners for the purpose of buying from 
farmers at a fair rate all their sur- 
plus peaches and thus preventing glut- 
ting the market and breaking down 
prices; and for failure to permit the 
AAA to examine its books, records 
and papers. 

In giving ‘its opinion the court said: 

“The power to regulate interstate 
commerce is granted in broad terms 
to the National Congress and this 
power should not be restrictively con- 


_ strued, rather it must be construed 


to give the Congress the power to 
regulate any and all.commerce which 
may seriously affect the interstate 
trade. This court, with propriety, 
cannot make the narrow holding that 
the legislative body, under this and 
analogous statutes, is without power 
to regulate intrastate commerce. In 
this and other respects this power to 
regulate must be construed to effec- 
tuate the broad purposes of the con- 
stitutional grant and of the national 
policy. 
“Upon the constitutional question 
greatest reliance is placed upon the 
contention that the statute, agree- 
ment, and license before the court 
violate the due process clause, a 
proper respect for the deliberate judg- 
ment of the co-ordinate legislative 
branch of the government requires 
that the court do not hastily pro- 
nounce important legislation invalid. 
The Congress made a legislative find- 
ing that a national emergency exists. 
This court, upon that finding and up- 
on its own judicial notice of the eco- 
nomic distress throughout the nation, 
here arrives at a similar conclusion. 
“In the cling peach industry and in 
other industries, due to great’ over- 
production and ruinous competition, 
the members of that industry and the 


trade and commerce thereof have been 
near the point of ruination. In par- 
ticular due to the foregoing factors 
and to the great disparity between the 
prices of commodities purchased by 
the farmers and the prices they have 
received for their own products, the 


farmers have been reduced to a con- 


dition bordering upon economic servi- 
tude. In the past few years the price 
for their peaches has been precipi- 
tously reduced from around $20 a ton 
to as low as $6.50 per ton. Overpro- 
duction and glutted markets travel 
hand in hand with ruthless competi- 
tion. 

“It is needless to point out that the 
welfare of the nation has_ been 
seriously handicapped by these con- 
ditions and the country’s trade and 
commerce has been vitally affected. 
Under conditions such as these the 
court is bound to arrive at the con- 
clusion that the peach industry is af- 
fected with a national public interest 
and that the Congress has the con- 
stitutional power to adopt appropriate 
legislation to cure these evils. The 
due process clause in such a situation 
cannot properly be construed to ob- 
struct the national policy. Neither the 
constitution nor the due _ process 
clause requires the perpetuation of 
conditions which impair the national 
vitality. 

“To adopt the view that the con- 
stitution is static and that it does not 
permit change from time to time to 
take such steps as may reasonably be 
deemed appropriate tothe economic 
preservation of the country is to in- 
sist that the constitution was created 
containing the seeds of its own de- 
struction. This court will not sub- 
scribe to such a view.” 


Farm Prices Compared 


The index of prices of farm prod- 
ucts on September 15 was 70 com- 
pared with 49 at the low point last 
February and 59 on September 15 a 
year ago. 

Farmers’ purchasing power meas- 
ured by the ratio of prices received to 
prices paid was 61 on September 15 
compared with 56 a year ago and 49 
last February, the low point this year. 
These figures are based on 100 as the 
average of prices and farm buying 
power during the five pre-war years. 


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I. A. A. RECORD—November, 1933 


Second Glances 


At The News 


F OR months the National Syndi- 


cate Service, of Chicago, a news 

bureau, has centered its fire on 
farm organizations, county  agricul- 
tural agents and co-operatives. Its 
daily “service” has consisted almost 
entirely of the collection and dissemi- 
nation of printed and spoken state- 
ments and articles attacking general 
farm organizati ns and co-operatives, 
regardless of the accuracy or inaccu- 
racy of such statements. 

Who pays for the propaganda 
against farm organizations has long 
been a moot question. The question is 
answered, in part at least, in the fol- 
lowing article appearing in the Chicago 
Herald and Examiner recently. 

“Dull days which have gripped the 
Chicago Board of Trade intermittent- 
ly the last few years and reduced 
members to such a state that payment 
of dues hardly left $2 to place on a 
horse in the third at Lincoln Fields, 
after the arduous duties of filling or- 
ders had been completed, will reign 
no more. 

“An economy wave swept into the 
institution yesterday. 

“And is everybody happy? 

“When you, or you, or you, look for 
a safe investment and finally put your 
bankroll into 5,000 bushels of wheat, 
the broker in the pit who hunts for 
someone te reluctantly fill your de- 
sires gets paid for it. That’s the way 
he gets $2 to place on a horse in the 
third at Lincoln Fields. He gets just 
75 cents for that job. 


“All of which is very fine when a 
lot of you’s are buying wheat. He may 


even get enough to play a pony in the 


fifth at Belmont. 

“But when markets start to sink 
back a move develops to cut expenses, 
so that dues can be cut, and horses 
won’t run without some sort of en- 
couragement. 

“Many thousands of dollars have 
been spent by the Board of Trade each 
year to tell the story of the grain 
market, to spread the seed of brother- 
ly love between the broker and the 
farmer. Of course, annoyances which 
might arise from organizations like 
the Farmers National and The Grain 
Stabilization Corporation were over- 
looked by the press agents. 

“Press agents always overlook 
things like that. So—reasoned 120 
members yesterday—why have a press 
agent? (City editors have asked this 
question for years.) 


“And this group, which hasn’t been 
in a handbook for days, asked direc- 
tors that Edward J. Dies and his Na- 


tional Syndicate Service be removed 
and the money saved, for why should 
press agents need money when some 
of them are former newspaper men 
and newspaper men never play the 
ponies. 

“Deep and solemn deliberation was 
given the subject by the directors, But 
here arose an obstacle. How would 
newspapers get news of the grain 
markets without a press agent? It 
didn’t seem possible. A compromise! 

“Mr. Dies’ contract was renewed for 
another year. And he will get only 
$33,000 instead of $36,000. Which will 
reduce expenses of each of the 1,700- 
odd members by $1.75, only 24 cents 
short of enough for a ride on a pony 
in the third at Lincoln Fields. 

“So what?” 


“The Herald and Examiner reporter 
might have added that when a farmer 
or farmers’ elevator places an order 
for a 5000 bushel trade the commis- 
sion is $12.50, which leaves a substan- 
tial margin, after the broker is paid, 
with which to play a favorite across 
the board at either Lincoln Fields or 
Belmont. 


"Farm Prices 


Must Be Raised" 


The Democrat is in receipt of the 
Illinois Agricultural Association Rec- 
ord with a headline “Farm Prices 
Must Be Raised” across the front 
page? And with this sentiment all 
must agree, for there is no denying 
the fact that farmers never have re- 
ceived prices great enough to allow 
interest on investment, cost of mainte- 
nance and operation, plus a fair profit. 
No business can be run very long un- 
less there is a profit. Yes, the price 
of farm products should be increased, 
but the way to do it is the problem 
which has worried wise men of past 
generations and they are still trying 
to solve the problem. If conditions 
were normal the old theory of “sup- 

y and demand” should rule, but 

ith demand all shot to pieces with 
the system which destroyed our for- 
eign markets, we must look to some 
other theory and practice. The Roos- 
evelt administration, with the aid of 
farmers’ organizations, is trying to 
solve this problem, and it begins to 
look as if success may be attained. 
Let’s hope.—Shelbyville Democrat. 


Smallest Corn Crop 


The Oct. 1, government crop survey 
reports an indicated Illinois corn crop 
40% short of last year and 28% be- 
low average. This is the smallest 
crop since 1887. Probable yield per 
acre is 26.5 bu. 


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Tax Relief Petitions 
Get 100% Action 


Tax Relief Petitions are being signed 
by 100% of the voters in many school 
districts according to John C. Watson, 
director of taxation. No difficulty is 
experienced in getting signatures and 
in most cases entire school districts 
are being completed in a few hours. 

To give sufficient time for circulat- 
ing the petitions in all communities, 
an extension of time was recently an- 
nounced by Mr. Watson to Nov. 7 
when all signed petitions are to be 
sent to headquarters of the Illinois 
Agricultural Association in Chicago. 


787 Cars Grain To 
I. G. C. In September 


Illinois Grain Corporation and 
Farmers National together handled 
787 cars of grain during September, 
and 7332 cars since Jan. 1. Mason, 
McLean, LaSalle, Knox and Lee coun- 
ties are leading in shipments to the 
state and national co-operatives. 


Tune In WENR Nov. 3 
Livestock Program 


One thousand radio parties are be- 
ing organized in Illinois for Friday 
night, November 3 to arouse interest 
in co-operative marketing and the gov- 
ernment’s plan for adjusting corn and 
hog production and raising price 
levels. - : 

Between 8 and 9 P. M. the market- 
ing code for corn-hog farmers-will be 
discussed by local leaders as producers 
gather around the radio, and at 9 
P. M. they will tune in on station 
WENR, Chicago for the broadcast. 
Speakers will include Earl C. Smith, 
C. V. Gregory, and Chas. A. Ewing. 


Bank For Co-operatives 


The Central Bank for Co-operatives 
was established at Washingtun Sep- 
tember 13 with initial capital of $50,- 
000,000 subscribed by the government. 
The bank will have jurisdiction over 
loans to co-operatives borrowing more 
than $500,000 and also all loans to co- 
ops operating on a national scale. 


Machinery Men Organize 


Machinery and equipment dealers 
of the nation met in Chicago Oct. 21 
to complete the organization of a trade 
association and begin framing a code 
for the industry. Concerns interested 
are those which buy and sell indus- 
trial and construction machinery. 


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Propose Tax For 
Benefit Payments 
To Milk Producers 


A proposed processing tax to be 
levied on milk and its products was 
considered at a hearing on Oct. 16 in 
Washington. Funds from the proposed 
tax would be used to pay benefits to 
farmers who co-operate in the pro- 
duction control plan. 

In his recent address before the 
National Co-operative Milk Producers 
Association in Chicago, Chester C. 
Davis, director of production for the 
AAA, said: 

“While the details of our program 
remain to be worked out it is becom- 
ing increasingly clear that it must 
take into consideration all milk which 
goes into commercial channels what- 
ever the final product. Unless we do 
that we shall find that while we have 
improved the situation with respect to 
one dairy product we have only in- 
creased the surplus of the others. 


Feed Little Grain 


“I cannot emphasize too strongly 
my conviction that many dairy 
farmers will find it profitable to 
change their system of farming to 
one in which they would keep most of 
their land in permanent grass and 
legumes and feed very little, if any, 
grain. The pastures and other rough- 
age would be the base ration and 
grain would be fed only when the re- 
sulting increase in reduction could be 
obtained at a profit.” 

Experiments carried on by the Bu- 
reau of Dairy Industry Davis said, 
show that cows fed a ration of rough- 
age entirely will produce about 70 
per cent as much milk as when fed 
roughage supplemented by a full 
grain ration which means one pound 
of grain to three pounds of milk pro- 
duced. When fed one pound of grain 
to six pounds of milk cows will pro- 
duce on the average about 93 per 
cent as much as when fed a full grain 
ration. These results were obtained 
when a good quality of roughage such 
as silage and alfalfa were fed. 


Net Returns Greater 


Net returns from cows fed rough- 
age alone were greater than when 
fed either a partial or full grain 
ration. This held true through the 
entire range of butterfat prices, from 
20 cents a pound to 70 cents a pound, 
though the differences were most 
marked when the price of butterfat 
was low. Thus dairy farmers would 
find they would actually make more 
money by doing less work. 

Mr. Davis quoted statistics show- 
ing that production of milk from the 


United States went from 87,069,000,- 
000 pounds to 101,863,000,000 pounds 
in 1982 in spite of the fact that the 
depression sent prices down to low 
levels in 1931 and 1932, 

The shift of many farmers toward 
dairying during the past ten years 
due to better returns in this field than 
from other farm crops is responsible 
for the large milk surplus character- 
istic of all dairy and milk marketing 
sections. 


Erosion Control Work 
By CCC Saves Soil 


Eight erosion control camps of ap- 
proximately 200 men each operated in 
Illinois during the past season. In the 
erosion control work by the’ Civilian 
Conservation Corps trees were planted 
both for soil binders and to put some 
of the badly damaged land back to 
work growing timber. Soil-saving 
dams were built of brush, concrete, 
logs, woven wire, rock, earth or com- 
binations of these. Land was revege- 
tated with grass, vines, trees, etc., to 
hold the soil. Land owners signed con- 
tracts agreeing to maintain the works. 

In Illinois as in other states appli- 
cations by farmers to permit erection 
of erosion control dams on their farms 
and requiring their maintenance by 
farmers came in slowly. Later in the 
season, however, many decided that 
the heading off of gullies eating into 
rich fields is a practical necessity and 
entirely feasible, and more requests 
for erosion control work came in to 
camp superintendents and state for- 
esters than could be taken care of. 

This work will be continued through 
the winter in the Southern States. 
Most of the camps in the mid-west 
states have been broken up and moved 
south. 


1500 At Bloomington 
Mass Meet Oct. 16 


A resolution urging the federal 
government to loan up to 60 cents a 
bushel on corn and $1 on wheat was 
adopted at a mass meeting of 1,500 
Farm Bureau members and their 
friends in Bloomington, Oct. 16. C. E. 
Huff, president of the Farmers Na- 
tional Grain Corp., and L. A. Wil- 
liams were the principal speakers. 

The resolution presented by Ernest 
D. Lawrence, I. A. A. director of Mc- 
Lean county, was dispatched to ad- 
ministration officials at Washington. 
The. next day government buying of 
wheat for the unemployed started 
prices on the up-grade. 

AAA officials are reported to be 
devising a plan for loans on corn in 
state bonded warehouses. 


I. A. A. RECORD—November, 1933 


Industrial Leaders | 
Demand Inflation 


The “Committee for the Nation,” 
representing leading industrialists of 
the United States, recently addressed 
a telegram to President Roosevelt 
urging the U. S. government to ex- 
ercise control of its own currency, to 
shake off British domination of the 
world price of gold, and to “take im- 
mediate command of the price of gold 
and the exchange value of our dollar 
and through these raise our price level 


“of wheat, commodities and securities 


so that as a nation we may control 
our economic destiny independently of 
Great Britain.” 

“We are fearful of the consequences 
of further postponement of monetary 
action at this crucial stage of our re- 
covery program,” the telegram said. 

The . directing committee of the 
“Committee for the Nation” is com- 
posed of J. H. Rand, Jr., president of 
Remington Rand; Frederick H. Fra- 
zier, chairman of the General Baking 
Company; Vincent Bendix, president 
of Bendix Aviation Corporation; Less- 
ing J. Rosenwald, chairman of Sears, 
Roebuck & Co., and F. H. Sexauer, 
president of the Dairymen’s League 
Co-operative Association. 


Pres. Roosevelt Orders 


Commodity Credit Corp. 


The Commodity Credit Corporation 
was recently set up at the direction of 
President Roosevelt to loan 10 cents 
per pound to cotton producers on the 
unsold portion of their crop. 

Organized by Secretary Wallace and 
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., the corpora- 
tion is empowered to make loans or 
purchase agricultural or other com- 
modities that may be designated by 
the President. 

An initial loan of $250,000,000 has 
been procured from the Reconstruction 
Finance Corporation. Additional funds 
will be available if needed. If similar 
loans are made on corn and wheat, the 
business may be handled through this 
corporation. 


North Dakota Stops 
Shipment of Wheat 


North Dakota’s embargo on wheat 
got under way October-20 when Gov- 
ernor Langer notified all sheriffs to 
order elevator and warehouse men to 
refuse acceptance of spring and durum 
wheat. It was ordered that shipment 
of both be discontinued. 


Dearborn S8t., Chicago. 


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Number 12 


DECEMBER, 1933 


Volume 11 


AAA Aids 
Corn-Hog Prices 


45c Per Bu. Loan at Farm and Support of Hog Market 
Follow Request of Organized Illinois Farmers 


farmers for a higher loan on 

corn and government support 
of the hog market voiced in the meet- 
ing of 8,000 farmers at Peoria called 
by the I. A. A. on Oct. 27 met an im- 
mediate response from the Agricul- 
tural Adjustment Administration at 
Washington. 

The sentiment of the meeting ex- 
pressed in a reso- 
lution unanimous- 
ly adopted was 
carried to Wash- 
ington by Presi- 
dent Earl C. 
Smith the next 
day. 

“T found Secre- 
tary Wallace, Ad- 
ministrator Peek 
and his assistants 
all responsive to 
this constructive 
request on my ar- 
rival in Washington,” said Mr. Smith. 
_ “During my four days’ stay in the 
capital, the Agricultural Adjustment 
Administration was busy working out 
final details of the permanent corn- 
hog program. 


Quick Action 


“Corn loans as indicated by press 
statements will soon be available, and 
this week the government is calling 
for bids on 75,000,000 pounds of pork 
products from hogs weighing from 
100 to 215 pounds. All these products 
will be used in feeding the unemployed 
so as to improve rather than inter- 
fere with the competitive market. 
Other substantial purchases of pork 
products have been authorized at in- 


‘k= request of organized Illinois 


EARL C, SMITH 


tervals throughout the winter until at 
least 300,000,000 pounds have been 
purchased. 

“In my judgment, these accomplish- 
ments are both a tribute to the con- 
structive efforts of organized farmers 
and to the earnestness and responsive- 
ness of the Administration at Wash- 
ington. With patience and persistence, 
farmers, through organization sup- 
ported by a friendly administration at 
our national capital, can and _ will 
bring about a steady improvement in 
farm buying power.” 

On November 9 the AAA announced 
that the Commodity Credit Corpora- 
tion with the approval of the President 
had obtained a commitment of $150,- 
000,000 for loans at the rate of 45 
cents a bushel at 4% interest at the 
farm again. t merchantable corn prop- 
erly stored and warehoused. This defi- 
nite commitment is the second step 
taken within the past few weeks to 
raise farm buying power and supple- 
ment the $350,000,000 corn-hog ad- 
justment program for the coming year. 


Buy Live Hogs 


Government support to the hog 
market took a new turn the second 
week in November when packer buy- 
ers, and livestock commission com- 
panies at Chicago got into a deadlock 
over hog prices. When packers at- 
tempted to break the market below 
$4.50 the Chicago Producers Com- 
mission Assn. with the co-operation of 
other commission companies resisted 
with the result that large supplies 
were held over. The packers countered 
by increasing their purchases in the 
country direct from farmers. Then the 
government came to the rescue by 


buying large numbers of live hogs at 
the $4.50 price which will be processed 
by low bidders and the meat turned 
over to the unemployed through the 
Federal Surplus Relief Corporation. 

Harry L. Hopkins, federal relief ad- 
ministrator, in a public statement was 
quoted as saying: “We are doing our 
own buying in the hog market be- 
cause packers are apparently refusing 
to pay the Chicago market price. The 
situation there was bad. Packers were 
not taking the farmers’ offerings and 
consequently storage charges were 
growing larger all the time. 

“In buying hogs from the commis- 
sion men at a higher price than the 
packers are willing to pay, we are 
helping the farmer to get a better 
price. This policy will be applied to 
purchases of cattle and other livestock, 
if necessary, to hold up the market. 
There is danger that the packers will 
control the livestock market unless 
something is done.”’ Before this emer- 
gency arose the government had been 
negotiating with the packers to fur- 
nish processed hogs for unemployed. 


Loan Regulations 


In all cases only farmers who agree 
to take part in the Administration’s 
corn control program calling for a re- 
duction of 20 percent in acreage 
planted next year, will be eligible for 
loans. 

To allow for variations in moisture 
content, a standard measure of 2% 
cubic feet instead of the customary 
2% cubic feet will be regarded as the 
equivalent of one bushel. Any corn 
eventually delivered to markets in set- 
tlement of loan notes, however, will be 
taken at the regular shelled market 
rate of 56 pounds per bushel. 

Loan regulations specify that the 
storage at public warehouses for this 
purpose shall not exceed one-fourth 
cent per bushel per month of storage 
and not more than two cents per 
bushel handling charges. 

However, in Illinois, which has a 
state warehouse ac passed at the re- 
quest of the I. A. A. several years 
ago, loans will be made on marketable 
corn sealed in cribs on the farm. 
Warehouse boards are to be set up in 

(Continued on page 4, Col. 1) 


~ Unemployment | 


Relief Session 


A Review of Legislation Before the Recent Special Session 
of the Illinois General Assembly 


Hw first Special Session of the 
: 58th General Assembly, which 
adjourned on November 9, was 


convened chiefly to provide additional 
state funds for relief of the destitute. 


Aids Corn-Hog Prices 


(Continued from page 8) 


every eligible county in states with 
farm warehouse laws. The county 
corn-hog production control associa- 
tions to be organized will be desig- 
nated as warehouse boards wherever 
established and each is to select one 
or more official sealers to be appointed 
by the State Department of Agricul- 
ture and placed under bond. 

The loan regulations will permit 
any bank, co-operative association or 
other agency to lend money to pro- 
ducers on eligible farm warehouse cer- 
tificates. Thus, the plan contemplates 
that an eligible borrower may take his 
receipts to a local bank, fill out a note 
and sign the loan agreement, the bank 
notifying the Commodity Corporation 
of the granting of the loan. 


Will Rediscount Notes 


At any time up to July 1, 1934 the 
Commodity Corporation will buy the 
note from the loaning agency at the 
face amount plus accrued interest at 
four per cent. Banks and other financial 
agencies handling notes and loan 
agreements are not permitted to make 
special handling charges. 

The borrower may retire the note 
at any time on or before the maturity 
date. He may dismiss his application 
by turning over to the Commodity Cor- 
poration the number of bushels of 
corn originally stored if the market 
price of corn should be less per bushel 
than the loan amount per bushel. 
There will be no recourse to the origi- 
nal maker of the note or to any 
subsequent endorser provided the loan 
agreement including acreage reduc- 
tion is fulfilled and provided there is 
no misrepresentation of fact made by 
the borrower in securing the loan. 

Applications for loans will be re- 
ceived by the time this issue of the 
RECORD is in the mails, according to 
an announcement from Washington. 
The last day for accepting applica- 
tions will be March 1, 1934. 


The call issued by the Governor 
limited the General Assembly to the 
provision of relief funds fur the IIli- 
nois Emergency Relief Commission. 
This limitation was at once recognized 
by the metropolitan press as an at- 
tempt to bar consideration of any leg- 
islation such as the Lantz bills, passed 
last June and vetoed by Governor 
Horner. These measures, sponsored by 
the Illinois Agricultural Association, 
were intended to give Cook County 
and sixteen downstate commission- 
governed counties additional taxing 
power to carry out the mandatory 
duty of providing poor relief and to 
permit the city of Chicago and all out- 
lying townships in Cook County to use 
the same taxing power for relief which 
is mandatory upon all townships in the 
remaining 85 counties of the state. 

The issue in the Special Session was 
not whether additional funds for re- 
lief should be provided, but the most 
desirable method of providing them. 
Practically every one, including repre- 
sentatives of the I. A. A., agreed that 
the emergency, clearly foreseen last 
summer but having been allowed to 
arise, demand emergency legislation. 


Administration Bills 


In the special session, the State Ad- 
ministration sponsored the six so- 
called bonding bills, all. of which 
passed and have now become law. The 
key measure levies a state tax of 
$38,000,000 on the 1934 valuations of 
all Illinois property, to be paid in 
1935, thus more than doubling the 
1934 tax levies for all state purposes 
made in the regular session last June. 

Existing la~-s authorize the sale of 
state anticipation tax warrants up to 
75 per cent of any levy, thus permit- 
ting the sale of $28,500,000 in war- 
rants on the new emergency levy. 
When and if certain serious legal ques- 
tions involved in some of the enacted 
bills are upheld by the courts, such 
state warrants will doubtless be sold 
from time to time as funds are re- 
quested by the Emergency Relief Com- 
mission. 

Companion measures of the tax levy 
act provide for the submission of a 
State Bond Issue in the amount of 
$30,000,000 to be voted on in Novem- 


-I.-A. A. RECORD—December, 1933 


ber, 1934. If the proposed State bonds 
are approved by a majority of all 
votes cast for members of the General 
Assembly, the $38,000,000 levy on 
property is not to be made. In this 
case the state anticipation tax war- 
rants and accrued interest thereon will 
be redeemed out of the proceeds from 
sale of the State bonds. Provision is 
further made for payment of the 
bonds and accrued interest, as they 
mature, out of allocations of gasoline 
taxes, one-half out of the share al- 
located to each county obtaining funds 
from this source and one-half out of 
the share allocated to cities and vil- 
lages therein, in proportion to the ex- 
penditure of relief funds in each coun- 
ty and in each city and village therein. 


The I. A. A. Bills 


The Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion prepared and sponsored five bills 
which were introduced by Senator 
Lantz, a somewhat simplified form of 
the bills passed last June and vetoed 
by Governor Horner. In order to bring 
them within the terms of the call of 
the special session, it was necessary 
to provide that any funds raised under 
the provisions of the new bills should 
be paid over -to the Illinois Emergency 
Relief Commission. However, the prin- 
ciple of local responsibility was pre- 
served by the provision that such 
funds could be expended by the Relief 
Commission only in the taxing districts 
levying and paying the taxes therefor. 

The new Lantz bills proposed elimi- 
nation of Cook county as the taxing 
district responsible for relief and mak- 
ing this duty mandatory upon the City 
of Chicago and upon all townships in 
Cook county outside of Chicago. The — 
new bills used the same mandatory 
language as is used in the statute ap- 
plying to all townships in 85 counties 
of the state. They also proposed giving 
the sixteen commission-governed coun- 
ties downstate an additional tax rate 
up to 15 cents, to be used exclusively 
for relief purposes. 


They Are Responsible 


The new Lantz bills were revised to 
meet all objections raised by the at- 
torney general and by Governor Hor- 
ner when he vetoed them last summer. 
They all carried the emergency clause 
to give them immediate effect upon pas- 
sage and approval. This would have 
made possible immediate supplemental 
levies by any taxing district in Cook 
county or in the 16 commission-gov- 
erned counties, and tax anticipation 
notes issued against these supplemen- 
tal levies would have provided funds 
immediately. 

. Responsibility for the passage of the 
administration relief program must be 
(Continued on page 8) 


I. A. A. sasaki casaitibewnmrac 1933 5 


How Your Senators and Representatives Voted on the Bill Levying an Additional 
$38,000,000 of State Taxes on Property 


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STATE TAX STATE TAX 
; LEVY LEVY 
DISTRICTS AND COUNTIES (KEY BILL) DISTRICTS AND COUNTIES (KEY BILL) 
For Against ” For Against 
7th District (Rural section of Cook Co. 86th Dist. (Adams, Calhoun, Pike, Scott) 
and parts of Chicago) Sen. Penick x 
Sen. Huebsch x Rep. Scarborough x 
Rep. Ickes x Rep. Heckenkamp x 
Rep.: Foster x Rep. Lenane x 
Rep. McGrath x 


37th Dist. (Bureau, Henry, Stark) 


8th Dist. (Boone, Lake and McHenry) Sen. Gunning x 
Sen. Paddock x Rep. Jackson >.< 
Rep. Lyons x Rep. penmer x 
Rep. Wm. M. Carroll x Rep. . Wilson x 
Rep. Bolger xX 

10th Dist. (Winnebago and Ogle) eh * artaemetyy ~~ 
Sen. Baker x Sen. Stuttle x 
Rep. Leroy M. Green x Rep. Cross x 
Rep. Hunter x Rep. Bray x 
Rep. F. B. Wilson . x Rep. Stewart x 

12th Dist. (Carroll, JoDaviess and 

Stephenson) sebagai Po sigan a 
Sen. Boeke x Rep. Soderstrom x 
og P pepe (deceased) * Rep. Benson x 
ep. Bingham : 
Rep. C. D. Franz X Rep. Conerton x 
14th Dist, (Kane and Kendall) m 40th Die ee Cumberland. Fayette, 
en. Benson 
Rep. McCarthy x een ho ta (deceased) se 
Rep. Peffers x Rep. Roe x 
Rep. Petit x Rep. Lorton x 
16th Dist. (Livingston, Marshall, Putnam, 
Woodford) fiat Dist (DuPage, Will) - 
Sen. Lantz >.< een Walker x 
Rep. Bruer x og L Oo O'Neill x 
Rep. Turner x Reo H b e x 
Rep. Fahy x ep. ennepry 
18th Dist. (Peoria) 42nd Ding. (clay. Clinton, Effingham, 
‘ Sen. Behrman ‘x : s Fir on) x 
‘ Rep. Scott xX Reo Brat x 
Rep. Stack = Rep. Touer x - 
Rep. McClugage Rep. Bauer x 
~(G dy, I is, Kankak 

AO That ene roquois ankakee) x 48rd Dist. (Fulton, Knox) 
Rep. Bratton x Sen. Ewing x 
Rep. Hilmer Wilson + x Hep. gt hilo ie (deceased) ‘ 

ee ae Rep. McClure X 
22nd Dist. (Edgar and Vermilion) : 
Sen. Hickman x 44th Dist. (Jackson, Monroe, Perry, 
Q Rep. Bookwalter x Randolph, Washington) 
. Rep. Breen x Sen. Kribs 
Rep. Edwards x Heb. Weller (absent) cS 
ep. Davis 
24th Dist. (Champaign, Moultrie, Piatt) Rep. Brands x 
Rep Tittle x 45th D (M. 
ep. e t ist. organ, Sangamo 
Rep. Black x Sen. hearey” s x 
F Rep. Anderson x Rep. Lawler x 
Rep. Hugh Gree 
26th Dist. (Ford, McLean) fe aan x - 
en. Sieberns x 
dg bora pal pS 46th Dist. (Jasper, Jefferson, Richland, 
Rep. Russell x Sen. Dirnces x 
38th pint ata” Logan, Macon) + Rey Fone aaa x x 
en. ams 
Rep. Chynoweth x Rep. Parker xX 
ep. Doyle 
t Rep. Gayle x gen Monroe Madison) = 

30th Dist. (Brown, Cass, Mason, Menard, Rep. ont te. O'Neill x x 
Sena. Schuyler, Tazewe ) x Rep. Burton Voted “Present” 
Rep. Hall ‘ x 48 

‘ ” th Dist. (Crawford, Edwards, Gallatin, 
ee. eee. piah Voted. > erent son grain, Lawrence, Wabash, White) 
en. aw 
ist. (H k, McD h, Warren Rep. Thompson . x 

sand Bist oor McDonoug ) x Rep. F. WW, Lewis x 
Rep. Thomas . xX ep. D. T. Woodard x 

ep. Grigs : 
Rep. Davidson xX 4ott Dist. 18t.: Clair) : s 

33rd Dist. (Henderson, Mercer, Rock. Island) Rep, Huschle x 
Sen. Carlson x Rep. Holten x 
Rep. McCaskrin x Rep. Borders x 
Rep. Searle x 
Rep. Sinnett x 50th Dist. (Alexander, Franklin, 

Pulaski, Union, Williamson) 

34th Dist. (Clark, Coles, Douglas) Sen. Karraker x 
Sen. Mundy x Rep. Browner x 
Rep. Strohm x Rep. L. E. Lewis x 
Rep. Handy x Rep. Ray C. Carroll x 

7 Rep. O’Hair xX 
5ist Dist. (Hamilton, Johnson, Massac, 
85th Dist hee arb Lee, Whiteside) Pope, Saline) 
Sen ht (absent) Sen. Thompson x 
Rep. Coll ns Xx Rep. Rush X 
Rep. Allen x Rep. Upchurch x 
Rep. Devine x: Rep, Porter x 


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Olinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co....... A. E. Richardson, Mgr. 
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Illiaois Fruit Growers Exchange...........sseeseeseses H. W. Day, Mgr. 
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Illinois Livestock Market, Ass’n..Ray Miller, Mgr., R. W. Grieser, Sales 
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Half Taxed and Half Free 


COMPLETE report with voting records of sen- 
A ators and representatives on unemployment relief 

legislation before the recent session of the General 
Assembly is published in this issue of the RECORD. 

In line with the Association’s long established policy, 
the issues and voting records are presented without po- 
litical bias or favor. At certain times during consider- 
ation of this legislation, representatives of the I. A. A. 
were charged with political motives and party discrimina- 
tion. The non-partisan vote disclosed by a careful review 
of the voting records herein contained will show the un- 
fairness of such charges. 

There never was any question about the need for rea- 
sonable unemployment relief. That was not the issue. The 
real issue was whether or not the burden of relief should 
be distributed equitably among all the taxpayers of the 
state; whether Chicago should be allowed to escape local 
tax levies for its destitute people while the townships in 


I. A. A. RECORD—December, 1933 


85 downstate counties are compelled to levy taxes for their 
poor, 

The Chicago delegation voting as a unit with the aid of 
49 downstate legislators won their fight. Thus sub- 
stantially one-half of the property owners of the state are 
taxed locally for unemployment relief and the other half 
go tax-free. How long will the people of downstate IIli- 
nois allow this inequitable and unfair situation to exist? 
Until this inequality is ironed out, unemployment relief 
will remain a controversial issue and the present wasteful 
and extravagant system under which several million dol- 
lars per year are paid in salaries and wages for disbur- 
sing relief will be perpetuated. 


Country Life—A Shining Exception 


history of most of the life insurance companies or- 

ganized in Illinois. Not so with the company or- 
ganized by the Illinois Agricultural Association and County 
Farm Bureaus. Country Life Insurance Company is a 
shining exception and an outstanding example of what 
farmers: can accomplish by organized effort. The splendid 
record of progress of this farmer-owned and farmer-con- 
trolled legal reserve company is published elsewhere in 
this issue. 

Every year since 1929 when Country Life was launched, 
straight through the depression, it has gained substantially 
in assets, strength, and insurance in force. Because the 
company has always invested its funds in government 
bonds and other high grade securities it is in an enviable 
liquid condition. It offers policyholders a very high de- 
gree of safety. At the close of last year the company 
hadn’t suffered a single default in interest or principal on 
any of its many holdings. Probably no other company can 
say as much. Fortunately, Illinois life insurance laws 
were greatly strengthened in the last regular session of 
the General Assembly until they are now considered more 
strict than those of any other state, - 

A few years ago many people were saying, “farmers 
can’t successfully run a business.” They aren’t saying it 
any more. Every one of the companies associated with the 
I. A. A. met its obligations last year and is operating on a 
sound basis. 


Tris depression has written a dark chapter in the 


A Wise Land Policy 


OR every new acre brought under the plow, take out 
of production an area of poor land of equal produc- 
tive capacity. 

That briefly is the new land use policy of President 
Roosevelt recently announced by Secretary Wallace. This 
sensible plan put into action and consistently followed 
along with present efforts will eventually solve the farm 
surplus problem. The program of reclaiming desert and 
swamp lands through government irrigation and drainage 
projects has been too long continued. While farm sur- 
pluses were piling up higher and higher following the war 
the reclamation service went blithely on despite corn-belt 
protest, building irrigation dams and ditches in the West 
to add to agriculture’s oversized plant. And all with gov- 
ernment subsidy. 

The new policy, as the Secretary suggests, may involve 
a resettlement of America but if fertile acres replace mar- 
ginal lands turned back into forests and wild life preserves, 
both the people who are shifted and the country in gen- 
eral will be better off. The President promises to start 
something of far-reaching benefit and importance to ag- 
riculture in future generations. This is statesmanship of 
the highest order. 


I, A. A. RECORD—December, 1933 


More About Corn-Hog 


Reduction Program 


Contracts Expected To Be Ready Latter Part of November 


S WE go to press the corn-hog 
A administration has completed 

a series of meetings with ag- 
ricultural college and farm organiza- 
tion officials throughout the corn belt 
at which details connected with carry- 
ing out the crop reduction program 
were discussed. Dr. A. G. Black, 
Claude Wickard, Director of Extension 
Warburton and several economists 
from Washington presented the de- 
tails of the tentative plans. 

A tentative contract to be offered 
the producer was read at the meeting 
in Chicago Nov. 10 and suggestions 
and criticisms were invited. 

All suggestions are being taken un- 
der advisement and many will be 
adopted and incorporated in the final 
agreement which is expected to be 
ready for distribution the latter part 
of November. 

The corn-hog program with refer- 
ence to reduction requirements refers 
to acres of corn and numbers of pigs, 
it was explained. This means that the 
grower who co-operates must reduce 
his corn acreage at least 20 per cent 
and the number of pigs marketed a 
minimum of 25 per cent. He may cut 
production more than the minimum re- 
quirement, however, and be compen- 
sated therefor as explained in the No- 
vember RECORD. 


Yields By Fields 


The land taken out of production 
may be used only for such crops or 
purposes as may be designated by ad- 
ministration rulings which will prob- 
ably be that the land may not be used 
for hay, pasture, or for any cash crop 
sold off the farm. Corn acreage reduc- 
tion is to be 20 per cent below the 
average acreage planted in 1932 and 
1933. The estimated yield on the 
fields taken out of production will be 
based on average yields over a period 
of years, not necessarily the last two 
or three years. 

The farmer will be required to give 
a record of the crops and yields pro- 
duced on the different fields taken out 
of production, during the past five 
years. The county committee will in- 
spect these records and estimates of 
the contract signers. 

Hogs slaughtered for home use will 


be deducted from the base number of 
pigs allotted to the producer. In com- 
puting allotments and reductions, the 
rule will be followed that the acreage 
of corn follows the farm and the pro- 
duction of hogs follows the farm oper- 
ator. Thus, if a tenant moves from 
one farm to another his average pro- 
duction of hogs goes with him. But 
corn reduction will be based on the 
average acreage grown on the farm 
he goes to. 


May Not Feed More 


If a farmer produces less than four 
litters of pigs and 10 acres of corn 
annually he will probably be allowed 
to come under one provision or the 
other without reducing below these 
amounts. The man who buys and feeds 
hogs may not buy nor feed more than 
the customary number to come under 
the hog provision requiring a 25 per 
cent reduction of litters produced on 
the farm and pigs marketed there- 
from. 

If the hog grower quits farming en- 
tirely after signing up he will prob- 
ably not get the benefit payment. The 
corn-hog program is a one-year pro- 
gram only. The signed contract will 


_state the basis of division of the 


benefit payments of the landlord and 
tenant, 

The provisions suggested above are 
subject to change and the rulings on 
the various knotty problems will not 
be known until the final contract is 
presented and the accompanying rules 
and regulations decided upon. 


Land Bank Loans 


To Illinois Farmers 


Illinois farmers obtained 489 land 
bank loans totaling $1,756,000 during 
October, according to Wood Nether- 
land, general agent of the Farm Credit 
Administration at St. Louis. 

During October 1,868 applications 
for loans in Illinois were received, 
contrasted to 2,443 applications during 
September. 

Netherland reports that the number 
of appraisals has been increasing 


steadily and during October land bank 
appraisers handled 8,421 applications 


compared with 5,329 in September. 

The Credit Administration at Wash- 
ington states that production loan as- 
sociations have been organized or 
shortly will be organized to cover 60 
Illinois counties. These local associa- 
tions will discount their paper with the 
Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of 
St. Louis to secure money for crop and 
livestock production loans to farmers. 
The loans at present bear six per cent 
interest and the borrower must pay 
the cost of inspection which may not 
exceed 1% of the loan. He must also 
subscribe for five per cent of the 
amount borrowed in B stock in the 
local association. 


Keep Up the Fight 


Editor, I. A. A. RECORD:— 

I have been reading the “Illinois 
Agricultural Association RECORD”: 
for quite a long time. The November, 
1938, number was so extremely inter- 
esting that I read every word from 
cover to cover. Although I try to make 
myself an extremely busy man with 
my school work, and_ especially 
amongst the rural schools, I find it 
very profitable to take time off and 
read every number of your splendid 
farm magazine. 

The subject matter in the November 
number certainly ought to reach the 
hearts of every farmer in Illinois. I 
agree with every word that was said 
in this November number. I do sin- 
cerely hope you will keep up the val- 
iant fight for the welfare of the 
farmer and especially the children 
who, I believe, will always be the bul- 
wark of the American government. 

Assuring you that I shall continue 
to read the RECORD with a great deal 
of delight, I am, 

Loyally for the best citizenship pos- 
sible, 


L. A. Tuggle, Vermilion 
county, IIl., Co. Supt. of Schools. 


100% Back of You 


Illinois Agricultural Association, 
Chicago, Il. 

This is a message from central IIli- 
nois. We highly appreciate the untir- 
ing efforts of the I. A. A. in its fight 
for Agriculture. We are 100 per cent 
in back of you. 


Ben Komnick, 
Macoupin County, IIl. 


The Illinois Agricultural Association 
has arranged to secure surety bonds 
for treasurers of county wheat con- 
trol associations at the rate of $10 per 
thousand of insurance. 


Legislative Report 
(Continued from page 4) 


placed primarily upon 18 downstate 
senators and 49 downstate represent- 
atives who supported the solid vote 
of Chicago and Cook county. 

The voting record of all downstate 
senators and representatives on the 
key bill to levy $38,000,000 on prop- 
erty is given on Page 5. Voters are 
urged to study this record carefully, 
together with the records of legislators 
on measures before the regular session 
of the General Assembly, published in 
the August RECORD. Only by so do- 
ing can members vote intelligently for 
future candidates for office. 

Distinguished credit is due to 13 
downstate senators and 45 downstate 
representatives who really represented 
the state as a whole, as well as the 
downstate, by opposing the passage 
of the so-called bonding bills. 

The Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion bills from introduction faced bit- 
ter Chicago opposition. Early on Oc- 
tober 11, a week before the tax levy 
bill passed the senate, certain Chicago 
senators spread the report that an 
agreement had been reached under 
which both the administration and the 
Lantz bills were to be passed, the lat- 
ter to be first amended to the per- 
missive form passed in the regular ses- 
sion and vetoed by the governor. 
Neither representatives of the Asso- 
ciation nor Senator Lantz nor any 
other supporter of the Assocation 
bills had made any _ such agree- 
ment or had even sat in a conference 
for this purpose. This fact was quickly 
made known and the report of the 
agreement failed in its obvious pur- 
pose to secure votes enough to insure 
passage of the administration bills. 


Fast Work Here 


The administration then directed 
that amendments to the Lantz bills be 
prepared to restore thereto the per- 
missive powers to levy relief taxes. 
Before these amendments were print- 
ed, or even read, they were offered and 
adopted and immediately thereafter 
sufficient votes became available and 
the administration tax levy bill was 
passed. Strange as it may seem, when 
the administration amendments to the 
Lantz bills were examined, it was 
found that they restored even the pro- 
vision which had been pronounced un- 
constitutional by the Attorney Gen- 
eral. 

In view of the futility of the bills as 
amended, Senator Lantz tried to have 
them stricken from the calendar. His 
motion was defeated by the close vote 
of 19 to 21, in which Senators Finn, 
Hickman, Karraker, Monroe, O’Con- 
nell, Stuttle and Williams, all from 


downstaté districts, aligned themselves 
with Chicago senators. Senator Lantz 
then asked that his name be stricken 
from the bills, which was granted. 
Senator Monroe asked permission of 
the senate to sponsor the amended 
bills, which was also granted. These 
bills were all finally passed without 
the emergency clause which would 
have made them effective at once. 


How They Voted 


Voting with the Chicago senators in 
each case were downstate Senators 
Barr, Burgess, Finn, Hickman, Kar- 
raker, Monroe, Mundy, O’Connell, 
Penick, Shaw, Stuttle and Williams. 
Senators Boeke and Sieberns had vot- 
ed for the first Monroe bill with the 
emergency clause. When the emer- 
gency clause was removed, Senator 
Boeke did not vote on the bill and 
Senator Sieberns voted against it. 
Both voted for two of the four later 
Monroe bills after the emergency 
clause had been stricken. Senator 
Boeke did not vote on the other two 
later bills; Senator Sieberns voted 
against them. Senator Huebsch of the 
Cook county district had voted for 
Senator Lantz’ motion to strike all of 
the bills from the calendar. When they 
were called for passage, Mr. Huebsch 
voted against all of them. As passed 
by the Senate, these emasculated bills 
were worthless for purposes of im- 
mediate relief, since they would not 
have permitted any levies in Cook 
County until 1935. 

Bills identical with the Lantz bills 
in the senate had early been intro- 
duced in the House by Representatives 
Streeper and Leroy Green. When the 
Lantz bills were ruined by amend- 
ments in the senate, Streeper-Green 
bills, at the request of I. A. A. repre- 
sentatives, were advanced to passage 
stage. The bonding bills and the Mon- 
roe bills, likewise, were advanced. All 
three sets of bills remained ten days 
in deadlock. 

In order to dispose of the useless 
Monroe bills and thus prevent any 
danger of their being passed by the 
administration forces and used by 
them to give downstate legislators an 
excuse to vote for the bonding bills, 
supporters of the Streeper-Green bills 
led by Representative McClure, of the 
majority party, offered and secured 
the adoption of amendments com- 
pletely restoring the Monroe bills to 
their original form. 

Called for passage on November 1, 


the first of the restored Lantz bills . 


did not have a Cook county vote and 
so failed to receive the necessary two- 
thirds vote of the House. This was on 
the same day that the administration 
tax levy bill failed on second attempt, 
by seven votes. When the adminis- 


I. A. A. RECORD—December, 1933 
tration, by the utmost-use of its power 
finally. succeeded in passing the tax 
levy and bonding bills in the House 
on November 7, Representative Mc- 
Clure, of Knox county, recognizing the 
impossibility of passing the Lantz 
bills with the emergency clause, now 
that the bonding bills had passed, pre- 
sented a motion to strike them from 
the calendar. He explained his motion 
as intended to give no downstate rep- 
resentative a chance to vote for the 
Lantz bills as an alibi for the vote 
he had just cast for the tax levy and 
bonding bills. His motion was carried 


with a shout of ayes against a few 
feeble noes. 


Unsound and Unwise 


The Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion regards the administration relief 
legislation enacted in the special ses- 
sion, largely by downstate votes, as 
unsound and unwise. It is admitted, 
even by its supporters, that this legis- 
lation is temporary in character and 
that provision for further relief funds 
must be made within a few months. 
The bonding program perpetuates the 
injustice of exempting Chicago and 
Cook county from providing by local 
taxation for any substantial portion of 
their own expenditures for relief. Thus 
further demands upon the credit of 
the state are probable, if not in- 
evitable. This system of relief, if found 
legal, will further divert gasoline taxes 
from their intended use in improving 
and maintaining highways and streets, 
thereby decreasing the employment so 
much needed and increasing the desti- 
tution the legislation enacted is sup- 
posed to relieve. ’ chy 

Several novel features of the new 
legislation are of doubtful legality. 
The diversion of gasoline taxes for 
payment of the bonds and interest of 
the $20,000,000 bond issue approved 
in November, 1932, is now under at- 
tack in the courts. If this feature, or 
any other provision of the present ad- 
ministration relief program, is found 
invalid at any time after sale of the 
anticipation warrants and before ap- 
proval of the bond issue, or if the 
bond issue is not approved, an ad- 
ditional tax levy of at least $30,000,000 
and more probably of $38,000,000 will 
be required on property in the single 
year 1934. If any provision is found 
invalid after approval of the bond 
issue, it will require additional tax 
levies on property over a period of 
20 years aggregating $30,000,000 for 
principal of the bonds and about $13,- 
500,000 in addition for interest there- 
on. Such levies on property could be 
avoided only by the difficult expedi- 
ent of the General Assembly meeting 
again and providing funds from other 
sources, 


I. A. A. RECORD—December, 1933 


Membership Growing 


More Than 1,000 Radio Meetings Tune In on 
Nov. 16 Broadcast. 


TOTAL of 2,091 new members 
A had been signed in the County 

Farm Bureaus and the I. A. A. 
by Nov. 11 just five weeks after the 
fall mobilization campaign was launch- 
ed on Oct. 9. In addition, approximate- 
ly 3,500 delinquent members were re- 
stored to good standing. 

A brief report of progress to date 
was broadcast during the half hour 
organization radio program over sta- 
tion WENR, Chicago, the night of 
Nov. 16. It is estimated that more 
than 1,000 radio gatherings in homes 
of members and public meeting places 
were tuned in on the program. 

Last minute reports received by 
telephone and telegraph credited 
Peoria county with 128 new members, 
Mason with 121, Henderson 99, Edgar 
88, Whiteside 83, Adams 81, McHenry 
77 (including 28 who never belonged 
heretofore, telephoned Lester Sied- 
schlag, captain), Christian 76, Kendall 
68, Knox 65, Logan 61, Woodford 61, 
Randolph 60, Morgan 51, St. Clair 50, 
Shelby 43, etc. 


Will See Them All 


“Our drive in Mason county will not 
be considered complete until all pros- 
pective members are_ interviewed,” 
telegraphed Captain Leonard Keith of 
Mason county. 

“We are dividing the county into 
four areas with three sub captains,” 
wired Effingham County Farm Bu- 
reau in reporting 17 new members. 
“Another intensive campaign starts in 
10 days. Watch Effingham county.” 

In most counties the campaign for 
new members was coupled with efforts 
to restore present members to good 
standing. In Schuyler county where 
31 new members were signed sides 
have been chosen for the continued 
membership contest to end January 1, 
winners to eat turkey and the losers 
beans. 

In LaSalle county where J. R. Bent 
is captain, a splendid record was 
made with 19 new members signed, 
273 delinquents restored, and $4,076 
collected. In Livingston county 52 
members were signed and 304 delin- 
quents restored to good standing with 
nearly $3,000 in back memberships 
collected. In Champaign county where 
38 new members were signed collec- 
tions totaled $3,394, in Madison $2,- 
701, Woodford $1,920, Christian 
$1,900, Ford county 837 new members 


and $1,966 collected, Montgomery 
county 12 new members, $904.50 col- 
lected, Morgan $1,600 collected, Knox 
county $1,779, Boone $1,271. 


Mr. Smith Speaks 


In his radio address on the WENR 
program President Earl C. Smith 
called attention to the accomplish- 
ments made possible by a minority of 
farmers working together through or- 
ganization. “It has taken long years 
of struggle,” he said, “for less than 
10 per cent of the farmers of the 
United States, through organization, to 
finally get full recognition by govern- 
ment of the seriousness of the farm 
problem and its relationship to the 
welfare of all other business and in- 
dustry of the nation. This could have 
been accomplished much more quickly 
with 90 per cent of the farmers in 
organization. It will be more difficult 
to secure and maintain full and effec- 
tive administration of the present law 
to raise farm prices, refinance farm 
loans on a long-time basis at low 
rates of interest, and revise our mone- 
tary system on a sound basis. 

“The greatest contribution farmers 
can make to speed the day of agri- 
cultural recovery is for each and all 
to do their part in building and main- 
taining an effective and efficient 
organization,” continued Mr. Smith. 
“While government may do much tem- 
porarily to assist farmers in improv- 
ing their condition, yet farmers 
should recognize that all government 
policies are subject to change on short 
notice. 


i 


“The more dependable and perma- 
nent way would be for farmers to 
fully recognize that with every phase 
of industry, labor and finance thor- 
oughly organized, they too must or- 
ganize more completely and maintain 
their rightful strength and influence 
around every council table, in every 
legislative hall, before the congress of 
the United States and upon all the 
market centers of America.” 


Metzger Cites Opportunity 


In his radio talk Secretary George 
E. Metzger emphasized that farmers 
must look ahead to the time when 
temporary plans for raising farm 
prices are no longer in existence. 
“What then will happen,” he said, “to 
agriculture when aggressive govern- 
ment assistance now available is no 
more? Will farmers organize and 
administer their own production con- 
trol plan with the idea of obtaining 
fair prices for their commodities? 
Will they organize to the point that 
they can demand and secure reduction 
of at least 50 per cent in taxes on real 
estate? Will they organize and de- 
mand a monetary system providing 
for stable purchasing power in terms 
of commodities ? 

“The opportunity is here for farm- 
ers to work together with government 
assistance for a planned production 
and reasonable prices. The time is 
here when farmers can through or- 
ganization determine whether the in- 
dustry is to go forward with an 
income that will support a good school 
system, adequate rural churches, and 
reasonable conveniences that make for 
a higher standard of living on the 
farm. The alternative that will sure- 
ly follow a lack of proper organiza- 
tion is cheap food and cheap materials 
for an industrial nation, unbearable 
farm taxes, exorbitant prices for 


supplies farmers must purchase, and 
a dominated peasant agriculture.” 


_ Here are three of the men who assisted in putting Peoria county at the top 
in the Farm Bureau mobilization campaign. 

Left to right: Thurman Scott, Glasford, who signed 25 members in one town- 
ship and still working; H. S. McNaughton, county captain; and Leonard Strope, 
Hollis township, who signed 23 members in one of the smaller townships. 

Up to Nov. 11 Peoria county had signed 128 new members since Oct. 9. 


14 


Danville Producers 
Organize Milk Co-op 


Consider Future Course of 
Action At Meeting 
Nov. 20 


For many years producers in the 
Danville milk shed have felt that they 
were not receiving a fair share of the 
consumer’s milk dollar. Recently they 
have been receiving a base price of 
$1.75 and a surplus price of butterfat 
or about 75c per cwt. The consumer 
pays 10c per qt. The dealers have been 
telling the farmers how much goes in- 
to base and the percentage into sur- 
plus. The producers felt that their 
interests could best be served by or- 
ganizing so they recently formed the 
Danville Milk Producers Association. 
Within 48 hours after the plan of or- 
ganization was submitted, ninety per 
cent of the milk going to pasteurizing 
dealers was signed up. About 300 pro- 
ducers are members... Otis Kercher, 
Farm Adviser, and the Vermilion 
County Farm Bureau have been active 
in promoting the organization. 

The following officers were elected 
at the first meeting:— 

R. R. Bookwalter, Danville, pres. 

George W. Lenhart, Georgetown, 

vice-pres. 

William Leverich, Danville, sec’y- 

treas. 

Grace L. Metzger, Covington, Ind. 

Chas. T. Delong, Potomac. 

Peter Markunas, Westville. 

L. J. Bremer, Danville. 

L. C. Faust, Covington, Ind. 

W. D. Britt, Danville. 


Purpose of Organization 


The purpose of the organization is: 

1. To sell the milk of its member 
producers to the milk distributors on a 
classified or “use” basis at a reason- 
able price. To have the right to check 
the amount of milk used as fluid, 
manufactured into ice cream and sold 
as surplus for churning purposes. 

2. To work out a quality improve- 
ment program so that the producers 
will be paid for high quality milk at a 
premium commensurate with its grade. 

3. To employ a tester to recheck all 
butterfat tests of all milk sold on the 
market. 

4. To stabilize the market by estab- 
lishing a base for each producer which 
will correspond to his fair equity in 
the market’s fluid sales and have a 
sound surplus control program rather 
than pay each producer half base and 
half surplus regardless of his produc- 
tion. 

5. To advertise the use of fluid milk 
in Danville thus helping both producers 
and dealers. 


6. To supply Danville consumers 
with the best possible quart of milk at 
a fair and reasonable price. 

“These things can only be accom- 
plished with the co-operation of both 
dealers and producers,” said J. B. 
Countiss, dairy marketing director. 
“Thus far, however, the dealers have 
refused to co-operate. They insist that 
they are not in favor of the producers 
organizing and contributing a check- 
off to operate their Association. In 
other words, after they buy the milk 
they want to tell the producer how, 
when and where he can spend his milk 
check. 

“The producers contend that they 
will deliver to the dealers’ platform 
the amount of milk the respective 
dealers agree to buy at a reasonable 
price and that the dealers have no 
right to dictate the kind of organiza- 
tion they have or how their funds 
should be spent. 


Refused to Buy 


“It is reported that one of the 
dealers. refused to buy milk from 26 
of the producers after he learned they 
had joined the organization,” said 
Countiss, 

“Other members have come into the 
office and reported that they had al- 
ready got their membership dues back 
through increased tests and a higher 
percentage of base. Presumably this 
was done to make producers better 
satisfied. The producers in this mar- 
ket previous to this time have had no 
voice whatsoever regarding prices they 
received for their milk, the price the 
consumers pay, the amount of milk 
put in the surplus class at butterfat 
prices or weights and tests.” 

A mass meeting was scheduled to 
be held at Danville Nov. 20 to con- 
sider the dealers’ ultimatum and form- 
ulate a future plan of action. 

Mr. George Besore who has been 
manager of the Champaign Milk Pro- 
ducers Association has been employed 
as manager of the association. He 
will manage both associations, thereby 
cutting down expenses and paying 
producers more money. 


Co-operation Pays 
Utah Egg Producers 


The Utah Poultry Producers’ Co- 
operative Association, only 10 years 
old, handled 88.9 per cent of the mar- 
ket eggs of the state in 1931. In 1922 
Utah imported part of its egg supply 
from other states. Today it is selling 
well over a half million cases of high 
grade eggs at premium prices on a 
market nearly 2,500 miles away. Early 
this year there were 7,830 producers 
co-operating as members. 


I. A. A. RECORD—December, 1933 


Sam H. Thompson Is 
Honored In Radio Program 


Sam H. Thompson of Quincy, former 
president of the American Farm Bu- 
reau Federation and the I. A. A., was 
honored during 
the A. F. B. F. 
party -line pro- 
gram over the 
NBC radio sys- 
tem on Nov. 11. 
He was awarded 
the distinguished 
service medal by 
the Federation 
more than a year 
ago. 

In paying trib- 
ute to Mr. Thomp- 
son, President Edw. <A. O’Neal 
said: “To me he is a typical rep- 
resentative of the corn-belt farmer, 
with great earnestness and_ integ- 
rity and zeal for the cause of ag- 
riculture. As his contribution, he stood 
in the front ranks in our great fight 
for equality for agriculture, standing 
up before the nation fearlessly and 
honestly advocating our cause, and it 
was a great joy that I had the op- 
portunity to fight under his leadership 
in those past days.” 


SAM H, THOMPSON 


Dubuque Producers 
Open New Dairy Plant 


On November 9 the Dubuque Milk 
Producers Association opened their 
new surplus plant for fluid milk pro- 
ducers in that milk shed. Approxi-. 
mately 20% of the members are IIli- 
nois dairymen. About a year ago they 
became dissatisfied with both the 
amount and the prices received for sur- 
plus milk and rented a brewery build- 
ing for a surplus plant. Since beer 
came back they sold their lease and 
moved their plant to a new location 
down town. New equipment has been 
installed and they plan not only to 
handle surplus milk but also establish 
cream routes and churn this cream in- 
to butter. 

About 300 producers attended the 
meeting. J. B. Countiss of the I. A. A. 
discussed the Illinois plan of handling 
surplus milk and pool cream and the 
advantages of a combination plan of 
this kind as it is being carried on at 
Rock Island, Peoria and Bloomington. 

Dubuque producers are now receiv- 
ing $1.20 per 100 lbs. for 3.5% milk 
sold as fluid milk. The retail price is 
Te per quart. 

. A code is being prepared for this 
market which will materially increase 
prices to producers. One provision of 
the code is that the producers will 
handle surplus in their own plant. 


I. A. A. RECORD—December, 1933 


Producers Can Get 
More of Consumer's 


Dollar 


by Frank Gougler 


States Department of Agricul- 

ture show that the gross farm 
income for 1932 was only slightly over 
five billion dollars. Yet it reported 
that the consumer paid fifteen billion 
dollars for these same commodities 
for which the farmers received five 
billion dollars. In other words, there 
now exists a spread of 200% between 


Fh sistes. released by the United 


Crawfordsville, Indiana. 


what the farmer receives for his prod- 
ucts and what the consumer pays. 


Every farmer knows that this 
spread is entirely too-wide and that 
it should be narrowed. Experience 
proves that the most effective way to 
correct this situation is through co- 
operative effort. Individually the farm- 
er can in no way correct this situa- 
tion—collectively he can. 


In order to improve the situation 
for Illinois farmers in the sale of 
butterfat, a state-wide plan for 
establishing co-operative creameries 
was launched a year ago. Creameries 
are now operating in the Rock Island 
district, the Peoria district and the 
Bloomington district. Others are be- 
ing organized in the Champaign dis- 
trict, Olney district, Mt. Sterling 
district and Carbondale district. Each 
of these co-operatives now being or- 
ganized must raise $30,000 cash for 
equipping the creamery plant. The 
Champaign district is nearing its goal 
in the raising of this amount of 
money. 


Our plants now operating at Rock 
Island, Peoria and Bloomington, have 
not operated a year; therefore, it is 
not possible to give information as 
to their accomplishment, except to 
say that they will process far more 


butter at the end of the year than 
was anticipated. 

It is of interest to note what co- 
operative creameries in adjoining 
states where conditions are no differ- 
ent than here in Illinois have ac- 
complished over a period of years. 
Reports from two creameries located 
in Indiana furnish interesting in- 
formation as follows: 


Columbus, Indiana, 


. Lbs. Butter made Refunds Lbs. Butter made Refunds 
1924 385,673 $ 12,186.23 
1926 590,94 23,850.85 
1926 836,672 24,012.85 
1927 574,075 $ 12,317 864,125 28,577.74 
1928 795,009 20,454 858,724 32,081.95 
1929 1,215,304 35,074 852,580 46,632.57 
1930 1,508,590 46,662 943,440 50,335.56 
1931 2,090,265 61.640 1,212,175 61,278.59 
1932 3,197,259 74,152 2,024,528 67,000.00 

9,384,502 $250,299 8,571,859 $345,956.34 


Figured on a poundage basis for the 
above two creameries, the value of 
these refunds amounts to 3.38c per 
pound. But, this does not represent 
all of the gains. The Crawfordsville 
plant with equipment is today valued 


at $110,000, all of which is paid for 


except $2,000. This value represents 
another cent per pound butterfat. The 
total gain then amounts to 4.38c per 
pound gain thru co-operative effort. 
Suppose we apply this gain to the en- 
tire butterfat production in Illinois, 
which is over 50 million Ibs. annually. 
Fifty million pounds times 4.8c per 
Ib. amounts to $2,150,000 additional 
income which may be gained by IIli- 
nois producers through the efficient 
operation of their own plants. Look- 
ing at it from another angle, it 
should be noted that the refunds re- 
ported above amount to more than 
enough to finance the initial cost of 
establishing a co-operative creamery 
once each year during the period these 
plants have been operating. 

One of the major factors in the 
200% spread between the price the 
producer receives and the consumer 
pays is large profits made on farm 
products after they leave the pro- 
ducer. The way to get some of these 
profits is to take the commodity a step 
or two nearer to the consumer. 


15 


Program For A. F. B. F. 
Annual Convention 


Earl C. Smith, A. R. Wright and 
Geo. F. Tullock are the three voting 
delegates of Illinois to the American 
Farm Bureau Federation convention, 
Chicago, December 11-12-13. Alter- 
nates are Charles S. Black, C. E. 
Bamborough and Samuel Sorrells, all 
members of the I. A. A. board. The 
entire board is expected to attend the 
convention. j 

This year’s meeting, according to 
President Edward A. O’Neal, will 
feature the agricultural adjustment 
program, farm credits, and taxation. 
Speakers will include Secretary of 
Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, Ad- 
ministrator George N. Peek, and 
Chester C. Davis, director of the Pro- 
duction Division of the AAA. 

Governor Paul V. McNutt of Indi- 
ana will tell how that state recently 
shifted a kig share of the tax burden 
from real prorerty forcing other in- 
terests to help bear the load. The 
Indiana Farm Bureau had a big part 
in bringing about this change. 

Von T. Ellsworth of the California 
Farm Bureau will discuss their ex- 
perience in securing an equitable dis- 
tribution of the tax burden in that 
state. . 

Other speakers will include Gover- 
nor John G. Winant of New Hamp- 
shire who will tell what a _ state 
government can do in promoting the 
welfare of agriculture; A. S. Goss, 
Land Bank Commissioner of the Farm 
Credit Adn.inistration, and M. L. Wil- 
son, director of subsistence home- 
steads in the Department of Interior. 

Farm women will be interested in 
the talk by Miss Connie J. Bonslagel, 
state home demonstration agent in 
Arkansas. Other features will include 
singing and music, a quartet contest, 
and a nation-wide public speaking 
contest. 


Boggess, DeFrees Recover- 
ing From Accident Injuries 


C. P. Boggess who was seriously 
injured in an automobile accident sev- 
eral weeks ago while serving as cap- 
tain of the mobilization campaign in 
Bond county, is slowly recovering 
from bone fractures. 

Talmage DeFrees, I. A. A. director 
from the 22nd district, has fully re- 
covered from facial lacerations and 
bruises received in the same accident. 
He attended the I. A. A. board meet- 
ing in Chicago, Nov. 17. 

The car in: which they were riding 
was hit by a switching freight train 
at an unguarded crossing. 


16 


Co-op Creamery Makes | 
$346,000 Profit In 9 Years 


Marketing and Legislation Feature 
District Conference at Sullivan 


Co-operative marketing, and legisla- 
tion pending before the General As- 
sembly were the principal subjects 
considered at the 19th district I. A. A. 
conference called by Eugene Curtis, I. 
A. A. director, and held at Sullivan, 
Moultrie county, Oct. 16. 

Reporting on the progress in co- 

operative produce and dairy market- 
ing, Frank Gougler, director of prod- 
uce marketing, stated that the co-op- 
erative creamery at Columbus, Indiana 
had made a profit of $346,000 in nine 
years’ time—that the co-operative was 
paying 25c per lb. butterfat while the 
going price in other sections of the 
state not subject to co-op competition 
was 16c per lb. [Illinois cream pro- 
‘ducers have an opportunity to own 
and control their own creameries, and 
thereby secure a maximum share of 
the consumer’s dollar for butter, 
Gougler said. 

Speaking on the growing disparity 
between prices received by livestock 
farmers and the price paid by con- 
sumers for meat, Ray E. Miller of the 
I. A. A. staff stated that in the period 
from 1909 to 1914 the consumer paid 
$12.52 for 62 lbs. of pork when live 
hogs were selling at $7.83 per cwt. 
whereas in 1932 for the same amount 
of pork consumers paid $12.83 al- 
though the farmer received only $3.70 
per cwt. for hogs. 

This means that $425,000,000 was 
taken away from the purchasing 
power of the hog farmer in one year, 
Miller said. With better control of 
volume, he continued, farmers could 
recapture the 56% of the consumer’s 
dollar they enjoyed in 1913 which 
compares with only 35% today. 

J. Fred Romine, member of the TIlli- 
nois Grain Corporation board, report- 
ed that the Farmers National Grain 
Corp., contrary to propaganda, was in 
a thriving condition, and that its in- 


a 


fluence had been exerted successfully 
to raise the price level of grain in 
many parts of the country. Romine 
expressed the opinion that a futures 
market was no more necessary in 
handling grain than in handling soy- 
beans, livestock, or other farm com- 
modities. 

Chas. S. Black, chairman of the I. 
A. A. public relations committee, re- 
viewed legislation being considered at 
Springfield and emphasized the im- 
portance of close co-operation of the 
County Farm Bureaus if farmers. are 


to exert proper influence in securing 


equitable treatment in legislative mat- 
ters. Other speakers included Man- 
ager Fullerton of the Douglas County 
Grain Co., Mr. Curtis, and Chas. B. 
Shuman, president of the Moultrie 
County Farm Bureau. The next meet- 
ing will be held in Piatt county. Farm 
Adviser J. H. Hughes acted as secre- 
tary and wrote up the minutes of the 
meeting. 


Nearly 300,000 Sign 
Tax Relief Petitions 


John C. Watson, director of taxa- 


tion for the I. A. A., reports that near- 


ly 300,000 signatures to the Tax Re- 
lief Petition have been received at the 
I. A. A. office. The petition was cir- 
culated in every school district in 
most of the counties in Illinois. A 
number of counties are still to be 
heard from. 

In a recent letter to Governor 
Horner, President Earl C. Smith ad- 
vised the Governor of the overwhelm- 
ing demand by rural voters expressed 
in the signed petitions for an early 
special session of the General As- 
sembly to consider a proposed revenue 
amendment to the State Constitution. 

At the request of the administration 
Association representatives are draw- 
ing up the form of an amendment 
which will be submitted to the newly 
appointed revenue amendment com- 
mission made up of five state sena- 
tors, five representatives, and five 
citizens. 


Champion state group of ten calves from Illinois-1932 International Livestock Show 


I. A. A. RECORD—December, 1933 
“Hi 


Livestock Show In Chi- 


cago, December 2-9 


Illinois farmers and stock breeders 
will be prominently represented with 
exhibits at the International Live 
Stock Exposition which will be held 
for the 84th year at the Chicago 
Stock Yards December 2 to 9. 

According to B. H. Heide, secre- 
tary-manager, the Exposition has one 
of the largest entries of livestock and 
crops this year in its history. The 
entry list which closed November 1, 
shows that in Illinois alone 57 cattle- 
men are listed among the exhibitors, 
26 sheep breeders, 34 swine breeders, 
and eleven will exhibit draft horses. 

There is a heavy entry in the Inter- 
national Grain and Hay Show, §in 
which [Illinois farmers will figure 
prominently. Nominations. were re- 
ceived from 30 states and seven 
provinces of Canada for the crops 
show. 

Another division of the Exposition 
in which Illinois will take an impor- 
tant place among the states is the 
Junior Live Stock Feeding Contest. 
Fourteen states will be represented, 
Illinois boys and girls numbering 126 
being in the largest number. Last 
year the state champion group ef ten 
calves was awarded to Illinois in the 
junior show, and three calves shown 
by Sangamon county boys were the 
reserve champion county group of 
three animals among all those com- 
peting. 

Unusually low rates, some only 1c 
and 2c per mile, will be in effect on 
all railroads during the Exposition. 


Federal Loans Speed Up 


Sam F. Russell, farm adviser in 
Adams county, reports that federal 
loans have been going through at a 
faster rate in that county during the 
past month. Twenty-two loans, he 


said, were approved in three days and 
loans on land are being made at a 
more reasonable rate than was true 
a few months ago. 


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‘h ‘A. ‘A. “RECORD—December, 1933 


Country Life Steps 


Ahead During 1933 


By L. A. Williams, Manager 
Country Life Insurance Co. 


S THE year draws to a close, 
A it is certain that by Jan. 1, 

Country Life Insurance Com- 
pany will have in force close to $54,- 
000,000 of insurance, and this after 
less than five years of operation. The 
current year again has seen Country 


‘Life make new gains in spite of low 


farm buying power. 
The first Coun- 
try Life insur- 
, ance policy was 
written in Feb- 
ruary 1929. The 
company was or- 
ganized late in 
the fall of the pre- 
ceding year, but 
had not been able 


liminary details 
‘arranged in time 
to begin actual 
selling until that time. And these 
preliminary details seemed at first to 
be almost insurmountable obstacles. 


No Trained Agents 


In the first place, there were no 
trained agents available. Our sales 
organization had to be built complete- 
ly from raw material. It was recog- 
nized from the start that the “high- 
pressure” type of insurance salesman 
would not be compatible with the 
ideals of Country Life. For that rea- 
son inexperienced men were the only 
ones available. They were selected 
from the various counties on their 
records, and a series of intensive 
training schools conducted, not only to 
teach them the advantages of Country 
Life, but to instill in their minds the 
very fundamentals of life insurance 
practice. 

Officials of the Illinois Agricultural 
Association were not interested in 
building their foundations half way. 
They knew the need of the [Illinois 
farmer ‘for a sound, stable life—msur- 
ance, and they believed the farmer 
would take advantage of his oppor- 
tunity to obtain such life insurance, 
once it was presented to him. For 
that reason they built the foundation 
to support a truly big company, in 
every sense of the word. Today the 
wisdom of such a course is evident 
to the most casual observer. 

Not only had Country Life to build 
a sales organization, in the old days, 
but it had also to overcome doubts 
that existed among farmers them- 
selves. Old line insurance companies, 


L, A. WILLIAMS 


to get the pre- — 


some of whom were planning on get- 


ting a large amount of farm business, 
spread propaganda against the idea. 
Even some Farm Bureau .members 
were doubtful whether in such a spe- 
cialized, complicated business as life 
insurance it would be possible for a 
co-operative farm organization to suc- 
ceed and it took months to prove to 
them that their attitude was a mis- 
taken one. 


Complete Confidence 


Country Life has enjoyed the com- 
plete confidence of Illinois farmers, and 
while there are scores of cases that 
could be cited where Farm Bureau 
members signed policy applications, 
largely from a sense of loyalty, the 
great. majority had confidence in the 
Illinois Agricultural Association 
which made the company possible. As 
Country Life has continued to grow 
and develop doubters have been con- 
vinced of its soundness and merit and 
have taken out two and even three 
additional policies, largely on the 
strength of the Country Life record. 

The opposition of other insurance 
organizations has all but disappeared. 
They needed only to be convinced that 
Country Life was a sound, conserva- 
tive organization, and that it was not 
founded on the promotional idea as so 
many companies have been in the 
past, companies, by the way, which 
have almost wholly disappeared due 
to the incr2zasing stringency of state 
insurance laws and state insurance 
supervision. 


At the close of the year 1929, in 
which we had about 11 months of 
actual operation, Country Life Insur- 
ance company had in force approxi- 
mately $19,000,000 of insurance. The 
increasing efficiency of its sales force, 
and the growth of public confidence 
in the organization was revealed at 
the close of 1980 when Country Life’s 
insurance in force had increased to 
$35,000,000. In 1931 it had further in- 
creased to $48,000,000; in 19382 it 
totalled $47,500,000 and the figure this 
year, according to present indications, 
will approximate $54,000,000 or more, 
an increase of about $7,000,000 during 
one of the worst business years in the 
country’s history. 


Term To Age 65 


Some of this increase, doubtless, 
has been due to the fixed policy of 
Country Life that its sole reason for 
existence is to serve its policyholders. 
In 1932 the officers of the company 
realized that due to the declining 
prices of farm products, it was becom- 
ing more and more difficult to write 
life insurance. The demand for in- 
surance was growing every day, farm- 


17 


ers. particularly realized the value of 
protection for the family in the case 
of death. Economic conditions, how- 
ever, were ‘such that they could not 
afford to pay premiums, no matter 
how urgently the protection was 
needed. In: response to this need, 


Country Life brought out and made 


available its so-called “Term to Age 
65” policy. This policy enabled the 
applicant to obtain complete protec- 
tion through a term insurance policy 
at an exceptionally low rate and un- 
der the contract convert his policy at 
any time: before he reached 65, to 


some other standard form more 


adapted to his particular needs. 


Know Farmer’s Needs 


Today the agents of Country Life 
Insurance, company number about 
3,200 individuals, located in virtually 
every county in Illinois. In each 
county, in addition, where there is an 
organized Farm Bureau, this Bureau 
acts for the company in the capacity 
of general agent. . The individuals in- 
clude general and special agents, the 
former devoting their full time to life 
insurance work, the latter working on 
a part time basis. A majority of these 
general and special agents, either are 
farmers at the present time, or they 
have been farmers at some _ period 
during their lives. This type of agent 
has been found to be the most suc- 
cessful for the reason that he under- 
stands the purposes for which the 
farmer needs life insurance, he under- 
stands the problems of the farmer 
from a standpoint ef paying premi- 
ums, and he is able therefore to 
select the most equitable and advan- 
tageous contract for his prospect, and 
the one which will in all probability 
be of the most value to the policy- 
holder. 


By the end of 1931, the Country 
Life Insurance program was so far 
advanced that it had come to the fore- 
front among the largest and most 
successful of Illinois companies, and 
during the year 1932 it gained the 
distinction of making the largest pro- 
portional gain in life insurance of any 
life company in the United States. 


One of the factors in Country Life’s 
success, which has attracted nation- 
wide attention among life insurance 
executives, is its amazing mortality 
record. During 1932 this record of 
death claims amounted to only about 
one-fourth of the average expect- 
ancy—that is, death claims totalled 
numerically about one-fourth of what 
the average would be in the entire 
United States. This is due to the 
sound policy of the medical depart- 
ment of the company under the di- 
rection of Dr. John A. Boland. 


18 


NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF 
ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 
MUTUAL INSURANCE CO, 


NOTICE is hereby given that the 
annual meeting of the members of 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance 
Company will be held on Wednesday, 
the 24th day of January, 1934, at the 
hour of 1:00 o’clock p. m., at the 
Hotel Wolford, Danville, Illinois, to 
elect directors, receive, and 
proved, confirm the report of the board 
of directors of the company for the 
fiscal year ending December 31, 1933, 
and to consider and, if approved, ratify 
and confirm all the acts and proceed- 
ings of the board of directors done and 
taken since the last annual meetin 
of the members of the company; an 
for the transaction of such further and 
other business as may properly come 
before the meeting. 

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, Novem- 
ber 20, 1933. 

GEORGE F. TULLOCK, Secretary. 


NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF 
ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL AU- 
DITING ASSOCIATION 


NOTICE is hereby given that the an- 
nual meeting of the members of IIli- 
nois Agricu tural Auditing Associa- 
tion will be held on Wednesday, the 
24th day of January, 1934, at the hour 
of 10 o’clock a. m., at the New Hotel 
Wolford, Danville, Illinois, to elect di- 
rectors, receive, and, if approved, con- 
firm the report of the Board of Direc- 
tors of the Association for the fiscal 


year ending December 31, 1933 and to . 


consider and, if approved, ratify and 
confirm all the acts and proceedings of 
the Board of Directors done and taken 
since the last annual meeting of the 
members of the Association; and for 
the transaction of such further and 
other business as may properly come 
before the meeting. 

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, November 


20. 1933 
. GEO. E. METZGER, 
Secretary. 


NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF 
ILLINOIS FARM BUREAU 
SERUM ASSOCIATION 


Notice is hereby given that the an- 
nual meeting of the members of TIlli- 
nois Farm Bureau Serum Aeeeciatien 

e 


Wolford, Danville, Illinois, 
directors, receive, and, if approved, 
confirm the report of the Board of Di- 
rectors of the Association for the fis- 
cal year ending December 31, 1933; and 
to consider and, if approved, ratify 
and confirm all the acts and proceed- 
ings of the Board of Directors done 
and taken since the last annual meet- 
ing of the members of the Association; 
and for the transaction of such further 
and other business as may properly 
come before the meeting. 

mates at Chicago, Illinois, November 


20, 193 
RAY E. MILLER, 
Secretary. 


NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF 
ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 
HOLDING COMPANY 


NOTICE is hereby given that the 
annual meeting of the stockholders of 
Tllinols Agricultural Holding Company 
will be held on Wednesday, the 24th 
day of January, 1934, at the hour of 
11:00 o’clock a. m., at the New Hotel 
Wolford, Danville, Illinois, to elect di- 
rectors, receive, and, if approved, con- 
firm the report of the board of di- 
rectors of the company for the fiscal 
year ending December 31, 1933, and to 
consider and, if approved, ratify and 
confirm all the acts and proceedings of 
the board of directors done and taken 
since the last annual meeting of the 
members of the company; and for the 
transaction of such further and other 
business as may properly come before 
the meeting. 

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, Novem- 


ber 20, 1933. 
GEORGE F. TULLOCK, Secretary. 


NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEBRT- 
ING_OF ILLINOIS AGRICUL- 
TURAL ASSOCIATION 


NOTICE is hereby given that 
the annual meeting of the mem- 
bers of ILLINOIS AGRICUL- 
TURAL ASSOCIATION will be 
convened at the New Hotel Wol- 
ford, in Danville, Illinois, on the 
25th day of January, i984, at 
9:00 o'clock a. m., 
lowing purposes: 


For the consideration and 
vote upon approval and ratifica- 
tion of the reports of the presi- 
dent, secretary and treasurer of 
the Association. and the acts of 
the board of directors and of- 
ficers in furtherance of the 
matters therein set forth, since 
the last annual meeting of the 
members of the Association. 

To approve, ratify and. con- 
firm the several purchases here- 
tofore made by this Association 
of stocks and evidences of in- 
debtedness of corporations whose 
activities will directly or indi- 
the Into ee esriculture or 

ests o 

therein, Ose engaged 

Oo secure consent and au- 
thorization to acquire on behalf 
of ' this Association, by  pur- 
chase, certain stocks and evi- 
dences of indebtedness of cor- 
porations whose activities will 
directly or indirectly promote 
agriculture or the interests of 
those engaged therein. 

To elect eight members to the 
board of directors for two-year 
terms. 

To elect a president and vice- 
hb ode he 

o consider any _ proposed 
amendments of the articles of 
association or of the by-laws of 
Illinois Agricultural Association 
as_may be properly submitted, 

For the transaction of such 
other business as may properly 
ore atone meeting. 

ated at cago, Ill., Novem- 
ber 20, ° 1933. zz 

GEO. E. METZGER, Secretary. 


for the fol- 


NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF 
ILLINOIS FARM BUREAU BASE- 
BALL LEAGUE 


NOTICE is hereby given that the an- 
nual meeting of the members of IIli- 
nois Farm Bureau. Baseball League 
will be held on Wednesday, the 24th 
day of January, 1934, at the hour of 
9:30 a. m. at the New Hotel Wolford, 
Danville, Illinois, to elect officers and 
directors, receive, and, if approved, con- 
firm the reports of the officers and 
executive committee of the League 
for the fiscal year ending December 
81, 1933 and to consider and, if ap- 
proved, ratify and confirm all the acts 
and proceedings of the board of di- 
rectors done and taken since the last 
annual mecGng. of the members of the 
League; and for the transaction of 
such further and other business as 
may properly come before the meet- 
ng. 

ated at Chicago, Illinois, November 
20, 1933. 
E. G THIEM, 
Secretary. 


FARMERS MUTUAL REINSURANCE 
COMPANY ANNUAL MEETING 


The annual meeting of the Farmers 
Mutual Reinsurance Company will be 
held at the New Hotel olford, Dan- 
baa aad P. M. Wednesday, January 

The annual reports of officers will 
be made and directors elected for the 
coming year. Policyholders are cor- 
dially invited to attend the meeting. 


By Oct. 16 the A. A. A. had dis- 
tributed nearly $90,000,000 to south- 
ern cotton growers as benefit pay- 
ments for acreage reduction. It is 
estimated that approximately $111,- 
000,000 will be paid out. 


I. A. A. RECORD—December, 1933 


Plan New Regulation 
of Buses and Trucks 


Farmers Hauling For Hire 
Would Come Under The 
Proposed Act 


A new motor carrier law has been 
prepared by the Illinois Commerce 
Commission to license and regulate 
motor truck and bus operators, also 
contract haulers. It will probably be - 
introduced in a special session of the 
General Assembly. 

Under the proposed law the com- 
mission would have power and author- 
ity, and the duty, to supervise and 
regulate every motor bus and truck 
hauling for hire in Illinois, to fix or 
approve rates, fares, charges, etc. and 
to establish rules and regulations per- 
taining thereto. 

Each regular motor carrier would 
be required to obtain a permit and to 
submit to the regulations of the com- 
mission. 

The commission would have full 
power and authority, and the duty, to 
supervise and regulate all “contract 
haulers” which would include farmers 
or others who contract to haul live- 
stock, grain, fruit and vegetables and 
other farm products for hire. The bill - 
would not apply to farmers who haul 
their own products. 

The motor carrier would be required 
to pay a $20 application fee and con- 
tract haulers would be required to pay 
a fee of $10. 

In addition to all other taxes and 
license fees a tax would be imposed 
upon motor carriers, interstate car- 
riers, and contract haulers at the rate 
of one mill per ton mile of travel. 

Each motor g¢arrier or contract 
hauler also would be required to file 
with the commission a sworn state- 
ment and a security, indemnity or 
bond guaranteeing the payment by 
such carrier of damages resulting 
from accidents due to the negligent 
use or operation of the vehicle. 

The I. A. A. was represented by G. 
W. Baxter at a hearing on the bill in 
Chicago Nov. 6. A further hearing 
was set for Nov. 20. The I. A. A. legal 
department is studying the proposed 
legislation and will participate in fur- 
ther hearings. 


Substitution of dolomitic limestone 
for sand as filler in mixed and nitrog- 
enous fertilizers which contain acid- 
forming ammonium salts, helps to pre- 
vent the harmful increase of acidity 
in many soils that are already too acid, 
according to the U. S. Bureau of 
Chemistry and Soils. 


Volume 12 
1934 


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at special rates of postage provided in Section 412, Act of Feb. 28. 
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Volume 12 


Come To The Annual Meeting 


Prepare For Victory Celebration at | 8th I. A. A. Convention 


ment program, the money prob- 
lem, plans for wheat acreage 
reduction in 1934, farm credits, and 
the question what is in store for the 
farmer in the next five years are 
among the leading problems that will 
be discussed at the coming 18th an- 
nual meeting of the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association and associated com- 
panies in Danville, Jan. 24-25-26. 
When the convention opens, con- 
gress will have been in session sev- 
eral weeks, and by that time the 
future plans of the administration and 
congress toward restoring parity 
prices for farm products will likely 
be more clearly defined. 


C= loans, the corn-hog adjust- 


The program of the convention, 


therefore, will be built 
with the idea of bringing 
up-to-date information to 
Illinois farmers on current 
issues and problems, on 
the administration of the 
Agricultural Adjustment 
Act affecting this state, on 
government efforts toward 
restoring an honest debt- 
paying dollar, and on fed- 
eral farm credits. 


The coming meeting 
promises to be a real vic- 
tory celebration with an 
outpouring of members 
from every part of the 
state which contributed 
so heavily in influence, 
money, and man power to- 
ward securing the enact- 
ment of the Agricultural 
Adjustment Act. With ag- 
gressive administration it 
is believed that the act 
has far more possibilities 
for restoring farm prices 


than have yet been tried. LAR service 


As this is written, it is 


fen 


in Danville, Jan. 24-25-26 


Reservations 


Do it now. Send in reser- 
vations for delegates and mem- 


bers from your county to Otis 
Kercher, farm adviser, Dan- 
ville, Ill. 


still too early to make definite an- 
nouncements regarding speakers and 
other details of the program. Chester 
C. Davis, Administrator of the Agri- 
cultural Adjustment Act, will speak 
at the annual banquet on Thursday 
night. Edward A. O’Neal, president of 
the American Farm Bureau Federa- 
tion, will be another banquet speaker. 


TROPHIES TAKEN 
IN BATTLE 


Mr. O’Neal will undoubtedly come 
from the national capital where he 
will be when congress convenes direct- 
ly after New Year’s Day. Other 
speakers will be announced later. 

Otis Kercher, Vermilion county 
farm adviser, reports that all will be 
in readiness to take care of a record 
crowd. Danville is a hospitable city 
with plenty of excellent hotel accommo- 
dations. It is situated on main high- 
ways both north and south, and east 
and west. It is also easily reached by 
train from all sections of the state be- 
ing on the main line of the C. & E, I. 
between Chicago and the south, and on 
the Big Four east and west. 

There will be little variation in the 
schedule of meetings of associated 
companies and organiza- 
tions on Wednesday, Jan. 
24. The annual meeting 
of the State Farm Bureau 
Baseball League tentative- 
ly is being set for 1:00 P. 
M. instead of the cus- 
tomary 9:30 to 10:00 A, 
M. The Serum Associa- 
tion and the Auditing As- 
sociaticn are expecting to 
start their meetings in the 
morning. Country Life In- 
surance Co. will have a 
conference for agents, and 
Illinois Fe m Supply Co. 
will sponsor a get-to- 
gether and conference for 
managers and directors of 
county service and supply 
companies, 


The annual meetings of 
the Illinois Agricultura) 
Mutual Insurance Com- 
pany and.Farmers Mutual 
Reinsurance Company are 
scheduled for Wednesday 
afternoon, and on Wed- 


(Continued on page 7) 


|. A. A. Proposes Revenue 
Amendment To Constitution 


Board of Directors Approves 
Principles of Measure Sub- 
mitted To State Com- 
mission 


HE board of directors of the 

I Illinois Agricultural Association 
recently approved the principles 

of a proposed amendment to the rev- 
enue article of the constitution and 
authorized the officers to make such 
changes in the wording as they 
thought advisable before sending it to 
the State Revenue Commission re- 
cently appointed by Governor Horner. 


The amendment proposed by the 
Association is as follows: 


RESOLVED, BY THE ...................... 
OF THE FIFTY-EIGHTH GENERAL 
ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF 
ILLINOIS, THE................-...---ses-0-- CON- 
CURRING HEREIN, That there shall 
be submitted to the electors of this 
state for adoption or rejection at the 
next election of members of the Gen- 
eral Assembl-- of the State of Illinois, 
in the manner provided by law, a 
proposition to amend Article IX of the 
Constitution, by amending Sections 1, 
2, 8, 9, 10 and 12 thereof and by ad- 
ding Section 14 thereto, these amended 
and added sections to read as follows: 


ARTICLE IX 


Sec. 1. The General Assembly shall 
provide such revenue as may be need- 
ful, in such manner as it shall, from 
time to time, direct by general law, 
uniform as to the persons, property, 
subjects or objects of taxation, or 
class or sub-class thereof, upen which 
it operates. 

Sec. 2. The property of the State, 
ceunties and other municipal corpora- 
tions, and such other property as may 
be used exclusively for agricultural 
and horticultural societies or for 
school, religious, charitable or ceme- 
tery purposes, and any other property 
or any class or sub-class thereof, 
designated by general law, may be ex- 
empted from taxation. In the assess- 
ment of real estate encumbered by 
public easement, any depreciation oc- 
casioned by such easement may be 
deducted in the valuation of such 
property. 

Sec. 3. Except for the payment of 
indebtedness existing at the adoption 
of this amendment, and of indebted- 
ness thereafter incurred by authority 
of a vote of the people of the State, 
county or other municipal corporation 
incurring the indebtedness, the aggre- 
gate of general taxes upon tangible 
property for all purposes for any one 


year on any such property situated 
within any city, village or incorporated 
town shall never exceed one per cen- 
tum of its fair cash value, and on any 
such property not situated within any 
city, village or incorporated town shall 
never exceed four-fifths of one per 
centum of its fair cash value. 


The General Assembly, shall, by 
general law, provide for an equitable 
allocation of the tax rates for taxes 
which may be levied upon tangible 
property for general purposes, among 
the several taxing bodies authorized to 
levy such taxes, and for proper su- 
pervision of tax levies, expenditures 
and the power to incur indebtedness. 

Sec. 9. The General Assembly may 
vest the corporate authorities of cities, 
towns and villages with power to make 
local improvements by special assess- 
ment, or by special taxation of con- 
tiguous property, or otherwise. For all 
other corporate purposes, all municipal 
corporations may be vested with au- 
thority to assess and collect taxes; but 
such taxes shall be uniform in respect 
to persons, property, objects and sub- 
jects of taxation, or any class or sub- 
class thereof, within the jurisdiction 
of the body imposing the same. 

Sec. 10. The General Assembly shall 
not impose taxes upon municipal cor- 
porations, or the inhabitants or prop- 
erty thereof, for corporate purposes, 
but shall require that the municipal 
corporations impose taxes for the pay- 


‘ment of debts contracts under author- 


ity of law, such taxes to be uniform 
in respect to the persons, property, ob- 
jects and subjects of taxation, or any 
class er sub-class thereof, within the 
jurisdiction of the body imposing the 
same. But the General Assembly, by 
general law passed by vote of two- 
thirds of the members elected to each 
House, may provide for the distribu- 
tion in whole or in part of taxes col- 
lected by the State, among the coun- 
ties and other municipal corporations 
of the State. Private property shall 
not be liable to be taken or sold for 
the payment of the corporate debts of 
a municipal corporation. 

Sec. 12. No county, city, township, 
school district, or other municipal cor- 
poration, shall be allowed to become 
indebted in any manner or for any 
purpose, to an amount, including 
existing indebtedness, in the aggre- 
gate exceeding five per centum on the 
value of the taxable property therein, 
to be ascertained by the last assess- 
ment for State and county taxes, pre- 
vious to the incurring of such indebted- 
ness. Nor shall any indebtedness be 
incurred unless a proposition therefor 
is first submitted: to a vote of the peo- 
ple of such county, city, township, 
school district, or other municipal cor- 


I, A. A, RECORD—January, 1934 


poration, and is approved by a major- 
ity of those voting on such proposi- 
tion. Any county, city, school district, 
or other municipal corporation incur- 
ring any indebtedness as aforesaid, 
shall before, or at the time of doing 
so, provide for the collection of a di- 
rect annual tax sufficient to pay the 
interest on such debt as it falls due, 
and also to pay and discharge the 
principal thereof within twenty years 
from the time of contracting the same. 
This section shall not be construed to 
prevent any county, city, township, 
school district, or other municipal 
corporation, from issuing their bonds 
in compliance with any vote of the 
people which may have been had prior 
to the adoption of this Constitution 
in pursuance of any law providing 
therefor. 

Sec. 14. In order that no inconve- 
nience may arise from sections 1, 2, 3, 
9, 10 and 12, as herein amended and 
that adequate time may be given for 
the enactment of legislation based 
upon such amendment and for judicial 
determination of the validity of such 
legislation, no law based upon the 
amendments herein made shall take 
effect prior to January 1, 1936, except 
insofar as may be necessary to pro- 
vide for putting such law into effect 
on such date and for the administra- 
tion thereof. None of the provisions 
of sections 1, 2, 3, 9, 10 and 12 as 
herein amended shall invalidate or in 
any way affect any tax levied or in- 
debtedness incurred prior to January 
1, 1936. 


$25,000,000 For Putting 
Unemployed On Land 


A total of $25,000;000 has been ap- 
propriated under the NRA to take peo- 
ple out of industrial centers and place 
them on the land on small farms for 
self-support. M. L. Wilson, former 
wheat administrator, has been placed 
in charge of this work. 

Some people believe that the big 
cities are more in need of city relief 
than the rural sections are in need of 
farm relief, Prof. Wilson said in a re- 
cent address. We hope to shift the 
unemployed in the industrial centers 
to good farm land so they may pro- 
vide their own subsistence. 

An experimental area of 1,200 acres 
has been secured near the coal fields 
in West Virginia which is being di- 
vided into small plots of three to six 
acres each. A factory building has 
been erected where the new settlers 
may work part time in producing 
needed factory products when they are 
not busy producing food for their own 
use. 


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I. A. A. RECORD—January, 1934 


The Peoria Producers Dairy 


This Fast-Growing Co-operative Is the Farmers’ Answer to Dealer Domination 


By “Jack” Countiss, Director Dairy Marketing 


S this is written, organized 
A milk producers in the Peoria 

milk shed have one of the 
fastest-growing milk distributing co- 
‘operatives in the country with 17 or 
more trucks on the street daily and are 
pressing for third place among the 
distributors in this thriving city of 
100,000 people. 

All this has been accomplished in 
the short time of four months or less, 
and grew out of the unreasonable de- 
mands of certain dealers who refused 
arbitration apparently because they 
are out to swell their profits to un- 
reasonable heights at the expense of 
the farmers. 

On Dec. 1, the Producers Dairy was 
bottling milk at the rate of 3,000 
quarts per day and volunteer solici- 
tors were calling on Peoria consumers 
daily picking up new business. 


“We have practically no complaints 
on either quality of our milk or upon 
service,” writes Wilfred Shaw, man- 
ager. “We rarely have a customer 
quit and all we need is additional vol- 
ume of business which is gradually 
being obtained through solicitors who 
are being provided at no expense to 
the company, by members of our vari- 
eus local units. 

“There is no doubt that at the pres- 
ent rate of growth this dairy will 


soon be the third largest in the city 
and possibly the second largest by 
the first of the year.” 


The story of the Illinois Milk Pro- 
ducers Association, the farmers or- 
ganization, which set up and made 
possible the Producers Dairy is an in- 
teresting one. Organized by the IIli- 
nois Agricultural Association and 
County Farm Bureaus in the Peoria 
territory about seven years ago, the 
association was effective as a collec- 


_ tive bargaining organization for many 


years in getting reasonable prices for 
the farmers who belonged. The base 
and surplus plan was followed from 
the beginning in an effort to control 
production in line with market de- 
mands, 


Dealer Activities 


In the beginning the Association 
sold milk to eleven dealers but one 
dairy, Roszell, began buying up other 
dairies until recently there were only 
four left. In the meantime, the Ros- 
zell Company not only eliminated a 
lot of competing dairies but became 
part of National Dairy Products 
Corp., the national chain. 

Dairy farms were established in 
the milk shed which were directly or 
indirectly controlled by the dairies 
through financing, contracts, or direct 


ownership. These farms refused to 
deal with the farmers association be- 
cause they received base price for all 
of their milk and association members 
were forced to sell approximately 
50% of their milk at butterfat prices 
or about 1c per qt. 


The Association members who had 
purchased cows and necessary equip- 
ment for producing high quality milk 
did not believe it was fair to their 
membership to have the dealers put 
in cows and compete with them on a 
market they were endeavoring to hold 
up by taking surplus price, or about 
75c per 100 lbs. for 50% of their milk. 
In the meantime the dealers had in- 
sisted that the Association should get 
rid of the “straw stack” farmers, a 
name they applied to small producers 
the Association was attempting to 
take care of. 


They insisted that if it were not for 
the tremendous amount of surplus 
which the Association insisted on sell- 
ing to them at 75c per 100 lbs. or 
about 50c per 100 Ibs. net at farms, 
they thought they could pay more 
than 3%c per quart for base milk 
which they were retailing for 10c per 
quart. They even informed the As- 
sociation’s management that unless 
some disposition was made of the 
“straw stack” farmers they would 


PART OF THE FLEET OF TRUCKS OF PEORIA PRODUCERS DAIRY 


Only a few months old, the Peoria Producers’ Dairy owned and controlled by the organized milk producers has shot ahead 
as an important factor in the Peoria milk market, At present rate of growth it will soon rank third and promises to rank 
second within a few months. More than 3,000 quarts of milk daily are being seld direct to the consumer. 


be forced to charge them 15c per 
100 lbs. for separating this milk. 
This would mean the farmer received 
a gross price of approximately 75c 
per 100 Ibs. for one-half of his milk 
delivered to the dealers platforms, 
less 25c for hauling, less 15c for 
separating and he would have net at 
the farm, approximately 35c per 100 
Ibs. for his milk. 


The Pet Farms 


At the same time, the dealers were 
assisting in the development of cer- 
tain farms which were receiving the 
so-called “base price” for all of their 
milk. Thus, in order to protect the 
interest of the so-called “straw stack” 
farmers, the Association was forced 
to equip a surplus milk plant for its 
members to handle this milk. Sepa- 
rators, churns, vats and all necessary 
equipment was installed. The milk 
was separated, the cream churned in- 
to high quality butter and the skim 
milk was either returned to the farms 
or manufactured into casein. By such 
a system the farmers’ organization 
was in a position to pay much more 
than 35c per 100 lbs. net for the mem- 
bers’ milk. 


After handling this milk for a few 
weeks the dealers decided they could 
pay more money for this milk. The 
Illinois Milk Producers Association 
was set up not to operate plants un- 
less forced to do so but to market 
high quality milk of their members 
for the most money possible, thus, 
when the dealers agreed to pay more 
money for surplus milk than our own 
plant could pay, the Association let 
them have it. But in the meantime 
the dealers had forced the farmers to 
equip a plant to handle their surplus 
milk. It then became necessary to 
supply this plant with sufficient but- 
terfat to operate it economically and 
in such a way that it could operate 
and make money for its farmer own- 
ers. It is so equipped that it can 
handle all of the milk on the market 
if necessary. 


The Spare Tires 


This situation along with the Rock 
Island controversy, had tremendous 
influence in the launching of a 
state-wide chain of co-operative 
creameries and surplus milk plants, 
known as the Illinois Producers’ 
Creameries which now has plants in 
active operation in the Rock Island 
area, Peoria and Bloomington. 

Although the Peoria market was 
being supplied with an abundance of 
high quality milk, and the producers 
were agreeable to a program of sell- 
ing all of their milk to the dealers and 


taking surplus prices for 50% of it and 
$1.65 for remaining one-half, the 
dealers continued their “cow deal.” 
In addition they insisted on going 
outside the milk shed and buying 38,- 
000 Ibs. milk daily, using this as they 
said for a SPARE TIRE. 


Our members said they didn’t see 
anything wrong with a fellow carry- 
ing one spare tire but when they in- 
sisted on carrying a whole set of tires 
as “spares,” it wasn’t a normal state 
of affairs. Either the driver had in 
mind getting off the straight wide 
smooth road and getting into a crooked 
rocky road among the hills, or he ex- 
pected to blow off the tires he had. 


The Association believed that the 
Peoria market should be maintained 
for the nearby producers and that 
there should be no “pet farms” receiv- 
ing all base price but that all pro- 
ducers should share the market equal- 
ly and that this market should not be 
replaced by milk brought in from out- 
side the trade territory to further re- 
duce the small proportionate amount 
of remaining base which the members 
had. 


The dealers continued these tactics 
and after weeks of unsuccessful ne- 
gotiations in whieh the. producers 
agreed to arbitrate the entire matter, 
they were forced to find a market for 
their milk other than that of the local 
distributors who were buying milk 
from farms 75 miles away. 


The Members Voted 


The members were called together 
and told that it was their milk, their 
market and they were the ones that 
received the milk checks; that the 
board and management had been un- 
able to get any kind of a deal with 
the dealers; that their last and most 
powerful weapon had not been used— 
that of putting our own milk on the 
doorstep of the consumer. The mem- 
bers, nearly 1,000 strong, were unani- 
mous in their decision to follow this 
latter plan. 

Nine thousand three hundred dollars 
worth of stock was purchased that 
night and within 10 days $28,000 of 
Peoria Producers Dairy stock had been 
bought by the members. A small plant 
and business known as “The Little 
Brown Dairy” was purchased by the 
producers. The I. A. A. and the Mis- 
sissippi Valley Milk Producers (a fed- 
eration of milk co-ops.) again endea- 
vored to get the groups together but 
after two weeks negotiations in which 
both dealers and producers had agreed 
on an 11c retail price and $2.00 to pro- 
ducers for base milk ith all farms 
on an equal basis, the cealers walked 
out and refused to even discuss the 
proposition further. 


I. A. A. RECORD—January, 1934 


During these negotiations, meetings 
had been held between the Mississippi 
Valley Milk Producers, and the Illi- 
nois Milk Dealers Association, for the 
purpose of jointly working out a milk 
code for the State. We were informed 
by their secretary that they would not 
co-operate on this program until the 
Peoria situation was _ satisfactorily 
settled, yet they could not find time 
to go to Peoria “at our invitation” to 
render any assistance in settling the 
controversy. Thus, the interest of 
other fluid milk markets was jeop- 
ardized because of this “stalling” pro- 
gram of the State Dealers Associa- 
tion. 

Thus, the only course left open to 
the producers was to go in business. 
Loyal members came to town and 
solicited from house to house. With- 
in a few weeks volume was increased 
800%. It has become necessary to 
install more equipment and move the 
office headquarters to another build- 
ing. Ei hteen trucks are now carry- 
ing a full line of Peoria Producers 
milk, cream, cottage cheese, butter 
and eggs direct to the consumers. 
This is another example of where 
greedy distributors have forced the 
producers against their will to go di- 
rect to the consumer with his prod- 
ucts. 


Co-op. Creamery In Rock 
Island Area Debt Free 


In a recent letter to Western IlIli- 
nois Farm Bureaus, F. J. Watson, 
manager of the Farmers Co-operative 
Dairy Products Company, one of the 
three co-operative creamery plants 
associated with Illinois Producers’ 
Creameries, which is serving the Rock 
Island territory, stated that the cost 
of the plant equipment as it stands is 
approximately $13,000. 


“We met with some disappointments 
as most individuals and business con- 
cerns did during the epidemic of bank 
failures,” said Mr. Watson. “Our loss 
was a little more‘than $5,600. Along 
with this and other unavoidable ex- 
penses due to dealer opposition in our 
territory we have still been able to 
forge ahead, have covered all losses, 
met all our obligations and at present 
we have only one more payment to 
make and our plant will be clear of 
all indebtedness. We could write this 
check tonight and still have some 
working capital left. 

“This is what can be done with vol- 
ume and a loyal membership. A loyal 
membership is the greatest asset a co- 
operative can have. 


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I. A. A. RECORD—January, 1934 


Edw. O'Neal Re-elected 
President of A. F. B. F. 


Earl C. Smith Re-elected Direc- 
tor From Illinois at National 
Convention In Chicago 


DWARD A. O’NEAL of Ala- 
E, bama was re-elected president 

of the American Farm Bureau 
Federation and Charles E. Hearst of 
Iowa, vice-president at the annual 
meeting of the organization in Chicago 
Dec. 11-12-13. 

Directors elected or re-elected for a 
two-year period include C. R. White, 
New York; Geo. Putnam, New Hamp- 
shire; Earl C. Smith, Illinois, M. L. 
Noon, Michigan; Murray Lincoln, Ohio 
(director at large); J. F. Holsinger, 
Virginia; and R. W. Blackburn, Cali- 
fornia. Mr. Holsinger is the only new 
director chosen. Holdover directors 
are W. H. Settle of Indiana; J. F. 
Porter, Tennessee; W. T. Spargo, New 
Jersey; A. J. Olson, Minnesota; L. E. 
Freudenthal, New Mexico; J. D. 
Yeager, Nevada; and Frank Dimmick, 
Louisiana. 


The convention was one of the best 
ever held in the history of the federa- 
tion. While there has been a loss in 
membership during the past two years 
delegates reported that membership is 
on the increase. It was a harmonious 
gathering. Secretary of Agriculture 
Henry A. Wallace; Administrator Geo. 
N. Peek; and Governor W. I. Myers 
of the Farm Credit Administration 
spoke to a packed house in the ball- 
room of the Sherman Hotel, Dec. 12. 


. President O‘Neal read a special mes- 


sage from President Roosevelt on the 
opening day. 

Secretary Wallace covered much the 
same’ subject matter and repeated 
statements made in previous speeches 
heretofore reported. The address of 
Geo. N. Peek is reproduced elsewhere 
in this issue. 

President O’Neal’s annual message 
was a carefully prepared and ably 
presented review of the Farm Bu- 
reau’s part in securing the far-reach- 
ing legislation enacted by the Congress 
last spring. Other intereSting addresses 
were made by Gov. McNutt of Indiana. 
Prof. M. L. Wilson, C. V. Gregory, 
Albert S. Goss, Miss Mary Mims of 
Louisiana, and Connie J. Bonslagel of 
Arkansas. 

At the board meeting following the 
convention, a committee of three in- 
cluding Earl Smith of Illinois, R. W. 
Blackburn of California, and C. R. 
White of New York were chosen to 
work with President O’Neal in re- 
vising the budget and making recom- 


mendations to the next meeting of the 
board. No action was taken regard- 
ing the suggestion that headquarters 
of the Federation be moved to Wash- 
ington, D, C. 

Resolutions adopted by the board of 
delegates the last day of the conven- 
tion largely reiterated previous dec- 
larations of the organization. Sup- 
port was given the monetary policies 
of President Roosevelt. While ap- 
preciation was expressed for the “sin- 
cerity of purpose generally shown by 
those charged with administration of 
the Agricultural Adjustment Act,” one 
resolution stated “that delay in ad- 
ministering certain provisions of the 
Act is resulting in the bankruptcy of 
many more farmers and cannot be 
further condoned.” Taxation, farm 
credits, freight and utility rates, bank 
guaranty of deposits, tariffs and ex- 
ports, direct buying of livestock, grain 
exchanges, T. B. eradication, roads, 
agricultural education, production 
control, licensing power under the 
AAA of processors, and export deben- 
tures were among the more important 
subjects covered by other resolutions. 
The complete resolutions are published 
in the A. F. B. F. weekly news letter 
and copies may be had by writing the 
office at 58 E. Washington St., Chi- 
cago. 


C. P. Cummings Goes To 
Farmers National, Peoria 


Chas. P. Cummings, formerly gen- 
eral manager of the Illinois Grain Cor- 
poration, has been employed by the 
Farmers National Grain Corporation 
as manager of their Peoria office and 
plant, one of the important branches 
of the nation-wide co-operative organ- 
ization. President G. C. Johnstone 
has been acting as manager pending 
the appointment of a successor. Mr. 
Harrison Fahrnkopf will continue to 
direct organization and field activities. 


Mr. Cummings, a grain man for 
more than 25 years, won the confi- 
dence of farmers elevator managers 
and producers throughout the state as 
shown by the constantly increasing 
volume of grain marketed co-opera- 
tively through the Illinois and Farm- 
ers National Grain Corporations. Last 
year the two organizations handled 
together more than 15,000,000 bu. of 
grain from this state. 

Mr. Fahrnkopf assisted by F. D. 
Barton and O. D. Brissendon has been 
a tireless worker in the acquisition of 
elevator members with the result that 
approximately 150 country elevators 
are now members of Illinois Grain 
Corporation. 


In his new position, Mr. Cummings 
will be in a position to maintain close 
contact with managers of member ele- 
vators and render assistance in secur- 
ing the best possible prices for grain. 


Come To The Eighteenth 
I. A. A. Annual Meeting 


(Continued from page 8) 


nesday night, the annual dinner for 
Farm Bureau presidents and farm 
advisers will be held as in past years, 
for which Mr. Kercher is planning 
some special entertainment. 


Members of the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association have a supreme 
voice in the affairs of the organiza- 
tion. Theoretically all membership 
institutions, corporations, mutual in- 
surance c- 1panies, etc. are controlled 
by their members, policyholders, or 
stockholders. Actually many of them 
are run by a few individuals for their 
own selfish ends. 


But the I. A. A. and all the associ- 
ated companies are real co-operatives, 
co-operative in operation and princi- 
ple. The members elect the board of 
delegates. The delegates choose the 
elective officers and half the board of 
directors annually. Further, every 
member has an opportunity to come 
to the annual meeting and offer sug- 
gestions or criticism for the good of 
the organization. 

This year as in past years, Thurs- 
day afternoon will be set aside for 
sectional conferences the time of 
which will be largely given to a dis- 
cussion of the various policies and 
projects of the association by mem- 
bers. 

The printed reports of the I. A. A. 
and associated companies with com- 
plete financial statements will be dis- 
tributed at the close of the Thursday 
morning session following the annual 
address of the president, and the 
secretary’s and treasurer’s reports. 

The annual banquet is scheduled to 
be held Thursday night in the Dan- 
ville Armory where the larger general 
sessions also will be held. The 
Armory has been remodeled inside to 
make it easy for speakers to be heard. 
In addition it will be equipped with 
a public address system. Headquar- 
ters for the meeting will be the Hotel 
Wolford. 


For every four families who in 1929 
had earnings of less than $1,200 a 
year in Birmingham, Detroit and Pitts- 
burgh there were 11 families below 
that level in 1932, according to the U. 
S. Public Health Service. 


a courtnk PN LTE m 


To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was or- 
ganized namely, to promote, protect and represent the busi- 
ness, economic, political and educational interests of the 
farmers of Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 


GEORGE THIEM, Editor 


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BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
(By Congressional District) 


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SEPP CEE EC CET PORT TES eee T ee Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 
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ROS 60.65 Seve cecded ceases esevsuspecadacs oi ttn . L. Cope, Salem 
MAR vanccsccncevevveacPasscvedcisessbevegvenen Charles Marshall, Belknap 
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DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 
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Dairy Marketing.........ccccccccccccccccccsscescecseecs J. B. Count'ss 
WANN 6h ocho cece ecee esse eeed dees e's oe ceded ceceenssocees R. A. Cowles 
Fruit and Vegetable Marketing..........ccccccescccscescevs H. W. Day 
PRG obo sb kl cee ccc ke necdc deh ecescoacescodasecacvovce George Thiem 
Imsurance Service .......ccccecccsecccccccecevess foe ecw gseavk Vv. Vaniman 
Legal Coumsel........cccccccccccccccccccccescsceccees Donald Kirkpatrick 
Live Stock Marketing.........ccccccccccvccccecccccececs Ray E. Miller 
QO a cccceccicgtapscccccacecqcvecdsicccvscgeescesesseces C. E. Johnston 
Onganiaattons oc\vvececsccvccdeciecccccssccccscscvecseesess G. E. Metzger 
Produce Marketing. .........ccccccsccccccecececcsscccsees F, A. Gougler 
Taxation and Statistic8...........cccccecccecccctecececees J. C. Watson 
Transportation.........ccceccccccccccccvcccccececdecececeas G. W. Baxter 
ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 
Country Life Insurance Co.........cc.ccccceccevecs L. A. Williams, Mgr. 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co............ccccceeeees J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Auditing Ass’n............... F. E. Ringham, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co......... A, E. Richardson, Mgr. 
Illinois Farm Supply Co..........ceceeeccessece L. R. Marchant, Mgr, 
Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange................+e: H. W. Day, Mer. 
Illinois Grain Corp........ccecccccccecccececs Harrison Fahrnkopf, Mgr. 


Illinois Livestock Market. Ass'n..Ray Miller, Mgr., R. W. Grieser, Sales 
Illinois Producers Creameries..F. A, Gougler, Mgr., J. B. Countiss, Sales 
Soybean Marketing Ase’n.........ccsccecccecececs J. W. Armstrong, Pres. 


Corn Loans Going Out 


ORN loans at 45 cents per bushel by the Commodity 
C¢ Credit Corporation are bringing the first substantial 

relief to many Illinois farmers under the Agricul- 
tural Adjustment Act. By Saturday night, Dec. 16, the 
Reconstruction Finance Corporation at Chicago had sent 
out a total of $1,121,000 in cash on corn loans into Illinois 
and Iowa farm communities. And this is only a beginning. 
Combined with wheat benefit checks now coming into IIli- 
nois, and the first cash payments for corn-hog reduction 
which should start flowing early next year, this new 


money promises to put new life into trade throughout the | 


corn belt. The effect is already apparent. Downstate 
bankers and merchants report increased activity in buying 
and payment of debts. Another important index is Farm 
Bureau membership which has improved perceptibly in 
the past two months. The livestock feeding sections are 
still suffering from abnormally low prices but these, it is 
hoped, will soon be benefited by the corn and hog adjust- 
ment payments which for this state are estimated at near- 
ly $40,000,000. Thus with $2,618,000 of wheat checks, a 
potential $45,000,000 of corn loans, and $40,000,000 of corn 
and hog payments coming in the next 15 months the value 
of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, which is largely the 


I. A. A. RECORD—January, 1934 


result of the Farm Bureau’s 12 year fight for government 
recognition, can no longer be doubted. 


There Must Be A Job Ahead 


HE only excuse for organization is to get things 
| done—to accomplish some worthy end. Failure to 
observe this simple principle is the primary reason 
why so many organizations die. Reporting her experiences 
in organizing farm women before the recent A. F. B. F. 
convention, the state home demonstration agent of Arkan- 
sas, Miss Bonslagel, gave epitaphs collected from the 
graves of organizations she has known. Following are 
a few of them: “We mistook the means for the end,” “I 
was talked to death,” “I died of serious and learned pa- 
pers,” “Leadership from outside the group proved fatal,” 
“I died of program jitters, trying to save the world all at 
once,” etc. 

Organization receives its greatest support when it is 
striving to accomplish something, particularly if the mem- 
bers are taking an active part in the project. Organiza- 
tion fails when it has no program. It must know what it 
wants and fight, if necessary, to achieve the goal. Having 
accomplished, it cannot rest on its laurels. It must go on 
to new fields of endeavor or decay will result. 


Debts And Stable Money 


NOTHER lesson the last few years have taught us 
A: that we are often too ready to go in debt. There 

is much truth in the quip, “people run in debt and 
crawl out.” Until some measure of stability in prices is 
secured through a commodity dollar, or otherwise, care- 
ful investors will not buy farms or any other costly prop- 
erty, on a shoestring, particularly in periods of prosperity. 
Recent experience certainly justifies experimentation to- 
ward establishing an honest dollar that does not greatly 
fluctuate in buying and debt-paying power. The human 
misery caused by every sharp decline in prices and income 
is a challenge to statesmanship. The right of property 
ought to be protected, but ownership should be the result 
of honest work and thrift, not mere speculation. 


Overproduction In Holland 
Hy “te nation famous flower bulbs, once the pride of 


the nation, are now a drug on the market after _ 


having made fortunes for many growers, reports 
the Reader’s Digest. Recently, in the Haarlem region, hun- 
dreds of thousands of tulips, hyacinths, and narcissi were 
destroyed—the object being to reduce the supply and in- 
crease prices. The Netherlands had a boom in bulbs com- 
parable to our stock market and Florida real estate spec- 
ulations. Prize bulbs sold for fabulous sums. More and 
more people went into growing bulbs to get rich quick. 
And with the usual result. The purebred livestock indus- 
try in this country had a similar experience during the 
post-war period. Whenever the price of anything gets out 
of line with its normal utility value, watch out. 


To Speed Corn-Hog Checks 


LANS to speed the first payments on corn and hog 
P reduction contracts, announced by Dr. A. G. Black 

of the A. A. A., is welcome news to Illinois farmers. 
By signing a “rider” sheet in which the grower agrees to 
accept any eorrections and adjustments in his production 
figures as may be found necessary, prompt mailing of 
checks is made possible. Otherwise payments would be 
held up pending a thorough check-up both in the county 
and at Washington. Benefit payments will be particularly 
welcome to hog producers because of present low hog 
prices in which the processing tax of $1.00 per cwt. is 
reflected. 


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{. A. A. RECORD—January, 1934 


Farm Advisers Report 
Many Ask For Loans 


Reconstruction Finance Corpora- 
tion, Chicago, Sends $1,121,- 
000 In Cash Into Illinois 
And Iowa First Week 


Reports from county advisers re- 
ceived by the I. A. A. Record indicate 
that thousands of farmers in all of the 
major grain producing counties are 
taking advantage of the federal loans 
of 45 cents a bushel on corn stored in 
sealed cribs on the farm. 


Estimates as to the percentage of 
farmers holding corn who will apply 
for loans vary in the different coun- 
ties from one up to 75 to 80 per cent. 

J. E. Harris, farm adviser of Mercer 
county, believes that the loan of $1125 
on 2500 bushels of corn made to E. R. 
Pattison through the Seaton State 
Bank on December 11 is the first loan 
to be cleared in the state. 


Guy Husted of Cass county esti- 
mates that 75 per cent of farmers hav- 
ing corn will apply for loans in that 
county. 


Edwin Bay of Sangamon county 
estimates that 30 per cent will apply 
for loans; R. J. Laible of McLean 
county estimates 50 to 75 per cent. “If 
the price of corn stays low for another 
two or three weeks probably 25 or 30 
per cent of our farmers will apply for 
loans,” writes G: F. Hoover of Douglas. 

C. E. Johnson of Iro- 
quois county estimates that 
60 per cent of farmers 
having corn there will ap- 
ply for loans; A. A. Olsen, 
Warren county, estimates 
50 to 60 per cent; S. S. 
Davis put the figure at 50 
per cent for Piatt county; 
H. M. Christian, Massac 
county, not to exceed five 
per cent; Shelby county 
around 50 per cent of those 
holding corn; Livingston 
county 50 per cent; Mc- 
Donough 25 per cent esti- 
mated by R. C. Doneghue; 
Henderson 65 -per cent; 
Mason county 50 per cent, 
according to C. S. Love; 
R. N. Rasmusen, DeKalb 
county, estimates that 15 
per cent in that county will 
apply for loans; Alfred 
Tate, Scott county, esti- 
mates 15 per cent; F. H. 
Shuman, Whiteside county, 
20 to 25 per cent. Shuman 
ceports that sealing started 
Dec. 11 when 150 farm- 
ers had applied for 
loans. 


In Tazewell county G. H. Iftner 
reports that 95 had applied for 
loans on Dec. 14. A. B. Schofield, 
chairman of the Ford County Ware- 
house board, stated that applications 
for sealing ran close to $100,000 the 


first day the board met. “It looks like © 


80 per cent of the corn in Ford county 
will be sealed for loans. Farmers 
throughout Illinois should appreciate 
the work of the I. A. A. in securing 
the enactment of the State Warehouse 
Act, continued Mr. Schofield. We esti- 
mate that our farmers will net about 
6% cents a bushel more for corn than 
farmers in Indiana and other states 
which do not have such an act.” 


A total of 420 farmers in McLean 
had applied for sealing of cribs on 
Dec. 14 when 110 loans had already 
been made on 250,000 bushels. 


A number of county advisers re- 
ported that banks were hesitant about 
taking the corn loan paper because 
they were not familiar with the pro- 
cedure for discounting the loans 
through the R. F. C. 


The Reconstruction Finance Cor- 
poration in the Federal Reserve Bank 
Building, Chicago, has been swamped 
with work for more than two weeks. 
Paper is being cleared as rapidly as 
possible, however, and money being 
sent out into rural communities. 

On Saturday, Dec. 16, a total of 
$1,121,000 in cash had been sent out 
on corn loans mostly in Illinois and 
Iowa. Forty employees were busy 


LET'S BUILD FOR STRENGTH 


checking paper sent in by coun 
banks and other local loan asec 
The loans are charged to the” Com- 
modity Credit Corporation but all de- 
tails are being handled by the R. F. C. 

In extreme northern and southern 
Illinois comparatively few corn loans 
will be made judging from farm ad- 
visers’ reports due to the fact that 
nearly all corn produced will be used 
for feeding. 


3860 New Members | 
Count Since Dec. 9th 


Complete reports as of December 9 
indicate that from October 9 to De- 
cember 9, a total of 3860 new Farm 
Bureau members were signed and paid 
for in the State Farm Bureau Mobili- 
zation Campaign states Secretary Geo. 
E. Metzger. In the organization of 
the campaign, the state was divided 
into three sections, Northern, Central 
and Southern. New members, accord- 
ing to sections, are as follows: north- 
ern 1489; central 1191; southern 1180. 


Several reports have been turned in 
to the office since December 9. These 
have not been included in the figures 
above. Marshall-Putnam is now get- 
ting busy, signing members and col- 
lecting dues. Henderson county in the 
week ending Dec. 16 signed 26 new 
members, making a total of 175 new 
members—the state record. Mason 
county signed 12 new 
members last week, bring- 
ing its total during the 
campaign to 160. Leon- 
ard Keith, captain in Ma- 
son county, says they are 
going to reach the 200 
mark by January 1. 
C. H. Wishop, captain 
in Winnebago county, re- 
ports that 23 new mem- 
bers were signed: and 39 
delinquents restored since 
the first of December. 
Cumberland county signed 
13 new members last week, 
bringing its total for the 
campaign to 53 new mem- 
bers. 

Captains should see to it 
that their membership 
campaign is wound up 
under the present agree- 
ment on December 31, says 
Mr. Metzger. Captains and 
lieutenants, however, may 
continue until January 6 
to sign new members who 
pay their dues at once and 
to collect post-dated paper 
due and payable on or be- 
fore December 31. 


10 


Let’s Have More 
Fun Along with 
Our Work 


By T. W. May, Farm Adviser, 
Madison County, Il. 


ANY people wishing to see the 
M Farm Bureau strengthened 
have expressed the opinion 
that more should be done to develop 
social and recreational activities 
among farm people, and that our pro- 
gram should be balanced to appeal to 
the entire family. 


A number of Illinois Farm Bureaus 
have been holding successful com- 
munity meetings with programs de- 
signed to interest farm people of all 
ages. Folks will come to worth-while 
and entertaining programs. A series 
of seven meetings held this fall in 
Madison County was attended by a 
total of 2,600 people, from grandpa 
down to the little tots (find ’em in the 
picture). 

The equivalent of 2,606 years of 
time which would otherwise be spent 
in growing corn, hogs and wheat will 
be released to Illinois farm families 
during the coming year alone as a re- 
sult of the Government’s agricultural 
adjustment program, according to one 
statistician. Recreation and leisure 
are becoming a real possibility for 
many farm families as the adjust- 
ment program goes forward. 


Farm life needs more social activity 
and recreation. A_ controlled-crop 
production, quoting Secretary Henry 
Wallace, and a retreat from surplus 
acres and surplus toil, will give the 
whole family not only more money but 
more time in which to live. Most farm 
folks, once the opportunity is afforded, 
will discover within themselves a wide 
variety of stimulating and pleasant 
things to do. County Farm Bureaus, 
through their community leaders, 
should be encouraging this new de- 
velopment by enlarging their social 
activities. 


Well-planned community meetings 
can be a decided help in building Farm 
Bureau membership. Non-members 
and their families should be invited 
and urged to attend; it is a lot better 
for the organization for them to be 
at the meeting learning what is going 
on than just staying at home. A pro- 
gram that will include recreation and 
mix up the crowd after the talks are 
finished can furnish an opportunity 


I. A. A. RECORD—January, 1934 


FARM BUREAU COMMUNITY MEETING MADISON COUNTY 


The whole family turns out for an evening of entertainment, recreation, and 


information. 


for contacts between members and 
non-members that is certain to lead 
to a better understanding. Even when 
there is no direct attempt to approach 
the non-member on the matter of 
membership (indeed this may often be 
the better policy), le can not help be- 
ing impressed by being with a large 
crowd of enthusiastic folks who be- 
lieve in organization. 


Most of us don’t realize how few 
opportunities our farm families have 
to get together for good entertain- 
ment and discussions of matters im- 
portant in running their business. 
Too many times we have taken for 
granted that the women and children 
would not care to. listen to a farm 
talk. Several of our visiting speakers 
have had the jitters upon entering a 
hall crowded with entire families, 
later to become inspired by the uni- 
versal interest and attention. The 
meeting is better in every way if the 
whole family is there, and the next 
day when they all talk it over, what 
one doesn’t remember another will. 
Isn’t that better than, at the break- 
fast table, “Well, Pop, did you learn 
anything last night while we had to 
stay. home?” 

Meetings should be carefully 
planned in advance. Start on time, 
and hold the program to an hour and 
a half. The talks should be about 
something of practical importance, 
with a few good licks for organiza- 
tion, agricultural adjustment, and the 
extension program. Then have some- 
thing for the folks to do after the 
program; don’t just get up from the 
seats and go home. Have some kind 
of recreation, depending upon what 
the community wants, that will keep 
the people there and get them better 
acquainted with each other. Use local 
talent on the program, with occasional 
outside speakers of ability. Arrange 
programs that will pack ’em in, and 
tell the papers how many attended, so 
the stay-at-homes will know that 
“somebody is interested in this Farm 


McLean County Wins 
National A. F. B. F. Trophy 


The McLean County Farm Bureau 
was awarded the custody of a hand- 
some loving cup and a check for $100 
for having the largest membership of 
any county Farm Bureau in the 
United States. The record for McLean 
county showed a total of 1,507 paid up 
members on Nov. 1. Los Angeles Co., 
California, was a close competitor 
with 1,501 members. McLean county 
now has 2122 members, according to 
Farm Adviser Laible, with more than 
1700 in good standing. The silver 
trophy will become the permanent pos- 
session of the county winning it three 
times. Los Angeles County won last 
year’s contest and San Joaquin Coun- 
ty, California, won in 1930 and 1931. 


The contest for the honor of a Farm 
Bureau having the greatest percentage 
of farmers in the county enrolled went 
to Nassau County, New York, for the 
second successive year. But of the 579 
farmers in that county, 457 are mem- 
bers of the courtty Farm Bureau, or a 
percentage of 78.9. Ventura County, 
California, was second with 651 farm- 
ers enrolled, out of 1,656. The prize in 
this contest is a cup which becomes 
the property of the winning county. 

To August Berger, of Jasper, Indi- 
ana, went the honor of being the 
champion membership solicitor. Mr. 
Berger, a voluntary worker, signed up 
152 members. Sidney Smith of Alta- 
mont, New York and Walter Arm- 
strong of the same place were tied for 
second place, with 128 memberships. 
The prize is a handsome medal and a 
trip to the American Farm Bureau 
Federation convention. 
—————————— 
Bureau business and we might as well 
find out what it:is all about.” 

Let’s develop the social possibilities 
of our organization, for in so doing 
we can help all the other projects, and 
have some good times, too. 


ore 


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I. A. A. RECORD—January, 1984 


1933 Experience Shows 
Value Co-op. Marketing 


Harry Day Reports On Sales of 
Fruits And Vegetables Dur- 
ing Past Season 


vegetable growers in Illinois 

during the past season empha- 
size the value of co-operative market- 
ing, reports H. W. Day, director of 
fruit and vegetable marketing for the 
I. A. A. 

Growers who market strawberries, 
peaches and watermelons through co- 
operative associa- 
tions generally 
secure more 
money for their 
products than 
other growers, he 
said. The price 
level of canta- 
loupes during the 
past season was 
low but the fact 
remains th at 
growers who be- 
long to the Poag 
and Beardstown co-operatives mar- 
keted practically all their cantaloupes 
while a substantial part of melons 
grown by non-members were not sold. 
The officers of our Beardstown as- 
sociation state that if they had not 
had a marketing association un- 
doubtedly only a very small percent- 
age of the crop grown in that com- 


Ee ¢ of fruit and 


munity would have been disposed of.. 


Day states that the truck situation 
is creating a problem that grows in 
intensity from year to year. The 1933 
peach crop was produced in a limited 
area of southern Illinois overrun by 
truck buyers. About 1,000 carlots of 
peaches were moved by truck from 
southern Illinois during the past sea- 
son. Truck peddlers also hauled out 
large quantities of strawberries, can- 
taloupes, watermelons and apples. 
Trucks have largely destroyed the or- 
derly marketing of perishable prod- 
ucts with the result that it is becom- 
ing increasingly difficult to adjust 
the supply of fruits and vegetables to 
market demands in the various cities. 


New Co-ops. 


The Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion established several new co-opera- 
tives during the past season including 
the Edgar County Strawberry Grow- 
ers Association at Paris, and the 
Beardstown Melon Growers Associa- 
tion. Assistance was given to other 
local groups. 

The Edgar county association has 
44 members involving around 200 


PACKING MELONS AT BEARDSTOWN 


Careful selection, and packing in standard size crates carrying melons of uni- 
form high quality is an important part of the program of this co-operative or- 
ganized by the I. A. A. and Cass County Farm Bureau, 


acres of berries. The sale of the crop 
this year was handled through the II- 
linois Fruit Growers Exchange from 
a central point in Paris. Approxi- 
mately 15,000 cases were sold, Eleven 
cars or around 4,600 cases were 
shipped by rail and the balance was 
sold to truck buyers. 

The average sale price was $1.40 
per 25 quart cases f. o. b. Paris. In 
the Centralia section more than 5,000 
cases of berries were marketed for 
growers through the Exchange; all 
were sold to truck buyers. 

The Poag Growers Association in 
Madison county has 33 members and 
during the past season assembled, 
graded, packed and sold 45,000 bushel 
boxes of cantaloupes from their new 
packing shed. The Beardstown asso- 
ciation with 98 members whose acre- 
age totaled around 700 of cantaloupes 
and watermelons sold more than 20,- 
000 bushel boxes of cantaloupes and 
the equivalent of 37 carloads of wa- 
termelons. 


Peaches Sell Well 


The Illinois Fruit Growers Ex- 
change which was organized by the 
I. A. A. 12 yrs. ago handled 309 cars 
of peaches and an additional 15,000 
bushels were sold direct to truck buy- 
ers. The crop in the Centralia area 
was only medium in size and prices 
were generally satisfactory. The price 
level ranged from 90 cents to $1.85 
per bushel at shipping point. Carlot 
shipments went in all directions. No 
market was in a position to take a 
great number of cars except at low 
prices. 

If Illinois had had an additional 500 
acres of peaches available, according 


to Mr. Day, the price level would have 
been much lower. 

The Exchange marketed 52 carloads 
of apples. The 1933 crop was one of 
the shortest ever produced due to un- 
favorable weather and unusually bad 
insect and disease conditions. Sub- 
stitutes for arsenate of lead proved 
ineffective in controlling the Codling 
Moth. 

Other commodities handled include 
10 cars of cabbages, 13 cars of pears 
and a few cars of other miscellaneous 
commodities, 

The Exchange succeeded during the 
past year in securing credit for grow- 
ers, to buy spray materials, packages 
and other supplies. The loans were 
repaid out of the proceeds received 
for products handled through the Ex- 
change. ; 

Mr. Day concludes that if the great- 
er percentage of fruits and vegetables 
grown in Illinois of standard com- 
modities could be sold co-operatively 
net returns could and would be sub- 
stantially improved. 


Tobacco Growers Get 
More Money For Crop 


Flue-cured tobacco growers are ex- 
pecting to receive approximately $75,- 
000,000 more for their crop this year 
than they received for the 1932 crop 
and around $60,000,000 more than they 
got for the 1931 crop, as a result of 
crop reduction efforts. 

In the preliminary sign-up 95 per 
cent of the growers pledged them- 
selves to sign formal agreements to 
reduce production to requirements in 
1934 and 1935. 


12 


Dealers Seek To Break 
Red Top Seed Co-operative 


The M. M. Schultz Seed Company 
recently circularized members of the 
Egyptian Seed Growers Exchange and 
supplied them with the necessary 
forms to make it convenient for the 
red top seed growers to withdraw 
from the Association. 

The material sent out included a let- 
ter apprizing the members of their 
opportunity to withdraw between the 
first and 20th day of October, an en- 
velope addressed and ready for mail- 
ing to the co-operative at Flora, and 
.a card addressed to the Exchange 
carrying the following statement: 

“I am informed that a notice has 
been mailed by you to different seed 
dealers that I am a member of the 
Egyptian Seed Growers Exchange as 
above. 

“If I am a member this is to de- 
mand of you that such membership 
be cancelled and further notice that 
membership is withdrawn and any 
claimed marketing agreement with me 
is null and void. This demand shall 
be effective as provided by the agree- 
ment.” 

Only a small number, less than 100 
of the nearly 3000 members of the 
Exchange, withdrew and most of these 
had not been co-operating in the sale 
of their seed. 

This is one of the many efforts 
made during recent years by the old- 
line seed houses to destroy the grow- 
ers’ organization. The Egyptian Seed 
Growers Exchange has been success- 
ful since it was organized by the 
I. A. A. 12 years ago in forcing local 
buyers to bid up for seed. This has 
seriously interfered with their profits 
and has resulted in both members and 
non-members getting a higher price 
for Red Top. 


Illinois Fruit Growers 
Object To Regulations 


The Illinois Fruit Growers Ex- 
change recently adopted a resolution, 
which has the support of the Illinois 
Agricultural Association, urging the 
U. S. Department of Agriculture to 
allow further leeway to fruit and 
vegetable producers in the form of a 
three-year moratorium on the enforce- 
ment of drastic regulations concern- 
ing minimum tolerances of arsenous 
oxide and lead, the residue from 
sprays, on fruits and vegetables. 

The resolution asks that the mora- 
torium be extended until such time as 
producers of fresh fruits and vege- 
tables are able to devise cheaper and 
more simple means of removal of the 


spray residue, or until effective ‘sub- 
stitutes are discovered for lead ar- 
senate. 

Illinois fruit growers contend that 
there is no sufficient evidence of in- 
jurious results from spray residue on 
fruits to justify such drastic regula- 
tions. 


Farm Advisers Resign 

F. A. Fisher, farm adviser in Macon 
county, resigned recently to take 
charge of erosion control work in Illi- 
nois under the civil works administra- 
tion. 

It is reported that J. H. Checkley, 
farm adviser, has tendered his resig- 
nation in Logan county to give full 
time to his work as secretary of the 
local national farm loan association. 
H. E. DeWerff also is reported to be 
leaving his work as adviser in Wood- 
ford county due to ill health. Lloyd 
Welch, formerly farm adviser in Han- 
cock county, has taken a position as 
district farm supervisor for a large 
life insurance company. 


Country Life Queen ) 
Contest At State Fair 


Uniform regulations governing 
Country Life Queen contests con- 
ducted by County Farm Bureaus were 
recently recommended by V. Vani- 
man, director of insurance service. 
The regulations provide that only girls 
between the ages of 16 and 24 inclu- 
sive be eligible; that contestants be 
limited to young women who come 
from the families of Farm Bureau 
members in good standing living on 
the farm, and that all the girls who 
enter be required to make their own 
dresses, 

The state contest for county winners 
selected at the Christmas parties the 
night of December 16 will be held at 
the Illinois State Fair next year 
rather than at the I. A. A. annual 
meeting as was previously suggested. 


New Home For Knox 
County Farm Bureau 


A new Farm Bureau home is being 
constructed opposite the Y. M. C. A. 
in Galesburg by the Knox County 
Farm Bureau. The Service Company 
is erecting a modern oil service station 
close by. The building will be ready 
for occupation early in 1934. 

The Farm Bureau building will be 
a two-story, fire-proof, brick struc- 
ture, with offices on the first floor and 
an auditorium above. 

The board of directors had such a 
home in mind 12 years ago when they 
started operating on a planned budget, 


I, A. A. RECORD—January, 1934 


By H. M. Conway, National Livestock 
Marketing Ass’n. 

The winter hog market now (Dec. 
18) should be around its winter low, 
and while supplies will continue large 
for the next four to six weeks the late 
winter reductions should soon be dis- 
counted by government buying for re- 
lief and by a stronger storage demand 
on the part of packers. Much of the 
normal improvement of prices will be « 
offset by the increasing processing tax. 

It seems advisable to market hogs 
only as they are fully finished, hold- 
ing the lighter end for later market- 
ing. Feeding the lighter weight pigs 
for late March and April looks best. 
As to feed prices a year from now, 
they are likely to be favorable for hog 
feeding and production. 

Supplies of fed cattle are still too 
large for any sharp price advance. 
There is still a carryover of old crop 
steers that must be sold before the full 
effect of the reduction in the new crop 
becomes apparent. Choice light steers 
will continue scarce for some time, 
and by late winter weight should be 
an asset when combined with finish 
and quality. 

Heifers are moving freely to feed 
lots, and in general too many steers 
and butcher cattle are in sight for the 
late spring and early summer, espe- 
cially at the time when prices were 
best this year. The government loans 
on corn are now discouraging cattle 
feeding, particularly the finishing of 
the better grades for the summer and 
fall markets. Purchases of fleshy 
choice feeders next spring should 
prove profitable when fully finished 
for the October market. 

Lambs continue in a favorable posi- 
tion with a rather strong consumptive 
demand in the East and with relative- 
ly high wool prices. Some caution has 
been suggested as to marketings in 
early January, but no material weaken- 
ing in prices at that time is expected. 
There is nothing to greatly improve 
the livestock situation outside of mone- 
tary inflation and a lower spread be- 
tween producer and consumer prices. 


comments the Knox County Farm Bu- 
reau Bulletin. Each year a small re- 
serve fund was set aside. This fund 
has accumulated throughout the years 
until now the building is being con- 
structed out of savings and will be en- 
tirely free of indebtedness when fin- 
ished, 

The building will cost $13,673.96. 
The heating and plumbing was let in 
a separate contract for $2,150. 


wy 


I. A. A. RECORD—January, 1934 


Achieving Equality — 


Remarks by GEORGE N. PEEK, Administrator, A. A. A., 
before the American Farm Bureau Federation, 
Chicago, Dec. 12, 1933 


own State, among my old friends, 

to talk over a few things—some 
new and some old. Since I took the 
job as Administrator of the Agricul- 
tural Adjustment Act last spring this 
is the first time I’ve left my desk to 
do any talking except over the radio. 
I came out here to find out how you 
feel about certain 
things, to let you 
know how I feel 
about them, and 
to tell you about 
some of our ac- 
tivities. To me 
agriculture is the 
most important 
industry in the 
country. It is the 
bed-rock upon 
which national 
prosperity rests. 
It must be made more profitable for 
the farmer. Later on I will discuss 


I: back home here again, in my 


GEO. N, PEEK 


the profit motive more fully, but right. 


now I want to say to you that if our 
profit system is to remain, I believe 
individual effort must be encouraged 
and rewarded, just as I believe that 
the profit system must be controlled 
and that it can be maintained only 
with honesty and decency. I further 
believe that under any system of gov- 
ernment individual effort must be en- 
couraged and the property rights of 
the individual protected. 

Seven months ago yesterday the 
Farm Act was signed by President 
Roosevelt, and the Agricultural Ad- 
justment Administration was organ- 
ized. We haven’t been able to do all 
that we had hoped to in that time, 
but we have done quite a bit. I shall 
begin by giving you an account of 
what we have accomplished to date, 
and why; and then go on from there. 


Getting Action Now 


You can’t hurry the sun. And you 
can’t hold it back. In the long, slow 
swing of the seasons which governs 
agricultural operations, seven months 
is no time at all. Much corn that was 
being planted when the President 
signrd the Farm Act is not yet in the 
crib. We had to wait for another 
season before we could properly get 
at the critical economic ache here in 


our Middle West. And, in the cir- 
cumstances prevailing, that has 
seemed, as you know, and as some of 
you have not hesitated to say, a long 
time to wait. 

The Administration is getting into 
action now out here in the agricul- 
tural heart of the country. I believe 
that the Middle West will be feeling 
better soon, and that its improved 
condition will be reflected throughout 
the Nation. But I don’t want to be 
interpreted as saying that the doctor 
is here at last with his little black 
bag, and that everything is going to 
be all right from now on. 

The situation that was dumped into 
the laps of the present Administration 
on March 4 of 1933 was at least 12 
years in the making. Our present 
farm situation is still a long way 
from satisfactory, but if you compare 
it with the way things were at the 
end of last winter, it makes the spot 
where we are now seem almost com- 
fortable. We have hope now, and 
reason for hope. And conditions a 
year ago, whether you looked at the 
thing as a farmer or as a city man, 
promised . sol: te ruin. 

For nine years, from 1920 until late 
in 1929, our open country was drained 
of money and of its best blood-stock 
by an unmerciful and uneven de- 
flation. For three years on top of 
that, from 1929 on through 1932, the 
open country was racked by price dis- 
parities which widened as the depres- 
sion deepened and spread. For nine 
years general business in this country 
was a soaring, pumped-up superstruc- 
ture, which seemed not to touch agri- 
culture, the foundation, at any point. 
Many people used the apparent in- 
dustrial prosperity as a sign reading, 
“Farm buying power no longer neces- 
sary for national prosperity.” The 
neglected foundation sagged. The en- 
tire structure of false, unshared pros- 
perity toppled. And it was agricul- 
ture, the foundation, which took the 
hardest punishment. Farming as a 
business was all but shattered in the 
depression that followed the general 
crash of 1929. 


Farm Deflation 


In 1928 the prices paid to farmers 
averaged around 50 percent above 


, 


13 


pre-war. By early 1933 they had 
dropped 50 percent below pre-war. 
The prices that farmers had to pay 
for things they bought was, in 1933, 
down to the pre-war level, but not 
below it. Thus, early in the year 
1983, farmers had only about half of 
their pre-war unit purchasing power. 
Gross farm income from crops pro- 
duced in 19382 was only half the 1929 


‘income. Interest and taxes had to be 


paid at the old levels. 

Capital value in agriculture stood 
at 79 billion dollars in 1919. By the 
beginning of 1929 it had shrunk to 58 
billion dollars. By the beginning of 
1933 another 20 lillion dollars in farm 
capital values had been drained away; 
the total stood at only 38 billion dol- 
lars. From a 79 billion dollar valua- 
tion down to a 88 billion dollar valua- 
tion, in 12 years! The fields and farm 
homes of this Nation were bled white. 

It may be asked how a business so 
brutally deflated managed in those 
same years to maintain that great 
flood of overproduction which by 1933 
had raised the cotton carry-over in 
this country to two and a half times 
its normal height, and piled up a 
wheat carry-over three times normal. 
Curiously enough, the disparity be- 
tween city and farm prices which we 
have been trying to offset is a situa- 
tion that brews its own poison, lead- 
ing to still wider price maladjust- 
ments, if left alone. As the President 
has said, we were a Nation half 
busted and half booming. The busted 
half, paying boom prices for interest, 
for taxes, and for all things pur- 
chased from town, had to grow more 
and more stuff for less and less 
money.. It takes twice as much 40- 
cent wheat as 80-cent wheat to meet 
a tax bill. It takes twice as much 
5-cent cotton as 10-cent cotton. It 
takes twice as many 3-cent hogs as 
6-cent hogs. And so on, to the bitter 
end. 

In consequence, last spring we 
found ourselves, as a Nation, with 
some 40 million acres more in crops 
than were cropped before the War; 
and this was in a changed world 
which for the present at least had 
shut down on the importation of our 
products, as we had on theirs. 


Distribution High 


Disorganized overproduction was 
only part of the trouble. Lack of 
foreign markets was only part. Dis- 
tribution tolls were too high. With 
agriculture prostrate at the end of 
1932, and with the cities sharing at 
last in the depression, many distribu- 
tion margins were still just as wide 
as they had been in 1929. In the last 
three years of the Old Deal, from 


14 


1929 through 1932, city incomes fell 
one-third; farm prices already peril- 
ously low, fell two-thirds; and the 
distribution spreads stayed wide. 
There was still good money in farm 
crops, if you didn’t happen to be 
growing them. Of the 15 leading 
corporations in point of earnings in 
1932, nine dealt in food and tobacco. 

The first job of the New Deal is an 
orderly transfusion of income; a re- 
distribution of buying power; not so 
much a sprinkling of money in: drib- 
bles from the top down; but a growth 
of spending from the grass-roots up. 
We have been putting money into 
overall pockets on the farm and in 
the factory. We already have evi- 
dence that when this is done, the 
money moves, restoring broken cir- 
cuits of business everywhere. And 
we are not giving that money away, 
either; we are getting something for 
it, something that ought to prove a 
force for permanent stability and 
progress, 

We are getting a thoroughgoing re- 
organization of both production and 
distribution, through which to avoid, 
in the future, the immense social 
losses of ungoverned, cut-throat com- 
petition. 

The Farm Act makes such a 
groundwork reorganization of agri- 
culture possible. It makes possible an 
adjustment of farm production to go- 
ing demand, at home and abroad. 
This and other new legislation make 
possible an effort toward adjusting 
distribution methods and costs; and 
provide for an adjustment of debts, 
with an adjusted dollar, if need be. 

You can’t change farm routine 
around the way you can in a factory. 
Changes take time. I sometimes hesi- 
tate to call what we have done to- 
ward correcting our national farm 
production schedules, a “program.” 
As often as not we were in the middle 
of the thing before we had much time 
to choose and deliberate; we were 
pushed on from behind. The situation 
was desperate. The pressure of a 
driving necessity was behind us. Many 
of our former opponents of farm 
legislation were in the front line in 
this push from behind. And all the 
time crops came along, ripening, in 
their own good time, as always, re- 
gardless of our wishes. 


The Cotton Deal 


Cotton was ripening in the southern 
part of the Cotton Belt when we still 
were setting up our organization last 
May. We had to go into action fast. 
We organized the cotton growers into 
county production control associations, 
plowed under 10% million acres of 
cotton, a quarter of the entire crop, 


and seeded $110,000,000 of new cash 
spending power in the cotton South. 
The weather fought against us, it 
fought for a surplus; but we pre- 
vented another year of 5-cent cotton 
that otherwise would have been a cer- 
tainty. 

To protect farmers against forced 
marketing, we are lending 10 cents a 
pound on Middling or better cotton 
now. And there is one interesting 
thing about this lending program of 
the Commodity Credit Corporation 
that I would like to mention. As soon 
as the Government made its lending 
intentions known, the banks down 
South came to life, and made like 
loans, privately. Only about one-third 
of the money so far loaned on cotton 
has come from the United States 
Treasury; the other two-thirds was 
loaned by banks, privately. That just 
goes to show that when there is as- 
surance of the farmer getting a rea- 
sonable amount for his crop, the pri- 
vate business structure of the com- 
munity begins to get some confidence 
and to function again, naturally and 
healthfully. I observe the same tend- 
ency beginning to operate out here as 
a result of our program of 45-cent 
loans on corn. 


Reducing Surpluses 


The 1934 cotton program calls for 
doing the job of reduction by taking 
the cotton out before it is planted. 
We are going to reduce the national 
cotton acreage from 40 million to 25 
million acres in 1934, and make com- 
pensating adjustment payments to 
cotton growers that probably will 
total 125 million dollars. 

To adjust the national wheat acre- 
age to the diminished overseas de- 
mands was an even bigger undertak- 
ing, but we had more time. With 
world accord, we have signed up about 
four-fifths of the entire American 
acreage for a three-year adjustment 
downward, with a 15 percent reduc- 
tion of acreage this year. The first 
of $100,000,000 adjustment money has 
gone out to the farmers. Wherever 
that money has reached, distress and 
tension have been relieved and hopes 
have been renewed. 

As an auxiliary device in clearing 
up the wheat surplus situation we ar- 
ranged to export to the Orient Pacific 
Northwest wheat which otherwise 
would have been forced East to 
burden the domestic markets heavily. 
In this way we were able to ship 
some of our surplus wheat off the top 
of the pile, at the same time that we 
were cutting in under the pile by pro- 
duction control. 

We have used, and shall use, every 
practical device for reducing this and 


I. A. A. RECORD—January, 1934 


other surpluses. Efforts have recent- 
ly been launched, for instance, to get 
the distillers back as a market for 
American grain. ' 

It seems that since prohibition, proc- 
esses have been developed for manu- 
facturing alcohol from _ blackstrap 
molasses, and from a synthetic proc- 
ess in the cracking of gas. Whether 
or not we favored repeal, repeal is 
here; and we think the grain-growing 
farmer should have the benefit of that 
market which he had in the pre- 
Prohibition days. 

The activities of the Surplus Relief 
Corporation in moving surpluses that 
otherwise would be worse than 
wasted, directly to the hungry and 
needy within, our own borders, are de- 
veloping into a very valuable form of 
surplus-removal; and one which no 
one, I am sure, will disapprove. That 
use of surpluses is to me, personally, 
one of. the most heart-warming things 
that has happened since our work 
started. The Agricultural Adjustment 
Administration does not have direct 
responsibility for this activity. It is 
under the direction of Mr. Harry Hop- 
kins; but we are certainly behind it 
100 percent. 

Similarly, the Agricultural Adjust- 
ment Administration cannot claim 
credit for the recognition of Russia 
but the reopening of that market for 
our products should absorb some of 
our surpluses. The whole question of 
further foreign trade will reward, I 
believe, a very careful looking-into. 
There has been set up an inter-de- 
partment Trade Commission to study 
the entire question of possible exports 
and imports; and on this commission 
agriculture is represented. 

When it comes to codes and mar- 
keting agreements, we have some out- 
standing successes, and a number of 
considerable steps in progress to re- 
port. I consider the flue-cured to- 
bacco agreement especially oustand- 
ing. By agreement with the big 
companies we have assured farmers a 
price 40 percent above the price pre- 
vailing when Governors were closing 
markets last summer. Further agree- 
ments, some of them coupled with a 
production control attack, are now in 
the works for fire-cured, air-cured, 
and Burley tobacco growers. 


Milk Agreements 


As to milk agreements, our prog- 
ress has been less uniform. We have 
made, on the whole, slow progress, 
often against the meanest sort of op- 
position from within the industry and 
from without. But within the past 
month or so we have closed a number 
of milk agreements, and have moved 

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toward others, some of which definite- 
ly tend to close the spread and get 
the farmer more money without cost- 
ing the consumer another cent. 

Our temporary stabilization action 
as to butter supported the market at 
a time when the need to do so was 
desperate. And for butter, as for 
wheat, we have managed to pry open 
a foreign outlet for a little of the 
surplus, at least. We have disposed 
of some butter to the War Depart- 
ment for use in the Philippines. This 
was done in competition with foreign 
countries. ...... 

The corn and hog problem is the 
biggest one in the whole farm picture, 
and the program we are now putting 
into action is the biggest we have 
undertaken so far. Because of the 
intricate inter-relations between corn 
and hogs, the thing is very complex 
and difficult to settle. It is going to 
take a lot of hard work, and some 
painfully hard thinking, to put this 
$350,000,000 program over, and to 
make it stick for permanent good ef- 
fect. It will mean a drastic cut in 
production, for the time being, any- 
way; and that is something nobody 
likes. But I have no doubt at all that 
the thinking farmers of the Corn Belt 
(and those, I should say, would mean 
pretty nearly all surviving farmers 
here) will go through with this corn- 
hog program, triumphantly. 

We have no panaceas or cure-alls 
to offer. To reduce corn acreage a 
fifth, and farrowing a fourth, is a 
difficult and trying job. But we have 
some concrete evidence that it is a 
sort of procedure which has worked 
wonders in the other parts of the 
country where it was first tried. And 
hundreds of millions of dollars seeded 
in directly at the grass roots in cash 
adjustment payments, make the treat- 
ment rather easy to take. With the 
corn-hog production control program 
I think should go a marketing agree- 
ment with packers....... 

Before passing on to the final stage 
of my remarks, I want to say a word 
about the spirit with which the Na- 
tion as a whole has accepted our pro- 
gram. The surprising thing, to me, 
is not that we have encountered op- 
position; but that we have encoun- 
tered so little. 

The country was ready to see this 
thing done. Most criticisms levelled 
against us have not been against our 
plans, but against our pace. The com- 
plaint was not against what we were 
doing, but that we weren’t doing it 
fast enough. We at Washington have 


been just as much aware of this ap- 
parent slowness as you have. We ac- 
cept the responsibility. Our only 
answer is that we have been working 
just as hard and as fast as we could 
in the circumstances. 


There has also been a limited 
amount of opposition on the part of 
city people who fear that adjustment 
payments are a subsidy of one class 
as against another. They have some- 
what the same fears as to the NRA. 
I think that is a short-sighted view 
to take. The short excerpts from re- 
ports that I have read you prove, I 
think, that more money for farmers 
to spend means more money circulat- 
ing quickly in town. It is just as true 
that great industrial activity and 
larger city payrolls m e an more 
money for farmers. It is just as dis- 
astrous to break the circuit of spend- 
ing in cities as it is to break it off at 
the edge of cities and try to keep the 
farm families on another and inferior 
income and standard of living. 


Chicago Farm Capital 


Here in the Middle West, which is 
my home, the need of a continued 
movement of trade between farm and 
town should be, by this time, especial- 
ly apparent. Chicago is the great 
commissary of the naturally richest 
expanse of farming country on earth. 
The whole history of Chicago’s 
growth is the history of the growth 
of the Mississippi Valley. When any- 
thing stifles that growth, trade in 
Chicago stagnates. When this great 
Valley blossoms forth in prosperity 
again, then and only then, will Chi- 
cago be back in stride. 

Now for the final part of my talk: 
about the profit system, and its de- 
tractors. All through this land there 
is constant discussion of the so-called 
new functions of Government, of Gov- 
ernment plans for this or that, of 
what the Government is going to do 
next. What is Government? 


This is what has been going through 
my mind. Our Government is not some 
mysterious device handed down from 
above or dug up from below. It is of 
our own making. In setting up our 
original Government our forefathers 
followed the English guild system of 
local self-sufficiency. As local gov- 
ernments expanded and interests 
crossed, overhead governments were 
set up, resulting in county and State 
governments. 


The Federal Government was sup- 
posed to intervene only in such mat- 
ters as could not be settled by the 
States themselves. The foundation of 
the whole structure from the first has 
been a respect for private property 


I, A. A. RECORD—January, 1934 


rights, and the sacredness of con- 
tracts. 


The Profit System 


There is great apprehension in the 
minds of many business men today 
about the relations of government to 
business. There is grave concern over 
the expressions of a few ultra-liberals 
about the Government taking over 
private business. If you want my 
opinion — personally, not officially, 
mind -you—I would say that this ap- 
prehension is unwarranted. Unless it 
hustles, the Government has more hay 
down now than it will get up before 
it rains. 

