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The Illinoi» Agricukural Assooation Record 



September 26, 192S 



Septe 



I LiLilNOiS 



CCLTVBAL ASSOCIA 



RECORD' 



Published every other Saturday by the Illinois AKrIcultural As> 

 toclatlon, 608 Soutb Dearborn Street, Cblcago, Illinois. Edited 

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



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

 at Chicago, Illinois, under the act of March I, 1879. Acceptance 

 for mailing at special rates of postage provided for In Section 

 not, Act of October 3, 1917, aatborUed Oct. II, l»tl. 



The individual membership fee of tbe Illinois AjTlcaltaral ▲•• 

 sociation Is five dollars a year. The fee includes payaaeat mt 

 fifty cents for su.bscriptlon to the Illinois Ajrrleultural Asso- 

 ciation RSCOBD. 



Postmaster: In returning an nnoalled-for or satssent eopy, 

 please indicate key number on address as is required by lair. 



OFFICERS 

 Preatdent, S. H. Tbompaon, Qnlney. 

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

 Treasnrer, R. A. CowIm, Bloomiactaa r 



8«crecai7, Geo. A. Fox, Bjcamorab 



EXECmTVE OOMMirrEB 



B]r Congresaioiuil District* 



1st to Mith Wllllun Webb, Route One, Jollet 



IStk..!.. O. F. Tulleck. Rockferd 



UtK..I , C E. Bamborough, Pole 



14th.. I W. H. Moody, Port Byron 



1»th.., B. H. Tsylor, Rapatce 



1««i.., A. R. Wriaht, V»m« 



17th.., F. D. Barton, Cornell 



1tth..L R. F. Karr, Iroquola 



1>th. .f J. L. Whisnand, Charleston 



aOth..l Earl C. Smith, Oetrolt 



21at Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



22nd.. Stanly Castle, Alton 



2Srd..l W. L. Cops, Salem 



24th. .1 Curt Anderson, Xenia 



2Sth..l R. K. Loomis, Makanda 



Directors of Depiurtments, I. 



Co.operatlve Accounting 



Dairy Marketing 



Finance 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing 



General Office. . ; 



Grain Marketing 



Information 



Legal Counsel 



Live Stock Marketing 



Organisation j 



Phosphate-Llmestsn* 



Poultry and Egg Marketing 



Taxatiea and SUtlstlcs 



Transportation 



A. A. Office 



Geo. R. Wicker 



A. D. Lynch 



R. A, Cowles 



A. B. Lssper 



J. H. Kelker 



Chester C. Oavis 



Harry C. Butcher 



...Donald Kirkpatriok 



Wm, E. Hedgcock 



, O. E. Metzger 



J. R. Bent 



....'.... F. A. Geugler 



J. C. Watson 



L. J. Suaaey 



THB Racesa'i FLATFOItM 

 Advaue* (he purpose for whidi ih» Farm Bwmu ■*•• erfamseA 

 ■ — i /j , 10 fnwtof, frouet mid nprmnt th» hrntinm, teouowue, 

 meial md tiacmtia/ul iMersste of lfc# fmmtn of Ittiaoit wd iho 

 mmiom, omd to develop egricobare. 



The Epidemic of Proeperity Feoer 



For the past two months both city and country news- 

 papers have been publishing news stories and editorials 

 heraliiiiift the return of prosperity to mid-western farm- 

 ers. With true newspaper optimism we have read' of 

 the Ixniiper crops and hifrher prices. It has been said 

 that the farnicT is now in a better financial condition 

 than al any time sinee the World War. 



It i^^ true that the eeoaomic condition of the farmer is 

 improieil and it l«riii<rs cheer to all whether they depend 

 entirely upon the profits of the farm for supfwrt or are 

 inerchjints or maiiiifactiirers who hope to sell their prod- 

 ucts tj) the fanner. It is realized that the prosperity 

 of the| country depeiuls basiely upon the prosperity of 

 the fat-mer and it is for that reason that the news of im- 

 pn)Ve4 conditions in rural sections is received so joy- 

 oiLsU- b.v those who live in the cities. 



Hovi'ever. it mast be remembered that although a base- 

 ball tt^im has a lucky streak and makes several scores in 

 any one inning, it does not necessarily mean that the 

 team Will win the game. Every team has its innings but 

 it is the final score at the end of the ninth inning that 

 counts. So it is with the farmer. Today is hLs inning. 

