dreas, and the domestic allotment and 

 processing tax but a variation of _ the 

 McNary-Haugen principle? 



"In resolutions adopted at the annual 

 convention of the Grain and Feed Dealers 

 National Ass'n. at Memphis we have con- 

 demned the "Ever Constant Granary" 

 and its related theories and have adopted 

 the theory that the cure for the farmers' 

 ills lies in the recovery of our foreign 



markets. • * • 



"Do we, thereby, pin our faith to the 

 current plans for reciprocal tariff agree- 

 ments and ^ pipiia tinpg that we, as a 

 creditor nation will lower our tariff bar- 

 riers and permit our foreign debtors to 

 send us their products in sufficient vol- 

 ume to pay their debts to us and to ex- 

 change for our agricultural products, or 

 have we by this action, recanted our posi- 

 tion on the McNary-Haugen Bill and are 

 we now prepared to endorse the domestic 

 allotment idea as an improvement on the 

 earlier plan? 



"Always in Opposition. — Every time 

 we have gone to Washington in recent 

 years to oppose some proposed plan for 

 farm relief (and we have always grone 

 there to oppose and never to endorse) we 

 have been asked — What is your plan? I 

 now ask you that same question. What 

 ■ is our plan ? Have we anything to offer 

 that is an improvement upon the do- 

 mestic allotment plan ? . . . . 



"From the Viewpoint of Practical Poli- 

 tics and Our Own Self-interest let us 

 consider these questions. We are middle- 

 men thriving on volume, starving on 

 scarcity. If the Government artificially, 

 by means of its crop reduction or control 

 program, or if in the absence of any gov- 

 ernment plan our theory of the operation 

 of the law of supply and demand should 

 become effective and domestic production 

 b^ adjusted to domestic needs, we perish 

 . fsom lack of volume. Should we not, 

 therefore, abandon our time-honored pol- 

 icy of objection and opposition to all 

 plans for farm relief? 



"Should We not Accept the Olive 

 Branch extended us by this Administra- 

 tion and cooperate with them in making 

 affective a plan which, while it may be 

 anathema to us in theory, may in prac- 

 tice keep our present marketing system 

 functioning with sufficient volume of 

 trade to keep us all in business? 



"Should we not, in view of our theory 

 of export markets, cease our opposition 

 to administrative efforts to move our 

 surplus abroad at prices lower than do- 

 mestic values? 



"Should we not abandon our attacks on 

 the processing tax »nd should we not 

 abandon the theory that the law of sup- 

 ply and demand, operating throngh the 

 price factor, is the only sound method of 

 controlling production? 



"Should we not, instead, get out and 

 boost for a trial of any plan, acceptable 



Corn-Hog Signup On 



In Full Swing In Sfafe 



With the 1935 corn-hog signup in full 

 swing throughout Illinois early estimates 

 of farm advisers interviewed at Bloora- 

 ing:ton during the state livestock meet- 

 ing on Feb. 23 indicate a signup approxi- 

 mately equivalent to that of last year. 

 With the 1935 crop and prices next fall 

 uncertain quantities, farmers are im- 

 pressed, first, by the need for keeping 

 production under control, and secondly, 

 by the crop insurance feature of the 

 plan. 



Benefit payments will be made regard- 

 less of the size of the crop or price the 

 1935 crop brings. Moreover the 1935 corn 

 loan program will be available only to 

 contract signers. The possibility of a 

 higher than market price stabilization 

 loan on corn next fall should prices drop 

 sharply, is not being overlooked. 



A. G. Black, chief of the AAA corn- 

 hog program, recently reaffirmed the 

 understanding that land held out of pro- 

 duction may be planted without limit to 

 any other crop than corn, but not to corn 

 for use as fodder or other forage pur- 

 poses. 



Appoint Advisory Committees 



The following advisory committee ap- 

 pointments for the year 1935 were made 

 by President Earl C. Smith and an- 

 nounced at the February meeting of the 

 board of directors: 



Finance Committee 



Talmage DeFrees, Smithboro; E. Har- 

 ris, Grayslake; Albert Hayes, Chillicothe. 



Organization-Information Committee 



E. D. Lawrence, Bleomington; Otto 

 Steffey, Stronghurst; M. Ray Ihrig, Gol- 

 den; W. F. Coolidge (Farm Adviser), 

 Carlinville. 



Marketing Committee 



Samuel Sorrells, Raymond; Mont Fox, 

 Oakwood; Eugene Curtis, Champaign;. A. 

 O. Eckert, Belleville; I. E. Parett (Farm 

 Adviser), Jacksonville. 



Business Service Committee 



C. E. Bamborough, Polo; Chas. Mar- 

 shall, Belknap; Chester McCord, Newton; 

 Dee Small (Farm Adviser), Marion. 



Public Relations Committee 



R. B. Endicott, Villa Ridge; E. E. 

 Houghtby, Shabbona; K. T. Smith, 

 Greenfield; C. E. Yale (Farm Adviser), 

 Amboy. 



to the government that will permit us as 

 middlemen to handle a large volume of 

 business, both domestic and export, any 

 plan that will permit our free and open 

 markets to properly function; and with 

 no restriction on production and no at- 

 tempts to segregate the surplus?" 



Produce 



TING 



A POULTRY and egg specialist won- 

 ders why middle west farmers do 

 not go after the rich eastern poul- 

 try and egg market in an organized way. 

 He points to the fact that co-eperatives 

 on the Pacific Coast are putting their 

 eggs and poultry into New York City and 

 other eastern markets, although they are 

 at a disadvantage as to distance from 

 market and cost of production. 



The point is well taken. Here in the 

 com belt we normally have plenty of 

 com, small grrain, milk, alfalfa, meat 

 scrap and other feeds for producing poul- 

 try and eggs. Yet with these advan- 

 tages corn belt farmers have failed to 

 take advantage of their opportunities. 

 Co-operation in the production of stand- 

 ard, quality products and marketing of 

 poultry and eggs in the middle west is 

 conspicuous by its absence. Perhaps the 

 reason is that) poultry and eggs on most 

 com belt farms are considered a sideline, 

 although in the aggregate income from 

 these products bulks large. 



First of all we need to standardize our 

 flocks by communities and organize co- 

 operatives to grade and market our prod- 

 uce as thinking farmers have done on 

 the Pacific Coast. The co-operative is 

 the key to the development of such a pro- 

 gram. Just as the co-operative creamery 

 makes its chief contribution by bringing 

 up the average quality of cream, so can 

 the poultry and egg co-operative increase 

 the returns of farmers by encouraging 

 quality products. 



The spread between country and ter- 

 minal prices for poultry and eggs has 

 been too wide. And the middleman is 

 not wholly to blame. He has been ren- 

 dering a service and presumably making 

 money at it. His price spread must 

 cover losses of poultry in transit, bad 

 eggs, transportation and overhead. We 

 farmers are to blame for not taking ad- 

 vantage of our opportunities to market 

 better products for more money co- 

 operatively. 



The I. A. A. Produce Marketing De- 

 partment has a definite program for 1935 

 toward this end. The prize of higher rer 

 turns from shipping fresh eggs and qual- 

 ity poultry to eastern markets is well 

 worth going after. It is up to poultry 

 and egg producers to show their interest 

 if substantit^ progn"ess is to be made in 

 this direction. — E. G. T. 



Uncle Ab says that success goes to the 

 man who will do or die rather than to the 

 man who waits and hopes. 



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