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The Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD 



December, 1926 



Sniith, Wright, Barton and Moody To Represent 



I. A. A. As Official Delegates at Annual Meeting 



of American Farm Bureau Federation Dec. 6-7-8, 



j Sorrells New Cfiairman 



THE re^lar meeting of the Ex- 

 ecutive Conunittee of the Illinois 

 Agricultural As- 

 sociation was held 

 in Chicago on 

 Nov. 5. All mem- 

 bers were present' 

 except R. K. 

 Loomis, 25th dis- 

 trict, and Charles 

 Borgelt, 20th dis- 

 trict. 



President Earl 

 C. gmith presid- 

 ed. Harrison 

 Fahrnkopf, presi- 

 dent, represented 

 the n4nois State Farm Advisers As- 

 sociat: on. 



Rep ort by Treasurer R. A. Cowles 

 as of Oct. 31 shows current assets 

 $23,6! 12.36, total accounts receiv- 

 able including $96,808.45 U. S. 

 Liberty Bonds, and $15,131.25 Fed- 

 .«!ral :^nd Bank bonds, of $187,- 

 T45.7' , and total assets of $292,- 

 553.61. 



Lia >ilities amount to $13,141.85, 

 and ai excess of assets over liabil- 

 ities of $279,411.78. Moved by 

 Moody, seconded by Bamborough 

 treasurer's report be placed on file. 

 Carried. 



Moved by Wright, seconded by 

 Bamborough that delegates be 

 elected to annual meeting of Amer- 

 ican Farm Bureau Federation. 

 Carried. Smith, Barton, Wright, 

 and Moody were elected as official 

 delegates. 



Finlcy Leaves 

 Moved by Finley, seconded by 

 Taylor that all members of the Ex- 

 ecutivie Committee be authorized to 

 attend A. F. B. F. meeting, expenses 

 to be paid by Association. Carried. 

 Moved by Barton, seconded by 

 TuUoik that Harrison Fahrnkopf, 

 presicent of Illinois Farm Advisers 

 Association be authorized to attend 

 A. F. B. F. meeting at expense of 

 I. A. A. Carried. 



Moired by Whisnand, seconded by 



Bamborough that the Committee 

 concur in President Smith's recom 

 mendation that Sam Sorrells be ap- 

 pointed as chairman of 

 committee to succeed Ch»s. R. Fin 

 ley who left to spend thi: winter in 

 California. Carried. 



Secretary Fox announ ;ed follow 

 ing schedules of meetingjs of advis- 

 ory committees: 



Financial Business Se^^ce, Nov, 

 17. 



Public Relations, Nov. 



Marketing, Nov. 23. 



Organization, Nov. 24 



Budget Committee, D<c. 1. 



Moved by Barton, seconded by 

 Marshall that next Execjitive Com 

 raittee meeting be held 

 Dec. 9. Carried. 



Question of contributihg $100 to 

 National Industrial Conference 

 Board for publications and material 

 released by them left to officers on 

 motion by Barton, secon( ed by Tul- 

 lock and carried. 



22. 



Thursday, 



To Indianapolit 



Seer ^tary 



seconded by 



Fox, 



r|epresent I. 



Commerce 



Nov. 15- 



Moved by Moody 

 Bamborough that 

 Whisnand and Barton 

 A. A. at Chamber of 

 Conference in Indiana; 

 16. Carried. 



Pres. Smith called i 

 St. Louis Conference on 

 Motion carried that ccjunty 

 bureau officials be urge 1 

 to attend. 



Secretary Fox read 

 olutions from eight counties 

 ing plans of Illinois 

 Mutual Insurance Comp4ny. 

 by Taylor, seconded by 

 Fox write each county 

 A. A. postion and 

 tions raised. 



Moved by Moody, 

 Sorrells that Swanson 

 auditors, be employed 

 nual audit of the 

 Illinois Agricultural 

 Carried. 



t) 

 b0( iki 



CkeA. MankaU 



24th District O K's 

 \^uto Insurance Plan 

 Shawneetown Meet 



Fa^ bureau members from the 

 countfes of Saline, White, Johnson, 

 and Gallatin 

 meeting on Nov. 

 15 at Shawnee- 

 town in the I. A. 

 A. 24th district 

 conference, went 

 on record urging 

 all members in 

 the district to co- 

 operate with the 

 Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Auto Insur- 

 ance Company in 

 securing the 

 membership re- 

 quire!] to establish the company. 



Charles Marshall, I. A. A. Com- 

 mitte>man from this district, called 

 the iieeting to order but Andrew 

 Turn !r presided as permanent 

 chair nan. 