Legitimate profits have always been 
regarded in this country as a proper 
reward for individual initiative, in- 
dustry, and thrift. I know of no sub- 
stitute for such traits. I am in favor 
of the profit system; but I am in favor 
of starting with the farmer. 

There is abroad in the land a propa- 
ganda of more or less importance for 
doing away with the profit system. 
This means no more and no less than 
doing away with the institutions un- 
der which we have all grown up and 
prospered more or less. I am against 
the racketeers of high finance as 
much as I am against the racketeers 
in the underworld. But the remedy 
lies not in destroying our institutions. 
It lies in reaching these racketeers in 
high places under the laws of our 
land. If these laws are inadequate, 
they should be revised and extended 
so that no guilty man shall escape. I 
am dead against the malpractices of 
the so-called monopolies; I say “so- 
called” to differentiate between “male- 
factors of great wealth” and the mil- 
lions of heads of business, large and 
small, performing a useful service. 

Government owes no man a living. 
But it is the duty of government to 
intervene on behalf of any man who is 
prevented from following his ordinary 
lawful pursuits in an effort to support 
himself and his family. That is why 
I have said for a dozen years that it 
is the duty of the National Govern- 
ment to intervene on behalf of the 
American farmer, for against the 
farmer barriers have been set up, and 
these barriers have resulted in mil- 
lions of our worthiest people losing 
their homes and their lands through 
no fault of their own. 


Farm Strike Futile 


I do not criticize the farmers for 
protesting at delays in relief from 
such conditions. I have protested, 
myself, as long as any man within the 
reach of my voice. I do not protest 
against the hot impatience of some 
farm leaders. I do protest against 

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1. A. A. RECORD—January, 1934 


Farm Bureau Services 
Not Fully Appreciated 


Talmage DeFrees Discusses 
Achievements of Organization 
In Bond County Address 


HE real service of the Farm 

I Bureau movement is frequent- 

ly not recognized by the aver- 
age member President Talmage De- 
Frees of the Bond County Farm Bu- 
reau said recently in addressing the 
annual meeting in Bond county. “This 
major service comes by reason of the 
great numerical strength of the state 
and national organizations which are 
today the largest and most influential 
said - organized group 
of farmers in the 
world. It would 
seem that every 
farmer thinking 
of his interests 
would desire to be 
affiliated with 
such a group. I 
have no_ doubt 
that if farmers 
were all properly 
informed such a 
result would come 
about almost automatically. 

“The work of the tax department of 
the Illinois Agricultural Association 
in the passage of legislation, and the 
prevention of the. passage of bills 
inimical to the farmer’s interest has 
been the means of saving the farmers 
of Illinois millions of dollars. The 
enly group at Springfield during the 
sessions of the General Assembly, that 
is actively engaged in safeguarding 
the interests of the farmer, and I will 
add the interests of the small home 
owner in the small towns and villages 
as well, is the able committee com- 
posed of President Earl C. Smith, 
Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick, 
Tax Expert John C. Watson, Chas. 
Black and others representing the 
Illinois Agricultural Association. Your 
membership in the Farm Bureau 
makes possible this kind of work. Had 
there been no Illinois Agricultural As- 
sociation it is difficult to estimate 
what the burden of taxation on the 
Illinois farms would be today. 

“The influence of this great body 
does not stop at the boundaries of 
our state, but by reason of its 
strength coupled with the fact that 
its President, Earl C. Smith, is prob- 
ably the most influential and outstand- 
ing man in the whole field of agricul- 
ture today, its influence is felt in the 
halls of congress at Washington. The 
other night in a radio address which 
doubtless many of you heard, Clifford 
Gregory, editor of Prairie Farmer, 


TALMAGE DEFREES 


spoke of the fact that a number of 
the governors of the mid-western 
states were in Washington seeking 
some sort of relief for agriculture, and 
Mr. Gregory said that it was his be- 
lief that Earl Smith single-handed 
could accomplish more in Washington 
than ‘this entire group. The other day 
8,000 farmers assembled in Peoria 
on a two-days’ notice of Presi- 
dent Smith. Among those who ad- 
dressed this. gathering was Henry T. 
Rainey, Speaker of the House. Mr. 
Rainey spoke of the fact that at the 
present time when his office and the 
office of the President of the United 
States desired information on farm 
problems they called into conference 
Earl Smith, and I happen to know that 
Mr. Smith is in Washington a great 
deal at this time. 

“Friends, this whole gigantic pro- 
gram for agricultural rehabilitation 
has come about as a result of the ef- 
forts of organized agriculture. Most 
of the things advocated and being 
tried out by the present administra- 
tion are the things that our organiza- 
tion has been preaching for the last 
12 years. We have gone a long ways, 
we have accomplished much, but we 
are constantly forced to think what we 
might accomplish if we had the sup- 
port of all the farmers of this great 
state.” 


Alex. Legge Endows 
Research Foundation 


Sudden Death Brings To Light 
Legacy For Improvement 
of Farm Life 


BEQUEST of $500,000 was left 

A by Alexander Legge, president 
of the International Harvester 
Company and former chairman of the 
Federal Farm Board, who died recent- 
ly, to endow the “Farm Foundation.” 
Prior to his death Mr. Legge had al- 
ready contributed $400,000 to the 
foundation which is to be a _ philan- 
thropic organiza- 
tion to carry on 
research and ex- 
perimental work 
for the improve- 
ment of farm life. 
Frank O. Low- 
den of Oregon, IIl. 
is chairman of the 
board of trustees 
of the foundation. 
Other members 
are as follows: 
Bernard M. 
Baruch, George McDonald, Clarence 
Poe, Mary Harriman Rumsey, John 
Stuart, Clifford V. Gregory, Charles 
C. Teague, Roy Johnson, W. E. Riegel, 
R. E. Lambert, Melvin A. Traylor, 


ALEX. LEGGE 


Upholds "New Deal" 
In 4-H Club Address 


I. A. A. And Associated Com- 
panies Entertain Illinois Club 
Champions In Chicago 


Dean H. W. Mumford of the College 
of Agriculture, University of Illinois, 
upheld the underlying principle of the 
“new deal” to “restore to the common 
people an equal opportunity,” in ad- 
dressing the annual dinner given by 
the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Associa- 
tion and _ asso- 
ciated companies 
to Illinois 4-H 
Club champions 
at the Great 
Northern Hotel, 
Chicago, the 
night. of Dec. 6. 
More than 200 
club members, 
club leaders, county advisers, I. A. A. 
officials and their guests attended. 

Speaking specifically to the 160 club 
members Dean Mumford said: “You 
should concern yourselves with what 
you can contribute to the new deal, not 
alone with what the government can 
do for you. No government can do for 
you what you can and must do for 
yourself. You will not have every- 
thing to your liking. In a sense you 
can raise yourself by your own boot- 
straps.” 

Earl C. Smith, president of the 
I, A. A., congratulated the club mem- 
bers on their achievements and voiced 
the interest in and support of the As- 
sociation to 4-H Club activities. In 
introducing Dean Mumford he com- 
mented on the friendly relationship 
and co-operation which has existed for 
many years between the State College 
of Agriculture Extension Service and 
the Farm Bureau movement in Illinois. 


DEAN MUMFORD 


Owen D. Young, Robert E. Wood, 
Ralph Budd, Dan A. Wallace, Frank 
E. Mullen, Chris L. Christensen, A. R. 
Mann, and F. D. Farrell. 

The trust agreement by which the 
trustees agreed to establish the founda- 
dation, according to newspaper state- 
ment sets forth the following purposes: 

1. To encourage and develop co-op- 
erative effort and community organ- 
ization and consciousness as means of 
improving the social, economic, edu- 
cational, and cultural conditions of 
rural life. 

2. To stimulate and conduct research 
and experimental work for the study 
of any economic, social, educational or 
scientific problem of importance to 
any substantial portion of the rural 
population of the country, including 
problems of production, marketing, 


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OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS ILLINOIS FARM SUPPLY CO. 


First meeting of new board following annual meeting. The board re-elecied 
its officers. Left to right around table: Harry Ebbert, Effingham County; J. M. 
Eyman, Macon County; H. A. Keele, Macoupin County; R. A. Cowles, treasurer; 
Geo. F. Tullock, Winnebago County, vice-president; Fred E. Herndon, MeDonough 
County, president; E. E, Stevenson, LaSalle County, secretary; L. R. Marchant, 
manager; Mrs. Dawson, secretary to manager; Frank J. Flynn, Morgan County; 
Thos. J. Penman, Kendall County; Grant Broster, White County. 


and purchasing and the sound co-ordi- 
nation of the agricultural with the in- 
dustrial, financial, and mercantile life 
of the country. 

3. To encourage, aid or finance any 
university, institution, corporation or 
persons in the conduct of such re- 
search or experimental work. 

4. To disseminate educational and 
useful information developed as a re- 
sult of any such study, in such a man- 
ner as to be of practical value to the 
farming population. 

5. To promote and enlarge the in- 
tellectual and cultural interests and 
opportunities of the rural population 
through community action. 

The trust agreement provides that a 
sum up to 10 per cent of the total 
endowment may be used to set up 
buildings and laboratories for farm 
experimental work. The trust agree- 
ment was drawn last Feb. 10 and pro- 
vides limited terms of office for the 
respective trustees, running from one 
to five years. 


Heart Attack Fatal 


Mr. Legge passed away very sud- 
denly on Sunday, December 3, from a 
heart attack. He was 68 years old. He 
had been out on his farm south of 
Hinsdale planting shrubbery. Over- 
exertion is thought to have caused his 
sudden death. 

Mr. Legge became widely known to 
farmers as chairman of the Federal 
Farm Board. He spoke at the annual 
meeting of the Illinois Agricultural As- 
sociation in Springfield, January, 1931. 

Mr. Legge was a close friend of 
President Earl C. Smith and visited 
the I. A. A. offices on many occasions 
during recent years. He was generally 
regarded as a sincere friend of agri- 
culture. His strenuous work as chair- 
man of the Farm Board undoubtedly 
shortened his life. 


$9,000,000 In Loans 
To Illinois Farmers 


During November Illinois farmers 
received 1,030 loans amounting to $4,- 
306,900 from the Federal Land Bank 
of St. Louis. Since May 1 the St. 
Louis Land Bank has made 2,227 loans 
for nearly $9,000,000 to Illinois farm- 
ers chiefly for refinancing farm mort- 
gages and notes. 

During November, 1,933 new appli- 
cations for nearly $14,000,000 in loans 
were received from Illinois. October 
applications totaled more than $12,- 
000,000. Loans are of two types: The 
regular land bank loans and the com- 
missioner’s loans. The regular land 
bank loans may be used for buying 
or improving a farm, for purchasing 
livestock, equipment, or fertilizer, for 
refinancing farm mortgages, bank 
notes, and for paying other old debts. 
The commissioner’s loans can be used 
only for refinancing or paying old 
debts and for redeeming or repurchas- 
ing farms lost through tax sales or 
foreclosure. Most of the loans made 
by the Land Bank at the present time 
are for refinancing farm mortgages 
and notes. 


NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING 
OF [ILLINOIS PRODUCERS 
CREAMERIES 
NOTICE is hereby given that the annual 
meeting of the stockholders of Illinois 
Producers Creameries will be held on Wed- 
vesday, the 24th day of January, 1934, at 
the honr of 1:30 o’clock p. m, at the New 


Hotel Wolford, Danville, Illinois, to elect 
directors, receive, and, if approved, confirm 
the report of the board of directors of the 
company for the fiscal year ending Decem- 


ber 31, 1933, and to consider and, if ap- 
proved, ratify and confirm all the acts and 
proceedings of the board of directors done 
and taken since the last annual meeting of 
the m:mbers of the company and to amend 
the By-Laws with reference to notice of 
meetings; and for the transaction of such 
further and other busness as may properly 
ceme before the meeting. 

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, December 18, 


1933. 
ELERY A. LEFFERS, Secretary 


I, A. A. RECORD—January, 1934 


Achieving Equality 
(Continued from page 16) 
their methods, because I think they 
are futile. And I protest against a 
strike aimed at the President of the 
United States and his Administration 
—an Administration which honestly 
is endeavoring to do all that agricul- 
ture has asked of previous Adminis- 
trations: that is to say, restore equal- 

ity to agriculture. 

The farmer is naturally capitalistic. 
But he can be driven so far that in 
desperation he will turn to radicalism, 
and fight with any weapons he can 
lay hands on to save his home. Farm- 
ers have been close to that point, not 
the hotheads only, but the great con- 
servative, thoughtful mass of them, 
these past few years. So close to it 
that now things have eased a little, 
and look better, it would be stupid in- 
deed to overlook the lesson that is to 
be learned from it all. 

It is this: You can’t build a profit 


system and leave the foundation out. 


We tried it and it just about wrecked 
us all. The masses of the people must 


be benefited. They must not be made 


servile to a few overlords. I certainly 
don’t want to be an alarmist; but I 
do want, with all possible emphasis, 
in concluding, to. say this: 

The only possibility of security for 
the property owners of this country is 
to have a large majority of our people 
as property owners, large or small, 
and to see that they are secure in the 
ownership of their property. They 
should not be permitted to lose it 
through no fault of their own. Upon 
this promise rests the only - security 
for the Nation. When this condition 
prevails and not until then will farm- 
ers realize in full their part in the 
New Deal. 

I am not committed to any one 
method of farm adjustment. I have 
not yet seen the perfect system either 
for the farmer, for the laborer, or for 
industry. I feel that fundamental 
plans should be discussed and under- 
stood before adoption; that new meth- 
ods of social control should be clearly 
outlined, and that the people as a 
whole should have the right and duty 
to make the ultimate decision. For 
(to quote Mr. Justice Holmes)— 

“When men have realized that time 
has upset many fighting faiths, they 
may come to believe * * * that the 
ultimate good desired is better 
reached by free trade in ideas—that 
the best test of truth is the power of 
the thought to get itself accepted in 
the competition of the market, and 
that truth is the only ground upon 
which their wishes safely can be car- 
ried out. That, at any rate, is the 
theory of our Constitution.” 


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Volume 12 


Best Annual Meeting 
In History 


So Said Many Who Attended 19th Annual Convention 
At Danville 


EVER has the I. A. A. had a 
greater nor more enthusiastic 
convention than the 19th an- 

nual meeting held Jan. 24-25-26 at 
Danville. 

This was the consensus of opinion 
expressed by many Farm Bureau lead- 
ers as they departed for home Friday 
afternoon after a busy, eventful three- 
day session. 

In attendance the meeting was esti- 
mated to be larger than any held for 
several years but in spirit and en- 
thusiasm it was outstanding, reflect- 
ing the new hope and feeling that bet- 
ter days are in store for the farmer 
in the immediate future. Local ob- 
servers estimated attendance at be- 
tween 4,000 and 5,000 people. All 
hotels were taxed to capacity and the 
overflow was taken care of in the 
homes of Danville’s hospitable people. 

Each of the 95 County Farm Bu- 
reaus were represented by delegations 
running up to 100 or more per county. 
Many came in their own cars and in 
specially chartered buses. Others took 
advantage of the attractive low rail 
rates on all western lines. 

There was unbounded faith ex- 
pressed in the possibilities of improv- 
ing the welfare of agriculture through 
organization and co-operation. There 
was pardonable pride in the fact that 
Illinois farmers have developed the 
largest state farm organization in 
America with a long record of achieve- 
ment in legislation, tax equalization, 
marketing and buying co-operatives, 
and money-saving insurance service. 

There was appreciation for the suc- 
cessful efforts of organized agricul- 


‘ture aided by a friendly administration 


in securing the Agricultural Adjust- 
ment Act, corn loans, and benefit pay- 
ments for crop reduction to bridge the 


gap pending improvement in farm 
prices. 

The different speakers appeared as 
scheduled, Chester C. Davis and Edw. 
A. O’Neal aided by the Pawnee Four 
providing a highly interesting banquet 
program. Their addresses are reported 
elsewhere in this issue. 

J. M. Huston of St. Louis gave an 
enlightening talk on production credit 
associations and Dr. F. A. Pearson of 
Cornell University handled a difficult 
subject, “Gold and Revaluation of the 
Dollar,” in a vigorous, clean-cut, and 
understandable way, on the Friday 
morning program. 

Featuring the Thursday morning 
program was the annual address of 
President Earl C. Smith and the re- 
ports of Secretary Geo. E. Metzger 
and Treasurer Robt. A. Cowles. The 
treasurer’s report showed a gain in 
the assets of the Association from 
$293,476.70 a year ago to $325,476.70 
at the close of 1933 with an excess of 
income over expense for 1933 of $44,- 
719.57 compared with a deficit of $13,- 
145.84 for the year 1932. 

Clifford V. Gregory, editor of Prairie 
Farmer, made an interesting talk on 
the money question and significance 
of the dollar devaluation program of 
President Roosevelt, before the Audit- 
ing Association annual meeting on 
Wednesday. The Illinois Farm Bureau 
Baseball League had one of the best 
meetings ever held where Carl Lund- 
gren, baseball coach at the University 
of Illinois and former pitcher for the 
old Chicago Cubs, led a highly enter- 
taining and valuable discussion on the 
less understood rules in baseball. 

All of the insurance meetings were 
well attended. Illinois Farm Supply 
Co. sponsored a conference for direc- 
tors and managers of county service 


SENDS GREETINGS 


FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT 


President Franklin D. Roose- 
velt received a great ovation 
from nearly 3,000 delegates, 
members, and visitors who 
crowded into Danville’s big 
armory at the annual I. A. A. 
banquet Thursday night. The 
occasion was a telegram from 
the President extending his 
greeting to the convention. 

The message received and 
read by President Earl C. Smith 
is as follows:— 

“In wishing the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association a successful 
meeting I feel that I am address- 
ing a body which has always 
been one of the mainstays of or- 
ganized agriculture. It is en- 
couraging to hear from so many 
sources that the American farm- 
er today faces the future with 
new hope. We must, however, 
continue relentlessly to face 
facts and unitedly go after the 
obstacles in our path. To get out 
and stay out of the economic 
shambles requires patience and 
calls for collective effort such as 
America has seldom known in 
times of peace; but it can be 
done.” 


Franklin D. Roosevelt. 


companies where so much enthusiasm 
was generated that it broke out in ap- 


plause whenever the company, or its 
outstanding record during the past 
fiscal year, were mentioned. 

The addresses of Secretary Geo. E. 
Metzger, Frank Gougler and J. B. 
Countiss before Illinois Producers 
Creameries annual meeting revealed 
that the organized butterfat producers 
in Illinois are going places. Three big 
co-operative creameries organized, op- 
erating and making money, and others 


on the way presents a rosy outlook . 


with great opportunity for further de- 
velopment in 1934. 

As in past years, the I. A. A. con- 
vention was orderly and business-like. 
There was a total absence of rough- 
house, drinking, and noisy all night 
parties in hotel rooms which mark 
many such gatherings. Dissipation 
took the form of impromptu hog-call- 
ing contests in the Wolford Hotel dur- 
ing the night much to the amusement 
of local people as well as convention 
delegates. 

Cliff Simpson, secretary of the Dan- 
ville Chamber of Commerce, President 
Lenhart, Farm Adviser Otis Kercher, 
and the arrangements committee of 
the Vermilion County Farm Bureau 
left nothing undone to accommodate 
everyone and run off the convention 
smoothly according to schedule. Con- 
siderable delay was experienced in 
getting the crowd seated and served at 
the banquet in the armory partly due 
to the extremely heavy attendance. 
The food was good, however, and the 
inconvenience was soon forgotten. 


Presidents and Advisers 
Dinner A Happy Session 


The Farm Bureau presidents’ and 
farm advisers’ get-together on Wed- 
nesday night, Jan. 24, was an enthusi- 
astic session with tap dancing and 
other entertainment furnished by Farm 
Adviser Otis Kercher of the Vermilion 
County Farm Bureau and the Danville 
Chamber of Commerce. More than 250 
people sat down to the excellent meal 
furnished by local business men. 

Clif Simpson, secretary of the Cham- 
ber of Commerce, which provided the 
dinner, delivered a rousing welcome 
in which he invited the people to spend 
as much money as possible and come 
back soon again. “I’m going to be 
frank,” he said. “We invited you to 
Danville to get your business and I 
hope you'll all spend at least $50 each 
before you leave.” (Applause) 

Membership acquisition and future 
organization policies, curtailment of 
importations of blackstrap molasses, 
suppression of the use of oleo by 
farmers and other questions figured 
in the discussion from the floor. 


W-H-O-O-E-E-E 


Nee? pon 
Aw- HOW DID 1 KNOW 


THOSE FELLOWS in DANVILLE |“ 20s 
WERE ONLY FOOLIN'? Ay 


Otis Kercher Has Troubles 
Hog Callers Responsible 


As an aftermath of the recent I, A. 
A. convention, Otis Kercher, Vermilion 
county adviser, has been deluged with 
’phone calls and letters of complaints 
from hog growers in the vicinity of 
Danville. They report that their hogs 
got no sleep during the three days of 
the meeting and that at the present 
writing many are asleep on their feet 
and have lost an average of five 
pounds a day answering phony calls. 
Local farmers state that while they 
do not mind a bit of polite hog call- 
ing for contest purposes, it is evident 
that some of the more leather-lunged 
hog callers got a bit serious in their 
efforts and kept all the hogs in the 
township up for four nights. More- 
over the hogs are skeptical about an- 
swering their masters’ voices which 
seriously interferes with normal feed- 
ing operations. Otis says he will write 
a letter to the newspaper explaining 
the situation and may ask the I. A. A. 
to get a law passed gagging hog 
callers or something. 


Many Guests Attend 


Guests at the annual dinner included 
Dean H. W. Mumford, J. C. Spitler 
and Dr. W. L. Burlison of the Uni- 
versity of Illinois; Walter McLaugh- 


I. A. A. Record—February, 1934 


Smith and Wright 
Re-elected To Posts 


Five New Directors Chosen on 
I. A. A. Board at Annual 
Meeting 


Earl C. Smith of Pike county was 
unanimously re-elected president, and 
A. R. Wright of Marshall county was 
unanimously re-elected vice-president 
at the business session of delegates 
following the speaking and entertain- 
ment program Thursday night. Donald 
Kirkpatrick, general counsel, presided. 

Bliss Loy, of Effingham county, 
who placed the name of Mr. Smith in 
nomination, said that the I. A. A. had 
risen to new heights in accomplish- 
ment and prestige under his able lead- 
ership, that he was recognized na- 
tionally for his sincere and untiring 
efforts in behalf of the people and the 
industry he was elected to serve. 


In nominating Mr. Wright, Homer - 


Curtis of Jo Daviess county called at- 
tention to his many years of faithful 
and successful service as_ vice-presi- 
dent, and chairman of the finance com- 
mittee which with the treasurer has 
great responsibility in investing and 
conserving the funds of the I. A. A. 
and associated companies. 

Five changes were made in the 
board of directors. E. E. Oughtby of 
Shabbona, DeKalb county, was elected 
to succeed Geo. F. Tullock of Rock- 
ford, the oldest man in point of serv- 
ice on the I. A. A. board. Albert 
Hayes of Peoria county was chosen to 
succeed Geo. Muller of Tazewell in the 
16th district. Otto Steffey of Hender- 
son county succeeds M. G. Lambert in 
the 14th district. Mont Fox of Ver- 
milion county replaces W. A. Dennis 
of Edgar county in the 18th district. 
And Alvin O. Eckert of St. Clair 
county was chosen to succeed Tal- 
mage DeFrees of Bond county in the 
22nd district. Chas. S. Black of Mor- 
gan county was re-elected in the 20th 
district, and Chas. Marshall of John- 
son county was again chosen in the 
24th district. 


lin and J. H. Lloyd of the State De- 
partment of Agriculture; Walter L. 
Rust, president, Federal Land Bank, 
St. Louis; E. C. Hewes, publisher, 
Danville Commercial-News; Samuel R. 
Guard, editor, Breeder’s Gazette; N. 
W. Allen, president, Nat’l Fruit and 
Veg. Exchange; the various speakers 
mentioned elsewhere, and officers and 
managers of a large number of co- 
operative organizations closely as- 
sociated with the I. A. A. 

The 137 quota men who had signed 
six or more new I. A. A. Farm Bureau 
members always were introduced as 
guests of the Association. 


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I, A. A..Record—February, 1934 


Left to right: Chester C. Davis, Administrator, Agricultural Adjustment Act; 
President Earl C. Smith; Secretary Geo. E. Metzger; and Edward A. O’Neal, presi- 
dent, American Farm Bureau Federation. 


More Income Ahead 


for pet cl 


Chester Davis, AAA Chief, Explains Dairy, Hog, and Beef 
Cattle Situation 


CLEANCUT and _ searching 
A analysis of problems facing 

American farmers and the Ag- 
ricultural Adjustment Administration, 
a brief review of accomplishments of 
the AAA, and a word about the farm 
program of the administration in 1934 
and 1935 were given by Chester C. 
Davis, chief of the adjustment admin- 
istration who spoke before a full house 
in the big armory at Danville Thurs- 
day night, Jan. 25. 

Mr. Davis, well known through his 
former association with the I. A. A., 
was given a warm ovation, led by 
Farm Adviser J. H. Checkley, follow- 
ing his introduction by President Earl 
Smith, 

Programs already under way pro- 
vide for distribution in the form of 
benefit payments to co-operating farm- 
ers of $762,000,000 in 1933 and 1934, 
Davis said. Commitments of $85,000,- 
000 for removal of surplus bring that 
total to $847,000,000, and if general 
programs now contemplated are 
adopted for the dairy and beef in- 
dustry, the figure will exceed one bil- 
lion dollars. 

The speaker frankly discussed the 
three major problems and questions of 
chief interest to corn belt farmers, 
namely, future plans for improving 


prices for milk and butterfat, who 
pays the processing tax on hogs, and 
what can be done to help the beef 
cattle men. 

Davis admitted that the milk trade 
agreements operating on the larger 
milk markets had been disappointing. 
In this effort, he continued, we some- 
times tried to lift milk prices far our 
of relation to the price of competing 
milk sold for manufacturing purposes. 
This situation decreased the consump- 
tion of fluid milk and piled up higher 
surpluses of butter, cheese, and con- 
densed milk. 

“A price improvement that is last- 
ing must give not only producers for 
fluid milk markets a fair return,” he 
said, “but also butterfat producers. 
Our attempts to fix milk prices to 
consumers taught us that the govern- 
ment cannot fix resale prices and 
enforce them, unless it goes further 
and assumes the power and respon- 
sibility of regulating the intermediate 
steps between producer and consumer. 
In other words, the milk industry 
would have to be dealt with as a pub- 
lic utility. 

“Our new dairy policy is based on 
the lessons we learned from experi- 
ences with these two _ objectives. 
Briefly that policy is this: We are 


ready to go into any market with the 
consent of producers, and license all 
distributors under the requirement 
that they pay producers a uniform 
price for whole milk. We will put that 
price at the highest level that can be 
justified and sustained in the light of 
all economic factors in the industry 
and that can be enforced in the face of 
competition from other milk producers. 
It must be an enforceable price. It 
must be a price that will not unduly 
disturb producers for other markets. 
Having done that, we want milk pro- 
ducers to cooperate in adjusting milk 
supply to the current demand so that 
prices for the entire dairy industry can 
be raised toward the parity level 
which the Agricultural Adjustment 
Act sets as our objective. 

“Our obligation is to the entire dairy 
industry and in arriving at enforceable 
prices the whole industry must be con- 
sidered. Establishment of bases for 
those prices must be the function of 
the Agricultural Adjustment Admin- 
istration which.cannot be delegated to 
another agency if federal enforcement 
is to result. 


Treat All Alike 


‘' “Our policy treats the dairy in- 
dustry as a whole: not as unrelated 
parts. The new marketing agreements 
are relied upon to bring stability into 
the whole milk market, while we all 
work in unison toward higher price 
levels, The prices that we can estab- 
lish and enforce for whole milk are not 
as high as we all would like to see 
them set. I am sorry that this is the 
case. If by any other means producers 
themselves can maintain better prices, 
we wish them every success.” 

Within a short time we expect to 
go before the country with a complete 
general program for the dairy in- 
dustry, Davis said, and present it at 
regional conferences with dairy pro- 
ducers. 


That Processing Tax 


Answering the question, “Who pays 
the processing tax on hogs?” the ad- 
ministrator admitted “that when sup- 
ply rather than demand dominates the 
market the tendency is to take the 
processing tax out of the price to pro- 
ducers. That is what is happening in 
hogs now,” he continued. “The situa- 
tion is different as to cotton and 
wheat because here the export mar- 
ket is the determining factor. But 
pork is a perishable commodity with 
little export demand and when the 
supply is relatively large the tax can- 
not be passed entirely on to the con- 
sumer.” 

Davis asserted that as soon as 
farmers cut pork production and re- 
move the surplus the processing tax 


can be passed on to the consumer, 
and not before. The processing tax, 
he explained, is part of the price 
farmers receive for hogs that is tem- 
porarily withheld, and that it will be 
paid back later to co-operating farm- 
ers in the form of checks from the 
government. 

He stated that the government is 
now purchasing 20,000 hogs per day 
for relief distribution and that “we 
would buy more if we could get the 
packers to process more at a fair mar- 
gin.” 

Referring to the beef cattle situa- 
tion, Davis explained that we are now 
at the high point of production of a 
seven-year cycle with consequent low 
prices, and that this condition coupled 
with low consumer purchasing power 
has resulted in a serious over-produc- 
tion of beef, “the most serious we have 
ever had.” 


Must O K It 


He stated that it has been suggested 
that congress appropriate $200,000,000 
for the cattle and beef industry to 
solve the surplus problem but warned 
that cattle would not be included in 
the adjustment act nor a program put 
into operation unless beef cattle men 
support it. 

Reviewing the accomplishments of 
the AAA, the speaker stated that ap- 
proximately a half million wheat 
growers had received already more 
than $40,000,000 in benefit payments 
with 8c per bu. still to come. The re- 
duction in acreage of 7.2% under the 
three year 1930-32 average, he stated, 
would be increased by growers who 
expect to plow up part of the acreage 
seeded before they had signed con- 
tracts. 

He showed that the cotton price 
had been raised from 5c to 10%c per 
lb. by the plow-up campaign in the 
south and that around one million cot- 
ton farmers had benefited by the pro- 
gram. 

Similarly flue-cured tobacco grow- 
ers received for their 1933 crop 2% 
times as much as for the 1932 crop 
and twice the amount they realized 
from the 1931 crop. 


The Real Objective 


“Our real objective,” he said, “is 
not to distribute benefit payments, 
but to adjust production to demand so 
that prices may rise toward parity 
as rapidly as possible.” 

In closing, Mr. Davis answered the 
small rebel minority of the farmers 
holiday movement who are against 
everything that is being done, yet have 
nothing constructive to offer, by say- 
ing, “if you insist on having agricul- 
tural prices fixed at parity without re- 
gard to the quantity you produce, then 


FRIDAY A. M. 


NOW BOYS- DONT 
TURN ANY PAGES 
UNTIL | GIVE THE 


Prof. Pearson's Big Blowout 


Just to prove there are queerer 
noises than a hog caller at two A. M., 
Prof. Pearson, afflicted with a cold, 
gave his own special brand of nose- 
tooting in the Danville armory Friday 
morning, and with loud speaker ampli- 
fications. It was without a doubt the 
biggest blow heard:in these parts for 
many a year and it stands out as the 
“big noise” of the convention. 


The Delegate Gets A 
Room For the Night 


An elderly gentleman approached 
the desk in the Wolford Hotel and 
asked politely about reservations for 
Kankakee county. He was told that 
Kankakee county had a reservation in 
the name of Mr. Swaim, the farm ad- 
viser. Well then, was there room with 
Mr. Swaim, asked the gentleman. No 
there wasn’t, replied the clerk. The 
elderly gentleman looked about un- 
certainly. “Hello there, Governor,” 
cried someone. The gentleman nodded 
a greeting. The clerk looked on. More 
delegates stepped up to shake the 
elderly gentleman’s hand. “Who is 
he?” asked the clerk. “Why that’s 
Len Small,” he was told. The clerk 
routed out the manager, who looked 
up Otis Kercher, who did a little re- 
arranging. And so ex-Governor Len 
Small, president of the Kankakee 
County Farm Bureau, got a bed for 
the night and went to the I. A. A. 
convention. 


fire your farm leaders; discharge those 
of us who are temporaiily trying to 
serve you at Washington—and hire 
some magicians. We don’t know how 
to do it.” 


I, A. A. Record—February, 1934 


Randolph, Madison, 
Peoria Win Contest 


Awarded Prizes By I. A. A. For 
Publicity Work 


The Randolph County Farm Bureau 
waS awarded the silver cup and cash 
prize of $75 for placing first in the 
19383 County Farm Bureau Publicity 
Contest sponsored by the I. A. A. 
Madison County Farm Bureau won the 
second prize of $50, and the Peoria 
County Farm Bureau third prize of 
$25. 

The awards were made by Secretary 
George E. Metzger at the annual I, A. 
A. banquet at Danville, January 25. 

Judges of the contest were Wm: L. 
Stahl, director of publicity, Farmers 
National Grain Corp.; Floyd Keepers, 
managing editor, Prairie Farmer; and 
Fred Koenig of the Koenig Advertis- 
ing Agency, Chicago. 

Each County Farm Bureau was 
asked to enter an exhibit of news- 
paper clippings, copies of stories re- 
leased to the press, a complete file of 
the County Farm Bureau bulletin for 
1933, copies of letters and special liter- 
atur@ sent to members, etc. The in- 
crease or decrease in membership for 
the year also was taken into consider- 
ation. 


In making its award the committee 
of judges said: While one county may 
have obtained a great deal more pub- 
licity than another as measured by 
volume of clippings, the effectiveness 
of such publicity should be measured 
by the way it was linked up with 
Farm Bureau activities and effort. 
Some of the counties supplying the 
largest amount of publicity fell a little 
short, we think, in showing what part 
the Farm Bureau had in the organiza- 
tion of the activity mentioned in the 
press. Another county may have had 
a little less publicity but the stories 
were more effective because the Farm 
Bureau angle was outstanding. 


“To merely send to the papers a 
press release dealing with a certain 
subject and not show in what way 
that subject is related to the Farm Bu- 
reau program weakens the story from 
an organization standpoint. It hap- 
pened that while one county excelled 
in one particular phase of the contest 
another county perhaps excelled in an- 
other phase. 

“The exhibits were judged on the 
basis of all the points mentioned in 
the announcement explaining the con- 
test sent out by the Department of 
Information of the I. A. A. early in 
the year. The prize winners were 
among those who submitted exhibits 
touching on each phase of the contest.” 


ad » 


I. A. A. Record—February, 1934 


Gold and 
the Commodity 
Dollar. 


Prof. F. A. Pearson Tells How Commodity 
Prices Can Be Raised By Gold Revaluation 


NE of the highlights of the three-day session was 
O the address of Prof. F. A. Pearson of the New 

York State College of Agriculture before nearly 
8,000 people Friday morning. He presented a difficult and 
intricate subject clearly and interestingly with the aid of 
mimeographed copies of numerous charts, tables, as well 
as his remarks which were distributed to everyone in the 
large audience before he began speaking. 


“Coming down from Chicago to Danville on the 
train,” the professor said, “I noticed that most of 
your barns and buildings need paint. I saw no new 
construction work. Many buildings are in need of 


new roofs and repairs. Since I left Illinois more 
than ten years ago (he was formerly on the staff of 
the Illinois College of Agriculture) I notice two big 
changes. You have more hard roads and you get 
up earlier in the morning to call hogs.” 


The great obstacle to rapid business recovery is the low 
level of public and private construction, Dr. Pearson said. 
He heartily endorsed the world-wide policy of raising the 
price of gold to raise commodity prices. 

The speaker reviewed many phases of the gold question, 
touching on the present crisis, supply and demand for 
gold, price and value of gold both here and abroad, the 
relation of debtor to creditor, and rebuilding of the price 
structure. 

This low level of construction, he said, results from re- 
duced national income caused by collapse in commodity 
prices. Decline in property values, he added, plays havoc 
in enterprises with large capital investment and slow 
turnover. “If bonds of the federal, state, and other gov- 
ernmental units are eliminated, most capital of the cred- 
itor class is now invested in mortgages and bonds in 
enterprises of this type. 

“When creditors cannot collect,” Dr. Pearson said, “they 
are very cautious about making new long-term commit- 
ments. Restoration of commodity prices will increase na- 
tional income and enable creditors to collect. When this 
occurs, bank credit will be easy to obtain, and long-term 
capital will be readily available for new investment, public 
and private. 

“The capital of life insurance companies, endowed col- 
leges, hospitals, public libraries, research organizations, 
welfare agencies, banks, the white collar class, and others 
is invested in the bonds, mortgages, and other forms of 
credit which are extended to home owners and farmers 
and to industry and transportation. When capital moves 
freely from debtor to creditor, and when interest and prin- 
cipal payments flow from debtor to creditor, the nation 
proceeds on an even keel.” 

Dr. Pearson said “it is to the advantage of the creditor 


Left to right: Prof. F. A. Pearson, Ithaca, N. Y.; C. V. 
Gregory, editor, Prairie Farmer; and Walter L. Rust, presi- 
dent, Federal Land Bank, St. Louis, speaking to Treasurer 
Robt. A. Cowles of the I. A. A. 


class that prices should be increased to and maintained 
at a level where the incomes of the debtor class will be 
more than sufficient to (a) take care of subsistence and 
an ever-increasing standard of living, and (b) to meet the 
increasing cost of expanding public services. 

“The collapse in commodity prices so reduced the na- 
tional income that it became impossible for the creditor 
class to collect. Remedial legislation was drafted to pro- 
tect the creditor as well as to relieve the debtor.” 

It was commonly believed, Dr. Pearson continued, that 
the creditor class gains when paid in dollars that are more 
valuable. These apparent gains, he added, are small com- 
pared with losses of principal that invariably accompany 
a collapse in commodity prices. He said it is now ,com- 
monly believed that creditors will lose by a restoration of 
a balance in the price structure, and that the slight loss 
in purchasing power of the creditors’ income is more than 
made up by the elimination of huge losses of principal 
from which the creditors would otherwise suffer. 

“Therefore,” Dr. Pearson concluded, “a policy to raise 
the price of gold to re-establish a balance in the price 
structure .and thereby restore -incomes and profits is of 
inestimable value to the creditor class of this country.” 

Concerning commodity prices, he said, one of the -most 
spectacular advances in history occurred from April to 
October, 1933. He -pointed out that in only -one six- 
months’ period, during the World War, -did prices of basic 
commodities show a larger percentage advance. 

Dr. Pearson credited the American crisis to the collapse 
in commodity prices. “Never before in the peace-time 
annals of American history,” he said, “has this country 
experienced a 54 per cent decline in prices of basic com- 
modities in 41 months.” He said it could be explained in 
one of four ways: a decrease in demand for goods, an ad- 
vance in the supply, or a change in the supply of gold or 
in demand for gold. 

Dr. Pearson discarded the idea of decreased demand and 
increased supply of goods as the major cause of the price 
decline. He said decreased demand arose from lower in- 
comes which, in turn, resulted in under-consumption of 
some commodities. “The United States and the world 
suffer from malnutrition due to under-consumption of 
goods,” he stated. 

“Neither was the collapse due to a great shortage of 
monetary gold,” he added. “From 1914 to 1928, commod- 


ity prices were much higher than the 
ratio of gold stocks to production of 
other commodities demanded. During 
this period the world monetary stock 
of gold increased 38 per cent; world 
volume basic production also increased 
88 per cent. If the 75-year pre-war 
relationship had continued, pre-war 
prices would have been expected. 

“Why were prices so. high from 
1914 to 1929?” he asked, and an- 
swered that the reason, apparently, 
was due to the low demand for gold. 
“When the World War broke out, 
most of the European countries aban- 
doned the gold standard. Gold was 
no longer in demand, and it drifted 
to the United States and other neutral 
countries. This reduced demand for 
gold made it cheap and, as a result, 
commodity prices in terms of gold 
rose in the few countries that re- 
mained on the gold standard. It was 
the gold and not the commodities that 
changed. After the war was over, the 
return of one country after another 
to the gold standard increased the de- 
mand for gold so that its value rose, 
and commoditity prices fell. 

“The world is now conducting a gi- 
gantic experiment in varying the price 
of gold to overcome the devastating 
effects of the rising value of gold and 
declining commodity prices. Thirty- 
four countries, including the United 
States, have abandoned the attempt to 
maintain their fixed legal prices for 
gold and are raising their buying 
price for the metal. When this ex- 
periment is over, some of these na- 
tions may have money units variable 
in weight but stable in value. No na- 
tion has had wild inflation when it 
had a high metallic reserve. The solu- 
tion to the world situation lies in re- 
ducing everything to the price level 
or increasing the price of gold. The 
world has found it expedient to adopt 
the latter course.” 

A scientific money, Dr. Pearson con- 
tinued, is one with a constant buying 
power for all commodities rather than 
a fixed weight of one commodity. Our 
whole tax and credit structure rests 
on commodity prices. If this struc- 
ture is to be kept sound, he said, for 
both creditor and debtor, commodity 
prices must be kept stable and not 
the weight of gold in dollar exchange. 
He declared that by changing the 
price of gold a country can establish 
any price level it wishes independent 
of other countries, and by that act es- 
tablish its internal business conditions 
which, in turn, affect securities. 

During the last ten months of 1933, 
he stated, the price of gold in the 
United States rose 56 per cent; in the 
United Kingdom 5 per cent. At the 
same time prices of commodities rose 
56 per cent in America and 15 per 


Mayor Claude Madden of Danville in 
his spirited welcoming address on the 
opening program of the I. A. A. con- 
vention said “Danville is one of the 
two cities in the United States in 
which all the banks opened the morn- 
ing the bank moratorium was called 
off.” He received a great ovation from 
the crowd when he told the members 
the town was theirs for the duration 
of the convention. “Park your cars on 
the streets all night and stay as long 
as you want to,” he said. 


cent in the United Kingdom. This 
comparisons was based on prices of 15 
identical commodities. 

“In the general advance in farm 
prices,” Dr. Pearson said, “that ac- 
companied the rising price of gold, 
most products advanced but not at a 
uniform rate.” He said this happened 
because the gold price is only one of 
the four major factors affecting the 
price of a commodity. The price of a 
commodity in large demand and short 
supply advances much more rapidly 
than the price of gold and conversely 
he stated, the price of a commodity 
of low demand and large supply will 
not advance so rapidly as the price of 
gold. 

We should not be too disturbed be- 
cause so little progress has been made 
in the past toward obtaining a stable 
measure of value. Inertia is such a 
dominant force in our thoughts and 
actions, that great changes rarely oc- 
cur until an unusual event forces them 
upon us. The unparalleled peace- 
time rise in the value of gold forced 
the issue and very rapid progress is 
now being made. As a result of the 
unparalleled chaos of the last three 
years and the present widespread 
knowledge concerning the problem, -it 
is possible that we may get a stable 
measure of value so that our children 
and our children’s children will not 
suffer from the violent fluctuations in 
the value of gold which this genera- 
tion has experienced. If we get it, the 
price we are paying, although high, is 
cheap in terms of human progress. 


I, A. A. Record—February, 1934 


Messages Read At 
Annual Banquet 


In addition to messages from Presi- 
dent Roosevelt and Speaker Henry T. 
Rainey, President Smith read tele- 
grams and letters of greeting to the 
convention from W. I. Myers, governor 
of the Farm Credit Administration, 
State Senator Simon E. Lantz who 
was unable to attend because of ill- 
ness, and Sam H. Thompson of Quincy, 
former A. F. B. F. and I. A. A. 
president. Chester Davis brought a 
personal message from Secretary of 
Agriculture Henry A. Wallace who ad- 
dressed the meeting last year. 


Informational Service 
Emphasized in Conference 


More Than 500 Hold Lively Ses- 
sion Discussing Organization, 
Information, and Collections 


BB weve: 500 and 600 delegates, 


members and farm advisers at- 

tended the organization-infor- 
mation conference held Thursday 
afternoon, Jan. 25, in the Wolford 
Hotel, Danville. The session was de- 
voted to shop talk on publicity, or- 
ganization and collection problems. 

An effective County Farm Bureau 
publicity program is broad and varied 
and seeks to inform not only members 
about the work and benefits of the 
organization but also attempts to in- 
terest non-members, George Thiem, 
editor of the I. A. A. RECORD, told 
the conference. He stated that there 
are still many farmers in Illinois who 
apparently know very little about the 
part organization has played in bring- 
ing about benefits through federal and 
state legislation. 

He suggested that County Farm 
Bureau bulletins be filled with more 
live news written from a local angle 
and telling what the organization and 
its members are doing. He advocated 
community and township meetings, 
such as those now being held over the 
state to explain the corn-hog pro- 
gram, as a means of informing more 
people about Farm Bureau services. 
He stated that the County Farm Bu- 
reaus in Illinois that were doing ef- 
fective publicity work were the ones 
that were gaining in membership; 
that the organizations which gave 
very little attention to news releases 
and informational service were losing 
members and going down. 

George E. Metzger, director of or- 
ganization, emphasized the necessity 
for Farm Bureaus cutting off service 
within a reasonable time after dues 
become delinquent. When the County 
Farm Bureau is not making progress, 

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Auditing Association 
Has Good Meeting 


Clifford Gregory Makes Interest- 
ing Talk on the Money 
Question 


ARMERS should take a great 
Fees of satisfaction out of the 

fact that many of the leaders in 
national affairs have come from their 
ranks, C. V. Gregory, Editor of the 
Prairie Farmer, said in addressing the 
annual meeting of the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Auditing Ass’n at Danville, 
Jan. 24, 


The president of the United States, 
the secretary of the treasury, the sec- 
retary of agriculture, as well as many 
other federal officials are farmers and 
Farm Bureau members, Mr. Gregory 
said. Farmers and agricultural pro- 
fessors are now exerting their in- 
fluence in the national capital. The 
honest dollar, for which organized ag- 
riculture has been fighting, is now in 
prospect, far in advance of the time 
any one expected that it could be ac- 
complished. 


The speaker pointed out that money 
and credit constitute the life blood of 
a nation and that its control is now 
being taken away from the big bankers 
of Wall Street and given to the treas- 
ury of the United States. Naturally, 
the bankers do not like it, he said, but 
there is little, if any, possibility of 
back-tracking. Whatever group is in 
control of money and credit is in posi- 
tion to take profits. For many years, 
the banking group has been the fa- 
vored class. Several months ago, the 
country went off the gold standard. 
This was done quietly and very little 
effect was noticed by industry. There 
were some rather rapid advances in 
farm prices, and to meet such ad- 
vances sometime ago, the Government 
began to buy gold at prices higher 
than the established monetary value. 
The President’s chief financial adviser, 
Dr. Warren, has stated that as gold 
goes up, prices also go up. If the 
price of gold is doubled, the price of 
commodities should double. A level be- 
tween the two will inevitably be re- 
established, although the commodity 
price advance has been slow. This is 
due to the restriction on the natural 
flow caused by the falling off of ex- 
port trade. Mr. Gregory stated that 
the present foreign trade situation is 
unnatural. All countries have estab- 
lished high protective tariff walls, 
which has delayed the recovery pro- 
gram. 

The total result of the public works 
and civil works, and the entire line of 
public spending, Gregory said, is a 


AT THE ANNUAL BANQUET THURSDAY NIGHT 


Left to right: E. C. Hewes, general manager, Danville Commercial-News; Wm. 
S. Bradley, director, corn loan division of AAA; and Dean H. W. Mumford, Col- 
lege of Agriculture, University of Ilinois. 


form of inflation, the effect of which 
will be to raise the price of everything. 
Prices that went down quickest and 
farthest will go up first, except in the 
cases where the supply is so great 
that the normal laws do not apply. 

We have been hearing a great deal 
about the “boloney dollar,” but the 
only “boloney dollar” that I know any- 
thing about, he said, is the “boloney 
dollar” that we’ve been getting for our 
hogs. 

Every step that President Roosevelt 
has taken has been leading up to 
ruin, according to certain groups. We 
were warned by the financial “gen- 
iuses” that’one of the first effects of 
the President’s monetary policies 
would be the refusal of investors to 
buy government securities. The gov- 
ernment’s credit would be ruined. 
However, the recent issue of $900,- 
000,000 was oversubscribed four times 
and within the last few days, the Fed- 
eral Reserve Bank has agreed to un- 
derwrite the entire ten billion dollars 
needed to carry on the government’s 
planned program. (The day of the 
meeting, a one billion dollar, 2%%, 
issue was oversubscribed five times.) 

Now that it is evident that the gov- 
ernment is going to get the funds 
necessary to finance the recovery pro- 
gram, we are told that prosperity will 
not last long because the 32 billion 
dollar debts will have to be repaid. 
The way to pay it is to pass the hat, 
he said. In 1933 we had 35 to 40 bil- 
lions less income than in 1929. Under 
the present program, the national in- 
come should go back to about 75 or 
80 billions and if it does, the bill can 
be paid. 

Mr. Gregory reminded his audience 


that back in 1919, nine-tenths of the 
mail received by Prairie Farmer was 
letters from farmers asking questions 
about income tax. He believes that the 
farmers will not object to paying taxes 
if they get reasonable income. 

In closing he said, “organized farm- 
ers are responsible for much of the 
progress made but they must not rest 
on their laurels. They must continue 
their efforts when the government gets 
control.” 

The officers and management of the 
Illinois Agricultural Auditing Associa- 
tion submitted reports for the year 
1938 showing that a strong financial 
condition has been maintained and 
that the results of operations during 
the year were very satisfactory. Sev- 
enteen new membership and service 
agreements were entered into during 
the year and a total of 308 agricul- 
tural organizations are now being 
served. Approximately 2,700 audit 
and other service engagements have 
been completed during the 9% years 
that the Association has been in exist- 
ence. Operating economies have en- 
abled the Association to lower its 
rates, and the cost of service in 1933 
was less to member companies than 
in any preceding year. Officers and 
directors selected for the ensuing year 
are—Albert E. Heckle, Quincy, Presi- 
dent; Jesse L. Beery, Cerro Gordo, 
vice president; Geo. E. Metzger, Chi- 
cago, secretary; R. A. Cowles, Bloom- 
ington, treasurer; R. H. Voorhees, Jer- 
seyville, director; C. R. Hays, Nor- 
mal, director; Paul Harker, Peoria, di- 
rector. 

More than 300 attended the meeting 
which was the largest held for many 
years. 


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ad}oorr inks PENT EOIN. N 


To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was or- 
ganized namely, to promote, protect and represent the busi- 
ness, economic, political and educational interests of the 
farmers of Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 


GEORGE THIEM, Editor 


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OFFICERS 
President, Barl C. Smith..........ccccccccccccccccccsctseccsvcees Detroit 
Vice-President, A. Ri Wright.........cccsecccccsccccccevsecseces Varna 
Secretary, Geo, BE. Metzger.......ccceccccccccccsccscccsesecceess Chicago 
Treasurer, R. A. COowleB.........ccccccccccececscccccesenes Bloomington 
: BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
(By Congressional District) 
SOG: Se SIGNS fo oe Cisse nie gee RADST OD ERD ADOT DRE eRe E. Harris, Grayslake 
BUNS As od eleah id cde ove sonsded ies vonciaceaden E. E. Oughtby, Shabbona 
Re ccs sas cc ecsces oechii p's chvacaecghelebhs ORE C. EB. Bamborough, Polo 
WN ro 9 a 5c 9-0idi alee hn 36 5 Giotibis'e 4 se hices prea duee ele Otto eri Stronghurst 
BONG is 's00 co o8'0'0-0-5.0'b.00 pda shop che wenn’ ba eee bT EE M. Ray Inhrig, Golden 
MUIR Gv s'0-6.0 0-0 vc ct we ofa veabec deveeaeecubasy Cte Albert Hayes, fcothe 
SOME Ko. 4 055 v0 gen oh Scape 6 iNe a Cs owes ewbdove KE. D. La , Bl ington 
BONUS. 'wie's ois 3 0'0.6.5 ne ein 6 21e0.d ea dinwe pone 09 Kaha Ment Fox, eaten 
ee ea eee en en ee ee gc 3 Eugene Curtis, 
PER a's 0.3 Sisrere dS ape dee OL a aaiede nih'endh Dest de Charles a * Black, " Jacksonville 
MUG in 00 os ence oe o 08% EWN ae 6 oC Tabed 000d oaie Sees Samuel Sorrell 8, Raymond 
22nd OEE CE ETT POS ETE eee ee - A. O. Eckert, Belleville 
MME i i.0's 5 6-0-0.0:0's 00 stesehioe:y boos bab G Nise pih b o'v o'0'a eRe Ww. L. Cope, Salem 
MRS Sa iice pe oda od eed ctlane rs ta’ en sikare ah ae Charles Marshall, Belkna 
‘25th... Wee wna kd On oo he's depp MAN RREL bua bbe hile te R. B. Endicott, Villa Ridge 
‘DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 
COMO yo iy ob’ ie 0's.bip b vie Bb 918 Oar ova Cees ae Ub ebioed ceed J. H. Kelker 
Dairy B searneting bib Oh orate bc binwe c.crgee-p ceed 60 Be anise d db ap nte J. B. Countiss 
WOES 65 cbc deeb ab ve see pase rhedcececéee ene wéadasd see beeee R. A. Cowles 
Fruit a and Vegetable Meretine sioi6i. 5 ccc ici sais ccwecaeqeeewnene H. W. Day 
UME 6 CS CAMETS 5850 Fee RSUVeycecensesyocecnecee wecbeepin George Thiem 
Insurance MOTNOD iiia's oo a's Cdk b0ccbce cess bv ness vines Shp aeewe Vv. Vaniman 
ERG hip ouib a 5.0 o'si0 2 0's weld cans beesbb asic ds Donald - Kirkpatrick 
Live. Stock 3 PEGPROCNE io ook ieee siveesepie ce cceccseeceees ay E. Miller 
NR sEG eb cD US ea eP Reece ey ee vacnscocevecseciebeeeupe C. E. Johnston 
SPMMABRGIOIE 5s 55 00k 0 5.0 0 bo.0'o 00's va e's haeic pre cdr densest atone G. E. Metzger 
Produce Marketing..............ccccccsscccccscccccceeeee F.. A, Gougler 
Taxation and Statistics..............cccccccecucceccceveees J. C. Watson 
Transportation... csccccscecssccvecscescccievevecesesoces's G. W. Baxter 
ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 
Country Life Insurance Co,...........ceecececvcees L. A. Williams, Mgr. 
* Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co...........0cseeeeees J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 
Mlinois Agricultural Auditing Ase’n............... F. E. Ringham, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual‘Insurance Co....... A. E. Richardson, Mgr. 
Illinois Furm Supply Co........ccccccccccecceece L. R. ee Mgr. 
Illincis Fruit Growers Exchange.............sseseee H. W. Day, Mgr. 
Illinois Grain Corp.........cccccecccseccccccecs Harrison Fahrnkopf, Mgr. 
Illinois Livestock Market. as vac vbeseeases vere eesdbes Ray Miller, Mgr. 
Illinois Producers Creameries..F, A. Gougler, Mgr., J. B. Counties, Sales 
Soybean Marketing Ass’M..........ccccccccceecees z. W. Armstrong, Pres. 


Resolutions Adopted by Board of Dele- 
gates, 19th Annual Convention, Illinois 


Agricultural Association, Danville, 
January 25-26, 1934 


I. 


E APPROVE the principles of legislation em- 

W bodied in the Agricultural Adjustment Act and 

believe its immediate and effective administration 
will substantially increase the price level of basic agri- 
cultural commodities. 

We urge immediate and more complete use of the 
licensing and regulatory provisions of the Act; particularly 
should this be done for the proper control and regulation 
of the meat packing industry. There should be no further 
delay in the use of the power to license and regulate meat 
packers in order to immediately discontinue the excessive 
profits made upon very low priced meat animals during 
the last six months as reflected in the statements of in- 
come and dividends of the respective meat packers. We 
further urge that immediately upon the levy of processing 
taxes upon any basic agricultural crops, equivalent in- 
creases in import duties on all foreign commodities that 
compete with such basic agricultural commodities be im- 


I, A. A. Record—February, 1934 


posed, as is provided for and authorized in the Agricul- 
tural Adjustment Act. We pledge to Secretary Wallace, 
Administrator Davis and their associates, the support and 
cooperation of the Illinois Agricultural Association in the 
simplest possible and practical administration of the Act 
in such manner as will increase prices to producers at the 
earliest possible time. 


II. 


We believe the permanent solution of the farm surplus 
problem will be found in securing part or all of the follow- 
ing objectives: 

1. New industrial uses for farm commodities; 

2. Reciprocal trade agreements with foreign Nations; 

3. Removal of marginal and sub-margina] lands from 
production and their restoration to the public do- 
main; 


We request the Board of Directors of the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association to take such steps as may appear to 
be necessary to accomplish these ends. 

Particularly we urge that every reasonable effort be 
continued to secure universal use of motor fuel blended 
with not less than 10 per cent (10%) of Ethyl alcohol 
made of corn or other agricultural products grown.in the 
Continental United States. We also urge efforts to stimu- 
late by every reasonable means the use of paint contain- 
ing a large proportion of Soybean Oil. 

We further commend and approve continued study and 
investigation to develop new industrial uses of farm prod- 
ucts. 


Ill. 


Experience in the present depression has demonstrated 
more clearly than ever before the absolute necessity of 
establishing and maintaining a complete system of farm 
credits which will at all times and at reasonable cost 
meet all proper credit needs of farmers and farm owners. 
We commend the efforts of the Federal Government, both 
in the past and at the present time, to make more suitable 
forms of farm credit available. We urge that every proper 
effort be further made to simplify the procedure in mak- 
ing any kind of farm loans, to reduce the rate of inter- 
est as far as conditions permit, and reduce appraisal costs 
wherever it is possible to do so. 


IV. 


The continued importation of tropical fruits and oils 
which compete with domestic fruits, oils, and fats increases 
the difficulties of restoring a proper price level for a 
number of our domestic products. We authorize and di- 
rect the Officers and Directors of the Illinois Agricultural 
Association to use every effort in behalf of measures to 
conserve the domestic market for our domestic products. 


Vv. 


Packer buying of livestock direct from farmers has had 
disastrous effects upon price levels. It is one of our major 
problems in marketing. The Illinois Livestock Marketing 
Association was established as one means of combating 
this weakness of our marketing system. Its object is to 
enable livestock producers to deal collectively in assembling 
and moving livestock from country points without per- 
mitting the packer or his representative to become in 
effect the sole abriter as to price, weight, grade and con- 
ditions of sale. Its policy is to correlate all parts of our 
cooperative marketing machinery. 

Thousands of Illinois farmers have pledged themselves 
recently not to sell direct to packers. This movement is 
serving a valuable purpose in calling national attention to 
the emergency which exists in livestock marketing and ‘in 


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encouraging the careful consideration 
of all factors involved by farmers and 
Government alike. However, a sec- 
tional movement cannot solve a na- 
tional problem. 

The Illinois Agricultural Association 
stands ready to co-operate with or- 
ganized groups of live stock producers 


in this and other states in working out 


a satisfactory and permanent solution 
of this problem. We urge the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture of the United 
States to exercise its full authority in 
the speedy development of proper 
measures either to control or to elimi- 
nate the buying of livestock by packers 
direct from farmers. 


VI. 


Because of the imminent threat of 
invasion of Illinois by the corn-borer, 
we urge the Officers and Directors of 
the Illinois Agricultural Association to 
support the continuance of reasonable 
governmental appropriations for re- 
search and investigation of means to 
combat and control this destructive 
pest. 

VII. 


In order to relieve the disproportion- 
ate burden imposed on property by the 
provisions of our present constitution, 
we propose that the constitution be 
amended to empower the General As- 
sembly to distribute the cost of gov- 
ernment and to impose taxes accord- 
ing to ability to pay; to fix a Consti- 
tutional limitation upon property taxes 
which will reduce present taxes on 
property one-half and that such limi- 
tation shall not exceed one per cent 
(1%) of the fair cash value, exclusive 
of taxes levied for payment of prin- 
cipal and interest on bonded indebted- 
ness; to require a referendum vote be- 
fore indebtedness is incurred by any 
local government and to authorize 
legislation providing for uniform 
budgeting, auditing and publication of 
local governmental expenditures. 


VIII. 


’ We commend the efforts of the leg- 
islative committee of the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association in opposing legis- 
lation before the First Special Session 
of the Fifty-Eighth General Assembly 
providing for an increase of Thirty- 
eight million dollars ($38,000,000) in 
the State Tax levy upon property, 
coupled with the submission of a bond 
issue to the voters next November. We 
are forced to recognize that this legis- 
lation has been enacted and that un- 
less the bond issue is approved by the 
voters at tie prlls, the property tax- 
payers of the State will be forced to 
meet and pay an increased tax of $38,- 
000,000 in 1935, we, therefore, favor 
the passage of this bond issue when 


submitted but séerve notice that in the 
future, bond issues of this or a similar 
character will have the determined 
opposition of this organization, at 
least until such time as the General 
Assembly imposes equal and uniform 
responsibility for poor relief upon 
every community and county of the 
State. 


IX. 


We re-affirm our belief in the prin- 
ciple that each local community should 
draw reasonably upon its own re- 


sources before state aid or credit is 


extended for relief purposes and we 
direct the Officers and Directors of this 
Association to continue to urge and 
seek legislation which will place all 
communities upon the same basis and 
enable them to draw upon their re- 
sources and we oppose the continua- 
tion or any extension of state aid or 


credit to any community until that 


community has made a reasonable ef- 
fort to provide for its destitute. 


X. 


Inasmuch as the Illinois primary 
road system is practically completed 
but only thirty per cent (30%) of the 
total mileage of the State has been 
improved with an all weather con- 
struction and seventy per cent (70%) 
of the farmers still reside upon dirt 
roads, we oppose any further diversion 
of gasoline tax moneys from road 
building whether by investment in 
State antipication notes or otherwise, 
and direct the Officers and Directors 
of the Association to exert every ef- 
fort to preserve these moneys for road 
building, the purpose for which the 
tax was imposed. 


XI. 


We reaffirm our belief in the legis- 
lation providing for a moratorium on 
mortgages. heretofore sponsored by 
the Association and of the nature re- 
cently sustained by the United States 
Supreme Court, and direct the Officers 
and Directors of the Association to 
seek the enactment of such legislation 
at the next special session of the Gen- 
eral Assembly. 


XII. 


To reduce the charges in connection 
with chattel mortgages, we authorize 
and instruct the Officers and Board of 
Directors of the Illinois Agricultural 
Association to seek the enactment of 
legislation which will permit chattel 
mortgages for farm production and 
other purposes to be filed at nominal 
cost in the offices of County Recorders 
instead of recorded, necessarily at con- 
siderably higher costs, as at present, 
and to request that this subject be in- 


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cluded in the call for the next special 
session. 
XIII. 


In order to more effectively combat 
organized crime, we favor legislation 
authorizing an adequate state police 
force, free from political: domination, 
empowered to enforce the criminal 
laws and to apprehend criminals in 
any county or municipality of the 
state. 


XIV. 


We favor amendment of the Agri- 
cultural Adjustment Act to provide 
that if and when two-thirds of the 
producers of any basic commodity 
voluntarily respond and _ co-operate 
with one another to reduce production 
of such commodity in line with a pol- 
icy announced by the AAA, that the 
Secretary of Agriculture be given 
authority by proclamation or other- 
wise to limit production of such com- 
modity by non-co-operators to the base 
production provided in the adjustment 
program for the commodity. 


Two additional resolutions offered 
from the floor at the business session 
Friday afternoon were unanimously 
adopted. One urged that the Agricul- 
tural Adjustment Administration take 
steps at an early date to solve the 
beef surplus problem and as part of 
the program that the U. S. govern- 
ment withdraw public domain lands 
from grazing. 

In this connection, it was explained 
by President Earl Smith that the 
American Farm Bureau Federation 
and the I. A. A. are now supporting 
an amendment to the Agricultural 
Adjustment Act to include beef cattle 
as a basic commodity. 

The other resolution suggested by 
Cook county vegetable growers urged 
that farmers avoid planting fruits and 
vegetables on lands not under contract 
as well as on acreage under contract, 
and thus prevent further surpluses 
from piling up. 

A proposed resolution urging state 
legislation to raise the minimum but- 
terfat content in fluid milk from 3 to 
3.5% and in cream from 18 to 22% 
was referred to the I. A. A. board of 
directors for further study at the re- 
quest of delegates from the northern 
Illinois dairy district. 

The resolutions committee composed 
of A. R. Wright, Varna, chairman; M. 
Ray Ihrig, E. D. Lawrence, W. A. Den- 
nis, Geo. Muller, Chas. Marshall, R. B. 
Endicott, H. C. Irwin, E. R. Reeves, 
Frank Gallaway, Harry Bergener, and 
John Hanna, was assisted by Donald 
Kirkpatrick and Paul Mathias of the 
legal department, and John C. Watson 
of the department of taxation. 


12 


Pres. Smith Reviews 
Asricultural Problems 


Sees Acreage Reduction as Emergency Measure Only, 
Outlines Work For Future 


in the making to restore parity 

prices of farm crops as of an 
emergency character. Owners of fer- 
tile farm lands must not longer than 
necessary be asked to maintain but 
keep idle large portions of their re- 
spective acreages,” President Earl C. 
Smith said in his annual report and 
address at the opening session of the 
I. A. A. convention in the great 
armory at Danville, Thursday morn- 
ing, January 25. He spoke to a full 
house with many seated in the gallery. 

“It is my belief,” he continued, “that 
the ultimate and permanent solution 
of the farm problem embodies three 
major objectives: (1) restoring and 
maintaining agricultural exports in 
proper relationship to industrial -ex- 
ports through trade agreements with 
foreign nations; (2) the immediate de- 
velopment of new and large industrial 
uses for the raw materials produced 
on American farms; and (3) national 
planning on a basis that will take 
from production large areas of mar- 
ginal lands which never have been or 
never will be profitable from an agri- 
cultural standpoint; but could be much 
better utilized by restoring to the pub- 
lic domain and used in reforestation 
or otherwise by the Federal and State 
Governments. 

“The development of these three 
policies again presents a challenge to 
farm organizations and to the states- 
manship of the country. 

“In the meantime,” continued Mr. 
Smith, “we have cause to be thankful 
that at last we have full authority for 
federal assistance and that efforts are 
being made to increase price levels of 
farm commodities.” He characterized 
the Agricultural Adjustment Act as 
the most far-reaching legislation en- 
acted by Congress during the present 
generation, in reviewing the long fight 
of organized agriculture for effective 
legislation to remove the disparity be- 
tween agricultural and non-agricul- 
tural prices. 

He paid tribute to the leadership of 
Frank O. Lowden in bringing the farm 
issue to the front in the years 1926 
to 1928. “It probably should and does 
bring deep and lasting satisfaction to 
be able to say on this occasion,” he 


we | REGARD national efforts now 


continued, “that it now seems the for- 
gotten man will ultimately be given 
an equal and just opportunity with his 
fellow men.” 

Mr. Smith reviewed in detail the 
accomplishments of the commercial 
organizations during the past year, 
the activities of the organization in 
state legislation, discussed at length 
the national economic situation, out- 
lined the contents of the Agricultural 
Adjustment Act, and spoke of efforts 
made since the enactment of this legis- 
lation to improve wheat, corn and hog 
prices. 

Referring to the corn-hog program 
he said: “Corn and hog farmers at 
last have their first opportunity 
largely to determine the future price 
levels of these commodities. Their ac- 
tion will largely determine whether 
their future sales of hogs and corn 
will show a loss or profit. If en- 
thusiastic co-operation and support of 
farmers is given, future production of 
these commodities will be profitable. 
Without the combined effort and sup- 
port of farmers no policy of govern- 
ment can permanently influence and 
maintain price levels.” 

Speaking of the corn loan policy of 
the administration, he said, “The As- 
sociation took a leading part in secur- 


ing from the government the adoption 


of a price-supporting policy for corn 
and in a lesser degree for the hog 
market. At the time this effort was 
initiated the average country price for 
corn in Illinois was 23 cents and 
seemed destined to go lower... . 
“The Association believed that if 
the government was justified in many 
of its other price and wage-supporting 
policies, it was only fair and just that 
the price of this important basic com- 
modity should be supported and main- 
tained. Although the price of corn is 
yet far from parity it has been greatly 
stimulated as a result of this service. 
“More than $70,000,000 have been 
loaned upon corn in sealed cribs on 
the farms in mid-western corn states 
on a basis of 45 cents a bushel. It 
has been carefully estimated that this 
temporary service has already in- 
creased by $150,000,000 the current 
values and incomes of farmers in the 
middle west. This amount will be 


I. A. A. Record—February, 1934 


Any Room in the Wolford at the 
I, A. A. Convention. 


much greater if and when farmers re- 
spond in the 1934 program to reduce 
corn acreage and thereby create a 
deficit in production that will allow 
normal consumption of the accumu- 
lated surplus of corn.” 

Mr. Smith commended the efforts of 
western Illinois livestock growers in 
organizing against direct buying 
methods of the packers. He referred 
to a study being made by the Secre- 
tary of Agriculture of the price effect 
of direct selling of hogs and other 
livestock to processors. “While as an 
institution the I. A. A. could not lead 
farmers to believe that any sectional 
effort of this character would result 
in permanently higher price levels,” 
he said, “yet it has repeatedly urged 
action by the Department of Agricul- 
ture and pledged its support to a corn- 
belt program for the curtailment, 
regulation, or removal of these prac- 
tices.” 

Reviewing state legislative activities 
during the past year the speaker 
stated that “the Association does not 
regard the present occupational tax as 
a fair tax, but does regard it as fairer 
than the general property tax in that 
an occ-pation tax can reach more 
than one-half of the population of the 
state who cannot be reached by prup- 
erty taxes. Until the people of the 
state vote for constitutional changes 
to permit an equitable taxing system, 


the occupation tax, with amend- 


ments to make it apply as much to 
the rich as to the poor, which it does 
not do now, ought to be continued for 
the exclusive purpose of replacing, 
dollar for dollar, taxes now levied on 
property. This principle of property 
tax replacement was introduced and 
has been continuously supported by 
the Illinois Agricultural Association. 

“With the approval of the board of 
delegates the I. A. A. will fight for an 
amendment placing a reasonable limi- 
tation upon property taxes and re- 
moving all present restrictions upon 

(Continued on page 14) 


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14 


Pres. Smith Reviews 


Agricultural Problems 
(Continued from page 12) 


' other sources of revenue and their use 
to replace taxes now levied upon prop- 
erty. Such an amendment would fur- 
nish real reasons for taxpayers to 
fight for and secure its adoption at 
the polls. We do not believe that any 
amendment will be approved by the 
people, unless it has such provisions.” 

Reviewing the position of the I. A. 
A. on unemployment relief he con- 
tinued: “Without exception, responsi- 
bility for the defeat of constructive 
revenue legislation and the failure to 
submit a reasonable and just amend- 
ment to the revenue article of the con- 
stitution rests upon Chicago politicians 
and certain down-state legislators, 
who with their support made the ef- 
forts of Chicago political leaders suc- 
cessful. Certainly the time has arrived 
when the voters of Illinois must dis- 
tinguish between statesmen sincerely 
endeavoring to serve the interests of 
the people and politicians representing 
selfish interests. The citizens of IIli- 
nois will not and cannot have just and 
fair revision of the state’s ‘revenue 
laws until radical revision of the 
revenue ‘article of the constitution is 
had. We find that, in large part, the 
delay in getting the submission of 
such an amendment is caused by the 
selfish interests enjoying protection 
and advantages under the restrictions 
of the present revenue article. 

“Although in the minority, the 
politicians that represent these spe- 
cial interests have resorted to every 
kind of intrigue and appeal, and 
through subtle amendments to practi- 
cally every constructive revenue law 
or amendment proposed, have been 
successful in defeating the efforts of 
those members of the General As- 
sembly who have sincerely endeavored 
to serve the interests of the people. 

“A careful review of the voting 
records of the members of the Gen- 
eral Assembly on all revenue matters 
will easily disclose the distinction as 
between statesmen and politicians to 
which I refer. The property taxpayers 
of this state will win this battle, if 
and when and just to the extent they 
refuse to support for reelection, re- 
gardless of their party affiliation, 
those who through compromise, in- 
fluence or vote, have failed to put 
forth every reasonable and proper ef- 
fort in support of equitable and just 
revenue reform. (Applause) 

“Shall we meet the challenge that 
confronts us? If the desire for home 
and other property ownership is to be 
restored and maintained, the selfish 
interests that have for so long been 


HEV ELERY! 
A 


Macoupin County Delegation at 2 A. M. 


protected at the expense of property 


‘owners, must be met and overcome. 


There is no individual group or insti- 
tution in Illinois as well prepared as 
the Illinois. Agricultural Association 
to assume leadership in this fight to 
take from the politicians and restore 
to the people their rights under fair 
and equitable revenue laws.” 

Referring to diversion of gas tax 
funds for other purposes Mr. Smith 
said: “This should be stopped. Only 
about 30 per cent of the farms of the 
state are located on improved high- 
ways capable of all year use. The re- 
maining 70 per cent of the farms are 
located on dirt roads difficult or im- 
possible for motor vehicles to use for 
considerable periods of time every 
year. I also find that only about 30% 
of the highways of the state are im- 
proved. At least until a secondary 
road system is laid out and com- 
pleted, every reasonable and proper 
influence of the Farm Bureau move- 
ment, community, county and state, 
should be used to secure the discon- 
tinuance of using this revenue for 
other than the building and main- 
tenance of highways and streets.” 

Mr. Smith concluded his address by 
saying: “Whatever have been our ac- 
complishments and attainments, they 
are the result of the impelling force 
of the united thinking and action of 
the membership. 

“The voice and the influence of the 
institution cannot and will not be 
stronger than those for whom it 
speaks. So let us not lose sight of the 
thing that has made all pronounce- 
ments of the institution possible. 
Without group action, we would have 
accomplished nothing. Without organ- 
ization, our recent achievements - as 
well as those of earlier years would 
not have been realized. Organization, 
like a machine, is merely a means to 
an end; yet the productiveness of the 
machine and its ability to do the job 
for which it was designed and built 


I. A. A. Record—February, 1934 


depends on how well it is maintained. 
The organization machine must rest 
on a solid foundation of membership. 
The united strength and support of 
the members hold it up and give it 
power and influence to cope with the 


great problems affecting the present 


and future of agriculture. It must be 
adequately financed. 

“Sometimes we hear that to in- 
crease the membership, the member- 
ship fee should be reduced. In every 


_ state where this has been tried, it has 


resulted in a substantial decrease in 
membership. We, in I#linois, have a 
higher membership fee than in any 
other state; yet we have the largest 
supporting Farm Bureau membership 
of any state in the Union. (Applause) 
There is a reason, and that reason 
can be expressed in a single word— 
service. While we as members have 
put more in, we have also taken more 
out. It has been said that a Farm Bu- 
reau membership in Illinois costs 
nothing, if the member uses the or- 
ganization. It merely costs $15 per 
year for non-members who join but 
fail to use or participate in its serv- 
ices, 

“Farmers are not interested nor 
should they be interested in maintain- 
ing an organization just for the sake 
of organization. The only excuse for 
organization is to accomplish a worthy 
end and get things done. If I thought 
that the work of a state association 
was finished or that the problems con- 
fronting farmers were greatly re- 
duced, I would be the first to recom- 
mend that we disband and prorate 
back to the members whatever assets 
have been accumulated. On the con- 
trary with each succeeding day, we 
see and witness ever-increasing prob- 
lems confronting the farmers of state 
and Nation. 


“If Government could or would, re- 
gardless of who happened to be in 
control, restore to agriculture a -fair 
share of the national income and leg- 
islate fairly for farmers without their 
being heard, then we could be less en- 
thusiastic about the need of organiza- 
tion. If we were justified in believing 
that our present marketing system is 
perfect, that the farmer is getting as 
much of the consumer’s dollar as he 
is entitled to, we could say, Let’s for- 
get about our marketing problems and 
activities—let’s stay home on the 
farm, produce and let others market 
our products for us. 

“If we could rest content in the be- 
lief that we have a perfect taxing 
system and that the tax burden would 
be equitably distributed and that farm 
property would bear no more than its 
just share, we could say, Let’s dispense 


(Continued on page 15, Col. 1) 


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Il. A. A. Record—February, 1934 


Macoupin County Boys 
_ Get Vaniman's Balloons 


The attending nimrods had a fine 
opportunity to test out their pin shoot- 
ing marksmanship on Vaniman’s bal- 
loon exhibit. The best record was 
made by a delegate from Macoupin 
county who finally managed to hit 
four balloons in five tries. Other dele- 
gates declared this to be unfair inas- 
much as the Macoupin delegation 
stayed up three nights to make the 
record when other people were in bed, 
though not sleeping, thanks to the 
yodelers from Macoupin. 


Hog Haven Brown's Plan 
For Paying His Debts 


- H. E, (Hog Haven) Brown came to 
the convention with his debt-paying 
formula that has stumped financial 
experts and legal experts.. At any 
rate it has enabled “Hog Haven” to 
be the first borrower in the United 
States to make a payment on a new 
farm loan taken out in October 1933. 
In explaining the formula, all who 
listened said it went something like 
this—“Hog Haven” sells hogs to him- 
self at.a low price and buys them 
back when prices go up. Then he takes 
the profits of the sale, pays his debts 
and still has the hogs. It certainly 
sounds sure-fire. 


Pres. Smith Reviews 
(Continued from page 14) 


with the Tax Department and quit or 
do something else with the money now 
spent on tax problems. 

“Did we believe there is no need for 
farmer representation before rate- 
making bodies, that we as farmers 
can always depend upon fairness from 
those who fix prices on the services 
and commodities that farmers must 
buy, we could say there is small rea- 
son for organization. But we are 
forced to recognize that we are living 
in a highly organized world, a world 
in which power and influence are con- 
centrated in huge corporations and 
trade groups. You know and I know 
that the complexities of our economic 
and social order are such that, without 
a powerful voice speaking for farm- 
ers, without the influence of organiza- 
tion behind that voice, agriculture 
would gradually drift into and remain 
in a condition of poverty that would 
be as bad for the Nation as for those 
engaged in the business of farming. 

“We must not only maintain the or- 
ganization but greatly strengthen it 
if we are to perpetuate the recogni- 
tion thus far accorded agriculture by 
Government. 


Cites Farm Bureau s 


Part in New Deal 


Pres. Edw. A. O'Neal Makes Stirring Address 
On Banquet Program 


In a stirring address delivered in 
his customary colorful style, Edward 


A. O’Neal of Alabama, president of . 


the American Farm Bureau Federa- 
tion, discussed the philosophy behind 
the Agricultural Adjustment Act and 
cited numerous incidents illustrating 
the contribution being made by or- 
ganized agriculture to the relief pro- 
gram. He spoke at the I. A. A. annual 
banquet in Danville the night of Jan. 
25. 

After reviewing the benefits already 
received by cotton, tobacco, and wheat 
farmers and the payments to be made 
to corn-hog producers in the next 
year, Mr. O’Neal said: “We are living 
in history-making days. Out of the 
ruins of the old order we are building 
a new order. In this national recon- 
struction the Farm Bureau is playing 
a leading part. It has educated public 
sentiment and brought about a na- 
tional consciousness that the nation 
cannot prosper unless agriculture is 
prosperous. It has aroused the nation 
to action.” 

Constructive criticism is one of the 
jobs of organized agriculture, he said, 
and we are not hesitating to point out 
the holes in the program as they ap- 
pear. He stated that the Farm Bureau 
is insisting that American grain be 
used in the manufacture of alcoholic 
beverages rather than imported black- 
strap molasses. The tariff is one of 
our big problems, Mr. O’Neal said. 
American agriculture cannot afford to 
to go on a national basis. Our future 
lies in the restoration of international 
trade and we are supporting the work 
of the administration through George 
Peek and others in working out re- 
ciprocal trade agreements with foreign 
nations and finding outlets abroad for 
our surplus farm products. 

Mr. O’Neal paid tribute to the IIli- 
nois Agricultural Association for its 
outstanding work and its contribution 
in building public sentiment which led 
to the New Deal program for agri- 
culture. He praised highly the set-up 
of the Illinois Agricultural Association 
and the effectiveness of its organiza- 
tion which he said constituted “an in- 
spiration to the entire Farm Bureau 
movement.” 

He also gave high praise to Presi- 


dent Earl C. Smith, for his “outstand- 
ing qualities of leadership” not only 
in his own stage but nationally. Re- 
calling Mr. Smith’s prominence in the 
long struggle for equality for agri- 
cultiire, and his constructive part in 
formulating the new program, and 
advising with the national leadership 
in carrying out the program, he gave 
much credit to Mr. Smith for getting 
such a large part of the Farm Bureau 
program carried out. 

Summarizing the program which 
the American Farm Bureau Federa- 
tion has recommended, Mr. O’Neal de- 
clared: “That program, for the large 
part, is now being carried out. The 
Farm Bureau, however, is seeking ad- 
ditional legislation to strengthen the 
program for agriculture. It seeks to 
broaden the Agricultural Adjustment 
Act to include additional commodities 
as basic commodities, particularly 
beef cattle and sugar. 

“Among the other recommendations 
which it favors are: the appropriation 
of a fund not less than 200 million 
dollars to be used for benefit pay- 
ments to dairy farmers and beef cat- 
tle producers, to supplement benefit 
payments that are paid out of process- 
ing taxes; the further reduction of in- 
terest rates on farm mortgages and on 
production credit, the government to 
guarantee the principal as well as in- 
terest on bonds to provide funds for 
farm mortgage relief at low interest 
rates; the strengthening of the mar- 
keting agreement section of the A. A. 
A., in order to require processors and 
distributors to co-operate if they re- 
fuse to cooperate voluntarily in the 
program for agriculture; a provision 
to penalize non-co-operating farmers 
who refuse to co-operate in the acre- 
age reduction program adopted by the 
majority, but no requirement to put 
every farmer under a license; and the 
completion of monetary reform by es- 
tablishing the value of the dollar at a 
normal level, based on the index of all 
commodities, so that it will be a stable 
medium of exchange.” 

Mr. O’Neal praised President Roose- 
velt for his steadfastness in carrying 
out the policy of restoring agricul- 
ture to prosperity as the essential pre- 
requisite to national prosperity. 


16 


Production Credit Explained 
By James M. Huston 
President of Credit Corporation, 


St. Louis, Describes Oper- 
ation of Local Associations 


Government plans for production 
credit associations, which promise to 
form the foundation of the future co- 
operative banking system for farmers, 
were described by James M. Huston, 
president of the Production Credit 
Corporation of St. Louis, before the 
large Friday morning audience the 
closing day of the recent I. A. A. 
convention in Danville. 

Mr. Huston stated that local credit 
associations are being set up on a 
permanent basis and are not temporary 
emergency organizations although 
they are filling emergency needs. 

There has been a shrinkage of 40 
per cent in commercial banks since 
July 1, 1928, he said, furthermore the 
credit situation in the country became 
even worse than is indicated by these 
figures. There seems to be plenty of 
credit available for short time cattle 
feeding loans but credit for periods of 
12 months or longer is almost non- 
existent in rural communities. The 
production credit association will fill 
this gap and provide money at reason- 
able rates to farmers having no local 
banks open who are now at the mercy 
of loan sharks. 

To get a production credit loan, the 
borrower must file an application and 
statement of his financial condition. 
He must give, in most cases, collateral 
in the form of a chattel mortgage on 
livestock, crops, the property to be 
purchased and additional security if 
demanded. He may give other kinds of 
security in lieu of a chattel mortgage. 
At present the rate of interest is 6% 
and the borrower must pay a minimum 
inspection fee of $2. Such fee may 
not exceed 1% of the loan. He must 
also pay for recording the chattel 
mortgage, and for other expenses if 
any are incurred in examining title, 
etc. But no official of the local as- 
sociation, employee, or agent is al- 
lowed to make any ch rge for as- 
sistance in preparing applications, 
notes, mortgages, etc., unless such as- 
sistance requires employment of per- 
sons not regularly employed by the 
association. 

Illinois is the first state to be com- 
pletely organized, Huston said, with 
production credit associations, 38 of 
which have been or will soon be set 
up and ready for operations. 

The full text of Mr. Huston’s ad- 
dress will be published in the Illinois 
Agricultural Association Section of 
the February Bureau Farmer, since it 


UE to the limited space 
D available in this issue of 
the RECORD, additional 
reports on the recent annual 


convention of the I. A. A. and 
associated companies at Danville 


are being published in the IIli- 


nois Agricultural Association 
Section of the Bureau Farmer 
for February. Read both the 
RECORD and Bureau Farmer 
for February to get a complete 
report on the annual meeting. 


Auto Insurance Co. 
In Thriving Condition 


Annual Meeting Authorizes In- 
surance Company Offering 
Different Kinds of 
Service 


Enthusiasm and optimism reached 
an all time peak when more than 500 
agents and County Farm Bureau direc- 
tors and members who attended the 
19th I. A. A. convention met for the 
annual meeting of the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Mutual Insurance Company, 
held in the Danville Armory on Jan. 
24. The remarkable showing and 
strength of the company as reported 
by A. E. Richardson, manager, along 
with the highly inspirational and in- 
structive address delivered by Law- 
rence H. Wood, merchandising coun- 
selor, Chicago, imbued listeners with a 
new spirit that promises even greater 
accomplishment for farmer-owned and 


controlled automobile insurance in 1934. 


Mr. Wood, who is a business ad- 
viser to all types of merchants, said 
that, “friendship, enthusiasm and per- 
sistency are the main factors in the 
makeup of any successful salesman 
and do not forget that while you may 
not have the title of a salesman you 
are really one regardless of the ac- 
tivity you are following. Everyone in 
this world has something to sell and 
if you are friendly, enthusiastic and 
persistent you are in a position to ac- 
complish great things.” 

Business is entering a new era, said 
Mr. Wood, and the farmer should real- 
ize that he is a merchant just as much 
as anyone else in business. Turning to 
“high pressure methods,” he said, 
“salesmanship is persuading a person 
to accept your viewpoint. ... You 
agents and salesmen of farm com- 
pany insurance should be convinced 
that you are in an excellent spot to do 
the farming industry a great good. 


Forget high pressure methods as they 


clearly sets forth full details about 
this less understuod branch of the 
federal credit system. 


I, A. A. Record—February, 1934 


are worthless. Supplant them with 
salesmanship of facts.” 

In reporting on the 1933 accom- 
plishments of Illinois Mutual, A. E. 
Richardson said that at the year’s end 
the company had 82,992 policies in 
force, assets of $990,794.49, and a sur- 
plus over liabilities of nearly a half 
million dollars. During the year more 
than $47,000 was added to surplus, ap- 
proximately $200,000 was paid out to 
Illinois farmer policyholders on more 
than 6,000 claims. The average claim 
amounted to $33.37 as against $33.50 
for 1932. 

Deviating from his report upon the 
company’s condition, Mr. Richardson 
made some interesting remarks re- 
garding the superiority of mutual 
companies during the depression years. 
“Experience shows,” he said, “that 60 
per cent of all mutual fire and casualty 
companies have survived since organ- 
ization, whereas only 25 per cent of 
stock companies and 14 per cent of at- 
torney-in-fact companies have con- 
tinued in operation. During the past 
three years, 20 per cent of. all stock 
companies writing fire and casualty 
insurance have retired from business 
while during the same period only 4.2 
per cent of mutual companies were 
forced to quit. During the past quar- 
ter century the premium income of 
mutual insurance companies in the 
field mentioned has increased 286 per 
cent while stock companies gained only 
129 per cent.” 

Ratification and delegation of au- 
thority for the organization of a new 
company was given the board of di- 
rectors. This new company will offer 
a complete casualty and liability serv- 
ice including such forms as compen- 
sation, public liability, mistaken de- 
livery of petroleum products, fidelity 
bond, accident insurance, etc. 

President Earl C. Smith gave the 
annual report of the board of direc- 
tors. R. A. Cowles submitted the treas- 
urer’s report. V. Vaniman made the 
report on acquisition and also em- 
phasized the good the year’s campaign 
on accident prevention had in reducing 
the average claim paid. G. R. Williams 
and M. E. Roberts talked briefly on 
field service. Following the summary 
of the year’s business, there was gen- 
eral discussion of plans and business 
policies for the coming year. 


Greatest In the World! 


Some delegate remarked about the 
big sign strung across the street from 
the Wolford Hotel. He said the line 
read, “Greatest State Farm Organiza- 
tion In the World.” Actually it read 
“in America.” But it’s a good idea. 
So next year we’ll take in some more 
territory. And why not? 


Chicago 
Daily 
News 
Dec.28,1933 


ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL MUTUAL INSURANCE Co. °°°enresco 


18 


Reinsurance Company 
Makes Progress In '33 


Adds to Surplus, Reduces Fire 
Losses, Has More Volume 
In Force 


When more than 300 agents and 
county Farm Bureau directors met 
in the banquet room of the Danville 
Armory for the annual meeting of 
Farmers Mutual Re-Insurance Co., 
Wednesday, January 24th, they heard 
their president, George F. Tullock, re- 
port on the financial condition of the 
company which he declared to be ex- 
cellent. Due to a sharp decrease in 
farm fires and to conservative and 
sound investments, Farmers Mutual 
finances are in a highly liquid con- 
dition thus offering greater security 
to policyholders. 

Manager J. H. Kelker in making his 
report on the year’s business said, “At 


the end of 19383, Farmers Mutual : 


showed an increase in fire, hail and 
windstorm insurance in force of more 
than $10,000,000. In spite of adverse 
economic conditions the company has 
added $13,500 to its surplus, which 
compares with a loss of $12,000 last 
year, and has written $12,400,000 of 
fire, $9,000,000 windstorm, and $1,680,- 
000 of growing crop hail insurance. 
The company closed the year 1933 
with total insurance in force in all 
classes of $58,854,952. 

“Windstorm losses,” said Mr. Kel- 
ker, “during the year were greater 
than in any year of the company’s his- 
tory, but fire losses were $10,000 less 
with an exposure of approximately 20 
per cent greater.” 

Speaking of efforts by the company 
to educate policyholders on fire pre- 
vention methods, Mr. Kelker said, 
“During the past year we have 
stressed fire prevention methods 
through direct-by-mail publicity and 
advertising and through a program of 
personal inspection of risks. We be- 
lieve the constant placing before our 
policyholders of the need for five pre- 
vention measures has been of immense 
value in the reduction of fire losses. 
Incurred losses were 71 per cent of 
net premiums in 1933 and 74 per cent 
of earned premiums, the best experi- 
ence for several years.” 

Farmers Mutual closed the year 
with assets of $109,939.99, nearly 
$100,000 of which is in government 
securities and cash. Totals in the dif- 
ferent classes of insurance at the close 
of 1933 were reported at the meeting 
to be as follows: fire (gross in force) 
$32,957,434; windstorm $21,806,241; 
hail on buildings $2,409,549; growing 
crop hail $1,681,728. 

Other speakers on the program were 


EDGAR COUNTY CHAMPS 
Zeis Gumm, left, and Chester Boland 


of Paris township, Edgar county, 
signed 109 new Farm Bureau members 
during the mobilization campaign be- 
ginning Oct. 15. Moreover, these two 
men assisted solicitors in many other 
sections of the county to put Edgar 
up among the leaders in the state. 


Howard Jokisch who delivered the 
secretary’s report; V. Vaniman, who 
reported on acquisition and fire pre- 
vention publicity, and R. A. Cowles 
who submitted the treasurer’s report 
for the year. 

Following a general discussion of 
1933 accomplishments, the annual elec- 
tion of officers of Farmers Mutual Re- 
Insurance Co., was held. George F. 
Tullock, Rockford, was reelected presi- 
dent; L. E. Lingenfelter, Pulaski 
county, was chosen first vice-presi- 
dent; and J. J. Hornung, La Salle 
county, second vice president. Howard 
Jokisch, Cass county, was reelected 
secretary and R. A. Cowles, Chicago, 
was renamed treasurer. 


Informational Service 


Emphasized in Conference 
(Continued from page 8) 

he said, the thing to do is to analyze 
the situation and determine what is 
wrong. Better record systems both in 
County Farm Bureau offices and in 
the I. A. A. office must be set up, he 
said, to aid in confining service to 
paid-up members. 

Robert A. Cowles, treasurer, com- 
mented on the splendid collection work 
in many counties and emphasized that 
the County Farm Bureau officer who 
is charged with responsibility for the 
collection of dues, should not accept 
the position unless he expects to dis- 
charge his responsibilities in a busi- 
ness-like way. 

Discussion from the floor was unan- 
imously in favor of restricing serv- 


I. A. A. Record—February, 1934 


ice to paid-up members and for the 
institution of a better system of cut- 
ting off service when dues become de- 
linquent more than 60 days. 
Impromptu talks were made by 
Farm Advisers E. C. Secor, T. W. 
May, J. W. Whisenand, and Edwin 
Bay on County Farm Bureau publici- 
ty. Secor, who won the silver I. A. A. 
trophy in the County Farm. Bureau 
publicity contest, said that during 
1983 he had made publicity one of his 
main interests and gave much credit 
for the substantial increase in mem- 


’ bership (125% of quota) to their pub- 


licity work. Last year he initiated 
the policy of meeting with the clergy- 
men of the county once a year to ex- 
plain the Farm Bureau program. He 
has appointed: Farm Bureau reporters 
in every community and mails stories 
to the seven newspapers in the county 
weekly. He also sends frequent letters 
and cards to members and prospects. 

Mr. May expressed the belief that 
informational service is indispensable 
in maintaining and increasing mem- 
bership. He reviewed some of the 
things he has been doing in Madison 
county to build organization through 
effective publicity. 

Mr. Whisenand said that the effect 
of publicity multiplies the work that 
the Farm Bureau does and is essential 
to securing new members as well as 
holding present members. 

Edwin Bay expressed approval of 
the plan of appointing Farm Bureau 
reporters in each community and said 
that this would be done in Sangamon 
county during the coming year. 


Measuring Crib Corn 
And Grain In Bin 


In determining the capacity of corn- 
cribs figure on 2% cubic feet of stor- 
age space for each bushel of cleanly 
husked ear corn. To calculate the ca- 
pacity of a crib in bushels of ear corn, 
multiply the volume in cubic feet of 
storage space by 4 and divide by 10. 

A bushel of small grain or shelled 
corn occupies approximately 144 cubic 
feet of space. To calculate the ca- 
pacity of grain bins in bushels, multi- 
ply the volume in cubic feet by 8 and 
divide by 10. 


Auto Company Gains In 
Insurance In Force 


The Illinois Agricultural Mutual In- 
surance Company wrote more than 
6,000 policies during the year 1933. 
This was a net gain of approximately 
8,000 policies over the number in force 
January 1, 1933. Nearly all of the 
automobile policies written were on 
the surplus fee plan. 


‘THERE'S PLENT 


Counties 


“ 


N- 


Swing Into Action To 
Achieve Goal Of Twenty- 


Five Per Cent Increase 


Whiteside and Jersey First To Go Over the 


Top — Farm Bureau Leaders Express 
Confidence in Membership Campaign. 


Plans for strengthening membership in the Farm Bureau 
and I. A. A. throughout the state were reported to the 
RECORD from many counties just before going to press. 

In Effingham county Bliss E. Loy, president of the Farm 
Bureau, states that corn-hog sign-ups are the big activities 
of the day, but Farm Bureau sign-ups for membership are 
close behind. “Effingham county is expecting to add 150 new 
members by April 1,” writes Mr. Loy. “We are striving for a 
larger paid-up membership in 1934 and prospects are the best 


ever. 

“Captain Kelly and _ his 
tenants were out early Feb. 1 and 
are working full speed ahead. K. 
©. Woody, one of our lieutenants 
signed up 11 new members in 10 
days during the month of Decem- 
ber. All lieutenants have started 
the new year with increased vim 
and enthusiasm and we are going 
to increase our membership at 
least 25 per cent.” 

George .F. Gabel, president of 
the Gallatin County Farm Bureau 
and county captain, reports re- 
cent comments from different 
-members of the Farm Bureau, as 
follows: “One said, ‘I received 


leu-@—$$ ———__——————_—_—_—___— 


to 12 more between now and sum- 
mer,” writes Gordon. 
Bryden of Tamms signed six and 
feels that the time is ripe to strike 
for a larger membership. ‘A man 
cangot afford to stay out of the 
Farm Bureau,’ said Bryden.: The 
feeling among farmers is strong 
that agriculture is going to have a 


better income from now on. They 
realize that much of the credit 
should be given to farm organiza- 
tion,” 


: 
‘ . ‘ . Ch = 


oa STRENGTH Ine a _« UEBRARY 
ORGANIZATIC gst 0° 


“E. H.|to them 


LAA. TO WATCH 
LEGISLATION IN 


| SPECIAL SESSION 


By JOHN C. WATSON 


In the third special session of 
the Fifty-eighth General Assembly 
which convened on Feb, 13, the 
Illinois Agricultural Association is 
committed by resolution, adopted 
in the recent annual mgeting in 
Danville, to sponsor or’ support 
proper legislation on two subjects 
included in the call. 

1. To permit the filing of chat- 
tel mortgages, at moderate cost, 
instead of requiring that they be 


recorded, necessarily at. much 
higher cost to mortgages. 


The enactmeut of legislation for 
this purpose is necessary if the 
new production credit provided 
for farmers is to be made available 
without excessive costs. 
In many other states a chattel 
mortgage can be filed in the office 
of the county recorder for as small 
a sum as twenty-five cents. 


2. To permit courts to continue 
suits for foreclosure from time to 
time for a limited period, under 
conditions prescribed by the court, 
whenever the mortgagor has made 
and continues to make every rea- 
sonable effort, to pay his obliga- 
tions. j 


Courf Upholds Act. 


on 
4 


FEBRUARY, 1934, 


a 


ig 


of THE ECOMO} 
REQUIRES. PATIEN 
1 


supported by the Association was 
defeated largely on objections to 
its constitutionality, in the regular 
session of the present General As- 
sembly. Such objections were re- 
cently brushed aside by the 
United States Supreme Court In a 
notable decision upholding the 


win / Bay, farm advisef, has its 
regular membership campaign 
scheduled for 1934 when they ex- 
pect to resign their present large 
membership and many new ones. 
Since last October the Sangamon 


my Farm Bureau dues, and had 
some left, didn't cost: me a cent to 
belong to the organization.” An- 
other said, ‘I received more than 
I anticipated. If I did not belong 
to the Farm Bureau would have 
received nothing, so why not be- 
long to an organization that helps 


County Farm Bureau has added 60 | 
new 


members. 


me.’ 
Increase Farm Prices. 


“There have been quite a few | 


men make the following state- 
ment to me about the corn loan 
program: ‘If it wasn’t for our or- 
ganization. we would be getting 
about 25 or 30 cents for our corn 


instead of 45 cents. Forty-five 
cents is what the elevators are 
paying in this county now and 


there are many who realize why 
it has reached that price. 

“As I said in the beginning of 
my letter, the hog callers are be- 
ginning to wake up and when they 
once get their eyes opened wide 


enough to see how the fellow on} 


the other side of the fence has 
been treating him, they will be 
ready to jump across the fence and 
go down the road with the fellow 
that is fighting for him.” 

Cc. T. Kibler, farm adviser in 
Jersey county, where the Farm 


Bureau has secured its 25 per cent | 


quota since January 1, reports that 
credit for this splendid record be- 
longs to the mobilization commit- 
tee. “The campaign was in charge 


of Martin Fitzgibbons, 11 township | 


captains and 41 lieutenants se- 
lected for the drive which started 
January 18° following a training 
school with V. Vaniman and 
H. Walker,” writes Kibler. 
Signs 10 Out Of 11. 


A report meeting was called on 
January 20 at which time 77 new 
members were signed. 
made January 23 brought this to- 
tal to 121. Lloyd Day, vice-presi- 
dent of the Jersey County Ship- 
pers Ass’n., signed 10 new mem- 
bers on January 23 out of 11 in- 
terviewed.”’ 

Kibler reports 
will be continued. until 
when they expect to 
least 200 new members. 
is much higher 
than any time during the past five 
years,” he says. ‘Farmers are now 
realizing that if any improvement 
is to be had it will come throygh 
farm organization and coopera- 
tion.” 


drive 
April 1 
secure at 
**Morale 


that the 


The story of the wonderful rec- | 


ord made by Farm Adviser F. H. 
Shuman, Captain Lowell Johnson 
and 26 lieutenants in Whiteside 
county has already been told. In 
two days with the temperature be- 
low zero they went out and signed 
161 new members, two more than 
necessary for their 25 per cent 
quota, 
Henderson Co. Signs 150. 


From Henderson county comes 
the report from Ernest D. Walker, 
farm adviser, that at least 150 
more members wil] be signed with- 
in the next few weeks. Walter 
Cochran of Biggsville has been ap- 
pointed captain. 

President Wilbur Gibbs of the 
Scott County Farm Bureau states 
that “As the new programs for re- 
covery are getting under way the 
need for our Farm Bureau is great- 
er than ever. Farmers must stand 
together if they are to secure a 
fair share of the national income.” 

In Pulaski-Alexander counties 

‘comes the report from Harold H. 
Gordon that 43 new members have 
been signed, and plans are being 
made to continue membership 
work along with the corn-hog 
campaign. “Henry P. Wiesenborn, 
Grand Chain, signed 10 


Reports | 


among farmers | 
| January 


H. | 


members | 
and states that he will secure 10) 


NEED POWERFUL VOICE 


“You know and I know 
that the complexities of 
our economic and social 
order are such that with- 
out a powerful voice speak- 
ing for farmers, without 
the influence of organiza- 
tion behind that voice, 
agticulture would grad- 
ually drift into and remain 
in a state of poverty that 
would: be as bad for the 
Nation as for those en- 
gaged in the business of 
farming.’—Pres. EARL C. 
SMITH, at Danville, Jan. 
25, 1934. 


Edgar Co. Beats Quota. 


“Things are different in Edgar 
|county these days,’’,writes A. E. 
Staley, president of the Edgar 


County Farm Bureau. ‘Never has 


the Farm Bureau received more 
favor than in the past’ three 
| months. Beginning with’ the 


‘mobilization campaign in October 


our lieutenants have gone out and 
told the story of organized agri- 
culture. Many of our members 
were not aware of the immense 
amount of work which had been 
done by their county, state, and 
national organization. With every 


member fully informed we ean win | 


the victories which should be ours. 

“Edgar county surpassed 
quota ‘before January 1. At the 
February directors’ meeting, it 
was agreed to increase our mem- 
bership 2 per cent over 
1 number. During re- 
cent weeks, $21,600 was distributed 
by our County Wheat Control 
Association. Two hundred ninety- 
one corn loans were made prior 
to February 9 on 443,238 bushels, 
totaling $190,212.42.” 

Appreciate Efforts. 


Carl F. Frey, president of the 
Iroquois County Farm Bureau, 
states that never before have the 
farmers of that county shown 
greater appreciation of the Farm 
Bureau than today. “Iroquois 
county is looking for a 50 per cent 
increase in membership. The 
corn-hog program is well under 
way and the Service Company re- 
cently paid a graduated dividend 
of from eight to 15 per cent.” 

“We are proud of our record in 
Shelby county;’’ says Captain R. C. 
McKinley. ‘We will respond to 
President Earl Smith's call for a 
25 per cent increase in member- 
ship, Farmers here are coming to 
realize that the Farm Bureau pro- 
gram has largely’ been 
President Roosevelt's program. 
President Roosevelt is a Farm Bu- 
reau member himself and we are 
all working close together.” 

‘IT believe DuPage county has 
the largest membership for its size 
in the state,”’ reports Leo Pauling, 
captain. “We now have an aver- 


5 


age of 111 members per township. | 


Bloomingdale, the largest, has 138 
members, and York township, the 
smallest has 8&4. 

“DuPage county is primarily a 


her | 


the | dairy 


| corn-hog 


made | 


validity of a Minnesota Act’ very 
similar to the bill defeated last 
June in this state. 

In addition to the two subjects 
of legislation described above, the 
Illinois Agricultural Association is 
necessarily interested in any legis- 
lation which may be introduced 
under several other subjects in- 
cluded in the call for’ the third 
special session. Among these are 
any measures changing the school 
laws, providing for consolidation 
of political subdivisions, clarifying 
the provisions concerning delin- 
quent taxes and property forfeited 
for taxes, providing for regulation 
of trucks, and modifying the pres- 
ent statute limiting purchases of 
substitutes for butter and lard to 
25 per cent of the oil and fat re- 
quirements of state public institu- 
tions. 

Asks Special Session. 

The Assbdciation, having spon- 

sored and secured the enactment 


'of the law limiting the use of but- 


| A. 


| 


| 
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! 
| 


ithree months,’’ he writes, 


ter and lard substitutes in state in- 
stitutions, has a special interest in 
this Act. The Association will 
maintain its usial constructive at- 
titude toward any legislation on 
this subject or on any other sub- 
ject of legislation in the third spe- 
cial session of the General Assem- 
bly. It will study with especial 
care bills, if any, which aim to im- 


pose heavier taxes on farm prop- 
erty. 

The call for the third special 
session does not include among 


the subjects named for considera- 
tion amendment of the revenue 
article of the state constitution. 


/The Association has long believed 


this to be the most important 
needed legislation in the state and 
asked that this subject b. included 
in the call for the third special 
session. 


section where the wheat, 
and corn loan programs 
have not been as important as in 
many other counties.” The many 
forms of service developed by the 
County Farm Bureau and the I, 
A. are responsible for the big 
membership in this county. 
Mercer Signs 121. 

From Mercer county comes the 
report that a 25 per cent increase 
in membership will be secured at 
a very early date. ‘‘We signed 
eight new members today, making 


our total 121 new members,”’ re- 
ports Captain J. O. Carlson. 
With 85 new members already 


in thé bag,. Moultrie county is go- 
ing out to improve on this record 
in the next few weeks. An oyster 
stew was held for all members and 
their families on Feb. 8. 

In DeKalb county 80 new mem- 
bers were signed, R, N. Rasmusen, 
farm adviser, reports. 

Captain Elery <A. Leefers of 
Macoupin, reports that an earnest 
attempt will be made to meet the 
request of President Earl C. Smith 
for a 25. per cent increase in mem- 
bership. “We have secured over 
150 new members during the past 
“We ex- 


pect to put each non-member on, 


| the spot and give him a chance to 


show his colors in the present 


| fight for the rights of agriculture. 


“T should like to appeal to those 
worthy farmers of the State of 


| Illinois who are members of their 


Farm Bureaus 
in enlisting 


County 
their help 


respective 
and ask 


| 


4 
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In Group Plann 
Of Illinois | 


The most promising year that re | 
they have had since 1929 is ahead hope 
of Illinois farmers as they begin ae v 
to plan their operations for 1934, prop" 
according to the College.of Agri-!of gee 
culture, University of Illinois. 
“During the past year the in- 


sai 
scrge® 
auguration of plans for agricul- 


con cr 
ae = 


Lake County Man 
Gets Bureau Dues 
From One Service 


A request was made of the IAA 
Transportation Deportment re- 
cently to collect a claim for three 
cattle killed on a -railroad right- 
of-way. This Lake county farmer 
was not a member of the Farm Bu- 
reau so he was advised by G. W. 
Baxter of the IAA that the claim 
could only be handled on a coms 
mission basis. The commission 
would have amounted to more than 
the annual dues of the Farm Bu- 
reau so the man became a mem- 
ber. Tbe claim was collected in 
the amount of $120. This one 
service from the organization saved 
more than this annual dues. 


their neighbors in the ranks of or- 
ganization, 


“T should like to ask those who 
are not members to consider care- 
fully the many benefits that have 
been secured directly and indirect- 
ly as a result of the organized ef- 
fort of member farmers.”’ 

Glad They Joined, 

Chris Powers, vice-president of 
the Macoupin County Farm Bu- 
reau, believes that the time has 
now arrived when every farmer 
should get in. and do his part 
through membership in the Farm 
Bureau. ‘I have signed a good 
many,” he says, “ and they are all 
glad they joined. Ones member 
whom I signed said that he got his 
dues back the first week by insur- 
ing his car and buying serum.” 

“Sixty-five new members,” fs 
the encouraging report from Mark 
F, Cooper, captain In Vermilion 
county. “Membership drive ex- 
tended two weeks. Prospects good.” cf 


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Problems Yet 


With thousands 
Farm B 


The challenge t 
President Ear] c. Se 


vention to try for at least a 25 


ship during 1934 has. been gene 


he past successés of org 


ahead present over-@ 


effort 
me to 
While the outlook for agricul- 
r than it has been 
some time, only a beginning 
toward restoring 
to normal prosperity. 
vers looking into the 


see many obs 
probable olaahes “tn retreat nea 
. . international policy affecting the 

o a7 future of American farmers. 

e The Agricultural A 
" Act, recognized as the +a ba et 
reaching — farm legislation ever 
enacted, expires in less than two 

years, What then? 


Planning Lies Future Hope 
nois Farmers—Dean Mumford 


sar that turd! recovery has created -new 


B among farmers 
is ahead | OPE + a reversal in 


the 


and hasj;own planning. 


no means a substitute for their 
They serve rather 


long |to emphasize the need for group 


*y begin ee ward trend in prices of farm!/planning, not only in. order to 
or 1934, " Dean H. W. Mumford|adopt the farm program to the 
of Agri- ne State Collegeof Agriculture |emergency situation, but also to 
10is, gaid “While such measures pre-|assist in the more permanent ad- 
the in-|scrg9® certain restrictions upon the|justment of farm production to 
agricul-| co erating farmers, they are by! market demands.” 
SPSS — oo 
a ) UP TO $40,000,000 
iain A IN CORN-HOG CHECKS 
rue POSSIBLE IN ILLINOIS 
rvice| | . 
the IAA | The corn-hog program made 
nt re- . +} possible by the efforts of the II- 
~y ahs linois Agricultural Association and 
- farmer organized farmers in other states, 
arm Bu- promises to result in distributing 
y G. W. up to $40,000,000 in cash benefit 
ie claim ' payments to Illinois farmers dur- 
a coms ing the next 15 months. 
imission “One of the mainstays of Or-| + Farmers who sign and carry out 
ore than ‘ the .contract will receive 30¢c per 
rm Bu-| c@mized Agriculture,” is the way 
It bushel of corn and $5 per head 

a mem- esident Franklin D. Roosevelt} of hogs on their base allotments. 
Cragy in aracterized the Illinois Agricul-| less the cost of putting the plan 
unved al Association in his message to| into effect. 
es esident Smith at the recent an- 
4 hal convention. I . 

“In wishing the Ulinois Agri-| 4roquois County 
ts of or- hitural Association a successful 

eeting I feel that I am address- Takes Advantages 
ose who g a body which has always been 
er care- e of the mainstays of organized Of Corn Loa ns 
‘at have rriculture,” the telegram from cperemmenna 
indirect- esident Roosevelt said. Iroquois county corn growers 
lized ef- The fact that the I. A, A. is the} were among the first to take ad- 

rgest and strongest state farm} vantage of the corn-loan program. 

ganization in America; that it|C. EB. Johnson, farm adviser, re- 
ident of as contributed most heavily in| ports that 1,262 farmers in that 
rm Bu-|, fluence and support to the 12] county had received loans by 
ime has ear fight of organized farmers| February 7. The total amount of 
farmer br effective legislation to farm| money involved is $803,012.85. 
lis part ricés is well known throughout “Since yhere are 3,800 farmers 
ie Farm epee country. in this county, and assuming that 
a good The I. A. A. office in Chicago,|4t least one-half of our corn its 
y are all one of the stopping places of|fed, around 66 per cent of those 
per oreign students and delegates|Who had a surplus had corn 
+ helen ent to this country to study the | Sealed,” writes Mr. Johnson. 
um," arm cooperative movement. Iroquois county is going ahead 
ers,” {8 epresentatives from Great Brit-}with its membership campaign and 
pa Mark ain, Germany, Russia, Sweden.|has set the goal for 500 new mem- 
ermilion hnd other countries have visited| bers. A meeting of the captain 
Ave | éne he Association offices during re-|and lieutenants was held = on 
8 good.” c pnt years, i February 12 to start the drive, 


t 


for 
that. prove to 
terests of agriculture. 

be on the job to see tha 
Opposition does not 
president’ and his 


Farmers must be ready ‘to 

the continuation of policies 
be for the best in- 
They must 
t organized 
thwart the 
administration 
Farmers 


LET’S FINISH 


THE JOB 


United Action Necessary 
To Continue Policies For 


Welfare Of Agriculture 


Outlook Is Brighter But 


Has Been Made—Farmers Must P 
What They Have Gained ae! storie 


Unsolved, 


Only A Beginning 
Tackle 


per cent increase in member- 
rally acccepted. 


anized farmers and the many 
Oren terre 


Counties Respond 
To Pres. Smith’s 
Plea For Action 


Pp. as 
They must also give construc- f& 


tive aid, counsel and cooperation 
to expedite the administration of 
the program to raise farm prices. 

How else can this be accom-. 
plished except through full 
strength organization? | 

Among the most’ important 
problems ahead is the. future 
tariff. policy of the United States. 
Organized farmers long have be- 
lieved that high industrial tariffs 
have put American agriculture at 
a serious disadvantage. In the 
first place high tariffs have in- 
creased the cost of many farm 
supplies particularly machinery 


and building materials. Secondly, 
the American tariff ‘policy has 
greatly restricted international 


trade and foreign outlets for sur- 
plus American farm products. 
Tariff Fight Coming. 

A letting down of the tariff 
walls, it is generally conceded will 
not be accomplished without over- 
coming powerful opposition § of 
highly organized industrial groups 
which will not give up the advan- 
tages they long have enjoyed, 
without a_ struggle. 

Unless farmers are on the job to 
meet such organization with equal 
organization, and are ready to 
battle for the policies they believe | 
to be fair to their industry, there 
is little likelihood of victory. 

Future national policies on taxa- 
tion present another problem of 
vital interest to farmers. <A wide- 
spread campaign of propaganda 
which has the support of many 
metropolitan newspapers and com- 
mercial and wealthy interests is 
now under way to discredit the 
federal income tax, and taxation 
based on ability to pay. <A con- 
certed effort is being made to re- 
move the tax burden from the | 
rich and saddle it on people of 
small and moderate means| 
through various kinds of sales 
taxes. 


What It Means. 

Such a shift in taxation will 
mean that farmers will pay fed- 
eral taxes on almost every article, 
plece of equipment, building ma- 
terial, or other commodity neces- 
sary to carry on their business. It 
will mean that the cost of nearly 
everything the farmer purchases 
would go up, while owners of 
great wealth in the form of stocks, 
bonds, and other intangibles would 
go virtually tax free. 

Unless farmers watch carefully | 
and thoroughly analyze such leg- 
islation, unless they are repre- 
sented through powerful organiza- | 
tion, and speak out with a voice! 
backed by large membership, self- 
ish interests will work their will 
by skillfully covering up the real 
intent and purpose of tax reforms! 
offered under the guise of bene- 
fiting the masses, 

Escapes Taxation, 

In Illinois, owners of intangible 
wealth who are profiting by the 
apparent impossibility of taxing 
authorities to assess and collect 
taxes on much personal property, 
have successfully forestalled ef- 
forts to remove constitutional limi- 
tations to equitable taxation. 

The property tax hits farmers 
and home owners heavily because 
their property is tangible and eas- 
ily assessed. The personal prop- 
erty tax in the cities is not being 
enforced hence intangible 
is not bearing its fair share of the 
tax burden. 

Selfish interests 


have in the 


|past and will in the future bring | 


every influence to bear toward 
slowing up progress toward more 


equitable taxation. Farmers and 


rea] estate owners will have a 


wealth | 


PRESIDENT EARL C. SMITH 
———— 


tough job at best, even when come 
pletely organized, to secure enacte 
ment of fair. tax laws. Without 
complete organization, their case 
is hopeless, and the state will con- 
tinue to operate under the antle 
quated revenue laws passed in 
1870 which discriminate against 
farmers and home owners. 

Nearly all the progress made 
during the past toward organized 
purchasing and co-operative mar- 
keting is directly traceable to the 
general farm organizations such 
as the Farm Bureau and Illinois 
Agricultural Association. 


Denmark’s Plan, 


In Denmark where farmers 
aided by the government have 
taken the initiative in setting up 
cooperatives both in the market- 
ing and processing field, agricule 
tural producers secure approxi- 
mately two-thirds of the consume 
er’s dollar. In the United States 
the cost of distribution is so high, 
that the farmer receives on the 
average only about one-third of 
the consumer's dollar. 

Further progress in this difec- 
tion in Illinois will be in direct 
proportion to the backing farme- 
ers give the County Farm Bureau 
and Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion. 


An important beginning has- 
been made in America toward 
building a credit system adapted to 
the needs of farmers. Yet while 
agriculture is the most fundae 
mental, sound, and necessary in- 
dustry, farmers still have to pay 
higher rates of interest on bore 
rowed money than do most other 
businesses. 


From Soil To Sale. 

“One of the first sieps in the 
cooperative movement in Dene 
mark,’’ writes Dr. Fred C. Howe, 
consumers counsel of the A. A. A,, 


“was to secure credit for the 
farmer and by the farmer. The 
Danes realized that farmers could 
not depend on a_ banking = sys- 
tem designed for industrialists, 
so farmers have their own, 
l'The local unit, or “baby bank” 
in their community helps them 
buy tools and machinery, stock 


their farms, build new barns, and 
improve their projects.” 

Through persistent organized efe 
fort Illinois farmers,, too, can 
carefully study banking reform 
and build a credit system better 
adapted to their needs. 


Tazewell County 
Growers Apply For 
451 Corn Loans 


Four hundred fifty-one appli- 
cations on corn loans in Tazewell 
county up to Feb. 8 is the news 
telegraphed to the I. A. A. REC- 
ORD by Farm Adviser George H. 


Iftner. The 451 applications rep- 
resent 747,154 bushels of corn 
and $336,218.85. 

Tazewell county was well rep- 
resented at the big I. A. A. mass 
meeting in Peoria where more 


ithan 8,000 Illinois farmers unani- 
| mously went on record in favor of 
the administration's corn loan 
program 


PAGE TWO 


ABRAHAM LINCOLN 


a a 


“The Farmer's Interest I M 


é’T'HE farmer’s interest is most worthy of 

all to be cherished and cultivated. If 
there ever be inevitable conflict between that 
interest and any other that other should 


yield.” 


é 


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 


” -— 


HENRY T, RAINEY 


By ALEXANDER LEGGE 
Former Chairman Federal 
Farm Board 

“Perhaps the soundest ad- 
vice we can give to agricul- 
ture is contained in the one 
word, ‘Organize.’ 

“Properly organized I can- 
not see any reason why agri- 
culture might not go even 
farther than industry, inas- 
much as most farm products 
are consumed every day and 
several times a day and the 
consumption must be fairly 
continuous if we are to live. 

“The greatest difficulty we 
have to contend with, is that 
in some mysterious way, 
through legislative action or 
otherwise, the handicap under 
which agriculture is suffer- 
ing, will be removed, and the 
position of the farmer made 
secure without any action on 
his part. My friends, this is 
not even a good dream. It is 
currently believed that 
dreams sometimes come true, 
but this one never will. - 


At Milwaukee, Sept. 30, 1859. 


ALEXANDER LEGGE 


‘ 


ee om — eon —_— pn atterteamn Wes FR ES ON 


In his message to the re 
cent annual convention of the 
I. A. A. at Danville Henry T. 
Rainey, Speaker of the House 
of Representatives, expressed 
the belief that the rapidly in- 
creasing population in the 
United States will within the 
next half century provide a 
market for all of the produc- 
tion from acres now being tak- 
en out of cultivation. “We can- 
not wait so long for relief, 
however,’ he said. “And 
that’s why the emergency 
program to adjust production 
to present outlets is nec- 
essary. We must all be pa- 
tient with the recovery pro- 
gram. It cannot be accom- 
plished over night. It will 
take time. But we absolutely 
cannot get along without 
such organizations as the IIli- 
nois Agricultural Association, 
This great Association op- 
erates as a balance wheel.” 


rid 


“a 
we 
i "| 
buen, Bip oe 
a4 7 
te Ge 2 a 
Wwe bi 
vost 
7 ih 


ILLINOIS AGRICULTU 


uIN wishing the Illin@fe 
a 


ing a body. which hasz 
stays of organized agrburces th 
hear from so many se future v 
farmer today faces t 
must, however, contink fter th 
and UNITEDLY GO 
path. To get out anc 
bles requires patig 
EFFORT such as 
times of peace; but 


“You have one of the great- 
est and most representative 
organizations of agriculture 
anywhere. We need more 
organizations like yours. You 
tan do alivnst anything when 
you are properly organized. If 
farmers don’t organize, others 
will, and they'll take care of 
thei own interests first.” 


FRANK 


successful meet 


FR 
in mesage to 19th ann 
Danville, Jan. 25, 193 


,HENRY A, WALLACE 


By HENRY A, WALL 
Secretary of Agricultuif. 
“This, of all times, is alpe- 

riod in which farmers sh@ild 

stand together in strong }or- 
ganizations in mutual inler- 
est. For the first time, gbv- 


E 


By GEORGEN. PEEK, 
Asst, To President Roosevalt. 


“Farm organizations dre 
not ends in themselves; thpy 
are the means to commbn 
ends, desired by all agric}l- 
ture, That has been the gdal 
of the Illinois Agricultuaal 
Association for years. 

“It must be inspiring ko 
farm organization men thhht 
they now have a law, the Ab- 
ricultural Adjustment Adt 
through which they may he 


p 
effectuate a restoration f 
farm well-being. Uniting wifth 
a sound farm organization Ԥs 
a significant step at any tim : 
it is more so now. The moffe 
we learn to work together fdr 
the common good in this wa r. 
the easier it is for us to male 


the fundamental adjus@- 
ments so necessary at pred. 
ent. The value of organize} 
effort to the individual farme 


N D. ROOSE' 


Agricv 
I feel 1 


ays bee 


ture. It 


e relent 


y out of tl 
wiand calis 
‘ica has s 
an be don 
LIN D. | 


ntion, Illinois 


ernmer! 
farme1 
powers 
are ur 
| selves, 
— “One 
» relativ 
neighb 
farmer 
be ack 
vidual 
must 
raise 
which 
conduc 
Only t 
tion. 
“Tt 
that s 
tions a 
carry ¢ 
justme 
Act. Tl 
to a lo 
paign 
to an 


groups 
érs mo 
—In s 
1933. 


has ne 
ent. I 
ber, ‘as 
‘ber o 
Staten 


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tHURSDAY, FEB. 15, 1934 


SSS SS 


a me ee 


Most Worthy Of All’’— 


—Abraham ‘Lincoln 


a ee 


AL ASSOCIATION RECORD 


N D. ROOSEVELT 


Agricultural Association a ee 


14aie I feel that I am address- 
ays been one of the main- 4 
ture. It is encouraging to 
burces that the American 
se future with new hope. We 
e relentlessly to face facts 
2fter the obstacles in our 
y out of the economic sham- 
Band calls for COLLECTIVE 
‘ica has seldom k now n in 
an be done.” 


{LIN D. ROOSEVELT, 


raion, Hilinois Agricultural Association, 


és] AM more convinced than ever that organiza- 
tion is the greatest need of the farmers of this 
country. 

“If history teaches anything, it teaches that 
permanent prosperity cannot come without farm 
prosperity. We cannot have a balanced agriculture, 
nor get agriculture back to a state of balance with 
other industries, without organization. This is a 
business man’s problem as much as the farmer’s. 
No nation has long survived the decay of its agri- 


culture.” ; 
FRANK O. LOWDEN, 


Before a meeting of Illinois bankers in 1927. 


4 


ernment is offering fully to 


and duplication of a mar- 


farmers its own centralizing 
powers to do what farmers 
are unable to do for. them- 
selves, individually. 

“One farmer may succeed, 
relatively, by outsmarting his 
neighbors, but prosperity for 
farmers, in general, is not to 
be achieved simply by indi- 
vidual] shrewdness. There 
must be a large effort to 
raise the whole level on 
which American farming is 
conducted. This can be done 
Only through organized ac- 
tion. 

“Tt is particularly fitting 
that strong farm organiza- 
tions are in a position to help 
carry out the program of ad- 
justment under the Farm 
Act. This is to follow through 


ARTHUR M. HYDE 


By ARTHUR M. HYDE, 


keting and distributing sys- 
tem, which generally speak- 
ing, absorbs two dollars for 
every one dollar it returns to 
the farmer. Thus the farmer 
can approximate the position 
of industry, or of other 
groups. 

“By the long arm of his 
own organization, the farmer 
can make himself felt beyond 
his line fences and in tho 
markets of the world. 
Through his _ organization, 
the farmer can get informa- 
tion as to commodity sup- 
plies; can bring his produc- 
tion within the limits of de- 
mand, can control the sur- 
plus problem by preventing 
it. By organization the farm- 
er can take control of his 


E to a Jogical conclusion a cam- Former Secretary of own industry; re-establish 
sf paign for raising agriculture Agr-culture. the independence of his call- 
1ipe- to an equality with other “One general answer to ing; win his own place in 
i@ild groups, begun by farm lead- farm problems is organiza- the sun of economic equality, 
ffor- érs more than ten years ago.” tion, Organization to control and having won it, hold it 
nier- —In statement. Sept. 29, marketing, to standardize against all the changing vi- 
pv- 1933. output, to eliminate waste  cissitudes of the future.” 


Ow Smet 


GEO, N. PEEK 


By CHESTER C. DAVIS, 


Chief, Agricultural Adjust- 
ment Administration. 


“Few worthwhile goals 
have been won by individual 
action; only when men stand 
together in a common effort 
can they succeed in the long 
run; as uncoordinated _indi- 
viduals, they fail. 


“The need for common ac- 
tion is emphasized by the Ag- 
ricultural Adjustment Act. 
Strong farm organizations 
are ready-made to furnish 
this action. Farmers can 
achieve the goal of — parity 
prices under the Agricultural 
Adjustment Act much soon- 
er when they are already 
mobilized as a group. 


CHESTER C, DAVIS 


ake has never been more appar- “After a decade of disor- 

is@- ent. I speak as a fellow mem- der, it is clear that going-it 

‘eg - ber,"as well as a charter mem- alone does not pay; we must can enter a brighter era than 
regi = ber of your organization.’ solve our problems as a_ any of us have ever known.” 
ne Statement Sept. 29, 1933. group, acting together, we Statement Sept. 29, 1933. 


THURSDAY, FEB. 15, 1934 


THAPAYERS SHOW 
VALUE OF GROUE 
EFFORT IN 1933 


Vax Committees In Counties 
Watch Levies and Expen- 
ditures to Cut Burden. 


t & 


Future 


Whatever have been our ac- 
complishments and. attainments, 
they are the result of the impelling 
force of the united thinking and 
action of the membership,Presi- 
dent Earl C, Smith said recently 
in reviewing the progress of I. A. 
A. activities during the year 1933. 


“The voice and the influence of 
the institution cannot and will not 
H a : be stronger than those for whom 

eavy decreases in nearly all) it speaks. So let us not lose sight 
commodity values in the year’end-| of the thing that has made all 
ing April 1, 1933, are reflected in pronouncements of the institution 
the reduction of 10.14 per cent in| nogsiple,” continued Mr. Smith 
the total 1933 assessed valuations pr intate wee ‘ 
Without group action, we 


of personal’ property. This is| 
more than twice the percentage would have accomplished noth- 
ing. Without organization, our re- 


of decrease in valuations of lands 
and more than three times the| ©¢?t achievements as well as those 
of earlier years would. not have 


percentage of decrease in valua- . 
tions of town and city lots in the| been realized. Organization, like 
a machine, is merely a means to 


same year. Such decreases in val- 
uations are found in most of the|@® end; yet the productiveness. of 
‘counties and are usually substan- the machine and its ability to do 
tial. Twelve counties, however, the job for which it was designed 
increased their assessments of per-| #"4 built depends on how well it 
sonal property, such increases us- is maintained. The organization 
ually being small, but exceeding- machine must rest on a solid foun- 
five per cent in Pulaski county, dation of membership. The united 
eight per cent in Franklin county, strength and support of the mem- 
ten per cent in Moultrie and Wil-| bers hold it up and give it power 
liamson counties, and seventeen|@2d influence to cope with the 
per cent in Mason county. Such great problems affecting the pres- 
increases are justifiable if they| ent and future of agriculture, It 
represent assessments of addition-| must be adequately financed, 
al. personal property. or equaliza- Reduce Fee? 


tion of all assessments. “Sometimes we hear that to in- 

Reductions in valuations of| crease the membership, the mem- 
lands and occasionally of personal bership fee should be reduced, In 
property were due in some coun-| every state where this has been 
ties to the Farm Bureau and oth-| tried, it has resulted in a substan- 
er organizations. In some counties tial decrease in membership. We, 
they seem to have been due to ac-| jn T)Iinois, have a higher member- 
tion by the boards of review whol- ship fee than in any other state; 
ly on their own initiative. yet we have the largest supporting 


As in most years since 1922, the Farm Bureau membership of any 
Illinois Tax Commission did not state in ‘the Union. There is & 


equalize valuations among the va-| ,.ason and that reason can be ex- 


rious counties of the state. This , dice V- 
was doubtless due in part to rec- presged in & single. words--aER 


ICE. While we as members have 
senition Fe eee ae of ao: put more in, we have also taken 
© & meectory nformation| nore out. It has been said that a 


upon which to base equalization. 
The expected omission of part or 
all of the 1933 state tax on proper- 
ty probably also was influential. 
Since equalization by the State 
Tax Commission can ‘be effective 
only for state taxes, the omission 
of all state taxes on the 1933 val- 
uations of property has removed 
for this year the urgent need of 
equalization of such valuations 
among the various counties, Un- 
less further action is taken to pro- 
vide state revenue from. other 
sources than property taxes, the 
need of equalization will return 
in 1934 and will become even more 
urgent in 1935. 
Effect On Taxes, 

In every year since 1921, the 
I, A. A. Tax Department has es- 
timated the reduction in taxes lev- 
ied on property due to reduction 
in valuations resulting from equal- 
ization.’ In 1932 it ‘was estimated 
that the taxes on farm property 
for that year were at least $6,500,- 
000 less than the total which would 
have been levied if the high 
state and county valuation of 1920 
had not been heavily reduced by 
equalization of valuations. It was 
shown in 19381 that farm property 
had shrunk from about 31.50 per- 
cent of valuations of all classes 

: { ' ’ weete i) 

per cent in 1931, resulting in a 
saving of $3,175,000 in state taxes 
on farm property in the year 
1931. It was further estimated 
that such reductions in valuations 
had further cut taxes on farm 
property for all county and local 
purposes to a total of $3,325,000 
less than it would have been if the 
old high valuations of 1920 to 
1922 had remained unchanged. 
The I. A. A. is the only organiza- 
tion that has been consistently rep- 
resenting farmers in tax matters 
before the State Tax Commission 
since 1921. 

Reductions In Levies, | 

The omission of all levies on 
property for 1933 wholly removes 
the effect on state taxes caused 
by reductions in valuations, but 
in no way lessens the effect of 
such reductions on valuations for 
county and local purposes. In 
view of further reductions in val- 
uations, therefore, both in 1932 
and in 1933, the department esti- 
mates that county*and local taxes 
on farm property for 1933 will be 
at least $3,500,000 less than they 
would’ have been if the high val- 
uations of 1920 to 1922 had been 
maintained. 

In most of the counties of the 
state, taxpayers again demonstrat- 
ed the good results of organization 
in exercising more effective control 
over tax levies and expenditures. 
Demand for greatly increased 
township levies for some purposes, 
especially for poor relief, revived 
so much interest among taxpayers 
that attendance at town meetings 
surpassed all recent records, Simi- 
lar interest was manifested in 
school levies, especially in districts 
where needlessly large balances 
were being carried over from year 
to year. 


And Be Ahead Of 
The Game—Wil€cox | 


Under present price conditions 
most Illinois farmers could well 
afford to cull out and sell five out 
of every 10 sows on the farm if 
this culling leaves five sows that 
will wean three more pigs to the 
litter than the average of the 10, 
according to R. H. Wilcox of the 
Illinois Céllege of Agriculture. 

This statement is borne out by 
investigations of 106 cost records 
kept by 34 to 37 central Illinois 
farmers over a three-year period. 
Figures from these farmers show 


Farm Bureau membership in Ihli- 
nois costs nothing, if the member 


Wins First Prize 
As Member Getter 


— 


CLAUDE HICKS 


Last October, when the call was 
issued for Country Life agents to 
go out and increase Farm Bureau 
membership, there was one who 
was so sold on the Farm Bureau 
movement, on collective effort and 
the need for Illinois farmers to 
unite for group action to solve 
their problems, that in 20 days 102 
Livingston county farmers signed 
up largely as a result of his en- 
thusiasm and reason. 


Yessir! Livingston county thinks 
a great deal of its general agent, 
Claude Hicks, who established the 
best record for soliciting member- 
ships of anyone in the Country 
Life organization. 


This year Claude is going out 
to better his record. The runners- 
up to Mr. Hicks are out to take 
his place as “head man” among 
the “go getters.’’ It looks like a 
merry tussle among the boys and 
may the best man win. 


—— 


“PRAIRIE FARMS” EGGS 
TO BE MARKETED IN 
CARTONS CO-OP WAY 


In the public mind butter and 
eggs go together. To that end, the 
butter produced and marketed by 
Illinois Producers Creameries un- 
der the trade name, “Prairie 
Farms Butter” will soon be joined 
on dealers’ shelves and in homes 
by “Prairie Farms Egge.” 

According to J. B. Countiess, 
sales manager of Illinois Produc- 
ers Creameries, the success made 
in marketing ‘Prairie Farms But- 
ter” during 1933, when not one 
cent was lost on any sale, will be 


he believes, with the new product. 


Marketed in attractive cartons 
comparable to those used in pack- 
aging the butter, “Prairie Farms 
Eggs” will build its distribution 
through the butter outlets already 
established. This promises. prof- 
itable response at the outset, as 
there will be little or no added ex- 
pense involved in establishing a 
market. ; 

The original distribution will be 
made out of Bloomington, Peoria 
and Davenport where last year a 
total of 1,824,741 pounds of butter 
was made. New cooperative points 
are in the process of formation 


that 29 per cent of the sows|and officials promise that Prairie 
weaned spring litters averaging| Farms butter and eggs will be 
four or less pigs, while another | available to housewives in a much 


wider area than had been consid- 
ered possible several years ago. 


20 per cent weaned spring litters 
of seven or more. 


NEW CARTON FOR EGGS 


“Prairie Farmers” Fresh Eggs Will Soon Be Going from Pro- 
ducer to Consumer Direct Through Llinois Producers Creameries., ° 


Constructive Thinking And 
Action Of Militant Membershi 


|achieved during the coming year, | 


ILLINOIS AGRICU 


uses the organization. It merely 
costs $15 :per year for non-mem- 
bers who join but fail to use or 
participate in its services. 
“Farmers are not interested nor 
should they be interested in main- 
taining an organization just for the 
sake of organization. The only ex- 
cuse for organization is to accom- 
plish a worthy end and get things 
done. If I thought that the work 
of a state association was finished 


strongly organized to maint 
proper representation of agric 
ture around the council tables 
State and Nation. The acco 
Plishments and program of t 
Farm Bureay in county, state ay 
nation, coupled with the results 
the membership mobilization ca 
paign of recent. months shou 
stimulate each and every leader 
the Farm Bureau movement 
Illinois to further action. 


=: 


-e-9-4- 9 e-F- Te 


y ' 


or that the problems confronting must not feel content until eye The 
farmers were greatly reduced, 1/f4rmer in Illinois not only knovg, | tiong 
would be the first to recommend |°! >ut understands the purposeit! pave 
that we disband and prorate back | the Policies and the program financ 


the organization. 
Constructive Action, 


members whatever assets 
On the 


to the 
have been accumulated. 


by the 
the bl 


contrary with each succeeding day, “After all, everything we hoy@}| tion, 

we see and witness ever-increasing | to accomplish in the future wife] record 
problems confronting the farmers| depend upon the. constructivi) during 
of state and Nation.’ ; thinking and action of a large a Smith 


Here Are Problems. militant membership. nual m 
“If Government could or -would, “IT want to take this opportunity’) Una 
regardless of who happened to be |°f extending to every Farm. Bure of the 
in control, restore to agriculture a | members in Illinois, the deep ai) Compa 
fair share of the national income| Preciation. of the officers, thi} ‘servic 
and legislate fairly for farmers|>oard of directors and the staf | approa 
without their being heard, then| Of the Illinois Agricultural Associa} | before 
we could be less enthusiastic about | tion and associated companies fof | scrutin 
the need of organization. the continued confidence and suyj tive ri 
“If we were justified in béliev- | Port they have given to our effort§ | of the: 
ing that our present. marketing to serve the best interests of th@) their 
system is perfect, that the farmer | farmers of Illinois and Americal) close ¢ 
is getting as much of the con- To this service, we rededicat@] manne 
eumer’s dollar as he is entitled to, | @Very rightful effort and purpos@/ their r 
we could say, ‘Lets forget about of the Illinois Agricultural Assoc membe 


our marketing problems and ac- 
tivities—lets stay home on the 
farm, produce and let others mar- 
ket our products for us.’”’ 

“If we could rest content in the 
belief that we have a perfect tax- 
ing system and that the tax bur- 
den would be equitably distributed 
‘and that farm property would 
bear no more than its just share, 
we could say, ‘Lets dispense with 
the Tax Department and quit or 
do something else with the money 
now spent on tax problems,’ ” 

Must Strengthen It. 

“Did we believe there is no need 
for farmer representation before 
rate-making bodies, that we as 
farmers can always depend upon 
fairness from those who fix prices 
on the services and commodities 
that farmers must buy, we could 
say there is small reason for or- 
ganization. But we are forced to 
recognize that we are living in a 
highly organized world, a world 
in which power and influence are 
concentrated in huge corporations 
and trade groups. You know and 
I know that the complexities of 
our economic and social order are 
such that, without a powerful 
voice speaking for farmers, with- 
out the influence of organization 
behind that voice, agriculture 
would gradually drift into and re- 
main in a eondition of poverty 
that would be as bad for the nation 
as for those engaged in the busi- 
ness of farming. 

“We must not only maintain the 
organization but greatly strength- 
en it if we are to perpetuate the 
recognition thus far accorded ag- 
riculture by Government and are 
to further develop and make more 
effective present government agri- 
eultural policies. -We must be 


SUCCEED MEW. 
FELOSOF FARM. 
CO-OPERATION} 


The power of the organization is 
never more apparent than when 
it achieves success in a compara- 
tively new field. While fire insur- 
ance has long been offered by lo- 
cal mutuals there has been less 
progress in other field of insur- 
ance by farmers. When Illinois 
Agricultural Mutual Insurance 
Compatty was formed by the 
Illinois Agricultural Association, 
the express purpose was to insure 
members’ automobiles at lower 
cost than available elsewhere. 

Operating smoothly from the 
first, Illinois Agricultural Mutual 
presented a 1933 financial state- 
ment which was the strongest in 
its history, and, in addition, in- 
creased its policies by 3,000. This 
company has saved Farm Bureau 
members more than a quarter mil- 
lion dollars on auto insurance | 


pects pp eicediees bgitig the er 9 ep ; dl 

is ar 8 , ate- 

aawike waaay One man with a cradl 
way in a thousand acr 
ful combines mgke sh 


ation in 1934.” 


In a year when many life insur- 
ance companies were unfortunate, 
Country Life Insurance Company 
increased its insurance in foree to 
a new high of $54,065,000. This 
represents an increase of $7,000,- 
000 over 1932. Country Life's fi- 
nancial statement shows that over 
90 per cent of its investments are 
in government, state and munici- 
pal bonds, an extremely liquid po- 
sition, fully justifying the confi- 
dence placed in it by policyhold- | 
ers. 

Illinois Producers Creameries, a 
comparative newcomer to Illinois | 
farmer-owned activities is show- 
ing increasing strength in the pro- 
duce marketing field. From plants 
in Bloomington, Peoria and Dav- 
enport Illinois Producers Cream- 
eries marketed nearly 2,000,000 
pounds of butter without the loss 
of a single cent on any sale, and 
with 98 per cent of all sales at a 
premium over the Chicago mar- 
ket. Using the trade name, “Prai- 
rie Farms,” this cooperative will 


One man alone fas lit 
big problems of agri 
tion of thousands thin 
can do the job. 


Corn: loans at 45 cen 
hog program, wheat 
government support t 
reduction, devalgation 
able insurance @t a s 
improved roadq far 
chinery—yes, higher | 
What’s back off all t 


eer a acta vende | them possible? 

tablished, 

Soybean Marketing Organized farngjrs! 
Assn. Influences thru the County Fart 


Prices Upward 


Probably less understood and 
appreciated than any I, A. A. 
sponsored cooperative endeavor is 
the Soybean Marketing Associa- 
tion. With a short crop last year, 
the importance of the marketing 
association’s function was lost 
sight of by many. 

However, the Soybean Market- 
ing Association is largely responsi- 
ble for the increase in price re- 
ceived by members throughout the 
state. Its plan of marketing is 
flexible, enabling any member at 
his own choosing to deliver beans 
at any time and get the best price 
available in the state. 

Future plans of the Association 
are being given attention by the 
board of directors and the man- 
agement and full details of the 
1934 program will be announced 
in due time, 


Get |Yc 
ILLI 


URAL ASSOCIATION RECORD | PAGE THREE 


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| § | and safeguarded. With but one ex- 
ception, they all closed the year 
a a ‘ in splendid finaricial condition, 


having in each case met every ob- 


ligation and in addition, substan- 
tially improved their financial 
condition by increasing their re- . 


spective surpluses. 


spent what little reserve we had 
signing 515 Farm Bureau members 
at $10 per year. Three years later, 
in 1928, we put on a membership 
campaign and raised the dues to 
$15 per year. We signed up about 
415 to begin Jan. 1, 1929. Three 
years later, in 1931, we signed 
about 450 at $15 per year. We now 
have practically 600 members on 
the $15 basis.” 


1h 


, Ability Proved. ti 
“It would seem that nothing : 
aint . more could or need be said as to| Secor Tells. How Membership 
isricuht the ability of farmers through or- 


bles ganization to own, control and di- Was Boosted In County 
pipe : —_—_— rect corporations furnishing we id Since 1923 $120 Ahead By 
J aH , |iees generally needed by ‘he farm- , ; 
te abt |Comparison justifies Confi- | ers of tne state. ‘The larger of | > meres vaearoe ai ® 
- these corporate activities have 

gnome e dence and Judgment Of been in existence since 1927 and|E. C. Secor, farm adviser in arm bureau 
have recorded further progress _ ? ; : re sop . a 

ader @f County Leaders. and achievement with each suc- Randolph county, who hes iret 4 rae en nope ere a Py 

lent fe ‘selina! véar . ‘Ne prize and the IJ. A. A. silver cup, "cultural Industry has today Is the 

| W ceeding year. Comparison, and 3 equalizing of the disparity between 
comparison alone, of the develop-! for effective Farm Buréau ‘pub- agriculture and industry, and the 


more equitable distribution of na- 
tional resources and income,. This 
can only be brought about through 
organization, 

“Through Country. Life. insur- 


tions, which throughout the years| respective companies controlled| work in Randolph county Noy, 1, 
have been developed, organized, | and directed, by the Farm Bureau | 1923, Previous to that, and after 
financed, controlled and directed | movement in Illinois, with those | graduating from the University of 
oe = Anca Farm Bureaus and} of a competitive character in the - Illinois in 1914, 
. | the Bilinois Agricultural -Agssocia- | so-called old line field, justifies , . . om knit 
e hoj#l| tion, have continued their. notable | the confidence and judgment of pe cecmed ® pry a TO oo we papas 
ire wile] record of progress and service | the leaders of the County Farm where he assist- | company anf savings on Yasols 
tructivii; during the year; President Earl C.| Bureaus who years ago authorized ed in the organi- nation of ho 3 ca so I have 
rge a Smith reported in his recent an-| the organization of these enter- sation of the naire $120 gibt p Aha ever my 
y| nual message. prises, Greene county|Farm Bureau dues. The benefits 
ortunitiy Under the general management ‘While at times we hear reports Farm  Bureau.! from the tax and legislative work 
Bure of the [Illinois Agrienuitral Service| of an existing feeling that too of the I. A. A. are all extra, The 
eep a Company,. better known as the} much céntralized power or control greatest kick I get out of member- 
rs, th “service board,’ every avenue of | is vested in those charged with the ship is in knowing that I belong 
1e ate approach to the business problems/| gencral management of these cor- still maintains @/ to the best. farm organization in 
Taney before them has heen carefully | porations, yet I again repeat what membership. the world, namely, the Farm Bu- 
nies fc scrutinized,’ he said. The respec-|1 have stated on former occasions, “When I came| reau, and the I. A. A., which is 
nd su} tive records of accomplishments | that I regard this centralized man- to Randolphj|a member of the American Farm 
 effort® | of these companies, coupled. with | agement as.a first essential to the county the mem-| Bureau Federation. I. sincerely 
of th@) their financial condition. at the| continued progress and success of bership  dues| hope that all the farm people of 
merical] close of the year, best attest the| these companies, and more par-| E. C: SECOR were $10 per/this country will soon see the 
jedicat@) manner in which the interests of | ticularly, to keep in balance the| year and the morale very low,’ | great benefits of organization, 
purpos@) their respective participating | greatly expanded activities of the} said Mr. Secor. “When we held our « § M: BECHTEL 
Assoc members have been represented| Illinois Agricultural Association.” | first reorganization campaign, we! Macoupin County, Hl. 


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NDIVIDUALISM— 


Outworn As the 
CRADLE 


SS eon 
a 
——E—— 


There he served 
for six years as 
secretary, and 


1 eves The various business corpora- | ment and the condition of these | licity work during 1933 started 


ae 


Photos Courtesy International Harvester Co, 


Above—Cutting grain with a ‘ 


) >: 


work 7 ‘ os) sas ai 


‘ 


GANIZAT 


‘ts Things Done: 


th a cradle couldn’t make muchhead- Agricultural Association—thru the American Farm 
husajid acres of wheat. But 12 power- Bureau Federation. 


s make short work of it. We are not out of the woods yet. But the only 


| i i i i : t and stay out is through 
bne has little influence in solving the a ak . ee out and stay 


s of agriculture. Only the mass ac- 
san is thinking and working together We have made a start toward working out our 
job national and international problems. Are we smart 


i i ogether 
enough, and persistent enough to stick toge 
at 45 cents per print on and enlist our neighbors in this great effort to 
: ae howe. market, farm tax Oring about a better agriculture? ; 
Salt ation and honest money, depend- There’s work orto We phieaied e ira phen pi 
; i t e dividends, the money question, taxes, tariits, UY : 
af . ee tea mapheting ma freight rates, marketing costs, legislation all com- 
, higher prices for farm commodities. mand our attention. 


off all these benefits? What made [Unorganized we are helpless. 
e? Organized we can accomplish much. 


rs! Farmers working together Let us take courage from our past successes and 
Farm Bureau—thru the Illinois carry on. 


Your Neighbor To Join ‘Today! 


OIS AGRICULTURAL 
ASSOCIATION 


608 §. DEARBORN ST., CHICAGO 


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adpoobtak! NOBe4 


To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau 
was organized namely, to promote, protect and repre- 
sent the business, economic, political and educational 
interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation, 
and to develop agriculture, 


GEORGE THIEM, Editor 
JOHN 8S. TRACY, Assistant Editor 


Published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Association 
at 165 So. Main St., Spencer, Ind, Editorial Offices, 6US 58. 
Dearborn 8j., Chicago, Ill, Entered as second class matter at 
post office, Spencer, Ind. Acceptance for mailing at special 
rate of postage provided in Section 412, Act of Feb, 28, 1925, 
authorized Oct. 27, 1025. Address all communications for 
publication to Editorial Offices, Illinois Agricultural Associ- 
ation Record, 60% So, Dearborn St., Chicago. Thé individual 
membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is five 
dollars a year. The fee includes payment of fifty cents for 
subscription to the Illinois Agricultural Association Record, 


Postmagter: In returning an uncalled for missent copy please 
indicate key number on address as is required by law. 
OFFICERS 
President, Earl C. Smith..........006. seeks beepene Detroit 
Vice-President, A. R. Wright... .....05. ea Dek sine oe Varna 
Secretary, Geo. EB. Metz®er.... 5 cee tee eee ee eee Chicago 
Treasurer, R. A. COwleS.. 2... cee cece ee eee Bloomington 
BOARD OF DIRECTOKS 
(By Congressional District) 
O56 fig: Gh ilas.c dec cela vecenrse chert uaqede E, Harris, Grayslake 
ON ee ah 'a'g che Wig. sie otalh (00:0 Ce ee a BE.’ E.. Houghtby, Shabbona 
BEER veoe ee arse rr eceesieesebens , E. Bamborough, Polo 
BERR, pn vocver occ ceassereeseonqoes Otto Steffey, Stronghurst 
BOM icrcicccccscsee pib.a dd usa 0e-s'satawis M, Ray Ihrig, Golden 
RUIN, . copper ececcs Kio wapeleeakcen Albert Hayes, 
BIE ccrcccrccoscce ee die ea at E. D. Lawrence, Bloomington 
MOE, oc ceaccee eee poecreven eves aeons Mont Fox, Oakwood 
BOO. vec cocecevarbhatgtoveresper Eugene Curtis, Champaign 
BOM sac cccvcvccsvctccoe Charles S. Black, Jacksonville 
ERE cca v eect gpececeeseceres Samuel Sorrells, 
BORE. coice ccc cvoece weeeceeveees As O. Eckert, Belleville 
BBPE. ccorcccccbscrtsae aes ioe 5 bth W, L. Cope, Salem 
TAO, nbc Co we peeeergeteccce dor Oharles Marshall, Belknap 
BEA yc ccvcececceathccccesd oss R, B. Endicott, Villa Ridge 
DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 
Comptroller... . 6. cee eee eee werner eee 5 eae J. H. Kelker 
Dairy Marketing... 0... 00+ eee c ee ee ee eeeeeee J. B. Countiss 
WARNES. csc ccc peer cdevageasecegors eveece's R. A. Cowles 
Fruit and Vegetable Marketing. ......+eeeee eee H, W. Day 
Publicity....... pracvdseveresese pie 0'edmago eee George Thiem 
Insurance © Service... 66 ee ee ewe eee eee ets Vv. Vaniman 
Legal Counsel. .....++-eeeeees eeeeeees Donald Kirkpatrick 
Live Stock Marketing......+e+5e5. eed ba b00 8 Ray E,. Miller 
CAGO oii caer ecesccaciccevesion Sle geae nae a C, E. Johnston 
Organization. ......6++098 Cia eda epee wane ¥ 08-9 G. E.’ Metzger 
Produce Marketing. ......eeeee cere eeeereeee F. A, Gougler 
Taxation and Statistics... .. cece eee newness 35 -C3- atson 
Transportation... 06. . ct eee eee eee ees ..G, W. Baxter 
ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS i, 
Country Life Insurance Co... 6. reese L. A, Williams, Mer, 
Farmefs Mutual Reinsurance Co,.......-- J. H. Kelker, Mer, 
Tilinois Agricultural Auditing Agss’n....... F. E. Ringham, Mer. 
Winois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co. 
A. EB. Richardson, Mer 
Mlinois Farm Supply Co......--.eeees L. R. Marchant, Mer 
Tilinois Fruit Growers Exchange.......+++- H. W. Day, Mar 
Winois Grain Corp... . 6. sence eee Harrison Fahrnkopf, Mé 
Hilinois Livestock Marketing Asen.,....- oN. ws rhs 
€ WO vepeccvviege . A. Gougler, Me 
gamers Speductes Cresmmerise ceeecese:+ J. B. Countiss, Sales 
W. Armstrong, Pres, 


Soybean Marketing Ass’n...... 
oe SSS O_R(e.V———— 


THE THIRD SPECIAL SESSION 
As we go to press, the third special session of 
the 58th Illinois General Assembly is abou. to con- 


vene. Aside from the measures outlined in the ar-| est link, so prosperity broke because agriculture and in spite of a prostrate agri 


ticle by Mr. Watson on page one, Illinois Agricultural 


Chillicothe | bership, 


Raymond | that perhaps 


what is now the program of the government of the 
United States, having for its object, victory over the 
greatest depression in our history, Immediate mone- 
tary returns from membership are desirable and to 
some extent necessary, but to have made a definite 
contribution to the wellfare of the nation in a time 
of great distress, a contribution which may call 
forth the favorable comment of the: ages, should 
and will swell the pride of every man and woman 
who has helped work out and initiate this program 
which, though voluntary, yet, promises to be ef- 
fective, 

Let our apparent success clinch our resolve to 
continue our policy of seeking scientific solutions to 
our problems, solutions that will be fair and just 
to all; that contemplate a fuller and better life to 
all men—rural as well as urban, and finally, solu- 
tions that will substitute for the selfish profit motive, 
that sort of personal ambition that finds its hap- 
piest satisfaction in general usefulness. 

GEORGE F, HAYES, 
President Henry-Stark Service Co. 


FROM A CHARTER MEMBER 
Reviewing the many benefits he has 
from the Farm Bureau during his 20 years’ mem- 
A. Nierstheimer, Jr., a charter member of 
the Tazewell County Farm Bureau, says ‘‘In the 
birth. of the organization little did we think 
20 years later it would be necessary 
to have an entirely different program than that 
pursued at the beginning. The fast changing times 
made it necessary to develop new projects. In for- 
mer years our Farm Bureau taught us how to grow 
two blades of grass where only one grew before. 


received 


surplus. In fact, there was fear then that we coul 


not produce enough to feed everyone.” 
Mr. Neirstheimer points out the growing in- 
equality between agricultural and non-agricultural 


prices following the world war and why farmers 
were forced to organize insurance companies, Oil 
companies and other projects to make their dollars 
go farther. 

He regards the Farm Bureau's. tuberculosis 
eradication one of the most valuable services 
ever initiated in this state. 

“After the great 
selves in a serious predicament,” he said. ‘We had 


production and _ not 


as 


war we farmers found our- 
paid too much attention to 
enough to organization. Other groups in the mean- 
time organized solidly and they were able to up- 


hold prices. But a chain always breaks at its weak- 


was unable to hold up—morale, ‘united we stand, 


Association representatives at Springfield will watch | divided we fall’.” 


carefully any new revenue bills proposed by various 
Tax matters: promise to overshadow all 


interests. 


He gives great credit to the Farm Bureau auto- 


other issues. There is talk of diverting more gas tax savings, pointing out that a member pays only $18 


must pay for the same coverage in an old-line com- 


and an extensive program seeking new forms of tax-| pany, $74. 


ation for schools. Railroad interests will 


probably 


“The Farm Bureau was instrumental in organ- 


be present to support proposed further taxation and | jzing the Producers Commission Association which 


regulation of motor trucks. Other organized groups | not only 


will have their special interests to look after. 


