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The IllinoU Agricultural A»»ociation Record 



Augutt 29, 192S 



I L.L.IlMOiS 



CCLTIIBAL ASSOC1A1 



RE CORP- 



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 lioa. Act ot Octob er 3, 1917, aothorlaed Oct II, IHl. 



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OFFICERS 

 Prosldent, S. H. Thompson, Qnlnc;. 

 Vice-President, H. E. Goembel, Hooppole. 

 • " Treasnrer, li. A. Ck>wles, Bloomlngton 



Secretarj, Geo. A. Pox, Sfcamore. 



EXEXK7TIVI! OOMMIXTEE 

 By Congressioiua Distrlctt 



1»t to 11th William Wabb, Route One, Jollet 



1*** a P. Tullook, Rockford 



11*'* < C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



1**>» ■< W. H. Moody, Port Byron 



I*"* < B. H. Taylor, Rapatee 



j;*'» i A. R. Wright, Varna 



•'*•> * F. D. Barton, Cornell 



'«•» I R. F, Karr, Iroquois 



iJ*** \ J. U Whianand, Charleaton 



5J"> I Earl C. Bmlth, Detroit 



'■■* 1 Samuel Sorrallt, Raymond 



™»* r Stanly Castle, Alton 



«rj I W. L. Cope, Salem 



f**" i Curt Anderson, Xenia 



'•*•' » R. K. Loomis, Makanda 



Directors of Department*, I. A. A. Ofloe 



Cooperative Accounting Geo. R. Wicker 



Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch 



^'"»"" R. A. Cowles 



Fruit and Vefetable Marketing A. B. Leeper 



General Office j. h. Kelker 



Grain Marketing Chester C. Davis 



Information Harry C. Butcher 



Legal Counsel Donald KIrkpatrIck 



Live Stock Marketing Wm. E. Hedgcock 



Organization G. e. Metzger 



Phosphate-Limestone j. r Bent 



Poultry and Egg Marketing ..F, A. Gougler 



TaxatioB and SUtlstics j. c Watson 



Transportation L. j. Quasey 



THE RxcoiD'a PLATFORM 

 Advance th» purpose for uhich the Farm Bureau teas organized, 

 namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, 

 social and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the 

 nmiom, amd to develop agriculture. 



The East Needs A Middle West 



WHILE your farm adviser and his feJBJJy were' in 

 the East during their vaeatiou no other condition 

 was more oiitstandiug than the fact that it is a mighty 

 good thing for the East that there is a Middle West. 

 The East is densely populated. This population is rap- 

 idly increasing. Real farms are scarce and therefore the 

 food supply from local sources is very limited. Most of 

 the farms oonsist of rough, broken land covered with 

 stones. Dairj-ing is and must continue to be the chief 

 source of production on these rough farms. Scarcely no 

 dependence can be placed on these farms for grain, but- 

 ter and meat and the various other products for feeding 

 the Eastern United States from local production. These 

 products must come largely from the great Middle West, 

 There is an exceedinglj' healthy demand for food in 

 these big manufacturing centers of the East. The prices 

 paid by these consumers are very high when compared 

 to the prices received by Middle West farmers. These 

 consumers are not objecting to the prices they pay for 

 food. High wages in the factories, or at the various 

 trades euabile them to pay these high prices. Further 

 than this the population of the East is rapidly increas- 



ing. ifeflT houses are being built by the hundreds and ; 

 thousands Hence there will be a greater and increas- 

 ing deiiiaiul in the future for Middle West farm products. 

 What should these conditions mean to the Middle 

 West farmers? If they mean anything at all they should 

 stimulateiour farmers to the following procedure: First,' 

 organize to market farm products in order to get the 

 largest possible share of the consumers' dollar. Second, 

 niaintain and increase production to cai'e for the future 

 demand. — ,1. K. Shinn, farm adviser, in Fulton County 

 Farm Bureau News. 



