Congress Committed to Pass 

 Surplus Control Legislation 



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share of the National income, 



2. That consumers should be afforded 

 protection against the consequence of 

 drouth by storage of reserve supplies 

 of big crop years for use in the time 

 of crop failure, 



3. That if consumers are given the pro- 

 tection of such ever-normal granary 

 plan, farmers should be safeguarded 

 against undue price declines by a sys- 

 tem of loans supplementing the na- 

 tional soil conservation program, and 



4. That Control of agricultural surpluses 

 above the ever-normal granary supply 

 is necessary to safeguard the nation's 

 investment in loans and to protect 

 farmers against the price collapse due 

 to bumper yields resulting in produc- 

 tion beyond all domestic and foreign 

 needs : 



NOW BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, 

 by the Senate and House of Representatives 

 of the United States and Congress assembled, 

 that abundant production of farm products 

 should be a blessing and not a curse, and 

 that therefore legislation carrying out the 

 foregoing principles will be the first to en- 

 gage the attention of Congress on its re- 

 convening and that it is the sense of the 

 Congress that a permanent farm program 

 based upon these principles should be en- 

 acted as soon as possible after Congress 

 reconvenes. 



Throughout the months of effort to 

 secure the attention of the Congress 

 to the importance of enacting surplus 

 control legislation before another emer- 

 gency arose, the attitude of the Illi- 

 nois delegation of Congressmen was 

 consistent and constructive. They put 

 forth every reasonable effort to secure 

 action by Congress before adjourn- 

 ment. 



There appears in connection with 

 this article a petition signed by 24 of 

 the 27 Congressmen from Illinois un- 

 der date of July 15 which is self-ex- 

 planatory. No state has surpassed or 

 equalled Illinois in the support its 

 Congressional delegation has given to 

 adequate farm surplus control legis- 

 lation throughout the years. Illinois 

 farmers may well feel proud of this 

 record. 



Kendall County Farm Bureau has 



blue prints drawn for a 42 x 60' two- 

 story brick building to be erected in 

 Yorkville. The plan provides for a 

 cold storage locker system installed in 

 the basement with 350 lockers, offices 

 on the first floor, and a 42' x 60' as- 

 sembly room on the second floor. Esti- 

 mated cost is 118,000. 



Louis A. Huebsch, has been treasurer 

 of the Lake County Farm Bureau since 

 it was organized in 1915 — nearly 23 

 years. 



Illinois Congressmen Support Crop 

 Surplus Control Legislation 



July 15. 1937 

 Hon. Marvin Jones, Chcnrmcm, 



Committee on Agriculture, | 



House of Representatives. j 



My dear Mr. Chairman: ' 



The undersigned members of the Illinois delegation of the House of 

 Representatives urgently petition you and your committee to report out 

 at the earliest possible time a general farm bill with the view that House 

 action may be taken at this session of Congress. Speaking for our State 

 we know that there is the greatest possible demand among our farmers 

 for farm legislation at the present time. We view with great alarm the 

 almost certainty of huge surpluses in 1937 which is obliged to have a vi- 

 tal and far reaching effect on the 1938 crop and thereby seriously affect- 

 ing not only the farm but the national economy. 



The tindersigned stand ready to cooperate with your conmiittee in 

 anyway possible to secure legislation before the adjoumment of Con- 

 gress. 



With best wishes, we are 



Sincerely, 









C. P. "Cfiarlie" Cummings, former 

 manager of the Midwest Grain Corp., 

 then manager of Farmers National 

 Grain Corp. Peoria branch has accepted 

 a position in the Grain and Soybean 

 Department of Allied Mills at Peoria. 

 Charlie's many friends wish him well in 

 his new work. 



Crawford County Illinois turned out 



74 strong for a Producers Market Tour 

 at Indianapolis, on August 5th. Coun- 

 ty livestock chairman Harold Kincaid 

 and Farm Adviser Harold Allison were 

 in charge. 



An exhibit car operating over the 



Pennsylvania railroad featuring uses 

 for soybeans will be displayed at the 

 annual meeting of the American Soy- 

 bean Association, Urbana, Sept. 14, 15, 

 16. The car traveled from New Bruns- 

 wick, N. J., to Effingham, Illinois, in 

 ten days, made 22 stops of two hours 

 or more enroute. It will make 11 stops 

 in Illinois before the Urbana meeting. 



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Frank W. Purnell, former adviser in 



Ford and Mercer counties has been ap- 

 pointed farm adviser in Greene county. 



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