The I. A. A. in line with its past policies reaf- 
firmed at the recent Danville convention, Opposes/ fits he 


saves in commissions but has eliminated 
“trick” methods and raised prices by increasing 
compétition,” he says. He lists the following bene- 
has received which he credits to the Farm 


further diversion of gas taxes and insists that such } Bureau as follows: 


taxes be used to build secondary roads. It further in- 
sists that the proceeds of new revenue laws be used 
to reduce and replace taxes on property. An im- 
portant beginning promises to be made in this direc- 
ion in the coming year when revenues from the 


on a 
this principle should be adhered to in future revenue 
legislation, Our legislative representatives will be on 
the job to fight for the rightful interests of farmers 
and property taxpayers. The influence of the or- 
ganization in this and other matters will be directly 
proportionial to the size of the membership and the 
active support given by the members in their re- 
spective counties to the association program. 


THE CHALLENGE TO ORGANIZATION 

There is far more werk for organized farmers to 
do than has yet been done. Nationally we have only 
ecratched the surface in planning and carrying out 
@ program to establish agriculture, in fact our whole 
economic order, on a firm basis of prosperity. Any 
careful observer cannot escape such a conclusion. 
The temporary measures which have brought some 
relief for the time being, must be followed up with 
more permanent plans, and aggressive. action 
to put them into effect. When the money received 
from corn loans is spent, when the wheat and corn- 
hog benefit checks have been converted into tax and 
interest receipts and needed supplies, when the pres- 
ent Adjustment Act expires, what then? Farm prob- 
lems will still be with us. 


The future of agriculture is inseparably linked 
with national policy on tariff, foreign debts, land 
use, stable money, consumer demand for our 


produce, development of industrial outlets for farm 
products, and others. President Smith expressed the 
belief in his recent annual address that ‘‘the ultimate 
solution of the farm problem embodies three major 
objectives,’’ namely, restoring and maintaining ag- 
ricultural éxports in proper relationship to industrial 
exports through trade agreements with foreign na- 
tions; development of new industrial uses for the 
raw materials produced on American farms; and 
removal of large areas of marginal farm lands from 
production. He has well said that “the development 
of these three policies presents a challenge to farm 
organizations and to the statesmanship of the coun- | 
try.” 

The progress that is made toward working out 
these problems will be in direct proportion to the| 
persistency, and power and drive farmers put behind 
the movement, now started, through solid organiza- 
tion. 


What the Members Say 


FARM BUREAU POLICIES PREVAIL 

“Ever the right comes uppermost and ever 
justice done.” 

After years of apparent failure when at times 
Organized agriculture seemed to be striving against 
insuperable difficulties; after being, at various times, 
ignored, ridiculed, and resisted by the so-called big 
interests of the nation, the policies and economic 
principles, which have long been advocated and up- 
held by the Farm Bureau, are today standing out as 
the heart of the nation’s political policy—the hope 
of a stricken people. Why has this happened? 

To my mind it is because the farmers have all the 
time had the national viewpoint. We have striven to 
While 
unit 


is 


help ourselves by helping all. we recognize 


Agriculture as a fundamental in the industrta) 
economic machine, we also recognize other units and 
have sought all rather 
than an advantage over others. It is the soundness 
and justice of this position that has enabled the ag- 
ricultural program to take precedence all 
others in the battle against depression. 


Every Farm Bureau member has contributed to 


a proper balance’ between 


over 


April 30, 1933—Service Co. refund.. * - $15.55 


State refund on tractor gas .../c.....+.22.98 
July 31—Producers refund .......++.-12,17 
Dec. 13—Service Co. refund ...........28.55 


(Which is only 10 % of the 15% de- 


Difference on car in auto insurance ...56.80 ! 


eS ee ceewe $142.82 


These items, he says, were of only minor im- 
portance. The major benefits came from the legisla- 
; tion program of the I. A. A. and the Farm Bureau in 


the state and nation. “Our watch dog is constantly | the regeneration of agriculture an¢ 


on the alert for measures detrimental to agriculture,” 
he said. “In numbers there is power, so let us join 
our Farm Bureau and the I. A. A. and unite our in- 
fluence and support.” 


LET’S INCREASE MEMBERSHIP 

“President Roosevelt said in his message to the 
I. A. A. annual meeting that the success in the solu- 
tion of the agricultural problem will depend on the 
collective effort of the agricultural people of this 
country. It seems to me this statement from the head 
of our nation is sufficient reason for farmers to get 
into the organization. Inasmuch as the AAA expires 
July +1, 1935, membership should be greatly  in- 
creased before that date, in order that farmers may 
‘carry on’ for themselves what the government is 
now helping them to do.” 

O. P. HAMM, President, 


Champaign County Farm Bureau. 


A closely knit Farm Bureau com- 

posed of 75 per cent or more of 

ALL CAN AFFORD TO BELONG the farmers of America; strong 

_ j : labor unions; organized finance, 
All farmers ought to belong to the Farm) put not as powerful as it has been 


sureau for they need an organization to represent | in the past; associations of manu- 

and 
These 
form the groundwork of a sketch 


legislation, taxation, The farmers | 
wouldn't be where they are today if it hadn’t been 
for the leadership of the American Farm Bureau 
Federation and the Illinois Agricultural Association 
who were responsible in a large measure for getting 
all the farmers a loan on corn of 45 cents, in addi- 


them in ete. 


tion to the new deal in acreage reduction which is | 


ILLINOIS AGRICUL 


Full Strength 
Farm Bureau Is 
Greatest Need 


By M. 8S. MORGAN 


Pres. Henry County Farm Bureau, 


Every organization has a cost 
must have 


and, if it is to survive, 
a value. 


The cost of our Farm Bureaus 
amounts to $15 a year per member 
plus the time we spend. It can and 
has been shown that the costs to 
most of us are more than paid by 
the value of the services rendered 
its sub- 
sidiaries. Practically all of us could 
assure ourselves of a profit on our 
dues by taking full advantage of 


by our organization and 


the benefits offered to us. Our} gre 
Farm Bureaus liquidate, every 
year, all the monetary obligations 


which they assume for 
ship dues paid. 


Many of us are attracted by the 
larger aspects of the Farm Bureau, 
This viewpoint has to do with the 
inherent right of every American 
to a fair share of our National in- | 
a share commensurate to 
services rendered. We all have 
the great de- 
bacle which started in the fall of 


come; 
painfully in mind 


1920, and ended in March 1938, 


During the ten years before 1920 
the Farm Bureaus had been or- 
ganized and had been given their 
initial momentum through a large 
Also in those good old days there never existed a| membership and sound plans. Aft- 
a| er 1920 we were by all odds the 


dominant ° organization amo} 


farmers. No other group had the 
power and leadership necessary tom 
stand in our state and national 
present effectively 
the case of agriculture and in 
The 
leaders. were 
best intellects | 


councils and 


the case of America. 
of our own 
against the 
of finance, industry, and cer 
representatives. of the. science 
political economy. Whose j 
ment would eventually prevail 
took. thirteen years to find t 
answer. 

“The mills of the Gods gr 
slowly but they grind exceeding 
fine.” 


reality 
brains 
pitted 


In 1921 some of those in 
seats of the mighty sald Ame 
could continually prosper wit} 


ture, In substance they told fe 
ers and farm leaders to go to 


hot place. Through thirteen years 
they fought us. We well remember 
mobile insurance company for making worthwhile] the long struggle for the equaliza- 
tion fee; the apparaent Meri! re 
then the veto at the hands of the 
funds away from roads. It is rumored that the or-| for full coverage on a Buick, while a non-member president of the United. States, 


ganized teachers will be there with a powerful lobby 


We have in mind the desperates 
efforts in 1929 to write into a bil 
whic 


before congress, clauses 
would make it possible ‘for th 


Farm Board to initiate policie 
which would be both sound and 
effective. These efforts wer 


blocked and thwarted. at eve 
turn through th 
in high. places, 


ed in substantial failure, 


‘ 


ust eventually follow 


ter 


4 


and the threat of reyolutio 


vindicated the judgment ou 


member- 


e influence of those 
and. finally result, 


Our farm leaders warned tim 
a°ter time of the dire results whic 
the reac 
tiarary policies of those thirteen 
yeat's. At last came national disas 


7 


Imo 


Farm Bureau leaders. At the sam rs 
time the voters repudiated the pij/ HM., 
rates of high fimance and the ex wel 
ponents of a_ policy of letting K( 
things drift. bus! 
mat 
During the past year we havd! mee 
witnessed a strong start toward) ants 
men 
the return of a measure of hoped writ, 
and happiness to the forgottenl zie. 
citizen of America, Ww 
eee have 
Our organization has fitted into $31, 
the picture as one piece of a care-§ prox 
full¥ mortised joint fits into thef corn 
other. Is it too much to say that 
the Farm Bureaus, along with 
President Roosevelt, Secretary 
Wallace, Secretary Morgenthau Je 
and others are thé special instru- 
ments of Providence working to- 
ward an America which shall 


again be a country “Of the Peo- 
ple, By the People and For the 


People’*? 


In the future our organization 
will be of greater value to ug than 
Man 
This 
its counterpart 
in an axiom that no group or class 
of people may live to itself alone, 


it has been in the past. “No 
Liveth to Himself Alone,” 
quotation will find 


distributors; 
consumers. 


and 
organized 


facturers 
last, 


of the future. 


We see each group electing rep- 
people 
a common council 
discussing 


resentatives and these 
meeting around 


table, collecting data, 


| $66.10 


the farmer's only salvation, 

“There isn’t a farmer who cannot afford to be- 
long to the Farm Bureau. I the 
products and_ received 
patronage refund this year. The average of our 
$21.26 for 824 Farm Bureau members 
which more than paid for all the Farm Bureau dues. 
Besides, I received first quality merchandise. 

“If a person actually takes advantage of the 
auto insurance, livestock shipping association and 
other services he is privileged to benefit from, he 
can save his membership dues several times. I think 
all farmers ought to join the Farm Bureau for their 


used Champaign 


County Service Company 


county was 


own good. H. J. WILSON, Member, 
Champaign County Farm Bureau. 
“Farm organization has accomplished great re- 


sults in a county, state and national way. It requires 

an even stronger Organization to administer legis- 

lation already enacted.” FRANK J. FLYNN, 
President, Morgan County Farm Bureau. 


“Our intensive Morgan County Campaign of 
Monday and Tuesday, February 12 and 13, was suc- 
cessful due to the cooperation of one hundred men 
in the field. We are building for the future.” 

DAVID R. REYNOLDS, 

Captain, Morgan Co, Mobilization Campaign. 


I get the most satisfaction of knowing that the 


program of the A. F. B. F., as outlined in their reso- 


lutions of the year 1933, has been worked into the | 
| appreciation of the importance of 


administration’s program almost to 
that the substance of this program 
Farm Bureau. BENJ. A. FRELS, 


Ex. Committee Henry Co, Farm Bureau, 


the letter and 


4 


| company 
| Chasing 


is that of the| every salesman 


|and planning the economic welfare 
of America. They are not there in 
the spirit of hostility or avarice 
but all ar@ willing and expect to 
forego advantages when the whole 
wil] be better served by so doing. 
Agriculture will find a new and 
; ever increasing need for her Farm 
| Bureaus to act as her spokesman 
in this future congress of the na- 
tion’s interests. 


Organization Is 
Stressed In Sales 
Work Of Companies 


That organiz\tion is stressed in 
every phase of the sales work o 
the various ccimpanies affiliated 
with the county Farm Bureaus 
and Illinois Ag‘icultural Associa- 
tion, is amply borne out by the 
| nethods used to stimulate the ef- 
forts of all agents and salesman. 
The offering of prizes and induce- 
ments for acquisition of business 
and members is one of the bést 
forms of building organization and 
loyalty. 

It is only through organization 
and the constant stressing of cvl- 
lective effort that insurance ac- 
quisition will attain the volume 
necessary for low net cost protec- 
tion. It is equally true with the oil 
that larger mass _ pur- 
through inereased Farm 
Bureau) membership will make 
possible lower cost petroleum | 
products. 

The managers show their keen 


organization when they challenge 
to greater sales 
records, which in turn creates new 
customers and greater power in 
purchase and sale, ; 


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MIATE WALKS OFF 
ITHFIAST PRIZE 
IN BIG CONTEST 


Calling upon school superin- 
ndents to preach the gospel of 
acident prevention and obtaining 
e finest kind of cooperation 
om every newspaper in the coun- 
, Benj. A. Jones, general agent 
if Piatt county made the best rec- 
rd in ‘the state and walked off 
ith the Accident Prevention cup 
resented during the I. A. A. 
Meeting at Danville, Feb. 26. 


Every school superintendent in 
wie county responded. 100 per cent, 
nd the movement received more 
ditorlal comment than any coun- 
y subject that has come up in 
ears. According to Mr. Jones, 
‘inning the cup was largely a 
matter of talking up the need for 
ecident prevention, which he did 
t any and all times. The board 
bf directors of Piatt county, Farm 
dviser, various committees and 
he Farm Bureau members. be- 
ame imbued with the spirit so 
ably spread by Mr. Jones and the 
et result was that Piatt county 
was completely behind the cam- 
aign. 

With such intelligent effort. 
winning the cup was a foregone 
onclusion. Collective efforts did it 
just as it is solving the maior 
; oblems of agriculture wherever 

t is properly applied. 


MORE NEWS ABOUT 
CORN LOANS FROM 
: CO. FARM BUREAUS 


MACON COUNTY—397 corn 
loans on 703,497 bushels. ‘‘We are 
charging one-fourth cent per bush- 
el up to 3,000 bushels and $7.50 
maximum on all corn under one 
cover. Three-fourths of the fee to 
the sealer. and one-fourth to the 
Warehouse Supervisory Board for 
expenses.” \ 

. GRUNDY COUNTY—663 loans, 
$400,000, Seventy-five per cent of 
farms represented, 575 corn-hog 
contracts completed, reports Farm 
Adviser Watson. 

LEE COUNTY—Many farmers 
still making corn loans, total now 
$602,659.80, Signed 22 new mem- 
bers in two days, reports County 
Captain F. W. Peckham. Collec- 
tions caming along very well. 

MORGAN COUNTY—175 farm- 
fers got loans for $120,000. Ten per 
} cent of corn on farms represented. 


, every 
ligations 


States, 


bh desperate 


|; WAYNE COUNTY—15 corn 
‘loans, total $2,861. Sixteen new 
members signed reports C. R. 


Richison, county captain. “My ef- 
forts will be dedicated to the sin- 
cere request of President Smith 
for 25 per cent increase in mem- 
bership in this county. Edgar 
Koontz, a 1ew member, states that 
he lost $100 by not being a Farm 
Bureau member last year.” 


OGLE COUNT.Y—320 corn loan 
certificates issued, total bushels 
427,292. Corn-hog sign-up going 


well. Ninety men on local commit- 
tees holding about 70 sign-up days 
\/ 


oD. ‘ > 


DOUGLAS COUNTY—386 corn 
ns totaling $367,782.30. “We 


THURSDAY, FEB. 15, 1934 


IMAL ASSOCIATION RECORD 


WE BUILT 


THAT BAIDGE 
OURSELVES 


aS 


er 


ip —> 
Ii a 
tt , (oc 
<iss RR 


reau has taken 


Noah Webster's duties, according | thought it must 
° aT. 
What with the government run- 


farm 


over a 


\ 
\) 
SONS 


> 


While we are carving footholds 


on the slippery banks of the 
Slough of Despond, it is encourag- 
ing. to think of Denmark. 

Fifty years ago that sturdy little 
country was in the same boat we 
were in last winter. Agriculture 
was in a state of collapse. Exery- 
few of| body was in despair, because they 
be an incurable 


eve sOectep wees 


was bound to fpllow soon. 
Look at Denmark today. There 


An Approach To A Farmers’ Utopia 


ALPHABET QUERY 
JUST PART DAY'S 
WORK FOR OTIS 


The Vermilion County Farm Bu- 


How the Danish Farmers Lifted Themseives and 
Their Country Out of a Depression 
BY DR. FRED HOWE, CONSUMERS COUNCIL, AAA, 


wg oput/ 
: ef 


1 TAA Dervice 


ty helps them buy tools and ma- 


chinery, stock their farms, build 
new barns, and improve their 
projects. 


Another essential of the moveé- 


ment was the establishment of 
grades and. standards for their 
farm products. The private dis- 


tributors had rejected the plan but 
the farmers saw the advantage of 
building an organization which 


would ; PV e 0 ; ; 

duce high and thus protect their 
reputation and their markets. So 
they built it, and it works. Danish 
bacon, Danish eggs, Danish butter, 
stamped with the certificate of 
quality, brought to the best break- 


ited the pi ning “alphabetical” relief cam-/ are few millionaires. There aren't 

ind the ex4| mate that one million bushels | naigns, there is confusion amongst any slums, city or country. There 
W@l be sealed by March 1. fer * " 

of letting 1 “ : ea farmers in the counties as to|jis equality between the sexes. 

SCHUYLER COUNTY—189,729 | \nether they ah Bre 

bushels: corn sealed for aati nether they are signing up wi There is no illiteracy; the average 

ly 90 re ihe cue ox | the government or a new radio| Dane is highly . educated, Not 

wae mately people. “At our recent} station. only 40 the young people go to ex- 

r we hava) meeting the captain and lieuten- Sts: Were an twine ¢ net lient ‘schools: but thetic’ ve t 

art toward) ants agreed to add at least 100 Mr. Kercher was trying to make | cellent schools, bu eir parents 


culture and 
re of hope 
+ forgotte 


members in the next 60 days,” 
writes Farm Adviser L. E. McKin- 
zie. ry 

WHITE COUNTY—"69 farmers 
have received loans amounting to 
$31,422.60. We estimate that ap- 
proximately seven per cent of the 
corn on farms is represented.” 


fitted into 
of a care- 
‘'s into the 
‘oO say that 
long with 
, Secretary 
Lorgenthau 
cial instru- 
‘orking to- 


Jersey County 
hich shall Makes Quota 


d For the}- 


rganization 
to us than 
_ “No Man 
ne.” This 
‘ounterpart 
up or class 
self alone, 
jreau com- 
r more of 
ca; strong 
d finance, 
t has been 
of manu- 
tors; and 
ers. These 
f a sketch 


scting rep- 
e people 
on council 
discussing 
lic welfare 
it there in 
or avarice 


expect to 

the whole . 
so doing. Cc. T. KIBLER 

new and Farm Adviser. 

her Farm 
spokesman Mr. Kibler gives entire credit 
of the na-|!for Jersey county's recent mem- 

bership record to the County Or- 

ee ganization Committee. 
Ss 


iles__ | WINNERS EAT STEAK, 
panies|| LOSERS EAT BEANS, 
ae GENE CURTIS SAYS 
ressed in 
; work o oa 
affiliated “Thirty-two lieutenants have 
Bureaus wesreed to visit every non-member 
Associa- |W the county in support of the 
it by the|f'arm Bureau and our great na- 
fe the ef. | }ional program,’’ reports Captain 
salesman. | Pusene Curtis of Champaign coun- 
d induce. |: “In townships where members 
business | }"e few we are sending in extra 
the best | pen. A report meeting will be held 
ation and e first. week in March. “Prizés 
re offered to lieutenants who sign 
ranization | @* Or more. Our lieutenants are 
g of cul-| divided into groups, each. having 
‘ance ac-|q leader. The groups signing the 
e volume| gost members will be given a 
it protec. | g¢eak dinner by the Farm Bureau. 
th the oj] | qhe losing group eats beans, We 
iss pur- | pect to increase our membership 
ed Farm | qsily 25 per cent.” 
ll make - hk eeranceras ERE 
It is dangerous to buy abnormal- 


vetroleum , 
| * cheap clover and alfalfa seed. 


S. Department of Agricul- 
5 . ire found that “half-price” al- 
shalionae thifa seed in one case contained 
ter sales| @ly 42 per cent of seeds that 
‘ates new | y ould grow. Ask your County 
power in| Harm Bureau's advice if you are 

, ,pt sure where to buy good seed. 


l $ 
cir keen | ye U. 


' 
| gram, 


erosion is a big problem. 


sense out of a query turned over 
to him by a Farm Bureau member 


who had received it from his 
landlord. There was some 4diffi- 
culty, it seemed, in regard to 


what would happen when the land- 
lord signed the A. A. A. corn-hog 
reduction program when he was 
already getting some benefit from 
CWA work in the neighborhood. 
The landlord would not sign up 
with the AAA because it would, by 
some alphabetical means, force him 
to lend tools to the CWA. There 
was some to-do also about the U. 
S. A. turning his acres into CRG 
(community relief gardens) to be 
worked by the poor. 


It all turned out well, due en- 
tirely to Mr. Kercher’s remarkable 
handling of the alphabet in his 
reply to the landlord, He explained 
that the CWA relief gardens, etc., 
were in no way connected with 
the AAA, the “A” in CWA 
withstanding, and that the corn- 
hog reduction program was filled 
with benefits for the farmers who 
sign the agreement and co-operate 
in the program. 

With a sad touch, Otis signed the 

“O. K. 


not- 


letter, Vermilion 


FA.” 


County 


Put Limestone On 


Idle Acres, Save 
Soil With Legumes 


The opportunity to improve soil 
fertility on Illinois farms through 
liming and the growing of alfalfa, 
sweet clover, and other legumes 
was never greater than it is today, 
and County Farm Advisers 
giving special attention to 
part of the Farm Bureau 


are 
this 


left idle as a result of the corn- 
hog and wheat acreage reduction 
programs, many farmers plan to 
improve these lands by spreading 
from two to five tons of agri- 
cultural limestone per acre and 
sowing the sweetened soil to nitro- 
gen gathering crops. 

The Illinois Agricultural Asso- 
ciation as in past years has en- 
tered into contractual relationships 
with a number of reliable lime- 
stone companies whereby special 
discounts will be given to Farm 
Bureau members. 


The object of such soil E 


pro- 
With thousands of acres being 


} 


ment work is not to increase to- 
tal production but to make pro- 
duction more efficient; to farm 
fewer acres but to make those 
acres produce more at less cost. 
Liming and growing of legumes 
not only improves the nitrogen 
content of the soil, but also tends 
to prevent erosion and washing 
away of valuable soil minerals. 
This is becoming increasingly im- | 
portant on rolling yround where 


There were 814 per cent fewer | 
cattle on feed in the corn belt on 
Jan. 1, 1934 than there were a, 
year ago. In Illinois there were | 
20 per cent fewer cattle on feed. | 
Indiana 18 per cent less, Ohio 20) 
per cent less, Iowa and Nebraska 
3 per cent more, and Missouri only | 
2 per cent less, | 


or “baby bank” in their communi- 


continue their cultural progress at 
the Danish Folk schools. The 
classes of people who usually have 
the most limited and sordid ex- 
istence, physically and spiritually, 
live—in Denmark—a_ full and 
comfortable life. 

The “great unwashed” 
well washed, well fed, well paid, 
and well read. 

How did this Utopian 
mark was facing ruin? 

The answer is that it did not 
happen. It was built. And it was 
built by farmers. No ready-made 
Organization was laid on them 
from above. They organized 
themselves from the ranks. They 
built themselves into such a 
strong, large, united proportion of 
the public that they became an 
integral part of the country’s eco- 
nomic and political structure. 

The result is that Denmark is a 
true democracy. Its main interests, 
the interests of its biggest popu- 
lation, are the interests served by 
the government. 

Cooperation is the key of the 
Whole structure. The cooperative 
movement is nationwide. It started 
with the farmers, has gone on to 
include the city people too. 

Producers cooperate and handle 
their products from soil to sale. 
Consumers cooperate and through 
the experts of their buying asso- 


ciations make their purchases | 
from the world's best markets. 
A Danish farmer is often a 


member of a dozen different co- 
operatives which take care of all 


public is | 


set-up | 
happen, when fifty years ago Den- 


fast tables by the farmers’ own 
cooperatives, command the high- 
est prices at home and abroad. 


Along with this new economie 
security, another rich harvest was 
reaped from the soil. That harvest 
was in broader interests, intellec- 
tual curiosity, a real culture with 
its root in the ground. When the 
farmer began to think of himself 
|as part of one great society, the 
| forces of that society affecting 
him began to take on new mean- 
ing and he began to reach out for 
Knowledge and understanding. 

Denmark is just one-fifth the 
size of Nebraska. The Danish soil 
is not nearly as fertile as that of 
our middle west. Yet by applying 
progressive scientific principles all] 
the way from fertilizer to philose- 
phy, Denmark’s farmers have laia 
the foundations for a real com- 
monwealth on the ashes of a de- 
pression. 


CINCINNATI CO-OP 
GAINS 30 PER CENT 
IN VOLUME OVER ’32 


——— 


“The past vear has been the 
most successful in the history of 
the Cincinnati Producers, accord- 
jing to R. O. Smith, manager of 
| the Producers Cooperative Coms« 
mission Association. The associa« 


tion sold 8,393 decks of live stock 
during 1933, a gain of 30 per cent 
over the 1932 volume, out of the 
$182,385.27 collected in commis- 
sions from patrons, $85,039.23 has 


his products and supply all his 
needs. His eggs are tested and 
graded and shipped and marketed 


by his own egg cooperative. His 
pork is slaughtered and cured at 


a cooperative slaughter-house 
within reach of his farm. His fi- | 
nances are in the safe hands of | 
his own cooperative bank. 


One of the first steps of the co- 
operative movement in Denmark 
was to secure credit for the farm- 
er and by the farmer. The Danes 
realized that farmers could not 
depend on a banking system de- 
signed for industrialists, so farm- 
ers have their own. The local unit, 


i 


Until the peopie of the 
state vote for constitution- 


al changes to permit an 
equitable taxing system, 
the occupation (sales) tax 
with amendments to make 
it apply as much to the 
tich as to the poor, which 
it does not do now, ought 
to be continued for the ex- 
clusive purpose of replac- 


unenqueieane miiatin a 


ing, dollar for dollar, taxes 
now levied on property.— 


From annual address of 
President Earl] C. Smith at 
Danville, 


‘future 


been saved. Of this, the cash re- 
fund of 33 1-3 per cent authorized 
to be paid members, will amount 
to $60,795.09, or more than the 
entire savings last year. 

Other points outlined in Mr, 
Smith's report were: Savings to 
patrons of the Cooperative of $29,- 
| 728.75 for the year 1933 through 
| the lowering of commission rates 
in 1932 (or more than $81,000.000 


for all the patrons of the market): 
the sale of 13,882 pigs to the gov- 
ernment last fall during the pig- 
buying program, and sales of 34,. 
049 cattle, 36,160 calves, 404,811 
hogs and 110,741 sheep and lambs 
valued at $5,375,198.17 for live 
stock producers of seven states. 


Henderson County 


Combines Work And 
Play At Meetings 


Just to prove that all the 
“stars” are not congregated in 
Hollywood, Henderson Count Vv 


Farm Bureau added a new type 
of interest to a recent meeting 
when they drew a capacity crowd 
at Biggsville, Tuesday, Jan. 30. 
Those who attended were given a 
free opportunity to witness a bur- 


lesque “Beauty Contest.” Charlie 
Chaplin, Will Rogers, Jimmie 
Walker. Ethel Barrymore, Sally 
Rand, ete.. all passed in review, 
the parts played by some member 
of the Henderson County Farm 


Bureau. 

Other counties are planning on 
similar features to draw crowds to 
meetings, “Let's have a 
little fun along with our work," ig 
the sentiment that is gaining favor 
in Henderson, 


THURSDAY, FEB. 15, 1934 


FARMERS GAIN 
BY MARKETING 
DWN GRAIN 


Organized Action of Grain 


Producers Responsible For 
One of Largest Co-ops. 


By BILL STAHL 
For more than 75 years Ameri- 


can grain farmers have been 
building for the co-operative mar- 
keting of their commodity. His- 
tory records that the first farm- 
ers’ elevator was. built in: Wiscon- 
sin. in 1857. From that day to 
this there have been only a few 
intervals in which farmers were 
not actively engaged in efforts to 


carry their own grain to the mar- 
ket places, 

Farmer elevator leadership rec- 
ognized the limitations of the lo- 
cal establishment. They realized 
that control of the marketing ma- 
chinery at the local point was but 
one forward step. They understood 
that the profits that were to be 
obtained between the local point 
and the world's market—that is, 
the terminal profits—were going 
into the hands of non-producers 
and were lost to the producers.and 
to the local committees. It was 
logical, then, that terminal organ- 
ization should follow the local 
efforts and just as logical that 
the terminal co-operatives. should 
merge their resources and establish 
national co-operative marketing. 

27 Terminals. 

This was accomplished in 1929 
when 27 treminal co-operatives or- 
ganized Farmers National Grain 
Corporation as a national co-oper- 
ative grain sales agency, Their 
goal was organized grain merchan- 
dising—control of the commodity 
by the producer, all the way from 
the farm to the last buyer of the 
raw product. 

In 1980 Illinois grain farmers, 
affilidted with the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association, organized the Il- 
linois Grain Corporation, which be- 
came one of the stockholders—one 
of the owners, if you please—of 
the national co-operative. And in 
the three years of its existence Il- 
linois Grain Corporation has grown 
to be one of the largest and strong- 
est of the national units. In the 
1933 crop season it contributed to 
the national co-operative market- 
ing picture, in round numbers, six- 
teen million bushels of grain; mar- 
keted for its 154 elevator members 
in Illinois. 


Incorporated 1929. 

Farmers National Grain Corpora- 
tion was incorporated October 29, 
1929, and began operations with 
the opening of the 1930 crop sea- 
son. It was incorporated under the 
laws of Delaware, in order to pro- 
vide the necessary flexibility of or- 
ganization to meet legal require- 
ments of the various states in 
which, as a national organization, 
it must Operate, and to enable it to 
embrace in its membership the va- 
rious types of grain co-operatives, 

recognizes the Just pride of the 


accomplishes the organized inde- 
pendence that shoud be the aim of 
every farmer. Its articles of in- 
onsen ition and by-laws comply in 

ry respect with the provisions 
of ‘the Capper-Volstead Act, the na- 
tional co-operative marketing stat- 
ute, 

Farmers National Grain Corpora- 
tion is owned by grain producers 
just as surely as county elevators 
are owned by farmers. National 
organization multiplies the bene- 
fits and the advantages of the local 
co-operative. Grain growers own 
the stock of the local elevator ats- 
sociation, The local elevators own 
the stock of the regional organiza- 
tion. ‘The regional organizations 
Own Farmers National Grain Cor- 
poration, 


Farmers Nationa Grain Corpora- 
tion is governed by a board of di- 
rectors elected by the stock- 
holders. These directors are them- 
selves farmers. In nearly every 
case the director is officially con- 
nected with one or the other of the 
stockholders. Theirs is the final 
word as to what the corporation 
Shall or shall not do, The farm- 
/ers elect the directors of the local 
elevator associations. These. di- 
rectors elect the délegates who 
choose the directors of the region- 
al. The directors of the regionals 
choose the delegates who elect the 
directors of the national. Controls 
of national co-operative grain mar- 
keting begins at. the grass roots. 


Brings Advantages. 


Numerous advantages are 
brought to county shippers of 
grain through national organiza- 
tion and complete marketing serv- 
ice. They include: 


1. Quick. reflection of the 
world’s markets. Branch offices 
not only supply instant information 
as to the values in neighboring 
markets, but quote bids on every 
market in the United States, 
Branch offices are in daily touch 
with local buyers, the mills and lo- 
cal feeder trade. 


2. Quick communication with 
the terminal markets. The ship- 
per may sell grain any minute of 
the day, taking advantage of the 
upturns in the options or unexpect- 
ed advances in premiums, or car- 
rying on hedging operations. A 
telephone call brings these facil- 
ities to the elevator manager. 


8. Information through branch 
offices, market letters and travel- 
ing representatives concerning 
classes of grain selling to best ad- 
vantage at interior and terminal 
markets, the cash demand and va- 
rious market factors, 


May Consign Grain. 

4. Consignment, mill wheat, op- 
tion,and elevator departments of- 
fer complete service to shippers. 
They may ship grain on consign+ 
ment, sell the car and buy the op- 
tion, pool grain or carry it in stor- 
age. And as new marketing prac- 
tices develop Farmers National will 


be leaders in adapting them to 
your use. 
5. Expert personne] always at 


lthe service of the shippers. Farm- 
ers National employes are the em- 
Ployes of grain producers who own 
the facilities and provide the men 
to man them. They are paid to 
guard the shippers’ interest. 
‘Farmers National Grain Corpo- 
ration, owns, or controls through 
lease, elevator storage capacity to- 
taling in excess of 650,000,000 
bushels. Twelve owned terminals 
have capacity of approximately 
11,000,000 bushels; thirteen leased 
houses total 19,000,000 bushels. 
Equipment is complete for 


ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASS 


WILSON TRUMPS 
AGE AND WINS 
ADROWN OEABY 


This is a story of how Fred Wil- 
son, general agent in Kane county 
trumped an ace, but not in a card 
game. It so happened that he 
heard Lawrence H. Wood, sales 
counseller, talk in Danville dur- 
ing the I. A. A. meeting. Friend- 


liness, enthusiasm and persistence 
according to Wood are the three 
essentials in a good salesman. 


Being very impressionable, Mr. 
Wilson went forth in his own 
county a few days later to put the 
advice into practice. He. knows 
that there is such a word as “no,” 
but he is equally sure it doesn't 


apply to him, 

Fred knew of a “prospect” for 
the Farm Bureau. The ‘prospect’ 
listened to his new found 
eloquence, but hesitated, He 


wanted to talk it over with the 
rest of the family, and would Mr, 
Wilson please give him time? 


Next day, Fred drove in the 
gate. The “prospect? was. very 
firm. He had paid his’last dues 


into the Farm Bureay and would 
Mr. Wilson save his breath and go 
bother somebody else? 


Visions of sales counsellor, 
Wood. Fred turned on the steam, 
He waded valiantly through a hail 
of ‘no's.’ Somewhat later he 
drove out through the gate with 
the ‘‘prospect’s” signature and a 
check for $15. ' 


The boys in the Farm Bureau 
office were impressed. However, 
one there was, who went to the 
files and came back. with a 
notation. Now Mr. Wilson. sits 
and looks’at a brown derby the 
boys voted him for being Kane 
county’s foremost solicitor. He is 
not quite sure what kind of a prize 
it is. A citation is written in the 
crown of the derby. It reads, ‘‘To 
commemorate the day Fred Wil- 
son signed up a ‘prospect’ who was 
already a member. of the Farm 
Bureau with dues paid a year in 
advance. This is, we believe, the 
only instance where a Farm Bu- 
reau member is paid up two years 
in advance.” 

“T should think a man would 
know if he was already a mem- 
ber,’”’ complains Mr. Wilson to any 
who will listen. 


They may kid him, but the folks 
in Kane county are pretty proud 
of Fred. 


Farmers are exempt from paying 
the pressing tax on 300 Ibs. or. less 
of hog products sold or exchanged 
during a marketing year, and de- 
rived from hogs of their own rais- 
ing which they have butchered, 
providing their total volume of hog 
products so sold or éxchanged does 
not exceed 1,000 pounds per mar- 
keting year. 


mixing of grain. The corporation 
owns 321 country houses, with stor- 
age capacity of 18,500,000 bush- 
els; it leases fifty-eight country 
houses of/ 1,500,000 bushels’ capac- 


a 


SOE 


SERUM ASSOCIATION 
WILL REFUND CASH 


TO MEMBERS ONLY 


the annual meeting of thef 


At 


Illinois Farm Bureau Serum As- 


sociation plans for the handling} 


of serum and virus during 1933 on 


a refund basis as proposed by the} 


board of directors was unanimous- 
ly approved by members and del- 
egates. County Farm Bureaus 
will maintain prevailing retail 
prices and sell serum and virus on 
the same basis as it is being sold 
by other distributors. 

At the end of the year those 
who have purchased serum and 
virus through the Farm Bureau 
will be entitled to their share of 
the earnings. The state associa- 
tion will return to each County 
Farm Bureau its share of the earn- 
ings to be added to refunds go- 
ing back to individual members. 


This is merely another step on 
the part of one of the organizations 
affiliated with the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association to render more 
fully to the cooperator the sav- 
ings and earnings of the commer- 
cial enterprises. 


For the year 1933 the Illinois 
Farm Bureau Serum Association 
purchased and the member County 
Farm Bureaus distributed a total 
of 37,083,975 C. CC, of serum 
and 2,975,995 cc of virus. The 
savings in this project to individual 
farmers is conservatively estimat- 
ed at°10c per hundred, or $40,000 
besides the convenience to farm- 
ers of having available at all times 
a supply of reliable serum and vir- 
us kept under the best possible 
conditions. Although hog = pro- 
duction during 1934 will be re- 
duced it is expected that the sub- 
stantially better prices will 
courage farmers to use. as much 
serum, if not more in 1934, than 
was used.in 1933. 


1,025,000 Bu. Corn 
In Vermilion Co. 


Sealed For Loans 


Approximately 800 applications 
were made for corn loans in Ver- 
milion county with a total of 1,- 
025,000 bushels of corn sealed, ac- 
cording to Otis Kercher, farm ad- 
viser. This indicates that Ver- 
milion county farmers received 
approximately one-half million 
dollars in corn loans at the ont 
of 45 cents a bushel, 


“We estimate that 50 per pasts 
of all the corn on the farms in 
this county has been sealed,” said 
Kercher, 


LaSalle Piles Up 
Big Lead In Corn- 
Hog Plan Signup 


More than 450 LaSalle county 
farmers had applied for corn 
loans totaling around $630,000 by 
the first of February ,according 
to Farm Adviser C. E. Gates. La- 
Salle county is piling up a huge 
signup in the corn-hog reduction 
program and many non-members 
at the same time are joining the 
Farm Bureau to complete the 


HIGHER PRICES 


FOR PRODUCE 
THRU ORGANIZATION 


Again farmers show they can get higher prices for their produce thru their own organization. Again organ- 
ization proves to be agriculture’s best means of obtaining a fair share of the consumer’s dollar. * * * Organized 
by the Illinois Agricultural Association, the Illinois Producers Creameries, wholly owned, controlled and op- 
erated by farmers, prophesies what can be accomplished when the movement becomes state-wide, * * * Market- 


ing “Prairie Farms” butter and eggs from producer to consumer direct. 


Illinois Producers Creameries now 


service better than 500 retail outlets out of three farmer -owned creameries using their own trucks and refriger- 


ator cars. Other process 


* 


ing units are being formed * 


* Co-operative marketing has proved itself! 


Working 


together, from, here on out, we can build the greatest produce market organization in the country, command- 


ing a steady market and 


higher prices. 


* * It takes m an-powed. 


It takes organization. 


But, increased mem- 


bership in the I. A, A.-Farm Bureau will produce the power necessary to form a state-wide marketing group. 


Do yotr part. See your 


non-member neighbor today. 


the road to higher prices for cream, poultry and eggs. 


Illinois Producers Creameries co-operates wholeheartedly with 
I, A. A.-Farm Bureau campaign for increased membership 


GET YOUR NEIGHBOR TO JOIN! 


a tae 
LOSES, Nos rea 


hil is” 


Two of 
These 
Cars Are 
Now In 
Uperation 


PRODUCERS 


Rees 


CREAMERIES 


SRBIG 


ARM, 
CARESSIES 


Get him in the I. A, A.-Farm Bureau. 


Organization is 


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First 
Time 
Illinois 
Farmers 
Have Had 
Labeled 
Cars 
In Use 


“Prairie Farms” Butter and Eggs 
‘“‘From Producer to Consumer Direct’”’ 


ILLINOIS PRODUCERS 
CREAMERIES 


608 SOUTH DEARBORN 


ST. 


CHICAGO, ILL. 


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PAGE FIVE 


| 2 


\L ASSOCIATION RECORD 


LOI OE A CE A ET a a 


. WE CAN PULL OUT WITH 
Organization 


One man alone with an idea can influence féw people. But, one man multiplied by 
the thousands, acting on the same idea, can move mountains... So with agriculture. 
The pressing need for a permanent agriculture, based on fair prices, honest money 
and just taxes can only be solved by collective effort ... We can pull out with solid, 
militant organization. Group action of farmers has accomplished much. But our job 
has only begun. There are more and bigger things to be done that* agriculture may 
occupy its rightful place in the economic life of the nation ... Let’s fill the ranks— 
present a solid front. Bigger organization will do bigger things, Near you there is a 
non-member neighbor. See him today. Gét him to join the I. A. A.-Farm Bureau... 
ra 
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"drm bp@redu Meémoers' azanre 


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“Co-operative Enterprise Now 


Enjoy Protection at Lower Cost 
In Many Cases Savings Made Pay Farm Bureau Dues! 


The Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Company 
and its agents are putting their strength and sup- 
port behind the I. A, A.-Farm Bureau drive for in- 
creased membership. Formed by the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association, this company would never have 
existed had Illinois farmers not joined together to 
provide their own low cost automobile insurance. 
For years, farmers paid city rates for auto insurance 
when the risks of country driving did not warrant it. 
Old line companies stood pat. Thus was the farmer 
forced to form his own auto insurance company to 
obtain his rights. 


Today, Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Com- 
pany has more than $2,000 policies in force, saving 
Farm Bureau members up to 50 per cent on auto in- 
surance. Assets of the company are $990,794 with a 
surplus over liabilities of nearly $600,000. Last year 
6,000 claims were paid totaling approximately $200,- 
000. 


Yet, Illinois Farm Bureau members have only be- 
gun! New policies and new members are rapidly 
building Illinois Agricultural Mutual into an organi- 
zation second to none in the state. 


GET YOUR NEIGHBOR TO 


JOIN TODAY! _ 


AUTO INSURANCE FOR I. A. A. MEMBERS 
AT RATE SAVINGS UP TO 50%! 


New low cost surplus fee policies are available to Farm Bureau members. Compare these low rates on 
cars insuréd in your strong legal reserve company. Only $15.40 initial payment on a new Ford, Chevrolet, 
Plymouth (in fact any car with a f. o. b. price of less than $750) and a semi-annual premium thereafter 
of $8.40 and less as car gets older, for public liability ($5,000 and $10,000 limits), property damage 
($1,000), fire, theft, windstorm, hail, theft of spare tire and collision with any object including acci- 
dental upset. Ask your County Farm Bureau office for details. NOTE—Policies in Illinois Agricultural 
Mutual are issued only to Farm Bureau members in good standing! 


LOW RATES ALSO FOR 
EMPLOYERS LIABILITY—4-H CALF CLUB MEMBERS 


ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 
MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY 


608 SOUTH DEARBORN ST. 


CHICAGO, ILL. 


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PAGE SIX 


AUTO INSURANCE 
COMPANY RESULT 
F COOPERATION 


Success of Illinois Agricultural 
Mutual Made Possible By 
Organized Effort. 


By A.E, RICHARDSON 

To have any successful coopera- 
tive enterprise we must have an 
organization. or an association of 
people who have a common inter- 
est and are fully conversant with 
the needs and problems incident to 
the business or industry which the 
members are engaged in. 

The statement has been made 
many times that the farmers in 
IHinols never would have known 
what they should be paying for au- 
tomobile insurance had they not 
had an organization of farm folk 
who were willing to venture into 
this field and set up a group co- 
operative insurance company W ith 
no private capital or stockholders 
interested in profits. 

Three thousand farmers seven 
years ago had the courage to make 
application for insurance on auto- 
mobiles in a company that was not 
even in existence at that time and 
put up the cash In advance to see 
a cooperative project of insurance 
started for the farm people of Illi- 
nois. These 3,000 farmers had a 
common interest and were fully 
conversant with the needs of auto- 
mobile insurance in their busingss 
of farming. This never could and 
never would have been accom- 
plished had it not been that they 
had other common interests and 
had many years ago built up in Tili- 
nois a farm organization which to- 
day is recognized as the strongest 


agricultural organization in the 
world; namely, the Farm Bureaus 
ve A tie “Clee 


Members Had Knowledge. 

Because of the knowledge of the 
needs for insurance and because of 
the real purpose for which this 
company was set up there has not 
been any question in the minds of 
Illinois farmers as to the sucess of 
the Illinois Agricultural Mutual In- 
surance Company and no question 
has ever been raised as to what 
the cost of insurance should be, 
fully realizing that an insurance 
company is never sound unless the 
policyholders pay all the losses and 
expenses incident to the operation 
of a company. 

There are many other such 
groups of this kind where the 
members all have a common inter- 
est but there is probably no other 
interest more common to all than 
the interest in insurance , 

Professor Hoffman of the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania said some 
few years ago, “It may be serious- 
ly doubted whether the average 
farmer would be willing to accept 
a cooperative principle of insur- 
ance. He is fundamentally an in- 
dividualist and shares his lot with 
others reluctantly and to pay pre- 
miums over a considerable period 
of time with no loss in return and 
rejoice in ones good fortune re- 


quires a philosophical outlook not | 


possessed by most farmers.” 
Glad To Pay Premiums. 


T have challenged this statement | 


many times because in the seven 
years experience which I have had 
in the management of the Illinois 
Agricultural Mutual] Insurance 
, Company I have not heard a mem- 
ber say that he was glad he had 
an accident so that he could get 
some of the money back that he 
put into his insurance company. In 
fact it has been really just the re- 
verse and I have heard many men 
say, “Well, here’s my premium. I 
have been a member so many 
years and I never had a claim 
and I hope I never do.” 
Regardless of our pride the, past 


arcomplishments are now only a 
small page in the history of the 
great cooperative movement which 


is fast developing. This movement 
truly can be said to be growing out 
of the organization of men who 
have a depth of conviction and a 
common interest. Great opportu- 
nities lie ahead and this genera- 
tion of farmers must carry on as 
did the pioneers with the same 
courage, conviction and determina- 
tion. 


Albert Hayes Of 
Peoria Tells How 
He Saves Money 


Albert Hayes, 
Peoria County Farm 
néwly elected director from the 
16th district to the I. A. A. board, 
is one of the many Illinois farm- 
ers who believes that it is good 
business even from a selfish angle 
to belong to the Farm Bureau and 
its associated cooperative organiza- 
tions, 

He proved his point conclusive- 
ly at the last meeting of the 
Peoria County Farm Bureau exec- 
utive committee 


Bureau and 


figures on savings on his own 
farm during 1933. He keeps a 
farm account book. 

Mr. Hayes listed his savings as 
follows: 


Service Company dividend.$ 46.50 


Auto Insurance, 2 cars and 
EPROM nce order ea coecer 65.00 
errr er ree ee 15.00 
Life Insurance .......... 20.00 
lL, ® Producers refund 8.00 
Total eeeeeveeeeeevee ere -$154.50 


y wire pr ee FIGURED UP. — 
HOW MUCH OUR BENEFIT PAYMENTS 
On WHEAT and CORN-HOG ADJUSTMENT 
PLUS THAT EXTRA 10¢ PER BU. THE CORN 

LOAN AMOUNTED TO. BILL. 
IT TOTALED #6 


president of the, 


while presenting | 


} to 


i 


FAR 
50 


Whiteside Farm 


Bureau Showing 
Steady Growth 


N 


F, H. SHUMAN. 
Whiteside County Farm Adviser 


Whiteside is one of the first 
two counties to make a 25 per 
cent gain in membership since 
Jan. 1, 1934. 


Producers Make 84 


Pct. Increase In Jan. 


An increase in volume of busi- 
ness of 84 per cent was shown by 
the Chicago producers during the 
month of January as compared 


OHN, OURS } 
WON'T MISS ; 
THAT VERY £ 


FARMERS WARNED 


——_ 


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TO INGURE CORK: 
OFFER LOW RATED 


Farmers’ Mutual Reinsurance 
Co. Writes Blanket Policy 
For Farm Bureaus. 


The federal government is pro- 
tected by insurance against loss 
of cribbed corn by fire or tornado 
on which loans have been made, 
but the farmer apparently is not 
unless he has his own 
insurance. This opinion was ex- 
pressed by W. S. Bradley, chief 
of the government corn loan di- 
vision both at the recent I. A. A. 
convention, and at conferences 
held Maat week in the I. A. A. of- 
fices. 

; Based on this 


protected 


infurmation the 


ff. A. A. moved at once to offer 


Farm Bureau members having 
corn loans, fire and windstorm in- 
surance at a special low blanket 
rate through the Farmers Mutual 
Reinsurance Company. 

Insurance to Farm Bureau 
members is offered at a blanket 
policy rate of 30c per $100 of in- 
surance against fire and light- 
ning. The windstorm rate to 
‘members is 10c per $100 up to 
noon Oct. 15, 1934. There is no 
pylicy fee. 


Non-members are offered in- 
jgurance in the Farmers Mutual 
the regular annual rate in 


iat 
| rorce in their territory with a pol- 
hey fee of $2 on each application. 

Members should make applica- 
tion to their respective County 


with the same month a year ago./| Farm Bureau offices, if they are 


During the month their total re4 
ones amounted to 2,867 carl 


oad 
ove agoeat hs ie the zyea 
number handle in any one mon 


in produeers’ history. 


In cattle they handled 16,701 
head which represented 8 per cent 
of all the cattle sold on the Chi- 
cago market. As compared with 
January of last year this was an 
increase of 109 per cent, though 
market receipts during that mt 
show an increase of 32 per cent. 
addition the cattle percent 
handled 4,899 calves or 13.3 per 
cent of the salable receipts. 

The ivolume handled by the hog 
department amounted to 96,873 
hogs which was 17.1 per cent, of all 
hogs sold at Chicago, representing 
an increase of 91.6 per cent over a 
year ago. Market receipts during 
this period likewise show a sub- 
stantial increase, salable receipts 
increasing 61.5 per cent. The num- 
ber of directs during the month 


total — 345,054 as against 312,- 
811 for January a year ago. 

The she ep department advanced 
its percentage from 10.7 per cent in 
January, 1933 to 18.2 per cent in 
January 1934, handling 45,603 
| head, an increase of 29 per 
over a year ago, whereas market 
,receipts show a decline of 23 per 
cent. 

These figures afford convincing 
| proof of the continued success of 
ithe cooperative marketing  pro- 
| gram and the type of service that 
lis being rendered by this farmer- 
lowned and controlled selling 
| aeenry. For this organization to} 
| 


show an increase year after year 
ean only mean satisfactory sales 
and service. 

one 
Vermilion County 


Is Ready To Go, 
Reports Kercher 


Farm 
meeting 


The Vermilion County 


| Bureau had a_ luncheon 
||Saturday, February 10, to launch 
lan extended membership drive. 

They expect to sign at least 300) 

new members which if accom- 
| plished will more than put the 
lcounty over the top with a 25 per 
| cent increase. 


“Some of the membership teams 
are at work today,” Farm Adviser 
Kercher wrote on February 7. 
“James Hart and A. V. Carter of 
Jamaica spent one day soliciting, 
interviewed eight men, signed 
and came in and got 50 more 
membership blanks. We believe 
there is no time like the 
for Illinois farmers to 
their organization and show 
they are in earnest in the 
for agricuktural recovery.” 


rally to 
drive 


254 New Members 


In Henderson Co. 


in Henderson county where 
have made long strides to- 
ward building a bigger and bet- 
ter Farm Bureau, many a non- 
member has quietly slipped into 
the office during recent months, 
according to Farm Adviser E. D. 
Walker ,and signed up. 

And if you ask Bill 
or Otto Steffev how Henderson 
added 254 new members during 
1933, they'll tell vou “if you want 
get results you rotta make 
calls.” These two men are respon- 
sible for a large percentage of the 


Out 
| thev 


Stevenson 


|inerease in that county. Hender- 
son is out to establish a new rec- 
ord for percentage gain jin one 
years 


likewise showed some increase, the | 


cent | 


six | 


present | 


that 


Drive Continues’ 


not already protected, 
¥ ‘Ars are liable under their 


. ~ 


ivery 
on of 


loans wre secured, 
lof such corn at the 
the loan vere a 


GET CORN LOANS 
DY FEB. 261H, 
ADVIGE OF GUG 


The corn loan division of the 
Commodity Credit Corporation has 
,; advised that all corn loan ware- 
house certificates and other papers 
; must be completed and mailed to 
ithe lending agency not later than 
the close of business on February 
28. This means that all persons 
desiring to seal their corn and ob- 
tain the 45 cents per bushel loan 
must get their cribs sealed and all 
papers filled out by the end of 
this month. 

A total of 
}cates had been 


533 warehouse certifi- 
issued on 713,196 
| bushels of corn in Marshall and 
Putnam counties on Feb. 1. This 
represents loaned loans of $158, 488, 


Production C redit 
| Loans Being Made 
To Fruit Growers 


Fruit growers who 
ning«to lay plans for 
ter summer ‘seasons, 


| 
| 
' 


are begin- 
the spring 
will be in- 
announcement made 
J. M. Huston, pres- 
Production Credit 
of St. Louis, that the 
Growers Production 
located at 
to supply the 
of the fruit 
state, 
make loans 


terésted in an 
| recently by 
jident of the 
Corporation 
Illinois Fruit 
Credit Association 
Centralia is ready 
sound credit needs 
| growers of the entire 
The association may 
|for the following purposes: to 
| purchase material and supplies; to 
| Day for labor, and replace worn- 
} Out equipment; to purchase pack- 
|ages; to purchase fertilizer; to 
| cover the expenses of marketing, 
| Pruning, spraying, freight, and in- 
| 
| 
| 


” BUT. BILL. DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK HOW 
ALL THIS HAPPENED? iT WAS ORGANIZED ACRICULTURI 
12 YEAR FIGHT THAT SECURED THE AGRICULTURAL 
ADJUSTMENT ACT. WHEN PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT 
WAS ELECTED HE TOLD OUR FARM BUREAU LEADERS) 
TO WRITE OUT a PROGRAM and HE'D HELP PUT IT THAU 


surance; and to refinance existing | 
indebtedness incurred for: horti- 
cultural purposes. 

Illinois fruit growers who are 
interested in obtaining one of 
these loans should write David B. 


Perrine at Centralia, Illinois, 


| 2 
“Ungrateful If I 
| Hadn’t Joined” — 

| Piatt Man Says 


——_— 


Up to Feb. 7 corn loans num- 
bering 565 for a total of $504,000 
had been made in Piatt county— 


of the smaller counties in I)li- 
“as near 
70 to 75 per 
this county,” 
Adviser 8S 


one 
nois—and 
this represents 
of the corn in 
cording to Farm 
Davis 

Piatt 
adding 


sig 


ac- 

Ss. 
been steadily 
and 
April 1. 


county has 
new members 
nup will continue until 
“One farmer who recently 
rned,’ reports Davis, ‘“‘stated 
that he would be very ungrateful 
if he ~~ not joined after all the 
‘arm Bureau in the county, 
and nation has done to help 
as well as other 
ting back on their 


sig 


feet.” 


1 


farmers in get- | 


608 S. DEARBORN § 


the | 


state, | 
him 


as we can tell | 
cent 


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has certs tl 


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gestion, plangung a 
that a more Pbund: 
To thatgend C 
Bureau memP€FS; * 
the interests! fart 
Much hes bee! 
ranks, Enlist POUr 
Agriculg¥re m 


1,000 Agerts © 


THURSDAY, FEB. 15, 1934 


“ies ONLY WAY FARMERS CAN GET Ff 
1G THINGS DONE 1S TO WORK TOGETHER }° 
THRU A REAL ORGANIZATION BETTER ALREADY. 
~ ef AFTER ALL, THE 
| FF DUES ARE SMALL 
A WHEN YOU CONSIDER ALL 
A THE BENEFITS. THE FARM 
~\ BUREAU CAN COUNT ON ME 
FROM NOW ON! 


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ITH BALLOTS NOT BULLETS © 
Drganized Agriculture 


[ARCHES ON 


Its Fight For Parity Farm Prices—Tax 
adization And A Permanent Agriculture 


| gun and bayonet does Organized Agriculture carry on but through constructive sug- 
plan ing and effort ... insisting that agriculture secure a fair share of the national income, 
ore Pbundant life and greater prosperity be the rule rather than the exception. 

thatyend Organized Agriculture marches on, presenting a solid, militant phalanx of Farm 
nempers, with group buying power, organized selling, and influence to work for and protect 
ost apt farmers. . | 
sh h#S been done. There is much more to do. New members are needed to strengthen the 
list our neighbors, See the nearest one today. 

iculqure marches on to its rightful place in the national sun. 


Agents of Country Life Cooperate With I. A. A. Farm Bureau Drive 


FOR NEW MEMBERS [crv your 


/ « 
R Group action, made Country Life Insurance Company NEIGHBOR 
possible. Cooperating Illinois farmers joined together in 

1929 to manufacture life insurance at lower net cost. To- TO JOIN 
¥ day Illinois farmers can point with pride to Country Life’s 

$55,000,000 insurance in force; $2,468,600 in assets, 90 per T O D A Y ! 
R! ” ; 

® cent invested in government, state and municipal bonds. 


UNTRY LIFE 


INSURANCE COMPANY 


IN S#H- CHICAGO, ILL. 


THURSDAY, FEB. 15, 1934 


LEGAL SEA 
MDS, PROTECTS 
LALA. PROJECTS 


By Dorfald Kirkpatrick, Direc- 
tor Of |. A. A. Legal 
Department. 


The activities of the legal de- 
partment for the year 1933, as far 
as the educational organizations 
are concerned, namely, the Illi- 
nois Agricultural Association, and 
the County Farm Bureaus. have 
not been dissimilar from the ac- 
tivities of this department in form- 
er years. The strains and stresses 
of the year have developed, of 
course, a -much larger number of 
inquiries from County Farm Bu- 
reaus. 


The closing of banks during the | 


moratorium period and the placing 
of all insurance companies operat- 


VICE | Ulinois Livestock Co-Ops 


Increase Volume In 1933 


During the twelve month perk 
nois farmers marketed 215 


as 
27,2 


month period ending September 
marketed 23,846 carloads of live sto 
live stock produced. 


Producer Agency 


Supposed To Be 


ing in the state under a moratori- 
um operation has developed, dur- 
ing the year, a great many in- 
quiries with reference to the rights 
and obligations of parties on com- 
mercial paper and also the rights 
of poljcyholders as to cash values, 
extended insurance and loans, It 
has been the policy, and such poli- 
ey should be continued in render- 
ing legal service to individual 
members, that .the inquiry should 
come in through the County Farm 
Bureau. and the inquiries should 
be confined to a. character the 
answering of which would. be of 
general service to other members 
who might have the same prob- 
lems. 
Co-Op, Set Up. 

The calls from the. standing 
committees of the board of direc- 
tors of the Association upon the 
time of the department during the 
year have not been as many as in 
previous years. This can be ac- 
counted for in part for the reason 
that the year has not been one 
in which new projects have been 


developed, or promoted. The heads | 


of the several departments in the 
‘organization, however, have been 
earrying on their projects under 
programs outlined and developed 


in part at least prior to the cur-| 


rent year. 

In the marketing field new units 
have been organized and old units 
have been reorganized, 
of inquiries from local 
tives; both in the marketing 
purchasing field, has been 
stant. This hine of 
the response of service will con- 
tinue and no doubt increase in the 
future. 


During 


coopera- 
and 
con- 


the year, the Illinois 


General. Assembly has been in al- | 


most continuous session because of 
its regular session and special ses- 
sions. The regular. session con- 
tinued up until the middle of the 
year and the first special session 
was called early in the fall,. The 
organization was tremendously in- 
terested in the matters that came 
before the regular session and also 
he first special session. Someone 
the department has always 


The flow} 


inquiries and | 


For Good Roads 


When you drive into your fa- 
vorite filling station and the at- 
tendant hands back your change, 
| the several cents that are taken 
out for the state gasoline tax are 
supposed to be used to build and 
maintain roads. This tax was 
sponsored originally by the Illinois 
Agricultural Association and 
largely through its efforts went on 
the statute hooks. With fully 70 
per cent of the roads in Illinois as 
yet unimproved, it is obvious that 
| slowly but surely the gasoline tax 
money is being diverted into oth- 
er channels, 


During its annual meeting 
Danville, Jan. 24, 25 and 26, the 
resolutions committee of the I. A. 
A. went on record to the effect 
that, “Inasmuch as the Illinois 
primary road system is. practical- 
ly completed but only thirty per 
cent of the total mileage of the 
state has been improved with an 
all weather construction and 70 
per cent of the farmers still reside 
dirt roads, we oppose any further 
diversion of gasoline tax moneys 
from road building whatever by in- 
vestment in state anticipation notes 
or otherwise, and direct the offi- 
cers and directors of .the associa- 
tion to exert every effort to pre- 
serve these moneys for road build- 
ing, the purpose for which the tax 
was imposed.” 
| Certain groups are doing every- 
(thing possible to divert 
tax money away from the second- 
ary road-building program. They 


in 


will continue to dip into the gaso- | 


other 
in 


lline fund for 
less farmers 
carry their fight 
of gasoline taxes 
assembly and if necessary 
polls, 


Until co-operative action on a 
scale comparable fo the group who 
seek to stalemate the road-build- 
| ing program, is thrown into the 
picture by farmers of Iilinois, 
there will be no change from the 
present condition: To keep gaso- 
line money in the proper channels 


purposes un- 
for proper use 
to the general 
to the 


eady to stand by with the 


tive officers in giving personal at- 
tention to matters at Springfield. 


Serve Companies. 


The legal department operates 
within a budget adopted by the} 
board of directors of the Illinois 


Agricultural Association. The serv- 
ices performed by the department 
for the commercial and semi-com- 
mercial affiliates are charged for 
on a reasonable basis by the As- 
sociation with recoveries to 
departmental budget. This rela- 
tionship has placed in the offices 
of the legal department all legal 
matters in connection with the co- 
operative marketiny “association, 
the insurance companies, the co- 
operative distribution associations 
and cooperativé auditing service. 

The commercial activities in 
spite of any adverse circumstances, 
have made substantial progress 
and there has been a correspond- 
ing expansion of business. As the 
commercial field has broadened 
and the business expanded, new 
and more numerous legal ques- 
tions arise. 


With the adoption of the 
cultural Adjustment Act, the 


Agri- 


fov preparation and presentation 
of trade agreements and codes of 
fair practices have eome into the 
office, This service has taken 
quite a little time of the depart- } 
ment and heceause of having had 
no arrangements during the cur- 
rent year for contact at Washing- 
ton, the matters connected with 


the codes have been handled large- 


ly by the personnel from the home | 
The 


office of the Association. 
Washington office of the American 
Farm Bureau Federation has been 
helpful to the extent of its ability. 
The calls for service in 
rection during the 
will no doubt increase. 


Assistance On Codes, 


Agriculture also 
the codes that 


is 


time to time under the provi-| That mysterious thing called a 
sions of the National Recovery| ‘holding company’ has been in 
Act and the administration of! the press a great deal of late. But | 
these codes. Agriculture, of course, | there’s one ‘holding company’ that 
is a large consumer of manufac-| is different than the others. It is 
tured products and is no doubt| composed of directors who have 
the largest organized group of! the needs and interests of farmers 
consumers in the country. Certain! at heart; they are concerned pri- 
codes under the Recovery Act have | marily with solving the problems 
been of especial interest to agri-| of agriculture quickly, economic- 
culture; first through the prepara- | ally, and permanently through 
tion and influence of organized | honest, hard-working  organiza- 
agriculture specific codes have had) tion, It is really set up to serve its 
preserved in them the cooperative | stockholders and patrons rather | 
principle. The patronage dividend,| than those who are in direct 
principle in particular has been) charge of its affairs. The Illinois 
under heavy fire. President Roose-! Agricultural Holding Company 

velt,, however, by executive order, the organization through which 


preserved the principle of patron- 
age dividends for all 


to get specific provisions in) each| Country Life Insurance Company 
code. This executive order is be-| and toe holders of policies of the | 
ing hammered at this time espec- ) company. 

jally by the petroleum = industry ell pemiceaprmniionmeplits 

which is fighting with all its abil- | DO YOUR STUFF 

ity to get a modification of the) Do your stuff and let 'em 


executive order. 


Organized agriculture made pos- | 
Agricultutal Adjustment | 


sible the 
Act, under which 619,644 farmers 
in $5 states had been paid a total 
of $43,716,794 in wheat benefit 
checks up to the first of February. 

The payments are the first 
stallments of 20 cents per 
on @ach farmers allotment 
second payment of 8 cents 
bushel from which the operating 
costs of the local production con- 
trol association. will be deducted, 
will be made after growers have 
shown that they have carried out 
their end of the agreement. 

Payments up to Jan. 30, 1934 to- 
taled $1,480,590 in Illinois 


The 


the | 


call | 


this di- 
coming year | 


interested In | 
were adopted from | 


cooperatives 
and saved the need of organization 


in- | 
bushel | 


per | 


is the avowed purpose of the I. 


'UNEMPLOYMENT 
| RELIEF STILL A 
’ BIG PROBLEM 


Regardless of advances made In 
promoting legislation sympathetic 
|to them, the farmers of Illinois 
|have yet to solve the riddle of 
how metropolitan politicians con- 
tinue to avoid levying taxes ‘ocal- 
relief although town- 


| 
|ly for poor 


ships in 85 
quired to do so, 

While the tax-payers in 
counties do not turn a deaf 
to the pleas of the thousands 
unfortunates who depend 
government agencies for food and 
shelter, farmers feel, and rightly 
so, that every county and every 
community should be required to 
draw on its own resources before 
it is given any Federal or State 
relief funds. 

The state of affairs now exist- 
ing under which the taxing power 


ear 


of 


| 


of the whole atate is pledged to 
pay millions of dollars in tax an- 
ticipation notes sold to provide 
funds most of which are being 
spent in metropolitan areas, is un- 
just. 

That efforts have been success- 
ful in the past to thwart fair legis. | 
lation does not justify confidence | 
ithat they will continue so. The 
Farm Bureau and the Illinois Ag- 


ricultyral Ass ociation, through 
influence 
in unem- 


tion must exert every 
to remedy inequalities 
ployment relief taxation. 


Holding Company 
Pays Dividends 
To Stockholders 


dividend pavments were made last | 
member | 


Farm Bureau 
who own and control 


vear to 
stockholders 


holler. 
Do your best and let 'em rap. 
If vou win, they'll holler lucky. 


Let ‘em help, or let 'em hinder. 
You should worry; do your 
stuff. 
You're the guy you have to 


live with. 
Re yourself and treat ‘em 

rough. 
| —Anonymous: 
KE. W. “Farmer’ Rusk started 
|work as farm adviser in Coles 
l'county on Feb. 1. Melvin Thomas, 
|}former county. adviser, is giving 
|full time to farm loan association 


} work, 


carloads of live stock 
through various cooperative live stock selling agencies which were 
largely set up by the Farm Bureau. This constituted 20:8 per cent of 
all the live stock produced in the state, For the corresponding twelve 
30, 


Gas Tax You Pay 


gasoline | 


an organized way | 


rural counties are re- | 


these | 


upon | 


larger and more militant organiza- | 


If you lose, they'll holler sap. | 


ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL AS 


TAX BILLS CUT 


il ending September 30, 1933, Illi- 
cooperatively 


1982 Illinois live stock farmers 
ck which constituted 19 per cent of 


The comparative volume marketed for the two periods follows: 


For 12-month 
period ending 


For 12-month 
period ending 


Sept. 30,1932 Sept. 30, 1933 

Chicago ........00ee Sie aus eae ee ewe etee wale 9.550 11,375 
Indianapolis ............. aera ade oe : 1,690 1,551 
St, Louis ..... el ate-We-esace UGhe avg weer e erate see 6.755 7,778 
Peoria ....... pia boa Wieuete Pale dia lan) hvaitealt iis 3,245 3,485 
Cincinnati Cc eecnne afelavaeeetecare 0 te ees 329 372 
Buffalo ......5656 eae b.o'e 3b RB Or eee 428 366 
Pittsburgh ..... Cele pad ci ewgieeb ae ORGS ; 65 110 
eNONRO uaa sos ae ¥.0' ait'a'e tiesene Ca 0 ape 1,193 1,254 
National Order Buying Company ...... 53 A 
Illinois Live Stock Marketing Association 454 853 
SOV ANSEL incase i's oe reece ee peeeweeees 84 67 

23,816 27,215 


PAY OWVIDENDS 
OF 820.14 PER 
BUREAU MEMBER 


The increasingly keen interest 
|taken by the public at large in 
farmer cooperation is evidenced 
by the widespread publicity given 
to the annual meetings of cooper- 
ative associations such as that of 
the Wabash" Valley Service Com- 
pany in Grayville, Feb. 2. The fact 
that 1,000 farmer members from 
five counties attended and that 
more than $16,000 in patronage 
dividends was paid to stockhold- 
ers for an average of $20.14 per 
member commanded attention as 
far west as St. Louis, Added com- 
ment on the $25,693 in taxes paid 
by the company shares space with 
an analysis of the. $115,531.79 
business done during 1988. 

For the third consecutive year, 
a total patronage refund of ,$500,- 
000 was paid to Farm Bureau 
members in the territories served 
by 54 similar county service com- 
panies in Illinois. The statewide 
average refund was in excess of 
$17 per Farm Bureau member. 

It is significant that collective 
effort among farmers is now. re- 
ceiving sympathetic treatment 
from metropolitan newspapers. 
The momentum gained by orga- 
nized agriculture is being felt-in 
non-rural communities and defi- 
nitely. points out that urban sym- 
| pathy for the farmer is at last 
aroused to a pitch that promises 
| continued cooperation so long as 


thy 
pr 
se 


BY COLLECTIVE 
FARM EFFORT 


Substantial Reductions Gained 
In Counties Where Com- 
mittees Were Active. 


Farm Bureau Tax Committees 


in many counties in the state have 
been active during the past year 
in securing substantial reductions 
in assessed valuations, John C,. 
Watson, director of taxation, for 
the I. A. A. pointed out in his 
recent annual report. 


While reductions were not made 
in all counties in line with the big 
drop in real estate and property 
values, Mr. Watson points out, in 
counties where Farm Bureau tax 
committees were active substantial 
cuts were ordered. 

Abstracts of assessments for 
1933 sent to the State Tax Com- 
mission by the clerks of all down- 
state counties disclose the follow- 
ing net changes since 1930, 1931 
and 1932 in total valuations of the 


farmers continue to unite in a 
|} common cause. 


Marchant Speaks. 

The Grayville meeting had as its 
principal speaker L. R. Marchant, 
manager of Illinois Farm Supply 
Co., an Illinois Agricultural Asso- 
iation sponsored organization. In 

is talk, Mr. Marchant pointed out 
hat Wabash Valley was among 


e rs om panies efficient, 
profitable operation. The _ total 
business done by 54 associated 


compaines totaled more than $6,- 
000,000 during 19338, Mr. Mar- 
chant said—a big gain over 1932. 

Better than 40,000,000 gallons 
of petroleum products were dis- 
tributed to Illinois farmers. More 
than 700,000 gallons of motor oils 
and greases, or 225 carloads, is 
contracted for .1934 spring deliv- 
ery. This represents a 200,000 gal- 
lon increase for the same period 
in 1933. Dividends paid to af- 
filiated companies totaled $100,000 
of which Wabash Valley's share 
was $2,600, 

At the opening of the afternoon 
| session, a free will offering of $63 
|} was made up among shareholders 
to honor the birthday of President 
Roosevelt for the endowment of 
the Warm Springs infantile pa- 
ralysis foundation. The meeting 
also voted to send the President a 
telegram of birthday congratula- 
tions. 


‘Cooperation Wins 
Second Prize For 


‘ 
Morgan County 
A local garage teamed up with 
the Farm Bureau of Morgan 


county to win second place in the 
accident prevention campaign con- 
ducted by the I. A. A. Insurance 
Service department. The _ clever- 


| 


justed automobile to prevent acci- 
dents was one of the prime factors 
in the success of the campaign. 
Farm Bureau members were 
sent a letter alloting them a cer- 
tain time to go to the garage for 
a free ‘Physical Diggnosis” of their 
cars. Each township was given a 
certain time for testing. The test 
covered brakes, lights wheel 
alignment, tires, ete. Many Farm 
Bureau memibers sent in testi- 
|} monial letters commending the 
plan. Of course the garage gained 
a great many new contacts it 
would never have made. 
Again, cooperation shows 
to be the best 
things done. It is the spirit which 
has brought great gains to agri- 
culture and points the way to 
greater gains for Illinois farmers. 


| 


Producer Agencies 


Aid In Corn-Hog 


Producer live stock commission 
| agencies at St. 
dianapolis and Peoria as well as at 
| other terminal markets are helping 
hog producers secure necessary 
data in completing their corn-hog 


agency has a special force of extra 
| help at work answering inquiries, 
| 
nishing producers with lists 
| their marketings during the base 
| period. 

This service 

| wi 
of the data is asembled the cost 
| Will actually run into thousands of 
| dollars. This is typical of the policy 
|of the farmer-owned and farmer- 
|; controlled producer agencies. They 
were created to serve live stock 


is 


|; growers. Many farmers who are) 
having difficulty in getting data to | 


| complete their corn-hog contracts 
|} now regret that their live stock was 
not handled through a cooperative 
agency, 


ness of the scheme to focus atten- | 
tion on the need for a properly ad- | 


itself 
method of getting | 


Sign-Up Program 


Lauis, Chicago, In- | 


reduction contracts. Each producer | 


looking up account sales and fur- | 
of | 


being furnished 
190ut charge although before all | 


No questions asked—n@ hz 
help with one single idea 
necessary. They all knqw | 
have joined together tq fis 
taxation, low farm priqes, 
strike at the very foundati 
Much has been done, Many] wr 
been righted. Yet there is rk. 
everyone, Agriculture must He pl 
permanent and satisfactory bpsis. 
planning and co-operation of| far 
succeed. 

Call upon your neighbor to jo th 
and Farm Bureau. Near you fher 
member, Go to him today ang tel 
his help is needed to carry o# the 
fight for parity farm prices. S¢e hi 
Only powerful group action qn \ 


GE 
PROTECTIC 


AT COS 


FAK 


RE-IN§ 


| 608 S. DEARBORN SJf. 


i 


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SOCIATION RECORD PAGE SEVEN 


- SS 


} 
} 


pe classes 


Valuations can be compared with the total bers during 1933, which was a 


m and city lots and puting the average ratio of assess- 


of locally assessed | compiling a fair volume of sam- les is the Illinols Agricultural 
perty, except such property as-| ples of such properties, either lots pee Association This com 
ed against railroads: or personal, taken at random, the , , 
1 ! , # , B49 : ‘ » its - 
Net Decrease tn “Assessed | total assessed valuations of which }completed 349 audits for } wadan 


————— 


Aude 
pany 


gain 


in membership of 17 over 1932. 


s of Property 1930 to 1933 amounts in cash voluntarily paid 
ds and for the same preperties. The same}! Farmers -Mutual Re-insur 
' 453.2 Sis neth ‘an also be se in com- | ’ 
mprovements .,., $453,281,313 method can Iso | used ce |'Company increased the amount of 


insurance in each of its classifi- 


uprovements .... 202,482,648) ments to cash’ values of lands, 
' ] bnal property. .... .196,147,963) In 1933 substantial reductions in (lf COMPANIES | cations to $58,000,000 of fire, 
Verage reductions in assessed! assessed valuations of lands were !tornado, and lightning insurance 
, ations from 1930 to 1933 were| made in the following countids: jin. force, an inerease of *$10,400,- 


ance 


hail, 


4 per cent on lands and im-| Percentage Of Decrease In Valua- 1000 over 1932. Only eight years 
‘ements, 17.86 per cent on town); — tions of Lands, 1932 to 1933. eypncnentytapenapeation old, Farmers Mutual, in offering 
ee city lots and improvements, Percentage protection at cost, justifies great- 
iined 82.17 per cent. on personal | County of Decrease Some idea of the extent to which | er expansion of its services during 
yerty. The loss of 40.66 per| Edgar .......eee cece ee eens 24.98 | farmer-owned and controlled or-| the present year. 
Nie > of estimated values of farm Cumberland oon... cee ee 20,92 ganizations are carving a niche | From an humble beginning seve 
is and improvements from 1930| Macoupin ...........0.005 20.65 | ee ‘iaa 34 in tain i en years ago, Illinois Farm Sup- 
933 computed in the index] Piatt ........0cc.eceeeeee 20.14 | for themselves tn rae USI ROE ad ply Company has grown to be the 
bers of values given by the| Marshall ............0+05: 20.02) the state can be gained from the | jargest purchasing organization of 
ed States Department of Ag-| Ford 2... ....005000 Goose's 20.01) reports submitted by each com-| petroleum products serving farm- 
ittees Iture, may be compared with|Shelby ...........00000008 20.01 | pany upon the close of last vear’s| @r-owned and operated companies 
aed reduction of 26.84 per cent.in| McLean 2... .....0c0c cee ees 19°94 : , has “lin the United States. During 1933, 
oy sseq valuations of all lands and | Morgan .........e00+ ees 19.72) hears gy aa 7 oe Farm Supply handled 40,000,000 
WA frp rovements, It seems clear that Kankakee ,.......0s0 eee ee 19.55 | ne jt it 7 1 an ‘i ls INOIS | callons of petroleum products, re- 
Cc ictions in. assessed valuations| Crawford ........60.05005 15.56 | * SF ENUrS Association, these | ceived its largest net income of 
° sre inds and improvements lagged | Woodford 0 010.4 0'0o0 ee eae es 15.08 | ee bie tect hr gneabent the ‘unde- | $128,287, and returned a patronage 
ar behind the loss in actual| Livingston ,............0.- 15.04 | BAON fact that farmers forced by jrefund to its affiliated companies 
n his es, that the average basis of) Winnebago .,...........5+ 14,84, circumstances to organize thelr \¢ $100,000. Since its founding it 
ssment of rural reai estate in* McDonough ............:> 11.83 /0WN enterprises have done a Job! has returned to its owners and 
made | 7};;Mg0is had increased from about | Coles :.......0 cee cee ees 10,48| {hat puts to shame many similar | jatrons in the form of patronage 
1e bons er cent of actual values in 1930 | Mereer .. 0.0. 0.0.00 c eee eee 10.41 pee arerineg functioning for private: dividends approximately $350,000. 
yperty gpout 50 per cent of actual val- | Stephenson’ ........ ba beware 0.05 | 54°". | op cess " ar 
ut, in in 1933. Foe somone eee pene vocees i0 0 | Probably not so well known but | . ne erates of thepe various 
, Oe fe of a farmer-owned companies has 
u tax me the lack of any information | Lee oo... 5... cc kc ae ee ees 9.93; extremely important to the proper | qrawn ¢} t f leaders and 
antial otal actual values of town and | Ogle ........ccccccseueecs 9.89 conduct of farmer-owned business- eine ly Bae bgt 7 ve py es 
lots, including improvements, |Grundy ...........0.0e005 9.84 Except where’ “selfish : nativel 
: for of personal property in any|Jo Daviess ...........6.5. 9.56| = ceo rere prompt adverse criticism "penis 
Com-|y . it is not possible to compute | Whiteside .............5.4. 8.32/ reporting a large increase in as-|in the towns and cities ‘are ape 
lown- ips of assessed valuations to ac- | Carroll ........e..00cee eee 7.65 | sessed valuations of lands. The in-| plauding farmers for their spirit 
sllow- Values for either of these clas- | Williamson ............06. 6.93| crease over the assessed valua-| determination and success in helps 
1931 of property. Such assessment | Jefferson ...........0.00055 5.09 | tions’ of lands in 1932 appears to/ing themselves through group ace 
of the igs can be computed only by Saline county is the only county! be 19.96. per cent. tion, 


= _ ; ef ne 


—_—r Se eee 


ORGANIZATION CAN 
THE PROBLEMS OF 


GRICULTURE! 


ed—n@ hanging back when fire breaks out at a neighbor’s place. Other neighbors pitch in and 
ea in mind. THE FIRE MUST BE STOPPED. Everyone knows that group action is 
that one man alone would be helpless... Today, as in years gone by, neighbors 
fight other destructive forces. Acting in unison they have worked against unjust 
es, high production and transportation costs, dishonest money—the many things that 


Farmers Mutual Re-insurance Company 
owes its existence to Organized Farmers. 
Founded to offer security and protection at 
cost, Farmers Mutual today has policies in 
force totaling more than $57,000,000 fire, 
wind, hail and lightning insurance. Ample 


reserves and strong re-insurance enable this 
reliable, legal reserve company to pay claims 
promptly. Farmers Mutual is co-operating 
100% with the I. A. A——Farm Bureau new 
rember campaign. 


FIRE 
TORNADO 


OPERATED HAIL—LIGHTNING 


ERS MUTUAL 


RANCE COMPANY 


t= CHICAGO, ILL. 


wrongs have 
brk ahead for 


or fee ered || GET YOUR 
vr wipteraa. || NEIGHBOR 


JOIN! 


FARMER 


oday an@ tell him that 
carry of the farmer's 
prices. S¢e him at once. 
action 


i! 


PACE EIGHT 


GOUNTY REPORTS SHOW GROWERS Rec 


ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF OFFER 


OF 4o0 PEA 


&@ 


Corn Was 23c Bu. When Pro- 
gram Was First Considered, 
Increase $150,000,000. 


The granting of corn loans to 
farmers at the rate of 45 cents 
per bushel at the farm will go 
down in current history as one of 


the outstanding emergency proj- 
ects of the administration that 
turned the tide toward. agricul- 
tural recovery in the corn belt in 
1933. | 

This program has ‘resulted in 
the speedy distribution of ap-| 
proximately $70,000,000 in the 
midwestern corn states and by the 
end of February the figure will 


probably be exceeded. 

The project was launched in re- 
sponse to urgent requests of the 
Illinois Agricultural Association 
that something be: done at once 
to raise corn and hog prices while 
waiting for the long time adjust- 
ment program to take effect. 


The action was equivalent to 
placing a 45 cent minimum price 
on corn on the farm. It has been 
carefully estimated that this serv- 
ice has increased by $150,000,000 
the corn values and incomes of} 
farmers in the middle west. 


$70,000,000 Loaned. 


amount will be 
President Earl C. Smith 
said at the recent I. A. A. conven- 
tion, “if and when farmers re- 
spond to the 1934 program to re- 
duce corn acreage ,and_ thereby 
create a deficit in production that 
will. allow normal consumption of 
the accumulated surplus of corn.” 

It jis estimated that of the $70,- 
000,000 already loaned in th® corn- | 
belt states, Illinois farmers have} 
received approximately $10,000,- | 
000. 

At the time this effort was in- 
augurated the average country) 


“This 
greater, 


much 


” 


price for corn in Illinois was 23 
cents and seemed destined to go} 


lower. The I. A. A. believed that 
if the government was justified in 
many of its other price and wage 
supporting policies it was only fair 
and just that the price of this im- 
portant basic commodity should} 
be supported and maintained. 


Following a meeting in the of- 
fice of Secretary of Agriculture 
Henry “A. Wallace on Oct. 11 
where Earl Smith, president of 
the I. A. A. discussed the corn 
loan. program with Wallace, Geo, 
N, Peek, and Chester Davis, Mr. 
Smith in a radio broadcast from| 
Station WLS, Chicago, two days 
later called on corn belt farmers 
who were interested in a corn loan 
program to write or wire officials) 
“at "Wasiftng torent mare 
their thoughts. Similar aid had 
been given cotton farmers in the 
south. 


A short time later Administra- 


tor Geo. N. Peek announced the 
corn loan plan and on Oct. 27, 
more than 8,000 Illinois farmers 


who met in Peoria at the call of 
the I. A. A. vigorously endorsed 
the program with’ the suggestion 
that there be slight modifications 
s0 as to include all marketable 
corn in the loan offer and that 


the price apply to corn sealed on | 


the farm. 


These modifications were readily 
made and a few days later the an- 
nouncement of 45c per’ bushel 
loans on corn at the farm was 
made. The effect of the new an- 
nouncement was to add approxi- 
mately 10c per bushel to the 
previously announced corn 
price, 


A check of the contracts signed 
in the corn-hog program on Feb. 


signed in Livingston county, Farm 
Adviser 8S. G. Turner’ reported. 


The warehouse board reports 2,-' 


loan | 


7 showed a total of 1,937 contracts | 


BUSHEL ON FARM 


640,000 bushels of corn sealed with 
a total of 1929 applications, 


Other reports on corn loans are 
as follows 
Macoupin county — “Sixteen 


farmers: obtained loans on corn 


amounting to $3,869.10. 


DeKalb county—Up to and in- 
cluding Feb. 9,515 people in De- 
Kalb county secured corn loans 
on 912,846 bushels—a total of 
$410,780.70, 


Moultrie county—Three hundred 
corn loans for a total of $175,000. 

Woodford county—Six thousand 
thirteen certificates issued with 
1,020,839 bushels of corn sealed. 

Kankakee county—One hundred 
ninety-three corn loans .. totaling 
329,446 bushels for $148,250.70. 

Champaign county—Nineteen 
hundred and twenty-five farmers 
made anplication for. corn loans, 
1773 cribs’ sealed representing 2,- 
770,889 bushels for a total of $1,- 
246,900.05. 

Washington county—No inquiry 
for corn loans except from. those 
wanting to get money to buy corn. 
County captain and _ lieutenant 
working this week 

Henry county — Four hundred 
seventy-six farmers sealed a total 
of 806,750 bushels of corn for a 
total of $363,037.55. Approximate- 
lv 13 per cent of corn on farms 
sealed, reports Farm Adviser H. K. 
Danforth. 

Rock Island county—One hun- 
dred twenty-nine corn loans to- 
taling $81,000. 

Sangamon county—One hundred 
sixty farmers have received loans 
for about $126,000. “A poor corn 
crop last year and the fact that 
much of the corn available for sale 
is being moved to counties to the 

at 45 cents per bushel or 
has reduced the demand for 
{ 

| 


south 
over 
corn loans, 
Edwin Bay. 

Whiteside county—Six hundred 
ninety farmers have received loans 
955,282 bushels, 


reports Farm Adviser 


on approximately 
reports Farm Adviser F. H. 
man. Approximately 17 per 
of corn on farms represented, 

McLean county—Fourteen hun- 
dred seventy-five applications for 
corn loans representing more than 
two 
which 


Shu- 
cent 


million bushels 
opinion represents 
about 50 per cent of the corn 
which ordinarily goes to market,” 
writes R. J. Laible, 
ly 50 per 
Lean county 

Knox 


and one-half 
“in my 


“Approximate- 
cent of the corn in Mc- 
is fed to live stock,” 
— Approximately 
747,939 bushels sealed. for 
farmers, advised A. R. Kemp. 
Scott county—PEighty-six farm- 
ers received corn loans for a total 
of $48,210. J. L. Iftner, farm ad- 
viser, reports that since Oct 1 61 
new, members were, siz 


county 
551 


AMCOCKk a 
forty-nine corn loans repmesenting 
203,849 bushels, 60 new members 
signed, reports T. H. Hafer, farm 
adviser. Lieutenants are planning 
another meeting to plan further 
work on membership, 

Henderson county—Two hundred 
forty-nine have received corn loans 
on 370,395. bushels which repre- 
sents from 15 to 20 per cent of the 
corn on farms. 

Mercer county—Three hundred 
forty-eight cribs sealed containing 
427,764 bushels. 


Farmers Are More 
| Optimistic, Farm 
Adviser Reports 


“We do: not have sufficient corn 
| to supply our local needs,” reports 
| Dee Small of Williamson county, 
l ‘consequently there were no loans 
'on corn in this county. But con- 
ditions here are looking more 
|} favorable and farmers seem to be 
| more optimistic than they | have 
been for a Rumber’ of years.’ 


George Woessner (right) of Genesee township, 


WORKS 12 HOURS, SIGNS 15 
NEIGHBORS IN FARM BUREAU 


Whiteside county 


Tells County Captain Lowell Johnson how he signs ‘em up- 
Mr. Woessner’s record as a Farm Bureau solicitor is 15 
signed out of 15 seen. He worked from 10 A. M,. to 10 P. M. 


to make this splendid record. 


The secret of his success, accord- 


ing to F. H. Shuman, farm adviser, is his sincere friendship for 
his neighbors combined with quiet enthusiasm and persistency. 

A number of years ago the Whiteside County Farm Bureau 
shipped a carload of peaches from) southern Hlinois which 
were delayed in transit. As a result many were spoiled. Mr, 
Woessner had ordered 12 hushels for his community. He took 
them home and he and his wife soried them giving the good 


ones to neighbors and keeping 


Mr. Woessner has the confidenc 
he is a successful solicitor. 


That's why 
a fine picce of committee work 


the spoiled ones for themselves- 
e and respect of his neighbors. 
Incidentally, he is. doing 
on the corn-hog program, 


Millions In Corn Loans I 


ARM BUREAU AID 
fo BlG FACTOR IN 
AEGOVERY WORK 


With All Farmers In One Or- 
ganization Much More 
Could Be Achieved. 


(By L. A. WILLIAMS) 


Dr. Glenn Frank, President of 


the University of Wisconsin, in al 


recent speech in Chicago said: “A 
National integration of farmers 
should be a part of President 
toosevelt’s recovery program.” He 
pointed out possible faults with 
existing organizations of other 
groups such as labor but said it is 
the faults that should be 
remedied, and the organization 
movement should be encouraged. 
He stated that to his knowledge 
the president had not included in 
his recovery program such a na- 
tional integration of farmers, but 
rather it was his opinion that the 
president was dealing too much 
through individuals, 

Dr. Frank perhaps is not aware, 
as we are, that President Roose- 
velit has, wherever organization 
would permit, throughout his en- 
tire effort for recovery, dealt 
through organization and organi- 
zation leaders. At the beginning 
of his administration he asked or- 
ganization leaders to get together 
and form their program, and he 
said, “That program will be my 
program.” 

The whéat reduction program, 
the corn-hog program, the corn 
loan program, are all headed up 
through the Farm Bureaus and 
county agricultural agents of the 
country. We believe wieth Dr. 
Frank that a national integration 
of farmers is paramount at this 
time, and that if all farmers were 
together in one organization the 
recovery program would be 
speeded up most effectively. 

Dr. Frank further stated that 
we must stop playing hide and 
seek with famine, and turn from 
a science of want to a science of 
wealth. Goods cannot be pur- 
chased unless consumers have 
buying power. 

Walter Pitkin, author of “Life 
Begins at Forty,” and professor of 
journalism at Columbia Univers- 
ity, speaking before the Chicago 
Forum, blamed existing conditions 
on what he called ‘‘coolie”’ labor. 
In explaining his term ‘“coolie”’ 
anon “hee wrth hitet c~ te nneaite— 


man who sold goods or services 


for less than the cost of produc- 
tion. He said the farmer who 
sells his produce for less than it 
costs him to raise it is most cer- 


tainly in this classification of 
coolie labor. We like the term 
and the _ classification, and _ feel 


that the remedy 
tion and 
volume. 


Wool Growers To 
| 


lies in organiza- 
cooperative control 


Profit By Pool, 
Reports Miller 


Final returns to be made shortly 
for the Illinois Live Stock Market- 
ing Association to wool growers 
who participated in the, 1933 pool 
indicate that net prices to farmers 
will range from 20c to 30c per 
pound depending upon the kind 
and quality of wool the growers 
consigned, Ray E: Miller reports. 


From 60 to 75 per cent of the 
1933 clip’ which was sold locally 
returned growers 18c per pound 
or less. Some later sales were high- 
er but very few growers held their 
wool long enough to secure the full 
| advantage of the higher prices. 

“Not only will wool marketed 
cooperatively through the Illinois 
Live Stock Marketing Association 
net most growers from 5 cents 10 
15 cents more than they received 
by selling locally,”’ said Mr. Miller, 
but the effect of the pool through- 
out the state was to stimulate lo- 
cal prices, In other words, the co- 
operative marketing of wool has a 
tendency to rajse prices both local- 
ly and on the national markets, 
thus the cooperator and non-coop- 
erator are benefited, but in 1933, 
especially, the cooperator benefited 
most, 


Plans are now being made for 
1934 wool marketing program. It 
is expected that final returns will 
be made to growers on 1933 clip 
the latter part of February or the 
first of March. With constantly ris- 
ing prices it has been to the advan- 
tage of the grower that final sales 
be delayed. While this means some 


delay in making returns it also 
means more money to the grow- 
ers. 


FARMERS SHARE 
IN INDIANAPOLIS 
PRODUCER GAINS 


Through. group 
and Indiana live 
who market their 
the Indianapolis Producers Com- 
mission Association have piled up 
earnings since organization total- 
jing $717,983.78, according to Man- 
| ager Scott Meiks. Earnings, dur- 
jing 19383 were $77,625.98, which 
\ belongs to the members. The 

*roducers sold last year 29.39 per 
cent of the live stock arriving at 
fee Indianapolis market. Gains 
were made in all department in 
|the. volume of live stock handled. 
Nearly 91 percent of receipts 
came by truck. 

The Producers. collected 
ithan $1,700 in claims for 
|last year and ince 
)a total of $50,120.23. 


action § Illinois 
stock growers 
stock through 


more 
shippers 
organization 


| Murray Barker, of Thorntown, 
i is president of the or- 
ganization, O. B. Goble of Charles- 


ton, Tll., is vice president and Ma- 
rion R. Finley, Hoopeston, 
ion county, a member of the board 
of directors, 


of 


ecovery Plans 


wnen more than 8,49 Tinois far 


agricultural Assodifition, Certait 
per bushel plan We af announced a 


Illinois Will 
Get Its Shar 
Corn-Hog Me 


The processing tax on } 


| 


ney 


scheduled to go to $2.25 pee 
on March 1. The present | Bhi of 
$1.50 per cwt. went into effem: pop 
1. The tax is to finance theif .s: 9 : 
000,000 corn-hog adjustmem, pro- 
gram now* under way. llinois 
farmers have an-opportunit to get 
around $40,000,000 or a proxi- 
mately 12 per cent of this bad in 
benefit payments by. sign 


for the adjustment progra 


| 


gs up 


~~ COUPERE 


Vocational Ag. Class 
nois, when they visited th 
instructor is Clarence Ha 

The boys got up at 
driven over to the Indian 
York, reports G. E. Middl 


from 


ver, 
three 


Winnebago Vinnebago’ ou 
Seeks CWA Help 


On Limesténe 


The Winnebago County |Farm 
Bureau making an eff@rt to 
have CWA workers in that dgunty 


cooperate in grinding agricWural 
limestone for farmers to hag, and 
spread on their land in the interest 
of soil conservation. The yfroject 
was proposed hy Geo. F. Tullock, 
president of the Farm Bureku, 
Chester Davis, administrator pf the 
Agricultural Adjustment Act 


is 


recent I. A. A. convention in} Dan- 
ville. 

Mr. Davis promised to phesent 
the proposition personallf_ to 
Harry L. Hopkins, federal frelief 
administrator, immediately dn his 


return to YVvashington, 

The project will be passed] upon 
as one related to the corn-hde ad- 
justment program. The stgges- 


tion has been made that all farm- 
ers who sign the corn-hog thduc- 


tion contract be awarded a ctrtain 


number of tons of crushed jlime- 
stone for each acre of land laken 
out of production. 

Illinois farmers are watehing 
the outcome of this proposaj. If 
it goes through local lim4stone 
deposits will be used and |ICWA 


men will operate the crusherg$. 


Jackeon County 
Gets Ready For 
Membership Gain 


Forty-two farmers in this 


to | 


at the | 


‘ Phin 


Bu 
] 


Plans 
over the 
6 atan 
tain and 
the op 
Harry I 
of the | 
be secu 
vigorous 
member 
with the 
plans fc 


BOYS LEARN@PRINCI 


Palestim 


Indianapolis | 


o'clock 


polis market o 
on of the Pro 


Piati 
Na 
( 


Benj. 
was ma 
Farm | 
year 1§ 
of the | 
Insuran 
ville on 

Each 
;reau W! 
| Acciden 
the hon 
of the 
Piatt c 
year ar 
silver le 
Farm E 
place. 

Every 
having 
the wint 
ber of 
Safety ( 
for safe 

1. Ste 
way. 

2. Do 
ways dr 
in the ¢ 

3. Ne 
curves, 

4. WI 
tain the 
to get « 

5. Sig 
watch t 

6. Pri 


HENDI 


oun- 
ty have received corn foans 
amounting to $23,180.85 on bout Out il 
7 per cent of the corn in the toun- | derson 
ty, writes Farm Adviser J. G| Me-|visory | 
Call of Jackson county. “Plans| that ap 
are, being made and conditions are | been re 
getting right here for a substintial | loans in 
increase in membership. | Our | Hend: 


county captain, Mr. Ziegler 


favorable report to 


‘ later.” 


Ss onj|stock fe 
Vermil- | the job and we expect to .hdve aljers in t 


make a |little| for loar 


corn fol 


; 


URAL ASSOCIATION RECORD 
teh east Ptoenaecninsenabne ase 


istributed Throughout 


tion. Certain modifications in loan 
announced a short time later. 


—————————— — 


Think 1200 Farm 


Bureau Members 


‘, 


‘f 
\ 
\ 


ogs “i 
r cwt. 


te of | 6 at a meeting of the county cap- 
t Feb,| tain and lieutenants in Geneva. In 
$350)-| the opinion of Farm Adviser 
t pro-| Harry Kelley and other members As we go to press practically 
llinois| of the group 1,200 members can) every county in Illinois is busily 
to get} be secured in that county with a} engaged in signing up corn- hog 
proxi-| vigorous solicitation of all non-| production contracts which. will 
und in| members. L. A. Williams met} bring up to $40, 000,000 in benefit 


& up| 
plans for the signup. 


PRINCIPLES OF 


Tili- 
Their 


from Palestine, Crawford county, 
Indianapolis Producers recently. 


three o’clock one morning and 
@polis market on a stock truck by Bert 
on of the Producers, 


were 


Piatt C unity Man 
Named President 


Benj. A. Jones of Piatt 
was made president of the Illin 
Farm Bureau Safety Club for 
year 1934 at the 
|of the Illinois 
Insurance Company, 
iville on Wednesday, 


held at Ds 
January 2 


jreau winning the September 
f the | Accident Prevention Campaign |} 
|the honor 
lof the club 

| Piatt county 
year and was 
silver loving cup. 


for the coming 
had the honor 
presented with 


ye 
t 


resent 
to 
relief 


hi place. 
n s a A 
, Every Farm 3ureau. member | 
having the Safety Club emblem on 

upon |the windshield of his car is a mem- 
= ad-/pber of the Illinois Farm Bureau 
SeS-| Safety Club. Six rules of the club 
arm-|for safe driving are: 

. . Stop on entering a main high- 
rtain ae top on en g m g 


lime- 


aiken 2. Do not drive blind, 1. e., al-| F. H. Shuman, farm adviser; O, C. Beatty, secreta ry-treasurer; 
ways drive so you can stop with- | Standing left to right: Floyd Florence, Prank G. Plautz, Fred 
hing in the distance you can see ahead. Cassoms; Burton Drury, George Woessner, Tom Cooney, Everett Ege, 
if 3. Never pass cars on hills, | Beicsia William oy! Penman and Charles Reed. 
tone | curves, or crossings. SDR CNR eerar aes ———————EEeEeeoeo=s=]. 
CWA 4. When passing cars make cer- Shi T P d cooperative agency and that means | 
tain there is ample time and space ip oO roaucers shipping to the Producers "Come! 
to get around, Says L. A. Williams | mission Association. The Producer 
5. Signal for stops and turns— ;}agencies are constantly exerting | 
watch the car ahead. To Live Stock Men | their influence for higher prices. 
6. Protect the children. Solonstnaalia | “The Chicago Producers is the] 
~e . Apply the spirit of organization | largest marketing agency at the 
+ HENDERSON GETS and the advantages of organization | eee Stock Yards. Scores of | 
to your livestock marketing jvo- | Smatier commission companies fol- 
$160,000 ON CORN scram, Lawrence A. Williams. maaan low. the lead of the Producers from 
loans Gavnycefaaitane lager of Country Life Insurance | @@y to day in efforts to get the 
bout Out in western Illinois the Hen-|Company, told) more than 225 farmer more money for his live- 
oun-|derson County Warehouse Super-| growers at the annual meetings of stock. 
M Mc- | visory Soard reported on Feb. 7) the Biggsville and Stronghurst “If you have ideas on improv- 
‘Plans | that approximately $160,000 had| Shipping Associations in Hender-|ing the service of the Chicago 
ie are | been received by corn growers on/son county, Jan. 31, | Producers or wonder why the 
ntial | loans in that county. “You are cooperating in ship-| benefits are not greater the way 
Our | Henderson is primarily a live|ping your livestock and you know /|to do is to get in and cooperate 
s on|stock feeding county. Many farm-|the advantages you have gained |and combine your influence with 
ive a/|ers in that section did not apply |throvgh such action,'’ said Wil-|thousands of other _ shippers 
little| for loans. They needed all their|liams, “but cooperative marketing | toward accomplishing what needs 
corn for live stock feeding. means selling through your own)|to be done.” 


; 


00 Illinois farmers unanimously voted approval of C 


Possible In Kane 


Plans for puttisie Kane county 
over the top were discussed Feb. 


with the group to assist in laying 


IAKKETING 


Of Safety Club 


county 


the 
annual meeting 
Agricultural Mutual 


24. 


Each year the County Farm Bu- 
Auto 


of naming the president | 
ar. 


the 
Morgan County 
Farm Bureau was awarded second 


program were sug geste 


GOAN-HOG SIGNUP 
SIN FULL SWING 


payments during the next 12 to 14 
months to Illinois farmers. 


One hundred and nine farmers 
lsigned corn-hog reduction con- 
tracts in the first three days of 
the sign-up meetings, reports 
Farm Adviser L. J. Hager of Mar- 
shall-Putham counties. \ am 
Thielbar of Henry was the first 
signer of a corn-hog contract in 
the two counties. The owner, Mrs‘ 
Ora Sherman of Washburn, was 
present and signed a contract the 
same day. 


“Forty-eight farmers completed 
the work in the first day-sign-up 
in Magnolia township. Seventeen 
cooperators were added to this list 
in the first day sign-up in Sara- 
toga poteinearscsl 


John Stout Heads 
Animal Industry 
Work Fo For State 


John P. Stout, former member 
of the I. A. A. board of directors | 
and active for many years in the 
Sangamon County Farm Bureau, 
was recently appointed state super- 
intendent of animal industry, He 
succeetis Don Robison, of Tazewell | 
county. Mr. Stout will have charge | 
among other thing of the state tu- 
berculosis eradication program. 
Only four counties in the state 

present are not designated as 
accredited areas which 


| 
| 


at 


| modified 


| have been tested at least once 


| 
| 
' 
| 
| 
HS ‘ae 


otn oan Program at Peoria on Oct. 27. They m 
d which were adopted by the Commodity 


i 


Livingston Co. 


Piles Up Lead 


REID R. TOMBAUGH 


Tombaugh acted as captain in 
the Livingston county mobiliza- 
tion campaign where 256 new 
members were signed and 360 
delinquents restored to good 
‘aeons. 


means that in such areas all cattle 
and 
percentage of reactors is less 
cent. The four coun- 
ties still untested are Winnebago, 
| Warren, Hancock and Randolph. 
Lawsuits are holding up tubercu- | 
losis eradication in these counties 

There are 55 assistant state vet- | 
erinarians and 21 county veteri-| 
narians working on _ tuberculosis 


the 
than one per 


THURSDAY, FEB. 15, 1934 


| Increased Speed 


| 


F 
has 
farmers of Arkansas, 


Missouri, 
Rust, 


cent of the more than $30,000,000 
disbursed since the mortgage re- 
financing campaign started in May 
which shows the advanced speed 


with 
closed,” 


3401 
made by the St. Louis in 


'Farmers’ Institute 


‘is one 


| Camille Kelley 


' eradicat ion, 


ois 


in- 


188 


his 


Whiteside County Farm Bureau 


Seated left to right: C. A, 


ate 


et at the call of the Illinois 
Credit Corporation and 45¢ 


Marks Closing Of 
Land Bank Loans 


two months, the 
Bank of St. Louis 
$18,453,700 to the 
Illinois, and 
according to Walter lL. 
president. 

“This represents 


In the last 
ederal Land 
loaned 


sum 68 per 


which loans are now being 
Mr. Rust said. 


During January the Bank closeg 
loans, a_ record for 


amount disbursed last month was 
$9,197,900. Of this sum $6,286,400 
went to Illinois farmers in 1662 
loans. 


During January the Land Bank 
received 5887 applications for 
$30,720,800, almost a million dol- 
lars more than was requested in 
December. Of the January appli- 
cations, 2588 were made by IIll- 
nois farmers for $20,507,100. 


~h4 


Annual Meeting 
At Jacksonville 


The annual meeting of the IIlil- 
nois Farmers Institute will be 
held at Jacksonville Feb. 21, 22, 23. 
Edward A. O'Neal, president of the 
American Farm Bureau Federation 
of the headline speakers. 
Other speakers are C. V. Gregory, 
Dr. H. H. Bennett of the U. S. D. 
A., Walter McLaughlin, Judge 
of Memphis, J. R. 
Cosgrove of the Farm Credit Ad- 
ministration and a number of staff 
members from the Illinois college 
of Agriculture. 


Board Celebrates Victory in Boosting Membership 25 Per Cent 
During Two-Day Drive. 
Gaulrapp; Art. Jamies, vice president; A, L. Goodenough, president; 


talph Johnson, David Hagans. 


Bierman, J, A. Parker, 


Art Entwhistle, 


Ernest 
Frank Nof- 


‘Peoria County: In 
| Big Membership 
Gain, Still Going 


| 

| Harvey MeNéughton, Peoria 
| county captain working with local 
lieutenants, signed up 18 new 


Farm Bureau members the week 
| of the I. A. A. annual meeting, ree 
ports J. W. Whisenand, farm ade 
viser 

“Leonard Strope and Thurman 
Seott are two high solicitors and 
have signed 28 each,"’ said Whis- 
enand. ‘‘We have added 204 new 
members since the campaign bee 


gan in October. This is up to Feb, 
6. We expect to improve this 
| record cofsiderably before April 1. 


cos_» The cA>d 


~ Tilinois Agricultural 
RECORD 


tion 


Published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Association at 165 So. Main Street, Spencer, Ind. Editorial Offices, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill, 
Entered as second class matter at post office, Spencer, Ind. Acceptance fer mailing at special rates of postage provided in Section 412, Act of Feb. 28, 
1925, autborized Oct. 27, 1925. Address all communications for publication to Editorial Offices, Illinois Agricultural Association Record, 608 So. 


Dearborn St., Chicago. 


Number 3 


MARCH, 1934 


Livestock Growers 


Meet at Bloomington 


Earl Smith Cites Requirements To Gain Higher Price 
Levels For Livestock 


HE big problem ahead for live- 

} stock growers generally is to 

adjust production so as to feed 
a supply of livestock into a demand 
that can pay a fair price. And to make 
sure that farmers secure a maximum 
percentage of the consumers’ livestock 
dollar requires the concentration of 
the sale of that livestock through co- 
operative channels, Earl C. Smith, 
president of the Illinois Agricultural 
Association, told more than 300 co-op- 
erative leaders at the annual meeting 
of the Illinois 
Livestock Market- 
ing Association in 
Bloomington Feb 
23. 

The concentra- 
tion of 85 per cent 
of livestock sales 
through your 
own cooperative 
marketing 
agencies whether 
moved direct from 
the cooperative 
concentration points in the country or 
through the co-operative commission 
agencies on the terminal markets, is 
a good mark to shoot at, Mr. Smith 
said. He challenged the growers 
to launch a mass movement in the 
coming year toward boosting the 
percentage of livestock marketed 
co-operatively from the present 20 
per cent in Illinois to at least 50 per 
cent in 1934. Turning to P. O. Wil- 
son, secretary of the National Live- 
stock Marketing Association, he sug- 
gested that the national organization 
get actively behind a similar move- 
ment in the other livestock growing 
states. 

Mr. Smith expressed the belief that 
organized selling of livestock from co- 


MR, SORRELLS 


operative concentration points in the 
country direct to packers had a place 
in the marketing picture and would 
grow, but he strongly condemned what 
he termed direct buying of livestock 
by packers since this practice allows 
the packer to beat down the price at 
the terminal markets on which all 
quotations in the country are based. 
He stated that managers of district 
co-ops. should see to it that producers 
get the benefit of savings in direct 
movement of livestock and not the 
buyers. He predicted that Illinois will 
be in the lead in the corn-hog signup 
before the end of the sign-up period. 


Doubled Profits 


Secretary P. O. Wilson reported 
that member agencies of the National 
Livestock Marketing Ass’n. had more 
than doubled their profits during the 
past year which would be reflected in 
commission refunds and additions to 
reserves, in spite of the fact that com- 
mission rates had been reduced. Move- 
ment of livestock through member 
agencies gained approximately 12,000 
cars during the year, about 25% of 
which was contributed by Illinois 
growers. He stated that the National 
had fulfilled all its interest and prin- 
cipal obligations to the federal gov- 
ernment when due and predicted that 
every penny outstanding on loans to 
the National Livestock Credit Cor- 
poration and for other purposes 
could and would be repaid. 

In a brief annual message to mem- 
bers of the Association, President 
Samuel Sorrells of Raymond pointed 
out that the eight operating units han- 
dled 2,083 decks of livestock in 1982 
as compared with 3,167 decks in 1938, 
an increase of nearly 50 per cent. 


Volume 12 


LOOKS LIKE 
WE'VE GOT 


“More important than the mere vol- 
ume handled,” he said, “is the fact 
that the program and policies of the 
Association are more thoroughly un- 
derstood than ever before and its pos- 
sibilities from the standpoint of be- 
coming a more important unit in the 
family of livestock co-operatives are 
greater than ever. 


“The Illinois Livestock Marketing 
Association,” Mr. Sorrells continued, 
“was organized primarily to meet the 
problem of direct buying of livestock 
by packers. Its aim is to give farmers 
who have been deprived of shipping 
association service an opportunity to 
sell their livestock through their own 
agencies to the buyer wherever he may 
be who will return the highest net 
price.” The Association, he said, is 
working hand in hand with: the co- 
operative commission agencies in the 
terminal markets so as to correlate 
efforts to maintain and increase price 
levels. 


Wool Growers Profit 


Ray E. Miller, secretary of the As- 
sociation, reported that 87 counties in 
Illinois during the past year co-oper- 
ated in the field service program with 
a total of about 1,000 livestock com- 
mitteemen. Approximately 800 local 
meetings were held on the night of 
Nov. 3 when a broadcast from Sta- 
tion WENR Chicago was the principal 
feature. The effect of the wool mar- 
keting program during the fiscal year 
just closing has been to increase re- 


turns to growers at least $50,000, he 
said. j 

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, Ia., 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 IIli- 
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. 

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’. Tullock, 
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 1. A. A. Advisory 
Committees Are Named 


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; 

Organizat i o n- 
Information — E. 
D. Lawrence, M. 
c. E. BAMBOROVGH Ray Ihrig, Otto 

Steffey, E. C. 
Secor, farm adviser; 


Public Relations—Charles S. Black, 
R. B. Endicott, Albert Hayes, W. A. 
Herrington, farm adviser; 


Marketing—Samuel Sorrells, A. O. 


I. A. A. Record—March, 1934 


H. J. Scranton, the man with the pencil and paper, and Fred Loos to his left 
have signed up 32 new Farm Bureau members in the Adams County Farm Bureau 


mobilization campaign. 


This snapshot was taken on the E. M. King & 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. 


400 Cream Producers 
Hold Lively Session At 
Champaign, Sell Stock 


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. 


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 
board. 


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 
College. 


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NEW DIRECTORS ELECTED TO I. A. A. 


— 


E, E. HOUGHTBY 
12th 


O acquaint members of the I. A. 
A. with the five new directors 
chosen at the recent annual 


meeting, short biographical sketches 
are presented herewith: 


A. O. Eckert of Belleville, 22nd dis- 
trict, is a former vice-president and 
director of the I. A. A. He served on 
the board in 1921-1922 and was vice- 
president i 1923 when Sam H. Thomp- 
son was president. 

Mr. Eckert has long been active in 
farm organization work. He assisted 
in organizing the St. Clair County 
Farm Bureau and the [Illinois Fruit 
Growers Exchange, serving. seven 
years as president of his local Farm 
Bureau. He was also on the board of 
the Federated Fruit Growers of 
‘America, established more than a 
decade ago, as a nation-wide market- 
ing agency. 

Mr. Eckert operates a 340 acre 
farm, 125 acres of which are planted 
to producing apple, peach, and cherry 
trees. He also is an extensive feeder 
of live stock, marketing around 500 
sheep, 300 hogs, and 200 cattle an- 
nually. <A large part of the produce 
from the farm is marketed direct to 
consumers through his local roadside 
market and through the Belleville 
Fruit and Produce Market of which 
he is president. 

Customers are brought direct to the 
Eckert farm through consistent adver- 
tising in the daily newspapers of St. 
Louis. He spends approximately $1,000 
annually on advertising alone. 

Two of Mr. Eckert’s boys, Curt and 
Cornell, took the agricultural course 
at the University of Illinois and are 
on the farm now assisting their Dad 
as partners in the business. The third 
son, Vernon, is a junior at Urbana and 
he too will be offered a partnership on 
graduation. 

Last year 300 hogs were butchered 
on the farm and sold to consumers 
mostly in the form of hams, bacon and 
sausage. Fifteen to twenty acres of 
potatoes are prodticed annually, and 
what fruits and vegetables are not 


OTTO STEFFEY 
14th 


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ALBERT HAYES 
16th 


sold through the roadside market are 
trucked to neighboring towns for sale. 
One of the boys is in direct charge 
of the orchard, the other manages the 
livestock operations, while their father 
supervises all. 

Mr. Eckert served for two and one- 
half years as president of the Illinois 
State Horticultural Society. He was 
given the Master Farmer gold medal 
by Prairie Farmer about ten years ago 
and was president for several years of 
the Master Farmer Club of America. 
He is a member of the Grange and 
director of the Belleville Chamber of 
Commerce. 


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LBERT HAYES of Peoria 
A county, new director from:the 
16th district, is well known 
throughout central Illinois. He has 


been prominently identified in farm 
organization work for many years. 


‘Active in the Peoria County Farm Bu- 


reau from the beginning, he was elec- 
ted director of Medina township in 
1920, served successfully on the exec- 
utive committee and as secretary un- 
til 1929 when he was elected president. 
He assisted in organizing and served 
as the first president of the Peoria 
County Service Company. 

Mr. Hayes owns and operates a 194 
acre farm north of Mossville. He is 
director in the First National Bank of 
Chillicothe, also the Peoples Building 
and Loan Association of the same 
town, has been supervisor of his town- 
ship for the past six years, director 
of the Peoria County Federal Land 
Bank Association, chairman of the 
Peoria County Farm Debt Adjustment 
Committee, and vice-president of the 
Pekin Production Credit Association. 
In addition to operating his own farm 
he is supervising two farms for a 
non-resident owner. He was awarded a 
gold Master Farmer medal by Prairie 
Farmer several years ago. 

Mr. and Mrs. Hayes have three boys, 
two of high school age and one in the 
grades. 


MONT FOX 
18th 


A. 0, ECKERT 
22nd 


ONT FOX, new director from 
M the 18th district, is an exten- 

sive livestock feeder. He has 
lived in Vermilion county all his life. 
A member of the Farm Bureau for the 
past 15 years, Mr. Fox has served on 
the board of directors since 1928. 

He retired from general farming in 
1918 and began. feeding cattle, lambs 
and-hogs exclusively, buying most of 
the feed. In 1924 he discontinued cat- 
tle feeding and began feeding western 
lambs. His farm is all in grass. Dur- 
ing the season he usually finishes 5,000 
western lambs and around 500 hogs. 

He has been president of the Ver- 
milion County Live Stock Marketing 
Association since its organization four 
years ago. He represents his district 
on the board of the Illinois Livestock 
Marketing Association, and also has 
served on the board of the Vermilion 
Service Company since it was formed 
two years ago. He is a director in the 
State Bank of Oakwood. 

<=> 
E. HOUGHTBY of Shabbona, 
Ek, ~ president of the DeKalb Coun- 
® ty Farm Bureau, is the new 
director from the 12th district. 

After graduating from the Illinois 
State Teachers’ College in 1913 Mr. 
Houghtby taught school for five years 
acting as superintendent of the high 
schools at Ohio and Neponset. For 
two years he taught mathematics at 
the Rock Island high school. In 1919 
he began farming near Shabbona. 

He operates 237 acres, has a herd of 
30 pure bred Brown Swiss cattle, also 
raises purebred Chester White hogs 
and White Rock chickens. 

Mr. Houghtby was awarded a Mas- 
ter Farmer medal by Prairie Farmer 
in 1931. He has been a leader in 
community and civic work. He is sec- 
retary of the board of the Shabbona 
community high school and was re- 
cently chosen director from the eighth 
district on the board of the Pure Milk 
Association. Mr. and Mrs. Houghtby 
have one child, Joan Elizabeth, five 
years old. (Continued next page) 


Henderson county, the new 

director from the 15th district, 
operates a 220 acre grain and live- 
stock farm. He has been a leader for 
many years in the Henderson Coun- 
ty Farm Bureau and all of the co- 
operative enterprises of the organiza- 
tion. Mr. Steffey served as captain in 
the recent Henderson county mobiliza- 
tion campaign and it was largely 
his efforts combined with the 
work of Bill Stevenson, general agent, 
that put Henderson county to the 
front in percentage of membership 
gain, 

Mr. Steffey has been on the board 
of directors of the Farm Bureau for 
several years, is a director in the Tri- 
County Oil Company, also in the 
Stronghurst Shipping Association, and 
recently was chosen a member of the 
board of the Monmouth Production 
Credit Association. He is now serving 
as chairman of the county corn-hog 
control association. 


Mr. Steffey is 35 years old and has 
a wife and one child, a girl. 


O TTO STEFFEY of Stronghurst, 


Farm Income Better But 
Some Prices Lag Behind 


Gross farm income in 19383 is esti- 


mated at $6,383,000,000 which includes. 


$289,000,000 in benefit payments from 
the A. A. A. This is more than 24 
per cent in excess of the gross income 
for 1932 estimated at $5,143,000,000. 


Grain shows the largest increase in 
returns from 1932 to 1933 at 86 per 
cent. The figure for tobacco was 62 
per cent, cotton 56 per cent, hogs 10 
per cent, cattle and calves one per 
cent, poultry and eggs minus four per 
cent, dairy products minus one per 
cent, fruits and nuts 18 per cent, and 
vegetables 32 per cent. 


Want Tariff Barriers 
Leveled To Sell Autos 


American automobile manufacturers 
could sell more cars abroad if the 
United States and foreign countries 
would level tariff barriers, according 
to the National Automobile Chamber 
of Commerce. 


Last year about 240,000 American 
cars were sold abroad; in 1929 nearly 
a million. The 59 cent dollar, exporters 
declare, has reduced the price of. an 
American car as much as one-half. In 
Spain, for example, an auto which cost 
2,000 pesos last year would cost 1,000 
pesos this year. 


Election Day Is Comin’ 


When election day is coming and it’s 
drawin very near 
And candidates upon all corners round 
about us now appear 
When depression hard has hit us 
and we’re tryin to get out 
When men who’ve been in office 
have never yet put it to rout. 
Oh! Then it’s time we fellers who’ve 
been feeling mighty blue 
Get to lookin up their records just to 
see what they will do 
Get to listenin to their speeches 
they’re wantin us to hear 
For election day is comin and it’s 
drawin very near. 


Their talk sounds kinder pleasant as 
they talk to me and you 
But the worth of every feller is the 
good that he can do 
And a listenin te their speeches 
which they broadcast on the air 
They are just empty promises un- 
less they have a record fair. 
So we’d better look up their records 
for time’s goin very fast 
The proof of every candidate is the 
record of his past 
And prosperity of the future de- 
pends on how we their records 
note 
For election day is comin and we 
must get out and vote. 


When farmers by low prices for years 
have been oppressed 
Been in deepest of depression till it’s 
spread to all the rest. 
Oh! Then it’s time we fellers who 
are tillers of the soil 
Get het up to the boiling point till 
we will over-boil. 
It’s time that we assert our rights, de- 
clare for liberty 
Go to the polls, the ballots use, and 
vote for equality. F 
Oh! Then they’ll surely listen; of 
the farmer they’ll take note 
For election day is comin when we’ll 
all get out and vote. 


I. A. A. Record—March, 1934 


Geo. N. Peek Hammers 
Away On Plans Toward 
Increasing Farm Exports 


George N. Peek of Moline, Ill., who 
has been working with President 
Roosevelt recently in efforts to de- 
velop foreign outlets for agricultural 
products, reports state, has been of- 
fered the job of directing the Export- 
Import Bank of Washington recently 
created to finance foreign trade. 

Mr. Peek in a recent report to the 
President proposed a co-ordination of 
all federal foreign trade agencies un- 
der a government export corporation 
with authority to negotiate directly 
with foreign countries. 

Mr. Peek believes the solution of the 
farm surplus problem lies in the de- 
velopment of foreign outlets for 
American farm products. He resigned 
his job as administrator of the AAA 
to devote his full energy to this pro- 
gram. 

He points out that only about five 
per cent of total national income from 
industrial products in the period from 
1910 to 1932 came from industrial ex- 
ports, whereas during this period 18 
per cent of the American farmers’ in- 
come came from exports. 

He believes that every effort should 
be made toward working out reciprocal 
trade agreements with foreign coun- 
tries, that inte: :ational trade should 
be restored, and that adjustment of 
production to domestic demand, if car- 
ried to its logical conclusion, will be 
disastrous to agriculture and to in- 
dustrial activities now dependent for 
existence upon agricultural production. 


The annual meeting of the Chicago 
Producers Commission Ass’n. will be 
held March 13 in the Bal Tabarin 
room of the Sherman Hotel, Chicago. 
Earl C. Smith, president of the I. A. 
A., will speak. 


Yes, election day is comin and the 
time it isn’t long 
When we must use the ballot against 
those in the wrong. 
Farmers have long. been treated 
wrong and not had equal rights 
Ballots are better’n bullets to help 
them win their fights. 
Those who’ve been in office brought 
no help within our range 
Perhaps upo election day we’d better 
make a change, 
But if we are indifferent and don’t 
get out and vote 
Then they’ll just leave us drift 
along and forever be the goat. 


—Leverett Compton, Shelby 
Co., Ill., written Oct. 1932. 


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I. A. A. Record—March, 1934 


Human Factor of Great 
Importance In Sales Rec- 
ords of |. A. A. Companies 


When All Work Together The 
Greatest Good Is 
Accomplished 


Out of the cold maze of figures that 
indicate the business accomplishment 
of Country Life Insurance Company, 
come the warm human factors that 
made those remarkable figures pos- 
sible. It is encouraging to note that 


the company increased its insurance 


in force $7,000,000—but what of the 
human endeavor and loyalty that pro- 
duced that increase? 


Assets increased 35 per cent—but 
it took human minds and hearts work- 
ing together to do it. Back of every 
accomplishment which can be summed 
up on a ledger sheet lies devotion. to 
a cause, enthusiasm and the co-oper- 
ative effort of many people. 


During 1933, 10 counties exceeded 
their quota. That Effingham county 
made 150 per cent of their quota does 
not begin to tell of the efforts put 
forth to attain it. Henry county made 
127 per cent of theirs; Boone county 
123 per cent; Woodford county 120 


- per cent; Henderson county 117 per 


cent; Douglas county 107 per cent; 
Whiteside county 105 per cent; Ed- 
wards county 104 per cent; La Salle 
county 101 per cent; Stephenson coun- 
ty 100 per cent. Many other counties 
made 100 per cent of their quota. 


None of the men in any of those 
counties want anything greater than 
to know they did a fine job. Yet, it is 
plain that neither geography, wealth, 
nor temper of the “quota busting” 
counties had any bearing on their rec- 
ord. By and large, it amounts to just 
this—close co-operation between all 
elements of the Farm Bureau smooths 
out the road to permanent success. 


Where there is success, there you 
will find the Country Life agent send- 
ing customers to the Service Company. 
Jim Brown, the service company truck 
salesman, tells the auto insurance 
agent about two new automobiles, and 
the auto insurance agent finds out the 
owners need life insurance too. The 
Farm Bureau needs man-power to put 
over a membership drive, and Country 
Life Illinois Agricultural Mutual and 
Service Company men take the field 
to work shoulder to shoulder with 
their team mates for a common cause. 


We live in a world where co-oper- 
ation is the first rule of success. There 
are those, who satisfied with puny 
short-lived suecess, confine their ef- 


Captain R. C. McKinley of Shelby 
county, left, is shown signing his neigh- 
bor in the Farm Bureau. 


forts to themselves. On the other hand, 
there are those who make a _ per- 
manent, shining mark in the world, by 
unselfishly keeping their heads up and 
their eyes on the broad picture, know- 
ing that the greatest success is that 
which shares the material benefits of 
building something useful for the 
greatest number of people. 


Auditing Association 
Cuts Costs In 1933 


The Illinois Agricultural Auditing 


Association completed 59 audits dur- 
ing the month of January. There are 
315 agricultural organizations using 
the Auditing Association’s services, 

In 1933 average costs of audits of 
Farm Bureaus decreased as compared 
to 1932 costs in the following amounts: 
Farm Bureaus $2.31; farmers’ ele- 
vators $12.34; co-operative oil com- 
panies $8.80. 

‘The Association has operated for 
nine and one-half years during which 
time it has made more than 2,700 
audits, reports Manager F. E. Ring- 
ham. 


Want Further Cut In 
1934 Wheat Production 


The A. A. A. is considering giving 
wheat growers who have not signed 
the wheat adjustment contract an- 
other opportunity to sign. The Decem- 
ber 1 winter wheat crop report showed 
that seedings for the country as a 
whole are 7.2 per cent under the base 
period, and in the 11 leading states 
which seeded 82 per cent of the acre- 
age, the reduction was nine per cent. 

The international wheat agreement 
requires that exporting nations reduce 
their seeded acreage by 15 per cent. 


Secretary Wallace Sees 
Planned Middle Course 
As One U. S. Will Follow 


In a recent article written for the 
Foreign Policy Association Secretary 
of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace 
stated that if the U. S. insists on a 
policy of economic nationalism, the 
nation must be prepared for “funda- 
mental planning and regimentation of 
agriculture and industry far beyond 
that which any one has yet sug- 
gested.” 

He foresaw “compulsory control of 
marketing, licensing of plowed land, 
quotas for every farmer,” and for the 
people as a whole “a unanimity of 
opinion and disciplined action even . 
greater than that which we ex- 
perienced during the world war.” 


He stated that a policy of self-con- 
tainment would require the permanent 
retirement of from 40 to 100 million 
acres of crop land from cultivation 
and the shifting of millions of people 
from the farms of the South, since 
cotton is one of our chief farm ex- 
ports. 

The Secretary said he favored an 
international policy based on regain- 
ing world trade which would require 
a radical scaling down of tariff walls, 
acceptance of a billion dollars more 
goods from. abroad than we received in 
1929, and the reorganization of pro- 
tected industries. A third possibility, 
he pointed out, is a “planned middle 
course” halfway between these two 
extremes. 

He expressed the belief that the 
nation would follow the middle course 
while the world remains so intensely 
nationalistic. 


One Man Alone 


Editor, I. A. A. RECORD. 


“The back page of the February 
RECORD was a dandy—I think about 
the best I have seen in a long time. 
... This picture, title and your com- 
ments are striking and unusual.” 


Gene Middleton, 
Producers Commission 
Ass’n., Indianapolis. 


People who criticise the co-operative 
insurance, organized buying of farm 
supplies, and similar commercial en- 
terprises of the Farm Bureau are not 
interested in the welfare of the farm- 
er. They have something else in mind. 
And that something is probably selfish. 


icLLIn O'S 
CULTURAL ASSOCIA’ 


RECORD 


To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was or- 
ganized namely, to promote, protect and represent the busi- 
ness, economic, political and educational interests of the 
farmers of Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 


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GEORGE TuIEM, Editor 
JOHN Tracy, Ass’t Editor. 


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OFFICERS 
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
(By Congressional District) 


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BN id 0 0:66 wi 0% eCKS po. OECeb be aoe shh as vielen Ree M. Ray Ihrig, Golden 
DRS eek Ce da 2 he wba tne CEVC Ade devabs vies 6040RER Albert Hayes, Chillicothe 
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Nha Gaon pe beces tested be0ed Cbeue cee ce ecnien Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 
BEES 0'0-65.0.0's $0.86 G00 bp ones dd cberapepneceohsivabeel A. O. Eckert, Belleville 
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Dei anpecatce ch euad cabddede de eaed b oeneewen R. B. Endicott, Villa Ridge 
DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 
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SRE OED OUNE ono thi cicvbceescccacedgsecdtbwosesscebdecanes J. B. Countiss 
NG eke gia dpa de he 6.0.4 op oi's Cok boc 6e0b a6 apee's 6hebaheus R. A. Cowles 
Bruit and Vegetable Marketing...........ccccescescecseccsece H. W. Day 
Es 66 sub wail 0-505 be.edh soe pedir cecsectoaceooavensenoens George Thiem 
BRUINS ONVEED sos cc cccervecesetcicoccevessqeseuccesvenveet V. Vaniman 
EMME COGMBOL d cccconccceciccccccccepecessvcecsacetes Donald Kirkpatrick 
Live Stock Marketing..........cceccccccccescccesetcenees Ray &£. Miller 
GS aeacetaveus bess eecnwescccces scensecadebeacorieudxeve C. B, Johnston 
CINNCIOR sist ci ni eadepeanantne ssi onssnbnshsso0-+s-0o6~ G. rv Metzger 
DU PUMNIIOEI eve ccccc enced escecesecictcesctacces'seer F. A, Gougler 
Taxation and Statistica... ........ ccc ccccecccccsevccccvece J. C. Watson 
CRM EIONNS oooh cde b ee oescbrnpenccodeaeuibenscubeevevne G. W. Baxter 
ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 

Country Life Imsurance Co.......... cece cee eeeeeeees L. A. Williams, Mgr. 
Farmers Mutwal Reinsurance Co.............eseeeee0. J. H, Kelker, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Auditing Ags’n............sse.: F. E. Ringham, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co,........ 3 BE. Richardson, Mgr. 
Illinois Farm Supply Co.........20+2 | «seeseces . R. Marchant, Mar. 
Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange.....c.cecssecsecseses H. W. Day, Mgr. 
Illinois Grain Corp.....cscccscccsscccccececcess Harrison Fabrnkopf, Mgr 

Illinois Livesteck Market. = ygh~ Eee ceed sbeeednceboeaehes Ray Miller, Mer. 
Illinois Producers Creameries..¥. A. Gougler, Mgr., J. B. Countiss, Sales 
Soybean Marketing Asg’D.......ccccesccecsscecees J. W. Armstrong, Pres. 


Up to the Producer 


PEAKING on the corn-hog reduction and corn loan 
S programs in a recent radio address over the NBC 

chain, President Earl Smith said: “Farm organiza- 
tions have now discharged their responsibility of leader- 
ship to secure a (price-raising) program. Administrative 
officials in Washington have outlined and presented to the 
farmers the program. Corn and hog producing farmers, 
and no one else, will furnish the final answer as to the 
future price levels of corn and hogs. .... 

“It has taken years of effort by organized farmers to 
secure the necessary laws to make possible a solution of 
the problem..... Through state, county, and local com- 
mittees, farmers have practical control of the adminstra- 
tion of this program. The goal is parity prices. To the 
extent farmers respond in a genuine spirit of understand- 
ing and co-operation by universally and effectively cur- 
tailing their production ef corn and hogs, thus removing 
surpluses at their source, reasonable and fair price levels 
for these important products of the farm will be restored 
and maintained.” 


I. A. A. Record—March, 1934 


A Lesson Learned 


F THE last few years of hardship have taught us any- 

I thing, they have driven home the necessity for group 

action in getting out of our difficulties. That this 

lesson has been taken to heart by many is revealed in the 

reports of steadily increasing Farm Bureau membership 
in nearly all if not all counties in Illinois. 

Bureau County Farm Bureau on Feb. 24 reported that 
it had increased its membership 27 per cent since Jan. 1, 
1934, the third county to be added to the Honor Roll for 
making a gain of 25 per cent or more since the first of 
the year. The value of the Farm Bureau has been brought 
home forcibly to thousands of non-members during the 
past six months as never before. They realize that with- 
out organization and collective effort many of the benefits 
they are now receiving never would have been possible. 


The Intelligent Way 


. \ N old-line creamery in Illinois recently made the 


statement that it was paying more for butterfat 

than the co-operative creamery at Bloomington. 
A check-up showed that the price paid by the private 
creamery was based on cream delivered to its plant, 
whereas the price paid by the co-operative was at the 
farm. Moreover the privately operated creamery in ques- 
tion has been severely criticised by farmers in the past 
for short-changing patrons on weights and tests. 

Cream producers who sell through their own co-opera- 
tive should keep in mind that the initial price they get is 
only part of their return. They still own an interest in the 
profits and investment of the cooperative in plant and 
equipment. They also are in line for patronage dividends. 

Reports are coming in that privately operated creameries 
are pushing up prices for butterfat in territory where co- 
operatives are active. There is nothing new in this situa- 
tion. Farmers are accustomed to it. The point is that the 
co-operative is responsible for the old-line company offer- 
ing a higher price. We don’t believe many Illinois cream 
producers will be misled into supporting any effort to de- 
stroy their own co-operative enterprises through such 
tactics. 

Illinois farmers are not losing sight of the fact that the 
co-operative creamery at Columbus, Indiana, from 1924 
to 1932 not only refunded its patrons a total of $345,956.34 
after meeting competition on butterfat purchased, but also 
invested substantial sums in plant and equipment. The 
total refunds for the two co-operative plants at Craw- 
fordsville and Columbus, plus sums invested in plant, was 
equivalent to more than four cents per pound butterfat. 
The argument in favor of well managed, economically op- 
erated co-operative creameries is unanswerable. It’s the 
intelligent way for Illinois farmers to-sell their cream. 


A Challenge 


Se recent revelations by the federal trade com- 
mission of high salaries paid by great corporations 
in the boom years, and in some instances straight 
through the depression, are of interest to farmers. Eight 
executives of one farm machinery company, for example, 
were paid salaries ranging from $120,000 up to $412,860 
each in the year 1929. These companies are highly organ- 
ized and set their own prices on their commodities. Farm- 
ers pay the bill. Here is a great challenge to agriculture 
to organize that it may secure a fair share of the na- 
tional income which farmers earn but don’t get. 


I. A. A. Record—March, 1934 


Menard County Pledges 
~ 25°% Member Increase 
Here's What They Say 


Menard county is out to increase 
its membership at least 25 per 
cent according to President John H. 
Behrens of the Menard County Farm 


Not satisfied until they have 60 new 
ones on the Honor Roll. 

“Jesse Keen, Louis Freeman, Curtis 
Slife, J. P. O’Brien, Orville-Fischer of 
Stockland Township signed 16 new 
men and still going strong.” 


80 Per Cent Signup 
Goal In Henderson 


from October 1, 1933 to April 1, 1934,” 
said Stevenson, and “we challenge 
other counties to do likewise. The 
time is ripe to signa members. I know 
we can do it if we get out and work.” 


Corn Loan News 


Additional reports from counties on 
corn loans received since going to 


Bureau. 
strong organization that is 
getting results,” said Mr. 
Behrens. “However, all 
farmers should belong to 
the Farm Bureau and do 
their part and we are going 
to see that Menard meets 
President Earl Smith’s pro- 
posal and increases its mem- 
bership 25% in 1984.” 

E. J. Rosendahl, county 
captain in Menard, is on the 
job pledged to achieve this 
goal. Speaking of organ- 
ized effort, Ira Smith, mem- 
ber of the Menard Farm 
Bureau, puts it this way: 
“If we fail to build a full 
strength organization and 
cooperate in the recovery 
program, my boy and your 
boy will say, ‘Dad, where 
were you when the Presi- 
dent of the United States 
and the President of your 
own organization urged you 
to do your part’? You can’t 
afford to turn your boy 
down.” 


Iroquois County 
Goal Is 500 


New Members 


With a goal of 500 new 
members by April 1, more 
than 115 lieutenants met 
with their captain and Farm 
Bureau officials at Watseka 
in Iroquois county Feb. 12 
at a pep meeting attended 
by Messrs. Geo. E. Metzger, 
O. D. Brissenden, and A. B. 
Culp of the organization 
staff. More than 100 mem- 
bers were reported signed 
on Feb. 16 and as this is 


“Agriculture has built a 


“If we don’t sign two out of every 


Join the Farm Bureau 


EPORTS from many counties in Illinois 
R indicate a growing interest in the farm 
bureau and a gratifying increase in 
membership. Farmers are coming to realize 
much more than ever before how helpless 
they are when disorganized; how much they 
can do when they work together. When 
farm folks quarrel among themselves or work 
at cross purposes, that brings a smile to the 
faces of the exploiters who have profited so 
greatly at farmers’ expense. 


Illinois farmers are fortunate in having in 
the Illinois Agricultural Association, backed 
as it is by strong county farm bureaus, the 
strongest state farm’ organization in the 
United States. Under the leadership of 
President Earl Smith and his co-workers, the 
I. A. A. is responsible in a very large degree 
for the present farm program and the im- 
provement in farm income which has re- 
sulted. : 

The work of the Illinois Agricultural As- 
sociation has been made possible because of 


the thousands of loyal members who have 


continued to pay their dues during a period 
when doing so was a real sacrifice. Most of 
the work done by the association helps all 
the farmers of the state. It is not fair for 
the present members to carry all the load. 
With times getting better and farm income 
increasing, thousands of other farmers who 
for one reason or another are not now mem- 
bers, ought to join and use a small fraction 
of the new money, which is available to a 
large extent because of the association’ 8 ef- 
forts, to pay their dues. 

If we will all do that we can make Illinois’ 
principal farm organization twice as strong 
and twice as able to fight the battles of -Illi- 
nois farmers in the future.—Prairie Farmer, 
Feb. 17, ’34. 


press with the special newspaper edi- 


tien of the February REC- 
ORD are as follows: 

Ford county —Farm ad- 
viser W. F. Purnell reports 
that 970,000 bushels have 
been sealed for 670 farmers. 
Average amount sealed is 
about 1,450 bushels per 
farm. 

Stark county—More than 
500,000 bushels of corn were 
sealed on Feb. 20, which is 
around 40 per.cent of corn 
yet remaining on farms. 
‘‘We have well ever 700 con- 
tracts in the eorn-hog pro- 
gram signed in the eight 
townships of the county and 
we expect to have close to 
90 per cent of the farmers 
in Stark county in this pro- 
gram before the finish,” 
writes Wayne Gilbert, farm 
adviser. 

“We are planning a mem- 
bership drive for the middle 
of March. It is under the 
control of a committee con- 
sisting of Walter Gingrich, 
vice-president; Albert Lloyd 
Hewitt, county mobilization 
captain; and Harvey Price, 
at present chairman of the 
county livestock marketing 
committee.” 

Fulton county — 158,000 
bushels of corn sealed, $71,- 
100 loaned, reports John E. 
Watt, farm adviser. 

Bureau county—1,600,000 
bushels of corn sealed, 
$720,000 loaned. Approxi- 
mately 50 per cent of the 
corn on farms sealed for 
loans. Bureau county is plan- 
ning to increase its Farm 
Bureau membership at least 
25 per cent by April 1—114 


written additional reports indicate the 
signup to be well up toward the 200 
mark, 

A report received on Feb. 21 is as 
follows: 

“G. C. Butzow, Ora Baer, Ernest 
Sass, Perry Parrish, W. H. Hodge, 
James Greenburg, Bert Hixon, and 
Wendell Adsit in Prairie Green and 
Lovejoy townships in Iroquois county 
in four days signed 48 new members. 


three farmers in Illinois this year,” 
says W. A. Stevenson of Jienderson 
county, “it will be just because we’ve 
laid down on the job.” Since June 1 
Mr. Stevenson assisted in signing 
from 140 to 150 new members in his 
own county. 

Henderson county has established 
as its goal 80 per cent of all the farm- 
ers in the county in the Farm Bureau. 
“We expect to double our membership 


new members signed since Oct. 14. 

DeWitt county—Farm Adviser H. 
H. Myers reports 384 corn loans for 
approximately $270,000. 

Saline county—Seven loans made on 
cribbed corn for a total of $3,997.85. 

Peoria county—Up to February 8, 
147 farmers in Peoria county had had 
their corn sealed for a total of $78,- 
201, reports J. W. Whisenand. More 
applications are rolling in. 


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STATEMENT OF CONDITION 
December 31, 1933 


ASSETS LIABILITIES 


Cash <..0 6 0 oe s:$: 22,662.23 Policy Reserves . . . $1,792,691.69 
U.S. Govt. Securities . 1,353,757.75 Installment Claim 

Other Bonds . . . . 662,316.32 Reserves . . . . 65,413.50 
Policy Loans . . . . 233,138.40 Other Liabilities . . 106,159.70 


Other Assets ... 196,611.29 Total Liabilities . . $1,964,264.89 
Capital and Surplus . 504,211.10 


Total Assets . . . $2,468,475.99 $2,468,475.99 


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John Watson Appears 
Before General Assembly 


States I. A. A. Policies on Pend- 
ing Legislation, Opposes New 
Bond Issue 


In the third special session of the 
‘General Assembly which convened on 
February 13, the Association is sup- 
porting legislation— 

1. To stay foreclosure proceedings 
on mortgaged real estate in case of 
mortgagors who have sincerely tried 
and continue trying to meet their obli- 
gations, 

2. To permit filing of chattel mort- 
gages, at moderate cost, instead of re- 
quiring that they be copied in full in 
record books, necessarily at much 
higher cost. 

The Association favors legislation 
to enable the state to pay the accumu- 
lated balance, now reported to be 
about $12,000,000, of the state dis- 
tributive school fund now due the ele- 
mentary schools and unpaid because 
of delinquent taxes, chiefly in Cook 
county. It believes the state occupa- 
tion taxes and liquor taxes will pro- 
duce a surplus over taxes necessary 
for the state sufficient to pay the total 
accumulated unpaid distributive school 
fund within about the next year. 

The State Teachers’ Association has 
offered bills authorizing an increase of 
$16,000,000 in the state tax levy, per- 
mitting sale of anticipation tax notes 
to the amount of $12,000,000, and 
submitting a bond issue of this 
amount to be voted on next November, 
to be paid, if the bonds are approved 
by diversion, from the state revenue 
fund, of the franchise taxes on corpo- 
rations. The Association opposes sub- 
mission of another bond issue, with its 
increased state tax levy and the dan- 
ger that the tax levy will fall on 
property. 

The State Teachers’ Association is 
also sponsoring a series of bills to 
provide revenue from new sources as 
follows: 

1. A tax of one-eighth of one cent 
per bushel on all sales of grain for 
future delivery. 

2. A flat tax of two per cent on all 
net income of individuals with a per- 
sonal exemption of $1,200. 

3. A tax of three per cent on all 
net income of corporations, in addi- 
tion to all present franchise and prop- 
erty taxes. 

In addition, the State. Teachers’ As- 
sociation is urging two bills to repeal 
the provisions limiting the levy of any 
school board to the average of its 
levies in the four school years ending 
June 30, 1932. 

The Association 


is opposing the 


grain futures tax on the ground that 
part at least of such a tax would be 
reflected back on producers. With 
many others, it questions the constitu- 
tionality of the income tax on indi- 
viduals, 

New taxes from the above sources, 
if enacted and found valid, would yield 
at least $40,000,000 a year even under 
present conditions. 

Under the provisions of the teach- 
ers’ bills all or any part of new reve- 
nue collected could be used in addi- 
tion to taxes now levied on property. 

Mr. Watson, appearing before the 
House, stressed the well-known policy 
of the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion that the revenue from any new 
taxes should be used to reduce and 
replace dollar for dollar taxes now 
levied on property. He insisted that 
removal of the limitation on the power 
of school boards to increase levies 
would largely nullify replacement of 
property taxes. 


Morgan Co. Stockmen 
Gain By Group Action 


Farmers of Morgan County in- 
creased their shipments of livestock 
to their own commission agency by 
58% during the first nine months of 
1933. A total of 407 cars were sent 
to the St. Louis Producers, an increase 
of 151 cars over the same period in 
1982. This increase in volume put 
Morgan County in first rank among 
the counties tributary to the E. St. 
Louis market which send stock main- 
ly by truck. 

This increase has been largely due 
to the educational work of the Morgan 
County Shipping Service organized in 
February, 1933. This Shipping Serv- 
ice, operating in Morgan and adjacent 
counties, has been instrumental in re- 
directing the flow of livestock to the 
producers own terminal commission 
firm. The breakdown of the old ship- 
ping associations, operating mostly by 
rail, made it necessary to find some 
new method of grouping shipments. 

Under an arrangement with the 
Producers Livestock Commission As- 
sociation a saving in commission 
charges is effected whenever sufficient 
volume is secured. The savings begin 
when more than the equivalent of a 
single deck load is consigned through 
the Shipping Service in one day, and 
the savings increase with the increase 
in numbers. During the first 20 busi- 
ness days of 1934, the average num- 
ber of hogs handled was 197, and the 
consigners received the benefit of re- 
duced commission rates on 17 of these 
20 days. During the first 12 months 
of operation the Service has handled 
25,795 hogs, 1,580 cattle and calves, 


I. A. A. Record—March, 1934 


H. A. de Werff, New 
Farm Advisers’ Prexy 
Has Been In Service More Than 


14 Years In Franklin And 
Woodford 


H. A. de Werff, new popular presi- 
dent of the Illinois Association of 
Farm Advisers, has been adviser in 
Woodford county for the past nine 
years. Previously he served for five 
and one-half years in the same ca- 

' pacity in Franklin 
county. 

After graduat- 
ing from the Uni- 
versity of Illinois 
in 1913, Mr. de 
Werff was on the 
soil physics staff 
of the Illinois 
College of Agri- 

culture for six 
years. He worked 
on the soil survey 
in Woodford and 

other counties throughout Illinois. 

During the war he served as a first 
lieutenant in the machine gun corps 
and while in France taught agricul- 
ture in the A. E. F. University. Mr. 
de Werff will attend the monthly meet- 
ings of the I. A. A. board of directors 
as a representative of the farm ad- 
visers association. 

Other officers of the association 
are: vice-president, E. D. Walker, 
Henderson county; secretary. E. A. 
Bierbaum, Union county; treasurer, S. 
G. Turner, Livingston county; direc- 
tors, H. D. Van Matre, Edgar county, 
and W. F. Coolidge, Macoupin county. 
The term of M. P. Roske, Carroll coun- 
ty, third director, holds over for an- 
other year. 


l. A. A. Secures $50 
Settlement For Member 


A settlement of $50 from the C. & 
E. I. railroad for livestock killed along 
the latter’s right-of-way was obtained 
by the I. A. A. Transportation De- 
partment for Charles Roderick of Bis- 
marck, Vermilion county. The claim 
was referred to the I. A. A. by the 
Vermilion County Farm Bureau. 


H, A, 


DE WERFF 


and 868 sheep. There is no red tape 
to annoy the shipper. He deals direct- 
ly with his own truckman and his 
stock is handled and sold exactly as 
any individual shipment. Account 


sales and returns are sent tothe Man- 
ager of the Morgan County Shipping 
Service at Jacksonville, where each 
day the sales are pro-rated and checks 
mailed to shippers. 


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I, A. A. Record—March, 1934 


llinois Grain Holds 


Enthusiastic Session 


12 Billion Income For Agriculture Our Goal 
Pres. Ed O'Neal Tells Meeting at Peoria 


HE farmers of the United 
States are learning as never 
before the value of co-operative 
action in solving their problems, Ed- 
ward A. O’Neal, president of the 
American Farm Bureau Federation, 
said in addressing approximately 400 


grain producers, elevator managers, 


and officials at the annual meeting of 
the Illinois Grain 
Corporation in the 
Jefferson Hotel, 
Peoria, Feb. 22. 
“Take advantage 
of the new oppor- 
tunity,” said the 
national farm 
leader. “Accept 
the challenge to 
build your co-op- 
erative marketing 
institutions 
stronger. Take 
the advice of your President, Frank- 
lin D. Roosevelt, when he said, ‘the 
farmer must learn to be master of 
his own house.’ Control the supply of 
your product as well as the marketing 
of it—not let the other fellow do it 
for you.” 

American agriculture is on the way 
up, continued Mr. O’Neal, but there’s 
plenty of work ahead. The national 
farm income last year was about $6,- 
000,000,000, a better showing by 24% 
than the year before. Our job is to 
put another six billions onto that in- 
come to make it 12 billions. The same 
must be done for labor. The income 
of the farmer goes up and down with 
the income of the working man. 

Outlining the proposed amendments 
to the Agricultural Adjustment Act, 
the speaker said that the AAA should 
not be considered as an emergency 
measure alone. “We are going to keep 
on fighting until we secure equality 
under the American tariff. To that 
end we propose to amend the title. of 
the Act to make possible the con- 
tinuance of present efforts toward re- 
storing the income of American farm- 
ers until the job is done.” 


G. C, JOHNSTONE 


Proposed Amendments 


Among the amendments that have 
received favorable consideration are: 
(1) authorizing the Secretary of Ag- 


riculture to determine basic periods 
with respect to parity prices for dif- 
ferent farm commodities; (2) giving 
the Secretary the necessary power to 
reduce the cost of distributing farm 
products; (3) limiting the Secretary 
in the licensing of agricultural pro- 
ducers to those who process or distrib- 
ute direct to the consumer; (4) no com- 
pulsory quotas or allotments to farm- 
ers unless two-thirds of the producers 
of a commodity agree on an acreage 
or crop reduction program; (5) recom- 
mending that the Secretary of Agri- 
culture use co-operative marketing as- 
sociations in administering the Agri- 
cultural Adjustment Act insofar as 
possible; (6) take marginal lands out 
of production through government 
purchase and adding such lands to the 
public domain. 


Cotton Income Doubled 


Mr. O’Neal told how cotton and 
tobacco farmers of the South had had 
their income more than doubled by the 
AAA crop adjustment and marketing 
agreement program. “When those cot- 
ton farmers plowed up 10 million acres 
of cotton, don’t forget that they helped 


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you corn belt farmers,” he said. “The 
cottonseed oil that was destroyed was 
enough to displace all the lard pro- 
duced in Illinois, lowa, and Nebraska. 
And when the price of cotton went 
from 5c to 18c per pound, the South 
had more money to buy your pork, 
dairy products, fruit, beef, etc. A 
friend of mine down in North Caro- 
lina,” he continued, “‘told me that the 
government better do something about 
getting all farmers to co-operate in 
this adjustment program or there will 
be more night riding and tracking 
down of tobacco and even barn-burn- 
ing between sundown and sunup than 
the tobacco sections have even seen.” 
(applause) 

The farm organizations had to fight 
to keep the administration of indus- 
tries utilizing farm products within 
the AAA, O’Neal said, and to show 
why this was important to farmers he 
told how 95 per cent of the liquor dis- 


tillers had been brought under an 


agreement to make liquor out of grain 
exclusively and pay the parity price 
for it, which in the case of corn means 
around 75 cents per bushel. 
Blow a Hole 
Speaking of the tariff, he said, 
“we’ve got to blow a hole in the tariff 
wall, send our surplus farm products 
through it to foreign countries, and 
take some of the products of foreign 
industry back. It’s time for us to 
do some horse trading. Our foreign 
diplomacy hasn’t helped the Amer- 
ican farmer. Through powerful or- 
ganization we can and will get some 
action that will help us.” 
In his annual report President G. C. 
Johnstone of the Grain Corporation 


1934 BOARD OF DIRECTORS ILLINOIS GRAIN CORP. 


Front row left to right: Eugene Curtis, Fred Romine, G. C. Johnstone, Walter 


Thomas, W. H Watson. 


Center row: H. K. Johnston. Harrison Fahrnkopf, manager, E. E. Stevenson, 


Geo L. Potter, E. D. Lawrence, B. L. 


Baird, Charles Schmitt. 


Top row left to right: H. P. Joy, Ralph Allen, Fred Zimmerman, A. R. Wright 


and F. D. Barton, field man. 


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stated that the organization had in- 
creased its membership 38 per cent 
although as a result of slow movement 
of grain, erratic price swings, uncer- 
tain hedging conditions, and _ short 
crops, the volume handled in Illinois 
had declined slightly from the 15 mil- 
lion bushels plus handled last year. 

“The Corporation has been able to 
add some $33,000 to surplus during 
the past year,” Mr. Johnstone said, 
“and yesterday the board of directors 
declared a preferred stock dividend of 
7% and also set aside $24,200 for com- 
mon stockholders on a patronage basis 
of one-fifth cent per bu. on corn and 
other grains except oats, and one- 
tenth cent per bu. on oats. Improve- 
ment of grain prices over a year ago 
is pronounced although not as much 
as we would like to see. Corn and 
oats are selling about three times and 
wheat about twice the price of last 
year at this time.” 


Aid Corn Loan 


President Johnstone pointed out that 
the Illinois Grain Corporation assisted 
in getting the corn loan program into 
operation. In the Livestock Market- 
ing Association meeting at Blooming- 
ton held the following day President 
Earl Smith of the I. A. A. gave credit 
to Illinois Grain Corp. for first sug- 
gesting and assisting in working out 
the corn loan program. | 

Farmers National Grain Corpora- 
tion, Johnstone said, now controls some 
4% million bushels of elevator space 
which is being used to return the prof- 
its in storing and handling grain to 
producers. The new elevator at Peoria 
he said will furnish an outlet for. off- 
grade corn as the site adjoins a large 
distillery which will use large amounts 
of corn daily. 

Another important event of the 
year, he said, was the admission of 
Farmers National to membership in 
the clearing house of the Chicago 
Board of Trade which will save thou- 
sands of dollars in clearing hedging 
transactions. Needed regulation, he 
pointed out, promises to be brought 
about in the grain exchanges through 
the AAA or new legislation. 


Directors Elected 


A new cumulative voting system for 
the election of directors was launched 
based on volume of grain contributed 
by member elevators. Directors chosen 
for the ensuing year include one each 
from the 12 districts, and three direc- 
tors at large as follows: Walter 


Thomas, Lee county; E. E. Stevenson, 
LaSalle county; Ralph Allen, Tazewell; 
B. F. Baird, Knox; H. K. Johnston, 
Iroquois; Geo. L. Potter, Livingston; 
G. C. Johnstone, 


McLean; Chas. 


Boy! 
WHAT A 
RETURN ON MY 
INVESTMENT 


Vyagaee 
Thay ttees 


Schmitt, Logan; Warren Watson, 
Champaign; Fred Romine, Douglas; 
H. J. Joy, Morgan; F. Zimmerman, 
Mason; directors at large, A. R. 
Wright, Marshall county; Ernest D. 
Lawrence, McLean; Eugene Curtis, 
Champaign. 

Harrison Fahrnkopf, manager of the 
corporation, reported the 10 leading 
counties in grain sold through the I. 
G. C. as follows: Mason 867 cars, 
McLean 795, LaSalle 612, Lee 6519, 
Knox 511, Peoria 447, Logan 437, 
Champaign 404, Marshall-Putnam* 340, 
Tazewell 301. 


