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effort put forth to provide new prof- 

 itable outlets for American farm prod- 

 ucts. We recognize the vast field of 

 opportunity that lies before us. and we 

 believe that genuine support and coop- 

 eration of all interests should be given 

 in its development. 



"There is nothing inconsistent between 

 efforts to provide new outlets and new- 

 markets for American farm products, 

 and the program of the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation in supporting adjust- 

 ment of farm production to the need? 

 and requirements of markets. 



"In the meantime, while this new in- 

 dustrial outlet for farm products at prof- 

 itable prices to farmers is being de- 

 veloped, may I ask the industrial and 

 scientific leaders attending this confer- 

 ence to support and cooperate with the 

 efforts now being directed by organized 

 farmers to adjust production intelligent- 

 ly to the needs and demands of markets 

 as they exist." 



Publicity about the conference had a strong 

 anti-crop adjustment program flavor and the "fa- 

 mous" declaration of dependence on agriculture 

 originally attacked (later modified) the present farm 

 surplus control program. Mr. Smith's address, ac- 

 cording to j«port8 of obserrers at the meeting, 

 made a profound impression on many industrialists 

 and leaders present who have been disposed to 

 attack the AAA — Editor. 



RECORD 



r Let's Keep 'Em There 



(CJontinued from page 13) 



went along hand in hand with improved 

 farm purchasing power. By July 1934. 

 farm prices plus benefit payments hit 

 100, still below parity because of advanc- 

 ing industrial prices, but much higher 

 than they had been. Then began the 

 sharp climb as the full effects of the 

 corn-hog and other adjustment programs 

 and the drouth combined began to be 

 felt. By January 1935 farm prices were 

 at lOTtper cent of pre-war and when al- 

 lowance is made for effect of adjustment 

 payments, prices of all farm products in 

 January this year were 120 per cent of 

 pre-war. 



During the past four months there has 

 been no substantial improvement in 

 grain and certain other commodity 

 prices, but livestock prices, notably beef 

 cattle and hogs, have continued to ad- 

 vance with the result that the average is 

 estimated today at slightly above the 

 parity level. 



There is tremendous opposition to the 

 Agricultural Adjustment Act and pro- 

 gram by those who apparently desire to 

 purchase farm crops cheap and sell them 

 at high prices, and by those acting in 

 the capacity of middlemen, taking the 

 same margin whether farm prices are 

 high or low. Only by working together 

 through ^ective organization can farm- 

 ers adjust production and keep it within 

 consumptive demand. Only through ef- 

 fective organization can agriculture be 



JUNE. 1935 ";■■'-•'"•■-■■ 



NOTICE 



II.I-l\OIS A«;RlCrl-TlRAL 



\SSiOCIATIO> 



KLE»TIO> OF pELECJATFS 



\oticr In hereby srlTen that in oon- 

 neotion wHh the annual meeflnK of 

 the county Farm Bureau, to lie held 

 during the month of Jane. 193.1. at 

 the hour and place to be determlued 

 by the Board of Director* of each 

 respective county Farm Bureau, the 

 memherH in Rood Mtandine of anch 

 county Farm Bureau and who are 

 alao qualified votinic member* of 

 I I I i n o 1 N AKrIcnItural AxHOciation 

 Hhall elect a delegate or d^lcRateR 

 to reprcMent Kuch members of lilt- 

 noln Asricultural AMaoclation and 

 vote on all mntterK before the next 

 annual meetlnic or any Kpecial meet- 

 ins of the AHHociatlon. including; the 

 election of offlcerw and directorfi aM 

 provided for in the by-lawn of the 

 Aftaociation. 



The annual meetlne of the Oiele 

 t'ounfy Farm Bureau tvill l»e held 

 Jnne 4. !»».'. 



(Miened^ 



i«\lL. E. MATHIAS. 



Corporate Secretary. 

 May SO. lIKt.'. 



