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To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was 

 organized namely, to promote, protect and represent the 

 business, economic, political and educational interests of 

 the iarmers of Illinois and the nation, and to develop ag- 

 riculture. 



Reorce Thiero, Editor 

 John Tracr. Ajcistoat 



Published monthly by the Illinoi? Arricnltaral ABSociation at 165 So. 

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OFFICERS 



President. Earl C. Smith Detroit 



Vice-President. Talmape DeFrees Smithboro 



Corporate Secretary. Paul E. Mathias Chicago 



Field Secretary. Geo. E. Metz^er Chicago 



Treasurer. R. A. Cowles Bloominrton 



Ass't Treasurer. A. R. Wri(rht Varna 



BO.ARD OF DIRECTORg 



(By Congressional District) 



1st to 11th E. Harris. Grayslake 



12th E. E. HouKhtby. Shabbona 



ISth C. E. BamborouBTh. Polo 



14th Otto Stef fey. Stronehurst 



ISth M. Ray Ihriit. Golden 



18th Albert Hayes. Chillimthe 



17th E. D. Lawrence. Bloominirton 



18th Mont Pox. Oakwood 



19th Eufrene Curtis. Champaiirn 



lOth K. T. Smith. Greenfield 



3l8t Samuel Sorrells. Raymond 



22nd A. O. Eckert. Be'leville 



2Srd Chester McCord. Newton 



24th Charles Marshall. Belknap 



2Sth K. B. Endicolt. Villa Bidirr 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



Comptroller R. G. Ely 



Dairy Marketinr J. B. Conntiss 



Finance R. A. Cowles 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing H. W. Day 



latarmation Georre Thiem 



Leral Donald Kirkpatriok 



Llye Stock Marketing Ray E. Miller 



Omea C. E. Johnston 



Orcanizatinn V. Vaniman 



Produce Marketing F. A. Oongler 



Taxation and Statistics. J. r. Watson 



'A'aiiaportation-Claims Division G. W. Baxter 



ASSOriATED ORGANIZATIONS 



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



Farmers' Mutual Reinsurance Co J. H. Kelker. Mgr. 



nUnols Agricultural Auditing Ass'n P. E. Ringham. Mgr. 



niinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co A. E. Richardson. Mgr. 



Illinois Farm Supply Co L. R. Msrchant. Mgr. 



nUnoli Fruit Growers' Exchange H. W. Day. Mgr. 



niinois Grain Corp Harrison Fahrnkopf . Mgr. 



nUnois Livestock Marketinir .\ss'n Roy Miller. Mgr. 



nunols Producers' Creameries F. A Gongler. J. B. Countiss. Sales 



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



Industry On The Spot 



FARMERS have known for some time that America is 

 suffering from underproduction of industrial goods. 

 Therefore they welcome recognition of this fact by 

 representatives of big business who are in a position to do 

 something about it. At a recent meeting of 500 sales 

 executives in New York, Clarence Francis, executive vice- 

 president of General Foods Corporation, pointed out that 

 only one new pair of pants was manufactured for every 

 three men in the country last year. Only one overcoat was 

 made for every 11 men and shirt statistics show only 2'4 

 for each man. 



"America is suffering from underproduction, not over- 

 production," said Francis. "The United States is ripe for 

 a replacement and replenishment program such as the world 

 has never seen before. 



"We need new cars, new houses, new clothes, new shoes, 

 new radios with television, new air-conditioning in dwell- 

 ings and work places. We need new foods, machinery, 

 comforts, and culture. We need to clean up and paint up. 

 We need to raze thousands of antiquated factories and 

 houses — rebuild and modernize." 



Agriculture can say "Amen!" to this program. Farmers 

 are doing their part in production. There is plenty of food 

 and agricultural raw materials for everyone and at bargain 

 prices if you consider average returns to the farmer. The 

 farm price index on September 15 was 107, whereas com- 

 modities farmers bought were at 125, a disparity of If 

 points compared with 1909-1914 price levels. 



Industry has quite a ways to go yet to match present 

 production and prices of farm products. High cost of food 

 propaganda aimed at the farm comes ■with poor grace from 

 the c'*'es where the seat of the trouble lies. Industrial 

 manufacturers, processors and distributors are on the spot. 

 Let them do their part to close the gap between farm and 

 non -agricultural prices by lowering prices, expanding pro- 

 duction, narro'wing margins, and thus paving the way for 

 greater consumption of goods, increased employment, and 

 prosperitv. 



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 Reqimentation And The AAA 



THE recent corn-hog referendum should put at rest the 

 criticism that the crop adjustment program "regi- 

 ments" farmers and deprives them of their "liberty." 

 This was pointed out by President Earl Smith at the 

 annual meeting of the Cass Cbunty Farm Bureau when 

 he said, "Whatever the decision it will express the think- 

 ing of those farmers who vote on the Question after a 

 presentation and discussion of facts pertinent to present 

 and future marketing conditions affecting com and hogs. 

 The ballot is a secret one. Every producer may vote his or 

 her convictions. The fact that there is a referendum dis- 

 closes the iniustice and unfairness of those critics and op- 

 ponents of the Agricultural Adjustment program who have 

 declared that farmers are being 'regimented' and deprived 

 of their 'liberty.' 



"Production and price control," he continued, "are in- 

 herently a part of the American economic system. If Amer- 

 ican agriculture is to avoid becoming impoverished it too 

 must put into effect intelligent adjustment of crop produc- 

 tion to the demands of markets at profitable price levels. 

 Agricultural adjustment merely applies principles to the 

 production of crops long recognized as essential to successful 

 business and industry," 



Factory Payrolls Up 



A RECENT study by L. H. Bean, economic adviser to 

 the AAA, discloses that so far as the employed fac- 

 tory worker is concerned we now have a fair balance 

 between earnings, food prices, and non-food living costs. 

 Earnings for emploved workers advanced nearly 38 per 

 cent from March 1933 to August 1935. Food prices also 

 advanced 38 per cent. Food prices used in the study are 

 those of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and include rel- 

 atively high prices of meats due to the 1934 drouth, and 

 much lower prices for fruits, vegetables, dairy products, 

 and other foods. 



Illinois payrolls climbed 51 per cent from 1932 to the 

 first eight months of 1935. reports Dr. R. W. Bartlett of the 

 University of Illinois. The greatest percentage increase 

 occurred in Moline — ^home of farm implement factories — 

 where payrolls this year averaged more than three times 

 those of 1932. 



Remember the slogan of organized Illinois farmers two 

 years ago, "Give us a price and we'll buy the nation back 

 to prosperity." The prediction has come true. There has 

 been recovery in ijayroDs and employment just to the ex- 

 tent that increased farm income has made it possible for 

 farmers to get back in the buying market. . 



I. A. A. RECORD 



