EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

 (By Congressional Districts) 



Ut to 11th William Webb, Route One, Joliet 



nth G. F. Tullock. Rock/ord 



13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



14th W. H. Mood>, Port Byron 



15th B. H. Taylor. Rapatee 



16th ^ A. R. W right. Varna 



17th F. D. Barton, Cornell 



18th R. F. Kerr, Iroquois 



l»th J. L. Whisnand, Charleston 



20th Charles Boreelt. Havana 



21st Samuel Sorrelis, Raymond 



22nd ■. . . . Frank Oexner. Waterloo 



2Jrd W. L. Cope, Salem 



24th Charles Marshall. Belknap 



25th R. K. Loomis, Makanda 



OFFICERS 



President, Earl C. Smith Detroit 



Vice-President, Charles R Finlcy Hoopeston 



Treasurer, R . A. Cowles Bloomington 



Secretary, Geo. A. Fox Sycamore 



I LiI^INOIS 



CCLTVBAL ASSOCIA 



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To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau wo* organ- 

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

 economic, social and educational interests of the /armers of 

 Ulitiois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 



DIRECTORS OE DEPARTMENTS 



Co-operative Accounting Geo. R. Wicker 



Dairy Marketing A. D. Lyndi 



Finance , V R. A. Cowles 



Fruit and Vegetable Marlceting A. B. Leepcr 



General Office ; J. H. Kctker 



Information E. G. Thiem 



Legal Counsel ,-. Donald Kirkpatrick 



Live Stock Marketing i Wm. E. Hedgcock 



Organization |. , j. .'..... G. E. Metzger 



Farm Supply \ ; J.R. Bent 



Poultry and Egg Marketing ^ F. A. Gougler 



Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson 



Transportation L. J. Quasey 



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Are We All Wrong? 



NE of the familiar answers made to the farm- 

 ers' insistent demand for protection on a 

 with industry is that domestic consumption 

 result of our ever-increasing population will 

 overtake production, and then the farmer 

 be in the saddle. 

 We wonder how some of our infant manufac- 

 turiig industries would have fared had the same 

 line of reasoning been followed. What if they 

 had been told, "We know you are weak now 

 and are having hard sledding, but you'll learn the 

 ropiis in a few years and everjrthing will be all 

 righ t. We don't believe a protective tariff would 

 be irood for you." 



The tariff on aluminum helped make Andrew 

 Mel Ion rich. And yet our secretary of the treas- 

 ury was the first to raise the cry about Europe 

 seciring a cheaper food supply than America if 

 the tariff were made effective for corn belt farm 

 pro( lucts. 



T le belief that American agriculture, except 

 for i small minority like the wool and sugar beet 

 growers, is suffering more from continued "young 

 indistry" tariff protection than anything else is 

 substantiated in the authoritative article, "Amer- 

 Export Trade and The Tariff," written by Dr. 

 Jacib Viner of the University of Chicago in the 

 Sepi ember 1926 Annals of the American Acad- 

 emy] of Political and Social Science. The author 

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': n the past the restrictive effect of the Amer- 

 tariff has been felt most keenly by the agri- 

 cultliral industries. By raising the general money 

 of living and the money costs of production, 

 tariff has acted as a depressive influence on 

 prosperity and growth of American agricul- 

 insofar as its opportunities lay in foreign 

 In the main, American agriculture still 

 undbubtedly loses more than it gains from the 

 protective tariff policy. 



The fundamental tariff principle is that the 



maintained industry is an anaemic industry 



alive by blood-transfusions from the healthy 



and that these blood-transfusions 



weaken the latter.' 



Agriculture has given its life's blood toward 

 makjing the United. States the wealthiest country 

 world. Is it not justified now in seeking to 

 the blood-transfusions that weakened it? 



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The Tariff and Wheat 



a recent survey of United States and Cana- 

 ian wheat prices Chester C. Davis found that 

 price of wheat in the terminals of the United 

 Statjs now represents from 86 to 88 per cent of 

 its pre-war purchasing power (on farms it is less 

 becjuse present freight rates are 45 per cent 

 high ^r) , and that wheat prices for the same grades 

 at Winnipeg, Canada, were higher than those 

 quoled at Minneapolis, Kansas City, and other 

 terminals in this country. 



T) be specific, on Sept. 13 the Winnipeg cash 

 pricj paid for No. 1 Northern Spring Wheat 60 

 lbs. bo bu. 60 per cent dark, hard, vitreous kernels 

 was ?1.42Vi. On the same day the prices paid 



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for No. 1 Dark Northern Spring wheat (60 lbs. 

 to bu. 75 per cent, dark, hard, vitreous kernels) 

 ranged from $1,371/4 to $1.50%. In other words, 

 on that day Winnipeg ^'anged from 4V4 cents 

 above to SV^ cents below Minneapolis on com- 

 parable grades of spring wheat. 



This difference is even more remarkable because 

 Canadian freight rates on wheat in Western Can- 

 ada are from seven to 10 cents less per bushel 

 than are rates for equal distances from Montana 

 points to Minneapolis. 



