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CCLTVMAL ASSOCIA 



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until it can expand its market?. To recommend that we go 

 lack to the old system of every farmer for himself, as somt 

 critics of the AAA suggest, is foolish." -J . 



To advance the purpose for whiqh the Farm. Bureau was or- 

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

 economic, political and educational interests of the farmers of 

 Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 



CrorKC Thlrm. RalHor 

 John Trary. AnslMniit 



PnM'dhpd m'>nth]r hv thf TlUnoU .*«r'-u-iiU"r«l Asw>olnt!in nt 10' So, yjn'n 

 8t.. Sp<»lic<'r. Tn'l. Eflitorlnl Offl''«'«. flOS S. Penrborn St.. Cll'mgo. Ill- Kntpro<l 

 as wrond rlnRR ninttpr «t post offlpo, Snpnrpr. Tnrl. Arcfptnnoe for mnllinff nf 

 ■ppflnl ratp of pn»;tnpe proTMp^l in Sprt'on 412. Act of Feb. 28. IftO."!. ntitlio''l7o0 

 Oct. 27. l!>2ri. ArMrrpf* nil rnmmiinlriitionK for pnhlfontton to EfVtor'jil Offlops, 

 nilnoi* AcrlonUnml A«sori.Ttlon RoooM. tUVi Po. Pearhorn St.. Ctilonffo. Tlie 

 InfliTidnnt mpinhership fpo of the Ilt'no'fi A!rrinitt"ral Adsoolntlon Is fire i1nl!n'-R 

 11 ypnr. Thp fpp in'''"''r>« nrtmiont of flffr ront« for (othfiorintion to tlip t1ltno<K 

 Aerirnltiirnl Awioclatlon HECOHD. Poptmn^ter: Sond notlroR on Form a"T« 

 and nndplivorablo coplof rptnrnpd under Form 3570 to ed'tor'nl offlres. flO« 

 South Ppnrtwrn Street. Clilcago. 



OFFICERS 



rrpsi.lpnt. Earl C. Smith p-f o't 



Tlce-Prppidpnt. Taln'ncp PoF- o*-*. Smltbboro 



Corporntp Serretarf . Panl K. Mathiaa ... Chtonffo 



FipM Sprretary, Geo. E. Metiger Tbioago 



Tronsiiivr. I?. A. CoTvlep Woointneton 



A»s*t Treaanrer. A. R. Wr'irbt Varrn 



BOARS OF DIRECTORS 

 (By ronitrpoaional District) 



li-t to 11th E. n»r'-l». Grayslake 



l?th E. E, HoniththT, Shnbhonn 



IS'h ; r. E. Bamhoronch. Poln 



14th Otto Slpffey. Stronehnri't 



IKth M. Ray Ihr'B. Oolrton 



intb Alhprt Hayea. Chinipotlio 



■17th E. P. Ijiwrenre. Blc^mineton 



isth Mont Fox. Oakwood 



mtli Eiitrenp Cnrtta. Champaign 



20tli K. T Smith. Oreenflpld 



21«t Snmiipl SoTpllo. Rarmond 



22nd A. O. EolCPrt. BpHptIIIp 



2.'Jrd CheatPr McTord, Xpwton 



24th Chnrloa Mnrchall. Bp1l(nnp 



25th R. B. Endloott. Villa Rldjre 



SEPAXTXENT DIRECTORS 



Comptroli - R. o. Ely 



Dairy Mnrkptiar J. B. Coiintlsi. 



Finance R. .K. Cow'lps 



Fruit and Vpgptable Marketing 11. W. Day 



Information Oeorsp ThiPm 



Ipgnl Donald Kl'kpafrtpk 



Live Stock Marketlnc Rnr E. Millet 



omce C. E. Johnston 



O' gnnijtatlon V. Vantman 



Prodiipp Marketing F. A. Gongler 



Taintion and Statistics J. r Watson 



Trani'portatlonClalma Dirlslon G. W. Baxter 



ASSOCIATED OROANIZATIOMS 



Coimtry T.tfp Insurance Co I,. A. Williams, Mgr. 



Farmers' Miitnnl ReinanraDCe Co J. H. Kelk4'r, Mer. 



Illinois Agricnltural Auditing Asa'n F. E. Bingham, Mer. 



Illinois Agi-iPiiItnral Mntnal Insurance Co A. E. Richardson, Mgr. 



Illinois Farm Supply Co L. B. Marchant, Mgr. 



