Illinois flGRicuLTURflL flssociHTioN Record 



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 agriculture.' '[\" • :l'^:::. - ■ ■ - > 



May, 1936 " 

 Vol. 14 No. 5 



ILLINOIS AGRICULIURAL ASSOCIAIION 



Greatest Stale Farm Organization m America 



OFFICERS ;V ; 



President, Ea«l C. Smith Dettoit 



Vice-President, Talmage DeFrees Smithboro 



Corporate Secretary, Paul E. Mathias Chicago 



Field Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger Chicago 



Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Bloomingcon 



As^t Treasurer, A. R. Wright Vama 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 



' ■■ . (By Cengressional District) -.V"-'.''.}. 



1st to 1 1th E. Harris, Grayslake 



1 2th E. E. Houghtby , Shabbona 



13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



Hth Otto Steffey, Stronghurst 



15th M. Ray Ihrig, Golden 



16th Albert Hayes, Chillicothe 



17th E. D. Lawrence, Blooinington 



18th H rman W. Danforth, Oakwood 



1 9th Eugene Curtis, Champaign 



20th K. T. Smith, Greenfield 



21st Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



22nd A. O. Eckert, Belleville 



23rd Chester McCord, Newton 



24th Charles Marshall, BelKnap 



25th R. B. Endicott, Villa Ridge 



DEPARTMEXT D'RECTORS 



Comptroller R. G. Ely 



Dairy Marketing Wilfred Shaw 



Finance R. A. Cowles 



Fruit and Veg-table 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. Metxger 



Produce Marketing F. A. Gougler 



Safety C. M. Scagraves 



Taxation and Statistis J. C. Watson 



TransportationClaims 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. .P. E. Ringham, Mgr. 

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



ni. Agr. Service Co Donald Kirkpatrick, Secy. 



ni. Farm Bureau Serum Ass'n. .Rav E. Miller, Mgr. 



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



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

 Illinois Grain Corporation . . Harrison Fahmkopf, 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, Sales Mgr. 



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GEORGE THIEM. Editor 



JOHN TRACY. Asst. Editor 



All over America, in every state, 

 county and community, one of the 

 greatest educational campaigns 

 ever launched in this or any na- 

 tion, is under way. Its purpose is 

 to shift more crop acres to grass, 

 to conserve soil, increase fertility, 

 reduce erosion. With $440,000,000 

 behind it, the program is bound to 

 achieve a large measure of suc- 

 cess. You can get things done with 

 money. 



Because there are families to 

 provide for, expenses to meet, debts 

 and taxes to pay, the questions 

 most commonly heard are, "What 

 effect will the program have on 

 com prices?" "How will it affect 

 wheat?" "What about its influ- 

 ence on livestock?" Few think of 

 the plan in terms of the next 100, 

 200, or 600 years. Yet from his- 

 tory we learn that the soil and the 

 people, on it, comprise the chief 

 asset of any nation. The United 

 States and the Soviet Union are 

 perhaps the richest nations in the 

 world because of their soil and 

 mineral resources. England, with- 

 out her colonies, would be a weak- 

 ling. Her far-sighted leaders saw 

 this hundreds of years ago. Japan 

 and Italy, both poor in natural 

 wealth, only recently hate awak- 

 ened to the weakness of their posi- 

 tion. Thus their efforts to expand 

 in Manchuria and Ethiopia. 



Japan and Italy are poverty- 

 stricken countries. Their people 

 are desperate. And when people get 

 that way, they will risk much to 

 get relief. Two Russians who made 

 a thorough economic study of Japan 

 report that this nat'on couldn't 

 last more than a year in a war 

 with a major power. There isn't 

 enough good soil in Japan to feed 

 her people. The standard of liv- 

 ing is low in both Japan and Italy 

 because of inadequate soil. An- 

 nexation of fertile lands will re- 

 lieve the presure in both nations. 

 Their leaders know it and are do- 

 ing something about it. 



"Why should the government pay 

 us for doing what we ought to da 

 any way," comments an honest and 

 conscientious soul about the soil 

 conservation program. Your first 

 reaction is to agree, "Why, indeed." 

 Looking deeper, you realize that 

 government must think not of this 

 generation alone but of the many 

 generations to come. Government 

 might compel every farmer to prac- 

 tice soil conservation as some for- 

 eign countries are doing, without 

 remuneration. But such is polit- 

 ically impossible here. No adminis- 

 tration would dare try it, not in 

 1936 anyway. So good soil prac- 

 tice is being rewarded by cash 

 grants. 



You remember, too, that gov- 

 ernment is anxious to promote the 

 welfare of its people. You cannot 

 have prosperity in America with- 

 out a balance of prices and income 

 between farm and city. Putting 

 more acres in grass will tend t« 

 keep down burdensome farm sur- 

 pluses, maintain better prices. By 

 enacting protective tariff laws for 

 industry beginning as far back as 

 1789, by allowing monopolies t« 

 grow up and maintain more or less 

 rigid prices for their products, gov- 

 ernment has encouraged a system 

 which agriculture must embrace, 

 too, if it is to pay its way. 



There has been a lot of incon- 

 sistency in our national policies. 

 We reclaim a pood deal of land 

 from swamp and desert that isn't 

 needed. We financed the European 

 War, got into it ourselves, exhorted 

 American farmers to plow up more 

 land to feed the Allies, loaned bil- 

 lions after the war to rehabilitate 

 war torn Europe, created aa 

 enormous national war debt. AH 

 this the result of bad national pol- 

 icy. Government had much to de 

 with creating "the farm problem." 

 Why shouldn't it be equally solici- 

 tous of solving it.— E. G. T. 



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