Resolutions Presented 


Chas. P. Cummings, manager of the 
Farmers National Grain Corporation 
at Peoria, who won his new appoint- 
ment as a result of his good work as 
general manager of the old Mid-West 
and later Illinois Grain Corp., was 
given a fine ovation as he spoke brief- 
ly before introducing Farmers Na- 
tional Grain Corp. men who are serv- 
ing the Illinois territory. 

Resolutions presented by E. D. Law- 
rence were adopted paying tribute to 
two former directors, J. C. Sailor of 
Iroquois county and Ralph Mills of 
Vermilion county. Other resolutions 
were similar to those approved at the 
annual meeting of the I. A. A. at Dan- 
ville reported in the February issue of 
the RECORD. 

A. J. Kuhns, treasurer of the Co- 
operative Bank of St. Louis, gave an 
interesting talk on the new set-up for 
making credit available to co-opera- 
tive associations. The co-operative 
bank, he said, is not a relief agency, 
but is an institution formed to make 
loans to co-ops on a sound basis. He 
explained how co-operatives can se- 
cure credit through the bank which 
he represents. 


I. A. A. Record—March, 1934 


St. Louis Producers Show 
Big Gain From ‘32 to '33 


The Producers Live Stock Commis- 
sion Association of E. St. Louis han- 
dled 20.3 per cent of all stock sold at 
the National Stock Yards last year. 
In 1933 it handled 934,841 head com- 
pared with 839,416 the year before. 
This was an increase of 2,950 carloads. 
Shipments from Illinois show the big- 
gest gain of 1,850 carloads for the 
year. Seventy-nine per cent of all re- 
ceipts came by truck. 

During 1933 the Producers served 
115,000 patrons. One hundred fifty- 
one loans were made through the Pro- 
ducer Finance Corporation totalling 
more than $173,000. The average loan 
was $1,143. 

A recent survey made by the asso- 
ciation shows that 102 cars carrying 
a total of 7,029 hogs averaging 69 
head per car, ate an average of 4.8 
bushels of corn per load and gained a 
total of 303.1 pounds while in Pro- 
ducer pens. The value of fill at av- 
erage price of $4 is $12.12 and feed 
cost $4.08, making a net gain of $8.04. 


Public Utility Control 
Of Milk Distribution 


“We do not have the machinery to 
undertake the public utility method of 
regulating fluid milk distribution in 
cities, although ultimately we may be 
forced to do it,” Secretary Henry A. 
Wallace said in a recent statement be- 
fore cooperative leaders and legisla- 
tors in Washington. 

At Winnipeg, Canada, after a series 
of milk wars between organized dairy- 
men and dealers, milk production and 
distribution was made a public utility 
and placed under the jurisdiction of 
the provincial Public Utility Commis- 
sion. 

While regulation is having its ups 
and downs the situation is reported 
much better than it was. Producers 
are getting a larger share of the con- 
sumer’s dollar and the consumer gets 
good quality milk at a fair price. 


Cartoons O. K. 


Editor, 
I, A. A. RECORD. 

“The February issue of the I. A. A. 
RECORD was the best that I have 
ever seen. The cartoons covering the 
Danville convention were ~certainly 
dandies.” 

Wilkie A. Lee, Megr., 
Mid-West Dairymen’s 
Company. 


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I. A. A. Record—March, 1934 


County Recorders Are 


Opposing Fee Bill 


Letter to Farm Bureau Presi- 
dents Cites Facts About 
Measure 


Opposition chiefly from county re- 
corders resulted in failure of the bill 
to permit chattel mortgages to be filed 
at low cost, to receive the necessary 
two-thirds vote in the House at 
Springfield on Feb. 21. County re- 
corders are objecting to the measure 
on the ground that their fees will be 
reduced. 

The following facts should be kept 
in mind, John C. Watson, director of 
taxation, stated in a recent letter to 
County Farm Bureau presidents: 

1. Eighty-five counties of the state 
—all those of less than 60,000 popu- 
lation—combine the offices of circuit 
clerk and recorder. If the proposed 
bills are enacted, all such offices will 
continue to collect the usual fees of 
the circuit clerk, both for county and 
for other services. 

2. All recorders’ offices, whether 
combined with the office of circuit 
clerk or not, will continue to collect 
the usual fees for recording all kinds 
of real estate deeds, all trust deeds 
and mortgages securing loans on real 
estate, and probably most chattel 
mortgages involving substantial sums. 


Bills Amended 


38. The Devine bills have been 
amended to provide a filing fee of 50 
cents instead of 25 cents, as originally 
drawn, and retain the fee of 25 cents 
for certifying a carbon copy of the 
chattel mortgage, which will probably 
usually be requested. The combined 
filing and certifying fee of 75 cents 
will be mostly net, as indexing and 
other costs will be slight, and index- 
ing saves the cost of about ten cents 
per page for purchasing the usual 
chattel mortgage record book. Such 
net fees should exceed the net profits 
from all short form chattel mortgages 
for recording which fees usually vary 
from 75 to 90 cents. 

4. Under the new banking regula- 
tions, it appears that, much more than 
in the past, credit will be secured by 
chattel mortgage, thus increasing the 
receipts of recorders’ offices. 

5. The cost of recording the new 
Federal Production Credit Association 
chattel mortgages, which are four- 
page documents, varies from $3.00 up 
to at least $5.00 in the various coun- 
ties of the State. Such fees, especial- 
ly on loans of small sums, are so ex- 
cessive as to interfere seriously with 
the use of such credit. 

6. About 23 states, such as Colo- 


PLANNING HENDERSON COUNTY’S MEMBERSHIP DRIVE 


Left to right: W. A. Stevenson, general agent, Ernest D. Walker, county ad-~ 
viser, Otto Steffey, county captain, and Miss Audrey Marsden, office secretary. 
Henderson county added 254 new Farm Bureau members during 1933. 


rado, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, 
North and South Dakota, Missouri, 
and Washington, have long permitted 
filing of chattel mortgages, usually 
for a fee of 25 cents. In these states, 
chattel mortgages are as secure when 
filed as when recorded. 


New Truck Code of 


Interest to Farmers 


I. A. A. Receives Many Inquiries 
From Truck Owners Who 
Haul for Hire 


The I. A. A. has received a number 
of inquiries regarding the new truck- 
ing code which went into effect on 
Feb. 25. This Code covers the op- 
erator of any motor vehicle who re- 
ceives compensation or remuneration 
direct or indirectly for the transpor- 
tation of property of others or of 
his own property for sale or disposal 
when the principal purpose or effect 
of such sale or disposal is to obtain 
revenue by such transportation. 

It exempts farmers who transport 
their own property or produce to 
primary markets or their own sup- 
plies on return. It also exempts 
farmers who haul property, produce 
or supplies for neighboring farmers 
for which they do not receive com- 
pensation other than by the exchange 
of services; and the trucking opera- 
tions of bonafide farmers’ cooperative 
associations to the following extent: 

When bonafide farmers’ cooperative 
associations carrying on trucking op- 
erations in their own vehicles at cost 
are engaged in transporting the prop- 
erty or produce of such associations 
or of its farmer members to primary 


markets, or are engaged in the return 
transportation of supplies purchased 
by such associations or farmer mem- 
bers thereof, and are not engaged in 
transporting for hire or serving the 
general public, then such associations 
shall be exempt from all provisions of 
this Code, except: 

(a) The provisions of Article IV 
dealing with industrial relations; 

(b) The provisions of Article V 
dealing with maximum hours of labor, 
minimum rates of pay and conditions 
of employment. 


What Truckmen Must Do 


They must register before March 27 
with a registration office provided by 
the State Code Authority. 

After April 11, 1934, must carry on 
his vehicle the registration insignia 
when his certificate of registration is 
issued. 

After February 25, 1934, must ob- 
serve maximum hours of labor, mini- 
mum rates of pay and other labor 
provisions. 

Must post a copy of the Code in a 
place where it may be easily seen and 
will be accessible to all employees. 

Must furnish all information re- 
garding revenues, expenses and other 
charges, wages, hours of labor, condi- 
tions of employment, number of em- 
ployees, and other matters relating to 
Code administra‘*ion. 

Must keep himself posted on all in- 
t pretations, amendments and other 
information with regard to the Code 
provisions, particularly those regard- 
ing hours of labor and wages. 

Before April 11, 1934, must file a 
schedule of minima for rates and tar- 
(Continued next page, Col. 1) 


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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 10-ear sample as a re- 
sult of the corn improvement work 
featuring Krug corn 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 


(Continued from page 15) 


iffs 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 beginning 
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. 


C. W. HOLMES, NEW INTERNA- 
TIONAL CORN KING 


A Farm Bureau member in Mercer 
County for many years, Mr. Holmes 
got his start in Krug type corn from 
Woodford county where the Farm Bu- 
reau, under the leadership of Farm Ad- 
viser M. L. Mosher, a number of years 
ago carried on a most extensive seed 
corn improvement program. Holmes’ 
10 ear sample won over rough type 
corn for the first time in the history of 
the International Hay and Grain Show 
in Chicago last December. 


Alky-Gas Motor Fuel 
Farm 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.” 

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 
1988 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 


I. A. A. Record—March, 1934 


Sec'y. Wallace Cites 
Packers For Collusion 
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 1938, 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 p-ofits are easily covered 
up by wate. d stock, high salaries, 
unreasonably high appraisals of plant 
and other equipment, and abnormal 
depreci.tion charges. 


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.” 


I. A. A. Record—March, 1934 


Country Life Round-Up 
Inspires 400 Attending 


Decatur Scene of Most Enthusiastic Meeting 
in Country Life History 


F ACTIONS and words mean any- 
| thing, the 400 Country Life In- 
surance Company agents who 
crammed the banquet room of. De- 
catur’s Orland Hotel February 22-23 
for their Annual Round-Up, are out 
to smother last year’s record breaking 
year with an avalanche of new busi- 
ness, new Farm Bureau members and 
closer knit co-operation with all 
phases of Farm Bureau activities. 
Starting with Dave Mieher, who 
opened the two day session, those at- 
tending were given no opportunity to 
doze. New ideas and methods dear to 
the heart of life insurance people flew 
thick and fast and in infinite variety 
holding everyone’s interest at the 
highest pitch. Led by L. A. Williams, 
who delivered the manager’s address, 
all speakers called upon Country Life 
agents to stick close to the funda- 
mental ideas of life insurance and to 
keep their eyes on the broad picture 
of unselfish co-operation with all the 
phases ef Farm Bureau work, for in so 
doing they placed themselves in a bet- 


' ter position to act as “counsellors of 


protection.” 


Shoulder To Shoulder : 


“Be so anxious to work shoulder to 
shoulder with all branches of Farm 
Bureau work,” said L. A. Williams, 
“that when people think of buying a 
policy they can think of no one but you. 
When you talk to a prospect, talk the 
oil company too. When there is a 
drive for new Farm Bureau members, 
offer your services and then go out 
and get more members than anyone 
else. If a man thinks you know your 
life insurance he will trust your 
judgment in the marketing of his 
products through the Farm Bureau 
set-ups. Sell yourself to your com- 
munity, to your county Farm Bureau, 
and the people with whom you come 
in contact, through unselfish work and 
devotion in the cause of Agriculture, 
and you’ll build Country Life into the 
greatest life insurance. company in 
Tllinois.” 

In the afternoon of the first day, 
Walter Cluff, well known Kansas City 
‘writer and sales educator on life in- 
‘surance, addressed the gathering. He 


stressed the importance of sticking to 
the fundamentals of life insurance and 
the necessity for proper use of the 
talents and time bestowed on every 
man. He gave as his equation for re- 
sults in selling life insurance “Ability 
and Capacity plus Education and 
Training plus Skill and Efficiency plus 
Time equals Results.” He called 
“Time—the raw material out of which 
all things are made.” “Life insurance 
men are made—not born,” said Mr. 
Cluff, “and the skill of a life insur- 
ance man comes from the intelligent 
use of time, and the number of at- 
tempts to sell, the Frequency of them 
and the Regularity.” 

Headlining the banquet session in 
the evening of February 22, was 
Donald Kirkpatrick, general counsel 
of the I. A. A., who delivered a stir- 
ring address on the “Possibilities and 
Outlook for 1934.” Pointing out how 
one man, Napoleon of France, placed 
an indelible mark on Europe that is 
still felt today, in contrast to the in- 
fluence George Washington has had 
on the Western Hemisphere, Mr. Kirk- 
patrick drew the comparison between 
these two great men and another, 
Eliza Wright, who is the father of 
legal reserve life insurance in Amer- 
ica. Labeled the “Widow and orphans 
lobbyist,” Eliza Wright labored for 
years to place hfe insurance on an 
ethical plane. His influence is still 
felt said Mr. Kirkpatrick and his un- 
selfish labors for the general good of 
all people should be an inspiration to 
every life insurance man. Sketching 
out the development of Country Life 
along the principles as set forth by 
Eliza Wright, and pointing out the 
path Country Life will follow for the 
coming year, Mr. Kirkpatrick closed 
with an appeal to all to, “take new 
courage, renew your faith, strengthen 
your knowledge of what you have to 
sell, get the fire and zeal of a mission- 
ary, the will and zeal of a crusader 
—and you will not only help and bring 
the main Agricultural program to 
fruition, but you will be helping your- 
self as well.” 

A. E. Richardson, manager of IIli- 
nois Agricultural Mutual Ins. Co., 
furnished the laughter of the banquet 


17 


when he told in whimsical fashion the 
“Importance of Life Insurance from a 
Policyholder’s Standpeint.” His ob- 
servations on life insurance salesmen 
who had tried to sell him a policy, 
and his attitude toward life insurance 
as a result of their efforts brought 
gales of laughter from the banquet- 
ers. 

The genial, bald Dr. J. E. Boland 
admonished the “boys” about trying 
to guess weights and heights at a 
glance. He took up the various points 
and information necessary in the ap- 
plication to enable the medical depart- 
ment to make a quick, accurate esti- 
mate of risk. During the morning 
session, February 23, V. Vaniman, di- 
rector of insurance service for the I. 
A. A., gave the salient points about 
corn loan insurance. This talk was to 
have been made by Donald Kirkpat- 
rick who was unable to attend. “Re- 
tail Credit Reports” were discussed by 
W. J. Bradley of the Retail Credit Co., 
Chicago, who stressed the need for 
mor detailed information on the pros- 
pect when submitting the application. 

Talks were given about various 
angles of life insurance work by Dave 
Mieher, C. C. Ramler, B. E. Mosier, 
field representatives, as well as by a 
number of general agents of several 
counties. Howard Reeder, County 
Life actuary, gave an interesting re- 
sume of the duties of his department 
as well as answering many questions 
from the floor regarding the makeup 
of various Country Life policies. 

The sessions were not without songs 
and gaiety furnished by Harvey Mc- 
Naughton, Special agent of Peoria 
County, and Miss Julia Beoletto of 
Bethany, Illinois. 

Following the morning meeting 
February 23, there were questions 
from the floor until adjournment at 
1 P. M. 


Peoria Milk Meeting 


Approximately 250 organized milk 
producers in the Peoria region at- 
tended the annual meeting of the II- 
linois Milk Producers Association in 
the Pere Marquette Hotel, Peoria, 
Feb. 20. Talks were made by Archie 
McPhedran, president of the Missis- 
sippi Valley Milk Producers, and A. 
M. Krahl of the Pure Milk Associa- 
tion, Chicago. 

All present officers and directors 
were re-elected, reports Manager Wil- 
fred Shaw. A motion was passed 
permitting directors to deduct an ad- 
ditional one to two cents per cwt. on 
all members’ milk to be used in pay- 
ing solicitors for securing new 


business for the Producers’ Dairy. 


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Milk Price Problem 
Worries AAA Leaders 


See Need For Cutting Produc- 
tion and Bringing Up Whole 
Level of Industry 


With milk production at the highest 
point since 1924 Secretary of Ag- 
riculture Henry Wallace, and Chester 
C. Davis, administrator of the A.A.A., 
are of the opinion that the only solu- 
tion to low prices for milk and but- 
terfat lies in cutting production ap- 
proximately 15 per cent. 

In a recent statement before lead- 
ers in congress, Mr. Wallace pointed 
out that milk production since 1924 
had been stepped up from 87 billion 
pounds to more than 101 billion 
pounds in 1932. 

“When we speak of overproduction 
in dairying,” said the Secretary, “we 
mean production of quantities of dairy 
products beyond the ability of con- 
sumer purchasing power to absorb at 
anything above distress prices to 
farmers. Therefore we do not think 
of curtailment of milk production in 
any absolute or permanent sense as 
we do in the case of wheat.” 

The Administration in response to 
co-operative leaders asked that an ex- 
tra appropriation of $200,000,000 be 
made by congress to be used in addi- 
tion to processing taxes for financing 
the proposed dairy and beef adjust- 
ment programs. 


Proposed Plan 


Under the proposed dairy plan ap- 
proximately $250,000,000 would be 
paid to dairymen for reducing their 
production, $150,000,000 of which 
would be raised out of the graduated 
tax up to five cents a pound of but- 
terfat—also a similar tax on oleo— 
and $100,000,000 to be taken from the 
proposed emergency fund. 

The dairy reduction program would 
be partially accomplished by further 
tuberculosis eradication in cattle. The 
exact method of curtailing milk pro- 
duction would be left to the judgment 
of co-operating producers. It has also 
been proposed that good dairy cows 
be moved from the surplus sections to 
the southern cities and other regions 
where there is a shortage, hence un- 
der-consumption of fresh milk and its 
products. 

The Administration emphasized the 
point that the proposed plan would 
not be put into effect unless organized 
dairymen want it and agree to co- 
operate. “We simply submitted the 
plan,” said Mr. Wallace. “It won’t 
work unless dairymen are behind it. 
It’s up to the producers but we warn 
that if something like this isn’t done 


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the path of the dairy industry is likely 
to be rough.” 

Organized butterfat milk producers 
in the northwest are reported to be 
lukewarm if not opposed to the plan 
because of the tax on butter. Their 
original proposal was to have the ad- 
ministration buy up surplus butter 
and give it to the unemployed. The 
Administration has been doing this 
through the Federal Surplus Relief 
Corporation. But it is believed by ad- 
ministration leaders that this program 
is not sound because it provides no 
check on production and is not self- 
financing. 

In the meantime organized milk 
producers around the larger cities are 
attempting to maintain prices sub- 
stantially higher than the prices being 
paid producers in the condensery, 
cheese and butter-producing areas and 
are asking the government to dam up 
the flood of milk immediately sur- 
rounding the city milk sheds. 


f 


Moot Question / 


Novsensible person believes that the 
government can or should enforce a 
price that is greatly higher than that 
paid in the Soneensery butter and 
cheese districts. On the other hand 
fair-minded persons concede that fluid 
milk producers in the city milk sheds 
are entitled to a premium for their 
milk to compensate for the extra in- 
vestment and expenses incurred in 
complying with city health inspection. 

How much per centiweight the pro- 
ducers in the city milk shed should be 
paid is a mooted question. Some of 
the producers think they should get at 
least twice as much for their milk as 
their neighbors 50 or 100 miles back 
in the country are getting. Impartial 
observers, however, are inclined to be- 
lieve that no government can prevent 
farmers who live outside the charmed 


I. A. A. Record—March, 1934 


By H. M. Conway, Feb. 21, 1934 


A substantial reduction in the sup- 
ply of finished steers next fall is indi- 
cated by present feeding operations. 
Also at that time the market is ex- 
pected to be supported by a rather 
strong demand for stocker and feeder 


cattle, thus making the situation - 


somewhat the reverse of last year and 
one more favorable for grass cattle. 


The outlook for fed cattle is a little 
more optimistic for the next two 
months. Heavy choice steers will tend 
to show the most advance but there is 
a strong undertone to the whole mar- 
ket. 


The hog market has improved but 
the anticipated reduction in supplies 
during March and April is now largely 
discounted and especially in view of 
the increasing processing tax. It is 
well to continue to feed light weight 
hogs and market them only when they 
are fully finished. 


Pork prices are increasing as a re- 
sult of lower supplies and of a better 
consumptive demand. The market al- 
so has been improved by government 
buying. This makes it advisable to 
crowd early pigs, and as to the late 
portion of the crop, grow them out 
for finishing in the summer. The 
corn-hog program will reduce market 
supplies next fall. The outlook indi- 
cates a favorable feeding ratio during 
the last half of 1984 and next year. 


As to fed lambs, the situation calls 
for early and systematic marketing, 
although it is well not to crowd too 
many into competition with the Cali- 
fornia spring crop. The strong wool 
market has bolstered lamb prices and 
promises to hold them steady. De- 
mand is expected to show further im- 
provement during the next two 
months. Lambs should be well fin- 
ished but not too heavy. 


circle known as the city milk shed, 
from selling their milk at a price 
higher than that offered by their local 
condensery or cheese factory to big 
city buyers whether they are organ- 
ized or independent distributors. It’s 
a case of one farmer against another. 
The only solution to the perplexing 
problem, many believe; is to bring up 
the whole level of milk prices 
throughout the country so that higher 
prices can be maintained in the or- 
ganized milk sheds. 


Published month 

Entered as secon 

1925, authorized Oct. 27, 1925. 
Dearborn St., Chicago. 


Number 4 


State Legislation Reviewed 


Street, Spence 


APRIL, 1934 


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RECORD. 


by the Illinois Agricultural Association at 165 
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Volume 12 


Here is Digest of Important Measures Considered By 58th General Assembly With 
Voting Records of Senators and Representatives 


ITH the approach of the 
W April primaries Farm Bureau 
members are increasingly in- 
terested in the voting records of down- 
state members of the legislature who 
are candidates for renomination. 
Practically every bill introduced in 
the General Assembly affects farm in- 
terests, directly or indirectly. During 
the sessions of the Fifty-Eighth Gen- 
eral Assembly the Association has 
studied all bills introduced and has 
supported, amended or opposed them, 
in the interests of agriculture. It is 
impossible to present the records of 
the various. legislators on the mass of 
legislation. But in line with its cus- 
tomary policy, the Illinois Agricultural 
Association presents the voting rec- 
ords of both senators and representa- 
tives on three measures considered by 
the present General Assembly, which 
the Association believes are of most 
importance to farm interests. 


The first t wo 
measures on which 
the vete is listed in 
the table on page 5 
were considered in 
the regular session 
of the General As- 
sembly during the 
first half of 1933. 
The last measure, 
key bill of the State 
Tax Levy and Bond 
bills, was considered 
in the first special 
session. 


In every case the 
test votes presented 
have been taken 
from official jour- 
nals and were of 
vital importance to 
the measures con- 
sidered. 


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HE'S OK! 

HES ALWAYS 

CONSIDERATE OF THE 
FARMERS’ INTERESTS 


H. J. R. 65 Revenue Amendment 


Throughout the regular session of 


the present General Assembly the As- 


sociation, consistent with its position 
for many years, sought the submission 
of a fair revenue amendment to the 
Illinois constitution. Late in the ses- 
sion, House Joint Resolution 65 was 
recommended by the House Judiciary 
Committee. This measure proposed, 
first, to give the legislature power, by 
majority vote and free from all pres- 
ent restrictions, to levy taxes on any 
source of revenue; and, second, to 
limit the tetal taxes on any tangible 
property to one per cent of its fair 
cash value, exclusive of levies for pay- 
ment of bonds and interest. 


After its approval by the House by 
the overwhelming vote of 128 to 5, the 
proposed measure was modified in the 
Senate to include certain minor 
changes requested by the Association. 


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Before it could be brought to a final 
vote in the Senate, a party caucus 
dominated by Chicago administration 
leaders offered a revenue amendment, 
which proposed to continue all present 
restrictions on the power of the legis- 
lature in matters of revenue unless 
such restrictions were abrogated by a 
two-thirds vote of all members elected 
to each House. The Association op- 
posed this measure on the ground, 
amply demonstrated by past expe- 
rience, that it would prevent essential 
changes in our present taxing system. 
The highly objectionable Senate 
revenue amendment passed the Sen- 
ate with the ‘required two-thirds vote, 
but failed in the House. The test vete 
in each House, given on page 5, was 
cast on a motion to substitute the 
House amendment for the Senate 
amendment. It classifies the downstate 
senators and representatives as for or 
against the revenue amendment sup- 
ported by the Asso- 
ciation. 
Occupational T a x 
Acts and Lantz Bills 


After the first 
Sales Tax Act was 
declared unconstitu- 
tional, administra- 
tion bills were intro- 
duced in the regular 
session to establish 
the present Occupa- 
tional Tax and to 
provide for the use 
of the revenue there- 
from. As _ enacted, 
they provide that the 
net proceeds of the 
occupational tax, for 
the six months end- 
ing December $31, 


(Continued on p. 4) 


State Legislation Reviewed 
(Continued from page 3) 


1933, be paid to the Illinois Emer- 
gency Relief Commission, for unem- 
ployment relief, and thereafter, as 
they became available, be used to 
abate state taxes on property. 

The Association favored the use of 
this new revenue for the replacement 
of property taxes but opposed the use 
of the funds for unemployment relief. 
Past experience had clearly shown 
that a very large portion of such re- 
lief funds would be used in Chicago 
and Cook county. In contrast with the 
high tax levies for poor relief in 
downstate townships, levies for this 
purpose in Cook county had always 
been very small. Even these had been 
cut in half as the depression deepened. 

To meet the situation constructively, 
the Association sponsored three bills, 
known as the Lantz bills, to give the 
full constitutional taxing power of 75 
cents to Cook county and an additional 
tax rate of 15 cents to 17 downstate 
commission-governed counties, and to 
give the townships and municipalities 
in Cook county and the municipalities 
in the other commission-governed 
counties the same power to levy taxes 
for poor relief as has been given to 
and imposed upon the townships, in- 
cluding a considerable number of cities 
which are also townships, in 84 coun- 
ties of the state. Unless such bills 
were enacted, the Association pointed 
out, a special session to provide ad- 
ditional relief funds, mostly for use in 
Cook county, would be necessary be- 
fore January 1, 1934. 


The Association bills met bitter op- 
position from Cook county senators 
and representatives, but passed late in 
the regular session. They were vetoed 
by the Governor. This veto neces- 
sitated calling the first special session 
of the legislature early in October, 
1933. 

The test vote, given on page 5, 
classifies the downstate senators and 
representatives as for or against the 
three bills sponsored by the Associa- 
tion. 


State Tax Levy and Bond Bills 


As foreseen by the Association and 


by many others at the time the Lantz 
bills were vetoed, this action resulted 
in the calling of the first special ses- 
sion of the General Assembly to meet 
October 3, 1933, for the purpose of 
providing additional funds for relief. 
Administration bills were introduced, 
the key bill levying an additional state 
tax of $38,000,000 on property in 1934, 
payable in 1935, against which tax an- 
ticipation notes for $28,500,000 could 
be issued and sold to provide relief 


2p WNCLR MATT Sex: 
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you Farther than cant. 


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funds. A companion bill proposed a 
state bond issue of $30,000,000, to be 
voted on in November, 1934, the pro- 
ceeds of the bond issue to be used to 
redeem the state anticipation tax notes 
issued and interest thereon. 

Other companion bills provided that 
the bonds and interest thereon, if the 
bonds are approved by a majority of 
all votes cast for members of the Gen- 
eral Assembly, are to be paid by the 
state, one-half from gasoline tax al- 
lotments to the counties and one-half 
from gasoline tax allotments to the 
municipalities therein, in proportion to 
the share of such funds used for relief 
in such counties and in such munici- 
palities. If the bonds are not approved 
in the November election, an addi- 
tional state tax, which may be as high 
as $38,000,000, is already levied on 
the 1934 valuations of property to be 
collected in 1935. 


Opposed State Levy 


The Association opposed the State 
Tax Levy and Bond bills; first, be- 
cause of serious doubt whether the 
bond issue can secure the votes neces- 
sary for approval; second, because the 
Association consistently opposes fur- 
ther diverting gasoline tax funds from 
their proper use in improving and 
maintaining highways and_ streets, 
thereby decreasing employment and 
increasing taxes on property; and 
third, because no provision had yet 
been made enabling and requiring 
every county and every municipality 
therein, especially Cook county, to 
draw upon its own resources accord- 
ing to its ability before asking the 
state for assistance. 


The Association pointed out that 
present unfair and wasteful methods 
of providing and distributing state 
funds for unemployment relief were 
forcing downstate counties to ask for 
constantly increasing state funds for 
relief, thus tending to create and per- 
petuate a dole system in the state. 

The Association again sponsored 
bills similar to but somewhat simpler 
than those offered in the regular ses- 


I, A. A. Record—<April, 1934 


sion, equally enabling and requiring 
every community to levy taxes for un- 
employment relief. The bills sponsored 
by the Association, again meeting the 
bitter opposition of Chicago and Cook 
county legislators, and failing to re- 
ceive administration support, could not 
command the two-thirds vote neces- 
sary to give them immediate effect. 
Unless they were enacted, it was 
pointed out, further need for relief 
funds, especially in Chicago and Cook 
county, would require another special 
session to provide relief funds long 
before the close of the year 1934. It 
now appears that the additional relief 
funds provided by the first special ses- 
sion will be completely exhausted some 
time early in the coming summer, long 
before voters h ve an opportunity to 


-approve or disapprove the proposed 


bond issue. 

The test vote on the Tax Levy and 
Bond issue key bill, given on page 5, 
classifies the downstate senators and 
representatives as for or against these 
bills opposed by the Association. Note 
carefully that a negative vote on these 
bills favored the position of the As- 
sociation. | 3 

The record discloses that four most 
important issues are yet undetermined. 

1. The submission of a constructive 
revenue amendment providing for a 
proper and effective limitation upon 
tangible property taxes, thus insuring 
an equitable system of taxation. 

2. Assurance that new sources of 
revenue shall be used only to replace 
taxes now levied upon property. 

8. Discontinuance of diversion of 
gasoline taxes from the improvement 
and maintenance of roads and streets. 

4. Requiring all municipalities and 
counties to draw equally upon their 
own resources for unemployment re- 
lief before appealing to the state for 
assistance. Your vote in the April 
primaries and November elections will 
largely determine how these issues will 
be decided. The accompanying voting 
record is offered to assist you in re- 
cording your wishes. 


New Farm Advisers 


John R. Gilkey in Macon county, J. 
L. Iftner in Scott county, E. W. Rusk 
in Coles county, T. H. Hafer in Han- 
cock county, Ward C. Cannon in Doug- 
las county, N. H. Anderson in Logan 
county. 


Carroll county—153 farmers had ob- 
tained corn loans amounting to $80,244 
up to March 10. Around seven per 
cent of corn in Carroll county is rep- 
resented by loans, according to Ralph 
A. Fahrney, secretary of the Super- 
visory Board. 


— ae ae 


I. A. A. Record—<April, 1934 


How Your Senators and Representatives Voted on Legislation Affecting Farm Interests 


(The I. A. A. vigorously supported the first two measures and vigorously opposed the last bill—S. B. 1 for a new 
$38,000,000 state tax levy on property and an issue of $30,000,000 in State bonds) 


———— ee SS . -- 


H. J. R.65 Lantz Bill (Poor Relief) S. B.1 
DISTRICTS AND COUNTIES (Revenue S. B. 729 State Tax Levy and 
Amendment) (key bill) Bond Bills (key bill) 


For Against For Against For Against 


ith District (Rural section of Cook and parts of Chicago) 
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8th Dist. (Boone, Lake and 6 mae emy). 
Sen. Paddock ........... STR eo at Oe ey 
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Rep. Wm, M. Carroll . EEE ERI OIE ELITE eee 
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10th Dist. yeeebage 8 and a Ogle) ~ 
Sen. Baker ........ pice Gaderer et 
Rep. L, M. Cae 5 Seep espn es eatoeeds acdc 
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12th Dist. (Carroll, JoDaviess and Stephenson) 
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14th Dist. (Kane and mance) 
Sen. Benson ......-.... DEM c Br mrrieee Parana gee Sein SAME Pte 
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16th Dist. (Livingston, Marshall, Putnam, Woodford) 
I ead as 5 cna cccdusauowenoancasebbuute diewancpouiadeasacscbeeseatec! 
NE RII a5 oon ctecun'ng ncaa cecesaaseecsuacailonsccansvevesivoearsensedadgsrenseiccnsts 
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18th Dist. (Peoria) 
Pi: TN iii acoso ii oie dosed ae ng tb sgsapsnncvacatiebersdedadaqievecpenes xX x X 
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20th Dist. (Grundy, Troquoie, Senkenee) 
Sen. O’Connell ......... nde cleat nae ee eae ad X 
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Rep. Elmer Wilson ...........--..-::-::::::--:seeeeeeeeee: bia pg ccdaesvstecstuess 
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22nd Dist. (Edgar and Lecuumales 
Sen. Hickman ........... Be stead? Aceactntecaateses xX 4 
Rep. Bookwalter’ ...........2:.:ccsce.sccecesecnsorecsecsstenecteeseseecegeegsontoneees X x 
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24th Dist. (Champaign, Moultrie, Piatt) 
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FRO; AMIROOR 52-6. 0c.sesenesnocctsseccseesccssecenctedsecestvasivedeaensersaesatendes xX 


26th Dist. (Ford, McLean) 
Sagi: TEUIN a sissce ec occas 820es4 oe ew baccovenbiscaccuecusouvineslosbsdetess cartes: xX 
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28th Dist. (DeWitt, Logan, Macon) 
Shea IN ee ar sc wauslenbpd dupe kasibaueaaacupedseesees X 
Rep. Chymoweth ............2....:c:.ccsscccsceseeseecneeseceseeeeesnssensnneenseees x 
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80th Dist. (Brown, Cass, Mason, Menard, Schuyler, Tazewell) 
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DISTRICTS AND COUNTIES 


82nd Dist. (Hancock, McDonough, Warren) 


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83rd Dist. (Henderson, Mercer, Rock Island) 


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34th Dist. (Clark, Coles, Douglas) 


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385th Dist. (DeKalb, Lee, Whiteside) 
Sen. Wright 


36th Dist. (Adams, ae ES Reott) 
Sen. Penick ........ 


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37th Dist. (Bureau, Henry, Stark) 


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38th Dist. (Greene, Jersey, Macoupin, Montgomery) 


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WORc IINTNEG sssencecpnncoceniscecncenisulsbebecconcdesesetes eebbderesoseengensusechien 


89th Dist. (LaSalle) 


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Ne SINE, oes lacsceccdystctocecepscecnsetsbarenbiancckgainseentindacnbepesicascen 


40th Dist. (Christian, Cumberland, Fayette, Shelby) 
Sen. Vogelsang (deceased) 


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41st Dist. (DuPage, babes 
Sen. Barr .......... 


Rep. Walker .............-.. RAEI aan Bi ccleaner 
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42nd Dist. (Clay, Clinton, Effingham, Marion) 


RN csc csc soca tadip Laeceudedessantedicssanie tints soanibdetneritussceressh 
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43rd Dist. (Fulton, pen) 
Sen. Ewing ........... 


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44th Dist. (Jackson, Monroe, Perry, Randolph, Washington) 
| TN aoe 5 ccoccacdouuunnsvenscaiceccrepcpastasvendsahsdvepelohadons 
TED WEIN | poses pinece i scectescsesenonsvesacensjareesssacedcopeersnectiuipeopraactoonse 
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45th Dist. eergen, ae) 
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I. A. A. Recerd—April, 1934 


H. J. R.65 Lantz a ese Relief) 8S. B. 1 
(Revenue B. 729 State Tax Levy and 
Amendment) ey bill) Bond Bills (key bill) 
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H. J. R.65 Lantz Bill (Poor Relief) S. B.1 
DISTRICTS AND COUNTIES ~ (Revenue S. B. 729 State Tax Levy and 
Amendment) (key bill) Bond Bills (key bill) 
iia gy For Against For Against For _ Against 
46th Dist. (Jasper, Jefferson, Richland, Wayne) 
Naa sss sel seacallenodeccebubcadudoiaucocecpovedcese xX x 
BO, POMNOERTAGL va saicsincasncccosecocccnsesdincereceadecocsasecanncosacosccbaaseces x xX 
NN oi). ip cc pansocunscuhdeiuapaibapesoocipavedschseccsnovuvceosepenesene X x X 
I ir ita di a cpoutecascinegatoohecs welosdsrcoveaadbepedctogdshses xX xX X 
47th Dist. (Bond, Madison) 
Sen. Monroe ........ SE SAR Rtas Pee FORCE READ Oe OSE SOL pL a X ».§ 
MII oss re bee cccc concen, srnhesecdcrodeawssosneopiddessecvacnatessdeecsioacoes X X X 
Rep. Schaefer O'Neill .........0...2..0.20.ccccccccceecceeceeseeeeecesneseneeeees x xX ».¢ 
I io spe hi oe cy conan giingsiessdn don valed Sbasbdocegeos ehepiocsiensseducesbs x xX Voted Present 
48th Dist. (Crawford, Edwards, Gallatin, Hardin, Law- 
rence, Wabash, White) 
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BUN NN ooo sas ccisacodsoestncencodscncacicccapscapsnusivcénstoiccasevessees xX X 
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49th Dist. (St. Clair) 
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WOM, MRMRINND os ooo ca diaccncsiesccnccasvniccpenzntaceuncncesececacidesiopcsccosefineesins xX X 
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I MING isin Gics essvcn dence ssnscianinncenedanscsindtlecansoceubieecintoes ceeckve xX xX X 
50th Dist. (Alexander, Franklin, Pulaski, Union, Williamson) 
We ia cose ck sceccndomneclaciob nc odnn cable ied vases hci cues xX xX X 
MUN TROWIII icssi an ciincece so sepocscuselidsseguiciboesneiscigeceetaneceiebocbde dosaceos x X X 
MO Bas Bay ING ogo ncsa cn cic oScse cose dndoncdeiee a nennias pccecbeccisictsss ue X xX Xx 
Rep, ay CO. Carroll nn eciccceivisccccssccvssiccpooseiotsocuabsoboioncosssiocvoso xX X X 
5ist Dist. (Hamilton, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Saline) 
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|80 New Members Are 
Signed In Mason County 


Since the mobilization campaign 
started last fall, 180 new members 
have been signed in Mason county, re- 
ports C. S. Love, farm adviser. “Our 
previous membership was 483,” writes 
Mr. Love, so this 
shows an increase 
of 37 per cent. 

“Leonard Keith, 
our county cap- 
tain, together 
with the loyal 


lieutenants who 
work with him 
are largely re- 


sponsible for this 
splendid showing. 
It is safe to say 
that 90 per cent 
of the members signed were signed 
individually by Mr. Keith or when 
some lieutenant was with him. Our 
captain’s enthusiasm is noteworthy. 
One day he stopped at a certain farm 
to interview the owner. He found a 
community butchering in process. In- 
stead of backing out when he found 
several neighbors there, he went right 
ahead and signed up three new mem- 
bers.. The other two already were 
members. 

“In one day’s work by riding with 


LEONARD KEITH 


a lieutenant, 12 members were signed 
out of 15 interviewed. And this was in 
winter when the days were mighty 
short, 

“The captain appreciated the assist- 
ance given by the I. A. A. in keeping 
him well informed, also the personal 
help of Mr. Metzger, John Moore and 
O. D. Brissenden of the Organization 
Department. 

“The work has not stopped in Mason 
county, and following a recent meet- 
ing of the captain and lieutenants the 
campaign is being carried on.” 


9972 New Members 
Signed Since Oct. 9th 


At the two-day March meeting of 
the I. A. A. board of directors one day 
was devoted to a discussion of all the 
activities and projects of the I. A. A. 
and associated companies by officers 
and members of the staff. The goal or 
objectives of the various departments 
and companies during the next year 
were outlined in brief by the depart- 
ment directors and managers followed 
by questions and discussion by mem- 
bers of the board. 

Secretary Metzger stated that a 
total of 9,972 new members had been 
reported signed in the eight organiza- 
tion districts of the state between Oc- 
tober 9, 1983 and March 38, 1934. 


197 New Members 
In Edgar County 


“We had two of the best Farm Bu- 
reau meetings this week that have 
been held in Edgar county for a long 
time. 197 members were reported last 
night, at our victory dinner. This is an 
incomplete report, however. 

“Vaniman sure stepped right down 
the center of the pike in the Monday 
meeting. I think he hit the ball harder 


than it has been hit in Edgar county 
for a long time. However, this has 
come as a climax to our work during 
the past seven months. The spirit of 
the men in the Monday meeting as 
well as in the Wednesday night meet- 
ing was excellent. We have little doubt 
but what our total will be brought up 
to 250 members by Saturday night.” 
H. D. Van Matre, Edgar 
County Farm Bureau. 


Gain 37% In Schuyler 


“We have written a total of 86 new 
members since January 1,” reports L. 
E. McKinzie, farm adviser in Schuyler 
county. “This is an inerease of more 
than 37 per cent. We expect to reach 
50 per cent before the first of April.” 


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OFFICERS 
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Vice-President, A. R. Wright ........ccccccccscccccccvcveeseseers arna 
Secretary, Geo. EB, Metzger........ccccvcecccvcvccecscesesevevcsees Chicago 
SrOmerer, FA. COWIE sic occiciiscnareicectpecgicesoasccers Bloomington 


BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
(By Congressional District) 


Bat Ge: DAG os ei iin 0 Sein nd Ra oes Vee ci ede se bar okkaets BE. Harris, Grayslake 
BEN aoe gf bie bk ee ERS Dk a a E. E. Houghtby, Shabbona 
PE Pe? Pree ee TCC UTTER TT Ter Te rere ee C, E. Bamborough, Polo 
6 PRe 6 eK 6 COR EDEN RARE a eee Otto Steffey, Stronghurst 
Bi 8 645 ob 06 Ro 60 he OEE OV EMOOS EE 8 8e hae M. Ray Ihrig, Golden 
WE i.8.X 5 0.5484 FA woe ead Rota Ohba oe ee eee Albert Hayes, Chillicothe 
RGSS as CL EAS CRE LER ERS Dede Le he ReR E. D. Lawrence, Bloomington 
DOIN Gs 6020.0 8a Be els CECE VG REA eke hkSS beaches Mont Fox, Oakwood 
68 S56 6 ode a ede SOSA CARRE COR See wa ae Eugene Curtis, Champaign 
Ns i ik ahha RO ks CER ORR ie Rea eek wdde Charles 8. Black, Jacksonville 
MEY os 0c 5-3 W's oie Sale Od ne ke wd bia hn dae Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 
MN oo. hides ke 5 4 oie Fa oo Pe Ok ew his OO Lane Dee A. O. Eckert, Belleville 
MR a's wie Nie ow ace weer ie ane hada wens Deckew seer w tae W. L. Cope, Salem 
WINS 66S ech ea Se tac wd Bh Ruch oh cs he Cl eee Charles Marshall, Belknap 
= rete ae tee Res rg SaaS ae RP CE UPC Cosine Be ir R, B. Endicott, Villa Ridge 
DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 

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SURE MERGING S06 nn c.c0ecdov bon v'crdeccesccdsutbcisaceloce J. B. Countias 
a aka wield 60.4.0 5b ibs bh wikob 3 4 (ue kba wh behewnecacwitiu R. A. Cowles 
Fruit and Vegetable Marketing............ccecccccccccccceees H. W. Day 
MUTRNDIES bank bos dst coeyeedcatvial ccesteeenacewencdacacus George, Thiem 
BONG: TOO TNOG 6 oon ine v0 vic crv cake Gils oo eb bm te Con eee ceéawen . Vaniman 

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Taxation and Statistics.............cccccccccccucccevcccees J. C. Watson 
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ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 

Country Life Imsurance Co...........cccceceeccees L. A. Williams, Mgr. 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co.............-eececees J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Auditing Ass’n............... F, B. Ringham, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co......... A. E, Richardson, Mgr. 
Illinois Farm Supply Co.......ccccccccccceccscceces L. R. Marchant, Mgr. 
Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange.............scseeeecees H. ° y, Mgr. 
Illinois Graim Corp.......ecscccccccccccccececes Harrison Fabrnkopf, Mgr. 
Illinois Livestock Marketing Ass’n..............seesee: Ray Miller, Mgr. 
Illinois Producers Creameries...F. A. Gougler, Mgr., J. B. Countiss, Sales 
Soybean Marketing Ass’n............ccccesececeee J. W. Armstrong, Pres. 


Return Your Friends To Office 


HE Illinois Agricultural Association has endeavored 

| since its organization to represent and protect the 

best interests of Illinois farmers in legislation. At 

the same time it has endeavored to be constructive, non- 

partisan, fair, and helpful to successive administrations in 

working for good government and the welfare of the State 
as a whole. 

This policy has been adhered to in the regular and spe- 
cial sessions of the present General Assembly. In bring- 
ing to the membership, in the accompanying article, a re- 
port of leading measures considered in the regular and 
first special sessions, an effort has been made to present 
briefly the issues of greatest consequence to agriculture 
and to show by official records how downstate senators 
and representatives voted thereon. 


To piace the welfare of their constituents as a whole 
above partisan considerations is the obvious duty of mem- 
bers elected to the state legislature. Farmers have a right 
to expect that due consideration be given agricultural in- 
terests by the men and women representing them at 
Springfield. 

We ask that every member of the County Farm Bu- 
reaus and Illinois Agricultural Association carefully read 


I, A. A. Record—April, 1934 


this report of the legislative committee and study the vot- 
ing records of their legislators, most of whom are seek- 
ing renomination in the April primaries. 

By actively supporting only candidates for re-election 
who are considerate of the welfare of agriculture as 
shown by their voting records, farmers can best exercise 
proper influence to secure honest, fair, and constructive 
legislation. Only by so doing can they hepe to have effec- 
tive representation in the legislative councils of the state 
and nation. 


Let's Try Co-operative Marketing 


HAT the smaller interior packers in Iowa and 
Minnesota started the vicious circle of lower and 
lower hog prices by buying direct from farmers 
for less is the interesting opinion advanced by Prof. Ashby 
of the Illinois College of Agriculture at the recent annual] 
meeting of the Chicago Producers. Aided by an advan- 
tageous freight rate on dressed meats to eastern markets, 
and by lower cost hogs, these interior packers, he says, 
were enabled to undersell the larger packers operating at 
Chicago and other terminal markets. 

Spurred on by this competition the big packers went 
to the country also to buy the better light hogs for less 
with the result that prices at the terminal markets, suf- 
fering from less buying competition, were constantly 
driven lower. And as the terminal prices were driven down, 
prices in the country which are based on the Chicago 
market, also declined. 

This is a logical explanation of the effect of direct buy- 
ing on hog prices. More important price-determining 
factors, of course, are the total supply of hogs, and the 
outlet for dressed pork and lard both at home and abroad. 
Foreign demand for our pork and lard we know has al- 
most vanished although supplies have been maintained. 
Buying power in our industrial centers likewise has been 
below standard. Thus the influence of the direct buying 
trend on price is difficult to measure. 

President Earl Smith, speaking at the same meeting, 
outlined the solution to the problem though it is not an 
easy one. That is to ORGANIZE producers, ORGANIZE 
both for production control and marketing so as to feed 
a supply of hogs into a price. Farmers never have really 
tried co-operative livestock marketing. Why not give it a 
trial by concentrating 75 per cent or more of livestock in 
our own co-operative agencies whether at the terminals or 
at county points? Farmers are organizing under the corn- 
hog program to reduce hog supplies in the coming year. 
From 85 to 90 per cent of corn-hog growers are going 
along with the reduction program in Illinois and Iowa. 
Let’s apply the same organization to marketing and cut 
out this business of one producer underselling another. 


Narrowing the Spread 


OW a meeting of cream producers held in Ford 
H county many years ago resulted in raising the price 

of butterfat locally from 37 to 40 cents a pound 
was related by A. D. Lynch of St. Louis at the recent 
annual meeting of the Farmers Creamery Company, 
Bloomington. 

The meeting was held over a store, Mr. Lynch said, and 
directly across the street there was a private cream sta- 
tion. On the blackboard in front of the station the pro- 
prietor had posted the price of 37 cents per pound. The 
station was open that evening apparently to attract at- 
tention of farmers attending the meeting. While the ses- 
sion was underway, the cream station operater learned 
that the producers were organizing a co-operative cream 
pool. A few hours later when the meeting adjourned, 


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I. A. A. Record—<April, 1934 


Quad Cities Market 


Awaits 


AAA 


Firm and Prompt Action By Government Needed to Iron 
Out a Bad Situation 


F THE federal government ever had 
an opportunity to do an important 
service for a group of its citizens, that 
opportunity exists in the dairy indus- 
try at the Quad Cities of Moline, E. 
Moline, Rock Island, and Davenport. 


For more than a year milk pro- 
ducers in that area have been re- 
ceiving little better than butterfat 
prices although extra expense is in- 
volved in producing, check testing, 
and delivering a daily milk supply to 
the four cities. At the retail price of 
5c and 6¢e per quart, the dealers ob- 
viously are not getting fair compensa- 
tion for their labor and investment. 
And while the consumer is getting a 
break in the form of an unusually low 
price, he is in danger of having the 
quality of milk delivered constantly 
lowered. 


All this and more was brought out 
in a two-day hearing held by the Ag- 
ricultural Adjustment Administration 
at the Blackhawk Hotel, Davenport, 
Mar. 5-6, where a marketing agree- 
ment which treats all producers on an 
equal basis through a pool plan was 
presented for consideration. 


Well Attended 

At the request of Chief Examiner 
John T. Pearson, the agreement was 
read point by point by Paul E. 
Mathias of the I. A. A. legal depart- 
ment representing the Quality Milk 
Association. Testimony and evidence 
from producers, producer-distributors, 
dealers, consumer representatives, and 


farmers noticed as they passed the 
cream station that the price had been 
changed from 37 cents to 40 cents, 
which still was seven cents under Chi- 
cago standards. “We figured that the 
meeting had been worth while,” said 
Mr, Lynch. 

In 1933 after the Fermers’ Cream- 
ery Company was organized at Bloom- 
ington, the price of butterfat there 
was only 2.13 cents under the Chicago 
90 score butter market. At the pres- 
ent time the price is only 1.98 cents 
under the Chicago market. These com- 
parisons show the effect co-operative 
creameries and cream pools are having 
in benefitting not only their patrons 
but also all farmers who sell butterfat. 


officials of the Quality Milk and IIli- 
nois-lowa Milk Producers Associa- 
tions on the proposed plan and mar- 


ket conditions was recorded and taken: 


back to Washington for further con- 
sideration. Attendance varied from 200 
to 400 at the various sessions. 

The proposed agreement provides 
for a Class I, or fluid milk, price of 
$1.60 per cwt. Quality Milk presented 
an amendment raising this to $1.70 in 
line with the $1.75 price at Chicago 
and $1.85 at St. 

The Class II (manufactured) price 
would be 3% times 92 score Chicago 
butter, plus 20% plus 20c per cwt. 

The Class III price in the proposed 
agreement is 3% times 92 score Chi- 


Louis. 


cago butter plus 15 per cent. 


One distributor, Anderson of Peer- 
less Dairy, objected to the Class III 
price. Quality Milk offered several 
proposals for handling surplus milk. 
One is to process all surplus milk in 
the plant of the Farmers Co-operative 
Dairy Products Corp., a subsidiary of 
Quality Milk, on a non-profit basis, 
and turn the proceeds over to the 
market administrator to be figured in 
the pool price. 


Another proposal is to have all 
dealers pay the same price for surplus 
milk as is paid by the farmers surplus 
plant. 


A third plan is to sell all Class III 
milk to the distributors at the price 
named in the agreement (3% x 92 
score plus 15%) in which case Quality 
Milk would close its plant providing 
distributors agree to take all the milk 
for a period of one year or more. 


Market Administrator 


The proposed agreement provides 
for a market administrator who will 
have access to dealers’ books and rec- 
ords, supervise the market, collect a 
check-off of 5c per cwt. on all milk, 
4c of which would be turned over to 
the respective producers associations 
on their members’ milk. In case of 
non-members, the administrator would 
retain the entire 5c check-off to es- 
tablish weighing and check testing and 
inspection service similar to that now 


NOW WILLIE- 
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Uncle Sam Takes A Hand 


given by the~co-operatives to their 
members. 

Chief objection to the pool plan 
came from producer-distributors who 
are now selling all their own milk, 
and in some cases neighbors’ milk al- 
so, at retail. 

Both Quality Milk Association and 
the Illinois Agricultural Association 
vigorously supported the pool plan 
realizing that this promises the only 
relief from a chaotic market situation 
in which both producers and dis- 
tributors are suffering. 


Spokesmen for the _ Illinois-Iowa 
Producers Association which was set 
up a year ago with the support of or- 
ganized distributors following their 
refusal to arbitrate or pay a fair price 
to producers represented by Quality 
Milk Association, did not oppose the 
pool but expressed the belief that 
there should be only one producers’ 
association on the market. Quality 
Milk Association has offered member- 
ship in the organization to members 
of the other group, and to non-mem- 
bers, but has not agreed to change 
its setup in accordance with dealers’ 
wishes. 

“B” Voting Stock 


Quality Milk Association members 
insist that the tie-up with the Illinois 
Agricultural Association through the 
“B” stock which they voted to the I. 
A. A., be maintained for their own 
protection, that the influence of 60,000 
organized farmers and the counsel and 
judgment of an experienced staff is of 
considerable value to them. The Qual- 
ity Producers recognize that in union 
there is strength. The distributors are 
against the “B” stock set-up appar- 
ently because they believe they will 
have a better opportunity to control 
the market if the aid and influence of 
the state-wide organization is with- 
drawn. 

When the Quality Milk Association 
was first organized in 1930 there was 
a wide spread between the price paid 
farmers by most of the distributors 
and that charged the consumer. On 

(Continued on next page) 


10 


Pure Milk Ass'n. Holds 
Ninth Annual Meeting 


No Action Taken on Establish- 
ment of Surplus Plants 


A crowd estimated at more than 2,- 
000 attended the ninth annual meeting 
of Pure Milk Association in the Audi- 
torium Theatre, Chicago, March 13. A 
proposal submitted by the board of 
directors recommending the establish- 
ment of farmer-owned surplus plants 
was considered but no definite action 
was taken. It was 
finally agreed to 
postpone action 
until more infor- 
mation could be 
given the mem- 
bership. 

This plan, un- 
der which all sur- 
plus milk would 
be processed into 
condensed milk, 
theese, butter, etc. 
is working out 
satisfactorily at Peoria, Quincy, and 
other Illinois markets. 

“When the membership of the Pure 
Milk Association fully understands 
this plan I believe they will support 
it,” said J. B. Countiss, director of 
dairy marketing for the I. A. A. “The 
producers can get higher net returns 
by processing their own surplus milk 
in their own plants than by sale 
through other means.” 

Preduction Down 

The reports of efficers showed that 
the Association marketed 1,120,316,242 
pounds of basic milk and 208,528,352 
pounds of surplus milk or a total of 
1,369,692,650 pounds last year. 

“This is approximately 7,000,000 
pounds less production than the year 
. before,” said Manager Don Geyer, 
“and is the direct answer to critics of 
fluid milk organizations who attempt 
to place the responsibility for surplus 
upon fluid milk producers.” Mr. Geyer 
stated that the breakdown in retail 
prices with narrowing of dealers’ 
spreads had resulted in collection 
problems, with dealers’ outstanding 
bills for milk the largest in the his- 
tory of the organization. 

Through the adjustment fund ob- 
tained by a five cent per 100 lb. check- 
off on all members’ milk, a market 
was provided for members who had no 
regular outlet. The adjustment fund, 
according to L. D. Oranger in charge 
of this work, furnished a market 
monthly to 2,365 members. It sold 
nearly 70,000,000 pounds of basic milk 
for members who had no fluid mar- 
ket, and made up the difference in 


DON GEYER 


price by paying nearly 30,000 claims 
totaling approximately $450,000. 

President Henry Pfister stated that 
within the central office there is a 
spirit of co-operation shown by the 75 
employees “that makes possible the 
carrying out of the Association’s pol- 
icies in as efficient and complete a 
manner as possible. 

During the year the gross-income of 
the Association was $423,862.49, ex- 
penses were $383,089.72, leaving a net 
income to surplus of $40,772.77. The 
net worth of the Association as of De- 
cember 31, 1933 is $246,843.33. The 
audit was made by the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Auditing Association. 

Speakers include Fred Sexauer, 
president of the New York Dairy- 
men’s League; Frank Baker, AAA 
market administrator for Chicago; and 
others. Women attending were enter- 
tained at a luncheon in the Congress 
Hotel. 

New directors elected to the board 
include E. E. Houghtby of DeKalb 
county, and Frank Green of McHenry 
county. There were no changes in the 
officers. The Association contributed 
a little more than $80,000 of its in- 
come during the year to the advertis- 
ing fund spent under the direction of 
the Milk Foundation. 


New Rate On Soybeans 
Helps Illinois Growers 


A new freight rate on soybeans 
from Illinois to the eastern seaboard 
which is eight cents lower than the 
old rate was secured recently by the 
transportation division of the Illinois 
Agricultural Association. The new 
rate which became effective March 10 
promises to have the effect of raising 
the price at least eight cents per 


bushel on a substantial part of—the~ 


commercial crop grown in Illinois. Ap- 
plied to 2,000,000 bushels of beans it 
would mean a saving of at least $160,- 
000 to Illinois growers. 

The new rate on soybeans, accord- 
ing to G. W. Baxter of the I. A. A., 
who negotiated the reduction through 
the Central Freight Association, is the 
same as the rate on grain, namely, 
23.7 cents per bushel. Illinois proces- 
sors still have an advantage of ap- 
proximately 17 cents per bushel on 
freight since the average rate from 
Illinois shipping points to processors’ 
plants within the state is about seven 
cents per bushel. | 


The lower rate was opposed by the 
traffic department of one large pro- 
cessor at Decatur apparently because 
he feared that competition from east- 
ern buyers would raise the price re- 
ceived by the Illinois farmer. 


I, A. A. Record—April, 1934 


Quad Cities Market 
Awaits AAA 


(Continued from page 9) 


a 10 cent per quart market, for ex- 
ample, certain dealers were paying 
producers less than $1 per cwt. net for 
milk. Net return tickets conclusively 
proving this statement were intro- 
duced into the records at the hearing 
by President F. H. Schafer of Quality 
Milk Ass’n. 

Before the organized producers will 
revert to that kind of a situation, they 
prefer to go into the distributing busi- 
ness themselves and if necessary set 
up milk depots throughout the Quad 
Cities until routes can be established. 
Even with a 50 per cent surplus and 
a 6c retail price, Quality Milk As. 
sociation members have been getting 
from 85c to 95c per cwt. for milk 
which is little worse than the deal 
some distributors were handing out 
when milk retailed for 10 cents. 


There is a very simple way out of 
a bad situation at the Quad Cities. 
That is to establish an 8 or 9c price 
to the consumer, allow the dealer a 
fair margin for his services but not an 
exorbitant profit as was the case 
several years ago, and pay the balance 
according to a pool plan to the milk 
producers, as set forth in the proposed 
agreement. 


Later a base and surplus plan can 
be put into effect by the federal ad- 
ministrator so as to adjust preduction 
more nearly to demand. 


Under the proposed plan, farmers 
who retail their own milk up to 250 
Ibs. per day would not be included in 
the pool. Sentiment was expressed 
both for increasing and lowering this 
arbitrary figure. 


Cost of Sales 


The Iowana Dairy testified that its 
present sales cost is 2.8c per qt., proe- 
essing cost 1.84c, and the cost of milk 
at 95c per cwt. for 3.5% milk is 2.3¢ 
or a total cost of 6.9¢c per qt. Milk is 
sold to stores at 5c and delivered to 
the housewife at 6c per qt. These 
sales and processing costs are thought 
to be higher than average because 
they are figured on a relatively small 
volume. On the present basis the 
larger dealers, it is generally con- 
ceded, are not making a fair profit 
although most of them seem to be 
paying expenses and living. 

Under the schedule of unfair trade 
practices, the minimum prices to be 
charged the consumer would be 7c 
per qt. for milk containing 3.9% but- 
terfat or less, 8c for 4% milk, 22c per 
qt. for 22% or less cream, 29e per qt. 
for 23-30% cream, ete, 


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1. A. A. Record—April, 1934 


Chicago Producers 


Annual Meeting 


Direct Buying, Organized Selling and Other Problems 
Discussed by Speakers 


HE obvious answer to the direct 
buying problem is to concentrate a 
greater volume of livestock in the 
hands of co-operative sales agencies, 
Earl C. Smith, president of the IIli- 
nois Agricultural Association, told 
nearly 300 livestock growers at the 
annual meeting of the Chicago Pro- 
ducers C mmission Association in the 
Sherman Hotel, 
Chicago, March 
13. Henry H. 
Parke of DeKalb 
county, president 
of the Producers 
Association, pre- 
sided. Mr. Smith 
challenged the 
Illinois producers 
who comprised 
the bulk of the 
audience to 
double the_ per- 
centage of livestock marketed 
through co-operative channels dur- 
ing the coming year, 
“T hope that the State of Iowa and 
_ other states will not follow, but lead 
us in organizing their bargaining 
power in the sale of livestock,” he 
said. 


Mr. Smith emphasized that there is 
a big difference between organized 
direct selling and packer buying. He 
said that a good rule for district co- 
operatives to follow is to sell direct to 
packers only when the advantage in 
freight, commission savings, yardage, 
etc., can be reflected in the price to 
the producer. 


H, H,. PARKE 


Buy "Em Cheaper 


The harm in direct buying, he said, 
lies in the fact that local packers who 
secure their supplies of hogs in this 
way usually buy them cheaper and so 
are in a position to undersell the buy- 
ers operating on the termina] mar- 
kets. He pointed out that this prac- 
tice sets up a vicious circle in which 
packers are placed in competition with 
one another to buy hogs at a lower 
and lower price. Co-ordination of sell- 
ing through local co-operatives in the 
country with selling through the 
terminal marketing agencies would 
solve the problem. 


Mr. Smith expressed the hope that 
the time would come when 90 per 
cent of all farmers held membership 
in one organization (applause). This 
goal appears to be a long way off, he 
continued. 

Many economists and market ex- 
perts agree that consumers could 
have purchased approximately 70 per 
cent of the hog crop during the past 
year at the parity price which today 
is approximately $8.12 per cwt. at the 
farm. If we received parity prices for 
70 per cent of our livestock, Mr. Smith 
said, we could almost afford to give 
away the other 30 per cent. 

The State of Illinois furnished more 
than 75 per cent of the receipts of the 
Chicago Producers Commission As- 
sociation during the past year. Ap- 
proximately 20.8 per cent of all stock 
in Illinois was marketed co-operatively 
last year. 

Mr. Smith reviewed at length the 
problems involved in raising the prices 
of corn and hogs and alluded to a let- 
ter from Henry A. Wallace received 
in June, 1932 in which he predicted 
that unless hog production were re- 
duced there was every prospect of the 
price dropping to $2 per cwt. by the 
fall of 1933. People who criticised 
the pig slaughter program, he said. 
failed to understand the market situa- 
tion. 


Simplified Plan 


Recognizing that several farm pro- 
duction contro] plans now being ad- 
ministered by the AAA are of only 
one or two years’ duration, Mr. Smith 
asked farmers to consider using the 
farm as the unit in future production 
control plans rather than the com- 
modity. 

“It is apparent,” he said, “that 
many of our surplus problems cannot 
be completely solved within the next 
year. Approximately 40,000,000 acres 
were added to the cultivated areas of 
this country during the war as a re- 
sult of greatly increased foreign de- 
mand for farm products. It seems un- 
likely that foreign outlets for this sur- 
plus production will be completely re- 
stored at an early date. Therefore 
some form of production control will 


11 


undoubtedly be necessary for several 
years to come if reasonable prices for 
farm commodities are to be secured,” 

In effect, the suggestion applies the 
principle of the present commodity 
control programs. There would be 


merely a change in administration 


whereby each farmer would be called 
upon through contract, license, or oth- 
erwise to retire annually from pro- 
duction, given percentages of the cul- 
tivated area on each farm. With such 
retirement of acreage, the govern- 
ment would have no interest in nor 
authority over the remaining cultivated 
area of the farm. 

Mr. Smith stated that it was his 
belief there would be very little, if 
any, shift from one crop to another; 
that each farmer would continue in a 
large measure to grow the same crops 
he had been growing throughout the 
years, and that any program calling 
for a cut in production would raise 
the price level of all basic farm com- 
modities. 


Cut Out Tax 


“Such a plan would be very simple 
in its administration. It would make 
possible a great reduction, if not the 
discontinuance entirely, of present 
processing taxes, and would be so 
simple in its application that not only 
the farmer but also the general pub- 
lic could understand every detail of its 
operation.” 


Mr. Smith explained that this pro- 
posal, offered merely for study and 
thought, in no wise was suggested to 
replace, impair, or detract from the 
administration of present policies of 
government; that it was offered mere- 
ly for consideration and worthy of 
thought as farmers look to the future 
for a more permanent but sound pro- 


gram. 

Prof. R. C. Ashby of the University 
of Illinois who addressed the gather- 
ing, stated that farmers had given 
ten times more attention to marketing 
costs than to livestock prices. He said 
that the 50 per cent of livestock go- 
ing through the terminal markets are 
paying the bill to maintain such mar- 
kets which establish prices. His study 
of the situation, he said, revealed that 
local markets are getting the best hogs 
which go direct to the packers and 
that in general the poorer hogs are 
going to the big terminals. 


Can Undersell 


He pointed out that the freight rate 
on dressed pork from Iowa is only 77 
per cent of the live hog rate which 
gives the smaller Iowa packers the ad- 
vantage and enables them to undersell 
the terminal packers in the eastern 

(Continued on Page 12, Col. 3) 


12 


Chicago's Back Taxes 
Key To School Problem 


Payment of $30,000,000 Now Due 
Would Reimburse Schools 


Aggressive enforcement of the prop- 
erty tax laws by public officials in 
Cook county, and payment of delin- 
quent taxes now due would go far to- 
ward overcoming shortages in the 
state common school fund as well as 
greatly aid the Chicago schools, Presi- 
dent Earl C. Smith pointed out in a 
recent statement. In line with the ac- 
tion of delegates at the recent I. A. A. 
convention in opposing further diver- 
sion of state gas tax funds from high- 
way improvement and maintenance, 
the I. A. A. legislative committee is 
opposing new efforts to divert gas tax 
funds, at Springfield. 

“The facts show,” Mr. Smith said, 
“that Cook county owes the state more 
than $30,000,000 in delinquent and de- 
layed taxes, whereas downstate coun- 
ties as a whole are delinquent only to 
the extent of approximately $3,000,- 
000. If these delinquent taxes were 
paid, the state could fulfill its obliga- 
tions to the elementary schools of the 
state and pay into the common school 
fund the $12,000,000 still owing the 
schools. 

Downstate Pays 


“Hard hit financially as farmers and 


other downstate people have been 
throughout the depression, tax collec- 
tions in most downstate counties have 
been at a comparatively high rate in 
contrast with the deplorable situation 
in Chicago and some of its suburbs. 
“Lack of aggressive action by pub- 
lic officials is largely responsible for 
this situation in Cook county which 
imposes an unfair portion of the cost 
of state government on all downstate 
counties as well as great hardship on 
schools in a few downstate counties. 
“We have great sympathy for all 
overburdened property taxpayers 
whether on the farm or in the city,” 
he continued; “but so long as Cook 
county legislaters insist on continuing 
the present property tax system 
rather than a fair taxing system based 
on ability to pay, downstate legisla- 
tors should insist that it be enforced 
in Cook county rather than divert 
other revenues to meet deficits in Cook 
county tax payments to the state.” 
The present effort to divert the gas- 
oline tax fund from road building and 
improvement is the third distinct ef- 
fort in this direction. The original ef- 
fort to divert $20,000,000 of gasoline 
tax fund, plus interest on the bonds, 
to unemployment relief was successful. 


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The gasoline tax fund will be further 
obligated if the people of Illinois ap- 
prove the proposed $30,000,000 bond 
issue next November in which case the 
bonds and interest will be paid off out 
of gasoline tax funds. In addition, ap- 
proximately $11,000,000 of gas tax 
funds have been borrowed on state an- 
ticipation warrants for general state 
purposes. 


The present effort to divert gaso- 


line tax funds to the schools is pro- 
posed only as a temporary measure, 
Experience shows that such temporary 
expedients often become permanently 
established. The Illinois Agricultural 
Association is vigorously opposed to 
further gasoline tax diversion because 
continued crippling of road building 
and improvement not only adds to un- 
employment, but it deprives a large 
part of the rural people who reside on 
the 70,000 miles of public highways 
still largely unimproved from direct 
benefits of the gasoline tax which they 
are helping to pay. 


Gaining In lroquois 


The Iroquois County Farm Bureau 
recently passed its quota of a 25 per 
cent membership increase since Janu- 
ary 1. Approximately 300 new mem- 
bers had been signed by Mar. 20 since 
the first of the year. “Membership is 
gaining steadily,” reports Farm Ad- 
viser C. E. Johnson, “and more farm- 
ers are interested in the Farm Bureau 
and its program of service today than 
at any time during recent years.” 


102,053 Corn-Hog Con- 
tracts Signed—Mumford 


Dean H. W. Mumford, chairman of 
the state corn-hog committee, reported 
that 102,053 contracts had been re- 
ported signed on March 12. It is esti- 
mated that approximately 176,000 
farmers are eligible for the corn-hog 
adjustment program. 


1934 


I. A. A. Record—April, 


Chicago Producers Annual 
Meeting 


(Continued from page 11) 
markets. Mason City, for example, has 
an advantage of 14 cents per ewt. on 
live hogs to eastern points over Chi- 
cago, based on the dressed pork 
rates, 

Mr. Ashby stated that his study re- 
vealed that Iowa hogs had been selling 
at too low a price. He quoted a paeker 
buyer on the Chicago market as fol- 
lows:—“If we bought all the good 
light hogs we wanted at the terminal 
markets we would put the price up on 
every market in the United States.” 
Comparatively few eastern packers 
are buying hogs on the big terminal 
markets because they can buy them 
cheaper in the country.” 

The speaker expressed the opinion 
that the interior Iowa packers have 
more to say about hog prices than 
any group in the United States, also 
that hog producers have lost 20 cents 
per cwt. or more on terminal prices by 
saving 10 cents per cwt. in letting 
their hogs go to packers at local con- 
centration points. 

Still Growing 

President Henry H. Parke of De- 
Kalb county, Illinois, and Manager D. 
L. Swanson gave interesting reports 
showing the substantial progress made 
by the Chicago Producers during the 
past year. The percentage of cars 
handled increased from 9.32 per cent 
in 1932 to 11.18 per cent in 1933. Gains 
were made in all departments. The 
Chicago Producers stood first among 
all firms on the U. S. Yards in tota! 
carloads in cattle and calves and in 
hogs. In the latter class the Pro- 
ducers handled more than the next 
five firms. The co-operative was second 
in sheep. Receipts from commissions 
last year totaled $341,593.46. 

C. A. Ewing, president of the Na- 
tional Livestock Marketing Associa- 
tion, made an interesting talk during 
the morning session in which he em- 
phasized the necessity for broadening 
foreign outlets for livestock products. 
He favored this method of solving the 
surplus and price problem rather than 
curtailment of production. Geo. F. 
Tullock of Rockford was re-elected to 
the board of directors. 


Wallace Appoints Board 


Members of the corn-hog board of 
review for Illinois recently appointed 
by Secretary Wallace are Joe Fulker- 
son of Jerseyville; P. E. Johnston of 
the Illinois College of Agriculture; and 
A. J. Surrat, agricultural statistician, 
Springfield. 


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Last year, 75,000 Illinois farmers pur- 
chased 40,000,000 gallons of petroleum 
products from 54 County Service Companies. 
This resulted in a $6,000,000 year’s business. These 
farmer owned companies were thus enabled to re- 
fund $500,000 to member patrons for the third con- 
secutive year. 


The 1934 volume will far exceed all previous records 
if every Farm Bureau member will patronize his 
service company exclusively. 


Volume brings greater bargaining power. Increased 
volume through exclusive purchasing of Service 
Company products will further add to your savings 
and assure you of the highest quality. 


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Magic Aladdin Gasoline is a premium 
product sold at a regular price. Radiant 

Kerosene is top grade quality with draft horse 
power. Penn Bond and Blue Seal Motor oils are the 
best money can buy. Soyoil Paint has no superior. 
More than 400 service tank trucks are ready to serve 
you. One of 146 bulk storage plants is located near 
you. Five hundred authorized Illinois dealers will 
keep you supplied when you are on the road. Buy 
where you see the Illinois Farm Supply trademark. 


Increase your purchases from your own company 

this year. Use Service Company products exclus- 

ively. Tell the driver of the Blue and White truck 

pi overs your road to fill your drums whenever 
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Danville Producers Sell 
Milk Direct To Con- 


sumers Thru Depots 


Plans to organize the Producers 
Dairy ef Danville as a subsidiary of 
the Danville Milk Producers Associa- 
tion were completed at a meeting in 
Danville on March 16. Fifty per cent 
of the necessary operating capital to 
establish retail outlets for milk was 
raised at this meeting, according to J. 
B. Countiss, director of dairy mar- 
keting. 

The Association recently took over 
the plant of the former Blue Banner 
Dairy where it is pasteurizing milk 
delivered by members of the Associa- 
tion who were kicked off the market 
by the distributors. Most of this milk 
is high-quality Guernsey milk. Two 
milk depots have been set up and more 
will be added. The stations now op- 
erating are doing an excellent business 
selling milk to consumers at seven 
cents per quart. One station increased 
its sales from six to 52 gallons in a 
single week. 

Sanitary equipment and refrigera- 
tors have been installed and sales of 
milk and other dairy products are 
growing. All business is strictly on a 
cash and carry basis. As volume of 
sales increase it will be possible for 
the Association to pay its members a 
constantly increasing price. 

Organized dealers have refused to 
work with the producers who believe 
they are entitled to a larger share of 
the consumers’ dollar. In the mean- 
time many of the members are con- 
tinuing to sell milk to the distributors 
at $1.40 per cwt. for four per cent 
milk. The delivered price at Danville 
is 10c per quart. 


The Reporter Almost Gets 
A Story From Kelker 


With corn loan insurance applica- 
tions deluging the offices of Farmers 
Mutual Re-insurance Company, it was 
difficult to get J. H. “Jack” Kelker, 
manager, to take time off to quote a 
few figures. But persistency on the 
part of this reporter managed it. 

“So far, we have had applications 
for a grand total of around $1,350,000 
corn loan insurance. Of this amount,” 
said Mr. Kelker, “I find that around 
$1,000,000 is for fire insurance on 
sealed corn, and $350,000 is for pro- 
tection against wind. This amount in- 
creases from day to day. 

“No,” said Mr. Kelker, “I can’t say 
offhand what the ultimate amount of 
corn loan insurance carried by this 
company will be but I can say this—” 


OSo TARIFF) Wane 


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The Battering Ram Will Make An 
Opening 


Roosevelt Request For 
Tariff Power Not New 


Tariff bargaining power requested 
by President Roosevelt is similar to 
that held by Premier Gaston Doumer- 
gue of France. The American tariff 
policy has been a one-duty policy con- 
taining no provision for barter or bar- 
gaining. Since France has been on a 
barter basis for a long time, permit- 
ting trade only under rigid quota ar- 
rangements, American commercial ac- 
tivity with France has been reduced to 
a minimum. American business leaders 


and officials in Paris are hopeful that 


President Roosevelt will be given the 
powers sought. 


Farm Bureau Serum Assn. 
Contracts For 1934 Supply 


The Illinois Farm Bureau Serum 
Association has contracted to buy ap- 
proximately 40,000,000 cc. of hog 
cholera serum and virus in the coming 
season. Under the serum code stand- 
ard prices will be charged by the co- 
operatives as well as private distrib- 
utors. Co-operatives are privileged, 
however, under the code, to make pa- 
tronage refunds at the close of the 
year to their members. There are 77 
County Farm Bureaus in Illinois hold- 
ing membership in the Serum Associa- 
tion. 


and here he leaned close to this re- 
porter’s ear and rattled off some 
amazing figures. 

“But you can’t announce it yet,” ad- 
monished Mr. Kelker, shaking his fin- 
ger under this reporter’s nose. “TI’ll 
be ready to give out those figures be- 
fore long. And will Farm Bureau 
members swell up with pride when 
they see them.” 

It will be a swell story when it 
comes out. Watch for it. 


I. A. A. Record—April, 19314 


Baseball Leaders Meet 
To Prepare For Season 


Looks Like Farm Bureau League 
Will Have a Good Year 


Preliminary plans for starting the 
1934 baseball season were made at the 
spring meeting of the Illinois Farm 
Bureau Baseball League held in the 
Illinois Hotel, Bloomington, March 19. 
President Chas. S. Black of Jackson- 
ville presided. Delegates from 11 
counties responded to the call in spite 
of heavy snow, ice and bad driving 
conditions in the 
central and west- 
ern parts of the 
state. 

Slight modifica- 
tions were made 
in the eligibility 
rules so as to bar 
players who are 
or have been 
members of a 
team in a recog- 
nized professional 
or semi - profes- 
sional league after July 1 of the cur- 
rent playing season. To be eligible for 
the semi-final or final games of the 
Farm Bureau League a player must 
have been eligible to play in one or 
more of the preliminary games with- 
in the division. Any County Farm Bu- 
reau may enter two or more teams in 
the League provided such teams are 
distinctly separate, represent given 
geographical lines, and there is no in- 
terchange of players. 

It was voted to open the playing 
season on Saturday, May 19, and that 
preliminary schedules be closed on or 
before Saturday, August 11, in prep- 
aration for the semi-finals. 

Names of umpires used in semi- 
final and final games must be _ sub- 
mitted to opposing teams five days be- 
fore the scheduled game. The League 
voted to use the new raised seam 
ball. 

The exe utive committee will redis- 
trict the state as soon as all counties 
have fully decided whether or not they 
will bring out teams. At least one and 
possibly two more divisions will be or- 
ganized according to present indica- 
tions. Adams county is planned to or- 
ganize a team, also Madison, Cook, 
Fulton, and possibly others. 


CHAS, 8. BLACK 


W. J. “Jim” Clarke of the Chicago 
Producers Commission Association is 
assisting Ray E. Miller, director of 
livestock marketing, temporarily, in 
field work. During the past two weeks 
he has met with a number of livestock 
marketing committees and addressed a 
number of livestock meetings. 


l, A. A. Reeerd—dApril, 1934 


ILL, JONES 


Gets Himself 


ILL JONES eased himself 
down off his corn plow. He 
pointed to the iron seat. 


“I’m 50 now. But when I’m 
65, you'll not be finding me trying 
to fit one of those things. I'll be 
sitting pretty in a nice soft seat in 
the shade watching some other fel- 
low wearing a groove in himself 
and I’ll know just how he feels. 
But I'll have me a pension. A 
nice, fat, check coming in every 
month, and I'll be glad to let some- 
bedy else bounce around on a corn 
plow for a change. 

“I’ve dene a good job of farming— 
now I’m planning on doing a good job 
of loafing. I’ve been getting up at the 
crack of dawn—now I’m looking forward 
to letting dawn crack itself crazy before 
I get up. I been watching people go 
North in the Summer and South in the 
Winter—now I’m planning on a lot of 
that galavanting myself. 

“I read about a lot of places like Mam- 
moth Cave, Glacier Park, South America, 
Mexico, Florida and such—now maybe I’ll 


the County Farm Bureau. 
there are a lot of so-called “pensions.” 
But as Bill said, “I want something a 
farmer can handle financially, and en- 
joy when he gets it.” 
reau insurance man fixed him up. 
won't take but a few minutes to get all 
the details. Be sure and ask about the 
“farmer’s pension.” 


All Bill Jones did to arrange his pen- 


sion was talk to the insurance man at 


go there and see if it’s all it’s cracked up 
to be. When mother and me were mar- 
ried we couldn’t go to Niagara Falls. But 
we're going now, and a lot of other places 
besides. 

“Maybe I'll get me a cottage near a 
lake and do some fancy fishing. Or go 
visit the kids when I like, and put up at a 
hotel, and not have to be a bother by stay- 
ing with them. 

“Mister! You’re going to see the inde- 
pendentest, retiringest farmer you ever 


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laid eyes on when I’m 65. The 
boys will be working the farm. 
I'll have plenty for mother and me. 

“But—if I can’t do all those 
things I’m counting on, mother 
can. I’ve got that fixed up. And 
she can do the things for me and 
play-act like I was along. 

“Pshaw!—65? ~~ I’ll be spry as 
a youngster the way I feel now. 
I’m planning on having me a good 
time when I’m 65. You know, 
I get to dreaming about it rid- 
ing around on this cern plow 
and first thing, this irom seat gets 
to feeling like a feather pillow and these 
plugs of mine a couple of fancy trotters 
over in England. 

“Sure you can get a pension. 
no older than I am.” 

Bill Jones was back on the corn plow. 

“You go see that insurance man down 
at the County Farm Bureau. Tell him yeu 
want one of those farmer pensions like 
I’m getting. Giddap.” Country Life In- 
surance Co., 608 So. Dearborn &., 
Chicago. 


You’re 


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Observations 


Is a man ever justified in not sign- 
ing the corn-hog reduction program 
or other government crop adjustment 
plans? . a 

Obviously the answer is “yes.” No 
program or plan is perfect. The corn- 
hog program.is a great benefactor to 
the industry but it does not fit every 
case. If applied universally it would 
work a hardship on such producers 
whose acreage or crop of the basic 
commodity in the base period for va- 
rious reasons has been greatly reduced 
if not entirely eliminated. 


A Farm Bureau member from 
Henry county presents a case in point. 
He writes rather critically about the 
corn reduction plan, because, as he 
states, he has plowed up only 25 to 
80 per cent of his farm keeping the 
balance in grass ant legumes to con- 
serve and build up soil fertility. In 
the meantime, he says, his neighbors 
have “torn up” from 75 to 90 per cent 
of their land and put it into cultivated 
crops. His neighbors and others, not 
he, he contends are responsible for 
price-depressing surpluses. Therefore, 
he asks “am I less an American and 


a good citizen if I fail to sign up to. 


reduce my small acreage another 20 
per cent when I already voluntarily 
have cut production 30 to 40 per 
cent?” —_—____ 

How would you advise this man? 
It seems to us that he should not be 
criticised for not signing the contract 
since the program already penalizes 
him, in comparison, whether or not he 
goes along. We can suggest, how- 
ever, that he fill out the work sheet 
and discuss his case with the local 
production control committee. By so 
doing he shows his good faith and 
good intentions. And if he doesn’t 
use the opportunity to increase pro- 
duction, hoping to take advantage of 
the prospective rise in prices, it would 
seem that he fulfills his obligations. 

Such cases as this indicate the value 
of giving certain discretionary powers 
to production control associations. If 
a man has his hog base destroyed by 
cholera or otherwise, if the peculiar- 
ities of the weather or crop rotation 
system have resulted in an abnormal- 
ly low acreage of corn, wheat or cot- 
ton in the base period, allowance 
might well be made for such abnor- 
malities. 

Judgment should always be tem- 
pered with practical consideration and 
common sense. By frankly discussing 
their situations with the local com- 


1. A. A. Record—April, 1934 


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At the Annual Conference of Illinois Farm Supply Company, Danville 


mittees, such producers as the one 
mentioned can avoid adverse criticism 
and make a contribution toward per- 
fecting adjustment programs in the 
years to come.—E. G. T. 


1220 Hear L. A. Williams 
At Stephenson Co. Meeting 


Picking at random from among the 
many county wide meetings addressed 
throughout the state by L. A. Wil- 
liams, manager of Country Life, one 
of the most outstanding to date was 
that held at Free- 
port, March 8th, 
when 1,220 Steph- 
enson Countyites 
occupied every 
available seat in 
the Consistory 
theatre, of which 
134 were brand 
new Farm Bureau 
members, 106 of 
whom had signed 
up two days be- 
fore the meeting. 

Just before Mr. Williams began his 
address on the value of organization 
and its part in the recovery program, 
he was presented with 134 new mem- 
berships. The crowd was responsive 
and demonstrated the enthusiasm that 
is sweeping through the state for a 
more solid organization to further the 
cause of agriculture. 

Kelsye Baylor, who is not only the 
leading pilot in the Country Life 
“Aeroplane Race,” but is an excellent 
master of ceremonies, introduced the 
Swiss Yodelers from Brodhead, Wis- 
consin, who gave several selections. 
Interspersing the talks by various 
county officials, a number of mono- 
logues were given which were well 
received by the crowd. Mr. Williams 
is and has been doing effective work 
on the platform throughout the state 
in behalf of organization as the solu- 
tion to farmers’ problems. He appre- 
ciates the fact that establishment of 


L. A. WILLIAMS 


parity prices for farm products, a fair 
taxing system, and a better economic 
position for the industry are the big 
objectives organized farmers must 
fight for. 


Farm Supply Refund Is 
Above National Average 


For comparison with the achieve- 
ment of Illinois Farm Supply Com- 
pany in doing a $6,000,000 business 
during 1933 and returning an average 
of 14 cents out of each dollar to mem- 
ber patrons in the form of patronage 
dividends, a recent Washington report 
on farmer-owned petroleum co-ops. 
should be of interest to Illinois farm- 
ers. 

“Farmer co-operatives,” states the 
article, “did a total business of $35,- 
000,000 during 1933 according to fig- 
ures compiled by the co-operative di- 
vision of the Farm Credit Adminis- 
tration. Formation of these associa- 
tions, which today total about 600 has 
been one of the outstanding develop- 
ments of the farmer co-operative 
movement during recent years. Nearly 
500 of these were organized in the last 
seven years. . . . Minnesota leads all 
other states in number of associations 
followed by Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska 
and Indiana in order named. It is esti- 
mated that in all, about 350,000 farm- 
er members own and control these or- 
ganizations. 

“According to data assembled by the 
co-operative division of the Farm 
Credit Administration, 52 associations 
in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa did 
a total business of $2,600,000 in 1933. 
... The average net earnings of each 
was about $5,000. About 10 cents was 
returned for every dollar’s worth of 
gas and oil the member bought from 
his association.” 

Illinois farmers know by this time 
that their 54 County Service com- 
panies did a total business of $6,000,- 
000 in 1938, with patronage refunds of 

(Continued on Page 18, Col. 1) 


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St. Louis Milk Market 
License Is Effective 


Fred Shipley Appointed Admin- 
istrator, Producers To Get 
Better Prices 


Fred Shipley, recently appointed 
milk market administrator at St. 
Louis, is a former University of Illi- 
nois boy. He has been assisting E. W. 
Tiedeman and A. D. Lynch of the 
Sanitary Milk Producers in market 
problems on the smaller milk markets 
in the St. Louis 
milk shed. 

Shipley came to 
Illinois from Ten- 
nessee aS a COW 
tester in Knox 
county about 
1925. He worked 
for the milk test- 
ing commission at 
Peoria from 1927 
to 1929. Later he 
was selected with 
the help of A. D. 
Lynch, then dairy marketing director 
of the I. A. A., as manager of the 
Champaign County Milk Producers 
Association. In 1931 he went with the 
Sanitary Milk Producers where he had 
charge of the milk markets in south- 
ern Illinois, including Benton, Harris- 
burg, DuQuoin, Murphysboro, Mt. Ver- 
non, West Frankfort, and Carbondale. 

Mr. Shipley’s duties will be to act 
as general supervisor of the provisions 
of the license relating to producers’ 
prices and the adjustment fund for 
all distributors; to examine the books 
and records of distributors and their 
subsidiaries when necessary, and to 
represent the Secretary of Agriculture 
in general matters connected with the 
license for the St. Louis area. 

License March 2 
The license which became effective 


FRED SHIPLEY 


Farm Supply Refund 
(Continued from page 16) 
over $500,000 for the third consecutive 
year. Average refund received by 
member patrons was 14 cents on each 
dollar spent for Service Company 
products. 

According to L. R. Marchant, man- 
ager of Illinois Farm Supply Com- 
pany, the prospects of 1933 are 
brighter than in years. The addition 
of two new companies, one in Pike 
County and the other in Rock Island 
County now brings the total affiliated 
companies to 56. New bulk plants are 
being built throughout the state to fa- 
cilitate service, around 40 new tank 
trucks are being added to the fleet 
now covering the state. 


March 2 establishes a price for Class 
I milk of $1.85 per cwt. for 3.5% milk 
delivered to distributor plants. The dif- 
ferential per 1/10% butterfat is 3c. 
Class II milk (fluid cream) is to bring 
3% times 92 score Chicago butter, 
plus 20%, plus 30c per cwt. Class III, 
manufactured, is priced at 3% x 92 
score butter plus 15c per cwt. all f. o. 
b. plants. Farmers will control their 
own hauling and get the benefit of 
economies there. More equitable dif- 
ferentials in price for producers in the 
different zones based on distance from 
market likewise have been established. 
The close-in producers will get a 
higher price than those located farther 
away from St. Louis. 

Producers will secure a_ blended 
price for Classes I and II to be de- 
termined by the market administra- 
tor. The base and surplus plan is in 
force on this market so that the price 
to each producer will depend on the 
amount of base milk he delivers. 


The checkoff is 4c per cwt. paid by 
all producers except the producer-dis- 
tributors who are exempt up to 250 
Ibs. per day on their own milk. The 
members of the Association will con- 
tribute 3c to the Sanitary Milk Pro- 
ducers and 1c to the market adminis- 
trator. Non-members will pay 4c all of 
which will be retained by the admin- 
istrator, 3c of which will be put into 
a special fund to provide testing and 
quality-improvement services. 


Farmers Creamery Co. 


Makes Splendid Showing 


Dairy producers supplying the 
Bloomington market with milk wanted 
to be assured of a satisfactory market 
for their surplus milk. They knew of 
no better assurance than to have a 
creamery where they might separate 
their milk and churn it into high qual- 
ity butter. Therefore, a plant was 
equipped and made ready to operate 
February 9, 1933. Since then they 
have had no trouble in disposing of 
their surplus milk, yet none of it has 
gone through the plant. 

After the plant was equipped, cream 
producers were organized in LaSalle, 
Livingston, McLean, DeWitt and Lo- 
gan Counties. From February 9th to 
November 30th the plant churned 834,- 
571 pounds of excellent Prairie Farms 
Butter. To the patrons of that cream- 
ery and the community, it has meant 
approximately two.cents per pound 
butterfat and to members 3%c per 
pound butterfat. Here is the evidence. 

For the corresponding months the 
butterfat price at Bloomington in 
1933-34 on a 2c lower butter market 


I, A. A. Record—April, 1934 


was raised 2.llc per bb. nearer the 
Chicago butter market than the av- 
erage for the two preceding years. In 
addition to this, members were given a 
one cent per pound credit on a share 
of preferred stock and patronage re- 
f--nds of nearly a cent per pound fat. 

Recently eight additional counties 
have been allocated to the Bleoming- 
ton plant, therefore, this year the 
plant should process near 2,000,000 
pounds of butter. 


Producers Creamery of 
Peoria Big Success 


From May 1 to December 81, 1933, 
the Producers Creamery of Peoria 
made 834,371 pounds of fine Prairie 
Farms butter. Competitive prices 
were paid for butterfat and after pay- 
ing all expenses at the end of five 
months, the association had given 
members credit on Class “A” pre- 
ferred creamery stock, totaling $4,- 
524.31, and made patronage dividends 
amounting to $3,393.10, or a tetal of 
$7,917.41. 

From May to December every 
month showed an increase in member- 
ship. On the basis of the first eight 
months’ operation, it is certain that 
the plant will make more than a mil- 
lion and a half pounds of butter when 
the plant has operated one year. 


Creamery Districts Busy 
Financing New Plants 


It’s just a guess which plant will 
be ready to start operating first, Pro- 
ducers Creamery of Champaign, Ol- 
ney or Mt. Sterling. Each district has 
one county that has raised its quota. 
All other counties are working teeth 
and nail. Douglas county in the 
Champaign district was the first to 
raise its cash quota and on March 8 
the following wire was _ reecived: 
“Have our $2,500 on the barrel head 
—What shall we do with it?” 

Lawrence county in the Olney dis- 
trict has raised its quota. There the 
producers cream committee has re- 
ported all stock sold, but that no re- 
port will be made to headquarters at 
Olney until the cash is in the office. 
Eight counties in the district have 
volunteer workers out selling stock 
and each group of workers is de- 
termined to have its “cash on the bar- 
rel head” at an early date. The Olney 
district may set the pace for the other 
districts. 

In the Mt. Sterling district, Scott 
county is the first to raise its cash 
quota. All other counties except one 
have county and township committees 
selling stock. 


Number 5 


MAY, 1934 


Quincy lean Dairy 


HEN dairy farmers work to- 
W gether and market their milk 

co-operatively they go places. 
And sometimes it doesn’t make much 
difference whether or not the govern- 
ment steps in with a marketing agree- 
ment. If you don’t believe it just con- 
sider the Quincy Co-operative Dairy 
out in Adams county, Ill. where the 
Mississippi bulges westward into Mis- 
souri. 

Organized milk producers around 
Quincy who own their own plant and 
distributing business are getting $1.80 
a hundred for 3.5 per cent milk that 
goes into the fluid milk and cream 
trade. Not so bad. And the Quincy 
housewife gets a break too—a high 
quality four per cent milk delivered 
to her door for eight cents a quart. If 
she wants a deeper cream line milk 
testing 5 per cent it costs only a dime. 

But then in Quincy you don’t see a 
half dozen varieties of milk wagons 
patroling the same block about break- 
fast time. Nor are there any middle- 
men between the producer and con- 
sumer taking 25 per cent on the in- 
vestment. 


13 Wagons 


When you see a milk wagon or 
truck in Quincy the chances are it’s 
one of the 13 owned by the Co-op. 
Dairy. These wagons don’t just de- 
liver milk and cream. They carry the 
whole line. Talk about the packers in 
Chicago using every part of the hog 
but the squeal. Well, down in Adams 
county, the Co-op. Dairy wouldn’t 
think of running the skim milk down 
the drain, surplus or no surplus. It 
goes into bottles and the pails of cus- 
tomers who come after it. In the pro- 
ducers’ modern, sanitary plant they 
not only bottle fresh milk and cream, 
but they also make butter, cottage 
cheese, ice cream, “400” (chocolate 
milk containing 2% fat), Five-O 
(chocolate milk no fat), Frisco cheese, 
cheese spread, and buttermilk. 

The producers who own the Quincy 
Co-operative Dairy instituted the base 
and surplus. plan of payment a good 
many years ago. They “believe in a 


Producers and Consumers 
Both Get A Break in Adams 
County © 


high base price and a low surplus 
price. So the base, which runs about 
50 per cent of present receipts, brings 
$1.80 per cwt. for 3.5 per cent milk 
and the surplus brings butterfat 
price. Base for each producer is de- 
termined by his six years’ average 
production leaving out April, May and 
June. 


How It Started 


Maybe you’d like ‘to know how these 
Adams county dairymen got started 
running their own distributing busi- 
ness, Frank Gougler, director of pro- 
duce marketing for the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association, can tell you for 
he was county adviser down in Adams 
about 1920. Frank started a lot of 
good things when he was there. 

“IT was in the Farm Bureau office 
after closing time one evening,” said 
Mr. Gougler, “when one of our Farm 
Bureau members came in swearing 
vengeance against another member for 
cutting prices and taking his customer. 
Both of these men were good friends 
of mine. Each was producing and dis- 
tributing his own milk. It seems that 
one of the men had been delivering a 
sizeable quantity to the local hospital 
when suddenly his volume was cut in 
half or more. He soon learned that 
his neighbor had acquired the volume 
he had lost. 

“T talked to this member until he 
cooled off a bit and promised him [ 
would look into the matter,” said 
Frank. “Then I called in the other 
man and got his story. Later I visited 
the hospital and learned that the head 
nurse had formerly taken milk from 
the second man until he ran short of 
milk. And when she learned later that 
he had extra milk to spare, and at a 
lower price, she asked him to leave 
some at the hospital. 

“The upshot was that I made an 
appointment with both men and got 


Volume 12 


them to come down to the office at 
the same time to talk it over. They 
came. We had a long session but be- 
fore we got through the two men 
shook hands and agreed to work with 
me in setting up a co-operative milk 
distributing plant.” 


Too Much Waste 


Albert Heckle, a member of the 
board of directors and a leader in the 
organization of the co-operative dairy 
from the beginning can tell you about 
marketing conditions at Quincy at 
that time. 

“About 1920 the milk industry was 
in a very bad condition around 
Quincy,” said Albert. “There was gen- 
eral dissatisfaction among producers. 
It was found after a survey that there 
were about 80 or 90 milk distributors 
averaging around 10 gallons per route. 
I mention gallons because that was 
the basis on which milk was bought 
and sold. 

“The survey also brought out that 
about 50 per cent of the milk con- 
sumed in the territory was canned 
milk. It was plain that something 
would have to be done. So we went 
to the Adams County Farm Bureau 
for help. 

“It fell to the lot of Frank A. 
Gougler who was then farm adviser, 
to see what could be done. Com- 
mittees were named. It was finally de- 
cided to go all the way from the farm 
to the consumer. Such a plan was new 
and untried. We called on the I. A. A. 
for help and Chris Larsen, then di- 
rector of dairy marketing (now dean 
of the South Dakota College of Agri- 
culture), came down to advise us. If it 
had not been for the untiring efforts 


a er 


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of our farm adviser, Mr. Gougler, the 
Quincy Co-operative Dairy probably 
never would have materialized.” 


Selling the Stock 


Money had to be raised to build a 
plant, buy equipment, and for working 
capital. They decided to raise $50,000. 
The I. A. A. agreed to furnish so- 
licitors to sell the stock. All this hap- 
pened right in the midst of the big 
post-war slump. Corn got down to 35 
cents a bushel after selling for $1.50 
only a short time before. The outlook 
was not encouraging. Nevertheless the 
solicitors kept at it until they sold 
$35,000 worth of stock to farmers. 
Then they called on local business men 
who made it $40,000. 

With this money the producers 
bought a big garage 40 x 80 feet. They 
had to make repairs and put a new 
floor in it with the result that the 
money was all gone before they had 
their equipment. Then they went to 
Sam H. Thompson, who later became 
president of the American Farm Bu- 
reau Federation. He was connected 
with one of the local banks. They got 
a loan of $6,000 from this bank and 
the same amount from another bank. 
With this money they bought equip- 
ment and hired an expert plant man 
to supervise setting it up and acting 
as plant foreman. 

Then they employed John A. Con- 
nery, better known as Jack, as man- 
ager. Jack had just been defeated for 


sheriff of Adams county. He had had 


considerable experience in the county 
treasurer’s office, had acted as receiver 
on several occasions, and was a good 
business man. In addition he knew 
about everybody in town and was well 


liked. —__A Good Start 


The co-operative dairy got off to a 
good start under the management of 
Connery who subsequently served for 
nine years. By the end of the first year 
the business not only paid back the 
$12,000 it had borrowed from the 
banks, but also paid dividends on the 
capital stock. The dairy was soon able 
to retail milk at 10 cents and pay the 
producers a higher net return than 
farmers receive in any other market 
of comparable size in the middle west. 

Mr. Connery left several years ago 
and the dairy is now managed by Mrs. 
Laura Johnston who has served as 
bookkeeper since the organization be- 
gan. “Mrs Johnston is very capable 
and under her administration and with 
the assistance of our efficient plant 
superintendent, M. B. Crocker, we can 
still return more of the consumer’s 
dollar to the producer than any other 
milk association we know about,” said 
Mr. Heckle. 

The co-operative dairy has 28 em- 


ne 


ee 


Chas. S. Black 


HARLES S. BLACK, of Jack- 
® sonville, member of the board 

of directors of the Illinois Ag- 
ricultural Association from _ the 
20th congressional district for the 
past six years and recently Tfe- 
elected for another two-year term, 
was. buried at 
Jacksonville 
Thursday after - 
noon, April 19. 
Officers, directors 
and several mem- 
bers of the staff 
of the I. A. A.,, 
and a large num- 
ber of Farm Bu- 
reau leaders from 
the 20th district 
attended the large 
funeral held from 
the Methodist Episcopal Church in 
his home city. | 

Mr. Black passed away following in- 
ternal hemorrhages on April 17 in the 
hospital at Jacksonville. He was in 
Chicago attending I. A. A. committee 
and board meetings April 12-13 and 
was obliged to return home Friday on 
account of his illness. His condition 
became steadily worse following his 
arrival at Jacksonville. 

As chairman of the I. A. A. Public 
Relations Committee, Mr. Black had 
been busy at the various sessions of 
the General Assembly in Springfield 
for several years. He became active 
in the Morgan County Farm Bureau 
early in its organization and served 
eight years as president. He belonged 
to a number of fraternal and service 
organizations in and about Jackson- 
ville, was president of the State Anti- 
Thief Association and an officer in the 
national organization. During the past 
four years he served as president of 
the Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball 
League and was a director in other 
organizations affiliated with the I. 
A. A. 

Mr. Black had a lovable, kindly, 
cheerful personality and made friends 
readily. He had a wide circle of 
friends among members of both 
Houses of the legislature and other 
men in public life, a number of whom 
attended the rites to pay last tribute 
to him. He had spent all his life 
operating his farm lands in Morgan 
county. 


ployes all working under the NRA 
code. Five trucks and eight wagons 
take care of the wholesale and retail 
departments. Each route has its sec- 
tion assigned. There is no over-lap- 
ping. 


l. A. A. Opposes Move 
To Increase Taxes 


N INCREASE in the tax bur- 
A den of farm and home owners 

of Illinois is proposed in Sen- 
ate bills 23-24-25 which provide for 
doubling the state tax for blind relief 
after January 1, 1935, and an ad- 
ditional county tax of 10 cents per 
$100 of assessed valuation. The bills 
passed the senate April 17. 

The I. A. A. in opposing the tax- 
raising measures points to a mandate 
from its 60,000 members in annual 
convention at Danville in January to 
the effect that the organization vigor- 
ously resist any and all further efforts 
to fasten additional taxes on the prop- 
erty owners of the state. The Asso- 
ciation is not opposed to relief for the 
blind, but it is against continual efforts 
to increase the burden of property 
owners each time more revenue is 
needed. 

Under the present law blind resi- 
dents of Illinois are entitled to a pen- 
sion of $365 a year. In some counties 
where tax collections are inadequate 
because of reduced assessed valuations, 
tax delinquency, or both, blind per- 
sons have not been getting the amount 
designated by statute. In some in- 
stances such persons have other means 
of support and do not need the pen- 
sion. 

For this reason the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association has secured the in- 
troduction of bills to permit county 
boards to fix pensions for blind per- 
sons at a figure below $365 per annum, 
when in the opinion of the board such 
action is justified. 


Mortgage Bills Pass 


Final passage of the Devine chattel 
mortgage filing bills at Springfield on 
April 18 will result in reducing the 
cost and facilitating chattel mortgage 
loans. The bills will become effective 
immediately when signed by Governor 
Horner. 

Under the new bills chattel mort- 
gages may be filed at a cost of only 
50 cents. Small additional charges are 
authorized for assignments, exten- 
sions, releases, etc. Under the old stat- 
utes recording fees range from $3 to 
$5 on the long form of chattel mort- 
gage used by the Production Credit 
Associations, which borrowers must 
pay. 

In addition to the support given by 
the I. A. A., Prairie Farmer, the State 
Department of Agriculture, and T. H. 
Fuller of the Farm Credit Administra- 
tion co-operated in securing the pas- 
sage of the new legislation. 


I, A. A. RECORD 


Mobilization Campaign kinds 


| SHARP upward trend in I. A. 
A A.-Farm Bureau membership 
with a total of 13,394 new 
members signed from October 9, 1933 
to April 1, 1934 was reported by Sec- 
retary Geo. E. Metzger to the I. A. A. 
board of directors who met in Chicago 
on April 13th. 


This figure is based on reports re- 
ceived from the 94 County Farm Bu- 
reaus up to April 12 and do not in- 
clude new members signed since the 
first. of April. 

In requesting membership reports 
from the counties it was specified that 
only new members should be reported 
whose dues were all or partially paid 
in cash, 

Knox county led all others with 602 
new members. Edgar and Livingston 
followed right behind with 568 and 
523 members respectively. Other coun- 
ties grouped in the 10 highest are as 
follows: Whiteside 356, Coles 349, 
Shelby 345, Woodford 343, Henderson 
343, Morgan 299, and Champaign 298. 


The mobilization campaign which 
was directed by the county captain 
supported by lieutenants working with 
him in nearly all the counties was 
marked by substantial collection of 
dues as well as new members. A num- 
ber of counties which emphasized this 
part of the campaign made notable 
records, although for the most part 
large membership gains and substan- 
tial collections went hand in hand. 


13,394. New Members Re- 
ported — Knox Leads with 
602 


The 10 high counties in cash col- 
lected during the six months’ period 
are as follows: Livingston, Cham- 
paign, Woodford, Knox, Henry, Win- 
nebago, LaSalle, Cook, DeKalb, and 
Lee, 

As a result Farm Bureau treasuries 
as well as the state organization are 
in better condition to carry on a vigor- 
ous pregram of service than at any 
time in the past two years. 


200 or More 


In addition to the ten high counties 
in new members signed, those securing 
200 or more new members include De- 
Kalb, Lee, Stephenson, Peoria, Bureau, 
Henry, Menard, Iroquois, Vermilion 
and Macoupin. 

Grouped according to organization 
districts, District III which includes 
the heavy grain and livestock produc- 
ing counties of north central and 
western Illinois led all others with a 
total of 2,953 new members. 

District V which includes central 
and east central Illinois counties in the 
north half of the state was second 
with 2,575 new members. District I 
in northern Illinois also gave a very 
good account of itself with 2,473 new 


members with all counties reporting. 

The indicated new membership of 
13,394 is conservative for it does not 
include reports from Warren and Pike 
counties which had not been received 
when the above figure was compiled. 
Both of these counties signed some 
new members and also participated in 
the collection campaign. 

A complete record of the new mem- 
bers signed by counties is given below: 


New 
Members 
County Signed 
District No. 1 [Clare Bradford] 
BONO nik. kis vale bs wv ic aren Oe 59 
IRE sb s6 ‘ee ob bac lb a bone ee ete 79 
CI gis gcc enw ocean 177 
RRMEMEE DD’: io o's cue ae alse cc eek a' e's 279 
BPUERTEE clive Cre ae nb aeeccat 73 
SORPAVIOES. ec accecececcecese 135 
MET aed higiy'y a:6-'0'0 0's Ko ebb ka 8 86 165 
MEME, ac 0 wcck's eeiee occas at 122 
MOY Be hac iglp a e's C6 bbb bb 0 web at 250 
Ee aah eiee beh en 66 
MN, 8 og 6 Cbs a:n.0'0  a'b 0 00 we 132 
Gas. 0. nd oa:t.0's O68 6.0008 164 
Stephenson ............0000- 228 
Whiteside ................., 356 
Winnebago ........... ee eeee 188 
2478 
District No. 3 [R. J. Hamilton] 
WMMOWNOEL ce Cok cele wceeeese 170 
WD, ¢.)e-o-& se 0 ec 0508 ois deg e's b's 226 
ake. vac ecco cha ce Chee 148 
WH OGL OPG (gov es vc cece ticce'c eae 348 
Marshall-Put. .............. 85 
I< no oe Cw ca's Cae bn és 0.0 82 169 
eg go: oon “w 6.5 ace Cente be 148 
RM og ss sn ere p ce-e bn ee ee Hc 232 
NES o's ee alse 08 Ce ha Re eee He 259 
EE eh: cn > 6. 0.0.0'§ 8 bbe eieies oe bk 602 
Henderson .......ceeececees 343 
ON ie ote wow cb Cr ee Cee ewes 172 
Rock Island ...........eee0e. 56 
EMT UOT <0 8 6 co 0c6 0b ¢ 050 b 0 aib6 0-658 — 
2953 


KNOX COUNTY LIEUTENANTS WHO SIGNED 280 MEMBERS IN FIVE DAYS 
B. L. Baird; Reed Gibbs; Elmer Anderson; A. E. Olson; Simon Anell; Fred Nelson; Everett Leigh; Earl Johnesa. 


ist row seated, reading from left to right: 


2nd row standing: John Clifford; Reuben Johnson; A. N. Skinner; Homer Cummings; Roscoe Simkins; A. 


and Loren Johnston. 


MAY, 1934 


L. Doubet; Kenneth Jones; W. H. 


Ash; James McKee; 


Mobilization Campaign 
Ends 
(Continued from page 5) 


District No. 4 [John C. Moore] 


oon v0 ana met wk bwebewa'e 147 
ESAS ER ea oA oe aE Tao 54 
ee ts rte tata 163 
COMODO a ove ces ce eee cenisee’s 99 
DEO. a vin ctceneéedevnes’ 165 
DO nd vk vid db 0 0b 06 Wa Wee's e 79 
SN gk '-0 ak gv te'b 6 eke a pba 180 
Ng is os o bin bee 8 08. eek 299 
MeDonough .........eeccees 142 
BS hoo ais nae bo kk kk elie — 
EEO. Sek as bee wei n eaa i 178 
PE. a ck cpa nsw db wade ee 0cb lh 4m oie 9 
1599 
District No. 5 [Asa B, Culp) 
PEIN ig og y/eic eg a > wR a bee vee 127 
CRAMOOION 2.600555 See ie cee eds 298 
i's, ok gia kd b's pe b's bk wet 67 
EN go's oc oe belaé 0 8 vee vitae be 116 
MORON TD oc océe.sis we ees eae 56 
NS Pn a 207 
BN hgh Rie ¢ 0 0.0 886 oe 0-0 ee 8S 8 102 
EPEES esac 0 b's Cos accwe bees ak 163 
MEE da Cas e'b sy S010 bes.6 ie we hat 151 
Pot ¢ 0): a ae 523 
ee ewabeeeeses 127 
Kankakee .............ec005 40 
po ne cee 282 
VOPMEHION isis we cc ccc eves s 216 
MINE 50. no's sh cié weg Bk oe a Aas 100 
2575 
anstrict No. 6 (L. B. Hornbeck] 
CEI ns ce ab evelu wae eeees 182 
BE ob bb 0't bivd bee aedieades 35 
SS ee oo as oc wk need 139 
ee ow ewe shies see es 349 
Cumberland .............06. 83 
NS ee 46 
CAEL Se Lt cen eo he cece eens 568 
a a  c 79 
L@WYeENCe ..... cece cece eee 66 
PS ec ec ee cbdcgeecewees 86 
MUNGRUORING |. cic wc atesieceGhan 74 
ote in i ane tear 345 
2052 
District No. 7 [H. H. Walker) 
Montgomery .........csseees 104 
PO ewes ie oe eee ph eee 124 
Washington ................ 78 
STE 6b 6's o.0 c-t vec eakiiegeiaee 165 
Randolph .......0eeeeveeves 167 
SOMOPMOD ciovccccucdcospepece 32 
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A significant feature of the drive 
in many counties is that many of the 
new members were signed by com- 
paratively few men. For example, in 
Henderson county most of the 343 
new members were signed by General 
Agent Bill Stevenson, Captain Otto 


Steffey and less than a half dozen 
lieutenants who worked with them. In 
Mason county Captain Leonard Keith 
and four or five lieutenants were 
largely responsible for signing the 
bulk of the 180 new members there. 
In other counties the local organiza- 
tion committees were successful in 
getting a large number of active 
lieutenants in the field. Solicitors with 
special training and experience or 
with an aptitude for presenting com- 
plete information to the prospect in a 
convincing way were most successful. 
Most of the men who worked were 
active farm operators without any 
special training in salesmanship. 


Tazewell Going Strong 


Geo. W. Deppert, captain of the mo- 
bilization campaign in Tazewell coun- 
ty, is responsible along with a loyal, 
hard-working group of lieutenants for 
signing 170 new 
members since 
October. 9. 

The Tazewell 
County Farm Bu- 
reau was the first 
organized Farm 
Bureau in Illinois. 
T he Kankakee 
County and De- 
Kalb County Soil 
and Crop Im- 
provement As- 
3 sociation, which 
later changed their names to Farm 
Bureau,. were the initial county or- 
ganizations. Both were established in 
1912. 

Tazewell county has had one of the 
strongest Farm Bureaus in the state 
for many years and was perhaps the 
first in the state to make low cost 
Farm Bureau auto insurance avail- 
able to its members. 


GEO. DEPPERT 


A. F. B. F. Works On 


Foreign Trade Move 


The executive committee of the 
American Farm Bureau Federation 
met in Washington April 11 at the 
call of Pres. Edw. A. O’Neal to con- 
sider the administrative program of 
reciprocal trade agreements with for- 
eign countries. President Earl C. 
Smith of the I. A. A. attended the 
Farm Bureau session, also met with 
representatives of other farm groups 
who are working together through the 
National Agricultural Conference. The 
Farm Bureau is backing the program, 
headed by Geo. N. Peek, to reestablish 
foreign outlets for surplus farm prad- 
ucts. 


Knox Has Biggest 
Signup Since ‘21 


Since the five-day campaign during 
which 18 men signed 280 new mem- 
bers, 17 more have been signed which 
brings the total for the two week pe- 
riod to 297, Farm adviser A. R. Kemp 
of Knox county writes. 

Knox county led the state in the mo- 
bilization campaign beginning last 
October by signing a total of 602 new 
members. 7 

“It was the co-operation of these 
solicitors, the Farm Bureau directors, 
and the men who drove them that 
made this record possible,” writes 
Kemp. “This brings the total member- 
ship of the Knox County Farm Bureau 
to 1381, which is the highest member- 
ship we have had in this county since 
war times. 

“The men who signed the highest 
number of members in this group are 
B. L. Baird with 34, Elmer Anderson 
26, Roscoe Simkins 21, A. N. Skinner 
20, A. L. Doubet 18, Reuben Johnson 
18, Loren Johnston 18, Reed Gibbs 17, 
and Earl Johnson 16.” 


Livestock Producers Hit 


New High Records 


During the week off April 7 to 13 
the Chicago Producers handled a tota) 
of 446 cars of livestock which consti- 
tuted 15.88% of Chicago receipts after 
deducting directs. This was a new rec- 
ord. Almost in the same mail came an 
announcement from Cincinnati Pro- 
ducers that they handled 51.17% of 
receipts on that market and 55.62% 
of the hogs. 

Buffalo Producers report 50.3% of 
total receipts for the same week, an- 
other record. 

This is a period of new records in 
cooperative livestock marketing. There 
has never been a time when livestock 
producers recognize more generally 
the necessity of cooperating in the 
marketing end of their business. 


Frank Is A Real 


Farm Bureau Booster 


When Frank Butler of Lee county 
joined the Farm Bureau he was so 
well sold on his organization that he 
turned right around and himself 
signed up 18 new members within 
two days. He followed up with six 
more in less than a week, making a 
total of 24 new members signed, re- 


ports Chuck Yale, farm adviser. 


Will Mr. Yale or someone else in Lee county send us 
a picture of New Member Butler for the next feeue of 
the RECORD.—Editor. 


I. A. A. RECORD 


Here's A Service That 
Helps, Says Brissenden 


New Farm Bureau members should 
not overlook an opportunity to use the 
I. A. A. transportation and claims 
service, It can help you. If you don’t 
believe it ask L. F. Brissenden of Clay 
county. 

Sometime ago Brissenden shipped a 
load of cattle from Chicago to Flora. 
The shipment was routed in such a 
way that the full rate would not apply 
and a combination rate over the 
junction point was charged. 

Mr, Brissenden took the matter up 
with Guy Baxter of the I. A. A. who 
applied to the two railroads involved, 
requesting the establishment of a 
through rate via this route. Then ap- 
plication was made to the Illinois 
Commerce Commission for authority 
to the railroad to make a refund on 
this shipment. This authority was 
granted with the result that Brissen- 
den received a check for $25.88 fol- 
lowing which he wrote the I. A. A. as 
follows: 

“Letter and check received. Many 
thanks for your kindness and perse- 
verance in this matter. This shows 
what it means to belong to an organ- 
ization that is on the job. 

“T doubt very much if I ever would 
have made any settlement with the 
road. This alone is almost enough to 
pay my dues for two years. More 


farmers and members should know 


about this valuable service you are 
rendering.” 


Ask Grain Rate Cut 


A request that lower freight rates 
on grain from points adjacent the Illi- 
nois river to Peoria be established as 
soon as possible was presented by the 
Illinois Agricultural Association and 
Illinois Grain Corporation at a hearing 
before Illinois railroad representatives 
in Chicago April 10. 

Farmers’ elevators in the Illinois 
River territory have complained that 
excessive rail rates on grain are handi- 
capping them in moving shipments 
to Peoria. Considerably lower rates 
charged by truck operators and the 
Federal Barge Line have resulted in 
substantial movements of grain away 
from the elevators. 


The rail rate from Varna in Mar- 
shall county to Peoria, for example, a 
distance of only about 50 miles, is nine 
cents per cwt. Trucks are hauling 
grain from that vicinity to Lacon and 
Peoria via truck and barge at a much 
lower rate. If this situation continues 
many farmers’ elevators will suffer a 


MAY, 1934 


CHAMPAIGN COUNTY CORN LOAN BOARD 


Left + right: Roy Mitchell, vice-pres.; W. Z. Black, pres.; A. R. Grindley, see’y-treas. Up 
000 bu. of corn fer leans at 45e per bu. Nine sealers 
armers. 


n county had — ‘approximately 4, 4,460, 000 
three clerks in addition to the board ha 
bey the top if net first in the caeuat of corn sealed 


a a "id serving Champaign county f 


te April t 
ag 
Champaign ranke 


big loss in volume of business if not 
total extinction. 

The I. A. A. believes that farmers’ 
elevators should be maintained as the 
basic unit in the co-operative grain 
marketing system. However, the As- 
sociation is strongly in favor of reduc- 
ing transportation costs to the farmer 
because such reductions are reflected 
in a higher net price. 

G. W. Baxter, of the I. A. A., pro- 
posed drastic reductions in rail rates 
on grain as follows: 3c per cwt. up to 
10 miles; 3%c from 10 to 25 miles; 
4c over 25 up to 50 miles; 4%c over 
50 and up to 75 miles; and 5c over 75 
and up to 100 mi. Railroad represent- 
atives were told that they face a fur- 
ther substantial loss of volume and 
revenue unless they make sharp re- 
ductions in their rates. 


Amateur Entertainment 
Features Lyceum Series 


It’s astonishing how much _ good 
amateur musical and entertainment 
talent there is around the state com- 
mented L. A. Williams, manager of 
Country Life Insurance Co., who 
spoke before 16 county-wide Farm 
Bureau gatherings during the past six 
weeks. General agents co-operating 
with Country Life Insurance Co. and 
the Farm Bureaus were given the job 
of bringing out the talent for the com- 
petition in the lyceum course series. 


‘“‘We had singers, tap dancers, make- 
up artists, and piccolo, cornet, trom- 
bone, clarinet, piano, stringed instru- 
ment, and saxophone players, readers, 
quartets, and almost everything you 
could ask for in the entertainment 
line,” said Williams. 


“We started out to discover local 
talent and we judged the entries large- 
ly on their ability to entertain the 
folks, as well as on such qualities as 
poise, delivery, execution, and tech- 
nical skill. It is our thought that we 
keep a record of the best entertain- 
ment talent in some central place and 
provide the Farm Bureaus with this 
information for use in meetings.” 

Silver medal winners were recently 
announced in “CLIC,” Country Life’s 
house organ. Gold medals will be 
awarded to the two state winners. 

At each meeting, Mr. Williams 
spoke for more than an hour on the 
subject “Whither Bound,” in which he 
dwelled on the opportunities and prob- 
lems ahead of organized farmers. 

Among the counties which partici- 
pated in the lyceum series are Peoria, 
Marshall-Putnam, Lake, DeKalb, 
Henry, Boone, Ford, Vermilion, Piatt, 
Iroquois, Livingston, Hancock, Mc- 
Donough, Tazewell, Moultrie, and 
Clark. Audiences averaged about 800, 
at each meeting. 


Germany Limits Lard 


Beginning with March, 1934 monthly 
imports of lard into Germany are be- 
ing limited to 40 per cent of the av- 
erage imports for the corresponding 
months of 1931-’33. This action will 
hit American hog producers hard be- 
cause the United States for a number 
of years has had the bulk of the 
German market. 

Lard imports to Germany from this 
country during 19384 may not exceed 
65,000,000, whereas in the early post- 
war years Germany bought from us 
an average of 250,000,000 pounds 
each year. 


1. LINOIS 
a@courtaky “as 6 
“RECORD 


To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was or- 
ganized namely, to promote, protect and represent the busi- 
ness, economic, political and educational interests of the 
farmers of Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 


George Thiem, Editor 
John Tracy, Ass’t Editor, 


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OFFICERS 
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Voce-rremident, A.B, Wright o: cc ciciciecccnsdececcecevccedouen’s Varna 
Secretary, Geo. EB. Metzger ..........cccccccccccceccccvecccecvucs Chicago 
WEORBUTEL, “TE. A. COWIE oocikis ovens vcccecavndgewe ces cecceents Bloomington 
BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
(By Congressional District) 

1st OO RAG: i cedeacvecestnekb bbs badoae FibaChobasllie E. Harris, Grayslake 
MES 675. 5:65 9 0.03.44 VSS ON Rie c Re ea Eo oS wee aie KE. E. Honghtby, Shapbona 

MP5 60 6.0 Cd abled oo 6 OOS WED OER Mw eed hed ob eR C. E. Bamborough, Polo 
Cas O48 KUCV dw 6030600 Tb ob VEe Raa es eke eo EE Otto Steffey, Stronghurst 
A Pers Car Ant) mene ee meray SMB M. Ray Ihrig, Golden 
Aa a io's'05s-6 Ud Ge Che teak ke CAGE eee bik peewee Albert Hayes, Chillicothe 
aie aE KG 0 Ha COST Gh wes Gs kb whi beoues . D. Lawrence, Bloomington 
INS.2 4:0's's bv c'o'¢ 9 6'0.0.5 0 60's ace big 05.00 G60 ng aulewe Mont Fox, Oakwood 
Ma Kado cys edeh Che Bal de cut ce chen ts settee cube Eugene Curtis, Champaign 
SNS 6 Bis'ea ang hoy 0-0 2'0.6 bdied 6406 koe oD cee Charles 8. Black, Jacksonville 
SE. bib 04.5. ih 8.0 G066.6 6b 090.00 be oe bh oe cen Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 
MIG 6.6 4:0.0b.5-0 bo 85 bb be hiv DLs caw d CE Rn eee ecco A. O. Eckert, Belleville 
EK $5.6. 8-00 o 8 wa's'nin bce oe FEES Oe EN hed 6 nate Clan deen . L , Salem 
BE Ss cha W alee Oak Coa ae Saath eek ee Charles Marshall, Belknap 
KS dice hs Wd ba CdR a das Aga Rie Ree we R. B. Endicott, Villa Ridge 

DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 
NE, on sso ac cidtcedecuctkaesig ccustvcearkitsthevecar J. H, Kelker 
MOORE DEMPKCOCING » oo'6 in cis do deicce oc bug g cedvececcwvevguceicens J. B. Countiss 
NEE ii au 'ein'k.b.0's & 0.0: in a aro Gb cd ose godin coeesgeeneeia R. A. Cowles 
Wruit and Vegetable Marketing.................scceceesseees H. . Day 
SEE ak hie 65d 0 eye bio os cic Prag enece ceesscevedoond George Thiem 
IMBULANCE Hervice........ cece ccccccccccccccsecccssecececesecs V. Vaniman 
Mae SE SGRR ED iv'ce ak as Vintec ceedoectacceonosecééa Donald Kirkpatrick 
Live Stock Marketing..... ee eewepesvecdccdsaecacccebenemina Ray E. Miller 
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OAONOND wh WSs od 0.6 caica.c > oo cod case Covegscodececespasea G. E. Metzger 
Produce Marketing..............ccccccccseeccececceeevenes F. A. Gougler 
Taxation and Statistics................cccccccccccccccecees J. C. Watson 
Transportation Div’n............cceeccee ee cceeeeeees weedeat G. W. Baxter 
ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 

Country Life Insurance Co.............eeseceeeenes L. A. Williams, Mgr. 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co............seeseeee> J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricural Auditing Ass’D............seese+: F. E. Ringham, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co......... A. E. Richardson, Mgr. 
Illinois Farm Supply Co........ccccececccccsvesers L. R. Marchant, Mgr. 
Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange...........ssseeseeesess H. W. Day, Mar. 
Illinois Grain Corp.......ccseccccccesevecsesecs Harrison Fahrnkopf, Mgr. 
Illinois Livestock Marketing ASs’D.............eeeeeeees Ray Miller, Mgr. 
Illinois Producers Creameries..F. A. Gougler, Mgr., J. B. Countiss, Sales 
Soybean Marketing Ass’D........ceececccccesecacs J. W. Armstrong, Pres. 


Gas Tax Diversion 


ONTINUED efforts to divert more gasoline taxes 
CO away from their intended purpose may prove to be 
a round about way of increasing the property tax 
load. Originally streets and roads were built and main- 
tained by property owners out of property taxes. Many 
still are. The gas tax was enacted to change that inde- 
fensible system. It was a step toward property tax reduc- 
tion. It placed the cost of building and maintaining roads 
on the people who use them. This is as it should be. Now 
as gas tax revenues are further diverted from their right- 
ful use and roads and streets wear out, the tendency will 
be to increase taxes on property for highway improvement. 
Gas tax diversion has another evil side to it. It stops 
road building and creates unemployment. A large number 
of family heads depend on this kind of work to support 
their families. It has been estimated that 22,500 men 
would be employed on road building and maintenance dur- 
ing the coming season on the $8,000,000 which pending 
legislation at Springfield would divert to other uses. 
Counting four to the family makes 90,000 people, many 
of whom may be forced on the relief rolls. 
Gas tax diversion is another case of robbing Peter to 
pay Paul. It is makeshift government, wrong in principle 


and unjustifiable. Proposed use of gas tax funds for 
schools is another effort to impose on downstate counties 
the penalty for the many years of reckless tax waste and 
more recent tax delinquency in Chicago and Cook county. 
For if the $30,000,000 owing the state by the metropolitan 
area had been paid, the reason for previous raids on road 
funds and the current attempt would largely have been 
avoided. 


The Way Out 


T REQUIRED the hardship of the last three years to 

I arouse city home and real estate owners of Illinois 

to the need for a state constitutional amendment and 

an equitable taxing system. Had their organized support 

been given the Illinois Agricultural Association years ago 

when attempts were made to pass a proper tax amend- 

ment, recent chaotic conditions in state and local govern- 
ment might easily have been avoided. 

Despite the general decline in incomes, the citizens of 
the state are still financially capable of maintaining the 
useful and needed functions of government. What’s nec- 
essary, however, is an equitable distribution of the tax 
burden. The majority of our people, particularly city 
owners of intangible wealth and those receiving salaries, 
fees, and wages, own no real estate and pay no local and 
state taxes. For this reason taxes on real estate and some 
kinds of personal property have been unbearably high. 

The situation calls for an early session of the General 
Assembly to submit a revenue amendment definitely limit- 
ing property taxes and permitting classification of prop- 
erty and income for tax purposes. Until the voters adopt 
such an amendment and pave the way for an honest tax- 
ing system, there will be a continuation of crises and 
make-shift efforts at Springfield to meet them. 


Necessary to Recovery 


a4 T° THE administration is to concentrate more on 

recovery and less on reform, a further bolstering 

up of agricultural prices is indicated,” states M. S. 
Rukeyser, well known financial writer. “Such a plan offers 
an avenue to success for the President’s budgetary pro- 
gram for the next two years. It will enable private in- 
dustry, commerce, and agriculture gradually to absorb men 
released from emergency public payrolls.” 

This statement, presenting the point of view of many 
business observers, emphasizes the fact that the continu- 
ing disparity between the price of the farmer’s products 
and the price of things he has to buy is responsible for 
continued unemployment. The farm situation everyone 
knows is much better than that of a year or more ago. 
Business and employment reflect that improvement. Yet 
there must be a further narrowing of the gap to equalize 
farm purchasing power and speed up exchange of farm 
and non-agricultural commodities. 

As Mr. Rukeyser points out, “To some analysts it appears 
that the untimely raising of industrial costs by the NRA 
aborted the rapid building of a solid foundation for re- 
covery in the relative raising of depressed agricultural 
prices.” 


look foolish when they assume in one breath that the 

proposed processing tax on butter will be borne en- 
tirely by farmers, and complain in the next breath that 
dairy farmers have had to help pay the processing taxes 
on cotton, tobacco, wheat, corn and hogs. Both statements 
can’t be right, yet speeches more remarkable for their 
passion than for reason were delivered against the gov- 
ernment program during the dairy hearing at Madison 
which contained such assertions. 


§ ot of our so-called dairy leaders make themselves 


I. A. A. RECORD 


When certain metropolitan newspa- 
pers shout about the freedom of the 
press what they really have in mind is 
freedom to follow the pet prejudices of 
their publishers and protect the vested 


interests of their advertisers. Ask 
any honest newspaper reporter what 
he thinks about the freedom of the 
press and he’ll laugh right out loud if 
the boss isn’t looking. He knows only 
too well, and sometimes from sad ex- 
perience, that the paper he works for 
has “pets” and “policies,” that it must 
not step on the toes of certain inter- 
ests and people. 


Many newspapers are controlled 
from their business offices. Editorial 
writers and reporters are not always 
privileged to follow the dictates of 
their own conscience or write as they 
see things. They get their orders 
from higher up and write accordingly. 
The financial pages of big dailies are 
often edited to please the banks, bro- 
kerage and investment houses, com- 
mission men, and others who contrib- 
ute thousands of dollars annually 
through advertising in normal times 
to their support. 


Real freedom of the press would be 
a wholesome thing in America. The 
man in the street would glory in it. 
No patriotic citizen who has given the 
matter any thought wants to see real 
freedom of the press curbed or abol- 
ished. They would like to see it re- 
stored. The downright thievery and 
skullduggery practiced by big bankers, 
investment houses, utility magnates. 
real estate operators, and corporation 
executives during the boom days sel- 
dom drew a word of criticism from 
big newspapers. Their financial editors 
must have known what was going on. 
Yet they seldom protested. The pub- 
lishers played the game and took their 
percentage through advertising along 
with the rest. 


Whether true or not, it was fre- 
quently reported that under the old 
tax-fixing regime in Chicago, certain 
daily newspapers exchanged political 
support for low assessments, and vice 
versa bitterly attacked any men in 
public life they could not control. The 
editorial writer may have his ideals 
but the publisher or business manager 
is practical. The rank and file of news- 
papers today are primarily in the 
business of making a proft. In fair- 
ness let us say that there are still 
many that try to serve the public in- 
terest, at least that public comprising 


MAY, 1934 


ee ADVISER RAY C. DONEGHUE OF MecDONOUGH COUNTY, 


H Smith for winning the 1933, 10 we. Pewee 
by the University of Illinois, College of 

Mr. Smith’s 10 
was 85.1 bushels. 
produced. 


the bulk of their subscribers. But 
profit comes first and that means 
there are certain people in every city 
who must not be offended. 


If the freedom of the press is ever 
disturbed by the popular will of the 
people expressed through the congress, 
it will be because of the abuse of the 
privilege by newspapers themselves; 
because the immense power and in- 
fluence they wield on the public mind 
and morals is used for personal ends 
rather than for social welfare.—E. 
G. T. 


Call On Pres. Roosevelt 


President Edward A. O’Neal and 
Secretary Wallace recently called on 
President Roosevelt and spent an hour 
with him discussing tariff problems. 

“We have the President’s assurance 
that he will give proper protection to 
American agriculture in tariff re- 
form,” said Mr. O’Neal, following the 
meeting. “I agree with the philosophy 
of Secretary Wallace that reduction of 
surpluses in line with natural needs, 
plus a greater outlet for farm sur- 
pluses, offers a sound and construc- 
tive attack on the farm problem. 

“Agriculture is setting great store 
by the work undertaken in Washing- 
ton to restore world trade, by our 
good friend George N. Peek, just ap- 
pointed by the President as Special 
Adviser on Foreign Trade, to assist 
him in promoting foreign markets. Mr. 
Peek is endeavoring to speed up the 
movement of commodities between us 
and foreign nations.” 


LEFT, IS CONGRATULATING 


corm growing contest of illinois. The contest was sponsored 


riculture. 
acre field * vielded 99.1 — per acre, whereas the average yield of the next (0 contestants 
The total cost por acre of thie crop was computed at $20.56 er 21 cents per bushel ef corn 


McDonough Champion 
Corn Costs 21c Per Bu. 


Among its many activities the Farm 
Bureau encourages more efficient pro- 
duction which means higher yields on 
fewer acres. And the record made re- 
cently by a McDonough County Farm 
Bureau member, H. B. Smith, in win- 
ning the state corn yield contest is an 
example of the effective work the 
Farm>-Bureau and its members are 
doing in improving farm production. 

Mr. Smith got a yield of 99.1 bushels 
per acre in a 10 acre field. The total 
cost of producing the 10 acres of corn 
was computed at $205.60 as follows: 


Growing 
BEIRUT 5 ccc ccc hb abe derder $ 9.12 
PROPee TODO. o.. 6 vcc ke ccc ewcen, 11.16 
Machinery expense ............ 6.00 
ME tos aS ba a eaatee & oe 9 06 001080 0.8 2.63 
Manure, fertilizers and 

limestoneS .....-.e cee eeeeeee 75.80° 
Mise. and overhead ........... 6.27 
Total growing cost ............ 110.98 
Total harvesting cost ......... 19.82 
Cost of growing and 

ROFVOSEINE ccc cccueecueaicses 130.80 
TO. :\ s ie'e © 0.8 00:0 Bo ee ee 88 12.30 
Interest on land at 5% ........ 62.50° 
SUPE Abed GAO hc ec 6 8 be oe ceuees 205.60 
Total cost per acre ............ 20.56 


Cost per bushel of corn ........ .21 


* In 1933 the fertility charge was 
made for nitrogen, phosphorus, and 
potassium removed from the soil by 
corn. Land valued at $126 per A. 


The fact that the Farm Bureau has 
maintained a seed corn testing serv- 
ice for many years has been helpful to 
McDonough county farmers in grow- 
ing larger yields of corn on fewer 
acres at lower eost. 


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To see Ring put a feller out the gate. 

He’s another one 0’ them corn-hog 
men, 

A spludgin’ ’round with a fountain 
pen, 

A tryin’ to trick 
me into co-op- 
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But I’ve heard all 
about their 
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And I’m one bird 
that they can’t 
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Fer I’m as shrewd as an adult mule. 

I asked ’im how he’d got his job, 

And if he b’longed to the graftin’ 
mob, 

Then I up and told ’im goodin’ ruff 

I wuz tired uve this here government 
stuff; ) 

And they wuzent a guverment any- 
where 

That could tell me as how I didn’t 
dare 

To raise all the pigs that Old Bess 
had | 

Er plant the forty in corn, by-dad. 

I guess he thot I ment what I sed 

Fer he just kindy shuck his head 

And sed that hit was awful funny 

Fellers like me didn’t need the munny. 

But ye see I know’d where he got his 

And if I didn’t sign hit’d hurt his biz, 

Then I spat and told ’im to his face 

That me and Jake would run this 
place. 


Il 


Now Joe, why don’t you think a bit 

’*Stead a braggin’ and blowin’ about 
yer wit. 

Your ignorance has filled ye full of 
fears 

You’v got yer thumbs poked in yer 
ears 

So you can’t hear the facts at all 

When on yer old flat head they fall. 

If you’d sit up tonight and think 

Tomorrow you'd be a different gink. 

Where will yer figgerin lead ye to? 

I’ll betcha that never occured to you 

All yer work don’t help yer none, 

Why don’t ye rest and have some fun? 

We'll eat this surplus up, by Joe, 

Then when we work we'll make some 
dough. 

Ever hear uve the man with a dozen 
kids | 

How he put wisdom ’neath their lids 

With a bundle uve sticks they failed 
to break 

Then up the old man wisely spake, 

Long as you lads stand hand in hand 

You need fear no enemy in the land. 

—Harry B. Claar 


10 


Knox County Farm Bureau's New Building and Modern 
Service Station Dedicated Recently 


HE front office of the building 
downstairs contains desks and 
files of stenographers and 
clerical help. Following down the 
corridor to the right is the farm ad- 
viser’s office, assistant’s office, insur- 
ance department, auditor, mimeograph 
and addressograph room and directors’ 
meeting room. 


On the north side of the building 
as one enters is a ladies’ rest room. 
Following down the hall on the left is 
the Knox County Oil Company’s of- 
fice, a storeroom and a small meeting 
room being used for the corn and hog 


‘program. 


On the second floor an auditorium 
seats between 500 and 600, has a stage 
at the front end of the building and 
an entrance in the rear of the build- 
ing. There is a full basement which 
houses the office and laboratory of 
the Galesburg Pure Milk Association. 
The basement also contains the boiler 
room, seed-corn testing equipment, 
seed-corn storage room, etc. 


The building is constructed chiefly 
of brick, concrete and steel and is sub- 
stantially fire proof. A large parking 
space in the rear of the building is 
available for members. 


The total cost of the building, in- 
cluding heating and plumbing equip- 
ment, was $15,863.96. The furniture 
and other equipment brought the total 
to approximately $17,500. 

The building was made possible 
through the efforts of the board of 
directors who started some 12 years 
ago on a planned budget system set- 
ting aside small amounts each year 
to erect such a building. The new 
structure and its equipment will be 
entirely paid for out of savings with- 
out indebtedness on the property. 

The present board of directors is as 


follows: James McKee, Harry Gehring, 
Harold Roberts, H. S. Brown, T. J. 
Sullivan, H. B. Behringer, Roy Patty, 
Robert Gibbs, Edwin Gumm, S. E. 
Ecklund, L. E. Olson, A. L. Doubet, 
A. J. Ryden, K. V. Lacy, Jesse Arie, 
B. L. Baird, C. M. Hunter, Guy Routh, 
Ira Moats and Bernard Mathews. 


The building committee that super- 
vised the building consisted of T. J. 
Sullivan of Galesburg, Ira Moats of 
Maquon and Guy Routh of Hermon. | 


Wool Grower Who 
Sells At Any Price 


Breaks the Market 


The wool grower who is willing to 
sell at any price is the culprit who 
breaks the market, according to the 
National Wool Marketing Association. 
If all the wool in the United States 
were shipped east on consignment in 
the hands of dealers, and the National 
prices could be held where they are, 
there would be a real opportunity to 
raise them. 


“It is not our policy,” states the cor- 
poration, “to come out and tell the 
wool growers that wool is going to be 
a good deal higher in order to secure 
consignments. None of us can defi- 
nitely predict the future. We do feel 
that the growers have had sufficient 
proof that the National can and does 
market its holdings to return the 
growers the highest prices. 


“It is folly for 1 wool grower to try 
to pick the year he will consign and 
the year he will sell. As a rule those 
who attempt it pick just the wrong 
year. Those who consign every year 
and support their own organization 
are bound to win on the average.” 


I. A. A. RECORD 


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A Remarkable Co-operative 


ORN of an idea, with all the 
B marks of success at the very 

outset, Illinois Farm Supply is 
now well into another record breaking 
year which promises to eclipse last 
year’s remarkable business, and firmly 
intrench the company as the largest 
state petroleum co-operative in the 
United States. According to L. R. 
Marchant, manager, Illinois Farm 
Supply has handled 21,675,240 gallons 
ef motor fuels for the seven-month 
period ending March 31, 1934. This 
total includes 15,258,287 gallons of 
gasoline, 4,425,971 gallons of kerosene 
and 1,990,983 gallons of distillate and 
fuel oil—a new record for the period. 


April will be the greatest in the 
company’s history. With more than a 


. train load of motor fuels a day being 


delivered to the affiliated companies, 
the first 3 weeks of April 1934 exceed 
the whole of tank car shipments in 
April 1933. 


Motor oil shows a 44 per cent gain 
over the corresponding period last 
year with a total of 756,245 gallons. 
Grease sales total 472,356 pounds, a 
gain of 17% per cent. Leading the 
field in percentage of increase is Soy- 
oil Paint which is 316 per cent ahead 
ef last year, the current volume being 
equal to a carload every three days. 
Brunswick tire sales are also on the 
increase, the 6,838 tires handled dur- 
ing the seven-month period being dou- 
ble the tire business last year. 


Grows Fast 


With each year outdoing the pre- 


vious one by a good margin, Farm Bu.. 


reau members have become accus- 
tomed to announcements of Farm Sup- 
ply’s rapid growth. On the basis of 
the last year’s business it is hard to 
imagine that when Geo. R. Wick- 
er, the first manager of Illinois 
Farm Supply, opened up for 
business March 7, 1927, with 6 
county companies, 

that by the end of Through these 
the year there 

were 11 affiliated Dis that sup. 
county companies Riv, members with 
which handled 2,- ‘eleum Products. 
102,970 gallons of 
gasoline, 1,112,508 
gallons of kero- 
sene, 106,076 gal- 
lons of lubri- 
cating oils, 48,236 
pounds of greases 
and 2,471 gallons of de- 

natured alcohol. This ‘frien Pte 


was for the 6 actual watchword jn Iill- 


Promptness and 


MAY, 1934 


Illinois Farm Supply Con- 
tinues' Record-Breaking 
Pace in Serving Members 


business months remaining in the 
year. The next year, 1928, about 
twice the business was done. Dividends 
amounting to $11,239.71 were paid to 
affiliated companies. Everybody was 
feeling pretty good. There were now 
16 affiliated county companies. The 
year 1929 saw some changes. Mr. 
Wicker left to go into business for 
himself. L. R. Marchant came from 
Galesburg to assume the managership. 
Business was getting better. Patron- 
age dividends took a decided jump. 
“here were now 21 affiliated com- 
panies. More counties were organ- 
izing. The depression hit the country. 
Farm prices dropped like a plummet. 
Yet, Illinois Farm Supply went its 
record-breaking way. By the end of 
1931 there were 47 companies, with a 
resulting increase in sales. New prod- 
ucts were added. Came 1933, and a 
$6,000,000 business. More than 40,- 
000,000 gallons of petroleum products 
were distributed through 54 County 
Service companies. Since 1927, more 
than $324,000 has been paid in divi- 
dends to member companies by Illinois 
Farm Supply. These dividends con- 
tributed greatly to the $500,000 in pa- 
tronage dividends returned to member 
patrons for the third consecutive year. 

Today, 1934, 56 affiliated companies 
serve every county in the state with 
the exception of Sangamon and Cass. 
A far cry from the original 11. More 
business is now done in a month than 
the whole of 1927. More than 425 


tank trucks travel the highways daily. 
Better than 500 retail outlets dispense 


Illinois Farm Supply products to 
members and non-members in towns 
and countryside. Bulk storage plants 
numbering more than 145 speed up 
service to patrons. 

The value of Illinois Farm Supply 
and its 56 affiliated comipanies does 
not stop with quality, service, and low 
cost in petroleum products. Not just 
a purchasing organization to pass 
along quantity price savings to pa- 
trons, the advent of this powerful 
farm co-operative has wrought great 
changes in the products and methods 
of doing business of privately-owned 
petroleum marketers. For many years 
previous to the coming of Farm Sup- 
ply, Farm Bureau members were pay- 
ing high prices for inferior petroleum 
products. Today, the whole quality 
level has been raised for the prime 
reason that Farm Supply quality 
forced competition to improve. The 
enormous purchases of the company 
not only place it in a strong bargain- 
ing position from the standpoint of 
price but assure member patrons of 
strict maintenance of highest quality. 


Built on Confidence 


Thus, from an idea, a dream, the de- 
termination of Illinois farmers to im- 
prove their buying conditions has re- 
sulted in fulfillment. Illinois Farm Bu- 
reau members can point with pride to 
Illinois Farm Supply and its 56 affili- 
ated companies. They can set it forth 
as the finest example of its kind in co- 
operative, organized action, and what 
unity can accomplish. Those who 
closely study the trend of the times, 
see in Illinois Farm Supply the fore- 
runner of similar properly conducted 
co-operatives in other parts of the 
country. 

The die is cast. There is no 
turning back. Good as 1933 was, 
1934 promises to be even better. 
The confidence of Illinois farm- 


ers in their own company 
is firmly es- 
Manager L. R. tablished. That 
Marchant at his ° 
esk. 6.W. confidence will 
Bunting, assiet- 
t, Be not be taken 


lightly. It is the 
structure upon 
which Illinois 
Farm Supply and 
the wide - awake 
County Service 
Companies will 
continue to render 
| | outstanding serv- 
nes, ice to Illinois 
Farm Bureau 
members. 


to manager. 


11 


Cites Big Growth In 
Cost of Distribution 


Numbers of Workers Engaged 
In Processing And Distribu- 
tion Greatly Increased 


The tremendous increase in the cost 
of distribution of farm products dur- 
ing the past 40 years was reviewed 
by Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel, economic ad- 
viser to Secretary Wallace, in a recent 
address to Eastern retailers at Boston. 

In the 40 years from 1890 to 1930 
farm workers increased hardly at all, 
he said; workers on farms and in fac- 
tories combined increased from 15,- 
000,000 to 25,000,000; but the number 
of persons engaged in trade and 
transportation increased from 3,500,- 
000 in 1890 to 12,000,000 by 1930— 
from two workers in distribution for 
each ten in fiscal production in 1890, 
to almost five in distribution for ten 
in such production in 1930. 


During the 40-year period the num- 
ber of workers in fiscal production in- 
creased by 80 per cent. Workers in 
the professions and other service occu- 
pations doubled, and workers in trade 
and transportation almost quadrupled. 


From 1890 to 19138 the farm price of 
foods increased 36 per cent and the 
retail price of foods almost 70 per 
cent. 


Farmer’s Portion Cut 


Thus, with a materially decreased 
selling price since the current depres- 
sion set in, and a substantially main- 
tained margin by distributors, the por- 
tion left for the farmer was sharply 
reduced. 


Although the retail prices at which 
food products sold declined only 35 
per cent between 1929 and 1932, the 
prices received by farmers for food 
products declined about 55 per cent. 
Grocers received 65 per cent as much 
as formerly and the farmer only 45 
per cent as much. 


Ezekiel asks the questions: Should 
we not begin to develop a decentral- 
ized type of production with much 
smaller units of plants and equip- 
ment and selling its products through 
simpler means and nearer to the point 
of production? 

Might it not be desirable for more 
men to engage in such decentralized 
production ? 

Might not standards of living be 
higher all the way around if we so 
organize production and distribution 
that we again have a large majority 
of the population in the country en- 
gaged in production and only a small 
proportion engaged in transportation 
and selling ? 


12 


Emergency Crop Loans 


The St. Louis Federal Land Bank 
reports that farmers who cannot 
qualify for credit elsewhere may apply 
for an emergency crop loan through 
the local office. Farm Bureaus are re- 
ceiving such applications. A fund of 
$40,000,000 was recently appropriated 
by congress for this purpose. The 
maximum loan which will be made this 
year to any one farmer is $250 and 
the minimum is $25. The interest rate 
is 5% per cent per annum. To be 
eligible a farmer must be a co-oper- 
ator in the AAA production control 
program. 

A farmer applying for a loan of 
$150 or more must first make applica- 
tion to the Production Credit Associa- 
tion serving his county. Rejection of 
his application will be considered 
sufficient evidence that other credit is 
not available and the farmer may then 
make application to the emergency 
crop loan office. 

Production credit associations have 
been established in the following 
cities in Illinois: Amboy, Anna, Belle- 
ville, Bloomington, Carlinville, Carmi, 
Carrollton, Champaign, Charleston, 
DeKalb, Paxton, Galesburg, Geneva, 
Harrisburg, Havana, Centralia, Jack- 
sonville, Joliet, Kewanee, Lincoln, Pon- 
tiac, Macomb, Decatur, Aledo, Mon- 
mouth, Mt. Vernon, Oregon, Ottawa, 
Pekin, Pittsfield, Quincy, Robinson, 
Rock Island, Shelbyville, Springfield, 
Danville, Watseka, Wheaton, and 
Woodstock. 

The federal land banks are now of- 
fering land bank bonds in place of 
cash in refinancing farm mortgages. 
The bonds are guaranteed by the gov- 
ernment both as to interest and 
principal. They bear 3% per cent in- 
terest. 

Walter L. Rust, president of the St. 
Louis Land Bank, states that the most 
recent report shuws the bid price on 
these bonds was 101 and offered 101%. 
He states that signed agreements to 
accept the bonds in lieu of cash are 
being received by the land bank at the 
rate of more than 500 per day. 


Corn-Hog Contracts 


It is estimated that around one mil- 
lion corn-hog contracts will be signed 
when the campaign is completed. IIli- 
nois is expecting to deliver about 125,- 
000 contracts, 110,000 of which were 
reported signed several weeks ago. 
Iowa reports 160,000 contracts signed. 
The first contracts have been received 
in Washington. The administration 
hopes to begin sending out first bene- 
fit payment checks soon. 


It's Up to the Livestock 
Growers To Do This Job 


A man from the St. Louis Producers 
recently called on 141 Adams county 
farmers, 29 of whom were shipping 
100 per cent of their livestock through 
the Adams County Shippers Associa- 
tion which markets all livestock re- 
ceived through co-operatives. Thirty- 
seven sent 100 per cent of their live- 
stock by truck direct to the St. Louis 
Producers and 75 were just not going 
any place—mostly to old-line firms 
and direct to the packers, Fifty-three 
of the 75 farmers visited never 
shipped anything through co-operative 
channels, and 22 shipped a few head 
co-operatively sometime during the 
past. 

“We are of the opinion that the pro- 
ducers themselves must eventually sell 
their neighbors who are non-cooper- 


ators if we are to obtain 50 per cent > 


or more of the livestock during 1934 
through co-operative channels,” con- 
cludes the marketing committee of the 
Adams County Farm Bureau. 


Quality Milk Meeting 


At the Le Claire hotel, Moline, on 
Saturday night, March 31, several hun- 
dred members of the Quality Milk As- 
sociation voted in favor of leaving its 
Class B stock with the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association. Secretary George 
E. Metzger stated that if it was the 
wish of the members that the I. A. A. 
step out of the picture it would do so. 
When President F: H. Schafer put the 
question, the members voted to main- 
tain the present relationship. The IIli- 
nois-lowa Milk Producers have been 
opposing government licensing of milk 
dealers and a higher price to the pro- 
ducers on the ground that the “B” 
stock setup was a bar to a merger of 
the two groups. Many Quality As- 
sociation members believe that the I 
and I group is dominated by certain 
dealers who feel that if the Farm Bu- 
reau and I. A. A. withdraw the dis- 
tributors can soon reign again as mar- 
ket dictators. 

All directors of the Quality Milk 
Association were re-elected. 

Manager Frank Watson reported 
that the Association handled 29,490,- 
258 pounds of milk in 1933, 32 per 
cent of which was sold in Class 1. The 
surplus plant handled a little more 
than 10,000,000 pounds. 

The Association has invested ap- 
proximately $13,000 in equipment in 
its plant, all of which is paid for. 
Neither the Quality Milk Association 
nor its subsidiary have one dime of 
indebtedness against them. 


I. A. A. RECORD 


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no hail loss has occurred, you have 
paid only a small premium for the 
protection. 


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crops this year. Wouldn’t you 
welcome a good, big, check like 
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loss, these two men and hundreds 
of others had a good harvest in 
spite of hail! 


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State Seed Corn 
Winner Used Farm 


Bureau Testing Service 


Clarence Watson of McDonough 
county who won first prize in the Util- 
ity Corn Show at the last Farm 
and Home Week in Urbana, was the 
first secretary of the McDonough 
County Farm Bureau and later became 
president. He was one of the first 
farmers in the county to take an ac- 
tive interest in the corn improvement 
program when the project was 
launched by McDonough County Farm 
Bureau. Before that time he had been 
following out a permanent soil fer- 
tility program and also had been do- 
ing some corn breeding work. 


He has been a consistent patron of 
the seed corn testing laboratory the 
County Farm Bureau established at 
Macomb in 1925. Careful and con- 
sistent seed corn testing and selection, 
made possible by the McDonough 
County Farm Bureau, was helpful to 
Mr. Watson in winning the title of 
Illinois Corn King. 


McDonough county also produced 
the winner of the 10-acre yield con- 
test in Illinois last year. H. B. Smith 
of Bardolph won this contest with a 
yield of 99 bushels. 


What's In A Name? 


Quite a lot when some patron of 
a Producer Livestock Commission 
agency fails to get his returns prompt- 
ly or at the end of the year gets no 
refund or a refund on only part of the 
livestock consigned. The explanation 
for a lot of the difficulties of this sort 
is simple. 

One consignment of hogs may go in 
the name of John L. White, the next 
Jack White. A later shipment may be 
in the name of J. L. White and still 


another John White. This situation | 


often delays the check at the local post 
office. Instances have been known 
where a check has lain in the local 
post office for days or even weeks be- 
cause the postmaster did not recog- 
nize that Jack White might have been 
John L. White. 


Trouble is always encountered at 
the end of the year when Producers 
Associations make up their refund 
checks. During the corn-hog signup 
complaints were made by shippers 
who were mistakenly given credit for 
only a part of their hogs. It will save 
a lot of confusion if every farmer 
makes it a rule to send his livestock 
to market always using exactly the 
same name and initial. 


14 


Clarence Watson, Farm Bureau Member of McDonough County, who woa 
gi Type Seed Corn during Farm and Home Work of 


Watson ts shown pointing to McDonough 
ef the McDonough County Farm B 


county on the IIlinois 
ureau to help him  aevales high vielding, disease free a 


First Prize on his (0 ear ey ~ ty 
the tuinets College of Agriculture, Urbana. 
He used the seed corn testing service 


Lime and Legumes 


On Contracted Acres 


Smart Illinois farmers are spread- 
ing limestone and sowing their con- 
tracted acres to sweet clover, alfalfa, 
and other legumes for three reasons: 
to improve the soil, stop soil erosion, 
cut production costs by upping yields. 


The University of Illinois reports 
that around one-tenth of Illinois crop 
acres will probably be retired this 
year through the corn-hog and wheat 
programs. This land should not be 
allowed to wash. It won’t wash with 
a stand of clover on it. 

At the Dixon field, says A. L. Lang, 
sweet clover on a limed soil of good 
productivity, when rotated with corn, 
oats, and wheat and plowed under as 
green manure, improved the corn yield 
17 bu. an acre annually as a three 
year average. 

It takes just about as much work 
to grow a 40 bu. corn crop as a 60 
bu. crop. The extra 20 bu. makes the 
difference sometimes between profit 
and loss. 

Call your Farm Bureau and order 
limestone for those idle acres if they 
are acid. Your farm adviser will be 
glad to test soil samples delivered to 
the office. Sow alfalfa in July, or 
sweet clover in the corn field at the 


last cultivation to be plowed under as 
a green manure crop later. Soybeans, 
too, will yield better on sweet soil that 
has been limed. In Randolph county 
manured soil yielded only 340 pounds 
of soybean hay per acre but when 
limestone was added (light gray silt 
loam) the yield of bean hay was 1,700 


- pounds. 


|. A. A. Board Action 


The I. A. A. board recently approved 
a proposed membership card to be 
given to members on payment of dues. 
The board also authorized the exec- 
utive officers to negotiate limestone 
contracts with quarry operators, to 
center purchases of agricultural lime- 
stone in the Illinois Farm Supply 
Company. 


