THE ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION RECORD 







To advance the purpose for whkh 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. 



DECEMBER, 1937 

 VOL 15 NO. 12 



Published monthly by tht Illinois Agriculturil Asso- 

 ciation at 1501 West Washington Road. Mendota. 111. 

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

 Entered as second class matter at post office, Mendota, 

 Illinois, September II, 1936. Acceptance for mailing 

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

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Editor and Advertising Director, E. G. Thiem ; 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 



14th _ Otto Steffey, Stronghurst 



15th _ M. Ray Ihrig, Golden 



I6th 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 



Field Service _ _ Cap Mast 



Finance R. A. Cowles 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing. H. W. Day 



Legal and General Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick 



Live Stock Marketing _ Sam F. Russell 



Office. C. E. Johnston 



Organization G. E. Metzger 



Produce Marketing „ F. A. Gougler 



Publicity _ George Thiem 



Safety C. M. Scagraves 



Soil Improvement _ John R. Spencer 



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 Fahmkopf, Mgr. 

 Illinois Livestock Marketing Ass'n. Sam Russell, Mgr. 



Illinois Milk Producers' Ass'n Wilfred Shaw, Mgr. 



Illinois Prodticers' Creameries... .F. A. Gougler, Mgr. 

 J. B. Countiss Sales Mgr. 



GEORGE THIEM, Editor 



OLDEST CULTIVATOB 

 Walkiny Com Plow One* U>*d by 

 Many o< Todoy'i Older Fanners. 



IF WE make as much improvement 

 in our machinery to maintain 

 farm prices in the years ahead as has 

 been made in automobiles and farm 

 production machinery since the turn 

 of the century, our goal of farm 

 prosperity and national welfare will 

 be substantially achieved. 



HOW TO get 70 cents for your 

 com — feed it to $9.00 hogs 

 says Wallaces Farmer. Now the 

 only problem is to find a buyer who 

 will pay the |9. 



THE HOG growers who got their 

 shoats off to an early market are 

 ahead this year. Prices dropped $1 

 a hundred the past week. Today 

 (Nov. 20) the top at Chicago was 

 $8.15, average price under $8. 



LESS THAN a third of farmers 

 in the heavy corn growing coun- 

 ties in Illinois are eligible for corn 

 loans. Much com began moving to 

 market early in November and be- 

 fore at prices ranging from 36 to 

 44 cents depending on moisture. 

 The com loan, many believe will 

 have little influence in putting a 

 prop under the market because so 

 many failed to qualify by going 

 along with the '37 conservation pro- 

 gram. 



SOME FARMERS would like to 

 have seen the com loan opened 

 up to everyone. Would that have 

 been wise.' First, it was made clear 

 to every farmer last spring that only 

 soil conservation cooperators would 

 be eligible for a corn loan in the falL 

 What would be the effect on future 

 programs if the government failed to 

 keep its word? The drouth that 

 killed out last year's seeding had a 

 lot to do with many going over their 

 com bases. But how much did 

 $1.00 com have to do with the big 

 reduction in the percentage of co- 

 operators? How many thought that 

 this would be a good year to make 

 a barrel of money? 



"KTORMAL CONSUMPTION of 

 "^ ' com in the United States is 

 estimated at 2,380,000,000 bushels. 

 This year the crop totaled (latest 

 estimate) 2,651,000,000 bushels. 

 The 271,000,000 bushel surplus 

 above requirements broke the bade 

 of the com market, sent the price 

 spiralling downward from as high as 

 $1.41 to 41-42C a bushel. If the 

 Pof)e McGill bill were in operation, 

 the com loan rate today would be 

 close to 60c a bushel on marketable 

 com to cooperators. 



^^T^HERE IS no basis whatever 

 A for the belief that duty reduc- 

 tions in the reciprocal trade agree- 

 ments have been a major cause of 

 the increase in agricultural imports 

 in the past year," declares Secretary 

 of State Cordell Hull in an open let- 

 ter to Senator Arthur Capper. . . . 

 "ImpKjrts of dutiable foodstuffs on 

 which no tariff reductions were made 

 increased by 77 per cent; whereas 

 imports of that group of foodstuffs 

 on the greater portion of which the 

 duties were reduced increased by 

 only 41 per cent. . It is clear from 

 these figures that factors other than 

 trade agreements must have been 

 chiefly responsible for the increases 

 in imports which took place," Hull 

 concludes. Write to the Department 

 of State, Washington, D. C. for a 

 copy of this letter. — E.G.T. 



DECEMBER. 1937 



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