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^ILiIjINOIS 



COLTUBAL ASSOGIA 



RECORiy 



To advance the ■ rpurpose for which the Farm Bureau was or- 

 ganized namely, to promote, protect and represent the busiTtess. 

 economic, political and educational interest of the farmers of 

 Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 



Ge«rsr Tklem, E^dltor 

 John Tracy, Anatotant 



Piililif<)i«4l monthly hy th« Illinois Aerlcnitiiral ABXorlatlon at 165 So. Main 

 St., SpenctT. Ind. r.<litorlal Offlcea. 80S 8. Dearborn St., Chicago, III. Entered 

 aa a4<'OD<l claaa matter at post offlre. Spencer, Ind. Aeeeptance for matllnff at 

 •l<ectal rate of pnatage provided in .Section 412. Act of Feb. 28, 1925. anthorlxed 

 Oct. 27, .1925. Addreaa all commiinicallons for pnMtmtion to Editorial Offlcea, 

 ininois Agrieuitnrar Aaaoclatlon Record. 6€e So. Dearborn St., Chicago. Tba 

 iDfllTlduiil menibefahip fee of the Illinois Agricultural Aaaocintion ia five dnllara 

 a year. The fee' iDcludec payment of fifty c«nta for auhscriptlon to the Illinois 

 Agricultural Aasociaticn RF,(\>IiD. Postmaster: Send notices on Form MTS 

 and nnilt'liverable copies returned under Form 3,^7^ to editorial offlcea, 608 

 .South Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



OITICESS 



President. Earl C. Smith Detroit 



Vice-President. A. R. Wright .■ Varna 



Berretary, Geo. K. Metiger Chicago 



Treaaurer, R, A. Cowles Bloomtngten 



BOAKO OF DIRECT0H8 

 (By Congressional District) 



1st to lllh..-. B. Harris, Grayslake 



12th K. B. HouKblby, Sbabbolla 



Uth .' C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



Mtb Otto Steffey. Stronghiirst 



Utb M. Ray Ihrtg. Oolden 



leth Albert Hayis, Chllllcotbe 



17th E. D. Lawrence, Bloom'ngton 



18th Mont Fox. Oakwood 



19th Bngene Curtis. Champaign 



30th K. T. Smith, GreeaSeld 



21st Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



22nd A. O. Bckert, BeneTllle 



23rrl W. U Coiw. Salem 



24th J Charles Marshall. Belknap 



2Bth R. B. Endlcott, Villa Ridge 



DEPARTMENT SIBECT0R8 



(Tonipt roller J. H. Kelker 



Dairy Marketing .i. J. B. Coimtias 



Finance R. A. Cowlea 



Fruit and VegeUble Marketing ; H, W. Day 



Information George Tbiem 



Legal Donald Kirkpatrlck, Director: Paul B. Mathlaa. Aaanclate 



Lira Stock Marketing Ray E, Miller 



Offlco v^ C. E. Johnston 



Organization V, Vaniman 



Produce Marketing F. A. Oougler 



Taxation and *9tati>tlc« J. C. Wataon 



TrannporUtlon-Clalms Dlrlnion O. W. Baxter 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIOKS 



Country Mfe Insurance Co L. A. Williams. Mgr. 



Farmers' Mutual lielnsurance Co J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 



Illinois Agricultural Auditing Asa'n F. E. Riagham, Mgr. 



nilnoiB Agricultural Mulnal Insuraoc* Co A. E. Richardson. Mgr. 



Illinola Farm Supply Co L. B. Marchant, Mgr. 



Illinois Fruit Growers' Exchange..! H. W, Day, Mgr. 



IWDoia Grain Corp Harrlaon Fahrnkopf, Mgr, 



Illinois IjTestock Marketing Assn.'. Ray Miller, Mgr. 



nilBola Producers' Cresmerles F. A. Gonfler, J, B. Countlss, Sales 



Soybean Marketing Asa'n J. W. Armatraos, Pres. 



Newspaper Nonsense 



ATYPICAL example of the misinformation and nonsense 

 found in many large city newspapers is the following 

 quotation from a recent editorial in the Chicago Daily 

 News: — 



"It is doubtful whether the corn belt gained anything 



by the 1934 crop curtailment program. Certainly the 



farmers who spurned government contracts and went 



ahead with increased plantings were better off without 



AAA's so-called benefits. . . . The actual loss to the corn 



raisers through AAA curtailments is at least $100,000,000." 