Mi k marketing discussions which 

 prevailed esirly in the day revealed 

 that farmers in the adjoining coun- 

 ties I re not satisfied with price and 

 marketing conditions. A. D. 

 Lync 1, director of dairy marketing, 

 will >e asked to come in and make 

 an ir vestigation. In Johnson coun- 

 ty, 1 auling difficulties have arisen 

 and exorbitant charges are made 

 so tlat the net return per 100 lbs. 

 of milk is comparatively low. 



Lccal dairies in Harrisburg are 

 paying $2.60 per 100 lbs. it was re- 

 ported. 



A resolution endorsing the action 

 of the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion in trying to secure remunera- 

 tion for local farm buieaus that se- 

 cure business for the Producers was 

 passed. A campaign was urged to 



I 



apo! is 



tention to 



Sov. 16-17. 



farm 



by letter 



cojpies of res- 



regard- 



i^gricultural 



. Moved 



tullock that 



stating I. 



answiering ques- 



Route 3 over the lllinoii River at Bearditown wu submerged under 

 several feet of water when the flood reached its highest stage. Travel 

 over this route was stopped and the people of the city were forced to 

 go about in row boats to their occupations. Thr lower floor in the 

 Park Hotel was raised three times to keep it above the flofid waters. 

 Portions of the bottom lands were submerged under 20 to 25 feet of 

 water and around 140,000 acres are still under water. Only seven 

 drainage districts out of 21 that went out will be reclaimed according 

 to one local attorney. 



i nd 



seconded by 



Ogelvie 



make an- 



of the 



Association. 



Executive Committee 

 Broadcast Features 

 Program Over WLS 



A cross section of farm senti- 

 ment in Illinois under the caption 

 "What Farmers Are Thinking 

 About" was the featur; of the I. 

 A. A. half hour over r idio station 

 WLS on Thursday, Nov. 4, broad- 

 cast by members of he Illinois 

 Agricultural Association, Executive 

 Committee. 



Chas. Finley of Vcrmi lion county, 

 vice-president of the I, A. A. re- 

 lated some of his observ itions while 

 serving as an election judge in his 

 home precinct. 



Frank Barton gave 

 summary of crop, liv 

 farm conditions in 

 county. Chas. Marshall 

 county told his audience 

 em Illinois' farmers had 

 this year. Frank Oexner of Monroe 

 county dwelt on the gloiies.of sweet 

 clover the life-saver cro ) for South- 

 em Illinois. 



Sam Sorrells told what the Illi- 

 nois Farm Bureau Serira Associa- 

 tion had done for farm 

 members. Wm. Webb 

 county told his listener; how to se- 

 lect a good ear of se !d com for 

 the International, whure he has 

 judged for many ydars. Bert 

 Leeper, manager of the Illinois 

 Fruit Exchange answer !d questions 

 and talked interestingl r about the 

 1926 apple crop in Illinois. 



influence the people i f Southern 

 Illinois to use soft wheit flour, for 

 the sake of boosting th; ; soft wheat 

 industry throughout thp section of 

 the state. 



Farm Advisers Whitchurch, 

 Creighton. Simpson, ai|d Foote at- 

 tended the meeting. 



a general 

 istock, and 



Livingston 

 of Johnson 

 that South- 

 good crops 



bureau 

 of Will 



Rock Phosphate Pays 

 On G. F. Tullock Farm 



Forty bushels of wheat per acre 

 op a rock phosphated field in Win- 

 nebago county is 

 ^^k^^^^ the record made 

 j^Hm^^ season by G. 



W^ ^^H ^- Tullock, mem- 

 V ^^^H. ^^^ °^ ^^^ Execu- 

 / ^ ^^^^^ tive Committee of 

 ^ /^^^^V ^^^ Illinois Agri- 

 \J/^^^F cultural Associa' 

 >^^^^P^ tion. Sweet clover 

 fl^^^^^^ was sown with 

 ^^^^^^^^^1 the wheat as a 

 ^^Hi^^^^H catch crop. 

 ^^^^^^^^^^^ This particular 

 aF. TuUock field had been 

 used many years 

 as an experiment field by the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois. 



On all the plots where rock phos- 

 phate and limestone had been ap- 

 plied during the time the state was 

 operating the field, there was a 

 growth of 14 to 16 inches of sweet 

 clover, while on tKe border strips 

 and check plots the sweet clover 

 was short and hardly reached above 

 the stubble. 



