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To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau vms or- 

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

 economic, political and educational interests of the farmers of 

 Illinois and the Tiation. and to develop agriculture. 



l.rerKr Tkirm. B4lt*r 

 Joha Trapy, Aaaiataat 



PuMlakcd moBttalT hr llir Illinnit AKrimliural Atxxlatlnn at ICTi S". Main 

 ^1., 8p«a<^r. Inil. RiliiorU! Offiera. (MM) S. Di-arlxirn St.. rhi<^t«. HI. Rntrml 

 aa accoBd ola«a niattrr at p^mt office. Sitenrcr. linl. Arreptance for ro.iilinc at 

 apprial rat* af poatafte proTiJpil (d Sertinn 41'J. Ai-t of Feb. 28. 11>2A. anthoriafsf 

 Oct. 27. 192r>. AilOrpM all rommanlcatioiit for imbllration tn Gilltorlal 0(nc(>t. 

 Illinola Ai^rultnral Anncintlon KecoM. 606 So. Iharboro St.. Chii-afo. Thr 

 irnlWIdoal nipDilH*r«hlp fee of thr Illinois AsfriruUnral AniMM-iatlon in llTf ilnllarn 

 a jear. The fee tsrladcai pa.rment of flft.r rentfl for Biiburriptloii to the lUlDoiii 

 AKriroltural Aawtctatlon RROOKD. Po«tmaPt'T: Send notirev on Vorm S^~S 

 aad midellTerable copleit rernrnert nniler Ftorni .VtTJt to e«titori»l offin.n, 64l'^ 

 Hontb Dearborn Street. Chltait". 



OFFICEKS 



PrMWeat. Barl C. Smitt n<'tn>ii 



vice Preaident. Talmarr DpFrecu SinithlKi'n 



<'«rTK>rate flecretarr, Paul K. Mathla^ (Tiicaro 



Field Secretary. Geo. E. Metzcr rhicairi' 



Tr««anref. R. A. C«wle« Blnomlnfton 



A»B"I Trea»T.rer. A. It. Wrieht Varnii 



BOAXD OF BIKECTOXl 

 (By c-MHireaainnal Dlatrk-t) 



lat t« nth K. Ilarrit. (Jra.Talahc 



12th K. K. BoocbtbT, Shabboaa 



ntk r. K. BamborouKh. Polo 



Mtt Otto Stef fey. Stronghurat 



Ifith M. Ray Ihrll. Gohlen 



Mth Albert Ilayea. CTilllu-othe 



ntk E n. Lawrence. Bloom'sKton 



Utk Mont Foi. Oakwo«d 



ntk Riltene Cnrtln. Phampalfn 



2tlk ...K. T. Smith. GreeaHelil 



nst Samnel Horrelta. Raymond 



22ail A. O. Eckert. BelleTillr 



28nl ChentiT McOo-d. Newton 



Utk Charlea Marnhall. Belknap 



2«fh R. B. Endlcott. Villa Rldfr 



SZPAXniZKT OntECTOXS 



<\>nipl'o'le' J. II. Kelkcr 



Ualry Markellni 1. B. Conntlao 



F*a«nc«- R. A. r«wle« 



Fnilt anil Veitelable Markellnr H. W Da.r 



iBforination Gcorire Thlen 



l>e|cal l>An:ilil Kirkpatr-'-V; 



Mee 5toi-k Mark-tlnc Ray E. Miller 



Oflk-e C. E. Jobnaton 



OnraatuirHtn V. TaDlman 



Prodnrc Markel'njt F. A. Goofier 



Taxation and Stat'ftl<» J. C Wataon 



Tranaportationriainm IMvUion «J. W. Baxter 



AaSOCIATEJ) OKOANIZATIOKS 



Tountr.T l.iff Inaiiranre Co I.. -\. WIIIlatnR. Mitr. 



Farmerti' Mtitnal lieiniinrance Co J. II. Kelk'-r. Mgr. 



Illtnola Aitrlcultural Auditing Asa'n F. E. Rlnfham. Mrr. 



I11ii»o'a Afrlcnltnral Mntnal Inanrance Co A. E. Rlchardann, iifr. 



Illinola Farm Sopply Co I-. K. Marchant. M|tr. 



Illlnota Frnit Growers' F.ii-hanite II. W. Day. Mitr. 



Illino'a Oram Corp Harr'aon Fahrnkopf. Mitr. 



Illlnoia LlyeHock Marketinr Aaa'n Ray Miller. Mrr. 