Iliinols Fruit Groners' Exchange H. W. Day, Mgr, 



Illinois Grain Oorp Harrison Fahrnknpf, Mgr. 



Illinois I.iTpstock Marketing Aas'n Ray Miller. Ms-. 



Illinois Producers' Creameries F. A. Oouglc. .T. B. Counllss. Sales 



Soyhenn Marketing Asa'n J. W. Armstrong. Pres. 



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Good Sense 



"NTIL our markets can be expanded I can see nothing 

 but production control in years when crops exceed 

 the demand," Harper Sibley, Rochester, N. Y., 

 president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, said in an ad- 

 dress before the American Society of Farm Managers at 

 (Jrbana recently. 



"We may even have to go farther with controlled produc- 

 tion than we yet have gone," he added. In addition to his 

 manufacturing interests in the East, Mr. Sibley is a large 

 land owner and operator in Ford County, Illinois. 



"There are some members in the U. S. Chamber of Com- 

 merce who are opposed to production adjustment because 

 they are processors and handlers and naturally are interested 

 in having a large volume of agricultural products," said Mr. 

 Sibley. "Personally I feel that we have not yet reached the 

 point where we can find buyers for all the products we can 

 grow under unlimited production. Industry has cut down 

 its output 50 per cent and agriculture too must stay down 



No Surplus Here 



THERE is no surplus of water systems, bath^bs, kitchei 

 sinks, washing machines, electricity and electrical equip- 

 ment for farm homes, judging from a survey reported to 

 have been made in Whiteside County, Illinois. 



Whiteside will average up well with the more prosperour 

 counties of the comparatively prosperous State of Illinois, 

 >et a farm-to-farm canvass discloses that among the 219<; 

 farm families in the county, 1800 have no bath-tubs, 174" 

 still use oil lamps, 800 have no kitchen sinks, 750 still carry 

 water to and from the kitchen, end 700 have no washing 

 machines. 



Production and price control of the manufacturers who 

 make these commodities and the people who install them has 

 been so rigid that farmers generally have not been able to 

 buy such equipment. With the proper adjustment of the 

 money and price mechanism, now partially accomplished, 

 nillions of unemployed men can be kept busy making and 

 installing home conveniences in return for the products of 

 the farm. 



Some people now blame government for its attempt to 

 Folve the problem of putting idle men and money to work 

 meeting human needs. These same people were not so crit- 

 ical two and three years ago. Most of them were plainly 

 scared. Raising the prices of gold and farm Commodities by 

 f.uthority of the Agricultural Adjustment Act undoubtedly 

 have been the chief factors in putting up the index of factory 

 payrolls from 37 in March 1933 to 71 in April 1935. Increased 

 farm buying has stimulated factory production and employ- 

 ment all along the line. \Mien farm income and buying pow- 

 er are up to where they should be, farm people can and will 

 have these conveniences the same as city people. The surface 

 of potential demand has hardly been scratched. :. ■' • ; 



Educating City People 



IT ISN'T often that a big city audience has an opportu- 

 nity to hear a talk on farm economics and the place of 

 agriculture in the life of the nation. But such a talk was 

 delivered a short time ago by I^reston Bradley, pastor of 

 the Peoples Church of Chicago. 



Dr. Bradley told his members most of whom are white 

 '■ollar workers, professional and business people, that times 

 rre getting better because the basic industry of the land, 

 agriculture, is showing signs of improvement. "The source 

 of wealth is only two things," he said, "earth and labor. No 

 one else creates any wealth. We are recipients of it, handle 

 it, transfer it, own it, but do not create it." 



The depression began, he continued, when agricultural 

 credit was destroyed by the terrific drop in farm prices. "The 

 first real elemental defect in our system was when credit 

 upon land was destroyed. Th? second when the producer 

 found that his own profit, after all the others had taken a 

 rrofit out of the thing he produced, was at such a minimum 

 that he could not maintain his own financial integrity. When 

 those two things happened to agriculture our depression be- 

 came a reality. 



"When the tragic condition that obtained in the field of 

 agriculture is treated fundamentally, prosperity for everyone 

 will follow." Teaching of such economic truths as these is 

 sorely needed in our metropolitan centers, for too many big 

 city dailies are hindering rather than helping recovery by in- 

 faming city consumers against efforts to restore that balance 

 between agriculture and the cities necessary to real pros- 

 perity. 





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