Cook County to Dedicate 

 New Farm Bureau Home 



PoliticaH.v it may be Cook County 

 versus down state but so far as the Farm 

 Bureau is concerned. Cook County is just 

 another Farm Bureau unit, co-operatinu 

 with each and every one of the Illinois 

 ABrricultural Association projects. 



It is pleasing indeed to note that Cook 

 County is further stabilizing its Farm 

 Bureau activities by the purchase of a 

 building at 2414 West Grove Street, Blue 

 Island, to house the Farm Bureau and 

 the Farm Su|»ply Co. The building was 

 purchased several weeks ago. It has 

 been remodeled downstairs and made into 

 an oflfice and salesroom for Lake-Cook 

 Farm Supply Company. The upstairs is 

 used for the Farm Bureau, the Cook 

 County Corn-Hog Control Ass'n, and the 

 Cook County Rural Rehabilitation Cor- 

 poration. There is also a little hall for 

 meetings. 



Cook County is very long and narrow 

 geographically. One of its two arms ex- 

 tends south to Chicago Heights, the 

 other west to Elgin. There are two of- 

 fices, one which is spoken of as the 

 main office with Mr. Barrett the Farm 

 .A.dviser, at Arlington Heights, the other 

 with the Assistant, Mr. Tascher, at Blue 

 Island. The Farm Bureau membership 

 of 1,577 is just about equally divided be- 

 tween the sovth arm and the north arm 

 of the county. 



Farm Ad\nser Barrett says that their 

 mark for membership has been 1717 

 .^ince that represents 51 per cent of the 

 farmers. However, the new census lists 

 Cook County with 4035 and now he says 

 they'll have to raise their membership 

 to 2058. 



The formal opening of the new build- 

 ing is to be held at Blue Island on the 

 evening of May 3, with open house, en- 

 tertainment and dancing. Edward A. 

 O'Neal, president of the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation, Earl C. Smith, presi- 

 dent of the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion, Donald Kirkpatrick, I. A. A. coun- 

 sel, L. R. Marchant, manag«r of Illinois 

 Farm Supply Company, and others of the 

 1. A. .\. are planning to attend. '-■ ' 



The Western Trunk Line Comniittee 



recently announced a public hearing on 

 the proposed increase of 12 per cent in 

 soybean rates. The proposal means ap- 

 proximately f20 a car increase from Illi- 

 nois shipping points to Chicago or 

 Peoria. The I. A. A. transportation di- 

 vision has taken steps to oppose the in- 

 crease. •■■ ; ' - ..,' ■ ;.".• ■ ■• 



Uncle Ab says that the shortness of 

 the public's memory is responsible for 

 most of the public's troubles. 



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260 Entertainers in 



Country Life Lyceum 



Illinois Leads States in 

 Co-op. Livestock Shipments 



Out of the total of llS.S.Il deckloads 

 of livestock handled by member agencies 

 of the National Livestock Marketing .As- 

 sociation in 1934, Illinois supplied nearly 

 30 per cent or 33,114 decks. Indiana was 

 second with 16,809 and Ohio third with 

 10,716. This information was released 

 at the annual meeting of the Association 

 in Chicago Mar. 27th. 



Iowa, one of the largest livestock pro- 

 dacing states, furnished only 7,618 decks 

 to Producer Agencies, and Missouri, an- 

 other big livestock center, only 8,648 

 decks. 



The Illiaois Agricultural Association 

 and the County Farm Bureaus were 

 chiefly r^ponsible for~ putting Illinois 

 far in the lead among all the states in 

 co-operative livestock marketing. 



The Chicago Producers Commission 

 Association led all other member 

 agencies in 1934 with 21,525 decks of 

 livestock handled. E. St. Louis was sec- 

 ond with 14,041 decks handled and In- 

 dianapolis third with 11,996. 



Earl C. Smith, president of the I. A. 

 A., spoke briefly at the annual banquet 

 the night of March 27 discussing among 

 other questions the proposed livestock 

 feed grain amendment to the Agricul- 

 tural .\djustment .4ct. Officers and direc- 

 tors of the National .\ssociation were 

 re-elected. 



"Cooling Milk on the Farm with Small 

 Mechanical Outfits" is the title of a new 

 bulletin, circular 336, recently published 

 by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

 The price is five cents a copy. 



Two hundred and sixty contestants 

 participated in the recently concluded 

 Countrj' Life lyceuni contest, perform- 

 inp before a total of more than 28,000 

 people who attended the county-wide 

 meetings. Much new talent was dis- 

 covered. No particular type of entertain- 

 ment was featured and contest winner.* 

 ranged from singing and tap dancing 

 soloists to larger groups of singers and 

 stringed instrument players. 



Following are the silver medal win- 

 ners thus far: 



Twenty-eight thousand people in all 

 attended these programs. 



The judges are selecting the high 

 scores and will announce the gold medal 

 winners at an early date. Pictures of 

 some of the lyceuin winners will be 

 found elsewhere in this issue. Other pic- 

 tures will follow in later i.ssues of the 

 RECORD. . '■' 



U. S. Supreme Court 



Has Frazier-Lemke Act 



The decision of the U. S. Supreme 

 Court on the Frazier-Lemke farm mort- 

 gage moratorium bill is awaited with 

 much interest. Argument on the meas- 

 ure was heard by the Supreme Court on 

 April 2. 



Supreme Court justices sharply ques- 

 tioned proponents of the measure in- 

 dicating that considerable discussion 

 among themselves would be had before 

 they decide on the constitutionality of 

 the law. 



The measure grants a five-year mora- 

 torium to debtor farmers during which 

 time they may remain on their farms by 

 paying a rental fixed by the court. Dur- 

 ing this period the owner may clear his 

 indebtedness by paying a reasonable and 

 just sum fixed by appraisers appointed 

 by the court. 



I. A. A. RECORD 



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