NRA Boosts Printing 


The minimum price of stereotype 
cuts like those supplied County Farm 
Bureaus by the I. A. A. cartoon serv- 
ice has been raised under the graphic 
arts code from 15c to 77c each. Simi- 
larly the cost of copper and zinc en- 
gravings has been increased from 25 
to 50 per cent depending on size. 
Printing likewise is much more ex- 
pensive as a result of minimum NRA 
wages and increases in the cost of 
paper stock. 


I. A. A. RECORD 


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4. 


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what | 


Bo JENKINS dropped the dipper 
back in the pail and mopped his 


brow. 


“Look at ’em,” he said pointing to the 
highway. “There they go. Having fun, 
while I stay here and sweat away to a 
shadow. But one of these days I’m going 
to do what I want to do. I’ve got it all 
fixed. When I’m 65 I’ll have me a nice, 
fat check coming in every month. A 
pension. 


“I’ve worked hard all my life—given 
up a lot of pleasure when I was young 
so’s I could own a real farm. Now I’ve 
got it. It’s mine. And one of these 
days I’ll turn it over to the boy and go 
do what I want to do. 


“I’m 50 now. When I’m 65 I’m go- 
ing to say, ‘Bob! There’s the world, 
here’s the money and let’s go and see 
what’s been going on around the coun- 
try.’ 

“I’ve always wanted to see Cuba or 
South America. Never been able to take 
the time or money from the farm to go. 
Maybe I'll go to California and see the 
orange groves. Maybe Ma and I'll take 
that honeymoon to Niagara Falls we 
never took. We'll have money enough 
to do it, with a pension check coming 
regular every month. 


“Ma says she wants to get a little 
place in town near daughter. I’d like 


ime SE 
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: —_ 


that. I know a lot of sociable people in 
town. Perhaps a couple of us men will 


_ get a fishing cottage somewhere and get 


off by ourselves without the womenfolk. 
Maybe I'll just spend my days sitting 
and reading. Anyway, I’m going to do 
what I want to do. 


“[’ve always wanted to spend a sum- 
mer up in the mountains. Sort of got 
the idea after seein’ a travel picture 
showing a lot of old boys riding nice 
horses in a big forest and up steep trails 
in Yellowstone Park, and Glacier Park. 
Maybe Ill do some of that. I'll be able 
to afford it. I understand that Ma and 
me could take a boat trip on the ocean 
about as cheap as staying home. Well— 
maybe we'll do that too. Maybe I'll 
catch up on a lot of sleeping. If I want 
to, I will. 


“You know, since I got it all fixed 
up, the sight of these people going by 
the house having fun isn’t so hard to 
take. I just say to Ma, ‘Won’t be 
long now before we'll be taking off for 
a jaunt will it? And we'll do just what 
we want to do won’t we?’ And she 
smiles all over. Then, I'll sometimes 
catch her looking at me kind of question- 
ing like, and I know what she’s think- 
ing. But I’ve got that fixed too. She'll 
have the pension then—and I know she'll 
go do all the things we were planning 
on doing. Just like I was with her. 


ae) 


m Going to Do 
ant 10 Do 


“But—that’s no way to talk, with me 
hale and hearty as I am. When I’m 65 
Til be ready to have some fun. I'll have 
the money too. Regular, every month. 
What if land or corn prices are down! 
That won’t make any difference. Because 
Pll have my chunk of whatever Uncle 
Sam is using for money coming to me 
every month to spend how I want to. 


“Sure you can get a ‘farmer’s pen- 
sion.’ You’re as well fixed as I am and 
needin’ fun just as bad. Tell you what 
—you go see the insurance man at the 
County Farm Bureau. Tell him you want 
a ‘farmer’s pension’ like I’m getting. 


“And now you'll have to excuse me. 
I got to finish up.” Bob Jenkins was 
back on his tractor. “But you can bet, 
mister, that one of these days I’m going 
to do what I want to do.” Country Life 
Insurance Company, 608 South Dear- 
born St., Chicago, Illinois. 


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“I’m not rich,” said Bob Jenkins 
to the Farm Bureau insurance man, 
“but I want a set amount coming in 
each month after I’m 65 that I can 
handle now.” So the insurance man 
fixed him up with a “farmer's 
pension.” It won’t take but a few 
minutes for you to get all the de- 
tails. _ There are a lot of so-called 

pensions,” so be sure and ask 
about the “farmer’s pension.” 


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Lower Utility Rates 


Believes There Should Be Stand- 
ard Charge For Light And 
Power Service 


EDUCTIONS in light and power 
R rates recently announced by a 
number of utility companies 


operating in Illinois follow efforts over | 


a period of several years by the IIli- 
nois Agricultural Association and va- 
rious County Farm Bureaus to secure 
reductions for rural users. 

Early last year the Illinois Com- 
merce Commission cited many public 
utility companies to show cause why 
the rates charged for electricity should 
not be reduced, states G. W. Baxter, 
director of transportation. Hearings 
have been held in connection with va- 
rious companies and this department, 
working through the Illinois Com- 
merce Commission, has assisted in fur- 
nishing data and other information in 
eonnection with rural rates. The com- 
panies making rate reductions are as 
follows: 


From $9 to $6 


Central Illinois Public Service Com- 
pany reduced the minimum from $9 to 
$6 for a period of two years and 
thereafter $3 based on a rate of 9c per 
kilowatt hour for all electrical energy 
used in each month for 3 kilowatt 
hours per room; 8c per kilowatt 
for the next 4 kilowatt hours 
used per room per month; 6c 
per kilowatt hour for the next 5 kilo- 
watt hours used per room per month; 
and 3c per kilowatt hour for all addi- 
tional used. This is the rate used in 
cities. It is beneficial to the small 
user. An additional 3c block is also 
added where heretofore it was 5c. 

The present $9 per month minimum, 
which includes 150 kilowatt hours per 
month and all over 150 kilowatt hours 
8c per kilowatt hour, is continued in 
effect because that basis, where actual 
energy is used, will produce a lower 
charge than based on the other rate. 

The Central Illinois Electric and 
Gas Company after conferences with 
the I. A. A. and the Illinois Commerce 
Commission reduced their minimum 
from $9 to $5 per month. 

The [Illinois Power and Light Cor- 
poration reduced the minimum on com- 
pany financed lines from $9.00 to 
$6.00, and customer financed lines to 
$4.00 with a rate of 9%4c per kilowatt 
hour for the first 50 kilowatt hours 
and 8-1/10c for all over 50 kilowatt 
hours. 

The Sherrard Power System (Henry 
and Rock Island counties) reduced 
their rates after several conferences 


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“I will join with farmers in 
fighting to the last ditch any at- 
tempt that will be made to crip- 
ple the principle and practice of 
co-operative marketing. We of 
the farm belt should stand shoul- 
der to shoulder against all such 
attempts; we should not allow 
ourselves to be turned aside 
from the goal by arguments, 
nor even by possible failure of 
some co-operative movements 
and some co-operative associa- 
tions, to accomplish that goal.” 
—Senator Arthur Capper of 
Kansas. 


from 15c for the first 60 kilowatt 
hours to 10c for the first 50 kilowatt 
hours; from 10c for the second 60 
kilowatt hours to 5c for the next 40 
kilowatt hours, and from 5c for all 
over the first 120 kilowatt hours to 
8c for all over 90 kilowatt hours. 


There are other companies yet in- 
volved, such as Public Service Com- 
pany of Northern Illinois; [Illinois 
Northern Utilities, and Western 
United Gas and Electric Company, on 
which hearings are either in process 
or yet to be heard. These companies 
are making a determined fight to pre- 
vent any reductions in their present 
revenues. 


Absorb Tax 


Effective September 1, 1933, the 
three percent government tax which 
had been paid by the customer was 
absorbed by the utility companies, and 
the two percent state sales tax which 
is to be absorbed or paid by the com- 
panies is now under litigation to deter- 
mine the legality of this charge. If 
they are required to pay that, it will 
mean an additional five percent which 
the companies will have to assume. 
They claim they will not be able to 
operate at a profit if any further re- 
ductions are made. 


The Illinois Commerce Commission 
has employed expert utility account- 
ants to assemble data to present at 
these hearings. It will be noted that 
there are various rates and minimums 
applied in connection with the various 
companies. The I. A. A. believes there 
should be a standard rate and mini- 
mum for rural electrification. 


As a result of a recent swapping 
agreement between the United States 
and France the latter country took 
one million barrels of apples from 
the United States in exchange for an 
increase in the quota of French wine 
imported into this country. 


Land Bank News 


The Farm Credit Administration of 
St. Louis recently came out with the 
first issue of its new official organ 
the “St. Louis Farm Credit Adminis- 
tration Record.” 

The publication follows closely the 
editorial make-up of the I. A. A. Rec- 
ord. 

Interesting news published in the 
opening number states that the Land 
Bank had loaned $40,650,100 in the ten 
months ending Feb. 28, 1934. This in- 
cludes 14,028 land bank and com- 
missioner loans. 

On March 17 Production Credit As- 
sociations now organized in Illinois, 
Arkansas and Missouri have approved 
2,302 loans for $1,297,949.28. These 
loans are discounted through the in- 
termediate credit bank. The loans ap- 
proved represented 72 per cent of the 
applications submitted. 

The interest rate on short-term 
production loans obtained through the 
Production Credit Associations was 
recently reduced from six to five and 
one-half per cent, but the borrower 
must subscribe for stock equal to five 
per cent of the amount of money bor- 
rowed, also pay inspection and record- 
ing fees on the chattel mortgage. 

Co-operative associations eligible 
for loans may borrow from the St. 
Louis bank for co-operatives at three 
and one-half per cent interest on 
working capital loans and four and 
one-half per cent on facility loans. 

During 1933 the Federal Land Bank 
of St. Louis sold 632 farms for a little 
over $1,600,000. Fifty-one per cent of 
these farms were purchased by city 
and town residents. The farms are of- 
fered on terms of 25 per cent cash 
and the balance in a 20-year amortized 
loan. Last year 83 farms were sold for 
all cash, one investor paying $72,000 
in cash for several farms. 


Peoria Buys Building 


The Peoria County Farm Bureau re- 
cently bought a two-story brick build- 


ing at Madison and Fayette streets in | 


Peoria to be used as an office and 
headquarters. The building is a sub- 
stantial brick structure and was 
erected in 1915 by the Peoria Musical 
College. 


John C. Watson, director of tax- 
ation, addressed property owners on 
Chicago’s northwest side recently on 
“Fundamentals of the Tax Situation 
in Illinois.” The meeting was spon- 
sored by the Northwest Real Estate 
Board. 


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Farm Bureau Members 
Preferred Auto Risks 


Evidence that Farm Bureau mem- 
bers are better than average risks for 
auto insurance is borne out by the 
startling figures issued by the Na- 
tional Safety Council. This organiza- 
tion prophesies that out of the 23,- 
000,000 cars registered in the United 
States, from 30 to 50 per cent will 
have an accident during the year. In 
stark numbers this means that every 
second or third car you see on the 
road will have an accident. | - 

On the other hand, statistics fur- 
nished by A. E. Richardson, manager 
of Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insur- 
ance Company, show that only one out 
of every five cars driven by the 33,000 
Farm Bureau member policyholders 
in the company will have an accident 
during the year. : 

This vast difference in percentage of 
accidents accounts for the exceptional- 
ly low rates quoted by Illinois Agri- 
cultural Mutual. Preferred risks, such 

‘as Farm Bureau members, inevitably 
cut the cost of insuring. A company 
having an exceptionally high rate can 
usually be found to be carrying an 
over amount of “risky business” and 
must charge enough to make up the 
losses poor risks bring. 

Illinois Agricultural Mutual, like 
any other company, operates accord- 
ing to the law of averages. The price 
of insurance is based on it. Thus, 
when the national accident average is 
one out of every two or three cars, it 
is clear enough that the Illinois Farm 
Bureau average of one out of five 
cars should result in lowered insur- 
ance cost. That it has reduced the cost 
is another example of what farmers 
ean accomplish for their mutual bene- 
fit by working together. 


New Organization Plan 


The new I. A. A.-Farm Bureau or- 
ganization plan was explained at two 
meetings of County Farm Bureau of- 
ficials late in March at Peoria and 
Centralia. The former plan with dis- 
trict organization managers has been 
discontinued. The new program pro- 
vides for a full time organization man 
in a county or group of counties whose 
main interest shall be securing new 
members and collecting dues. He is to 
be employed jointly by the state and 
county organizations. 


The board of directors of the In- 
diana Farm Bureau recently adopted a 
resolution urging Indiana congressmen 
to sign a petition to bring to the floor 
ef Congress the Frazier-Lemke bill so 


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that its merits and demerits may be 
discussed. 

The bill provides for refinancing 
existing farm mortgages at 1% per 
cent interest with payment of 14% per 
cent on the principal each year on an 
amortization plan so as to pay off the 
loan in 46 years. 


At a meeting of stockholders of the 
Soybean Marketing Association in De- 
catur April 16, President John W. 
Armstrong was authorized to appoint 
a committee to consider and recom- 
mend a program for future soybean 
marketing. 


Co-ordination of organized buying 
of farm supplies by state Farm Bu- 
reau federations was considered at a 
conference called by the A. F. B. F. in 
Chicago April 23. 


The American Farm Bureau Feder- 
ation is backing House Bill 6474 giv- 
ing the Secretary of Agriculture reg- 
ulatory control over direct buying of 
livestock. 


It's Time to Organize 


(Tune, Battle Hymn of the Republic) 

Come on farmers of our Nation to our 
present need arise, 

Let us enter in the conflict. for it’s 
time that we were wise. _ 

There’s a ray of hope now bursting 
through the dark and cloudy skies. 

It’s time to organize. 
(Chorus) 


We are now amid a crisis, 
We're not getting equal slices. 
What we need is parity prices, 
It’s time to organize. 
We’ve been working independently for 
many years you see. 
Tho’ it’s adding to our sorrow and we 
fret increasingly. 
And there’s one and only one way we 
can gain the day, by gee. 
It’s time to organize. 
(Chorus) 
We must fight old man depression and 
must wield a mighty hand, 
For we want to see him buried far be- 
neath the clay and sand. 
Or forever we must drive him now 
from this our glorious land. 
It’s time to organize. 
(Chorus) 
We must join ourselves together till 
one hundred thousand strong, 
That our voice may cry for justice and 
re-echo loud and long. 
So now come along, don’t hesitate, but 
join us in our song. 
It’s time to organize. 
(Chorus) 
—John S. Booker, DeWitt County. 


Cattle prices have shown substantial 
improvement and the market continues 
in a strong position. However, sup- 
plies will be seasonally large during 
May and June. Heavy steers are now 
topping the market and are expected 
to continue in a favorable position dur- 
ing the summer and fall. The curtail- 
ment in cattle feeding will be most 
noticeable during the last half of the 
year and particularly noticeable in 
the case of the better grades. 
In view of this, outlook for the 
summer and fall is quite favor- 
able, and there is an opportunity to 
short feed for that period. This calls 
for top quality and full grain finish. 
The cattle market this fall is expected 
to be supported by a strong demand 
for stockers and feeders, thus making. 
for a condition quite the reverse of 
last year. 


The hog market is now entering a 
seasonally weak position and the situa- 
tion calls for a close marketing of 
hogs in feed lots, and prospective con- 
ditions are favorable for carrying as 
many hogs as possible into the sum- 
mer. More or less liquidation of breed- 
ing stock is expected during May and 
June and low grade and unfinished 
hogs will naturally be severely penal- 
ized. This situation should make sum-. 
mer feeding desirable and a much’ 
more favorable feeding ratio is ex- 
pected after the middle of the year. 


While the lamb market continues in 
a stronger position there is consider- 
able over-lapping in the supply of fed 
lambs and the early movement of 
spring lambs. It is well to keep feed 
lots fully topped out as the competi- 
tion will tend to increase during early 
May. As to southern lambs conditions 
are not so favorable so they will tend 
to move later and be thrown in more 
direct competition with grass-fat 
lambs from the Pacific northwest. As 
a whole the lamb market is in a 
stronger position and is expected to 
continue at a relatively high level dur- 
ing the balance of the year. 


$2215 Cash Refund 


The Illinois Agricultural Auditing 
Association recently distributed $2,215 
among 154 stockholders. This distri- 
bution involves the redemption of 448 
shares of stock of $5 par value issued 
against working capital contributions 
made in 1928. The average refund per 
company was $14.38. 


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Number 6 


JUNE, 1934 


Volume 12 


Thoughts On The New Deal 


S THE New Deal grows in age 
and experience, the American 


people, it becomes increasingly 
lear, are tending to divide into schools 
of thought for and against regimen- 
tation and economic planning. To some 
extent the controversy is developing 
into a battle between the haves and 
the have nots. Aside from the politics 
in the situation, two philosophies of 
government are involved. One is the 
philosophy of individualism—without 
government restraint. Every man for 
himself and the devil take the hind- 
most. Under this system the go-get- 
ters represented by combinations of 
capital and often brains have free rein 
to build, speculate, exploit labor, in- 
vestors’ capital, and the resources of 
the country, amass wealth in huge 
private fortunes, and use the power 
and influence so acquired in con- 
trolling government as an adjunct to 
their aims and ends. 

This first system is the one America 
largely has been following. There is 
something to be said for it. It stimu- 
lated private initiative and inventive- 
ness. It had the incentive of in- 
dividual gain. It made men work hard, 
drive themselves 
to extra effort to 
acquire riches or 
power or both. 
This system de- 
veloped the coun- 
try, created 
wealth, made 
America a leading 
industrial nation 
and a world 
power. 


Sharp Inequal- 
ities 
But it also led 
to sharp inequal- 
ities in the dis- 
tribution of 
money and prop- 
erty, to concentra- 
tion of wealth in 


the hands of the °ommty»,_ Mitnois, 


By the Editor 


few, to abject poverty and want for 
many. Natural resources represented 
by forests, water power, mineral and 
oil deposits, and agricultural lands 
were seized by wide-awake enterprisers 
and converted into private fortunes. 
Our great forests were ruthlessly cut, 
the timber logged off, and the land 
left as unproductive barren wastes. 

Similarly, coal and other minerals, 
crude oil deposits, and water power 
sites have been taken over, not so 
much with the object of serving man- 
kind over as long a period as possible, 
as to convert these resources quickly 
into dollars for their owners. 

It was to a lesser extent the profit 
motive that led to the rapid expansion 
of agriculture in America. Fertility 
was just as surely mined from _ the 
soil in our older agricultural areas as 
oil is being mined through oil wells to- 
day. In the south, also the east, con- 
tinuous cropping and erosion have 
taken their toll. Soils once rich in 
minerals necessary for plant growth 


Earth dam built across gully to stop soil erosion, by Civilian Conservation Corps in Carroll 


This valuable work initiated as an unemployment relief measure last year is 
being continued throughout Illinois and other states this year. 


are now poor. They are only produc- 
tive when liberally fertilized. 

Through all this development little 
attention was given to conservation, to 
the effects of the unrestricted capital- 
istic system on society. In the begin- 
ning perhaps little concern was nec- 
essary. While we were building and 
developing what looked like an in- 
exhaustible supply for what appeared 
to be an inexhaustible market, there 
were jobs and opportunities for every- 
one. There never was an unemploy- 
ment problem anything -like_ the 
present one. 


N atural Reaction 


Therefore the reaction in favor of 
economic planning and the New Deal 
was a natural one. The depression has 
made men think. Isn’t there a better 
system, a new way that spreads 
wealth and the good things of life 
more evenly among the people? Isn’t 
it time to call a halt on the waste of 
natural resources and the exploitation 
of the weak by the strong? Can not 
we devise a program that banishes 
poverty, eliminates. slum districts, 
raises the general level of welfare and 
restores the farm- 
er’s position as a 
buyer of manu- 
factured goods at 
least to that of 
the pre-war pe- 
riod? 

These are some 
of the questions 
statesmen have 
been thinking 
about. That there 
has be e n more 
thinking of this 
character among 
professors in our 
colleges and uni- 
versities, among 
farmers and their 
leaders, than 
among the 
money - grubbers 
in the business 


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1925, anthorized Oct. 27, 1925. 
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of Feb, 28, 


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and fimancial world became apparent 
as the depression deepened. 

It was such thinking that led to the 
New, Deal—a philosophy of govern- 
ment based on a _ planned industry, 
banking and agriculture. It was nat- 
ural for President Roosevelt, a liberal 
who feels keenly the responsibility of 
government for its destitute and 
under-privileged citizens, to turn to 
those for help who were in sympathy 
with such ideas. So we have the so- 
called brain trust, perhaps a larger 
coterie of! college professors, econo- 
mists, thinkers and idealists than ever 


have been assembled at one time in. 


Washington. And we have unprece- 
dented and fearless experimentation 
toward wiping out some of the evils of 
the old system. 


Earlier Efforts 


The trend toward more government 
leadership and intervention began be- 
fore the present administration was 
swept into power. Theodore Roosevelt’s 
trust busting and the Sherman Act 
represented efforts to control organ- 
ized capital and protect the public 
against combinations. Woodrow Wil- 
son is said to have had plans for level- 
ing off the inequalities in the mate- 
rial possessions of American citizens, 
but because of the war never realized 
his dreams. Hei’ ert Hoover expressed 
the hope that government might 
abolish poverty and make it possible 
for every workman to own a car. 

Hoover was forced to become some- 
thing of an’éecondmic planner. After 
two years of trusting to magic he fi- 
nally saw the necessity for more 
drastic treatment to overcome the 
effects of continued deflation. Most 
business and financial leaders para- 
lyzed with fear, had and have nothing 
to offer but the hopeless policy of let- 
ting the boat drift until it is wrecked 
or the storm blows over. 


Against Farm Board 


The campaign of propaganda against 
government in business during the 
Hoover administration, directed chief- 
ly against the Federal Farm Board, 
subsided somewhat when industry and 
finance itself got into the predica- 
ment of agriculture. The Reconstruc- 
tion Finance Corporation, which made 
government credit available to stave 
off bankruptcy for banks, life insur- 
ance companies, railroads and other 
corporations, never received the cen- 
sure from the Tory newspapers so 
freely given a similar effort by the 
farm board to maintain farm prices 
and aid co-operatives. 

The dark days of 1932 and early 
19383 were marked by campaigns to 
restore prosperity by exhortation. 
“Buy more” campaigns and “anti- 


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has been stopped in this field by planting Willows, Wild Cherry, Plum, eto., allowing 


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the ditch to remain in grass. 


hoarding” campaigns, all of which 
proved ineffective, were the contribu- 
tions of metropolitan newspapers now 
bitterly attacking the New Deal. 

Unquestionably recovery began in 
March, 1933, with the closing of all 
banks, subsequent opening of the 
sound ones, and guaranty of deposits. 
This radical, swift and decisive move, 
followed quickly by going off the gold 
standard, the AAA, NRA, and infla- 
tionary measures, won the applause 
and confidence of the rank and file 
of people. Outside of the relapse after 
the speculative flurry of last July, 
business has slowly but steadily im- 
proved. 


Recovery Proportional 


And the improvement to date has 
been in direct proportion to the nar- 
rowing of the spread between the 
prices of farm commodities and non- 
agricultural goods. There are those 
who believe that recovery could have 
been brought about much more quick- 
ly by resorting temporarily to an ab- 
solute dictatorship under which debts, 
interest, transportation rates, fees, sal- 
aries and wages, capital income, taxes 
and non-agricultural prices might all 
have been slashed to the extent re- 
quired to establish something like the 
1909-1914 balance between agriculture, 
industry, labor and other groups. 

The inequalities in the exchange 
value of farm products for the goods 
and services of others, no one denies, 
were responsible for much of our dif- 
ficulty. To a lesser extent that con- 
dition still holds. It is the reason 
farmers are not buying more lumber, 
fence, cement, fertilizer, automobiles, 
farm machinery and a thousand de- 
sirable articles for the home. 

Because we had no dictator to ar- 
range things and promote free ex- 
change of goods and services between 
all classes, recovery has been slow. 


And because industry all along the 
line persisted in maintaining high 
prices, cutting production, laying off 
employees, and making goods scarce, 
agriculture was compelled, with gov- 
ernment assistance, to act similarly. 

Some day future generations will 
laugh at the stupidities of the present 
era—at our inability to keep everyone 
at work and distribute more equitably 
the results of our enterprise. But will 
there not be more admiration than 
censure for the present national ef- 
fort to buck the old system, or lack 
of system, which takes periodic unem- 
ployment, deflation and disorder for 
granted ? 

No one is prophet enough to forecast 
where the present trend in govern- 
ment will lead to. We can only hazard 
a guess. For some years to come 
there will probably be more regimen- 
tation by government rather than less; 


- more control over business, industry, 


and finance to compel honesty, curb 
greed, prevent ruthless exploitation 
and stop some of the abuses of the 
post-war period. 


Will Go On 


The New Deal will not end with the 
present administration. Some of the 
present efforts may be and probably 
will be abandoned, but others will be 
taken up. There will be more atten- 
tion given to conservation of natural 
resources and their development for 
the greatest good of the greatest num- 
ber. Government promises to become 
a greater factor in the life of the 
country. Industry will hardly be al- 
lowed to continue its practice of sav- 
ing itself at the expense of the public 
for relief of unemployment. Federal 
taxes will continue to be heavy for 
those with large incomes. And they 
won’t like it. Capital may have to be- 
come used to smaller returns. We may 

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Rockford Milk Producers 


Harmony Reigns on This Market Between Producers, 


Distributors and Consumers 


NE OF the thriving milk pro- 
O ducer co-operatives in Illinois is 

the Midwest -Dairymen’s Com- 
pany representing some 700 producers 
around the Rockford market. During 
the past year this organization, under 
the direction of an active board of 
directors and an able manager, Wiikie 
Lee, assisted in stabilizing marketing 
conditions at Rockford, initiated a 
successful quality improvement pro- 
gram, developed a fine working re- 
lationship with all the distributors, 
laid plans for boosting consumption 
of dairy products, and added a com- 
fortable reserve to its treasury. 


The road to success for the Midwest 
followed a meeting of the board more 
than a year ago with J. B. Countiss, 
dairy marketing director with the IIli- 
nois Agricultural Association. Mr. 
Countiss outlined a program and sug- 
gested the employment of Wilkie Lee, 
a former classmate at the University 
of Illinois, as manager. 


Setup Changed 


At the annual meeting and dinner in 
February, attended by practically all 
the milk producers serving that mar- 
ket, the organization changed from a 
membership to a stock setup and voted 
to issue “B” stock to the Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association. 


As a result of the quality improve- 
ment program the average bacteria 
count on bottled milk was reduced 
from 50,000 per cubic centimeters to 
approximately 12,500. This was done 
largely by getting members to sterilize 
utensils with chlorine solution just be- 
fore milking, and through prompt cool- 
ing. 

“This inexpensive program we find 
saved a good many thousand pounds 
of milk which otherwise would have 
been returned to the farm,” said Lee. 
“‘We believe our producers are happy 
with the way this program has worked 
out. A good many farm. housewives 
told us that the milk they save for 
their own use keeps much better than 
before, : 


“We have had splendid co-operation 
of our producers, distributors, and 
milk haulers during the past year,” 
continued Lee. “We have secured this 
by attempting to be fair to all parties 
concerned and to understand their 
problems. We have found in the mat- 
ter of service to our distributors that 


JUNE, 1934». i 


the old time bargaining association, 
organized for the one purpose of se- 
curing the highest possible share of 
the consumer’s dollar, is being re- 
placed by an organization, which in 
addition to the bargaining function as- 
sists in eliminating unfair trade prac- 
tices, price cutting, slipshod advertis- 
ing methods, etc. Through such co- 
operation we can secure a larger per- 
centage of the consumer’s dollar than 
heretofore. We have found that the 
inefficiency of our distributors zeflects 
in the spread in price between what 
the consumer pays and what the pro- 
ducer receives. 


Simple Classification 


“On January 1, 1933, our market 
discarded the old method of selling 
milk on the basis of distributors’ sales 
reports on various uses. We adopted in 
its place a classification more simple 
and fair. To all of our distributors, 
except one, we charge Class I price 
for all milk delivered, regardless of 
its use, so that as soon as we receive 
and total up—at the end of the month 
—the amount of milk received and 
the differential for test, we can figure 
exactly what their statement should 
be. 


“To the one exception we sell two 
classes of milk: Class I for their 
fluid milk and cream requirements at 
Class I price, while the milk used for 


ice eream mix is sold on the basis of 
Class II price, which is the price paid 
at adjacent condenseries. This classi- 
fication has been verified semi-an- 
nually by our own auditor, as a pro- 
tection to ourselves and the other 
distributors in the city. All additional 
milk is sold to condenseries at the pre- 
vailing condensery price. 


“All milk sold by this Association 
is tested by our own tester, with the 
privilege on the part of the distrib- 
utor to re-check should he so desire. 
This has worked out very satisfac- 
torily, both for the producer and the 
distributor. 


Adopt Zoning Plan 


“As a result of the per capita con- 
sumption being reduced from .82 of a 
quart, three years ago, to.a present 
717 of a pint, we have gone into an 
educational program for the purpose 
of giving the consumer a better con- 
ception of the quality and food value 
of our product. 


“Early in the spring of 1933 our 
organization adopted a zoning plan 
which provides for taking in new pro- 
ducers and giving them a base of 50 
per cent of the average of their first 
three full months’ production, provid- 
ing they live within a radius of eight 
miles from the central part of ‘the 
city. Outside of that zone, old mem- 
berships were continued where they 
remain within the regular established 
route. The purpose of this action was 
to keep from extending our milk shed 
out further. This policy has had a 
tendency to concentrate our inside 
area immediately adjacent to the city, 
and the results have proved the plan 
to be sound. 


“We also changed our base plan. 


President H, M. Mainland, left and Wilkie Lee, manager of the Midwest Dairymen’s Company, 
Rockford, talking over the Association’s good showing during the past fiscal year, The Midwest has 
700 producer members and furnished 12 distributors with their entire milk supply during the past year. 


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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 
80-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 produciion 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 base. 


What Records Show 


“We have found some very inter- 
esting facts in going over some of our 
old price recorcs for the year. For 
instance, in December, 1931, 41 per 
cent of the base milk was sold at Class 
I price of $1.75 per hundred, 59 per 
cent was sold at Class II price at 
$1.07 per hundred, with an average 
weighted price of $1.35. In October, 
1932, our records show that 35 per 
cnt 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 
fir 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.” 


Midwest Writes Checks 


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. 


ree Re Poe rere 


Sam Burke of LaSalle County is one of the 


alicia ‘Lanatio. ‘Gouna “Warm B 


go-getters who trucks in cream for the Farmers 


Creamery Company, Bloomington, The Farmers Creamery has grown rapidly since its organization 
more than a year ago and is manufacturing Prairie Farma butter at the rate of more than a mil- 


lion pounds annually, 


Fayette County May 
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 p2rmanent organization 


created. 

As we go to press some 800 members were 
reported signed at a meeting in Vandalia May 
20. The Fayette County Farm Bureau will be 
the 95th in Illinois 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. 

Such loans draw as! ber oem cent interest, terms range 
from three te 12 sg tp Be see te B a 
chase stock caanat’ “te 5 


of in 
lecal eredit associations, also say lnepesttin and fling 
fees.— Editor. 


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. 


I. A. A. RECORD 


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Illinois Grain Signs 
160th Elevator 


The Illinois Grain Corp. recently 
signed up its 160th member elevator. 
Members of the Corporation now 
handle approximately 29,000,000 
bushels of grain 
annually. The IIli- 
160 nois regional 
ranks close to the 
top, if not first, in 
volume of grain delivered by stock- 
holders of the Farmers National Grain 
Corporation. 

Illinois Grain recently paid a pat- 
ronage dividend of more than $24,000 
to elevators which were members dur- 
ing the year 1933. Letters acknowledg- 
ing receipt of the patronage dividends 
were received by Illinois Grain Corp. 
from a number of elevator members 
of which the following are represent- 
ative: 


Not Hard to Take 


Illinois Grain Corp., 
Chicago, Illinois 

I am writing to acknowledge receipt 
of patronage dividend for $462.53, al- 
so 7% dividend on preferred stock in 
Illinois Grain Corporation. While the 
amount this year is not as large as the 
amount we received last year for 
$1,133.55, yet we appreciate it; the 
total for the two years of. patronage 
refund amounts to $1,596.08—not bad 
at all. We feel like Allen Brown did 
when he had me figure up the bonuses 
that he would get from the corn-hog 
reduction program. He said “I ean 
stand that all right.” 


The smaller amount received this 
year of patronage refund is due 
largely to our smaller handling of 
grain on account of short crops—both 
oats and corn in our locality. 

Thanking you and hoping that our 
business relations in the future will 
be as pleasant as they have been in 
the past, we beg to remain 


Anchor Grain Co., 
S. C. Bane, Mer. 


Your check in the amount of $222.62 
patronage dividend received, for which 
we thank you very much. A check like 
that makes a fellow feel glad he is a 
member of Illinois Grain Corporation. 


MONICA ELEVATOR CO. 


It gives me considerable pleasure to 
acknowledge receipt of your letter of 
the 19th, in which you show that our 
total patronage credit is now $1,239.61. 

As you know we have been under 
the cooperative plan here since 1921 
and our patronage refunds to our 


JUNE, 1934 


farmer patrons has run into many 
thousand of dollars. It is surely 
gratifying to us to know that at last 
we are participating in patronage re- 
funds from the sale of our grain to 
the terminal markets. There is noth- 
ing else that is better proof of the 
soundness of cooperative marketing. 

Your 7% stock dividend check has 
been received also. Many thanks. Pat- 
ronage refunds may not be the great- 
est asset of the cooperative movement, 
yet in my opinion they are better proof 
than a lot of words. 


A. B. Scheeler, Mer., 
GRAYMONT COOP. ASS’N. 


Glad to be Connected 


We received our certificate as mcem- 
bers of Illinois Grain Corporation and 
are very glad to be connected with 
such, as I am beginning to believe it 
is much the best we have ever had. 
We also received the check for $53.92 
a short time ago and were very much 
pleased with same. Thank you. 


J3°F. Guy, Mer., 


FARMERS ELEVATOR OF 
LITERBERRY 


Your dividend check for $67.38 has 


been received. Thanking you for same 
and trusting our future business may 
be of greater volume, 


E. H. O., Randolph, IIl. 


This will acknowledge patronage 
dividend check in the amount of $287.62 
which we appreciate receiving very 
much at this time. 


Glenn Gordon, Sec’y., 
CHAMPAIGN CO. GRAIN ASS’N. 


Dairymen Write To 
AAA, Ask For Plan 


Reports from Washington state that 
many dairy farmers are writing to the 
administration expressing their belief 
that the rank and file of milk pro- 
ducers favor a dairy production con- 
trol program.* In some sections, in- 
cluding New England, Wisconsin and 
Minnesota, meetings have been held 
to study the program further with the 
possibility of giving it a trial at a 
later date. 

Requests for the program will grow 
should milk troubles continue. The in- 
itiative must come from the industry, 
however. The AAA will not move un- 
less a majority of dairy farmers ask 
for action. 

* Comment by milk producers in Illinols has been 
poenrolly favorable te a dairy adjustment program 


Continued drouth may be a blessing in disguise, make 
further efforts to reduce unnecessary.—Ed. 


Consider Plans For 
Handling Sealed Corn 


A program to handle sealed corn at 
the expiration of the loan period, Aug. 
1, is being considered by the corn loan 
division cf the Commodity Credit 
Corporation. Stored corn will probably 
be kept on the farm at least until next 
fall. While it is too early to hazard 
any guess as to the 19384 crop, a 
substantial reduc- 
tion in plantings 
and a lower than 
normal carry- -over 
makes the outlook 
favorable for corn 
prices next fall 
and winter. 

The extreme 
drouth through- 
out large sections 
of the corn belt 
since the first of 
the year is an- 
other bullish factor. Any considerable 
delay in rainfall and germination of 
the new crop increases the hazard of 
unmarketable corn next fall. 

The corn sealing program termi- 
nated on April 30 and in Illinois a 


J. H, LLOYD 


‘check is being made under the direc- 


tion of J. H. Lloyd of the State De- 
partment of Agriculture to get ac- 
curate figures on the exact number of 
bushels under seal. Regulations cover- 
ing audits and refunds of sums col- 
lected by county warehouse boards are 
promised at.an early date. 
Approximately 270,000,000 bushels 
of ear corn were put under seal dur- 


ing the loan program. This: ‘amount 


represents a loan value of: araund 
$121,300,000. Iowa leads with $57,000,- 
000; Illinois, $30,000,000; and Ne- 
braska $23,000,000. 


Borrower’s Option 


The borrowers have the option of 
retiring the loan, plus accrued inter- 
est, at four per cent at any time on 
or before Aug. 1. If the market price 
of corn at maturity date is less per 
bushel than the loan, the borrower 
may dismiss his obligation by turning 
over to the government the number of 
bushels of corn originally stored, pro- 
vided the agreement has been fulfilled 
and no misrepresentations of fact. 

The loan agreement provides that 
corn may be held in storage on the 
farm until October 15, 1934, at the 
option of the Commodity Credit Cor- 
poration. 


AAA fluid milk and cream licenses 
cover about 15 per cent of total fluid 
milk and cream consumption in towns, 
cities and villages estimated at 32,- 
000,000,000 pounds. 


ad}corr inks ons Soran 


To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was or- 
ganized namely, to promote, protect and represent the busi- 
ness, economic, political and educational interests of the 
farmers of Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 


George Thiem, Editor 
John Tracy, Ass’t Editor, 


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DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 
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Personal Property Tax Fixing 


OUNTY Assessor J. L. Jacobs of Cook county com- 
& plains that ward committeemen, precinct captains 
and ward heelers in Chicago are responsible in a 
large measure for the breakdown of the personal prop- 
erty tax in this city. He presents evidence in the form of 
letters written by ward committeemen to precinct cap- 
tains advising them to pick up personal property tax bills 
under $25 which “we can most likely take care of; even 
if they are over $25 we can probably have a compromise 
made when the matter comes up in court, through the 
States Attorney’s office which of course is friendly to us 
at this time. This should afford an opportunity to make 
many valuable friends in your precinct.” 

It is no news to informed people that the personal prop- 
erty tax which is generally enforced in downstate coun- 
ties is a farce in Chicago. Many Chicago people take it 
for granted that the thing to do with a personal property 
tax bill is either to throw it in the waste basket or give 
it to some ward politician. 

Such widespread evasion and political fixing of taxes is 
a primary cause of exhorbitant tax rates and break down 
of government in Cook County. This situation again em- 
phasizes the need for submission of a revenue amendment 


definitely limiting property taxes in the general election 
next fall. To continue the present system any longer than 
necessary is unthinkable. The personal property tax is not 
being enforced and apparently cannot be enforced, at least 
in Chicago. The alternative is taxation that is enforceable, 
that spreads the tax burden evenly among the citizens of 
the state according to their ability to pay. 


The AAA Amendments 


PPOSITION of the processors and commission men 
@ to proposed amendments to the Agricultural Ad- 
justment Act was to have been expected. This 
group which largely sets its own prices on the service it 
renders has vigorously opposed nearly every move, with 
or without the aid of government, to bring about a rea- 
sonable return on the investment and services of farmers. 
The commission men and processors favor an economy 
of abundance because such a system plays into their hands. 
The formula is a simple one. The more bushels and pounds 
of farm products marketed, the greater the toll taken 
by those whose hands these products pass through. To 
them the price the farmer gets is of secondary, even un- 
important consideration. 

Strengthening the trade agreement section of the Ad- 
justment Act, through proposed amendments, will aid the 
administration in raising farm prices albeit the effect may 
be to restrict volume. Another possibility the amendments 
offer is to reduce the exhorbitant spread between producer 
and consumer prices. The current opposition by private 
handlers of farm products to strengthen the Adjustment 
Act is further evidence that farmers must fight every step 
of the way to secure parity prices and reduce the un- 
warranted high cost of distribution. 


On Restricting Production 


ERTAIN metropolitan newspapers have been vigor- 
C ously flaying the Agricultural recovery program, 

particularly that relating to reduction in acreage 
and supply of farm products. Yet not one word has been 
uttered against similar restriction practiced in all lines 
of industry. There has been no censure of the manufac- 
turer, the industrialist for drastically reducing production, 
turning off thousands of employed men and women, all 
in the interest of maintaining prices. When farmers at- 
tempt to come within the profit system, through govern- 
ment co-operation, by similar restriction the system which 
produces unemployment becomes a heinous one, the Chi- 
cago News implied in a recent editorial. 

Not all newspapers, fortunately, are as biased and un- 
fair. The Davenport (Ia.) Daily Times, for example, re- 
cently pointed out editorially that “the starving process 
or that of restriction has been a fundamental principle of 
our government and it was first dictated by the indus- 
trialist and the business man through a tariff policy which 
kept out cheap goods from abroad. 

“The manufacturer has always sought to control pro- 
duction within his industry. that prices might yield a 
profit. The government in an emergency has sought to 
apply the same principle to agriculture; to improve price 
by reducing production and the surplusage which depresses 
prices.” 


Have You Heard This One? 
REPORT from a northern Illinois county states 
A that commission men are peddling propaganda to 
the effect that corn would be selling for 75c per 
bu. were it not for the corn sealing program. That story 
is too far fetched even for the most gullible. Nearer the 
truth is that corn probably would have been selling for 
35c or less were it not for the government loan program. 


I. A. A. RECORD 


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One-third of the Illinois state gas 
tax collected between July 1, 1934 and 
March 1, 1935 will be diverted to the 
common school fund as a result of 
legislation passed in the recent third 
special session of the General As- 
sembly. It is estimated that this meas- 
ure will take from construction and 
maintenance of roads and streets be- 
tween $6,000,000 and $7,000,000 during 
this period of eight months. 


If it came to a choice between clos- 
ing the schools and stopping road 
building most of us would cast our 
vote for the schools. But there has 
been no evidence to support the belief 
that this was the only choice. Numer- 
ous other feasible plans for aiding 
needy school districts were pointed 
out in the discussion before the Gen- 
eral Assembly without deliberately 
seizing gas tax moneys. 


This question of gas tax diversion is 
closely tied up with the unemployment 
problem. During the discussion at 
Springfield it was estimated that $8,- 
000,000 of gas tax funds would employ 
around 22,500 men on road building 
and improvement during the current 
season. Counting four to the family 
this would provide an income for 
about 90,000 persons. And assuming 
that jobs were given to the unem- 
ployed, would result in removing from 
unemployment relief rolls a very sub- 
stantial number of people. 


Road construction is well adapted 
to the employment of idle men. Ex- 
cept for supervision unskilled labor 
ean largely be used. Nearly all of the 
money spent for road building—esti- 
mated at 90 per cent—goes for labor. 
This, of course, includes labor used 
in manufacturing and hauling road 
building materials. 


The handling of the unemployment 
relief problem in some of our larger 
centers of population will probably go 
down in history as one of the shock- 
ing wastes of the depression era: 
waste not only of money but of the 
energy, spirit and morale of men. How 
much better for the individual as well 
as for society to use unemployment 
relief funds in compensating for use- 
ful work rather than giving a dole. 


With rare good judgment the board 
of supervisors in Pike county, Illinois, 
decided to discontinue the use of state 


JUNE, 1934 


or federal funds for unemployment 
relief. Instead each township super- 
visor was instructed to use his in- 
fluence to secure adequate levies for 
poor relief*in his township. It was 
further suggested that substantial por- 
tions of such levies be set aside to 
pay unemployed men within the town- 
ship at the rate of not more than 
$1.50 a day to work on county high- 
ways. Men needing jobs are sent to 
the township road commissioner who is 
authorized to pay such labor out of 
funds levied for poor relief. Why 
should not this same principle be fol- 
lowed everywhere? How much better 
to use relief funds for getting useful 
work done—better for the community 
and for those so employed.—-E. G. T. 


Bang's Disease Cause 
of Heavy Losses 


Between 12 and 13 per cent of the 
cattle in Illinois harbor contagious 
abortion germs, according to Dr. 
Robert Graham of the University of 
Illinois. The loss to Illinois farmers 
is estimated at $5,000,000 annually. 


Investigations over a 10-year period 
have shown that infectious abortion 
(Bang’s disease)* will cut milk flow 
of the average dairy cow as much as 
25 gal'ons a month, while as high as 
45 per cent of the infected cows may 
become sterile over a five-year period. 
Elimination of cattle infected with the 
bacillus Bang is being advocated both 
by dairy and beef producers to reduce 
cattle surpluses. 


* Alse affects humans—one of the rarities in 
medical annals. 


Tax Delinquency To State 


Cook county and downstate Illinois 
counties on May 1 owed the state 
$29,573,270 in delinquent taxes, ac- 
cording to State Treasurer John C. 
Martin. Of this total Cook county 
owes $26,529,579, largely as a result 
of delinquency in Chicago. These 
figures do not include 1933 taxes now 
being paid. 


Doneghue Back on Job 


Ray Doneghue of McDonough coun- 
ty has completely recovered from the 
effects of the automobile accident he 
was in last winter, and resumed his 
duties as farm adviser on May 1. 


E. W. Runkle, former assistant ad- 
viser, who handled the farm adviser’s 
work capably during Mr. Doneghue’s 
absence is back at his old job manag- 
ing the McDonough Service Company. 


Country Elevator Code 
Signed By Roosevelt 


The country elevator code applying 
to approximately 15,000 local grain 
elevators was signed by President 
Roosevelt and becomes effective May 
21, 1934. : 

The code prohibits intentional un- 
derweighing and overweighing and 
provides for docking and grading in 
conformance with the Federal Grain 
Standards Act. It prohibits bribes and 
other gratuities so as to protect small 
elevators from being driven out of 
business by competitors who tempo- 
rarily outbid them for that purpose. 
It seeks to maintain a competitive 
market for farmers’ grain. The code 
provides that the elevator operator 
must post in his elevator the eomplete 
schedule of elevator charges for stor- 
age, handling grain, ete. Discrimina- 
tion in rates among patrons is pro- 
hibited. 

Minimum wages of office workers 
vary from $12 a week in towns under 
2,500 to $16 weekly in cities of two 
million population or over. Elevator 
employees’ minimum weekly wages 
vary from $12 to $15. Minimum hourly 
wages of 30 and 35 cents an hour for 
elevator office and elevator employees 
are set forth in the code, with a dif- 
ferential of five cents an hour less for 
employees in the South. 

The code is to be administered by a 
code authority of the industry to con- 
sist of 11 members selected by various 
groups within the industry. The 
Farmers National Grain Corporation* 
is recognized as one group having 
authority to select a representative. 
The Secretary of Agriculture and the 
NRA Administrator are authorized to 
have representatives to attend meet- 
ings of the code authority but to be 
without vote. : 

* C. E. Huff, president ef Farmers National, repre- 


sented co-operative farmers elevaters eon 
beard which drew up the cede. 


Pres. Smith In lowa 


President Earl C. Smith addressed 
mass meetings of Iowa farmers at 
Fairfield and Cedar Rapids on May 
23-24 respectively. The meetings 
were two of a series sponsored by the 
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation to in- 
crease membership. 


If the drouth continues the crop 
insurance feature of produetion con- 
trol programs will be appreciated 
more than ever. Benefit payments will 
go to contract signers regardless of 
whether or not they produce a crop, 
Administrator Chester C. Davis said 
in a recent radio address. 


Ol' Joe Green 
Joe: 


What’s this John! Got yer corn all in, 

And here’s me jest good begin. 

Hits all on count uve that cussed mule, 

Caint ketchim uve 
a mornin’ while 
its cool. 

I’ve worried with 
the sucker till 
I’m nearly sick, 

He goes so slow 
| it ‘plants my 

OP Joe corn too thick. 

Say aint things gettin’ in a mess. 

On count uve the farmers medlin,’ I 
guess. 

Lizzy said the secretary and that 
“O’Neal’’ 

Wuz up to Washington about the New 
Deal 

What kin them fellers do to help us 
out 

An’ put. this here depression to rout 

I’d like to see ’em pick a fishin’ pole 

Er drive a mule past a groundhog hole 

I’ll bet one whiff uve this pipe uve 

- mine 

’Ud give ’em buck-eger in their spine. 

The way. hit wuz is good-enuff fer me 

Every-buddy work and letter be. 

I cain’t raise enuff to keep outa debt 

How will I make ’t with less yet? 

Lizzy says the papers is all aginnet 

If they aire the farmers’ll never win- 
net 

Well I’d better get hack and prod old 
“Jake” 

Fer hits all I can do. to keep 
‘awake. 


John: 


Hold .« on “there Joe, let me itundokten 
+f you. out 

I’ll;tall you how it all came about. 

Don’t blame the farmers for this mess 

But we'll have to straighten it out I 
guess. 

Our fathers taught us all to work 

But, another gang they learned to 
shirk. 

They’ve sat like a mouse hawk in a 
tree 

And whetted their bills, ’till you and 
re — 

Plowed out a worm and then they’d 
-drop 

And promptly gobble him in thei 

‘ crop. 

For years we’d work and just complain 

But now we’ve decided to use our 
brain 

Our leaders, Earl Smith and “Ed 
O’Neal” 

Have got a finger in this “New Deal” 

I think it’s something, if you ask me 

To be represented in Washington, D. 
C. 

Organization will win if we’ll back it 
like men 


1m 


10 


So’s we can get a grub-worm now and 
then 

Well, what if some leader would go 
haywire? 

Can’t you fire any body you can hire? 

Joe, half of that stuff that Lizzy reads 

Is ’bout as reliable as musty seeds. 

The papers claim the cities pay the 
tax, 

They’re all too prejudiced to print the 
facts. 

I’ll tell you, Joe, in the end you'll find 

We'll have to make Satan get behind. 

—Harry B. Claar 


Secor Elevator Pays 
Patronage Dividend 


The Secor Elevator Company, 
Woodford county, one of the 160 mem- 
bers of Illinois Grain Corporation, had 
a successful year during 1933. In ad- 
dition to paying an 8 per cent divi- 
dend to stockholders, it also paid a 
%ec per bushel patronage dividend to 
patrons. 

This action by the board of directors 
shows the true cooperative spirit. 
After a reasonable return on the capi- 
tal invested, the producers were re- 
funded the further earnings of the 
company.* The Secor Elevator Com- 
pany received a patronage dividend 
from the Illinois Grain Corporation on 
all grain sold through the [Illinois 
regional and Farmers National Grain 
Corporation. 

* Here is an example of voluntary controlled 
capitalism. The time may come when business and 


industry will, by general law, be forced te de the 
same. Who knows?—Ed. 


Cash Income of Farmers 


Up 39 Per Cent Says AAA 


Cash income of American farmers 
increased more than 39 per cent in 
the year beginning May 12, 1933, with 
the passage of the Agricultural Ad- 
justment Act, reports the AAA. Dur- 
ing this period farmers signed more 
than 2,860,000 contracts to restrict 
acreage. In addition, around 800,000 
farmers are benefiting from cr emcncabrdid 
agreements. 

Estimated farm income for the year 
ending May 1, 1934 is $5,530,000,000— 
an increase of more than $1,500,000,000 
over the year previous. Of this total 
benefit payments accounted for more 
than 12 per cent. Of total payments 
of $185,380,000 cotton received roughly 
$112,500,000, wheat $67,600,000, to- 
bacco $500,200,000, corn $15,500 and 
hogs $24,800. 


Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable 
citizens, They are the most vigorous, the most 
independent, the most virtuous, and they are 
tied to their country, and wedded to its liberty 
and interests, by the most lasting bonds,.— 
Thomas Jefferson. 


Beef Committee At 
Work On Program 


The Committee of 25 named to help 
draft the beef cattle program, held 
its first meeting in Washington May 9. 

Members of the committee attending 
were:—C. J. Abbott, Lincoln, Neb.; A. 
L. Berg, Baltic, S. Dak.; Dolph Bris- 
coe, Uvalde, Tex.; Elmer Brock, Kay- 
cee, Wyo.; F. R. Carpenter, Hayden, 
Colo.; L. A. Chapin, New York City; 
Charles E. Collins, Kit Carson, Colo.; 
Morris Douglas, Flat Rock, Ind.; Ma- 
rion Finley*, Hoopeston, IIl.; Thos. B. 
Glasscock, Upperville, Va.; R. M. 
Gunn, Buckingham, Iowa; C. L. Jami- 
son, John Day, Ore.; Kenneth Hones, 
Colfax, Wis.; F. F. McArthur, Oak- 
land, Iowa; Joe E. Mercer, Topeka, 
Kan.; W. B. Mount, Shouns, Tenn.; 
A. J. Olsen, Renville, Minn.; H. H. 
Parke*, Genoa, IIll.; Judge George 
Rittenour, Piketon, Ohio; Joe Robin- 
son, Mercer, Pa.; Hubbard Russell, Los 
Angeles, Calif.; J. Blaine Shaun, Tar- 
kio, Mo.; E. B. Weatherly, Cochran, 
Ga. 

Absent were: Carl S. Horn, Hay 
Springs, Nebr. and Tom Ross, Chinook, 
Mont. 

In selecting the committee the Agri- 


cultural Adjustment Administration. 


had. in mind the close relationship be- 
tween beef cattle production and dairy- 
ing so that dairy interests are repre- 
sented also. At the initial meeting 
Chester C. Davis, administrator; G. B. 
Thorne, economist; Dr. J. ‘R.. Mohler, 
chief, Bureau of Animal Industry; and 
Harry Petrie, chief of the AAA beef 
section spoke on various phases of the 
beef cattle situation and prospects for 
an adjustment program, 

The general advisory committee se- 

lected a number of special committees 
from its own membership for intensive 
study of different angles of possible 
adjustment programs. 
* Henry H. Parke, president of the Chicage Producers 
Commission Ass’n., a director and officer in the 
National Livestock Marketing Ass’n., was one of 
organizers of DeKalb County Soil Improvement Ass’n. 
in 1912, later renamed DeKalb County Farm Bureau. 
One of first in state to grow alfalfa, served as as- 
sistant director of agriculture under ex-Gov. Lowden, 
operates general farm feeding cattle and hogs. 

Marion Finley, son ef the late Chas. ?: Finley, 
former director, once vice-president (1926) o A. 
Marion is a graduate. (1917) University * ilfinols, 
has been an officer in Vermilion County Farm Bue 
reau, now a director. in Indianapolis Producers. A 
top-notch farm operator, Master Farmer, grows big 


crops corn, alfalfa, wheat, feeds cattle and hogs on 
home farm.—Editor. 


Tariff On Bananas 


The I, A. A. board of directors en- 
dorsed a resolution urging the adop- 
tion of a duty on bananas imported 
into this country. The resolution was 
presented by the Illinois Fruit Grow- 
ers Exchange. Importations of ba- 
nanas range from 100,000 to 125,000 
carloads annually, compete with U. 
S. grown fruits say local growers. 


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The New Or- 


ganization Plan 
By Sec’y. George E. Metzger 


URING the past two years per- 
D haps more study has been given 


to organization by the staff 
and officers of the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association than to any other 
activity connected with the Farm Bu- 
reau movement. 

These studies have necessarily been 
due largely to the serious financial 
condition brought about by business 
depression. For many years the As- 
sociation and County Farm Bureaus 
have been using a volunteer system of 
signing members. During the depres- 
sion it became apparent that the vol- 
unteer system 
could not be con- 
sistently followed 
and the member- 
ship _ properly 
maintained. 
Therefore, some 
experimen tin g 
was done, as is 
common in. all 
business circles 
during this pe- 
riod,through 
which small com- 
missions were allowed a selected group 
of men for the signing of membership. 

During a six months’ period this 
system resulted in the signing of 13,- 
396 new members. After careful study 
of this piece of work the I. A. A. 
Board of Directors decided to intensify 
the district plan of organization which 
had been in effect for seven years, by 
virtually placing a county organization 
director in charge of organization and 
collection: work in each county or in a 
very small group of counties. 


71 Counties Act 


A contract involving this principle, 
with modest commissions to a county 
organization director was worked out 
and is now being presented to County 
Farm Bureau boards of directors. As 
of the date of this writing (May 15, 
1934) 71 county Farm Bureau boards 
have taken favorable action—21 
county organization directors have 
been appointed by the secretary of the 
Illinois Agricultural Association and 
approved by the County Farm Bureau 
boards and are, or will be, actively 
engaged in their duties by June 1. 
Probably another 15 or 20 county or- 
ganization directors will have been 
appointed and approved by the time 
this article goes to press. Under the 
agreement the county organization di- 
rector becomes responsible for all or- 


JUNE, 1934 


MEETING OF LOCAL ADJUSTERS AT AMBOY, ILLINOIS ON APRIL 17. 


One of a series of seven meetings for local adjusters sponsored by the Illinois Agricultural 


Mutual Insurance Company, Center, Ass’t, Mgr. Leslie V. (for Vim & Vigor) Drake, 
The man to the left in the wrinkled suit is Manager A. E. Richardson. 


E, (for Elegant) Billings. 


Right, Frank 


ganization and collection activities 
within the county. 

This does not mean there will be no 
volunteer work done. It does not mean 
that the County Farm Bureau bcard 
of directors or the farm adviser is en- 
tirely relieved from membership re- 
sponsibility. It does mean, however, 
there will be an active directing head 
for organization activity within the 
county who will be responsible to a 
county organization committee and to 
the director of organization of the 
Illinois Agricultural Association. 


Uniform Agreement 


Further progress is being made in 
organization affairs by an attempt by 
the County Farm Bureau and Illinois 
Agricultural Association to stand- 
ardize many of the activities now 
being carried on either directly or 
through subsidiary organizations. 

A master uniform agreement has 
been prepared, under the direction of 
the board of directors of Illinois Agri- 
cultural Association, which is being 
carried to all County Farm Bureau 
boards for consideration and approval. 
This agreement sets forth many of the 
relationships existing between the 
County Farm Bureau and Illinois Ag- 
ricultural Association, and when 
signed by proper officers of the Illi- 
nois Agricultural Association and 
County Farm Bureau, both parties 
agree to attempt to standardize ac- 
tivities so that such matters as the 
definition of “membership in good 
standing” and other policy matters 
may become more uniform between 
the various County Farm Bureaus of 
the state. 

After the county organization direc- 


tor is appointed and approved, the co- 
ordination of their work throughout 
the state will be under the direction 
of V. Vaniman, recently appointed di- 
rector of organization service of the 
Illinois Agricultural Association. Mr. 
Vaniman will prepare a sales service 
sheet which will go regularly to the 
county organization directors. They 
will report to him regularly their ac- 
tivities within the county. 

Under the direction of the secre- 
tary of the Illinois Agricultural As- 
sociation, a new record system is be- 
ing worked out whereby the member- 
ship standing of each Farm Bureau 
member can be more quickly and ac- 
curately traced, either from the office 
of the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion or County Farm Bureau. 

At date of writing, approximately 
75 counties have taken favorable ac- 
tion approving the agreement. We 
expect to make it 100 per cent by 
July 1. 


Consider Soybean Problem 


A recent meeting was held in the 
I. A. A. offices at the call of John 
W. Armstrong, Champaign, president 
of the Soybean Marketing Association, 
to consider possibilities of new and 
broader outlets and a better system of 
marketing Illinois’ coming soybean 
crop. 

A further meeting will be held the 
latter part of May to hear reports of 
committees designated to work on va- 
rious angles of the problem. 


F, W. Niemeyer has been named general agent 
of the Farm Credit Administration of St. Louis. 
He succeeds Wood Netherland who left May 1 
to go with a private bank. 


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Special Session—58th 
General Assembly 


A recent Act of the legislature post- 
poned the penalty date one month for 
payment of all taxes due on or before 
May 1 for this year only. All May 1 
taxes may be paid without penalty not 
later than June 1 this year. 


The so-called blind relief bills were 
tabled and therefore failed during the 
recent special session of the 58th Gen- 
eral Assembly. The bills passed the 
Senate but failed to secure the neces- 
sary vote in the House. 


The bills proposed to double the 
present state tax rate for blind relief; 
to empower county boards to levy a 
tax up to one cent in Cook County 
and up to 10 cents in all down-state 
counties for the support of the blind; 
and to make all taxes levied not only 
for blind relief but also for mothers’ 
pensions, additional to the present 25 
cent rate for general county purposes. 


The effect of this legislation would 
have been to increase the maximum 
county tax rate in all downstate coun- 
ties 14 cents—10 cents for blind relief 
and four cents for mothers’ pensions. 
There would also have been an addi- 
tional State tax of one cent. 


Need Pension Change 


In opposing the blind pension bills, 
the I. A. A. did not oppose proper re- 
lief for the deserving blind. It has 
favored and still favors a much needed 
revision of the blind pension Act to 
preserve its benefits for the needy 
blind and to prevent such benefits, as 
now so often happens, from going to 
persons who neither need nor deserve 
them. Supporters of increases in blind 
pension funds have opposed every pro- 
posal for such revision. If the present 
law is properly revised, additional 
taxes will probably be needed in com- 
paratively few of the counties of the 
State. If they are needed in any coun- 
ty, the present counties Act provides 
that additional funds may be raised 
by a referendum vote for this or any 
other county purpose. 


Legislation on blind pensions will 
probably come up again in the regular 
session beginning next January. 

Between $6,000,000 and $7,000,000 of 
state gas tax revenues beginning July 
1, 1934 and ending Mar. 1, 1935 will 
be paid into the common school fund 
as a result of the recent gas tax 
diversion bill enacted by the legisla- 
ture after much whip cracking by the 
administration. The state school fund 
has been allocated $875,000 per month 
from the sales or occupational tax, 
payment of which was scheduled to 
begin Mar. 1 this year. This is to re- 


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place payments from the state prop- 
erty tax which was cancelled. 

In the closing days of the special 
session the state NRA bill was passed 
by a bare constitutional majority. This 
act makes it possible for state law en- 
forcement officials, as well as federal, 
to proceed against any violator of th 
NRA codes, | 

A more comprehensive report of the 
recent special session will be made 
in a later issue of the RECORD. 


Leslie V. Drake Joins 


Auto Insurance Staff 


Leslie V. Drake began work with 
the Illinois Agricultural Mutual In- 
surance Company March 14, 1934. He 
is a lawyer and 
has specialized in 
negligence law 
and liability in- 
surance claim 
work since being 
admitted to the 
Bar in 1926. 
Drake has a good 
understanding of 
the farm problem. 
He was born and 
raised on a farm 
in Macoupin coun- 
ty, Illinois where he farmed until 
1922 when he left to study law. He 
has been a practicing attorney in 
Chicago for the past six years and has 
been doing special work for the IIli- 
nois Agricultural Mutual for the past 
three years. 


L. V. DRAKE 


Soft Ball League Set 
Up In Marshall-Putnam 


Nine townships were represented at 
a meeting in Henry May 10 to or- 
ganize the Marshall-Putnam Farm Bu- 
reau Kitten Ball League. Twenty-four 
fans attended and offered suggestions 
for rules and a schedule of games. 
Managers were named in eight of the 
nine townships. Eligibility rules will 
follow those used in the State Farm 
Bureau Baseball League. 

Indoor baseball or kitten ball is 
coming to be popular sport throughout 
Illinois, in town and country alike. 
The growth of soft ball has had some- 
thing to do with dropping Farm Bu- 
reau baseball in many counties. Cut- 
ting of budgets, lack of sportsman- 
ship among players, inadequate sup- 
port from fans, insufficient interest 
on part of management in county are 
other. reasons. 


More than 80 County Farm Bureaus which 
had baseball teams at one time or another since 
the State League was organized in 1924 have 
dropped out. Farm Bureau baseball will be 


played in approximately 23 counties this year. 


Play Ball! Heard In 


Farm Bureau League 


As we go to press plans are being 
completed for launching the 1934 sea- 
son of the Illinois Farm Bureau Base- 
ball League. First games were 
scheduled to be played on Saturday, 
May 19, in Division IV with Grundy 
at Livingston and Woodford at La- 
Salle. 

In northeastern Illinois Lake, Mc- 
Henry, Boone and DeKalb county base- 
ball men met May 12 and drew up a 
schedule of games to open Saturday, 
May 26 with DeKalb at Lake and Mc- 
Henry at Boone. Games will be played 
each Saturday afternoon until August 
11 when the semi-finals begin. Almer 
Avang of Woodstock was elected dis- 
trict chairman in this division. Games 
will begin not later than 2:00 P. M. 
Standard Time. 

Adams and Fulton counties have or- 
ganized Farm Bureau teams and plan 
to play with McDonough in a three 
county division. 

Madison was ready to go with a 
brand new team but when Montgom- 
ery and Macoupin failed to stir up 
sufficient interest to organize a di- 
vision, decided to drop the project. 

Shelby which played with Sanga- 
mon, Christian, and Morgan last year 
is trying to set up a new division to 
include Shelby and counties to the 
north and east of it. Moultrie county 
is making progress in getting a team 
together. Coles and Effingham like- 
wise are considering teams. 

Carroll, Winnebago and JoDaviess 
all had strong teams last year and 
will try to interest Stephenson in join- 
ing the division this year to even up 
the district. 

Arthur K. Enger of Morris was 
chosen division chairman in District 
IV at their recent meeting. Enger is 
an old time professional baseball 
player and performed with the old 
Morris Reds when town and sand lot 
baseball was in its prime. 


AAA Program Serves 
Big Majority Producers 


Contracts signed by farmers with 
the AAA to adjust production, repre- 
sent more than 90 per cent of the 
country’s cotton and tobacco, 80 per 
cent of its wheat, and most of the 
corn and hog production entering com- 
mercial channels. 

More than three-fourths of a mil- 
lion producers also are being bene- 
fited through marketing agreements 
according to Chester C. Davis, ad- 
ministrator of the Agricultural Ad- 
justment Act. 


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lt’s Almost Hail Time! Insure Yo rops Against Loss At Actual Cost. 


$4 A Thousand NOW & acts 


Maybe you’ve guessed right many times 
about many things. But no one can guess 
when or where hail will strike and spread 
ruin. Hail time is almost here. Protect your 
crops now. After hail hits it will be too 
late. Farmers Mutual Re-Insurance Com- 
pany offers you protection at ACTUAL 
Cost, on easy payments. 


Use Extra Gare To Prevent Fires! 


Hot sun, hot winds and dry weather call for ex- 
tra precaution against farm fires. Increased 
farm activity and less water supply adds to the 
chance of fire starting and spreading. Warn 
your help to be extra careful. By keeping fire 
loss down you help retain the low insurance 
rates you now enjoy. 


DO YOUR PART! 


You Up To Harvest. 


At a cost of but $4 a thousand now 
insure your crops against hail. In the Fall, 
when you have your harvest money, the bal- 
ance of your premium is due and payable. 
If your crop is totally or partially destroyed, 
Farmers Mutual cheerfully sends you a 
check covering the loss. If no loss occurs, 
you have paid only a small premium for the 
protection. 


See your County Farm Bureau at once for 
details. Don’t delay. Once hail hits, your 
chance is gone! 


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Fruit Growers Annual 
Meeting at Centralia 


The solution of farm problems lies 
largely in farmers’ own hands, Earl 
C. Smith, president of the I. A. A., 
said in addressing the annual meeting 
of the Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange 
at Centralia, May 11. He pointed out 
that while farmers and those directly 
dependent on agriculture comprise ap- 
proximately one-third of the people 
they receive only one thirty-eighth of 
the nation’s income. More thorough or- 
ganization of farmers, he declared, is 
the way to gain fair compensation for 
the labor and investment in agricul- 
ture. 


Essential factors in the success of 
any co-operative marketing organ- 
ization, Mr. Smith said, are efficient 
management, proper financing and a 
substantial volume of products. He 
pledged continued and active support 
of the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion. to improve the conditions of fruit 
and vegetable producers in the state. 


High Reputation 


In his annual report Manager H. W. 
Day reviewed the work of the Ex- 
change during the past year, stating 
that Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange 
products during the past 12 years had 
won a high reputation in the markets 
where sold. There was no overproduc- 
tion of Illinois fruits and vegetab!es 
last year with the possible exception 
of cantaloupes and watermelons. Lack 
of buying power in the cities was 
largely responsible for low prices. 


Mr. Day discussed the truck peddler 
problem stating that this method of 
seHing had lowered the price level cost- 
ing growers far more than small sav- 
ings in commissions. This truck trade, 
he continued, can be turned to the ad- 
vantage of the growers if they will 
organize and sell through their co- 
operative associations, 


A total of 4,600 cases of straw- 
berries were sold through the Ex- 
change for the Edgar County Growers 
Association last year; more than 5,000 
cases for growers at Centralia. 


Forty thousand boxes of cantaloupes 
were packed, graded and sold for the 
Poag Growers Association in Madison 
county; more than 20,000 bushel boxes 
of cantaloupes and the equivalent of 
37 carloads of watermelons for the 
Beardstown Melon Growers Associa- 
tion. 


The 1933 apple and pear crops were 
short, the Exchange handling only 50 
carloads of apples, 13 cars of pears. 
The peach crop, likewise, was light 
price levels ranging from 90 cents to 


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L, L, Anderson of Summer Hill, Pike county, a director of the Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange, 
in apple orchard, Tree is loaded with Golden Delicious apples, 1983 crop, 


$1.85 per bushel f.o0.b. shipping point. 
A total of 309 cars were marketed 
for growers, shipments going to 23 
states. 


Vegetables Marketed 


Approximately 3,500 cases of as- 
paragus were sold for the Godfrey 
Growers Association in Madison and 
Jersey counties. Ten cars of cabbage 
were marketed for the Clear Valley 
Shipping Association in Whiteside 
county; in addition L. C. L. shipments 
were made of asparagus, rhubarb, to- 
matoes, flowers, red raspberries and 
cantaloupes from Cobden. 


“The truck problem is the biggest 
single factor in building up volume 
through the Exchange. Many growers 
are too ready to sell their crop to the 
trucker who comes along with a silver 
tongued story,” Day said. “This tends 
to undermine bargaining power exerted 
by the co-operatives.” 


The Manager suggested that the 
members give serious consideration to 
a policy of a small package check-off 
to be set aside to the credit of the 
member, preferred stock to be issued 
for the amount accumulated. 

Logan N. Colp, field secretary, made 
a brief report on field activities. 


The following officers and directors were se- 
lected for the coming year: Talmage Defrees, 
Smithboro, president; R, B, Endicott, Villa 
Ridge, vice-president; W. L, Cope, Tonti; Fred 
Hawkins, Texico; J. W. Lloyd, Urbana; Arthur 
Foreman, Pittsfield; L. R. Allen, Carbondale; 
Ernest G, Kinsey, Centralia; Harry Fulkerson, 
Dow; George E, Adams, West Liberty; L, L. 
Anderson, Summer Hill; R. W. Shafer, Edwards- 
ville; Chester Boland, Paris; H. B. Koeller, God- 
frey; Nelson Cummins, Dix; Logan N. Colp, 
secretary-treasurer. 


Defends Farmers’ Hog 
Marketing Records 


The discrepancy between govern- 
ment census figures on hog numbers 
on farms and the number of hogs ac- 
tually marketed during the year was 
pointed out recently by A. B. Leeper, 
vice-chairman of the Adams County 
Corn-Hog Control Association. 

In Adams county, farmers’ figures, 
according to Leeper, show that ap- 
proximately 155,000 hogs were sold 
annually during the base years of 
1932 and 1933. The government census 
for the county shows around 85,000 
hogs on farms. Subtracting old sows 
and boars, which roughly figure about 
10 per cent of hog totals, means that 
government census figures run only 
about 50% as high as the actual num- 
ber sold as revealed by farmers’ state- 
ments, backed up by sales records. 

“Illinois corn-hog signers will not 
take with good grace any substantial 
reduction in allotments of hog bases,” 
said Leeper. “We feel that our records 
of hog numbers marketed are much 
more accurate than the government 
census figures, because ours are based 
on actual sales tickets and other rec- 
ords of sales. When the census is 
taken around the first of the year it 
does not include the large numbers of 
hogs farrowed and marketed between 
spring and fall.” 

Farmers, whose interests are entirely agricul- 
tural, are the true representatives of the great 
American interests, and are alone to be relied 


on for expressing the proper American senti- 
ments.—Thos. Jefferson. 


I, A. A. RECORD 


HEN the old ex-plutocrats 
\ \ speak of recovery they 
usually refer to a return of 
the 1926-1929 hey-hey days with all 
its unbalance in favor of a minority 
and privileged few. Indeed, agriculture 
is not mildly interested in a return or 
continuance of the inequalities of 1921- 
22 or up to and including 1929. Some 
may have forgotten the hundred and 
one solutions for getting rid of sur- 
pluses which have been propounded 
since the first McNary-Haugen bill 
was proposed. Some gentlemen estate- 
farmers may cry as they did and have 
done since surpluses were first men- 
tioned, “Let the farmer alone; if he’ll 
just keep working everything will be 
alright.” But, now as then, everyone 
knows this gentleman farmer is the 
go-between propagandist for packer, 
commission man and general processor 
who want to continue their “Keep ’em 
working and keep ’em poor” policies 
of the good old days of lots to gamble 
with and losses to the producer. 
There is a super-abundance of farm 
products and an unbalance of income 
unfavorable to the seller of farm 
products. Therefore, any recovery that 
does not restore balance in farm in- 
come and buying power would, of 
course, be meaningless to agriculture. 


Contemplates Restoration 


The recovery program in process 
does not contemplate this restoration 
of balance in buying power for farm- 
ers. Its known plans and laws pro- 
vide immediate remedial measures. 
Why, then, do not all who know agri- 
culture to be of basic importance in 
national recovery rally to the support 
of plans which for the most part, 
while not perfect, yet are constructive 
and aim at the reduction of surpluses 
and the increase of income with 
greater buying power? 

Now, there is a poser! Farmers for 
the most part would cooperate if the 
processor’s propaganda, and the mid- 
dleman’s tory. press would not tear 
down faster than plans and brains can 
legislate and systematize recovery 
plans. 

_ Did you ever try to save a drowning 
man, or keep an insane person from 
injuring himself while in the throes 
of his spell? No? Well, the gestures 
and wild-eyed aims of rugged in- 
dividualists, in the hysteria of their 
depletion, is much the same. Some 
that are organized have a calm in 
disaster that permits of assistance and 


JUNE, 1934 


Recovery Must Include Equality 


By Lawrence A. Williams 


planned and rapid advances. Others 
of the individualist stripe—the radical 
stripe—the gentleman farmer poser 
for middlemen—the propagandist, all 
in the group called agriculture, are like 
the hysterical drowning man. The only 
hope seems to be a knock on the chin 
to produce unconsciousness. Just one 
stiff, harmless punch, so the drown- 
ing man will stop clutching, stop 
grabbing at his rescuer; close his 
mouth so the sea that threatens to 
destroy him will not complete his un- 
doing from the inside, and once un- 
conscious, his rescuer may have some 
chance of towing him in to safety. 


Partly Political 


All the bleating by the press and 
the processor about the processing tax 
is partly political propaganda by bitter 
partisans and partly from squirming 
privileged groups who hate to come 
under supervision and control for fear 
of losing a beautiful cut from farm- 
ers’ toil, while farmers take losses. 

The public is aroused. The consumer 


today is sympathetic toward agricul-' 


ture’s needs. They know the game of 
alligator crying about processing tax 
that takes one cent while they pass 
the buck of a 10 cent increase, in some 
cases more than a thousand percent 
increase, on to the consumer. The New 
Deal is not alone a Roosevelt Deal. It 
had its origin back in the grass roots 
of 1921 inequalities, and whether with 
Roosevelt or without him, whether 
with Republican, Democrat, third party 
or dictatorship, or whatever may 
come, the New Deal and the new era 
are going forward to balanced buy- 
ing power for farmers and a fairer 
distribution of the national income. 

The overproduction of butterfat and 
the lowered income to farmers for it, 
is a problem of as great importance 
as corn hogs, cotton or wheat. Objec- 
tion to a planned and profitable re- 
duction by producers does not come 
from the rank and file, but from the 
propaganda centers of influence. Kick 
as they will, controlled production 
seems inevitable. It is, perhaps, only a 
question of taking it with the attrac- 
tion of “paid to reduce,” or taking it 
eventually just “straight,” without 
pay for reduction. 

Distribution of goods as well as pro- 
duction, labor problems, a monetary 
system with its related credit prob- 
lems, controlled stock markets and 
provision exchanges, care of unem- 
ployed, and other problems are not to 


be solved by party politics or by hys- 
terical prejudiced class action. 


Requires Experts 


Here are problems requiring brains, 
specialists, brain trusts, experts and 
the best genius America with her 
vaunted education can muster. The 
best have been invited, and many en- 
rolled in the program’s behalf. 


Cries from the uninformed and the 
hysterical need not disturb us. There 
will be no communism unless American 
citizens demand that form of govern- 
ment, and this is hard to imagine. 
There will not be facism or Nazi-ism, 
or Marxian socialism. But what may 
very likely happen is an overthrow- 
ing of Wall Street dictatorship more 
completely than is even thought of 
today, and the establishing of true 
democracy and the giving of an im- 
petus to American citizens to keep it 
an operating true democracy. 


What may happen is a recognition 
of silver on a near fifty-fifty basis, 
and the establishing of full govern- 
ment ownership and control of the 
basic money. What may happen is a 
more complete supervision by govern- 
ment in many important activities 
which today, with uncontrolled compe- 
tition as in the past, have become 
clogged by abuses and inequalities. We 
will not be apt to go to government 
ownership but rather to use govern- 
ment to establish justice, fairness and 
equality. This is an important function 
of government. 


Against New Ideas 


The cry of “Communist,” “Red,” 
“Socialist,” at every aid given to the 
masses under our present recovery 
plan is simply the same hoot of deri- 
sion that has been hurled at every new 
idea—new discovery—new invention or 
new move since the memory of man. 
Prejudiced minds, whose realm of 
thought is limited by their own small 
boundaries of experience, can see no 
new move possible of success that does 
not follow old precedent. 


This country is experiencing the 
touch of the leather of control and 
system, and like the wild mustang it 
rears high at the feel of it. Lesser 
hours and greater pay for labor; lesser 
production and more money for farm- 
ers; lesser profits and greater turn- 
over for merchants; greater circula- 
tion of money and less desire for 


(Cont’d Page 16, Col. 1) 


Alfalfa Seed For 
July Sowing Plentiful 


There is plenty of alfalfa seed for 
summer planting at reasonable prices 
but sudan grass seed is scarce and 
high priced, according to Paul V. 
Kelly, manager of the seed division of 
the Farmers National Grain Corpora- 
tion. 

Mr. Kelly states that Kansas, Ne- 
braska, Utah and Michigan alfalfa 
seed is plentiful and no higher in 
price than a year ago. Montana seed 
is about all gone and Dakota 12 al- 
falfa, a popular variety, is non-exist- 
ent this year because of the drouth 
in the Dakotas a year ago. 

The outlook for clover, timothy, 
blue grass and production of other 
seeds this year is not so good because 
of the severe drouth throughout the 
country early this season. Mr. Kelly 
reports a heavy demand for sudan 
grass seed because so much of the 
early seeding of clover killed out 
through lack of moisture. 

The Farmers National is in a posi- 
tion to supply -farmers’ elevators, 
Farm Bureaus and other co-operatives 
with high-quality seeds in carload or 
L. C. L. lots. The seed division located 
in the Fisher Bldg., Chicago, is oper- 
ated strictly as a co-operative with 
provision for patronage dividends to 
stockholder members. 


- Recovery 
(Continued from page 15) 


hoarding for all people, and food, 
leisure, clothing, homes, jobs and hap- 
piness for all who come with fair 
minds and willing hearts into our 
land, should be a not impossible goal 
in this land of plenty. True, it is a jig- 
saw puzzle that takes brains to fit to- 
gether, but the parts are all there. 
Science, experts, constitutional law- 
yers with a desire to interpret for 
the masses, students of sociology, eco- 
nomics and some mighty good sales 
sense to get the whole program ac- 
cepted, can work out this jig-saw puz- 
zle, but it may take more days than 
just the few you are willing to wait. 
But, laugh with the echoing laugh- 
ter of the much beset President Roose- 
velt. It is better than the despondency 
or hopelessness of the subsidized or 
the prejudiced, or the Tory press 
would have you adopt as they criti- 
cize, but offer no alternative. Truly 
our country is improving daily. We 
are thinking, and that is progress. 
The proportion which the aggregate of the 
other classes of citizens bears in any state to 
that of its husbandmen, is, generally speaking, 
the proportion of its unsound to its healthy 
parts, and is a good enough barometer whereby 


to measure its degree of corruption.—Thomas 
Jefferson. 


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The seeder type spreader shown above is most satisfactory for spreading ground rock phosphate 
and agricultural limestone. Picture shows Minott Silliman of Stark county spreading phosphate. 


Phosphorus Is Key 
To Pérmanent Farming 


Phosphorus, purchased most cheaply 
in the form of ground rock phosphate, 
was characterized by Dr. Cyril G. 
Hopkins, the great soil expert, as the 
key to permanent agriculture on the 
most common soils of the United 
States, 

To maintain or increase the amount 
of phosphorus in the soil makes pos- 
sible the growth of clovers and al- 
falfa and the consequent addition of 
nitrogen from the inexhaustible sup- 
ply in the air. | 

And with the addition of decaying 
organic matter to the soil, potassium, 
magnesium and. other elements are 
liberated so they can be assimilated 
by growing plants. 


Poverty Only Future 


If the supply of phosphorus in the 
soil is steadily decreased, without re- 
plenishment, poverty is the only future 
for the people who till the common 
agricultural lands of the United 
States. 

On most Illinois soils applications 
of 1,000 to 2,000 pounds of ground 
rock phosphate per acre are recom- 
mended. Since rock phosphate also 
contains calcium, soils not too high in 
acidity will usually grow sweet clover 
and alfalfa with the sole addition of 
this fertilizer. 

The most practicable way of spread- 
ing rock phosphate or limestone on 
the land is to use a seeder type 
spreader which can be regulated to 
spread any desired amount per acre. 


- For this type of spreader the material 


must be dry to flow readily. 

Where manure is to be spread, rock 
phosphate may well be spread with it. 
The phosphate may be sprinkled over 


the manure from day to day as it is 
being made in the stall or covered 
feeding shed. The spreader may be 
partly loaded and the _ phosphate 
sprinkled on sufficient for the load. If 
manure sprinkled with phosphate is al- 
lowed to leach before being spread on 
the land there is danger of some of 
the phosphate leaching also, whereas 
if the fertilizer is spread on the land 
imr ediately after being taken from 
the car where manure has been or will 
be applied, the phosphate can later be 
plowed under with the manure with 
no danger of loss. 

Members of the I. A. A. may pur- 
chase rock phosphate of guaranteed 
quality and fineness of grinding at a 
special discount of 50c per ton from 
the I, A. A. contract companies, Ruhm 
Phosphate and Chemical Co., Chicago, 
and Midwest Farm Supply Co., Joliet. 
The delivered price varies from around 
$11 to $13 per ton depending on per- 
centage of phosphorus, determined by 
individual carload tests, and on the 
freight rate from the mines in Ten- 
nessee, 


Ask Freight Cut On 
Ground Rock Phosphate 


G. W. Baxter of the I. A. A. trans- 
portation division, recently appeared 
before railroad representatives urging 
that freight rates from Tennessee to 
Illinois farms on rock phosphate be 
cut at least 50 per cent. The rate from 
Tennessee to Chicago via freight was 
recently reduced from $4.50 to $3.38 
per net ton to compete with cheap 
water rates on phosphate from Florida 
via the Atlantic Ocean, Erie Canal 
and Great Lakes. 

The I. A. A. believes there would 
be much wider use of ground rock 
phosphate if freight rates were lower. 


I. A. A. RECORD 


WERE riding back from 

Henry Brokton’s funeral. Bill 

was driving. I was in front 

with him. The Old Judge was 

in the back seat with Herb 

Endicott. Ahead of us the 

Brokton family were turning into their 

gate—the widow, the small son, and 
two young daughters. 


“Poor Henry was a good man,” spoke 
up Bill. “Look at that farm. About the 
nicest layout in these parts.” 


“That’s true,” I replied, “but Henry 
had it pretty well mortgaged.” 


“What’s a mortgage,” scoffed Bill. 
“We've all got ’em. They go with farm- 
ing like the weather.” 

Anyway, I couldn’t help wondering 
about the widow and those three small 
children. And that mortgage. 

Bill went on. “His widow is better off 
than most. She’s got a roof over her 
head and food for her table. The land 
is good and the mortgage will stand as 
it is. Henry was a good man. Never did 
a mean thing in his life. Never did a 
wrong deed—” 

“Humph!” growled the Old Judge 
from the back seat. “Henry never 
meant to, but he committed a crime.” 


Bill and I exploded in a storm of 
protest. The Judge was crazy, we said. 
Henry never tangled up in anything 
shady—and so on. 

The Old Judge heard us out, then 
continued, “Everything you say is true. 
But, here’s the crime of Henry Brok- 

n.” He closed his eyes in thought. “I 
knew Henry’s father. I’ve known Henry 
since he was a little shaver. He talked 
to me when he bought that farm. It 
took all he had and then some. He 
worked like a slave improving it. Then 
he married. The children came along. 
More money was needed for improve- 
ments. An automobile. Prices were high 
for everything except farm products. 


The 


C 


RIME 


Henry, Brokton 


— /  - 
. 


Land was going down. Henry’s mort- 
gage was made on high priced land. 


“One day in 1930 Henry came to me 
looking pretty glum. He’d just come 
from the bank. They hadn’t been rough 
with him, you understand, but they 
made it clear they couldn’t go along 
lending him money. I suggested he bor- 
row on his life insurance policy. But 


that was no go. He didn’t carry any. 


“I didn’t see Henry again to really 
talk to until last year when he came in 
and said he wanted to make his will. 
We didn’t talk much. Things were 
pretty bad for all of us. I didn’t ask 
any questions. A lawyer learns when 
not to. We cleaned things up in a 
jiffy. I was surprised at the absence 
of any life insurance and said so. Henry 
said he’d go over and see Herb, here, 
when he left me. Well—I found out he 
didn’t go. 

“T didn’t think any more about it until 
the news came the other day that Henry 
had fallen off his barn. Then I thought 
about that will, the mortgage, and no 
life insurance. 

“So, I say, no matter how fine, hard 
working, faithful and honest he was, the 
crime of Henry Brokton was in not 
carrying protection for his widow and 


those kids. If he couldn’t make both 
ends meet and pay his mortgage, how 
in hades is his widow going to? Who’s 
going to send those kids to college? 
Mortgages don’t go on forever. A young 
widow with three little ones is not go- 
ing to marry very soon. And hired help 
don’t make money for a farm!” 


He turned to Herb Endicott who’d 
been sitting there not saying a word. 
Just smiling. That made the Old Judge 
mad. 


“There’s nothing to smile about Herb. 
You were a friend of Henry’s. Why’n 
blue blazes didn’t you make him take 
out life insurance with you? That’s 
your job down at the County Farm Bu- 
reau office.” 

Herb kept right on smiling. “That’s 
my job all right, Judge,” he said. “‘And 
you're right as usual—about both Henry 
and me. But there’s one thing you’re 
wrong about. Henry did have his life 
insured—just a month before he died. I 
had the hardest job of my life making 
him take it. Won’t his widow be sur- 
prised and happy when I hand her a 
Country Life check tomorrow, for $10,- 
000? Henry never told her about it.” 
Country Life Insurance Company, 608 
South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois. 


a a a 
“ 


ET RE NN a ote ee 


Oil Company Managers 
Meet At Champaign 


In a hot, breeze-proof room, more 
than 100 County Service Company 
managers, directors and Farm Ad- 
visers sweated enthusiastically through 
a meeting sponsored by ,the Illinois 
Farm Supply Company at Urbana, 
Friday, May 18. Called to order at 
9:30 A. M. by Fred Herndon, Presi- 
dent, and L. R. Marchant, manager, 
the gathering discussed codes, prices, 
equipment, new products, soy bean oil 
paint, selling, advertising, chinch bugs, 
insurance, and made plans for further- 
ing the record-breaking progress made 
since the first of the year. 


In a calm of watchful waiting, the 
meeting took up the discussion of the 
petition being circulated by the oil in- 
dustry in Illinois—a subtle attempt to 
discredit farmer petroleum co-ops, and 
specifically to throw a wrench into the 
patronage refund plan which has 
brought $500,000 for three consecutive 
years back into the pockets of Illinois 
Farm Bureau members. 


Petition Campaign 


Obviously not intended for Farm 
Bureau consumption, a letter attached 
to the petition points out that the 
signatures of farmers will have a pro- 
found effect upon President Roosevelt 
to whom it is addressed, and thus 
cause him to change his well known 
friendly attitude toward organized ag- 
riculture and its right to bargain col- 
lectively. A facsimile of the petition 
was prepared and sent out to thou- 
sands of Farm Bureau) members 
through the facilities of the [Illinois 
Agricultural Association. The general 
consensus of opinion among those at- 
tending the meeting was to wait until 
there was evidence that signatures 
were being solicited locally before tak- 
ing counter action. 


Chinch Bugs 


Professor W. P. Flint of the Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station of the 
University of Illinois gave a half-hour 
talk on chinch bugs. Most potent of 
his remarks was that “nothing will 
have as much bearing upon Illinois 
agriculture in 1934-35 as the little 
chinch bug... more than 70 counties 
are totally or partially infested. 


Dr. W. L. Burlison of the Agricul- 
tural College gave a short talk on 
soy bean oil paint illustrated by 
panels that had been subjected to the 
weather for a number of years. He 
demonstrated the superiority of soya 
bean oil as a‘ paint vehicle over lin- 
seed oil. 

A. E. Richardson, manager of IIli- 


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nois Agricultural Mutual Ins. Co., 
told the meeting about the new insur- 
ance policies available for trucks, 
buildings and equipment, and ex- 
plained the new public liability insur- 
ance now ready for the oil companies. 
John S. Tracy held an open discussion 
on sales and advertising. The meeting 
was conducted for the greater part by 
Mr. Marchant and George Bunting, 
who passed out enough information to 
keep all in attendance busy with their 
notebooks for at least a week. 


Cocoanut Oil Tax 


A bill providing for a three cent per 
pound tax on cocoanut oil was finally 
put through congress. Subsequently 
President Roosevelt has indicated his 
interest in follow-up legislation to 
lighten the effects of this measure so 
far as the Philippine Islands are con- 
cerned. 


A tax on cocoanut oil is involved in 
the Philippine independence question 
in which the United States agreed not 
to impose trade restrictions on the Is- 
lands during the next ten years while 
Filipinos are preparing themselves for 
independence. The President has felt 
that the imposition of the tax was 
breaking faith with the Islands on the 
independence question. 


Cut Tariff Rate On 
Sugar From Cuba 


Following a recent report by the 
Tariff Commission, President Roose- 
velt reduced the tariff on sugar from 
Cuba and other countries. The duty on 
96 degree Cuban sugar, for example, 
is cut from two cents to 1% cents per 
pound. Imports of Cuban sugar are en- 
titled to a favorable differential com- 
pared with tariff rates on sugar from 
other countries. As a result of the re- 
cent action, the general or world tariff 
rate will be 25 per cent higher than 
the rate on Cuban sugar. 


A general advisory board on policy 
matters has been established in Adams 
county made up of one representative 
from each of the co-operatives in the 


county and two Farm Bureau direc- - 


tors. Policy matters affecting more 
than one organization are brought be- 
fore this council for consideration and 
recommendation. 


Twenty-seven meat packers at 23 
markets were awarded bids by the 
government to buy and process a 
maximum of 225,000 hogs during two 
weeks beginning May 15. 


Big Independent Dairy 
Cited As Violator 


The Meadowmoor Dairies, largest of 
the independent distributors in TIIli- 
nois, was recently cited for alleged 
violation of the Chicago milk agree- 
ment. The charge is that the company 
purchased milk from new producers 
who were not on the market prior to 
February 5, 1934, without first ob- 
taining a permit. It is alleged that 
the company bought milk from farm- 
ers not having established bases, con- 
trary to the license, and that pur- 
chases of milk were made from pro- 
ducers who did not authorize com- 
pliance with the terms of the license 
respecting payments for market serv- 
ices. 


The company is also charged with 
failing and refusing to submit monthly 
reports to the market administrator, 
that producers were paid prices other 
than those defined in the _ license 
schedule, and that the prescribed but- 
terfat differential of four cents per 
point has been ignored in paying pro- 
ducers. 

Action was taken sometime ago to 
close up the distributing plant of 
Lloyd Schissler of Lombard for fail- 
ure to observe the license. A num- 
bez of other smaller dealers, likewise, 
have been orderd to show cause why 
their licenses should not be revoked 
for failure to make reports, and to 
pay producers the price defined in 
their license. 


National Swine Show 


The National Swine Show will be 
held in connection with the Illinois 
State Fair at Springfield August 18- 
25. President James R. Moore of the 
National Swine Growers Association, 
and Edward S. Collins, manager of the 
State Fair, announce the following 
judges: Duroc-Jerseys, Prof. E. F. 
Ferrin, St. Paul; Poland-Chinas and 
Hampshires, R. L. Pemberton, Iowa; 
Spotted Polands, Dean H. H. Kildee, 
Ames, Iowa; Berkshires, J. B. Rice, 
Marseilles, Ill.; Barrows, W. T. Ren- 
eker, hog buyer for Swift & Company, 
Chicago; Yorkshires, L. L. Lehman, 
Pleasant Plains, Ill.; Chester Whites 
and Tamsworths, Prof. J. S. Coffey, 
Columbus, Ohio. 


The largest April on record was ex- 
perienced by the Indianapolis Pro- 
ducers with approximately 1,070 car- 
loads handled or 34.7% of market re- 
ceipts compared with 33.3% last year. 
The four months’ volume is 23.7% 
greater than a year ago. 


I. A. A. RECORD 


Number 7 


RECORD 


JULY, 1934 


Imperative Need of 


Revenue Revision 


Report of John C. Watson, Director of Taxation, to I. A. A. Board of 
Directors, June 15, 1934 


N most of the States the general 
| property tax has long been and 

is still the chief or only support 
of most State, county and local gov- 
ernments. In theory it applies to all 
property. In practice it has always 
been largely confined to tangible 
property, chiefly real estate. In 
pioneer times, when nearly every 
household owned 
its own home and 
operated its own 
business prop- 
erty, chiefly farm 
property, the 
property tax was 
almost universal- 
ly applicable and 
was reasonably 
fair. This is still 
partly true in 
states of little 
urban and indus- 
trial development. It is not true 
in a great urban and _ industrial 
state like Illinois, where continued 
reliance on the general property tax 
has largely or wholly exempted from 
direct property taxes, more than one- 
half of the entire population who de- 
rive their income from _ personal 
service, ownership of intangible prop- 
erty, or speculative transactions. 


Active in 1921 


Even in happier times, the fatal 
weakness and injustice of the prop- 
erty tax were plainly evident. The 
Illinois Agricultural Association early 
recognized the necessity of revising 
the antiquated revenue article of the 
State Constitution. Its representa- 
tives were active in the Constitutional 
Convention in 1921 and 1922; in the 
Sessions of the General Assembly 
which submitted revenue amendments 


JOHN C, WATSON 


to the voters in the November elec- 
tions in 1926, and 1930, and again in 
the regular session in 1933, when the 
General Assembly was unable to 
agree upon a revenue amendment to 
be voted on next November. 

As the depression deepened, the 
weakness and injustice of the prop- 
erty tax became tragic. Inability to 
pay taxes has increased delinquency 
to proportions never before known in 
the State. Tax sales without a bid- 
der have been followed by forfeiture 
of property, thus vainly heaping 
penalties upon taxes which even with- 
out the penalties have been crushing. 


Conference Approves 


Those still able to pay taxes look 
with foreboding to the future, asking 
themselves how long they can deny 
necessities to their families or disre- 
gard the need of their property for 
paint and repairs. With growing con- 
cern about their ability to pay such 
fixed charges as interest and taxes, 
they see the increasing threat of crop 
losses from drouth and insect pests, 
now nearing the proportions of a 
major disaster the effects of which 
will reach into nearly every city and 
village in the State. They know that 
the indispensable services of govern- 
ment are suffering impairment, not 
because the people as a whole are un- 
able to support them but because the 
burden is inequitably distributed. 

Adjournment of the General As- 
sembly, July 1, 1983, without sub- 
mitting a revenue amendment to be 
voted on this year was followed by 
widespread recognition of the neces- 
sity of a special session for this pur- 
pose. This was discussed at a state- 
wide conference of approximately 
1700 farm leaders in Decatur, Sep- 


Volume 12 


Revising our antiquated tax- 
ing system is one of the great- 
est problems facing Illinois 
farmers who bulk large as tax- 
payers. The I. A. A. has per- 
sisted in its efforts to bring 
about a solution to this problem 


for more than ten years. Read 
carefully the accompanying re- 
view and report of the efforts 
of your organization to secure 
an equitable amendment to the 
revenue article of the state con- 
stitution.—Editor. 


tember 18, 1933. The conference un- 
animously adopted a resolution urg- 
ing officers and directors of the As- 
sociation to take such action as they 
might deem advisable to secure the 
calling of such a special session. It 
also asked that the proposed revenue 
amendment embody provisions to per- 
mit the base of taxation to be broad- 
ened, and to cut taxation of tangible 
property, both rural and urban, at 
least 50 per cent. 


The action requested at the Decatur 
conference was submitted to rural 
people in every county in the form of 
tax relief petitions requesting the of- 
ficers of the Association to urge upon 
the Governor the imperative need of 
calling a special session for the ex- 
clusive purpose of submitting proper 
amendments to the revenue article to 
be voted on in November, 1934. The 
tax relief petition also requested the 
General Assembly to submit an 
amendment removing present limita- 
tions which prevent an equitable dis- 
tribution of the tax burden; cutting 
total general prop ty taxes to not 
over $1.00 on the $100 of fair cash 
value, except by referendum; forbid- 
ding further indebtedness by any 
taxing district except by referendum 
vote; and empowering the General 
Assembly, by general law enacted by 
a two-thirds vote, to distribute state 
revenue among local taxing districts. 


Ratified at Danville 


These provisions incorporated in a 
proposed amendment were ratified in 


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Imperative Need of 
Revenue Revision 


‘resolutions adopted in the annual 


meeting of the Association held in 
Danville, January, 1934. 

The tax petitions were returned 
with approximately 310,000 signa- 
tures. In accord with this overwhelm- 
ing response, President Smith wrote 
to the Governor on November 10, 
1933, urging him to call a special ses- 
sion of the General Assembly for the 
purpose of submitting a proper 
amendment. The Governor’s office 
acknowledged receipt of this letter 
and requested copies of the amend- 
ment proposed by the Association, 
which were sent. 

In September, 1933, pursuant to 
action by the General Assembly, a 
special revenue commission was 
created. In November the Special 
Commission requested copies of the 
amendment proposed by the Associa- 
tion, which were sent to each member. 
Later the Special Commission invited 
representatives of the Association to 
appear in behalf of the I. A. A. amend- 
ment, which they did. On invitation 
of the Special Revenue Commission, 
representatives of the Association 
participated in subsequent meetings 
of this body. 

When the Commission made its re- 
port, it recommended that the Gov- 
ernor call a special session of the 
General Assembly for the purpose of 
submitting a revenue amendment. It 
also recommended the tax limitation 
and most of the other provisions ad- 
vocated by the Illinois Agricultural 


Association and as part of its report 


submitted an amendment containing 
these provisions. 

In its May meeting the Board of 
Directors of the Association directed 
that the following letter be addressed 
to the Governor, again urging the im- 
portance of calling a special session 
of the General Assembly in the near 
future for this purpose: 


Letter to Governor 


May 18, 1934 

Hon. Henry Horner, 

Governor of Illinois, 

Springfield, Illinois. 

Dear Governor: | 
At the request of seventeen hun- 
dred (1700) representative farmers 
from ninety-four (94) counties con- 
vened at Decatur, Illinois, I wrote you 
on November 10, 1933, urging that a 
special session of the 58th General 
Assembly be called for the purpose 
of submitting to the electorate in No- 
vember, 1934, an amendment to the 
Revenue Article of the State Consti- 
tution. In acknowledging this com- 


munication, your office advised that 
a special revenue committee consist- 
ing of five senators, five representa- 
tives and five citizens at large were 
drafting an amendment for the con- 
sideration of the General Assembly. 

Again under date of February 2, 
1934, I wrote you carrying the re- 
quest of the Board of Directors of the 
Association that because of the grave 
importance of revenue reform, a spe- 
cial session of the General Assembly 
be called for the exclusive considera- 
tion of an amendment to the Revenue 
Article. 

We are informed that the Special 
Revenue Commission, above men- 
tioned, which we understand was ap- 
pointed by you, the President of the 
Senate and the Speaker of the House, 
made its report and recommendations 
as to the provisions that should con- 
stitute an amendment to the Revenue 
Article of the State Constitution, 
which report and recommendations 
were made on Tuesday, April 17 and 
printed in the Senate Journal of that 
date. 


Promise Full Support 


After careful consideration of the 
provisions of the amendment recom- 
mended by the commission, the Board 
of Directors of the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association have authorized me 
to inform you that the Association 
will put its full support behind the 
recommended amendment, if and 
when an opportunity is afforded for 
its consideration by a ‘special session 
of the General Assembly, and if sub- 
mitted by the General Assembly to 
the electorate in November of this 
year, will do everything within the 
rightful influence of the Association 
to secure its adoption by the people 
at that time. 

Our Board of Directors, of course, 
recognize that you, as Chief Execu- 
tive of Illinois, must be acutely aware 
of the serious defects and gross in- 
equities in our present tax system in 
Illinois. We feel sure you realize the 
great injustice placed upon property 
owners by these inequities, the results 
of which are becoming intolerable and 
demand correction at the earliest pos- 
sible time. | 

The Board of Directors have re- 
quested me to call to your attention 
the fact that unless an immediate call 
of a special session for the purpose 
of considering the proposed amend- 
ment to the State Constitution is had, 
that it will be impossible to meet con- 
stitutional requirements in time to 
give the people an opportunity to vote 
on this important question at the gen- 
eral election in November of this 
year. The provision of the Constitu- 
tion referred to is found in Section 


Greene County Man On 
|. A. A. Board From 20th 


K, T. Smith of Greenfield, president 
of the Greene County Farm Bureau, 
was chosen as director from the 20th 
district on the I. 
A. A. Board to 
succeed the late 
Chas. S. Black. 
He was elected 
by ballot at a 
meeting of repre- 
sentatives from 
counties in this 
district. His se- 
lection was ap- 
proved by the I. 
: A. A. board meet- 

K. T, SMITH ing in Chicago 
May 19. 

Mr. Smith, a native of Greene 
county, operates a 360 acre grain and 
livestock farm. He has been a mem- 
ber of the Farm Bureau since its or- 
ganization. More recently he directed 
the corn sealing program in Greene 
county and served on the county corn- 
hog control committee. He has been 
an officer in the Greenfield Farmers 
Ce-operative Grain Co. for a number 
of years. 


2, Article XIV, which as you, know 
requires that a proposed amendment 
to the Constitution be published at 
least three months preceding the elec- 
tion at which’ such amendment is sub- 
mitted to the electors. Unless a spe- 
cial session is immediately called for 
this purpose, it appears this impor- 
tant question cannot be handled in 
time for. consideration of the people 
before the general election in Novem- 
ber of 1936. 


Will Delay Relief 


We are informed that certain in- 
terests in the state are opposing the 
submission of an amendment at this 
time and urging that instead the mat- 
ter should be left to a Constitutional 
Convention. We submit that to leave _ 
this imperative matter to  constitu- 
tional convention necessarily involves 
delay that would seem to make it im- 
possible (even though everything con- 
nected therewith was expedited to the 
fullest possible extent) to secure re- 
lief from the present property tax 
burden before the General Assembly 
of 1939. 

I am sure you recognize that con- 
stitutional restrictions placed upon 
the manner of providing for a Consti- 
tutional Convention, its later con- 
siderations and still later the submis- 
sion of its findings to the people, 
would require at least the time in- 
dicated which would make impossible 


I. A. A. RECORD 


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6.—W. 
, Apple, Clark; iy Des 


tson, Shelby; 16.—L. J, Hager, Marsh 
ur C, Johnson, tant, “Marsh -Putnam; 21.—Otis Kercher, Vermilion; '22.—W 

C. T, Kibler, Jersey; 25.—Fred J Blackburn, Marion; 26.—Charles Tarble, Cumberland ; 

29.—H Lett, Wabash; 30.—J. Q. Soott, Clay; 31.—L. J, Ful 32.—J, G. 
Evans, Effingham; 35.—C, L. Mast, assis LaBalle; $6.—M. E. Tascher, assistant Cook; 37,.—C, 
38.—-D, E. arren, Ogle; ned ey o net. “an Piatt; 41.—G. H. Husted, Cass; 
Williamson; 45.—L. W. 46,—Frank Purnell, Ford; 47.—E. 8. 
Rasmussen, DeKalb; 50.—Lloyd @ Caldwell, Washington : 51L.—A, J. ws, Pope-Hardin; 5%.—H 
r ; J. ’ Bond H 55.—R 65 —W, Cope, Clinton; 57 —H 

8.—Harold N. Myers DeWitt; 60.—H. z Brunnemeyer, JoDaviess; 61.—A. R. 
Braham, Will; 64.—R. C. Doneghue, McDonough; 65.—C, 8, Love, Te; 66.—W. D. Murphy, Edwards; 67.—C Sa Ga 
Jefferson; 69.—J. L. Iftner, Scott; 70.—George i. jaath me Tazewell; 71.—H. 8. Wright, DuPage; 


deWerff, Woodford ; 74.—H. K, Dan 


any tax relief as result of a Consti- 
tutional Convention previous to 1940. 
If, in your judgment, a Constitutional 
Convention is needed for other pur- 
poses than that of revenue reform, 
the Association stands ready to sup- 
port a program of that character; but 
certainly not in lieu of the immediate 
calling of a special session of the Gen- 
eral Assembly for the consideration 
of revenue amendment this year. 


Could Correct Evils 


I am sure you recognize that if 
called immediately, the General As- 
sembly could submit an amendment to 
the people at the general election in 
November which, if approved, would 
make possible the correction of a 
large portion of our present taxing 
evils during the session of the 59th 
General Assembly scheduled to con- 
vene next January. 

Before closing, may I again impress 
upon you the very grave importance 
of your careful consideration of the 
recommendations of our Board of Di- 
rectors and to again assure you of the 
full support of the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association in securing the fa- 
vorable approval by the General As- 
sembly of the provisions of the 


JULY, 1934 


oo Henderson county; 2 zene S oaeer: 


Illinois’ farm advisers at annual summer conference, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, June 11, 12, 13. 
Macon; ke J. Banter Stephenson; 4.— Paul V. Dean, 


Pike; 1—E, Secor, F 8.—H, 


Ctawtonay asper; 13.—C, E. Johnson, Ir 


tre, Edgar; 9.—E. J. Laible, McLean; 


all-Putnam; "i 17.—Henry Neville, Gallatin; 18.—Je .—John pillison, Cc noun 19.—John Watt, Fulton; 


Russell, Adams; 76.—J. C. McLean, 


amendment to the Revenue Article 
of the Constitution recommended by 
your Revenue Commission, and if sub- 
mitted, to do everything possible to 
secure its adoption at the hands of 
the people next November. We are 
also prepared to file with the presid- 
ing officers of the respective bodies 
of the General Assembly petitions 
signed by more than 300,000 voters of 
Illinois urging immediate action in 
support of the provisions of the re- 
port and recommendations of your 
Revenue Commission. 


Hoping we may have your favorable 
consideration of this request, I beg 
to remain 


Sincerely yours, 
Illinois Agricultural Association, 
(Signed) Earl C. Smith, Pres. 


Get Creamery Site 


The Producers Creamery of Olney 
recently bought the site of the old 
Olney Hotel on which it will erect a 
creamery. A campaign is under way 
to raise capital to build a plant. A 
fund of $30,000 cash is the goal, two- 
thirds of which is raised. 


27.—J. W. Wr Witooen ca, Peoria; 28.—T. H. Haf 
McCall, Jackson; 33.—T . WwW. 


Wayne; 48.—W. A. He n, 


et St hdemes 


23.—W Gould, J BS songs) 24.— 
er Hancock. 

a ; 34.—Vernon 
A, Hughes, Monroe; 38.—Charles E. Yale, Lee; 


—C. W. Simpson, White; 43.—I, E. Parrett, Mo ; 44.—Dee Small, 
Amrine 


icHenry ; 49.—R, NH, 
ordon, Alexander- 68.—E, E. Glick, 

Gilkerson, Lake; 58.--E. ‘A. Bierbaum, Union. 
tes, LaSalle; 68.—C. E. Twigg, : 


7. Coes Rock Island; —H, 
and 77.—F, H. Shuman, Whiteside. 


Farm Advisers Annual 
Summer Meeting, Urbana 


Consider Corn-Hog Allotment, 
Drouth, and Chinch Bugs 


Agricultural planning, drouth, 
chinch bugs and dairy production 
problems occupied chief attention of 
farm advisers in their annual sum- 
mer conference at Urbana June 11- 
12-13. 

President Earl C. Smith of the 
I. A. A. and Dean H. W. Mumford 
spoke to the farm advisers in their 
annual business meeting Monday 
night. Discussion centered around 
government corn-hog allotments for 
Illinois. Mr. Smith made clear the 
policy of the I. A. A. on this con- 
troversial question, namely, that the 
contracts be carefully reviewed by 
county committees with the idea of 
removing hogs reported on contracts 
which were not properly supported 
but to retain reported hog numbers 
which are fully substantiated by rec- 
ords. 

In addressing the advisers on June 
11, A. J. Surratt, state agricultural 
statistician and member of the. Illi- 


nois Corn-Hog Board of Review, said: 
“We are not asking you to do ‘the im- 
possible. All that we want you to do 
is to make a conscientious effort*:in 
every county to eliminate the surplus 
‘hogs in line with the quotas reported 
‘for each county. We know there has 
been some padding. Records that can 
‘stand up will be approved. After you 
‘have taken out every hog that should 
come out notify the board of review. 
The success of the program depends 
upon the reduction of hog numbers 
marketed. For the protection of those 
who have made honest reports: sub- 
stantiated by complete records we 
want the excess hogs eliminated and 
the individual allotments brought 
down to where they ought to be.” 


Now Too Low 


For more than 20 years, Surratt 
said, we have been criticised for be- 
ing too high on our crop estimates. 
It seems strange now that we are 
criticised for being too low on corn 
and hogs. 

The government hog allotment for 
Illinois averages around 13 per cent 
less than the number of hogs reported 
by contract signers. As we go press 
corn-hog committees throughout the 
state are at work carefully checking 
contracts and asking signers to get 
more complete records where neces- 
sary to substantiate hog numbers re- 
ported. 

Getting "Em Out 


Mr. Surratt stated that the limita- 
tion of litters in the 1934 corn-hog 
contract had been rescinded. This does 
not affect the limitation of hogs mar- 
keted, however, to 75 per cent of the 
average sold in 1932 and 1933. The 
corn-hog committees it is reported are 
getting the excess pigs out of the 
contracts. One producer with a 1000 
hog base, Surratt said, readily sub- 
mitted to a cut of 219 head. 


Stopping the chinch bug advance near Watseka in Iroquois county with an oil barrier, 


Chinch Bugs On The 
Rampage Threaten Corn 


The chinch bug infestation in [lli- 
nois is the heaviest since 1860, Prof. 
W. P. Flint, state entomologist, told 
farm advisers at Urbana on June 11. 
The bugs are a little ahead of normal 
due to the early hot weather. 

-The government appropriated $1,- 
000,000, he said, for insect control in 
the midwest states, a substantial por- 
tion of which is available for provid- 
ing free creosote oil for farmers. As 
we go to press large quantities of oil 
are rolling into central and northern 
Illinois counties where the bugs are 
most numerous. The oil is delivered 
in 50 gallon drums and in tank cars, 
and is coming mostly from the Chi- 
cago and St. Louis areas consigned to 
county farm advisers. 

Farmers are required to sign re- 
ceipts in which they agree to use the 
oil only for chinch bug barriers. Fifty 
gallons of oil are required for one- 
quarter mile of barrier for the sea- 


More than 300 corn growers were in Aledo, Mercer County, June 16 after their allotment of free 


government chinch bug oil, The demand exceeded the supply here as in most counties, 


son. Oil must be replenished daily. 

Chinch bugs in central Illinois 
started leaving wheat fields and other 
small grains early in June and by the 
middle of the month were advancing 
into corn fields not protected by tar- 
line barriers, in large numbers. 


Badly infested counties. such as 
Champaign, Livingston, McLean, Will, 
Iroquois, etc. placed orders for. five 
to ten carloads, but secured only part 
of amounts ordered. Illinois Farm Sup- 
ply Company had sold considerable 
quantities of chinch bug oil before the 
government appropriation for free oil 
was announced. Farmers who acted 
promptly and purchased. oil from 
county service companies have been 
most successful in stopping advancing 
chinch bugs. Some who waited for 
free oil were too late. Many corn fields 
already show the effects of damage. 


On June 19 Livingston County 
Farm Bureau reported that close to 
45,000 gallons of oil including that 
purchased from Illinois Farm Supply 
Co. prior to the government grant, 
had been distributed. Not a single 
county reported enough free oil to 
supply the demand stimulated by fre- 
quent radio announcements. Cham- 
paign county, the same date, reported 
that five tank carloads of free oil had 
melted away quickly as farmers lined 
up by the hundreds with drums, bar- 
rels, and other receptacles to take it 
away. Similar experiences were re- 
ported in Vermilion, De Witt, and 
other counties. 


Illinois Farm Supply Co. released 
large quantities of chinch bug oil al- 
ready contracted for, to the govern- 
ment, thus speeding up delivery sev- 
eral days. As government supplies 
and funds dwindled county service 
companies again started selling sub- 
stantial quantities to fill the wide- 
spread demand. 


I, A. A. RECORD 


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Ween re 


Drouth Proves Advantages 
of Agricultural Planning 


Benefit Payments Will Soften 
Blow of Dame Nature 


The drouth has emphasized the 
value of agricultural planning, Dr. H. 
R. Tolley, economist and leader in the 
AAA, told farm advisers at their 
summer conference in Urbana June 
11. The AAA programs have helped 
to meet the emergency, he said. First 
is the crop income insurance feature 
of the benefit payments. Those pay- 
ments made and to be made may not 
be sufficient to take care of farmers’ 
needs without other relief, but they 
do give a minimum of income which 
is more than nature has done this 
season, Tolley said. The speaker was 
introduced by Dean H. W. Mumford 
as one of the leading thinkers and 
economists of the country. 

The increase in the amount of acre- 
age in feed crops, as a result of the 
wheat and corn-hog programs, is an- 
other benefit, he continued. Had there 
been no reduction in wheat and corn 
acreage this land would certainly have 
been planted to grain crops and the 
amount of forage would have been 
even smaller than it is. Discussing 
future crop adjustment programs and 
the necessity of a cut of 15 to 20 mil- 
lion acres of land in crops, Dr. Tolley 
outlined four possible methods of re- 
duction: 

1. Voluntary adjustment, with 
benefit payments as now carried 
on. 

2. Voluntary adjustment, with 
penalties against those who re- 
fuse to co-operate now being 
followed with rice. Under this 
plan, the millers hold back part 
of the payment for the farmer’s 
rice until he has agreed to par- 
ticipate in acreage control. 

8. Buying sub-marginal land by 
the government. 

4. Compulsory control of produc- 
tion. | 

Discussing the proposed plan for 
putting the adjustment program on a 
farm rather than a commodity basis, 
he mentioned the advantages claimed 
for this idea, such as its simplicity, 
freedom in planning farming opera- 
tions, elimination of work, red tape and 
detail involved in annual signups, soil 
conservation, avoiding public reaction 
to pig slaughter and plow up cam- 
paigns, flexibility, and permanent in- 
fluence toward keeping more land in 
grass and legumes: “I doubt whether 
Wwe are ready just yet for this plan,” 
he added. “Possibly we can make 
something like it a basis for a sign- 
up in 1935 to run through the years 
1936, 1987 and 1938.” 


JULY, 1934 


Burned pastures and starving cattle is the sequel of the drought in Boone county, III, 


Normally 


wet and green throughout the summer this pasture was parched and barren of feed early in June. 


Hog Market Stronger, 
Returns Greater Than ‘33 


Hogs shipped to packers during 
May averaged between 15 and 30 
pounds lighter than for the same pe- 
riod in 1933 according to the AAA. 
Marketings of hogs at light weights 
have been stimulated by prospects of 
short feed supplies and the relatively 
high price of corn. Heavy loadings 
during May and early June delayed 
the normal price upturn. 


“When the large volume of hogs 
sold during the last few months and 
the price equivalent of the hog bene- 
fit payments are taken into consider- 
ation,” said Chester C. Davis, ad- 
ministrator of the Agricultural Ad- 
justment Act, “the hog market has 
been in a substantially stronger con- 
dition this year than it was during the 
same months in 1938. 

“Hog receipts in May this year are 
about the same in number as a year 


Farm adviser J, E, Harris, 


Mercer county, 
explaining the procedure followed in distribut- 
ing free government oil to fight chinch bugs. 


earlier, and a processing tax at the 
rate of $2.25 per cwt. was being paid 
by processors out of proceeds of their 
sale of products as additional income 
to hog producers as a group. 

“Thus, the total return to producers 
from hogs marketed in May, includ- 
ing the adjustment payments to be 
made as well as the market returns, 
was considerably larger than a year 
ago. This indication of a larger hog 
income for 1934 is notable inasmuch 
as the major feature of the plan, the 
1934 corn-hog program, has not yet 
had time to substantially affect the 


market.” 


As we go to press, Chicago top hog prices 
have advanced beyond $5.00. $6.00 hogs are 
forecast by mid-summer. Steadily declining 
receipts, higher grain prices and increased buy- 
ing power, are responsible.—Editor, 


Credit Not a Dole 
Need In Winnebago 


Credit and not a dole is what 
Winnebago county farmers want and 
need in order to tide them over this 
season’s drouth, Charles H. Keltner, 
farm adviser, recently told the Winne- 
bago County Relief Committee. Kelt- 
ner stated that there were as many 
as 1100 Winnebago county farmers in 
need of credit with which to buy feed 
for cattle and hogs. The northern tier 
of counties in Illinois have been hard- 
est hit by drouth. 


Institute of Co-operation 


The American Institute of Co-oper- 
ation will hold its annual meeting at 
Madison, Wisconsin, July 9 to 14. Illi- 
nois farmers, co-operative officials, 
farm advisers and others are invited 
to attend. Secretary George E. Metz- 
ger is on the program committee. 
Several members of the I. A. A. mar- 
keting staff will probably appear on 


the program. 


The I, A. A. board voted to contribute $100 to 
the 1934 Institute at its June meeting, 


BR GRaa> 


To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was or- 
ganized namely, to promote, protect and represent the busi- 
ness, economic, political and educational interest of the 


farmers of Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 


Geerge Thiem, Editor 
John Tracy, Assistant 


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Live Stock Marketing. ...........cescccevecccesacvtvvecess Ray B. M'ller 
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Produce Marketing. ............- cece cece nsec eens eeevees F. A, Gougler 
Taxation and Statistics. .......... cece cee eee c eee ee er wenes J. C. Watson 
Transportation Div’n.......... abe 6 atin hie WOR ee es eee G. W. Baxter 
ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 

Country Life Insurance Co, ....... cece cece ceeeees L. A. Williams, Mgr. 
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co. .............00e8. J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Auditing Ase’n............... F. E. Ringham, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co......... A. ry Richardson, Mgr. 
Illinois Farm Supply Co........cceceseeerssecevccecs L. Marchant, Mgr. 
Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange...........0sceeeeeeveee rt W. Day, Mgr. 
Ellinoie Grain COorp.......scccerecscesrccececece Harrison Fahrakopt’ Mgr. 
Illinois Livestock Marketing Asa’n...........-.-+eees. Ray Miller, Mgr. 
Illino's Producers Creameries..F. A. Gougler, Mgr., fi B. Countiss, Sales 
Soybean Marketing Ase’n.........---.e se eeeceeees J. W. Armstrong, Pres. 


Vote for the Bond Issue 


HE Board of Directors of the Illinois Agricultural 
| Association meeting in Chicago June 15 unani- 
mously adopted the following resolution which is 

of vital interest to all Illinois farmers and taxpayers:— 
In the election next November, the voters of Illinois 
must choose between two methods of financing present 
expenditures by the State for unemployment relief. One 
is an additional State tax of $38,000,000 already levied 
en property, all payable in 1935. The other is an addi- 
tional diversion of about $50,000,000 in gasoline taxes 
from their proper use in financing much needed local 
highway and street improvement and employment there- 
for, such diverted funds to be used in retiring a proposed 
State bond issue of $30,000,000 and paying interest there- 
on. Approval of the proposed bond issue is the only way 
of preventing the heavy additional State levy on property. 
The Illinois Agricultural Association regards either one 
of these methods of financing unemployment relief as 
highly objectionable. In holding this position the As- 
sociation is not opposed to, but favors proper measures 
for relief of needy persons and for providing the means 
therefor. It believes that every county and every commu- 
nity alike should be enabled and required to use its own 
resources reasonably before it is entitled to ask for as- 


sistance from the State or Federal government. In its 
belief, any other system of unemployment relief will tend 
inevitably to produce pauperism and to create a perma- 
nent dole. Holding these views, the Association opposed 
various relief measures in the regular and special sessions 
of the present General Assembly and offered the Lantz 
bills in lieu thereof. In particular it opposed the additional 
State tax levy and bond issue bills enacted by the first 
special session of the General Assembly last fall. It is 
these measures between which the voters of the State 
must choose next November. 

These measures having become law, the Association 
was forced to choose between the two highly objection- 
able alternatives. Its position was declared by the fol- 
lowing resolution adopted by the delegates at the Dan- 
ville annual meeting last January: 

“We commend the efforts of the legislative com- 
mittee of the Illinois Agricultural Association in op- 
posing legislation before the First Special Session of 
the Fifty-Eighth General Assembly providing for an 
increase of Thirty-eight million dollars ($38,000,000) in 
the State tax levy upon property, coupled with the sub- 
mission of a bond issue to the voters next November. 
We are forced to recognize that this legislation has 
been enacted and that unless the bond issue is approved 
by the voters at the polls, the property taxpayers of 
the State will be forced to meet and.pay an increased 
tax of $38,000,000 in 1935. We, therefore, favor the 
passage of this bond issue when submitted but serve 
notice that in the future, bond issues of this or a 
similar character will have the determined opposition of 
this organization, at least until such time as the Gen- 
eral Assembly imposes equal and uniform responsibility 
for poor relief upon every community and county of the 
State.” 

In accord with the provisions of the above resolution, 
the Board of Directors authorize and request the officers 
of the Association, the Public Relations Committee and 
the Department of Taxation to take such measures as may 
seem necessary to secure the favorable votes of agri- 
cultural people for the proposed bond issue. We further 
authorize officers of the Association to cooperate with 
representatives of other organizations in a State-wide 
campaign to place these measures properly before the 
people, reserving the right to explain our opposition to 
enactment of these measures by the General Assembly. 


Acreage Reduction and Drouth 
HE “I-told-you-so” attitude of certain metropolitan 
} newspapers seeking to discredit the crop adjust- 
ment program because of the drouth is not im- 
pressive; to say the least. Little as most Chicago people 
know about agriculture, they appear to be more intelli- 
gent on this subject than some editorial writers. It is 
obvious that the more acres planted in a year of crop 
failure, the greater the loss to the farmer. Moreover, those 
producers who signed contracts will receive benefit pay- 
ments regardless of whether or not they grow anything. 

Such payments may be all the cash income many farm- 
ers will have. The crop insurance feature thus becomes 
a most valuable adjunct of the reduction program. 

In sections of normal rainfall total production is not 
seriously hampered because of a 15 to 20 per cent cut. 
Such farmers will receive more dollars for the smaller 
total crop than for a larger one anyway. Thus part, if 
not all, the shocking disparity between farm and non- 
agricultural prices may be removed. The critics of pro- 
duction control fail to offer any plan to prevent crop 
surpluses from impoverishing farmers. Apparently they 
have no interest or concern in solving this mighty preb- 
lem which is at the bottom of the depression. 


I. A. A. RECORD 


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On AAA Programs 


The following resolution unani- 
mously adopted by the executive com- 
mittee of the American Farm Bureau 
Federation: meeting in Chicago on 
June 21 was despatched to Secretary 
of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, and 
Administrator Chester C. Davis. 


“While we recognize the obligations 
which rest upon organized agriculture 
in advocating the principles contained 
in the Agricultural Adjustment Act, 
we cannot assume responsibility for 
continued delay in its administration 
resulting from technical requirements. 


“We have, since the date of the en- 
actment f this law, responded to in- 
vitations extended by the administra- 
tors to offer them the best judgment 
of the American Farm Bureau Fed- 
eration on various problems of ad- 
ministration. In making these sug- 
gestions we have, in every instance, 
endeavored to simplify, co-ordinate, 
and make more practical the conduct 
of the commodity campaigns, the edu- 
cational work incident thereto, and 
the fulfilling of contract agreements 


both by the farmers and the govern- 
ment. 


Too Many Estimates 


“We recognize that much of the 
activities of the AAA in connection 
with cotton, tobacco, wheat, dairy 
products, livestock, and corn have 
proceeded along lines largely in con- 
formity with these recommendations. 
It is our opinion, however, that econ- 
omists and legal specialists appear to 
be too solicitous of making their 
estimates and opinions the basis of 
all activities to the exclusion of the 


better judgment of higher officials in 
AAA. 


“We believe the time has arrived 
for higher officials to more definitely 
assert themselves; to end the issuing 
of conflicting, repealing, and confus- 
ing orders and regulations; to allow 
the county allotment committees more 
authority consistent with their re- 
sponsibilities; to put less stress upon 
the importance of preliminary esti- 
mates of economists in AAA and the 
respective states regarding state and 
county allotments and accept certified 
Statements of farmers and county al- 
lotment committees; to terminate 
legal opinions becoming operating 
Policies; and to expedite the issuing 
of benefit payment checks. 


“Much of the confusion and delay 
encountered in effectively administer- 
ing the various commodity activities 
was occasioned by technical require- 


JULY, 1934 


ILLINOIS DELEGATES TO NATIONAL 4-H CLUB CAMP AT WASHINGTON, D. C. 


Left to right: 


Miss Cleo Fitzsimmons, extension specialist in 4-H club work, College of Agri- 
culture; University of Illinois; Walter B. Krei, Menard 


county; Marion R, Yoeman, Fulton county; 


Frank Krell, Sangamon county; Margaret Anderson, Jefferson county, and E, I, Pilchard, extension 


specialist in boys’ club work. 


ments. At the present time these 
technical requirements are causing se- 
rious delay in putting into effect the 
corn-hog program. 


“We can no longer condone im- 
pugning the veracity of corn and hog 
farmers and county allotment com- 
mittees set up by such farmers, in 
erders from Washington or from state 
administrators, when in our best judg- 
ment such orders have for their major 
purpose justifying preliminary sta- 
tistical estimates as to hog popula- 
tion in a county or state. We have 
no hesitancy in stating that with the 
reductions of hogs from preliminary 
contracts that were not properly sup- 
ported with information, a further re- 
duction is indefensible and wholly un- 
necessary. 


End Uncertainty 


“Accordingly, we urge the admin- 
istrators of the Agricultural Adjust- 
ment Act to immediately end the pres- 
ent period of uncertainty, by an- 
nouncing definitely and finally what 
policies and practices are to prevail 
in the corn-hog section.” 


“We believe this resolution merits 
your careful consideration and im- 
mediate action,” the message stated. 
It was signed by all members of the 
committee including Edward A. O’- 
Neal, Charles E. Hearst, Earl C. 
Smith, Wm. H. Settle, R. W. Black- 
burn, C. R. White, and J. F. Porter. 


The I, A. A, has consistently urged that 
every farmer be given a hog allotment enly 
in line with full and proper records and informa- 
tion furnished showing proof of production and 
marketings in the base period. It will eon- 
tinue to insist that when farmers have eom- 
plied with such regulations, that government 
discharge its obligations regardless ef variance 
of farmers’ figures with statistieal estimates.— 
Editor, 


The decision of the federal district 
court at St. Louis upholding Congress 
in abrogating the gold clause of obli- 
gations payable in the United States, 
is an important one. A New York 
bank in this case sought to collect 
$1,693 in currency for each $1,000 
bond because of the gold devaluation 
program. In his decision, Judge Chas. 
B. Faris said: “No person in the na- 
tion has the right to make a contract, 
the effect of which is to nullify, ob- 
struct or circumvent the power of 
Congress to say what shall be the na- 
tional money or medium of exchange.” 

This important case undoubtedly 
will be taken to the Federal Supreme 
Court. Final decision will settle fre- 
quent criticisms and charges that this 
act violates the constitution. The at- 
titude of Judge Faris is another il- 
lustration of the fact that courts 
more and more are adhering to the 
will and needs of the people. 


The Frasier-Lempke farm mortgage 
bill passed in the closing hours of the 
recent congress, is a’ far-reaching 
piece of legislation which already has 
aroused much controversy. This meas- 
ure would have the effect of cutting 
down all farm mortgage indebtedness 
to present appraised values and 
sharply reduce interest rates on the 
newly appraised price. If the creditors 
cannot agree the court would be re- 
quired to stay foreclosure proceedings 
for five years during which time the 

(Cont’d on page 12, Col. 3) 


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Building Membership 
Subject at 5 Meetings 


Railroad Officials Tell How They 


Maintain Personnel, Service 


How to build organization, the im- 
portance of personnel, serving the 
member after he has signed, and the 
new record. system occupied the ma- 


jor interest of organization directors, 


committees, farm advisers, and office 
secretaries in five district meetings 
held at Jacksonville, DeKalb, Peoria, 
Centralia and Danville during the 
month of June. Secretary George E. 


Metzger and V. Vaniman, director of | 


organization service, attended and di- 
rected the program at all conferences. 


P. J. O’Shaugnessy, personnel di- 
rector of the Rock Island lines, and 
J. W. Kern, divisional superintendent 
of the Illinois Central Railroad, ad- 
dressed the Peoria and Centralia meet- 
ings on June 7 and 8 respectively. 


“One common enterprise on the 
Rock Island is_ service,” said Mr. 
O’Shaugnessy. “All of us must con- 
tribute to this one end. We try to 
make people delighted and comfort- 
able. To do this it is of first impor- 
tance that we like our jobs. I like to 
feel that my job is important and 
very much worth while. It seems to 
me that you people are doing the 
most important job in the world, 
helping the farmer—the man who 
feeds the world. Yours is the noblest 
work to which you can devote your 
time. The money you earn is not im- 
portant if you are rendering a real 
service.” 


Need Credit Unions 


Mr. O’Shaugnessy is also president 
of the National Association of Cred- 
it Unions. “The time will come,” he 
said, “when the Farm Bureaus in 
Illinois like in other states will or- 
ganize co-operative credit unions as a 
service to members. The damnable 
unrestrained usury now being prac- 
ticed in this country is one of the 
curses of civilization,” he said. “Farm- 


ers as well as town and city people 


are paying up to 42 per cent annual 
interest. They pay because there is 
no other place to go.” 


The speaker stated that the policy 
of the road is to treat every employee 
with kindness and consideration and 
to give every customer a dollar’s worth 
of service for each dollar spent. Per- 
sonal records are kept of every em- 
ployee. Each seeks to keep his record 
clean. The road maintains a pension 
system with a stipulated retirement 


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FRANK BUTLER OF LEE COUNTY | 


Volunteer Farm Bureau Solicitor and a new 
member himself who signed 24 members in the 
I, A, A, and Lee County Farm Bureau during 
the Mobilization Campaign. 


income for each employee when he 
reaches a certain age. There are now 
1200 on this list. 


Complete Records 


Mr. Metzger and Mr. Vaniman ex- 
plained that each county organization 
director will be required to make a 
complete record of membership and 
collections as of the day he assumes 
office. This report must be accurate. 
The tabulator machine in the I. A. A. 
offices will record this information, 
and regular reports from the coun- 
ties will keep the record system up 
to date. Information can readily be 
taken off the cards each month quick- 
ly and accurately. Copies will be 
mailed to the counties showing in- 
dividual membership standing and 
other information. 


One of our cardinal principles in 
maintaining the morale of our or- 
ganization is to be fair, impartial, and 
attentive to all suggestions of our 
employees no matter how trivial, J. 
W. Kern of the Illinois Central Rail- 
road said in addressing the Centralia 
meeting. “We try to show apprecia- 
tion and recognition wherever out- 
standing service is performed,” he 
continued. “Also when a mistake is 
made we bring the facts to the atten- 
tion of those involved. It doesn’t cost 
anything to listen. We get many val- 
uable suggestions for improving our 
service from employees.” 

Impromptu talks and remarks were 
made by county advisers, office secre- 
taries and organization directors. 


Observations 
(Cont'd from Page 9, Col. 3) 


debtor would retain possession of the 
farm and pay a reasonable yearly 
rent fixed by the court. Other pro- 
visions for scaling down farm indebt- 
edness are included. 

This bill attempts to wipe out the 
serious unfairness to farm debtors 
resulting from the sharp decline in 
prices. It seeks to make amends for 
the failure of inflationary measures 
up to now to re-establish substantially 
higher price levels so as to ease the 
debt burden. Whether or not it obtains 
the presidential signature, the injury 
to debtors resulting from deflation 
will not be corrected until needed re- 
flation, or legislation of this char- 
acter applying to all debts (not only 
farm debts) is enacted. 


With approximately 55,000,000 bu. 
of corn sealed in Illinois as a result 
of the corn-loan program, the value 
of this project to corn-belt farmers is 
considerably enhanced by the recent 
advance in prices. With corn selling 
at country points in excess of 50 cents 
per bushel, the corn under seal alone 
is worth at least 8% million dollars 
more than it was when the loans 
were initiated. The insistent demand 
of organized farmers made possible 
this splendid service. The advance in 
price will benefit farmers rather than 
speculators. In the event of a short 
corn crop, which seems probable, the 
stored corn also will be a great boon 
to livestock feeders—E. G. T. 


Farmers’ Week At World's 
Fair Set For Aug. | 1-18 


Farmers’ Week at Chicago’s Cen- 
tury of Progress Exposition will be 
celebrated beginning Saturday, Au- 
gust 11, and ending Saturday, Au- 
gust 18. A number of County Farm 
Bureaus are planning tours to the 
Fair for this week. 

Exhibitors will co-operate by giving 
special emphasis to those exhibits re- 
lated to agriculture or involving the 
use of farm products. More detailed 
announcements regarding speakers 
and various events will be made later. 


McLean County Farm Bureau, now 
in the midst of its regular three-year 
membership sign-up, reported more 
than 1,500 members signed at the 
close of the first week. Approximate- 
ly 500 attended the school of instruc- 
tion for solicitors June 11. Donald 
Kirkpatrick, general counsel of the 
I. A. A., addressed the first report 
meeting June 14, 

A. B. Culp is county organization 
director, George Clark, chairman of 
the organization committee. 


I. A. A. RECORD 


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Movement Toward Parity © 


Increased prices for things the 


. farmer must buy to a large extent 


have nullified the benefit of advancing 
farm prices according to figures taken 


- from the National City Bank bulletin 
_ showing actual farm prices and par- 
‘ ity prices as defined in the Adjust- 


ment Act. The table shows figures as 


of May 15, 19383 when the Adjust- 


ment Act was passed, and May 15, 


, 1984, 
Since May 15 this year certain. 


farm prices have advanced consider- 
ably as a, result of the production 


- control program and the drouth. For 


this reason present prices are nearer 
parity than they were the middle of 


- May. Because wool is on an import 
_ basis and is protected by a substantial 


tariff this is the only farm crop which 


has reached parity. Incidentally wool 
' illustrates the possibilities in raising 


all farm prices by controlling produc- 
tion so as to make the tariff effective. 

The table is not quite fair because 
it fails to take into consideration 
benefit payments made or to be made 
for wheat, cotton, corn and hogs 
which should be added to the market 


TREVOR JONES, MANAGER OF - CIMCO 
FARMS, HAVANA, MASON COUNTY, LEFT, 
AND FARM ADVISER C, 8, LOVE 


Cimco Farms, owned by the Chicago Illinois 
Mid-Land Railroad running from Taylorville to 
Peoria, is demonstrating the possibilities of crop 
production and soi] improvement on the sand 
lands of the Illinois Valley. Through the use 
of limestone, ground rock phosphate, super phos- 
phate, sweet clover and alfalfa, the sand land 
on this farm is being made to produce good 
crops of corn and wheat, 


Several varieties of edible soybeans brought 
from Japan by Prof. Morse of the U. 8. D. A. 
are being tried out this year. The farm pro- 
duced 1,600 turkeys last year at a nice profit 
after charging all expenses including labor. Mr. 
Jones is aiming to market 3,000 turkeys this 
year, 

Cimco Farms has entertained. more than 20,- 
000 farmers from the surrounding counties on 
its annual field day. Mr. Jones states that the 
C. & I. M, BR, R, has painted 750 cars with 
soybean oil paint, 


FARM PRICES | PARITY PRICES 9% OF PARITY 
COMMODITY May May May May May May 
15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 
1933 1934 1933 1984 1933 1934 
GRRE sven ge ao cceicvesnten Ib.| $ .682 $ .110 $ .126 $ .150 65 73 
Re wena ee ks ecnel bu. .389 .488 .655 177 59 63 
. Re ee bu. .590 .695 .902 1.070 65 65 
Potatoes ..........eeecveaee bu. .487 .787 711 .843 61 87 
es eee peeve en tah 100 Ib. 3.880 3.170 7.360 8.740 53 36 
Beef cattle ..........+.. 100 Ib. 3.950 4.180 5.310 6.300 74 66 
MG PS DS Ed ed oe hep ceens wey doz. .118 .133 .167 .198 71 67 
WER. oe boo eo eNwnd vavedeceh Ib. 177 234 .182 2138 97 110 
INDEX NUMBERS 
MAY 15, MAY 15, PERCENT 
1983 1934 CHANGE 
Farm Priees Received ....... ccc cscs ccecenccasesevecece 62 74 19.4 
Priees Paid by Farmers .......c.ccccccecccccecesecncece 162 121 18.6 
Ratio of Prices Received to Prices Paid ................ 61 61 0.0 


price. Furthermore crop adjustment 
has hardly had full opportunity to 
make itself felt in market prices, 
particularly on corn and hogs. Corn 
and hog prices should feel the full in- 
fluence of the reduction program dur- 
ing late 1934 and 1935. 


The Federal Land Bank of St. Louis 
states that loans are now being closed 
with a second issue of bonds bearing 
three per cent interest and maturing 
in 15 years. The bonds are selling 
above par and are tendered farmers 
and their creditors in coupon form in 
denominations of $100, $500, $1,000, 
$5,000 and $10,000. During May the 
St. Louis bank distributed $11,167,- 
500 in 3,975 land bank and commis- 
sioner loans, the second largest month 
in its history. 


JULY, 1934 


Ask Government To 
Force Sale Sealed Corn 


Reports from Washington state 
that pressure is being brought upon 
the Commodity Credit Corporation 
and the Agricultural Adjustment Ad- 
ministration to force the sale of corn 
under seal on which loans of 45 cents 
per bushel have been made. Grain 
merchants and grain exchanges are 
said to be back of the movement. 
Prospects for higher corn prices, it is 
believed, are responsible for the move- 
ment by grain buyers to purchase 
stored corn as cheaply as possible 
with the expectation of reaping the 
benefit from any rise in price. 


‘partial  with- 


Sealed Corn Moving 
New Rules on Release 


A number of Illinois farmers are 
taking advantage of the opportunity 
resulting from higher prices to get 


.part of their sealed corn released for 


feeding or sale. The owner may se- 
cure a release on 
part of the corn 
by paying 47 
cents per bushel 
on the number of 
bushels removed. 
The extra two 
cents are to cover 
interest, insur- 
ance and inspec- 
tion charges. All 


drawals of corn 


W. W. McLAUGHLIN 


‘will ,be made un- 


der.*supervision of an official state 
sealer who will then reseal the crib. 
_ Payment for the amount released is 
to be made to the lecal bank acting 
as agent for the CCC and Reconstruc- 
tion Finance Corporation. The amourt 
paid is endorsed on the back of the 
note given originally by the owner. 
The warehouse certificate similarly 
will show the bushels withdrawn. 

_ As we go to press, Walter W. Mc- 
Laughlin, state director of agricul- 
ture, reports a letter from the Com- 
modity Credit Corp. to the effect that 
owners of sealed corn may obtain its 
release if they have a bona fide con- 
tract to sell such corn to a responsible 
purchaser for an amount sufficient te 
cover the government loan plus ac- 
cumulated charges. While the buyer is 
expected to pay for the corn, the 
producer is liable for the loan until it 
is paid, although the loan need not 
be paid until Aug. 1 when it expires. 
Full information as to the necessary 
procedure may be obtained from the 
county supervisory board. Such boards 
may pay sealers for supervising the 
full or partial withdrawal of corn 
from sealed cribs, out of funds on 
hand in lieu of assessing an additional 
charge against the owner of the corn. 
Producers ar* also liable for short- 
ages of corn. 

The Chicago branch of the Reconstruction 
Finance Corporation is receiving approximately 
200 letters daily largely from Illinois and Iewa 
asking for release of part or all of sealed eern. 
A low percentage of sealed corn is being seld 
in IHinois. There seems to be a dispositien te 
wait for higher prices.—Editer, 

A total of 77 Illinois counties have 
been designated as secondary drought 
area by the AAA. Southernmost 
counties include Washington, Jeffer- 
son, Wayne. Counties south of these, 
and along the Mississippi up to Jer- 
sey are not included. Counties south 
of Crawford along the Wabash alse 


are left out of the designated area. 


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Ben Graf didn’t take 
(TOP ) a chance, His re- 
ward was a check for $2109.05 
eovering hail loss. Mighty nice 
fer Ben! © 


J. W, Ovitz 
(BOTTOM) might have 
been out $1500.52, But in spite 
of hail he had harvest money 
frem Farmers Mutual. 


BE SURE BALANCE OF 
PREMIUM NOT 


OF HARVEST DUE TILL AFTER 
MONEY IN SPITE OF HARVEST 


$4 a thousand NOW protects 


you against hail loss until after 

| harvest. Then, when you have 

a extra money, the remainder of the 

) premium is due and payable. The 


total cost of hail protection is so 
low that no farmer should be with- 


out it. Get details quickly. 


Once hail strikes growing crops (and it can strike yours as 
well as the other fellows’) you are powerless to prevent loss. 


But, hail insurance in Farmers Mutual will give you a harvest snOMmMer 

check in spite of hail. Only $4 a thousand NOW, when you are G U [s\{2)|D) 

low on cash, protects you through the hail season and assures Ye AIN S T FI R Ec 
you of harvest money if your crops are destroyed. If no hail 

loss is incurred, you’ve had protection at very little expense. TH ESE HOT DAYS 


See your County Farm Bureau at once for details. 


Be careful. Warn your 
help. Double check wir- 
ing, ventilation, fire pre- 


vention devices. Above 
all insure adequately. 
These hot days are fire 
breeders. 
RE-INSURANCE COMPANY 


608 S. Dearborn St. Chicago, Illinois 


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Wanted: A Larger Share 


of the Consumer's Dollar 


By Frank Gougler and J. B. Countiss 


STORY is related that a 
A minister with his small daugh- 

ter entering church one Sun- 
day evening, dropped 50c into the 
collection box. When the congregation 
had departed after the services the 
minister checked up on the evening’s 
collection. To his surprise the box 
contained only the lone 50c piece he 
had deposited. Noting her father’s dis- 
appointment the little girl remarked, 
“Dad, if you had put more in you 
could have taken more out.” 

This statement applies quite gen- 
erally to life. We all recognize that 
we usually get just about what we 
pay for. It is true of co-operative ef- 
fort. A good example is seen in the 
Farm Bureau movement. Illinois has 
the highest Farm Bureau membership 
fee of any state in the Union. And 
our state leads all others in Farm 
Bureau accomplishments. 


A Marked Difference 


The same holds true in co-operative 
marketing. Studies made of the dif- 
ferent methods of marketing milk in 
Illinois reveal this fact in a striking 
manner. Where producers own their 
own processing and distributing plants 
they fare best of all. Bargaining as- 
sociations are much better than no 
organization at all. The records show 
a marked difference in the percent- 
age of the consumer’s dairy dollar go- 
ing to the producer in these various 
situations. 

For example, last year a co-oper- 
ative milk marketing association in 
Illinois that controlled the product 
from producer to consumer was able 
to return to its producers out of every 
dollar spent by the consumer for dairy 
products, approximately 60c. On the 
other hand, as an average, for all of 
our milk bargaining associations in 
Illinois, only 40c out of the consum- 
er’s dollar spent for milk dribbled 
back to the producer. The bargaining 
association, however, was found to be 
of much more value than no associa- 
tion. This is proved by conditions at 
Danville before that market was or- 
ganized. Prior to late last fall, the 
producers here had never been or- 
ganized. Producers were receiving 
only 20c of the consumer’s dollar 
spent for fluid milk and cream. Con- 
ditions among the dairymen got so 


JULY, 1934 


desperate that they were forced to 
organize. 

In order to bring out the com- 
parison more clearly, let us assume 
that on a given market consumers 
spend annually $100,000 for milk and 
other dairy products. According to our 
experience in Illinois, where producers 
own their own facilities for distribu- 
tion, $60,000 would go back to the 
producers. Markets with bargaining 
associations would return $40,000 to 
producers, while on unorganized mar- 
kets, only $20,000 reaches the pro- 
ducers’ pockets. 

Such facts explain many other 
startling revelations. For example, it 
was reported recently that the presi- 


Producers get nearly 60c of consumer’s dairy 
dollar where they process and distribute their 
own milk, 


dent of one of the large national chain 
dairies received a salary of $100,000 
in 1929 which was increased to $168,- 
000 in 1933. During this same period 
prices to producers went tumbling to 
unprecedented low levels. This dem- 
onstrates that private owners of dis- 
tributing facilities are not going to 
relinquish their hold on profits even 
from sympathy for the producer when 
he is in distress. The salary of this 
one man is sufficient to employ fifty 
good managers for co-operative plants 
and much more and better services 
could be rendered to producers by 
fifty good plant managers. 

If producers of agricultural prod- 
ucts are to see better times they must 
strive to get more of the consumer’s 
dollar. In a recent issue of the Con- 
sumer’s Guide, it was shown that it 
required during 1929 fifty-two cents 
of the consumer’s dollar to process 


and distribute fourteen major. foods. 
In March, 1933 it took 69c and in 
March 1934 it took 62c. In short, it’s 
twice as profitable to process and dis- 
tribute as it is to produce. 

Why should not the producer then 
give more of his time and attention 
to processing and distributing his own 
products? This is exactly the pur- 
pose of establishing co-operative 
creameries in Illinois. 

Co-operative creameries can return 
to producers more money for their 
butterfat than private plants will or 
can pay. Abundant evidence is avail- 
able to prove this point. In handling 
butterfat after it is produced there are 
three steps involved; namely, as- 
sembling, processing and selling. The 
first of these none can do better than 
the producers themselves. This comes 
largely from the fact that a state-wide 
system is able to allocate definite 
territory to each plant which makes 
it. possible to save money by avoiding 
wasteful competition between plants 
in butterfat procurement. 

The cost of processing butterfat in 
co-operative plants may not be done 
any cheaper than is done in other 
plants. But co-operative institutions 
are in much better position to make a 
better product. The difference comes 
from the fact that as producers sell 
their product to privately-owned 
plants their interest in that product 
ends when pay is received for the 
butterfat. The producer has little or 
no interest in the quality of butter 
to be made, since it isn’t his butter. 
When producers sell butterfat through 
their own plants the producers’ atti- 
tude is quite different. In this case, 
the butter is still his butter and he 
realizes that butter of higher quality 


hd 


Producers get only 39c of consumer’s dollar 
when milk is sold to private processors and 
distributors, 


sells for more money, costs less to sell 
it and results in increased consump- 
tion. Then to, through the cooper- 
ative system, with the producers or- 
ganized it is much easier to carry on 
educational work than with unorgan- 
ized producers. Here is some support- 


15 


ee 


ing evidence on the points just men- 
tioned: 

Land O’Lakes Creameries, Minne- 
apolis, Minnesota, was established in 
1922 with 300 member creameries. 
That year these creameries produced 
only 10% of Land O’Lakes Butter (93 
score). Last year 420 member cream- 
eries produced over 60% of 93 score 
butter. Such results could never have 
been accomplished without organiza- 
tion. Again this high quality butter 
results in increased consumption. It 
is reported that in some co-operative 
ereamery districts in Minnesota but- 
ter consumption is as high as 42 
pounds per capita, while the average 
in the U. S. is only about 17.5 pounds. 
Where an abundance of high quality 
butter is always available, we find 
that oleomargarine sales are almost 
negligible. 

In the sale of butter the co-oper- 
ative type of marketing has little ad- 
vantage over the other, other things 
being equal. However, if a co-oper- 
ative creamery succeeds in making 
better butter, and it should, then such 
an institution has a tremendous ad- 
vantage. 


The Farmers Creamery Company 
at Bloomington, Illinois, netted pro- 
ducer members 3%c per pound butter- 
fat more money during the first year 
ef operation than would have been 
received without that plant. The Pro- 
ducers Creamery of Peoria made one 
and one-quarter million r otfo of 
butter during its first year of/oper- 
ation. Nearly $10,000 in onage 
dividends were returned to members 
the first year. Last year a co-operative 
creamery at Columbia, Indiana, made 
in its 10th year in excess of 3,000,000 
pounds of butter. Patronage dividends 
(private creamery profits) amounted 
to more than $100,000. At Constan- 
tine, Michigan, last year a co-oper- 
ative plant made 4,781,698 lbs. of but- 
ter, for which it paid its members 
22.16c as an average for all butter- 
fat, or an average of 1.97c over the 
Chicago 90 score butter market for 
the year. Producers might do well by 
digging up their cream check stubs 
for last year, average them up and 
make the comparison. C. W. Simpson, 
Farm Adviser, White County, Illinois, 
whose father is a patron of this 
creamery, reports that during the sec- 
ond two weeks of June last year, 
farmers received 24c net for their 
butterfat at the Constantine plant 
while producers in White County, IIli- 
nois, during the same two weeks were 
receiving only 18c, or six cents less. 

The only sound reason for estab- 
lishing farmer-owned and farmer- 
controlled creameries is that the pro- 
ducer may receive more money. With 


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PRODUCERS DAIRY AND CREAMERY FLOAT IN FLAG DAY PARADE PEORIA, JUNE 14 
This float was — by many to be the best in the parade says J. Countiss, director of 


milk marketing 
tion—paid ainihende of $9,639.94. 


eoria Producers made 1,194,273 pounds of butter during at first year of opera- 


a margin between producer and con- 


sumer prices which average more 
than 200%, it appears indeed _ en- 
couraging and inviting for producers 
to engage in processing and distribut- 
ing their own products. 


Cream Prices Advance 
In Southern Illinois 


L. E. Lingenfelter of Pulaski coun- 
ty, a director of the Farmers Mu- 
tual Reinsurance Co., reports that 
sinc I. A. A. meetings have been held 
in that territory in the interest of a 
co-operative creamery at Carbondale, 
a nearby private creamery has estab- 
lished truck routes and is picking up 
cream twice a week at farms in that 
section. This creamery also has raised 
the price to within one cent of that 
paid by direct shippers in Chicago, he 
states, whereas local prices in the 
past have been four to five cents un- 


der Chicago. 


This situation is typical of all co-operative 
marketing development. When farmers organize 
to process or distribute their own commodities 
local prices paid by private dealers invariably 
go up, It pays to co-operate,—Editor. 


Soil Erosion Is Farm Enemy 


According to F. A. Fisher, chief of 
federal erosion control in Illinois, soil 
erosion takes out 21 times as much 
fertility from the soil annually as is 
taken out by crops. Experiments per- 
formed by the Missouri _ station 
showed that a slope of four per cent 
where soil is exposed continuously 
erodes to a depth of seven inches in 
20 years. The same amount of erosion 
requires 3,000 years where the slope 
is planted periodically to grass and al- 
falfa. -. 


C. C. Burns Resigns To 
Go With New Creamery 


C. C. Burns, for the'‘past 11 years 
farm adviser in Champaign county, 
recently resigned to accept the man- 
agership of the new Producers Cream- 
ery of Champaign. 

Mr. Burns went to Champaign from 
JoDaviess county where he served al- 
so as farm adviser. He was one of the 
successful state solicitors who took 
part in the memorable I. A. A. reor- 
ganization and sign-up campaign in 
1919 and 1920. Mr. Burns made a 
splendid record in both counties in de- 
veloping co-operative marketing, seed 
corn improvement, community organ- 
ization and training of leadership. The 
Producers Creamery is fortunate in 
getting a manager of his experience, 
training, and business ability. 

The new building which will house 
the Champaign Producers Creamery 
is being remodeled and will be equip- 
ped with the most modern machinery 
for making Prairie Farms high qual- 
ity butter. Every effort is being made 
to speed its early opening. 


Farm Bureau Day, Galva 


July 4, O'Neal To Speak 


Farm Bureau Day will be cele- 
brated on July 4 at Galva in Henry 
county as a feature of homecoming 
week sponsored by the American 
Legion and local business groups. 

The Henry County Farm Bureau 
invites farmers from adjoining coun- 
ties to attend the big celebration In- 
dependence Day where Edward A. O’- 
Neal, president of the A. F. B. F., is 
billed as headline speaker. 


I. A. A. RECORD 


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|. F. S. Holds Four 
Rousing Meetings 


To hear facts and figures from spe- 
cialists in many fields, to listen to 
plans for the carrying on of the fast, 
record-breaking pace set so far this 
year, to receive congratulations and 
prizes as a reward for their efforts, 
salesmen, managers, and directors of 
the 58 County Service Companies af- 
filiated with Illinois Farm Supply 
Company attended a series of four 
district meetings recently. To De- 
catur, June 12, went a good 200. To 
East St. Louis, June 13 went another 
200. Peoria attracted 150, June 14, 
while DeKalb drew 200 more June 15. 

All meetings were headed by I. F. 
S.’s president, Fred E. Herndon, who 
spoke to each gathering on “A Round- 
up Of Facts” wherein he presented 
figures to show that County Service 
companies were destined to occupy 
an even greater place in the life of 
Illinois farmers. L. R. Marchant, 
manager of Illinois Farm Supply, in 
talking on “A Daring Lead” brought 
out the fact, that all companies were 
well out in front of last year’s record 
business and that all indications show 
that the lead would be increased be- 
fore the end of the year in spite of 
conditions and opposition. 


Explains Use Lubricants 


Prof. R. I. Shawl of the Farm Me- 
chanics school, University of Illinois, 
explained the refining, blending and 
correct use of all forms of petroleum 
products. A lighted board on which 
were mounted samples of crudes and 
refined products enabled all present 
to clearly understand the most techni- 
cal points. 

