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. WlUiam Webb. Route One. Joliec 



C. F. Tullock. Rockford 



C. E. B«mborouih, Polo 



W. H. Moody. Port Byron 



B. H. Taylor. Rapatee 



A. R. Wright. Varna 



F. D. Barton. Cornell 



R. F. Karr. Iroquoia 



J. L. Whi^nand, Charleston 



Earl C. Smith. Detroit 



.........Samuel Sorrells. Raymond 



Stanly Castle. AJton 



W. L. Cope. Salem 



Curt Anderion. Xenia 



R. K. Loomis. Makanda 



OFFICERS 



n«sklcnt, S. H. Thompaoci 



VIcc-PrasJdent. H. E. Goonbal. 



Treaaurer. R. A. Cowlea 



Secretary, Geo. A. Fob 



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. Bloofnlngton 

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CVLTVB^i^L ASSOCIA 



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To advanc* the purpose for which the Farm Bureau wot organ- 

 ixed, namely, to promote, protect and represent the buHneas, 

 economic, tocial and educational interests of the fartn«rs of 

 lUinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 



DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS 



Co-operative Acoountinc Geo. R. Wldccr 



Dairy Markeeing A. D. Lynch 



Finance R. A. Cowlea 



PruU and Vegetable M«rketinc A. B. Leeper 



General Office. . J. H. Kclker 



Grain Marketing Cheater C. Davis 



Information ' Harry C. Butcher 



Legal Counsel Donakl Kirkpatrick 



Live Stock Marketing Wm. B. Hedgoock 



Organisation G. E. Metcger 



Phosphate-Limestone i J . R. Bent 



Poultry and Egg Marketing P. A. Gougler 



Taxation and Statiatioa J. C. Wataon 



Transportation L. J. Quaaey 



Published every otb«r Saturday at Mount Morris, IltiDois, by the Illinois AitricuJtur&I Asaonation. Edited by EXepartment of Information, Harry C Butcher. Director, 608 South Dear- 

 bom Street. Chicago. Illinois. - AppUoatioD made fur tmusfer of entry from the Postoffiee at Chicago, ItUnois, to th« poet office at Mt. Morris, Illi tois The iodividual tnetnbersbip fee of the IlUnois 

 Axricultural Association is five dollars a year. The fee includes payment of fifty centa for subacriptioD to the Illinois AgrioulturaJ Associatioa RacoaD. Postmaster: In returning an uneallad- 

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Read Mr. Lowden't Article 



IF you have turned thus far and have not 

 read Mr. Lowden's article, turn back and 

 read it. His diagnosis of present-day farm 

 ills goes to the heart of the problem. The 

 solution of the problem is of-great importance 

 to you and your farm business. The article 

 herewith re-printed is causing considerable 

 comment. 



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.Such Confidence Mutt Be Deaerved 



SO far this year more than 10,000 Illinois 

 farmers have either renewed their mem- 

 ber^ips or have joined the Farm Bureau for 

 the -first time, according to the records of the 

 organization department. 



W^en 10,000 substantial farmers join and 

 re-joTn any organization, that body must be 

 performing some service worth the mem- 

 bership fee. General increases in member- 

 ships have been reported by counties which 

 have completed renewal work this year. 

 Many other counties are in the midst of re- 

 newal campaigns now and others are laying 



Ui. ;;o Octol--, 20 counties had started 

 mombership drives, five of which had com- 

 pleted their campaigns, five had made a gen- 

 eral once-over canvass, and the remaining 10 

 were just getting drives underway having re- 

 ported a few hundred re-signed members in 

 each county who have visited the farm bureau 

 offices and renewed their pledge of assisting 

 agriculture without having to be asked. 

 About thirty other counties are on the thresh- 

 old of campaigns. 



The result of the membership reports to 

 date are an indication that the farmers of Illi- 

 nois, generally, have confidence and hope in 

 their organization. Thinking farmers do not 

 join and re-join fly-by-night organizations. 



Thinking farmers believe in the fann bu- 

 reau movement. 



Such confidence must be Reserved. 



