THE I. A, A. RECORD 



Page Nine 



Farm Board News 



V The Coarse Grain Advisory Com- 

 modity Committee of the Federal Farm 

 Board was scheduled to meet in Wash- 

 ington on November 17. 



The members of the committee were 

 selected by the grain co-operatives on 

 invitation of the Farm Board. The 

 members are as follows: S. J. Cotting- 

 ton, president of the National Farmers' 

 Co-Operative Elevator Assn., Stanhope, 

 Iowa; Sam H. Thompson, president of 

 the American Farm Bureau Federation, 

 Quincy, III.; L. J. Taber, master of the 

 National Grange, Columbus, Ohio; C. 

 E. Huff, president of the National 

 Farmers' Educational and Co-Operative 

 Union, Chicago, 111.; Wayland Magee, 

 president of the Crop Improvers' As- 

 sociation of Nebraska, Bennington, 

 Neb.; George S. Milnor, vice-president 

 and general manager of the Farmers' 

 National Grain Corporation, Chicago, 

 111.; and James Murray, vice-president 

 of the Quaker Oats Company, Chicago, 

 111. 



THE Federal Farm Board does not 

 intend to loan its funds in support 

 of a lot of different organizations with- 

 in an industry to fight each other over 

 differences of opinion about what the 

 national co-operative set-up should be. 

 Chairman Alexander Legge stated in a 

 letter to Secretary J. H. Mercer of the 

 Kansas Live Stock Association on Oc- 

 tober 25. 



Old line commission men and their 

 supporters at Kansas City are fighting 

 the board because some government 

 money has been loaned the National 

 Live Stock Marketing Association to 

 develop a comprehensive co-operative 

 sales plan for live stock producers. 



The Federal Farm Board is taking 

 steps to extend to Porto Rico the bene- 

 fits of the Agricultural Marketing Act. 



"It seems to me that the average live 

 stock man in Kansas would sooner see 

 the cows die hungr}' than co-operate 

 with anybody," Chairman Alexander 

 Legge said in a recent letter to the 

 Chairman of the Kansas Emergency 

 Relief Committee. 



"As I explained at considerable length 

 to Governor Reed when he was here," 

 said Mr. Legge, "the machinery is all 

 set up whereby these people can get 

 assistance through the national live 

 stock organization, and get it promptly, 

 by merely affiliating with that organi- 

 zation. My judgment is that if they 

 ever do affiliate with the organization 

 they will never want to leave it, but 

 the membership contracts of these co- 

 operatives all provide for a member to 



drop out at stated periods if the ser- 

 vice is not satisfactory. 



"You state you would be glad to 

 pass on loans for us, but what we are 

 most interested in is some responsible 

 organization that would see to it they 

 are collected." 



The Federal Farm Board in its 14 

 months of experience has found four 

 fundamentals clear in its task of solv- 

 ing farm problems, C. C. Teague said 

 recently speaking to farmers at Cornell 

 University. 



"These fundamentals," he said, "are: 



1. That all problems of agriculture 

 will never be solved by legislation; 



2. That stabilization corjjorations to 

 deal in surpluses are only warran- 

 ted in cases of emergency and 

 must be approached with the ut- 

 most care or more harm than good 

 may be done; 



3. That the law of supply and de- 

 mand cannot be lightly set aside; 



4. That the greatest assistance to 

 agriculture that can come from 

 federal and state aid is the grad- 

 ual development of a system of 

 grower-owned and controlled co- 

 operative marketing." 



He said the development of co-opera- 

 tion cannot be accomplished without 

 some interference with existing agen- 

 cies, but he expressed the hope that the 

 necessary readjustment "may be brought 

 about with as much consideration for 

 existing agencies and investments as 

 possible." 



The question now confronting the 

 Federal Farm Board is how far the 

 farmers will support the board in at- 

 tempts to control production, said Dr. 

 F. B. Bomberger, assistant chief of the 

 board's division of co-operative mar- 

 keting, recently. 



"A grudging, qualified acceptance by 

 slightly over half of the growers, with 

 a positive argumentative refusal by the 

 remainder, indicates a degree of unwill- 

 ingness on the part of the growers of 

 that region to listen to counsels of 

 safety and conservation," he said in 

 commenting upon the advice of Mr. 

 Hyde and Mr. Legge to the wheat 

 growers to cut acreage. 



State legislation to penalize "business 

 bribery" was recently advocated by the 

 chairman of the Federal Trade Com- 

 mission, Garland S. Ferguson, Jr. 



"Commercial bribery" in order to in- 

 fluence sales, he said, is fraudulent and 

 immoral. The practice comes within 

 the definition of unfair methods of 

 competition, is characterized by deceit 

 and fraud, and is against public policy. 



Do You Knoip^ That— 



It's a good time to economize by 

 wise spending. i 



The per capita consumption of milk 

 in the United States in 1917 was 8 36 

 pounds and in 1927 it was 1,0)2 pounds. 



A noticeable decrease in the buying 

 of shoes is depressing leather produc- 

 tion and prices. People are wearing 

 their shoes longer this year, y \ •' ' 



Hard times don't affect tobacco con-.- 

 sumption. The total revenue coUec- ■ 

 tions on tobacco for the first nine: 

 months of 1930 were higher than for 

 the same period in 1929. i 



A shortage of water has cut the 

 hatch of ducks and geese and other wild 

 fowls 50 per cent this year, compared 

 with last, according to the U. S. bio- 

 logical survey. 



During the past 10 years the num- 

 ber of farms in the United States de- 

 creased 150,466. Consolidation and 

 abandonment were the principal, reasons 

 for the decrease. •■/'(.' 



The rapid increase in the popularity 

 of miniature golf has resulted in the 

 use of 1,500,000 yards of cotton tex- 

 tile fabrics on the various midget links 

 throughout the country. 



A "chain store" tax of $50 a year 

 on all stores under the same ownership,* 

 operation and management, excluding 

 one, was declared constitutional in an 

 opinion handed down recently by the 

 North Carolina Supreme Court. 



Vigorous campaigns for the adoption 

 of the Drivers' License Law will be 

 conducted in 28 states, including Illi- 

 nois, during the fall and early spring 

 months. Twelve states already have 

 such laws and in nine of these where 

 official records are available there have 

 been 29 per cent fewer fatalities. 



Farmers' troubles cannot be blamed 

 on prohibition, according to Col. Amos 

 Woodcock, prohibition enforcement : 

 chief. 



Less than 1 per cent of the wheat and 

 oats crop and only slightly more than 

 1 per cent of the corn crop was used .;. 

 by brewers and distillers prior to the ■.■-. 

 passage of the 18 th Amendment. About .,; 

 7/4 per cent of the rye crop went into ~ 

 the production of liquors. Barley and ■■ . 

 malt showed the greatest average. In 

 the years 1915 and 1916 distillers and 

 brewers used 32 per cent of the annual '-. 



malt crop. 



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