The afternoon session was headed 
by a talk on “Gear Tooth Lubrication” 
by H. M. Fraser, of the International 
Lubricant Corp., New Orleans, La. 
Mr. Fraser stressed the importance of 
using lubricants that will withstand 
the terrific pressures found in mod- 
ern motor and gear construction. A. 
B. Pattou of the Glidden Company, 
Chicago paint manufacturers, com- 
pared “Soyoil vs Soy Bean Oil.” He 
showed with panels and samples where 
Soyoil Paint contains a_ greater 
amount of soy bean oil than other 
paints and was better for farm use 
than ordinary paint. E. J. Fricke of 
the Indiana Farm Bureau delivered a 
stirring talk on the necessity of 
stressing organization when selling 
merchandise to farmers. His subject 
was “Privileges of a Ringside Seat.” 
The meetings voted to send greetings 
to the Indiana organization through 
Mr. Fricke. 

The evening sessions were given 


JULY, 1934 


John Parker, one of the industrious oil truck salesmen with the Champaign County Service Com- 
pany, in front of the Cler Service Station, Rantoul. The cabinet is used to display Dlinois Farm 


Supply Company 
BUREA 


products, when calling on patrons. Note the advertisement ‘“‘SURE, I’M A FARM 


U MEMBER!’’ mounted in the frame taken from the back page of the June I. A: A. REC- 
ORD, Parker was one of the leading salesmen in the state in the future order contest. 


over to the announcement of prize 
winners in the Future Order Contests 
for Motor Oil and Fly Spray, details 
of which are given in another article 
in this issue. George Bunting con- 
ducted this phase of the meeting. 
Then followed an interesting two 
hours devoted to a talking moving 
picture featuring Brunswick Tires and 
a talk by Frank Williams, Brunswick 
sales representative from Akron, 0. 


Champaign Co. Wins 
Future Order Contest 


Champaign County Service Com- 
pany led the state in the 1934 Future 
Order Contest of Illinois Farm Sup- 
ply Company with 28,686% gallons. 
St. Clair Service Company was second 
with 22, 210 gallons and Monroe coun- 
ty was third. The contest was based 
on the average gallons sold per man 
in each company. 


First, second and third on this basis 
were 2,796.6 gallons for 10 men in 
Champaign county, 2,776%4 gallons for 
eight men in St. Clair county, 2,732% 
gallons for three men in Monroe. 
Whiteside Service was fourth with 
2,256% gallons average for six men, 
Madison Service fifth with 2,152%. 
Carroll, Marshall-Putnam, McDon- 
ough, Winnebago, and Lee were next 
in order. 


Oliver Voelkel of St. Clair Service 
Company was high man in the state 
with a record of 5,369 gallons. E. C. 
Harvey and Reid Pulliam of Cham- 
paign County Service Company were 
second and third. John Parker of the 
same company placed sixth in the 
state, E. Geil of LaSalle county was 


fourth, Ray Putman of Henry-Stark 
Service Company fifth. 

Russell Stewart, manager of Cham- 
paign County Service Company, was 
awarded a standard Westinghouse 
washing machine. Manager Gross- 
mann of St. Clair won a vacuum 
sweeper and Manager McWard of 
Monroe, an electric food mixer. Suit- 
able prizes were awarded the leading 
salesmen, including truck tires, wash- 
ing machine, pressure cooker. Twenty- 
one salesmen who sold more than 3,- 
000 gallons of petroleum products 
automatically * come charter mem- 
bers of the honorary club, announces 
L. R. Marchant, manager of Illinois 
Farm Supply Co. 


Whiteside Is Victor 
In Fly Spray Sales 


Whiteside Service Company carried 
off first honors for the second con- 
secutive year in the fly-spray contest 
sponsored by IIli- 
nois Farm Sup- 
ply Company. 
Manager Chet 
Becker won a 
hat, and cash 
prizes _ were 
awarded Burnie 
Vos and Earle B. 
Johnson of the 
same company 
who led the en- 
tire state. Vos 
made 139 indi- 
vidual sales. Vos, Johnson and S. M. 
Howe, Whiteside Service Company’s 
three high salesmen, sold more than 
88 per cent of the company’s total 
gallonage. 


PIPES 


BURNIE VOSS 


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Quad Cities Milk 


License 


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AAA Finally Acts After 
Months of Delay 


HE retail price of milk at the 

Quad Cities was raised from 

six to nine cents June 1 when 
the new marketing agreement went 
into effect. Under the new plan farm- 
ers are being paid $1.60 per cwt. for 
3.5 per cent base or fluid milk. Class 
II used for fluid cream will bring ap- 
proximately $1.25 with 92 score but- 
ter selling at 25¢c wholesale Chicago. 
Class III, condensed, will bring the 
price established by the evaporated 
milk code or not less than 3.5 times 
92 score butter plus 20% plus 10c per 
ewt. Class IV 3.5 times 92 score butter 
plus 10%. Dealers may not charge 
less than 7.5 cents for milk of 3.9 per 
cent butterfat content or less and not 
less than 8c for 4% milk. The going 
price was established at 9c. 

The licensing of dealers and inau- 
guration of the milk marketing agree- 
ment is the result of more than a 
year’s effort by the Quality Milk As- 
sociation and Illinois Agricultural As- 
sociation to stabilize the market and 
secure a higher return for the pro- 
ducer. For about a year milk has 
been retailing at six cents a quart 
and farmers have been netting around 
85 to 90 cents per cwt. 


Delayed Plan 


Milton Hult, one of the milk deal- 
ers, and Ned Curtis, president of the 
Illinois-Iowa Milk Producers Associa- 
tion which Hult and other dealers 
fostered, are reported to have used 
their influence, making many trips to 
Washington, to delay the initiation of 
a marketing plan. 

Quality Milk took the-~position that 
all fluid milk producers who have 
regularly supplied the market should 
be placed on the same basis and each 
be compelled to bear a proportionate 
share of the surplus. The I. & I. 
group which includes mostly former 
sour cream pro‘icers wanted to keep 
the advantage it had through selling 
a larger percentage in the fluid class 
to certain dealers. 

Frank C. Baker, market adminis- 
trator at Chicago, is in charge of the 
Quad City market for the AAA. The 
new price schedule gives the distribu- 
tors with large fluid outlets a very 
favorable margin of profit and will 
increase returns to producers around 
80 to 40 per cent. 

The marketing agreement has 
standard provisions and compels the 


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distributor to deduct a check-off of 
two cents per cwt. from all producers, 
supplying the market, to defray oper- 
ating expenses of the administrator. 

In addition the distributor must 
deduct an additional 4c per cwt.— 
total 6c—from milk delivered by non- 
members. The Quality Milk Associa- 
tion by agreement with distributors it 
supplies, receives a check-off of 4c 
per cwt. for operating expenses on 
milk delivered by its members. The 
administrator will use the additional 
4c contributed by non-members to em- 
ploy testing and checking service for 
their benefit and protection. 

An application for licensing of deal- 
ers and a marketing agreement has 
been filed for the Peoria market by 
the legal department of the Illinois 
Agricultural Association. 


Rockford Milk Producers 
Get $1.85 For Class | 


The Mid-West Dairymen’s Company 
representing some 1700 producers 
around Rockford was successful re- 
cently in getting the Class I price of 
milk raised from $1.50 to $1.85 per 
cwt. 

As a result of the serious drouth 
situation in northern Illinois a mass 
meeting of milk producers was called 
for June 6, reports Manager Wilkie 
Lee. About 600 attended. The con- 
sensus of opinion was that $1.85 per 
ewt. for Class I would be the least 
that could be accepted considering the 
sharp inerease in cost of production 
resulti g from the forced purchase of 
high-priced feed. The dealers realized 
the serious situ.tion and agreed to 
meet the producers’ demands without 
a further confer nce. 


Class I is the only classification of 
milk sold to 11 of the 12 dealers buy- 
ing from the Association. They pay 
the Cli ss I price for milk irrespective 
of its use. One dealer buys Class II 
milk at the condensery price, now 
$1.25 a hundred, for ice cream mix. 
The association purchased 13 carloads 
of alfalfa hay for their members 
which was delivered at approximately 
$19.25 per ton. 

As we go to press Pure Milk As- 
sociation is preparing to ask for an 
advance in the present base price of 
$2.00 per cwt. 


Editor, I. A. A. RECORD: 

“Thoughts on the New Deal’ is 
about as good an article on the sub- 
ject as I have read. Keep up the good 
work.—E. M. “Farmer” Miller, Mc- 
Henry county, IIl. 


Ask Cut in Auto License 
And State Gas Tax 


At a recent meeting in Chicago, 
steps were taken toward starting a 
campaign to cut state motor license 
fees on. automobiles and trucks to $3 
and to reduce the state gas tax to two 
cents. 

At the June meeting of the I. A. A. 
board it was agreed that this proposal 
should be carefully studied before any 
action or policy is announced. The 
problem that immediately presents it- 
self is “will such reductions leave 
sufficient revenue to pay the interest 
and principal still due on the $160,- 
000,000 of state hard road bonds voted 
a number of years ago?” If such re- 
ductions are voted will property be 
taxed additionally to make up any 
shortage of funds needed to pay in- 
terest and principal on outstanding 
bonds and on emergency relief loans 
against which gas tax revenue has 
been pledged ? 

John C. Watson, director of taxa- 
tion, is engaged in working up data 
to be submitted at a future meeting 
of the I. A. A. Board. 


Illinois Grain Corp. 
Adds New Members 


The Milledgeville Farmers Elevator 


Company, Carroll county, and the 

Burt and Richmond elevators in Taze- 

well county recently joined the Illinois 

| Grain Corpora- 

tion. These addi- 

1 62 tions bring the 

total membership 

of the state re- 

gional up to 162 elevators and coun- 
ty grain associations. 

As a result of the poor small grain 
crop of last year and the corn seal- 
ing program, elevator handlings of 
grain this year are considerably be- 
low those of 1933. 

“There isn’t any evidence that the 
trade (dealers and processors) is pay- 
ing any of the processing taxes—ex- 
cept possibly for brief periods the 
tax on hogs,” says Dr. Frederic C. 
Howe, consumers’ counsel. “All the 
facts we have been able to collect in- 
dicate that processors generally, and 
this includes millers, have increased 
their margins between what they pay 
for their raw materials and what they 
charge for their products, enough to 
cover fully the taxes. 

“Millers have passed the taxes on 
to the bakers but the bakers in turn 
have raised the price of bread.” Pack- 


ers have been passing the hog proc- 
essing tax on to the producer. 


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Quad Cities Milk 


License 
AAA Finally Acts After 
Months of Delay 


HE retail price of milk at the 

Quad Cities was raised from 

six to nine cents June 1 when 
the new marketing agreement went 
into effect. Under the new plan farm- 
ers are being paid $1.60 per cwt. for 
3.5 per cent base or fluid milk. Class 
II used for fluid cream will bring ap- 
proximately $1.25 with 92 score but- 
ter selling at 25c wholesale Chicago. 
Class III, condensed, will bring the 
price established by the evaporated 
milk code or not less than 3.5 times 
92 score butter plus 20% plus 10c per 
ewt. Class IV 3.5 times 92 score butter 
plus 10%. Dealers may not charge 
less than 7.5 cents for milk of 3.9 per 
cent butterfat content or less and not 
less than 8c for 4% milk. The going 
price was established at 9c. 

The licensing of dealers and inau- 
guration of the milk marketing agree- 
ment is the result of more than a 
year’s effort by the Quality Milk As- 
sociation and Illinois Agricultural As- 
sociation to stabilize the market and 
secure a higher return for the pro- 
ducer. For about a year milk has 
been retailing at six cents a quart 
and farmers have been netting around 
85 to 90 cents per cwt. 


Delayed Plan 


Milton Hult, one of the milk deal- 
ers, and Ned Curtis, president of the 
Illinois-lowa Milk Producers Associa- 
tion which Hult and other dealers 
fostered, are reported to have used 
their influence, making many trips to 
Washington, to delay the initiation of 
a marketing plan. 

Quality Milk took the position that 
all fluid milk producers who have 
regularly supplied the market should 
be placed on the same basis and each 
be compelled to bear a proportionate 
share of the surplus. The I. & I. 
group which includes mostly former 
sour cream pro‘icers wanted to keep 
the advantage it had through selling 
a larger percentage in the fluid class 
to certain dealers. 

Frank C. Baker, market adminis- 
trator at Chicago, is in charge of the 
Quad City market for the AAA. The 
new price schedule gives the distribu- 
tors with large fluid outlets a very 
favorable margin of profit and will 
increase returns to producers around 
80 to 40 per cent. 

The marketing agreement has 
standard provisions and compels the 


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distributor to deduct a check-off of 
two cents per cwt. from all producers, 
supplying the market, to defray oper- 
ating expenses of the administrator. 

In addition the distributor must 
deduct an additional 4¢c per cwt.— 
total 6c—from milk delivered by non- 
members. The Quality Milk Associa- 
tion by agreement with distributors it 
supplies, receives a check-off of 4c 
per cwt. for operating expenses on 
milk delivered by its members. The 
administrator will use the additional 
4e contributed by non-members to em- 
ploy testing and checking service for 
their benefit and protection. 

An application for licensing of deal- 
ers and a marketing agreement has 
been filed for the Peoria market by 
the legal department of the Illinois 
Agricultural Association. 


Rockford Milk Producers 
Get $1.85 For Class | 


The Mid-West Dairymen’s Company 
representing some 700 producers 
around Rockford was successful re- 
cently in getting the Class I price of 
milk raised from $1.50 to $1.85 per 
cwt. 

As a result of the serious drouth 
situation in northern Illinois a mass 
meeting of milk producers was called 
for June 6, reports Manager Wilkie 
Lee. About 600 attended. The con- 
sensus of opinion was that $1.85 per 
ewt. for Class I would be the least 
that could be accepted considering the 
sharp increase in cost of production 
resulti g from the forced purchase of 
high-priced feed. The dealers realized 
the serious situ.ution and agreed to 
meet the producers’ demands without 
a further confer nce. 


Class I is the only classification of 
milk sold to 11 of the 12 dealers buy- 
ing from the Association. They pay 
the Cl.ss I price for milk irrespective 
of its use. One dealer buys Class II 
milk at the condensery price, now 
$1.25 a hundred, for ice cream mix. 
The association purchased 13 carloads 
of alfalfa hay for their members 
which was delivered at approximately 
$19.25 per ton. 

As we go to press Pure Milk As- 
sociation is preparing to ask for an 
advance in the present base price of 
$2.00 per cwt. 


—— 


Editor, I. A. A. RECORD: 

“Thoughts on the New Deal” is 
about as good an article on the sub- 
ject as I have read. Keep up the good 
work.—E. M. “Farmer” Miller, Mc- 
Henry county, IIl. 


Ask Cut in Auto License 
And State Gas Tax 


At a recent meeting in Chicago, 
steps were taken toward starting a 
campaign to cut state motor license 
fees on automobiles and trucks to $3 
and to reduce the state gas tax to two 
cents. 

At the June meeting of the I. A. A. 
board it was agreed that this proposal 
should be carefully studied before any 
action or policy is announced. The 
problem that immediately presents it- 
self is “‘will such reductions leave 
sufficient revenue to pay the interest 
and principal still due on the $160,- 
000,000 of state hard road bonds voted 
a number of years ago?” If such re- 
ductions are voted will property be 
taxed additionally to make up any 
shortage of funds needed to pay in- 
terest and principal on outstanding 
bonds and on emergency relief loans 
against which gas tax revenue has 
been pledged ? 

John C. Watson, director of taxa- 
tion, is engaged in working up data 
to be submitted at a future meeting 
of the I. A. A. Board. 


Illinois Grain Corp. 


Adds New Members 


The Milledgeville Farmers Elevator 
Company, Carroll county, and the 
Burt and Richmond elevators in Taze- 
well county recently joined the Illinois 

Grain  Corpora- 


tion. These addi- 
> tions bring the 
total membership 


of the state re- 
gional up to 162 elevators and coun- 
ty grain associations. 

As a result of the poor small grain 
crop of last year and the corn seal- 
ing program, elevator handlings of 
grain this year are considerably be- 
low those of 1933. 


“There isn’t any evidence that the 
trade (dealers and processors) is pay- 
ing any of the processing taxes—ex- 
cept possibly for brief periods the 
tax on hogs,” says Dr. Frederic C. 
Howe, consumers’ counsel. “All the 
facts we have been able to collect in- 
dicate that processors generally, and 
this includes millers, have increased 
their margins between what they pay 
for their raw materials and what they 
charge for their products, enough to 
cover fully the taxes. 

“Millers have passed the taxes on 
to the bakers but the bakers in turn 
have raised the price of bread.” Pack- 
ers have been passing the hog proc- 
essing tax on to the producer. 


I. A. A. RECORD 


Seti AS ; Rist oA 


‘HOW Do You MEAN 
GET YOUR FARM 7) 
BUREAU DUES BACKS 


They’re Better Driving Risks! That's 
Why Farm Bureau Members 
Enjoy Such Low Rates! 


Here’s what Farm Bureau Members get because they are 
the best driving risks—protection up to $10,000 for in- 
juries to other people; up to $1900 for damage to the other 
fellow’s property; insurance against fire, theft, pilfering, 
windstorm, hail and collision with any object. Actually— 
savings amount to nearly $25 a year! How can you afford 
to drive without adecuate insurance when it costs so little? 


See your County Farm Bureau insurance agent at once for 


details of Surplus-Fee Policy on your car! 


PR TEI Pe 
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WATCH , YOUR. DRIVING 
THESE “/OURIST” DAYS 


cross roads in your community. It’s up to you to drive carefull 
that you don’t figure in a costly or fatal accident that is “no 
body’s fault.” And when you’re a “tourist”—don’t throw car? 


to the four winds. Take care when you drive wherever you 4° 


Accidents are costly—and needless. 


Number 8 


AUGUST, 1934 


Volume 12 


Debt Relief Under 


Frazier-Lemke Amendment 


Illinois, has a $12,000 mortgage 

at five per cent on his 120 acre 
farm. He also has a chattel mortgage 
of $1,500 at six per cent, and ad- 
ditional unsecured notes at seven per- 
cent amounting to $1,000 — a total 
debt of $14,500. 

He has been unable to pay $760 
annual interest and keep up the taxes. 
Creditors have been patient but have 
finally decided to foreclose. What can 
he do about it? 

He can go to his creditors and ask 
for a scaling down of interest, prin- 
cipal, or both. Or he can go to the 
county conciliation commissioner ap- 
pointed by the federal district court, 
and ask him to intervene toward se- 
curing a scale-down or extension of 
his debt, 

Let us assume that the creditors 
are unwilling and insist on foreclos- 
ing. Under the Frazier-Lemke amend- 
ment to the federal bankruptcy act, 
Farmer “A” may have his lawyer 
draw up a petition to the federal 
court that he be adjudged a bankrupt, 
that his property be appraised, his 
exemptions as prescribed by the state 
law ($400 of personalty in Illinois in 
case he is the head of a family) sub- 
ject to any liens thereon, be set aside, 
and that he be allowed to retain pos- 
session of the remainder of his prop- 
erty. 


Bitincs, “A” of La Salle county, 


Appoint Appraisers 


Thereupon the judge is required to 
appoint apprais- 
ers to put a fair 
and _ reasonable 
value on _ the 
property of 
Farmer “A” 
not necessarily 
the market value 
at time of ap- 
praisal. Any 
creditor, or 
Farmer “A” may 


make objections and exceptions to the 
appraisal by appeal to the court. 

After the value of Farmer “A’s” 
property has been fixed by appraisal, 
the referee in bankruptcy is required 
to set aside Farmer “A’s” exemptions 
subject to the chattel mortgage. The 
referee shall further order’ that 
Farmer “A” may retain possession of 
the remainder of his property subject 
to the mortgages up to the appraised 
value. 

If the mortgage holders agree, the 
trustee appointed by the court shall 
sell to Farmer “A” his farm, and 
chattels at the appraised value upon 
the following terms and conditions, 
and upon such conditions as in the 
judgment of the trustee shall be fair 
and equitable: : 

a. Payment of 1 per centum in- 
terest upon the appraised price 
within one year from the date of 
said agreement. 

b. Payment of 22 per centum 
of the appraised price within two 
years from the date of said agree- 
ment. 

c. Payment of an additional] 2! 
per centum of the appraised price 
within three years from the date 
of said 
agreement. 

d. Pa y- 
ment of an 


WHITESIDE COUNTY FARM BUREAU FLOAT IN CELEBRATION AT STERLING. 


additional 5 per centum of the 
appraised price within four years 
from the date of said agreement. 

e. Payment of an additional 5 
per centum of the appraised price 
within five years from the date of 
said agreement. 

f. Payment of the remaining 
unpaid balance of the appraised 
price within six years from the 
date of said agreement. 


One Per Cent Interest 


Interest shall be paid on the ap- 
praised price and unpaid balances of 
the appraised price yearly, as it ac- 
crues, at the rate of 1 per centum per 
annum and all taxes shall be paid by 
Farmer “A.” | 

The proceeds of such payments on 
the appraised price and interest shall 
be paid to the lien holders as their 
interests may appear, and to the 
trustee of the unsecured creditors, as 
their interests may appear, if a 
trustee is appointed. 

If Farmer “A” is fortunate enough 
to secure the consent of the creditors 
to a reasonable reduction in the face 
value of his debt, he is privileged to 
dispose of any part of it provided he 
pays the appraised value of such part 
to the secured creditors as their in- 
terests may appear, and the trustee 
of the unsecured creditors as his in- 
terest may appear. 

If Farmer “A” fails to comply fully 
with the terms and conditions as to 
payments, as provided, both to 
any or all of the secured cred- 
itors, or to the trustee of the 
unsecured creditors, then such 
secured creditors or the trustee 
may proceed to 
. foreclose. 

However, let 
us assume that 
one of the _ se- 
cured creditors of 
Farmer “A” files 
written objec- 
tions to the man- 
ner of payments 
and__ distribution 
of Farmer “A’s” 
property. Let us 
(Cont’d on P. 9) 


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Farm Bureau Day At 
State Fair August 24 


ARM BUREAU DAY will be 
celebrated at the Illinois State 
Fair on Friday (August 24) as 
in former years. The Fair opens 
officially on Aug. 18 and continues 
until Aug. 25. The big I.A.A. tent with 
parcel checking facilities, drinking 
water, chairs and exhibits, will be lo- 
cated in approximately the same posi- 
tion as last year. The Country Life 
Queen Contest in charge of V. Vani- 
man, will feature the contest winners 
from 34 counties chosen last winter. 
This event will be held in the colise- 
um and will begin at 10:30 A. M. 
Personality, natural beauty, poise, 
charm, etc. were among the points 
followed by the judges in selecting the 
winners from more than 600 young 
ladies who competed in the 1934 con- 
test, says Mr. Vaniman. 
A huge triangular platform four 
feet wide and sixty feet on each side 
—total 180 feet—will be constructed 


in the coliseum where judges will s2- 
lect the Country Life Queen of IIli- 
nois for 1934 and her Maid of Honor. 
This will be the fourth annual state 
contest. 3 

Complimentary tickets will go to 
all counties having entries. More 
than 5,000 people shia as the selec- 
tion of Miss Roma Breimer of Lee 
county as state winner last year. 

Harvey J. Sconce, an official of the 
Century of Progress, one of the 
judges at the 1932 contest, gave the 
idea and plan to officials of the 
World’s Fair last year. They turned 
it over to a newspaper (Tribune) 
which sponsored a personality contest 
modeled after the Country Life Queen 
contest. 

I. A. A. headquarters primarily, 
will be a place where Farm Bureau 
members and their friends can rest 
and visit. The committee from the 
I. A. A. staff is planning to have 


musical entertainment by 4-H Club 
orchestras and other talent dis- 
covered during a series of lyceum 
meetings arranged by County Farm 
Bureaus last winter. The Farm 
Chorus under the direction of D. E. 
Lindstrom will be a special feature. 
It is planned to install a radio in the 
tent and bring in daily market re- 
ports for posting on the blackboard. 
A short speaking program will be 
held in connection with the personal- 
ity contest. 

A banquet in honor of the 34 coun- 
ty entries will be given Thursday 
evening, August 23. 

Names of county winners are as 
follows: Rose Brewer, Bond county; 
Lillian L. Fox, Crawford; Elaine V. 
Johnson, DeKalb; Hermine Huffman, 
Edgar; Grace Shepherd, Edwards; 
Selma Moeller, Effingham; Beulah 
McKay, Henderson; Mabel E. Lam- 
bert, Henry; Kathleen R. Sloan, Iro- 
quois; Jean Chandler, Jackson; Clare 
Virtue, JoDaviess; Rosemary Johnson, 
Knox; Frances Buesching, Lake; 
Helen Rowe, LaSalle; Vera J. Daniels, 
Lawrence; Marian McCracken, Lee; 
Anna C. Jacobson, Livingston; Marian 
Winters, McDonough; Carrie Alice 

(Continued page 5, Col. 3) 


REPRESENTATIVE OF THE WINNERS FROM 34 COUNTIES ARE THESE ATTRACTIVE GIRLS WHO WILL COMPETE IN THE STATE-WIDE 


COUNTRY LIFE QUEEN CONTEST AT THE STATE FAIR ON FARM BUREAU DAY, FRIDAY AUG, 24. 
Left to right top row: Marian McCracken, Lee county; Virginia Kohl, M2nard county; Rose Brewer, Bond county. 


Left to right bottom row: 
LaSalle county. 


Grace Shepherd, Edwards county; Mabel Lambert, Henry county; Margaret Hauser, Montgomery county; Helen Rowe, 


I. A. A. RECORD 


County, before the Oil Barrier was made, 


in Stopping the Horde of Writhing, Sucking Insects. 


TWENTY ROWS OF CORN WERE DESTROYED BY CHINCH BUGS ON THE RALPH YOUNG FARM IN PORTLAND TWP., WHITESIDE 
Farm adviser Frank Shuman, center, and Mr. Young, right, Demonstrate How Effective the Trench Was 
Note the Wheat Field at the Extreme Left From Which the Bugs Entered the Corn. 


A Hot Day and A 
Hot Subject in Madison 


"Round and ’round went the argu- 
ment on direct packer buying at the 
Institute of Co-operation in Univer- 
sity of Wisconsin’s sweltering Agri- 
cultural Building on July 11. For 
the packers spoke bald-headed Oscar 
Mayer, owner of a so-called country 
plant at Madison, Wis. who moved out 
of Chicago “to get closer to the sup- 
ply of hogs.” Another packer man 
was beefy, jovial Ed Wentworth of 
Armour & Co., Ames graduate and 
head of the Armour research bureau. 
Silent sat F. M. “Fanny” Simpson of 
Swift & Co. during the heated argu- 
ment on this hot subject. 

“Hard roads, trucks, radio and the 
high cost of selling through the ter- 
minal markets are responsible for the 
growth of direct buying,” said Pack- 
er Mayer. “We believe this system 
pays the farmer more for his hogs. 
We have organized a committee 
(Mayer chairman, Knute Espe, secre- 
tary) to ‘educate’ farmers about di- 
rect buying, to defend it against un- 
warranted attack.” 

“Do you think the livestock ship- 
pers interests would be protected if 
commission agencies were abolished 
and all farmers shipped direct to the 
packers?” countered hefty and talka- 
tive Dave Swanson, manager of the 
big Chicago Producers Commission 
Ass’n. and opponent of any and all 
forms of marketing ot her than 
through the terminals. 

Avoiding a direct reply, Mayer con- 
ceded that prices paid by packers are 
based on the Chicago market but as- 
serted (with Wentworth’s support) 


AUGUST, 1934 


that in the end they are fixed by the 
housewife who shuns meat when it 
gets too high. Of the 50 cent per 
cwt. spread between Madison and 
Chicago hog prices (freight, shrink, 
yardage, insurance, commissions, 
feed), said Mayer, we pay the farmer 
20 to 25c per cwt. more than he would 
get by going to Chicago. 

“That’s only on the days you want 
hogs, is it not,” questioned Swanson. 
“And if you were compelled to get 
your hogs at Chicago, wouldn’t your 
competition raise the general price 
level?” 

There the controversy rested with 
livestock growers speaking both for 
and against direct shipping, each side 
convinced that the other is wrong. 

“Let’s have a meeting in Chicago 
of producers, packers, commission 
men, stock yards and government 
officials, and straighten this thing 
out,” suggested Wisconsin sheep 
breeder and feeder Renck. This 
sentiment was generally concurred in 
with the understanding that the meet- 
ing be called after the government 
has made its report now being pre- 
pared on the mooted question. 


To prove that farmers are capable of selling 
their own livestock direct to packers, Ed 
Wentworth cited a field day at Ames where 
farmers, livestock professors, and packer buy- 
ers were grouped to guess on weights and 
dressing percentages, ‘‘The farmers guessed 
the closest and the packer buyers were the 
farthest away,’’ he said, 


Slab vs. Gravel 


Paved roads in Minnesota in 1931 
were maintained at an average cost 
of $97.61 per mile. Gravel roads 
with one-third per cent as much 
traffic cost $339 per mile for all items 
except re-graveling. 


Illinois Grain Acreage 
Down, Rains Helping 


Illinois corn acreage is the smallest 
in 61 years, oats the lowest since 
1892, estimates the Iilinois and U. S. 
Departments of Argiculture. Soybean 
and alfalfa acreage is the largest on 
record. Winter wheat production is 
12 per cent below average, spring 
wheat and barley very light, early 
hay poor, apples and peaches ex- 
tremely light, pastures the worst on 
record, spring wheat, oats and barley 
sharply reduced in acreage, soybean 
acreage 70 per cent above last year. 

Corn condition estimated about av- 
erage, future prospects brightening 
but uncertain due to threatened dam- 
age from second brood chinch bugs. 

Heavy rains reported throughout 
most of the state the first two weeks 
in July. Soybean prospects good, 
second crop alfalfa much _ better. 
Pastures green again. More beans 
than ever will be cut for hay. 


Farm Bureau Day 
At the State Fair 


(Continued from page 4) 
Jones, McHenry; Marjorie Lambert, 
McLean; Margaret E. Hahn, Mar- 
shall-Putnam; Virginia Kohl, Me- 
nard; Martha McClelland, Mercer; 
Margaret Hauser, Montgomery; Ruth 
EK. Stevenson, Morgan; Olga P. Fel- 
ler, Moultrie; Myrtle Elliott, Ogle; 
Bernice Pollock, Piatt; Gertrude 
Brelje, Randolph; Catherine Hurley, 
Saline; Ora E. Hamilton, Washing- 
ton; Lillian McDowell, Wayne; Irene 
Backman, Williamson; and Mary 
Hartman, Woodford. 


Not A Dollar Lost 
On Bond Investments 


Constant change is the rule of life, 
particularly in investments. Conserv- 
ing the $4,064,000 of invested funds, 
all bonds, representing assets of the 
I, A. A. and associated companies is an 
important job to which Vice-President 
and Finance 
Committee Chair- 
man A. R. Wright 
of Varna is giv- 
ing much of his 
time. 


Country Life 
Insurance Co.’s 
bond account at 
appr oximately 
$2,372,000 ranks 
first; second is 
Illinois Agricul- 
tural Mutual 
with $1,006,300 
invested in securities. Illinois Farm 
Supply has $250,170; Farmers Mutual 
Reinsurance $164,600; I.A.A. $149,- 
000; Illinois Grain Corp. $63,800; IIli- 
nois Agricultural Service Co. $25,300; 
Serum Ass’n, $21,400; Auditing Ass’n. 
$10,000; Illinois Livestock Marketing 
$1,000; Illinois Producers Creameries 
$500. 


Federal government holdings 
amount to nearly three-fourths of 
the total at $2,892,273. Municipal 
bonds (including state governments) 
total close to $877,000. Corporation 
bonds (railroads and utilities) make 
up the balance. 


For several years, the policy of the 
companies has been to invest in gov- 
ernments. This practice is now being 
followed by most large fiduciary com- 
panies because of the uncertain out- 
look of business conditions which may 
seriously affect other securities. 

A card record system and file with 
up-to-date information is maintained 
on every security issue of which there 
are more than 150. Moody’s, Stand- 
ard Statistics, and several financial 
papers are studied and checked for 
trends of earnings and cash position 
of the issuing corporations. Expendi- 
tures and attitude of city and state 
officials toward meeting obligations 
are watched in case of municipals. 


The conservative investment policy 
of these farmer-owned and farmer- 
controlled enterprises has kept each 
company in a strong financial posi- 
tion throughout the depression. While 
interest earnings are moderate, not a 
dollar invested in bonds has been lost. 
Not a single bond is in default as to 
interest or principal.* 

* One possible exception is a municipal (De- 


troit) which paid two-thirds of interest due in 
cash, issued refunding bonds to cover the balance. 


A. R, WRIGHT 


The Cover 


Hard-headedness, intelligence and 
character, typical of the Farm Bureau 
leadership in Illinois, are written on 
the faces of Knox County Farm Bu- 
reau directors who recently erected a 
monument, a splendid Farm Bureau 
building, to the constructiveness and 
permanency of the organization in 
this state. : 

Early leaders in Knox county look- 
ing ahead started a building fund, 
added something to it each year. The 
structure and equipment costing in 
excess of $17,500 is now paid for out of 
funds saved over a period of more 
than 15 years. 

The Farm Bureau office is a gen- 
eral meeting place for farm families 
who are members, says A. R. Kemp, 
farm adviser. The ladies can wait 
for their husbands, or husbands for 
their wives in the waiting room. 
“Several members have told us that 
the large parki. x yard in the rear of 
the building, now graveled and fenced, 
is worth the price of their member- 
ship annually as they now know 
where they can park and where their 
cars will be safe.” 


Quad Cities Producers 
Doing Better Under License 


Average price for June milk at the 
Quad Cities (342% test) was $1.26 
per cwt. After paying a check-off of 
six cents (administrator 2c, associa- 
tion 4c), hauling 16 cents, net price 
at the farm was $1.04. For each one- 
tenth per cent butterfat above and 


below 3.5%, three cents is added or - 


subtracted. 

This price compares with a range 
of 80 to 90 cents per cwt. minus 16 
cents hauling, received by farmers 
before the marketing agreement went 
into effect. 

Dealers jumped the retail price 
from six to nine cents per quart. 
Several threatened to go back to 8 or 
7 cents when consumer demand fell 
off, later changed their minds as de- 
mand picked up after the shock of a 
50 per cent raise. 

“The new price makes a difference 
of about $20 a month in my milk 
check (10 cows),” reports Herb 
Klawonn, director in Quality Milk As- 
sociation. 

Most dealers are delivering milk 
testing 3.8 per cent or better, skim- 
ming part of their supply and adding 
cream to the balance to raise the test. 
Class 4 milk selling on a butterfat 
basis, plus 10 per cent, is being boot- 
legged into the Quad City area in 
violation of the agreement, reports 
state. Base price at Quad Cities is 
$1.60, lower prices for other classes. 


Calls Direct Buying. An 
Unhealthy Condition 


Terminal markets should be the 
basis of a livestock marketing struc- 
ture, according to C. G. Randell, live- 
stock market specialist of the Farm 
Credit Administration. 

“Those markets,” he declared while 
addressing a livestock conference at 
Madison recently, “must be supported 
by packers. The terminal markets 
are the price-making and price-regis- 
tering points in this country. The 
withdrawal of support from terminal 
markets and the consignment of large 
numbers of low-grade animals to the 
central markets has a tendency, in my 
opinion, to lower price levels and to 
reflect undue fluctuations in day-to- 
day prices.” 

Commenting upon direct buying he 
said: “It is an unhealthy condition 
where the packer is the bargainer, 
the grader, and the weigher, all in 
one. Independent agencies perform 
these services at central markets and 
the same condition should prevail at 
country points. 

“Farmers selling direct should have 
a co-operative association, a bargain- 
ing association of some character, to 
protect their interests. This type of 
association should assemble and grade 
livestock and sell it through capable, 
experienced, and efficient manage- 
ment. Such associations would be of 
material assistance in protecting the 
interests of farmers located near 
packing companies who are frequent- 
ly discriminated against in favor of 
farmers living more remotely from 
the plant.” 


Plan Federal Inspection 
Prairie Farms Butter 


The board of directors of Illinois 
Producers Creameries met in Chicago 
July 14, approved the employment of 
a government butter inspector at 
member plants, heard progress re- 
ports from Frank Gougler and Jack 
Countiss. Government certificates will 
be inserted in cartons carrying 
Prairie Farms butter certifying that 
the contents score 92 or better. C. 
O. Tuttle has been assigned to the 
Illinois co-operative creameries. 


Germany recently suspended ll 
imports of vegetable oils and ole- 
aginous raw materials except copra 
(cocoanut). German farmers are be- 
ing paid minimum guaranteed prices 
for flaxseed and rapeseed. 


I. A. A. RECORD 


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500 Voices in Huge 
Chorus Farm Bureau Day 


Five hundred farm men and 
women from five Illinois counties will 
make up a huge vocal chorus as a 
feature of this year’s Farm Bureau 
program at the Illinois State Fair, 
Springfield, August 24, it has been 
announced by D. E. Lindstrom, rural 
sociology extension specialist at the 
College of Agriculture, University of 
Illinois, 

A hundred voices will come from 
each of the counties of Champaign, 
Macon, McLean, Iroquois and Adams, 
where they are being organized un- 
der the sponsorship of their respec- 
tive Home and Farm Bureaus. 

The event to be held in the State 
Fair pavilion on Farm Bureau Day, 
is in a measure an outgrowth of the 
annual music and drama tournament 
held each January during Farm and 
Home Week at the U. of I. College 
of Agriculture. This, however, is the 
first year that a farm vocal chorus 
has been attempted at the state fair, 
and is made possible through the 
financial assistance of the state fair 
board and in cooperation with exten- 
sion service of the agricultural col- 
lege. Professor Russell Hancock 
Miles, of the U. of I. school of music, 
will direct the chorus. 

The five counties to take part in 
the state fair chorus are those in 
which considerable rural chorus work 
has been carried on by the Farm and 
Home Bureaus in recent years. 
Adams county has held an annual 
rural musical festival for the past 
five years, the last one of which was 
witnessed by more than 2,500 people. 

Those in charge of organizing the 
100 voices in their respective counties 
are: Iroquois county, Miss Grace 
Burnham of Watseka; McLean coun- 
ty, Mrs. Paul McFarland of McLean; 
Adams county, Mr. J. Ben Jefferson, 
of Clayton; Macon county, Mrs. J. A. 
Greer of Harristown; and Champaign 
county, Mrs. R. W. Milligan of Ives- 
dale. 


Elevator Manager at 
Altona Commits Suicide 


One morning early in July, C. H. 
Chilson, field accountant with the IIli- 
nois Agricultural Auditing Associa- 
tion stationed at Galesburg, got a 
hurry up call to come to Altona, near 
the northern border of Knox county. 
The manager of the Altona Co-opera- 
tive Grain Co., a good church mem- 
ber, well-liked by directors and pa- 
trons, had committed suicide. 

No outside audit had been made of 
the company’s books for three years. 


AUGUST, 1934 


HENRY COUNTY FARM BUREAU FLOAT 


Entered in the July 4 Farm Bureau Day Parade during Galva’s Homecoming Celebration. 


Directors were worried. Chilson 
jumped in his car, went through the 
records carefully, methodically, found 
a shortage of more than $2,500 repre- 
senting peculations over a period of 
2% years. Altona Grain Co. is now 
a member of I.A.A.A. 


This is the second elevator manager suicide 
in Illinois within the rast year and a half. 
Trusted implicitly by directors, the manager at 
Mt. Sterling confessed to selling merchandise 
and keeping the cash, Promising to make 
restitution, he was not prosecuted, A few 
weeks later, he crawled under the elevator, 
shot himself, 


New Federal Law Hits 
at Gas Tax Diversion 


Another blow at Illinois’ disrepu- 
table diversion of gas tax funds, long 
opposed by the I.A.A., is dealt by 
the Hayden-Cartwright Act (H. R. 
8781) passed by the 73rd congress, 
approved by President Roosevelt 
June 18. 

“Since it is unfair and unjust to 
tax motor vehicle transportation un- 
less the proceeds of such taxation are 
applied to the construction, improve- 
ment, or maintenance of highways,” 
declares the Act, “after June 30, 1935, 
Federal aid for highways shall be ex- 
tended only to those States that use 
at least the amounts now provided by 
law for such purposes in each State 
from motor vehicle registration fees, 
licenses, gasoline taxes, and other 
special taxes ..... for the construc- 
tion, improvement, and maintenance 
of highways and administrative ex- 
penses in connection therewith.” 

Good news for farmers is a provi- 
sion in the act for an additional ap- 
propriation of $200,000,000 as an emer- 
gency public works fund, to be di- 
vided among the States with the 
stipulation that not less than 25 per 
cent of any State’s share shall be ap- 
plied to secondary or farm-to-market 
roads. 

In addition the sum of $125,000,000 
is appropriated for the fiscal year 


Chicago Real Estate Men 
Ask For Special Session 


George F. Nixon, member of the 
board of tax appeals and prominent 
in Chicago real estate circles, is lead- 
ing a movement in Chicago to influ- 
ence Governor Horner +: call a spe- 


-eial session of the legislature by 


August 1, to consider a revenue 


amendment. 
Mr. Nixon pointed out that $459,- 


000,000 of taxes levied during the 
last eight years are uncollected, of 
which $160,000,000 represent taxes 
levied against personal property. 

“A one per cent limitation on 
property taxes would give taxpayers 
relief — hope — some incentive for 
carrying on,” he says. ‘Property 
could and would pay a one per cent 
tax on fair cash value. It cannot con- 
tinue to carry the present tax load of 
nearly three per cent. Tax emanci- 
pation can come only through amend- 
ment of the state constitution.” 
Neer eee eee eee ee —————————— 
ending June 30, 1936, the same 
amount for the year following (total 
$250,000,000) for aiding the States in 
the construction of rural post roads. 
This money must be spent by the 
States within one year of the period 
for which the appropriation is made, 
otherwise the unspent State’s portion 
will revert back to the Federal gov- 
ernment for reapportioning. 

Section 14 of the Act declares that 
“no deductions shall hereafter be 
made on account of prior loans to the 
States ... for relief ...to needy and 
distressed people.” This means that 
federal road funds apportioned to 
Illinois will not be impaired by reason 
of the tremendous pvor relief sums 
obtained by Chicago political leaders. 
This money was to have been repaid 
by deducting part of the federal road 
allotments to [Illinois beginning in 
1935. 


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To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was or- 
ganized namely, to promote, protect and represent the busi- 
ness, economic, political and educational interest of the 
farmers of Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 


George Thiem, Editor 
John Tracy, Assistant 


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DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 
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Fruit and Vegetable Marketing. ...........06. eee ee eee ween Hi. W. Day 
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ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 
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Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co. ............e00eee J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 
‘SHlinois Agricultural Auditing Ass’n............... F. BE. Ringham, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co......... A. E. Richardson, Mgr. 
Illinois Farm Supply Co.........c cece cee eee cecevees L. R. Marchant, Mgr. 
Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange.............seeeeeeees H. W. Day, Mgr. 
Hlinois Grain Corp... . ec e eee c eee c eee eee aeons Harrison Fablrnkopf, Mgr. 
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Illinois Producers Creameries. .F. 


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W. Armstrong, Pres. 


Blaming the Government 


lative turnover on the Board of Trade would 
advance wheat at least 25 cents a bushel above 
current quotations. Some believe that the rise would be 
50 cents.” says the Chicago Daily News in an editorial 
pleading for less restrictions on the grain exchanges. 
Apparently some grain trader has whispered in the ear 
of a News editorial writer. It’s the old story of blam- 
ing the government. The News does not state just what 
is to prevent anyone who thinks wheat is selling too cheap- 
ly to buy a load of it. There is nothing in present regu- 
lations to stop anyone from taking on all he can pay for. 
The volume of trading on the Stock Exchange, likewise, 
has fallen away to a mere dribble compared with the vol- 
ume in the “good old” days. No one argues that regu- 
lation is responsible for this. Perhaps the condition of 
the public’s pocketbook has something to do with it. 
Whenever a grain trader has nothing else to do he goes 
over and weeps on the shoulder of the local newspaper 
editor about the bad effects of government regulations. 
The fact is that the rank and file of people aren’t specu- 
lating these days. They’ve learned by bitter experience 
to be cautious. The only thing that is holding back the 
speculative rise in the price of wheat, or any other com- 


ne OMPETENT experts assert that a normal specu- 


modity, is lack of buyers. 

To say that “farmers are being penalized to the extent 
of billions of dollars,” because of market regulation is a 
cheap appeal to prejudice without any foundation of fact. 
We are all for higher wheat prices. We can’t believe that 
federal trading regulations to establish honesty and to 
prevent market manipulation and the fleecing of the pub- 
lic are a bar to higher prices. We wonder if the News ever 
heard of short sellers. Government regulation didn’t seem 
to stop Arthur Cutten’s secret operations now a subject of 
government inquiry. For every dollar the farmer gains by 
a bull market he loses another in a bear market. The only 
party who collects all the time is the grain broker. And 
he’s the fellow doing the worrying now. 


The Cause of Unemployment 


HEN will the ten millions or more of unem- 
V V ployed people get back to work? 

A lot of folks are asking this question. More 
are trying to answer it. Some are attempting to make 
political capital out of unemployment. Farm represent- 
atives for years have tried to get over the point that the 
inequality between farm and non-agricultural prices, 
would undermine American prosperity..At last, when the 
crash came, the farm point of view got attention. Today 
even Wall Street recognizes its truth. 

“It is generally known,” says the July National City 
Bulletin, “that the fall of prices of farm products and 
loss of purchasing power to the farmers has been largely 
responsible for the general depression, but it ts not gen- 
erally recognized that the failure of other prices te de- 
cline in company with the prices of farm products has 
been the principal cause: of unemployment.” | 

The recent backing away of NRA administrators from 
price-fixing may be significant. It is clear that certain fea- 
tures of the NRA have been working at cross purposes to 
the AAA farm price-raising program. If we can’t get farm 
prices up to a parity let’s bring others down. The goal is 
the same, to restore farm buying power, to start a more 
lively exchange of goods and services, to relieve unemploy- 
ment, 

Organized labor can aid this movement and make jobs. 
So can corporation managers. We seriously doubt that 
either group is farsighted enough to do it. The way to re- 
employment and a higher standard of living for everyone 
lies in this direction. There will not be complete recovery 
until the readjustment is accomplished. 


Let Us Not Forget 


HE recent irritations connected with getting ap- 
| proval of corn-hog reduction contracts should not 
blind us to the real values of the adjustment pro- 
gram, Short memories are proverbial. It is only nec- 
essary to look back a year and a half to see how far we 
have come. It is easy for opponents of crop adjustment 
to make “explanations” of the reasons for improvement. 
They may make light of the effect of reducing surpluses 
by disposing of 6,000,000 little pigs and drastic cuts in 
pig farrowings and crop acreage. But thinking farmers 
know it was just these measures that helped raise levels. 
Corn and hog prices, of course, have been benefited. But 
beef, mutton, oats, barley and other crops also shared in 
the gain. With corn-hog checks on the way to Illinois let’s 
not miss the fact that the much maligned processing tax 
made these benefits possible. Had not the drought forced 
unprecedented quantities of unfinished livestock on the 
market prematurely, the rise in hog prices unquestion- 
ably would have come much earlier.” 


I. A. A. RECORD 


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A.A. « 
Policy 


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AUGUS' 


l.A.A. Asks More Liberal 
Policy On Hog Allotments 


Following reports of dissatisfac- 
tion and unrest over county corn-hog 
allotments and the inability of many 
ounty committees to conscientiously 
reduce total hog numbers on contracts 
to the allotments given counties by 
he State Corn-Hog Review Board, 
the Board of Directors of the I-linois 
Agricultural Association gave full 
consideration to the problem during 
their regular meeting in Chicago last 
week, 

In an effort to secure liberalization 
of policy that appeared necessary to 
expedite the work of all county com- 
mittees, and that contracting farmers 
might receive their benefit payments 
at the earliest possible date, the As- 
sociation directors unanimously joined 
in a telegram to the State Review 
Board urging prompt action in tak:ng 
such steps as appeared necessary to 
remove the confusion of thought and 
interest that seems to be crystallizing 
in several sections of Illinois. 


Let Evidence Control 


The board expressed the belief that 
the problem should be met by de- 
termining county totals of contracted 
hogs on the basis of the supporting 
evidence without regard to the definite 
figures that had been previously al- 
lotted. 

The Association directors assured 
the State Review Board that they 
recognized, at least in some degree, 
the tremendous problem with which 
they were confronted, and expressed 
their desire to be helpful to them 
in every possible way to complete 
their work. 

In neighboring states, county allot- 
ment committee reports were ap- 
proved where total numbers of hogs 
after removing unsupported pigs, 
were considerably higher than pre- 
liminary estimates according to re- 
ports. 


Checks in August 


Corn-hog checks are expected to 
move into Illinois in substantial num- 
bers during August. “Distribution 
among corn-hog farmers of approxi- 
mately $130,000,000 in first install- 
ment payments is expected to be near 
the peak load by late July or early 
August,” the AAA announced July 12. 
As this is written more than 45 Illinois 
counties have been approved. Check- 
ing of contracts by allotment com- 
mittees in other counties is nearing 
completion. 

Among the first to be O K’d by 
the state review board, none major 
hog-growing counties, were Piatt, 


AUGUST, 1934 


McLEAN COUNTY’S CORN AND HOG ALLOTMENT COMMITTEE IN ACTION. 


Reading frem left to right—Geo. Wissmiller, 0. V. Douglass, F. C. Thomas, 


each. contract through the ringer.) 


Boone, Dupage, Lake, DeWitt, Effing- 
ham, Fayette, Monroe, Williamson, 
Saline, Wabash, Washington, Clark, 
Clay, Cumberland, Moultrie, Cook, 
Will, Bond, Calhoun, Lawrence, 
Gallatin. 


Contracts are being handled in 
Washington at the rate of around 
40,000 a day. Contracts containing 
inadequate evidence or mistakes will 
be held up by the AAA there until 
county corn-hog committees supply 


the necessary data. 
Illinois corn-hog contract signers (123,000), 
will receive approximately $35,000,000 in bene- 


fit payments, the state extension service esti- 
mates, 


Debt Relief Under 


Frazier-Lemke. Amendment. 


(Continued from page 3) 


assume one of the secured creditors 
refuses to go along on the appraisal. 
Then the court, after having set aside 
Farmer “A’s” $400 exemption, shall 
stay all foreclosure proceedings for a 
period of five years. 

During this five year period Farmer 
“A” is allowed to retain possession of 
the farm and his chattels under the 
control of the court. To retain pos- 
session he must pay a_ reasonable 
rental fixed by the court, the first pay- 
ment of rent to be made within six 
months of the day of the court order 
staying proceedings. 

The rent will be divided equitably 
by the court among the secured and 
unsecured creditors after paying taxes. 
At the end of five years, or before, 
Farmer “A” may pay into court the 
appraised price of the property of 
which he retains possession provided 


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that on request of any lien holder on 
the farm, the judge shall order a re- 
appraisal of the farm, and Farmer 
“A” may then pay the reappraised 
price if acceptable to the lien holders. 
Otherwise the original appraised price 
shall be paid into the court. When 
Farmer “A” pays the appraised price 
the court shall by order turn over full 
possession and title of said property 
to him. 

If Farmer “A” fails to pay the rent 
fixed by the court, the latter may 
order Farmer “A’s” land and chattels 
sold for the benefit of the creditors. 

The Frazier-Lemke amendment is 
one of two measures bearing the same 
name, considered during the recent 
session of congress. The original 
Frazier-Lemke bill.*provided: for re- 
financing farm mortgages at 1% per 
cent interest and 1% per cent annual 
payment on the principal—a total of 
38 per cent. Against these mortgages 
as security, the bill authorized issuing 
up to $10,000,000 of greenbacks—a 
highly inflationary measure. This bill, 
sponsored by the Farmers Union, was 
not passed. 

The Frazier-Lemke amendment 
that was recently signed by President 
Roosevelt, amends Section 75 of the 
Federal Bankruptcy Act which was 
writtten by and passed at the re- 
quest of the American Farm Bureau 
Federation in February, 1933. The 
Frazier-Lemke amendment was passed 
after a threatened filibuster by Sen- 
ate progressives led by Senator Huey 
Long of Louisiana. It amends the act 
providing for scaling down or ex- 
tending farm debts, a highly mer- 
itorious bill, which was sponsored and 
supported by the Farm Bureau. 


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COUNTRY LIFE AN EXAMPLE OF m 
CO-OPERATIVE RESULT . 
Through the centuries, human nature hasn't changed. There has always la 
been a tug of war between agricultural people and those who would influence 
the price of what farmers raise and what they buy. But, as the picture above ini 
shows, patronizing his own farmer owned and controlled co-operative gives the d: 
farmer a fairer break on the sale of his livestock, his butter and cream, grain, L 
fruit and vegetables, etc., as well as on the purchase of his life insurance, oil Py 
and gasoline, serum, auto and fire insurance and all other things sold and bought a 
collectively by our organized farmers. Country Life Insurance Company's rec- li: 
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to farmers who pull together to obtain a fair deal for themselves and the 52 mil- Pp 
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By pooling their interests, the enormous volume of life insurance obtained at 
small expense means a lower cost to the insured. Through scientific operation 


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rope — but it’s no use. There are too many farmers. working to- 
gether, buying and selling through their own co-ops. There’s too 
much power for those other fellows to beat. If more farmers were 
pulling together, just think of the greater power they would have. 
You should talk to your neighbor’ about this. 


months, with an average rnaetahky of approximately 25 per cent of the 


expected death losses. Lapse ratios continue to be low showing the confidence 
of farmers in this Farm Bureau owned and controlled company. Last year’s 
lapse was seven and eight-tenths per cent. 

At the beginning Country Life showed real sincerity of purpose by starting 
at lower rates than offered by most participating companies. The average Or- 
dinary Life rate of all participating companies was around $27. Country 
Life’s rate at age 35 is $20.63, and dividends have consistently lowered this cost. 


Study the picture again. Note how the story of co-operation in its battle 
against monopoly, unfair profits, manipulation, the privileged few, and the long 
line of those who stand between true cost and the ultimate consumer is vividly 
set forth. Country Life Insurance Company was organized to give the truest 

possible cost to policyholders by utilizing as part of its cost-reducing methods 
the buying force of that great army of Illinois farm people. 


Manager of Country Life Insurance Company 
608 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois 


Country Life Six Months 
Business Sets New Record 


Continuing its record-breaking 
pace, Country Life Insurance Com- 
pany in the six months beginning 
Jan. 1, 1934 wrote close to $10,000,000 
of new business. This does not mean 
issued and delivered business. It does 
mean applications to this amount 
were received. Part of this business, 
of course, will not be issued. Some 
may not be successfully delivered. 
But the fact that the company is go- 
ing at a pace of 
nearly $20,000,- 
000 new business 
in 1934 is suffi- 
cient to give 
everyone an opti- 
mistic outlook for 
t h e company’s 
future. 

Mortality is 
even less than it 
was a year ago, 
and during the 
first five months the Company had 
enough new surplus to pay for all 
1934 dividend expense. 

Although Country Life is only 64 
months old, it has now close to $60,- 
000,000 of insurance in force. At the 
end of 1934 when the Company is 70 
months old, Manager L. A. Williams 


D, PP. ROBINSON 


and his staff of agents hope to have 


$70,000,000 in force. 

Lapses have been only half as 
great in 1934 as in 1933. Many 
counties are breaking their best pro- 
duction records and only one or two 
have produced nothing this year. D. 
P. Robinson, general agent in Henry 
county, is leading with $465,500 writ- 
ten business for the first six months 
in 1934. 

New general agents and general 
agencies are developing in fine shape, 
reports Williams. In counties of light 
production in 1933 there has been sub- 
stantial improvement. Gain in force 
for the first six months’ period is a 
70% improvement over the gain in 
force for the same period of 1933. 

“On the first day of June we 
started our campaign rather auspi- 
ciously, with a breakfast in Centralia. 
All of the agents in the southern end 
of the state were there. At Bloom- 
ington, the same day, the general 
agents of the central section as- 
sembled and at a dinner in DeKalb 
in the evening we met the general 
agents of the northern section. 

“In spite of chinch bugs, drought 
and all of the alibis that agents could 
legitimately be expected to use, we 
completed the month of June with 
$2,250,000 of business, the fourth 
largest month in the history of the 


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company. The largest production for 
the month came from Henry county, 
with $119,500 written business; next 
came McLean with $114,500, and Liv- 
ingston with $103,500.” 

Following are the totals by counties 


of business written in the first six 
months of 1934: 


Adams ....... 112,000 McDonough .. 219,000 
Bond .,....... 26,500 McHenry ..... 81,500 
Boone ....... 110,500 Seog aesieee “ariaee 
rown ...... ; ACCOR ..ceoee ’ 
bod a5 Lan Pilg na Macoupin .... 104,000 
Carroll 97.000 Madison ..... 106,000 
Cass .. 5 : : ‘ f é 92'500 Marion ...... 21,000 


Christian 117,500 ROD. oso 65,000 
hla oe'oop Menard :..... 92,000 
Clinton... 97.509 Mercer ...... 72,500 
Coles . x % ‘ : ; 98 000 Monroe ...... 36,000 
Cook .......: 231,000 Montgomery . 117,500 
Crawford .... 81,000 Morgan ...... 116,500 
Cumberland .. Moultrie .... 85,000 
DeKalb ...... 152,500 Ogle ........ 125,500 
DeWitt ...... g0,oco. | Feoria ...... 162,500 
Douglass ..... 140,000 Piatt ........ 84,000 
DuPage ie ee 118,000 hc mince tbh 6 100,500 
Se 189,500 . SPRS cesseces , 
Sieetia 37,500 Pulaski ...... 13,500 
Effingham .... 158,000 Randolph .... 190,000 
Ford ........ g2,000 Richland ..... 3,000 
Franklin .... Rock Island .. 112,000 
Taltea 50,500 Saline ....... 23,500 
Gallatin ..... 37,500 Sangamon .... 142,500 
Green ....... 98,500 voc dad tenes 49,500 
Grundy ...... 000 6 Scott ........ 
ieee 130000 Shelby ....... 175,000 
Henderson 135,500 St. Clair 119,000 
enry ...... 465,500 ark ........ 19,500 
Iroquois ..... 205,000 Stephenson ...252,000 
Jackson ...... 22,000 Tazewell .... 81,500 
Jefferson .... 6,000 Union ,...... 57,000 
Jersey ...... 65,500 Vermilion .... 120,000 
JoDaviess .... 149,000 Wabash ..... 24,000 
Johnson ..... 2,000 Warren ...... 26,000 
Kane ........ 68,000 Washington 40,000 
Kankakee 88,500 Wayne ...... 50,500 
Kendall ..... 65,500 White ....... 

_ rrr 2,000 Whiteside 177,000 
Lake wu. .eein 92,000 Will ........ 57,500 
LaSalle ...... 407,000 Williamson .. 30,000 
Lawrence .... 77,000 Winnebago .. 153,000 
LOO sc cisccees 191,500 Woodford .... 190,500 


Logan ....... 88,000 


Lime and Legumes Given 


Boost By AAA Program 


Illinois farmers are using more 
limestone and sowing more alfalfa 
and clover seed this year than ever 
before, reports from farm advisers to 
C. M. Linsley, soils extension spe- 
cialist, indicate. 

“Two of the most noticeable effects 
of the AAA in Will county are the 
increased demand for alfalfa and 
sweet clover seed and the increased 
use of the soil testing service to pro- 
tect legume seedings,” wrote L. W. 
Braham, farm adviser. In Carroll 
county, Farm Adviser M. P. Roske 
says “it looks like one of the high 
years for liming and sowing alfalfa. 
Fifteen crushers have been operating 
at local quarries to supply the lime- 
stone demand.” 


County Farm Bureaus are invited 
to send copies of their by-laws to the 
Legal Department of the I. A. A. for 
checking. In some cases by-laws are 
out of date and do not contain pro- 
tective features found by experience 
to be valuable. 


Organization Directors 
At Work in 61 Counties 


As we go to press more than 60 
counties have appointed county or- 
ganization directors according to V. 
Vaniman, director of organization 
service. These men are engaged full 
time and will work under the direc- 
tion of the county organization com- 
mittee. They are approved jointly by 
the County Farm Bureau and the 
I.A.A. It is their job to write mem- 
berships and make collections. These 
men also are charged with responsi- 
bility for keeping accurate records of 
dues paid, and make weekly reports 
to the secretary of the I.A.A. 

Following are the county organiza- 
tion directors whose appointments 
have been approved as of July 20: 


County Organization Director 
Bond Chas, P. Boggess 
Boone as ae 
rown n 
— Geo. D. Springer 
Champaign W. Z. Black 
Christian L, F. Brissenden 
Clark Thos. Drummond 
Clay H. O,. Hinkley 
Clinton H, H. Walker 
Coles A. P. Cooper 
Cook C, H. Mills 
Crawford Vv. A. Jones 

Kalb Earl Wenzel 
Douglas L. D. Hendricks 
Edgar H, Zies Gumm 
Effingham C, Ward Buzzard 
Frank ohn ma 
Ae yg C, W. Stremmel 

y Richard M, Jehnson 

Hancock M. G. Lambert 
Henderson Clifford Thompson 
Henry Eben F, Coll 
Jackson Wm, Ziegler 
Jersey John H, Powers 
JoDaviess Harry J, Stanger 
Johnson H, L, Cummins 
Kankakee J. J, Ruder 
Kendall Sidney E, Rasmusen 
Lake my = mone . 
LaSalle > L. Mast, Jr. 
Lawrence Alvin C. Mahrenholz 
McHenry Lester A. Siedschlag 
McLean Asa B, Culp 
Macon Edwin Bean 
Macoupin Elery A. Leefers 
Madison Chas. P. Boggess 
Marion H, O. Hinkley 
Marshall-Putnam Guy R, French 
Massac H, L. Cummins 
Montgomery L, F. Brissenden 
Morgan David R, Reynolds 
Moultrie M, E. Roberts 
Ogle R. J. Hamilton 
Piatt Milo D, Himes 
Pike Clay Agee 
Pope-Hardin H, L, Cummins 
Pulaski-Alexander E. H, Conant 
Randolph Andrew Brown 
Richland Otto Shafer 
Rock Island Carl L. Mueller 
Saline John C, Small 
Scott David Reynolds 
Shelby M, E. Roberts 
St. Clair Oscar Grossman 
Stephenson R, J. Hamilton 
Vermilion Mark F. Cooper 
Washington H, H, Walker 
Whiteside Lowell 8. Johnson 
Williamson John C, Small, 


Co-op. Livestock Sales Up 


Madison county livestock growers 
increased their co-operative shipments 
70 per cent in 1933 over 1932, ac- 
cording to T. W. May, farm adviser. 
“Our farmers are undoubtedly realiz- 
ing to a greater extent the impor- 
tance and value of co-operative mar- 
keting,” he said. 


I. A. A. RECORD 


- Grain Traders After 
The Co-ops. Again 


N INTENSIVE and costly pub- 
A licity campaign will shortly 

be launched by leading grain 
interests connected with the Chicago 
Board of Trade against the enact- 
ment of the Commodity Exchange Bill 
in the next session of Congress, ac- 
cording to press reports. 

One of the chief provisions of the 
Exchange Bill is that grain cooper- 
atives be allowed full privileges on 
the grain exchanges while exchange 
officials are appealing decisions of 
the Grain Futures Administration to 
the federal courts. 

Many Illinois grain producers will 
recall that the Chicago Board of 
Trade suspended the Updike Grain 
Company, owned by the Farmers Na- 
tional Grain Corporation, from both 
the Board and the Clearing Corpora- 
tion on charges which it never was 
able to prove. Farmers National 
then made a second application for 
membership direct in the Clearing 
Corporation, and when this was de- 
nied, petitioned the Grain Futures 
Administration to suspend the Board 
of Trade as a contract market for 
violation of the Grain Futures Act. 


A Little History 


The Federal Commission issued an 
order for such suspension for a period 
of 60 days from which the Board of 
Trade appealed to the United States 
Circuit Court of Appeals. 

Not until October 31, 1933, did the 
court return a decision on that ap- 
peal. It sustained the grain co-op- 
erative in every major contention 
with respect to its eligibility to full 
trading privileges on the Chicago 
Board of Trade and in the Clearing 
Corporation, but remanded the case 
back to the Commission for a de- 
termination whether grain handled by 
the co-operative for the Grain Stabili- 
zation Corporation, a government in- 
strumentality, should be classed as 
member or non-member grain under 
co-operative statutes. Hearing on 
this matter has been set for next 
October 3. 


Sought Full Protection 


In January of this year Farmers 
National again applied for member- 
ship in the Clearing Corporation, and 
although this time the application 
was granted, it was realized that with 
the issue still awaiting definite settle- 
ment, the security of the grain co- 
operatives in their trading rights was 
far from being assured. 


AUGUST, 1934 


Farmers National and its affiliates, 
therefore, sought full protection 
through the Code for Grain Ex- 
changes. This move having been suc- 
cessfully opposed by the grain ex- 
changes, on the ground that such 
matters were legislative in character, 
the co-operatives and general farm 
organizations, aided by the officials of 
the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
the Grain Futures Administration and 
others, sought from the Seventy-third 
Congress amendments to the Grain 
Futures Act definitely establishing 
the rights of farmer co-operatives on 
commodity exchanges. This legisla- 
tion, known as H. R. 8829, passed the 
House, was favorably reported by the 
Senate Committee on Agriculture, but 
did not come to a vote in the Senate 
because of the rush of business as 
the hour of adjournment approached. 

Recent newspaper clippings clearly 
show the justification, if any was 
needed, for certain statements made 
by proponents of H. R. 8829 at hear- 
ings on the legislation, held in Wash- 
ington last April. 

Wendell Berge, a special assistant 
to the Attorney-General, clearly fore- 
saw what might happen in the event 
the legislation failed. “It is quite 
possible for a Board of Trade,” he 
said, “under the cumbersome pro- 
cedure now existing, effectually to de- 
feat the purpose of Section 5e (of the 
Grain Futures Act, establishing the 
rights of co-operatives on Exchanges) 
by successively raising new charges 
of unlawful conduct against a co-op- 
erative association, thereby keeping 
such association out indefinitely while 
the respective charges are successful- 
ly litigated” (by the co-operative). 


Huff Forecasts 

During the course of these hear- 
ings, President C. E. Huff of the 
Farmers National sent a telegram to 
Chairman Jones, of the House Com- 
mittee, in which, among other things, 
he said: 

“T invite your attention and that of 
the Committee to the extreme im- 
portance to grain producers and their 
co-operatives of enacting these 
amendatory proposals into law at this 
session of Congress. For example, 
charges of violation of certain rules 
of the Chicago Board of Trade have 
been filed against Farmers National 
Grain Corporation regarding our op- 
erations in Iowa. For months past, 
hearings, conferences, and _ reports 
have centinued and we have been un- 


able either to bring the matter 
promptly to issue or to have the 
charges dismissed. It may not be 
true that action on these charges 
awaits the adjournment of Congress 
in the hope that the protective pro- 
posals now before your Committee 
will fail of enactment. If, however, 
these proposals should not be enacted 
into law, and if, following adjourn- 
ment, these or other charges of the 
Chicago Board of Trade should be 
brought to a decision unfavorable to 
Farmers National, it would again 
probably take us two years to vindi- 
cate our position in the courts and to 
re-establish market privileges wrong- 
fully denied us. Meantime, nearly 
300,000 organized growers would suf- 
fer very substantial loss for lack of 
protection proposed in amendments 
now before you.”’ 


Eloquent Reminders 


“Recent newspaper clippings are 
eloquent reminders of these state- 
ments before the House Committee,” 
Mr. Huff said in a recent letter to G. 
C. Johnstone, president of Illinois 
Grain Corp. “With members of the 
Congress hardly back in their own dis- 
tricts, the Chicago Board of Trade filed 
new charges against the national co- 
operative, with hearing set for July 
24, H. R. 8829 having failed of pas- 
sage. At the same time the Chicago 
Board of Trade announces a plan to 
begin at once a campaign to prevent 
future enactment of the Commedity 
Exchange Bill. Extensive newspaper 
and other advertising is to be used, 
the associations of private traders and 
brokers, and, as well, the railroads 
and millers, are to be swung into line, 
if possible, to help raise the hundreds 
of thousands of dollars that will be 
necessary to finance such a campaign. 


“Farmers co-operatives have no 
such funds to spend for such propa- 
ganda; but the intent and purpose of 
this grain trade campaign must be 
made clear to every grain farmer and 
to the membership of every farmer 
organization. The intent and pur- 
pose is to defeat the development of 
farmer marketing, to shut co-opera- 
tives off the commodity exchanges 
and to subject them to every possible 
disadvantage in the marketing of 
their commodities through their own 
facilities. 


“It is to be hoped that every per- 
son interested in the welfare of agri- 
culture will recognize the imperative 
necessity that the legislation em- 
bodied in H. R. 8829 be enacted at 
the next session of the Congress.” 


As we go to press, word comes that the 
hearing set for July 24 has been postponed for 
90 days. Perhaps a recent private conference 
between AAA and grain trade officials had 
something to do with it,—Editor. 


13 


"We Expect To Get 
Steadily Ahead" —Huff 


The Board of Trade _ recently 
charged Farmers National with viola- 
tion of its rules governing rebating, 
basing the charges on provisions of 
the operating agreements between 
Farmers National and its stockhold- 
ers. A hearing was set for July 24 
to air these charges—was later post- 
poned for 90 days. 

“Farmers National has not at any 
time violated the rules of the Chicago 
Board of Trade regarding rebating,”’ 
President C. E. Huff of Farmers Na- 
tional said in reply. “Charges to that 
effect, filed by the Board of Trade, 
are on a par with their previous 
charges and actions against us, none 
of which they have been able to sus- 
tain before the Federal Commission 
or in Court. 

“The reai issue is whether the pro- 
ducer of grain shall be permitted to 
represent himself within so sacred an 
institution as the Chicago Board of 
Trade. We are a co-operative and 
our grower members are the bene- 
ficiaries of our operations. We are 
members of the Board of Trade and 
of the Clearing .Corporation, privi- 
leges guaranteed us by Federal law. 
We have recently acquired a four 
million bushel elevator in Chicago. 
Our business grows steadily. Hun- 
dreds of local co-operative elevators, 
in all parts of the country, are affili- 
ated with Farmers National. The 
farmer is now for the first time mar- 


keting his own grain with every de-. 


vice and facility which private dealers 
have had in the past. Our securing 
of the Rock Island elevator and our 
great growth are the causes of the 
present complaint. These boys can’t 
take it. The specific charges filed 
yesterday have been ‘buried’ within 
the Directorate of the Chicago Board 
of Trade for many months as a con- 
venient club over us or awaiting a 
strategic time for public announce- 
ment. The adjournment of Congress 
without the passage of the Commod- 
ity Exchange Bill seems to have pro- 
vided the convenient time. 

“Perhaps it is too much to expect 
that a privileged group, whether in 
utilities or in trade, should reform its 
abuses and adjust itself to new facts. 
Most of them seem to prefer suicide 
to commonsense action. We do not 
know, of course, whether or not the 
Board of Trade has outlived its use- 
fulness, but we expect to get steadily 
ahead with our marketing program.” 


Farm exports during the month of 
May were the lowest in any single 
month in 20 years. 


14 


NRA Recedes From Price 
Fixing, May Aid Farmer 


Receding from its position in sup- 
port of price-fixing, the National Re- 
covery Administration has paved the 
way for a cut in the cost of non-ag- 
ricultural commodities. Quickest to 
respond in price reductions were cer- 
tain groceries, clothing, dry goods. 
Most needed by farmers are lower 
prices for lumber, cement, steel ma- 
chinery, wire fence or substantially 
higher prices for farm products to re- 
establish their pre-war buying power. 


The effect of gradual withdrawal 
of NRA price-fixing will be to reduce 
prices of easily manufactured, com- 
petitive goods. Monopolies and 
strongly organized groups such as 
steel, farm machinery, lumber, ce- 
ment, certain kinds of labor will be 
able to maintain high prices and 
wage minimums without NRA. 


So long as restricted production and high 
prices continue as policies of big business farm- 
ers will do well to play the same game in 
spite of the outcries of the processors and com- 
mission men. In an economy of scarcity initi- 
ated by monopolies, the farmer plays a losing 
game with uncontrolled production.—Editor. 


Wheat Program Continues 
9c Payments Being Made 


Second payment of nine cents per 
bushel to wheat contract signers 
totaling more than $30,000,000 began 
July 16. Estimated 77 per cent of 
nation’s wheat production is under 
contract. The program for the 1934- 
35 crop is planned on the same basis 
as the one just completed. 

Acreage reduction will be not more 


than 15 per cent of base and benefit . 


payments will be at the rate of 29 


cents per allotted bushel. Illinois had 


24,750 contracts approved. First in- 
stallments in Illinois amounted to 
$1,696,903, second payments are ex- 
pected to yield $769,500, total pay- 
ments $2,466,403. 


‘‘My wheat benefit check was mighty easy 
to take,’’ commented a St. Clair county grower. 
‘It certainly has paid us to go along on this 
program,”’ 


Ship To Chicago Producers. 
Save 25%, On Commissions 


Since April 20 the Chicago Pro- 
ducers Commission Association has 
been operating on the reduced com- 
mission rates which are from 20 to 25 
per cent under the old rates. 

Only one other commission agency 
in Chicago is charging the reduced 
rates. The old-line commission com- 
panies are fighting the reduction or- 
dered by Secretary of Agriculture 
Wallace, have appealed to the courts. 


Plan Illinois Council 
To Expand Use Crops 


The Illinois Agricultural Associa- 
tion, through its officers and local 
director, E. D. Lawrence, has par- 
ticipated in a series of conferences 
and committee meetings at Blooming- 
ton during the last three weeks with 
representatives of the Alcohol Motor- 
Fuel Association, Bloomington Asso- 
ciation of Commerce and McLean 
County Farm Bureau. 

The original conference was held at 
the invitation of the local groups on 
June 27th, which gave consideration 
to ways and means to promote the de- 
velopment of a “power-alcohol” pro- 
gram, as the major objective of a 
broader movement which includes the 
development of new non-food uses of 
agricultural products. Representatives 
of the four groups were assigned to 
working committees, which met and 
reported in a meeting held July 16th. 

The meeting received the report of 
its Committee on Form of Organ- 
ization, presented by Chairman R. A. 
Cowles, and approved its report, for 
recommendation to the groups and 
organizations which may be interested 
in forming an association to serve as 
council of its member organizations. 

The name of the proposed associa- 
tion is “Illinois Council.” The purpose 
and objects of the Council (non-stock, 
non-profit) are: (a) To develop new 
non-food uses and to expand and en- 
large present food and industrial uses 
of Illinois farm products. (b) To pro- 
mote and protect the common eco- 
nomic interests of Agriculture, Indus- 


try, Business and Commerce therein. 


(c) To formulate and make concrete 
expression thereon, as vital to the 
whole economic welfare of Illinois. (d) 
To secure, in the common interest of 
the Mid-West States, similar and 
united action in and by such States. 

The management is vested in eight- 
een directors—the “Board of Gover- 
nors.” The By-Laws provide for equal 
representation of (1) Agriculture, (2) 
Industry, and (3) Business and Com- 
merce, on the Board of Governors, and 
on the Executive Committee. The By- 
Laws prohibit partisan political ex- 
pression or activity by the proposed 
Council or its officials. 

The General Committee, appointed 
with power to enlarge its number and 
broaden representation on the com- 


mittee, includes: Jas. Gray, Chairman, 


E. D. Funk, J. R. Heiple, W. E. Froe- 
lich, C. V. Gregory, C. W. LaPorte, John 
Scholl, Frank Moberly, Earl Smith, R. 
A. Cowles. 

The Board of Directors of Illinois Agricultural 
Association in its July meeting authorized the 
Association’s participation in the movement, as 
a member of the proposed Illinois Council, if 
and when other organizations representative of 
Agriculture, Industry, and Business and Com- 
merce decide to perfect its organization, 


I. A. A. RECORD 


Insure In YOUR OWN COMPANY Against Damage By 


FIRE, WIND “HAIL 


You can’t afford NOT to insure your buildings, livestock, household 
goods, growing crops, etc., now that adequate insurance costs so little. 
Today, thousands of farmers insure with Farmers Mutual—AT 
ACTUAL COST! A strong, reliable legal reserve mutual, this farmer- 
owned and controlled company now has more than $74,000,000 total 
insurance in force. Claims are paid quickly and cheerfully. See your 
County Farm Bureau for rates and details. Do it now! 


CALL THE NEAREST 
FIRE DEPARTMENT! 


We will insure the 
cost of the call! 


AUTOMATIC RENEWAL 
PRIVILEGE 


All policies (with the exception of tual will insure the cost of calling the 
hail insurance) are issued for one nearest fire department, in an 
year with automatic renewal priv- 

ilege of four years more—in reality amount not to exceed $50. Ask your 
a five year policy with but one County Farm Bureau insurance agent 
initial policy fee. This lowers your : 

cost. Get details from the insurance about this spe- 
agent at your County Farm Bu- cial feature. 
reau. He will quickly show you how 

this feature saves you money on 

your insurance. 


RE-INSURANCE 9 @37% 
602 So. Dearborn St., ie Li 


For a nominal sum, Farmers Mu- 


Insure your growing crops NOW 
for only $4 per thousand. The bal- 
ance of your premium is not due 
until October when you have your 
harvest money. If hail destroys 
your crops, you get a check cov- 
ering the loss from Farmers Mu- 
tual. If no loss occurs, the pro- 
tection has cost you only a small 
sum. Get details quickly from your 
County Farm Bureau. 


Z Le 
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MUTUAL 


COMPANY 
Chicago, Ill. 


Look Before You Buy 
Paint, Soyoil Is Best 


The old adage “look before you 
buy” was never more potent than 
right now when farmers are being 
urged by certain soya bean oil paint 
marketers to be a_ patriot and 
boost a farm product. Close scrutiny 
or a few pointed questions will bring 
out the fact that the soya bean oil 
content of most of these paints mar- 
keted by general paint companies 
runs from five to 20 per cent. In 
marked contrast is the farmers own 
brand—Soyoil paint—which is guar- 
anteed to contain not less than 33% 
per cent specially treated soya bean 
oil. Soyoil paint is available in many 
colors and shades for every farm use 
through the 58 County Service Com- 
panies affiliated with the [Illinois 
Farm Supply Company. 

Notwithstanding the fact that IIli- 
nois farmers should use Soyoil paint 
exclusively because it creates a great- 
er market for one of their own prod- 
ucts, there is the equally important 
fact that its use by several thousand 
farmers shows Soyoil paint to be an 
excellent type for farm buildings. It 
stands the weather, it’s easy to apply, 
the soya bean oil “satisfies” the wood, 
it dries with a protective, glossy fin- 
ish and goes farther. With its low 
first cost, plus patronage dividends, 
soy oil costs less to use than “price” 
paints. 


Get Free Test 


To further demonstrate the out- 
standing qualities of Soyoil paint, 
County Service truck salesmen now 
carry the paint and brush with them 
so that farmers may test the paint 
themselves on any wood surface. 
That this test is taking the guess 
work out of paint buying and is prov- 
ing the superiority of Soyoil paint 
with its 33% per cent specially 
treated soya bean oil content is amply 
borne out by this year’s marked in- 
crease in paint sales by the 58 Coun- 
ty Service Companies. Farm Bureau 
members are urged to request the 
free test and see for themselves how 
the high soya bean oil content in Soy- 
oil paint is a tremendous step for- 
ward in paint manufacturing. 


Price cutting to producers was the 
charge against Isaac Lantz of Plain- 
field, Illinois whose license to sell 
milk in the Chicago area was ordered 
revoked as of June 9. Lantz also had 
failed to submit written reports and 
statements to the market adminis- 
trator and had failed to comply with 
other provisions of the marketing 
agreement. 


16 


RUSSELL G, STEWART, MANAGER OF THE CHAMPAIGN COUNTY SERVICE COMPANY, 
and his sales force who sold 28,6862 gallons of motor oil to win First Prize in the Future Order 


Contest. Standing, second from right is E, C 


. Harvey whose 5,049 gallons was second highest in 
the state. Standing, fourth from the right is Reid 4 y fed 


ulliam whose 4,757 gallons won third high 


state honors. The whole sales force averaged 2,796.6 gallons 7. man during the contest. It is in- 


teresting to note that in three years this company has returne 


St. Clair County Man 
Leads State Oil Sales 


With a total of 5,369 gallons of 
motor oil sold and delivered to St. 
Clair County customers’ between 
January 1st and April 30, 1934, Oliver 
Voelkel of St. Clair Service Company 
took first prize in the statewide 
Future Order 
Contest sponsor- 
ed by Illinois 
Farm Supply 
Company. 

This remark- 
able sales feat 
was largely in- 
strumental 
in boosting the 
future order gal- 
lonage of St. 
Clair Service 
Company to the 
second prize total of 22,210, an av- 
erage of 2,776%4 gallons for the eight 
men making up the sales force of 
Manager A. O. Grossman. 

Voelkel attributes his record to get- 
ting an early start each day, main- 
taining a clock-like schedule of calls 
on his customers and to the fact that 
farmers of St. Clair County are 
whole-heartedly supporting their own 
oil company. 


Collect $141.75 For Mc- 
Lean County Service Co. 


The I. A. A. transportation division 
recently collected $141.75 in freight 
overcharges on 11 cars of petroleum 
products for the McLean County Serv- 
ice Company. “Had these freight bills 
covering the past year’s business not 
been sent in,” says G. W. Baxter, 
“very likely they would never have 
been collected. Other service com- 
panies have taken advantage of this 
I. A. A. service.” 


A, 0, VOELKEL 
He gets an early start. 


$42,187.62 to Farm Bureau members. 


Farmers’ Week at the 
World's Fair Begins Aug. | | 


A big farm parade and pageant 
down Michigan boulevard will in- 
augurate Farmers’ Week at the Fair 
beginning Saturday, August 11 at 
Chicago’s Century of Progress. 

As this is written, plans are under 
way for a full week of music, 
speeches and entertainment of par- 
ticular interest to farm people. Sat- 
urday, August 18, will be Farm Music 
Day, also IMinois Day. The Chicago- 
land musical festival will be held this 
day. The 10,000 troops of the Illinois 
National Guard will be reviewed and 
hog calling, husband calling and other 
contests are being scheduled. 

Three times during Farmers’ Week 
there will be displays of fireworks. On 
Monday — Farm Organization Day — 
Under Secretary of Agriculture, Rex- 
ford Tugwell, has been formally in- 
vited to speak. Tuesday will be Farm 
Radio Day with special WLS pro- 
grams in the Hall of States. Farm 
Women’s Day, Farm Youth Day and 
Farm Press Day will follow in order, 
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. 

Among the new features of the Fair 
this year are Henry Ford’s exhibit, 
displays by packers, including Swift, 
Armour, Wilson and Libby-McNeill. 
The success of the Belgian village last 
year resulted in a whole flock of new 
villages, several of which are very at- 
tractive. 


The Danville Milk Producers Asso- 
ciation recently tendered 5,000 shares 
of “B” stock to the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association. It was accepted 
by the I. A. A. board at their meet- 
ing on July 138. 


The people of the United States are 
paying life insurance premiums at 
the rate of almost $10,000,000 a day. 


I. A. A. RECORD 


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Will Organize Skilled 
Auto Drivers Club 


Due to the 41 per cent increase in 
auto accidents to drivers under 20 
years of age, especially in rural areas, 
the Safety Division of the Illinois 
Agricultural Association directed by 
V. Vaniman and A. E. Richardson 
plans to form a Skilled Drivers Club 
composed of sons and daughters of 
Farm Bureau members. All members 
of the club will be under 20 years of 
age. The purpose of the club is to 
unite in one group those younger 
drivers who can pass a stiff ex- 
amination. 

The committee has divulged a few 
of the rules and rewards of member- 
ship. The Skilled Drivers Club will 
be further augmented by a Junior 
Skilled Drivers Club for youngsters 
from 9 to 14 years old. A series of 
examinations will be worked out, to 
be given by the County Farm Bureau 
and its Accident Prevention Com- 
mittee. Upon completion and passing 
the tests, the applicant will be ad- 
mitted to membership and given an 
active members badge. Membership 
will be limited, and thus the badge 
will be a mark of distinction. It is 
further planned to hold lectures and 
gatherings of many kinds for mem- 
bers. 

The National Safety Council recent- 
ly disclosed that one in every 25 
drivers under 20 years of age have a 
fatal accident. This is a 41 per cent 
increase over the 1921 figures for all 
drivers. In marked contrast to the 
youthful fatalities were the figures 
for drivers between 30 and 39 years 
of age, who had one fatal accident for 
every 37 operators of automobiles. 
The need for education of the younger 
drivers is very apparent, and the 
Safety Division has great hopes that 
the Skilled Drivers Club will be a 
factor in reducing the number of 
accidents now on the increase in rural 
areas. 

The County Farm Bureaus and the 
county accident prevention com- 
mittees will be supplied with com- 
plete information, registration blanks, 
etc. 


|. A. A. Annual Meeting 
To Be Held in Quincy 


Quincy gets the next annual meet- 
ing of the I. A. A. This decision was 


reached at the June meeting of the 


I. A. A. Board after a report by 
Secretary George E. Metzger and 
Treasurer Robert A. Cowles to the 
effect that the three cities receiving 
the most votes at the May meeting 
were qualified to take care of the con- 


AUGUST, 1934 


vention. The meeting will be held 
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 
January 29, 30 and 31, 1935. 

The motorists association of Quincy 
has agreed to provide free transporta- 
tion from the hotels to the various 
meeting places located several blocks 
away or more where the general ses- 
sions and annual banquet will be held. 

The Quincy Co-operative Milk Pro- 
ducers Association will supply all 
dairy products, and roast beef for the 
banquet will be provided by 4-H Club 
baby beef calves in Adams county. 


Investigate Illinois 
Emergency Relief 


Senator Louis O. Williams of Clin- 
ton, chairman of the committee of 
legislators investigating the Illinois 
Emergency Relief Commission, re- 
cently disclosed, according to press re- 
ports, that the Commission had 
doubled its payroll from 4,161 em- 
ployees to 8,971 since January, 1933. 
Most of this money is being spent in 
Cook county. 

Senator Williams was extremely 
critical of the manner in which the 
Commission is spending vast sums of 
money. 

“It is difficult for the people of the 
state to understand why it costs 10 
per cent to distribute public funds in 
relief work,” said Mr. Williams. 

“Knowing something of the tem- 
perament of the Illinois legislature I 
am satisfied it will be impossible to 
get the legislature to pass a third 
state emergency relief bond issue 
next January. 

“We are spending vast sums of 
money for relief. But we have just 
about reached the limit in raising 
funds by taxation in [llinois.” 


Hunters Must Buy Stamps 


Hunters of wild ducks, geese, and 
other migratory waterfowl are now 
required to buy a federal hunting 
stamp costing $1.00 annually. The 
stamps (good in any state) can be 
purchased at any post office in the 
county seat and are usually attached 
to the state hunting license. The 
stamp tax will be used to increase the 
supply of waterfowl. 


Federal game wardens report that drought has 
starved and limited normal reproduction of 
millions of waterfowl. 

Wild rice, common food of wild ducks and 
geese, failed to grow when northern swamps 
and lakes dried up in this country and Canada, 


Farm real estate taxes in 1932 
throughout the United States averaged 
89 per cent higher than they did in 
1913. Farm taxes reached their peak 
in 1929 when they were at 241 com- 
pared with 100 in 1913. 


Corn Loans Extended By 
Government To Sept. Ist 


Illinois farmers’ $30,000,000 of corn 
loans which were to mature August 1 
have been extended to September l. 
When he sells his corn, the owner 
gets the benefit of any excess money 
received over and above the loan, the 
interest due, insurance and other in- 
cidental charges. Prompt settlement 
after August 1 will be asked on loans 
secured by corn that is in poor con- 
dition or which is stored in poor cribs 
offering inadequate protection. 

Administration officials state that 
on July 1 nearly 383,000,000 bushels 
of corn were in storage on farms in 
states where loans were made. This 
includes all the major corn states. 
Approximately 256,532,000 bushels, or 
around two-thirds, is pledged under 
government loan agreement. Un- 
pledged corn decreased 64 per cent 
between April 1 and July 1 while 
pledged stocks decreased only about 
four per cent. 


If the market price of corn on 
September 1 is less per bushel than 
the loan amount per bushel, the bor- 
rower may dismiss his obligation by 
turning over to the Commodity Credit 
Corporation the number of bushels of 
corn originally stored, provided the 
loan agreement has been fulfilled and 
no misrepresentations were made in 
getting the loan. 


Cut in Rate On Pears 
Benefits Fruit Growers 


A reduction in freight rates on 
pears from Southern Illinois to Wis- 
consin, Upper Michigan, Minnesota, 
Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri 
has been secured by the I. A. A. 
transportation division. 

Prior to this adjustment, pears took 
fifth class while apples took 25% of 
first class. The same adjustment was 
asked on pears. Based on a shipment 
from Centralia to Minneapolis, the 
reduction is 18¢ per cwt. which, on a 
24,000 pound car, amounts to a sav- 
ing of $43.20, reports G. W. Baxter. 

The average movement into this 
territory during normal times is 
around 500 cars and the average re- 
duction will amount to a little more 
than $30 a car, a savings of $15,000 
a year. These rates become effective 
August 1, in time for this year’s 
movement, 


Note: Over a_ period of 15 years the 
I, A, A, transportation department has removed 
innumerable rate discriminations, gained con- 
cessions, collected claims which have saved IIli- 
eat farmers hundreds of thousands of dollars.— 

or, 


17 


Soft Ball League Is 
Organized in Randolph 


Randolph County Farm Bureau re- 
cently organized a soft ball league of 
12 teams. A schedule of games has 
been worked out beginning July 21 
and running until September 29. 
Teams are open to both men and 
women. 

Eligible are Farm Bureau members 
and members of their families, or 
hired men employed for at least six 
months. 

Future games with teams from 
Sparta and Chester will be played on 
lighted diamonds later in the season. 
County manager of the league is 
Leonard Schoenberger of Sparta. His 
assistant, Russell Graham, is general 
insurance agent. Each community has 
a manager and these men make up 
the soft ball committee. 


Personal 


Married. Murl Tascher, assistant 
farm adviser, Cook county to Helen 
Lindquist of the I. A. A. (treasurer’s 
office) at Forrest; Arthur Johnson, 
assistant adviser, Marshall-Putnam 
county to Faye Dickerson of Nepon- 
set; Harold Wright, son of I. A. A. 
Vice-president A. R. Wright to Ger- 
trude Dickerson, sister of Faye, in a 
double wedding at Neponset. 

Wilbur H. Coultas is employed as 
farm supervisor for John Hancock 
Life Insurance Co. Headquarters 
Bloomington. 

W. G. McCormick, former secretary 
Douglas County Farm Bureau and 
secretary-director of Soybean Mar- 
keting Association, is looking after 
farms up and down eastern Illinois 
for Equitable Life Assurance Society 
of New York. 


New Farm Advisers: Geo. B. 
Whitman who has farmed in Warren 
county since graduation from the Uni- 
versity of Illinois more than 15 years 
ago, succeeds E. D. Walker as ad- 
viser in Henderson. J. L. Stormont, 
former ag. teacher at Aledo, more re- 
cently manager of Tri County Oil Co. 
succeeds J. H. Hughes as adviser in 
Moultrie. 


Sand-blasting is now being used on 
the Pacific Coast to clean dirty eggs. 
A sand-blasted egg will keep almost 
as well as before. 


Farm purchasing power during 1933 
averaged 58 compared with 100 from 
1909 to 1914. The index number for 
June 1924 was 63. 


18 


Big Shortage of 
Horses and Mules 


Many farmers will find it to their 
advantage to allow horse and mule 
colts to utilize pasture and hay made 
available by shifting from cultivated 
crops to pastures and meadows, ac- 
cording to the U. S. Dept. of Agri- 
culture. 


The number of horses and mules in 
this country has declined rapidly for 
15 years. Even last year there was a 
decline of 358,000 work animals, leav- 
ing only 16,873,000 head on January 
1, 1984 compared with more than 26,- 
000,000 head of horses and mules in 
1919. In 1919 there were 1,588,000 
horses and mule colts raised on 
American farms—in 1932 only 531,000, 
not nearly enough for normal replace- 
ment needs. 


How Australia Brought 
About Business Recovery 


C. Hartley Grattan, writing on “Has 
Australia Recovered” in the New Re- 
public says: “The Australians are 
in an optimistic mood once more. 


Every traveler coming from that 


distant land has some excited words 
to say about the rise in wool 
prices and the exhilarating effect it 
will have upon Australian life. Nat- 
urally the Australians do not claim 
personal credit for this price increase. 
They know that it is the result of 
world factors and not the successful 
outcome of any particular recovery 
measure of the Commonwealth gov- 
ernment. None the less, the beneficial 
effects of the higher wool prices would 
not be so great as they are if it had 
not been for just such policies put 
through by the Australian people 
themselves. . . . Australian recovery 
was engineered by class collaboration. 
It was accomplished by a complicated 
series of technical financial measures, 
including a devaluation of the Austra- 
lian pound in terms of sterling, an all- 
round reduction of interest charges on 
public debt through conversion and 
on private debt through legislative ac- 
tion (to prevent overconcentration of 
the national income in the hands of 
holders of fixed-interest obligations), 
a lowering of the tariff and a deter- 
mined effort to balance governmental 
budgets without cutting too deeply in- 
to the social services. The budget sav- 
ings were increased by eliminating 
duplicating functions of the Common- 
wealth and the states and by a 10 
percent cut in wages through court 
action....” 


Farm Hands Don't Need 


Chauffeur's License 


Farm employees who occasionally 
drive a motor truck for their em- 
ployers are not required to take out 
a chauffeur’s license, Attorney Gen- 
eral Kerner has ruled. “In my 
opinion, where a farmer has a man 
hired to do regular farm work, not 
employed regularly as an operator of 
a truck but merely operates it as in- 
cidental to other farm work, such 
employee is not required to have a 
chauffeur’s license,” said the Attorney 
General in a recent letter to Walter 
McLaughlin, director of the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. 


Several farmers reporting that 
their hired men were being picked up 
by state highway policemen and 
asked to show their chauffeur’s li- 
cense, appealed to the I.A.A. for ad- 
vice. The Legal Department re- 
ferred the matter to the State Di- 
rector of Agriculture who relayed it 
to the Attorney General. 


Milk License Hearings 


Members of the McLean County 
Milk Producers Association voted un- 
animously to apply for a licensing 
program for the Bloomington milk 
market. As we go to press hearings 
are being arranged for various down- 
state milk markets where AAA rep- 
resentatives will take evidence on the 
question of licensing. Cities being 
considered are Bloomington, Peoria, 
Decatur, Danville, Rockford, Quincy, 
Champaign-Urbana. J. B. Countiss 
and Paul G. Mathias of the I. A. A. 
will attend the hearings to assist in 
presenting evidence for organized 
producers. 


Ship Alfalfa Hay Into 


Northern Illinois Counties 


Large quantities of alfalfa and 
clover hay have been purchased by 
Farm Bureaus, Pure Milk Associa- 
tion and individual farmers for feed- 
ing dairy cows in the drouth stricken 
northern Illinois counties. 


E. C. Foley, Boone County farm 
adviser, made a quick trip through 
central Illinois and located 37 car- 
loads of alfalfa in Shelby and Chris- 
tian counties early in June. This hay 
was on its way to Boone county by 
June 6, the first to be brought into 
the territory. Pure Milk Ass’n. shipped 
in several trainloads of alfalfa from 
Kansas for members, saving them sub- 
stantial amounts. As much as $25 per 
ton was paid for local supplies. 


I. As A. RECORD 


€. 


Coco.» The c”A 


Number 9 


SEPTEMBER, 1934. 


ve A Statement On 


~ Farm Bureau Benefits 


FARM Bureau member would like 

to have a concise statement pub- 

lished in the RECORD of the defi- 
nite benefits the American Farm Bureau 
Federation, the Illinois Agricultural As- 
sociation, and the County Farm Bureaus 
have brought, particularly to Illinois 
members. 


This is no easy job. To go back 
fourteen years and evaluate all the 
splendid a¢cémplishments of Farm Bu- 
reau members working together during 
this period is a difficult task. We can’t 
hope to cover the ground in a short re- 
view. Neither would we, in the field of 
legislation, for example, assume to take 
exclusive credit for all that has been 
done. It is natural to think of the re- 
cent achievements, which for the mo- 
ment seem most important, and overlook 
those which have come and gone, and are 
perhaps forgotten. 


Nevertheless, we shall attempt to set 
down certain fundamental achievements 
which the Farm Bureau, county, state, 
and national—one or the other, or all 
three—can justly take pride in. 


1. Agricultural Adjustment Act—the 
result of the long fight waged by 
the Farm Bureau for the “equal- 
ization fee” principle—an American 
price for American farm products. 
First credit must go to the opera- 
tions of this law in all its ramifi- 
cations for the tremendous gains 
experienced since corn was 10c per 
bu., hogs 2c to 3c, wheat 40c, cattle 
4c to 5c, cotton 5c, etc. 


2. Corn Loan Program—added from 
10 to 15c per bu. immediately (last 
November) to the farm price of 
corn. Made it possible for Illinois 
farmers owning nearly 70 million 
bu. of sealed corn to take advan- 
tage of a price rise of from 20 to 
30c per bu. All made possible be- 
cause the I. A. A. wrote and se- 
cured passage of Illinois farm stor- 


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age act years ago. 

3. Corn-hog program — Mid-west 
Farm Bureaus led by Henry Wal- 
lace and Earl Smith worked to- 
gether to include these commodities 
in the Act. Reduced hog numbers 
and corn acreage sent prices up- 
ward long before the drought. Made 
possible millions in corn-hog checks 
now coming into [llinois. 

4, Wheat Adjustment Plan—Definitely 
put several million dollars extra 
into the pockets of Illinois wheat 
growers on the 1934 crop in addi- 
tion to the benefit payments to con- 
tract signers. The drought stim- 
ulated prices, also reduced yields. 

5. Milk licenses and codes—made pos- 
sible by the Adjustment Act have 
raised fluid milk prices in city milk 
sheds, also increased condensery 
and cheese factory prices. 

6. Revaluation of Gold and Silver— 
resulted in depreciating the value 


7. 


ois Agricultural Association 
RECORD 


Volume 12 


of our currency abroad which stim- 
ulated foreign buying and price im- 
provement. The Farm Bureau has 
been an outstanding champion of 
monetary devaluation to lift the un- 
just burden from the debtor class. 
Farm Debt Refinancing — provided 
for in the Adjustment Act with 
more liberal appraisals of farm 
property and several hundred mil- 
lions additional loans. Section 175 
of Bankruptcy Act sponsored by 
Farm Bureau opened the way for 
extending and scaling down debts 
of those hopelessly involved. 

Tax reductions and property tax 
replacement—The I. A. A. has been 
the one organization in _ [Illinois 
that for 14 years has continuously 
fought for lower farm taxes—and 
got results. It is responsible for the 
principle of “property tax replace- 
ment” which made the sales tax a 
“replacement” tax since Jan. 1. 
Hard Roads from Gas Tax—tThe I. 
A. A. throughout its life time has 
fought for improved farm-to-mar- 
ket roads built out of motor license 
fees and gas taxes, not out of 
property taxes as in some states. 
The I. A. A. was influential in pass- 
ing the gas tax against powerful, 


VANCE TOWNSHIP CORN-HOG COMMITTEE ATR WORK IN VERMILION COUNTY, ILLINOIS, 


Left to right: M. J, Tithe; W. N. Catlett (chairman), I. W. Rowand, Miss Theora Catlett, Miss Catlett, 
18 years old, has worked with her father in all stages of the corn-hog program, 


Entered as 


organized opposition. 

10. Co-operative Marketing—The Farm 
Bureau is responsible for organiz- 
ing most of the large Producer 
commission associations which put 
the farmer’s voice and bargaining 
power effectively into the terminal 
markets, battling for better prices, 
saving millions in commissions. 
Similarly have grain, milk, cream, 
fruit and vegetable, soybean and 
other co-operatives been set up to 
help farmers get all the market 
affords for their products. 

11. Organized Buying—The Farm Bu- 
reau organized the 56 county serv- 
ice companies operating in Illinois, 
also the Illinois Farm Supply Co. 
which have been paying patronage 
dividends of close to $500,000 an- 
nually for the past three years. 
Most members save more than their 
annual dues from this service alone. 
Serum and other supplies of uni- 
form high quality purchased co- 
operatively. 

12. Insurance-farmer owned and con- 
trolled—lIllinois farmers have the 
most complete insurance service, 
life, automobile, fire, hail, and 
windstorm, which they own and 
control, of any state. These co- 
operative companies have millions 
in assets, save huge sums annually 
to their policy-holders. All made 
possible by the Farm Bureau. 


The development of the co-operative 
principle in all lines of endeavor in this 
state has been amazing during the past 
10 years. Yet with few exceptions, the 
hundreds of associations and companies 
established have thrived and are operat- 
ing soundly rendering a greatly appre- 
ciated service. 

In the 12 points outlined above are 
included only the more prominent ac- 
complishments of organized Illinois 
farmers working with Farm Bureau 
members, in national activities, in other 
states. . 

The splendid record of achievement of 
the County Farm Bureaus and the state 
extension service of the University of Il- 
linois in making farm production effi- 
cient, in improving soils, crops, and live- 
stock requires a separate article to do 
it justice. 

In perhaps no other trade organization 
in America does the member receive so 
much for so nominal a fee—only $15 a 
year—as in the Farm Bureau and Illinois 
Agricultural Association. 

For this reason, and no other, the I. 
A. A. and its many associated com- 
panies is regarded as the largest trade 
organization in America. 


Look over these benefits listed above and tell us 
if we have missed some which you think should 
have been included. A check for $5 goes to the 
member writing the best letter (not over 250 words) 
on the subject ‘‘The Farm Bureau Service I Most 
Appreciate.’’ Deadline Sept. 15.—Editer. 


4 


WHEN SPEAKER HENRY T,. RAINEY ADDRESSED MORE THAN 8,000 FARMERS AT PEORIA CALLED 
by the I, A. A, in November, 1933, to i gp federal corn loans, His funeral on August 22 attended by 


President Roosevelt and many other 


es centered nation-wide attention on Carrollton, Greene county 


digni 
seat, where the Speaker resided throughout his lifetime on his 500 acre farm. 


Speaker Rainey Mourned 


The farmers of Illinois and the nation 
are grieved at the sudden death of the 
Honorable Henry T. Rainey, Carrollton, 
Illinois, Speaker of the House of Repre- 
sentatives. In Speaker Rainey, farmers 
had an_ outstanding champion who 
smoothed the way for important agri- 
cultural legislation sponsored by the 
Farm Bureau and passed during the last 
session of congress. 


His distinguished figure and kindly 
personality was a familiar one at many 
I. A. A. and County Farm Bureau meet- 
ings and picnics. Throughout his long 
and useful career he stood staunchly for 
measures to promote farm welfare. 


A native of Greene county, he repre- 
sented the 20th district since the turn 
of the century, being defeated only once 
in 1920 during the Harding landslide. 
He was a close friend of President Ear] 
C. Smith, a resident of the same district. 
For many years he had been a member 
of the Greene County Farm Bureau and 
the I. A. A. His office was always open 
to Farm Bureau representatives in 
Washington. 


Representative Rainey was the oldest 
man in point of service in congress. His 
death at 74 years came unexpectedly 
after a brief illness from bronchial pneu- 
monia in DePaul hospital, St. Louis 
where reports indicated he was recover- 
ing. 

The Speaker lived on and operated a 
500 acre farm where he maintained a 
herd of purebred Holstein cattle. 
Throughout his service in congress Mrs. 
Rainey acted as his adviser. His pass- 
ing means that agriculture has lost a 
powerful friend in the highest councils 
of the nation. 


Everybody is ignorant — only about 
different things.—Will Rogers. 


J. L. Whisnand, Former 
|. A. A. Director, Dies 


John L. Whisnand, age 70, of Charles- 
ton, Coles county who represented the 
19th congressional district on the board 
of directors of the Illinois Agricultural 
Association from 1924-’29, died at his 
home in Charleston on August 15. He 
was buried August 17 at the cemetery 
in Ashmore. 


Mr. Whisnand 
taught school for 
several years in 
Coles county, and 
while a young man 
was elected county 
superintendent o f 
schools. Later he be- 
came active in farm- 
ing to which he de- 

3 » voted most of his 
3. L. WHISNAND time. 

“One of Mr. Whisnand’s chief pleas- 
ures,” reports the Charleston Daily 
Courier, “was to remind his many friends 
of the five years he served as a member 
of the I. A. A. board, which, he said, 
meant more to him than his college and 
school days because of his wide contacts 
and associations which this office made 
possible.” 


He was a member of the I. A. A. pub- 
lic relations committee which studied the 
effects of township and community high 
schools on farm taxes. He served for 
27 years as president of the school 
board in his own city, and throughout 
his life was active in civic, church and 
local affairs. He is survived by Mrs. 
Whisnand, three brothers and two sis- 
ters. 


At its monthly meeting on August 17 
the I. A. A. Board adopted a resolution 
expressing sorrow and paying tribute to 
his years of useful service to the As- 
sociation. 


I. A. A. RECORD 


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- Danville Milk Producers 


~ Sell Direct to Consumers 


yn By J. B. Countiss 


OR several years there had been 
I cost dissatisfaction among milk 

producers supplying the Danville 
market about surplus milk, variations in 
weights and tests and the low net 
weighted price. For fluid milk repre- 
senting 40 to 50 percent of the supply, 
the dealers had been 
paying $1.75 per cwt. 
(3.8c per qt.) for 
4% or 44c per lb. 
butterfat. They 
charged the con- 
sumer 10c per qt. 
The remaining 50 to 
60% was bought at 
flat butterfat prices 
or approximately 
80c per 100 lbs. (1.7c 
per qt.) This was at 
the rate of about ducers Dairy and a 
20c per lb. butter- Sesskeatter ts —_ 
fat and even lower. omy noel ea, me 
Thus the weighted 
price received by 
producers was 32c 
per lb. butterfat or $1.12 per 100 lbs. 
for 3.5% milk. After deducting hauling 
charges of approximately 25c per cwt. 
the producers had left approximately 87c 
per 100 lbs., or about butterfat prices. 


Why Organized 


To change this situation, the Dan- 
ville Milk Producers Association was or- 
ganized with the help of the Illinois Ag- 
ricultural Association and the Vermilion 
County Farm Bureau to: | 

1. Bargain with distributors for a 

fair price. 

2. Check weights, tests and grades. 

3. Control surplus milk. 

4. Sell milk to distributors on a 

classified plan. 

5. Improve quality through field work 

among members. 

6. Promote milk consumption through 

joint dealer-producer advertising. 

Two hundred and twenty-two pro- 
ducers joined the Association. They rep- 
resented about 85 percent of the farmers 
supplying the market. Negotiations with 
the dealers to improve the market for 
producers were immediately launched but 
all were unsuccessful. In most cases 
the dealers refused to meet with the pro- 
ducers or even consider any kind of a 
proposition offered. Neither would they 
propose anything. Accustomed to buying 
milk from individual unorganized pro- 


BR, BR. BROOKWAL- 


man’’ by his friendly 
enemies. He has a 
herd of 75 purebred 
Guernseys, 


SEPTEMBER, 1934 


ducers on their own weights and tests, 
grade and price, the dealers apparently 
resented the producers organizing and 
inquiring as to why they should not have 
a reasonable share of the 10c per quart 
($4.60 per cwt.) the consumer paid; why 
farmers should not have the privilege of 
selling on their own weights and tests 
as the grocer and butcher does; why they 
should not check the use that is made 
of their milk since it was bought on a 
base and surplus plan. 

Although the distributors stubbornly 
refused to recognize or deal ‘with our 
organization, they did, however, recog- 
nize R. R. Brookwalter, president of the 
milk producers; Judge Allen, another 
producer; President Lenhardt of the Ver- 
milion County Farm Bureau, and 27 
others who were leaders in the organiza- 
tion of the co-operative. These pro- 
ducers were dropped immediately from 
the market, left without an outlet for 
their milk. 


To Sell Milk 


The Danville Producers Dairy was then 
organized on a capital stock basis and 
stock sold to producers. The purpose of 
the dairy is not to bargain for a price 
but to sell milk to consumers, to make 
a market for members thrown off by the 


mae aaey 


E, 0. KERBY, MANAGER OF ONE OF THE CASH 
and carry dairy stations, and Mrs, Kerby shown 
inside of their station, 


dealers, and let other members continue 
to sell to the distributors. 

Frank Botts was employed as manager 
and the Blue Banner Dairy was leased 
including building and equipment. Oper- 
ations started March 10th. Milk is 
pasteurized and bottled in gallon jugs, 
one-half gallon bottles and quart bottles 
and sold along with Prairie Farms But- 
ter, cottage cheese, cream and eggs thru 
a cash and carry system of milk de- 
pots. The price of milk is 7c per quart 
or 23c per gallon. Some of these depots 
are selling 80 to 100 gatons of fresh, 
pasteurized milk per day which is equa! 
to a good retail route. Seven milk de- 
pots are now in successful operation 
selling a complete line of dairy products. 

The dealers are now paying a flat 
price for milk and NO SURPLUS, but 


a eee 


ONE OF THE SANITARY, CASH AND CARRY STATIONS MAINTAINED BY THE DANVILLE PRODUC- 
ers Dairy Co. Notice the price schedule in front and the trim, business-like appearance of the building. Seven 
of these cash and carry stations are now operating in Danville selling a full line of Producers Dairy 


products, 


the producers report they get more 
money at our plant. The soundness of 
the plan and the tremendous possibilities 
of such a program in developing milk 
sales by producers organizations depend 
on the following points: (1) No delivery 
expense, (2) No collection expense, (3) 
No bad debts, (4) No bottle loss, (5) 
Personal contact with customer, (6) 
Minimum investment, (7) Increases con- 
sumption by narrowing spread. 


In to Stay 


The dealers have been erecting sta- 
tions across the street from the Pro- 
ducers and selling milk for 7c but this 
activity has only increased the Producers 
business. The customers know what’s 
back of the program of “Cities Dairies,” 
as the dealer-owned stations are called. 
They are attempting to squeeze out the 
farmer-owned stations. 


The Danville Milk Producers Associa- 
tion was organized to bargain for a fair 
deal with the distributors. The distribu- 
tors refused to bargain so the Producers 
Dairy with a cash and carry system was 
organized not to bargain but to sell milk, 
not because they wanted to go into busi- 
ness but because they were forced to. 
Now they like it and are in business to 
stay. 


Producers Creameries 
Have Federal Inspection 


Illinois Producers’ Creameries was es- 
tablished for just one reason—to get 
more money into the pockets of its mem- 
bers. More money for the producer is 
being secured by producing a_ higher 
quality butter and giving the farmer the 
profits in processing and distributing. 
The consumer is willing to pay more 
money for Prairie Farms butter because 
it tastes better. Prairie Farms is better 
butter because it is made in modern, 
sanitary, co-operative plants from higher 
quality cream. The cream is of higher 
quality because it is picked up twice 
weekly at 5,000 Illinois farms by co-op- 
erative trucks and churned while fresh. 


78 Truck Routes 


Illinois Producers’ Creameries in the 
short space of 15 months has established 
a better system of butterfat procure- 
ment thru a network of 78 truck routes 
now serving producers in 34 counties. 
Approximately $25,000 extra was re- 
turned out of profits, to producers dur- 
ing their first year of operation. In ad- 
dition, the general price level of butter- 
fat was raised nearly 2c in territories 
served by cooperative plants. 


Again Illinois Producers’ Creameries 
took the lead in the production of high 
quality butter when on July 15th Fed- 
eral and State butter inspection was 


‘‘PRAIRIE FARMS’’ IS THE BUTTER THAT 
must please. To insure its uniform high quality, 
government inspection was initiated recently in 
co-operative plants where it is made, 


Above government inspectors are looking at sam- 
ple in plant of Farmers’ Creamery Company, Bloom- 
ington. Frank A, Gougler, J. B, Countiss and For- 
rest Fairchild in background, 


started in all of its plants. Arrange- 
ments were made with Roy C. Potts, 
specialist of the Division of Dairy & 
Poultry Products, U. S. Department of 
Agriculture, to provide an official Fed- 
eral-State butter inspector who grades 
and scores every pound of Prairie Farms 
butter manufactured in these co-opera- 
tive plants. 

As soon as it is churned federal cer- 
tificates of quality will then be issued for 
each car before it leaves the plant for 
the market in Illinois Producers’ Cream- 
eries’ refrigerator cars. Each tub will 
be marked with the emblem similar to 
the Prairie Farms butter.carton so that 
any buyer can buy this butter with con- 
fidence and know it is uniformly good 
regardless of where made. 


Issue Certificate 


Prairie Farms butter sold in cartons 
in most down-state towns will contain 
“certificates of quality” issued by the 
Federal Government only after the high 
standards of quality which allow their 
use have been met. Each certificate will 
be dated so that the consumer can tell 
exactly when the butter was churned. 
This not only assures the housewife high 
quality butter but also guarantees her of 
its freshness and purity. During the first 
six months of 1934, 30% cars of Prairie 
Farms butter was sold to hotels, stores 
and restaurants in Illinois in competition 
with scores of other brands which plainly 
shows that consumers appreciate its high 
quality. 

Farmers can increase their cream 
checks by producing higher quality cream 
and marketing it through their own co- 
operative creamery. Demand for our but- 
ter is constantly increasing and more 
quality cream is needed to take care of 
our customers. 


Cite Two Creameries 
For Unfair Prices 


Salt Lake Butter Manufacturers 
Investigated for Discrimination 


Two Salt Lake City creameries are be- 
ing investigated by David F. Smith, Utah 
Commissioner of Agriculture, on charges 
of alleged discrimination on the price be- 
ing paid to producers. The charge alleges 
that the creameries are paying Utah 
farmers 19 and 20c a pound for butter- 
fat while Idaho producers are being paid 
23 and 24c, and in many cases the cream- 
eries are absorbing the freight charges. 
A federal investigation of the charges 
has also been asked by Gus. P. Backman, 
Utah Code Administrator. 

Commissioner Smith has stated that 
if the discriminatory practices occurred 
within the border of the state the man- 
agement of the companies concerned are 
liable to a heavy fine and a jail sentence. 

It is thought that the investigations 
against the two local companies will re- 
sult in a sweeping probe of the buying 
of cream within the state. The Commis- 
sioner has asked the head of the Idaho 
State Board of Agriculture for his as- 
sistance in stamping out manipulation of 
fat prices.—The Dairy Record (July 25, 


1934). 


An old trick, well known to Illinois farmers, is 
the practice of some private creameries of buying 
cheap in communities where cream producers are 
not organized, and paying above the market in 
other sections to kill off cream pools or co-op. 
creameries,—Editor, 


Producers Creameries 
Gain Despite Drought 


In spite of the drouth the Producers’ 
Creamery of Peoria reports a nine per 
cent gain in volume of butter manufac- 
tured during May, 1934, over the volume 
manufactured for the same month in 
1988. June, likewise, showed a slight 
gain over June of last year although IIli- 
nois creameries generally had their vol- 
ume reduced around 25 per cent this 
year compared with last. 

The Producers’ Creamery now has ap- 
proximately 25 per cent of the retail 
butter business in Peoria. Many of the 
best stores, restaurants and hotels now 
use Prairie Farms Butter exclusively. 

The Producers’ dairy is also manufac- 
turing large quantities of ice cream mix 
and cottage cheese. Similarly, the Farm- 
ers Creamery Co. at Bloomington has 
made rapid strides since its opening 


more than a year ago. 


The chief value of co-operative creameries, aside 
from returning farmers the profits in processing 
and distributing, is in forcing private buyers to 
pay farmers what their cream is worth. All pro- 
ducers, of course, benefit from this service.—Editor. 


An all-time heat record for the middle 
west and southwest was set during July 
and early August. 


I. A. A, RECORD 


E age-old battle of the milk pro- 
ducer in his efforts to gain a fair 
share of the consumer’s dairy dollar 

was re-enacted at a series of hearings 
sponsored by the AAA held at Peoria, 


Rockford, Champaign, Bloomington, 
Danville, Decatur and Benton during Au- 
gust. 


Chief Examiner for the federal Ad- 
justment Administration was Harry C. 
Cook, assisted by J. T. Flythe, govern- 
ment attorney; George Irvine, economist; 
Daniel M. Dent of the Consumers’ Coun- 
cil; and F. S. Milberg, official reporter 
for the National House of Representa- 
tives who took down testimony and evi- 
dence. 

At Peoria where the Roszell Bros. are 
reported to have told so-called “inde- 
pendent” milk producers that they would 
lose their market unless they oppose a 
government license, a warm two-day ses- 
sion was held. On the opening morning 
the Red Room of the Jefferson Hotel, 
hot and stifling, was packed with pro- 
ducers who overflowed into the corridors 
long before the opening of the meeting 
at 9:30 A. M. 


“Independent” Badges 


Bystanders stated that Roszell’s had 
organized the “Independents” and pro- 
vided trucks to haul them to the meet- 
ing from points as distant as Pontiac, 
more than 50 miles away. Wearing large 
badges labeled “Independent” these pro- 
ducers who plainly had been misinformed 
filled the front seats at the opening ses- 
sion. 

By the end of the day the “Independ- 
ents” were a disillusioned lot of pro- 
ducers who realized they had been duped, 
that there was nothing in the proposed 
license to bar their milk from the Peoria 
market. The badges were conspicuous by 
their absence the second day. 

Witnesses who appeared for the Peoria 
Producers Dairy, representing the or- 
ganized milk producers in the territory, 
were: President Ryland Capron, Man- 
ager Wilfred Shaw, Secretary John Ha- 
genstoz, ‘Albert. Hayes, president of the 
Peoria County Farm Bureau, and oth- 
ers. Donald Kirkpatrick and Paul 
Mathias of the I. A. A. legal department, 
J. B. Countiss, dairy marketing director, 
and George Thiem, director of informa- 
tion, attended the hearing. 

Attorneys Heyl and Bradley repre- 
sented the Roszell Dairy and the Illinois 
Milk Dealers Association which seemed 
to be leading the fight against. the li- 
cense. Opposing witnesses were largely 


SEPTEMBER, 1934 


AAA License Hearings 


Milk Producers Seek Fair Prices Under Market Administrator 


local producers who had been given spe- 
cial consideration in prices for their milk. 

Officers of the Producers Association 
disclosed that farmers were getting a lit- 
tle more than $1 per cwt. as a net 
weighted average price for milk while 
dealers were charging the consumer 10 
cents a quart. Organized producers are 
asking for a Class I price of around $2 
per cwt., 92 score butter plus 20 per cent, 
plus 20 cents per cwt. for Class II, and 
approximately butterfat plus 10 cents for 
Class III. 


Attack Cooperative 


In cross-questioning President Capron 
of the Producers Dairy, Attorney Hey] 
for the distributors sought to attack the 
co-operative and shake the confidence of 
organized producers in their Association. 

Manager Shaw testified that much of 
the milk entering the Peoria market was 
manufactured into such products as but- 
ter, cheese, ice cream mix, etc., which 
entered interstate commerce. The dis- 
tributors’ attorney tried unsuccessfully 
to undermine this testimony. Shaw also 
stated that local distributors had shipped 
dairy products to St. Louis at the time 
of the strike there. 

The chief argument advanced by the 
distributors was that the milk license 
would disturb the market and that the 
government had no jurisdiction because 
their business was strictly intrastate. 
“This. market has been in a disturbed 
condition for several years,” said Albert 
Hayes, speaking for the producers, “‘and 
this meeting is a fair sample of what 
we’ve had to contend with.” He stated 
that many markets were now operating 
successfully under AAA milk-licenses 


which have been helpful in improving 
conditions for the producer. 

Archie McPhedran of Peru, president 
of the Mississippi Valley Milk Producers 
spoke briefly reviewing conditions at 
Peoria and other markets and pointing 
out the need at Peoria and other markets 
for narrowing the price spread between 
producer and consumer, 

Answering the question why the Pro- 
ducers Dairy was not able to pay more 
than the dealers for milk, Mr. Hayes 
stated that only 20 per cent of milk re- 
ceived by the Produeers Dairy goes in- 
to the fluid milk class which commands 
a premium, whereas nearly all of the 
milk purchased by other distributors 
goes into the fluid class which retails at 
10 cents per quart. 

At Rockford where distributors and 
producers have been getting on well un- 
der a contract which pays the farmer 
$1.85 per cwt. for all milk delivered, 
President Mainland and Manager Wilkie 
Lee of the Midwest Dairymen’s Company 
testified for the producers. They re- 
quested that the operation of a license 
be postponed for this market until the 
eccasion for its use arises. At Rockford 
the so-called “dip” stations on the out- 
skirts of the city, of which there are 
more than 30, opposed the license. Dis- 
tributors expressed the belief that the 
license was not needed at that market. 
Attorney Heyl also represented distribu- 
tors at Champaign. 


Will File Briefs 

As this is written, hearings have not 
been completed at all the markets men- 
tioned above. 

Briefs will be prepared by the various 
producer groups with the aid of the 
I, A. A. Legal and Dairy Departments at 
the cenclusion of the hearings and sent 
to the AAA Dairy Division at Washing- 
ton. It is believed that one market ad- 
ministrater will be capable of supervis- 
ing all or nearly all the downstate mar- 
kets when licenses are issued. 


PLANT, EMPLOYEES, AND DELIVERY TRUCKS OF THE QUINCY CO-OPERATIVE MILK PRODUCERS’ 
Association, Five snow-white trucks and eight wagons drawn by grey horses deliver a full line of 
dairy produets on each route, The Quincy Co-operative dairy has found it profitable to have clean and 
attractive vehicles. Every employee is given: a.medical examination twice a year. 


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AAA Must Be Retained 


NY effort by organized commission men, processors and 

their allies to ditch the Agricultural Adjustment Act 

and the principle of acreage control will be vigorously 
resisted by the organized thinking farmers of America. 

Crop adjustment machinery developed under the AAA must 
be retained. The drouth may temporarily make reduction of 
basic crops unnecessary. But until foreign markets are re- 
stored and domestic buying power improves, farmers know 
that they must plan their production or take the consequences 
in ruinous prices. Only an announcement of the possibility 
of abandoning acreage reduction next year was sufficient, re- 
cently, to send grain prices tumbling at the terminal markets. 
This fact is a complete answer to critics who attribute all of 
the gain in farm prices to the drouth. 

A simplified adjustment program through grain acreage 
control such as that outlined by President Smith heretofore 
in the RECORD, has met with the general approval of farmers 
wherever the proposal has been considered. Informed farmers 
will not surrender the most effective legislative weapon they 
have yet been-given to raise farm prices. The processing tax 
has been called the farmer’s tariff. More and more farmers 
are coming to appreciate the truth of this comparison. While 
the processing tax on hogs has not brought equal benefits to 


all hog growers, particularly to feeders, because of the im- 
perfections in the plan and difficulties in operating it, there 
is no question about the net benefits to the industry as a 
whole. Not only beef cattle but also mutton prices have been 
aided by the reduction in hog numbers. 

The Agricultural Adjustment Act has made a great con- 
tribution to the welfare of the farming industry despite some 
irritations resulting from initial efforts to operate so complex 
and colossal a program. The machinery it has developed must 
be continued, at least so long as American farmers are forced 
to do business under an economic system in which production 
and price control, price fixing and organized wage-fixing form 
such a large part. 


A Century of Progress 


HE Century of Progress Exposition reveals among other 
"Wthings a century of progress in piling up distribution 

costs. You can readily see why the farmer is getting such 
a small percentage of the consumer’s dollar. Mrs. Consumer, 
herself, whom the processors and distributors desire to please, 
in fact must please to get their share of the business, is 
largely responsible for higher-priced food and lower prices to 
the farmer. In the good old days, for example,-when farmers 
were getting half or more of the consumer’s pork dollar, 
bacon was bought by the piece or slab. Now it is carefully 
sliced, wrapped in half-pound and pound cellophane packages 
by pretty red-haired girls dressed in white, then placed in at- 


tractive cartons all printed up with beautiful trade names in 


colored ink. At the Fair, this process all looks very inter- 
esting. Great crowds stand around to watch the perform- 
ance. Then you remember that every operation adds to the 


cost of the finished commodity. And when consumer buying 
-power is down, as at present, those extra operations are 
charged back against the producer in a lower price for his 


livestock. So it is with many other farm products. 


A Chicago Leader Speaks 


AT many farmers get the wrong impression of the atti- 

| tude of city people toward agriculture from reading the 

metropolitan newspapers was intimated by Rufus C. 

Dawes, president of the Century of Progress Exposition, in 

his official welcome to the farmers of America at the opening 
of Farmers’ Week. 

“Chicago is prosperous when the farmers are prosperous,” 
said Mr. Dawes. “Business of Chicago lags when agriculture 
languishes. Business men of Chicago realize that farmers 
have taken every advantage of science; they have increased 
production per man and the production per acre. 

“The preblem of the distribution. and the sale of the prod- 
uct of the farmer is still unsolved, and it is a problem in which 
the welfare of the city is as much involved as that of the 
farmer. In the solution of this problem the men living in the 
cities have a greater responsibility than the farmer himself.” 

How different is this attitude from that so often shown 
by certain Chicago newspapers, speculators, and processors. 
A minority of voluble critics of farmers’ efforts at helping 
themselves have brought Chicago a lot of unnecessary ill will. 
We need to hear more from men like Mr. Dawes who really 
represent the group which has contributed most toward build- 
ing this great city. 

The past four years have demonstrated, as Mr. Dawes sug- 
gests, how dependent the city man is on the buying power 
of farmers. Lack of confidence is not nearly so important 
a factor in general prosperity as lack of a fair relationship 
between farm and non-agricultural prices. Business and 
employment have improved since 1932 largely because farm 
prices advanced enabling farmers to buy more factory prod- 
ucts. 


I. A. A. RECORD 


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Farm income this year will approxi- 
mate $8,250,000,000, a 29.3 per cent in- 
crease over 1933. This estimate is by 
Standard Statistics, not by the AAA. It 
includes crop adjustment benefits paid 
or scheduled to be paid between now and 
Jan. 1. This record is rather a com- 
plete answer to enemies of crop adjust- 
ment who criticise everything that is be- 
ing done to pull agriculture out of the 
mire. 


Secretary Henry A Wallace stopped 
in the office this morning (Aug. 21) for 
an informal visit and chat with officers 
and members of the I. A. A. staff. The 
tired, deeply lined and care-worn face 
many of us saw at Rockford the Sunday 
before, was completely changed. A lit- 
tle sleep and rest will do wonders for a 
normally healthy constitution. On his 
way east, the Secretary changed his 
plans to attend Speaker Rainey’s funeral 
at Carrollton and accompany the Presi- 
dent back to New York State. 


Henry Wallace’s mind, heart and soul 
are ‘wrapped up in the many-sided eco- 
nomic problems affecting the welfare 
of the country, and particularly agri- 
culture. His job undoubtedly is the 
heaviest of any cabinet member. Each 
commodity represents a different prob- 
lem. He is and must be well-versed in 
the broader phases, at least, of every 
production control and licensing program 
being administered. Secretary Wallace 
doesn’t discuss politics. He isn’t inter- 
ested in it except as it affects the work- 
ing out of solutions. He readily ad- 
mitted that he agreed with the _ sug- 
gestions of three prominent Republicans, 
Ogden Mills, Henry L. Stimson, and a 
coming possible Republican presidential 
candidate, that the tariff should be 
sharply cut on industrial products to al- 
low foreign goods -to enter this coun- 
try in exchange for surplus American 
farm products. 


But how to do it. Such a program, 
if energetically carried out so as to re- 
sult in heavy foreign buying of farm 
products‘and make acreage and crop con- 
trol unnecessary, would be far more 
radical than anything yet attempted by 
the present administration. Democrats 
as well as Republicans are sensitive 
about the tariff, Mr. Wallace said. Some 
progress will be made in this direction 
but to make drastic slashes at one fell 
Swoop would close up many industries 
and bring about a temporary maladjust- 
ment that would rock the country. “It’s 
surprising how many congressmen and 
senators a small industry employing not 


SEPTEMBER, 1934 


more than 500 people, perhaps, can mus- 
ter to their support when any lowering 
of the tariff is suggested,” the Secretary 
told his audience at Camp Grant. 


Processing taxes, alcohol-gas dilution, 
co-operative marketing, direct buying of 
livestock, corn-hog control, reclama- 
tion, taxes, Farm Bureau membership 
and many other questions were raised at 
our informal session. The Secretary 
thought Illinois farmers were doing rath- 
er well to maintain an organization of 
some 61,000 members. He was inter- 
ested in I. A. A. activities and the rec- 
ord of patronage dividends and services 
used kept in Secretary Metzger’s office 
for each member. He conceded that there 
would be a good deal of justification for 
reducing the processing tax on hogs and 
placing part of the burden on cattle and 
sheep since these classes of livestock 
have been benefited by the hog control 
plan. He pointed out that if hog prices 
go to parity, the processing tax auto- 
matically is eliminated under the AAA 
Act. 


It is likely that the processing tax will 
remain on hogs until November 1935. As 
hog receipts dwindle at the terminal 
markets more and more of the process- 
ing tax, it appears, is being passed on to 
the consumer. At this writing, hog prices 
plus the processing tax very nearly ap- 
proach parity. 


What is the attitude of the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture on reclamation 
projects? “There’s no question about 
our attitude,” he smilingly replied. “We 
expressed our opinion. The administra- 
tion plans to take out of production 
enough marginal land to compensate for 
the extra acres that will be brought un- 
der the plow. $25,000,000 has been ap- 
propriated already for this purpose. The 
irrigation projects, he continued, will not 
affect corn belt farmers so much as they 
will farmers now producing specialty 
crops in the irrigated area. They are the 
fellows who will be hurt.”—E. G. T. 


Corn Loan Repayments 
Million Dollars Daily 


Corn loans, which were made last win- 
ter and spring to mid-western farmers 
to the total of $120,647,500, were being 
repaid to the Government at the rate of 
more than a million dollars a day in 
mid-August although the maturity date 
for the loans some weeks ago was ex- 


. tended from August 1 to September 1. 


Officials of the Agricultural Adjustment 
Administration stated that $26,369,464.69 
had been received on Aug. 13, and that 
loans were being repaid at an increasing 


rate. 


The loan period was recently extended an addi- 
tional five months from September lst with the un- 
derstanding that the borrower must first offer his 
corn (at current market price) to the federal gov- 
ernment before sale.—Editor, 


Consider Sale Soybean Hay 
To Federal Relief Officials 


As we go to press considerable prog- 
ress has been made by the I. A. A. and 
Soybean Marketing Association toward 
rounding up supplies of Illinois soybean 
hay for the Federal Surplus Relief Cor- 
poration and other buyers from drouth 
areas. Most of the hay will be shipped 
to save livestock in the burned-out areas 
west of the Mississippi river. The soy- 
bean-growing coun- 
ties have been given 
hay allotments 
based on their acre- 
ages. Federal relief 
authorities have in- 
dicated their desire 
to purchase some- 
where between’ §50,- 
000 and 150,000 tons 
of Illinois soybean 
hay. 

President John W. 
Armstrong of the 


EARL C, SMITH 


Soybean Association, President Earl C. 


Smith and Treasurer Robert A. Cowles 
of the I. A. A. have been carrying on 
negotiations for several weeks with the 
idea of strengthening the market situa- 
tion for soybeans. With close to a 50 
per cent increase in acreage this year, 
the outlook for a reasonable price for 
soybeans was anything but favorable. 
Buyers were decidedly pessimistic. Then 
the possibilities of making’ hay out of a 
substantial percentage of the crop was 
presented by Mr. Smith and Mr. Arm- 
strong to meetings of soybean growers, 
and the entire market situation changed. 
Buyers began taking an entirely differ- 
ent attitude toward future prices. If 
growers take advantage of the opportu- 
nity to dispose of a substantial portion 
of the soybean crop in the form of hay, 
1984 soybean income promises to be 
greatly enhanced. 


John T. Smith, soybean grower of 
Champaign county, has been retained 
temporarily by the Soybean Association 
to contact growers and determine what 
response would be made to the plan. It 
is planned to provide hay inspection be- 
fore shipment. - Baled soybean hay of 
good quality, which is dry and free from 
weeds, will bring close to $15 per ton 
less handling charges at country points. 
A good field will yield one and one-half 
to two tons of hay per acre. 


The Pure Milk Association also has 
negotiated for substantial quantities of 
soybean hay for their members in the 
Chicago milk shed. Meetings of Central 
Illinois soybean growers and farm ad- 
visers were held during the State Fair, 
August 23-24 at the call of President 
Smith, to discuss the hay deal. 


A Good Day's Work at 
The Cook County Building 


John Macauley Says the Check For 
$227.15 Wasn’t Hard To Take 


Back in 1930 the Cook County High- 
way Department decided to widen 131st 
street, a country road in the southern 
part of the county. The project took 
approximately 17 feet additional right- 
of-way from the farm of John R. Ma- 
cauley, hale and hearty Scotchman who 
holds a membership in the Cook County 
Farm Bureau. 

Mr. Macauley sold his farm during the 
boom but the real estate men who bought 


it decided when land values went blooey, 
to deed the farm back to him. While in 
possession, the buyers generously gave 


the strip of land to the county, signing 
an,easement therefor. When Macauley 
got the farm back he tried to secure 
compensation for his land but nearly 
three years of effort proved fruitless. 


Checked the Records 


Finally a neighbor suggested that he 
appeal to the Illinois Agricultural As- 
sociation, which he did. G. W. Baxter of 
the I. A. A. went with Mr. Macauley to 
the Cook County Recorder’s office where 
after checking the plat and deed found 
that the parties who bought the farm 
had signed the easement after the land 
had been deeded back to Macauley. The 
original deed was taken and presented 
to the Cook County Highway Depart- 
ment as proof that compensation should 
be made to the present owner. A new 
appraisal was secured and on July 19 
Macauley received a check for $227.15. 


In a letter to the Cook County Farm | 


Bureau, member Macauley expressed his 
appreciation for the service as follows: 

“I am writing to thank you and the 
Illinois Agricultural Association for your 
help in getting settlement for right-of- 
way taken by the Cook County High- 
way Department bordering my farm on 
131st street. I had previously written 
several letters to different county of- 
ficials, but without getting any place to- 
ward a settlement. While talking to a 
Farm Bureau member one day he said: 
‘Why don’t you ask the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association to help you. The serv- 
ices of their claims division is free since 
you are a member of the I. A. A. and 
Cook County Farm Bureau.’ 


Pays to Belong 


“I wrote to the Illinois Agricultural 
Association and in a few days I received 
a letter from them signed by G. W. Bax- 
ter saying that he was ready to help me 
in any way he could. ... Mr. Baxter 
went with me to the County Building 
and from that time, which was early in 
January, up until today he has worked 


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JOHN R, MACAULEY 
Cook County Farm Bureau Member. 
‘I am convinced it pays to belong,’’ he says. 


hard and accomplished a settlement. 

“I am convinced that it pays to belong 
to the Farm Bureau. Anyone can get 
service enough to many times offset the 
amount of his dues, if he applies for it 
in the right way. John R. Macauley.” 

Lemont, Cook County, III. 


Tell Distress Debtors 
How To Secure Relief 


More than $100,000,000 of farmers’ 
debts in the United States have been ad- 
justed so that the loss of farms by debt- 
ors has been avoided, according to a re- 
port by the Farm Credit Administration. 
The Administration states that farm debt 
adjustment committees in 2,400 counties 
of 42 states have indicated their belief 
that success in adjusting debts between 
creditors and debtors had made it un- 
necessary in most cases for farmers to 
resort to bankruptcy under the Frazier- 
Lemke moratorium law. 

In Illinois, county debt conciliation 
committees report that debts were ad- 
justed for approximately 3,000 distressed 
farmers whose indebtedness totaled 
around $20,000,000. 

In many counties Farm Bureau leaders 
are members of the conciliation com- 
mittees establishec under the direction 
of Walter McLaughlin, director of the 
State Department of Agriculture. 


Recommended for Debtors 


At its last meeting in Springfield, the 
State Debt Conciliation Committee 
recommended the following procedure to 
distressed debtors for relief: 

1. Go to the county Farm Debt Ad- 

justment Committee and lay the 
problem before them with the idea 


Favors Limiting Service To 
Farm Bureau Members 


Our big co-operative creameries, one 
of which has paid back to member pa- 
trons more than a half million dollars 
in the last 10 years, have been an im- 
portant influence in maintaining Farm 
Bureau membership in their respective 
communities, L. L. Needler, secretary of 
the Indiana Farm Bureau, told delegates 
at the Midwest Conference in Chicago, 
August 15. 

In the districts where these co-oper- 
ative creameries have been operating, 
our County Farm Bureaus _ invariably 
have a strong membership, he said. 

Needler expressed the belief that Farm 
Bureau membership must not be neg- 
lected for the commercial services. ““We 
have to tie these services closer to the 
Farm Bureau,” he said, “or we’ll lose our 
membership. The Farm Bureau member 
is not going to continue, supporting his 
organization if the non-member gets 
just as much service as the member. It’s 
not right nor fair to extend benefits 
made possible by the Farm Bureau, to 
all farmers regardless of whether or not 
they are members.” 


of securing a voluntary adjustment 
with creditors. 

2 If the county committee cannot 
bring about an adjustment refer 
the problem to the county con- 
ciliation commissioner authorized 
under section 75 of the Federal 
Bankruptcy Act. Under this sec- 
tion, writtén and sponsored by the 
Farm Bureau, the commissioner has 
additional powers to make an 
agreement reached by the major- 
ity of creditors in number and 
amount, binding upon a minority. 

8. Failing to secure a voluntary set- 
tlement by either of these methods, 
the debtor may petition to become 
a bankrupt under the Frazier- 
Lemke amendment to the Bank- 
ruptcy Act. Under this Act the 
debtor may elect to remain on his 
farm for a period of five years 
under the control of the Federal 
court. To remain on the farm, 
however, he must pay rent fixed 
by the court, and the taxes. 

In Illinois a number of county debt ad- 
justment committees have been active in 
settling a large percentage of the cases 
brought before them. In some counties 
very little has been done. It is generally 
known that unnumbered creditors and 
debtors have made their own adjust- 
ments without resorting to outsiders. In 
such instances loans have usually been 


extended and interest rates modified. 


Careful reading of the Frazier-Lemke amendment 
reveals that it is largely a moratorium bill. No 
scaling down or interest reduction is compulsory. 
Creditors must first consent to such action before 
anything can be done, A debtor must be bankrupt 
before he can get any relief under the law.—Editor. 


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ADVERTISEMENTS 


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Secretary Wallace at 


No. Illinois Gathering 


NE of the largest outdoor gather- 
ings ever held in Illinois was spon- 
sored by the Winnebago Farm Bu- 

reau at Camp Grant, Rockford, on Au- 

gust 19 where Secretary of Agriculture 

Henry A. Wallace was the honored 

speaker. 

Farm Bureau leaders and farm ad- 
visers from some 20 Northern Illinois 
and Southern Wisconsin counties joined 
in the celebration which drew a crowd 
estimated at 15,000 people. The meet- 
ing was given more than state-wide 
significance and importance by the pres- 
ence of many farm organization repre- 
sentatives and officials including Edward 
A. O’Neal, president of the American 
Farm Bureau Federation; Earl C. Smith, 
president of the I. A. A.; C. V. Gregory, 
editor of Prairie Farmer; Dr. W. L. 


Burlison, acting dean of the State Col- 


lege of Agriculture; Walter W. Mc- 
Laughlin, State Department of Agricul- 
ture; H. A. deWerff, president State As- 
sociation of Farm Advisers in addition 
te local business and civic leaders. 


200 At Dinner 


Nearly 200 men attended the dinner 
to the Secretary of Agriculture in the 
Faust Hotel at noon where Barney 
Thompson, editor of the combined Rock- 
ford newspapers gave a brilliant address 
of welcome to the Secretary and other 
guests. 

George F. Tullock, president of the 
Winnebago County Farm Bureau, and 
Farm Adviser Charles H. Keltner were 
masters of ceremony and did a very 
splendid job of carrying out the program 
of the day. Mrs. Tullock and Mrs. Kelt- 
ner were hostesses to some 25 or 30 vis- 
iting women at a dinner in another part 
of the hotel. 

Short talks were made both at the din- 
ner and at the afternoon meeting. “We’re 
glad we have a Secretary who knows 
how to grow good seed corn,” said Clif- 
ford Gregory in introducing Mr. Wallace 
at the dinner. 

In a brief inspiring talk President 
O’Neal emphasized the importance of 
national unity and the close relation that 
exists between the welfare of farmers in 
different sections of the country. 

In introducing Secretary Wallace at 
the big afternoon gathering President 
Earl C. Smith stated that no informed 
person denies the great benefits that 
have been brought to farmers under the 
Agricultural Adjustment Act. While the 
drought has disturbed the uniformity of 


SEPTEMBER, 1934 


application of measures that have been 
taken, he said, all real friends of agri- 
culture will fight to retain the principles 
in this legislation. He paid tribute to 
the leadership of Secretary Wallace in 
his efforts over many years to bring 
about effective legislation to cope with 
farm surpluses. 

The Secretary, careworn and showing 
the effects of his many responsibilities, 
spoke extemporaneously. He frankly 
laid bare the economic and _ political 
forces which created the present disorder 
and unemployment. “Agriculture,” he 
said, “is in the process of gaining some 
of the advantages made possible to in- 
dustry and labor by the corporation and 
effective organization.” 


Problem Not Solved 


The drought hasn’t solved our prob- 
lems by any means, said Mr. Wallace. 
There promises to be a shortage of live- 
stock next year and livestock farmers 
will probably get attractive prices. But 
there is still great danger ahead if we 
fail to study our markets and production 
figures, and if necessary cut acreage 
again. There will be nothing but dis- 
aster ahead, he continued, if we have av- 
erage weather and no control over acre- 
age in the next five years. We had 
short corn crops in 1930, 1931 and 1933, 
he pointed out. Yet in spite of this we 
overproduced livestock. 

Many people who oppose planned pro- 
duction forget that we have all but lost 
our foreign markets, and a substantial 
part of the domestic market for farm 
products since power farming has so 
largely replaced horses and mules. For 
the future he envisioned an economic 
democracy in which the different grcups 
and classes such as agriculture, labor, 
industry, etc., would have equal voice 
in working toward a more equitable dis- 
tribution of the national income. 

We have had political democracy for 
some time, he said. But economicaliy 
corporate setups have enabled certain 
groups to amass wealth at the expense 
of many who earned but did not get their 
fair share of national income. He ex- 
pressed the belief that we must first 
get rid of prejudice, fear and greed in 
working out solutions. All of these pre- 
vent rather than help to bring about 
what we are after, he said. 

What we hope to develop is not com- 
munism nor fascism but a national eco- 
nomic council in which men will sit down 
and work out their common problems 


HENRY A, WALLACE, Sec. of Agriculture. 


He knows how to grow good seed corn. 


with the government acting as referee. 

Answering the critics of regimentation, 
he pointed out that some people who 
handle farm products make a better liv- 
ing when there is a heavy production. 
Many of these are good folks but they 
see only their own problem, he said. They 
live on commissions and percentages, 
and any program which reduces volume 
and their income is abhorrent to them 
regardless of the price the farmer gets. 


Cotton Control Helps 


Emphasizing the importance to the 
corn-belt of cotton control in the south, 
the Secretary said that last year the oil 
in the cotton seed plowed under could 
have replaced the lard in approximately 
15,000,000 hogs. Cotton seed oil is a 
direct competitor of lard. Without cot- 
ton acreage control this year the south 
easily could have produced additional 
cotton seed oil to replace the lard from 
20,000,000 hogs. 

“An attempt might have been made 
eight years ago to balance the world 
economic situation,” he said. “Of course 
it would have been extremely difficult 
and unpopular politically. It would have 
meant taking about $700,000,000 annual- 
ly of foreign goods. Instead we loaned 
our debtors money and put off the evil 
day until 1930. We had to face this 
thing sooner or later. 

“We have picked up considerably dur- 
ing the last few years, however. We are 
getting more than 10 cents for our corn, 
40 cents for wheat, eight cents for to- 
bacco, two cents for hogs and six cents 
for cotton. Livestock has lagged behind. 
It always does. But eventually livestock 
farmers come into their own and some- 
times with a vengeance. 

“The change in the value of our dol- 
lar abroad has increased foreign de- 
mand and has helped certain farm prices. 

(Continued on page 16) 


Personal Property Tax 
In Chicago Vs. Country 


High Percentage of Rural Folk 
Pay Their Taxes 


The Chicago American of July 28th 
published an article on “Taxes in Farm 
Country,” from which it draws some un- 
warranted conclusions. 


Referring to the published personal 


property assessments in Alden, Dunham 
and Hartland townships, McHenry Coun- 
ty, the American comments in part as 
follows: 

“From a glance at the personal 
property assessments, we are in- 
clined to the conclusion that these 
McHenry County citizens—farmers 
with livestock and implements, busi- 
ness men with merchandise stocks, 
bankers, etc.—pay less in proportion 
to the wealth and population of the 
towns than the citizens of Chicago 
are paying under Assessor J. L. 
Jacobs.” 

The three townships to which the 
American refers are almost exclusively 
agricultural, all having a population of 
between 800 and 900 in 1930. Not one of 
them has an incorporated city, village or 
town. Alden township has a small unin- 
corporated town, also named Alden, a 
place of perhaps 100 people, the chief 
business houses of which are two stores, 
both of which are assessed and pay 
taxes on their stock of goods. Some of 
the families living in Alden are engaged 
In farming. Others, often aged, residing 
in Alden, or scattered here and there in 
the three townships, have~ gardens or 
small tracts of land, usually with poultry 


and some with a few livestock. There is | 


no bank in the three townships. 

The American further comments on 
the small number of citizens having per- 
sonal property assessments, which it 
gives as “less than 300” in Alden town- 
ship, “some 250” in Dunham township, 
and “180 assessments” in Hartland town- 
ship. All these estimates are unduly 
generous. Excluding corporations and 
counting all assessments against the 
same person as one assessment, the Al- 
den assessor listed 251 citizens. This is 
surely a high score for a township which 
had only 129 farmers in 1930, besides 
other residents, mostly in the small 
town of Alden. The assessors in the 
other two townships scored about as 
high. With no town, the Dunham assess- 
or, with only 165 farms, listed 225 citi- 
zens. Also with no town, the Hartland 
assessor, with 141 farms, listed 159 citi- 
zens. It is evident that the assessors 
missed no farm or non-farm residents. 
Has the Cook County Assessor done as 
well in listing the residents of the City 
of Chicago? 

It. is one thing to assess personal prop- 


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THE ENTERPRISING GROSSMANN BROTHERS, 
Oscar and Armin of the St. Clair County Farm 
Bureau, made use of the opportunity to put in 
some good licks for organization and the Farm 
Bureau at the Smithton homecoming attended by 
more than 2,500 people. 

Another float featured a horse and a pony hitched 


‘to an old buggy. The horse was labeled ‘‘Farm 


Bureau 1934’’—the pony ‘‘Farm Bureau 1927.”’ 


erty and another to collect the taxes 
thereon. It is still too early to say what 
proportion of the 1933 personal property 
taxes will be collected in McHenry Coun- 
ty. Of the 1932 personal assessments, 
28 are delinquent in Alden township, 28 
in Dunham township and 27 in Hart- 
land township. The _ percentage of 
assessment items which are delinquent 
varies between eleven and _ seventeen, 
mostly on the smaller amounts of taxes 
charged. The percentages are probably 
even smaller on the basis of the amounts 
charged. _ 

What are the facts in Chicago? While 
Assessor Jacobs is doing better than his 
predecessors, the county collector is do- 
ing a poor job of getting the money in 
on personal property assessments. Less 
than 30 per cent of Chicago people have 
been paying personal property taxes. 
Most Chicago residents are in the habit 
of tearing up their personal property tax 
bills or giving them to a neighbor poli- 
tician to be “fixed.” 


Secretary Wallace — 
At No. Illinois Gathering 


(Continued from page 15) 


Some of the folks who are against regi- 
mentation want to lower the tariff dras- 
tically to bolster up foreign purchasing 
power. Such men as Ogden Mills, Henry 
L. Stimson and another who may be a 
presidential candidate for the Republican 
party, have suggested that this be done. 
I agree with them. But how rapid can 
or should this be done? Democrats are 
just as sensitive about the tariff as Re- 
publicans. 


Must Centrol Acreage 


“If we greatly reduce the tariff and 
start importing large quantities of for- 
eign goods so foreigners can take our 
farm products it would mean a tre- 
mendous readjustment in many indus- 
tries. The way it looks to me we may 
have to continue for some years to cur- 
tail production. The farmer is getting a 


"Producers Day"’ Coming 
Watch For Announcement 


A state-wide “Producers Day” featur- 
ing livestock marketing at township and 
community meetings to be held simul- 
taneously in every county and commu- 
nity in Illinois is on the program for 
late September, probably the 27th or 
28th. 

The Livestock Marketing Department 
of the I. A. A. under the direction of 
Ray Miller is sponsoring the event in 
co-operation with the County Farm Bu- 
reaus, Producer Commission agencies, 
and I. L. M. A. 

Following the plan of last year, a 
radio program from WLS will be broad- 
cast during the evening. The unit meet- 
ings will tune in and have this broad- 
cast as a feature of the program. 

County meetings in charge of the 
County Farm Bureau livestock com- 
mittees will be held preliminary to “Pro- 
ducers Day” to plan for local meetings 
in the various townships and commu- 
nities. Accomplishments, problems, and 
future goals in co-operative livestock 
marketing will be reviewed and con- 
sidered. 

The effectiveness of cooperative organ- 
izations is to a great extent in propor- 
tion to the volume of the product han- 
dled. It is well recognized that volume 


handled by cooperatives is greatly de-_ 


pendent upon the extent to which pro- 
ducers of livestock, grain, butter-fat, etc., 
understand and appreciate the accom- 
plishments and possibilities of concerted 
action..in marketing farm products. 
Plans for the state-wide livestock “Pro- 
ducers Day” are designed to stimulate 
interest in cooperative marketing and to 
bring to the attention of producers the 
necessity of following up the production 
control program with equally  effec- 
tive co-operation in marketing farm 
products. - 


lot of pity because of this so-called regi- 


mentation, but just remember it is self- 
imposed. No farmer was forced to cut 
production. 

“Some people think it is sinful to re- 
duce acreage and livestock. Yet they 
seem to think it all right for industrial- 
ists to close their factories and throw 
people out of work. It’s more necessary 
that farmers control production than in- 
dustrialists. People can only eat about 
six bushels of food a year but everyone 
could use two automobiles if they were 
produced in unlimited numbers and sold 
relatively as cheaply as farm products. 


“If farmers don’t plan their production 
and regain their lost purchasing power 
our entire civilization is imperiled. We 
don’t want communism nor fascism but 
we do want a balanced economic order.” 


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Davis Puts Opponents 
Of AAA On the Spot 


Controlling Production Is Exactly 
How Others Maintain 
Prices, He Says 


N the best speech he has made since 

becoming administrator of the Ad- 

justment Act, Chester C. Davis put 
critics of the crop control program on 
the spot in a masterful discussion and 
review of 10 years efforts to solve the 
farm problem, on 
Farm Organization 
Day at the World’s 
Fair, Chicago, Aug. 
13. 


the partisan-dictated 
editorial policies of 
certain mid - west 
newspapers, partic- 
ularly the Chicago 
Tribune and Chicago 
News, Davis pointed 
out how they had 
criticized both the equalization fee plan 
and later the Farm Board program be- 
cause “they provided no means of pro- 
duction control.” 

“Today the farmers are cooperating to 
that very end,” the AAA chief declared, 
“and doing a good job of it. The: pro- 
ducers of the major crops are organized 
as they never were before. You:‘would 
think, wouldn’t you, that these critics 
would welcome the present program as 
right down their alley? But no, they 
don’t like the way the farmers are doing 
it, and the way the program is being 
financed. Maybe in time a program can 
be evolved to suit them.” 


Would Go Bankrupt 


If a manufacturer continued to make 
and sell goods, forcing the price lower 
and lower below his production costs, he 
would soon be bankrupt, Davis declared, 
in defending the adjustment program. 
“So he aims to produce what he has or 
can get orders for, at a price that brings 
him out whole. Society approves that 
practice and calls it good business for 
the manufacturers. Strangely enough 
when the farmers organize to do that 
very thing some perfectly well-inten- 
tioned and high-minded folks call it sin- 
ful.” 

The speaker gave many illustrations 
showing how organized business and la- 
bor controls output to maintain prices. 

“TI think the farmer will not be fooled, 
nor stampeded by individuals who are 
irritated by what is being done and who 
hope, by the mere repetition of terrify- 
ing words, to frighten them into retreat,” 
he said. “The farmer’s business makes 
him a planner. It is my conviction that 
he is ready to do his part in a long-time 


CHESTER DAVIS 


SEPTEMBER, 1934 


Taking a shot at: 


program of adjusted production and im- 
proved marketing that leads toward a 
sounder and more profitable industry for 
himself and _his children. 


Unfair to Farmer 


“It is unfair to ask farmers to play 
the economic game under one set of rules 
while industry and labor play under an- 
other. The drought is a circumstance 
which must be given due weight in map- 
ping continued adjustment operations. 
But we have no reason to believe that 
lands of the United States have per- 
manently lost their productivity. If 
farmers again sow without restraint and 
reap fully where they sow, they will re- 
enter the cycle of unsaleable supplies and 
low prices from which they now promise 
to emerge.” 

Davis asserted that the purchasing 
power of producers of the seven basic 
commodities originally named in the Act 
has been increased 70 per cent (includ- 
ing benefit payments received or com- 
ing) after allowing for the higher prices 
of the things they buy. The purchasing 
power of all farmers has been increased 
26 per cent by the various forces work- 


ing for recovery, he said. 

Apparently lost on Chicago newspapers was Mr. 
Davis’s erudite explanation of the economic forees 
which created the farm problem and the steps that 
have been taken and why, to solve it. Farmers gen- 
erally know that there is more intelligence and 


expert knowledge in the agricultural department at 


Washington today perhaps at any time in 


history.—Editor, 


"Work or Don't Eat" is 


A. F. B. F. Policy on Relief 


Expressing the belief that every de- 
serving citizen should have an ample 
supply of food, clothing and shelter, but 
condemning “what appears to be a fast- 
developing dole system encouraged and 
demanded by communistic influences,” 
directors of the American Farm Bureau 
Federation on August 10 passed a res- 
olution urging state and federal govern- 
ments immediately to make radical 
changes in present unemployment relief 
policies. 

“We believe a proper slogan would be,”’ 
said the resolution 

“All who work eat 
All who are unable to work eat 
All unemployed who refuse to 
work at comparatively reason- 
able wages on emergency proj- 
ects provided by government— 
don’t eat.” 

