How fhe Farm Bureau 

 Serves You 



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made an outstanding contribution 

 throughout the years in legislative and 

 tax work, in protecting the co-opera- 

 tive principle and farmers' interests 

 with amendatory clauses in codes and 

 administrative rulings as well as in 

 statutes. Most of this work has been 

 quietly done and little said about it. 

 But it has been of great value to the 

 farmers of Illinois. 



Th« farm point of view on economic 

 questions and public policies is con- 

 stantly brought to the attention of the 

 public by the Farm Bureau. In a de- 

 mocracy public opinion exerts power- 

 ful influence. Little progress would be 

 made toward securing economic equal- 

 ity for agriculture without an effective 

 presentation in the press, over the 

 radio and before law and rate-making 

 bodies of the farmer's side of the case. 



The greatest contribution made by 

 the co-operative marketing associa- 

 tions established by the I. A. A. is to 

 assure fair prices for farm products, 

 to narrow the spread between prices 

 at country shipping points and the 

 terminal markets. Co-operative organ- 

 izations have been established for mar- 

 keting livestock, grain, cream, soy- 

 beans, fruits and vegetables. More re- 

 cently an advance step has been made 

 toward processing butterfat in pro- 

 ducer owned co-operative creameries. 

 The spread between local butterfat 

 prices and the Chicago butter market 

 has been reduced as much as six to 

 eight cents a pound in many commu- 

 nities. Threugh these creameries Farm 

 Bureau members are now enabled to 

 receive extra income by marketing 

 high quality cream. And the profits of 

 processing butterfat are being used to 

 pay for plants and equipment, divi- 

 dends on stock and patronage refunds. 



Hog producers who are members of 

 the Farm Bureau save more than their 

 annual dues on Farm Bureau serum. 



Members who carry insurance in the 

 Farm Bureau companies easily saved 

 $600,000 last year, considerably more 

 than these members contributed in 

 dues. 



The average patronage refund re- 

 ceived by Farm Bureau members on 

 their purchases of petroleum products 

 and supplies from the county service 

 companie.'s amounted to more than 



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$22.50 per member patron in the terri- 

 tory served during 1934. 



A membership in the American Farm 

 Bureau, the I. A. A. and the County 

 Farm Bureau has been a great pro- 

 ducer of benefits. 



The projects of the county organiza- 

 tion and the services of the county farm 

 adviser in improving soil and crop ro- 

 tations, in developing leadership, in 

 training farm boys and girls for fu- 

 ture responsibilities, in controlling in- 

 sects, weeds and disease of crops and 

 livestock, and in making effective the 

 price-raising program through con- 

 trolled production are of tremendous 

 importance to the welfare of farm peo- 

 ple. 



The annual $15 dues of Farm Bu- 

 reau members in Illinois is a high 

 yielding investment unmatched in any 

 other field. 



About Grain Imports 



In the eight months' period beginning 

 July 1, 1934, imports of all grains were 

 about six-tenths of one per cent of this 

 country's average production of grains 

 and 25 per cent less than the averagre 

 imports for the same periods during the 

 ten years 1924 to 1934. 



Corn imports during the eight months' 

 period ending February 1 this year were 

 6,510,000 bushels or about equal to the 

 production of a good representative Illi- 

 nois county. Damage to the corn crop 

 due to the drouth last year, is estimated 

 to have reduced the yield by approxi- 

 mately one billion bushels. 



Imports of oats during the eight 

 months' period were 9,321,000 bushels, 

 barley 7,824,000 bushels and rye 5,864,- 

 000 bushels. All of the reduction in the 

 United States production of oats, barley 

 and rye is due to the drouth since no 

 adjustment programs were in effect for 

 these crops. 



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