These results were obtained fol- 

 lowing a lapse of at least five years 

 since any applications other than 

 barnyard manure were made. Tul- 

 lock says that this is the most strik- 

 ing illustration of the lasting ef- 

 fects of limestone and rock phos 

 phate he has ever seen. 



Gas Tax and Income 

 Tax with Exemptions 



(Continued from coL 3, page 1.) 

 exemptions to remove the possibil- 

 ities of any further burden from 

 the farm and home owner, will be 

 recommended to the executive com- 

 mittee for adoption. Such a law 

 it was pointed out would bring in- 

 come from intangibles, also other 

 large incomes into the taxing sys- 

 tem, so that a portion of the tax 

 load might be lifted from real 

 estate. 



It was recommended that the mat- 

 ter of improving and perhaps liber- 

 alizing the amendment clause of 

 the state Constitution be considered 

 by the joint committee represent- 

 ing the different organizations sup- 

 porting the tax amendment. 



Likewise the establishment of a 

 joint commission made up of repre- 

 sentatives of the General Assembly 

 and the larger state organizations 

 to investigate the working of the 

 present tax system and of the tax 

 systems of other states, was recom- 

 mended. The committee contem- 

 plates a continuous campaign to 

 show the necessity of amending the 

 revenue article to the constitution. 



"I appreciate the prompt and 

 valuable service you gave me in se- 

 curing payment overcharge on 

 freight on phosphate amounting to 

 $16.07," writes Fred W. Wasman of 

 McLean County. ,. 



Eastern Policy of 



Exploiting Farmer 



(Continued from col. 4, page 1.) 



to labor would mean that the 

 American wag© 

 scales should be 

 brought down to 

 foreign levels; it 

 is precisely equi- 

 valent to a de- 

 mand for foreign 

 price levels in the 

 United States, 

 but only upon 

 products of the 

 farm. 



Such a policy 

 prefers an export _ , 



market for manu- ^'»« ^- ^^^ 

 facturers, made possible by sacrific- 

 ing agriculture, to an improved 

 domestic -market made more pro- 

 sperous by the extension of the 

 American protective system to in- 

 clude the farmers. 



The Hoover-Mellon doctrine is 

 dangerous. Its vicious effect on 



agriculture needs no further demonstration. 

 But it is equally unwise and short<fiiKht«d 

 as a policy for our industry and commerce. 



The buying i>ower of the farm population 

 of America is incalculably more important 

 to our manufacturers as a whole even in- 

 cluding those who manufacture for sale 

 abroad than an export market. The nation's 

 economic position in the world does not re- 

 quire or even sanction stimulated industrial 

 exports. 



This is true of the nation as a whole. 

 For the mid-west, west and south the case 

 is even more overwhelming. Their direct 

 interest in industrial export trade is infini- 

 tesimal : their interest in agriculture's buy- 

 ins power is everythiner. There are some 

 manufacturers in these districts who exi>ort 

 some of their floods ; but give them the 

 choice between their export sales and a 

 sustained home market built on agricultural 

 prosperity, and they could not hesitate for a 

 moment. 



The 1923 census of manufacturers placed 

 the total value of all manufactured goods 

 that year at $60.556.000.000 ; the Department 

 of Commerce reports the value of the mana- 

 factured exports as 12,625,000,000. Only 

 four and three-tenths per cent of our manu- 

 factures exported — and yet our policy-makers 

 gloat over that 4.8 per cent as if it were 

 of more consequence in our economic welfare 

 than the prosperity of thirty DiiUion Amer- 

 ican farm consumers. 



Exports From Farm 



In considering the im|>ortance of our ex- 

 ports it must be remembered that between 

 40 and 50 per cent of them come from the 

 farm. In 1926 farm products and their 

 manufactures accounted for 47 per cent of 

 the total exports. Of the non-agricuIturaJ 

 extwrts, the foUowing commodities lead ir 

 order — mineral oils, automobiles and parts, 

 machinery, copper and manufactures, iron 

 and steel, coal and coke, lumber and agri- 

 cultural machinery. None of the scattering 

 remainder in the classification reaches 2 per 

 cent of the total. Of those enumerated, how 

 many are there in the United States and in 

 the midwest, west and south particularly, to 

 whom an industrial export market is of more, 

 importance than a sustained farm market 

 based on farm prosperity here at home? 



Let Mr. Hoover and Mr. Mellon answer. 



Mellon and Hoover are regarded as tb« 

 spokesmen for the policy -makers of the 

 present administration. Hoover is the 

 administration's agricultural adviser. Jar- 

 dine is hardly in a position to oppose him. 



