Presidenf RooseveH Talks 

 Plainly Abouf The AAA 



ing out over the cotton fields he said to 

 me: 



" 'What a great number of raspberries 

 they grow down here!' 



"Raspberries was right. At 4% cents 

 a pound for cotton his mistake was, per- 

 haps, a natural one. 



"The crocodile tears shed by the pro- 

 fessional mourners of an old and ob- 

 solete order over the slaughter of little 

 pigs and other measures to reduce sur- 

 plus agricultural inventories deceive very 

 few thinking people and least of all the 

 farmers themselves. 



"The acknowledged destiny of a pig 

 is sausage, or ham, or bacon or pork. In 

 these forms millions of pigs were con- 

 sumed by vast numbers of people who 

 otherwise would have had to do without. 



"Let me make one other point clear 

 for the benefit of the millions in cities 

 who have to buy meats. Last year the 

 nation suffered a drought of unparal- 

 leled intensity. If there had been no 

 government program— if the old order 

 had obtained in 1933 and 1934— that 

 drought on the cattle ranges of Amer- 

 ica and in the corn belt would have re- 

 sulted in the marketing of thin cattle, 

 immature hogs and in the death of these 

 animals on the range and on the farm. 

 Then we would have had a vastly greater 

 shortage than we face today. 



Program Conserves Livestock 



"Our program saved the lives of mil- 

 lions of head of livestock. They are still 

 on the range. Other millions are today 

 canned and ready for this country to eat. 



"I think that you and I are agreed in 

 seeking a continuance of a national pol- 

 icy which »n the whole is proving suc- 

 cessful. The memory of old conditions 

 under which the product of a whole 

 year's work often would not bring you 

 the cost of transporting it to market is 

 too fresh in your minds to let you be 

 led astray by the solemn admonitions 

 and specious lies of those who in the past 

 profited when your distress was great- 

 est. . . . 



"Because your cause is so just no one 

 has the temerity to question the mo- 

 tives of your 'march on Washington.' 

 It is a good omen for government, for 

 business, for bankers and for the city 

 dwellers that the nation's farmers are 

 becoming articulate and that they know 

 whereof they speak." 



Under the Federal Housing Adminis- 

 tration plan, the owner may borrow up 

 to $2,000 to ijnprove one property. 



The Macoupin County Farm Bureau 



chartered two three-car trains on the 

 Illinois Terminal System to the Peoria 

 mass meeting and filled them to capacity 

 with 303 people, writes W. F. Coolidge, 

 county farm adviser. "Besides this group 

 several carloads drove up. We estimated 

 the Macoupin county crowd . at 325 at 

 least. This group represented every 

 township of the county and many non- 

 Farm Bureau members." 



Country Life Insurance Company re- 

 ceived 120 coupons from its doublespread 

 ad in the April I.A.A. RECORD offering 

 a fountain pen for names of life in- 

 surance prospects. 



More than 1,000 carloads of soybean 



hay shipped by the Soybean Marketing 

 Association to drouth relief authorities 

 in Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa were 

 routed by the I.A.A. transportation divi- 



Sanitary Milk Producers announce Ihv 



signing of 1237 new members from April 

 3 to the middle of May. The association 

 waived the $5 entrance fee for a 60-day 

 period. On June 3 the fee goes back into 

 force. 



Rental and benefit payments, removal 

 of surplus operations and expenses un- 

 der the AAA up to April 1 amounted 

 to $776,103,578.10, while processing tax 

 receipts for the same period totaled 

 $777,540,894.96. Of the total collections 

 wheat processing taxes were $212,546,- 

 669.77, cotton $219,116,924.81, hogs 

 $227,576,411.49, tobacco $42,494,098, field 

 com $9,783,598.43. 



Uncle Ab says that what we think we 

 should be is a measure of what we can 

 be. if xffp only thinV it harH pnoii^h 



To Bond County 



I. F. Green, agricultural instructor in 

 the Sparta township high school, has 

 been employed as county agricultural ad- 

 viser in Bond county to begin work June 

 1. He will succeed J. 

 H. Brock who is 

 now adviser in Mc- 

 Henry county. 



Mr. Green is from 

 Gallatin county 

 where he lived on a 

 farm south of 

 Equality until enter- 

 ing college. He 

 graduated from the 

 University of Illi- 

 nois in January 1930 

 and has been teach- 

 ing for the past five and one-half years 

 at Sparta. 



Mr. Green is married and has one son 

 three years old. Mrs. Green lived on a 

 farm in Franklin county and attended 

 college at Southern Illinois Normal Uni- 

 vprsitv at C«rbotidalp. 



I. F. OSEEM 



Piatt County Adviser 



E. 0. Johnston who until recently ha.-* 

 been assisting in corn-hog administra- 

 tion work under Mr. 

 Surratt of the State 

 committee was ap- 

 pointed farm adviser 

 in Piatt county 

 May 1. 



Mr. Johnston 

 graduated from the 

 University of Illi- 

 nois, College of Ag 

 riculture, in 1925. 

 Shortly thereafter 

 he began farming. 



In January 1934 he went to Tazewell 

 county as assistant agent in adminis- 

 tering the corn-hog program, and a few 

 months later he took a job with the state 

 corn-hog committee. 



E. O. JOHNSTOM 



Cook County Farm 



Bureau In New Home 



The Cook County Farm Bureau re- 

 cently took a step forward in the pur- 

 chase of a new home and headquarters 

 for the Farm Bureau and the Lake-Cook 

 Farm Supply Company at Blue Island. 



Cook County is unique in having two 

 distinct headquarters. This is made 

 necessary because of the geographical 

 arrangement of the county with one arm 

 extending northwest from Chicago as 

 far as Elgin, and the other extending 

 south beyond Chicago Heights. The 

 metropolitan area divides the rural sec- 

 tions of the county. The main office at 

 Arlington Heights is where O. G. 

 Barrett, farm adviser holds forth while 

 M. E. Tascher, Ass't Farm Adviser, 

 resides at Blue Island. 



Following Mr. Barrett's coming to the 

 county. Farm Bureau membership 

 started its upward climb from a low 

 point of 182 nine years ago to 1602 at 

 the present time. "On learning of an 

 opening here nine years ago," said 

 Barrett, "I wondered what they would 

 want of a Farm Adviser or Farm Bu- 

 reau in Cook County. After coming here 

 and learning more about it, I came to 

 realize that they needed a Farm Adviser 

 and Farm Bureau as badly as probably 

 any other county in the state. Later as 

 things developed I- concluded that here 

 under the nose of Chicago, with its 

 metropolitan interests, that the farm- 

 ers need to be joined together and need 

 an organization through which they can 

 work for their common good more than 

 any other county in the state." 



The 40x80 ft. brick structure built 22 

 years ago is well adapted and has suf- 

 ficient offices and a small auditorium 

 upstairs and a suitable space for the 



I. A. A. RKCORn 