Farm ProRtM and Rail Rate* 



From, The Journal of Commerce, New York 



THE Interstate Commerce Commission is 

 at present engaged in taking testimony 

 in favor of rate increases, and the railroads 

 have discovered a number of experts prepared 

 to testify to the increased buying power of 

 the farmers' net income as compared with its 

 pre-war purchasing value. One witness has 

 testified that the average Western farmer is 

 now able to buy about 14 per cent more of 

 non-agricultural products with his present in- 

 come than he could have obtained before the 

 war, while it is estimated that the purchasing 

 power of the average Western farm has risen 

 72 per cent since 1922. 



Estimates of this sort, based as they must 

 be upon averages, are, of course, far from 

 measuring the changes in economic well-be- 

 ing of many individual fanners. Assuming, 

 however, that they reflect or measure fairly 

 well the general improvement which has re- 

 cently taken place in Western farm regions, 

 it does not seem that this type of data ought 

 to be given overmuch weight in rate hearings. 

 Why, for example, should a temporaiy acces- 

 sion of income be urged as a basis tor rate 

 increases which are to be indefinitely applic- 

 able? Certainly when the farming income of 

 the Western States falls again, as it obviously 

 will, the railroads will not for that reason ac- 

 cept rate reductions with equanimity. There 

 is no reason why they should do so, in fact, 

 if they are not earning the returns on their 

 capital to which they are entitled. Their 

 present short-sighted eagerness to demon- 

 strate that farm prosperity is a good reason 

 for demanding rate advances is likely to act 

 as a boomerang at some not very distant date. 



Over longer periods of time rate adjust- 

 ments obviously must be related to and modi- 

 fied in accordance with changes in the prices 

 of goods transported, but no one year or sea- 

 son affords any reliable standard upon which 

 to base demands for general rate increases. 



The roads would apparently be much wiser 

 to take their stand on the solid ground of ris- 

 ing costs and lower incomes. They can point 

 to increasing expenses over a long period of 

 years for labor and equipment, together with 

 expanding capital investments and diminish- 

 ing net returns. These are the relevant fact- 

 ors that strengthen their case before the In- 

 terstate Commerce Commission. Fann pros- 

 perity is, after all, an ephemeral phenomenon. 



We Litre Your Book, Monty 



LYNN MONTROSS, formerly director of 

 information of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association, saw so much romance in the 

 Lantz bill fight of 1921 that he has woven it 

 into his latest novel, "East of Eden." The 

 book has considerable historical value, espec- 

 ially to farm bureau members. It's well 

 worth the reading and we hope the sale is com- 

 mensurate with the amount of time and 

 energy put into it. The book deserves a good 

 sale. We like it, Monty. 



The Record Now Printed in Ogle County 



WITH this issue jrou will no doubt notice 

 some changes m the appearance of the 

 Record for it is now being printed b^ Kable 

 Brothers Company of Mount Morris, in Ogle 

 county. Heretofore the Record has been 

 printed in Chicago, 



Changing to Mount Morris results in some 

 saving to the association due principally to 

 less overhead costs in Mount Morris than in 

 Chicago. All editorial work will be done in 

 the Chicago office as before. Excellent mail 

 service between Chicago and Mount Morris 

 makes it possible to maintain the same nar- 

 row margin between dead-line and delivery in 

 your mailbox as has prevailed heretofore. 



We appreciate having any irregularities of 

 delivery reported at the office. 



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JOHN THINKER AND EPIDERMIS FLINT. 



(Congratulations to the New Member) 



Ep Has His Own Ideas Alx>ut Service 



^ HEU-O THERE EP. I HAVEnV 

 seen YOU f=0R A MOffTH - Say, 



VEP John l^i wakt to <toN6RATULA-re you 



FlNAUYJOINeDX^OB JOIN IN* 7»<E FARM B»HeA» 



I GOT SOME PlANiX • ■ ' ALWAYS KNEW YouwtRf 

 FOR A New CHICKEN BRoAOE-R MlNPSP i;NDeR>l«IV 

 HOl/SE WERE ■mAT/ WAN YOKR PESKY OimoARD 

 MIRANDl'i B"i X STVBB0RNNEJ5 WOULD LET 

 WANTIN /\^ SHOW THaou&H 



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