upward climb of the property tax burden 

 with resulting' delinquency and hardship 

 on property owners will be resumed. The 

 demand is for more and more taxes, and 

 in the past because of our antiquated 

 tax laws property has been the unwilling 

 victim. 



The immediate need is for a revision 

 of the revenue article of the state con- 

 stitution limiting property taxes to not 

 more than 1 per cent of fair cash value, 

 and giving the General Asembly broad 

 powers to tax the other sources of reve- 

 nue. 



Organized farmers and other property 

 owners must keep on fighting until these 

 needed changes are enacted into law. 



Packers Attack Hog 



Processing 



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The validity of the Agricultural Ad- 

 justment Act and the processing tax on 

 hogs is being attacked in the federal dis- 

 trict court at Baltimore by a local meat 

 packer, who asked that the government 

 be restrained from taking any action 

 against the company or its properties 

 for failure to pay the processing tax on 

 hogs. 



The .American Institute of Meat Pack- 

 ers is reported to be behind the move. 

 It regards the suit as a test case. Four 

 Philadelphia attorneys have been hired 

 to assist the Baltimore lawyer in argu- 

 ing the case, a news dispatch states. 



"Oleo" Sales in Big Gain 

 During High Butter Market 



That old "bogey man," oleomargarine, 

 has raised its head again to figure in 

 an unusual situation in the dairy mar- 

 kets. While butter production is defi- 

 nitely reduced, and supplies exceedingly 

 light, both of which conditions in them- 

 selves support high prices, there have 

 been heavy decreases in consumption. 

 On the other hand, the shortage of do- 

 mestic supplies has been so acute that 

 regardless of reduced consumption, but- 

 ter prices have held sufficiently high 

 to attract a considerable amount of 

 foreign butter. A buyers strike, coupled 

 with increased production of butter sub- 

 stitutes, add to the upset condition of 

 the market. 



Recent published figures state that 

 oleomargarine production for January 

 1935 was 33,000,000 pounds, an increase 

 of 92 per cent above January 1934. 



Approximately 8,000,000 pounds of 

 foreign butter were received from Janu- 

 ary 1 to April 15, most of this being 

 New Zealand butter. More than half of 

 the above imports arrived since March 1. 

 More recently butter prices have dropped 

 sharply and consumption is reported 

 again on the jncrejise. 



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Brock to McHenry 



John H. Brock assumed his duties as 

 farm adviser in McHenry county recent- 

 ly succeeding W. • A. - Herrington who 

 resigned to take over Farm Bureau- 

 Farm Management 

 ^^^^^^ Service in Wood- 



■pB^iHk ford, Tazewell, Mc- 



^m \ Lean and Livingston 



ff ,.-tt^ 0fl counties. Prior to 



coming to McHenry 

 county Jack served 

 as farm adviser in 

 Bond county for the 

 past four and one- 

 half years. 



After receiving 

 his elementary edu- 

 cation in the Kan- 

 kakee public schools, he graduated from 

 the College of Agriculture, Univer- 

 sity of Illinois in 1925. Following grad- 

 uation he spent a year farming, then 

 did advanced registry testing work and 



for four years had charge of the dairy 

 herd improvement associations in Illinois, 

 working under the direction of Prof. C. 

 S. Rhode. Under Brock's guidance the 

 dairy herd improvement associations in- 

 creased from thirty-two to approximate- 

 Iv 60. 



Indianapolis Producers 



Reports Livestock Receipts 



JACK BROCK 



A total of 4.088 cars of livestock sold 

 by the Indianapolis Producers during the 

 first four months of 1934 brought $2.- 

 856,974.77, whereas 3,678 cars handled 

 during the first four months of 1935 

 brought a total of $4,463,615.30 — an in- 

 crease of approximately 60 per cent. 



During April the Producers handled 29 

 per cent of the cattle, 20 per cent of 

 calves, 28 per cent of the hogs and 57 

 per cent of sheep and lambs received at 

 Indianapolis besides placing nearly 5,000 

 feeding cattle. . . . j ,. 



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VACCINATE 



While They're Young 



SAVE monEY » AVOID RISK 



. .. USE FRESH, 

 POTENT FARM 

 BUREAU SERUM 



YOUR COUNTY FARM BUREAU 



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