 As compared with the past five years, he is prosperous. 

 His farm is perhaps producing at a profit. Nevertheless. 



if the present income should be averaged with that of 

 the past half decade, there would .still be a loss on the 

 books. 



A review of the present condition of Illinois agricul- 

 ture and a warning to farmers against too ready accep- 

 tance of the prosperity was made by President Sam H. 

 Thompson, in an interview with the correspondent of the 

 Christian Science Monitor, in which he stated : 



"Economic conditions in Illinois agriculture are 

 better now than at any time since the war, and the 

 prospects are even more favorable for the future, 

 but it will require intelligent marketing and con- 

 servative spending of the proceeds for the farmers 

 to secure to thenLselves, and not lose to others, the 

 benefits of this situation. 



"There is a tendency to exaggerate the improve- 

 ment in the situation of our farmers, and on this ac- 

 count a warning should be sounded. Farmers are 

 still faced with the marketing machinery in which 

 the law of supply and demand works quickly against 

 them, but mighty slowly in their favor. 



"Farmers of this State are being flooded as 

 never before in their e.\perience by 'high pressure" 

 salesmen of every description, attracted by rosy re- 

 ports of returning farm prosperity, attempting to 

 dispose of investments, building projects, household 

 equipment, automobiles and machinery, in fact, 

 everj'thing that is sold. 



"The danger in this development, is that the 

 farmer will be overloaded with things he really 

 would not buy if guided by conservative common 

 sense. The tendency with business of every kind 

 today is to pile onto buyers not only everj'thing 

 they can pay for, but everthing they can ever hope 

 to pay for in a lifetime. 



"The people, caught in the propaganda of free 

 spending to make • business good, are showing an 

 alarming willingness to assume obligations which 

 they have no right to saddle upon themselves. The 

 farmer, like everybody else, must fight the tendency 

 of the age fo live beyond his income. The Illinois 

 farmer in the present situation should resist the im- 

 pulse to spend. 



"That is the one important thing for the Illinois 

 farmer to do — ad.iust his buying sensibility to his 

 income — if he is to secure to himself the benefits of 

 the present upward trend. He is already heavily in 

 debt and has made verj- little progress toward liqui- 

 dation of loans made Xn tide him over the last four 

 years. Until that condition is changed he will have 

 little time to listen to the 'high pressure' salesmen 

 who flock to his gates." 



Why Not a Tariff Redaction ? 



Farmers in the Middle West are growing thoughtful 

 oven-the flat declaration of William Green, president of 

 the ^Iraerican Federation of Labor, that protected in- 

 i'dustry will not be permitted to retain its tariff favoi-s 

 if labor can help it, unless labor itself receives what it 

 considers a proper share in the protection benefits. 



A ten per cent cut in textile mill wages provided the 

 te.xt for the letter which Mr. Green wrote the American 

 Woolen Company. He said in part : j. 



If a tariff wall is built in order to protect special 

 interests and special industries against competition 

 from manufacturers, certainly when manufacturers 

 protected bj- such a tariff wall reduce the wages of 

 their employees below the subsistence level, the Gov- 

 ernment, in all fairnes.s, should reduce the tariff 

 schedjiles and tear down the tariff wall which has 

 he^>o skilfully built. It is the purpose of the 

 pl«>sident of the American Federation of Labor to 

 ^"bn^iig these facts to the attention of Congress, and 

 to fflsi^st in the name of the working people of 

 America that the textile manufacturers who have in- 

 augurated and carried out a policy of wage-reduc- 



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tions shall be deprived of special privileges and spe- ■ » 

 cial benefits which they have enjoyed -from high-' 

 tariff protection. 



These are ominous words, viewed from the self-inter- 

 est of the eastern manufacturer, but no more disturbing 

 than the mutter of similar opinions arising from the, 

 great surplus crop producing areas of the corn belt and 

 the Northwest. Men and women of the farms have a. 

 clearer view of the tariff and of other devices in the 

 American protective system than they had a few years- 

 ago. "They understand them as interferences with tl^ 

 natural economic law in the interest of special industrifr 

 groups. 