The Farm Bureau leaders are of the 
opinion that so-called temporary unem- 
ployment relief is fast becoming a 
permanent system and unless curtailed 
will destroy American ideals and the 
self-respect of millions of citizens. 


“American farmers believe in and sup-: 


port reasonable wages for all workers 
but condemn a system of government 


Corn Loan Borrowers 
Profit By Price Upturn 


Figured at 30c Advance In Price, 
Program Makes $20,000,000 
~ For Illinois Farmers 


Thousands of Illinois farmers took ad- 
vantage of the upturn in the price of 
corn during July and early August to 
dispose of their sealed corn and pay off 
their federal loans. 

The Whiteside County Farm Bureau 
reports that on August 8, 48 farmers 
paid back their loans when the local price 
reached 67 cents. This was the high day 
up to that time. The previous high rec- 
ord was three weeks earlier when 41 
farmers sold their corn when the market 
was 55 cents. 

Of nearly 75 million bushels sealed in 
Illinois nearly 25 per cent of the loans 
to 36,606 borrowers had been paid back 
by Aug. 13. Based on mid-August prices 
farmers gained an average of 30 to 40 
cents per bushel more than they would 
have secured had not the federal gov- 
ernment at the urgent request of or- 
ganized farmers led by the I. A. A. 
started the loan program at 45c per 
bushel. Thus farmers rather than specu- 
lators have reaped the benefit of ad- 
vancing prices. 

This gain figured at only 30c per bu. 
applied to all the corn sealed in Illinois 
means that farmers prefited to the ex- 
tent of around $20,000,000.00. Applied to 
unsealed as well as sealed corn carried 
over by farmers, it means a much higher 
gain than that estimated above. 


Farmers Benefit By 
AAA Milk Licenses 


———— 


Figures for 23 milk sales areas under 
federal licenses showed an average in- 
crease in returns to producers on Class 
I milk, of 52 cents per cwt. for June 
and July 1934, as compared with the 
low mark reached by depression prices 
in May 1983. 

In the Quad Cities area around Roek 
Island and Davenport, producers in May 
1933 received 38 per cent of the 1927-’29 
Class I price. Under the milk license, 
secured with the help of the Quality 
Milk Producers and the IIlinois Agricul- 
tural Association, producers there last 
month enjoyed a price on Class I milk 
which is 69 per cent of 1927-’29 level. 
These figures do not include increases in 
Class II and Class III prices which also 
prevail on many markets under federal 
licenses. 


unemployment relief or charity that en- 
courages idleness and indifference to 
emergency employment at comparatively 
lower wages.” 


17 


Morgan County Holds 


"Livestock Producers" Day 


Four hundred men, women and chil- 
dren assembled near Jacksonville on Au- 
gust 8 to hold their first county-wide 
Livestock Producers Day. The program 
consisted of judging contests, grading, 
demonstrations, music and talks. — 

Lee Divine of the 
Producers Commis- 
sion Association at 
E. St. Louis, con- 
ducted a grading 
demonstration and 
pointed out the va- 
rious market classes 
of .finished steers 
and Herefords. He 
also graded an as- 
sortment of calves 
and yearlings. Ezra Hines, head hog sales- 
man, graded and priced the hogs and 
Oscar White, head sheep salesman, 
pointed out the various grades of lambs, 
why they were graded that way and 
what the various grades would bring on 
the market. 

J. R. Fulkerson, president of the St. 
Louis Producers, H. D. Wright, manager, 
and “Ernie” NolKemper, Director of 
Publicity, made short talks about pres- 
ent conditions in the livestock industry 
and the possibilities of future markets. 

Ray E. Miller, Director of Livestock 
Marketing for the Illinois Agricultural 
Association, was on the afternoon pro- 
gram and discussed some of the broader 
phases of the cooperative movement as 
it is being developed throughout the 
United States. 


Shippers Profit 


The program was arranged by the 
Morgan County Farm Bureau livestock 
marketing committee under the leader- 
ship of Lester Martin, chairman of the 
committee, and of the Morgan County 
Shipping Service. 

The Morgan County Shipping Service 
began operating in February, 1933. At 
the present time it has served more than 
1,000 customers. The Association has 
handled 40,000 hogs, 2,800 cattle and 
calves and 1,300 sheep, saving shippers 
$2,595.87. The organization was the 
largest shipper to the St. Louis Pro- 
ducers in the year 1933. It operates in 
Morgan, Brown and Scott Counties. 

Daniel Dieterich, president of the 
Shipping Service, explained in detail why 
it was established and how it operates. 
The Morgan County Farm Bureau com- 
mittee has set its goal at 50% of the 
livestock in the county to be marketed 
through Producer agencies in 1934. 


J. R, FULKERSON 


ws 


The Illinois Agricultural Auditing As- 
sociation has filed returns under the cap- 
ital stock tax for its member co-opera- 


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NOTICE 


ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 
ASSOCIATION 
ELECTION OF DELEGATES 


Notice is hereby given that in 
connection with the annual meet- 
ings of all county Farm Bureaus to 
be held during the months of Sep- 
tember and October, 1934, at the 
hour and place to be determined by 
the Board of Directors of each re- 
spective county Farm Bureau, the 
members in good standing of such 
county Farm Bureau and who are 
also qualified voting members of 
Illinois Agricultural Association 
shall elect a delegate or delegates 
to represent such members of Illi- 
nois Agricultural Association and 
vote on all matters before the next 
annual meeting or any special meet- 
ing of the Association, including the 
election of officers and directors as 


provided for in the by-laws of the 
Association. 

Annual meetings of county Farm 
Bureaus will be held during Septem- 
ber, 1934, as follows: Christian, Jef- 
ferson. 

Counties that hold annual meet- 


ings during October are: Adams, 
Cass, Cumberland, Ford, Scott, Han- 
cock, Henderson, Jo Daviess, War- 
ren, Marshall - Putnam, Menard, 
White, Montgomery, Pike, Pulaski- 
Alexander, Macon, Shelby, Stark, 
Wayne. 


(Signed) Geo. E. Metzger, Sec’y., 
Sept. 1, 1934. 


4-H Club Camp Boy 
Writes of Washington 


“IT am taking this opportunity to ex- 
press my appreciation to the Illinois Ag- 
ricultural Association for helping make 
possible my trip to the eighth national 
4-H club camp at Washington, D. C.,” 
writes Frank Krell, Sangamon county 
4-H club champion, in a letter to Presi- 
dent Earl Smith. 

“Much of the discussion during the 
conference centered around the future 
activities and education of the 4-H club 
boys and girls,” wrote Frank. “Almost 
all of the delegates intend to take up 
some phase of agriculture, thus express- 
ing faith in the future of agriculture. ... 

“Many expressed their desire to co- 
operate with the government in making 
the Agricultural Adjustment Act a suc- 
cess so as to insure lasting agricultural 
prosperity. 

“Much appreciation of our early gov- 
ernment was gained through our tours 
of historical points of interest. Through 
these tours one could readily appreciate 
our progress in this nation. It was plain 
to see that the wheels of progress could 
not be stopped, but that it is our duty 
to adapt ourselves to the new situations 
which arise. 

“The National 4-H club camp offers 
so much of educational value that I hope 
the Illinois Agricultural Association will 
continue to support this worthy project.” 

Frank’s letter was read to the I. A. A. 
Board during the July meeting. 


tives. The tax is $1 for each $1,000 of 


the adjusted declared value of the capital 
stock. 


Rail Rates On Stock 
To Chicago, St. Louis Cut 


Western railroads recently reduced 
their rates on livestock to Chicago and 
St. Louis to meet truck competition. 
Substantial reductions were made from 
points in Iowa and as a result of this 
reduction, it has been necessary to grade 
back the rates from intermediate Illinois 
points which would necessarily be on a 
higher basis than these new rates, re- 
ports G. W. Baxter of the I. A. A. 
Transportation division. 

L. J. Quasey, Commerce Counsel of the 
National Livestock Marketing Associa- 
tion, represented the various Producer 
Agencies in obtaining this reduction and 
the [Illinois Agricultural Association 
carefully checked the Illinois revision to 
see that Illinois farmers receive the 
proper reduction. This reduction only af- 
fects the territory -on and west of the 
A. T. & S. F. R. R. to Pekin and west of 
the Illinois River to its confluence with 
the Mississippi River at or near Grafton, 
Illinois. For example: the present or 
old rates from Grafton are as follows: 

Cattle 18%4c per 100 lbs. 

Hogs (Single and Double deck) 22%c 
per 100 Ibs. 

Sheep (Single Deck) 29c per 100 lbs. 

The new rates, which become effective 
September 1, will be: 

Cattle and Hogs (Double Deck) 

Sheep (Double Deck) 

Calves (Double Deck) 17c 

Hogs (Single Deck) 1944c 

Sheep (Single Deck) 21%c. 


$3.30 Reduction 


This makes a reduction..of $3.30 on a 
straight carload of cattle, $9.20 on a 
double deck of hogs, $4.95 on a single 
deck of hogs and $9.00 on a single deck 
of sheep. 


To cite another case, the present rate 
from Macomb to Chicago is as follows: 
cattle 20%c, hogs (single and double 
deck) 25c, sheep (single deck) 31lc. 


The new rate on cattle, hogs (double 
deck), sheep (double deck), calves 
(double deck) 21c; hogs (single deck) 
24c; sheep (single deck) 26%éc. 

This results in a reduction of $9.20 on 
hogs double deck, $1.65 per car on hogs, 
single deck, $5.40 on sheep, single deck. 


It will be noted that the new rate 
from Macomb on cattle is 21c as against 
the old rate of 20%c. The tariff pro- 
vides, however, that where the old rate 
is lower than the new rate, the old rate 
will apply. Therefore the old rate of 
20%4c will apply on cattle in this case. 

It is our belief that this reduction will 
materially benefit shippers in that terri- 
tory and also have the effect of increas- 
ing the rail movement of livestock, said 
Baxter. 


I. A. A. RECORD 


“What can life insurance do for 

me,” wants an intelligent answer. 
The millions who carry life insurance 
must have a reason. The greatest busi- 
ness in dollars and cents in the world 
cannot be an accident. The business of 
life insurance, having the smallest per- 
centage of failures* during depression, 
of all forms of business, must be a 
worthwhile thing. 

Then, how can it be used by you, and 
why? Country Life Insurance Company, 
owned and operated by the Farm Bv- 
reau members of Illinois, was organized 
to provide low cost legal reserve life in- 
surance so every farmer and every mem- 
ber of the family in good health could 
afford some form of protection. Not only 
was it started low in cost, but dividends 
returned have made net costs still lower 
as a special inducement for protection 
for young people, old peo- 
ple, and those desiring to 
leave dependents cared for. 


Kw person who asks the question, 


Twenty Payment Policy 


Best known of all policies, 
but not the most popular in 
amounts, is the Twenty 
Payment Policy, known as 
Twenty Pay Life. This plan 
provides for a paid-up pol- 
icy after twenty full pre- 
miums have been paid. It 
can be purchased in as 
small amounts as one thou- 
sand, and as much more as 
the insured’s means and 
risk will permit. At age 35 the premium 
on one thousand is $29.01 in Country 
Life, and pays dividends to further re- 
duce this cost, beginning at the end of 
the second year. 

In the event of death on a $1,000 pol- 
icy $1,000 is paid even though death oc- 
curs after but one premium is paid, ex- 
cept in suicide. (Full claim allowed after 
two years in case of suicide.) If twenty 
full premiums have been paid the policy 
becomes fully paid, and dividends con- 
tinue to come to the insured so long as 
he holds this fully paid policy, or until 
death. In the event the insured wishes 
he may cash out the policy at the end 
of twenty years, receiving more cash 
than he paid in, and having had twenty 
years of protection besides. 

This policy appeals to young people 
especially, as they like to feel that they 


* Less than three percent of all Life Insurance 
Companies on the legal reserve basis failed dur- 
ing the depression, 


SEPTEMBER, 1934 


advantage. 


| What Life Insurance Can Do for You 


By L. A. Williams 


will get some benefit from their insur- 
ance without having to “die to beat it,” 
as the expression goes. Then, too, there 
is the chance of not being able to earn 
in later years, and a desire on the part 
of the insured to “get through” paying 
premiums and not have to pay all your 
life, 


Ordinary Life Policy 


The Ordinary or Straight Life Policy 
is the lowest cost policy, all considered, 
that the Company has to offer. It is even 
cheaper than 12 year term or term to 
65 years, when cash value is concerned. 
Most people believe you have to “die to 
beat” the Ordinary Life policy. This low 
cost policy has cash and loan values 
after the third premium, and could be 
cashed out at any time after the third 
year, if insured should desire to quit. 
The longer the policy is in force, the 


The phenomenal growth and strength of Country Life In- 
surance Company compared to all other records of legal re- 
serve life insurance development has made the thousands of 
farmers who own and who made possible this great Com- 
pany wonder how they can carry life insurance to the best 
The low rates and excellent dividends are not 
alone an attraction, but the many ways the Company’s 
policies may be adapted to the needs of Farm Bureau mem- 
bers is likewise an inducement to insure with their own 
Company. 

This brief article describes the various policies offered by 
the Company and the advantages and uses of each. 


more available cash for loan or surren- 
der. In the twentieth year the amount 
of cash available is so near the amount 
paid in that it makes the net cost of 
protection over twenty years a very few 
dollars. 

The rate on this Ordinary Life policy 
at age 35 is $20.63 per $1,000 per year, 
with dividends to further reduce cost. On 
this as on the Twenty Pay Life policy, 
Country Life insures the child at birth 
and others on up to age 65, providing 
health will permit. 

But several other forms are available 
in Country Life Insurance Company 
namely, the Twenty Year Endowment 
and the Endowment at 65 for old age 
annuities, as well as term insurance as 
low as $10 or $12 per year per thousand. 
The Twenty Year Endowment policy 
costs about $40 per thousand, a little less 
at young ages, and a dollar or two more 
at ages over 35 years, but the endow- 
ments guarantee the face of the policy 


at death or maturity. For instance, at the 
end of 20 years if your rate was $40, you 
would have paid in $800, you receive 
from the Company $1,000 plus all the 
dividends for twenty years, having had 
insurance for twenty years. 


Uses of Insurance 


Besides the forms of policies there is 
the use and uses of proceeds of policies 
which are of great importance. A father 
guarantees the education of his child by 
setting up an insurance fund which in 
the event the father is taken away pays 
a monthly sum through grades, high 
school and college, and then presents the 
graduate from college with a material 
sum to get started on his or her career. 

Life insurance made payable to “my 
estate” is a special provision for paying 
off the mortgage. Unless, however, it is 
the intention of the insured to liquidate 
such obligations he should 
at no time name as bene- 
ficiary “his estate.” Some 
dependent or relation should 
be named to receive policy 
benefits wherever possible. 
It saves probate costs, and 
likewise pays direct to 
beneficiary a sum _ which 
cannot be touched by the in- 
sured’s creditors. 


Monthly Income 


Instead of paying or hav- 
ing paid in one lump sum 
such proceeds as are right- 
fully due the wife who for 

instance is named the beneficiary, there 
is in the policy a provision for a regular 
amount each month to her for life or 
for a specified term of years. She re- 
ceives 3%% interest on unused funds, 
and is always certain of the principal 
with no bother about investment or the 
chance of loss from investment sharks 
or borrowing relatives. 


Hog Cholera Season Is 
Here, Pays To Vaccinate 


Since January 1 member counties of 
the Illinois Farm Bureau Serum Associa- 
tion have distributed 12,763,000 ce of 
serum and 1,130,603 ec of virus. This 
service has afforded Farm Bureau mem- 
bers insurance against hog cholera that 
they may cash in on higher prices later. 

With shortened supplies of hogs and 
rising prices, producers are hastening to 
vaccinate. 


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Cattle feeding looks attractive from a 
long-time standpoint, and where feed is 
available the situation is particularly fa- 
vorable for finishing top steers for next 
summer, according to H. M. Conway, 
market specialist of the National Live 
Stock Marketing Association. Best long- 
fed steers now in feed lots are in a steady 
to strong position. 

Reduced marketings of hogs are ex- 
pected to be accompanied by higher 


prices during August and through most’ 


of September. With the corn crop 
scarcely 60 per cent of normal, feed 
prices will continue relatively high dur- 
ring the balance of this year. The long- 
time outlook, Conway believes, is favor- 
able but to profit by the prospective 
situation, it is necessary to maintain 
breeding stock as the corn and hog situa- 
tion is likely to be completely reversed 
a year from now. As to hogs in feed lots, 
the market calls for finish, and some de- 
jay and additional weight seems safe 
during the latter part of August and 
early September. 

Drought has changed the sheep feed- 
ing situation rather sharply. The pro- 
portion of feeder lambs has increased 
and a rather strong potential feeding 
demand has been offset and delayed. With 
a relief buying program for ewes the 
situation could be improved materially 
and a late feeding demand is expected to 
develop. For seme time lambs should be 
marketed only as they are finished and 
in the corn belt many lambs need grain 
or late pastures to put them in killing 
condition. From a long-time standpoint, 
the present emergency will tend to put 
the sheep industry in a stronger posi- 
tion. 

St. Louis Producers Show Increase 


During the first six months of 1934 
the St. Louis Producers handled a total 
of 4,183 carloads of livestock, a slight 
gain over the corresponding period of 
1933 in spite of heavy ’34 decreases in 
market receipts of hogs and sheep. Re- 
ceipts of cattle and calves show an in- 
crease, due in part to shipments of live- 
stock from drought areas. 


Farmers who have a surplus number 
of pigs over their allotment may (1) 
keep the pigs and cancel their corn-hog 
contract if the surplus is great, (2) do- 
nate the extra pigs to a federal relief 
agency, (3) market the surplus pigs and 
pay a penalty of $20 for each hog mar- 
keted in excess of quota, (4) destroy the 
runty, slow-growing pigs of inferior qual- 
ity on the farm so as to come within the 
allotment. 


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No Limit On Feeder Pigs 


Corn-hog contract signers may make 
unlimited purchases of feeder pigs from 
August 1 to November 30, 1934 under a 
new ruling. Such pigs must: be ear- 
marked or kept separate from hogs pro- 
duced on the farm, and within one week 
following date of purchase the buyer 
must file a statement with the county 
committee, signed by the seller, giving 
full information about the purchase. 

Wheat or other small grains may be 
planted by corn-hog signers in 1934 
without restriction, if pastured or har- 
vested for hay. 


Farmers National Acts 
To. Boost River Trade 


Elevator facilities, barges and other 
equipment owned by the Turner-Hudnut 
Company of Peoria and Pekin will be 
used by the Farmers National Grain 
Corp. under a recent arrangement com- 
pleted by the two organizations. The 
elevators are located at Pekin, Chilli- 
cothe, Henry and Hennepin. 

The arrangement will afford the co- 
operative an opportunity to assemble 
and load barges for movement into Chi- 
cago or south to St. Louis, Memphis and 
New Orleans. 

It will provide facilities for Farmers 
National to handle an estimated five to 
six million more bushels of grain an- 
nually. Farmers National owns a good- 
sized elevator at Havana, and has fa- 
cilities at Peru and Ottawa for loading 
barges. A big elevator is nearing com- 
pletion in Peoria and another new ele- 
vator is contemplated at Morris. 


Farm Income Higher In 
1933 On Illinois Farms 


Thirty-two farms in Knox county on 
which farm accounts were kept in co- 
operation with the Farm Bureau and 
State Extension Service made an av- 
erage net income of $2,038 a farm in 
1933 as compared to an average net loss 
of $477 in 1982. Much of the increase 
in income was due to a gain in inven- 
tory, although the cash income was 
higher. 

Average receipts for the 32 farms 
were 60 per cent of those in 1929. The 
most profitable one-third of the farms 
showed an average net income of $3,608. 
The least profitable third had $752 a 
farm. 


Illinois Grain Corporation received 
word on August 10 that the Anchor 
Farmers Elevator in McLean county had 
been destroyed by fire. The Anchor Ele- 
vator was one of the first to join the 
state co-operative. 


19 New Members Join 
l. A. A. Auditing Group 


The importance of keeping accurate 
records and knowing exactly the financial 
condition of the co-operative association 
or company may not be apparent to 
many members. Yet more companies 
have gone broke because directors and 
managers failed to keep careful check of 
income and expense, losses and profits 
than possibly from any other cause. 

The fact that Illinois co-operatives, set 
up with the help of the I. A. A. and 
County Farm Bureaus and other co-op- 
eratives, have available the services of 
competent auditors at cost through the 
Illinois Agricultural Auditing Associa- 
tion, has an important bearing on the 
uniform success of such business enter- 
prises in this state. 

In the seven months beginning Jan. 1 
this year the Auditing Association com- 
pleted 218 audits compared with 182 in 
the same months last year—an increase 
of 36. 

Nineteen new members, likewise, were 
signed since January 1 as follows: 

Farmers Grain Company, Kane, 
Greene County; Walnut Grain Company, 
Walnut, Bureau County; Lawrence Coun- 
ty Farm Bureau, Lawrenceville, Law- 
rence County; Lawrence Co. Mut. Fire 
Ins. Co., Lawrenceville, Lawrence Coun- 
ty; Pike County Service Company (Office 
at Quincy, IIl.), Pittsfield, Pike County; 
Altona Farmers Telephone Co., Al- 
tona, Knox County Rock Island Service 
Company, Moline, Rock Island County; 
Galesburg Pure Milk Assn., Galesburg, 
Knox County; Penfield Farmers Grain 
Co., Penfield, Champaign County; War- 
ren County Service Co., Monmouth, War- 
ren County; Henderson Service Com- 
pany, Stronghurst, Henderson County; 
Paxton Farmers Grain Company, Paxton, 
Ford County; Producers Creamery of 
Champaign, Champaign, Champaign 
County; Kenney Elevator Company, Inc., 
Kenney, DeWitt County; Allen Farmers 
Elevator Co., San Jose, Mason County; 
Danville Producers Dairy, Inc., Danville, 
Vermilion County; Bergeson Grain Com- 
pany, Ashton, Lee County; Altona Co-op. 
Grain Company, Altona, Knox County; 
Ottawa Co-op. Grain Company, Ottawa, 
LaS- lle County. 


$32.16 Refunded Per Member 


Dividends declared by the Kane Coun- 
ty Service Company in 1933 averaged 
$32.16 per member customer. This means 
that the average Farm Bureau member 
patron not only received his Farm Bu- 
reau dues back in refunds from this one 
service alone, but also an additional $17 
for co-operating in the project. 


I. A. A. RECORD 


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Will county defeated Woodford 6 to 3 
and 11 to 1 in the quarter finals of the 
Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball League. 
Games were played at Frankfort and 
Eureka. Carroll and McHenry, divisional 
winners, were scheduled to play their 
first game at Woodstock August 25. 

Sangamon and McDonough crossed bats 
in the first game of their series August 
18 at Macomb. McDonough won 8 to 6. 
Shelby will play the winner of this series 
while Will county is waiting for the out- 
come of the Carroll-McHenry contest. 

In the game at Macomb Sangamon 
started out handsomely by driving in five 
runs in the opening inning. Then G. 
Bradford, McDonough pitcher, settled 
down and held his opponents scoreless 
until the eighth. McDonough kept ham- 
mering away against Scott and Fitz- 
hugh, Sangamon pitchers, throughout 


the game. Two runs in the second, three 


in the fifth, and three more in the 
seventh were enough to win. 


6,000 At Randolph Co. 


Farm Bureau Picnic 


Six thousand people attended the eve- 
ning program of the Randolph County 
Farm Bureau picnic at Sparta Fair 
grounds August 2, reports Farm Adviser 
E. C. Secor. 

“L. A. Williams spoke to an enthusias- 
tic crowd in the afternoon following a 
program of baseball between Farm Bu- 
reau members from the west side of the 
county vs. members from the east side,” 
he writes. 

“Father Nell from Effingham county 
who has done so much for organized ag- 
riculture in the St. Louis milk shed, 
spoke in the evening to one of the larg- 
est groups ever assembled at a Farm 
Bureau picnic.” 

In the evening the Farm Bureau girls 
defeated Sparta factory girls at soft 
ball. The boys’ game was rained out. 

The Randolph County Farm Bureau 
Soft Ball League is going into its fourth 
series of games with three teams still 
undefeated — Red Bud, Baldwin and 
Walsh communities. 


L. J. Ullensvang, general insurance 
agent for the Lee County Farm Bureau, 
reports that the Farm Bureau recently 
organized a soft ball league. He be- 
lieves that next year the entire county 
will participate and schedule games with 
teams from adjoining counties. 


SEPTEMBER, 1934 


Too Many Farmers? 


“In the long run, we may come to 
realize that real farm prosperity depends 
upon reducing the number of workers in 
agriculture as rapidly as productivity per 
worker rises,” says Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel, 
economic adviser to the Secretary of 
Agriculture. “Even now (with normal 
weather) we could produce all the farm 
products we need with 60 per cent of our 
present farmers. As soon as industrial 
activity is restored we should turn to the 
task of helping these four million work- 
ers, unneeded in agriculture, find more 
productive occupations elsewhere. 

“Not ‘back to the farm,’ but ‘factory- 
ward ho!’ is the slogan we must adopt 
and put into practice,” says Ezekiel, “if 
we wish to translate our industrial tech- 
nological potentialities into really higher 
standards of living for everyone.” 


Three Ways To Cut 


Taxes On Farm Lands 


Three ways to reduce farm taxes are 
suggested in an extensive report on “The 
Farmers’ Tax Problem” recently pre- 
pared by the Bureau of Agricultural 
Economics at the request of Congress- 
man Marvin Jones, chairman of the Ag- 
ricultural Committee. 

The three ways suggested are: (1) re- 
duce the number of local governmental 
units, (2) combine governmental func- 
tions and reallocate them between states 
and counties, and (3) put more of the 
revenue load on sources other than gen- 
eral property. 

The report published as House Docu- 
ment 406 discusses the personal income 
tax as a possible means of reducing the 
taxes on real estate and in that way giv- 
ing the farmer relief at the time he 
needs it most, when his income is low. 
Such a change would help toward a solu- 
tion of the problem, says the report, 
provided expenditures are kept down at 


the same time. 

Taxes per acre of farm real estate reached a peak 
in 1929 at 241 per cent of the tax per acre in 19138, 
In 1932 gross farm income per acre was $5.08, com- 
pared with $7.73 in 1918 and $12.24 in 1928, the 
1982 figure being 44 per cent below that of 1913, 
while taxes per acre were 89 per cent above pre- 
war.—Editor, 


Year Book Contest For 
Community Clubs $150 Prize 


The American Farm Bureau Federa- 
tion is sponsoring a Prize Year Book 
Contest which closes November 1, 1934. 
The year books to be entered by a com- 
munity or local Farm Bureau unit must 
contain outlines of programs designed 
to interest, inform, and inspire every 
farm family to enlist in the Farm Bu- 
reau. 

The entries must contain the signed 


Farm Week At World's 
, Fair A Big Success 


ARM WEEK at the Fair brought 

thousands of farmers from Illinois 

and other middle west states to Chi- 
cago the week beginning Aug. 11. Spe- 
cial programs were held throughout the 
week beginning with a parade on Satur- 
day and Farm Organization Day the fol- 
lowing Monday. Farm Bureau leaders 
attending the Midwest Conference went 
in a body to the Exposition on August 
13 where Administrator Chester C. Davis 
was the principal speaker. 

John C. Dameron of McLean county, 
Illinois, who won the hog calling con- 
test last year, was given third place at 
the contest this year. Mrs. Charles Hayes 
of Alta, Peoria county, Illinois, won first 
in the husband calling contest. Milking, 
horse pulling and tug-of-war contests 
were other features. Station WLS broad- 
cast most of the proceedings during the 
week which set new attendance records. 


Soybean Oilmeal Fed 
Cattle Top All Others 


The three best lots of cattle fed in a 
recent experiment at the University of 
Illinois experiment station received soy- 
bean oilmeal as the protein supplement 
to their rations. The top lot paid 90c 
per bu. of corn and were appraised by 
packer buyers as “as good a lot of 
yearlings as you will see.” The steers 
were carried on bluegrass pasture from 
Dec. 22 to April 13, then moved to dry 
lot to finish out the feeding period of 
220 days. Average daily feed: 12.4 lbs. 
shelled corn, 1.8 lbs. soybean oilmeal, 5 
Ibs. corn silage, 1.5 lbs. alfalfa per head. 


St. Louis Area Gets A 
Milk Price Boost 35c 


The Sanitary Milk Producers recently 
secured an increase in the price of Class 
I milk from $2 to $2.35 per cwt. FOB 
distributors’ plants. The new schedule 
became effective August 14. 

Class II was broadened to include be- 
sides cream, evaporated milk, condensed 
milk, flavored milk and cream, butter- 
milk and cottage cheese. Class II price 
is 3.5 times 92 score butter, plus 30 
per cent, plus 20 cents per cwt. 


statements of the Farm Bureau chair- 


man, county adviser and home adviser, 
if there is one, that such programs were 
actually carried out as planned. 

Fifty dollars will be awarded for first 
prize, $25 second prize, $15 third, $10 
fourth and ten prizes at $5 each. Pro- 
grams used in 1933 and 1934 are eligible. 


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Corn-Hog Program 


As we go to press practically all coun- 
ties have been approved by the state 
corn-hog review board. On August 17 A. 
J. Surratt, chairman, stated in the I. A. 
A. office that 83 counties had been O. 
K.’d. 

Benefit payment checks have started 
coming into [Illinois in substantial 
amounts, and work has begun by field in- 
spectors to determine whether or not con- 
tract signers have carried out their part 
of the agreement. Contract signers who 
have planted more corn than their al- 
lotted acreage must cut this extra corn 
within 72 days after planting. Second 
Lenefit payment checks are scheduled to 
arrive after November 15 when corn- 
hog signers have been inspected to show 
they have complied with the reduction 
agreement. 


Hardest Hit Counties 


Fourteen Illinois counties were recently 
designated as emergency counties by the 
Drouth Relief Administration. The hard 
hit counties are Adams, Pike, Brown, 
Calhoun, Greene, Hancock, Jersey, Schuy- 
ler, Scott, Edgar, Monroe, Perry, St. 
Clair and Randolph. 


Farm-Bureau-Farm Account 
Meeting Ottawa Sept. 27 


A Farm Bureau-farm management 
meeting will be held in Ottawa on 
Thursday, September 27. The meeting 
will be a roundup for co-operative farm- 
ers in LaSalle, Grundy, Marshall-Put- 
nam, DeKalb, Kendall, Henry, Stark and 
Bureau counties. 

Approximately 150 farmers in this 
territory have been keeping continuous 
records for the past three years and 
their books will be analyzed and dis- 
cussed by farm-management specialists 
of the University of Illinois. A Federal 
Department of Agriculture man also is 
expected to appear on the program. J. 
B. Cunningham is field man for the 
northern Illinois area. 


Seek Shift of Employees’ 
Pension To Freight Rates 


Railroads are proposing a freight rate 
increase to provide approximately $170,- 
000,000 more revenue for the new pension 
system for railroad employees. 

The American Farm Bureau Federa- 
tion and the I. A. A. will protest any 
proposed increase in rates on farm prod- 
ucts because of the inability of farmers 
under present circumstances to stand a 
larger freight load than they are now 
carrying. 


22 


Many Big Farm Bureau 
Picnics Held During Aug. 


“In spite of a hot, sultry day we had 
around 4,000 at our Farm Bureau picnic 
at Marion,” writes Dee Small, farm ad- 
viser in Williamson county. “This was a 
good turn-out and O. D. Brissenden, as- 
sistant organization director, gave an ex- 
cellent address. We heard a lot of favor- 
able comment on his talk.” 


Larry Williams addressed one of the 
largest Farm Bureau picnics of the year 
at Galesburg in Knox county. Business 
men shut up shop for the afternoon to 
join in the festivities. 

A similar farmer-businessman picnic 
sponsored by the Edgar County Farm 
Bureau was held at Paris where Presi- 
dent Earl C. Smith was principal speaker. 


Galesburg Pure Milk Ass'n 


The Directors of the Galesburg Pure 
Milk Association at their last meeting 
voted to start work on a quality program 
and visits will be made to all farms. A 
price conference with the dealers was 
held and an increase in price of fluid 
milk is anticipated. All dairies are now 
paying 8c above 92 score butter prices 
for manufactured milk. 


Drought Cattle Bought 


More than 2,623,000 head of drouth- 
stricken cattle had been purchased by 
the AAA in western drouth states on 
August 10. Average price per head 


ranged from $13.60 to $18.70. The cat- 
tle were bought from more than 180,000 
farmers in 19 states, all west of the 
Mississippi river. 


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Number 10 


OCTOBER, 1934 


1935 Corn-Hog Program 


Here Are Some of the Principal Provisions Being Considered 


SIX point crop adjustment and 
A storage program for corn and 

hog producers in 1935 was 
recommended by Mid-West Farm Bureau 
leaders at a recent conference in Chi- 
cago with officials representing the Ag- 
ricultural Adjustment Administration. 
The recommendations were favorably 
received. Similar conferences have been 
or will be held with farm groups in other 
sections of the country. 

The program, which at this writing is 
receiving favorable consideration, would 
provide for: 

1. A one-year corn-hog adjustment 
plan (for 1935 only) with a reduc- 
tion of corn acreage similar to that 
of 1934 using the same base for 
each farmer. Readjustments 
would be allowed where land has 
been transferred. 

2. Pay contract signers two-thirds as 
much per acre for contract or idle 
ground as they will receive under 
the 1934 agreement. 

3. Allow use of contracted acres for 
any purpose other than the pro- 
duction of grain. 

4. No limit on production of hogs but 


The new home for. the Internaticnal Livestock Exposition at the Chicago Stock Yards is going forward to rapid completion. 
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On each side of the amphitheater will be a huge two-story building for housing exhibits. 
have a direct connection with the Stock Yard Inn, now being remodeled; 
including a concrete roof, and sky-light ventilators mechanically operated, are part of the new constructicn, 


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authorized’ Oct, 27, 1925. 


pay contract signers $1 per head 
on the domestic allotment of hogs 
to each producer. | 

5. Finance program by a processing 
tax of 10c per bu. on corn and a 
processing tax of $1 per cwt. on 
hogs from Nov. 1, 1935 to Nov. I, 
1936 or an alternative plan of re- 
ducing the present tax of $2.25 to 
$1.50 on Nov. 1, 1934 and continu- 
ing at this rate until Nov. 1, 1936. 

(Consideration is being given to levy- 
ing compensating taxes on other com- 
modities benefiting by the grain acreage 
control program so as to make possible 
a lowering of the tax on hogs.) 

6. Make loans on corn up to 75% of 
the parity price level to contract 
signers. | 

The object of the program for 1935 is 
to safeguard present price levels for 
corn, hogs, and other grains and livestock 
and to re-establish parity prices for 
such basic crops as have not yet reached 
that level. 

While Farm Bureau leaders more than 
two months ago recommended. in a con- 
ference with AAA officials at Washing- 
ton a simplified one-contract per farm 


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grain acreage adjustment program for 
1935, the planning division of the AAA 
points out two. serious obstacles to 
achievement of such a desirable situation 
next year. One is that the wheat ad- 
justment program still has another year 
to run. The other is a legal department 
decision holding that benefit payments 
must be made to producers of the com- 
modity on which a processing tax is 
levied. This would complicate distribu- 
tion of revenues if processing taxes, to 
pay for grain acreage reduction, were 
spread over a number of commodities. 


Administration planners advised that 
a one-contract system per farm to con- 
trol acreage was both desirable and 
sound and would be effective as a perma- 

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28, 1925, 
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l. A. A. Supports Two 
Measures, Opposes Two 


State Legislation of Chief Interest 
To Farmers Reviewed 

To refresh the memories of Farm Bu- 
reau members on ‘the voting records of 
their state senators and representatives 
on important legislation considered in 
the more recent sessions of the Illinois 
General Assembly, the I. A. A. board at 
its September meeting authorized the 
publication again of the table which ap- 
peared in the April issue. 

The first two measures on which the 
vote is given on page 5 were considered 
in the regular session of the General As- 
sembly during the first half of 1938. 
These two measures are the revenue 
amendment definitely limiting property 


taxes and the Lantz bills for poor relief 


1935 Corn-Hog Program 


(Continued from page 3) 

nent program but it seemed more ad- 
visable to initiate such a system for the 
crop year 1936 rather than next year. 

The Adjustment Administration has 
under consideration a corn-hog referen- 
dum among producers through a series 
of state and district meetings of pro- 
duction control association leaders, and 
later meetings of corn-hog producers in 
each county where full information and 
facts governing the future outlook for 
corn and hog prices can be revealed. 
Farmers realize that they are in no 
position to vote intelligently on a corn- 
hog adjustment program until they have 
had all the facts pertaining to the mar- 
ket and price outlook fully explained. 


Not Compulsory 


No corn-hog plan, the administration 
warns, will be forced on producers. They 
must indicate their desire for such a 


program through county meetings of 


their production control associations. At 
a recent series of three meetings at- 
tended by approximately 1400 County 
Farm Bureau leaders in Illinois senti- 
ment was unanimous for continuing the 
crop adjustment program. Intelligent 
farmers know that one favorable grow- 
ing season with no limit on acreage will 
likely send farm prices tumbling toward 
the starvation levels of 1932. 

The program outlined above proposed 
for 1935, as stated, is not final. Corn 
belt farm representatives who met with 
officials in the AAA’s planning division 
headed by H. R. Tolley believe that it 
has great merit and offers the basis for 
a plan to restore and maintain prices of 
basic farm commodities at satisfactory 


levels next year. 

Representing farmers at the Chicago conference 
were Edw. A. O’Neal, president, A. F. B. 
Earl C. Smith and C. V. Gregory, Illinois; Chas. 
E. Hearst, Iowa; W. H. Settle, =o WwW. R. 
Ogg, acting sec’y, A. F. F, H, R. Tolley, 
chief and several economists ‘of the planning di- 
vision represented the A. A, A. 


The I. A. A. vigorously supported both of 
these. 

The third measure, the key bill of the 
state tax levy and bond bills, was con- 
sidered in the first special session in the 
fall of 1933. The I. A. A. vigorously op- 
posed this measure which provided for a 
new $38,000,000 state tax levy on prop- 
erty and an issue of $30,000,000 in state 
bonds. 

The fourth measure was not included 
in the legislative report which appeared 
in the April issue of the RECQRD, since 
it did not pass the Third Special Session 
until late in April, 1984. This was the 
Senate bill to divert one-third of all gaso- 
line taxes from highways and streets to 
the State School Fund, thereby depriving 
the State, the counties and the cities and 
villages each of one-third of the gaso- 
line taxes allotted to them. In accord 
with its declared position against further 
diversion of gasoline taxes from high- 
way and street improvement, thereby 
further increasing unemployment and de- 
mands for relief, the I. A. A. opposed 
this bill. Its supporters could not obtain 
the two-thirds vote necessary to give it 
immediate effect, but it passed with a 
majority vote of each House, becoming 
effective July 1. Since it is limited to 
the period ending March 1, 1935, the di- 
version of gasoline taxes thus provided 
covers eight months. 


Lantz Bills 


It will be remembered that the I. A. A. 
favored the use of revenue from the ad- 
ministration’s sales or occupation tax for 
the replacement of property taxes, but 
opposed the use of these funds for un- 
employment relief. To meet the situation 
constructively, the I. A. A. sponsored 
three bills known as the Lantz bills to 
give full constitutional taxing power to 
Cook county and an additional tax rate 
to 17 downstate commission-governed 
counties so they might levy taxes to care 
for their own poor people as townships 
in 84 supervisor governed counties in the 
state are now required to do. 

The I. A. A. succeeded in securing the 
passage of the Lantz bills but they were 
vetoed by the governor. 

As forecast by the Association and 
many others at the time the Lantz bills 
were vetoed, this action resulted in call- 
ing the first special session of the legis- 
lature to meet in October, 1933. Against 
the opposition of the I. A. A., bills were 
passed levying an additional state tax of 
$38,000,000 on property in 1934 payable 
in 19385 against which tax anticipation 
notes for $28,500,000 could be issued and 
sold to provide relief funds. 

A companion bill proposed a state bond 
issue of $30,000,000 to be voted on in No- 
vember, 1934, the proceeds of the bond 
issue to be used to redeem the state an- 
ticipation tax notes issued and interest 
thereon. 


Vote For Andere 


The important thing for farmers 
to note is that in Iowa we have 
the Democratic party solidly for 
the national farm program and for 
tariff reform; we have the Republi- 
can party approving in large part 
the national farm program and 
tariff reform. Only the reactionary 
wing of the Republican party in 
Iowa has joined hands with the 
habitual enemies of the farm pro- 
gram. 

This is a cod sign for agricul- 
ture. Farmers of course should 
not be content with these general 
expressions of good-will. Every 
candidate for congress should be 
examined closely, to see whether 
his record and his promises indi- 
cate th:t he will fight for the 
maintenance of the agricultural 
adjustment act and its processing 
tax, for the program of tariff re- 
vision in the interests of farm ex- 
ports, and for the Honest Dol- 
| ae | 

Whether his party label happens 
to be Democrat or Republican, no 
congressman should be elected 
from Iowa, or from any other 
farm state, this fall, who is not 
willing to support President Roose- 
velt and Secretary Wallace in the 
battle to keep farm income on the 
upgrade. We dare not turn con- 
trol of congress back to the kind 
of politicians whose denial of farm 
rights and whose ignorance of 
economic principles gave us 10-cent 
corn and $3 hogs under the Old 
Deal.—Editorial in Wallace’s 
Farmer. . : 


Other bills enacted provide that if the 
bond issue carries in November they are 


to be paid by the state—one-half from 
gas tax allotments to the counties and 


one-half from gas tax allotments to the 


cities and villages in proportion to the 


share of such funds used for relief in 
such counties and in such municipalities. 

The I. A. A. advises its members and 
all voters to vote in favor of this bond 
issue to prevent the $38,000,000 levy fall- 
ing on property. But it also serves notice 
that in the future bond issues of this or 
similar character will have the deter- 
mined opposition of the I. A. A. at least 
until such time as the General Assembly 
imposes equal and uniform responsibility 
for poor relief upon every community 
and county of the state. 


Check carefully the voting records of your rep- 
resentatives in the General Assembly. Support only 
those whose records justify it, See table on pages 
5-6, 


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(The I, A, A, vigorously supported the first two measures and vigorously opposed the last two bills—S. B. 1 for a new $38,000,000 state tax levy cn property 
and an issue of $30,000,000 in State bonds and S. B. 70 for diversion of gas taxes to the State School Fund) 


H, J. R.65 | Lantz Bill (Poor Re- 


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(Revenue Amendment) (key Dill) 


S, B, 1 State Tax| 5 8. 70 Diversion of 
Levy and Bond Bills | Gas Taxes to Schools 
(key bill) 


DISTRICTS AND COUNTIES 


Against For Against 


Against Against 


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14th Dist. (Kane and Kendall) 
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Sen. O'Connell 
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22nd Dist. (Edgar and Vermilion) 


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12th District (Carroll, JoDaviess and Stephenson) 
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DISTRICTS AND COUNTIES 


34th Dist. (Clark, Coles, Douglas) 
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35th Dist. (DeKalb, Lee, Whiteside) 
I iia nic ob eka aoe algeid’s chien ce bb a eee 
SI A og oie, ccebalcecéueeseevions 
Rep. Allen 
Rep. Devine 


36th Dist. (Adams, Call.oun, Pike. Scott) 
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Sen. Mason 
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Rep. Benson 
Rep. Conerton 


40th Dist. (Christian, Cumberland, Fayette, Shelby) 


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lf the State Bond Issue 
Fails to Pass Nov. 6th 


Here’s An Estimate of Resulting 
Increased Land Taxes Next 
Year 


On November 6th the voters of IIli- 
nois will have submitted to them a pro- 
posed bond issue for $30,000,000 as the 
only possible way of preventing a heavy 
additional State tax on all property. 


If the bond issue is not approved, a 
State tax for a minimum of $38,000,000 
is already levied on all property assess- 
ments for this year, the entire amount 
of which will be payable in 1935. 


If the proposed bond issue is approved, 
the State tax levy on property will not 
be made. In that case the proceeds 
from the sale of the bonds will be used 
to retire State Anticipation . Tax Notes 


already issued, or soon to be issued, for 
a total’ of $28,500,000. and to pay in-" 


terest accrued thereon. 
If the bond issue is approved, the 


bonds and interest thereon will be paid . 


out, of. gasoline , tax allotments. to. the 
counties and to the municipalities there- 
in,. which have used the funds raised by 
sale of the Anticipation Tax Notes for 
relief - purposes. For this purpose the 


State will withhold from the counties. 
one-half. of the gasoline taxes required... c 


for such. bonds and interest each year, 


and one-half from the municipalities . 


therein, in all.cases in proportion to the 
amount of such relief funds allocated to 
each county. and to each municipality 
therein. 


_ The ‘Illinois Agrioultuval.. Aéséciation, 


opposed this bond issue legislation and 
has by resolution adopted in the Dan- 
ville Annual Meeting last January given 
notice that while, under the circum- 
stances, it favors the proposed bond is- 
sue, it:,will. not support any bond issue 
of this kind hereafter, at least until the 

State has required every community to 
do its full part in providing relief funds 
for its own people and has set up a fair 
taxing system. 

Unless the bond issue is approved in 
Noyember, an additional State tax of at 
least, $7,500,000, all payable in 1935, ‘will 
be imposed on all Illinois farm property. 
This -would amount to between $10 and 
$80 per. farm of 160 acres, depending 
on valuation. <A table follows which 
shows the minimum “increase in taxes 
which defeat of the bond issue would 
impose upon farm property in each 
county. Every reasonable effort should 
be made to prevent this additional 
burden. 

The Illinois Agricultural Association 
urges thorough organization by County 
Farm Bureaus, to inform farmers and 
village people about the importance of 


OCTOBER, 1934 


lf Farmers’ Will 


“If they will, farmers through 
their organizations can help shape 
their own economic destiny. As 
individuals, one farmer’s strength 
cancels another’s. Through organ- 
ization, his strength multiplies. 
Only as he can and will express 


himself through organization is the 
farmer’s influence felt in national 
councils. 

“The continued pressure of the 
Farm Bureau through its state and 
national units has kept the agri- 
cultural problem continuously be- 


fore the nation.” 


— Chester C. 
Davis, Chief, AAA. | 


voting for the bond issue and to man 


all rural and village polling places in the 


November election. 
Average 


Estimated’ taxes Las 

ao on farm property = ° taxes per 

County at 60 cent’rate 160 acres 
Adams $126,000 $41 
. Alexander 2,000 — 21 
Bond “ 27,000 © 20 
Boone . 54,000 50 
Brown 30,000, .. . 27 
Bureau 120,000 37 
Calhoun 24,000 °6 
Carroll 60,000 36 
Cass 42,000 33 
Champaign 162,000: *.: 43 

at Eat 

Christian 114,000 - 45 
lark. wo 34,800 - . 21 
Clay 27,600 18 
Clinton 42.000 - 26 
Coles 66,000 36 
_ Cook 97,200. T2 
Crawford 42,000 31 
Cumberland 20,400 19 
DeKalb . 108,000 45 
DEW 60,000 40 
Donglas 72,000 47 
DuPage 72.000 > 2 
Edgar. 102,000 | 45 
Edwards 14,400 18 
Effingham 31,200 - 19 
Fayette 36,000 15 
Ford 93,600 50 
Franklin 24,600 22 
Fulton 108,000 34 
Gallatin 18,000 19 
Greene 60.000 32 
Grundy 66,000 42 
Hamilton”. 13,200 10 
Hancock 120,000 42 
Hardin 12,000 21 
Henderson 54.000 41 
Henry 150,600 48 
Iroquois 174,000 41 
Jackson 24,200 19 
Jasper” 24,600 15 
Jefferson 24,000 13 
Jersey 33,600 26 
~  JoDaviess 75.000 34 
Johnson 13,200. 12 
Kane 102,000 57 
Kankakee $90,000 $38 
Kendall 54.600 45 
Knox 123.660 47 
Lake 90,000 Sh 
LaSalle 240,000 58 
Lawrence 27,000 25 
Lee 120,000 44 
Livingston 198.000 49 
Logan 132,060 57 
McDonough 97,200 45 
McHenry 120,000 56 
McLean 240,000 3 
Macon 114,000 m4 
Macoupin 84,0.0 29 
Madison 96,000 41 
Marion 30,000 16 
Marshall 72,000 2 


l. A. A. Board Opposes. . 
Cut in:Gas Tax Now 


Fear Reductions Will Heap More 
Taxes On Farm Lands And 
Property 


The board of directors of the I. A. A. 
in its September meeting approved the 
report of the Public Relations Committee 
on the question of cutting motor license 
fees to $3 and reducing the gas tax from 
three cents to two cents per gallon. 

The committee reported that it is 
“convinced that uniform motor vehicle 
license fees of $3 will not yield sufficient 
funds to retire the state highway bonds 
and pay the interest thereon, nor would 
the state’s portion of the gas tax fund 
left after paying relief funds be adequate 
to maintain and police state highways 
and retire that portion of state highway 
funds not retired from the reduced mo- 
tor vehicle license fees.” 

The committee expressed the fear that 
if the proposed reductions advocated by 
a state motorist association were put 
through, counties and cities would be re- 
quired to lévy increased property taxes 
to maintain their roads and. streets.- 

It was recognized that the present 
classification of license fees is unjust due 


to fictitious horse power. rating..::Motor- 
ists with light cars are often required to 


pay the same or a larger fee than motor- 
ists with heavier 'cars.: 

' The committée looks favorably upon 
classification of. motor vehicles for l- 
cense fee purposes upon the. basis. of 
(Continued on page 9, Coll. 2): 


Mason 


72.000 R9 
Massac ° 14.400 " 18 
Menard 54,000 46 
Mercer 90,000 4h 
Monroe 42,000 33 
Montgomery 78.000 32 
Morgan 120.000 no 
Moultrie 52,200 41 
Ogle 132.000 47 
Peoria 120,000 5S 
Perry 30.000 pi 
Piatt 96.000 58 
Pike 60,000 71 
Pope 12.000 12 
Pulaski 13.800 24 
Putnam 19,800 35 
Randolph 45.000 24 
Richland 24.6 0 71 
Rock Island 90,000 63 
St. Clair 120,000 58 
Saline 28,800 on 
Sangamon 132,000 42 
Schuyler 37,800 24 
Scott 34,800 9 
Shelby 99,600 37 
Stark 54,000 50 
Stephenson 102.000 49 
Tazewell 138,0.0 60 
Union 33.600 °7 
Vermilion 147,000 44 
Wabash 23,400 31 
Warren 112,800 5 
Washington 52,200 a | 
Wayne 32,400 14 
White 16,800 10 
Whiteside 114.000 44 
Will 156,000 at) 
Williamson 36,000 28 
Winnebago 78,0°0 45 
Woodford 108 ,000 at) 


countnAy © A, an D 


To advance the purpose cag — the Farin Bureau was or- 
ganized namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, 
economic, political and educational interest of the farmers of 
Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 


George Thiem, Editor 
John Tracy, Assistant 


' Published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Association at 165 So. Main 
St., Spencer, Ind. Editorial Offices, 608 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill. Entered 
as second class matter at post office, Spencer, Ind, Acceptance for mailing at 
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Oct. 27, 1925. Address all communications for publication to Editorial Offices, 
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OFFICERS 
President; Eart..C.° Smite cvcacjacccscvevescccvcsevsccesocvecssencss sees Detroit 
Vice-President, A..F... Weight .cnccricccccccccccvasegoevecsevoorvvevetvere Varna 
Secretary, Geo. BH; Mete@er 2 cccivccvccccciiceas cuvecesvacscccceeoeeaeps Chicago 
Preacnrer, BA, COWS cocestodecedaadcredsreiesserscccceccowresen Bloomington 
BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
(By Congressional District) 

Weta SOG ook bkccck cow eR bs bea Ube 6080s Aba sO RPE Lata E. Harris, Grayslake 
DRED nce ccsiue ERT EE EPC R EEO Oe TERR OT Eee E. E. Houghtby, Shabbona 
Se Nee ee eee ar ee ee are Mere eon emer cre a a Be C. E. Bamborough, Polo 
7. SA Orr rer ien cre Cee ee ee Kio Ee BAe WOO Otto Steffey, Stronghurst 
BIS 6 x0 Kea CLR FOLGE ULAR CLR A ea oe ee M. Ray Ihrig, Golden 
Dob s A SaaS Cee Cems Te PoE re eT eee Albert Hayes, Chillicothe 
BRUINS ooh big Ka os wah Oak I ee EO eae E. D. Lawrence, Bloomington 
| Re Pe Lie WA RS EOE ERAN Aa ER ek Ces Mont Fox, Oakwood 
y «REI Nea Uae BG ier ee a OP aR oe EE ig't occas Eugene Curtis, Champaign 
NN 6. 6:0.650 065 Ri OR 6d CaeE ROO Lawes CORON ieee ee K. T. Smith, Greenfield 
05S 4 OP AEN GA Ad ERA hese ww SER Ae UOC ER EES See ews Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 
ARIE Re REE cen I ORO RE Sar oa Ne EE a a Ope A. O. Eckert, Belleville 
yo eee abe pA SR RRC ELEN buh Pk es OREO Sates wee ee Ww. L. Cope, 

id. REPRE eee ee POT ee CTE E TEE TRE eR TOTS Charles Marshall, ‘Belknap 
WN iba ond 6b 600 ben ed OC Ke WEN OER ECO a bebe dc aes Cs R. B. Endicott, Villa Ridge 
DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 
CN a iis bs Sx ie FAR SHOR ED 6 eS KERR AST hE NEUES COURS bene J. H.. Kelker 
THRO: DERPROUING 5. iiiccc Sic t cc esonevarisveservess bees ona wie J. B. Conntiss 
is Sid vs ede gh ea dd bas OSCR EA eae SARS PERE aN ORs e608 e wea ee R. A. Cowles 
Fruit and Vegetable Marketing............ 20... cc eee cee eee eee tenes H. W. Day 
EROROMOREION «so c'd's'c Cogp bee ceeteh. deb suns esos Cogn te ncthecveeces sm George Thfem 
BRlicccice.covcces Donald Kirkpatrick, Director; Paul E. Mathias, Associate 
FAVS UCR Marketimaes: oo ko sas cic ce vesicle eccepeepezecespeppees Ray E. Miller 
CR as LOS k nb b's pres 66.8% be 60:90 CC UC e Reece ge cs eee es = Cea k e888 C, -E. Johnston 
IK in GD on bit d oh ob bee bra 6 debe db 0 bs oe fs woe bebidas sbawesevé Vv. Vaniman 
PR: PENRTOE, Chane cadusiccesvastoredenisnoscuenbactepesesas F. A. Gougler 
TORACIOR GHG Btatiaties. oi. cicccaccvesccevcsccaveccesgeccssbooess J. C. Watson 
Transportation-Claims Division ......... ip iGiaeni sa aah venameen G. W. Baxter 

; ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 

Comatey. T.ife Insurance C0.....c.cceeeecsrceeveee Rees ae L.-A. Williams, Mgr 
Farmers’ Mutual Reinsurance Co............. sete cece neces J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Auditing eee aaa mwa F, E. Ringham, Mgr. 
I}linois' Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co...... epaweeuns A. 4 Richardson, Mgr. 
Illinois Farm Supply Co.......cseecsesccesccsccsecsevees L, Marchant, Mgr.. 
Illinois Fruit Growers’ Exchange...........scesseceseueeees ii. Ww. Day, Mgr.° 
Tilinoia Grain Corp... .ccccccocccscccccsecescesvececes Harrison Fahrnkopf, Mgr 
Illinois Livestock Marketing Ass'D...............eessenees ..Ray Miller, M 
Illinois Producers’ Creameries....... F. A. Gomer: Mer, J. B. Countiss, Sales 
Soyhean Marketing Ags’D........scsseccescerpecewtecerss J. W. Armstrong, Pres 


Illinois An Accreditéd State 


LLINOIS is now an accredited state in bovine tuberculosis: 


‘eradication. The Farm Bureau may justly take pride in 

this achievement. Initiated by the U. S. Bureau of Animal 
Industry and supported by the state government, tuberculosis 
eradication work in Illinois made slow progress until the power 
of the Farm Bureau movement was put actively behind it. 
Illinois for many years had been a dumping ground for tuber- 
cular cattle from other states. Buyers of dairy and beef breed- 
ing stock had the state on their black list. Cow dealers in 
Northern Illinois had built up an impressive business replac- 
ing dairy cows that “went wrong.” 

County Farm Bureau committees appeared before boards of 
supervisors and secured appropriations for county veterina- 
rians. Many Farm Bureaus put money into the project. Effec- 
tive publicity was used to inform farmers about the scourge 
of tuberculosis. Farm advisers assisted in organizing com- 
munities to hasten testing and prevent further infection. 

The Illinois Agricultural Association set up a tuberculosis 
eradication department in 1923. It offered a standing reward 
of $100 for information leading to conviction of anyone found 
guilty of violating the state and federal regulations govern- 
ing shipment of cattle into the state. In 1925 the I. A. A. 
successfully sponsored legislation appropriating $2,000,000 to 
pay indemnities and carry on the work. It supported the pro- 


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em. . 


vision in the act making testing compulsory when 75 per cent 
of the cattle in the county had been tested. 

Today Illinois herds are comparatively free of. this eG 
disease. Buyers can come here unafraid. Losses of cattle from 
tuberculosis have been reduced to a minimum. Thus has the 
position of the Farm Bureau movement, once opposed by 
minority groups, been vindicated. 


Co-operatives Support A. A.A. 

T’S significant that of all the marketing agencies and com- 

| mission companies handling farmers’ grain, their own co- 

operatives are alone in supporting the crop adjustment, 

price-raising program. We have yet to hear a good word for 

the Agricultural Adjustment Act from an old-line commission 

company. On the other hand there have been frequent at- 
tacks by such interests on this legislation. 

In its recent annual meeting, the Farmers National Grain 

Corporation reaffirmed its faith in the AAA program and 


pledged its future support to any reasonable plan that will 


bring parity prices to agriculture. 
and last for the farmer. 
profits from commissions. 

Let all farmers show their appreciation for the battle farm 
co-operatives are waging in their behalf by marketing their 
grain, livestock, milk, cream, fruits and vegetables, and other 
farm commodities through their own agencies. 


The co-operative is first 
It is not primarily interested in 


On Controlling Production 
Washington, Sept. 16—(AP)—The National Lumber 
Code authority today fixed the total production for the 
fourth quarter at 3,074,000,000 feet compared with 
3,800,000,000 for the present three months’ period. . . . to 
allow for the expected four per cent seasonal decrease 
in consumption and to reduce stocks in excess of those 
on hand at this time last year. | ‘ 
Thus through: organization are the lumbermen controlling 
production and holding up pricés. Yet some folks insist that 


farmers produce without restraint regardless of the price they s 
" recéive. 


Price fixing through production control, was prac- 
ticed by industry long before the NRA was invented. Farmers, 
with the co-operation of government, are now attempting to 


, . get somewhere near the value of their products through simi- 
s*-.- lar action. 


‘agriculture can keep farm prices in line with non- -agricultural 


Organized production: control is the only way 


prices and promote a free exchange of goods and services so 
necessary to national recovery. 


| "Industrial Prices 
“Real gelling prices themsélves must be reduced— 
they must be brought within the range of a greater 
number of buyers.’ In no other way can industry be 
stimulated to higher levels of activity.” 

Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., president of General Motors Corpora- 
tion, is speaking. Colonel Leonard P. Ayers, well-known 
banker and economist, commented similarly recently in speak- 
ing of industrial prices. So warned farm representatives long 
before the debacle of 1929 in pointing out the disparity be- 
tween agriculture and industry. 

The remedy for unemployment and business stagnation plain- 
ly lies in bringing farm prices up or industrial prices down, or 
both, so as to reestablish normal trading. Acreage reduction 
and drought have narrowed the gap. The serious feature of 
this situation is that many farmers in stricken areas have 
nothing to sell and so the price level means little to them. 
Nevertheless farm buying power as a whole is definitely im- 
proving. 

It was the disruption of price relations between farm prod- 
ucts and industrial goods, marketing costs and taxes which 
created the depression and widespread unemployment. Pros- 
perity will return when price levels are such that the farm and 
city man can exchange their goods and services freely. 


I..A. A. RECORD 


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. Contrary to all the talk and _ news- 
paper propaganda about “liberty,” and 
“‘regimentation,” we have yet to hear a 
complaint from any farmer that he is 
being regimented against his will or de- 
prived of his liberty. 


The present farm program is being car- 
ried out under the authority of legisla- 
tion enacted at the request of organ- 
ized farmers. Politicians please note. It 
was not forced on us. Farmers fought 
12 years to get it. The initial crop ad- 
justment plan was and is quite compli- 
cated. The corn-hog program has been 
difficult to administer so as to give 100 
per cent satisfaction. But the Adjust- 
ment Act is our program and we shall 
stand by it and try to improve and sim- 
plify its administration. The gains we 
have made and the results obtained since 
1982 speak for themselves. They prove 
conclusively that farmers perhaps knew 
more about their own business and what 
was needed to control surpluses and 
raise prices than did Mr. Hoover who 
now views with alarm. 


Presumably there was “liberty”. back 
in 1932 and earlier. Where did it get us? 
We could plant our crops, reap bountiful 
harvests, sell at a loss, buy industrial 
goods at high prices from protected in- 


dustries if there.was anything left after 


paying taxes—and finally surrender the 
farm. fas. many. did). to the b bank « or insur- 
ance company. 


“Regimentation” is 9 word come into 
new and widespread_use. It means es- 
sentially organization. :-‘So.under the 
wheat, cotton, tobacco, and:corn-hog ad- 
justment plans farmers have voluntarily 
organized with the friendly aid of gov- 
ernment. And for what purpose? To 
put their house in order. To reduce the 
surpluses recognized as the crux of the 
farm problem by Arthur Hyde, Alexander 
Legge, Jim Stone, and others, -all good 
friends of agriculture, who never had a 
chance to solve it because they lacked 
the needed legislative authority. 


“Regimentation” we now hear so much 
about has been practiced by intelligent 
manufacturers, business men, and labor, 
for many years. They have profited by 
it. A regimented industrial price struc- 
ture has been maintained behind a high 
tariff wall for 50 years or more. Manu- 
facturers have always regimented their 
production and marketing to _ sustain 
profitable price levels. Organization on 
the scale practiced in the past year is 
new to farmers. Spread out and divided 


OCTOBER, 1934 


up into small units, farmers, apparently, 
couldn’t get together and regulate pro- 
duction and marketing as successful in- 
dustry has done. The Agricultural Ad- 
justment Act gave us our chance. And 
it worked much faster of course, than 
anyone expected, because of the drouth. 


The real test of our intelligence is sti.l 
to come. Farm prices are up. Are we 
smart enough to fight for this act and 
use it to keep them there? Or will greed, 
and the hope of producing unlimitedly to 
sell at present or higher price levels, 
prove our undoing. We can’t have our 
cake and eat it too. God help us to act 
with wisdom.—E. G. T. 


Quincy Co-op. Has 50 
Per Cent of Retail Business 


Adams county milk producers who 
own and control the Quincy Co-operative 
Dairy are demonstrating that they can 
run their own business in a business-like 
manner. 

Last year this co-operative handled 
nearly five million pounds of milk. It 
manufactures a full line of products in- 
cluding butter and cheese, ice cream and 
two chocolate milk drinks. In spite of 
keen competition and extremely low re- 
tail prices it has been able to hold more 
than 50. per cent of the business in 
Quincy. 


Onibeia Gas Tax Cut 


(Continued from page 7) 


weight, but suggested further study to 
enable wise recommendations for revis- 
ing such fees so as to still yield a suf- 
ficient return to pay off highway bonds 
and interest. 

From information now available it ap- 
pears that if the gas tax is reduced to 
2c and present allocations to counties and 
cities are not changed, the state will be 
unable to engage in any new construc- 
tion and will be compelled to practically 
abandon the maintenance of existing 
roads. Furthermore the state will not be 
able to match allocations made to IIli- 
nois by the federal government. 

Until such time as provision is made 
for the retirement of state highway 
bonds and interest thereon and for main- 
taining and improving local roads and 
streets from funds derived from sources 
other than increased taxes upon farm 
lands and other tangible property, the 
I. A. A. is opposed to reduction of the 
state gasoline tax. A final report on the 
two proposals will be made to the board 
at a later date. 


George E. Hunt is the new farm ad- 
viser in Greene county. Norman L. 
Davis is county organization director. 


Fight for Retention 
of Processing Tax 


The Agricultural Adjustment Act is 
the first piece of farm legislation of 
basic importance ever enacted and put in 
operation in this country that was 
drafted by farmers and administered in 
the interest of farmers, Edward A. 
O’Neal, president of 
the American Farm 
Bureau’ Federation, 
said in addressing 
the annual picnic of 
the Adams County 
Farm Bureau, 


Quincy, September 
15. 
“This legislation 


gave us the neces- 
sary machinery for 
effective collective action to ‘plan in- 
telligent production and marketing for 
our crops,” he said. “We have made 
wonderful. progress. Prices of seven 
basic commodities have already risen 
above parity. Farm income this year, 
it is estimated, will be around $3,000, ry 
000,000 more than it was in 1932.” ae 


¢ yay? 
Cia. 


EDW, A, O’NEAL 


The Processing ‘Tax 


Appealing to:Illinois farmers to stand 
solidly back’ of the Farm Bureau in its 
effort to restore agriculture and the na- 
tion to permanent prosperity, he said: 
“Let’s not forget that other groups have 
been given similar opportunities. ._ 
We must fight for the retention of the 
processing tax in the AAA in order to 
finance adjustment in production control 
and iri: disposing of surplus. It is’ 'the 
heart -of the Adjustment ‘Act;: take’it 
out and you destroy the effectiveness of 
the Act.” | 

Mr: -O*Neal stressed the importance of 
simplifitation ‘of’ the program for pro- 
duction control. “We are urging the 
President and Congress to give us a 
stable dollar, thus carrying out the 
promise of the President when he said: 
‘We must establish and maintain a dollar 
which will not change its purchasing and 
debt-paying power during the succéeding 
generations.’ 

“We must fight for fair tariffs, for 
protection of our home market for farm- 
ers, and against too high industrial 
tariffs. The Farm Bureau stands squarely 
on the proposition that agriculture must 
be given equal benefits with industry in 
future tariff policies. 


‘“‘We should see to it that in our great 
agricultural states our representatives 
pledge themselves to our program that 
they will fight day and night for our 
cause.. Let’s all get busy and see that 


this is done before the fall elections.” 


Study the legislative report on pages 4-5-6-7, 
Watch the November RECORD for further details. 


Quad Cities Producers © 
“5° Get 25c Per Cwt. Raise 
_A price advance of 25 cents per hun- 


dredweight for Class I milk at the Quad 
Cities, (Rock Island-Moline) market was 


recently made effective by the Agricul- 


tural Adjustment Administration. The 
new price is $1.85 per cwt. The larger 
dealers have been retailing milk for nine 
cents. The new minimum schedule for 


distributors is eight cents retail and 


seven cents wholesale for’ milk with less 
than 3.9 per cent butterfat; eight and 
one-half cents retail and seven and one- 


half cents wholesale for four per cent 


milk. : 

The revised agreement establishes a 
complete base and surplus plan effective 
September 1 so as to make the total of 
all bases of producers equal the total of 
Class I (milk) and Class II (cream) 
sales. 

Reports state that distributors are vig- 
orously opposed to the new price sched- 
ule. The amended license gives distrib- 
utors a margin ef about five cents a 
quart on their retail sales at the nine 
cent price, which they claim is not 
enough. A 10 cent price would give dis- 
tributors a margin of about six cents a 


quart. 


Producer distributors are selling raw milk at 
eight cents. Also many consumers are buying milk 
at the farm for 20 cents a gallon. This has cut 


into the larger distributors’: routes they claim,. 


hence their demand for a larger margin to make 
a profit.—Editor. 


$39,000,000 Corn-Hog_ 
Checks For incis 


Illinois corn-hog signers will receive 
about $39,000,000 ..in: benefit payments, 
according to recent estimates. 

The first payment will total nearly 
$17,850,000. The second about $13,523,- 


000 and the third and. final payment 


around $8,671,500, less local administra- 
tive expenses. The last payment is 
scheduled to be paid after Feb. 15, 1935. 

Corn-hog checks are being mailed out 
of Washington at the rate. of more than 
$4,000,000 a day. By. September 1 more 
than $55,000,000 or considerably in ex- 
cess of one-third of the first installment 
of some $133,000,000 had been distrib- 
uted. 


Production Credit Assn. 
Champaign One Year Old 


The Champaign (Illinois) Production 
Credit Association, oldest in the United 
States, marked its first anniversary Sep- 
tember 12 by announcing that more than 
one-fourth of amounts loaned has been 
repaid, with no overdue accounts. Loans 
are made from three td 12 months and 
bear five per cent interest. 


10 


ene 


ONE OF TEN HUGE SIGNS IN AND 
Rockford to Boost Consumption of Milk, 


ABOUT 


Chicago Milk Producers 
Price Increase Halted 


Ask For 50c Raise in Class I And 
New Basis of Payment 


Consideration of an increase in the 
price to be paid producers in the Chicago 
milk shed for Class: I milk has been de- 
ferred to a later date, the AAA reports. 

The Pure: Milk Association is working 
hard to secure an increase of 50 cents 
per cwt. for Class I milk over the pres- 
ent $2.25 price. .The fact that dairymen 
throughout large areas of the Chicago 
milk shed have been compelled to buy 


high priced grain and hay because of 


the drouth has greatly increased cost of 
production. Farmers supplying the mar- 
ket with its rigid requirements of mod- 
ern equipment and sanitation believe 
they are fully justified in demanding an 


increase in price despite the compara- 


tively low state of the butterfat market. 

The Association also proposed a plan 
changing basis of payment to producers. 
It would relate the total of Class I milk 
sales on the market to the total of 100 
per cent established bases of producers 
so as to arrive at that percentage of 
each producer’s established base for 
which he could receive the Class I price. 

Similarly total sales of Class II 
(cream) also would be related to. the 
total of 100 per cent established bases 


so as to arrive at the percentage for 


which producers would be paid a blended 
price. 

All milk delivered in excess of the 
combined Class I and Class II percent- 
ages would be paid for uniformly at the 
surplus (Classes II) price. The total 
amount of money available to pay pro- 
ducers would be determined as at pres- 
ent. The Association believes that this 
plan would make it possible for some 
producers to reduce their production to 


Reduce Milk Surplus 
“By Educational Work 


By Wilkie Lee 


Health Department statistics have 
proved that per capita consumption of 
milk, not in Rockford but everywhere, 
is far below the amount needed for nor- 
mal health and efficiency. With all the 
scientific backing of its product which 
the milk industry has, producers and dis- 
tributors have been noticeably lax in the 
merchandising of their product. 

With these facts in mind the Mid-West 
Dairymen’s Company, milk producers or- 
ganization, and the distributors of Rock- 
ford decided to conduct an educational 
program. 

Workers were employed to go before 
Women’s clubs, schools, parent-teachers 
associations, churches, playgrounds, fac- 
tories, boys and girls clubs and newspa- 
pers through the medium of plays, 
demonstrations, talks, stories, projects, 
recipes, window displays, posters, and 
effective literature as well as other de- 
vices. The giant ten foot porcelain milk 
bottle above is one of ten located on 
important highways and in the center of 
the business district. It reminds thou- 
sands every day of the importance of. 
milk to health as well as that milk 


“Should Be Pasteurized.” aS 


The program is supperted by the Mid-West 
Dairymen’s Co. whose officers and directors are: 
President, Hugh W. Mainland; Vice-President, 
George H. Johns, Jr.; Treasurer. Harry Stevens; 
Secretary, Harold C. Crandall; Directors: J. Clay- 
ton Hoisington, Mauritz W. Nystrom, Wesley A. 
Newman, Wilbur E. Sawdey, William Nicolson, 
Dr, E, E. Walker, Frank Salley; and Manager 
Wilkie A. Lee—and by the 11 milk pasteurizing 
plants of Rockford, namely: Pinehurst Farms, 
Muller’s Union, Central, Ferm. King Farm, East 
Side, Forest City, Ravetta, Kishwaukee, Uptown, 
and Rockford Dairies, Inc, ; 


File Milk License Briefs 


The Legal Department of the I. A. A. 
has filed briefs on behalf of seven down- 
state milk producers’ associations with 
the Agricultural Adjustment Administra- 
tion in support of marketing agreements 
and licenses for the distribution of milk. 


The deadline for filing was Sept. 10; 
Distributors at all or nearly a'l markets ‘filed 
briefs opposing licehses. Gteatest objection of 
dealers to license is their loss of power in domi- 
nating market and dictating prices, and dislike 
of government officials examining their books.—Ed. 


Fred Lee, temporarily retained as 
legislative adviser by the American Farm 
Bureau Federation last year, is the man 
who drafted the Agricultural Adjustment 
Act. Mr. Lee is a Washington attorney 
who was formerly head of the Legisla- 
tive Drafting Bureau in the House of 
Representatives. 


that quantity for which they can receive 
the Class I price. This plan also would 
greatly simplify the job of figuring the 
value of milk delivered by individual 
producers. 


I. A. A. RECORD 


STEP ON IT- 


YOU CAN MAKE IT 


DP ATRL a 
Aner neat gpa th AE = ay 


(idee i _ 


OW WELL 
BETTER LUCK 
NEXT TIME 


WHAT PRICE HURRY ? 
@No one in their right mind would race a train to a grade 
crossing. Yet, every year, thousands of foolhardy drivers try 
it. Few live to try it again. 

Grade crossing chance taking is only one of many foolish 
things motorists do. Passing a car when ascending a hill is an- 
other source of fatalities. High speed in traffic, split-second 
running of stop lights—all take their daily toll in human lives. 
@ What price all this hurry? What’s a few seconds gained 

- compared to months in a hospital, repair costs, law suits or 
funeral expenses. _ 
@ Decide.now. to drive sanely at all times; to watch your 
driving, as well as_ the | 
other fellows’. And above 
all, for your own pro- Rates.for a new 
tection, insure adequate- 


ly in your own Farm Bu- | FORD, CH EVRO LET 
reau company — — [llinois or ‘PLYMOUTH 


lps futual. $15.40 3 bah inset hand «the { “Here lies Joe who raced a train. 

ee your County Farm oio.2V Initial Payment, ten .He..used his ,foot- and not. his brain.” 
Bureau insurance man ff’ $8.40 every six months. Less 

now for complete de- as car gets older. 


tails. | : EVERY YEAR 
ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL . Anion sre injured: ‘That's a high price t 


: pay for carelessness. Reports show that in 
MUTUAL INSU RAN CE CO | most cases, careless, foolhardy driving was 
é } 1 _ the principal cause. Use your head more— 


- 608 $.. DEARBORN ‘ST., CHICAGO,: ILL. spa emg7ater feet less: Tt will pay more 


D\, SS 


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OUR SEVEN POINT PRO 


QUALITY IMPROVE- 
MENT—Clean milk from 
T. B. tested cows, sani- 


tary equipment, cooled 7 test and amount delivered. 
promptly. 


Where milk producers are organized and operating soundly, 
distributors are offered—all on the same basis—a steady sup- 
ply of high quality milk at a fair price so they can make a 
reasonable profit. They buy from the producers’ association 
at less risk because payment is based on use. This stabilizes 
the distributors’ business, insures a steady income, and tends 
to eliminate destructive price cutting. Producers are anxious 
to co-operate with dealers in advertising and boosting sales, 
which benefits all concerned. Intelligent distributors co- 
operate with producer organizations. 


HOW THE CONSUMER BENEFITS 


The consumer gets a continuous supply of clean, safe, whole- 
some milk at a reasonable price, enabling maximum use of 
milk and cream in the daily diet. On many markets, con- 
sumers have a voice along with producers and distributors, on 
milk councils. 


LETS TALK 
IT OVER.~~+ 
ALL WE WANT 
IS & 
FAIR PRICE ~ 


CHECK WEIGHTS & 
TESTS—Guarantees pay- 
ment according to butterfat 


Eliminates complaints. 


NOT ALL ONE-SIDED; DEALER GAINS TOO) 


RAM 


CONTROL 
=» SURPLUSES— 


wore 6 nhs ‘ 


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Stabilize market, han- 
dle surplus not wanted’ 
by distributors in 
farmers’ own plants. 


A SOUND PROGRAM 


Milk producers know by experience that 
they must be organized to have a voice in thgy 
market... to gaina fair share of the consumer’ 
milk dollar .... to secure a reasonable retur* 
for their labor and invested capital. Whe 
farmers are unorganized they receive as low a; 
20 per cent of the consumer’s dollar. The max}: 
ket at Danville before the producers united is, 
an example. te 

Farmers realize that milk dealers, too, are en 
titled to a fair return on their investment an 
management. They have learned by expenienc 
that producer-dealer co-operation and good wih} 
with fair returns to both, is the only way ta a’, 
permanent and satisfactory market relationship. 

Going it alone for the farmer does not pay 
Organization is the answer to his problems. * 


NEW FIGURES SHOW 


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Rist 
ceilarket 

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WATCH DEALERS’ 
CREDIT RATING—Pre- 
vents loss to farmer. 
Eliminates deadbeat 
dealers. 


From To 
LaSalle-Peru $1.25 $1.95 
Rockford 1.50 1.85 
DeKalb 1.75 2.25 


(*Trade agreements in force.) 


These figures are impressive. Multiply the 
increases in price by the total pounds of milk 
delivered in a year, and you have millions of 
dollars added to dairy farmers’ income. 


In every case, these advances were secured 
because farmers asked for them. Their re- 
quests were heeded because at every market 
named above, producers are ORGANIZED. 


Occasionally, not often, you find a distrib- 
utor who voluntarily raises the price to the 


producer. Humanity is selfish. Business is 
that way. It’s out after profits, the more, 
the better. The responsibility lies with 


farmers, no one else, to see that they get a 
square deal for themselves, a fair share of 
the consumer’s dollar. 

Now the friendly aid of government is 
available to milk producers through the trade 


608 So. Dearborn Street - - ~- 


ACCURATE MAR. 
se KETING INFORMA- 
TION —Helps producer plan 
his production throughout the 


ORGANIZATION GETS LARGER 
SHARE OF CONSUMER’S DOLLAR 
for MILK PRODUCERS 


Fluid Milk Prices Increased During Last Two 
Months at Markets Where Producers are Organized. 


From To 
Rock Island-Moline* $1.60 $1.85 
St. Louis* 2.00 2.35 
Galesburg 1.85 2.00 


agreement section of the AAA. Let’s not for- 
get that this Act is the result of the 12-year 
fight of Organized Farmers led by the Farm 
Bureau for surplus control, price-raising 
legislation. 

Trade agreements and licenses are in 
effect on two of the above markets. Chicago 
was the first city to get a trade agreement. 
Why? Because organized producers, again, 
requested them. The return to the producer 
for milk has been increased in each case. 
Similar agreements and licensing of dealers 
in the interest of fair prices to the producers 
have been applied for by members of the 
Mississippi Valley Milk Producers, supported 
by the Illinois Agricultural Association, for 
the following markets: Peoria, Bloomington, 
Champaign, Danville, Decatur and smaller 
southern Illinois cities. 


ADVERTISING — Aids 
= both farmer and dis- 
tributor by expanding 
cream 


fluid milk and 
sales. 


NO) MES Foe | FOR, 
gO ere Ill Re ) 


[OO ear CREWS LVIB AVIS 


(MISSISSIPPI VALLEY MILK 
- PRODUCERS, 


inc. ° 
Rice ee eis Illinois 


BREAKS ALL RECORDS 
Total Insurance in Force 


Exceeds $63,000,000 


MGR. LARRY WILLIAMS THANKS 
ALL WHO CO-OPERATED 


By L. A. Williams 


We rejoice in the success of our rec- 
ord breaking accomplishment for Sep- 


tember. As we go to press all signs . 


point to a two and one half million 
month—which, with the few months re- 
maining in the year should make 1934 
the high spot so far in Country Life 


history. I want to thank all policyhold- ” 


ers for their hearty co-operation as well 
as the agents and Farm Bureau mem- 
bers who are helping to make this our 
most ‘successful year. 


SEPTEMBER INCREASE 


_-members 


Your Company Shows Amazing 
Strength and Growth - 


-of more than $63,000,000 in- 


In 1929, Country Life opened 
its doors and set:out to become 
the “‘model of all life insurance 
companies.” That meant. un- 
questioned security’ for policy- 
holders, conservative; sound in- 
vestment of funds, rock-bottom 
net cost: of in- 
surance through 
lo w overhead 
and selling 
costs. Further, 
what profits ac- 
crued from 
shrewd, econom- 
ical manage- 
ment should be- 
long to the hold- © 
ers of Country 
Life policies. 

The idea took. Farm Bureau 
and -their friends 
have blazed a dazzling trail of 
record breaking accomplish- 
ment through six lean years to 
the present magnificent total 


608:S. Dearborn SE:: 


$63,000,000 


INSURANCE | 
IN FORCE 


COUNTRY LIFE 


INSURANCE COMPANY 


surance in force. ©: °°: 


-With a net lapse of but 7.92 


per cent in 19383,. mortality 


approximately 28%. of the ex- 


pected, Farm Bureau members 
may well be proud of the type 
of risk the com- 
pany accepts. 
An investment 
structure’ of 
more than $3,- 
000,000, over 


state and. mu- 
nicipal bonds, 
dem onstrates 
again the sound 
footing on which Country Life 
Insurance Company strides 


forward to future. greatness, 
increased strength, and con- 


stantly lowered cost-of securing 
protection for its. thousands of 
policyholders. 


* Chicago, Ill. 


85% in cash, | 
govern ment, - 


RRR 


Size 
Bits 
Bikes: 


4 


Illinois 4-H Clubs 
Doing Constructive Work 


Farm Bureaus Are Active in Train- 
ing Farm Boys And Girls For 
Useful Lives 


Thousands of Illinois farm boys and 
girls like those in the accompanying pic- 
ture have taken part in 4-H club work 
under the leadership of the County Farm 
Bureaus and the Illinois Extension. Serv- 
ice during the past summer. _ 

“The boys in our 4-H Jersey Calf Club 
have done a splendid constructive piece 
of work,” reports Farm Adviser Rusk of 
Coles county. “Tommy Chamberlin, the 
boy in the middle holding his sweet two- 
year old heifer is rounding out his tenth 
year of club work. He won first in the 
4-H’ club class and fourth in the strong 
open ¢lass at the Illinois State Fair. He 
showed this heifer’s dam before her and 
also won first with her at previous state 
fairs. 

“Tommy has won many honors in club 
work including the trip to Washington. 
He is now a junior at Eastern [Illinois 
State Teachers College and I hope he 
will ‘attend the College of Agriculture 
at University of Illinois a year from 


OCTOBER, 1934 


ureau Supports 4-H Club W 


Marjorie Frye of Alta and her lst prize Holstein 


calf in the Peoria County Farm Bureau 4-H Club 
Show, Sept, 3-4, Right, Dean Quin of Trivoli 
and his 870 lb, champion beef calf, Dean sold 
his calf to the O. F, Smith Market at 17 
cents a pound, 


Below, Champion 4-H Club County 
Group at 1934 Illinois State Fair. Shown 
by Wayne Daily, Thomas and Mar- 
garet Chamberlin and Loren Turner of 

Coles County. Organized by Coles 

Ccunty Farm Bureau, 


Harold Kepple of Elmwood 


and his Guernsey calf and 
yearling, Each won first. place 
in its respective cass in the 
Peoria County 4-H Club Show, 
Sept. 3-4, 


Right to left: Vernon Wolland 
of Peoria, Charles Smith of Alta, 
and Robert Pitsch of Alta and 
their Ist, 2nd, and 3rd prize ewe 
lambs, 


now. His sister Margaret showed a calf 
this year that is a grand-daughter of a 
cow she showed three or four years ago. 
Several of the boys and girls have thus 
built up good herds of Jersey cattle at 
home through consistent, constructive 4- 


H club work. © 


“Coles: county 4-H boys and girls won 
all the lsts in 4-H club classes, all the 
seconds for which they showed and 
Grand Champion County Group. 

“We also have winners in Baby Beef 
classes (lst County-Group in Hereford 
steers)’, also other good winnings in baby 
beeves and sixth in the Poland China 
litter show at State Fair,” reports Mr. 
Rusk. : 

“Our Corn Club boys will have their 
show. at our County Institute at Charles- 
ton, October 18th and 19th.” 


LaSalle County Show 


Medals, ribbons and a cup to the out- 
standing 4-H Club of LaSalle county 
(Otter Creek) were awarded recently at 
the annual 4-H Club campfire achieve- 
ment program held in Allen Park, Ot- 
tawa, reports Farm Adviser C. E. Gates. 

Money won by the Club members at 
the Mendota Show and the State Fair 
was. distributed. The medals were 
awarded by the Chicago Producers Com- 


PEEP ORR RIT TEIN ES 8 RAO BR i ta ta st ica 


5 SN 
Saree 


mission Association. Several hundred 
club members and their leaders attended. 

H. A. deWerff, county farm adviser of 
Woodford county, reports that the Chi- 
cago Producers sold 13 4-H beef. club 
calves from that county on December 5, 
two of which brought a top price of 
$9.45. The better calves weighed more 
than 1,000 pounds. Other good calves 
sold for $9.20, and $9. The lowest price 
was $7.95. Calves are purchased in 
Nebraska ata cost of $6.75 per cwt. laid 
down in Woodford county. 

Peoria County Farm Bureau held its 
County 4-H Club Show early in Sep- 
tember. Some of the winners are shown 
above. In nearly every county in Illi- 
nois similar shows and 4-H club projects 
are an important part of the Farm Bu- 
reau program. Training boys and girls 
in the art of better farming, home-mak- 
ing and livestock production — all of 
which means good citizenship—is one of 
the great contributions Farm Bureaus 
are making to the future of agriculture. 


A total of 5,164,954 cattle had been 
purchased on the ranges of 21 drouth- 
stricken western states up to September 
12. Purchase payments total more than 
thirty and one-half million dollars and 
benefit payments $17,670,423. 


Davis Answers Attacks of 
Hoover And Others on AAA 


Farm Act Makes Power of Gov- 
ernment Available For Farmers 
to Help Themselves 


Hoard’s Dairyman and partisan news- 
papers have attacked the provision of 
the AAA drouth cattle purchase contract 
by which the seller agrees to co-operate 
with any future control program adopted 
for the cattle industry, in consideration 
of the benefit payments which constitute 
that part of the purchase price of drouth 
cattle meant solely for the farmer.: 


In a recent radio address on the Amer- 
ican Farm Bureau program, Administra- 
tor Chester C. Davis defends this pro- 
vision on the ground that benefit pay- 
ments under the Agricultural Adjust- 
ment Act can only be made legally in 
consideration of an agreement to adjust 
production. 


“In the cattle purchase plan,” said Mr. 
Davis, “we wanted to be sure that a por- 
tion of the purchase price of cattle would 
belong to the farmer or rancher. We 
found we could accomplish this by des- 
ignating a portion of the price paid as 
a benefit payment. This was not pleas- 
ing to some bankers. But the drouth- 
stricken farmers liked it. ... 


“If the editor of Hoard’s Dairyman 
had honestly sought to ascertain the 
facts, he could not in good faith have 
published that editorial.” 

Answering ex-President Hoover’s 
statement in a recent issue of the Satur- 
day Evening Post that “the whole thesis 
behind this program (AAA) is the very 
theory that man is but the pawn of the 
state,’ Mr. Davis said: “This is not a 
correct statement of the philosophy of 
the. Adjustment. Act or:its administra- 
tion. The object of this program is to 
make the power of government available 
to enable the farmers of this country to 
do. the job which*they as individuals or 
as associations had proved stake to do 
in 15 years’ effort. 

“The McNary Haugen bill ‘sie to 
give the producers a fair price for that 
portion of their crops consumed at home 
independent of the world price for the 
surplus. In defense the opponents of this 
legislative idea were forced to take a 
definite position. They advanced several 
alternative proposals — more generous 
farm loans, government assistance to 
co-operative, and finally government 
price stabilization operations. 

“The Agricultural Marketing Act was 
adopted in 1929 as a defense against the 
program that had been advanced by 
farmers. Generally, the farm organiza- 
tions took the position that the Farm 


Board should be given a trial. Experi- 
ence during its existence definitely 
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proved two things: first, that it was fu- 
tile and unfair to the co-operatives them- 
selves to expect them and their members 
to undertake the load of regulating sup- 
plies and stabilizing markets for any 
widely-grown commodity; second, that 
government stabilization in the absence 
of farmer control of production will not 
work. ... 

“Following the 1932 election the stage 
was set for the new deal for agriculture. 
Farm organization leaders who met with 
Secretary Wallace in March, 1933, had 
the benefit of long experience under the 
Farm Board and previously. They out- 


lined the program which was enacted in 


the Agricultural Adjustment Act not 
quite 16 months ago.” 


Market For Corn Stover 


The AAA recently acted to provide a 
commercial market for corn fodder and 
stover. For such quantities of fodder 
and stover as remain unsold in April, 
1935, the government agrees to pay the 
following prices: 

Alternative No. 1 
Whole Shredded 

No. 1 Corn Fodder 
(entire plant) 

No. 2 Corn Fodder 
(entire plant) 

No. 1.Corn Stover or 
Sweet Corn Stover 
‘(ears removed) 

No. 2 Corn Stover or 
Sweet Corn Stover 
(ears removed) 7.00. . 7.50 

Initial allotments of quantities of fod- 
der- will be made soon to states, and 
will be prorated to counties and individ- 
ual farmers. It is contemplated that 
purchases of corn fodder and stover will 
be handled through the livestock feed 
office of .the. AAA recently opened in 
Kansas City. 


$8.50 $9.00 


8.00 8.50 


7.50 8.00 


Ogle County Has Army of 
240, Fight for Agriculture 


A total of 240 organization committee- 
men of the Ogle County Farm Bureau 
paraded in military formation during the 
recent annual picnic at Oregon. Each 
committeeman wore a special helmet. 
They were reviewed by “General” L. M. 
Gentry, chairman of the county com- 
mittee. 

During a brief ceremony in the grand- 
stand each member took the pledge to 
fight for agriculture and the organization 
at the command of the County Farm Bu- 
reau president, John D. Coffman. R. J. 
Hamilton is county organization director. 


Plan now to attend the big I. A. A. 
annual meeting at Quincy in January. 


A red hot battle for the state cham- 
pionship is in prospect as McDonough 
and Will counties go into the final series. 
Both are outstanding teams. Will coun- 
ty is supreme in northern Illinois and 
McDonough county has beat all comers 
in the central and western sections. 


McDonough eliminated the fast, heavy- 
hitting 1933 champions from Sangamon 
county, and more recently the divisional 
winners from Shelby. McDonough had a 
tough battle with Sangamon, the latter 
taking the second game of the series and 
forcing the western Illinois boys to put 
up their best brand of baseball to take 
the third game at Beardstown. 


The first McDonough-Shelby game was 
a walk-away for McDonough. Close to 
2,500 people saw the game played on the 
teachers college grounds at Macomb. The 
second game at Shelbyville drew a small 
crowd, but the Shelby boys played bet- 
ter baseball and held McDonough to a 9 
to 2 victory. 


Beat Carroll 


The scrappy Will county nine defeated 
both Woodford and Carroll in the inter- 
divisional contests. The first Will-Car- 
roll game at Lanark was a _ pitchers’ 
battle with Will county barely winning 1 
to 0.. The second game played Septem- 
ber 15 at Frankfort was more one-sided 
with the Carroll county team coming out 
on the short end of a 9 to 2 score. 
Schuldt ‘of Will county held the Carroll 
batsmen to six hits, whereas his team- 
mates batted out 13 safeties against 
Schaut and Rahn: © 

_ As we go to préss it seems likely that 
the opening game of the championship 
series Will be played Saturday, Septem- 
ber 29 at Frankfort. Manager E. W. 
“Boots” Runkle is promising a crowd. of 
3,000 at the return game in the Me- 
Donough county seat. ’ 


Drouth And Farm Income 


Farmers as a whole in the U. S. will 
have more than $900,000,000 additional 
income, or nearly 20 per cent in excess 
of 1983 income, according to estimates 
of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. 

Only about one-third of farm income in 
1933 was derived from states worst af- 
fected by the drouth. Another third 
came from the partially affected central 
states east of the Mississippi River, the 
remaining third came from all other 
states which were largely unaffected. 


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Waterways and the Farmer 


Here Are Some Things You Should Know About Water 


Transportation 


By G. S. Wilkin, 


Inland Waterways Corporation 


T IS surprising how little is known 
| by the public generally about the ex- 

tensive system of inland waterway 
transportation which has been main- 
tained by the Government for the past 16 
years; especially by those who are re- 
ceiving the greatest benefit from this 
service, namely, the residents of the 
Mississippi Valley and the Great Middle 
West. And yet, as President Roosevelt 
has said, the people are more noid in- 
terested in the affairs of governient to- 
day than ever before. They are es- 
pecially attentive to any information con- 
cerning the new agencies that have been 
set up by the Government, under the 
New Deal, for the relief of unemploy- 
ment and domestic distress. 

The great humanitarian program of 
harnessing our streams for flood control, 
soil and water conservation, power de- 
velopment and navigation is by no means 
the least interesting of these campaigns. 
Its far-flung effect on the economic and 
Social life of the nation appeals to the 
imagination. 

The Tenriéssee Valley Authority with 
its announced policy of raising the stand- 
ards of: living of a vast segment of our 
population; the curbing of the Columbia 
River, in the far northwest, for irriga- 
tion and navigation; and the’ improve- 
ment of the Missouri, Ohio and Illinois 
Rivers" ahd other tributaries of the 
mighty Father of Waters, with the con- 


sequent creation of thousands of inland 
lakes and parks—all these are only a 
few of the projects that strike a re- 
sponsive chord in the soul of a people 
who are stunned by, and groping for a 
way out of the darkness of the present 
world-wide depression. 

While this program of river and har- 
bor improvement is being executed more 
vigorously than ever before, the Presi- 
dent now proposes to place it all under a 
scheme of national control and co-ordi- 
nation in lieu of the hit and miss method 
of the past. This work has been carried 
on by the Government under the War 
Department for the past 13 years. The 
Army Engineers have achieved note- 
worthy results and an enviable reputa- 
tion for efficiency and integrity during 
this period. Foreign nations have sent 
representatives to study their amazing 
achievements on the Missouri and other 
rivers. 

But, the phase of this work about 
which the public seems to know the least 
is that of actual navigation on. these 
streams. For most people it«has'a strong 
appeal to the imagination. The romance 
of early steamboat.days will live for- 
ever in “Steamboat Bill/’”:“‘Show: Boat” 
and Mark Twain’s works, but they were 
no more than a glamorous memory by the 
year 1900. 

The unorganized river packets could 
not continue the hopeless struggle 


LOADING GRAIN FROM FARMERS NATIONAL ELEVATOR AT HAVANA, 
Tom Sawyer and barges in foreground, 


1934 


OCTOBER, 


ILLINOIS. SHIP 


Brook and Farmers Co-op. Elevators in background to right. 


MILL HOUSE, FARMERS NATIONAL GRAIN 


Corporation elevator at Peoria in ceurse of con- 
struction. Hiram Walker distillery in background, 
July, 1934, 


against the concentrated attack of pow- 
erful railroad interests, and they were 
finally driven off the rivers completely. 
With their competition: eliminated rail- 
road rates soon mounted to prohibitive 
levels. The opening of the Panama 
Canal in 1914 inaugurated low rates 
which put the land-locked interior out of 
competition with seaboard territory. 
Population and industry in the middle 
west immediately began to decrease. 


For this reason, agitation was started 
for the rehabilitation of river transporta- 
tion, as the only, means of restoring 
economic parity; but it was not until 
1918 that barge service was resumed on 
the Mississippi and Warrior Rivers, and 
then only by the United States Govern- 
ment as a war measure to relieve rail- 
way congestion. 


_ It was. barely. re- -established mhign the 
war ended, but operations were continued 
under the Railroad Administration until 
it went out of existence in 1920. At this 
time the Service was transferred to the 
War Department and re-organized under 
the title of The Inland.and Coastwise 
Waterways Service. 

In 1924 it was incorporated under the 
name of “Inland Waterways Corpora- 
tion” and $5,000,000 was appropriated by 
Congress for additional capital. In 1928 
new legislation authorized an appropria- 
tion of $10,000,000 more; but, out of the 
total of $15,000,000 only $12,000,000 has 
been withdrawn from the treasury to 
date. 


The Corporation has not only operated 
on the modest sum since its creation, but 
up to December 31, 1933, had earned a 
net income of approximately one million 
dollars after setting aside more than 
four and one-half million dollars for de- 
preciation. So far as known, this is the 
first instance of the Government making 
a profit from a business undertaking. 
This record shines in comparison with 


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the vast subsidies voted to other gov- 
ernmental agencies. Senator Black says, 
over a billion dollars subsidy has been 
voted to air mail contract carriers since 
1925. There is nothing to show for this 
money today in the form of tangible 
assets. 

On the other hand, the Inland Water- 
ways Corporation has valuable property 
and equipment to account for every 
penny of its investment. It owns a fleet 
of 25 towboats ranging from 600 to 2,700 
H. P., four 800 H. P.. self-propelled 
barges and 266 steel barges, varying 
from 400 to 3,000 tons capacity. In ad- 
dition, it has thousands of dollars worth 
of terminal equipment and a 20 mile rail- 
road connecting its terminals on the 
Warrior River with Birmingham, Ala. 


8 Barges One Load. . 


Few people realize the huge tonnages 
moved by this equipment. One of the 
regulation 2,000 ton barges, from an 
interior view, resembles a large two- 
deck warehouse. It has a capacity 
equivalent to fifty 40 ton freight cars. 
The standard tow consists of eight such 
barges corresponding to 400 railroad 
cars. 

-.On the Lower Mississippi Division the 
service consists of two tows per week in 
each direction between New Orleans, 
Saint Louis and Chicago. 

The Upper Mississippi Division oner- 
aces two tows per week in each direction 
between St. Louis and Minneapolis. This 
service is synchronized with that on the 
Lower Mississippi and close connections 
are made at St. Louis, avoiding delay in- 
cident to transfer between the two di- 
visions. | 

The Warrior Division maintains a 
weekly self-propelled barge service be- 
tween New Orleans and Mobile and a 
weekly towboat service between Mobile 
and Birmingport. 


Water-Rail. Rates 


While this far-flung system of silently 
efficient and cheap transportation pre- 
sents a most striking picture, the most 
interesting phase of the service from a 
practical standpoint, is the tremendous 
saving it affords the shipping public. 

Federal Barge Line rates are gener- 
ally made with relation to, and twenty 
per cent less than, corresponding all-rail 
rates. Substantially the same savings 
are available under joint barge-and-raj! 
and rail-barge-rail rates as are afforded 
by the all-water rates between Barge 
Line Ports. 

As a result of long and continued ef- 
fort joint rates have been established 
with 135 railroads, and through these 
joint rates the people of 42 of the 48 
states may share in the economical bene- 
fits of water transportation. 

Up to December 31, 1933 the direct 
savings on freight handled by the Barge 


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JOSEPH J, FORD, AGE 102, OF CRAWFORD 
rem. 5 Ay the oldest corn-hog contract signer in 
t e . ° 


Line amounted to over $20,000,000; but, 

this sum is insignificant compared with 

the reduction by other carriers. induced 

by water competition. The following 

illustrations give some idea of this bene- 

fit to the public:— 

Rates—(In cents per hundred lbs.) 

Cotton 


Rail Water 
1931—-Memphis, Tenn. to 
New Orleans, La. ...... .60 
Present Memphis, Tenn. to 
New Orleans, La. ....-. 48 .;.%5 - 
ROVING os coscsenedocvenns 12 Bh 
Coffee 
1931—New Orleans, La. to 
Peoria & Chicago, Ill. .. .54 
Present New Orleans, La. to 
Peoria & Chicago, Ill. .. .35 .28 
BAVIGE:: sancewsrvecprvaece ces .19 2 
Sugar 
1931—New Orleans, La. to 
Chicago, Ill. ............ 04 
Present New Orleans, La. 
to Chicago, Ill. ........ .33 25% Export 
NG a vacicd sp cumes cSepawd 21 28% 
Canned Goods 
1931—L acifie Coast to 
Peoria, : Tl... ccigcocdes 1.05 
Present Pacific Coast to 
Peoria, JiR. ccc ccees .80 72 
ATE ik 6.0 00% 68-00 se oak os 25 .83 
Grain 
1931—St. Louis, Mo. to 
New Orleans, La. ...... 28.5 
Present St. Louis, Mo. to 
New Orleans, La. ...... .08 Export 
BOVINE evectedvceceseneecs -20.5 


While the farmer participates in these 
savings as a general consumer, he is 
benefited even more in the shipment of 
his own products. The cotton growers in 
the south and the grain producers in 


the north are reaping: the full advantage 


of this service. It permits an augmented 
movement of grain south, creating a 
new competitive condition, relieving the 
congestion at Chicago and, thus, tend- 
ing to elevate the general price level. 
This benefits all growers whether they 
are located adjacent to the waterways 


or not. 


This is the first of two articles on the inland 
waterways by Mr. Wilkin. The second will ap- 
pear in the next issue of the RECORD,—Editor. 


of industrial products 


A Good Team 


I just want to express to you my 
appreciation of the picture on the cover 
of the September issue of the Illinois 
Agricultural Association Record. When 
I look at it, it brings to my mind the 
days when I worked in the hay fields 
and harvest fields.on my father’s farm 
over sixty years ago. We had just such 
a team of kindly faced, docile animals 
then. I just cannot help liking horses 
and mules for farm work. If treated 
kindly and properly cared for, it is a 
real pleasure to work with them—they 
seem to form an integral part of the 
farm family. An intelligent team greets 
you in the morning, is only too pleased 
to carry out one’s every demand—and to 
my mind represents one of the pleasures 
of the farm.. 

I fully appreciate the valine pee neces- 
sity of mechanical equipment on the 
farm of. today—I do not for a moment 
think we should go back to horse farm- 
ing—but I do love a good team of horses 
or mules, and the illustration on the 
RECORD that came to my desk today 
brought it to mind, and I thought. I 
would let you know how I liked it. 

W. E. Taylor, Deere’ & Co., 
Moline, I. 


New Treaty With Cuba, 
To Aid Farm at 


It is estimated that the new trade 
treaty recently completed with Cuba will 
result in that country’s taking the output 
of nearly a million .acres of American 
farm lands. if the agreement works out 
as ised George N. Peek of Illinois, 
special . adviser to 
the..President on 
foreign trade, was 
instrumental 
in working out the 
agreement. 

Cuba sharply low- 
ered its tariff 
against lard and 
pork products, co:- 
ton seed, corn, and 
soybean oil, wheat 
flour, canned vege- 
tables and a number 
in return for 
import duty on Cuban 


GEO. N, PEEK 


lowering the 


sugar and tobacco. 


The loss of this market since 1928 be- 
cause. of the high Smoot-Hawley tariff, 
retaliatory tariffs by Cuba, and lower 
buying power in that country represented 
the output of 817,267 acres of American 
farm lands. 


Quality Milk Association had a special exhibit 
at the Mississippi Valley Fair, Davenport, Ia. 
showing a mechanical professor who gave a short 
talk every 10 minutes about the value of milk. 
The talk was recorded on a disc which auto- 
matically switched on every 10 minutes through- 
out the day. Manager Frank Watson reports that 
close to 60,000 people viewed the exhibit. 


I. A. A. RECORD 


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31,000 Farmers Are 
Refinanced in 15 Months 
By Walter L. Rust, President, 
Federal Land Bank of St. Louis 


URING the past 15 months, more 
than 31,000 farmers in the St. 
Louis farm credit district have 

been able to refinance their farm mort- 
gage loans with long-term, amortized 
Federal land bank or commissioner’s 
loans. These new loans have prevented 
foreclosures, reduced interest rates, and 
granted the farmer a longer time in 
which to work his way out of debt. _ 
The importance of the Federal Land 
Bank as a financing agency was em- 


phasized by passage of the Emergency 


Farm Mortgage Act of 1933, at a time 
when the farm mortgage situation was 
relatively frozen. 

For 16 years the Federal Land Bank 
of St. Louis had been making long term, 
amortized, farm mortage loans at low 
rates of interest. But during that 16 
year period, credit from other sources 
was plentiful. The farmer, to obtain a 
farm loan, did not have to leave his 
barnlot.. Money was pushed into his 
hands. And why not? Land was sell- 
ing at high prices and producing high 
priced crops and livestock. 

Land Drops Sharply 
By: 1933 this condition had changed. 


Land‘prices had dropped 97 points since - 


1920, and the farmer was fortunate if 
he got the cost of production from his 
crops and livestock. Creditors were de- 
manding that their money be paid at 
once. : ; 

The farmer, in searching for a straw 
to hold to, turned to the Federal Land 
Bank System, which, with the new idea 
of amortized loans, had been going along, 
year after year, gaining valuable ex- 
perience. 

Congress saw the. strategic position 
held by the 12 land banks of the na- 
tion. In these institutions rested the so- 
lution of the problem of the foreclosure- 
threatened, over-capitalized farmers. To 
aid them still further, the Emergency 
Farm Mortgage Act was passed. 

This Act, which received Executive 
approval on May 12, 1933, permits the 
land banks to make direct loans to bor- 
rowers in areas not served by a na- 
tional farm loan association. It grants 
interest. reductions to land bank bor- 
rowers, until 1938. It permits land bank 
borrowers to postpone principal pay- 
ments, and makes it possible for land 
banks to grant extensions to worthy bor- 
rowers and to reamortize such extensions. 
It ‘also provided for the land bank as 
agents of the Land Bank Commissioner 


to-make.loans for.as much as 75 per cent 


of ‘the appraised ‘value’ of the farm. im- 


OCTOBER, 1934 


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THE BOND COUNTY FARM BUREAU MAKES EFFECTIVE USE OF ITS WINDOW SPACE TO AD- 


vertise for Greater Membership. 


provements and personal property mort- 
gaged. However, the farmer is required 


‘to have a 25 per cent equity in his farm, 


and a reasonable possibility of working 
out of debt with normal prices and nor- 
mal management. 

The extent to which economic condi- 
tions and this legislation affected _the 
activity of the land banks is reflected in 
the records of the Féderal Land Bank of 
St. Louis. ee ? 

On May 1, 1933, after the Federal 
Land Bank had been in operation for 16 
years, the outstanding loans numbered 
31,020 for $97,015,372.91. On July 21, 
1934, less than 15 months after the 
financing campaign got under way, the 
Federal Land Bank on its own account 
and as agent of the Land Bank Com- 
missioner had closed 31,033 new loans 
for $92,902,400. 


100% Growth 


In other words, a 16-year-old institu- 
tion made a 100 per cent growth in but 
15 months. In these figures can be found 
evidence of the speed and efficiency with 
which the Land Bank has met the de- 
mands of financially distressed farmers 
of Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas. 

These 21,033 loans have stopped fore- 
closure action in thousands of cases. One 
farmer in discussing the Land Bank and 
his loan said: 

“The Land Bank has meant to me 
what a good father means to a 
worthy son. 

“The party holding my mortgage 
on my farm was overly anxious. to 
obtain the place for the outstanding 
indebtedness and was looking for- 
ward to immediate foreclosure and 
possession, knowing full :well that 
there was no place. in which I could 


seek relief through organizations 
and individuals. 

“But I fooled him. My land bank 
loan has given me a new interest in 
life. This isn’t such a tough old world 
after all.” 


Cut Interest Rates 


Land banks and commissioner’s loans 
have réduced: interest rates. On com- 
missioner’s loans the farmers pay 5 per 
cent interest while ‘on land bank loans 
made through national farm loan as- 
sociations ‘the interest rate is only 4% 
per cent until 1938. These amortized 
loans extend over a long period of time, 
ranging from 13 to 36 years. Each year 
a portion of the principal is paid’ to- 
gether with interest on the unpaid bal- 
ance. In many cases, these payments, in- 
cluding. both a portion of the principal 
and interest, are no more than the farm- 
er had been paying on interest alone. 

One happy farmer felt impelled to 
write the Land Bank a letter of thanks 
for his commissioner’s loan. He wrote: 

“For a number of years I have 
been paying 10 per cent interest on 
my loan and let me tell you it is 
such a pleasure to get out from un- 
der 10 per cent interest that I must 
write you a letter of appreciation. 

Words cannot express how glad I am 

to be given this easy plan. of paying 

my home out of debt with only 5 

per cent interest.” 

Although the Federal Land Bank of 
St..-Louis has loaned more than $92,- 
000,000 in less than 15 months, the total 
over-head indebtedness of the farmers 
of Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas has 
not been greatly increased by this re- 
financing program. 

Records reveal that 91 per cent of the 


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eG re ih py nant 


Cpa pee need arneee 


COUNTY WINNERS WHO COMPETED IN THE 1934 COUNTRY LIFE QUEEN CONTEST ON FARM BUREAU DAY, ILLINOIS STATE FAIR, AUG. 24. 
Miss Irene Bachman of Williamson county, seated, was crowned ‘‘Queen,’’ and Miss Marjorie Lambert, McLean county, standing directly behind her, was 


declared ‘‘Maid of Honor.’’ 


loan funds disbursed by the Federal Land 
Bank of St. Louis have been used to re- 
finance debts already owed by farmers. 

One of the best measures of the suc- 
cess of the Federal Land Banks in re- 
lieving the: farm credit distress can be 
found in the large decrease in the num- 
ber of letters received in Washington 
from farmers facing an emergency. Last 
November, the Farm Credit Administra- 
tion in Washington was receiving 600 let- 
ters daily from farmers whose cases de- 
manded prompt action. These letters 
have now dropped to. less than 50 daily. 


In this respect it should be noted that 
while the Frazier-Lemke Amendment to 
the Bankruptcy Act, since its purpose 
is to prevent occasional selfish creditors 
from foreclosing: on «distressed: farm 
debtors, is in accord with. the: program 
of the Farm Credit Administration. The 
activity of the Federal Land Banks in the 
past ‘year has relieved a great majority 
of the distressed farm mortgages, leav- 
ing’ only a slight minority -of~farmers 
who will have to go into bankruptcy to 
save their homes. 


The Federal Land Bank is not a relief 
device, neither is it a spender of taxpay- 
ers’ money. Loans are ‘made on a sound 
business basis. Formerly made from funds 
secured through the sale of bonds to 
the investing public, loans are now being 
closed in bonds of the Federal Farm 
Mortgage Corporation. The ready re- 
ception accorded these bonds by farmers 
and their creditors is responsible for the 
fact that during June the Federal Land 
Bank of St. Louis disbursed more than 
seventeen and one-half million dollars. 
This sum broke all previous records for 
loans closed in a month’s time. 


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The work of the Federal Land Bank 
is not finished. Applications for loans, 
while not approaching the volume re- 
ceived at the start of the refinancing 
program, continue to arrive. 

The land banks are designed to be 
permanent. They have served this gen- 
eration well. It should be the individual 
responsibility of every borrower to meet 
his obligations as they come due that 
the Land Bank System may continue to 
operate on a self-sustaining basis and 
serve future generations in the same 


manner as it.is serving this generation. 


The Farm Bureau is proud of the part it played 
in securitig the passage of the Emergency Farm 
Mortgage Act and other helpful measures early in 
1933, is appreciative of the aid that administration 
of this legislation. has brought to many distressed 
debtors.—Editor. 


Available Phosphorus 
Cuts Chinch Bug Loss 


Plenty of available phosphorus in the 
soil will help wheat overcome chinch 
bugs, according to L. B. Miller, associate 
in soil experiment fields at the State 
College of Agriculture. 

This consideration is particularly ap- 
plicable where wheat is to be planted 
following the harvesting of soybeans for 
seed, he says. 

In Macoupin county this year on Enos 
Waters’ farm, wheat on fallow ground 
yielded 28 bushels per acre, while on 
similar soil following soybeans, it re- 
turned only 18.9 bushels. 


Ground rock phosphate on soils de-. 


ficient in phosphorus has produced some 
outstanding results. An application of 
1,000 pounds per acre of rock phosphate 
on many soils is sufficient to grow beau- 
tiful crops of alfalfa ard clovers. 


May Use "Idle'’ Ground 
Next Year For Forage 


Wheat contract signers may plant 
their idle ground to forage crops in 1935. 
Grass and clover crops grown on such 
land may be used for hay, pasture or 
seed production. Wheat, corn, barley, 
rye and grain sorghums are forbidden 
but millet, soybeans, oats, etc. may be 
grown when used only for hay; pasture, 
or roughage. 


Seed to Sell? 


The Seed Department of the Farmers 
National Grain Corporation at Chicago 
advises that it will be glad to bid on all 
kinds of clover seeds, timothy, lespedeza, 
soybeans, and others grown by Illinois 
farmers. Send samples to the Corpora- 
tion in the Fisher building, Dearborn 
and Van Buren streets, Chicago. 

The Farmers National Seed Depart- 
ment is not only assisting farmers in 
disposing of seed, but also attempts to 
bring buyers and sellers together to the 
mutual advantage of both. 


Weather Forecasting 


Herbert. Janvrin Browne, long-range 
weather forecaster of Washington, D. C. 


recently offered a bulletin for $5 “cover- 


ing the causes of the drought and defi- 
nitely predicting when it will end.” An 
additional bulletin is offered “giving the 
dates of cold waves in the northwest, in 
the Mississippi Valley and the eastern 
states up to October 15, and naming spe- 


cifically the dates for killing frosts.” 


U. 8S. Weather Bureau officials take no stock in 
Browne’s forecasts, His forecast of rains in 
western states during August came true. Weather 
sd are now predicting a long cold winter. 
—Editor, 


I. A. A. RECORD 


Cm ha 


Farmers National Grain 
Annual Meeting Chicago 


During the month of July and August 
this year the Farmers National Grain 
Corporation handled 40,169,108 bushels 
of grain despite the shortest cereal crop 
within two generations and made a net 
profit of $683,182.04, which exceeds the 
loss of $662,503.87 for the fiscal year 
ending June 30, 1934. 

This information 
was given out in the 
annualreport of 
President C. E. Huff 
made to the stock- 
holders in Chicago, 
September 19. 

Mr. Huff stated 
that the capital of 
the Corporation, $1,- 
048,200, was unim- 
paired, surplus to- 
taled $64,178.13 and 
reserves $910,583,56. 

Overhead expense, the number of em- 
ployees, and salaries were drastically re- 
duced during the past year Mr. Huff said 
because of the substantial cut in volume 
handled resulting from short crops. 

Huff was re-elected president, and 
G. C. Johnstone, president. of Illinois 
Grain Corporation, was elected first vice- 
president to succeed W. H. Settle of In- 
diana who retired from the board. 


G. C, JOHNSTONE 


New Elevators 


During the past year the Corporation 
erected a new 2,000,000 bushel elevator 
at Amarillo, Texas—“the finest struc- 
ture of its kind in the southwest,” 
according to Geo. S. Milnor, general 
manager. A smaller elevator, serving 
both rail and water transportation, was 
built at Peoria, Illinois, and a 4,000,000 
‘bushel elevator was leased from the Rock 
Island‘ railroad in Chicago. 

~ “These steps have greatly strength- 
ened our terminal operations,” Mr. Huff 
said. “Our terminals are all at near 
capacity at present with sound stocks of 
grain. Country elevators held by the 
Corporation are being transferred to lo- 
cal ownership as rapidly as_ possible. 


Relationships between Farmers National : 


and the Farm Credit Administration are 
on a completely satisfactory basis, and 
excellent credit relations have been con- 
tinued with the commercial banks. Our 
merchandizing turnover is the heaviest 
in history, and our percentage of mar- 
ket handlings is increasing. The future 
seems secure.” 

Chief speakers during the luncheon 
program were Earl C. Smith, president 
of the Illinois Agricultural Association 
who appeared for President E. A. O’Neal 
of the A. F. B. F., unable to attend be- 
cause of illness; F. W. Peck, co-opera- 
tive loan commissioner of the Farm 


OCTOBER, 1934 


Build Up Reserves 


Build up your reserves as soon 
as you can, and maintain them. 
An organization that is consistently 
undernourished financially isn’t 
any better prepared to meet the 
buffetings of fate than is the child 
who has been perennially under- 
nourished from infancy. The'neces- 
sity for adequate reserves was 
never greater, faced as we have 
been and are by depression, drouth, 
and unparalleled economic con- 
ditions. 


Credit Administration; and Leroy Mel- 
ton, Greenville, Illinois, president, Na- 
tional Farmers Equity Union. 

Mr. Smith charged that the cry of 
“regimentation” came not from farmers 
but from opponents of farm surplus con- 
trol legislation who sought to make the 
A. A. A. Act unpopular with farmers. 
Anyone who knows the sincerity of 
Secretary Wallace, Administrator Davis 
and their co-workers he said, knows that 
they would be the last men to force any- 
thing on farmers that was not desirable. 

“The move to control farm surpluses 
and raise farm prices was first suggested 
by two industrialists—farm implement 
manufacturers—both of whom are now 
in prominent positions with the govern- 
ment,” said Mr. Smith. “These men are 
George N. Peek and Hugh S. Johnson 
who, back in 1922, published a book on 
the subject while they were associated 
at Moline, Ill. These men saw the need 
for bringing farm prices up to a level 
with industrial prices. , 

“Many platform speakers who are at- 
tacking the A. A. A. Act have never 
read it,” Mr. Smith continued. “Title one 
of this Act is a mandate to the Secretary 
of Agriculture to use one or more of sev- 
eral suggested ways, with the approval 


of the President, to restore certain basic 
farm commodities to parity price levels. 
All the principles of the old McNary- 
Haugen bill are in this Act. Authority 
is there for exporting farm surpluses at 
world prices and charging the loss 
against each unit of the commodity mar- 
keted. At present we are following the 
crop adjustment plan because that seems 
the only thing to do in view of wide- 
spread foreign embargoes and high tar- 
iffs against American farm products.” 

Mr. Peck warned that the biggest dan- 
ger to co-operatives comes from within. 
There is no fear about continuation of 
this system if farmers want it and 
choose leaders who have the ability and 
sincere desire to make it succeed. “At- 
tacks from private interests cannot hurt 
you,” he said. “You can capitalize on 
them. The Farm Credit Administration 
has a different interest than some cred- 
itors. Where there are profits from debt 
it is desirable to keep people in debt. The 
Administration’s chief interest is in get- 
ting you out of debt. Our motive is not 
to make profits but to serve.” 


The Fighting Spirit 


Mr. Melton stated that farmers had 
been negligent in letting the marketing 
end of their business slip out of their 
control. “The fighting spirit,” he as- 
serted, “is necessary to co-operative mar- 
keting development. I hope it never 
dies.” 

Resolutions were adopted supporting 
the Agricultural Adjustment Act and 
commending its administrators, opposing 
imports of grain until it is shown that 
domestic supplies are inadequate, urging 
amendment of the grain futures act to re- 
define the rights of co-operatives on con- 
tract.markets, recommending simplifica- 
tion and clarification of income tax laws 
as they apply to farm co-ops., and ex- 
pressing satisfaction over the fine rela- 
tionship existing between the Corpora- 
tion and Farm Credit Administration. 


THE MERCER COUNTY FARM BUREAU SOFT BALL TEAM WON THE COUNTY TOURNAMENT LAST 


July, and two weeks ago won the championship of the Aledo City League. 


Warren Hendricks, pitcher, 


has a record of 100 strikeouts in the last 10 games played. Left to right: Standing: Leslie Baldwin, Joe 


Moseley, Lewis Riddell, Lester J, Schroll, Glenn Millikan, Seated: H., 
Foster, Captain, Warren Hendricks, Clarence Runbom, J. 


also members cf the team, are not in picture, 


Parkman, Gerald Baldwin, Mark 
E, Harris, ex-farm adviser and Morris Ketzle, 


21 


|. F. S. Annual Meeting, 
Decatur, Oct. | 8th 


Co-op Expert to Speak 


The eighth annual meeting of Illinois 
Farm Supply Company will be held at 
the Orlando Hotel in Decatur Thursday, 
October 18. To it will come the officers, 
directors, and managers of the 58 affi- 
liated County Service Companies to hear 
from F. E. Herndon and L. R. Marchant, 
president and manager of I. F. S. respec- 
tively, the story of the greatest year in 
the company’s history. 


The principal speaker will be F. W. 
Peck, Cooperative Bank Commissioner for 
the Farm Credit Administration, Wash- 
ington, D. C. His subject will be “Effi- 
cient Business Procedure for Farm Coop- 
eratives,” which should interest everyone 
who is active in the development of the 
cooperative movement in this state. 


During the session, nine directors for 
the ensuing year will be elected to the 
state company from the voting group as- 
sembled. The present directors are: 
Grant Broster, Grayville; J. M. Eyman, 
Warrensburg; Frank J. Flynn, Wood- 
son; Fred E. Herndon, Macomb; H. A. 
Keele, Chesterfield; Harry Ebbert, Mon- 
trose; Thos. J. Penman, Yorkville; E. E. 
Stevenson, Streator; and Geo. F. Tullock, 
Rockford. There will be reports from the 
management on future plans of the com- 
pany as well as a full discussion of all 
phases of Illinois Farm Supply Company 
operation during the year. 


Boys And Girls Tune Up 
For Skilled Scere Club 


“Every barn lot a proving ground” 
seems to be the slogan of the more than 
300 sons and daughters of Farm Bureau 
members in each of the 28 counties who 
have organized their Skilled Drivers 
Clubs sponsored by the safety division 
of the I. A. A. 


If the space once reserved for farm 
implements be taken over by the family 
bus being put. through turns, stops, 
starts and solemn measuring of slides 
and skids, let no parent be perplexed. If 
he finds himself becoming interested in 
the rules of safe driving being studied 
by his offspring, let it not be considered 
weakness. For school and highway of- 
ficials, no less, have become interested 
in this wise Farm Bureau plan and are 
working for its success. Chambers of 
Commerce vote it a great idea. Insurance 
companies breathe easier for the younger 
generation _ and hint at lower insurance 
rates. 


Plans perfected, the Skilled Drivers 
Club‘set forth during September to build 


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a membership among Farm Bureau sons 
and daughters between 15 and 20 years 
old. To date 28 counties have organized. 
More are rapidly getting set up. During 
September each of the organized coun- 
ties held at least two rousing meetings 
with big attendance, Livingston taking 
the honors with no less than 12 meet- 
ings. 

They’re a serious bunch—these young- 
sters—as they listen to lectures and 
study up for their driving exams which 
will entitle them to a badge of merit if 
they pass, signifying driving excellence 
and a thorough knowledge of the “rules 
of the road.” A quick appraisal of the 
requirements has convinced them that 
it’s going to take some real skill to win 
a badge. So the word’s going around 
that it’s an honest to gosh honor to be- 
long to the Skilled Drivers Club and no 
foolin’. County Farm Bureau officers 
report a busy time of it handing out reg- 
istration blanks and test questions to 
aspirants for the honor of belonging. 

What’s more, there’s a chance that 
some youngster may win county honors 
and a cup—or district honors and a trip 
to the Annual Meeting of the I. A. A. 


Furmer Owned “ 


AGENCIES 
EAST ST.LOUIS 


PATRONIZE YOUR OWN BUSINESS 
SHARE ITS BENEFITS IN—_ - 


SERVICE 
SAVINGS 
BARGAINING POWER 
CREDIT FACILITIES 


tn Controlled 


at Quincy where the big, silver cup for 
statewide honors will be awarded. 

So, there’ll be plenty of practising in 
the barn lot this fall. And Farm Bureau 
members who ordinarily ride to town sit- 
ting on the edge of the seat as their heir 
takes the corners on two wheels will now 
sit back and relax with a Skilled Drivers 
Club member behind the wheel. 


Dr. Geo. H. Locke, director of the San 
Joaquin county, California Farm Bureau 
spent a day recently in the I. A. A. of- 
fices getting tips on the set-up and serv- 
ices of the state and county organiza- 
tions. “Your McLean County took the 
A. F. B. F. ‘biggest county membership’ 
cup away from us last year,” said Dr. 
Locke, “but we’re out to recapture it at 
the next meeting.” Dr. Locke has missed 
only three of the monthly meetings of 
his County Farm Bureau board in 20 
years. He also has attended an average 
of 10 Farm Bureau “center,” or commu- 
nity meetings in his county or adjoining 
counties each month during this period. 
“Don’t die until you have seen the won- 
ders of California,” is Dr. Locke’s mes- 
ange to Illinois members. 


INDIANAPOLIS 


I. A. A. RECORD 


N 


Number 11 


NOVEMBER, 1934 


Volume 12 


How Candidates Stand on Vital Issues 


Results of Questionnaires Presented to Candidates for Congress and the State 


T is important for farmers to know 
| how candidates for office stand on 
issues of chief interest to agriculture. 

_ It has long been the policy of the Illi- 
nois Agricultural Association to deter- 
mine the attitude of candidates regard- 
less of party, and to present voting rec- 
ords wherever possible, on questions and 
issues in which farmers are vitally in- 
terested. Just now Illinois farmers are 
concerned as to whether can- 
didates for Congress will vote 
to uphold and protect the Ag- 
ricultural Adjustment Act. 
They want to know if such 
candidates, if elected, will vote 


FOR YOUR OWN 
sharp increase in propert 


Legislature in. Illinois 


reau presidents submitted the following 
statement and questionnaire to candi- 
dates for Congress from Illinois: 


Statement on AAA 


“The Agricultural Adjustment Act was 
enacted by Congress as the result of the 
organized effort of farmers covering a 
period of 12 years, to secure enabling 
legislation necessary to control surpluses 


Vote for the Bond Issue 
PROTECTION 


AGAINST 
taxes next year vote “YES” 


restoring and maintaining parity prices 
for named basic crops. To repeal this 
Act would be in effect saying that farm- 
ers were not entitled to such support and 
assistance of Government in securing 
and maintaining parity price levels for 
their products. 

“The Farm Bureau movement of IIli- 
nois and the Nation worked to secure 
the preparation and enactment of this 
law. They are against un- 
friendly amendments and cer- 
tainly unalterably opposed to 
its repeal. The Farm Bureau 
A will use its influence as experi- 
ence warrants to secure more 


to protect the Adjustment Act 
from unfriendly amendments 
and repeal. 


There are at least two lead- 
ing state issues in which farm- 
ers are interested, namely, 


1. Amendment of the reve- 
nue article of the state con- 
stitution definitely limiting 
property taxes, and granting 
the General Assembly broad 
powers to tax other sources of 


on the $30,000,000 bond issue in the election Tuesday, 
November 6. 

Unless this bond issue carries, a tax of $30,000,000 
will be spread on all INinois preperty in 1935 to pay 
for unemployment relief expenditures already made. 
If the bond issue passes the bonds will be retired out 
of gas tax revenues to counties and municipal- 


accruing 
ities which received funds * de the Illinois Emergency 
Relief Commission. The state is authorized to with- 
hold counties’ and state’s share of gas tax funds in 
proportion to the —— of relief funds allotted them. 


While the I. A. A. opposed appropriations by the 
legislature which made this bond issue necessary, it now 
supports the bond issue because its adoption is: the 
only way to avoid levying an additional $7,500,000 on 


simple, practical and effective 
administration of this law. 


“As a candidate for Con- 
gress, your reply to the follow- 
ing question will be appreci- 
ated and you can be assured 
that your expressed position 
will be used only in such man- 
ner as is accorded all candi- 
dates for the office you are 
seeking: 


revenue. 


2. Legislation empowering 
and requiring each county to 
provide relief for its own des- 
titute people before calling on 
state and federal aid. Stopping further 
diversion of gasoline taxes and using 
such revenues to put the unemployed to 
work building all-weather farm to mar- 
ket roads. 

In meetings held in September 1,400 
County Farm Bureau leaders unanimous- 
ly authorized and directed that the I. 
A. A. prepare questionnaires for them to 
submit to candidates for Congress and 
for the state legislature on the issues 
outlined above. 

In response to this demand the As- 
sociation prepared questionnaires and its 
board of directors and County Farm Bu- 


farm 
SMALL BOND ISSUE BALLOT TO RELIEVE PROP- 
ERTY OF THIS INCREASED BURDEN. Failure to 
vote is the same as voting “NO.” 


property in 1935. VOTE “YES” 


of farm production, in order that reason- 
able price levels might be restored and 
maintained for basic farm crops. Much 
confusion seems to exist in the minds 
of citizens (including many candidates 
for public office) as to the merit of the 
provisions of the Agricultural Adjust- 
ment Act. Such confusion is largely the 
result of propaganda emanating from 
unfriendly sources. 

“The Agricultural Adjustment Act 
merely provides a mandate of Congress 
upon the Secretary of Agriculture to 
use one of several ways, when approved 
by the President, to assist farmers in 


ON 


QUESTION: If elected to 
Congress, will you support 
farmers in their efforts to pro- 
tect the Agricultural Adjust- 
ment Act from unfriendly 
amendments and repeal? 

The table presented herewith shows 
the response of the various candidates on 
this issue. 


Replies of Candidates for Congress 
At larga, two to ba voted for 


THE 


Michael L. Igoe .......cceececccvccces 

Martin A. Brennan ............. No report 

C. Wayland Brooke .............sssee. Yes 

Milton HB, Jomes ............--eececees Yes 

Dist. 

Hdward A. Kelly ..........5-+:- No report 

Frank M. Fulton ......; Vereen ews aOue Yes 
7th Dist. 

Leonard W. Schuetz ..............eeeee Yes 

Raymond J. Peacock ............ No report 
10th Dist, 

David B. Maloney ............eeceeees Yes 

Ralph BB, Church ...........scesecseee Yes 
llth Dist. 

James A. Howell ...........--seesecees Yes 

Chauncey W. Reed st Cis & bie bh aeoheen Yeu 


Published monthly by the Dlinois Agricultural Association at 165 So. Main Street, Spencer, Ind. Editorial Offices, 608 So. net St., Chicago, Ill, Entered 


as second class matter at post office, Spencer, Ind. 


authorized Oct. 27, 1925. 


Acceptance for mailing at ‘special rates of postage 
Address all communications for publication to Editorial Offices, Iilinois Agricultural Association Record, c06 So. Dearborn 8St., Chicago. 


provided in Section 4 Act of Feb, 28, 1925, 


NO ROOM 
FOR You! 


12th Dist.. 

Sesh ie MOOI Sioa yo Gale e nas yeeein'e't bee ie Yes 

Foun PT; Buckbee.:.1. 6c cco vied eek cb kee Yes 
18th Dist, 

Orestes H. Wright (deceased) 

CE NO os os keno vlees bccebness ces Yes 
14th Dist. 

Chester Thompson ................6000. Yes 

le ON on ck wok ccen vewediay eck's Yes 
15th Dist, 

J. Leroy Adair... 0 le cele cee Yes 

Burnett M., Chiperfield .............. Yes 
16th Dist. 

Rayburn L. Russell ................... Yes 

Everett M. Dirksen .................45. Yes 
17th Dist. hee 

Pramk Gitlegple 0 oon. vec eheldiewe bse Yes 

Bas UNO cia wenn ccovoecesnawes seers Yes 


18th Dist. 
James A. Meeks—Stated he is for program 
and in full accord with the I, A. A. 


Elmer A, Taylor .............. + Favorable 
19th Dist, : 
Donald C. Dobbins ........,....0eeeeee Yes 
Charles H,. Pietcher ...............00. Yes 
20th Dist, 
Scott Lucas .......... oT ean Sekt tale en's Yes 
Warren BE. Wright ...... Ne Caw aaron 44 ..Yes 
2lst Dist. 
Henry H. Magon ............5 655. .. Yes . 
Frank M, Ramey ............:.........Yes 
22nd Dist, | 
Edwin M. Schaefer .....:....... Res Yes 
Jesse R. Brown ...............6..-e :.. Yes 
23rd Dist, 


' William W. Arnold—‘‘Will ddatinae’ doing 
all I can to forward .program.”’ 


Ben O. Summer .........cceneceececes Yes 
24th Dist. 

Claude V. Parson ...-.............0. Yer 

James V. Heidinger .....'............ Yes 
25th Dist, fre 

Kent B. Keller .4/........ 0c. cece ccee Yes. 

J. Lester Buford ........... kd saianbaes Yes 


Revenue Amendment 


‘The gross injustice of. ‘the general 
property tax is generally admitted. Under 
the present state constitution more than 
dne-half the people of Illinois.able to pay 
taxes, and three-fourths of. the net in- 
come of the entire population, are vir- 
tually exempted from taxes. They can- 
not be taxed equitably until the present 
revenue article is properly amended. * 

In the last 18 years Illinois voters have 
rejected four proposed changes in~ the 
revenue article. None of. these proposals 
gave owners of real estate and tangible 
property any assurance of protection 
from confiscatory taxes. Therefore none 
won the general support even of property 
owners. It will be extremely difficult for 
any amendment of the revenue article to 
secure the votes necessary for approval. 
There must be some inducement offered 


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PASSING 


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to property owners to vote for it. For 
this reason the I. A. A. insists upon a 
constitutional limitation of general taxes 
upon any property, except for bonded in- 
debtedness, to not more than one per 
cent of its fair cash value. 


In line with this policy the following 
question was submitted to each candi- 
date for the state legislature in the 
election on November 6: 


Question: Will you, if elected to the Gen- 
eral Assembly, work and vote for the 
submission of an. amendment to the rev- 
enue article of the State Constitution, 
containing the following provisions? 


1. Limiting the taxes which may be 
levied on any tangible property, to . 


one per cent of its fair cash value, 
except for presertt indebtedness and 
for new indebtedness voted’ by the 
‘people, inclu 4 interest. thereon. 
2. Granting: the’ General Assembly 
‘+ -broad’powers: to tax by appropriate 
~/ methods. other sources of . reverilié 


+. Unemployment. Relief | 
“When: the: depression: deepened, cand 


serious unemployment resulted :«there- | 


from, the Illinois. Agricultural Associa- 
tion recognized the necessity of provid- 
ing public funds for the temporary re- 
lief of destitute people. From the begin- 
ning, however, it questioned the methods 
of providing and administering such pub- 
lic funds. It has insisted that the con- 
tinuance of such methods would in- 
evitably result in waste of funds and 
what is infinitely worse, a permanent 
dole system in Illinois with all its attend- 
ing evils. 

The Illinois Agricultural Association 
believes that it is first the duty of every 
community and county to assume re- 
sponsibility for its worthy unemployed. 
The present system of relief is increas- 
ingly robbing recipients of their self-re- 
spect: More and more it is relieving 


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people able to work of any desire or in- 
centive to work. 

Local respo sibilities and interest can- 
not be secured by use of National and. 
State funds unless the local communities 
and municipalities are first required to 
provide relief to the limit of their ability. 
They cannot be secured by using the 
process of deferred taxes in the form of 
state bond ‘issues or by diverting gaso- 
line taxes from their proper use in road 
and street improvement. Such diversions 
only increase unemployment and the de- 
mands for relief for which they are mad>. 

In the opinion of the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association. the time has come for 
the, state to restore and to require local 
responsibility for relief: 

Believing extremely important that 
Illinois farmers know the attitude. of 


—eandidates on. these, questions, the As- 
‘sociation, through its board of directors 


and County Farm Bureau presidents, 
prepared and submitted the following 


he questions: 
either - not ‘now. taxable: at’ all, or”. ” 


easily. evading taxation. = sf 


If elected’ to ‘the. ‘General Assembly, 
will you: > 

1, Work and vote FOR legislation em- 

_.. powering and requiring every coun- 
ty, or the townships or other mu- 
nicipalities therein, to do their full 
part in equitably providing revenue 
for their own relief needs before 
they are entitled to aid by the 
state, and requiring each relief tax- 
ing unit to administer such funds? 

2. Work and vote AGAINST any leg- 

islation further diverting gasoline 
taxes for relief or any other pur- 
poses, and protect such taxes for 
their intended use in improving the 
highways and streets, thereby pro- 
viding large amounts for greatly 
needed employment. 

Leaders in the Farm Bureau movement 
made every reasonable effort to present 
these questions to every candidate. 

The accompanying table presents the 
results of this effort. 


I. A. A. RECORD 


ad 


Replies of Candidates to State Legislative Questionnaire 


IF ELECTED TO THE LEGISLATURE WILL YOU WORK AND VOTE 


Amendm For legislation 

ae 8 Seen See uiring proper|Against any 

Limiting taxes taxing units tojle gi slation 

on tang ible(franting power|rovide equitable|diverting gas- 

property to notito tax otheripevenne for re-joline taxes 

over 1% of ac |®°Urces Of; 4e¢ before re-ifrom roads 
tual value revenue ceiving State Aid| and streets 


7th Senate (Rural section of Cook and parts of Chicago) 


Charles F. Baumrucker Yes Yes Yes Yes 
Arthur J, Bidwell Yes Yes Yes Yes 
House 
Frank G. Ring Non- Yes Yes Yes. condi- 
Committal tionally 
Oscar 8. Johnson Yes Yes Yes Yes 
Frank FE. Foster Yes Yes - Yes Yes 
Bernice T. Van Der  Non- Yes Yes Yes 
Vries Committal 
8th House (Boone, Lake and McHenry) 
Thomas A, Bolger No Yes Yes No 
Richard J. Lyons Yes Yes Yes Yes 
William M. Carroll Yes Yes Yes Yes 
10th House (Winnebago and Ogle) 
Frank B. Wilson Non- No reply Yes ‘*‘Will answer 
: Committal at proner time’’ 
Leroy M. Green Yes, for its Yes Yes Yes 
submission 
David Hunter, Jr. Yes Yes Yes Yes 
Carl O. Nyman Yes Yes Yes Yes 
12th House (Carroll, JoDaviess and Stephenson) 
Chas D. Franz Yes Yes Yes Yes 
Homer Curtiss Yes Yes Yes Yes 
Non- Non- 
John A. Bingham Committal Committal Yes Yes 
Non- 
Edward FE, Laughlin Committal Yes Yes Yes 


14th House (Kane and Kendall) 


John F. Petit No report No report No report No report 

John M. Peffers ‘Should be a Non- ‘*For general Non- 
real limitation’’ Committal program’’ Committal 

Frank A. McCarthy No report No report No report No report 


16th House (Livingston, Marshall, Putnam, Woodford) ' 
William Vicars Non-Committal Non-Committal Non-Committal Non-Committal 
Calistus A. Bruer Yes Yes Yes Yes 


Charles M. Turner Favorable Favorable Favorable Favorable 
’ 
18th House (Peoria) e 
Edward J. Gorman Yes Yes . Non-Committal Non-Committal 
Clarence P. Scott Yes Yes Yes Yes 
Leo D. Crowley Yes Yes Yes Yes 
20th House (Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee) Yes, except in 
James T. Burns ‘For specific Yes Yes great crisis 
limitation’”’ ‘So long as emer- 
Ben W. Alpiner Non- Non- Yes gency demands, 
Committal Committal think it proper to 
divert’’ , 
Luther B. Bratton Yes Yes Yes Yes" * 
Harry L, Topping Yes Yes Yes Yes 
22nd House (Kdgar and Vermilion) 
wpa $45 TE “Yes, but not too , S 
P. J. Breen gi: «Yes much power’’ Yes Yes 
W. 0. Edwards .,, Yes Yes Yes Yes 
.Walter J; Book- ‘! Yes -- Yes Yes Yes 
" Walter 
‘Hy M, Luekey « Yes Yes Yes Yes 
-24th- House (Champaign, Moultrie, Piatt) 
Hugh M. Rigney Yes Yes Yes Yes 
E. BEB. Sturdyvin ..Yes Yes Yes Yes 
‘Everett R. Peters +/‘Yes, provided both: are Yes Yes 
) ’- adopted’’ 
Roger F. Little . Opposes Favors : - Favors Favors 
limitation ae 
"26th House (Ford, McIean) : Yes, ‘condi- 
Joseph: W. Russell. Yes Yes Yes tionally 
D. J. Sammon Yes Yes Yes Yes . 
Maurice 0; Kalahar Yes ’ Yes “ Yes ° -Yes 
G. J. Johnson Yes Yes Yes Yes 
28th House (DeWitt, Logan, Macon) Yes, unles emer- 
Verne R. Johnson Yes Yes Yes “. geney exists 
Nicholas L., Hubbard Favors Favors Favors Favors 
W. C. Chynoweth Yes Yes Yes : Yes 
Dan Dinneen Yes Yes Yes ' Yes 
80th House (Brown, Cass, Mason, Menard, Schuyler, Tazewell) 
H. V. Teel Yes, condi- Yes Yes Yes, except in ex- 
tionally treme emergencies 


Glen Petefish 


“I expect to support the Agricultural Program’’ 
Homer J. Tice 


‘‘Have frequently spoken for these very propositions”’ 


Robert H. Allison Yes Yes Yes Yes 
$2nd House (Hancock, McDonough, Warren) 

Ross E. Noper Yer Yes Yes Yes 
Lawrence H. Stice Yes Yes Yes Yes 
Claude R, Thomas Yes Yes Yes Yes 


T. Mac Downing ‘‘Favors reason- Yes Yes Yes 
able limitation’’ 


38rd Senate (Henderson, Mercer, Rock Island) 


Robert M. Harper -Yes, condi- Yes Yes Favor, except for 
tionally possible emergency 

William B. Schroder Yes Yes Yes Yes 

38rd House 

Thos. P. Sinnett Yes, qualified Yes Yes Yes 

Clinton Searle “T am in favor of the above principles.”’ 

Harry M. McCaskrin Yes Yes Yes Yes 

34th House (Clark, Coles, Douglas) 

J. M. Turner No report No report No report No ‘report 


For legislation 
Bache lb Sth ine erenanassrocsned requiring proper|Against any 
Limiting taxes waxing waite toil 6g } siation 
on tang ible(Granting powerlprovide equitable|diverting gas- 
property to not|t? tax oOtherirevenue for re-loline ta xes 
over 1% of ac-@Ources Ofjie¢ before re-\from roads 


tual value revenue ceiving State Aid| and streets 
Victor H. McDonald Yes Yes Yes Yes 
Chas, G, Strohm Yes Yes Yes Yes 
Orion B. Goble Yes Yes Yes Yes 
85th Senate (DeKalb, Lee, Whiteside) 
Henry J. White Yes Yes Yes Yes 
George C. Dixon Yes Yes Yes Yes 
85th House 
John P. Devine Non-Committal Non-Committal Non-Committal Non-Comniittal 
Dennis J. Collins Yes Yes Yes Yes 
Henry C. Allen Yes Yes Yes Yes 
36th House (Adams, Calhoun, Pike, Scott) 
Jos. FE. Heckenkamp No report No report No report No report 
‘*Do not believe 
Non- Non- Non- in diversion un- 
Thomas J. Lenane Committal Committal Committal less absolutely 
necessary’”’ 
Henry F. Scarborough ‘‘Could favor Yes Yes Yes 
if convinced’’ 
37th Senate (Bureau, Henry, Stark) 
James H. Andrews Yes, condi- Yes Yes Yes, except in 
tionally emergency 
Thomas P. Gunning Yes Yes Yes Yes 
House 
Henry Knauf Yes Yes Yes Yes, Condi- 
tionally 
George F. Hayes Yes, condi- Yes Yes Yes, except in 
tionally acute emergency 
Frederick W. RennickFears difficulty Yes Yes. Yes 
; in administering 
James A. Nowlan Yes Yes Yes Yes 
38th House (Greene, Jersey, Macoupin, Montgomery) 
Frank W. Fries Yes Yes Yes Yes 
Dr. Frank A. Stewart Yes Yes Yes Yes 
Hugh W. Cross Yes Yes Yes Yes, under present 
conditions 
39th Senate (I.aSalle) : 
James R, Johnson “Yes, provided Yes Yes Yes 
, new constitution 
N. M. Mason - Yes ‘ Yes Yes Yes 
House 
Edmond P.. Conerton No report No report No report No report 
._Edward G. Hayne... Yes -.. Yes Yes. Yes 
O. BH. Benson’ Yes Yes Yes Yes 
R. G. Soderstrom... Yes | 2 Yes "Yes " Yes 
40th Senate, (Christian, Cumberland, Fayette, Shelby) _ =. . 
John~W. Fribley' ~ Yes Yes Yes Yes 
J. W..Spregper. f Yes * + '> «Yes a. a. Fie a, Yes 
. House — 
Sam §S. Lorton Conditional Favors Favors Conditional 
C, F, .Basterday - - ..No report, ~. No report No: report °~ No report 
Henry D. Sparks . Yes ar Yes Yes 3 Yes 
‘Will. P.. Welker : Yes " “Ses * ? Yes Yes,’-except in case 
se ag e act . of extreme .necessity 
4lst Senate (DuPage, Will) 
‘John V.. McCarthy -‘ Yes os Yes «- Yes ‘  Yes*- 
Richard J. Barr Favor Favor Favor Yes,. except in case 
BG eR , of extreme necessity 
|, House _, a sS + de ny 2 Spey we coeoereaas | vo 
‘Michael F. Hennebry ‘Yes Yes Yes “ Yes, con- 
he res a o> a a 1% ditionally 
Lottie eg, Yes Yes Yes Yes 
John L, alker. Yes -~:.! Yes ~'Yes° Yes 
Warren L,. Wood . _ Yes: . Yes eXOhns : Yes . 
42nd House (Clay, Clinton, Effingham, Marion)  _ te 
George J: Bauer * \ Favorable Favorable ‘ Favorable .. Favorable 
A.. B. Lager 1, ORs . Yes Yes » Yes 
R, J. Branson Not entirely Yes Yes _. Yes 
: favorable Rear Str 
48rd: Senate (Fulton, Knox) ~ j 
M. P. Rice Favorable Favorable Favorable Favorable... 
Clinton L. Ewing Yes Yes Yes Yes = 
48rd House . 
Frank W. McClure Yes Yes Yes Yes 
Ray Simkins Yes | Yes . Yes Yes, except in 
. emergency 
E. W. Mureen Favors tax Favors Favors Opposed to 
. limitation diversion 
Reed F. Cutler Yes Yes Yes Yes 
44th House (Jackson, Monroe, Perry, Randolph, Washington) 
Jos. H. Davis Yes Yes Yes Yes. con- 
ditionally 
A, A. Brands Non- Yes Yes If conditions get 
Committal worse, will vote to 
' use some existing 
tax 
R. G. Crisenberry Yes Yes Yes Yes 
Elbert Waller Yes Yes Yes Yes 
45th Senate (Morgan, Sangamon) 
S. I. Gresham Thinks 1% too Yes Yes No answer 
low a_ figure 
Earl B. Searcy Yes Yes Yes Yes 
House 
David Evans Yes Yes Yes Yes 
Allan Cole (deceased) 
Hugh Green Yes Yes Yes Yes 
. Willlam J. Lawler Yes Yes Yes Yes 


NOVEMBER, 1934 


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Replies of Candidates to State Legislative Questionnaire 


IF ELECTED TO THE LEGISLATURE WILL YOU 
For 
requiring proper|Against any 
taxing units tol eg i slation 
provide equitable diverting gas- 
revenue for re-joline ta xes 
lief before re-from roads 
ceiving State Aid| and streets 


For a Revenue Amendment 


Limiting taxes 

on tang ible| Granting power 

property to not/to tax other 

over 1% of ac-SOurces of 
tual value revenue 


46th House (Jasper, Jefferson, Richland, Wayne) 


Laurence F, Arnold Yes, condi- Yes 
tionally 
Hardy M. Swift Yes Yes 


Glenn H. Sunderland Yes 
E. H. Childress 


Yes 
“Would give Yes 
earnest consid- 


eration”’ 

47th Senate (Bond, Madison) 
James O. Monroe No Yes 
Alvin C. Bohm Yes Yes 
House 
Schaefer O'Neill Yes Yes 
Lloyd (Curly) Harris Yes, con- Yes 

ditionally 


Yes 
Yes 


I, H. Streeper Yes 
Schuyler B, Vaughan Yes 


48th House (Crawford, Edwards, Gallatin, 
Tawrence, Wabash, White) 


Hardin, 


F. W. Lewis ‘‘Limitation Yes 
unnecessary’”’ 

T. W. Hall Yes Yes 

John R, Thompson Yes Yes 

Fred A. Reavill Yes Yes 


legislation 


49th Senate (St. Clair) 


Yes Yes, con- Louis J. Menges Yes 


Limiting taxes| 
‘on tang ible/Granting power|provide equitable|diverting gas- 
property to not, 
over 1% 

tual value 


WORK AND VOTE 


| For a Revenue Amendment 0! _ legislation 


requiring proper|Against any 
taxing units tojleg islation 
ax other/evenue fer re-joline ta xes 
of ac-SOUrces Of jef before re-\from roads 
revenue = |ceiving State Aid! and streets 


Yes Yes Yes 


ditionally W. R. Weber Yes Yes Yes Yes 
Yes Yes House 
Yes - Yes Frank Holton - No report No report No report No report 
Yes Yes Dr. A. H. Smith on- Non- Non- Non- 
Committal Committal Committal Committal 
R. H. ‘“‘Rudy’’ 
Huschle Yes Yes Yes Yes 
Yes Yes Calvin D. Johnson Yes Yes Yes Yes 
Yes Yes 50th House (Alexander, Franklin, Pulaski, Un‘on, Williamson) 
Louie E, Lewis Yes Yes Yes Yes, except in ex- 
treme emergency 
Yes Yes Chas. A. Koehler No report No report No report No report 
Yes Yes M. F. Browner Yes Yes Yes Yes 
Wallace A. Bandy Non- Non- _ Non- von- 
Ss i Committal Committal Committal Committal 
5lst Senate (Hamilton, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Saline) 
Kenneth L. Jones Yes Yes Yes Yes 
Oral P. Tuttle Yes Yes Yes Yes 
Yes Sees no necessity of House 
further diversion John C, Upchurch Yes Yes Yes Yes 
Yes Yes Paul Powell Yes Yes Yes Yes 
Yes Yes Abner Field Yes Yes Yes Yes 
Yes Yes R. R. Randolph Yes Yes Yes Yes 


Whiteside Leads in Sign-up 


Whiteside county is leading the state 
in the Farm Bureau membership cam- 
paign launched during “Decision Week,” 
Oct. 8-13. 

By October 17 Whiteside had signed 
204 new members to bring the total 
membership up to 1,112, the highest in 
at least eight years. “I think that an- 
other hundred will join the Farm Bureau 
before the end of the year,” reports F. 
H. Shuman, farm adviser. 

“The results of the drive, in my opin- 
ion,” he says, “came as a result of: (1.) 
Selecting large number of workers. (2.) 
Training and giving information to these 
workers at local and county-wide meet- 
ings. All workers attended at least two 
meetings and some three or four. (3.) 
During the two-day drive the county, 
district and township leaders checked 
their men as to the results secured each 
day. (4.) Bringing all solicitors to one 
mass meeting and establishing goals for 
each township. (5.) Limiting the drive 
to two days. 

“T think it is a mistake to ask volun- 
teer men to give more time than that. 
Whenever you get more than 50 per 
cent of the farmers in the county as 
members, it is easier to sign new ones. 
I like the organization director plan and 
think it fits the needs of Whiteside coun- 
ty in organization work. A full-time di- 
rector who will select, train, and check 
volunteer leaders is much more valuable 
than the system we followed in the past.” 

Lowell S. Johnson is organization di- 
rector in Whiteside county. He and Mr. 
Shuman, in co-operation with the board 
of directors, selected one man for every 
three townships. Guy Gridley had charge 


of Fulton, Ustick and Union Grove; Rus- 
sell Mathew—Clyde, Mt. Pleasant and 
Hopkins townships; O. C. Beatty—Gen- 
esee, Jordan, and Sterling townships; 
Walter Condon — Hume, Montmorency, 
Coloma and Hahnaman; Frank Moews— 
Portland, Prophetstown and Tampico; 
Roy Thorpe—Erie, Fenton and Lyndon 
townships; and Charles Vogt—Garden 
Plain, Newton and Albany townships. 


Genesee township led with 25 new » 


members, Prophetstown 18, Union Grove 
18, Newton 13, Jordan 12, Sterling 11, 
Hopkins and Lyndon 10 each, etc. Don 
Zuidema and John Arians of Union 
Grove township, both volunteer solicitors, 
signed 7 out of 8 prospects the first day, 
Shuman said. 

David R. Reynolds of Morgan county 
reports 23 new members signed up to 
Oct. 18 and 104 reinstated. “Work still 
going strong,” he writes. “We expect 100 
more in near future.” Sangamon county 
is in the midst of a membership cam- 
paign. Farm Adviser Ed Bay and the 
Sangamon County Farm Bureau are get- 
ting good support from the Springfield 
papers. Read their Editorials on Page 9. 

Incomplete reports from many other 
counties showed membership work in 
progress. Clay Agee, organization direc- 
tor in Pike county, reported that dues 
are being paid and new members signing 
up. The drive is to be continued until 
October 23, the day of the annual Farm 
Bureau meeting. 

In Iroquois county L. E. Kirkton re- 
ported eight new members signed and 
considerable delinquent dues collected. 
Edgar county has been steadily adding 
new members, reports county organiza- 


STILL GOING UP 


tion director Zeis Gumm. An advertise- 
ment was inserted in the Paris Beacon- 
News playing up the radio address from 


station WENR delivered by President 


Earl C. Smith. Edgar county was 
scheduled to concentrate its membership 


- campaign the week beginning Oct. 22. 


C. P. Boggess of Madison and Bond 
counties reported 25 to 30 members 
signed. Randolph county was planning its 
membership campaign for Oct. 26 and 
27. E. F. Coll, organization director in 
Henry county, wrote 11 new members 
himself. Eighty attended the meeting of 
chairman and district workers. “Our 
county will be slow but we are deter- 
mined to make our quota,” writes Coll. 

From all sections of Illinois came re- 
ports that farmers were busy putting up 
late planted soybean hay during the ideal 
weather the first half of October. Corn- 
hog referendum meetings and distribution 
of benefit payments kept farm advisers 
and officials of county corn-hog associa- 
tions on their toes during this period. 
Membership work will be carried on 
throughout the fall in most counties as 
erganization committees with township 
and school district chairmen are com- 
pleted. 


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The Key to National Recovery 


By Earl C. Smith, President, Illinois Agricultural Association 


Excerpts from 30-minute adaress over Siation WENR, 
hicago, October | / 

S EARLY as 1922, some of the 
A best farm and business thinkers 

in America recognized the neces- 
sity for full and effective control of sur- 
plus production of farm crops. They 
definitely predicted that if failure to find 
ways and means of this control was en- 
countered, the net result of such failur 
would ultimately undermine every satis 
business structure in America. Their 
predictions were 
scoffed at. People 
generally then, and 
even yet some few, 
fail to recognize 
what is meant by 
the term “agricul- 
tural surpluses.” 

I, of course, rec- 
ognize that with 
millions of American 
citizens lacking 
proper food, it is 
difficult for one not 
having full informa- 
tion to understand what is meant by the 
term “farm surplus”... . 


