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Time To Buy Seeds 



By Paul y. Kelly, Manager, Seed 

 and Bean Division, Farmers Na- 

 tional Grain Corporation 



While most of the stockholders of Illi- 

 nois Grain Corporation are interested 

 particularly in the marketing of their 

 member-grain, never^eless most of them 

 render an additional service by carrying 

 stocks of field seeds for sale in their 

 community. Some of the elevators that 

 have not heretofore handled seeds are 

 this year finding it to their advantage 

 to do so. Those interested should imme- 

 diately contact the Seed Division of 

 Farmers National Grain Corporation at 

 Chicago, requesting prices and whatever 

 information they require. Because of the 

 multiplied benefits and advantages of 

 national organization, numerous pro- 

 ducer-cooperative groups urged Farmers 

 National to market their seeds and 

 Farmers National, therefore, acts as a 

 direct connection between farmers who 

 produce seeds and those who buy. 



The Farmers National seed service is 

 offered to provide the consumer with 

 better seeds at more favorable prices, 

 quality considered. By operating in most 

 of the producing sections of the country, 

 it enables us particularly in a year of 

 short «crops, such as 1934, to provide 

 seeds of the proper origin, as recom- 

 mended by state agricultural authorities, 

 to give the farmer the best results possi- 

 ble under any given soil conditions. 



The successful farmer will purchase 

 good seed from those sources which pro- 

 vide sufficient guaranty of variety and 

 strain, origin of production and quality. 

 The 178 elivators owning stock in Illinois 

 Grain Corporation would do well to con- 

 sider the handling of seeds and keep the 

 farmers in their communities coming to 

 their elevators for such service. It will 

 add to the possibilities of selling other 

 side-lines to them, and increase the effec- 

 tiveness of the farmer elevator in the 

 community. 



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(Continued from page 17) 



been introduced creating the so-called 

 surplus school fund to receive surpluses 

 from the occupational tax and the state 

 liquor tax. Sharp reductions in property 

 -tax valuations and the fact that the state 

 is far behind on payments to school dis- 

 tricts due largely to continued tax delin- 

 quency in Chicago and Cook county, has 

 left a number of school districts in 

 straitened circumstances. There is a 

 growing belief that a substantial portion 

 ; of school revenue should come from other 

 ^ sources than the property tax. This point 

 of view is destined to grow. 



Fraaer-Lemke Act Is 



Before Supreme Court 



Merchants Acknowledge 

 Benefits of AAA Payments 



"The crop control program and benefit 

 payments have been a big factor in im- 

 proving retail trade. Farmers are in the 

 best shape in years. 



"We had a fair year despite the drouth 

 because of government aid. We need a 

 good growing season in 1935 and fair 

 prices to put us on our feet." 



These and similar comments were 

 made by middle west retail merchants 

 who gathered recently in Chicago for 

 their annual convention. 



Dairy Leaders O. K. 



AAA Amendments 



Illinois dairy leaders meeting in Chi- 

 cago Feb. 14 approved the proposed 

 amendment to the Agricultural Adjust- 

 ment Act which if enacted will remove 

 the necessity for making benefit pay- 

 ments when a processing tax is levied. 

 Officials of the Pure Milk Association, 

 Chicago, Sanitary Milk Producers, St. 

 Louis, Mississippi Valley Milk Producers, 

 Peoria Milk Producers, McLean County 

 Milk Producers, Quality Milk Associa- 

 tion, Decatur, Rockford, Champaign, 

 LaSalle-Peru and Danville Milk Pro- 

 ducers Associations, and Galesburg Pure 

 Milk Association attended. 



Revenue from the tax under 'the pro- 

 posed revision could be used for export- 

 ing farm surpluses, developing non-food 

 uses for farm products, or for financing 

 a grrain acreage control plan so as to 

 stabilize grain prices, hence livestock and 

 dairy prices, at profitable levels. 



Farm Bureau leaders including Edw. 

 O'Neal, Earl Smith, and other members 

 of the A. F. B. F. legislative committee 

 were in Washington Feb. 26, to support 

 the amendments before the Senate and 

 House committees. 



With the gold clause decision out of 

 the way. The United States Supreme 

 Court will next decide another important 

 question growing out of New Deal legis- 

 lation. 



Constitutionality of the Frazier-Lemke 

 Act, upheld by the federal district court 

 at Cincinnati recently, has been referred 

 up to the high court by the Louisville 

 Joint Stock Land Bank. This Act pro- 

 vides for a virtual five year moratorium 

 on farm mortgages during which the 

 debtor may remain on his farm pro- 

 vided he pays a fair rental fixed by the 

 court, and at the end of which he may 

 ask for a reappraisal and buy back the 

 farm at the appraised price. 



A decision is expected within the next 

 90 days. 



S«ntiment persivts in ZlUnoia for a mortff&ge m«ra^ 

 toriam l&w similar to that pasted and upheld by tha 

 itat« supreme court in Minnesota. A moratorinm bill 

 aill probably be introduced in the present seasion af 

 the UliBoia General Assembly. — Editor. 



Mississippi Valley 



Milk Producers Elect 



All officers and directors were re- 

 elected at the annual meeting of the Mis- 

 sissippi Valley Milk Producers in Decatur 

 February 12. Archie McPfedran of 

 Oglesby continues as president, Ryland 

 Capron, Peoria, vice-president and J. B. 

 Countiss, secretary-treasurer. 



Directors are: Hugh Mainland, Rock- 

 ford; Ryland Capron, Peoria; Herb Kla- 

 wonn, Rock Island; Ed. Gumm, Gales- 

 burg; Archie McPfedran, LaSalle; Wil- 

 liam O'Malley, DeKalb; Glenn Tonibaugh, 

 Streator; Dewey Prather, Champaign; 

 J. C. Knight, Bloomington; D. L. Blicken- 

 staff, Decatur; and Albert Heckle, 

 Quincy. 



Industrial Production 



Slashed, Not Prices 



steel and iron prices dropped approxi- 

 mately 16 per cent, and production was 

 lowered 76 per cent from 1929 to 1932, 

 according to L. J. Norton, economist at 

 the Illinois College of Agrriculture. 



During these same years farm ma- 

 chinery prices dropped 14 per cent and 

 production as estimated by payrolls, 

 around 80 per cent. Automobile prices 

 dropped 12 per cent and production 74 

 per cent, and similarly cement prices 

 dropped 16 per cent, while production 

 dropped approximately 55 per cent. Dur- 

 ing the some period farm production 

 held its own but prices dropped more 

 than 60 per cent. 



MARCH, 1935 



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