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The 

 Illinois Agricultural Association 



RECORD 



Volume 13 October. 1935 Number 10 



Fight On AAA Contin 



■ Liberty of Farmers To Maintain Parity Prices Is Issue 



BITTER attacks against the crop 

 adjustment program have con- 

 tinued since the passage of the 

 AAA amendments. But applications 

 for injunctions to restrain collection of 

 processing taxes have suddenly ceased. 

 While little publicity has attended the 

 procedure, hundreds of temporary in- 

 junctions previously granted, it is 

 understood, have been dissolved and 

 collection of revenues out of which 

 adjustment payments are made are fast 

 getting back to normal. 



The Potato Control Act, put through 

 Congress with very little consideration 

 in the closing days of the session, 

 caused a new outburst of propaganda 

 and criticism against AAA. This bill 

 was not asked for by the Agricultural 

 Adjustment Administration. It was 

 hastily drawn at the request of Sena- 

 tors and Representatives from a hand- 

 ful of major potato-growing states and 



W21S vigorously supported by such men 

 as Brewster of Maine land Sen. Bailey 

 of North Carolina both of whom have 

 been extremeljf critical of the farm 

 program. Many oeiieve that this Act 

 in its present form providing for defi- 

 nite allotments and a tax of three- 

 fourths of a cent per pound on potatoes 

 sold in excess of allotments would be 

 impossible of enforcement. 



Potato growers in such states as 

 Maine, North Carolina, Idaho, Minne- 

 sota, Wisconsin and others have been 

 hard hit. They had a bumper crop 

 last year, although there is little evi- 

 dence, as has been charged, that farm- 

 ers co-operating in other adjustment 

 programs have been shifting their ad- 

 justed acres to potatoes. Administra- 

 tor Chester C. Davis is directing an 

 investigation to determine the truth 

 of this situation. 



In the meantime enforcement of the 



Potato Control Act will probably be 

 held up because no money has been 

 appropriated for this purpose. Prevail- 

 ing market prices of potatoes are about 

 45 per cent of parity and under present 

 demand conditions, it is estimated that 

 potato producers in the United States 

 might expect to receive approximately 

 $72,000,000 more for a total crop of 

 340,000,000 bushels than for 490,000.000 

 bushels. 



Mark Sullivan of the New York 

 Herald Tribune, a typical mouthpiece 

 of big business in the East writes: "The 

 process (of production control) cannot 

 stop with the farmer. Once restriction 

 is put upon farm crops it must be put 

 on articles that compete with farm 

 crops. Soon there will be restrictions 

 on silk and rayon. It must go on until 

 there is price fixing of every commod- 

 ity and ultimately wage fixing in every 

 area of life." (Continued on page 4) 



COME HOME TO ROOST! 