^■' The Freight Rate Situation 



THE II per cent increase in freight rates petitioned 

 for the western railroads has been reduced to about 

 5 per cent, according to press reports. 



h. J. Quasey, director of transportation for the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association, states that very little can be 

 done by the farm organizations until the first hearing in 

 Chicago, the date of which has been changed to Sep- 

 tember 15 instead of the 8th. , ' . 



At present there is no specific brief of "the railroads 

 upon which a rebuttal can be based, and none will be 

 available until the hearing, Mr. Quasey states. Chang- 

 ing the plea from 11 per cent to 5 per cent has further 

 muddled the situation. 



The Illinois Agricultural Association has gone on rec- 

 ord as being unequivocably opposed to any increase in 

 freight rates at this time, maintaining that the farmer 

 is unable to stand higher rates than he is now paying. 

 The full strength of the association will be thrown into 

 the fight in an endeavor to defeat the increase. 



The Position of Agriculture 



THE time has come in the Midwest when adequate 

 remunerative return to the farmer must come 

 from the operation of his farm. Dependence on in- 

 creased value of land holdings will be, 

 from now on, an uncertain if not in- 

 deed a negligible factor in farm 

 profits. 



Farm operations must be conducted 

 more nearly like an industry and the 

 profits must come from the operating 

 turnover. The establishment and 

 maintenance of farm operations on a 

 prosperous business basis is the most 

 important economic and social question facing the Amer- 

 ican people. 



The farmers of America have in the past believed in 

 developing home industries and have subscribed to a 

 government policy of protecting, encouraging, and de- 

 veloping our industries against outside competition. 

 With the development of industry and transportation, 

 the laboring class was faced with outside competition 

 from people with lower standards of living. Labor 

 pressed and secured government protection against 

 ruinous competition caused by immigration. The farmer 

 did not object to protecting labor. 



Agriculture will decline or develop. It cannot stand 

 still. Shall the government interest itself in develop- 

 ing agriculture? Shall the government aid in establish- 

 ing farming on a business basis? Can the nation afford 

 to do less for the farming business than it has done to 

 maintain industry and labor? We think not. Only by 

 developing all of our resources, agricultural and indus- 

 trial, can we maintain an economic balance which will 

 make the nation prosperous and safe for all time. — 



Times Have Changed Since 1870 



THE present revenue section to the constitution of 

 Illinois was adopted in 1870. The Civil War had 

 been over for five years. John B. Pahner was governor. 

 Gteneral Grant was president. 



The world has moved rapidly forward. Great changes 

 have taken place. Look at this list of noted American 

 inventions since 1870: 



Executive Secretary, 



Illinois Ajrrieultural Association. 



InvMtlen Invantor Data 



Celluloid (Hyatt) 1870 



Welt machine (Goodyear) 1871 



Block Blsnal for railways (Kob- 



Inson) 1872 



Automatic car coupler (Jatwey) 



Tyiiewriter (8hoie8) 1873 



Quadruplex Telegraph (Edison) 



1874 



Water gas (Lowe) 1875 



Mowing machine, differential 



gear (Elckemeyer, B.) 1876 



Telephone (Bell) 187$ 



TMlklng machine (Edison) 1877 



Incandescent lamp (Edison) . ..1878 



Arc lamp (Brush) 1879 



Gasoline motor, auto (Helden) .1879 

 Automatic knot tying harreatlng 



machine (Appleby) 1880 



Chrome tanning (Schulz) 1884 



Trolley car (Van Oepoela & 



Sprague) 1884-87 



Type-bar casting, linotype <Mer- 



genthaler) 1885 



Cash register (Patterson) 188D 



Electric furnace reduction 



(Cowles) 1885 



Split-phase induction motor 



(Tesla) 1887 



lavsntor Data 



(imposing machine 



Invention 



.single-type 



(Lanston) »°°; 



Kotary converter (Bradley) . . .18». 

