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ICCLTVBAL ASSOCIA 



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Published every other Saturday by the Illinois Agrrlcaltaral As* 

 •oclatlon, (08 South Dearborn Street. Chicago, Illinois. Edited 

 by Department of Information. Harry C. Butcher, Director. 



Entered as second class matter Oct. 10, 1921, at the post ofllce 

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 for mailing at special rates of postage provided for In Section 

 llOJ, Act of October 3. 1917. authori sed Oct. II. IMl. 



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r ' Prcatdent. S. H. Tbompami, Qnlncj. 



TIca-PrMldent, H. B. Ooanibal, Hooppola. 

 , I Treasurer, R. A. Oowlw, Blooiiriintoa 



8eoretai7, Geo. A. Fox, Byi'wnr». 



EIXECCnVB OOMHITTKB 



B7 Consreuiooal Dlitrtota 



lat ta 11th WIIU«|n Wtbb, Rout* On*, Jollet 



Ittk Ok F. Tull»«k, Rookfard 



11th C. E. BamborouiK Pols 



14th , , W. H. M»o4y, Port Byron 



1»th i ■. H. Taylor, Rapataa 



1M1 A. R. Wright, Varna 



17th F. D. Barton, Comoll 



Kth R. F. Karr, Iroquel* 



l»th J. L. Whitnand, Chartaaten 



20th '. , Eari C. Smith, Detroit 



Hat L Samuel Sorralls, Raymend 



22n4., J Stanly Caatis, Alton 



2tr4..* .L W. L. Cope, Salem 



24*h Curt Andereen, Xenia 



2Sth ^ R. K. Loomit, Makanda 



Directors of Departiiienls, I. A. .\. Office 



Ce-eperatlve Aeoounting Geo. R. Wicker 



Dairy Marketing A. D. Lyneh 



Finance R. A. Cowlea 



Fnilt and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper 



General Office > J. H. Kelker 



Grain Marketing Cheater 0. Davit 



Information Harry C. Butcher 



Legal Counsel Donald KIrkpatrick 



Live Stock Marketing Wm. E. Hedgcock 



Organization Ok E. Metzger 



Phosphate-Llmeetena J. R. Bent 



Poultry and Egg Marketing F. A. Qougler 



TaxatloB and SUtlttlea J. C. Wataen 



Tranaportatlon < L. J. Quaaay 



THB Racsaa's PLATFORM 

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Justice i$ on the Farmer's Side 



IN "The Worlds Work" of September, under the cap- 

 tion of "The March of Events," which is an editorial 

 interpretation, there i.s an editorial' entitled "No sub- 

 sidy for Agriclulture. " 



It is an iujerpretation of the federal government's 

 attitude towaitd placing agriculture under the benefits 

 of the protective system, or assisting agriculture in some 

 other way such as was provided in the McNarj-Haugen 

 bill. The editjorial pictures the general situation faced 

 by agriculture las regards federal action for the industry. 

 We pass it on for the benefit of farm bureau members: 

 NO SUBSinV FOR AGRICULTURE 

 "Relief for the farmers appeared prominently in 

 the promisfe of both parties during the last Presiden- 

 tial election. It has appeared in every general state- 

 ment of Re])ublican policy since then — and would 

 have appeared in any general -statement of the Demo- 

 cratic party had there been any. 



The Federal Government, under the Wilson and 

 the Harding administrations; provided the fanners 

 with greater 'credit facilities than they had ever had 

 before. 



Special tariff favors have been given to special 

 branches of farming- — citrus fruits, sugar beets, etc. 

 But the tariff cannot be made generally profitable to 



agriculture. Beyond the tariff favors to specialties, 

 .political help to the farmers is summed up chiefly 

 in suggestions about co-operative selling. But this is 

 essentially a thing the fanners must do for themselves. 

 The goveniiiient cannot co-operate with the farmers. 

 The farmers will have to co-operate amongst them- 

 selves. 



What help then can the government give the farm- 

 ers? The farmers' complaint is something like this: 



Whereas, the Republican party bargains to deliver 

 prosperity through tariff protection to business groups 

 especially if they vote the Republican ticket, and 



Whereas, the Northern and Westjern farmers have 

 largely voted the Republican ticket, and 



Whereas, the tariff protection, which is effective for 

 other groups, does not help to raise the price of the 

 .main farm crops, and 



Whereas, on the contrary, it is a disadvantage to the 

 farmer in raising his cost of living, be it therefore 



Resolved, that the Republican party give to the 

 fanner a benefit equivalent to the benefit that the 

 tariff is to manufacturers. 