On the same day, while No. 1 Northern Spring 

 wheat was selling in Winnipeg for 1.4214, No. 1 

 Hard Winter wheat was selling in Kansas City at 

 from 1.301/i to 1.36 Vo— from 5% to 12 cents under 

 Winnipeg. 



At Chicago, No. 1 Red Winter commanded a 

 cash price of 1. 351/2, or 6% cents per bushel 

 under the Winnipeg price for No. 1 Northern 

 Spring. 



And yet United States wheat is protected (?) 

 by a 42 cent per bushel tariff. Will someone from 

 over the Alleghenies tell us how much of this 42 

 cents the American farmer is getting? 



1,000,000 Votes 



ONE million votes for the revenue amendment 

 to the Illinois constitution. This is the goal of 

 the allied organizations working toward the passage 

 of the new tax provision which will empower the 

 General Assembly to work out a fair equitable, 

 modern taxing system for the state. 



With the active support of the Illinois Federation 

 of Labor whose endorsement was secured at their 

 annual meeting held recently at Streator, little 

 doubt as to the outcome of the vote was held by those 

 back of the movement. 



For the amendment are the ILLINOIS AGRI- 

 CULTURAL ASSOCIATION, Illinois Association 

 of Real Estate Board, Illinois Farmers' Institute, 

 the Illinois Federation of Labor, Illinois Bankers' 

 Association, Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs, 

 Illinois League of Women Voters, Illinois State 

 Teachers' Federation, Prairie Farmer, the Illinois 

 Farmer, and most of the downstate newspapers. 



The Illinois Manufacturers Association oppose 

 the measure, and a referendum taken by the Illinois 

 Chamber of Commerce indicated a majority of the 

 members who voted on the proposal were opposed to 

 it. Nevertheless, we believe there will be thousands 

 of thinking business and professional men through- 

 out the state who will vote for the tax amendment, 

 for it is not a partisan measure. It is to the inter- 

 est of the home owner and business man in the 

 town and city just as much as it is to the interest 

 of the farmer to see that our antiquated tax laws 

 are revised and taxes are levied on an income pro- 

 ducing basis. 



The amendment must have a majority of votes 

 cast to make it effective. One million votes will do 

 it. 



Every man and woman of voting age will be 

 needed at the polls Nov. 2 to reach this goal. 



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Poor Judgment 



EORGE R. WICKER, director of business serv- 

 ice for the Illinois Agricultural Association 

 completed an interesting survey sometime ago based 

 on the audits of 65 farmers' elevators in Illinois. 



He compared the successful elevators with those 

 that were unsuccessful or insolvent and point by 

 point showed why some elevators were making 

 money while others failed. 



His survey was authoritative, distinctly different 

 from anything else published in recent years, and 

 its value was given due recognition in the farm and 

 city press throughout the state and nation. 



Wicker found that good management was essen- 

 tial to the success of an elevator. Hence, he aided 

 in the development of a plan whereby the more ef- 

 ficient managers would be given greater responsibil- 

 ity in supervising the business transactions of more 

 than one elevator. The plan was first proposed to 

 a group of elevatbrs in Iroquois county. 



At a meeting of the Illinois Farmers Grain Dealer 

 Managers Club at Dwight recently which presum- 

 ably was called by Lawrence Farlow, secretary of 

 Illinois Farmers' Grain Dealer Association, the 

 latter is reported to have attacked Wicker and 

 the I. A. A. in ungentlemanly language. The re- 

 port was circulated that Wicker was invited but 

 was afraid to appear at the meeting to defend his 

 position. As a ' matter of fact Wicker never re- 

 ceived an invitation to be present. The following 

 resolution was passed at this meeting! 



"We deplore and strongly condemn the activities 

 of the Illinois Agricvltural Association, tvho directly 

 and through their subsidiaries have seemingly made 

 a strong effort to inject themselves into the farmers' 

 elevator movement. . .' , 1 ''■ 



"We hereby ask the directors of our state asso- 

 ciation to pass resolutions setting forth the fact that 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association and its subsid- 

 iaries are in no manner connected ivith the Illinois 

 farmers elevator movement, have no right to talk 

 for it or to give out any statement concerning any 

 of its activities . . . ad finitum." 



The Illinois Agricultural Association is the farm- 

 ers' service organization of Illinois, with approxi- 

 mately 63,000 members. A large portion of its 

 members sell grain through farmers' elevators, and 

 in fact most of the stockholders and directors of the 

 550 farmers elevators are members of the I. A. A. 

 And yet farmers are told that their own organiza- 

 tion has nothing to say about the farmers' elevators. 

 Are we to assume from this that the elevator man- 

 agers' club assumes to dictate the policies of the 

 managers' employers? Farmers will not be dis- 

 posed to listen kindly to being told that they have 

 no right to discuss their own business. The man- 

 agers who endorsed these resolutions showed poor 

 judgment. FarmeVs, we believe, will reserve the 

 right to control their own businesses be they ele- 

 vators or otherwise. We will welcome letters ex- 

 pressing opinion on this point. 



Only four farm crpps are now on a level equal 

 to the level of wholesale prices of non-agricultural 

 products compared with pre-war. They are hogs, 

 ■wool, lamb9 and potatoes. « ^ ! . ' 



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