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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Seven 



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"TT WAS a pleasure to listen to your 

 A radio talk on the I. A. A. farm 

 program from Station WJJD, Chicago, 

 recently," wrote L. W. Solsmon of the 

 Haddon Township Farm Bureau Ship- 

 ping Association in southern Indiana, 

 to C. G. Randell of the Bureau of Agri- 

 cultural Economics, Washing^ton, who 

 spoke a short time ago on the I. A. A. 

 program. 



"At this shipping point the motor 

 truck is making inroads on the Ship- 

 ping Association," continued Solsmon, 

 "with probably no more returned for 

 the livestock marketed." 



If you want the livestock markets 

 direct from the Chicago Producers 

 tune in on WJJD, Mooseheart, daily at 

 12:30 p. m. The I. A. A. radio pro- 

 gram begins with a review of the Chi- 

 cago market. Each Friday a represen- 

 tative of the Producers' reviews the 

 market for the .week and gives the out- 

 look for the future. Latest economic 

 information, farm news, and talks on 

 the business interests of farmers fea- 

 ture the daily program. 



Station WJJD operates on a low 

 wave length, 254 meters, using 20,000 

 watts by authority of the Federal 

 Radio Commission. Interference with 

 other stations has been reported from 

 some localities but this is being cleared 

 up as rapidly as possible. Good day- 

 light reception is reported from Wash- 

 ington, D. C, according to C. A. 

 Howell, director of the station. 



Station WLS has offered to broad- 

 cast the I. A. A. annual meeting at 

 Danville Jan. 30-31, if "necessary ar- 

 rangements can be made for securing 

 a private wire. 



Reorganize for Profit 



MARKED reorganization of farm 

 production plans and the adjust- 

 ment of the marketing system to 

 chang^ing economic conditions during 

 the past year are reported by Nils A. 

 Olsen, chief of the Bureau of Agricul- 

 tural Economics. 



"Many sections have reorganized 

 their farm activities on a more profit- 

 able basis," declared Mr. Olsen. "State 

 and local agricultural workers have 

 joined in in assisting farmers to find 

 the most profitable combination of farm 

 enterprsies under varying conditions." 



The St. Clair County Farm Bureau 

 reports total assets of $13,114.40. A 

 nest egg of $7,500 has been put away 

 in real estate mortgage notes. Net 

 worth on Nov. 7, 1928, was $13,109.40. 



CHRIS L. CHRISTENSEN 



CHRIS L. CHRISTENSEN, director of tha 

 Division ol Co-operative Marketing, will 

 address the marketing conference at the com- 

 ing annual meeting of the I. A. A., Danville, 

 January 30-31, 1929. Professor Christensen 

 was reared on a farm near Minden, Nebraska, 

 graduated from the State University, and 

 later did graduate work in economics, nuir- 

 keting, and business administration at the 

 University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and also 

 at Harvard University of Cambridge, Mass. 



Stands By Policies i 



(Continued from page 5) i j 

 ments for marketing not only the sur- 

 plus but all portions of our farm 

 crops, and containing definite checks 

 and penalties upon over-production. 

 This legislation must be of a nature 

 which does not subsidize agriculture. 

 "It is recognized generally that sur- 

 plus control legislation and agricul- 

 tural tariffs are companion measures, 

 each exerting a long-time influence. 

 Emergency action upon either meas- 

 ure is not sought by us since a na- 

 tional policy for ag^riculture cannot 

 be founded on emergency treatments. 

 These measures are inseparable and 

 cannot be made major features of the 

 second session of the 70th congress 

 since time is not available in a short 

 session of congress adequately to cor- 

 relate and dispose of these subjects 

 in the proper manner. Both such 

 major legislative projects should be 

 considered at an extra session of the 

 71st congress. In this we are given 

 assurance by the promise of our 

 President-Elect who said: 'So far as 

 my own abilities may be of service, I 

 dedicate them to help secure pros- 

 perity and contentment in that indus- 

 try where I and my forefathers were 



born and nearly all my family still 

 obtain their livelihood.' 



"We devotedly are seeking to solve 

 these problems as a basis ui>on which 

 our national ag:ricultural policy may • • 

 be founded. While we have been 

 nothing up to this time which would 

 cause us to recede from our former 

 position, we are willing to compare 

 legislation which has received our 

 support in the past with that pro- 

 posed by any other organization. We 

 are also willing to consider these sub- 

 jects with the forthcoming national 

 administration from time to time to 

 find, if possible, a better way than 

 we have heretofore supported, of ef- 

 fectuating adequate control of agri- 

 cultural surpluses, of protecting apd 

 advancing cooperative commodity mar- 

 keting, ai)d of establishing on our 

 farms the benefits of the American 

 Protective System, all of which secures 

 that American standard of living which 

 agriculture and industry alikje desire. 



Tariff ' 



"The cries of the last 10 years have 

 brought all citizens to realize that 

 agriculture in our nation is facing 

 conditions similar to those which 

 existed in England when the Corn 

 Laws were repealed, since which time 

 farmers in that country have striven 

 against insurmountable odds. Tariffs 

 are international issues and have for 

 farmers in the United States con- 

 stantly increasing world-wide signifi- 

 cance. International loans by a 

 creditor nation such as ours has come 

 to be contain no promise of benefit 

 to agriculture. 



"Rates of duty on foreign-grown 

 farm commodities which seek mar- 

 kets in our country must be adequate 

 to permit our farmers to enjoy that 

 profit which guarantees the American 

 standard of living. Various com- 

 modities which are directly or indi- 

 rectly competitive with our domestic 

 farm crops should carry high rates of 

 duty. The rates of duty should be , 

 based on the value of farm crops to 

 the American producers thereof and 

 should be of such nature that as the 

 value increases the rate of duty auto- 

 matically will increase. 



"It is indispensably necessary that 

 flexibility be provided in tariff rates 

 no matter how accurately such rates 

 may be estimated in the writing of a 

 tariff act. Economic conditions 

 change, which require an elasticity 

 which will permit corresponding 

 changes in the rates of duty. There 

 must be continuously in the federal 

 government a tariff commission un- 

 der the administration of which this 

 elasticity can be secured. This com- 

 mission should be non-partisan and 

 the members thereof should be ap- 

 pointed for such a term of years as 

 will give continuity in the carrying 

 out of the polici'js of our tariff laws 

 and will secure eventually scientific 

 and economic revision of tariff rates 

 rather than revision of a political na- 

 ture which has been up to the pres- 

 ent time too much in evidence." 



