!.i.<i till ion; iinii laitiRr.- unulii ti:'. 

 l'i'«r: un.ihle to hiliy it liark t'oi Ip.-- ih..i 

 ti.'iv or five tinits wliat liny xild ii .n 

 Willi thf sftup a.- aitu:ilt.\ hai>tH'mil. tlv. 

 Molit wiMil ti' thi- farmer instcinl <■)■ thi- 

 pri)(cs.-iir or vpi-oiilatoi-. It i> If !■(• i\- 

 |K".-i(il thai till' pru'isMirs aii.i >p<ciiiii- 

 •i.rs would 111- aviaiii^l AAA " 



"Till' AAA was orisrii^airil l>y laMi-.v- 

 .iiid put over l>y tlici:). . . . Km ^rvcral 

 viars farmers ha\c i,.'ii<e(l that tlie 

 hauler they wnrked. seiierally speakiiiy:. 

 the less they had left after paying their 

 taxes and freiirht hills . . . there was 

 iittJe if anything: left for the fainil;, . 

 Karmers heretefun have clone iheii fit; 

 irinir on the haek nf a postaue -tani; 

 with a dull lead poneil. Now they ha\i' 

 taken out a elcan sheet I'f paper aiid 

 sharpened up their lead pencils and an 

 fimn-in}r eolleetively. 



"They have notieed that a laijie ere). 

 '■ften liroupht in less ini'imie than a 

 -mailer crop. In other words the laijiei 

 i-rop was too niueh fur the market tn 

 ahsorh at a pmfit to the farmer. Of 

 lourse railroads want larire crops. They 

 K:«'t paid so much a hushel for haulinj; 

 regardless of the priee of the prain . . , 

 'he processor also is interested in laiKe 

 crops. low priees to the consumer so that 

 consumption will he increased and he 

 can process more (rrtiin and sell at h.i- 

 price. The farmer heretofore has hail 

 tii.thinjr to say about his sellinjr price. 

 He had to take whatever the market of- 

 fered him. Xow for the first time, with 

 .AAA and curtailed production just as 

 •he manufacturer does in time of low 

 prices, the farmer does have soniethiniT 

 'o say about raisinjr his prices. It i> 

 only natural that processors should line 

 up against AAA which stands for hal- 

 ■inced production ..." 



Probably the most anuisinf; section el 

 Mr. Vial's articles was the one about ihi 

 hue anil cry set up by politicians and 

 die-hards' when the Rural Free Delivery 

 was up for passajre in Washinjrton. Such 

 cries a.s "socialistic scheme" — "danger- 

 ous innovation in irovernment" — "will 

 destroy the rural life of which .Americii 

 IS so proud" — but. as Mr. Vial so ab;\ 

 luiints out. "now in the llirht of iodii\ 

 these men. even thoU};h seiuitors in th< 

 ''. .'^. Senate, were only •half-pints' in 

 their attitude toward RFr>. The old say- 

 iliK "history repeats itself may occur 

 with lespect to .A.\A." 



Letters of commendation have come t.; 

 Mr. \ial from all mer the country. Re- 

 iiritil.- of the series of articles have been 

 1 arefully stiidicd in Washinjrton. .\ 

 ■iolcd eco'tomist ;ind eiiirineur writes in 

 lar:. ••Keep at it. It tai^es men with 

 .ictive brains l«> work these thinjrs out 

 and every little iiifinijtestimal adds ii| 

 :<■ make a finite (luantity in the nu'.. 

 . . .My idea is that we are patchinir iij 

 ri dyiiisr system of economies." .A bankei. 



1 Mi.--o;ir:. write- "I think it ;s -)'.v 

 .l-.d. Written it ^uih an underslandaliii 

 vvi.N. Want all tlie nieti at th.e bank t- 



A .\ A 



-;iv< 



lead it. We feel th:.t l! 

 the day heie." 



It all coes to -liov. that when an en 

 li';!itened f;irnier. in lHll po><es-ii>n of 

 the I'acI-. -tanii.- uii and tills his sti i\ 

 HI the wav he sees and nndei st;iiids it. 

 that those who listen will undei stand 

 too. .\Ir. Vial is speakiiifr the minds of 

 thousands of farmers throiitrhou! the 

 country. Thai's why f.a (Jran^rr citizens 

 know so much aboul tlit .X.A.X. The.\ 

 understand it. Robert <'. \'ial I..M 'en,. 

