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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. 



June, 1936 

 Vol. 14 No. 6 



ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 



Greatest Slate Farm Organization in America 



OFFICERS 



President, Eau. C. Smith Detroit 



Vice-President, Talmage DeFrees Smithboro 



Ctrporate Secretary, Paul E. Mathias Chicago 



Field Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger Chicago 



Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Bloomington 



Ass't Treasurer, A. R. Wright Varna 



^^ ■ _ "A- BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

 (By Cnigressional District) 



Itt to 1 1th E. Harris, Grayslake 



12th. . E. E. Houghtby, Shabbona 



13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



14th Otto Steffey, Stronghurst 



15th M. Ray Ihrig, Golden 



16th Albert Hayes, Chillicothe 



17th E. D. Lawrence, Bloomington 



18th Herman W. Danforth, Danforth 



Ifth Eugene Curtis, Champaign 



20th K. T. Smith, Greenfield 



21ft Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



22nd A. O. Eckert, Belleville 



2Jrd Chester McCord, Newton 



24th Charles Marshall, Beluiap 



25th 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 



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. B. Ringham, Mgr. 

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



ni. Agr. Service Co Donald Kirkpatrick, Secy. 



m. 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 Fahmkopf , Mgr. 

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

 Illinois Milk Producers' Ass'n . . Wilfreid 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 



Counting Ballots In Election of Com- 

 mitteemen at Soil Conservation Meeting, 

 Cumberland County. 



The annual conference of the 

 American Institute of Co-operation 

 this minth at Urbana is the big 

 event of farm interest in June. The 

 program is presented in detail on 

 the following pages. 



Here visitors will get a glimpse 

 of the vast strides co-operative 

 marketing, purchasing, and credit 

 have made in this country. They 

 should know, too, that the surface 

 hardly has been scratched in this 

 field. But a start has been made — 

 a very encouraging start. 



Chester C. Davis, AAA Adminis- 

 trator looking into Europ«an trade 

 possibilities, was quoted in London 

 the other day as saying, "no mat- 

 ter what policy our government 

 adopts relating to farm trade and 

 farm exports, there is not the 

 slightest hope that we can regain 

 for some important commodities 

 the great markets that we enjoyed 

 before the crisis in world trade and 

 agriculture." 



Not so good. We shall be inter- 

 ested in hearing in greater detail 

 Chester's impressions after travel- 

 ling through Europe. He will speak 

 at the Institute on the University 

 of Illinois campus, Monday night, 

 June 15. When you arrive at Ur- 

 bana for the conference, register 

 and get information about rooms 

 and other facilities at the Univer- 

 sity Auditorium, says Prof. H. C. 

 M. Case, who is in charge. 



The Soil conservation program is 

 moving along with excellent prog- 

 ress, reports indicate. More cattle 

 and sheep and fewer hogs will be 

 one effect of the program, the 

 State College of Agriculture pre- 

 dicts. This forecast is based on the 

 removal of substantial acreages 

 from corn to grass. At the Chicago 

 meeting in March, Wisconsin dairy 

 leaders wailed that a deluge of 

 milk would result from increasing 

 grass acreage. Farm economists 

 at Urbana say NO. "There may 

 be actual net decrease in total pro- 

 duction of meat and no material 

 change in the present production 

 of dairy products compared with 

 that in the period immediately 

 preceding the AAA program." 



Every smart dairyman knows 

 that you can't maintain a heavy 

 milk flow very long on grass and 

 hay alone. Grain and protein con- 

 centrates are needed to keep up the 

 flow from the high producers. Who 

 knows of a cow that delivered as 

 much as 8,000 pounds of milk in a 

 year on hay and grass alone? 



Who said times are not much 

 better than they were a few years 

 ago ? Here are some late figures 

 of interest to Illinois farmers. Value 

 of Illinois crops sold for March 

 1933 totaled 11,531,000. By 1935, 

 March sales of crops aggregated 

 $3,716,000. And this year the fig- 

 ure for March sales, believe it or 

 not, is $8,772,000. The Bureau of 

 Agricultural Economics is the au- 

 thority. 



Similarly, in livestock and live- 

 stock products, sales from Illinois 

 farms mounted from $11,233,000 in 

 March 1933 to $22,134,000 in 1936. 

 Illinois has been more fortunate 

 than some other states. Several of 

 our principal products advanced 

 during the past year — ^hogs, chick- 

 ens, milk cows, sheep^many others 

 declined. 



How far from parity are we? 

 On April 16 prices received by 

 farmers, all groups, stood at 105 

 compared with 1909-1914 of 100. 

 At the same time prices paid by 

 farmers for the things they buy 

 stood at an index of 121.— E. G. T. 





