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I L« Li I N O I S 



LCOLTVMAL ASSOCIA 



-RECORD 



To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was 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. 



Groncr Thlrm. RdHor 

 John Trncy. AKBlaitaiit 



Pnlil'shpd ipnTiihlr hv tho Tlllnnlfi >7'-l^-n'tnnil AsMioIatton nt IB" Sn, Mn'n 

 St.. Srx-MOT, lw\. Ertitorlnl OW<v«, fins S. Denrhorn St.. rii'cniro 111 KnteroO 

 as spf^on't rln«» mntter «t post ot^ro. Snencpr. Tnd. Arppptnnre for mnilln? nf 

 Bppctnl ratp of pOBtnpe prorI«le«l In Spot'nn 412. Aet of Feb. 28. 1025. nntho'-lTPO 

 (Vf. 27. in2fi. AfMrPM nit rommilnlrntionp fnr pnhnrntlon to E«l''tnr'a] Offlpos. 

 II!lno!<s AirrfonUnrnl Ap»v>pint1nn nopn-Tl. WV9 Sn. ppnrhorn St.. Chfrneo. Tlip 

 Inrtivjdnnl mpmberithlp fpp of the Ill'no** Aeririiltt'ral Assoolntion is ftve rtnllffs 

 II yenr. The fee Inolmlps nf»vni«>»'t of flftr rents for lnihsrriT>tlon to the lUInrt'n 

 Airrionltiirni Axfioclatlon RECORD, roptmnster: Send notleen on Form 3^7« 

 • nd nndelfrerable copies returned tinder Form 3570 to ed!tor*nl offle«ii. 60S 

 Sonlli nenrhorn Street, Chleago. 



OFFICEKS 



Prenident. Earl C. Smith ivt-n't 



Vice President. T.nlii'nee P>-F ".--i Smltbboro 



Torpornte Secretary. Panl E. Mathlaa Chcaio 



Field Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger riiicago 



Treniiiirer. R. A. Cowle* Bloomfnetop 



ABs't Treagnrer, A. R. Wr'eht Varnn 



BOABS OF ontECTOKS 



(By ConirreBslonnl District) 



Itt to 11th E. HarvlK. Grayalake 



l?th E. E. Honehthy. Shahhona 



18'h r. B. Bamboroiieh. Polo 



Mth Otto Steffey. Stronehnrst 



ISth M Ray Thrli. Oolden 



18f h Albert Hayes. rhMllcothc 



•17th E. D. Ijiwrence. Blo'^mlnirton 



ISth Mont Foi. Oakwood 



19th Eaitene Cnrtls. Cbampaiim 



20th K. T Smith, Oreenfleld 



21at Samnel SotcIIs. Rftymond 



22n<1 A. O. EckiTt. BelleTllIe 



2.'?nl Cheater McCord, Newton 



?4th Charlea Marshall. Bolknnp 



Jsth R. B. Endlcoft, Villa Ridfre 



DEPASTKEKT DISECTORS 



Comptroii ■•• . R. O. Ely 



Dairy Marketing J. B. Oonntiss 



F'nance R. A. Cowles 



Fiiiit and Vegetable Marketing TT. W. Da.v 



Information Georep Thlem 



I.egnl Donald Kl'kpatrick 



Mye Stock Marketing Ray E. Miller 



Ofllce C. E. Johnston 



Ovgnnixaflon V. Vanlman 



PrtHlnce Marketing F. A. Goneler 



Taintlon and Statlfctica J. C Watson 



Transporiation-Clalma DiTlalon G. W. Baxter 



ASSOCIATED OROAVIZATIOHS 



Country I.tfe Insurance Co L. A. Williams. Mjcr. 



Farmers' Mntnal Reinsurance Co J. H. Kelker. Mpr. 



Illinois Agricnitural Auditing Aa«*n F. E. Ringbam, Mirr. 



Iltinoia A|t''lciiltural Mntnal Insurance Co A. E. Richardson, Mgr. 



Illinoia Farm Supply Co L. R. Marchant, Mgr. 



Illinois Fruit Growers' Exchange H. W. Day, Mgr. 



Illinoia Grain Oorp ;. Harrison Fahrnkopf. M«r. 



Illinois LlTestock Marketing Aas'n Ray Miller. Ms'. 



Illinois Producers' Creameries F. A. Gouglc-, J. B. Cmmtlss. Sales 



Soybean 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 

 Urbana 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 

 ♦hey 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 ceTit and agriculture too must stay down 



until it can expand its markets. To recommend that we go 

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

 critics of the AAA suggest, is foolish." 



No Surplus Here 



THERE is no surplus of water systems, bath tubs, kitchen 

 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 prosperous 

 counties of the comparatively prosperous State of Illinois, 

 \et a farm-to-farm canvass discloses that among the 2196 

 farm families in the county, 1800 have no bath-tubs, 1743 

 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, 

 Millions 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 

 authority 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. When 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 Cify 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 Preston 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- 

 flaming city consumers against efforts to restore that balance 

 between agriculture and the cities necessary to real pros- 

 perity. 



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