THE I. A. A. RECORD 



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Up to Farmer, Legge 



Tells New York Folks 



Ought to Heed Advice About 

 Production from Washing- 

 ton, He Says 



((T) F.RMAPS tlic soiiiulcst .ui\ ice w c 

 ■L c.'.n give to agricultiiic is con- 

 tained in the one word, 'Oig.ini/e'," 

 decl.iied Alexander Lej;i;e, eli.iirnian of 

 tlie I eiler.il I ,irm Board, before tlic 

 New 'i'ork State larm Bureau ledera- 

 tion meeting at the \e\v ')'ori< State 

 I air, S\ racuse, on September 2. 



"rr()perl\- orj;ani/ed«. I cannot sec 

 nn\- reason \\li>' ai;riculture miglu not 

 ;'() even farther 

 t h a n intlustrw" 

 said Mr. 1 egj^e, 

 "inasmueli as most 

 ot \our products 

 ue consumed every 

 day a n d several 

 times a d.\y and 

 t h e consumption 

 must be fairly con- 

 tinuous if \ve are 

 to live. 



Alexander Legse "T^i 



•^ I he greatest 



difncult\' we have to contend with," he 

 continued, "is that in some mysterious 

 wav, through legislative action or oth- 

 erwise, the handicap under which agri- 

 culture is surtering, will be removed, 

 and the position of the farmer made 

 secure without any action on his part. 

 M\' friends, this is not even a good 

 dream. It is currently believed that 

 dreams sometimes come true, but liiis 

 one never will." 



Farmer Doesn't Get It 



He called attention to the intorma- 

 tion being collected continuously b\ 

 the government regarding agricultural 

 production and markets. "One trou- 

 ble has been in the past," he said, "that 

 the information apparently has not got- 

 ten through to the man interested and 

 that is the farmer producing the com- 

 modity. Earnest efforts are being made 

 to revise and condense this vast fund 

 of information and put it in such shape 

 that the producer can readily under- 

 stand just how it applies to his par- 

 ticular problem." 



.Mr. Legge stated that the Federal 

 Farm Board has extended aid to 17 

 different classes of agricultural prod- 

 ucts already. He pointed out that 

 the more strongly organized groups 

 naturally secure the first benefits. "Wc 

 cannot loan to an individual farmer, or 

 to a merchant or a banker," he said. 

 "Loans are restricted to co-operative 

 organizations, producer-owned and pro- 

 ducer-controlled." He asked New York 

 farmers if they were not neglecting 



to organize and advertise tlieir apple 

 crop. "As a boy back on the farm in 

 a far western state," he said, ' w lien we 

 were able lo get a barrel of New ^'ork 

 apples for Ciiristmas it was a real oc- 

 c.ision. F.verybody regarded them a^ 

 the finest quality produced am where. 

 Aren't \ ou people in the F'mpire Stat, 

 rather nej;lecting this commodil\, aiiil 

 il M), wh\ ? 



Need Better Organization 



"^'our land values arc not high as 

 compared to other sections of the couii- 

 tr>' where this crop is raised e\tensi\e- 

 1\'. Large consumiiig markets are clo^e 

 at iiand mu\ certainly no one can pro- 

 duce a better quality of product. With 

 a good strong marketing organization 

 to insure the producer getting his full 

 percentage of the consumer's dollar, it 

 is m\ notion that this industry migiit 

 be safelv developed to considerabK lar- 

 ger proportions tlian at present." 



He called attention to the fact that 

 during the past 30 years the medium- 

 sized, or smaller than average crop in- 

 variabh' made the greatest financial re- 

 turn. 



Principles Sound 



"I rom our experience of the pa^t 

 few months the Farm Board confident - 

 1\ believes that the principles of the 

 Agricultural NLirketing Act not onl\ 

 are sound but offer the best approach 

 to dealing with the farm problem." 

 Fejjge continued. "Various suggestions 

 have been made of changing the law. 

 Such action, in our opinion, would be 

 a serious mistake. It may be that great- 

 er experience will demonstrate the need 

 tor amendment, but that time ha>. nt)t 

 arrived. 



"Agriculture cannot be made pro>.- 

 perous b\' legislation. That will come 

 (.nly when the producers operate tlieir 

 industry on a sound basis. Success of 

 the program that is being developed 

 iMider that law will depend largely on 

 the willingness of farmers to take ad- 

 vantage of the opportunity before 

 them." 



Speaks to Grange 



On the following da\, September .V 

 Mr. Legge gave a similar talk before 

 the New York State Grange meeting 

 at the New York State Fair. He stated 

 that the Farm Board had advised re- 

 duction in acreage only in wheat and 

 cotton, calling to the attention of cer- 

 tain other growers the danger of ex- 

 panding production in other crops. 



Referring to the Agricultural Mar- 

 keting Act, he said: "The success of 

 the program is not going to depend so 

 much on what the Board does, but on 

 the willingness of farmers to act col- 

 lectivelv." 



^OUK C^ouiiiy Farm Bureau leam^ 

 are on the last lap of the race for 

 the Illinois I .irm Btueau baseball cham 

 pioiiship. As we go l») press word 

 comes that Sangamon county, one o1 

 the leading conienilers 9or the slate 

 championship, was def cited in a 11- 

 inning game at Springfield on Septem- 

 ber (^. I o.; in cuuiU) wlas the victor. 

 Details of the game arc' lacking. A 

 brief report states that Sangamon 

 slammed out \9 hits while Logan was 

 getting IS. but the latter came out at 

 the long eml of the 111 to 9 score. 

 Three-I league umpires rtfficiated. 



C .'.iroll county tinned! the tables on 

 I aSalle at the Carroll count\ picnic 

 iie.ir Lanark the same dj\ . The score 

 was 9 to S. I aSalle won the first game 

 pla\ed at Ottaw a the week before. The 

 next game w ill decide which te.im shall 

 go on in the r.ice. .McDonough county 

 will plav either I.aSalle or Carroll in 

 the semi-final pla\-ofT, and the winner 

 of that series will plav Logan in the 

 final battle of the year. 



Hard Fought Series 



Tile Sangamon-Logan series was one 

 of the hardest-fought matches of the 

 •season. After being deJeated for the 

 first time this year by Logan, Sangamon 

 came back in the second game at Chat- 

 ham, August 26, and won 6 to 5. 

 Logan county had the bifst of the argu- 

 ment in this game and led b\ two runs 

 until the ninth when Sangamon 

 bunched enough hits to drive three 

 markers across the home plate. In the 

 last game Langley, Sangamon county 

 pitcher, struck out eight men and 

 walked five. The Logan county hurl- 

 ers, Quiscnberry and Hanahan, struck 

 out six men and walked two. 



One of the 'surprises in the semi-final 

 play-off was LaSalle county's victory- 

 over the strong Carroll county nine at 

 Ottawa on August 2S. 



LaSalle count)' won 7 to 5, althougli 

 Carroll got nine hits to LaSalle's eight. 

 A feature of the game was the triple 

 play in the ninth which ended Carroll 

 county's threat to win, Carroll had 

 men on first and third when I{. Sturte- 

 vant hit to Kirkhus, the LaSalle county 

 second baseman. Kirkhus threw the 

 ball to first to retire the batter, the 

 first baseman shot the ball to the catch- 

 er to get Ganger, who was stealing 

 home, and the catcher hurled the ball 

 to the third baseman to catch the basi.- 

 runner there to end the v:ame. 



