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TUNE in on WLS every Wednesday 

 night at 6:30 P. M. and hear the 

 weekly I. A. A. FORUM. C. V. Greg- 

 ory, editor of Prairie Farmer, will 

 speak on the night of Wednesday, 

 March 20, on the subject "What 

 Farmers Can Learn From Big Busi- 

 ness." 



Our daily 15-minute program from 

 Station WJJD, Mooseheart, comes 

 during the noon hour at 12:30 p. m. 

 Hear the livestock market as seen by 

 the Chicago Producers, and valuable 

 talks on Important topics of the day. 



Address all communications to De- 

 partment of Information, Illinois 

 Agricultural Association, 608 So. 

 Dearborn St., Chicago. 



Editorials 



(Continued from page 4) 

 building of a state-wide system of 

 highways, only the boundary lines of 

 Illinois should be considered and sec- 

 ond, that any division of county funds 

 among the several counties of the 

 State should be made only on the basis 

 of amounts paid in by the motor ve- 

 hicle owners of the counties. 



WTHOUT exception, many mem- 

 bers of the general assembly 

 have stated to representatives of the 

 Association that they believe our posi- 

 tion was fair and equitable and would 

 improve the bill under consideration, 

 but at the same time hesitating to sup- 

 port these changes, expressing the 

 fear that opening the bill to any 

 amendments might endanger its final 

 passage. Amendments of all sorts and 

 descriptions have been offered from 

 various sources which give some color 

 and support to such expressions as 

 have been made. 



4 T THE time of going to press, the 

 jHL gasoline tax measure in practi- 

 cally its original form, has passed the 

 senate with the prospect of extended 

 debate and consideration before pas- 

 sage in the house. 



The Association has been repre- 

 sented continually throughout the ses- 

 sion thus far by President Smith, Vice- 

 President Barton, Treasurer Cowles, 

 General Counsel Kirkpatrick and its 

 director of taxation and statistics, 

 John Watson. They shall continue to 

 be in attendance to the full extent 

 J necessary to see that the legislature 

 fully understands the Association's 

 program and its merit. ... 



The Farmer and the Gas Tax 



GOVERNOR EMMERSON's gasoline 

 tax bill, from all indications, will 

 become a law within the next week. To 

 date it has withstood the barrage of 

 attacks upon it, and now it is advanced 

 to third reading without a material 

 change being made in its original draft. 

 The bill provides a tax of three cents 

 on each g^allon of gasoline sold. Two 

 cents of this money will go to the state 

 but it still appears doubtful just when 

 and how the other one cent will be re- 

 turned to the county from which it was 

 collected. 



McLean county's share of this tax 

 will be about $100,000 annually, it is 

 estimated. This money may be spent 

 only on state aid roads, and with the 

 approval of the state highway depart- 

 ment, if interpretations of the bill are 

 correct. Viewing this in the light of 

 present specifications and the demon- 

 strated policy of the highway depart- 

 ment, it means that the annual mileage 

 would be almost negligible. Thus, not 

 only the side roads that lead past most 

 of the farms, but many of the principal 

 county highways as well, would go 

 begging for improvement for many 

 years, except for the help of strictly 

 county or township levies or bond is- 

 sues. With greater discretion as to 

 type and location given the county au- 

 thorities, even though supervised to 

 some extent by the state, a more prac- 

 tical and equitable distribution of im- 

 provements would result. 



A secondary road system is wanted 

 and sadly needed. It has been clearly 

 demonstrated that such roads are prac- 

 tical at a cost per mile representing 

 only a fraction of that which under 

 present provisions would be required 

 by the state. Mileage is needed, not 

 luxurious quality. The large majority 

 of farmers now mired hub-deep in mud 

 and thereby prevented from bring:ing 

 their crops to market under favorable 

 conditions, cannot afford to wait sev- 

 eral years for the completion of an ex- 

 pensive highway system. 



The farmer does not need, nor care 

 to pay heavily for a few miles of con- 

 crete or gravel roads built to 15-D 

 specifications, that he cannot use. But 

 he does need sufficient roads that can be 

 used in all seasons. 



The legislature would do well to con- 

 sider that in putting a three-cent tax 

 upon gasoline it should appropriate this 

 money to help the farmer as well as 

 the urbanite. — Bloomington Panta- 

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Tlie Gasoline Tax 



BEFORE the legislature now as tihe 

 matter of supreme importance is 

 the question of a gasoline tax. 



Both houses of the assembly have re- 

 ported the bill favorably — this in the 

 committee rooms, however. Now comes 

 the best test of strength — on the floor. 



There have been many substitutions 

 offered for Gov. Louis L. Emmerson's 

 three-cent gasolthe tax. The larger 

 cities of the state are strongly protest- 

 ing the administration's tax. 



Gov. Emmerson proposed a three-cent 

 tax — two cents for the state and one 

 cent for the county. This is the cause 

 for all the howl. 



Since then, there have been a num- 

 ber of others proposed. One by Earl C. 

 Smith, president of the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association, would have the 

 tax evenly divided with the county to 

 develop the system of secondary roads. 



To our minds, this is the best plan 

 yet proposed. No state can ever hope 

 for prosperity, especially in the middle 

 west, unless its rural section is consid- 

 ered. The even split with the county 

 would develop this secondary system 

 and would greatly better marketing con- 

 ditions. — Paris (111.) Gazette. 



Pure Milk Association 



(Continued from page 3) 



foothold and a voice in the market 

 which they supply, to a powerfully 

 welded and representative organization 

 embracing the great bulk of the whole 

 milk shippers in northern Indiana, 

 northern Illinois, and southern Wiscon- 

 sin. The association now finds its 

 chief problem is to limit its member- 

 ship to those producers most strategi- 

 cally located to supply the Chicago 

 whole milk market. It is the popular 

 thing throughout the great milk shed 

 to join the Pure Milk Association; and 

 the organization is faced with the diffi- 

 culty of safeguarding the market for 

 those whose milk is needed. 



Eyes en Market 



Widespread publicity growing out of 

 the strike focused the eyes of dairymen 

 all over the middle west on the Chicago 

 market. Membership in Indiana alone 

 has grown from a few hundred to ap- 

 proximately 3,000 within a few weeks. 

 Dairymen from remote sections like 

 Greene and Rock counties, Wisconsin, 

 and Stephenson county, Illinois, have 

 joined the association. For convenience 

 the milk district has been zoned. 

 Dairymen within a radius of 70 miles 

 from Chicago have been placed in zone 

 one, from 70 to 80 miles, zone two, 

 from 80 to 90, zone three, and from 90 

 to 100, zone four. 



Applications for membership, accord- 

 ing to President McQueen, are still 

 coming in at the rate of 400 and 500 

 every day. I. W. Heaps, manager of 

 the milk producers' organization at 

 Baltimore assisted in the establishment 

 of an up-to-date record system in the 

 Association office. 



The Accomplishments 



While the decision of the arbitrator. 

 Dr. Clyde King of Philadelphia, disap- 

 pointed some members of the Associa- 

 tion, officials point to the accomplish- 

 ments resulting from the settlement, as 

 follows : 



1. The dealers recognize the Associ- 

 ation and agree to deal with it as 

 the recognized agency of the milk 

 producers. 



2. A price of $2.64 per 100 lbs. for 



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