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Foreign Trade 



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who are being actively and heavily 

 backed by their governments. Unless our 

 foreign trade interests receive similar 

 backing and assistance from our Govern- 

 ment they will be unable to compete 

 effectively or on equal terms in the mar- 

 kets of the world. 



In the second place, in order to develop 

 consistent and effective foreign trade 

 policies, the present independent juris- 

 dictions over foreign trade activities in 

 owr Governmental set-up should be tied 

 together and. should function under uni- 

 fied direction. 



Third, accurate and up-to-date records 

 of our commercial and financial relations 

 with each individual country must be 

 kept. 



Some of you may think that this is 

 just another recommendation for a bu- ' 

 reaucratic or academic survey involving 

 more expense for the burdened taxpayer 

 to meet. In point of fact, if the job is 

 properly done^ it will make it possible 

 at least to eliminate some of the over- 

 lapping services working with diverse 

 kinds and sets of information and diverse 

 or conflicting points of view. We must 

 know how we stand on our trade and in- 

 ternational balances at any given time if 

 we are to steer our course intelligently. 



Must Increa.se Imports 



Fourth, keeping in mind that interna- 

 tional trade cannot move on a one-way 

 street and that we must increase im- 

 ports if we are to be paid for increased 

 exports, I think that we should pursue 

 a policy of selective exports and imports. 

 We should send abroad preferably in 

 manufactured form, those products we 

 can best produce, particularly those ag- 

 ricultural products which are the back- 

 bone of our foreign trade and our do- 

 mestic prosperity. We should take in 

 return those raw materials which we 

 need and such other products the impor- 

 tation of which will do the least violence 

 to our domestic economy. 



It may be argued that this means more 

 government" interference with business, 

 more regulation. That may be so, but I 

 am not alarmed at that. Under existing 

 world conditions it is my firm belief that 

 with some government assistance and 

 direction in the field of our foreign trade 

 and finance the need for regimentation 

 in our internal affairs may be eliminated 

 largely and a long step taken toward 

 national recovery. 



linois at the International 



The Ljvingrston County Farm Bureau 



reports 2200 people at its greatest annual 

 meeting in Pontiac, Dec. 18. The Hoosier 

 Hotshots of WLS provided entertainment. 

 A box lunch was served. O. D. Brissenden 

 spoke.- — ' -.-- - 



By Wm. E. Ogilvle 



Illinois stoclcmen led the list of blue 



ribbon winnings among the scores of 



states and provinces represented at the 



■35th International Live Stock Exposition, 



Chicago the first week of December. 



Ninety-four Illinois purebred breeders 

 had entries in the competitions for 24 

 different breeds, and several hundred 

 more sent carlots of cattle, sheep, and 

 swine to the commercial live stock com- 

 petitions that were displayed in open 

 pens. 



Computing first prize and champion- 

 ship awards by states at the close of 

 the Exposition, it was found that Illinois 

 breeders had won a total of 114 blue 

 ribbons and 39 championships — first 

 among the states and provinces in first 

 prizes won and second in number of 

 championships, Iowa, leading in cham- 

 pionships with 46. 



Illinois farm youngsters were the larg- 

 est exhibitors in the Junior Live Stock 

 Feeding Contest in which 268 boys and 

 girls between the ages of ten and 

 twenty exhibited baby-beeves of their 

 own feeding and fitting. They came 

 from eleven states this year. Of this 

 number 125 youths were from Illinois. 



The champion steer of the junior con- 

 test was exhibited by 12-year-old Mary 

 Kinsinger, of Chenoa, Illinois. It was a 

 purebred Aberdeen-Angus.. At the Junior 

 Feeding Contest auction sale, held on 



Friday, December 7. Mary's calf sold for 

 the highest price in the history of this 

 sale, being purchased for 62 cejits a 

 pound by the Palmer Hou.se, Chicago. 



The Reserve champion steer of the 

 junior show was another Illinois Angus 

 calf, shown by Wendell Morgan, of 

 Aledo. Other blue ribbon winners were 

 Jane Britton, exhibitor of the first prize 

 Hereford in the light weight division; 

 Joseph Peverly, of Decatur, showing the 

 top of the Aberdeen-Angus light weight 

 class; John D. Irwin, Pleasant Plains, 

 whose entry headed the line of Herefor^J 

 middle weights, and Shirley Colclasut"e, 

 of Aledo, winner of first in the middle 

 weight Aberdeen-Angus competition, as 

 well as the reserve championship in_ the 

 open class carcass show. 



Mercer county, Illinois, won the prize 

 for best county group of three calves; 

 and Illinois was victorious in the contest 

 for best state group of ten animals in 

 the junior show. 



W. D. Koble7 of Xt. Sterlinc v^on aervral eha»- 

 pionahipi in the carcftAs c1««Be« An hit pitr*br«4 

 Anrua entries. Justly proud of bis winniB^s b* 

 cslled Prei. Earl Smith at the I. A. A, of fie* «• 

 tell him the cood news. — £dit«r. 



Samuel Sorrells, president of the Illi- 

 nois Livestock Marketing Ass'n. and 1. 

 A. A. director from the 21st district, is 

 spending the holidays with friends 

 around Houston and Brownsville, Texas. 



HEBE IS VARY KINSINOEB OF LrVINGSTON COUNTT, ILL.. AXV EEB CHAMPION ANOTTB CAliT 



that won the Junior Feeding Contest at the 19S4 International LiTostock Exposition. Mr. Steehbart mi 

 the Palmer Bouse. Chicafo (standinr hack of calf) bonfht the baby beef, weichinc IIM lbs., fer Ut a 

 pound. Carey Jones, well known auctioneer (riftat center) donated his services. The ;prioe Is a ••« 

 reoerd for the annual calf club sale. -,'; ''- 



JAT^TUA^Y. Treat' 



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