THE ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 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. 



OCTOBER, 1937 

 VOL 15 NO. 10 



Published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation at 1 501 West Washinfiton Road. Mendota. Ill . 

 Editorial Offices. 608 So. Dearborn St.. Chicafio. III. 

 Entered as second class matter at post office, Mendota, 

 Illinois, September 11, 1936. Acceptance for mailing 

 at special rate of posU^c provided in Section 412. Act of 

 Feb. 28, 1925, authorized Oct. 27. 1935. Address all 

 communications for publication to Editorial Offices. Illinois 

 AKficuItural Association RECORD, 608 So. Dearborn St.. 

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

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



Illinois Agricultural Association 



Greale.il Stale 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 



Ass'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 



I4th _ Otto Steffey, Stronghurst 



15th..._ M. Ray Ihrig, Golden 



16th Albert Hayes, Chillicothe 



17th C. M. Smith, Eureka 



18th Herman W. Danforth, Danforth 



19th Eugene Curtis, Champaign 



20th K. T. Smith, Greenfield 



21st Dwight Hart, Sharpsburg 



22nd A. O. Eckert, Belleville 



23rd Chester McCord, Newton 



24th Charles Marshall, Belknap 



25th August G. Eggerding, Red Bud 



DEPARTMENT 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 



Produce 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 Ass'n F. E. Ringham, Mgr. 



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



Illinois Agr. Service Co Donald Kirkpatrick, Secy. 



III. Farm Bureau Serum Ass'n Ray E. Miller, 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 



SEN. IAS. P. POPE. IDAHO . . . 

 . . . looka over the new AAA bilL 

 while yUiting lAA office. Pope spon- 

 sored the bill in the Senate. 



M MORE simple and un- 

 .^ M, derstandable soil con- 

 ^^^^ / servation program is 

 promised for 1938. As described by 

 AAA officials on page 29, the pro- 

 gram has the virtue of informing 

 farmers in advance what to expect 

 in return for adjusting their acreage 

 in crops and grass lands in line with 

 good farm practice. As emphasized 

 by Secretary Wallace, the program 

 can not control production and mar- 

 ketings so as to maintain parity price 

 levels. Some further legislation is 

 needed to do this, and the Congress 

 is committed to enact such a measure 

 early in the next session. 



A loan of 9c on cotton and parity 

 payments of 3c per lb. on 65% of 

 the crop sets a precedent for similar 

 treatment of other basic commodities. 

 A resolution urging the President 

 and Secretary of Agriculture to put 

 into effect a system of warehouse 

 loans on basic commodities up to 

 75% of parity value was adopted at 

 a meeting of the AFBF board in Chi- 

 cago Sept. 9. A corn loan program 

 should be forthcoming early this fall. 

 A 75% parity loan on corn would 

 approximate 63c on the farm or 

 about a dime higher than the current 

 December option. 



the heaviest cotton crop in years, a 

 bumper com crop, and a large crop 

 of apples, the U. S. again is in line 

 to offer world markets substantial 

 quantities of farm produce. It re- 

 mains to be seen how much we can 

 sell abroad. The U. S. continues a 

 creditor nation. On top of that we 

 have a virtual embargo through high 

 tariffs on industrial imports. Ger- 

 many, for instance, might sell us 

 manufactured articles in exchange 

 for cotton, wheat, fats, and oils. 

 This European country once bought 

 79 per cent of her cotton imports 

 from the U. S., today only 25 per 

 cent. She purchased 88 per cent of 

 her lard imports, 67 per cent of ap- 

 ples, 20 per cent of wheat. Recent- 

 ly these percentages have dropf>cd 

 to 7, 8, and 4 per cent respectively. 

 The answer is that Germany is doing 

 business with other countries that are 

 willing to trade with her. At the 

 same time, she is producing more 

 farm produce at home as a war meas- 

 ure. 



With a heavy wheat crop and a 

 surplus of some 200,000,000 bushels. 



Another effort will be made to 

 write a commodity-dollar program 

 into the general farm bill during the 

 next session of congress. Senator 

 Thomas, leader of the bloc in the 

 Senate sponsoring the legislation, 

 says, "It is impossible to enact any 

 satisfactory farm legislation until the 

 regulation and stabilization of the 

 dollar has been accomplished. While 

 a higher price level has brought 

 about a general improvement in busi- 

 ness, I am convinced that such price 

 level is not yet quite high enough 

 to enable people to make the neces- 

 sary money with which to pay their 

 taxes, interest, debts and to enjoy 



some of the luxuries of life 



The dollar value today is some 1 4 

 cents higher than it was in 1926 

 when we had the era of so<alled 

 'Coolidge prosperity." With the pres- 

 ent valued dollar, governmental bud- 

 gets are not yet balanced, and it is the 

 contention of the Senate Agricultural 

 Committee that such budgets cannot 

 possibly be balanced until the dollar 

 is still further cheapened and prices 

 still further increased." — E.G.T. 



OCTOBER. 1937 



