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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



I L Ij I N OI S 



CCLTVIAL ASSOCIA 



RECORO 



To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau warn organized^ 

 namely to promote^ protect and repretent the buMinete, economic^ 

 political, and educational interemte of the farmere of IllinoiM and the 

 ' nation, €uid to develop agricalture. i 



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Published once a month >t 404 North wlesley Ave., Mount Morris, 

 Illinois, by the Illinois Agricultural Association. Entered as second- 

 class matter October 20, 1925, at the poJt office at Mount Morris. 

 Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Accepted for mailing at 

 special rate of postage provided for in Section 412, Act of February 

 28, 1925, authorized October 27, 1925. Tjhe individual membership 

 fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is five dollars a year. The 

 fee includes payment of fifty cents for subbcription to the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association Record. Postmaster: In returning an un- 

 called for or missent copy please indicate Key number on address as 

 U required by law. 



OFFICERS 



President, Earl C. Snflth 



Vice-President, Frank D. Barton 



Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger 



Treasurer, R. A. Cowles ;. 



Detroit 



Cornell 



Chicago 



..Bloomington 



EXECtmVE COMMITTTEE 

 (By Cqngressional District) 



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C. Vial, Downers Grove 



..G. F. Tullock, Rockford 



..C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



.M, G. Lambert, Ferris 



N. Skinner, Yates City 



A. R. Wright, Vema 



..Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut 



R. F. Karr, Iroquois 



C. J. Gross, Atwood 



..Charles S Black, Jacksonville 



Samuel Sorre!ls, Raymond 



, X.Frank Oexner, Waterloo 



.W. L. Cope, Salem 



Mth. _ \ Charles Marshall, Belknap 



2Sth [. Fred Dietz, De Soto 



DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS 



Comptroller „ 1 



Dairy Marketing L.... 



Limestone-Phosphate 



Fimuice 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing 



Grain Marketing 



Information 



, Insurance Service 



I Legal Counsel 



' Live Stock Marketing 



Office 



Organization 



Produce Marketing. 



' Taxation and Statistics.. 



j Transportation 



J. H. Kelker 



A. D. Lynch 



J. R. Bent 



R. A. Cowle* 



A, B. Leeper 



Harrison Fahrnkopf 



George Thiem 



V. Vaniman 



Donald Kirkpatrick 



Ray E. Miller 



C. tl. Johnston 



C. E. Metzger 



F. A. Gougler 



J. C. Watson 



L. J. Quasey 



I SUBSIDIARY ORGANIZATIONS 



CmiBtry Life Insurance Co a. L. A. Williams, Mgr. 



niinois Agricultural Co-operatives Ass'n ] F. E. Ringham, Mgr. 



i Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co ..A. E. Richardson, Mgr. 



[Illinois Farm Supply Co [ L. R. Marchant, Mgr. 



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What Agriculture Wants 



! A SUMMARY of the things for which organized agriculture is 

 i earnestly striving was clearly outlined in a short vigorous radio 



jadditss by Secretary George E. Metzger recently. 



I "First, agriculture wants a fair price for the product produced," he 

 jsaid. "By a fair price we mean one that will cover the cost of pro- 

 jduction plus a reasonable profit. 



I "Secondly, agriculture wants a marketing system — farmer owned and 

 Ifarmer controlled that will enable the growei through his own repre- 

 ^ntative to sell his product in the terminal Tiarkets as manufacturers 

 bf other commodities already are doing. Agriculture wants a marketing 

 ' System chat will assist in the orderly distribt tion of agricultural pro- 

 iducts throughout the markets of the world, the withholding of surplus 

 products until such time as the demand will cake them at a fair price. 

 , "Thirdly, agriculture wants equality with industry and labor. It 

 demands some assistance at the hands of government that will enable 

 Jthe farmer to benefit from tbe protective system just as industry and 

 " labor profit by it today. Agriculture can not Icontinue to market crops 

 of which we produce a surplus at world price" 

 highly protected markets. 



: "Fourth, agriculture wants to cease buying 

 telling at wholesale. No busifiess can long piosper under that system. 



; "Fifth, agriculture wants a fair and equita 

 ^11 not levy an unjust shar? of the cost of 

 inan who tills the soil. 



and buy her supplies in 

 everything at retail and 



"Sixth, agriculture wants an adequate standard of living on the farm 

 and an income from the farm that will pay the bill. 



"Is agriculture willing to pay the price? Those wants and desires 

 cost something. First, if agriculture is to obtain them it must market 

 its products in a big way. Federal legislation recently obtained, en- 

 courages the farmer in this movement. That means that a lot of local 

 pride now held by farmers in their small assembling units must be put 

 down and those units merged into large, effective, well financed dis- 

 tributing agencies. 



"Secondly, the rank and file of farmen mu»t become organization 

 minded. They must realize that individually they can not solve their 

 big problems. General farm organizations must be maintained to con- 

 tinue to do research and promotional work. 



"Thirdly, farmers and their wives must begin to support candidates 

 in the state and national legislatures who stand four square for an 

 agricultural program, regardless of party affiliation. These three prin- 

 ciples, I believe, are the principal factors in the price that farmers must 

 pay before agriculture will get what it desires." J 



ble taxing system which 

 government against the 



THIS MACHINE AGE 



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Courtesy Farm Journal. 



The day of hand labor is drawing to a close; better wheel coal and 

 let the big boy do the digging. 



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 Dividing The National Income 



TT^VERY time a law is passed, says George Bernard Shaw, the national 

 ^-^ income is redivided. 



The Interstate Commerce Commission is one of our law-making 

 bodies. Its laws have to do mostly with transportation rates. Its 

 decisions either take away some of the income of the utility and give 

 it to the shipper, or else take it away from the shipper and give a 

 greater portion to the carrier. 



This important body held a hearing down in \8^ashington recently. 

 It will decide soon whether or not the corn belt livestock farmer must 

 pay more to the railroad for moving his stock to market. 



Special counsel for the I. A. A. — the Farm Bureau — appeared before 

 the commissioners and argued against an increase in rates. The rail- 

 roads' lawyers were there to argue in favor of a substantial increase. 



It was an argument over the distribution of the national income. It 

 illustrates why farmers need a strong organization to represent them. 

 Millions of dollars were involved. Every livestock farmer who ships to 

 market has considerably more money at stake in thij case than his annual 

 Farm Bureau dues. 



Your organization for years has been at Springfield and Washington 

 fighting for you. Next time your neighbor who dropped out says, "It 

 never done me any good," review some of the cases such as this one in 

 which the organization saved him more than he would have paid into 

 it had he been a member. , 





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