How the Farm Bureau 

 Serves You 



(Contiiiueti fidni pajcc I'fl 



made an outstanding contribution 

 throughout the years in legislative and 

 (ax work, in i)ri)tecting the co-opera- 

 live principle and farmers' interests 

 with amendatory clauses in codes and 

 administrative rulings as well .as in 

 statutes. Mt>sl 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 atteMjon of the 

 public by the Farm Bureau. In a de- 

 mocracy public opinion exerts power- 

 ful influence. Little progress would he 

 made toward securing economic equal- 

 ity for agriiulliiio withi>ut an effectivi- 

 presentation in the press, over the 

 radio and before law and rale-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. 

 Th« spread between local butterfat 

 prices and the Chicago butter market 

 lias been rediio'd as much as six to 

 eight cents a pound in many commu- 

 nities. Threugh these creameries Farm 

 Bureau members arc now enabled to 

 receive extra income b\ marketing 

 high quality cream. And the profits of 

 processing Initterfat are being used to 

 pay for plants and eciuipment. divi- 

 dend.> on stock and patronage refunds. 

 Hog producers who are members of 

 ilie Fiirm Bureau .save more than their 

 annual dues on Farm Bureau -serum. 



.Members wht> carry insiirancc in the 

 F;irm Bureau companies easily saved 

 StJOo.OOO last year, considerably more 

 than these tni'mbeis contributed in 

 dues. 



Till iiverage patronage refund re- 

 ceived liy Farm Bureau mwmbers on 

 I heir purchases of petroleum products 

 and supplies from the county service 

 ctimpanies amo\mted to more than 



$22.50 per member patron in the terri- 

 tory served during 193-1. 



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 re.sponsibilities, in controlling in- 

 sects, weeds and di.sea.se 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 SI.') dues of Farm Bu- 

 reau members in Illinois is a high 

 \ielding investment unmatclied in any 

 other field. 



About Grain Imports 



In the eight inuiith::' 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 average 

 imports for the same periods ciuriiiH: the 

 len years 1024 to li'34. 



Corn imports durinif the eight months' 

 period ending February 1 this year were 

 0,510,000 bushels or about equal to the 

 production of a good representative Illi- 

 nois county. Damage to the corn crop 

 ihie to the droutb last .vear, is estimated 

 to have leduocd the yiehl by approxi- 

 mately one biUion bushels. 



Iiii|)orts of oats during the eight 

 months' period were f»,.'?21,000 bushels, 

 liarley 7,824.000 bushels and rye 5,804,- 

 000 bushels, .Ml 6f the reduction in the 

 United States production of oats, barley 

 and rye is due to the drouth since no 

 ad.iustmeiit profrranis wire in effect for 

 th''sr crops. 



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It used to take a lot of skimping and self- 

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CHICAGO, ILI.I.NOIS 



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