Cook County Farm 



Bureau In New Home 



Farm Supply Company downstairs. Sev- 

 eral thousand dollars were spent in re- 

 modeling it. 



"If the purchase of a building could 

 have the same psychological effect in 

 all counties as it appears to have had 

 in Cook County," said Barrett, "we 

 think it highly advi.sable that other 

 counties do likewise in purchasing their 

 own home." 



From 400 to 500 members, friends, 

 and guests attended" the open house cele- 

 bration in the new building several 

 weeks ago. Several members of the 

 staff of the I.A.A. attended the party 

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

 .*el. wa.s the principal speaker. 



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16,000 At Peoria 



(Continued from page 4) 

 of the state highway department be 

 liberalized so as to result in a maximum 

 mileage of improved roads, that 50% of 

 the employable men j)n relief rolls be 

 used on downstate projects, and that 

 physically able men on relief rolls who 

 refuse to work be denied further direct 

 relief. The bills also authorize the high- 

 way department to co-operate with the 

 relief commission in arranging joint 

 projects whereby the commission fur- 

 nished funds for labor and the highway 

 department supervision and equipment. 

 Co-operation between state and county 

 highway authorities and township road 

 commissioners also is authorized. 



At the beginning of the meeting Presi- 

 dent Smith appointed one Farm Bureau 

 president from each congressional dis- 

 trict to serve on a resolutions commit- 

 tee. This committee chose Fred Herndon 

 of McDonough county chairman who 

 presented the resolutions printed below. 

 The great assembly roared their ap- 

 proval when President Smith put the 

 question. One faint "No" frem the back 

 of the room was heard. "Fifteen thou- 

 sand nine hundred and ninety-nine voted 

 'Yes' and one 'No,' " the chairman 

 laughingly announced. 



The Wayne-Edwards County Farm 

 Bureau male quartet sang several enter- 

 taining numbers. 



The resolutions are as follows: 



I 



Sixteen thousand Illinois farmers from 

 95 counties in mass meeting assembled 

 in Peoria May 20, 1935 reaffirm their 

 unqualified belief in and support of the 

 Agricultural Adjustment Act and give 

 their endorsement to the amendments to 

 the Act now pending before the House 

 of Representatives. These amendments 

 are necessary for more simple, practical 

 and effective administration of the Act. 

 The assembled farmers emphatically 

 serve notice upon the vested interests 



Boone's New Home 



NEW HOME OF BOONE COUNTT FARM BUKEAU 

 AT BELTIDERE 



protected by tariffs who are opposing 

 the processing tax provisions of the Ag- 

 ricultural Adjustment Act that either 

 the processing tax must be preserved as 

 an effective tariff for agriculture or the 

 tariff system operating as a protection 

 for industry must be repealed. .. , 



II 



The Commodity Exchange Bill now 

 pending in the House of Representatives 

 of Congress will strengthen the hands of 

 the Secretary of Agriculture, its adminis- 

 trator, in preventing further manipula- 

 tion, in controlling speculation and in 

 protecting bona fide farmer cooperatives 

 using the facilities of Commodity Ex- 

 changes and we urge upon Congress the 

 enactment of the existing bill without 

 substantial amendment. 



Ill 



We unqualifiedly endorse the bills 

 pending in the Illinois legislature provid- 

 ing for the construction of farm to mar- 

 ket roads in every county of the State 

 and affording employment upon projects 

 more useful to a larger portion of the 

 public than any other projects proposed. 

 We particularly urge a liberalization of 



Boone County Farm Bureau is an- 

 other one of the many county organiza- 

 tions which took advantage of current 

 real estate values to purchase a Farm 

 Bureau home. 



The Boone county property consists 

 of two buildings, one two-story limestone 

 with a brick front, 28'x60', and one L- 

 shaped cement building which extends 

 28' in width south of the main building 

 and 126' back and is the width of both 

 buildings in the rear. This gives usable 

 floor space of 8,736 square feet, in ad- 

 dition to the basement under the full 

 size of the two-story part. 



This building was taken over from a 

 merged bank for $4,000 — no down pay- 

 ment — and $50 a month plus interest. The 

 tenants who are now paying rent are 

 the Service Company, for oil warehouse 

 (Don Luhman, warehouse keeper and 

 mechanic), the Corn-Hog Committee, and 

 the Pontiac Sales Agency recently open- 

 ed in Belvidere by Ed Cunniff. whoso 

 wife is Romelle Fay of WLS. 



Total cash rental on the building now 

 amounts to $115 a month besides pro- 

 viding free office space for the Farm 

 Bureau. In addition, four vacant lots 

 have been rented just north of the build- 

 ing, which have been made into an Alad- 

 din filling station operated by Harold 

 Noble and Wayne Burton. 



The board of directors feel fortunate 

 in buying at the low figure and hope to- 

 turn the depression into some profit, says 

 Farm Adviser E. C. Foley. 



requirements of design to permit a low 

 cost all-weather construction consistent 

 with the traffic needs in order that the 

 largest possible number of miles may be 

 improved. — Editor. 



COOK COUHTT FAKM BUREAU'S MEW BUILDnO AT BLUE ISLUTD 



JUNE. 1935 