Backing Up 



The Department of Commerce policy to 

 expand industrial exports is too generally 

 known to require elaboration here. Two or 

 three years ago Mr. Hoover held and on oc- 

 casion publicly suggested that the American 

 farmers ought to get out of the export ma^^ 

 Msumably in order to make room for 



Farmers Give Aid 



To Flood Victims 



County farm bureaus throughout 

 the state swung into action follow- 

 ing a special appeal made jointly by 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association 

 and the American Red Cross for aid 

 to the flood sufferers in the Illinois 

 River Valley recently. 



Following a conference at Beards- 

 town on Nov. 19 between county 

 farm bureau, Red Cross, and R. A. 

 Cowles of the I. A. A, a definite 

 plan of action was outlined for 

 bringing the needs of these people 

 to the attention of farm and city 

 people throughout the state. 



The following telegram was sent 

 to county executive officers by Sec- 

 retary Geo. A. Fox on Nov. 23: 



"A grave situation faces our 

 farmers in the lower Illinois River 

 Valley who have suffered ruinous 

 flood losses. Around 2500 families 

 are in need. Hundreds of our 

 neighbors in that section lost all 

 their crops, some livestock, and 

 many their homes and personal be- 

 longings. The Red Cross now dis- 

 closes that at least $\0j},000 more is 

 needed to care for tfiese people. 

 This deplorable situation is a chal- 

 lenge to us and demands that we act 

 at once. We urge that you use 

 your organization and recommend 

 a farm to farm canvass for help. 

 The Red Cross is working hard in 

 the towns and cities but we must 

 take charge in the country. May 

 this cause have your active support. 

 Contributions should be turned over 

 to your local Red Cross chapter." 



the manufacturers — and reduce their produc- 

 tion to the needs of the domestic market. 

 It is reported that more recently he has 

 backed up on that opinion or at least will 

 not sanction its publication as coming from 

 him. 



Congressman Fort of New Jersey, a form- 

 er associate of Mr. Hoover, was Hoover's 

 spokesman in the House of the 69th Con- 

 gress. The two speeches he delivered against 

 the Haugen bill were currently understood 

 in Washington to have been prepared in the 

 Department of Commerce. 



Mr. Fort said. May 4th, 1926 <Cong. 

 Record) : 



"Our labor in America is going to buy 

 bread on a basb at least 47 cents a bushel 

 higher for wheat than British labor and 

 German labor and French and Canadian 

 labor. We are going to cheapen the cost 

 of production of foreign-made articles by 

 selling foodstuffs cheaper to foreign labor 

 than we sell them to our own." • • • * 



"You are going to make it cheaper for 

 the foreign competitor «f American labor 

 to live, but you are going to make it cost 

 more for the American bborer to live, and. 

 therefore, the cost of production to the 

 American manufacturer must go up, while 

 the foreign cost goes down, and his world 

 market is lost." ' 



Senator Fess of Ohio was generally re- 

 garded as the administration's agricultural 

 spokesman in the Senate. In a speech in 

 the Senate on June 9, 1926, he said: 



"Mr. President, I do not propose to vote 

 for any measure that will feed at a lower 

 cost the producer of competitive articles 

 that come in com[>et4tion with American 

 production." 



The same note was struck by Mr. Mellon 

 in his official letter of June 14, 1926, in 

 which he said: 



"Foreign consumers • • • under the pro- 

 posed plan will secure American commodi- 

 ties at prices below . the American level. 

 European labor could purchase American 

 products at a- lower price and could live' 

 more cheaply than American labor. Foreign 

 industrial costs wou}d be lowered and the 

 foreign competitor assisted in underselling 

 American products abroad and in our home 

 market." 



It has been repeatedly pointed out that 

 these men stand for Uie industrialization 

 of America at the expense of agriculture. 



Limitations to Exports 



In our international i>osition, the volume 

 of export business which we can maintain 

 is limited by : 



<a) Our ownership of half of the world's 

 gold supply. 



(b) foreign government's debts to us. 



(c) our increasing capital investments 

 abroad. 



(d) our tariff policy of restricting im- 

 ports. 



Under such strict limitations, anything 

 which expands our industrial exports, makes 

 it increasingly difficult to market our farm 

 surpluses abroad. Our farm surpluses are 

 the results of past and continuing govern- 

 ment policies. The farm business cannot 

 expand and contract its output, or regulate 

 its production, in the way industry can. 



A. S. Anderson Was elected presi- 

 dent, R. L. Fox vice-president and 

 Edward Lindholm, secretary-treas- 

 urer of the Ford County Farm Bu- 

 reau for the coming year. 



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