The Daily News blindly assumes that the present price of 



com would be as high had there not been a reduction in 



acreage. Its wild estimate of $100,000,000 loss is based on 



that blind and erroneous assumption. It is quite true that 



the drouth sent corn and small grain prices much higher than 



they would have been with a normal crop. It is also true that 



there is more feed available per head of livestock today than 



there would., have been without a crop and livestock reduction 



progrram since contracted acres were used everywhere to grow 



hay and forage. 



Com and hog growers who didn't go along on crop curtail- 

 ment, hence received no benefit payments, might dispute the 



contention that they profited by their non-cooperation. Cer- 

 tainly they will if they happened te-^e in the drouth areas 

 which covered so much of the corn( belt. 



The fact is that 40 per cent less bushels of corn produced in 

 1934 have an increased value of 38lpen cent over and above 

 the 1933 crop, as pointed out by Mrr^arl Smith before the 

 recent A. F. B. F. convention. And the financial pages, if not 

 the editorial page, of the Daily News clearly reflect the result 

 of the substantial gain in corn belt farm buying power. 



The Fear of Change i 



^Z ■ -^ELIVERY of mail by this government to the doors 

 I B of the farmers will destroy the rural life of which 

 America is so proud," thundered old Matt Quay of 

 Pennsylvania. "The center of rural life is the country post 

 office, where farmers gather to meet each other when they 

 get the mail, and all that will be swept away by this socialistic 

 scheme." 



"It will cost the government at least $50,000,000 a year," 

 wailed Senator Stewart of Nevada, who was himself worth 

 twice that much. 



"This idea represents a dangerous innovation in govern- 

 ment," said Senator Wolcott of Colorado. 'The people don't 

 want this foisted upon them," orated Bob Pettigrew^ "It will 

 take away their ability to protect their local institution^ which 

 are the foundation of the republic." 



And so on for 40 pages in the Congressional Record of 1896. 

 In view of what was said against rural free deliverys-of mail 

 38 years ago, the objections against the Agricultural Adjust- 

 ment Act have a familiar ring. 



20 Years Old ! 



OUT OF its "teens" and into young manhood, the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association will step when it celebrates its 

 20th birthday at the coming annual meeting Jan. 30-31 

 at Quincy. An eventful 20 years it has been, full of strife, 

 struggle, and accomplishment. No other state farm organ- 

 ization in the country can approach us in paid-up membership. 

 Illinois with more than 60,000 members, 52,000 of which are 

 paid-up, is nearly twice the size of the next state Farm Bu- " 

 reau. New York, according to the secretary's report at the 

 A. F. B. F. convention. None, we believe, can point to a 

 broader program nor a better-balanced program of represen- 

 tation, educational, business, and money-saving services. 



Because Illinois farmers had the good sense back in 1919 

 to reorganize the Association with sufficient annual dues ($6) 

 to finance and carry out their plans, they are leading the 

 world today. Other states, thinking that a reduction of already 

 too low dues would solve their .membership problems, found 

 to their sorrow that they guessed wrong. Seductions in dues 

 invariably have been attended with reductions in membership. 

 Emphasis might well have been placed on greater service and 

 benefits to members, improvement in personnel and leadership. 

 Organized Illinois farmers face the next 20 years with confi- 

 dence, determined to profit by the mistakes of the past, en- 

 couraged by their successes, and ready to work out the many 

 great problems just ahead. 





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SINCE the corn belt voted overwhelmingly to retain pro- 

 duction control, and tlie cotton belt voted 9 to 1 on Dec. 

 14 to continue the Bankhead Act*, we have heard less 

 from the city press about "regimentation." Maybe the pub- 

 lishers and those for whom they speak will wake up some day 

 and learn that this is a farmers' program after all — not one 

 dictated from Washington but one earnestly requested of 

 Washington by citizens who l»new what was good for them 

 and the country as a whole. 



* Contiauanee of the Bankhead Act means that a tax will continue to bs 

 levied on the ginning of cotton in ezcoss of allotmeata to iadiridoal growers 

 made to meet probable market requirements. 



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