THE ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION RECORD 



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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 AUGUST 1937 



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



to develop agriculture. VOL 15 NO. 8 



Published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation at noi West Washington Road, Mendota, 111. 

 Editorial Offices, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, III. 

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Editor and Advertising Director, E. G. Thiem ; Assistant 

 Director and Ass't. Editor, Lawrence A. Potter, 



niinois Agricultural Association 



Greatest State Farm Organization in America 



OFFICERS 



President, Earl 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 



Ais't Treasurer, A. R. Wright Varna 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 



(By Congressional District) 



1st to 11th _ E. Harris, Grayslake 



12th _ E. E. Houghtby, Shabbona 



13th _ Leo M. Knox, Morrison 



14th _ Otto Steffey, Stronghurst 



15th _ .M. Ray Ihrig, Golden 



I6th Albert Hayes, Chillicothe 



17th _ „ C. M. Smith, Eureka 



18th Herman Vff. Danforth, Danforth 



19th Eugene Curtis, Champaign 



20th K. T. Smith, Greenfield 



21sL _ Dwight Hart, Sharpsburg 



22nd _ _ -A. O. Eckert, Belleville 



2}rd _ Chester McCord, Newton 



24th. Charles Marshall, Belknap 



25th _ August G. Eggerding, Red Bud 



DEPARTME^JT DIRECTORS 



Comptroller _ R. G. Ely 



Dairy Marketing Wilfred Shaw 



Finance R. A. Cowles 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing H. W. Day 



Legal and General Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick 



Live Stock Marketing _ Ray E. Miller 



Office. C. E. Johnston 



Organization G. E. Metzger 



PrcKJuce Marketing F. A. Gougler 



Publicity _ George Thiem 



Safety _ C. M. Seagraves 



Taxation and Statistics _ J. C. Watson 



Transportation-Claims Division. G. W. Baxter 



Young Peoples Activities Frank Gingrich 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 



Country Life Insurance Co Dave Mieher, Sales 



Manager; Howard Reeder, Home Office Mgr. 

 Farmers' Mutual Reinsurance Co. ..J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 



Illinois Agr. Auditing Assn F. E. Ringham, Mgr. 



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



Illinois Agr. Service Co Donald Kirkpatrick, Secy. 



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 Sales Mgr. 



GEORGE THIEM. Editor 



y/ S we go to press, de- 

 U At velopments in Wash- 

 ^^^r y ington on the new ag- 

 ricultural adjustment bill are both 

 favorable and unfavorable. On July 

 12, President Roosevelt urged sym- 

 pathetic consideration of new sur- 

 plus control legislation. He rec- 

 ommended no definite bill but out- 

 lined certain broad principles in- 

 cluding (1) continuation of the 

 soil conservation program as the 

 foundation of the long time plan ; 

 (2) adoption of surplus crop stor- 

 age; (3) protection of farm prices 

 and farm income. All these rec- 

 ommendations are in line with the 

 new surplus control bill sponsored 

 by the Farm Bureau. 



"We have not solved the problem 

 of crop stability yet though we 

 have made much progress," the 

 President saftl. "Warning signals are 

 already in ;sight. Existing laws 

 are not adequate to guarantee fu- 

 ture safety. It is my philosophy 

 that the time to repair a leaky roof 

 is when the sun is shining. . . . 



"Though the situation of the 

 moment is excellent we have no 

 safeguard, even in the year 1938, 

 against the great danger of loss 

 of income due to drought or 

 against the equally great danger of 

 low prices. 



"We welcome the prospect of 

 the early return to well-filled bins, 

 but we seek to avert the danger 

 of ruinously low farm prices if 

 bumper crops and overhanging sur- 

 pluses return. They can and should 

 be managed in a way to benefit 

 the entire country. . . Farmers and 

 consumers can be safeguarded 

 against the disaster that resulted 

 from the accumulation of surpluses 

 by the Federal Farm Board, by the 

 means of adjusting production and 

 marketing of the five major export 



crops. If such adjustment is made 

 available only after surpluses pile 

 up with crushing effect, the cost 

 will be prohibitive and the results 

 doubtful." 



On July 20, Chairman Jones of 

 Texas introduced his bill which 

 has the same objectives of the 

 measure sponsored by the Ameri- 

 can Farm Bureau Federation and 

 other groups. But the Jones bill 

 differs in certain marked respects 

 to the Farm Bureau's measure in- 

 troduced by Rep. Flannagan. The 

 Jones bill would levy processing 

 taxes when heavy surpluses accum- 

 ulate to raise funds for additional 

 benefits to co-operating farmers. It 

 lacks the marketing quota feature and 

 heavy penalty taxes on those who sell 

 in excess of their quotas as provided 

 in the Flannagan bill. Another point 

 raised against the Jones bill in 

 committee is that "like the old 

 AAA bill it purchases compliance, 

 and under the Supreme Court de- 

 cision is unconstitutional." 



The Flannagan bill makes no 

 mention of processing taxes which 

 under the majority Supreme Court 

 decision proved a fatal weakness. 

 The Jones bill would levy proc- 

 essing taxes as follows: cotton, 

 2 cents a pound when the normal 

 supply is exceeded by 15 per cent; 

 wheat 10 cents a bushel when the 

 normal supply is exceeded by 20 

 per cent; rice 10 cents a bushel 

 when the supply is exceeded by 

 10 per cent; and hogs 25 cents a 

 hundred pounds when the normal 

 supply is exceeded by 10 per cent. 



The fact that Rep. Hope of 

 Kansas, ranking Republican mem- 

 ber on the Agricultural Committee, 

 is reported as favoring the Jones 

 bill indicates that there will be a 

 favorable bi-partisan vote on some 

 effective legislation when differ- 

 ences are composed. And with 

 the inclusion of new farm legisla- 

 tion on the Presidents so-called 

 "must" program, the outlook is 

 good for enactment of a more 

 permanent farm program. 



AUGUST. 1937 