The labor leader's letter, with a slight change or two,- 

 expresses the conclusion which many a combelt farmer 

 has reached as he has wTestled with his problems since 

 1920. ' 



Congress has heard by no means the last of the slogan' 

 "Equality for Agriculture," as expressing the demand 

 that if the protective principle is to be maintained ip this' 

 country, an extension of its effects must be made to. 

 cover the great surplus crops of the farm. 



H. A. W^allaee, editor of Wallace's Parmer and son" 

 of the late secretary of agriculture, Henry C. Wallace,, 

 referred to the possibility of forcing a reduction in pro- 

 tective tariffs in his address at the annual I. A. A. picnic," 

 Taylorville, in which he said : 



So far as I know now the Dickinson bill will take 

 the place of the McNary-Haugen bill this next win- 

 ter. A determined effort will be made to put it 

 across. If it fails, the next step will be to'open a de- 

 termined fight on those taiiiffis which are keeping 

 out manufactured products from Europe, 

 A fight for the reduction of tariffs on imported manu- 

 f actuFedTjproducts would be a drastic measure. How- J" that i 



ever, -if^the commercial interests of this country willf ^'^'f''? 

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not recognize the voice of the rural population, it is pos- r ^q 30 



sible that such a battle may be wag«d***iing the coming | still it 



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Their Beat Defense 



"A strong offenseSlIp me best defense" appears to be the 

 principle that the western railroads have adopted in their 

 demand for a five per cent Increase in freight rates before 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission. 



It will be remembered that during its last session Con- 

 gress passed what is known as the Hoch-Smith Resolution 

 which asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to con- 

 duct a thorough investigation of the railroad freight rate 

 structure for all roads in all sections of the United States, 

 having in mind the reduction of freight rates on certain 

 agricultural products where such reductions are deemed 

 advisable. This resolution was the result of a plea by farm » 

 organizations, representing the American farmer, stating 

 that many rates were unjust and too high. 



time have attempted to increase the freightSrates on cer- 

 tain products, it would appear that their request for an 

 increase, at this time, is a strategic move on the part of 

 the railroads. Railroads' representatives have insisted that y Espial] 

 the five per cent increase does not cover the entire needs of f 

 the railroads, and is merely an emergency request. From I 



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 reduction in rates, thus holding the structure in its present'^ three t 



condition and defeating the agricultural purpose of thek, /'J' 

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An Expression on Freight Rates 



Dear Sir: Relative to your letter of July 7th regarding 

 taxation, I wish to say that agriculture has of necessity re- 

 duced itself to economic conditions that hurts productive en- 

 tarpriae and social conditions on tile farm. Tliis is not of 

 choice but of necessity from tiie relation of other occupations. 



With some prospects of farm markets improving:, it would # hlnckec 

 l>e disastrous to the morale of the -farmer to have freight 

 rates advanced before he has recovered from post-war condi- 

 tions — L. M. .Swansey. President. Stephenson County Farm Bu 

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JOHN THINKER AND EPIDERMIS FLINT. 



*'Ep" Has Joined but Still Kicking. 



MIRANDI KNOWS. 



' IJVST WEEK I JOINED 

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 I'UU XA KE A FEW OF THOS 

 YOU'VE BCE1S T7M-KIN& 



MIRANDI TELLS i^e -rov 

 <aOT FREE PLANS ON CM 

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 ITf MM (NAHt'P.R1 /MR,CUNTTELL5 ALL 

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1 can't MAK6 ANYTHIN& 

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 went S.UPPOSCD TO KNONM 

 CVEUVTWINS , WH>VT THBY 

 EETJ IS EFFIC(e<<4CV . NOW 



IF THEY Ron that Ooinx 

 Like I RON My parm 



TTkEY-'O eCX RE&UL-T& 



WHAT DO 1 GET OUT- 

 OF IT ? MIRANDI ? 



I THOOO-HT "H-IAT ADVI 

 WOULD COME AROUND 

 ANO HELP ME . 

 YOU URqBO riE" To O 



JUBCrfO You? You SET IDIO.Atit) ITS IMf 

 BIST THIMfr YOO DID IN YOUR Ufe.DotcU 

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 TWAT COOP HAS BEEN 5f tARCF' AUOUNO 

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 MORE DAYS won't HOBT ANY-THe/tL 

 CiFTSTANDAROllEO PtANS FROM WASMlMgTol* 



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