 This means some kind of a subsidy. It may be called 

 something else. It may look like something else. But 

 it must be a subsidy. There are only two ways to 

 give to a particular class money taken from all the 

 people. One way is by the tariff, the other is by a 

 subsidy. The Republican party has always believed 

 in 'special favors by tariff. It has not believed in 

 special favor by subsidy. Yet the farmer is insistent 

 that, if favors are to be distributed, he must get his 

 share and that it be in a form which he can use. And 

 justice is on his side. Whatever violence a subsidy 

 does both to the science of government and to the sci- 

 ence of economics, there is no more reason why the 

 farmer should not have a bounty on wheat and cotton 

 than that the American Woolen Company, for ex- 

 ample, should have a tariff on its products, and pre- 

 sumably if given a bounty the farmer would behave 

 better than the woolen company and not cut wages. 



But neither justice nor logic is likely to succeed. 

 Years ago when the farmers were a majority in this 

 country they might have stopped the tariff or demand- 

 ed for themselves an equivalent.. But the Northern 

 and Western farmers supported the tariff then as 

 maey still do. Now they are in a minority. More- 

 over, the high tide of their distress is over and with 

 it the power of desperation. 



There is little real benefit that the Federal Gov- 

 ernment can give them and they are not politically 

 organized to force a subsidy on an unwilling country. 

 Whether they can or will organize and join other forces 

 to beat an outrageous tariff is problematical. That is 

 the only practical amelioration which the farmer can 

 achieve politically. In the meantime he must sell the 

 bulk of his products without any method of stimulat- 

 ing sales and produce them without any method of 

 governing production hoping' that Providence and 

 bad weather will prevent his succeeding so well as to 

 spoil his success; for it is often that smaller crops 

 yield more money than larger ones. 



We are pleased to note that this magazine, one that 

 carries considerable editorial weight, states that justice 

 is on the side of the farmer. Many, and we should say 

 most, magazines and newspapers of influence are in- 

 clined to scoff and make light of the demands of agri- 

 cultiire. The fact that "World's Work" holds out little 

 hope for our success should serve to knit our fighting 

 forces closer. Justice will eventually prevail. 



Clod-Hopper or Farmer 



"Senator Cuthbertson's assertion In his speech at the Farm 

 Bureau picnic at the Fair Grounds last Thursday that the 

 farmers are the only workmen In the world who d(> not have 

 sense enough to stick together for their own benellt. appears 

 to be true. And it also seems to be a fact that the average 

 farmer is not Interested enough in his own business to make 

 any effort to improve his condition. 



"At the experiment field meeting here Friday only about 

 forty or flfty farmers were in attendance. This seems strange 

 to the coal operator, the laboring man. the merchant, the 

 banker, and even the newspaper publisher. The information 

 obtained at the rteld meeting, if applied to a farm, would pay 

 that farmer a high wage for the time spent at the meet. On«- 

 little suggestion might mean thousands of dollars to him. 



"The banker finds time to attend the meetings. of his county, 

 district and state association. The laboring man attends thei 

 meetings of ills local in order to belter himself, the merchant 

 organizes and conducts schools of instruction, and even the 

 overworked editor lets other business go in order to attend a 

 meeting where he mi»?ht learn some new wrinkle to aid iiini 

 in getting out a better newspaper. 



"Yet the average farmer, who conducts the biggest business 

 in the world, makes no effort to better himself. He sneers at 

 the new methods of soil treatment, refuses to absorb any 

 knowledge on the assumption that he already knows all, and 

 sits idly by while every otlier industry on the face of the earth 

 organizes against him. 



"The farmer who supports the farm organizations ,ind who is 

 willing to keep up with the times, will be known as a-weil-to- 

 do farmer a few years hence, while the other fellow will still be 

 a clod-hopper." — Sparta (Randolph County, 111.) News-Plaln- 

 riealer. 



The Farm Bureau Protest 



THE following protest against an iuerea.se in trans- 

 portation charges on products from the farm has 

 been filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission by 

 the American Farm Bureau Federation. It represents 

 the stand of the national Fann Bureau and of the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association. 



1. The prosperity of all commercial activities are direct- 

 ly dependent upon prosperity of the farmer. 



2. The government's own agencies, such as the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Department 

 of Labor and others, whose records are available to, and 

 may be utilized by the Commission, contain ample evidence 

 of the general farming condition throughout the country. 