See Pres. Roosevelt On 



Farm-fo-Market Roads 



properly represented or heard before 

 Congress. 



To maintain parity prices adjustment 

 programs must be continued. It requires 

 proper legislation to obtain authority for 

 such programs and the sympathetic as- 

 sistance of Government in carrying them 

 out. Only through effective organiza- 

 tion can laws affecting agriculture be 

 kept on the statute books and be amend- 

 ed from time to time to meet the de- 

 mands of changing conditions. We may 

 later need legislation to handle the chis- 

 eler. Organized groups get what they 

 go after. Unorganized groups usually 

 pay the bill without being heard on the 

 proposition. 



O'Neal at Ithaca 



In a recent speech in Ithaca. N. Y^ 

 Edward A. O'Neal, president of the 

 AFBF stated that "with a national in- 

 come of 50 billion dollars, agriculture 

 today should be receiving 12 billion . . . 

 the 1932 gross farm income of the 

 -American farmer was $5,331,000,000; 



1933 income went to $6,256,000,000; the 



1934 farm income increased to 

 $7,200,000,000." When the national in- 

 come, reaches the more nearly normal 

 level it formerly represented, Mr. O'Neal 

 said, agriculture's share should be . in 

 the neighborhood of 18 billion. 



For 35c, no more no less, Illi- 

 nois Farm Bureau members may 

 receive the American Farm Bu- 

 reau Federation Official News Let- 

 ter. Send your subscription through 

 your County Farm Bureau or di- 

 rect to the AFBF at 68 E. Wash- 

 ington St. Chicago. 



A committee of national Farm Bureau 

 leaders called on President Roosevelt at 

 the White House May 24 to ask his con- 

 sideration of a change in policy affect- 

 ing the building of secondary farm-to- 

 niarket roads. 



A letter expressing the viewpoint ot 

 farmers on this question was directed to 

 the President as follows: 



"This conference was sought for the 

 purpose of conveying to you the view- 

 point and wishes of a vast majority of 

 farmers of the United States on the sub- 

 ject of secondary road construction. 



"We believe a comparatively less ex- 

 pensive type of construction than that 

 now used is highly desirable- 



"This change in policy would make 

 possible a much greater mileage and 

 provide a much greater number of rural 

 citizens with a needed service. 



"It also peculiarly adapts itself to the 

 use of unemployed people in nearly all 

 communities of the United States. 



"We feel that under the policies of the 

 Bureau of Public Roads almost exclusive 

 attention has been given systems of pri- 

 mary highways, and that the time has 

 arrived when much more consideration 

 should be ^iven to the construction of 

 lower type' ECONOMICAL ALL- 

 WEATHER RURAL HIGHWAYS. 



"We ask youf earnest and favorable 

 consideration of this recommendation." 



(Signed) 



Edw. A. ONeal, Pres. A. F. B. F. 



Earl C. Smith. Pres. I. A. A. 



Lewis Taylor, Pres. Indiana 

 Farm Bureau Federation. 



A. J. Olsen, Pres. Minnesota 

 Farm Bureau Federation. 



R. W. Brown, Pres. Missouri 

 Farm Bureau Federation. 



G. F. Holsinger, Pres. Virginia 

 Farm Bureau Federation. 



Geo. M. Putnam, Pres. New 

 Hampshire Farm Bureau Fed- 

 eration. 



W. C. Spargo, Pres. New Jersey 

 Farm Bureau Federation. 



S. M. Buckingham, Connecticut 

 Farm Bureau Federation. 



Chester Gray, Washington Rep- 

 resentative, A. F. B. F. 



Farm Bureau members who have used 



the petroleum services of county service 

 companies in the last two years have 

 received an average patronage dividend 

 amounting to $39.55. 



.\ccording to Printers' Ink. an adver- 

 tisers' trade journal: "Cooperatives to- 

 day are in |the same favorable condition 

 for future ferowth and expansion as the 

 chain stor^|movement was back in 1910." 



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