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4. In defending land values before Federal Court hearings in the 

 railroad injunction suit. 



5. At numerous hearings before Commerce Counsel and Board of 

 Railroad Commissioners; also (State) Animal Health Commission. 



6. In the Code Revision of two hundred fifty-three Iowa laws pending 

 future action. 



7. In important conferences and meetings with Iowa bankers, and 

 Federal Reserve officials which resulted in relieving the critical 

 financial situation for Iowa farmers, 



8. Before State Board of Education procuring adoption of courses of 

 study to the Practical Marketing Problems. 



9. At meetings and conventions of various labor and commercial or- 

 ganizations whenever and wherever it seemed fitting and proper. 



10. At meeting between Executive Railway heads, heads of Federation 

 of Railway Labor, Chicago, Illinois. 



II. LEGISLATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS 



The principal legislative accomplishments of the I. F. B. F, 



1. Prepared and secured the enactment of laws providing for co- 

 operative marketing and proper financing for the farmer, encour- 

 aging permissive and corrective legislation for protecting the 

 agricultural interests. We quote from a reprinted edition of the 

 October, 1921, issue of the Iowa Journal of History and Politics, 

 page 102, as follows: 



"No class of people in Iowa profited more by the legislation of 

 the Thirty-ninth General Assembly than the farmers. Working 

 through the powerful Farm Bureau Federation the agricultural in- 

 terests secured the enactment of almost all the legislation they 

 desired." 



2. The Secretary of the I. F. B. F. made several trips to Washington, 

 D. C, during the year 1921 where he met with the Iowa Congress- 

 men and various other officials, cooperating with the A. F. B. F. 

 ofllcials there, before Agricultural Commission, Congressional 

 Committees on Federal Farm Land Bank asking minimum be 

 raised to $25,000.00 on loans, on Packer Control Bill, Board of 

 Trade Bill, War Finance Corporation, etc. 



III. HELP ON MARKETING PROP>LEMS 



1. Prepared laws passed by Thirty-ninth General Assembly which 



(a) Legalized "Collective Bargaining." 



(b) Provided for incorporating of "non-profit, non-stock" cooper- 

 ative associations. 



(c) Provided for bonded warehouses in Iowa. 



2. Gave $10,000.00 toward financing work of Grain Marketing Com- 

 mittee of Seventeen. 



3. Gave $6,500.00 toward Livestock Marketing Committee of Fifteen 

 work. 



IV. CREDIT AND FINANCING 



1. Prepared and secured enactment of a law providing for the forma- 

 tion of a farm credits corporation which will enable farmers to 