 He didn't •'lit 'em .•iloiie." 



Close to One Million 



'35 Corn-Hog Signers 



.\ million tasniers siijned application- 

 lor III."!.") corn-hog contracts, aecordinir to 

 reports from :!•'! states, received i)y 

 Claude K. Wickard. chief of the corii- 

 hopT section, following the closing date 

 April 1. This lompares with l.l."i.''i.t)Oo 

 contracts sijrned in ]-.<:',4, 



"The hi>rh percentaire of participation 

 atrain this year in spile of reduced bene- 

 fit payments and hiirher prices, shows 

 conclusively that corn-ho}; producers 

 fully realize the necessity for continued 

 adjustment." said Wickaril. •'With our 

 foreign trade in hoy; products continuing 

 at a low level, it is essential that wi 

 avoid a return to the excess production 

 of corn and hogs which would re.sult from 

 11 discontinuance of adjustment." 



.More than three-fourths of a million 

 larmers who signed live in thi' 10 corn- 

 belt states. Iowa was first among the 

 signers, Illinois second and .Missouri 

 third. In most sttite-; co-uperating. farm- 

 ers will hold out of production this yi ;u . 

 between liO and ^2'^ per cent of the aver 



MR KIRKPATRICK 



assisted bv (i. W. 



ICO- CO.OPERATIVr BABY 



Pi.iUip Apple 8on el Farm Advuci H. E. 

 Apple- and MI^. Apple of ClarK county. Pliilliii if 

 a Country Lile polii-yholdei and fa's Trtirtt Farms 

 l'.:ttpr r<'ports liit pro^ici fathfr. 



Farmers Saved 20 to 25 



Million by Rate Decision 



t)ppo,-uioi, of the Illinois .Agiicultural 

 .Vssociation and the .American l-'arm I'n 

 reaii Federation to the pioposed increase 

 in freight rates on farm products was 

 effective in saving .American fiirmei- 

 between .Sliti.niMi.iliili and SJ.'i.lJlKI.OOO 

 of additional freight 

 ch.-irges within th> 

 iie.\t year. 



T h o Intiistate 

 • "oiiinierce Copimis 

 .-ion held that an in 

 crease in rates oi 

 farm products at 

 this tune woulil re 

 laid treiieral tccov 

 cry. Donald Kirk- 

 put rick, g e n e r a ' 

 c o u n s e I of th' 

 I. A. A. and A.F.B.F.. 

 Ba.xtcr. appeared he- 

 fore the Commission and later filed :. 

 brief setting forth rea.sons why the in- 

 crease in rates on farm commodities 

 should not be allowed. Effective .April 

 18. rates on other than farm product'; 

 were increased fiom oin' to three cent- 

 per cwt. on most carload traffic, and not 

 to exceed 10 per cent on less than ear- 

 load traffic. The increases are in the 

 form of surcharges added separ.-tteK !> 

 present rates. 



age acreage of corn during base year- 

 \'Xi-> and l!".'!.'!. 



In Nebraska a higher acreage a() 

 proximately 20 per cent of ha.se — will lu- 

 held out of production this year than ir; 

 1 ii.'U. 



On .April 1 R. .M. Kvan«. chairman of 

 the Iowa corn-hog cominitteo. reported 

 a ]2 per cent decrease in number iif 

 -igiiers. but about the same corn acreage 

 adjustment as last year. The decrease 

 in number of signers largely represents 

 combinations of contracts and di.scoi. 

 tinuance of adjustment by small opera 

 tors. 



In Illinois it is estimated that theri 

 will be little difference between cor- 

 acreage reduction in IIV!.') and '.'i4. 



It is estimated that the aggregate ot 

 rental and l>enefit paynientj' under the 

 ]'X\') corn-hog program may total in the 

 neighborhood of Sl.'iO.OOO.OOil. The corn 

 [layment is .-it the rate of .''■' cents pei 

 bushel of yield estimated for the acreage 

 held out of corn production. 



The hi>g p.-iyment is at the rate of Sl.'i 

 l)er head for the number of hog- repre- 

 sented by the required adjustment of In 

 per cent of the producer's average mar- 

 ket hog production for the base period 



I'ncle .\h says that we dislike imlx 

 thitse ««e io not knou. 



TH 



Why We N 



Limitai 



Uy John C. 



President S 

 Dearborn, 



Let's Keep 'I 



B.v George E. 



And Ot 



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I A. 



KWOKI) 



