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To advance the purpose for tohich the Farm Bureau was or- 

 ganized namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, 

 economic, political and editcational interests of the farmers of 

 lUinois and the nation, and to develop agrictUture. 



Georse Thl«nb EMMor 

 J*hB TravTi Aaslataat 



Published montblr b; tbe Illinois Acrlcoltural Aaaociatlon at 185 80. Mala 

 St.. Spcnrer, Ind. Editorial Otticn, 608 8. Dearborn Bt., CMcaso. III. Batand 

 aa aecond cUaa matter at post office, Spencer, iDd. Acceptance for matllnc at 

 •iwclal rale of poatace prorided In Section 412. Act of Feb. 28, 1925, antborlied 

 Oct. 27, 1925. Addrees all commnnlcationi for pnbllratloa to Editorial (XBcea, 

 . lUljMla Acrtenltoral AasocUtion Brcord, WW 80, Deaitora St., Cklcag*. Tin 

 ladlTldDal memberalilp fee of ibe IlUnola Agrlcnltnral Aaaoclation la five dollaia 

 a 7«ar. Tk* f«« laelndaa pajment of fifty cenu (or ■nbaertptlon to tbe llllnola 

 Aciicaltnral Aaeoclation RECORD. Poatmaater: Bead notices on Form 85T8 

 and oDdf'Urerable copies retamed under IHorm 8579 to editorial offices. 006 

 SoQtb Dearborn Street, Cbtcago. 



OFriCESS 



Picildent, Earl C. Smith Detroit 



Vlc*-Preeident. Tahnage DeFreea. Smitbboro 



•aaclarr, Oeo. E. Metxcar Ckl««(* 



Treaaorer, B. A. Cowles Irtawlaitaa 



BOAHO or SntSCTOKB 

 (By Congressional Olatrlct) 



Ist to lltb B. Barria, amyilaks 



121k B. E. Hougbtby, Bhabboaa 



Ulk C. E. Bamborougb, Polo 



MIk Otto Steffey, Strongbnrat 



IMk M. Bay Ihrlc. Oolden 



Ulk AlbMl Hayea, Chlllleotbe 



Iftk B. D. LAwroBce, BloomHigton 



IMk Mont Fbz, Oakwood 



IMk Bncano Cortla, Champaign 



SMk K. T. Smith, Orsemfleld 



Sat Samael Senella, Raymond 



atad A. O, Bckert, BeUerllle 



2Snl Chester MclVjrd, Newton 



Mtk Charles Marshall. Belknap 



36th B. B. Endlcott, Tllla Ridge 



SEFAXTIOBirr SimzCTOBS 



Comptroller J. H. Kelker 



Dairy Markatlng J. B. Cenatlas 



FiiMBCs R. A. Cowlca 



Pmit and Tasstabla Marketing H. W. Day 



laformatioB Oeorge Tbiem 



I>egal Donald Klrkpatrlck, Dltector; Paul E. Mathlas. Aaaoclate 



Utc Stock Marketing Ray B. Miller 



OIBee C. B. Johnston 



Organisation T. Vaaiman 



Produce Marketing I*. ▲, Googler 



TazatloB and Statistics J. C. Wataon 



TraoaportationCIalma Dirtalon O. W. Baxter 



AflaoaiATIIW OXSAVBAXIOaS 



Country Life Inaurance Co L. A. Williams, Mgr. 



Farmers' Mutual Beinsnrsnc* Co J. B. Kslker, Mgr. 



Illinois Agrlcnitaral Auditing Aas'n F. B. Blagham, Mgr. 



Iltlnois Agricultural Mutual laaurance Co A« B. Richardaon, Mgr. 



Illinois Farm Supply Co L. R. Marchaat, Mgr. 



Illinois Fruit Growers' Bzchaage H. W. Day, Mgr. 



Illinois Orsia Corp Bairlaoa Fabmkopf, Mgr. 



lUlnoia UTestock Marketing Aaa'a Bay Miller, Mgr. 



llUnoie Producers' Creameries. .. .F. A. Gougler. Mgr., J. B. Conntlss, Sales 

 Soybean Marketing Aaa'n J. W. Armatrong, Pres. 



