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COLTVIAL A8SOGIA 



RBCOR 



To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau \oas or- 

 ganized namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, 

 economic, political and educational interests of the farmers of 

 Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 



GruTsr Thirm, Editor 

 John Tracy. Aluiiatant 



IMlhl'HhfMl mnnttllr hr thp llllnnis Affrlrnltiirfll ApWK-iation at 165 S<t. Matn 

 St.. SpeDfcr. In<1. Editorial Offices. 008 S. Deaiiwrn St.. Chicago. 111. Entered 

 Hit 8e<-oncl class matter at iKtst office. Spencer. Ind. Acceptance for mailing at 

 sttecial rate of iKtstage providwl In Section 412, Act of Feb. 28. 1925. authorized 

 0*'t. 27. 1925. Address all communications for publication to Editor'al Offices. 

 Illinnls AKriciilliiral Asxwiatlon Record. 608 So. Dearborn St.. riiicago. The 

 iniliridual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is five dollars 

 n jear. The fee includes payntent of fifty cents f"r subscription to the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association RECORD. Postmaster: Send notices on Form WTS 

 and undeliverablf copies returned under Form 3."i71i to editorial offices. 60S 

 SiHith Deart>om Street. Chicago. 



OFFICERS 



President. Earl C. Smith Di'ti-oM 



Vice-President. TjiIii-.-il'-- hei-' ..*.s . . .Smlthboro 



Corporate Secretary. Paul E. Matbias Chi"ago 



Field Secretary. Oeo. E. Metzger Chicago 



Treasurer. R. A. ("owles Illoomington 



.Ass't Treaaorer. A. R. Wright Varna 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 



(By Congressional District) ; 



Isf to llth K. Harris, Grayslalie 



r.'th E. E. Iloughfby. Shabbona 



13th C. E. Bnmborough. Polo 



nth Otto Steffey. Stronghurst 



l.Mh M. Itay Ihrig. Goldin 



16th Albert Hayes. Chillicothc 



17lh - . .' E. D. Lawrence. Bloomington 



18th Mont Fox. Oaltwood 



19th Eugene Curtis. Champaign 



20th K. T. Smith. Greenfield 



21st Samuel Sorrells. Raymond 



22nd A. O. Eckert. Belleville 



2Srd ; Chester McCord, Newton 



24th Charles Marshall. Bi'lknap 



25th R. B. Endictt, Villa Ridge 



DEPABTMENT DIRECTORS 



Comptroll r H. G. Ely 



Dairy Marketing J. B. Ciountl.ss 



F'Dancc R. A. Cowles 



Fiult and Vegetable Harketing '. II. W. Dav 



Information Georg'- Thleni 



Ijcgal Donald Kirkpatrick 



l.ive Sto<k Marketing Ray E. Miller 



Office C. E. Johnston 



Organization V. Vaniman 



Produce Marketing F. A. Oougler 



Tasation and Statistics J. C Watson 



Transp^Ttation-Claima Division G. W. Baxter 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 



Country Life Insurance Co L. .\. Williams. Mgr. 



Farmers' Mutual Reinsurance Co J. H. Kelk*T. Mgr. 



Illinois Agricultural Auditing Asa'n .F. E. RInglmui. Msr. 



Illinois .\gricultural Mutual Insurance Co .\. E. Rlchartlson, M;:r, 



Illinola Farm Sapply Co I.. R. Marchnnt, Mgr. 



Illinois Fruit Growers' Exchange II. W. Day. Mcr, 



Illiziois Grain Corp Harrison Fabrnkopf, Mgr. 



lllinoi? Livestock Marketing Ass'n Ray Miller. Mg>-. 



Illinois PrtKlucers' Creameries F. A. Gougle*. J. B, Countiss. Sales 



Soybean Marketing Aaa'n J. W. Armstrong. Pres. 



Further Mortgage Relief 



REDUCTION of interest rates on federal land bank loanb 

 to 3% per cent commencing July 1, 1935 will bring mucii 

 needed relief to Illinois farmers. 