 Kecording adding machine (Bur- 

 roughs) • • -IsSS 



Transparent photograph "^'".QOtf 



(Eastman) ■ J»b» 



Calcium carbide (Wlllson) 1888 



Electric welding ( Thomson U- • 1889 

 Electrolytic alkali producmin 



(Casiner) f ■■!!«; 



Carborundum ( Acheson) .... i ... 1891 

 Harreylzed armor plate (Har- 



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.1892 



vey) 



Alternate -current motor (Tesla) 



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Motion picture machine (Edi- 

 son) 1893 



Dry-air process for blast fur- 

 nace (Gayley) 1894 



Disk ploughs, modem tjrpe 



(Hardy) 1896 



High-speed (Taylor A White). 1901 



Aeroplane (Wilbur Wright) 1901 



Hydro -aeroplane (Glenn H. Cur- 



tlBS) 19" 



Machine-gun (Isaac N. Lewis). 1912 

 Gas engine, compound (Erlcke- 

 meyer, C.) 1921 



And here are the noted foreign inventions: 

 Invention Inventor Nationality Dato 



Siphon recorder, Thompson (English) ; 1874 



Gas engine, Ot^o cycle. Otto (German)., 187" 



Centrifugal cre'amer, DeLaval (Swedish) 1880 



Manganese steel, Badfleld (English) 1884 



Smokeless powder, Vielle (French) 1886 



Mantle burner, Welsbach (Austrian) 1890 



By-product coke even, Hoffman (Austrian ) 1893 



Wireless teleg., low frequency, Preece (English) .' 1895 



Wireless teleg., high frequency, Marconi (Italian) 1896 



Electric steel. Heroult (French) 1900 



Diesel oil motoK, Diesel (German) 1960 



Depth bomb, W. T. Unge (Swedish) 1963 



But we still have the same revenue section! 



When the present revenue section was adopted in 

 1870, it was fair, in accordance with the times. In those 

 days a man paid very near his fair portion of taxes if 

 he were assessed on the basis of the value of his real, 

 honest-to-goodness tangible property (the kind you can 

 kick, hammer, stick a shovel in, plow, get stuck in, etc.). 



But back in 1870 there was less intangibles. Intan- 

 gibles are defined as "evidences of indebtedness," and 

 are the kind you can't kick, hammer, etc. Since 1870 

 there has been a meteoric growth in credit, much of 

 which is non-taxable. Then there are bonds, stocks, notes, 

 debentures, bank deposits, etc! The greatly extended 

 use of such implements of finance has changed much of 

 the wealth of the land from tangibles to intangibles. 



But through all this change, the state's revenue sec- 

 tion has remained the same. Is it any wonder that farm- 

 ers want the amendment to the revenue section? To 

 get the amendment passed by the voters in the election 

 of November. 1926, is one of the big projects of the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association. The active support of 

 every member of the Farm Bureau is needed. Support 

 it when you and your neighbors *'talk things over." 



Another Expression on Freight Rates 



Dt-ar Sir: Your letter of the 17th is at hand. In regard to 

 freight rates, I will say that any raise in rates would work 

 a hardship on Williamson county farmers. It would also go 

 just as hard with any other section of the state. Off hand I 

 am opposed to a raise in freight rates, yet it may be wise to 

 grant them as long as we huUd and maintain hard roads and 

 leave them open, free gratis, to the public without any gas 

 ta.'c or anything of that nature. We are running a great risk 

 of putting railroads out of business. It Is my opinlpn that 

 briars and sprouts will soon be growing over some of our 

 railroads that are now in operation. On the other hand, a 

 little lesson in economy, such as we farmers- had since the war 

 depreciation, might cut out some of their wasteful practices. — 

 A. M. Spitznass, Marion, Williamson county. 



JOHN THINKER AND EPIDERMIS FLINT. 



(John's m Loyal Farm Bureau Member. Epidermis U '^Agfin" It!) 



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