World War Cause 


Agricultural surpluses, the basic cause 
of low farm prices, resulted from the 
World War. Every adult of those un- 
fortunate years will certainly remember 
the three great appeals then made by 
President Wilson. The first one was to 
the mothers of America to give of the 
flower of the young manhood of the 
American home—American boys. It:was 
said they were necessary to win the war 
and’ save the world for democracy. 

The second appeal was to the indus- 
tries of America to run night and day 
manufacturing the munitions of’ war. 
They were given government assurance 
of profits above cost of production, what- 
ever those costs might be. 

The third appeal‘ was to the American 
farmer. He was’ called upon to raise 
all possible food supplies. He was told 
that food was: a first essential to win 
the war. The American farmer was told 
that it was his'duty not only to feed 
American armies in Europe, but to pro- 
vide food necessary to assist in feeding 
the allied armies. The mothers re- 
sponded, industry responded and the 
American farmer responded. Forty mil- 
lion acres were added to the cultivated 
acres of the United States. The close 
of the war found America with this vast 
increase in its cultivated areas. We had 
become a creditor nation instead of a 
debtor nation, as a result of the World 


EARL C, SMITH 


NOVEMBER, 1934 


War. This, in itself, placed limitations 
upon the export outlets for American 
farm products and these exports have 
continually declined. ... 

As a result of the first: year’s adminis- 
tration of the Agricultural Adjustment 
Act, the outlook confronting corn-hog 
farmers, particularly, is much different 
than that of a year ago. We do not have 
surpluses confronting us, therefore, the 
problem is comparatively simple. 

Through licensing distributors under 
the act, dairy prices are improving; 
wheat is much higher. 


The Question 


The paramount question now is: Will 
farmers strengthen their organization, 
which is necessary for continuing and 
permanent improvement of farm condi- 
ditions? I am convinced that if we do 
not continue a program of reasonable 
and practical planning of our production 
of wheat, corn and hogs as well as other 
grain crops, we will soon again find our- 
selves faced with cheap corn, lower 
wheat prices and later a further break- 
down of livestock prices. 

If grain production is kept within rea- 
sonable limits livestock, and to a degree 
dairy prices, will take care of themselves. 
Let corn acreage run wild and with av- 
erage weather the old cycle of cheap 
corn, and, in a year or two, cheap hogs 
and cattle will return. 

We must, therefore, hold fast to the 
gains we have made. We must fight to 
retain, so long as they are needed, the 
principles of the Agricultural Adjust- 
ment Act, if agriculture is to regain and 
hold a fair share of the national income. 
So long as we have a regimented price 
structure throughout industry, transpor- 
tation and the professions, agriculture 
has no other choice if it is to avoid. pov- 


erty, than to maintain a comparable 
’ price 
‘through controlled production. 


structure for farm products 


The Solution 


In effective farm organization lies the 
assurance of continuing these policies. 
In such organization, farmers are of- 
fered their best guarantee that the ad- 
ministration of these policies of govern- 
ment will continue under the direction 
of men who throughout the years have 
been leaders in the fight to secure equal- 
ity of opportunity for farm people. 

We will succeed to the extent that we 
are organized. I, therefore, request and 
urge every Farm Bureau member to 
make it his or her business to secure an 
additional participating Farm Bureau 


member within the next few days which © 


Huff Speaks At Tuscola 


C. E. Huff, president of Farmers Na- 
tional Grain Corporation, described the 
Agricultural Adjustment program as an 
emergency measure from which there 
was no alternative, in an address to 500 
people in Tuscola, Douglas county, Sep- 
tember 27. The occasion was the annual 
meeting of the Tuscola (Cooperative 
Grain Company. The business session 
was held in the afternoon and the larger 
evening meeting at the high school. 

“T have no use,” said Mr. Huff, “for 
an economy of scarcity as a means for 
economic betterment. Lessening pro- 
duction does not raise the standard of 
living, but agriculture had no alternative. 
Farmers were faced with a condition, 
not a theory. We are doing only what 
has been done in all forms of industry 
in recent years in an attempt to get a 
reasonable return for farm products. 

“The difficulty in American agricul- 
ture,” he continued, “was not rooted in 
agriculture itself, but in the economic 
and social viewpoint surrounding it. A 
line had been drawn between agriculture 
and industry which tended to produce a 
lower living standard for the farmer 
than for the rest of society. 

“The Agricultural Adjustment Admin- 
istration is in the hands of honest, earn- 
est men who have been too long with 
you in your fight for equality to betray 
or to stray far away from your own 
thoughts. You have heard the first 
scattered shots of a barrage to be fired 
against these men. They will carry 
heartaches all their lives if you turn 
against them now.” 

At the business session the officers and 
Manager Clark Fullerton reported a very 
profitable year in volume handled and 
net earnings. Auditor Riddle of the IIli- 
nois Agricultural Auditing Service re- 
ported a net profit for the year of 
$7,460.39. Representatives of the Co- 
operative Bank of St. Louis, Treasurer 
Kunz and Secretary Hayes of the Tus- 
cola Co-operative gave helpful talks. J. 
‘Fred Romine continues as president. 

Forty people from Parke county, In- 
diana, were present with their “Hay- 
makers Quartet” which won the prize at 
the Indiana State Fair this year. 

Mr. Huff was introduced by G. C. 
Johnstone, president of Illinois Grain 
Corporation. 


are dedicated to the purpose of strength- 
ening the power and the influence of 
their organization. I do not ask this 
contribution of service merely for the 
sake of organization, but because in and 
through organization lies the greatest 
opportunity for securing and protecting 
the welfare of farm people and because 
the return of farm prosperity is the 
key to national recovery. 


Goorrinis 3! SSO CIA MBN 


To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was or- 
ganized namely. to promote, protect and represent the business, 
economic, political and educational interest of the farmers of 
Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 


George Thiem, Editor 
John Tracy, Assistant 


Published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Association at 165 So. Main 
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OFFICERS 
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
(By Congressional District) 

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NEE. vaca aoe hie.) 6 Ye Hawa pM eee OPCs a ws alc ene n baat edneee K, T. Smith, Greenfield 
EN '6's.s Sv aldiah 6 60.6 0c aah ce rks be venta bcd toh avewn Samuel Sorrells, ymond 
OE a es oly do iris’ é bhle 3.40'wd ood 5c WHEE OR De Rew ee Kn ba pee Eckert, Belleville 
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GS aid 0k o-n-p co 4 3 Wurs'eivie bh 64.0 SNe ERK ORD ORDA RECENS Charles Marshall, Belknap 
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DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 
SIERO: is yoga. bc 0.09 0.5.08 OER EM OD DEDEDE AS ERADEEURLCAd che bees J. H. Kelker 
ON es ke cbc whats eeacb nebo herds ehebbe pines vemsee J. B. Countiss 
DE odie) S606 6506460 CdSe b OD carb sb 0b 0 oe 608 eee rhb Ob Ma aha oe0n ..R. A, Cowles 
Fruit and Vegetable Marketing.......6...ccccccceccccecevesevcteuse H. W. Day 
SIERO wa. bw 's'e's Ko dv 0 Wha FOR6D 0 OKs cide cb paedr oh > 0s sider s be ees George Thiem 
OE Ay eee Donald Kirkpatrick. Director; Paul E. Mathias, Associate 
Live Steck Marketing pbs ONe Sed cor eSeWaccdnccedeneviccadsucrmene Ray B. Miller 
MG eC AEA Ol eG ye be'd'ct 4 66.60b.06 606 b eC 0cd SEU asoed chee bewe ert C. B. Johnston 
Organisation Sik Wain 0d 4 0's Maa b:b'4s.kp:o6.0i0:5.06's 0.6 #9 wie ate} 0.6 1 FA »-.e-V. Vaniman 
PROGUCO  DIGTROCIMR. 65. ccc ccc tester aaciovcsveccevessssieesseue F. A. Gougler 
Taxation and Statistics. ........ 0c. cece ee eee teen ee enees J. C. Watson 
Transportation-Claimg Division...............:ccecseceteeeceues G. W. Baxter 
ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 

Country Life Imsgurance C0........ ccc cece cece eee eceeres L. A. Williams, Mgr. 
Farmers’ Mutual Reinsurance Co.................- bese edien J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Auditing Ass’n..................0:: F. B. Ringham, Mgr 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co............... A. BB. Richardson 
Illinois Farm Supply Co.......cccccccscscccsccvcecevess L. R. Marchant, Mgr 
IHinois Fruit Graven WSCURRNO 6 6c ccc ce scscecicseracenseves H. W. Day, M 
Illinois Grain Corp......... ccc cece cece ee stecseceetes Harrison Fahrnkepf, Mgr. 
Illinois Livestock Marketing OS cnc s deviacoetdasCesennean Ray Miller, Seles 
Illinois Producers’ Creameries...... F, A. Gougier, Mgr., J. B. Countiss, 
Soybean Marketing Ase’N.......cccesccccseresccsesvere J. W. Armstrong, Pres. 


Vote Tuesday Nov. 6 


F YOU don’t do anything else on Tuesday, Nov. 6, go to 
| the polls and vote. In this and the October issue 

of the RECORD information about candidates is pre- 
sented that will help you cast your ballot intelligently. Agri- 
culture is the basic industry of the land. If it prospers the 
nation prospers. Therefore farmers will serve their country 
as well as themselves best by electing able men and women 
to the legislature and congress regardless of party, who will 
fight to achieve, protect and preserve farm welfare. 

State and national issues of vital importance to farmers are 
outlined in the article beginning on Page 3. A state-wide 
effort was made to secure expressions of candidates on these 
questions. The results of this survey are presented on the pre- 
ceding pages. Study this information before you go to the 
polls. Vote for those candidates who will most truly repre- 
sent you. 


Build ‘Em Stronger 


ROP adjustment to raise farm prices must not minimize 
2D the importance of reducing the cost of distribution. The 
high cost of getting farm products to the consumer is 
an evil which narrows the farmers’ market. While adjusting 
production through county control associations, let’s continue 


Qo 


building our co-operative marketing institutions stronger. They 
offer the only assurance of cutting the producer-consumer 
price spread. 

In England, British farmers, too, are controlling production 
so as to raise prices... The Countryman, English farm journal, 
warns that “the danger to agriculture comes if restriction is 
regarded as the only method of improving the farmers’ po- 
sition; the most urgent need in our planning is to get the 
food to the consumers at prices commensurate with those re- 
ceived by the producers, and representative of the potential 
supplies. For restriction is cumulative in its effect; the dearer 
milk and bacon become, the more are the poorer families 
driven to support life on cheap foods like bread and porridge. 
. - - so our planning for agriculture will be ineffective if it 
does not extend to the methods of distribution, and it is in this 
direction that our most earnest thinking should be turned.” 


Work Ahead 


N A DEMOCRACY such as the United States, economic 
] and political policies of government: are responsive to 
popular sentiment... The man in: public life keeps his ear 
to the ground. If he: persists in going contrary to the will 
of the voting majority he doesn’t stay in public life very long. 
For this reason there is a never-ending effort by organized 
groups and interests to mould public. opinion behind policies 
which are especially advantageous to them and their con- 
stituents. 
Pulling the wool over the eyes of the other fellow has been 
a great national pastime. Industrialists and their satellites 
with private axes to grind, for example, told farmers for years 
that a high protective tariff is an unmixed blessing to them; 
that the tariff promotes home industry, provides jobs, and 
enables workmen to buy farmers’ products. That argument 


finally became recognized as a half truth. Farmers who did - 


their own thinking saw the other side of the picture; that the 
tariff increases the cost of many things they must buy, cuts 
off international trade, and so deprives the farmer of foreign 
outlets for his produce. 

Discerning the wide gap between farm and industrial prices 
following the war, organized farmers demanded that agricul- 
ture, too, be brought within the protective system by removing 
price-depressing surpluses from the domestic market. Andrew 
Mellon’s reply was that this would increase the price of food 
in. the cities. So the plea of agriculture, embodied in the 
McNary-Haugen and other bills, was denied. 

Finally the Agricultural Adjustment Act was conceived 
as another way to accomplish the object of the McNary- 
Haugen legislation. While only 15 months old, it seems to be 
working. The best evidence of its effectiveness is the cam- 
paign of opposition largely directed by the same interests 
which fought previous efforts of farmers to gain equal privi- 
leges. The processing tax, which might just as well be called 
the equalization fee, is being assailed. Why? Because it is 
operating to bring the farmer within the American system 
of controlled production and controlled prices; because it is 
raising the price of food, and reducing the volume of farm 
products and the commissions of those who handle them. 

So farmers are being told that the processing tax is bad 
for them, just as they were told in the ’20’s that the protective 
tariff is their salvation and guarantee of a market for their 
produce. 

There’s plenty of work ahead if farmers are to continue 
the helpful policies they fought so long to attain. 

The necessity for being alert and prepared to speak out 
with the powerful voice of organized numbers is recognized 
by the Secretary of Agriculture in his recent book, “New 
Frontiers.” : 

“It is to be expected that strong efforts will be made to 
get rid of the processing taxes by every Congress from 
now on,” writes Mr. Wallace. “I trust that the farmers fully 


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realize the great import of the processing tax as part of 
this Administration’s effort to give unprotected .and un- 
organized groups a fairer share of the national income. For 
the first time in our history we have created a mechanism, 
the AAA, which gives six million individual farmers a con- 
certed voice, and bargaining power... . 

_ “I would not mind seeing the processing tax and acreage 
control abolished in 1936 if we have something better to 
take its place. But, unless we have built up greatly’ in- 
creased foreign purchasing power by reducing tariffs, or 
unless we start loaning money outside the United States 
to enable foreign nations to buy our surplus, I am. afraid 
that dropping the processing tax and acreage control in 
1936 would result, with the ordinary run of weather, in a 
repetition within a few years of the 1932 situation.” 


Good News 

T IS GOOD to know that the International Livestock Ex- 
| position’s new home will be ready for the 1934 show 

which opens December 1. Manager Heide reports that 
many entries have been received and all indications point to 
a splendid stock show. This annual exhibition of the best 
blooded livestock and grains produced in the United States 
and. Canada is an inspiration to the thousands of 4-H club 
boys and girls as well as the older folks who attend. The 
exhibits of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and the state 
agricultural colleges promote better farming and appreciation 
of the best things in farm life. It will pay anyone who is in- 
terested in more efficient farming and livestock production to 
attend the stock show. © 


He Buys Cooperative 

E KNOW a farmer who used to be a member of a 
W isos union. He believes labor unions have raised 

the status of labor, and he still supports them. When 
he buys smoking tobacco he makes sure it is a brand that 
bears the union label. When he began farming, he found it 
an easy step to affiliate with his County Farm Bureau and the 
local cooperatives. He believes that his farm organization and 
the cooperatives have done as much for agriculture as organ- 
ization has done for wage-earners. He supports not alone 
the cooperatives of which he is a member, but he supports 
as well the other cooperatives by buying their products in 
preference to all other products. 

He is assured of high-quality when he buys cooperative, 
since it is only natural that farmers should be interested, 
more than anyone else, in furnishing through their organiza- 
tions, the quality and quantity of goods that consumers want, 
in the form and volume wanted. 

When he markets his grain he does so through his local 
farmers’ elevator, the Illinois Grain Corporation and the Farm- 
ers’ National Grain Corporation. When he wants supplies for 
use in his farming operations, he buys through the purchas- 
ing cooperatives, which furnish oil, gas, seeds, serum to vacci- 
nate his pigs, and a long list of other commodities. His in- 
surance is carried in the sound companies established by his 
state: and county organizations. 

It is not a matter of sentiment alone which prompts this 
grower to buy cooperative. He finds that, quality and other 
things considered, he is ahead financially in the long run. 


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Join the Farm Bureau 
F ANYTHING has been demonstrated during the long 
| years of fighting for higher farm prices and a square 
deal for farmers generally, it is that strong, active farm 
organizations, with able leadership, are necessary to farm 
progress. The outstanding farm organizations of:the Middle 


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West both in numbers and accomplishments, are the farm 
bureaus. Through their state organizations and the American 
Farm Bureau Federation they are responsible for a large 
share of the gains that have been made on the farm front. 
The farm bureau has accomplished much; it can accomplish 
much more if more farmers unite their strength with it.— 
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Farm Bureau Seeks Members 


HAT so useful an organization as the Sangamon County 

: Farm Bureau is making an appeal for more members, 

commands special attention during this period when the 
economics of agriculture are so closely related to our entire 
economic structure. 

The policies and activities of the Sangamon County Farm 
Bureau and the Illinois Agricultural Association are worthy 
of the support of every progressive farmer, whether he is 
owner or tenant. 

_Tlinois farmers may well consider themselves fortunate in 
having such strong organizations, officered so ably, to cham- 
pion the cause of agricultural development. 

The Farm Bureau organization has long been one of the 
most: outstanding agencies in the state for useful services. 
The accomplishments credited to this organization cover a 
broad field, including property tax reduction, honest and able 


legislative representation, the 4-H Club work for boys and 


girls, educational work in efficient production, organization 
and Gevelopment of cooperative enterprises—all for the benefit 
not only of the farm people of our communities but ultimately 
for the benefit of the entire commonwealth. 

The accomplishments of the Farm Bureau organization 
should be, and no doubt are, a source of pride to the thousands 
of loyal members who have made the organization what it is 
in this county and in this state during the past trying months: 
and years. 

Having accomplished much and achieved a most commend- 
able record, the Farm Bureau can, and will, accomplish more 
if farmers and farm owners not now affiliated with the organ- 
ization become members and place the strength of their influ- 
ence in support of its program of progress.—Illinois State 
Register, Springfield. 


Farm Bureau's Campaign 


sk FARM BUREAU is conducting a campaign for, 
increased membership. Its argument has been repeated 
frequently, and is familiar to all farmers—the strength 
inherent in union of purpose and effort. Then, too, there is a 
record of achievement to which the Farm Bureau refers, with 
the statement that it can aecomplish' much more if farmers 
will become actively identified with it. 

In this connection, friends of the organization can find a 
new argument for their case in a news story from Washington 
which but recently appeared. This story said that Washington 
Officials are to rely, more and more, on local agricultural units 
for aid in carrying out agricultural administration policies. 
Politicians at the capital do not relish’ the load and want to be 
rid of the responsibility. Manifestly, it will be to the interest 
of farmers to strengthen their local associations.—lIllinois 
State Journal, Springfield. 


Prices to alfalfa seed growers in important districts about 
the middle of September averaged $15.75 per 100 pounds clean 
seed compared with $8.85 last year, $7.10 in 32 and $17 in ’29. 
Sweet clover seed offers were $5 per cwt. clean seed compared 
with $3.25 last year. | 


Illinois, one of 16 states on the modified accredited list, 


' tested 133,864 cattle for tuberculosis during August of which 


608 reacted. More than 2,000,000 cattle are under supervision 
in 241,409 Illinois herds. 


The amazing progress and@ success of 
co-operative buying and handling of 
petroleum products by Illinois farmers 
is emphasized again in the annual report 
of Illinois Farm Supply Co. 


One County Farm’ Bureau after 
another has organized to distribute gas- 
oline, oil and other farm supplies until 
today 58 county companies operating in 
90 counties are associated in this ex- 
tremely worth-while project. Like other 
co-operative enterprises which preceded 
it, the co-operative oil company is 
definitely narrowing price spreads and 
lowering the cost of quality products to 
members through patronage dividends. 


The county service companies have had 
at least three favorable conditions mak- 
ing for their success. First is the rather 
wide margin between large volume 
wholesale prices, and retail prices. This 
margin has been fairly well stabilized by 
a few dominant petroleum companies. 
Second, the good will, power and confi- 
dence created by the Farm Bureau 
movement in this state which quickly 
provided a market for a substantial vol- 
ume of products. Third, the profit-shar- 
ing or co-operative principle evidenced 
by a steady flow of patronage dividends 
back to Farm Bureau member customers. 


The importance of good management 
and aggressive salesmanship goes with- 
out. saying. This is clearly indicated by 
the rather wide differences in volume of 
business and earnings between companies 
operating in adjacent territory. 

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As the co-operative oil business grows 
in ‘volume, it:cuts more and more into 
the business of private companies. Nat- 
urally this is irritating. Sooner or 
later there will be retaliation, price cut- 
ting and narrowing of margins. That 
time is fast approaching, if itis not 
already here. Attempts will be made to 
entice farmers away from their own co- 
operative companies by attractive price 
offers, generally for inferior quality 
products. 


This sort of thing has happened in 
every case where organized farmers 


_ have attempted to remedy a wrong, stop 


price gouging, or improve their economic 
condition. Why should we expect any- 
thing different in the oil business? 


If and when this happens, and com- 
petitors out after the scalps of the co- 
operatives slash their prices, let’s not 
forget how they got that way. Intelli- 
gent farmers will take the long view 
and stay with their own companies. Just 


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as well-managed co-operative creameries 
raise the general level of butterfat prices 
in the districts where they operate, so 
do co-operative oil companies serve to 
protect farmer patrons on the cost and 
quality of petroleum products. E. G. T. 


Corn Loan Helped 
Neighbors in LaSalle 


‘“One of, my neighbors had between 
4,000 and 5,000 bushels of corn last fall,” 
says -Archie .-McPhedron of Oglesby, 
president of the Mississippi Valley Milk 
Producers. ‘He told me not long ago 
that if it had not been for the corn loan 


program sponsored by the I. A. A. he » 


would have sold his corn for around 31 


or 82 cents per bushel to meet payments 


he had to make. When the corn loan 
offer came he got a loan of 45 cents a 
bushel and held his crop. As a result 
he finally sold for a much higher price. 
“Without a working organization of 
farmers neither the corn loan nor any of 
the other price-raising plans would have 
been possible,” says Mr. McPhedron. 


A Hoax 


The mysterious farmer who is sup- 
posed to have received $1,000 in the 
corn-hog program when the most he 
ever received previously from the sale 


! LOVE ONLY 
YOU JOHN AND 
<—~ ILL STICK 


Most Counties Receive 
Corn-Hog Payments 


More than eight. million dollars in 
corn-hog benefit payment checks had 
been distributed to [Illinois contract 
signers by the second week in October. 

As we go to press nearly every coun- 
ty in the state has received all or at least 
a substantial part of the first corn-hog 
benefit payment which is two-fifths of 
the payment on hog allotments and one- 
half on corn acreage reduction. 

Illinois contract signers will receive 
between $35,000,000 and $40,000,000 when 
payments are completed in 1935. The 


second payment is scheduled to be made 


some time after the middle of Novem- 
ber, and the third after the middle of 
February. 


A total of $352,000,000 in rental and 
benefit payments were disbursed up to 
October 5 to co-operating farmers by the 
AAA. 


of hogs was $400 in one year, is a 
“preposterous hoax,” according to Secre- 
tary Henry A. Wallace. 

“This story which has been going the 
rounds is coming to be one of the most 
familiar ghosts of the recovery pro- 
gram,” he said. 


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Report of Annual 
Farm Supply Meeting 


Approximately 700 Hear Speakers 
and Details of Year’s Operation 


“The growth of Illinois Farm Supply 
Company and our 58 County Companies 
reads like romance,” said F. E. Herndon, 


_ president, in his address to 700 officers, 


directors, managers and salesmen who 
attended the eighth annual meeting of 
the company at Decatur, Thursday, 
October 18. 

Background for his statement was the 
nearly 50 million 
gallons of petroleum 
products distributed 
by the 58 affiliated 
companies to more 
than 75,000 farmer 
patrons during 1934, 
19.2 per cent greater 
than 19338. Soyoil 
Paint sales also in- 
creased 173.53 per 
cent to 87,638 gal- 
lons. Automobile 
tire and tube sales 
jumped 3331/3 per cent to $170,000. Fly 
Spray and Killer sales increased 3.63 
per cent to 33,723 gallons. 

Mr. Herndon paid tribute to the per- 
sonnel of the organization in pointing 
out that “the ability of the men in 


F, E, HERNDON 


charge, the boards of directors, the man- 


agers and salesmen are reflected in the 
rapid strides made by our company dur- 
ing the last year. I have no hesitancy 
in placing the personnel and accomplish- 
ments of Illinois Farm Supply Company 
and its member companies alongside 
similar co-op organizations in the U. S.” 
He closed his address with a warning 
that “to achieve $1,000,000 in patronage 
dividends by 1940, it is necessary to lend 
unqualified aid and support to the Farm 
Bureau organization in its quest for new 
members,” 

F. W. Peck, Co-operative Bank Com- 
missioner from Washington, spoke on 
“Efficient Business Procedure for Farm 
Co-operative.” Following his introduc- 
tion by President Earl Smith of the I. A. 
A., who reported that the legality of the 
Illinois Farm Supply setup had been 
passed upon by the Farm Credit Ad- 
ministration, thus establishing a safe- 
guard for the future of the co-operative 
movement in Illinois, Mr. Peck said, ““The 
co-operative movement can be appraised 
from three points of view. First, its 
idealism—that is, the various appeals 
used in organizing various co-ops. Sec- 
ond, its realism—the results of applying 
principles and theories into practice. 
Third, corrective measures essential to 
the progress and advancement of the 
movement.” 

The elimination of selfishness, central- 


NOVEMBER, 1934 


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WB price, 1932" 
ZZ price; 1933" 


6 8 $ 8 $ $ 8 8 8 


PRICE 
oof G2.1¢ ——— 18.5 ¢ 


$7.64———28.6- | 


ADVANCE IN FARM PRICES—’32 - '33 


This chart shows the farm price advance during 19338—the first year of the crop adjustment plan. Wheat 
and cotton both show the largest gains ‘because the acreage devoted to these crops was substantially re- 
duced last year. An up-to-date chart would show corn at approximate parity price level (78 cents). Hog 


rices, likewise, inclu 
ave benefited by the ho 
reduction and drouth during the current season, 


the processing tax which comes back to the farmer, approach 
reduction program as «geal ei All grains have been aided 


arity. Cattle 
y crop acreage 
prices are somewhat higher than these shown 


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in the chart above because the prices of non-agricultural commodities have advanced also during the past year, 


ization of management, building of 
understanding among patrons that they 
own and control their co-op, and the 
setting up of business-like organizations, 
properly financed and managed, are all 
essential for greater progress. 

Explaining the Co-operative Banks, 
and their functions, Peck pointed out 
that there is no desire by the F. C. A. 
to regiment, dictate, or in any way 
shackle agriculture through a credit set 
up. “Rather,” he said, “the Credit Act 
of 1933 is designed to create credit 
suited to the needs of agriculture at the 
lowest possible cost. The objective of 
the system is debt reduction and amor- 
tization rather than debt continuation.” 

David M. Hardy, president of the St. 
Louis Bank for Co-operatives, also spoke 
briefly on the functions of his institu- 
tion. 


Marchant Gives Report 


With graphs and charts, L. R. Mar- 
chant, manager of Illinois Farm Supply 
Company, illustrated the sensational 
growth of co-operative purchasing of es- 
sential farm supplies from 1927 through 
1934. Read the story on page 19. 

Following the reports, two new mem- 
bers were elected to the board of di- 
rectors of I. F. S—L. A. Abbott. of 
Whiteside county, and G. W. Clark of 
Pope county. Those remaining from 
last year’s board include J. M. Eyman, 
Macon Co.; Harry Ebbert, Effingham 
Co.; Frank J. Flynn, Morgan Co.; Fred 
Herndon, McDonough Co.; E. E. Steven- 
son, LaSalle Co.; Thos. J. Penman, Ken- 
dall Co. 

During the day, other speakers on the 
program were Donald Kirkpatrick, legal 
counsel of the Illinois Agricultural As- 
sociation, E. J. Fricke, Indiana Farm 


Bureau Co-operative Association, and R. 
A. Cowles, I. F. S. treasurer who read 
the report on the financial status of the 
company. 


FALL PIGS 


are good property 


VACCINATE YOURS NOW! 


Use fresh, potent 


FARM BUREAU SERUM 


SEE YOUR 
COUNTY 


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Organization Set-Up In Ogle 
and Stephenson Counties 


By R. J. Hamilton, County Organization Director 


son County Farm Bureaus hold 
certain beliefs. They believe that 
education and information are the first 
essentials in developing an active growing 
organization. They believe furthermore 
that permanent growth and profitable 
activity depends upon the masses being 
active in the projects of the Farm Bu- 
reau. They believe 
in smaller units than 
the township being 
used to carry out the 
information work to 
be done. ? 
_ Based on the above 
beliefs, these coun- 
ties have adopted a 
school district unit 
for _ organization 
purposes. They have 
not destroyed the 
township organiza- 
tion, but rather sup- 
plemented it. In Ogle County we have 
an organization chairman. The county 
is divided into seven sections. The coun- 
ty chairman has selected an organiza- 
tion leader for each section. These lead- 


"Tm boards of Ogle and Stephen- 


R. J, HAMILTON 


ers with the chairman constitute the . 


County Organization Committee. Every 
organization move in the county is 
adopted and approved by them. These 
sectional leaders are known as Colonels 
in our military set-up. Each section 
comprises from three to five town- 
ships. The Colonel selects in each town- 
ship a leader known as a Major. The 
Major in turn selects a Captain in each 
school district. In the larger school dis- 
tricts he has a helper. In each school 
district the Captain selects a tax man, 
an insurance man, an oil man, and a 
marketing man. In this manner every 
member has something to contribute be- 
sides his $15. ‘This activity creates or- 
ganization consciousness. 


Of course, we don’t have a complete 
set-up in every school district. In some 
districts we don’t have any members. The 
interesting thing, however, is that when 
a non-member is asked to carry on for 
that district he often accepts and makes 
one of the best members. 

‘ With this set-up we can reach: every 
farmer in the county by personal con- 
tact in a very short time if necessary. 

Educational meetings are held by the 
county under the General, who is county 
chairman. Sectional meetings are held 
by the Colonel. Township meetings are 


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held by the Major in his own township. 
School district meetings are held by the 
Captain. 

The members like this set-up because 
it brings the Farm Bureau closer to the 
farm. 

When we put on a drive for members, 
we no longer go down the road in a 
house to house canvass but each Cap- 
tain selects his prospect and goes after 
just one member. Ogle county has 188 
school districts. After our drive we re- 
sume a series of educational meetings 
and prepare other prospects. 

The AAA, our legislative work, taxa- 
tion, marketing, insurance, and oil are 
among the things which interest our 


members and provide community meet- 


ing topics, 


Fits Into Our Plan 


By D. E. Warren, Farm Adviser Ogle 


County 


The educational type of organization 
program that we are using in Ogle Coun- 
ty under Mr. Hamilton’s direction fits 
very nicely into our plan of community 
unit work in which we are endeavoring 
to get all township community units or- 
ganized for holding regular meetings. I 
feel that with the many duties the farm 
adviser now has, that the community 
meetings must to considerable extent 
take the place of farm visits in making 
contacts between the county office and 
the individual member. 

The discussions at community meet- 
ings help to correlate the extension 
projects with the organization projects 
and give the member a rather complete 
picture of the Farm Bureau Program. 


Engle Succeeds Milnor 
To Farmers National Post 


Bill Engle, assistant general manager, 
will succeed George S. Milnor as general 
manager of the Farmers National 
Grain’-Corporation. Mr. Milnor resigned 
recently; to resume his connection with 
the “Spark; Milling Company at Alton, 
Illinois. 

Engle is an old seasoned grain man 
who knows all the ropes. He has been 
in “charge of grain operations, hedging 
transactions, and co-ordination of the 
branch offices for several years. 


Macomb, Oct. 13: 
the state championship of the [Illinois 
Farm Bureau Baseball League here to- 
day by blasting out an easy 138 to 4 
victory over the 1932 champions from 


Will county won 


McDonough county. More than 3,000 
fans saw McDonough county drop their 
second straight game to the new cham- 
pions. | 

“Lefty” Schuldt had the McDonough 
county sluggers standing on their heads 
and held them to five hits, three allowed 
in the last of the ninth. He fanned 10 
batters. ; 

George Bradford started on the mound 
for McDonough, but errors soon put him 
in the hole and he turned the pitching 
over to his older brother, Jesse, in. the 
third inning. The two allowed 10 hits 
and they fanned eight. | 

Manager Boots Runkle had an off-day 
at shortstop. He booted two successive 
drives and then threw wide to first base 
in the second which contributed to send-' 
ing four runs across the plate for Will 
county. 

Showman Welch, left fielder, normally 
a heavy hitter, failed to connect. The 
Bradfords got three of the five hits. 

Will county bunched a triple, two 
doubles and a single with another error 
for three more runs in the third. Mc- 
Donough’s first run came in the fourth 
inning when Welch was hit with a 
pitched ball. He stole second and when 
the throw to catch him at second went 
wild he raced on home. 

Either Schuldt weakened or the Mc- 
Donough batsmen suddenly came to life 
in the last of the ninth for they pounded 
the Will county hurler for three hits and 
as many runs in that inning. 

The largest crowd at a baseball game 
this season saw the contest. McDon- 
ough won 10 and lost three games in the 
League this season. Will county was 
runner-up against Sangamon, state title 
winners last year. | 

The silver trophy awarded annually to 
the state championship Farm Bureau 
baseball team by the I. A. A. will be 
presented at a banquet to be arranged 
later. 


Frankfort, Oct. 6:—Will county won 
the first game of the state championship 
series with McDonough here today by 
driving in a run in the last of the tenth 
inning. It was a bright but windy day. 
Behind the effective pitching of Lefty 
Schuldt, the Will county boys held the 
hard hitting McDonough team to three 

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Packers Pay $100,000,000 
More for Hogs 


Administrator Chester C. Davis Speaks To Northern 
Illinois Farmers at LaSalle 


HE best evidence that the corn-hog 
7. program has gone far toward restor- 
ing farm buying power in the corn 
belt is that during the eight months, 
an. 1 to Sept. 1, 1934, meat packers 
baid $100,000,000 more for 12 per cent 
less hogs processed in federal inspected 
plants than they paid during the same 
eight months of 1933. 

This striking evidence of the effective- 
ness of the crop adjustment program was 
disclosed by Chester C. Davis, adminis- 
trator of the Agricultural Adjustment 
Act, in an address to nearly 1,000 farm- 
ers in the LaSalle-Peru high school au- 
ditorium Saturday, Oct. 13. 

During the first eight months of 1933 
when there was no corn-hog program, 
federal inspected plants processed 7,490,- 
000,000 pounds of live hogs which cost 
the packers $286,000,000, Mr. Davis said. 

During the first eight months of 1934 
with the corit-hog program underway, 
the same packers processed 6,588,000,000 
pounds of hogs—12 per cent less than 
the year before—which cost them $386,- 
000,000, including the processing tax. In 
other words 12 per cent less hogs cost 
the packers 35 per cent more. 


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“The processing tax is being paid to 
co-operating corn-hog farmers and not 
to the man who in every co-operative 
effort in the past has taken a free ride 
and even dragged his heels,” said Mr. 
Davis. 

Constrasting the rise in returns to the 
hog farmer compared with the situation 
in beef cattle, Mr. Davis pointed out that 
packers paid only 25 per cent more 
money for 16 per cent more cattle 
slaughtered in the first eight months of 
1934 compared with payments made in 
the same period of 1933. “And cattle 
men have benefited by the hog control 
DERLAM, he said. 

In January, 1933, Administrator Davis 
said the average price of hogs on the 
farm was $2.68 per cwt. A survey made 
then indicated a four per cent increase 
in the number of spring pigs and an in- 
crease in the number of sows to be bred 
for fall litters. Approximately 6,200,000 
pigs and 200,000 sows soon to farrow 
were marketed under the control pro- 
gram in the fall of 1933. Most of the 
meat went into non-competitive unem- 
ployment relief channels. 


“Let’s not forget,” said Mr. Davis, 


NOVEMBER, 1934 


“that this was all made possible by the 
processing tax. In addition the govern- 
ment bought 1,400,000 hogs on the open 
market for unemployment relief when 
the processing tax went on. On October 
6 this year the average cost of hogs to 
the packers was $8.13 per cwt. in con- 
trast to about $4 the same time a year 
ago. 

“T believe farmers will be smart enough 
to keep this control program in their 
hands next year, the year after, and 
thereafter so long as it is needed.” 

Speaking of corn loans Mr. Davis said: 
“Earl Smith. was the first one to come 
down to Washington and talk to us about 
the corn loan program, This loan, which 
immediately raised the price of corn and 
made it possible for farmers to secure 
the benefit of subsequent price advances 
would not have been possible were it not 
for the acreage reduction program. 


Can’t Stabilize Without 


“The Federal Farm Board made a real 
contribution to the agricultural experi- 
ence of this country,” he continued. “It 
provided definite proof that you can’t 
buy up farm commodities and stabilize 
prices without production control. Corn 
loans and cotton loans are part and par- 
cel of a production control program. 
President Roosevelt has advised us that 
these loans will not be made unless farm- 
ers support acreage control.” 

Responding to questions from the floor, 
Mr. Davis stated that the Administra- 
tion was aware of the _ individual 
inequities in carrying out the corn-hog 
program. If farmers finally decide to 
continue crop adjustment, as seems like- 
ly, the Administration hopes to iron out 
these inequities. “It is my observation,” 
he said, “that whenever you get into a 
state where there is a strong, intelligent- 
ly directed farm organization these crop 
adjustment programs have been success- 
fully carried out. 


Next Year’s Plan 


“If there is a program next year, there 
will probably be little or no control exer- 
cised over the contracted acres, and some 
relaxation of rules governing the use of 
‘idle’ ground. The 1935 plan undoubt- 
edly will provide for benefit payments 
on both hogs and corn. 

“On October 6, U. S. treasury state- 
ments showed that collections from pro- 
cessing taxes totaled $505,000,000 while 


CUTTING ’EM LOOSE 


payments to farmers totaled $406,399,- 
000. In other words, collections were 
approximately $100,000,000 ahead of 
payments. We are sending out between 
$4,000,000 and $5,000,000 daily,” Davis 
said, “and by January 1 somewhere be- 
tween $250,000,000 and $280,000,000 will 
have been paid to co-operating corn and 
hog farmers.” 

In introducing Mr. Davis, Presicent 
Earl C. Smith briefly reviewed the long 
continued effort of organized farmers 
following the war to secure surplus con- 
trol legislation, and told of Mr. Davis’ 
association with this movement as early 
as 1922. 

Clifford V. Gregory, editor of Prairie 
Farmer, effectively answered charges of 
opponents that farmers were being 
“regimented” and deprived of their 
“liberty.”” Before the AAA program was 
launched to raise farm prices, he said, 
farmers were rapidly being “regimented” 
off their farms and the “liberty” they 
enjoyed was to go north, south, east or 
west after being set out in the road. Some 
of our defenders of the constitution, he 
said, seem to forget that its framers 
started it this way “In order to form a 
more perfect union, ESTABLISH JUS- 
TICE, etc.” 

E. E. Stevenson, president of the La- 
Salle County Farm Bureau, presided. 


The five 1934 Illinois candidates recom- 
mended for the “American Farmer” de- 
gree in the Future Farmers of America 
are: Milbourn DeMunn, Capron; James 
Dunseth, Waverly; Beryl Rutledge, 
Farmer City; Edwin Bates, Carlinville; 
and Clarence Akin, Bridgeport. The 7th 
annual meeting was held at the American 
Royal, Kansas City, Oct. 20-26. 


17 


Farm Loan Program Stabilizes 


Land Values 


Federal Loans Based On Farm Earning Power Says Gov. Myers 


was envisioned as a stabilizer of 

credit and land values based on 
what the farm is able to earn, in an 
address by Governor W. I. Myers of the 
Farm Credit Administration at a ban- 
quet to 700 farm leaders of Illinois, Mis- 
souri and Arkansas at the Jefferson 
Hotel, St. Louis, Monday night, Oct. 8. 
President Earl C. Smith and Treasurer 
Robert A. Cowles represented the I. A. 
A. at the meeting. A number of Farm 
Bureau officials and leaders from ad- 
jacent Illinois counties also attended. 


We are making loans on the”basis of 
the earning value of the farm, said Gov- 
ernor Myers. This system will retard 
the wild speculation in land prevalent 
during the war and early post-war years. 


The meeting was largely educational. 
The entire program was devoted to an 
explanation of the functions and pur- 
poses of the Farm Credit Administration 
and its various units, heretofore outlined 
in the RECORD. 


Besides Governor Myers, speakers in- 
cluded Commissioners A. S. Goss (Land 
Bank), G. N. Brennan (Intermediate 
Credit), S. N. Garwood (Production 
Credit), and F. W. Peck (Co-operative 
Bank). 

It was emphasized that close supervi- 
sion is an important part of the produc- 
tion credit program. Production loans 
are held’down to that amount necessary 
to put the crop in, harvest and market 
it, and no more. The permanent credit 
system to be developed is one providing 
long and short term credit, first for 
farmers, and secondly for farm co-opera- 
tives. 

The federal system. seeks to supple- 
ment commercial credit and not replace 
it, Gov. Myers said. Private money, not 
government money, is being loaned. 
Therefore every precaution must be 
taken to insure the safety of the loan. 

It was disclosed that some 850,000 ap- 
plications for farm loans had been re- 
ceived since May 1, 1933 for approxi- 
mately $3,750,000,000. Loan applications 
represented about one-seventh of the 
farmers of the country. Applications 
reached a peak of around 20,000 a week 
at the 12 federal land banks. Now they 
are down to about 6,000. The force of 
appraisers was increased from 200 in 
May 1933 to approximately 5,000 for 
the entire country. Seventy-five per cent 
of loans made were refunding loans. One- 
sixth of loans completed were scale 


"Tw federal farm credit program 


18 


downs for a total of about $60,000,000, 
The reduction in interest rates, it was 
reported, averaged about 25 per cent in 
Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas. 


Paying Farm Creditors 
In New Federal Bonds 


Thousands of rural investors who 
previously have not considered the ad- 
vantages of government-guaranteed se- 
curities offering the essential require- 
ments of yield, safety and liquidity have 
become holders or purchasers of bonds 
of the Federal Farm Mortgage Corpora- 
tion, according to Gov. W. I. Myers of 
the Farm Credit Administration. “Fur- 
ther retention of these bonds by rural 
people may normally be expected.” 

Issuing of the bonds to farmers and 
their creditors in payment of loans was 
begun in March this year and reached 
the high point in June when a total of 
$153,000,000 in loans were closed and 
paid primarily in bonds. The number 
of applications from farmers for federal 


loans has been receding since the first 


of the year. 


Baseball Dope 
(Continued from page 16, Col. 3) 
runs and eight hits, while they drove 
out nine safeties against George Brad- 
ford of McDonough who lost his second 

game of the season. 

Bradford struck out 11 men. McDon- 
ough looked like the best team in the 
first few innings, but Will county then 
tightened up and started to hit. After 
the fifth when Will tied the score at 2 
to 2 it was nip and tuck to the end. 

The turning point of the game came 
when Bus Welch, McDonough county left 
fielder, slid for home and was called out 
by Umpire McBroom. It was a close 
decision but when Hohenstein, Will 
county catcher, came up with the ball the 
umpire ruled the base runner out. This 
play saved the game for Will. Palmer 
of Will county was the star batsman, 
driving out three hits. Bergera and 
Hohenstein of Will, and Welch of Mc- 
Donough each drove out two baggers. 


Corn-Hog Referendum 


As we go to press it appears that TIli- 
nois corn and hog producers voted more 
than three to one in favor of continuing 
the corn-hog adjustment program next 
year, and a one-contract-per-farm plan 
in 1936. 


Facing the Facts 


“Agriculture would be delighted 
if foreign purchasing power were 
restored. But it must be based on 
something more than loans, on 
which the foreign market was 
based just before the depression,” 
Secretary Henry A. Wallace told 
the Mortgage Bankers of America 
in Chicago, October 4. 

‘He said he could see nothing in 
sight within three to four years on 
which to base a retreat from the 
AAA program of crop control as a 
means of raising farm prices. 
“Without crop control,” he said, 
“agriculture would be put back to 
the condition of ’32-’33 without 10 
cent corn.” 

Without a control program next 
year, he predicted a 20 per cent 
increase in corn acreage over that 
of ’32 and ’33, with a resulting ex- 
cess of 600,000,000 bushels of corn, 
assuming favorable weather, above 
the nation’s needs. 


In Illinois as well as in other states it 
appeared that the vote varied in accord- 
ance with the explanation «made and the 
understanding by producers of the eco- 
nomics involved in achieving and main- 
taining parity prices. Reports from coun- 
ty corn-hog association officials were 
that a substantial part of the vote 
against the plan was due to the fact that 
in the years 1982 and 1933 some farmers 
were caught with abnormally low acre- 
ages of corn and comparatively small 
numbers of pigs for: the size of their 
farms. This resulted in such farmers re- 
ceiving low allotments. 


As one central [llinois co-operator 
said: “Normally I had been growing 
from 90 to 100 acres of corn on my 240 
acre farm. But in 1932 and 1933 my field 
arrangement was such that I was low 
on corn acreage. As a result I was al- 
lotted only 53 acres. I am strongly in 
favor of crop adjustment but I hope 
something can be done to raise my allot- 
ment. Fifty-three acres is not enough 
corn on a 240 acre farm, all of which is 
tillable land.” 


Farm Adviser Walter Miller reported 
a vote of nearly nine to one in favor of 
continuation in Kendall county. At many 
meetings the vote was unanimous in fa- 
vor. At Rochelle in Ogle county, for ex- 
ample, the vote was 41 “YES” and one 
“NO” for a corn-hog program in 1935. 
At Stillman Valley, says Farm Adviser 
Warren, it was 54 “YES” and 3 “NO.” 

The vote for a one-contract program 
in 1986 was not so favorable. Misunder- 
standing of the question was held re- 
sponsible by AAA officials for this. 


I. A. A. RECORD 


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Farm Supply Company Contin- 
ues Record-Breaking Pace 


Continued record - smashing progress 
was reported at the annual meeting of 
Illinois Farm Supply Company in Deca- 
tur, October 18. 

The power of collective effort in buy- 
ing and distributing nearly 80,000,000 
gallons of petroleum products during the 
fiscal year ending August 31, 1934 is 
seen in the report of Manager L. R. 
Marchant that the 58 affiliated County 
Service Companies 
at their last fiscal 
closing declared pat- 
ronage dividends of 
$523,179.64 for the 
year. After paying 
these refunds, plus 
$58,410.65 in capital 
stock dividends, and 
federal income taxes 
of $31,480.17, the 
total surplus of the 
58 companies was 
$969,354 or equiva- 
lent to 103.72 pec 
cent of the Farm Bureau members’ 
original investment. 

This remarkable showing after less 
than eight years of operation for most 
companies was made notwithstanding the 
fact that approximately $2,200,000 has 
been paid back by the county companies 
in annual patronage dividends to mem- 
bers of the Farm Bureau who patronize 
them. 


L, R. MARCHANT 


79% On Investment 


The Illinois Farm Supply Company 
itself, which buys for the county com- 
panies, greatly exceeded all previous rec- 
ords both in volume of products handled 
and profits of operation. Net income for 
the year was $170,900.97 or 79.82 per 
cent of the gross operating income be- 
fore deducting patronage dividends and 
federal income tax. This compares with 
$128,287.31 for the preceding year. It 
represents a profit of 171.31 per cent on 
the investment compared with 85 per 
cent, five years ago and 127.96 per cent 
last year. 

The Board of Directors of [Illinois 
Farm Supply declared a patronage divi- 
dend to member companies of $135,868.61 
after providing for dividends on _§pre- 
ferred stock amounting to $7,072.33, 
setting aside $23,976.81 to surplus, and 
paying $3,983.22 in federal income taxes. 

The state company during its brief 
period of operation has paid in cash 
to member companies a total of $492,- 
565.28, or approximately five times the 
par value of preferred stock. 


- NOVEMBER, 1934 


Substantial gains were made in the 
volume of all products handled. For ex- 
ample, the gain in petroleum products 
was 19.2 per cent; in soy oil paint 73.53 
per cent; in tires and tubes 331-3 per 
cent, etc. | 

In his annual report to directors, stock- 
holders and patrons, Mr. Marchant said: 
“Co-operative purchasing of farm sup- 
plies has found an important and perma- 
nent place in the business system of this 
state. It has become firmly entrenched, 
and farmers are not unduly concerned 
with criticisms and antagonistic attacks. 
The state company handles 87.4 per cent 
of the business transacted by co-opera- 
tive purchasing organizations in Illinois. 
This is based on figures released by the 
Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of 
St. Louis early this year, covering 64 
Illinois co-operative purchasing organiza- 
tions.” 


Wide Margins Gone 


The report expressed the belief that 
“the days of wide margins on motor 
fuels are gone. The time for more diver- 
sified selling of Illinois Farm Supply’s 
full line of products and for greater 
economy of operation, is here. 

“Several thousand more farmers in 
this state will be found ready and wait- 
ing to accept this service when every 
member company has advanced to the 
same degree in covering its territory 
that a few companies have in the past. 
A $10,000,000 business annually with 
150,000 farmer customers is within our 
reach if we will only set our stakes to 
provide this enlarged service to the farm- 
ers of Illinois. With this amount of 
business our slogan ‘A Million Dollar 
Patronage Dividend in 1940’ can be made 
a reality. 


Encouraging Signs 


“There are many encouraging signs. 
For the first time in history the full 
power of the federal government is be- 
ing directed to restore agricultural prices. 
The government is friendly toward the 
co-operative movement. Agriculture has 
gone far in the past two years toward 
freeing itself of burdensome surpluses. 
Higher prices and benefit payments have 
opened the way for a more prosperous 
and satisfying agriculture. This trend 
toward restoration of farm purchasing 
power represents a fundamental change 
in national policy. The opportunities 
ahead for effective united action by 
farmers were never greater.” 


Pike And Rock Island 


Companies Organized 


With practically every county now be- 
ing served by a county service company 
affiliated with Illinois Farm Supply Com- 
pany, the period of unit growth is prac- 
tically at an end. Pike County Service 
Company and Rock Island Service Com- 
pany were the only two new county com- 
panies set up during the past year. The 
58 associated county companies operate 
in some 90 counties and serve around 
75,000 farmers. 

Besides nearly 50 million gallons of 
petroleum products the companies sold 
$170,000 worth of Brunswick tires and 
tubes, more than 500,000 gallons of 
chinch bug oil or at least 75 per cent 
of that sold in the state; more than 87,- 
000 gallons of SOYOIL paint, 33,723 
gallons of fly spray, 272 tons of fer- 
tilizers and substantial quantities of al- 
cohol, radiator solutions, cod liver oil, 
stock dips, mange oil, and other products. 


Sales Promotion And 
Advertising Important 


Continuous sales promotion, and ad- 
vertising in the I. A. A. RECORD, 


Prairie Farmer and County Farm Bv- 


reau papers are given much credit for 
the remarkable gains in the co-operative 
purchasing and distribution of petroleum 
products and farm supplies during the 
past eight years. 

Weekly promotional letters to some 
550 truck salesmen, station operators 
and attendants have stimulated extra 
sales’ effort. Consistent advertising each 
month in the I. A. A. RECORD, going 
to a list today of more than 64,000 IIli- 
nois farmers each month, has told the 
story of the company’s efforts to con- 
tinually improve quality of products, and 
serve patrons at a saving in cost. This 
publicity has been effective in winning 
public acceptance of I. F. S. products and 
has paved the way for increased sales. 


The 1934 Illinois state corn husking 
contest will be held Nov. 1 on the farm 
of Wilbur Stockley, three miles north- 
west of Earlville in LaSalle county, an- 
nounces Floyd Keepers of Prairie Farm- 
er. 


Larry Williams dedicated Hancock’s 
Service Company’s new filling station at 
La Harpe October 6. The Hancock com- 
pany was the first co-operative oil com- 
pany to be organized in Illinois. 


E. H. Walworth, fermer county ad- 
viser in Macon county, was recently em- 
ployed as farm adviser in Warren coun- 
ty. He succeeds A. A. Olsen who re- 
signed. 


19 


W hat Adjustment Has Meant 


to Our Country 


By J. V. Stevenson, farm operator and member LaSalle 
County Farm Bureau and I. A. A. 


cent of our crop acres in the last 

two years were planted to corn, so 
when we speak of Agricultural adjust- 
ment, we think of corn and hogs. 

We had 3360 applications for corn- 
hog contracts, and it is interesting and 
significant that of this whole number, 
there were only thirty-five, or about one 
percent, that could not or would not go 
along at the time of final signature. 

Under the corn-hog adjustment plan, 
our contract signers rented more than 
61,000 acres to the Secretary of Agricul- 
ture and altogether the benefit payments 
on corn and hogs will bring into the 
county about $1,100,000. 

We are in the area that was hard hit 
this year by drouth and chinch bugs. 


I’ LaSALLE sedi Illinois, 55 per- 


On a great many farms in the county . 


there will be no grain to sell, and on 
some farms not even enough to feed the 
livestock. To such farmers the corn-hog 
payments are a god-send; they constitute 
the only cash income the farm will have 
this season. This with the release of the 
contracted acres for forage. production 
furnish a splendid illustration of-the good 
this program can do in providing a form 
of. insurance against such. emergencies. 

Last spring our farmers sealed about 
3,000, ,cribs containing more .than five 
million; bushels ‘of corn, receiving a loan 
of 45 cents per bushel at that time. More 
than, three million bushels of this corn 
have now been sold, at least. two-thirds 
of it.fox:sixty cents per bushel: or: more, 
and much of it for seventy-five cents 
per bushel. There can be no-doubt that 
without,.the corn-sealing- plan, a great 
deal ofthis corn would have been sold 
last winter for twenty-five or thirty cents 
per-:bushel; the year before it was 
eighteen cents. per bushel. The corn 
loan. brought this added price to the 
farmer instead of the speculator, and 
kept the corn in. the country where much 
of it is going to be needed for feed 
through the coming winter. 


Just the other day, I went to see a 
carpenter in the nearby village to get 
him to make some repairs on my corn- 
crib before husking. Imagine my sur- 
prise to have him tell me that he had 
more work engaged than he could do in 
a month. For the last three years he 
has spent most of the time just tinker- 
ing around home, and wishing for some- 
thing to turn up that would bring in 
some money. Now the farmers who had 


corn to sell this summer have a few 
dollars that they can spend for some 
of the repairs that have been needed for 
a long time, and the whole community 
benefits by the money being spent. 

Our farmers are not soon going to 
forget the lessons learned in the adjust- 
ment program. Many of them have 
realized before that a more moderate 
production of the basic crops would bring 
in a greater money return. But always. 
before when an effort was made by any 
number of farmers to cut down on the 
acreage of any crop, a lot of other farm- 
ers would think it time to increase, and 
so the effort to balance production with 
demand would be defeated. 

We have in this adjustment program 
a wonderful lesson in the power of co- 
operative effort in fitting our production 
to demand. 

We know that this could not be ac- 
complished in such an industry as-Agri- 
culture without beneficial legislation. We 
know that the administration of the ad- 
justment program has not been perfect. 
Some mistakes have been made which 
can be avoided in the future. 

The feeling is practically unanimous 
that some way should be worked out to 
determine the allotment of corn acres 
on the basis of a percentage of the 
tillable acres in the farm, instead. of 
basing it on the 1932- 1933 corn acreage. 
The present plan does not seem.fair to 


Further . 
rules and regulations with entry blanks 


Get Ready Boys and 


Girls, Baby Beef Show 


Prizes totaling nearly $350 will be dis- 
tributed by the Producers Live Stock 


Commission Association, at E. St. Louis: 


(National Stock Yards) in its eleventh 
annual baby beef show and sale on No- 
vember 22-23. First prize of $20 will be 
awarded the best calves in the Hereford, 
Shorthorn and Angus classes with prizes 
running down to tenth place. The grand 
champior calf will receive an award of 
$50 and the reserve champion $25. A 
silver loving cup is offered for the best 
group of five calves with ribbons for six 
additional places. 

The show of these baby beef calves 
will be held at 10:00 A. M. on November 
22. The sale will begin at the same hour 
on November 23. There will be'a banquet 
for exhibitors at 6:00 P. M. on Nov. 22. 

This show and sale is open to 4-H club 
members and regularly enrolled‘ students 
of vocational agriculture departments. 
information giving . complete 


can be secured by addressing the Pro- 
ducers Live Stock Commission. Associa- 
tion, National Stock Yards, Illinois’ 


the producer who has already reduced 
his corn acreage below the average, and 
had a large part of his farm in pasture, 
hay, or soil building. crops. Some’ of 
these: men could not see their way clear 
to sign a contract this year, and prob- 
ably more of: them will refuse. to go 
along next year on the same plan. ° 
‘*But-with the hope and confidence that 
the experience of this year ‘will help in 
Changing these -objectionable. features, 
our farmers have voted by more ‘than 
three to one, for an adjustment program 
in 1935, 


TWELVE IN THE FAMILY AND EACH ONE COVERED BY A COUNTRY LIFE INSURANCE POLICY. 


This is the Montavan gy 34 of DeKalb coun 
holding Elaine Mildred, 2; Mrs. Montavan, hol 


Yvonne Margaret, 6; Shirley Marie, 3, 


. Left to right back row: William Montavan, father, 
g Marion Ruth, 6 mo’s.; Francis er 17; ‘Florence 
Kathryn, 15; Edith Mary, "14; Bernice Emily, 12; and Gladys Regina, 10, Front row: bert 


rt Dale, 8; 


“T believe that 12 Country Life policies in one family is something in the way of a record,’’ writes 


General Agent John D. Bryant. 


I. A. A. RECORD 


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nh ¢ 


Waterways And The Farmer 


Letters Reveal Rise in Grain Prices Due to Lower Rates 


By G. S. Wilkin, 


Inland Waterways Corporation 


the-Gulf Waterway via the Chicago 
Sanitary Canal and the Illinois 
River in June 19338, new river elevators, 
or elevator facilities, have been provided 
at Peoria, Pekin, Havana, Morris, Monte- 
zuma, Henry, Chillicothe, Hennepin and 


Si the opening of the Lakes-to- 


' Naples. 


The Farmers National Grain Corpora- 
tion is handling a constantly increasing 
tonnage of grain by water, with a sav- 
ing of 2c to 4c. per bushel, which is 
passed on to the farmer. Numerous 
testimonials acknowledging this benefit 
have been received from farmers and 
grain dealers. Following are typical let- 
ters received by. the Farmers National 
Grain Corp.:— 


2¢ to 3c More 


I hereby certify that the farmers of 
Mason and Fulton county at least got 2 
or 3 cents a bushel more for their grain 
through the river operation of the Farm- 
ers National Grain Corp. than they 
would have received otherwise. 

Any raise in river rates would deprive 
the farmers of the benefit. 

(s) Chris Beckman 
Mar,-3, 1934 Havana, Ill. 

_I understand there is some question 
as to whether navigation on the Illinois 
River will open at usual time this Spring. 

Asa. farmer and grain grower, I know 
the. farmers have been getting 2c and 
8¢ more per bu, for their -grain since 
we. have been shipping it on the river. 
Some seem to question whether the farm- 
er is really getting. this benefit. I am 
reminded of the time I asked our farm- 
ers grain company manager the price 
that. he. eould.pay for corn last fall. He 
stated if being delivered in time to go 


‘ on next barge he could pay 2c more than 


if shipped by rail.. 
Hoping it will be possible to ship our 


grain by barge again soon. 


(s) Rudolph Hackman 


Mar, 3, 1934 Havana, Ill. 

We understand that it has been said 
that the producers of grain covering the 
territory adjacent to Havana Barge Line 
terminal are not deriving any benefits 
from said operations. 

We have been delivering our grain to 
this terminal from the very beginning 
and we say without hesitation that we 
have received from 2 to 4 cents more 
than the rail'price and the river bid is 


NOVEMBER, 1934 


always from 2 to 4 cents higher than 


the rail bids. 

This extra price has always been 
passed on to our customers, and we earnr 
estly hope that these river operations 
will continue for the benefit of our pro- 
ducers. 

Havana Co-Operative Grain Co. 
Richard Steging, Mgr. 


Contrast this situation with the con- 
dition in which the farmer finds himself 
in the Pacific Northwest. 


. WHEAT—(Present rates per bushel) 


Minneapolis, Minn. 

to New Orleans, 

1 REE RAeER Ao hah EN 1840 mi.— 8.9c Water 
Arlington, Ore. to 

Portland, Ore. .... 140 mi.— 9.9c Rail 
Grangeville, Id. to 

Portland, Ore. .... 480 mi.—18.6c ” 

Furthermore, many new _ industries 
have sprung up along the waterway 
which tend to broaden the local market 
for farm products. 

The new terminal just completed at 
2905 Western Avenue in Chicago will 
greatly enhance the freedom and volume 
of water-borne traffic, as well as reduce 
switching expense. This is the first 
instance of private capital being ex- 
pended for terminal construction. It is 
an effective answer to the charge that 
terminal investments do not pay. 


Designed to Supplement 


It was inevitable, perhaps, that this 
service should arouse considerable op- 
position on. the part of the railroads, but, 


as a matter of fact, it is not antagonis- 


tic nor prejudicial to their interests. It 
is intended to supplement rail transpor- 
tation in accordance with the policy. an- 
nounced by Congress to “foster and pre- 
serve, in full vigor, both rail and water 
transportation.” Both are necessary to 
the economic well being of the nation. 

There is a natural line of demarcation 
between the two types of haulage. This 
line is represented by the time element. 
Water service is much slower than rail 
and there should be no more conflict be- 
tween the two than there is between ex- 
press and freight shipment. 

Since the depression, however, railroad 
opposition has become more intense and 
a bitter propaganda campaign is being 
waged to have the Inland Waterways 
Corporation abolished. It behooves the 
farmer, as well as every citizen, to be 
on the alert to prevent such action. His- 
tory teaches us that the result would be 
the same as. when river transportation 


at 29th Western Ave., 


New Barge Terminal 
Chicago. 


-was destroyed before; namely, a raise in 


rates to prohibitive levels and the stran- 
gulation of commerce, industry and ag- 
riculture in the Middle West. 

Coordinator Eastman has proposed a 
constructive program of regulation for 
all forms of transportation which meets 
with the approval of the majority of all 
carriers. With governmental loans to 
railroads under the R. F. C. and P. W. 
approaching the staggering sum of $700;- 
000,000 the time has passed for suicidal 
warfare. No better counsel could be 
given than the following lucid statement 
of Mr. Eastman: 


. “Let me ‘make clear once more 
what I have repeatedly stated,. that 
. each form of, transportation is en- 
titled to. its place:in the.sun; that’ 
_ they are.all here to stay; that each 
can perform, some functions better 
than any of the. others; that the ob- ! 
ject. of : regulation. is not mere pro- 
tection for ‘the railroads; that,.each 
form, of transportation needs regula | 
tion to curb the. destructive forces 
in its own ranks, regardless of the 
railroads; that each has its own pe-— 
culiar problems which those who 
A regulate must understand; that the © 
Commission must equip itself ac- . 
cordingly ; and that the prime. ob- ; 
jective of regulation i is a well coordi- 
nated national system of transporta- 
tion which will protect each agency 
in the place which it is best fitted to 
occupy, and curb 'the waste of un- 
necessary duplication and purely 
destructive competition. I hope to 
see a transportation system in which 
all these various agencies will func- 
tion more as allies than enemies, 
and if not as allies, at least as 


friendly rivals.” 


This is the second and last installment of Mr. 
Wilkin’s article on the Illinois Waterway.—Editor. 


W. F. Purnell began work October 22 
as farm adviser in Mercer county, an- 
nounces J. O. Carlson, president of the 
Mercer County Farm Bureau. 


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Producers Creamery 
of Champaign Opening 


The producer may not get a better 
price by selling his cream through his 
own co-operative creamery, and non- 
members who sell to other creameries 
may show equa! returns, but the presence 
of the co-operative creamery will help 
all farmers in the community to get a 
higher average price, John Brandt, presi- 
dent of the Land O’Lakes Creamery, said 
in addressing members of the Producers 
Creamery of Champaign at their opening 
Oct. 2. More than 600 visitors saw the 
plant in operation during the morning. 
They were served crackers and “Prairie 
Farms” butter. 


Mr. Brandt showed that the Minnesota 
cream producer averages two cents per 
pound more for his butterfat than farm- 
ers elsewhere because the state has a 
large number of co-operative creameries. 
Quality, he said, is the most important 
factor in producing farm products, and 
butter particularly. Quality improve- 
ment pays big dividends. 

“It is time the farmer was developing 
the production, the manufacture and the 
sale of his products. There should be a 
fixed surplus price,” he said, “and pools 
formed to keep excess products off the 
markets.” 


The Producers Creamery of Cham- 
paign opened for business on Thursday, 
September 18. Thirty-nine truckloads of 
cream were churned into 1500 pounds of 
Prairie Farms butter the first day. 


The new co-operative is already prov- 
ing its value in a big way. A local but- 
ter manufacturer raised his price four 
cents per pound for butterfat and sent 
a truck around calling on members of 
the Producers Creamery to entice their 
cream away from the co-op. 


According to reports this information 
spread rapidly throughout the territory 
and resulted in the co-operative getting 
heavier loads than were anticipated. 
Around Dewey, home of G. C. Williams, 
president of the Producers Creamery, the 
co-op. cream truck was forced to return 
for a second load. 


Land O’Lakes Creameries made more 
than 100,000,000 pounds of butter last 
year. Equipment used in the Cham- 
paign plant was purchased through the 
supply department of the Land O’Lakes 
organization which has refunded more 
than a million dollars to member co-ops. 
out of the $17,000,000 of equipment 
handled. 


The new creamery has 1507 patrons delivering 
cream to the plant on 39 truck routes from 12 
counties. More than of stores in Urbana and 
Champaign are now handling Prairie Farms butter. 
Day and night shifts were necessary the first two 
weeks to handle the tremendous volume. The plant 
is equipped with stainless steel pasteurizers, 1500 
lb. churn, 60 H. P. boiler, straight-away can washer 
and sterilizer and is one of the most modern in the 
state, 


22 


Milk Hauling Charges 
at St. Louis Changed 


Charges for hauling milk in the St. 
Louis area effective October 10 under 
the AAA license are 16 cents per cwt. 
within 20 miles from the city hall; 18 
cents, 20 to 30 miles; 20 cents, 30 to 40 
miles; and one cent additional for each 
10 miles beyond the 40 mile zone, 

Under the amendment licensed dis- 
tributors must pay three cents per cwt. 
on all milk to the market administrator 
for supervising weights, tests, market in- 
formation and maintenance of a reserve 
fund to proctet farmers against dead- 
beat or “busted” dealers. 


A. F. B. F. Meet, Nashville 


Gov. W. I. Myers of the Farm Credit 
Administration who played a leading 
part in drafting the Administration’s 
$2,500,000,000 rural credit program will 
be one of the headliners at the coming 
annual meeting of the American Farm 
Bureau Federation in Nashville, Tenn., 
Dec. 10-11-12. 

Chester C. Davis, administrator of the 
Adjustment Act, who has handled a tre- 
mendously difficult task with great abil- 
ity, will speak on future plans for bal- 
ancing production and raising farm 
prices to parity levels. 

Prof. M. L. Wilson, Assistant Secre- 
tary of Agriculture, has accepted an in- 
vitation to speak on “Land Utilization 
and Conservation.” Dr. Geo. F. Warren 
of Cornell University, monetary adviser 
to the President, will be another speaker. 
His subject will be “The Influence of 
Gold and Silver Revaluation on Farm 
Prices.” 

Several members of President Roose- 
velt’s cabinet have been invited. Southern 
states are making a special effort to send 
large delegations to the convention. The 
fact that Nashville lies closer to the 
southern part of Illinois than Chicago 
will influence many [Illinois members 
from this section to attend the meeting. 


Purchasing power of hogs, including 
benefit payments, was 66 per cent higher 
during August (75% of fair exchange 
value) than it was a year ago. 


Federal Licenses Cut 
Spread In Milk Prices 


Distributors’ gross operating margins 
on retail milk delivered to homes in 50 
big cities of the country on September 
15, 1934 ranged from 4,41 cents per 
quart to 8.34 cents per quart with a 
variation in retail prices from nine to 
15 cents. Of the 50 markets 21 are 
under federal license and 14 are reg- 
ulated by state legislation. 

According to the survey Chicago has 
the lowest gross margin to distributors 
at 4.41 cents per quart. The dealer’s 
buying price f. o. b. city for fluid milk 
is $2.60 per cwt. and the retail price 
10 cents per quart. 

At St. Louis where dealers paid $2.44 
for Class I f. o. b. city and retail 3.8% 
milk for 11 cents, the gross margin to 
distributors is 5.75 cents per quart. At 
Cincinnati farmers get $2.35, consumers 
pay 12 cents and the margin to dealers 
is 6.95 cents per quart. At Raleigh, 
North Carolina, farmers get $2.63, 
charge consumers 14 cents for 4.2 milk 


and have a gross margin of 8.34 cents. 


In this survey it is significant that where there 
is no official regulation such as Ral 
ham, Little Rock and San 


ily understood, nreasonably high fits and a 
wide spread in prices which hurts both producer 
and consumer is less likely to occur where there is 
federal licensing.—Editor. 


CCC Uses "Prairie 
Farms" Quality Butter 


The Farmers Creamery Company, 
Bloomington is furnishing the Civilian 
Conservation Corps at Mackinaw Dells 
with “Prairie Farms” butter. The gov- 
ernment requires that all butter pur- 
chased be federally inspected. “Prairie 
Farms” is the only brand produced in 
Illinois under federal inspection. It 
must score 92 or better. 


Against Aid To Farmers 


M. G. Van Buskirk, now with Beatrice 
Creamery Co. and formerly secretary 
of the Illinois Butter Manufacturers’ and 
Milk Dealers’ Associations, is reported 
to have lobbied against the licensing of 
downstate Illinois milk markets, at 
Washington. 


The I. A. A. and the milk producers 
associations have applied for AAA 
licenses with the hope of stabilizing 
market conditions and securing a reason- 
able price to producers at Peoria, Bloom- 
ington, Danville, Champaign, Decatur 
and southern Illinois points. Licenses are 
expected to be issued Nov. 1. 


Van Buskirk at one time was pastor of a com- 
munity church at Oneida in Knox county. He later 
became president of the Knox County ce Com- 
pany and Illinois Farm Supply Company. 


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The 


Illinois Agricultural Association 


Number 12 


Foreign Trade 
By George N. Peek, 


Special Adviser to the President on Foreign Trade 


OR a number of years I have been 
| petition: with the 

American agriculture, particularly in 
foreign trade. The heart and center of 
our entire export trade, by volume, con- 
sists of agricultural products, and the 
largest single class of income from ex- 
port trade is that associated with the ex- 
portation of agricultural products. More- 
over, from the point of view of the ag- 
gregate income derived by our agricul- 
ture from the disposal of its products, a 
foreign market has played a decisive part 
for over three generations. 


Eighteen per cent of our agricultural 
income during the 22 years from 1910 to 
1932 came from exports. A _ trifle 
over 5% of our industrial income 
came from exports in this same pe- 
riod. While certain branches of agri- 
culture and industry are-.more affected 
than others, clearly agriculture has a far 
greater stake in our export markets than 
industry. Industry, however, is depend- 
ent on the existence of a profitable ag- 
riculture for the sake of its own domestic 
markets. It has been demonstrated dur- 
ing recent months that, for a good many 
sections of the United States, the return 
of prosperity must come from the grass 
roots up, rather than down from the 
smoke of factory chimneys. However, 
the interdependence of industry and ag- 
riculture in our national economy now 
is so generally recognized that I shall not 
debate which came first, the hen or the 


egg. 
Two Distinct Duties 


Last March I accepted from the Presi- 
dent the appointment of Special Adviser 
to him on foreign trade. About the same 
time the Export-Import Banks were or- 
ganized. These I shall discuss later. My 
duties as Special Adviser were specified, 
by Executive Order, along two distinct 
lines. 


First, I was authorized to coordinate 
and review available data with reference 
to foreign trade, and second, to carry on 
negotiations with respect to _ specific 
trade transactions with any group or 
agency interested in obtaining assistance 
from the Federal Government through 
financial transactions, barter, or other 
forms of Government participation. I 
was directed to bring meritorious pro- 


interests of 


posals before the proper governmental 
agencies for appropriate action and to 


-keep the President advised concerning 


the action taken. 

Had I known at that time that there 
are more than 50 divisions, bureaus, or 
departments of our Federal Government 
dealing with foreign trade problems in 
one way or another, probably I should 
have hesitated, but after having agreed 
to undertake it, I decided to find out if 
I could what it was all about. 

I shall tell you very briefly what we 
have found from our review of available 
data and what we are doing to improve 
conditions and to further foreign trade 
activities. | hs 

Our approach to the subject has bee 
the business approach. We have under- 
taken to do just what any business execu- 
tive would do if he were suddenly placed 
in charge of a large and diversified busi- 
ness, that is, to find out from the record 
of the past. what the situation was and 
what improvement could be made. We 
had, however, no adequate system of 
bookkeeping for foreign trade. 


Owe Us 24 Billion 


In my two published letters to the 
President, one dealing with our interna- 
tional trade, and the other dealings with 
our international credits, certain conclu- 
sions seem inescapable: 

As a nation we have shipped far more 
goods than we have been paid for cur- 
rently. We paid a considerable part of 
the money cost of the war and contrib- 
uted largely to the rehabilitation of 
Europe after the war. The unpaid bal- 
ance on these accounts at the end of 1933 
was some $24,000,000,000. This unpaid 
balance is represented mainly by long- 
term and non-liquid obligations of for- 
eigners to us and by our direct invest- 
ments in foreign countries. 

Our practice of lending money abroad 
imprudently and over-generously per- 
mitted foreigners to build up from the 
proceeds of these loans a large body of 
short-term and highly liquid investments 
in the United States. With the depression 
the threat of their overnight withdrawal 
and their actual withdrawal substantially 
contributed to the demoralization of our 
banking system and to the shattering of 
our price levels. We thus made possible 


RECORD 


December, 1934 


GEORGE N. PEEK 


our own depression by our own financia) 
policy from 1923 to 1929. 

The discounts and commissions alone 
from all of this financing are reported 
to have amounted to about $1,190,000,000 
since 1914. 

A significant and sinister feature is 
that the movement of capital almost ex- 
ceeded and dominated the movement of 
merchandise. The proportion of our dol- 
lar settlements for investment transac- 
tions has increased from 7.6% in 1919 
to 41.6% in 1933. This means that as- 
suming 100 represents the total dollar 
settlements of all kinds of the United 
States with the rest of the world, 7.6% 
in 1919 was used in our investment trans- 
actions, which increased to 41.6% in 
1933. On the other hand, 70.7% was used 
for commodity and service transactions 
in 1919 and only 41.8% in 1933. These 
figures speak for themselves. 


Exchange Restrictions 


The details of the figures from which 
these conclusions are drawn are covered 
in my two letters to the President which, 
with his permission, have been made pub- 
lic and are available in pamphlet form 
to any one who cares to send for them. 

Another broad conclusion to which 1] 
am led is that exchange restrictions im- 
posed in the past few years by more than 
35 nations have played a principal part 
in clogging the wheels of international 
trade. This means simply that, more or 
less arbitrarily, these countries have pre- 
vented the payment of debts, including 
those of nationals owing on current com- 
mercial transactions, by delaying or for- 
bidding transfer of funds. Without dis- 
cussion of the reasons given or the vary- 
ing degrees of justification, the result is 
that such countries are in effect using 


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the money due exporters instead of bor- 
rowing it from investors. 

Again, exclusive commercial agree- 
ments and barter transactions have been 
made by other nations quite generally 
since the depression started. We have 
a record of 180 of them covering all 
phases of international trade, from gen- 
eral tariff adjustments to specific agree- 
ments, barter between nationals of dif- 
ferent countries, state trading, and, in 
some instances, trading by nationals en- 
couraged by governments. This practice 
is not limited to the smaller nations. 
These mutually exclusive compacts have 
one common characteristic—that of leav- 
ing the United States entirely out of con- 
sideration. They have covered even such 
fine points in trade between nations as 
the international traffic in tourists. In 
June of last year two countries entered 
into an agreement whereby one of them 
traded tourists’ revenue with another for 
carloads of hogs. The basis was $40 per 
head for hogs and $60 per head for tour- 
ists. The world is indeed hard pressed 
for a medium of exchange between coun- 
tries when such meticulous adjustments 
as these are necessary. 

I shall not take time to dwell 
upon the better known restrictive. devices 
familiar to you all such as embargoes, 
quotas, and excessive tariffs. I have 
undertaken to outline briefly the situa- 
tion as we see it from the studies we 
have been able to make. In passing, I 
shall refer to some of the criticisms di- 
rected to my published reports to the 
President. I shall then endeavor to in- 
dicate what we are doing to improve the 
situation and to make it possible to get 
serious negotiations really under way. 

The first criticism is that there is 
nothing new in these reports and there is 
nothing to be gained by reminding the 
public of the mistake in our international 
transactions during the last dozen years. 


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Part of the criticism is justified— 
there is nothing new in these figures, For 
my own part, I have said so repeatedly. 
They have remained safely filed in the 
Department of Commerce after the Fi- 
nance and Investment Division of that 
Department in its published yearly re- 
ports since 1922 called attention both to 
the condition and to the trend. I may add 
that in 1922 the responsible members of 
the administration were supplied with an 
international balance sheet, a copy of 
which is on record in Washington. 

The trouble is that in the face of these 
repeated warnings nothing was done by 
the responsible authorities to prevent the 
debacle which followed, even though both 
the condition and the trend were clearly 
indicated to them. 

Next, it has been and still is argued, in 
some quarters, that the country was bet- 
ter off as a result of the policy which 


LETS Swap! 
*HOW ABOUT A 
BASIS or #60. 

A HEAD On 
TOURISTS? 


TIME FOR UNCLE SAM TO DO A LITTLE 
YANKEE TRADING TOO 


HOW ABOUT THAT 
MONEY YOU OWE ME? 


WHATS THAT 2 
| CAN'T HEAR You! 


was followed, of financing our exports 
through foreign loans, because industry 
was kept busy, wages were paid, there 
was general activity, and some individ- 
uals and concerns made profits, even if 


- investors suffered. I disagree with that 


view. If the investors were a limited 
number of people of great means, who 
could stand the loss, it might have some 
foundation. But when the victims, in ad- 
dition to the many small investors, were 
our insurance companies, trust com- 
panies, savings banks, and small coun- 
try banks, which were trustees for mil- 
lions of small investors and depositors, 
every property owner in the nation was 
affected adversely by the collapse of our 
short-sighted foreign commercial and fi- 
nancial policy. As these institutions were 
affected, the loss spread throughout the 
land. It contributed greatly not only to 
the weakening of our. whole financial 
structure but to the social unrest as well. 
It thus becomes a matter of national 
and Governmental concern. 

Another argument is that arrange- 
ments between the nationals of two coun- 
tries, such as barter transactions, which 
contemplate balancing accounts, would 
result in greatly reducing our foreign 
trade. 

What is the use of trade without pay- 
ment? In our normal private business 
activities we limit our sales to what we 
consider good or reasonable credit risks. 
We rely upon the ability of the buyer to 
pay. If he cannot pay in the conven- 
tional medium of exchange, we try to 
find out how he can pay or what he can 
give to us that we can use to satisfy the 
debt and facilitate trade. I need only to 
call to your attention the practice in re- 
cent years of some of our most orthodox 
implement companies, and others, who 
gladly took wheat, corn and cotton in 
payment of old indebtedness or for new 

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I. A. A. RECORD 


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Lessons 


of 1934 


By Dean H. W. Mumford, 


College of Agriculture, University of Illinois 


N the school days of our youth the 
“hard” teachers embittered us and 
made us resentful at the time, but as 

the years mellowed and matured us, we 
looked back to revere and respect those 
teachers for the lessons they had taught 
us. Perhaps the finest thing we can say 
about 1934 is that it may have been a 

. " hard enough teacher 
so that we shall look 
back some day in 
thankful apprecia- 
tion for the lessons 
it has taught. For 
the present, the as- 


by the editor of the 
I. A. A. RECORD is 
to set down my 
views on what those 
lessons have been. 
To begin with, the 1934 Illinois corn 
crop is estimated to be the smallest in 
61 years. The oats crop was the smallest 
in 58 years and the barley harvest was 
extremely small. The year’s combined 
production of grain feeds and hay is un- 
doubtedly one of the smallest on record. 
The apple crop is far below average, and 
the peach crop was only about one-third 
of what it was in 1933 and considerably 
less than a third of the ¥927-31 average. 


A Hard Teacher 


As if this were not enough to make 
1934 a “hard” teacher, there was the 
worst infestation of chinch bugs in his- 
tory and the worst drouth and some of 
the hottest weather that farmers of IIli- 
nois have ever experienced. 

Not the least of the lessons of the year 
has been that “farm relief,” so glibly 
talked about by too many people, does 
not come easy. There have been many 
teachers who have tried to drill this into 
the public ever since farm relief began 
to be talked about, but it has taken a 
“hard” teacher like the year 1934 has 
been to drive the lesson home. 

In the past we have been too much in- 
clined to talk about farm relief as if it 
were something that could be pulled out 
of a magician’s hat or at least something 
that would take place with instant and 
far-reaching benefits if only somebody 
would do something about it. 

This year something has been done 
about it, and in the doing we have been 
taught that it is not as easy as some 
folks had thought, nor does it produce 
magic benefits as speedily as those who 
had talked loudest about it had hoped 
that it would. In the Agricultural Ad- 


DEAN MUMFORD 


DECEMBER, 1934 


signment given me 


justment Act we have had the greatest 
mass movement of farmers, farm leaders 
and farm sympathizers and the greatest 
marshaling of public funds all working 
for the betterment of agriculture, that 
history has ever witnessed, and yet the 
results have been slower, more painful 
and less rosy than many had expected 
they would be. | 

He may have been too optimistic about 
the prospects before, but any farmer who 
has worked on his community corn-hog 
allotment committee, for instance, now 
has an idea of how much work, study, 
patience, cooperation and perseverance 
is involved in sound and lasting efforts 
to improve the farmer’s position. Nor 
are these hundreds of community com- 
mitteemen the only ones who have 
learned the lesson. Approximately 1,200,- 
000 farmers signed corn-hog contracts 
alone. These and all other farmers who 
have had contact of any kind what- 
ever with the AAA have had a demon- 
stration of what is involved in controlled 
production. 


Requires Work 


If the AAA does nothing more than 
sober farmers and their leaders and 
sympathizers into realizing that “farm 
relief” takes something more than talk, 
it will have gone a long way toward re- 
paying some of the money and effort 
that has been put into it. Having brought 


this lesson, 1934 will not go down as a - 


total loss, in spite of all its other disap- 
pointments and even though it yielded no 
other lessons. 

There have been others, though. We 
have learned, too, that high prices alone 
do not necessarily mean high tides of 
prosperity. Thus the developments in 
1934 have taught us the necessity of 
keeping things in balance. Short crops 
have brought higher prices for grains and 
will bring higher prices for livestock. 
Even though prices rose last summer, 
business activity declined. With commod- 
ity prices averaging 10 per cent higher 
in September than a year ago, business 
activity was 13 per cent lower. This 
acted as a drag on further price increases, 
and beginning about the middle of Sep- 
tember the general average of prices 
turned down. | 

The lesson in this, of course, is that 
sustained high prices are not possible 
without general buying power to sup- 
port them. To make good prices there 
must be a healthy state of business ac- 
tivity so that the other fellow can buy 
what the farmer has to sell. Prices could 


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JUST IMAGINE 
GETTING ANY WHERE 
WITH A BALKY TEAM 
THAT WONT work. 
TOGETHER | 


NOW weE'RE 
GETTING 
SOME WHERE! 


“A \ 
“FARM RELIEF AND FARM PROGRESS CANNOT 
come without close > sincere co-operation between 
armers.’’ 


be arbitrarily fixed or set so that there 
would be $16 hogs and $11 beef cattle as 
there was in 1918, $1.50 corn as there 
was in 1919 and $2.26 wheat as there 
was in 1920, but if business activity was 
at such a low ebb that the city man could 
not buy the farmer’s pork chops and beef 
steaks at these figures, the high prices 
would profit the producer nothing. 

As Dr. L. J. Norton, of our department 
of agricultural economics, has pointed 
out, if business activity had been higher 
and demand conditions more active, there 
would have been even more striking in- 
creases than have recently taken place 
in the price of farm products. 

Fortunately, there are a number of 
factors in the long-time outlook which 
point toward further recovery in busi- 
ness activity and demand, but for the 
time being at least we have learned that 
high prices can not go it alone when it 
comes to restoring more prosperous con- 
ditions. 


Need Trade Recovery 


We may have learned, too, that we shall 
have to do something to encourage in- 
ternational trade and regain our foreign 
markets before agriculture in Illinois and 
the rest of the United States completely 
recovers. This lesson would not be as 
clear as it is if we had not done as much 
as we have during the past year and a 
half to adjust and restrict production in 
the hope of solving the problem by get- 
ting on a self-sufficiency basis. 

Stimulating international trade and re- 
gaining foreign markets for our prod- 
ucts in some respects is a more encourag- 
ing and more logical approach to the 
solution of some of our problems than 
is the widespread curtailment of produc- 
tion. Unfortunately, however, the total 
volume of agricultural exports from the 
United States in the year ending June 
30, 1934, shrunk even lower than it was 


the previous year to hit the lowest spot 
since 1909-1910. Although some impor- 
tant products showed a substantial in- 
crease, the volume index of exports of 
44 leading farm products for the year 
stands at 83 as compared with 85 in 
1932-1933 and 100 for the 1909-1914 av- 
erage. The year 1934 may have taught 
us, therefore, that future years will not 
be as bad as this one has been if we will 
do some of the things that might be 
done to get our volume of exports back 
to where it was in the days of better 
times. | 


“Brains” are being ridiculed in some 
quarters just now, but 1934 has put 
across another of its lessons there. It 
_takes brains to do good farming, and 
there ought to be more trust in brains, 
not less, as a result of the way good 
farming has come through in 1934. 


Farmers following the teachings of the 
College of Agriculture, University of 
Illinois have been practicing good farm- 
ing for a long time, but no year in ‘his- 
tory has taught the merit of such farm- 
ing more forcibly than has 1934 with its 
drouth, heat and other adverse conditions. 


During the past decade and a half, for 
instance, more than: 7,000,000 tons of 
limestone have been applied by Illinois 
farmers who have followed the recom- 


mendations of the College of Agricul- — 


ture, University of Illinois with regard 
to the testing of soils, the growing of 
more legumes and the balancing of crop- 
ping systems. — 

Thousands of acres of legumes which 
have been made possible and successful 
as a result of this lime-legume program 
have stood farmers in good stead in a 
drouth year like 1934. More than 850,- 
000 acres of sweet clover alone have been 
grown in Illinois this year largely as a 
result of the soil testing and liming pro- 
gram and the other good farming prac- 
tices which farmers have adopted upon 
the recommendation of their county farm 
advisers and the extension service of the 
agricultural college. This sweet clover 
has been little short of a “life saver” on 
many farms this year where non-legume 
pastures have been burned out by the 
drouth and heat. Furthermore, some 300,- 
000 acres of limed land grew alfalfa in 
Illinois this year. From this farmers got 
a good crop of hay when other meadows 
were practically worthless. One farmer, 
H. K. Johnston, of Buckley, Iroquois 
county, who has followed the college’s 
recommendations ever since he started 
farming ten years ago, reported a yield 
of 32 tons of alfalfa in the first cut- 
ting from 14 acres which was limed six 
years ago. 

The year 1934 has taught us at least 
one other lesson and that is that mass 
action, the expenditure of millions of dol- 
lars of public funds and other expediences 
can never be a substitute for the think- 


A. F. B. F. Convention 


TIME: December 10-11-12. 

PLACE: Nashville, Tennessee. 

HEADQUARTERS: Andrew Jack- 
son Hotel, Hermitage Hotel. 

ROOM RATES: $2.50 single—$4.00 
double and less at other hotels. 

RESERVATIONS: Make with A. 
F. B. F., 58 E. Washington St., 
Chicago, or direct. 

R. R. RATES: Fare and one-third 
for round trip—must present re- 
duced fare certificates when you 
buy ticket. Get certificates at A. 
F. B. F. headquarters. 

SPEAKERS: Secretary Cordell 
Hull, Secretary Wallace, Ches- 
ter C. Davis, Dr. Geo. F. War- 
ren, Governor John G. Winant of 
New Hampshire, Dr. W. I. Myers, 
H. R. Tolley, M. L. Wilson, and 
others, . 

Make your reservations at once. 
Nashville is not. far from down- 
state Illinois points by train or 
auto, and members will be well re- 
paid for time and money spent at- 
‘tending the meeting. 


ing and planning of individual farmers. 
This lesson has come out of the farm ac- 
counting project of the College of Agri- 
culture, University of Illinois. 


Over the state as a whole there are 
approximately 1,400 farmers who are 
keeping accurate records in connection 
with this project. Among these 1,400 
farmers there is a group of 150 account 
keepers in the territory of Grundy, La- 
Salle, Marshall and Putnam counties who 
are enrolled:in what is known as the 
farm bureau-farm management service 
project. 


$1432 A Farm 


This year their records were sum- 
marized for the three-year period 1931- 
1933 and the results featured in a round- 
up meeting which was held at Ottawa in 
September. The 30 farms with the larg- 
est net income had an average annual in- 
come of $1,432 a farm as the interest on 
their investment and to pay them for 
their risk and management. The 30 
farms with the greatest losses had an 
average annual deficit of $445, which 
was $1,877 below the net income on the 
more profitable farms. : 


This difference was largely the result 
of differences in efficiency of organiza- 
tion and management of the farms and 
was attributable to such things as live- 
stock efficiency, crop yields, size of busi- 
ness and expenses. 

There have been other lessons that have 
stood out in 1934, but space does not 
permit a detailed review of them.. -Cer- 


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Foreign Trade 
(Continued from page 4) 


goods. It is true that these direct trans- 
actions frequently lead us into multi- 
lateral negotiations, as in this case, but 
that is no reason for decrying direct 
transactions wherever they are desirable, 
and they may be desirable in many cases. 

One other criticism is to the effect that 
before considering new trade transac- 
tions, we should collect what is now due 
us by other nations. Having had long ex- 
perience in credits and collections, I 
understand jthat point perfectly. The 
founder of the business with which I was 
long associated, three-quarters of a cen- 
tury ago printed across the face of his 
invoices something like this—“All bills 
must be paid within 10 days from the 
date they fall due or arrangements made 
in advance for an extension, otherwise 
no further shipments will be made.” He 
meant that he would insist upon his cus- 
tomers respecting their agreements to 
pay when due or arranging for an exten- 
sion of time if necessary. Otherwise he 
would make no more shipments; he would 
not continue to throw good money after 


bad. That is my view. 


We have two types of debtors always, 
one the kind that can but won’t pay, the 
other the kind that desires to pay but for 
the time being is unable to do so. So it is 
with governments. I am more optimistic 
than many people about ultimate pay- 
ments due us from foreigners. No civi- 
lized nation will assume the responsibil- 
ity of urging repudiation of contracts be- 
tween nations. In some cases it may be 
necessary to make adjustments or to ex- 
tend the time of payment. But in the in- 
terim are we to sit still and await pay- 
mtent and make no attempt to trade? 
Should the answer be yes, it means con- 
tinuation of unemployment, idle factories 
and farms and all that goes with such 
phenomena. We have had those condi- 
tions in our midst long enough. 

In my judgment, it would be far better 
to negotiate country by country to see 
what we can trade and at the same time 
determine what arrangements can be 
started at least looking toward payment 
of past due indebtedness. Without trade, 
means for payment become nonexistent, 
and obligations of payment become so 


much waste paper. 


This is the first of a series of two articles on 
‘Foreign Trade’’ by Mr, Peek. The author became 
well known to Illinois farmers through his leader- 
ship beginning in 1921, in the fight for farm gur- 
plus control legislation and parity prices for farm 
products, Mr, Peek’s home is at Moline in Rock 
Island county where he was in the farm implement 
manufacturing business, He is a charter member 
of the Illinois Agricultural Ass’n.—Editor. 


tainly the fact that we had the worst 


chinch bug infestation in 1934 that we 
have ever had has taught us that we can 
never relax our vigilance against insect 
and disease pests. The shortage of feed 
(Continued on page 7) 


I. A. A. RECORD 


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Grain Meeting at Morris 


Dedicate New Farmers National Elevator on Illinois River 


EDICATION of: the new 60,000 
D bushel elevator of the Farmers Na- 

tional Grain Corporation on the 
Illinois: river bank at Morris, November 
12, was the occasion for a get-together 
and dinner which brought out nearly 100 
farmers’ elevator managers and direc- 
tors, Farmers National and Illinois Grain 
Corporation officials, 
and their friends. 
Seventeen member 
elevators and seven 
non - members were 
represented. 

The dinner was 
held in the evening 
in the club house of 
the Morris Country 
Club, and was ar- 
ranged by Ray Wat- 
son of the Grundy 
County Farm Bu- 
reau and Harrison 
Fahrnkopf, manager of Illinois Grain 
Corporation. | 

D. M. Hardy, president of the St. Louis 
Bank for Co-operatives, was a guest 
speaker. Among the Farmers National 
officials who attended were G. C. John- 


- HARRISON 
FAHRNKOPF 


' stone, vice-president who is also presi- 


dent of Illinois Grain Corporation; J. O. 
McClintock, James Cole, Paul Kelly, 
John Anderson, and Jack Powers of the 
Chicago office. Charles P. Cummings, 
Peoria manager, and managers of branch 
offices at Pontiac and Mendota attended. 


30 Terminals 


Mr. Cole, manager of the Farmers Na- 
tional Warehouse Corporation, whose job 
is to see that the co-operative has proper 
facilities, said that the Grain Corporation 
is operating 30 terminals with a capacity 
of 30,000,000 bushels in addition to 
more than 400 country elevators, giving 
a combined capacity of 56,000,000 bushels 
of grain. 

“T am glad to say that all our terminals 
are now operating in the black,” he said. 
“Tllinois Grain Corporation, we believe, 
is getting its share of facilities, although 
at the present rate of growth it will not 
be long until it outgrows present 
capacity.” 

Mr. McClintock who is in charge of 
developing outlets for grain, showed the 
close relationship between transporta- 
tion rates and net returns on grain to 
farmers. Speaking of corn, he said that 
the Nebraska situation affects the price 
of grain at Illinois river points; that with 
water transportation grain from Illinois 
can be shipped to the Pacific coast for 
about half the rail cost from Lincoln, 


DECEMBER, 1934 


Nebraska. He predicted even lower water 
rates for short hauls. 

“When river business has been fully 
developed it will affect prices of grain 
throughout the country,” he said. “The 
Chicago market is the pulse of the grain 
business in America. If we can: take 
some of the pressure off of the Chicago 
market on corn, I am satisfied we can 
influence the price level higher. It will 
be a market factor if we can take 25,000,- 
000 bushels of corn out of the Mississippi 
valley by river. It is possible to ship 
corn from Morris to Memphis for less 
than half the rail rate. And you can 
move grain from Peoria to New Orleans 
by water for about the same rate by rail 
from Peoria to Chicago. 

“The grain business is shifting and it 
is necessary to be alert and change our 
methods with the times. Right now there 
is discussion of building a 14 foot chan- 
nel from Peoria to Chicago to make pos- 
sible the loading of lake steamers and 
going direct through the Great Lakes 
and the Erie Canal to New York. Every 
reduction in transportation is reflected 
in a higher price to the farmer.” 


Truck Competition 


Speaking of the new competition to 
farmers’ elevators from truckers, Charles 
Cummings advised elevator managers to 
get out and handle this situation if nec- 
essary by leasing trucks and beating the 
competitor at his own game. “It may be 
necessary to go direct to the farmer to 
get the grain,” he said. “We don’t know 
how long this kind of competition will be 
with us. It probably will not last because 
trucks are now hauling grain below cost 
of operation. But while it is here you 
might as well face the situation and do 
everything possible to minimize its 
damaging effects on elevator business.” 

Jack Powers told how the Farmers Na- 
tional handled financed accounts, while 
Mr. Anderson discussed the details of 
handling bids and orders on the floor of 
the Chicago Exchange. Explaining the 
so-called “intimated price,” he said that 
the grain firm must be able to sell the 
grain offered before it could bid above 
the standard call price. Anderson has 
been on the Chicago market for 30 years. 
He perhaps knows as many buyers, if not 
more than any other floor man. “We are 
doing our best to get the most for your 
grain,” he said. 

Mr. Kelly explained operations of the 
seed division and told how it was work- 
ing to bring together the seed producer 
and the consumer. He called attention 
to the shortage of grass seed this year, 


particularly of alfalfa and the clovers. 

In passing on loans the Bank for Co- 
operatives considers (1) the purpose for 
which they are to be used, (2) value of 
collateral, (3) ability to repay, Mr. Hardy 
explained. “Our loans bear 4.5 per cent 
interest,” he said. “They are made only 
if we feel confident that the money will 
be permanently helpful. We avoid loans 
which possibly might help the co-opera- 
tive to meet a crisis, but would not solve 
or overcome an inherent weakness.” 

President Johnstone emphasized that 
the aim of the whole movement is to re- 
turn the farmer a better price for his 
grain; and it was this reason which 
prompted Farmers National and Illinois 
Grain Corporation to support balanced 
production and surplus control. 

Vice President A. R. Wright, and Di- 
rectors Geo. L. Potter and Walter 
Thomas, of Illinois Grain Corp., and 
Henry T. Marshall of LaSalle county, 
former I. A. A. director, spoke briefly 
about the development of their local 
elevators and their relationship with 
Illinois Grain Corp. Geo. E. Mellen, 
manager of Mazon elevator, the young- 
est member, spoke briefly for the man- 
agers. Harrison Fahrnkopf ably presided 
as toastmaster. 

J. S. Sproul of the Public Service Com- 
pany generated much enthusiasm and 
good fellowship by leading community 
singing. 


Lessons Of 1934 


(Continued from page 6) 


that developed in parts of Illinois and in 
entire states farther north and west 
should teach us that future farm plans 
must include preparations for such emer- 
gencies. Our helplessness against the 
many ruinous effects of the drouth 
should teach us that not all the problems 
of agriculture and food production are 
solved nor are they ever likely to be. 
Our experiences with the corn-hog plan 
and other AAA programs should teach 
us that farm relief and farm progress 
can not come without close and sincere 
cooperation between farmers. 

Indeed, 1934 has not been without its 
lessons. How well we have learned them 
remains for future years to prove. 


Illinois 4-H Members 
At Fat Stock Show 


Illinois farm boys and girls will be 
well represented in the junior classes of 
the 1934 International Live Stock Exposi- 
tion, to be held in Chicago December 1 
to 8. 

Approximately 125 youngsters from 37 
Illinois counties have listed entries of 
their prize baby-beeves, lambs, and pigs 
for the Exposition’s Junior Live Stock 
Feeding Contest. 


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To advance the purpose for bog the Farm Bureau was or- 
ganized namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, 
economic, political and educational interest of the farmers of 
Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 


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Farmers’ Mutual Reinsurance Co................-.00seeeees J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Auditing Ass’n...................-- 4m E. Ringham, Mgr. 
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Tuusrance cad deneeade sewn BE. Richardson, Mgr. 
Illinois Farm Supply Co.........cccccccccccccrsccceeuce . R. Marchant, Mgr. 
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Illinois Livestock Marketing Ass’N............ecsesececsecees Ray Miller, Mgr. 
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Government and Co-operatives ~ 


HINKING farmers and co-operative leaders are perhaps 
TD justitied in showing some concern over the effect of gov- 

ernment licenses and codes on co-operative organizations. 
Not that government officials are antagonistic to the co-opera- 
tive movement. Quite the contrary is true. But will farmers 
themselves who are members of co-operatives be lulled into 
thinking that the co-operative is no longer necessary now that 
the government is performing some of its functions. 


As a matter of fact, federal marketing agreements have 
been and are being largely developed by farmers’ organiza- 
tions. These agreements are succeeding best where farmers 
are represented by strong, well-managed co-operatives. It is 
doubtful if they could function properly without the aid and 
support of the farm groups. 


No one knows just how long marketing agreements and 
government intervention to restore parity prices for farm 
products will be continued. Effective organization of farmers 
can and does influence such policies but it cannot always direct 
and control them. The strength and usefulness of co-opera- 
tives must not be impaired. It is important that they not be 
left in a weakened condition if and when the government with- 


‘draws from this field. 


The Drought Rate Cut 


T WAS largely the persistency of the Illinois Agricultural 


Association traffic division which resulted recently in 4 


substantial cut in freight rates on hay and feed shipped 
into the drought stricken counties of northeastern Illinois. The 
I. A. A. secured the co-operation of the government in making 
its appeal in hearings before railroad officials. The reduced 
rates effective Nov. 7 will save farmers one-third on hay and 
one-half on forage. In granting this request the western rail- 
roads were mindful of the fact that farmers, as a group, are 
their best customers. Without organization and the aid of 
technically trained men, it is a foregone conclusion that this 
and similar benefits could not and would not be realized. 


Incentive For Quality 


LLINOIS cream producers who market through their own 
] co-operative creameries are learning that there is a wide 

spread in price between good and poor butter. Under the 
old system of selling at the local cream station, high quality 
cream brings no more than extremely sour, dirty, and even 
rancid cream. There is no incentive to keep the cows and barns 
clean, use sterilized utensils, wash the separator each time it is 
used, cool cream promptly, and market it often, if the extra 
returns from the resulting higher quality butter go to the 
processor. Under the co-operative system, all this is changed. 
The more high scoring butter the co-operative sells, the greater 
its income and the greater the dividends going to members. 
It is more than a coincidence that in Denmark where the finest 
bacon and butter in the world are produced, farmer-owned 
packing plants and creameries do the processing. 


Future Farmers 


ESSIMISTIC remarks regarding the future of farm or- 

ganization and co-operation do not give due weight to 

the influence of agricultural teaching in high schools, col- 
leges and to 4-H Club work. High school teachers who have 
a sincere interest in farm progress are doing more than merely 
instructing their pupils in better methods and the art of 
farming. 

Ray Benbow, agricultural instructor at Normal, for exam- 
ple, writes in the “Fan Mill”: “In both the classroom and 
project work I feel that we should be interested in farm prob- 
lems principally from the practical aspect. As teachers we are 
constantly confronted with the question—‘What shall I teach 
today that will be most helpful to the farmer of tomorrow?’ 
I feel that I can be of most value to farm boys by directing 
their discussions and projects along lines of practical, co-op- 
erative activities backed by honest, sincere effort. We must 
help fit these boys to take their places in an organized, co- 
operative society. They should be instructed along the lines of 


fair play and honesty before we can achieve our goal. Start © 


them in project work, in F. F. A. activities, in contests, teach 
them these principles, and then we will be achieving a goal 
worthy of any vocation. Make the boy realize that individual 
effort is important—that what he achieves depends on _ him- 
self. He sets his own pace, encounters his own obstacles and 
in the end arrives at his own appointed destination. Teach him 
to work, think and act—honestly, sincerely and faithfully.” 


With such instruction and such ideals there need be no mis- 
givings about the future of agriculture. The start made by the 
present generation toward improving the welfare of farmers 
through co-operation promises to be outdone by the future 
farmers of America. 


Plan now to attend the I. A. A. annual meeting, Quincy, 
Jan. 29-30-31. 


I. A. A. RECORD 


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TWNHE holiday season now 
fast approaching is a time 
for reflection, a period 

when the selfishness inherent 

in most of us gives way to the 

Christmas spirit of good will 

toward men. While we have all been through the valley of the 

shadow of depression, yet as’ we approach the Christmastide, 
it is well to consider and recount the peculiar opportunities 
and blessings afforded farm people. 

If the Christmas spirit of giving rather than that of getting, 
of doing unto others as you would have them do unto you, 
could be put into every day practice by all men and all nations, 


it would solve most of the economic problems and troubles 


throughout the world. 

The stress of recent years has almost removed this spirit of 
fairness between men and between nations. As a result, normal 
trade and relations have been thrown out of gear, from which 
all are suffering. In the heat of efforts to improve economic 
conditions and to secure government policies for the better- 
ment of agriculture, sometimes we lose sight of the opportu- 
nities always present for 
thrift and industry, and 
forget the natural advantages 
farmers enjoy in the struggle 
for existence. Farming is a 
highly competitive business, 
yet we have an advantage in 
agriculture which few others 
enjoy. We have a daily mar- 
ket of one kind or another 
for our products, as people 
must have food. In other in- 
dustries their markets are 
wholly dependent upon the 
capacity of the buying pub- 
lic. Farmers being the pro- 
ducers of and closer to the 
food supply than any other 
group in our national life are 
less troubled by the spectre © 
of want than is the man in 
town who finds himself with- 
out the security of steady 
employment. In Illinois we 
are richly endowed with a 
naturally productive soil. Illi- 
nois and the corn belt almost 
invariably produce a crop. 
Even this year with the 
worst drought in history, IIli- 
nois has been far more for- 
tunate than many © other 
states. 

While there is little opportunity to grow rich in farming as 
the world regards riches, yet the farmer is seldom poor as the 
world regards poverty. The security of its agriculture is the 
greatest asset of all nations. Whether on the farm or in the 
city, nearly every person at some time in his or her life de- 
sires to own land. In the past, farm property has been con- 
sidered the best of security and I have every confidence will 
again be so considered. 

While during recent years many farmers have been forced 
into the depths of discouragement and despair, the farm home 
is yet the corner-stone of the nation. The Farm Bureau pro- 
gram is directed toward improvement of conditions surround- 
ing this ideal home, toward the greatest good for the great- 
est number. Its cooperative activities are inherently a system 
to spread benefits resulting from united effort and action and 
to distribute wealth wisely and widely rather than to concen- 
trate it in few hands. Uninformed people may criticize our 


DECEMBER, 1934 


A Christmas Message 


By Earl C. Smith 


efforts to raise farm prices as 
a selfish program; yet students 
generally agree that equalizing 
the price level between farm 
producers and non-agricultural 
commodities will do more to 
stimulate trade and revive employment than any other one thing. 

To the extent that recovery efforts have removed disparities 
and improved farm price levels, reflected in improved farm in- 
come, factory payrolls have increased. 

Until the golden rule and fairness and honesty become 
more firmly established in economic relations between indi- 
viduals and groups in this nation and between nations, Amer- 
ican farmers have no other choice than to organize for their 
own protection. Because of the importance of the farming in- 
dustry in all phases of American life, because of the peculiar 
opportunities and advantages of the farm and the farm home 
and because of the inherent fairness and honesty of a great 
majority of farm people, I have abiding faith that American 
agriculture will continue its record of furnishing the ideals, 
the integrity and the determination for perpetuating that spirit 
of fairness and good will to-. 
ward all men that is most 
pronounced at Christmas 
time. 


1935 Corn-Hog Plan 


S WE go to press, an- 

nouncement of details 

of the 1985 AAA corn- 
hog-plan, specify a 10 percent 
reduction in both corn and 
hogs below averages for the 
base years 1932 and 1933, 
with benefit payments on the 
10 percent corn reduction of 
35¢c per bushel, and $15 per 
head on the reduction of hogs. 
Contract signers may grow 
anything except corn on the 
“shifted” acres and may re- 
duce corn acreage up to 30 
percent and get payment 
therefor. 


Thus the program has been 
greatly simplified. Benefit 
payments to signers reduc- 
ing the regular 10 percent 
will be two-fifths of the 1934 
payment on hogs and a little 
more than half on corn. The 
contract signer whose total 
payments under the 1934 program are $500 on hogs and $180 
on corn (total $680) will receive, based on a 10 percent re- 
duction, approximately $200 on hogs and $105 on corn (total 
$305). The administration should be much less expensive in 
’35, compared with ’34, because most of the needed production 
information is available in the ’34 contracts. 

Farmers who look ahead will reason that it’s good 
business to sign up, first to cooperate in keeping pro- 
duction under control so as to maintain fair prices, and 
secondly to get the benefit payment, something they can 
count on regardless of what happens to crops and prices 
next year. 

Because corn is relatively high-priced now, it is no guar- 
antee that it will be as high next year. In fact, with a heavy 
crop it may be substantially less. And if drought and chinch 
bugs strike hard again, 35c per bushel on the reduced acres 
will not be hard to take. 


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On August 8 the first contract was let 
for converting the Vail Garage building 
50 x 185 feet at Olney into a modern 
creamery. Saturday, November 10, the 
last piece of machinery was _ installed. 
This final piece of equipment was the 
power plant of Producers Creamery of 
Olney—a new 40 H. P. Fairbanks Morse 
Diesel Engine. Olney is the first to pro- 
vide its own electric power plant, nec- 
essary in this case to avoid excessive 
power rates. 

Cream received only from Richland 
county on the opening day, November 
12, was churned into 500 pounds of but- 
‘ter under the supervision of Federal In- 
spector C. O. Tuttle. The first churning 
scored 90%. Enough cream was received 
on Tuesday, the second day, to make a 
1,500 pound churning and Manager C. W. 
Simpson is confident that by the time he 
receives cream from all counties, he will 
be making from one to one and one-half 
cars of butter per week. 

Producers, merchants, hotels and res- 
taurants throughout the district have 
been eagerly waiting the opening of this 
plant so that they may be supplied with 
Prairie Farms Certified butter. 

The Olney plant will serve 13 coun- 
ties, as follows: Fayette, Jasper, Effing- 
ham, Crawford, Marion, Clay, Richland, 
Lawrence, Wayne, Edwards, Wabash, 
White and Gallatin. The organization is 
governed by a board of directors con- 


Producers Creamery News 
3 By Frank Gougler 


sisting of the following men: Burton 
Leamon, Olney, president; Rolla Barbee, 
Louisville, vice-pres.; J. C. Piper, Sum- 
ner, treasurer; Silas Andrus, Mt. Car- 
mel, secretary; Perry Huber, Albion; 
Chester McCord, Newton; John Peters, 
Carmi; Walter Mellendorf, Effingham; 
Claude Ivers, Fairfield. 

Manager Simpson has employed Geo. 
Adams of Salem as his buttermaker and 
plant superintendent. Mr. Adams has 
had several years experience as plant 
manager and buttermaker in the Salem, 
Illinois Dairy and in Chicago plants. All 
the plant help has been employed includ- 
ing truck haulers for nearly all counties. 

The 13 counties comprising the Olney 
District have a total of approximately 
60,000 milk cows on 2300 farms produc- 
ing more than four million pounds of 
butterfat. There are more cream pools 
in the Olney district than in any other. 
Fifteen pools now serving the territory 
have been handling approximately 1,000,- 
000 pounds of butterfat annually. These 
pools will all be closed eventually and 
the cream trucked direct from farm to 
plant twice each week. Butter scoring 
92 or better will be packed in cartons 
under government inspection and sold in 
the district. Surplus butter will be 
shipped to central markets where it will 
be sold for a premium. 

On its opening day, September 13, 
Producers Creamery of Champaign 


GOVERNMENT INSPECTION TO PRODUCE CERTIFIED 92 SCORE ‘“‘PRAIRIE FARMS’’ BUTTER 
Picture shows receiving room of Farmers Creamery, Bloomington. Left to right; Forrest Fairchild, 
manager; C, O, Tuttle, federal butter inspector; Clyde Hamlin, buttermaker; Roy C, Potts, dairy special- 


ist, Washington, D. C,; Otto Losness, cream grader, 


10 


started off with a “bang.” The plant was 
equipped on a million pound basis but 
the flow of cream into the plant the first 
few days was on a better than a two mil- 
lion pound basis. On the second day a 
wire was sent out for additional equip- 
ment. 

On the first day 33 truckloads of 
cream were delivered to the plant. By 
evening one churning had been made, all 
vats were full and 11 truckloads still 
remained. The problem confronting Man- 
ager Burns, and President Williams was 
“what to do with the cream?” It was 
finally decided to dispatch a truck to the 
Farmers Creamery Company of Bloom- 
ington for a truckload of ten gallon cans. 
These were filled about midnight and 
stored in the cooler. On the second day 
another flood of cream arrived and so 
on day after day until the additional 
equipment arrived which made it possi- 
ble to clean up the accumulation and take 
care of the regular flow. 


Quality Comes Up 


It is not always possible to anticipate 
what may happen in starting a project of 
this kind. It was a plain case of not being 
equipped to handle such a large volume. 
Everyone was overjoyed because of the 
large volume, yet it had its “kickback.” 
Insufficient equipment made it impossi- 
ble to properly handle and ripen the 
cream; therefore, this resulted in a low 
scoring butter. 

October operation tells a different 
story. During the month, 138,948 pounds 
of butter were made—local sales 
amounted to 8,425 lbs. and shipped to 
market centers totalled 180,523 pounds. 
On this basis, the plant should put out 
approximately two million pounds the 
first year. It should be remembered that 
November is the lowest production month 
of the year, and furthermore, not all of 
the Champaign District is yet being 
served by truck haulers. 


More Efficiency 


Needless to say, the board of directors, 
the manager, and everyone connected 
with the plant is exceedingly happy be- 
cause during October the quality of the 
butter has materially improved over the 
make during the last two weeks of Sep- 
tember. Furthermore, the plant help has 
been shifted to serve its purpose better. 
Improvement in quality and more effi- 
ciency in the plant had already proved 
that this group of co-operators can “turn 
the trick.” 

The making of a better product has 
only been started. Federal Inspector C. O. 
Tuttle is visiting the plant each week to 
assist in standardizing the product. He 
first grades the cream into Grades AA, 
A, B and C. After the cream is churned 
he then scores the butter. The results 
reveal to him whether or not the plant 

(Continued on page 15) 


I. A. A. RECORD 


Producers Creamery News 
(Continued from page 10) 


is making as good butter as the cream 
warrants. If not, then the next step is 
to find out why not. The grades of cream 
above mentioned should produce butter 
scoring as follows: 


Cream Grade AA—93 score or better 
bP] 9? A—92 9? %? ” 
B—90 9%? 9) 99 
C—89 ” >”? 99 
D— under 89 score 


How It’s Done 


This method of grading cream and 
scoring the butter gives a definite basis 
for making a higher quality product. If 
the butter does not score as high as the 
quality of the cream indicates, then the 
plant must be put in order. On the other 
hand, if the butter is as good as the qual- 
ity of cream delivered, then the next job 
is to get the producer to take better care 
of his cream, 

One point in connection with a co-op- 
erative creamery cannot be over-em- 
phasized and that is this: All the butter 
made in producer-owned creameries is 
still the property of the producers until 
it is finally sold, hence each producer 
has a financial interest in the manufac- 
tured butter. Better butter brings more 
money. For an average over a four year 
period on the Chicago market, 93 score 
butter sold for 4.754c more per pound 
than 88 score butter. The old cream sta- 
tion method of assembling cream will not 
make much better butter than 88 score. 
Trucking from farm to plant twice each 
week is a great help, but there still re- 
mains much for the producers to do if 


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high so it will bring more money. 
On The Market, Dec. 1 


Since July 15, Federal Inspector Tuttle 
has been devoting one-half of his time in 
the Peoria, Bloomington and Champaign 
plants to boost the quality of the product 
so. we can put on the market a 92 score 
or better product. He is satisfied that 
the three plants, Peoria, Bloomington and 
Champaign, will be making a sufficient 
quantity of 92 score butter or better to 
warrant putting out a Federal CERTI- 
FIED butter. This means that churnings 
scoring 92 or better will be set aside and 
put into our regular Prairie Farms Car- 
tons except they will have CERTIFIED 
printed across the face of the carton, and 
on one panel it will show printed evi- 
dence of federal inspection. 

In addition, a “Certificate of Quality” 
will be inserted within the carton. This 
certificate will also be perforated with 
the date of the churning, number of 
grading and the score of the butter when 
graded. Such carton and certificate can 
only be used in butter scoring 92 or 
better. 


DECEMBER, 1934 


St. Louis Milk License 
Attacked By Dealers 


St. Louis milk distributors have filed 
an injunction.in the federal court at East 
St. Louis attacking the new milk license 
which raised the base price from $1.70 
to $2 per cwt. 

A hearing on the injunction set for Nov. 10 was 
continued to give attorneys additional time to pre- 
pare their arguments, The I, A, A. legal depart- 


ment is-assisting Sanitary Milk Producers and the 
government in upholding the price increase.—Editor. 


Rockford Milk Market 


. By Wilkie Lee, Manager . 

Our price for Class I milk in Rock- 
ford was $1.85 per hundred for 3.5% 
milk for the month of October. For sur- 
plus milk sent to the condensery, we re- 
ceived $1.18 per hundred for milk con- 
taining 3.5% butter-fat. 

For the first 8 months of 1934, we had 
a gain of approximately three quarters 
of a million pounds of Class I milk com- 
pared with the same period of 1933. Of 
course no one knows what it might have 
been if we had done no local advertising, 
but we do give our National Dairy & 
Food Bureau program most of the credit 
for maintaining our Class I sales above 


| the 1933 level. 


We are expecting considerable sedi- 
ment trouble this fall and winter as soon 
as our producers begin to keep their 
cows in the barn, because of a shortage 
of straw for bedding. We are asking our 
members to clip hind-quarters of their 


‘herd so they can be more easily cleaned. 


Feed conditions in Winnebago County 
and adjacent territory from which we re- 
ceive milk are possibly above the av- 
erage for this year. This condition is due 
largely to getting some nice rains dur- 
ing the latter part of June that few 
others got. 


Decatur Milk 


The pool price for October was $1.44 
for 4% milk f. o. b. plant, which is a 
12c increase over September, reports 
H. W. Rotz, Manager Decatur Milk As- 
sociation. The increase was partly due 
to increased Class I sales, also the in- 
crease in the butter market. We have 
been promised a milk license to become 
effective December 1, but we have heard 
nothing definite. 


Country Life Radio Program 


Country Life Insurance Company will 
sponsor a half-hour program on station 
WLS-WENR between 8:30 and 9:00 P. 
M. Thursday, December 6. The program 
will mark the wind-up of the company’s 
year-end campaign for $67,000,000 of life 
insurance. The half hour will be devoted 
to short talks and reports by company 
officials, and entertainment. 


Bloomington Milk Market 


By Forrest Fairchild, Manager 


Production of milk for the month of 
October compared with last October has 
increased 9.21 per cent. Weather condi- 
tions have been favorable for milk pro- 
duction this fall. Sales have shown a 
substantial increase compared both with 
September this year and October a year . 
ago. Average production is the highest 
we have had for the month of October. 
The price of 3.5 per cent milk delivered 
to Bloomington averaged $1.19. 

Mr. Irwin, economist with the A. A. A. 
recently called on the distributors and 
producers’ association in Bloomington to 
ascertain the attitude of both parties to- 
ward issuing a license on this market. 
The Association was assured that a li- 
cense will be issued at an early date, 
possibly December 1. 

With corn selling in the neighborhood 
of 75c, hay from $15.00 up, Be eet 
supplements $38.00 to $42.00 a ton, milk 
prices are decidedly unfavorable. Prices 
paid for cream are now the highest since 
December, 1931. The is due to the in- 
creased price of butter and the coopera- 
tive method of marketing butterfat. 

During October, McLean county sent 
more pounds of butterfat to Farmers 
Creamery than any other county. Ma- 
coupin was a close second, Total volume 
was 83 per cent greater than for October, 
1933. Volume from five original coun- 
ties for October 1934 was 34.2 per cent 
greater than for October, 1933. Quality 
has improved fully 45 per cent in the 
past two weeks, says Clyde Hamlin, 
plant superintendent. This is due large- 
ly to cooler weather, but it is significant 
in that producers could produce cooler 
temperatures for cream in warm weather 


- by liberal use of cool water. Proper cool- 


ing and frequent delivery will add to 
farmers’ profits if they will take advan- 


tage of their opportunities. 


Farmers Creamery is getting substantial quan- 
tities of cream from the n ern part of Pike 
county. A delegation of producers from that coun- 
ty recently drove up to Bloomington in three cars 
to inspect the plant. They were favorably impressed 
reports C. N. Atwood, field representative. 


Peoria Producers Dairy 


By Wilfred Shaw, Manager 


Our price for October to members was 
$1.08 net for 3.5% milk delivered. Retail 
prices here are supposed to be 10c but 
milk is being sold all the way from 5c to 
10c a quart. It would be difficult to pre- 
dict what will happen on this market in 
the next 30 to 60 days. Our receipts are 
unusually low, due, no doubt, to the low 
price of milk, higher butterfat, and high 
cost of feed. At the Creamery we are 
paying 28c delivered for butterfat and 
26c at the farm. Sales of our three but- 
ter routes to stores have never been 
higher in spite of the recent advance in 
price (30c) to stores. 


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Leadership Training 


By A. B. Culp, Organization Director, McLean County 


ing two distinct groups of leader- 
ship to carry on the Farm Bureau 
program now and in the future. 

In our Booster Clubs, six of which have 
been organized, we are calling on men 
ranging in age from 35 up who are today 
carrying the responsibility not only of 
operating their 
farms but also of or- 
ganization to protect 
and work for the 
betterment of agri- 
culture. 

In this group it is 
our primary object 
to study current 
subjects such as tax 
reform, bond issues, 
national legislation, 
administration o f 
laws, marketing 
problems and the like. We hope to have 
at least 150 taking part in these group 
meetings held twice a month. We hope 
to have at least 10 men in every town- 
ship who are thoroughly familiar with all 
current problems affecting agriculture. 

The other group we are developing is 
the McLean County Young Men’s Forum 
or training school. This is for young 
men who have graduated from 4-H club 
work on up to 35 years of age. We hope 
to have enrolled in this school at least 
100 young men. The purpose of the 
training school is to develop leadership 
in the Farm Bureau which will grad- 
ually take over the responsibility of 
carrying on the fight for agriculture. 

Each member enrolling in the training 
school will be asked to sign a pledge to 
attend the meetings throughout the year 
ending September 20, 1935, and to aid 
in carrying out the program. 


We believe the enrollment pledge is 
quite necessary. It places the responsi- 
bility of the school upon the shoulders 
of the students. Meetings will be held 
every month. Lessons will be provided 
on mimeographed sheets with references 
for study. Students will be quizzed at 
each session. We are starting with the 
study of previous farm organizations 
that we may find their weak spots as 
well as their strong ones. We will study 
the constitution and by-laws of the 
organizations, the I. A. A. and A. F. B. 
F. We will also study federal laws af- 
fecting agriculture, also the history and 
development of the Farm Bureau and 
the I. A. A. 

From here we will go on to a study 
of each department of the I. A. A. Later 
we expect to have debates and entertain- 


if MecLEAN county we are develop- 


A, B, CULP 


DECEMBER, 1934 
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ment to keep the students interested. 
Each will be called on for extempora- 
neous remarks from time to time. Every 
member of the Forum some time during 
the year must appear before the group 
in an oration or a debate. = 

Later in oyr program we expect to 
study parliamentary law and organize 
the group into a legislative body to il- 
lustrate how legislation is initiated and 
enacted. 

We feel in McLean county that able, 
intelligent leadership is the greatest need 
of agriculture today, and that by de- 
veloping leadership we will render a 
great service to agriculture. 

Commenting upon this program Farm 
Adviser R. J. Laible said: “I personally 
feel, and I know that it is the sentiment 
of our board of directors, that this is 
the most forward looking piece of work 
that has been attempted in McLean 
county for many years. We look for- 
ward with anticipation to the results 
which we sincerely believe will come 
from it.” 


Young Men's Club Is 
Organized In Randolph 


A Young Men’s Club composed of sons 
and daughters of Farm Bureau members 
more than 18 years old has been organ- 
ized in Randolph county. An initial mem- 
bership of approximately 75 is reported 
by Farm Adviser Secor. 

The club was organized with the aid 
of D. E. Lindstrom, rural sociology spe- 
cialist of the University of Illinois. 

Dramatics, debates, and discussion of 
current events will be featured. Three 
discussion teams with three speakers on 
each will compete in a county contest, 
the three best speakers to be selected for 
a district meeting. 


For the Waterway 


Editor I. A. A. RECORD: 

I was pleased to read in the October 
RECORD the “Waterways and_ the 
Farmer” article. I have been deeply in- 
terested in the Illinois river waterway 
since a boy. Father was a farmer in 
this valley and I am now at 77 years old. 

I saw the value of the waterways in 
central Europe in 1910. My interests 
are principally in Spring Valley, Illinois. 
I am working hard for a waterway con- 
nection there and would like a few copies 
of this issue for our bank and coal com- 
pany. They are trying to arrange to 
ship coal by waterway. 

Fred Gunther, LaSalle county, Illinois. 


Progress In Auto 
Insurance In 1934 


By A. E. Richardson, Manager 


While the year is not yet ended, and 
no official reports of progress have gone 
into the record books indications are that 
the Farm Bureau auto insurance com- 
pany, Illinois Agricu'tural Mutual, is go- 
ing to chalk up the year of years for it- 
self. Several factors enter the picture to 
account for our remarkable gains. First, 
farmers have more money to spend. A 
new plan of acquiring business has aided 
substantially. The renewed feeling of 
confidence of farmers over the successes 
made by the Farm Bureau in raising 
prices of farm products has influenced 
many “holdouts” to take out insurance 
in their own company. 

A consistent publicity program in the 
form of weekly releases going out over 
the state stressing the need for careful 
driving has been followed all year. Regu- 
lar advertising in the RECORD, in Coun- 
ty Farm Bureau publications and book- 
lets has kept Farm Bureau members in- 
formed about the “bargain” auto insur- 
ance the company offers. Tie this all to- 
gether with low cost operation and effi- 
cient work of a loyal force in the office 
and field, and you-have the picture of a 
healthy organization growing in service 
to Farm Bureau members. | 


Gain In Policies 


Too much credit cannot be given to the 
local adjusters and agents for the splen- 
did spirit of co-operation they have shown 
this year. Without their help and hard 
work we would never have made the prog- 
ress revealed in the following records. 

From January Ist, 1934 up to the first 
of November the number of net policies 
in force after deductions for cancellations 
has increased from 31,790 to 37,200. This 
is a gain of 17 per cent. Claims reported 
so far this year are 36 per cent more 
than last year for same period totalling 
6634. Assets of the company have in- 
creased 12% per cent to $1,115,460.28, 
which for the most part is invested in 
government, state and municipal bonds. 
Surplus also shows a gain of 14% per cent 
to $561,218.29. 

Of the 37,200 policies now held by 
members, 31,476 are on pleasure cars, 
5724 on trucks both farm and commer- 
cial, 1365 employers liability policies, 
and 1601 calves owned by 4-H Calf Club 
boys and girls. 

While the year so far has been very 
satisfactory we feel that we have only 
scratched the surface so far as insurance 
service to farm people is concerned. With 
the membership of the Illinois Agricul- 
tural Association and Farm Bureaus 
rapidly increasing, this company has a 
real job ahead for 1935. 


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New terminal elevator of Farmers 
National Grain Corporation on II- 
linois River, Peoria. The new plant 
adds additional capacity to Farmers 
National nation-wide facilities. It 
is equipped for loading and unloading 
to and from river barges and rail. 


GROWING in STRENGTH 
and SERVICE 


For the first time in history the Illinois grain pro- 
ducer has a complete co-operative grain marketing 
system. It is farmer-owned and farmer-controlled .. . 
working to return him more money for his grain from 
the time it leaves the farm until it reaches the proces- 
sor in domestic and foreign markets. 


In a little more than four years Illinois Grain Cor- 
poration has been built from the ground up to a mem- 
bership of 170 co-operative elevators and grain asso- 
ciations which handle a normal yearly volume of 30 
million bushels. In the same period, Farmers Na- 
tional Grain Corporation, in which Illinois farmers 
share ownership and control, has grown into the larg- 
est grain marketing agency in the United States. 


All this belongs to you and grain producers like you 
in other states. It is now firmly established, growing 
in strength and service. Take care of this business. 
It’s yours. Support it. Insist that your grain be mar- 
keted through your own co-operative system. 


The greater your co-operation, the more you will 
share in the profits of storing, mixing, conditioning, 
and marketing. 


Continued success and growth depend on grain pro- 
ducers. This co-operative system built for you car- 
ries with it responsibility and obligation. Get behind 
it. Let’s work together. It’s the only way farmers 
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OUNTRY Life Insurance Company 
will finish its sixth fiscal year at 
the end of December, 1934. It will, 

however, not fully complete six years of 
existence until February 1, 1935, from an 
operating standpoint, as we wrote our 
first policy on February 1, 1929. 

The approximate amount of business 
we anticipate to be fully in force at the 
end of our sixth year is $67,000,000. This 
amount is impressive when considered 
that it has all been written in one state, 
~ and all during the years of depression. 

We are continuing to operate in all 
Illinois counties, getting some business 
from each. There are, of course, varying 
degrees of activity in different counties. 
Where the ideals and purposes of Coun- 
try Life are really appreciated we are 
getting marvelous support. Where the 
unsurpassed strength of the Company is 
understood we have little trouble in get- 
ting active production. When our low- 
ness of cost is given due weight coupled 
with other factors, Country Life wins out 
against all competition. 


Counties Vary 


The aggressiveness with which our life 
‘insurance project is carried on is one 
thing we must constantly be on the alert 
to develop and increase. We have some 

counties with three million of life insur- 
ance in force, and others with only $100,- 
000. We have some counties that will 
write nearly a million a year, and others 
that will write a bare application or two. 

The amazing thing in the growth of 
Country Life is that a few of our best 
members still doubt that farmers are 
capable of supervising and hiring com- 
petent help to run a business. After go- 
ing through a depression, and looking at 
the annual statements of other life in- 
surance companies, there shouldn’t be a 
question in the mind of any farmer or 
Farm Bureau member on this point. 

No other company can show such a 
portfolio of investments, and no other 
company can show such a history of ac- 
quisition as Country Life Insurance 
Company. 

The all-important thing in confidence 
building has been the state-wide repre- 
sentation and control. Our Company is 
owned and controlled and operated by 
the Illinois Agricultural Association. Its 
vast membership has adequate represen- 
tation in all of the Company’s affairs. 
Not only has the Company fulfilled the 
expectations of its sponsors, but in ad- 
dition it has been able to pay, through 
the Illinois Agricultural Association, pat- 


DECEMBER, 1934 


By Larry Williams, Manager 


ronage refunds as benefits to policy- 
holders that otherwise have not been 
recorded in life insurance statistics. 


Great Improvement 


The final report of 1934 will show a 
tremendous improvement in acquisition, 
and increases in assets and reserves. Our 
gain will probably be 100 percent over 
the gain in force of 1933. The continued 
low mortality is one of which every pol- 
icyholder can be proud. But, outstanding 
among all the statistics will be the fact 
that Country Life Insurance Company 
has not lost one penny on its Anvest- 
ments. 

Then, why should? ‘here be déubters? 
Why should there be any who fail to give 
their complete support? 


tive support of ‘every Farm Bureau and 
Farm Bureau member in the’ state: | 
offer policies that are available to all 
healthy risks up to age 65 inclusive, 


‘within the financial means of each. 


Illinois now has a new investment law 
for life insurance companies that is more 
strict than the investment requirements 
for life insurance companies in any other 
state. This, coupled with the setup of 
service board management and active 
management, should add to the confi- 
dence of all policyholders and members 
in this strong company. If all policy- 
holders asked for their cash values on 
the same day the money would be there 
for all of them. 


Propaganda Plentiful 


There is naturally the disgruntled at- 
titude of competitors who see this rapid 
growth of a fine company, built and 
owned by farmers in the State of Illinois. 
Some use underhanded methods of be- 
littling our great Company. That is to 
be expected. But for Farm Bureau mem- 
bers to give cognizance and hearing to 
such propaganda is something that we 
must not expect and haven’t any right to 
expect. The Farm Bureau member should 
certainly have confidence in a company 
that has fought its way to the top in 
strength, growth, and low cost. 

The County Farm Bureau continues to 
be the county agency, through which all 
policies are distributed. The Farm Bu- 
reau receives a part of the commission, 
for its supervision and the use of its of- 
fice. We have paid our way as we go; 
we have built to new heights undreamed 
of in the short years of operation, and 
with added confidence will make of this 


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ife Nears 67 Millions 


company a giant of the west, performing 
beneficial services and guaranteeing se- 
curity of the highest type. 

The year 1934 will show a substantial 
increase in assets, bringing our total 
somewhere between three and a quarter 
and three and a half million dollars, 
Business men from various walks of life 
have complimented us on our portfolio of 
investments, and on our marvelous ac- 
complishment. They read our statement 
and invariably are profuse with their 
congratulations. This is the thing that 
policyholders should be proud of, and 
this is the thing that should breed added 
confidence, and awaken new aggressive 
solicitation in every Farm Bureau com- 


fj ae in the State of Illinois. 
The successful, ° 


experience and.accomplishments of the © 
Company deserve whole-hearted and ac- 


" We Are Getting Along 


By C. C. C. Burns, Mer. 


Producers Creamery of Champaign is 
paying 26c for butterfat, which is a cur- 
rent price hereabouts. Cheese factories 
are paying 80¢: Be pound for butterfat in 
milk. Farmers are thus getting practi- 
cally nothing for their skimmilk. 

We are getting; volume, quality and 
are making a net profit: three things 
necessary for successful operation of the 
plant. 

Monday, Nov. 12, we churned 5,567 
pounds of butter—evidence of our large 
volume. We are making some of the 
finest butter in the state. We made 
6,876 pounds of 92-score butter in Oc- 
tober. 

Had we made 52c more last week, we 
should have had an even $500 net profit. 
These facts are evidence of the success 
of the plant here. 


Buying Soybeans 


Charles Cummings, manager of the 
Farmers National Grain Corporation at 
Peoria, reports buying approximately 
300,000 bushels of soybeans in the past 
few weeks at prices ranging up to 90 
cents per bushel. An increased demand 
for soybeans for seed, feed and commer- 
cial purposes is expected to more than 
take care of this year’s increased crop. 
Yields of beans are on some farms and 
the quality is excellent. 


E. E. Stevenson, president of the La- 
salle County Farm Bureau, recently cele- 
brated his 71st birthday in Texas where 
he hooked a 16 Ib. red fish 36 inches 
long. 


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Learning about Livestock 


OU are impressed if you go on one 
of the marketing tours arranged by 
Ray Miller that the Chicago Pro- 
ducers has a _ staff of livestock sales- 
men who know their business. They can 
point out the shades of difference be- 
tween various grades of livestock and 
why some kinds bring more than others. 
An inexperienced eye can see the va- 
riation in a bunch of mixed calves but it 
requires an expert to get the last penny 
out of each one. Henry Johnson, calf 
salesman, can tell you about them. “Here 
are a couple that are plump and of the 
right age,” he said as we stopped at the 
calf pens. “They have been whole milk 
fed. See how well filled they are about 
the tail head. This kind will bring seven 
cents a pound today. It doesn’t make 
much difference about the breed. Over 
here are a couple of calves that are thin, 
bucket fed. All they got probably was 
a little skim milk and they didn’t do well. 
They will sell for about three to 3.5 cents.” 
Then he sorted out calves of various 
weights and ages and told how much 
they would bring. Heavy and older calves 
bring much less—3.5 to 4 cents—than the 
light choice vealers. Choice veal has 
many uses—even as a_ substitute for 
chicken. 


A Kosher Cow 


Cattle salesmen Ray Walsh, Walter 
Howe, Geo. Story, Harold Duke and 
others tell you what happens to the va- 
rious grades of steers, heifers and cows 
that come to market. “Here’s a Kosher 
cow,” pointing to a large, heavy, well- 
finished animal. “She’s heavy in the 
forequarters and well filled around the 
ribs and loin. The Jewish trade _ uses 
only the meat from the hooks forward. 
That kind of a cow will sell up to $7.50. 

“Over here is a canner,” pointing to a 


DECEMBER, 1934 


thin Holstein, “worth about $2.50, suit- 
able for sausage, mostly hide and bones. 
Here’s a thin heifer that will probably 
go out in the country again as a feeder. 
She’s too thin to kill and the kind that 
will make good gains in the feed lot.” 

You think of the waste in sending that 
class of cattle to the terminal markets, 
with transportation costs two ways, com- 
missions for selling and buying, yardage 
fees at the market, and the loss from 
shrinkage in weight. Then there’s the 
chance of picking up shipping fever and 
other ailments in going from the farm 
to Chicago and back again. It looks like 
stupid business, one of those things that 
has grown up and never changed perhaps 
because it’s always been done that away. 

“Here’s a typical bologna bull,” Hop 
Kenyon says as we gather around. “See 
his muscles. Lots of red meat there and 
little fat. The kind packers want. He’ll 
go into wieners and bologna sausage. 
The lean meat will soak up lots of water. 
This fat bull over here looks better but 
he won’t bring the price. The fat will 
go into soap. Fat meat will not absorb 
as much water as lean.” 


Mixed Steers 


Harold Duke has assembled a mixed 
lot of steers. He shows you a smooth, 
well-finished Angus and tells you it will 
bring about $8.75, close to the top of the 
market that day. He shows you others 
not so well finished. Some of them thin 
that will sell for $8, $7.50, $6, $5 and 
on down. “The little packers will take 
this one and bid up for him,” he says 
pointing to a baby beef, “but this heavier 
one over here has only a limited market. 
The big packers will take him for the 
chain store trade at a lower price.” 

You see a big well bred Shorthorn cow 
with gobs of fat around the hooks and 


pin bones. She may look good to her 
owner, but not to the packers. All that 
patchy fat is largely waste. The house- 
wife won’t take it. You see a big rugged 
steer, heavy boned, two years old or 
more, and fat. You learn that he will sell 
for considerably less than a small-boned 
fat baby beef largely because of the dif- 
ference in dressing percentage. 


Light Hogs 


Over in the hog aileys Bob Grieser, 
head salesman, shows you that there are 
more than the usual number of half-fin- 
ished porkers. In fact, most of them 
weigh under 200 pounds. Three-fourths 
of the runs at Chicago and elsewhere 
now are lights and light butchers. High 
priced corn is the reason. Two years ago 
when corn was cheap and plentiful, heavy 
butchers weighing 240 to 250 pounds 
were more numerous. This year hogs are 
being crowded to market early, which 
makes market experts believe the price 
will be substantially higher in the late 
winter and early spring. 


“We are doing more than merely sell- 
ing livestock here,” Manager Dave Swan- 
son says. “We are making a market. It’s 
important that we have substantial vol- 
ume and able men to sell the stock be- 
cause each day we are building the price 
structure. We believe the Chicago Pro- 
ducers is a constant and effective influ- 
ence for getting farmers better prices for 
their livestock. In the end it’s the con- 
sumer, of course, who has the deciding 
voice as to price. But over short periods 
farmers can influence the market by 
concentrating their bargaining power in 
the hands of their own co-operative 
agencies.” —Editor. 


A circular on how dairymen can obtain 
short-term loans may be had from local 
production credit associations or from 
the Farm Credit Administration in Wash- 
ington, D. C. 


ANNUAL MEETING ILLINOIS 
Farm Supply Co., Decatur, Oct. 18, 
They heard aboyt the six million 
dollar business in petroleum prod- 
ucts handled by the 58 county 
companies last year, 


21 


Writing in the Journal of Land and 
Public Utility Economics (November) 
M. M. Kelso predicts that “land tenancy 
is likely to continue the rapid increase 
which set in between 1925 and 1930 be- 
cause: 

1. There has been and may again be 
an increased amount of foreclosure of 
farm mortgages by mortgage holders 
who are in no position to operate their 
farms themselves. 

2. The decreased optimism concerning 
the rising level of land values and the 
safety of debt secured by land will like- 
ly tend to make down payments larger 
and purchase slower because of the 
necessity for larger accumulations. 

3. The belief that land is highly de- 
sirable as an investment because it can- 
not burn up, blow away, or be stolen may 
be replaced by the conception that its 
value may disappear—a contingency to 
be as greatly feared as though it were 
to burn, blow away, or be stolen—thus im- 
pressing upon farmers of moderate 
means the desirability of working to- 
ward ‘income’ and ‘living’ rather than 
carrying the added risks of ownership.” 


The last few years have brought home 
with terrible force to many, the risks 
and responsibilities involved in ownership 
of land and other real property. The 
tenant has had all the best of it com- 
pared with owners who had interest, 
taxes, and principal payments to meet 
besides the usual repairs. 


On the other hand, the depression has 
proved the superiority of land and real 
estate as an investment in comparison 
with certain kinds of stocks, debentures, 
and some industrial and utility bonds the 
value of which almost if not completely 
evaporated. It has also shown the value 
of life insurance in every man’s financial 
program, whether he be operating a farm 
or working in the town or city. 


With some notable exceptions life in- 
surance companies have come through 


the depression able to meet their claims 
and with the cash values of policyhold- 
ers unimpaired. To their sorrow, some 
folks during the ’20s and before mort- 
gaged unencumbered land to purchase 
more land when a wiser course would 
have been to invest their spare earnings 
in life insurance for protection to their 
families, and for old age income. 


Only a glance at the list of invest- 
ments of Country Life Insurance Co. 
shows how diversified they are, offering 
security for the capital invested far 
greater, yield considered, than any indi- 
vidual of moderate means could hope to 
achieve. These funds represent cash 
values belonging to policyholders. Cash 
values can be borrowed or used as col- 
lateral for loans in case of emergency. It 
has been almost impossible to borrow 
money on real estate during recent years. 
Thus life insurance meets the require- 
ment of liquid dssets in a well-balanced 
investment program.—E. G. T. 


Cattle Feeders Banquet 


About 175 livestock growers and cattle 
feeders attended the annual Greene 
county cattle feeders’ banquet in Car- 
rollton the night of October 27. 

Speakers included P. O. Wilson, J. R. 
Fulkerson, H. D. 
Wright, Ray E. Mill- 
er, Farm Adviser 
George E. Hunt of 
Greene county and 
Mr. Boyle of Chi- 


cago. 
Guests included R. 
J. lLaible, McLean 


county farm adviser 
who initiated the 
cattle feeders’ ban- 
quet while serving 
in Greene county; 
W. F. Coolidge, Macoupin county farm 
adviser, and several cattle feeders from 
neighboring counties. 


K. T. SMITH 


The 19384 banquet was arranged by the 
county livestock marketing committee of 
which Louis Reisch is chairman. K. T. 
Smith, president of the Greene County 


Dean Larsen Writes 


“IT read with much interest the article — 
in the I. A. A. RECORD giving a little © 
of the history of the Quincy Cooperative — 
Dairy, and also describing its success,” 
writes Dean Chris Larsen of South 
Dakota Agricultural College in a letter | 
to Plant Supt. Crocker of the Quincy — 
Co-op. Dean Larsen was Director of 
Dairy Marketing for the I. A. A. in 
1922-’23. 


“Really the I. A. A. had more to do 
with the organization of it than was 
mentioned in the article,” continues Dean 
Larsen. “The I. A. A. supplied all of the 
stock solicitors, held all of the meetings, 
and raised all of the required money. 
That was really the big job in connec- — 
tion with starting the organization. The 
I. A. A, also supplied the technical help 
in planning the business, and in the se- 
lection of the machinery and the place 
of business. 


“Of course, you have had a good bunch 
of farmers down there, who have de- 
pended upon their management, and you 
have had good management. In addi- 
tion the Quincy people were and are 
mighty fine in patronizing this coopera- 
tive dairy. I remember before the plant 
was started we went to see the publish- 
ers of your daily papers, also the Com- 
mercial Club or Chamber of Commerce. 
This organization had a banquet in 
honor .of the organization of the Co-op- 
erative Dairy. So the conditions for a 
co-operative organization were mighty 
fine, and you, and also Mr. Connery and 
your lady office manager, Mrs. Laura 
Johnston, are to be congratulated. 


“T feel mighty proud of the success of 
your co-operative milk plant. It is able 
to return more to the producers, and 
it is able to sell at a less price to the 
consumer, and I venture to state that 
you are supplying a mighty fine quality 
product, probably the best that can be 
found anywhere.” 


Farm Bureau and I. A. A. director, 


served as toastmaster. 

The cattle feeders’ banquet has been 
an annual affair in Greene county for 
the past 10 years and is regarded as an 
institution in that county. 


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Writing in the Journal 
Public Utility Economics 


and 


of Land 
(November) 
M. M. Kelso predicts that “land tenancy 
is likely to continue the rapid increase 
which set in between 1925 and 1980 be- 


cause: 

1. There has been and may again be 
an increased amount of foreclosure of 
farm mortgages by mortgage holders 
who are in no position to operate their 
farms themselves. 

2. The decreased optimism concerning 
the rising level of land values and the 
safety of debt secured by land will hke- 
ly tend to make down payments larger 
and purchase slower because of the 
necessity for larger accumulations. 

3. The belief that land is highly de- 
sirable as an investment because it can- 
not burn up, blow away, or be stolen may 
be replaced by the conception that its 
value may disappear—a contingency to 
be as greatly feared as though it were 
to burn, blow away, or be stolen—thus im- 
pressing upon farmers of moderate 
means the desirability of working to- 
ward ‘income’ and ‘living’ rather than 
carrying the added risks of ownership.” 


The last few years have brought home 
with terrible force to many, the risks 
and responsibilities involved in ownership 
of land and other real property. The 
tenant has had all the best of it com- 
pared with owners who had _ interest, 
taxes, and principal payments to meet 
besides the usual repairs. 


On the other hand, the depression has 
proved the superiority of land and real 
estate as an investment in comparison 
with certain kinds of stocks, debentures, 
and some industrial and utility bonds the 
value of which almost if not completely 
evaporated. It has also shown the value 
of life insurance in every man’s financial 
program, whether he be operating a farm 
or working in the town or city. 


With some notable exceptions life in- 
surance companies have come through 


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the depression able to meet their claims 
and with the cash values of policyhold- 
ers unimpaired. To their sorrow, some 
folks during the ’20s and before mort- 
gaged unencumbered land to purchase 
more land when a wiser course would 
have been to invest their spare earning's 
in life insurance for protection to their 
families, and for old age income. 


Only a glance at the lst of invest- 
ments of Country Life Insurance Co. 
shows how diversified they are, offering 
security for the capital invested far 
ereater, yield considered, than any indi- 
vidual of moderate means could hope to 
achieve. These funds represent cash 
values belonging to policyholders. Cash 
values can be borrowed or used as col- 
lateral for loans in case of emergency. It 
has been almost impossible to borrow 
money on real estate during recent years. 
Thus life insurance meets the require- 
ment of liquid assets in a well-balanced 
investment progré Spa, Sponge Oe 


Cattle Feeders Banquet 


About 175 livestock growers and cattle 
feeders attended the annual Greene 
county cattle feeders’ banquet in Car- 
rollton the night of October 27. 

Speakers included P. O. Wilson, J. R. 
Fulkerson, H. D. 
Wright, Ray E. Mill- 
er, Farm Adviser 
George E. Hunt of 
Greene. county and 
Mr. Boyle of Chi- 
cago. 

Guests included R. 
J. Laible, McLean 
county farm adviser 
who initiated the 
cattle feeders’ ban- 
quet while serving 
in Greene county; 
W. F. Coolidge, Macoupin county farm 
adviser, and several cattle feeders from 
neighboring counties, 


K. T., SMITH 


The 1934 banquet was arranged by the 
county livestock marketing committee of 
which Louis Reisch is chairman. K. T. 
Smith, president of the Greene County 


Dean Larsen Writes 


“T read with much interest the article 
in the I. A. A. RECORD giving a little 
of the history of the Quincy Cooperative 
Dairy, and also describing its success,” 
writes Dean Chris Larsen of South 
Dakota Agricultural College in a letter 
to Plant Supt. Crocker of the Quincy 
Co-op. Dean Larsen was Director of 
Dairy Marketing for the I. A. A. in 
1922-23, 

“Really the I. A. A. had more to do 
with the organization of it than was 
mentioned in the article,” continues Dean 
Larsen. “The I. A. A. supplied all of the 
stock solicitors, held all of the meetings, 
and raised all of the required money. 
That was really the big job in connec- 
tion with starting the organization. The 
I. A. A. also supplied the technical help 
in planning the business, and in the se- 
lection of the machinery and the place 
of business. 

“Of course, you have had a good bunch 
of farmers down there, who have de- 
pended upon their management, and you 
have had good management. In addi- 
tion the Quincy people were and are 
mighty fine in patronizing this coopera- 
tive dairy. I remember before the plant 
was started we went to see the publish- 
ers of your daily papers, also the Com- 
mercial Club or Chamber of Commerce. 
This organization had a banquet in 
honor of the organization of the Co-op- 
erative Dairy. So the conditions for a 
co-operative organization were mighty 
fine, and you, and also Mr. Connery and 
your lady office manager, Mrs. Laura 
Johnston, are to be congratulated. 


“I feel mighty proud of the success of 
your co-operative milk plant. It is able 
to return more to the producers, and 
it is able to sell at a less price to the 
consumer, and I venture to state that 
you are supplying a mighty fine quality 
product, probably the best that can be 
found anywhere.” . 


Farm Bureau and I. A. A. director, 
served as toastmaster. 

The cattle feeders’ banquet has been 
an annual affair in Greene county for 
the past 10 years and is regarded as an 
institution in that county. 


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LIFE INSURANCE POLICY? 


The backbone of a life insurance program is the Or- 
dinary or “straight” life policy. It provides the most 
provecsion for the least money; assures payment of the 

ace of the policy in cash at death. It has cash value 
for every year after the third premium, loan values, 
dividend, and “paid up” insurance features. Parents 
start their children from the day of birth on this policy. 


Sometimes called the “mortgage policy’. It furnishes 
complete protection at extremely low cost. It is de- 
signed to aid those who are in need of temporary, ad- 
ditional protection for a mortgage, note, or similar 
obligation until times improve. This policy is con- 
vertible at any time to any other standard form of in- 
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age pension” policy. It provides a monthly income 
for life after 65, plus protection for your family during 
our earning years. Pays face of policy to loved ones 
if you are taken from them before policy matures. 
Has cash, loan and dividend features. A popular 

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policy on a child from the day of birth. 


what I get! A guaranteed income for my family when 
I'm gone. A safe, definite way of saving for a rainy 
day, while I’m still young and producing. My child’s 
education provided for. My mortgage protected. My debts 
paid. The family homestead fully and wholly owned. 

What a financial picture for a man! And so low in cost 
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OW you have a chance to share in the profits of pro- 
cessing and distributing your butterfat. Five large 
co-operative creameries have been organized for you. 
Already they have raised average butterfat prices 
throughout the state. They deserve your support. 

More than 10,000 cream producers are selling their but- 
terfat through these creameries which they own and 
control. You too may become a partner in this enterprise. 

When you sell co-operatively your cream is weighed 
and tested by your own tester. You share in patronage 
dividends paid out of profits from the manufacture and 
sale of “Prairie Farms” butter. 3 

You become a part owner in a growing plant invest- 
ment through ownership of dividend-paying preferred 
stock. You have something to say about the direction 
and management of your creamery. You have an incen- 
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score butter your creamery makes, the greater its in- 
come and the greater your dividends. 

The co-op. way through long experience has been tested 
and proved to be the sound way, the ideal way for farm- 
ers to market their cream. 

Send your cream to the nearest producers’ creamery. It 
pays. No worry. No bother. A card will bring a cream 
truck direct to your farm. Write the creamery nearest 
you or see your County Farm Bureau. 


“GET YOUR FRIENDS TO BUY A POUND” 


ington— Farmers Co-operative Dairy Products Co., Davenport _ 


‘Butter Your Bread with PRAIRIE FARMS Butter” 


“THE OLD MORTGAGE LIFTER 
IS COMING BACK INTO HIS 


OWN, BILL, THANKS TO THE 
CORN-HOG PROGRAM" 


FARMERS CAN DO WHEN 
THEY ORGANIZE AND WORK 


TOGETHER | 


100,000,000 more 

for 12 per cent 
less hogs. That’s 
what meat packers 
operating federally 
inspected plants paid 
during the first eight 
months of 1934 compared with payments the first eight months 
of 1933. 

Who got. the money? “Farmers got it. 

How did it happen? Organized farmers made it happen. 

Farm income this year is estimated at 20 per cent higher 
than last year, 40 per cent in excess of 1932. 

These gains are the result of farmers working together . . . 
made possible by effective legislation. 


HE rise in farm prices began with initiation of crop 

control and dollar devaluation sponsored by the Farm 
Bureau. Three million farmers organized into county pro- 
duction control associations joined hands in the drive to 
restore farm buying power. Never before has co-operation 
been practiced on so wide a scale. 


The Largest: State Fart 


$100,000,000 MORE 
FOR 12 PER CENT 
LESS HOGS 


ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 


Oreranization In 


Wwrr S ahead 
for agricul- 


ture in the next 10 
years or more, is now 
the concern of all 
thinking farmers. 


Shall the forces which 


saris have opposed constructive farm measures prevail? 


‘Or shall farmers through organization assure the con- 


tinuance and perfection of those policies designed to re- 
store farm: prices and protect the interests of agriculture? 
Times and policies change. What’s true today may not 
be true) tomorrow. 


HE powerful voice of organized thousands must be ready 

for action when action is needed. The Farm Bureau is 
the rallying point for. continuing agricultural policies of gov- 
ernment toward helpful ends. 

Illinois farmers can work most effectively through member- 
ship in the Farm Bureau and Illinois Agricultural Association. 
Is your neighbor enlisted in the fight for farm equality? If 
not, urge him to join. 


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PHE OLD MORTGAGE LIFTER 
IS COMING BACK INTO HIS 
OWN, BILL, THANKS TO THE. 


CORN-HOG PROGRAM" 


100,000,000 more 

for 12 per cent 
less hogs. That’s 
what meat packers 
operating federally 
inspected plants paid 
during the first eight 
months of 1934 compared with payments the first eight months 
of 1933. 

Who got the money? Farmers got it. 

How did it happen? Organized farmers made it happen. 

Farm income this year is estimated at 20 per cent higher 
than last year, 40 per cent in excess of 1932. 

These gains are the result of farmers working together. . . 
made possible by effective legislation. 


HE rise in farm prices began with initiation of crop 

control and dollar devaluation sponsored by the Farm 
Bureau. Three million farmers organized into county pro- 
duction control associations joined hands in the drive to 
restore farm buying power. Never before has co-operation 
been practiced on so wide a scale. 


I ror 12 PER CENT 
LESS HOGS 


“IT BEATS ALL,HANK,WHAT 
FARMERS CAN DO WHEN 
THEY ORGANIZE AND WORK 


TOGETHER’, 


HAT’S ahead 

for agricul- 
ture in the next 10 
years or more, is now 
the concern of all 
thinking farmers. 
Shall the forces which 
always have opposed constructive farm measures prevail? 
Or shall farmers through organization assure the con- 
tinuance and perfection of those policies designed to re- 
store farm prices and protect the interests of agriculture? 
Times and policies change. What’s true today may not 
be true tomorrow. 


HE powerful voice of organized thousands must be ready 

for action when action is needed. The Farm Bureau is 
the rallying point for continuing agricultural policies of gov- 
ernment toward helpful ends. 

Illinois farmers can work most effectively through member- 
ship in the Farm Bureau and Illinois Agricultural Association. 
Is your neighbor enlisted in the fight for farm equality? If 
not, urge him to join. 


ILLINOIS: AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 


The. Largest. ‘State Farm Organization 


In America 


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