This measure which was supported by the I. A. A. and 

 the American Farm Bureau Federation is in line with the 

 Farm Bureau's long continued efforts to make available to 

 farmers' as low a rate of interest as other groups are re- 

 ceiving. The Farm Bureau has consistently fought for a 

 credit system for agriculture suited to the needs of farmers, 

 a system through which the ability of the government to bor- 

 row at low rates of interest is made available to agriculture. 



The rate of 3V4 per cent will continue for one year when it 

 will be raised to four per cent commencing July 1, 1936. On 

 loans made directly by the Land Banks interest rates will be 

 cut to four and 4*/4 per cent respectively for these periods. 

 The 3% per cent rate applies only to loans made through 

 national farm loan associations. 



" ' Trees Along Highways 



ILLINOIS farmers have been scanning with a skeptical eye 

 the planting of shade trees along the public highways of 

 the state. 



One of the chief objections to this practice which has been 

 stimulated by the unemployment situation and the use of relief 

 clients on highway grading and artificial beautification, is 

 that when the trees mature they will shade large areas of 

 cultivated ground and sap fertility and moisture from adjoin- 

 ing fields. 



Farmers also point out that "planting of trees along state 

 highways is not a sound policy either in respect to safety of 

 traffic, or in respect to the great need for further improving 

 secondary roads." A resolution to this effect adopted at a 

 conference of County Farm Bureau officials in the 15th con- 

 gressional district was concurred in by directors of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association in their May meeting. 



It is well known that large shade trees along the highways 

 contribute toward the retention of ice and snow on the pave- 

 ment and also shed leaves which when wet add to driving 

 hazards. The fact that there are yet some 60,000 to 70,000 

 miles of unimproved country roads in the state indicates that 

 state funds spent on trees and landscaping can be put to more 

 practical and beneficial use in pulling thousands of Illinois 

 farmers out of the mud by gravelling farm-to-market roads. 



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Complaint Not Justified 



CURRENT complaint of high cost of living is not justified 

 by comparison of food prices and prices of other com- 

 modities and services. The Bureau of Agricultural Eco- 

 nomics shows that food prices are 14 per cent below the gen- 

 eral average of living costs. In 1933 they were 24 per cent 

 below. Clothing and rent, although more nearly in balance 

 with food prices than other items, are still about 12 per cent 

 higher than food. Prices of other living items, such as fuel, 

 I lights, household goods and miscellaneous items of health and 

 recreation average 64 per cent more than food. Yet one 

 seldom hears complaints of these inequalities. 



During the month of May prices paid by farmers for com- 

 modities bought were at 128 based on the 1910-'14 index at 

 100, but the ratio of prices received to prices paid was at 

 84. So if anyone should complain about price inequalities 

 it is farmers. 



All Mixed Up 



HOWARD WOOD, financial editor of the Chicago Tribune 

 has been consistently blaming crop adjustment for the 

 rise in the cost of food. Apparently the strategy has 

 been to get the consumer down on the AAA. Now comes 

 Thomas Furlong, grain market reporter for the same paper 

 who concludes that "crop control measures undertaken under 

 the agricultural adjustment program do not appear, after a 

 year of experiment, to have had a material influence on the 

 trend of prices of principal grain crops." It was the drought 

 that came to the rescue. The boys ought to get together so as 

 not to confuse their readers. 



The big city press seems to be equally mixed up about the 

 processing tax. At different times it has been asserted that 

 the consumer pays the tax. Then supporting the propaganda 

 of the commission men they have told the farmer that he paid 

 it in a lower price. Encouraged by the Supreme Court decision 

 on NRA, the smaller packers recently have unloosed a bar- 

 rage of suits to enjoin the government from collecting the 

 processing tax on hogs. Anti-AAA papers have seized upon 

 this as another juicy morsel and are now telling the world that 

 packers are being put out of business because of the processing 

 tax. All of which is a good example of the absurdities that 

 grow out of careless if not wilful disregard of truth. ■ . 



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