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Illinois floRicuLTURflL flssociflTiON Record 



To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organized 

 namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, politicai , 

 and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation, and 

 to develop agriculture. 



ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 



Create ft State Farm Organization in Arnerica 



OFFICERS 



President, Eabl C. Smith Detroit 



Vice-President. Talmage DeFrees Smithboro 



Corporate Secretary, Paul E. Mathias . . . .Chicago 



field Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger Chicago 



Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Bloomington 



Ass't Treasurer, A. R. Wright ..Varna 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 



(By Congressional District) 



1st to 1 1th E. Harris, Grayslake 



1 2th E. E. Houghtby, Shabbona 



1 3th C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



14th Otto Steffey, Stronghurst 



15th M. Ray Ihrig, Golden 



16th Albert Hayes, Chillicothe 



17th E. D. Lawrence, Bloomington 



18th Mont Fox, Oakwood 



19th Eugene Curtis, Champaign 



20th K. T. Smith, Greenfield 



2Ist Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



22nd A. O. Edcert, Belleville 



23rd Chester McCord, Newton 



24th Charles Marshall, Bellcnap 



25tl> R. B. Endicott, Villa Ridge 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



Comptroller R. G. Ely 



Dairy Marketing Wilfred Shaw 



Finance R. A. Cowles 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing H. W. Day 



Information — Publicity George Thiem 



Legal and General Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick 



Live Stock Marketing Ray E. Miller 



Office C. E. Johnston 



Organization G. E. Metzger 



Produce Marketing F. A. Gougler 



Safety C. M. Seagraves 



Taxation and Statistics 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 Agr. Auditing Ass'n. .F. E. Ringham, Mgr. 



Illinois Agr. Mutual Ins. Co.. .A. E. Richardson, Mgr. 



111. Agr. Service Co Donald Kirkpatrick, Secy. 



111. Farm Bureau Serum Ass'n. .Ray E. Miller, Mgr. 



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



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



Illinois Grain Corporation. .Harrison Fahrnkopf, Mgr. 



Illinois Livestock Marketing Ass'n . . Ray Miller, Mgr. 



Illinois Milk Producers' Ass'n. .Wilfred Shaw, Mgr. 



Illinois Producers' Creameries . . F. A. Gougler, Mgr. 



J. B. Countiss, Sale Mgr. 

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



Published monthly by the Illinois Agrricultwral Asso- 

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 Section 412, Act of Feb. 28, 1925, authorized Oct, 2'!', 

 1925, Address all communications for publication to 

 Editorial Offices, Illinois Agrricultural Association 

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GEORGE THIEM, Editor 



JOHN TRACY, Asst. Editor 



Good News If True 



THE Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act has passed 

 the Congress and been signed by the President. Now the im- 

 mediate problem is to work out the details and secure a practical 

 administration of the program for the best interests of all concerned. 



The fundamental principle of keeping production in balance with 

 the demands of markets at fair price levels for which farmers have 

 been fighting has been retained as a feature of the new legislation. 

 How well the act achieves this purpose only the future can disclose. 

 But of one thing there can be no doubt. That is the wisdom of a 

 national policy, and an individual farm policy as well, of conserving 

 and improving soil fertility — the nation's most important resource. 

 There can be no valid criticism of this goal. 



One aspect of the new program has been given too little emphasis. 

 That is lowering production costs. As soil fertility and productiveness 

 increases, costs per unit go down. Farm cost records disclose the 

 supreme importance of high yields per acre in making the farm pay. 

 The new plan definitely directs itself toward less extensive but more 

 intensive cultivation. It gets at a business fundamental about which 

 we shall hear more and more. 



In a recent interview, Henry Ford is quoted as saying that "we are 

 getting bravely over the theory of high prices and scarcity, the fallacy 

 that making fewer things and selling them for more money creates 

 prosperity." Then the writer comments pertinently that "Mr. Ford 

 was alluding to the practice of business to get together for the main- 

 tenance 'of high prices." Good news if true. 



"Characterizing maintenance of high prices as 'a racket or trust' ". 

 the writer continues, "Mr. Ford pointed to several items close to 

 where he sat in an associate's office as being unreasonably priced. He 

 referred to one article which he said cost him $12 and which he could 

 make for 25 or 30 cents. 'It's true of so many things.' he said." 



Farmers have insisted from the beginning that they were forced 

 into the adoption of acreage and crop limitation because of the dis- 

 parity between the prices of the things farmers sell and the prices 

 of the things they buy. Agriculture is more than willing to reduce its 

 costs of production and produce food and raw materials at reasonable 

 prices. Will industry meet the farmer half way? 



