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Salem in 1901. 



Franklin County Has 



New Agricultural Adviser 



Jerome A. Embser, recently appointed 

 County Agricultural Adviser in Frank- 

 lin County, was born on a farm near 

 He taught vocational 

 agriculture at New- 

 ton Community High 

 School after grad- 

 uating from ±he 

 University of flli- 

 nois in 1927. More 

 recently he has been 

 teaching at Aledo in 

 Mercer County 

 where he assisted in 

 4-H club work and 

 in fostering 1 i v e- 

 stock judging con- 

 tests. Embser also 

 [itomoted a number of com and poultry 

 .•shows in Mercer County and was active 

 in the County Fair. Mr. and Mrs. Emb- 

 ser have two boys, Joe, 5 years and 

 John. two. 



J. A. EXBSEB 



Await Court Decision 



(Continued from page 17) 

 because their proceeds are used to pay 

 bounties to farmers? 



"Well, in view of long-established Con- 

 gressional practice it is now very late 

 in our history to come forward with the 

 notion that Congress may not use tax 

 funds either for the granting of bounties 

 or for a purpose that is wholly beyond 

 the power of Congress to control by re- 

 strictive regulation. 



"This fact the court itself has recog- 

 nized. Without any critical comment 

 whatever, it once declared that 'since the 

 foundation of the government, as an 

 examination of the acts of Congrress dis- 

 close, a large number of statutes appro- 

 priating or involving the expenditures of 

 moneys for non-Federal purposes have 

 been enacted and carried into effect.' 



"On the whole, it looks as if the AAA 

 has an excellent chance of running the 

 gauntlet of the Supreme Court un- 

 scathed." 



The position of the government in 

 sustaining the validity of cotton process- 

 ing taxes is supported in a brief filed 

 with the Supreme Court by the Amer- 

 ican Farm Bureau Federation as a 

 "friend of the court" in the Hoosac Mills 

 case. The brief urges upon the court 

 the close analogy between the protective 

 tariff tax and the processing tax. The 

 protective tariff tax, which has been held 

 constitutional by the court, the Federa- 

 tion argues, obtains for industry a higher 

 price for its domestic products, and the 

 processing tax has the same objective 

 with respect to surplus farm commodities 

 on which the tariff system is ineffective. 



The only difference between the two 



Here Are Vital Points 



of New Corn-Hog Plan 



Provisions of the 1936-37 corn-hog 

 contract recently announced by the Agri- 

 cultural Adjustment Administration are 

 as follows: 



1. Base acreage and number of pigs 

 on each farm are to be established by 

 community committees and reviewed by 

 County allotment committees to assure 

 uniformity. 



2. Corn adjustment in 1936 is from 

 10% to 30% of corn base with exact per- 

 centage at option of producers. Planting 

 of not less than 25% of base acreage 

 required. 



3. Producers shall raise in 1936 not 

 less than 50% and not more than 100% 

 of his market hog base 



4. Hog payment next year will be 

 $1.25 per head for each hog raised in 

 the market base. 



5. Corn payment next year to be at 

 rate of 35c per bushel, times the ap- 

 praised yield on adjusted com acreage. 

 Payment in two installments about Au- 

 gust 1 and December 31. 



6. Tenant and landlord share corn 

 payments according to respective inter- 

 ests in assigned base and as the corn 

 crops under the lease are divided on 

 each separately owned tract Tenant 

 and landlord may make division accord- 

 ing to number of adjusted corn acres on 

 each separately owned tract. 



7. Hog payments are to be divided be- 

 tween tenant and stock-share landlord 

 as they divide hog crop or proceeds from 

 sale of hogs under lease. 



8. Planting of soil improving or ero- 

 sion preventing crops required vn ad- 

 justed corn acreage. 



taxes, it is pointed out, is that the pro- 

 tective tariff tax attains its objective 

 through the threat of imposition of the 

 tax, while the processing tax attains the 

 same objective through expenditure of 

 proceeds of the tax. The processing tax 

 raises a large revenue and provides a 

 balanced federal budget so far as the 

 farm program is concerned without sub- 

 sidy from the federal treasury. 



The brief refers to the Massachusetts 

 cod fishery bounties which originated as 

 a part of the first protective tariff act 

 and remained in effect for three-quarters 

 of a century. The bounty was enacted 

 by the First Congress in 1789 to offset 

 the disadvantages of the protective tariff 

 to the cod fishing industry, and to in- 

 crease the income of the fishermen. 



It is said that this constitutes a con- 

 trolling contemporaneous legislative con- 

 struction of the constitution to the effect 

 that bounties are within the constitu- 

 tional power of Congress, and that there- 

 fore rental payments made under gov- 



With Our County 



Farnn Bureau Presidents 



DAHA CBTDEK 



One of the youngest County Farm 

 Bureau Presidents in the State is 

 Dana Cryder, age 33. first class farmer, 

 pure bred livestock breeder and 

 former leader in 4-H club work. 



His excellent work as 4-H club lead- 

 er over a period of nine years at- 

 tracted the at- 

 tention of Ken- 

 dall County 

 farmers. When 

 the time came 

 to choose a new 

 leader two years 

 ago they figured 

 that a man who 

 had made a suc- 

 cess of organiz- 

 ing and operat- 

 ing 4-H clubs 

 might do 

 equally as well 

 at the head of 

 the Farm Bu- 

 reau. Their judgment has been sus- 

 tained. 



Dana is known as a young man who 

 has the courage of his convictions. He 

 is progressive in his outlook on life 

 and in his farming operations. On the 

 320 acre farm he operates near 

 Minooka in Lisbon township, he fol- 

 lows the best practices recommended 

 by the Farm Bureau in crop rotation, 

 soil improvement and livestock pro- 

 duction. Cryder has an excellent herd 

 of purebred Herefords. He sells breed- 

 ing stock, also feeds cattle for the 

 market. 



Probably the youngest charter mem- 

 ber of the Kendall County Farm Bu- 

 reau. Dana, before being elected presi- 

 dent, served as director from his 

 township for several years. He is rep- 

 resentative of the younger leaders 

 being developed in the Farm Bureau 

 throughout Illinois. He owes much 

 to his father who placed responsib lity 

 on him at an early age in managing 

 and operating the farm. 



Cryder attended Carlton College for 

 two years and in 1924 was graduated 

 from the University of Minnesota. 

 There are two children, a boy six and 

 a girl, two. The Cryders have a mod- 

 ernized farm home and a neat set 

 of buildings with electricity and many 

 conveniences. You will find many 

 services of the Farm Bureau being 

 used on the Cryder farm. Dana is a 

 100% cooperator and like most good 

 farmers uses limestone, alfalfa and 

 sweet clover in maintaining the fer- 

 tility of the soil and making the farm 

 pay. 



L 



ernment contract with farmers to take 

 their acreage out of production, are also 

 valid. 



The brief points out that the court, in 

 sustaining the protective tariff system, 

 also relied on the protective tariff act of 

 1789 as a contemporaneous legislative 

 construction of the Constitution. . .... 



(Continued on page 22) ;.'v.:r 



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