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. 



NOVEMBER, 1937 

 VOL 15 NO. 11 



Published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation at 1501 West Washington Road. Mcndota, 111. 

 Editorial Offices, 608 So. Dearborn St.. Chicago. 111. 

 Entered as second class matter at post office. Mendota, 

 Illinois, September 11, 1936. Acceptance for mailing 

 at special rate of postage provided in Section 412, Act of 

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

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Editor and AdvertisinK Director. E. G. Thicm ; Assistant 

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



Illinois 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 



Ass't Treasurer, A. R. Wright Varna 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 



(By Congressional District) 



1st to nth E. Harris, Grayslake 



12th E. E. Houghtby, Shabbona 



13th Leo M. Knox, Morrison 



l4th Otto Steffey, Stronghurst 



15th M. Ray Ihrig, Golden 



I6th Albert Hayes, Chillicothe 



17th C. M. Smith, Eureka 



I8th Herman W. Danforth, Danforth 



19th Eugene Curtis, Champaign 



20tk. K. T. Smith, Greenfield 



21st Dwight Hart, Sharpsburg 



22nd A. O. Eckert, Belleville 



2}rd „.Chester McCord, Newton 



24th Charles Marshall, Belknap 



25th August G. Eggerding, Red Bud 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



Comptroller R- p. Ely 



Dairy Marketing Wilfred Shaw 



Finance R- ^-Cowles 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing H. W. Day 



Legal and General Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick 



Live Stock Marketing Ray E. Miller 



Ogice 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. 



111. 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 



can readily absorb. They strive for 

 quality production, as well as orderly 

 marketing. Not all co-operatives are 

 measuring up to their opportunities 

 or to what farmers have a right to 

 expect of them. But few new things 

 are perfect. And co-operative market- 

 ing is new. Perfection comes with 

 experience. 



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r\,^OT the least of the benefits 

 VJ_7 farmers get out of co-opera- 

 ^^_/l tive marketing is valuable 

 market information. The livestock 

 tours through the alleys and offices of 

 the Producer Commission agencies is 

 an illustration. On these tours you 

 see examples of the many grades of 

 livestock. You learn why certain kinds 

 sell low, why others bring top prices. 

 You get experienced market men's 

 advice about what to produce and 

 when to sell. 



Producers' officials and salesmen are 

 ready and anxious to help livestock 

 growers make profits. The true co- 

 operative conception is to make the 

 system serve the farmer, to put the 

 interest of the producer first. The 

 commission or margin going to the 

 association must be adequate, of 

 course, to build and maintain a sound 

 business enterprise. But profits are 

 secondary. They eventually go back 

 to the producer anyway, as patronage 

 dividends. 



Potato growers recently voted 5 to 1 for 

 acreage adjustment. Returns from 710 coun- 

 ties in the nation-wide referendum early in 

 October showed 25,19} votes for a stabili- 

 zation program, 5,425 against. Corn, cot- 

 ton and wheat farmers voted similarly sev- 

 eral years ago. An overwhelming majority 

 of farmers know that they must have some- 

 thing equivalent to the protertive tariff and 

 the wage and price-fixing of industry and 

 labor. 



President Roosevelt expressed the point 

 of view of thinking farmers in his recent 

 fireside radio talk when he said: "You 

 and I have heard big manufacturers talk 

 about control of production by the farmer 

 as an indefensible economy of scarcity.' 

 And yet these same manufacturers never 

 hesitate to shut down their own huge 

 plants, throw men out of work, and cut 

 down the purchasing power of whole 

 communities whenever the)' think they must 

 adjust their production to an oversupply 

 of the good they make. When it is their 

 baby who has the measles they call it not 

 an economy of scarcity' but 'sound busi- 

 ness judgment'." 



Evidence that young people today have 

 quite as high ideals as those of a generation 

 ago is reported by the Bloomington Panta- 

 graph. "Young men in Iowa voted 2 to 1 

 against women petting, in a survey' con- 

 ducted at four rural youth camps in that 

 state last summer," says the Pantagraph. 

 "They voted almost unanimously against 

 women smoking and voted solidly against 

 drinking. The women were given a chance 

 to vote too, and they voted 4 to 1 against 

 men smoking and unanimously against ex- 

 cessive use of tobacco and liquor. 



Many a grower has confessed learn- 

 ing more about livestock marketing on 

 a Producers' tour than he learned in 

 several years of going to market in 

 the old days with a carload of live- 

 stock. Thus a co-operative that has a 

 real vision of its job is not only 

 marketing farm products efficiently; it 

 is also constantly seeking to spread 

 technical information to help farmers 

 produce what buyers want, when they 

 want it and in the amounts the market 



'Truth and honesty were considered the 

 most important traits by both men and 

 women. Men wanted their prospective 

 mates to be well groomed, well mannered, 

 cheerful, with the ability to cook and make 

 the home attractive, as well as being de- 

 pendable and showing natural reason and 

 judgment. The women wanted their men 

 to be neat, clean, shaven, well-mannered, 

 respectful, cheerful, considerate, good 

 sports, dependable, ambitious, unselfish, 

 and to show natural intelligence." What 

 generation has had higher standards? — 

 EGT. 



NOVEMBER, 1937 