Why Unemployment? 



BETWEEN 1929 and 1984, the national income 

 declined by approximately 50 per cent ; but build- 

 ing costs in which wage rates are an important 

 item declined only 12 per cent, the New York Times 

 comments editorially. "This is one of the outstanding 

 disparities in the whole record of the depression. But 

 as yet no frontal attack has been made on the jwob- 

 lem of bringing current building costs into line with 

 current income." 



Industrial Chemistry And Agriculture 



THE industrial chemist and the inventor have been 

 responsible frequently for changing the course 

 and economic status of agriculture as well as 

 other industries. 



The development and improvement of rayon dealt 

 a heavy blow to the silk industry of Japan and has 

 made sharp inroads on outlets for raw cotton. Agri- 

 cultural poverty in Japan and decline of its rural 

 population are closely linked with the waning use of 

 silk. , Corn-belt farmers are aware of the tremendous 

 influ*nce of gasoline, kerosene and the gas engine, on 



the horse and mule population with the consequent 

 decline in the market for the products of isome 20 

 million acres of land. 



Thinking farmers are demanding that chemists be 

 put to work developing new n(Hi-food uses for farm 

 products. The recent mass meeting at Bloomington 

 to crystallize sentiment for a program to convert com 

 into alcohol for a gas<^ine motor fuel blend illustrates 

 the widespread interest in the movement. 



Iowa State College has shown much interest in 

 helping agriculture in this field. Dr. Leo M. Chris- 

 tensen's experiments on alcohol-gasoline blends 

 proved them to be a superior motor fuel. Dr. H, A. 

 Webber of the same institution recently announced 

 that the lowly com cob is a potential source of oxalic 

 acid, between six and eight million pounds of which 

 are used annually in the United States in chemical 

 processes. 



Certainly much more will be accomplished by con- 

 centrating on the task of discovering more profitable 

 uses for farm products, than by leaving the matter 

 to chance. New industries have been built and mil- 

 lions of people put to work as a result of simple inven- 

 tions and discoveries. 



Farmers have a direct interest in fostering research 

 designed to broaden outlets for their products. The 

 Illinois Agricultural Association is keenly aware of 

 its obligation and opportunity in this direction. Its 

 influence is being used to promote more intense chem- 

 ical research and investigation into the uses of farm 

 products to make possible full capacity production at 

 profitable prices. 



Rural Library Service 



ONE of the needs of agriculture awaiting the re- 

 turn of general prosperity is a modem, rural 

 library service. 'Farmers have more time to 

 read, particularly in the winter, than do city 

 people, yet good books and reference libraries are 

 much less accessible to them. Much can and should 

 be accomplished toward publishing good books in in- 

 expensive form as has been done in certain European 

 countries. Yet it isn't possible for each family to 

 have a complete library of its own. Taxpayers can 

 own a good library co-operatively, however, and any 

 reasonable plan to provide this kind of service for . 

 farmers will meet with a favorable response when the 

 more pressing economic problems of agriculture are 

 met and solved. 



'I 

 Stock Buyers Profits 



LIVESTOCK growers who still like to match wits 

 with local stock buyers have been coming out at 

 the short end of the trade recently according to 

 reports from the country. Cattle buyers representing 

 packers, and speculators, have been taking advantage 

 of the day to day uptum in livestock prices to feather 

 their nests at the expense of unsuspecting producers. 

 C. G. Randell of the Livestock and Wool Division, 

 Farm Credit Administration, is authority for the 

 statement that one local buyer boasted of netting the 

 price of a new Ford car on each carload of cattle pur- 

 chased one week. With farmer-owned Producer Uve- 

 stock commission agencies on practically every im- 

 portant terminal market in charge of skilled sales- 

 men who know values, there is small reason for losing 

 the profits in a year's work through a poor sale. Co- 

 operative selling is the only system that can be relied 

 upon to net the farmer the most for his produce in 

 the long run. 



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