President Roosevelt Talks 

 Plainly About The AAA 



mg out ovir the cnttdti firlcis he s;iid In 

 me: 



" 'What a trrt"!'! 'iiihiIh'I- of raspl)errif- 

 they (riow down here!' 



"Rasphorrifs was riflil. At 4^2 cents 

 a pouiiii for cotton his niistakf was, per- ■ 

 haps, a natural one. 



"The crocodile tears shed hy the pro- 

 fessional mourners of an old and oi)- 

 solete order over the slaughter of little 

 piirs ami other measures to reduce sur- 

 plus agricultural inventories deceive very 

 frw thinkintr i>eople and least of all thi' 

 farmers themselves. 



"The acknowledged destiny of a pic 

 IS sausajre, or ham, or hacon or pork. In 

 these forms millions of pips were con- 

 sumed by vast numbers of people who 

 fitherwise would have had to do without. 



"Let me make one other point clear 

 for the benefit of the millions in cities 

 who h:ive to buy meats. Last year the 

 nation suffered a drought of uniiaral 

 lelod intensity. If there had been no 

 iTOvernment prfmrani —if the old order 

 had obtained in lit.'?.'! and I'.'.'U — that 

 droutrht on the cattle ranges of .\mer 

 ica and in the corn belt would have re- 

 sulted in the marketing of thin cattle, 

 immaturi' hogs and in the death of t^iese 

 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 prograrn saved the lives of mil 

 lions of head of livestock. They are still 

 on t-he 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 b< 

 led astray by the solemn admonitions 

 and specious lies of those who in the past 

 profited when your distress was great- 

 est. . . . 



"Becau.-e your cause is so Just no one 

 hay the temerity to question the mo- 

 tives of your 'march on Washington.' 

 It i.s a good omen for government, for 

 business, for bankers and for the cit\ 

 dwellers that the nation's farmers are 

 becoming articulate and that they know 

 whereof they speak." 



Under the Fedei;al Housing Adirinis- 

 tration plan, the owner may borrow up 

 to ?2.nfl0 to improve one property 



I'he .Mai'iiupin County Kami Hureaii 



chartered two three-car trains on the 

 Illinois Terminal System to the Peoria 

 mass meeting and filled them to capacity 

 with .'!().'! people, writes W. V. Coolidge. 

 county farm adviser. "Besides this group 

 st'veral carloads drove up. We estimated 

 the Macoupin county crowd at 32,5 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. RFXORD 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- 

 sion. 



Sanitary Milk Producers announce the 



signing of 12.'^" new members from April 

 :i to the middle of May. The association 

 waived the .§.t entrance fee for a fiO-day 

 period. On June 3 the fee goes hack into 

 force. 



Rental and benefit payments, removal 

 of surplus operations and expenses un- 

 iler the .AA.A up to April 1 Smounted 

 to S7T(),10.'!,.')78.10, while processing tax 

 receipts for the same period totaled 

 ST77..">40,8!M.ltfi. Of the total collections 

 wheat processing taxes were S212,.54().- 

 liW.77. cotton $21'.>.llfi.024.81. hogs 

 $227..">7t;,411.4'.t. tobacco $42.4'.i4,(t!i8. field 

 corn $;t,78:?,.")!l8.4.'l. 



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 Ui.'?0 

 and has been teach- 

 t five and one-half years 





pat 



L'jicle .Ab siays that what we think we 

 should be is e measure of what we can 

 be. if wp onlv think it harH onniijrh 



iiig for th 

 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- 

 versitv at Carhondale 



Piatt County Adviser 



K. O. Johnston who until recently has 

 been assisting in corn-hog admiitistra 

 tion work under Mr. 

 Surratt of the State 

 committee was ap- 

 pointed farm adviser 

 in P i'a t t county 

 .May 1. 



Mr. Johnston 

 graduated from the 

 University of Illi- 

 nois, College of .Ag 

 riculture. in lil2i'>. 

 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. 



C( 



E O JOHNSTON 



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 headcjuarters 

 for the Farm Bureau and the Lake-Cook 

 Farm Supply Company at Blue Island. 



Cook Couiity is unique in having two 

 distinct headquarters. This is made 

 necessary because of the geographical 

 arrangement of the county with one arm 

 extending northwiest from Chicago as 

 far as Elgin, and the other extending 

 south beyond Chicago Heights. The 

 metropolitan are;i divides the rural sec- 

 tions of the county. The main office at 

 .Arlington Heights is where O. (J. 

 Barrett, farm adviser holds forth while 

 .M. ff. 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 lfi02 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 



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