ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN SESSION 

 "After a Slow Starf Down to Serious Worli." 



Left: 

 taxation 



Legislature Passes Bills 

 lAA Considers Others 



IFTER a slow start, the lUi- 

 J Tr "°'* legislature is getting 

 ^^^^ f down to serious work in 

 considering the great mass of bills 

 thrown into the mill. The bill specifical- 

 ly exempting tractors, threshing machines 

 and other farming equipment that oc- 

 casionally use the highways from paying 

 motor license fees was passed by both 

 houses and has been referred to the 

 governor for his signature. 



The 4-H clubs of the state are going 

 to have a couple of new buildings, one 

 for junior home economics, the other for 

 junior livestock exhibits at the Illinois 

 State Fair. A bill appropriating the 

 money was passed by both houses and is 

 now on the governor's desk. 



The House Agricultural Committee 

 voted 24 to 1 on April 13 to support 

 the so-called Filled Milk Bill. Filled 

 milk is ordinary cow's milk from which 

 the cream and butterfat have been re- 

 moved and replaced with imported cocoa- 

 nut oil. The bill before the legislature 

 would place a tax of 2c a can on the 

 business of manufacturing and selling 

 filled milk in Illinois. Approximately 

 48 cans of filled milk are manufactured 

 from 100 lbs. of fluid milk. The only 

 plant making filled milk in Illinois is 

 located at Litchfield. Its manufacture 

 has been outlawed in the major dairy 

 states and there are only a few plants in 

 the United States making such canned 

 milk. The Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion and dairy farmers represented by the 



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Illinois Milk Producers Association, Pure 

 Milk Association, Sanitary Milk Pro- 

 ducers, and other groups appeared in be- 

 half of the bill before the Committee 

 of the legislature. The lAA legislative 

 committee at Springfield has been study- 

 ing scores of other bills that aflfect farm- 

 ers interests among them proposed school 

 and road legislation, the new insurance 

 code, and licensing bills. 



At the April meeting of the lAA board 

 several of these matters were considered 

 when the board adopted a report sub- 

 mitted by its Committtee on Public Rela- 

 tions. The board voted to support the 

 Milk Sanitation Bill which has been pre- 

 pared under the direction of the Illinois 

 Milk Producers Association. It provides 

 minimum sanitation requirements and is 

 more practical and much less stringent 

 than regulations proposed by a great 

 many municipalities. 



The lAA is interested in seeing that 

 the 10,000 mile secondary road system 

 proposed in bills sponsored by the State 

 Highway Department be equitably dis- 

 tributed among the counties and that the 

 funds available be spent wisely to get the 

 most serviceable farm-to-market roads for 

 the money. 



The Association directors voted to 

 sponsor legislation on strip mining that 

 will require putting the earth back in 

 place so as to restore soil resources and 

 valuations for the support of govern- 

 ment. 



The Association will oppose any bill 



IN THE GALLERY 

 John C. Watson, lAA director of 

 and Stanley Castle of Madison county. 



that requires a man to be licensed before 

 he can paint his own house or barn, or 

 engage in certain horticultural pursuits. 

 There is some talk of legislation en- 

 abling counties to set up their own lime- 

 stone quarries to produce agricultural 

 limestone. The lAA will not sponsor 

 such legislation, neither will it oppose it. 



Bert Vandervliet of Danforth, Iro- 

 quois county, Illinois, formerly research 

 assistant in the rates and research depart- 

 ment of the Illinois Commerce Commis- 

 sion, was recently appointed to assist 

 John C. Watson, director of the Taxation 

 and Statistics Department of the lAA. 

 Mr. Vandervliet took up his new work 

 April 1st. 



B. F. Mitchell, Vice President ot 

 Coles-Douglas Service Company, an- 

 nounced a $36,829.49 increase in sales 

 the past year at the annual meeting of the 

 company held at Mattoon. Patronage 

 dividends of $24,000.00 were distributed 

 to Farm Bureau member patrons. The 

 company served 73 per cent of the Farm 

 Bureau members in the two counties. 

 Fred E. Herndon addressed the meeting. 



In Randolph county 96 per cent of 

 the Farm Bureau members patronized the 

 Randolph Service Company during the 

 past year, M. H. Voss, manager, an- 

 nounced at the last annual meeting of the 

 company. Patronage dividends of $9,- 

 432.00 were distributed to 698 Farm Bu- 

 reau member patrons, an average of 

 $13.50 per member. Fred E. Herndon 

 was the principal speaker. 



"In the December Illinois Agricultural 

 Association RECORD, you had a very nice 

 write-up about my poultry farm and hatch- 

 ery which we all enjoyed reading very 

 much. Would it be possible to get five 

 more copies.' 



Richard Reimers, Lake County 



L A. A. RECORD 



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