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CCL .TURAL ASS 



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THE I. A. 



RECORD 



To advance the purpose for which the farm 

 namely to promote, protect and represent 

 eocialand educational interest m of the farmer » of 

 tutd to develop agriculture. 



t ureau was organized, 



buaineat, economic, 



lllinoit and the nation. 



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Published once a month at 404 North Wesley Ave 

 by the IllinoiB Agricultural Asaociation. Edited by D(i 

 E. G. Thiem, Director, 608 South Dearborn Street. C 

 as seoond-claas matter October 20, 1925, at the post 

 Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance ~ 

 poetage provided for in Section 412, Act of Februkry 

 October 27, 1925. The individual membership fee of 

 Association is five dollars a year. The fee includes pe 

 subscription to the Illinois Agricultural Association 

 In returning an uncalled for or missent copy, please 

 address as is required by law. 



Mount Morris, Illinois, 



artment of Information, 



icago, Illinois. Entered 



office at Mount Morris, 



mailing at 8p>ecial rate of 



28, 1925, authorized 



the Illinois Agricultural 



payment of fifty cents for 



Record. Postmaster: 



indicate key number on 



OFFICERS 



President, Earl C. Smith 



Vice-President, Frank D. Barton 



Treasurer, R. A. Cowles 



Secretary, Geo. A- Fox , 



1st to 11th. 



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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEK 

 (By Congressional EKstrict^) 

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DIRECTC«S OF DEPARTMENTS 



Business Service 



Dairy Marketing 



Farm Supply 



Finance 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing 



General Office 



Information 



Insurance 



Legal Counsel 



Live Stock Marketing 



Organization 



Promotional Service 



Poultry and Egg Marketing 



Taxation and Statistics 



Transportation 



Detroit 



Cornell 



. Bloomington 

 Sycamore 



C. Vial, Downers Grove 

 . F. TuUock, Rockford 

 , E. Bamborough, Polo 

 H. Moody, Port Byron 

 VI. Skinner, Yates City 

 A. R. Wright, Varna 

 Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut 

 , . .R. F. Karr, Iroquois 

 Whisnand, Charleston 

 Charles Borgelt, Havana 

 Sorrells, Raymond 

 ^rank Oexner, Waterloo 

 W. L. Cope, Salem 

 Marshall, Belknap 

 Fred Dietz, De Soto 



Samuel 



Chi irles i 



Geo. R. Wicker 



, A. D. Lynch 



• J. R. Bent 



i . . R. A. Cowles 



A. B. Leeper 



J. H. Kelker 



E. G. Thiem 



J. P. Gibson 



. Donald Kirkpatrick 



Ray E. Miller 



G. E. Metzger 



V. Vaniman 



F. A. Gougler 



J. C. Watson 



L. J. Quasey 



The Attacker's Advantage 



IN ANY dispute or argument tiinging upon a 

 constructive piece of legislation or program 

 the critic or opponent always ha} the proponent 

 on the hip. If he is a clever liar, he can raise 

 more false issues and befuddle t le minds of the 

 credulous public so completely ;hat the propo- 

 nent on the defensive is always 



Smoke screens are no less effeistive in a battle 

 of words and ideals than they ar » in actual war- 

 fare. False bogies become rea 

 reader. They only fall to the ground under the 

 thoughtful scrutiny of the careful observer. 



Producer's Agreement 



FOR the past year an 

 pending between the I. A 

 stock Producers' Association at 

 Indianapolis, and E. St. Louis, 

 provides for a statewide field 

 ment to be administered by a 

 committee consisting of one r 

 from the four agencies, one 

 Producers' Commission Associa 

 the I. A. A., and one from the 

 Bureau Federation. This 

 been accepted by all interestec 



Signed 



agreement has been 



and the Live- 



(phicago, Peoria, 



The agreement 



service arrange- 



.I'oint field service 



epresentative each 



from the National 



ion, two from 



American Farm 



agreerpent has finally 



parties. An- 



nouncement of the details of the new plan will 

 be made in the near future. 



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The Raid Is On 11 



THE expected raid on the tax payers, predicted when 

 Mayor Thompson's eighty-seven revenue bills were 

 cast into the legislative hopper, has already become real. 

 The county clerks were the first on the scene at Spring- 

 field last week putting in their bid for more taxing power. 

 They showed up en masse to amend Senate bill 518 so 

 as to increase the maximum tax rate for general county 

 purposes sixty per cent. IS 



They would do this very innocently and unobtrusively, 

 but cleverly. S. B. 446 provides that assessments here- 

 after shall be based on full valuations instead of half 

 thereof as at present. To leave tax rates the same would 

 double all taxes, so Mayor Thompson had eighty-six other 

 bills drawn up each of which cuts the maximum tax rate 

 fifty per cent in one or another taxing district in Illinois. 



The result of all this is to keep taxes where they are 

 but to double any district's bonding power. At present, 

 the limit of bonding power in a district is five per cent of 

 the assessed valuations. By doubling the assessed valua- 

 tions, the effect is the same as increasing the bonding 

 .power to 10 per cent. That's so Chicago can continue 

 its orgy of spending unhampered by legal restraints. 



Farmers don't object to Chicago doubling its bonded 

 debt but they are against allowing their own counties and 

 communities to do likewise. 



The county clerks want to reduce the maximum tax 

 rate for county purposes from fifty to only forty per cent 

 instead of to twenty-five as provided in S. B. 518. It 

 looks like an innocent enough proposal, but it may saddle 

 sixty per cent more taxes on the farm and home owners. 

 This is only one of many more raids to follow. i S 



The only thing to do is to beat the increased bonding 

 bill and its retinue of eighty-six dependent allies. That's 

 what will happen in the House next week if each member 

 tells his representative how he stands on these measures. 



Can and Can't 



THE amusing statement presented below which has 

 been going the rounds among the county farm bureau 

 papers in Illinois is indicative of the farmers' reaction to 

 the diversification argument, as outlined in the Coolidge 

 veto message on the McNary-Haugen bill: 



"Diversification is the hope of agriculture, according to the 



'farmer' from Vermont. We are in the midst of one of the best 



diversified agricultural regions in the nation, yet we are also in the 



midst of the region of agricultural depression. 



"What is the farmer here to do? 1 • ^ 



"He shouldn't raise more corn, nor ]. •' 



"He shouldn't raise more oats, and v? 



"He can't raise much more wheat or hay, nor ' ?^ 



"He can't raise many more chickens, sheep, cattle, or hogs, with 



out making them unprofitable. 



"He can't raise another loan because he already has a mortgage 



growing on the ground, and can't cut it. 



"He can't raise more children, because he's already supporting 



twenty-seven per cent of the population on only nine or ten per cent 



of the national income. 



"He CAN raise hell with the administration, and that's what he 



will raise if he isn't accorded the same rights as others." 



Disregarding the political reference, the statement 

 pithily reveals the fallacy of trying to solve a national 

 problem by such a shallow and trite recommendation. 

 Which is more dangerous to our national welfare and 

 security, a crop shortage or a surplus? Then again, who 

 is to cut acreage? Who can say how much of any crop 

 farmers shall produce to insure them a reasonable profit? 

 Who is qualified to tell how many acres are required to 

 grow a given number of bushels without accurate long dis- 

 tance weather forecasts? 



These are some of the questions the diversification and 

 reduced acreage theorists must answer satisfactorily be- 

 fore farmers will abandon their own solution for the sur- 

 plus problem. 



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