. I liLilIMOIS 



COLTVRAL ASSOCIA 



RECORiy 



To advance the purpose for which, the Farm Bureau was 

 organized namely, to promote, protect and represent the 

 . brisiness, economic, political and educational interests of 

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

 riculture. 



Gtorm Thlem, Editor 

 Jobn TnwT, Aniitant 



Published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Association at 165 So. 

 Main St.. Spencer. Ind. Edito.ria! Offices. 608 S. Dearborn St.. Chicago. 111. 

 Entered as second class matter at post office. Spencer. Ind. Acceptance for 

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

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

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

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

 cents for subscription to the Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD. 

 Postmastrr: Send notices on Form 3578 and nndeliverabl^ copies returned 

 under Form 3579 to editorial offices. 608 South Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



OFFICERS 



President. Earl C. Smith Detroit 



Vice-President, Talmase DePrees Smithboro 



Corporate Seen tary. Paul E. MathiiM Chicago 



Field Srcretary. Geo. E. Metzcer Chicago 



Treasure-. R. A. Cowles Bloomington 



Ass't Treasurer. A. R. Wright Varna 



B0.4RD OF DIRECTOKS 

 (By Congressional District) 



1st to lllh E. Harris. Grayslake 



12th E. E. Houghtby. Shabbona 



law C. E. Bamboronrh. Polo 



14ta,.. Otto Sleffey. Stronghurst 



■ JJtt-- M. Ray Ihrig. Golden 



IJI*-. Albert Hayes. ChllUeothe 



J71B E. D. Lawrence. Bloomington 



I2« ■ • ■ ■ • Mont Fox. Oakwood 



Itntt Eugene Curtis. Champaign 



20th K. T. Smith. Greenfield 



81st Samuel Sorrells. Raymond 



22nd A. O. Eckert. BelleTille 



2Srd Chester McCord. Newton 



24th Charles Marshall. Belknap 



25th R. B. Endicott. Villa Ridge 



DF,r.4RTMENT DIRECTORS 



Comptroller ... .a Q Ely 



Dairy Marketing Wilfred Shaw 



Finance B. A. Cowles 



Pruit and Vegetable Marketing H W Day 



Information George Thiem 



LPPal Donald Kirkpatrick 



Live Slock Marketlnir Ray E. Miller 



Office C. E. Johnston 



Organization G. E. Metzger 



Produce Marketing p. a. Gourler 



Taxation and Statistic?.. J. C. Watson 



Transportation-Claims Division g! W. Baxter 



AS80ri.\TED ORGANIZATIONS 



Country Life Insurance Co L. .4. Williams. Mgr. 



P,irmers' Mutual Reinsurance Co J. H. Kelker. Mgr. 



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



Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Oo .A. E. Richardson. Mgr. 



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



Illinois Fruit Growers' Exchanre H. W, Dav, Mgr. 



Illinois Grain Corp Harrison Pahrnkop'f. Mgr. 



Illinois Livestock Marketing Ass'n Ray Miller. Mgr. 



Dlinois Producers' Creameries F. A. Gougler. J. B. Coontiss. Sales 



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



Time To Wake Up 



THE Detroit Free Press recently set forth at considerable 

 length the many lines of business benefited by increased 

 prosperity in the motor industry. It presents the in- 

 dustry as a great benefactor of the country. The ramifica- 

 tions of motor car manufacture as a market for a wide 

 variety of materials are indeed interesting. According to 

 the Free Press the auto industry uses 75 per cent of rubber 

 imports, 70 per cent of all plate glass, 57 per cent of mal- 

 leable iron, 40 per cent of upholstery leather, 40 per cent of 

 mohair, 40 per cent of lead, 30 per cent of all nickel con- 

 sumed, 20 per cent of American steel output, 15 per cent of 

 all aluminum, 13 per cent of cast iron, 13 per cent of the 

 country's tin, 12 per cent of zinc, 500,000 bales of cotton 

 yearly, 10,000,000 gallons of paint, 500,000,000 board feet of 

 lumber, 30,000,000 pounds of hair and padding and so on. 

 The Free Press might have pointed out further thai the 

 motor industry and all those dependent on it wouldn't 

 amount to much without buyers. "The farmer shines in this 

 capacity when he gets a fair price for his products. Farmers 

 as a class comprise the greatest users of transportation in 

 the world. 



Detroit papers have been especially critical of the 

 farm program and the advance in agricultural prices 

 from the lows of 1932 - '33. Yet few large cities are more 



c'ependeni on farm prosperity. Rural people buy approxi- 

 mately half 'of Detroit's motor output. The future welfare 

 of this city, as most large cities, is inseparably linked with 

 the future welfare of the farmer. It's time that Detroit 

 editorial writers, and industrial and white collar workers 

 Gverjrwhere get wise to this fact. - . . , 



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Business OK's Crop Adjusfment 



THE metropolitan press has been strangely silent about 

 the recent report of the United States Chamber of Com- 

 merce Agricultural Committee. That report gives un- 

 oualified approval to the crop adjustment program. 



"Continued production of surpluses for which there is no 

 possibility of adequate return, which result in destructively 

 low prices to producers, and which lead to impoverishment 

 of the soil on which most of our economic structure depends, 

 is contrary to the public interest," in the opinion of the 

 Committee. 



The report on the whole represents a complete repudia- 

 tion of anti-AAA propaganda for which Chicago dailies 

 have been notorious. If we had real freedom of the press 

 in America — freedom from prejudice, political bias, and 

 phort-sighted appeal to class interest — this carefully pre- 

 pared report would be given publicity and attention at least 

 equal to the views of the politicians, and processors and 

 handlers. 



Next! ' 



Now that the Chicago Board of Trade has publicly ad- 

 mitted paying $8700 to carry on "hearings" and propa- 

 ganda against co-operative grain marketing under the 

 auspices of the decrepit Farmers National Grain Dealers 

 Association, it is in order for financial backers of the so- 

 called Farmers Independence Council to come out from 

 hiding and tell who they are. The Council is attempting to 

 rescue the farmer from the terrors of AAA "regimentation" 

 and loss of "liberty." This in spite of the fact that farmers 

 recently voted 6 to 1 to continue as is. The existence of 

 propaganda agencies parading as benefactors of farmers but 

 in reality representing other interests, is nothing new. Our 

 files disclose that quite a few have come and gone in the 

 I.-ast ten years. But they emphasize the necessity of care- 

 fully considering what you read and hear over the radio, as 

 to the source and motive behind it. 



The New National Policy 



THE new emphasis being given erosion control by the 

 federal government is indicative of an awakened na- 

 tional consciousness that the basic wealth of the na- 

 tion lies in its soil. We are at last coming to realize that the 

 days of destructive exploitation are over — that conservation 

 must be the new national policy, A trip around Illinois dis- 

 closes what really important work is being done by the Soil 

 Conservation Service. Filling ditches and guUeys, strip 

 farming and control of soil washing is "old stuff" to thou- 

 sands of good farmers. Yet the existence of millions of once 

 fertile acres that have been wholly or partly ruined by 

 erosion fully justifies a permanent program to stop such 

 losses. The time will come when the practice of erosion 

 control methods will be compulsory. And why not? 



Well Said I 



THE business combinations that have given the American 

 people excessive tariffs and mergers that operate in re- 

 straint of trade for raising prices produced the corre- 

 spending artificial AAA set-up in the agricultural industry, 

 William Hard, news analyst and political writer, recently 

 told Chicago business men, "As long as we have the one 

 we shall have the other," he said. 



I. A. A. RECORD 



