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-j EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ^ 



' (By Omcressional Districts) 



St to llth William Webb, Route One, Joliet 



2th G. F. TuIIock. Rockford 



ith C. E. Bamborough, Pok> 



4th W. H. Moody. Port Byron 



5th B. H. Taylor. Rapatee 



fcth A. R. Wright. Vama 



7th .■ » F. D. Barton, Cornell 



8th '. R. F. Karr, (roqxiois 



9th.- J. L. Whisnand. Charleston 



:0th Charles Borgelt, Havana 



Ist Samuel SorrcUs, Raymond 



2nd Frank Oexner. U aterloo 



:ird W. L. Cope, Salem 



;4th Charles Marshall. Belknap 



[Sth R. K. Loomis, Makanda 



OFFICERS 



President, Earl C. Smith 4 Detroit 



Vice- President, Charles R. Finley _. .Hoopeston 



Treasurer, R. A. Cowles f, .Bloomington 



Secretary, Geo. A. Fox »..^ Sycamore 



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cultural' ASSOCIA'KrON 



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To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organ- 

 ized, namely, to promote, protect and represent the Business, 

 economic, social and educational interests of the farmers of 

 Illinois and the nation, and to develop airiculture. 



Co-operative Accounting ' Geo. R. Wicker 



Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch 



Finance R. A. Cowles 



Fruit and Vegetable 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. Metiger 



Phosphate-Limestone J. R. Bent 



Poultry and Egg Marketing F. A. Gougler 



Taxation and Statistics J. C Watson 



Transportation L.J Quasey 



Publish*^ tn\<^ a month at 404 North Weslr-y Avo , Mount Morris. Illinois, by thp Ilhnois A(irri'ii!tural Asaoriation. Edited by Drpariment of Information. Harry C Butcher, Director, 608 South Dearborn 

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a splendid, fine-spirited meeting as the One just 



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visitors and delegates to the Eleventh Aniiual 



ing of the Illinois Agricultural Association, held 



Chanjpaign and Urbana, Jan. 21-22, 1926, hereby express 



] preciation for the tourtesy and co-operation ex- 



them by the University of Illinois, the Champaign 



Farm Bureau, Champaign and Urbana Chambers 



Commerce, and all citizens of the Twin Cities and or- 



thereof that have contributed to making 



ani^ual meeting a success from every standpoint. 



Commend New Grain Company 



W e commend the spirit of co-operation now being 



m inifested by the Illinois Agricultural Association 



t' ■ ''mers' Grain Dealers Association in the establlsh- 



n>%*.' o| an' a^uc'y for securinc better marketing facilities 



jii;<, .J i: I :;,rkH:; l e country, and 



CIrm ■•hr «»• . - •>|i \.iJU icic.ciice to co-opera- 

 tive marketing of farm products and urge our members to 

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■ their etforts toward the perfecting of more direct 

 I for the handling of our farm products. 



Co- ops Should be Exempt From Income Tax 



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 tance, 

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A H'icultural co-operative marketing associations in 

 inois are largely barred from benefits of exemption 

 Federal Revenue Act because of the law's re- 

 language, and of unfavorable regulations of the 

 of Internal Revenue. The Illinois Agricultural As- 

 has been active in proposing certain amendments 

 for co-operative associations of this state, the 

 which Congress evidently intended to grant but 

 not been accorded under interpretations of the 

 we consider these amendments of great impor- 

 ask our officers to continue to press them in every 

 ay, and we urge members of Congress from IlU|iois 

 for their early adoption. { 



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Raise Tariff on Onion* . ■ 



4Pl'OdQCtion of pickling onions has been an important 

 • farm industry in counties surrounding Chicago, but 

 now faces extinction because the American farmer cannot 

 compete with cheap foreign labor in this field without ad- 

 ditional and effective protection. We urge, therefor, the 

 enactment by Congress of a tariff amendment providing a 

 dnty of 60 per cent ad valorem, American valuation at port 

 of entv:r, in place of the existing duty basec^ on foreign 

 valoatic^ 



B. Testing Should Continue As Befdre 



Tl le Illinois Agricultural Association emphatically re- 

 afirms its position, long maintained, with refereftce 

 to the 1 teed and desirability of effectively eradicating 'Ithe 

 plague ( f bovine tuberculosis. We commend the work that 

 has beei i done heretofore to that end. 