IIIiBoie Prodncera' Creameriea F. A. Gonfler. J. B. Cooatlaa. Sale* 



8«y<)«aB Markctlnc Aaa'a J. W. Amitnos. Pre*. 



Let's Not Forget 



IX THE early Fall of 1933. the County Farm Bureaus: and 

 the Illinois Aifricultural Association sponsored a mobiliza- 

 tion campaifrn for the purpose of concentrating the united 

 support of the farmers of this state behind efforts to do three 

 things, namely: — 



1. Restore farm price levels to parity 



2. Secure for agriculture ample credit facilities at interest 



rates comparable to interest rates enjoyed by other 

 groups. 

 >1. Replace, in part, property taxes with other sources of 



revenue. 

 The results secured from these efforts and administration 

 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act in all its ramifications 

 speak for themselves. 



The prices of 14 basic farm commodities during recent 

 months have reached or exceeded parity which means pre- 

 war exchange value. Farm income for 1934 was approximate- 

 ly one billion dollars more than that for 1933 and close to 

 two billions more, or 40 per cent, ahead of 1932. 



Potting first things first, the I.A.A. has consistently em- 



phasized the importance of improving farm price levels. At 

 the same time, efforts to secure relief for farm debtors have 

 not been neglected. Interest rates on federal farm loans 

 were cut to 4'2 per cent and farm indebtedness has been 

 refinanced on this basis running into hundreds of millions. 



At the present time, the American Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion is supporting a reduction in interest rates on farm 

 loans, past and future, to S'^^ per cent up to the year 1937. 

 This effort is embodied in the Wheeler Amendment which 

 has passed the Senate and is now pending in the House of 

 Representatives. This lowering of rates is justified by the 

 fact that the Government is now able to borrow from th*" 

 people at a rate of interest substantially one per cent lower 

 than existed at the time of passage of the Farm Credit Act. 



Within the state, the I. A. A. initiated the principle embodied 

 In legislation replacing part of the property tax burden with 

 revenue from other sources. Reductions of 30 to 40 per cent 

 in farm property taxes are not uncommon in many counties. 



While much has been accomplished, the great work ahead 

 is to maintain parity prices by preventing recurring accumula- 

 tions of crop surpluses. This is a task that will require the 

 best thought and united action of farmers now and in the 

 period immediately ahead. 



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Farmers Are Interdependent 



THE Department of Agriculture reports that dairy farm- 

 ers entered the new year with a reduction of only 4.1 

 per cent in numbers of cows and heifers two years 

 (Id and over, despite the drouth. 



Given a good crop year, producers easily could deluge the 

 country with a surplus of milk and dairy products. A 

 precipitous drop in the price level would be inevitable. 



Eastern dairymen, and those from the northwest, who 

 have shown a disposition to oppose the livestock feed grain 

 amendment to the Agricultural Adju.stment Act may well 

 find themselves in a sorry predicament again just as they 

 were last year as a result of continued low feed prices. The 

 drouth saved the situation temporarily but the East can't 

 expect indefinitely to have cheap feed and high priced milk. 



Many American farmers have yet to learn the real mean- 

 ing of co-operation. Prosperity can not be maintained in any 

 single branch of American agriculture at the expense of 

 other groups any more than business and industry could 

 maintain its advantage indefinitely when agriculture was at 

 a disadvantage. 



More Reports On Livestock Profits 



REPORTS of fabulous profits made by livestock buyers 

 during the sharp rise in cattle prices continue. From 

 Kansas City comes the almost incredulous story that 

 one operator 'who purcha.«ed 110 carloads of cattle direct 

 from farmers made the price of a new Ford automobile on 

 every carload. Mr. Eugene Curtis of Champaign county 

 (|Uotes a local livestock trucker who reported selling a bunch 

 of cattle for $1,,S00 in Chicago which cost him only $800. An- 

 other livestock grower who fortunately shipped co-opera- 

 tive received $3 a hundred more for a load of fat cows than 

 he expected. 



These reports clearly show that the grower does not alway.* 

 have enough information to judge the value of his livestock. 

 He is more or less at the mercy of the skillful buyer armed 

 with facts about market trends, consumer demand, available 

 supply, and other factors entering into the market picture. 

 The man who grows the livestock ought to have all the mar- 

 ket affords for them. It is on this principle that livestock 

 marketing co-operatives are organized. Trained salesmen in 

 the employ of organized farmers can do a better job of selling 

 than the grower who doesn't have the time or opportunity to 

 keep informed. 



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