Still Serious 



3. Because the present crop this year in. some sections 

 promises brighter conditions does not justify ignoring the 

 situation which confronted our growers and shippers dur- 

 ing the two or three years immjedlately prior thereto and 

 the obligations with their resultant burdens, which that 

 industry was and is carrying. > 



4. That the territory lying west of the Mississippi River 

 is largely agricultural, therefore an increase in transporta- 

 tion charges in that section which included agricultural 

 commodities, would in reality be aimed at, and a direct 

 blow to agriculture and would cause an unbalanced and 

 unjust tax. 



5. That many rates between the western territory and 

 the sections of the country east thereof are based on the 

 Missouri or Mississippi River, therefore the petition threat- 

 ens serious complications and may become so far-reaching 

 as to involve througti rates to and from all other sections 

 of the country. 



6. That a further general increase in all rates every- 

 where in the country would bring about a situation which 

 would react on the commerce of our country and be reflected 

 In its general prosperity. 



7. That the Transportation Act now provides meas- 

 ures for recapturing from prosperous lines earnings in ex- 

 cess of certain limits, to be used for their less fortunate 

 neighbors and we emphasize that in our opinion, the com- 

 mission and the railroads should worlt out some plan of 

 carrying out this feature of the law, without Inflicting the 

 public with further increases in rates. 



8. That in ^ years past, certain railroads have earned 

 substantial returns on common and preferred stock, which 

 in some cases was re-invested in other properties and as 

 the public undoubtedly was a recltoning factor in contrib- 

 uting towards the highly successful years, that those sub- 

 stantial returns should also be taken into consideration at 

 this time in determining the propriety of this petition. 



9. We do not express an opinion on matters of railroad 

 consolidations, but if the Commission is of the view that 

 there is economy through consolidation, then this feature 

 would also become an important factor in this case in de- 

 termining if the lines in the western territory have been 

 as active in this respect as railroads in other districts. 



10. The Act also provides that "Efficiency" is an out- 

 standing item for consideration of petitions for increases 

 in rates — and while we are expressing no opinion at this 

 time on this feature, yet since the commission has a depart- 

 ment for investigating this feature, that we urge that before 

 placing an additional tax on our products, that this item 

 will have been thoroughly in\'estigated. 



■ September 



"WHOO-I 

 • IS WAY 



. SAYSS' 



' Hog and C 



tesU Fo 



' Feature i 



It's "who< 



oey" and it 



, side of the 



hanging nati 



or without i 



That is th 

 linois Farm 

 • to the conti 

 are best call* 

 in the Middi' 

 ', ments were 

 hog calling 

 by the Illinoi 

 tion. 



That is tl: 

 Robison of I 

 , ty, who was 

 pion hog ca 

 annual I. A. 

 ville, August 

 winner was 

 the form of 



Second pli 

 contest was 

 Cumberland 

 tically the s; 

 ner. but lac 

 ume. Emery 

 ty, who wc 

 "whoo-oey, 

 with a mixti 

 . The fourth 

 Sangamon c< 

 plain but coi 

 Thin 



There wer 

 counties and 

 included: 



Morgan ( 

 Jefferson cou 

 Payne, and V 

 land county- 

 G. Brick; I 

 Rupp, J. W 

 Gardner; Pik 

 son; 'Vermilit 

 thorn; Mario 

 ton; Cass cc 

 Christian co 

 William Krai 



Tazewell c 

 and Jay Groe 

 — H. C. Be 

 counties — Eu 

 Boyle; Gree 

 Barnes; Sani 

 Brown, Earl ' 

 Shelby count: 

 liamson coui 

 1 and A. M. 

 I county — Ed 

 — Emery Irw 

 — Ed Highfl 

 The state 

 ' for the won 



* other popuiai 

 I, Mrs. I. N. W( 

 I was declaret 

 1 and received 



pitcher. Her 

 ous than sm 

 calculated 



•• by the five ji 

 The other 



' placed were, 

 Fearn of Ch 

 Bell of Chris 

 Frank Potth 

 There wer 

 resented in 

 eluded: Mrs. 



> W. L. Feari 

 Lewis Nash 

 Christian c 

 Bourne and 

 Peoria count; 

 of Montgome 

 W. Rupp of 



• Frank Potth 

 I Mrs, I. N. Wo 

 "and Robert 



county. 



JOHN THINKER AND EPIDERMIS FLINT. 



•EP" JOINS THE FARM BUREAU 



Mirandi Wins! 



NEW GRA 

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of the Natio: 



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