ICOLTIJBAL ASSOCIATES 



-RECORD HF- 



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

 riculture. 



Gtorge Thlem, Editor 

 John Tracy, AuUtant 



Published monthly by the Illinois Agrricnltural Asaodation at 16S So. 

 Main St.. Sponcer. Ind. Editorial Offices. 608 S. Dearborn St.. Cbicaro, III. 

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 Bailing at special rate of postage provided in Section 412. Act of Feb. 28. 

 1925. authorized Oct. 27. 1925. Address all communications for publication 

 to Editorial Offices. Illinois Agricultural Association Record, 608 So. Dear- 

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 tnral Association is five dollars a year. The fee includes payment of fifty 

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 _^ , OFFICERS 



President, Earl C. Smith Detroit 



Vice-President. Talmage DePrees Smithboro 



C3orporate Secretary. Paul E. Mathias Chicago 



Field Secretary. Geo, E, Metzger Chicago 



Treasurer, R, A. Cowles Bloomington 



Ass't Treasurer. A, E. Wright Varna 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

 (By Congressional District) 



l«t to 11th E. Harris. Orayslake 



l»th E. E. Houghtby. Shabbona 



jSth C. E. Bamborough. Polo 



}«th .• Otto Stef fey. Stronghurst 



18th jj. Ray Ihrig. Golden 



JJth Albert Hayes. Chlllicothe 



*7th E. D. Lawrence. Bloomington 



18th Mont Fox. Oakwood 



l^h Eugene Curtis, Champaign 



•Olh K. T. Smith. Greenfield 



"1st Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



«2nd A. 0. Eckert. Belleville 



23rd Chester McCord. Newton 



»*th Charles Marshall. Belknap 



«Bth R. B. Endicott. Villa Ridge 



DEP.4RTMENT DIRECTORS 



Comptroller B. G. Ely 



Dairy Marketing Wilfred Sh.iw 



Finance R. A. Cowles 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing H. W. Dav 



Information Oeorse Thiem 



Lesral Donald Kirkpatrick 



Live Stock Marketing Bay E. Miller 



Office C. E. Johnston 



Organization V. Vaniman 



Produce Marketing F, A, Onugler 



Taxation and Statistic* J. C. Watson 



Transportation-Claims Division G. W. Baxter 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 



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



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



Illinois Agricultural Auditing Ass'n P. E. Bingham. Mgr. 



Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co A. E. Richardsoii. Mgr. 



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



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



Illinois Grain Co:p Harrison Fahmkopf , Mgr. 



Illinois Livestock Marketing Ass'n Ray Miller. Mgr. 



Illinois Producers* Creameries F, A, Gougler. J, B. Countiss. Rales 



Soybean M.lrketing Ass'n J, W. Armstrong. Pres. 



The New Corn-Hog Plan 



BY their 6 to 1 favorable vote in October, Americ£in 

 farmers who produce com and hogs emphatically de- 

 manded continuation of the corn-hog program in 

 1936 and 1937. 



WhUe the new program for the next two years has not 

 yet been officially announced, some of its probable contents 

 are indicated by agreements reached at preliminary con- 

 ferences of farmers and AAA officials. 



Permission to signers to increase hog numbers to 100 

 per cent of base was unanimously approved. This would 

 pave the way for a 30 per cent increase in production in 

 1936. Such an increase would still leave production about 

 20 per cent under the average for 1932-'33. 



An adjustment payment of $2.50 for each hog produced 

 up to 50 per cent of base is another recommendation. For 

 example, if your base is 200 pigs the maximum adjustment 

 payment would be $250. 



An optional reduction of from 10 to 30 per cent below 

 base corn acreage is another provision suggested. Each 

 signer would be required to grow at least 25 per cent of 

 base acreage. Corn adjustment payments would remain at 

 35 cents a bushel on estimated yield of retired acres. 



A revision of corn-hog bases on each farm by the "ap- 



praised method" has been suggested to permit equitable as- 

 signments of bases to all farms following recommendations 

 by local corn-hog committeemen. If properly administered 

 it would tend to heal one of the sore spots of previous crop 

 c'djustment programs. Assignment of quotas would be based 

 on past records of production, size and tj^e of farm, soil and 

 topography, equipment and other factors. 



The proposal that the acreage of soil-improving and 

 erosion-preventing crops on each farm be increased by an 

 amount equal to the acres retired from com production also 

 met with unanimous approval. Final drafting and approval 

 of the new corn-hog contract is now under way. 



Thus co-operative production in the combelt becomes 

 more securely intrenched beside co-operative marketing of 

 farm products and co-operative purchasing of farm supplies 

 as a benefactor of agriculture and the country. 



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Good Advice I 



WW. WAYMACK, associate editor of the Des Moines 

 ^ Register-Tribune, gave some needed advice to a 

 ■»'" group of 700 New England business men and po- 

 litical/leaders in Boston last week. 



Sp)eaking of the farm program, he said: "This thing, 1 

 believe, is permanent in its essentials — not necessarily the 

 present methods . . . but the actuality of having the farmer 

 at the national table from now on instead of tinder it catch- 

 ing the crumbs." 



The editor declared any party that hopes to take the 

 farm west "from those who politically now have its al- 

 legiance must, in my judgment, produce not a loving 

 declaration, but a specific plan, virtually a legislative pro- 

 gram in the form of a platform plank, so persuasive that 

 it looks at least as good as the Agricultural Adjustment Ad- 

 ministration and so concrete as to create confidence in 1936. 



"The farmer," said Waymack, "is rather weary of being 

 told that of course he is entitled to economic equality un- 

 der our system, but that every specific plan to achieve it 

 is unsound, unconstitutional, and un-American." 



The Issue Will Not Down 



BILLS have been introduced in the Illinois General 

 Assembly to return taxing power and administration 

 of pauper relief to the townships. The Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association favors such local administration. It 

 believes that local officials are more likely to administer 

 pauper relief with efficiency and economy than a larger unit 

 of government. But if the dutv of providing relief is shifted 

 back to the townships it should be done uniformly. 



There is no reason why Chicago, Cook county tov^nships 

 and the commission-governed counties should not levy for 

 poor relief the same as township-governed counties. So the 

 I. A. A. is supporting bills permitting commission-governed 

 counties to levy a poor relief tax in addition to the 25 cent 

 tax for general county purposes. The I. A. A. amendments, 

 likewise, empower the City of Chicago in which town.ship 

 government has been abandoned, to levy a maximum of 30 

 cents on a $100 valuation for poor relief purposes. 



While downstate townships have made heavy levies dur- 

 ing the past four years to carry their relief load, the figures 

 show that in Cook county in 1932 only $504,116 and in 1933 

 $253,000 were levied for current relief of the poor outside 

 of institutions. In 1934 and 1935 no levies were made. 



The bills supported by the Association will make it posr 

 sible for all communities to carry a reasonable portion of 

 their relief load. A vote against such an equitable plan can- 

 not be defended. How much longer must we put up with 

 the system under which downstate taxpayers must help 

 provide for Chicago's poor as well as their own? 



I. A. A. RECORD 