We c ill for the continued adequate appropriation from 



both St ite and Federal governments to carry forward the 



work to the earliest possible conclusion. We farther urge 



I an emei gency appropriation from the Federal government 



I to meet the emergency now existing in Illinois. 



Becaqse of the nation-wide character of the work and 



i^ty for uniform administration, we urge the con- 



of this work under Federal supervision, on the 



bdsfs as heretofore. 



f irther urge that the money already appropriated by 

 Stal e of Illinois be made available for .the payment of 

 condemned cattle as rapidly as the testing of cattle can be 

 effective ly administered. In view of the emergency exist- 

 ing with reference to the milk supply of the city of Chicago 

 we urg( the fair minded and earnest cooperation of all 

 the peo: lie of Illinois to meet the situation in justice to all 

 parties concerned. 



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Protect Members from Thievery 



6 Theft of live stoik, poultry and other farm property 

 • , results in a tremendous loss to the farmers- of Illinois 

 whi(;h ^e believe can be greatly reduced by organized 

 protective effort through the Farm Bureaus for farm bureau 

 members. We urge, therefore, that the executive com- 

 mittee of the Illinois Agricultural Association undertake 

 at once a study of ways and means to accomplish this, 

 lead^g as soon as possible to the adoption of some workable 

 plan,' applicable to all parts of the state, to be put in opera- 

 tion by the Illinois Agricultural Association and the county 

 Farm Bureaus. 



Commend New Reinsurance Company 



7 We commend the organizations, namely, — Illinois 

 • State Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, 

 Illinois Agricultural Association, County Farm Bureaus 

 and local insurance companies for their co-operation in the 

 organization of the Farmers* Mutual Reinsurance Com- 

 pany. We believe every Farmer Mutual Insurance Com- 

 pany in the state will be rendering a real service to Mutual' 

 Insurance by using one or more of the insurance services of- 

 fered by the State Company. 



Support Amendment to State Constitution 



8 The present taxing system of this state has proved 

 • unworkable and unfair. It has thrown at least 85 per 

 cent of the burden of supporting public institutions and 

 functions on real estate which is probably not more than 

 one-half of the property in the state and produces an even 

 smaller proportion of the wealth of the state. This in- 

 equitable condition, under the limitations of the present 

 constitution, cannot be corrected by the General Assembly. 

 Until it is corrected, it is certain to grow worse. It is al- 

 ready interfering with the desirability of owning homes and 

 farm lands and with their values. The certain end, if it 

 continues long enough, is confiscation of property values 

 of real estate. 



We, therefore, pledge our support to the pending amend- 

 ihent to the revenue article of the State Constitution sub- 

 mitted for approval or rejection by the voters of the state 

 at the general election of November, 1926. We regard the 

 proposed amendment as embodying the changes necessary 

 to permit the General Assembly to broaden and modernize 

 our taxing system. We believe that it properly safe-guards 

 the just rights of every citizen of the^tate in any new forms 

 of taxation which may be establishea under its provisions. 



Want Gas Tax As Lieu Tax 



9 A tax on gasoline is generally recognized as fairly 

 • distributed on owners of motor vehicles, the chief 

 beneficiaries of highway improvement, according to their 

 use of the highways. Recognition of this fact, and the 

 demand for better improvement of the highways, have led 

 to the establishment of a tax on gasoline in all but four of 

 the states of the Union. 



We favor a tax on gasoline in Illinois on condition that 

 the proceeds of the tax are used in improving and maintain- 

 ing the secondary highways of the state known as State 

 Aid roads, and on condition that it is used in lieu of some 

 other highway tax and not in addition to other taxes. 

 These principles were embodied in the Cuthbertson gasoline 

 tax bill, which we supported in the 56th General Assembly. 

 We hereby declare our continued support of a bill embody- 

 ing these principles. Even with a gasoline tax which we 

 here propose, property — chiefly farm property— will con- 

 tinue to carry the entire burden of improving and maintain- 

 ing more than two-thirds of the public highways of the state. 



Check Up On Legislators 



1 f\ Whereas, at the nominating primaries in April and 

 •^v/» at the general election in November of this year 

 representatives to the Congress and State General As- 

 sembly will be nominated and elected at the first sessions 

 of which matters of especial concern to agriculture will be 

 pending, and 



Whereas, it riot only becomes but behooves organized 

 agriculture in a more positive way to interest itself in the 

 nomination and election of such persons. 



Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association and the county Farm Bureaus during 

 these coming primary and election campaigns earnestly 

 search the past records and sympathies of all candidates 

 along lines of legislation affecting agriculture and solicit 

 from such candidates statements of position and commit- 

 ments of action thereon. 



Want Annual Meetings In Logical Order 



11 We recommend the rearrangement as speedily as 

 A« possible of the time of holding the AnnusU Meet- 

 ings of County Farm Bureaus, of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association and pf the American Farm Bureau Federation 



in the order as to time of the organizations so named. We 

 believe that by this arrangement the wishes of the smaller 

 units in the Farm Bureau Federation could be more ef- 

 fectively expressed, both as to the selection of delegates to 

 such meetings and as to suggesting policies for considera- 

 tion. 



1 O We favor such legislation as may be necessary to 

 ^"■* . eliminate unfair discrimination against the use of 

 corn sugar as a means of assisting in the absorption of the 

 surplus of corn in Illinois. 



1 O We commend the woi* that has been accomplished 

 !*#• with reference to the improvement of the Lakes 

 to Gulf Deep Waterways and we urge adequate appropria- 

 tion and speedy administration looking toward completion 

 of that project. 



We urge that due consideration be given to the protec-, 

 tion of health and property of the people living adjacent 

 thereto. 



We also commend the proposed St. Lawrence waterway. 



Indorse Principles of Dickinson Bill 



I A The unfavorable situation of agriculture since the 

 ■^ •• war has been due in large part to the working out 

 of national policies which have expanded farm production 

 to the utmost, above domestic needs, on the one hand, while 

 they have maintained a high level of farm production costs, 

 on the other. Because of this, the responsibility of estab- 

 lishing a new national policy aimed to correct existing 

 disparities and to promote economic equality for agriculture 

 rests on the nation as a whole. Attempts to include the 

 American farmer in the protective system by tariffs have 

 been largely futile because the normal surplus of the impor- 

 tant cash crops holds the domestic price to world levels 

 regardless of tariffs. 



Therefore, the farmers of Illinois join with the farmers 

 of the other agricultural surplus states in asking the Sixty- 

 Ninth Congress, as part of a definite national farm pro- 

 gram, to create an export board or corporation under 

 which producers can, at their own expense, control the 

 marketing of their surpluses abroad in such manner as to 

 sustain an American price for that portion consumed in 

 America. 



Many plans for dealing with the surplus problem have 

 been proposed to Congress, some of which are now in the 

 form of bills providing for export bounties, foreign credits, 

 and other means and agencies. 



The Illinois Agricultural Association, while reiterating its 

 willingness to support any sound and workable plan to ac- 

 complish the desired ends, recognizes its responsibility to 

 express its general judgment on the relative value of the 

 several plans, some of which are: 



1. Export bounty on each of several farm commodities 

 approximately equal in amount to the import duty provided 

 in each case, financed by an excise tax on the units of each 

 commodity that move in trade. 



2. Export bounty on each of several farm commodities 

 approximately equal in amount to the import duty provided 

 in each case, the bounty payable in form of due bills ac- 

 ceptable by the United States Treasury in payment of 

 import duties. 



3.. GovernmenJ loans to buyers abroad to provide funds 

 for foreign purchase of our farm surplus. 



4. Federal board to assist farm producers to control, 

 segregate or dispose of surpluses abroad or at home, the 

 actual buying and selling to be done wherever practicable 

 through corporations created by associations of producers 

 themselves, but financed as to sales abroad by an equaliza- 

 tion fund from an excise tax similar to that proposed for 

 the export bounty. ^ 



An export bounty, not administered by a central body 

 empowered to segregate and control the surplus movement, 

 would, in our judgment, be less effective than other pro- 

 posals in adjusting domestic supply and demand at "a fair 

 price. The plan to finance bounty payments either from 

 the United States Treasury or from diverted import duties 

 in effect proposes a public subsidy against which the Amer--. 

 ican Farm Bureau Federation has gone on record. /TTie 

 plan to loan additional funds to finance foreign purchases 

 could not materially change the world price level at which 

 the sales would be made, could not operate to maintain an 

 American price for tKat portion consumed in America, and 

 does not appear to be a proper solution for the further 

 reason that since the war our farm exports have not been 

 curtailed but on the contrary have found ready buyers at 

 a world price and in volume greater than pre-war. The 

 bounty and loan proposals do not tend to bring the or- 

 ganized producers into the market in control of the handling 

 of their surplus. ' 



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